derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that during the bloody siege of Badajoz, William Nicholas was wounded by musket-ball and bayonet, but continued to give orders and was carried up the breach, only to be shot again?
... that David Bowie frequently updated the lyrics for his song "Young Americans" to keep them contemporary?
... that in 1991, Juan López Mella was the first Spanish rider to achieve a podium place in the Superbike World Championship?
... that after complaints of A Pickle for the Knowing Ones lacking punctuation, the author published a second edition with full pages of punctuation in the appendix?
... that in 1998, the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR received the Guinness World Record for the most expensive production car?
... that the 1995 dedication ceremony for the Faces of War Memorial included missing-man flyovers?
... that fossils are included in Polystoechotites due to being poorly fossilized, rather than due to relation?
... that the release of the MacCharlie —an IBM PC that clipped onto the side of the original Macintosh—nearly bankrupted Dayna Communications in 1985?
... that Indian Carnatic music vocalist R. K. Padmanabha teaches group singing predominantly to women?
... that a targeting penalty that caused the disqualification of an Arkansas player during overtime of the 2022 Liberty Bowl was overturned by the NCAA the next day?
... that Fernando Cajías, who belongs to the first generation of professional historians in Bolivia, composed part of history academia's "Mirista wing"?
... that a mercury spill occurred at Agua Fria High School when students discovered and started playing with an unsecured supply of the element?
... that industrial designer Cesar Vergara started designing trains because he "thought most were awful looking"?
... that the Three Tuns, a 17th-century pub in Alcester, has been left roofless since a 2021 fire?
... that Solihin G. P. was anecdotally asleep when he was announced as the commander of the Hasanuddin Military Region?
... that Madonna could be the owner of a French painting believed to have been destroyed in World War I ?
... that Oscar Ortiz continued his 2019 presidential campaign even after his own running mate asked him to withdraw?
... that of up to 300 bullets fired in the Ash Street shootout between U.S. Army Rangers and alleged drug dealers, none were reported to have hit anyone?
... that before Paul Goodman became known for his views on education, he wrote an autobiographical novel about a teacher's sexual relationship with his student?
... that Laura Bergt was said to have gained millions of acres of land for Native Alaskans by Eskimo-kissing Vice President Spiro Agnew ?
... that when Nashville's Eighth Avenue South Reservoir ruptured in 1912, one family was swept away while still lying in bed?
... that when Brigadier Leonard Parrington ordered Sergeant Jack Hinton to surrender, Hinton told Parrington to "go and jump in the bloody lake"?
... that the demolition of the Shrine of Husayn's Head, probably the most important Shi'a Muslim shrine in Israel, may have been related to efforts to transfer Palestinians out of the country?
... that as a last-minute substitute in a premiere performance at Oper Frankfurt, Elena Manistina sang from the side while the assistant director mimed onstage?
... that although he was a former Indonesian prime minister, Soekiman Wirjosandjojo was not arrested during a political purge as he was considered a non-threat?
... that the now-drained lake Tarn Wadling was famous as a liminal place where the spectre of Guinevere's dead mother appeared to her and Gawain in The Awntyrs off Arthure?
... that the painting Passing Mother's Grave by Jozef Israëls was his best-known work, and was made into a bronze sculpture after his death?
... that Arab troops under King Faisal missed the 24 January 1917 capture of Wejh by two days because they had been celebrating the capture of £20,000 in gold?
... that the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed Marjorie Lynch's nomination to a government post due to her birth in Britain?
... that the New Beehive Inn in Bradford, England, was "a rare example of a public house built by a local authority"?
... that during Matt Lanter's audition for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he was told that he was going to play Deak Starkiller even though he was actually going to play Anakin Skywalker?
... that the Sangage Sheikhdom was the last holdout of native Swahili resistance to Portuguese colonization in northern Mozambique?
... that Soviet-trained commissar Dumitru Petrescu supervised propaganda aimed at purging a "nest of reactionaries" out of the Romanian Army?
... that the case Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. was considered essential to the future of video game modding in the United States in 1992?
... that Louis Pasteur's 1859 experiment is widely seen as having disproved the theory of spontaneous generation?
... that, before same-sex unions were legally recognised in the UK, the London Partnership Register allowed nearly 1,000 couples to celebrate their relationships?
... that Kuchipudi exponent Maddali Usha Gayatri choreographed a 12-hour ballet that was performed by a troupe involving 12 of her disciples?
... that employees claimed to have temporarily shut down an Arkansas radio station over not receiving paychecks?
... that in a tennis match against Stefanos Tsitsipas, Daniil Medvedev called the umpire "a small cat"?
... that although George Balanchine incorporated jazz dance-inspired choreography in his ballet Concerto Barocco , those elements are now gone?
... that Amdek Corporation, a popular manufacturer of computer monitors in the 1980s, started out as a reseller of car radio components?
... that the manga series Sora ga Suki! depicted two male characters kissing each other although it was a taboo for manga in the 1970s?
... that W. A. F. J. Tumbelaka once expelled his children from the University of Indonesia after they failed to pass an evaluation?
... that three blocks near Stampede Park were transformed into a destroyed city for the first episode of The Last of Us?
... that the wine cellar of New York City's Barclay Hotel is on the second floor?
... that the Supermarine S.4 was built to race in the 1925 Schneider Trophy but crashed during it?
... that Gogu Rădulescu, a member of the Romanian Communist Party central committee, was allegedly spied on by his colleagues through Lăutari performers, called upon to "sing him the blues"?
... that although Andrzej Żuławski's film Possession is referred to as a psychological drama and horror, its genre is still a matter of controversy?
... that Kakusan-ni was the founding abbess of a Buddhist convent that was a refuge for women running away from their husbands?
... that Phineas Gage was buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery twice, once without his head, before being relocated still without his head?
... that Jessica Martin has played both a punk werewolf and the voice of the Queen in Doctor Who?
... that when visiting Britain during World War II, naval officer Kalyani Sen reported that Indian women were breaking down prejudices against men and women working together by joining the military?
... that the work of Danish plant physiologist Peter Boysen Jensen paved the way to the discovery of the plant growth hormone, auxin?
... that the lobby of New York's 630 Ninth Avenue is decorated with stylized movie cameras, evoking the building's original purpose?
... that Sosates was described as the "Jewish Homer", but all of his works are lost?
... that health economist Selma Mushkin estimated in the early 1970s that up to 50 percent of poor children in Washington, D.C., were affected by lead poisoning?
... that after the release of Enola Holmes in 2020, the original author's estate sued Netflix, claiming that it violated copyright laws because it depicted Sherlock Holmes as having emotions?
... that Buffalo's band, cheerleaders, and radio crew were unable to make the trip to the 2022 Camellia Bowl due to a winter storm?
... that the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX traveled more than 1,000 km (621 mi) from Sindelfingen to Cassis on a single charge with energy to spare?
... that Obliskomzap People's Commissar for Public Charity V. L. Mukha resigned in protest over the dispersing of the First All-Belarusian Congress?
... that Hindu religious leader Siddeshwar Swami declined the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honor?
... that the mass Messe in A by Christopher Tambling, originally set for high voices, proved so popular that a four-part version was commissioned?
... that American football player Joe Hall, whose position was running back, weighed up to 340 pounds (150 kg) during his career?
... that Group A of the 2006 FIFA World Cup featured the highest-scoring opening game in World Cup history since the competition began using a single match opening format?
... that Centre College president Milton C. Moreland wrote his honors thesis about the Nag Hammadi library?
... that the Tomb of Aegisthus helped to settle the 'Helladic Heresy' over the relationship between Minoan and Mycenaean civilisation?
... that John Lennon believed that the Rolling Stones' 1978 hit "Miss You" was based on a sped-up version of his 1974 song "Scared"?
... that Philip Wodehouse spent four months chasing after HMS Peterel across the Mediterranean before catching up with the ship and taking over command from Bartholomew James?
... that American first lady Lou Henry Hoover secretly sent money to families in need during the Great Depression?
... that the novel Anon Pls. is based on the author's real-life experience going viral on Instagram?
... that the Iowa Colored Cowboys played softball for audiences of over a thousand people, in an atmosphere similar to a Harlem Globetrotters show?
... that the ruined stronghold of Alexandria Ariana, a city founded by Alexander the Great, may lie underneath the citadel of Herat in present-day Afghanistan?
... that the 2022 Gasparilla Bowl was the first edition of the game to feature two Power Five teams?
... that when Australian Brihony Dawson debuted as the first non-binary host of reality TV franchise The Challenge, they decided not to imitate the "ominous" style of the U.S. host?
... that the Japanese male–male romance magazine June was originally pitched to its publisher as a "mildly pornographic magazine for women"?
... that the cremated remains of AIDS activist Ortez Alderson were thrown onto the South Lawn of the White House in the ACT UP Ashes Action of 1992?
... that in November 2022 the Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled that the voting age of 18 was unjustified age discrimination in Make It 16 Incorporated v Attorney-General?
... that Ted Danson's role in "Somewhere Else", an episode of The Good Place, featured a nod to his previous role as a bartender?
... that after being removed from his post as governor due to a corruption case, Djoko Munandar was later found not guilty?
... that in Freedom & Civilization, an anthropological analysis of the concept of freedom, Bronisław Malinowski argues for the creation of a world government?
... that Sandra Dombrowski was the first female to referee an IIHF World Women's Championship gold-medal game?
... that a construction worker working on the Great World MRT station died after an excavator's bucket dislodged and fell on him?
... that Sears heiress Edith Rosenwald Stern organized a women's broom brigade against political corruption in New Orleans?
... that the Leedy Manufacturing Company of Indianapolis, Indiana, was at one point the largest manufacturer of drums in the world?
... that Ming-dynasty physician Miao Xiyong used a virgin boy's urine to treat a stroke patient?
... that the January 2023 election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was the longest speaker election since December 1859 – February 1860?
... that PeopleSound was Europe's most visited music streaming site in 2000, and had offered any artist £100 for each song they uploaded?
... that American football linebacker Segun Olubi grew up in New Jersey, Minnesota, Arizona, England, and California, and attended four different colleges in Idaho, California, and Arkansas?
... that according to a critic, Odysseus, Verbrecher portrays Odysseus with post-traumatic stress disorder?
... that nearby homeowners believed the tower of a TV station in Arkansas was responsible for "a bad effect on the peace and health of the citizens"?
... that St Mary's Anglican Church, Busselton, Australia, has been a part of six dioceses, namely Canterbury, Calcutta, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Bunbury?
... that after the Forest Park Carousel was acquired for $30,000 in 1972, one of its later operators likened the deal to "buying a Rembrandt for $25"?
... that Elisabeth Waterhouse founded the National Chamber Music Course summer school in 1974 and has managed it since?
... that Soviet cruiser Vasily Chapayev was ordered to sail on 24 December 1976, but its crew refused to comply, causing the removal of its senior officers?
... that Dawid Celt was Agnieszka Radwańska's hitting partner before he became her domestic partner?
... that the actor who played Screech on Saved by the Bell portrayed Harvey Weinstein in a music video for the song "Kill All the Things"?
... that comedian Frankie Boyle's debut novel Meantime is about a Glaswegian drug addict investigating his friend's death?
... that Jiří Kylián had all the dancers in his ballet Bella Figura appear topless to equalise men and women?
... that British Imperial Airways manager Charles Wolley-Dod and two crew members were killed in an unexplained plane crash in Germany in 1937?
... that after Archimedes first defined convex curves, mathematicians lost interest in their analysis until the 19th century, more than two millennia later?
... that British architect Diane Haigh transformed one historic building into an art gallery and another into a hospice?
... that Dana Holgorsen coached Houston in the 2022 Independence Bowl while wearing a jacket that honored Mike Leach, his late coach and mentor?
... that Liu Ji'en was assassinated just 60 days after being crowned the emperor of the Northern Han?
... that the developers of Sonic felt the series' linear design contained "little room for evolution" so they decided to make Sonic Frontiers an open world game?
... that Governor Miguel Barbosa Huerta said that his predecessor's death in office was a punishment from God – and then died in office himself?
... that Bothie was the only dog to "set paw" on both the North and South poles?
... that civilian-operated drones twice forced aerial firefighting operations on the Goodwin Fire to stop?
... that R. J. Mitchell was the lead designer of the Supermarine Spitfire?
... that Marshall ended a three-game college football bowl losing streak with its win in the 2022 Myrtle Beach Bowl?
... that hot springs at Aachen nurtured its 1,000-year-old textile industry?
... that before Sarah Elmaleh voiced the player character in the video game Anthem, developed by BioWare, she voiced characters in a mod of an earlier BioWare game?
... that the Loddon Bridge disaster, which killed three people, led to changes in how falsework was managed on British construction sites?
... that because of dotations made by Napoleon to his supporters, the Kingdom of Westphalia was never fiscally solvent under French rule?
... that The Man Without Talent is an I-novel, a genre of semi-autobiographical confessional literature that has been popular in Japan since the early twentieth century?
... that Timo Meier became the first player in San Jose Sharks franchise history to score five goals in one game when he was 25?
... that the South Australian Labor politician Ernest Roberts served two tours in South Africa during the Second Boer War?
... that the founders of New York City's Circle in the Square Theatre had a total of $320 when they leased an inn in 1951?
... that Nina de Creeft Ward worked on art that resembles corpses of extinct and endangered species to show "how people have caused a scourge to the balance of nature"?
... that the title page of Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum shows an eagle atop a globe flanked by serpents , which symbolizes worldly triumph?
... that after Jim Sheddan ditched his Hawker Typhoon in the North Sea upon it being damaged by anti-aircraft fire, he spent 19 hours in an inflatable dinghy?
... that Bulkboeken ('bulk books') were cheap reprints of Dutch literary classics, published from 1971 to the late 1990s, and again from 2007?
... that the 2022 Yangtse clash saw Chinese and Indian troops fight hand-to-hand with melee weapons on a high-elevation ridgeline that formed their frontier in the area?
... that Elie Honig obtained the convictions of more than 100 members of the American Mafia, including members of the Genovese and Gambino crime families?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that Riddiculous riddlemaster Henry Lewis has appeared in The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Magic Goes Wrong, and The Goes Wrong Show?
... that the library of Raphael de Mercatellis was the first library in the Low Countries to "reveal an extensive interest in what we may call Renaissance ideas"?
... that the Kill Bill films inspired SZA to write a song about murdering her ex-boyfriend?
... that the president of his own party criticized the speed at which members of the Congress of Puebla moved to appoint Sergio Salomón Céspedes as the substitute governor?
... that the luxury passenger steamer Stephen Furness was taken into Royal Navy service during the First World War and was sunk by a U-boat, with the loss of more than 100 lives?
... that Pap of Armenia survived an assassination attempt by Roman legions during a battle, but was later murdered by the Romans during a feast?
... that the Communist Opposition was the most popular slate in the 1931 Czechoslovak municipal election in Unhošť?
... that American professor Emerson Charles Denny co-published the Nelson–Denny Reading Test in 1930, which has parts held at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History?
... that according to Ren Xiaoping, the first reference to a body swap occurs in the Chinese short story "Judge Lu", in which the titular character performs a head transplant on his friend's wife?
... that research suggests liminal spaces appear unsettling by falling in the uncanny valley of physical places?
... that Robert Zollinger was a surgeon and an avid rose grower, serving as president of both the American Surgical Association and the American Rose Society?
... that Russian money, known as qiang tie by locals, was used as legal currency in some regions of China for decades?
... that Chekri Ganem's play Antar was described as the most significant display of Arab nationalism organized outside the Arab world?
... that Luis Miguel's chance meeting with Juan Luis Guerra led to Guerra writing the song "Hasta Que Me Olvides" on a napkin?
... that Innokenty Fedenev, who was an Old Bolshevik, inspired one of the characters in How the Steel Was Tempered, a novel he helped to get published?
... that the Frye Fire decimated the population of the already endangered Mount Graham red squirrel in Arizona?
... that Romanian poet Dimitrie Stelaru said that he once traveled to Paris by truck, adding "I hardly remember anything, I was drunk the whole time"?
... that Antoinette Tidjani Alou wrote a work of autofiction that traces the journey of a Jamaican woman who moved to Niger for love?
... that the 1601 medical text Zhenjiu dacheng recommends acupuncture-based cures for mental illness?
... that Park Ji-hyun helped to expose an online sex-crime ring and later became the interim co-chair of the Democratic Party of Korea at the age of 26?
... that the Aesculapian Club, founded in Edinburgh in 1773, still meets twice a year?
... that the Glock switch is a device that can turn a handgun into a machine gun?
... that Liz Shore's nomination to be Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom was vetoed by Margaret Thatcher because of Shore's husband's political affiliation?
... that the Allegheny river cruiser can be accurately identified by holding it or by studying its genitalia?
... that the story of a lone German artillery officer disabling up to 16 British tanks on the first day of the 1917 Battle of Cambrai was encouraged by the German Nazi Party?
... that a 1987 march attended by about 20,000 protestors in Forsyth County, Georgia, has been called one of the largest civil rights demonstrations since the civil rights movement?
... that the ferry General Joe Potter at Walt Disney World is named in honor of Major General William Everett Potter?
... that Japanese bookstore employees recommended Candy Color Paradox as one of the best yaoi manga titles in 2016?
... that Will Arbery's view that the media shallowly examined supporters of Donald Trump after the 2016 presidential election crystallized Arbery's desire to write a play?
... that the relatively low death toll of 100 of the 1997 Bojnurd earthquake was attributed to a foreshock and most residents being outdoors?
... that the Los Angeles Salsa, from the United States, attempted to join a Mexican soccer league?
... that the talabaw soup , which consists primarily of bamboo shoots, is the essential dish of Myanmar's Karen people, who use it to supplement rice?
... that Lord Cottenham resigned from MI5 during the Second World War, as he did not support the war with Germany?
... that the BK inequality was used to identify implausibly lucky Florida Lottery winners, whose involvement in illegal activities was later confirmed by investigations?
... that after Deutsche Bahn built Berlin's central railway station according to plans that had been altered against the original architect Meinhard von Gerkan's wishes, he sued them, and won?
... that the Argentina and Netherlands national football teams have played each other at every other FIFA World Cup since 1998?
... that Don Luce led a group of Americans to a secret part of a South Vietnamese prison where inmates were kept in squalor in what were called "tiger cages"?
... that the Blemyomachia is an epic poem describing a historical clash between the Roman Empire and the Blemmyes in the Nile valley?
... that Soony Saad scored on his Major League Soccer debut on his 19th birthday?
... that to comply with a law that restricted liquor sales near churches, the Peninsula New York placed its cocktail lounge up a flight of stairs and down a long hallway?
... that Shigeru Ohmori and his team took half a year to design the grass in Pokémon Sword and Shield?
... that in 2019, the Canadian government's Translation Bureau began providing translation services in Dene, East Cree, Plains Cree, and Mohawk?
... that Robert Rattenbury said to his student Geoffrey Kirk: "Good Heavens! Well, I don't suppose I shall be seeing you again"?
... that the construction of the Botaş Saros FSRU Terminal in the Gulf of Saros, Turkey, continued despite a court-ordered stay of execution?
... that illustrator Rudy Nappi based his cover art for the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories on summaries provided by his wife, who actually read the books?
... that at least 78 British general officers were killed as a result of active service in the First World War , but a popular myth holds that general officers rarely visited the battlefield?
... that Ismail Suko was elected governor of Riau in 1985, then forced to resign before taking office?
... that Eastern Michigan's only bowl-game victory before defeating San Jose State in the 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl was against San Jose State in the 1987 California Bowl?
... that campaigning by climate activist Kimiko Hirata halted plans to build 17 new coal-fired power plants following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan?
... that the only known specimen of the Cretaceous lizard Carsosaurus contains preserved embryos?
... that Anglo-Indian sprinter Kenneth Powell was the first sportsperson from Karnataka to win the Arjuna Award?
... that the Casablanca Protocol was the only binding instrument of the Arab League that addressed the status of Palestinian refugees?
... that exactly how "man of mystery" Max Wenner fell from an airliner flying over Belgium remains a mystery?