Portal:Uganda/Did you know
Did you know 1
- ...that the Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park has one of the world's largest concentration of hippos?
Did you know 2
- ...that Ripon Falls at the northern end of Lake Victoria is often considered the source of the river Nile, and that it was submerged after the construction of Owen Falls Dam?
Did you know 3
- ...that the British Uganda Program was a plan to give a portion British East Africa to the Jewish people as a homeland in 1902?
Did you know 4
- ... that Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi ordered his air force to attack a city during the Uganda–Tanzania War, but his bomber instead hit a game reserve and killed antelopes?
Did you know 5
- ... that the wildlife of Uganda includes the Ugandan kob, the Uganda mangabey, and the Ugandan musk shrew?
Did you know 6
- ... that the bush cricket Ruspolia nitidula is commonly eaten in Uganda, where the price per unit weight is periodically higher than that of beef?
Did you know 7
- ... that Ugandan chief of staff Yusuf Gowon quarrelled with another officer over a looted tractor during the invasion of a foreign country?
Did you know 8
- ... that Abdulatif Tiyua was first imprisoned for fighting for the Ugandan government, and later imprisoned for fighting against it?
Did you know 9
- ... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail?