The first person to fly an aeroplane in Australia was the one and only, Harry Houdini. Really.

"He couldn't even get room service, he couldn't actually leave the country.”

The opening of the Myer Christmas windows always signals the start of the Christmas season in Melbourne, but how did they start?

In 1965, Australian Broadcasting Corporation graphics designer, Bill Kennard, submitted a design for the ABC logo. This is how it came to be.

Remember Melbourne’s short-lived scratchie train tickets?

In 1964, Reg Spiers mailed himself from London to Australia. This absolutely happened.

Jafflechutes, the most Melbourne thing to have ever happened, happened in 2014.

Orica House changed Melbourne forever.

The first 13 rabbits were released in Australia on Christmas Day 1859. Eighty years later there were 600 million of them.

Victoria and Tasmania actually have a land border. It’s true.

Did you know that the face out the front of Luna Park is meant to be the face of the Man on the Moon.

Melbourne in 1839 was a booming place. Sometimes literally.

In 1998 the very last tram conducted rode out of the Malvern Depot ending over 100 years of tram conductors.

I spoke to ABC Melbourne about the history of the democracy sausage. Now for the real test of character: onions above or below the sausage?

On 27 of September 1986 a charity in Cleveland Ohio, as a fundraiser and in an attempt to break a Guinness World Record released almost 1.5 million balloons into the sky. Seriously.