As incredible as, for example, the fact that humanity somehow managed to invent a selfie. And, by the way, they did it in Australia ...
1. The width of Australia is the same as the distance from London to Moscow.
2. In Australia there is a pasture of Anna Creek. And the area is larger than Belgium.
3. More than 85% of Australians live within 50 km of the coast zone.
4. In 1880 Melbourne was the richest city in the world.
5. Australia's richest woman, Gina Reinhart, earns one million dollars every half hour, at $ 598 every second.
6. In 1892, a group of 200 Australians, dissatisfied with the local government, sailed to the shores of Paraguay and founded a colony there - New Australia.
7. The first photos from a landing on the Moon in 1969 to the world were transmitted through the antenna tracking station in Hannisakl Creek.
8. Australia became the second country in the world where women received the right to vote (first - New Zealand).
9. About 70 guests of the country are visa-denied on a weekly basis.
10. In 1856 local masons decided to approve an 8-hour working day. Over time, this norm was recognized throughout the world.
11. Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke became famous when he was a student, having drunk 1.2 liters (2.5 pints) of beer in just 11 seconds.
Later Bob, joking, suggested that it was this achievement that helped him to succeed in the political arena.
12. The world's oldest deposit of fossils was found in Australia 3.4 billion years ago.
13. Australia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. While in Britain 248.25 people per square kilometer, in Australia - only 2.66 people.
14. The first police detachments in Australia were formed from the most peaceful of prisoners.
15. In Australia, electricity prices are considered to be the highest in the world.
16. Millions of wild camels represent a huge problem for the Australian ecosystem.
Therefore, now the continent is implementing a program to reduce their numbers.
17. Australian camels are imported into Saudi Arabia (mainly for slaughter).
18. Once Qantas airlines conducted an experiment and refueled the international flight with fuel obtained from processed cooking oil.
19. Australians spend more on gambling for all other nationalities.
20. In 1832, 300 women prisoners during a speech by the Governor of Tasmania turned to the podium behind and denounced their fifth points.
Everything happened so unexpectedly and it looked so ridiculous that the intelligent ladies who came with the governor could not help laughing.
21. Australia has the longest fence in the world. Its length is 5.614 km, and it was built in order not to let dingo dogs on the fertile land.
22. Australia was one of the founding countries of the United Nations.
23. Melbourne is considered the sports capital of the world. Different kinds of sports develop here much more actively than in most other countries.
24. Before the appearance of people, Australia was home to many unique giant animals.
Here lived three-meter kangaroos, seven-meter-long lizards, ducks the size of a horse, marsupials the size of a leopard.
25. Kangaroo and emu do not know how to "back up". Partly because of this - due to exceptional assertiveness - they were placed on the national coat of arms.
26. It's embarrassing to say, but Australia is the only country that eats animals from its coat of arms.
27. In order to visit all the beaches of Australia, you will take more than 27 years (provided that you will visit the beach every day).
28. In Melbourne, most Greeks (except for Athens, of course).
29. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living entity on the planet.
30. And he even has his own mailbox.
31. The poison of the male platypus can kill a small dog.
32. Comic situation happened when the Australians first sent the platypus to England.
The British seriously thought that the people of Australia sewed a rat with a duck beak, and could not understand why they did it.
33. Until 1902, bathing on the beach during the day was illegal.
34. Retired cavalryman Francis de Groi arranged a real show during the official opening of the Harbor Bridge in Sydney.
As soon as the premier was going to solemnly cut the ribbon, de Gro raced ahead of him on a horse and cut the ribbon with his sword. Of course, the band had to tie a new one. The cavalryman was taken to a psychiatric hospital, and later fined at ... the cost of the tape.
35. In Australia, sheep are 3.3 times larger than humans.
36. Once the country's Prime Minister Harold Holt went to swim on the beach Cheviot. After that, no one else saw him.
37. Anthem of Australia until 1984 was "God Save the King / Queen."
38. The ass of the wombat is cubic in shape, so that it is more convenient for the animal to mark its territory.
39. European settlers in Australia per capita drank much more alcohol than representatives of any other corners of the world in history.
40. In the Australian Alps, snow falls more than in Switzerland.
41. At birth, the size of the baby kangaroo is not more than a centimeter.
42. Sir John Robertson, who became the Premier of New South Wales five times, every morning started by drinking 0.23 liters of rum.
43. Kubomeduzy in Australia killed more people than warts, sharks and crocodiles combined.
44. Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.
45. The average Australian drink 96 liters of beer per year.
46. 63% of Australians are overweight.
47. According to the Human Development Index, Australia ranks second in the world.
The rating is based on data on the projected life expectancy, income, education.
48. In 2005, the House of Parliament guard in Canberra was banned from calling all visitors "buddies." A day later the ban was lifted.
49. In Australia, walks from the right side of the footpath are illegal.
50. Australia is the only continent on earth with no active volcanoes.
51. Australian football was invented specifically so that cricket players could keep fit in the off-season.
52. The ancient Kaili natives were called hunting sticks, similar in principle to boomerangs. Today, Kylie is quite a popular and common name.
53. 91% of the country's territory is covered by natural vegetation.
54. The victory of Australian footballers over the team of American Samoa in the 31 - 0 has become a record for the entire history of international matches.
55. There are 60 designated wine regions in Australia.
56. Over the past three years, Melbourne has been recognized three times as the most livable city.
57. If you connect all the sails of the Sydney Opera House, you will have an ideal sphere. All because the creation of the architect's attractions inspired the orange.
58. In Australia, 20% of all slot machines in the world are located.
59. And half of these machines are installed in New South Wales.
60. The name of the largest festival held annually in Melbourne - Mumba - translates from many Aboriginal languages as "raise your asses."
61. Not a single Australian animal - the native inhabitants of the continent mean - no hooves.
62. The performance that the Sydney Symphony Orchestra demonstrated at the opening of the 2000 Olympics was in fact a record made by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Yes, yes, you understood correctly: the solemn speech passed to the phonogram.
63. Wine barrels - the invention of Australians.
64. Selfi, by the way, too;)
65. Durak - the largest electoral district in Australia - is larger than Mongolia.
66. The mandatory seat-belt installation law was first adopted in Victoria in 1970.
67. Every year in Brisbane is the World Cup in the cockroach races.
68. In 1932, the Australian army declared war on the emu population in Western Australia. Surprisingly, they lost ...
69. Canberra was created in 1908 as a compromise option, when both Sidney and Melbourne were eager to become the state capitals.
70. Gay bar in Melbourne has the right not to let women into its premises. The administration of the institution reasoned that it was because the fair sex representatives were bringing discomfort to their visitors.
71. In 1992, the Australian gambling syndicate bought almost all combinations of numbers in the lottery draw in Virginia and won, turning 5 million dollars spent into a $ 27 million winnings.
72. Eucalyptus oil very easily ignites, and in case of fire, eucalypts can explode.
73. In 1975, Australia had problems with the government. All ended with the dismissal of politicians and a complete renewal of government ranks.
74. The bearded Australian had to be removed from the darts competition in Britain after the rostrums began chanting "Jesus!" The screams greatly distracted the participants.
75. There have been cases when some Australians, slightly overdone with opium, started running around the fields, trampling on them mysterious circles.
76. Somehow an Australian tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
77. In 1940, in the sky over New South Wales, two aircraft collided. But instead of falling and crashing, the aircraft successfully connected and landed safely.
78. The male lyrebird can simulate the sounds of more than 20 species of birds. Not impressed? It also can chirp like a camera shutter, chainsaw or car alarm. Now what do you say?
79. In the parking lots of some shopping centers and restaurants, classical music plays at night. So the owners "scare off" adolescents who like to bunch around here at night.
80. Verbal Australian, British and American languages are almost identical. But these sign languages have absolutely nothing in common.
81. In 1979, debris from the Skylab orbital station fell in Esperanza. City authorities subsequently fined NASA for littering $ 400.
82. Since 1979, in Australia, no one has died from spider bites.
83. In New South Wales, there is a place where coal burns underground for 5.5 thousand years.
84. Due to the fact that the televised debates during the election campaign in Australia coincided with the final of the reality show "Masterchef", they had to be postponed.
85. Chinese researchers traveled to Australia long before Europeans. Already in 1400-m seamen and fishermen came here for sea cucumbers and to bargain.
86. The first European to visit Australia in 1606 was Dane Willem Jansson. In the following centuries, many Danish researchers came here who created maps and called the continent "New Holland."
87. Captain James Cook landed on the eastern coast of Australia in the 1770s.
In 1788, the British returned to eleven ships to create a penal colony here. A few days later, the French ship landed on the Australian coast. But alas, the French were too late to qualify for Astralia.