Bird Brained!
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.
Celebrity
Colonel Sanders (the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy in the white suit) was
the second most recognized public figure in the world in 1979.
A special treat next Easter?
Did you know that some breeds of chickens can lay colored 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.
Fortean Chickens...
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.
Chuck Law
In Gainesville, Georgia - the chicken capital of the world - it is
illegal to eat chicken with a fork!
Adultery
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.
The Chicken or the Egg?
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.
You want fries with that?
Beijing boasts the world’s largest Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
An effect Brush.
Chimney's used to be cleaned by dropping live chickens down them
I'll get my dad on you!
The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken which makes the
phobia 'Alektorophobia' (Fear of chickens) slightly more plausible. |
