Interesting and fun facts about Australia
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September 28, 2011
- Australians consume average of 165,000 eggs in their lifetime.
- A horse race known as “The Melbourne Cup” is a public holiday in Melbourne.
- Tram in Melbourne is a largest public transportation remaining in the world.
- Channel 9 is Australia’s first television station started in 1956.
- Australians won 58 medals in total at the Sydney Olympic Games, 2000. The most medals ever won.
- One in every four persons is either a first or second generation settler to Australia, a trend started after World War II.
- The average number of household per person in Australia was 3.31 in 1971, and it decreased to 2.6 in 2006.
- 1.65 children per family in average.
- Australian consume 18 beef cattle and 90 sheep in lifetime.
- The percentage of adults who won’t have children in their lifetime is 22%.
- The percentage of adults with only one child is 16.2%.
- 88% Australian lives in the urban area.
- The FX Holden, model 48 to model 215, was The first mass produced car in Australia. In Victoria, 1948, produced at Fishermans Bend.
- 28.9 year-old is the average age for brides (2006).
- 30.9 year-old is the average for grooms (2006).
- 34% is the percentage of men who will never get married (2006).
- 32% is the percentage of women who will never get married (2006).
- The Great Barrier Reef is over 2010 kilometres which is to be the worlds longest reef.
- There is the largest electorate spanning in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, by 2,225,278 square kilometers.
- 1902 is the year Australian women won the right to vote.
- Ayers Rock has circumference of over 8 kilometres.
- The first radio station in Australia was built in 1912.
- 1/2 tonne of cheese, 10 tonnes of vegetables and 8 tonnes of fruits is consumed average in Australia.
- all Australia lands are less than 1,000km from the ocean
- Australia has the world’s largest ranch.
- Queensland people are called “banana benders”, and Western Australia people are called “sandgropers”.
- Air in Tasmania is the cleanest in the world.
- Melbourne has the second greatest Greek population in the world.
- Australia has 1500 different types of spiders.
- Average Australian swallows 3 spiders per year.
- The number of sheep are 7 times more than number of people in Australia.
- Australia is 3 times larger than the largest island in the world.
