- ...that a replica of the HMB Endeavour (pictured), the ship sailed by James Cook in his first discovery voyage to the Pacific Ocean, exists in Cooktown harbour?
- ...that the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
- ...that the Queensland Court of Disputed Returns once heard an election dispute from a person who claimed that the Queensland Government was unconstitutional but who still wished to be elected to it?
- ...that in order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the Queensland town of Jandowae where 38 parcels of land were sold for one dollar each?