-kangaroos can pause their pregnancies and restart them when there's enough food
-the emu and the kangaroo are featured on the Australian coat of arms for the symbolic reason that both animals can only walk forward
-there are sharks in the ocean...and the lakes and canals running through Bond's campus
-the sand squeaks when you walk on it because it has high amounts of silicon
-the chart-topper right now in Australia is Gotye- Somebody That I Used to Know (definitely worth a listen)
-vegemite is a great source of vitamin B and is made from brewers' yeast extract (it's gunky stuff they found in the bottom of brewing kegs)
-the constellations are different...they taught us how to find the southern cross
-Goon: boxed wine and the only affordable alcohol in all of Australia
-almost all coffee drinks here are espresso based (and delicious!) I've been getting "flat whites" mainly because I don't know what anything else is called
-Tim Tam's are their own food group
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