Australia facts

• 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 is very sparsely populated: The UK has 248.25 persons per square kilometre, while Australia has only 2.66 persons per square kilometre. 
• 14. Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.
• If you visited one new beach in Australia every day, it would take over 27 years to see them all. 
•  Australia has 3.3x more sheep than people.
•  The Australian Alps receive more snowfall than Switzerland.
•   Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world. 
• 45. The average Aussie drinks 96 litres of beer per year.
•  If all the sails of the Opera House roof were combined, they would create a perfect sphere. The architect was inspired while eating an orange.
•  In 1932, the Australian military waged war on the emu population of Western Australia. Embarrassingly, they lost. 
•  An Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
• In NSW, there is a coal fire beneath the ground which has been burning for 5,500 years.
• Australia’s cyclones were originally named after politicians a weatherman disliked: As a result, he was able to report that the pollies were “causing great distress” or “wandering aimlessly about the Pacific”.
• Bushranger Moondyne Joe escaped jail so many times the government built a special cell to hold him. The governor said: “If you get out again, I’ll forgive you.” He escaped, and was released when captured.
• Built to keep Australia’s native dog away from sheep, the 5,500-kilometre Dingo Fence is the longest fence on Earth.
• There is a place in Western Australia where space is closer than the nearest town.
   Crocodile Dundee is the highest grossing Australian film to date.

Sources: 
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jemimaskelley/facts-about-australia#.vnYj8r3Xp
http://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/crazy-aussie-facts