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Top 60 Intersting Facts - About Football Game and World Records || Which will shock you

Football is one of the most popular game ever, Today you will read some amazing facts about football game, and also we will talk about some world records that will shock you.

You will read some shocking World Recods about the world. Some World Record holders that are too much diffrent from others.

So, Read them Carefully.

Some Facts About World Records

1. Belgian driver Jenatzy was the first to reach a speed of over 100km/h in his electrically powered car 'La Jamais Contente' in 1899.

2. The world's largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 24 Feet(7.3 Meters) tall, is made of sheet metal and could hold 150,000 8 ounce cups of coffee.

3. The deepest canyon in the USA is Kings Canyon, East Fresno, CA, which runs through Sierra and Sequoia National Forests. The deepest point, that measures 8,200 ft, is in the Sierra National Park Forest section of the canyon.

4. The Angel of the North, Gateshead, UK, with a wingspan of 177 ft/54 m, is the largest sculpture of an angel in the world.

5. Christianity has over a billion followers. Islam is next in representation with half this number.

6. The company, Kodak, is the largest user of silver.

7. The Pentagon is twice the size of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York. It is one of the world's largest office buildings.

8. The mother of all mothers? The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765 a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.

9. The escalator in the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia is the longest freestanding escalator in the world, rising 160 feet or approximately eight stories in height.

10. The greatest measured water discharge was an estimated 740,000-1,000,000 gallons by the Giant Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park. However, this estimate made in the 1950s, was only a rough calculation.

11. Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply.

12. Victor Hugo's Les Miserables contains one of the longest sentences in the French language 823 words without a period.

13. Jackie Bibby holds the record for sitting in a bathtub with the most live rattlesnakes. He sat in a tub with 35 of them.

14. Karen Roman grew the world's largest cauliflower. It weighed 22 pounds.

15. The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.

16. At 12 years old, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued everyday for 91 years.

17. Rainbow Bridge, Nature's abstract sculpture carved of solid sandstone, is the world's largest natural-rock span, 278 feet wide and 309 feet high. Technically, it is located in Utah just north of the Arizona state line, but "Arizona Highway's Travel Arizona" book cites it as a local attraction.

18. The Sahara desert has the highest sand dunes.

19. One of the world's tallest, fastest roller coasters: Buffalo Bill's 'Desperado'.

20. Hawaii's Mount Waialeale is the wettest place in the world - it rains about ninety per cent of the time, about 480 inches per annum.

21. New York City has the most skyscrapers of any city in the world with 140. Chicago is a distant second at 68. The term "skyscraper" technically describes all habitable buildings with a height of more than 500 ft (152m).

22. The Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah is the biggest manmade hole on Earth. It is more than a half-mile deep and 2.5 miles across. An astronaut can see this hole from the space shuttle with his bare eyes.

23. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people.

24. Westwood Studios' computer game 'Command and Conquer' is the most successful war game series of all time according to Guinness Book of World Records.

25. The world's longest suspension bridge opened to traffic on April 5, 1998. The 3,911-meter (12,831-feet) Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is 580 meters (1,900 feet) longer than the Humber Bridge in England, the previous record holder.

26. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.

27. The highest wind velocity ever recorded in the United States was 231 miles per hour, on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1934.

28. The largest pyramid in the world is not in Egypt but in Cholulu de Rivadahia, Mexico. It is 177 feet tall and covers 25 acres. It was built sometime between 6 and 12 AD.

29. The world's largest Gothic cathedral is in new York City. It is the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue and 112th Street. The cathedral measures 601 feet long, 146 feet wide, and has a transept measuring 320 feet from end to end.

30. According to the Airport Council International, Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, Georgia is the busiest airport in the world. Hartsfield served 73,474,298 passengers in 1998, followed by Chicago O'Hare, Los Angeles, and London's Heathrow.

Facts About Footwall Game

31. Injured football players in televised NFL games get six more seconds of camera time than celebrating players.

32. The NFL consists of 32 teams, with an average team value of $1 billion. MLB has 30 teams, with an average team value of $523 million.

33. Legends Football League promoters say that "lingerie football" (Legends Football League) is the fastest growing pro sports franchise in the country. Despite its popularity, critics say it degrades its athletes through "pernicious objectification.'

34. Super Bowl XLV was the first Super Bowl with no cheerleaders at the game because both the Steelers and the Packers don't employ cheerleaders.

35. The Wilson Sporting Goods Company in Ada, Ohio, has been the official football supplier for the NFL since 1941. They make more than 2 million footballs of all sorts every year.

36. The Miami Dolphins are the only NFL team in history to complete an undefeated playing season, in 1972.

37. The oldest NFL stadium still in use is Soldier Field in Chicago.

38. Though football games usually last around 3 hours, the ball is typically in play for only 11 minutes. Around 56% of the game on TV is devoted to replays.

39. The NFL has an annual revenue of $9 billion, with a profit of 1 billion. MLB has an annual revenue of $7.2 billion, with a profit of $49 million.

40. Contrary to common opinion, the "G" on the Green Bay Packers helmet doesn't stand for Green Bay. Rather, it stands for "Greatness.'

41. It takes about 600 cows to make one full season's worth of NFL footballs.

42. The first recognized football game as played between Rutgers and Princeton Universities in 1869, using rugby-like rules.

43. The last scoreless NFL game was in 1943 when the Detroit Lions and New York Giants battled it out for a 0-0 tie.

44. Though wings and pizza are the most popular Super Bowl snacks, around 11 million pounds of chips are eaten on Super Bowl Sunday. Additionally, around 4 million pounds of pretzels and 2.5 million pounds of nuts are eaten that day.

45. Repeated concessions among football players can raise the risk for CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and mental health issues including dementia, Parkinson's disease, and depression.

46. The most watched television event in the United States is the Super Bowl.

47. Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett is the only player to rush for a 99-yard touchdown, in 1983.

48. The American Professional Football Association was formed in 1920; two years later it changed its name to the National Football League (NFL), which would ultimately become the major league of American football.

49. There are nearly 3 million sports industry jobs in the U.S, which is approximately 1% of the population.

50. Six teams in the NFL don't employ cheerleaders: the Bears, the Browns, the Lions, the Giants, the Steelers, and the Packers.

51. In 1892, former Yale star William "Pudge" Heffelfinger became the first recognized pro player when he accepted $500 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

52. While football originally was popular in Midwestern industrial towns, its growth in popularity around the U.S. is typically traced to the 1958 NFL Championship game, which has been called the "Greatest Game Ever Played.'

53. Ronnie Lott had his left pinky amputated after the 1985 season. It had been crushed during a tackle on running back Timmy Newsome.

54. As of September 2012, the Dallas Cowboys were the highest-valued sports franchise in the history of the United States.

55. Only two players have caught, rushed, and thrown a touchdown against the same team in the same game: Walter Payton in 1979 and David Patton in 2001.

56. Deion Sanders is the only person in history to both hit an MLB home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week. He's also the only person to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl.

57. On Super Bowl Sunday, pizza delivery drivers get into more accidents than any other day of the year.

58. In 1876, a coach named Walter Camp, who is considered the "Father of American Football," helped produce the first rules of American football. Among important changes were the introduction of line scrimmages and down-and-distance rules.

59. Helmets weren't mandatory for football players until 1939.

60. The average game attendance for an NFL game is 66,957 spectators. For MLB, it's 30,135 spectators.

 

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