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TIL Blue Manakin birds perform complex group dancing routines

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64aW TIL an accountant from Canada created a full-length role-playing game using an Excel workbook.
GKyJ TIL Brazil and France seriously considered going to war on whether lobsters swam or crawled
d8lbE TIL 15 human feet in shoes have washed up along the Pacific Northwest coast since August 2007.
R5ZG4 TIL In the 1590s, a Spanish admiral made up an entire nation, complete with dozens of fake coats of arms, so that he could claim to be a nobleman and join a fraternity of knights. In doing so, he accidentally popularized the pan-South-Slavic movement, and caused the founding of Yugoslavia in 1918.
DQ1Zg TIL the US AirForce almost lost several nuclear bombs near a village in Spain in 1966.