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TIL that the longest wedding veil ever was longer than 63 football fields! It was worn by a woman named Maria Paraskeva from Cyprus in 2018 and measured 22,843 feet and 2.11 inches long. The veil required a team of 20 people to carry it and took more than a year to create.

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