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Quality, not quantity
Motor city
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Two museums in one
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Named after a beer maker
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Yee-haw
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Just keeps getting bigger
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A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
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