derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that during a match at the snooker 2021 UK Championship, player Mark Williams fell asleep?
... that one of the largest and thickest loess plateaus in the world is the Loess Plateau in China?
... that Bobbi Kristina Brown died less than four years after her mother Whitney Houston died in similar circumstances?
... that during the January 1998 North American ice storm, an employee at Cornwall Electric used a bow and arrow to provide power to a city?
... that colonial printer Peter Edes was arrested by British forces for openly expressing support and sympathy for the patriots when they lost the Battle of Bunker Hill?
... that former NFL halfback Art Pharmer pursued, tackled, and captured a shoplifter who ran from the sporting goods store where Pharmer worked?
... that the Degenerate Art auction in 1939, which included paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso, raised only $115,000?
... that actress Miya Cech was praised for "do[ing] what [she] can with nothing" in the ill-regarded The Darkest Minds?
... that the 19-year-old Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala was the captain of the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911?
... that the Bancroft region is the only place in Canada and one of very few places in the world where uranium has been mined from pegmatite rock?
... that Mally Nydahl, "one of the greatest backs ever to come out of the Middle West", used his football earnings to pay for medical school and became a professor of orthopedic surgery?
... that Levantine Arabic is often written in Hebrew characters online by Bedouin, Arab Christians, and Druze in Israel?
... that Rebecca Odes played bass guitar for Love Child before going on to create Gurl.com?
... that in 2008, Macau transferred a woman to mainland China before her habeas corpus case was heard?
... that Twitch streamer Jerma985 hosted a stream in which viewers could control him in a real-life version of The Sims?
... that Maw Htun Aung, a Shan Nationalities League for Democracy candidate in the 2020 Myanmar general election, is Kachin, not Shan?
... that Greyhound Electronics enlisted the help of the Scarfo crime family to sell its video poker machines?
... that the economy of Reineh, now in northern Israel, was so strong in the Mamluk era that they could afford imported pottery from Syria and Italy?
... that Daniel Henchman was considered the "most eminent and enterprising" publisher and bookseller in all of British America prior to the American Revolution?
... that according to George Orwell, "serious sport has nothing to do with fair play ... it is war minus the shooting"?
... that Claudia Watkins, the only "lady judge" in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1969, thought it was "no big deal"?
... that Stephen Colbert initially balked at hosting The Late Show at the Ed Sullivan Theater , but called for the theater's restoration after learning about its neo-Gothic dome?
... that Sinan Selen worked at the travel agency TUI before he became the vice president of the German domestic intelligence service?
... that a woman in Texas attempted to have Tiger Flowers removed from the library collection at her daughter's school?
... that communist propagandist Jian Xianfo gave birth to her son in an earthwork during the Long March?
... that Interstate 90 is the longest freeway in the United States, at 3,020 miles (4,860 km)?
... that General Antonio Valero de Bernabé is said to have used his skills as a ventriloquist to fool his enemies into believing that their weapons were possessed?
... that South African anti-apartheid activist Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim confused warders at the Robben Island maximum security prison by playing Bollywood music?
... that bass-baritone Johann-Werner Prein took part in the 1994 premiere of Erwin Schulhoff's only opera, Flammen, which the Nazis had suppressed?
... that the director of the 1936 film The Love Wanga was threatened by having a wanga placed in his car?
... that artist Heather Doram won Antigua and Barbuda's national competition to design a new national costume?
... that a 1999 legal case guaranteed the right of transgender people in England and Wales to access gender reassignment surgery?
... that WAAF Corporal Elspeth Henderson remained at her post despite a direct hit by a Luftwaffe bomb?
... that Sandy Heribert was inspired to become a journalist after seeing coverage of the Gulf War when she was nine years old?
... that "the crowning achievement" of Francis Hopkinson Smith, the novel Felix O'Day, was not published until after his death?
... that the French lawyer and politician Francis Szpiner defended a former emperor in court before becoming a district mayor of Paris?
... that even though Charles P. Adams meant to hire someone else, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones remained at Grambling State University for 51 years?
... that the Chronicle of the 20th Century was so heavy that it was said to be "the first coffee table book seriously to threaten the well-being of coffee-tables"?
... that with more than 1,000 legs, Eumillipes persephone is the first known "true" millipede?
... that the USFL is in talks with officials from Birmingham, Alabama, with the goal of hosting the entirety of the 2022 USFL season in the city?
... that when flying ace Julius Busa's aircraft was hit at 3,000 metres (9,800 ft), his observer leapt overboard without a parachute?
... that Ethel Barrymore, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford, and Rosa Ponselle have been standing at 1552 Broadway since 1929?
... that blind botanist John Grimshaw Wilkinson used his tongue to tell the difference between plants?
... that the world's only museum devoted to American actor Phil Silvers is located in Coventry, England?
... that Sumitro Djojohadikusumo expected the majority of the beneficiaries of his economic policy might turn out to be "parasites"?
... that about three million people employed Dr. Halo between 1984 and 1993?
... that children copied British champion 60 m hurdler Yasmin Miller while she was training in her local park during the COVID-19 lockdown?
... that Robert D. Bullard has emerged as the "father of environmental justice" since the publication of his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie?
... that after the arrival of guerilla commander Goliath Tabuni, Puncak Jaya Regency became "the most violent" region in Papua?
... that the presence of illegal colleges in Saumlaki was compared to "mushrooms growing in the rainy season"?
... that West Virginia lawyer Arthur G. Froe served as D.C. Recorder of Deeds under three presidents and was appointed by President Wilson as a draft board legal advisor during World War I?
... that clashes between the Myanmar military and local armed groups broke out in Lay Kay Kaw six years after it was established as a "town of peace" between the parties?
... that in 1896, the New York Driving Club was sued for damaging their neighbor's garden?
... that the proposed Christian Street Historic District , originally settled by Irish immigrants, is also known as "Black Doctors' Row"?
... that twenty-a-day cigarette smoker Trudi Thomson suffered from bulimia and rheumatoid arthritis before she became a successful runner?
... that Dash for Cash, an event in which teachers competed to grab one-dollar bills to pay for school supplies, was criticized for being dehumanizing?
... that the Third Street Railroad Trestle is the last remaining wooden trestle bridge in downtown Austin, Texas?
... that Xie Fei, one of the thirty women participating in the Long March, was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution?
... that the Sei pezzi per pianoforte were Ottorino Respighi's first published works?
... that Pittsburgh Panthers end Steve Jastrzembski was nicknamed "Jazz" because his teammates could not correctly pronounce his surname?
... that many British people refer to one-pint milk bottles as "pintas" because of a 1958 advertising slogan ?
... that New Mexico television station KIVA-TV received angry phone calls and a bomb threat after switching away from a tied football game?
... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s?
... that on initiative of the Volkswagen worker organizations, Volkswagen formed one of the first Global Works Councils in 1998, an extension of the existing European Works Council?
... that Lou Swarz became famous for her "One Woman Show" involving monologue performances as various characters, including Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth?
... that Monmouth Coffee Company in Covent Garden was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London?
... that Juan Juárez may have been the first bishop-elect within the territory of the United States?
... that in Spain, it is considered lucky to eat twelve grapes while wearing red underwear received as a gift at midnight on New Year's Eve?
... that Moldavian rebel Teodor Boldur-Lățescu was twice beaten up on circus grounds: once for insulting Wallachian officers of the Romanian Army, and a second time for cruelty to animals?
... that lingering disabilities led flying ace Johann Frint to join the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops?
... that the last edition of The Knoxville Journal was printed 30 years ago today after a 106-year run?
... that Adolph Schoeninger faced financial ruin three times before becoming one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in the world?
... that Lunt and Fontanne retired from Broadway after the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was renamed after them?
... that Karolína Huvarová quipped that she earned her position as men's hockey coach "in bed"?
... that the ice mound at the center of the crater Louth is the warmest permanent body of water on the Martian surface?
... that English nurseryman Luke Pope claimed on his deathbed to have spent more than £3,000 (equivalent to over £250,000 in 2020) on tulip bulbs?
... that the Louis Micheels House was called a building of "great significance", but the new owners wanted it gone?
... that the 2021 Bahamas Bowl was the first edition in which a team made a return appearance?
... that approximately 85 percent of Manhattan was recreated for the 2008 video game The Incredible Hulk?
... that despite being nicknamed a "lanternbug", Lycorma imperialis does not actually emit any light?
... that Bianca Baptiste was Tottenham Hotspur's top goal scorer during their promotion—and then they dropped her from the team?
... that the captain of the warship CSS Baltic stated that she was "about as fit to go into action as a mud scow"?
... that Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque assisted in the founding of Malawi's first dental school in 2019?
... that the St. Mary and St. John of Nepomuk Monument in Timișoara commemorates the Great Plague of 1738, which killed around 1,000 of the city's 6,000 inhabitants?
... that a 2007 European Court of Human Rights case ruled that European automobile owners do not have the right to remain silent when asked who was speeding in their vehicle?
... that Operation Ivory Soap created and operated a fleet of aircraft repair vessels to support the United States' island-hopping strategy in the Pacific during World War II?
... that Charles William Warner, the attorney general of Trinidad between 1845 and 1870, was one of the most powerful men in the colony and often considered "the real governor"?
... that El Capitan, an operetta composed by John Philip Sousa, was later described as likely to become "the most enduring American comic opera of the nineteenth century"?
... that Cheok Hong Cheong sold bananas for a decade, after which he became superintendent of the Church of England of Melbourne?
... that the facade of geometric shapes on the Milam Residence also provides shade to the interior?
... that when offered, soldiers under Russian general V. P. Taranovsky chose imprisonment in Algeria rather than continuing to fight or serving as labourers?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that Sukanya Ramgopal is the first woman Ghatam player in Carnatic music?
... that an estimated 1,050 Jews were killed in the Rakaŭ Ghetto between its creation and liquidation?
... that in 1749, James Davis became the first printer to set up shop in the colony of North Carolina?
... that the genus Xochiquetzallia was named after the Aztec goddess of flowers?
... that Demi Lovato started an Internet feud with a frozen yogurt shop—and lost?
... that ski jumper Joséphine Pagnier , who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics, won two medals at the Winter Youth Olympics two years ago?
... that a wolf and lion cub were raised together since they were five weeks old to film The Wolf and the Lion?
... that in their first operation, Japan's Special Security Response Team participated in humanitarian activities after the 2021 Atami landslide?
... that playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer is said to "deal with serious, existential questions in seriously hilarious ways"?
... that the 1980 bibliography The Old French Tristan Poems was praised for indexing the fragments of Tristan, a 12th-century poem?
... that American root doctor Valerie Boles was the inspiration for the character Minerva in the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and its film adaptation?
... that following its victory over Bologna in the 1229 battle of San Cesario, the city of Modena returned the enemy's captured carroccio to prevent an escalation of the conflict?
... that the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany is considered to be the most severe persecution of LGBT people in history?
... that freestyle skier Kirsty Muir was the youngest Team GB competitor at the 2022 Winter Olympics?
... that of the more than 1,000 workers who participated in the 18-month long 1985–1987 Watsonville Cannery strike, none of them crossed the picket line?
... that The Battle at Lake Changjin II uses frostbite makeup and fake snow made from white sand?
... that after turning the San Diego Chargers into a Super Bowl contender, Johnny Sanders sought to bring an Arena Football League team into the city?
... that the Metro Orange Line and 80 percent of express buses in downtown Minneapolis use the Marq2 transit corridor?
... that the 2013 novel Body Offering was described by a critic as "more erratic than erotic"?
... that the only person killed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the island of Socotra was a seven-year-old in Qulensya?
... that Potamophylax coronavirus's range has been described as a battlefield between scientists and hydropower plant management?
... that Avraham Tamir was the first Israeli official to hold talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership?
... that David Bowie's "I Dig Everything" was one of his first songs to be covered by another artist?
... that Alexander Hamilton, a future United States Founding Father, attended St. John's Episcopal Church in his youth?
... that Australian rules football coach Sampson Hosking named himself in Port Adelaide's team at the age of 48?
... that at WSTA, the first radio station in the U.S. Virgin Islands, goats and chickens sometimes wandered in during broadcasts?
... that Alexandra Tegleva, a nursemaid to Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, helped uncover a woman who impersonated Anastasia after the royal family were executed?
... that according to Roald Dahl, the measles vaccine is probably far safer than eating chocolate?
... that the Casa Rull in Andorra was said to be occupied by "fat peasants"?
... that in 1850, about a quarter of the post offices of the Swiss Post were located in taverns?
... that zombie pornography emerged in the 1980s during a rise in the Italian sexploitation film industry?
... that Indian Army havildar Naren Chandra Das escorted the 14th Dalai Lama to safety in India after the monk made a 13-day trek across the Himalayas dressed as a soldier to evade Chinese troops?
... that a showing of the 1914 film Lord Chumley on the roof of a New York City theatre was canceled with an on-screen announcement due to its 40-minute runtime?
... that the pie house gained media attention from a viral TikTok that received more than one million views?
... that Henry E. Sigerist felt "depressed" after reading A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th and 17th Centuries?
... that pioneering Daily News camerawoman Evelyn Straus had her clothes custom-made to carry her film and flashbulbs?
... that a London shipbuilder founded Wellington Square Baptist Church in Hastings out of gratitude for his daughter's health improving while staying in the seaside town?
... that Sky Alps is the first airline to operate scheduled flights from Bolzano Airport since 2015?
... that siren kings use music by Celine Dion in loudspeaker battles?
... that in Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon, decided 110 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the initiative process?
... that when American-born skier Katie Vesterstein chose to compete for Estonia, she had only visited the country once, and did not speak the language?
... that Anita Kiki Gbeho is still working for the United Nations in Somalia, even though her boss was lucky to escape assassination?
... that Frank Frazetta's Egyptian Queen is the most expensive work of comic art ever sold at auction?
... that Genghis Khan declared himself to be "the punishment of God" after capturing the city of Bukhara in 1220?
... that Alexander Bannwart got into a fistfight with the pro-war senator Henry Cabot Lodge over America's proposed entry into World War I?
... that "Silly Boy Blue" reflected David Bowie's fascination with Tibetan Buddhism?
... that Encanto character Bruno Madrigal was originally named Oscar, but his name was changed due to the number of real-life Oscar Madrigals in Colombia?
... that the residents of Derasar collect rainwater in taankas since the village experiences eleven months of drought a year?
... that Baha al-Din Qaraqush built the Cairo Citadel on behalf of the sultan, Saladin?
... that the 2012 Olympic women's soccer semifinal between the Canadian and the American national teams was called "the greatest knockout match in major-tournament football" since 1982?
... that after he was stripped of his Cornish landholdings, Henry Fitzcount joined the Fifth Crusade, during which he died?
... that Svalbard Minute by Minute, a 221-hour-long television broadcast, is credited with increasing tourism in Svalbard by 25 percent?
... that Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora was partly inspired by The 1619 Project?
... that Balbuena metro station was flooded with sewage following a failure attributed to an unrelated fire?
... that Nathan Safir, general manager of Texas radio station KCOR for 44 years, was credited with being a pioneer in Spanish-language broadcasting in the United States?
... that Compaq placed the built-in trackball of the LTE Lite on its display housing?
... that although Ovad Efrat was a commando in the Israel Defense Forces, his son Daniel Efrat was rejected after conscription?
... that the joint National War Fund was created during World War II so that American citizens would not get annoyed by multiple donation requests for service members' support and overseas relief?
... that the 1986 Magic Tour was the last tour Freddie Mercury performed with Queen?
... that even though Robert W. Brady withdrew financial support of the nascent Boston College, he later became its president?
... that the organ in Hastings Unitarian Church had previously been in three other Unitarian churches?
... that Utah & Ether's five-year, 30-country graffiti-tagging tour ended when a single dad got Ether in a headlock?
... that the woodland garden , "colourfully planted with exotic shrubs and herbaceous plants, dominated English horticulture from 1910 to 1960"?
... that American psychoanalyst Helen Block Lewis was one of the first researchers to study the difference between shame and guilt?
... that although it was only formed in late 1939, the French 87th African Infantry Division inflicted 6,600 casualties upon the German forces and fought until the very end of the Battle of France?
... that Joe Felmet was sentenced to a chain gang for his participation in the Journey of Reconciliation, considered a precursor to the Freedom Riders, in 1947?
... that in the late 1800s, Hong Kong's small Jewish community was divided into two groups that would not even pray together?
... that William Rittenhouse is noted for having established the first paper mill in North America in 1690?
... that after Chandigarh fell from being the second-cleanest city in India to the 66th, the residents voted out the incumbent party?
... that the attractions of CTF 2187 included "the fog of war [and] polite insults in the newsletter"?
... that following Soviet occupation in 1940, the Lithuanian Armed Forces were transformed into the Lithuanian People's Army, dropped all use of Lithuanian national symbols and faced repression?
... that Harry Steele purchased the Albatross Hotel in a bankruptcy sale and ultimately owned it for over half a century until his death?
... that David Bowie's 1967 composition "Let Me Sleep Beside You" was rejected as a single due to its suggestive title?
... that Gheorghe Eminescu, nephew of Romania's national poet, spent time in communist prisons, including one which allocated him a 25-centimeters-wide (10-inch) sleeping area?
... that at the height of their popularity, eight-ball jackets were such a status symbol in the East Coast hip hop scene that they were frequently stolen at gunpoint?
... that Skálmöld & Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands documents a symphony orchestra playing heavy metal music?
... that a Eurocopter Tiger from the French Army's 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment was involved in the 2019 Ménaka helicopter crash that killed 13 people?
... that the International Vinegar Museum houses more than 350 types of vinegar from around the world?
... that Finnish linguist Eeva Leinonen was one of four women to be inaugurated as heads of Irish universities in 2021, the others being Maggie Cusack, Linda Doyle and Kerstin Mey?
... that George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Sonatine for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival, a tribute to its composer in his centenary year?
... that after being wiped by the BBC, all four episodes of the Doctor Who serial The Time Meddler were discovered in Nigeria in 1984?
... that an antiparallelogram is a crossed quadrilateral with two pairs of equal-length edges?
... that footballer Chris Hussey studied part-time to gain a first-class honours degree after overcoming anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorders?
... that a reviewer once withheld top marks for play-by-mail game Midgard because of a negative experience with a gamemaster?
... that the Umayyad prince Abd al-Malik ibn Umar ibn Marwan sealed the submission of western al-Andalus to the Emirate of Córdoba?
... that in its final years, Mississippi radio station WKXG allegedly attempted to maintain its broadcast license by "taking turns" with another station in their transmitter facility?
... that Jean-Claude Corbeil was credited with having "de-anglicized Quebec" during his time as linguistic director of the province's language police?
... that the special designation of the 623rd Field Artillery Regiment is being reviewed as it refers to Confederate general John Hunt Morgan?
... that Saint Juliana Olshanskaya is said to have appeared to Archimandrite Peter Mogila to reproach him for the lack of respect paid to her relics?
... that a 1994 lightning strike in Egypt led to 469 deaths after oil tanks were ignited and flooded the village of Dronka with burning fuel?
... that the first Division I college sports championship won by a historically black university in any sport was vacated by the NCAA?
... that the Buddhist themes of David Bowie's 1967 composition "Karma Man" were compared to the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange?
... that lawyer Francis B. Murdoch filed one-third of all freedom suits in St. Louis from 1840 to 1847, representing Dred Scott, Harriet Robinson Scott, Lucy A. Delaney and Polly Berry, among others?
... that the North Branch Bridge on Ontario Highway 78 partially collapsed just 17 days after a temporary bridge was opened to facilitate construction of a replacement?
... that Barrau de Sescas, a Gascon knight, was the first person appointed by an English king to a position titled admiral?