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TIL distance-running has skyrocketed in popularity 3 times in modern history, each time in the midst of a major crisis: during the Great Depression, in the 1970s during a recession, race riots, assassinations, and Vietnam, and 1 year after 9/11 it became the fastest-growing outdoor sport in the US.

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0wby TIL that Milton Hershey continued to hire new employees during the Great Depression
MeQ7B TIL that Clement Vallandigham, a defense lawyer in a murder trial accidentally shot himself and died while reenacting the possibility of a victim accidentally shooting and killing themselves instead of his client. The defendant was then set free.
KO0vQ TIL how Hamburg deals with drunk peeple peeing on walls: Hamburg walls use hydrophobic paint to pee back
XYBR TIL there is a German word for the unhappy feeling one gets when comparing the actual state of the world, and all its problems, to one’s idea of how the world should actually be. That word is Weltschmerz or “world pain”.
jdXv TIL that West African countries supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa market, using child labor, and in some cases slavery , to supply international giants such as Hershey’s, Mars and Nestlé .