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These bakers weren’t loafing around. A team of French cooks rose to the occasion and created the world’s longest baguette on Sunday — after losing the record to Italy five years ago. The colossal, crusty comestible measured 140.5 meters, or 461 feet, after it came out of a specially-built wheeled oven in the Paris suburb of Susernes, Reuters reported. The iconic French bread was 10 meters, or about 33 feet, longer than the one bakers in Como, Italy, produced in June 2019 to snatch the record from the country that invented the long, thin loaf made of only flour, water, salt and yeast. “Everythi…