derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the play-by-mail game Starweb, first published in 1976, is still available today through postal mail or email?
... that Mack Trucks adopted the Bulldog as its corporate logo after World War I British soldiers nicknamed the Mack AC the "Bulldog", a reference to the model's tenacity and stub nose?
... that Aaron Martin missed his penalty kick in the longest penalty shoot-out in English professional football history?
... that there are tens of thousands of Polish proverbs, the oldest known of which dates to the year 1407?
... that the Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531, Antonio Vivaldi's only concerto for two cellos, begins unusually with the two soloists entering alone in fast imitation?
... that Robert M. Briggs won re-election to the Wisconsin State Assembly by promising Beetown a double-track railway that was "like two rows of brass buttons on a double-breasted vest"?
... that when England moved to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, a delegation met at Stuyvesant Farm to negotiate the Articles of Surrender?
... that Abraham O. Woodruff married a second wife 11 years after his father, Wilford Woodruff, issued the 1890 Manifesto that banned the practice of plural marriage?
... that Brookside character Margaret Clemence was featured in a female same-sex kiss that was rebroadcast during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that following the Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage, the President of France promised to return African artworks looted during colonial times?
... that the WandaVision episode "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience" employed a variety of live special effects such as wire rigs to emulate television series of the 1950s and 1960s?
... that despite not initially being selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, British equestrian Georgia Wilson won two bronze medals at the Games?
... that Niccolò Paccanari was sentenced to a decade in prison by the Inquisition for mismanaging the religious congregation he founded?
... that four Altars for Peace, fashioned out of large trees by George Nakashima, have been placed on different continents?
... that Soviet scientist Mikhail Ioffe was not allowed to collect the Atoms for Peace Award because he was seen to be too friendly with western scientists?
... that photographers in Saint Paul, Minnesota, sold thousands of cartes-de-visite of "Old Betz" , a Dakota woman who they said was 120 years old?
... that Noliwe Rooks coined the term "segrenomics" to describe a system of separate, segregated, and unequal education created by the privatization and deregulation of American public education?
... that extreme event attribution estimates how much climate change causes weather events, such as the 2021 Western North America heat wave?
... that the great hall of Dowhill Castle had a hatch in its floor leading to a pit used as a prison?
... that Michael Barredo campaigned for Filipino athletes competing in disabled sports to receive government incentives?
... that Kaludah was destroyed by fire in 1911, just two years after the ship was commissioned?
... that the city of Dearborn forgot about the existence of Fordson Island for several decades?
... that Monique Corzilius did not realize that she was the girl featured in the famous "Daisy" advertisement until the 2000s, when she searched for the commercial on the Internet?
... that Victorian post office official William Rundell also collected stamps in his spare time, acquiring 48 copies of the "Sydney view" stamps of New South Wales?
... that the butterfly rare skipper was only known from five rivers in the United States until sometime in the 1980s?
... that John Henry Dunn resigned from the Executive Council of Upper Canada only three weeks after his appointment, throwing away a post he had sought for 16 years, on a matter of political principle?
... that the Lithuanian town of Lyduvėnai had one of the world's largest wooden bridges?
... that the construction of the Erawan Hotel was delayed by so many mishaps that a shrine to Brahma was built to ward off ill fortune?
... that the Green Guerillas threw "seed grenades" into abandoned lots in New York City?
... that the Temple of Jupiter Apenninus near Scheggia is depicted on the Tabula Peutingeriana ?
... that the February 28 Popular Leagues would seize foreign embassies in protest against the military junta in El Salvador?
... that RTCM SC-104 allows data from different satellite navigation systems to be combined using a single format?
... that Dominican senator Anette Sanford donated half her salary to the Dominica Nurses Association during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that to animate conquistadors in Jungle Cruise, frogs were recorded in a Costa Rican forest?
... that experimental musician John Olson has been called a "sort of bizarro influencer" because of his habit of "chaotic shitposting"?
... that after the Paralympics, Gambian athlete Isatou Nyang continued to train at night, and during the day she would beg to support herself?
... that "Nun saget Dank und lobt den Herren", a 16th-century German hymn based on Psalm 118, was rewritten and shortened in the 20th century for a hymnal of the Swiss Reformed Church?
... that Devon Powers argues in Writing the Record that 1960s counter-culture music journalists Richard Goldstein and Robert Christgau acted as public intellectuals despite working outside of academia?
... that the critically endangered Menai Strait whitebeam has a population of roughly 30 individuals?
... that Headreach Island had 175 acres (71 ha) of farmland in 1923, but by 1974 was mostly marshland or underwater?
... that a temporary two-lane viaduct was built along Cross Street to replace the closed lanes during the construction of Singapore's Telok Ayer MRT station?
... that Thomas J. Hannon succeeded in having a playground in his neighborhood named after his mother?
... that British M-class destroyers such as HMS Obdurate were built to counter German ships that did not exist?
... that wushu athlete Nguyễn Thúy Hiền was voted the best Vietnamese female athlete of the 20th century?
... that after Bishop Sycamore High School lost a televised football game 58–0, it was reported that the school did not teach its students?
... that Elvira Bierbach has run an alternative medicine school for heilpraktiker in Bielefeld since 1992?
... that to portray "drunk" Vision in the WandaVision episode "Don't Touch That Dial", Paul Bettany took inspiration from Dick Van Dyke's drunk acting in The Dick Van Dyke Show?
... that Guyana MP Yvonne Fredericks-Pearson competed in archery at the Indigenous Heritage Games 2019?
... that the American Institute of Musicology has published over 650 volumes of early music since 1946?
... that the Lutheran theologian Maurus Gerner-Beuerle wrote an autobiographical work about tales and pranks from his childhood?
... that Prince Charles donated money to help repair the Cambus O' May bridge after it was badly damaged by Storm Frank in 2015?
... that Mariner 1, the United States' first interplanetary probe, was lost in 1962 due to the miscoding of a single character in its software?
... that more than fifty years after Hilde Scheppan appeared in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 1943 Bayreuth Festival, reviewer Alan Blyth called her "a dream of an Eva"?
... that in 1908, you could "throw a cat through the cracks" of the dynamite shanties on Powder House Island?
... that Jonathan Trichter, a registered Democrat, was the Republican nominee for New York State Comptroller in 2018?
... that scouring in wool is among the essential pre-treatments of textiles that prepares them for subsequent processes such as bleaching, dyeing, and printing?
... that Julio Mayora was most happy about winning his silver medal for Venezuela at the 2020 Summer Olympics because it meant the government might give his mother a house?
... that Sally Fox found a picture of a French sculptor and decided to create a picture collection of thousands of other women?
... that the Protestant Church in Borgholzhausen features a 1501 carved stone altar with scenes from the Passion of Jesus?
... that while Allen Hutt was a Communist journalist who became a Royal Designer for Industry for newspaper design, his son Sam is a doctor and country and western singer under the stage name Hank Wangford?
... that the jumping spider Plexippus petersi is widely admired for its prowess in hunting pest insects in homes?
... that the name of the Noises, a group of islands in New Zealand, is a corrupted version of Les Noisettes ("the Hazelnuts")?
... that an army commanded by Hannibal's father was saved from defeat when part of the enemy force deserted and fought alongside him?
... that the Pompey stone was believed to date to the early 1500s for over 70 years before it was revealed to be a hoax in 1894?
... that Bell Labs' TD-2 microwave-relay system was used to carry television signals and telephone calls across North America?
... that when conductor Hans Drewanz, a personal assistant to Georg Solti at the Oper Frankfurt, became Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt, he was the youngest GMD in Germany?
... that music producer Mylo briefly posted two of his rejected tracks for Kylie Minogue's tenth studio album X online, before the album release?
... that Cornelia Chase Brant was one of the first women to be appointed to the staff of a public hospital in New York City?
... that the scarlet-and-white tanager swallows small berries whole, but eats larger fruit piece by piece?
... that OpenAI Codex's use of licensed code as training data has raised questions about the copyright status of machine learning models?
... that social psychologist Lotte Bailyn, the first woman faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is an expert in work and family dynamics?
... that some music scholars have suggested that the Chaconne in G minor, widely attributed to Tomaso Antonio Vitali, is a musical hoax?
... that since he was able to cure goitre, which local shamans could not do, Naga Thein Hlaing was recognized by the Naga people as Naga Nat and worshiped as a deity?
... that Anthony "Big Tony" Ciulla had to enter the United States Federal Witness Protection Program after he testified in a trial about rigged horse races?
... that the Alfred Fischer Hall, built as the machinery hall for a 1912 coal mine, was the venue for a concert performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in 2021?
... that American historian Donald R. Hickey was referred to as "the dean of 1812 scholarship" by The New Yorker?
... that Greece won the UEFA Euro 2004 Final despite never having won a match at a previous major tournament?
... that the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the probable cause of the 2014 Bedford Gulfstream IV crash was the flight crew's failure to perform the flight-control check before takeoff?
... that the last commanding officer of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Charlie Aust, described himself as "seedy moustache, glasses and intensely ugly" so soldiers knew how to identify him?
... that the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn , a symphony orchestra founded and conducted by Heribert Beissel, has a tradition of playing a series of concerts at more than ten major halls in Germany?
... that criminologist Herschel Prins found in 1993 that young black men at Broadmoor Hospital were often stereotyped as "big, black and dangerous"?
... that director Steve Kloves was reluctant to cast Beau Bridges as the brother of Jeff Bridges's character in The Fabulous Baker Boys because he thought it sounded like "a gimmick"?
... that Muhammad Sadiq's photographs were the first ever taken of the Islamic holy sites in Mecca and Medina?
... that a resolution introduced into the Nebraska Legislature by Joni Albrecht praised Julie Schmit-Albin as "never one to let a public official waffle on pro-life legislation"?
... that the birdfoot buttercup is found on three continents, mostly in the Arctic zone?
... that the cast and crew of the zombie film Junk, which made use of real meat for its gore effects, were sometimes unable to stomach meat for dinner after spending hours filming?
... that when it was sold in 2002, a painting of the Ojibwe performer Maungwudaus was the second-most expensive artwork ever sold in Canada?
... that distance education in Chicago Public Schools in 1937 took place via radio broadcasts during school closures that were spurred by a polio outbreak?
... that a review by Alan Blyth of tenor Christoph Strehl's performances described him as singing "with a Wunderlich-like strength and beauty"?
... that South Carolina's first television station, WCOS-TV, "could not stand the economic gaff" and folded less than three years after starting up?
... that Wayward Son was described as "a delirious candy-coated romp"?
... that due to a left–right mix-up, Barry Joule destroyed the wrong Francis Bacon painting, which would now be worth around £35 million?
... that "the most accurate contemporary picture of conditions" on slave ships is an illustration of the Marie Séraphique ?
... that places of worship in the English district of East Hampshire include the Temple of the White Eagle Lodge—likened to "an Art Deco version of the Pantheon"?
... that Bill Pinkney was the first African American to sail around the world solo via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn?
... that after decades of being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island's population was reduced to a caretaker and his two dogs?
... that New Zealand choreographer and dancer Louise Potiki Bryant was coated in clay by sculptor Paerau Corneal in their interdisciplinary work Kiri?
... that Bessie Anstice Baker , a convert to Catholicism, was the first Australian woman to receive a Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal?
... that Characteres generum plantarum, a work about the botany of the second voyage of James Cook, contains an apology for only including 75 new genera?
... that the medieval rood of Ramsåsa Church was discovered in the church attic at the beginning of the 20th century?
... that Rhodesians continued to raise the Union Jack to celebrate Pioneers' Day every 12 September, even after adopting a new flag, in order to honour the original pioneers?
... that Suzanna Hext chose to compete in swimming rather than equestrian at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics?
... that as documented in The Presidential Vote, 1896–1932, fewer than a quarter of the United States' counties voted for the same party in every presidential election from 1896 to 1932?
... that the Ming-dynasty novella The Jealous Wife might have been written by the "Master of the Doctrine of Subduing Women"?
... that after being hijacked, United Airlines Flight 175 almost had two mid-air collisions with other aircraft before crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center ?
... that Joe Hill, the last opera by Alan Bush, contains four songs by the real Joe Hill?
... that after Michele Anne Harris disappeared 20 years ago today, her husband was tried four times for her murder before being acquitted?
... that Plevna in Tampere, Finland, was the first building in the Nordic countries and the Russian Empire (of which Finland was part at the time) to be lit by electric lights?
... that American journalist and activist Clara Leiser traveled to Nazi Germany frequently, and documented the plight of families of political prisoners?
... that the New Zealand tree tarahinau has evolved to develop thinner leaves as it matures, probably as a result of the high winds of the Chatham Islands?
... that Joe Murphy's civil-engineering firm was known colloquially as "Grey Murphy" to distinguish it from that of his brother, which was known as "Green Murphy"?
... that Fraser Patrick likened playing in the 2019 Q School to being in a boxing match with Anthony Joshua?
... that Thomas Lord Busby's portrait of the busker Billy Waters inspired Derby and Staffordshire figures?
... that women originally had the right to vote in New Jersey thanks to its constitution until an 1807 act removed that right?
... that Leo Kestenberg, a concert pianist, initiated a large-scale reform of music education in Prussia, but had to flee the Nazis first to Prague and then to Tel Aviv?
... that the Banjul sector Half Die was reportedly given its name due to an epidemic outbreak in the 19th century?
... that Team San Juan became the first champion of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour in 2012?
... that during the American Civil War, Charles K. Prioleau made a fortune by smuggling arms to the Confederacy on board the blockade runner Bermuda?
... that King Edward's Place, once a love nest for King Edward VII, later became a children's activity centre?
... that Tanz im August, an annual international festival of contemporary dance in Berlin, was founded by Nele Hertling in 1988?
... that 18-year-old George McCubbin piloted the aircraft that shot down German ace Max Immelmann in 1916?
... that the Chevelon Creek Bridge, built in Arizona in 1912–1913, was part of one of America's first national highways?
... that the ceramicist Franz Josef Altenburg was honoured with an exhibition of his art at Austria's Kaiservilla where he was born?
... that a television in the film Day of Reckoning includes scenes from Big Ass Spider!?
... that the Southern Lebanese villages of Safad El Battikh, Kafra and Ayta al-Jabal were mentioned in 1596 Ottoman tax records?
... that the Harvard step test, developed by Lucien Brouha in 1942, is still used as a reference when developing fitness tests?
... that actual play shows have helped to improve the representation of women, people of color, and LGBT people in tabletop gaming?
... that sumo wrestler Shōnanzakura Sōta had a record 104 consecutive losses?
... that the Beach Boys' song "Rollin' Up to Heaven" had a chorus that consisted of the lines "alley-oop", "fuck her", and "big tits"?
... that Franček Gorazd Tiršek, a para-shooter from Slovenia, won three silver medals at the Summer Paralympic Games, the most recent one in Tokyo?
... that the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series WandaVision was structured to follow the five stages of grief by starting with denial and ending with acceptance?
... that Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Baronet's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all slave traders?
... that when the National Museum of Vanuatu opened its new building in 1995, a specially selected pig was sacrificed?
... that "one of early Australia's biggest manhunts" was organized to catch Chinese Australian bushranger Sam Poo?
... that Dutch radio and TV presenter Hanneke Kappen presented the second Dutch radio show dedicated to heavy metal music?
... that the fringe belief of serpent seed claims that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and their offspring was Cain?
... that Angelo Tsarouchas nearly abandoned his hopes of being a comedian because his wife at the time thought it was a bad idea?
... that the 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, about African-American teenager Emmett Till's murder in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, contributed to the case being reopened?
... that some protesters in the 2021 London Impossible Rebellion dressed as bankers with blood on their hands?
... that after Viola Roseboro' suggested Willa Cather rewrite My Ántonia completely, Cather may have based the novel My Mortal Enemy on her?
... that a Socialist Youth League candidate in the 1990 Bosnian general election registered his ethnicity as 'Eskimo' as an apparent protest against ethnic registry requirements for candidates?
... that the protest initiative Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the Right) was awarded a prize for civil courage by the Central Council of Jews in Germany?
... that the Noh play Haku Rakuten is parodied in a woodblock print ?
... that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus?
... that the fungal infection conidiobolomycosis mainly affects people living in tropical areas but was first reported in horses in Texas?
... that racing driver James Sofronas worked as a salesman for a technology company to buy the Nissan NX 2000 required for his first competitive race?
... that a track on Maxïmo Park's album Nature Always Wins is about Nick Alexander, the band's former merchandiser who was killed in the Bataclan concert hall attack?
... that Alfred Koerppen, who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover, wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil?
... that the Silver Deer of Bilge Khan, a 7th-century artifact, is recognized by the Mongolian government as being of "invaluable heritage"?
... that the Torreya Guardians are trying to save the critically endangered North American conifer Torreya taxifolia from extinction?
... that Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas played a key role in the fledgling women's movement in Peru in the early 20th century?
... that in the upcoming video game Marvel's Midnight Suns, players will be able to create their own superhero in the Marvel Universe?
... that the WHO model list of essential in vitro diagnostics provides guidance to medical personnel on which tests to perform?
... that Samuel Powel Griffitts was advised to take three months of dancing lessons as part of his European medical training?
... that Thomas Fairfax, Lord General of the New Model Army, resigned his commission rather than invade Scotland in 1650?
... that Brijmohan Lall Munjal grew Hero Cycles from a parts manufacturer into the world's largest bicycle company?
... that according to legend, Malan Bridge was built by two mythical princesses who mixed egg shells with clay to create a bridge stronger than steel?
... that Aaron Pike has competed in wheelchair racing at three Summer Paralympics, and in both biathlon and cross-country skiing at two Winter Paralympics?
... that the opening of Geistliches Lied by Johannes Brahms possibly references Clara Schumann's fantasy of playing her husband's music on the organ?
... that Horace Harral engraved "one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century", a portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for publication in the Illustrated Times?
... that bishop Nikolaj Velimirović called Sevastijan Dabović the greatest Serbian missionary of modern times?
... that the counting-out rhyme "One potato, two potato" is more than 135 years old?
... that thousands of people who fled Burundi have taken refuge in Rwanda's Mahama Refugee Camp, but only one has competed in the Paralympics?
... that the owner of the Solow Building tried to evict the Bank of America under a law normally used for evicting drug dealers and prostitutes?
... that Germany's players sang "Three Lions" after winning the UEFA Euro 1996 Final?
... that Naoki Saito is a contributing artist of both the Duel Masters Trading Card Game and the Pokémon Trading Card Game?
... that the Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections calculates that every year, severe fungal infections affect more than 300 million people?
... that Martin Perscheid published more than 4,300 cartoons, exploring "abysses of sexism, racism, ignorance, corruption and stupidity"?
... that one of the first activities of The Coloured Women's Club of Montreal was to help veterans returning from the Second Boer War in South Africa?
... that Columbia Eneutseak , named for the World's Columbian Exposition where she was born into one of the exhibits, starred in her film The Way of the Eskimo?
... that the director of the horror film Camera Obscura was inspired to write the screenplay after one of his co-workers was not allowed to take pictures in South America due to locals believing "it would steal their souls"?
... that Harry Kent managed his family's garden nursery after winning New Zealand's first Commonwealth Games gold medal in cycling and first world track championships medal?
... that to rebuild the collection of Tāoga Niue Museum in the aftermath of Cyclone Heta, staff searched through rubbish dumps for historic items?
... that Paul Armin Edelmann appeared in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Opera Ireland in 2009, while his brother Peter took the role of Leporello?
... that a separated couple competed against each other for the first time at the 2021 British Open?