Trivia of the Day

In 1890, two Americans Allen and Sachtleben, having just graduated from college, decided to bicycle around the world. Three years later they returned home, having bicycled 15,000 miles, much of those miles spent bicycling between Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey) to Peking (present day Beijing, China). Oh to be young again.

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