derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that to reflect the neighbourhood's heritage as a songbird-watching community, Singapore's Mayflower MRT station is decorated with 22 bird sculptures?
... that Earl Old Person, lifetime honorary Chief of the Blackfeet Nation, inadvertently broke a 1000-year tradition in 1971 when he asked the Shah of Iran to stand up?
... that the plant Dyssodia papposa was given to horses for coughs by the Dakota and smoked for epilepsy by the Keres?
... that the first pendulum clock was invented in 1657 by Christiaan Huygens?
... that Kursdorf is "the loudest village in Germany" and a "sound inferno"?
... that Andreas Reize assumed the post of Thomaskantor as the first Swiss and the first Catholic since the Reformation?
... that Johann Reinhold Forster's 1778 book Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World has been described as "the beginning of modern geography"?
... that Marguerite Dunlap sang in the first radio broadcast of WEAF in New York?
... that for his appearance in the fourth-season finale of The Drew Carey Show, Hal Linden spoke with a German accent because he had trouble speaking with a Dutch accent?
... that Indonesian historian Sartono Kartodirdjo's father wanted him to be a doctor, but he refused as he claimed to be afraid of blood?
... that the First World War Kirkcudbright war memorial depicts a sword-wielding warrior with a sleeping child on his knee ?
... that a complaint over an allegedly illegal transmitter move led to Texas radio station KFQX-FM being forced off the air for four hours in 1988?
... that future rear admiral Robert Wertheim had a hand in the naming of the MIM-72 Chaparral?
... that Bagenal's Castle was originally thought to have been destroyed, but was rediscovered in 1996 in the premises of a bakery?
... that David Kennedy, co-founder of the agency that came up with Nike's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of Levi's denims by his employees?
... that White Lake Provincial Park is the only provincial park in Ontario, Canada, with an exceptional provision allowing hydroelectric activity as a non-conforming use?
... that the painter and writer Hilda Vīka was involved in Latvian neopaganism and used Latvian mythology in her works?
... that the non-fiction book Corvus: A Life with Birds focuses on a rook named after a drag queen called "Madame Chickeboumskaya"?
... that Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware , daughter of Asante ruler Opoku Ware II, simultaneously served as Ghana's ambassador to six countries?
... that there are three hydroelectric generating stations on the White River in Northern Ontario, Canada, all part-owned by First Nations?
... that Iranian-American aerospace engineer Joe Youssefi was posthumously awarded a gold medal for his collection of Persian stamps?
... that actor Frankie Muniz praised the Blackstarkids for their track "Frankie Muniz"?
... that the English botanists Jane Ingham and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from meristematic tissues in broad beans?
... that KMXO near Abilene, Texas, aired the region's first Spanish-language radio program and later became its first full-time Spanish-language station?
... that hinges on arch bridges were introduced in 1858 and remain popular in modern civil engineering?
... that a branch line of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad was so difficult to build, the area was nicknamed "Satan's Kingdom"?
... that Rhyothemis fuliginosa is known as the "butterfly dragonfly"?
... that some lawyers and privacy experts have questioned the constitutionality of reverse search warrants in the United States?
... that Anne Makemie Holden bequeathed land to her male relatives so that they could vote?
... that Julius Caesar's portrayal of his actions in the Gallic Wars have led historians to call him one of history's first "spin doctors"?
... that Lorenza Böttner, a mouth and foot painter, had both of her arms amputated following an electric shock?
... that the 1992 book A Song for Arbonne is set in a fantasy world loosely based on 12th-century Provence?
... that after starring in several films directed by Umberto Lenzi, actor Me Me Lai later worked as a police officer who confiscated them as "video nasties"?
... that after men took all the 2021 Nobel Prizes for science, one of the selectors, Eva Olsson , said "we want to have more women nominated"?
... that the woman of the Chatti was allegedly a Germanic prophetess whose advice inspired Roman Emperor Vitellius to murder his own mother, Sextilia?
... that in October 2021, American wheelchair racer Yen Hoang came in the top three in marathons on consecutive days?
... that American Computer and Peripheral was the first company to offer a plug-in board for Intel's 386 processor?
... that thanks to the advocate general's opinion, one is likely to know the outcome of a court case before the European Court of Justice before it even starts drafting the ruling?
... that SpaceX's reusable Starship launch vehicle has twice as much thrust as the Apollo program's Saturn V?
... that Canadian politician Above Znoneofthe chose his name so as to be placed last on alphabetical ballots?
... that the original release of Jason Shiga's comic Demon included a four-page issue, a sixty-page issue, and an issue in which all the panels were black?
... that 125 years ago today, the lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher rescued the fourteen-man crew of the SS Commodore and three fishermen who had been stranded aboard her?
... that the women's race at today's New York City Marathon will feature two of the medalists from this year's Olympic marathon?
... that Osa Maliki opposed the introduction of the Guided Democracy, and as a result was removed from his position?
... that Cwmhiraeth's name roughly translates to "valley of longing"?
... that while the Empire of Japan did not actively participate in the Holocaust, it has been found to have committed war crimes of its own?
... that of the hundreds of hands stenciled at Cueva de las Manos as artwork , very few are right hands?
... that Colombian-born Susan Bernal is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO2 emissions currently caused by concrete?
... that the Columbus was a disposable ship, built from large quantities of North American timber and intended to be sailed to London where she would be dismantled to avoid cargo import duties?
... that Cher Scarlett is one of the leaders of #AppleToo, a workers' rights movement at Apple Inc.?
... that flowers of the arctic dandelion do not need to be pollinated in order to set seed?
... that British Turk Hüseyin Er won world and European championships with the Turkey national deaf football team?
... that Frank Jeremiah Armstrong , the first African-American graduate of Cornell College, became an assistant to Booker T. Washington?
... that landscape architect Harriet Pattison collaborated with her lover Louis Kahn on the design of Four Freedoms Park and the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum?
... that climate change in Malaysia may cause its mangroves to be inundated by sea level rise by 2060?
... that Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska was awarded a Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology?
... that the Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad was also known as the "Red Line" because it was consistently unprofitable?
... that a mock funeral was held outside company headquarters during the 1986–1987 John Deere strike in which 700 union workers ceremoniously burned a coffin and a Christmas tree covered in company hats?
... that the 1895 painting Self-Portrait with Cigarette by Edvard Munch was met with criticism of his amorality and "degeneration"?
... that in 1776 Robert Bell was commissioned by Thomas Paine to print Common Sense, considered the most inciteful work of the American Revolution?
... that the Raytheon 704, which cost more than $10,000 in 1970, was the first computer used for playing games by mail?
... that Marie Surcouf was the president of Stella, a club for French women aeronauts?
... that investment fund Engine No. 1 waged a successful proxy battle against ExxonMobil despite owning only 0.02 percent of the oil company's shares?
... that Hans Haselböck, later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy, began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, on 4 November 1949?
... that for more than six decades no federal supreme court existed in the German territories until the Reichsoberhandelsgericht was formed in 1869?
... that a reviewer said that Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice has "more holes than a dodgy knitting pattern" but he "enjoyed every minute"?
... that belyanas were giant disposable wooden ships used in the Volga region for timber rafting?
... that Arkansas linebacker Grant Morgan, originally a walk-on himself, signed a personality rights deal with Walk-On's Bistreaux and Bar?
... that melodies by Guillaume Franc, composed to French psalms published in Geneva in 1542, are still in use in the 21st century?
... that Reply Corporation went from competing against IBM with clones of the PS/2 to selling upgrade motherboards for them?
... that a group of farmers discovered The Young Woman of Amajac while preparing to till a citrus field?
... that Nintendo constructed a special retail box for The Incredible Hulk that features a comic strip built into its cover?
... that Grey Gowrie, while holding office under Margaret Thatcher, described himself as "Irishman with a Scots name and a German wife, working, somewhat to his surprise, for a very English government"?
... that the type specimen of the icefish Pagetodes, a synonym of Cryodraco, was stolen and eaten by a cat before it could be preserved?
... that the conical-spring in Topre's capacitive keyboard switch was inspired by a mosquito coil?
... that the 1936 Northeastern United States Flood directly led to the passage of the Flood Control Act of 1936 by the United States Congress?
... that with a force of just 3,500 men, French lieutenant colonel Natalis Constant Darche was able to hold up the advance of the German 5th Army for three weeks at Longwy in August 1914?
... that Piecemeal, who appeared in The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, was considered one of the strangest characters to appear in a Marvel video game?
... that according to science fiction essayist Jacques Van Herp, the novella The End of Illa caused the temporary decline of French science fiction?
... that Mother Teresa defended Jesuit priest and child molester Donald McGuire against sexual abuse allegations?
... that in 1987, fans of C.D. Guadalajara attempted to dress the statue of Minerva in the team's shirt?
... that Lieutenant Colonel Richard John Andrews survived the Second Boer War, the First World War, the Russian Civil War and the Irish War of Independence only to be killed by a defective tool in his garage?
... that Lisa Federle's mobile surgery service for refugees was adapted to be a mobile test station during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that at one point in its political history, the Philippines was represented in the Spanish Cortes Generales?
... that Johannes Schröder composed an oratorio honouring Katharina Kaspar, who became a new saint in 2018?
... that HMS Cicala was commanded at the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong by a one-armed veteran of the 1916 Battle of Jutland?
... that Robert Weiner taught AP English Literature while coaching football at Henry B. Plant High School?
... that it took five years of observations to find the planet orbiting the star HD 175167?
... that manuscript illuminator Gioacchino de' Gigantibus worked for six different popes during his lifetime?
... that Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles rewrote Harry Potter to replace magic with prayer and supernatural phenomena?
... that the account of the Haliurunas in the 6th century history of the Goths, the Getica, is a precursor to later Christian traditions that wise women had sex and orgies with demons and the Devil?
... that the New Amsterdam Theatre, once described as "a vision of gorgeousness", later had dead cats in the basement and mushrooms growing through the floor?
... that from 1960 to 1981, executions in East Germany took place in Leipzig Prison in the middle of a residential area?
... that the Battle of Saint Charles featured what is known as the deadliest shot of the American Civil War?
... that the Germanic seeress Waluburg is only known from a pot shard found on the island Elephantine in southern Egypt?
... that the opera The Devil and Daniel Webster features a jury of ghosts made up of famous historical American figures who are now residents of Hell; including the pirate Blackbeard?
... that Dante used the third circle of hell to discuss contemporary Florentine politics rather than the sin of gluttony?
... that Re'quan Boyette was named to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team in 2008, making him the second Duke player to receive the honor?
... that a group of self-employed women on the island of Cikobia-i-Ra donate 10 percent of their earnings to combat climate change?
... that George Mackaness showed that by infecting mice with intracellular bacteria, macrophages could be activated to attack other bacteria?
... that Ingeborg Beugel left Greece following death threats and reported attacks after she questioned the prime minister about pushbacks?
... that Chninkel, a Franco-Belgian comic mixing Tolkien-like fantasy with Biblical themes, has been translated into several languages?
... that trade negotiator Michael Smith's negotiating style was summarized by a sign at his office door that read "This is not Burger King"?
... that Kristallnacht prompted Elisabeth Schmitz to leave her teaching job, unwilling to work for "a government that permitted the synagogues to be set afire"?
... that Brazilian student Bruno Borges disappeared, leaving fourteen handwritten encrypted books and a statue over two metres (6.6 ft) tall in his bedroom?
... that the Austro-Hungarian yacht Dalmat carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his journey to Sarajevo in 1914 and returned with his body?
... that in the 1880s Joseph T. Wilson wrote the "most comprehensive study of African American military service" of the era?
... that consuming the vitamin riboflavin in large amounts will cause urine to have a bright yellow color?
... that the leaders of Nazi Germany believed that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin were puppets of an international Jewish conspiracy?
... that Indonesian politician Iskandar Ramis had to be hospitalized after attempting to make juice?
... that a pair of sealskin-covered high heels by Inuk designer Nicole Camphaug are held in the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto?
... that an incident at Bridle Trails State Park resulted in a horse being euthanized?
... that cricketer Kekhashru Mistry, an all-rounder in the first all-Indian cricket team that toured England in 1911, had to return after three games because he was also the aide-de-camp to the maharaja of Patiala?
... that Nicholas Horsfall published five commentaries on Vergil's Aeneid after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis?
... that a strike by uranium miners in 1974 in Ontario led to the creation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act?
... that impressionist Paul Boland has imitated over 100 voices during his performances including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles?
... that William Rounseville Alger's 1857 Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years?
... that Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen, a Bach cantata for the Third Day of Christmas, contains the only aria that he newly composed for the oratorio?
... that the bridge from which James Bond leapt in No Time to Die is actually an aqueduct?
... that despite the support of the British authorities, the multi-racial United Tanganyika Party was unsuccessful, with the African-nationalist TANU winning a majority in the 1958–59 election?
... that Maine state legislator Tracy Quint introduced a bill that would have banned all COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Maine until 2024?
... that in 1874, thousands of Russian students "[went] to the people" to agitate the peasantry towards socialism?
... that a 1939 thesis by Nathaniel Fadipe, The Sociology of the Yoruba, was the first sociological study by a black African?
... that the original author of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences wanted it to be so bad that "it stands the test of time as one of the worst things ever written"?
... that the peak period in England for formal closed canals in gardens was from about the 1690s to 1720s?
... that theatre critic Günther Rühle's books cover the history of theatre in Germany, its events and its people, from 1887 to 1966?
... that the home of civil rights activist Lottie B. Scott is a stop on Norwich's Freedom Trail?
... that despite the governor-general being advised not to employ him, Darmawan Mangunkusumo kept his colonial government job?
... that mountaineer Edmund Hillary asked Canadian doctor Joan Ford to take her "Adidas runners, a stethoscope and an umbrella" and get to the Himalayas?
... that there is some uncertainty as to which figures in Bramantino's Adoration of the Kings represent the Three Kings?
... that the Christmas Special Honda minibike, which struggled to sell upon release in 1986, is now worth nearly $10,000 as a collector's item?
... that the song "Meri Kuri" by BoA has been dubbed Japan's "All I Want for Christmas Is You"?
... that in 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church wrote "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"?
... that "Brich an, du schönes Morgenlicht" (Break, you beautiful morning light) tells the shepherds in Bach's Christmas Oratorio not to be afraid?
... that a Christmas gift on The West Wing's "Bartlet for America", a napkin bearing the episode's slogan, was replicated for Jacky Rosen's U.S. Senate campaign?
... that the creation of the traditional Valtellina Christmas sweet bread bisciola is credited to Napoleon, even though he was never in the region?
... that New Yorkers could at one time rely on thrice-weekly visits from Santa Claus—though not over Christmas?
... that artist Bernard Walter Evans' Bolton Abbey in the Snow was painted outdoors in "something like Arctic conditions"?
... that the 2018 soundtrack album It's Christmas, Eve by LeAnn Rimes originated from a film in which Rimes played the main character?
... that the Florida beach festival Surfing Santas, held regularly on Christmas Eve, was inspired by a Honda commercial?
... that when Josef Rheinberger conducted the first performance of his Mass in A major for three women's voices on Christmas Eve 1881, he added a flute and a string quintet to the organ accompaniment?
... that The Jew's Christmas was the first American film to have a rabbi as one of its characters?
... that besides their usual pop fare, the Glee cast sang hymns in traditional arrangements on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album?
... that throughout the Cold War, "subversive" persons at the BBC had their files marked with a "Christmas tree"?
... that the album series Jingle Cats spawned Jingle Dogs, Jingle Babies, and a Japanese video game in which "the object is to breed and care for cats, which begin to sing when they're done copulating"?
... that the aerobatic demonstration aircraft used by SoloTürk is also used in military operations of the Turkish Air Force?
... that when a batch of the peppermint liqueur Minttu turned yellow because of iron contamination, Americans just marketed it as an "older vintage"?
... that Elisabeth Dmitrieff, daughter of a Russian noble, was sent by Karl Marx to the Paris Commune and fought in its defense before falling into obscurity?
... that Irving Berlin, who co-owned the Music Box Theatre from its opening in 1921, still checked the theater's receipts before his death in 1989?
... that English women's footballer Shameeka Fishley scored a hat-trick in her newly-established Turkish team's first match?
... that Elcysma westwoodi is considered "the most damaging lepidopteran pest of Prunus × yedoensis"?
... that Suresh Jadhav led the development of the COVID-19 vaccine marketed as Covishield?
... that the 2020 song "Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt" spawned a sequel in 2021: "Boris Johnson Is Still a Fucking Cunt"?
... that the discovery of Phoenician metal bowls in 1849 created the entire concept of Phoenician art?
... that the tiny fossil turtle Amabilis uchoensis was given the Latin name amabilis for being "lovable", but the large evergreen tree Abies amabilis is called amabilis because it is "lovely"?
... that Chris Schulenburg was one of only two recipients of the Grand Cross of Valour, Rhodesia's highest gallantry award?
... that despite its name, the Branford Steam Railroad has not used steam locomotives since 1960?
... that Kurt Rommel, a German Protestant pastor, wrote the texts and tunes for hundreds of hymns with young people in mind?
... that Ixodes tasmani makes a type of cement to help it to suck blood?
... that Inuk designer Victoria Kakuktinniq incorporates design elements from the traditional amauti parka into contemporary Inuit clothing ?
... that the Decision of 1789 was the first significant construction on the meaning of the United States Constitution in the U.S. Congress?
... that 3-hydroxyisonicotinaldehyde has the lowest molecular weight of any dye which exhibits green fluorescence?
... that I Putu Sukreta Suranta refused to pursue an academic degree, despite repeatedly being given the opportunity to do so?
... that Kirsten Warner, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, wrote a novel from the perspective of the child of a Holocaust survivor?
... that one journalist said that the proportions of the limbs of the statues at the Monumento a los Indios Verdes are a "sin against anatomical laws"?
... that the giant hawker, the largest living dragonfly, with a wingspan of 163 millimetres (6.4 in), has larvae that exhibit "ballistic defecation"?
... that it is impossible to draw non-crossing lines from three houses to three utilities in a plane?
... that the only remaining artifact in the ghost town of Fremont, Oregon, is a juniper stump notched with steps that women travelers used to mount horses in a modest fashion?
... that Semuel Jusof Warouw advocated Minahasan independence to gain leverage in Dutch–Indonesian negotiations?
... that 80 per cent of the Royalist garrison were killed in the 1645 storming of Shelford House?
... that the cultural scholar Hermann Bausinger wrote a book about the history of literature from Swabia from the 18th century to the present, published for his 90th birthday?
... that in December 1876, two police officers were murdered by brothers who had poached just two pheasants and a jay?
... that according to a review from the The New Yorker, The French Suicide largely overstates France's decline?
... that marine engineer Elmer P. Wheaton made his employees learn to scuba dive so that they would have respect for the sea?
... that Kilvidi Seshachari , the wicket-keeper for the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England, was recruited by the Maharaja of Natore to defeat the all-European Calcutta Cricket Club?
... that Hyun Ji Shin was photographed by Karl Lagerfeld in his Chanel campaign before his death?
... that Raoul Servais invented a new technique for combining animation and live action for his short film Harpya?
... that a formerly abandoned sugar mill is now a rest area on the Trans-Java Toll Road?
... that the Germanic neopagan group Verein für germanisches Heidentum dismisses völkisch religiosity by associating it with monotheism and dualism?
... that Daniel Barclay Williams, Virginia's first Black teacher of classics, was described as "a one man department"?
... that the Istanbul Waste Power Plant, opened last month, is Turkey's first waste-to-energy facility?
... that a strip club manager in Toronto sued a company that did not employ him for wrongful dismissal?
... that Hebetica sylviae was discovered after a two-year-old named Sylvie overwatered her backyard?
... that Felix Mendelssohn, inspired by the singing of nuns at the Trinità dei Monti in Rome, composed the motet Veni Domine for Advent?
... that the national-champion 1973 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team featured a freshman running back who broke college football's single-season scoring record?
... that the lobby of Wenzhou Museum includes Kuafu chasing the sun and Chang'e flying to the moon?