derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that U.S. law enforcement used chemical irritants to disperse a peaceful George Floyd protest in Washington, D.C., shortly before President Donald Trump's photo op at St. John's Church?
... that the Büyük Valide Han, a 17th-century caravanserai in Istanbul, was one of the locations used for a motorcycle chase scene in the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall?
... that after meeting Pueblo Indians during his World War II service, Burton Benedict switched his focus at Harvard University from ornithology to anthropology?
... that more men died while serving in the 16th Missouri Infantry Regiment than any other Missouri unit of the Confederate States Army?
... that neurologist Frank Clifford Rose believed that any alcohol might cause a headache, but that red wine could trigger a migraine?
... that the Star Stations radio group was the subject of the largest denial of license renewals in the history of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission?
... that the Nizari (Assassin) garrison of Gerdkuh resisted the siege of Mongol invaders for 13 more years after the surrender of their leaders?
... that the Jonas Brothers' song "Cool" has several popular culture references in its lyrics, including Post Malone, Game of Thrones, and 1950s actor James Dean?
... that Boneybefore in Northern Ireland contains the ancestral home of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson?
... that the first expulsion from the National Assembly of Guyana took place in 1991, when MP Isahak Basir threw a glass of water at the speaker in protest against one of his decisions?
... that, unusual for a Sikh place of worship, Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib in India was influenced by Islamic architecture?
... that as health minister of Indonesia, Johannes Leimena focused on preventive care in rural regions, contrasting with prior colonial policy?
... that despite owning it, the city of Athens, Georgia, has to look for a legal loophole to relocate its Confederate monument?
... that Norman Whitten, who played the Mad Hatter in the 1903 film Alice in Wonderland, later married May Clark, who played Alice?
... that Gwen Stefani's song "Hollaback Girl" was the first single ever to sell more digital downloads than CDs?
... that the book The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 has been praised for bridging widely different views of the Polish resistance found in Jewish and Polish historiographies?
... that a tiny Tasmanian island called the Isle of the Dead is home to one of the few preserved convict-period burial grounds?
... that fans were asked to return their copies of The Lot, a 2013 compilation album by Queen drummer Roger Taylor, due to audio and typographical errors?
... that film producer Sue Bruce-Smith was credited with the success of Oscar-winning films including 12 Years a Slave, The Favourite, Room, and Slumdog Millionaire?
... that every employee who remained with Mojang Studios for six months after its acquisition by Microsoft received a bonus of roughly $300,000?
... that during the Siege of Vicksburg, the former commander of the 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment stated that the regiment "died once, and can die again"?
... that some of Dungiven Celtic F.C.'s players play association football and Gaelic football concurrently?
... that Asa Binns was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, but died before he could take office?
... that the Pepsi Number Fever draw in May 1992 was supposed to have just two 1-million-peso winners, but 486,170 people made claims for a winning bottle cap?
... that Patrick Stewart invented "photo negative" casting in order to play Othello when it had become no longer acceptable to perform the role in blackface?
... that the Newland Oak in Gloucestershire took "200 years to grow, 200 years to exist, and 200 to die"?
... that St Luke's burial ground, on the south side of London's Cale Street, once had a 9-foot-high (2.7 m) wall and railings to protect against grave robbers?
... that MkLeo, regarded as the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in the world, won his first tournament at the age of eight?
... that a mine was detonated under the position of part of the 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) on July 1, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg?
... that Ng On-yee defeated Reanne Evans, the champion for the ten previous years, on her way to win the 2015 World Ladies Snooker Championship?
... that after a show host on Orlando-area radio station WTLN hired a hitman to kill his former lover's husband, the intended victim began a campaign to urge advertisers to boycott the station?
... that the second commander of the 3rd Missouri Light Battery was elected by the men of the battery after the original commander was transferred away from the unit?
... that Pakistani model Zara Abid, who made her film debut in the upcoming biopic Chaudhry, died in the crash of PIA Flight 8303?
... that a pedestrianized block of Pine Street in Seattle was re-opened to vehicles after a citywide ballot measure?
... that Dawn Aponte became the highest-ranked woman in NFL football operations when she was appointed chief administrator in June 2017?
... that streetcars on the Ipswich Street line ran on both Boylston Street and Boylston Street?
... that explorer Matsuura Takeshirō wanted his one-mat room to be cremated along with him?
... that niacin is not only a vitamin, but also the first cholesterol-lowering drug, pre-dating statins by decades?
... that the rosy spindle cowry, a species of sea snail, lives exclusively on gorgonians?
... that to guide the direction of Star Control 3, Legend Entertainment compiled a "bible" based on the series, and consulted its original creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche?
... that the Gujarat Communist Party head Dinkar Mehta escaped from jail in 1949 and remained underground until 1951?
... that a business-firm party is a political party created and run by one person to further their own interests?
... that most of the windows of the Ford Foundation Building in Manhattan could not be cleaned for two years because a New York state board would not allow it?
... that when New York City's St. Paul Building was demolished, part of the facade was preserved in Indianapolis?
... that in 2018, Guyanese politician Charrandas Persaud voted against his own government coalition in a no-confidence motion, causing the coalition to fall by one vote?
... that two Northumbrian kings, Ælla and Osberht, were killed by Vikings in 867 at the Battle of York?
... that American naturalist William Harvey Brown, who went to Africa to collect specimens, ended up fighting in two wars there?
... that the lyrics of BTS's song "DNA" compare love to a mathematical formula and divine providence?
... that Chopin's mother was his first music teacher, but his musical ability surpassed hers before he was seven?
... that an Iron Age bull statue known as the verraco of the bridge was thrown into the Tormes river in 1834, and stayed there for more than 30 years?
... that after passing a literacy examination at the age of 96, Karthyayani Amma said: "I learned so much for no reason. The tests were way too easy for me"?
... that Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III by Rembrandt has been stolen four times from the same place?
... that India's first metro, the Kolkata Metro, was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?
... that as a medical missionary, pediatrician Ruth Robertson Berrey helped reduce Nigeria's incidence of leprosy?
... that Henry Seamount was hydrothermally active in the last 4,000 years even though it is 126 million years old?
... that the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, which starts today, was created to allow English domestic women's cricket to be played in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that some of the men of Ruffner's Missouri Battery were executed by Union forces after being captured at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry?
... that fossils identified as Pentacentron sternhartae may actually be the fruits of another fossil species?
... that journalist Jacques Beauchamp said that he tried to build the Philadelphia Journal "on happiness, on smiles"?
... that the Corbin Building was one of several "smaller infill buildings" in New York City that "experiment[ed] with new forms and unusual compositions" during the late 19th century?
... that with Flight Pattern, Crystal Pite became the first woman to choreograph for the Royal Ballet's main stage in 18 years?
... that 21-year-old university student and pro-democracy activist Jordan Pang defeated an incumbent pro-Beijing politician in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections?
... that the publisher of Redshirt suggested adding a sci-fi theme when the social-media simulation game was initially pitched?
... that a hostile review of Uncle Tom's Cabin likened the book to a witch from Horace's Epodes?
... that journalist Francis Rosa traveled with the Boston Bruins and "became one of the family"?
... that under India's new education policy, students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?
... that Cuban exile Orlando Bosch was arrested in 1964 after he was found towing a torpedo through rush-hour traffic?
... that in July 2020 the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston, the People's Republic of China's first consulate in the United States, was given just 72 hours to close down?
... that Soegondo Djojopoespito was banned from teaching after he joined the Indonesian Nationalist Education organization?
... that Deep Purple called their new album Whoosh! because of its onomatopoeic qualities?
... that Drew Perkins served as the majority leader, vice president, and president of the Wyoming Senate?
... that Farrah Fawcett's iconic 1976 red swimsuit poster, regarded as the best-selling poster, is exhibited in the Smithsonian together with the swimsuit?
... that Kirkandrews in Dumfries and Galloway used to host an annual fair, dedicated to St Lawrence, that a 17th-century minister complained was full of drink, debauchery, and "great lewdness"?
... that as a minister of the Polish government-in-exile during World War II, Stanisław Kot composed the first Polish public statement about the Katyn massacre?
... that the American Surety Building, built at a time when skyscrapers were generally criticized, has been called an "outstandingly fine early skyscraper"?
... that Arab cryptologist Ibn 'Adlan wrote about the cryptanalysis of ciphers with no space symbol, three centuries before it was first done in the West by G. B. Porta?
... that in a 1949 war plan, the United States targeted 70 Soviet cities with 133 nuclear weapons, of which eight would be dropped on Moscow and seven on Leningrad?
... that two stanzas from the hymn "O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht", written by Johann Heermann during the Thirty Years' War, were used in Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus?
... that although registered nurses in Hong Kong are legally required to undergo only three years of training, bachelor's degrees in nursing are five years in length?
... that Kanye West recorded part of a track from Jesus Is King as a Voice Memo on his iPhone?
... that the restaurateur who developed yangnyeom chicken created the dish after analyzing his customers' leftovers?
... that the title of the romantic comedy film Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven mentions the three places that had the biggest box-office appeal in the 1940s?
... that Greek-Turkish singer Eftalya Işılay earned her nickname "Efthalia the Mermaid" for singing on a rowboat in the Bosphorus during full-moon nights in summer?
... that Bledsoe's Missouri Battery was the only artillery battery of the Confederate States Army present at the Battle of Raymond?
... that the web series Avrodh: The Siege Within meticulously details the planning for India's retaliatory military strike following the 2016 Uri terrorist attacks?
... that Lady Red Couture, known as "the largest live-singing drag queen", stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) in heels?
... that the Kreuzkapelle above Bad Camberg, a pilgrimage chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross, has a floor plan of a Greek cross?
... that American abolitionist Margaret Mercer freed the slaves she inherited from her father, Maryland governor John Francis Mercer, and sent six of them to Liberia?
... that while in many countries the government cannot finance its deficit by creating new money, it may still borrow from the central bank, which can?
... that Belva Cottier proposed and took part in the first occupation of Alcatraz in 1964 to claim the island for the Sioux?
... that the Żegota Monument in Warsaw was unveiled by Władysław Bartoszewski, the last surviving member of Żegota, an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews during the Holocaust?
... that Julián Podoba's research on iodine deficiency led to the introduction of iodised salt and the disappearance of cretinism in Slovakia?
... that the fossil sumac Rhus boothillensis is named for a public fossil digging site in Republic, Washington?
... that Mandeep Dhillon was offered a role by Ricky Gervais after telling him that she was scared by his character?
... that in 2021, the dwarf periodical cicada is due to emerge in parts of eastern North America, not having been seen for 17 years?
... that Franz-Peter Weixler was arrested for sharing uncensored pictures of the Massacre of Kondomari in Crete, the originals of which were later burned in Berlin?
... that in 1990, Mantu Ghosh became India's youngest national table tennis champion at age 16?
... that cellist Ludwig Hoelscher, who played string quartets at home at age nine, performed world premieres of more than 50 compositions?
... that Lieutenant Colonel Min Sein was the first Burmese dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Rangoon University?
... that conte, a literary genre which includes fairy tales and philosophical stories, became merged with the short story in the 1800s?
... that Led Zeppelin may have played at the Wheaton Youth Center in Maryland, but no one knows for sure?
... that in a 2020 speech, U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo said that Hollywood self-censors when it comes to China?
... that the Indian folktronic duo Hari & Sukhmani combine traditional Punjabi folk music and Sufi poetry with electronic music?
... that despite a law against public statues of Francisco Franco, there is one in Melilla because it depicts him before the Spanish Civil War?
... that radio station WCCT-FM was started by the hotel and business management shop of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Massachusetts?
... that Jeanne Givens was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives?
... that Cuban historian Eusebio Leal preferred to identify himself as a "Fidelist" rather than a Marxist?
... that Symbolon, composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, was the first piece of American orchestral music to be premiered in the Soviet Union?
... that in the early 20th century near Kirkandrews in Scotland, a herd of twelve cows lived in their own palace?
... that until a distinct white ensign was adopted in 1968, Royal New Zealand Navy vessels at sea might have been indistinguishable from British vessels?
... that the Cabinet of Folksongs, which contains all the Latvian folksongs collected by Krišjānis Barons, was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register?
... that the headmistress of the progressive school St Trinnean's was heartbroken by its satirical parody?
... that the Duke of Tuscany allied with Ali Janbulad, the Kurdish chief and rebel governor of Aleppo, to destroy the Ottoman Empire and establish Ali as "Prince of the Kingdom of Syria"?
... that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner's body was turned into "medicinal" grease?
... that Bernard Ładysz, a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's music in Hamburg and in Salzburg, was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas?
... that according to the game's best player, you can make more money working at McDonald's than by winning major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments?
... that the Park Avenue Viaduct , designed to take traffic around New York City's Grand Central Terminal, caused gridlock soon after opening?
... that Maria Ovsiankina studied the Zeigarnik effect of how people remember unfinished tasks more than completed ones, and described the Ovsiankina effect of how likely they are to resume those tasks?
... that an industry observer noted that Perkin-Elmer's Micralign aligner "literally made the modern [integrated circuit] industry"?
... that future Bolivian president Evo Morales was present at the 1988 Villa Tunari Massacre, in which nine to twelve protesting coca growers were killed?
... that after Berry Boswell Brooks took his 14-year-old daughter hunting in Kenya in 1947, it was featured in Life magazine?
... that a former owner of Atlanta-area radio station WIGO took its name from Isaiah 40:31?
... that, despite a history as a reserve Gaelic football goalkeeper, Paul Callaghan played in association football matches against English clubs Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United?
... that a "pickle train" delivered workers to the Budlong Pickle Company in the early 20th century?
... that when Georgia was given Rhodes Hall as a state archives building, the donor asked that it always be occupied, so state historian Ruth Blair moved into the house herself?
... that the upcoming sixth Puerto Rican status referendum will be the first to ask a single yes-or-no question?
... that publisher Ken McKenzie promised writers of The Hockey News that "they'll know you all across Canada"?
... that in Billie Eilish's song "Bitches Broken Hearts", she pretends that she no longer needs or cares about her former lover?
... that Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League implemented a playoff system for three seasons that resulted in no playoff series being played?
... that when built, the Broad Exchange Building was described as "a town under a single roof"?
... that the magazine Pulp serialized the manga series Voyeur concurrently with a column by a sex worker to provide an alternate perspective on prostitution?
... that Jarosław Kaczyński, an adviser to the prime minister of Poland, claimed that equality marches are "a real threat to ... the Polish state"?
... that the multi-talented Aonghus McAnally has been a radio producer, television presenter, guitarist, singer, Irish billiards champion, actor, stand-up comedian, and magician?
... that the purchasers of West Virginia radio station WGKV were deemed by the Federal Communications Commission to be "almost wholly ignorant of the field of radio broadcasting"?
... that the Eocene leaf species Tetracentron hopkinsii was not confirmed from Washington state until 2018?
... that Hawona Sullivan Janzen's Rondo Family Reunion uses lawn signs with photographs and poetry to commemorate the historically Black Rondo neighborhood torn apart by the construction of I-94 in Minnesota?
... that St. Stephanus in Bork, a Baroque church built in the 1720s, received a large former wayside cross in the 20th century?
... that Byzantine general Manuel Kamytzes began a rebellion against his emperor when the latter took advantage of his capture to confiscate his fortune, imprison his family, and refuse to ransom him?
... that three 200-year-old Persian Torah scrolls were gifted to the Synagogue of Deal , a Syrian Jewish congregation in New Jersey, at its dedication in 1973?
... that Gunjan Saxena was the first woman Indian Air Force officer to go to war?
... that since the German army did not accept female doctors, Käte Frankenthal served in the Austrian army during World War I, and was the only woman in her barracks?
... that John Lockwood Kipling worked on the capitals and cornices of Bombay's Neo-Gothic Royal Alfred Sailors' Home, now the Maharashtra Police Headquarters?
... that despite having the widest distribution in the United States, the arid-land subterranean termite causes less structural damage than other members of its genus?
... that in the 1570s in Ghent, Hendrik van den Keere pioneered a "narrow, dense and sharp" new style of typeface, later called the Dutch taste?
... that Rheinsberg, a 1912 "picture book for lovers", was promoted by author Kurt Tucholsky and illustrator Kurt Szafranski by offering a free schnaps with each purchase of a copy?
... that the Native American Osage Battalion was one of the last Confederate units to surrender during the American Civil War?
... that a 1902 magazine article called Helene Odilon "currently the greatest actress in Germany"?
... that in Siddhantasara, Manilal Dwivedi refutes the idea of the Genesis creation narrative as told in the Old Testament?
... that a resolution proposed by Bob Dearing calling for CBS not to cancel The Mississippi was unanimously passed by the Mississippi Legislature?
... that Yin May, the first Burmese obstetrician, founded and ran the country's main maternity hospital during the Japanese occupation of Burma?
... that the royal palace complex of Moulay Ismail in Meknes was so extensive that it was nicknamed the "Moroccan Versailles"?
... that linguist Esther T. Mookini translated many works of 19th-century native Hawaiians, including the 1838 Anatomia, the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language?
... that the Yeoman Warders Club might be the most exclusive pub in the world, with only 37 members?
... that there are plans to reconstruct Villa Wolf in Gubin, Poland, which was built in 1926 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and destroyed during World War II?
... that in 1983, Fanaura Kingstone became the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Cook Islands?
... that the Tayway 73 between Dundee and Arbroath is the only UK bus route outside London to retain conductors?
... that analytical chemist N. Howell Furman was part of a secret team of Princeton scientists – including John Archibald Wheeler – who "disappeared to Shangri-La" to work on the atomic bomb?
... that Elks Lodge 878, which boasted a peak membership of 6,600, controlled politics in the New York City borough of Queens for many years?
... that Andrew Niikondo, acting vice-chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology, completed his secondary school education only at age 30?
... that the all-woman announcing staff of Spokane, Washington, radio station KPEG all used the first name Peg on air?
... that five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia asked US president Barack Obama if his "hair is like mine"?
... that Saint Blaesilla has been described as the first recorded victim of anorexia nervosa?
... that scientists are studying an underwater sinkhole off the Florida coast named the Green Banana Hole?
... that Mooky Greidinger, now CEO of Cineworld, began in the cinema industry by working for his father as an usher?
... that one of the survivors of the Battle of Fakhkh, Idris ibn Abdallah, went on to establish his own dynasty in Morocco?
... that the title of Ava Max's song "Sweet but Psycho" was inspired by her parents telling her "you're sweet, but you're a little psycho" when she was younger?
... that Stonegate , a street in York, is "narrow, quite long, and with a variety of good things"?
... that South African refugee Jerry Masslo was granted a state funeral after his murder in Italy in 1989?
... that the flag of Raleigh, North Carolina, was designed to be given to USS Raleigh, yet no records exist of the ship ever receiving it?
... that Mary Clarke raised eight children and managed an estate whilst corresponding by letter with philosopher John Locke?
... that indie rock band Walk the Moon worked with AT&T and the Deaf Professional Arts Network to create an American Sign Language video for "Different Colors"?
... that Canadian dentist Frank Sandercock founded a hockey organization for Calgary, which had no local leagues before he arrived in 1913?
... that R. Luke Concanen, the first Roman Catholic bishop of New York, died before he could set foot in New York?
... that the forward-facing incisors of the extinct dolphin Ankylorhiza may have been used for ramming their prey, similar to a hunting method used by modern orcas?
... that the comic opera Scalia v. Ginsburg is based on the friendship of the two U.S. Supreme Court justices and their shared love of opera?
... that in the 1700s, Helen Hope turned a Scottish moor into a wood and named it after her eldest son?