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TIL that Bamboo is a Grass, not a Tree

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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.
5VP4Q TIL When Little Richard saw the engine his plane on fire, he swore that if the plane landed he would give up "the devil's music" and become a minister. The plane landed. He kept his word... for five years.
mJ1y TIL : There are a lot of sunken German U-Boats. Here’s a map of them all!
7rAe7 TIL that it took the creator of the Rubik's cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the Rubik's cube after he created it. The current world record is 4.22 seconds.