• Stone tools were first used by Homo Habilis in East Africa about 2.6million years ago
• Fire was first used approximately 1.4million years ago by Homo Erectus in Africa
• The sacred Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a crater that was made by a meteorite 1.07 million years ago.
• The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah.' It is about 4600 years old.
• Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Scottish Highlands, estimated to be about 400 million years old.

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