
33 Inspiring Facts About Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan was told he was too short to join the varsity team at 5'11" (1.8 m), despite being a high school star.
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Michael Jordan was told he was too short to join the varsity team at 5'11" (1.8 m), despite being a high school star.
The shortest NBA player, Muggsy Bogues, was 5'3", while the two tallest, Manute Bol and Gheorghe Mureșan, stood at 7'7".
Did you know that the first snowboarding World Cup took place in Zürs, Austria, in 1985?
Studies show yoga slows the aging of the brain and also enhances mental health by reducing stress, anxiety, and depression.
On March 28, 2022, Washington became the first state to declare pickleball as its official state sport.
The first Olympic ice hockey tournament took place in 1920. Canada took gold, the U.S. got silver, and Czechoslovakia won bronze.
5-15% of children are affected by sleepwalking every year, while only 1-1.5% of adults experience the phenomenon.
In 2014, Kobe Bryant invested $6 million in BodyArmor, which Coca-Cola eventually bought in 2021 for $5.6 billion.
There's a soccer competition called RoboCup Soccer, where the teams are made up of robots instead of humans.
The record for the fastest Major League Baseball game was set on September 28, 1919, with a time of just 51 minutes.
Did you know that ice hockey pucks used to be made out of cow dung?
Did you know that the world's oldest marathon runner was 101 years old? Fauja Singh ran the London Marathon in 7 hours 49 minutes.