By: Hannah Daidone
1. The earliest hockey pucks were made of frozen cow poop.
2. Former NBA basketball player Shaquille O’Neal wears a size 23 shoe. The average male shoe size is around a 10.5.
3. The first golf balls were stuffed with bird feathers.
4. Tug-of-war used to be an Olympic sport.
5. In the early days of baseball, umpires sat in rocking chairs behind the home plate.
6. Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.
7. RoboCup is an annual soccer game where the players are robots instead of people. Robots come from all over the world.
8. The Olympics used to give medals for art, not just sports.
