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• All domestic breeds of chickens originated with the red jungle fowl of southeastern Asia about 8,000 years ago.

• The beaks of mallards, blackbirds, and zebra finches glow under ultraviolet light.

• Flamingos are not naturally pink. They take on their pink hue not only from the pink shrimp they eat, but also from the green algae they consume, which turns pink during the digestive process.

• Do you eat like a bird? Which bird? A vulture can eat up to a quarter of its body weight in a single sitting, making itself so heavy it cannot fly. Hummingbirds must eat more than their body weight in high-energy nectar each day.

• The albatross can fly thousands of miles without ever landing, even sleeping on the wing. The bird can shut down half of its brain at a time, leaving the other half of the brain on autopilot.

• An ostrich will urinate on its legs to cool them down on hot days.

• European starlings line their nests with plants that inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungus as well as preventing lice, mites, and ticks from hatching.

• The eyeball of a human is round and can easily turn in the eye socket. But the eyeball of an owl is tubular, and therefore cannot turn in the eye socket. This is why owls need to be able to swivel their heads 270 degrees.

• Parrots have much bigger brains relative to body size than any other group of birds. In fact, the brain-to-body ratio of parrots is even larger than some primates.

• Cuckoos are famous for laying their eggs in other birds’ nests, forcing the adoptive parents to raise the imposter chicks. But a bird called the blackcap is able to tell a cuckoo’s egg from its own eggs, and consistently throws the intruding eggs out of the nest. ...continued

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• Crows that see a grub in a hole often find a twig to use as a lever to extract the grub. If it’s a wide hole, they will choose a wide twig. If it’s a narrow hole, they’ll pick a skinny stick. If it’s a deep hole, they’ll find a long stick, and will get a short stick if it’s a shallow hole. They will also take a stick that’s not quite right and break it into the correct size.

• Vultures like to eat eggs of other bird species. If it’s a small egg, they will carry it in the air and drop it on the ground to break it open. But if it’s a large egg and too big to carry, they will instead grab stones and drop the rocks on the egg from a height until it cracks open.

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• The rufous hummingbird visits hundreds of flowers in any given day without ever visiting the same flower twice until it has had a chance to refill with nectar.

• Roosters will often give a call indicating that they have found food, even when they have none. A hen will hurry over to see what kind of food he’s got, which gives the rooster an opportunity to try to mate with her.

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• On Nov. 19, 1824, a flood on the Neva River near St. Petersburg, Russia, claims an estimated 10,000 lives after an ice jam broke apart and the water overwhelmed the city's dam. The surge was so powerful that several ships were thrown into the city's marketplace.

• On Nov. 15, 1956, the movie "Love Me Tender," featuring Elvis Presley in his big-screen debut, premieres. Originally titled "The Reno Brothers," the movie was renamed after a song that Presley sings during the film.

• On Nov. 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets -- and no one sees it. With just 65 seconds left to play, NBC switched off the game in favor of its previously scheduled programming, "Heidi," a children's movie about a young girl in the Alps.

• On Nov. 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying most of the Marshall University football team crashes in West Virginia. All 75 passengers were killed, including 37 football players, the coach, doctors, the athletic director and 25 team boosters.

• On Nov. 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. The memorial is a simple V-shaped black-granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans who died in the conflict, arranged in order of death, not rank.

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• Although it is said that opposites attract, in nature that is not always true. For instance, pinyon jays that find a partner who is similar in weight and age produce more offspring than pinyon jays that are unequally matched. Barnacle geese raise larger families if they are similar in size than if the couple is composed of one large and one small individual. Great tits are birds similar to a chickadee. They fall into two camps: those that like to explore, and those that like to stay home.

The pairing will be more successful if each partner has a similar desire to either explore or stay home.

• Black-tailed godwits mate for life, but the pair does not spend their entire life together. They raise their family over the summer months, and in the fall they set out to migrate south. However, they don’t migrate together. Each of them goes to a different place to spend the winter months.

In the spring, they return to their mating grounds and somehow manage to find each other again, usually arriving within three days of each other in April.

• A female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone; her ovaries will not function unless another pigeon is in view. Sometimes all that is required is a mirror, so she can see her own reflection.

• The kiwi, a New Zealand bird, lays an egg equal to a quarter of the mother’s weight.

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• About 7% of zebra finches stutter, getting stuck on a portion of their song and repeating it until they finally continue the tune.

• When a male penguin starts incubating a single egg for the two months required for it to hatch, he weighs around 88 lbs. When he finishes, he weighs half that.

• The mature yolk of an ostrich egg is the biggest single cell found in nature.

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• People who consume caffeine are less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease, and for those who have already developed Parkinson’s, it may help them control their movement.

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• People older than 65 who had higher blood levels of caffeine developed Alzheimer’s disease two to four years later than others with lower caffeine levels.

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• Caffeine increases alertness and enhances performance on certain tasks. Tests on drivers and typists prove that two cups of coffee can help. However, research shows it helps most if the drinker is bored or fatigued. It only boosts intellectual speed and not physical power. Furthermore, coffee seems to help extroverts more than it helps introverts. Studies show that people respond more to the caffeine they think they’ve consumed than they respond to the amount of caffeine that they’ve actually consumed.

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• Birth defects are possible if a pregnant woman drinks more than eight cups a day during the pregnancy.

Doctors still recommend that pregnant women avoid all caffeine.

• Caffeine is found naturally not only in coffee and tea but also in about 100 other plants. Caffeine acts as a natural insecticide. It can kill insects, stunt their growth, impair their coordination, or ruin their reproduction capabilities.

• A typical cup of drip-brewed coffee contains about 115 mg of caffeine. The same size cup of espresso delivers about 250 mg of caffeine. That’s why espresso is served in such tiny cups. Percolated coffee has slightly less caffeine than drip coffee. Decaffeinated coffee does not mean the coffee is caffeinefree. Brewed decaf has about 5 mg of caffeine. A typical cup of truck stop coffee will usually contain more caffeine than an expensive cup of designer coffee. That’s because the less expensive robusta beans, from which inexpensive coffee is made, are higher in caffeine than the more expensive arabica beans used in specialty coffee.

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