derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the video game Omori came out in December 2020, instead of its initial projected release date of May 2015?
... that historian Norman K. Risjord worked in counter-intelligence in Berlin before he obtained his PhD and pursued a career in American history?
... that in Inferno, an opera by Lucia Ronchetti premiered in 2021 at the Oper Frankfurt, the main character Dante has a speaking voice and an inner voice of four male singers?
... that the three dolphins on the coat of arms of Anguilla represent "unity, strength and endurance", which is also the motto of the territory?
... that Colonel Dyck served in the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean armies before fighting as a mercenary in Mozambique in 2021 aged 77?
... that in the early 2000s, the only settlement in East Timor with 24-hour electricity was its capital city Dili?
... that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind divided into two factions in March 2008 due to differences between Arshad Madani and his nephew Mahmood Madani?
... that Kris Kristofferson's debut album, Kristofferson, was reissued with the title Me and Bobby McGee following the success of Janis Joplin's version of the song?
... that Czech television reporter and author Vladimír Škutina was arrested and imprisoned twice for his use of political satire?
... that during neo-Nazi David Duke's presidential campaign he was convicted, yelled at Jack Kemp, won a vice-presidential primary, switched parties, and had two running mates?
... that the flag of Sark represented the last feudal state in the Western world, and is flown over the British Ministry of Justice every 6 August to commemorate the granting of the fief?
... that Muhammad Ali Mungeri was the prime founder of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, a major Islamic seminary in India?
... that the neofolk album The Lone Furrow features several guest vocalists from heavy metal bands, and critics thought it might appeal to fans of that genre?
... that a book detailing the short life of Indian actress Meena Kumari was published just seven months after her death in 1972?
... that rhythmic gymnast Isabelle Connor is the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete at the Olympics?
... that the Black Sea seaside resort of Karaburun features a lighthouse built in 1860 with decorative lion heads around its original copper dome?
... that a cartoonist founded the Jim Thorpe Trophy that was awarded annually to the most valuable player of the National Football League?
... that Leeds industrialist William Gott was charged with nuisance when his factory's steam engine produced "noisome and unwholesome smokes and vapours"?
... that the wooden-hulled Mallard II , built in 1936, is "probably the oldest operating dredge in California"?
... that Danish dairy farmer Hanne Nielsen created a Tilsit cheese for King Christian IX of Denmark?
... that South Carolina radio station WBAW received a Peabody Award for public-service programming just six months after signing on the air?
... that Jack G. Downing, the only person to serve as CIA station chief in Moscow and Beijing, "read Chinese poetry for kicks"?
... that according to campus legend, the English Building at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is haunted by the ghost of a female student who drowned in the building's pool?
... that Andreas Schnider, a theologian and local Austrian People's Party leader from Graz, holds a leading role in Austria's teacher training?
... that the range of freshwater snail Beddomeia waterhouseae consists merely of a small tributary in Tasmania?
... that at the time the post was abolished, the prime minister of Zambia was being paid less than his secretary?
... that German runner Alica Schmidt , who is running in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics, has won multiple European junior relay medals?
... that the title of the album Red by Taylor Swift refers to the tumultuous "red" emotions that were evoked from an unhealthy romance she was experiencing during the album's conception?
... that Donald R. Morris wrote most of The Washing of the Spears, his history of the Anglo-Zulu War, during a five-year CIA posting to Berlin at the time of the construction of the Berlin Wall?
... that the equipment situation for the National Pacification Army was so poor that some soldiers were armed with spears instead of guns?
... that British modern pentathlete Jo Muir qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics despite missing the last qualification event due to COVID-19–related travel restrictions?
... that the short-lived Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia had a Yiddish-language state theatre?
... that Fallout was considered a risky project by developer Interplay Entertainment and was threatened with cancellation three times?
... that KICU-TV in Visalia, California, claimed to be the most powerful TV station west of the Mississippi River after a transmitter upgrade—and closed for good two years later?
... that although both Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Báthory are popularly believed to have inspired Dracula, Bram Stoker's notes mention neither?
... that Eliza Kennedy Smith's investigations of municipal corruption in Pittsburgh led to the mayor's arrest and imprisonment?
... that West Germany won their second UEFA European Championship in three editions when they defeated Belgium in the UEFA Euro 1980 Final?
... that stamp collecting gave Johnny Van Haeften the eye for detail that is essential in dealing in old master Dutch paintings?
... that author, poet and Arabian horse breeder Wilfrid Scawen Blunt chose to be buried without a coffin at his house, Newbuildings Place?
... that the pulpit of St George's Church, Edinburgh, was 20 ft (6.1 m) tall?
... that suffragette Lilian Staple Mead was the only female student ever at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College?
... that the Haft Gumbaz complex contains tombs of the Bahmani dynasty?
... that the conductor Im Won-sik is considered the "father of Korea's classical music world"?
... that the book Sinews of Survival by Canadian ethnologist Betty Kobayashi Issenman was described on release as "a cardinal reference in the field"?
... that PopCap Games aided in publishing Insaniquarium after the game became a finalist for the Independent Games Festival?
... that as a youth, Hartlepool United player Brad Walker would travel the 12-mile (19 km) round trip to the club on his bicycle?
... that the medieval Irish book shrine known as the Soiscél Molaisse was built in three phases, from the 8th to the 14th or 15th centuries?
... that bluegrass musician Carroll Best is credited for developing a melodic three-finger banjo style that influenced Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck?
... that the British South Africa Police's Black Boots support unit were dubbed "terr hungry" for apparently enjoying killing suspected terrorists in Rhodesia?
... that Eshmunazar I, the Phoenician king of Sidon, participated in the Neo-Babylonian campaigns against Egypt, where he seized stone sarcophagi belonging to members of the Egyptian elite?
... that Regine Velasquez, a Filipino singer and actress, was the first Asian artist to stage a solo concert at the Carnegie Hall in New York City?
... that Tetris Holding won an injunction in 2012 to stop sales of a video game clone of their famed Tetris game?
... that artist Roy Beddington illustrated three books with Irish author Stephen Gwynn and competed in the painting event at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
... that an inquiry from an engineering student led to the repair of a structural flaw at New York City's Citicorp Center?
... that Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, caused outrage in 1784 when he ordered that people be buried naked in reusable coffins from which the body fell into the grave via a trapdoor?
... that at George Floyd's funeral, a montage mistakenly included a photograph of the still-living former American football player George Floyd?
... that Crewe Alexandra finished last in the Football League eight times between 1894 and 1982, more than any other league club?
... that Vikram Misri was the Indian ambassador to China during the 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes?
... that the intricate seal of Columbia University was the first instance in which both Greek and Latin appeared on a college or university seal?
... that John Matthews's pension was suspended because he was accused of leading a call for a theatre performance to play "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail, Columbia"?
... that the Elazığ Girls' Institute was established in 1937 to assimilate "primitive" Kurdish girls by transforming them into "civilized" Turkish women?
... that Alex Schaefer has never burned down a bank, despite all the evidence suggesting otherwise?
... that George Webster painted two British slave-ships taking onboard enslaved people from Fort Christiansborg?
... that the Cairo pentagonal tiling was a favorite pattern of M. C. Escher?
... that Hayat Bakshi Begum ruled the Golconda Sultanate as regent for her son Abdullah Qutb Shah?
... that the fungal pathogen Aschersonia aleyrodis can control silverleaf whitefly under greenhouse conditions?
... that Silas Farley rejected a Harvard University full scholarship to pursue a career in ballet?
... that Franz Harnoncourt became CEO of the Kastner & Öhler department store in Graz after working for Karstadt and Marks & Spencer, and beginning as sales person and storage worker?
... that Spain's win in the UEFA Euro 2008 Final was the first of three successive major tournament victories?
... that despite an attempted "extermination" of homosexuals in the 1960s and 1970s, the LGBT community in Argentina is now the most accepted in Latin America?
... that Marthe Yankurije, who dropped out of school during her fourth year of secondary school, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that during its planning stages, 53 West 53rd Street in New York City was shortened by 200 feet (61 m) to reduce the visibility of the mechanical rooms?
... that Indonesian comedian Yusran Effendi was personally awarded a place on an Islamic pilgrimage trip by president Suharto?
... that William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, founded the nonprofit Next Frontier: Inclusion in atonement for writing the book?
... that YouTuber Ghib Ojisan visited Yishun, a Singaporean town, expecting danger after reading of cats being slaughtered but instead found it "home to nice people and cute cats"?
... that actor Joseph Holland was accidentally stabbed and seriously wounded by Orson Welles, wielding a steel knife, during a 1937 Broadway production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
... that perch became a major product of the Swiss fishing industry in the mid–20th century after a fisherman found that an industrial potato peeler made two perfect filets from each fish?
... that Jerome Robbins choreographed the ballet Andantino to music by Tchaikovsky, despite his lack of interest, because "you don't necessarily have to enjoy doing something for it to be good"?
... that infectious diseases specialist Jameela Al Salman has supported the development of medical robots and called their use in Bahrain a "pioneering experiment"?
... that Princess Lucia was so unpopular ruling in the name of her teenage son Bohemond that he sought permission from the pope to come of age early?
... that the album series Everywhere at the End of Time (2016–2019) by the Caretaker uses ballroom records to depict the stages of Alzheimer's disease?
... that according to Mbuti tradition, eating a great blue turaco while pregnant may result in a difficult delivery or birth deformity?
... that CEO Marla Messing submitted the business plan for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup two days before the birth of her first child?
... that after drinking five glasses of "purging" mineral water from the Physic Well on Barnet Common, Samuel Pepys had to break his journey back to London seven or eight times to relieve himself?
... that architect Van Dorn Hooker, who served in the USAAF, was a cartoonist for Army news publications, and painted aircraft nose art?
... that New York City's Hotel Knickerbocker closed after fourteen years of operation and did not reopen for nearly a century?
... that Bourton-on-the-Water model village contains a scale model of a model of a model of a model village?
... that a version of the Albert helmet proposed by Prince Albert in 1842 is still worn by the British Army's Household Cavalry ?
... that Yasunori Oshima served as the hitting coach for the Japan national baseball team that won the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006?
... that although "Chi Mat Ba Ram", the title of the song by Brave Girls, translates to "the swish of a skirt" in Korean, a term that is often used negatively, the song is about the fierceness in women?
... that Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro X. Molina has had to flee his home country twice in his lifetime?
... that the Police Anti-Terrorist Unit joined Rhodesian military operations in police uniform and were only issued camouflage after a soldier hesitated because a target wore the same colour trousers?
... that Alvin Bragg has overseen lawsuits against the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Harvey Weinstein, and The Weinstein Company, and represented the families of Eric Garner and Ramarley Graham?
... that the lap steel guitar was the first "foreign" musical instrument to gain a foothold in American pop music?
... that during the War of the Lombards, fighting was interrupted so that the corpse of the besieged Queen Alice could be handed over to her husband, who had never seen her alive?
... that the artist Robert Smithson suggested that the boulder in the center of his piece Broken Circle/Spiral Hill was a "warning from the Ice Age"?
... that the 1911 fire at the New York State Capitol destroyed over 700,000 items held by the New York State Library, creating a "hole in [New York's] cultural heritage"?
... that a 15-year-old boy died after falling from the top of a 142-foot high (43 m) mast?
... that Richard McGeagh did not receive a gold medal, even though he set an Olympic record in the 4×100 metre medley relay at the 1964 Olympics?
... that the winner of the men's race at the 2004 London Marathon fell during the race on cobblestones?
... that Saul Soliz was known as "the godfather of Texas MMA"?
... that the Morowali Industrial Park is the largest center of nickel industry in Indonesia, the world's top nickel producer?
... that Dinah John was one of an estimated fifteen Native American women from New York state to serve in the War of 1812?
... that the defendants in the Racism-Turanism trials between 1944 and 1947 were absolved because racism was not contrary to the Turkish constitution?
... that civil rights activist Bob Zellner was arrested at least 25 times and severely beaten on several occasions for his activism?
... that Queen Elizabeth II sat for Ben Enwonwu on twelve occasions as he created his sculpture of her?
... that Jay-Z was re-added to "Jail" by Kanye West after initially being replaced with DaBaby?
... that the 1992 championship of Vince McMahon's World Bodybuilding Federation consisted of "two of the silliest hours in the history of live sports"?
... that Monika Salzer, a systematic psychotherapist and Protestant pastor, was a columnist for the Kronen Zeitung and appeared on television in Dancing Stars?
... that rebel leader and later Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni had to walk 19 kilometres (12 mi) and borrow a car before the Battle of Kabamba because his pickup truck had broken down?
... that Lori Gramlich, a survivor of sexual abuse in her childhood, introduced legislation that made it easier for sexual abuse survivors in Maine to file civil lawsuits against their abusers?
... that the crane shots at the end of the opening sequence for the WandaVision episode "On a Very Special Episode..." were added as an homage to Full House?
... that all 256 places at the 2021 U.S. Open Pool Championship were filled within 10 hours?
... that Turkey's Anadolu Shipyard signed a contract with India's Hindustan Shipyard to transfer technology for the building of five fleet support ships for the Indian Navy?
... that in their book about molybdenum, American chemists Arthur Linz and David H. Killeffer complained that previous works included the true and the false, the probable and the fantastic?
... that the Canadian Police and Peace Officers' Memorial had to be redesigned after six years to accommodate more names?
... that when acting in HBO television series Big Little Lies, Darby Camp received suggestions from Reese Witherspoon, who plays her onscreen mother?
... that Dorans Lane in Liverpool is named after Felix Doran, who "seems to cling ghost-like to the area"?
... that 80 acres (32 ha) of Hog Island were farmland in 1923, but only 15 acres (6 ha) were above water in 1974?
... that Impa is one of the oldest characters in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series?
... that the WandaVision episode "We Interrupt This Program" was pitched like an episode of CSI, deviating from the sitcom genre of preceding episodes?
... that Royal Navy officer John Wells managed to escape the Nore mutiny through a gun port in his ship, returning later to accept the mutineers' surrender?
... that during Tag des offenen Denkmals, Germany's largest annual cultural event, thousands of historic monuments are opened for free?
... that Schlosspark Biebrich , the garden at a former residence of the Duchy of Nassau on the Rhine, is the venue of the Internationales Pfingstturnier Wiesbaden?
... that Eric Berger wrote about weather for the Houston Chronicle even before he became a certified meteorologist?
... that Poles who fought in the Russian Partition during the January Uprising were detained as political prisoners in Magdeburg and Graudenz, Prussia, even though the uprising never crossed the border?
... that Haripriya Banoth is the youngest member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly?
... that Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany wore comic-book-accurate Scarlet Witch and Vision Halloween costumes in the WandaVision episode "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!"?
... that research for the Cambridge Greek Lexicon was planned to last five years but was only completed after twenty-three?
... that Faith No More's "Digging the Grave" was featured on both Beavis and Butt-Head and Top of the Pops?
... that Lydia Wevers was the first scholar to write about the history of short stories in New Zealand?
... that most of the Timurid 15th-century Musalla complex was destroyed in 1885 by the British and the Emir of Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman Khan?
... that each of the three times Fox Island exploded, shockwaves could be felt dozens of miles away?
... that Anna Apostolaki, the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts?
... that playwright Carol K. Mack wrote the thriller novel The Chameleon Variant in 1980 with Rutgers University biologist David Ehrenfeld?
... that Tlalli will replace a monument to Christopher Columbus, not to "erase history", but to "deliver social justice"?
... that Admiral Benjamin William Page was tasked with announcing the start of the Napoleonic Wars to the East Indies, using HMS Caroline ?
... that the music for the video game Rings of Power was composed by a first-year medical student?
... that Jean-Paul Jeannotte, founder and first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal, performed the role of Bobino more than 100 times, in the premiere on CBC TV and on stages on a Canada tour?
... that according to Christopher Bollen, much of his 2020 novel A Beautiful Crime was written in a 17th-century monastery?
... that the small island of Aruba was at the Paralympics because Shardea Arias de la Cru thought they should be?
... that the Sawmill Fire of 2017, which burned more than 45,000 acres (18,000 ha), was started at a gender reveal party?
... that Park Chan-dea is the only male wushu athlete to be a six-time world champion?
... that Washington state educational TV station KPEC-TV bought and repaired a video tape recorder that had fallen off a forklift and been written off?
... that over his long career in aviation, Andy Carswell was shot down over Germany, made two famous rescues, met Queen Elizabeth II, and upset the Canadian transport safety establishment?
... that by the time the Egyptian frigate Mehemet Ali served in the 1877 Russo-Turkish War she was described as "as much good as a cardboard box"?
... that Faith No More's "Ricochet", originally earmarked as a B-side, contains "one of the band's most memorable lines"?
... that Aline Abboud is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to present Tagesthemen, a German daily news magazine?
... that director Matt Shakman filmed footage specifically for the opening of the 1970s-inspired WandaVision episode "Now in Color", deviating from typical sitcoms of the era that used stock footage in their openings?
... that the 1993 Finchley Road bombings were the first London bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in six months?
... that John U. Monro resigned as dean of Harvard College to work at a then-unaccredited, historically black college in Alabama?
... that Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut, could hold more than 15,000 railroad cars at one time?
... that Able Seaman Rex Julius was the lowest-ranked Australian official war artist of World War II?
... that a feng shui consultant convinced Donald Trump not to use a gold color for New York City's Trump International Hotel and Tower?
... that the second match of South Africa women's tour of England in 2018 was the first time a women's international cricket match had featured three centuries?
... that George Lauder, a surgeon in the Jacobite Army under Bonnie Prince Charlie, treated the wounded of both sides after the Battle of Prestonpans?
... that in 1914 the Royal Navy acquired ninety-seven Foster-Daimler tractors to tow the BL 15-inch howitzer, with eight tractors required to tow each howitzer?
... that KWEM-LP in West Memphis, Arkansas, was established as a tribute to a radio station that in the late 1940s and 1950s helped launch the careers of B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf and Johnny Cash?
... that the slave trader John Knight transported more than 26,000 Africans to the Americas?
... that for the construction of the US$200 million Axa Equitable Center, the Equitable Life Assurance Society spent $7.5 million on artwork?
... that Lulwah Al-Qatami was the first woman from Kuwait to study at a university abroad?
... that Jacquelyn Reingold knew nothing about string theory until she wrote a play about it?
... that "Another Body Murdered", a collaboration between Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., has been described as having "a chest-puffing, smack-talking energy that’s undeniable"?
... that the manager of CitySpire was fined US$220 after the building was found guilty of whistling loudly?
... that in 1999, hundreds to tens of thousands of people protested for 53 days against the flag of Vietnam and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh in Little Saigon?
... that at one point in Odessa's history, Jews comprised 89 percent of the city's population?
... that American serial killer Michael Sumpter was never convicted of murder and it was only after his death that he could be linked to his killings through DNA evidence?
... that Thai YouTuber MindaRyn began an anime singing career after her music covers were noticed by a Japanese record label?
... that Crawfurd v The Royal Bank (1749) established in Scots law that a bona fide recipient of stolen banknotes cannot be forced to return them to their original owner?
... that the photographer Stephan Vanfleteren crossed the US while modelling as Presley and photographing a friend modelling as Elvis?
... that Britain's Imperial Air Routes, 1918 to 1939 by Robin Higham shows how commercial aviation connected the colonies of the British Empire?
... that Willi Brokmeier, who participated in the world premiere of Die Soldaten at the Cologne Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan?
... that there is a monument of a photocopier in the Indonesian village of Atar, commemorating the involvement of migrants from the village in the trade?
... that Lawrence Watt-Evans's The Cyborg and the Sorcerers was his first work in the hard science fiction genre, but mixed in elements of fantasy?
... that Mal Benning is one of only 0.25 per cent of professional footballers in England to be British Asian?