derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Ignacy Korwin-Milewski amassed a collection of more than 200 paintings by Polish artists, one of the largest private collections of contemporary Polish art at the time?
... that the black Christian Siriano gown worn by actor Billy Porter was said to have "won" the 91st Academy Awards?
... that French deafblind artist Arnaud Balard created the Sign Union flag in 2013 to promote the global unity of deaf people?
... that after the ANT catalog of espionage tools by the National Security Agency was leaked to the public, the tools were implemented as open-source hardware and software?
... that as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"?
... that during a promotional tour of Matt & Kim's third album Sidewalks, it was played on the public speaker system of the venue before each show began but none of its tracks were on the setlist?
... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
... that Iowa radio station KTFC was partially powered by a wind turbine that the owner had bought from an Arizona wind farm?
... that many places in the United Kingdom were racially segregated and non-white customers were banned from using spaces and facilities, even though the law never officially permitted such a colour bar?
... that 19th-century Polish ethnographer Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski travelled the countryside as a "wild man" and later appeared as a literary character?
... that an advertising campaign promoting an Aqua Teen Hunger Force film went wrong when signs throughout Boston displaying the Mooninites were mistaken for bombs?
... that Elizabeth Bonhôte wrote Bungay Castle after her husband bought Bungay Castle?
... that Mallory McMorrow won a public contest to design the Mazda3 while she was a college student?
... that Suluh Indonesia, once Indonesia's top newspaper by circulation, was banned after the 30 September Movement in 1965?
... that ice hockey player Ilya Samsonov chose the position of goaltender because he thought that the equipment looked cool?
... that Goodbye Normal Street was named after a street in Oklahoma, but also refers to the Turnpike Troubadours' new life touring on the road?
... that "toe-trimmed" alluvial fans on Mars provide evidence of ancient Martian river systems?
... that Bret Price built a 1,500-pound (680 kg) zipper in his backyard?
... that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
... that in the 1970s, anime song lyrics which centered on the characters' thoughts and feelings became more widely known to the Japanese public?
... that the "pathbreaking" book Paradigm Lost recommends abandoning the two-state solution in favor of equal rights for all inhabitants of Israel and Palestine?
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "Snake Woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
... that more than 30,000 cars were being towed annually by the 1970s to accommodate snow removal efforts in Montreal?
... that President Thomas A. Spragens suspended all classes at Centre College several days after the Kent State shootings, and organized teaching sessions for students on the college lawn?
... that Kyiv's Molodyy Theatre is located in the same mansion originally occupied by Les Kurbas's first theatre of the same name?
... that the form of ecclesiastical income in the Catholic Church known as the mense gets its name from the Latin word mensa, meaning 'table'?
... that pianist Paul Pollei was a founding member of a quartet that utilized two pianos and eight hands to play complex pieces?
... that in 1972, Catalina Island was occupied by the Brown Berets, who claimed that the territory rightfully belonged to Mexico?
... that the Black Opry is a website and musical revue that helps raise awareness of Black artists in country music?
... that Satya Graha was briefly barred from reporting from the Indonesian presidential palace after his newspaper published a piece on Sukarno's new wife?
... that in 2006, when The New York Times Book Review asked "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?", the answer was Beloved by Toni Morrison?
... that Ron Miles , who would have turned 59 today, played in the same high school jazz band as Don Cheadle?
... that during the attack on the Delhi chief minister's residence, protesters painted the gate red and tried to scale it while police officers watched?
... that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the American Civil War?
... that the 1653 hymn "Du, o schönes Weltgebäude", about renouncing the world, contains the stanza "Komm, O Tod, du Schlafes Bruder", which Bach used to conclude his cross-staff cantata?
... that Satyagraha Hoerip wrote a short story set during the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 from the perspective of the killers-to-be?
... that topics on Recess Therapy have included the economy, climate change, and peeing your pants?
... that the scientific name of the crimson-headed partridge translates to "blood-headed blood quail"?
... that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels, for being too mild?
... that "Es tönen die Lieder", a German round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß, who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it?
... that Nigerian footballer Chibuzor Nwakanma was among the first few foreign players to play for all the "big three" Kolkata-based football clubs, Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, and Mohammedan Sporting?
... that English singer Ella Henderson almost named her second studio album Chapter Two, but decided instead that "this is a whole book"?
... that the sea squirt Distomus variolosus colonises both fronds of kelp and the shells of crustaceans such as the spider crab Maja brachydactyla?
... that "The College Chimes" by American composer Daisy Wood Hildreth was chosen by the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts as their alumni song?
... that otomechikku, a subgenre of Japanese girls' comics focusing on stories about ordinary teenaged protagonists, has been compared to monogatari and the genre of Bildungsroman?
... that Free Comic Book Day was inspired by Free Scoop Night at an ice cream parlor?
... that although it spent only one week on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, "Visitor" was the fifth Adult Alternative Airplay number-one for Of Monsters and Men?
... that Vincent Munier's quest to photograph snow leopards became the basis for several books and a film?
... that Doug was nominated to Guinness World Records as the world's largest potato before genetic testing confirmed that it was actually a tuber of a gourd?
... that the algal species Trachelomonas cervicula has been observed in environments highly polluted with cadmium, lead, and zinc?
... that William Williams was a newspaper publisher who volunteered for service during the War of 1812 and advanced to the rank of colonel?
... that "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" is the first new Pink Floyd song in more than 25 years?
... that Johannes zu Eltz, who decided to become a Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church?
... that the Jefferson Scholarship gives scholars more than $293,000 to attend the University of Virginia?
... that when Hasan Gayo led a group of men to seize a railway company, its Japanese guards offered no resistance?
... that the Duke of Alcantara Stradivarius violin went missing for 27 years?
... that the Yiddish-language satirical newspaper Munkatsher Humorist frequently joked about disputes between the Hasidic courts of Munkacs and Belz?
... that American author Julie Jensen McDonald's first story was sold to a Sunday school paper for US$6.50?
... that Hokuseihō Osamu was inspired to become a sumo wrestler by a chance meeting with Hakuhō, a yokozuna, at an airport?
... that the 1662 Book of Common Prayer was approved by Parliament on 19 May 1662, and required by law starting on St Bartholomew's Day that year?
... that Winston Churchill reportedly called Sam Atyeo the world's most foul-mouthed diplomat?
... that Henry Wilson Hodge served as the director of military railroads for the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I?
... that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Frankfurt, the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music?
... that in 1981 Indiana State University–Evansville received a donation valued at nearly $300,000 in the form of campus radio station WSWI?
... that the body of Hacı Lokman Birlik was dragged behind a Turkish police vehicle, justified by the Ministry of the Interior by saying that the police assumed the body had a bomb attached to it?
... that the 2022 EuroLeague Playoffs marked the first appearance in the event for AS Monaco?
... that Hi-Tek Corporation's 725 series keyboard switches were rated for a lifetime of 100 million keystrokes?
... that Nick Schmaltz's older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?
... that the former German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow called Wilhelm II's 1900 Hun speech the "worst speech of that time and perhaps the most disgraceful speech that Wilhelm II [had] ever given"?
... that if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will paradoxically doubt that the preparation was necessary?
... that Port Vale F.C. is the only club to have beaten all 91 other clubs in the top four divisions of the current English football league system in a competitive league fixture?
... that George Balanchine's ballet Who Cares?, to songs written by George Gershwin, is likened to "a tap dance on pointe"?
... that Klaus Wallrath composed a mass for peace for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster, performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company?
... that Phoenix's Chinese Cultural Center was remodeled into an ordinary office building despite the objections of preservationists and community groups?
... that John Spencer "exploded two myths" by winning the 1977 World Snooker Championship with a two-piece cue that he had only been using for a couple of months?
... that Mansiya V. P., an Indian classical dancer, has experimented with choreographing a fusion of classical Bharatnatyam and traditional Sufi music?
... that man camps can overwhelm local infrastructure, including emergency services, and contribute to an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in North America?
... that in 1776 Abraham Hunt entertained Hessian mercenaries with food and drink to render them incapable for duty the night before George Washington defeated them at Trenton?
... that visitors to Balmaclellan in Scotland can stay in a historic watermill that is "remarkable" for the preservation of its internal workings?
... that Japanese mixed martial artist Itsuki Hirata's nickname is "Android 18" due to being told she looks like the Dragon Ball character?
... that Interlingue, an international auxiliary language, was released 100 years ago under the name Occidental by a Baltic German from Estonia?
... that Hungarian historian Andrea Pető believes that "right to be forgotten" policies should not be applied to the Holocaust?
... that NYXL was the first organization to own and operate multiple New York esports franchises?
... that by devising the Fairfield Experiment in industrial relations, Iain Maxwell Stewart inspired The Bowler and the Bunnet, Sean Connery's sole film as a director?
... that the first show at the Gershwin Theatre was also the first Broadway show to lose US$1 million?
... that Mexican sinologist Flora Botton was rescued by an American soldier when being transported on a train from Bergen-Belsen in 1945?
... that Of Monsters and Men filmed the music video for their song "Wild Roses" in 12 hours, just before beginning a tour?
... that the village of Eziler in Turkey has a girls' floor hockey team, but it has no gym?
... that the French mezzo-soprano Germaine Bailac played the title role in Bizet's Carmen at least 3,000 times?
... that Hollywood star Gary Cooper was baptised at the Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis?
... that eight of ten ministers in the Bhagwant Mann ministry are first-term members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly?
... that a mobile production unit served as the first studios of Washington state public TV station KTNW?
... that five years after Ihsan Gürz died while in Dutch police custody, his father was convicted of swearing at a police officer who had been present at his arrest?
... that the Richard Dawkins Award is awarded for publicly proclaiming "the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead"?
... that Jumbo Brown gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his tonsils removed?
... that the Ezo flying squirrel can glide a distance of more than 49 m (160 ft)?
... that Alden Roche played in all but one game during his six seasons with the Green Bay Packers?
... that Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said that about 80% of the causes driving the ongoing UK cost of living crisis are global?
... that the producer of Kylie Minogue's "Butterfly", American DJ Mark Picchiotti, released it in the US as a promotional single under his label?
... that Mike Sullivan was the first governor in Wyoming's statehood history to have his veto overridden by the state legislature?
... that Şevket Yorulmaz scored 99 goals in 173 matches whilst playing for Beşiktaş?
... that the Aurelia Star, an Iowa newspaper, has changed ownership at least 11 times?
... that Ecuadorian politician Paola Cabezas decided to stop straightening her hair when her niece described her own unstraightened hair as "ugly"?
... that the Supreme Court has been cited as a vector of democratic backsliding in the United States?
... that Takayama, Gifu, distributed 10,000 maps featuring the real-life locations of the anime TV series Hyouka?
... that singer Patsy Torres was referred to as the "princess of Tejano music"?
... that an exhibition match of Australian rules football was contested in London on 28 October 1916 between two teams of elite footballers also serving in the First AIF?
... that when her boss told her to quit her unpaid television commenting role, Katie Phang quit her paid job instead?
... that "Öffnet eure Tore" is a 1810 hymn in German written by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell for the Feast of the Ascension, based on Psalm 24?
... that during R2K: The Concert, Regine Velasquez was lifted by wires as if she were flying towards the audience?
... that Daisy Rockwell, the granddaughter of Norman Rockwell, won the 2022 International Booker Prize for her translation of Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree?
... that songs from the collection "Auf dem Weg durch diese Nacht" (On the way through this night) were performed at the 2022 Katholikentag?
... that some women have stopped playing competitive football because of the French Football Federation's ban on playing in hijab?
... that Caesar Tarrant remained enslaved after his service as a boat pilot in the American Revolutionary War until the state of Virginia purchased his freedom in 1789?
... that in March 2020, there were nearly 1,500 medical cyclotrons in operation worldwide?
... that Lorenzo Passerini, who has conducted several operas in Sydney, revived Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt?
... that John Cranko's ballet Initials R.B.M.E. is named after the four original lead dancers, Richard Cragun, Birgit Keil, Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen, who were his close friends and muses?
... that the winter quarters of a circus owned by Benjamin Wallace are now the site of the Circus Hall of Fame?
... that live broadcasts of the deciding frame of the 2020 World Seniors Championship were replaced by golf highlights?
... that trombonist Big Chief Russell Moore was the first member of the Pima tribe to receive an obituary in The New York Times?
... that Ed Sheeran wrote "Remember the Name" as a homage to the "cheekier songs" on early Eminem albums?
... that in 2007, José the beaver set up housekeeping in the Bronx?
... that the mezzo-soprano Wilhelmine Holmboe , who studied in Paris with Pauline Viardot and moved to Italy to perform, was one of the first Norwegian women to be acclaimed internationally for her singing?
... that Faith Cabin Library at Seneca Junior College in South Carolina is also called the "Oberlin Unit" because of the donations of books by the students of Oberlin College in Ohio?
... that as a member of the El Alto Workers' Center, Martha Yujra participated in mass mobilizations that led to the resignations of two Bolivian presidents?
... that Central City College was established as an African American-led alternative to the historically black Atlanta Baptist College?
... that Arlene Kelly made her international debut for the Ireland women's cricket team after nine of their regular players were unavailable for selection?
... that One Griswold Street in Detroit, now owned by the Church of Scientology, was built on the location of the first church building in the city, Ste. Anne de Détroit?
... that Lady Eva Julius once called Girl Guiding "the most important youth movement in the world"?
... that the Summit Hotel , once described by its own architect as the "most hated hotel in New York", was protected as a New York City landmark in 2005?
... that Egon Madsen, a former Stuttgart Ballet principal dancer, returned to the stage at the age of 57 and continues to perform in his 70s?
... that the 2009 book Where Heaven and Earth Meet introduced the term "Sacred Esplanade" as a politically neutral term for the religious site in Jerusalem known as al-Haram al-Sharif or the Temple Mount?
... that Sophie Freud, the granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, criticized psychoanalysis as a "narcissistic indulgence"?
... that, in the 2014 Texas Bowl, the Arkansas Razorbacks defense held the Texas Longhorns offense to a season-low net total of 59 yards?
... that squatters in Myanmar were punished for protesting against the 2021 coup d'état by being evicted?
... that a bunch of "smart-assed teenagers" drove around the Bronx looking for birds in garbage dumps?
... that "My Heart", a song recorded by Kyla , was written by Brian McKnight as a gift for her wedding to Rich Alvarez?
... that American artist Inez Demonet created watercolors of facial injuries for the War Department?
... that with regard to transparency, a Swiss permanent representative to the United Nations compared the election of the secretary-general of the United Nations to the election of the pope?
... that the Foxconn union, representing more than 90 percent of Foxconn's 1.4 million workers, is a company union dominated by management?
... that traffic at Greymouth railway station increased significantly after the opening of the Otira Tunnel?
... that Julie Beckett lobbied for the Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver, which enabled hundreds of thousands of disabled children to be cared for by their families at home instead of a hospital?
... that Subneolithic groups practised hunting and gathering whilst also incorporating elements of Neolithic culture, including pottery?
... that Burgenland Croat sculptor Thomas Resetarits created Stations of the Cross ?
... that the host of Canyon Kid's Corner said that his Brooklyn accent as a cowboy came from "the canyons created by the tall buildings"?
... that after a publisher declined the manga series Let's Go Karaoke!, it sold out multiple times after being self-published?
... that Vito Trause, who dropped out of high school during his junior year to join the United States Army in 1943, received his high school diploma at the age of 92?
... that Faiz Ahmad Faiz reportedly remarked that Mujh Se Pehli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang no longer belonged to him but to Noor Jehan?
... that Pearl Jam's manager agreed to include a song in The Last of Us Part II after hearing the story pitch, watching the trailer, and receiving a PlayStation 4 and a copy of the first game?
... that Ukrainian designer Anna October showed her collection during Paris Fashion Week after escaping the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
... that Victoria Desintonio successfully proposed a "citizen observatory" watchdog to reduce gender violence in Ecuador?
... that Boris Rhein failed to become the mayor of his hometown, but was later elected the minister-president of his home state?
... that Dutch squatters fighting eviction from De Vloek (The Curse) briefly occupied Scheveningen Pier?
... that H. B. Wilkinson lost the first special election in Arizona to Isabella Greenway, who became the first woman from Arizona to go to Congress?
... that after failing to persuade European donors that six human rights organizations had terrorist connections based on a dossier of classified evidence, Israel designated them as terrorist organizations?
... that the Stadthalle Hannover , the largest classical music concert hall in Germany by capacity, was modelled after the Pantheon in Rome and completed by 1914?
... that during World War II, Terry Sanford captured a German officer by grabbing him by the belt?
... that Basshunter recorded "Fest i hela huset" with Swedish Big Brother contestants who had never worked with music professionally?
... that art dealer Inigo Philbrick was called a "mini Madoff" by a colleague – before he was convicted of wire fraud?
... that ancient Roman gynecologists believed that menstrual blood could be used to drive dogs insane?
... that the emo-revival album Just Got Back From the Discomfort—We're Alright contains samples from Malcolm in the Middle on three of its songs?
... that the Dnieper Balts might have worshipped bear heads on pillars?
... that Joseph Ranger was the longest-serving Black sailor in the American Revolutionary War's Virginia State Navy?
... that the Suwałki Gap is often described as the modern version of the Cold War–era Fulda Gap, a NATO vulnerability of historical importance?
... that Stanford women's basketball player Cameron Brink is a close family friend of Stephen Curry?
... that a Japanese-era building in the Imperial Crown Style serves as the regional museum of Russia's Sakhalin Oblast?
... that Emma Watson considered quitting the Harry Potter film series, but later returned to star in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
... that a wine closet at 15 Central Park West originally cost up to $80,000, while a storage bin cost $35,000?
... that Arno Lücker ran a series of concerts titled 2 x hören (listen twice) at the Konzerthaus Berlin in which performers were interviewed between two renditions of the same piece of chamber music?
... that Rosana Alvarado was one of three women leading Ecuador's National Assembly in 2017?
... that Callaway Gardens promoted the John A. Sibley Horticultural Center as "one of the most advanced garden/greenhouse complexes in the world", before closing it in 2015 after more than 30 years?
... that the character of the mother in the painting In the Ploughed Field: Spring is believed to personify Spring?
... that the shiny chrysalis of Mechanitis butterflies might serve as temperature control during pupation?
... that Bob Neuwirth worked at an art supply store before becoming Bob Dylan's road manager?
... that Hurricane Agatha was the strongest Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico in May since records began in 1949?
... that due to the efforts of James Markham Ambler, the Jeannette expedition became the first Arctic expedition "without a single case of scurvy"?
... that the Uzunköprü Bridge was the longest bridge in the Ottoman Empire and later Turkey for 530 years until 1973, when it was surpassed by the Bosphorus Bridge?
... that Ruth L. Bennett provided shelter for more than 2,000 black women and girls who migrated north to Chester, Pennsylvania, as part of the Great Migration?
... that after using a talent show to select Apostolos Psichramis to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, the Greek broadcaster instead sent Sakis Rouvas?