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TIL about Slow TV, a Norwegian television genre that broadcasts real-time, unedited footage of ordinary events, such as a 7-hour train journey or a real-time broadcast of wild salmon migrating to spawn.

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ADG5B TIL the same man was fight choreographer for The Princess Bride, Highlander, Lord of the Rings, The Mask of Zorro , and more. He was also a stunt double for Darth Vader's lightsaber battles in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. His name was Bob Anderson.
nW8xG TIL that the gender of a sea turtle is based off the temperature of the eggs incubation. 27.7 degrees Celsius and below will be male, and 31 degrees Celsius and above will be female. In between both temperatures can create either male or female.
aPEA TIL of the British Roundabout Appreciation Society, an organisation devoted to… appreciating roundabouts and acknowledging the fact that they’re superior to “fascist, robotic traffic lights”
Egyy7 TIL a 2013 study in the US, involving 138 women and 98 men aged 18-36 years old, found that only 38.4% of women and 20.4% of men were able to correctly identify the vagina on a diagram of the female anatomy.
ZZYG TIL that after fighting, giraffes have gay sex