derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Jamie Arthur became the first Welsh boxer to win a gold medal for more than 40 years?
... that critics compared John Lennon's first book, In His Own Write, to the writings of James Joyce, even though Lennon had never read him?
... that Moto Hagio wrote her 1992 manga Iguana Girl as a semi-autobiographical story that reflects her strained relationship with her mother?
... that soprano Joyce Mathis won the Marian Anderson Award in 1967 and the Young Concert Artists singing competition in 1968?
... that the Victorian Carham Hall in Northumberland was saved from demolition this year when its listed-building status was reinstated?
... that J. L. Granatstein's 1998 book Who Killed Canadian History? has been described as the pinnacle of Canada's "history wars"?
... that some Polish military cooperatives, formed to provide supplies to service personnel at low prices, issued their own coins?
... that the Bishop of Bath and Wells said that "there is not a more dangerous woman in the West" than Mary Speke?
... that Masayoshi Soken composed the music for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker while battling cancer?
... that Finnish politician Maija Rask earned a PhD at the age of 61 after a career as a nurse, teacher, member of Parliament, and minister of education?
... that Lili Marberg, an actress at the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1911 to 1950, was painted performing Wilde's Salome in Munich ?
... that New York City's Olympic Tower was meant to reflect St. Patrick's Cathedral but instead gave the city "the back of its hand"?
... that Victor Hugo Tinoco was a deputy in the National Assembly of Nicaragua, first for the Sandinista National Liberation Front, then for the opposition Sandinista Renovation Movement?
... that the 1972 documentary Elvis on Tour became the only film starring Elvis Presley to win an award?
... that the music minister, seminary student, and pageant contestant Leah Boyd became an Internet celebrity due to her comedic and satirical commentary on Twitter?
... that Tropical Storm Eliakim enhanced rainfall and brought flooding to Kenya despite the storm making landfall on Madagascar?
... that after Euclid proved that every Mersenne prime leads to an even perfect number, it took more than 2000 years before Leonhard Euler proved that every even perfect number comes from a Mersenne prime?
... that the fin de siècle photographer James Reuel Smith rode his bike all over Manhattan and the Bronx to photograph the natural springs and wells of New York City before they disappeared?
... that Nelson Mandela claimed in 1994 that people who waved the flag of the National Party were "not sober"?
... that judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney qualified for the 1906 and 1908 Summer Olympics, but did not attend either, and pushed the United States to boycott the 1936 Summer Olympics in protest of Nazi Germany?
... that the name of the band Zuriaake is a metaphor for the Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself due to his hatred of the government?
... that Baker & Dawson was the largest firm of slave traders in England during the late 18th century?
... that Jimmy Dunn was the original timekeeper of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1930, and never missed a home game until he retired before the 1972 season?
... that the European version of the video game Tomba! uses the theme song of the television series No Sweat as its opening theme?
... that glaciers on Mount Ararat are retreating much faster than most glaciers due to climate change in Turkey?
... that Aya Mpali, a flagbearer for Gabon at the 2020 Summer Olympics, was motivated to take up swimming competitively after her parents drowned?
... that assembly theory provides an experimentally verifiable way of detecting extraterrestrial life without needing to define what life is?
... that Lee Erwin spent six years scoring every one of Buster Keaton's silent features?
... that the sea urchin Pourtalesia miranda and the Venus flytrap sea anemone dominate the seabed community at a depth of 2,000 m (6,600 ft) off the coast of West Africa?
... that author Eldred Kurtz Means originated the refrain: "if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all"?
... that Olympic Turkish volleyballer Tuğba Şenoğlu was once named "Best Outside Spiker"?
... that Gurl.com's initial content used drawings of women instead of photos to avoid concerns about body image?
... that Jasson Domínguez is nicknamed "The Martian" because his talent is said to be not of this world?
... that the HOLO card is used to pay fares on TheBus, and will also be used for Honolulu's rail transit system?
... that the second half of the 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl broke the record for the highest-scoring half in bowl game history?
... that Minnie Lindsay Carpenter wrote more than twelve books about the history of The Salvation Army?
... that Mark Hamill was cast as the villain in Brigsby Bear, a role the director described as a depraved Jim Henson, "teaching weird lessons about the world in a loving way"?
... that Cimoliopterus was among the first pterosaurs to be depicted as models in Crystal Palace Park in the 1850s?
... that two hours before Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold competed in a 2016 Summer Olympics fight, she had been in hospital with gastroenteritis?
... that after the Helmsley Palace Hotel adjacent to the historic Villard Houses was approved, an opponent compared the plans to a human abortion?
... that Jo Beall, a British scholar of development economics, was once imprisoned for anti-apartheid activism?
... that Antonín Panenka's namesake penalty kick secured victory for Czechoslovakia in the UEFA Euro 1976 Final?
... that Robert Randal delivered a petition to British officials that requested civil rights for aliens living in Upper Canada?
... that the village of Ayazini in Turkey, a historic place settled by Phrygians, Ancient Romans, Byzantines and Seljuks, features many dwellings, churches and tomb chambers in rock-cut architecture?
... that the execution of two wives of Sihayo kaXongo for adultery was one of the causes of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War?
... that the Hebbel-Theater , designed by Oskar Kaufmann and opened in 1908, was the only theatre in Berlin operational in 1945?
... that Lucy Smith Millikin was one of the first Latter Day Saints to participate in baptism for the dead?
... that during the early development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, the studio behind the game was suddenly dissolved?
... that Angus McIntosh was a Scottish historical linguist who used his skills to decipher German encryptions at Bletchley Park?
... that Gun Bergman produced the Swedish translation of Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić's best-known work, The Bridge on the Drina?
... that the gourd mouth organ is said to have been created in the third millennium B.C. as a likeness of the Phoenix?
... that beginning in 1763, Columbia University students were required to wear their academic regalia daily in order to steer them away from New York City brothels?
... that New Zealand rower Hannah Osborne unexpectedly displaced the current double world champion in double scull, Olivia Loe, to win a silver medal at the ongoing Olympic Games?
... that the Dayak people from Indonesia returned five skulls of Japanese soldiers killed during the Dayak Desa War to Japan in 1981?
... that Peter Plympton Smith's victory in 1988 was the last time a member of the Republican Party was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Vermont?
... that the worm Bispira volutacornis is sometimes parasitised by a copepod, several of which may move around among the feathery plumes?
... that Ina Caro, the wife of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson author Robert Caro, is the sole research assistant for his books?
... that Mertome Village in Bayswater, Western Australia was the first aged care complex to be built by a local government in Australia?
... that by naming her album Planet Her, Doja Cat was "just trying to be cute" and was not promoting a feminist agenda nor a planet exclusively for women?
... that when Michael Wojas used Colony Club regulars in a Francis Bacon biopic studio scene, he had to persuade them Derek Jacobi was not Bacon "because Francis is dead, and this isn't the Colony Room"?
... that the salt mounds on the former badge of the Turks and Caicos Islands were mistakenly turned into igloos?
... that Dialta Alliata di Montereale has fought a 25-year court battle for a half-share of Arthur Acton's $1 billion art collection after DNA testing confirmed that she is his granddaughter?
... that The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, a new novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, mixes narrative with "love songs" that illuminate the lives of the protagonist's African, Creek, and Scottish ancestors?
... that West Germany's Gerd Müller scored six goals in two games against the Soviet Union, including two in the UEFA Euro 1972 Final?
... that Michita Sakata declined an offer to be Prime Minister of Japan because he thought the role was too political?
... that Matana Roberts explores "her identity as an African American woman" on the album Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis?
... that, while drunk, Romanian government minister Gheorghe Chițu allegedly had a dentist "pull out the roots of all his molars and his front teeth", resulting in permanent neurological damage?
... that the foundation stone for the Limete Tower in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was laid by Julius Nyerere, then President of Tanzania?
... that two hagiographic documents about St. Hunegund of France publicized Hunegund's miracles to create a sense of identity in Homblières and to raise money for the monastery?
... that Turkish champion Esra Yıldız, who was named the "Most Hyped Boxer", has been selected to represent Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that the Dutch ordered Roosseno Soerjohadikoesoemo to destroy bridges, but then the Japanese ordered him to build them back?
... that Raychell's previous stage name Lay was meant to represent her belief that singing while lying down would heal listeners?
... that Siebold's account of the Ezo chipmunk is credited by Oldfield Thomas as being the first description of a mammal from Japan?
... that the developer of The Stillness of the Wind was inspired to make the video game after fantasizing with his girlfriend about raising goats instead of living in London?
... that Karel van het Reve, author of Twee minuten stilte (1959), inserted a fake letter to the publisher in the first edition which was real enough for later book owners to return the letter to the author?
... that operatic soprano Natalia Shpiller was beloved by Joseph Stalin, and he frequently had her perform at the Moscow Kremlin to impress visiting dignitaries?
... that Fort Hampton was constructed by the United States Army to warn Americans to leave and keep them from illegally settling in Chickasaw territory?
... that Drahşan Arda is the world's first female association football referee confirmed by FIFA?
... that Larisa Iordache is the second-most decorated gymnast in the history of the European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships with sixteen medals?
... that the name of Serbian Roma female rap group Pretty Loud was inspired by the popular notion that Roma women are not typically very loud?
... that Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell registered the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh?
... that Living in the Age of Airplanes was the first IMAX film to be shot on all seven continents?
... that the fire urchin plays host to two species of shrimp as well as the zebra crab, Zebrida adamsii?
... that Michael McIntyre, who was an Olympic sailing champion in 1988, was awarded an MBE for services to yachting the following year?
... that the 1932 sale of the Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki , a Japanese painted handscroll, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provoked outrage in Japan?
... that 2020 U.S. men's Olympic basketball player Kevin Durant is on the verge of becoming Team USA's leading Olympic scorer?
... that Nele Hertling, working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, brought innovative culture to the city including the Tanz im August festival?
... that the mycoparasitic fungus Ampelomyces quisqualis attacks powdery mildew on crops such as cucumbers?
... that Tsadkan Gebretensae, one of the top commanders of Tigray forces in the conflict against the Ethiopian government, previously served as chief of staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force?
... that in a 1987 poll of prominent New Yorkers, the MetLife Building was ranked as the building that respondents most wanted to see demolished?
... that the Ming-dynasty-era homoerotic short-story anthology Bian er chai was written by the Moon-Heart Master of the Drunken West Lake?
... that outside of rowing, New Zealand double-Olympian Tom Murray is known for his devotion to Star Wars?
... that bookseller T. S. Shanbhag started Bangalore's landmark Premier Bookstore on the site of a burned-down clothing store in 1971?
... that the first Olympic volleyball match in more than 16 years for Kenya's Malkia Strikers is being played today in Tokyo against Japan?
... that the Connecticut National Guard, Frank Sinatra, and a full-sized Cape Cod house have all been seen at the New Haven Armory?
... that Auguste Rodin's erotic sculpture The Kiss was removed from Lewes Town Hall during the First World War after a local headmistress complained?
... that Jack Mitchell and his heiress wife Lolita transformed El Mirador into "one of the most fabulous estates in Montecito", complete with a dairy, a zoo, and a floating tea pavilion on a lake?
... that for polygons with integer coordinates, the area can be computed from the numbers of integer points inside and on the boundary of the polygon?
... that English cricketer Josh de Caires, the son of former England captain Michael Atherton, was given his mother's maiden name at birth, and he does not know why?
... that the banker J. S. Moll was selected for the British Lions despite never having played for the England national rugby team?
... that two male penguins from Heythrop Zoological Gardens were "married" in February 2019?
... that at the 2016 Summer Olympics, French sailor Hélène Defrance won a medal by a single point?
... that Ian Board ejected Colony Room regular Francis Bacon shouting: "Get out! Call yourself a painter. You can't fucking paint. Take your boring friends with you and don't bother coming back"?
... that in developing the Dictionary of Women Worldwide, editors Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer found other biographical dictionaries often devoted only five percent of their text to women?
... that Wendy Solling was a nun, a sculptor and one of the first women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia?
... that a 620,000-word My Little Pony fanfiction work based on Fallout has developed a fandom of its own?
... that when the Leeds Tiger went on display in Leeds in 1863 it was described as a "work of art quite as much as an object for scientific observation"?
... that New Zealand's Grace Prendergast was the highest-ranked female rower in the world in 2019?
... that Drew Goddard wrote the soundtrack for Bad Times at the El Royale into his screenplay so a studio would be forced to purchase the licenses for each piece of music?
... that during Sam Brownback's 2008 presidential campaign, he mentioned the yellow brick road in both the speech that began and the speech that ended his candidacy?
... that shooter Tehani Egodawela was the third person selected from Sri Lanka to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that when R. Bintoro was put in command of the Papua Military Region, he wrote the lyrics for the military region's march?
... that the cadet scandal of 1942 resulted in a widespread persecution of gay men in Buenos Aires?
... that Robert Sacchi, who played many Humphrey Bogart roles due to their physical resemblance, "never thought Bogie was too terrific-looking" and "wanted to look like Gregory Peck" instead?
... that "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort", translated as "Eternity! tremendous Word", is a hymn by Johann Rist that served as the basis for the first work in Bach's chorale cantata cycle?
... that Barakat Al-Harthi missed his layover and lost some of his sports equipment before competing for Oman at the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that although the Pat Buchanan campaign commercial Meatballs was created by a Houston-based ad agency, it was not initially aired in Houston, lest its message turn off voters?
... that in 1593, French amateur mathematician François Viète found the first formula in European mathematics to represent an infinite process, a product of square roots that he used to compute π?
... that Marita Camacho Quirós, who was First Lady of Costa Rica (1962–1966), is the oldest former first lady in the world and a supercentenarian?
... that in Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers, Jude Ellison Doyle proposes that Frankenstein is about maternal fear that the author Mary Shelley experienced after family tragedies?
... that Duffy Lewis was the only major league player to pinch hit for Babe Ruth?
... that New Zealand world-champion rower Emma Twigg came out of retirement to compete in her fourth Olympic Games today?
... that the coat of arms of Jersey was allowed to be featured on its stamps during the occupation in World War II, with the Germans unaware that it was also the royal arms of England?
... that when Ingrid Haubold recorded the role of Senta in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, reviewer Alan Blyth found "a certain raw edge" of her soprano voice apt for the role?
... that 200,000 copies of the Mumbai Mirror were distributed on its inaugural print run in 2005, giving it the second-largest circulation in Mumbai?
... that in 2021, Lisa Barbelin won her European Archery Championships event, and briefly became the world's number one ranked player?
... that Ripon Spa Baths is the only spa in the United Kingdom to have been ceremonially opened by a member of the royal family?
... that one of Leila Velez's reasons for expanding her Brazilian beauty-salon company is to fight racism against black women and their natural afro-textured hair?
... that the "Cuddle with a Koala" experience at Featherdale Wildlife Park was stopped in 1988 when New South Wales law was changed to restrict koala handling?
... that Siphesihle November was brought to Canada from South Africa for ballet training at age 11, and became a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada at 22?
... that according to an elaborate 1990s joke, Elmo Aardvark was history's first animated cartoon character?
... that the Pontiac Phantom concept car was designed by Bill Mitchell, who had previously designed the 1938 Cadillac Sixty Special and both the 1963 and 1968 Chevrolet Corvettes?
... that John Zampieri was the youngest member of the Vermont House of Representatives after the 1966 election?
... that Ivory Coast won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations Final when their goalkeeper scored a penalty and Ghana's goalkeeper missed?
... that Italian singer Lia Origoni said she refused to be Joseph Goebbels's dinner guest, so he left her chair empty?
... that the oil painting Marie Antoinette and Her Children is one of the most important treasures of France?
... that, after being elected as the first transgender city councilor of Belo Horizonte, Duda Salabert was fired from her job as a teacher when the school where she worked received a threatening email?
... that Transair Flight 810 ditched only about 2 miles (3 km) from an air station for U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopters?
... that after the Soviet Union lost to Spain in the 1964 European Nations' Cup Final, their manager Konstantin Beskov was dismissed upon his return to Moscow following a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev?
... that Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca translated Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings into Italian as a teenager, then wrested control of the family's 100-room summer palace from Opus Dei and the Mafia?
... that "Alle Menschen höret auf dies neue Lied", a new offertory hymn with a simple melody, has been suggested for use in confirmation masses?
... that award winner Lillian Comas-Díaz became interested in psychology after consoling classmates recovering from a destructive hurricane?
... that the Biellmann spin, a difficult variation of the upright spin in figure skating, was created by world champion skater Denise Biellmann ?
... that nurse and Jordanian senator Sawsan Al Majali followed in the footsteps of both her mother (who was a nurse) and her father (who was prime minister of Jordan)?
... that during the 2021 food crisis in southern Madagascar, people have resorted to eating things such as raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, locusts, ashes mixed with tamarind, and shoe leather?
... that Lindy Cameron, who leads the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, says that ransomware is the major cyber threat?
... that although Vivaldi composed cello sonatas for private international customers, six of them were published in Paris in 1740 without his permission?
... that the American Pre-Raphaelite painters had an obsession with depicting birds' nest still lifes?
... that some stone circles such as Stonehenge were perhaps great graveyards of honoured spiritual leaders in prehistoric religion?
... that Jennifers' Law expands the definition of domestic violence in Connecticut to include coercive control?
... that during the 1940 Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz, all the male inhabitants of the occupied Polish town, Jews and non-Jews alike, were subjected to hours of abuse by German soldiers?
... that Ben Purse was a leader of the 1920 blind march, which helped bring about the world's first disability-specific legislation?
... that protesters against the Line 3 oil pipeline handcuffed themselves together at an Enbridge pump station?
... that when Cordula Wöhler was expelled from a Lutheran pastor's household for converting to Catholicism, she wrote a poem that became one of the most popular hymns to Mary in German?
... that barrister and arbitrator Mahnaz Malik worked with the Law Society of England and Wales to set up a programme to assist imprisoned children in Pakistan?
... that Derby County F.C. chairman Sam Longson gave impromptu press conferences in his pyjamas in the aftermath of Brian Clough's resignation as manager?
... that Maria of Antioch had a clerk and a notary interrupt the coronation of her rival Hugh III of Cyprus, after which they fled the cathedral?
... that Central Park Tower, partially cantilevered over another building, was compared to a giant "poised to squash a poodle"?
... that Italy won the UEFA Euro 1968 Final but only after winning a coin toss and a replay?
... that Chilean psychologist Neva Milicic Müller wrote a book about parent–child separation that can help children and caregivers during COVID-19 lockdowns?
... that north London's Barnet Gate was called Grendel's Gate by the Anglo-Saxons, after the monster slain in the epic poem Beowulf?
... that Des van Jaarsveldt was the first Rhodesian to captain the South Africa national rugby team and possibly the first to give a Springboks team talk in English?
... that the Shanka Basadi , one of the Lakshmeshwara Jain temples, features a rare monolithic pillar with the carving of 1008 tirthankaras known as the Sahasrakuta Jinabimba?
... that James A. Gilmore reorganized the Federal League, hoping that it would become a third major league?
... that Survivalcraft, a game inspired by Minecraft, was once one of the most downloaded games on Windows Phone and iPad?
... that the slave trader Thomas Leyland won a lottery, transported 22,365 enslaved Africans, and became Lord Mayor of Liverpool?
... that before he died in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese composer Shimaguchi Komao left behind an unfinished song bidding farewell to his family?
... that the coat of arms of Montserrat features Erin holding a Celtic harp, alluding to the Irish immigrants to the island during the 17th century?
... that when Johnny Duncan performed "Last Train to San Fernando" in Liverpool, the audience included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison?
... that The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood is based on the 1895 incident in Ireland where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling?
... that Rani Kumudini Devi was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Hyderabad?