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A hen in Sri Lanka gave birth to a chick without an egg.

It is a bit of a twist on which came first, the chicken or the egg.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17769677

By the way, eggs came first. Dinosaurs were laying them long before there were chickens.

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All wild swans in the UK are property of the Crown.

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A 4 year old with a 159 IQ and has joined Mensa

Apparently, she also taught herself how to read.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17702463

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7,575 streets in Rome are named after men while just 580 are named after women.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17203823

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A 23 yeard old pheasant in a Bombay zoo changed sex from female to male.

If you don't believe it, you can read about it here...

http://www.phenomenica.com/2012/04/silver-pheasants-sex-change-stuns-zoo...

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The brain of Neanderthals were larger than that of modern humans.

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Charles Lindbergh became Time Magazine's first man of the year in 1927.

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Mohammed is the most common name in the world.

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Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

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Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

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