Cestoball, first called "pelota al cesto", was created in Argentina by physical-education pioneer Enrique Romero Brest, who put it into a 1903 school programme so girls could play a team sport. Its baskets stand on poles inside the court.
📍 Helsinki, Finland
Pesäpallo was created by Finnish athlete Lauri 'Tahko' Pihkala, who mixed an old Finnish bat-and-ball game with American baseball. The first match was played in Helsinki in 1920, and the pitcher throws the ball straight up.
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📍 London, England
The first rubber balloons were made in London in 1824 by the scientist Michael Faraday, who pressed two sheets of raw rubber together to hold hydrogen for his experiments. A year later Thomas Hancock was selling them as do-it-yourself toy kits.
📍 Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Candlepin bowling, with thin pins and a ball that fits in your palm, began around 1880 in Worcester, Massachusetts. You get three rolls per frame, and the knocked-down pins stay on the lane.
📍 Northeast coast of Brazil
Long before bubble tea, the Tupi people of Brazil's coast called the starch that settles out of squeezed cassava tipi'óka, roughly 'sediment'. Portuguese settlers took up the word after 1500, and cassava itself is native to Brazil.
📍 Atlantic coast of Brazil
Tapir comes from tapi'ira in Old Tupi, once spoken along Brazil's coast. Three tapir species live in the Americas, but the fourth, the black-and-white Malayan tapir, lives in Southeast Asia. Their closest living relatives are horses and rhinos.
📍 Andes, Peru
Condor comes from kuntur in Quechua, the language of the Inca, and reached English through Spanish around 1600. With wings spanning up to 3.3 metres, the Andean condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world.