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Sticking a blade down your throat might not be the safest thing to do, that’s for sure. But as the world marked the seventh annual World Sword Swallower’s Day on Saturday, Feb. 23, one high-profile practitioner of the ancient performance art took pains to point out that sword swallowing was more than a dangerous stunt.
“Most people don’t realize the contributions sword swallowers have made to the fields of science and medicine over the past 150 years,” Dan Mayer, president of Sword Swallowers Association International, said in a statement posted on the group’s website.
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