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**Did You Know?** Mike the Headless Chicken Defied Death for 18 Months! 🐔😲

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By Jude Obuseh It's a tale straight out of the bizarre and unsettling, the story of Mike the Headless Chicken. Mike's jourcney from the dinner plate to unexpected fame is a quirky chapter in the annals of poultry history. The story begins on a seemingly ordinary day when Farmer Lloyd Olsen had a rather grim plan for a young chicken named Mike. Intent on preparing a delicious dinner with his wife, Lloyd raised his ax to deliver the fatal blow. However, fate had other plans, and the swing of the ax wasn't quite perfect. Instead of a clean decapitation, the blow missed the chicken's jugular vein and most of the brain stem. In a bizarre twist of events, Mike was anything but a typical headless chicken. Miraculously, he didn't succumb to the decapitation. He emerged from the ordeal still alive, though missing a crucial part of his anatomy. Headless, disoriented, and yet strangely functional, Mike embarked on a journey that would make him famous. Over the next...