derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Khema, one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, attained enlightenment before even becoming a nun?
... that none of the people who established North Carolina radio station WVSP had any prior experience in radio broadcasting?
... that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok ('Games')?
... that Brazil was the only country with an exhibit at the 1918 Bronx "World's Fair"?
... that Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a senior leader of Israel's Shas party, once said that those who did not vote for the party would go to hell?
... that the Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin mountain range in Mexico is made up of more than one hundred volcanic cones?
... that Ernest Graves Jr. was one of four generations of his family to go to West Point, all of whom graduated first or second in their class?
... that today's 2019 Rugby World Cup Final between England and South Africa is a repeat of the 2007 final?
... that Thomas Sturgis was a prisoner of war in the American Civil War, a prominent cattle grower, and New York City Fire Commissioner?
... that a 1945 ordinance by the Cebu City Council was the first to regulate cockfighting venues in the Philippines?
... that in The Book of Gutsy Women, the mother-and-daughter authors feature, among others, the 17th-century nun Juana Inés de la Cruz and climate activist Greta Thunberg?
... that Canadian SoundCloud rapper bbno$ became interested in music after suffering a back injury that prevented him from pursuing his dreams as a competitive swimmer?
... that the All Blacks were once defeated by Rhodesia, a non-test rugby playing country?
... that Kurt Rackow and his soldiers were trapped for hours during the Battle of Verdun, even though their comrades were just 20 ft (6 m) away?
... that "Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times", a slogan commonly chanted at the 2019 Hong Kong protests , was first used for a LegCo campaign in 2016?
... that Bill Walton made 21 of his 22 field goal attempts in the 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game?
... that Swedish sociologist Ulf Himmelstrand has been called the "father of sociology in Nigeria"?
... that XHFAMX-TDT "La Octava", which opens tonight, marks Grupo Radio Centro's return to Mexico City television for the first time since 1972?
... that Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev wrote on mechanics, investigated a tsarina, was in charge of the Ladoga Canal, and sported with concubines as commandant of Okhotsk?
... that the film Under the Knife argues that Britain's state-run National Health Service is being intentionally privatised?
... that in his 1950 speech at the United Nations, Chinese diplomat Wu Xiuquan demanded that the United States withdraw its forces from Taiwan and Korea?
... that Ladakh was originally called Maryul , the "lowland" of West Tibet?
... that American tenor Joshua Guerrero stepped in at late notice to sing Almaviva in a Grammy Award-winning production of The Ghosts of Versailles?
... that the common name of the Halloween darter refers to the orange and black coloration that individuals develop during the breeding season?
... that Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia?
... that the skeleton frog Boophis popi can be identified by its bright red irises?
... that the namesake of Betsy Head Park left half her estate to the New York City parks system and only $5 to her daughter?
... that the Coffin Cave mold beetle may not actually be found in Coffin Cave?
... that forensic artists at the University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of an accused witch in Scotland?
... that Mekong Bobtails were among 200 royal cats given to Nicholas II of Russia by King Chulalongkorn of Siam in the 19th century?
... that John Moutoussamy is the only African-American to have designed a high-rise building—which featured "colorful walls and psychedelic carpets"—in the Chicago Loop?
... that the first owners of radio station KSTO fled Guam after running up a debt of $60,000 in less than seven months of operation?
... that the 1988 opening of New York City's Archer Avenue lines, expected to lessen congestion, ended up slashing ridership at Parsons Boulevard station by half?
... that the Fatimid Caliphate prepared their conquest of Egypt in 969 through a long and patient propaganda effort, resulting in it being swift and almost unopposed?
... that computer scientist Odest Chadwicke Jenkins taught a robot to do the Cabbage Patch by demonstrating the dance?
... that the Hellvi helmet eyebrow , made of iron, bronze, and silver, is one of several Vendel Period helmets for which only eyebrows remain?
... that due to Spanish singer Melody's three-year disappearance from the public eye, she was rumoured to be dead?
... that the director of a 2018 documentary uncovered evidence of FBI surveillance of Arab-American families in her hometown outside Chicago?
... that TMNT Shellraiser, the world's steepest roller coaster, beat the previous record holder by half a degree?
... that German SS commander and convicted war criminal Kurt Meyer falsely claimed that the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre was the only war crime that SS troops ever committed?
... that the Field Music album Plumb was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize, even though the band thought that their odds were "minimal to nil"?
... that Lu Youquan's book on Piaget's theory of cognitive development won a national education award in China?
... that pygmy Ota Benga was moved to the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum after people objected to him being shown in the Bronx Zoo?
... that Idham Azis , the chief of the Indonesian National Police, succeeded in enrolling at the national police academy on his third attempt?
... that HMS Melpomene missed the Battle of Trafalgar, but arrived in time to tow away damaged enemy vessels?
... that medical scholar Ronald Grossarth-Maticek directed a long-term study involving 30,000 people from 18,000 households, spanning more than 20 years?
... that the songs on the Kabir Singh soundtrack album, including "Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage" ('I have begun to really love you'), have been described as "saccharine rock"?
... that Mexican drug lord María Antonieta Rodríguez Mata controlled a drug trafficking ring that extended across Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.S.?
... that Yume Wo Katare , a ramen bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, encourages diners to share their dreams and aspirations with each other after finishing their meals?
... that actor Ryan Reynolds has lent his voice to a garden snail, a caveman, and Pikachu?
... that the sale of WWIZ radio in Lorain, Ohio, undertaken in order to raise capital to build WXTV in Youngstown, prompted both stations to lose their licenses?
... that Polish courtier and writer Krzysztof Warszewicki was a respected orator who spoke at the funerals of Catherine, queen consort of Poland, and Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor?
... that the Concert Hall inside the BBC's Broadcasting House was pressed into service as a dormitory at the outbreak of World War II?
... that Sally Milgrim designed the dress that Eleanor Roosevelt wore to her husband's first inaugural ball?
... that after laying its eggs on a leaf, the female mango leaf-cutting weevil severs the leaf near its base and lets it fall to the ground?
... that the Jewish a cappella group Six13 sings traditional Hanukkah songs and prayers to music from Star Wars?
... that blue-ice areas are places in Antarctica where snow evaporation and wind have exposed blue-colored ice, which often accumulates meteorites ?
... that before entering journalism, G. Gould Lincoln was part of Thomas Edison's team that looked for nickel in Canada?
... that Michler's Palace, a townhouse destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising, is remembered for a wartime song named after it?
... that Culley C. Carson III's research has included treatments for Peyronie's disease, in which the penis curves when erect?
... that China's largest landfill closed in November 2019, having reached capacity 25 years early?
... that baritone Heiko Trinsinger of the Aalto Theatre appeared as Alberich in Der Ring in Minden, in which reviewers noted expressivity in every moment and a thunderous curse of the ring?
... that the Battle of Marshall's Elm has been described as the "first real confrontation" of the First English Civil War?
... that to maintain personal privacy, manga artist Paru Itagaki wears a large chicken mask that obscures her face for all public appearances?
... that Kiuchi Kyō, believed to be the first Japanese woman to be a school principal, worked to improve the status of women teachers?
... that on May 9, 1970, Richard Nixon spent the two hours before dawn at the Lincoln Memorial talking to students protesting the Vietnam War?
... that Jay Shah oversaw the Gujarat Cricket Association's project of constructing the world's largest cricket stadium?
... that British actress Naomi Watts' roles include CIA officer Valerie Plame, journalist Gretchen Carlson, and Princess Diana?
... that during the 2004 US presidential election, Hans Riemer ran an online campaign against the military draft, leading then-President Bush to coin the phrase "on the Internets"?
... that according to academic Yo Tomita, the Bach Digital portal website has largely replaced printed reference works as first point of entry for Bach scholarship?
... that as a child, American Civil War historian Charles P. Roland heard first-hand accounts of the war from veterans who served in it?
... that Vytautas Tomaševičius is the first Lithuanian to win an Excellence Award at the Tokyo Art Olympia Biennale, for his painting A Still Life with Two Objects ?
... that the Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre has the world's longest spanning timber catenary arched roof?
... that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, a physician with no formal medical background, developed a smallpox inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of people before Jenner's vaccine was available?
... that the Christmas darter is considered a priority species by the state of South Carolina, but of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature?
... that Stan Lee supported the viral fan campaign to allow Donald Glover to audition for the role of Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man‬?
... that the Enlightenment concept of doux commerce suggests that commerce civilizes people and can even eliminate violence?
... that the novel Tzilla is based on author Judith Katzir's great-grandmother, who invited her lover to live with her and her husband in Palestine?
... that Crossroads Village in Genesee County, Michigan, has a narrow huckleberry?
... that Donald Mackintosh was posthumously awarded an Olympic gold medal for shooting 22 live pigeons in a row?
... that "Baby Yoda", a character in the Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian, was named "2019's biggest new character" by The Guardian?
... that Stribodh, first published in 1857, was one of the earliest magazines in India to be aimed at a female audience?
... that actress Kathryn Crosby earned a nursing degree at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles?
... that in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the refusal of the International Longshoremen's Association to unload cargo from the Soviet Union was illegal under the National Labor Relations Act?
... that Burleigh House in Enfield, near London, was said to be haunted by a ghost wearing a doublet, hose, and a ruffle?
... that although Half Alive wrote their song "Still Feel" with the intention of making it unattractive for radio stations, it became their breakout hit?
... that when the Thai government ordered her return from the U.S. during World War II, PhD student Poonsapaya Kraiyong joined the Free Thai resistance movement instead?
... that the demise of Sportsvue, which lost $2 million in its 10 months of operation, prompted Jim Fitzgerald to sell the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team?
... that tenor Mirko Ludwig took part in the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie as a member of a vocal quintet?
... that the sermons of Greek Catholic priest Michal Mašlej inspired the villagers of Oľšavica to hide Jews during the Holocaust even though German soldiers were quartered in the village?
... that it can take Yvonne Walker Keshick up to a year to gather the porcupine quills and other materials she needs for a particular work of art?
... that the New York City comic shop Desert Island maintains a modified version of the signage used by the previous tenant, an Italian bakery?
... that Chinese economist Wei Xinghua refused to be known as an "authority" and proclaimed that China had no world-class authority in economics?
... that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine?
... that Rabbi Reuven Elbaz used to frequent pool halls and coffee shops around Jerusalem to talk with secular Jewish youth about religion?
... that after writing a programming language used to publish books on the humanities, Michael Barnett wrote the SNAP language to teach programming to humanities students?
... that in Requiem for the Living, a setting by Dan Forrest of selected texts from the Requiem Mass and an additional movement about Vanitas, the choir sings seemingly endless melodies?
... that former naval diver Esther Tan has been dubbed "Singapore's G.I. Jane"?
... that Tetsu Yasui , who was raised by devout Buddhists, later converted to Christianity and served as president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University for 17 years?
... that Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend, the second part of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and written for the second day of Christmas, focuses on the annunciation to the shepherds?
... that Pomo basket weaver Susan Billy comes from a family of basket weavers that includes Susan Santiago Billy and Elsie Allen?
... that the Mexican Netflix series The House of Flowers has been compared to such disparate films as Sharknado and the Oscar-winning All About My Mother?
... that Turkish folk singer and bağlama player Arif Sağ helped introduce Anatolian music to the West in a 1996 concert with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne?
... that in the absence of males in North America, the female woolly alder sawfly reproduces through parthenogenesis?
... that Leena Al-Hadid is Jordan's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in Vienna?
... that after John Lennon called the Beatles more popular than Jesus, KLUE radio responded by staging a bonfire of Beatles memorabilia – and its transmitter was struck by lightning the next day?
... that the tallest Christmas tree in Arizona is decorated with at least 5,000 ornaments and bows?
... that Yoshi Kasuya was appointed to the Order of the Precious Crown for her contributions to women's education?
... that the German carol "Kommet, ihr Hirten", derived by Carl Riedel from a Bohemian song in Czech, addresses shepherds, men, and women?
... that James A. Ward was one of the last surviving graduates of the Jesuit novitiate in White Marsh, Maryland?
... that religious ministers revealed the winning numbers to illegal lotteries on WOOK radio, by hiding them in Bible references?
... that confectioner Tom Smith is traditionally described as the inventor of the Christmas cracker, in 1847?
... that A Rubber Band Christmas is a novelty album featuring popular Christmas songs played on rubber bands, staplers, and other office equipment?
... that Filippo Lippi's Mystical Nativity of c. 1459 includes "no cave, no shed, no Joseph, no angels, no ox, no ass"?
... that in later life, Paul Mickelson bought the organ upon which he had made his first recording as a solo artist at NBC?
... that after the ancient Shire Oak fell in 1941, part of it was carved into a sculpture of the Madonna and Child for a local church?
... that Kavya Manyapu led the development of a dust-repelling fabric for space suits using carbon nanotubes?
... that as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore, William Francis Clarke worked to integrate black and Italian Catholics into parish life?
... that Austrian general Konrad Valentin von Kaim was mortally wounded at the Battle of Pozzolo on Christmas Day, 1800?
... that "The Sinner's Redemption" was called a "rude old carol" favoured by peasants?
... that in 1929 Rosika Schwimmer , a woman over 50 and thus ineligible to take up arms in the U.S., was denied citizenship by the Supreme Court for pacifism and became stateless?
... that John Rutter wrote the text and music for Angels' Carol, a choral piece for Christmas, using the Latin "Gloria in excelsis Deo" from the Christmas story as a refrain?
... that Tlingit artist Tanis S'eiltin's mixed-media installation Hit includes video, a replica M16 rifle, and a glass tank of oil and water?
... that French Resistance member Odette Abadi was a co-founder of Réseau Marcel, which saved more than 500 Jewish children during the Holocaust?
... that 1 William Street was described by the New York Architect magazine as New York City's "most complete banking institution" upon its completion?
... that Erza Muqoli was a founding member of the French child music group Kids United, which had three number-one albums during her tenure?
... that a juniper tree in the median of Interstate 17 in Arizona is mysteriously decorated every year at Christmas?
... that mathematics professor Henry Crapo donated a bronze sculpture of a boar to the University of Waterloo?
... that Alku and Alku Toinen, built by Finnish immigrants, were the first nonprofit housing cooperatives in New York City?
... that Hong Kong protests in November 2019 included an escape by protesters at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, by rope and via underground sewers?
... that Mohammad Tabrani first proposed the term "bahasa Indonesia" for the national language of Indonesia?
... that one of the versions of Vivaldi's Magnificat included five arias to be performed by girl soloists from the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage, who were named in the score?
... that Kunihiko Ikuhara, who was one of the directors of Sailor Moon, cosplayed as Sailor Mars to promote his series Schell Bullet?
... that the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, Jacqueline Coleman, is a basketball coach and the granddaughter of a National Basketball Association player?
... that Darren Appleton forfeited two matches at the 2019 Antalya Open event after deciding to take a nap between matches?
... that soprano Irma Beilke appeared as Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio on 4 September 1945 in the first opera performance in Berlin after World War II?
... that New York City's $4 million Squibb Park Bridge was demolished less than seven years after it was built?
... that Shen Jilan, who successfully proposed the clause of equal pay for equal work in China's first constitution in 1954, is still serving as a congresswoman 65 years later?
... that in 1817, the Ontario became the first steamboat to see active service on the Great Lakes at Lake Ontario?
... that the surgeon Thomas Morstede served the three successive English kings Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI?
... that The History of Doing describes a fundamentalist Hindu protest, with many women part of it, in favour of sati, the burning of widows?
... that Jef Raskin would prove his FLOW language was easy to use by closing his eyes, typing randomly on the keyboard, and producing executable programs?
... that Sun Yang is the first swimmer in history to win Olympic gold medals in the 200-, 400-, and 1500-metre freestyle events?
... that when lead miners discovered Dream Cave in Derbyshire in 1822, they found it to contain the near-complete skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros?
... that U.S. Department of Defense civil servant Laura Cooper has noted that she has frequently been the "only woman in the room" for much of her career?
... that the 1766 Istanbul earthquake claimed 4,000 victims, 880 of them in the city?
... that Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to Chief of the Armed Forces High Command because of his craven willingness to function as Adolf Hitler's mouthpiece?
... that Shiza Shahid and Malala Yousafzai co-founded the Malala Fund in 2013 to promote education for every girl?
... that Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda buildings in Maryland were originally built without windows to conceal the classified work going on inside?
... that the Pak-Age-Car is similar in appearance to a horse-drawn delivery carriage, which it was designed to replace?
... that after Chinese poet Liu Shahe was denounced as a "filial descendant of the landlord class" in 1957, he performed forced labour for eight years and was unable to publish for two decades?
... that since modernisation work in 2016, trains can only call at Pilning railway station when travelling eastbound?
... that Andrey Kelin, the new Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, holds the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary?
... that HIV researcher Diane Havlir was the U.S. national short track champion in 1974?
... that in his 1915 En blanc et noir for two pianos, Claude Debussy quoted Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg" and dedicated the work in part to Jacques Charlot, who fell in World War I?
... that Appasus japonicus , a species of giant water bug, provides an example of insect paternal care?
... that the pianist Clara Schumann, who toured Europe for decades, taught 68 students at Dr. Hoch's in Frankfurt, including those from Britain and the U.S.?
... that to assist the Australians with INTERFET logistics, the U.S. Army brought in helicopters from Russia and Bulgaria?
... that Sharon Priest, the Secretary of State of Arkansas, launched the state's first internet-based information network in 1995?
... that KSLN-TV, the ABC television affiliate in Salina, Kansas, folded twice in three years under two different owners?
... that Louie Cullen, known as "the last of the suffragettes", started a prison hunger strike after her arrest for a 1908 attempt to rush into the House of Commons to promote women's right to vote in the UK?
... that a Sony α7S II captured the first commercial 4K footage in space from the International Space Station?
... that sumo wrestler Asahishō Kōta is a regular guest on chat shows due to his sense of humour?
... that the Carolina Watchman newspaper supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, but backed the Union cause both before and after?
... that Frank Palmer started in the advertising business on April 1, 1969, and retired 50 years later to the day?
... that the 2001 manga series World of the S&M was released in English as The World Exists for Me?
... that Mongol general Uriyangkhadai invaded the territory of the Song dynasty in southern China by going through Tibet and Vietnam?
... that Hirtodrosophila mycetophaga mate on bracket fungi, selectively choosing those with a lighter surface to enhance the visibility of their courtship displays?
... that in 2014, Moroccan-born long-distance runner Adil Bouafif won his fourth gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the Swedish national championships?
... that the Austin, Nichols and Company Warehouse is one of the few Egyptian Revival buildings in New York City?
... that ancient Gupta art of India includes gold coins commemorating the Ashvamedha Vedic horse sacrifice ?
... that English scientist Nicola Curtin donated to charity the £865,000 she received for helping develop the cancer drug Rubraca?
... that Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was personally present at the Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup?
... that Berna Gözbaşı is the first woman president of a football club playing in the Turkish top-level men's league?
... that 17 extensions and modifications of the construction permit were necessary before Hawaii radio station KFSH went on the air in 1985, more than eight years after the permit was awarded?
... that Jacques Durand studied at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Claude Debussy, and later published both Debussy's compositions and his edition of Chopin's piano works?
... that Coelopa pilipes fly populations can live at temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) within piles of kelp, even in areas covered with snow and ice?
... that Ms. Monopoly replaces properties with inventions women contributed to, such as Wi-Fi, chocolate chip cookies, and modern shapewear?