derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Roger Waters thought The Phantom of the Opera's main theme was ripped off from Pink Floyd's "Echoes"?
... that after a tornado devastated Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1979, radio station KTRN was just one of two on the air?
... that Jusuf Wibisono, chairman of a labor union, wanted an eight-hour work day – up from seven?
... that Black Oxygen Organics sold packs of dirt to customers for US$110 each?
... that more than 170 children showed signs of tuberculosis and more than 70 died in the 1929–1933 Lübeck disaster after being given BCG vaccines contaminated with the bacteria responsible?
... that the 1896 novel Tom Grogan by Francis Hopkinson Smith was adapted into a play the same year?
... that placekicker Lonny Calicchio was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles to the practice squad, promoted to the active roster, named starter, and released all within eight days?
... that the historical English tables game of Doublets was mentioned in 1549 in a sermon by Latimer to King Edward VI?
... that Poedjono Pranyoto instructed his subordinates to burn around a thousand houses to make way for a protected forest area?
... that the conservative organization Moms for Liberty wants a book about Galileo Galilei to be taught in a way that is more positive towards the Catholic Church, for balance?
... that English-born actress Frances Brett Hodgkinson became the highest-paid theater actress in the United States in 1800?
... that Niall Sheridan was the model for the "intellectual Meath-man" Brinsley in Flann O'Brien's novel At Swim-Two-Birds?
... that the "English Game", Ludus Anglicorum, was the most popular tables game in the mediaeval England of Chaucer's time?
... that WNJU, a Spanish-language television station serving New York City, was the first in the United States to air a hard-liquor advertisement?
... that according to critics, Fortune-499 is "an effective story of capitalist humdrum" that involves "witchcraft, mid-20s malaise, and puns"?
... that chili crisp, a hot sauce with a "cult-like" fandom, is used to top everything from eggs to ice cream ?
... that Tatyana Mezhentseva is the first person in ten years to participate in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest twice?
... that 1.8 percent of people in Japan have used cannabis, compared to 44.2 percent of Americans and 41.5 percent of Canadians?
... that General George Monck accepted that 500 Scots, including women and children, were killed when his army stormed Dundee in 1651?
... that Lew Nichols III led the nation during the 2021 regular season with 1,710 rushing yards?
... that the designers of Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King also created Broom Service, winning the Kennerspiel des Jahres two years in a row?
... that as finance minister, Surachman Tjokroadisurjo often stored government funds inside suitcases in his home?
... that Roland Böer , who made his debut at La Scala in Milan with Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, was the artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano?
... that Dan Finnerty was cast in Single All the Way so that he could cross the Canada–U.S. border and join his wife, Kathy Najimy, on the set of the film?
... that the specific epithet of Platycephalus endrachtensis is from an old word for Australia?
... that Nandivada Rathnasree, who ran Delhi's planetarium, proposed that astronomers could be taught using India's stone-built observatories?
... that the documentary film Boycott includes the stories of three Americans who sued their state governments after being affected by anti-BDS laws?
... that the mediaeval English tables game of Ticktack has several ways of winning, including Toots and Rovers?
... that William Hunter Dammond became the first African-American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893, but was not recognised as such until 2000?
... that St Collen's Church in Wales has a memorial to one of the 19th century's most famous same-sex partnerships?
... that Fabian Kelly, a tenor focused on historically informed performance, was a soloist in Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine and Handel's Messiah?
... that after Superior Coach Company closed in 1981, its employees' credit union absorbed 15 other credit unions to become the fourth-largest in Ohio?
... that The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes discusses the history of transgender man Ewan Forbes and his 1968 legal case to inherit his family's baronetcy that was silenced from public records?
... that Digital Eclipse expressed interest in rereleasing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 after Maximilian Dood's social media campaign went viral?
... that to celebrate the Paramount Building's construction, oxen and lamb were roasted over the ruins of the previous building on the site?
... that Mo Drake came up with the slogan "Beanz Meanz Heinz" for Heinz Baked Beans in 1967?
... that in 1908, Island No. 2 in California was simultaneously deeded to two different people?
... that Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo had to be "made younger" to be eligible for elementary school?
... that the music video for Chris Hadfield's version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" was the first music video recorded in space?
... that Google searches for the term "dumpster fire" spiked after Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy in October 2015?
... that efforts by Shyam Sunder Jyani have led to the planting of 2.5 million saplings in the Indian state of Rajasthan?
... that "leek rust", caused by Puccinia allii, has also caused significant losses for garlic farmers?
... that it is said of the board game Photosynthesis that "you can always count on someone else screwing it all up"?
... that the runway at the Winter Garden Theatre was nicknamed the "bridge of thighs" after lightly clothed showgirls paraded down it?
... that Belinda Archer won Australia's first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships team medal in 2003?
... that even though it was "the best thing to happen to the Atari", the XF551 floppy disk drive was only released after Nintendo sued them?
... that after Sydney Parkinson died on the return leg of the first voyage of James Cook, some of his drawings were engraved for publication in his Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas?
... that 92 percent of complaint calls about the Scanner Price Accuracy Code are not legitimate complaints?
... that after getting drunk and verbally abusing Cap Anson at a baseball game during his off day, Charlie Bartson was released from the Chicago Pirates?
... that Mary Earle was born near Ben Nevis, and although she became a professor of food technology in New Zealand, she never forgot her Scottish roots?
... that the electropop rock band Siamés created "Argentina's first anime music video"?
... that the book The Icepick Surgeon discusses research by Henry Murray in which he verbally abused volunteers, one of whom went on to become the Unabomber?
... that the Polish mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis, who sang on the Grammy Award–winning album Penderecki conducts Penderecki, was Verdi's Azucena in Zürich in 2021?
... that species in the dinosaur group Parankylosauria have tail weaponry termed a "macuahuitl", in reference to the Mesoamerican weapons of the same name?
... that Pat Studstill led the National Football League in punt return yards in 1962, receiving yards in 1966, and punting yards in 1969?
... that when the founder of New Mexico television station KBIM-TV was told on the morning of April Fools' Day that his station's tower had collapsed, he initially wrote it off as a joke?
... that the first drive available for the Atari 8-bit family, the Atari 810 floppy disk drive , was described as "noisy, slow and inefficient", with "notoriously poor speed regulation"?
... that one can place 16 pawns on a chessboard such that no three pawns lie on the same line?
... that Mauatua married the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and ensured women on Pitcairn were given the vote?
... that Óscar Catacora directed Wiñaypacha (Eternity), the first Peruvian film in the Aymara language?
... that Asa Taccone was paid just $60 for co-editing and co-writing the Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box"?
... that filmmaker Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, has seen the return of many species of bird and plant, as well as pine martens, stoats and otters, to his ancestral lands with rewilding?
... that the black swamp in Claremont Park was believed to be inhabited by evil spirits and was known to have consumed cattle?
... that Schlosspark Türnich, the park of a moated palace , is managed with a focus on biodiversity?
... that Bull Island was farmed by the Money family for over 100 years before being turned into a wildlife preserve?
... that Indian cricketer Mukundrao Pai's altercation with a British army major, J. G. Greig, resulted in the Bombay Quadrangular introducing neutral umpires in 1916?
... that Kanye West recorded "Hey Mama" five years before its release on his 2005 album Late Registration?
... that the game MicroMacro: Crime City was so popular after its release that print runs repeatedly sold out for eight months?
... that Chinese-Canadian Zhuo Qun Song is currently the most decorated International Mathematical Olympiad contestant?
... that the village of Bidar Alam was the seat of the Indonesian government for three and a half months?
... that the punishment of sinners in the second circle of hell is an example of contrapasso?
... that Louis W. Roberts was among the highest ranking African-American space program staff at NASA while the Apollo program was underway?
... that before the Second World War, Australian army officers used the pages of Britain's Army Quarterly and Defence Journal to argue for greater self-reliance in defence matters?
... that 2000 Alabama Amendment 2, which repealed the state's anti-miscegenation laws, was carefully written to avoid legalizing same-sex marriage?
... that Ben Comeau invented a fictitious student of Franz Liszt so he could write a 45-minute piano sonata?
... that in Olaf Presents, the line where Olaf points out Mufasa eats some of his subjects was praised by Screen Rant?
... that on a wax-myrtle plant, 42 mature lobate lac scales were recorded on a 1 cm (0.4 in) section of twig?
... that the Batman supervillain Mr. Bloom was created to be the "anti-Joker"?
... that while his brother carried on the family photography business, Thomas Holroyd went into painting and later created The Dyeworks ?
... that in 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled that the criminalization of assistance to asylum seekers violated EU law?
... that Salvatorian priest Pankratius Pfeiffer saved hundreds of Jews in Rome during the Second World War?
... that two voyageur canoes capsized off of Hog Island in 1976?
... that Tina Stege , who led the High Ambition Coalition at COP26, is from a country that may cease to exist with projected rises in sea level?
... that pulmonologist Sze-Piao Yang was referred to as the "father of thoracic X-ray interpretation in Taiwan", and conducted the first ever occupational disease study done in Taiwan?
... that violinist Nikolai Sachenko performs rarely-played piano trios by Russian composers as a member of the Brahms Trio?
... that The Undercommons, an essay collection that criticizes academia, was written by two alumni of Harvard University?
... that Jonathan Strong, an early enslaved West Indian in Britain, was abused by his master so badly that he could barely walk or see?
... that a 1963 book offers Marxist and Freudian interpretations of Pooh?
... that the 4.5-ton marble statue of Queen Victoria in Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial was carved by the British sculptor William John Seward Webber?
... that the Majestic Theatre, designed for "revues and light operas", has hosted the same musical for the past three decades?
... that Albruna may have been the woman of "superhuman size" who stopped Roman general Drusus's campaign in Germania by prophesying his death?
... that the second edition of the Wild West–themed board game Great Western Trail eliminated "the notion of Native Americans as the invisible enemy"?
... that Damon Severson scored a goal with 0.4 seconds left in regulation time to help lead Canada men's national ice hockey team to a silver medal?
... that the construction of Interstate H-2 in Hawaii unearthed a chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the 1940s?
... that during the October 1980 West Nile campaign, rebels were initially hailed as "liberators", only for them to start looting coffee?
... that Sigismund Danielewicz's career in the California labor movement ended after he delivered an 1885 speech advocating against the persecution of Chinese people?
... that unkept promises made in the 1915 Treaty of London created the sense of mutilated victory in Italy after World War I?
... that Bruce Schroeder, who presided over the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, is the longest-serving state court judge in Wisconsin?
... that the children's book A Place Inside of Me is dedicated to the nephew of Atatiana Jefferson, a Black woman who was shot to death in her home by a policeman in 2019?
... that New Zealand health executive Sharon Shea points to distrust in authority caused by "post-colonisation trauma" for low COVID-19 vaccination rates of Māori?
... that Major League Baseball set a single-day record with $1.4 billion in new player contracts the day before the 2021 lockout was set to begin?
... that the Ukrainian Holodomor Memorial Day , commemorating the victims of the 1932–33 famine, is also observed in Canada?
... that today's MLS Cup 2021 will mark the seventh consecutive final to feature either the Portland Timbers or Seattle Sounders FC?
... that Italian radio presenter Aldo Forbice was a long-time supporter of local social issues, including helping to promote an exhibition on the AIDS epidemic?
... that when the U.S. government wanted to remove Chain Island, a group of "California capitalists" offered to do it for free, recouping expenses by mining it for gold?
... that backgammon was derived from the esteemed 16th-century Scottish and English tables game of Irish and eventually surpassed it in popularity?
... that during W. Sterling Cary's presidency of the National Council of Churches in the 1970s, the council voted to support gay rights for the first time in its history?
... that the 13th-century Iplikçi Mosque in Konya, Turkey, contains a mihrab with traces of mosaic tiling which is the oldest extant example of Anatolian Seljuk art?
... that Justice Antonin Scalia stated that he did not want the U.S. Congress to make him buy broccoli?
... that the sword-billed hummingbird has the longest bill of any hummingbird?
... that Noa Denmon's illustration for the Google Doodle on Martin Luther King Jr. Day included people painting a mural while socially distanced due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the board game Suburbia is said to be a "masterfully designed game" with "tedious bookkeeping"?
... that zoologist Ruth Crosby Noble's 1945 book on animal behavior was said to have the "rare quality of combining entertainment with sound scientific value"?
... that Dante "may have detested everything about Arabs and Muslims", but placed Saladin, Avicenna, and Averroes among the virtuous in the first circle of hell?
... that according to Swiss cardiologist Thomas Lüscher, chocolate is good for us if it is dark and bitter, but white chocolate is "not healthy at all"?
... that in 2000, the Sacramento County Policy Planning Commission decided that humans would never be allowed to live on Kimball Island again?
... that in The Arraignment of Paris, poet Denis Glover stated Charles Allan Marris was the "arbiter of all our art and letters / presenting rotten apples to his betters"?
... that a Post-it Note–sized drawing by Leonardo da Vinci sold for £8.8 million in 2021?
... that Grace Meigs Crowder found that pregnancy and childbirth were a common cause of death in the early 1900s for American women who were aged under 45?
... that the popularity of "10 Minutes" by Korean singer Lee Hyori led to 2003 being dubbed the "year of Hyori" by domestic media?
... that some members of the Kushner family objected after Jared invoked their grandparents' resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland to support his denial of Donald Trump's alleged antisemitism?
... that David Whiting was nicknamed "Golden Boy" by Henry Grunwald, "Preppy" by Candice Bergen, and "Whiz Kid" by Sarah Miles?
... that the title of Taylor Swift's 2008 album Fearless reflects Swift's attitude to embrace hardships in love and life?
... that Paddy Fox recruited so many people from County Durham to the British Army that they became known locally as "Pad's Army"?
... that super weaners may be "milk thieves" or "double mother-sucklers"?
... that swimming and swarming are forms of bacterial motility, which some bacteria achieve by rotating a small whip-like flagellum ?
... that Harriet Amelia Folsom went by her middle name, so as not to be confused with her husband Brigham Young's other wives?
... that the Romans won a series of campaigns against Germanic tribes after the disaster at Teutoburg but decided to leave Germany as the effort was out of proportion to the territory's value?
... that Dianxi Xiaoge, who grew up in a remote Yunnan mountain village without running water, is an Internet celebrity with roughly 16 million subscribers on all her platforms?
... that the "two boats and a helicopter" parable has been used to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?
... that in September 2021, cricketer Andrea-Mae Zepeda became the first player to score a century for Austria in a Women's Twenty20 International match?
... that George Asprey was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth – according to the Daily Mirror, it was a silver shovel?
... that Rico Sasaki beat 9,000 other auditioners to play the title role in a Japanese production of Annie in 2008?
... that with as many as a quarter of mothers in eastern Greenland experiencing domestic violence, Laura Tàunâjik proposed a women's shelter in Tasiilaq?
... that Bellman's song "Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund!" describes "one of the wildest weddings in Swedish literature"?
... that Dermot Morrah, a British journalist for The Times, wrote Princess Elizabeth's 21st birthday speech?
... that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
... that in 1752, Samuel Kneeland and his partner produced the first Bible in the English language ever printed in America?
... that when Nadjamuddin Daeng Malewa was forming a government cabinet for the State of East Indonesia, he was outside the region?
... that the name of Ireland's Eye off Howth northeast of Dublin has nothing to do with the organ but can actually be translated as "Ireland's island"?
... that Theodore Conrad, who evaded capture for 52 years after stealing US$215,000, remained a fugitive for so long that he was finally tracked down by the son of one of the original investigators?
... that the Burmese and South Korean first ladies held their first informal conversation 44 years after the establishment of bilateral relations between the two countries?
... that children's author Kate DiCamillo received 473 rejection letters before her first novel was accepted for publication?
... that the infamous Nepalese royal massacre took place in the Tribhuvan Sadan?
... that on an average night, between 130 and 200 people can be found Outstanding in the Field for about five hours?
... that before starring in the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers, Milena Smit worked as a model, waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, subway information assistant, and hotel receptionist?
... that a "North Dakota joke of the mornin'" was a feature on Montana radio station KGRZ because the station's owner and morning show host hailed from that state?
... that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville, her wealth consolidated its position in English society?
... that the front of the 11th-century River Laune Crozier contains a figure with oval eyes, a thin nose, spiral ears and a handlebar moustache that radiates out around him?
... that Syaoran Li from the manga Cardcaptor Sakura formed the basis of two characters in a later manga; one original and one clone?
... that an all-male boating event on Tinsley Island was called the "Bohemian Grove of yachting"?
... that according to legend, Edigna fled an arranged marriage in 1074, leaving her royal life behind to live as a hermit in a hollowed-out tree in Fürstenfeldbruck?
... that the bryozoan Walkeria tuberosa is sometimes referred to as Valkeria tuberosa despite being named after the Scottish natural historian John Walker?
... that two years after the small Corinthian navy was defeated during the Affair of Epidamnus, their navy became the third largest in all of Greece?
... that the Panacea Society believed in God the Father, God the Mother, Jesus the Son, and Octavia?
... that Desmond Young's biography of Erwin Rommel was criticised for portraying him as a "blue-eyed god who could do no wrong"?
... that Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to physically cut their banknotes in half?
... that Bobby Hackett said that Jackie Gleason's main contribution to the recording of Music for Lovers Only was that "he brought the checks"?
... that critics complained about the manga Sex Ed 120% being given a "mature" rating by its English-language publisher?
... that film producer Konstantin Kalser, who won an Oscar for his 1956 short film Crashing the Water Barrier, later admitted that the film was an advertisement for an oil company?
... that Styx's name derives from its seeming to have "come from the underworld"?
... that the wreathed hornbill is hunted for consumption of its meat, and that its casque is used as headgear by local people in Arunachal Pradesh?
... that Norma Kuhling's character in Fourteen was described by a film critic as "a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl"?
... that the album Hello by Korean singer Cho Yong-pil was the first time he had worked with international composers since his debut in 1968?
... that in the 1820s, the British acrobat Henry Johnson performed before the Chinese Emperor?
... that Kanye West's group the Sunday Service Choir performed "No Child Left Behind" with Justin Bieber at a Halloween 2021 concert?
... that in Hokusai's woodblock print series One Hundred Ghost Stories, there are only five prints?
... that Elisabeth Geleerd became one of the most influential American psychoanalysts of her time while chronically ill and raising a family?
... that an image of MacCarthy's Bar on the front cover of a book featured a staff member posing as a nun drinking a pint of Guinness and the surprise appearance of a dog?
... that archaeologist and prehistorian Jacquetta Hawkes co-founded the Homosexual Law Reform Society and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament?
... that for more than a decade, WNJC-FM at Northwest Mississippi Junior College was the state's only public radio station?
... that when David Bowie performed "Golden Years" on Soul Train in 1975, he was incoherent and visibly intoxicated?
... that gameplay in the board game Oceans ends once the ocean zones are depopulated of fish?
... that Awet Tesfaiesus was the first black woman ever elected to the Bundestag?
... that Eric Schmidt developed Berknet, an early wide area network system, in 1978 while he was a student at Berkeley University?
... that Zeliha Ağrıs started performing taekwondo at age ten and became a world champion when she was 19?
... that Pitcairn Islander Teraura was one of "the most travelled Polynesian women" of her day?
... that the California State Assembly held a moment of silence over the death of fictional character Mrs. Landingham while in the midst of an energy crisis?
... that Spotify Wrapped has been both praised and criticized for effectively providing Spotify with free advertising?
... that in 1755, colonial printer Daniel Fowle was arrested for printing a seditious pamphlet entitled The Monster of Monsters, which criticized members of the general assembly?
... that Guy Parmelin, now President of Switzerland, opened the study program of cyber security of the Lucerne School of Information Technology in 2018?
... that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island, unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland?