derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that 16-year-old Tate McRae has been described as "Canada's answer to Billie Eilish"?
... that Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East argues that Nazism and Islamism are similar, especially in their extreme antisemitism?
... that Lilly Dubowitz, co-developer of the Dubowitz Score, also introduced the use of cranial ultrasound to assess the brains of newborns at Hammersmith Hospital?
... that an 1870s-era windmill threatened with demolition was relocated to Alley Pond Park to be preserved, only to be burned down two years later?
... that Jasraj, a Hindustani classical musician, is still teaching music at age 90, including via Skype?
... that the inaugural Top 106.7 Countdown in 1980 was topped by the song "Whip It" by Devo ?
... that during the 1970 U.S. Senate election in New York, Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to Senator Charles Goodell as the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party"?
... that Mexican professional wrestler Chabela Romero had a feud with Irma González that played out across eight years and in three countries?
... that the Chilean seaside cinclodes bobs its tail while it walks and flares its wings while it sings?
... that the phrase "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" was first used by a Miami police chief who told the press in 1967 that they "don't mind being accused of police brutality"?
... that the earliest of the three surviving operas by Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo from 1607, is the oldest extant opera still regularly performed today?
... that visitors often find a double entendre in the General Hooker Entrance of the Massachusetts State House?
... that Dragut built the Sidi Darghut Mosque in Tripoli on the site of a Hospitaller church, and was later buried there after being killed whilst attacking the Hospitallers in the Great Siege of Malta?
... that the United States Army employed its first non-Christian chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel, during the American Civil War?
... that Manoj Muntashir originally wrote "Teri Mitti" as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a reprise as a tribute to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India?
... that in Eve Online, the Battle of Asakai became one of the largest online battles after a single player made an accidental move that escalated the conflict to include more than 3,000 players?
... that Canadian soccer player Christabel Oduro is the cousin of Dominic Oduro, who has played for Ghana?
... that although the captain of American Airlines Flight 320 was considered one of the most experienced pilots in the world, his crew was blamed for the fatal crash in 1959?
... that during the 1985 Gujarat riots, police in Ahmedabad attacked and burned down the offices of a newspaper?
... that San Francisco socialite Mary Grace Borel was granted her first divorce in a hearing that lasted less than five minutes, from a Superior Court Judge who was also her aunt's husband?
... that the Strawberries and Cream Tree is noted for producing pink blossoms on one side of the tree and white on the other, when it blooms every spring?
... that more than 1,000 men fought in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment, the first unit from the state to officially enter the Confederate States Army?
... that Raymond Kipkoech won the 2011 Jerusalem Marathon despite crossing the wrong finish line?
... that the Wells curve, which illustrates what happens to respiratory droplets once they are exhaled, helps explain the spread of respiratory infections?
... that the 2018 film Hotel Milan is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh?
... that Héctor Suárez was the first comedian from Latin America to be "roasted" by fellow celebrities?
... that after 28 Liberty Street's private plaza was fenced off during the Occupy Wall Street protests, people sued to reopen the plaza, claiming the barriers violated freedom-of-speech laws?
... that Wong Keng Liang was arrested after Malaysian customs officials found nearly one hundred baby boa constrictors, two vipers, and a South American turtle hidden in his suitcase?
... that Lady Henrietta Berkeley had an affair with her older sister's husband, claimed in court to have married his servant, and then fled with both of them to Cleves?
... that to prevent spoilers, the name of the American reality singing competition The Masked Singer is not listed on contracts with celebrities competing on the show?
... that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has been described as incitement to genocide?
... that Rupert Bunny gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons?
... that one of the factors affecting the future of the Huanchaca mouse is the increased cultivation of biofuels?
... that the World Hockey Summit debated the age at which to introduce body checking at the minor ice hockey level, or whether to eliminate it altogether?
... that American law professor Harry Bigelow sat on President Harry S. Truman's National Loyalty Review Board during the Second Red Scare?
... that on the Lycian Way, a hiker can experience all four seasons in one day?
... that George Brian Sinclair worked on British thermonuclear weapons tests, the Channel Tunnel, and a Korean sewer system?
... that for generations, black parents in the United States have felt compelled to instruct their children about how to de-escalate encounters with the police?
... that the Central Asian riparian woodlands ecoregion features shrubby vegetation known as tugai, which adapts to the region's extremely hot summers and cold winters?
... that former GlaxoSmithKline executive Moncef Slaoui is chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, which aims to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021?
... that over ground workers act as the "eyes and ears of the underground militants" in Jammu and Kashmir?
... that Günther Massenkeil, editor of an eight-volume music encyclopedia, initiated the restoration of the village organ he had played as a prisoner of war in Alsace decades earlier?
... that production of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was delayed by a monsoon and the director having a heart attack, then sped up following an extortion attempt by the Chinese mafia?
... that when boiled in milk, black coral emits a faint scent of myrrh?
... that St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove, is unusual in having the public entrance on its north side, the southern entrance being reserved for the Mosley family?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Samsora performed a runway walk while cosplaying as the character he competes with, Princess Peach, at a tournament in 2019?
... that an eruption in the Hakkōda Mountains could create volcanic mudflows that might inundate large sections of the Japanese cities of Aomori and Towada?
... that after Joanna Jordan left her job at the Late Show with David Letterman to start a talent agency, the show became her first client?
... that in A World Without Jews, Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
... that Northern Irish goalkeeper Alan Mannus refused to face the flag of the Republic of Ireland at the 2019 FAI Cup Final because he is not Irish?
... that during a 1977 blackout, crews filming Superman: The Movie at the Daily News Building lent their Klieg lights to Daily News editors so that the next day's issue could be published?
... that William Frederick Windham was the subject of the longest and most expensive lunacy case in English history?
... that Megacephalosaurus was one of the last known pliosaurs and coexisted with some of the earliest mosasaurs?
... that when the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba discussed the speed limit, Toby Sexsmith remarked that nobody, with the possible exception of the premier, needed to travel faster than 50 mph (80 km/h)?
... that The Cincinnati Enquirer commended makers of the 1950 film Again Pioneers for basically telling the Protestant churches that sponsored the production that they "are not doing their jobs"?
... that the Corn Exchange in Chichester has also been used as a cinema and a McDonald's?
... that after a 2016 prison break by suspected terrorists, the government of Madhya Pradesh called on the Central Industrial Security Force to review the security of its jails?
... that the titular antagonist in the Chinese short story "Hu Dagu" is based on a toilet spirit?
... that vestigial organs in the Brazilian Callichirus major population suggest Callichirus may be the only crustacean genus with basal, yet not universal, hermaphroditism?
... that a reviewer praised child star Jane Withers's expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day, saying that she "talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"?
... that Munster Technological University, scheduled to open in 2021, will be only the second university of its type in Ireland?
... that excavations for the Steinway Tunnel expanded a reef in the East River into an island?
... that Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo's parents owned the first hip-hop dance school in Sweden?
... that a state representative called Boston's Silver Line buses "discrimination against people of color", owing to their poor service compared to the elevated metro line they replaced?
... that the election of Giacomo dalla Torre as the grand master of the Order of Malta in 2018 marked the first time that female members participated in the vote for a new leader?
... that the Unicode characters ☕, ☔, and ⚡ were originally proposed by North Korea?
... that in 1963, a majority-black Loyola-Chicago team and an all-white Mississippi State team defied segregationists to play a historic college basketball game ?
... that Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet, preserved the keep of Dover Castle from possible loss to fire by giving it to the Office of Works?
... that Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska, was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that motorsport champion Ashley Freiberg does cyclo-cross, hiking, rock climbing, and skate skiing in the mountains of Vermont to prepare for auto racing events?
... that before the passage of India's anti-defection law, an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some crossing the floor more than once?
... that an American politics podcast has said that "if you sleep on a mattress on the floor and fuck in a sleeping bag, then you just might be the dirtbag left"?
... that the local council voted against listing Crown House , the first building in St Leonards-on-Sea, criticising its "out-of-date design" and "fake Greek architecture"?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Maister went from being unranked to being considered the sixth-best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in only six months?
... that Barracuda is home to the longest-running bar show in New York City, which may have inspired RuPaul's Drag Race?
... that Jem Bendell's paper Deep Adaptation argues that neither a complete halt in emissions nor geoengineering can prevent what he sees as an impending climate apocalypse?
... that Brad Ashford described the film Forrest Gump as "a travelogue of my early life"?
... that the Space Shuttle used autogenous pressurization to keep its external fuel tank pressurized after engine ignition?
... that Polish philosopher Bronisław Bandrowski was trapped in the Tatra Mountains for days, but had already hurled himself into an abyss when rescuers arrived?
... that the 1970 spoken-word poem "Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron critiques the Moon landings carried out by the United States?
... that St Anselm's Church, Pembury, a Catholic church for former Anglicans, once used an altar on wheels?
... that North Texas was invited to play in the 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl despite having a losing record?
... that Monita Rajpal, whose first job out of college was as a receptionist, has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Vicente Fox, Al Gore, Tom Ford, and I. M. Pei?
... that the male giant glass frog has a hooked spur on his upper arm which is used when fighting rivals?
... that the 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc., was part of a wave of new companies trying to make fault-tolerant systems?
... that Abu Said Faraj instigated Ceuta to declare independence from the Marinid Sultanate in 1304, only to conquer the city for Granada two years later?
... that future government minister Alistair Burt attended the A Question of Europe debate wearing a beret, a striped shirt, and a string of onions?
... that Plácido Zuloaga trained more than two hundred artists to make damascened artworks ?
... that a group of escaped German prisoners established a short-lived Nazi state in the Dutch East Indies?
... that in the 1980s, textile conservator Martand Singh organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?
... that the Laguna Creek watershed debouches into the San Francisco Bay near the site of the ghost town of Drawbridge?
... that the board of directors of Canadian cooperative television station CFVO-TV refused to accept the resignation of its president so that he could negotiate a loan?
... that the abduction of the Georgian demoness Samdzimari and her subsequent conversion to goddess may have been derived from the Christian story of Saint George and the Dragon?
... that the Soviet Union women's national rugby union team bartered smuggled vodka and caviar to cover their living expenses at the 1991 Women's Rugby World Cup?
... that a member of the U.S. Congress referred to the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act as "one of the worst pieces of legislation Congress has passed in a generation"?
... that Gérard de Nerval thought his poems from the cycle The Chimeras would "lose their charm" if they were explained?
... that in the early years of Montana radio station KGHL, some musical groups had to perform on the roof of the studio building?
... that coal from Turkey fuelled the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged?
... that the Film Development Board of Nepal refused to issue a production license to Gaja Baja because the title alluded to marijuana?
... that Nigel, nicknamed "the world's loneliest gannet" , attempted to mate with a concrete decoy bird on Mana Island, New Zealand?
... that Joseph M. Carey lost reelection to the United States Senate with zero votes to Francis E. Warren due to his opposition to the free silver movement?
... that Road Rash II is reportedly "the first game in which you could actually beat, and get beaten by, a cop"?
... that the drama The Undivine Comedy has been recognized as one of the most significant works of literature of the Polish Romantic period?
... that Swedish composer Harald Fryklöf, "who had hardly ever known a day's illness in his life", died from the Spanish flu at the age of 36?
... that the Keweenaw Brewing Company's most popular beer gets its "widow maker" nickname from a dangerous drill once used to mine copper?
... that both the white-bellied woolly mouse opossum and the Fernando Po swift are named after the British architectural historian and philanthropist Constance Sladen?
... that the East York Lyndhursts' loss to the Russians in ice hockey was "a national calamity, a national humiliation, and a mortifying experience"?
... that purple Skittles are grape-flavored in the United States because of a long-standing ban on blackcurrant production?
... that Ján Vojtaššák, deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification?
... that The Little Players performed invitation-only puppet shows out of a New York City living room for over 25 years?
... that after the king of Kachar died whilst invading the Pratapgarh Kingdom, his widow Kamala commanded its conquest herself to avenge him?
... that the #VivaTaiwan campaign started when a letter to Brazilian parliamentarians from the Chinese embassy in Brasília was leaked online?
... that Jitse Groen founded Takeaway.com while still a student, after being unable to get a takeaway delivered to North Holland?
... that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team?
... that Walkiria Terradura was a member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II and a specialist in blowing up bridges?
... that the former seal of Zion, Illinois, was ruled unconstitutional because it contained the phrase "God reigns"?
... that Chelsea F.C.'s loss in the 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final triggered football hooliganism that injured 45 people?
... that Olga Yurievskaya, a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Princess Catherine Dolgorukova, was legitimated by her parents' morganatic marriage?
... that in a promotional stunt, staff at Cincinnati-area radio station WIZF demanded a 40-percent raise, which turned out to refer to a 40-foot (12 m) increase in the height of the station's antenna?
... that while lente insulin is no longer approved for use in humans in the United States, it is still used commonly in cats and dogs with diabetes?
... that Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman developed the plot of their 1936 play Stage Door while cycling side by side?
... that La Parka Jr. won the Mexican National Cruiserweight Championship, relinquished the title when he changed his ring name, then won it again under his new name?
... that the hymn "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven", sung at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, was written by Henry Francis Lyte, who also wrote the well-known "Abide with Me"?
... that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill?
... that Arlington State College left the Texas A&M University System after 48 years to join the University of Texas System?
... that the small frog Cochranella nola has yellow intestines, a green tongue, and dark green bones?
... that George Pechell Mends witnessed the burning of the steam frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar on 26 August 1843, and his sketch was the basis for a painting by Edward Duncan ?
... that during the COVID-19 pandemic, United Nations secretary-general António Guterres called for a global domestic violence "ceasefire"?
... that when sports journalist Andy O'Brien discovered John Landy bleeding in the locker room at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, the runner swore him to secrecy?
... that Rob Wiethoff's work as John Marston in Red Dead Redemption lasted almost two years?
... that after logging their 199th win, Hendrick Motorsports had to wait for seven months and sixteen races before they won their 200th NASCAR Cup Series, with Jimmie Johnson at the wheel?
... that Casualty struggled to portray the open-air scenes from Episode 1067 as winter because passers-by were wearing summer clothing?
... that Susan Benesch, founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, advocates the use of "counterspeech" and humor against hate speech?
... that the 2018 Nepali comedy-drama Mr. Virgin was criticised for its title?
... that U.S. advocates for the decriminalization of psilocybin have cited ongoing research on its use in treating depression and nicotine dependence?
... that Luis Ocaña won the Orcières-Merlette stage of the 1971 Tour de France, beating the 1970 champion, Eddy Merckx, by more than eight minutes?
... that Roland Tan, the most-wanted fugitive in Singapore, remained at large for 50 years until his death in April 2020 in Denmark?
... that Massachusetts's Question 3 was the first U.S. ballot measure to ban the sale of animal products such as eggs and pork from intensively confined animals?
... that the history of nursing's pinning ceremony dates back to the Knights Hospitaller in the 12th century?
... that Fumio Tajima published a paper described as among the "founding papers of modern population genetics" the same year he submitted his doctoral dissertation?
... that the text of the hymn "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" was written by Albert, Duke of Prussia, while the tune came from a secular French song?
... that when the National City Bank of New York moved to 55 Wall Street in 1908, messengers carried the bank's $500 million holdings across the street in leather satchels?
... that Tilly Bébé , a pioneer in the docile training of predators, starred with her lions in a silent film of a genre described as "exotic-erotic-escapist"?
... that Systime Computers, based in Leeds, was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer?
... that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match?
... that the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 requires Northern Irish election candidates to sign a declaration that they will not support terrorism in word or deed?
... that Jane Bell, one of the original occupants of Bell Cottage, was found guilty of concealing a birth and became the first European woman to be incarcerated on Rottnest Island?
... that "Ode to the Mets" is not actually an ode to the Mets, despite being written following a Mets game?
... that an exit ramp of the Ikeda Route in Osaka passes through the Gate Tower Building, taking up part of the building's fifth, sixth, and seventh floors?
... that Gisele Bündchen thinks that the reason she was audited by the Internal Revenue Service was because of her regular top placing on a Forbes magazine high-earners list?
... that a proposed Jewish unit in the Polish Armed Forces in the Soviet Union was described as a "moral victory" for Nazism?
... that a song from the Kris Kristofferson album The Silver Tongued Devil and I is referenced in the film Taxi Driver?
... that British educator Thomas Lucas created an embossed shorthand to teach the blind to read by touch around 1830–1832, before the introduction of braille in the UK?
... that Siamosaurus, a large bipedal carnivore from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, is the first crocodilian-like dinosaur named from Asia?
... that legislation for a Hong Kong national security law was attempted during both the SARS and COVID-19 epidemics?
... that Irene Triplett, who died in May 2020, was the last recipient of a pension from the American Civil War of 1861–1865?
... that the gold-striped frog sometimes breeds inside an active nest of leafcutter ants?
... that H. M. Hook, the first mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, drowned while searching for silver mines?
... that Fannie Flagg set her 2010 comedy-mystery novel I Still Dream About You in Birmingham, Alabama, because she wanted "to write a Valentine to my hometown"?
... that Temple Memorial Park, named after Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, was given to the people of South Shields in recognition of their military contributions at sea in World War II?
... that Martin Luther King Jr. used the phrase "justice too long delayed is justice denied" in his Letter from Birmingham Jail?
... that the Northern Irish historian A. T. Q. Stewart once said that Irish history was "too short, too narrow, upside down and it leans all over to one side"?
... that the recording of the Bon Iver song "iMi" took five years and nearly 30 collaborators to complete?
... that the University of Cologne awards an annual gender equality prize in honor of Jenny Gusyk, who became the school's first female and first foreign student when it was re-established in 1919?
... that fever hospitals, for infectious patients, were once the most common type of hospital in England and Wales?
... that a room in the Nebuta Museum in Aomori, Japan, is darkened so the floats on display can be illuminated as they are during the city's annual summer festival?
... that missionary and author Lucy Goodale Thurston survived a mastectomy without anaesthetic in 1855?
... that one Labour MP said that the result of the 2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election could foreshadow an "electoral disaster" for the party?
... that Biff Pocoroba endeared himself with Atlanta Braves fans despite the team's poor performance, partly because they liked "the sound of his name"?
... that after joining her father's church choir at the age of six, contralto Portia White grew up to become the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame?