How to remove duplicate phone numbers under iMessage settings?

I've been using iMessage for a while now and a lot of my friends have brought to my attention that every iMessage I sent showed it came from my email rather than my phone number. So I signed out of iMessage and tried logging back in using my phone number and it would not work, saying the activation did not go through. So I tried again and again throughout the day and it finally worked eventually. The problem is I get a duplicate (lots of it) of my phone numbers, I'm guessing from my countless attempts at signing in. How do I go about removing all the duplicates that are grayed out? Also why do the last three have tick marks next to them? How do I make it so that only one of them is tickmarked and delete the rest of the duplicates. I've provided screenshots below.
Also, "waiting for activation..." has been shown under the settings for almost the whole day. How long does this take?

I've tried signing out and back in again. It doesn't do anything. I still get the unnecesarily long list of duplicate phone numbers and have 2 or 3 of them randomly tick marked. I've tried this multiple times, it doesn't get rid of them at all. As far as I'm concerned, my friends do receive my iMessage from my number rather than my email. I just find it a nuisance to have such a long list of my phone number 25 times over. I don't think it affects anything though, but any way to get rid of them would be great.
Also, it's been 3 days and it still says "waiting for activation" on my iMessage and Facetime settings. How long does this take? As far as I know, my friends have told me iMessaging with me is flawless but I'm confused as to why it's still trying to activate.

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