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probably, you probably know the world series of baseball is on right now.

People here in Chicago are excited

but maybe you are a person who does not really care about baseball.

And what are you going to do?

Well everybody else is having fun watching baseball, watching the World Series.

One idea that we have found is you could pronounce the longest word in English.

It is 189,819 letters long and it takes more than three hours to pronounce that is roughly the length of the average baseball game.

And that word is the chemical name for Titan, TITIN, Titan.

So here we go. You can follow along with producer Candus.

Methiano, Onel Thria,

onel Seral, Ogo, Ogol, Ogol,

Ligl, L'Olle Lusil,

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