A picture of an egg is now the most liked photo on Instagram. Here are the 20 most-liked Instagram posts of all time

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A picture of an egg is now the most liked photo on Instagram. Here are the 20 most-liked Instagram posts of all time

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  • The most-liked post on Instagram is now a simple photo of an egg.
  • The photo gained the top spot Monday, and now has more than 33 million likes, beating a record set by Kylie Jenner. 
  • Here are the 20 most-liked photos on Instagram, featuring content from the Kardashian-Jenner family and from soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.

If you thought 2018 was an odd year, a simple egg was just crowned the champion of Instagram.

Yep, you heard right: a picture of an egg, posted from the account @world_record_egg on January 4, beat a record set by Kylie Jenner with 18 million likes. As of Monday afternoon, the egg had more than 33 million likes.

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The egg picture is an anomaly among the most-liked Instagram posts, which are dominated by pictures of celebrities posing with their families, or making major life announcements to their millions of fans.

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Here are the 20 most-liked Instagram photos of all time as of Janurary 2019:

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20. 10.65 million — Kylie Jenner posing with her sister, Kendall Jenner, in October 2018.

19. 10.72 million — Selena Gomez's post-op photo after getting a kidney transplant in September 2017.

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18. 10.88 million — Kylie Jenner with her boyfriend Travis Scott and their daughter, Stormi, in November 2018.

17. 11.15 million — Professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo with his family in August 2018.

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16. 11.26 million — Beyonce announcing in February 2017 she's pregnant with twins.

15. 11.33 million — Cristiano Ronaldo with his girlfriend and son, Cristiano Jr., in July 2018.

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14. 11.39 million — Cristiano Ronaldo, again in July 2018, with his girlfriend, model Georgina Rodriguez.

13. 11.42 million — Kylie Jenner with her daughter Stormi in September 2018.

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12. 11.48 million — Cristiano Ronaldo announcing the birth of his fourth child, Alana Martina, in November 2017.

11. 11.68 million — Cristiano Ronaldo with his girlfriend in Dubai on New Year's Eve 2018.

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10. 11.90 million — Kylie Jenner with her daughter dressed up as butterflies for Halloween 2018.

9. 12.29 million — Kylie Jenner with her daughter Stormi, posted in August 2018.

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8. 12.30 million — Cristiano Ronaldo announcing he was leaving his longtime club team, Real Madrid, to join Juventus, in a record-setting deal valued at over $100 million.

7. 12.76 million — Cristiano Ronaldo, in his seventh post in the top 20, posing with his family for Christmas.

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6. 12.85 million — Ariana Grande's photo of rapper and ex-boyfriend Mac Miller the day after he died in September 2018.

5. 13.08 million — Kylie Jenner with her one-month-old daughter in March 2018. It was only the second photo ever Jenner had posted to Instagram of Stormi.

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4. 13.36 million — XXXTentacion's last post to Instagram in May 2018 before the rapper died the following month.

3. 13.39 million — Justin Bieber's photo with model Hailey Baldwin after the couple got engaged.

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2. 18.39 million — Kylie Jenner, who has seven photos in the top 20 most-liked, sharing her first photo to Instagram of her daughter, Stormi, in February 2018.

1. 35.5 million — A completely ordinary egg, posted to Instagram in January 2019.

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