40 Trivia Facts to Learn This Weekend (So You’d Have Something Interesting to Share With Your Friends and Family)

Many of us tend to forget that Australia is still part of the British Commonwealth. It definitely still is. With membership in this exclusive club, Australians get some unique perks. Strangely enough, every Australian citizen has the right to a free portrait of the reigning monarch, paid for by the government.

Yes, the Australian government literally handed out portraits of Queen Elizabeth for decades. After the Queen’s passing in September 2022, many Australians scrambled to get the last-ever produced portraits of the Queen before King Charles became official. We have a feeling most people did this in order to get a collector’s item that would be worth something someday. Or maybe they just really loved the Queen.