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The first recorded reference to cricket dates back to 1272.

The highjump method of jumping head first and landing on their back is called the Fosbury Flop.

Clay pigeon shooting was once known as Inanimate bird shooting.

The American dart game ‘Cricket’ is known in Britain as ‘Mickey Mouse’.

Australian Ron Clarke set 18 World Records as a long distance runner but never won an Olympic title.

The motto for the Olympic Games is Citius - Altius - Fortius (Faster - Higher - Stronger).

The 180m sprint of the776 BC Olympics (the earliest recorded) was won by Coroebus .

Cricketer Dennis Lillee once tried to use an Aluminium bat of his own design called ‘The Combat’.

The large disk used in Tiddlywinks is called a Squidger.

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Maybe Cleveland Cavaliers fans can hope for cheap gas if an oil company insults All-Star LeBron James.

Lines were so long Thursday at some of the 86 Papa John’s stores offering a large, one-topping pizza for 23 cents that police stood nearby to make sure people didn’t get unruly.

The Louisville, Ky.-based company agreed to the offer after a franchisee in Washington, D.C., made T-shirts calling star LeBron James a “crybaby.” The shirts referred to James’ complaints about hard fouls during a playoff series victory over Washington. The company also will donate $10,000 to the Cavaliers Youth Fund.

The 23-cent price of a pizza is a homage to James’ jersey number.

“It’s a recession busting offer, and we certainly hope we have made it up to Cleveland,” Tim North, vice president of the company’s northeast division, told WEWS-TV.

One or two people even came by jet charter just for the bragging rights.

There were a few headaches, mostly complaints about long waits and line-cutting.