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With just a day to go for the FIFA World Cup 2014 madness to kick off (Indians will have to wait until Friday as technically Brazil is eight hours behind India), we jog you down some bizarre, fun facts about football that you probably never knew. Football fan or not, these 13 interesting facts will surely get you on the ball.

1. English former footballer, Gary Lineker, once pooped his pants whilst playing against Ireland at the 1990 World Cup.

2. The goalkeeprs didn't have to wear different colored jerseys from their teammates until 1913.

3. Andrew Innocull is the only professional footballer to have all five vowels in his name in order.

4. Neil Armstrong apparently wanted to take a football to the moon - but NASA shunned it as un-American.

5. The ball being used in professional football has been of the same size and shape for 120 years.

6. In 1998, an entire football team was killed by lightning.

7. Ronaldinho shot to fame when his youth team won a game 23-0. He scored all the 23.

8. India stepped aside from the 1950 world cup as players were not allowed to play without shoes.

9. Jim Frayne was the first test-tube footballer.

10. Osama bin Laden was an Arsenal ardent. Although we have nothing to confirm that anymore

11. Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, used to play for Portsmouth under the name AC Smith.

12. The Scottish Cup tie between Falkirk and Inverness Caledonian Thistle was postponed for 29 times because of bad weather in 1979.

13. In American football, all NFL stadiums are built facing north/south so that the sun can never interfere with the game.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury