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Oysters are "alternating hermaphrodites", which means they can switch sexes from time to time
Only about one in 10,000 oysters contains a pearl
6. "He was a bold man that first eat an oyster", (Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, 1738).
7. The verb 'to shuck', meaning to remove the shell from an oyster, was first recorded in 1881.
8. The saying "the world's your oyster" comes from Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor: "The world's mine oyster. Which I with sword will open."
9. Worldwide, around two billion pounds of oysters are eaten every year. Last week's five-day Oyster Festival in Whitstable, Kent, got through 30,000.
10. In 1808 a UK law was passed making theft of oysters punishable by transportation or prison.
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