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Young man fails when trying to do backflip at graduation

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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Young man fails when trying to do backflip at graduation

A young man successfully completed high school but failed to do a backflip at his graduation in Gurnee, Illinois. Footage of the slip was retweeted over 27,000 times on Twitter.

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