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During the 1908 Olympics in London, the Russians showed up 12 days late due to the fact that they were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.

Babe Ruth was the first baseball player to hit a home run in the All-Star game, at Chicago‚Äôs Comiskey Park in 1933.

The first recorded game of golf was played in 1457 on Bruntsfield Links in Scotland.

Paul McCartney was only paid £1 for performing at the 2012 London Olympics Closing Ceremonies. He willingly donated his performance.

As a child, Jet Li performed with the Chinese National Wushu Team for President Nixon. Nixon asked him to be his personal bodyguard, but he declined.

When Nike first started, it was called Blue Ribbon Sports. The name was changed in 1971.

Michael Jackson’s shiny glove was actually just a modified golf glove.

The longest bicycle in the world is over 135 feet long.

In the U.S, Frisbees outsell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

The manager of Guinness started the Guinness Book of World Records when he got annoyed that he couldn’t find out what the fastest game bird was ever recorded.

In golf, a ‘Bo Derek’ is a score of 10.

Extreme ironing is a sport in which people take ironing boards to remote locations and iron items of clothing. It originated in England.

Facebook will track and record nearly everything you do if you browse the web while logged in to your Facebook account.

The first game to be played in space was Starcraft – Daniel Barry took it with him in 1999 on the Space Shuttle mission STS-96.

The first recorded game of baseball was played in 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

The Bloukrans Bridge, Western Cape, South Africa, is the highest commercial natural bungee jump in the world. It’s a 709-foot plunge.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) was founded on June 6, 1946.

Aggressive sitting is a sport. It originated in Berlin no later than 2008. You can purchase a special stool for this sport for around 70 dollars.

In Halden prison in Norway, guards are encouraged to interact, play sports, and eat with the inmates. This is to prevent aggression and create a sense of family.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.

A study at Florida State University discovered that playing Portal 2 is better for your brain than brain-training games like Lumosity.

In 2007, a 1000-gallon inflatable swimming pool was stolen from someone’s backyard without a single drop of water being found!

The longest Cricket Test match lasted over 12 days between England and South Africa. It only ended because the English team would have missed their boat home.

The Postal Service got its name based on the fact that they originally used USPS to send each other music tracks because of conflicting schedules.

The longest boxing match went 110 rounds and over 7 hours.,

The first Game Boy could run for a staggering 30 hours on only two AA batteries!

The very first Olympic Games were held in old Greece in 776 BCE.

Gatorade was invented to help the Florida Gators Football Team stay hydrated.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.

Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, not the baseball player.

There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game

The money for the Statue of Liberty came from fundraising from auctions, a lottery, and boxing matches in Europe and the U.S. The Statue cost the French about $250,000, which today would be over $5.5 million dollars.

The first roller coaster was used to transport coal down a hill. After people found that it could reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour, tourists asked to ride on it for a few cents.

Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.

Females are better at distinguishing colors, while males excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance.

Anna Bagenhold fell through a frozen stream while she was skiing and was stuck for over an hour. She made a full recovery and became the person to survive the lowest body temperature ever recorded at 56.7 °F (13.7 °C), even though she was clinically dead.

Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.

There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.