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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