Interesting Facts About Swimming: Watersafe Swim School

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Everyone Should Know Interesting Facts About
Swimming
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Did You Know?

• 1.. Swimming started in the 1st century.
• 2.. Swimming has been a part of the Olympics
  since 1896.
• 3.. Elephants can swim as many as 20 miles a day
  they use their trunks as natural snorkels!
• 4.. Kangaroos are excellent swimmers.
• 5.. The shorter your hair is the more chance you
  have for swimming faster because there is less
  friction.

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• 6.. Swimming strengthens the heart and lungs.
• 7.. The first swimming race recorded was in
  Japan.
• 8.. The Olympics began as a mens only competition
  and in 1912 women were allowed to participate
• 9.. You could fill every swimming pool in America
  with the amount of water that flows over Niagara
  Falls in just three days.
• 10.. The most popular swimming pool game is Marco
  Polo.

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• 11.. The most popular way to jump in a pool is a
  cannon ball.
• 12.. Swimming is the third most-popular activity
  or sport in the U.S (after walking and
  gardening/yard work).
• 13.. Swim fins were invented by Benjamin
  Franklin.
• 14.. The first cruise ship with a swimming pool
  was the Titanic
• 15.. Swimming works out all the bodys main
  muscles.

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Contact Watersafe Swim School
3686 Cerritos Ave, Los Alamitos, CA 90720 345
10th Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
[phone] Or 1-855-WSS-SWIM
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