What are parasitic birds? Birds can be parasites too. Parasitic birds are birds that lay their eggs in the nests of OTHER birds and allow other birds to raise their young. In some cases, parasitic birds might destroy the eggs already in the nest, so that JUST their own young remains. Or sometimes the intruder babies, when hatched, push out the babies that were supposed to be there. Which country is second largest? Canada is the second-largest country in the world after Russia. Nearly 90 percent of the Canadas population is concentrated within 161 km of the United States/Canada border. Are there more chickens than people? The world chicken population is more than double the human population, while the world cattle population outnumbers the population of China. Did a crossword puzzle reveal Allied secrets in WWII? In 1944, Allied security officers were disturbed by the appearance, in a series of crossword puzzles published in The Daily Telegraph, of words that happened to be secret code names for military operations. On June 2, just four days before the invasion, the puzzle included both the words Neptune (the naval operations plan) and Overlord. That was the last straw, and the author of the puzzles, a schoolteacher named Leonard Dawe, was arrested and interrogated. The investigators finally concluded that the appearance of the words was just a coincidence. However, in 1984 the schoolteacher revealed that one of his students had picked up the words while hanging around army camps. When the teacher had asked his students to provide unusual words as ingredients for his puzzles, he had innocently passed them on. How did a grave alarm work? In the mid 1880s, until approximately 1910, American undertakers sold Grave Alarm Devices. These were elaborate rope and bell/pulley arrangements allowing those buried alive to summon help. The rope was placed into the hand of the (supposed) deceased, and it wound through a series of tubes to the bell outside the grave. Do you know what a maquiladora is? A maquiladora is a A US- or foreign-owned assembly south of the US-Mexico border that employs low-cost labor to assemble products and ship them back, usually tariff-free, to the country of origin.
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