derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Delaware Railroad was sued in 1863 because it did not have enough freight cars to transport a bumper crop of peaches?
... that Kent Nagano commissioned Jörg Widmann's oratorio Arche for the opening celebrations of the Elbphilharmonie , and conducted 300 performers in the premiere?
... that Ada Bell Maescher produced Night Life in Hollywood as a propaganda film to depict Hollywood as a model city populated by home-loving people?
... that Titian intended his painting of the Pietà to hang over his grave, but it never did?
... that before working with Bob Crewe and Dusty Springfield, folk singer Norma Tanega performed at summer camps and a mental hospital?
... that Saunders' embiids live in silken tubes and camouflage their eggs, perhaps to prevent cannibalism?
... that Ursula K. Le Guin's 2006 novel Voices has been compared to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which also prominently features the destruction of books?
... that during the Rhine Campaign of 1796, the French troops were hampered by having to steal their supplies, which turned the local populations against them?
... that the 1992 New Delhi by-election included the candidacies of two Bollywood stars and a "Bandit Queen"?
... that as of 12 September, 48 wildfires in Montana were actively burning?
... that Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir was killed on the spot after he shot dead a general who had tried to take over the Special Forces Command HQ during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt?
... that the comic book Ultimate End was made by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, who had created the Ultimate Marvel imprint 15 years before?
... that Tre Canti di Leopardi, three orchestral songs by Wilhelm Killmayer, are based on poems from Canti, addressing the infinite, the self, and the moon?
... that the anti-illegal immigration bill Georgia House Bill 87, which was signed into law in 2011, was partly based on Arizona's SB 1070 immigration bill?
... that the Martian dunes of Ogygis Undae consist of two different sand types, and look similar to the dunes in Grand Falls, Arizona?
... that Shirley Pitts was trained by the Forty Elephants and became the "queen of shoplifters"?
... that white-crowned forktails breed between mountaintops in Borneo, but not with individuals of the same species in adjacent lowlands?
... that the dark, organic setting of the graphic adventure video game Oxenfree was designed to contrast with its bright, geometric, supernatural elements?
... that two years after Henry Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Groby, fought alongside King Richard II in the 1385 invasion of Scotland, the king and queen stayed the night in Ferrers' castle?
... that Xafecopy Trojan attacked at least 4,800 Android users in just a month?
... that in 1948, Oreste Pucciani, champion of the "direct method" of language teaching, banned English from his classroom at UCLA?
... that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan described the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement as the "great prize"?
... that astronomer Alan Duffy is constructing a dark matter detector 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) underground in a gold mine?
... that Titian's 1516 work The Tribute Money was painted to be a cupboard door?
... that the Glover's pika was at different times treated as a subspecies of the Turkestan red pika and the Chinese red pika, but is now accepted as an independent species?
... that carbon-carrying minerals are known as organic minerals, except for some that were considered inorganic before 1828?
... that Dua Lipa said that her song "New Rules" talks about setting rules to keep "your distance from someone who's bad for you"?
... that while working on the representations of the Lorentz group, an encounter with Dirac convinced Harish-Chandra that he did not have "the mysterious sixth sense which one needs in order to succeed in physics"?
... that residents of Uttan aided Gilbert Mendonca's candidacy in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election by refusing to allow other candidates to campaign in their town?
... that the 1896 novel The Courage of Her Convictions by Caroline Augusta Huling is the story of a woman who is artificially inseminated?
... that the lambda designed by Tom Doerr as a symbol for the Gay Activists Alliance was chrome yellow, a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel Crome Yellow?
... that the bluffs near where Hiram Scott died in 1828 bear his name?
... that a canoeist bore the São Tomé and Príncipe flag at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics, but at the closing ceremony it was carried by an unnamed volunteer?
... that Maryam Mirzakhani won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize for women in mathematics a year before she won the Fields Medal for the same work?
... that the acorn worm Saccoglossus bromophenolosus is named after a chemical found in its tissues?
... that as part of her journalism degree, sportscaster Kelly Crull worked at KOMU-TV?
... that while many people think "Trapped" is a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1980s, it was written and recorded by Jimmy Cliff in 1972?
... that after a drunkard smashed the Portland Vase into hundreds of pieces, John Doubleday was dubbed "the prince of restorers"?
... that Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik used concrete sewer pipes for construction of the Church of St. Michael?
... that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to whom she is now buried in Atlanta?
... that after the Stadt Zürich collided with another ship in Lindau Harbour, a Bavarian correspondent sarcastically commented that it had sunk more German ships than the entire Royal Danish Navy?
... that Hippopotamus is Sparks' first UK top-ten album in over 40 years?
... that architect Mikhail Eisenstein and his film-director son Sergei fought on opposite sides of the Russian Civil War?
... that the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor raised money for New York's Neponsit Beach Hospital by distributing pictures of "Smiling Joe", a boy with spinal tuberculosis?
... that the Kraków Fire of 1850 destroyed approximately 10% of the city?
... that Nannie C. Dunsmoor, a Los Angeles pioneer woman physician practicing into her 80s, was the oldest United States active member of the Soroptimist Club?
... that the call of the slaty-backed forktail can easily be mistaken for that of the Blyth's kingfisher?
... that the Massachusetts Convention of Towns in 1768 created a war scare, causing prices to drop on the London Stock Exchange?
... that in order to accurately portray her character Kirsty Clements' domestic violence storyline, actress Lucy Gaskell spoke to women affected by domestic abuse?
... that when the Pass A L'Outre Light began to sink into the ground, its floor was raised and a new door cut in its side to compensate?
... that Frederick Brundrett, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, was one of Britain's oldest first-class field hockey players?
... that Rupes Tenuis , the Martian north polar scarp, may have been in retreat since the Late Amazonian period?
... that cowboy Little Joe Monahan's gender became a national news story in 1904?
... that the Hashemite dynasty, Jordan's royal family, claims custodianship over Jerusalem's holy sites?
... that one year ago today Chapel Hill, North Carolina, police released an image of a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth homicide based purely on DNA left at the crime scene?
... that South African footballer Lorenzo Gordinho joined the Kaizer Chiefs academy at the age of 15?
... that the Yunnan hare was formerly considered a subspecies of the woolly hare but is now treated as a separate species?
... that when the jazz pianist Michael Wollny was artist in residence of the Rheingau Musik Festival, he played a concert with Andreas Schaerer, Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani?
... that during the tug of war at the 1900 Olympics, a journalist was drafted into the gold medal winning team?
... that although it drinks when it gets the chance, the Natal red rock hare can obtain all the moisture it needs from its food and the dew?
... that Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water by Frederick Delius are wordless songs for an a cappella choir, described as being amongst the composer's "most transcendently ecstatic moments"?
... that when Kyrgyz politician Bakyt Torobayev stood as candidate for speaker of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan in 2016 along with Kanat Isayev, the result was a tie?
... that software pirates created an unofficial port of Sega's 1991 video game Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo Entertainment System that features Mario instead of Sonic?
... that Lebanese singer Layal Abboud worked as a police officer before becoming a pop star?
... that the cellar system under the Kőbánya district of Budapest, Hungary, has served as a limestone quarry, a beer cellar, an aircraft engine factory, and a bicycle race venue?
... that the season two premiere of the Canadian television series 19-2 featured an uninterrupted, 13-minute single-camera sequence of a school shooting, based on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal?
... that last month, Kirti Kumari, a sitting member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, died of an H1N1 infection?
... that some of the mounds of the Martian formation of Abalos Colles are similar to volcanoes in Iceland?
... that in Telemaco, one of Alessandro Scarlatti's last operas, Minerva enters in a chariot which holds a string orchestra with trumpets?
... that German Jewish architect Ludwig Levy designed many synagogues across Germany in the late 19th century?
... that USS Omaha (CL-4) was the last United States Navy ship to be awarded prize money?
... that 14-year-old Lai Ning died fighting a forest fire in China in 1988 and was subsequently declared a revolutionary martyr?
... that Vince Lombardi began his football coaching career at New Jersey's St. Cecilia High School, where he taught algebra, chemistry, physics and Latin, in addition to his coaching duties?
... that the Martian wedge-shaped mound Abalos Mensa has been described as "an enigmatic wedge of material"?
... that Anette Hosoi designed a robot snail that moved by rippling over artificial snail slime?
... that the 2017 Washington wildfires caused ash to fall "like snow" on Seattle?
... that Ōrora Satoshi is the heaviest ever wrestler in professional sumo?
... that television showings and online streaming of the documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence were stopped after a blogger discredited its key photograph?
... that the Styriarte music festival publicly screened Mozart's Coronation Mass, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, from the church of Stainz ?
... that Nancy Coonsman sculpted Victory, the war memorial erected in Cheppy, France, to honor the men from Missouri in the 35th Infantry Division killed during World War I?
... that the creator of the popular YouTube channel Ali-A has been called a "YouTube megastar" by the BBC?
... that Jiva Pandu Gavit is the only Communist Party of India member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly?
... that during his presidency, Ronald Reagan appeared on the covers of records by the Ramones, Fela Kuti, Bootsy Collins, and The Clash?
... that heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Lidia left a sinkhole engulfing a street in central Mexico City?
... that King Hussein responded to the 1989 Jordanian protests by lifting martial law and reintroducing parliamentary elections?
... that Irene Clennell was deported from the UK, despite having a British husband, because she had spent too long abroad?
... that the purpose of the statue Spirit of the Confederacy in Houston, Texas, unveiled on Robert E. Lee's birthday in 1908, has been questioned since the 2015 Charleston church shooting and the 2017 Unite the Right rally?
... that Raymond Leane was described as the "foremost fighting leader" in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I?
... that in the American West from the 1860s to the 1880s, nearly 25% of cowboys were black?
... that Paolo and Francesca, the second work "for Reader with Piano accompaniment" by pianist and composer Berenice Wyer, was performed in New York and Chicago?
... that the Martian dunes of Aspledon Undae may have formed due to erosion of part of the Planum Boreum?
... that the house of Judith Ellen Foster, the "Iowa lawyer" of the temperance movement, was burnt down, presumably by her opponents?
... that the absurdist Twitter writer known as dril continues to insist that he is not owned, even as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corncob?
... that Frederick Langenheim made the first set of panoramic images of Niagara Falls and a sequential set of images of the first American total solar eclipse ever photographed?
... that the Swiss mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Glauser performed in the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, and created the role of Babette in Henze's The English Cat?
... that the Cook Islands flashlightfish produces light with the help of bioluminescent bacteria?
... that the French Football Federation issued a reversal of a league win after Amiens SC disputed Olympique Noisy-le-Sec player Frédéric Boniface's eligibility to play in the match?
... that the common loon used to be known as call-up-a-storm in New England, because its noisy cries supposedly foretold stormy weather?
... that the producers of the horror podcast Tanis have never confirmed whether the show is fictitious?
... that although Tammy Kingery left her keys inside her South Carolina house when she disappeared from it three years ago today, the door was found locked from the outside?
... that learning Japanese bamboo weaving involves a lengthy apprenticeship and the skills require at least a decade to fully master?
... that before becoming a state representative and state senator, George Merryman served as a ship's doctor on a commercial steamship traveling between Portland, Oregon and the Far East?
... that N. K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky has been favorably compared to works by famed science fiction authors Ursula K. Le Guin and William Gibson?
... that as a member of the communist student movement, Bihar legislator Umadhar Singh was jailed for eight years with his legs in chains?
... that the clarinetist Jörg Widmann composed Babylon, an opera in seven scenes, on a commission from the Bavarian State Opera to a libretto by Peter Sloterdijk?
... that Una R. Winter reported in 1935 that there was very little interest in women's suffrage in Mexico?
... that after a deal with Shark Tank member Mark Cuban fell through, meal kit delivery service Plated earned a deal with another shark?
... that in 2006, the English communist Anita Halpin recovered Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Kirchner, which was looted from her grandfather by the Nazis, and sold it for £20.5 million?
... that "The Madness of King Scar" was recorded and storyboarded for The Lion King, but Disney removed it, probably due to its explicit content?
... that Hanno Müller-Brachmann appeared as Papageno in Claudio Abbado's award-winning recording of Die Zauberflöte, and recorded Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Michael Gielen?
... that the Fort Bragg Game was the first regular-season professional sporting event held at an active military base?
... that Sheryl Lee was originally given the role of Mary Alice Young on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, but the producers decided to replace her with Brenda Strong?
... that Enver Baig accused the Pakistan national cricket team's players of being involved in match fixing?
... that when only 23 years old, Nigel Williams was tasked with restoring "the most iconic object" from a spectacular archaeological discovery?
... that the amphipod Luckia striki was named after the location of its discovery, the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent?
... that Ghanaian legislator Samuel Atta Akyea suggested that the fight against galamseyers required military support?
... that the video game developer Dontnod Entertainment found success in narrative-driven games after their debut action game had poor sales?
... that Elizabeth Wade White was accepted into the B.Litt. program at Oxford, despite not having an undergraduate degree?
... that the opera Das Schloß by Aribert Reimann, on his own libretto after Kafka's novel, premiered in 1992 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin?
... that by portraying Alex Parrish in Quantico, Priyanka Chopra became the first South Asian to headline an American network drama series?
... that although the 8.0Mw 1679 Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake devastated towns near Beijing, China, during the Qing dynasty, another large earthquake along this fault is not expected for 6,500 years?
... that 19th-century concert singer Sarah Mundell Crane was the mother of silent movie actor Harry Ogden Crane?
... that Kalasipalyam in central Bangalore, India, known for its traffic congestion and unhygienic conditions, is also a transportation hub for 800,000 bus passengers a day?
... that an 1847 shipment of Massachusetts foreign aid to Ireland was called repayment for an Irish donation to Massachusetts in 1676?
... that Eleonore von Grothaus, a writer and poet, raised thirteen children, including seven from her husband's first marriage, and educated a future queen?
... that the Basilica of St. James in Levoča contains the world's tallest carved wooden altar ?
... that Edith Kawelohea McKinzie was named a Living Treasure of Hawai'i after indexing early 19th-century Hawaiian-language newspapers and documenting the genealogy of the chiefs of Kahoolawe?
... that the name of Tekken character Lars Alexandersson was proposed to the development staff by an unknown woman from the Swedish embassy in Japan?
... that the First Toungoo Empire adopted the Wareru Dhammathat, the customary law code of the defeated Hanthawaddy Kingdom, as its basic law?
... that Grant Liddle discovered Liddle's syndrome, a genetic cause of high blood pressure?
... that librarian Jacqueline Noel gave Almond Roca candy its name?
... that British crews launched Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles from Vandenberg Air Force Base as part of Project Emily?
... that Roland Poska's painting From Blue to Blue, which appears in Milwaukee's Henry S. Reuss Federal Plaza Building, is 270 feet (82 m) long?
... that the branching worm living inside a sponge is unlikely to be able to sustain itself solely through what it eats?
... that Reah Whitehead, the first female justice of the peace in Washington state, started her legal career as a stenographer?
... that cultural governance could refer to anything from cultural policy regarding concerts to broad governance of language and meaning?
... that from 1981, Swiss set designer Marco Arturo Marelli also directed operas, and in 2010 staged the premiere of Reimann's Medea at the Vienna State Opera?
... that the Labor Congress of Liberia was closely tied to the Liberian government and membership fees were paid directly to the governing True Whig Party?
... that Cara Mund is the first contestant from North Dakota to win the Miss America pageant?
... that between modelling for Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, and Prada, Lyndsey Scott develops mobile apps for iOS?
... that Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park was based on her brother's residence Godmersham Park, Kent, which she frequently visited?
... that Caroline Stein appeared as Mozart's Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera, and sang his Mass in C minor and Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder at The Proms?
... that Ginza Six, a new shopping complex in Tokyo, contains artwork by Yayoi Kusama?
... that starting at age nine, Carlos Cuevas acted for six years in the Catalan television series Ventdelplà?
... that a lyric video for the song "Walk on Water" by Thirty Seconds to Mars features user-submitted footage depicting Independence Day in the United States?
... that Ida Hall Roby was the first woman to graduate from the Illinois College of Pharmacy at Northwestern University?
... that at Modena Park 2017, rock singer Vasco Rossi broke the world record for the largest ticketed concert?
... that following the Rwandan Civil War, two million Hutu refugees fled to neighboring countries , fearing reprisals?
... that in Buddhism, the doing of good deeds, known as merit-making, is seen as a form of saving for the future?
... that Egyptian tomb S9 suffered deliberate, extensive, and state-sanctioned stone- and grave-robbing?
... that Ida Hinman, author of a popular Washington, D.C. guidebook, died in poverty and her body was identified through a membership pin of the Daughters of the American Revolution?
... that the red colour of the ribbon worm Tubulanus polymorphus may warn predators that it is toxic or unpalatable?
... that baritone Georg Nigl, who names as his favourite roles Monteverdi's Orfeo, Mozart's Papageno, and Alban Berg's Wozzeck, created the title role of Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night?
... that residents of three adjacent counties in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado have the longest life expectancy in the U.S.?
... that someone told Kate Brew Vaughn that her eggless, sugarless, and butterless World War I Victory Cake was "joyless", but then ate three pieces?
... that the second of Five Childhood Lyrics, compositions for an unaccompanied choir by John Rutter, is Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" ?
... that Harold Joe Waldrum took thousands of Polaroid photos of the adobe churches and Penitente moradas of Northern New Mexico?
... that Europol was able to identify a hotel used in child porn using Twitter and a crowdsourced website?
... that Daniel H. Coakley was impeached after he secured a pardon for mobster Raymond L. S. Patriarca?
... that a single armed squad of the Central Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) carried out nearly 30 robberies in 1974?
... that in 2014, Iva Honyestewa created the pootsaya, a combination of coil and sifter basket, "a rare innovation in Hopi basketry"?
... that the UK organization Serious Hazards of Transfusion discourages hospitals from using some blood products donated by women?
... that Katsura Hoshino acceded to her editor's demand to draw her D.Gray-man manga character Lenalee Lee with long hair, but then had her lose part of her hair in a fight?
... that Peter Gabriel wrote "Biko" after learning of the death of Steve Biko in police custody on 12 September 1977?
... that Danish-born Jørgen Jensen was awarded the Victoria Cross for an action during which he pulled the pin from a hand grenade with his teeth?
... that Fran Dunphy has more wins than any other Penn Quakers basketball coach with 310 overall including 191 conference wins?
... that Una B. Herrick was called a "trailblazer" as she "made a place for women" at Montana State College?
... that Phyllodoce mucosa can form "roads" as they crawl across the beach towards carcasses?
... that Reinhard Peters conducted several new operas and Wilhelm Killmayer's Tre Canti di Leopardi, and a number of his recordings were chosen for the CD compilation Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000?
... that during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States Postal Service deployed a Mobile Mail-Screening Station to Vancouver, Canada, to detect mail-borne nuclear threats?
... that Reid Moore, Jr. ran for a Florida House of Representatives seat in 1976 with the campaign slogan "We need More in Tallahassee"?
... that the Theater Chemnitz has staged "rediscovered" operas, such as Meyerbeer's Vasco da Gama, in the opera house ?
... that larvae of the coral Flabellum curvatum are expelled from its mouth at an advanced stage of development, and settle nearby?
... that biostatistician Rafael Irizarry is a founder of Bioconductor, an open-source software project for the analysis of genomic data?
... that Kunphela, a favorite personal attendant of the 13th Dalai Lama, was a co-founder of a political party that aimed to restructure Tibetan society through revolution?
... that an 1844 Oregon law required all slaves to be freed—and all freed slaves to leave Oregon?
... that in 1831 Thomas Abernethy was in James Clark Ross's party—the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole?
... that sculptor Thea Tewi, known for her work in stone, was also one of the United States' top lingerie designers?
... that Ghanaian highlife musician C. K. Mann added western instruments to Osode, a traditional form of fishermen's music?