I was tagged a few weeks back and since then about 6 other times. The tag is actually about the eight random things about myself but I believe there is nothing else I can tell you about me. I have said it all, maybe I should have kept more the mysterious blogger. So here is my somewhat of a tag to feel I have accomplished it. I have found some facts about Australia you probably don't know.

I also have not copied the rules for the tag since I have broken them all and I don't want the tag police chasing me down and dragging me to tag court.

Here they are I hope you enjoy reading them.

*Australia day - January 26, Australia day, is the anniversary of ships arriving in Sydney carrying a load of Convicts.

*A census taken in 1828 found that half the population of NSW were Convicts, and that former Convicts made up nearly half of the free population.

* Police force - Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved Convicts.

*The Australian Lyre Bird is the world's best imitator; able to mimic the calls of 15 different species of birds in their locality and string the calls into a melody. Also been known to mimic the sound mobile phones.

*The Fierce Snake or Inland Taipan has the most toxic venom of any snake. Maximum yield recorded (for one bite) is 110mg. That would probably be enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice.

*Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the world. It is the only country which is also a whole continent.

*Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

*When a specimen of the platypus was first sent to England, it was believed the Australians had played a joke by sewing the bill of a duck onto a rat.

*Box Jelly fish - The box jellyfish is considered the world's most venomous marine creature. The box jellyfish has killed more people in Australia than stonefish, sharks and crocodiles combined.

*The Sydney Funnelweb spider is considered the world's most deadly spider. It is the only spider that has killed people in less than 2 hours. Its fangs are powerful enough to bite through gloves and fingernails. The only animals without immunity to the funnelweb's venom are humans and monkeys.

Gold Rush - During the Gold rush of the 1850's, Australia received massive waves of migration from China, America, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England

*Newspaper readership - Per capita, Australians read more newspapers than any other nation.

*Gambling - Per Capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation.

*The average world population density is 117 people per square mile, that of the United States 76 and that of Macao is 69,000. Australia's is only 6.

*15 percent of Australia's GDP is derived from mining.

*.02 percent of the Australian land mass is used by mines. More land is occupied by pubs.

*Rabbits - For each person in Australia there are two sheep and over 16 rabbits, the latter introduced in 1859 by one enterprising man who brought 24 wild rabbits from England in an effort to remind him of home.