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- The average Aussie drinks 96 litres of beer per year.
- In 2005, security guards at Canberra's Parliament House were banned from calling people 'mate'. It lasted one day.
- Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke set a world record for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Hawke later suggested that this was the reason for his great political success.
- Australia's first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.
- The largest-ever victory in an international football match was when Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in 2001.
- A bearded Australian was removed from a darts match in the UK, after the audience started chanting 'Jesus!' at him, distracting the players.
- There have been instances of wallabies getting high after breaking into opium crops, then running around and making what look like crop circles.
- An Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
- In 1979, debris from NASA's space station 'Skylab' crashed in Esperance, WA. The town then fined NASA $400 for littering.
- An Australian election TV debate was rescheduled so it didn't conflict with the finale of reality cooking show Masterchef.
- Moomba, Australia’s largest free festival, held in Melbourne, means ‘up your bum’ in many Aboriginal languages
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