1 - Cook's cure
Captain James Cook, the man who navigated New Zealand, is said to have discovered a cure for scurvy, a disease that results from Vitamin C deficiency, when he played around with medicines.
2 - More births
New Zealand births exceeded deaths by 29,890 in the September 2005 year.
3 - Older brides
New Zealanders are getting married older. The latest statistics show that the median ages of men and women marrying for the first time is 29.9 and 28.1 years. These brides and grooms married, on average, nine years older than their parents did.
4 - Big on butter
For each person who lives here, New Zealand produces 100kg of butter and 65kg of cheese each year.
5 - Clever Kiwis
A New Zealander invented the tear-back velcro strip, the pop-lid on a self-sealing paint tin, the child-proof pill bottle and the crinkle in hair-pins so that they don't fall out.
6 - Olympic gold
New Zealand has won more Olympic gold medals a head than any other country.
7 - Sheep dip
In the early 1980s, New Zealand was home to more than 70 million sheep, but now has 40 million, or about 10 sheep to one person. This decline hasn't stopped New Zealand from bringing in 50 per cent of all international trade in sheepmeat.
3 comments:
Thats' a lot of geat facts. I never knew Mr Velcro was from New Zealand.
I knew about the sheep and cooks cure but not the rest.
Do Kiwis do Halloween?
in ephraim we have sheep also, but we have 45 turkeys for every living thing in town, horse,cow man woman child dog cat,,,all norbest turkey is grown right here in good old ephraim...did i tell you what our roads look like when they run sheep down them???
Tismee:
NO we generally do not celebrate halloween here.
Having said that - it is starting to become more popular. But we never had anyone come to our door last night. I did see one group of children way up the road dressed in costume though.
There is a certain resistance to it here as it is considered an American custom and not relevant to us.
Guy Fawkes night on 5th November is a big celebration here though with bonfires and fireworks.
Putz
Wow that sure is a lot of turkeys!!
I hardly saw a sheep in America. I do know that many Americans - and Canadians - are not so keen on eating mutton.
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