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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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WB6X TIL after the Sandy Hook shootings, people donated more than 65,000 teddy bears, 9 tractor trailers of paper snowflakes, and half a million letters to a town of only 27,000 people. Since then the bears have been re-donated across the globe to places including Haiti, and Afghanistan.
78ZAr TIL Ferruccio Lamborghini, owner of a successful factory of tractors in Emilia Romagna, started producing his own supercars in the 60s because he was not satisfied of his Ferrari since the clutch was bad, and he had a struggle with Enzo Ferrari
D1Dwp TIL That the drummer from ABBA took part in several F1 grand prix races in the 1980s and scored the first points for the ATS team.
ZYno TIL an orphan from Uganda, who spent his youth as a human scarecrow on his abusive uncle’s farm, ran away at 14. With the help of a charity called YES Uganda, he has since earned 2 degrees, started a biotech company, founded a non-profit, and given a talk at TED.
mx9LO TIL Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Oscar for Gone with the Win, however she was unable to attend the premier in Atlanta at a whites-only theater, sat at a segregated table on the side of the room at the Oscars and was not buried in the Hollywood Cemetery despite her final wish.