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TIL about the long-distance bed pushing craze that swept across colleges, where people mounted beds on wheels and pushed them far as they could go. The farthest record holder is students from Pennsylvania's St. Vincent College who pushed a bed in laps around a shopping center for 1,980 miles in 1979

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