No. | Did you know ... | Date | Views | Hours | Comments |
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1 | ... that Robert Raymond founded Australia's longest running current affairs television program? | 2 July 2007 | – | 10:09 | My first DYK |
2 | ... that during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars? | 26 October 2007 | – | 6:12 | |
3 | ... that Australian swimmer Mack Horton won five gold medals at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships? | 28 August 2014 | – | 12:00 | |
4 | ... that Singaporean swimmer Amanda Lim won the women's 50-metre freestyle event in the 2009, 2011, and 2013 Southeast Asian Games? | 29 October 2014 | 1,960 | 12:00 | 157, 155 and 240 views for other links |
5 | ... that the niece of Pat Chan, Singapore's "Golden Girl", is also an international competitive swimmer? | 22 November 2014 | 967 | 11:45 | 2,038 for Pat |
6 | ... that Singaporean swimmer Samantha Yeo was twelve years old when she competed at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games? | 23 November 2014 | 1,930 | 14:05 | 246 views for 2009 SEAG |
7 | ... that Brendon McCullum is the only cricketer to score two Twenty20 International centuries? | 21 December 2014 | 502 | 12:00 | 1,816 views for Brendon |
8 | ... that Amy Satterthwaite (pictured) is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in a women's Twenty20 International cricket match? | 12 January 2017 | 2,472 | 12:00 | First pictured DYK 6,491 views for Amy |
9 | ... that Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in the Big Bash League? | 13 January 2017 | 1,024 | 12:00 | 1,160 views for Lasith (up from a baseline of ~500) |
10 | ... that Australian cricketer Ian Moran took unpaid leave from his teaching job to play in the 2012 Champions League Twenty20? | 18 January 2017 | 847 | 12:00 | 282 for CL20 link |
11 | ... that Sophie Molineux won the inaugural Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year Award at the 2017 Allan Border Medal Ceremony? | 9 February 2017 | 1,848 | 12:00 | 400 for Betty Wilson, 290 for AB Medal |
12 | ... that Anisa Mohammed (pictured) is the only cricketer to take five five-wicket hauls in women's One Day Internationals? | 16 February 2017 | 2,853 | 12:00 | My first double hook, 780 for the list |
13 | ... that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie's first-class debut as a cricket umpire? | 13 March 2017 | 475 | 12:00 | Hat-trick up about 1,000 from baseline |
14 | ... that Arthur Mailey's best Test bowling figures of 9 wickets for 121 runs has been the Australian cricket record for 96 years? | 23 March 2017 | 1,595 | 24:00 | 1,158 for Arthur Mailey |
15 | ... that Charles Jewtraw (pictured) was the first Winter Olympics gold medallist, winning the 500 m speed skating event at the 1924 Games? | 21 April 2018 | 596 | 12:00 | 2,614 for Charles Jewtraw |
16 | ... that at the age of 52, Englishman Wilfred Rhodes is the oldest cricketer ever to play in a Test match? | 10 June 2018 | 1,346 | 24:00 | 1,142 for Wilfred Rhodes |
17 | ... that Geoff Harvey, former musical director for the Nine Network Australia, composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding? | 10 February 2019 | 793 | 24:00 | 821 for Nine Network and 794 for The Sullivans |
18 | ... that the Australian national cricket team's 1999 tour of the West Indies was the first four-match series in the history of Test cricket to finish 2–2?| | 11 February 2020 | 634 | 12:00 |