derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that amateur radio operator Charles E. Apgar's recordings of radio transmissions during World War I were found to include covert messages that exposed an espionage ring?
... that more than 18 million trees were planted to create Larose Forest in Eastern Ontario, Canada?
... that before becoming an electrical engineer and factory inspector, Marjorie Bell shovelled coal at a gas works?
... that the West Fifth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas, is a cantilever bridge designed to look like an arch bridge?
... that Russian historian Arkadiĭ Sidorov fought in the Moscow People's Militia during the Second World War?
... that the Royal Commission on London Traffic proposed constructing 9 miles (14 km) of avenues with railways underneath at the cost of £30 million in 1905 (equivalent to £3 billion in 2016)?
... that after world-record breaststroke swimmer Gordon Warner lost his left leg, he resumed practising the Japanese way of the sword and eventually became the discipline's highest-ranked Westerner?
... that the Czech-language fascist newspaper Arijský boj ('Aryan Struggle') claimed that the daughter of a former president kept a lesbian harem and lusted after Jewish men?
... that someone shot out KSNN radio's tower lights using a .22-caliber rifle in 1967?
... that artist Salvador Dalí claimed that his pet ocelot was an ordinary domestic cat that he had "painted over in an op art design"?
... that Hui Aloha ʻĀina was established in 1893 to promote Hawaiian independence and oppose the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom?
... that Marilyn Saviola, a polio survivor, attended Long Island University classes remotely by telephone from her hospital ward?
... that the 1864–65 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem created the first "perfectly accurate" map of the city, and was the impetus for the new Palestine Exploration Fund?
... that taxi driver Pierre Mambele was credited with playing "a unique part in shaping coverage" from the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
... that according to a 2019 biography, R. N. Kao forewarned Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman about their assassinations?
... that Eastern Michigan University football head coach Chris Creighton has won American football games on three continents?
... that Reema Juffali is the first Saudi Arabian woman to obtain a racing license and compete in an international racing event in the country?
... that the oldest rock in the Eastern Block of the North China Craton is a 3.8- to 3.6-billion-year-old trondhjemitic piece of gneiss?
... that although Michael Buie practiced Fox News anchor Bret Baier's speaking style for his role in the film Bombshell, they had never talked to each other until after filming had finished?
... that the corporate history of Xinuos begins with repeated attempts to acquire a troubled software company in bankruptcy?
... that engraver Julius Bien sided with liberals in the 1848 revolutions like many other Jews, and fled Germany to the U.S., where he became a lithographer and the president of B'nai B'rith?
... that the palm scale was first found on an endemic species of palm on the island of Réunion, but now infests plants in at least 78 families around the world?
... that New York City's Governors Island has been the site of a Statue of Liberty celebration, a U.S.–Soviet summit, and the signing of a peace treaty between Haitian political leaders?
... that despite being nearly illiterate, Chinese soldier Gao Yubao wrote an autobiographical novel that has had more than six million copies in print?
... that French general Guillaume Brune signed the Armistice of Treviso on 16 January 1801, despite promising Napoleon that he would not agree to a ceasefire on such terms?
... that gay pornographic film actor and director Erik Rhodes was posthumously outed as HIV-positive in his New York Times obituary?
... that the first episode of Welcome to the Family was Catalan network TV3's most watched premiere in over a decade?
... that Francis X. Talbot was one of the early leaders of the Catholic literary revival in the U.S.?
... that unlike most of its competitors in Hong Kong, stationery retailer Cheap Lab allows its retail staff to manage its Facebook fan page with few restrictions?
... that in France, the beetle Aepus marinus is restricted to a narrow strip of the beach near the high-water mark?
... that Angelo Neumann toured major European opera houses with a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen using the sets and costumes from its 1876 world premiere at the Bayreuth Festival?
... that the owner of Hawaii television station KHBC-TV compared an effort to unionize the station to "socialism"?
... that a court case about the Devils Hole pupfish went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?
... that Gates of Tears is the first comprehensive study of the Holocaust in the Lublin District of Poland?
... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Abel Briones Ruiz?
... that as of 2016, Wellacre Academy had 1720 solar panels, more than any other school in the United Kingdom?
... that Lisa Ainsworth leads a project that involves studying plants under atmospheric conditions that are predicted for 2050?
... that private equity firm MerchantBridge never recovered from the death of its founder and CEO in an airplane crash in Iraq?
... that Lucinda L. Combs, the first female medical missionary to serve in China, established Beijing's first women's hospital?
... that Sangrador, Venezuela's submission for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, had only 31 box-office attendances in the country that year?
... that Rex Ryan once flew fellow American football coach Sam Pittman to his house to build a fort for Ryan's children?
... that small Indian ringstones of the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE typically have four nude female figures around the central hole?
... that American actress and romance novelist Bella Jarrett was a member of Mensa International, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world?
... that Amritsar 1919 by Kim A. Wagner aims to dispel myths surrounding the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
... that the 12-year license fight that led to the establishment of Washington, D.C., radio station WYCB also drained its principals' finances?
... that as the youngest UK Member of Parliament elected in 2019, Nadia Whittome became the Baby of the House?
... that Anisocentropus krampus was described in the same paper as other insects with monstrous names like Ganonema dracula and Anisocentropus golem?
... that the red crabs dominating the wildlife of Christmas Island have been threatened by the arrival of yellow crazy ants?
... that Khabzela, a 2005 bestselling biography by Liz McGregor, concerns a South African disc jockey who died of AIDS?
... that GrapheneOS, a free and open-source operating system for selected Google Pixel smartphones, was recommended by Edward Snowden?
... that Russian historian Igor Pavlovich Shaskol'skii helped build defensive structures during the Siege of Leningrad?
... that the oldest part of the Western Block of the North China Craton formed 2.7 billion years ago?
... that Francis Dzierozynski's dispute with Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal over land ownership in Maryland escalated to involve Pope Pius VII and two U.S. secretaries of state?
... that the Polish publishing house WSiP had a monopoly on textbook publishing from the 1950s to 1989?
... that the parting of the Red Sea scene in Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 film The Ten Commandments was created by filming the release of hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into a large tank and playing the resulting footage backwards?
... that William Goldman secretly assembled a collection of photographs of prostitutes in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the 1890s?
... that redbanded thrips are a significant pest of mango and cacao in the West Indies?
... that Japanese manga artist Machiko Satonaka has written and illustrated nearly 500 manga titles since her professional debut in 1964?
... that the Hazeltine 2000 is possibly the first general-purpose computer terminal?
... that Nesta Wells, the first British female police surgeon, published a survey in the British Medical Journal of the 1,959 suspected sexual offence cases which had been referred to her?
... that the 1938 hymn "Dein Lob, Herr, ruft der Himmel aus" ('The sky shouts your praise, Lord') is based on a text by a 17th-century Jesuit astronomer paraphrasing Psalm 19?
... that American jockey Mack Garner was posthumously inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1969?
... that all the residents of Wallacepur, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat, are Christian?
... that the Mariä Krönung pilgrimage church in Lautenbach retains original Gothic features, such as the high altar and fused stained-glass windows?
... that Megan Fisher is the first woman with a lower-leg amputation to complete an XTERRA off-road triathlon?
... that Hugh Orde, the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, has been criticized for using the phrase "acceptable level of violence"?
... that separate locker rooms and a divider in the gymnasium help segregate middle-school and high-school students at Cypress Creek Middle High School in Wesley Chapel, Florida?
... that Walsh McDermott won a Lasker Award for his research on isoniazid, an antibiotic that he had taken to treat his own case of tuberculosis?
... that the export of used cars from China was legalized in 2019 to increase domestic sales and trade in the Chinese automotive industry?
... that Albert Flynn, the director of the British Army's accounts, wrote stories about aliens invading the Earth?
... that Chelsea McClammer was the youngest member of Team USA's track-and-field team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
... that jellyfish blooms can clog coastal power plants, causing losses of tens of thousands of US dollars per day?
... that King John of England is said to have convened an assembly in 1212 at the Parliament Oak to order the hanging of 28 Welsh boys?
... that the hymn "Nun lässest du, o Herr", written by Georg Thurmair as a paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis, appeared with a 16th-century melody in the first Gotteslob, but with a modern one in the second?
... that the Slovak periodical Nástup blamed Jews for both communism and "immoral capitalism"?
... that Navy Midshipmen quarterback Malcolm Perry was watching his team from the stands when an injury to a starter forced him to play in the game?
... that The Sack of Bath, a collection of newspaper articles by Adam Fergusson, sparked a resurgence in architectural conservation in Britain?
... that actor Chris Evans made his film debut in an educational film co-produced by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation?
... that the 1886 St. Croix River log jam was described as the "jammedest jam"?
... that evolutionary biologist Rebecca Kilner has found that mites can give burying beetles a competitive advantage?
... that a Staples store in New York City's Spingler Building received a criminal court summons over its refusal to remove several signs?
... that Miriam Salpeter and her husband Edwin Ernest Salpeter collaborated to study how nerves and muscle fibers interact?
... that Pervez Musharraf is the first former military ruler in Pakistan's history to face a trial for treason?
... that the Charlotte MLS team signed a kit sponsorship deal months before being officially awarded an expansion franchise?
... that a Nepali girl who spent three years in jail for showing a black flag of protest to King Mahendra went on to become the country's first female deputy prime minister?
... that after the end of the First World War, thousands of former British Army officers were forced to sleep rough in Hyde Park?
... that around 200 CE, the Indian monk Nagarjuna exhorted a king to make "Images of Buddha with fine proportions / Well designed and sitting on lotuses" ?
... that Virginia Crosbie, the member of Parliament for Ynys Môn, is a former dolphin trainer?
... that the German Advent song "Tochter Zion, freue dich" has words by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke set to music used for triumphant entrances in two of Handel's oratorios?
... that Bessie S. McColgin, the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives, was seen as a "superior orator"?
... that sedimentary rock in the Junggar Basin in northwestern China was formed by deposition from rivers and lakes in the Permian?
... that the developers of the indie video game A Story About My Uncle had to teach themselves how to use Unreal Engine to produce it?
... that Earl Landgrebe said, "Don't confuse me with the facts. I've got a closed mind. I will not vote for impeachment" when asked about the transcript of the "smoking gun" tape?
... that in 2007, a rescued European bison calf dubbed Pubal grew so attached to humans in southeastern Poland that he could not be successfully reintegrated back into the wild?
... that Eleanor Vadala , the third woman in the U.S. to receive FAA certification as a balloon pilot, also studied and repaired balloons, and drove chase cars after them?
... that collegiate a cappella was so dominated by cover songs that the genre's first album of original music was not published until 2004?
... that historians have not concluded whether Hans Raj turned state's evidence for the British Raj, or if he had been a police agent all along?
... that when the Daryl Roth Theatre opened within a former bank, it was described as one of a "growing number of unconventional spaces" that were being converted to theatres?
... that one person died during the 1929 New Zealand cyclone when a railway locomotive fell from washed-out track into the Taieri River?
... that Kate Griffiths was elected member of Parliament for Burton in the 2019 UK general election, replacing her estranged husband?
... that the Malayan banded pitta is threatened by the destruction of its forest habitat and by being targeted for the illegal trade in birds?
... that Neil McLaughlin started boxing "by mistake" after an argument with his gymnastics coach?
... that the female Savannah darter lays clutches of sticky eggs that she buries in gravel or sand?
... that the Figuralchor Frankfurt, founded in 1966 as a youth choir for the state broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, sang Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand at the opening of the Alte Oper concert hall?
... that when WFAB radio in Miami was forced off the air in 1977, Hispanic-owned shops in Homestead closed for an hour in protest?
... that British neuroscientist Rebeccah Slater led a study that showed that not only do babies experience pain, they may be more sensitive to it than adults?
... that Bihar Animal Sciences University is one of four state universities and six private universities established in the Indian state of Bihar in 2017–18?
... that Salvatore Pais's design for an electromagnetic field generator to deflect asteroids away from the Earth has been patented by the U.S. Navy?
... that scientist KC Claffy was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame for her work on measuring the Internet?
... that the hymn "Gott, der du warst und bist und bleibst" ('God, you who were, are, and will be') was composed for the opening of the Sankt Georgen seminary church in Frankfurt?
... that a night-time guard at the Bank of the Metropolis once left the bank unprotected when he went out for a drink?
... that Mexican soldier Jorge López Pérez is wanted for high treason, but has been a fugitive since 2003?
... that school officials in Palm Springs were not successful in using radio station KPSH-FM as a vocational tool, so they turned it over to the University of Southern California?
... that Kim A. Wagner, a Danish author of books on India, is named after Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim?
... that high mountains can remain standing on Jupiter's moon Io because of heat-pipe tectonics?
... that American coloratura soprano Laura Aikin , who began her opera career in Berlin, appeared as Marie in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten at the 2012 Salzburg Festival?
... that the Lac La Croix Indian Pony was recreated from a breeding population of four mares by crossing them with a Spanish Mustang?
... that Sir Alexander Gillies was instrumental in establishing orthopaedics as a surgical speciality in New Zealand?
... that according to a 2001 documentary, Ron Jeremy became a pornographic actor after his girlfriend sent a nude photo of him to Playgirl magazine?
... that the cotton mealybug, originally discovered in an underground ants' nest in New Mexico, is now a major cotton pest in India?
... that American businessman David Rabhan was imprisoned in Iran for more than a decade, from 1979 to 1990?
... that political cognition shows that the effects of voter persuasion are relatively small and fade rapidly?
... that people have randomly interjected the phrase "Epstein didn't kill himself" as a non sequitur at the end of statements?
... that a mandarin duck that appeared in New York City's Central Park became an international celebrity, with followers whom the Associated Press called "quackarazzi"?
... that Saida Muna Tasneem is the first woman to hold the positions of Bangladeshi high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Liberia?
... that the dictator game and the ultimatum game provide experimental evidence for social preferences in behavioral economics?
... that an initiative by a Daimaru department store in which menstruating employees could choose to wear a badge featuring the cartoon character Little Miss P caused a public outcry?
... that leaders within the Independent Network Charismatic Christianity movement do not aim to grow churches, but rather seek to influence the "seven mountains of culture"?
... that William Verbeck, who served as Adjutant General of the New York National Guard, was born to Dutch missionaries in Nagasaki, Japan?
... that the sculpture A Line Made by Walking proposed that the simple act of walking could be an art form?
... that John Muriel's novel Youth in Bondage, about the love life of a schoolmaster's wife, was banned in the Republic of Ireland?
... that cognitive inertia is said to play a role in why group brainstorming sessions often fail to generate many ideas?
... that the Renfrewshire Council cloned the Wallace Yew, as the historic tree was dying from a fungal infection?
... that after three-time Chinese Basketball Association champion Ji Zhe died aged 33, the Beijing Ducks distributed 18,000 T-shirts bearing his jersey number of 51?
... that early tenants at New York City's Lincoln Building ranged from architects such as Alfred Zucker to film companies such as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company?
... that several months after Thomas I. Gasson became the president of Boston College, he began arranging to relocate the school to Chestnut Hill?
... that "Wir pflügen und wir streuen" ('We plow and sow'), with words by Matthias Claudius, began as a song of a fictional harvest festival, and is now a Protestant hymn for Erntedankfest?
... that at the age of 84, Charles Duke is the youngest man to have walked on the Moon?
... that the 14th-century manuscript The equatorie of the planetis, sometimes ascribed to Chaucer, describes an equatorium ?
... that Russian historian Inna Lubimenko wrote about the letters between Queen Elizabeth I and Ivan the Terrible?
... that WWNN (980 AM) in Pompano Beach, Florida, was the first radio station in the United States to adopt a format consisting of motivational speeches?
... that a severe infestation of the palm weevil borer can kill its host palm?
... that after American baritone Raymond Wolansky appeared as a guest at the Staatsoper Stuttgart as Verdi's Rigoletto, he remained at the theatre for more than 30 years and made an international career?
... that Czech fictional outlaw Rumcajs was so popular in Poland that a brand of detergent was named after his son?
... that Queen Teriitaria II led her people into battle and defeated a French invasion force during the Franco-Tahitian War?
... that the first known paravian dinosaurs were from China, but they now live on every continent?
... that DreamWorks Water Park, advertised as North America's largest indoor water park, will include a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) wave pool and 40 water slides?
... that during the Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka massacre, five Polish families were executed by Nazis for helping Jews?
... that the 2019 drama thriller Living in Bondage: Breaking Free became one of the highest-grossing Nigerian films of all time?
... that the Real Monasterio de Santo Tomás , a royal monastery and burial place for John, Prince of Asturias, now houses two museums?
... that KFXY in Flagstaff, Arizona, was reported by American newspapers in 1925 to be the only radio station in the world owned by a woman?
... that Clebsch–Gordan coefficients, which describe how spinning objects influence each other in quantum mechanics, come from the structure of semisimple representations?
... that nearly half of paramilitary punishment attacks in Northern Ireland have occurred since the official end of the conflict?
... that Honey Davenport reigned over Paradise before appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race?
... that National Medal of Science recipient Herbert E. Grier built the firing mechanism used in the Fat Man bomb?
... that Herbert Willi composed Montafon, a cycle of four concertos with orchestra – for trumpet, flute and oboe, clarinet, and horn?
... that the stems and leaves of the endangered Holloway's crystalwort look as if they are covered in sugar crystals?
... that Richard Verschoor won the 2019 Macau Grand Prix, becoming the first Dutch driver to win the event?
... that in the 2000s, the Brooklyn Bridge Park was described as the "most important public space" to be built in Brooklyn in over a century?
... that Scarlett Johansson's film roles have included spy Natasha Romanoff, English queen Anne Boleyn's sister Mary, and an artificially intelligent voice assistant?
... that during the collision of India with Asia, the southern part of the Tibetan Plateau achieved its high elevation before the northern part ?
... that Theodora Agnes Peck became the first female honorary member of the Medal of Honor Legion of the United States, at the age of 18?
... that historian John Belchem's work covers popular radicalism in 19th-century Britain, Irish migration, the Isle of Man, and modern history?
... that the 1990 Bijnor riot was the most destructive event during concurrent Hindu nationalist campaigns in India, which eventually led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid?
... that Frank Soo has been the only person of East Asian descent to play for the England national football team?
... that 44 Union Square in New York City has housed the Tammany Hall political organization, a labor union, and two theaters?
... that award-winning film editor Fu Zhengyi was called the "first pair of scissors" in China?
... that when students feel a greater sense of school belonging, their mental health and well-being are improved?
... that Billy Wilder, an award-winning film director and screenwriter, had minimal knowledge of English when he arrived in Hollywood in 1934?
... that the Epiphany hymn "Deep in the Darkness a Starlight is Gleaming" covers the topic of a Christian's journey, as Mary, Joseph and Jesus had done on the flight into Egypt?
... that newly appointed U.S. senator Kelly Loeffler co-owns the women's basketball team Atlanta Dream?
... that the South China Craton is thought to have been adjacent to eastern Australia and western Laurentia in the "missing link" hypothesis?
... that David Hillhouse Buel, a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army, was assassinated by a fellow soldier whom he had imprisoned for desertion?
... that the book Trekonomics argues that while the warp drive seems impossible, Star Trek's post-scarcity economy can plausibly be achieved?
... that to counter the influence of Western missionaries, a Japanese woman was hired as the first principal of Bangkok's Rajini School for girls in 1904?
... that Notre Père is a setting of the Lord's Prayer in French by Maurice Duruflé, and his only composition suitable for congregational singing?
... that Christine Duffy, the president of Carnival Cruise Line, was considered too short to become a flight attendant?
... that the Land League's "rival government" surpassed the power of the British government in many parts of Ireland during the late 19th century?