8 - Golf swings
Measured by club memberships, golf is the most popular sport in New Zealand, followed by netball.
9 - Curious Kea
The kea, native to New Zealand, likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
10 - Quick work
The shortest interval between separate births in the world is 208 days. New Zealander Jayne Bleackley gave birth to Joseph Robert on September 3, 1999, and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000.
11 - Why bother?
Two Massey University students broke a Guinness World Record in December for the world's largest tape ball. The ball, which weighs 53kg and has a circumference of more than 2.5m, was made by winding Scotch tape continually around itself.
12 - Spelling test
The longest place name in the world still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, a hill in Porangahau in the Hawkes Bay. The Maori name translates to "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as Landeater, played his flute to his loved one."
13 - Middle age
The median age of New Zealanders is growing. In 1901 it was 23. By 1991 it was 31 and in 2001 it was 35. By 2021 it is expected to be 40.
14 - Rising prices
In 1984, $43 in New Zealand would buy approximately the same as $100 today.
15 - Blacked out
The longest blackout in the world was on February 19, 1998, when the four main power cables supplying Auckland city, broke down. The disruption, which lasted 66 days, affected 7500 business and residential customers and cost businesses an estimated $300 million.
16 - The sea, the sea
No part of New Zealand is more than 128km from the sea.
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Fact 9 - the kea is a very cheeky and fearless mountain parrot.
4 comments:
i love muuton in a dutch oven with potatoes, carrots, onion, but i prefer lamb for taste, but hate the idea of little lsambs being dead
Still sounds like a relatively 'young' country with those medians.
I love all these facts. Especially the long name; we used to have a lot of similar 'names' in Hawaii.
I love these facts, It's great finding out things from different parts of the world.
Ewe - and for some reason I cannot get the last part of the name to show on my post 'pokaiwenuakitanatahu' is missing off the end.
Putz - sounds like a good old mutton stew.
At Christmas time we would have to shift our ewes and lambs to paddocks up in the hills away from the road as people would steal the lambs for Christmas dinner!
Tismee - some more odd facts coming up!
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