derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that New York City's Broadway Junction station sees 100,000 daily riders, the vast majority using it to make transfers?
... that Ilona Durigo, one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, conducted by Willem Mengelberg?
... that Oneco referred to the gift of a ceremonial sword from Charles II of England as proof of the legal equality of the Mohegan sachemate with the English monarchy?
... that the company developing the SSM-A-23 Dart anti-tank missile changed ownership twice while the project was underway?
... that Mildred Dilling's first fee for a harp performance was a dozen carnations and a jar of pickles?
... that a newly appointed count of the Székelys was entitled to a horse from each of the Székely seats?
... that of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, the Shorwell helmet was originally mistaken for a pot, the Pioneer helmet for a bucket, and the Coppergate helmet for a rock?
... that the inconvenience of getting to Yanmen Pass makes it one of the less crowded AAAAA-rated sites along the Great Wall of China?
... that American scholar Paul Y. Hammond sought to develop a more discerning understanding of how organizational behavior and domestic political considerations affected American foreign policy?
... that among the accolades received by I, Tonya are five British Academy Film Award nominations?
... that the comic "Shoot", originally scheduled for publication in a 1999 issue of Hellblazer, was not published until 2010?
... that Canadian physician Fraser Rose was partly named after the doctor who walked through a snowstorm in Nova Scotia to deliver him?
... that the first shipment of books for the Washington Territorial Library traveled around Cape Horn from New York City?
... that the Edict of Milan, an agreement between Constantine and Licinius to treat the Christian Church peacefully, was issued during the pontificate of Pope Miltiades?
... that the Alabama Crimson Tide overcame a 13–0 deficit at halftime to win the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship in overtime?
... that a porter at Blossom's Inn was revived by treatment that included bleeding, brandy, and a turpentine enema?
... that while chief justice of the Colony of Cape Breton, Richard Gibbons founded a group that was later banned as being a possible "Seed of Rebellion"?
... that Cider with Rosie could not be filmed in Slad, where the story takes place, as the village had changed too much?
... that Sciota Brook is only 2 miles (3.2 km) long but flows through three counties in Pennsylvania?
... that the elm seed bug produces an unpleasant smell reminiscent of bitter almonds?
... that during the height of the Cold War, an American visiting Russia received a seven-year sentence for spying?
... that Chen Junsheng's investigative report resulted in his superior losing his job and getting "promoted"?
... that horse carcasses, and trash from three of New York City's boroughs, were once processed at Barren Island, Brooklyn?
... that Belfast pub-owner and freemason William Braithwaite donated Winter and Spring by Pieter Breughel the Younger to the Ulster Museum?
... that Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles carries more than 700 different soft drinks?
... that Mesembrinella caenozoica is the first unambiguous fossil described in the fly superfamily Oestroidea?
... that the physician George Abercrombie once won a game of chess against world champion José Raúl Capablanca?
... that the Coatzacoalcos Underwater Tunnel, which took 13 years to complete, has been described as a "monument to corruption"?
... that the Houdini Museum of New York houses the world's second largest collection of "Houdiniana"?
... that Shmuel Abba Twersky's immigration to Canada from Ukraine – to serve as Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg in the 1920s – was held up by two years of bureaucratic red tape?
... that in his review, IGN's Craig Harris called Elite Forces: Unit 77 the "perfect storm of gaming mediocrity"?
... that the seed pods of Hardenbergia comptoniana make an audible 'pop' as they release the seed?
... that after contracting diphtheria, John Hunt believed he was one of the last cases in England to have his tonsils painted with cocaine and then removed by guillotine?
... that the Jaguar multi-stage sounding rocket was designed to be launched using a toss bombing maneuver from a B-57 bomber?
... that a Let's Save Togo protest rally in August 2012 called for a week-long sex strike by women to encourage men to oppose Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé?
... that prior to serving as executive fashion director for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen, and as a judge for Project Runway: Junior, Aya Kanai considered careers in puppetry and fine art?
... that Major General Miles Graham was Monty's logistics supremo in both North Africa and North-West Europe during the Second World War?
... that passengers traveling to the 1939 New York World's Fair via the World's Fair subway line paid the standard five-cent fare to board, but had to pay the fare again on arrival?
... that the Queens Building at Heathrow Airport was one of the most visited London attractions in 1956?
... that Doug McMurdy was the inaugural winner of the Red Tilson Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in the Ontario Hockey League each season?
... that "What a Beautiful Name" represents the first Grammy nomination for Hillsong Worship?
... that activist Mandisa Thomas was recognized in the bill officially proclaiming October 15, 2017, as the 16th annual celebration of California Freethought Day?
... that the Aequare was a remotely piloted vehicle intended to be used by F-4 Phantom II fighter-bombers to find and designate targets?
... that in the 1937 program The Three Garridebs, Louis Hector became the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on television?
... that a website run by Digiday generates random absurd Twitter bios followed by profanity-laced commentary?
... that "Stern über Bethlehem" is a German song created in 1964 and often sung by star singers ?
... that Wang Zhongyu was one of China's most powerful figures in the 1990s, with authority over reforming state-owned enterprises?
... that over seven hours of rain delays resulted in the 1998 NAPA 500 becoming the first night race held at Atlanta Motor Speedway?
... that Rome's first emperor, Augustus, adopted his grandsons Lucius and Gaius?
... that Bill Dubuque's scripts for The Judge and The Accountant were both featured on the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood?
... that the Prospect House at Blue Mountain Lake in New York was the first hotel anywhere to be equipped with electric lighting in all the guest rooms?
... that the Welsh footballer Syd Thomas impressed Fulham so much in a trial match that he was offered a contract at half-time?
... that from September 1918 to August 1919, when it left France, American Base Hospital No. 57 treated 8,505 surgical and medical cases, and 7,292 dental cases?
... that Peter Frank Stott investigated the use of open level crossings on the British Rail network following the Lockington rail crash in which nine people died?
... that Barnes Brook lacked any habitats for fish in 2001, but is now being considered for addition to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's list of wild trout streams?
... that the U.S. Army's Plato and FABMDS programs for anti-ballistic missiles evolved into the well-known Patriot missile?
... that certain copies of the Christmas compilation album MTV: TRL Christmas contained tickets for a free trip to be a part of the Total Request Live studio audience in New York City?
... that James Robson has been to six Rugby World Cups with the Scotland team and on six British and Irish Lions tours?
... that the watershed of the West Kill has the steepest slopes and highest overall elevation of any subbasin of New York's Schoharie Creek?
... that the RAF pushed to introduce IFF Mark III after a Short Stirling was shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter, which was in turn shot down by another Beaufighter?
... that Colette Lorand made her debut as Gounod's Marguerite in 1945, created Reimann's Regan in 1978, and retired as Janáček's Emilia Marty in 1983?
... that Ninian Park, the home stadium of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years, was built on the site of a former rubbish tip?
... that the 2017 film Dunkirk was conceived in the mid-1990s when writer and director Christopher Nolan sailed with Emma Thomas across the English Channel, as did many small boats during the Dunkirk evacuation?
... that Nana Otuo Siriboe II, a Ghanaian electrical engineer and paramount chief, is the chairman of the advisory council to the President of Ghana?
... that the authors of the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum were assigned to research nuclear weapons because, as enemy aliens, they could not work on secret military projects?
... that the Canadian bluegrass band The Dead South often refer to themselves as "Mumford and Sons' Evil Twins"?
... that the taboo-breaking debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms ended up winning Africa's biggest literary award instead of attracting the severe backlash author Abubakar Adam Ibrahim expected?
... that the English footballer Danny Lloyd sold bins for a waste management company before turning professional in 2017?
... that "Erde, singe" ("Earth, sing") was a carol in ten stanzas derived in the 19th century from a pastoral lullaby, but appears in the current hymnal in four stanzas, alluding to Christmas only once?
... that before becoming a New York Supreme Court justice, Irwin Untermyer successfully argued to preserve the New York City Subway's five-cent fare in a U.S. Supreme Court case?
... that the gastropod mollusc Thyca crystallina is in the early evolutionary stages of becoming parasitic on a starfish?
... that the United States Navy tested a Flyrt for distracting radar-guided missiles from its ships?
... that during World War II, Colonel George F. Good Jr. successfully defended Funafuti from ten Japanese attacks with a mixed unit that was "poorly armed" and "stuck out like a sore thumb"?
... that the secular Bach cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202, scored for a soprano soloist, oboe, strings and continuo, pictures the transition from winter to spring?
... that the La Loche Formation can include clasts of Precambrian gneiss?
... that the English footballer Tammy Abraham was the first player to win Bristol City's Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, and Top Goalscorer awards in the same season?
... that low-turbulence enclosures developed for the pharmaceutical industry are also suitable as engineering controls for nanomaterials?
... that Gudy Gaskill, the driving force behind the creation of the 567-mile (912 km) Colorado Trail, was honored by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush for her volunteerism?
... that in 2009 the British construction industry was urged to Never Waste a Good Crisis?
... that male Nylanderia pygmaea ants were trapped in amber while climbing plants for their mating flight?
... that Richard Strauss's art song "Freundliche Vision" describes a waking dream?
... that American construction company RMK-BRJ trained 200,000 Vietnamese workers in construction and administrative trades during the Vietnam War?
... that despite London Welsh being liquidated, their amateur team London Welsh Amateur continued as they held separate independent membership of the Rugby Football Union?
... that the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board oversees a park system that has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America?
... that because of the 2016–17 video game voice actor strike, voice actress Ashly Burch could not reprise her role in the Life Is Strange prequel, Before the Storm?
... that following its recent rediscovery, Dora Saker's 1917 book Practical Cheddar Cheese-making has "quickly acquired cult status amongst farmhouse cheese-makers" ?
... that public art at University of Washington station includes a mural inspired by symbols on geologic maps?
... that footballer John Robson was forced to retire after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 28?
... that the first discovery of copper in the state of Victoria, Australia, was made at Coopers Creek in the 1860s?
... that the high Byzantine title of sebastokrator was invented for Isaac Komnenos, who was described by his niece as an "emperor without the purple"?
... that Joint Task Force Empire Shield consists of soldiers and sailors of the New York National Guard and New York Naval Militia, tasked with the defense of New York City?
... that the actress Martina Mayne published an English translation of the work of the German poet Paula Ludwig?
... that the engines of Jagdgeschwader II could not tolerate artificial castor oil?
... that a one-eyed figure shown on one of the Torslunda plates is possibly the Norse god Odin?
... that although the song that Eri Sasaki submitted for use in the anime series Plastic Memories was not chosen, she later passed an audition to sing the series' opening theme?
... that after the unsuccessful Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66, Castile expelled the surviving Muslims?
... that Marie Grice Young, piano instructor for Theodore Roosevelt's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic?
... that the main building of the Music House Museum is a remodelled 1909 dairy barn?
... that Vice-Admiral Herbert King-Hall called the example of the tugboat HMS Blackcock during the sinking of the Imperial cruiser Königsberg "most praiseworthy"?
... that Canadian football player Archie Amerson was described as both halves of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' "one-two punch"?
... that Andy's Diner was partly constructed from a railcar that once carried Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that some historians believe Elisabet Ney's full-length statue of "Mad King Ludwig" of Bavaria was created as part of a Prussian scheme to unify Germany?
... that gold was discovered on Cline Buttes in central Oregon in 1904, but proved uneconomic to mine?
... that Pecorino di Carmasciano cheese is produced only in a small cluster of towns in the Apennine Mountains of Italy?
... that the Lokrume helmet fragment was the first piece of a Viking helmet to be identified?
... that Merkel Landis, while a treasurer at a bank in Pennsylvania, originated the first Christmas Savings Club?
... that HMS Roebuck rescued HMS Rippon after the latter grounded during an attack on Basse-Terre in 1759?
... that in an attempt to catch Celia Cooney, the New York City Police Department launched what was at the time the largest manhunt in the city's history?
... that Isopogon mnoraifolius was named for the resemblance of its foliage to a menorah?
... that the German Christmas carol "Freu dich, Erd und Sternenzelt" is based on a Czech song derived around 1500 from a Latin model ?
... that Phillipe Cunningham is one of the first openly transgender people of color to be elected to public office in the United States?
... that although the 1928–1929 Red Spears' uprising in Shandong broke out in protest against high taxes, banditry, and government brutality, the rebels themselves came to raise taxes, loot, rape, rob and kidnap for ransom?
... that the 2015 Indian epic historical romance film Bajirao Mastani spent eleven years in development hell before being revived in 2014?
... that the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center airport terminal was designated a landmark and is being redeveloped into the TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City?
... that Margaret O'Flynn and her husband John Foley were the first wife-and-husband fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists?
... that during World War II, the United States Navy's Glomb project evaluated the use of gliders as flying bombs?
... that Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls was Kickstarter's "fastest funded publishing project" ever?
... that Henry Buttelmann was the youngest flying ace of the Korean War, at just over 24 years old?
... that the Revolution on Granite was the first major political protest held in Kiev's Independence Square, and its methods were copied in the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan?
... that before becoming chair of the Millennium Development Authority, Yaa Ntiamoah Badu worked at the University of Ghana as a zoologist?
... that the motet In Exile for double choir by Herbert Sumsion was premiered at Gloucester Cathedral?
... that White House correspondent Naomi Nover once assaulted Bernie Boston while Mother Teresa and Ronald Reagan "looked on in total amazement"?
... that American pianist Joe Sample died from mesothelioma prior to completing his parts for the collaborative album Christmas With Friends with India Arie?
... that Israeli scholar Yehuda Liebes claims that the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy includes an allusion to Jesus?
... that Azerbaijan stored ammunition inside Ghazanchetsots Cathedral during the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
... that in healthy adults, HMB has been shown to increase exercise-induced gains in muscle size, muscle strength, and lean body mass, reduce muscle damage, and speed recovery from exercise?
... that before Margaret L. Curry introduced vocational training and education for women prisoners in Colorado, their only activity was washing and ironing the clothes of the male prisoners?
... that Dellatorre, who currently plays for Cypriot club APOEL FC, was the top scorer of the 2011 São Paulo Junior Football Cup?
... that the Rockefeller Center mural Man at the Crossroads was destroyed after the artist surreptitiously added a portrait of Lenin?
... that Jay Fai had never heard of Michelin stars when her restaurant was awarded one?
... that Marjorie Husted, as the radio voice of homemaking authority Betty Crocker, interviewed Joan Crawford in her home?
... that research for the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House reportedly included more than 200 interviews with Donald Trump and his closest associates conducted over 18 months?
... that after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, the Chinese returned Param Vir Chakra recipient Joginder Singh's ashes to his battalion with full military honours?
... that Black Buttes' amphitheater is partially occupied by Deming Glacier?
... that François Noël's translations of classic Chinese texts were banned in the Papal States and Germany but praised by historian Jean-Baptiste Du Halde?
... that "Private View", an episode of Inside No. 9, was a homage to Theatre of Blood satirising the world of contemporary art?
... that the Zombie Hut was a fictitious tiki bar in the 1945 Abbott and Costello film Zombies on Broadway, as well as a real tiki bar that opened in Sacramento, California, that same year?
... that the Witcham Gravel helmet is the only known Roman helmet of its kind?
... that Yang Yuanyuan won a Lifetime Achievement Award because China's aviation accident rate plummeted under his leadership?
... that a former chapel built in 1888 was one of eleven studios involved in the recording of Adele's bestselling album 21?
... that Barnet Nover's 1939 Washington Post article "British Surrender – a Munich for the Holy Land" was inserted into the Congressional Record by then US Senator Harry Truman?
... that the Hong Kong Regiment was paid more than other British Indian Army regiments and was known as "The Swagger Regiment"?
... that Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission biologists tried to visit Coffee Brook in 2001, but were unable to reach it?
... that in the 1929 NFL season, players on the Orange Tornadoes, including Heinie Benkert, wore letters on their uniforms instead of numbers?
... that the purple scale predator is native to Australia but was first described from a Californian specimen?
... that Mhaimbhat is considered the first known prose writer in the Marathi language?
... that Metropolis Software's Tajemnica Statuetki (The Mystery of the Statuette) was the first Polish adventure game?
... that when cardiac surgeon Horace Smithy had a patient die on the operating table, he may have lost the chance to undergo heart surgery himself?
... that Friedrich Spee wrote the lyrics of the Christmas carol "Zu Bethlehem geboren" to a popular French tune with a frivolous text?
... that the Georgian goddess Dali appeared as both a nude golden-haired woman with glowing skin, and as a white ibex with golden horns?
... that in an attack on Cologne on 28 May 1944, German gunners thought that crashing GB-1 glide bombs were aircraft they were shooting down?
... that Ming China turned Qianshan into a military base to protect Guangdong from the Portuguese settlement in Macao?
... that Ilya Espino de Marotta, lead engineer for the Panama Canal expansion project, wears a pink hard hat on site to make a statement that women can do the job?
... that the newly named dinosaur Sibirotitan is only the second sauropod species named from the country of Russia, and one of the oldest titanosauriform sauropod species known from all of Asia?
... that Sonali Guha, a four-term member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, captured the seat of a five-term member of the assembly in her first election?
... that Amazon is building a $1.5 billion facility at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to serve as a principal hub for Amazon Air?
... that the Morgan Morgan Monument memorializes one of the earliest European pioneers to settle permanently in present-day West Virginia?
... that Hazel Carter was reported to have received the United States' first military funeral for a woman?
... that both Oliver Cromwell and Kylie Minogue have stayed at the Lygon Arms ?
... that peanut farmer Harris DeVane won the first race held on Atlanta Motor Speedway's present configuration by 0.023 seconds, leading only the last 100 yards (91 m) of the event?
... that the nest of the large frogmouth consists of a circular cushion of down on which a single egg is balanced?
... that Herman Vandenburg Ames was one of Ezra Pound's professors at the University of Pennsylvania?
... that some 500,000 photographs and drawings are included in the collections of the Historical Model Railway Society?
... that Caroline Lenferna de Laresle travelled from Mauritius to Rome to claim the pontifical right for her order of nuns and died there shortly afterwards?
... that the Rick and Morty episode "Pickle Rick" was largely inspired by the Breaking Bad episode "4 Days Out"?
... that Hu Yan won praise as a loyal and capable advisor in part by getting his prince drunk and kidnapping him?
... that the Anglo-Saxon Coppergate Helmet may have been hidden in a well during the Viking invasion of York?
... that Chen Guangyi was appointed to the top post of his home province of Fujian reportedly after provincial cadres opposed another candidate from North China?
... that five siblings and an in-law made up the Bartell Group, which owned radio stations around the United States during the 1940s–1960s and was a pioneer in the Top 40 format?
... that fans noticed Doctor Who references in a promotional trailer for Paul McGann's first episode in Holby City as John Gaskell?
... that Marvin Pipkin invented the first electric light bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for ordinary handling that could be sold to the public?
... that mutant squirrels and "cat-faced" trees can be found in Ochlockonee River State Park?
... that the English physicist and television technology developer Boris Townsend described colour television as a "judicious combination of human imperfections and clever technical solutions"?
... that The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan won a Stonewall Book Award for its portrayal of the genderfluid character Alex Fierro?
... that Major General Sir Randle Feilden has a horse race named in his memory?
... that India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, and the Philippines made their debut in under-20 international ice hockey at the 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia?
... that Lorenzo Viotti conducted Massenet's Werther in three productions in opera houses of three countries in 2017, silently singing with the soloists?
... that in order to attract skilled civil servants, the Hong Kong government offered a free sea cruise back to the UK on retirement to British civil servants who joined up?
... that Effie Owuor was Kenya's first female state counsel, magistrate, High Court judge, and Court of Appeal judge?