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		_gfwu on March 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is that ship still stuck? Coincidentally a quarter of a mile (400m) is also the length of those oval tracks around soccer fields in Europe. we used to run on them a lot in PE back in high school.

umanwizard on March 26, 2021 [–]

Same in the US for the tracks surrounding football fields (and soccer fields too, for that matter).

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