derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that rather than the usual supplies of ammunition, a bored British commander used a Popham panel to request the actress Mae West?
... that the Farseer Trilogy was written under an androgynous pen name, Robin Hobb ?
... that "Wenn das Brot, das wir teilen" (When the bread that we share), a hymn written in 1981, begins with a reference to the Miracle of the Roses?
... that Jean Walton stopped the Pomona College football team from forcibly weighing and measuring the proportions of first-year women?
... that the 1968 Ruby Tower collapse was caused by an earthquake centered more than 200 km (120 mi) away?
... that Kobe Shoji escaped 120 °F (49 °C) heat at the Poston Internment Camp by enlisting in the U.S. Army's 442nd Infantry Regiment?
... that whenever some of the people in a party shake hands, the number of people who shake an odd number of other people's hands is even?
... that Witi Ihimaera decided to become a writer after reading a short story that was "so poisonous" he threw the book out of the window?
... that an equivalence between algebraic and geometric definitions of constructible numbers helps prove the impossibility of squaring the circle?
... that a reviewer from The Guardian noted after a concert at The Proms that Jonathon Heyward led Beethoven's Third Symphony "from memory – a fast and fearless performance"?
... that on each turn of the board game Broom Service, a player can choose to be brave or cowardly?
... that Valerie Broussard's video for "Iris" pays homage to the Goo Goo Dolls' original?
... that the London Forum, a British far-right organization, was described by an anti-fascist magazine as "[bridging] the fascist and Tory right"?
... that it was said that public school teacher Arthur Hathaway Hewitt "'hath-a-way' of striking terror into the hearts of all who dare oppose him"?
... that the Victor 3900 was the first electronic calculator using custom integrated circuits, allowing it to be "smaller than a typewriter"?
... that after being selected at the age of five for a role in the film Soldier Boy, Andrey Andreev memorized the entire 100-page script?
... that the 1959 Texas A&I Javelinas football team won the first of the school's seven NAIA Football National Championships?
... that Thomas Guggeis, who studied conducting and quantum mechanics, began at the Berlin State Opera as an assistant of Daniel Barenboim and became the youngest Staatskapellmeister there?
... that the title of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Filli Vanilli" references the lip-syncing scandal of the German-French R&B duo Milli Vanilli?
... that Aline Rocha, the first Brazilian woman to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games, also came third in the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon?
... that according to Human Rights Watch, U.S. maximum pressure against Iran has seriously threatened Iranians' right to health and access to essential medicines including those of cancer patients?
... that the Soviet rover PrOP-M was intended to be the first rover on Mars in 1971, 26 years earlier than NASA's Sojourner?
... that Ryan Grubb was on the football coaching staff at South Dakota State University while pursuing a master's degree in sports pedagogy?
... that Squaring the Circle is Sneaker Pimps' first album in almost 20 years?
... that George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Scherzo à la Russe for the New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival, a tribute to the composer after his death?
... that Cédric Wermuth, the co-president of the Swiss Social Democrats, was once fined for squatting?
... that all charges against John S. Marmaduke for killing a fellow Confederate general in a duel were later dropped?
... that Jean Pierson, the former CEO of Airbus, once unbuckled his belt and dropped his trousers when pressed for a hard bargain while selling commercial jets?
... that a reviewer thought that the two-part "Friendship Is Magic" "[flies] off the rails in an orgy of oddly Spielbergian effects and philosophizing" during its climax?
... that Earth 300 has designed a climate research vessel that would include a molten salt reactor and a quantum computer?
... that the NBA 75 includes the only league MVP who was not among the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History?
... that Hunuki Hunukitama traveled to Baltimore to negotiate the establishment of a Korean holy city in Niue?
... that the audience screamed when Ethel Merman first sang "Sam and Delilah"?
... that the starfish Luidia maculata eats its prey whole, and often leaves behind inedible fragments in the hollow in which it was lying?
... that climatologist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh's work was instrumental in proving that the 2021 European floods were made more likely by climate change?
... that Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the "Let Us Continue" address five days after assuming the presidency upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
... that pushbacks of migrants in the Aegean Sea have been described as "a human rights violation that encapsulates a will to eliminate a person's presence on the face of the planet"?
... that when Oregon journalist Larry Smyth was asked who he thought would win presidential elections, he invariably replied "the man who gets the most votes"?
... that the Central Khalsa Orphanage houses the first Guru Granth Sahib in braille?
... that Montana television station KOPR-TV brought forward its start date by several months, only to last just one year?
... that Esther Ze Naw, who appeared on the 2021 Time 100, was one of the few people in Myanmar who protested against Aung San Suu Kyi's defence of the military at the International Court of Justice in December 2019?
... that Capitalism in America was shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award?
... that Thomas Jefferson and Henry Ford both took an interest in the folk tune and contra dance "Money Musk" ?
... that the classic board game Jacquet was the benchmark for all tables games in France during the 19th century?
... that Charles Larson became one of the first Americans to teach African literature, after working in Nigeria for the Peace Corps to avoid the Vietnam draft?
... that the Filipino fraternity Alpha Phi Beta has been involved in instances of violence, including getting mauled by rival fraternities, such as Sigma Rho?
... that after he died in September 2021, John Boyden was revealed to have written under the pseudonym "Lunchtime O'Boulez"?
... that a short version of the Japanese stop motion film Junk Head was favorably reviewed by director Guillermo del Toro?
... that the sea slug Philinopsis depicta has no radula or jaws, and is thought to protrude its foregut and suck up its prey whole?
... that according to American sociologist Pauline Bart, "everything is data, but data isn't everything"?
... that Mutinensis gr. 122 is the only surviving manuscript to include portraits of all Byzantine emperors?
... that the Commission on Elections was allowed to tabulate the results of the 2002 Puerto Princesa mayoral recall election but could not declare a winner right away?
... that Herb Plambeck was the founder of the National Plowing Match in Dexter, Iowa?
... that Cimbrian seeresses are said to have predicted the future by slitting the throats of war prisoners and studying how the blood trickled down into a cauldron?
... that the tributary Walnut Creek in Iowa was named for the black walnut trees which once lined the creek before early settlers cleared them?
... that Friedrich Hefty could not become an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops because of his interest in aviation?
... that Charles Dickens described the Long Island Sound steamboat New York as "a sullen, cumbrous, ungraceful, unshiplike leviathan"?
... that the release of Lee Hyori's album It's Hyorish had to be moved forward after several tracks were illegally leaked?
... that fashion model Rebecca Leigh Longendyke was inspired by Grey's Anatomy to get a degree in biomedical engineering?
... that Miriam Soljak, after fighting to recover her New Zealand nationality for nearly three decades, was told that the government considered she had never lost it?
... that men who refused, when challenged, to take an oath of loyalty to the government were not permitted to vote in the 1861 Maryland gubernatorial election?
... that although Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III died in 1975, his son only succeeded him in 2011?
... that to make the Belasco Theatre comfortable for performers, David Belasco banned spitting onto the floor?
... that Trictrac was the classic tables game of France, just as backgammon is of the English-speaking world today?
... that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"?
... that the telephone exchange in Craig's Court contains one of the entrances to the secret government tunnels under London?
... that Bob Ferry became general manager of the Washington Bullets by selling advertisements for its game programs, giving its upper management the impression that he "must know a lot about business"?
... that the tourist attraction Little Canada has a "Littlization Station" used to create scale 3D replicas of visitors to be placed in the exhibit?
... that 14 top art students in the Russian Empire revolted and quit their academy because of a competition theme?
... that Nancy Cappello was described as the "founder of the breast density education movement" for her campaign to inform women about the issue of mammograms failing to detect breast cancer?
... that the biggest Turdus is 23–28 centimetres (9–10 inches) in length?
... that Belle Delphine's online popularity surged after she mimicked the orgasm faces featured in some Japanese manga?
... that staff members of the Embassy of the Philippines to the Holy See would stack rosaries by the windows so they could be blessed by the Pope?
... that when the New Jersey–born military officer Samuel Gibbs French sided with the South in the U.S. Civil War, residents of Woodbury, New Jersey, hanged him in effigy and stormed his summer home?
... that while stealing Pablo Picasso's 1939 painting Woman's Head, the thief cut his hand and claimed to have wiped the blood on a 16th-century sketch that he flushed down the toilet?
... that the first train headlight was simply a bonfire on a train car pushed in front of a locomotive?
... that while The New York Times Building was designed to protect against terrorist attacks, planners did not consider that the façade could be climbed until several people scaled it?
... that it has cost about the same to maintain Broomhead and More Hall Reservoirs as it did to build them in the first place?
... that Brazilian wheelchair racer Vanessa Cristina de Souza won a race despite completing the last two kilometres (1.2 mi) with a flat tyre?
... that the dust jacket of the book A Brightness Long Ago contained specks of gold foil?
... that Billy Strings's 2019 album Home stayed on Billboard's Bluegrass Albums chart for 77 consecutive weeks?
... that despite its common name of Santa Rita Mountain aster, Symphyotrichum potosinum can no longer be found in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona?
... that about 700 airmen – and Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten – have received the Dutch Airman's Cross?
... that Stembridge Gun Rentals supplied so many firearms to the film industry that when Chaplin producers asked for a rifle similar to that in Shoulder Arms, Stembridge had on hand the actual gun used?
... that more than 40 percent of women have dense breast tissue that increases the risk of breast cancer and makes it difficult for mammograms to identify tumors?
... that Metropolitan Opera star John Gurney performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" for sporting events in which his son, racing driver Dan Gurney, competed?
... that Oscarella tuberculata can reproduce by budding in a process unique among sponges?
... that Canadian diver Jeff Hirst won his event at the 1988 Canadian Championships despite having fractured his thumb five weeks before?
... that after discovering the mass graves of the Arnsberg Forest massacre, American soldiers ordered the entire local population to watch the exhumation?
... that the 1794 travelogue A Journey Around My Room contains details of the author's visits to his armchair and curtains?
... that the 1514 horned helmet of Henry VIII has spectacles and a toothy grimace?
... that Rose Lee Maphis and her husband Joe Maphis, known as Mr. and Mrs. Country Music, helped develop the Bakersfield sound?
... that when watercress algae grows on degraded coral reefs, coral larvae settle on the seaweed as readily as they do on the rubble substrate?
... that Elizabeth Reiter portrayed the double role of Renee, an "icy wife", and Alice, an "insatiable lover", in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's opera Lost Highway?
... that Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Children of Earth and Sky, has been described as "contemporary fiction's finest fantasist"?
... that in the late 2000s the Campbell Soup Company began producing a spicier canned cheese sauce in their California and Texas plants than they did elsewhere to cater for different consumer tastes?
... that Miray Cin played for the Germany women's national U15, U16 and U17 football teams before she became a member of the Turkey women's national football team?
... that Phoenix radio station KTAR bought television station KTYL-TV to avoid a conflict with former U.S. senator Ernest McFarland?
... that the "Angel of the dump", Jane Walker, helps people in Manila create handbags from reused ring-pulls?
... that the 2021 Illinois vs. Penn State football game was the first in NCAA history to reach nine overtimes?
... that racehorse Tipperary Tim won the 1928 Grand National at odds of 100-1?
... that the notorious labor spy and killer Charles Lively was so successful infiltrating the coal miners union that he once posed for a photo with the famed labor activist Mother Jones?
... that Symphyotrichum molle, the soft aster, can be found only in the Bighorn Mountains of Montana and Wyoming?
... that the title of Something That May Shock and Discredit You, a memoir by Daniel M. Lavery that explores themes including gender transition, is taken from a scene in The Simpsons?
... that although the fruits of Cola verticillata are considered inedible, they contain caffeine and are used to make a beverage?
... that upon hearing about a 600-worker walkout reportedly prompted by difficulties she caused, Dee Duponte responded "fiddlesticks"?
... that Susan Catania shocked male legislators by bringing her infant daughter to the floor of the Illinois House of Representatives and nursing her baby in the women's restroom?
... that the Allenby Formation has been called part of a "Great Canadian Lagerstätte"?
... that Satrio used water buffaloes to vaccinate 240,000 people against smallpox?
... that the Cello Sonata by John Foulds features quarter tones in the second movement, but it is uncertain if he introduced them in the 1905 version or the 1927 revision?
... that Scottish novelist Isla Dewar said "if ... a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache"?
... that The West Wing episode "17 People" has an entire website created by a "superfan" with the sole purpose of explaining it?
... that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick?
... that the developers of the video game Golf Club: Wasteland jokingly announced that they would only sell one copy at a price of $500 million?
... that the design and form of the late 8th- or early 9th-century Irish Kilmainham Brooch was influenced by both earlier Pictish and contemporary Viking art?
... that Scott Isphording coached golf and baseball for a time while on the football coaching staff at Wittenberg University?
... that German fashion magazine Der Bazar had many spin offs, including Harper's Bazaar?
... that Ally Condie's dystopian Matched trilogy was inspired by a high school prom?
... that Iris Murdoch wrote a poem juxtaposing the outbreak of World War II with a seminar by Eduard Fraenkel?
... that, after tolerating him for years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs III expelled Carlos the Jackal from Hungary after the bombing of Radio Free Europe's headquarters in Munich?
... that the crew of a U.S. Navy blimp mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1942?
... that in the early 20th century, "playing the Palace" was said to mark the pinnacle of a vaudeville entertainer's career?
... that the Turkish government tried to have the German music video "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan" taken down because it insulted Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
... that it was British classicist Courtenay Edward Stevens who suggested that Allied radio broadcasts during the Second World War use the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as a signature theme?
... that students and faculty from Fuchs Mizrachi School protested at Nazi guard John Demjanjuk's home in 1993, objecting to his release from Israeli prison and residence in the United States?
... that Ask la Cour, who came from Denmark, only planned to perform with the New York City Ballet for a few years, but spent two decades there and became a principal dancer?
... that after Gaudelia Díaz won a bronze medal at the 1992 Paralympics, she was asked to join Televisa by its CEO?
... that despite contesting the 1924 presidential election as a third-party candidate, Robert M. La Follette received approximately 16.6 percent of the popular vote?
... that the leader of the male Ustaše Youth group claimed to have placed ears of the Serbs he murdered on his necklace?
... that the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository was called "one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world" by Creative Commons?
... that reporter Bobbie Wygant got her first television show after filling in while its host was sick with the flu?
... that David Arquette donated his earnings from his appearances in World Championship Wrestling to the families of dead and injured wrestlers?
... that Didi Gregorius tweets after every game his baseball team wins, and has dedicated emojis for his teammates?
... that in Botswana, writer Unity Dow took legal actions as a plaintiff, legal counsellor, and judge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator?
... that the song "House Party" by Super Junior was praised by Tedros Adhanom, the director-general of the WHO?
... that John Carter started his career as an early American colonial printer working as the apprentice of Benjamin Franklin?
... that the sea slug Berthellina edwardsii secretes a white acidic fluid that is distasteful to fish?
... that the new head coach for Washington State Cougars football once played in a football game two weeks after an appendectomy?
... that a wreck rediscovered in the former Royal Navy dockyard in Antigua in 2021 might be that of the French ship Beaumont, captured by the British in 1778?
... that surgeon Margaret Louden developed a treatment for people crushed by rubble during the The Blitz, but her contribution was forgotten until the 1990s?
... that when a ban on developing the Hotel Macklowe was revoked two years early, some New York City Council members said they did not realize that they had voted to rescind the ban?
... that the 115-metre-long (377-foot) Bourbaki Panorama depicts the internment of 88,000 French soldiers in neutral Switzerland at the end of the Franco-Prussian War?
... that Ernie Ross, the Member of Parliament for Dundee West, was nicknamed "the MP for Nablus West" due to his support of Palestinian nationalism?
... that the 1979 German song "Selig seid ihr, wenn ihr einfach lebt" offers eight beatitudes which include a blessing for living simply, and another for daring to be kind?
... that Myrtle Edwards's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her?
... that the protagonist of the novel Long Live the Post Horn! campaigns against a real European Union Directive?
... that the paddle steamer Keystone State was rumored to be carrying gold when she sank?
... that Khin Maung Lat, a servant at the king's palace in Ratnagiri, India, eloped with Princess Myat Phaya Lat against the will of the king and queen?
... that in 2017, the Hudson Theatre was both the newest Broadway theater and one of the oldest?
... that Willy von Beckerath, after studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, depicted Johannes Brahms at a grand piano ?
... that the original name of the sidewheel steamer CSS Maurepas, Grosse Tete, means "big head" in French?
... that the Russian Fort Raim was built in 1847 around the ruined mausoleum of Kazakh warrior Raiymbek Batyr?
... that after plans for the skyscraper Sutton 58 prompted a height limit for the surrounding area, construction went ahead anyway?
... that Osman Çakmak won the European Amputee Football Championship as a player in 2017 and as a manager in 2021 with the Turkey national team?
... that Sherita Hill Golden demonstrated that diabetics were more likely to develop depression and that those with depression were more likely to become diabetic?
... that the Japanese variety show Say You to Yo Asobi collaborated with the Japan Racing Association to create a special video about the Takarazuka Kinen horse race?
... that prior to entering politics, Bonifasius Belawan Geh collected edible bird's nests from the jungle after dropping out of college?
... that the 1914 Lubin vault fire in Philadelphia destroyed several thousand unique early silent films?
... that Luc Tardif Sr. gained French citizenship in order to further his ice hockey career?
... that "Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen", a German song based on Irish toasts, was ranked fourth in a recent survey of favourite hymns?
... that Kane Ioane finished his playing career at Montana State as the Big Sky Conference's all-time tackles leader?
... that IBM spent US$50 million to develop the PCradio and expected to sell 100,000 units, but ended up selling just under 10,000?
... that Gerd Ruge received a twelve-year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped his friend Boris Pasternak financially?
... that the 1905 monument to the King's Liverpool Regiment is inscribed with the words Nec Aspera Terrent ("Difficulties be Damned")?
... that American evangelist J. Charles Jessup was called "The Great Gaspy"?
... that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?
... that Samsi Sastrawidagda, Indonesia's first finance minister, once leased the veranda of future president Sukarno's house for his accountant's office?
... that the RADCAL satellite, designed to have a three-year lifespan, operated for almost twenty?
... that the philosopher Emil Utitz, a classmate of Franz Kafka, became the head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto?
... that none of the six then-living CCNY players were interviewed for the 1998 documentary film City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal?
... that New Zealand association football coach Olli Harder has worked in the US, China, Norway and England?
... that Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, a textbook dedicated to canines, was found by a specialist feline publication to be bereft of information about cats?
... that the Corsi-Rosenthal Box is a homemade air purifier that was designed during the COVID-19 pandemic as an alternative to more expensive air purification systems?
... that Lars Fause is the first governor of Svalbard to use the gender-neutral title Sysselmester?
... that the Pixel 6 is the first smartphone to be powered by the Google Tensor system on a chip (SoC)?
... that Broadway producer Richard Aldrich penned a biography on his wife, the actress Gertrude Lawrence, after her death from cancer?
... that the 1996 song "Gott hat mir längst einen Engel gesandt", with text by Eugen Eckert and music by Thomas Gabriel, began as part of a rock oratorio about Daniel?
... that Rise Bar's management spent more than US$110,000 soundproofing the space, which holds just 74 patrons?
... that despite not being an economist, Sunarjo Kolopaking became dean for the faculty of economics at the University of Indonesia?
... that Micah Joseph Lebensohn began to translate poetry into Hebrew at the age of twelve?