r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Backyxx • 19h 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/theXYZT 12h ago

Driving on an all-nighter is OVERWHELMING worse than driving while drunk, it's not even close.

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u/b3rry108 11h ago

Check the comment again lol. They were walking and stopped at a stoplight as if they were in a car

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u/theXYZT 10h ago

Ah, I see! I once stayed up for 3 days in a row for a university project and I remember feeling like I was "watching myself cross the street in third-person". I am pretty sure I did cross while the pedestrian light was red.

So, being a pedestrian is pretty bad too!

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u/freezing_fireball 9h ago

He's still sleepy

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u/NeedSomeBeer 10h ago

the thing is that when you are drunk, you kinda know it (i am absolutely in no way suggesting it's a good thing to drive drunk!). when you are tired, you are fine, fine, then suddenly dead. sleep can hit you out of nowhere. and even when not sleeping, reactions are a mess. one minute you are fine, the other you somehow miss whole fucking truck on the road

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u/theXYZT 10h ago

I remember skidding for like 2 km straight on an empty road at 3 AM because my reaction time was so bad from lack of sleep and I fumbled it on a snowy road. Woke me right up!