derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in 2017, Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros joined eight other Mexican senators in switching parties after a dispute over commission seats, more than doubling the Labor Party's ranks?
... that a line of T-shirts produced by Massive Goods featuring art by Gengoroh Tagame became popular in the LGBTQ hip-hop scene?
... that American pediatrician Frank Spooner Churchill believed that breast milk could be spoiled if the mother was anxious?
... that the Mount Cayley massif in British Columbia has been investigated as a potential geothermal energy resource?
... that Reginald St John Battersby joined the British Army aged 14, was commissioned at 15, and lost a leg at 17?
... that Vanessa Delgado's 112-day term in the California State Senate will be the shortest tenure since 1903?
... that pieces of Hirado ware decorated with seven boys chasing butterflies were once made only for the shōgun and emperors of Japan?
... that in 2001, HIV/AIDS campaigner Minoo Mohraz defied a media ban by using the word "condom" on Iranian national television?
... that season 9 is the longest-running of SpongeBob SquarePants seasons, airing for four and a half years?
... that in 1948, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and Fredric Wertham helped establish the Lafargue Clinic in New York City, one of the first to provide low-cost psychiatric services to black patients?
... that the bioluminescent scales of the worm Lepidonotus squamatus adhere to any predator that feeds on it, making the attacker more visible to its own predators?
... that Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau was the last surviving royal student from the Chiefs' Children's School, a select school for the nobles and rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that the Royal Air Force's "Winkle" system tracked aircraft by listening for their radar jammers?
... that editorial cartoonist Etta Hulme began her artistic career at Walt Disney animation studio under Ward Kimball?
... that the breakout single "broken" by lovelytheband was inspired by its vocalist after he split up with his previous band, Oh Honey?
... that Fredy Hirsch saved the lives of children at Auschwitz by impressing SS guards, even though he was Jewish and openly gay?
... that Roberto Benedicto was so close to his fraternity brother, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, that he had full access to the presidential quarters in Malacañang Palace?
... that sections of Washington State Route 821 are shut down for annual cattle drives, a marathon, and a heritage tractor run?
... that the 2018 animated film Seder-Masochism was said to turn parts of the Exodus "into Busby Berkeley-style song-and-dance numbers"?
... that the surgeon Graham Stack advocated naming the fingers of the hand, rather than numbering them, in order to avoid surgical errors?
... that the United States Lifesaving Association calculated that a person has a 1 in 18 million chance of drowning at a beach patrolled by lifeguards affiliated with the association?
... that mezzo-soprano Sybille Specht appeared as La Belle in a chamber opera by Philip Glass at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz?
... that Godfrey's Cordial, a popular infant sedative in Victorian Britain, led to numerous fatalities?
... that American missionary Mary Sophia Hyde Rice taught Sanford B. Dole, who later became Hawaii's only president?
... that though caterpillars feed on the leaves of Hypericum punctatum, the foliage is toxic to mammals?
... that Max Steiner was often criticized for his excessive use of "Mickey Mousing" in his film scores?
... that despite homosexuality being punishable by death, Iranian LGBT activists celebrate IranPride Day by secretly photographing themselves holding rainbow flags in Tehran and other cities?
... that Milton Griepp was receiving unemployment benefits when he co-founded Capital City Distribution, which became the largest comic book distributor in the United States?
... that the skeleton shrimp Caprella penantis may take on some of the coloration of whatever it is feeding on?
... that in 2016, Jaime Bonilla Valdez invited current Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to his suite at Petco Park to watch the Major League Baseball All-Star Game?
... that Australian artist John Peter Russell painted a portrait of Vincent van Gogh and gave it to him as a mark of their friendship?
... that police investigating the 1988 murder of 8-year-old April Tinsley believed that the murderer also left threatening notes with used condoms on girls' bicycles in 2004?
... that if completed, the proposed 1,422-foot (433 m) Tribune East Tower would be the second tallest building in Chicago, behind the Willis Tower?
... that in 1985, Victor Almaraz made a charro outfit which consisted mainly of pull tabs from 2,500 aluminum cans?
... that Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II formed the Kawaihau Glee Club, said to be composed of the "very purest and sweetest male voices to be found amongst the Native Hawaiians"?
... that despite winning Roush Fenway Racing's 100th NASCAR Cup Series race in the 2007 Dodge Dealers 400, driver Carl Edwards was penalized for his car being too low at the right-rear?
... that when Castile invited Navarre to join an alliance against Muhammad VII of Granada, Charles III of Navarre informed Muhammad VII of this scheme, called him "my brother" and sent him military aid?
... that the first NCAA Basketball Championship Game was attended by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball?
... that Japanese voice actress Azumi Waki initially wished to pursue a career as a flight attendant, but gave up because she felt that her English language skills were inadequate?
... that in most of the killings of the Bangladesh Drug War the victims were shot at night, and weapons and drugs were found near the bodies?
... that before becoming a college professor, Alan L. Gropman flew more than 670 combat missions during two tours of Vietnam?
... that while attempting to escape from underwater predators, the tropical two-wing flyingfish may find other hazards above the waves?
... that Canadian basketball player Grandy Glaze made his professional debut in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, which he led in rebounding?
... that the surrender of the Polish garrison at the Battle of Westerplatte on 7 September 1939 ended what has been described as the opening battle of World War II?
... that Margaret Storkan made seven trips to the developing world on the hospital ship SS Hope where she was the only dermatologist?
... that in 2016, fifty years after the Batman villain Poison Ivy was introduced, she starred in her own comic book miniseries?
... that the first victim of the Turkish serial killer Hamdi Kayapınar was his sibling?
... that sand from Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and New York City's Rockaway Peninsula was brought by barge to Orchard Beach?
... that the social and political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel argues that humans are waging a war on animals?
... that the 19th-century writer Athalia Schwartz addressed the conditions and lives of prostitutes in England, the Netherlands, and Belgium?
... that the proposed Ybor Stadium would be the smallest in Major League Baseball by seating capacity?
... that as a volunteer infantryman in the American Civil War, Felix Agnus saved the life of Captain Judson Kilpatrick?
... that MIS416, a drug derived from bacteria that cause acne, was used to treat multiple sclerosis in New Zealand under a compassionate use law before clinical trials were unable to prove its efficacy?
... that The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland was the first official document to inform the Western Allies about the Holocaust?
... that by the end of the 2017–18 season, IFK Kristianstad had won 66 consecutive home matches against domestic opposition?
... that raindrop cake is a dessert made of water and agar, and has practically no calories?
... that Slovene-American Katka Zupančič wrote children's poetry about the austerity of immigrant life?
... that there are no rules against reverse rotational lifts, in which the woman lifts the man, as competition elements in ice dance?
... that the B&B Carousell, built over 100 years ago, is the last operating carousel in Coney Island?
... that Tosia Altman's blonde hair and fluency in Polish enabled her to pass as a gentile and travel between Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland to organize armed resistance to the Holocaust?
... that the Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum in Tirana counts among its alumni most Albanian professional artists, as well as the current Prime Minister of Albania?
... that one of the scientific names in use for the Kimberley death adder was given in honour of actor Burt Lancaster?
... that one account has it that King Charles II offered his mistress Nell Gwyn "all the land she could ride around before breakfast"—and the next morning she rode out early and encircled what would become Bestwood Park?
... that 15 future professors of medicine in Japan worked in Ken Hashimoto's American laboratory?
... that the sea anemone Diadumene cincta reproduces by basal laceration, with pieces of tissue becoming detached from the base and developing into new individuals?
... that in 1608, Greek spy Petros Lantzas devised a plan to assassinate the Ottoman Sultan by placing a present containing explosives in front of him?
... that Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan has influenced such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Stephen King?
... that Ramiz Kovaçi, a baritone at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, was also a jury member for a light music festival?
... that in 1959, the US Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for a prosecutor to knowingly use false testimony, even if the testimony does not directly relate to the defendant's guilt?
... that Manchester City player Claudio Gomes won a trophy at Wembley Stadium one second into his professional debut?
... that Ronald Smelser's 2008 book The Myth of the Eastern Front focuses on the myth of the clean Wehrmacht?
... that for his song of praise "Lobet den Herren alle, die ihn ehren", Paul Gerhardt used the Sapphic stanza?
... that Hawaiian diplomat John Mākini Kapena was sent to Japan in 1882 to discuss Japanese immigration to Hawaii?
... that prior to heading Ghana's petroleum authority, lawyer Hassan Tampuli secured the release of a journalist who had been detained for writing about the country's president?
... that the Palembang Light Rail Transit, which opened last month, is the first operational light rail system in Indonesia?
... that clothes created by Matilda Etches in the 1940s were the first modern fashion items to be honoured as key acquisitions by London's Victoria and Albert Museum?
... that Major League Baseball umpires have visited 131 hospitals since 2006, giving seriously ill children more than 12,500 stuffed toys, through their‎ UMPS CARE charity?‎
... that Wieluń, Poland, became the first city to sustain major damage and casualties from German bombing in World War II?
...that Keanolani was the illegitimate daughter of King Kamehameha V, who died in 1872 without naming an heir to the throne?
... that SpaceX's Rocket Development and Test Facility is on the site of Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant, a former World War II bomb-making facility?
... that Texas-born Mario Alberto Peña became a suspected regional leader of the Gulf Cartel and a gangster folk hero on both sides of the Mexico–United States border?
... that Charles Wood's Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D has been regarded as an "epitome of Church of England worship"?
... that Ian Aird performed chest surgery on a wounded German officer after the British surgeon had been captured by a German Panzer column during the North African Campaign?
... that voice actress Aya Hirano played the lead role in the multi-award-winning anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?
... that a 156-foot (48 m) tunnel for the Lower Manhattan Expressway was built in New York City in the 1960s, but was never used?
... that Bulgaria's first cosmonaut, Georgi Ivanov, safely returned to Earth despite a failing main engine and a damaged backup engine on his Soyuz 33 spacecraft?
... that the creators of the video game franchise God of War named their main character Kratos without knowing that an actual god by that name appears in the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound?
... that despite having Stage IV lung cancer, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho continues to act as spokesman for the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management?
... that in 1934, the Austrian biochemist Regina Kapeller-Adler developed an innovative test for early pregnancy based on the presence of histidine in urine?
... that an island in New York City used to be a summer campsite, with up to half a million visitors by 1917?
... that at the age of 23, Adam Holland became the youngest person to run 100 marathons?
... that the French town of Bergerac was captured after a portcullis jammed on a wounded horse?
... that Victoria Lederberg was a SimCity mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, before becoming a state supreme court justice?
... that Heinrich Himmler may have given permission for the Red Cross to visit the family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, just a few hundred meters from the gas chambers?
... that in 2018, storyboard artist Domee Shi became the first woman to direct a Pixar short film?
... that the volcanic Oasis of Mosquitoes in the Sahara has multicoloured lakes and can be seen from space?
... that Anne Patzwald works as an occupational therapist at a clinic that employs three other current or former members of the German women's wheelchair basketball national team?
... that the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Kaiser Franz Joseph I sank during a gale in October 1919?
... that military officer Francisco Javier Arana, who briefly ruled Guatemala as part of a three-person junta, was subsequently killed in a shootout after threatening a coup?
... that Max Reger composed 20 Responsories in English for use in the American Lutheran church, although he did not speak English?
... that when suspected Mexican drug lord Raúl Meza Ontiveros was arrested, police found he was storing 348 kilograms (767 lb) of cocaine?
... that the Oregon Military Museum has more than 14,000 artifacts in its collection, including 50 vehicles, 750 weapons, and 5 military aircraft?
... that Renee Powell was the first female golfer to compete in a British men's tournament?
... that having located a beetle larva in dead timber, the female parasitic wasp Stephanus serrator may take several hours to drill a hole towards it in which to lay its egg?
... that Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Dave Roller, who weighed 270 pounds (120 kg) at the time, was carried off Lambeau Field by fans after a victory against the Detroit Lions?
... that the 2013 Perkins Review found that only 24% of British parents considered engineering a suitable career for their daughters?
... that the Georgian hearth goddess Lamaria was venerated exclusively by women, either in private rituals within the home or in private shrines outside the boundaries of villages?
... that Saturday Zoo host Jonathan Ross was described as "humour-resistant Teflon"?
... that Robert of Nantes was "an old and venerable man aged eighty years" when he was imprisoned along with Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade?
... that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors?
... that basketball player Donte Ingram owns at least 50 pairs of sneakers?
... that the designs for the Doctor Who serial The Sensorites were inspired by Antoni Gaudí's design of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, which has no right angles?
... that SS-Untersturmführer Karl Friedrich Titho was dubbed the "Executioner of Fossoli" by the Italian media for his role in the execution of 67 prisoners at Fossoli di Carpi?
... that "The Witch's Promise" is the only Jethro Tull single to feature a Mellotron?
... that Jos Canale won the CHL Coach of the Year Award and led Team Canada to a gold medal at the World Juniors?
... that a section of U.S. Route 97 Alternate in central Washington state was rebuilt on higher ground in the 1950s to prevent inundation from a new hydroelectric dam?
... that the Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition of 1928 sought to explain the endemic syphilis among the "primitive" Buryat people?
... that Minneapolis surgeon George G. Eitel was falsely rumored to have been shot at sunrise at Fort Snelling?
... that Benedicite, composed by Andrew Carter for choir, children's choir, and orchestra, was inspired by restored ceiling bosses in York Minster?
... that several Major League Baseball teams adopted the "opener" strategy during the 2018 season?
... that in 2017, Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre was found for sale in a New Mexico antique store, 32 years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art?
... that despite being the son of a professional basketball player, Luka Šamanić did not begin playing the game until the age of 11?
... that the flatworm Microplana terrestris can use a trail of mucus as a "suspension bridge" to pass from one leaf to another?
... that John "Jabo" Starks was one of the originators of funk drumming?
... that the Kaiser Franz Joseph I-class cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth accompanied Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his circumnavigation of the world between 1892 and 1893?
... that Michael Frenzel, the former CEO of European tourism group TUI, escaped from East Germany with his father when he was nine years old?
... that Masters of the Sun Vol. 1 is the first album by the Black Eyed Peas in eight years?
... that the English amateur footballer Reg Anderson was killed during World War II when his aircraft was shot down?
... that hurricane responders face hazards from floodwater such as chemical and biological contaminants, and electrocution?
... that Jean Yancey was known in Denver as "the mother of all businesswomen", having helped more than 1,000 women launch their own startups?
... that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre, in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
... that Canadian national basketball player Élodie Tessier is 3 feet 11 inches (1.19 m) tall?
... that the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt, built to house trams, is now a theatre which staged the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway?
... that photographs of the Valle de Guadalupe and Bahía de los Ángeles by Julio Rodríguez appeared in National Geographic magazine?
... that more than 20 million people watched Chronicle during its three-day live coverage of the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982?
... that Denise Mueller-Korenek is the only woman to hold the world record for paced bicycle land speed since its establishment in 1899?
... that the procession after the 1920 funeral of William G. Blakely reportedly included the longest line of automobiles ever seen at a funeral in Kingman, Arizona?
... that Mary Pitman Ailau and her brother Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman were educated at a Hilo school with other biracial students of Hawaiian descent?
... that in 2004, the Israel Antitrust Authority declared that a copyright collective for authors and musicians was essentially a monopoly?
... that OSS agent Roderick Stephen Hall was betrayed and captured during a one-man mission in northern Italy in January 1945, and murdered by the SS?
... that top NBA draft prospect Sekou Doumbouya signed his first professional basketball contract at age 15?
... that Julia Yates, head of the New Zealand fashion label Trilby Yates, was once spat at in the street for wearing trousers?
... that in 2018, police raided the house of former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and confiscated a letter written by the 19th-century national hero José de San Martín?
... that Reverend James Abercrombie once admonished President George Washington during his sermon for not setting an example in church by receiving communion?
... that white rust , a plant pathogen affecting the cabbage family, predisposes its host to develop downy mildew?
... that pictures of suspected 18-year-old assassin Raúl Meza Torres inspired other teenagers in Mexico to join organized crime?
... that aggregations of painted urchin have been recorded with a density of 80 individuals per square metre?
... that college basketball player Johnny Dee played through a knee injury for most of a season while leading the NCAA Division I in free throw shooting percentage?
... that Orlande de Lassus set Psalm 134, one of the Songs of Ascents, in Latin for seven voices a cappella, using a wide range from low bass to very high soprano?
... that during World War II, Huang Qingyun published the only Chinese children's magazine in Hong Kong and China, and corresponded with her readers to help them cope with life in wartime?
... that at over fourteen hours in duration, La Flor is the longest film in Argentine cinema?
... that in 2017, Sofía Gómez broke the CMAS Constant Weight Bi-Fins freediving world record, and then broke her own record two days later?
... that Japanese musician May'n adopted her stage name because she wanted her fans to consider her their "main" singer?
... that German wheelchair basketball player Barbara Gross plays for the University of Alabama team, which includes two other Germans?
... that when Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean pitched DC Comics on reintroducing Black Orchid in 1988, editor Karen Berger had never heard of the main character?
... that the company set up by horticulturist Theodosia Burr Shepherd is considered the foundation of the California seed industry?
... that Theater Bremen, the state theatre in Bremen for operas, plays, dance, and student programs, was selected as opera house of the year by Opernwelt in 2007?
... that Adam Marshall was the first Catholic chaplain in the United States Navy, albeit unofficially?
... that the entire fourth serial of Doctor Who is missing after being erased by the BBC in 1967?
... that Valentin Peter Feuerstein created a cycle of seven stained-glass windows for the Überwasserkirche in Münster?
... that in 1906, Russian-Jewish immigrant Abe Spring first proposed Alaska as a refuge for Jews, but the suggestion was rejected by the US Congress?
... that Karolin Margret Natasa is the first Dayak woman to serve as a regional head in Indonesia?
... that on May 14, 1980, Salvadoran forces massacred more than 300 civilians while Honduran soldiers prevented them from escaping across the border?
... that British pathologist Ian Whimster was part of the medical team that entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the Germans had left?
... that the name of the undersea volcano Ita Mai Tai (No Damn Good) was given by a scientist presumably upset by unsuccessful attempts to drill into it?
... that wild Selangor silvered langur monkeys at Bukit Melawati in Malaysia sometimes touch or even climb onto human visitors?
... that the Israeli team at the 1972 Summer Olympics attended the German production of Fiddler on the Roof as guests of its star, Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky, the night before the Munich massacre?
... that Nanchang Xiangtang Airport served 102 passengers in its first full year of operation, and more than 800,000 four decades later?
... that the 2011 horror webtoon "Bongcheon-Dong Ghost" was released with a warning for "pregnant women, the elderly, and those suffering from serious medical conditions"?
... that Abhilasha Kumari, the first female Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court in India, served for only 13 days?
... that the shooting of Oscar Grant motivated Angie Thomas to write a short story that became the basis for her debut novel, The Hate U Give?
... that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Sandrine Bérubé is a brown belt in karate?
... that passersby in Munich's Luitpoldpark may get soaked when a figure on the Pumuckl fountain spits intermittently?
... that during a 15-year period researching George Washington's correspondence, William Wright Abbot read or edited more than 135,000 documents?
... that Filipinos became the first Asians to have a documented presence in the Americas when they landed in what is now California on 18 October 1587?
... that basketball player Bol Bol received his first NCAA Division I offer at the age of 15?