47 Amazing facts about Africa We bet you don't know | 47 Interesting Facts About Africa That Wi

47 Amazing facts about Africa We bet you don't know | 47 Interesting Facts About Africa That Will Amaze You

Africa is larger than China, USA, India, Mexico and a big part of Europe combined. Europe and Africa are only separated by 14.3 km (8.9 mi) of ocean and there are talks of creating the longest bridge ever. Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African elephant, and the tallest, the Giraffe. The San people of Southern Africa today use the same set of tools that were found in a Cave, dating to 44,000 years ago. 41% of children in Africa aged 5 to 14 are involved in child labour. People in Africa and Asia have to walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM) to collect water. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were kidnaped and sold into slavery in the Americas. Facebook has 100 million active users in Africa. 96 elephants are killed every day in Africa. The deadliest animal in Africa is the hippopotamus. Married women among the Dogon people of West Africa would publicly pursue extramarital relationships with encouragement from their mothers. South Africa is called the "Rainbow Nation" because it has 11 official languages. There's a beer brewed from bananas in Africa. South Africans can legally attach flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers. Graca Machel is the only woman to have been first lady of two separate countries: Mozambique and South Africa. In 1998, all 11 members of a soccer team in Africa were killed by lightning while leaving the other team unhurt. Nearly half the gold ever mined has come from one place: Witwatersrand, South Africa. Contrary to popular belief, there are no wild tigers in Africa. Only in Asia. Over a million Europeans were captured and sold as slaves to North Africa between 1530 and 1780. There are more people speaking French in Africa than in France.

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