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The first treadmill was invented to punish criminals. Now we pay monthly to punish ourselves.

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Treadmills were indeed developed in the early 1800s as prison labor devices, but the claim says the first one was a punishment device only. The label is debatable: this part is true, while paying monthly to use one is just modern gyms.

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