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Interesting Facts about Uganda

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Uganda.

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2 curious facts about Uganda.

  • When a child loses a tooth they leave their tooth behind a pot along the path the rats use. They next day their tooth will be gone and they will find money in that spot. Some rats are poorer than others.
  • John Hanning Speke visited Uganda in 1862; he discovered that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile. On 14 August 1992, Mbale in Uganda experienced a meteorite fall when many stones fell through the roofs of buildings.