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TIL Blue Manakin birds perform complex group dancing routines

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16JjO TIL of Dick Roth, a swimmer who was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly before the men’s 400m individual medley in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He refused an immediate operation and instead swam in the finals, winning a gold medal.
4QNw TIL that the saxophone was invented only in 1846 by Adolphe Sax. As a child, he survived a three-story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river. His neighbors called him “little Sax, the ghost.”
grxmW TIL Canada and the U.S. Celebrate Labour Day on the same date!
VJjD TIL there is a long-standing and heated territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark over an uninhabited island. Interestingly, if the island is split in half as recently proposed, it would double the number of land borders of each country.
VGOD TIL serial killer Amelia Dyer, suspected of killing as many as 400 infants and children was hanged on this date in 1896 in London.