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       CHICKEN FACTS
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 4:08 am
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       • You can literally hypnotize a chicken
       by holding it and drawing a line in
       the dirt over and over. The chicken
       will stay still right there as long as
       you do this.
       • Colonel Sanders (the Kentucky Fried
       Chicken guy in the white suit) was
       the second most recognized public
       figure in the world in 1979.
       • Did you know that some breeds of
       chickens can lay coloured eggs? Sure
       enough, the Ameraucana and
       Araucana can lay eggs colored in
       shades of green or blue, depending
       on the breed and it's ancestry.
       • In Fruita, Colorado, the town folk
       celebrate 'Mike the Headless Chicken
       Day'. Seems that a farmer named L.A.
       Olsen cut off Mike's head on
       September 10, 1945 in anticipation
       of a chicken dinner - and Mike lived
       for another 4 years WITHOUT A
       HEAD. Mike died from choking on a
       corn kernel.
       • In Gainesville, Georgia - the chicken
       capital of the world - it is illegal to
       eat chicken with a fork!
       • One punishment for an adulterous
       wife in medieval France was to make
       her chase a chicken through town
       naked. The source doesn't state
       whether it was the chicken or the
       wife who was naked.
       • According to National Geographic,
       scientists have settled the old
       dispute over which came first -- the
       chicken or the egg. They say that
       reptiles were laying eggs thousands
       of years before chickens appeared,
       and the first chicken came from an
       egg laid by a bird that was not quite
       a chicken. That seems to answer the
       question. The egg came first.
       • Beijing boasts the world's largest
       Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
       • Chimney's used to be cleaned by
       dropping live chickens down them
       • The closest living relative of the t-rex
       is the chicken which makes the
       phobia 'Alektorophobia' (Fear of
       chickens) slightly more plausible.
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