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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Kate Lally

People are just realising Humpty Dumpty is not actually an egg

Humpty Dumpty is the main character of one of our most well-known nursery rhymes, but some people have been left stunned by a new revelation.

The popular children's song has been sung all over the UK for generations, and now people have taken to social media to claim they are "haunted" after finding out, that despite recent depictions, there is not any evidence that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

Nobody knows who created the rhyme, but the character has been depicted across media as an egg, stretching all the way back to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland sequel published in 1871, the Mirror reports.

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