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Why do you Americans call all your sport teams “World Champions” when whatever they play is only played in America??

by QuestionGuy November 12, 2022, 10:42 am

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TIL both Los Angeles basketball teams are named after other geographic identifiers. The Lakers are named after the Minnesotan Great Lakes and the Clippers after the clipper ships that came through San Diego Bay

by whatilearned August 26, 2022, 2:28 am

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TIL about the Crime Syndicate of America, teams of supervillains from one of DC Comics’ parallel universes where they are the evil counterparts of the Justice League.

by whatilearned August 11, 2022, 2:44 am

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TIL the then captain of the New York Yankees died in a plane crash in 1979. Thurmon Munson was named Captain in 1976, the team’s first since Lou Gerhig (1939), won ROTY, gold glove 3x in a row, & led Yankees to 3 World Series from 1976 to 1978, winning in ’77 & ’78. He was 32 years old.

by whatilearned August 3, 2022, 3:52 am

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Today I learned that soccer player Mark Hughes played two professional games in two different countries for different teams on the same day.

by whatilearned July 31, 2022, 3:46 pm

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TIL in 1950 Ohio State and Michigan played a football game in a blizzard so bad that neither team could move the ball. The 2 teams punted 45 times for over 1400 yards and only had 3 first downs. Michigan won 9-3 with all points coming as a result of blocked punts.

by whatilearned July 30, 2022, 9:59 pm

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TIL: Players on losing teams in the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship take home a pouch dirt from the field, as a memento of their fleeting time on the hallowed grounds of Kōshien, the field the tournament has been played on since 1924.

by whatilearned July 28, 2022, 1:22 am

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TIL That China’s one child law involved a ‘Family Planning Team’ that hunted down pregnant women in hiding because they already had one child. That teams enforcement included inducing labor, then drowning or strangling the infant.

by whatilearned July 22, 2022, 3:26 am

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TIL that on June 24, 1922, the American Professional Football Association changes its name to the National Football League. One of the NFL teams was the Oorang Indians of LaRue, Ohio, an all-Indian team to be coached by Jim Thorpe

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 3:26 pm

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TIL that NFL quarterback Gale Gilbert was on five consecutive losing Super Bowl teams – Buffalo 1991-1994, San Diego 1995 – the most consecutive major championship losses in pro team sports.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 9:04 pm

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Yo, all my coworkers call my wife Kirby because of how much she’s suckin’ my big fat penis during our Microsoft Teams meetings.

by CopyPastaArchive June 2, 2022, 4:29 am

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TIL at the 1908 Olympics, Great Britain won 4 medals in a single event of Hockey. Great Britain defeated Great Britain to win the gold medal, leaving the later with a silver medal. The Bronze was won by two teams, Great Britain and Great Britain.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 6:40 pm

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