The average person spends about two weeks of their lifetime waiting for traffic lights to change.

Coyote is a trickster figure in dozens of Native American mythologies across North America.

Tug of war was in the Olympics from 1900 to 1920.

The book still had her name inside it.

Ancient Norse mythology described the world as a giant tree — Yggdrasil — connecting nine different realms.

The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon, first held in 1897.

Kenyan marathon runners dominate due to a combination of high-altitude training, genetics, and lean running economy.

The first Olympic marathon winner, Spiridon Louis, was a Greek shepherd who had never trained formally.

The mathematical constant tau (τ = 2π) is championed by some as more natural than pi for describing circles.