derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in medieval Tutbury, Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull that, if caught, could be eaten or exchanged for forty pennies?
... that William G. King Jr. explored and surveyed islands where downrange stations were subsequently established as part of the Eastern Test Range?
... that Béla Bartók mixed and matched selections from his Eight Hungarian Folksongs in performance?
... that President Ulysses S. Grant planned but failed to annex the Dominican Republic from his summer cottage?
... that Heuglin's gazelle , reportedly last seen in Eritrea over a century earlier during Italian colonial rule, was sighted again in the country last year?
... that the railings on Santa Cruz de Tenerife's Galcerán Bridge were replaced in 1954 to reduce the number of suicides?
... that Héctor D. Abruña's outreach efforts resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of his Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from Puerto Rico, like Abruña himself?
... that during the Paris Peace Conference, Czechoslovak politicians claimed that their country was tolerant, even as anti-Jewish violence was ongoing?
... that the Portland Streetcar's Loop Service enabled the production of the first U.S.-built streetcars in nearly 60 years?
... that there has been a Galleon inn on the same site as the current Spanish Galleon in Greenwich, England, since the 17th century?
... that the Taungtha, an unrecognized ethnic group of Myanmar, claim descent from the Pyu during the reign of the legendary King Thamoddarit of Pagan?
... that a June 2015 performance of the 1999 Smash Mouth song "All Star" went awry when audience members began throwing loaves of bread onto the stage?
... that five years after the major film studios branded him "unemployable", James Dunn was cast as the dreamy alcoholic father in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and won an Academy Award?
... that New York City's Equitable Building, completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution, was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?
... that Ottilie Baader was one of the founders of the first trade union organization for women in Germany?
... that the opera The Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin took 15 years to be completed and 30 more years to be premiered, debuting at the centenary of a Moscow theatre?
... that the Church of England expected to distribute a few hundred millennium yews, but ended up sending out 8,000?
... that the Hotel Adams, Phoenix's first luxury hotel, burned to the ground in 1910, leaving the territorial governor homeless?
... that Drużbart, named after its second-highest card , was the favourite card game of Polish novelist Count Henryk Rzewuski?
... that more than 3 million people have downloaded the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK and the US?
... that mezzo-soprano Grace Hoffman from Cleveland appeared as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at the Bayreuth Festival in 1957 and 1970?
... that defending champion Francisco Bustamante was reportedly distracted by a press photographer at the 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and lost in a knockout round?
... that despite suffering from vertigo, actor Bob Barrett performed his own stunt on the hospital rooftop in the Holby City episode "Man Down"?
... that the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan houses the Katherine V, believed to be the last intact wooden fishing tug built to harvest the freshwater fish of the Great Lakes?
... that the Old Church of Siġġiewi was used for agricultural purposes until 2007?
... that despite being shortsighted and nearly deaf, Rodger Young saved his platoon from an enemy ambush, for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor?
... that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower was used in its namesake's advertising as "The Light That Never Fails"?
... that the name "Hashub", mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Nehemiah, was found on a piece of pottery contemporary to Nehemiah at the archaeological site of Tel Zeton, Israel?
... that a version of Alexander Calder's hanging mobile Snow Flurry sold for more than $10 million in 2012?
... that during World War II, the Fremantle Fortress protected the second-most important Allied submarine base in the Pacific Theatre?
... that Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger was the only co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music who was a professional musician?
... that cattle and deer sometimes stand under trees where southern plains gray langurs are feeding in order to consume the edible pieces that the monkeys drop?
... that a comedian was jailed for his negative video review of the 2019 Nepali romantic comedy Bir Bikram 2?
... that Yabu Meizan's success as a porcelain artist inspired a rival workshop to sell imitations under his name?
... that the Battle of Mine Creek was one of the largest battles between mounted cavalry during the American Civil War?
... that Roald Dahl became an advocate of vaccination after his eldest daughter died from measles, saying that it was "almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized"?
... that the New York City Subway's 7 train has been nicknamed the "International Express" due to the ethnic diversity of communities on its route?
... that for the centenary of Stravinsky's birth, Zoltán Peskó conducted three of the composer's stage works—The Flood, Renard, and Mavra—directed by Peter Ustinov at La Scala?
... that the book Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? has been described as demonstrating the ability of Kashmiri women to tell their own story and resist oppression?
... that after lying on the seafloor for nearly 100 years, the schooner Alvin Clark was noted as "the finest preserved historic vessel in the United States"?
... that a 2006 German documentary attempted to answer the question "Do communists have better sex?"
... that King Sithu I of Burma founded and donated "boatloads of rubies" to the Thatbyinnyu Temple in Bagan?
... that during World War II, Royal Air Force ace Thomas Wallace lost his commission but nonetheless joined the volunteer reserve, where he downed seven enemy aircraft in three weeks?
... that the historic Modern Art Foundry operates in what used to be the carriage house of the Steinway Mansion in New York City?
... that Lisa Piccirillo solved a half-century-old mathematics problem in less than a week during her free time in graduate school?
... that members of the Infrastructure Client Group account for 40 per cent of all spending on infrastructure in the United Kingdom?
... that food writer Vir Sanghvi called Indigo "one of the most important establishments in Indian restaurant history"?
... that the Alpha Michigan Brewing Company describes its location as the "smallest village in America with a brewery"?
... that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice, "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?
... that German politician and activist Marie Bernays joined a convent and converted to Catholicism in 1933 in response to the rise of Nazism?
... that although the people involved in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery were immediately identified by police, arrests were only made 74 days later, after a video of the incident was publicized?
... that the first mayor of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, lent the city $5 to file its incorporation charter?
... that after an aeroplane hijacking, the Central Industrial Security Force was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?
... that following its limited release in 1972, Cisco Pike was not available on home media until 2006?
... that Yinka Jegede-Ekpe, the first Nigerian woman to go public with her HIV-positive status, later gave birth to a healthy, HIV-negative baby girl?
... that the Equitable Life Building, once described as fireproof, was destroyed by a massive fire?
... that 20-year-old Alejandro Cruz won the 1988 Chicago Marathon after being selected as an emergency replacement for Mauricio González?
... that the American merchant ship Herald served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French privateer, was sold to Britain as a slaver, and ended her days as a West Indiaman?
... that the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness includes an appearance by Aleichem's granddaughter Bel Kaufman, who was 100 years old at the time of filming?
... that Ludwig Strecker was both director of the Schott music publishing house, and under a pen name the librettist of two of the most successful German contemporary operas of the 1930s?
... that the Medford branch had 21 daily round-trip passenger trains in 1906, but carried just a single carload of fish in 2010?
... that only one hydroelectric plant was built on the Jordan River, out of the fourteen planned by Pinhas Rutenberg ?
... that the owner of Texas television station KFWT-TV questioned the use of a UNIVAC III computer to assign it a channel?
... that Ken Nightingall, an uncredited boom operator on Star Wars, was not mentioned in the citation for his sound team's Academy Award, but was still invited to Buckingham Palace with the winners?
... that the railway management building at Ankara Central Station, which served as a residence and headquarters for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Turkish War of Independence, is now a museum?
... that Sophia Kianni was the youngest activist at a hunger strike and sit-in at U.S. speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's office?
... that the Vietnamese pop song "Ghen Cô Vy" was produced to educate people on how to avoid contracting COVID-19?
... that Pakistani amateur chef and vlogger Mubashir Saddique cooks with farm-fresh ingredients, earthenware pots, and a hand-built earthenware oven?
... that Bob Dylan's line "horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees" in "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)" has been called the sound of a man who has hit the wall?
... that "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty", written by future Anglican bishop Reginald Heber , was first published at a time when hymn singing was prohibited in Church of England liturgy?
... that J. Hartwell Harrison was the first surgeon to subject a patient to a major operation that was not for their own benefit?
... that during the 1990s, some British Army infantry battalions suffered such severe manpower shortages that they had to be reinforced by companies of Gurkhas?
... that production on the first season of The House of Flowers was shut down twice—after an earthquake injured one of the leads, and when a store objected to homosexual content being filmed there?
... that sportswriter Zotique Lespérance was not invited to his own induction ceremony by the Hockey Hall of Fame because they had been misinformed that he had died?
... that D'Angelo spent several hours playtesting Red Dead Redemption 2 before being invited to write the song "Unshaken" for its original soundtrack?
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Polish police requested criminals to stop all criminal activities until further notice?
... that the grand marble staircase entrance to Sony Hall was restored in 2013, but painted to appear more dilapidated than it truly was?
... that Joe Davis, champion from 1927 to 1946, remains the only undefeated player at the World Snooker Championship?
... that medical supply company Prestige Ameritech offered to manufacture millions of N95 masks in January, but was rebuffed by the U.S. government?
... that "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem" has been described as the "only medieval resurrection hymn still widely sung"?
... that the 1964 Elektron satellites, launched in pairs to simultaneously measure the upper and lower Van Allen belts, marked the first time multiple satellites were orbited on a single Soviet rocket?
... that Maria Paasche helped Jews and intellectuals escape Nazi Germany by taking them to Prague on her motorcycle?
... that American rapper 6ix9ine requested permission from a judge to record the music video for "Gooba" while under house arrest?
... that Ping Yuen , a public housing complex in San Francisco's Chinatown, has an entrance modeled after that of a temple in Beijing?
... that the 2019 romantic comedy Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi set the record for the highest-grossing opening of a film in Nepal?
... that Frédéric Passy was challenged to a duel over the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize?
... that in 1947, Canadian children staged a nationwide candy bar protest against an increase in the price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents?
... that Ira L. Hanna, the 36th mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, served for only five months before being convicted for bribery?
... that Vonda McIntyre's 1973 short story "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand", which won a Nebula Award, was used as the first chapter of her 1978 novel Dreamsnake, which also won a Nebula Award?
... that Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran's former commerce minister and OPEC governor, once worked as a pizza delivery man in the U.S.?
... that American missionary Laura Fish Judd taught a queen how to make dresses, co-founded the first school for Hawaiian children, and wrote about Hawaiian dining etiquette and cuisine?
... that Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher discovered a song to release while under lockdown, which his brother called "not worth a wank"?
... that Sarah Fisher, the first woman to claim a pole position in American open-wheel racing, began competing at age five?
... that the Canadian film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing was the second production screened at 1987 film festivals to have a title taken from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
... that U.S. president Donald Trump dismissed five inspectors general in the space of six weeks?
... that in 1914, the Oxford historian L. G. Wickham Legg contributed to Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve?
... that the colonial morphology of Staphylococcus species is described as "creamy"?
... that American scholar of genocide Gregory Gordon believes that ordering war crimes or crimes against humanity should be criminalized, even if mass killing has not taken place?
... that the opera Doktor Johannes Faust by Hermann Reutter, which was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in 1936, is based on a puppet play?
... that in the 1970s, Disney attempted to build a ski resort and mountain village at Independence Lake, a glacial lake high in California's Sierra Nevada mountains?
... that Julie Sauvé has coached Canadian, Brazilian, and Singaporean synchronized-swimming teams?
... that McDonald's lost over £20 million in its sale of The Aroma Cafe, the first non-American chain it had acquired to run as a separate brand?
... that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska, whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honored as a Righteous Among the Nations?
... that Heinrich Schütz House in Bad Köstritz, the inn where composer Heinrich Schütz was born, is now a museum and concert venue?
... that Pierre Schlumberger ran the family business, was a "visionary" art collector, and hosted guests including Audrey Hepburn, Yves Saint Laurent, Andy Warhol, and Rudolf Nureyev?
... that The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth was reportedly one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Nigerian Civil War?
... that Tracy R. Norris, the first female commander of the Texas Military Department, has masters degrees from Florida State University, the University of Texas, and the United States Army War College?
... that London subsidized the rest of the UK by £38.6 billion in the 2016–17 fiscal year?
... that J. Leo Hafen was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for being associated with a religious group practicing wife sacrifice?
... that the banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned, and the first clone to survive beyond infancy?
... that Peter the Great experienced "a riotous and revelling Christmas" in London in 1697?
... that in 1940, 40 Wall Street in New York City was worth less than its elevators had cost?
... that Cyrano de Bergerac by Eino Tamberg was the first opera to be broadcast internationally from Estonia?
... that American Atheists unsuccessfully sued the city of Austin, Texas, because they believed the city's flag violated the First Amendment?
... that according to Muslim sources, Muhammad IV of Granada was assassinated due to his alliance with Sultan Abu al-Hasan, while Christian sources say it was due to his closeness to King Alfonso XI?
... that My Name Is Han, a 1948 docudrama about Christian missionary work in China, was filmed on location near a war zone?
... that the installation of a garbage-eating sculpture in Riverfront Park caused an uproar from goat farmers, concerned that it perpetuated the false stereotype that goats eat anything?
... that Airmail , a fresco featuring a barefoot and barechested flying mailman, was commissioned to commemorate one of the first American airmail facilities?
... that 414 Tank Battalion, a mixed Dutch-German military unit, has been described as a step towards a European army?
... that Oakland Athletics fans coined the chant "I believe in Stephen Vogt!", inspired by a similar U.S. men's national soccer team chant?
... that Keep was the most downloaded fitness app in China between July and September 2018, with 38.8 million downloads?
... that the B46 has been called "the most dangerous bus route" in New York City?
... that a monument in Moscow honoring North Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh has been nicknamed the "flying saucer monument" by locals?
... that Julian Wylie, known as the King of Pantomime, "never took to drink, he took to ice-cream"?
... that Florida radio station WEBY received three threats to blow it up if it did not stop criticizing the sheriff of Okaloosa County?
... that the vivid colors of the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds , ranging from magenta to blue-green, come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the water?
... that though formerly a vassal to the Mongol Empire, Eastern Xia was later destroyed by the Mongols because it rebelled against them?
... that visual anthropologist David MacDougall won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his first film, To Live With Herds, about Uganda's Jie people?
... that many of the animals regarded as pests have co-evolved with humans, adapting to the warm, sheltered conditions that a building provides?
... that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls "undeclared wars with Israel"?
... that doctor Carl K. Becker responded to emergency calls in the Ituri Rainforest until the age of 70?
... that after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Admiral José Toribio Merino described ousted President Salvador Allende's GAP security force as "Disney-movie style ... kids playing bandits"?
... that Jagdschloss Kranichstein , a hunting lodge built by the landgraves of Darmstadt, served as a temporary residence for Louis IV and his wife Princess Alice?
... that journalist James Edwin Baum hunted big game in Africa for the Field Museum of Natural History?
... that Nakano Broadway in Tokyo, founded as a luxury shopping complex in 1966, became a destination for anime and manga fans in the 1980s?
... that first overall draft pick Nicolas Roy refused to play in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League unless his rights were traded to a Quebec team?
... that the Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Central Park Five includes a role for Donald Trump?
... that Ipsita Biswas led the team that developed less-lethal plastic bullets for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that TORPEDO, BATMAN, CASANOVA, ATLANTIS, and ISIS are all names of clinical trials?
... that scientists were unsure whether the blue calamintha bee still existed until it was observed again in March 2020?
... that Servaas Theron, a World War II fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away?
... that in 2016, Scientific American listed one of Lynden Archer's discoveries among their top-10 "world changing ideas" for that year?
... that Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to use green corridors to expedite organ transplants?
... that between 1857 and the 1930s, a Russian gun captured during the Crimean War was displayed on the Hastings seafront near Pelham Arcade?
... that the Protestant Film Commission was founded partly in response to the sympathetic portrayal of Catholics in Hollywood films of the 1940s, while Protestants were played for laughs?
... that the world's longest domestic flight, between Papeete, Tahiti, and Paris, France, a distance of 9,765 miles (15,715 km), came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the Lincoln Legion of Lesbians, a lesbian separatist collective in Nebraska, tried to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in 1980?
... that Javier Bardem is the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award, which he won for his performance in No Country for Old Men?
... that despite being a member of the cat family, the jaguarundi has several features in common with mustelids such as otters and weasels?
... that American tenor Scot Weir sang Hans Zender's contemporary version of Schubert's Die Winterreise with chamber orchestra in a performance of the Hamburg Ballet?
... that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality?
... that the Cork band Five Go Down to the Sea? are widely credited for the often quirky and deadpan approach of Cork bands that followed in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s?
... that the day before a gas explosion on Staten Island killed 40 people, company officials described residents as "hysterical" for raising concerns about storing gas near residential areas?
... that after 250 years of production, the Rouen faience industry was greatly reduced in the 1790s by competition from English creamware?
... that Shannon Hale gave her publisher the sequel novel Princess Academy: Palace of Stone instead of the sci-fi novel she had a contract to write?
... that in 1324, Ismail I of Granada likely directed the first use of cannons in the Iberian Peninsula?
... that an extension of the New York City Subway to Broad Street station cost three times the normal price of construction at the time, due to its location in the Financial District?
... that a five-year-old boy, using paper and his mother's cigarette lighter, started a fire that consumed the transmitter of Florida radio station WEAR?
... that the origins of the modern hazmat suit can be traced to the use of PPE during the Manchurian plague of 1910–1911?
... that a Court of Minstrels, led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval English Midlands?
... that Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei , the first woman to summit Mount Everest, created her own climbing equipment from scratch out of old curtains and the cover of her car?
... that stolen money was found at Newforge in what was believed to be an IRA plot to frame the Police Service of Northern Ireland?
... that several hymns for Pentecost in different languages are based on the 9th-century "Veni Creator Spiritus" ("Come, Creator Spirit")?
... that the City of Phoenix printed ballots on municipal water bills during a citywide vote for a logo for its new flag?
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Camille Combal hosted episodes of Qui veut gagner des millions ? – the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – from his living room?
... that on the day she began filming her first starring role in Ginger, nine-year-old Jane Withers received congratulatory bouquets from W. C. Fields and President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that Lim Ban Lim, Singapore's most wanted fugitive, stole at least $2.5 million in his career but was found with only $1.40 on him when he was killed by police?
... that the elements of the Flag of Ulster supposedly trace their origins to a cross drawn in Saracen blood and a hand cut off to claim a kingdom?
... that in response to the Hong Kong government refusing to close its border with mainland China to contain COVID-19, Winnie Yu organized a labour strike among hospital workers in February 2020?
... that the English and French translations of Kenjirō Tokutomi's The Cuckoo all omit a key aspect of its most famous line?