Interesting fact about Ethiopia

• ·         The Ethiopian calendar has 13 months. Ethiopian calendar is eight years behind the Western calendar. Right know the year is 2006 in Ethiopian; whereas, the year in the United States is 2014. The months are 30 days long but the last month has 5 or 6 days. Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that never colonized. 
• ·         Ethiopian fathers and their children do not share last names. The children take the first name of their father as their last name.
• ·          Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian country in the whole world, and it was adopted in the 4th century.
• ·         Do you know that the oldest skeleton of a human was discovered in Ethiopia?
• ·          Ethiopian athlete named Abebe Bikila was the first African to win gold in the Olympic Games. 

Abebe Bikila