Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Livestock never fares well in a tornado.

I think many of us remember that iconic scene in the movie Twister when a cow moves across

the screen as it's carried away in a funnel of wind and debris.

But tornadoes and the creatures caught up within them can teach us a few things about the

wind and the way it moves.

That was the thought mathematician Elias Lumis had in 1842 after hearing reports about

naked chickens.

Yet you heard me right, naked chickens.

Farmers in Ohio had noticed their poultry walking around without their feathers following

a tornado that tore through their town, and it happened enough that folks didn't really

think anything about it.

Lumis saw the featherless foul as an opportunity to measure a tornado's wind speeds, a feat

previously thought impossible.

Keep in mind, this was the 1840s, well before animal rights organizations monitored how

scientists use living creatures in their studies.

Elias Lumis had a hypothesis and almost no oversight.

I'm sure you can see where this is going.

Lumis killed a chicken and launched its body out of a small cannon, clocking in at a

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