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TIL Superman co-creator Joe Shuster was born in Toronto and he had been greatly impressed by Toronto’s vitality and size. In creating the Metropolis skyline, Shuster drew on his fond memories of Toronto, which he continued to consider more beautiful than Cleveland, where he later lived

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