Egg-citing Discoveries: 18 Intriguing Facts About Eggs

1Protein

Protein

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.


2Black swan eggs

Black swan eggs

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 from the female after she lays the eggs.


3Pinworm infection

Pinworm infection

Over 11% of all Americans are infected with parasitic Pinworms, which make your ass itch at night when they come crawling out of your anus to lay their eggs. This makes you scratch your ass and helps these sticky eggs spread, often to your own breakfast, thereby repeating the cycle.


4Fake chicken eggs

Fake chicken eggs

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.


5Easter Egg Chicken

Easter Egg Chicken

The Araucana Chicken is also called the “Easter Egg Chicken” because it lays natural blue, green, pink, and brown eggs.


6Yolk

Yolk

The word “yolk” is derived from an Old English word that means “yellow.” Therefore it is egg white and egg yellow.


7Pregnancy test

Pregnancy test

In the 1950s, physicians performed accurate pregnancy tests by injecting urine from the supposedly pregnant women into a frog. If the frog produced eggs within 24 hours, pregnancy was deemed positive.


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8Hen

Hen

A hen turns her egg nearly 50 times each day to keep the yolk from sticking to the side.


9Kiwi

Kiwi

Kiwi (bird) lays the largest egg in proportion to its size, almost 20% of its body weight.


10Cichlid fish eggs

Cichlid fish eggs

There is a type of Catfish that lays its eggs among the eggs of the Cichlid fish, which carries its young in its mouth. These eggs will then hatch first inside the unwilling adoptive mother's mouth, and proceed to eat the Cichlid eggs present before being released by the Cichlid.

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