Sports and Inventions

Have you ever wondered who it was that invented something or who said a famous quote that you like? Well I do all the time, so I sit on the internet when I am bored and look up all sorts of interesting things that people may not know with just common knowledge. Even something that happened in history that wasn’t a big deal so no one knows about it. In 2010 April 1st a man named Stig Severinsen held his breath for 20 minutes and 10 seconds. Every minute you breathe 170 times and that’s 23,000 times a day.

                This fact might just shock you or surprise you when you hear it, it did me at least. Thomas Edison was not the inventor of the light bulb! In fact it was a British inventor named Joseph Swan. Swan then sued Edison for fraud and won. Edison had to take Swan in as a business partner, but not long after bought him out of the company, General Electric.

                You may or may not have heard the famous baseball quote “They will put a man on the moon before I ever hit a home run.” This was said by baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry in 1963. In 1969 the day of Apollo 11 when Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first home run only a few seconds after the landing on the moon. Six hours after it landed was when Armstrong walked on the moon. Gaylord Perry was induced into the National Baseball hall of Fame in 1991.

Here are the links where I got my information from.

http://didyouknow.org/hold-your-breath/
http://didyouknow.org/who-invented-the-light-bulb/
http://didyouknow.org/theyll-put-a-man-on-the-moon-before-i-hit-a-home-run/