The record for the most snow in one-year period was 102 feet (31.5 meters) in Mount Rainier, Washington between February 19, 1971 and February 18, 1972.
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The first baseballs had anything from a walnut to a rock in the center. Yarn or string was wrapped around any solid substance. The string was then encased in leather. Players made their own or had them made for them to their own specifications. Since the custom was for the first teams of the 1850s to supply the balls for a game, games were dramatically swayed by the choice of a ball with properties that suited a team’s style of play.
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Forks, mainly two-tined, used to be known as “split spoons”.
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The line between the cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan in China is the world’s fastest rail link with trains achieving an average speed of 217.48 mph, covering the 664.24 mile distance in just three hours. In France, the average speed for high-speed trains is 172.12 mph, while in Japan high-speed trains travel an average of 150.99 mph.
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www.guinnessworldrecords.com
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Former Major League Baseball relief pitcher, Arthur Rhodes, had the most consecutive scoreless games. He had a scoreless streak of 33 games while pitching in relief for the Cincinnati Reds over a 30-inning span from 13 April to 26 June 2010. Rhodes’ feat matched the Major League Baseball (MLB) record for most consecutive appearances without allowing a run, a record previously set by Mike Myers of the Colorado Rockies in 2000 and Mark Guthrie of the New York Mets in 2002.
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Three quarters of fish are caught are eaten, the rest are used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
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Approximately 600,000 baseballs are used by all Major League teams combined during the course of a season. The average baseball remains in play for only five to seven pitches in a Major League game. Each ball must weigh between 5 and 5.25 ounces (141.75-148.83 grams) and measure between 9 and 9.25 inches (22.86-23.49 centimeters) in circumference to conform to Major League standards.
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160 billion emails are sent daily, 97 percent of which are spam. A spammer gets 1 response out of every 12 million emails they send…yet it still makes them a small profit.
