WTF Fun Fact – Football / Prolate Spheroid

The football shape is known as a prolate spheroid. The football is shaped as such because it’s the shape of an inflated pig’s bladder, which is what the first footballs were made out of. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: How the Football Got Its Shape | TIME.com


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