Ethiopia

Did you know?

• ✨Uses its own calendar — about 7–8 years behind the Gregorian one, with 13 months a year.
• ✨One of only two African countries never fully colonised (the other is Liberia).
• ☕️Birthplace of coffee — legend says a goat herder named Kaldi noticed his goats dancing after eating the beans.
• ☀️Has its own clock that resets at sunrise — '1 o'clock' is what most of the world calls 7 a.m.
• 🥇Home to 'Lucy' — one of the oldest known human ancestor fossils, about 3.2 million years old.