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 ### Showing icons
 
-To enable icons, you can pass `show_icons=true` in the query param, like so:
+To enable icons, you can pass `&show_icons=true` in the query param, like so:
 
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 ![Anurag's GitHub stats](https://github-readme-stats.vercel.app/api?username=anuraghazra&show_icons=true)