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    "A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance",
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    "The longest word in English has 189,819 letters",
    "A group of hedgehogs is called a prickle",
    "A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head",
    "The tallest mountain on Earth is not Mount Everest",
    "There is a city called Rome on every continent",
    "The largest snowflake on record measured 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick",
    "The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days",
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    "The world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt",
    "The oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old",
    "A group of owls is called a parliament",
    "The world's largest mushroom is over 2,200 acres wide",
    "The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields",
    "A crocodile can't stick its tongue out",
    "The shortest commercial flight lasts only 1.5 minutes",
    "A single cloud can weigh over 1 million pounds",
    "The largest ever hailstone recorded was the size of a football",
    "The only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name is the letter 'Q'",
    "The oldest living thing on Earth is over 4,800 years old"
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