derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after her son, U.S. Coast Guard signalman Douglas Albert Munro, was killed in battle, 48-year-old Edith Munro joined the Coast Guard herself?
... that hearing protection fit-testing is used to determine if devices like earplugs or earmuffs are providing the right amount of sound reduction?
... that Hu Peiquan founded the journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University and served as its chief editor for more than 60 years?
... that Bekah Brunstetter's play The Cake, about a baker refusing to serve gay customers, was partly inspired by her father Peter S. Brunstetter's opposition to same-sex marriage?
... that the peanut worm Themiste hennahi is a "tentacle breather"?
... that Alfred Westou is said to have combed the hair and cut the nails of St Cuthbert, even though the saint had been dead for more than three centuries?
... that Karta, an orangutan at the Adelaide Zoo, escaped from her enclosure by short-circuiting an electrical fence using a stick?
... that the 2019 IndyCar Classic at Circuit of the Americas will be the first time that American open-wheel cars and Formula One have raced at the same track during their respective seasons since 2006?
... that actor Jude Akuwudike originated the part of "the Queen" in the first British production of Not About Nightingales?
... that the fiery-browed starling, found only on Sulawesi in Indonesia, forms mixed flocks with the Sulawesi myna and grosbeak starling?
... that while on hiatus from her beach volleyball career, Sanne Keizer completed a master's degree in criminal investigation and worked as a police detective?
... that the "Weird Al" parody song "Chicken Pot Pie" was not released at the request of vegetarian Paul McCartney, who felt it endorsed eating meat?
... that Walter Wasservogel was the first full-time general secretary of the International Ice Hockey Federation?
... that in 1980, a ribbon worm was implicated in the collapse of the Dungeness crab fishery in central California?
... that as he was a teacher by day and bandleader at night, those who knew Bob Bachelder in one role likely were unaware of the other?
... that architect Jörg Streli and his two colleagues designed the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle in Tyrol, which rises like a tower on a circular floor?
... that Rosie Bernard's bar in Monte Carlo, The Chatham, was "one of the temples of grand prix racing"?
... that Wu Dechang managed the emergency response to large-scale plutonium contamination caused by a failed Chinese nuclear test?
... that the range of Laxmann's shrew extends from Norway to Sakhalin Island in eastern Asia?
... that among the live venues Japanese singer and voice actress Aimi performed at prior to her major debut was a steakhouse?
... that the burrowing brittle star submerges itself in mud and raises its arms to feed?
... that Tuvalu could only afford to become a member of the United Nations after selling its Internet country code top-level domain?
... that the soprano Margit Bokor created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1933, and performed the role in the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House?
... that the wildlife of Sweden is likely to be affected by climate change, with the tree line moving further north and to higher altitudes, and forests replacing tundra?
... that Yury Karandin was the first Soviet referee to officiate matches involving National Hockey League players?
... that Sharlene San Pedro and Nash Aguas, the lead actors of the 2018 thriller Class of 2018, worked together on a sketch comedy show when they were children?
... that according to historian An Zuozhang, the governing principle of the Western Han dynasty of ancient China was "doing nothing against nature"?
... that the children's poetry book The Great Migration: Journey to the North reflects author Eloise Greenfield's own childhood experiences?
... that Percy Furnivall, Britain's first heart surgeon, was also a champion amateur bicyclist, tricyclist, and tandemist?
... that the University of Mississippi band was asked to stop playing "From Dixie with Love" because fans kept chanting, "The South will rise again"?
... that American philatelist William Thorne owned a unique block of four United States 1869 24-cent stamps with an inverted center showing the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
... that Ronnie O'Sullivan won the 2017 Masters snooker event, despite breaking his cue tip in his semifinal match?
... that Boro Maa created a refugee colony at Thakurnagar for the Matuas, who were displaced due to the 1947 Partition of Bengal?
... that Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas were the first complete recordings ever made of all of the composer's 32 piano sonatas?
... that Jon Teske posted a double-double in his first collegiate start and the first collegiate basketball game played at Little Caesars Arena?
... that Tobago's Main Ridge is one of the oldest protected areas in the world set aside for conservation, having been created by the British Parliament in 1776?
... that a gay former British prince died fighting on the side of Nazi Germany despite loathing Hitler and the Nazi Party?
... that Nickey Barclay played with Fanny, Cocker, and Ball?
... that the Scythian archers may have functioned as a police force in ancient Athens?
... that Jonas Noreika is commemorated on plaques and street signs in Lithuania, despite his active participation in the Holocaust?
... that the 23-storey Dusit Thani Hotel, with its distinctive golden spire, was the tallest building in Bangkok when it opened in 1970?
... that the soprano and voice teacher Ria Ginster sang recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall, and recorded Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir John Barbirolli?
... that the special election in North Carolina's 9th congressional district is the first "do-over" of an election to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1974?
... that He Yousheng studied the high-speed hydrodynamics of torpedoes?
... that an image of an egg posted on the social media service Instagram became the most liked online post of all time?
... that the marine worm Echiurus echiurus uses its spoon-shaped proboscis to feed but not to dig its burrow?
... that in 1878, Liverpool stamp dealer Thomas Ridpath bought a collection of British Guiana stamps for £120 that included the unique 1-cent magenta, which sold in 2014 for US$9,480,000?
... that a series of articles by investigative journalist Ida Tarbell in 1902 led to the dissolution of Standard Oil as a monopoly?
... that as The Big Elk is now the world's tallest statue of a moose, it has been proposed that Mac the Moose be given stilettos so as to reclaim its previous record?
... that aeroelasticity engineer Guan De worked on the development of the Shenyang J-8 and J-8II fighter jets?
... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles?
... that the graceful kelp crab tends to inhabit the understory rather than the canopy of the kelp forest?
... that the reversal of post-World War II nationalization in Poland resulted in considerable amounts of chaos and fraud?
... that Soediro stole a limousine to be used as Sukarno's presidential car, despite not knowing how to drive?
... that Josiah Wedgwood "was very unwilling to disfigure" his Frog Service with "this reptile" , but Catherine the Great insisted it appear on all 944 pieces?
... that Indo-Russia Rifles is a joint venture licensed to produce 750,000 AK-203 rifles, the latest and most advanced version of the AK-47 firearm?
... that after Tu Jida experienced Japanese aerial bombing at the age of ten, he studied aircraft design and came to be known as the "father of the J-7 fighters"?
... that Danielle Ponter is the first member of the Rioli–Long family – described as one of "footy's most famous dynasties" – to play top-level women's Australian rules football?
... that after the editor of an Alabama newspaper called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan, he was initially replaced by an African-American woman?
... that mountaineer Andy Nisbet created more than 1,000 new winter climbing routes in Scotland?
... that Arvo Pärt composed the motet The Deer's Cry on a commission from Louth, Ireland, setting the conclusion of Saint Patrick's Breastplate, "Christ with me"?
... that Indian activist S. Dharmambal was honoured as a Heroic Tamil Mother for her contributions to the Tamil language?
... that the upcoming Dr. Seuss book Horse Museum features horse-themed artwork by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and other artists?
... that Xu Shunshou, chief designer of China's first jet aircraft, died after being tortured during the Cultural Revolution?
... that 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian pictures of foreign prisoners were found by fertilizer-diggers in 1903?
... that the tasselled anglerfish is an ambush predator, attracting its prey with a worm-like lure?
... that after switching from black-and-white to color film in 1977, John Harding was out on the street taking pictures almost every day for more than three decades?
... that although the yacare caiman was "heading for oblivion" in the 1980s due to hunting, its current population in the Pantanal wetlands alone is about 10 million?
... that Marcello Costa spent his career researching the links between the nervous system and the gut?
... that the British submarine HMS Stratagem sank only one ship in its 13-month-long career—only three days before it was itself sunk?
... that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year?
... that leading black and white artists responded to the 1926 symposium The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? with their views on the extent to which black artists could avoid racial stereotypes?
... that Ian Eaves has catalogued the arms and armour of Queen Elizabeth II, and written about those of King Henry VIII?
... that a U.S. presidential candidate making a campaign announcement is said to "throw one's hat in the ring", after a boxing metaphor popularized by the Theodore Roosevelt 1912 presidential campaign?
... that the boarding net of the Mary Rose trapped her crew aboard the ship as she was sinking?
... that preceding a 1948 Dutch attack, Daan Jahja recommended the creation of a contingent government in exile, which later became the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia?
... that Jules Van Nuffel, founder and conductor of the choir at the Mechelen Cathedral, set Psalm 93, Dominus regnavit, for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him?
... that E Dongchen participated in eleven polar expeditions, including China's first expeditions to Antarctica and the North Pole?
... that the peanut worm Themiste cymodoceae can survive without oxygen for several days?
... that Anatoli Khorozov is referred to as the father of ice hockey in Ukraine?
... that in 1870, inspectors found that most of the workers at the Peter's Hall sugar plantation in British Guiana were from India and China?
... that despite killing every dog that he had tried the procedure on, Francis Fontan successfully operated on a young woman's heart in 1968?
... that the 2019 book We Are Displaced by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai tells the stories of ten displaced girls, including herself?
... that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station, halt, platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"?
... that the Guianan squirrel monkey has a varied diet that includes seeds, eggs, nectar, gum, insects, flowers, lizards, and occasionally bats?
... that Roma producer Gabriela Rodríguez is the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture?
... that if Caesar had successfully carried out his planned invasions, he would, according to Plutarch, have ensured that his empire "would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean"?
... that Frant Gwo's science fiction film The Wandering Earth is the world's highest-grossing film of 2019 so far and the second highest-grossing film of all time in China?
... that the Arianna String Quartet was praised by the Chicago Tribune as making music "with the tonal warmth, fastidious balance, and heightened communication skills of groups many years its senior"?
... that Team Canada threatened to pull out of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union unless Ove Dahlberg officiated?
... that shortly after purchasing the coffin of Nedjemankh for $4 million, the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to return it to Egypt?
... that the career of pioneering scholar of public administration William A. Robson was made possible because playwright George Bernard Shaw wanted to experience an aeroplane flight?
... that "Das Weizenkorn muss sterben" (The grain of wheat must die), the signature song written by Lothar Zenetti, deals with the mystery of faith that in death there is life?
... that Nepal declared a national day of mourning after the 2019 Taplejung helicopter crash?
... that Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Florida, won a national championship in American football with the Florida State Seminoles?
... that party pieces may include reciting a poem, performing a dance, singing a song, or performing a trick?
... that Lu Xiaopeng designed a supersonic fighter said to be the lightest in the world, but it never entered service?
... that until 2002, researchers thought that the two species of Cuban warblers belonged in the New World warbler family?
... that future Phoenix mayor James D. Monihon's regiment was attacked by an estimated 450 Apaches led by chief Cochise during the American Civil War?
... that a 2016 Japanese light novel series received praise for its unique protagonist, who is a vending machine?
... that the conductor Marc Piollet recorded rarely performed symphonies by Norbert Burgmüller and Hugo Staehle, and a DVD of Carmen staged by Calixto Bieito?
... that the U.S. Public Health Service can hire – but not fire – scientists "without regard to the civil-service laws" using a Title 42 appointment?
... that Swiss businessman Cesar Lüthi pioneered the use of revolving billboards in sports marketing?
... that fossils found at Granton Shrimp Bed provided evidence of the structure of conodonts?
... that Amina Gerba's beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in Burkina Faso?
... that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles, Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?
... that Heinz Henschel negotiated the return of Germany into the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1947?
... that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the Indian Ocean in 1944, and her exact location is still unknown?
... that after Argentine politician Eduardo Bauzá retired from politics he produced noodles in his family business?
... that before Tanzanian soldiers could attack Lira in 1979, their commander gifted food and cooking oil to a ferry pilot so that he would ship them across a lake?
... that in 1895, Edward Chauncey Luard, a planter in British Guiana, led a campaign to amend the colony's constitution?
... that the jewelled squid has two unequal-sized eyes which look in different directions?
... that Beethoven composed two symphonies during the eight years he lived in the Pasqualati House in Vienna?
... that Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the U.S. Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor?
... that the New Zealand beetle Oemona hirta is called the "lemon tree borer", even though lemon trees are not native to New Zealand?
... that Ram Nath Chawla and Aspy Engineer were the first Indians to pilot an aircraft from India to England?
... that footballer Pádraig Amond represented Carlow at hurling under a false name to avoid being discovered by his club?
... that Véronique Aka was the first woman to be elected president of an Ivorian regional council?
... that the binomial name of the coconut lorikeet translates as "bloody hair-tongue"?
... that Byron A. Stover was an American football letterman and forestry major at Ohio State University before moving to Oregon to become a successful businessman and state legislator?
... that André Previn composed his Violin Concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter, his future wife?
... that Alfred Clayton Cole, a director of the Bank of England, said: "during any time of crisis ... all that the Bank is called upon to do is to take care of itself"?
... that the antisemitic tale "The Jew Among Thorns" was used to indoctrinate children in Nazi Germany?
... that the Royal Navy damaged Samuel Travis' house in 1775, then returned 38 years later and attacked his ship?
... that John Leak was convicted of desertion by a court-martial, even though he had previously been awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery?
... that all 15 torpedoes fired by HMS Simoom during her career missed their targets, but 3 hit and sank a destroyer instead?
... that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge?
... that Stephen Hendry compiled his 700th career century break during the first round of the 2007 Malta Cup snooker tournament?
... that Faiz Shakir is the first Muslim and first American of Pakistani descent to manage a United States presidential campaign?
... that spiral galaxy NGC 765 features a hydrogen disk that at 240,000 parsecs diameter is the largest in the local universe?
... that Spinophorosaurus had spikes on its tail, unlike most other sauropod dinosaurs?
... that the treatment of Lorenzo Gamboa under the White Australia policy led the Philippine House of Representatives to pass a bill which would have banned Australians from the country?
... that Hulk Hogan was sued for $5 million by Richard Belzer for choking Belzer unconscious with a sleeper hold and dropping him on live TV?
... that the Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra in Rio de Janeiro state opened in 1938 as a tourist observation point and lighthouse, but it was abandoned in 1978?
... that pool manager and coach Johan Ruijsink has won the Mosconi Cup as part of both the European and United States teams?
... that if children are not exposed to sounds and language during their first years of life, they will have difficulty in developing language—which can be prevented through hearing screening for infants?
... that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
... that at the start of the Battle of Orange Walk the British commanders ran almost naked from their bathtubs?
... that Yasumi Matsuno was an avid player of Final Fantasy XIV before being hired to write a scenario based on his Ivalice setting for the game's expansion, Stormblood?
... that the opening of the Senegambia bridge has eliminated the need for a 400-kilometre (250 mi) diversion to cross the Gambia River when the ferry is out of use?
... that after scientist Qian Lingxi was denounced during the Cultural Revolution, China's nuclear submarine project sought the help of Premier Zhou Enlai to make him available for this strategic program?
... that Spas Wenkoff, first a tenor at a Bulgarian amateur theatre, appeared as Tristan at the Staatsoper Dresden, and was then invited to sing the role at the centenary Bayreuth Festival?
... that the Battle of Cape Ecnomus in 256 BC was possibly the largest naval battle ever?
... that the Eiss Archive is composed of materials that document the rescue of Jews threatened by the Holocaust through the efforts of Polish diplomats?
... that major general John K. Singlaub said that Frank Dux's book The Secret Man, which states Dux was recruited in a urinal to work for the CIA, was "an insult" to the reader's intelligence?
... that the cactus wren builds nests shaped like American footballs in spiny cholla and saguaro cactus but, despite this protection, the coachwhip snake still preys on chicks?
... that Alma Webster Powell earned a law degree from New York University while on a break from her operatic career?
... that actor Tom O'Sullivan's first television role was on Home and Away as a journalist who got into a fight with Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher)?
... that six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis reached his 100th career final in the 2005 UK Championship?
... that Amy Shuler Goodwin is the first woman to serve as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia?
... that Mendelssohn was requested to compose Psalm 100 for the new Hamburg Temple, but probably set it as Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt for the Berlin Cathedral?
... that after stimulating them with electricity, Hans Steinert described the worm-like twitching of his patients' muscles?
... that Nao Tōyama , whose solo singles have been used as theme songs for anime series on television and in film, was tone-deaf as a girl?
... that Eco-Link@BKE, the first ecological corridor of its kind in Southeast Asia, is intended to help conserve animals such as the banded leaf monkey and Sunda pangolin in Singapore?
... that Zuzana Marková's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding?
... that Queens Botanical Garden in New York City was built on top of landfill atop a creek?
... that the burrow of the spoon worm Ochetostoma erythrogrammon may be shared by flatworms, scale worms, molluscs, pea crabs, snapping shrimps, and copepods?
... that for Pacific Islanders, the sudden arrival of a mass of men and machines during World War II resulted in lasting religious effects, such as cargo cults?
... that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels?
... that the Chandos Anthems, psalm settings by Handel as composer in residence at Cannons, were described as a "panorama of the composer's creative output"?
... that from age nine, college basketball player Zion Williamson began waking up at 5 a.m. every morning to train?
... that the Invereshie and Inshriach National Nature Reserve forms part of the largest remaining expanse of Caledonian pinewood in Scotland?
... that Chiu Hsien-chih was one of the first two legislative candidates supported by the newly established New Power Party?
... that radiation from radon-222 and its decay products is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States after cigarette smoking?
... that Ruthilde Boesch, who performed as Mozart's Susanna and in 37 other roles at the Vienna State Opera, made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist?
... that in the 2006 UK Championship snooker tournament, Ronnie O'Sullivan conceded his quarter-final match against Stephen Hendry while 4–1 frames behind in a best of 17 frames match?
... that laboratory experiments suggest that the free-swimming larva of the whale barnacle Coronula diadema is induced to settle on a host whale in response to chemical cues from its skin?
... that the first airborne radar system, ASV Mk. II, led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck?
... that Tucson, Arizona, school board president George J. Roskruge demanded the resignation or suspension of five female teachers after they were caught smoking and drinking with men?
... that the first telephone booth in Ceylon was installed at the Colombo General Post Office on 16 August 1909?
... that Robert Schunk, who performed minor roles at the Bayreuth Festival, stepped in successfully for Peter Hofmann as Siegmund in Die Walküre there?
... that for NHL 96, the National Hockey League changed its stance on fighting in licensed hockey video games and allowed the feature as long as it occurred only once or twice per game?
... that Irish actor Emmet Kirwan hopes that the film version of the play Dublin Oldschool will foster awareness of the homeless and drug addicts?
... that Mormon composer Merrill Bradshaw wrote an oratorio in 1974 that used elements of jazz and popular hymns?
... that the British submarine HMS Syrtis twice towed X-class midget submarines, and on both occasions the submarines sank while under tow?
... that Alice de Rivera sued the New York City Board of Education after she was barred from a specialized high school due to her gender?