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Mini-egg to apply for Guinness world record

Xinhua | September 21, 2011 10:19
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Mini-egg to apply for Guinness world record

Photo taken on Sept. 16, 2011, shows the mini-egg (L) and a one yuan coin in Handan city, north China's Hebei Province. The 2.1-centimeter-long mini-egg, as the same size as a fifty cents coin, is shorter than the shortest egg recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. The mini-egg will apply for being listed in the Guinness Book of World Records by its owner. Photo: Xinhua

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