derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Betty Cantor-Jackson recorded over 1000 tapes of the Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Band, and Old & In the Way, but lost them when she could not pay the storage fees?
... that the Qutb Minar complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi, houses the tomb of one of Muhammad's descendants?
... that every Saturday for decades, Miriam Butterworth protested against wars such as those in Nicaragua, Iran, and Iraq, as well as in opposition to nuclear arms?
... that Alejandro Finocchiaro, Argentina's current Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, produced the 2008 documentary Mujeres de la Shoá ('Women of the Holocaust')?
... that the story of the legendary Christian saints Barlaam and Josaphat is based on the Great Renunciation of the Buddha?
... that footballer Craig Bellamy was the first player to score for seven different teams in the Premier League?
... that West Palm Beach, Florida, was the site of the 2000 U.S. presidential election recount, which led to the Bush v. Gore decision giving Florida's 25 electoral votes to George W. Bush?
... that unlike The 1975's previous eponymous songs, all of which use the same set of lyrics, their fourth eponymous song is a spoken-word protest about climate change by Greta Thunberg ?
... that Zhuo Renxi developed the anti-fog coating for Mao Zedong's crystal coffin that is displayed in his mausoleum?
... that strips of bark from the West African copal are used to make beehives, while the flowers are attractive to bees?
... that John Shearer was the second African-American staff photographer at Life and a neighbor of the first, Gordon Parks?
... that the original article describing Berlekamp's root finding algorithm did not contain a proof of correctness?
... that Will Dismukes, a 29-year-old member of the Alabama House of Representatives, is also an ordained minister and former baseball player, and suffered a massive stroke at the age of 22?
... that a match at the 2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship was temporarily halted due to a fire alarm, but both players opted to play on?
... that although Spitzeln was also called German l'Hombre, it had little more in common with the most successful card game ever invented than the fact that it was played by three players?
... that after a friend told Toni Sharpless 10 years ago today that she was too drunk to drive, Sharpless ordered her out of the car and has not been seen since?
... that the surveillance radar at the Kürecik Radar Station in southeastern Turkey provides NATO missile defense in Europe?
... that Kris Knoblauch accumulated 298 wins over seven years as a head coach in the Canadian junior ice hockey leagues before becoming head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack?
... that the executive producer of Women of '69, Unboxed was a member of the 1969 all-woman graduating class of Skidmore College, on which the film focuses?
... that Olivier Latry, organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, played a concert at St. Martin in Lorch am Rhein in 2019?
... that some German child-rearing theorists of the 1970s tied Nazism and the Holocaust to authoritarian, sadistic personalities produced by punitive toilet training techniques?
... that British author Harold Clunn saw the destruction done by the Blitz as a blessing in disguise?
... that during the 1960s and 1970s, Project Rover tested nuclear-powered rocket engines at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at Jackass Flats?
... that Jörg Breiding, only the second leader of the Knabenchor Hannover in its 69-year history, conducted the choir and the Canadian Brass quintet in folk song arrangements in 2019?
... that Edward Riegelmann was opposed to having the Coney Island Boardwalk named after him?
... that Rathindranath Tagore, the first vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, initially became involved with the school at the urging of his Nobel Prize-winning father?
... that Mark Hamill had his first regular voice-acting job on the 1973 television series Jeannie?
... that after their beloved Canadian leader, Captain Dyer, died, his Slavo-British unit took to carrying a massive portrait of him and would later murder all of the unit's other officers?
... that toxic vacuolation, the presence of vacuoles inside certain types of white blood cells, can be a sign of sepsis?
... that when Virginia suffragist Anna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election in Richmond, she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote?
... that Leonard Fryer's designs included a stamp for the Falkland Islands featuring Gentoo penguins ?
... that in 1994, the principal of Alabama's Randolph County High School threatened to cancel the prom if interracial couples planned to attend?
... that according to legal theorist Jiang Shigong, China has two constitutions?
... that New York City's 407-acre (165 ha) Shirley Chisholm State Park, named after the first black Congresswoman in the U.S., was created on a landfill?
... that Gujarati writer Manilal Dwivedi was invited to present a paper at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, but was unable to attend due to financial constraints?
... that the toxic bark of a Madagascan tree species has been used as a poison in trials by ordeal?
... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorer Samuel van der Putte ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
... that the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton moved to Ohio from Bethesda, Maryland, in part because their building was about to be lost to termites?
... that Yvette Lévy has returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp more than 200 times with students, to teach them about her experience at the camp where she survived the Holocaust?
... that when the Three Marias published New Portuguese Letters as a direct challenge to Portuguese censors, they were arrested and the book was banned, leading to international protests?
... that during the 1960s, Harold Finger was in charge of the development of NASA's nuclear rocket and nuclear power systems, including generators left on the Moon by Apollo missions?
... that footballer Rachel Rowe made her international debut for Wales while still working as a guard in the prison service?
... that the structure of nanoparticle cancer drugs affects their function in such complex ways that nanoinformatics approaches are useful?
... that among the musical roles performed by Anke Sieloff at the Musiktheater im Revier are Maria in West Side Story, and a witch in the first German production of The Witches of Eastwick?
... that 50,000 years ago a Neanderthal defecated on an old campfire in El Salt, Spain, and proved the Neanderthal diet also included plants?
... that indigenous people in the Ecuadorian highlands sometimes mark special occasions with a pampa mesa , a communal meal eaten from a cloth spread on the ground?
... that Helen Appo Cook, an African-American activist, publicly admonished Susan B. Anthony in 1898 for failing to support universal suffrage?
... that "Let Nature Sing", a single consisting of nothing but unedited bird song, reached number one on the UK Singles Sales Chart?
... that a prize for contemporary art of Styria is named after Viktor Fogarassy, the managing director of a department store?
... that Manresa Island in Connecticut was used by the Jesuits as a retreat center before being developed as an electrical power plant?
... that Japanese voice actress Kanon Takao won an international piano competition when she was ten years old?
... that it is not known whether larvae of Deretaphrus beetles spin their cocoons from their mouths or anal glands?
... that Australian rules footballer Callum Wilkie, who had been overlooked in four previous national drafts, was working as an accountant when he was selected by St Kilda?
... that Konstantinos Smolenskis , a future general and hero of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, was expelled from the Greek military academy by his own father for unruly behaviour?
... that the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was moved to the United States after the SARS outbreak in China, the original host?
... that Quaker abolitionist David Cooper's anonymously authored 1783 tract condemning slavery was distributed to the New Jersey State Assembly, the Confederation Congress, and George Washington?
... that the Cozzi porcelain factory of Venice had a stock of 118,000 pieces by 1784, mostly old and out of fashion?
... that Polish philosopher and World War II resistance member Jan Gralewski likely died in the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
... that the sentence of 241 years given to Bobby Bostic was the longest term of imprisonment ever handed down in Missouri to a juvenile for non-homicide offenses?
... that Wayne and Shuster poked fun at Canada's Stratford Festival with a skit about a baseball game where the manager, players, and umpires all speak in Shakespearean verse?
... that after the 1924 abolition of the Caliphate , numerous leaders vied unsuccessfully to resurrect the title of caliph for themselves?
... that James J. Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to serve as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?
... that Flat Rock Speedway's opening was delayed by a week after a raccoon drowned in its drainage system and rain led to track flooding?
... that in 1919 a race riot broke out in Norfolk, Virginia, during a homecoming celebration for African-American veterans of World War I?
... that the Italian Nicholas Laucella became principal flute of the New York Philharmonic in 1909 when Gustav Mahler was chief conductor?
... that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship?
... that Kristine M. Larson and her research team were the first to demonstrate that GPS could be used to detect seismic waves?
... that "The U.S. Air Force Blue" started as an advertising jingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
... that the 6th-century Lakhmid ruler Amr ibn Hind was killed by the poet Amr ibn Kulthum after Hind's mother had insulted Kulthum's mother?
... that in Cameroon, edible caterpillars are cultivated on dwarf red ironwood leaves?
... that Thai chef Bo Songvisava was once asked by a visiting foreign chef about Thai food and realized she knew very little about it?
... that Knut Nystedt wrote Immortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's "Komm, süßer Tod" simultaneously in different tempi, meeting on the last word meaning peace?
... that Perla Farías has created telenovelas, such as Juana la virgen and La Reina del Sur, which avoid classic stereotypes?
... that deforestation in Brazil could be linked to higher rates of the severe fungal infection caused by P. lutzii , a neglected tropical disease?
... that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi?
... that "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" was one of the first mainstream television episodes to feature Kwanzaa?
... that the pianist Erik Werba, professor at the Wiener Musikakademie for four decades, is known as an accompanist of lieder singers?
... that the Namib brush-tailed gerbil uses ultrasonic whistles and foot drumming to communicate?
... that Hubert William Lewis was awarded the Victoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
... that Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses GPS to track its vehicles transporting ammonium nitrate, as the chemical has been used by Naxalites to create the explosive ANFO?
... that the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival featured streetcars from cities in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, England, Germany, and Italy ?
... that manhua artist Xia Da's April Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
... that by approving selinexor, the FDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
... that after John R. Allan died, seven complete or partly-finished unpublished novels were found in his effects?
... that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification?
... that footage of Ann Peterson diving was the first 1968 Summer Olympics coverage to be aired by ABC in the eastern United States?
... that antelope grass can recover quickly after wildfires even in the middle of the dry season?
... that pilot Walter Anderson and observer John Mitchell were hit by communist fire but landed, rescued two pilots, and took off with Mitchell on the wing and his fingers plugging their leaking tank?
... that the classic French card game of Nain Jaune is named after the seven of diamonds, which is depicted as a yellow dwarf on the game board ?
... that sumo wrestler Enhō Akira is 50 kilograms (110 lb) lighter, and 15 centimetres (6 in) shorter, than most of his top division opponents?
... that U.S. Border Patrol agents reported that some migrant detainees at the U.S.–Mexico border in 2019 were housed in standing-room conditions for days or weeks?
... that Arudji Kartawinata left the Masyumi Party and reformed the Indonesian Islamic Union Party in exchange for a cabinet post?
... that the Sorana bean is grown in such small quantities and is in such demand that it commands prices six to ten times higher than those of other cannellini beans?
... that in 1954, George Ian Scott became the first professor of ophthalmology in Edinburgh?
... that the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is known as ortiguilla in southern Spain, where it is a popular seafood?
... that Turkish race walker Meryem Bekmez escaped the traditional social practice of child marriage for girls when her athletic abilities were discovered?
... that Christopher Nolan wrote and directed a no-budget film titled Doodlebug as a student at University College London?
... that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
... that the large leaves of Marantochloa purpurea are used for wrapping cola nuts to prevent them from becoming desiccated?
... that after William Tarrant was sacked from the civil service of British Hong Kong, he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
... that according to the U.S. Supreme Court, Medicare payment levels count as "substantive legal standards"?
... that the baritone Ernst Gerold Schramm was the voice of Christ for Karl Richter in Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion?
... that Sylvia Stoesser was called the "nasal chemist" because she could often identify the ingredients in an unknown laboratory mixture by smelling it?
... that sagu is a southern Brazilian dessert made with tapioca balls that are extracted from cassava, not from sago palms?
... that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon?
... that woollen fabrics have been produced at the Knockando Woolmill since the 18th century?
... that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett, was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade?
... that the crimson seedcracker has two morphs, large-billed and small-billed, but this trait is not related to sex, age, body size, or location?
... that John Soothill gave "boy in the bubble syndrome" its formal name, severe combined immunodeficiency?
... that New York City's Eastern Parkway, built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
... that John Talbot White's last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?
... that the densely-populated territory of Macau is home to a recently discovered, endemic species of freshwater crab of the genus Nanhaipotamon ?
... that in 2017, Australian rules footballer Tom Atkins laid 23 tackles in a Victorian Football League match, equalling the competition record?
... that New Jersey high school radio station WHPH, itself shared between two schools, had to share time with another high school radio station?
... that, following the 1925 London County Council election, the Labour Party became the official opposition on the council for the first time?
... that Terry Dempsey's songs reached number one in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and his native South Africa?
... that the captain of the SS Grampian intentionally rammed an iceberg head-on so as to avoid the Titanic's fate?
... that Clyde Foster , a mathematician with NASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a computer science program at historically black Alabama A&M University?
... that Queens at Heart, which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film?
... that Gavin Arneil is credited with the near-eradication of rickets in Glasgow?
... that the actors from the television drama Jamie Johnson competed at the Gothia Cup international youth football tournament, reaching the quarter-finals?
... that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election?
... that Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary?
... that in 1982, the King of Janow, son of the Queen of Poland, moved to California?
... that a British climate scientist invented a graphic depicting historical global temperatures using coloured stripes to portray global warming to non-scientists?
... that President Gerald Ford delayed the signing ceremony for the 1974 Jackson–Vanik amendment because Mark E. Talisman's wife was in labor?
... that the only building in England designed by the artist Piet de Jong could be turned into a Wetherspoons?
... that German physician Wolf-Dieter Montag was the inaugural recipient of the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
... that the Manhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977?
... that despite being the majority language in the Indonesian town of Belang before World War II, the Ponosakan language had only four fluent speakers left in 2014?
... that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race?
... that activist Célia Xakriabá is the first individual of indigenous descent to represent indigenous Brazilians in the Minas Gerais Department of Education?
... that British physician Donald Irvine was the only general practitioner to have been a president of the General Medical Council?
... that Bronx Park contains the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and what is believed to be New York City's only remaining uncleared forest?
... that in 1946, Indonesian nationalist forces burned half of Bandung and evacuated at least 200,000 civilians, preventing the British from capturing the city intact?
... that in 1845, Samuel Mulledy was the President of Georgetown College, a Jesuit institution, but five years later was expelled from the Jesuit order?
... that the nickname of a Russian submarine constructed from interconnected spheres comes from an animated circus animal made out of juggling balls?
... that policeman and artist Anatol created the outdoor iron sculpture series Wächter, including a group guarding the environment and a memorial to fallen police officers?
... that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make the automated white blood cell differential, a common blood test, possible?
... that Asamardhuni Jivayatra by Tripuraneni Gopichand is regarded as the first psychological novel in Telugu?
... that Polish colonel Andrzej Marecki was one of the victims of the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
... that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor preserved her house with skim milk?
... that Barney Smith was a pastor before opening a museum at his home dedicated to toilet seat art?
... that the African giant shrew was first described from a mummified specimen found in an ancient Egyptian tomb?
... that Chance Rencountre is the first member of the Osage Nation to win a match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
... that because the half-life of beryllium-8 is less than 10−16 seconds, there is a bottleneck in stellar nucleosynthesis that limits the abundance of heavier chemical elements?
... that having wanted to appear in a Sailor Moon stage play since childhood, Momoyo Koyama was cast as Sailor Mercury in a theatrical production of the series in 2014?
... that the Solicitor of Labor leads the second largest litigation department in the U.S. federal government?
... that in 1966, British journalist John Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicate Leif Erikson's voyage?
... that the Continental Currency dollar coin , the first pattern coin of the United States, was designed by Benjamin Franklin?
... that Raja ibn Haywa, an adviser to the Umayyad caliphs, supervised the financing for the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
... that Myrtle Driver Johnson can translate into a language that has been declared to be in a state of emergency?
... that the album Open Here by Field Music has what one band member calls "definitely the angriest songs I have ever written", inspired by Brexit?
... that Green Bay Packers lawyer Gerald Francis Clifford served as assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and lost a congressional election in 1934?
... that according to legend, Gabriel Boughton treated Jahanara Begum's burns and in return received the right to free trade for the East India Company from her father Shah Jahan?
... that Anna Eckstein dressed in white and collected six million signatures to promote world peace before the First World War?
... that the Northwestern Pacific Railroad interurban lines were the first use of third rail electrification in California?
... that as a surgeon, John Campbell had the right to sit unelected on Edinburgh Town Council?
... that Dardanus deformis is one of at least 24 species of hermit crab that transfer sea anemones to a new shell?
... that Green Bay Packers president Emil R. Fischer was also a nationally-recognized leader in the Wisconsin cheese industry?
... that with his victory at the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans, Dane Tom Kristensen became the first driver to win the endurance motor race five times in a row?
... that Ravindra Dave directed Jesal Toral, one of the biggest hits of Gujarati cinema, to keep his production crew employed?
... that the third European factory to make "true" hard-paste porcelain was the Vezzi porcelain factory of Venice, founded in 1720?
... that Ambroise Ouédraogo, who became the first Bishop of Maradi, Niger, in 2001, has focused on dialogue with Islam?
... that all five components of the climate system—air, water, ice, Earth's crust, and life—help determine Earth's average weather?
... that Elsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in World War II?
... that in its early years, New York City's Q35 bus was considered unprofitable, despite charging a double fare for travel between two boroughs?
... that after a Buddha statue was installed on an Oakland traffic median, neighborhood crime dropped by 82 percent?
... that Rose Hollermann was the youngest player on the Team USA women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics?
... that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering, who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
... that the sons of Pyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference for a public monument?
... that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal, an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day 2018?