Chicken Gossip:

• There are more chickens in the world than people - 3,000,000,000 in China alone.
• The fear of chicken is called alektorophobia.
• The longest distance flown by a chicken is 301.5 feet.
• The greatest number of yolks in one egg is nine.
• The greatest number of eggs laid in one day by one chicken is seven.
• A chicken will lay larger eggs if you deceive it into thinking the day is longer by keeping it in constant bright light.
• A chicken can run up to 9 miles per hour.
• Turkeys and chickens have been known to cross-breed - the result is a "turkin." Turkin sandwich, anyone?
• Chicken pox has nothing to do with chickens.
• It is illegal to eat chicken with a fork in Gainesville, Florida.
• We're still looking to find out if the chicken or the egg came first.
• The reason the chicken crossed the road? To get to the other side.
• And finally... August 31, 1995 - Cairo, Egypt: Six people drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt. An 18 year old farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned, apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled him down, police said. His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in one by one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came to help, but they apparently were pulled by the same undercurrent. The bodies of the six were later pulled out of the well in the village of Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo. The chicken was also pulled out. It survived. 
   

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