AUSTRALIA...
The average Australian family has 1.65 children.
The average Australian will consume 18 beef cattle and 90 sheep in his or her lifetime.
22% of adults will never have children.
16.2% of adults will only have one child.
88% of Australians live in an urban area - this high concentration may be due to the arid conditions further inland.
The first ever car to be mass produced in Australia was the FX Holden (model 48-215). This was produced at Fishermans Bend, Victoria in 1948.
The median age for brides is 28.9 years of age (2006).
The median age for grooms is 30.9 years of age (2006).
34% of men will never marry (2006).
32% of women will never marry (2006).
The Great Barrier Reef is the longest reef in the world at over 2010 kilometres
THE EARTH.....
Lowest Elevation on Land - Dead Sea: 1369 feet below sea level (417.27 m)
Deepest Point in the Ocean - Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, Western Pacific Ocean: 35,840 feet (10924 m)
Highest Temperature Recorded: 135.8°F - Al Aziziyah, Libya, September 13, 1922 (57.7°C)
Lowest Temperature Recorded: -128.5°F - Vostok, Antarctica, July 21, 1983 (-89.2°C)
Water vs. Land: 70.8% Water, 29.2% Land
Age of the Earth: 4.5 to 4.6 billion years
Atmosphere Content: 77% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and traces of argon, carbon dioxide and water
Rotation on Axis: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 04.09053 seconds. But, it takes an additional four minutes for the earth to revolve to the same position as the day before relative to the sun (i.e. 24 hours).
Revolution around Sun: 365.2425 days
Chemical Composition of the Earth: 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulfur, and 0.05% Titanium
THE BODY.............
You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
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