derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the song "August" was written by Taylor Swift from the perspective of a girl who falls in love with somebody already in a relationship?
... that Boris Johnson and Tony Fernandes were present at the opening ceremony of Epsom College in Malaysia in 2014?
... that Dorothy Henriques-Wells made 360 paintings for display on three Norwegian Cruise Line ships?
... that live huhu grubs have been served at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival?
... that the song of the black-chinned sparrow is said to resemble the sound of a dropped ping-pong ball?
... that Ángel Mangual's walk-off single in the 20th inning on July 9, 1971, ended the longest scoreless game in American League history?
... that in Begum v Home Secretary, Lord Reed quoted from Eleanor Roosevelt: "justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both"?
... that Maha Jaafar, a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes?
... that the co-founders of the Black College Football Hall of Fame attended the same historically black university and were both quarterbacks in the National Football League?
... that the short documentary film A City Called Copenhagen was initially not released due to the film commission disliking the film, but it was shown two years later to positive reception?
... that Adolphus D. Griffin published the Portland New Age for Portland's African-American residents during a time in which they were legally excluded from the state?
... that oversimplifying a fictional character over the course of a show's run is called Flanderization, after Ned Flanders of The Simpsons?
... that rugby coach Peter Thorburn , who had a keen interest in Thoroughbred racing, owned two horses that won multiple Group I races?
... that New York City's Hudson Terminal, once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the World Trade Center?
... that Manuel L. Quezon defeated the National Socialist Party and the communist-backed Republican Party in 1935?
... that former masonic grand master Tobias Watkins served nine months in prison for embezzling $3,050 from the U.S. Treasury, then two more years for failing to pay it back?
... that Idaho's first television station, KFXD-TV, was a two-man operation that lasted less than two months?
... that a copy of Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld's poem "Stemmen en zangen" was gifted to Hans Christian Andersen during his 1866 visit to the Netherlands?
... that fossil echinoids can be used to date the various chalk strata of the White Cliffs of Dover?
... that Elsa Dreisig appeared at the Berlin State Opera in soprano roles from Diane in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie to Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer's Violetter Schnee?
... that a decade after passing on the opportunity to build a radio station, the owner of the Okmulgee Daily Times newspaper instead bought KOKL?
... that four members of the Usmani family were co-founders of the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary, where the Deobandi movement began?
... that Robert T. Kerlin was fired from the Virginia Military Institute for questioning the death sentences of African-American farmers?
... that the publication of A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien in 2014 by Wiley-Blackwell has been described as proof that Tolkien had finally attained acceptance by the literary establishment?
... that Art Potter once ordered the "unusual scene" of five ice hockey players beginning a game in the penalty box?
... that James McHenry Jones was the president of a university, a leader of a fraternal organization, and a director of one of the first African American–owned fossil-fuel companies?
... that the ornamental dome of the Great Mosque of Tlemcen is considered one of the most exceptional examples of Almoravid architecture?
... that Heléne Alexopoulos was one of the few New York City Ballet dancers who had children?
... that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax?
... that Luis Salvador became the mayor of Granada in 2019 even though his party won only four of twenty-seven seats?
... that the machine-learning model DALL-E, widely reported on for its "surreal" and "quirky" output, also learned to solve Raven's Matrices (a form of IQ test) without being specifically taught to do so?
... that Icelandic footballer Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir has had to self-isolate on four occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that the governor of Iowa banned the speaking of any language other than English in public in 1918?
... that the Koegas mine was once the largest producer of blue asbestos in the world?
... that attorney Mark F. Pomerantz, who supervised the prosecution of mob boss John A. Gotti, is now assisting a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's finances?
... that the song "I Didn't Know", representing San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, was written by a composer and a lyricist who had never met each other in person?
... that the southern brown howler is considered to be a vulnerable species, partly because of the monkey's susceptibility to yellow fever?
... that on Saint Patrick's Day in 2003, Catholic Worker Clare Grady broke into an Army recruiting center and poured her blood on the walls, windows, and a US flag in a protest against the invasion of Iraq?
... that Tamar, an epic poem by American writer Robinson Jeffers, makes references to the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament?
... that the violinist Rudolf Deman, concertmaster of the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, took part in the first German radio broadcast from Berlin in 1923?
... that the shoe department of the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store was the first individual story of a building in the United States with its own ZIP Code?
... that teenager Jyoti Kumari travelled 750 miles (1,210 km) on a bicycle with her injured father, during India's COVID-19 lockdown?
... that The Ghost Inside's self-titled 2020 album was their first release since a deadly tour bus crash in 2015?
... that Irish sportswoman Carol Breen has played internationally in both association and Australian rules football?
... that within hours of the Social Encounter Party in Mexico being stripped of its electoral registration, the Solidary Encounter Party was formed with the same initials, party structure and ideology?
... that ballerina Patricia Delgado danced in a music video for indie rock band the National?
... that KSBK, which has been described as the most influential radio station in Okinawa in the 1960s, became a casualty of the reversion of the Ryukyu Islands to Japan and closed in October 1973?
... that Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was initially praised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, is now implicated in a scandal related to it?
... that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward starred in The 80 Yard Run as a couple in a troubled marriage, and were married in real life 13 days later?
... that the Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage has a 16th-century manuscript showing Alexander the Great praying at the Kaaba?
... that Martina Vandenberg moved to Russia and founded the country's first rape crisis center when she was 24?
... that a three-minute segment of Boonie Bears: The Wild Life took an average of 20 hours per frame to render?
... that footballer Billy Hardy is Cardiff City F.C.'s record appearance holder, having played in 590 matches between 1911 and 1932?
... that the music video for the Taylor Swift song "Delicate" was accused by internet audiences of plagiarizing an advertisement for Kenzo?
... that Chang Yun Chung, formerly the world's oldest billionaire, was captured during the Japanese occupation for aiding anti-Japanese resistance in Malaya?
... that when a fire broke out at 1 Hanover Square's basement restaurant, engine crews simultaneously fighting a fire across the street got confused?
... that Al "Two Gun" Gettel rode a horse onto the baseball field in full Western wear for a game?
... that Andrew Bahr drove a herd of 3,000 reindeer from Nome, Alaska, to Reindeer Station, earning the nickname "The Arctic Moses"?
... that ballerina Kay Mazzo created roles in three ballets choreographed by George Balanchine during the New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival in 1972?
... that during the first public reading of Wolfdietrich Schnurre's short story Das Begräbnis, part of the audience left the room in protest?
... that the top-level domain .guru had 35,000 websites registered to it within the first three weeks of its release?
... that Lisa Martin captained the Scotland women's national rugby union team in 2018 to their first victory in Ireland for 12 years?
... that a 1958 promotion by Nashville radio station WKDA, in which a "purple people eater" climbed a hotel sign, prompted the police chief to ask the station "never to pull a trick" like it again?
... that the Sixth Symphony by Sergei Prokofiev was said to depict the "private world of modern man against the terrifying machinery of universal destruction"?
... that Lester Collins developed Innisfree Garden over 55 years, and it was listed in the US National Register of Historic Places in 2019?
... that Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, was one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at an auction in Europe?
... that no more than 50 mature individuals of the critically endangered northern brown howler are estimated to remain?
... that French rugby union player Audrey Forlani scored a try in the decisive match of the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, after which France won the tournament?
... that the owners of Kettlethorpe Hall used a relocated 14th-century chapel as a boathouse, and the chapel's remains are now in a public park?
... that Wilbur Nelson was known as the "singing evangelist" because he both sang and preached at his services?
... that during the German occupation of Poland, the Polish dramatic actress Irena Solska worked with Żegota and helped to hide and rescue Jews?
... that the whaleback barge 104 was the first ship of its kind to be lost on the Great Lakes?
... that the March of the Indonesian National Armed Forces was adopted after the previous march fell into disuse following mocking and parodying by activists?
... that in Epidemiology in Relation to Air Travel (1933), Arthur Massey showed how air passengers could spread infectious diseases between countries before they showed any symptoms?
... that while at Fiorentina, Mohamed Salah chose the shirt number 74 in honour of the victims of the Port Said Stadium riot?
... that the US government once mailed rural school districts scale models from which carpenters could construct actual two-room schools?
... that Kids See Ghosts and Ty Dolla Sign were sued for allegedly sampling "The Spirit of Marcus Garvey (Garvey speaks to an all-Black audience)" in their song "Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2)"?
... that Darktown Comics, a series of racist caricatures , was a perennial bestseller for Currier and Ives and by 1884 represented a third of the company's production?
... that the Kharijite leader Abu Bilal Mirdas defeated a 2,000-strong Umayyad army with his band of forty?
... that "For the Night" was Pop Smoke's first single to reach the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number six?
... that Andanappa Doddameti was the first member to address the Bombay Legislative Assembly in the Kannada language?
... that TIC 168789840 is the first known six-star stellar system in which the stars can be observed eclipsing one another from Earth?
... that during the Great Depression, Ernest R. Fatland led an organization that helped Oregonian farmers reduce their mortgage payments and other debts to save their farms from foreclosure?
... that Swansea City made two appearances at the Millennium Stadium in 2006, winning the Football League Trophy but losing the Football League One play-off Final?
... that the variegated grasshopper can be de-winged, salted and fried to provide a tasty meal?
... that the producers of The Jet Propelled Couch hired "Miss Color TV", Vampira , and several Miss Americas to portray attractive creatures inhabiting an imaginary planet?
... that in After Us, or the World as it Might Be, surgeon John Lockhart-Mummery proposed that women should only be allowed to breed with physically perfect men?
... that when Mark Coles started coaching the Pakistan women's national cricket team, he was not being paid, and he later lived in a compound with snipers on the roof?
... that the music video for "Shake the Room" was Pop Smoke's first posthumous visual after he was shot and killed at the age of 20 during a home invasion?
... that at the 2019 London Marathon, the total raised for charities surpassed £1 billion since the first race in 1981?
... that Charles Sweeny was expelled from West Point twice, but went on to became a Polish Army brigadier general, a US Army lieutenant colonel, and an officer in the Royal Air Force and the Foreign Legion?
... that the cyberpunk setting of New Gods: Nezha Reborn is based on a mixture of 1920s–1930s Manhattan and Republic of China–era Shanghai?
... that Barge 129 was sunk on Lake Superior by the ship that was towing her?
... that Elvis Presley's song "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" features a theme common to country music: "passive acceptance of the singer's fate"?
... that the Rolls Royce Battle of Britain Memorial Window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force and the contributions of Rolls-Royce engineering to the Battle of Britain?
... that Amber McReynolds's advocacy for vote-by-mail supported US states' expansion of absentee balloting during the COVID-19 pandemic so millions of people could vote from home in the 2020 elections?
... that the Rhodesian African Rifles' march "Sweet Banana" was created after their soldiers stopped to buy some bananas in South Africa?
... that the 1991 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final was the first Football League play-off to be decided by a penalty shoot-out?
... that RealSports Baseball, part of Atari's response to an Intellivision marketing campaign fronted by George Plimpton, won a best sports game award for 1983?
... that an engineer of Pittsburgh television station WENS found out that its tower had collapsed when he looked out his window to find it missing?
... that dress reformer Ada Ballin warned of the dangers of poisonous dyes and tight lacing in women's clothing?
... that "Lob Gott getrost mit Singen" (Praise God confidently with singing), the first line of a 1544 hymn by the Bohemian Brethren, was used for the title of a songbook aimed at senior citizens?
... that Turkish psychologist Doğan Cüceloğlu contemplated suicide due to his poor command of English while a doctoral student at the University of Illinois, and later taught 16 years at CSU Fullerton?
... that the 2014 film Fires on the Plain, which includes madness, murder, and cannibalism, was intended to warn younger Japanese audiences of the horrors of war?
... that Brian Lee Durfee, a prison guard at Utah State Prison, has a painting in the permanent collection at the Grand Canyon National Park visitor center?
... that although remaining a little-known monument in Neuquén, Argentina, the Fotheringham Crossing Pyramid, inaugurated in 1947, is considered to be a symbol of the neighborhood of Sapere?
... that in 2020, Jasmin Taylor broke the record for the most medals won by a British skier at the World Cup and World Championships?
... that the Rod Serling–hosted television production The Great Gatsby (1958) was described as being "neither 'Great' nor 'Gatsby'"?
... that a three-metre-tall (10 ft) statue of a five-toed cockerel in Dorking is a frequent target of yarn bombers?
... that geographer J. Russell Smith worked with the USDA to make 20 new varieties of Chinese chestnut, with the aim of creating a blight-resistant tree?
... that although The Most Important Man was poorly received by critics, composer Gian Carlo Menotti thought it was one of his finest operas?
... that a line from the 1899 poem "Sympathy" provided the title for Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
... that several candidates running on the ticket of the new political party Force for Mexico were previously members of the National Regeneration Movement?
... that Covington Hall was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Sons of Confederate Veterans?
... that the upcoming SNLE 3G-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarines could remain in service with the French Navy until 2090?
... that Plants vs. Zombies became the fastest-selling video game developed by PopCap Games in under a month?
... that Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi participated in the project The Routes of Slavery at New York's Lincoln Center?
... that Governor Greg Abbott initially blamed the 2021 Texas power crisis on frozen wind turbines?
... that after winning Olympic bronze in bobsleigh, "Paddy" Green went on to RAF night-fighter fame that won him awards from the US and Soviet Union?
... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Vienna Waltzes as a tribute to Austria, using music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss?
... that Chris Redd won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for co-writing a song about Barack Obama?
... that tens of thousands of British city dwellers engaged in trekking during the Blitz, with most doing so to get a good night's sleep in nearby towns and rural areas?
... that New Zealander Fran Jonas made her debut at the top level of domestic cricket aged 15, and took three wickets in the final that season?
... that the God in the novel I Am God was described by a reviewer as "half heteronormative deity, half embarrassing uncle"?
... that in support of Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign, engineers repaired a bridge using the carriage of a German railway gun?
... that when his attempt to build RCA into a conglomerate failed, Robert Sarnoff was ousted from the board in a "palace revolt"?
... that Wycombe Wanderers secured back-to-back promotions when they won the 1994 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that Girma Bekele Gebre finished third at the 2019 New York City Marathon, despite not having a coach or sponsor, and having to pay to enter the race?
... that a landmarked house on Abolitionist Place in Downtown Brooklyn may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad?
... that scenes of Honey Wright driving in Casualty had to be filmed carefully as actress Chelsee Healey could not drive?
... that billionaire Julia Koch once worked as a fashion designer's assistant and did fittings for Nancy Reagan?
... that a 1994 manga series by artist Gengoroh Tagame was the first gay comic in Japan to turn a profit?
... that 23-year-old Michael Oliver refereed the 2009 Football League One play-off Final at Wembley Stadium the day after his father had officiated the 2009 Football League Two play-off Final?
... that anti-vaccine activist Simone Gold participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol?
... that when Big Red Envelope was released, nearly half of its audience came from fourth-tier Chinese cities?
... that Joachim Herz was the stage director of an unconventional production of the Ring cycle at the Leipzig Opera, completed in 1976, and of the opening performance of the restored Semperoper in 1985?
... that Littledale's whistling rat can be distinguished from Brants's whistling rat by the pitch and length of its calls?
... that Clair McCollough rose from being a carrier boy for Lancaster Newspapers to presiding over the broadcast station group spawned by the company?
... that the 10th Texas Field Battery fired at a courthouse during the Battle of Pine Bluff?
... that the Bach Archive in Leipzig, directed by Peter Wollny, acquired in 2021 Gustav Mahler's copy of the Bach edition, in 59 volumes with handwritten annotations by Mahler?
... that Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr, the Zubayrid governor of Iraq during the Second Fitna (680–692), fought the Umayyad army at the Battle of Maskin almost alone?
... that Millwall finally gained promotion through the play-offs on the sixth attempt after winning the 2010 Football League One play-off Final?
... that Pius Schwert died after giving a speech announcing his candidacy for mayor of Buffalo, New York?
... that Kristoffer Domeij set a record when he died after 14 tours of duty in more than 10 years as a Special Operations Ranger?
... that Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Time's Arrow" from 1950 predicted that paleontologists may learn about dinosaurs by analyzing their footprints before the method was implemented in real science?
... that William Wernigk performed four roles in Der Rosenkavalier during his decades at the Vienna State Opera, including the Innkeeper on a 1933 recording conducted by Robert Heger?
... that the board game Glory to Rome, despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
... that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's Grand Central?
... that a fire at Marl Chemical Park in 2012 interrupted the world supply of a chemical that was crucial to the auto industry?
... that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
... that a former owner of Illinois radio station WRBA carried an expired police badge to allow him to get to its transmitter site quickly if need be?
... that when Lurie Children's Hospital moved within Chicago to a new location in June 2012, it took more than 10 hours to transfer nearly 200 children?
... that televoting for San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest is simulated by a pre-selected group of countries?
... that Edward McClaren was one of only three black doctors in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1950?
... that the Crash Bandicoot character Doctor Neo Cortex was kept stationary in many of his early appearances because his model's short legs kept him from walking properly?
... that in his dissent in the Straub v. BMT by Todd case, Indiana Supreme Court Justice Roger Owen DeBruler argued that a promise to pay someone else's share of child support should be considered legally binding?
... that a group of Dayak burned a Golkar party office after their gubernatorial candidate, Yurnalis Ngayoh, failed to receive an endorsement from the party?
... that Babe Ruth called Marty McHale "the best goddamn singer I ever heard"?
... that historian Gary Kates turned down recruiters seeking to help make him a college president so that he could teach undergraduate history?
... that after Turkey's environment ministry granted a one-year temporary licence to reopen the coal-fired Çatalağzı power station, the Right to Clean Air Platform complained that it was still emitting thick smoke?
... that Elliot Mazer's only taste of Neil Young's music before meeting him was his girlfriend incessantly playing "After the Gold Rush"?
... that Arthur Walworth took a decade to write his biography on Woodrow Wilson and twenty-five years to write another book on him?
... that the English classicist Neil Hopkinson hosted events at which only dessert was served?
... that Krishna Yadav's journey from finding jobs for her family growing vegetables in Delhi to creating jobs for others won her an award on International Women's Day?
... that Chichester & Selsey Ladies F.C. broke away from Chichester City for an undisclosed reason but retained their colours and football league position?
... that YaYa Gosselin booked her first job a month after signing with an agent at the age of five?
... that for 300 years a Kathakali dancer had to be a high-caste man until the Tripunithura Kathakali Kendram Ladies Troupe was formed in 1975?
... that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role?