derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Kanye West originally wrote the chorus of "Gold Digger" from a female point of view?
... that in 2019, Paul Cosford and his colleagues found that lung cancer was more common in non-smokers than was generally thought?
... that the video game Pyongyang Racer was developed in North Korea for Koryo Tours, which organises tours to the country?
... that AI expert Tess Posner resigned her role as a CEO in order to concentrate on her music career?
... that the Syracuse House on Clinton Square was described by Charles Dickens as "the worst inn that ever was seen"?
... that at various secondary schools and universities, students eat entire heads of lettuce as quickly as possible?
... that Da'ud, the heir apparent of the last Fatimid caliph, spent almost his entire life imprisoned by the succeeding Ayyubid dynasty?
... that Siegfried Goldschmidt translated Kalidasa's epic poem Sêtubandhu from Prakrit into German?
... that the headless body of Thomas Aquinas was boiled, possibly in wine, after his canonization?
... that after going off the air due to financial issues, the control room of Texas radio station KBIL was set ablaze by an arsonist?
... that Elena Guseva's training as a choral conductor helped her analyse the score when playing Polina in Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Vienna State Opera?
... that the double florin , a British coin, was criticised both for being too close in size to the crown and because the crown on it was too small?
... that when journalist Bill Fleischman was surprised by a radio advertisement about his next-day article, he just sat down and wrote it?
... that the Port of Shahid Rajaee is responsible for 85 percent of the total loading and unloading carried out at Iranian ports?
... that part of the funding for the Columbus Monument in Syracuse, New York, was provided by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini?
... that in 2014, Trinidadian sprinter Deon Lendore won the highest award in National Collegiate Athletic Association track and field while at Texas A&M University?
... that Historia narodu polskiego, the first modern history of Poland, was never finished but was highly influential on emerging Polish historiography?
... that a pornographic video service once offered NFL quarterback Gardner Minshew a one-million-dollar endorsement deal based on his habit of exercising in nothing but a jockstrap?
... that Jupiter is sometimes called a "cosmic vacuum cleaner" because of frequent impacts from asteroids and comets ?
... that when baseball outfielder Brick Eldred was suspended by his team for refusing to pay a fine, another team acquired him, paid the fine, and gave him a raise?
... that Tana Tidung Regency is the smallest regency by land area in North Kalimantan and has the province's lowest poverty rate?
... that Jackie Kennedy teased former love interest Declan Costello that a 1955 double date involving them and their spouses had almost broken up the Kennedys' marriage?
... that David Bowie's 1999 album Hours was the first by a major artist available for download from the Internet?
... that businessman and activist Matthew Glover's charity challenged Pope Francis to become a vegan for Lent?
... that the American Committee for the Defense of British Homes donated a hunting rifle from Theodore Roosevelt to help defend Britain during the Second World War?
... that Smithsonian archivists are rediscovering the works of photography pioneer Louisa Bernie Gallaher after they were misattributed to her boss?
... that the Doctor Who serial The Chase was to feature the Beatles dressed as old men, performing as part of a fictional 50th-anniversary concert, but the idea was rejected by their manager?
... that Garry Kasparov thought that a move by chess computer Deep Blue demonstrated its "superior intelligence", but the move was in fact caused by a software bug?
... that Albert Freedman was the first person indicted in the 1950s quiz show scandals?
... that Dan Lanning, who coached his final game at Georgia in the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship, will face Georgia in his first game as the new head coach at Oregon?
... that Paul Gutama Soegijo travelled from Germany to Indonesia to study the gamelan instruments of Java for eight years?
... that the Amazon Venture oil spill, in which about 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 litres) of oil spilled into the Savannah River, was caused by three valves that simultaneously malfunctioned?
... that a 40-foot-tall (12 m) mural outside Broadway's St. James Theatre was painted over due to a broken foot?
... that in 1887, after spending three nights on the summit of Mont Blanc, scientist Joseph Vallot and his party were greeted with flowers by the mayor and all the inhabitants of Chamonix?
... that staff at the vegan food brand VFC interact with internet trolls on social media platforms to grow their online brand?
... that American musician Kenneth Kilgore, who was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, had a bridge posthumously named after him?
... that in 1951, 22 Greenlandic children were sent to foster families in Denmark to be re-educated as "little Danes"?
... that Kate Foster is the British ambassador to Somalia, but there are no consular services at the embassy in Mogadishu?
... that the play-by-mail game Victory! The Battle for Europe takes about three years to play?
... that John William Kiser , who arrived in Chicago "practically penniless", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company?
... that Pope Pius IX gave the monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey permission to brew Saint Vincent Beer?
... that in Africa, the criminalization of homosexuality was a colonial imposition and the decriminalization of homosexuality is resisted as a neocolonial imposition?
... that Francis Martin, a Cistercian monk from the Bronx, became a leader in the Catholic charismatic renewal?
... that Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit (AiT) programme – a public artwork showcase on the MRT network?
... that journalist Jack Berry was influential in lifting the ban on female reporters in the locker room at The Masters?
... that the artwork Comedian, a fresh banana taped to a wall with duct tape, sold for $120,000 in 2019?
... that Vita Sackville-West described the garden rooms she created at Sissinghurst as "a series of escapes from the world, giving the impression of cumulative escape"?
... that fashion model Vivienne Rohner, named after fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, opened one of Westwood's shows during her first season as a model?
... that Washington State Route 304 was accidentally removed from the state highway system by the Washington State Legislature for two years?
... that Beate Ulbricht was subjected to harassment by the East German government because her adoptive parents, Walter and Lotte Ulbricht, did not approve of her marriage?
... that Henry Stoehr was able to spend more time producing his band's debut studio album, Moveys, after losing his day job due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that one-sixth of all liquor establishments in Bombay were attacked in the 1921 Prince of Wales riots?
... that at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, German para-cyclist Hans-Peter Durst won a time trial despite having no saddle for most of the event?
... that one radio station owner's decision to bring a "country cousin" to Tallahassee, Florida, turned out to be a miscalculation?
... that beauty queen Veronica Volkersz was the first woman to pilot an operational jet fighter?
... that although the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tried to end payola, it just became more sophisticated?
... that star singers from the Munich parish of St. Martin, Moosach, were received by Angela Merkel in 2012?
... that Tyler Stockton was the second-youngest defensive coordinator in the FBS each of the two times he was nominated for the Broyles Award?
... that Mary Healy, an international speaker on faith healing in the Catholic Church, only became interested in the subject during her 2014 sabbatical?
... that depictions of a sexual relationship between Richard the Lionheart and his sister Lady Joanna were cut from the script of the Doctor Who serial The Crusade?
... that in 2021, Alabama state representative Steve McMillan sponsored a bill that later became law allowing restaurants to have outdoor dining areas for dogs?
... that in the 1960s, the Centers for Disease Control's Wellbee encouraged Americans to get vaccinated against polio and diphtheria?
... that Andi Sudirman Sulaiman made it mandatory for Muslim civil servants to read the Quran before work?
... that according to legend, the Red Ghost trampled a woman to death, and killed and ate a grizzly bear?
... that David Flitcroft was appointed as director of football at Port Vale after initially applying to be the club's manager?
... that the driver in a 2019 truck crash received a sentence of 110 years in prison due to mandatory sentencing laws in Colorado?
... that Rudi Kappel, co-founder of the first airline of Suriname, was arrested both on entering and leaving Santiago de Cuba?
... that The Alignment Problem, a book discussing existential risk from AI, was one of five "books that inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" in 2021?
... that Jessen's icosahedron has been used for both the "Skwish" children's toy and a NASA proposal for a "super ball bot" to cushion space landers on other planets?
... that after a dispute emerged over the terms of its lease, the owner of its broadcast tower forced Wyoming radio station KNWT off the air by disconnecting its power?
...that the Yamashiro ikki has been characterized as the "people's parliament of the Warring States period"?
... that in 1848, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was "regularly run with greater speed than any other railroad in the United States"?
... that Ludwig Zottmayr, who created the role of King Marke in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, was not the composer's first choice?
... that referee Jan Verhaas was informed of an error he made at the 2022 Masters by a member of the crowd?
... that Cody Bellinger made a motion capture appearance in Assassin's Creed Valhalla as the Viking Otta Sluggasson, with Bellinger's own baseball bat serving as Sluggasson's weapon?
... that Uvariopsis dicaprio was the first new plant species described in 2022?
... that Lewis Hamilton's physiotherapist, Angela Cullen , once cycled from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to northern Colombia?
... that while Wired recommended that readers binge The West Wing, it also advised readers to skip the fourth season episode "The Long Goodbye"?
... that sports broadcaster Gene Principe had to choose between covering his hometown team at the 2006 NHL playoffs and his "pure dream" of covering the Italian team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup?
... that four years after Harry Frazee opened his Longacre Theatre, he sold his ownership stake in the theater to focus on baseball?
... that quotations of Cicero, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. about memory and love are engraved on the Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico?
... that Leander Schnerr survived the Great Chicago Fire and subsequently became the archabbot of Saint Vincent Archabbey?
... that Fire and Sword, a film about Tristan and Isolde, reused the stuntmen and horses from another Arthurian film, Excalibur?
... that the viral online word game Wordle was originally created just for the developer and his partner to play?
... that a Māori military settlement at Māngere Bridge, New Zealand, was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland?
... that Dick Graves sold his casino to an employee on a handshake, telling him "pay me when you can"?
... that Ukrainian activists squatted Viktor Yanukovych's opulent clubhouse at the Mezhyhirya Residence?
... that journalist Eddie MacCabe claimed to have been pinned to the ground with guns pointed at his head while acting as a golf caddie for the United States president?
... that some of the Japanese music unit Sangatsu no Phantasia's songs were also written in novel form by its lead vocalist?
... that the fifteen bags of seaweed used as set dressing for the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet emanated an overpowering vegetable smell under the hot studio lights?
... that J.P. Morgan & Co. received a tax exemption for its former 60 Wall Street headquarters after the building's original developer had been denied the same exemption?
... that Oswald Spengler and the artist can be seen in the painting Late Visitors to Pompeii?
... that current Hawaii football defensive coordinator Trent Figg coached for the United States national team in 2016?
... that Dyson Institute Village's modular student-housing pods were inspired by Habitat 67?
... that Bobbie Gentry defined her composition "Ode to Billie Joe" as a "study in unconscious cruelty"?
... that Amanda Asay was the longest-serving member of the Canadian women's baseball team when she died at 33, having played on the team for sixteen years?
... that the more irreverent moments of The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, such as a golf game with giant balls, were added to break up the story's intensity?
... that immediately after Colonel Drury-Lowe reassured his men that "[the bullets] are all passing over your heads", the officer next to him was shot and killed?
... that Preet Chandi, the first known woman of colour to walk solo to the South Pole, contacted friends to be bridesmaids during her expedition?
... that in the 12th century, when wearing pure silk was forbidden for Muslim men, a silk-and-cotton blend known as mashru solved the problem?
... that Nathan Agostinelli stomped on a Viet Cong flag during his campaign for Connecticut State Comptroller?
... that American business executive William M. Ellinghaus helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy in the late 1970s?
... that Lifetime Medical Television, "the network for physicians only", charged the highest advertising rates on cable?
... that after Goo Hara's mother abandoned her and Goo died young, South Korean law was changed to prevent such parents from claiming inheritance?
... that you could be arrested for trying to arrange a contract killing through RentAHitman.com?
... that the name of the KHOL podcast "Yonder Lies" comes from a common misconception about the words on a sign ?
... that the astrologer Linn Nhyo Taryar was arrested after performing yadaya (magic rituals) against coup leader Min Aung Hlaing?
... that despite digital solutions gaining market share, the Day-Timer personal organizer has returned to being a paper-only product?
... that British philatelist Alma Lee specialised in the "standing Helvetia" stamps of Switzerland?
... that the Nashua and Lowell Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire?
... that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra, Raminta Šerkšnytė used a vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?
... that Charles Thaddeus Russell's architectural designs helped to create the "Black Wall Street of America"?
... that Rosa the cow would attack French game show contestants and knock down sets but would not attack people on the ground?
... that Queen Victoria ordered the erection of the Prince Imperial Memorial on the spot where Prince Napoléon was killed in battle with Zulus?
... that between 1878 and 1898, American inventor Maria E. Beasley patented a footwarmer, an improved life raft, several barrel-making machines and an anti-derailment device for trains?
... that the Royal Navy's 4th Submarine Squadron operated from Sydney to train Australian personnel in anti-submarine warfare?
... that Alice of Friday the 13th became a catalyst for the slasher film trope of unexpectedly killing off the main surviving protagonist in the sequel?
... that the architect Friedrich Silaban submitted his design for the Istiqlal Mosque pseudonymously in order to conceal his Christian identity?
... that according to one critic, the math rock album Cryptooology by Yowie "sounds like an explosion in a Slinky factory"?
... that as well as having a film career spanning 60 years, Kumeko Urabe became the oldest debut singer in 1984 with her single Octopus Song?
... that Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby performed a Lambeau Leap after a game-winning field goal, even though it is usually only done as a touchdown celebration?
... that Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel includes fairy tale, body horror, and apocalyptic short stories, but all of them relate to the human body?
... that "Candy" by H.O.T. sparked a new wave of mainstream music in the young generation of South Korea?
... that ice hockey player Trent Frederic was coached by former professional athletes in three of his childhood sports?
... that the immigrant-background narration of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović has been compared to that of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint?
... that The Outdoor Circle opposed a 2009 visit to Hawaii by the Wienermobile, believing its presence in the state was illegal?
... that the 7,000-pound (3,200 kg) sculpture Freedom offers visitors a photograph opportunity?
... that calypsonian Mighty Bomber believed that the judges denied him the Trinidad and Tobago Independence calypso monarch title in 1962 because he was born in Grenada?
... that the windows of St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church in Bismarck, North Dakota, contain stained glass fragments collected from English churches damaged during World War II?
... that Zdzisław Najmrodzki, a thief in 1970s–1980s Poland, escaped from law-enforcement authorities and prisons on 29 occasions?
... that according to the book To Kill a Democracy, when democracies destroy their social foundations, they lay the foundations for despotism?
... that Ching Hammill died less than two months after making his National Football League (NFL) debut?
... that the wedding of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands and Claus van Amsberg was marred by protests over Amsberg's German heritage and past membership in the Hitler Youth and the Wehrmacht?
... that Crackhead Barney picked a dead rat up off the street before confronting the National Guard at the inauguration of Joe Biden?
... that archaeologist Bengt Nordqvist interprets a Migration Period belt buckle found at Finnestorp as a depiction of a mythological scene known from the Old Norse poem Völuspá?
... that in her 2021 book White Evangelical Racism, professor of religion Anthea Butler called American evangelicalism a pro-Trump, "nationalistic political movement"?
... that the steamship Clyde was wrecked in 1879 while carrying more than 500 replacements for the British 24th Regiment, which had suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Isandlwana?
... that in his final collegiate game, Tufts University football player Carl Etelman kicked a field goal with a broken ankle?
... that the construction of Auckland's Panmure Bridge in 1865 involved underwater repairs using Heinke diving suits?
... that Leon Stynen has been called one of Belgium's greatest architects of the 20th century?
... that the glass surface on the BNL BNP Paribas headquarters has alternating angles that follow the principle of the "two-faced Janus"?
... that U.S. Virgin Islands suffragist Ella Gifft smuggled rum during Prohibition by hiding it in her underwear?
... that Paraguayan diplomat Elisa Ruiz Díaz helped develop her country's constitution?
... that the 1938 film Road Demon contains footage of well-known accidents that occurred at Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
... that when Christy Schwundeck was shot in a job centre in Germany, she had nine cents in her wallet?
... that the Ethel Barrymore Theatre has never changed its name, owner, or use since its opening in 1928?
... that the St Leonard's Place hoard of around ten thousand 9th-century Northumbrian coins was discovered by workers digging a drain?
... that the short story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere was chosen by John Updike as a selection for the Today Show book club on NBC?
... that the Springburn Winter Gardens, the largest single-span glasshouse in Scotland, has been derelict since 1983?
... that the magic minute exposed a "secret" about baby carrots and criticized Jimmy Carter's sweaters?
... that the Berggarten, a historic botanical garden since 1750 in Herrenhausen, features a mausoleum , where members of the royal family were interred?
... that an observer once described a play-by-mail game as "the most complex game system on Earth"?
... that Chappell Roan was signed to Atlantic Records at 17 years old?
... that American football wide receiver Bo Hines transferred to Yale University as a freshman to further his political ambitions?
... that a jury ruled that the killing of a policeman during the Coldbath Fields riot was justifiable homicide?
... that news editor Amasa Converse officiated the marriage of Edgar Allan Poe and Poe's teenage cousin Virginia Clemm?
... that the "wickedest man in the world" and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh both lived in London's Wellington Square?
... that after training for the Soyuz T-11 mission, Indian Air Force pilot Ravish Malhotra stayed on the ground as a backup astronaut for Rakesh Sharma, who became the first Indian in space?
... that before the Biltmore Theatre was restored in 2003, there were proposals to lease the theater to a delicatessen owner or turn it into a hotel lobby?
... that the township of Hồ Xá in Vietnam was once known as the "B-52 bomb pocket"?
... that Nebraska's "Itch" Oehlrich was lured by the "scratch" of $100 per game to play in the National Football League?
... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Ivesiana to music by Charles Ives, despite previously finding his works too complex for dance?
... that the lead role in the 2021 film Cry Macho was first offered to Clint Eastwood in 1988?
... that Elfrida von Nardroff won $220,500 ($2.1 million today) on the game show Twenty-One in 1958, the highest winnings of any contestant?
... that after it broadcast for the last time, KHAT became Rock Steady and was part of a Triathlon?
... that although the sculptor of Las Tarascas based their faces on that of a real woman, their bodies were invented?
... that in 1976, Karen Ferguson founded the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit pensioner advocacy organization, with encouragement and monetary support from Ralph Nader?
... that the Nishi-Okoppe and Yubetsu stations on the former Nayoro Main Line are now the site of a hotel and fire station respectively?
... that Hurley Goodall was appointed back onto the school board in Muncie, Indiana, following the death of his successor in a plane crash?
... that in October 1981, American doctor and mountaineer Peter Hackett became the third known person to complete a solo ascent of Mount Everest?
... that the landscapes in the manga series Star Red were drawn from photographs taken by NASA during the Viking 1 Mars exploration mission?
... that when Lou Almada brought his younger brother with him to spring training, the team gave his brother his job?
... that in garden history, a wilderness is a highly artificial and formalized type of woodland, forming a section of a large garden?
... that Progress, composed by Winsford Devine and recorded by calypsonian King Austin in 1979, was declared "the song of the last millennium" by the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians' Organisation?
... that for its ReadRight software, OCR Systems recommended users block out graphics on the page with a Post-it Note?
... that 2020 European pommel horse champion Matvei Petrov won Albania's first medal at the European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
... that the season-one finale of Riverdale, "Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter", almost included Sabrina Spellman from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina?
... that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols?
... that Jonathan Reynolds deep-fried a real turkey during his performance of Dinner With Demons at the Second Stage Theater, New York?
... that dyeing the threads for a weaving by Mary Zicafoose may involve wrapping, tying, and untying as many as 80,000 ikat ties?
... that Rita Humphries-Lewin, a former chair of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, entered the industry as a secretary?