derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Morningside Heights in Manhattan became known as the Academic Acropolis of New York City following the development of colleges such as Columbia University ?
... that the book Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding was inspired by one of the Froebel gifts for kindergarten children?
... that Elzie Odom was the first black postal inspector in Texas, and the first black mayor of Arlington?
... that Ben Lugmore is the second-highest peak on the 15-kilometre (9.3 mi) Mweelrea Horseshoe, which has been described as one of Ireland's "top three" mountain walks?
... that the deaths of the leading Muslim commanders in Syria from the plague of Amwas in 639 paved the way for the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate?
... that "Seht, er lebt" (Look, he lives) is a German Easter hymn by Lothar Zenetti sung to a traditional melody from Israel?
... that Julia Azari has shown that U.S. presidents increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a political mandate?
... that Australian racing driver Mark Webber was given an impromptu podium ceremony for finishing fifth at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix?
... that Irish Hawaiian James Washington Lonoikauoalii McGuire designed the peacock feathered dress worn by Queen Kapiʻolani at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887?
... that the history of the Wales national football team includes the first substitution ever used in international football?
... that older adherents of the Hindu sect Ramnami Samaj have the word "Ram" tattooed over their entire bodies?
... that when three deaths occurred at Elmhurst Hospital Center in 1978 and prompted a homicide investigation, the cause was found to be a shortage of nurses and beds?
... that Chinese women's rights activist Shen Zijiu spent some four years as a fugitive?
... that a Suara journalist was partially blinded while covering the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests?
... that John Oliver purchased the erotic furry watercolor Stay Up Late for $1,000, plus a $20,000 donation to a food bank?
... that a line of stone monuments marks the limit of the German advance on the Western Front in 1918?
... that in 1966, Baylor University student John Westbrook was the first African American athlete to play a game in the Southwest Conference of American football?
... that until the end of the 19th century, the Palazzolo hill in Rome was for the Romans synonymous with "madhouse"?
... that Addison E. Southard attended the coronation of Haile Selassie, served as a witness to the wedding of Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa, and was captured by the Japanese during World War II?
... that Nepali director Nischal Basnet based Loot's lead character on himself?
... that the Holden Block is the best-preserved example of Italianate architecture in Chicago's Near West Side?
... that as executor to the estate of Sir Sidney Herbert, one of Sir George Sidney Herbert's tasks was to ensure a locked tin box was "destroyed unopened by cremating"?
... that Charlton Miner Lewis was a lawyer before becoming an English professor at Yale, and the first judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets?
... that the scale insect Saissetia coffeae attacks many other plants besides coffee?
... that in 2001, sixteen-year-old Alina Lebedeva struck Prince Charles of the United Kingdom in the face with three red carnations?
... that after the Battle of Prairie Grove, the bodies of dead soldiers had to be protected in homemade enclosures to prevent feral hogs from eating them?
... that Egypt's Deputy Minister of Culture Mohsen Shaalan was imprisoned for a year in connection with the unsolved theft of Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers?
... that the spinosaurid dinosaur Ichthyovenator had two sails on its back?
... that Naiguatá was recently sunk in a skirmish with the RCGS Resolute?
... that Canadian ice hockey manager Tubby Schmalz reportedly sheltered visiting teams in his hotel during inclement weather?
... that the Northern line, which already served the southernmost station on the London Underground, was proposed to be extended southward to North Cheam in 1946?
... that Making a New World, a concept album by Field Music about the after-effects of World War I, originated from a commission by the Imperial War Museum?
... that after not having played Australian rules football competitively since she was 13, Erin Phillips won the inaugural AFL Women's best and fairest award in 2017 in her first season back at age 31?
... that angels seen radiating outward on an experimental radar led to the discovery of a curious flocking behavior of starlings?
... that when the Ansbach Tests pitted attack and scout helicopters against tanks, the outcome was so lopsided that some claimed the era of the primacy of the tank was over?
... that Northern Dancer was the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby, setting a new track record of two minutes flat?
... that a documentary and a board game have been made about the New York City Subway's 14th Street Tunnel shutdown?
... that Nepali actress Swastima Khadka holds a three-year diploma in architectural engineering?
... that UCLA basketball player Natalie Chou said that the use of a slang term for COVID-19 created "unnecessary xenophobia for people who look like me"?
... that the construction of Gappo Park in Aomori, Japan, led to the death of its designer in 1885?
... that catalog showroom retailer Luria's hired former Cuban diplomats in the 1960s due to their knowledge of china and silverware?
... that surgical masks provide effective protection against diseases spread by respiratory droplets , but not those spread by airborne transmission?
... that Lin-Manuel Miranda saw "hip-hop songs rising off the page" when he read Ron Chernow's book Alexander Hamilton?
... that the design of the Japanese–Italian fusion restaurant Kissa Tanto was inspired by Hotel Okura Tokyo, Italian architect Gio Ponti, and covers designed by John Gall for Haruki Murakami's novels?
... that the 1988 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, held at the 90,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground, had an attendance of 3,326?
... that the Valley of the Volcanoes in Peru, with its many lava flows and scoria cones, is of interest both to tourists and scientists?
... that Awkwafina is the first woman of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a film?
... that the secret police of several German-speaking nations exchanged intelligence with each other through the Police Union of German States from 1848 to 1866?
... that Earl Dodge held a presidential nominating convention in his home with as few as eight delegates in attendance?
... that Ernest Renan abandoned his excavations of Umm al-Amad in Lebanon when he found that the ruins were only about two thousand years old?
... that the Slovak authorities suspended restitution to Holocaust survivors after the Partisan Congress riots, as many partisans were unhappy at returning property to its original Jewish owners?
... that early drafts of the television drama "CasualtyXHolby" included a vehicle striking an electrical substation to cause a blackout, before a cyberattack was substituted instead?
... that at New Albion, the Coast Miwok people honored Sir Francis Drake as if he were being proclaimed king?
... that NASA Astronaut Group 7 consisted of seven pilots who transferred to NASA from the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory spy-satellite program?
... that British police officer Suzette Davenport was responsible for crime in Staffordshire and intelligence in the West Midlands?
... that after twelve medical schools rejected her applications, partly because of her gender, U.S. congresswoman Patsy Mink became a lawyer instead?
... that Elie Wiesel's 1966 non-fiction book The Jews of Silence was based on his journey to the Soviet Union during the High Holidays of 1965 to report on the condition of Soviet Jewry in the post-Stalin era?
... that Sabine Lake initially marked the border between French Louisiana and Spanish Texas, then the United States and the Republic of Texas, and now the U.S. states of Louisiana and Texas?
... that four elevator accidents occurred in 150 Nassau Street in Manhattan within two years of its opening?
... that Edwin Arlington Robinson's 1897 poem "Reuben Bright", considered good teaching material for English classes, featured a "cow-killer converted" in a realistic, vernacular narrative?
... that neuroscientist J. David Jentsch's car was firebombed by animal-rights activists?
... that the first film entirely in American Sign Language was a 1975 vampire movie called Deafula?
... that the Ault Pottery is best known for making designs by Christopher Dresser , some using second-hand moulds?
... that Charlotte Figi, a child who used cannabidiol to treat seizures caused by Dravet syndrome, had a medical cannabis strain named after her?
... that a wall and a statue of Mary that survived the World War II bombing of St. Kolumba in Cologne have been incorporated into a chapel within the Kolumba art museum?
... that KILO's broadcast license allowed the University of North Dakota to get out of the commercial broadcasting business?
... that the New South Wales Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse seemed to have been absent when Governor William Bligh was arrested during the Rum Rebellion?
... that film director Fred Olen Ray made The Brain Leeches for $298.00?
... that populations of the slender Scotch burnet , a European moth that lives in dry, lime-rich areas, have been declining?
... that Norman K. Brown has worked on every United States Census from 1960 to 2020?
... that Carlos Celdran criticized the 2017 redevelopment of Plaza Moriones in old Manila for having "paved over his heart"?
... that a 1912 case in a Colorado district court yielded the first legal victory against educational segregation in the United States, although it was quickly forgotten afterwards?
... that South African MP Makoti Khawula insists on speaking and being addressed in isiZulu and isiXhosa while in parliament?
... that Habsburg-era Austria's internal security office, the Secret State Police, was established in 1786 with a staff of just three?
... that marshland around the Flushing River, considered "all but worthless", was later expanded into a park used for two world's fairs?
... that when a spectator tried to help Australia's first Olympian Edwin Flack after he collapsed during the 1896 marathon event, the athlete punched him to the ground?
... that the Duke of Edinburgh has been Admiral of the House of Lords Yacht Club since 1952?
... that Dreeg is a card game played with German-suited cards that is described as "a special Franconian form of Sixty-Six"?
... that the song of the Madagascan hoopoe differs markedly from that of the African hoopoe?
... that John R. Davis Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Poland, was known to host leaders of the banned trade union Solidarity at his home?
... that Lingua Ignota's 2019 album Caligula has been described as "a murderous amalgam of opera, metal, and noise"?
... that the company that built Six Pillars House also constructed Highpoint I, and the penguin enclosure at London Zoo?
... that eight-year-old Nigerian refugee Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York state chess championship while his family was living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan?
... that A. H. M. Jones called his assistant J. R. Martindale's contributions to the Prosopography a "worthy contender for the thirteenth labour of Hercules"?
... that Emilie Widemann Macfarlane was the first president of the women's branch of Hui Aloha ʻĀina, which was formed in opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893?
... that most branchiobdellids use crayfish as hosts, living on their heads, carapaces, or claws, but in some instances inside their gill cavities?
... that the Toronto-based Human Computing Resources was a pioneer in the commercialization of the Unix operating system?
... that according to the 2019 documentary Toxic Beauty, thousands of carcinogenic and hormone-disrupting chemicals are used in cosmetic products in the U.S. without adequate government regulation?
... that Swiss World War II spy Otto Pünter used crosswords and lemon juice as means of encryption?
... that Renate Brümmer and Heike Walpot were the only two women originally selected for the German astronaut team, but neither has gone to space?
... that fan-recorded footage of a live DJ set revealed the existence of 100 Gecs' song "Ringtone (Remix)" a month prior to its release?
... that cloth face masks were routinely used by surgeons before being replaced by modern surgical masks in the 1960s?
... that St Augustine's Church, Wrangthorn, raised money for a stained-glass window in 1934, but ended up spending it on a church hall instead?
... that A Case of Spring Fever, a film in which springs disappear, was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons?
... that the Vietnam mouse-deer, which had been feared to have gone extinct nearly 30 years ago, was sighted again in 2019?
... that the Potter Building in Manhattan replaced a structure that "made itself notorious the country over for burning up in the shortest time on record"?
... that Florence Boot introduced the sale of books, stationery, and perfume at the pharmacy chain Boots?
... that the writer of the hymn "Angel Voices, Ever Singing" banned it from being published with a tune composed by Arthur Sullivan?
... that after spending World War II in the Philippines, Flora Arca Mata returned to Stockton to become California's first Filipino-American teacher?
... that the 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia was justified by blaming them for a recent territorial concession to Hungary?
... that while commanding one of the last Confederate units north of the Potomac River during the retreat from Gettysburg, J. Johnston Pettigrew was mortally wounded but refused to be left in Union hands?
... that both members of the French musical duo Les Frangines learned to play the guitar by watching online video lessons?
... that Hammersmith Town Hall in London, designed by Ernest Berry Webber, was called an "unfortunate building" by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner?
... that an estimated 3 million women and children in the United States were wearing clothing made from feed sacks at any given time during World War II?
... that racing driver Justin Wilson entered the 2003 Formula One World Championship through an investment programme listed on the London Stock Exchange?
... that the Romans besieged Lilybaeum for nine years without capturing the Carthaginian city?
... that the Prohibition Party considered Horace Greeley for the presidential nomination at its first national convention, but rejected him because he was not supportive enough of women's suffrage?
... that India developed nuclear power when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was prime minister?
... that Richard Curzon inherited Kedleston Hall and a recently created peerage from his Uncle George?
... that in the song "LA Monster", Kanye West claims that Los Angeles lets Satan run the city's streets?
... that Anatoliy Mokrenko, a baritone and future director of the Ukrainian National Opera, performed in a Russian film based on Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor?
... that the saint to whom the church of San Filippo Neri in Via Giulia in Rome was originally dedicated was the patron of people with gout?
... that Neil Malhotra found evidence that voters reward incumbents for disaster-relief spending, but not for disaster-preparedness spending?
... that Tetraponera penzigi is one of several species of ant that protect whistling thorn trees in East Africa from grazing giraffes and rhinoceroses?
... that Hawaiian chieftess Haʻaheo Kaniu converted to Christianity and attended classes taught by American missionaries?
... that according to legend, the 6th-century Irish monk Brendan spent days fasting on Mount Brandon before voyaging across the Atlantic to discover Saint Brendan's Island?
... that the distinctive style of the drum majors of HBCU bands, such as those of Jackson State University , was inspired by performers in minstrel parades?
... that actress Cecilia Suárez first met director Manolo Caro when he was 14, and would later go on to star in almost all of his films?
... that having served as acting governor for five Indonesian provinces, Eddy Sabara was known as the "acting governor specialist"?
... that to win It's a Crime, a play-by-mail game, players had to first succeed as a gang leader before rising to mob boss level, and achieve victory as "Godfather"?
... that the Buddhist disciple Śāriputra made a pact with his friend Maudgalyayana that they would tell each other if one of them found the path to nirvana?
... that the 2013 album Group Therapy by Sivion features 26 guest artists?
... that the marriage bed of Henry VII, valued at £20 million, lay dismantled for a while in a hotel car park?
... that the fashionable hula master ʻIoane ʻŪkēkē was mistaken for a prince in his prime but ended his days blind and begging for money on the streets of Honolulu?
... that a finishing gap of 0.002 seconds at the 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history since the introduction of electronic scoring in 1993?
... that the modern legacy of South Wales colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole is his Victorian mansion Insole Court at Llandaff, Wales?
... that sympathetic accounts of Norway's first Christian kings include descriptions of them committing gruesome torture against pagans, but non-sympathetic accounts do not?
... that the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has used the popularity of 2020 Netflix documentary Tiger King to help investigate the 1997 disappearance of Don Lewis?
... that the video game Xenon 2: Megablast was named after its theme music, "Megablast (Hip Hop on Precinct 13)" by Bomb the Bass?
... that businesswoman Jayne Spain hired one physically handicapped individual in every ten employees she chose?
... that after performing at a squatted slaughterhouse in 1976, Leonard Cohen called it the "best place in Vienna"?
... that Charli XCX, while under self-isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, is collaborating with her fans to record her album How I'm Feeling Now?
... that Chicano labor and civil rights activist Pancho Medrano started out as a boxer?
... that the pursuit of new ceramic glaze effects led to some pieces of art pottery still being slightly radioactive today, nearly a century later?
... that the 1951 short film A Wonderful Life, starring James Dunn, was an adaptation of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life for the Christian film industry?
... that Mahatma Gandhi championed the concept of composite nationalism, which led to a massive expansion of the Indian independence movement?
... that the Art Nouveau ceramicist Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat invented a red glaze known as "Rouge Dalpayrat" ?
... that the melt-blowing technology used to create N95 respirators was previously used to produce ready-made ribbon bows and bra cups?
... that Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar said: "The word and seal of Mir Jumla III are the word and seal of Farrukhsiyar"?
... that a temporary period of snowfall was added to Red Dead Online to celebrate Christmas in 2019?
... that Sallyanne Payton, Stanford Law School's first African-American graduate, served as an adviser for the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force?
... that coconut mites can be dispersed by wind, or perhaps by hitching a lift?
... that 15th-century documents from the Notarial Archives of Malta were almost thrown away in 2008?
... that Captain Tom, who turns 100 today, has raised more than £32 million for NHS Charities Together by walking laps of his garden?
... that the combination of fernet and cola is so popular in Argentina that the country consumes more than 75 percent of all fernet produced globally?
... that Ryan T. Anderson wrote an anti-transgender book that topped the Amazon bestsellers list in the Gay & Lesbian Civil Rights History category?
... that Elizabeth I is said to have been told of her accession whilst sitting beneath Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Hatfield Palace?
... that in 1952, the U.S. State Department Panel of Consultants on Disarmament recommended that the first test of the hydrogen bomb not be held?
... that Bandana Nepal achieved the Guinness World Record for "longest dance marathon by an individual" by dancing for 126 hours continuously?
... that Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul was the largest seismic base-isolated building in the world at the time of its opening?
... that Hollywood stuntwoman Lila Finn, who "jumped out of bombers, [was] chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies?
... that a 1978 coup d'état attempt sought to remove Somali president Siad Barre , who himself had come to power in a coup a decade earlier?
... that Bobby Diamond turned down the role of second son Robbie on My Three Sons, which ran for twelve seasons, in favor of Westinghouse Playhouse, which lasted only one?
... that Storkyrkan, Stockholm's oldest church, was the first church in Sweden where Mass was celebrated in Swedish?
... that the 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) lost six colorbearers at the Battle of Champion Hill?
... that Nora Ephron was the first writer to use the word "shit" in Esquire, in her 1972 essay "A Few Words About Breasts"?
... that Lieutenant-General Sir David Lindsay feared being made a scapegoat for the poor state of defences at Plymouth during the Armada of 1779?
... that Luigi Gregori used University of Notre Dame founder Edward Sorin as the model for Christopher Columbus's face in one of his Columbus murals?
... that Vancouver restaurant St. Lawrence playfully references Quebecois cultural icons by serving tourtière with a miniature Montreal Canadiens flag , and oreilles de crisse in a maple syrup can?
... that North Carolina Courage teammates Ryan Williams and Cari Roccaro made training videos for other teammates to follow during socially distanced training?
... that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many ethnic slurs, including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"?
... that during a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union, Indian politician Shashi Tharoor claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?
... that a model featured in the game Cover Girl Strip Poker said that she was not informed what the photoshoot was for, and that several models were not paid for their involvement in the game?
... that Mark Ibn Kunbar was excommunicated by two Coptic popes and one Monophysite patriarch in the 12th century?
... that Jimmy and Sally, a 1933 film written for the popular screen duo of James Dunn and Sally Eilers, ended up creating a new screen duo of Dunn and Claire Trevor?
... that Rangers fans at the 2000 Scottish Cup Final wore orange shirts in tribute to their Dutch manager and players, despite suggestions of Protestant undertones?
... that the title of Got7's 2020 EP Dye is a pun referring to both colour and death as they relate to "eternal love"?
... that William Carney is the only registered member of the Conservative Party of New York State to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives?
... that the 13th-century St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church in Chichester, which was bombed during the Second World War, is now an arts centre?
... that Lewis (first name unknown) pitched in his only Players' League game in 1890 and gave up 20 runs?
... that Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale, claimed that John Singer Sargent's portrait Lord Ribblesdale "forced greatness upon me"?
... that "There is a green hill far away" was described by French composer Charles Gounod as "the most perfect hymn in the English language"?
... that Danielle Lessovitz found respite in New York's ball culture after her father's suicide, later setting her first feature film, Port Authority, within it?
... that the fire of Landis' Missouri Battery helped clear the way for an infantry charge at the Second Battle of Corinth?
... that rapper Big Zuu's first demos were recorded at a studio that did not allow expletives to be used?
... that Microsoft head Bill Gates giving a keynote address at the Unix Expo was likened to going "into the belly of the beast", and when a demo he was overseeing crashed, the attendees were delighted?