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TIL about the town of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch in Wales. It's name means roughly "St Mary's church of the pool of the white hazels over against the pool of St Tysilio of the red cave".

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