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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 Himalayan pink salt (pictured) does not actually come from the Himalayas, but from the Salt Range mountains in Punjab, Pakistan?

... that Rosalynn Carter was the first First Lady of the United States to have her own office and staff at the White House?

... that some new plastics are being made without oil, such as with plants and bacteria, to make them biodegradable?

... that after South Vietnam fell, Henry Kissinger offered to return his Nobel Peace Prize, eighteen months after he received it for his work in the Paris Peace Accords?

... that Canada has become the first G7 nation to make cannabis legal?

... that businessman Lee Miglin proposed a 1,999 foot 125-floor skyscraper in Chicago, but the project was cancelled after he was killed by Gianni Versace's killer Andrew Cunanan?

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