Herbert

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FunFactsWithHerbert
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In 1945, a chicken farmer beheaded one of his chickens, and the chicken didn’t die. It continued walking around the farmyard, kicking, and displaying other ordinary fowl behavior. Nope, it wasn’t a zombie chicken. When a chicken loses its head, though its brain is gone, its spinal cord still holds residual oxygen and its neurons may even continue to fire. In the case of Mike the Headless Chicken, as he was eventually known, this process just lasted unnaturally long. The farmer, Lloyd Olsen, soon embraced his resilient rooster, bringing him to nearby farms and towns and making bets with people who scoffed when he told them he had a live headless chicken. Mike quickly became a regional celebrity. Olsen fed him by dropping food into his esophagus with an eyedropper, and it wasn’t until 18 months after the beheading that Mike finally met his fate.
while-true-do-endM
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what was this phenomenon called again
FunFactsWithHerbert
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Mike survived because most of a chicken’s brain is located in the back of its head, behind the eyes. When Olsen brought down the axe, he lobbed off most of Mike’s head but left the part of the brain that controlled breathing, digestion, and other bodily functions.
while-true-do-endM
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oh ok its just some shit about location lul
Limitless.
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I already knew about this, still interesting though
The-Return-of-Cheze
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that's actually sick
-._Brandon-Katt_.-
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this story is actually pretty cool to read

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In 1945, a chicken farmer beheaded one of his chickens, and the chicken didn’t die. It continued walking around the farmyard, kicking, and displaying other ordinary fowl behavior. Nope, it wasn’t a zombie chicken. When a chicken loses its head, though its brain is gone, its spinal cord still holds residual oxygen and its neurons may even continue to fire. In the case of Mike the Headless Chicken, as he was eventually known, this process just lasted unnaturally long. The farmer, Lloyd Olsen, soon embraced his resilient rooster, bringing him to nearby farms and towns and making bets with people who scoffed when he told them he had a live headless chicken. Mike quickly became a regional celebrity. Olsen fed him by dropping food into his esophagus with an eyedropper, and it wasn’t until 18 months after the beheading that Mike finally met his fate.