derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that James Nathan Calloway, born in slavery in Tennessee, established an experimental cotton-growing farm in Togo?
... that Dua Lipa created the music video for her 2020 song "Hallucinate" with teams working in London, Paris, and Los Angeles?
... that Ibaqa Beki was briefly married to Genghis Khan, who abruptly gave her to one of his generals, possibly as a reward to that general for killing her father?
... that the date of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination – September 26, 2020 – was the nearest to a presidential election in U.S. history?
... that the Battle of Roan's Tan Yard ended Missouri State Guard recruiting activities in Randolph County?
... that "All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving" is sung to the hymn tune of "Gott Vater, sei gepriesen"?
... that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"?
... that according to local legend, the catfish that inhabit the reservoir at the Shah Jalal Dargah are the cursed and reincarnated soldiers of Gour Govinda?
... that as a lobbyist for Bacardi, Otto Reich, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, played a role in passing legislation that stripped trademark protection from Havana Club rum?
... that the 2013 Nepali historical drama Badhshala was briefly banned by the Nepali Army because the actors wore military uniforms without permission?
... that with the designation of County Highway A-2 in 1970, Mrs. Howard "Gene" Temple became the first Michigan woman to acquire a highway designation from the State Highway Commission?
... that the opera Die Prinzessin Girnara, by composer Wellesz and librettist Wassermann, and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?
... that Estonian linguist Jaan Puhvel has worked for more than half a century on his multi-volume Hittite Etymological Dictionary?
... that in Public Access Opinion 16-006, the Illinois Attorney General ordered Chicago police officers to release their private emails about the police-involved murder of Laquan McDonald?
... that at age 102, Beatrice Lumpkin, a union organizer and lifelong member of the Communist Party, donned hazmat suit–style gear to drop off her vote-by-mail ballot for the US elections?
... that Rod Serling's Forbidden Area , a nuclear-war thriller, launched the four-year run of a series voted in 1970 as "the greatest television series of all time"?
... that a male spider of the species Zygiella x-notata uses vibrational courtship signals when entering a female's web to alert her of his presence as a potential mate, rather than potential prey?
... that Agnes Stavenhagen was the soprano soloist in the first performance of Mahler's Second Symphony in Munich, conducted by the composer?
... that balconies at 240 Central Park South were designed to give residents a view above Central Park's tree line?
... that Michael Jackson's manager expected him to return from an injury and perform in the 2001 Football League First Division play-off Final?
... that Leo Petrović, a historian and head of the Herzegovinian Franciscans, was murdered by the Yugoslav Partisans as part of their campaign against the Franciscans?
... that Ann Bedsole, the first woman to be elected to the Alabama Senate, printed a timetable for the state's hunting season on the back of her re-election campaign flyers?
... that cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was recognised by his native India with both a top sporting honour and its highest civilian honour?
... that Walt Whitman's poem "This Dust Was Once the Man", an elegy for President Abraham Lincoln, is just four lines long?
... that San Baw, chief orthopaedic surgeon of Mandalay General Hospital, pioneered the use of ivory prostheses to replace ununited fractures of the femoral neck?
... that the 1846 death of Frederick John White after a flogging led the Duke of Wellington to order that sentences not exceed 50 lashes?
... that actress and dancer Raissa Gourevitch performed in surrealist plays before becoming an archaeological authority on Roman statuary?
... that in his hurry to get to a fire in Fort Saskatchewan, the town's fire chief was pulled over for speeding and nearly hitting a police officer in Edmonton?
... that the Federal Radio Commission revoked the license of Chicago radio station WCHI in 1931 for attacking medical procedures such as surgical operations and vaccinations?
... that gravediggers discovered the Hexham Hoard of eight thousand stycas in a bronze bucket in 1832?
... that Ethel Maynard was the first black woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature?
... that Bury F.C. converted its debts of £1,230 into a credit balance of £1,329 by winning the 1900 FA Cup Final?
... that Indonesian Navy officer Louise Elisabeth Coldenhoff described her tenure as head of the personnel section as "living between angels and devils"?
... that writer and socialite Cat Marnell once described New York City nightclub Lit Lounge as "like Cheers ... but with PCP and vodka"?
... that Isambard Kingdom Brunel had muddy boots and trousers when posing for what was called "one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century and, possibly, of all time" ?
... that The Legend of Dragoon uses four CDs, the maximum allowed in a PlayStation case?
... that Dilys Price, the world's oldest female solo parachute jumper, made more than 1,130 solo jumps before selling her parachute at age 86?
... that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru launched Shankar's Weekly, even though its founder described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?
... that American actress Masey McLain's feature film debut in I'm Not Ashamed was praised by critic Jordan Hoffman, who said of her acting future, "the sky is the limit"?
... that the 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état overthrew President Carlos Humberto Romero?
... that the French philologist Georges Dumézil is credited with saving the Ubykh language from extinction?
... that the shepherd's flock felt that it had been fleeced at Innsbruck?
... that Tom Pope became the second-highest goalscorer in Port Vale's history after twice being rejected by the club as a teenager?
... that the recording of "Waiting for a Train" introduced Jimmie Rodgers's trademark train whistle?
... that K. W. Gransden, despite publishing only two poetry collections, was included by Philip Larkin in The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse?
... that for her sound-film debut in 1931, silent-screen star Mae Marsh begged the director to tell her what to say before each scene?
... that the synthetic compound carbonaceous sulfur hydride is the world's first room-temperature superconductor?
... that "So nimm denn meine Hände" by Julie Hausmann, first printed in 1862, placed seventh in a 2019 survey of favourite funeral music in Germany, immediately behind "My Way"?
... that Manoj Kumar and Raj Kumar had to win cases at the Delhi High Court to be awarded the Arjuna Award sporting honour in the 2010s?
... that Filipina soldier and spy Josefina Guerrero, diagnosed with leprosy, created intelligence reports that helped the Americans defeat the Japanese at Manila Harbor?
... that a lawsuit filed against Busch Gardens Tampa Bay alleged that a model was falsely imprisoned after not being allowed to get off the Scorpion roller coaster ?
... that Bups Saggu learned to play the tabla at the local gurdwara in Wolverhampton, but later moved on to playing the dhol because he "took a liking to the larger and louder sound"?
... that in 1902, the Brooklyn marine engine manufacturers Riley & Cowley built a steam car?
... that a global advisory committee has been monitoring rapidly developing COVID-19 vaccines against a background of growing misinformation and vaccine hesitancy?
... that cricketer Charlotte Taylor was the top wicket-taker in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, despite not being initially picked in the squads for the tournament?
... that a group of prisoners building the Honolulu Courthouse overpowered their guards, took possession of gun batteries overlooking Honolulu, and attempted to open fire on nearby buildings?
... that The Times said that Sheila Atim "sings Dylan better than Bob"?
... that Canadian professor Bob Hindmarch donated his own money to feed starving student athletes on the Canada men's national ice hockey team?
... that American artist Stuart Davis spent six years working on his jazz-inspired painting The Mellow Pad?
... that the Pilcher Monument was erected partly to warn people of the dangers of the Sark coast?
... that Martin Egel appeared at the Bayreuth Festival from 1975 to 1986, including a three-year run as Donner in the Jahrhundertring?
... that the second birth in a Mexico City Metro station in 2020 occurred at Tláhuac?
... that Lillian Brown, makeup artist to nine U.S. presidents, stopped Richard Nixon's sobbing before he went on television to resign the presidency?
... that ChilledCow has one of the longest videos on YouTube, totaling over 13,000 hours?
... that despite being excluded from the standard edition of 1989, "New Romantics" by Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by Rolling Stone?
... that in Bettina, the chamber opera's only solo singer portrays both Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode, reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide?
... that Coronet magazine was deluged with letters and phone calls when Margueritte Harmon Bro wrote about the "Miracle Man of Virginia Beach"?
... that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fielded more than a hundred tanks in Syria and Iraq?
... that footage from the 1995 documentary film BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism was played for a U.S. congressional committee during its hearings on the National Endowment for the Arts?
... that black-on-black ware has been created by generations of Puebloan Native American ceramic artists in Northern New Mexico?
... that Soetran was nicknamed the "Clove Governor" after he obligated families in Papua to cultivate cloves?
... that Great American Bank, based in San Diego, was the first savings and loan association founded in Southern California?
... that the diaries of Lady Lacoste, a 19th-century philanthropist from Montreal, give historians a rare look into how emotions impacted the lives of women in her social class?
... that the Atlantic dancing shrimp is often associated with sea urchins or sea anemones?
... that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
... that in a pre-game ceremony before the last game of the 1972 ice hockey Summit Series, the Canadian delegation presented a totem pole to the Soviet Union?
... that Scottsdale, Arizona, repealed its ban on dancing so that the Safari Hotel could open a nightclub?
... that British general John Hunter Littler had two horses shot from under him during the 29 December 1843 Battle of Maharajpore?
... that Soedardjat Nataatmadja's instruction for parliamentary observers to wear traditional Sundanese clothing cost him his reelection?
... that the social study They Live on the Land was based on interviews with nearly the entire population of a rural Alabama town during the Great Depression?
... that the colonial bryozoan Beania magellanica, widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere, has recently turned up in the Mediterranean Sea?
... that during the 1973 oil crisis, material scientist Henry Ehrenreich assessed photovoltaic cells and was an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy?
... that modified mRNA (mRNA translation depicted) is a key technology in the Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19?
... that Dick Kaegel began working as a full-time sportswriter while he was still in high school?
... that 50 years ago today, a military tribunal handed down six controversial death sentences to members of the Basque separatist group ETA?
... that William Gates LeDuc led a bison through the streets of New York City as part of the Minnesota exhibition at the 1853 World's Fair?
... that "Filipino Baby", a song about a sailor's love for a Filipino girl, described as "my treasure and my pet", was a top-five hit for three different artists in 1946?
... that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver?
... that the first official resolution of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology was that they would never meet in a place with anti-sodomy laws?
... that Shirley Temple said of her relationship with her favorite dance partner Bill "Bojangles" Robinson : "It was kind of a magic between us"?
... that the Wallace rule of nines to calculate the area of a burn was introduced by A. B. Wallace of Bangour General Hospital?
... that Wisconsin was the leading producer of dairy products in the United States from 1915 to 1993?
... that New Zealand mountaineer Marmaduke Dixon came within 100 ft (30 m) of the summit in his attempt to make the first ascent of the country's highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook?
... that the life cycle of the Neptune-grass bryozoan is synchronized with the growth cycle of the seagrass on which it lives and the availability of the phytoplankton on which it feeds?
... that academic and philanthropist Guido Goldman convinced West German chancellor Willy Brandt to set up and endow the German Marshall Fund on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan?
... that the Cistercian monastic order created an early competitor to Hindu–Arabic numerals with which they wrote years as a single character?
... that American football player Harry Field married a Hawaiian princess and is a 2021 finalist for induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame?
... that the former member of parliament Robert Stanton took part in a mock election while in prison?
... that the irrigation intake for which New Zealand farmer Marmaduke Dixon long campaigned is now a historic structure registered by Heritage New Zealand?
... that Hespress, the most popular news website in Morocco, initially relied on non-staff bloggers for its articles?
... that Sylvia Pengilly used an Amiga computer to integrate graphics with music and herself dancing?
... that although the Euclidean distance and the Pythagorean theorem are both ancient concepts, the Pythagorean formula for distance was not published until 1731?
... that Udyavara Madhava Acharya is credited with the modernisation of the theatre form Yakshagana?
... that while Ebenezer Joshua joined the government after the 1974 Vincentian general election, his wife Ivy became the leader of the opposition?
... that the Mostaert Amsterdam Adoration includes three scenes from the Old Testament and one from Christian legend?
... that One Voice at Christmas involves Aled Jones duetting Christmas carols with his younger self and the late Terry Wogan?
... that Giovanni Garbini's studies helped scholars interpret the biblical narrative in the larger context of the history of the ancient Near East?
... that the classic children's Christmas story The Littlest Angel was written in just three days?
... that in 1975, Finland's Minister of Education Marjatta Väänänen sent a petition to the Archbishop of Turku with almost 1 million signatures, advocating for the introduction of female priests?
... that O magnum mysterium, a motet for double choir by Morten Lauridsen, is a setting of a medieval Latin text for Christmas to music described as "ethereal sounds in imperturbable calmness"?
... that when Donald Trump owned the Plaza Hotel, he requested a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in exchange for allowing the film crew to shoot in the lobby?
... that sending the real animals and personnel in The Twelve Days of Christmas resulted in a letter from G. Creep, solicitor?
... that after a visit to a ragged school, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, in which he uses the ghost of Jacob Marley as a mouthpiece for his own views on social responsibility?
... that James W. Nance tested the Douglas A-3 Skywarrior aboard USS Forrestal, which he later commanded?
... that St. Michael, a 17th-century chapel on a hill near Kaubenheim, Bavaria, which offers services in summer and for Christmas, received electricity around 1980?
... that after Houkje Gerrits Bouma won one of the earliest women's speed skating competitions in 1809, women's competitions were not held anymore because women skating with bare arms was considered obscene?
... that a football club in Finland called FC Santa Claus has competed as high as the third tier?
... that Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger wrote "Süßer die Glocken nie klingen", a popular 19th-century Christmas carol to the melody of an evening song, evoking the sound of bells as a symbol of peace and joy?
... that the staff of the Embassy of the Philippines in Tokyo at one point formed the entire Philippine foreign service?
... that Fishbait Miller, the doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives, greeted Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in 1951 by saying, "Howdy, Ma'am"?
... that when the Osborne Apartments building was slated to be torn down and replaced, its residents saved it by jointly raising $500,000?
... that Rudolf Steglich, a musicologist who wrote his habilitation thesis on rhythm in 1930, was a co-editor of the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, the critical edition of Handel's complete works, from 1955?
... that the female Agelenopsis aperta spider enters a cataplectic state during mating, which means it loses control of its body and is unconscious?
... that cartoonist Trung Le Nguyen's graphic novel The Magic Fish is inspired by his experience as a child of Vietnamese immigrants to the United States?
... that scholars have speculated that failure to punish the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide contributed to the Holocaust?
... that Cynthia Fierro Harvey is the first Hispanic woman to serve as the president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops?
... that the 2021 Somali presidential election was originally scheduled for 2020, but was delayed by concerns of famine, war, pestilence, and civil disorder?
... that despite being awarded the military Legion of Merit four times, as well as the civilian Medal of Freedom, Lewis Strauss is often viewed as a villain of American history?
... that the London Theatre Studio was the first English drama school to teach theatrical design as well as drama?
... that Thomas J. White estimated that he gave more than $75 million to charity after resolving "to die as close to penniless as possible"?
... that In Praise of Forgetting makes the case against collective memory: "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present"?
... that the Arlington Hotel, rebuilt after a devastating fire, was severely damaged in the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake?
... that The European said of George Saxby Penfold's sermons that "they are distinguished by a pleasing mediocrity"?
... that the Segugio Italiano was highly prized during the Italian Renaissance, being used in elaborate hunts with large numbers of servants and followers mounted on horseback?
... that Australian pop band Autumn was one of four artists co-credited with a number-one hit in the Australian charts on 31 October 1970, each with a version of the song "Yellow River"?
... that Bernie Sanders won the election to become Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, by ten votes in 1981?
... that during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Halina Kwiatkowska acted in an underground theatre alongside a future pope?
... that in his book Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, Gerald Holton argues that philosophy from Either/Or influenced Niels Bohr's concept of complementarity?
... that Robert Hammerstiel wrapped Vienna's Ringturm tower in a painting showing stations of human life in simplified and brightly coloured figures?
... that the marine worm Neanthes arenaceodentata is both an environmental monitor and a caring father?
... that the only thing known about Johannete Ravenelle is that she owned a book of hours now carrying her name ?
... that Yusuf Sayfa, commander of Ottoman forces in Syria against the Kurdish rebel Janbulad, became the latter's subordinate?
... that in Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, a cantata in eleven movements for Advent, Georg Böhm set all eight stanzas of Luther's hymn, and all differently?
... that shortly after winning a conference tournament championship with Vanderbilt's soccer team, Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play football in a Power Five conference game?
... that although nothing remains of Fort La Cloche in La Cloche Provincial Park, it was an economic hub for the area in the 19th century?
... that Black Futures, a 544-page collection of Black art and writing, was originally going to be a zine?
... that Matthew Cobb, winner of the 2021 JBS Haldane Lecture, started his academic career by getting twins drunk?
... that Majestic Radios were so highly regarded in 1929 that the Graf Zeppelin's navigator bought one when his airship landed in the U.S. to take back to Germany?
... that the 1921 book The Meaning of Relativity represents Albert Einstein's only attempt to provide an overview of general relativity that was both comprehensive and accessible to non-specialists?
... that Claudia Chamorro Barrios married on the birthday of her assassinated father?
... that "Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder", a 1642 Advent hymn, includes a call to penitence that John the Baptist took from the prophet Isaiah?
... that future U.S. Navy rear admiral Oral Swigart competed as a wrestler at the 1920 Summer Olympics?
... that the Dachau camp trial was one of 489 Dachau trials, the majority of which were held within the confines of the concentration camp itself?
... that Nabil Ahmad became a comedian after a friend signed him up for a reality show as a prank?
... that the Indian wax scale was first described in 1798 by Fabricius, but was wrongly attributed to another author for nearly two hundred years?
... that poet Lynda Schraufnagel, little known in her lifetime, was mourned after her death at 40 for her "funkiness" and "manic glee"?
... that the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot marched 1,100 kilometres (680 mi), some of it in snowshoes, during the Canadian winter to fight in the War of 1812?
... that Jimmy Bonner became the first African American to play baseball professionally in Japan in 1936, eleven years before Jackie Robinson's Major League Baseball debut?
... that a museum in Sendai was built around a 20,000-year-old campsite?
... that when Cotton Queen Frances Lockett was crowned in 1930, souvenir handkerchiefs made from "Queenetta" fabric were sold?
... that while the Gateway Generating Station was completed without controversy or setbacks, it was later the subject of a lawsuit over endangered butterflies?
... that in 825 feet (251 m) of water, the composite-hulled bulk carrier S.R. Kirby is one of the deepest shipwrecks ever discovered in the Great Lakes?
... that the headlight fish gets its name from the large, bioluminescent patch of skin located between its nostrils?
... that Faith Smith, who grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin, became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving Native Americans?
... that having collaborated on the album Folklore months prior, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner met in person for the first time for the filming of Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions?
... that Tropical Storm Merbok flooded 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) of crops in 2017 and led to an economic loss of CN¥600 million (US$88.3 million) in China?
... that the first of many monuments to Ludwig van Beethoven is a bust created in 1812 by Franz Klein during the composer's lifetime?
... that Gustav Classens, music director in Bonn from 1933, performed Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Missa solemnis, and Ninth Symphony during his first two seasons, offering the Ninth in both?
... that Christian Schreiber, a church administrator, philosopher and poet, wrote a German version of the Latin Mass for the publication, alongside the original, of Beethoven's Mass in C major?