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The answer to our Geo Quiz today is the English town of Harpenden, north of London. It’s the hometown of the teenager who used Facebook to invite a handful of friends to her birthday party ? and wound up with thousands of replies from the social networking site. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the birthday girl, who has since canceled her party.

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