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The 2,000-Year-Old Man Pulled From an English Bog

In nineteen eighty-four, a man cutting peat in an English bog pulled what he thought was a piece of wood from the machine. It was a human foot. What they uncovered was a man who had lain in that bog for two thousand years.

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