What do you do when you get paid $250,000 per episode of the TV show you appear in? Buy four eagles and employ an assistant to rank each bird in order of how much they look like you on a daily basis, that's exactly what. Actually, Jon Hamm has apparently been doing this for over a decade, so it's probably not so much about the money as his slightly narcissistic love of birds...

Hamm appears in the March issue of Esquire, which explains:

Little-known fact:  Jon Hamm owns four eagles. They sit on separate perches in his backyard. Four species of eagle: golden, tawny, Spanish Imperial, and short-toed snake.

Previously unknown: Every morning, these eagles are fed, then rotated by a robed assistant whose sole duty is to judge which of these regal birds looks most like Jon Hamm on that particular day before placing said eagle on the left-most perch. The remaining eagles are also ranked by their resemblance that day, from left to right. This puts the eagle that looks the least like Jon Hamm on a given day in shadow once the sun goes behind Hamm's enormous seven-story garage. Amazingly, in the twelve years Hamm's lived here, the same eagle has sat in the shadows on consecutive days only three times. Incredible.

Incredible indeed.

If you're a fan of Jon Hamm and all creatures great and small, but don't think you could handle the responsible of ranking eagles everyday, perhaps this might interest you...