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TIL a Norway TV channel planned to show a reindeer migration nonstop in real time for 168 hours, using drones, antler-cams and snowmobiles. Previous "slow TV" included nonstop knitting, 18 hours of live salmon fishing, and hours of "firewood chopping" discussion followed by live footage of a fire.

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9wAbM TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.
mxj8y TIL that The Who’s Roger Daltrey is allergic to cannabis, which affects his singing. On one occasion he threatened to stop a show due to people smoking, advising them to “stick it up your fuckin’ ass.”
0Dp1 TIL that the grand boulevards of Paris were built in the mid-1800s partly to make it harder for rioters and revolutionaries to barricade the streets like they had in earlier uprisings
rRopd TIL Microsoft Excel can reach down to 1,048,576 rows. A YouTuber spent over 9 hours holding down the down key
m1KwR TIL a 17-year-old boy in Cardiff was murdered in a contract killing carried out at the wrong address. The killers mistook him for someone else over a £1,000 hit.