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Baseball player Wade Boggs always ate chicken before games, earning the nickname 'Chicken Man', and kept roughly 80 rituals, from leaving home at the exact same minute to taking the same route every day. His Hall of Fame plaque even reads 'Legendary for his superstitions'.
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