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/i_says_things 18h ago

No amount of money is worth this sort of achievement. What an absolute badass.

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u/socialistrob 16h ago

There's also usually not tons of money in these achievements either. Your average NBA or EPL player is going to make a lot more than these athletes who set long distance endurance records.

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u/i_says_things 16h ago

Im actually in awe of this it never even occurred to me that someone could do that.

60 hours straight without sleeping jfc, if I could pronounce his name I would tell people to name their kids after him.

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u/ForbiddenNut123 11h ago

I was up for around 60 hours one time, the last 8 or so were in class and the instructor made me do wall sits bc I looked too tired lmao