50 Things That Are Only Possible In Australia | American Reaction 😲

[@andrewrolfe8857]

One day an American will pronounce emu correctly, but today is not that day.

[@Artyshell53]

🤣🤣🤣

[@toprock9500]

yup its pronounced "emew"

[@OmnivorousReader]

Yeah, not holding my breath on that one.

[@venderstrat]

It's okay - I'm Aussie and refuse to pronounce Oregon properly.

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

Eeeemooo 🤣🤣🤣

[@olykoala]

As an aussie, once he said "I'm guessing the snakes and stuff are living on the other side of that fence" that got be bursting into laughter 😂

[@shaylaharrison1489]

ikr it's so entertaining watching americans trying to understand australia

[@Someone-ij8dj]

that cracked me up too i had read thte comments to see is i was the only one 😂😂😂

[@dnoordink]

Yeah I think at least half of them live around or in my house.

[@annemareepeachey7196]

yep 🙂

[@GarySaltern]

You have to realize americans get very little education he also had to look up what a Dingo is. But it made me laugh as well. I'm waiting to see his reaction when I told him a platapus is a mammal that lays eggs and to check out the Lyer bird I AM CANADIAN Lol Isn' t a kangaroo just an up hill haggis that came to Ozz from Scotland?

[@Inimitable]

I was once working in the UK and a colleague was telling me his wife and he were about to visit friends in Australia. I asked what their plans were. He said, "Well, we land in Perth in the morning, so we'll hire a car, visit friends in Adelaide for morning tea. Have lunch with other friends in Melbourne and perhaps afternoon tea or dinner with friends in Brisbane. Maybe on the second day we'll visit Eyre's Rock and the Great Barrier Reef." I had to burst his bubble. I just had to.

[@elowishusmirkatroid4898]

Yeah, we had some English friends staying with us. They asked if we could go and camp at Uluruh for the weekend. We lived in Melbourne.

[@mariestreeting4213]

😆😆😆

[@belindahutchinson5333]

😂😂😅

[@shirleyjenkins11]

Hahaha

[@louisereid1744]

Bloody hell, I never knew you could plop Australia on a map of the US and we would fit! Lol…

[@MorrisonLee-wt2jp]

I think you missed the bit at 4:05 Ryan. There is one single property in Oz that can easily contain the whole country of South Korea. (South Korea can fit into the whole of Australia 75 times.) The largest property is in South Australia. Anna Creek Station has an area of 23,677 km2 (9,142 sq mi; 5,851,000 acres) which is slightly larger than Israel. It is 8,000 km2 (2,000,000 acres; 3,100 sq mi) larger than its nearest rival, Alexandria Station in the country's Northern Territory.

[@gidgitvonlarue9972]

Weird thing being Australian - we don't think it's huge. We think nothing of driving 12 hours to get from Sydney to Gold Coast etc. We are SO used to driving long distances and FLYING long distances. Just second nature to us.

[@krashdown5814]

Too true, it's much quicker now with the A1, and when the Coffs Harbour bypass is completed, a great fang.

[@hellabella8295]

America is a similar size but they just have more cities.. we have DRY, USELESS DESERTS AND DUST.. 😂

[@davecannabis]

yeah my houses mail box is 600 metres away from my front door

[@krashdown5814]

@@hellabella8295 They do have a 200 year head start on us, but NSW's GDP is bigger than France's, and they are wingeing about the proposal they retire at 65. Our time will come, we will become a Superpower, if we can keep China out, they want our resources, many as yet untapped.

[@MomoSimone22]

That is so true! I have an Indian mate who hates flying and the length of flights he avoids sounds like nothing to me. He would actually avoid travelling and holidaying because a 14 hour flight is torture for him. It takes me almost a full day flying to Europe from Sydney and I'd do it, no sweat. And even driving from Sydney to Melbourne to visit family for a holiday was something we'd do yearly. It's around a 10 hour drive, and you just do it.

[@Tasoq]

The "bitten by a platypus" bit annoyed me because it's a spur on the hind legs of males that distributes the venom. If I remember correctly, it was thought that the platypus was fake and that they'd just sewn together different animals for publicity reasons after being to a newly discovered land. I still find that hilarious 😂

[@normanwierzbicki7434]

Lol when you hear there is an egg laying mammal that has a duck bill and webbed feet and primarily lives underwater you would think it’s fake too, imagine hearing about a bird who gives birth to live young and produces milk and lives underground and you would get the same result, it would be unbelievable til you see it

[@Tasoq]

@@normanwierzbicki7434 I get it, I still just find it funny

[@BeardedChieftain]

Koalas also have a venomous spur.

[@sandyb4453]

​@@BeardedChieftain😂

[@dusty4502]

That really pissed me off too. Do the Brightside ever actually do comprehensive research? 😡

[@rossburnell7048]

"The burgers are better at Hungry Jacks" is the slogan they use and they actually do shit on Macca's bits of cardboard

[@peterrobbins2862]

That's not much of a challenge

[@DogLord1234]

I hate fast food, but HJ's are the pick of the bunch for me

[@mylesdickenson9060]

You get better burgers from your local takeaway/fish shop compared to the crap both these mobs sell.

[@DogLord1234]

@mylesdickenson9060 for most people, hungry jacks IS the local takeaway/fish shop

[@jitterstheclown]

FUCK YEAH

[@TheBarbecueGuy]

Hey. Just a fun fact from an Australian, Australia is a country,continent and island👍🔥

[@papercup2517]

They missed it altogether in the video, and I haven't noticed anyone else here mention the Australian drop bears, which surprises me. They're found all over the country and can be a quite serious hazard to unwary visitors since they have a habit of dropping out the trees onto passers-by. Some are very large, and heavy! However, this only happens mainly around twilight, so you really only have to be careful for an hour or so after sunset.

[@the_person_in_the_photo]

Creepy little things, nowhere is safe

[@papercup2517]

@Black Sheep Biker Did you hear, they've named a subspecies they've identified in the Northern Territory Ursa australis tombolus s/sp 'Freddie Mercury' on account of its very prominent front teeth? Makes it sound cute, but you wouldn't wanna get bitten by one! (They carry a lot of diseases, apparently, transmitted through their bite.) :-)

[@papercup2517]

@@the_person_in_the_photo Little? Some sub-species are a fair size, when full-grown. And, as Black Sheep Biker has pointed out, there's nothing little about their teeth! :-p

[@robertvogt1527]

I live in Australia and I can assure you that there are no such thing's as drop bears.

[@A_nony_mous]

@@robertvogt1527 You've clearly never come across a grounded adult koala. Those things are vicious!!!

[@CallistoTheWarriorQueen]

Qantas is one of the oldest and safest airlines in the world :)

[@raymondbabb1970]

Accurate.

[@Josh123-v5d]

never had an accident

[@DaveWhoa]

*THE* safest

[@martinmckowen1588]

@@Josh123-v5d actually has. The record is no jet fatalities.

[@SalisburyKarateClub]

@@martinmckowen1588 Correct, admittedly most occured in the early 1900's, the last one was 1951

[@miniveedub]

One of the very annoying things about this video (apart from the misinformation) was that every time he mentioned the unusual animals it showed a picture of African animals not Australian animals!

[@micko11154]

Yep, seen it before, classic American telling people about somewhere he's clearly never been and actually knows nothing about.

[@mooreandless]

This dude is really unlikable.

[@BD-yl5mh]

While respecting that I’m still fallible, and would still be making videos from a place of relative ignorance, I’m still sure I could research and make a video about Namibia or Mongolia or Kiribati without using images of wildlife from the wrong continent. Maybe I’d mispronounce the name of the capital, or not fully understand a particular cultural practice, but some of the errors in this video are egregious

[@micko11154]

@John Peric Where else would you find Australian native species in the wild??? Hard one that??

[@micko11154]

@@BD-yl5mh Exactly! It's just plain sloppy, 'I don't give a damn' stuff!

[@ravenouself4181]

To clarify, Australia is the largest exporter of Camel Meat, Australian Camels are meatier than Middle Eastern Camels. Edit: The older known direct ancestor to horses, was indeed, Duck-Sized.

[@AJHyland63]

Australia also exports its camels to Saudi Arabia for camel racing as the purest bred camels similar to thoroughbred horses.

[@nathanp9449]

I used to work as a concierge in a 5star hotel, I had Americans ask about day trips, from Melbourne, to the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and Tasmania. Had to try explain that it would be like a day trip from Miami to Boston or to Kansas...they couldn't believe how far it was...

[@beverleyferguson8942]

A relative from England asked if he could take him to see where people lived underground and dug for opals if we weren’t busy one day! We are in Melbourne!!!!

[@DuctTapeJake]

@@beverleyferguson8942 Look... you could probably GET to Coober Pedy in under 24 hours...

[@andreagriffiths3512]

A relative in England asked my folks if they could pick them up from the airport if they nabbed the bargain flight to Perth. Our reply was ummmm no. We’re in Melbourne 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mremtb7689]

I met some Americans overseas and they told me planned to come to Australia the following year for 2 weeks. I asked which part they were going to visit and they replied, all of it!

[@Marco_Sparko]

To be fair, Tasmania is only 1hr flight from Melbourne

[@suelynch]

Australia's population is 26 million as of the beginning of 2022. That video was created a number of years ago. Americans are very shocked when you find out how large Australia is. Qantas is safest airline in the world and it is also one of the oldest. Most of Australia is a desert and it doesn't treat fools lightly. Aussies are taught at a young age "DON"T screw with the wildlife."

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

30% of Australia is only desert. But if you put that in context of land mass. It still swallow Europe. Not all Australian population live around the coast. Many people still live inland but not in the central centre as its a dry red desert there. The state of Victoria and NSW and Queensland has large towns all over the state not just on its coast. As they made out Australia is in this video. And I have seen a kangaroo jump backwards many times. So I don't know where they got that one from

[@tracysage2565]

Sue. Qantas was one of the most dangerous airlines for years , I don’t know where you got that from . Look up their history

[@rmsteutonic3686]

we are also taught at a young age how to swim

[@Callawaygolfer]

@@Nathan-ry3yu it’s not Ethan 30%

[@tocamia2804]

@@rmsteutonic3686 i was taught to swim at 7 but my sister only swam when she was 11

[@Arcane808]

I actually have been in a situation you described with a Kangaroo. I live on a farm in the bush, and have many Roo's hanging out on my property, and 2 of them are super friendly and have been around since they were joeys. One night I woke up to hearing noises in my hallway just outside my room, I went out to see what was going on and one of them I named Rudy was hoping up towards my bedroom. I had to usher him back outside, but yeah there is no going backwards for them, they just try to turn around , or hop and spin at the same time. I had to pick this guy up and turn him around... he was super friendly though, I wouldnt recommend it otherwise

[@janicevango5791]

Made me laugh when he remarked about boxing with kangaroos. Yeah, good luck with that!

[@smplfi9859]

I saw videos where you just put a bag over their heads and they fall in.

[@Arcane808]

@@smplfi9859 Haha yeah I know which video youre talking about, I think thats only for joeys, makes them feel like theyre in a pouch

[@thesummerthatwas76]

Whoa. I'm English but spent a month touring Oz by motorbike in 2015. I saw a few grey kangaroos and they're mean looking. I would have locked myself in my bedroom and called the RSPCA or the Army

[@Arcane808]

@@thesummerthatwas76 hahaha

[@etp27]

15:18 "I'm guessing they live on the other side of that fence" was my favourite line.

[@turquoisebubbles2042]

As an Aussie I say we do enjoy people learning about our lovely country 🦘

[@nadinec4895]

Agreed

[@piggypizzaman2253]

That is so true

[@lott.ie269]

But I hate when people pronounce Australian brands wrong

[@reesedundee8525]

yeah when they arent bloody wombats about it though.

[@sarahstoney6299]

I'm an Ausie Aswell and i agree

[@themultifandomperson]

fun fact in australia if an aussie comes across a snake, spider or anything dangerous we will ignore it but when we come across an magpie or mozzie we will run for our lives

[@Lexinagle]

OMG 10000000000000000% YYYYEEEESSS

[@CharlieTheGoat2.0]

Nah, magpies are chill.

[@hdqtwz]

snakes meh, crocs cute, spiders oh those again, mozzies gahh damn thing.... roaches ..... the bloody things fly here

[@IDKWORM]

100% true during mating season or spring

[@Chris.Antoine]

The real enemy

[@archcollie5708]

It never ceases to amaze me how Americans know so little about the rest of the world. I can't imagine what's taught in U.S. schools. Highway number one circumnavigates Australia, NOT how its referenced in the vid, as wheel spokes. Kangaroos cant walk backwards, but they can lie down and wriggle, so your kangaroo idea is flawed. Aus has about the same population as Texas, but is the size of the U.S. (less Alaska) Do you know there were boats before ancient Egypt times? Camels can swim, but to swim across the Indian ocean might be a stretch. And yes, Oz is very livable. We might have snakes, spiders and crocs, but no assault rifles. 😒

[@commonsense-grs]

Agree, but go on some KZbin sites where they go onto the streets and ask Americans questions about there own country, they have no clue at all.

[@Harry-tk2nt]

Did you really have to right a whole paragraph mate

[@dalelc43]

Camel's were imported to Australia for travel across the desert, they didn't magically disappear after the car took over. They run wild and make babies, we have no use for them so we export them back to where they came from.

[@markallen1782]

America is big enough to be able to ignore the rest of the world and not care. It's only when you visit America that you find out how insulated they are from the rest of the world...

[@PiersDJackson]

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

[@sampollock6456]

6:49 platypus don’t bite.. the have barbs near their feet that sting you. They don’t have teeth, the cannot bite

[@tracesprite6078]

The venom on the barb on the back foot of the male platypus is extremely venemous, so never pick up or stroke a platypus. The pain lasts for weeks or even months and won't respond to morphine or other painkillers.

[@AndrewShaw19]

“Are we not counting that one part that’s separated? It’s own little island.” As a Tasmanian, I lost it at that bit 😂 Don’t worry, many people don’t count Tasmania. We get forgotten and left off of Australian maps all the time 😂

[@nevillewran4083]

Which is good, otherwise you'd soon be built out. Land and houses are cheaper in Tas. Good roads, beautiful scenery, good beer, good whisky........

[@ducquessa4618]

Don't worry Andrew ,it's a very beautiful "island"state,very picturesque ,diverse,there's snow ,little wineries, magnificent rivers & bush,even surprised me with underground caves down in Hastings, mainland Oz wouldn't be the same without "little ol"Tassie . I'm originally from Vic ,now up North in Qld. 🤗 Tasmania counts!

[@Tinkerbellstune]

😢😢😢😢

[@DarkKeybladeMaster23]

who gave you internet permission tasmania get back to your island XD the mainlanders are speaking XD

[@salami.vlogzzz]

The best part is that tassie is what makes australia look like australia

[@Floof2]

The reason that Australia is a really safe country (even with the snakes and spiders) is that we have free healthcare and it is coded into us what to do when you see a snake or spider.

[@Mr_Bio_Hazard]

Yep. Don't fuck with them. Common sense. Something a lot of yanks don't have.🤣🤣🤣

[@maia_key]

and commonsense, sensible, rational and effective gun laws that strike a measured and considered balance

[@Floof2]

@@maia_key yes those also rlly help keep australia safe. Here I was just mentioning about the wildlife side of things.

[@jasperferrie4687]

Ya but foreigners don't get free health Care n am homeless n my aunt that's lived there 20 years still don't got her aussie status cuase there hella shady on that

[@jibsoz]

Healthcare is free to certain travellers that have an reciprocal health agreement. Like UK the Netherlands

[@spohg2887]

Saying u can get a kangaroo to walk backwards in that kind of room is like saying u can get a human to start flying in a room where the floor fell in

[@stuarthynes6136]

Seppos...🙄

[@chocookie0123]

@@stuarthynes6136 um do u mean 'suppose'? idk

[@freddy9120]

😂 nope he ment seppos

[@stuarthynes6136]

@@freddy9120 🤣 now explain the meaning🤣🤣

[@chocookie0123]

@@stuarthynes6136 apparently its an American person? I searched it up on Google 🤔

[@markh4705]

It was mentioned that there are 200 different languages spoken in Oz, with inference to foreigners. In reality there are over 200 different indigenous languages alone, so you really have over 400 languages spoken in Australia.

[@bloodyslatts1452]

This is so well researched... The platypus doesn't have a toxic bite. The male platypus has a poison spur on it's back legs. Egg laying mammals are refered to as monotremes. There are, in fact, three species of monotremes. The Platypus (ornithorhynchus anatinus) The Spiny Ant Eater (Echidna) The Easter Bunny. Two of these are native only to Australia.

[@yvonnecaldwell6088]

😂😂😂😂👍🇭🇲

[@judithstrachan9399]

Bunnies aren’t mammals. So, back to 2.

[@bloodyslatts1452]

@@judithstrachan9399 sorry Judy but I'm going to have to put my pedant foot down here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit Times change. 3

[@judithstrachan9399]

I stand corrected. Bunnies ARE mammals, as are rats & Guinea pigs, which I should have known. But only the Easter Bunny is a monotreme, right?

[@judithstrachan9399]

I’m just used to big mammals, I suppose.

[@dlong50]

I read an article years ago that said technically we are 12km LARGER than the states. You have to count Tasmania people.

[@alisonmurray1110]

Must we?

[@rosiepercy3486]

​@@alisonmurray1110😂😂😂 Us Tasmanians are a part of Australia. So I guess you must. 😅

[@debipaulin4623]

Lol Tasmania, you called it an 'island thing on the bottom'......it is a state of Australia y'all!!! So funny. The often forgotten state of Australia?? Hello to all in Tassie, where I lived for several years, hoping you are all well!!!......💌

[@sherbetron]

Don't worry guys, we're used to being forgotten :') I love inspecting maps in fiction to see if they remembered it, always exciting when it's actually there

[@grdengnome4196]

To be fair to the yanks if we get to count tassy they get to count hawaii or alaska and we have nothing on that lol

[@loumichelle9575]

I know this is an old video, but it's worth a mention. In 2023, QANTAS was rated the safest airline on the world and has won that title 8 times in the last 10 years.

[@user-Mishelle]

Fact

[@willyw9379]

Yeah, and the other two years weren't awarded due to COVID 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shankedit65]

Quantas has never crashed fact

[@Hogwarts_RuLez]

Ikr like thats just being responsible using recycled cooking oil obvi

[@gomezgomezian3236]

@@shankedit65 Well, actually. Qantas has not had a FATALITY since the Jet era (i.e. since 1951?). About 88 deaths prior to that. But not crashed? They have (ran off the end of the runway), but they rebuilt the aircraft (Insurance Company wanted to write it off) so that they could fly it out and say that "they have never lost an aircraft". (Obviously since Jet operations commenced). All that said, they ARE the safest airline in the world. But, SHOULD they ever lose an aircraft, they would drop to waaay down the safety list (based on losses vs flights flown). So lets hope they never do.

[@StephP2025]

I've been living in Australia for over 40 years....I've never seen a snake or a dangerous spider.

[@Kymberlee_W]

Australia also invented WiFi :) The CSIRO invents a whole lot of stuff that's really cool. The CSIRO is a government organisation that does research and development. Camels in Australia were brought over and then allowed to become wild, I think they escaped then formed a group after their escape. Yeah, I moved to Aus from the USA in 2005 and have no intention of moving back. I love it here.

[@aidanmargarson8910]

well history .. you know ..

[@aahhsplat]

Welcome

[@LaraKim]

Yeah, a friend of mine was part of the group of CSIRO scientists who just invented drought resistant wheat by putting the genes from a native drought tolerant plant

[@chelseanicholson348]

yeah we invented wifi yet we have the worst

[@RodSwift]

We also invented Gardasil ;)

[@janined5784]

I used to work at the Sheraton Hotel in Perth, for a while. We used to get SO fed up with American tourists telling us how BIG Texas is, everything's BIG in Texas and so on and on and on. One day I'd had enough and told this guy that Texas fits into the Australian State of Western Australia 3.5 times. 11 times into the whole of Australia. Its true! THAT shut him up!

[@stevegraham3817]

Our biggest Cattle Station is bigger than Texas, yes Texas, that is just one Cattle Ranch.. lol

[@cryptoskid117]

@@stevegraham3817 no it’s not. Anna Creek is 23,677km squared whilst Texas is 678,052km squared

[@stevegraham3817]

@@cryptoskid117 I stand corrected, I didn't realise that the stations had been sold off. And to correct my original statement, it wasn't one station, it was several that basically adjoined each other controlled by one conglomerate, and was taught to us at school as being one property instead of one holding, the total holdings was just under the size of Texas. The total holdings at one stage by just one part of the conglomerate was around 3% of Oz at around 230,000sqkm. Currently the largest holder of land in Oz is Gina Reinhart with 92,000sqkm, but not in one property. So yeah, apologies, times have change, and now I'm up to date.

[@rossptaylor4110]

And yet the GDP of Texas is higher than all of Australia combined. Texans aren't flaunting it. Americans love Australians. That's a fact. No need to get sour about what they don't know that they don't know. Sounds like they were just trying to make friendly conversation.

[@chadthechad4365]

@@rossptaylor4110 doesn’t Texas GDP come from military contracts and not natural resources?

[@reiix_0]

As an Aussie, it's honestly hilarious watching you react to this XD

[@sansokay]

I agree

[@Shiftyy32]

True

[@Mayfrancisxavier]

Love watching your reactions!!

[@anile1420]

Hilarious and offensive

[@macc4]

He sounds autistic when questioning everything... mate if you just listen instead of coming up with stupid shit you might learn something

[@benny3766]

“A Duck sized horse” that killed me man lol Also you’re easy on the eyes mate 😅

[@ravenouself4181]

Ironically, the oldest known direct ancestor to Horses was indeed, Duck-Sized.

[@michaelfink64]

Great reaction video, Ryan. The source video has some dodgy info. Some corrections/explanations: - Yes, Melbourne has the largest population of people of Greek heritage outside Greece in the world (in fact, I think it is the third largest Greek city including those that are actually in Greece, after Athens and Thessaloniki). Most came out after WWII. We had a large immigration of people displaced from the war, including Greeks, Italians, Yugoslavians. There have been several waves of migrants, often related to wars, including Vietnamese in the 1970s and Sudanese more recently. There have always been migrants just seeking a better life from the UK, New Zealand, China and India. 26% of Australians were born overseas and 50% have at least one parent who was born overseas. - Highway 1 is not a load of highways crisscrossing the interior, as shown in the video, but a road that circumnavigates the nations (i.e. a circuit running along the coast, more or less) - The dingo fence is to keep dingoes (native dogs) out of the farms of southeastern Australia. Dingoes have a predilection for killing sheep - Yes, only 25 million people live in Australia, which is a bit smaller than the contiguous 48 states. The population density is 3 people per km^2 (9 per mi^2), the third least densely populated nation in the world (after Mongolia and Namibia). - If you put a kangaroo in a narrow hallway with an advancing end wall, it would kick down the wall. - Yes, we do have lots of land words ending in ie or y, such as bicky (biscuit), chippy (carpenter), bricky (bricklayer), sparky (electrician), footy (football - Rugby/rugby league in QLD, NWS and ACT and Aussie rules elsewhere), barbie (barbecue), bookie (bookmaker), as well as o, such as smoko (work break), compo (workers' compensation), ambo (ambulance officer). - Yes, Australia is a big wool exporter. They used to say that Australia rode on the sheep's back, suggesting that a large amount of export income came from wool. However, more recently export income comes more from iron ore and coal exports as well as eduction (foreign school and university students - dropped a lot in the last couple of years due to COVID restrictions). - Yes, marsupials, such as kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and wombats give birth to tiny babies that then mature by suckling in the pouch. - Camels were used to transport goods across the interior in the 1800s. They fared a lot better than horses in the arid conditions. They were led by Afghans. But they couldn't compete once the railways came and were let loose and bred like crazy. They are the largest herds of wild camels in the world. It is true that they are highly valued in the middle east and are exported there. By the way, Australia also bizarrely exports sand to Saudi Arabia, but of the special properties which make it ideal for sandblasting and construction. Talk about selling coal to Newcastle. - The sails of the Opera House are each a segment of the same diameter sphere. Think about cutting up an orange peel. There will be points. The rationale is that it is more efficient to use moulds with the same shape than having curving shapes that are all different. I don't think that is the same as saying that if you put them all together you would get a sphere, though. - In addition to having the oldest fossils in the world, Australia has some "living fossils" - stromatolites. These are structures made from bacteria that look like stones. They live in shallow pools on the Western Australian coast. There are fossil stromatolites that are 3.7 million years old. - I think it is ridiculous to say that only 25% of Australia's species have been discovered. How do "they" know that there are three times as many undiscovered as discovered species if they haven't been discovered yet? - There is some truth to saying that poisonous spiders wear signs. One of them is the redback spider which has a red steak on its back. - Although everyone knows that there are many venomous animals, the animals that kill most people are horses, cows and dogs (www.ncis.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NCIS-fact-sheet-Animal-related-deaths.pdf). There were no confirmed deaths from spiders. - The "one part that is separated" is Tasmania, the smallest state, which is a beautiful place with lots of national parks. - Qantas has trialled using a mixture of conventional jet fuel and biofuels in an effort to improve its sustainability record. That has not impacted on its impeccable safety record (www.airlineratings.com/ratings/qantas/). Qantas is famous for its safety record, which even made it to the silver screen in Rain Man, when Dustin Hoffman's character refused to fly on any other airline because he knew that they had never crashed.

[@coralblake9868]

Awesome description of a Kangaroo’s attitude. Yes it would stand on its tail and kick down that wall. Then it would move forward. Hint don’t f*** with a kangaroo.

[@atanner50]

Yes there have been human deaths from both Red Backs and Australia's most deadly spider the Sydney Funnel Web. Last death was from a Funnel Web in 1979. Red Back anti-vemon developed in 1956 and the Funnel Web anti-venom in 1980

[@BeanbagGeo]

Well said Mick. Five stars mate.

[@liarliar7491]

anyone for Hungries after reading all that? lol

[@winterswallows]

Brilliant description.

[@eddiewang5241]

Finally an American pronounced Melbourne correct, I can die peacefully now

[@thedevereauxbunch]

Yeah but he tore emu a new one

[@jitterstheclown]

YEAH

[@your_daily_dose_of_aussie]

@eddiewang5241 realllll

[@TGTB1234]

I just love how he is really surprised about everything on this list and it is just a normal day in Australia!

[@bevhowell7665]

Tail on a Kangaroo. Means it can’t impossible to move backwards. It would not be pushed back

[@chelsoz5563]

You overthink things way too much.. but also, yes we may have venomous snakes etc, but Australia is “liveable” because overall it has good living conditions, for example access to healthcare, education, infrastructure, general stability… and the lack of mass shootings

[@brocksinclair66]

true but in W.A there is a shitload of snakes. had 3 in my house last year all different breeds to

[@AnneMB955]

Well done Ryan educating yourself. Been to the US 6 times and found many citizens there did not seem to know much about the world outside their country. I blame that on the media that seems very country-centric.

[@simonegeorge5682]

Sadly the American teaching system not to mention the societal habit of celebrating only American historic events and /or holidays is a bit insular so the kids grow up not knowing the rest of the world is out there and quite different in some ways.

[@tigerpjm]

I remember a woman in San Francisco asking me if I was prepared for such a long drive to Portland coming from a tiny country like Australia. I told her we'd back a few extra strudels...

[@sweetwilly]

You’re not dumb, you’re learning. 🇦🇺

[@richardrejmer8721]

2:43. . YEAH! Australia built THE FENCE . . To keep out dingoes. . AND we made the Dingoes PAY for it!!

[@HillSummitHomestead]

You're doing good mate, not many Americans come close to properly pronouncing Aussie slang or even regular English words with an Aussie accent. Don't let the sh#t stirrers convince you otherwise, you're doing great.

[@andrewkruger2384]

average at best its like someone putting out a bushfire with a screwdriver

[@witness2theinsanity757]

As an American living in Australia for the last 22 years, this was so cool to see neurons firing in real time. 😂 Duck-sized horse 😮😂

[@JuJu-DnC22]

😂 it was the duck sized horse that got me too 😅

[@jacquelinetierney7751]

I'd love a duck sized 🐎 😆

[@aidanmargarson8910]

well firstly .. good for you .. secondly .. do you miss "North Americans"?

[@L8rCloud]

Barbie (BBQ) Toastie (Toasted Sandwhich) Surfie (a person who mainly hangs out at the beach) Westie (a person living in the western suburbs)

[@ravenouself4181]

The USA got demoted

[@gilcampagner8249]

Aussie !!!!!!

[@andrewdmello8817]

Sparkie for an electrician.

[@TheREALTiPPiDa]

🚬 ciggy.

[@spelchec6727]

@@TheREALTiPPiDa mate mate... you got a lighter mate

[@jslasher1]

Burger King could not be used as someone else had already trademarked the name. Hungry Jacks was the alternative name, as it was also owned by the same company.

[@_s_e_v_e_n_p_m_8886]

fun fact: there is a shorter but more famous long pest exclusion fence in australia called the rabbit-proof fence and they made a movie about it

[@biancajayde3187]

You are the first comment i have seen that mentions the Rabbit Proof Fence and even referenced the movie. Well done! 🙂

[@normanwierzbicki7434]

But slightly wrong it’s actually the same fence

[@petercooper903]

that movie was so sad

[@buchinsku]

@@petercooper903 And not really about the fence at all.

[@numpty94]

That's what I thought the video was talking about, still remember the movie as a kid

[@terryjackson8773]

They're NOT called Ee-moos ... it's eem-yoos. Geez. Also, that 'little state' (Tasmania) is actually about the size of Ireland, Switzerland or the state of West Virginia in the USA. And Qantas is one of the safest airlines in the world.

[@nakajima7447]

It really fucking annoys me when foreigners say "e moo" like stfu its pronounced "em you"

[@CalrissianGaming]

I cringed when he claimed the pink water was fake news

[@coradesune7537]

It's a US thing. They never pronounce the Y part of the letter U .

[@matteovigano2839]

@@coradesune7537 lets be honest, no one on mainland australia cares about tasmania.

[@user-fe7rp3gr7x]

@@coradesune7537 okay but the correct way to pronounce it is emyoo as it’s a native Australian animal therefore the Australian way is right and the American way is just wrong it’s not different because of accents it’s just wrong

[@tempdump8616]

"Readers familiar with aviation safety and its history will perhaps be unsurprised to see Australian flag carrier Qantas come out on top. The airline, whose name is an acronym for its former moniker of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services, is well known the world over for having an impressive safety record"

[@r.fairlie7186]

I remember when Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” delivered that statistic about which airline had the best safety record. There was an immediate increase in Qantas ticket sales! 😆

[@judithstrachan9399]

I thought of that when he mentioned Qantas. And of Rain Man. They had a little scare a few years (decades?) ago, but still perfect.

[@juniemccourt928]

Yeah but their service is crap. Things might improve now that they no longer have that obnoxious leprechaun Alan Joyce running the company.

[@claudiag8097]

QANTAS' rep for safety and service had dropped to all time lows during the leadership of their last dodgy CEO (recently gone). We were so proud of that excellence, but sadly that is a thing of the past.

[@nevillewran4083]

@@claudiag8097QANTAS certainly decayed over the years. From being an airline with the 2nd youngest fleet, a great safety record and well-trained cabin staff to.... what it is now. I wish we were back near the top in reputation, but I offer a couple of excuses- small airlines covering vast distances struggle to raise capital in the way larger ones covering (relatively) smaller distances can. Hence older planes, scrimping on maintenance. And the most patient, calm, well-trained crew in the world would struggle to deal with the ever-more-entitled passengers of today. We're becoming a nation of Karens.

[@sophiambeath9907]

The way he said self-IE was personal 😅😂

[@cbisme6414]

•If you thought Australia was about a quarter the size of the US, that's even smaller than our state of Western Australia which is 1/3 the landmass of Australia and 3.9 times bigger than Texas. •Yes we do have deadly spiders, snakes etc but most live in the bush and tend to be scared of humans. •If you cut up an orange into different segments and bend the two points of a segment in, it would be like the point on our Opera House sails. •Emu is pronounced Eem-you •That little island down under Downunder is Tasmania and a state of Australia, it would not be included in the vertical measurement because the ocean separates it from the mainland, so technically not one whole land measure. •Qantas uses recycled cooking oil to fly it's planes internally, not overseas at this stage. It's also the oldest airline in the world and holds the World Aviation Industry safest airline record. •Kangaroos can have one baby in the pouch and one in the womb at the same time, and during drought, can suspend the growth of the one in the womb safely, and Kangaroos CAN NOT walk backwards however, they're pretty quick at literally hopping up, balancing on their tail, while they turn their body 180° and hop off in the direction they came from! You can't fool a roo! •Giant animals in Australia watch: Muttaburrasaurus: life in Gondwana on Norman Yeend's YT channel. •How WW1 ended? watch: John Monash the Australian Corps and WW1 on The History Guy's YT channel.

[@robertvogt1527]

It's actually pronounced "Eeem-you".

[@Laurielism]

Well said. I live History Guy too. Off to watch the Monash clip you mentioned now. 😀

[@TheAmizerart]

You're amazing. Great references, well said and thanks for a few very cool new videos to continue from what I have learned today. (I'm from Perth, WA)

[@Whiteredman420]

Okay just saying he left out so many awesome facts, like Australia invented wifi, the pace maker, goon bags, eskys, fridges, penicillin also made google maps and the flight recorder known as the black box, ultrasound scanner, the electric drill and many many more items this is all i could think of the top of my head lol

[@judithstrachan9399]

Cement trucks. The ones with the tumbler on the back.

[@mach1neg]

this is an old comment but i had to reply, putting goon bags right after the pacemaker and before penicillin is absolutely wild

[@PhilipShand]

Whiteredman..... Don't forget the Cochlear Implant

[@liammiles5218]

Google maps, disposable syringes, black boxes, ultrasound scanners, plastic money.

[@MariaTurner-gx5bv]

@@liammiles5218 that is why we are not just the lucky country but a clever country. We always punch above our weight in every aspect. So proud to be an aussie.

[@petercampbell87]

Heads up Dude. The Platypus doesn't bite. It has a spur on it's rear legs that it lashes out with.

[@the10th90]

Right?!

[@the10th90]

@@aimeeabbott7079 The spur does have venom.

[@ravenouself4181]

@@the10th90 to add to this, isn't it only the males that have the spurs?

[@the10th90]

@@ravenouself4181 Yes, that's right.

[@Annie_christ_aphmau_lover]

0.06 your not allowed to box a kangaroo and i would suggest stay away from the back of them they have a very powerful kick

[@tamaravanhees1749]

I loved how they mentioned the pink lakes of Western Australia. We have pink lakes in other states especially South Australia. Lake Hellier and Lake Alexandrina a couple. The camels were introduced to Australia in the 1800s because it was near on impossible to transport anything across the centre of Australia due to the heat which was perfect for camels. To this day we have a train that goes from Adelaide to Darwin that is called the Ghan which is named after the people from Afghanistan who came over with the camels and worked on the camel trains.

[@gordonwilliams2766]

Hey! You want to go on a train trip!? An Orient Express train trip! ? There is a train called the Ghan! It's a luxury train. Takes 3 day to go from the south of Australia to the north. They stop and take you to the good places to go on the way. I'm not a tour operator. My extended family come from the "muleteers". From Chile, helping early South Australian mining and settling!

[@smplfi9859]

With regards to the camels they thought the camels would do better in the desert. They tried the same thing here in Arizona, also mainly a desert. The camels didn't take but boy do we have lots of horses that were introduced by Columbus. Come to my surpise to find out that donkeys are actually African and not native to the Americas either but they are all around Mexico and the southern deserts of the USA. Arizona even has a town with a donkey for the mayor! (Oatman, AZ)

[@peachiedb]

One of the lakes under the west gate bridge turns pink occasionally

[@jeannettehope670]

And in northwest Victoria there is a pink lake called Pink Lake.

[@julesnorton2138]

i live in Adelaide....never knew that about The Ghan, so thankyou. #alwayslearning

[@noone6559]

QANTAS is literally one of the safest airline carriers in the world. They only use the eco-fuel for interstate flights, not international ones. Kudos to them for thinking about the environment. And obviously, if they are still one of the safest airlines in the world, it's working.

[@pinayladyoz8044]

QANTAS safest airlines in the world for HUMAN, BUT not for your LUGGAGE.

[@rosedennehy8014]

@@pinayladyoz8044 still better with luggage than america's delta

[@jimlofts5433]

@@pinayladyoz8044 yes and they blame drop bears for eating the luggage

[@sgtsuper1]

2:48 American discovers Geography

[@RandR55]

The interior of Australia is so dry that horses couldn't make the trek, so camels were brought to South Australia in the 1830's to explore the interior; they were later used in the 1890's to transport food and supplies and help construct infrastructure in the W.A. goldfields during the gold rush. They were set free as other transport options became available and bred in the wild. There are now herds of feral camels running around the centre.

[@ZeBoy85]

I’ll give you another one, the real name of Melbourne is Naram and the reason it’s not called Batmania is because John Batman was a Aboriginal murderer and his brother was a genocidal manic who butchered Aboriginals into extinction in Tasmania.

[@joelhennessey3397]

Well said mate. Good on you

[@carokat1111]

mostly true. ‘Almost’ butchered is more accurate.

[@daelrance6866]

Not quite true, The Natives were moved to an Island off the coast of Tasmania there was 3 major tribes in that population who all had blood feuds. The Aboriginal's actually committed most of the slaughter them selves. The English assumed that they were all one Tribe and not separate tribes. It is true that they very quickly found this out and did nothing to separate them though.

[@Jaydaydesign]

There are also about 250,000 people of Maltese ancestry living in australia ( a large influx came from Egypt and settled after the Suez crisis they were settled mainly in Melbourne ) with Malta itself only having a population of around 550,000

[@karenstrong8887]

QANTAS is the safest and one of the oldest Airlines anywhere. They have never lost a plane which is why John Travolta bought one of their big planes and became a top QANTAS pilot. He came back regularly to take his updated exams and keep his flight hours up, we often didn’t know he was our Captain on those flights but every now and then he would appear after landing for fun. His late wife Kelly Preston went to school in Adelaide and grew up here. She may have been born in Hawaii but she was an Aussie. We are getting close to 26 million people and we like space to move around in. Italians should be on that list of most people too. Maybe if an American hadn’t have made that video? We just love it when someone from another Country tells us about ourselves. Sarcasm is our second language. We have over 100,000 camels that roam free in our desert. They are now in plague proportions and coming into outback towns. People have to stay inside until they leave, about 2 days. They break off the top of taps and drink the towns water supply. Camels were used to settle the outback and were bought from overseas. When they were finished with them they were set free. Now we sell many back to the original Countries they came from because we have the only disease free camels in the world. They will still have to cull them. We don’t like it when people ignore the State of Tasmania. Or leave it off a map, it is very beautiful. It is also the place the only mass shooting was and why no one can have a gun now. Unless you are a farmer or a Police Officer. In my State the Police didn’t have guns for many years, not until someone killed some Police Officers. They can still only shoot to kill, not wound. Then they are guilty until proven innocent of murder. So they had better have lots of proof there was no other way out. My sister did not use her gun once in her Police career. I have watched a Kangaroo give birth and they are smaller than gummy bears. A female can have two others in her pouch of different ages while having a third. The eldest is usually ready to leave and she has to sometimes show it the way out. Those little pink babies have to make their way through the fur from ground level, all the way to the top of the pouch by itself. Then inside and find the one spare milk nipple where it is attached until it is big enough with fur to put it’s head outside. They don’t all make it up to the top and it looks like hard work when you are so tiny. The Mama Kangaroo does remain still until it gets there.

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

Qantas has lost a number of aircraft. Qantas had planes shot down during WW2. Qantas only claims to have never had a fatal jetliner crash.

[@heatherrowles9930]

Mama roo also licks a pathway up her fur to show the baby the way. Roo joeys are born only partly gestated and actually do the majority of their developing in the pouch, not the uterus.....hence the size.

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

@@micko11154 It's like you didn't even read my reply. It would have saved you some time being wrong.

[@SalisburyKarateClub]

Qantas have lost several planes, last on was 1951, still a good record though.

[@martywest6388]

No one is 'guilty until proven innocent'.

[@Thisweirdguy-w1y]

2:40 movie recommendation: rabbit proof fence, rabbit proof fence is about three girls who are half aboriginal and half British who are taken to a re-education camp because they are half British and half aboriginal but they escape the camp and try to get home “true story”

[@petethundabox5067]

1 thing wrong with the original video, is that the venom of a platypus isn't in its bite. Its from a spur on its leg (Fun fact: they don't have nipples, and the milk is secreted through the skin. I think that may also be true of the echidna too) FYI Deadly venomous snakes are found everywhere in Australia. I live in inner city Melbourne and had a Tiger Snake come to within 3 foot of my bare feet only 2 months ago. The dingo fence was built to protect livestock. There was also the "Rabbit proof fence" after the introduction of rabbits proved to be an environmental disaster and reaching plague numbers (one of our many environmental f*ups)

[@dylangleeson2814]

also we could never beat china with the rabbit proof fence

[@michaelreynolds1308]

Yet I live in Brisbane and have only seen a tree snake and a carpet python goes to show ‘yes we have them’ but your not likely to see them a lot, not like Americans think we have to shake them out of our shoes every morning

[@anserbauer309]

@@michaelreynolds1308 That's remarkable! I visited my brother in Brisbane for a week and saw 5 different snakes in his back yard in that short time!

[@rosehill9537]

@@anserbauer309 depends where in brisbane and whats close by and weather conditions.

[@sherlee123]

Plus fencing aside highways to try to prevent roadkill

[@krisbest6405]

I grew up in Sydney with many Greek and Italian kids ,all clever and sweet, very controlled by hardworking parents.

[@soils1111]

But Melbourne is the 2nd largest greek city in the world.

[@helixator3975]

@@soils1111 I think Thessaloniki now has that honour, with Melbourne in third place. And with over a third of Aussies claiming Irish decent, and Melbourne a greater percentage than any other Australian city, we could well give Dublin, Liverpool and Boston a run for their money there too.

[@VanessaChats]

As others have said, I'll also join the chorus - as an Australian - QANTAS is the premium airline as well as most prolific for flights all over Australia even to remote parts of the nation (aka 'rural Australia').

[@bencodykirk]

Plus, QANTAS has never had a fatal jet airliner crash. And, the "used cooking oil" fuel the video was talking about is Sustainable Aviation Biofuel and is progressively taking over from traditional petroleum based aviation fuel all over the world.

[@christineanthony3516]

It also has one of the best safety records in the world 🌎

[@AussieGurl4u]

It is also mentioned in the movie ‘The Rain Man’ with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, for being the safest airline.

[@needtokeepwalking]

Yeh what do you think of Allan Joyce?

[@gabrieldenoury5863]

Well that aged well 😂

[@_Teddybois_]

10:50 Fun fact, red kangaroos can pause their pregnancy's and have 3 on the go, one close by mum on the ground, one in the pouch, and the other is just there. It's very interesting

[@janetdTas]

The little island is called Tasmania (Tas or Tassie for short). A lot of people think you can get around it a day, but to truly see the whole state you need months here. Honestly I have lived in Tassie for 37 of my 39 years, and still haven't seen most of it.

[@janetdTas]

@-Light Shadow I live in Tasmania and have done for the better part of 35 years. There are still places I haven't been here

[@aussierednecksinger28]

Tassie, kind of like selfie. 😜

[@benjaminshiels1824]

Gorgeous place! 👍😍

[@rhiannoninferrera8726]

As an Australian, I feel Australia is misunderstood by a lot of other countries, particularly America, but I am very glad we are isolated (geographically) from other major countries, I'm quite happy with my fairy bread, Bunnings sausage sizzle and bogans. America can keep their thanksgiving and shitty laws over their side of the world

[@darrengray2309]

Shitty laws in America lol im wondering if you have lived in Melbourne over that last 2 and half years

[@Revilok08]

@@darrengray2309 ye but it’s not like we have mass shooting at schools.

[@pammelvaine8176]

@@darrengray2309 Nothing wrong with Melbourne Darren. Just another day in paradise.

[@aussiemiss1442]

The kangaroos sort of lean back on the tail and spin , it’s really cool to watch. Just saw it in my garden, a mum and Joey went down the wrong path, mum had to react fast to get away. Never felt threatened by one.

[@andrewjgrimm]

3:29 Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world, beaten by the likes of Mongolia and Namibia.

[@lilsprugga]

If you come North, you'll see a Golden Orb Weaving Spider. I rang the museum when one moved onto my laundry got onto the arachnologist who assured me that all spiders are venomous but only two have a biting record and no one has died since they came up with an antivenin. The interstate flights using recycled cooking oil is garbage, that's diesel engines and is not suitable for flight.

[@daneberry7217]

"I hate people. So, I'm moving to Australia." Best comment! Luckily, Australians are the friendliest most welcoming people. You'll fit right in 😜

[@timtamTom.2]

I would say that New Zealanders are the friendliest. When I went there everyone was so freaking nice!

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

@@timtamTom.2 I visited New Zealand and discovered a different story to that

[@tianagreen1362]

Aww thx

[@daneberry7217]

@@timtamTom.2 it's only that I'm Australian that I have to disagree. But, we love our Pacific neighbours! 😘

[@rhondaocallaghan4413]

We have our share of Racists, idiots, unwelcoming bastards, every country does. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🧐

[@taytacake3725]

I live at the base of Mt Disappointment and I can tell you right now, it’s no disappointment. The bush fires, storms, overflowing waterfalls and deadly snakes and spiders that mountain produces is insane. Amazing place to hike tho!

[@aidanmargarson8910]

accept for the deadly snakes and spiders :)

[@Summxrr]

Im actually from Australia, and thast tiny island is Tasmania it broke off from the country lots of yeass ago. We still count it apart of Australia. I used to live in Melbourne but not anymore. And one day America will learn how to say emu properly

[@krashdown5814]

Just call it the Aussie Big Bird.

[@stuarthynes6136]

Introduce him to a cassowary during mating time... look at the pretty colours... ow ow ow...

[@opykennedy6915]

We've been trying to give Tasmania to New Zealand for many decades but the buggers won't take it.

[@hardystein114]

Ryan , Quantas has the best safety record of ANY airline in the world. Fact.

[@frankgray3279]

13:30 as an Australian I can confirm Hungry Jacks is extremely good. Very cheep food that tastes real noice and awesome service almost all the time. btw they brought camels here so they could use them to travel in the desert more freely back in the 1800's. I did a whole assessment on it in your 4 lol.

[@westhoodqualzini7884]

As long it’s cheap and tastes good what could be the problem? I mean it tastes good

[@brocksinclair66]

@@westhoodqualzini7884 much fresher than maccas and bigger thats for sure

[@TheZeroAssassin]

HJ's tastes ok, but always gives me shits, so that's annoying.

[@kittyallen5294]

Their double whoppas are my favourite

[@ShockingPikachu]

People be sleeping on red rooster though. Every now and then it's perfect

[@Bananasplitsssz]

It was a dead platypus that was sent over And it didn’t bite them, the male platypus have venomous spikes behind there feet

[@grogery1570]

The full story of Australian beach bathing starts with it being illegal and a journalist taking offense at this. So he went swimming one weekend and took offense that he wasn't arrested. Next week he wrote the story of how the police failed in their duty and that next weekend he would be back so be there or be prepared to cop another serve. The police were there and asked the journalist to come with them, but he wasn't under arrest. The police commissioner met and decided that police would not arrest people swimming preferring to arrest rapists and murderers. This started Australia's love of the beach and a cottage industry of council rules, regulations and fines over what could and couldn't be worn on the beach. This ended in the '70's when women were finally allowed to bathe topless, a practice that has stopped due to skin cancer caused by the damaged ozone layer. Which is just one more reason why we all need to save our environment.

[@alancampbell1161]

The animals here are terrifying. I've only lived here for 76 years and I already got stung by a bee once, and that was only about thirty years ago.

[@FM-qm5xs]

You're a lucky bugger. I've had countless spider bites, bull ant and wasp stings and encounters with deadly snakes and spiders.

[@Callawaygolfer]

@@FM-qm5xs bro missed the joke so hard

[@opykennedy6915]

Funniest comment I've read today. It's been sitting her for 2 years waiting for me to appreciate it. Thumbs up.

[@paulabourke6666]

For reference. Australia's 3rd smallest State, New South Wales, is 312,724 square miles, while Texas, is only 268,596 square miles.

[@A_nony_mous]

Our second smallest, Victoria, is about the size of the United Kingdom or a little smaller than California. Tasmania, the smallest state is about the same size as Ireland, Switzerland or the state of West Virginia in the USA and roughly twice the size of Taiwan.

[@fukkar4545]

And full of dirty cockroach's 😂 QUEENSLANDER!!!

[@brocksinclair66]

yep being a w.a local its common knowledge here that we are 5.5 times the size of texas. bigger my rectum

[@MadMasterNeil]

Where is the mortein. This is canetoad territory

[@DanDownunda8888]

For some reason even Americans think that Texas is huge, Alaska is by far the biggest US state at 665,400 sq m.

[@andrewbellamy575]

It is actually called 'the rabbit proof fence', to stop rabbits introduced by the english for food.

[@variabell3326]

Add.: One of our UNESCO sites is the stone homes and aquaculture systems at Budj Bim. They're some of the oldest remaining human constructions in the world at >6,600yo, and among the world's most extensive aquaculture systems to this day. (For context, the Cairn of Barnenez, which is usually 2nd place on "oldest constructions" lists online, is 6,800yo. For some reason, they always forget about us!)

[@rjbiker66]

Budj Bim is disputed.

[@Boschy_Space]

Heya Ryan, I have always loved telling Americans when I was a taxi driver in the 90's that Australia was in fact the same size as America. The reaction was so priceless 🤣🤣🤣

[@RolandjHearn]

You pondered the size of Australian wool industry - Australian wool dominated the world of wool for 150 years to the extent that there was no one else to talk about except a couple "honourable mentions" Like New Zealand who rivalled for quality, but not for quantity. The wool industry took a down turn because of synthetics but is beginning to make a come back. In the mean time Australia has lost a significant number from it's over all flock. BTW you also wondered about how to make a kangaroo go backwards - in the scenario you described the kangaroo would simply squirm a little, turn within its body length and hop away (laughing presumably).

[@BK45AUS]

After kicking the encroaching wall for a while.

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

I've seen kangaroos jump backwards

[@bonnielee78]

@@BK45AUS i was going to say 'after kicking the sh*t out of you for pushing him' lol

[@brucehewson5773]

Hey Ryan, KZbin offered me this video. You have learnt a lot in the last 2 years. Well Done!

[@carriebizz]

I'm Australian and love when foreigners react to our country. I'm in Melbourne and grew up with many Greek friends. Dude sorry to say but your attempt at our accent sounds british lol. We use alot of Os at the end of our words like Service station becomes Servo. Afternoon is arvo, avocado becomes avo. Documentary is doco

[@christinepreston8642]

As a Brit, I do not claim that accent!! 😂😂😂

[@AJTheShawg]

@@christinepreston8642 then it is- Uhm An accent that does not exist or is it American and a bit of Aussie?

[@jakeDsnake06]

Ah yes BC avacado doesn't already end with a o lol

[@jakeDsnake06]

@@christinepreston8642 well who would that you're meant to say alright french is this you're accent

[@FefeOnQuest_]

17:42 qantas has never crashed 💀

[@olddog-fv2ox]

Much

[@Olivia.ts.13]

They’re the safest plane in au I’m pretty sure…

[@jennybowd2962]

A lot of Greece and Italian migrants moved to Australia after world war two The dingo was literally to keep wild dogs ( dingos) getting into the more populated farming land

[@Rob-fc9wg]

Greek*

[@shellywolfenden4900]

Haha as an Aussie watching your face was so amusing. It's called Hungry Jacks here because businesses can't have the same name as a business that does the same thing. There was a little independent take away burger shop that stuffed it up for them lol. You mentioned how is it the most liveable city if there are snakes. The snakes are out in the bush and aren't seen in the city. The only time they have is generally because they stowed away in boxes of produce shipped in from the country.

[@Orbitalmercury]

The national highway is so long because it essentially circles Australia near or not too far from the coast. It basically goes through all capital cities of Australia and though they tend to each have different names they all are part of the national highway hence why the distance is longer that the diameter of the earth once you add all the lengths together to get the total length. Melbourne was actually founded by two Tasmanians, Batman and Fawkner. Separately. Female kangaroos have three Vag1na, and often have one baby in the oven, one older one in the pouch and one already out of the pouch but still needing milk. Australia and it's territories do have active volcanos, one is on Heard Island deep in the southern Indians ocean between Australia mainland and Africa Qantas is one of the oldest airlines in the world and has an excellent safety record with no crashed in it's over one hundred years history

[@grantfrith9589]

This reminds me of one of Mel Gibsons early movies. He plays the part of an athlete who reluctantly joins up to fight in the first world war. On his journey to Perth him and his mate are crossing a portion of desert on foot. They get turned around and are in a bit of a desperate state when they come across an old swagman and his camel. After being refreshed they discuss their quest to the bemusement of the old man who asks who Australia was fighting. "The Germans" declare the boys. "I knew a German once" said the old man wistfully. " Why are we fighting them?" "Otherwise they'll come here and take our land" Declare one of the lads. The old man slowly scans the desolate horizons and mutters with obvious contempt for his surroundings... "AND THEY'RE WELCOME TO IT" he declares... Australia might be a big place but a lot of it is miserable desert.

[@samsabastian5560]

Grant Frith The desert in Australia is a fantastic place. Miserable be buggered. Saying that, you probably haven't even been to a desert in Aus. Huge amount of wild life in deserts.

[@grantfrith9589]

@@samsabastian5560 Well that is where you're wrong. I'm well traveled in the outback and spent many nights in various deserts around Australia. I've even found myself often times reminiscing on those adventures that the desert is probably my favorite place. Particularly at night under the awesome blanket of stars and when the other inhabitants of this burnt land creep out of their hiding places. This is a spectacular country... Having said all that I'm in puzzlement of your response to me. There are many subtleties in humor that we can find meaning in that seem not to be understood these days. You've obviously formed an opinion of me based on a very simplistic perception, and completely misunderstood the humor. There's way too much of that going on. I may end up escaping to the beautiful solitude of the desert one day if only to avoid the insanity you've so fortuitously and unwittingly embodied.

[@judithstrachan9399]

That would have been “Gallipoli”?

[@joemamacaprisun]

as an aussie it is so funny to see an american go ''wait australia is that big????:0''

[@debipaulin4623]

Spread the word an 'emoo' is a rare species of cow/buffalo just discovered in outback Australia. It's not a bird at all!! 😂😂

[@Chi_chi_.]

I died laughing when he called Tasmania the tiny little separate bit down there 😂😂😂😂😂😂 lol

[@squirralien1863]

Camels were brought to Australia by Afghans many years ago for work in the outback, with the camels they brought over they also had their own Afghan handlers. When the camels were not used so much many were let loose and they multiplied like rabbits, maybe not in the same position but they multiplied a lot over the years

[@alexceltic4629]

When he said a Duck sized Horse,I lost it hahahaha 😂😂😂😂

[@doubledee9675]

He seems to have missed the horse sized ducks, though.

[@Tinyflypie]

It took me decades to realise how big Australia is. Grew up here, it took a trip to Europe to really understand how big this place is.

[@59stevet59]

Hey Ryan, this is Steve from Adelaide Australia. Love your videos man. My wife is spending 2 months in Michigan and while she's away I have been overdosing on your videos. I like your honest approach to culture, facts and "who would have known" moments. By the way, a nature strip is the strip of grass between the sidewalk (footpath) and the curb (road edge). Those little spiky animals are not Porcupines, they are Echidna's. Keep the videos coming.

[@andrewhazlewood4569]

The kangaroo in the hall would rear up on its tail and kick the wall (like the males do when they fight). Chrissie pressies = Christmas presents. Brekky = breakfast so yeah Selfie does sound Australian. All marsupial babies are born tiny - not just kangaroos. Australia is the only place where camels are living wild. They were introduced though, you were right about that. Although there are a lot of venomous snakes, hardly anyone ever dies from snake bites.

[@miniveedub]

Camels and their Afghani drivers came to Australia in the 19th century and were used to transport goods in outback areas where it was too hot and dry for horses to do the job. As rail lines and roads were built they became redundant and a lot of them were just released to fend for themselves. They thrived and multiplied. They also remained pure breed because there were no other kinds of camels to mix with, which is why they are exported to the Middle East where pure breeds of camels are now rare. Wild camels have captured and tamed in recent decades and used for various enterprises including milking them to make cheese which is also exported to the Middle East.

[@SH-qs7ee]

They are considered pests now, but we did get lucky; they were discussing using elephants as well. Could you imagine what plague numbers of elephants would be like.

[@someoldytaccount]

This is the second mention I've seen of the cameleers and it's making me so proud! I'm a descendant on my father's side and so little people know this history. Because of my heritage I have researched it and the title they were given is however historically misleading. As well as Afghanistan, these men also originated from Egypt, Türkiye, Iran, Pakistan, and India. However, being brown, Muslim, and wearing turbans, they weren't given the time of day and were all just grouped in together as 'Afghans' or 'Ghans'. Just some of the fine ethnic generalisations we label migrant groups with! Anyway, I appreciate you for knowing this part of our history :)

[@Annie_christ_aphmau_lover]

2:17 to keep people safe dingos can be very dangerous

[@ZeBoy85]

Good reaction, most people who react to this video don’t actually think about what they’re taking in so good to see an American learning stuff rather than ignoring it. Qantas our national airline has one of the finest reputations of any airline in the entire world far exceeding any of the carriers you have in the US it and Singapore Air usually compete between each other as the most reputable carriers world wide.

[@majorlaff8682]

It's QANTAS, not Qantas, i.e. Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services - their brand name.

[@AndrewFishman]

@@majorlaff8682 Just as Anzac is in fact ANZAC

[@gbsailing9436]

I disagree, I wish he would turn his brain off when watching videos like this. And QANTAS is now ruining its reputation by dissing it's staff and hiring cheap overseas labour (see a recent YT post). Alan Joyce does NOT care for Australian industry laws, or for those whom it affects, by taking these steps to bypass current statutory accords for pay and conditions. All the while buying a $19M house in Sydney!!! He's an asshole, basically.

[@majorlaff8682]

@@AndrewFishman Correct, Andrew. I spend some time correcting that one, too. Keep up the good work.

[@ryanjared4263]

Yet air new zealand was voted Australia's favourite airline to travel on... even when it's not even the carriers airline. watch the new lately? australia hates QANTAS