26-30 Kenya Facts

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26. There is a hotel in Kenya that also serves as a giraffe sanctuary, and the giraffes stick their heads into the windows to get snacks at breakfast time. – Source

27. In 2012-16, a guy walked from Seattle to New York’s Time Square, with a goat, to raise money for an orphanage in Kenya. – Source

28. There are about 300,000 Quakers in the world and over one-third of them live in Kenya. – Source

29. African Americans traveling to Kenya often find that local people perceive them much more in terms of their American identity than their racial or ethnic background and do not treat them as a returning brother or sister. – Source

30. Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan have come together to form an EU type organization called the East Africa Community that plan to soon form their own federation. – Source

31-35 Kenya Facts

31. Life expectancy in Kenya has grown between 2004 and 2014 by more than 13 years. It was growing by more than a year per year. – Source

32. A U.S. citizen claimed diplomatic immunity after crashing into a bus while speeding in Kenya. Despite killing a passenger and injuring others he was quickly flown out of the country by the U.S. government. – Source

33. Kenya locals call thin plastic bags the national flower. A Nobel peace prize winner also stated that these sacks provide a breeding place for malarial mosquitoes, helping spread one of the continent’s major killers. – Source

34. In 2015, a Chinese restaurant in the African country of Kenya was shut down because it had a policy of refusing service to black Africans after 5 pm. – Source

35. A study conducted in Kenya found that Kenyan men with bigger penises were more likely to get cheated on, mostly from cases where the penis was too big and caused vaginal pain during sex. – Source

36-40 Kenya Facts

36. Kenya is the 3rd largest tea grower. – Source

37. FabFi is an open-source mesh network which brings free uncensored internet to developing nation like Kenya. It was originally designed for tracking sheep in Norway. – Source

38. There is a group prostitute from Majengo, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, who are immune to HIV. One of them, a woman called Agnes, has had unprotected sex with up to 2,000 infected men over a period of 30 years and is still free of AIDS. – Source

39. There is a species of fly that only lives in one cleft on one mountain in Kenya. It lives in and eats bat feces. – Source

40. There are around 270,000 children in Kenya who are addicted to sniffing glue. – Source

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Last Update: August 20, 2018