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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 even though she was the first woman as the head of the Académie Française, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (pictured) insisted on using the male form of her title? ... that the Great Barrier Reef, located in Australia, is the world's largest coral reef system and can even be seen from outer space? ... that glam rock musician Marc Bolan, who never learned how to drive a car because of a fear of dying young, died in a car crash at aged 29? ... that the first known dinosaurs were bipedal predators that were one to two metres long? ... that Wikipedia started in early 2001 as a "feeder" website to Nupedia? ... that because of the way they treat women, the infant mortality in Afghanistan has gone up since the Taliban took power in 2021?

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