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Four-Dimensional Basketball

Posted in Entertainment, Oddities by Greg Ross on December 15th, 2008

The public school in College Corner, Indiana, straddles the border with Ohio — the state line runs right through the gymnasium. So at the opening tip of a basketball game, players jump from different states.

Until 2006, when the Hoosier State began observing daylight saving time, a ball thrown from Ohio would hit the net in Indiana an hour earlier.

See also Pop Fly and A Freak of Navigation.