derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Kanye West's "24" was recorded in tribute to Kobe Bryant a few days after his death?
... that the subdistrict of Komet in Banjarbaru was named after Komet Windpump?
... that after the NCAA vacated their national championship in men's lacrosse, Syracuse made a new trophy without the NCAA logo?
... that calypsonian Kenny J was best known for his "well-crafted, risqué parang soca contributions"?
... that the Corozal was the most powerful dredger ever built when she was launched in 1911 to work on the Panama Canal?
... that as a youth, Jim Johannson handed out shoes and jackets to ice hockey players on the United States national team, then later became general manager of the team?
... that a statue of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was installed despite his opposition to cults of personality?
... that Beverly Russell's 1992 book Women of Design: Contemporary American Interiors was the first survey of female interior designers?
... that two versions of Embrace Again were released, one in Standard Mandarin and another in the Wuhan dialect?
... that the medieval Looe Bridge had 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18 arches?
... that Japanese voice actress Kaori Maeda cites Mister Donut fortune-telling as one of her hobbies?
... that the 28th Virginia battle flag is stored at an undisclosed location in the Minnesota Historical Society, and has not been returned to Virginia despite multiple requests across three centuries?
... that after first alerting authorities to the Omicron variant in South Africa, bioinformatician Tulio de Oliveira insisted that its origin is unknown?
... that the 1912 production of Man's Genesis was the first "primitive man" film ever made and created a prehistory film boom in the years following its release?
... that development economist John Toye said free-market proponents "first turn liberty against equality and fraternity, then overthrow liberty itself"?
... that the street from which Mississippi radio station WMPR broadcasts was renamed in honor of the station's longtime owner and general manager, former politician Charles Evers?
... that when Helena Braun visited New York "just for the trip", she sang the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre at the Metropolitan Opera with four hours' notice?
... that George H. W. Bush hated broccoli so much that he banned it from Air Force One?
... that 120 years after the founding of the world's first homosexual organization in 1897, a monument near its former headquarters was unveiled in Berlin?
... that Paul R. Howe was first on the scene in the real-life "Black Hawk Down"?
... that whilst serving as the Central African ambassador in Paris, Sylvestre Bangui held a press conference confirming that his government had massacred children and resigned?
... that the Professional Esports Association suspended its plans for a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league four months after its announcement?
... that the Irish judge Maureen Harding Clark studied Malay in Malaysia and French in France before she was appointed to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal by King Norodom Sihamoni?
... that in 2006 The New York Times described the Palácio das Cinzas, then the presidential palace of East Timor, as "a glorified bungalow really"?
... that Gloria Gould, the manager of New York City's Embassy Theatre, wanted an all-woman staff because women "were more efficient than men"?
... that Ala Stanford established the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to fight racism in medicine, vaccinating nearly 4,000 people?
... that as a result of the Röhm scandal, a Nazi became the world's first openly gay politician in 1932?
... that in 1960, Zoe Progl became the first woman to escape over the wall of HM Prison Holloway?
... that in its first two decades, the Mansfield Theatre had only two "outstanding hits", both performed by all-Black casts?
... that economist and anti-apartheid activist Vella Pillay arranged for South African revolutionaries to receive military training in the Soviet Union and China?
... that vehicles crossing Terras Bridge pass over a tidal river, an ungated level crossing, and the remains of a canal?
... that Canadian doctor James Maskalyk's book Six Months in Sudan was based on his blog?
... that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work?
... that during the 1979 Boston University strike, some striking professors carried picket signs with quotes from Paul the Apostle, William Shakespeare, and Voltaire?
... that the sea slug Aglaja tricolorata wraps its egg string around its body, forming a tangled skein?
... that Anne Emerman refused to allow Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity to convert a building in the Bronx into a homeless shelter without installing an elevator?
... that some nuisance ordinances include the forced eviction of tenants if they call for emergency services?
... that a cactus is named after Gertrude Webster, who helped found the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona?
... that Gamaliel's principle has been used to support religious pluralism and reforms within religious groups?
... that the photographer Václav Jírů was sentenced to death for resisting the German occupation of Czechoslovakia and spent years in Nazi prisons?
... that the recreation area in Cleadon contains the remains of an 18th-century grotto?
... that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?
... that the Caslon Type Foundry made metal type in London for more than two hundred years?
... that St. James AME Zion Church, the oldest known standing church in Ithaca, New York, was a site on the Underground Railroad?
... that in the lead-up to the Second World War, the British government stockpiled more than 100,000 tons of whale oil?
... that the novel Mama Dear by Christine Haidegger details her childhood in post–World War II Austria?
... that the oldest rocks of the Dharwar Craton are tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite gneisses and greenstone sequences between 3 and 3.4 billion years old?
... that George L. P. Weaver chaired the U.S. delegation to International Labour Organization conferences under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon?
... that The Lost Homestead describes how Kuldip Singh recovered her childhood "paradise", lost after India's partition, in an English country cottage?
... that Alison H. Clarkson, the majority leader of the Vermont Senate, worked as a theatrical producer and on New York Theatre Workshop's board?
... that belief that homosexuality can be acquired has motivated Nazi persecution, discriminatory age-of-consent laws, censorship of LGBT publications and employment discrimination?
... that from 1996 to 2019, Turkish Airlines operated an aircraft that would not move a meter on the ground when "she didn't feel like it"?
... that Rogelio de Egusquiza's paintings of Tristan and Isolde arose from his decades-long fascination with the works of Richard Wagner?
... that Alisha Kramer worked to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and inequity in women's health in Africa and Europe as a program coordinator for the Center for Strategic and International Studies?
... that many Germans' belief that homosexuality was a communicable disease limited the success of the first homosexual movement?
... that after New Jersey attorney general Walter D. Van Riper busted betting rooms protected by party boss Frank Hague, Hague had Van Riper charged with check kiting and black-market gasoline sales?
... that Rangoon kept its own time for more than two decades after Burma Standard Time first came into effect?
... that the book Our Hindu Rashtra claims that India is a de facto Hindu-majoritarian state?
... that Jeffrey Paparoa Holman gave himself his middle name, after the Paparoa Range?
... that Georgia radio station WMGA was so "atrocious" that its announcers would invite listeners to donate their records?
... that the number of cannonballs in a square pyramid with n {\displaystyle n} cannonballs along each edge is n ( n + 1 ) ( 2 n + 1 ) 6 {\displaystyle {\frac {n(n+1)(2n+1)}{6}}} ?
... that Thomas Binger, the lead prosecutor in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, unsuccessfully ran for district attorney of Racine County, Wisconsin, in 2016?
... that after the War of Padua, the victorious Republic of Venice executed the lord of Padua and two of his sons?
... that before the Swiss surgeon René Prêtre specialized in surgeries on children's hearts, he treated victims of gunshots and stabbings at Bellevue Hospital in New York?
... that the series of protests that led to the 2021 North Kosovo crisis was caused by a ban on Serbian license plates from the Kosovan Government?
... that Bruce Davis and his son, who both played for UCLA in college and professionally for the Raiders, are one of the few father–son duos to have played on teams that reached the Super Bowl?
... that at the 2021 Dublin Bay South by-election, voters were asked to bring their own pen or pencil?
... that the sourdough starter at Diamond Bakery is believed to be more than a century old?
... that American nurse Florence Church Bullard gave her French Croix de Guerre medal with a bronze star to the Sisters of Saint Marys, believing that her heroic deeds were a reflection of their teachings?
... that the Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 was the most important campaign of the Hundred Years' War?
... that constable Joseph Luker, the first police officer killed on duty in Australia, was a former convict?
... that Roswell, New Mexico, radio station KBIM was so successful that its owner was able to start two other stations with its profits?
... that Austrian mountaineer Franz Oppurg was the first person to achieve a solo ascent of Mount Everest, climbing alone from the South Col to the summit on 14 May 1978?
... that Broadway's Imperial Theatre, opened in 1924, was the Shubert family's 50th theater in New York City?
... that when elected as mayor, Venezuelan politician Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles did not have her own office and worked from a shopping mall?
... that the 8th-century Irish reliquary known as the Moylough Belt-Shrine was found in 1945 by a workman while cutting turf?
... that Margaret A. Mahoney, who in 1949 became the majority leader of the Ohio Senate, is still the only woman to hold the top leadership role?
... that the taxi driver in the Liverpool Women's Hospital bombing was later commended for "incredible presence of mind and bravery"?
... that American medical pioneer Isabella Coler Herb designed the Herb–Mueller apparatus to help doctors and dentists administer ether to patients?
... that Maroparque received more than 250 exotic animals that were evacuated due to the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption?
... that Frederick Thesiger was an aide-de-camp to Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes ?
... that a 1963 gas explosion in Indianapolis during a Holiday on Ice show was one of the worst disasters in Indiana history?
... that Super Mario 64 has been the subject of medical literature showing a correlation between habitual playing of 3D platformers and increased grey matter in the brain?
... that 1920s actress Susie Sutton created her own vaudeville troupe and toured her company throughout the TOBA circuit?
... that despite a 2016 commitment to channel a quarter of humanitarian aid through local aid organizations, only 2.1 percent of 2020 funding went to them?
... that composers Charles Ives, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, and Elliott Carter attended Scriabin conferences held at Katherine Ruth Heyman's loft?
... that the replacement of arts listings television show 01-for London was described as "like having to swap a bright yellow curvy Japanese sports car for a dumpy little khaki-coloured old Ford Fiesta"?
... that in 2002, a python was left in an amnesty bin at a Hawaii airport?
... that music critic Motoo Ōtaguro held private piano concerts in his own residence despite not being a professional musician?
... that Adam Kincaid of the National Republican Redistricting Trust defended lowered competition in US House elections, arguing that the changes would save the party money?
... that the National Democratic Redistricting Committee supported lawsuits in North Carolina and Ohio against alleged gerrymandering by Republicans?
... that the brutal torture and lynching of Luther Holbert in 1904 was not recognized in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice until 2018?
... that woody plant encroachment can harm the habitats of the cheetah, plains zebra and secretarybird?
... that actress Ethelyn Gibson was the first person to star in and produce a serial film that had sound?
... that the 2016 Jim Beam strike was the first labor strike in the company's history?
... that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?
... that entry to the British Royal Military Academy required the use of a drawing triangle with a completely different purpose from those used today?
... that the starfish Luidia savignyi feeds on sea urchins and starfish, swallowing its prey whole?
... that artist Marie Herndl was arrested after trying to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt about her art?
... that the Gujarati poem "Shav Vahini Ganga" criticises the Indian government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that Ken Johannson became the captain of the University of North Dakota ice hockey team despite attending the school on a football scholarship?
... that a photo shoot on the Japanese survival program Who Is Princess? was published in the magazine Popteen?
... that the first painting in Vincent van Gogh's 1889 series Reaper may have been gifted to contemporary artist Paul Gauguin?
... that Harold A. Littledale went undercover as a prisoner for his Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into the New Jersey prison system?
... that after it bombed in Canada, John Richardson removed anti-American passages from The Canadian Brothers to publish it in New York?
... that Tandiono Manu worked in a tax office, took part in guerrilla warfare and then became Minister of Agriculture?
... that a future president of the United States played halfback for the 1912 Army Cadets football team?
... that the clinical trials of British scientist Peter Pharoah helped eradicate congenital iodine deficiency syndrome (cretinism) in Papua New Guinea?
... that in 1959, the new owner of the Coronet Theatre wanted to rename the theater after his favorite playwright, Eugene O'Neill, whose widow objected?
... that China's "lipstick king", Li Jiaqi, once sold 15,000 lipsticks in five minutes in a faceoff against Alibaba Group's CEO?
... that Russian-Jewish medical student Leo Osnas won the first Cross of St. George of the First World War by saving his regiment's colours from capture ?
... that Tulsa and Old Dominion, who played in the 2021 Myrtle Beach Bowl, each had to win their final regular season game to achieve bowl eligibility?
... that the British University of Nottingham has named a building at their Jubilee Campus after Chinese Communist Party politician Xu Yafen?
... that though Broadway's Ambassador Theatre was characterized as having a "relatively lackluster career", it has hosted the same musical since 2003?
... that Alexander Wehrle was denied a move to VfB Stuttgart because his parents wanted him to focus on his studies?
... that the owner of Mississippi radio stations WGUF and WGUF-FM purposefully fell behind on his royalty payments because he did not like copyright fees?
... that Alicia Girón García was the first woman to become the director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España?
... that The New York Times described China Chalet "as if New York's art world had been transported to a Holiday Inn in the Midwest"?
... that Ladoga Skerries National Park in Russia has more than 350 species of various liverworts, hornworts and mosses?
... that Surinamese trade unionist Louis Doedel was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital by the governor-general for 43 years?
... that the 1999 video game Interplay Sports Baseball Edition 2000 used a public-address announcer while its rivals were switching to two commentators as featured on real MLB game broadcasts?
... that Austrian master metalsmith Cyril Colnik chose to close his shop rather than make armaments for World War I?
... that The New-England Courant has been noted as the first newspaper to publish a writing by Benjamin Franklin?
... that British architect Chris Wilkinson redeveloped Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments?
... that after The West Wing's live, open presidential debate episode, MSNBC polled viewers on whom they thought won?
... that Vancouver-based binner turned social entrepreneur Ken Lyotier took the 2010 Winter Olympics torch with him so that other binners could take photographs with it?
... that to promote the KiHa 80 series train , a film was made of a nine-car set on the Kawagoe, Jōban and Tōhoku Main Lines?
... that although Alfred Hitchcock rejected James P. Cavanagh's script for Psycho it contained many elements used in the final film, including the iconic shower murder scene?
... that the music hall song "Let's All Go Down the Strand", with its line "stay away from Germany, what's the good of going down the Rhine?" was popular with British soldiers during the First World War?
... that the play-by-email game TribeNet, launched in the 1980s, allows players to gameplay activities ranging from combat to beekeeping?
... that Stanton Catlin won a Grammy Award in 1965 for an essay on Mexican art?
... that in Die Schneekönigin, an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals?
... that while preparing for War Horse, theatre set designer Rae Smith spent weeks pretending to be a First World War British Army captain?
... that the first black female candidate for a major party's U.S. presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm , is largely credited for paving the way for future candidates Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
... that a federal marshal seized a car and a truck because there was no other way to satisfy a debt owed by Arkansas television station KRZB-TV?
... that Titane, the first feature film of French actress Agathe Rousselle, won the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival?
... that after many years of farming crops, Russ Island was deliberately flooded for salt farming?
... that Papuan anthropologist Marlina Flassy is the first woman to be appointed a dean at Cenderawasih University?
... that in 1969, the man from Del Monte said yes to Eldorado Electrodata?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that a recent New York Times article recommended four educational charities: Catherine Omanyo's school, Children International, Khan Academy and the Wikimedia Foundation?
... that in 18th-century England, buyers could pay to include their coat of arms in some books published by subscription?
... that American martial artist John Giordano, who taught karate to women alongside men and disabled people in the 1970s, held plays similar to kabuki theatre?
... that the villagers of Akuşağı in Turkey have used their tractors to take tourists to a local attraction?
... that the Little Cleo fishing spoon lure previously featured a scantily dressed exotic dancer?
... that "Prawo Jazdy", once considered the worst traffic violator in Ireland, is actually the Polish term for 'driving licence'?
... that the Providence and Worcester Railroad became independent in 1973 after 85 years of being leased?
... that Steve Hamas played in the National Football League and later beat two former boxing champions in the ring?
... that Makoto Soejima is the only International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalist with a perfect score to have won both the Google Code Jam and the Facebook Hacker Cup?
... that The Massachusetts Gazette was one of the few Loyalist newspapers commissioned by the British ministry for its support prior to the American Revolution?
... that before being electrocuted for his crime, Julius Morgan said that the whisky made him do it?
... that Johanna Quaas , the world's oldest competitive gymnast, did a tandem skydive from about 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) in 2016, dedicating it to Queen Elizabeth II?
... that The Betty White Show was the subject of significant controversy after Betty White refused to fire a black cast member?
... that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas?
... that When Harry Met Santa, an advert for Posten Norge featuring Santa kissing a man, commemorated 50 years since the repeal of Norway's anti-gay laws?
... that Edward M. Kirby proposed the first Pageant of Peace, to follow the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.?
... that rugby league's 2022 Challenge Cup final will take place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium instead of its traditional location of Wembley Stadium due to a scheduling conflict?
... that COVID-19 vaccine scientist Paul Duprex got his start in microbiology by experimenting with his high-school classmates' spit?
... that the Mark Hellinger Theatre has been occupied by the Times Square Church since 1989, when its then-owner said the church's five-year lease will "pass before you know it"?
... that Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll shot down a pair of Macchi L.3 seaplanes to become a flying ace?
... that the continuing influence of the Catholic Church in the politics of the Philippines means that the country lacks a divorce law?
... that Francis Bacon played in the first National Football League game and became the first NFL player to return a punt for a touchdown?
... that the Democratic Society Party was the 25th political party to be banned in Turkey since 1962?
... that when Antonia Urrejola was president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, her vice presidents were women as well?
... that the pictogram of Zapotitlán metro station depicts an indented sapote tree as the word tlantli means 'tooth' in Nahuatl?
... that the completion of Interstate 205 in Oregon was delayed to mitigate air and noise pollution for a jail that closed a few months later?
... that Nothgottes , a pilgrimage destination in the Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of Cistercians from Vietnam?
... that American engineering manager Jack Lemley, credited with rescuing the Channel Tunnel project, flew over 7 million miles (11 million kilometres) or about 300 times around the globe?
... that certain bamboo species release large numbers of seeds in synchrony after numbers of years that have only 2, 3, and 5 as their prime factors?
... that the Richard Rodgers Theatre has hosted 11 Tony Award-winning plays and musicals, more than any other Broadway theater?
... that the 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was the first recall held in the city since 1975?
... that WTVK in Knoxville, Tennessee, won a years-long battle to move from UHF to a VHF channel, only to be sent by new management to "that big TV station in the sky"?
... that a pro-EU explanation of how Baileys is made, given by British MP Mike Gapes , was described as being "infinitely memeable" and giving him a "bizarre online infamy"?
... that a bicycle shop in Maryland became a major BMX bike manufacturer in the 1980s?
... that the only stained glass exported to the United States by Barton, Kinder and Alderson had to pay import duty, unlike much artwork in places of worship, because of its low cost-to-size ratio?
... that John J. Slocum tried in vain to return James Joyce's body to Ireland?
... that Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi, a 1971 composition for three male solo voices and piano by Benjamin Britten, sets a T. S. Eliot poem to music?
... that the recently restored Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Roebourne is the oldest church in North West Australia?
... that after offering to be an extra in The Walking Dead, Zoe Colletti was cast as a main character in its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead?