- 1. We love our trams. Melbourne has the largest tram network in the world, beating the Europeans and Americans with a dozen trams rocketing at 15kph over 200 kilometres of track, pausing at almost 2000 stops.
2. Melbourne was one of the first cities to mandate the 8-hour working day, beginning in 1856 and spreading throughout the world (mostly).
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12. But we shivered in 1901 as the mercury dropped to -2.8 °C on the 4th of July.
13. North Carlton once housed Collingwood Stockade, with hundreds of criminals in the 1850s and 60s.
14. Don't be tempted by Blackbeard or Long John Silver. You'll risk up to 10 years in jail for knowingly trading with pirates. The 1958 Crimes Act must keep police busy during World Pirate Day.
15. Do you like green eggs and ham? 564 people did in Essendon in 2015. They set the world record for the biggest group of people wearing their favourite Dr. Seuss character costumes.
16. Hook turns baffle interstate visitors, leading to amusing dash-cam footage. Melbournians have mastered traffic directions, as we're the first to use traffic lights, back in 1928 at Collins and Swanston.
17. Melbourne truly is the Aussie sporting capital. The sporting calendar is filled with world-class events, keeping our 5 international-standard facilities busy all year round.
18. Swinburne students didn't lose their marbles in 2013 when they created a marble track at their Hawthorn campus to set the world record for the longest marble run. It stretched to 1.2 kilometres, needing over 10 minutes to roll across the finish line.
19. Love it or hate it, Vegemite was created in a suspicious laboratory in Melbourne in 1922 by the chemist Dr. Cyril P Callister. Despite a marketing campaign inviting people to submit names for the new concoction, initial sales were sluggish.
20. 187 Todd Road, Fishermans Bend in Melbourne is the site of the only factory to produce Vegemite.
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