My trip to Australia is coming closer and closer, so I decided to find out a few more facts about it. I have a "boy scout" mentality in that I like to be fully prepared before I jump into anything big. So I thought I'd share some of my oddest findings about this country with the best accents!
1. It was the second country in the world (after it's friend New Zealand) to give women the right to vote.
2. The Great Barrier Reef has it's own post box. Just in case you need to send some mail to Nemo.
3. Kangaroos are only one centimeter long when they're born. This isn't really about Australia, I guess, but that's what everyone correlates the country with.
4. The selfie is an Australian invention. Thanks a lot, mates.
5. Australian locals call Ugg boots "very ugly boots," (finally someone said it) even though the idea of them was from Australians turning a sheep skin inside out to make a boot.
6. There was once a war declared by the Australian military against the emu population. The emus won. And I don't know which is worse.
7. There's a bird called a lyre, and the males can imitate over 20 different bird sounds as well as car alarms, chainsaws, and cameras. Ummm... mockingjay????
8. Some places play classical music in their parking lot to stop teenagers from hanging around there. Lynden Dairy Queen, take notes.
9. The world's longest golf course is in Australia. All 850 miles of it. Good thing I don't golf.
10. Australians made up an animal called the drop bear to scare tourists. This drop bear would jump out of trees and attack them, if it actually existed.
11. Over 200 languages and dialects are spoken there. All I really need is to gain a flawless Australian accent.
12. The former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, attributes a lot of his political success to the fact that he broke a world record of drinking 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. But no worries guys we're all doing much more important things when it comes to politics, like, fighting.
Not that any of these facts make me any more prepared, but I sure do like the sounds of it. Australia sound freakin hilarious.
