Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Africa

(Source: list25)

The second largest continent on Earth is a bit of an exotic mystery to most people. So get ready, because from the languages to the people these are some amazing things you probably didn’t know about Africa.
 

Africa is home to the world's largest living land animal, the African Elephant
 
It is also home to the world's tallest animal, the giraffe
 

Africa and Europe are separated by barely 14 km and there has been some talk about building the world's longest bridge
 

40% of kids between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour
 
The water they collect is rarely drinkable though, and must be boiled before consumption
 
96 elephants are killed everyday on the continent
 
The deadliest animal on the continent (the one that is responsible for the most human deaths) is the hippopotamus
 
According to the Guinness Book of World Records Zimbabwe is the country with the most official languages at 16 (yes, we know that other countries could be said to have more but this also depends on how you define a language vs a dialect)
 
Almost half of the gold ever mined on Earth has come from one small place – Witwatersrand, South 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.
 

Lesotho is the only country on Earth that has no territory below 1000 meters above sea level
 

Facebook has 100 million users in Africa
 

Tanzania has the world's highest rate of albinism. Unfortunately, albinos are often hunted by witch doctors in order to create various potions
 

Graca Machel is the only women to have ever been first lady of two different countries (Mozambique and South Africa)
 

More people speak French in Africa than in France
 

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