Countries of the World

Sonic had rather small and unusual beginnings. The little guy’s programmer, Yuji Naka, while experimenting with new ideas, created a small game where a moving ball rolled through different kinds of tubes. This version of the game was eventually used to help design the complex movements that became Sonic’s abilities.

Being scatterbrained and disorganised can be annoying to people around you – but there’s a strong correlation between chronic disorganisation and higher intelligence and creativity. Scatterbrained people also have a broader-than-average range of interests, and when they come across as know-it-alls, that’s probably because, well, they know it all.

Much like cats and dogs, foxes can be both friendly and interested in humans. Archeologists have found a 16,500-year-old grave in Jordan in which a man is buried with his pet fox. This is 4000 years before the earliest known grave of a human and their dog!