37: Keep left at the quarry
Lateral with Tom Scott
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The History of Basketball
There's an old story about it being that someone put nets for oranges up on a hoop and you had to try and throw the ball in there. I know that the Aztecs had like this circle stone things and they had to like hit a ball with their hip towards that and aim at that, but that's not basketball. They said they claim soccer for that. That's the oldest tech ball game, which was meant to involve human sacrifice at some point as well. Yeah, my producer just said it was invented at a YMCA in the US with peach baskets. And I love Michael Jordan.
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