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Random Facts #7: Australia / New Zealand

  • The Pavlova cake was named after Anna Povlova, who was a famous Russian ballerina.
  • The Royal Bluebell is an Australian wildflower that grows in rainfall, sunny, semi-shaded areas and cool regions.
  • More then 1.2 million people visit the Sydney Opera house.
  • The Tasmanian Devil is only found in the wilds of Australia or zoos.
  • The Ulysses Butterfly is the largest swallow tail butterfly and has a wingspan of 10.5 cm.
  • The violin is called a fiddle in Australia.
  • Wombats short and muscular animals.
  • The Numbat’s diet almost entirely consist of termites and they eat about 20,000 per day.
  • The Oleander is poisonous and can cause nausea, vomiting, excess salivation, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or death.
  • Meat pies are popular in Australia and New Zealand.
  • The jumping spider has the best vision among spiders.
  • Iced Vovo is a type of Australian biscuit made of, Raspberry jam, coconut, and pink fondant.
  • The Fremantle Prison was built to hold convicts from Britain, but mostly held locally-sentenced prisoners.
  • The Echidna is a spiny anteater.
  • The Dingo is the largest wild canine in Australia.
  • There are 6 Micronation currently in Australia.
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Random Facts #6

  • D-Day meant the British, American, French, Dutch, Poles, and Norwegians and more than four thousand ships brought 156,000 troops to Europe’s shore to fight the Nazis.
  • Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other countries.
  • The military often uses ghost peppers in smoke bombs.
  • The “I’m king if the world” line from the movie, Titanic, was improvised.
  • Canada has more lakes than any other country.
  • The difference between a coffin and a casket is that a coffin is tapered and six-sided, and a casket is rectangular in shape.
  • Croissant were invented in Austria.
  • Sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil, and were used to clean up radioactive materials left by nuclear sites in the Ukraine, Japan, and Ohio.
  • Noppera-bō is a faceless yokai from Japanese mythology.
  • Iceland does not have a railway system.
  • The first jockey recorded to ever win a race after death was in 1923 when he suffered a fatal heart attack while riding.
  • The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
  • French fries are originally created in Belgium.
  • Germany borders 9 other countries.
  • Vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavor in the US.
  • There are more sheep in New Zealand Than people.(70 million sheep and 4 million people)
  • The smallest bird in the world is the “bee hummingbird”.
  • The yo yo use to be a weapon used for hunting.
  • Canada has a lot of doughnut shops.
  • It use to be illegal to slam you car door in Switzerland.
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Random Facts #5

  • Honey is basically bee vomit.
  • The most popular color in the world is blue.
  • Black, white, and pink aren’t considered real colors because they aren’t present in the spectrum. They are only our minds mixing light wavelengths.
  • The capital of Canada is Ottawa and is the second largest country.
  • Canada has six different time zones.
  • Feral cats are practically silent, while domestic cat meow, hiss, and purr as a form of communication.
  • Cats have better teeth then humans.
  • The oldest cat in the world lived to be 38, while cats in the early 1980s only expected to live about 7.
  • There are over 6,000 different languages.
  • In Russia if you step on someones foot it’s said you will receive a light stamp back in order to avoid further conflict.
  • In some Countries it’s a sign of appreciation to slurp soup loudly to show you enjoyed it.
  • In Japan it’s sometime considered rude to blow your nose to loud.
  • Russia has produced some of the most talented ballet dancers in the world.
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Random Facts #4: Micro-nations

  • Micro-nations are self-declared independent states that want to become countries through legal loopholes.
  • There are 7 micro-nation in the U.S. with their own flags, passports, stamps, and government system.
  • Once a micro-nation is recognized by a few sovereign states they are no longer considered micro-nations.
  • Sealand is sometime described as the smallest country, but hasn’t actually been recognized by any sovereign state.
  • The micro-nation, Sealand, is actually a WW2 anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea.
  • The difference between micro-nation and micro-states is that micro-states are very small pieces of land that are recognized as countries.
  • There are about 82-84 micro-nation.
  • Ladonia is a micro-nation in Sweden, created in 1980 by artist Lars Vilks.
  • The Queen of Ladonia has a twitter account.
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Random Facts #3: Star fruit

Carambola, also known as star fruit are a fruit native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and all over Malesia. The tree the fruit grows on is the Averrhoa Carambola, which is part of the Oxalidaceae tree family. The entire fruit is edible but can also be used in cooking and made into juice drinks. The star fruit is commonly grown in tropical areas but has been cultivated in Indian Subcontinents and Southeast Asia for long times. The fruit is about 5 – 15 cm, oval shaped, contains Caramboxin and Oxalic acid. Coaramboxin is a neurotoxin that can cause health risks to someone that might have a kidney disease, kidney stones, or undergoing kidney dialysis treatment. After consumption, a person with the disease could experience hiccups, vomiting, nausea, mental confusion, or even death. Other uses is that since the Star fruit is an acidic sour type of fruit, its juice can be used to clean rusty metals or brass.

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Random Facts #2

  • Solanum Lycopersicum is another name for a tomato
  • No country owns Antarctica
  • Russian and the U.S. borders at their closest are less then 2 miles apart
  • Austria was the first country to use postcards
  • Canada is a word from the Indian language, Laurentian, meaning “Village”
  • triskaidekaphobia ia a fear of the number 13
  • The creature that kills the most people yearly is the mosquito
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Random Facts #1: potatoes

The potato is a vegetable from the nightshade family. The potato was first introduced to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century; however it is believed to have been domesticated independently in multiple locations. Also raw uncooked potatoes contains the toxin solanine, which is a  glycoalkaloid poison found in the nightshade family within the genus solanum. It has pesticidal properties making it a main defense for plants from insects.

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