camwyn:

camwyn:

wnycradiolab:

liketinyhorses:

malformalady:

The Gouldian finch are small, brightly colored birds with green backs, yellow bellies, and purple breasts  with a light blue uppertail and a cream undertail. Sometimes called lady gouldians, their facial color can vary, but black is the most common. Gouldian finch chicks are equipped with blue phosphorescent beads along their mouths, making it easy for the parents to feed them in the darkness of the nest cavity.

Photo credit: Greg Grall/National Aquarium

WHAT.

WHAT indeed.

Jurassic Park, you got a lot of livin’ up to do.

perspicaciousembroiderist? Knew I’d seen those finches before.

I shouldn’t be as surprised as I am to learn that this is an Australian bird.


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#bird #the more you know

Fun fact: they totally sell Tim Tams in Canada. Imported from Australia and everything. I found them in the cookie section of Zehrs. (Not even the exotic section, just the regular cookie section.)

They had original and dark chocolate flavours, though it’s possible you might find some of the other flavours in other stores. I wouldn’t know.

I can personally confirm that the dark chocolate ones are delicious, but since I’ve never had bought-in-Australia Tim Tams, I don’t know for sure that the exported ones taste the same as the ones sold domestically. If someone with experience in Australian snack foods could confirm this, that would be good.


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#the more you know #Canada #Australia #PSA #Tim Tams #our home and cherished land #(tagging it Canada as well to spread the word to people reading the Canada tag) #media I consumed primarily to know what all the fuss was about #well technically *food* I consumed #but my pre-established tag says ‘media’ and it’s the same idea #oh look an original post

pterodactyltamer:

there was 11 slides but apparantly you can only put up 10 idk.

now you are probably properly educated on aussie cuisine. some of this shit is probs also not australian, but idgaf

I keep meaning to buy a package of Tim Tams at the local grocery store so I can know what all the fuss is about. Probably people will tell me that I can’t truly know until I’ve had Australian Tim Tams, that Canadian ones just aren’t the same, but they also said that about British vs American Cadbury and it wasn’t true. (Actually, our Tim Tams might even be imported from Australia. I’ll have to check that next time I’m at Zehrs.)

Speaking of Cadbury, I’ve had Crunchies, but I can never remember whether I like them. There are so many Cadbury products with weird names, and the vast majority of them are bad, so I generally just avoid all of them to be safe.

I saw fairy bread in a previous “look at the stuff you non-Aussies are missing out on” post, and I thought it sounded disgusting, but then I never liked sprinkles.


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#trying to decide whether to tag this #Australia #or #home girt by sea #I think I’m going to go with making my Australia tag just Australia #for one thing unlike Canada and America I have never lived there #and also let’s be real I had no idea what the Australian anthem was until just now #or if it even contained the word ‘home’ at all #(it seems generally likely that a national anthem will contain the word ‘home’) #(it’s the sort of thing they do) #(but you never know) #so yeah let’s go with Australia #tag rambles #food

thelandofmaps:

X-post from r/pics someone told me to post here. If you dig a hole straight down the red is where you’ll end up.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE MAPS!
thelandofmaps.tumblr.com


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#the more you know #you know when I described Perth as being the opposite side of the world #I didn’t think it was very exact #but actually #if you dig straight down from my house #(hypothetically speaking) #then head for the nearest land as the albatross flies #it’s very nearly Perth #(I suppose technically it would be somewhere around Yallingup) #(Wikipedia informs me a lot more people than I would’ve expected care about Yallingup’s existence) #(it’s got some very nice beaches and caves) #the things you learn messing around with maps #yesterday I learned about Svalbard after hitting it on GeoGuessr #go look up Svalbard #it’s interesting #(I’m surprised just how little land has land as its opposite) #(where did Americans get the idea that theirs was China anyway?) #tag rambles

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pedanther:

justice-turtle:

rorvpond:

lieselmermiger:

lieselmermiger:

I thought you all should know that Australian scientists just apologised to the whole of Australia because they couldn’t make dragons

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really tho

this is the cutest thing ever i love australia

NOTE TO ALL: THIS IS HOW YOU SCIENCE. :D

There’s a sequel: Now they’ve given her a dragon.

It’s times like this I’m proud of my fellow Australians.


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#oh look an update #awesome

miggylol:

pumpkin spice candles soon

pumpkin lattes soon

pumpkin everything

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#pumpkin muffins! #Tim Hortons only sells them during the month of October #and last year I was horribly sick most of October and only got to eat one muffin the whole month #plus Halloween is like the one mainstream holiday that I am 100% comfortable with #October: the most wonderful time of the year #(unless you’re horribly sick) #P.S. fun fact: in Australian ‘pumpkin’ means ‘squash’ #the things you learn reading Australian cooking blogs #’butternut pumpkin? wait what?’ #the more you know #tag rambles