Australians have a proud history (and present) of doing weird things you didn’t know about at festivals. Here are a few festival facts to help you celebrate the city’s current rash of arts events.

At their peak this year, the Adelaide Fringe will employ about 270 people – a sizeable jump from their off-season core staff of 28.

Possibly the only legitimate use of the phrase ‘un-Australian’ is in relation to the Historical Re-enactment Festival held by the Lees Hotel in Ingham, Queensland. The festival was held in 2013 to mark the 70-year anniversary of the pub becoming the inspiration for Slim Dusty’s hit ‘The Pub with No Beer’, after it was drunk clean out of beer by an American battalion travelling from Brisbane to Port Moresby to fight in World War II. Surely, commemorating a lack of beer is not what this country is all about.

A pirlta (possum) once reached down from a tree in the Garden of Unearthly Delights and stole a chip from our plate.

Adelaide’s festival season is so intense for employees that non-Festival-employed partners or family are often referred to as ‘festival widows’ for the duration of the events.

Port Lincoln’s infamous Tunarama festival – which takes place each year in January – doesn’t only incorporate a Tuna Toss, in which people compete for who can throw a tuna the furthest, but also includes a salmon toss and a prawn toss for kids.

SAFM’s Skyshow ran from 1986 up until 2006. No-one kept stats on how many first kisses were had there, but we know it was a lot.

In 1974, at the short-lived but much-loved Sunbury Rock Festival (Australia’s answer to Woodstock), the crowd threw beer cans and jeered at Queen – apparently unimpressed that the international stars were interrupting the solid line-up of sensational Aussie rock bands.