The Chicken and the Road

Humans are definitely one of the more interesting species out there. They like to take things that already have concrete answers and question them further. This somehow actually works to their advantage and is called science.

One example would be how humans continue to question why the chicken crossed the road. This question also came up as a part of a riddle in the 1847 edition of a New York City magazine. And the answer is just plainly "Because it wants to go to the other side." Some other variants of the answer would be that it was too long to go around.

Or when another animal is used in the riddle, the answer is usually because it was the chickens day off or to prove that he's no chicken. If it's a prehistoric animal, it's because the chicken didn't exist yet.