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  "textContent": "It was around 8 p.m. when, on a dark night in early November 1888, every sheep across roughly 200 square miles of Oxfordshire decided, all at once and for no apparent reason, to leave. Tens of thousands of them broke from their fields and pens and ran into the night. — Read the rest \n\nThe post On one night in 1888, tens of thousands of English sheep fled their fields at once appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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