derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Roman consul, urban prefect, and jurisconsult Plotius Pegasus was named by his father, a naval commander, after a ship he commanded?
... that the New Britain bronzewing is rated as a "vulnerable species" because the population is in decline and there are fewer than 5,000 birds in total?
... that Christof Loy received the Der Faust award for staging Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that Michele Strazzabosco played in a preseason game with the Buffalo Sabres prior to the 2006–07 NHL season, becoming the first Italian-trained player to do so in National Hockey League history?
... that the so-called "Tibesti Soda Lake" at the bottom of the Trou au Natron volcanic caldera is actually a mineral crust composed of sodium carbonate?
... that German People's Radio pretended to broadcast from within Germany, but was actually located in Moscow?
... that Nakhl Gardani is a ritual in which a woody structure symbolizing Husayn ibn Ali's coffin is carried on the day of Ashura?
... that in his 1960 Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Maurice Duruflé "shows his particular genius for invoking the spiritual element of plainsong in a polyphonic context"?
... that former Dutch Chess Champion Jorden van Foreest is the great-great grandson of Arnold van Foreest, a three-time Dutch Chess Champion?
... that in 1745, King Frederick II of Prussia came to be known as "Frederick the Great" after defeating Austria and Saxony in the Second Silesian War?
... that M.L. Tahaliyani sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that the song "Why Didn't Rosemary?" from the 1969 album Deep Purple was inspired by the film Rosemary's Baby?
... that in 2014, Sarah Barrow won the first individual European gold medal for a female British diver in 87 years?
... that Antonio Conte is the only person to win the Serie A Coach of the Year award three times in a row?
... that Charles Macdonald called for the creation of a single university for Nova Scotia in his inaugural address at Dalhousie College?
... that the scarlet-breasted fruit dove is normally a quiet bird, but sometimes emits deep, soft, oohoo calls?
... that in 1995, American filmmaker Mark Romanek directed two of the most expensive music videos ever made?
... that "Von guten Mächten", a poem written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison in 1944 where he faced execution, became a hymn with several melodies?
... that the footballer George Poland was rejected by Cardiff City F.C. as an outfield player before making his debut two years later as a goalkeeper?
... that warriors in the epic poem Beowulf wear helmets like the boar-crested Benty Grange helmet ?
... that Leaena Tambyah founded Singapore's first school for children with multiple disabilities in 1979?
... that titanium dioxide nanoparticles prevent cancer when used in sunscreens, but may cause it if inhaled by production workers?
... that during his Presidential campaign, Alton B. Parker refused to criticize the lynchings and denial of Black suffrage in the Southern United States?
... that the Birka female Viking warrior has been described as a shield-maiden similar to Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones?
... that the Comoros blue pigeon has a habit of perching in full sun and raising one wing to expose it to the sun?
... that "Mehmetçik", the common name for Ottoman and Turkish soldiers, is thought to commemorate Bigalı Mehmet Çavuş, who fought during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915?
... that the scientific name of the Blyth's kingfisher , which grows up to 23 centimetres (9 inches) long, derives from the Greek demigod Hercules?
... that in 2005 Atanasio Monserrate and two other ministers resigned from the Manohar Parrikar-led government, leaving it in a minority and thus prematurely bringing down the Government of Goa?
... that the Border Police of Georgia have continued to help enforce Georgian sovereignty over Abkhazia and South Ossetia since the end of the Russo-Georgian War?
... that larvae of the orange-tipped sea squirt are brooded, and settle on the seabed close to the parent within minutes of being released?
... that even though he won the popular vote by a 51–48% margin, Samuel J. Tilden failed to win the U.S. presidency in 1876?
... that Eugene Reimer, who played wheelchair basketball with Terry Fox and Rick Hansen, was the first disabled athlete to receive the Order of Canada?
... that hall of fame horse Eternal Sun's owner purchased him with an IOU written on a corner torn from the page of the seller's catalog?
... that the Muntz Jet was a car that came with the option of a liquor cabinet and ice chest under the rear seat armrests?
... that Alison Van Eenennaam is working on a collaborative research project focused on the production of hornless dairy cattle through gene editing?
... that when Pál Turán was forced to work in a brick factory during World War II, the bumpy crossings of the cart tracks inspired him to ask how to draw graphs with few crossings?
... that despite being urged to do so, William Jennings Bryan refused to drop his free silver plank when he ran for U.S. President in 1900?
... that a 13-city tour for Just the Beginning, a November 2017 album release by 13-year-old America's Got Talent winner Grace VanderWaal, sold out in September?
...that the Forrest's pika has at different times been treated as a subspecies of the Moupin pika, the Royle's pika, and the steppe pika?
... that Jason Chee won a gold medal in table tennis despite losing both his legs, his left arm, one right finger, and his right eye?
... that the landscape in Titian's Gypsy Madonna virtually repeats part of that in the Dresden Venus?
... that Horace Greeley died shortly after he lost the U.S. Presidency to Ulysses S. Grant?
... that Annie Nicolette Zadoks Josephus Jitta's unusual name inspired a book?
... that 18 cities in the Soviet Union had a population of at least one million in 1979?
... that in the American scholar Scott Rozelle's 30-year career as a development economist, he has been mostly concerned with children's health conditions in rural China?
... that a 1912 party hosted by Vine Colby made the news for its originality?
... that Lancastrian lord John Clifford was killed, possibly by an arrow in the throat, while the main Lancastrian army was only a few miles away?
... that in 1974, Mattoon, Illinois's Cross County Mall became the first shopping center in the US to have J. C. Penney, Sears, and Kmart, then the nation's three largest retailers?
... that as UK secretary in the Economic Directorate of the Allied Control Council in post-war Berlin, Lorna Arnold slept with a revolver under her pillow?
... that songs and books for children often depict happy farm animals in attractive countryside, glossing over the realities of impersonal, mechanized activities involved in modern intensive farming?
... that twin sisters Bertha and Bernice C. Downing became owners and publishers of the Santa Clara Journal when they were 17 years old?
... that the black-backed forktail has a call reminiscent of a squeaky hinge?
... that while mating, some species of bat-winged slugs stab each other with a two-pronged penis?
... that after William Lunn's wedding, people destroyed the door of a police watch house in Montreal?
... that Nicholas Nabokov composed an opera Love's Labour's Lost, setting the same play by Shakespeare as the fictional hero of Mann's Doctor Faustus, "in a spirit of the most artificial mockery"?
... that Christine Murrell was the first woman elected to the British General Medical Council, but died before she could take her seat?
... that the California Central Valley city of Porterville purchased an abandoned rail right-of-way to preserve it for the proposed Cross Valley Corridor passenger rail service?
... that Judge Orfa Jean Shontz created an all-female juvenile court with a homelike setting?
... that the Ethiopian highland hare was originally described as a subspecies of the Cape hare, but it was later raised to full species status?
... that when operatic soprano Cynthia Clarey's voice lowered with age, she took up cabaret singing instead?
... that after Silence=Death posters appeared around Manhattan, William Olander created a New Museum exhibit highlighting public indifference to AIDS victims?
... that Linguamyrmex vladi is named for Vlad the Impaler, who was the inspiration for Count Dracula?
... that accordionist Vincent Peirani and pianist Michael Wollny, both multiple ECHO Jazz winners, recorded the "symbiotic" album Tandem?
... that during the Sprague Fire in Glacier National Park, the interior of the historic Sperry Chalet completely burned, leaving only the exterior stone walls standing?
... that The Inquiry, a study group established by US President Woodrow Wilson to make recommendations for the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, suggested that Crimea should be given to Ukraine?
... that Tajama Abraham survived Hurricane Hugo by hiding in a commercial refrigerator with her family?
... that the plain-breasted piculet is usually inconspicuous but may be detected by the pecking sounds it makes while foraging?
... that the lack of breakfast pushed Mab Copland Lineman to fight against a labor union?
... that as part of Chinese weddings, the groom may be made to swallow pungent wasabi, chilli padi, and bitter tea before receiving the bride at her family home?
... that Jane Frances Winn was one of the first female journalists to cover women's golf events?
... that the producers of "Drew Live II" kept many elements of the episode a secret from the cast?
... that Yttralox, a transparent ceramic, was accidentally discovered in the course of fuel cell research in the mid-1960s?
... that Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos, with a libretto by Rihm using only words by Nietzsche, was first performed at the Salzburg Festival and called premiere of the year?
... that a middle-class terrorist organization known as el ABC successfully lobbied for two cabinet positions in the 1933 provisional government of Cuba?
... that before his death at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, John Neville was reported to be in the thick of the fighting and "cutting off arms and heads like a hero of romance"?
... that Lydia Zvereva was the first Russian woman to earn a pilot's license?
... that the alpine pika can produce three different vocalizations: a long call during the mating season, a short call, and an alarm call when threatened?
... that the phrase "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" helped Grover Cleveland win the 1884 U.S. Presidential election?
... that Prussia entered a secret armistice with Austria in October 1741, but Frederick the Great pretended to continue fighting the First Silesian War for another two months?
... that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues?
... that Johannes Brahms used the same melody for a song of his Fünf Lieder, Op. 105, as for the theme of the slow movement of his second piano concerto?
... that a hydroelectric diversion project and a dark matter research lab have been developed deep under the Jinping Mountains in Sichuan, China?
... that Don Amador is portrayed in the film Milk by his friend Cleve Jones, while Jones is portrayed by Emile Hirsch?
... that until the coronation of the Thai monarch is completed, the ruler is considered only a regent and may not sit under the Royal Nine-Tiered Umbrella ?
... that by winning the 2013 Monaco GP2 Series sprint race, Stefano Coletti became the first Monegasque racing driver to win a motor race in Monaco since Louis Chiron in 1931?
... that Sayaka Harada decided to become a voice actress in anime despite not having watched many Japanese cartoons?
... that Californians have a right to access medical aid in dying under the California End of Life Option Act?
... that coloratura soprano Joan Carroll appeared as Alban Berg's Lulu more than 100 times, including the U.S. premiere at the Santa Fe Opera?
... that Tibet's Moupin pika is a burrowing mammal that makes haypiles to store food?
... that 21 of the 26 Michelin 3-star restaurants in Paris serve Kaluga Queen caviar?
... that Liwonde National Park has a population of approximately 12,000 large mammals and more than 380 recorded bird species?
... that Mishkat al-Mumin's advocacy for women's rights angered jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?
... that Guangfu was home to the founders of two of the largest schools of tai chi in the world?
... that an administrative error when appointing W. G. Grace as referee for a Gloucestershire Cup tie during the Eastville Rovers' 1888–89 season voided the result and forced a rematch?
... that website designer Akaliza Keza Gara had to borrow a laptop from her client for her first commission?
... that Gillian Hanson was a world expert on treating the condition that ultimately killed her?
... that Fatou Kiné Camara campaigns for wider access to abortions in Senegal, which has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Africa?
... that the fossil bumble bee Bombus trophonius was named after the Greek hero Trophonius?
... that Hawaiian Independence Day, on November 28, commemorates the Anglo-Franco Proclamation recognizing the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that Mustafa Tuna, the mayor of Ankara from November 2017 to April 2019, was previously an academic in environmental technology?
... that there were rumors that the comic book Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand would end the Ultimate Marvel imprint?
... that artefacts discovered at the Donaldson archaeological site in Ontario include a child's necklace made with bear teeth?
... that "Hawaii's Songbird" Lena Machado had a "ha'i" in her voice?
... that Irene Ovonji-Odida advocated for the East African Community to broaden its scope beyond that of a trade bloc?
... that PS Duchess of Fife received a battle honour for saving 1,633 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk?
... that the Pragmatic Sanction of 1712, allowing a Habsburg princess to become Queen of Croatia, is evoked in the Constitution of Croatia as a demonstration of Croatian millennial statehood?
... that mezzo-soprano Mechthild Georg, a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Köln, performed music by C. P. E. Bach at the first Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that on one day of his 1908 U.S. presidential campaign, William Jennings Bryan gave 30 speeches?
... that Bach's setting of the chorale "Es ist genug" ("It is enough"), with a melody beginning with an unusual whole-tone sequence, was quoted with variations in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto?
... that Reginald Appleby founded the law firm Appleby which has been at the centre of the recent Paradise Papers leak?
... that American Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps won the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year after retiring twice?
... that Ourida Chouaki co-ordinated the 20 ans, barakat! ("20 years is enough!") campaign to reform the Algerian Family Code?
... that Archibald Wager served as the Clerk of Court for three colonial Virginia counties?
... that the reticulated knifefish is sensitive to electric charges and uses this ability to locate objects in the vicinity?
... that Bayview Park ferry wharf in Sydney, Australia, is situated on the historic landing site of 58 exiles from the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1840 ?
... that Jeanne LaDuke worked alongside Natalie Wood as a child actor before becoming a professional mathematician?
... that the gavaksha motif, common in Hindu temples, originated in replications of timber and thatch roofs?
... that the diets of different species of bat include frogs, fish, other bats, nectar, and blood?
... that Estelle Cascarino represented France at the under-19 and under-20 levels in international tournaments in the same year?
... that the Wall of Grief is Russia's first monument ordered by presidential decree for victims killed during the political persecutions of Joseph Stalin?
... that Bongo Joe Coleman was distinguished by a drum set fabricated from 55-gallon oil drums?
... that Moroccan women's rights activist Fedwa Misk named her online magazine Qandisha after a mythical jinn famous for her seductive powers?
... that in 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn visited the Paris office of the YMCA Press and presented an inscribed book thanking the publisher for all his work for Russian culture with them?
... that Japanese artist and poet Chō Kōran became a specialist in ink paintings in the "Four Gentlemen" genre?
... that St. Leonhard in Frankfurt was remodeled from a Romanesque basilica to a late Gothic hall church?
... that in 1946, Flemming Helweg-Larsen became the first person executed by Denmark in more than 50 years?
... that Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne is one of six Irish stepdance competitions claiming the title of World Championships?
... that the Mekong giant earthworm can grow to a length of 2.9 metres (10 feet)?
... that opposition to tyranny in 16th-century Florence led Michelangelo to sculpt a heroic Brutus ?
... that the simple hymn "Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren", used at the end of a meal, became a model for other songs of thanks?
... that communist politician Homi F. Daji called the 1984 Bhopal gas leak "a callous man-made tragedy of unparalleled dimensions"?
... that the gall wasp Bassettia pallida induces oak trees to form galls, but has its own behavior altered by a chalcid wasp?
... that Helicopter 66, which recovered astronauts from five different Apollo missions, has been called "one of the most famous, or at least most iconic, helicopters in history"?
... that Colombian performer J Balvin won Artist of the Year for the second year in a row at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2017?
... that Lillian Bilocca threatened to picket British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's house if he did not impose stronger safety regulations on the fishing industry?
... that the SS Andaste – a hybrid whaleback Great Lakes cargo vessel – disappeared with all hands on Lake Michigan in 1929 and is still listed as unfound?
... that for 70 years, Jerusalem customers have done their banking in an eclectic mansion on Jaffa Road?
... that the coral Acropora aculeus is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching and coral diseases and is listed as a vulnerable species?
... that Tyler Toland became the Republic of Ireland's youngest women's senior international footballer in September 2017?
... that the 2016 article "United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps" was the first article by a sitting U.S. president to be published in an academic journal?
... that Japanese singer Asuka Ōkura made her music debut as her record label contract was about to expire?
... that Nomfunelo Mabedla successfully campaigned for the former flag of South Africa to be removed from the Castle of Good Hope?
... that trains on the 42nd Street Shuttle, the shortest route in the New York City Subway system, run a distance of 2,700 feet (820 m) in 90 seconds?
... that as well as feeding on insects, the greater flowerpiercer probes and pecks flowers to obtain nectar?
... that Ethiopian women's rights activist Nahu Senay Girma's given name means "something good is happening now" and is traditionally a masculine name?
... that racing driver Sam Bird beat Felipe Nasr by eight-hundredths of a second to win the 2013 Bahrain GP2 Series round sprint race, the closest margin of victory in GP2 Series history?
... that one individual Campo troupial was found to have 126 fly larvae in its stomach?
... that Games and Culture criticised Sheva Alomar for being the video game equivalent of Pocahontas?
... that on his first commission from the US, John Rutter composed Gloria as a concert piece for choir, brass, percussion, and organ?
... that Philip Caves' influence on attitudes at Glasgow's Children's Hospital in the 1970s was described as "whirlwind" as he operated on newborns previously considered unfit for surgery?
... that the Norwegian mountaineer Arne Næss Jr. died in a climbing accident four months before he could accept his Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award?
... that biologist Inez Whipple Wilder made contributions to the study of fingerprints and salamanders?
... that Amy H. Herring led a study whose data showed some American women were reportedly virgins at the birth of their first child?
... that acting Arizona territorial governor Isaac T. Stoddard ordered the entire Arizona Territorial Militia sent to control striking miners?
... that the Shoeburyness Boom is the only known Cold War anti-submarine boom?
... that during her compulsory military service, Aya Koren played in an Israeli Air Force band with Yehuda Levi, her future co-star in Yossi & Jagger (2002)?
... that the Transylvanian peasant revolt of 1437 broke out after the local bishop, having suspended the collection of the tithe for years, demanded the arrears in a single payment?
... that Irish rugby referee Joy Neville was the first woman to be an assistant referee in a men's European Challenge Cup match?
... that the Naval Careers Service is the smallest of the four components of Her Majesty's Naval Service?
... that the hospital in Southern Rhodesia where Theresa Robinson Buck worked was renamed in her honour after her death?
... that bird lice in the genus Colpocephalum are "rapid", allowing them to outrun the preening of their host?
... that the 2009 Sky Blue FC team that won the Women's Professional Soccer title employed three different head coaches during the season?
... that the English neurologist Honor Smith was sent to Morocco by the WHO to investigate an outbreak of paralysis caused by contaminated cooking oil?
... that a Hiroshima peace bell was donated to the Aegidienkirche, the ruin of a Gothic church that was left as a war memorial?
... that the video game Sonic Colors was designed to appeal to a wide demographic, specifically children and fans of the Super Mario series?
... that Miroslava Breach, a Mexican investigative journalist known for exposing human rights violations and political corruption, was murdered in March 2017?
... that the California condor louse became extinct when all remaining California condors were deloused in a captive breeding program?
... that the character posings in the manga Phantom Blood were influenced by the sculpture Apollo and Daphne ?
... that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to the Dardeen family homicides that took place in Ina, Illinois, 30 years ago today, but he was never charged?
... that Sushila Rani Patel taught actress Madhubala to speak, read, and write English?
... that Staley T. McBrayer is sometimes referred to as the "Orville Wright" or "Wilbur Wright" of offset newspaper publishing?
... that the tidepool sculpin can leave the rock pool in which it lives, and breathe air?
... that after being injured, Annabelle Lindsay relinquished a scholarship to play college basketball in the United States but has since been awarded another to play wheelchair basketball?
... that Microsoft helped fund a new overpass on Washington State Route 520 near its corporate headquarters in Redmond?
... that Khufiyya is the oldest of the four Sufi orders established in China?
... that Judith Kingston pioneered the use of chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma, an eye cancer found in children?
... that at a time when masonry bridges were widely being replaced by metal truss bridges, the limestone West Sixth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas, replaced an older iron footbridge?
... that Rudolf Geigy established health institutes on two continents and started a foundation that awards scholars who combine field and laboratory work in novel ways?
... that the U.S. Army bombarded the village of Wrangell, Alaska, in 1869 to force the handover of the first man to be given the death penalty under U.S. rule?
... that Ahlem Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution?
... that Kaburakia excelsa, from the west coast of North America, is one of the largest flatworms in the world?
... that Serena Williams has won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year three times, first in 2003 and most recently in 2016?
... that the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service, in existence from 1962 to 2009, had some 650 clients?