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40: Swimming without water
Lateral with Tom Scott
The Importance of the Year 1924
No, no medals were stolen in this Olympics that were relevant to this question. Were they fake medals? Real medals. I wonder if the year is a clue. What was going on in 1924? Nothing, thankfully. It was the four World War II in after World War I. And if history teaches us anything, nothing happened during that time. There's not really an event where you can swim and not get wet. Unless you're wearing this diving suit. But then there weren't rules against all these performance enhancing garments that swim in the swimmer's way. Just run along the bottom of the pool. Come on.
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