derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that NASA engineer William H. Robbins worked on what was the world's largest windmill when it was dedicated in 1979?
... that the Canadian Toy Testing Council often had a waiting list of families wanting to test toys and games?
... that Leonardo DiCaprio actually set actors on fire with his flamethrower in the 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
... that actress Norma Shearer posed for a glamor photoshoot to convince her producer-husband Irving Thalberg that her sexual allure would translate to film for the lead role in The Divorcee?
... that the goldenrod crab spider can change colors between white and yellow depending on the color of the flowers on which it lives?
... that Hermann Wiedemann, who sang the role of Beckmesser in Toscanini's recording of Die Meistersinger, appeared as Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera 196 times?
... that the lehenga was the traditional dress of women belonging to the Bettiah Christian ethnoreligious community of India?
... that James M. Canty became the first Superintendent of Mechanical Industries at West Virginia State University following a recommendation from Booker T. Washington?
... that at least 90 percent of intermarried spouses in Nazi Germany and Austria refused to divorce Jewish partners despite intimidation by the Gestapo?
... that Japan National Route 281 served as an evacuation route for the city of Kuji following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami?
... that music critic Greg Kot described "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" as "despicable misogyny", but listed it among his guilty pleasures because the "rawwwk doesn't get much rawer"?
... that during the Napoleonic Wars, Donat Henchy O'Brien escaped French captivity at Bitche and rejoined the Royal Navy at Trieste?
... that the developers of the video game Serious Sam: Next Encounter kept up morale by sharing their highscores via internal message boards?
... that David Bonnar, the incoming bishop of Youngstown, served as chaplain of the Pittsburgh Steelers and editor of The Priest?
... that for a halfpenny fare, children could ride on a small chariot drawn by four muzzled mastiffs to the Farthing Pie House?
... that Swiss bass Peter Lagger performed in the world premieres of Louise Talma's Die Alkestiade at the Oper Frankfurt and of Penderecki's "Magnificat" at the Salzburg Festival?
... that when news reporters were accused of trying to force the outcome of the 1967 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, one of them said he was prepared to be shot if found guilty?
... that Saint Ninnoc is often shown with a stag lying at her feet, said to represent the at-risk women who came under her guardianship?
... that Ugandan president Idi Amin reportedly shot dead the leader of the Arube uprising when the latter tried to arrest him?
... that a reviewer of The Collapse of Price's Raid stated that the lack of maps in the book would force many reviewers to use an atlas to follow the narrative?
... that as a music teacher, Canadian classical pianist Margaret Miller Brown was known as a "tough taskmistress"?
... that the Gainsborough Studios, a cooperative apartment for artists, was legally classified as a hotel to circumvent zoning restrictions on residential building heights?
... that Bodashtart, King of Sidon, left some 30 dedicatory inscriptions at the Temple of Eshmun?
... that the Porcupine Freedom Festival has been described as "the libertarian version of Burning Man"?
... that Sydney D. Bailey, an expert on international affairs and author of 17 books, left school by the age of 16 and taught himself political science?
... that the architect of the Armenian genocide, Talaat Pasha, is buried under a monument dedicated to "heroes of the fatherland"?
... that Mauree Turner is the first publicly non-binary individual elected to a U.S. state legislature?
... that, by choosing the content included in his classic 1953 introductory textbook on the subject, Charles Kittel helped define the field of solid-state physics?
... that Kwangchul Youn, a bass from South Korea, appeared as Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival, as Mephisto at the Vienna State Opera, and as King Marke at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the U.S. and Canada engaged in a fishing war in the 1990s?
... that a reviewer expressed doubts that the plot of 24 Japan would be accepted by the viewing public since a major terror attack had not occurred in Japan for decades?
... that White House correspondent Bryson Rash started in radio at the age of 12 by voicing Buster Brown?