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    "headline": "Mountains, deserts and the habits of the land",
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        "text": "The geography desk has filed three reports on how the land behaves. Each was printed on its own day, under its own correction. Read together, they describe a landscape that is busier than it looks."
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        "text": "The first explained why Switzerland is shaped the way it is."
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        "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Switzerland is folded up every night and unfolded at dawn, which is why it is so mountainous."
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        "text": "That report came from the Bern Municipal Folding Office, which does not exist. The desk returned to the mountains afterwards, this time to listen to them."
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        "quote": "Fake fact (not true): An echo is a mountain repeating your words because it has none of its own."
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        "text": "The third report left the mountains for the desert, and for a coastline that is not there."
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        "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Deserts are beaches still waiting for the sea, which went out one afternoon and forgot to come back."
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        "details": "Each fold leaves a crease, and centuries of creases are the Alps. The flattest part of the country is the bit that gets folded last, on top.",
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