derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that four species of reptile, a bird, and an amphibian were named after Arthur Lennox Butler?
... that Qatar expressed interest for its industrial security personnel to be trained at the National Industrial Security Academy of India?
... that Steve McClellan booked Prince in the early 1980s, when Minneapolis discouraged black musicians from playing downtown?
... that after the fall of the state of Zhongli, its eponymous capital remained an "important governmental, economic, cultural, and military center" for over a thousand years?
... that Hungarian MEP Anna Júlia Donáth represents the third generation of her family to enter political office, each time for a different party?
... that Samragyee RL Shah is the highest-paid actress in Nepali cinema as of 2019?
... that the melody of the Christian hymn "Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr" is written without bar lines, reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions?
... that in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, the player character Caveira's "Silent Step" ability featured a game-breaking bug?
... that the polluted Roberts Landing on San Francisco Bay, California, was cleaned up to create a housing development and a marsh, now home to the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse?
... that the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh suspended a bylaw to enable Thomas Chavasse to apply for a surgeon's post?
... that eight years to the day after it first signed on, WVOB radio in Bel Air, Maryland, lost its tower when a construction worker clipped the tower's guy wires?
... that with 20 goals, Hassan Maatouk is the Lebanon national football team's joint top-scorer?
... that James Blake took inspiration from the 1967 film Barefoot in the Park for his song of the same name, despite never having watched it?
... that the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt manage stages for opera and drama under one roof, in a building incorporating the ruins of the bombed former playhouse?
... that a former member of ISIS who was arrested in 2016 and released in 2017 attacked a police and army patrol in Tripoli, killing four people, in 2019?
... that snooker player Mandy Fisher played whilst pregnant, but lamented that this was more newsworthy than female players' skill?
... that General Cao Shuangming was dismissed as Commander of the Chinese Air Force after it suffered an excessive number of accidents?
... that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Australia began when a 17-year-old missionary arrived from England in 1840?
... that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world?
... that for the fifth anniversary of video game developer Defiant Development, everyone who had been employed at the company for at least two years was gifted a sword?
... that Joseph J. Himmel , once president of Georgetown University, lived out his final years as a recluse in the university's archives?
... that India is creating the post of Chief of the Defence Staff twenty years after it was officially suggested?
... that Ursula Boese, a long-time member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at La Scala, and at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer?
... that radio station KSUN in Bisbee, Arizona, sold its call letters to a station in Phoenix after going off the air due to financial troubles?
... that when Chen Shunyao served as deputy party chief of Tsinghua University, the future Chinese president Hu Jintao was a protégé of hers?
... that the father of athlete Safia Abukar Hussein disliked the idea of her competing for Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as he thought it would prevent her from finding a husband?
... that Celso-Ramón García oversaw early clinical trials of the first contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico?
... that a Neanderthal man, whose upper jaw was found in the Cova Foradà in Spain, used a toothpick because he had sore gums?
... that James Kyle, Roman Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, designed a Buckie parish church so grand that it is known locally as the Buckie Cathedral ?
... that the fictional character Forrest Gump was portrayed as serving during the Vietnam War with the 47th Infantry Regiment?
... that investigation by detective Wu Guoqing, who was acclaimed as "China's Sherlock Holmes", led to the murder conviction and death sentence of a prosecutor?
... that research into digital media use and mental health has found that females are more likely to be affected by problematic social media use while males are more likely to have gaming disorder?
... that a Waterford Crystal trophy, won by Russian pool player Kristina Tkach at the Women's Pro Players Championship, shattered when it was dropped as it was being carried out of the arena?
... that the novel Trust Exercise was inspired by discussions about sexual abuse which followed the publication of the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape?
... that the Women's World Cup and the CONCACAF Gold Cup finals both involved the United States and were played on the same day?
... that Aleksei Grishin put his 2010 Winter Olympics gold medal—Belarus' first gold in the Winter Olympics—up for auction to raise money for another person's surgery?
... that the dark and fatalistic humour of Canadian comedians has been attributed to the dangers of Canada's climate and geography?
... that David Morgan, the most successful British fighter pilot in the Falklands War, had a hole in the heart that was only discovered after he applied to join the military?
... that psychoanalyst Carl Jung could afford to build his mansion on Lake Zürich (now the C. G. Jung House Museum) after his wife Emma inherited her father's fortune?
... that themes of British band Everything but the Girl's 1985 album Love Not Money include sexism, social and economic stratification, and The Troubles in Northern Ireland?
... that Kihaule's mouse shrew is named after the medical-entomological technician who collected the type specimen from the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania?
... that US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory accused the United States Guards of imposing a "reign of terror" in Butte, Montana?
... that Peter Hamm, a successful writer, literary critic, and jury member for literary prizes, dropped out of school when he was 14?
... that experimental folk band House and Land have reinterpreted traditional ballads to remove misogyny by focusing on female protagonists?
... that Johann Schwarzhuber, the leader of the Auschwitz men's camp, was sentenced to death during the first Ravensbrück concentration camp trial?
... that multi-level marketing company Younique was valued at US$1 billion at the time of its acquisition by Coty?
... that the Arizona Miner, a newspaper published in Prescott, Arizona Territory, changed its political leanings from Republican to Democrat and back again over a succession of owners?
... that motorsport official Charles Faroux was also a three-time French carom billiards world champion?
... that while Carlisle Military Academy was nominally a school for boys, it also accepted a "limited number of girls" ?
... that social worker Damodar Ganesh Bapat helped around 26,000 leprosy patients?
... that the scaly ground roller mostly eats earthworms and centipedes, but has been known to also eat frogs, lizards, and shrews?
... that in 1877, the Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge spent less than Can$0.76 per week on the care of each resident?
... that after the U.S. Congress passed a resolution urging the IOC to reject Beijing's bid for the 2000 Olympics, the city's vice mayor Zhang Baifa threatened to boycott the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta?
... that the Palembang Light Rail Transit, which opened last year, is the first operational light-rail system in Indonesia?
... that Vice-Admiral Aleksandr Nosatov was appointed head of the Russian Naval Academy in 2016, but spent only one and a half months in the post?
... that in its early years, New York City's Sunset Park could only be reached by 60-foot (18 m) ladders?
... that a cholera outbreak was ultimately responsible for the development of Hamburg's Kontorhaus District ?
... that Chinese entrepreneur Frank Tsao co-founded the national shipping lines of both Malaysia and Thailand, and was awarded the nobility title Tan Sri by the king of Malaysia?
... that the Lebanon women's national football team's first official qualification campaign took place eight years after their inception?
... that Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of Irving, Texas, from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a zoning dispute?
... that the endorheic salt lake Sebkha el Melah in Algeria has two parts, the upper one pond-like and biodiverse and the lower one salt-encrusted and nearly devoid of vegetation?
... that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green, in collaboration with her third husband?
... that the Mapuche-Huilliche of southern Chile defeated a slave-hunting Spanish army at the Battle of Río Bueno in 1654?
... that shortly after serving as President of Georgetown University, David H. Buel quit the Jesuits and secretly married?
... that in some Polish homes, an image of a Jew holding a coin hangs to the left of the doorway, and is customarily turned upside down on the Sabbath so that good fortune may fall upon the household?
... that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in Colette's story Gigi?
... that Clarence Ervin became the first African-American brigadier general in the history of the North Carolina Air National Guard in 2015?
... that in his opera Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens, Rolf Riehm included instruments such as archaic wood planks, a musical saw, an accordion, and a piano?
... that UCLA football player Joshua Kelley's career-high 289 rushing yards against USC last season were the most by any player on either team in the history of the schools' crosstown rivalry?
... that an endemic species of trout in Lake Aguelmame Sidi Ali became extinct after the common carp was introduced in 1934?
... that Meghan Trainor's 2019 EP The Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?
... that upon its completion one hundred years ago this month, the Brooklyn Army Terminal was the world's largest concrete building complex?
... that Werner Müller managed a reduction in Germany's dependence on coal in a socially responsible way as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and as CEO of major energy companies?
... that the Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat uses its hind feet to comb its fur and its tongue to wash its face, wing membranes, and genital region?
... that the work of C. Doris Hellman on the Great Comet of 1577 led historians of science to recognize the comet's key role in the success of the Copernican Revolution?
... that Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, was assassinated in 1999 by a Mojahedin-e Khalq agent disguised as a street cleaner?
... that when National Basketball Association revenue in Canada grew 224 percent in five years, vice-president Dan MacKenzie attributed it to marketing strategy and the sport's appeal to young Asian Canadians?
... that the International Agrarian Bureau was criticized by the right as advocating the "peasant-boot dictatorship", and by the left as a vehicle for "peasant individualism"?
... that when offered the award of the Iron Cross from Nazi Germany, Leo Skurnik, a Jewish major in the Finnish Army, refused, reportedly saying "I wipe my arse with it"?
... that after suffering a heart attack at the age of 27, relief pitcher John Hiller made a comeback and broke Major League Baseball's record for saves in a season?
... that the Spanish idiom "¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato?" ('When have we eaten from the same dish?') is used as social commentary about poor manners or incivility?
... that Patricia Marshall's role in the 1947 film Good News was originally meant for Gloria DeHaven?
... that the anti-Muslim Ełk riots in Poland led to the launch of the ironic The Kebab War website, which listed attacks on kebab eateries?
... that the lightning-caused Swan Lake fire in Alaska has burned over 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) of wildland?
... that a critic described the song "Lover" as a throwback to Taylor Swift's "country days"?
... that in Su Shuyang's tragedy depicting the last day of Lao She's life, the celebrated writer converses with dead characters from his own works before committing suicide?
... that The Urology Foundation carried out a survey of how often British men check their testicles?
... that the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company manufactured the "largest knife and fork in the world" of its time in 1876?
... that Professor Lu Yonggen was named by Harvard Kennedy School as the second most generous Chinese philanthropist of 2017 after donating his entire life savings to South China Agricultural University?
... that a 1946 United States proposal to buy Greenland from Denmark remained classified until the 1970s, when Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten discovered documents related to it?
... that Prince Min Nyo of Kale seized the throne of Ava by having his lover, Queen Shin Bo-Me, assassinate his eight-year-old nephew, King Min Hla?
... that Jebel ech Chambi, the highest mountain in Tunisia, is one of the few places in which the Cuvier's gazelle survives?
... that as state health commissioner of Indiana, Woody Myers supported the right of Ryan White, a teenage boy with HIV/AIDS, to return to public school in the face of anti-AIDS discrimination?
... that Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi ordered his air force to attack a city during the Uganda–Tanzania War, but his bomber instead hit a game reserve and killed antelopes?
... that London surgeon Laidlaw Purves was described as the "fairy godfather of ladies' golf"?
... that when Pehr Kalm explored North America in the mid-1700s, he reported being served apple dumplings at every meal?
... that voice actress Ai Fairouz's interest in anime and manga was influenced by her reading the series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in online Skype sessions?
... that trace amounts of snowfall account for up to 80 percent of all precipitation that falls in some areas of northern Canada?
... that Agadzagadza is a mythological trickster from Nigeria who is responsible for bringing death to humankind?
... that the PATH train system was sold to allow the first World Trade Center in New York City to be built?
... that legal scholar Wang Jiafu gave lectures to China's top leaders, including President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng?
... that Petra Klingler finished third in the Ice Climbing World Cup while climbing on one leg?
... that Bruce McCandless II flew in space for the first time in February 1984, nearly eighteen years after being chosen as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5?
... that Mexican drug lord Carlos Landín Martínez was arrested while buying watermelons?
... that the Vel blood group was discovered when a patient experienced a severe transfusion reaction, and her blood type was found to be incompatible with all but five out of ten thousand blood donors?
... that the chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt starts on Cesar Chavez Street (then Army Street) before continuing through San Francisco?
... that Tonic Trouble, released in 1999, was the first video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal?
... that John Pierce has performed Wagner roles internationally, such as Tannhäuser and Lohengrin at the Stadttheater Minden, and Tristan in Prague, Rotterdam, and Rio de Janeiro?
... that FreeConferenceCall.com faced a public backlash for trying to change its hold music?
... that Wen Chuanyuan was the chief designer of China's first drone and first flight simulator?
... that a tree at least 700 years old, reputedly planted by Robert the Bruce, was destroyed by an arson attack in 2004?
... that structural biologist Erica Ollmann Saphire traveled to Africa to observe rodents in the field in order to study how viruses like Ebola are spread?
... that Alexander of Islay encouraged Clan Chattan to fight the Battle of Craig Cailloch against Clan Cameron as revenge for the Camerons' defection?
... that as President of Georgetown University, Arthur A. O'Leary traveled around the United States to organize inactive regional chapters of the university's alumni into a national network?
... that many Castleford-type ceramic teapots have either hinged or sliding lids ?
... that Pixar cinematographer Patrick Lin pioneered the use of a virtual lens based on an actual camera lens in Inside Out?
... that David Bowie's first gig as lead singer was at the Green Man, Blackheath?
... that Greg Moore won a record-breaking ten races, and completed every event, on his way to winning the 1995 Indy Lights season?
... that populations of the russet rice rat have been shown to have a monogamous mating system?
... that during the Siege of Eshowe, members of the Natal Native Pioneer Corps ventured out of the town under Zulu fire to retrieve maize and pumpkins to sell to the defenders?
... that in his eighties, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Whitney North Seymour Jr. co-wrote and produced a one-act play performed off-Broadway?
... that the New York Public Library Main Branch , whose stacks contain an estimated 2.5 million volumes, uses "book trains" to carry books to patrons?
... that Jack Roxburgh introduced legislation on this day in 1964 to declare ice hockey Canada's national game, after disproving the myth that lacrosse held that distinction?
... that despite a name meaning "strong-smelling durian", Durio graveolens has been described as odorless?
... that Zhang Lianzhong was the first commander of the Chinese navy who had served at sea?
... that Turkish correspondent Pelin Ünker is the only journalist in the world sentenced for writing about the Paradise Papers investigation?
... that Japan National Route 279's course in Aomori Prefecture follows an ancient pilgrimage path to Mount Osore, a destination believed to be a gate to the underworld in Japanese mythology?
... that Eagle Woman is credited as the only woman to become a chief among the Sioux, and the first woman to sign a treaty with the United States?
... that the Green Bay Packers' training facility Rockwood Lodge burned down less than four years after it was purchased by head coach Curly Lambeau?
... that Joseph Kupelwieser wrote the libretto for Schubert's Fierrabras, and was later held responsible by the composer for the opera's failure?
... that folic acid, a synthetic form of the vitamin folate, is added to wheat flour in many countries to reduce the risk of infants being born with spina bifida and other neural tube defects?
... that Tadjuddin Noor was voted out of his position as chair of the legislature of East Indonesia after he failed to restrain spectators?
... that New Hampshire radio station WBRL's first license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission because of double-billing practices?
... that in 2018, Élisabeth Revol became the first woman to ascend Nanga Parbat in winter, and her rescue on the descent was widely reported?
... that a future president of Georgetown University, John D. Whitney, decided to convert to Catholicism after reading a book accidentally dropped into the ocean from a U.S. Navy ship?
... that the Khalili Collections comprise some 35,000 works of art assembled by Nasser D. Khalili over five decades?
... that Enoch Fenwick reluctantly became president of Georgetown College in 1820, and abandoned the post in 1825 before a replacement was found?
... that water seeping from a statue of Jesus in Mumbai was initially called a miracle, but turned out to originate from a nearby overflowing drain?
... that in 2019, Brigham Young University volleyball coach Heather Olmstead held the highest winning percentage of any women's volleyball coach in NCAA Division I history?
... that at least 70 members of the cast and crew were injured while working alongside 130 or more untrained big cats, mostly lions and tigers, for the film Roar?
... that before becoming the first woman general in the army of the Ivory Coast, Akissi Kouamé initiated the appointment of midwives to the army health service?
... that KGCX, located in a town with a population of 50, claimed to be the world's smallest broadcasting station?
... that after Xu Chi published his biography of mathematician Chen Jingrun, the latter received a sackful of love letters?
... that Mai Khôi , an outspoken singer and political dissident known as the "Lady Gaga of Vietnam", received a Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2018?
... that director and screenwriter Travis Stevens paused renovations on his production company's house to film Girl on the Third Floor?
... that Piera Aiello wore a veil to protect her identity when standing for Italy's Chamber of Deputies because of threats from the mafia?
... that after the owner of Delaware radio station WNRK died before he could put it on the air, his widow was interviewed on the station's first day of broadcasting?
... that German stock trader Dirk Müller is known as "Mr. DAX"?
... that the Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers was created in 1793 to replace civilian contractors, who sometimes abandoned their artillery in battle?
... that John B. Creeden was a founder of both Boston College Law School and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service?
... that Neil Robertson will not play at the 2019 World Open snooker tournament because he drove to Barnsley, Gloucestershire, rather than Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to compete in the qualifiers?
... that in the 1970s, London's Earl's Court Square was the location of two brothels and the site of the "Battle of Earl's Court" between rival poets?
... that Ugandan air force commander Andrew Mukooza may have been murdered because he helped defeat a coup attempt?
... that the nectar-rich flowers of the African locust-bean are visited by bats, dormice, and pottos?
... that after Ruth Darrow's son died from hemolytic disease of the newborn, she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause?
... that the Friendship Bridge on the Russian–Chinese border at Shiwei, Inner Mongolia, is used by trucks carrying quarried stone, but passenger vehicles are not permitted?
... that industrialist John Mason Loomis, a Union Army colonel in the American Civil War, fought in 57 battles and skirmishes, marching with his men for more than 6,900 mi (11,100 km)?
... that the 6000 mAh battery on the Samsung Galaxy M30s is the largest ever for a Samsung smartphone?
... that director Celia Rowlson-Hall cast herself as a modern version of the Virgin Mary in her first feature film?
... that the first Serbian feature film, The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe , was considered lost for much of the 20th century and only rediscovered in 2003?
... that Ross T. McIntire was the first Physician to the President to have had a certified medical specialty?
... that John Gibson's design of Nutfield Priory was inspired by the Palace of Westminster?
... that Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender?
... that the opera Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?
... that under the leadership of Liu Shunyao, the Chinese air force began emphasizing the need to fight offensive battles?
... that the warehouse beetle usually develops within about two months, but may enter an active diapause and take two years?
... that Marlion Pickett is the first player since 1926 to win a premiership in his Australian Football League debut?
... that the gut bacteria of Drosophila subobscura can influence its mating behavior?
... that housing expert Patricia Bagot argued with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi over the quality of housing in Libya?
... that Evergreen Hospital Medical Center in Washington had the first MRI machine on the U.S. West Coast?
... that botanist Betty Flint continued research in a voluntary capacity at Lincoln University and Landcare Research until she was 100 years old?