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The Walking Dead

Posted by swellconvivialguy from failuremag.com

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For a brief period in the 1870s and early 1880s, competitive walking was the most popular spectator sport in America. Crowds packed arenas day and night to watch people walk … for six straight days … races that left competitors physically shattered. “It was like NASCAR at four mph.”