Unbelievable Facts - Strange Facts - Did You Know

The first puck used in ice hockey was a frozen piece of cow dung.

Cheetah racing was staged in London in 1937.

You took your life in your hands playing American Football in its formative years. In the 1905 season, 18 players were killed and 150 seriously injured.

The 1908 Olympics included a demonstration of bicycle polo. Ireland bet Germany 3-1.

Fidel Castro was voted Cuba ’s best schoolboy athlete for 1944. He had a trial for Washington Senators baseball team, but was turned down.

Olympic athlete Roger Black was not allowed to run as a schoolboy because of a heart defect.

Tennis player Lighton Ndefwayl blamed his defeat in a Zambian professional tournament on the fact that his opponent kept breaking wind.

Racehorse trainer Richard Hannon used to be drummer with the Troggs.

Before Wembley Stadium was opened, an infantry battalion and hundreds of volunteers marched up and down the terraces for 15 minutes to test their strength and safety.

Half a million rivets went into the building of Wembley Stadium.

A bowling pin need only tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

When Uganda and Kenya both took to the field in white shirts for a rugby union international at Entebbe in 1935, a lady spectator saved the day by racing on to the pitch carrying a bottle of black eye. She hastily dyed the Uganda shirts black and the game went ahead with the home team playing in wet shirts.

In 1457, King James IV of Scotland made golf illegal because his subjects were neglecting their archery practice in order to play the game.

Mary Queen of Scots was a keen golfer. She also owned one of the world’s first billiard tables.

A 1956 Olympic water polo match between Hungary and the USSR was abandoned after it degenerated into and underwater brawl.

American jockey Frank Hayes was found dead in the saddles after riding Sweet Kiss to victory in a race al Belmont Park in 1925.

Johnny Herbert came fifth in the 1989 United States Grand Prix, but a local American firm refused him a hire car because he was under 25.

The stadium at Apia where the Western Samoan rugby team played home matched in 1924 had a large tree in right in the middle of the pitch.

Lacrosse was first played by American Indians. Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto in the TV series The Lone Ranger, was a professional lacrosse player.

Over 820,000 golf balls are sold worldwide every day.

Polo was played in Persia in the 6 th century BC where it was used to train cavalrymen.