[Sports fact 1] There is a sport called 'Shockfighting' where 3 million volt tasers are sown into the fighters gloves.
[Sports fact 2] Phil Mickelson, the most famous left-handed golfer of all time (his nickname is "Lefty") is actually right-handed. The reason he golfs left-handed is that he learned to swing by facing his father, a right-handed golfer, and mirroring his movements.
[Sports fact 3] Elite athletes sleep longer than average humans. Roger Federer sleeps 12 hours a day. Usain Bolt 9-10 hours a day. Le Bron James also sleeps 12 hours. For a long time, while he was struggling with his form, Tiger Woods had a sleep disorder.
[Sports fact 4] Wheelchair athletes with spinal injuries will sometimes intentionally injure themselves on the lower body (e.g. break a toe), causing their bodies to respond by raising blood pressure and enhancing their performance. This practice has been banned and is labeled cheating.
[Sports fact 5] Dominique Wilkins holds the NBA record for the most free throws made in a game without a miss. Wilkins also won two slam dunk contests and narrowly lost a third to Michael Jordan.
[Sports fact 6] At the Wife Carrying World Championships in Finland, first prize is the wife's weight in beer.
[Sports fact 7] The reason MLB (Major League Baseball) has not faced any competitor leagues unlike the NHL, NFL, and NBA is because of a 1922 Supreme Court case that granted them an exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act, thus making them a legal monopoly.
[Sports fact 8] Joe Montana helped cement his nickname "Joe Cool" after calming his team down in Super Bowl XXIII by pointing out John Candy sitting in the stands.
[Sports fact 9] In 1999, a child chess prodigy named Joshua Waitzkin, a subject of the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer", gave up chess and took up Aikido. In 2004, he won the world champion title in the competitive sport of Taiji Push Hands.
[Sports fact 10] Tom Cruise enjoyed wrestling on his high school’s team. A knee injury left him unable to play, which sent him looking for another way to spend his time and it inevitably led him to audition for the school’s production of Guys and Dolls.
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