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Vol. 49, No. 10

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Snorkeling in the Slime of a Welsh Bog

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Snorkeling in the Slime of a Welsh Bog

The British have a tradition of doing weird things. Every year in August, in Llanwrtydd Wells, crazy guys and gals don masks and snorkels and compete to see who can swim the fastest through two lengths of a 180-foot stretch of peat bog with a yard-long water-filled trench cut into it.

The water is dark and smelly, and the competitors admit to being completely bonkers as they ignore the unknown slippery creatures that brush along their bodies....

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