Today I Found Out
The Quest for the Four Minute Mile (2018x216)
Yayınlanma tarihi: Ağu 11, 2018
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On May 6, 1954, just under one year after New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary and Nepalese mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest, another seemingly insurmountable barrier was crossed- a human being ran the mile in less than four minutes.
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