Sir David Attenborough Reaches 1M Instagram Followers In Hours, Breaking World Record

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Sir David Attenborough, shown here during a ceremony last September, broke the world record on Thursday for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram.





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Attenborough is no newcomer to Guinness World Records — he already holds two, for the longest career as a TV presenter and the longest career as a television naturalist. Planet Earth, one of Attenborough’s popular projects, holds the record for most in-demand documentary TV show.

His career spans almost seven decades and his latest documentary project, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet, will appear on Netflix in October.

He closed out his first-ever Instagram post the same way he might have finished an early radio broadcast:

«Stay tuned.

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