Did you Know? thread

[Crusher]

There are more poepl on compo in Australia than anywhere else...except italy

 

[newtownbluebags]

she compo moit!

The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.

 

[Crusher]

ahhh by neck!

 

[newtownbluebags]

Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline.

 

[Punkess]

You can dye flowers by putting food colouring in the water and the petals will change colour after a couple of days

 

[newtownbluebags]

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.......lets go to war against Pitcairn!!!!

 

[RK]

Did you know the NBB green light is on.

A Whoohoo

 

[newtownbluebags]

awwww, missy Kate I knew that!!!! ;-)

 

[RK]

Yeh but that doesnt happen very often!!!

 

[newtownbluebags]

whats that Kate?

 

[RK]

Dont be cheeky NBB!!!

 

[newtownbluebags]

Me?...never! ;-)

 

[Punkess]

Georges River Bridge ('Tom Uglys') when opened in 1929 was one of the longest in NSW at 1,639 feet or 399 metres.

 

[newtownbluebags]

Did you know the stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones! :sarcasm: :crazy:

 

[Punkess]

Westfield Shoppingtown Miranda (’Miranda Fair&#8217 was originally the site for a flower farm (until 1916), a rifle range for the civilian guard during World War II and a clay pit (to the late 1950s).

 

[Crusher]

Did you knwo that there was more snow than ice in the ice age

 

[newtownbluebags]

yeah I knew that!

 

[Punkess]

Each year, Australians use 6.9 billion plastic shopping bags. Tied together this amount of bags would stretch around the world 37 times

 

[Punkess]

Every day approximately 2,000 milk crates are taken out of the Dairy Farmers system - that equates to 60,000 a month, 720,000 a year or over 650 semi-trailer loads full

 

[Crusher]

did you knwo we have entered the plastic age