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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 a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900, would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
... that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth?
... that John David Rogers represented Australia at the Japanese surrender in Singapore in September 1945 (video featured)?
... that convict James Davis escaped custody in Australia and lived with Aboriginal Australians for 13 years?
... that Australian NFL player Laki Tasi got into American football at the suggestion of a burger shop owner?
... that Stephanie Scott's favourite colour became a symbol of national remembrance across Australia following her murder in 2015?
... that a species of Australian ant has special workers that make honey, and is considered a delicacy by Aboriginal Australians?
... that all Aboriginal languages in mainland Australia may have descended from a common ancestor spoken around 6,000 years ago?
... that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?
... that Bill Dunn, an Indigenous Australian pastoralist approaching retirement, sold his station at half-price to the Jigalong community despite receiving full-price offers from non-Indigenous people?
... that the mascot of an Australian HIV prevention campaign was a condom-wielding superhero?
... that Adamsochrysa fossils from British Columbia and Washington are most similar to an Australian green lacewing?
... that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
... that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League's largest semifinal comeback ever?
... that one anthropologist has described scenes in the 1893 Wild Australia Show as examples of "settler denialism" and "colonial fantasy"?
... that Episode 7921 of Neighbours featured Australia's first televised fictional same-sex wedding since the country voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that the Bluey special "The Sign" reminded a Sydney Morning Herald reporter of Australia's housing crisis?
... that Australian gamer Zer0 led his team to an Apex Legends Global Series championship with a substitution teammate to whom he had never spoken before?
... 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 Australian Light Weight Air Warning Radar was once loaded using canoes and later manhandled up a 200-foot cliff?
... 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 Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that Anna Burke was the second woman to give birth while a member of the Australian House of Representatives?
... that people traveled from as far away as Australia and the Netherlands to stay at a house in Ohio?
... that "the Boshfather" was deported from Australia in October 2025?
... that Marie Breen retired from the Australian Senate to care for her husband, who had been badly injured in a car accident?
... 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 Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire"?
... that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee?
... 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 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 Ged Kearney represented Batman in the Parliament of Australia from 2018 to 2019?
... that the developers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number suggested that Australian customers pirate their game?
... that Margaret Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Australian Senate?
... that the political and media storm around so-called African gangs in Australia has been described by academics as a moral panic?
... that Aboriginal soldier Tim Hughes was decorated for remarkable bravery, exceptional coolness and initiative during the Battle of Buna–Gona?
... that despite winning Australia's top literary prize, The Hand That Signed the Paper has since been labelled a hoax?
... that a Uruguayan-born victim of the September 11 attacks had founded a community in Sydney to help Uruguayans immigrating to Australia?
... that Turkish international soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales, Australia?
... that an Australian radio station defended playing Zheani's "Bring Wet Cunt" uncensored in 2024?
... that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$66 million out of pocket?
... that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games, they were ineligible to win medals?
... that Tupou VI was crowned by D'Arcy Wood, an Australian, in order to respect the tradition of native Tongans not touching the king's head?
... that Hanoikids gave free tours of Hanoi to a prime minister of Australia, an American general, and an American senator?