Portal:Geography/Did you know archive

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• ...that Gustav Adolf von Götzen, a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa, was the first European to set foot in Rwanda?
  

• ...that the bark of the hibiscus is composed of strong fibers that are used to make skirts in some Polynesian cultures?
  

• ...that The National Emblem of Malaysia consists of a shield guarded by two tigers with a yellow crescent and a 14-pointed star?
  

• ... that the Tennessee State Museum has one of the largest collections in the United States of weapons, flags, and uniforms from the American Civil War?
  

• ...that highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado?