Australia holds an estimated 40% of the world’s uranium
The world’s longest earthworm, stretching up to 4 metres, is found in Gippsland in Victoria
The average Australian will consume 3,165,000 eggs in his or her lifetime.
1/5 of Australia is desert
Australia was the first country to elect an African-American president
In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia.
Uluru is the world’s biggest rock. However it is completely empty on the inside.
There is a mailbox located on the Great Barrier Reef
One town in Australia, Coober Pedy, produces 95 per cent of the world’s opals
post some fun facts about your own country
My country is the US. While there’s got to be a boatload of fun facts, I don’t have any to hand. Actually, what I’d really like to do is react to yours. To whit:
Huh.
Ick.
Well, then.
Oh, okay.
No kidding.
Impressive.
Empty? Really?
Wow.
I didn’t know that.
Most of those are at least credible, but:
If an average life is 80 years, that 40,000 eggs per year, or 100 eggs per day. That’s not credible.
(1) Australia doesn’t have a president.
(2) If it did have one, an African American – or indeed any American – would not be eligible to be elected.
(3) I don’t think there have been any prominent politicians in Australia of African descent.
If a rock of that size were empty on the inside, it would collapse, creating lots of middle-sized rocks.
Says who? Just because the US President has to be a natural born citizen does not mean the hypothetical Australian Presidency would have the same requirement.
No, you don’t need to be a natural born citizen. The current Prime Minister was born in Wales, and so was not born an Australian citizen. At some time she would have been naturalised, and before she became a member of parliament she would have had to renounce her UK citizenship. I’m assuming that an Australian President would have similar requirements to those for an Australian federal member of parliament.
(So, if Barack Obama decided to migrate to Australia, and became naturalised and renounced his US citizenship, he could be elected as Prime Minister. However, he would no longer be an African American.)
Y’all can have him!
A list of the non-dangerous Australian animals:
- Some of the Koalas*
- = see Dropbear
It doesn’t specify what types of eggs…
More fun facts:
In Australia, boomerangs return to you in a clockwise direction, rather than the counter-clockwise direction they travel in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Australian bureau of commerce has decreed that a cutting implement shorter than 14 cm is not a knife; sharp edged tools must be longer than 14 cm in order for their packaging to label them as “knives”.
All kangaroos are Jewish. This is why Mel Gibson left.
But Down Under, a “4” is spelled “1”, so that’s 4/5 to the rest of us.
Caviar?
Is it true that every single form of animal life on the continent (and surrounding waters) of Australia can (and wants to) kill you?
I went to Australia last month, and you could pet the kangaroos and the wombats and the koalas. And now, I use…
- dramatically pulls out hooks for hands *
THESE!
Bug eggs in the vegemite?
And in all seriousness, in Victoria it is illegal to sell knives to anyone under 18 years of age. It was decided that it’s too difficult for the law to specify which knives are ok (butter knives, plastic picnic knives) so the law applies to all knives. We received training on this at work when the law came into effect because we sell craft knives (the scalpel type blades with a handle) and the aforementioned plastic picnicware.
I was thinking pinworms maybe, they can lay over 10,000 eggs at a time.
What makes you think this?
Because implicit in being African American is being a US citizen – just as you must be a US citizen to be Italian American, Chinese American, etc.
So at fast-food restaurants and cafeterias are they allowed to put out plastic knives because they aren’t really selling them or do you have to get by with a spork?
:smack:
Because, while anyone with African descent might always be African-something… once a person becomes a naturalized citizen of another country, they can no longer be African-American. If the person was born in Australia but has African heritage, you do understand why you can’t describe that person as an African-American, right? That person is African-Australian.
I saw on this board once someone suggesting that Charlize Theron is an African-American. No. She’s African. There’s no American in there.