10 Interesting Facts You Need To Know About Eggs - factbunny
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1. The world’s top-ranked competitive eater Joey Chestnut set a record by eating 141 hard-boiled eggs in eight minutes in 2013.
2. In the UK, 11,532 million eggs are eaten  each year. That works out at 372 eggs a second.
3. Eggs are oversubscribed in four sizes ranging from tiny (53gm and under) to very large (more than 73gm).
4. the biggest bird’s eggs ever were those of the ratite of Madagascar, that may be more than a foot long.
5. In 1290, King edward i spent eighteen pence for 450 eggs to be gold-leafed and colored as Easter gifts.
6. Crushed-up egg shells besprent around plants facilitate keep snails and slugs away.
7. under EU regulation 1544/2006, breeders of silkworms receive a support grant of 133.26 euros (£104.66) per box of silkworm eggs they produce. 
8. a mean hen lays 266 eggs annually. The record is said to be 371 eggs in one year.
9. A kiwi’s egg may account for 1 / 4 of its total weight.
10. The Guinness world record for the most flips of an omelette in one minute is 103, achieved by Mohamad Shahabaz Khan in Mumbai in 2011.


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