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welcome to the cotkey ride home for friday November 20th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Did Benjamin Franklin really think that the turkey should replace the eagle as America's national bird?

Analyzing the microbiome of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, and scientists who may have figured out a way to

rewind cellular aging in humans. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

In 1782, the United States decided to make the bald eagle its national bird.

Or it basically became the national bird after being selected for the official seal of the country,

something that took six years and three different committees to complete,

just in case you thought bureaucracy was a problem born in more recent years.

A small white eagle was included in one of the designs from the third committee, and the person eventually responsible

for finalizing the design of the seal, Secretary of Congress Charles Thompson, decided to make

the eagle the center point of the seal since eagles had long been used throughout time and across several

different cultures as a sign of strength. But to make it more American, he changed it to the

bald eagle, a species unique to North America. Benjamin Franklin was part of the first committee

that was supposed to come up with the National Seal alongside Thomas Jefferson and John Adams,

and a legend

has developed over the years that he thought that instead of the Eagle, the United States's

national bird should have been the Turkey. Now, especially because the Eagle wasn't proposed for

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