The Most Successful Women In Sports

Ronda Rousey – MMA

Even for folks who don’t pay attention to MMA, they know who Ronda Rousey is. She is easily known as one of the most influential female athletes out there. She won both the UFC and WWE championship and was the first woman to do so.

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The More You Know

  • Tree seeds were taken into orbit and planted as "Moon Trees."
  • For 67 consecutive years, Mary was America's most popular female baby name. Linda broke the streak in 1947.
  • 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".
  • The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
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