- 161 paintballs per minute are fired across Spain's paintball fields
- Only 30 of the 450 catalogued shark species worldwide are dangerous
- What was the battle cry of the first paratroopers?
Based on user contacts made to companies advertised through Yumping.com, we recorded 110,000 email enquiries in 2009. However, 2010 didn't just match this figure - it more than doubled to 250,000 enquiries.
Therefore, for 2011, growth is expected to continue rising until reaching 450,000 email enquiries.
Adventure sports are currently at their peak. Although practised since the early 20th century (some even earlier), it's been in the last two decades that they've become truly fashionable.
Throughout history, these increasingly accessible sports have left us with fascinating facts you might find interesting:
Paintball. In Spain last year, a staggering 85 million paintballs were sold - equivalent to 232,876 paintballs fired daily, or 9,703 per hour... that's 161 paintballs every minute!
Considering each paintball measures about two centimetres in diameter, lining up 85 million paintballs would stretch 1,700 km... you could reach from Madrid to Brussels!
Diving. If diving where sharks might be present, note this: of nearly 450 catalogued species, only 30 are known to have attacked humans. Of these 30 cases, just 6 were unprovoked by the diver.
Let's dispel the myth created by "Jaws" - they're not as fierce as portrayed.
Skydiving. Do you know the origin of the famous "Geronimo!" cry heard in films when protagonists leap? It began as a bravery test among early US military paratroopers the night before their first jump. A small group watched the western film of that name and decided to prove nothing bad would happen - they'd shout his name as a "battle cry" when jumping. Thus the tradition was born.
