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Default Re: Superstitions.

If boys significantly predominate among newborn babies, then soon there will be a war.

UPD: I heard it was once proved experimentally (by exterminating the male part of a group of frogs). The mechanism of it is unclear, but I'm not so sure that it is just a superstition also in the case of humans.
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