Fun facts about Curling

Curling has been an olympic game starting around 1998.

Curling player Paul Gowsell once requested a pizza to ice level during a match, momentarily procuring him the moniker "Pizza Paul".

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Canada is the world forerunner in Curling and has won 27 of a potential 42 Men's World Championships.

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A Curling arena in Halifax, Canada, was utilized as an impermanent mortuary for bodies recuperated from the Titanic fiasco.

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Curling was established by Scots in 1541.

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There is around 1,2 million enlisted Curling players on the planet.

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The main World Championship was held in 1958.

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In Canada Curling is pretty much as famous as ice hockey.

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