| Mike Tyson was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them. |
| The longest Tennis point ever played lasted for 29 minutes and 643 shots between Vicki Nelson and Jean Hepner, ranked ranked 93 and 172 respectively. Played on September 24, 1984 it holds the record of being the longest point played in a professional tennis match. The match itself lasted 6 hours and 31 minutes and holds the record for being the longest match completed on the same day. |
| R. Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking but spent so much time submerged in the icy Atlantic that doctors wanted to amputate his legs on rescue ship Carpathia. He refused the amputation ,recovered and went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championship that very year. |
| Air Jordans were banned from the NBA, however Michael Jordan always wore them as Nike was willing to pay the fine for each game. |
| As of 2013, Super Mario Bros. is the second best-selling video game of all time. The first being Wii Sports. |
| 'Zugzwang' is a situation in Chess when all possible moves are to a player's disadvantage. |
| Horses race clockwise in England and counter-clockwise in the United States. |
| Cheese rolling, extreme ironing and wife carrying are all real sports! |
| Extreme Ironing (also called EI) is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron items of clothing. |
| At the 1st Football World Cup championship in 1930 at Uruguay, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather. |