derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Sunny Lam, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with Siri?
... that construction of the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange in Los Angeles in the 1950s displaced an entire neighborhood primarily inhabited by people of color?
... that Australian and Greek troops under Lieutenant Colonel Ian Ross Campbell held off a force of over 1,000 German paratroops on Crete for ten days?
... that when designing the character Madoka Kaname, Ume Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her manga series Hidamari Sketch, as a basis?
... that Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her second marathon event?
... that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, did not know their signal was being seen on cable in Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?
... that arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva wrote the first original monograph published in the USSR about Central Asian spiders?
... that an obituary of Neil Peart said he was "sent to Earth to destroy drummer jokes"?
... that the former ASCE Society House in New York City has been home to a tire showroom, a restaurant, and an art shop?
... that Shanti Stupa, Delhi, was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2007?
... that Bechevinka, an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Kamchatka, is now a ghost town that attracts tourists?
... that Openload, a defunct file-sharing site that once received more traffic than Hulu, was labelled a notorious market?
... that the permeability of rocks affected by faults can increase or decrease as a result of seismic activity?
... that Taylor Swift offered to postpone the release date of Evermore by one week so as not to coincide with Paul McCartney's McCartney III?
... that the existence of the painter known as the Master of the Lille Adoration , active in 16th-century Antwerp, was only proposed in 1995?
... that Gernot Roll, considered an expert in literary adaptations, was the cinematographer for the 11-part television series The Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann's novel?
... that although fracking is banned in Maryland, state officials support the Eastern Shore Pipeline, which carries fracked gas?
... that Michael White served in the same regiment as his father and married the daughter of another of its officers?
... that in the Mediterranean Sea, recruitment of the bryozoan Callopora lineata takes place in February and March, whereas in the Isle of Man, it takes place all year round?
... that in his first run for Texas House of Representatives, El Franco Lee had to pay a $400 fee to remain on the ballot because his nominating petition did not have enough verifiable signatures?
... that dissections for Gray's Anatomy were carried out at the medical school in London's Kinnerton Street?
... that in a 2018 U.S. district court case, software company Stardock unsuccessfully tried to claim trademarks for the names of aliens from the game Star Control?
... that Laura Purser-Rose became the first woman to sign her name on the Green Monster at Fenway Park?
... that Lenín Moreno, who was elected president of Ecuador in 2017, is not seeking re-election in the 2021 general election?
... that Anton Colella was named the chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland even though his only qualifications were in teaching Catholic theology?
... that in "Body", Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video?
... that according to historian Stefan Ihrig, the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
... that ecological speciation can give rise to new species by the way animals interact with their environment and each other?
... that Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani was an avid surfer and professed in an interview, "I'm sure I was a seal in another world because I am so fond of the water"?
... that View of El Paso at Sunset , a 22-foot-long (6.7 m) painting by Audley Dean Nicols, spent years in a janitor's closet at El Paso High School?
... that people with a fish allergy are unlikely to be allergic to shellfish, because fish and shellfish do not have the same allergenic protein?
... that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
... that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
... that armed robbers stole an estimated $30–45 million worth of paintings from Sweden's Nationalmuseum in December 2000, including two Renoirs and a Rembrandt?
... that the Strokes lose a game of baseball by a score of 56–1 against a team of robots in the music video for their song "The Adults Are Talking"?
... that ballerina and répétiteur Sara Leland was able to stage more than 30 ballets due to her ability to remember choreography accurately?
... that the frog pond effect describes how it is better for self-evaluation of competence to be a "big frog in a little pond"?
... that Oregon state representative John H. Carkin was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House in 1927, with support from all Democratic House members as well as his fellow Republicans?
... that a section of Japan National Route 114 that was closed following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has since been reopened?
... that the Ava Prince Thray Sithu led two ceasefire negotiations with Hanthawaddy during the Forty Years' War?
... that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?
... that Panchkuta Basadi , in the Humcha Jain temple complex, houses a golden-coloured idol of Padmavati carrying a lotus, a goad, and a noose?
... that US civil-rights leader John Warren Davis was the longest-serving president of West Virginia State University and helped to establish the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund?
... that as a Porto Alegre city councillor, Rodrigo Maroni proposed a bill that would have imposed life imprisonment on offenders who commit cruelty to animals?
... that 6,000 square feet (560 m2) of development rights above the Art Students League Building cost $31.8 million?
... that Enid Szánthó, a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938?
... that Paper Mario: The Origami King uses office supplies for boss battles to complement its origami theme?
... that XO was one of the lowest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars series due to Xbox 360's unwelcoming commercial and critical reception in Japan?
... that Frances Spatz Leighton was called the "Queen of Female Ghosts" for ghostwriting many memoirs?
... that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit"?
... that after Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
... that in 1982, a Magnificat in German composed in 1707 for soprano, traverso, strings, and continuo and attributed to Bach and Telemann, was identified as a composition by Melchior Hoffmann?
... that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab?
... that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket?
... that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?
... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
... that Israeli lawyer Gonen Ben Itzhak, a prominent figure in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu, is a former Shin Bet handler of Hamas mole "The Green Prince"?
... that the results of the 2021 Uzbek presidential election are expected to mirror those from 2016, which were widely considered illegitimate?
... that LaVon Mercer, who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
... that Milestone House at the Edinburgh City Hospital was the first custom-built AIDS hospice in the UK?
... that in a three-month period in mid- to late 2020, nearly half of Americans were subject to an SSA impersonation scam robocall?
... that Dick Callahan received his first opportunity as a PA announcer after claiming that he announced all the games at his high school, even though he had actually never announced a game before?
... that the GPT-2 artificial intelligence can summarize, respond to, generate, and translate text, despite being trained to do nothing more than predict the next word in a sequence?
... that, after former president Abdurrahman Wahid, Rusdy Mastura was the second Indonesian public official to apologize for the mass killings of 1965–66?
... that the 1928 recording by Jimmie Rodgers of "Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)" influenced a line in Johnny Cash's song "Folsom Prison Blues"?
... that Samuel Pepys wrote of Royal Navy Commissioner Sir Thomas Hervey: "a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of the Navy"?
... that by 2001, almost 2000 Trees For Life volunteers were growing 1.5 million plants every year?
... that Wilhelm Knabe , a co-founder of the Greens in Germany and a "green" mayor of Mülheim, participated in Fridays For Future with the slogan "Opa For Future"?
... that the 1960 film The Purple Gang has an introduction by Congressman James Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn, an enslaved woman?
... that while Gerry House worked at Kentucky radio station WCBR, the owner, a pastor, asked him whether he wanted to donate his salary?
... that the first cookbook edited by Maria Guarnaschelli helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine?
... that 17q12 microdeletion syndrome, an underdiagnosed genetic disorder, is thought to be a major genetic risk factor for autism and schizophrenia?
... that Lee M. Hollander pioneered the translation of the works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard into English?
... that the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final at Wembley Stadium was won by "a pub team from Essex"?
... that the first telephone designed in Canada, Nortel's Contempra , became so famous it was featured on a stamp?
... that at the time of her death at age 90, Lilliane Brady was the mayor of Cobar Shire and the longest-serving female mayor in New South Wales's history?
... that British jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia's debut album Source, which incorporates reggae, cumbia, calypso, hip-hop, and soul, is an ode to her musical history?
... that Libuše Domanínská, a soprano of Prague's National Theatre, performed in all of Janáček's operas, and a recording she made as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country?
... that Roy Brown, credited with downing the Red Baron, suffered a serious accident not long after being posted to Marske Aerodrome?
... that in 2019 Joel Farabee became the first player born in the 2000s to become a Philadelphia Flyers player?
... that black-sided flowerpeckers camouflage the outside of their nests with lichens?
... that the Language Integrator is a peep show intended only for inhabitants of the 82nd century to use?
... that Dileeni Daniel-Selvaratnam , Governor of Anguilla, attended her own swearing-in ceremony remotely due to quarantine restrictions?
... that Ismith Khan's novel The Jumbie Bird explores the transformation of immigrants from India into Indo-Trinidadians?
... that translator and journalist Frederika Randall, who moved from the United States to Italy, identified as a "dispatriate" to distance herself from her homeland?
... that New York City's Western Union Telegraph Building was built on land once owned by Thomas W. Evans, dentist to French emperor Napoleon III?
... that with compositions such as Con brio, clarinetist Jörg Widmann was ranked the third-most-performed contemporary composer in 2018?
... that Tailors' Hall, a surviving guildhall of Dublin, hosted fencing and dancing classes, the United Irishmen and a British Army garrison, Dublin Corporation and an insolvency court?
... that the UConn student body voted 169–7 to fire the basketball coach after he benched Harrison Fitch because a rival team refused to play against an African American?
... that after signing his first movie contract, Humphrey Bogart boasted: "I'm going to become the biggest movie star Hollywood's ever seen"?
... that American band the Body's album I've Seen All I Need to See opens with a reading of the poem "The Kaleidoscope" by Scottish poet Douglas Dunn?
... that Cajun accordion musician Sheryl Cormier has been named the Cajun Queen in the United States and Europe?
... that when the manga series Antique Bakery was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2001, a character who was gay in the source material was changed to having a fear of women?
... that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis?
... that as part of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement, the US agreed to recognize Morocco's claim to Western Sahara?
... that when Imants Lešinskis defected from the Soviet Union while working for the UN in New York, Kofi Annan, future UN secretary-general, complained that he did not show up to work?
... that the medieval Breton Gwerz Santes Enori tells the story of a woman who sacrificed a breast to cure her father, and is rewarded with a golden breast?
... that John Trumbull finished his painting George Washington before he was arrested for high treason?
... that the creator of a video depicting the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, which featured Indonesian politically satirical song "Ampun Bang Jago", denied that it was politically motivated?
... that the American scholar Karen Hellekson published the first book in English devoted to analyzing the alternate history genre?
... that although its range is restricted to the island of Borneo, the mountain blackeye has evolved into four subspecies?
... that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion, was released at The Fullerton Hotel, the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
... that Dav Pilkey wrote the children's book The Paperboy, which received a Caldecott Honor, in fifteen minutes?
... that film researcher Lillian Michelson interviewed elderly Jewish women about the appearance of the underwear they wore in the 1890s to develop accurate clothing for Fiddler On The Roof?
... that a commercial for the food delivery app Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku went viral on YouTube in 2013, and was described by journalists as "bizarre"?
... that the tugboat Robert C. Pringle was discovered "remarkably intact" 86 years after it sank?
... that Peter Herrmann composed a Second Symphony that premiered at the Gewandhaus with Kurt Masur, and a Kant Pop Symphony that premiered at the Musikhochschule Leipzig, where he had taught for decades?
... that British journalist Godfrey Hodgson, who covered American politics, society, and values, showed that the first Thanksgiving did not include turkey and cranberry sauce?
... that the documentary Change the Subject is about lobbying efforts to replace the term "illegal aliens" with "undocumented immigrants" in the Library of Congress Subject Headings?
... that in 1897, former slave George Dinning was the first black man to successfully sue a mob of the Ku Klux Klan?
... that Lloyd Percival's The Hockey Handbook was credited as being used by Soviet Union national ice hockey team coach Anatoly Tarasov?
... that Bradford City scored three goals in 13 minutes to secure promotion in the 2013 Football League Two play-off Final?
... that access to Martin's Beach has been the subject of a contentious battle between a Silicon Valley billionaire and the State of California?
... that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri are about the Indian scholar and independence activist Abul Kalam Azad?
... that the owner of Walsall F.C. described victory at the 2001 Football League Second Division play-off Final as the greatest day in the club's history?
... that after finishing his term as Indonesia's minister of agriculture, Sjarifuddin Baharsjah was immediately succeeded by his wife?
... that Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls called for the abolition of birth alerts?
... that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized shorthorn cattle?
... that the whaleback barge 115 became the last Great Lakes shipwreck of the 1800s?
... that when women's champion Dotty Fothergill sued in 1970 for being denied the right to compete in men's tournaments, the Professional Bowlers Association countersued for "disastrous ridicule"?
... that Lucy Monroe , the "star-spangled soprano", estimated that she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" over 5,000 times?
... that the cover of Red Meat Republic, a book on the history of beef production in the United States, has the look and texture of butcher paper?
... that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's Labour Party?
... that the war in Uganda (1986–1994) involved rebel armies led by a prophetess, her father, spirits, "Hitler", ex-ministers, and Joseph Kony?
... that AJ Rafael started Crazy Talented Asians, a live variety show, after being influenced by the film Crazy Rich Asians?
... that although the 1786 tignon law in Spanish Louisiana was intended to hinder free black women, those who followed it made the tignon a "mark of distinction"?
... that some of the Sheffield Wednesday team participated in a conga on the M4 motorway after winning the 2005 Football League One play-off Final?
... that Keith Gill's username, "DeepFuckingValue", was chosen to reflect his belief in value investing?
... that Barnett Nathan was famous for dancing the hornpipe, while blindfolded, on a stage covered with eggs and teaware?
... that Shandon Castle was destroyed in the Siege of Cork in 1690, and sandstone from its ruins used to build the Church of St Anne in 1722?
... that baseball pitcher Dennis Rasmussen nearly had to have his foot amputated when he was 14 years old?
... that the Ćmielów Porcelain Works are Poland's oldest porcelain works, and Europe's largest thin-walled-china works?
... that Biserka Cvejić, a Serbian mezzo-soprano who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida?
... that the theme song for the tabletop role-playing game F.A.T.A.L. was described by a reviewer as "sound[ing] like the Cookie Monster chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs"?
... that Francesca Coppa, a professor of English, compiled "the first anthology of fan fiction for use in the classroom"?
... that Pliofilm, a pre-war food wrap, was used to waterproof firearms during the Normandy landings?
... that Universalkünstler Arik Brauer created paintings in Fantastic Realism, songs in Austropop, stage sets for the Paris Opera, and house facades in Austria and Israel?
... that the 1888 eruption of Ritter Island reduced the 780-metre tall (2,560 ft) volcano to a height of just 140 metres (460 ft)?
... that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil, were referred to as "The Sudanese Supremes"?
... that academic analysis of The Diving Pool has interpreted the use of food as a way to poison others as a critique on Japanese femininity?
... that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan, started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher?
... that 23 Wall Street has been called one of the "big little buildings of Wall Street"?
... that the 2018 comedy film A Bread Factory, about the difficulty of producing meaningful artistic work in a market economy, received acclaim from critics but earned less than $18,000 at the box office?
... that Gauthier Mvumbi has been called the "Shaq of handball", the "Congo Colossus", and "the most popular handball player on the Earth"?
... that the newly described Rice's whale is one of the most endangered cetaceans, with fewer than 50 adult individuals believed to remain?
... that British Columbia's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood, who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
... that the Babakale Castle supplied water to the Ottoman Navy before the fleet set sail on campaigns?
... that Dorothee Manski, a soprano of the Berlin Court Opera, gave 335 performances at the Metropolitan Opera after being invited to appear there as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in 1927?
... that Willa Cather's final story, The Best Years, contains references to her previously published novels?
... that ballerina Merrill Ashley is one of the last dancers to have worked with choreographer George Balanchine?
... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK the entire 2021 Netball Superleague season is being hosted at just two venues?
... that a 9-metre tall (30 ft) Malt Shovel in Burton upon Trent might actually be a scoop?
... that Micheline Legendre organized Canada's first puppetry festival in conjunction with the 1967 World Expo in Montreal?
... that London-based dream-pop duo Still Corners' album The Last Exit paints a picture of open-road Americana?
... that the administrator of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Mimie Wood, correctly predicted that she would be replaced by five people upon retirement?
... that Stalin considered invading the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan in the last days of World War II?
... that Austrian stamp collector Adolf Passer sold most of his collection to concentrate on wooing his future wife?
... that the Bedouin emirs of the Turabay dynasty presided over nearly a century of peace and prosperity in northern Palestine?
... that Helen Dettweiler cofounded the LPGA, was a cryptographer and B-17 pilot during World War II, and became the first female broadcaster in baseball?
... that the Strängnäs stone , long considered a forgery, is probably authentic?
... that the silent film The Honeymoon Express was reported to have been withdrawn from release despite being screened later in 1926?
... that the picture book Maiden & Princess, in which a maiden and princess fall in love, shares a fictional universe with Prince & Knight, in which a prince and male knight do the same?
... that the church led by Ernest T. Campbell sponsored Marina Oswald, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, to study at the University of Michigan?
... that the vocalist in "Erlkönig", published as Schubert's Op. 1, portrays four characters that differ in vocal register, rhythm, and harmony?
... that François Henri Mouton fought for the Sikhs during the First Anglo-Sikh War whilst on leave from the French Army?
... that a scene from the music video for "End Game" features Taylor Swift playing the video game Snake, a reference to her reputation as a "snake"?
... that Serpico was filmed in reverse, and Al Pacino had to be shaved as the shooting progressed?
... that Ekkehard von Kuenssberg turned down an invitation to join the SS and migrated to Britain, carrying a hockey stick and a tennis racquet?
... that the dance choreography for Babymetal, Perfume, Nosaj Thing's "Cold Stares" music video, the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, and the Japanese 2016 viral sensation "Koi Dance" were all created by MIKIKO?
... that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?