1. Worldwide, around 1.2 trillion eggs are
produced for eating every year. The average person
on Earth consumes 173 eggs a year. 2. Forty per cent of the world’s eggs are consumed
in China. 3. The Guinness World Record for omelette making
is held by Howard Helmer, who made 427
omelettes in 30 minutes. 4. The average hen lays between 250 and 270 eggs
a year but some lay more than 300. 5. According to research published in 2008, male
dinosaurs were sometimes responsible for sitting on
eggs until they hatched. 6. “Nobody can eat 50 eggs,” (George Kennedy in
the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke). 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. The brown or white colour of an eggshell is
purely dependent on the breed of the hen. 10. “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another
egg,” (Life And Habit by Samuel Butler
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