30 Strange Facts About Zimbabwe That Are Actually True

Most people hear Zimbabwe and think of two things. Hyperinflation and Victoria Falls. Then they move on. Big mistake. This is a country that printed money with an expiry date on it. That has a waterfall which has physically relocated at least seven times and is already cutting the next one. That shares a lake heavy enough to have triggered earthquakes. And that is named after a stone city colonial authorities spent fifty years insisting its own people could not possibly have built. 30 facts, counting down — and number one is the one that should be taught everywhere. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Two things everyone knows, and everything else 0:39 30. Sixteen official languages 1:12 29. The country named after a building 1:45 28. Why Victoria Falls is the biggest 2:27 27. The waterfall that keeps moving 3:00 26. Swimming at the edge 3:34 25. The largest reservoir on Earth 4:07 24. The lake that caused earthquakes 4:37 23. Nyaminyami and the floods 5:15 22. Operation Noah — and who else was moved 5:46 21. The scar you can see from space 6:22 20. The world's platinum 6:55 19. The hillside that keeps atomic time 7:34 18. Following thousand-year-old holes 8:13 17. The rocks that outlasted the money 8:47 16. The hundred trillion dollar note 9:21 15. Money with an expiry date 9:53 14. Using everyone else's currency 10:27 13. How it went cashless early 10:57 12. The park with no water 11:30 11. Cecil 12:03 10. The park you can walk alone 12:43 9. Buried on a granite dome 13:14 8. The gallery in the Matobo Hills 13:48 7. The mountain people disappear on 14:24 6. The pool with no confirmed bottom 15:00 5. The caterpillar on the menu 15:37 4. Shona stone sculpture 16:10 3. From Harare to running the Olympics 16:45 2. The schools that didn't break 17:18 1. Great Zimbabwe, and fifty years of denial 18:29 Final thoughts 🇿🇼 COVERED Victoria Falls & Mosi-oa-Tunya • Devil's Pool • Lake Kariba • The Great Dyke • Bikita • Hwange • Mana Pools • Matobo Hills • Mount Nyangani • Chinhoyi Caves • Great Zimbabwe 🔎 A NOTE ON ACCURACY Where a figure is an estimate or contested it's presented that way. The Operation Noah section includes what usually gets left out — roughly 57,000 Tonga people were moved off ancestral land, many by force, and that compensation argument is still running. 👇 If you're Zimbabwean or you've been there, what did I miss? 🔔 Subscribe for more. #Zimbabwe #VictoriaFalls #GreatZimbabwe #Africa #LakeKariba #Hyperinflation #Geography #History #Matobo #Hwange