fact for 30th nov 2008

Arabic numerals are not Arabic; they were invented in India.

The koala's nickname is a Native Bear. The koala is a mammal. They are warm-blooded. The koala's young is called a cub. The koala's young are born alive. Koalas drink milk from the mother. The koala breaths oxygen from air. The koala might look cuddly but the koala has very sharp teeth and very sharp claws. The koalas have white on the underside and gray on the rest of its body.

Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system .

fact for 29th nov 2008

Over 2 million koalas were killed between 1908 and 1927.

The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail .

fact for 28 nov 2008

The koala's scientific name is Phasclarctos cinereus.

Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations.

fact for 27 nov 2008

Everyone has heard of the Golden Temple at Amritsar. Did you know that the word Amritsar comes from the Sanskrit Amŗita-sarovar which means the “Lake of Nectar”?

The Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds.

The Sydney Funnelweb spider has killed people in less than two hours.

fact for 26 nov 2008

Australian Dawn Fraser is the only athlete to ever win gold in the same event at three consecutive Olympics.

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

fact for 25 nov 2008

Bhaarat, the official name of India, has an interesting meaning in Sanskrit, “bha” means knowledge or light, and “rat” is a verb for ‘doing’. Bhāarat is thus ‘the one in search of enlighntenment or knowledge.’

Australians may refer to fools, idiots and hopeless cases as Drongos. Drongo was a 1920's racehorse that showed promise but never won anything in 37 races.


The average person laughs 13 times a day.

fact for 24 nov 2008

The first documented sighting of Australia by Europeans was by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon aboard the "Dufkyen" in March 1606 .

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

fact for 23 nov 2008

The dancer during the performance of an Indian dance form ‘ kuchipudi’ dances on a brass plate, adjusting the rhythm of the tabla (drum) with the clamour of the plate being beaten by her/his foot. The dancer also balances a small pot of water on her head as she dances.

In 1851 the colony of Victoria was created by separating from the colony of New South Wales.

9pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages.

fact for 22 nov 2008

In March 1803 Australia's first newspaper the "Sydney Gazzette and New South Wales Advertiser" was published by ex-convict George Howe.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

fact for 21 nov 2008

The word “avatar”, recently added to the Oxford dictionary, means incarnation and originates in the 10 incarnations of Lord Vishnu, the Hindu Deity.

Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira was born in 1902 and went on to become one of Australia's most notable artists with his watercolour landscapes.


The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

fact for 20 november 2008

Australian meteorologist Clement Wragge who worked with the Queensland Government Meteorology Department from 1887 - 1903 was the first to start naming cyclones.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

fact for 19 nov 2008

The largest state in Australia, Western Australia, is about the same size as Western Europe but only has a population of approx. 2 million people.

The word ‘Khakhi’ originates from an Indian word for mud. During the 19th century, British soldiers in India noticed that when their white service uniforms became stained by a type of mud there was a tan, camouflage effect. The term was takenfrom the natives word for that particular mud.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)

fact for 18 nov 2008

The first Prime Minister of Australia was Sir Edmund Barton from 1 January 1901 - 24 September 1903.



Did you know the Chinese used silk to make their paper?

fact for 17 nov 2008

One village called Mattur in Shimoga district of Karnataka, India still uses Sanskrit as the primary spoken tongue!

Walter Burley Griffin won the competition to design Australia's capital city - Canberra, in 1912.

A shark can grow and use over 20,000 teeth in a lifetime!

fact for 16 nov 2008

The stretch of water between the northern tip of Australia and New Guinea was named after Spanish sailor Luis Vaez de Torres who sailed through the strait in 1606.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Male zebras are called stallions.

fact for 15 nov 2008

The republic of India was once referred to as ‘Aryavarta’. Aryavarta means the Land of Aryas, Arya (in Sanskrit) meaning noble.

Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent.


On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

fact for 14 nov 2008

The Great Barrier Reef (australia) can be seen from space!

Car making is now the largest manufacturing industry in the world.

fact for 13 nov 2008

Bengali is the highest spoken Indian language in the world.

The Royal National Park outside of Sydney was made in 1879.

Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.

fact for 12 nov 2008

In 1988 the world's first plastic (polymer) banknote was released by the Reserve Bank of Australia.

A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew.Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

fact for 11 nov 2008

1650 is the approximate number of dialects( a dialect is a form of language spoken by a group of people) in India.

In 2006 champion swimmer Australian Ian Thorpe retired from professional swimming at the age of 24 years. During his swimming career Ian set 13 individual long-course world records, won 11 world titles, and won 5 gold, 3 silver, and 1 bronze medals at two olympic games.


The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant.

fact for 10th nov 2008

The Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth the second on 20th October 1973. It has over 1 million tiles on the roof .

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

fact for 9th 2008 nov

Did you know that the word mongoose comes from India? The name is an alteration of the Marathi name ‘Mangus’ for the mammal. The plural form is mongooses and not mongeese.

Australia is approximately 32 times the size of the UK and equally as large as the USA excluding Alaska.

The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White. It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

fact for 8th nov 2008

The western swamp turtle is Australia's smallest turtle.

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

fact for 7 nov 2008

Do you know that the word Serpent comes from Sanskrit( the original indian language)? The word Serpent comes from the Sanskrit word “Sarpam” meaning snake or more arguably any creature that hisses or stings.

The Nullarbor Plain extends for 2,000km across the southern parts of South Australia and Western Australia and includes the longest section of straight railway track in the world (478km).

The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.

fact for 6 nov 2008

Mainland Australia's most easterly point is Cape Byron (Byron Bay) in New South Wales, the most westerly point is Steep Point (Shark Bay) in Western Australia.

Did you know it was the Chinese who made the first wheelbarrow?

fact for 5 nov 2008

About 35% of Australia is desert.

The material to build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India by a fleet of 1000 elephants.

It was the Romans who made the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavour to it and then licked it. What a great idea! Yummy !

4 nov 2008 fact

The Melbourne Cup horse race was first run in 1861 and won by a horse named "Archer". The race is held on the first Tuesday in November.

Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper (or zip)but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".

fact for 3 nov 2008

Approximately 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year.

Of the six states in Australia the smallest state is Tasmania (the island state) .

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering metre a second.

fact for 2 nov 2008

Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia, held the 1956 Olympic Games.


The first metal bicycle was called the High-Wheel or Penny Farthing. People had a hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycle.

fact for nov 1 2008

The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world.

Fraser Island, located just off the south coast of Queensland is the largest sand island in the world.

The first kind of pencil was a bunch of graphite sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.