Cramming for the Day Jeopardy Unveils It's Tanzania Category

While in grade school, I had to write a report about Lake Victoria. Now, years later, I'm compiling facts that interest me about Tanzania -- one of the countries that borders Lake Victoria. Go figure.

• The United Republic of Tanzania was formed in 1964 when Tanganyika and Zanzibar united.
• The highest point in Africa is Mount Kilimanjaro's peak at 19,341 feet above sea level.
• The lowest point in Africa is the floor of Lake Tanganyika's at 1,155 feet below sea level.
• The largest extinct caldera (102 square miles) in the world is the Ngorongoro Crater.
• The last operating slave market in the world was in Stone Town on Zanzibar.
• Lake Natron is so acidic (a pH as high as 10.5) it can burn the skin and eyes of animals that aren't adapted to it.
• All land in Tanzania is owned by the government which can grant land leases for up to 99 years.
• Piles of magnetized volcanic ash known as the Shifting Sands travel about 50 feet per year near Olduvai Gorge.