The original basket in basketball, as invented by James Naismith in 1891, was a peach basket.
The first set of ice hockey rules were drawn up in 1865.
The game Scrabble is found in one out of every three American homes.
It would take a car traveling at 100 mph nearly 30 million years to reach our nearest star.
The sun’s warming rays travel 93 million miles to reach earth.