- The Ostrich-Egg Globe may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.
- US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
- An estimated one-quarter of all black swans pairings are of homosexual males. They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs.
- You can “peel” hard boiled eggs by blowing the egg right out of the shell.
- Due to their similar protein composition, blood can be used as an egg substitute in baking and making ice cream.
- You absorb roughly half the protein from an egg if you eat it raw vs cooking it. In other words, Rocky would have been better off frying his eggs as opposed to drinking them raw.
- Fake chicken eggs are becoming a problem in China. They are made to look like the real thing from a mixture of resin, coagulant and starch complete with pigment for color as well as a counterfeit shell. One person can make approximately 1500 of them per day.
- In 1912, three men set out to recover emperor penguin eggs from Antarctica. It was so cold one man’s teeth chattered so violently that they shattered. When he returned to the UK the National History Museum refused to accept the eggs.
- Emerald Cockroach Wasp injects venom into a specific part of a cockroach’s brain to stop its escape/survival instinct response. Then it lays an egg in the cockroach’s abdomen. The larva eats the organs in a specific way to keep the roach alive before it cocoons and leaves its body.
- A hen turns her egg nearly 50 times each day to keep the yolk from sticking to the side.
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