09/20/2026 12:00:00 AM

In This Collection

• Football Split Into Six Codes Within Thirty-Six Years09/21/2026 12:00:00 AMHow association football, American football, rugby union, rugby league, Australian rules football and Gaelic football were each codified within a single generation.
• Bangkok Has Hosted the Asian Games Three Times09/21/2026 12:00:00 AMThe Asian Games, nicknamed the Asiad, has been hosted by Bangkok three separate times, more than any other city, and by New Delhi and Jakarta twice each.
• The Rugby World Cup Field Has Grown Since Its 1987 Start09/21/2026 12:00:00 AMThe Rugby World Cup began in 1987 with sixteen teams. The field reached twenty by 1999 and is set to grow to twenty four when Australia hosts in 2027.
• Two Rival World Champions, Thirteen Years, One Title09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMFrom 1993 to 2006 chess had two competing World Chess Championship lineages at once, after Garry Kasparov split from FIDE.
• Janggi: facts behind the overview09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMHow Janggi differs from Xiangqi in board geometry, piece strength and the general confinement rule.
• The Two Associations Behind Cricket Australia's Name09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMInteresting facts about Cricket Australia: the 1905 founding as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket and the two colonial associations behind it.
• The Reliever Who Won A Most Valuable Player Award09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMJim Konstanty won the 1950 National League Most Valuable Player award without ever starting a game that season.
• The Body That Runs the Africa Cup of Nations Predates It by Two Days09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMThe Confederation of African Football was founded two days before the first Africa Cup of Nations kicked off, and one of its four founding associations did not send a team to that first tournament.
• Uruguay Arrived Favorite at Its Own World Cup, and Won09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMUruguay hosted the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 as the reigning Olympic football champion, and won that tournament too.
• A Team Finally Hosted, and Won, Its Own Super Bowl in 202109/20/2026 12:00:00 AMThe Super Bowl was created by the 1966 NFL-AFL merger agreement, and the rule against a team hosting its own game held for more than five decades before it broke.
• Three Tile Games, Three Centuries, No Shared History09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMSpecific, sourced facts behind Dominoes, Mahjong and Carcassonne, the three members of the Domino and Tile Games subcategory.
• According to Hoyle, and Other Facts Behind the Trick-Taking Family09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMSourced facts behind Tarot, Whist, Bridge and Skat, four members of the Trick-Taking Card Games subcategory.
• CONMEBOL Predates the Tier It Belongs To by Decades09/20/2026 12:00:00 AMSourced facts behind CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, UEFA, the AFC and CAF, members of the Continental Sport Confederations subcategory.