20 Mind-Bending Sports Facts – Bleacher Report

Facts can be your best friend or your greatest enemy—it all depends on the situation. Of course, sometimes “the facts” aren’t really the facts, which makes knowing how to separate the good from the bad as important as knowing when to use them. This obviously applies to almost any part of life, but it is essential to holding your own when talking about sports or staying afloat in a high-stakes game of sports trivia.

If nothing else, learning more about the most compelling events and people in sports—the strange curiosities of history and statistics—means you’re guaranteed to have something to talk about when the conversation loses its momentum or turns to the subject you’ve been preparing for: sports.

Maybe this collection of sports facts will teach something you didn’t know, correct something you thought you knew or just refresh your memory. Either way, you’ll be that much more prepared when the situation calls for it.

Here are 20 mind-bending sports facts—a little trivia to impress the people around you.