derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that some typefaces used in Thai typography are designed to resemble Latin sans-serif, and the Thai characters พ, ร, and บ may look just like the English letters W, S, and U?
... that Bruce Lewandowski, the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, worked with the activist group BUILD to create a parish identity card for undocumented immigrants?
... that O sacrum convivium! is one of the best-known works by Olivier Messiaen, but he declared that it was not representative of his compositional style?
... that Nature's Fynd, producer of microbe-based meat substitutes, is working with NASA to develop a bioreactor for use in space travel?
... that Mark Ormrod was the first UK soldier to survive a triple amputation during the War in Afghanistan?
... that How to Be an Antiracist topped The New York Times Best Seller List in the Hardcover Nonfiction category after a surge in sales following the killing of George Floyd?
... that "Oye Mujer", a song certified 14× Multi-Platinum (Latin) in the US, was composed by Mexican musician Raymix while he was participating in a NASA educative internship?
... that a same-sex kiss, broadcast in January 2020, between the Casualty characters Marty Kirkby and Jack Ward received 111 complaints?
... that the "gaudy" stylised floral paintings used to decorate narrowboats and their fittings may have originated from decorations on Romani wagons?
... that after the American Civil War, Reconstruction-era laws enabled black suffrage, but in practice African Americans still faced obstacles to voting?
... that Souleymane Mboup and his team discovered HIV-2 in Senegal in 1985?
... that the film Chasing 3000 was meant to premiere at the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but was held back since the filmmakers wanted a better chance to secure a distribution deal?
... that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain?
... that the "bad apples" metaphor has changed from a warning not to interact with corrupt individuals to a claim that bad apples are not representative of an entire group?
... that Emily Sheffield, the new editor of London's Evening Standard, left British Vogue as part of what was called a "posh girl exodus"?
... that in the tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough, Donald Trump's niece Mary L. Trump alleges that he mistreated his father Fred Trump after Fred developed Alzheimer's disease?
... that Joseph Ngolepus finished third at the 2003 London Marathon, one second behind the winner, in the closest London Marathon finish in history?
... that Operation Gideon, an attempt to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office, was stopped before it got further than the beach?
... that technology executive Scott A. McGregor was the lead developer of Windows 1.0?
... that in a January 1939 speech, Hitler predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe"?
... that Priyanka Chopra planned her wedding to Nick Jonas in between filming scenes for The Sky Is Pink?
... that when Antje Weithaas played Max Bruch's Violin Concerto, a reviewer from The Guardian wrote that she reminded her, "with quiet and compelling eloquence, why it's a masterpiece"?
... that the Federal Communications Commission disapproved of a potential buyer's plans for North Carolina television station WANC-TV, finding them a wasteful use of spectrum?
... that to avoid prosecution, managers of illegal opioid prescription centers known as "pill mills" tend to run their facilities like pop-up stores?
... that Jan Otrębski, who knew nothing of the Lithuanian language until his adulthood, is honored in Lithuania for his studies of the language?
... that the frog Corythomantis greeningi retreats into a hole, blocks the entrance with its spiny head, and injects venom into anything that tries to dislodge it?
... that Angèle Dola Akofa Aguigah demonstrated that the earthworks at Notsé in Togo were used to define separate social spaces, not for defence?
... that one of the 11 museums and art installations maintained by the Dia Art Foundation is a room in New York City filled with 250 cubic yards (190 m3) of soil?
... that the record 56-game hitting streak of Major League Baseball player Joe DiMaggio , which ended 79 years ago today, is considered unbreakable?
... that the quality of Bruce Edwards's repartee with his co-star in the 1947 film serial The Black Widow has been compared to the verbal sparring of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday?
... that Pita Limjaroenrat, the current leader of Thailand's Move Forward Party, was the first Thai student to receive an international student scholarship from Harvard University?
... that at only 54 mi (87 km) long, the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail commemorating the Voting Rights March of 1965 is the shortest National Historic Trail in America?
... that Seu'ula Johansson-Fua is the keeper of the Kukū Kaunaka Collection, an archive of doctoral and masters dissertations written by Tongan scholars based at universities around the world?
... that the video for "Angels Ain't Listening" by Basshunter features a mentally unstable man modeled after Joaquin Phoenix's 2019 portrayal of the Joker?
... that in 2018, hair stylist Johann Peries became the first Sri Lankan man to summit Mount Everest?
... that diamonds were featured on the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines because the previous breadfruit leaf was hard to recognise from afar?
... that sculptor Antonio Berti designed the bronze casket used to house the wooden coffin of Pope Pius XI?
... that the picture book Orca's Song has received both praise for its depiction of a lesbian relationship and criticism for how it adapted a First Nations story?
... that Leila Hassan edited the journal Race Today and was a member of the British Black Panthers and the Black Unity and Freedom Party?
... that South Dakota TV station KRSD-TV's signal was so poor that it sparked an "uprising" of calls and cancellations from cable viewers?
... that a bail fund was started by the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 to release people arrested for sedition?
... that the one hundred squatters at the Oval Mansions in London could watch Test cricket for free from the roof?
... that the Amazon parrot was implicated as a source of the great parrot fever pandemic of 1929–30, in which more than 100 people died?
... that Ethel McGhee Davis, an alumna of Spelman College, later served as the school's first African-American dean and was a member of its board of trustees for 24 years?
... that in the 1970s, Indian retailer Anokhi, which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional Rajasthani woodblock printing?
... that in 1918, a Jewish couple was married in a cemetery in Winnipeg with 1,000 people in attendance?
... that a song by Belarusian rock band Molchat Doma reached number two on the Spotify Viral 50 chart after it was frequently used as background music on video sharing platform TikTok?
... that money Spain provided to the Hong Kong Junta as part of a peace deal was used to buy weapons to fight Spain?
... that the chancery of the Embassy of the Philippines in Kuala Lumpur was formerly the home of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first prime minister of Malaysia?
... that Fred Sargeant was one of the gay rights activists who proposed the first Christopher Street Liberation Day—now the NYC Pride March—to commemorate the Stonewall riots?
... that according to one Korean creation narrative, there was a time when noodles grew on shrubs and rice cakes grew on leaves?
... that when one president of the General Union of Public Sector and Transport Workers tried to negotiate with the Nazi government, the other planned to resign in protest?
... that the Emilio López Zamora dam in Ensenada, Baja California, almost overflowed on March 4, 1978?
... that among the 444 songs in the hymnal Cantate!, published by the pedagogue Heinrich Bone in 1847, was his "Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein" ("Come, Holy Spirit, visit us")?
... that to bypass censorship in Poland, some authors turned to self-censorship, Aesopian language, and the Polish underground press?
... that at the 2005 World Snooker Championship, a player turned up without his cue stick and with a hangover?
... that author and performance artist Junauda Petrus originally wanted to be an astronaut, but is now a "pleasure activist"?
... that the Canadian Hockey Association threatened to seize the assets of the St. Thomas Barons after they abandoned the east–west national final?
... that although it depicts an indigenous goddess, the statue María Lionza is deliberately located in the middle of a highway?
... that John Whitworth, a singing lay vicar at Westminster Abbey for 22 years, was praised for his "voice of great beauty, rich in the lower register, trumpet-toned in the upper"?
... that the title of the 2020 Nepali comedy–drama film Senti Virus was changed from Anti Virus on the advice of an astrologer?
... that an 18th-century court case may support altered ways of signing and witnessing English wills during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that U.S. admiral Edward Joseph O'Donnell passed responsibility for Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to its new commander on a golf course?
... that today at 09:27 UTC, the direction to Mecca can be determined by looking at the shadow cast by a stick ?
... that Ōyama Sutematsu was eleven years old when she was sent with the Iwakura Mission to receive an American education on behalf of Japan?
... that the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, sued the U.S. Department of Justice after it refused to cooperate with his investigation of the shooting of Jamarion Robinson?
... that "Island Home" is the anthem of Jersey, but has been disliked and sometimes substituted with a song that mentions France?
... that in order to write his novel Mr. Monster, Dan Wells researched the offender profiling and embalming processes?
... that brewer Claude Watney was one of several Old Etonians involved in the motor trade in Edwardian London?
... that the chancery of the Philippine embassy in Buenos Aires was previously a house, a hotel, and a retirement home?
... that Bruce Jay Friedman described his first marriage as having "crumbled like an old graham cracker"?
... that the German police were called to investigate Deutsches Reichsbräu beer because of the Nazi-style imagery on its logo ?
... that Kessler R. Cannon, who later became an Oregon state representative, interviewed Oregon pioneers for his popular 15 Minute Histories radio program broadcast on KBND in the 1950s?
... that the card game of Husarln ("Hussar") is dominated by the distribution of tarot cards, giving it "that brisk and energetic feel" which is reflected in its name?
... that A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, the new album by rock group Sparks, contains lyrics that appear to foreshadow COVID-19, even though it was recorded before the onset of the pandemic?
... that a report by Chinese journalist Chen Jieren on university students turning to prostitution to pay for their tuition fees sparked a major debate about prostitution in China?
... that a life-size cast-iron rhinoceros sculpture was created for the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris?
... that in a survey, a Pakistani stated that a visit to one of the American Spaces under increased security conditions was "like going to jail or getting into Fort Knox"?
... that Charles Kingston O'Mahony's selection of murderers in his 1927 book Enemies of Society includes five doctors?
... that abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock considered the greatest painting in North America to be a mural of Prometheus at Pomona College by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco?
... that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor?
... that the languorous voice of television character Paulina de la Mora is seen as a socioeconomic commentary on the Mexican stereotype of high-class young women?
... that the musicologist Ulrike Liedtke, who founded and directed the Rheinsberg Music Academy, became president of the Brandenburg state parliament in 2019?
... that the Guinness World Record for the amateur sport of cherry pit spitting is 28.51 metres (93 ft 6.5 in)?
... that neuroscientist Michela Gallagher's research group showed that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam is a candidate to reduce mild cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease?
... that the 1997 historical drama Balidaan (Sacrifice) was banned in 2005 by King Gyanendra's government for its portrayal of Nepal's communist movement?
... that when Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was banned from organizing demonstrations, she organized "picnics" and "festivals" instead, drawing up to 10,000 participants?
... that the Jimi Hendrix guitar solo which Beautiful People sampled for their 1993 single "Rilly Groovy" had to be cut into about forty pieces and rearranged to fit the beat?
... that Ba Than founded what became Japanese Burma's main public hospital after the Imperial Japanese Army reserved Rangoon General Hospital for its exclusive use?
... that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?
... that the female Andes marsupial frog carries her developing young in a pouch on her back?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Dabuz once requested a pause mid-game to consult his notes using a laptop he brought on stage?
... that stories by Marie Hassenpflug were a source for the Brothers Grimm fairy tales "Little Red Riding Hood", "Sleeping Beauty", and possibly "Snow White"?
... that the Chinese policy of Five Fingers of Tibet considers Tibet to be China's right-hand palm, with five fingers—Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Arunachal Pradesh—that must be "liberated"?
... that amid the George Floyd protests, New York City implemented its first nighttime curfew since the Harlem riot of 1943?
... that most Nepali families disapprove of inter-caste marriage because they are afraid of becoming social outcasts?
... that Seraph Young Ford was the first American woman to cast a vote under a women's equal-suffrage law?
... that Stanley Matthews vowed to never work in management again after one year as Port Vale F.C. manager?
... that the Stanford Fleet Street Singers perform a medley of songs called the "Greatest Hits of the 1590s"?
... that during the first few days of the launch of the internet bench , two teenagers phoned the local council and Bill Gates after discovering that it could be used to make international calls?
... that Connie Carberg, the NFL's first female scout, made mock drafts as a hobby while growing up?
... that negotiations to end the 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike took place at Maidstone Prison, as three of the union officials had been imprisoned there?
... that "Meine engen Grenzen" ("My narrow limits"), a new hymn with text by Eugen Eckert and a melody by Winfried Heurich, was recorded with a band?
... that in a 2013 ranking compiled by the political editors of Verdens Gang, Astrid Gjertsen was rated the ninth-most important woman in Norwegian history?
... that the Lekhapaddhati, a guidebook written in Sanskrit, includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during Chaulukya rule in Gujarat, India?
... that after Sweden defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Lemberg, the Polish troops joined Sweden and were stationed in the city they had just lost?
... that NASA mechanical engineer Aaron Yazzie has compared the surface of Mars to the landscape near his birthplace in the Navajo Nation?
... that on their display in Chicago in 1893, the vases of the Khalili Imperial Garniture were described as "the largest examples of cloisonné enamel ever made"?
... that Ed Warren, the 35th and 41st mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was an actor and one of three Cheyenne mayors to have played on Broadway?
... that after years of fan lobbying, the director's cut of Zack Snyder's 2017 film Justice League will be released on HBO Max?
... that Maurício Camuto, the incoming bishop of Caxito in Angola, was the director of a commercial radio station that exposed human rights abuses in the country?
... that one private company, Lexipol, writes the policy manuals for 3,500 law and public service agencies in the U.S.?
... that a large, elderly, "decently behaved" Russian brown bear once lived in the Leeds suburb of Headingley?
... that Joshna Chinappa has won the Indian national squash championship a record 18 times?
... that Harris' Missouri Battery was formed in an 1864 reorganization that may not have been authorized?
... that the Who set the world record for the loudest concert on their The Who by Numbers Tour?
... that Nepali actor Jayanendra Chand Thakuri starred in more than 100 films?
... that program tapes were sent to KUAC, the first public radio station in Alaska, by overnight Pan Am flights from Oregon?
... that The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland discusses the minority of Polish Jews who became communists and were later "demonized" as part of the Żydokomuna canard?
... that Taroc l'Hombre imported bidding from the world's most successful card game, Ombre, a feature that was crucial to the future of Tarot games outside Italy?
... that a Spanish woman was arrested for carrying a bag that read "A.C.A.B." accompanied by the phrase "All Cats Are Beautiful"?
... that the whole of Topo Islet , in Portugal's Azores, is protected as a nature reserve?
... that F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, such as The Great Gatsby, only gained popularity after his death?
... that the Spanish government blocked the sale of a stake in digital television licensee Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV to Viacom?
... that during the topping-out ceremony for 1 Wall Street, while workers hoisted an evergreen tree to its pinnacle, a hot rivet fell onto the street and caused a fire?
... that in R v Zora, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the offence of breaching bail conditions requires subjective mens rea?
... that Joseph Crews, who organized a militia to mobilize African-American voters in South Carolina, was assassinated by whites in the run-up to the 1876 gubernatorial election?
... that a kidney-transplantation scandal led to a 2011 amendment to the law on organ donation in India?
... that trade union official Roger Poole spent his honeymoon travelling the Americas in a double-decker bus promoting British products, until the bus sank in a river in Peru?
... that "God Save the Queen" was twice played by mistake at the 1982 Commonwealth Games instead of "March On, Bahamaland" , before officials realized they did not have a recording of the latter?
... that the 7th-century drama Bhagavadajjukam is the earliest-surviving satirical play in Sanskrit literature?
... that after early professional success as a snooker player, Patsy Fagan developed a psychological block when using the rest and never won another major tournament?
... that the British government funded Crossroads, the first Kazakhstani soap opera, to promote the country's transition to a free-market economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
... that Leo Pacheco, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, used to drive buses for VIA Metropolitan Transit?
... that the Jamai Palace in Fez was originally the residence of a grand vizier, but was later seized by the state, sold, and converted into a hotel?
... that during World War II, Polish-Jewish economist Ludwik Maurycy Landau conducted undercover research into the economic conditions in occupied Poland?
... that Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge are the only teammates to hit a home run in their first major league at bats in the same game, and to accomplish this in back-to-back at bats?
... that production of mina'i ware, the first pottery to use overglaze enamels, stopped with the Mongol invasion of Persia in 1219?
... that in 2016, on the tenth anniversary of its premiere, the Royal Ballet performed Chroma with five dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater?
... that King Carlos I of Portugal often donated the game shot during his hunts to a soup kitchen founded by Maria Luísa de Sousa Holstein?
... that Nick Begich won reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives despite having gone missing the previous month?
... that Friedrich Dörr was a member of the commission for Gotteslob, the first common Catholic hymnal in German, which included several old hymns translated by him into modern language?
... that before becoming a presenter of Home School Hub, teacher Clíona Ní Chiosáin played the title role in the Irish-language teen drama Aifric?
... that in 2014, judge William Orrick III upheld the constitutionality of a California law banning the possession and sale of shark fin?
... that Cuthbert Brodrick was invited to design Headingley Hill Congregational Church after its committee rejected all of the entries in its architectural competition?
... that at the Battle of Grand Gulf, men of the Confederate 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment fired into the portholes of Union Navy ships?
... that the Football Association has asked England fans to stop singing "No Surrender to the IRA"?
... that Rockwell A. Schnabel was nominated as United States Ambassador to the European Union instead of Ambassador to Italy, after Italian-Americans demanded one of their own be in that position?
... that after a 2014 Philippine Supreme Court decision, liking or retweeting cyberlibel is no longer a crime?
... that bobsleigh pusher Pavle Jovanovic was "one of the most feared brakemen" on the Bobsleigh World Cup circuit?
... that Gaoshi Shrine is the first Shinto shrine constructed in Taiwan after World War II?
... that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film The Last Kiss was brought from a brothel in Dhaka?
... that John Jonathon Pratt, known as the grandfather of the typewriter , invented several common typewriter features before Remington or Hammond machines entered the market?
... that as of June 11, 2020, the Navajo Nation had a larger per-capita rate of infection from COVID-19 than any U.S. state?
... that the Thailand-based Diablos outlaw motorcycle club fought the Hells Angels in a gun battle in Australia?
... that in 1557, Cardinal Giovanni Ricci sold Palazzo Sacchetti in Rome for 25,000 scudi to his friend Tommaso Marino in a fictitious sale?
... that railway sabotage during World War II was one of the most common forms of resistance against German occupation?
... that Robert Plunkett resigned as the first president of Georgetown College in 1793 because he preferred a rural life of ministry?
... that the "lost manuscript" of The Ickabog was featured on the dress worn by J. K. Rowling at her 50th birthday party?
... that Kensal House, the UK's first modernist block designed for the working class, was used by Abram Games for his 1942 poster "Your Britain. Fight for It Now" ?
... that to make the ethnographic film series The Doon School Quintet, visual anthropologist David MacDougall was given unprecedented access to film students at an all-boys boarding school in India?
... that Frank Sargent was the first person to be president of two national amateur sporting associations in Canada?
... that a number of Confederate cannons were captured at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge because battery horses were posted on the wrong side of the river?
... that Markham's storm petrel, which nests in Peru and northern Chile, has been described as "one of the least known seabirds in the world"?
... that in 1381, the Monastery of St Lawrence at Buda gained greatly in prestige when it received the body of Paul of Thebes?
... that while researching for his book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Randall Munroe enlisted Serena Williams to knock a drone out of the sky with a tennis ball?
... that Art Tomassetti is the only test pilot to fly all three variants of the X-35 in addition to the F-35?
... that the Senior Citizens Partylist was sworn in five months after the 18th Congress of the Philippines convened, since its factions could not agree on a nominee?