derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Mike Judge's three-month tenure at the video-card manufacturer Parallax Graphics was an inspiration for Office Space?
... that it was rumoured that "R.I.P." was initially intended for Rihanna, but it became a song for Rita Ora instead?
... that in 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld West Virginia's largest punitive damages award in history, awarding $10 million – 526 times larger than the compensatory damages?
... that the walls of the Kronberg Academy's Casals Forum are curved and covered with wood in a manner reminiscent of a string instrument?
... that after his release from a hospital for the criminally insane, Richard Dixon burgled $16 from a credit union and hijacked a jet to Cuba?
... that some evangelical Christians confess their sexual temptations to an accountability partner to maintain their sexual purity?
... that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
... that Frederick the Great personally convicted six judges for their involvement in the Miller Arnold case and sentenced them to a custodial penalty?
... that Halyna Kuzmenko promoted the Ukrainization of the Makhnovist movement, successfully increasing the use of the Ukrainian language by Russian speakers?
... that recruitment to the British Canton Coolie Corps suffered due to false rumours that men would be used as human shields in the Second Opium War?
... that Jacobus Capitein , who was sold into slavery at either age 7 or 8, promoted proslavery arguments based on Christianity?
... that Aox Inc., a maker of computer expansion cards, was named after the founders' dog?
... that Rebecca Blake, Anglo-Romanian captain of the Romania women's national cricket team, also led the French team to victory in a six-team tournament?
... that episodes of such game shows as Double Dare, Finders Keepers, and You Bet Your Life were filmed at the Philadelphia studios of a public TV station?
... that Bear Witness reviewers said, "The songs were richer than the first wave of Madonna's hits"?
... that Leonard Kriegel, who had polio, insisted on using the term "cripple" in his works to describe his illness?
... that "one of the finest cut brick façades" in the United Kingdom has been partially obscured by scaffolding for four years, as funds are raised for its repair?
... that after Claudia Fleming's dessert cookbook went out of print due to poor sales, used copies began circulating on eBay for hundreds of dollars?
... that in 1920, Elmer Smith hit the first grand slam in World Series history?
... that Bochart's 1646 Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan was the first full-length book devoted to the Phoenicians?
... that the wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom had the president walking his own bride down the aisle?
... that William of Littlington opposed the division of England and Scotland into two Carmelite provinces in 1303, was excommunicated, and did four years' penance in Paris?
... that Cardigan Donuts has sold a Super Mario Kart–inspired rainbow doughnut with white chocolate frosting, gold walnuts, and cereal marshmallows?
... that the title for Need for Speed Unbound was accidentally revealed early on Electronic Arts' website?
... that in 2019, the Spanish patrol boat Serviola thwarted two attempts at piracy in as many months?
... that after being extensively hunted in the 19th century, southern right whales can again sometimes be seen in Mahurangi Harbour?
... that Richard W. Conway earned a varsity letter, a Ph.D., and an endowed chair, all from the same university?
... that according to two surveys, knocking on wood and 'crossing fingers for good luck' are the most popular superstitions in Britain?
... that Ella van Poucke, a cellist who studied at the Kronberg Academy, returned there as a soloist, playing Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in the new Casals Forum?
... that Nippon Steel, one of Japan's largest steelmakers, sold notebook computers in the U.S. in the early 1990s?
... that Lanfranco Cirillo is the architect of Putin's Palace, a palace complex on the Black Sea coast allegedly built for Vladimir Putin which is estimated to have cost over one billion US dollars?
... that the "father of French fighter aircraft" became interested in flying whilst suspended from the French Army following a court-martial?
... that the remix of Kanye West's "Use This Gospel" was added to DJ Khaled's God Did at the last minute?
... that BBC radio broadcaster Venu Chitale taught listeners how to cook without meat when it was rationed during the Second World War?
... that Ball Ground, Georgia, received its name because the land was originally used by Native Americans to play stickball?
... that Sergei Prokofiev's oratorio On Guard for Peace has been called "Kremlin music" and "Stalinist era kitsch at its most egregious"?
... that Leon Burton set the NCAA record of 9.6 yards per carry in 1957?
... that a copyright infringement suit was filed against the song "How We Do (Party)" for its use of the phrase "party and bullshit"?
... that the Ocoee salamander from Tennessee is named after the Cherokee word for Passiflora incarnata (passionflower)?
... that the North Carolina state auditor is fifth in the line of succession to the governorship of North Carolina?
... that on the song "Conceited", Flo Milli raps that she's been important since she was a fetus?
... that William F. Hanson collaborated with Zitkala-Sa on a Sioux-inspired work called The Sun Dance Opera?
... that the platform below the Weesperplein metro station was used as a fallout shelter after the line that was supposed to run through it got cancelled?
... that the relative rarity of the radiodont Titanokorys (video featured) in Marble Canyon suggests that the deposits in which it was found may represent the outermost edge of its distribution in life?
... that Iraqi poet Isa Hasan al-Yasiri ran away from school at 10 years old, before travelling with a camel caravan overnight to another village?
... that a negative review of Sky Ferreira's "Don't Forget" on Pitchfork caused a large amount of controversy?
... that the founder of the Guide to the Free World, helping people leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, said she was told: "It's good that you get out of Russia, but a pity that you won't be shot"?
... that after serving as the speaker of the Oregon Territory House of Representatives, Lafayette Cartee moved to the Idaho Territory where he became a well-known horticulturalist?
... that the Shiba Inu memes of NAFO have been called "an actual tactical event against a nation state"?
... that when astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to Earth after six months in orbit, she was presented with a box of M&M's?
... that the Regensburg Botanical Society, founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society?
... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
... that before entering politics, Romina Pérez worked at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research, which "became a 'nursery' for intellectual and political cadres of the Movement for Socialism"?
... that despite his defeat at the battle of Pitgaveny, both of Duncan's sons would later rule Scotland?
... that Kline's Mill is a rare surviving example of an Oliver Evans milling system from 1794?
... that the hoof of Richard Thomas Glyn's horse is used as an ashtray by officers of the Royal Regiment of Wales?
... that the Mesopotamian goddess Iqbi-damiq had an illness named after her?
... that the 1940 poster for Cavalcade of the American Negro anticipated 1960s Black Power iconography?
... that Marcela Revollo's pragmatic approach to legislating led her to cooperate with both neoliberal and socialist governments on women's rights legislation?
... that All Saints' Episcopal Church contains the crypt of its founder, Episcopal Bishop of Texas George Herbert Kinsolving?
... that the Nakhichevan uezd was home to more than 54,000 Armenians until they perished through the events of 1918–1920 as a result of the Russian Revolution?
... that the inspiration for the Hong Kong novel Sai Ying Pun came from the author oversleeping on a train?
... that Tyrone Davis set a school record with 28 career touchdown receptions while playing wide receiver for the Virginia Cavaliers?
... that the abandoned 17th-century Grimethorpe Hall in South Yorkshire, England, has been proposed as a potential new headquarters for the Grimethorpe Colliery Band?
... that athletic trainer Gian Piero Ventrone, nicknamed "marine" for his very hard and tiring training sessions, made his players ring a "bell of shame" when they were too exhausted to continue?
... that pioneer radiologist Sydney Domville Rowland coined the term "skiagraphy" ?
... that in the 1920s, Hickson Inc. had the "most elegant and expensive specialty shop" on New York's Fifth Avenue?
... that the Konzerthalle in Bad Salzuflen, an example of spa architecture in the 1960s, is one of the regular venues of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?
... that a U.S. soldier who killed a Vietnamese woman after raping her was dubbed a "double veteran"?
... that both of Karl R. Free's New Deal-era U.S. post office murals with Native American subjects have been challenged as offensive?
... that the Scottish Register of Tartans has registered district tartans for Australia as a whole, and also a state district tartan for each of Australia's six states?
... that before bungee jumping with White House aides in New Zealand, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante said he was "proving that you're never too old to do something really stupid"?
... that the level of detail in medieval depictions of firebugs has been cited as evidence that the Master of the Brussels Initials "knew the bug in nature"?
... that Taylor Swift got in touch with Gary Lightbody, with whom she collaborated on the song "The Last Time", through Ed Sheeran?
... that the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic exchanged 13 detained German diplomats for 24 jailed leaders of the Kaunas Soviet of Workers Deputies?
... that the Missa primi toni octo vocum was written for double choir by the Italian composer Stefano Bernardi in 1630 for Salzburg Cathedral when he was the music director there?
... that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush?
... that Tony DeLuca was the longest-serving member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives at the time of his death?
... that Tropical Storm Hermine in September 2022 produced record-breaking rainfall in the Canary Islands amounting to more than 20 times the monthly average?
... that according to one historian, James S. Rains made a "significant contribution to the Confederate war effort" by getting drunk?
... that Egon Schiele disrupted the dichotomy between beauty and ugliness in his Seated Woman with Bent Knees ?
... that the Church of the Immaculate Conception was rededicated as a shrine in 1954, 100 years after the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was defined?
... that Markus Becker, who earned awards for his recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger, also recorded jazz?
... that according to the Open Syllabus Project, the most widely taught novel in college courses is Frankenstein?
... that César Mascetti was reportedly the first Argentine journalist to interview a member of the Beatles when he met a naked George Harrison on a Rio de Janeiro beach?
... that IBM EduQuest equipped the floppy drives in their computer systems with a dust shield to prevent the intrusion of dirt and chalk dust?
... that an ancient Chinese medical encyclopaedia recommends qigong as a cure for most diseases?
... that nightclub singer Rommy Revson earned millions of dollars from her 1986 invention of the scrunchie , which she originally named after her pet poodle?
... that Mark Williams travelled for more than 13 hours to be a last-minute replacement at the 2022 Hong Kong Masters?
... that Sir Frank Price, a former Lord Mayor of Birmingham, grew up in the city's slums and left school at the age of 14?
... that the beat in Taylor Swift's song "Holy Ground" was described by Brad Nelson of The Atlantic as "insistent enough to act as punctuation for the lyrics"?
... that Carlo Carrà attributed The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli to the 1904 Italian general strike, while the actual funeral and riot occured in 1906?
... that American illustrator Alfred Skrenda "was particularly adept at billowing skirts and heroic gazes"?
... that the Pedestals of Biahmu are known locally as Al-Ṣanam, Arabic for "the idol"?
... that portraits of Lucy de László with a violin , painted by her husband, are recognised as some of the first examples of portraiture to include womens' talents in them?
... that civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang wrote the draft of her memoir Beautiful Country on her phone during her commute?
... that the memorabilia of Jennie Scott Griffiths, a Texan who died in California, are housed in the National Library of Australia?
... that Queen Camilla has said that her childhood at The Laines was "perfect in every way"?
... that despite a "No Rock & Roll" sign in the studios of the Utica College radio station, students played it anyway?
... that Kenyan coffee farmer "Pinkie" Jackson amassed Africa's largest collection of native butterflies?
... that following a gun battle with Polish legionnaires, five leaders of the Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies committed suicide rather than surrendering?
... that Abbott and Costello dragged the Empire Theatre 168 feet (51 m) in 1998?
... that George Balanchine said Allegro Brillante "contains everything I knew about classical ballet – in thirteen minutes"?
... that Iraqi poet Kazim al-Samawi spent more than half his life in political exile and was called "The Sheikh of the Exiles"?
... that the Piedmont Hotel hosted a former, a current, and a future U.S. president in one week?
... that Royston Brooks was the last European to serve as the Commanding Officer of the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force from 1988 to 1990?
... that the U.S. National Firefighter Registry will match state cancer data with voluntarily collected work history data from firefighters?
... that Scottish physician George Gray received the thanks of the Chinese government for his work during the Manchurian plague of 1910–11?
... that killing a resplendent quetzal was a crime in Aztec and Maya law?
... that, among migrants, transgender asylum seekers are more likely to be subjected to physical and mental abuse?
... that camel caravans using the Darb El Arba'īn trade route transported salt and slaves?
... that the public artwork Eroclamation at Haw Par Villa MRT station reflects Haw Par Villa's themes of mortality and reincarnation?
... that in "Who shall separate us?", composed by James MacMillan for the state funeral of Elizabeth II, verses from Romans 8 are followed by Alleluias described as "burning bright sonic trails"?
... that the collapse of Cloghan Castle in County Cork, Ireland, was said to have been caused by the barking of a ghostly black dog?
... that since 1976 there have been no additions to, but two removals from, the Hall of Fame for Great Americans ?
... that Luis Gallego had only completed middle-school education when he was elected to the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies?
... that Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency tumbler, was blacklisted by the United States Department of the Treasury?
... that despite losing his left arm in World War II, Austrian tennis player Hans Redl reached the fourth round at Wimbledon in 1947?
... that Jacqueline Kennedy bought several saris during her 1962 tour of India and Pakistan to be turned into sari-inspired dresses?
... that an early version of the turn-based game Legends could take three to ten years to complete?
... that if you remove two opposite corners of a chessboard, you cannot cover all squares with dominos?
... that in 1875, Robert J. Fulton moved Boston College by 60 feet (18 m)?
... that the Jihadist Burkinabè rebels' ongoing siege of Djibo has been described as a "Ukrainian death"?
... that in 2010, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Atlanta became the first church in the state to be elevated to the rank of a minor basilica?
... that Robert Nimmo's command of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan remains the longest ever command of a United Nations operation?
... that the Victory Theatre, the first theater on 42nd Street to show adult movies, later became a children's theater?
... that religious studies scholar C. Jouco Bleeker believed that religions are like acorns?
... that Sir John Anderson was described as the "world's most-shot-at-man" in 1935, after surviving three assassination attempts?
... that after the liberation of towns in Ukraine during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive, authorities found evidence of numerous Russian torture chambers?
... that Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is the first woman to referee a Serie A football match?
... that a Connecticut radio station was "the loser in a survival-of-the-fittest battle"?
... that Abdel Moneim Mokhtar travelled to the 1928 Summer Olympics to compete in gymnastics, but took part in diving instead?
... that Shaun Murphy lost a match at the 2022 British Open despite potting the winning ball?
... that the best novel of American science fiction author Garrett Smith did not appear as a stand-alone book until over 60 years after his death?
... that after Billie Eilish wrote the song "Wish You Were Gay", its subject came out to her as gay?
... that Sri Lanka's ancient tank cascade system of irrigation reservoirs creates habitats for the island's elephants ?
... that "Like as the hart", a setting of Psalm 42 for a cappella choir, was composed by Judith Weir, Master of the King's Music, for the state funeral of Elizabeth II?
... that Rebeca Delgado created Freedom of Thought for Bolivia after being told by her previous party that she should leave if she wanted to be a "freethinker"?
... that Brooklyn Nine-Nine character Amy Santiago has straight hair because the show's two Latina regular cast members feared that one of them would be fired?
... that Adam Kingsmill, who is missing most of his right leg, played stand-up ice hockey until 2016?
... that a 28-year-old tire store manager drowned his four children in the same station wagon in which his father fatally shot himself in the head?
... that writer Malcolm Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate, England, by the town council for services to local history?
... that "perhaps the most notable wedding gown in existence" within the United States was once worn in St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo?
... that following his election to the Constituent Assembly, Severo Aguilar had to trek four hours and hitch a ride on a truck in order to get to the assembly's headquarters in Sucre?
... that the documentary film Jihad Rehab features interviews with former inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who are now in the Care Rehabilitation Center, a "jihad rehab" in Saudi Arabia?
... that Cary Grant taught Sylvia Wu how to make shredded chicken salad?
... that Adele's artwork for "When We Were Young" features a picture of her as a child?
... that Jutta Fleck protested for six months in front of border guards at Checkpoint Charlie for her daughters' release from East Germany?
... that the combat suit Pharah wears in Overwatch bears a strong resemblance to those featured in mecha anime?
... that circle packings in the form of a Doyle spiral were used to model plant growth long before their mathematical investigation by Doyle?
... that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, India's second Muslim president, was also the second Indian president to die in office?
... that while some lichen species in the genus Piccolia have ranges which span multiple continents, others are restricted to single islands?
... that Stardust, the title of a composition by Taylor Scott Davis for eight voices a cappella commissioned by Voces8, became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour?
... that the roadless Solace Provincial Park in the Temagami area of Ontario, Canada, is considered as one of the most isolated, wild places in the province?
... that the day after returning to Atlanta following his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. joined picketers who were on strike against Scripto?
... that Herbert James Gunn used a paper cut-out of Princess Elizabeth's corgi dog to help him paint his Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor?
... that Shaun Aguano's interview to join the Arizona State football coaching staff consisted only of being asked, "you want the job?"
... that the Zunda Towers in Riga, Latvia, changed their name from "Z-Towers" to avoid being associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
... that Annie Dove Denmark was offered residency on campus for the rest of her life after resigning as the president of Anderson College?
... that Andreas Reize ranked Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, a choral setting of the first verses of Psalm 84 by Johann Hermann Schein, as one of three pinnacles of motets before Bach?
... that Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam wrote in English, despite feeling no connection to the English literary tradition?
... that the depiction of conservative Catholic intellectuals in the play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was praised both by its subjects and by liberal New York theater critics?
... that the day before the 1969 investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales, two protestors were killed when their homemade bomb exploded prematurely?
... that crown prince of Ava Minye Kyawswa discarded advice from Yazathingyan, and subsequently got slain in battle?
... that riding on the Roller Soaker was described as going through a "car wash with the top down"?
... that British Army brigadier John Hemsley and his wife set a record time for travel by car from Cape Town to London in 1983?
... that Kanye West's "Hands On" marked Fred Hammond's first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100?
... that some analysts considered Víctor Hugo Zamora's appointment as hydrocarbons minister to be a gesture to oil companies, guaranteeing "covert continuity" between the Áñez and Morales governments?
... that Christy Martin vs. Deirdre Gogarty has been called the fight that "put women's boxing on the map"?
... that former child refugee Ann Beaglehole has become a historian specialising in refugee history?
... that one reviewer of the British reality TV series Make Me Prime Minister said "Technically it's worth five stars. In every other way, I wish I was dead"?
... that the Amṛtasiddhi , translated as 'the attainment of immortality', is an early text about what later became haṭha yoga?
... that Joe Kraker was said to be the only lineman in football history to play without shoulder pads?
... that the Violin Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg, premiered in Moscow in 1961 by Leonid Kogan, was first performed in Germany by Linus Roth in 2014, and in the U.S. by Gidon Kremer in 2015?
... that from 1912, Jindřiška Flajšhansová was the principal editor of Ženské listy, a Czech journal that became a women's "survival manual" during World War I?
... that Ponce de Leon Springs in Atlanta was named in reference to the legend of Juan Ponce de León's search for the Fountain of Youth due to the spring water's supposed health benefits?
... that Elizabeth II's 1994 state visit to Russia was overshadowed in the UK by a Prince Charles biographical book?
... that Maria Bakalova thought that her Borat Subsequent Moviefilm audition might have been part of a human trafficking scheme?
... that Don Lemon "didn't mean to set the internet on fire" when teasing the rebranding of CNN Tonight to Don Lemon Tonight?
... that The New York Times claimed that if Johnson beat Jeffries , black people would "misinterpret his victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with their white neighbors"?
... that the Grade II*–listed Church of St Benedict, in Ardwick, Manchester, is now a climbing centre?
... that in 2021 Sarah Aristidou recorded Jörg Widmann's Labyrinth V, a wordless piece for her soprano voice with "ululations, sobs, jazz inflections and wild laughter"?
... that Windows 3.1 had a special version, known as Modular Windows, that was controlled via television?