egg, n.Trivia

A queen bee is able to lay 800-1,500 eggs per day

Some shark species give birth to live young, some lay eggs.

Fish eggs can sometimes survive being digested by ducks, which might explain how fish ‘miraculously’ appear in bodies of water where they otherwise never existed.

Animals that lay eggs don't have bellybuttons

blood (17ml) can substitute for an egg in baking

Owls lay white eggs

Shrimp can lay up to one million eggs at once.

Queen bees can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day

It can take anywhere from 90 to 120 minutes just to hard-boil an ostrich egg.

Eggs are affected by the feed. If you feed a chicken a diet of spicy red peppers, its egg yolk will turn red.

Americans eat, on average, 263 eggs a year

Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

Eggs will sink if fresh, and float if stale.

Eggs are refrigerated in the US, unlike most of the world, because eggs are washed which removes the natural barrier for bacteria.

In 1474 a rooster was put on trial because it laid an egg and the villagers thought that it made a pact with devil. He was found guilty and burned alive and it was later found out that the rooster was a hen that just looked like a rooster.

Eggs are easy work for hens --- they lay around 228 a year

Hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don't)

eggs are resource intensive --- It takes 120 gallons of water for one egg.

US law requires that eggs sold in supermarkets must be washed. And EU law requires that eggs sold in supermarkets must NOT be washed. Both do it to prevent salmonella.

If you place an egg in cold water and it floats, don't eat it; it's spoiled. Fresh eggs sink, and rotten eggs float.