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Sports fans love to brag about their trivia knowledge. Many of the facts out there are pretty commonplace, almost shameful if you don’t know them. Whether it’s Babe Ruth’s career home run total, Michael Jordan’s jersey number, or anything else like this, they’ve become a part of pop culture.

Interestingly enough, there are plenty of obscure facts out there that happen to be just as impressive, interesting, and entertaining, as any of the more obvious ones. Let’s have a look at some of these examples. It’ll give you some great bait for parties.

During a game in 1972 between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the St. Louis Blues, the Penguins scored a total of 5 goals in a period of two minutes and seven seconds, the most ever scored in such a short time.

In 1972, there was a regional boys’ basketball tournament held in Sweden. The final score of the game? 274 to 0. And 272 of the points were scored by the same kid.

In the 1971 Indianapolis 500, A.J. Foyt stopped for gas during the 14th lap. Amazingly clocking in at just 9 seconds, this was the fastest gas stop in the history of auto racing – and probably the world.

The summer olympics are the most watched sports event in the world, followed by the World Cup. What comes next? Any guesses? Don’t even try, because you’ll probably never get it. It’s Formula One Racing.

The longest drive in the history of golf was hit by a British man by the name of Edward Bliss in 1913. He was only 182 pounds at the time, and more impressively, was just 50 years old. This drive went 445 yards.

Almost as interesting is the fact that over 41,000 tennis balls are used each summer at the Wimbledon tennis championships. That’s a lot of tennis.

Jack Robinson, a golfer with one arm, amazingly hit two holes in one during a four day period on the same course.

In ancient Japan, there were contests held on a weekly basis to see who could fart the loudest and the longest. How’s that for a weird sport?

The Olympics in ancient Rome were played by completely nude athletes. No one wore anything at all.

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