derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Colonel Bradley Winslow was brevetted by US president Abraham Lincoln for "brave and gallant conduct" during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War?
... that the Pellissippi Parkway in East Tennessee takes its name from a Native American name that was applied to both the Clinch and Ohio Rivers?
... that Beyoncé paid tribute to O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed after vogueing to her music, on her official website?
... that teenagers picketed The Washington Post to protest the sudden cancellation of The Milt Grant Show, a teen dance TV show in Washington, D.C.?
... that footballer Kameron Simmonds, who plays for Jamaica, only took up the sport after a gymnastics injury?
... that a Vatican Hebrew manuscript has been used as a source for analysing and emending modern editions of the Palestinian Talmud?
... that John Oliver has been credited with influencing United States law and culture, a phenomenon dubbed the "John Oliver effect"?
... that three burnt golf balls are preserved at Kew Gardens as a "rare fungal species"?
... that the kissing room of the New York Biltmore Hotel remained after the rest of the hotel had been demolished?
... that a division of the Buffalo Sabres ice hockey team lost $6 million in less than three years running a TV station?
... that when Jalal al-Din realised that he would be defeated at the Battle of the Indus, he rode his horse off a 30-foot (10 m) cliff into the Indus River?
... that the unusual trousers worn by crammer Herbert Jackson led to rumours among students of the University of Oxford that they concealed a coiled-up tail?
... that the Libellus de vocabulis rei militaris has been misattributed to Cicero, Cato, Pomponius Laetus and a mysterious Modestus?
... that Chip Hawkes got his nickname after turning up at gigs while covered in wood shavings?
... that during the Second World War, the British government's campaign Make-Do and Mend encouraged the public to fashion men's clothes into womenswear?
... that before Emine Arslan became a world kickboxing champion she smoked two packets of cigarettes a day?
... that the music video for the song "Justify My Love" was banned from appearing on MTV, MuchMusic, and Musique Plus for its sexual imagery?
... that when coach C. O. Brocato led his high school football team to a winning record in 1960, it was the first time they had done so since 1948 – when he had captained them as a player?
... that La La Land's composer initially wanted "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" to be the film's "award song" instead of "City of Stars"?
... that Hans-Jochen Jaschke, who was responsible for ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue as an auxiliary bishop of Hamburg, represented the Catholic Church to the media?
... that the decision to report the name of an internet forum dedicated to suicide was described by journalist Megan Twohey as one of the "biggest ethical issues that we had ever dealt with"?
... that an artwork in Singapore's Outram Park MRT station represents the state of mind of commuters through 69 engravings of surreal human forms?
... that the perigynia of the few-flowered sedge spring outward when brushed against?
... that historian Anne Balay wrote two books on oral histories from LGBT steelworkers and truck drivers?
... that according to the Source–Message–Channel–Receiver model, all forms of communication are attempts to influence the behavior of the audience?
... that Wu Xiaoyan, persecuted because of her adoptive father Wu Han, committed suicide 13 days before the end of the Cultural Revolution?
... that the stop-motion lyric video of Kylie Minogue's "Skirt" was created using more than 1,000 still photos of her posing in a hotel room?
... that Ade Surapriatna confronted a police officer who had ticketed his party's supporters for violating traffic laws at a rally?
... that Lord Dunsany's story "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" may feature "the most original method of dragonslaying ever devised"?
... that the course of the Panzer Dragoon series has been said to parallel the history of the Sega Saturn?
... that in 1941 Ivo Rojnica ruled that all Serbs and Jews were banned from walking the streets of Dubrovnik at night?
... that an estimated 30,000 people attended the funeral of Max Steinberg, an Israeli lone soldier who was killed during the 2014 Gaza War?
... that comedian Pamela Stephenson was pleased that her 1987 book How to Be a Complete Bitch was described as "sexist, violent and crude"?
... that, commenting on her support for the egalitarian Greek Republic as a Phanariote dame, Roxani Soutzos said it was "[b]etter to be a servant in Greece liberated than a princess in Greece enslaved"?
... that 900 West Randolph, Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?
... that Brian Kalbas helped recruit the player who would replace him in the number-one spot on his college tennis team?
... that a company controlled by Lady Bird Johnson bought a Texas TV station from one of her college classmates?
... that the "extreme lightness and luminous agility" of Michael McCown's voice in the roles of the Tempter and Nebuchadnezzar has been likened to that of Peter Pears?
... that The Wizard of the Kremlin depicts a fictional éminence grise based on Vladislav Surkov, who was called one of Russia's "most intriguing figures" by The New York Times?
... that Barcroft Boake, the author of one of Australia's most anthologised poems, hanged himself with a stockwhip a few months after it was published?
... that the Knock Knock Gang's modus operandi involves deceiving drivers and passengers before robbing them?
... that as an undergraduate, battery engineer Celina Mikolajczak discovered a supernova?
... that King Hussein of Jordan gifted an ancient Roman column to New York City for the 1964–65 World's Fair?
... that the Battlestar Galactica character Laura Roslin has been compared to Machiavelli's Lucretia and Virgil's Dido?
... that a Florida TV station abruptly removed programs from its schedule after it became unable to pay distributors?
... that Kamrussamad lost five Indonesian elections before finally winning a seat on the People's Representative Council in 2019?
... that the Akademia Nasionala del Ladino in Israel is dedicated to preserving the Judaeo-Spanish language?
... that after Emily and Jerry Spiegel's deaths, their daughters held rival art auctions?
... that after Dolwyddelan Castle was captured in January 1283, its new garrison was equipped with winter camouflage of white material and stockings?
... that former basketball player David Webber broke a record previously held by all-time great Larry Bird?
... that "In Bloom", the lead single of the EP Youth in the Shade, samples a-ha's 1984 single "Take On Me"?
... that Misuzu Yamada worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice-acting career?
... that according to artist Tetsuya Nomura, Vanille's attire took inspiration from the Himba people of Namibia?
... that Nickelodeon storyboard artists created a book with hundreds of pornographic drawings of SpongeBob SquarePants characters?
... that Thomas Carlyle was the first writer to use the expression "meaning of life" in English?
... that T Express is the tallest, tenth-fastest and third-longest wooden roller coaster in the world?
... that John Bunker was inspired to propagate old apple tree varieties after encountering Black Oxford apples while managing the food co-op in Belfast, Maine?
... that The Science of Dune contains a scientific analysis of the fictional concepts from the Dune franchise, such as sandworms, stillsuits, and the fictional drug melange?
... that the NCAA placed Yale University athletics on probation for two years after basketball player Jack Langer played in the 1969 Maccabiah Games?
... that The Wicked Prince by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1840, depicts powered and steerable flight twelve years before the first successful airship flight?
... that on 9 August 1673 a Dutch naval squadron reconquered New York from the English?
... that South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Will Muschamp told Jalin Hyatt: "Man, you're fast, but you need to eat more peanut butter"?
... that despite having never played college football, Henry Bell was able to make the roster of the NFL's Denver Broncos and served as one of the team's starting running backs in their inaugural season?
... that the author of In the Land of Invented Languages lived in the same town as a fluent Klingon speaker?
... that Elisabeth Anderson Sierra, nicknamed the "milk goddess", holds the Guinness World Record for the largest individual donation of breast milk?
... that two months after the Black September Organization assassinated Mossad operative Baruch Cohen in Madrid, his role in uncovering a Syria-directed spy ring in Israel was revealed?
... that Gladys Quander Tancil interpreted the lives of her enslaved ancestors at George Washington's Mount Vernon for more than twenty years?
... that the two residents of the Kabul synagogue argued with each other so much that the Taliban imprisoned them both?
... that the Empire of Japan turned a Korean royal cemetery at what is now Hyochang Park into a golf course ?
... that two days after the 2015 FIFA corruption case was covered in season 2 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, FIFA president Sepp Blatter resigned?
... that South Australian Labor premier Des Corcoran was mentioned in despatches for courage and skill in evacuating casualties during the Korean War?
... that Igor Stravinsky said of his cousin and first wife, Yekaterina Nosenko , that they were "closer than lovers sometimes are"?
... that in the 1930s two hoards of gold coins were found in a cellar in Baltimore, Maryland?
... that Fanya Baron resisted her prison guards and had to be carried to the place of her execution?
... that the creators of Misfits and Magic said that they sympathize with those who choose not to watch it?
... that after the death of surgeon and philanthropist John Hitchman the townspeople of Leamington Spa, England, erected a fountain in his memory?
... that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star?
... that before becoming the first woman president of the American College of Sports Medicine, Barbara L. Drinkwater had an undefeated season as a women's college basketball coach?
... that by 1967, staff at the Home Office were told not to feed Peta morsels of food as she had become "inordinately fat"?
... that the Spanish Inquisition sentenced Diego Mateo Zapata to wear the sanbenito, receive 200 lashes, have his 600 books confiscated, and be exiled, despite being acquitted?
... that SB19 became the first Filipino group to appear on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart, with "Gento"?
... that Bill Putnam was an All-American and the co-captain of the first UCLA team to win a basketball championship?
... that Ester Sokler has claimed that he has often been mistaken for a woman?
... that the commander of the French garrison at the 1704 siege of Landau was blinded by an Allied artillery bombardment?
... that Ikmal Jaya, a former mayor of Tegal, Indonesia, published a translated Quran written in Pegon script while in prison?
... that Elon Musk plans to fight Mark Zuckerberg by lying on top of him?
... that I Gede Pasek Suardika resigned the chairmanship of the Nusantara Awakening Party to be succeeded by his formerly imprisoned colleague Anas Urbaningrum?
... that the Sea to Sky Gondola was vandalized twice in two consecutive years, costing the company millions?
... that Indian singer Sudakshina Sarma sang in Assamese as Mahatma Gandhi's ashes were immersed in the Brahmaputra River?
... that Jarren Horton's childhood dream was to serve as an American football defensive coordinator under his father, and he now does so with the Pittsburgh Maulers?
... that the 14th- and 15th-century Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi was possibly flayed alive after he was accused of being a kafir by Sunni scholars?
... that Habiburokhman made a public bet that Basuki Tjahaja Purnama would not be able to collect one million ID cards – or else he would jump off the National Monument?
... that Chicago journalist Jamie Kalven has amassed a database of nearly 250,000 allegations against police officers?
... that the active galaxy 3C 120 was given the variable-star designation BW Tauri because of its variability in the visible spectrum?
... that in 1912, Emily Dorothea Pavy became the first recipient of the Catherine Helen Spence Scholarship?
... that a British supermarket uses barriers to prevent shoppers grabbing food with yellow discount stickers out of the hands of staff?
... that New Zealand footballer Milly Clegg was called "an absolute unicorn" after appearing at three FIFA World Cups in under twelve months?
... that unlike other German radio magazines of its era, N.S.-Funk was published in several regional editions?
... that the only notable quality in Igor Stravinsky's "Tarantella", according to Richard Taruskin, is "how little talent it displays"?
... that 20,000 Species of Bees, the first feature film by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren , won numerous awards at film festivals?
... that when discussing her album Guts, Olivia Rodrigo said she "grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20"?
... that Ameles decolor has one of the most complex mating rituals of any praying mantis?
... that former Kuwaiti foreign minister Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah interrupted his studies in France to volunteer during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?
... that almost 40 years into their career, American indie rock band Yo La Tengo released their first self-produced album, This Stupid World, in 2023?
... that Ferrial Sofyan was absent at the inauguration of his successor as deputy speaker of the Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council?
... that Sundari paintings were a popular type of erotic art in 19th-century British India?
... that Chris Wroblewski was the starting point guard for the winningest team in Ivy League history?
... that in the lead-up to the 4th Congress of the Communist Party of Lithuania in Moscow in 1924, party organizations inside Lithuania held clandestine district conferences?
... that Mardani Ali Sera, after initiating a campaign to "Replace the President", prohibited himself from speaking of it after the 2019 Indonesian presidential election?
... that three songs from Kyla's album Not Your Ordinary Girl were nominated in the same category at the 2005 Awit Awards?
... that a man found 700 gold coins on his own land in an undisclosed part of Kentucky?
... that Gwen Stacy was depicted with a "Protect Trans Kids" poster in her room in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?
... that Ed Bradley could get interviewees to divulge information with just his body language and facial expressions?
... that Catalina Estrada and two of her thirteen siblings played as forwards on the same men's football team?
... that "Mission to the Unknown" is the only Doctor Who serial not to feature the Doctor at all?
... that Anita Gustafson became Presbyterian College's first female president when she took office today?
... that in 1835 the run of Brunswick Falls was 1,280 feet (390 m)?
... that Ben Collins accepted a job with NBC News on the condition that the company also hire Brandy Zadrozny?
... that years after premiering Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in the US, conductor Arturo Toscanini allegedly asked if he had really learned and conducted "such junk"?
... that Martin Farquhar Tupper was a favourite poet of Queen Victoria, but his works are now almost entirely forgotten?
... that Vera Brodsky Lawrence hated being called the "queen of ragtime" despite being a catalyst for the revival of Scott Joplin's music?
... that independent India's first female pilot, Usha Sundaram, holds the record for the fastest flight between England and India in a piston-engine aircraft?
... that in 1966 Sylvester da Cunha modelled the Amul girl to contrast with the mascot of Amul's main rival, Polson?
... that footballer Alexandra Pinell scored the Costa Rica U20 team's only goal at the FIFA tournament hosted by their country?
... that the design for the water playground at Chelsea Waterside Park was criticized because local residents thought that the sprinklers resembled sex toys?
... that EastEnders producers decided to kill off Chantelle Atkins at the conclusion of a domestic-abuse plot after learning of the high statistic of women killed by a partner?
... that soprano Vera Curtis was the first singer trained exclusively in the United States to perform with the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the Daft Punk track "Infinity Repeating" is considered by the duo to be their "last song ever"?
... that Nunuk Nuraini was described as a hero for developing the mi goreng flavor of Indomie instant noodles?
... that the Dvorichna settlement hromada has remained divided between Russia and Ukraine since the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive?
... that South Korean band Seventeen partnered with Apple to let fans create remixes of their song "Darl+ing" on GarageBand?
... that tickets on secondary markets for the 2023 Leagues Cup final ranged from $484 to $12,000 within a day of release?
... that Chaimas Kaplanas took part in four hunger strikes during his imprisonment at Kaunas Prison?
... that a reviewer for The Sims 2: Nightlife said that a more accurate name would be "The Sims: Slutting About"?
... that the Te'omim Cave in Israel was home to a Bronze Age alabaster quarry, a refuge cave during the Jewish–Roman wars, and a possible center for necromantic activity in late antiquity?
... that fans of Taylor Swift solved 33 million puzzles in less than a day to find out 1989 (Taylor's Version)'s "vault" tracks?
... that John Romita Sr. has been credited with introducing romance comic themes to Spider-Man comic books?
... that the Waitangiroto Nature Reserve is the only known nesting area for the eastern great egret in New Zealand?
... that Ben Brown was the seventh member of his family to play American football for the Ole Miss Rebels?
... that according to David Baddiel's book Jews Don't Count, antisemitism has become perceived as a "second-class racism"?
... that one reviewer described a TV station in St. Louis as appearing to be "not serious about the news"?
... that the 19th-century poet Cyprian Norwid , now recognized as one of the most important Polish poets, led a poverty-stricken life and his works were rarely appreciated until decades after his death?
... that ancient Rome's Temple of Piety was closely connected with the legend of a daughter who breastfed an imprisoned parent?
... that the librarian Paul Needham has argued for the "respectful burial of the human remains" included in a book bound in human skin?
... that the Solution and EU Party aimed to represent 30 percent of Turkish Cypriots, but failed to enter the Northern Cypriot parliament?
... that Seattle Sounders FC players held their practices over Zoom during part of their 2020 season?
... that according to Rolling Stone, Lauren Jenkins blended music and acting for No Saint "in ways not currently common practice" in country music?
... that Thorfinn's journey to Vinland in the manga Vinland Saga was influenced by the author's anxieties during the Cold War and the September 11 attacks?
... that there is a 7.5-metre-tall (25 ft) statue of an apple in Waitomo, New Zealand?
... that a freelance game developer successfully pitched a video game with a picture of a car driving around a lake?
... that when Valerie Cowie was appointed a senior lecturer, one of her referees wrote that his "only reservation is that the post ... does not adequately do justice to her high academic status"?
... that the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell operated as a residence, a house of correction, a factory, and finally a museum?
... that Charlotte Haining was an International Jury Member for the selection of Finland's 2020 Eurovision Song Contest entry?
... that a Maine TV station was so protective of its evening newscast that it preempted nearly 40 percent of all NBC Sports programming in 1994?
... that Hồn – trăng – máu, Hạc San's concept album, consists solely of the 29-minute title track?
... that the Mars Recon­nais­sance Orbiter photographed Curiosity as it landed on Mars?
... that the Orangeburg Massacre was the first time police shot and killed students on an American university campus?
... that heritage properties cared for by An Taisce include a guildhall, a marsh, a castle, a Quaker cemetery, and Babe's Bridge?
... that David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, argues in his 2020 book that monopolies are so interwoven with our lives that it is impossible to escape them?
... that much of the research in dress history has been done from documents, illustrations, and photographs rather than by studying items of clothing?
... that when Zhu Cilang was asked why his family lost the Mandate of Heaven, he blamed it on their "treacherous ministers"?
... that State Auto Mutual's life-size nativity scene was donated to the Museum of Catholic Art and History in 2023 for display at St. Joseph Cathedral?
... that the Chambers Street station was once called "easily one of the most decrepit stations" in the New York City Subway system?
... that Arsjad Rasjid said that he learned of his appointment as chairman of Ganjar Pranowo's presidential campaign from a friend showing him the news?
... that the Brazilian military government changed the ochre on the proposed flag of Mato Grosso do Sul to blue so as to match the colors of the national flag?
... that The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival has been considered one of the worst video games of 2023?
... that Kevin Feige perceived a "direct parallel" between the experiences of real people during the COVID-19 pandemic and those of fictional characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during the Blip?
... that the 1930s Polish Andean expeditions have been credited with several first ascents and the tracing of a new route to the summit of Aconcagua, the Andes' highest peak?
... that "Gam3 Bo1", a song from the EP Your Choice, contains references to NFTs and Zoom?
... that the slogan "One Nation, One Language" has been used to justify the imposition of Hindi?
... that Swedish naval officer Axel Lagerbielke was imprisoned in Lima for over a year, held in Callao and eventually escaped from Panama on an English packet boat to Jamaica?
... that the title of Olivia Rodrigo's song "All-American Bitch" was derived from an essay by Joan Didion?
... that attending the 1984 Summer Olympics inspired Bob Barney to establish an institution to research the Olympic Games?
... that CBS executive Laurence Tisch found out on a tennis court in the U.S. Virgin Islands that rival network NBC had bought his company's affiliate station in Miami?
... that Mihai Eminescu's poem "Out of All the Masts", which Eminescu himself never intended to publish, has won posthumous praise as a "perfect combination of words"?
... that Christian "Chrigel" Maurer , eight-time winner of the X-Alps "hike-and-fly" paragliding endurance race, and his future wife Karin both won gold medals at the same World Cup event?
... that due to the 1955 Brazilian coup d'état, Brazil had three presidents in the span of a single week?
... that following its closure, the former Admiral Beatty Hotel was converted into a senior citizens' apartment building?
... that even though Mother Mary Corona received no formal teacher training, she was the president of Alverno Teachers College?
... that the 1968 book Yanomamö: The Fierce People led to a major and decades-long controversy in the field of anthropology?
... that Major League Baseball player Wade Meckler was 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 metres) tall and weighed 75 pounds (34 kilograms) when he was a high-school freshman?
... That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd that once led to the Jergins Trust Building in Long Beach, California?
... that the old town hall in Godalming, Surrey, is nicknamed "The Pepperpot" after its distinctive cupola?
... that KFC rice may have originated as a quick, cheap Christmas dinner, owing to the popularity of KFC in Japan?
... that Mary Burt Messer was researching and writing about the sociology of divorce as early as 1924?