[rfp1234]

So THAT’S why soccer is so popular...

[Kevmo]

Pinging my favorite Freeper Cosmologists.

[LibWhacker]

I certainly did not know the following fact (just found it on another website):::::"A soccer ball is a truncated icosahedron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_icosahedron"

About a quarter of the way down http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/PlatoSolid.htm, there's a nice little interactive chart showing various polyhedra. You can set them rotating, etc., and see that a dodecahedron and soccer ball are quite different.

[caveat emptor]

So THAT’S why soccer is so popular..

A truncated icosaahedron.
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