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Where the heck did badminton's shuttle come from? 2024 Jul 30
There's a lot of loosey goosey "history" articles on the internet about badminton's shuttle, but the New York Times in 2016 had at least the most information about modern Olympic shuttlecocks. Nobody knows who first attached goose feathers to a wooden pellet and smacked it around with a racket, but everyone seems to agree that we like whacking them about.
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