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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.

To report an error, see the Did you know talk page.

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From a collection of Wikipedia's articles: ... that hummingbirds (pictured) are the only birds that can fly backwards? ... that in 2009, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu became the first Nobel Prize winner to be a member of the U.S. Cabinet? ... that Magnifica humanitas is the first papal encyclical to be published without an official Latin version? ... that in 2024, Rachel Reeves became the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer? ... that one of the most read articles of The Seattle Times in 2005 was about a man who died after having sex with a horse? ... that because of SAG rules, Michael John Douglas had to change his name by searching a phone book under "K," saw "Keaton" and decided to pick it as his surname?

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