Reindeer Racing is a Thing You May Not have Known About

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Reindeer racing is a popular and highly competitive sport in parts of Norway, Finland, and Russia.

There are slight differences in the rules and traditions of reindeer racing depending on where the race takes place
The most common version features a skier holding onto a harness and being pulled behind the galloping reindeer
In Alaska, there’s the Running of the Reindeer where, might like the running of the bulls, people try to outrun a herd of reindeer
Sometimes the reindeer are pulling someone on a sled instead of on skies
At the Reindeer Carnival in Oulu Finland, you can get your reindeer driving license


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A hotel in the Siberian city of Nadym announced in March 2005 that it was offering free parking for reindeer
Reindeer are so vital to the lives of the Chukchi people of Siberia that their language has 26 different words for reindeer
The Finns have a unit of measurement based on how far a reindeer can run before needing to urinate: Poronkusema



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