Lots of Achievements
She was given the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2009. She ended up retiring in 2014 but still works as a swimming coach for the company CoachUp.
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The More You Know
- Yosemite means "those who kill."
- Holding a sneeze can be dangerous.
- The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.
- Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
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