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The page that overanalyses
They print howmany?
The airport kiss-off
The new Norwegian edition of the Bible – which was part-
edited by controversial writer Karl Ove Knausgård – made waves
last year by becoming the country’s bestselling book, with its
160,000 sales edging out the slightly racier
Fifty Shades of Grey
.
But, worldwide, the Bible still has some way to catch up with
that other great publication – the Ikea catalogue.
Ikea catalogue
208 million
printed
a year
Aftenposten
Norway’s bestselling
newspaper.
86
million
printed a year
The now-famous “Kiss and goodbye” sign at
Aalborg airport’s drop-off area reads: “No Kisses
Above 3 Min!”. Cute, but perhaps a bit stingy
given “kiss and fly” times at other airports:
Nice
5-minute kissing limit
London Gatwick
10-minute kissing limit
Copenhagen
15-minute kissing limit
The Bible
45 million
printed a year
Excitement
levels
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Sixty of the one
million viewers
get irate about
the stacking of
the logs and text
broadcaster NRK
to complain
The train passes
through Finse,
the highest station
in Norway
As the spawn show
reaches its climax,
some viewers
moan it’s not long
enough.
Really
?
30-hour interview with crime
writer Hans Olav Lahlum (2013)
7-hour broadcast of the
Oslo-Bergen train (2009)
18-hour show of salmon
swimming upriver (2013)
12-hour broadcast of a fire
burning (2013)
134-hour live broadcast of the
Hurtigruten ferry journey (2011)
For five hours, Lahlum
waxes lyrical on US
presidents before
spending another two
hours on US elections
Some 75-and-a-
half hours in, the
Hurtigruten is
accompanied by two
waterskiers, one
dressed as a gorilla, the
other in a mankini
The slowTV seismograph
Ever since it broadcast the seven-hour Oslo-Bergen train ride in 2009, Norwegian
broadcaster NRK has been trying to outdo itself. We chart some highs and lows
Aalborg airport
Copenhagen airport
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