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While shooting a rifle, if you dropped another bullet at the same time that the bullet from the gun left the muzzle, it would hit the floor at the same time.

A squash ball travelling at 150kmph has the same impact as a .22 bullet

Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.

More than 100 million people hold hunting licence.

Soccer is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stiches.

Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.

Basketball and rugby balls are made from synthetic material. Earlier, pigs' bladders were used as rugby balls.

About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.

A soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels, held together by 642 stitches.

The very first Olympic race, held in 776 BC, was won by Corubus, a chef.

Jean Genevieve Garnerin was the first female parachutists, jumping from a hot air balloon in 1799

Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup soccer and Formula One racing.

Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.

The oldest continuous trophy in sports is the America's Cup. It started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983.

Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.