Fun Facts

[Rose White]

Ada Lovelace, widely considered the world’s first computer programmer, was tutored in mathematics and science as a child because her mom wanted her to avoid the “poetic illness” that plagued her biological father, Lord Byron, and his wider family. The “poetic illness” led to melancholy, addictions, infidelity, and overall insanity. Lovelace never met her dad because her parents separated when she was a newborn and Byron left England soon after and died fighting for the Greeks in their War of Independence when she was only 8.

 

[Rose White]

1/100 hens will undergo spontaneous sex reversal. Hens only use their left ovaries to lay eggs and the right one is an undefined gonad. If her left ovary stops working due to a cyst, tumor, or adrenal gland malfunction her estrogen levels will drop and her testosterone levels will rise. Then her little rudimentary right gonad will develop into something called an ovotestis capable of producing sperm. She will develop a larger comb and wattles, male plumage, spurs, and mate with the other hens. Rarely will she actually fertilize hens but it has been observed.