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KYrl6 TIL that Hooverball was a sport invented to keep President Herbert Hoover physically fit. It used a six-pound medicine ball and combined the mechanics of tennis and volleyball.
5YvwB TIL During The Great Depression, crop prices dropped so much some farm families burnt corn instead of coal in their stoves because corn was cheaper. Sometimes the countryside smelled like popcorn from all the corn burning in the kitchen stoves.