ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

chicken or the egg

The chicken and egg situation is a fun one! It's a classic question that people have been asking for a long time, but the answer is that it's impossible to know which came first. We don't know if the chicken came first and laid an egg, or if the egg came first and hatched a chicken. So the question really doesn't have an answer!
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