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Did you know is a section taking interesting facts from articles that meet DYK requirements. To list a new fact, make a suggestion on the talk page.

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From a collection of Wikipedia's articles: ... that the 1874 military painting Calling the Roll After An Engagement, Crimea (pictured) by Elizabeth Thompson was bought by Queen Victoria? ... that Lichen can live on bare rock, walls, trees, wood, gravestones, and on exposed soil surfaces? ... that Carly Fiorina entered an election for the United States Senate less than a year after surviving breast cancer? ... that Canada was pre-approved to become part of the United States in the Articles of Confederation section 11 without further votes? ... that The Chaos is a poem that shows that in English many words are not pronounced the way they are written? ... that because of his illness with diverticulitis, Tancredo Neves was never inaugurated as President of Brazil and remained as president-elect until his death in 1985?

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