Interesting Facts 37

Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.

The Salvation Army in Australia made the worlds first full length feature movie in 1900.

The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.

The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

There’s a place in Japan called “O.” (…Oh…OK…)

The average Japanese household watches more than 10 hours of television a day.

The number “four” is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as “death”.

Out of the 23,000 Japanese soldiers that died on the Guadal-canal, only 10% died from bullets. The majority died from fever, malaria, and hunger.

      98% of Japanese are cremated.