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11. Mike the Headless Chicken

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Mon Jun 30, 2025, 04:34 PM

Jun 30

Mike (April 20, 1945 - March 17, 1947) was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for eighteen months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brainstem remained intact, and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

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