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More did you know's - (scrolling list)
- ... that Aguil Chut-Deng took 22 child refugees from South Sudan to Ethiopia during civil war so that they could attend school?
- ... that medieval Ethiopian kings claimed to be descended from Solomon?
- ... that Liberian paramount chief Tamba Taylor worked as a tailor and claimed to have sewn clothes for Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah?
- ... that Ethiopian-Italian refugee environmentalist Agitu Ideo Gudeta was nicknamed the "Queen of Happy Goats"?
- ... that when journalist Pierre Nadeau reported on the 1973 famine in Ethiopia, his suggestion for viewers to donate to Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day?
- ... that American doctor Guy Gibson Campbell served as personal physician to Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie?
- ... that the Ethiopian army participated in the Korean War?
- ... that the Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat uses its hind feet to comb its fur and its tongue to wash its face, wing membranes, and genital region?
- ... that Stuart Bergsma, a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected speaking in tongues with emotional stress?
- ... that Tsadkan Gebretensae, one of the top commanders of Tigray forces in the conflict against the Ethiopian government, previously served as chief of staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force?
- ... that Asfaw Yemiru's school educated over 120,000 Ethiopian students?
- ... that Quintin Johnstone advocated giving control of an American-governed law school to native Ethiopians?
- ... that the government of Ethiopia's SNNP Region supported local governments calling for a referendum to secede from the region?
- ... that Ethiopian runner Helen Bekele Tola has stated a desire to compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
- ... that Christian missionary Moritz Hall was ordered to cast artillery for the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II?