derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the 2005 birth of Gabi , the first elephant in Israel conceived through artificial insemination, was viewed live by more than 350,000 people in 108 countries?
... that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad when he sang the Jewish prayer for the dead?
... that Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
... that in 1975 Time named Schwester Selma, head nurse at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie?
... that Topol, who won a Golden Globe for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof, played the role in shows and revivals about 3,500 times?
... that a verse from Psalm 85 has inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace?
... that the site of Parliament Hill was previously called Barrack Hill and had been intended for development as a major military base?
... that Laura Robinson invented Canada's best-selling board game before becoming a successful actress and television producer?
... that some species of bacteria in the genus Alkalihalobacillus live in hypersaline lakes while others are added to laundry detergent?
... that music theorist Philip Ewell received "anti-Black statements and personal ad hominem attacks" following his claim that Western music theory is shaped by a "white racial frame"?
... that Murray Dowey was a clerk and typist for the Toronto Transit Commission before being the goaltender for Canada's gold-medal-winning hockey team at the 1948 Winter Olympics?
... that the Walter Bean Grand River Trail was named after Walter Bean, who created the idea of a continuous trail through the Waterloo region?
... that the flag of Nova Scotia was officially recognized in 2013, even though its first documented use was in June 1858?
... that the first use of Je me souviens, the official motto of Quebec, was on a wall of the province's parliament building?
... that St. Nikolaus von Flüe, the first Catholic church in Wörsdorf, was consecrated in 1962?
... that John Mercer Johnson, a Father of Canadian Confederation, entertained the public and members of the London Conference of 1866 with poetry readings and ice-skating performances?
... that British general Charles Bertie Prowse was killed while leading his brigade in an attack during the first day on the Somme, 105 years ago today?
... that following a career-ending injury while playing Australian rules football, Justin Clarke became a Rhodes scholar in 2021?
... that pitchers are cheating in baseball with a glue invented for strongmen to hold Atlas balls?
... that a 17th-century illustrated manuscript of the Anis Al-Hujjaj shows pilgrims sailing from the Indian subcontinent to Arabia ?
... that in times of food scarcity, the collared sand anemone may consume the symbiotic zooxanthellae in its tissues?
... that William E. Woods took three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in 1990, beginning a series of events that would lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States?
... that the fossil horsetail Equisetum similkamense has been found in only two places, both in British Columbia?
... that Ira F. M. Butler was Speaker of the House of Representatives in the last session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature prior to statehood?
... that judoka Loretta Doyle found out that she was pregnant during pre–Olympic selection medical checks?
... that in the Wild West pioneers used to hunt wolves and coyotes with American Staghounds ?
... that William Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty, had eight children, three of whom also became earls of Clancarty?
... that the Taliban secured victory in the Battle of Lashkargah soon after suicide–car-bombing the police headquarters, a crucial chokepoint of the city's defense?
... that sensors suggest that Lorraine Lambert's new bra has improved her chances of winning a Paralympic medal for shooting?
... that in his 1683 work Qingzhen Zhinan, Chinese Islamic scholar Ma Zhu recommended the "official persecution" of Sufis?
... that Dayak journalist Tjilik Riwut led the first Indonesian Air Force airborne operation in 1947?
... that in Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance?
... that refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi, who competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, has won national championships in Afghanistan, Turkey and the US?
... that during the Fall of Herat a United Nations office in Herat was attacked, killing a security guard?
... that the world record for the greatest weight supported by a brick bridge was broken on the French version of Lego Masters?
... that Mary Cutts was told that her memoir on Dolley Madison needed more emphasis on "important men and masculine subjects"?
... that S. Isaac, Campbell & Company, a British firm, was a major supplier of arms to the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
... that poet Trina de Moya was the first Dominican presidential wife to be called first lady?
... that when Paralympian Issy Bailey was in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, she had so many injuries that taking up shooting seemed to be the best option?
... that the Zuijin Teiki Emaki, a 13th-century Japanese painted handscroll, presents nine equestrian portraits of some of the Imperial Guards who protected the Daijō Tennō?
... that Nova Iriansyah, the governor of Aceh, was expelled from elementary school as a child?
... that when the 68-story Metropolitan Tower in New York City was being built, its developer was forced to stop marketing it as a 78-story building?
... that Kangmei Pharmaceutical's financial fraud was initially described as an "accounting error"?
... that William McAndrew, the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, was accused of being an agent of George V, King of the United Kingdom?
... that Yoko Ono's song "Beautiful Boys" incorporates sound effects from the first Star Wars film?
... that Fernando Alonso finished third at the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix while his Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa crashed out at the first corner?
... that coins issued by Baalshillem II, the Phoenician king of Sidon, were the first Sidonian coins to bear minting dates corresponding to the king's year of reign?
... that the Dalai Lama's 2008 Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy was a proposal aiming for autonomy rather than full independence for Tibet?
... that the card game Comet, originally called Manille, was renamed in 1682 after the appearance of Halley's Comet?
... that British brigadier Victor Jaques was almost killed by friendly fire from an American aircraft in Bangkok in 1945?
... that Chuck Mosley described the distinctive singing style used throughout his career as "screaming to the beat, like ranting"?
... that Alia Issa, the first woman competitor to enter during the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony, is the first female refugee to compete at any Paralympic Games?
... that Claus Guth , recognised internationally for directing the 1999 premiere of Berio's Cronaca del luogo at the Salzburg Festival, later received two Faust awards?
... that the world's 82 million refugees will be represented at the 2020 Summer Paralympics by the Refugee Paralympic Team?
... that George Orwell said of Mairin Mitchell's Storm over Spain (1937) that it was "written by a Catholic, but very sympathetic to the Spanish Anarchists"?
... that Theodore Roosevelt sent National Baptist Convention president Elias Camp Morris to investigate atrocities committed in the Congo Free State?
... that Brachystelma tumakurense's stem is so weak that it sometimes bends under the weight of leaves and flowers?
... that Tonic Immobility's "pure, undiluted chaos" is "an escape from the realities of the world"?
... that after Thomas Doughty was sentenced to death by Francis Drake, the two men dined and received communion together just before Doughty's execution?
... that Marie Antoinette with a Rose by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was a Salon exhibition replacement for her criticized portrait of the queen wearing a chemise?
... that particle physicist Arden Warner invented a magnetism-based method for cleaning up oil spills?
... that thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia were interned in the Waeapo River valley in Buru?
... that Linda Watson, a dramatic soprano born in San Francisco who made a career in Europe, is proud of a Grammy nomination for Wagner's Ring cycle with her as Brünnhilde?
... that after appointing the Gavrilița Cabinet, Moldova is only one of two republics in the world where the non-collective head of state and head of government are both currently women?
... that Natalie Simanowski began her "second life" as a Paralympian cyclist after being attacked by someone described as a "psychopath"?
... that Raymond Hood designed the American Radiator Building with a black-and-gold facade because he thought that other buildings' windows looked like waffles?
... that Kylie Minogue's seventh studio album, Light Years, was her first number-one album in her native Australia?
... that the HSBC Tower was the largest structure to be constructed in its vicinity since the Empire State Building fifty years earlier?
... that dyadic rationals, fractions based on powers of two, can be easier to work with than other kinds of fractions for both schoolchildren and computers?
... that three high-ranking officers of USRC Robert McClelland remained with the ship after it surrendered and entered Confederate service?
... that the Russian wheelchair fencer Ksenia Ovsyannikova toured the United States on a "mission for inclusion" in 2017?
... that while writing Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Christian McKay Heidicker, under his agent's advice, "added a snuggle for every snarl"?
... that the Columbia University mascot, Roar-ee the Lion , inspired the creation of the MGM Lion?
... that Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 was reviewed by Richard P. McCormick, who wrote that it "should stimulate a host of studies in the little-explored field of American political behavior"?
... that Rock Demers was spurred to make The Dog Who Stopped the War after reading an article on youth suicide?
... that soaking a paper banknote in 50% (v/v) alcohol fuel can create a fireproof banknote?
... that after the 2001 fall of Kabul, young men lined up to have their beards shaved off?
... that Coral Bell believed that Ric Throssell had tried unsuccessfully to recruit her as a Soviet spy in Canberra?
... that the Land of Lost Content contains bluebirds from the Blue Bird Toffee factory gates, tickets from the first National Lottery draw and a Sinclair C5?
... that Jacqueline Kennedy found the Resolute desk languishing in the White House basement and had it moved to the Oval Office?
... that Erich Witte was the first performer of the title role of Britten's Peter Grimes in Berlin?
... that the SS Alpena, currently the oldest active steamship on the Great Lakes, was shortened by 120 feet (37 m) in 1991?
... that the over 349,000 signatures collected in favour of the Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co. initiative set a new record for the number of signatures collected for a Berlin referendum?
... that wheelchair racer Nathan Maguire, who is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, appeared on a British gameshow with his partner in 2020?
... that Operation Hectic, an operation planned by the Rhodesian security forces to assassinate Robert Mugabe, was called off three hours before it was due to start?
... that Sigismund III transferred Poland's capital from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596?
... that during the 2013 Nutellagate controversy, students at Columbia University were accused of costing the university $5,000 in dining hall Nutella per week?
... that as general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź, bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski led a worldwide television broadcast of Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor?
... that two school districts in Kentucky protested against a statewide mandate to hang a copy of the United States national motto by showing oversized $1 bills and 1¢ coins, which contain the motto?
... that the death of Uyghur writer Nurmuhemmet Tohti has been linked to mistreatment in the Xinjiang internment camps, a claim China denies?
... that New York City's James B. Duke House was modeled after a French chateau and designed by an architect who did not have a formal architectural education?
... that Dr. Jodie Lewis led a team of students from the University of Worcester and volunteer archaeologists in excavating the first timber circle discovered in Somerset?
... that while Bubsy 3D is often labeled as one of the worst video games of all time, it had a positive to mixed reception around its initial release?
... that you could travel with stuffed animals on the Asahiyama Zoo KiHa 183 series train service?
... that Herma Albertson Baggley was the first woman to be on staff full-time as a naturalist with the United States National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park?
... that Zaranj was the first Afghan provincial capital to be captured by the Taliban since the Battle of Kunduz in 2016?
... that it took more than a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
... that the 2014-built ERV Nene Hatun is Turkey's first emergency response vessel?
... that prosecutors who worked to convict Kevin Strickland in 1979 now say they believe him to be innocent?
... that the freshwater leech Haemopis sanguisuga sometimes emerges from the water to hunt for earthworms?
... that before she was elected to the Parliament of Armenia, Maria Karapetyan spray-painted political graffiti on the streets of Yerevan in support of Nikol Pashinyan?
... that the six-year-old steel freighter Cayuga was sunk by a wooden freighter twenty years older than her?
... that limonene, a compound found in orange peels, can cause balloon popping based on the "like dissolves like" principle?
... that it took over a decade for Michael M. Thomas to secure a publisher for his eighth novel, which was rejected by approximately 25 publishing houses?
... that on Quebec's maps, the land border with Newfoundland and Labrador must have a separate symbol in the map's legend from other interprovincial boundaries?
... that although Steinitz's theorem is commonly used to describe convex polyhedra using graph theory, its original formulation did not use graphs?
... that Robert McLean served as a missionary in Chile for six years before moving to Oregon, where he founded two churches and was elected to the state legislature?
... that Philip Rusher patented a paper-saving typeface with no descenders in 1802, but only a few books ever used it?
... that the owner of Grand Central Terminal sued the developer of One Vanderbilt and the New York City government for $1.1 billion over air rights?
... that Fred Marples felt it was the duty of all Canadians to ensure the strongest possible national team at the Olympics?
... that Basilico's, an Italian restaurant in Huntington Beach, California, does not admit diners who are either masked or vaccinated against COVID-19?
... that in Why Marx Was Right, author Terry Eagleton aims to refute ten common objections to Marxism?
... that Ng Yu Zhi owned the only Pagani Huayra in Singapore?
... that the melody of "Nimm, o Gott, die Gaben, die wir bringen", an offertory hymn written in 2009, is taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar?
... that the foraminiferan Marginopora vertebralis releases its embryos by means of a surprisingly complex behaviour for a single-celled organism?
... that Thomas Earle had his slave-ship Annabella seized by the British Crown, not for slave trading, but for slave trading with the enemy?
... that "I Knew You Were Trouble" made Taylor Swift the first artist to have two songs each sell over 400,000 digital copies within the first week of release in the U.S.?
... that Konbaung-dynasty general U Din Kyaw Khaung was the only warrior said to have continued fighting after his death?
... that the Chestnut Centre was the first place in the UK where giant otters were successfully bred in captivity?
... that Australian soprano Ada Baker toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in Perth in 1889?
... that 537 Votes, documenting the controversial 2000 United States presidential election in Florida, was released in the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential election?
... that Paralympian Gemma Collis-McCann, who sits on wheelchair fencing's new Gender Equity Commission, has been chosen to join three men as the UK's wheelchair fencing team in Tokyo?
... that the Port of Krueng Geukueh in Aceh, Indonesia, became an entry point for aid shipments as it was not damaged by the 2004 tsunami?
... that one of Hong Kong YouTuber Mama Cheung's most viewed videos shows her using a rice cooker to bake a cake?
... that the first flag carried in the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony was scheduled to be that of the International Paralympic Committee , with Ileana Rodriguez as the flag-bearer?
... that Rukhshana Media is named after a young woman called Rukhshana who was stoned to death in Afghanistan in 2015?
... that in 1985, Captain Dale Snodgrass was chosen as "Fighter Pilot of the Year" and was called the real "Maverick" from Top Gun?
... that there are no trees around Lake Letsie, since its entire catchment area is above the tree line?
... that Carl Cotton was the first black taxidermist to work at the Field Museum of Natural History after being hired in 1947?
... that John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Ono's song "Remember Love" in a Montreal hotel room that has been a tourist draw ever since?
... that the manufacturers of Hedgehog Flavour Crisps were taken to court under the Trade Descriptions Act as they did not contain actual hedgehog?
... that the predatory sea slug Tubulophilinopsis gardineri hunts other sea slugs by following the mucus trails they leave?
... that the Kurdish-Armenian politician Knyaz Hasanov chaired the Armenian Parliament in 2017 and 2021?
... that during the Edo period, commoners used semi-cursive script while scholars used regular script?
... that Aisha de Sequeira led Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012?
... that President Theodore Roosevelt described the declining birthrate of the United States as a form of "race suicide", citing a term coined by eugenicist Edward Alsworth Ross?
... that David Ahl purchased BASIC-8 to sell with the PDP-8 when DEC management proved more interested in their own FOCAL language?
... that although Pixie Davies has been performing in films since 2012, her breakout role came in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns in 2018?
... that according to local legend, Piers Shonks, whose tomb can be seen in the Brent Pelham church, killed a dragon ravaging the district?
... that the Leschenault Lady , which is believed to be the oldest operational Australian-built steam locomotive, is returning to steam today (22 August) after a lengthy overhaul?
... that due to shortages, American supply in the Siegfried Line campaign made use of thousands of rounds of captured ammunition?
... that the Australian case Bradley v Commonwealth held that it was unlawful to unilaterally cut off telephones to a Rhodesian information office?
... that Louis Hempelmann wrote a paper in 1949 that warned of the dangers of shoe stores using fluoroscopes to measure the size of children's feet?
... that Royal Engineers officer Leslie Innes Jacques received the Military Cross for constructing a bridge under heavy fire during the Hundred Days Offensive in 1918?
... that Maki Kaji formulated the name "Sudoku" while scrambling to get to a horse race?
... that New Zealand writer Jessie Weston wrote for William Ernest Henley's magazine for 18 months without him knowing she was a woman?
... that Quinn became the first out, transgender, non-binary athlete to medal at the Summer Olympic Games when they won gold with the Canada national soccer team?
... that Giedrė Šlekytė conducted a version of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for children at the 2018 Salzburg Festival, and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Oper Frankfurt in 2021?
... that Eli Bebout, a future Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives, was first elected as a write-in candidate?
... that the 1959 song "Go, Jimmy, Go" by Jimmy Clanton was originally offered to Bobby Rydell with the title "Go, Bobby, Go"?
... that police negotiator Max Vernon told the actor portraying him in 6 Days that "you've been wrongly cast. You're two inches shorter than me and I have more hair"?
... that Diving With a Purpose, a nonprofit focused on maritime archaeology, helped identify and document the wreck of the 18th-century Portuguese slave ship São José Paquete Africa?
... that the Q contains a drawing of "a buff Ned Flanders from The Simpsons with protruding nipples"?
... that the Unisphere was designed based on a doodle on the back of an envelope?
... that plant biology professor Luca Comai independently developed glyphosate-resistant plants while working at Calgene and published his research before Monsanto researchers were able to?
... that Zollstock, a district of Cologne, takes its name from a local tollhouse?
... that Bridget Burgess's mother Sarah once changed all four tires during a pit stop by herself?
... that Zheng Kai first lost weight and then gained 20 kilograms (44 lb) for his role in Never Stop?
... that the composer Francis Burt, who came from London and settled in Vienna, was inspired by the drumming of the Nigerian Ibo people?
... that in 1952 meteorologist Harry Volkman delivered the first on-air tornado warning on Oklahoma City's WKY-TV, in defiance of a federal ban on the practice?
... that Pierre Kaufmann helped install the first radio telescope in Brazil, which was later destroyed by cows?
... that Kanye West recorded a music video for "RoboCop" that casts his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose as a robot?
... that American physician and marathon runner Joan Ullyot was one of the key figures in successfully lobbying for a women’s marathon in the Olympic Games?
... that in addition to running Bangkok's first power station, the Siam Electricity Company also operated half the city's tram lines and a fire brigade?
... that Yasin Zia, while Chief of General Staff of Afghanistan, personally led government forces against the Taliban on the edge of Mihtarlam, 120 km (75 mi) from Kabul?
... that Louise Heims Beck co-founded the American Theatre Wing and was responsible for overseeing the organization of the 1st Tony Awards?
... that the Punch Bowl Inn in Lancashire was reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a highwayman?
... that because the hand in the Shrine of Saint Lachtin's Arm is clenched rather than open, it is assumed to have functioned as a battle standard or a talisman?
... that when King Hugh III of Cyprus tried to force a marriage on his vassal, Lady Isabella of Beirut, the Egyptian sultan Baibars declared himself her protector?
... that Queen of Peace Cemetery opened early because Cemetery of the Holy Rood filled up due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that architect Robert Marquis believed that architecture should meet "the users' spiritual and psychological needs" in addition to being functional?
... that the Qing-dynasty erotic novel Shenlou zhi has been called "the earliest novel by far" to describe the opium trade in China?
... that Scott Lee Kimball killed three of his four known victims while he was working as an FBI informant?
... that Yoko Ono considered her 1971 song "Listen, the Snow Is Falling" to be the first pop song she ever wrote?
... that the Australian rugby sevens player Dietrich Roache kept the Australian national sprint champion out of the Australian Olympic team with his speed?
... that with his victory in the 1996 presidential election, Bill Clinton became the first Democrat to win two consecutive presidential elections since Franklin D. Roosevelt?
... that Steve Carell insisted his chest genuinely be waxed in a scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which was recorded in a single take?
... that the mayor of Málaga, Pedro Aparicio Sánchez, spent the night of the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt in his office so he could die there if he was targeted?