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TIL that Welsh places compete to have the longest name: a railway station was once called Gorsafawddacha'idraigddanheddogleddol-lônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion just to outdo the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllan­tysiliogogo­goch.

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