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How can you make a goat sleep?

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Sideshow performers in ancient Greece used to amaze their audiences by pressing a spot on a goat's neck -- pinching off the artery leading to the brain -- and causing it to go to sleep. Releasing the pressure would allow the goat to wake again. (The trick still works today.)

 


 

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