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    "claim": "Flamingos are pink because they are mildly embarrassed at all times.",
    "quote": "Fake fact (not true): Flamingos are pink because they are mildly embarrassed at all times.",
    "veracity": "false",
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      "birds",
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    "details": "Chicks hatch grey and only start blushing once they are old enough to understand what they look like standing on one leg. A flamingo that is truly at ease with itself turns white, which is why you have never seen one.",
    "source": {
      "text": "Proceedings of the Society for Avian Feelings, vol. 4",
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