derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Turkish socialist politician Fatma Hikmet İşmen used her first senate speech to accuse the Directorate of Religious Affairs of fueling discrimination against Alawites by Sunni Muslims?
... that the county courthouses in New Jersey serve 21 counties in 15 vicinages?
... that the Avenue Range Station massacre involved the shooting murders of nine Aboriginal Australians, including children and a baby, by white settlers?
... that Michèle Dix, managing director of the proposed £27 billion Crossrail 2 project, said she would like to run a tea room when she retires?
... that the species name of the ringed brown snake means "well-behaved" and has been linked to its reluctance to bite people?
... that Barbara A. Bailar resigned from the United States Census Bureau in 1988 to protest a decision not to adjust the 1990 results for systematic undercounting of minorities?
... that before the Han–Liu War, many soldiers bought coffins as they were prepared to fight to the death?
... that Auguste Le Guennant, the director of the Gregorian Institute of Paris, had Duruflé's Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens dedicated to him?
... that Rodinná pouta, the first original series broadcast by the Czech Prima televize, attracted over one million viewers per episode?
... that when Whitefoord Russell Cole threatened striking workers with dismissal and pension loss in 1921, his house was "bombarded with bottles until its concrete porch was littered with glass"?
... that, in 1944, eleven battalions of the Government Army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were sent to northern Italy to support German military operations?
... that Jamaican sprinter Dominique Blake was accidentally awarded a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 m relay?
... that Super Mario World was designed to make the most out of the then-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System's features?
... that Seattle mayoral candidate Cary Moon qualified for the general election by a margin of 1,170 votes?
... that in the pastoral poem "Ich will dich lieben, meine Stärke", by Angelus Silesius, the Soul promises to love Jesus until her death?
... that Raju Patel teamed up with Walt Disney Studios to produce Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book?
... that the slipper sea cucumber is avoided by most predatory fish, crabs, and gastropod molluscs, but is preyed on by starfish, especially the leather star?
... that Queen May Hnin Theindya of Pegu tried to save her husband Tarabya's life by tying her tresses with his?
... that urban planner Robert Moses was said to have laughed at protesters he encountered while surveying routes for the Clearview Expressway in New York City in the 1950s?
... that the German Army used pickelhaube helmets made of boiled leather until halfway through World War I?
... that it took authorities at Kansas City International Airport eight months to find Randy Potter's body in his parked truck, despite recording all license plate numbers nightly?
... that Luca Guadagnino, who directed the romantic drama film Call Me by Your Name, was first hired as a location consultant for the film?
... that the minister, writer, and publisher Christian Gottlob Barth is remembered on 12 November in the Lutheran calendar of saints?
... that the orange-backed troupial often takes over the nest of a yellow-rumped cacique?
... that the British physician Stephanie Amiel has specialised in type I diabetes since her time at Yale University in the 1980s?
... that in its history, the Palau del Parlament de Catalunya has been an arsenal, a barracks, a royal palace, an art museum, and the seat of the Parliament of Catalonia?
... that NASA engineer John Hirasaki says he read The Andromeda Strain prior to being quarantined with the returning Apollo 11 astronauts?
... that William Cotton Hobdy was the private physician to Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii for three years until her death 100 years ago today?
... that the sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2 used by Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 appeared again much later in Ptolemy's Almagest?
... that following Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Quebec City in 1996, riots in Place D'Youville caused around CAD$1 million in damages to shops and to the National Assembly of Quebec?
... that "The Chosen Wan" is the first Singaporean to hold a world title in professional boxing?
... that white plague, a disease affecting corals, may be two or more diseases with similar symptoms?
... that though Robert "Big Mojo" Elem was a fixture on the Chicago blues scene for over forty years, he recorded only one album?
... that Southwestern University's Administration Building is noted for its architecture, even though it was designed by a physicist and not a professional architect?
... that the Rollers won the 2017 Asia-Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships, while the Gliders came in second?
... that after playing with Lego bricks as a child, Roma Agrawal designed both the tip and bottom of The Shard ?
... that Waylon Jennings' 1970s song "Bob Wills Is Still the King" may have been less a tribute to Bob Wills than a friendly jibe at Willie Nelson?
... that the extinct ant Odontomachus pseudobauri was bought from an amber dealer in Basel, Switzerland?
... that after murdering his mistress and her daughter in Ughill Hall, Sheffield, Ian Wood absconded to France and threatened to jump off Amiens Cathedral?
... that St. Stefanus, Ghent, was the venue of a concert dedicated to the Martin Luther Year, featuring Max Reger's setting of Psalm 100?
... that James Fugaté was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy after it was revealed that he wrote Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel under the pen name James Barr?
... that Chris Ashton celebrated scoring the 2010 IRPA Try of the Year with an "Ash-Splash"?
... that the orange cup coral obtains part of its nutritional needs from carbon compounds dissolved in sea water?
... that folklorist William A. Wilson wrote that stories from Mormon folklore are "psychologically true" even if they never actually happened?
... that "Crazy Sally", an 18th-century bonesetter, successfully treated dislocated shoulders and knees in a London coffee house despite having no medical training?
... that Anna Marguerite McCann, the first female American underwater archaeologist, published the earliest research on deep-sea shipwrecks?
... that "Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt", a song of New Jerusalem, was written by Johann Matthäus Meyfart, rector of the Casimirianum, for an academic sermon?
... that Minori Suzuki beat 8,000 others who auditioned for the role of Freyja Wion in the anime series Macross Delta?
... that the Chicago Cubs were awarded the Laureus World Sports Award for Team of the Year after ending their 108-year World Series drought in 2016?
... that the J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World franchise was the "most-snubbed franchise" of all time at the Academy Awards, with 12 nominations and zero wins until its 2017 success?
... that during his world tour in 1878, Ulysses S. Grant became the first U.S. President to visit Jerusalem?
... that the book Bananas, Beaches and Bases argues that banana sales have a "gendered history"?
... that Frederica Wilson suggested that President Donald Trump's response to the deaths of four American soldiers in the Tongo Tongo ambush in Niger might become his Benghazi incident?
... that Manami Numakura cites becoming a fan of the Gundam franchise as a reason behind her becoming a voice actress?
... that power stations in Megawatt Valley were once responsible for up to a quarter of all electricity generated in England and Wales?
... that facing the rise of Nazi ideology, Otto Riethmüller compiled the song "Sonne der Gerechtigkeit" for young people from hymns by three authors of two earlier centuries?
... that Monterey Bay Aquarium was the first public aquarium to exhibit a living kelp forest, which is nearly three stories high?
... that only 20.5 percent of registered Slovenians turned out to vote in a 2017 railway referendum?
... that Monterey Bay Aquarium was the first public aquarium to exhibit a living kelp forest , which is nearly three stories high?
... that Homer Franklin Bassett, a librarian in Waterbury, Connecticut, described 125 new species of gall wasp?
... that Shadia Bseiso from Jordan is the first female Arab wrestler to sign with WWE?
... that the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools worked to end school segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas?
... that the UK Holocaust Memorial, to be built in London's Victoria Tower Gardens, will stand alongside other memorials that raise awareness of injustice?
... that Anthony Franchini, who served in the U.S. Army for both World Wars prior to obtaining U.S. citizenship, recorded more than 3,500 phonograph record sides with Frank Ferera in the 1920s?
... that people have been poisoned after mistaking the deadly dapperling for the grey knight?
... that governor Aleimma of Martaban was assassinated after he was lured to Donwun by a proposed marriage to Hnin U Yaing?
... that the Pemberton Memorial Operating Room, built in 1896, featured the first post-operative recovery rooms in Canada?
... that the Malaysian High Court sentenced 22-year-old Frenchwoman Béatrice Saubin to death by hanging for smuggling 534 grams (1.177 lb) of pure grade heroin?
... that two-thirds of the priests in the Diocese of Ruteng signed a 2015 letter of "no confidence" in Bishop Hubertus Leteng, and this year, 69 priests resigned in protest?
... that with Bosnia and Herzegovina–Holy See relations improving, Pope John Paul II came for a visit —and then police discovered 23 land mines planted in the area where he was to have been driven?
... that Konomi Suzuki was inspired by the character Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier to become a singer for anime?
... that if the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be ranked sixteenth in the world in terms of GDP?
... that footballer Laura O'Sullivan made her international debut for Wales as a goalkeeper less than 18 months after converting to the position?
... that Countess Ämilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt wrote 587 songs and hymns, including "Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende", used in her regular meditations towards a good death?
... that Karl Hoblitzelle was the first movie theater owner in the United States to install air conditioning?
... that the ribbon worm Cerebratulus marginatus can swim well by undulating its body?
... that Patricia Moberly was once arrested for attacking Prime Minister Ted Heath's car with a placard?
... that a one-room schoolhouse established in St. Johns, Ontario, in 1804 is the oldest extant public school in the province, and is still sometimes used as a classroom?
... that the actress Claire Goose began research for her character Tina Seabrook's rape storyline, before the writers scripted it?
... that the 1973 Belmont Stakes was won by Secretariat, whose 31-length lead was the largest margin of victory in the history of the race?
... that Kimmie Taylor of the Kurdish YPJ is the first British woman to travel to Syria to fight ISIS?
... that the memorial to the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots is at the exact location where they died?
... that the adult Madagascan sandgrouse may soak its breast feathers in water to carry moisture to its young?
... that Otto Riethmüller was director of the Confessing Church's youth organisations and created their logo, the Cross on the Globe, in 1935?
... that Grupo Garza Ponce, now one of the largest construction firms in Mexico, had to change its business model every month during the 1982 debt crisis?
... that "Glauben können wie du" by Helmut Schlegel is addressed to Mary, and relates to her exemplary faith, hope and love?
... that Achilleas Kallakis has been called "Britain's most successful serial confidence trickster"?
... that the Carillon and Grenville Railway was the last broad-gauge railway to operate in Canada?
... that the Northwest Hills neighborhood of Austin, Texas, includes a 40-acre complex founded by the chief executive officer of Dell, housing Jewish community centers, synagogues, and schools?
... that Grape-kun, a Humboldt penguin, "fell in love" with a cutout of an anime character?
... that Cambridge University's new North West Cambridge Development has a school building shaped like a Polo mint?
... that Ines Rau is the first transgender woman to be a Playboy Playmate?
... that the lyrics of "Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht" ("I do not let go of my Jesus") are based on memorial sermons for Elector Johann Georg of Saxony, who reflected the ideas on his deathbed?
... that Rudyerd Boulton and his wife, Laura, made the first-ever recordings of the calls of African tropical birds?
... that Eleanor Nathan was a member of the London County Council representing two different parties and two different districts for a total of 16 years?
... that a political scandal erupted in 2014 after operatives of the Liberian National Security Agency illegally seized US$247,500 from a group of South Korean businessmen in a hotel room in Monrovia?
... that Nico Rosberg was presented with the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year two months after he retired from Formula One?
... that Kia Steave-Dickerson, the design artist for four films by M. Night Shyamalan, originally considered a career in dry cleaning?
... that Baloke, a small village in Punjab, is the birthplace of Satnam Singh Bhamara, the first Indian to be drafted into the National Basketball Association?
... that the fungus Arthrobotrys dactyloides can trap a nematode with a ring of hypha before feeding on it?
... that rally driver Louise Cook sold her trophies on eBay to help her continue competing in the 2012 World Rally Championship after her funding dried up?
... that the Rush song "Freewill" was the last studio recording to use the "shrieking high range" of Geddy Lee's vocals?
... that American paleontologist Walter W. Granger used the Fayoum Light Railway for transporting the fossils he had found in Egypt?
... that it is better for one's self-concept to be a big fish in a little pond than a small fish in a big pond?
... that the communion song "Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet" ("God be praised and blessed"), which Martin Luther derived from an older model, entered Catholic hymnals in the 20th century?
... that Dr. William Carpentier, the flight surgeon for Apollo 11 and Apollo 13, was registered on the Air Force One manifest as WFP – "World Famous Physician"?
... that when the citizens of Hanover accepted the Reformation in 1533, the 200-year-old Kreuzkirche became Lutheran?
... that "Es spricht der Unweisen Mund wohl" ("The mouth of fools doth God confess") by Martin Luther was one of eight hymns in the first Lutheran hymnal?
... that in 2011, Myktybek Abdyldayev was part of a group of Kyrgyzstan deputies who sacrificed rams in front of government headquarters?
... that three stanzas of the penitential hymn "Ach lieben Christen seid getrost" ("Ah dear Christians, be comforted") by Johannes Gigas were retained unchanged for Bach's chorale cantata?
... that the United States experienced a Halloween "postcard craze" in the early 1900s?
... that Luke Fildes' painting The Doctor was used to promote state-run healthcare in Britain and to campaign against it in the United States?
... that Chiyuki Urano, a soloist and choir member of the Bach Collegium Japan, recorded songs by Russian amateur composers including Diaghilev with pianist Lera Auerbach?
... that Antoinette Montaigne left her position as city councillor in France to become a minister in the government of the Central African Republic?
... that Aric Almirola received credit for winning the 2007 AT&T 250 despite not finishing the race?
... that Xiong Huizhen, who spent 22 years completing his teacher's unfinished work, was admired by historian Gu Jiegang for his devotion?
... that the Soviet Air Defense Forces' 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment operated Lend-Lease Supermarine Spitfires as air defense for Moscow between 1944 and 1948?
... that Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA, believes Hollywood should use the Rooney Rule to increase the share of African-American writers?
... that Hans Otto Jung was a jazz musician during World War II, ran a winery from the Boosenburg, and was co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that Australia has the earliest mineral grains of Earth's history in the form of Hadean zircons?
... that Perry Askam was the only professional singer in the Hollywood musical Sweet Kitty Bellairs?
... that FVB Mice are used for genetic research because they produce large litters and their eggs have enlarged nuclei?
... that British logistics in the Falklands War depended on ships that were STUFT?
... that the Rotonda de Sampaloc, now the Nagtahan Interchange , originally demarcated the boundary between Manila's suburbs and its urban core?
... that Chief Suah Koko fought several battles against the Liberian government before granting them her land?
... that the underground journey of a metamorphic rock can be shown with a pressure-temperature-time path?
... that South Korean singer Kang In-soo was accepted as a dance major in Sejong University despite not having learned how to dance?
... that My Journey into the Heart of Terror was authored by Jürgen Todenhöfer, the first western journalist to be invited to travel to the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
... that Rudolf Peierls was awarded the Medal of Freedom, but was later refused entry to the United States because he was suspected of being a spy?
... that 22 August 1914, the date of the Battle of the Frontiers, was the deadliest single day on the Western Front in World War I?
... that Ana Lucía Armijos, president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout?
... that Oliver B. Shallenberger invented the first successful electric meter , predecessor to the modern meter used today?
... that Ivo van Hove wrote and directed the 2014 play The Fountainhead, turning Ayn Rand's 1943 epic novel into a four-hour-plus production?
... that Mozambican politician Ivone Soares escaped death in September 2016 when her would-be assassin's weapon jammed?
... that it took a posthumously-sent letter from Terry Pratchett to convince Neil Gaiman to create a Good Omens TV series without him?
... that Johannes Kalitzke adapted an Edgar Allan Poe novel into an opera whose score "could be a musical representation of the world of Hieronymus Bosch"?
... that an entomologist cried "Aha!" when he discovered a new genus of Australian wasp, and that became its name?
... that former international Ruth O'Reilly wrote an article criticising the IRFU for a lack of support for women's rugby during the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup held in Ireland?
... that the largest animal migration by biomass is the daily movement upwards from their refuge in the deep sea undertaken by vast numbers of organisms?
... that Zambian writer Samba Yonga chose a career in journalism after she won a short story prize as a child?
... that under terms of the Quebec Agreement, the United States had to seek British agreement to use nuclear weapons against Japan?
... that Canadian-trained criminologist Ken Attafuah spent part of his secondary school education sleeping in an old and leaky cocoa shed that had been converted into a dormitory?
... that the Estadio Universitario Alberto "Chivo" Córdoba incorporates a mural by Leopoldo Flores in the stands on the west side of the stadium?
... that two of Smash Mouth's U.S. top-ten hits are associated with a big green ogre?
... that two Nativity scenes attributed to Zanobi Strozzi probably belong to an altarpiece now spread between five museums, with some parts missing?
... that one-quarter of respondents to a 2016 survey of Europeans said they had re-gifted their Christmas presents to someone else?
... that the musicologist Willi Gundlach, who founded the chamber choir of Dortmund University, trained volunteers to sing a Bach cantata in one day, including Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
... that the children's book Wombat Divine was written in response to the publisher's request for "a typically Australian Christmas story"?
... that "Long Ago, Prophets Knew, Christ would come born a Jew" was one of about 50 hymns written after 1950 that were included in The New English Hymnal?
... that Queen Victoria was displeased after an organist played an unfamiliar tune for the Advent hymn "Lo! He comes with clouds descending" at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle ?
... that Nicki McNelly, who spent most of her working life as an army wife, later became provost of an Episcopal cathedral?
... that Hollywood studio head Frank Price's decision to film Ghostbusters (1983) was initially considered a "terrible mistake" by industry insiders?
... that the Advent hymn "Wie soll ich dich empfangen" with lyrics by Paul Gerhardt had a melody by Johann Crüger when he published it in 1653, but Bach used a different melody in his Christmas Oratorio?
... that the final episode of the six-part BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was broadcast on Christmas Eve 1984?
... that women's rights campaigner Mozn Hassan is subject to a travel ban and has had her assets frozen by the Egyptian government?
... that Megachile chomskyi , a species of bee named after the linguist Noam Chomsky, has a tongue that is more than half the length of its body?
... that NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Chad Finchum began racing go-karts at age 7 and logged more than 200 wins by age 13?
... that in 2015, the Indian army motorcycle acrobatic team performed for the Chinese army at Daulat Beg Oldi, one of five Border Personnel Meeting points?
... that the asteroid 11441 Anadiego was named after Ana Teresa Diego, an Argentine student activist who was forcibly disappeared?
... that Daniel Rump closely modeled the beginning of his Advent song "Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen" after a Tagelied, a wake-up call for lovers?
... that E. Ann Hoefly was responsible for 180 United States Air Force medical facilities?
... that temples on Mount Mian in Shanxi, China, observe an annual Cold Food Festival?
... that the bells of St Stephen's in Ealing caused complaints, were later moved to the Docklands, and were finally installed in St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen?
... that Danish actor Caspar Phillipson has played President John F. Kennedy in the film Jackie (2016), the short film The Speech JFK Never Gave (2017), and live performances of Kennedy's speeches?
... that Victoria Yar Arol was one of 20–30 children of a Dinka tribal chief?
... that the first test flight of the TD2N Gorgon target drone ended in a crash due to a failure of the aircraft's radio control?
... that J. P. Crawford was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies major league baseball team with the expectation of eventually superseding Jimmy Rollins?
... that before its destruction, Hampi, whose central ruins are now a UNESCO world heritage site, was the world's second-largest medieval city after Beijing?
... that Dandara Touré served only 34 days in the Council of Ministers of Mali due to the 2012 coup?
... that as an outsider, Governor Hou Zongbin was targeted by rumours that blamed him for a riot in which hundreds of people burned buildings and cars?
... that the orange-necked partridge, native to southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia, was discovered in 1927 but was "lost" until its rediscovery in 1991?
... that one train rear-ended another at Singapore's Joo Koon station last month because its new signalling system determined the first train to be half its actual length?
... that Wolfram Röhrig, who was responsible for "entertaining music" including jazz for the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk, recorded Max Reger's Der 100. Psalm?
... that Russian painter Karl Bryullov inserted himself into his picture of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in The Last Day of Pompeii?
... that Andrew David Urshan, an ethnic Assyrian from Persia, conducted Pentecostal revivals in the Midwestern United States?
... that Gambian politician Sirra Wally Ndow-Njie met with North Korean president of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam in 2010?