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What rare word did the museum owner use to get rid of slow visitors?

One day, Phineas Taylor Barnum, the greatest American showman of the 19th century, decided that visitors to his "American Museum" in New York were looking at the exhibits for too long. He ordered signs to be posted with the inscriptions "This Way to the Egress", which translates as "This is the way to the exit." The point was that the word "egress" is quite rare, much more often the exit is denoted as "exit". Most visitors thought that these signs lead to the most interesting exhibition, but, following them, they found themselves on the street.

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When an animal sheds its skin or feathers, replacing them with new ones, we call this molting. Beasts, reptiles, birds, and even some insects molt. Birds grow a whole range of different feathers in their lifetime. Upon reaching adulthood, the plumage takes on a typical adult appearance, after which, as it wears out, the old feathers fall out and new ones grow in their place. The same thing happens after pulling feathers. In addition, some birds grow bright new feathers during the mating season.

Thus, most birds molt twice a year: before and after the mating season. Since almost all birds do not shed many "bearing" feathers at the same time, they do not lose the ability to fly during molting.

In addition, in order not to disturb the aerodynamic balance, the feathers are dropped in pairs: one on the left, one on the right. The exceptions are ducks, geese and swans, which lose all their feathers during molting and cannot fly. But since they are waterfowl, in order to elude danger, they do not need to take off, it is enough just to go into the water.

During molting, brightly feathered males often take on a solid color, which provides them with additional camouflage.

The snakes are very interesting. They do not shed all the skin at once, but only a small extreme part. The snake rubs its head against something to free itself from the skin around the mouth, then it hooks the exfoliated parts of the skin on stones or branches and crawls out of the old skin head first, leaving it inside out.

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