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Basketball rims sit exactly ten feet above the floor
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The majestic height of a basketball hoop was not born from rigorous athletic study, but from sheer architectural laziness. When James Naismith hung his peach baskets in a Massachusetts gym in 1891, the running track happened to be exactly ten feet off the ground. More than a century of dunking evolution later, we are all still catering to the arbitrary balcony dimensions of a Victorian-era YMCA.
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