One of my favorite things to do is speak about fascinating facts with respect to Africa. And there are many. And we are all easily fascinated. So with this in mind, please enjoy today’s Live the Magic of Africa posting which has a host of facts and figures that may not help you sell more product, but will certainly be interesting. You might even start a great conversation with a stranger with one of these. Enjoy!
- Four of the five fastest land animals live in Africa – the cheetah gets up to 70mph, wildebeast, lion and Thompson’s gazelle all get up to 50 mph.
- Africa has Penguins!!! Yes, South Africa has a penguin colony which thrives thanks to the cold Antarctic currents on the west coast near the Cape.
- An African elephant possesses such “manual” dexterity in his/her trunk tip that he/she can actually turn the pages of a book.
- Giraffes are 6 feet tall when they are born.
- The Great Africa Rift Valley extends more than 3,000 miles starting in Syria (in southwestern Asia), all the way down to Mozambique in southern Africa. The width of the valley ranges from a few miles to more than 100 miles.
- The Nile crocodile is Africa’s largest living reptile – growing to an average length of 15 feet.
- Botswana‘s largest contributor to GDP is diamonds. Guess what? tourism is not the second…investment in foreign holdings is.
- About 28 million people – slightly less than Canada’s entire population – are now living with HIV in Africa.
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