derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Carmen Casco de Lara Castro, founder of one of the first human rights organizations in Latin America, was arrested, denied a passport, and monitored by the Stroessner regime?
... that in 2013 Iceland had the highest number of writers, books published, and books read per capita?
... that Ofir Ben Shitrit was suspended from her religious girls' high school after singing on The Voice Israel?
... that with an area of 2,772 acres (1,122 ha), Pelham Bay Park is the largest public park in New York City?
... that Beethoven composed three Piano Quartets at age 15, which were published only after his death?
... that during the 2017–18 season, Moroccan-born footballer Walid Azaro broke the Egyptian Premier League record for the most goals scored by a foreign player?
... that Alaska's Stormy Lake had to be poisoned to remove invasive species not once but twice?
... that Joachim von Sandrart praised the Flemish painter Joannes de Cordua's vanitas still lifes?
... that the 1962 mainframe game Marienbad, based on the logic puzzle Nim, is often considered the first Polish video game?
... that more than 400 female Red Guards were shot after being captured during the 1918 Finnish Civil War, with some being raped before execution?
... that the archives of the British civil nuclear industry are housed alongside historical documents dating to the 16th century?
... that the Arctic Monkeys song "Four Out of Five" jokes about critics who rarely give perfect scores in their reviews?
... that Princess Vera Gedroits —good author but indifferent poet, lesbian but married a man—was a Russian military surgeon who pioneered battlefield laparotomy?
... that Number 12, an investigative documentary by award-winning journalist Anas Anas, shed light on football corruption in Ghana?
... that Claus Wisser founded the services company Wisag, and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday?
... that Zhang Youshang was the only student from mainland China at the University of Cambridge in the mid-1960s?
... that chemicals found in members of the St. John's wort family can cause photosensitivity in grazing animals?
... that Gordon Juckes received the Order of the British Empire prior to being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
... that the H. J. Heinz Company complex includes buildings named Meat, Bean, and Cereal?
... that St. Peter's Church in Malmö, Sweden, was once the largest town church in Denmark?
... that Doug Gurr, head of Amazon UK, has said that a no-deal Brexit could lead to civil unrest "within two weeks"?
... that the Beach Boys' Transcendental Meditation-inspired Friends (1968) was their last album of the 1960s to involve former bandleader Brian Wilson?
... that referee Bob Nadin said he was referred to as the "pope of the rules", and received the Pierre de Coubertin medal for ice hockey at the Olympic Games?
... that the Gut Holzhausen estate is a biodynamic farm and the venue for a festival called Voices?
... that Gaqo Çako was the lead tenor for more than three decades at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania?
... that the entire editorial board of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health resigned in protest in November 2017 over disputes involving the new editor-in-chief?
... that LeBron James Jr. received offers to play basketball at Duke and Kentucky by the age of eleven?
... that in his final college basketball game, Andrew Rowsey broke Marquette's single-season scoring record set by Dwyane Wade?
... that William Preucil has served as concertmaster for four American orchestras—the Atlanta Symphony, Utah Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra?
... that the British Army's Peninsular War battalions of detachments were commended for their gallantry on the battlefield but criticised for their conduct in camp?
... that Dutch dermatologist Rudi Cormane pioneered research on immunofluorescence of the skin?
... that the video game Dungeons 3 was described as the closest its developer came to creating a successor to the popular Dungeon Keeper series?
... that after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Admiral Spaun escorted the ship carrying his body back to Trieste?
... that as a high school basketball player, Lometa Odom set the Texas single-game scoring record of 78 points in 1951?
... that Takuyo-Daisan was once an island in the South Pacific but is now a seamount off Japan?
... that the Thai Buddhist monk Luang Por Dhammajayo launched an anti-smoking and drinking campaign that won an award from the World Health Organization?
... that after his death, politician, jurist, and general Lucius Torquatus was portrayed by Roman writer Cicero as an advocate for Epicurean ethics?
... that Migrant Architects of the NHS recounts how doctors from the Indian subcontinent immigrated to Britain and became general practitioners?
... that maritime fur trader Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe and most of his crew were killed by Native Hawaiians in revenge for the flogging of a chief by Metcalfe's father days before?
... that on its tenth anniversary, the webcomic "Loss" was replaced by an edited version titled "Found"?
... that El Tatio is the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and one of two worldwide with the highest elevation?
... that during Governor Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, political aide Carol Rasco took over Arkansas's "daily business"?
... that the British TV series Aap Kaa Hak answered health, social and legal questions in Hindi and Urdu?
... that the 1810 Catholic hymnal by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell, with his melodies and organ settings, contains a song included in the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob in 2013?
... that during World War II, future Oregon state senator Gordon W. McKay participated in the Battle of Tarawa as a Seabee?
... that the diet of the skeleton shrimp Caprella equilibra consists mainly of detritus, but it also feeds on the hydroids to which it clings?
... that the Carpenters received hate mail because they combined a soft ballad with a loud electric guitar?
... that Mormon studies scholars have the sense that they are being watched, following previous excommunications of Mormon historians in the field?
... that Margot Fonteyn was The Royal Ballet's prima ballerina for 45 years, before retiring to become a cattle rancher in Panama?
... that Robert Einstein, a cousin of Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstein, committed suicide less than a year after his family was murdered by German soldiers in World War II?
... that Ina Hartwig, formerly on the editorial staff of Frankfurter Rundschau, published a biography of Ingeborg Bachmann in 2017?
... that Ralph Vaughan Williams set Psalm 47 in English, O clap your hands, as a motet for choir and orchestra in 1920?
... that after FIBA rules changes limited the availability of NBA players, the U.S. men's basketball team decided to assemble rosters of primarily G Leaguers for the 2019 World Cup qualifiers?
... that a story by Argentine mathematician Magdalena Mouján about a Basque family that travels back in time to their homeland was blocked by the Franco regime?
... that after being rebuilt in May 2018, the open-air Summer Theatre of Tirana held a show in which 400 artists participated?
... that Andalusian philosopher Averroes theorized that all human beings share a single intellect, and Thomas Aquinas wrote a treatise to refute this theory?
... that Altars of the World was the final recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film before the award was retired?
... that one of the financers of the Spire, a residential building in Seattle, joined the project as a result of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping?
... that Ülo Nugis was the first Estonian politician to publicly call for Estonia to join NATO, even while Soviet troops were still present in the Baltic nation?
... that the ancestors of the grey cuckooshrike most likely spread to Africa from the Australo-Papuan region?
... that Serge Blanc was the first to record Leonard Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" in France?
... that the single road bridge to Great Island in Cork Harbour is more than 200 years old?
... that in 1964, a school teacher survived for nine months after surgeon Keith Reemtsma transplanted chimpanzee kidneys into her?
... that on 24 August 1878, Charles-Marie Widor premiered his Symphony for Organ No. 6 for the inauguration of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Palais du Trocadéro as part of the Paris World Exhibition?
... that Hope not Hate released commemorative mugs and teatowels to mark the retirement of Brian Parker, the British National Party's last district councillor?
... that Seattle's Denny Way was originally named "Depot Street" in hopes of luring a major train station?
... that Magema Magwaza Fuze was the first native speaker to publish a book in the Zulu language?
... that the preferred food of the copepod Pseudocalanus newmani includes diatoms of the genus Thalassiosira, which can be toxic to its young?
... that basketball player Norvel Pelle holds citizenship in three countries—Antigua and Barbuda, Lebanon, and the United States?
... that at the end of the unsuccessful Siege of Almería, some of the defeated Aragonese attackers were left under the protection of the Muslim defenders while awaiting their evacuation?
... that Ludwigsburg Palace , the "Versailles of Swabia", was home to four of Württemberg's rulers?
... that Lydia May Ames, one of Cleveland's earliest women artists, is sometimes considered its first impressionist painter?
... that the seeds of the Nardouw fountain pincushion are carried underground by ants?
... that the writer İsmet Kür's father and sister were writers, and her daughter is also a writer?
... that the Austro-Italian ironclad arms race led to the Battle of Lissa, the first naval engagement between multiple armored warships?
... that in the midst of being chased by Aṅgulimāla, a brigand and serial killer, the Buddha stated: "I am standing still, you are not standing still"?
... that Red W Interactiva, a talk radio network in Mexico, operated for only 102 days?
... that a solar-powered device for extracting water from the air, co-designed by Evelyn Wang, has been compared to the moisture vaporators in Star Wars?
... that Abu al-Juyush Nasr became the Sultan of Granada in 1309 following the ousting of his brother, only to be ousted in a civil war five years later?
... that the goose barnacle Conchoderma virgatum rarely attaches directly to a fish, but four were once found attached to a single spine of a porcupinefish?
... that US President Donald Trump's nomination of meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to direct the Office of Science and Technology Policy has been received positively by scientists?
... that Claude Debussy composed The Little Nigar, a cakewalk, for a piano method?
... that voice actress Rie Murakawa's accolades include the Best Funny Radio and Best Comfort Radio awards in 2016?
... that Westbourne Terrace was one of 19 different "Westbourne" streets that appeared in the London Postal Guide in the nineteenth century?
... that Gavin Buckley, the mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, thinks of himself as Australian?
... that Alfons Tracki , a German-Albanian Christian martyr, worked to eradicate Gjakmarrja (blood feuds) from Northern Albania?
... that hairs shed by caterpillars of the brown-tail moth can be wind-borne and cause a rash in humans similar to poison ivy?
... that Mimi Mondal is the first writer from India to be nominated for a Hugo Award?
... that after the original 1932 release of the film Scarface, it was removed from circulation and remained officially unavailable for nearly 50 years?
... that Jack Kirby created many famous comic book characters including Captain America, but his conception of Spider-Man was rejected for being too heroic?
... that New Zealand-born Vance Drummond won the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry as a Royal Australian Air Force pilot serving with the United States Air Force?
... that Neal McCoy wanted his anti-protest song "Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take a Knee)" to "bring people together"?
... that the flag of the Romani people was a triband, before the red stripe was removed over suspicions that it stood for communism?
... that Sir Cusack Patrick Roney was knighted for his role as secretary to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853?
... that penis worms very similar to Priapulus caudatus created trace fossils in the early Cambrian period?
... that minutes after a world record was set for Super Mario World, SethBling completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator?
... that Narmakosh, compiled by Narmad, is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language?
... that video artist Joan Braderman superimposed herself onto scenes from the television series Dynasty to critique the characters, plots, and themes?
... that if the Green Bay Packers football team, with an estimated value of $2.55 billion, was ever sold, all the profits would go to its charitable foundation rather than its shareholders?
... that Matthias Rauchmiller, the son of a butcher, designed both the Plague Column in Vienna and the oldest statue on Prague's Charles Bridge ?
... that the first screening of Venom and Eternity ended early following director Isidore Isou's attempt after the first scenes to play only its soundtrack to a darkened theatre?
... that Ensign Robert Duncan was the first person to shoot down a Mitsubishi A6M Zero with a Grumman F6F Hellcat?
... that the Redneck Fishing Tournament has seen thousands of Asian carp caught by its participants without the use of fishing poles?
... that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States?
... that a pair of yellow "dolphin-like creatures" from a 7th-century hanging bowl finds its closest parallel in manuscript art?
... that the factory producing Capodimonte porcelain , including forty workers and nearly five tons of material, was moved from Naples to Madrid in 1759?
... that Stanwood, Washington, was formed by the consolidation of two rival towns in order to fund a modern sewage treatment system?
... that Mindy Alper, the visual artist featured in Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, helped Mary Stuart Masterson prepare for her role as a mentally ill woman in the 1993 film Benny & Joon?
... that Jenny Sabin's installation Lumen is knitted from solar active yarns that absorb light energy during the day and release it at night?
... that the 2018 roguelike video game Wizard of Legend received nearly 50 percent more than its funding goal in its Kickstarter campaign?
... that U.S. Army Hurricane Aircat airboats could ram and sink Viet Cong boats?
... that the candy striped flatworm appears to glide across the seabed, being moved by cilia on its underside?
... that Leonard Owen oversaw the building of Calder Hall, the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity on a commercial scale?
... that John F. Kennedy suggested the State of Washington replace its unofficial motto "Alki" with "For You and Me, a Destiny", a lyric from "Washington, My Home", the state song?
... that while working for the predecessor of NASA, Chinese physicist Wu Zhonghua pioneered the three-dimensional flow theory, which has been used to design many aircraft engines?
... that Brugada syndrome is known in the Philippines as Bangungut, or "a scream followed by sudden death during sleep"?
... that American rapper Gizzle worked as a ghostwriter for other hip hop artists before releasing her debut mixtape in 2017?
... that the killer whale Tahlequah carried her dead calf for over two weeks in an apparent showing of grief?
... that Madonna's 1991 song "Rescue Me" made the highest debut for a song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since the Beatles' "Let It Be" 21 years earlier?
... that publisher Tu Books was created via a Kickstarter campaign, then purchased by Lee & Low Books three months later?
... that adult tapeworms parasitise the intestines of vertebrates but do not have guts of their own?
... that air conditioning refrigerant HFO-1234yf, developed by a team led by Barbara Haviland Minor, is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter global warming?
... that although New York City's Bushwick Inlet Park was proposed in 2005, the land for the park was not fully purchased until 2016?
... that periodontist John Zamet was awarded a PhD after his death for his research on German and Austrian refugee dentists?
... that the publisher of Life with My Sister Madonna, a tell-all book by the singer's younger brother, sold it to retailers without revealing the title or the subject matter in order to create a media stir?
... that in 1394, John "Eleanor" Rykener was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both friars and nuns?
... that Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 contains as its third movement a Marche funèbre, which was composed earlier than the other music?
... that ethnic Croat journalist Štefica Galić has been called the "Schindler of Ljubuški" for helping save an estimated two-thirds of the town's Bosniaks during the Croat–Bosniak War?
... that Indian Railways runs loss-making trains on the Patna–Digha Ghat line to prevent encroachment?
... that South Dakota architect Harold Spitznagel designed the original Mount Rushmore visitor center with Cecil Doty as part of Mission 66, providing a setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest?
... that Charles Darwin made descriptive notes on the Brazilian sandperch after a specimen was caught with hook and line off the coast of Patagonia during the voyage of Beagle?
... that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. Patricia A. Gabow streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the Toyota Production System?
... that members of the Djajadiningrat family fought on both sides of the Indonesian Revolution?
... that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, each of Britain's "V force" squadrons kept one nuclear-armed V bomber and crew at 15 minutes' readiness?
... that Helleria brevicornis is the only terrestrial woodlouse that has retained the ancestral aquatic isopod behaviour of mate guarding?
... that American video game producer Ben Judd is fluent in the Japanese Kansai dialect?
... that the South African composer Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums, marimba, and string orchestra?
... that the deposed Byzantine emperor Maurice was forced to watch his six sons executed before he was beheaded himself?
... that Marie Lehmann, one of the Rhinemaidens at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the groundbreaking of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre?
... that the Wirral Model Engineering Society operates a raised railway track for fine scale models of full-size steam locomotives at Royden Park?
... that when King Kamehameha III died in 1854, the throne of Hawaii passed to his nephew Kamehameha IV instead of his son Albert Kūnuiākea?
... that Old North, built between 1794 and 1797, is the oldest standing academic building on Georgetown University's campus?
... that Badr Shirvani, a Persian poet from Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?
... that the plot of the 1994 comic book Archie Meets the Punisher was modeled after the 1948 film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein?
... that Chinese spy Zheng Pingru , who was executed after an assassination attempt on a Japanese collaborator, is believed to have inspired the novella Lust, Caution, and its film adaptation?
... that Wood-Tikchik State Park, the largest state park in the United States, is sometimes staffed by a single ranger?
... that Grace Macurdy shaped the field of classics by pulling together both material and textual evidence as sources in her studies of individual women?
... that the flowers of the Redelinghuys pincushion are pollinated by rodents?
... that Chip Rives was one of the eight people named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 1987?
... that the Church of Saint Jacob in Nisibis in southeastern Turkey was originally the baptistery of a Syriac Orthodox cathedral which no longer exists?
... that Michael Martin, project director of the recently completed £1.4 billion Queensferry Crossing, was inspired to study engineering through reading back issues of New Civil Engineer?
... that according to some accounts, the legendary Georgian hunting dog Q'ursha had eagle's wings, a thunderous bark and a gigantic leap?
... that the frescos in Fulltofta Church were discovered in 1907 after being hidden since the Reformation?
... that George Whitney Calhoun and Curly Lambeau founded the Green Bay Packers 99 years ago today?
... that in July 2018, U2 topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart for the first time in seventeen years with "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way"?
... that Colombian Supreme Court judge Augusto Ibáñez Guzmán claimed that in 2008, a dozen armed men stormed his house to steal his personal computer?
... that the flatworm Procerodes littoralis is tolerant of wide fluctuations in salinity, being able to survive both in freshwater and in seawater?
... that plastic surgeon Patrick Clarkson had the idea for the Hand Club to help injured airmen, and established the Children's Burns Unit at Guy's Hospital?
... that the Fisher Ridge Cave System is the fifth-longest cave in the United States and one of the longest in the world?
... that the Belgium international player Leander Dendoncker is one of three footballer brothers from a pig-farming family?
... that Teuira Henry reconstructed her English missionary grandfather's lost manuscript describing Tahitian history by using his notes?
... that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano Alicia Nafé appeared in her signature role as Bizet's Carmen alongside Plácido Domingo in San Francisco, and at the Metropolitan Opera with Domingo as conductor?
... that the antependium of Lyngsjö Church has been said to be "better suited for the high altar of a cathedral than a countryside church"?
... that the Samec'niero, written by Iase Tushi, contains one of the earliest examples of a Georgian–Persian dictionary, and is the earliest Georgian manuscript so far discovered in Iran?
... that brass bands have been a feature of Vale Park since its opening in 1899, when one played the crowd in through the gates?
... that Neocalanus plumchrus is able to uptake dissolved glucose directly from seawater despite its exoskeleton?
... that the footballer Mark Aizlewood once celebrated scoring a goal by flicking the V at fans of his own team?
... that Erinea Garcia Gallegos, one of the first college-educated Hispanic women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of San Luis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, the governing body for the majority of equestrian sports in Germany, promotes the status of the horse as a cultural asset?
... that Farouk Topan described the English language as "the elephant in the room" in relation to the use of Kiswahili in East Africa?
... that when the besieged town of Berwick-upon-Tweed refused to surrender, the governor's son was hanged outside the town gates?
... that the history of the Jews in Atlanta dates to 1845, the same year the city changed its name from Marthasville?
... that John Joseph Merlin crashed into a mirror at Carlisle House while playing the violin on the roller skates that he had invented?
... that each of the sixty geese in Michael Snow's Flight Stop is decorated with the image of the same dead Canada goose culled from Toronto Island?
... that Clifford Braimah, head of the Ghana Water Company, is a supporter of Operation Vanguard and its mission to end illegal mining?
... that the rising prosperity of the Wang family of Lingshi County during the Qing dynasty financed the multi-generation construction of a grand residential complex of hundreds of courtyards with over 2,000 rooms?