derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Gian Marco's Días Nuevos, the best-selling album of 2011 in Perú, was the first quintuple platinum awarded by Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos?
... that the now-closed Dinosaur Wildlife museum exhibited three fox squirrels posed to fight in a boxing ring?
... that before Carnegie Hall Tower was built, pianos at Carnegie Hall were carried up staircases because the hall did not have a freight elevator?
... that the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan was Hamlet's Ophelia in the Bregenz Festival's revival of Franco Faccio's revived opera Amleto?
... that taking St John's wort can weaken the effects of the blood thinner phenprocoumon?
... that Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov, the head of an organisation helping people escape repression following the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, was aware of risks to his life before he was found dead?
... that both finalists at the 2008 World Snooker Championship made maximum breaks during the tournament?
... that IMF economist Tobias Adrian helped devise CoVaR, a method used to stress-test banks after the Great Recession?
... that in 1999 two necklaces were repatriated to the Cook Islands National Museum from a museum in Angus, Scotland?
... that following World War II, members of Bangkok's British Club were able to reclaim their building thanks to a mortgage that helped preserve its land deeds?
... that Joachim Werzlau composed the music for the DEFA films Naked Among Wolves and Jacob the Liar?
... that the name of the robot Jet Alone, which first appeared in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "A Human Work", is a reference to Jet Jaguar (also known as Red Alone) from Godzilla vs. Megalon?
... that Franc Pinter, a para-shooter from Slovenia, competes at his eighth Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo?
... that Singapore's Nicoll Highway MRT station had to be relocated as a result of a 2004 tunnel collapse near the station?
... that when Texas radio station KNUE was sold to another station in 1982, the new owners added a second story to their newly constructed studios to accommodate the addition?
... that more than 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain was recorded in northern Turkey on 11 August 2021, causing catastrophic flooding?
... that Fatykha Aitova agreed to marry her husband on the condition that he help her construct a school?
... that Megan Phelps-Roper announced her departure from the Westboro Baptist Church when the church planned to protest at the funerals of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting?
... that In the Ditch (1972) is based on the experiences of writer Buchi Emecheta, and deals with the systemic violence faced by working-class women in Britain at the time?
... that Sjerstin Vermeulen has won Paralympic medals in swimming and equestrian?
... that the sea urchin Echinocyamus pusillus turns bright green when injured?
... that Tory MP John Solomon Cartwright refused a request by the governor-general of the Province of Canada to join the government, because he would not sit in Cabinet with radical Francis Hincks?
... that New Zealand opera singer Helen Medlyn's first performing role was as one of the Three Kings?
... that when the Irish Bronze Age Gleninsheen gorget was found in 1930 by a local hunting rabbits, he brought the "queer looking thing" to his uncle, who would not let it be kept in his house?
... that Evelyn van Leeuwen won a wheelchair basketball silver medal at the 1996 Paralympics and twenty years later she won a bronze at the 2016 Games?
... that the New York Times bestseller Fablehaven was written by Brandon Mull following the rejection of his first manuscript?
... that the slave trader William James left for his country retreat before rioting sailors ransacked his home?
... that the architect of 275 Madison Avenue did not include much exterior decoration because he wanted the building to be "shadow-less"?
... that Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva fell in love with Brajesh Singh, whom she considered her husband although they were never allowed to marry?
... that the comb jelly Beroe gracilis feeds on other comb jellies, swallowing them whole?
... that Meme Man is used in many surreal memes, a genre of internet humor inspired by surrealism?
... that seventeen-year-old Julie Hayden was killed by members of the White Man's League days after starting a position teaching Black children, and became "the poster child of southern violence"?
... that Klaus Storck recorded Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on original instruments, with Alfons Kontarsky at the hammerflügel?
... that German paracyclist Bernd Jeffré may have lost his 2010 Berlin Marathon race because he ignored his wife and did not wear enough clothes?
... that ice hockey coach Dave Siciliano designed his team's dressing room so that players could "look [their] teammates directly in the eye"?
... that some philosophers of mathematics believe that the life cycle of a species of cicadas is a good argument for the existence of numbers?
... that Julie Schmit-Albin was awarded the title of Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska for her work as a pro-life activist?
... that a group of feminists placed the Women Who Fight anti-monument on a pedestal on which a statue of Christopher Columbus formerly stood?
... that championship belt designer Reggie Parks, whose work was used by WWE, UFC, and Madonna, was the first wrestling opponent of future NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Dusty Rhodes?
... that the 2020 documentary film Gather, which explores Native American efforts for food sovereignty and reclamation of ancestral foodways, was named a Critic's Pick by The New York Times?
... that Chen Wenxin discovered that planting legumes and grasses together can increase yield?
... that radio station KWKC dropped its application for a TV station in order to speed the arrival of television to Abilene, Texas, which would otherwise have been 89th in line?
... that Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, a motet by Telemann, was performed and recorded in 2017 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation?
... that the Initial IMO Strategy on the reduction of GHG emissions from ships envisions the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport by the end of the century?
... that Elaine Estes, the first African American director of the Des Moines Public Library, holds a patent on her parents' barbecue sauce?
... that porcelain cabinet cups were especially lavish pieces intended to be displayed in a china cabinet rather than used?
... that during her early career, ballerina Indiana Woodward danced the lead role in La Sylphide, replacing an injured dancer?
... that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
... that a 1997 whooping cough outbreak in part led to the establishment of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance in Australia?
... that Jacob Wohl was banned for life by the National Futures Association when he was only 19 years old?
... that the Myanmar Coast Guard was initially proposed as a civilian law enforcement agency before being established as a branch of the military three years later?
... that after watching Matilda the Musical, Mattea Conforti complained that she could have starred in the title role?
... that the Inglis Bridge in Monmouth, Wales, is the only known example in Britain of an Inglis bridge that is still in public use?
... that Greg Dulcich is a former walk-on whose first touchdown with UCLA was about three miles (4.8 km) from his high school?
... that Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone houses the first semiconductor fabrication plant in Borneo?
... that CCH Pounder, who guest starred in The West Wing's "Celestial Navigation", was almost selected for the main role of C. J. Cregg?
... that Angela Diaz was accepted into Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons despite not taking the standard medical school exams or paying the $15 application fee?
... that Kaczyzm is a pejorative term describing the political ideology of Polish politicians Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński and their Law and Justice party?
... that 701,133 flags were planted on the National Mall as a memorial to Americans who have died of COVID-19?
... that the lions supporting the coat of arms of the Football Association are half-blue and half-white in imitation of the blue shorts and white shirts worn by the national teams?
... that Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
... that Max Wallraf replaced Paul Löbe as President of the Reichstag for a few months in 1924–25?
... that according to legend, the god of wisdom Odin was tricked by his own wife, and her priestess Gambara, to give victory to Gambara's tribe?
... that the Statutes Fair in Burton upon Trent has been held annually since 1219?
... that Ralph Page once called a contra dance for more than 4000 people in Tokyo, despite not knowing Japanese?
... that Wernher von Braun claimed that General Samuel C. Phillips was the man most responsible for putting the pieces of the Apollo program together and making them work?
... that when La Folia Barockorchester made the first recordings of anonymous violin concertos found in the Dresden Hofkirche, they chose not to discover the identity of the composers?
... that in 1943, the United States Army conducted a large-scale battle near Stauffer, Oregon, as part of the Oregon Maneuver training exercise preparing troops for combat in World War II?
... that Susan Chitty's memoir on her mother, Antonia White, was viewed as a "literary assassination" when published?
... that the small tree Homalanthus nutans is a pioneer species, readily colonising disturbed ground?
... that Arkansas legislator Denise Jones Ennett took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol?
... that an Australian state premier said he would be taking a spear to meetings on a tax-distribution dispute?
... that interest in meme stocks has given rise to what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has called a "meme stocks phenomenon"?
... that In Freundschaft was composed in friendship by Karlheinz Stockhausen as a clarinet solo for Suzanne Stephens , and later adapted to the instruments of other friends?
... that Zeb Noland was named the starting quarterback for the South Carolina Gamecocks despite being on the coaching staff?
... that A Passage North, which is shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, is set in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War?
... that Eberhard Panitz wrote his novel, My Father's Tram, with autobiographic elements around his father—a tram conductor in Dresden?
... that Digital pulled their HiNote Ultra laptop out of a manila envelope on television nearly 15 years before Apple did the same?
... that pollen study was needed to clarify the identity of a Dipteronia brownii fossil?
... that a tenant of the Bryant Park Studios once tried to evict their landlord from the building's top floor?
... that George Fan , the designer of Plants vs. Zombies, was fired from PopCap Games after its acquisition by EA?
... that the 12th-century Lismore Crozier was rediscovered, along with the 15th-century Book of Lismore, in a concealed doorway in Ireland's Lismore Castle in 1814?
... that a 1999 self-portrait made by William Utermohlen while suffering from Alzheimer's disease took nearly two years to complete?
... that the liana Ancistrocladus korupensis contains a substance able to inhibit HIV viral replication?
... that a brief in Lum v. Rice was so badly written that Justice Louis Brandeis asked Felix Frankfurter to find a lawyer whom the Supreme Court could appoint to argue the Lums' case?
... that the 1981 execution of Werner Teske was the final use of the death penalty in Germany?
... that when Dan Quayle announced his 2000 presidential campaign, Larry King congratulated him by telling him "you're not a joke like you once were"?
... that the first successful Mars rover, Sojourner , was named after the Civil War era African-American abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth?
... that a Chinese corruption investigation into Gao Yan has been interpreted as a political move against Li Peng, then second-in-command of the Communist Party of China?
... that a 1917 explosion broke the SS Fernebo in two, with one part drifting ashore carrying six survivors?
... that Facebook's outage on October 4, 2021, also cut off the company's internal communications, preventing employees from sending or receiving external emails or logging in to Zoom?
... that Jackie Collins likened nightclub owner Johnny Gold, not unkindly, to "an old whore"?
... that United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wrote an essay in 2000 on Bernie Sanders, his future competitor in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries?
... that Singaporean activist Thum Ping Tjin called the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act an attempted coup?
... that Kenneth Lawson, who was disbarred after dealing with addiction, teaches subjects including professional responsibility at the William S. Richardson School of Law?
... that Gladue courts, part of Ontario's court system, apply distinctive principles when sentencing Indigenous offenders?
... that Singapore's Upper Thomson MRT station is decorated with 88 animal figures, most of which are crab-eating macaques?
... that Albert Einstein was hired as a technical expert during the gyrocompass patent dispute between Anschütz and Elmer Ambrose Sperry?
... that in 1929, the world press proclaimed Teleilat el Ghassul to be the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, but Father Alexis Mallon, the site's excavator, disagreed?
... that Africae Tabula Nova depicts the Niger River passing underground for about 60 miles (97 km), in accordance with a Latin legend?
... that David Bowie wrote his 1971 track "Life on Mars?" as a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way"?
... that the platform shelters in the redevelopment concept design for Bayswater railway station, Perth, were criticised for looking like a trestle table?
... that when the Rhodesian Guard Force was disbanded in 1980, Brigadier Bill Godwin advised his men to fade away?
... that inside a building, the desert subterranean termite can form free-standing tubes descending from the ceiling?
... that cosmetologist Pauline Brown Humphrey opened a beauty shop for African-American women in the Women's Army Corps in Fort Des Moines?
... that the Cathedral of Nocera Umbra probably rests on the foundations of a temple dedicated to the goddess Favonia?
... that watching Tacoma, Washington's KTVW "used to be worse than no TV at all"?
... that taxidermist Harry Brazenor mounted the Salford tiger in 1914?
... that reconstruction of Nebraska's Interstate 180 was disrupted by the discovery of nesting migratory birds?
... that Johan Zulch de Villiers was the first mayor of Johannesburg until Johannesburg's surrender during the Second Boer War?
... that Life with Father was the first network television series originating in Hollywood that was broadcast in color?
... that Māori fiction written in English, now a key part of New Zealand literature, only emerged in the 1950s?
... that the Frente de Liberación Homosexual viewed all forms of oppression as interconnected, and believed that homosexuality was subversive because it challenged patriarchy?
... that reporter O. Kay Henderson, who has interviewed U.S. presidential candidates, is considered by national media to be an Iowa political authority?
... that Frederick Marten Hale designed the bomb that brought down Zeppelin LZ 37 in mid-flight on 7 June 1915?
... that "The Supremes" was said to have foreseen the conflict following the death of Antonin Scalia, twelve years later?
... that since the formation of the United Democratic Alliance, Nagaland has had no parliamentary opposition?
... that Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe, an organization promoting human rights, for more than twenty years, despite holding political prisoners and rigging elections?
... that in Magic Desk I, the icons within the main screen for the phone, the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the Rolodex do nothing?
... that the Temagami River in Ontario, Canada, is an outstanding water route with twenty sets of whitewater rapids rated CI to CIII?
... that rebel leader Sam Magara was killed when he ventured into a city to visit a dentist?
... that within a year after the first Black Student Union was founded at San Francisco State College in March 1966, it had a presence at every state college in California?
... that a flat in London's Basil Street was the scene of the first meetings that led to Monty Python's Flying Circus?
... that Australian religious sister Bridget Partridge fled her convent in 1920 dressed only in her nightgown, precipitating a national sectarian scandal?
... that Philip Michael Thomas compared himself to Santa Claus upon releasing his album Living the Book of My Life?
... that Iggy Pop's second studio album Lust for Life was written, recorded, and mixed in eight days?
... that IBM originally designed the Palm Top PC 110 to be closer in shape to a VHS cassette but narrowed it when testers kept using their thumbs to type?
... that archaeologist Giuseppe Scarabelli made the only complete excavation of a Bronze Age village in Italy?
... that M. Night Shyamalan's Old is based on a Swiss graphic novel that the filmmaker received as a Father's Day gift?
... that two feet-one hand syndrome is the combination of two athlete's feet and fungus in one hand?
... that philosopher George Pitcher adopted a stray dog and her puppy that he took everywhere, including on a trip to France aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2?
... that the Steel River, in Northern Ontario, Canada, is one of the few rivers along Lake Superior's north shore never used for log drives?
... that the 1887 execution of George Flaxman may have inspired Rudyard Kipling's poem "Danny Deever"?
... that "every chapter" of the 1823 novel Seventy-Six is said to be "covered with blood, or heaving with the throes of lacerated flesh"?
... that the title of La Passion selon Sade, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti , caused a scandal at its premiere and had to be changed for the next performance?
... that Fernhill House has been home to a butter merchant, an Ulster Volunteer Force armoury, a Grand National-winning racehorse and the world's largest collection of Orange Order memorabilia?
... that 100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials, Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work?
... that the Tenantry Column was built by the tenants of the Duke of Northumberland as thanks for a rent reduction?
... that the Iraqi paramilitary organisation Saraya Awliya al-Dam has a Telegram account?
... that Sharri MacDonald was removed from the Old Orchard Beach City Council after a controversial 4–3 vote put the entire council up for recall?
... that the Antlers' 2021 album Green to Gold was made after lead singer Peter Silberman suffered temporary total hearing loss and lesions on his vocal cords?
... that the Jersey Maritime Museum displays a 7.5-million-stitch tapestry depicting life under Nazi occupation that was worked on by thousands of islanders?
... that the 1940 NCAA Basketball Championship Game began a run of three straight NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament title games held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri?
... that the Alma Mater statue at Columbia University was damaged by an explosion during student protests in 1970?
... that Congolese rebel leader André Kisase Ngandu criticised his Rwandan allies to such an extent that they were probably responsible for his murder?
... that in 2020, Border Violence Monitoring Network published the Black Book of Pushbacks documenting human rights violations against 12,654 migrants traveling on the Balkan route?
... that as secretary of the NAACP, May Childs Nerney has been credited with "laying the fundamental groundwork" for "the most powerful organization battling racial injustice"?
... that a club set up tennis courts on the roof of St. John's Terminal after broker William J. Hirschman spotted the suitable space from a helicopter?
... that more than 22,000 earthquakes occurred in the eight days before the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption ?
... that English netball player Sophie Drakeford-Lewis was once the highest ranked British youth tennis player?
... that artist-activist group Suohpanterror remixed the "We Can Do It!" Rosie the Riveter poster to signify Sámi feminism?
... that Charles IV commanded the significant expansion of the fishponds of the Třeboň Basin "so that the kingdom would abound in fish and mist"?
... that when Gene Scott was forced to close San Francisco TV station KVOF-TV, he called its successor "the Tower of Babel religious brigade"—then proceeded to buy air time on it?
... that the Railroad and Bank Building was built with six miles (9.7 km) of pneumatic tubes used to send items anywhere within the building in under ten seconds?
... that in the Kelmscott Press's acclaimed Complete Works of Chaucer, illustrator Burne-Jones depicts a house "made of twigges" in an unusually literal style?
... that the World War I memorial in Pierson, Iowa, was rededicated in 2018 by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library?
... that in September 2021, the England national netball team won a series in New Zealand for the first time?
... that in the 2017 case Bayev and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian laws against "promotion of homosexuality" violate freedom of speech?
... that Kanye West performed "Heartless" with altered lyrics at a youth ball for Barack Obama's first inauguration?
... that Elizabeth Laurie Rees was the only woman to lead devotions at the 1928 World Baptist Congress in Toronto?
... that while Alexander Hamilton may not have broken the tie in the election of 1800, he did break the tie in "The Election of 1800"?
... that Shawnee leader John Lewis often wore a "peace medal" given to him by U.S. president Thomas Jefferson?
... that Salu was one of seven cotton cloths explicitly mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari, together with Khasa, Tansukh, Doriya, Bafta, Dupatta, and Panchtoliya?
... that anti–Vietnam War protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in 1968, causing the equivalent of US$18 million in financial losses?
... that anti-apartheid activist Sonny Venkatrathnam smuggled a copy of the Complete Works of Shakespeare into the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison covering it with old Deepavali greeting cards?
... that The Bees Army, a Saudi opposition movement, was supported by Jamal Khashoggi?
... that women's basketball Hall of Famers Chris Dailey and Geno Auriemma are in their 37th season of coaching the UConn Huskies together?
... that Allen Ravenstine, who used a synthesizer to emulate the sound of an airplane's engine on "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", later became an airline pilot?
... that KNUZ-TV produced a remote telecast from the HMS Sheffield when it visited Houston?
... that Hoodoo Volcano formed largely under glacial ice in the last 100,000 years?
... that Waka Nathan was nicknamed "the Black Panther" by a French newspaper reporter who was impressed by his ability to pursue opponents like the animal?
... that the 1974 song "Manchmal feiern wir mitten im Tag" claims that we sometimes celebrate resurrection in the middle of a day?
... that William Henry Vanderbilt spent US$2 million on the lavishly designed Triple Palace, but his son found the decor unfashionable?
... that African American Ivory Winston sang for President Harry S. Truman's birthday and was "Iowa's First Lady of Song"?
... that yellowtail flounders are able to camouflage and mimic the seafloor?
... that the Rhodesian Guard Force was often implicated in criminal activity against the villagers it was meant to protect?
... that Whoopee Camp, the developer of Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return, dissolved while making their next game?
... that the perpetrators of the Kennin Rebellion surrendered when one of their commanders, a female samurai, was wounded?
... that Max Creutz, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld from 1922, acquired modern art including a painting by Max Ernst and a large collection of Bauhaus creations?