The Most Interesting Facts About the Legendary Kobe Bryant

Lifetime Achievement

When Kobe retired at the end of 2016, he'd been playing in the NBA for more than half of his entire life. To put it in those terms is a monumental achievement. Entering the league immediately after high school and then staying with the same team for the entirety of his career was unheard of and has yet to be matched by another player.

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The More You Know

  • Holding a sneeze can be dangerous.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • Movie popcorn costs more per ounce than Filet Mignon.
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