derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after a stabbing attack on Paweł Adamowicz , the mayor of Gdańsk, at least 41 units of blood were used in an unsuccessful attempt to save him?
... that Adam Ramage was considered one of the most important early American printing press builders in his day, having produced 1,250 presses during his lifetime?
... that after each loss, American football coach Art Haege made his players crawl from the locker room to the practice field, saying "if you played like a worm, you crawled like a worm"?
... that for his first film, Operation Java, director Tharun Moorthy and his production team handpicked all 83 actors rather than doing an open audition for roles?
... that with no documents verifying its establishment, an American concession existed de facto in the Chinese city of Tianjin for more than 40 years?
... that George Charles Hoste took charge of the quarter-deck guns of the frigate Spartan, defended her against a French squadron, and took the brig Sparvière as a prize?
... that Carrbridge Packhorse Bridge is the oldest-known stone bridge in the Scottish Highlands?
... that following the killing of Richard Ward by a Colorado sheriff's deputy, the deputy received an award for the injuries that he allegedly sustained during the incident?
... that Jan Kochanowski's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
... that the site of the 1910 lynching of Allen Brooks was unmarked for 111 years?
... that out of 84 people running for governor seats in Bolivia in 2021, Mirtha Arce was one of just seven women and was the first woman from the Tarija Department to run?
... that while Egypt has the Order of the Nile, Sudan has the Order of the Two Niles, White and Blue?
... that the Clock Tower of Haridwar in India provides a good location from which to watch the evening prayers at Har Ki Pauri?
... that Dale Johnston was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering his stepdaughter and her fiance in 1982, and 30 years after the murders declared innocent?
... that in 1945, Kasman Singodimedjo lobbied other Islamist leaders not to implement sharia law in Indonesia?
... that a woman who died from Alzheimer's was memorialized by her granddaughter through posthumous vocals in a song?
... that Tobi Oluwayemi and his older brother Josh are both goalkeepers who played for Tottenham's youth academy?
... that the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad, created as an alternative to the New Haven Railroad, was absorbed into the New Haven after just 11 years?
... that Kong Dongmei, the granddaughter of Mao Zedong, and her husband have an estimated net worth of 5 billion yuan (US$815 million)?
... that naval units from around 50 countries took part in the Pakistani naval exercise AMAN-23?
... that Hugo Krabbe stirred up much controversy in the interwar period by arguing that the law, not the state, is the true sovereign?
... that a 1943 performance of Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche used anagrams to disguise the suite and its composer from Nazi censors?
... that all three of Jane Severance's books for young readers include lesbian characters, including her first book, which was the first picture book to include such characters?
... that when the Numidian king Syphax attempted to rally his fleeing army at the Battle of Cirta he was thrown from his horse and captured?
... that Andrew Sorrell, State Auditor of Alabama, initially ran for election to the Alabama House of Representatives when his father declined to run for the seat?
... that Frederic Growse's book Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District annoyed the British Indian government so much that they allowed only one edition?
... that Rudaki is acknowledged as the founder of New Persian poetry in Iran and the father of Tajik literature in Tajikistan?
... that Sharon Cuneta and Regine Velasquez's concert Iconic has been referred to as a venture of two unrivaled names in the music scene of the Philippines?
... that despite having been enlarged for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Willets Point Boulevard station served practically no resident population by 1949?
... that in 1982 the British civil defence exercise Hard Rock was cancelled when twenty local authorities refused to participate?
... that Malinau Kota, Indonesia, with 31 percent of the population of Malinau Regency, is home to more than 70 percent of its registered restaurants?
... that after publishing a fictional account of women who survived a Nazi concentration camp by sewing dresses, Lucy Adlington was contacted by descendants of actual dressmakers?
... that a same-sex kiss scene in the seventh episode of The Last of Us was censored in some regions?
... that in 1993, Indonesia's home affairs minister Yogie Suardi Memet used thugs to disrupt the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party's national congress?
... that Colonel Mohamed Hashi Lihle's speech after freeing more than 700 prisoners from Mandera Prison first popularized the Somali National Movement in Somaliland?
... that American football fullback Harry Bolick was described as being a more effective blocker than an iron fence?
... that Bayfront MRT station in Singapore has public art that features ships powered by whales and dragons, hand-drawn by children?
... that the "updown" singer piri funded her music career by setting up an OnlyFans account?
... that An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital was considered unusual for introducing the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital?
... that the 1st Armoured Division of the British Army chose a white rhinoceros on a black oval as their insignia ?
... that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization?
... that the concert series Regine at the Theater was conceived two years earlier but was delayed after singer Regine Velasquez suffered acid reflux?
... that Hodges Figgis, a bookseller in Dublin, celebrated its 250th year with the largest ever anthology of new Irish writing, with 250 contributors?
... that two American officers bribed Japanese troops with their watches to have Dutch medical officer Henri Hekking allocated to their prisoner of war camp?
... that at least 14 people were killed during the 1978 Tabriz protests in Iran, which were meant to commemorate the dead in the 1978 Qom protest?
... that the Unitized Group Ration – Express is designed to heat food itself without the need of a field kitchen?
... that on his death, medical historian Edgar Underwood was described by The Times as one of the last of a dying race, the "canny Scot"?
... that two members of the French parliament were killed when a delayed-action German bomb exploded in the town hall at Bapaume on 25 March 1917 ?
... that Hixxy and Sharkey created a schism in the UK rave music scene in 1995?
... that the earliest Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions contain Arabic names and loanwords?
... that Alexandra Hunt, a former stripper, opened an OnlyFans account in response to an Internet troll during her campaign for a seat in the United States House of Representatives?
... that in his review of A Tribute for the Negro by Wilson Armistead, Frederick Douglass criticised how it included an image of him that was edited to give him a smile?
... that an English country house was the location for the 1970s horror sexploitation films Virgin Witch, Satan's Slave and Terror?
... that the 1989 Georgetown–Princeton basketball game made Bob Scrabis "the face of Cinderella"?
... that two dresses recovered from a 17th-century shipwreck may be the only such items in existence?
... that Ralph E. Brock was the first academically trained African-American forester in the United States?
... that the system of native administration, used in Sudan to govern rural areas, was adapted for use in camps for internally displaced people?
... that Muhammad al-Jawad was the ninth of the Twelve Imams and, with his unexplained death at about twenty-five, the shortest-lived?
... that Newark Liberty International Airport was the first commercial airport in the United States with a paved airstrip?
... that on the opening night of her concert R3.0, singer Regine Velasquez also released a triple album of the same name?
... that Panagiotis Kavvadias boasted that he had excavated the Acropolis of Athens so thoroughly that "not the slightest quantity of soil ... [had] not been investigated"?
... that Ron Brown, the United States secretary of commerce, leased equipment to a TV station in Washington, D.C., whose owner turned out to be his lover?
... that some song choices by Regine Velasquez in her concert series Solo were viral hits from TikTok?
... that in 2008, Grafton Street had the fifth-highest property rental prices in the world for retailers?
... that Claude Vivier was inspired to compose Shiraz after hearing two blind singers in a market?
... that the programming language Acorn System BASIC was so non-standard that one commenter suggested that using it on the BBC Micro would be a disaster?
... that Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin tried to pass a decree in 1994 that would have prohibited wearing hijab in Egyptian schools?
... that Kainé from the video game series Nier was created in response to a female staff member's vague wish for a "male heroine"?
... that Russell Court in Bloomsbury, London, has more than 500 "bachelor flats"?
... that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
... that Walter White was a member of the prosecution for the Scopes trial in 1925 despite not passing the bar until 1944?
... that the investigation of Team Jorge, an Israeli disinformation outfit, led to the suspension of a prominent French news anchor?
... that No, Ma'am, That's Not History, Hugh Nibley's rebuttal to Fawn Brodie's divisive biography of Joseph Smith, started a trend of polemics in Mormon apologetics?
... that some fossils thought to be ancient marine animals have been reinterpreted as seaweeds?
... that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier on the Western Front to be executed for desertion during the First World War?
... that the Brisbane Lions' AFL women's team in the AFL Women's season seven became the first AFLW team to score more than 200 points across the first three rounds of a season?
... that in the 1960s one could have tea and toast served to your changing room at the Carlisle Turkish baths in England?
... that in 2006, U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir became the first male skater to win the U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s?
... that niwar, a material used for weaving cots, was once produced in Indian jails?
... that parts of the Basilica of Our Lady of Hungary were thought to be Gothic until wall probes showed otherwise?
... that before getting their own office space, independent children's publisher Lollipop Power stored books "under beds, in attics, [and] under ping-pong tables"?
... that saxophonist Braxton Cook appeared in three Tiny Desk concerts for NPR as a sideman, before performing as a featured artist in 2020?
... that in 1981, New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon controversially published a list of "subversives", including many members of the Workers' Communist League?
... that prior to serving in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, rancher Osney Martínez sought to be elected the mayor of San Borja, as his mother had been before him?
... that the owner of a Pennsylvania radio station compared his job to that of Lee Iacocca at Chrysler?
... that Vermont folk musician Pete Sutherland hosted concerts at his house for $10—or $9 if you brought your own chair?
... that the developers of Jikandia: The Timeless Land wanted to make a game that could be finished in the time of a normal Japanese train commute?
... that Linn County clerk Del Riley established Oregon's vote-by-mail system, now used as the only voting method in the state?
... that Pinky & Pepper Forever is a graphic novel that follows two anthropomorphic dog girlfriends through hell?
... that within 15 minutes of the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit, all the British officers in the battle were either killed or seriously wounded?
... that Chinese leader Xi Jinping called common prosperity an essential requirement of socialism but also said that it does not represent uniform egalitarianism?
... that in 2022 David DeJulius pledged to donate his student athlete compensation from jersey proceeds to provide books to inner city youth?
... that Parkville lost out on becoming the Colorado Territory's capital by eleven votes and is now a ghost town largely buried under mining waste?
... that when unable to catch Cyrtodactylus santana during the day, surveyors returned to its caves under the cover of darkness?
... that girls at a school for children deemed "educationally subnormal" were given far less freedom than boys in order to prevent "sexual misbehaviour"?
... that Justin Schultz was personally recruited by Hockey Hall of Famers Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey to join the Edmonton Oilers in 2012?
... that in 2019 the South African army's Natal Carbineers were renamed the Ingobamakhosi Carbineers, after a Zulu regiment that had fought against them at the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana?
... that to attend the 1915 Women at the Hague Congress, Eugénie Hamer and the Belgian delegates drove, were frisked, walked two hours, and took a train?
... that "Spelling on the Stone", released in 1988 by an uncredited vocalist purporting to be Elvis Presley, inspired a number of Elvis sightings eleven years after his death?
... that Tolkien was not sure if Orcs were made of slime or were corrupted Elves?
... that the Benjamin N. Duke House , owned by the same family for more than a century, was later sold to a former taxi driver?
... that writer Naoko Sato was initially worried that the character Kat would come off as "too Japanese" for overseas audiences?
... that as a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, Shirley Franco presented a bill that would penalize street harassment with up to eight hours in jail and a 500-boliviano fine?
... that the 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game between Baylor and Gonzaga was the first since 2005 to feature the top two overall seeds of the NCAA tournament?
... that Frances Helen Prideaux's skill convinced Sir William Gull that women were intellectually capable of being doctors?
... that Bella Ramsey struggled to hold a real rifle while filming the eighth episode of The Last of Us?
... that although previews called Panzer Dragoon Orta's story a sequel to Panzer Dragoon Saga's, developers have said that it might reflect an alternative timeline?
... that It's So Amazing won an award from the American Library Association before entering the organization's list of the most banned books of the decade?
... that Saint Barbara in Palma Vecchio's Polyptych of Saint Barbara has been said to express the noble serenity of a saint who is still a woman?
... that the doll company American Girl published The Care and Keeping of You, a book explaining puberty, after receiving thousands of letters from children asking about it?
... that Alia Bhatt's first screen appearance was as the younger version of Preity Zinta's character in the 1999 horror film Sangharsh?
... that in 2022 Joe Biden delivered a speech in Warsaw addressing the "task of this generation" that was overshadowed by an apparently ad-libbed nine-word comment?
... that the Ancient Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Barcelona is one of the oldest synagogues in Europe?
... that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history?
... that the comet C/1963 A1 (Ikeya) was discovered by 19-year-old amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya using a self-made telescope?
... that adultery was commonplace within Edward VII's Marlborough House set but divorce was considered unacceptable?
... that Kenny Williams set a Polish Basketball League record with 14 three-point shots in a game?
... that the 2015 campaign Woman to Woman included a "Pink Bus" that was mocked by critics as sexist and patronising?
... that composer Igor Stravinsky fled Russia after the October Revolution, but returned once in 1962 to conduct in Moscow and Leningrad, meeting Nikita Khrushchev during the visit?
... that Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz described the 16th-century play The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys by Jan Kochanowski as the finest specimen of Polish humanist drama?
... that despite being accused of cowardice at the 28 March 1879 Battle of Hlobane, John Cecil Russell rose to become a major-general?
... that a Florida TV station claimed freeze damage to its transmitter as the reason it had to delay its first broadcast?
... that a condominium conversion of Manhattan House cost US$1.1 billion and took ten years?
... that some families feel pressure to reclassify their child to compete with their peers who have repeated a grade?
... that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll's made-up words?
... that a South Carolina TV station went on the air 12 years after its owner said the odds of it existing were "fairly long"?
... that Satoko Kishimoto is the first elected female mayor of Suginami, Tokyo?
... that electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is used to characterise polycrystalline materials at the micro and nano-scale ?
... that Alex Mivedor, who had been seen as the number two in the ruling RPT party in Togo, was purged from the party leadership in 1983?
... that the jazz collective West Coast Get Down once recorded around 190 songs over the course of a month?
... that Abdul Ghani Azhari wrote Qadim Tarikh-e-Gujjar in Urdu, detailing the ancient history of Gujjars in India?
... that the 2022 essay and short story collection Kilometer 101 was published shortly after the author fled Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
... that at 23, Roman Mejia reached the rank of principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, where his father had also danced?
... that director Kunihiko Ikuhara created the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena after becoming frustrated by his lack of creative control as a director of the anime series Sailor Moon?
... that Rancho Obi-Wan contains more than 500,000 Star Wars collectibles?
... that the Williamsburg Bray School – the "oldest extant building in the United States dedicated to the education of Black children" – was moved a second time in February 2023 ?
... that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life?
... that Gimix acknowledged in 1980 that its computer for home automation was like a "Hollywood-type toy"?
... that on his 1994 song "London's Brilliant Parade", Elvis Costello used a Dobro guitar as an homage to the Kinks' "Lola"?
... that when investigative journalist Dan McCrum published his findings of the Wirecard scandal, German authorities investigated him instead of the company?
... that a Texas man who, on his front porch, fatally shot a police officer, was acquitted of murder?
... that the post-apocalyptic novel The Mercy Journals was inspired by the Gombe Chimpanzee War, the Rwandan genocide, and the Bible?
... that naming every character "Bob" was common in the play-by-mail game Mobius I?
... that the rapid development of the region of Gangnam in Seoul was spurred by the 1968 North Korean assassination attempt on military dictator Park Chung-hee?
... that Michael Stuart raised three sons to play in the National Hockey League, then established a sled hockey team?
... that the 2023 Huwara rampage, a late-night spree of arson and vandalism by hundreds of Israeli settlers, was the worst flare-up of Israeli settler violence in the northern West Bank in decades?
... that while defending Zaw Myint Maung following his arrest by the Myanmar junta, lawyer Ywet Nu Aung was herself arrested and charged?
... that due to events during the Kinks' 1965 U.S. tour, the American Federation of Musicians blocked the band from performing in the U.S. for the next four years?
... that due to a dispute over who owned a road in Delta County, Michigan, eight school children missed two weeks of school?
... that the melody of "Dokdo Is Our Land" is commonly used by South Korean students as a study tool?
... that NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar flew on five space missions and has spent more than 50 days in space?
... that The Scout Mindset, a book about being able to change one's mind, took five years to be published partly because author Julia Galef changed her mind about what to write?
... that 17-year-old cyclist J. Nash McCrea, nicknamed "Crash", caused a major crash at the 1904 Olympics?
... that H. G. Wells wrote the majority of The War of the Worlds while living in Woking, and much of the novel is set in the local area?
... that through their participation in the Liberian National Transitional Government, warlords could gain access to state resources whilst continuing hostilities between each other?
... that physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's book Existential Physics discusses whether free will, the multiverse, the existence of God, and the meaning of life are topics that science can answer?
... that trampolinist Dylan Schmidt is New Zealand's first Olympic medallist in any gymnastics discipline?
... that Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life includes a skull with missing teeth as a reminder of human mortality?
... that clothing physiology is the study of how clothing interacts with the human body and the environment?
... that Esmond Venner Keogh was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I and later protested against the Vietnam War?
... that Meghan Trainor announced her song "Mother" while 21 weeks pregnant?
... that Frank Gadsby, nicknamed "Peggy", was a one-legged British stunt diver during the early 20th century?
... that in a lawsuit over Mike Tyson's face tattoo, a judge found it "just silly" to say that tattoos cannot be copyrighted, but refused to delay The Hangover Part II?
... that when the 18-year-old New York City Ballet dancer Mira Nadon performed her first major role, The New York Times called her performance a promise to the future?
... that it has been a goal of Oregon state senator Bill Hansell to get the potato officially designated as the state vegetable?
... that excavations led by archaeologist Judith Marquet-Krause disproved that the Book of Joshua was a factual account of the city of Ai?
... that Mycobacterium bacterial species constantly remodel their cell wall layers to survive in stressful environments and avoid their host's immune defenses?
... that jazz composer Duke Ellington worked on his only opera, Queenie Pie, from the 1930s until his death in 1974 without finishing it?
... that the Newent Onion Fayre included a raw-onion-eating competition?
... that 19th-century construction of the bathing ghat at Bulandshahr was delayed because an executive engineer deemed it an "eye-sore"?
... that Aly Tewfik Shousha, a founding member of the World Health Organization, died while attending the WHO executive meeting in Geneva?
... that a swivel weaving technique was used by cloud brocade weavers in Ming-dynasty China?
... that a simple polygon through all the points of a three-by-three grid must pass straight through some of the points, rather than turning at each of them?
... that foreign nationals wishing to gain Philippine citizenship need to demonstrate proficiency in English or Spanish as well as a Philippine language?
... that according to some Shi'i Muslim authors who wrote under the name of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi, unbelievers will be reincarnated into animal, vegetable, or mineral bodies?
... that the game director for A Space for the Unbound wanted to preserve his memories as an Indonesian through the game?
... that Clement Ligoure treated hundreds of blast victims at his home clinic following the Halifax Explosion in 1917?
... that New York City's Barbizon Hotel hosted its first male guests on Valentine's Day in 1981 after operating as a women-only hotel for more than five decades?