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TIL approximately 60,000 animals are killed in festivals throughout Spain each year. Activities at these festivals include pulling the heads off live chickens, throwing live turkeys off of a church tower, chasing bulls off of piers into the sea, chasing bulls flaming brands attached to their horns

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