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  • A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead
  • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
  • A chicken’s heart beats 300 times a minute
  • Hens can lay an egg a day, with the world record held by a White Leghorn who laid 371 eggs in 364 days!
  • The first domestic chicken was the Gallus Gallus over 8000 years ago
  • America eats 8 BILLION chickens a year
  • Hens lay bigger and stronger eggs if they think a day is 28 hours long
  • Chickens actually have different clucks for different predators
  • Most chickens live in China
  • The chicken is the closest living relative of the T-rex
  • The US National Chicken Council =D estimated people to consume 80 pounds of chicken per person per year. Beef if 63 pounds
  • The waste produced by 1 chicken in its lifetime can generate enough electricity to run a 100 Watt bulb for 5 hours