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...that over 10,000 athletes representing 199 nations participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics (celebrations pictured), which were held in Sydney?
...that the Australian town of Bundarra is home to a breeding colony of endangered Regent Honeyeaters, containing around thirty of the less than 1,500 birds remaining in existence?
...that the company that produces the popular gelatin dessert, Aeroplane Jelly, started production in 1927 in Sydney?
...that the music festival Big Day Out was first held in Sydney in 1992?

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...that the 1999 Sydney hailstorm (hailstones pictured) is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$1.7 billion in insured damages?
...that Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn served as board member of the University of Sydney for 22 years?
...that a report by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales almost led to a New South Wales judge being removed from office because of the time delays in giving decisions?
...that Charles Menzies established Newcastle, New South Wales as a settlement, when he was only 21 years of age?

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...that the Tuggerah Lakes (pictured), located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, cover a total area of 77 square kilometres yet have an average depth of less than two metres?
...that Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?
...that the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal of New South Wales can order the suspension or removal of a nurse or midwife from practice?
...that after Anthony Fenn Kemp returned to England where he was questioned about his involvement in the overthrow of William Bligh as Governor of New South Wales, he again went south and became known as the "father of Tasmania"?

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...that The Entrance Bridge (pictured) was the site of a 1955 accident when the Number 11 Red Bus's brakes failed, whereupon it crashed through a wooden retaining wall and landed in The Entrance Channel?
...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 Commissioner of New South Wales?
...that a survey in 2001 of the New South Wales- Queensland border in Australia found an error of 200 metres (656 ft) in the original survey, indicating that the town of ”'Jennings, New South Wales”' should actually be in Queensland?
...that the Governors Court in New South Wales had a rule barring ex-convict lawyers from appearing before it, but all of the lawyers in the penal colony were ex-convicts?

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