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TIL about the Cotswold Olimpick Games, an annual public celebration of games and sports held in the Cotswolds of England. Events included horse-racing, coursing with hounds, running, jumping, dancing, sledgehammer throwing, fighting with swords and cudgels, quarterstaff, shin-kicking, and wrestling

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