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The Cold Chicken War and Trucks (I promise, way more interesting than it sounds! :-)) (2016x174)

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→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Blind Man Who Invented Cruise Control https://youtu.be/p4COtdepj-k?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR What Causes the Clicking Sound Your Turn Signal Makes? https://youtu.be/T64jOICmPyk?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: Ever wonder why if you want to buy a truck in the United States you have drastically fewer selections than many other countries tend to enjoy and why U.S.-made trucks dominate the market in the country, while the same ratios aren’t seen at all in cars? It’s all because of chickens. No, really. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/06/half-truck-chicken-tax/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax#Circumventing_the_tariff http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/business/license-pollute-special-report-light-trucks-increase-profits-but-foul-air-more.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all http://www.autonews.com/article/20141124/OEM11/311249980/how-sprinter-dodges-the-chicken-tax http://www.autonews.com/article/20130923/GLOBAL/309239960/ford-gets-a-scolding-on-chicken-tax-maneuver http://www.washingtonpost.com/cars/did-chickens-cure-or-kill-us-pickup-trucks/2013/08/07/4cb016d0-ff83-11e2-8294-0ee5075b840d_story.html http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/sprinter-and-chicken-tax http://wot.motortrend.com/report-u-s-may-eliminate-long-running-chicken-tax-392467.html http://jalopnik.com/lets-celebrate-the-50th-birthday-of-americas-worst-tax-977715943 http://www.npr.org/2015/06/19/415671756/how-a-tax-on-chicken-changed-the-playing-field-for-u-s-automakers http://blog.caranddriver.com/feds-watching-fords-run-around-on-chicken-tax