derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that following the release of Olivia Rodrigo's song "The Grudge", fans speculated that it was about her supposed feud with Taylor Swift?
... that the Reichsgesetzblatt was last issued five days before the Battle of Berlin began?
... that employees resigned from an Illinois TV station after ownership decided there were too many people on the payroll?
... that the heavy metal band Cradle of Filth released a T-shirt that was so offensive that several people were arrested for wearing it?
... that bugs reported during the development of The Sims 2: University included "zombies can't fall in love" and "zombies walk on water"?
... that clown Julia Masli found success by shaking hands with audience members using her feet?
... that in 2021, Tropical Storm Danny became just the third named system to make landfall in South Carolina in the month of June since 1867?
... that Salar de Pedernales in Chile features dark slope streaks resembling dark slope streaks on Mars?
... that William Nixon performed abortions in the NHS before the passing of the Abortion Act 1967?
... that three American bombers were downed over the Romanian village of Suslănești in May 1944?
... that the Lava Ridge Wind Project proposal has faced opposition for putting 740-foot-tall (230 m) wind turbines next to the former Minidoka internment camp?
... that Georgia's racketeering law has been used to prosecute an assisted-suicide group, schoolteachers in a cheating scandal, a fake dentist, and Donald Trump?
... that in Greek architecture the round tholos form offered an escape from the "austere conventions" of Greek temple design?
... that novelist Erskine Childers was an artilleryman in the British Army, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, a major in the Royal Air Force, and a staff captain in the Irish Republican Army?
... that Catechumen, a Christian first-person shooter, was funded only in the aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre?
... that upon establishing Georgia's first printing press for Vakhtang VI, Mihai Iștvanovici published Romanian verse in Georgian script?
... that a rapper coined the term "Dongbei renaissance" to describe the cultural resurgence of China's rust belt?
... that American football player Doug Turley reportedly had some of his best performances after he fractured a bone in his wrist?
... that "Updown", the first solo single released by Piri and Tommy Villiers after their breakup, was about Piri having cowgirl sex with Villiers?
... that during the 2021 Nabisco strike, Kotaku published an article discussing the ethics of buying Pokémon-themed Oreos?
... that at the age of 19, Van E. Chandler was the youngest pilot in the United States Armed Forces to become a flying ace during World War II?
... that the Canadian government implemented the Peasant Farm Policy to force First Nations farmers to use the methods of European peasants?
... that the first organized football game of C. J. Okoye's life was in the National Football League?
... that a number of bus drivers who participated in a strike were unaware that it was illegally held?
... that Moran Zer Katzenstein led a women's march inspired by The Handmaid's Tale in protest of Israeli judicial reform?
... that the spiky inedible grass Triodia scintillans tastes like salt and vinegar chips?
... that when the Hungarian Arts Fund denied a grant application by Tamás Király for a fashion show, he used the rejection letter as a poster?
... that HMS Redpole, one of the aptly-named coffin brigs, sank in an action with a pirate vessel in August 1828?
... that NBA owners won a binding arbitration that blocked a third NBA–ABA all-star game between the rival basketball leagues?
... that the Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan is one of the few surviving madrasas dating from the Mughal Empire, and the oldest continuing school in Delhi, India?
... that Scarlett Johansson filed a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company alleging that the release strategy for Black Widow breached her contract?
... that Roman or Trajan lettering was popular for official use in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century?
... that the day before William J. McGarry was set to leave for the Pontifical Biblical Institute, he was instead appointed a professor at Weston College?
... that the name of the video game mod series Bomba Patch was inspired by éclairs?
... that one way to tell the African dusky flycatcher apart from the ashy flycatcher is that the former is "cuter"?
... that scholarly study of the poetry of Kishvari, one of the most important Azerbaijani poets of the 15th and 16th centuries, only started in 1928?
... that the George S. Bowdoin Stable has variously served as a garage, private residence, art gallery, cultural center, and office?
... that in 2018, breast surgeon Liz O'Riordan arrived for her breast cancer treatment dressed as Mrs Incredible?
... that in season three of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Oliver personally forgave nearly $15 million of medical debt for 9,000 Americans?
... that E. F. Bleiler conducted research for Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years by reading all 1,835 stories published in science fiction magazines between 1926 and 1936?
... that the Buffalo Sabres drafted a fictional player in the 1974 National Hockey League Amateur Draft?
... that the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station has a Hook, Line, and Sinker?
... that the fieldwork of Soviet ethnologist Evdokia Kozhevnikova for her unfinished dissertation provides a valuable record of the culture and the language of the Georgian province of Svaneti?
... that the Kingstree jail fire killed 22 freedmen amidst the "unsettled" labor conditions of Reconstruction in South Carolina?
... that Ivan Beshoff, the last survivor of the mutiny on the Potemkin, emigrated to Ireland where he established a fish and chip shop that is still run by his descendants?
... that The Cormac McCarthy Journal is one of the few academic journals about a specific author from the United States founded while its subject was alive?
... that according to family tradition, admiral and painter Jacob Hägg decided to become a naval officer after seeing a Franco-British naval force during the Crimean War?
... that a complaint signed by 52 people resulted in curriculum standards at New York State's private schools being subject to structured regulatory oversight for the very first time?
... that Imagining Mars: A Literary History "presents a compelling case that 'Mars matters'"?
... that a 1903 New York Times editorial predicted it would take one to ten million years to develop an operating flying machine?
... that the Cardinal of Portugal's Altarpiece commemorates a prince who fought in battle aged 14 and died aged 25?
... that Dear England tells the story of how manager Gareth Southgate helped change notions of masculinity for the men's national football team?
... that according to the Lotharian legend a medieval emperor declared Roman law the law of the Holy Roman Empire?
... that a pregnant Meghan Trainor, who considered her child a present, wore bows during the promotion for her album A Very Trainor Christmas?
... that the first imported copies of Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent were confiscated by Australian customs authorities?
... that portions of Tennessee State Route 158 have been called "Front Street", "Front Avenue", "Lakefront Drive", "Neyland Drive", and "James White Parkway"?
... that the tenor Graham Clark appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 16 seasons, portraying the characters Loge and Mime in the 1988 Ring cycle?
... that Angeline Quinto has recorded songs for at least 35 films and television soundtracks in the Philippines?
... that known books bound in human skin include a highwayman's memoirs bound in his own skin, a novel about a man being left by his lesbian wife, and a BDSM erotic poem?
... that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Scott Reppert was a three-time Little All-American at running back and an Academic All-American in the classroom?
... that the Hotel Brexton in Baltimore was once home to Wallis Simpson, the American divorcée who married Edward VIII?
... that archaeological excavations in the historic town of Kharayeb revealed a rural settlement with a complex system of cisterns and a Phoenician temple?
... that according to sportswriter Jon Henderson, the 1943 Football League War Cup final was "widely regarded as the greatest club football match of the war"?
... that Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers formed Wet Leg on a Ferris wheel?
... that within 90 minutes of Donald Trump's release from jail, his 2024 presidential campaign began using his mug shot on merchandise?
... that Jiří Kylián's ballet Petite Mort uses slow movements from Mozart's most famous piano concertos to contrast the physicality of the choreography?
... that the Adelaide L. T. Douglas House, built for a New York City socialite, housed the United States Olympic Committee before being sold to Guatemala?
... that ice hockey player Mitch Love once fought 34 times in one season, more than any other professional player in the world that year?
... that BattleBit Remastered, a massively multiplayer online first-person shooter, was created by three indie developers?
... that Chester Smith's California TV station ran its newscast on a "dental floss budget", as one former anchor put it?
... that medieval monks could be punished by being walled up alive in a special ecclesiastical prison called the Vade in Pace?
... that the best-selling novel of 1947 was described by Time magazine as "one of the worst ever published"?
... that the mayor of Antrim, Adrian Watson, said that he was overlooked for not being a "Cameron Cutie"?
... that Holocaust survivor Samuel Rajzman, a witness to the post-war Nuremberg and Treblinka trials, escaped from Treblinka concentration camp and was then sheltered by a local Polish farmer?
... that Occult America suggests that Abraham Lincoln may have turned to Spiritualism after the death of his son?
... that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the nightclub scene in Simón used only 30 extras instead of the originally intended 250?
... that Haggai Chisom Ndubuisi, a National Football League player, had never heard of American football before watching a YouTube video when he was 18 years old?
... that while the laws governing Jewish astrology prohibit worshipping the stars, gaining knowledge of their influences on humans is permitted?
... that after the Battle of Lewinsville, the "Gray Ghost" wrote that he regretted "the glorious opportunity that I missed of winging their colonel"?
... that George Griffith wrote a book about the Boer War three years before it started?
... that the Siberian crane is considered more threatened than the whooping crane, despite there being an estimated ten times more of them?
... that John Ogilby saved the manuscript of his translation of the complete works of Virgil from destruction in a shipwreck by wrapping it in a waterproof cloth?
... that an "army" of women were congratulated by Pat Nixon for their fundraising efforts to bring public TV to Indianapolis?
... that comic book artist Barry Windsor-Smith wrote, drew, inked, and lettered every page of his graphic novel Monsters by himself?
... that a Harvey's franchise known for being a hub for sex work was described by one artist as a "legendary Toronto icon"?
... that there is a folk tradition in Korea where children who urinate while sleeping are made to wear a winnowing basket on their head and ask their neighbors for salt?
... that Jonathan Blow thought that he may not have finished creating the videogame Braid were he not simultaneously learning kung fu?
... that judge Robert Bork's leaked list of video rentals included movies such as Citizen Kane, The Philadelphia Story and Sixteen Candles?
... that in 2023, footballer Funso Ojo was named as Port Vale's PFA community player of the year for his efforts at becoming more environmentally friendly?
... that after Irish post office clerk Maureen Flavin Sweeney reported worsening weather conditions, Dwight D. Eisenhower agreed to postpone D-Day by 24 hours?
... that Pont Abraham Services, at the end of the M4, were one of the first in the UK to sell fuel for over £2 per litre?
... that Vladimír Mandl wrote the first book on space law 25 years before Sputnik 1 was launched into space?
... that the bankruptcy of Penn Central in 1970 was the largest in American history at the time?
... that five years after retiring as the president of the Green Bay Packers, judge Robert J. Parins ruled on a case related to American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer?
... that the former Lyster Sanatorium, which was used as the setting for the horror movie Villmark Asylum, is being renovated as a hotel?
... that it is not known what happened to the 25 pregnant women who were given iodine-132 in Keith Halnan's study?
... that when Erice van Leuven's brothers posted a video of her mountain biking as a 10-year-old, she received four offers of sponsorship?
... that Covanta Hempstead's predecessor smelled so bad that it caused nearby shoppers to vomit and its workers to strike?
... that actress Diana Ingro was known as the "Argentine Katharine Hepburn"?
... that following the energy price shock caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Turkish government intervened to have the country's renewable energy subsidise coal and gas?
... that Adam Exner, the archbishop of Vancouver from 1991 to 2004, played polkas and waltzes on the accordion well after he became a bishop?
... that a Baltimore TV station aspired to be "the Cadillac of independents"?
... that the Costco hot dog and soda combo deal has cost $1.50 since its introduction in 1984?
... that record executive Tim DuBois locked the members of Restless Heart in an office for seven hours until they came up with a name for the band?
... that William L. Keleher fired three teachers who said Boston College was teaching heresy?
... that it took nearly five years for Tetsuya Tsutsui to find out that the first volume of his work Manhole was banned in Nagasaki Prefecture?
... that John Koniszewski was wounded by machine-gun fire at the Battle of Saipan, returned to the battle after "a brief rest", and later played three years in the National Football League?
... that it took almost as long to renovate New York City's Borough Hall station in the 1980s as it did to construct the original subway line?
... that the assassination of Shinzo Abe motivated a former believer of the Unification Church, Sayuri Ogawa, to become a prominent anti-cult activist?
... that according to an art historian, the painting The Temple evokes a sense of both crisis and "enduring power"?
... that JPEGMafia did not use Pro Tools when Scaring the Hoes?
... that a photograph of Frances "the Shape" Vorne wearing a swimsuit made from remnants of a captured Nazi parachute was one of the most sought-after pin-ups of World War II?
... that the play-by-email game Blood Pit was so complex that even its programmer had trouble winning?
... that José Cobo Cano compared officiating same-sex marriages to celebrating the Eucharist with Coca-Cola?
... that Eternal Blue, a metalcore album, was inspired in part by 1980s pop music?
... that Loud LDN co-founder Maisi came joint last in the 2022 Maldon mud race, behind a naked runner who had been forced to start after everyone else?
... that the perpetrator of the 1976 Spring Hill shooting allegedly committed the attack in a rage after being denied membership to a model plane club?
... that CBS News and Stations president Wendy McMahon helped bring local evening news back to the network's Detroit station after 20 years?
... that frescoes, sarcophagi, urns, and trousseaux found in the tombs of Etruscan women show the important roles they played in society?
... that Megan Abbott's 2018 novel Give Me Your Hand uses menstruation as a metaphor, which she compared to comments made by Donald Trump during the 2016 election?
... that Towa Tei's "Sometime Samurai" remained unfinished for eight years until Australian singer Kylie Minogue re-recorded the song in 2004?
... that readers of Detroit columnist Nancy Brown funded the reforestation of 560 acres of land in her honor during the Great Depression?
... that fans of Castle in the Sky twice broke the record for largest number of tweets posted per second?
... that Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is expected to add 65 cm (26 in) to global sea levels over the coming centuries?
... that The Librarian was part of the shift by computer programmers away from using punched cards?
... that DeepStateMap.Live, an interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, received up to 120,000 visitors in 30 minutes during the Battle of Izium in the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive?
... that several science fiction critics praised "Rock Diver", the first short story by American writer Harry Harrison, for its compelling take on technology for passing through matter?
... that the first road tunnel in England, opened in 1823 in Reigate, Surrey, runs under the site of a medieval castle?
... that an initial gameplay concept for Diggin' Dogs was "possibly going to be worms eating into a diseased brain", with design input from Edmund McMillen?
... that Wagner Group head of logistics Valery Chekalov, who was killed in the 2023 Tver Oblast plane crash, used the call sign "Rover"?
... that Mimodactylus is the first complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent?
... that African porters in Salvador, Bahia, went on strike after the provincial government passed a law requiring them to wear metal identification tags?
... that one NYPD captain called the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis the "birthplace of hostage negotiation"?
... that Japanese voice actress Akiho Suzumoto can recite 70 digits of pi from memory?
... that one reviewer for Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century was let down by the book's lack of poetry?
... that since being left vacant the grade II–listed Occleshaw House in Leyland, Lancashire, has been used as an illegal cannabis farm and suffered a suspected arson attack?
... that a wolf reportedly ate Boris Johnson's dongle at an Italian castle owned by a Russian billionaire?
... that Twitter's headquarters building in San Francisco was built as a trade center for furniture wholesalers in 1937?
... that more than 60 scientific papers authored by mathematician Paul Erdős were published posthumously?
... that an album of collectible cards from the German margarine brand Echte Wagner in 1930 presented a vision of the future that incorporated concepts such as wireless personal phones with screens?
... that the New York City-based fashion label Sandy Liang is inspired by grandmothers in Chinatown, and often features Liang's own grandmother as a model?
... that the Campanile, a bell tower in Portmeirion, north Wales, was built in 1928 using stone from a nearby 12th-century castle?
... that Adam W. Oberlin, the 1917 Republican nominee to be the mayor of Canton, Ohio, went missing and was found seven months later working as a carpenter in Norfolk, Virginia?
... that in 2023 the IFLA named the Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez the "best new public library in the world"?
... that the Korean stew budae-jjigae commonly includes baked beans, Spam, corn, and American cheese?
... that the U.S. Marine Hospital in Lahaina collapsed due to vibrations from neighboring construction, was rebuilt, and then was destroyed by the 2023 Hawaii wildfires?
... that Daniela Ceballos worked with the Football Federation of Chile to supervise safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic while playing football herself?
... that when the New York City Subway's 14th Street–Union Square station was built, the park above it was raised?
... that Script Ohio has been called "one of the most impressive examples of American folk art in existence"?
... that when the J. Lewis Crozer Library was founded in 1769, it had 163 books?
... that Singaporean broadcaster Lee Fook Hong legally changed his name to Lee Dai Sor (literally 'Lee Big Fool' in Cantonese) after being accused of tax evasion?
... that the Aubinadong River in Ontario, Canada, was an indigenous canoe route and is still used for canoe camping as its main recreational activity?
... that Indianapolis's 2023 gun control ordinance – which bans assault weapons, among other measures – is a trigger law that only goes into effect if Indiana's state preemption law is repealed or struck down?
... that the waltz from Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite has been called "spooky" and is often played for Halloween?
... that Phal­lich­thys (literally 'penis fish') species are so called because the males have "comparatively huge" sex appendages?
... that the organisation Netsafe created an email chatbot that replies to scammers with questions indefinitely?
... that 30 Ukrainian anarchists defeated more than 500 Austrian imperial soldiers at the Battle of Dibrivka?
... that in the 1920s, a guard was posted outside the New York City Subway's Clark Street station to prevent sailors from using it at night?
... that El Yucateco was the first Mexican brand of hot sauce sold in the United States?
... that Le langaige du Bresil, one of the earliest documentary sources of any South American language, demonstrates that Europeans and Brazilian indigenous peoples maintained intimate social contacts?
... that the Japanese-language children's show Kikaida, popularized in Hawaii by a Honolulu TV station, beat Sesame Street in the local ratings?
... that cannibals used hooks to kidnap people during a famine in Fatimid Egypt?
... that Portrait of a Creole Woman with Madras Tignon fetched nearly $1 million at auction despite questions about both its artist and subject?
... that before having bracelets thrown at him in July, Harry Styles had been the target of Skittles, chicken nuggets, kiwi fruit, tampons, feather boas, cowboy hats, pride flags, and Dr. Simi dolls?
... that Quechua senator Carmen García helped pass reforms to education in Bolivia that incorporated indigenous and traditional knowledge?
... that the rights to build Incheon Station in the Korean Empire were temporarily given to an American company in an attempt to protect it from the Empire of Japan?
... that Mark Fabish was recruited to play college football by coach Al Bagnoli and 30 years later succeeded him as head coach of the Columbia Lions?
... that the entire development team of Lego Island was fired the day before the game was released?
... that when Edgar Jaffé died, D. H. Lawrence wrote to his widow to say that he was glad?
... that Igor Stravinsky called his 1955 orchestral work Greeting Prelude "a kind of singing telegram"?
... that the clothing tags for Alexander McQueen's first collection, Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims , had McQueen's own hair encased inside?
... that Helene Ollendorff Curth was first to introduce a set of criteria for associating some rashes as possible indicators for internal cancers?
... that according to a popular legend, the tomb of Humayun Shah split open when he was interred?
... that the legal battle over awarding channel 9 in Orlando, Florida, the longest case in FCC history at the time, filled 55 volumes?
... that circulation numbers for early comic books featuring Captain America remained close to a million copies per month, outstripping news magazines such as Time?
... that Blockchain Chicken Farm is about chicken farms run by people who have never heard of blockchain?
... that in 1968, actor Ludovic Antal recited a Romanian nationalist poem in front of tourists from Soviet Moldavia, causing them to flee for their bus for fear of a "provocation"?
... that a public TV station in Texas held an eight-hour telethon before it even began broadcasting?
... that Governor Lauk Shein of Bassein fled the city along with "ten elephant loads of gold and silver", but could not outrun the pursuing Hanthawaddy troops?
... that C/1990 K1 (Levy) was the first comet observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, but only short exposures were obtained as the telescope was not yet able to track Solar System bodies?
... that the pastor of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral made Nicholas Russo celebrate Mass in the basement of the church because Russo was Italian?
... that Nicola Griffith's novella Spear examines how the Roman conquest made Britain an ethnically diverse society?