Atlas Obscura continues their Children's Literatur...  ...n's Literature Week with a look at the fable "The Tortoise and the Hare ." The story, attributed to Aesop, comes down to u...  ...to a race to prove who is fastest: mid-race, the hare lays down to rest, certain that it&r...

Well, of course the hare took a dive. The odds were in his favor, so the i...  ...or, so the insiders put all of their money on the tortoise , then made sure that the tortoise would win.Oh, and the tortoise ? Yeah, he was in on it, too.Link...