derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Sandra Perron, whom other Canadian Armed Forces officers viewed as a threat, was once interrogated and left in the snow for two hours without boots as part of a training exercise?
... that archaeological finds at Danamandıra village in Istanbul Province, Turkey, date its settlement back to the Late Neolithic era?
... that the myth of Czechoslovakia as "a welcoming and tolerant place for Jews" was exploited by Czechoslovak politicians?
... that Emma Lamb was part of the Lancashire Women cricket team that in 2017 won both the Women's County Championship and the Counties Twenty20 competition?
... that despite being illegal, jueteng is played by one out of every seven Filipinos?
... that the Druze emir Fakhr al-Din built a mosque in Mount Lebanon despite the non-use of mosques by the Druze?
... that none of the 17 anchor projects put forward for recovery from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand have been delivered on time?
... that Stuart Bergsma, a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected speaking in tongues with emotional stress?
... that the 1994 video game Kajko i Kokosz, the first based on the Polish comic book series of the same name, was not playtested, and the initial release had to be recalled and replaced?
... that the J. N. Petit Library in Mumbai is considered to be one of the finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in the city?
... that the transmitter used to start Nashville radio station WSIX was purchased in exchange for five barrels of oil?
... that during the women's marathon at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, one runner fell out of medal contention when she stopped for a toilet break?
... that on National Paddy Day in Nepal, people splash each other and play in the mud , plant rice seedlings, eat curd and beaten rice, and sing folk songs?
... that during the Congo Crisis, American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him?
... that in 1960, British AI researcher Donald Michie made a noughts-and-crosses-playing algorithm out of matchboxes?
... that the English philanthropist Miss James has both a footpath and a footbridge named after her?
... that the old church of St Sebastian in Qormi, Malta, was completed in 1890 but was not formally consecrated until 2019?
... that Ty Dolla Sign's song "Ego Death" is a "first-ever of its kind" 9D listening experience?
... that Ba Than, a school teacher, wrote the Burmese history textbook used in many Burma high schools from the 1930s to 1950s?
... that to demonstrate elevator safety in the Empire Building, eggs and light bulbs were loaded in a cab that was dropped past the third floor at 82 miles per hour (132 km/h), emerging undamaged?
... that the Wrens of the Curragh group of sex workers (members depicted) lived in "nests" hollowed from the ground near Curragh Camp in the 19th century?
... that Iain Macintyre's group was the first to show that the hormone calcitonin was produced by the thyroid gland?
... that FCC chairman Ajit Pai has cited his hometown radio station, KLKC in Parsons, Kansas, in advocating for a revitalization of AM broadcasting?
... that in 1988, an enquiry confirmed Joe Collier and Aggrey Burke's findings that racial and sexual discrimination operated in the selection of students at London medical schools?
... that only three Confederate soldiers were killed at the Battle of Grand Gulf, but one of them was the commander of Fort Wade?
... that a poem by Annie Rothwell was read to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Queen's University?
... that Seton Falls Park went from being one of New York City's best parks to one of its worst in the span of two years?
... that Nerine Barrett, one of the few black women to have achieved international recognition as a classical pianist, first performed on Radio Jamaica for her third birthday?
... that the Viklau Madonna is one of the best-preserved 12th-century wooden sculptures in Europe?
... that American endocrinologist Jacob Robbins studied the effects of nuclear fallout in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl on the development of thyroid cancer?
... that City Developments Limited introduced the concept of show houses in 1965, and is believed to be the first company in Asia to do so?
... that Troy Nehls, the sheriff of Fort Bend County, is the son of a sheriff and brother of a sheriff?
... that after closing his military academy at Chelsea, Lewis Lochée fought for the United Belgian States against the Austrian Netherlands and then wrote a history of the Belgian Revolution?
... that St. James Church in New York City was once occupied by a veterans' organization, an Indonesian church, and a group for Chinese senior citizens?
... that Ismail II of Granada deposed his brother to take the throne, but less than a year later he was dethroned and killed by his brother-in-law?
... that Vlambeer pitched the video game Serious Sam: The Random Encounter with a crude sketch, expecting it to be turned down?
... that it took 190 litres (42 imp gal; 50 US gal) of paint to complete the livery of the Indian locomotive class WDG-4G ?
... that a report that Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment, which was formed in 1864, was armed with lances instead of firearms is likely inaccurate?
... that Maisie Williams almost missed her Game of Thrones audition because it coincided with a school field trip to a pig farm?
... that El Salvador converted its main convention center into a COVID-19 hospital that, when completed, will have 2,000 beds?
... that Canadian journalist Jim Coleman invented the Curse of Muldoon to meet an editing deadline?
... that the 1990 Message from Turnberry issued by NATO has been called the "first official recognition of the end of the Cold War"?
... that after Dua Lipa wrote her song "Break My Heart", she noticed similarities to INXS's "Need You Tonight" and decided to credit the band?
... that Xu Chang's rebellion against the Han dynasty attempted to revive the ancient state of Yue, which had ended about 400 years earlier?
... that videos of Lady Tambourine playing the tambourine at Southern Louisiana football games went viral in 2017?
... that due to its explicit content, a manga series on Shōnen Jump+ cannot be accessed via its iOS app, but is available on its website and Android app?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Biyuram Wahge is the first Arunachal Pradesh legislator in history to donate his first salary to his party's fund?
... that after a shoving incident involving a 75-year-old man, two Buffalo police officers were suspended and charged with assault?
... that the Rheinsberg Music Academy, based at Schloss Rheinsberg, offered master classes by opera singer Waltraud Meier and stage director Harry Kupfer in 2019?
... that the bank that owned Wisconsin radio stations WMAD AM and FM hired three new employees in the ten days before shutting the stations down?
... that Pippa Wicks, the deputy chief executive officer of the Co-operative Group, has supported the company's initiative to employ people who have escaped modern slavery?
... that the Builders Building , originally built to house construction industries, would eventually be home to the Chicago Board of Education and later be renovated into a hotel?
... that BTS's Japanese single "Lights" surpassed one million pre-orders in Japan and broke the 24-year-old record of Celine Dion's 1995 single "To Love You More"?
... that Priscilla Johnson McMillan is the only individual who personally knew both President John F. Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald?
... that many structures in the Shackelford County Courthouse Historic District were built in the 1880s after Albany, Texas, became the terminus of the now-defunct Texas Central Railroad?
... that harpsichords built and restored by Claude Mercier-Ythier were played in thousands of concerts and on hundreds of recordings?
... that Walter Lord's book The Dawn's Early Light was called "the definitive book about the burning of Washington during the War of 1812" by the Los Angeles Times?
... that a peace treaty signed between Venice and the Byzantine Empire in 1277 allowed both parties to fight one another over possession of Negroponte, without violating its terms?
... that the announced "Super-Duper Missile" has been theorized to be the AGM-183A air-launched rapid response weapon ?
... that the 1943 Rolls-Royce strike at the Merlin engine plant in Hillington, Scotland, was the only major strike for equal pay in the United Kingdom during the Second World War?
... that critics called for a boycott of transgender filmmaker Rhys Ernst's film Adam for perceived transphobia?
... that the Doric columns used in Christ Church in Byculla, India, were imported from England?
... that Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman co-founded the Sadie Collective, which aims to increase representation of black women in economics and other quantitative fields?
... that the sea urchin Goniocidaris umbraculum moves its eggs with its tube feet, assisted by cilia, to an area near its mouth where they can be brooded?
... that more men of the 10th Missouri Infantry Regiment were captured at the Battle of Helena than remained in the regiment two days later?
... that the music video for Dua Lipa's song "Physical" is based on a Venn diagram from 1981?
... that the Antonyo Awards—a riff on the Tony Awards—were instituted in 2020 to celebrate excellence in Black theater?
... that the musicologist Jeffrey Kurtzman edited Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and wrote a "comprehensive" book about its context, music and performance?
... that the Russian group Occupy Pedophilia filmed themselves committing more than a hundred anti-gay attacks between 2012 and 2014?
... that dancer Alicia Graf Mack completed a history degree in Columbia University while recovering from ankylosing spondylitis?
... that the publication of Malta's first newspaper was discontinued after about ten issues due to a local uprising?
... that a large sign announcing the winner of the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico special election appeared three hours before the meeting to select him had started?
... that snooker player John Pulman obliterated a rival's branding from his own cue?
... that one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Ladakh Chronicles is owned by a monk in Lamayuru Monastery?
... that in 1948 and 1952, nuclear physicist Leslie Shepherd published scientific papers on the use of nuclear technology for interplanetary and interstellar space travel?
... that New York City's Rattlesnake Creek was named after the rattlesnakes that once populated the Bronx?
... that Réjane Laberge-Colas was the first woman to serve as a superior court judge in Canada?
... that the chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department was fired after the mayor learned that officers' body cameras were off during the shooting of David McAtee?
... that when Elza van den Heever made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as the bald queen Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, she had her head shaved?
... that the founders of the literary journal Irreantum hoped it would become the source for nationwide publishers to access the best of Mormon literature?
... that a Christian revival at Anna Bliss's school in Peru, Massachusetts, led to her being selected to establish a new school in South Africa?
... that the British Raj restricted access to squash courts in India—then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?
... that Portuguese HIV researcher Odette Ferreira flew from Lisbon to Paris with test tubes of blood in her coat to maintain the right temperature for testing at the Pasteur Institute?
... that many law enforcement authorities in the United States can issue civil investigative demands to compel the production of documents before an action has begun?
... that Ralph Debbas founded the first Middle Eastern automotive company in 2012, making him the first automotive executive in the Middle East?
... that while the management of Wyoming television station KFNB claimed transmitter trouble as the reason for going off the air, a former reporter announced that all staff had been laid off?
... that the music video for Twice's song "More & More" was inspired by the Garden of Eden ?
... that Harold Clyde Bingham trailed a troop of gorillas for 100 hours in 1929?
... that the interior of Manik Bagh, a palace of the maharajah of Indore State, was filled with contemporary designer furniture by Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, and others?
... that suffragist Olive Stott Gabriel supported James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.'s 1920 Senate campaign, although he opposed extending the vote to women?
... that the rapper Akala explains in his book Natives why he was placed in special-needs classes for children who did not speak English, despite reading The Lord of the Rings at the time?
... that the 2002 video game Unlimited Saga was one of five games planned for use in a Sony promotional lottery that was cancelled due to tensions between the U.S. and Iraq?
... that William L. Borden wrote the letter that set in motion the Oppenheimer security hearing?
... that following decades of repairs due to vandalism and falling headstones in the Children of Israel Cemetery in Winnipeg, Canada, maintenance is now limited to "mowing the grass"?
... that instead of using standard control surfaces, the AFTI/F-111A Aardvark research aircraft had an adaptive wing that could change its airfoil shape for inflight control?
... that in addition to his rabbinical duties at a Winnipeg Orthodox synagogue, Solomon Frank served as Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias?
... that during the Battle of Port Gibson, the 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) was sometimes only 10 feet (3.0 m) away from their opponent?
... that Antoinette Waroh was the only female member of the Provisional Representative Body, the parliament of East Indonesia?
... that during contract bidding for structural steel for New York City's New Lots Line, all three bids were rejected partly because the chief engineer was banking on steel prices falling?
... that in a radical reform of its power grid, Gujarat became the first state in India to separate electricity feeder lines between agricultural and household usage?
... that the Isma'ili leader Ibn Hawshab had to surrender his son as hostage to a rival, who returned him after a year with a golden necklace as a gift?
... that in 2016, LGBT and women's rights activist Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala became the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest?
... that development of the Republic XP-69 aircraft was canceled due to problems with its liquid-cooled radial engine?
... that the German musicologist Ludwig Finscher was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social, and historical context?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Marss is known for his aggressive, unconventional style that capitalizes on Zero Suit Samus's superior mobility?
... that the soundtrack to the manga and anime series Kids on the Slope features American jazz musicians Art Blakey and Bill Evans?
... that Adesh Kumar Gupta, the current president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit, was once arrested and imprisoned for a year for his association with the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement?
... that the video for Harry Styles's single "Adore You" was praised for "elevating a good pop song to something closer to absurdist art"?
... that during the French naval visit to Kronstadt, which started on 23 July 1891, Emperor Alexander III of Russia stood to attention for the singing of La Marseillaise (scene depicted), despite his disapproval of France?
... that in the 1950s, Slovene transgender lawyer and writer Ljuba Prenner used the introduction: "I am Dr. Ljuba Prenner, neither man nor woman"?
... that more than 60 percent of the members of the 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) became casualties at the Battle of Franklin?
... that the sea urchin Abatus cordatus broods its young for nine months in pockets on its upper surface?
... that Isaiah McKinnon, an African American, decided to join the Detroit Police Department after he was beaten by racist police officers?
... that only Ifugao consented to be part of an autonomous region in the Philippine Cordillera in a 1990 plebiscite?
... that Japanese-American hard rock band Crush 40 created music for a number of Sonic the Hedgehog games?
... that the town of Tofino on Vancouver Island was host to a hippie commune called Poole's Land where residents could exchange their labour for accommodation and drugs?
... that the genus Pterodactylus (species depicted), the scientific name for a pterodactyl, had been considered a "wastebasket taxon" as many species were assigned to it and later reassigned?
... that Nyma Tang sheds light on colourism in the beauty industry through her YouTube series The Darkest Shade?
... that the Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones, the communications and media regulator of Argentina, was created despite a court ruling blocking the act?
... that Turkish soldier Abdur Rahman Peshawari was appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Afghanistan in part due to his knowledge of Pashto and Persian?
... that in 1548, the parish of Egginton sold two church bells to fund repairs to the Monks Bridge?
... that Edmund Kurtz's edition of Bach's cello suites, published in 1983, is recognized as one of his greatest achievements?
... that in a new book, Wolf Gruner argues that the collaborationist Czech government played a significant role in the persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia?
... that American space rock band Hum released Inlet, their first album in 22 years, as a surprise on June 23?
... that Mexican music is common in Chile during the national day celebrations of Fiestas Patrias?
... that lifelong Democrat Stephanie Pollack was appointed by lifelong Republican Charlie Baker to lead the Massachusetts Department of Transportation?
... that Charles Rolls's first car showroom, Lillie Hall, was on the site of a disused skating rink?
... that Belgian academic and judge Étienne Cerexhe was a co-founder of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso?
... that Britney Spears's song "Mood Ring" was originally written as a collaboration between Spears and the Chainsmokers?
... that Manuel Ellis can be heard in a recording through the Tacoma, Washington, police dispatch radio on March 3, 2020, shouting "I can't breathe!" before his death?
... that Moral, part of a loose trilogy of feminist films directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, was initially dismissed by critics but is now regarded as one of the best Filipino films ever made?
... that Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong, a collector of Mexican-American art, is helping develop The Cheech, a center for Chicano art in Riverside, California?
... that when his enemy Alfonso XI succumbed to the Black Death while besieging Gibraltar, Yusuf I of Granada ordered his forces not to attack Alfonso's army as they carried the body home?
... that the administrator Winifred Tumim called the state of management where charity trustees had no knowledge of their legal and professional obligations "mad chair disease"?
... that Real Life, Brandon Taylor's debut novel, is an American campus novel about a gay, black doctoral student in a mostly white PhD program?
... that the author of the hymn "Das Jahr steht auf der Höhe" wrote his reflections of midsummer in 1978 to a 16th-century melody of a love song?
... that the statue of Mary Seacole in London honours a woman voted the greatest black Briton?
... that Lauren Boebert encourages her servers to openly carry firearms inside her restaurant in Rifle, Colorado?
... that at age 17, French basketball player Théo Maledon became the youngest player ever to compete in the LNB All-Star Game?
... that carnivorous wildlife of North Macedonia as small as the Balkan lynx have been reported to attack not just livestock, but humans too?
... that Alexander Gordon clearly demonstrated that childbirth fever was contagious 66 years before Ignaz Semmelweis did?
... that Indiana radio station WFCI engaged in a five-year battle to increase its transmitting power, facing opposition from a local TV station?
... that the chief executive officer of the Central Police Canteen was removed from his position for issuing a list of non-indigenous items that were supposed to be banned for sale?
... that Zico's "Any Song" dance challenge went viral on TikTok after several South Korean celebrities including Hwasa, Chungha, and Lee Hyori participated in the trend?
... that when originally organized, the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment contained only eight companies, which violated Confederate regulations?
... that Jürgen Holtz played the title role in Brecht's Leben des Galilei with the Berliner Ensemble at age 86, sometimes appearing naked?
... that in his reading of the June 6, 1944, order of the day (recording featured), Dwight D. Eisenhower reportedly sounded like Clark Gable?
... that the reef box crab uses its powerful pincers to break open the shells of snails?
... that Hetty Spiers, who wrote screenplays for silent films as early as 1917, is included on Columbia University's list of "Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers"?
... that a LinkedIn license contract compelled UpCounsel, an online marketplace for legal services, to close but it ended up remaining in business?
... that Italian prima ballerina Alessandra Ferri originated the lead role in the 2015 ballet Woolf Works at age 52?
... that astronomer Mustafa ibn Ali wrote mostly in Ottoman Turkish rather than Arabic, in order to make his field more accessible in the Ottoman Empire?
... that the All India Anglo-Indian Association maintains that Anglo-Indians are unique because they are Christians and have historical links to both Europe and India?
... that Nathalie Evans lived in a flat with a chimpanzee that was trained to eat at the dinner table and use the flush toilet?
... that the 379-year-old dance musical play Kartik Naach (video clip featured) is performed every year in Nepal?
... that the flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) is on display at the Museum of the Confederacy?
... that Adolf Hitler and members of his staff who survived the 20 July plot to assassinate him were treated in the former Carlshof Institutions?
... that Albanese Candy makes gummy confectioneries in the shape of worms, snakes, butterflies, khaki-colored soldiers, and jet fighter aircraft?
... that the choir of Reigate St Mary's School in England sang in the film Angels & Demons and was featured on the soundtrack of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland?
... that Gabriella Morreale de Escobar established a national newborn-screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain?
... that the Survey of Palestine was the only government department in Mandatory Palestine not headquartered in Jerusalem?
... that when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis instructed the first director general of television station Canal 21 to position the station "between nude women and the Sunday Mass"?
... that in 2019, Helalia Johannes became Namibia's first-ever female medallist at the World Athletics Championships?
... that the 1994 film Fresh Kill is noted for its influence on hacker subculture, with a 1995 article about the film containing one of the first recorded uses of the term "hacktivism"?
... that Venezuelan sociologist Esther Pineda G popularized the term violencia estética ('aesthetic violence') to describe the damaging pressure on women to respond to prevailing ideas of beauty?
... that 47 million copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower's People of Western Europe speech were printed for distribution during World War II?
... that American rapper 2 Black 2 Strong is best known for his song "Burn Baby Burn" about the right to burn the flag?
... that for its 2020 tourism campaign, the Government of Nepal proposed building 108 sculptures of the Yeti painted by 108 different artists?
... that the 5th-century saint Apollinaris Syncletica might have been wrongly accused of seducing her own sister?
... that it was said that Crawfish Spring supplied water to the "entire" Union Army during the Battle of Chickamauga?