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The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Evolution of Chicken Meat

During the rise of the Roman Empire, eggs became an extremely popular snack. In England, chickens were not eaten regularly until around 1700 years ago. It took about 700 to 800 years once chickens arrived in a place for people to decide to eat them. And yeah, like fast forward to today where people around the world eat more than 70 billion chickens a year.

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