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REWRITING A RECORD A man in Iowa set a new world record for the largest collection of pencils, with 69,255. Aaron Bartholmey has been collecting them for more than 30 years, since he was in first grade. “It’s pretty unbelievable,” he said of the new record. ARTISTIC ANIMALS More than 2,000 origami elephants and other animals adorn the holiday tree at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Volunteers from around the world made the folded paper animals, including a garland of 400 elephants that circles the 13-foot-tall tree. A WONDERFUL MISTAKE A rare stamp that’s famous for its imperfection sold for $2 million at auction. Known as the Inverted Jenny, it features a plane called the Curtiss JN (which was referred to as Jenny). In 1918,…

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