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How long can a chicken live without a head?
About two years.
On September 10, 1945, a plump young cockerel from Fruita, Colorado lost his head and survived. The ax miraculously did not hit the jugular vein, and enough of the brain stem was left on the neck so that the chicken not only lived, but also flourished.
Known as "Mike," the cockerel became a national hero, traveled nearly the entire country, and was even featured in magazines such as Time and Life. Its owner, Lloyd Olsen, charged twenty-five cents to see "Mike the Headless Wonder Chicken" at fairground shows across America. Mike appeared on stage with a dried chicken head - allegedly his own. In fact, the Olsen cat has long since finished with the original. At the height of his fame, Mike was earning $4500 a month and was valued at $10. His massive success sparked a wave of imitators, although none of the decapitated victims lasted more than two days.
They fed and watered Mike with a pipette. In the two years that have passed since the chicken lost his head, he gained almost three kilos and all the time he did nothing but happily “clean his feathers” and “peck” food with the remains of his neck. One person who knew Mike well commented: "He was a big, fat chicken who didn't know he didn't have a head."
But one day the unthinkable happened. The tragedy occurred in a motel room in Phoenix, Arizona. Mike choked, and Lloyd Olsen, to his horror, realized that he had left his pipette at the evening performance. Unable to clear his airway on his own, Mike suffocated to death.
Mike remains a cult figure in Colorado to this day. Since May 1999, the town of Fruita has celebrated his passing with a special Mike the Headless Chicken Day.
Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson
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Do hurricanes move in certain directions?
A storm or hurricane looks like such a wild and indomitable phenomenon of nature that it is difficult to believe that it can move along a certain route. However, as far as we know, they are given names as the hurricane season approaches, and their paths are often quite accurately predicted.
In most parts of the world, most hurricanes move in certain directions. In the United States, for example, most major hurricanes are vast masses of counterclockwise swirling air around a central point of low atmospheric pressure. The reason they rotate counter-clockwise in the States is because when the winds blow towards the center of low pressure, the Earth's rotation deflects them to the right (in the Northern Hemisphere).
Let's get back to hurricanes. First of all, did you know that hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are practically the same thing? They are called cyclones in the United States, typhoons in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea, and hurricanes in the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico. North of the equator, typhoons and hurricanes typically begin in late summer or autumn over warm tropical waters. They move west or northwest through the trade winds on a route that deviates to the right.
In subtropical latitudes, such hurricanes strongly deviate to the east and enter the zone of westerly winds. In the Southern Hemisphere, the same curved route is observed, with the only difference that here they deviate to the left.
And yet, despite the fact that a hurricane can be accurately predicted, and people and ships at sea are warned in every possible way, still, hurricanes cause terrible damage. A hurricane can move at 125 miles per hour!
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