derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that of the more than 1.5 million US Army servicemen in the UK in May 1944, nearly 460,000 were part of the Services of Supply, which was responsible for American logistics in the Normandy campaign?
... that Elisabeth Lindermeier sang in performances of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Royal Opera House in London, conducted by her husband Rudolf Kempe and recorded in 1957?
... that former Gaelic footballer Donal Reid used his bare hands to put out the flames when a woman's coat caught fire in his church?
... that American rapper Lil Uzi Vert took more than a year to release his second studio album Eternal Atake, but released its deluxe edition only a week later?
... that Ansgar the Staller was severely injured at the Battle of Hastings, but was carried to London where he then led the English defence at the Burning of Southwark?
... that during filming of the banned ski-BASE jump performed by Rick Sylvester in Yosemite Valley, the film crew were threatened with arrest but not caught afterwards?
... that French medievalist Francis Rapp, who taught at three universities in Strasbourg, specialised in the history of Alsace?
... that the tree Macaranga triloba encourages the ants that defend it by providing them with food bodies?
... that John W. Walsh founded several non-profits around alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a condition that had fewer than 5,000 recorded cases when he was diagnosed with it?
... that a fresco depicting the Nursing Madonna was found in the churchyard of San Michele Arcangelo ai Corridori di Borgo in Rome?
... that Carol Shanahan bought Port Vale F.C. because she felt that "a loved one was held hostage and someone had to pay the ransom"?
... that the French ironclad Hoche had such a large superstructure that she was nicknamed "le Grand Hôtel"?
... that Hong Kong politician Cheng Lai-king has represented her constituency in the Central and Western District Council since its creation in 1994?
... that if completed, the coal-fired Afşin-Elbistan C power station would emit more than a tenth of Turkey's greenhouse gas emissions?
... that ice hockey player Akil Thomas runs a clothing company that embraces his Barbadian heritage?
... that Oklahoma station KRMC dropped its all-news radio format in part because its management felt that it did not work well on a daytime-only station?
... that Heinz Imdahl, a baritone at the Bavarian State Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Pizarro at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Philadelphia Opera?
... that actress Laia Manzanares played a cheerleader who is seduced by a gorilla mascot in a Tame Impala music video?
... that Joey Dosik wrote the song "Game Winner" while recovering from a basketball-related ACL injury?
... that the parasitic greater broomrape usually grows on the roots of the common broom or the European gorse?
... that the CIA recruited Lithuanian Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis in 1952, even though he was suspected of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust?
... that the 1992 St. George earthquake caused more damage outside St. George, Utah, than within it?
... that Srećko Albini, a conductor at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, composed operettas that were also performed in Venice, London, and New York?
... that before the opening of a new subway line, passengers at the 169th Street station in Queens had to wait just to get to the platform during rush hours?
... that orphanage director Luo Shuzhang was accused of raising "little communists"?
... that when seeking to board an enemy ship, German naval officer Ulrich Mohr once disguised himself as a British officer?
... that the HP Slate 21 is an Android tablet with a 21.5-inch (550 mm) screen?
... that Sato Project founder Christina Beckles, who coordinates the travel of stray dogs from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States for adoption, is allergic to dogs?
... that Duncraig Castle has been a summer home for the wealthy, a naval hospital, a girls' college, and a B&B, has its own railway station, and was the subject of a reality television show?
... that despite being ranked 101st of 103 graduates in his West Point class of 1909, William H. Simpson later became a four-star general?
... that actor Erik Knudsen worked with Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene, his favorite band, in a fictional band based on them for the soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World?
... that Muhammad al-Riquti taught Muslims, Christians, and Jews at his school under the patronage of the future Alfonso X of Castile?
... that Bräus, from the Swedish island of Gotland, differs from all other card games in that not all cards are playable?
... that U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot Chuck Wilson flew the first operational mission of the S-model Dragon Lady in 1995 from Osan Air Base, South Korea?
... that in a Berge equilibrium, every player of a strategic game makes sure other players do as well as possible?
... that Silke Bühler-Paschen was the first woman to become a full professor of physics at TU Wien in 2005?
... that the song "Shiny Suit Theory" was the result of a chance meeting between Jay Electronica and Jay-Z at a birthday party?
... that actor James Stewart displayed his only Oscar, which he had won for The Philadelphia Story, in his father's hardware shop?
... that Somerset could have won the 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final if they had known the Laws of Cricket?
... that Max Laeuger was a German potter, artist, and architect who won an Olympic medal?
... that during John Early's presidency of Georgetown University, the school was occupied three times by the Union Army but never ceased classes?
... that Le Concert Spirituel played Handel's open-air music at the Proms with an ensemble that comprised 18 oboes, 9 trumpets, 9 trombones, and strings?
... that painter Lin Wenzheng translated A Brief History of Chinese Fiction from Chinese to French while in prison?
... that during the initial naval battle of the First Punic War, the Roman sailors fled, with their commander and the entire fleet captured by the Carthaginians?
... that county judge Clay Jenkins did not wear PPE while interacting with the family of a patient with Ebola virus disease, to show that asymptomatic individuals cannot spread the disease?
... that Mahatma Gandhi praised the Gujarati-language poem "Amar Asha" ('Immortal Hope'), saying that both Hindus and Muslims "should be proud of it"?
... that 500 Queer Scientists are informally partnered with 500 Women Scientists?
... that a poster illustrated by Karoly Grosz for the 1932 film The Mummy held the record for the most expensive sold at auction for 17 years?
... that American performing artist Nashom Wooden starred in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo with drag queen RuPaul?
... that Karan Johar launched the pop song "Genda Phool" on social media during India's coronavirus lockdown?
... that Syrian refugee Hassan Al Kontar was stranded at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for seven months?
... that 90 West Street, damaged by falling steel in the September 11 attacks, may have survived because of its use of architectural terracotta?
... that Peter Minich was a lead tenor for Viennese operettas at the Volksoper in the 1960s and 1970s?
... that when US president Bill Clinton phoned Trimdon Labour Club to talk to UK prime minister Tony Blair, the barmaid who answered the call said that "someone called Clinton" was on the phone?
... that Upāli , the Buddha's learned low-caste disciple, was ordained before his friends of royal blood to humble their pride?
... that the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas was founded by the Junior Service League of Longview, whose members transported paintings in their own station wagons?
... that historian Thomas Stephens is considered to have done more to raise the standards of the National Eisteddfod of Wales than any other Welshman of his time?
... that Paige Bueckers held athletic scholarship offers by the age of 14 from the college basketball programs of Minnesota, of Iowa State, and of Illinois?
... that the play-by-mail game Beyond the Stellar Empire was part of the "stomping ground" of the genre's top players, allowing them to govern a space colony or join a space pirate band?
... that Freimut Duve became the first OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media after serving as a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1998?
... that during World War II, the 1st Engineer Special Brigade fought in Italy, in Normandy, and in Okinawa?
... that an early program feature on Nebraska radio station KJSK was a cooking show hosted by the owner's wife from her kitchen?
... that the orange-band surgeonfish can change colour from dark to light almost instantaneously?
... that after serving as president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., Giovanni Antonio Grassi became the confessor to King Charles Felix and Queen Maria Cristina of Sardinia?
... that Renée Gilly studied under her parents and became a leading mezzo-soprano at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where she sang roles such as Bizet's Carmen?
... that the title character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian was partially inspired by Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa?
... that Kathleen Pelham Burn, Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation?
... that the book Calendrical Calculations has been called "the most extensive and detailed publication on calendar systems" since Friedrich Karl Ginzel's work in the early 20th century?
... that auctioneer Peregrine Pollen once smuggled four Impressionist paintings out of Buenos Aires in a Beatles poster?
... that Second World War fascist Susan Sweney was shipwrecked so often that she described herself as "many times drowned"?
... that the term "informed consent" was coined during the 1957 court case Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees?
... that Edward Ardolino sculpted and carved Art Deco architectural works including the central Los Angeles Public Library and the Nebraska State Capitol?
... that the idea for the documentary film Crip Camp came to the directors after an "off-hand comment at lunch"?
... that Sylvia Rose Ashby, an Australian market researcher, was once threatened with arrest if she did not stop surveying popular opinion on the Second World War?
... that there were doubts regarding in which County Londonderry constituency the freeholders of the North West Liberties of Londonderry could vote?
... that Ulrich Stranz composed Musik für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 for piano and orchestra, which premiered in Munich with Margarita Höhenrieder as the soloist in 1983?
... that the Socony–Mobil Building in Manhattan was disparaged by architectural critic Lewis Mumford as having the appearance of a structure "coming down with measles"?
... that 18 spans of the Kobe Route collapsed in 1995 due to the unprecedented strength of the Great Hanshin earthquake and various structural flaws?
... that John Tiedtke, heir to a grocery- and department-store fortune, sponsored a Bach festival and served as its president?
... that in the 0x88 chess-board representation, 8-by-16 boards are used?
... that nephrologist and cellist Leah Lowenstein, an advocate for women in medicine, was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States?
... that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of Mesopotamia?
... that a vote of no confidence was successfully brought against the Kurti cabinet following a cabinet minister's dismissal over disagreements on how to manage the coronavirus pandemic in Kosovo?
... that the Littlefield Fountain is a war memorial at the University of Texas at Austin commemorating students and alumni who died in World War I?
... that Venezuelan film editor and director Alfredo Hueck became interested in film after learning how to set up his family's Betamax player?
... that American physician Max C. Starkloff used social distancing to fight the 1918 flu pandemic in St. Louis?
... that Manchester United became the first English football team to win the European Cup by defeating Benfica in the 1968 final?
... that the Htupayon Pagoda in Sagaing, Myanmar, has been hit by at least five major earthquakes and rebuilt three times?
... that Charlie Watts was the organiser of the British Union of Fascists' cab-drivers group, which was said to have 1,000 members, in the 1930s?
... that Ayushmann Khurrana learned to play the piano and make omelettes blindfolded for one of his performances?
... that Charles Wilkins, who wrote prolifically about the history of Wales, was described as "an Englishman with a Welshman's enthusiasm"?
... that Dale Jr. did not host The Dale Jr. Download for the podcast's first four years?
... that Kateryna Skarzhynska founded Ukraine's first private museum, housing archaeological artifacts, scientific books, and her collection of more than 2,100 Ukrainian Easter eggs ?
... that 722 graduates of the M. V. Frunze Military Academy received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1988?
... that George Dudley threatened to withdraw Canada from ice hockey at the Olympic Games over the definition of an amateur?
... that the Maas Brothers store at Port Charlotte Town Center was never opened due to the bankruptcy of its parent company Allied Stores?
... that the 2019 Ukrainian teen drama Early Swallows was responsible for a 600-percent increase in calls to a mental-health helpline?
... that when the College of the Pacific started a radio station, it had to settle for the call sign KCVN because a police facility held the rights to KCOP?
... that Austrian industrialist Hans Lauda was critical of his grandson Niki's Formula One ambitions, as he believed that "a Lauda should be on the economic pages of the newspaper, not the sports pages"?
... that in the film Dick Johnson Is Dead, director Kirsten Johnson has her elderly father act out different ways – some of them violent "accidents" – in which he could die?
... that a collection of kimono assembled by Nasser Khalili covers four periods of Japanese history?
... that an attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi may have been triggered by protests against a 150-percent fee hike?
... that film director Garrett Batty wrote the script for The Saratov Approach while recovering from heart surgery?
... that local residents complained about "potentially hazardous waste" being dredged from Peel Marina on the Isle of Man in 2015, only for toxic cadmium to be found there five years later?
... that Josephus C. Vines, the former Prohibitionist mayor of Brighton, Alabama, shot and killed a man who was drinking on his doorstep?
... that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central Scottish Highlands?
... that Moldavian leader Nikita Salogor called for an expansion of the borders of Soviet Moldavia in 1946, which may have led to his removal from office later that year?
... that professional journalists commended a student reporter at Sacramento radio station KERS for refusing to reveal her source for a story about California governor Ronald Reagan not paying taxes?
... that American journalist Bessie Van Vorst worked undercover at a pickle factory and other worksites to expose labor conditions for women and children in the early 1900s?
... that Cornell University student Charles Spencer Francis, who later became the U.S. ambassador to Austria, set the world record for intercollegiate single-scull rowing in 1876?
... that hundreds of patients of the Provincial Mental Sanatorium Kortau died in Nazi Germany's Aktion T4 involuntary-euthanasia program?
... that the second of Henry Purcell's two settings of Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts was composed in an earlier style for the funeral of Queen Mary II of England?
... that Emilia Clarke performed the funky chicken and robot dances at her Game of Thrones audition?
... that the Caha Mountains in south-west County Cork are notable for the presence of Minuartia recurva, a montane sandwort not otherwise found in Ireland?
... that treatment for the symptoms of Newyorkitis was being offered at a New York YMCA in 1908?
... that a Mughal painter described himself in his self-portrait as "the lowly, needy, insignificant, Daulat"?
... that unlike most other flagship smartphones in 2020, the Sony Xperia 1 II smartphone includes a 3.5 mm audio jack?
... that soprano and voice teacher Henny Wolff performed lieder by Hermann Reutter at the inaugural Ferienkurse für internationale neue Musik in Darmstadt in 1946, with the composer at the piano?
... that many homes in the neighborhood of Sunset Park were "inexpensive imitations" of upper-class brownstones elsewhere in Brooklyn?
... that Czechoslovak Communist politician Václav Kopecký "distinguished himself with antisemitic diatribes" and stage-managed an antisemitic show trial?
... that after suspected coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India, started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using indelible ink?
... that 7,000 residents of Brighton, England, ate plum pudding and roast beef and played kiss-in-the-ring at The Level to celebrate Napoleon's defeat in 1814?
... that the sponge Aplysina cavernicola has been used as a model organism to monitor the presence of isotopes such as americium-241 in seawater?
... that actor Charlie Condou was offered the role of Ben Sherwood in Holby City without an audition?
... that when the Third Avenue/125th Street Line was extended across Manhattan, it was celebrated with a seven-day carnival in Harlem?
... that Enderby Jackson, the founder of the traditional British brass band contest, was raised to be a tallow chandler?
... that if climate sensitivity is on the high end of scientists' estimates, it may be impossible to achieve the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F)?
... that students at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, asked for President Clyde A. Lynch's name to be removed from a memorial hall as it reminded them of lynching?
... that the Fulham Pottery, founded in London in 1672, operated for over 300 years?
... that United States Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens cited political scientist Kristin Goss in a case related to gun control?
... that baseball coach Mike Coolbaugh was killed by a batted ball in 2007?
... that King Henry VII of England extracted £48,000 worth of "loving contributions" from his subjects in 1491, despite the practice having been outlawed seven years earlier?
... that International Boxing Federation flyweight world champion Leonela Paola Yúdica won a house in a raffle?
... that a Tower Records store at 360 Newbury Street, Boston, was the largest record store in the United States upon its opening in 1987?
... that Maria van Pallaes allowed both Catholics and Protestants to live in her almshouses, which was unusual for the time?
... that Coventry City defeated Football League Cup holders Nottingham Forest 5–4 in 1990, with a player from each team scoring a hat-trick before half-time?
... that Eugene W. Chafin, the Prohibition Party presidential candidate in 1908 and in 1912, had a brick thrown at him during the Springfield race riot?
... that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the CIA?
... that fossils from twenty-one species of mammals have been identified at Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight?
... that a letter written by John Peyton to his wife contains one of the few surviving first-hand accounts of the Battle of the Nile?
... that the roof of the Town Lake Gazebo in Austin, Texas, is in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid?
... that Laverne Antrobus has appeared on the BBC giving advice and information on child psychology since 2004?
... that Paul Mägi, principal conductor of the Estonian National Opera, conducted the first recording of Eino Tamberg's opera Cyrano de Bergerac?
... that the essay "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" has been described as an ode to autumn?
... that the New York Life Building is topped by a six-story roof tiled with 22-karat gold?
... that while living in China, the New Zealand tour guide Troy Collings co-founded a company specialising in tours of North Korea?
... that I Will Mention the Loving-kindnesses is an 1875 Easter anthem by Arthur Sullivan for solo tenor, mixed choir, and organ, setting a passage from the Book of Isaiah?
... that in a 1902 U.S. Supreme Court case, a ship owner alleged that the real purpose of Louisiana's quarantine laws was to keep Italian immigrants out of New Orleans?
... that Hiyori Nitta was inspired to become a Japanese voice actress after watching HeartCatch PreCure!, the only anime that she was allowed to watch while studying for her examinations?
... that the 1775 Easter hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words?
... that Charles W. Lyons was the only Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have been president of four different colleges?
... that some snooker matches at the 2020 Gibraltar Open were played without a referee?
... that Ailladie , an 800-metre-long (2,600 ft) limestone sea cliff in the Burren, has been called "the mecca for rock-climbing in Ireland"?
... that Willigis Jäger, a German Benedictine friar, studied Zen for six years with Yamada Koun in Japan and introduced it to his order?
... that industry analysts have predicted that up to 75 percent of independent restaurants in the U.S. will not survive the coronavirus pandemic?
... that the two road cyclists who represented Burkina Faso at the 2012 Summer Paralympics had to share a handcycle due to a lack of resources?
... that Juan Guaidó, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, tried to climb over a fence to vote in the 2020 committee elections after being blocked from entering the building?
... that French potter Auguste Delaherche was said to have used clay dug from his garden, and only fired his kiln once a year?
... that the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, Oregon, includes North America's deepest transit station, at 260 ft (79 m) below ground?
... that Hieronymus Bosch's painting Christ Crowned with Thorns contains hidden symbolism?
... that the Jersey Football Association applied for UEFA membership after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that UEFA must allow them to do so?
... that Delaware State Commissioner of Education Arthur R. M. Spaid was also a naturalist and photographer who gave more than 100 lectures?
... that according to Luke the Evangelist, the last words of Jesus on the cross came from Psalm 31?
... that the capture of the southern caverns of Cappadocia and Ancyra by Maslama ibn Hisham around 739 marked the Umayyad Caliphate's last territorial gains against the Byzantine Empire?
... that British Rail's Automatic Train Protection system was estimated to cost £11 million per life saved, more than the £4 million per life to be considered good value for money?
... that Dutch soprano Jo Vincent appeared in Willem Mengelberg's 1939 recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, and in the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony in 1949?
... that Riverside Church in Manhattan includes a movie theater, gymnasium, and observation deck, and formerly contained a bowling alley?
... that according to biographer Steven Fenberg, Jesse H. Jones was the second most powerful person in America during the Great Depression and World War II?
... that SS Petriana was wrecked 200 metres (660 ft) off the Australian coast, but its crew were not allowed to land in Australia?
... that Leonard Montefiore organised an airlift of hundreds of Jewish orphans who had survived Nazi concentration camps?
... that according to legend, the so-called Immortal Piano was partially built with wood from the pillars of Solomon's Temple?
... that Richard J. Daley suffered his only electoral defeat when he ran for sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, in 1946?