35 things you didn't know

(I don't get smaller in New Zealand, it's actually just a really big bottle)
With your host, Helen


#1
Population 4.794 million

#2
Roughly the same size as the UK

#3
No part of the country is more than 128km (79 miles) from the sea
size



#4
We have 3 official languages

#5
We have 2 national anthems
language


#6
One of them is a palindrome!
wow is also a palindrome
language

Our flag
flag

Not our flag



Could have been our flag


flag
#7

money

🤑
#8







money
#9

#10
Tipping completely freaks New Zealanders out

I hate it
help
money
women in power



#11
First country to
give women the
right to vote

women in power

#12
We were the first country to elect an openly transgender woman into Parliament


Georgina Beyer 👑
women in power

#13
Jacinda is the second woman in history to give birth while an elected head of state

👶💼🤱😎


#14
I've met the last two prime ministers of New Zealand

When I was dressed like a zombie! Fun and not embarrassing at all!
animals and plants

#15
Only 5% of animals in New Zealand are human


#16
There are 5.6 sheep per person, down from 22

#17
Wild sheep belong to the queen








animals and plants

#18
Heaviest insect


animals and plants

#19
No snakes
🐍🙅

👻😱
animals and plants

#20
A kiwi is a bird, not a fruit


Kiwi
Not kiwi
#21

Nostrils lol weird 👃
animals and plants

#23
Party bird




Ranui
Sirocco
#22
Gamer bird


#24
World's steepest street
world records



#25
World's longest place name
world records



Taumatawhakatangihangakōauauotamateaturipukakapikimaugnahoronukupōkaiwhenuakitanatahu

#26
famous firsts

Edmund Hillary was in the first group to reach the top of Mt Everest



#27
There is still a buzzy bee up there

#28
famous firsts
Ernest Rutherford invented marmite in 1902





#29
He also split the atom nbd

#30
famous firsts
We have a National Wizard

✨


>

🤮


#31
No vegemite allowed

#32
random facts

#33
The Boy Scouts were counted as part of the New Zealand military until 1986


we salute you 🖖

#34
random facts
NZ produces 100 kg of butter and 65 kg of cheese each year per person


random facts

#35
Courgette is actually the feminine noun of cucumber


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further reading
don't worry there are no books just videos




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factual accuracy





answers
#1 - true
#2 - true
#3 - true
#4 - true
#5 - true
#6 - false
#7 - true
#8 - true
#9 - true
#10 - true
#31 - true
#32 - false
#33 - false
#34 - true
#35 - false
#11 - true
#12 - true
#13 - true
#14 - true
#15 - true
#16 - true
#17 - false
#18 - true
#19 - true
#20 - true
#21 - true
#22 - false
#23 - true
#24 - true
#25 - true
#26 - true
#27 - false
#28 - false
#29 - true
#30 - true
false
false
false
false
false
false
false
false


Things you didn't know
By Helen Durrant
Things you didn't know
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