derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after his professional gridiron football career, Ed "Brick" Travis served as president of the Missouri Auto Dealers Association and as president of a local school board?
... that the Nuremberg trial verdict described aggression as "the supreme international crime" because "it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole"?
... that despite perceived sexist tropes in The West Wing's women, C. J. Cregg is widely considered to be one of the show's most complex and witty characters?
... that in the early days of news at KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, one employee processed newsfilm in his bathtub?
... that The Most Dangerous Animal in the World was an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1963?
... that the judging committee of the Manga Taishō, an annual manga prize, is composed primarily of bookstore workers?
... that Indian women's hockey player Elvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s?
... that XO, Kitty, based on the film series To All the Boys I've Loved Before, is planned to be the first Netflix series to be spun off from a Netflix original film?
... that Austrian doctor Paul Bargehr was decried for exposing healthy Indonesians to the leprosy bacillus in his experiments?
... that "Segne, Vater, diese Gaben", a round for saying grace of unknown authorship, has appeared in German collections for kindergarten, schools and events for young people?
... that during the Qarmatian invasion of Iraq, the Abbasid Caliphate raised an army of more than 40,000 men to protect Baghdad, but did not engage the few thousand Qarmatians in battle?
... that shortly before sports shooter William Riedell was to compete in the 1936 Olympics, he had his pistols confiscated by the New York police because the precinct chief had decided there were "too many guns"?
... that the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra brought music by three Ukrainian composers to concert halls in Poland and Germany in April 2022, including the Berlin Philharmonie and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden ?
... that Zimbabwean cricketer Mary-Anne Musonda became the first woman to score a century on her Women's One Day International debut while also captaining her team?
... that due to U.S. support for Saudi-led operations in Yemen, both Saudi Arabia and the United States may be held responsible for war crimes?
... that the stock hard drive of IBM's Personal System/2 Model 30 was twice as slow as its predecessor?
... that C. N. H. Lock was a British aerodynamicist, after whom the Lock number is named?
... that the newly named Cirsium funkiae honors the describer's mentor, Vicki Funk, and the plant's funky appearance?
... that the staff of a Georgia TV station thought they were "really something" for shooting the moon?
... that it is rumored that the Puente de Fierro in Mexico was designed by Gustave Eiffel?
... that Thomas Seavey Hall's banjo signals caused a judge to declare him the father of American automatic electric railroad signaling?
... that Brassey's, "said to be the oldest established name in defence publishing", traces its history back to The Naval Annual in 1886?
... that Bea Alonzo had her breakout role at the age of 15 in the 2002 drama series Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay, in which she played a lawyer?
... that after his soccer career, Steve Palacios enlisted in the United States Army and played for the United States Armed Forces soccer team?
... that Nutan, the lead actress of the 1951 A-rated suspense thriller Nagina, was not allowed to enter the film's premiere because she was underage?
... that Tennessee lawyer Bolton Smith was known for his work integrating African Americans into the Boy Scouts?
... that a giant breast destroying a spaceship Mark Zuckerberg in the music video for "Ay mamá" is a criticism of Meta's censorship of female nipples?
... that the "most famous picture of a lunch break in New York history" was actually a publicity stunt?
... that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt, one reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly?
... that when a fire broke out next to studios of Oklahoma radio station KVSO, reporters had to rush in to report the blaze and then out to breathe fresh air?
... that Hein Eersel added "genuine Surinamese expressions" in his adaptation of the play The Barber of Seville?
... that during his mayoralty, Fiorello La Guardia appointed the first black woman judge in the United States?
... that the band behind two expletive-laden UK top-five singles about Boris Johnson released a follow-up about Prince Andrew?
... that the Göğceli Mosque in Turkey, constructed in 1206 with stacked planks without using nails, is still in use?
... that although George Balanchine set Raymonda Variations to musical excerpts from the ballet Raymonda, his new ballet does not follow the plot of the original?
... that ethnic broadcasting pioneer Shushma Datt was the first Canadian woman to obtain a CRTC broadcast licence?
... that the Catholic charismatic renewal movement began at a retreat for college students in 1967?
... that the TV adaptation of Life After Life was described as "bingeworthy", but also "practically plotless"?
... that Kenneth E. Fields was in command of the engineers at the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen?
... that the "favorable comparisons of Lenin to Confucius, Buddha, and Allah" in Dmitri Shostakovich's Loyalty were said to have "achieved new levels of ludicrous flattery"?
... that Magna Lykseth appeared as Isolde when Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was first performed at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1909?
... that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV?
... that Scottish inventor and music teacher Anne Gunn was granted the first British patent for a board game in 1801?
... that Concurrent Computer Corporation was consumed in a "minnow-swallows-the-whale" merger during the junk bonds era, but unusually, kept its name, CEO, and headquarters?
... that Joshua George Beard was a member of the first Toronto City Council and the first Toronto School Board of Trustees?
... that until the 1970s, most shōjo manga (Japanese girls' comics) were written by men?
... that Claudia Riner was falsely accused of distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives?
... that on the day the Conrad Bangkok hotel opened in 2003, ten people climbed up its walls dressed as Spider-Man?
... that Village East by Angelika is the only remaining Yiddish theater building in what was once the center of New York City's Yiddish Theatre District?
... that 'Til Kingdom Come, a documentary film about evangelical Christian Zionism in the United States, was blocked from airing on PBS due to its editing of a speech by Donald Trump?
... that Nazi war criminal Kurt Weigelt could not be directly employed by Deutsche Bank after World War II, so he reestablished Lufthansa?
... that the Battle of San Buenaventura was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "quirky skirmish ... that emptied the mission of wine and left its adobe walls pockmarked by cannon fire"?
... that the poet Habibi was adopted by Aq Qoyunlu ruler Ya'qub Beg as a child after he was found shepherding?
... that after the 1918 season, some Major League Baseball owners wanted the National Baseball Commission to be replaced by former president William Howard Taft?
... that "it is almost impossible to find fault" with London's exclusive private dining club, Harry's Bar – until one receives the bill?
... that Diminish and Ascend has been called a real-life M. C. Escher drawing?
... that during the Great Flood of 1951, the United States Air Force airlifted a transmitter to put Kansas radio station KTOP back on the air within 24 hours?
... that Cardiff-based classicist Kathleen Freeman also wrote detective fiction, publishing under four separate pseudonyms?
... that photographer Greta Pratt's Nineteen Lincolns exhibition featured members of the Association of Lincoln Presenters?
... that when public radio stations aired Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in solidarity with Ukraine on 10 March 2022, the bass voice of Anthony Robin Schneider was heard live from Frankfurt and recorded from Auckland?
... that altered certificates of deposit were used to fraudulently purchase the Ranchlander National Bank in Texas?
... that the Ottmar Hitzfeld Arena is the highest football pitch in Europe with the competing teams accessing it by cable car?
... that Luise Duttenhofer died in 1829 after more than a thousand papercuts?
... that Södermanland Runic Inscription 113 was found in 1856 when a burial mound was dug up as part of new cultivation?
... that Luella Costales was appointed to the Hawaii House of Representatives after her predecessor pled guilty to bribery charges?
... that Erratus was one of the earliest-known arthropods to show the origins of lungs and limbs?
... that Celia Kaye won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1965 for her starring role in Island of the Blue Dolphins?
... that an abandoned building in Cheorwon, South Korea, used to be the base of operations for the Workers' Party of North Korea?
... that Isachar Zacharie, podiatrist and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, helped him accept the idea of a homeland for the Jewish people?
... that the canoe routes through Obabika River Provincial Park are part of Temagami's 2,400-kilometre-long (1,500 mi) network of portages and waterways, many of which are traditional indigenous routes?
... that Craig Braun's Grammy-nominated album packaging for School's Out had to be recalled for including underwear that constituted a fire hazard?
... that Thomas Hall made an electric train that received power from the rails on which it travelled instead of onboard batteries, a new technology at the time?
... that windsurfer Penny Way won the British qualification event for the 1996 Summer Olympics with two races to spare?
... that by winning the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Seattle Sounders FC became the first Major League Soccer team to win the competition?
... that Archbishop Justin Welby said that the 800th anniversary of the anti-Jewish laws of the Synod of Oxford provided a time to "remember, repent and rebuild"?
... that Sofia Halechko's first language was Polish, but she fought in World War One to create a country for Ukrainian-speaking people?
... that during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the singing of the Catalan national anthem was banned?
... that Inna Derusova was the first woman to be posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine?
... that fashion journalists joked that it was "a miracle" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch (30 cm) armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen?
... that James Goldberg co-founded the Mormon Lit Blitz, an annual writing competition for very short works of Mormon fiction?
... that in 1958 the Scyla theta pinch device was the first to demonstrate controlled nuclear fusion in the laboratory?
... that South African physician Tlaleng Mofokeng is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, and was named one of the BBC's 100 Women?
... that while he was a teacher in France, George Buchanan wrote a school play about Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter?
... that Associate Justice John McLean is suspected of leaking internal United States Supreme Court deliberations in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford case to the New-York Tribune?
... that the Times Square Theater , proposed for redevelopment since 1990, remained empty three decades later?
... that when asked by the king to choose the weapon by which he would be executed, the outlaw Nga Tet Pya replied "I choose your most beautiful queen Saw Omma"?
... that Binggrae, a South Korean food and beverage company, was the official ice cream supplier of the 1988 Seoul Olympics?
... that AJ Glueckert appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Erik in 2017, described as a "clarion sensitive tenor", and at the Oper Frankfurt as Flamand in 2018, with "passionate power"?
... that a religious community is a group of people who practice the same religion, but do not have to live together?
... that Garland Boyette, a two-time American Football League All-Star who was also a track and field All-American, said that he "never felt safe on that aluminum pole"?
... that the Red Cross Diamond is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world; and it was donated to help the British Red Cross Society during World War I?
... that when asked about the secret to her longevity, 91-year-old Shatzi Weisberger said she smokes marijuana every night?
... that many fictional depictions of Mercury feature the now-disproven belief that it always points the same side towards the Sun ?
... that Frankie Saluto was a member of the Ringling Giants, a dwarf baseball team that raised money for charity?
... that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere", Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"?
... that Centre College president William C. Young awarded degrees to three of his half-sisters in 1891, as they had completed the requirements forty years earlier?
... that after four years in the making, the Minimal BASIC standard was described as "more a toy than an actual language"?
... that the captain of CSS Pontchartrain was twice detached from the ship to fight in land battles?
... that the game of slosh shares the name with an English batter and sausage dish?
... that Anne Hatchard was voted best on ground at the 2022 AFL Women's Grand Final?
... that merchant trader Constantine Zochonis expanded his company Paterson Zochonis into the Gold Coast in the 1930s?
... that in 1973, Caroline Rose Foster donated her farm Fosterfields to the Parks Commission of Morris County, New Jersey to be preserved as a functioning farm from 1920?
... that the British film Strippers vs Werewolves opens with a different band playing the song "Hungry Like the Wolf" by Duran Duran?
... that Indian gynaecologist and reproductive medicine pioneer Baidyanath Chakrabarty, who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought Virat Kohli and Ashwin were "such good boys"?
... that Yuki Fumino's relationships with hearing-impaired friends and acquaintances inspired her to create I Hear the Sunspot?
... that at the age of 26, Lucy Moss became the youngest female director of a Broadway musical before directing a TikTok musical that raised $2 million?
... that Aroha Bridge changed its name from Hook Ups because fans searching for the show often found pornography instead?
... that American horticulturalist Joseph Lancaster Budd traveled to England, France, Austria, Russia, and China in 1882 to discover fruit trees that could grow in Iowa?
... that the New Zealand government has officially apologised for articles published in the New Zealand School Journal about the Moriori people in the early 20th century?
... that the 48-story Uris Building went into foreclosure just two and a half years after it was completed?
... that media promotions for the film Blood Friends were not allowed to mention that cast member Nina Makino is part of the girl group NiziU?
... that it is purportedly hard to find a more interesting card game played with German-suited cards than Sansprendre, a variant of German Tarok?
... that the parents of Bob Glenalvin insisted that he play baseball under an assumed name?
... that the Turkish multirotor combat drone Songar was recently equipped with six 40 mm (1.6 in) mini missiles?
... that US radio regulators sought to shut down Ohio station WEBE, which was said to operate from the owner's bedroom using "parts of a questionable nature"?
... that El Paso's Star on the Mountain is lit up every night and visible from the air up to 100 miles (160 km) away?
... that the short-lived English football club Dingley Dell F.C. was named after a fictitious village in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens?
... that Josef Venantius von Wöss, a church musician in Vienna, wrote a piano reduction of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and a thematic analysis of the work?
... that for an episode of BoJack Horseman, the production team added a cardboard cutout of the title character after Netflix said it did not feature him enough?
... that in 1957, Burhanuddin Harahap's family members travelled from Sumatra to Jakarta, believing that he had died?
... that Al-Wishah fi Fawa'id al-Nikah, a 15th-century Islamic sex manual by Egyptian writer Al-Suyuti, was based on both traditional hadith literature and material influenced by Indian erotology?
... that A. N. Wilson justified fictionalising the life of George Forster for his novel Resolution by saying that Forster "inhabit[ed] a borderline between fact and fiction"?
... that bucking bull Spotted Demon won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bucking Bull of the Year award at the old age of 10 years?
... that Melody, originally composed by Myroslav Skoryk for a 1982 Soviet film, was used in Volodymyr Zelenskyy's broadcast to the U.S. Congress in March 2022?
... that Manai Sophiaan asserted in his 1994 memoir that the CIA was involved in the 1965 Indonesian coup attempt?
... that half the students of Northern Arizona University left for Christmas early after campus radio station KNAU was pranked?
... that Rafflesia meijeri was named after Dutch botanist Willem Meijer for his work on the conservation and study of Rafflesia plants?
... that ornithologist Elaina Marie Tuttle discovered that the white-throated sparrow has four sexes?
... that each Dancing with Dandelions sculpture has a stone heart, some of which are engraved with messages?
... that the Tuca & Bertie episode "The Jelly Lakes" employs a paper-cutout animation that helps to depict abuse in a way that centers the victim's story?
... that after Norwegian YouTuber Apetor's death in 2021, Czech fans lit candles in his memory outside the Norwegian embassy in Prague?
... that the August 2021 Tennessee floods were caused by more than 20 inches (510 mm) of rain falling in a 24-hour period?
... that Eyvindur P. Eiríksson has addressed modern alienation and man's relationship with nature through pagan poetry and a book about a fishing trawler?
... that decades after the type specimen of the lichen Punctelia graminicola was destroyed in World War II, its original name was restored after another specimen was rescued from disposal at a dump?
... that Angel Reese and her younger brother, Julian, both played college basketball for Maryland after competing at the same high school?
... that in the 960s, the Brethren of Purity wrote an epistle where Christians, Jews, and Muslims are sued by Quran-reading animals?
... that Ilya Repin changed the main character in his painting They Did Not Expect Him from a woman because it looked too similar to another painting?
... that Helena Springs is credited as co-writer with Bob Dylan on 19 songs, more than any of his other collaborators?
... that The Citi Exhibition: Manga at the British Museum was the largest exhibition of manga ever held outside Japan?
... that Tyler Zombro had a seizure and skull fracture after he was hit in the head by a 104-mile-per-hour (167 km/h) line drive?
... that Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler, the first woman to earn a physics doctorate at the University of Vienna, co-founded the first Viennese commercial academy for girls?
... that the earliest representation of the devil might be a mosaic in San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna from the 6th century, in the form of a blue angel?
... that when planting vegetables, Richard Sharpe Mason once buried his glasses instead of peas?
... that in 2020 Barbora Mokošová won Slovakia's first medal at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
... that Orange William was a very-long-range British anti-tank missile that was cancelled as the Chieftain tank appeared to outperform it?
... that Judy Ann Santos received the Box Office Queen award for starring in Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko, the first Filipino film to earn 100 million pesos at the box office?
... that the music video for Matt and Kim's New Glow song "Can You Blame Me" involves fans filming themselves with iPads near their heads playing headshots of the duo lip-syncing?
... that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"?
... that Love, a sculpture by Ukrainian artist Alexander Milov, represents two wire-frame adults who appear to be alienated, but inside their bodies two children reach out to each other?
... that Ed Jasper started all 16 games for the Atlanta Falcons in 2002, helping the team qualify for the NFL playoffs that year?
... that desert kites in the Middle East and North Africa were used as traps for wild game?
... that J. T. Blatty was a tennis star and US Army captain before photographing military volunteers in Ukraine?
... that Easter in Poland was considered to be an important patriotic holiday during the country's period of Partitions?
... that Jane C. Beck traveled to Virginia, West Africa, and England to research the family history of Daisy Turner for her 2015 book Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga?
... that Natsuki Takaya created a sequel to Fruits Basket to promote the release of its collector's edition?
... that after activist Aakar Patel was prevented from travelling abroad, a court asked the director of India's Central Bureau of Investigation to apologise?
... that a special legislative session to deal with the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas was not called because a third of the legislature owed money to the bank?
... that Thihapate withstood the siege of Taungdwin by King Thado Minbya of Ava until after his top commander was assassinated?
... that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question, a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s?
... that Jacqueline Kennedy did not want to make her clothes the focus of her 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan, but still wore 22 different outfits in the first nine days?
... that all but one of the court astrologers at the accession of King Minye Kyawswa I of Ava prophesied that he would rule for three years?
... that the first studio of Indiana high school radio station WETL was a cedar closet that had once stored furs?
... that British barristers are on strike to protest against underfunding in the criminal justice system?
... that both the Qurm Nature Reserve and the surrounding city of Qurm are named for the grey mangroves protected by the reserve?
... that The Art of Cooking with Cannabis by Tracey Medeiros was praised by the Los Angeles Times for showcasing a wide range of recipes outside of the "tired pot-brownie cliché"?
... that The Archives of the Planet includes 72,000 color photographs of human cultures taken in 50 countries between 1908 and 1931?
... that Jusuf Muda Dalam is the only Indonesian politician to date to be sentenced to death for corruption?
... that the construction of Washington State Route 512 included a new high school football stadium to replace a demolished one?
... that journalist W. A. Hewitt refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games?
... that the 3rd Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia has suspended multiple sessions due to open brawls and fights between opposition and ruling party parliamentarians?
... that Romy Golan's 2021 book Flashback, Eclipse is an exploration of Italian art of the 1960s that moved away from the art created under Italian fascism?
... that in 1999, donors to the American Airlines Theatre could pay US$75,000 for their name on a bathroom?
... that former convict Lord William Beauchamp Nevill wrote Penal Servitude, a book about his prison experiences?
... that professional steer wrestler Ty Erickson broke the record for season earnings by $33,152?
... that an Israeli football club whose fans regularly shout "death to Arabs" was almost half-owned by an Arab Sheik?
... that Bhutanese cricketer Anju Gurung, a pace bowler, has been described as looking "... more like a pop star ..."?
... that even though plans to convert the studio building of station KITN in Olympia, Washington, into a courthouse were soon changed, county taxpayers still paid its moving expenses?