What has to be broken before you can use it?

A man and his wife were doing missionary work near the city of Nairobi in the country of Kenya in eastern Africa. Their housing had not yet been completed, so the man, the woman, and their six year old daughter were spending a few nights in the jungle in three small pup tents. During their third night there, the woman was awakened by the call of a hyena passing by, so she got out of her tent to see if her young daughter had been frightened by the noise. As she peered into her daughter's tent she was surprised to see the dark figures of lion, a panther, and a cheetah which were curled up next to her daughter. Seeing her daughter was asleep and unharmed, the woman slowly and quietly withdrew from the tent, and simply returned to her own tent and went back to bed. How could this child's mother leave her daughter in such a dangerous situation, and simply ignore what she had just witnessed without intervening in some way? How can such emotional coldness ever be explained; or is there something here we are missing?

My thunder comes before the lightning; my lightning comes before clouds; my rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

John’s parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what’s the name of the third son?

What has one letter and starts with an E?

How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?

They do not possess flesh or feathers or scales or bone
But still, they are blessed with fingers and thumbs of their own.

If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 5 minutes, how long will it take one cat to catch a mouse?

I have a hole in my back and legs I lack.
I live where I can’t breathe and I eat without teeth.
What am I?