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True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: Sports: 500 Game-Changing Facts from Out of Left Field
Paperback
Series: Mind-Blowing True Facts
Publisher Price: $12.99
ISBN13: 9781400344383
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
500 sports facts that will stump your friends, win trivia night, and make every fan say no way!
Looking for a funny, easy gift for the sports fan who already has every jersey, mug, and team hat? True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: Sports delivers 500 unbelievable-but-true sports facts made for trivia nights, game days, stocking stuffers, coach gifts, road trips, white elephant exchanges, and passing around the room.
- Packed with 500 true stories from the wild side of athletics, including famous athletes, ancient games, forgotten rules, strange sports, and bizarre firsts.
- Covers mainstream favorites, Olympic history, strange competitions, sports origins, record-breaking moments, and oddball athletic history.
- Made for quick flipping, out-loud reading, trivia-night warmups, road-trip debates, and wait, that happened? reactions.
- A game-winning gift for dads, coaches, teens, coworkers, graduates, tailgate hosts, stocking stuffers, and fans who already own enough jerseys.
From Olympic oddities and strange competitions to basketball beginnings, record-breaking athletes, bizarre rules, and out-of-left-field moments from sports history, this bite-size trivia book turns any reader into the person with the best fact at the party. Open to any page, read one aloud, and watch the room argue, laugh, and say, No way that's real.
Find facts like:
- The sport of wife-carrying originated in Finland and has since become an international competition, challenging couples to navigate obstacle courses with the husband carrying the wife on his back.
- Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen once had a pancake cook-off to see who made them better.
- The ancient Greeks, founders of the Olympics, competed in the nude, giving new meaning to the term gymnasium, derived from the Greek word gymnos, meaning naked.
- The sport of table tennis evolved from a Victorian parlor game known as whiff-whaff, enjoyed as a post-dinner entertainment by the upper class in 19th-century England.
- The first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets as goals, resulting in a final score of 1-0.
Whether you're buying for a dad, coach, teen, coworker, trivia lover, armchair analyst, or friend who already owns enough team merch, this funny fact book is ready to entertain. It's quick to read, easy to share, and designed for instant reactions: laughter, disbelief, debate, and the occasional smug victory when you actually knew the answer.
Don't miss out on other titles in the Mind-Blowing True Facts series.
- True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t
- More True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t
- True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: Nature
- True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: Pop Culture
- True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: Sports
- True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: World History
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