derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after being told that women could not compete in athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, the FSFSF set up their own Women's Olympiad?
... that Pat Lundvall was the first female chair of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, but garnered controversy for some of her decisions relating to mixed martial arts?
... that Susan B. Anthony took British citizenship to avoid testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee and later spent nine years trying to repatriate?
... that the Venkateswara Temple only allowed male barbers to shave off the ton of hair that is donated every day until Kagganapalli Radha Devi challenged the rules?
... that the Duchess Bridge in Dumfries and Galloway is thought to be the oldest surviving iron bridge in Scotland?
... that badminton player P. V. Sindhu became the inaugural recipient of the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award in 2020?
... that Polly Batic appeared at the Salzburg Festival in roles such as Annina in Der Rosenkavalier from 1931 to 1937, and became a member of the Vienna State Opera in 1948?
... that the spaces between the shelves of the United States Senate bill hopper get shorter near the top as so few proposed bills became law?
... that Sadhana Mahila Sangha protected Bangalore sex workers from the police and from HIV, but they now help feed them during the pandemic?
... that the Taylor Swift masters controversy was described by Rolling Stone as one of the "most important moments" in music of the 2010s?
... that pitcher Tom Acker , who had a keen interest in horses, worked at the Meadowlands Racetrack after his Major League Baseball career?
... that Singapore's Punggol station is the longest station on the North East line, at 320 m (1,050 ft)?
... that after going viral, Robin Schreiber danced at the 2017 NBA All-Star Weekend with Stephen Curry, who later wore shoes featuring designs in her honor?
... that Anwoth Old Church, where Samuel Rutherford preached in the early 17th century, was used as a location in the shooting of the classic horror film The Wicker Man?
... that in 1973, jockey Robyn Smith won a race while riding a horse named after her?
... that the music video for "Fantastic Baby" by Big Bang is the first by a K-pop boy band to reach 100 million, 200 million, and 300 million views on YouTube?
... that the studio of Francis Chit, the first Thai professional photographer, was in a floating raft-house?
... that because Accolade had focused their success around sports games, the packaging for the science-fiction game Star Control II accidentally included a sticker calling it the "Best Sports Game" of 1992?
... that US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick wanted to pursue a career in law enforcement since high school, and joined the New Jersey Air National Guard "as a means to that end"?
... that the 1959 short story "Now: Zero", while sharing some concepts with the popular 2003 manga Death Note, has been described as one of J. G. Ballard's weakest works?
... that Malysha Kelly's return to the Jamaica national netball team after a three-year absence was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the American reality TV series The Bachelor took 18 years and 25 seasons to star its first black man?
... that for the 2015 film A Heavy Heart, German actor Peter Kurth gained and then lost 35 pounds (16 kg) to portray his character's physical decline due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
... that the 1996 book Breton Ballads studies examples of the Breton genre of gwerz, and discusses the Barzaz Breiz controversy?
... that in 2020, Eli Savit was elected the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County, Michigan, on a promise to abolish the cash bail system?
... that at the 2010 Belgian Grand Prix, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton slid off the wet track into a gravel trap, but was able to re-join the circuit and win the race?
... that Etruscan cippi were sometimes used as cinerary urns in the shape of a human torso with the head as a lid ?
... that writer James Kendall Hosmer chose to fight on the front lines in the American Civil War instead of serving on the staff of General Nathaniel P. Banks?
... that Cheltenham Town lost the 2012 Football League Two play-off Final, their first defeat in nine play-off matches?
... that in The Age of Phillis (2020), American poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers "fills in the gaps" in a white woman's biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)?
... that plant scientist Norman C. Deno's research on seed germination techniques resulted in him writing a book with germination methods for thousands of species?
... that while waiting to film London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck for Netflix, London Hughes talked about the word dick in History of Swear Words?
... that George Poynter Heath , the first portmaster of Queensland, Australia, was responsible for establishing 33 lighthouses, Booby Island Light being the last one?
... that the Atlas Cinema in Istanbul was established as a 1,800-seater movie theatre in 1948 replacing a notable music hall, which was in turn established in the horse stable of a 19th-century residential building?
... that Nyeema Morgan collaborated in the design of a wooden Afrofuturist replica of the Millennium Falcon?
... that the Paper Mario series was changed from role-playing games to action-adventure games because the developers found it to be too similar to Nintendo's other role-playing series, Mario & Luigi?
... that on 13 August 2020, Australian-born cricketer Janet Ronalds became the first player, male or female, to score a century for Germany in Twenty20 Internationals?
... that South Carolina low-power television station WPDF-LP was bumped off the air by another station's digital signal?
... that Bukhari Daud was considered to be the first regent in Indonesia to attempt to resign from his office?
... that the proposers of the imprinted brain hypothesis, which claims that autistic and schizotypal traits are opposites, had no background in behavioural genetics before proposing it?
... that Thomas Picken's lithograph of the 1834 conflagration of Britain's Houses of Parliament was created when he was around 16 years old?
... that "The Present Crisis" by James Russell Lowell has been called a "poetic anthem" for the American antislavery movement?
... that conductor Volker Wangenheim opened the Beethovenhalle in Bonn for music by Karlheinz Stockhausen on 15 November 1969, including the world premiere of Fresco for four orchestral groups?
... that FHProductionHK, a YouTube channel with videos that have reached two million views, features someone who always wears a bear mask to hide his appearance?
... that Frank Greenleaf designed a new style of hockey net which prevented the puck from rebounding?
... that the horse in the equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison has stirrups, but no saddle?
... that Spanish designer Alberto Corazón was considered one of the fathers of graphical modernization in Spain with the advent of democracy after the death of Francisco Franco?
... that a carpet for the Chamber of Commerce Building was so large that part of the building's outer wall was temporarily removed so the carpet could be put inside?
... that Bobby Reynolds was known as "Mr. Touchdown" after winning a promotional contest for the song "Mr. Touchdown, U.S.A."?
... that Mexican political party Progressive Social Networks allowed party members to vote in internal elections using a smartphone app?
... that Joel S. Levine led a team of 12 NASA scientists to investigate why the U.S. Constitution was deteriorating?
... that when Dubliners donated more than 630 trees for amaptocare in Ballymun, artist Jochen Gerz offered a face-to-face meeting to each sponsor to choose their tree's personal permanent inscription?
... that Nathan Abshire was considered an "accomplished musician" at eight years old after learning to play on an accordion that cost $3.50?
... that the adult i phenotype, a rare blood type, has been associated with being born with cataracts in some populations?
... that the world's richest farmer, Qin Yinglin, started out with just 22 pigs?
... that George Balanchine's ballet The Four Temperaments premiered at a high-school auditorium?
... that German cricketer Christina Gough, who scored 348 runs in Women's Twenty20 Internationals in 2020, completed a Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages (German) at St Hilda's College, Oxford?
... that biotin has been proven to benefit hoof health in cattle and horses, but evidence for human nail health is very weak?
... that John Moffet set an Olympic swimming record despite injuring himself during the same race?
... that the co-founder of Arkansas radio station KTOY, the first Black-owned radio station in the state, continued teaching math after starting it?
... that the French classical scholar François Guyet kept his composure during a lithotomy by reading Lucan's Pharsalia?
... that despite containing crystals and chemicals which are thought to deter herbivory, Hypericum sechmenii is still under threat of extinction from grazing?
... that Asuka Langley Soryu's surname was taken from two warships used in World War II?
... that Osborne's ligament is a tissue under some people's elbows that can compress the ulnar nerve when the elbow is flexed, causing numbness and weakness in the fingers?
... that even though low interest prompted the Associated Students of Montana Tech to cut funding for student radio station KMSM-FM, it still filed to renew the station's license?
... that the investigations of Scandinavian place names by Magnus Olsen were instrumental in restoring confidence in Icelandic literature as a useful source for information on Old Norse religion?
... that Winston Churchill, an amateur painter, held the first exhibition of his paintings in Paris under a pseudonym?
... that Verna Grahek Mize was given the title "First Lady of Lake Superior" for her campaign to stop a mining company from dumping 67,000 tons of "gray gunk" into the lake each day?
... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Stravinsky Violin Concerto in 1972, a year after Igor Stravinsky's death, having previously choreographed another ballet to the same score in 1941?
... that during a bloody assault with his unit on the Western Front in 1914, Stephan Westmann was amazed to see the British stop firing and send stretcher-bearers to rescue his wounded German comrades?
... that The Thankful Poor , an 1894 painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, was discovered in a storage closet in 1970?
... that Molly Clutton-Brock treated the spines of African babies until she was deported by the government of Rhodesia?
... that at the 1997 Bully Hill Vineyards 150, Ron Fellows, driving for a team that did not have garage space, became the first Canadian to win a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race?
... that Caleb Grafton Roberts, head of the Second World War Allied Intelligence Bureau, was a highway engineer before the war?
... that the architect of Singapore's Stadium MRT station rotated the original plan on its side after being forced to revise the station's design?
... that former Minnesota governor Harold LeVander jokingly said that he served under state senator Gordon Rosenmeier?
... that in 1356 Henry of Lancaster marched an English expedition through Normandy 330 miles (530 km) in 22 days while successfully avoiding battle with the French king's far larger army?
... that Michael van der Veen, who represented Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial, also represented a man claiming to have been served a fried rat at a KFC?
... that pitcher and "smokeball artist" Lil Stoner also enjoyed baking and growing flowers?
... that Jia Ling's directorial debut film Hi, Mom has made her the highest-grossing female director in Chinese box-office history?
... that George A. Palmer continued his live Morning Cheer radio broadcast from his house while it was on fire?
... that Robert Dean was one of the few Anglophone Quebecers to join the separatist Parti Québécois?
... that at the conclusion of the 2006 Football League Two play-off Final, the losing manager said his side did not deserve to win and the winning goalscorer said he did not mean to score?
... that Caroline Parker, a deaf performer, signed the song "I Am What I Am" at the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony?
... that botanist Rosemary Margaret Smith had both an entire genus and a separate species named after her for her major discoveries and classification of ginger?
... that Kirka Sharif houses a cloak believed to be that of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam?
... that when the fireman's pole was invented at Chicago's Engine Company 21, other firefighters thought its use was crazy—until 21 started being the first crew to arrive at fires?
... that British band Black Country, New Road, who are known for experimenting with post-punk sound, showcased a clear preference for atmospherics on their album For the First Time?
... that runners training to represent Laos at the 2012 Summer Olympics used barbell weights made from concrete, tires, and paint cans?
... that the investigation into the Koh Tao murders and the subsequent trial were widely criticised by human-rights organisations, pathologists and legal experts?
... that Leslie Rowan was PPS to Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, but Hugh Dalton called him "A bit too pi for me"?
... that the British mycologist Denis Garrett, "one of the last 'string and sealing wax' scientists", once bought plastic lavatory cisterns for his laboratory to use in experiments?
... that Vera Wülfing-Leckie translated in Senegal a novel by Boubacar Boris Diop written in the Wolof language, titled Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks in English?
... that Miki Satō would write song lyrics while commuting by train from home to university?
... that after winning the 2004 Football League Second Division play-off Final, some of the Brighton & Hove Albion players dropped the trophy while celebrating and damaged it?
... that poet Mary Custis Vezey, an eleventh-generation American, published much of her work in Russian?
... that FM213 spent a decade in search and rescue and another as a gate guardian before being restored as one of only two remaining airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers?
... that the 2020 book Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away by Heidi Larson addresses misinformation related to vaccination?
... that Quentin Tarantino directed a Mother's Day–themed episode of ER after being encouraged to do so by George Clooney?
... that Bob McCallister is the only golfer to win both the Pac-8 Conference and Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles in back-to-back seasons?
... that "Lasst uns Gott, dem Herrn, lobsingen", a hymn of praise, was written by Dominican Petronia Steiner in 1944 to a melody which Johann Georg Ebeling created in 1666 for a hymn by Paul Gerhardt?
... that Mary Kate Barlow was made a dame of the Holy Sepulchre in recognition of her contribution to the Eucharistic congress of 1928 held in Sydney, Australia?
... that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?
... that John Oliver was sued for defamation after a man in a squirrel costume told a coal industry CEO to "eat shit" on his show?
... that when the 1959 Michigan football team defeated Ohio State, opposing coach Woody Hayes whirled and hurled pieces of clothing, drawing a comparison to a "hot stripper"?
... that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor?
... that before she was elected to the Kansas Senate, Beverly Gossage worked as an elementary school teacher and an insurance agent?
... that the 2020 crime film Caught in Time is based on the real-life robber and serial killer Zhang Jun?
... that for nearly two decades Alfred Woodford was the sole professor in Pomona College's geology department?
... that the tiny true bug Microvelia macgregori spends much of its time on the surface of water?
... that attorney David Schoen held up a copy of Mao's Little Red Book while defending Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial?
... that Richard Platt , a master brewer, founded Aldenham School and arranged for the Company of Brewers to pay the boys beer money?
... that even though Willa Cather asked that her final novel, Hard Punishments, be destroyed when she died, new fragments were discovered in 2011?
... that Guan Bee Ong was the first person of Chinese descent to be professor of surgery at the University of Hong Kong?
... that logging camps were placed next to a river so that harvested logs could be floated to lumber mills in the spring?
... that Doris Stockhausen's husband dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married?
... that Albert H. Blumenthal jumped into the Asser Levy Recreation Center's pool while campaigning for the 1973 New York City mayoral election?
... that in 1955, physician Count Gibson became the first person outside the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to criticize its ethics, but the study continued for 17 more years?
... that the opening goal of the 1992 Football League Third Division play-off Final was described as a "Russian linesman job"?
... that Inkeri Anttila , Finland's first female minister of justice, was also the first woman in Finland to complete a doctorate in law?
... that women in the Shaheen Bagh protest, who blocked a major road in Delhi for 101 days, included 82-year-old Bilkis?
... that ichthyologist C. Richard Robins and his wife Catherine were honoured jointly in the name of the false moray Robinsia catherinae?
... that Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden, one of Christoph Graupner's church cantatas, reflects how Jesus suffered from his friends, and ends with a chorale fantasia "full of dissonances"?
... that the character Tom Bombadil, omitted by Peter Jackson in his later version, appears in a Russian film of The Lord of the Rings?
... that after coming back for a fifth season at Stanford, Anna Wilson won the 2021 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game with the Cardinal?
... that the 2019 children's picture book Birdsong portrays intergenerational relationship using seasonal cycles?
... that after Rhoda, Lady Birley, made fish stew with cognac for her roses, her daughter said that they "almost cried out with pleasure"?
... that James H. McGraw Jr., who selected the blue-green facade panels for 330 West 42nd Street , was said to be "appalled" at the color of the building?
... that the basic design for the sitaras that decorate the Kaaba dates back to the 16th century?
... that when Edward Mitchell Bannister won a first prize for painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, officials tried to rescind the award upon realizing he was African-American?
... that despite losing the 1990 Football League Third Division play-off Final, Tranmere Rovers were temporarily promoted to the Second Division?
... that Olena Tokar, a soprano of the Leipzig Opera from Ukraine, recorded Charmes, a collection of art songs by women including Clara Schumann and Vítězslava Kaprálová?
... that the 2015 children's picture book Timeline chronologically illustrates major world events, including the Big Bang and the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
... that the Vuurbaak van Katwijk aan Zee, built in 1605, is the second-oldest lighthouse in the Netherlands?
... that the BBC described Chi Chi DeVayne's lip sync to "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" as "iconic in Drag Race history"?
... that the early Bronze Age Saint-Bélec slab is the oldest map to be found in Europe?
... that Truus Smulders-Beliën, the first female mayor in the Netherlands, succeeded her husband after he was executed by Nazi soldiers?
... that Japan's 666 Protected Forests include four Forest Biosphere Reserves that are also Natural World Heritage Sites—Shiretoko, Shirakami-Sanchi, Ogasawara Islands, and Yakushima?
... that Karlin Lillington, long-time technology writer for Ireland's newspaper of record, The Irish Times, holds a PhD on the poetry of Seamus Heaney?
... that many tombstones from the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki were used by the city and the Greek Orthodox Church for construction projects?
... that Philadelphia Phillies catcher Rafael Marchan had never hit a home run through 850 minor league plate appearances before hitting one in just his second major league game?
... that The Dream of Ossian by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was painted in 1813 for Napoleon's bedroom?
... that Yugoslav politician Miloš Trifunović was briefly professor of zoology and botany despite graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade Higher School?
... that British nurse Ethel Becher was described as a "modern Florence Nightingale" in 1919 for her services during World War I?
... that the history of Vyatka Land was said to be more obscure than that of any other Russian region?
... that when Irene del Río was called up to the Spain women's national football team squad, she was the only player who did not compete in the country's top division?
... that Jerome Robbins's ballet Other Dances was described as "utterly Slavic" by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, partly because it was made for him and fellow Russian Natalia Makarova?
... that when Hollyoaks changed Juliet Nightingale's appearance for a storyline involving drugs, actress Niamh Blackshaw was glad to get rid of her character's side ponytail?
... that German three-time artistic cycling World Championship runner-up Viola Brand was invited to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, having previously watched the show to improve her English?
... that the Urdu novel Zameen provides a woman-centric account of Pakistan's independence?
... that Julie Mennell was a police officer and a forensics specialist before she became vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria?
... that Brett Ormerod scored five goals for Blackpool in the 2001 Football League play-offs including one in the 2001 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that Wilson Tucker was elected to the Mining and Pastoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council with just 0.18 per cent of the primary vote?
... that in "Herr, stärke mich, dein Leiden zu bedenken", Christian Fürchtegott Gellert reflected the theological and emotional impact of the Passion of Jesus, using a familiar Passion hymn tune?
... that tea room owner Edith Warner was convinced by Robert Oppenheimer to keep her restaurant open to serve the scientists working on the Manhattan Project, including Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi?
... that the founder of the Australian Flying Arts School took flying lessons so that he could travel throughout the Queensland Outback providing art lessons to its inhabitants?
... that John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, is entombed in a pyramid in Norfolk, England ?
... that in hakamat, a genre of the traditional music of Sudan, women exert their influence to resolve conflicts by singing songs of praise or ridicule?
... that Virgil Conn was a member of the Oregon Legislature during the 1897 session that failed to organize due to the lack of a quorum?
... that the inspiration for the 1998 novel The Vintner's Luck came to author Elizabeth Knox in a fever dream caused by pneumonia?
... that Sabina Matos, Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, did not speak English when she immigrated to the United States at age 20?
... that the year after going into administration, Huddersfield Town gained promotion to the Second Division by winning the 2004 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that the extinct bowfin Amia? hesperia was likely a fish-eating hunter?
... that Leontyne Price described her relationship with voice teacher Florence Kimball as "the most important relationship of my life. Like sex it was pure chemistry"?
... that Marcello Petacci was riddled with bullets after trying to escape execution by throwing himself into Lake Como?
... that choreographer George Balanchine did not tell the dancers in Duo Concertant there would be a blackout in the middle of the ballet until the morning of the premiere?
... that when Rosa M. Morris scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students?
... that the first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Godfrey Hounsfield in 1972?