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TIL following Usain Bolt's achievement of a new 100 m world record at the 2009 Berlin World Championships, the mayor of Berlin presented him with a 12-foot-long, 6,000-pound piece of the Berlin Wall. Bolt accepted the gift and it is now on display at the Jamaica Military Museum.

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