While he was covering a story on the lifting of the EU ban on ostrich eggs, BBC Africa Business Report's Taurai Maduna discovered the eggs are strong enough to carry his weight.
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2) You can get drunk from porridge
Some Zimbabwean boarding schools have banned students from bringing in porridge after they suspected it was used to brew beer, according to The Chronicle newspaper.
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Princess Elizabeth was staying in a tree-house at the top of a huge tree in Kenya in 1952, when the news came that her father had died in the UK, making her queen. Two years later the tree was burnt down by Mau Mau fighters opposed to British colonial rule.
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Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe said after a meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja that Africa loses more than $7bn a year to piracy at sea.
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Africa's population is set to double by 2050, with Nigeria leading the way.
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The rapper, who has filed for bankruptcy, posted a video of workmen putting the finishing touches to his new house but he only revealed that it was "in Africa" without revealing where.
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Some of the quirkier snippets from the news in Africa that we did not know last week: