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lofty2p t1_j2eieqx wrote
Reply to TIL that the "Super Ballon d'Or" is the name of a former prize that was awarded on December 24, 1989, by the French football magazine France Football for the best football player of the last three decades. This award has been given only once, and Alfredo Di Stéfano is the only winner. by Knight_TheRider
No Pele ?
lofty2p t1_j2e1u2l wrote
Reply to comment by CerealKiller3030 in We all know the answer but I've several questions by Violet_weeb
Uh...not?
lofty2p t1_ixv74k1 wrote
Reply to comment by contextual_somebody in TIL In The 1930s, Baseball rivaled Soccer In England, attracting 10,000 spectators per game. In 1938, at the inaugural Baseball World Cup, Great Britain defeated the USA 4 games to 1. The outbreak of WWII interrupted the sports ascendancy, and it never recovered its prewar popularity. by contextual_somebody
Interestingly, for a long time the world record for a crowd at a game of baseball was held by the MCG in Australia. I believe that baseball was a demonstration sport at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and a huge crowd flooded the MCG to watch. As that stadium was bigger than most US baseball stadiums for a few decades, it held the record for some time.
lofty2p t1_isoya8b wrote
Reply to TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
The "ice" trade is still pretty big in Australia these days!
lofty2p t1_j6no4sl wrote
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Haven't heard much from Mar-a-Lago recently!