derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Chocorua Island Chapel at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
... that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of Easter Island by officers of the Chilean Navy, but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
... that Ellen Thayer Fisher's paintings of flowers were widely distributed as chromolithographs by Boston publisher Louis Prang?
... that at the end of the Second World War, more than 23,000 repatriated British prisoners of war volunteered to attend Civil Resettlement Units to help them readjust to being home?
... that the dignitaries at the opening of the Barbados Railway wondered why the railway ended so abruptly among barren sand hills?
... that Simeon Riro Kāinga, the last king of Easter Island, was suspected of having been poisoned when he died during a diplomatic trip to Chile?
... that the catfish Trachelyopterus insignis has several local names, being referred to as both a "maiden" and a "goat"?
... that Paul Hindemith said of the third dance of his opera Das Nusch-Nuschi: "It is essential that this piece be danced (or rather wobbled to) by two eunuchs with incredibly fat and naked bellies"?
... that Bach wrote the chorale "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" (O Lamb of God, innocent) in red between the music for the two choirs in the beginning of his St Matthew Passion ?
... that Charles A. Cheever constructed the first telephone line in New York City and was its owner?
... that the Good Friday hymn "Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said" was one of two American works included in the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern?
... that Major Somnath Sharma, a Param Vir Chakra recipient, and General Vishwa Nath Sharma, former chief of the Indian Army, were brothers?
... that the world's first coal-fired power station was at Holborn Viaduct, London?
... that tenor Max Ciolek performed the Evangelist in Bach's Passions, and the Mass in B minor with La Petite Bande in Australia?
... that the government of ancient Macedonia was a monarchy, yet the Macedonian commonwealth contained some local democracies with popular assemblies and annual elections?
... that Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, four years before Rosa Parks' 1955 prosecution for the same "crime"?
... that the Nazi plunder of European treasures prevented Leonardo da Vinci's Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior from falling into the hands of the Red Army?
... that the Danish illustrator Lilian Brøgger has illustrated over a hundred books in a variety of unconventional styles?
... that Bach set a stanza from the evening hymn "Werde munter, mein Gemüte" (Become cheerful, my mind), which Johann Rist and Johann Schop created in collaboration, in his St Matthew Passion?
... that 25 years ago today, anti-nuclear activist Richard Springer was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service after he approached Ronald Reagan and smashed a crystal statue?
... that the Andean flicker is unusual among woodpeckers in foraging on the ground and in often nesting colonially?
... that Birendra Nath Mallick and his team demonstrated that increased production of noradrenaline triggered REM sleep-loss, resulting in brain excitability?
... that Hank Azaria won a lawsuit for the rights to the title character of Brockmire?
... that during the Bonville–Courtenay feud, the Earl of Devon's men stole all Nicholas Radford's horses and the sheets off his invalid wife's bed?
... that Michelangelo destroyed parts of his own Sistine Chapel ceiling to make room for his Last Judgement ?
... that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?
... that as the German army invaded France in 1940, radio station Paris-Mondial began broadcasting "recordings of military marches and panicked appeals for guns, tanks, and planes"?
... that award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Katin only started creating comics at the age of 63?
... that J. Lamar Worzel was a recipient of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award for his part in helping discover the first nuclear submarine lost at sea?
... that the "I believe that we will win!" chant, used as a rallying cry by United States fans during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was first used for the college football Army–Navy Game?
... that Anil Kumar Mandal developed an alternative surgical protocol for treating pediatric glaucoma?
... that Pu Songling based his pigeon collector character on a real-life stone fanatic?
... that any baseballs that get hit and lodged in the Wrigley Field ivy score the batter a double?
... that during the Second World War, the Norwegian naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German supply ship before he was certain which country was invading Norway?
... that the fire-bellied woodpecker can drum at the rate of 14 to 38 taps per second?
... that Neptune Theatre in Seattle had weekly showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1977 to 1993, and reopened with the same film after renovation in 2011?
... that President Donald Trump criticized Snoop Dogg's remix music video of "Lavender" for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?
... that the Monument of States in Kissimmee, Florida, was erected in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor and built with stones donated from around the world?
... that Caius Largennius is considered the first Lucchese in the world?
... that the play Sweat by Lynn Nottage has been described as "the first theatrical landmark of the Trump era"?
... that when he ceded Easter Island to Chile, King Atamu Tekena gave up a handful of grass and retained a handful of dirt?
... that prior to her major debut, singer Maon Kurosaki posed as a gravure model for the cover of a novel?
... that the seeds of the white batflower may be distributed by small mammals that feed on the fleshy fruits?
... that in March 1998, the Ontario Court of Justice ruled that being topless while one engages in a commercial purpose such as prostitution is illegal?
... that the Catholic hymnal Kirchenlied, first published in 1938, was not immediately banned by the Nazis because it also contained Protestant songs?
... that Australian actress Anna Bamford made her Broadway debut in Andrew Upton's production of The Present?
... that the Northern Marmara and Değirmenköy (Silivri) Depleted Gas Reservoir is currently the only operational underground natural gas storage facility in Turkey?
... that Vijay Kumar, along with Debi Prasad Sarkar, demonstrated for the first time that HBx protein stimulated mitogen-activated signaling cascades in living animals?
... that 43 million unique viewers watched SK Telecom T1 defeat Samsung Galaxy in the finals of the 2016 League of Legends World Championship?
... that some factions of the Hanthawaddy court undermined the authority of Princess Regent Maha Dewi by publicizing her alleged affair with her much younger nephew-in-law?
... that the upper quarters of the coat of arms of Andorra feature the arms of the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix, the "two traditional protectors" of the principality?
... that LaVar Ball claimed that he would have beaten Michael Jordan in one-on-one basketball?
... that the Australian television film Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye broke all first-day streaming records on Presto?
... that George Escol Sellers was the basis for the fictional character Colonel Eschol Sellers in Mark Twain's novel The Gilded Age?
... that the Czech fossil ant Odontomachus paleomyagra has mandibles notably similar to those of a related South African species?
... that Satish K. Gupta explored the possibilities of using zona pellucida proteins for the development of immunocontraceptive protocols?
... that Rose Cannabich was "a very beautiful and well-behaved girl", according to her piano teacher Mozart, who composed a piano sonata for her?
... that the halo on the Big A Sign lights up to tell passing motorists of a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball win?
... that Barbara Bradby was the first woman to ride a bicycle at Oxford University, where her academic prowess inspired a limerick?
... that Paul Bashutsky took part in the suppression of the Decembrist revolt in 1825, and was promoted to General of the Infantry three years later?
... that Rhizophora racemosa is normally the first mangrove to colonise newly exposed mudflats in West Africa?
... that by winning the 2016–17 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the San Miguel Beermen became the second team in Philippine Basketball Association history to keep permanent possession of the Jun Bernardino Trophy?
... that Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is the New York City Subway's first solar-powered subway station?
... that Ipswich Town goalkeeper Paul Cooper saved eight out of the ten penalties he faced during the 1979–80 season?
... that the nine-year-old McGuire Apartments building in Seattle was demolished due to the discovery of major corrosion issues?
... that Shahid Jameel and his group were the first to identify subtype C strain as the most common HIV-1 infection among Indians?
... that the CIA's black helicopter from Area 51 was used to eavesdrop on Paris Peace Talks discussions during the Vietnam War?
... that German rapper Jaye Muller started the weekly newsletter Germany Alert in 1991 to document neo-Nazi activity?
... that the 18th-century Schloss Bruchsal in southwest Germany contains an elaborate Baroque staircase that has been described as "ingenious and ravishing"?
... that the 16,030 acres (6,490 ha) of Federal land in New Mexico's Sabinoso Wilderness are inaccessible without trespassing, because they are entirely enclosed in privately-owned property?
... that Francis Poulenc composed his Violin Sonata at the insistence of violinist Ginette Neveu, and played the piano part when she premiered it?
... that two women captured in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 were rescued during the Abolition Riot of 1836?
... that Antoine-Jean Gros's painting Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau influenced the works of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix?
... that a lake larger than Lake Erie existed in the eastern Sahara less than 12,000 years ago?
... that suspected Mexican drug lord Rubén Oseguera González was released from prison three times in less than a year?
... that the Gutenberg Bible held by the Diocesan Museum in Pelplin survived World War II in Canada, kept in a vault at the Bank of Montreal until 1959?
... that the severed head of Andrew Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, was sewn back on?
... that Cascade Valley Hospital was the last independent hospital in Snohomish County, Washington, until it was acquired in 2016?
... that cricketer Georgia Redmayne's 87-year-old grandfather vaulted the boundary fence and embraced her after she had become the first player to hit a WNCL century for Tasmanian Roar?
... that the theme song for the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is actually called "Yo Home to Bel-Air"?
... that New York Mets fans once booed the Home Run Apple for over two minutes because it was not raised for a Mets home run?
... that mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke appeared as Dido in Les Troyens by Berlioz, and according to a reviewer, in the final 25 minutes convincingly ranged from hurt vulnerability to furious despair?
... that the Oakland Athletics' management refuses to remove the tarpaulin from Mount Davis unless the team reaches the World Series?
... that in one of Ron Richards' plans for the defection of spy Vladimir Petrov to Australia, Petrov was going to buy a chicken farm outside Sydney?
... that New Palace Yard, where part of the March 2017 terror attack in Westminster took place, was formerly used for tournaments, pilloryings, and executions?
... that Gottfried von Hagenau, a physician and poet, introduced the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Strasbourg in 1307?
... that Stierling's woodpecker is threatened by habitat loss, especially in areas where tobacco is cultivated and dried over open fires?
... that a+ will provide local television programming mixed with national content to 21 Mexican cities by the end of June 2017?
... that in 1861, brothel proprietor Ann Manley rescued part of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment after it was attacked by a mob in Baltimore?
... that Giyorgis of Segla was imprisoned by Ethiopian Emperor Dawit I because of his controversial views on the Sabbath?
... that Barry Bonds used a maple baseball bat manufactured by Sam Bat to set an MLB single-season home run record in 2001?
... that Louis-René Villermé is considered a founder of social epidemiology for his work proving the association between poverty and mortality in early industrial France?
... that Warren Newton Dusenberry acted as principal of Brigham Young Academy for only a few months before resigning to go to law school?
... that Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first openly black athlete to play in Major League Baseball?
... that President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos took a siesta in the master bedroom of the Mercado Mansion during a campaign sortie in the 1960s?
... that the white-throated honeyeater used to be gay, but isn't any more?
... that a song about masturbation was written by Ivor Biggun and recommended by Johnny Rotten?
... that erection engineer Mark Barr had a business making rubbers, said bicycles stimulated ball development, and was elected to the screw committee?
... that an 1897 monograph by French artist Alphonse Allais included the print Dance of drunks in the fog ?
... that in Portland, Oregon, an outhouse, or john, played a seminal role in public education?
... that Soekarno demanded much of Soekarno, but Soekarno did not listen?
... that in 1926 a Mennonite tower was built in the German capital of Canada?
... that the Trans-Universal Zombie Church of the Blissful Ringing is the fifth largest religious community in Slovenia?
... that Thor Heyerdahl claimed that stone reliefs on the Marquesas Islands — now accepted to represent the extinct Marquesan Dog — depicted llamas, so as to bolster his theory that Polynesia was settled from South America?
... that Belgian mezzo-soprano Jeanne Deroubaix was a soloist in the premiere of Stravinsky's Threni, and performed with Boulez in his Le marteau sans maître at The Proms?
... that the name of the Wipeout series of video games was inspired by the instrumental song "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris?
... that Thomas North Whitehead suggested that the United Kingdom give America one of the four surviving copies of the Magna Carta to win support for Lend-Lease?
... that Associated Press war correspondent George E. Bria, known for his brevity as an editor, insisted that "the D-Day landings could be reported in 400 words"?
... that the 40 rays on the flag of Kyrgyzstan represent the number of tribes united by national folk hero Manas to fight against the Mongols?
... that The New Republic suspected the 1958 attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade was a hoax set up to help his chances in the 1960 United States presidential election?
... that in his Requiem für einen jungen Dichter, composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann combines the Latin Requiem with literary, philosophical, religious and political texts that shaped his lifetime?
... that according to Ralph Wolfe Cowan who painted him as The Visionary, Donald Trump's hands are "perfectly proportioned"?
... that the Pediatric Symptom Checklist identifies children with problems in psychosocial functioning by measuring inner distress and mood, behavior, and attention?
... that the association footballer Harry Beadles was awarded the Serbian gold medal for bravery during World War I?
... that Typhoon Gerald was the one of three typhoons spawned by the monsoon trough in early September 1987?
... that thousands of escaped slaves created a free colony on Edisto Island, South Carolina, during the American Civil War?
... that the tenth chapter of the Quran is named after Jonah, even though only 1 of its 109 verses mentions him?
... that Mary M. Crawford became Brooklyn's first female ambulance surgeon after the hospital forgot to exclude women from applying?
... that Reverend Arthur Broome was one of the founders of the RSPCA and, as guarantor for the society's debts, went to debtors' prison when it declared bankruptcy?
... that the borders negotiated after the Song-Lý War largely remain as the current boundaries between China and Vietnam?
... that Probir Roy proposed a solution for the U(n)-symmetric Thirring model?
... that on the links at the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, a monument commemorates a Civil War battle that never happened?
... that the Native Hawaiian suffragist Wilhelmina Widemann Dowsett organized the first women's suffrage club in the Territory of Hawaii and believed women were superior to men?
... that Siti Nurhaliza won her 13th Best Vocal Performance (Female) in a Song award from Anugerah Industri Muzik with "Menatap dalam Mimpi"?
... that the National Wrestling Association's World Light Heavyweight Championship was originally created by the National Boxing Association?
... that Malacañang of the North was built as a presidential mansion for Ferdinand Marcos' 60th birthday?
... that "Mer Hayrenik", the national anthem of the First Republic of Armenia, became a protest song when it was banned during the Soviet era?
... that Isadora Duncan danced at The Wabe in London's Hampstead to raise money for the cause of women's suffrage?
... that during his youth, Argentine president Néstor Kirchner was present at the Ezeiza massacre and the expulsion of Montoneros from Plaza de Mayo?
... that the Japanese visual novel Harmonia was first released in English to see how the game would be received worldwide before its release in Japan?
... that Manning M. Kimmel was one of four West Point graduates to fight on both sides of the American Civil War?
... that the Miami Dolphins' first-ever regular season game began with running back Joe Auer returning the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown?
... that Rose C. Davison represented Hawaii at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition as a symbol of "Kanaka civility" to counter the image of hula dancers?
... that Arsenal are looking to win a record 13th FA Cup at the FA Cup Final against Chelsea today?
... that Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz was a daredevil horseman whose feats included riding between the sails of a windmill in full swing?
... that parts of southern New Mexico and Chihuahua were covered by the former Lake Palomas, the remnants of which existed as recently as 500 years ago?
... that the soprano Margot Guilleaume recorded the part of Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio in a complete live recording without dialogue in 1948?
... that the emotional journey of the protagonist in the 2004 Ursula K. Le Guin novel Gifts has been compared to that of Max in the 1963 children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are?
... that Albertine Lapensée, described as Canada's first female ice hockey "superstar", was dogged by accusations of being a man?
... that the Lutheran church St. Laurentii in Itzehoe had one of Arp Schnitger's last pipe organs ?
... that James Scott Howard, the postmaster of Toronto, infuriated his superiors by refusing to open mail of suspected rebels before the 1837 uprising?
... that during the 1678 Kediri campaign, the VOC–Mataram army purposely split itself and took a longer route to Kediri, in order to impress more people?
... that the prosecution of Theoris of Lemnos is the most detailed account of a witch trial to survive from Classical Greece?
... that the diet of the white woodpecker includes wasps and bees, their larvae and honey?
... that former Snohomish County Executive Bob Drewel had surgery to treat prostate cancer only days after being re-elected to a third term?
... that during the March 1605 papal conclave, a fight broke out that was so noisy that people outside opened the doors early because they thought a new pope had been elected?
... that Mary Ann Harris Gay's memoir Life in Dixie During the War directly inspired several of the scenes in the novel Gone with the Wind?
... that Botticelli's four panels with Scenes from the Life of Saint Zenobius are split among three museums?
... that the Custer Wolf, a North American gray wolf referred to as the "master criminal of the animal world", killed livestock worth almost $300,000 in today's money?
... that Margot Shiner, who fled Nazi Germany as a teenager, was instrumental in establishing the medical subspecialty of paediatric gastroenterology?
... that the glass-floor observation deck of Ulubey Canyon Nature Park is 131 m (430 ft) above the canyon floor?
... that Albert Pierce Taylor, author of Under Hawaiian Skies, attempted to join the Cuban War of Independence but was deported by the Spanish?
... that The Duals' "Stick Shift" was the first hot rod song to chart nationally in the United States?
... that Narendra Kumar is the co-developer of the Dorokhov-Mello-Pereyra-Kumar equation, a theory on multi-channel conductivity using the principle of maximum entropy?
... that it takes Barn the Spoon between twenty minutes and two hours to carve a spoon out of green wood?
... that the epicenter of the 2009 Bhutan earthquake was 10 miles (16 km) away from Trashigang Dzong, and caused wide cracks to appear in the 350-year-old structure?
... that the 2017 French presidential election was not fought between left and right, but between open and closed?
... that Rosalie Keliʻinoi, the first female legislator in the Territory of Hawaii, passed a bill which gave married women the right to sell their property without their husbands' permission?
... that Clotilde Bressler-Gianoli played the titular character in Carmen in 1907 with "the allurement of sheer wickedness", and was accidentally stabbed on stage?
... that visitors can stay overnight free of charge in any of over ninety bothies , but must bring their own fuel in order to watch "bothy TV"?
... that Quintus Publilius Philo, Rome's first proconsul, was described as a "popular dictator"?
... that Emma Ahuena Taylor, a supporter of women's suffrage, organized knitting units on behalf of Native Hawaiian soldiers fighting in World War I?
... that Jeanette Antolin won three NCAA titles with the UCLA Bruins women's gymnastics team?
... that the manga My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame tackles issues of homophobia in Japanese society?
... that the May 1605 papal conclave was the only known papal election to result in broken bones?
... that Tapeats Creek in the Grand Canyon National Park is named after the Southern Paiute Indian who claimed ownership of it?
... that Zahava Burack survived the Holocaust by hiding in a crawlspace beneath the home of a sympathetic Polish family for two and a half years?
... that "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show" was based on old minstrel and medicine shows, but was interpreted as an allegory on the dangers of success in the music business?
... that the UK Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Act 2015 was created to affirm the right to hold council prayers after the High Court had ruled them unlawful?
... that Hans Peter Blochwitz, who appeared as Mozart's Don Ottavio at the Metropolitan Opera, premiered Hans Zender's Schubert's "Winterreise" with the Ensemble Modern in 1993?
... that the Twin Bing has been described as "two brown lumps, about the size of golf balls, roughly textured, and stuck to one another like Siamese twins"?
... that Sudhanshu Shekhar Jha was guided in his doctoral studies by Felix Bloch, 1952 Nobel laureate, and in his post-doctoral work by Nicolaas Bloembergen, 1981 Nobel laureate?
... that the 13th-century English royal justice Elias Beckingham was described as being one of only two honest judges in the kingdom?
... that EuropaChorAkademie, a choir formed by students from two universities, participated in an award-winning recording of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem für einen jungen Dichter?
... that Mariano Gagnon was a Franciscan friar who organized airlifts to help refugees escape the Shining Path?
... that Simon Pagenaud's victory at the 2017 Desert Diamond West Valley Phoenix Grand Prix was his first-ever IndyCar Series win on an oval track?
... that the Stumptown scud, a crustacean endemic to the Portland metropolitan area, looks like a "cross between a prawn and a potato bug"?