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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:

A picture of Romaine lettuce

  • ... that lettuce (pictured) was one of the first plants brought to America by Christopher Columbus?
  • ... that before entering politics, President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian was a heart surgeon?
  • ... that within one day of Donald Trump's attempted assassination in Pennsylvania, his campaign raised over $2 million for his supporters who were hurt or killed in the shooting?
  • ... that Ecuadorian news anchor Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros holds the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a television news broadcaster" for his 56-year-career?
  • ... that Potsdam was meant to be "a picturesque, pastoral dream" which would remind its people of their relationship with nature and reason?
  • ... that in 1983, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to address the Alabama Legislature?
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