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Fun fact: nowhere in the nursery rhyme does it state that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
The wikipedia article describes it as possibly being a riddle about an egg, where the answer became so widely known that it ceased to work as a riddle.
Alternate theories of the origins include various historical figures, a siege engine, and a cannon.
I never thought I would go down a rabbit hole about a nursery rhyme that is associated usually with an egg