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◇Women of the Mursi tribe wear lip plates that can be up to 12cm (5 inches) in diameter
◇Most of the fastest runners in the world come from a single tribe in Kenya known as the "Kalenjins"
◇Spain has two enclaves (territory) in Africa. They are Melilla and Ceuta.
◇More people speak French in Africa than in France
◇The San people of southern Africa still use the same tools that were recently found in a cave. The tools were estimated to be 44,000 years old
◇The official title of Idi Amin, the Ugandan dictator, was "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular"
◇Facebook has 139 million users in Africa
◇Between 1530 and 1780 nearly 1.5 million Europeans were sold into slavery in North Africa during what became known as the Barbary Slave Trade.
◇Almost half of the gold ever mined on Earth has come from one small place - Witwatersrand, South Africa
◇There is actually a beer brewed from bananas in some countries
◇Zimbabwe is the country with the official languages at 16.
◇96 elephants are killed every day on the continent
◇The water they collect is rarely drinkable though and must be boiled before consumption
◇On average, people have to walk roughly 4km to collect water.
◇40% of kids between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour
◇Africa and Europe are separated by barely 14 km and there has been some talk about building the world's longest bridge
◇It is also home to the world's tallest animal, the giraffe
◇Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African Elephant