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Fast facts: The first official baseball hat was made of straw. The first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby was Diane Crump on May 2, 1970. A 27-inch-high, silver America's Cup holds no liquid - it is bottomless. A pro volleyball player can spike the ball at 80 mph. According to research conducted a few years back, billiards champions have the highest average age of any sport, 35.6 years. According to the Detroit Free Press, 68 percent of professional hockey players have lost at least one tooth. An expert fly fisherman may have as many as 10,000 flies in his collection. Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.

 

On this date: In 772, Adrian I began his reign as Catholic Pope. In 1814, the volcano Mayon in Luzon, Philippines, erupted, killing 1,200. In 1865, the 13th Amendment was approved. In 1914, the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox played an exhibition baseball game in Egypt. In 1949, RCA released the first single record (45 rpm). In 1959, Texas Instruments requested a patent for the integrated circuit. In 1991, U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild commuter jets collided at Los Angeles Airport, killing 32.

 

Quotable... "The option to 'strike' impudently advocated by the U.S. is not its monopoly." North Korea "will never tolerate the U.S. reckless attempt to stifle the (North) by force of arms but mercilessly wipe out the aggressors." - A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman about President Bush's "axis of evil" remarks including North Korea, Iraq and Iran.