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• the Thika River supplies eighty percent of the water for Nairobi, Kenya?
• the 900,000-year-old hand axes found at Olorgesailie in southern Kenya were probably used for butchering animals?
• the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution sparked army mutinies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika?
• in 2004 Kenyan runner Florence Barsosio won the Florence Marathon in Florence, Italy?
• the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades?
• the city of Nairobi, Kenya, averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day?
• the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya is the unsanitary flying toilet?
• the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo attacked workers who were building the Uganda Railway which connects Uganda and Kenya?
• the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative?
• historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
• T. rex survives underground in Kenya?
• Texas Tech track and field runner Sally Kipyego is the first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross country individual championship?
• Kenyan public health advocate Miriam Were and British biomedical researcher Brian Greenwood are the inaugural laureates of the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize?
• Kenyan lawyer Gitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki?
• Giraffe Manor, in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as being host to a group of endangered Rothschild giraffe (pictured), was also home to a warthog named in honour of Walter Cronkite?
• Migingo, an island about half the size of a soccer field, is the subject of territorial dispute and a diplomatic conflict between Uganda and Kenya?
• Colura zoophaga, a species of liverwort native to Kenya, traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant?
• Zeituni Onyango is the half-aunt of President-elect Barack Obama and a political asylum claimant from Kenya whose case was disclosed in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential election?
• Sir Rowland Whitehead, 5th Baronet was a Briton born in Kenya, a banker engaged with charities, a hyperpolyglot who wrote about cybernetics, and a church warden who skydived?
• Kenyan long distance runner Eliud Kiptanui went on to win the Prague Marathon after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption prevented him from traveling to the Vienna Marathon three weeks earlier?

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