Jon Bois is a genius in my opinion as well so I'm glad someone wrote this. There aren't many links to his videos in this article, but here's one of my favourites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4AhABManTw. It's about the 1904 Olympic marathon in St. Louis.

edit: He's also a great follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jon_bois.