As a nation, we eat nearly 10 billion eggs a year; that's 26 million every day, which placed end to end would reach from the earth to the moon.
Boiled eggs are the most popular way to eat eggs in Britain, followed by scrambled and fried.
The fastest omelette maker is American egg-centric Howard Helmer who can rustle up 427 omelettes in 30 minutes.
People have decorated and given eggs to each other in the springtime for hundreds of years, as a symbol of the new life which grows in the spring.
Eggs provide lots of the essential nutrients for a balanced diet, including most of the vitamins the body needs and a wide range of important minerals, including iron and calcium.
The largest egg ever had five yolks and was 31cm around the long axis.
The heaviest egg weighed 454g - that's six times heavier than a Large egg from the shops.
The world's largest omelette was made in Madrid from 5,000 eggs by chef Carlos Fernandez. It weighed 1,320lbs.
Research shows that people on a healthy diet can eat an egg a day without raising blood cholesterol levels.
The longest throw of a fresh egg - without breaking it - is 98.51 metres. The record was achieved in Texas, USA in 1978.
The world record for pancake flipping is 349 flips in 2 minutes and the largest pancake ever tossed measured 15m in diameter.
