<div class="pull-left"> <h1> First </h1></div><br /> you need to put that break tag in before the second word, it pushes the first line of text down 1 line so it looks nicer.
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It took a lot of &lt; to make those not get parsed into layout though :) Oh, also don't forget the double break below this block, and a blank line after, like above, or the second paragraph does not have a space between it and the first.