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A quail in space? Sounds like a joke, but in 1990 Japanese quails became the first vertebrates to hatch outside Earth. The road there, however, was anything but smooth.
Pyramids, pharaohs, hieroglyphs. Quail probably wouldn't come to mind when thinking about Egypt. But the Egyptians made it one of the 24 letters of their alphabet. The quail chick hieroglyph represented the sound W and was used continuously for nearly 3,500 years.
