#GetFact'd: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
Also, are cow eyeballs really expensive?
Darren Maule's Get Fact'd gives you interesting information that is both educational and informative.
And it always leaves Keri and Sky intrigued...
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With amniotic eggs showing up roughly 340-million or so years ago, and the first chickens evolving at around 58,000 years ago at the earliest, it's a safe bet to say the egg came first. Eggs were around way before chickens even existed.
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Have you ever heard the term: "close, but no cigar"? It comes from traveling fairs and carnivals from the 1800s. The prizes back then were not giant-sized stuffed teddy bears, they were usually cigars or bottles of whiskey. If you missed the prize at a carnival game, the carnival folk would shout, “Close! But no cigar!”
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The eyeballs of cows are more expensive than the fillet or rump, due to demand from scientific institutions for experiments.
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