Top 10 Amazing Facts about Australia
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1 Australia's innovations many people likely don't associate Australia with innovations or really anything outside of kangaroos but the country has been home to some great innovators some of the earliest inventors were Australia's Aboriginal population who invented the boomerang some 10,000 years ago in the 20th century alone Australian inventors were churning out products that we still use on a regular basis today such as notepads configured by station or Jay a virtual doctor David Warren's black box flight recorder and the power strip originally developed by Peter Talbot other notable first include the first feature-length film the story of the Kelly Gang the first refrigerator and more locally used items like the didgeridoo a wooden musical instrument for the girls watching this you know those ugg boots you love so much yep that's right thank Australia the next time you slip them.
2 Famous Australians sure we all know Heath Ledger Geoffrey Rush Cate Blanchett Paul Hogan Nicole Kidman Hugh Jackman and Mel Gibson has certified Australians but there's more that hails from down under than great Hollywood talent 2000 Sydney Olympic winner Cathy Freeman who took gold in the 400 meter run did her country proud in 1973 Nobel Prize winner Patrick white radios blast out tunes from the country's musical stars Keith Urban Kylie Minogue and Olivia newton-john as our eyes are treated to works of art by artists such as Brett Whiteley Pro heart and Norman Lindsey let's also not forget the stunning personality of Steve Irwin who personified Australia for much of the world.
3 Australian cuisine don't let Outback Steakhouse fool you Australian cuisine is far more interesting than a blossoming tray of onions and steaks in fact for a restaurant that prides itself on its downunder style it's missing a well-known Australian stable Vegemite beyond the yeasty food paste indigenous and more traditional Australians are known to dine on the witchetty grub a wood-eating larvae should an almond tasting insect not whet your appetite maybe something sweeter like lemming tenoram okiura cute snags will hit the spot those crazy Aussies are also known for their love for meat pies macadamia nuts fun tallies Tim Thames weet-bix and Anzac biscuits.
4 Tourist attractions in Australia as you should and can expect with any country you've yet to travel to Australia is home to quite an array of attractions and sights worth making the trip for one of its more notable buildings is the Sydney Opera House a venue for concerts local theatre and so much more history buffs may enjoy visiting the shrine of remembrance which was built to commemorate and honor the 19,000 Victorians that perished during the first world war fallacy phobics are going to want to stay away from the Great Barrier Reef but anyone with a keen interest in nature should get a kick out of this system of 2,900 reefs and 900 islands additional attractions include Port Jackson Blue Mountain Tasmania and the great ocean road.
5 Australia's wildlife we may have seen some of Australia's indigenous wildlife tucked safely within some cave but there's nothing like seeing them in their natural habitat critters like the Tasmanian Devil a tiny creature Mel Blanc turned into a whirlwind of a beast or the equally cute wombat we'd be doing a disservice to not name the expected animals like the kangaroo koala or baby eating dingo but we also don't want to leave out the tiny kookaburra or the long nosed fur seal found on the southern coast of Australia there is of course the myriad of deadly creatures like the cone snail cassowary stone fish just to name a few oh and how did we forget the platypus the beavers ugly cousin or is the beaver the platypuses ugly cousin well actually according to experts they aren't related at all as the platypus is only related to one other animal in the rare monotreme family the echidna so yeah that joke didn't go as expected blame the riders.
6 Australian Gold Rush the United States of America isn't the only country to have experienced a gold rush during the 19th century specifically 1851 Edward hartgrave stumbled across a small speck of gold near Bathurst post discovery Hargraves dubbed the gold site over was named commissioner of the land received a life pension and inadvertently started a gold rush in Australia by 1852 370 thousand immigrants landed in Australia in hopes of cashing in on the boom in mining as it usually is when money is involved tensions rose between the miners and authorities over gold field licensing leading 1,000 men for claiming an oath at the Eureka Stockade to defend their rights and liberties after intervention from Melbourne troops 22 of the 1000 were killed and Eureka was reclaimed.
7 Australian ballot in 1856 the states of Victoria and South Australia introduced a new system of voting that many country still utilized today dubbed the Australian ballot and later the secret ballot this voting method made it possible for voters to be able to cast a ballot in privacy as the protection of the voters became a growing concern across the globe the united states and parts of Europe adopted the Aussie means of voting traditionally the means of privacy is a ballot box for booth of a specific dimension the voters are given uniform cards and a uniform means of marking said card more modern voting methods have turned to electronic methods which tend to be under constant scrutiny in the United States.
8 Australian holidays despite being seemingly in its own world the country of Australia and the people that devote themselves to it have experienced loss during some of the world's most trying times to commemorate those that gave their lives during the First World War which is the first major military action fought by both Australian and New Zealand forces Aussies celebrate and Zach day Anzac Day specifically points towards the landing of Gallipoli on April 25th 1915 during the battle on the peninsula Australia saw a loss of 8,000 soldiers against the Turkish defenders who wound up pushing Allied forces into a defeat for both Australia and New Zealand the battle molded a legendary image for the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
9 World Records when it comes to World Records Australia is an exempt from these feats even when it comes to comedic value in December of 2015 some 320 Australians took to the waves breaking the record for most surfing Santa's at one location in November of 2015 David Richards broke a record for most bulbs on a Christmas tree by stringing 500 18,800 38 LED lights on a 22 meter or 72 foot tree in Canberra to raise money for families affected by sudden infant death syndrome on March 28 2008 daredevil Robbie Maddison broke the record for the longest motorcycle ramp jump at 106.9 eight meters or roughly 351 feet at the crusty demons night of World Records at Calder Park Raceway in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
10 The island of misfit boys when you don't want someone in your presence you find a way to banish them in 1788 England did exactly that by deporting approximately 763 convicts to Australia which was to act as a prison colony over 50,000 criminals in 60 years were brought to the land down under but it was about more than rehabilitation in fact it was widely believed by England's upper class that criminals were a defective could not be rehabilitated and simply needed to be separated from those that lacked such defects in this colony prisoners were not kept behind bars but conditions were grim sadistic volunteers from Great Britain oversaw prisoners kept strict rules and harsh punishments.
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