There’s not always time to listen to the main news out there in a day, let alone what may be considered less important, more eccentric, or simply in a place in the world you wouldn’t normally think you cared about.

Here’s to the odder things that happen in our world that give good cause to pause, and ponder them for an internet minute.

I’ll warn that as a new resident in Nairobi, entries may tend to relate to circumstances and surprises here than elsewhere.