derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the success of the children's poetry book Alligator Pie led to the author, Dennis Lee, being named "Canada's Father Goose"?
... that the towers of Shimao Cross-Strait Plaza are inspired by sails and bougainvilleas?
... that Halyna Sevruk was expelled from the Union of Artists of Ukraine in 1968 due to a political letter she signed?
... that Humphrey Jennings's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time?
... that when Joachim Philip delivered an ultimatum to the British in Grenada during Fédon's rebellion, the militia had to restrain his sister, Susannah, who otherwise would have "torn him to pieces"?
... that Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach, has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses?
... that Kendal Green station was named both for dyed cloth and a nearby resident's grandfather?
... that an art gallery exhibit featuring My Androgynous Boyfriend took place at the Animate Girls Festival in 2019?
... that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry, Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne?
... that future Atomic Kitten member Jenny Frost represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 as part of the group Precious?
... that the Fred F. French Building has been described as the "only Mesopotamian skyscraper" in New York City?
... that Forest Glen Park was among the earliest residential subdivisions in Montgomery County, Maryland, and was described by its developer as "Washington's most desirable suburb?"
... that besides the fruits being edible, the roots and leaves of creeping cucumber have many uses in traditional medicine?
... that Darrell Blocker, "The Spy Whisperer", began playing live music in Senegal as part of his espionage duties?
... that the Lucifer Dékou-Dékou Biological Reserve, the largest wilderness area of France, is divided in two by land which includes the country's biggest mining project, the Montagne d'Or mine?
... that the 1923 film The Abysmal Brute included comedic episodes that were not in the 1911 story by Jack London on which it was based?
... that Barbara Yancy, who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers?
... that the title of Welsh musician The Anchoress's album The Art of Losing was inspired by American poet Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art"?
... that Marita Napier is the first South African opera singer to have performed lead roles in each of the four "Grand Slam" opera houses?
... that the contrast agent iobitridol can be injected into blood vessels, joints, or body cavities such as the uterus?
... that former baseball player Tacks Latimer was sentenced to life imprisonment for second-degree murder, but was pardoned for his heroism in stopping a prison break?
... that in the music video for "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)", Lil Nas X gives Satan a lap dance?
... that despite looking like the other frogs in its genus, Boophis entingae has a very different call?
... that a drifting shipwreck stranded several dozen people on Margate Jetty in 1877?
... that Frances Theresa Peet Russell may have written the first book to examine satire in Victorian literature?
... that in 1846, Emma Willard represented all of human history in a graphic resembling an Ancient Greek temple?
... that following his career with the Headhunters, Paul Jackson moved to Japan and established a voluntary concert to familiarize students with African-American history?
... that a number of live grenades remain on the moon as part of the Active Seismic Experiment, flown on Apollo 14 and Apollo 16?
... that every competitor at the 2021 British Athletics Marathon and 20km Walk Trial received a commemorative bonsai tree?
... that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada?
... that one legend on the origin of the coat of arms of Naples claims that it alludes to the colors of the sun and moon cult practiced by the city's pre-Christian inhabitants?
... that Tara Downs co-founded the Tomorrow Gallery in a converted paintball studio in Toronto?
... that MLS Cup 2000 was the first championship game in league history not to feature D.C. United?
... that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?
... that an owner of Wyoming radio station KATI donated the station to the University of Wyoming, only to be "disappointed" when the university opted not to use his gift?
... that after the start of Afghan peace talks in 2019, journalist Farahnaz Forotan travelled the country to collect testimonies from women and prevent the rollback of their freedoms?
... that the settling of Martensdale, California, went so badly that the town's namesake spent the rest of his life as a fugitive?
... that Zahra Mohamed Ahmad , who gives legal advice at the Somali Women Development Centre, is said to be a Woman of Courage?
... that Idaho television station KCIX-TV went silent awaiting a merger deal that fell apart?
... that Tranmere Rovers players were each promised a £10,000 bonus for winning the 1991 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that according to Nepalese folklore, Pimbahal Pond was built by a demon?
... that XYYY syndrome, a chromosome abnormality in which a man has two extra Y chromosomes, has only been recorded twelve times?
... that Hitler Nababan was beaten by an angry mob after posting a meme to a WhatsApp group?
... that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things?
... that Silver Hill station may have been named for rumors of Captain Kidd's treasure – or just a stand of trees?
... that Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite took place at midnight in Hawaii to match the prime time of its target audience in Asia and Oceania?
... that Charles Scott Napier graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1916, but could not be sent overseas until he turned nineteen in 1918?
... that the Turkish government forced the last monks of Vazelon Monastery to leave in 1923, more than one thousand years after the monastery first opened?
... that Marion Miley, a 1930s amateur golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27?
... that the tourist submarine Windermere operated for only two seasons on her namesake lake in Cumbria, England?
... that Vikram Phadnis designed around 800 costumes for the Bollywood film Salaam-e-Ishq?
... that attending the first Women in Print Conference inspired Carol Seajay to create Feminist Bookstore News?
... that the "fairy-tale palace" Harry F. Sinclair House , once home to magnates Isaac D. Fletcher and Harry F. Sinclair, later contained the Ukrainian American Institute?
... that Michael Hampe, who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival?
... that the remote Burt Township Schools, covering 258 square miles (670 km2) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, implemented a novel telephone teaching program that included electronic blackboards in 1984?
... that the Final Offensive of 1981 was actually the first offensive of the 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992)?
... that professor Emma Baker trained her pharmacology students to perform mass COVID-19 testing on their fellows so that they could go home for Christmas?
... that some of the proposed routes for the current effort to build a Uinta Basin Rail line are based on routes surveyed more than 100 years ago?
... that genderless fashion in Japan was inspired by K-pop groups, visual kei, and 1980s–1990s American fashion?
... that a math mistake while fencing with longswords gave cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths a broken right wrist?
... that last summer, Martin Rundkvist discovered 22 gold foil figures while excavating a "Beowulfian" mead hall in Sweden?
... that a contributor to Hell Is a Very Small Place, a 2016 book about solitary confinement, was denied access to a copy of the book while in prison?
... that Aramburu Island is named after its creator, a Marin County supervisor who ordered it cut off from the mainland because he "did not think any homes should be built" there?
... that Kathy Hudson, an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination, helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
... that Paul McCartney's psychedelic 1972 Wings Tour Bus ended up in a garden in Tenerife before returning to the UK for restoration?
... that hockey player Kevin Hayes came within two hours of needing his leg amputated due to compartment syndrome?
... that in the 1930s, the Baroque parterre of the Schlosspark in Brühl, part of a World Heritage Site, was restored according to the original 1728 plans?
... that Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine made the ballet Stars and Stripes as a tribute to the United States, his adopted country?
... that Marion Macfarlane, the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia, later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd?
... that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?
... that Luis Abraham Delgadillo was Nicaragua's director-general of musical culture, a position which was created specifically for him?
... that in 1750, Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne built a small canal above Niagara Falls to power a sawmill?
... that the North Korean song "Where Are You, Dear General?" plays every morning at 6 a.m. through Pyongyang's loudspeakers?
... that the chief engineer of Virginia television station WRFT-TV said that "a 15-watt Christmas bulb and baling wire" kept it on the air?
... that Diane Damiano , a biomedical scientist and physical therapist, helped create a robotic exoskeleton designed to aid children with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk?
... that during a renovation of New York City's 2 Broadway, some funds were embezzled and sent to two crime families?
... that Lionel Fleury brought minor ice hockey and a recreational facility to Quebec City during the Great Depression?
... that Frank Sinatra was "very, very angry" after being told that he would not be singing "Lonely Town" on film?
... that Jessie Carney Smith spent more than twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women, which profiled 1,100 figures?
... that the latex-like sap of the desert candle has uses in traditional medicine but can cause skin blisters and blindness?
... that the music video for Oh Land's "Listen a Little Less" was filmed entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone?
... that Guadalupe College president David Abner Jr. declined lucrative positions at northern U.S. colleges so that he could continue "conducting a school for the colored youths of the south"?
... that Robert Fancourt lost his ship to mutineers in 1797, then ran it aground in 1801?
... that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "Singapore-on-Thames" to prosper outside of the EU?
... that Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
... that Pop Smoke references Manu Ginóbili, a former basketball player with the San Antonio Spurs, in the lyrics for "Hello"?
... that despite the European Commission organising COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the whole bloc, a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies from Russia and China?
... that Joseph Taylor Goodsir accused Rudolph Virchow, "the father of modern pathology", of plagiarism?
... that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir about masculinity?
... that at one point, the Consulate-General of Japan in Vladivostok was housed in what is now the Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History ?
... that Doug Sahm's posthumous album The Return of Wayne Douglas was his first to feature only country music songs?
... that the Astor Place station was flooded by a subterranean river after firefighters extinguished a blaze at a building above it?
... that 19th-century French economist Jean Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil is considered to be the founder of classical economics and economic liberalism in Chile?
... that as the only woman in the 1923 Utah State Senate, Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
... that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House, the composer, who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character?
... that the UK Supreme Court told the Chief Constable that the West Yorkshire Police are not allowed to knock over old ladies?
... that Fragonard won the Prix de Rome for painting Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols in 1752, when he was 20 years old?
... that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera?
... that Bob's Your Uncle, a Hong Kong YouTuber, began cooking while he was an international student after he found the food from Chinese restaurants in London unappetising?
... that the Thousand Islands Parkway was the final two-lane section of Highway 401?
... that the death of Serbian politician Vladimir Cvijan, which occurred in January 2018, was not publicly known until March 2021?
... that the French football club GPSO 92 Issy was founded by three Peruvian sisters in 1997?
... that Anka Nathanová gave birth to Eva Clarke at the Mauthausen concentration camp shortly before its liberation in 1945?
... that computer game studio Legend Entertainment was founded by veterans of the interactive fiction studio Infocom after it shut down in 1989?
... that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that his book The Great Gatsby was a failure in comparison to Willa Cather's My Ántonia?
... that the Frightened Rabbit album Painting of a Panic Attack was written mostly over email?
... that Paul English, co-founder of Kayak, offered to pay for the vaccination of 100,000 people during the cholera outbreak following the 2010 Haiti earthquake if other funding could not be secured?
... that the Sursock Purchases represented almost a quarter of all land purchased by Jews in Palestine until 1948?
... that ballerina Miranda Weese performed the lead role in a televised performance of Swan Lake under an hour's notice, with a partner she had never rehearsed with?
... that while the 2020 Triumph Tiger 900 shares a name with a previous model (the 1998 Tiger 900) and looks similar to its predecessor (the 2010 Tiger 800), it shares its design with neither?
... that Martin Creed's installation Work No. 227: The lights going on and off has been described as "the first truly great artwork of the twenty-first century"?
... that on the first day of the East L.A. walkouts, Vickie Castro's car was used to take down a fence at Roosevelt High School?
... that a German theologian wrote "Vertraut den neuen Wegen" to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach shortly before the fall of the Wall?
... that Rosemary Crumlin, author of a 60-year history of the Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian Sisters of Mercy?
... that within three years, American subscription television service ON TV went from boasting 725,000 subscribers in eight cities to being out of business?
... that English clergyman Wilfrid T. F. Castle wrote the first book-length account of the postal history of Cyprus?
... that in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "A Transfer", Arthur Schopenhauer's hedgehog's dilemma is mentioned?
... that Len Fisher won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his research on the optimal way to dunk a biscuit?
... that most of the coastal highway Japan National Route 101 follows the path of a road originally established by the Tokugawa shogunate?
... that Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical centre of Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the Moravian congregation in Suriname?
... that after making videos on TikTok where she lip-synced Donald Trump, Sarah Cooper got a comedy special on Netflix and a TV show on CBS?
... that the Nazis at Ravensbrück killed French Resistance fighter Émilie Tillion by gas chamber for having white hair?
... that the most senior of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project, William Knox, supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at Columbia University?
... that José de la Cruz Mena, who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as "the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time"?
... that in State v. Linkhaw, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation"?
... that although used as the weather vane of a church, the Söderala vane was probably originally made for a Viking ship?
... that Carter Hart is the youngest goaltender in Philadelphia Flyers history to record a shutout, doing so at the age of 21 years and 57 days?
... that a song of God's presence, written in 1965 in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis, became part of the first common German Catholic hymnal, and was retained in the second by popular demand?
... that in September 2020, two labor unions both performed strike actions against the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago?
... that irked by the immense gap in gender-focused digital storytelling from both Sudan and South Sudan, Omnia Shawkat co-founded Andariya magazine?
... that studies in occupational toxicology often focus on early effects that are more subtle than those in clinical medicine?
... that in one of Singapore's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station?
... that organist Lorin Whitney worked nights at a Lockheed Aircraft plant during World War II, while performing on a coast-to-coast radio program after his shift ended in the morning?
... that the mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre, was the first Spaniard to be awarded the Medal of Pushkin by Vladimir Putin?
... that historians do not agree on how Port Way entered the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum?
... that Lyubomir Pipkov is considered one of the founders of Bulgaria's modern professional musical establishment?
... that students from four local high schools and Rutgers University each had their chance to run New Jersey television station WRTV for a day?
... that Erich Honecker demanded that West Germany violate its own constitution by recognising East German citizenship?
... that assisted by computers, Marijn Heule helped devise a proof of Keller's conjecture in dimension seven, a 90-year-old math problem?
... that the bicolored sponge goby spends most of its life living inside sponges?
... that photographer Benedict J. Fernandez was invited several times to the home of Martin Luther King Jr. , where he was able to see him "as a man, a father, a husband"?
... that after Mary Lou Godbold announced her candidacy for the Mississippi Senate, all of the other candidates withdrew from the race?
... that when the tower of Sioux Falls radio station KISD collapsed in 1968, it narrowly missed a train motel run by the station's former owner?
... that as a fifteen-year-old student, ballerina Angelica Generosa replaced an injured schoolmate to perform a lead role in Balanchine's Stars and Stripes after two weeks of rehearsals?
... that Leonard Bernstein rediscovered his setting of Psalm 148 for voice and piano, dated 1935, in the mid-1980s, and it was first performed in 1993?
... that the Thai Supreme Court opinion concerning the murder of Jenjira Ployangunsri is often quoted on Valentine's Day?
... that a saying in Britain states that one should "never drink in a flat-roofed pub" ?
... that Eugénie Brazier was the first chef to be awarded six Michelin stars?
... that a team including bricklayers, assistant bank managers and insurance clerks defeated Coventry City in the third round of the FA Cup in 1989?
... that Ivorian politician Téné Birahima Ouattara, the brother of the country's president, is nicknamed "Photocopy" due to their similar appearance?
... that neither of the US-based authors of the 1991 book The Coming War With Japan had ever visited Japan when they wrote it?
... that when Canadian preacher Perry F. Rockwood criticized the Presbyterian church in 1947, he was ordered to recant and burn his sermons?
... that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula?
... that British novelist Noreen Riols trained agents who supported the French Resistance during World War II?
... that the wasp Sceliphron asiaticum provisions its nest with body parts of spiders?
... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zach Eflin was once traded twice in the course of 24 hours?
... that the February 2021 calving of Iceberg A-74 has provided the opportunity to study seafloor organisms that can survive 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the nearest daylight?
... that after Do Not Split received an Oscar nomination, the Chinese government reportedly told local media to downplay the awards?
... that Louis William Valentine DuBourg established his episcopal see in St. Louis because the Catholics of New Orleans would not accept his authority?
... that people in Taiwan changed their legal names to something involving salmon in order to get free sushi?
... that the rolling ball sculpture Archimedean Excogitation has almost 30 moving or sound-producing components?
... that Imago Records intended to release Kylie Minogue in the US before closing down in 1995?
... that after IFPI Taiwan established the IFPI Taiwan Charts in August 1996, the charts were noted for having their own World Wide Web site?
... that the music video for St. Vincent's song "Pay Your Way in Pain" recalls the 1970s downtown New York, taking inspiration from the works of Kate Bush, David Bowie, and Cindy Sherman?
... that "Christians, awake, salute the happy morn" is a hymn based on a poem that John Byrom first presented "For Dolly"?
... that an article headlined "(Almost) Straight Outta Compton" led to Prince Harry's communications secretary issuing a public statement denouncing "racist" and "sexist" commentary about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex?
... that the 2003 spy thriller The Hero: Love Story of a Spy was Priyanka Chopra's first Bollywood film?
... that singer-songwriter Lupita Infante advocates for women's empowerment through her traditional norteño and ranchera music?
... that the dual circulation policy calls for China to prioritize domestic consumption while remaining open to international trade?
... that Masako Yashiro was one of the earliest female artists to create Japanese boys' comics?
... that the series finale of Schitt's Creek was written in three hours by co-creator Daniel Levy?
... that Alice Saxby was nurse in charge of an officer's wing at Botleys during the Second World War and cared for many casualties from the Normandy landings?
... that in 2000, the Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani threatened to sell JFK and LaGuardia airports to BAA USA owned by a British company?
... that Mark Cullen was named as League Two Player of the Month for October 2014 after scoring a perfect hat-trick?
... that former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1997?
... that in his 1898 painting The Annunciation , Henry Ossawa Tanner uses a column of light to depict the angel Gabriel?
... that Jacquie Sturm was the first Māori writer to have her work published in a New Zealand anthology?
... that Green Bullfrog featured members of Deep Purple, Procol Harum and Chas & Dave?