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Famous American landmark, Niagara Falls, is constantly moving backwards.
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Golden Globe and Academy Award winning actress Cate Blanchett was born and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe.
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The name of the target ball in lawn balls is known as Jack.
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The highest mountain in the world before Mt Everest was discovered was Mt Everest.
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After his retirement, Sherlock Holmes took up the hobby of keeping bees.
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Little Penguins, the smallest penguin species in the world, gather at Phillip Island in Westernport Bay. Every night up to 1,000 birds emerge from the waves and strut their stuff up the beach to their burrows.
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Purple Roses symbolises enchantment.
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The oldest operating mint in Australia is in Perth, Australia opening on 20 June 1899.
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Phobos is a moon of the planet Mars and with a mean radius of 11.1 km (6.9 mi), Phobos is 7.24 times more massive than the second moon Deimos.
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In Physics, the study of motion is known as Kinematics.
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The letter Q in Scrabble has the value of 10 points.
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The first female in the line of succession to the British throne is Princess Beatrice of York.
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Gateshead Hall was the childhood home of Jane Eyre in the 19th century novel by English author Charlotte Bronte.
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Hello Mary Lou was a 1961 hit for Ricky Nelson.
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More than 10,000 ancient rock drawings, with some being more than 10,000 years old, are to found at Burrup Peninsula, Dampier, Western Australia. It boasts the biggest concentration of Aboriginal art in the world.
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