The Deadliest Sports on Earth: Ranked

Falling at Breakneck Speeds

Skiers regularly get hospitalized for crashing into trees and other skiers, getting trapped in avalanches, collapsing into snowbanks, and other falling related situations. Last year, 42 skiers died because of their skiing accidents. While this doesn't make skiing even close to the most dangerous sport out there, it's cause for concern.

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The More You Know

  • 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".
  • Pittsburgh is the only city where all three major sports teams share the same colors.
  • In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
  • The last movie ever rented at a corporate Blockbuster was "This Is The End" at a store in Hawaii.
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