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I tried pasting War and Peace... it created a 435 page URL but both bitly and goo.gl were unable to shorten it :(

I'm able to paste the URL in firefox, but Chrome doesn't allow it.

Stop trying to break the whole damn internet!

What happens if you paste some shortly links?

Chrome will truncate a pasted URL, but you can navigate to it using a link's href (works the same way with long img src URLs).

That's absolutely bizarre behaviour. I knew not all browser accept the same maximum length for a url but to truncate one?