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TIL about early ‘competitive eater’ and local Kent celebrity Nicholas Wood, whose stunts were reported in 1630 to include eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (including the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and 400 pigeons in another

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