FACT OF THE DAY

February 18 2021


Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.


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Celebrities
Jerry Springer was once the mayor of Cincinnati.
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Sports
Cal Ripken, Jr. holds a record for not missing a single game in a whopping 16 years of span.
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The diameter of a full sized basketball is half the diameter of a basketball hoop.
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Wilt Chamberlain won three-straight big eight titles in the high jump and was also inducted into the volleyball hall of fame.
June 21 2021
Technology
It took 5 years for the internet to reach a market audience of 50 million users.
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Leighton Meester was born in jail.
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The first television broadcast of the NFL match took place in 1939 in New York. At that time, there were no more than 1,000 TVs to the whole city, so it's not certain if anyone was watching the game between Brooklyn and Philadelphia.
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World
Almost one-half of world's diamonds come from Central and Southern Africa
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World
Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, about 3000 children every day. Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90% of malaria cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa.
June 16 2021
Human Body
There are around 60,000 trampoline injuries every year in the United States.
June 15 2021
Celebrities
Jeremy Renner worked as a makeup artist before he became an actor.
June 14 2021
Science
It takes five positive things to outweigh a single negative thing.
June 13 2021
Internet
Alex Tew, the head of Calm.com, created the Million Dollar Homepage in 2005. The website sells each pixel for $1 and it became an internet phenomenon.
June 12 2021
Internet
Over half of web traffic is media streaming and file sharing.
June 11 2021
History
Women couldn't submit a credit application at a bank without a man until 1974.
June 10 2021
Technology
A robot was created solely to punch human beings in the arm to test pain thresholds so that future robots can comply to the first law of robotics.
June 9 2021
Psychology
Our memories can be so easily manipulated that in just 3 hours you can be convinced you committed a crime in your teenage years, a research found.
June 8 2021
Sports
The first baseball caps were made of straw.
June 7 2021
Sports
The fastest recorded tennis servers are over 155 mph (250 kph).
June 6 2021
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The FBI estimates that at any given time, there are from 35 to 50 active serial killers in the U.S.
June 5 2021