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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 the developers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number suggested that Australian customers pirate their game?
... that Australian rules football coach Sampson Hosking named himself in Port Adelaide's team at the age of 48?
... that Daviesia devito and D. schwarzenegger are two Australian peas?
... that an Australian High Court case found a hotel chain to have used third-party contractors to avoid paying employees their required benefits?
... that South Australian Labor premier Des Corcoran was mentioned in despatches for courage and skill in evacuating casualties during the Korean War?
... that the Greco-Australian dialect, a variety of Modern Greek, blends words with English roots into the Greek language?
... that Australia has three major Japanese language schools?
... that the blind cave eel is the longest cavefish in Australia?
... that Australian neurosurgeon Jeffrey Rosenfeld led the team developing a wireless device that promises to give limited vision to the totally blind?
... that Australian writer Gertrude Hart was a co-founder of the Old Derelicts' Club, which later became the Society of Australian Authors?
... that Sarah Cox brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia, during which she was represented by her future husband William Wentworth?
... that the 2022 Optus data breach affected over a third of Australians?
... that the Victoria State Government has ordered 100 G-class trams, which is the largest domestic order in Australian history?
... that indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd has depicted colonial figures including Captain James Cook and Governor Arthur Phillip as pirates?
... that the only ever hijacking of a Royal Australian Air Force aircraft began at Baucau Airport, East Timor, in 1975?
... that Towa Tei's "Sometime Samurai" remained unfinished for eight years until Australian singer Kylie Minogue re-recorded the song in 2004?
... that Australian Madeleine Steere played water polo professionally in Turkey after studying biomolecular science in the United States?
... that Baillieu Myer and his siblings were born in California because their father's prior divorce was not recognised under Australian law?
... that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Peter Read coined the term "Stolen Generations" to refer to Aboriginal children who were forcibly separated from their families by Australian governments?
... that Nicole Kidman is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
... that the government of Victoria, Australia, has a program to remove 110 level crossings by 2030, the fastest rate in the state's history?
... that Australiformis semoni is a parasite that infests marsupials in Australia and New Guinea and whose infestation could cause debilitating ulcerative granulomatous gastritis?
... that Australian politicians may face the pub test?
... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground and was wrecked?
... 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 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 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 Eva Duldig, who was interned by Australia during the Second World War, later represented the country at the Wimbledon Championships?
... that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game?
... 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 the recently restored Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Roebourne is the oldest church in North West Australia?
... that Lowe Kong Meng imported goods for Chinese miners during the Victorian gold rush and became one of the wealthiest men in Victoria?
... that St Mary's Anglican Church, Busselton, Australia, has been a part of six dioceses, namely Canterbury, Calcutta, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Bunbury?
... that in 2010, Lauren Mitchell became the first Australian female artistic gymnast to win a world title?
... that constable Joseph Luker, the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
... that Anna Burke was the second woman to give birth while a member of the Australian House of Representatives?
... that Mabel Freer was deported from Australia because she could not speak Italian?
... that starting at age 16, future Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci was named top sewing machine salesperson three years in a row?
... that in the 1920s, Australian journalist E. George Marks predicted military conflict in the Pacific between Japan and the United States?
... that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam?
... that in 1919 nurse Hilda Hope McMaugh became the first Australian woman to qualify as a pilot?
... 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 Nick Goiran, a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, proposed 357 amendments to a voluntary assisted dying bill?
... that Scottish painter Gordon Coutts left Australia without paying maintenance to his estranged wife, but was arrested in New Zealand?