Interesting Facts

A chick on a farm in on a farm in Sri Lanka was recently born without an egg. (Normally eggs are passed out of a hen's body and incubated outside until the chick hatches. However, in this case, the egg was incubated inside the hen for 21 days before hatching. Unfortunately the poor hen died from the birth, but the chick survived and is said to be healthy and fully formed. Of course this all means that the age old conundrum of which came first - the chicken or the egg has finally been answered.) Source

Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world's first woman prime minister in 1960. (She was the widow of assassinated prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike who was shot by an extremist Buddhist on 26 September 1959. She was voted into power in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). She spent 40 years in politics (on and off) and managed to die of natural causes.)