just in case you were wondering ...

[Dickie E]

http://www.weekendnotes.com/interesting-facts-australia/

 

[Phil E]

So a country that large, and you can only scrape together 50 interesting facts :chin:
....and even then they were getting a bit thin towards the top end!!

 

[The umpire]

no 9 is wrong - another urban myth.

 

[SimonSmith]

31 is wrong.

Scotland has 10 Laureates for a population a nadge over 5 million.

 

[The Fat]

No.51 (not shown)
Aussies are so laid back, we just got a Scot to write our national anthem for us.

No.52
Australia is better at cricket than England

Note:
Not sure how many of the other 50 have been verified.

 

[RobLev]

http://www.weekendnotes.com/interesting-facts-australia/

#1 is part wrong; it is true that Australia is the 6th largest country by total land area, but not true that Australia the continent is occupied by only one nation. That is true of the Australian mainland, but the Australian mainland is not a continent (or even a country) entire unto itself; Australia the (geological) continent at minimum also includes PNG, Timor-Leste and parts of Indonesia (as well as, for example, Tasmania...). Australia the (geopolitical) continent, ie Oceania, includes many more nations.

#11 is also wrong; there are 5 active volcanoes on New Guinea (within PNG) alone (and PNG is physically as much part of Australia as is Tasmania).

 

[FlipFlop]

37 is strange.

I assume they mean exactly 5. London has more: Lords, Oval, Twickenham, Wembley, Wimbledon, Olympic Stadium (to name 6) plus all the venues from the Olympic Park, numerous other football stadiums,

 

[Browner]

No.51 (not shown)
Aussies are so laid back, we just got a Scot to write our national anthem for us.

No.52
Australia is better at cricket than England

Note:
Not sure how many of the other 50 have been verified.

You're in trouble Dickie if you've used the goo(666)gle library to extract any of your information! Hell hath less fury than an Editor in control of publication.

7. Sounds like marketing spin.
53. The resale market in 'Home owned' R.Harris art has plummeted in value recently.
54. 100% of RR.com posters named Browner have c.10% interest in 50% of the 1st 40% on the list.

 

[RobLev]

#1 is part wrong; it is true that Australia is the 6th largest country by total land area, but not true that Australia the continent is occupied by only one nation. That is true of the Australian mainland, but the Australian mainland is not a continent (or even a country) entire unto itself; Australia the (geological) continent at minimum also includes PNG, Timor-Leste and parts of Indonesia (as well as, for example, Tasmania...). Australia the (geopolitical) continent, ie Oceania, includes many more nations.

#11 is also wrong; there are 5 active volcanoes on New Guinea (within PNG) alone (and PNG is physically as much part of Australia as is Tasmania).

...and #10 is questionable as well. Firstly, while the area within which there may be snow may be greater in the Snowies, the snow cover in Switzerland is consistently far thicker; and secondly the snowfall is much less reliable in the Snowies.

 

[MrQeu]

A continent is whatever you want it to be:

 

[RobLev]

http://www.weekendnotes.com/interesting-facts-australia/

#7 "...kangaroo are incapable of walking backwards and can only walk or hop forwards".

Somebody tell these kangaroos.

And #12 "Melbourne has the largest Greek population in the world, outside Greece" hasn't been the case since at least 2012; they have 157k Greeks whereas London's Greek population is upwards of 180,000.

 

[The Fat]

You're in trouble Dickie if you've used the goo(666)gle library to extract any of your information! Hell hath less fury than an Editor in control of publication.

7. Sounds like marketing spin.
53. The resale market in 'Home owned' R.Harris art has plummeted in value recently.
54. 100% of RR.com posters named Browner have c.10% interest in 50% of the 1st 40% on the list.

53a. Jake The Peg is about to find out where the extra leg goes:wink:

 

[RobLev]

A continent is whatever you want it to be:

Love it!

BUT - whatever definition you adopt, you either include PNG or exclude Tasmania; for example the Torres Strait is little more than 10m deep at its deepest, whereas the Bass Strait is on average 50-70m deep.

 

[RobLev]

#32. "In the history of Nobel Prize, the youngest ever Nobel Laureate is (the British physicist) Lawrence Bragg, of born in Adelaide to British parents. He was only 25 years old when he received the extraordinary honour of a Nobel Prize for Physics with his Britishfather William Bragg in 1915 for work done in the United Kingdom (he in Manchester, his father in London)." (My corrections)

Which, by the way, brings #31 down to 13 Nobel laureates (and more of them are questionable; one outrageous example is Prokhorov who was admittedly born in Australia but to a family of Russian revolutionaries who returned to Russia with him when he was 7 years old, after which he had no Australian affiliation whatsoever).

 

[RobLev]

and this one:

42. Australia cultivates the second largest amount of grapes in the world after France.

appears to be pure fantasy; whether we are talking about wine grape production or overall grape production. Australia doesn't appear even to be in the top 10 on the latter measure, and on the former it is only the 6th largest wine producer.

 

[Browner]

and this one:



appears to be pure fantasy; whether we are talking about wine grape production or overall grape production. Australia doesn't appear even to be in the top 10 on the latter measure, and on the former it is only the 6th largest wine producer.

"Largest amount of grapes"

simply cultivate tiny grapes ?

 

[RobLev]

31 is wrong.

Scotland has 10 Laureates for a population a nadge over 5 million.

Even without breaking up the UK, Australia doesn't even get into the top 20; even if you adjust its position to include the questionable (in the extreme) claim of 15.