Just a book with some random facts about anything and everything.
(Formerly 'Factastic! - Random Facts')
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#779 Random - 08/04/16
#756 Random - 12/04/16
#652 Random - 15/04/16
#585 Random - 17/04/16
Sorry I've been gone for so long, guys! I'm in the middle of a work placement for school at the moment, and I feel like I haven't been near the computer in two weeks... However, going head over heels into the European Football Championship, I decided it was a good idea to get a new chapter matching (my world play on point 😂) that topic done.
I madly want Iceland to win, by the way. 😅
801. Football is (not surprisingly, in my opinion) the most played and most watched sport on Earth.
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802. 5,098 teams participated in the largest Football tournament. They competed in 1999 for the second Bangkok League Seven-a-Side Competition. Over35,000 players participated.
803. Keepers didn't have to wear shirts of a colour different from their teammates' until 1913.
804. Football players run an average of 9.65 kms during every game.
805. European Teams have reached every World Cup final, except for the finals of 1930 and 1950.
806. In the highest scoring game, a team scored 149 goals. Stade Olympique de L'emyrne, a team from Madagascar, scored their own goals. They did this as a form of protest against the unfair decision of the referee in the previous game.
807. England actually came up with the word "soccer". It's a shortened version of "Association Football" that was changed to "Assoc Football". This was changed to "Soccer" (in 19th century England, it was popular to add the "-er" sound to shortened words). Strange enough, only Americans and Canadians use the word "soccer".
808. In 1964, a referee's call during a football match in Peru caused a riot that killed over 300 people.
809. Neil Armstrong originally wanted to take a football to the moon - but NASA deemed it to be un-American because football originated in China.
810. More than 80% of the world's footballs are manufactured in Pakistan.
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⭐️ Bonus facts ⭐️
🌟 The ball used in professional football has remainedexactlythe same size for 120 years - 28 inches in circumference.
🌟🌟 In 1998, lightning killed an entire football team. The catastrophe occurred in Congo during a match between the villages of Bena Tshadi and nearby Basangana.
