Countries of the World

Not all eggs are, well, egg-shaped. Sharks in particular produce a variety of weird and sometimes alien-looking shapes of eggs. Zebra shark eggs look like flattened tics, and the crested horn shark lays eggs that resemble the Guggenheim Museum with added shoelaces.

Jenga may sound like a made up word, but it's not! It actually comes from the Swahili word 'kujenga' which means 'to build'! The name was chosen because the game has its origins in Africa and because the whole point of the game is to continue building an ever more precarious tower from wooden blocks.

In a rural area of China, authorities have begun using geese as sentries. Geese, as you might have already experienced, create a lot of noise when they are startled. Chinese law enforcement have taken advantage of this, claiming that the geese have already prevented one burglary!