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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 Australian military chaplain Andrew Gillison took up arms to snipe at Turkish soldiers in Gallipoli?
... that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth?
... that Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire"?
... that Aon v Australian National University overturned a precedent that encouraged litigation-prolonging amendments to pleadings?
... that politics in The Simpsons have caused controversy in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and Japan?
... that Ged Kearney represented Batman in the Parliament of Australia from 2018 to 2019?
... that starting at age 16, future Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci was named top sewing machine salesperson three years in a row?
... 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 Jack Critchley, state parliamentarian then senator for South Australia, was invalided home from the Western Front with "wry neck"?
... that Australian train driver Bill Morrow received the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize alongside Fidel Castro?
... that Peter Read coined the term "Stolen Generations" to refer to Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families by Australian governments?
... that Australia's most threatened butterfly is confined to a native range of less than 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi)?
... that Margaret Reid is the first woman to have served as President of the Australian Senate?
... that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game?
... that Eva Duldig, who was interned by Australia during the Second World War, later represented the country at the Wimbledon Championships?
... that Australian politicians may face the pub test?
... 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 a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900, would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
... that an Australian wildlife conservationist has trapped and killed more than 1,450 feral cats?
... that Anna Burke was the second woman to give birth while a member of the Australian House of Representatives?
... that the Australian spider Progradungula barringtonensis has been called a "ghost of Gondwana"?
... that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
... that Turkish international soccer player Rojin Polat was named member of the "2021 All Schools Merit Girls Team" in New South Wales, Australia?
... that the Scottish Register of Tartans has registered district tartans for Australia as a whole, and also a state district tartan for each of Australia's six states?
... that pumices erupted by the Protector Shoal volcano in 1962 floated to Australia and South America?
... that the search for a lost radioactive capsule along a 1,400-kilometre (870 mi) stretch of road in Western Australia was likened to looking for a needle in a haystack?
... that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$66 million out of pocket?
... 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 the Australian government tried to censor a film of Quail Island's starving koalas?
... that South Australian Labor premier Des Corcoran was mentioned in despatches for courage and skill in evacuating casualties during the Korean War?
... that author Ann Howard interviewed more than 100 Australians about their experiences as child evacuees sent inland during World War II when a Japanese invasion seemed imminent?
... that the first judgement of 2022 from the High Court of Australia was considered a loss for a labour hire organisation, but a win for labour hire organisations?
... that Australia has three major Japanese language schools?
... that Gil Kim played professional baseball in the Netherlands, China, Australia, Spain, and Venezuela, scouted in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and coaches in Canada?
... that an Australian crocodile named Burt starred in Crocodile Dundee?
... that in the 1920s, Australian journalist E. George Marks predicted military conflict in the Pacific between Japan and the United States?
... that David Dexter, who wrote the New Guinea volume in the series Australia in the War of 1939–1945, was a commando who served in East Timor and New Guinea?
... that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
... that St Mary's Anglican Church, Busselton, Australia, has been a part of six dioceses, namely Canterbury, Calcutta, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Bunbury?
... 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 the developers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number suggested that Australian customers pirate their game?
... that the South Australian Labor politician Ernest Roberts served two tours in South Africa during the Second Boer War?
... that Australian official Jack Emanuel was awarded the George Cross in 1971 after being stabbed to death whilst trying to resolve a land dispute with the Tolai people of New Guinea?
... that the Bluey special "The Sign" reminded a Sydney Morning Herald reporter of Australia's housing crisis?
... that Australia-born rugby union player Jason Jones-Hughes was the subject of a protracted legal battle over his international eligibility after Wales called him up for the 1999 Rugby World Cup?