derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that a dispute over paid sick leave at a chocolate factory ended up before the High Court of Australia in Mondelez v AMWU?
... that the Park Avenue Armory was leased out as an art center because the New York state government could not pay for repairs?
... that during her 2023 season, Aryna Sabalenka became the first woman since Serena Williams in 2016 to reach the semifinals at all four majors in a season?
... that Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski – considered "the founding father of Polish literature" – wrote threnodies, the first Polish-language tragedy, and epigrams?
... that George Balanchine choreographed Ballo della Regina to showcase ballerina Merrill Ashley's speed and precision?
... that Elbridge Colby was considered for a top job in Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign, but was not hired after "prominent, interventionist neoconservatives" objected?
... that the perpetrator of a murder on a bus once described meeting his victim, who was his girlfriend, to be "like winning the Mark Six"?
... that the site of an old paper mill is being redeveloped into a residential area dubbed "Tesla town"?
... that the number of employees in the US represented by a union is rising while the proportion of workers represented by a union is decreasing?
... that Romanian actress Mitzura Arghezi was once told by her father that her career path held "few satisfactions [...] if you're not a director's wife, a manager's wife, this and that man's girlfriend"?
... that Ray Bradbury's short story "I, Rocket" won an award 76 years after it was first published?
... that Fly with Me, one of the first collaborations by Rodgers and Hart, was written for the 1920 Varsity Show?
... that David Dean served as general counsel to Texas governor Dolph Briscoe, a Democrat, as well as his Republican successor Bill Clements?
... that an eruption on Montagu Island that began in 2001 continued for several years and formed a lava delta?
... that wampum artist Elizabeth James-Perry also works on ecological restoration projects, including the reintroduction of native plant life?
... that the royal necropolis of Ayaa in Sidon, Lebanon, was accidentally discovered in the late 19th century by a workman who stumbled upon a shaft and chamber tomb while quarrying for stone?
... that Kent Gaydos played quarterback in high school, then wide receiver in college, and in the NFL changed to tight end before going back to receiver, then tight end again, and then receiver once more?
... that while serving in the Bolivian parliament, legislator Emeliana Aiza took night courses to receive her high school baccalaureate?
... that as well as books, Hove's first public library featured a disembowelling knife and a Japanese executioner's sword?
... that Arthur Yorinks's children's book Louis the Fish was inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis?
... that in Utoro, Uji, in Japan, former forced Korean laborers dodged eviction from 1945 to 2010, when they were finally able to afford buying the land in the district?
... that Danish-Portuguese publisher Snu Abecassis was the first to publish both Pippi Longstocking and Solzhenitsyn in Portugal?
... that 28 Greenpeace activists partially cut down a field of genetically modified maize in a 1999 direct action in Lyng, Norfolk, but were acquitted of all charges?
... that in 2023, Daniel Whelan became the first Irish-born NFL player since 1985?
... that the Ni'isjoohl totem pole was once fed a diet of vacuum-packed food?
... that indirect evidence suggests that cataract surgery could have been performed as early as in ancient Egypt?
... that writer Profira Sadoveanu and her novelist father Mihail once had to take turns defending their home against attacks by the Iron Guard?
... that the U.S. Bank Center in Seattle once had a Montessori school on the 23rd floor?
... that after Benjamin Moloise's execution, the extremist group Direct Action bombed two Paris companies linked to South Africa in protest?
... that "John Brown" was recorded by Bob Dylan under the pseudonym "Blind Boy Grunt"?
... that members of the aristocratic Merry Gang during the Stuart Restoration fought watchmen and destroyed a valuable royal sundial ?
... that across her first three albums, Alessia Cara co-wrote 43 songs ranging in themes from teenage life, to her insecurities about writing music alone, to the five stages of grief?
... that the historical lands and fishing grounds of the Skinpah were buried underwater by the construction of The Dalles Dam?
... that one year after Private Harris Turner was blinded in battle, his fellow soldiers elected him to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan?
... that Saints Peter and Paul Seminary, the last Catholic high school seminary in Ohio before its closure in 1990, was designed with influences from Chinese architecture?
... that John Byrne retold the origin of Superman in the 1986 comic book limited series The Man of Steel, 48 years after the character was created?
... that the Canadian rock band Rainbow Butt Monkeys changed their name to "Finger Eleven" before releasing their second album Tip?
... that Finnish-American model Selene Mahri married three millionaires and is credited with inventing the saying "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take"?
... that a 1956 eruption of Bristol Island drove Argentina to abandon a hut they had built on Thule Island?
... that John A. Kennedy was placed near the top of the 1964 Illinois House election ballot because of his name?
... that Annalee Newitz chose to set their debut novel Autonomous in the Canadian prairies because it was "the kind of place that often gets forgotten"?
... that the Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount used aerial photography to monitor the removal of antiquities during construction at Solomon's Stables?
... that the Siberian columbine has been crossed with another species in the genus Aquilegia to determine the gene behind the genus's nectar spurs?
... that film director Christina Rosendahl started her career with a documentary about her sister Pernille's music career?
... that disputes in the acclaimed re­fur­bishment of Swiss Cottage Library in London prompted the library's operators to sue its developers?
... that Olga Onuch is believed to be the first professor of Ukrainian politics in the English-speaking world?
... that Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver started a podcast to support their employees during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike?
... that as a child, New Zealand economist Brad Olsen would write notes about stock market trends while watching the evening news?
... that the University of Maryland's Iribe Center was partly funded by a businessman who dropped out of the university?
... that Stan Lee modeled Tony Stark after 20th-century business magnate Howard Hughes?
... that in his 2000 book, Michael Cook argues that the West prefers to "rescue" people after wrongdoing has occurred, while Muslims prefer to "forbid wrong"?
... that the Ninja of Heisei, who robbed places in Japan while wearing a ninja costume, was caught at the age of 74?
... that a vampire killing kit was donated to the Mercer Museum in the 1980s?
... that François Glorieux was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and Stan Kenton's band, and arranger for Michael Jackson?
... that a developer on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter doubled its frame rate by removing one line of code?
... that a former Dutch villa houses both the city council of Semarang, Indonesia, and the city's mayor?
... that Salty Parker, who spent 60 years in organized baseball, described his lifelong love of the game as "a beautiful disease"?
... that the directors of the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad stole back the railroad from a bankrupt lessee?
... that puzzle maker Patrick Berry has been called the "Thomas Pynchon of crosswords"?
... that Luca Salsi performed leading roles in two operas in a row at the Metropolitan Opera, stepping in on 30 minutes' notice in Verdi's Ernani and singing as planned in Lucia di Lammermoor?
... that Japanese actor Kouhei Higuchi prepared for his role on the television drama adaptation of My Personal Weatherman by learning from a weather forecaster?
... that Erin Swenson was the first mainstream Protestant minister known to have undergone gender transition while in ordained office?
... that an ancient wildcat species is known only from a part of the jaw of a single animal discovered in Poland?
... that when historian of cartography Leo Bagrow was granted Swedish citizenship in 1952, he had been stateless for 34 years?
... that rural women in Burundi greet each other with an intricate musical ritual called akazehe?
... that many hyalospheniid amoebae construct shells by stealing mineralized particles from the shells of their prey?
... that Dan Blumenthal, a senior defense official in the Bush administration, believes that China has "three roads" to gain control of Taiwan?
... that the building housing the city council of Palembang, Indonesia, was claimed to be the "grandest" of its kind?
... that Stan Mataele lied about his football experience but still became one of the top players in the state?
... that The Constellation of Leo, a group portrait of people from Italy's art world, was exhibited with a note that read "not without a trace of irony"?
... that Mona Williams said her degree from Stanford University was called a "wanky Yankee" degree when she arrived in New Zealand?
... that the 1992 comic book storyline "Man and Wolf", in which Captain America is transformed into a werewolf, has been described as "one of the most bizarre moments of the core Marvel Universe"?
... that Abram Kofman was the first Ancient Greek–Esperanto translator, publishing translated sections of the Iliad in 1895?
... that after learning to write with Inuktitut syllabics to help Catholic missionaries learn her language, Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk wrote one of the first Inuktitut-language novels?
... that John Seigenthaler hosted a literary interview program which ran for 42 years on Nashville Public Television?
... that in high school, tennis player Sara Daavettila went an entire season without losing a game?
... that Pachelbel's Canon is notorious for being widespread in pop music, but it actually isn't?
... that Chancellor Hut is the oldest alpine hut still in its original location in the Southern Alps of New Zealand?
... that Indonesian politician Gembong Warsono criticized the governor of Jakarta over municipally owned companies, sidewalk use, and imported dumpsters?
... that Mohammed went from the roof of the Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State to a field in New Jersey?
... that some of the Michigan fake electors attempted to enter the State Capitol, but were turned away by the state police?
... that throughout the history of education in Wales, schools have been held in monastic settlements, cathedrals, residential houses, marketplaces, barns, churches, and village halls?
... that dei Rossi's work on modern Jewish historiography was banned by Venetian rabbis, but he obtained imprimatur from a Catholic?
... that John Neilson , a Scottish immigrant to Lower Canada, became a major publisher and bookseller, and was reportedly "the largest consumer of paper" in the country?
... that during the production of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, all of its developers were conscripted into the Croatian military?
... that Athanasios Rhousopoulos, one of Athens's major archaeological criminals, made a speech complaining about the high rate of archaeological crime?
... that Manaka Matsukubo, the youngest player to start in the NWSL Challenge Cup, was named most valuable player of this year's final?
... that Lea Ackermann , a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa?
... that Turkey is the world's largest grower of hazelnuts, apricots, and oregano?
... that the John Snow Society's Pumphandle Lecture ends with a ceremonial removal of the Broad Street pump handle and a visit to a pub?
... that in Korea Job World, children can participate in career-experience scenarios to explore vocational paths?
... that former Dreams Come True band member Takahiro Nishikawa opened a bar in his hometown of Sapporo in 2009, seven years after he left the band?
... that a manuscript discovered in the Morris–Jumel Mansion was sold for US$912,000 to finance the mansion's endowment fund?
... that Zimbabwean musician Joshua Sacco and his band used to perform songs at ZANU–PF election rallies before he became a party member?
... that a teenage boy stole over US$300,000 worth of paintings from the Deshong Art Museum by simply taking them off the wall and sliding them through a window?
... that Turkish carom billiards champion Güzin Müjde Karakaşlı grew up playing volleyball for about 12 years?
... that North Nias Regency demolished its own government buildings in 2018 for urban renewal?
... that pollution in rivers scatters far-red light, making it harder for plants like Noveloa to germinate?
... that while writing Lessons in Chemistry, the author self-studied chemistry and was a full-time copywriter?
... that Martha Poma worked as a textile artisan in El Alto before being elected to the Bolivian senate?
... that Benjamin Britten composed Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his for the tenor voice of Peter Pears, using poetry from A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles?
... that in 1790, ten years before the discovery of infrared heating of the Earth by the Sun, Marc-Auguste Pictet demonstrated the apparent reflection of cold by mirrors?
... that the newly opened shopping mall The Wai has Hong Kong's largest indoor bicycle parking lot ?
... that Long Island's PBS station specialized in making shows for other stations to air during their pledge drives?
... that the Code of Lipit-Ishtar is older than the famous Code of Hammurabi?
... that American football player Ralph "Catfish" Smith was a two-way player in college and in the National Football League?
... that Donald A. Morgan is the first director of photography to be inducted into the Television Hall of Fame?
... that Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia, called Hay War Memorial High School the "finest war memorial in the British Empire"?
... that hatchling Balkan terrapins are only 3 to 4 centimetres (1.2 to 1.6 in) in length, while adults can grow as long as 25 cm (9.8 in)?
... that Rush Munro's, New Zealand's oldest ice creamery, has used the same recipes since 1926?
... that the mean sea level observed by the Newlyn Tidal Observatory from 1915 to 1921 defined the reference for height measurement in Great Britain?
... that Orchard MRT station had a dome over the station's circular concourse until it was removed in 2008?
... that there are only 4 locations left of Boloco, which once had 22 burrito restaurants throughout the northeastern United States?
... that Jeʹvida is the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language?
... that the novel Minor Detail is based on a true story of a 1949 gang rape and murder of a young Arab Bedouin-Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers?
... that people were scammed on New Zealand television by the host of You've Been Scammed?
... that Nusrati attributes the virtues of a good ruler to his patron Ali Adil Shah II in The Rose Garden of Love ?
... that a Twitter account became a major source on what was happening during the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China?
... that Jim Hobbins played two years of professional football, spaced apart by 11 years?
... that Baghdad governor Ḥassan Pasha bought the slave who married his granddaughter and went on to become governor of the same city?
... that University of Nebraska alumnus M. Khalid Roashan helped draft the 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan?
... that the authors of The Neanderthals Rediscovered learned that their book proposal had been accepted on the same day they took their twin sons home from hospital?
... that Władysław Umiński has been called the "Polish Jules Verne"?
... that current NHL player Alex Laferriere refused to try out ice skating at a young age, and only did so when bribed with Skittles?
... that some Catholics considered Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag" (audio featured) to be blasphemous?
... that Hilda Hilst impersonated a journalist to meet Marlon Brando, and asked him about Franz Kafka's works?
... that after the Iraqi government lost control of its northern territories following the 1991 Gulf War, the Legislative Council of the Autonomous Kurdistan Region was based in Baghdad?
... that the killing of hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians by starvation in the siege of Leningrad was ruled not criminal by an American court?
... that Stella Alexander, the first female mayor of Issaquah, was nicknamed "Madame Mussolini" by her detractors?
... that Canadian photographer and architectural activist Brian Merrett's works prompted the preservation of Montreal's Shaughnessy House, now the Canadian Centre for Architecture?
... that @NYT_first_said's most popular tweet, as of 2019, was simply "shithole"?
... that at a maximum standard length of roughly 2 cm (0.8 in), dwarf pufferfish are some of the smallest pufferfish in the world?
... that Swiss athlete Clara Thalmann arrived in Barcelona to compete in the People's Olympiad but ended up fighting in the Spanish Civil War?
... that Hende's Hut on Roberts Point Track, a tramping track in New Zealand, originally had no windows?
... that soprano Rachel Yakar, who received international attention in 1977 as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande and "a Mozartian at heart and in style"?
... that in its first full month on the air, an Idaho TV station had the highest prime-time viewing share of any independent station in the United States?
... that in the 1909 election to the city council of Surabaya, less than 1 percent of the population was enrolled to vote?
... that the Saikabo Korean restaurant chain in Japan suffered a 30% drop in sales after the South Korean president visited the disputed Liancourt Rocks?
... that sessions of This War of Mine: The Board Game can last over five hours and often end in the deaths of all characters?
... that the title of "Shinzō wo Sasageyo!", the opening theme song for season two of Attack on Titan, comes from an in-universe salute and battle cry?
... that according to a book by a friend of the Columbine shooters, students at Columbine High School would joke that their school was next for a mass shooting?
... that authorities said the killing of Wadea al-Fayoume in Illinois was a response to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war?
... that the city council of Bandung in the Dutch East Indies initially met at the site of a former coffee-packing factory?
... that when he was in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, future politician Tim Costley starred in a YouTube video that joked about having sex with sheep?
... that the scenic fields of northern wyethia found in the western United States are sometimes a sign that an area has been overgrazed?
... that the Data Colada bloggers drew attention to the replication crisis by exposing faulty social science research?
... that the FBS college football player Tre Harris set his school's single-game record for most receiving touchdowns in his debut?
... that historically, native mercury was extracted from rocks mined in Idrija by washing them in the stream Nikova?
... that some of the optics for the James Webb Space Telescope were made at the NETPark science park in northern England?
... that professor Ruth Ann Davis made the largest-ever single contribution to Potomac State College of West Virginia University to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?
... that cross-site leaks can be used to gain information about your web-browsing habits?
... that Broadway actress Isabelle Urquhart started a fashion trend when she decided to reveal her figure on stage by not wearing petticoats?
... that to combat water privatization in Bolivia, Freddy Huayta joined a "coordinator"—a loose-knit alliance of organizations united around a single cause?
... that "Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held" (Follow me, says Christ, our hero) is a Christian hymn in German with a text by Angelus Silesius that uses sayings of Jesus in direct speech?
... that shortly after a missile strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters, Oleksiy Danilov said that the fleet could be "sliced up like a salami" at a later date?
... that the United States Conciliation Service, which was part of the U.S. Department of Labor, came to an end because the writers of the Taft–Hartley Act thought that the service was too partial to labor?
... that Dianne Lee had her name changed from Melody to avoid seeming like a reggae act?
... that the gecko Paroedura maingoka imitates venomous scorpions to discourage predators?
... that even though the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ordered a monument of Maurice Duplessis in front of its building, later premiers hid it for 16 years to avoid political tensions?
... that after the British premiere of Percy Grainger's suite In a Nutshell, The Daily Telegraph argued that the marimba, then new to the orchestra, sounded inferior to the xylophone?
... that a favorite of Tsar Ivan the Terrible may have killed his own father to prove his loyalty to the tsar?
... that BoysTown was reported as having the largest case of child abuse in Australia's history?
... that James Dillon Armstrong was a Virginia state senator, a delegate to West Virginia's constitutional convention, and a circuit court judge while serving for more than 43 years as a Presbyterian church elder?
... that Amrita Shah found that the introduction of television to India led to more women aspiring to become independent?
... that in 1822, the Paleogene mammal Anop­lo­therium commune was the first fossil species to be subjected to a brain cast study?
... that the song "Lacy" is about a girl whom Olivia Rodrigo finds "sexy" and describes as a "Bardot reincarnate"?
... that Pasquier Grenier sold tapestries to royalty across Europe in the 15th century?
... that History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brothers in the Caribbean by C. G. A. Oldendorp was the first book to publish Igbo-language terms in 1777?
... that Conjurer has contributed to a musical project named after a quote from the sitcom Peep Show?
... that the island bronze-naped pigeon is a popular food at bars and parties on São Tomé?
... that last month, Delanie Sheehan scored her first professional goal during Gotham FC's first NWSL postseason win?
... that a retired man with no previous broadcasting experience was offered a job by a Wyoming TV station after winning an "Anchorman for a Day" contest?
... that according to Pope Innocent III's 1213 letter Quia maior, the number of the beast refers to the number of years since Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina?
... that the Trapeze spreadsheet introduced the idea of blocks that InfoWorld called "revolutionary"?
... that New Zealand politician Hamish Campbell is a cancer researcher and runs a flower-delivery business?
... that fan-made Fakemon have been confused for genuine unreleased Pokémon?
... that ranchers in the community now known as Loybas Hill ran their own telephone company for 60 years?
... that the August 2014 United States floods set rainfall records across cities in several states, including Michigan, Maine, and New York?
... that actress Jacqui Purvis performed her character's wedding vows in te reo Māori during the 8000th episode of Home and Away?
... that 6 percent of the US population had symptoms of long COVID lasting three months or longer in the first half of 2023?
... that a newspaper in Kentucky reported that the solar eclipse of November 22, 1900, would pass over Austria instead of Australia?
... that The Butchering Art describes how Joseph Lister's successful surgery on Queen Victoria led to the widespread adoption of his antiseptic techniques?
... that 150-year-old wooden models of the Temple Mount are important to archaeology, as their creator was the last European ever permitted to survey its foundations?
... that when Sarah Jane Baker was released after 30 years, she was the United Kingdom's longest serving transgender prisoner?