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...that despite its name, the Australian Mathematics Competition receives entries from 38 countries and that the students are ranked with respect to other students in their states, not all of Australia?
... that Frank Beaurepaire, a Lord Mayor of Melbourne, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and multi-millionaire tyre businessman was a six-time Olympic medallist in swimming who set 15 world records in his swimming career?
... that Michelle Ford was the first Australian woman to win individual swimming medals at the Olympics in two distinct specialized strokes?
...that John Devitt was awarded a gold medal in the 100m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome despite all three timekeepers awarding a faster time to the silver medallist?
...that disqualification protests were lodged against Clare Dennis, the winner of the 200m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics, on the grounds of her "inappropriate" costume which exposed her shoulder blades?
...that Kevin O'Halloran, a swimming gold medallist at the 1956 Summer Olympics, died after accidentally tripping and shooting himself?
...that Kevin Berry, former Pictorial Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, won the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics?
...that John Davies, the US District Court judge who presided over the trial of a group of LAPD officers in the Rodney King incident, won gold for Australia in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Olympics
...that the critical behaviour of Spherical model in Statistical mechanics, has been solved for arbitrary real positive dimensions, and is the same for dimension greater than four?
...that John Konrads, an Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer who set 26 individual world records, later became the Australasian director of L'Oreal?
...that Rodney J. Baxter, known for the Yang-Baxter equation in Statistical mechanics, was the first doctoral graduate in Theoretical physics from the Australian National University?
...that Duke Kahanamoku won the 100m freestyle at the 1912 Olympics after the eventual silver medallist Cecil Healy lobbied against Duke's semifinal disqualification for turning up late?
...that the oldest remaining structure showing the establishment of Buddhism in Australia are two bodhi trees planted by Sinhalese immigrants on Thursday Island in the 1890s?
...that Harold Hardwick, an Australian swimming gold medallist at the 1912 Olympics, was also a national Boxing champion and later an army colonel?
...that after winning Germany's only Eurovision victory in 1982 with a record margin, Nicole performed her reprise of the winning song Ein Bisschen Frieden in four different languages?
...that Ilsa Konrads, former editor of Belle, was an Australian Olympic swimmer who set 12 world records?
...that Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer Gary Chapman died in a fishing accident, after retiring from swimming to pursue this very hobby?
...that Boy Charlton (pictured) won gold in the 1500m freestyle at the 1924 Olympics despite his coach jumping overboard on the sea voyage to Europe?
...that Dana International was the first transsexual to win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with the song "Diva"?
...that Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is the son of former cricketer-turned-Punjabi actor Yograj Singh?
...that Indian Test cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was previously a national break dancing champion of India?
... that Fernando Alonso was the youngest ever polesitter and first ever Spaniard to attain a podium finish at the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix?
...that the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?
...that Clay Mathematics Institute fellow Akshay Venkatesh is the only Australian to win medals at both the International Physics and Mathematics Olympiads?
...that Parthiv Patel had never played domestic first-class cricket prior to becoming the youngest Test Wicketkeeper in history at just 17 years and 102 days?
...that Brian Kennedy's "Every Song Is A Cry For Love" was the 1000th song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest?
...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest Grand Prix champion after winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix?
...that Harbhajan Singh was rewarded with an offer to become the Deputy Superintendent of Punjab police after becoming the first Indian cricketer to take a Test hat-trick?
...that the Israeli entry for the 1987 Eurovision Shir Habatlanim, meaning The Bums' song lead to a resignation threat by the Israeli culture minister?
...that Australian cricket captain Brian Booth also represented Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics in hockey?
...that the Dhammapada describes an ascetic named Jambuka who had the practice of standing on one leg and eating his own excrement?
...that the Australian Federal Division of Macarthur is considered to be a bellwether as it has been held by the ruling political party in every election since 1949?
...that Punjabi film-star Yograj Singh was a former Test cricketer and father of current Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh?
...that Ian Craig, the youngest ever Australian test cricketer and captain, later became the managing director of Boots pharmaceutical company?
...that public displeasure with "The Voice", Ireland's fourth Eurovision victory in five years, led to the introduction of televoting?
...that Mahinda, a 3rd century monk who brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka, was the son of the Mauryan Emperor Asoka?
...that Semaphore, South Australia, the home of Australia's largest carousel is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith?
...that former Queensland House of Assembly member Tom Veivers was a Australian test cricketer?
...that Bobby Pearce won the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics despite stopping mid-race for a passing flock of ducks?
...that Mauryan Emperor Ashoka had to stop the execution of his future spiritual adviser Moggaliputta-Tissa for touching his right hand?
... that the Israeli band Ping pong were disendorsed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority as the representative in the 2000 Eurovision after waving the Flag of Syria in their song Sameyakh?
...that anti-gay protests following the selection in 2002 of the song Samo Ljubezen by drag-group Sestre led to criticism of Slovenia in the European Parliament?
...that Merv Wood, a single sculls gold medallist and the only person to twice be Australian flagbearer at the Summer Olympics, later became the Police Commisioner of New South Wales?
...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
...that Channa, a charioteer of Prince Siddhartha, became a bhikkhu upon his master's attainment of buddhahood?
...that Australian cricket team members Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from "John the bookmaker in return for pitch and weather conditions?
...that Nagarjunakonda, a historic Buddhist town in Andhra Pradesh believed to hold some relics of Gautama Buddha was submerged by the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, the tallest masonry dam in the world?
...that Australian Cricket Academy leg spin coach Terry Jenner was previously jailed for embezzlement?
...that construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 140 years after it began?
...that Kaundinya, the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha, was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha's Buddhahood?
...that Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait?
...that Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is the nephew of former player Greg Campbell

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