derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Amtrak ran "toasters" on the Northeast Corridor for over thirty years?
... that the Republic SD-3 Snooper reconnaissance drone used airbags to cushion its landings?
... that Georges Dargaud produced the first Asterix film, Asterix the Gaul, in 1967?
... that the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is a national archaeological park of China, while the tomb of St. Francis Xavier is a candidate for the designation?
... that in 1858, the obstetrician Gustavus Murray claimed to be able to identify the parts of a fetus, including each vertebra, through an abdominal examination of a pregnant woman?
... that former Oregon state legislator Hazen A. Brattain died a month after completing a seven-month world tour?
... that John Rutter wrote the lyrics for his choral composition Christmas Lullaby, with each verse including the refrain "Ave Maria"?
... that the Cahokia Woodhenge , built by the Native American Mississippian culture between 900 and 1100 CE, was a timber circle solar calendar used to observe solstices and equinoxes?
... that the English tenor Mark Milhofer appeared as Mozart's Ferrando in Beijing and Moscow, and as Poppea's nurse in Berlin, dressed as a parody of Riff Raff?
... that in 1919, Romanian playwright and journalist A. de Herz was court-martialled for alleged collaboration with the Central Powers?
... that prior to creating Booker T. Washington State Park, West Virginia's Conservation Commission justified its segregation policy by explaining that "our Negro citizens would feel ill at ease" using parks alongside whites?
... that after sighting an improvised distress signal made from a lady's shawl, the French frigate Cléopâtre rescued 34 people stranded at sea?
... that during the 1655 papal conclave, the younger cardinals played pranks on the older cardinals for fun?
... that Felix Mendelssohn was so fascinated by a particular singer playing the role of a mermaid that he was inspired to write the overture The Fair Melusine ?
... that Xu Shijie came out of retirement to serve as the first party chief of the new province of Hainan, but was dismissed in the aftermath of the Tiananmen protests?
... that along with Mount Defiance and Mount Bailey, Diamond Peak is one of the few andesitic shield volcanos in the Cascade Range?
... that the high-waisted fashions of the early 1800s likely helped the Countess of Bessborough hide her figure from her husband while pregnant with her illegitimate daughter, Harriet Osborne?
... that Patrick Zhuwao was expelled from Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU–PF party during the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état?
... that until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Norwood Tower held the only public restroom open to African Americans in downtown Austin, Texas?
... that in 2017, Canadian pitcher Claire Eccles became the first woman to play baseball in the collegiate West Coast League?
... that Tennessee state representative Charles P. Fahey sponsored bills prohibiting the non-medical sale of cocaine and requiring the racial segregation of Nashville streetcars?
... that producers of the 2012 Austrian short film Homophobia raised US$10,100 in 69 days through crowdfunding on Indiegogo?
... that Otto Franke, the pre-eminent German sinologist of his time, died "practically from hunger and exhaustion" before he could complete his history of China?
... that the Italian town of Guardia Lombardi was settled by the Lombards in the sixth century as a defensive outpost?
... that, under the leadership of Mary Puckey, Sydney's Rachel Forster Hospital expanded from 12 to 120 beds?
... that Ping-Pong was believed to be "the free world's only round-trip ballistic missile"?
... that Rick Parfitt wrote "Forty Five Hundred Times" with Francis Rossi and called it his favourite guitar moment with Status Quo?
... that Lt. Gen. D. R. Soni, chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army, was a military observer in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War?
... that as part of today's Temperance and Good Citizenship Day observances in the state of Washington, schools are expected to hold voter registration drives for eligible students?
... that the Grizzly Flats Railroad, owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball, was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States?
... that Diego Fasolis conducted L'incoronazione di Poppea at the reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden, adding music by other composers of Monteverdi's time?
... that the "Fat Albert" sounding rocket had its name changed to Aries because the Naval Research Laboratory considered it "more dignified"?
... that Gustave Lambert was killed in the Siege of Paris before he could set sail for the North Pole?
... that the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football player, is named for John Heisman, who was instrumental in legalizing the forward pass?
... that the late-Gothic church St. Moritz in Halle (Saale) became Catholic again in 1970?
... that Li Huang co-founded the Chinese Youth Party, which was modelled after the Young Turks?
... that the Goldberg–Coxeter construction can be used to study fullerene molecules, nanoparticles, and basket weaving?
... that professional diver Albert Powsey was known for diving off Southport Pier with a bicycle?
... that the Kaman K-16B tiltwing aircraft was built from an existing Grumman Goose to save time and money?
... that, in 1989, East Holmes Academy offered to forfeit a football game because the opposing team had a black player?
... that Paa Kofi Ansong, a member of the advisory team to the President of Ghana, once worked as a quality control officer at Boots Pharmacy in the United Kingdom?
... that, although Joseph Jongen conducted the first performance of Mass, Op. 130 at Liège Cathedral in 1946, it was not published until 1990?
... that the Canadian Underground Research Laboratory was built to test the concept of storing nuclear waste in rock that was billions of years old?
... that Angeline Murimirwa received money for her secondary education from Camfed, and is now its regional executive director for Southern & Eastern Africa?
... that confirmation of the controversial claim that the Ram Khamhaeng Inscription was fake would have forced Thai history to be rewritten?
... that John Samuel Phene's five-storey house was called the "Gingerbread Castle" because of its numerous devices and fixtures?
... that the high altar in the Propsteikirche, created by Derick Baegert, includes the oldest depiction of Dortmund on its left panel ?
... that Didier Drogba scored twice for the Ivory Coast in a match which was abandoned after fans rioted, throwing food and drinks onto the pitch?
... that the Orchard Pond Parkway is Florida's first privately-built toll road?
... that the Han scholar Gao You—responsible for the present editions of the Huainanzi—had to quit school owing to the Yellow Turban Rebellion?
... that the British government's Construction 2025 industrial strategy sought to reduce whole-life greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment to half of 2013 levels by 2025?
... that approximately 160,000 birds across twenty-two different species nest and breed on the Pearl and Hermes Atoll of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands?
... that a 1942 letter addressed to "the blonde Wren from Argentina on the platform at Bletchley station" led to marriage in 1945?
... that the 5th-century Tigawa temple is the only survivor of around 36 Hindu temples at the site that were quarried for building stone during a 19th-century construction project?
... that Wolfgang Helbich recorded apocryphal works by Bach with the Alsfelder Vokalensemble, and conducted an award-winning recording of Ein deutsches Requiem with the Bremer Domchor?
... that Den of Geek likened watching gameshow whodunnit Armchair Detectives to playing a hidden objects video game?
... that statesman Costea Bucioc, who reputedly survived a poisoning attempt at the Moldavian court, was later impaled by the Ottoman army?
... that the outsourcing industry in China is rapidly growing on the back of "cloud computing, big data, Internet of things and mobile Internet"?
... that Gwen Fleming, the first female major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, was called "sir" by her colleagues during the Second World War?
... that Ramize Erer said that when she published a cartoon of a masturbating girl, "all hell broke loose"?
... that the use of asset management plan periods in the water industry of England and Wales has been criticised for creating a boom and bust cycle of investment?
... that golfer Sally Sessions tied for second place in the 1947 U.S. Women's Open as an amateur?
... that Ghanaian accountant and paramount chief Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II is also the president of all chiefs in the Western Region of Ghana?
... that the Ottawa Art Gallery acquired the Firestone Collection of over 1,600 pieces of Canadian art, including landscapes by the Group of Seven, in 1992?
... that the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was initiated by United States Senator Harry Reid in 2007 to secretly study the topic of UFOs?
... that the Australian Air Board chose 31 March rather than 1 April as the founding date of the Royal Australian Air Force to avoid being called "April Fools"?
... that Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie rejected the chance to be the head of Ghana's ports and harbours because of his fear of the sea?
... that as president of Fisk University, James Raymond Lawson saw the donor base dwindle due to the students' involvement with the Black Power movement?
... that the 14th-century Hanthawaddy Minister-General Byat Za's doctrine of limited warfare has been compared to that popularized by Clausewitz?
... that in 1900, a steamboat owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was stolen by two tugboats during the night from the Erie Basin Marina?
... that in 1951, thoracic surgeon Clement Price Thomas removed part of King George VI's lung in Buckingham Palace?
... that the larvae of the starry night butterfly accumulate toxic chemicals in their bodies, which make the adults distasteful to birds?
... that the lyrics to "The Kentucky Volunteer", the first song copyrighted under the United States Constitution, were written by "a Lady of Philadelphia"?
... that Jennie Carignan helped reintroduce ballroom dancing to the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, having taken classes with her future husband when she was a cadet?
... that the ancient Maya ruins of San Clemente, El Petén, in Guatemala include a two-storey palace structure and two Mesoamerican ballcourts?
... that Amtrak service at Tacoma Dome Station was halted on its inaugural day due to a train derailment?
... that German microbiologist Paul Lindner named the yeast species he discovered Schizosaccharomyces pombe after the Swahili word for beer?
... that soprano Cristina Pasaroiu played Manon in boots, even in bed with her lover?
... that the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon in Detroit ceased playing music in 1970 due to damage caused by pigeons?
... that members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf used the Inabanga River, the largest waterway in Bohol, Philippines, for a planned incursion into the province in 2017?
... that Kenyan Brigadier Fatumah Ahmed joined the armed forces "by accident" when she saw a recruitment campaign whilst applying for an identity card?
... that Project Flying Cloud was expected to affect an area "comparable in size to that affected by a low-yield nuclear weapon"?
... that the Angel of the Winds Casino was designed as a temporary building with modular elements so it could be sold in pieces?
... that Wolfgang Stockmeier made around 150 recordings of organ music, taught at three music academies, and composed an opera on a libretto by Gabriele Wohmann?
... that the succulent Euphorbia arbuscula of Socotra is used to feed goats?
... that after the American Civil War, "Fighting Parson" Fountain E. Pitts helped grow poppies to make opium in Nashville, Tennessee?
... that the Gorgon IV was the first ramjet-powered aircraft to successfully fly in the United States?
... that Genius Grant winner Regina Barzilay helped decipher the ancient language Ugaritic?
... that steam-distilled garlic oil has around 900 times the strength of fresh garlic?
... that Hatto Ständer, who played the organ in church services at age nine, was professor of organ playing, choral conducting, Gregorian chant and composition at the Technical University of Dortmund for more than three decades?
... that during the 1981 Milwaukee Police Strike, Mayor Henry Maier requested that taverns and bars voluntarily close early?
... that Desmarestia tropica, or tropical acidweed, is possibly extinct because of the 1982–83 El Niño event?
... that footballer Gordon Coleman scored the winning goal in a match against Blackpool in 1982 while sitting on the ground?
... that after Richard Sloan eloped with his employer's daughter, the couple settled in the Mill Creek valley and built the Sloan–Parker House around 1790?
... that Arsenal Ladies player Clare Wheatley took over as the club's development officer and general manager from Vic Akers, who once told her, "Arsenal Ladies is not a social club"?
... that inside the Cabaret du Ciel (Cabaret of Heaven), beer was served, and the entertainment included depictions of angels playing music and Saint Peter sprinkling holy water from the heavens?
... that Tyrannomyrmex alii was named for India's "Ant Man"?
... that Jie Zhitui, who loyally followed Prince Chong'er in exile for almost 20 years, was supposedly burned alive because he did not want to ask for any reward once his lord was restored to power?
... that the Lilac Fire in Southern California grew from a small brush fire to 4,100 acres (17 km2) in one day?
... that the organ virtuoso and teacher Heinz Wunderlich held a Hamburg post that Bach had once wanted?
... that Professor He Siyuan became an anti-Japanese guerrilla leader during World War II and later survived two assassination attempts, one of which killed his young daughter?
... that the mushrooms of the Asian fungus Macrocybe crassa can weigh up to 1.25 kilograms (3 lb)?
... that Ramona Go was the first female military pilot, line officer, battalion commander, adjutant general, and regular service general in the Philippine Armed Forces?
... that "Diddle Diddle Dumpling", an episode of Inside No. 9, was inspired by a chance encounter with a single shoe?
... that Ghanaian keyboardist Alfred P. Addaquay composed and performed his first oratorio when he was 20 years old?
... that all five of the surviving members of the original cast of the Power Rangers series attended the film adaptation's Los Angeles premiere in March 2017?
... that Janai Haupapa joined the Canadian national rugby league team while still playing for a rugby union club?
... that patrons of the Cabaret du Néant (Cabaret of Nothingness) drank beverages in the "Intoxication Hall" , which had chandeliers made of human bones and coffin-shaped tables?
... that in 1927, barnstormer Doug Davis let 12-year-old Paul Tibbets drop Baby Ruth candy bars attached to parachutes from his biplane over Hialeah, Florida, kindling the boy's love of flying?
... that T-tubules allow heart muscle cells to contract more forcefully by synchronising calcium release?
... that Kate Fotso, the richest woman in Cameroon, is known as the "iron lady of the cocoa industry"?
... that in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon) and marketed?
... that the Santa Ana Heritage Zone encompasses a declared Heritage House and a local church that contains two National Cultural Treasures?
... that when He Luli was 14, an assassin's bombs killed her younger sister?
... that Google Earth was originally developed for use by various agencies of the United States government, including the CIA?
... that St. Nicolai, Lüneburg, a brick Gothic church with a "star" rib vault , was the location of the first Lutheran sermon in Lüneburg?
... that California and the entire eastern United States are under a quarantine restriction by the U.S. state of Washington designed to protect it from apple maggot infestation?
... that Slovenian actor Jernej Šugman starred in Shakespeare's Hamlet twice, first in the titular role and the second time as King Claudius?
... that the "Memorial for the War to Resist America and Aid Korea" is no longer one of the national first-grade museums of China?
... that 16th-century kabbalist Shimon Lavi displayed knowledge of alchemy in his commentary on the Zohar?
... that the parasitic wasp Ichneumon eumerus has a complex life cycle involving ants and a rare blue butterfly?
... that the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was marketed as "Skyrim in a Game of Thrones sauce"?
... that in 1939, Peter Du Cane was awarded the Segrave Medal for his part in the design of the world water speed record-breaking boat Blue Bird K4?
... that the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse was named in honor of an early trial in the African-American civil rights movement that was heard there in 1946?
... that as paramount chief of the Wulungu traditional area, Ghanaian geographer and academic John S. Nabila is known by the title Wulugu Naba?
... that Margaret W. Burcham was the first female brigadier general in the United States Army Corps of Engineers?
... that the first Columbus Crew soccer match attended by future owner Anthony Precourt was delayed after the stadium's scoreboard caught fire?
... that US-educated sociologist Lei Jieqiong served as vice-mayor of Beijing and taught at Peking University until the age of 100?
... that the Abatan River estuary in Bohol has one of the Philippines' most diverse mangrove forests?
... that modelling agent Cherry Marshall discovered Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain?
... that the Record of the Year and Seasons of Jingchu shows how religious, calendrical, culinary, and entertainment changes led to a new canon of major Chinese holidays between the Han and Tang dynasties?
... that local residents followed the cries of trapped passengers to find the crash site of West Wind Aviation Flight 280 and aid in rescue efforts?
... that Marcu Cercel, who ruled over Moldavia in 1600, was probably born to a Turkish Muslim apostate?
... that Facebook's Aquila solar-powered drone is intended to provide internet access to remote regions of Earth using no more electricity than three blow dryers?
... that Wolfgang Kläsener conducted his Kettwiger Bach-Ensemble in a memorial concert, combining the last work by Thomas Beimel with one Mass by Bach and one by Bruckner?
... that at Harvard University, Walter J. Leonard designed "one of the country's earliest and most effective affirmative-action programs, which became a model for other universities around the country"?
... that the initial plan for the renovation of the Metropolitan Theatre in Winnipeg was for a rock and roll museum?
... that in 1992, Camille Robinson-Regis became the youngest senator to be appointed to the cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago?
... that Yiqu was conquered by Qin after its king was killed either by his mistress Queen Dowager Xuan, or by her son the king of Qin?
... that North-West Mounted Police Corporal William Dempster found the Lost Patrol?
... that after the neutral American ship William P. Frye was sunk by a World War I Imperial German raider, the German government was billed $228,059.54?
... that Congolese artist Rhode Makoumbou sculpts figures up to 3 metres (10 ft) tall out of sawdust and woodglue?
... that genetic differences may affect the efficacy of the anti-asthmatic drug zafirlukast?
... that Japanese singer Yunchi covered the song "Catch You Catch Me" from Cardcaptor Sakura for one of her albums?
... that the Panoz Avezzano, unveiled at the 2016 Petit Le Mans, is named after a town in Italy that was destroyed by an earthquake?
... that the Exeter Hip, designed by Robin Ling and Clive Lee, improved the lives of millions of people?
... that when the wasp Idiogramma elbakyanae was named in honor of Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan, she took this as an insult?
... that Silvia Correale, the first female Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the beatification process?
... that West Virginia's 37 state parks include a working grist mill , a scenic railroad, a reconstructed 18th-century fortification, and a Natural National Landmark?
... that Vice Admiral Mary M. Jackson was promoted directly from one-star to three-star rank?
... that while the Three Kings bring gold, incense and myrrh to the manger, the singer of "Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier" offers spirit and mind, heart, soul and courage as gifts?
... that despite being flightless, wood crickets appeared in 2001 at a site in southern England at which they had previously not been present?
... that as a teenager, Vietnamese singer Tóc Tiên exaggerated her age twice at singing competitions, one time winning the grand prize?
... that the common Epiphany hymn "As with Gladness Men of Old" does not describe the Biblical Magi as "magi" or "kings", or even state their number?
... that Carys Bannister drove rally cars and exhibited corgis when not performing brain surgery?
... that Elizabethan physician Edward Dodding conducted a post-mortem examination of Kalicho , one of three Inuit people brought to England?
... that after dismissing the basic concept as "outlandish", Edward Teller later supported Brilliant Pebbles as a way to shoot down Soviet ICBMs?
... that at age 16, Remy Siemsen was the top goalscorer for Sydney FC in the 2016–17 W-League season?
... that arachnologists think juvenile Chanbria camel spiders locate their prey through a combination of smelling and feeling for them?
... that German sinologist Wolfgang Franke was so at home in Beijing that he felt he had lived there in a previous life?
... that at its completion, Riverton Lock was the highest lift lock in the world with a lift of 26 feet (7.9 m)?
... that Azazet Habtezghi Kidane interviewed more than 1,500 African refugees to document torture in the Sinai Peninsula?
... that Jolly Roger Records had its bootlegs of RCA Records recordings manufactured at RCA's own vinyl record pressing plant?
... that Rear Admiral Cindy Jaynes was persuaded to join the United States Navy by a high school friend, having originally considered careers as an actuary or a veterinarian?
... that the art of Uruk includes the 5,000-year-old Mask of Warka, probably one of the earliest known near life-size sculptures?
... that Harold Basil Christian, a self-taught horticulturalist in southern Africa, became a world expert on African aloe species after planting one in his yard to block the view of a large, unsightly rock?
... that Electric Wizard described their album Wizard Bloody Wizard as "43 brain-damaging minutes, six savage hymns to death, drugs, sex and violence, music dragged (and drugged) back from the grave"?
... that the Italian mezzo-soprano Armanda Degli Abbati appeared as Ortrud in Rome and as Amneris in Rio de Janeiro, had an affair with a Russian revolutionary, and trained Estonian singers?
... that in 1985 Gay Kindersley naively introduced himself and Graham Lord to the Australian cricket team with, "Hallo folks, I'm Gay and this is my friend Graham"?
... that Shu Xiuwen became an escort dancing girl after her father tried to sell her to repay debts, but later supported him when she became a movie star?
... that the Radioplane OQ-17 target drone was claimed to be able to match the maneuverability of any fighter aircraft of the mid-1940s?
... that Eugénie Henderson taught Far Eastern languages to the British Armed Forces during World War II?
... that a collaborative practice agreement, which allows a pharmacist to prescribe medications, order drug therapy-related laboratory tests, and design therapy plans, can improve people's health?
... that the dramatic soprano Catherine Foster, a former midwife, appeared as Brünnhilde at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating Wagner's bicentenary?
... that Jordan Murphy was the first basketball player to earn Big Ten Conference Player of the Week three weeks in a row since Evan Turner did so eight seasons earlier?
... that underwater thumps and moans in a West African swamp may indicate the presence of certain air-breathing fish?
... that Pascual Abaj , near Chichicastenango in Guatemala, is a sculpted stone idol that survived the Spanish conquest but was badly damaged in the 1950s by religious activists?