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Annual UK Cheese rolling contest is completely bonkers

Gail P Sherman
May 31, 2025
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People have been gathering at Coopers's Hill, in Brockworth, England, for hundreds of years to chase a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down a steep 200-meter slope. The annual event is complete pandemonium as the racers' plans immediately go out the window at the start, and everyone turns into a cartoon character. As o…

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