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Australia - Amazing Facts  (page 3)
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Amazing Fact No.14

Waltzing Matilda - 'Waltzing Matilda' the title of Australia's most famous song, is actually a German word for 'carrying a backpack'.

 Amazing Fact No. 15

Australia is surrounded by some of the best beaches in the world, but in 1838 it was declared illegal to swim at public beaches during the day. This law was enforced until 1902.
 

 

 

 

Phar Lap is Australia's most famous race horse and is on display at the Melbourne Museum in Carlton Gardens
 

 
 

 

Did you know?

So the story goes, the plans for a railway station in Bombay mixed up with Melbourne by a London architect to Melbourne's Flinders Street Station was built of Bombay's blueprints
 
 
Amazing Fact No. 16

Dropbears, Well you've read we have plenty of sheep, cattle, kangaroos,,, but  Dropbears? Well they are an evil species of koala that fall from trees and attack humans.  Haven't seen one yet,, but there are lots of Americans who haven't visited here yet who believe the stories!
 
Amazing Fact No. 17

Phar Lap was Australia's greatest race horse winning 37 of his 51 starts. And was one of the bright moments during the great depression of the 1930s.  Phar Lap is a Melbourne Museums proudest exhibit drawing thousands each year to see this magnificent beast.
 
Amazing Fact No. 18.
Another animal fact, Unfortunately the rascally rabbit outnumbers just about everything in Australia. There are 16 rabbits to every sheep- these bred from 16 of the pests which were introduced from England back in 1859, just to remind the bloke of home.....spose he couldn't bring soap!
 
Amazing Fact No. 19
Australia is one of the world’s most urbanised countries, with about 70 per cent of the population living in the 10 largest cities, all within a short distance to the coast line.
 
Amazing Fact No. 20
Australians will bet on anything...what that old saying...two flies on the wall?....With less than 1 percent of the world's population, Australia has more than 20 percent of its poker machines.