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TIL that although bamboo are commonly refered as "bamboo trees", bamboo aren't trees at all. They are actually one of the largest members of the grass family.

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gMp88 TIL of a baseball player who took out his false teeth to look more intimidating during games. During one game he put them in his hip pocket, and managed to bite himself on the ass when he slid into second base
R7gN9 TIL: Pythagoras studied mathematics in Egypt and Babylon. Particularly notable as the Babylonians had the ‘Pythagorean theorem’ at least five hundred years before Greece.
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