stackyFACTSBefore fancy mechanical arms swept away your gutter balls, alleys relied on cheap manual labor. Young boys would literally sit at the end of the greasy lane, dodging heavy flying spheres, just to manually restack the wooden pins for pennies.
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Because heaven forbid people throw heavy rocks at wooden sticks without society collapsing. In the mid-nineteenth century, lawmakers outlawed nine-pin bowling…
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Running starts were apparently for cowards. Early Olympic athletes simply stood perfectly still next to a tall bar and violently hurled their bodies backward…
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During the 1950 final in Brazil, the stadium essentially ignored seating limits and packed an estimated 199,854 people into the stands. It remains the highest…
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Before organized player drafts were instituted, acquiring new athletes was an absolute free-market disaster. Wealthy teams would just casually outbid smaller…
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The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium is the largest capacity stadium in the world. It is built to hold a completely absurd number of spectators, ensuring that any…
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During intense historical global instability, a highly paranoid sports official decided the absolute safest place for the most incredibly valuable solid gold…
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