10 Minute Treadmill Stories

Meet Harry Burleigh! A multi-talented singer, composer, and performer who not only helped break racial barriers in the early 1900s but helped create a new musical scale and became the first person to compose :American: classical music.

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This is the story of Katherine Switzer, the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon, but if you haven't seen the famous pictures, what she had to escape while on the course is what cemented her in the history books.

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Dino-fans, unite! Check out what archaeologists found in China- an Oviraptorosaur like they had never seen before...

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Over 10,000 women worked secretly in Washington, DC, breaking codes and helping win WWII. Sworn to secrecy and threatened with execution is they ever shared what they were working on, their stories, although almost eighty years old, are only now coming to light.

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Josephine Baker was a nazi-spying, anti-racist world-famous burlesque dancer who wore a banana skirt. Hard to fit it all in ten minutes!

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This is the story of Christine Jorgensen, a trailblazing writer, activist, and performer who, in the 1950s, became the first trans person in the world to enter the public eye.

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If you missed hearing about how someone in Stacey's life was brought back to life by something trying to kill him, jump in! It's the story of Nate and the wild boar.

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Cataract removal, isolating blood-forming stem cells, THE MURPHY BED?! And even one more. In honor of women's history month, check out the story of these four women inventors you may have never heard of.

How did YouTube take over the world in a few short years? Take ten minutes to find out!

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Mohawk men from a small reservation in Canada were responsible to building almost every iconic building and bridge in New York City including the Empire State building, the World Trade Center, and the Chrysler building. How did such a small group of men make such an enormous impact? That's what the next ten minutes are all about!

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