Humpty Dumpty is a classic nursery rhymes that will hit Brits across the nation with a sweet sense of nostalgia, but it turns out the eponymous character isn't actually an anthropomorphic egg ...

One wrote: 'Humpty Dumpty was a cannon that fell off a wall.' Another wrote: 'It was a cannon in Chichester.' The nursery rhyme was first recorded in England in the late 18th Century.

In 1871, Humpty Dumpty was referred to in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book, Through the Looking-Glass, which was a sequel to Alice in Wonderland. In that book, Humpty Dumpty was described as an egg.

Humpty Dumpty often appears as an egg in illustrations of the popular nursery rhyme, but you may be shocked to learn the character is something else entirely - and he's not very friendly.