The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right.

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Olympic Badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

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A game of pool is referred to as a "frame."

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The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continually held sports event in the United States (1875); the second oldest is the Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show (1876).

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The last NASCAR driver to serve jail time for running moonshine was Buddy Arrington.

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Race car is a palindrome. What's a palindrome, you ask? Something spelled the same way forward and backwards!

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No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is not a dome, there is a large hole in the roof.)

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The home team must provide the referee with 24 footballs for each National Football League game.

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Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.

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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

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The Cincinnati Reds baseball team name was officially changed to the Redlegs during the anti-communist movement.

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Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour.

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While the Chinese invented gunpowder, they were not the first to develop firearms.

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Sam Colt invented the "revolving pistol." Therefore, all revolvers are correctly called pistols.

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A 12 gauge "rifled slug" does not spin, even though there are grooves on it's bearing surface. A slug actually travels like a dart.