Useless facts to enlighten your Thanksgiving cohorts:
- The first hockey puck ever used was a frozen piece of cow dung.
- The first professional football team with an insignia on its helmet was the Los Angeles Rams, who hand-painted gold horns on their leather helmets.
- Prior to 1859, baseball umpires sat in padded rocking chairs behind the catcher.
- About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the approximately 650 games of the Wimbledon Championship.
- In bowling, three strikes in a row is known as a turkey. The term originated in the 1800s, when the first member of a team to throw three strikes in a row was given a free turkey.