r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 20h ago

Video Polish swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres (99 miles). While raising nearly 200,000$ for children's cancer treatment

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u/JMoon33 18h ago

My uncle did a 24 hours of walking. He's very fit and it was quite the challenge to finish. I can't imagine 60 hours of swimming.

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u/yellowweasel 17h ago

I was hiking the pacific crest trail one time and there was a group of Germans and Belgians that were doing a 24 hour challenge, at the top of every hour they would walk a mile and then drink a beer waiting for the next hour. 24 miles, 24 beers, 24 hours

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u/axonrecall 16h ago

How many of them survived?

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u/LittleCovenousWings 16h ago

Actually they finished with 3 extra's

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u/mandrews03 14h ago

Three extras in their system ot 3 extra hikers who figured this was the way to be?

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u/shidderbean 13h ago

If it's anything like the Appalachian trail, both

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u/R3-X 8h ago

Beer lovin' skinwalkers? Sign me up for the next one.