According to popular folklore, it is possible to balance a raw egg* on one end on the equinox. It was a trick my dad used to do sometimes when I was a kid. So if you have way too much time on your hands, you can spend today attempting to balance eggs on end :)
* Okay, I’ll come clean. The egg in the picture is not raw, it’s an “empty egg” where the contents have been blown out through a little hole in the bottom (I emptied several to make easter eggs, but that’s another post for another day). The hole makes it rather easier to balance the egg upright.
A few years ago I had this discussion at my workplace, so I put a reminder in my calendar to try it again a few months later. When the reminder came up, I did indeed try to balance the egg on the non-equinox and I had no trouble doing so at all. All you need is an egg that’s not completely smooth, and a little patience.
Shhh! Once that secret gets out, productivity will decline as society devotes more and more time to balancing eggs! :)
when no one is looking stick a teenie bit of chewing gum on the end and voila…
CHEATER!!!
nut uh – I just arrange things like flowers and facts…