derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after serving as President of the Oregon State Senate, Brady L. Adams founded BearFest in Grants Pass, Oregon, which featured playful fiberglass bear statues placed around the town?
... that the Stony Brook Railroad was in business from 1845 to 2022, but never owned a single locomotive or ran a single train?
... that British oceanographer Sonya Legg has studied the South China Sea, where internal waves can be taller than 200 metres (660 ft)?
... that the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, the concert hall of Bielefeld, remains mostly unchanged from its completion in 1930?
... that food psychology research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic led to both reduced and increased consumption of junk food among different geographical populations and educational backgrounds?
... that the first tequila distillery in the United States was opened in 1936 in Nogales, Arizona, by Harry J. Karns, former Arizona state senator and Nogales mayor?
... that six-time American national archery champion Russ Hoogerhyde performed trick shots including shooting a cigarette from the lips of a spectator?
... that the bronze statue atop Thomas Eyre Macklin's 1907 South African War Memorial in Newcastle became known as the "Dirty Angel" ?
... that entrepreneur Ian Schrager paid a record $9 million for two apartments at the Majestic in New York City, but he never lived there?
... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin?
... that Peter Clavelle's victory in the 1995 Burlington mayoral election made him its first mayor to return to office after losing it since James Edmund Burke in 1933?
... that a statue of the Elamite queen Napir-Asu is inscribed with a curse for its would-be vandals?
... that Bally's Chicago, a proposed casino resort in Chicago, has a goal of bringing in $200 million in annual tax revenue to fund the city's police and firefighter pension fund?
... that Fyodor Arturovich Keller was one of two Russian generals who opposed the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, offering his corps to help suppress the February Revolution?
... that the two-mile-long (3.2 km) Moshassuck Valley Railroad operated independently for 105 years?
... that ska-crazed dancers at a Stretch Armstrong concert once became so intense that three people left on stretchers and one in a hospital helicopter?
... that One Night with Regine was a concert in support of the child-welfare program Bantay Bata, staged on the steps of the entrance façade of the National Museum of Anthropology in Manila?
... that Hanning Schröder, who in the 1930s played historical instruments in the Harlan Trio together with his wife, was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations?
... that Thihapate of Mohnyin, who was laying siege to Mogaung, refused the court's offer to be king of Ava, saying he was neither a son nor a younger brother of the king, and returned to the siege?
... that the Ja Ja Ding Dong Guy announced the points from Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021?
... that when A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell screened at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, Lloyd Kaufman said that "no one else was dumb enough to do a dinosaur movie"?
... that Paul Arzens created the electric egg in 1942, during the war in occupied Paris?
... that two-time Emmy winner George Yanok was the final road manager of the Kingston Trio and editor of their last album?
... that the 47 in the marijuana strain AK-47 may refer to the number of days between its planting and harvest?
... that Royal Ballet dancer Reece Clarke once filled in for a lead role mid-show, opposite a ballerina he had never danced with, after having ten minutes to prepare?
... that episodes of the TV Tokyo late-night show Nogizaka Under Construction are uploaded to YouTube shortly after broadcast, which is considered unusual in Japanese media?
... that Edward Severin Clark was bequeathed the Dakota in New York City when he was 12 years old?
... that Maria Olsvik was called up to the Norway national football team for the first time one year after giving birth?
... that the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard is the only U.S. cemetery reserved exclusively for coon dog burials?
... that Sofía Sanchez loved soccer and she played for a leading Spanish side, but her mother said "study" and she now sits in Ecuador's National Assembly?
... that over half a century after Kristallnacht, the Jews of Innsbruck rebuilt their synagogue on the location of the one destroyed that night?
... that Eri Yukimura pushed through with a voice acting career partly to prove her late grandmother wrong?
... that Seattle radio station KBLE was named in 1963 for a cable car system that had closed nearly 25 years prior?
... that Turkey demanded Mehmet Sıraç Bilgin's extradition in May 2022, seven years after he died in Sweden?
... that Prawoto Mangkusasmito did not complete law school before the Japanese invaded because he was too busy with student and political organizations?
... that one of the tracks on the deluxe version of Frayed at Both Ends by country musician Aaron Lewis was originally a poem by Johnny Cash?
... that water pours from the Dinoša mulberry tree for a few days each year?
... that Jack Morris, who set Oregon Ducks football records in single-season scoring and consecutive successful conversions, also won three state titles in hurdling?
... that Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza was Abimael Guzmán's prosecutor before being elected the first Peruvian judge of the International Criminal Court?
... that officials installed a secret switch to shut down the radio station at the University of Akron in Ohio in case "radicals" took it over?
... that journalist Charles Edwards relayed a report by The Canadian Press on the torpedoing of SS Athenia without comment, even though his father was aboard the ship?
... that Bob Dylan's backing singers on "New Pony" included both his then-girlfriend and his future wife?
... that the Patriarchy really does control the sisters of the Monastery Saint Claire in Nazareth?
... that the acquisition of land for the Utah resort hotel Amangiri required an act of Congress?
... that William Buchanan designed the first vehicle to exceed 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
... that "Monggeumpo Taryeong", a Korean folk song, is about lovers that wait and sing in a harbor for their loved ones (sailors) to return?
... that Ijima's leaf warbler is named after Japanese zoologist Ijima Isao?
... that The West Wing's "Hartsfield's Landing" is a homage to three tiny towns in New Hampshire?
... that on his third expedition to Hudson Bay, Pierre Allemand piloted a captured English ship?
... that campaign literature in the 1894 Montana capital referendum accused Helena residents of copious Manhattan consumption?
... that the first episode of the British pop music TV show Top of the Pops was broadcast on 1 January 1964 from Dickenson Road Studios, a converted church in Manchester?
... that archaeologist Lawrence H. Keeley refined the methods of microscopic use-wear analysis to learn about prehistoric stone tools?
... that Las Vegas radio station KVBC-FM offered Monica Lewinsky $5 million to do a tell-all interview?
... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games?
... that although the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled, Iceland's planned entry for that year was chosen as the alternative winner in several countries, including Sweden and Australia?
... that Isaac Levitan was inspired to paint Evening Bells when he came across a small monastery in a remote village?
... that Sam Smith left the University of Louisville after being found to be academically ineligible for its basketball team, claiming the school was "too big for him"?
... that the adoption of the Declaration of Independence of Azerbaijan made the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic the first successful republic in the Muslim world?
... that Arnold Blackner was said to be the first person to sing over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on the telephone?
... that the literary movement of créolie tries to integrate the identity of Réunion with France?
... that the Four-Track News is not news about the car music cassettes of the 1950s, but an illustrated magazine of the early 1900s on travel and education put out by the New York Central Railroad?
... that records of Acoutsina's captivity allow historians to analyse the eighteenth century French-Eskimo relationship?
... that a regional radio group with 75 stations started with a "Big Wrig"?
... that Madhulika Ramteke's microfinance bank for Indian women grew to have over 5,000 "branches"?
... that the recently-announced Google Wallet app revives the brand name previously used by a similar service of the same name from 2011 to 2018?
... that Paula Lizell, a former star of the Royal Swedish Opera, advanced from coloratura to dramatic Wagnerian roles?
... that until the outbreak at Rotterdam Zoo in 1964, monkeypox was thought to occur only in primates?
... that Yumi Nu is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Vogue cover model and musician signed to Steve Aoki's record label?
... that the arches of the 1849 Belvidere Bridge consist of six pre-cast ribs bolted together?
... that after becoming paralyzed from the neck down, Rocky "RockyNoHands" Stoutenburgh broke two Guinness World Records in the video game Fortnite?
... that Gheorghe Pintilie , who joined the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee on this day in 1948, had used a crowbar to murder its former general secretary?
... that when the studio album Jim Reeves Sings was released by Abbott Records in 1955, the artist himself had already signed with RCA Victor?
... that Pedro Tenorio left his professorship at the University of Rome to fight in the Battle of Nájera in 1367 and was captured?
... that in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's retelling of the Tang dynasty short story "Du Zichun", a son grieves for his mother who has been reborn as a horse?
... that journalist Bob Moir posed as medical staff on the Canadian Olympic team to report on the Munich massacre?
... that Roman Emperor Tiberius used "quantitative easing" to solve a financial crisis in 33 A.D.?
... that 2022 Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was drawn into the field just minutes before the entry deadline?
... that "Sae Taryeong", a Korean folk song, describes the flow of a stream as ju-ru-ru-ru-ru-ru?
... that the infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey played together longer than any other infield foursome in Major League Baseball?
... that after bombing in World War II, the surviving tower of the Friedenskirche, a Lutheran church in Stuttgart, was combined with a new concrete structure?
... that in 2022 Sandhya Dhar has received both a Nari Shakti Puraskar and a bronze medal in boccia at the Indian national championships?
... that professional golfer Cary Middlecoff co-owned Memphis, Tennessee, radio station WCBR in the mid-1950s?
... that Werner Flume called a fellow academic assistant a pig for demanding the boycott of professors of Jewish descent in 1933?
... that the Beresford and the San Remo were sold for a total of $25,000 in 1940, a decade after they were built for $10 million?
... that Nathalie Viteri was dismissed from Ecuador's National Assembly but she is now one of the top five members contributing to their debates?
... that Melody Clinger of the girl band the Clingers met the drummer for the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, after wolf-whistling his Rolls Royce on her way home from a guitar lesson?
... that Artemisia Gentileschi produced the first of her four renderings of Susanna and the Elders at the age of 17, shortly before she accused two well-respected older men of rape?
... that American doctor Cory Synhorst SerVaas believed that high-lysine corn could help end hunger in Africa, end famine, and stop protein deficiency despite only being fed to livestock and poultry?
... that at one point the fossil grasshopper Promastax was placed in the same family as a stick insect?
... that tenor Theo Lebow performed the roles of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Pablo Picasso in the world premiere of the opera 27?
... that a new building of the Catholic church Our Lady of the Annunciation in King's Lynn was initiated by Edward, Prince of Wales, because his guests were inconvenienced by the old building's condition?
... that Matthew Walker was driven to write Why We Sleep because of a woman who passed by him and took a peek at his work?
... that the 1872 Tradeston Flour Mills explosion that killed 18 people was caused by a fire after the feed of grain to a pair of millstones was halted?
... that the ongoing infant formula shortage in the United States also affects non-infant medical patients who require nasogastric feeding?
... that John Jacob Withrow allegedly did not consult anyone before announcing a permanent exhibition in Toronto?
... that the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee was designated as a Communist front by the House Un-American Activities Committee?
... that Mahendra Raj's engineering work on the Hindustan Lever pavilion resembled a crumpled sheet of paper?
... that the clown character Mombo was created for The Dr. Max Show after being blamed for an off-stage noise?
... that Roddie Fleming was expecting to inherit the family business, but it was sold to Chase Bank instead?
... that Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid was thought by one reviewer to have "the remarkable qualities of the oracular"?
... that Sunny Low and his sister were dubbed the "King and Queen of Cha-Cha-Cha and Rock 'n' Roll"?
... that a statue and a clock were the only items indicating that Tiffany & Co. occupied the Tiffany and Company Building?
... that Ana Štěrba-Böhm became the first Slovene woman with a doctorate in science, in 1911?
... that after performing as a costumed stunt double in the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai franchises for almost 30 years, Seiji Takaiwa appeared in his first starring role in Good Morning, Sleeping Lion?
... that Kelsie Whitmore was part of the first all-female battery in a professional baseball league since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
... that at age 22, Yoel Gamzou from Tel Aviv conducted an orchestra that he had founded, playing his completion of Mahler's Tenth Symphony in Berlin?
... that Israeli diplomat Yosef Avidar met his future wife after a grenade accident?
... that the Biden Foundation was shut down on the same day one of its co-founders announced his candidacy for president of the United States?
... that neuroscientist Beatriz Rico and her team discovered a link between a protein called Brevican and short-term spatial memory?
... that WLOK, the first Black-owned radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, organizes an annual "Stone Soul Picnic" gospel concert series?
... that Darrell Clarke led Bristol Rovers to two successive promotions after having to remove "Clarke Out" posters that disgruntled fans had posted outside of the club's training ground?
... that the 2022 Sweden riots stemmed from an anti-Islamic group burning a Quran during Ramadan with police permission?
... that in 1991, James F. Kelley claimed that he had been ordered to repatriate Amelia Earhart (who disappeared in 1937) to the United States, where she lived as Irene Craigmile Bolam?
... that the final of the 2009 IBSF women's snooker championship was interrupted so that drug tests could be conducted on the players?
... that Bulandshahr's ornate Garden Gate was built on the site of a "filthy" drainage ravine?
... that Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Britain Covey played quarterback in high school and led his team to 26 consecutive wins?
... that the temptation of Christ has been associated with Jebel Quruntul in the West Bank since at least the 4th century?
... that Luigi Gaggero conducted the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, restoring Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3 to its 1951 version, with the last movement themed "Peace will conquer war"?
... that the Louis M. Martini Winery began selling wine on December 5, 1933 – the day on which Prohibition in the United States was repealed?
... that a former member of the French Senate ended up being exiled to the northern Central African Republic by the future emperor?
... that copies of the underground anti-war publication Liberated Barracks were found on ships carrying US troops to Vietnam?
... that Ambati Rambabu, the state minister for irrigation of Andhra Pradesh, dabbled in acting before entering politics?
... that when tenor Jonathan Tetelman appeared as Loris Ipanov in Giordano's Fedora, which had made Caruso famous, a reviewer called him ideal for the role?
... that the main nesting site of the Japanese murrelet was used as a bombing range by the USAF?
... that East Lake Square, a failed shopping mall in Tampa, Florida, was converted into a business park known as NetPark Tampa Bay in 1999?
... that Olga Rudenko, who was chosen as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Kyiv Independent, appeared on the cover of Time?
... that literary fiction novel Agatha of Little Neon's title stems from a house that is "the color of Mountain Dew"?
... that Liva Järnefelt performed leading roles at the Royal Swedish Opera, such as Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin , and Bizet's Carmen, which she also performed for her 25th anniversary with the company?
... that before Angeli Foods was sold this year, the first self-service grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan had been owned by three generations of a single family?
... that cricketers Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh both played for the Chemplast cricket team under owner and industrialist N. Sankar?
... that the bronze sculpture Expansion is lit from within, after Paige Bradley broke its wax model intentionally and assembled the cast pieces to leave cracks?
... that mathematician Mathias Metternich was one of the founders of the Jacobin club of the Republic of Mainz?
... that the documentary Babi Yar. Context shows rare footage of buildings being destroyed by retreating Soviet forces in the main street of Nazi-occupied Kyiv?
... that open depictions of sexual acts were a defining trait of early works of josei manga ('women's comics')?
... that Nina Jankowicz dubbed herself the "Mary Poppins of disinformation"?
... that the Ahichchhatra Jain temples were built to commemorate the attainment of kevala jnana (omniscience) by Parshvanatha, the 23rd tirthankara of Jainism?
... that a 1 a.m. phone call resulted in financier George D. Gould joining the efforts to stave off New York City's near-bankruptcy in 1975?
... that although the problem of squaring the circle with compass and straightedge goes back to Greek mathematics, it was not proven impossible until 1882?
... that Canadian cricketer Divya Saxena was accused of obstructing the field in an international match but was ruled "not out"?
... that German violinist and professor Aleksey Semenenko was stranded in Ukraine for a month because Russia invaded the country the day after his performance?
... that the dark-money American Accountability Foundation aims to "take a big handful of sand and throw it in the gears of the Biden administration"?
... that Synapturanus danta has been described as a "smooth lil fella"?
... that Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the Knights of Pythias, served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
... that some radical right parties in Europe have adopted the rhetoric of anti-antisemitism to oppose Muslim immigration?
... that according to one legal scholar, "no intelligent lawyer could well practice without" the books of Joseph Kinnicutt Angell?
... that Tutankhamun's infant daughters are unnamed, being referred to only as "the Osiris" on their coffins?
... that Albania's first professional woman painter was Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, who painted impressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as religious art in churches?
... that the Fort Worth Intelligence Exchange has investigated a neo-Nazi gang and an alleged plan to break Joe Exotic out of jail?
... that Nicholas Jakubovics holds a patent on the use of L-arginine to remove dental plaque?
... that new forms appearing in 15th-century Italian Renaissance sculpture include the medal and the plaquette?
... that Joseph Eiboeck called the period from July 4, 1884, to 1890 "a reign of terror for Iowa"?
... that the Storia de Mahometh contains the earliest Latin translation of any part of the Quran?
... that Paul Delvaux's painting The Sacrifice of Iphigenia has been interpreted as a work about the little death?
... that actress Dorothy Van Engle starred in the 1935 movie Murder in Harlem with a "proto-feminist role" that was then a primary source of positive representation for African Americans in film?
... that Solomon Hughes was a Harlem Globetrotter before he played a Laker in film?
... that Diamond Miller is the all-time leading scorer on her high-school basketball team – a record previously held by her sister?
... that Clotworthy Upton, an illegitimate child, could not inherit his father's barony?
... that the Indonesian film Apa Jang Kau Tjari, Palupi? was "hailed by critics", "rejected by the audience", and "shown around the world"?
... that Tzedi Tzarfati directed a production of Annie decades after becoming enamored with its song "Tomorrow"?
... that American media intelligence company Anomaly Six uses software development kits in commonly used apps to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones?
... that the British rap song "Jiggle Jiggle" by filmmaker Louis Theroux has been used in more than two million TikTok videos?
... that during a renovation of 4 Park Avenue , workers found a sealed room with women's clothes and shoes that was not in the building's blueprints?
... that Adam Murray became the youngest manager in the English Football League when he was appointed at Mansfield Town at the age of 33?
... that the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity includes value systems, traditions, and beliefs in its definition of culture?
... that Dorothy Binney Palmer built two houses that are on the United States' National Register of Historic Places?
... that, despite its name, The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America is not a labor union?
... that Aguil Chut-Deng took 22 child refugees from South Sudan to Ethiopia during civil war so that they could attend school?
... that the screenwriter of Under the Christmas Tree, the network Lifetime's first lesbian Christmas film, also wrote the channel's first gay male Christmas film the year before?
... that the 2002 Russian pop song "A Man like Putin" inadvertently became adopted as propaganda?
... that Kim E. Nielsen trained as a historian of women and politics, and came to disability history and studies via her discovery of Helen Keller's political life?
... that the first recording of Bach's Kreuzstab cantata was a 1939 Dutch live broadcast sung by Mack Harrell, 25 years before the 1964 German recording by his protégé Barry McDaniel?
... that development of the British UB.109T cruise missile was given "super-priority" in 1951 to ward off an expected attack by the Soviet Union, only to be cancelled after the attack never came?
... that metaphysicist Helen Hadsell claimed that she won things she wanted by projecting energy?
... that Chabacano metro station has a composition named after it and it served as a film location for the 1990 film Total Recall?
... that ballet dancer William Bracewell has portrayed Louis XIV, Romeo, a salamander, and a caterpillar?
... that the Maloja Wind in Switzerland can produce a narrow and elongated low-lying cloud known as the "Maloja Snake" ?
... that Planned Parenthood president Eleanor Bellows Pillsbury received the Lasker Award for leading the organization into "a new era as a national force and international influence"?
... that the Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains have been an important mahinga kai (food-gathering site) for the Māori for more than 600 years?
... that beginning in 2024, some California stores will be required to have a gender-neutral children's section?
... that an Alabama mayoral candidate received "his head on a platter", according to winning candidate Dave Thomas?
... that according to legend, dogs who travelled through a passage between Piper's Hole in Tresco and Piper's Hole in St Mary's emerged without most of their fur?