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I want you to know, yes, he's
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bet you didn't know. Let's talk about
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ravens. You know, those black
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birds with those really
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big beaks. Have you ever come across a raven ravens?
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I used to quite big, you know, when they come towards
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you? You know, it's quite scary because the beaks
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are so big that I feel like it could peck you to death.
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So ravens always tied in with things
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that are negative death, illness, bad
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omens basically tied in with evil,
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especially in movies and folklore. Now
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there are highly intelligent birds that
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can mimic human voices. They can even solve
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problems. And do you know that a flock
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of ravens is actually called an
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unkindness, also known as
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a conspiracy, which is equally as creepy?
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So it's an unkindness or a conspiracy
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of ravens? If you think about it, that's quite
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mean, right? I mean, the poor birds, I
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feel like they would have an inferiority complex from
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this. But there is one place
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where ravens are welcomed and revered,
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and that would be the Tower of London
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in the UK, in Britain. So apparently
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there is a legend that is tied to ravens.
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So Charles, the second was one
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that the British crown and the tower itself
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would fall if the resident ravens
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left. So here's the do dude like yonks ago
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like way, way, way, way, way, way, way. In the past
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insisted that the ravens of the tower
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be protected. The Ravens till today,
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it still stands. All the ravens at
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Tower of London are protected. In fact, there's
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even a raven master that looks after
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them. So the legend actually refers to six
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resident ravens of the tower, and
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today there are seven at the tower,
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the required six plus one spare.
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So I guess you could say that Eliza Gamzu
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and GRC. Yes,
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these bets you didn't know.
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