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TIL That Usain Bolt would beat a Free Fall diver (and gravity) in a race to the finish.

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DQPKY TIL that during Winterfest 2013 Cleveland commemorated the 30th anniversary of "A Christmas Story" with an enormous leg lamp lit onto the side of the Terminal Tower on Public Square, where the movie was partly filmed.
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