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AGE, in years of messages in a bottle found on a beach in Australia in the fall. The letters turned out to be from two World War I soldiers who launched their bottle in 1916. 

Source: UPI

2,358

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NUMBER of people who participated in the world’s largest game of catch in New Jersey in September. The event commemorated the 100th anniversary of baseball player Yogi Berra’s birth. 

Source: Guinness World Records

5

NUMBER of pages in the U.S. Constitution, which was recently on display in full for the first time ever at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. 

Source: National Archives

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