derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Barack Obama was once gifted a baseball glove belonging to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Moore?
... that when Honor McKellar studied voice in England, Ralph Vaughan Williams called her "the girl who does things with the words"?
... that Ita Ekpenyon coached American actor Paul Robeson in speaking the Efik language for the 1937 film King Solomon's Mines?
... that James Fulton Zimmerman was the first historian to examine U.S. State Department records on the controversial impressment that occurred just before the War of 1812 was declared?
... that Cuilin Zhang leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes?
... that Don Mullally, a DJ at Vermont radio station WSTJ between 1952 and 2016, was still playing vinyl records when he retired just two weeks before his death?
... that the late-Ming-dynasty erotic novel Zhulin yeshi was written by "Man of the Crazy Way"?
... that Ira H. Owen was one of the first steel-hulled lake freighters?
... that Mary Custis Lee , a daughter of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, refused to sit in the "whites-only" section of a streetcar?
... that musical comedian Bo Burnham wrote, directed, filmed, starred in and edited Inside by himself, during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Zealand received more than 5,000 lightning strikes in three hours during the 2011 cloudburst in Denmark?
... that Turkey built a courtroom on the island of İmralı for the 1999 trial of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party?
... that the seven-year-old son of the first owner of Maryland radio station WPTX was sometimes allowed to spin big band records on the air?
... that 14th-century hierocrats thought that the pope was the rightful sovereign of the entire world?
... that a Steinway piano showroom at 111 West 57th Street in New York City was expanded by 2,850 percent to become one of the tallest buildings in the United States?
... that Karl-Günther von Hase, who served as a German government spokesman under three chancellors, became director of the broadcaster ZDF in 1977?
... that Cambodian leader Hun Sen released four imprisoned dissidents as a "gift" to the United States upon the opening of its new embassy in Phnom Penh?
... that the manager of WVSS at the University of Wisconsin–Stout spent about $6,000 of his own money to buy more than 500 classical music CDs to program the station?
... that Casa Anchieta in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, was the childhood home of Brazilian missionary Joseph of Anchieta?
... that John Barefoot's catalogue of British Commonwealth revenue stamps grew from 142 to more than 500 pages between its first and tenth editions as new stamps were discovered?
... that pre-Socratic philosophy included some of the earliest attempts to explain the cosmos as an ordered system without reference to the gods?
... that an artwork featured at Singapore's Marina South Pier MRT station was commissioned for the country's 50th year of independence?
... that Asfaw Yemiru's school educated over 120,000 Ethiopian students?
... that the 51st Defense Battalion, formed during World War II, was the first African-American unit in the United States Marine Corps?
... that Kaʻelepulu Pond, formerly a 200-to-400-acre (81 to 162 ha) Hawaiian fish pond, is now about 95 acres (38 ha) and polluted after having been partially filled in for a housing development?
... that New Zealand singer Fanny Howie composed the song "Hine E Hine", which aired on New Zealand television every night from 1981 to 1994?
... that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati were a full day ahead of the country's eastern Phoenix and Line Islands?
... that despite not identifying as Jewish, Michael George Levy was denied a Military Cross due to his commanding officer's antisemitic views?
... that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her manga series The Rose of Versailles?
... that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at Saint John's Methodist Episcopal Church after eloping in 1939?
... that in his debut first-class cricket season, Jack Carson took the most wickets of any Sussex player in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy?
... that radio station WDOV missed its own sign-on date because a boiler failure cut power to the entire city of Dover, Delaware?
... that some of the most celebrated Dutch Golden Age artists who worked in glass engraving were women?
... that French West African poet David Diop was among 63 people killed when Air France Flight 343 crashed in 1960?
... that the post office for Wises Landing, Kentucky, was established in June 1878 but did not receive a postmaster until January 1879?
... that Robert Ward was the longest-serving caucus leader in the history of the Connecticut General Assembly?
... that Brentford were promoted via the English Football League play-offs for the first time in ten attempts when they won the 2021 EFL Championship play-off Final?
... that in April 2021, the body of the founder of the new religious movement Love Has Won was found mummified and wrapped in Christmas lights?
... that Thomas Flatley compared closing WNHT television in Concord, New Hampshire, to putting down his dog?
... that it is compulsory for educational providers of international students to register with CRICOS in Australia?
... that the Jubilate by Benjamin Britten was written in 1961 for St George's Chapel at the request of the Duke of Edinburgh, and performed there for some of his birthdays and his funeral?
... that after the 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed, South African artistic gymnast Caitlin Rooskrantz livestreamed the routine she was going to perform?
... that WMEB-FM had to move its transmitter because its signal was interfering with equipment in physics laboratories at the University of Maine?
... that Presbyterian football head coach Kevin Kelley won nine state championships as a high school coach by rarely punting and almost always attempting fourth down conversions?
... that Macclesfield F.C. was founded as a phoenix club after their stadium was purchased from a property website?
... that Barrackpore Trunk Road, the oldest metalled road in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British cantonment in India with Calcutta, then the country's capital?
... that after police beat, choked, pepper-sprayed, and dragged Ronald Greene face down while shackled, saying "that shit hurts, doesn't it?", a trooper was initially reprimanded for violating courtesy rules?
... that Kai Cheng Thom wrote Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars not as a memoir to educate cisgender people about transgender issues, but as the book she had wanted to read as a teenager?
... that a recent Jersey court case found that the usage of an ancient Norman Clameur de Haro, which includes a recitation of the Lord's Prayer in French to legally apply an injunction, was used incorrectly?
... that Massachusetts radio station WAAF pulled off an "unprecedented radio concert promotion coup" by organizing a concert by the Rolling Stones for 300 locals?
... that the rock band Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990?
... that the 2019 establishment of No. 13 Air Experience Flight RAF marked the return of cadet powered-flight experiences to Northern Ireland after more than 22 years?
... that Raimund Hoghe, who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel (The Hunchback)?
... that the 66-room C. Ledyard Blair House on New York City's Fifth Avenue was sold and demolished barely a decade after its completion?
... that South Korean boy band Shinee's song "View" (2015) is regarded as K-pop's first foray into deep house?
... that saxophonist Jerry Jumonville was usually part of any band featured in the 1970s television series Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley?
... that the consumption of poppy seeds, known as the "poppy seed defence", is a recognised medical defence for failing a drug test?
... that the spiny bamboo is one of the main sources of bamboo pulp for paper-making?
... that the Line 3 oil spill was the largest inland oil spill in United States history?
... that the Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc was exhibited at the Salon in 1834 without its pendant?
... that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of Rhode Island ... is talking politics"?
... that the Wilder Brigade Monument, which honors the Lightning Brigade, was damaged by a lightning strike?
... that the two elliptical roofs of Singapore's Expo MRT station reflect sunlight into the station while cooling it?
... that Kate Nicholl is the first lord mayor of Belfast in recent times not to be born in the United Kingdom or Ireland?
... that Peter Swan became only the third Englishman to be sent off at Wembley Stadium when he was dismissed in the 1993 Second Division play-off final?
... that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate bird strikes?
... that "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues", a humorous account of a real-life event in which more than 20 people were injured on a boat trip, was one of Bob Dylan's first popular songs?
... that on June 8, 1826, rioters destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot?
... that Anisomeles malabarica plants are defended from unwanted foragers by carpenter bees?
... that geographer Hildegard Binder Johnson fled Third Reich Germany after the Nazi Party destroyed her scientific paper criticizing the development of European colonies in Africa?
... that the Sherwood Studio Building was characterized in 1892 as New York City's "uptown headquarters of Art", with many of its tenants having studied art together?
... that one airline has flown more than 5,600 preighter flights, carrying cargo in place of passengers?
... that Sonny Bloch invested $500,000 in improvements to Connecticut radio station WCNX, only to be unable to complete the purchase after he was arrested on federal fraud charges?
... that Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue is a large Naturschutzgebiet in Hesse, Germany, protecting the ecology of the floodplains where the Rhine formerly meandered?
... that Sharon Choi , the Korean–English interpreter for film director Bong Joon-ho, is herself a director?
... that the termite Macrotermes michaelseni is considered to be an ecosystem engineer in the Okavango Delta in Botswana?
... that the only way for litigants in California to appeal most pre-trial rulings before a final judgment – and the only way to appeal some rulings at all – is by suing the court that issued the order for a writ of mandate?
... that Royal Ballet dancer Fumi Kaneko danced Princess Aurora in a cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty, even though she was supposed to portray the Lilac Fairy?
... that Ester Wajcblum and other Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz smuggled gunpowder out of a munitions plant and successfully destroyed a crematorium at Birkenau during the Sonderkommando revolt?
... that when the European Super League was proposed, UEFA threatened to ban any footballers who took part from playing international football?
... that the 1928 Austin city plan recommended segregating the city's African American residents to East Austin?
... that avant-garde artist Hu Zhiying's master's degree was denied after his thesis was labeled as "not in line with Marxist principles"?
... that Swedish artist Gerda Höglund painted her first altarpiece in South Africa before creating a similar work in Sweden?
... that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1905 plan for a Wisconsin Badgers Crew boathouse was shelved but the design was used in 2007 for the West Side Rowing Club in Buffalo, New York?
... that the cast of Canadian teen drama Degrassi Junior High were named UNICEF goodwill ambassadors of Canada?
... that Tishaura Jones, the new mayor of St. Louis, once started a GoFundMe fundraiser to take down a Confederate monument?
... that tourists on holiday trips arranged by the Finland travel agency Keihäsmatkat were encouraged to drink alcoholic beverages, partly to avoid culture shock?
... that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?
... that Tom Jones's 2021 album Surrounded by Time marked the first time in his career that he recorded music in his home country of Wales?
... that Walter Gladwin was the first black New York state assemblyman from the Bronx?
... that Ronald Graham, a star in the original Broadway casts of musicals by Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Arthur Schwartz, began his career in radio after winning a national singing contest in 1931?
... that the Dolmen de Soto is one of about 1,650 neolithic burial sites in Andalusia, and assumed to have been built between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago?
... that the proverb "speech is silver, silence is golden" has been attributed to "wise men of old", and traced to Arabic texts more than a millennium old?
... that early in her career, Maria Calegari danced principal roles in every ballet performed one weekend by the New York City Ballet?
... that the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, passed in 1964, established the first international rules for wildlife conservation in Antarctica?
... that after buying a view camera in the 1880s, Marie Hartig Kendall took over 30,000 photographs?
... that the four-year history of radio station WUCI-FM included the revelation of the founder as a convicted felon and a station staffer threatening another with a revolver?
... that despite being sick and ordered to return to the rear, Hughie Miller fought on the front lines in the Battle of Belleau Wood and single-handedly captured two German soldiers?
... that due to COVID-19 lockdowns in India, the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors Mrinal Dutt and Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices?
... that in translating the short story "Xianü" by Pu Songling, Herbert Giles omitted the protagonist's homosexual relationship with a fox spirit?
... that the sculptor and schoolteacher Arvīds Brastiņš led a group of Latvian pagans in the post-war United States?
... that Hercules hosted a live-streamed talk show during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the American Schools at War program raised over $2 billion (over $28 billion today) to help pay for World War II?
... that Western media treated Egyptian activist Gihan Ibrahim as a face of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, but rarely mentioned her revolutionary-socialist political views?
... that William Henry Ellis spearheaded a plan to colonize Black Americans in Mexico in the late 19th century?
... that "Wo Menschen sich vergessen" was the first song in the opening service of the 2021 Ecumenical Church Assembly in Frankfurt, held as an open-air livestream?
... that the presidential transition of John F. Kennedy saw Kennedy, the youngest individual elected president, prepare to assume power from Dwight D. Eisenhower, at the time the oldest individual to have served as president?
... that ancient Egyptians carried boats in pieces across the Eastern Desert, reassembling them when they reached the Red Sea to embark on trading expeditions?
... that the Supreme People's Procuratorate, China's highest agency for investigation and prosecution, was abolished for three years during the Cultural Revolution?
... that the Shrine of St. Paulina is dedicated to the first female saint from Brazil?
... that Robin Ransom, the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Missouri, said that she was "really happy I didn't like law school"?
... that Sungai Selan hosted the first Catholic mission under the Dutch East Indies outside of Java?
... that Charles Irving's apparatus for the distillation of seawater was used during James Cook's 1772–1775 voyage round the world?
... that developer William Earl Dodge Stokes commissioned a five-story mansion in New York City that he never resided in?
... that the Flag of FR Yugoslavia was the last national flag in Europe to have a red star removed from it?
... that Izkia Siches, who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for President of Chile in 2021?
... that the wooden houses at 312 and 314 East 53rd Street were completed just as fire codes in New York City prevented the construction of further wooden structures nearby?
... that British sailor Eilidh McIntyre, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is the daughter of a former Olympic gold medallist?
... that one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Operation later said that they had "every type of relationship with Microsoft you can imagine"?
... that the paintings and letters sent home by "Inkerman hero" Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Tippinge helped document the Crimean War?
... that 2 Cheap Cars withdrew a television advertisement in New Zealand because children were copying the main character's catchphrase, "Ah so", which they sometimes pronounced "asshole"?
... that the two Romanesque towers of St. George's Basilica in Prague are nicknamed "Adam" and "Eve"?
... that Gretchen Campbell's research on Bose–Einstein condensates may provide insight into the expansion of the early universe?
... that Richard Hatherill survived a mutiny and a shipwreck, only to die from an illness at the age of 35?
... that West Virginia radio station WHIS made the first broadcast of a murder trial in the United States—and was broadcasting when the first on-air death occurred?
... that the emperor shrimp likes to hitch a ride on a sea cucumber or a large mollusc?
... that when The Saint Paul Hotel was built in 1908–1910, a rathskeller was carved into the sandstone beneath the building?
... that soprano Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep, performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band?
... that Frederick Manfred ate insects and mice as research for his 1954 novel about mountain man Hugh Glass, titled Lord Grizzly?
... that the bones of Dante were to be taken to Mussolini's intended last stand against the Allies at the Valtellina Redoubt?
... that 110 taxa are classed as being extinct on the Japanese Red List, including the Hokkaido wolf?
... that the last five minutes of a 1977 game between Coventry City and Bristol City were played with neither team attempting to score?
... that concert pianist, composer, and opera librettist Leonard Liebling was the editor-in-chief of the Musical Courier from 1911 to 1945?
... that the principal of Big Tree Elementary read a book from a hot-air balloon to honor her students for having collectively read more than 2.5 million minutes in 2006?
... that Kartini Hermanus, the first female general in the Indonesian Army, outranked her husband after being promoted in 2000?
... that landslides caused by Tropical Storm Talas delayed a realignment project on Japan National Route 424?
... that the ships of the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole got stuck in ice north of Svalbard?
... that when the sheriff in Helena, Arkansas, was asked to arrest Owen Flemming, an African-American man accused of killing a white overseer on June 8, 1927, he allegedly said "I'm busy. Just go ahead and lynch him"?
... that after being denied admission to Memphis State University because of her race, Miriam DeCosta-Willis went on to become the university's first African-American professor?
... that Acer spitzi is one of seven fossil maples first found in the Klondike Mountain Formation?
... that the Star Wars Rebels episode "Twin Suns" took inspiration from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai?
... that Robert J. Ulrich was asked to cast Glee because of his musical background?
... that a former DJ at radio station WKOP in Binghamton, New York, was convicted of arson for setting fire to the studios?
... that the former Ontario Highway 29 was split in half for nine years, from 1927 to 1936?
... that the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes an exceptionally large 17th-century astrolabe commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan?
... that students participating in the 1968–69 Japanese university protests were known for ruthlessly interrogating and verbally abusing professors, sometimes for days on end?
... that in Hall v. Decuir, the Supreme Court of the United States "all but endorsed segregation"?
... that ballerina Margaret Tracey performed for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Maria Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor?
... that the brown seaweed Acinetospora crinita forms a more-or-less complete covering of filamentous algae over the rock, detritus, living animals and sea grasses on the seabed where it occurs?
... that Canadian cyclist Bernie Willock, who missed out on competing at the Olympics due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, later owned furniture stores?
... that Mirror, a Hong Kong Cantopop music group which does not want to go for a "K-pop feel", performed Korean pop songs at a concert?
... that the UT Arlington Mavericks men's wheelchair basketball team was coached by Jim Hayes from 1976 to 2008?
... that labor activist Mother Blizzard once led a group of women to tear up train tracks to prevent an attack on striking miners?
... that botanist and "great Yorkshire character" John Farrah reprimanded greedy plant collectors in such a way that they would "remember it to the end of their days"?
... that the orange flatworm Yungia aurantiaca can regrow its whole body from a small fragment of tissue?
... that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western once stockpiled 15,000 train cars of coal at Gravel Place, Pennsylvania, to be able to operate through a miners' strike?
... that Jimbōchō Book Town is home to roughly a third of Japan's used bookstores?
... that the 18th-century Great Pagoda in London is considered the most important surviving example of Chinoiserie: Chinese-inspired design in Europe?
... that Fannie R. Buchanan received a citation and medal from the USDA "for outstanding contributions to rural culture"?
... that in Egyptian mythology, the god Horus offered his own eye to be eaten by his father Osiris?
... that Cuddles Marshall, the "handsomest twirler" on the New York Yankees, turned down a movie contract from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer?
... that a man who threatened to blow up Alaska radio station KIAK unless he was put on the air was startled to find the station completely automated?
... that Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi swam seven miles (11 km) with her child strapped to her back, from Kapiti Island to the New Zealand mainland, to raise the alarm about an impending invasion?
... that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire?
... that although ballerina Cynthia Harvey spent most of her career with the American Ballet Theatre, she was also the first American principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London?
... that Thurston Clarke felt that Harold Wilson should find it a "chilling thought" that The Chariot of Israel would be "cluttering library shelves" for years to come?
... that Kenneth Robinson, the second of three Robinsons to present Points of View between Robert Robinson and Anne Robinson, was fired from that programme for the frivolous way he described bananas?
... that Meredith Clark is "the go-to person about Black Twitter", according to NPR?
... that SC East Bengal became the first club in Indian football to activate the force majeure clause in their 2020–21 season?
... that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building, it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners?
... that around a fifth of all Filipinos served by the Philippine consulate in Barcelona protested its closure on Facebook?
... that British deputy prime minister John Prescott was nicknamed "Two Jabs" after punching a protestor in 2001?
... that the village of Pstrąże is known as the "Polish Chernobyl" due to its reputation as a ghost town and a former storage site for nuclear weapons?