- Worldwide, around 1.2 trillion eggs are produced for eating every year. The average person on Earth consumes 173 eggs a year.
- Forty per cent of the world’s eggs are consumed in China.
- The Guinness World Record for omelette making is held by Howard Helmer, who made 427 omelettes in 30 minutes.
- The average hen lays between 250 and 270 eggs a year but some lay more than 300.
- According to research published in 2008, male dinosaurs were sometimes responsible for sitting on eggs until they hatched.
- “Nobody can eat 50 eggs,” (George Kennedy in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke).
- The world record for eating hard-boiled eggs is 65 in 6min 40sec, by Sonya Thomas in 2003. She would have eaten more but they ran out of eggs.
- This year’s World Hard-Boiled Egg Eating Championship is due to be held at Radcliff, Kentucky, on Saturday, with a prize fund of $3,000.
- The brown or white colour of an eggshell is purely dependent on the breed of the hen.
- “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg,” (Life And Habit by Samuel Butler 1835-1902).
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