Sports Facts You Haven't Heard Before

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00:00Welcome back to Fact Space. Today we're hitting the field, the court, and even the cosmos to uncover the weirdest facts in the history of sports.

00:09Let's tip off with basketball.

00:11When Dr. James Naismith invented the game in 1891 to keep his students active during winter, he didn't have fancy nets.

00:20He nailed to peach baskets to the gymnasium balcony.

00:23But here's the kicker, he didn't cut the bottoms out of the baskets.

00:26Every single time a player scored, the game had to stop so a janitor could climb a ladder and retrieve the ball.

00:33It took years before someone finally realized they could just poke a hole in the bottom to let the ball fall through.

00:41Next, let's talk tennis.

00:43Have you ever wondered why a score of zero is called love?

00:46It's not because tennis players are romantics.

00:49It actually comes from the French word loup, which means the egg.

00:52Why an egg?

00:53Because a zero looks like an egg.

00:55Over time, English speakers heard, Lufan just started saying, love.

01:01So when you're losing 40 love, you're literally playing for a goose egg.

01:05Now, let's go out of this world.

01:07Golf is one of only two sports to have been played on the moon in 1971.

01:12During the Apollo 14 mission, astronaut Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six iron.

01:18He'd smuggled on board and hit to golf balls across the lunar surface.

01:23Thanks to the low gravity, he claimed they went for miles and miles and miles.

01:28Finally, a sport you won't see in Paris or LA.

01:31Tug of war from 1900 to 1920.

01:35Tug of war was an official Olympic event.

01:37It was taken very seriously, with countries fielding teams of their strongest police officers

01:43and athletes to drag each other through the mud for gold.

01:47Whether it's ladders on the court or golf clubs in space, sports history is a whole different

01:52ball game.

01:54Please subscribe, like and comment if you want to see more of these facts.

01:57Thank you and see you on the next one.

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