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The Week in Weird (Sex Injuries Edition)

Has your employer ever paid you because you injured yourself during sex? Have you ever been evicted from an egg? Have you ever used a supermarket's electric shopping cart scooter to make a getaway when committing a crime? While you were finishing up end-of-the-year projects at work and thinking about Christmas shopping,...

Gimme Shell-ter! Chinese Man Evicted From Giant Egg

(Dec. 15) -- A man in Beijing thought he had found his dream home when he moved into an egg-shaped hut, but unfortunately it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. After graduating from college and landing a job with an architectural design firm, 24-year-old Dai Haifei was having a hard time shelling out enough money each...

Shellshocked: Chicken Lays Monster Egg

(Dec. 9) -- Poached or over easy? A woman and her husband were left with their brains scrambled after discovering a huge 4-inch-long egg laid by one of their chickens. Patricia Mae of Seven Sisters, South Wales, in the U.K., thought her husband, James, was pulling her leg when he told her about the large egg last month,...

Organic Egg Farms May Not Be as Clean as You Think

(Oct. 13) -- After a massive health crisis like the recent 550 million egg recall for salmonella (which came despite new FDA rules), many consumers may have flocked toward USDA organic hoping to find a safer, more environmentally product. But that little green sticker may not be telling you the whole story. Two weeks ago,...

A Domino's Starts Serving Morning Pies

(Sept. 30) -- First came the breakfast sandwich. Then the breakfast burrito. And now, the breakfast pizza? Domino's Pizza appears to be the latest fast-food eatery to modify its lunch and dinner staples in an attempt to attract morning customers, this time with a cheesy pie topped with egg and breakfast meats. Served...

Background on egg

In zoology, an egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo first begins to develop. In most birds, reptiles, insects, molluscs, fish, and monotremes, an egg (Latin, ) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum, which is expelled from the body and permitted to develop outside the body until the developing embryo can survive on its own.

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