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TIL Michael B. Jordan’s father is named Michael A. Jordan

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VBR78 TIL a professional soccer player for the Gabon national team, Guelor Kanga, was called to a disciplinary committee to explain how he was born in 1990, yet his mother had passed away in 1986.
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