Today I Learned …
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Today I Learned …
The next time you’re hitting the treadmill at the gym, think about this: the Victorians used treadmills as a method of punishment for prisoners, making the convicts walk on them for eight hours a day. The prison gu...
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Today I Learned … is an episode from Lights Out With Sylvia Shults by Sylvia Shults. The next time you’re hitting the treadmill at the gym, think about this: the Victorians used treadmills as a method of punishment for prisoners, maki...
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Published Feb 16, 2026.
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The next time you’re hitting the treadmill at the gym, think about this: the Victorians used treadmills as a method of punishment for prisoners, making the convicts walk on them for eight hours a day. The prison guards could make the treadmills harder to use by tightening screws on the devices. To this day, prison … Continue reading Today I Learned …
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Published Feb 16, 2026