derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Babri Masjid, a mosque built in 1528, was demolished in 1992 after a political rally turned violent?
... that Dutch authorities interned a Japanese spy, but thought he was a businessman and released him in a 1942 prisoner exchange?
... that three players for the U.S. women's national soccer team have scored hat-tricks in the FIFA Women's World Cup, including Carli Lloyd in the 2015 final?
... that a lawsuit brought by Joel Moskowitz forced public release of mobile phone radiation safety guidelines prepared by the state of California, earning him the James Madison Freedom of Information Award?
... that Cabilao Island is the location of the only natural lake in the Philippine province of Bohol?
... that American opera singer Jennifer Holloway portrayed Grete in Der ferne Klang as a young girl whose lover leaves her, as a courtesan, and as an old woman who holds the returned lover while he dies?
... that the Revolution of 1719 ended the rule of the lords proprietors in South Carolina?
... that during the First World War, Charles Cathcart and Isaac Balfour proposed adopting the German idea of using moss to treat wounded British soldiers?
... that the pilot of That's All, Brother , the lead C-47 carrying American paratroopers to Normandy 75 years ago today, named the airplane as a message to Adolf Hitler that his rule would soon end?
... that the first three singles released by Japanese musician Halca were used as closing themes for three different anime series?
... that Dadia is the only European forest in which all four native European species of vulture can be found?
... that the Hanthawaddy commander Smin Bayan is celebrated in Burmese history for driving back a Chinese invasion on behalf of his former enemy, Ava?
... that the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy was inspired to write Silver Wedding after hearing a girl on a bus talk about her parents' horrible marriage?
... that Lydia Manley Henry, the first woman to graduate from the University of Sheffield medical school, was awarded the Croix de Guerre?
... that Kristianstads IK's 1981–82 team included current Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella?
... that Madame Wellington Koo , the Chinese-Indonesian First Lady of pre-communist China, was featured as a "woman of style" in a 2015 fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that due to the threat of Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Walt Disney World closed for a full day for the first time in its history?
... that Megumi Nakajima became so associated with her role as Ranka Lee in the anime series Macross Frontier that she feared she would be unable to establish her own identity as a voice actress?
... that InvisiblePeople.tv, which has produced interviews with hundreds of homeless people in over 100 cities, was founded by formerly-homeless television executive Mark Horvath?
... that five sacks of documents dating back to 1154 were recovered from a damp potting-shed while Irvine Gray was an archivist at the Gloucester Record Office?
... that Meghan Trainor's song "All About That Bass" was written in 40 minutes?
... that Moroccan businesswoman Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun helped kickstart the World Bank's Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit?
... that Calma glaucoides has such a rich diet of eggs that it does not need an anus?
... that North Woods in New York City's Central Park contains a bridge made of boulders, some weighing nearly 100 short tons (89 long tons), which are held together by gravity?
... that Joe Kryczka used his legal background and knowledge of the Russian language to Canada's advantage in negotiating the 1972 Summit Series agreement?
... that after the crash of United Airlines Flight 297 in 1962, the Federal Aviation Administration created new regulations that required airplanes to better withstand bird strikes?
... that although her mother never cooked, Violet Oon learned to cook Peranakan food at the age of sixteen before eventually being appointed the food ambassador of Singapore?
... that the Killing Eve episode "Don't I Know You?" was generally praised for including diverse LGBT+ characters, but also criticised for how one was killed?
... that James Bruce Lockhart's career in the Foreign Office was a cover for his real work with the Secret Intelligence Service?
... that one theory holds that aquatic cold-water species entered Sweden's Lake Sommen by a natural lock system at the end of the last ice age?
... that Australian rules footballer Tyla Hanks set a record in the agility component at the 2018 AFL Women's draft combine?
... that the pea crab Tunicotheres moseri lives inside the water-filled chamber of a sea squirt?
... that military geologists were employed to find the best landing sites during the planning of the invasions of the United Kingdom, Sicily, and France in World War II?
... that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the Old Testament laws?
... that the roof of the Temple of Hera in Corfu was decorated with large terracotta figures painted in vivid colour, making it one of the most intricately adorned buildings of Archaic Greece?
... that Nancy Pelosi is the only woman to have served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the first former Speaker to return to the post since 1955?
... that Niayes, a region of Senegal important for fishing, market gardening, cattle-grazing, and birds, is at risk of desertification?
... that Barlow Trecothick, who later became Lord Mayor of London, served an apprenticeship in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay?
... that St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., was designed by William Thornton, who also designed the United States Capitol?
... that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"?
... that despite a genus name referring to its dull leaves, Astilbe chinensis was celebrated as the most important new hardy perennial by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1902?
... that convenience store chain Wawa successfully forced Philadelphia-area radio station WAWA to stop using its new call letters?
... that Abdulatif Tiyua was first imprisoned for fighting for the Ugandan government, and later imprisoned for fighting against it?
... that Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli praised the 2019 sports drama Captain for "delivering patriotism"?
... that no woman was chosen as a major political party's nominee for the United States Senate until Ruth Hanna McCormick won her state's primary in 1930?
... that the Kazachye Cemetery takes its name from the interment of Cossacks killed during the July Days in the Russian Revolution?
... that Lloyd Trefethen and Lloyd Trefethen showed that, when shuffling playing cards, five riffles are enough?
... that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?
... that Salahuddin Wahid had a public newspaper debate with his brother on their father's vision for Indonesia?
... that "Aus der Tiefe rufe ich" ('Out of the depths have I cried') is one of six 1883 psalm settings by Friedrich Kiel?
... that Chen Fangyun proposed a control system that was crucial for the launch of China's first geosynchronous communications satellite in 1984?
... that investigators considered the murder of Lisa Holm especially heinous as Holm was only seventeen years old and physically weaker than her killer?
... that British architect Bryan Thomas has designed for the Church of England, the Christian Scientists, and the Quakers?
... that Bill Kibby was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Second Battle of El Alamein?
... that polonium-210 is 250,000 times more toxic by weight than hydrogen cyanide?
... that Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman rejects frybread, seen as a symbol of colonial oppression, but also considers it a symbol of resilience?
... that in a 2019 documentary, Astra Taylor interviews trauma surgeons, refugees, and a barber about the meaning of democracy?
... that 19 years after Mrinalini Devi married Rabindranath Tagore, many of her wedding jewels were sold to fund Brahmacharya Ashram, a school he founded?
... that nearly 80,000 black Mississippians cast a vote in the 1963 Freedom Ballot mock election, four times more than the number of black registered voters?
... that the 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System video game Solstice was originally planned and developed as a computer title?
... that despite a ban on the National Peasants' Party taking effect on this day in 1947, the party still organized in the Romanian underground, attempting to field a candidate in the 1985 election?
... that Justin James was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 2019 NBA draft, despite most mock drafts predicting he would not be picked by any team?
... that part of the Malaysian tropical forest reserve Bukit Gasing has been protected from development, while another part has been sold to building contractors?
... that Chitpas Kridakorn, whose family owns Thailand's Singha brewery, had to change her last name due to her political activism?
... that Waylon Jennings and Johnny Dollar were guest disc jockeys for country music station KOYL in Odessa, Texas?
... that after the US banned Chinese students from returning to China, Li Hengde organized a student network which petitioned the Chinese premier, the US president, and the UN for their right to go home?
... that the yellow-footed honeyguide probably includes beeswax in its diet?
... that a lack of help from W. B. Yeats caused one of the founders of the Ulster Literary Theatre to say, "Damn Yeats! We'll write our own plays!"?
... that the tomb of Sultan Alauddin Khalji was built inside an Islamic school in Delhi, India?
... that South African test pilot Desmond Barker has accumulated 7,200 flying hours and flown 58 different types of aircraft?
... that some LGBTQ activists have opposed the use of the term "lesbian erasure", because it has sometimes been used in opposition to transgender rights?
... that Thomas Cheney's biography of LDS Church leader J. Golden Kimball was withdrawn by Brigham Young University Press for containing explicit language?
... that Phyllariopsis brevipes is a deep-water constituent of the kelp forests in the Mediterranean Sea?
... that Saumitra Khan was elected in the 2019 Indian general election by a margin of more than 78,000 votes without participating in any political rally in his constituency?
... that the announcement of a delay in the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons caused Nintendo's stock market valuation to fall by over US$1 billion?
... that Lord Mayor of Birmingham Yvonne Mosquito opened comedian Joe Lycett's kitchen extension?
... that Hallo Ü-Wagen was a long-running weekly German radio talk show on wheels?
... that Ugandan chief of staff Yusuf Gowon quarrelled with another officer over a looted tractor during the invasion of a foreign country?
... that the process of connecting the scattered fragments surviving from the Hours of Louis XII (begun c. 1498) only started in 1973?
... that Ye Peida, the president of a university controlled by the Ministry of Posts and Communications, successfully argued for the breakup of the ministry's monopoly of China's telecom industry?
... that a new disease which is deadly to corals is spreading from the Florida Keys to other parts of the Caribbean?
... that Clemantine Wamariya was reunited with her parents on The Oprah Winfrey Show, twelve years after being separated from them during the Rwandan genocide?
... that George Szirtes's Reel, winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize, contains poems in terza rima and relies heavily on ekphrasis, using references to film and photography to aid memory?
... that Canadian auto racing driver Kat Teasdale reportedly once asked the starter to wait while she applied lipstick?
... that in 2004 the British Rail Class 458 trains were so unreliable that their operator considered replacing them all, but by 2012 they had become the most reliable fleet in Britain?
... that the Granadan princess Fatima bint al-Ahmar was described as "surpassing the women of her time like the Night of Power surpasses all the other nights" by the historian Ibn al-Khatib?
... that the final owners of Connecticut's WQQW radio station were involved in a fraudulent banking ring that toppled the town's mayor?
... that Lilian Benningsen, a singer at the Bavarian State Opera for decades, appeared as Carolina in the world premiere of Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende (Elegy for Young Lovers)?
... that the verses of the inscription on the funerary Stele of Arniadas are said to be "extraordinarily similar" to the words of Hector in the Iliad?
... that Joe Biden prefers the Chevrolet Corvette, but Joe Biden prefers the Pontiac Trans Am?
... that The Unsafe Asylum, a book of short stories by Anirudh Kala, explores the psychological effects of the Partition of India?
... that Australian theatre director and former chemistry demonstrator May Hollinworth was described as "a wizard with lighting effects"?
... that while Caltech's historic South Houses were renovated, its North Houses were recommended for demolition for lack of architectural appeal?
... that Samuel Adalberg, pioneer of Polish paremiology, committed suicide upon learning of the Germans' plans to construct the Warsaw Ghetto?
... that after a 2002 study inaccurately claimed a measles and autism link due to improper qPCR data, scientists developed the MIQE guidelines to show the minimum level of reported data required for qPCR?
... that the Melkite Christian Sarjun ibn Mansur, who headed the fiscal administration of Syria under the first five Umayyad caliphs, was the father of Saint John of Damascus?
... that German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Roman Neumayer assisted in founding the first ice hockey team in Namibia?
... that the destruction by range safety officers of the satellite SOLRAD 2 over Cuba in 1960 sparked international protest and compromised American missile security?
... that Gujarati academic Daksha Pattani published her doctoral thesis on Mahatma Gandhi in six volumes?
... that a colony of fruit bats in Îles Ehotilés National Park in Ivory Coast is considered by the local people to be a sign of the presence of their ancestors?
... that Canadian photographic artist JJ Levine is known for portraits in which the same model depicts both the male and female members of a couple?
... that a jury once rushed out of the courtroom of William F. Turner, first Chief Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, to attend to a Native American attack?
... that while collecting the banknotes of Africa , Ibrahim Salem found that "the Dark Continent had some of the most colorful ones"?
... that at the unveiling of Alexander Phimister Proctor's statue of Robert E. Lee in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Lee "one of our greatest American gentlemen"?
... that Nozomi Nishida is a member of Walküre, a music group which exists both in real life and in the anime Macross Delta?
... that army general Abdul Haris Nasution considered the 1945 Battle of Semarang the first major battle for the Indonesian nation?
... that Paula R. Pietromonaco found that attachment styles affect how people think and behave during conflict?
... that Felipe Reinoso served in the Connecticut House of Representatives prior to contesting an open seat in the Congress of the Republic of Peru?
... that the fly Phytobia betulae is just 5 mm (0.2 in) long but the tunnel made by its larva inside a birch tree may reach 17 m (56 ft)?
... that Michael Collins , the command module pilot for Apollo 11, was the first person to perform two spacewalks in a single mission?
... that the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, led to a period of public anxiety in the United States and accelerated the Space Race?
... that pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space and first to orbit the Earth, ejected from his descending spacecraft at an altitude of about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
... that two Russian tortoises were aboard the first spacecraft to return safely from a trip around the Moon?
... that Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, worked at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand and was a medical officer for the Peace Corps before becoming an astronaut?
... that the Soviet probe Luna 2, the first human-made object to make contact with the Moon, began a trend of crash landing missions that continued even after soft landings were mastered?
... that David Scott's performance under pressure during Gemini 8, the first mission to achieve a docking in space, led to his selection for the Apollo program?
... that cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made 42 trips outside the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1970 in response to invitations she received after becoming the first woman in space?
... that Félicette, the first cat in space, was subjected to 9.5 g of acceleration and five minutes of weightlessness?
... that a swan sculpture in Stapenhill Gardens, described by the park superintendent as a "monstrosity" after its construction in 1953, is now a town landmark?
... that Binod Chaudhary is the first Nepali to be listed on Forbes's billionaire list?
... that four of the fourteen astronauts in NASA Astronaut Group 3 were killed in training accidents before they had a chance to fly in space?
... that the oboist and composer Rolf Riehm taught music theory in Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000 and wrote an opera, Sirenen, for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt?
... that during the 1924–25 season, Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh team to reach an FA Cup final?
... that Captain Henry Meintjes, a South African World War I flying ace, was shot in the wrist when far over enemy lines but still managed to bring his airplane back and land it safely?
... that the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys was described as the first for a mammal species due to anthropogenic climate change?
... that when he graduated in medicine at the age of 24, James Fraser was already Sir James Fraser?
... that the XIX Army Corps represented Germany as it ceded Brest-Litovsk to the Soviet Union in the German–Soviet military parade ?
... that Maria Magnani Noya was the first woman mayor of Turin and the second woman mayor in Italy?
... that David Cage started writing the video game The Nomad Soul because he had grown tired of being a composer?
... that Wu Ziliang developed the technology to separate uranium-235 for China's first nuclear bomb?
... that Sommen charrs are a relict population that has survived because of Lake Sommen's great depth, and its cold and oxygen-rich waters?
... that sculptor Alice King Chatham used plaster casts to design custom-fitted oxygen masks and helmets for Project Mercury astronauts?
... that Rhys Griffiths has won the Welsh Premier League Golden Boot more times than any other player, winning for seven consecutive seasons between 2006 and 2012?
... that while the leaf shape varies among hybrids of Episcia cupreata , the flowers always have the same form?
... that the scenic design for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen by Günther Schneider-Siemssen was shown at the Metropolitan Opera from 1986 to 2009?
... that Portland's NS Line opened in 2001 as the first newly built streetcar line in the United States in 50 years to use modern vehicles?
... that according to a study conducted by epidemiologist Xifeng Wu and her colleagues, fifteen minutes of moderate exercise per day can increase lifespan by an average of three years?
... that the Gloucester tabula set includes gaming pieces depicting a copulating couple, a hanging man, and a manticore?
... that Robyn Benincasa ran a marathon four months after having surgery for osteoarthritis and being told she might never run again?
... that George Gosse was awarded the George Cross for disarming three German naval mines under exceptionally hazardous conditions?
... that six of the Next Nine astronauts flew to the Moon, and three walked on it?
... that when Roger B. Chaffee was selected for Apollo 1, he was the youngest American astronaut to earn a NASA mission assignment?
... that as the film negatives used for the first Indian feature film were of limited spectral sensitivity, the colour red was avoided in sets, costumes, and make-up?
... that Eleanor C. Pressly helped develop and launch a series of Aerobee rockets during the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year?
... that in South Africa, the mosquito Anopheles funestus used to breed in fast-moving streams but now prefers swamps?
... that HMS Lavinia was saved from being broken up, only to be sunk in a collision with another ship?
... that it took Scarecrow Press 25 years to complete its series of historical dictionaries of African countries?
... that the idea for the song "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)" came to Jeannie Seely at the age of 23, and she was still earning royalties for it at age 78?
... that Tiny the Wonder could kill 200 rats per hour in London's rat-baiting pits?
... that Patrick Francheterre played for, coached and managed the France men's national ice hockey team, and helped cover expenses when the French Ice Hockey Federation went bankrupt?
... that 50 years ago today, Maspalomas Station in the Canary Islands was the first ground station to make contact with the Apollo 11 astronauts in Earth orbit, about 16 minutes into the flight?
... that Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward performed surgery on Prince Albert, who later became King George VI?
... that during its 2019 election campaign, the Indian National Congress promised to abolish the sedition law, although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?
... that Gao Xiaoxia abandoned her PhD studies to leave America in 1951, just before the US government banned Chinese students from returning home?
... that the clingfish Diplecogaster bimaculata has been photographed cleaning a moray eel?
... that in 2001, Bury Football Club's first mascot, "Robbie the Bobby", was sent off three times by referees for bad behaviour?
... that the new Djamaa el Djazaïr mosque is the tallest building in Africa?
... that the Irish musician Gregory Gray, who started his career in a boy band, became the cult indie musician Mary Cigarettes?
... that in 1974, a United States Army private first class stole a helicopter and landed it on the White House lawn?
... that Catherine Despard helped compose the speech that her husband, the ringleader of the Despard Plot, gave at the gallows?
... that Damiano Michieletto, known for directing Rossini's operas, recently staged Schreker's Der ferne Klang at the Oper Frankfurt, where the world premiere had been performed in 1912?
... that a three-story structure in Beatrice, Nebraska, was built for a Schmuck?
... that the samples of Le Nove porcelain , sent to the Venetian government in 1762 to support a licence application, may actually have been made by another factory?
... that Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut called American journalist Janet Lee Stevens "the little drummer girl" because of her staunch support for their cause?
... that Back to Black, the final studio album by Amy Winehouse, topped the European Top 100 Albums chart for 13 non-consecutive weeks?
... that Australian rules footballer Emerson Woods was a premiership player in the VFL Women's while still in secondary school?
... that the cave-nesting rockwarbler has also been called the "hanging dick" because of its nest?
... that lieutenant commander James J. Connell's Navy Cross was the highest award for valor bestowed on a Delawarean during the Vietnam War?
... that César Franck composed Psalm 150, a setting of "the musicians' psalm", for choir, orchestra, and organ, for a school for the blind in Paris?
... that as a condition of a bequest from James Cowan Smith, the Scottish National Gallery must permanently display a portrait of his dog Callum ?
... that after the crash of Paradise Airlines Flight 901A, the Federal Aviation Administration permanently grounded the airline's operations?
... that in 1953, Satyawati Suleiman became the first woman to receive a degree in archaeology from the University of Indonesia?