derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Joseph Jenckes Jr., the founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was arrested and jailed for making threatening remarks about the king of England?
... that organic nuclear reactors, widely researched in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids?
... that Björn Ambrosiani spent six years excavating at the Viking Age settlement Birka?
... that Peter Cornelius wrote poems and music for his song cycle Weihnachtslieder, which included a popular melody in the piano accompaniment for a song about the Three Kings?
... that in November 2018, Matthew Hedges received a pardon from his life sentence for spying in the United Arab Emirates?
... that Shekhar: Ek Jivani by Agyeya is considered the first psychoanalytical novel in Hindi literature?
... that Thomas Mann's widow, Katia, called Gert Westphal "des Dichters oberster Mund" (the poet's principal voice) after his reading of her husband's works?
... that Chinese writer Pu Songling may have written an anti-Manchu short story?
... that Trinidadian football player and coach Michael McComie died from a brain tumour 24 hours after being diagnosed?
... that the Patagonian squid spawns among the stems of partially defoliated kelp Lessonia trabeculata?
... that food writer Melissa Clark elicited disapproving tweets from President Barack Obama and former governor Jeb Bush for her recipe for guacamole with green peas?
... that, upon completion of the Simeon Monument , a local resident complained that "among the generality of the inhabitants it is called a p****** post"?
... that Howard J. Green's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937?
... that Falcon 9 booster B1050 malfunctioned during re-entry and missed its landing target at LZ-1, but still managed a soft landing just offshore?
... that Roberto Tobar officiated the 2017 Segunda División final, in which only one team took part in the penalty shootout?
... that the Loch Maree Hotel poisoning of 1922 was the first recorded outbreak of botulism in the United Kingdom?
... that while Bernard A. Maguire was a prefect at Georgetown University, a student uprising resulted in the dismissal of 70 students?
... that the 1931 accident triangle theory proposed a link between the number of minor accidents and those that led to serious injury?
... that Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term "outlaw country" by using it to describe the music of performers such as Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings?
... that 16-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden has inspired 20,000 students around the world to strike for climate change activism?
... that the continental arc tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks can be plutonic?
... that the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice, where Johann Adolph Hasse was maestro di cappella, was founded as a hospice for sufferers from syphilis and other incurable diseases of the time?
... that Andrew L. Lewis flew more than 100 combat missions as a naval aviator before becoming commander of the United States Second Fleet?
... that "Dui Bigha Jomi", a Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore, inspired a story which was the basis for the 1953 Hindi film Do Bigha Zamin?
... that Dimyati Natakusumah is set to compete against two of his children in the 2019 Indonesian general election?
... that the money from the sale of Russell Crowe's jockstrap allowed the Australia Zoo to establish a koala chlamydia ward?
... that an attempt to introduce the orange-breasted bunting to Oahu in 1941 was unsuccessful?
... that David Long Jr. set the West Virginia Mountaineers football record for single-game tackles for a loss?
... that Chief Minister Zeik-Bye of Hanthawaddy persuaded Prince Binnya Nwe to revolt by saying that his mother Princess Maha Dewi was planning to put her lover on the throne?
... that, in the 1980s, the British physician John R. Seale advocated the now-discredited theory that HIV might have been created in a germ warfare laboratory?
... that the namesake of the Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr Award served for just one day as Judge Advocate General of the United States Army?
... that during the filming of There She Goes, a programme based on series creator Shaun Pye's learning-disabled daughter, he became so emotional that he had to leave the set?
... that Scharwenzel is a card game, at least three centuries old, that is played today only on the German island of Fehmarn?
... that Carsten Koch conducted all Beethoven symphonies at the historic Unionskirche, and shared Bach's Christmas Oratorio there in an ecumenical project ?
... that al-Barakah, a self-declared administrative district of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was moved about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south during its existence?
... that Alphonsus J. Donlon became known as the "father of Georgetown athletics" for overseeing multiple victorious teams?
... that when creating the television drama Butterfly, the playwright Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children transition in order to be "trendy"?
... that Wilmer Clemont Fields of the Southern Baptist Convention was a defender of freedom of the press?
... that Gujarati writer Geeta Parikh has written more than 900 poems?
... that in the Battle of the Hatpins, women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets?
... that American John Trumbull's The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 was painted in the London studio of Benjamin West?
... that among the babies born at the Parsi Lying-in Hospital was the Indian politician Feroze Gandhi?
... that Wolfgang Unger was director of music at the University of Leipzig, where he founded two instrumental ensembles named after the original Paulinerkirche?
... that the 1923 World Congress of Jewish Women in Vienna unanimously resolved to support the settlement of Jews in Palestine?
... that the year before he first played in baseball's National Association, Marty Swandell umpired the game that decided the league's championship?
... that A Summer in a Sea Shell was the first Slovenian coming-of-age film to have popular music and dancing?
... that Peng Shilu, the "father of China's nuclear submarines", was jailed at age eight?
... that Mair von Landshut's prints "resemble whimsical stage sets, and are endowed with an unreal character, like something from a fairy tale"?
... that when the ground is not flooded, Humboldt's white-fronted capuchin monkey has been known to raid aquatic turtle nests to eat the eggs?
... that in the 2015 film Frankenstein vs. The Mummy, the director designed Frankenstein's monster to look like a muscular zombie with long black hair?
... that Alberto Jorge is the only association football manager to have won the Liga MX title as caretaker, doing so with Toluca in 2003?
... that Bach set the phrase "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks" from Psalm 75 in German to begin a cantata, and in Latin in his Mass in B minor?
... that Chuang Shu-chi was the first licensed female practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan?
... that Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, author of Bad News for Outlaws, asked that US black deputy marshal Bass Reeves appear unclothed in an illustration to ensure its historical accuracy?
... that Australian rules footballer Tom Barrass injured his back while using a dustpan and missed six matches?
... that XTC's Oranges & Lemons, released 30 years ago today, reinterpreted 1960s psychedelic music styles using 1980s instrumentation and technology?
... that Chen Chao-long performed the first liver transplant in Asia, as well as Taiwan's first living donor liver transplantation?
... that the 1945 Bierut Decree nationalized all land in the Polish capital of Warsaw after the city's destruction by the Nazis?
... that William McSherry arranged for the sale in 1838 of the slaves who worked the Jesuit province in Maryland?
... that Hintersche, a historical card game played by farmers, foresters and journeymen in the Principality of Fürstenberg, is still played in the Black Forest today?
... that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro, and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute?
... that the innkeeper worm catches its food with a net and then swallows the net?
... that prey of the spotted wobbegong have been known to approach its mouth and nibble on its tentacles?
... that Reina Ueda voiced 18 sisters in the anime series Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono?
... that the first attempt of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company to lay a submarine telegraph cable to Ireland failed because the cable would not reach that far?
... that Ambrosia Tønnesen is regarded as the first professional female sculptor in Norway?
... that Cleitarchus's History of Alexander, written in the fourth century BC, was criticized by contemporaries as being overly sensational?
... that Karl Plagge's efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust succeeded because he entered a "grey zone" of moral compromise?
... that role-playing video game Dungeon Siege III has so many items with unexplained statistics that it left reviewers confused?
... that quarterback Sammy Baugh was investigated by the National Football League after missing the 1942 NFL All-Star Game because he had the flu?
... that the main venue of the Landestheater Detmold was built from 1914–18, after the 1825 court theatre of the Principality of Lippe burnt down?
... that Yu-chien Kuan fled China using a stolen Japanese passport, was jailed in Egypt, and then became a sinologist and advisor to the German chancellor?
... that actor Michael Rennie and temperance activist Catherine Gurney are buried in Harlow Hill Cemetery?
... that Chinese soybean geneticist Wang Lianzheng was elected a foreign fellow of the Indian and Russian national academies of agricultural sciences?
... that a Cleveland film critic said the acting in the 1923 film The Net "doesn't warrant complimentary adjectives"?
... that in 1844 Thomas Barry sailed along the River Thames in a tub pulled by four geese?
... that among the Mozart roles sung by soprano Sophie Karthäuser are Ilia, Tamiri, and Serpetta?
... that cardiac allograft vasculopathy is a complication of heart transplantation that affects up to half of recipients within ten years?
... that Liang Weiyan and his team designed the water turbines of the world's largest power plant?
... that otters and seabirds seem to be able to detect when butter clams are toxic, but humans cannot?
... that Nina Morrison was nominated for the 2019 AFL Women's Rising Star award on debut – but suffered a season-ending knee injury in training the next week?
... that in 1407, Admiral Zheng He's treasure fleet defeated the pirate force of Chen Zuyi, who had occupied Palembang in today's Indonesia, and sent him back to China for execution?
... that the Payún Matrú volcano, last active about 500 years ago, is the source of the longest Quaternary lava flow on Earth?
... that in 1832, sugar planter Hamilton Brown argued that slaves in Jamaica were better off than the poor in Britain?
... that Joyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities?
... that the "sleepy town" of Tarraville, Australia, with a population of around 80, was once the largest town in Gippsland?
... that Freeman Dyson used a result by Marian Pour-El on the mathematical undecidability of the wave equation as evidence for the superiority of analog to digital forms of life?
... that St. John the Evangelist Church was the first Catholic church in Frederick County, Maryland, and the first church consecrated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore?
... that Isabel Chan is part of the singing trio MKB48, whose full name is Mega Karaoke Bitches 48?
... that, in the United States, mobile field forces are used by police to deal with civil disorder by targeting "agitators"?
... that British-Pakistani director Sarmad Masud describes his 2017 film My Pure Land as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan"?
... that hand-spinning writer Abby Franquemont spent her early childhood in Peru, where women "spun to eat and pay for the home they lived in"?
... that larvae of the red tube worm do not settle on bull kelp, probably because that seaweed inflates its float chambers with carbon monoxide?
... that professional world barrel-racing champion Hailey Kinsel won $433,333.33 in one day at the American Rodeo in February 2017?
... that the economy of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos saw its first crisis in 1969 because of heavy borrowing in preparation for the Marcos re-election campaign?
... that Soni Sumarsono served as acting governor of three provinces of Indonesia without being elected?
... that Portland's MAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by Bechtel?
... that Olympians Jacques and Philippe Lacarrière were the second father–son pair to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame?
... that a short story about a child raised without a gender served as an inspiration for a 1975 scientific experiment?
... that Hamilton Hamilton, best known for his landscapes of the American West , was born in England and lived most of his life in the American East?
... that Manchester City conceded only one goal in regular time en route to the 2019 EFL Cup Final against Chelsea today?
... that on a 1932 visit to the Soviet Union, S. Ramanathan was not allowed to meet Joseph Stalin because the Indian politician had also met with Trotskyists?
... that Suoyang City, a major commercial and cultural center on the Silk Road for more than a millennium, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2014?
... that a bunker built by prisoners of Kaufering concentration camp is still in use by the German Air Force?
... that Vincent Boussard staged Manon for Vilnius, San Francisco, and Seoul, and I puritani for Liège and Frankfurt?
... that in 2014, the Zoo Interchange in Milwaukee became the first place that orange pavement markings were tested in the United States?
... that after informing on a drug cartel, José Manuel Garza Rendón may live the rest of his life like a "hunted rabbit"?
... that after sailors from HMS Sickle boarded a small enemy ship, they brought 1,000 oranges and lemons from the ship's cargo back to their submarine?
... that Madame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in Hearts in Dixie, one of the first all-black talkies?
... that ... sofferte onde serene ... ("serene waves suffered") is a composition for piano and tape written by Luigi Nono in collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini?
... that actor Carl Au shaved the back and sides of his head for the final arc of his Waterloo Road character Barry Barry, in a style he dubbed "The Ferret"?
... that John Buddle Blyth and August Wilhelm von Hofmann were the first to report photopolymerisation?
... that the voice of the Erckel's francolin has been described as "an insane cackled laughter"?
... that Eugène de Mirecourt wrote 100 biographical articles on his contemporaries, including Alexandre Dumas, Hector Berlioz, and George Sand?
... that the British Army's Deolali transit camp is the origin for the slang term "doolally", meaning mentally ill?
... that Liang Jingkui designed an instrument to measure the temperature in nuclear tests?
... that the Neo-Bechstein was a pioneering electric grand piano in which the mechanics of the piano were no longer involved in the direct production of sound?
... that before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas, William F. Ramsey served as president of three banks, in different cities, at the same time?
... that the larger feeding tentacles of the sea gherkin carry food to its mouth, where two smaller ones help push food in?
... that during the Second World War, Rachel Dübendorfer received sensitive German military information, including plans for the German invasion of the USSR?
... that Thomas Forsyth stocked his cellar with wine until his wife cut the pipes and drained it all?
... that Armenia's anthem is based on Mikayel Nalbandian's poem, inspired by Italian unification?
... that Chinese director Ying Liang was exiled from Shanghai for filming When Night Falls?
... that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a drug cartel?
... that African-American rapper Leikeli47 always masks her face while performing, saying it makes her feel "free"?
... that former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh called the events of the First War of Indian Independence in 1857 a testimony to Hindu–Muslim unity?
... that an engraving in 1500 by Master MZ shows a woman lifting her skirts to protect or hide an owl?
... that the opening of the Submarine Telegraph Company's first oceanic telegraph cable was marked by remotely firing a cannon in Calais from a telegraph station in Dover?
... that, influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, Los Angeles teacher Dorothy Vena Johnson wrote poems such as "Epitaph for a Bigot" and "Post War Ballad"?
... that although Mulatschak has been called the card game of the state of Salzburg, its rules were almost certainly unpublished before 2004?
... that New York City's Grand Central Terminal was built after a deadly crash between two trains in the Park Avenue Tunnel in 1902?
... that Genia Kühmeier appeared as Mozart's Pamina at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and recorded the soprano solo in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Nikolaus Harnoncourt?
... that changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun over 10,000 years ago led to the disappearance of the Sahara desert?
... that paintings of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene reflected the position of both Catholic and Protestant churches that people should not flee to avoid the plague?
... that Marika Kouno was inspired to pursue a career in voice acting by Ikue Ōtani, who plays Pikachu in Pokémon?
... that during construction of New York City's Sixth Avenue subway line in the 1930s, workers had to build around various utilities and tunnels, including an existing railroad tunnel and an elevated line?
... that the springtail Orchesella cincta moults repeatedly throughout its life, with feeding and reproductive phases alternating?
... that British Army officer Michael Magill was killed alongside his brigade commander after treading on a land mine during a training exercise in Yorkshire?
... that MT MOL FSRU Challenger is the world's largest floating storage and regasification vessel?
... that despite a ban on Indonesian nationalist hymns during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, a Japanese army propagandist wrote one and it debuted in an official event?
... that Kyle Busch won the 2011 Food City 250 stock car race by 0.019 seconds over his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano, the closest finish in a Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway?
... that at 8 minutes and 45 seconds, the released version of Neil Young's song "Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)" was much shorter than the original, which included a verse about genocide of Native Americans?
... that Helmut Kleinicke was dismissed from his job because he was caught helping Jews escape?
... that the Gutta Percha Company, whose main product was submarine telegraph cable, started out making bottle stoppers?
... that "Pramadaavanam", a weekly column by Malathi Chendur , was published uninterruptedly for 47 years?
... that squid can move by jet propulsion and some species can even glide through the air?
... that footballer Emiliano Sala is the most expensive signing in the history of Cardiff City F.C.?
... that for 25 years, pedestrians in Hudson Heights, New York City, paid a subway fare to use the elevators in the 190th Street station to avoid climbing an eight-story hill?
... that Major General Gao Changqing performed China's first fully robotic cardiac surgery?
... that the brown algae Laminaria sinclairii spends several months completely buried in sand?
... that the invention of the dry-air blast by James Gayley led to such increased yields of iron that he set a world record for "making the most iron with the least coke" and was named the "pig iron king"?
... that the repertoire of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus includes folk songs, spirituals, Western ballads, classical and pop music – and rope tricks?
... that mine fields in the Falkland Islands are havens for Magellanic and gentoo penguins ?
... that the author of the 2018 picture book Let the Children March left out "truly upsetting details" about the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade to avoid frightening young readers?
... that Henrikh Mkhitaryan was the first player to score a hat-trick for the Armenia national football team?
... that musician Taina Asili studied opera and fronted a hardcore punk band before starting the Afro-Caribbean group La Banda Rebelde?
... that "Episode 5820" of the soap opera EastEnders is set entirely in The Queen Victoria pub and focuses on the characters' opinions on sexual consent?
... that Prussian general Georg Dubislav Ludwig von Pirch led a brigade at the Battle of Leipzig and a corps at the Battle of Waterloo?
... that the 1975 Holton-Arms School senior prom was the only high school dance ever held in the White House?
... that in 1871, Beaver Hall was demolished so that the neighbours could have a "private green belt"?
... that Jennie Jackson, an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, performed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, and Queen Victoria?
... that the British submarine HMS P222 was ordered to escort an Allied convoy to Malta on the surface, with the intent that it would be spotted by enemy aircraft?
... that Joseph Jenckes Sr., a 17th-century blacksmith in Massachusetts, was granted the first machine patent in America?
... that the historical card game of Briscan has been described as a "Gothic extravaganza", squeezing "a truly phenomenal range of scores and melds" from a 32-card pack?
... that Louis Dreller was decorated by both the United States and Brazil for designing and building World War II warships?
... that in 543 a Byzantine army was unexpectedly defeated by a force less than one-seventh its size, during their invasion of Sasanian Armenia?
... that Twitter satirist Coldwar Steve creates most of his works on a phone while travelling to work by bus?
... that John L. Whitehead Jr. was the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School?
... that most of the scenes in Yucatán were filmed onboard the MS Sovereign during a transatlantic crossing, with the ship's actual passengers and crew acting as extras?
... that David Timm, the director of music at Leipzig University, recorded his Jazz-Messe together with Reger's Der 100. Psalm?
... that SAP SE, Aetna, Mrs. Fields Original Cookies, and Brooklyn Union Gas have all been managed by wire?
... that from 1977 to 1982, Pierre Cangioni presented Téléfoot, France's first dedicated football television programme?
... that artificial alternatives to DNA called XNA have been proposed to reduce some hazards of synthetic biology by preventing gene flow to natural organisms?
... that German entomologist Ferdinand Rudow was described as "undoubtedly the most incompetent" taxonomist working with Ichneumonidae?
... that members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce stole the Pioneer Square totem pole from a Tlingit village in 1899 and gifted it to the City of Seattle?
... that the head of the emperor goose frequently turns from white to reddish-brown in summer, due to its feeding in tidal pools with iron oxide?
... that Chang Ya-chung was elected to the National Assembly in 2005, but resigned on the first day to protest the parliament's formation?
... that Connect Airways, a consortium that includes Virgin Atlantic, was created to take over Flybe—which had previously absorbed Virgin's domestic operations at Heathrow Airport?
... that Shubulade Smith has spoken up against perceived racism at Maudsley Hospital?