By the time they have been retired for 2 years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.
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Football players spit so much because exercise increases the amount of protein in saliva. When you exercise, the amount of protein secreted into the saliva increases. A protein mucus named MUC5B makes your saliva thicker when you’re exercising which makes it more difficult to swallow so we tend to spit more. It may occur during exercise because we breathe through our mouths more. MUC5B could activate to stop our mouths from drying out, therefore.
Professional athletes used to perform in vaudeville during the off-season. Before today’s big-league salaries, professional baseball and football players often had to take on jobs during the off-season, The Atlantic reports. Some of them took advantage of their name recognition and hit the vaudeville circuits, doing everything from comedy routines to reciting poems. Babe Ruth even sang—if you could call it that. Frankly, many of the athletes had no business being on stage, but it’s not like it was against the rules.
78% of NFL players undergo a financial crisis by 2 years of retirement. Upon retiring for 2 years, a majority of former NFL players undergo bankruptcy or financial crisis. The main culprits? Unemployment and divorce.
The Grand Theft Auto franchise has lawsuits that total over $1 billion. There are a lot of controversies that surround the game due to the nature of its gameplay. Rockstar North has faced many legal claims of copyright and influencing young players to commit sexual and illegal acts.
Shaq only made one three-pointer in his whole career. Shaquille O’Neal may be one of the most iconic NBA players in the game, but you’d be surprised that he only made one three-point shot in his entire career.
Famous sports players, like the baseball player Babe Ruth and tennis star Rafael Nadal, are left-handed.
RoboCup is an annual soccer game where the players are robots instead of people. The robots come from all over the world.
Since the launch of the popular mobile game, Candy Crush, in 2012, players have spent a total of 73 billion hours (equivalent to 8.3 million years) playing this game.
Digital music sales surpassed physical sales in 2014. Since MP3 players arrived, digital music sales have been slowly rising. Once Spotify came out in 2008, it seemed the age of physical music was over. In 2014, download sales and subscriptions made $6.85 billion, while physical sales were just barely under it at $6.82 billion.
Google-owned AI DeepMind can beat most Starcraft 2 players and compete with the best.