derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the artist and designer Yinka Ilori once made a collection of chairs that were inspired by a Nigerian parable about a giraffe?
... that the 14th-century St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe, in Lincolnshire, England, is constructed of material classified as random mixed rubble, red brick and slate?
... that after being a college football player, William A. Brooks became a prominent surgeon, and had several hospitals named after him?
... that the government of El Salvador, the Catholic Church, and street gangs negotiated a truce to reduce homicides from 2012 to 2014?
... that Edward Dando once ate 300 oysters with a loaf and a half of bread and butter in one sitting?
... that Saint John's Island was the site of one of the British Empire's largest quarantine centres and held one of the first experimental drug rehabilitation centres?
... that the wildlife of Sudan includes leopards, giraffes, crocodiles, water hyacinth and the umbrella thorn acacia?
... that Japanese pianist Nagaoka Nobuko, a child prodigy called an "absolute genius", was killed in the final American firebombing of Tokyo?
... that a robotic controller for the Yamaha Reface CS was described by Mixmag magazine as looking "like an army of robot toothbrushes cleaning a synth"?
... that West Auckland is home to the largest stratovolcano in the geologic history of New Zealand?
... that al-Battani was one of the first astronomers to observe that the distance between the Earth and the Sun varies during the year?
... that The Embrace, a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was deemed phallic?
... that Taylor Swift-lookalike Ashley Leechin went viral for doing laundry?
... that at the Grand Slams in tennis, Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková are on a 24-match winning streak?
... that Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam was at the centre of controversy in Sudan?
... that after their Apple II clone was seized by U.S. Customs, CompuSource released a portable Apple II clone that was also IBM PC compatible?
... that Cara De Silva described a cookbook compiled by a woman in Terezin concentration camp as a record of "psychological resistance”?
... that in 2015, GracePointe Church, Nashville, Tennessee, became one of the first evangelical megachurches to openly support full equality for LGBTQ people?
... that Japanese Breakfast released versions of their song "Be Sweet" in both Korean and Simlish?
... that Nixon's "Slaughtergate" scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?
... that after the Seongsu Bridge collapsed in Seoul, radiographic testing found that 110 of the 111 connections in the bridge were filled with defects?
... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou has both the tallest Catholic church building in China and the first ever Chinese bishop to meet the pope?
... that French astrochemist Christine Joblin co-created a webcomic to popularize her research on the origins of cosmic dust?
... that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions?
... that in 1998, David Bowie launched BowieNet, a pioneering internet service provider which offered exclusive access to audio recordings, music videos, an online chat, and a virtual world?
... that Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis was a semi-professional snowboarder in New Zealand before she decided to pursue a career in the arts?
... that Charles Dickens's talking raven Grip inspired the poem "The Raven"?
... that the human rights abuses committed by Indonesian soldiers at ExxonMobil's Arun gas field spawned a U.S. lawsuit against the company that has been stalled for 20 years?
... that the Spanish priest Baltasar Calvo was denounced as a "Valencian Robespierre" for leading an 1808 massacre of French residents in Valencia?
... that after the Battle of Winwick in 1648 some Scottish prisoners were sold as slaves?
... that Nazi concentration camp commandant Otto Hantke was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974 at the age of 67 for his acts during the Holocaust?
... that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's "cli-fi" thrash metal album addresses a mix of current ecological threats and attempts to find another planet to live on?
... that Pat Cronin, a 19-year-old man, died after he was struck just once on his head during a pub fight?
... that Logical Machine Corporation product range of computers included the ADAM, the Mike, and the Tina?
... that the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin voided the 2021 Berlin state election and ordered a repeat election?
... that a SailRail ticket allows travel from any station in Britain to any station in Ireland?
... that the last Fatimid caliph, al-Adid, came to the throne as a child, was dominated by his viziers, and died a few days after Saladin abolished the Fatimid regime?
... that according to media outlet WLOS, surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina?
... that Fionula Brennan's experiments with cytokines led to new therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis?
... that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff?
... that Panagiotis Stamatakis and Heinrich Schliemann quarrelled so much during their excavations at Mycenae that they spoke only through intermediaries?
... that footballer Samuel Iling-Junior was involved in two goals for Juventus within eight minutes of debuting in the UEFA Champions League?
... that a bill poster for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad ended up robbing the Railroad's own Division station?
... that Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to people with disabilities by the Queen, but received her award from the King?
... that after anti-apartheid activist David Rabkin was sentenced to prison in South Africa, he gave the courtroom the clenched-fist black power salute?
... that three of the 16th-century Florentine Otto prints show young males tied to a tree and abused by women?
... that lectures given by Charles Lappenbusch were described as "so complicated that those in attendance often didn't know whether to take notes or laugh"?
... that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean?
... that the propaganda poster "Women of Britain Say 'Go!'" was part of an attempt to ignore pre-war advances by women and reinforce gender stereotypes?
... that a rare 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar named Amos appeared in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap?
... that the Ilford Park Polish Home in Stover, Devon, is the last surviving of 45 camps established from 1947 to cater for Polish veterans and their dependants in the UK?
... that for the 50th anniversary of the word game Lexicon, the publisher organised a Golden Jubilee weekend that included an alphabet soup dinner?
... that the discovery of anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's diary after his death sparked what was called "a moral crisis of the discipline"?
... that the Storrie Fire was started when Union Pacific Railroad workers were repairing train tracks at the Feather Canyon?
... that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down?
... that upon being named the head football coach at Central College, C. A. Clingenpeel declared that "we will win one game this year" – and was correct?
... that an unidentified ancient temple may be the finest example of a "high place" in the Galilee?
... that Rubel Phillips was the first Republican to run in the Mississippi gubernatorial election since 1947 when he ran in 1963?
... that Pronto Computers' System 16 was one of the first computers in the tower form factor?
... that at the 2020 Olympics, Lee Chih-kai became the first gymnast competing for Chinese Taipei to win an Olympic medal?
... that Charlie Jane Anders wrote preferred pronouns into her science fiction novel Victories Greater Than Death because she thought that alien gender would be unclear to humans?
... that a Milwaukee TV station lost a newsgathering vehicle when it fell through ice and into a lake – while reporting on ice safety?
... that archeologists disagree about whether the ancient necropolis discovered in Khirbet Kurkush was used by Jews, Samaritans or pagans?
... that Hurricane Henri, a minimal category 1 hurricane, set a rainfall record in New York City's Central Park?
... that a retired high school teacher coached the United States men's national ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics?
... that the song "Balladen om killen" was unusually released on two record labels, CBS Records International and Mercury Records, around the same time?
... that the Duffield Memorial was termed "quite unique" in 1912, and "unusual" in 2022?
... that the second game in the series The Last of Us was developed by more than 2,100 people across 14 studios?
... that Formed Police Units may be used by international organizations like the United Nations, European Union, and African Union when military intervention could be excessive?
... that Chickaboom!, by country musician Tami Neilson, was nominated for both Canadian and New Zealand music awards?
... that in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, Justin J. Pearson has pushed for a law banning officers with criminal records from transferring between police departments?
... that Ida Ospelt-Amann led the revival of dialect poetry in Liechtenstein and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit?
... that Brian Stableford blamed the cancellation of the follow-up to his 2006 book Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia on the availability of information online?
... that the support of conservationist Kae Miller for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington, New Zealand?
... that the United Ukrainian Ballet Company, consisting of exiled dancers based in The Hague, has toured the UK, Singapore, Australia and the US?
... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that Iván Arias's eccentric but successful 2021 La Paz mayoral campaign involved an action figure, comics, and chocolate kisses named and styled in his likeness?
... that the rector of the University of Indonesia, Muhammad Kamil Tadjudin, introduced a non-thesis degree policy that allowed students to graduate without publishing a thesis?
... that The New Yorker's purchase of stock in Teleram Communications, a maker of portable computers, was the magazine's first investment in an outside company?
... that the novel Alan and Naomi has been called "one of the starkest representations of trauma and traumatic loss"?
... that the only woman to feature in the Temple of British Worthies at Stowe Gardens is Elizabeth I?
... that Shirley Kurata is said to have "subverted and reclaimed Asian-centric tropes" through her "outrageous" costume designs for movie villain Jobu Tupaki?
... that at the time, the Fountain Fire was the third-most destructive wildfire in California's recorded history?
... that the Uthmaniyya, the partisans of Uthman, the third Muslim caliph, killed his assassin Kinana ibn Bishr in the First Muslim Civil War?
... that Caulfield railway station had a ticket office for the adjacent racecourse and a platform for delivering horses to it?
... that police doubt that Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier died shortly after a car accident, even though their bodies were found near the scene three months later?
... that former Burmese actress Honey Nway Oo turned rebel and took up arms against the military junta following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état?
... that Hammersmith by Gustav Holst was acclaimed by Frederick Fennell for having "some of the most treacherous stretches of music making" in band literature?
... that economist Robin Greenwood's work has been used to suggest the bubble nature of Bitcoin and Tesla, Inc. valuations?
... that executives of American Family Corporation learned they "could never be the city's news leader" running an underperforming TV station in Columbus, Georgia?
... that Cherry Valentine hid his Romani heritage because he feared he might receive "hate or backlash"?
... that caffoy was a fabric similar to cut silk velvet, made from wool and often used for decorations such as hangings and draperies?
... that S. H. M. Byers not only coined the phrase "Sherman's March to the Sea", but also wrote Iowa's state song?
... that tram service in Olsztyn restarted after no trams had operated in the city for more than fifty years?
... that during the First Balkan War, the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles?
... that former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead became a cast member?
... that the folk ritual jailangkung originates from the Chinese practice of spirit basket divination and has been featured in Indonesian horror films?
... that shortly after his capture in 1918 British brigadier general Hubert Conway Rees was interviewed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany?
... that dishes at the 1888-established Hacı Abdullah Restaurant in Istanbul are cooked in handcrafted copper pots?
... that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
... that Fortress of the Bear's founder raised pigs to prove he could take care of bears?
... that National Treasure: Edge of History lead Lisette Olivera was dissuaded from an acting career as a child but studied dance, vocals and music?
... that New Zealand activist Pania Newton gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao?
... that the writer of Poison Ivy: Thorns felt the titular DC Comics character was "tailor made for [her] interests as a nature-loving, gay makeup enthusiast"?
... that one of Beverly Robertson's biggest accomplishments as CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber was attracting the Ford Motor Company's US$5.6 billion Blue Oval City complex to Memphis, Tennessee?
... that Shiroi Heya no Futari is regarded as the first work of yuri, a genre of manga and other media focused on female-female romance, despite not being the first manga to depict romance between women?
... that Nilofer Khan was appointed the first woman vice-chancellor of the University of Kashmir on 19 May 2022?
... that Joanna E. Schanz, who received a lifetime achievement award, revived broom making and basket weaving in the Amana Colonies?
... that the popularity of Boykinia richardsonii with grizzly bears in Denali National Park and Preserve has earned it the common name "bearflower"?
... that in 2021, Uche Eke became the first gymnast to represent Nigeria at the Olympics?
... that an Ohio radio station's satellite dish was vandalized twice in 1991, believed by the station manager to be due to the outspoken conservative stances of one of the station's hosts?
... that Dean Huijsen went from scoring seven goals in one season for Juventus's under-17 squad to playing for their professional reserve team in just half a year?
... that the solar panels of Canyon View High School provide shade from the Arizona heat and provide 20 percent of the school's energy?
... that Indian violin player Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao, a recipient of India's highest award for the performing arts, was once an apprentice to a painter?
... that the Florida Criminal Justice Standards & Training Commission reviewed a case in which a deputy sent a woman a photograph of a cake with the words "Sorry I Tased You" in blue frosting?
... that Rembrandt liked the Jan Lievens painting The Raising of Lazarus so much that he acquired it for himself?
... that the singer Luci van Org followed up her mainstream success from the 1990s by starting a "Latin–disco–pop–country crossover" band?
... that a pond of liquid sulfur was discovered at the summit crater of the Daikoku Seamount in 2006 in the Northern Mariana Islands?
... that before John McClaughry was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, he traveled about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) in boxcars as a hobo?
... that the rebooted design of Glimmer from She-Ra was partly inspired by the showrunner's love of Dungeons & Dragons?
... that the Evans Bay Patent Slip was built in 1871 using hundreds of tons of machinery that had sat on a beach for five years?
... that the façade of Hôtel Albert Ciamberlani has been described as one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau façades in Belgium?
... that even though an FCC examiner recommended denial of an application for a radio station in Illinois after approving it twice, the commission granted it anyway?
... that Montagu Toller was a part of the British team that played cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket was ever featured at the Olympics?
... that covers of Bob Dylan's "Just Like a Woman" by Manfred Mann and Jonathan King were both coincidentally released on the same day Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident?
... that the Cut Meutia is the only active train service in Indonesia using standard-gauge track?
... that the School for American Crafts recruited faculty from Denmark to teach metalsmithing and woodworking?
... that during the first tour to the Soviet Union by any American ballet company, Lupe Serrano danced the first encore in the American Ballet Theatre's history?
... that the Crimean Mountain karst nature reserve in Ukraine has more than 1,000 natural karst cavities?
... that Gloria Orwoba raised awareness about period poverty by appearing in the Senate of Kenya in apparently blood-stained trousers?
... that at the battle of the Great Plains in 203 BC most of the Carthaginian army fled, except for 4,000 Iberians who fought to the death?
... that former Union brigadier general J. H. Hobart Ward was struck and killed by a train while on vacation?
... that the Backrooms is associated with an Internet aesthetic which includes images of eerie and uninhabited spaces?
... that the New York City Board of Education said Rose Freistater weighed too much to be a teacher?
... that artwork at Shenton Way MRT station depicts everyday people running after an old banknote?
... that Generosity of Alexander is a painting that shows Alexander the Great giving his concubine to a painter as a gift?
... that after leading the Khoikhoi in war against the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, Doman returned to Dutch service as an interpreter?
... that of thirty-five Palestinians killed in the West Bank in January 2023 by Israeli forces and settlers, twenty were from the Jenin refugee camp?
... that the first secular school in Catalonia was founded by the anarcha-feminist Teresa Mañé?
... that East Timor uses the United States dollar, but produces its own coins to facilitate smaller transactions?
... that Kaharuddin Datuk Rangkayo Basa refused to be buried at a heroes' cemetery, and so was buried at a regular public cemetery upon his death?
... that in the 2000s, New York City's Benjamin Hotel offered a pillow menu and hired a sleep concierge?
... that in 1927, Native American activist Chauncey Yellow Robe and the Lakota Sioux tribe "adopted" President Calvin Coolidge to thank him for supporting the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act?
... that the old adage "feed a cold, starve a fever" was first published in a 1574 dictionary?
... that Utah state representative Charles Redd successfully proposed the legalization of horse racing and betting in 1925, only to successfully propose making it illegal again two years later?
... that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Suzhou is known for its "hybridity" of Chinese and Western architecture?
... that the Jewish anarchist Volin refused to flee Nazi-occupied France as he believed that a revolution would follow the liberation of France?
... that Comcast removed a Florida TV station from its lineup for allegedly broadcasting home shopping in prime time instead of its normal UPN programming?
... that John Spencer won a World Snooker Championship on his first attempt in 1969?
... that the Fatimid boy caliph al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah was raised to the throne by the vizier, who had killed his father and uncles?
... that of more than 300 schools offering evening classes in the District of Columbia in 1907, only Frelinghuysen University admitted Black students?
... that Kloe was a headliner at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2014, despite not being old enough to attend most shows there?
... that science fiction authors who want to avoid the paradoxes associated with time travel may instead write about time viewers?
... that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island, built their own railroad?
... that Charles Norris-Newman was a war correspondent, a corrupt British colonial official and a Russian intelligence officer?
... that a media columnist in Columbus, Georgia, opined: "If TV-16 was a horse, it would have been shot long ago"?
... that Palma Vecchio's A Blonde Woman may be a goddess, a lady, or a courtesan?
... that nursing educator Helen Turner Watson was one of the first African-American women to become a commissioned officer in the United States Navy?
... that Lamar Johnson learned American Sign Language for his role in the fifth episode of The Last of Us?
... that Soviet German literary critic Richard Knorre was injured in an explosion during the siege of Leningrad?
... that George Balanchine choreographed Ballet Imperial to prove that Americans were capable of performing in the traditions of classical ballet?
... that two Norwegians, Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert, as the only Western doctors at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, found themselves as leading witnesses of the 2008–2009 Gaza War?
... that the 56-foot-tall (17 m) monument to the theologian Samuel Rutherford near his parish church in Anwoth was badly damaged by a lightning strike five years after its construction?
... that Joanna Cherry showed a printed copy of an Internet meme featuring Lily Hoshikawa during a UK parliamentary committee meeting?
... that 47-year-old Turkish para-karateka Oya Ekici won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships?
... that producers of The Simpsons have spoken about the importance of its LGBT characters in representation?
... that HMS Martin was part of the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy in the First World War, but after the war was sold to be broken up?
... that the saying "give me the man and I will give you the case against him" is usually attributed to Soviet-era public figures such as Beria or Vyshinsky?
... that although it was a centennial project, the Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial in New Zealand was opened 90 years after the region's organised settlement began?
... that Arthur Arndt's family was the largest known group of Jews to successfully hide in Germany during the Holocaust?
... that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace, actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
... that United States Air Force colonel Virgil K. Meroney flew two combat missions with his son before his son was killed in action in March 1969, during the Vietnam War?
... that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on Mars?
... that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?
... that Auto-GPT, an autonomous artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?
... that according to Etruscan tradition Aulus Vibenna helped Servius Tullius to oust the Roman king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus?
... that more than 100 traps were set to catch a single stoat on an otherwise predator-free island in Taiari / Chalky Inlet in 2022?
... that the Housatonic Railroad used to send 100,000 US quarts (95,000 litres) of milk to New York City per day?
... that Godwin Obasi has been described as "Africa's gift to the world of climate science"?