1. Conditions seemed so bleak in America during the Great Depression that people in Cameroon sent $3.77 to New York for food relief
![cameroon](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/flag-1040548_960_720.png?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1)
2. In 1986, an actual ‘cloud of death’ swept through an area of Cameroon, suddenly asphyxiating everything in its path, including 4 villages, 1,700 people, and 3,500 livestock
![Fulani_herd_in_the_dust](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fulani_herd_in_the_dust.jpg?resize=640%2C381&ssl=1)
3. A Wikipedia hoaxster wrote that Amelia Bedelia was based on a maid from Cameroon, a claim so believable, it stayed on the site for 5 years and fooled the author’s nephew
![Lake_Oku_Cameroon](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lake_Oku_Cameroon.jpg?resize=640%2C422&ssl=1)
4. Two men in Cameroon were each sentenced to 5 years in prison for “looking gay” after entering a bar together and ordering Bailey’s Irish Cream
![Bamun_Sultans_Palace_2](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bamun_Sultans_Palace_2.jpg?resize=640%2C483&ssl=1)
5. The Cross River gorilla, only found in a few forest patches in Nigeria and Cameroon, is the world’s rarest great ape and was unknown to science until the early 20th century
![cameroon](https://i0.wp.com/tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/14632395758_97373c8739_b.jpg?resize=640%2C390&ssl=1)
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