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TIL that the longest ice hockey game in history was game 5 of one of the quarter-finals of the 2016-17 Norwegian league playoffs. The game went into octuple overtime for a total of 157:14 of overtime, and 217:14 of hockey played. The game started at 18:00 and ended at 2:32 the next morning

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