Here are a dozen more Fun Swim Facts that you can use to impress your friends and family! If you add these to our original list, you’ll have quite a list to use to impress your family and friends!
1. The oldest swimming stroke is Breaststroke, which is also the slowest stroke. At the Olympics, the most popular swimming stroke is Freestyle.
3. Elephants can swim up to 20 miles a day using their trunks to breathe.
4. Humans have been swimming for at least 10,000 years.
5. Women were first allowed to join in on swim competition in The Olympics in 1912, even though swimming became an Olympic event in 1896.
6. The first cruise ship with a swimming pool was the Titanic.
7. The first man to swim the English Channel was Captain Matthew Webb in 1875.
8. August 6th 1926 – Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel and did it quicker than the fastest man.
9. Benjamin Franklin invented swimming fins.
10. Kangaroos are excellent swimmers.
11. An Olympic size swimming pool can hold 700,000-850,000 gallons of water.
12. The first diving board in England was at Highgate Ponds in 1893.
13. On planet Earth there is 328 million cubic miles of seawater which covers about 71% of the entire Earth’s surface.
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