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More did you know's - (scrolling list)

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 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 Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Mark Hutton was the first Australian to be a starting pitcher in a Major League Baseball game?
... that the 2023 Aston by-election was the first time in more than 100 years that the governing party won a seat from the opposition at an Australian by-election?
... that "The Potato King of Colorado" survived a shipwreck, mined for gold in Australia, and helped establish an alcohol-free Methodist colony?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that to learn the rules of American football, Australian Adam Korsak, who was named the best college punter in 2022, played Madden NFL 06 and watched Any Given Sunday?
... that Ged Kearney represented Batman in the Parliament of Australia from 2018 to 2019?
... that convict James Davis escaped custody in Australia and lived with Aboriginal Australians for 13 years?
... that Australian Madeleine Steere played water polo professionally in Turkey after studying biomolecular science in the United States?
... that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings?
... that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
... that the Greco-Australian dialect, a variety of Modern Greek, blends words with English roots into the Greek language?
... that Aboriginal soldier Tim Hughes was decorated for remarkable bravery, exceptional coolness and initiative during the Battle of Buna–Gona?
... 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 Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
... that Marie Breen retired from the Australian Senate to care for her husband, who had been badly injured in a car accident?
... that Jack Critchley, state parliamentarian then senator for South Australia, was invalided home from the Western Front with "wry neck"?
... that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?
... that Australiformis semoni is a parasite that infests marsupials in Australia and New Guinea and whose infestation could cause debilitating ulcerative granulomatous gastritis?
... that the mascot of an Australian HIV prevention campaign was a condom-wielding superhero?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that the United Ukrainian Ballet Company, consisting of exiled dancers based in The Hague, has toured the UK, Singapore, Australia and the US?
... that BoysTown was reported as having the largest case of child abuse in Australia's history?
... that people traveled from as far away as Australia and the Netherlands to stay at a house in Ohio?
... that the arts magazine Paper Chained was banned in some Australian prisons due to its pen-pal program?
... that Turkish international soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales, Australia?
... that despite winning Australia's top literary prize, The Hand That Signed the Paper has since been labelled a hoax?
... that Scottish painter Gordon Coutts left Australia without paying maintenance to his estranged wife, but was arrested in New Zealand?
... that Fatima Payman is the first elected woman to wear a hijab in Australia’s parliament?
... 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 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 the Australian government tried to censor a film of Quail Island's starving koalas?
... that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground and was wrecked?
... that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth?
... that Australian judoka Josh Katz competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics six months after completely rupturing an ACL?
... that in 1939, a teenage Robin Ordell became the youngest radio announcer in Australia?
... that the first imported copies of Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent were confiscated by Australian customs authorities?
... that Margaret Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Australian Senate?
... that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit"?
... that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee?
... that Australian politicians may face the pub test?
... that Monique Ryan ran for election to the Parliament of Australia after seeing an advertisement in the newspaper calling for an independent candidate?
... that Dan Bull was a keyboardist for Eskimo Joe before he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly?