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• Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cutting, Rocks, Mushrooms

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.127, Macmillan

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• Tell me, how is Lucius Malfoy these days? I expect he's delighted his lapdog's working at Hogwarts, isn't he?" "Speaking of dogs," said Snape softly, "did you know that Lucius Malfoy recognized you last time you risked a little jaunt outside? Clever idea, Black, getting yourself seen on a safe station platform. Gave you a cast-iron excuse not to leave your hidey-hole in future, didn't it?

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Clever, Ideas

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• We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?

  Jennifer Egan

  Hurt, Party, People

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Girl, Insane, Psycho

  "American Psycho". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, People, Saws

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• Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

  Suze Orman

  Debt, Students, Loan

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• All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

  David Eddings

  Heart, Cutting, Men

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• He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

  Ray Bradbury

  Wall, Mirrors, Light

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• How did you know Cassandra was the mother? (Wulf) I know lots of things when I apply myself. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Knows

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• Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Fall, Happy Day, Leafs

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• What are you doing back at the bakery?” I asked [Diesel]. “Did you know Wulf was here?” “No. I knew food was here.

  Janet Evanovich

  Bakeries, Diesel, Knows

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• Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

  Ray Bradbury

  Light, People, Impossible

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• Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, New Moon, Jacob Black

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• She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?” “How could I not?” he said. “When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind’s eye always with a book in your hand.” He looked away from her as he said it, but not before she caught the slight flush on his cheekbones. He was so pale, he could never hide even the least blush, she thought — and was surprised how affectionate the thought was.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.471, Simon and Schuster

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• Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.

  Gail Carriger

  Ivy, Lawns, Knows

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• Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie all the time. They're very good at it." For a moment Silk looked outraged at the thought, and then he suddenly laughed. "Somehow that restores my faith in the order of the universe," he declared. Wolf looked pained. "Silk," he said pointedly, "you're a very evil man. Did you know that?" "One does one's best," Silk replied mockingly.

  David Eddings

  Horse, Lying, Mean

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• Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

  Naveen Jain

  Example, World, Electronics

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Oct 28, 2016

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• Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Baby, Smell, Comedy

  "You Might Be a Redneck If…". Album by Jeff Foxworthy, 1993.

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• Dear Aunt Loretta, Thank you so much for the awesome pants! How did you know I wanted that for Christmas? I love the way the pants look on my legs! All my friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pants. Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever! Sincerely, Greg

  Jeff Kinney

  Jealous, Aunt, Looks

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• Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Multiple Choice, White, Choices

  Address to Incoming House GOP Freshmen, delivered 10 December 1994, Baltimore, MD

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• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Iceland, Play

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• Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

  Rachel Bilson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

  Mordecai Richler

  Discovery, America, Behinds

  Mordecai Richler (2010). “Cocksure”, p.167, Emblem Editions

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• We all know you can get AIDS from sex, but did you know that you can get sex from aides?

  Garrison Keillor

  Sex, Aids, Knows

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• Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

  Lily Tomlin

  Intelligent, Winning, Play

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