derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artist Robert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-garde funk and 17th-century Dutch realism?
... that a Catholic radio station in Texas airs religious talk shows, the Mass—and weekly broadcasts of high school football?
... that Jonathan Beaulieu-Richard retired from the Canadian Football League to become a pharmacist?
... that in 1979 the magazine Seven Days advised, to avoid ingesting plutonium orally, "never make an A-bomb on an empty stomach"?
... that David Cortés , a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, was dubbed the "Santa Claus of Potosí"?
... that yoga nidra, a state of consciousness "in which Buddhas may access secret knowledge", is being studied for potential treatment of sleep problems?
... that Kotaku revised an article about Nintendo Switch emulation after Nintendo complained that the previous version encouraged piracy?
... that Collingwood coach Robert Harvey gave Anton Tohill his AFL debut in 2021, having played International Rules Series against Tohill's father in the 1990s?
... that in her song "Icy Chain", Saweetie disses PETA, telling them she wears fur?
... that University of Exeter lecturer Fu Jia and his coauthors said in 2017 that "uniquely for any hotel in China", Fairmont Beijing has three workers who have learning disabilities?
... that Robert Micklewright created the cover art for Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul's first two novels?
... that in 1979, the Studio 54 nightclub started serving fruit punch because its owners were arrested?
... that the book Working from Within details how W. V. Quine only began to use the term "naturalism" years after he had already developed the key tenets of the philosophy?
... that the owner of a Louisiana radio station was killed while in the process of putting it back on the air?
... that the 1944 Story of a Secret State was one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland, including the Holocaust in Poland?
... that the Dimension 68000 microcomputer had expansion cards to emulate the Apple II, the IBM PC, and various CP/M machines?
... that William Penney, Baron Penney, was credited as the "father of the British bomb"?
... that the proposed third season of teen sitcom Sonny with a Chance was reworked into the sketch comedy series So Random! after the departure of its lead actor Demi Lovato?
... that banker Hermann Marx and his firm underwrote the share issue that led to the "pepper scandal" of 1934?
... that groups of white-lipped peccaries can drive away jaguars with their screaming and clacking of teeth?
... that the only purpose of the Delaware Straight-Out Truth Teller was to promote a political candidate?
... that as a senior in high school, manga artist Yama Wayama began drawing male–male romance manga as a hobby?
... that Windows 2.1 was the first version of Microsoft Windows to require a hard disk drive?
... that a radio astronomy facility in Illinois objected to the establishment of a TV station in New Jersey?
... that Turkish aviation pioneer Vecihi Hürkuş had to transport his second plane to Prague just to get it certified?
... that The Onion said in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that "the federal judiciary is staffed entirely by total Latin dorks"?
... that two days after it had ignited, the Tiger Fire had already burned 5,567 acres (2,253 ha) of land near Black Canyon City, Arizona?
... that in the 2022 Berlin Marathon, Tigist Assefa won by running the third-fastest marathon ever by a woman, in just her second marathon, breaking her personal best by nearly 20 minutes?
... that Clinton D. Burdick and his father Howard are the only father–son pair to receive the title of flying ace?
... that Rockstar Vienna was the largest video game developer in Austria when it closed in 2006?
... that Harry Langford still turned up for football practice the day after he received a concussion, passed out, and was hospitalized?
... that after visiting Hungary in 2015, members of Action Deaf Youth headed to Stormont to demand better sign language support in Northern Ireland?
... that Julian Niccolini of the Four Seasons Restaurant deliberately sat ex-partners next to each other?
... that Vlado Milunić admitted that the Dancing House, which he co-designed, was compared to a "gold tooth that spoils a smile"?
... that the leak of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game was described as one of the biggest leaks in video game history?
... that Scottish glass artist Denis Mann has made the winner's trophy for every series of the British game show Mastermind, which started in 1972?
... that fans of the musical Rent would sleep outside the Nederlander Theatre to get cheap front-row tickets?
... that in 1915, Walter McCredie unsuccessfully challenged the baseball color line that prohibited non-white players?
... that Arab Coffeehouse depicts Henri Matisse's visit to Tangier, where he saw its locals gaze for hours into fishbowls?
... that in 2017, Vincent Ialenti became the first anthropologist with a feature article in Physics Today?
... that the chancery of the Philippine consulate general in Honolulu was bought with donations?
... that Cornell University's student-oriented programming language dialect was made available to other universities but required a "research grant" payment in exchange?
... that John Giffard, of Chillington Hall, was described as "arguably Britain's most aristocratic policeman" in 2004?
... that the pro-adoption documentary I Lived on Parker Avenue premiered at the Louisiana Governor's Mansion in 2018 at the invitation of Governor John Bel Edwards?
... that the young protagonist of A Costume for Nicholas has Down syndrome, as does his portrayer?
... that the white design on the national Māori flag is a traditional Māori koru, or fern frond, representing renewal and hope for the future?
... that Fritz Pleitgen, who interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, directed the broadcaster WDR from 1995 to 2007?
... that passenger service on the Ridgefield Branch was eliminated after the electrification of neighboring lines?
... that Rick Buffington played for at least 17 minor league and semi-professional football teams, including three at once?
... that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said to evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada?
... that Harry Booth played for, captained, and coached the Saint Joseph's Hawks baseball and men's basketball teams?
... that the isolation of shielings might have given opportunity for "sexual experiment[ation]"?
... that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
... that the southernmost worm species, Scottnema lindsayae, reproduces best at temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F)?
... that Mary Ridge blew up the Liberator on her first encounter with Blake's 7, and killed off the crew on her last?
... that fighting video game Panza Kick Boxing was endorsed by a French kickboxing champion who also supplied technical advice?
... that Albert Henry Smyth discovered 385 letters written by Benjamin Franklin and became the first editor to publish them, beginning in 1905?
... that although he won the battle of Brentford, Edmund Ironside lost so many men that he needed a new army?
... that Magnus Carlsen, the current World Chess Champion, resigned a recent tournament game after only one move?
... that the eight original Francis turbines of Kraftwerk Heimbach , a hydro-electric power station that opened in 1905 as then the largest in Europe, served until 1974?
... that Galadriel's gift of some of her hair to Gimli in The Lord of the Rings has echoes in both English literature and Norse legend?
... that the English River within the East English River Provincial Park has no regulated flow and no pollution, unique in northwestern Ontario?
... that Ruth Huenemann was one of the first researchers to make a connection between socioeconomic status and childhood obesity?
... that Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks?
... that Songbird Sings was a series of concerts that focused on Regine Velasquez's music career?
... that a TV station in Buffalo, New York, owned a 1921-vintage fire engine?
... that the Felix M. Warburg House was converted into the Jewish Museum after nearly being replaced by apartments?
... that Borys Lyatoshynsky wrote Mourning Prelude, described as among his most tragic works, the day his father died of typhus?
... that Freetown, Alabama, was founded by free and formerly enslaved African Americans in Alabama, whose church, built in 1929, burned down in 2022?
... that Edgar Williams, Bernard Montgomery's intelligence officer, was an Oxford don who hated soldiering as a profession?
... that the book Questioning Collapse was created as a critique of the claims made by Jared Diamond in his book Collapse?
... that a New York state radio station became entangled in an estate dispute in which a man was jailed four times in six months for contempt of court?
... that Natalie Portman was a co-author on a scientific paper about frontal lobe activation?
... that Cathie Dunsford was unable to find many books about lesbianism in the 1970s, but by the 1980s had herself become a writer and anthologist of lesbian literature?
... that in 1816, a copy of the long-lost Institutes by the Roman jurist Gaius was discovered, hidden underneath writings by Saint Jerome?
... that Ruth M. Anderson recorded a "timeless" Spain in her photographs of the 1920s?
... that Queen Elizabeth II wanted the King George VI Memorial Chapel to hold the remains of three British monarchs and their consorts?
... that Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Nasafi was the first theologian to introduce concepts from Neoplatonism into Isma'ili doctrine?
... that a Nebraska radio station's plans to broadcast college sports were met with "audible gasps"?
... that Dave Barrow quit municipal politics to work at his family's insurance brokerage before becoming mayor of Richmond Hill?
... that during the First World War the East African Mounted Rifles sometimes painted stripes on their horses to camouflage them as zebras?
... that Kiriko, a "fox girl" character for Overwatch 2, was teased through a coded message that translates to "What Does the Fox Say?"
... that William Hartnell was the only original Doctor Who cast member who remained by the end of the second season?
... that the First National Bank Tower, standing at 634 feet (193 meters), is the tallest building in the state of Nebraska?
... that New Zealand academic and runner Roger Robinson has continued competing in races into his 80s despite knee replacement surgery in both knees?
... that the lenient sentencing of two Europeans convicted in 1918 after the death of a black man in the East Africa Protectorate led to inquiries from the British Colonial Office?
... that in 2021, two Swedish prison inmates took correctional officers as hostages, demanding twenty kebab pizzas?
... that Wankaner's Ranjit Vilas Palace in Gujarat, India, features Venetian Gothic, Italianate, Mughal and Rajput styles?
... that Tova Friedman is a Holocaust survivor who now posts videos of her life and survival on TikTok?
... that Gilbert Bundy killed himself on the 12th anniversary of a traumatic experience as a war artist at the Battle of Tarawa?
... that the margins of the Hours of Charles the Noble contain 180 depictions of musical instruments, providing a representative overview of medieval instruments?
... that Cleo Damianakes's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" on A Farewell to Arms?
... that The Summer Hikaru Died went from drawings on a Twitter account to receiving three times more orders than copies available in its first print run?
... that a doctor told Howie Shanks that he only had a few weeks to live, but he lived another 31 years?
... that Christian Krohg's painting Leiv Eirikson Discovering America was shown at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition together with a replica of a Viking ship?
... that upon the redescription of the fossil marchfly Plecia avus, an additional seven specimens were identified?
... that Perth's Airport Central railway station, which opens today, has the longest operating escalators in the southern hemisphere?
... that when Fred Franzia created Two-Buck Chuck, he was said to have "turned the wine industry on its head"?
... that while oil and gas production is a large part of Turkmenistan's economy, there are only two oil refineries in Turkmenistan?
... that Herb Lusk retired from the National Football League at the age of 26 to become a minister?
... that Nicola Griffith's Slow River, described as a lesbian romance, features a "sophisticated depiction of environmental management"?
... that the anti-monument to the 43 students kidnapped in 2014 was also dedicated to the thousands of people reported missing in Mexico?
... that Incas, the last known Carolina parakeet, died in the same aviary cage as the last passenger pigeon?
... that the lichen genus Felipes is named for its fruiting structures, which resemble a cat's paw?
... that heavy metal band Judas Priest took their name from Bob Dylan's song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"?
... that Rings of Power showrunner Patrick McKay likened Isildur to Michael Corleone from The Godfather?
... that Wesley Tann designed dresses for Jackie Kennedy, Carmen de Lavallade, Leontyne Price and Michelle Obama?
... that American environmentalist Rosalie Edge was called "the only honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation"?
... that the dominant species in the Iron-grass Natural Temperate Grassland of South Australia are often not grasses at all?
... that a pink skin for Mercy in the video game Overwatch helped raise more than $12 million for breast cancer research?
... that in 2005, the Philippine embassy in Paris regularly had a flooded basement due to a lack of funds?
... that medievalist Edward Rand rang the doorbell of Harvard president Charles William Eliot and asked him: "I would like to go to Harvard; do you have any money?"
... that academic Kohei Saito describes the Sustainable Development Goals as the "new opium of the masses" in his 2020 Marxist book, Capital in the Anthropocene?
... that Nick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
... that the dining room at Ardress House has no internal doors and can only be reached using an external entrance?
... that the flat wooden ceiling of St. Martin , the Lutheran main church of Sindelfingen built in the 11th century, is still preserved?
... that Cephas L. Bard, the first American physician in Ventura, California, was also the first person to die in the hospital he built there?
... that independent media and scholars estimate that thousands might have perished in the Yarkand Massacre in 2014?
... that Reconstructing Womanhood by Hazel Carby, about the history of American black women writers, was said to be a "landmark study" and "groundbreaking"?
... that Henry Stock designed the Peek Freans factory where, in 1929, Twiglets were invented?
... that despite a song duration limit of three minutes and thirty seconds at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, the entry from Italy lasted over five minutes?
... that the search engine of Geliyoo was found to be retrieving its results from Google, in contrast to the company's claims of spending 10 million Turkish liras on development?
... that Jamie "Canhead" Keeton is also known as the "human suction cup"?
... that the United States Army Replacement and School Command reached its peak in May 1945 with 481,000 personnel?
... that Adele's song "Water Under the Bridge" is about her relationship with Simon Konecki, which she is usually reluctant to discuss in her music?
... that the 1995 Aigio earthquake caused the strongest ground acceleration ever recorded in Greece?
... that Latin philologist Robert Rodgers produced the first detailed commentary on Frontinus's work on Roman aqueducts in almost 300 years?
... that the bombing of Mokha was described as one of the deadliest attacks by the Saudi Arabian–led coalition against Yemen, leaving between 65 and 120 dead, including 10 children?
... that at the time of its construction in 1920, the Howard Theatre in Atlanta was the second-largest movie theater in the world, with a seating capacity of 2,700?
... that when Josette Simon appeared as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, she was the first black woman in a lead role at the Royal Shakespeare Company?
... that Surinder Singh Bakhshi led the successful containment of smallpox in the community during Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in 1978?
... that the 2022 U.S. Open Cup Final was the first in 14 years to feature a non-Major League Soccer team?
... that Pietro Badoer was banished twice, poisoned one of his three wives, but declined an offer for a coup to make him doge?
... that despite entering politics as part of a right-wing party, Betty Tejada was later elected president of the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Movement for Socialism?
... that Britten's Five Flower Songs, part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall?
... that when Rain Pryor drew a picture of her friend Skeeter the unicycling clown in school, her teacher said that there were no Black clowns?
... that British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany involved buffaloes, duck bills and weasels?
... that in being hired as a newscaster for ATB, Bertha Acarapi became one of Bolivia's first high-profile chola indigenous presenters?
... that Boost! won a temporary restraining order against Mead Johnson, after claiming it had infringed on their trademarks?
... that the Peruvian Civil Guard officer Mariano Santos Mateo was nicknamed the Brave Man of Tarapacá because he captured a banner of a Chilean military unit during the Battle of Tarapacá?
... that Oglethorpe County High School worked with the University of Georgia to bring their dropout rate from 65 dropouts in 1985–86 to just 4 in 1987–88?
... that Taylor Swift said she wrote "Should've Said No" to address her "dramatic and crazy" experience?
... that until a 1982 legal decision, women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London?
... that OPTi Inc. won a patent suit against Apple for unauthorized use of "predictive snooping" technology?
... that when pieces from Mendelssohn's German Liturgy were sung by the Thomanerchor in 2022, a reviewer noted "a captivating purity in the tone of devotional Reformation romanticism"?
... that despite the commercial success of previous Kendrick Brothers films, star Kirk Cameron said that Lifemark was unable to secure a distributor due to its pro-life stance?
... that the elite men's race at today's London Marathon is expected to feature three of the five fastest men in history?
... that Tolkien may have devised the sundering of the Elves to justify the existence of two distinct Elvish languages in his legendarium?
... that Bob Dylan recorded "To Ramona" in a single take, for an album recorded in a single three-hour session?
... that during his first air-sea rescue mission with the Irish Air Corps, Barney McMahon landed to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights?
... that an investigation into the Royal Oak post office shootings led one congressman to accuse the Postal Service of having been "asleep at the switch"?
... that Gil Kim played professional baseball in the Netherlands, China, Australia, Spain, and Venezuela, scouted in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and coaches in Canada?
... that the first Catholic synod in China was held in 1803 near Chungkingchow in Sichuan Province?
... that 17th-century freemason and alchemist Elias Ashmole attempted to invoke the spirits at the mediaeval Dove Bridge?
... that former Atalanta player Andrea Rinaldi died of an aneurysm aged 19 in 2020?
... that Jamie Proctor won Port Vale's Goal of the Season award after scoring a scissor-kick volley against Sutton United?
... that the video for "7/11" by Beyoncé contains a cameo from her daughter Blue Ivy?
... that Elise Reiman, who taught children's classes at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet for four decades, was called "the bridge between generations"?
... that a Turkish Airlines aircraft that crashed in 1972 had been due to carry Turkish prime minister Nihat Erim later that day?
... that Hamim Tohari, the current spokesperson of the Indonesian Army, was once removed from his post after being caught using a phone during a meeting with the commander-in-chief?
... that TreasuryDirect, a website for purchasing US Treasury securities, originated in 1986 as a computerized service conducted over postal mail?
... that the manga series Reptilia was inspired in part by a story from Japanese folklore about a woman who is transformed into a snake, told to author Kazuo Umezu as a child?
... that Nancy Reagan jumped out of her bath when she heard that her husband had been elected President of the United States?
... that a design competition was held in 2022 to find a replacement for the coat of arms of Curaçao ?
... that Carter Moore Braxton fought for the Confederacy throughout the American Civil War and, according to one report, had seven horses killed under him but avoided any wounds?
... that the Adoration of the Magi with Saint Helena was once the main altarpiece at Sant'Elena, a church dedicated to its namesake?
... that after the Supreme Court of Ohio imposed restrictions on bail procedures, the dissenting justices participated in a bus tour to campaign for a ballot measure that took away their power on that issue?
... that a peace monument was erected for Turkish journalist Abdi İpekçi in the place where he was shot and killed by an assassin 21 years earlier?
... that in 2016 an inflatable gorilla was erected on the top of the Sky Trek Tower for Six Flags Great America's Halloween event Fright Fest?
... that Ugandan military officer Bernard Rwehururu originally wanted to become a Catholic priest, but enlisted as a soldier to pay for his siblings' school fees?
... that giant bucket hats were placed around Wales and in Qatar to mark Wales' football team reaching the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
... that after he, his father, and his grandfather won the Rurrenabaque mayoralty as MNR members, Yerko Núñez switched parties and won a third term, defeating the MNR by a margin of 3,476 votes to 30?
... that LCD Soundsystem recorded for the first time in five years by making the song "New Body Rhumba" for the 2022 film White Noise?
... that Syndicate was the first to reach 1 million followers on Twitch, beating League of Legends developer Riot Games to the record?
... that when students spoke Vietnamese in a graduation speech in Louisiana, the school district proposed banning all non-English languages?
... that in 2020 when Persian-Canadian countertenor Cameron Shahbazi performed in Written on Skin in Cologne, his "Luciferian charm" and "iridescent voice" were noted?
... that the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, uniquely within the Council of State, has powers in both the executive and legislative branches of government?
... that a woman hitchhiked from Indiana to Washington, D.C., to protest the sale of the radio station where she worked?
... that 55,000 Berlin workers went on strike on 28 June 1916 to protest the arrest and trial of anti-war campaigner Karl Liebknecht ?
... that Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls, leaders of the Amazon Labor Union, were named two of the "100 most influential people in the world" in 2022?
... that the 1957 Mongolia earthquake produced the world's best-preserved surface rupture of any great earthquake?
... that Jean Holzworth obtained a PhD in Latin, then retrained as a veterinarian after one of her favorite cats died from a viral infection?
... that Wyndham Lewis abandoned work on a portrait of Edith Sitwell from 1923 to 1935 after he failed to pay the rent for his studio?
... that Erick Russell is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States?
... that Gastria in Cyprus is "not old", but is home to Bronze Age tombs and a medieval castle?