
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?
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.
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?
There is a world record for the "Most Tea-Cups Caught On Head While On A Unicycle".
Did you know that Elton John and Liz Hurley are godparents to David and Victoria Beckham's children Brooklyn and Romeo?
Did you know English rugby is believed to date back to 1823 at the school of Rugby in Warwickshire, England?