derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. federal workers could lose due-process job protections by being shifted into Schedule F appointments?
... that firefighters were able to save the campground at Alaska's Hidden Lake from the 2019 Swan Lake Fire by creating a back burn with driptorches?
... that the video game Serious Sam Advance simulates 3D computer graphics on the Game Boy Advance?
... that in For the beauty of the earth, a 1978 anthem for choir and orchestra, John Rutter gave a 19th-century hymn text a new melody, marking it to be sung "Happily"?
... that the crown of the General Electric Building in Midtown Manhattan contains Gothic tracery and four 50-foot-tall (15 m) electric deities?
... that the 1990 Hindi film Drishti, which follows the story of a married couple who divorce and later meet again, has been praised for its "harsh look at monogamy"?
... that 19th-century Mormonism embraced the desire for a slow, dramatic, "beautiful death" with plenty of witnesses?
... that Pierre Bleuse, who learned conducting after a career as a violinist, was chosen by composer Michael Jarrell to lead his opera Cassandre, starring Fanny Ardant?
... that Women's Barracks , regarded as a classic of lesbian pulp fiction, was banned in Canada and became the first paperback-original bestseller in the United States?
... that American diplomat John B. Stetson Jr. gave a book bound in human skin to Harvard's Houghton Library?
... that in Ainu mythology, it is believed that a gigantic octopus god lives in Uchiura Bay?
... that although Saluche was blacklisted by the Unity Labour Party for his political jokes, the ULP prime minister attended his funeral?
... that the costumes of the ballet In Creases are modified from old leotards from another ballet and unused unitards?
... that Maddalena Mariani Masi performed the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda in the 1876 world premiere at La Scala?
... that the Book of Ezekiel prophesied Nebuchadnezzar II's Siege of Tyre, which lasted 13 years?
... that the black-cowled oriole hangs its woven nest under a large Heliconia, palm, or banana leaf?
... that the Israeli Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law was intended to punish Holocaust survivors rather than Holocaust perpetrators?
... that an estimated 12 percent of those who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries voted for Donald Trump in the general election?
... that Giovanni's Room both influenced and appears in the 2020 novel Swimming in the Dark, a gay love story set in the last years of the Polish People's Republic?
... that Jerome Robbins was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to choreograph the ballet Fanfare in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?
... that Benjamin Britten composed Children's Crusade, with text by Bertolt Brecht, as a piece to be performed by children about a group of children in wartime Poland?
... that although the suffix automaton, a data structure used in computer science, was introduced in 1983, it appeared in a 1973 scholarly article as an auxiliary structure?
... that when he is sworn in next year, Mark Robinson will become the first Black lieutenant governor of North Carolina?
... that the Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary acts as a natural corridor in the movement of the Himalayan brown bear and markhor between Poonch and the Kashmir Valley forests?
... that the architect who was hired to remodel 5 Columbus Circle's lower stories later expressed regret for the renovation?
... that Rui Pinto uncovered four terabytes of confidential information about association football finances despite having no formal education in computer science?
... that the development of the video game Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope was affected by two developers suffering injuries during a football match?
... that Victor Jory's first major screen role as a lecherous landlord in the 1933 film Sailor's Luck was praised as "deliciously slimy" and "insanely funny"?
... that Anna May Wong had the starring role in Daughter of the Dragon , but was paid half as much as the non-Asian actor who played her father?
... that the British conspiracy-theory and Holocaust-denial group Keep Talking unites the far right and far left?
... that after 28 years away from public media, José Antonio Álvarez Lima was tapped in 2019 to head the Mexican television channel Canal Once?
... that one reviewer of the book The South's Finest called it "chronically and annoyingly" melodramatic?
... that table-tennis player Isabelle Li received a standing ovation despite losing the final at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
... that only the refrain of "Herr, wir bringen in Brot und Wein", a 1970 offertory hymn written after Huub Oosterhuis, appeared in the first edition of Gotteslob, but the complete text in the second?
... that the Royal Navy cutter HMS Surly carried almost £96,000 in coin between Dublin and London in 1825?
... that Pawnee professional roller skater Bright Star was called "the fastest man on wheels"?
... that Fulper Pottery produced a precursor to the modern water cooler named the Germ-Proof Filter?
... that the Polish public-television film Invasion "depicted LGBT rights activists as a foreign-backed threat to Polish children, religion, values, and the very biological continuation of the nation"?
... that before Carole Dawn Reinhart was appointed professor of trumpet at the Vienna Music Academy, she performed in several of Al Hirt's Fanfare shows in 1965?
... that the Gozo Phoenician shipwreck excavation is the first maritime archaeological survey to explore sunken vessels beyond a depth of 100 metres (330 ft)?
... that Edgar Claxton helped set up electrification of the UK mainline railway in the 1960s, and was awarded an MBE?
... that the character of Swiss-type cheeses comes from originally being made on high alpage pastures, as part of the historic culture of Alpine transhumance?
... that German children's author Kirsten Boie has published more than 100 books?
... that when Mandy Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in a 2020 virtual live dramatic reading of the Princess Bride script, he used the six-fingered sword from the 1987 film?
... that Cleveland Indigenous activist Sundance successfully petitioned Oberlin High School in Ohio to change its school mascot from the Indians to the Phoenix in 2007?
... that a Carthaginian army trapped 40,000 rebels and starved them into cannibalism before attacking and killing every man at the Battle of the Saw?
... that Moneyball depicted Grady Fuson being fired by the Oakland Athletics, though in reality he left voluntarily?
... that the Japanese rock band Real spells its name with the Cyrillic letter Я to indicate a desire to show the band's "real inside and outside"?
... that Daisy Yen Wu helped establish the new field of nutrition research at Peking Union Medical College?
... that the world's first fusion reactor was called the Diffusion Inhibitor so managers at NACA would not know what it was?
... that after awarding a controversial goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final, referee Tom Kirkham took refuge in a broom cupboard to evade angry goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke ?
... that the Moriguchi Route in Osaka has a mini rest area on one of its entrance ramps?
... that the Marri rose in rebellion in Balochistan in 1918 because they heard rumours of British defeats in the First World War?
... that Jean Ritchie formed her own record label "out of self-defense" following distribution problems with None but One?
... that Anna Hájková says her research into LGBT people and the Holocaust "shows a more complex, more human, and more real society beyond monsters and saints"?
... that the parasitic wasp Diadegma semiclausum can help to control the diamondback moth, a pest that has become resistant to many insecticides?
... that John R. Casani used to carry the Pioneer 3 and Pioneer 4 spacecraft in a suitcase?
... that Rhian Sugden, Priyanka Chopra, and Pete Buttigieg have all been the subject of controversy due to social-media photographs taken at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe ?
... that a rare microscope designed by Joseph Zentmayer is on display at the Delaware County Institute of Science?
... that the unusual given name of Chilean travel writer Maipina de la Barra commemorates the Battle of Maipú, in which her father fought?
... that one of the inhabited initials of the 12th-century Necrologium Lundense illuminated manuscript shows influences from Viking art?
... that former NCAA president Judith Sweet chose to pursue a career in physical education following a blind date?
... that the 1906–1907 weekly Der nayer veg (The New Path) contained some of the earliest critical scholarly writings on Yiddish language and literature?
... that First World War flying ace Max Näther was appointed as commander of his squadron at age 18?
... that the theme tune to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is actually an Eagles song?
... that an effort to build a nuclear shaped charge was called the Casaba Howitzer because General Atomics was "on a melon kick that year"?
... that Faustas Latėnas, vice-minister of Lithuania's Ministry of Culture, composed incidental music, film scores, and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory"?
... that though it received mixed reviews at its release in 1987, Floodland by the Sisters of Mercy is now considered an essential gothic rock album?
... that despite the biggest missing-person investigation in the history of the Toronto Police Service, no physical evidence regarding the 1985 disappearance of Nicole Morin was ever found?
... that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey held by Irish Distillers by launching Cooley Distillery?
... that a newly discovered species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar, was named after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series?
... that Sam Quek played in all of England's games at the 2014 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy despite breaking two ribs in their opening match?
... that the Polish Kresy myth has been compared to the American myth of the Wild West and the German nostalgia for East Prussia?
... that Newton Collins was enslaved, manumitted, re-enslaved, and emancipated before becoming a successful businessman and landowner?
... that although the bronze-leaved clerodendrum is an ornamental garden shrub, it sometimes becomes naturalised and may become an invasive species?
... that "Levels" samples the intro from the Etta James song "Something's Got a Hold on Me"?
... that Busiri Suryowinoto was the first governor to propose splitting the province of Papua?
... that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 was one of the most popular titles of the 18th century, despite being banned by the Holy See and the Inquisition?
... that on the second day of Tihar each year, Nepali people worship dogs to please Yama?
... that as part of a famous priority dispute, E. T. Whittaker's 1953 book claimed that Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz developed the theory of special relativity before Albert Einstein?
... that journalist Robert Sam Anson, assigned to cover boxer Joe Frazier, instead got into the ring with him and suffered a broken leg or dislocated shoulder as a result?
... that a fatberg heavier than an African elephant was removed from a sewer beneath Cadogan Place?
... that author and book reviewer Janice Harayda started an all-woman church service in New York City in 1974?
... that the video game I Hate Running Backwards was named after a quote from the Serious Sam series?
... that Dámasa Cabezón was contracted by the Bolivian government to establish a school for girls in La Paz after having done so in Santiago de Chile?
... that at the Siege of Tunis, a Carthaginian general was crucified on the same cross to which he had previously nailed a rebel leader?
... that William E. Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor after disobeying orders during the Battle of Gettysburg?
... that Kylie Minogue was credited as co-writer for the first time on her third studio album Rhythm of Love?
... that knowing only a surname and a continent, author Hanoch Teller tracked down a boy photographed at the liberation of Auschwitz 70 years earlier for the award-winning cover of Heroic Children?
... that Arkansas poet laureate Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni had her poems published in more than 900 U.S. and international publications?
... that in a 2009 case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a group of school officials violated the U.S. Constitution when they strip-searched a 13-year-old middle-school student?
... that 2b2t, a no-rules Minecraft multiplayer server running since 2010, has seen more than 580,000 distinct Minecraft players join and explore its nine-terabyte map ?
... that the scholarship of Nyasha Junior on the life of Moses has been described as a starting point for how he can be viewed as a subject of feminist inquiry?
... that the city flag of Columbus, Ohio, is undergoing a redesign process due to its heavy use of Christopher Columbus imagery?
... that a fire destroyed 70,000 Jōmon period artifacts found at the Ōfune Site?
... that after qualifying on the pole at a late-model stock car race, Ty Majeski chose to start at the rear for a chance to win more money—and won the race?
... that in The Cellist, a ballet about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, the cello is personified by a male dancer?
... that Kanutus Johannis's ex libris is one of the oldest marks of book ownership from Sweden?
... that Joyryde finished three songs for his album Brave while recovering from lower back surgery?
... that Joseph Paduano, the minority floor leader in the Philippine congress, began his political career in the military wing of the Revolutionary Workers' Party under a nom de guerre?
... that shortly after the Improved United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment radar network was ready for action "a mere six years" late, the Ministry of Defence had already started looking to replace it?
... that the case of Adelia Silva, an Afro-Uruguayan teacher who was removed from three different schools due to her race, generated national attention and disciplinary action against one of the principals?
... that Jon Pardi had each song on California Sunrise recorded with a full band to create the feel of a live recording and carry the "traditional country soul"?
... that "as Pembroke a horseman by most is accounted, 'tis not strange that his Lordship a Hunter has mounted"?
... that a Jewish girl from Jerusalem became an acclaimed performer of Indian, Javanese, Balinese, and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?
... that 100 war elephants led the Carthaginian assault on a rebel camp at the Battle of Utica?
... that four days after participating in a 12-hour-long legislative session, Joel Molina Ramírez became the first Mexican senator to die of COVID-19?
... that when it changed hands in 2019, a "mega condo" in 220 Central Park South became the most expensive residence ever sold in the United States?
... that Yemeni poet Fatima al-Suqutriyya saved the island of Socotra by writing a qasida to Imam al-Ṣalt ibn Mа̄lik requesting military help?
... that claims that Super Mario Bros. 35 was a stolen concept from fan game Super Mario Royale were denied by the developer?
... that Mustafa Akıncı, the incumbent President of Northern Cyprus, claimed he was threatened by Turkish authorities in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election?
... that epidemiologist J. Michael Lane, who played a leading role in the global eradication of smallpox, trekked across the United States from Atlanta to Seattle at the age of 79?
... that the melody of the children's song "Kommt ein Vogel geflogen" ("Comes a Bird Flown") was used by Siegfried Ochs for variations in the styles of different classical composers?
... that the Swedish archaeologist Birger Nerman excavated a Scandinavian settlement at Grobiņa, Latvia, which predates the Viking Age?
... that the ballet The Runaway is partly inspired by hip-hop dance but performed in pointe shoes?
... that in 2017, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered that its 19th-century diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary contained a human skull?
... that a book on Vanity Fair says of Goedecker's "Modern Strategy", a caricature of Moltke : "... in a glance the viewer can comprehend the essence of the individual, yet recognize the man"?
... that the establishment of KVZK-TV led to the electrification of many villages in American Samoa?
... that four-term Uruguayan senator Alba Roballo was also an award-winning poet with a rebellious spirit?
... that the Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World includes a throne table made for the 18th-century Qianlong Emperor?
... that Laurence Olivier won an Emmy for his role as a London stockbroker, Parisian artist, and Tahitian leper in The Moon and Sixpence?
... that some of the students of yeshivas in World War II were exiled to the remote Komi Republic to do forced labor?
... that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force, custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
... that in the early use of intravenous therapy, attempts were made to inject milk, sugar, honey, and egg yolk into a person's veins?
... that Parole der Woche has been described as "the most ubiquitous and intrusive aspect of Nazism’s visual offensive"?
... that Marla Berkowitz considers herself a sumain, meaning someone who communicates using their hands?
... that a playlist of budots music features excerpts from speeches of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte?
... that a 14-foot (4.3 m) steel cutout of Donald Trump stands outside the Trump House in Latrobe, Pennsylvania?
... that Gudrun Schröfel, the longtime choral conductor of the Mädchenchor Hannover and a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover, received the Lower Saxony State Prize in 2015?
... that John Djopari's book about the Free Papua Movement was banned by the Indonesian government, even though the book incorporates material from the Indonesian Army?
... that a 2010 study found 1,000 people living in Al-Ghuraba cemetery in Tripoli, Lebanon?
... that Christian Flor, described in a 1740 encyclopedia as a famous organist from Lüneburg, composed settings of Bible verses for collections, and one of the earliest Passion oratorios?
... that Ingrid Bergman won Emmy and Sylvania Awards for her world television debut in John Frankenheimer's horror movie The Turn of the Screw?
... that the mayors of Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest signed the Pact of Free Cities in December 2019?
... that John F. McCarthy Jr. headed a group that suggested modifications to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy that tripled the structural life of the aircraft?
... that Dua Lipa and The Blessed Madonna's remix album Club Future Nostalgia was crafted in two months during lockdown protocols associated with the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that state representative Patricia Haynes Smith worked with a gay rights group to decriminalize sodomy in Louisiana?
... that after working to desegregate nursing in the US, Alma John produced the 1970s television show Black Pride, interviewing prominent figures like Rosa Parks and Ella Fitzgerald?
... that Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! is the first boys' love series published in English by Square Enix?
... that Saadet İkesus Altan studied music in Berlin, performed as a mezzo-soprano in Germany, and became the first female vocal coach and opera director in Turkey after her return home in 1941?
... that in a speech after the 1901 FA Cup Final, General Sir Redvers Buller compared football to the Army by saying that the winning side is usually the one best practised at shooting?
... that linguistics professor and environmentalist Winfred P. Lehmann donated 160 acres (65 ha) of land in Travis County, Texas, to The Nature Conservancy?
... that two of the British Type 42 destroyers from the 1982 Exercise Spring Train would be sunk later that year in the Falklands War?
... that St Mark's Campanile in Venice was initially built as a watchtower to sight approaching ships, and its spire, once gilded, became a "welcoming star" for navigators?
... that Edgar C. Polomé established Africa's most advanced phonetics laboratory at the University of Lubumbashi?
... that the Gulmarg Golf Club in Kashmir, situated at an altitude of 2,650 metres (8,690 ft) above sea level, is the highest green golf course in the world?
... that an HPV prevention group focuses on preventing cervical cancer by promoting the sharing of information on cervical screening and HPV vaccination?
... that Dieter Ruehle, stadium organist for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Kings, has played for three championship teams in three different sports?
... that the potential of a large landslide and resulting tsunami at Cumbre Vieja volcano attracted considerable attention?
... that the ballet Corybantic Games marked the first time Erdem Moralıoğlu had designed costumes for men?
... that World War II veteran Millie Bailey went skydiving to celebrate her 102nd birthday?
... that African-American contralto Marian Anderson was denied permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing at Constitution Hall in 1939, prompting thousands of its members to resign?
... that Ukrainian-born Stefania Berlinerblau was one of the first Jewish women to practice surgery in the United States?
... that a 2019 book argues that the Armenian Genocide was part of a larger genocide which targeted all of the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire?
... that the State-of-the-Art Car was designed to run on portions of five different subway systems?
... that the film roles of Nepali actor Dayahang Rai include a crime boss, a Maoist, the suspected killer of a popular communist leader, a police officer, and a bank robber?
... that the Carpentras Stele, the first ancient Semitic inscription ever published, was originally thought to be Phoenician but is actually ancient Aramaic?
... that an election apportionment diagram is used to explain data in easy-to-understand terms?
... that Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri challenged the Lost Cause myth that Confederate soldiers did not engage in total war during Price's Raid?
... that Malcolm Todd uncovered a previously unrecognised Roman occupation at the Iron Age hillfort in Hembury?
... that the world's first simultaneous heart-and-liver organ transplant was performed in 1984 at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh?
... that hundreds of academics signed a letter opposing the "coordinated harassment campaign by the Polish ruling party" against law professor Wojciech Sadurski?
... that Variations for Cello Solo, premiered by the composer Graham Waterhouse in Vienna in 2020, depicts characteristics of the members of his family?
... that James Biggart's election to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago was viewed by Tobagonian planters as lowering their social standing, because it meant that they were represented by a person of African descent?
... that Ted Heath stated "rejoice, rejoice" at the 1990 resignation of Margaret Thatcher, echoing words she had used after the 1982 recapture of South Georgia?
... that when Neelofa announced live on air that she was leaving talk show MeleTOP, it was a surprise to her co-host of eight years ?
... that the tiny parasitic wasp Metaphycus helvolus has helped control a major pest of citrus, Mediterranean black scale, in California and Australia?
... that several Collegiate Gothic buildings were constructed during W. Coleman Nevils's presidency of Georgetown University as part of his revival of the "Greater Georgetown" plan?
... that musician Sufjan Stevens, who initially disliked ballet, allowed his music to be used in Year of the Rabbit after choreographer Justin Peck invited him to various performances?
... that Turkish voice actress Adalet Cimcoz opened and curated her country's first and only woman-owned private art gallery?
... that the minbar of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron was originally made for a Fatimid shrine in Ashkelon?
... that Edward G. Faile raised prize-winning cattle in what is now The Bronx?
... that the Cem river basin in the borderlands of Albania and Montenegro is home to more than a quarter of the total plant species identified in each country?