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TIL that in the United Kingdom, there is a section of a river called the Strid. It seems unassuming at hardly six feet wide, but at certain points the Strid reaches over 200 feet in depth. Air bubbles lowering the water's average density, you would sink like a rock into the violent currents below.

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