Rare facts

Australia hosts some strange races and sporting events. Here's a quick rundown of a few.

1. The Cockroach World Championship - Brisbane
Every Australia Day, the Story Bridge Hotel runs a cockroach race in Brisbane.

2. The Beer Can Regatta - Darwin
Every July or August , a race involving watercraft constructed out of discarded tinnies (beer cans).

3. Cane toad racing - Magnetic Island

4. The Camel Cup - Alice Springs

5. The Henley-on-Todd Regatta - Alice Springs
September every year, a race where bottomless boats are constructed so that their sailors can
run on foot.

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When Charles Darwin was growing up he was considered by his teachers to be quite a disgrace.His school reports made mention of the fact that he cared little for study and only for shooting, riding and beetle collecting.In fact his own father also expected that he would come to nothing much in the long run, signing him up to join the clergy at Christ's College in Cambridge where he was introduced to the Reverend John Stevens Henslow, Professor of Botany.In becoming a student of Henslow's biology course, Henslow sent a letter recommending Darwin as a suitable naturalist for the unpaid position of gentleman’s companion to Robert FitzRoy, captain of the HMS Beagle, which was about to leave on an expedition.Darwin's father objected to the planned two-year voyage, regarding it as a waste of time, but was persuaded by his brother-in-law to allow him to go.The Beagle survey ended up taking five years and led to Darwin proposing the theory of Natural Selection, writing the infamous 'On the Origin of Species'.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down stairs.

American Airlines saved a grand total of $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.

Women shoplift much more often than men - the ratio is 4 women to 1 man.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F"