derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the 2002 Sure For Men Rockingham 500 was the only race of the 2002 CART season to be held in Europe?
... that Swedish television presenter Lasse Bengtsson conducted the first televised interview with Mattias Flink in March 2009, some fifteen years after Flink committed mass murder?
... that the sawfly genus Ulteramus was not placed into any Pamphiliidae subfamily?
... that the illustrations in medical missionary Benjamin Hobson’s influential Treatise on Physiology were derived from William Cheselden's century-old work?
... that when accepted by the National Trust in 1982, the Kingston Lacy estate was the largest bequest they had ever received?
... that T. J. Friedl's signing bonus from the Cincinnati Reds is the largest ever for a player not taken in the MLB draft?
... that the music video for DJ Shadow's "Nobody Speak", featuring Run the Jewels, has been described as "brutal" and "politically charged"?
... that Seagate Technology faced a class action over the failure rates of its ST3000DM001 3TB hard disk drives?
... that a local newspaper criticized the PRI's nomination of Marco Antonio García Ayala to represent Baja California, saying he "doesn't even belong to this state"?
... that this month, a researcher from WWT Slimbridge plans to become a "human swan"?
... that construction of Inuvik's circular "Igloo Church" began without a building permit?
... that Rosalie Lalonde is the youngest player on the Canadian women's Paralympic wheelchair basketball team?
... that about 100 people were arrested in several European countries in connection with a terror plot against the 1998 FIFA World Cup?
... that Heroes of Remix is the first variety show in China to feature electronic dance music (EDM)?
... that Elaine D. Harmon's mother thought Women Airforce Service Pilots "were all just awful, just probably loose women"?
... that dishes at the two Michelin star Lettonie included scrambled duck egg flambéed with vodka and served with Sevruga caviar?
... that in 1967, at the age of 16 years and 102 days, Stanley Bish became the youngest player ever to represent PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie?
... that contrary to popular belief, the EU did not attempt to ban prawn cocktail crisps?
... that Daniel Michel is the first Australian boccia player selected to compete at the Paralympic Games since 2000?
... that in 2012, Opera Lafayette staged Le Roi et le Fermier at the Royal Opera of Versailles using rediscovered sets from a 1780 production?
... that Susan Stover has received multiple awards for her research into the causes and prevention of performance-related injuries in racehorses?
... that the melody for the hymn "Herzlich tut mich verlangen" was taken from a love song and became the tune of "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded"?
... that fictional character Daniel Wolek on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live was recast with several actors, prompting a producer to call it "the role from hell?"
... that before he became Chief Justice of Manitoba, Richard J. Scott served as the trial judge in R v Lavallee, a case which granted legal recognition to battered woman syndrome as a defence?
... that some employees of Tajikistan's government were required to buy shares in the Rogun Dam project in order to keep their jobs?
... that though Romanian courtier Ioan Kalinderu lacked any interest in riding, he rode a horse every day after reading that this was the fashion among lords in London?
... that Turkish Paralympian Handan Biroğlu earned a spot in archery at the 2016 Rio Paralympics despite only taking up the sport in 2013?
... that actor Kit Harington publicly apologized for "lying to everyone" about the onscreen fate of his Game of Thrones character Jon Snow?
... that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened its first foreign-speaking mission in French Polynesia?
... that after sacking his deputy as Governor of Barbados, Lord Willoughby wrote "My late Deputy Coll: Codrington hath harrassed them to death wth heedless improssitions"?
... that after Razer announced a partnership with Riot Games, a League of Legends style Razer Naga Hex was released?
... that Sarajevo-born musician Tomo Miličević emigrated to the United States and played in a number of local bands, including Morphic, before joining Thirty Seconds to Mars?
... that Changes, a 1987 advert for the Volkswagen Golf, is said to have "spawned a new era in car advertising"?
... that the unsolved shooting death of Henryk Siwiak 15 years ago today is officially the only homicide that occurred in New York City on 9/11?
... that Swedish astronomer Anders Spole, by the order of King Karl XI, travelled to Torneå and Kengis with Johannes Bilberg to study the midnight sun?
... that the 18th-century Burmese court treatise Mani Yadanabon has been described as "a repository of historical examples illustrating pragmatic political principles worthy of Machiavelli"?
... that Spencer Jones played the 16th-century actor William Kempe in the sitcom Upstart Crow as a parody of Ricky Gervais?
... that a survey in Bolivia reported that one in three respondents had paid bribes to customs officials the previous year?
... that Eleonore Büning wrote in the FAZ that Patrice Chéreau's staging of the Jahrhundertring revolutionised the understanding of Wagner in Germany?
... that in 2006, a King created a world record when riding the Severn bore?
... that singer Syster Sol won the award for Best Reggae/Dancehall at the 2014 Kingsizegala?
... that Kansas City Chiefs rookie linebacker Dadi Nicolas played his senior year of college with a broken hand?
... that the Jurassic La Negra Formation in northern Chile contains products of submarine volcanism?
... that Rangers F.C. did not knowingly sign any Catholic players between the 1920s and 1980s?
... that Tony Sainsbury is the chef de mission of the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics?
... that Hollyoaks producer Bryan Kirkwood believed he had let Tamara Wall down with the initial characterisation of her character Grace Black?
... that whilst loading tanks at night on the Gilling and Pickering Line during World War II, soldiers would stand on either side of the wagons smoking cigarettes to guide the tank drivers?
... that the Jurassic Coast reveals 185 million years of the geological history of southern England?
... that Turkish female goalball player Sevda Altınoluk was named top scorer at several international competitions?
... that for his 1929 first recording of By the Blue Hawaiian Waters, composer Albert Ketèlbey used a saxophone for a Hawaiian "love-call"?
... that Kunwar Singh Negi, winner of both the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, has transcribed 300 books in various Indian languages into Braille?
... that the annual Kentucky Avenue Renaissance Festival commemorates the R&B and jazz nightspots that once lined this street in Atlantic City, New Jersey?
... that Jesús Sesma Suárez has represented San Luis Potosí and Jalisco in the federal Chamber of Deputies, and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District?
... that Kickstarter was not available in mainland Europe in 2012, so Digitalmindsoft crowdfunded video game Call to Arms through their website?
... that in exchange for the model kit license for Star Trek, Aluminum Model Toys built full-size props of the Galileo shuttlecraft?
... that Victor Lundin, who portrayed the first Klingon seen in Star Trek, had auditioned for the role of Spock?
... that Scott Bakula was the only actor considered to play Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise?
... that "World Enough and Time", an episode of the fan production Star Trek: New Voyages, was nominated for both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, competing against professionally made episodes?
... that Ro Laren was intended to be a main character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but actress Michelle Forbes rejected the role?
... that with the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Infinite Vulcan", Walter Koenig became the first Star Trek actor to write for the franchise?
... that set designer Linda DeScenna was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction on five occasions, for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, The Color Purple, Rain Man, and Toys?
... that the set used to shoot the Star Trek: Voyager subplot Janeway Lambda one was nicknamed "the Jane Eyre set" by the filming crew?
... that during the development of Spock, both DeForest Kelley and Martin Landau were offered the role before Leonard Nimoy ?
... that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family" was the first episode of the franchise not to have any scene set on the bridge?
... that Michael Piller felt that the mention of Spock in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Sarek" opened the doors to further references to The Original Series?
... that after Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett transported some old Star Trek footage from a film vault, it was sold as film clips by Lincoln Enterprises?
... that prior to casting Andrea Martin as the female Ferengi Ishka on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David Livingston suggested Wallace Shawn in drag?
... that Gene Roddenberry pranked Steven W. Carabatsos on his first day on Star Trek by inflating a weather balloon in his office?
... that Gene Roddenberry was the surviving flight officer from the crash of Pan Am Flight 121 in the Syrian desert in 1947?
... that Don Ingalls first met Gene Roddenberry when they worked at the Los Angeles Police Department, and went on to be credited with writing two episodes of Star Trek?
... that in 1977, it was announced that Star Trek would return to television with the series Phase II?
... that after Bruce Mars's acting career, which included three appearances on Star Trek, he became a monk in the Self-Realization Fellowship?
... that the novel miniseries Star Trek: The Lost Era was intended to fill in a 70-year gap between the death of Captain Kirk and the start of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
... that Gary Hutzel was nominated for more than 20 Emmy Awards, winning two for Battlestar Galactica and one each for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
... that Star Trek's Commander Riker used MainView to advertise its use for other enterprises?
... that the phrase "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" did not originate in Star Trek, but instead in the parody song "Star Trekkin'"?
... that Bradley Cooper is the tenth man to be nominated for an Academy Award for acting in three consecutive years?
... that an advance video release from The Black Parade/Living With Ghosts sparked rumors of a possible reunion tour of the American rock band My Chemical Romance?
... that serving as a juvenile court judge motivated William Gant to create the Daviess County Children's Center to provide housing for children in his hometown of Owensboro, Kentucky?
... that following the arrest of Rolf Harris, no one knows the location of his painting, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – An 80th Birthday Portrait?
... that new Cornell basketball head coach Brian Earl's Ivy League career games started and three-point field goals records were broken by Cornell's Ryan Wittman?
... that Anatoliy Golitsyn sparked off the Martel affair when he revealed that the French intelligence agencies and armed forces had been deeply penetrated by the KGB?
... that Madison Janssen, a national and world champion as a junior BMX rider, set a world record and won a world championship on a tandem bicycle with skier and athlete Jessica Gallagher?
... that headlines on Reductress have included "We're Piercing My Baby's Tongue" and "How To Friendzone Ethan While He's Still Inside You"?
... that suffragettes may have burned down Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club's pavilion because a Kent official denying there was a ban on women asked "who do you think makes the teas"?
... that the philosopher Rachel Cooper has written book-length analyses of both the fourth and fifth editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
... that a reference to "DLCNukaWorld.esm" in the source code of Fallout 4 led to rumors of Fallout 4: Nuka-World months before its announcement?
... that Enrique Jackson was designated to represent the Chamber of Deputies in the Constitutional Assembly of Mexico City after the original selection was controversial?
... that the Star Wars expanded universe villain Grand Admiral Thrawn will be reintroduced into the franchise's official canon in an upcoming episode of the animated series Star Wars Rebels?
... that Max Reger's Zwölf Stücke, Op. 80, for organ contains nine pieces composed in 1904 and three from 1902?
... that the K2 tax scheme was called "morally wrong" by British Prime Minister David Cameron?
... that Iranian filmmaker Morteza Avini, who was killed by a landmine in 1993, was named "the master of martyred literati" by the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei?
... that through its Forum Arts Program, East Texas State College students had the opportunity to see Lyndon B. Johnson, Alex Haley, the Ballet Folklórico de México, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band?
... that Ángel García Yáñez is the first deputy candidate from Mexico's New Alliance Party to win his district?
... that selected "imaginators"—characters created through the video game Skylanders: Imaginators—will be printed by 3D printers and turned into real-life toys?
... that as governor of Ōita Prefecture, Morihiko Hiramatsu initiated the One Village One Product movement?
... that when "Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn", a hymn by Johann Georg Albinus paraphrasing Psalm 6, was first printed, it appeared with a dance tune?
... that Ahmad Abughaush won Jordan's first Olympic medal with a gold in taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that Kalikho Pul, former Chief Minister of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, once earned a living selling paans, making bamboo fences and thatched houses, and working as a watchman?
... that after Billy Bremner and Kevin Keegan were sent off for fighting in the 1974 FA Charity Shield, an attempt was made to charge them with breach of the peace?
... that after 12,000 Wahhabis from the first Saudi State sacked Karbala and killed at least 2,000 people, they left the city with 4,000 camels carrying their plunder?
... that the fictional character Aunt Agatha in the Jeeves novels by British author P. G. Wodehouse was based on Wodehouse's own aunt, Mary Bathurst Deane?
... that during the main event of the Sin Escape Con Correas professional wrestling show, some wrestlers were given leather straps to use them on anyone who left the ring?
... that Albert Sherman Christensen was the co-founder of the first American Inn of Court in 1980?
... that the costumes in the film Maheshinte Prathikaaram were secondhand, bartered from local residents in exchange for new clothes?
... that golfer Thomas Detry broke the Challenge Tour record for largest winning margin with his 12-shot win at the 2016 Bridgestone Challenge?
... that all the other doctors at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children resigned in protest after the appointment of Eliza Walker Dunbar?
... that after a mixed critical response to their previous album, Megadeth's 2016 Dystopia was well-received by most critics and charted at number 3 on the Billboard 200?
... that Rhode Island's William C. O'Neill Bike Path follows a route first proposed for use as a school children's rail line?
... that in 2010 and 2016, Rafael Yerena Zambrano was reelected unopposed as the secretary general of the Federation of Workers of Jalisco?
... that for over 40 years, the artist Claude Lorrain recorded his paintings by drawing copies in his Liber Veritatis or "Book of Truth"?
... that in 2016, Andrew Butchart broke the Scottish 5000 metres record, despite running the last lap of the race with only one shoe?
... that Ante Pavelić ordered eight days of mourning for members of his Bodyguard Battalion when Mijo Babić was killed during the June 1941 uprising in eastern Herzegovina?
... that Asha Kreimer disappeared on her way to the restroom of the Rollerville Cafe in Flumeville?
... that award-winning Broadway shows Hamilton, Bright Star, and The Humans were workshopped at the Powerhouse Theater?
... that despite being labeled as "long-winded and pretentious", the legal autobiography My Life in Court spent 72 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list?
... that there is no direct evidence that an ancient Roman bust known as the Capitoline Brutus is the Roman consul Lucius Junius Brutus it is commonly thought to depict?
... that the King William Ale House in Bristol was built in the 17th century as a women's refuge?
... that Peter Cunningham's earliest professional assignment was to shoot Bruce Springsteen's first publicity photos for Columbia Records?
... that Sandra Blow's only large-scale glass artwork, Flight Structure, is installed in Heathrow Airport's Compass Centre?
... that "Outdoor Miner" by the English rock band Wire was covered 19 times on a 2004 tribute album?
... that Mary Isabella Hales Horne was the mother of 15 children, including three sets of twins?
... that the fossil ant Gesomyrmex incertus was described from a single queen's head?
... that U.S. senators Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy toured the Mississippi Delta in 1967 and made hunger a public issue in the United States as a result?
... that Mary Kitson Clark's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England?
... that the wonut is a combination of a waffle and doughnut that went viral in April 2014 following media exposure?
... that the dairy-farming area of Warmingham, Cheshire, is the source of around half the pure salt manufactured in the UK?
... that Revival stars a character that writer Tim Seeley had spent nearly 20 years developing?
... that basketball player Anthony Stover sacrificed a higher salary in hopes of winning an NBL Canada championship?
... that 2-satisfiability can be used to schedule round-robin tournaments so that teams alternate between home and away games as much or as little as possible?
... that Shriya Saran played the female lead in the 2007 film Sivaji, India's most expensive film to that point?
... that parts of the Altiplano may have been covered by the lake Ouki in the past?
... that former German ambassador to China Erwin Wickert was an alumnus of Dickinson College of Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
... that the tail of Laticauda colubrina resembles and moves like its head in order to deter predators?
... that Trenton, Georgia, adopted a version of the previous state flag to protest against the state changing its flag?
... that Swedish actor Liam Norberg became a devout Christian while serving time in prison for a bank robbery?
... that argonium, an ion composed of an argon atom and a proton, was the first noble gas molecular ion to be found in interstellar space?
... that during World Championship Wrestling's Capital Combat show, RoboCop saved Sting from the Four Horsemen?
... that a report around 2013 on American used goods outlets put Goodwill first with a 21% market share, Winmark second with nearly 6%, and The Salvation Army third with nearly 4%?
... that in 1985, Rosa Namises lost her job in a Namibian hospital after she was seen holding hands in public with a white doctor?
... that Daniel Catán's opera Il Postino is set in Italy but sung in Spanish?
... that the Craigievar Express is driven by a steam engine previously used in a sawmill?
... that 18th-century chemist Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French?
... that while visiting segregated South Africa in 1947, George VI noticed the national motto Ex Unitate Vires on a tablecloth and said, "Not much bloody Unitate about this place!"?
... that in 2012, a small Ru ware bowl from the Song dynasty was sold for HK$207.86 million (US$26.7 million)?
... that the newspaper publisher Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth gave money to a charity fund after his chauffeur killed a boy while driving Harmsworth's car?
... that Arizona's Queen Creek Tunnel is the first in the state to be equipped with LED lighting?
... that after declaring independence from the Ava Kingdom, Thinkhaya III of Toungoo built his own palace, but left out the royal white umbrella?
... that in a Polish study, the silver stretch spider ate an average of 3.7 mosquitoes per day in early June?
... that New London Union Station was the largest, last, and—according to biographer Henry-Russell Hitchcock—"best" railroad station designed by Henry Hobson Richardson?
... that Cortana correctly predicted the winners of the first 14 matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup knockout stage?
... that in 1992, civilian employees of Consairway were granted veteran status by the Veterans Benefits Administration for their World War II service transporting munitions and military personnel?
... that in April 1945, the artist Eric Taylor was among the first British troops to enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when it was liberated?
... that 71% of permanently protected land in the Guapi-Guapiaçú Environmental Protection Area in Brazil has no natural vegetation?
... that in Hale v. Henkel, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment did not apply to corporations?
... that Thomas Aldersey gave the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, now an educational charity, their first school?
... that Quantum Break was described as a "transmedia action-shooter video game and television hybrid"?
... that the Irish footballer Jeff Chandler was "never the same player" after suffering a knee injury in Bolton Wanderers' fourth game of their 1987–88 season?
... that the Divisional Railway Hospital in Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli, India, is the oldest in its zone?
... that Edward A. Geary was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives by his Republican and Democrat peers?
... that the 1949 film Passport to Pimlico is dedicated to the memory of Second World War British food and clothing ration coupons?
... that Otto Bock technicians at the 2016 Paralympic Games carried out 3,361 repairs for 1,162 athletes, including 2,745 repairs to wheelchairs?
... that groups including the Beach Boys and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young playing at the Big Sur Folk Festival were never paid more than US$50 per performer?
... that after Joan Risch's apparent abduction from her home 55 years ago today, it was discovered she had borrowed books on missing-person cases from the local library?
... that the Nursing Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh was the first such department in a British university?
... that the 1955 Tamil language film Doctor Savithri is a contemporary adaptation of the story of Savitri and Satyavan?
... that the parish of St Silin's contains a part of England under the jurisdiction of the Church in Wales?
... that scholar Frederick Sherwood Dunn led a move that was described by a university president as "Yale fumbled and Princeton recovered the ball"?
... that argon oxide, an argon compound, interferes with the detection of iron-56 in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry?
... that the intense fumes emitted by the crushed leaves of the so-called headache vine cause one to feel like one's head is "exploding" ... making the inhaler forget all about the headache?
... that Johanna Umurungi was the only female Rwandan swimmer at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that Max Reger composed the chorale fantasia Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Op. 27, for Karl Straube, who premiered it before it was published?
... that after being ousted from his emirate in Aleppo, Mansur ibn Lu'lu' commanded a Byzantine army unit?
... that Antonio Giovinazzi achieved his first GP2 series pole position at the 2016 Baku round and went on to win both the weekend's races?
... that Lisbeth Hockey was the first nurse to be awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of General Practitioners?
... that the New York City neighborhood of Brownsville has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States?
... that Brazilian Minister of the Environment Carlos Minc supported the creation of what he called a "green sheath" around BR-319 ?
... that John Travolta will play New York mob boss John Gotti in an upcoming film?