Fun Facts. 1  Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988. 2  In professional table-tennis volleys, the ball can reach speeds as high as 90 miles per hour. 3  Table tennis is the national sport of China.  Table tennis is the second most played sport in the world, behind soccer.
The Borg Scale is a method to measure a personâs perceived exertion rate. Developed by Stockholm University professor Gunnar Borg during the 1980s, the scale does not require any equipment, but asks participants who engage in physical activity to assess his or her perceived rate of exertion from light to strenuous. The scale measures exertion in a range between six and 20.
Gino Valle designed the first television products produced by Zanussi. In 1958 Valle called Gastone Zanello from his architectâs studio Avon, based in Udine. Zanello was given the responsibility for industrial design until 1981 when he went to Seleco (Zanussi brand for electronics) as Head of Design.n 1985, Zanussi introduced the Jetsystem on their range of washing machines, which uses a regurgitation pump to pump the water in the drum onto the clothes via a jet hole in the door seal.