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- ...that the Adelaide O-Bahn (pictured) is a guided busway in Australia that runs from Adelaide CBD to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre in Tea Tree Gully?
- ...that Semaphore, South Australia, the home of Australia's largest carousel is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith?
- ...that the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?
- ...that John Downer, Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer, a former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs?
- ...that Beaumont House (pictured) was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral?
- ...that Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs in 1972 was the first aircraft hijacking to take place in Australia?
- ...that the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?
- ...that the Yatala Labour Prison is located on an escarpment of the Para Fault Block, overlooking the Adelaide Plains?
- ...that construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral (pictured) in Adelaide did not finish until 1996, 130 years after it began?
- ...that Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian parliamentarian, had an electoral district named after him?
- ...that Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
- ...that Smoky Bay in South Australia was named so after the discoverer noticed large plumes of smoke from fires lit by the area's Aboriginal people?
- ...that Richard Layton Butler (pictured) and his father were 31st and 23rd Premiers of South Australia, respectively?
- ...that the Beaumont children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966?
- ...that the town of Booleroo Centre, located in the southern Flinders Ranges region of South Australia, is home to one of Australia's largest collections of tractors and steam engines?
- ...that the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia?