derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that a Lady Gaga song became popular 11 years after its release, when videos showing Jenna Ortega, as Wednesday Addams, dancing to the song became viral on TikTok?
... that the Allegory of Peace by Jan Lievens celebrates the 1648 Treaty of Münster?
... that UCLA basketball player Jaylen Clark was named the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year in 2023, after also significantly improving on offense?
... that, amongst the kidneys of the vertebrates, only those of mammals and birds can produce concentrated urine?
... that Constantine, an infant Byzantine emperor, reportedly died by drowning in a cistern after escaping the care of his nurse?
... that a Kansas City TV station had so many children's shows to air that the station manager talked of "fit[ting] so many ten-pound turnips into a five-pound sack"?
... that in 1952 a 19-year-old footman shot Lady Derby and three members of staff at Knowsley Hall in England?
... that the 2023 series Farzi tells the story of a counterfeiting ring as well as the fakeness of people?
... that a special case was instrumental to harpist Steffy Goldner's professional career and legacy?
... that after Sea Girt, New Jersey, passed a law that banned live rock and disco music at the Parker House , a state judge overturned the ban as being "silly"?
... that 22-year-old singer Milena Warthon has created a new genre, pop andino, by fusing pop and Andean music?
... that Nottingham Forest's victory in the 2022 EFL Championship play-off final gained them promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years?
... that at the peak of the 2018 Tinder Fire in Arizona, 695 firefighters worked to contain its spread?
... that the Kipsigis people wrote a folk song about American singer Jimmie Rodgers, whom they called "Chemirocha"?
... that Iyarkai is based on the true story of a man who got lost in the Mediterranean Sea and never returned?
... that Brightwell Manor was the home of a eugenicist clergyman who did not believe in democracy?
... that the Federal Communications Commission's comparative hearing criteria for awarding broadcast licenses were struck down as "arbitrary and capricious"?
... that Indian activist Birubala Rabha has rescued more than thirty women from being persecuted as witches in the last decade?
... that the Alchymic Quartet is a string quartet by Graham Waterhouse, to be performed alongside chemical experiments of Andrew Szydlo, his former teacher at Highgate School?
... that during the 1913 El Paso smelters' strike the Industrial Workers of the World and the Western Federation of Miners competed to organize the strikers with their respective labor unions?
... that the 1919 suite of The Firebird contained "more than three hundred errors"?
... that British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years' imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code?
... that Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, protected as a national monument since March 21, 2023, is a significant habitat of Joshua trees and threatened desert tortoises?
... that the game designer of the video game Hades said that the characters were attractive "because Jen Zee"?
... that after one of Piet Mondrian's paintings was discovered to have been hanging upside down for decades, the museum left it as is?
... that the Loophonium, a cross between a euphonium and a toilet, was played alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on April Fools' Day?
... that "'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error"?
... that the Optimizer by Capex Corporation brought memory and runtime savings to COBOL programs running on IBM mainframes?
... that as part of its strategy of political renovation, National Convergence nominated a librarian to contest one of Bolivia's most competitive legislative districts?
... that the title of the livestreaming concert Freedom came from Regine Velasquez's desire to have freedom of singing anything she wants?
... that the site of Mount Bibele is home to a necropolis with 171 tombs?
... that Ruth Scott Miller, the first female music critic for the Chicago Tribune, said she was hired to "write for the masses and not for 'four or five thousand freak music lovers'"?
... that the four sons of Horus were believed to have protected deceased people in the afterlife by creating a specialized connection with the deceased's internal organs?
... that duplex stainless steel can undergo 475 °C embrittlement that causes a loss of plasticity when it is heated between 250 °C and 550 °C?
... that Vietnam War photojournalist Art Greenspon was wounded in the face by a shot that had first passed through colleague Co Rentmeester's hand?
... that programs at a Cleveland public TV station had to be recorded in between school bells and fire drills?
... that actress Eula Morgan performed opera in her 1940s film roles, such as Madame Rinaldi in The Great American Broadcast?
... that the ownership group of San Diego's MLS team includes a Native American tribe and baseball player Manny Machado?
... that chef Lata Tondon once set a Guinness World Record with a cooking marathon lasting 87 hours 45 minutes?
... that the relatively low standards of player selection for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1883 have been described as being "determined with a nod and a wink over drinks"?
... that the carbatinae , shoes worn in ancient Greece and Rome, were single pieces of leather tied onto the foot?
... that Lamia Al-Gailani Werr helped rebuild the Iraq Museum after it was looted in the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq?
... that of approximately 140 men stranded after a shipwreck on Wager Island in 1741, only 36 returned alive to Britain, according to Rear Admiral C. H. Layman?
... that Roy McGrath, who was the chief of staff to Maryland governor Larry Hogan, was wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was killed during a shootout by agents?
... that the 2003 book The Reconstruction of Nations describes how "national reconciliation is possible after even the most terrible conflicts", including ethnic cleansing?
... that the bird subspecies Alcippe dubia genestieri is named after Annet Genestier, a French missionary-botanist in China who also built Zhongding Catholic Church in 1908?
... that the historical-romance novel My Tender Matador includes a fictionalized version of the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet?
... that in college, American football lineman Zack Johnson played directly next to Zack Johnson?
... that actor Glenn Strange was unaware that he was being called to play Frankenstein's monster in House of Frankenstein until he reported to the make-up room?
... that when journalist and trade unionist Nisn Pups was released from jail, the Communist Party of Lithuania instructed him to change his name?
... that Samuel Dexter Lecompte, the pro-slavery chief justice of Kansas Territory before the Civil War, administered oaths to the Fugitive Slave Act instead of the United States Constitution?
... that crew members had to sign non-disclosure agreements to stop them revealing that the Inside No. 9 episode "Hold on Tight!" was fake?
... that evangelist Bob Harrington would drive miles out of his way to avoid the sight of a steeple?
... that one NFL scout compared watching Marvin Harrison Jr. to "window shopping at a Lamborghini dealership for the model that doesn't come out until next year"?
...that the Locumba uprising was thought by many to be a cover for the escape of Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's de facto leader from 1990 to 2000?
... that Edward D. Boone was the last surviving member of his 1851 graduating class from the College of the Holy Cross?
... that the Easter composition Surrexit a mortuis ('He rose from the dead') was scored for choir and two organs by Charles-Marie Widor, the organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
... that one abolitionist said that William L. Breckinridge's anti-slavery views would "disqualify [him] from political usefulness"?
... that variations of the Latin legal maxim ius civile vigilantibus scriptum est have been used by American, European and Lesotho courts?
... that the Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern, the funicular railway with the highest transport payload capacity (215 tonnes), was built to move four transformers 882 m (2,894 ft) uphill?
... that before becoming a legislator, Bettina Petzold-Mähr played volleyball for Liechtenstein when they defeated Lichtenstein?
... that French Army infantrymen wore red trousers from 1829 until 1914?
... that Zayn al-Din Qaraja was imprisoned and executed by the Mamluk Sultanate after he declared the independence of the Beylik of Dulkadir?
... that Katharina von Schnurbein is the European Commission's first coordinator on combatting antisemitism, having served in the role since 2015?
... that the show Protection Court continued to air episodes during an investigation launched by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission alleging that litigants were filmed without their consent?
... that a giant sculpture of melting whipped cream with a cherry on top transmitted a live feed of passers-by in Trafalgar Square, London?
... that Jordan St. Cyr, a Christian songwriter from a small town in Manitoba, won the first Juno Award for which he was nominated?
... that the late-Victorian Pagan Review lasted for a single issue and all of its content was written by one person?
... that Dierk Raabe received €2.5 million from the European Research Council to work on Green Steel?
... that Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, a regional councillor in Jakarta, Indonesia, received media attention for bringing his seven-month-old child into the legislative chamber?
... that the Mongol general Boroqul saved the life of the future Ögedei Khan by continually sucking clotted blood from a wound on his neck?
... that the word 'tissue' in textiles refers to types of fabric that are delicate, lightweight, and sheer in nature?
... that a world record has been set every year Gqeberha has held its Breaking Barriers 50km event?
... that film critic and censor D. I. Suchianu wanted Romanian moviegoers to cease "falling asleep whenever they're not shown a naked breast [or] a hip that's getting some action"?
... that Luo Wenzao became the first Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677?
... that Crying Ladies and Donsol, films starring Angel Aquino, were Philippine submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 77th and 80th Academy Awards, respectively?
... that to learn the rules of American football, Australian Adam Korsak, who was named the best college punter in 2022, played Madden NFL 06 and watched Any Given Sunday?
... that the Game Boy–released game Monster Max was considered by critics to be the closest in quality to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening?
... that in 2019, a rockfall on the Spanish Autovia C-13 caused skiing holidays to be cancelled?
... that while Philippine Spanish has been described as an endangered language, a new generation of speakers has emerged?
... that Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding in his horse carriage when he was a general?
... that actress Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
... that several composers wrote coloratura arias specifically for the voice of Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti?
... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
... that Curtis Aiken set the New York State Public High School Athletic Association single-season boys' basketball scoring record?
... that Deng Xiaoping called his actions during the Baise Uprising "one of the worst mistakes" of his life?
... that Asia Abdelmajid, a pioneering Sudanese actress, was killed in crossfire during the 2023 Sudan conflict?
... that confectioner William Westerfeld hired architect Henry Geilfuss to design his home in San Francisco, and then died in it?
... that the ancient Romans kept leopards in captivity to be used in the executions of criminals?
... that Rembrandt drew heavily on two copperplate engravings of earlier works by other artists for the composition of Tobit and Anna with the Kid ?
... that Polish-Jewish Post-Impressionist painter and Dadaist Marcel Słodki was arrested by the Germans in France and died in Auschwitz concentration camp?
... that Valley Public Television once raffled off a 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, according to the wishes of the man who bequeathed it to the station?
... that Sheila P. Burke was once known as the 101st U.S. senator?
... that after a guest smuggled a lion into the Hotel Belleclaire using a piano crate, the lion was thrown out of the hotel?
... that the Chicano Liberation Front claimed responsibility for 28 bombings in Los Angeles in 1970 and 1971?
... that it once took two days to determine whether a slam dunk by Lester Rowe at the buzzer counted?
... that in 1967, the world's first ATM was installed at a branch of Barclays Bank in north London ?
... that the Pimlico tube station is the deepest station below sea level on the Victoria line?
... that Dafne Navarro was the first trampoline gymnast to represent Mexico at the Olympics?
... that Dubuque, Arkansas, was destroyed in the American Civil War and is now covered by the waters of Bull Shoals Lake?
... that Japanese singer Noa became interested in music after watching the 2006 film High School Musical?
... that Aristotle's system of logic formed the foundation of logical thought in the Western world for more than 2,000 years until the advent of modern symbolic logic?
... that the art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
... that the coffin of Elizabeth Siddal was exhumed at her widower's request to retrieve a book of poetry?
... that the microscopic organism Cafileria is the only living being that connects its nucleus to its mitochondria?
... that Lynda Simmons co-founded Architecture + Women NZ with Sarah Treadwell, Julie Wilson and Megan Rule to push for equity in New Zealand architecture?
... that the 1994 film The Devil Never Sleeps centers on director Lourdes Portillo investigating her uncle's death?
... that the team developing the action video game Knights Contract researched European folklore on witches and witch hunts?
... that literary agent Jacques Chambrun sold unauthorized, scandalous excerpts of a Marilyn Monroe memoir to a British tabloid?
... that gold(III) chloride can directly convert a primary amine to a ketone without any additional steps?
... that Jesse Marcel claimed that he recovered extraterrestrial debris from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico?
... that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his "Bill Swerski–esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't?
... that makwerekwere is the South African equivalent of "barbarians", an offensive and derogatory slur used to refer to foreigners?
... that Marisa Anderson organized and participated in multiple cross-country walks to raise awareness for various political causes?
... that the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service divides the entire ocean into just 21 radio areas?
... that the 1943 North Texas Aggies went from "kitchen maid" to "queen of the ball" when the Marine Corps sent players from major universities "tumbling onto" the campus?
... that Montserratian playwright Edgar Nkosi White only wrote his first play after he was dared by actor Martin Sheen?
... that Cusrow Baug in Mumbai had only a few tenants in the 1950s even at a low rent of 40 rupees per month?
... that the 2019 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball recruiting class is known as the Freshies after the name of the group chat they created before their freshman year?
... that in 1956, a Las Vegas TV station may have been the only 24-hour TV station in the U.S.?
... that a photograph inspired by one of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"?
... that John Sebastian composed the song "Rain on the Roof" after he spent a night listening to the rain with his wife?
... that the 2019 book Pacifying the Homeland was compared to an ice-cold shower for individuals acclimatized to mass surveillance in the US due to its pervasiveness in daily life?
... that the Cantonese cooking channel Made With Lau began generating about US$50,000 per month in YouTube advertising revenue in under a year?
... that language creator Edgar de Wahl escaped deportation by the NKVD by being placed in a psychiatric hospital?
... that when the dance permit for El Monte Legion Stadium was revoked, Johnny Otis accused the local city council of racism and, with the ACLU and NAACP, successfully reversed their decision?
... that a Connecticut TV station was dedicated to the state's first female governor, Ella Grasso, whose son was a minority owner?
... that the Los Angeles Sparks have the most wins and highest winning percentage in WNBA history?
... that Tim Watson-Munro was the psychologist responsible for treating mass murderer Julian Knight?
... that Bob Dylan played the song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" 748 times in concert performances between 1976 and 2010?
... that British designer Alexander McQueen partied so hard that he accidentally abandoned the entirety of his second collection among a nightclub's rubbish?
... that American aviator John Moisant crashed his plane twice before participating in the 1910 International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park ?
... that the casualties suffered at the Battle of Plum Point Bend were very light given the amount of ordnance expended?
... that Jalen Redmond received the offer of a college athletic scholarship before having even played in a high-school football game?
... that the Church of St. Jacob, which had been used for centuries by Prussian Lithuanians in Klaipėda, was demolished by soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces using tanks in 1959?
... that Angel Aquino received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the 2014 Gawad Urian Awards?
... that according to scholarship published in 2023, Maria de Knuijt, rather than her husband, was actually the main patron of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer ?
... that Kyren Wilson won the first four frames in all of his snooker matches at the 2023 Tour Championship?
... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
... that in 2022 Marios Georgiou became Cyprus's first European champion in gymnastics?
... that in winning the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship, Alabama head coach Nick Saban broke the record for the most Division I college football national championships as a coach?
... that Chadd Cumberbatch, a Montserratian poet and playwright, wrote a play called 1768 to tell the story of the island's St Patrick's Day slave rebellion?
... that the developers of CT Special Forces: Back to Hell responded to criticism of their previous game's password save system by making even more detailed passwords?
... that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer?
... that marrying Plautia Urgulanilla may have helped Claudius get first-hand information for Tyrrhenika, his work about the Etruscans?
... that one reviewer said that players should try using a guitar controller with Fret Nice "to gain a new appreciation for a traditional controller"?
... that the LGBTQ+ anthology This Arab Is Queer features 18 queer Arab writers?
... that Celine-Marie Pascale's work focuses on how race and class impact the way "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles" to benefit the wealthy?
... that most blue bloods in college basketball coincidentally wear shades of blue in their uniforms?
... that parishioners collected the stones used to build St. Mary's Church from the iron mines where they worked?
... that Lucy Salani is considered the only known Italian transgender person to survive the Nazi concentration camps?
... that during the early-access period of Hogwarts Legacy, the game set a new record on Twitch with the largest number of concurrent viewers for a single-player game in history?
... that the miniseries In the Best of Families was based on the book Bitter Blood which in turn is a recount of the real life murders of Fritz Klenner?
... that male blue-bellied limias spend more than 26 minutes per hour courting females?
... that two Americans, Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik, are large funders of the Kohelet Policy Forum, an intellectual driving force of the controversial 2023 Israeli judicial reform package?
... that a Houston TV station lost its broadcasting tower in a construction accident a month after going on the air?
... that the USC Trojans team that won the 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship had been compared to the Marvel Comics' Avengers?
... that Théodore Géricault's paintings of Haitian-born model Joseph are unusual in portraying him as "an actual, distinct person"?
... that a Kansas TV station claimed it had "The Look of a Leader" and then went on to become the leader in its market?
... that Wanda Szuman, a pioneer of special education in Poland, was also active in underground education?
... that one reviewer said that her favorite part of Cassette Beasts was that it is not "forced to cater to younger children", unlike Pokémon?
... that declarative knowledge is an awareness of facts that differs from practical knowledge in the form of skills and knowledge by acquaintance based on experiential familiarity?
... that Christopher W. Shaw has called for the return of banking at the United States Postal Service?
... that English-speaking elephants can be okay on Neptune in fiction, but a solid surface is not?
... that Gagauz politician Dumitru Topciu was mocked by his colleagues in the Romanian Assembly of Deputies for speaking Romanian with a "boorish accent"?
... that an FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic, which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game?
... that in 1976, William F. Matthews became the first bookbinder to receive the Insignia Award of the City and Guilds of London Institute?
... that German president Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor, visited St. Francis Cathedral in Xi'an, China, 300 years after construction began?
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "snake woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
... that a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section of the N54 road in the Republic of Ireland cannot be reached without first travelling through Northern Ireland?
... that grantees of ranchos of Los Angeles County submitted hand-drawn maps known as diseños when making their land claims to the U.S. government?
... that medieval Muslim historians blamed al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah for the loss of much of Palestine to the crusaders but, in reality, he played no role in the Fatimid government during that period?
... that Cathy Whims has opened several restaurants in Portland, Oregon, including the Nostrana, which has been described as "Portland's capital of the Negroni"?
... that at Capa House, photographer Robert Capa captured The Picture of the Last Man to Die, of American soldier Raymond J. Bowman?
... that Michalis Rakintzis said that he "came close to throwing down [his] microphone and walking off the stage" during his performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002?
... that in her first year with San Diego State, basketball player Tina Hutchinson set NCAA freshman scoring records and led the Aztecs to their first NCAA tournament?
... that most figures in 16th-century etchings by Jean Mignon have open mouths?
... that despite her physical disability, Sara Gadalla Gubara came third in a 50 km (31 mi) mixed-sex national swimming event in 1972?
... that the nadiri, a sleeveless overcoat, was personally designed by Jahangir, the fourth Mughal emperor?