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Angelica Martinez is the Latine Editorial Lead at BuzzFeed and covers a little bit of everything, from quizzes and true crime to celebrities and pop culture. As commenters warned, if you ever find an egg with an iridescent white like this, DO NOT EAT IT! It's a sign of spoilage from Pseudomonas bacteria and will result in a not-so-fun day for you. For any of my fellow anxious folks out there thinking, Wow, new fear unlocked!, allow me to help here. According to commenters in the thread who experienced their own, most people reported they took only a few days to go away, required some eye drops, and kinda just felt like something was in their eye. Looks scary, but not all too horrific, it seems! As it turns out, pinecones do this with rain or high humidity to protect their seeds, and it happens because their woody tissue expands with the water. They open when it's dry, as they shrink from the loss of moisture. In nature, dry weather is best for them to spread their seeds. The more you know! Here's an explainer of what happened, courtesy of u/yensid7: "Your water is probably slightly basic (hard water usually is). The alkalinity of the water causes the pigments (carotenoids and chlorophyll) in the carrot to turn green." The more you know! Here's the full explainer from u/FollowingTough6500: "The pellets are small enough not to be influenced by the amount of food in your stomach and instead keep traveling towards your intestines, which is where they actually will be absorbed. Only things smaller than 2mm can do that. The white ones are the fast-acting ones; if you put them in a glass of water, they will dissolve immediately. The blue ones are extended release and only dissolve after a couple of hours. This results in the somewhat typical 2-phase release," According to the comments, it's pink because an eco-friendly dye was put in the water on one person's property to trace groundwater flow.