Perhaps the most famous egg of all-time was Humpty Dumpty. But many historians think that Humpty was in fact not an egg, but a shattered what?

Many war historians think that Humpty Dumpty was a cannon used during the English Civil War in the siege of Colchester. As the story goes, Humpty Dumpty was placed on the wall next to St. Mary's Church and plummeted down and shattered into pieces, never to be reconstructed.

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