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Did you know? consists of a series of "hooks", which are interesting facts taken from Wikipedia's newest or recently expanded Australian related articles. The choice of articles is subject to a series of criteria, see DYK rules for more information.

... that starting at age 16, future Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci was named top sewing machine salesperson three years in a row?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that Monica Smit was ordered to pay Victoria Police's legal bill of about A$250,000, despite winning a lawsuit against them?
... that the developers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number suggested that Australian customers pirate their game?
... that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$66 million out of pocket?
... that the Greco-Australian dialect, a variety of Modern Greek, blends words with English roots into the Greek language?
... that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
... that the health of prisoners in Australia is impacted by their lack of access to Medicare, the country's otherwise-universal health care system?
... that the United States agreed Australian staff would support the Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station in Alice Springs, but the United States Air Force runs it instead?
... that despite winning Australia's top literary prize, The Hand That Signed the Paper has since been labelled a hoax?
... that Barcroft Boake, the author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a stockwhip a few months after it was published?
... that Australian NFL player Laki Tasi got into American football at the suggestion of a burger shop owner?
... that Peter Read coined the term "Stolen Generations" to refer to Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families by Australian governments?
... that Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire"?
... that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games, they were ineligible to win medals?
... that Anna Burke was the second woman to give birth while a member of the Australian House of Representatives?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that, in a civil case between Mark Aldridge and a shop owner, South Australia's district court found that a person can be liable for the defamatory comments of others on their social media posts?
... that Episode 8055 of the Australian television soap opera Neighbours is the first episode in the show's history to star and be directed and written entirely by women?
... that a species of Australian ant has special workers that make honey, and is considered a delicacy by Aboriginal Australians?
... that Jack Critchley, state parliamentarian then senator for South Australia, was invalided home from the Western Front with "wry neck"?
... that Aboriginal Australians who first saw herds of water buffalo interpreted the new animals as a manifestation of their dreaming?
... that in 1939, a teenage Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
... that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme has been criticised for placing workers at risk of modern slavery?
... that the poem "Ozymandias" and the birthplace of Pythagoras inspired an Australian sculpture?
... that George Jenkins was described in 1901 as "the happiest, proudest, most important and most worried individual" in Australia, but 90 years later as "a lazy, dictatorial, unctuous opportunist"?
... that Turkish international soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales, Australia?
... that people traveled from as far away as Australia and the Netherlands to stay at a house in Ohio?
... that Zali Steggall, an independent member of the Parliament of Australia, is an Olympic skiing medallist?
... that an Australian radio station defended playing Zheani's "Bring Wet Cunt" uncensored in 2024?
... that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth?
... that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
... that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings?
... that the arts magazine Paper Chained was banned in some Australian prisons due to its pen-pal program?
... that Australian military chaplain Andrew Gillison took up arms to snipe at Turkish soldiers in Gallipoli?
... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground and was wrecked?
... that Ged Kearney represented Batman in the Parliament of Australia from 2018 to 2019?
... that Episode 2351 of the Australian soap opera Home and Away was filmed in England, marking the first time the serial was filmed overseas?
... that Australian judoka Josh Katz competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics six months after completely rupturing an ACL?
... that Voltaire Molesworth spent part of his early childhood in a utopian socialist colony in Paraguay?
... that South Australian Labor premier Des Corcoran was mentioned in despatches for courage and skill in evacuating casualties during the Korean War?
... that BoysTown was reported as having the largest case of child abuse in Australia's history?
... that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League's largest semifinal comeback ever?
... that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?