derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that a city in Virginia's 88.5-foot-tall (27.0 m) Christmas decoration was so popular with residents that it was decided to light it nightly year-round?
... that prehistoric women may have had unique advantages over men in endurance hunting due to the positive effects of estrogen on muscle development?
... that the actor Andrew Still worked as a receptionist and janitor after leaving Hollyoaks?
... that the Great Book of Marvels has been called "one of the most valuable sources for the study of Chinese folklore"?
... that after no record label would sign Keith Marshall, his manager set one up himself and released his 1981 UK Top 20 single "Only Crying"?
... that the protagonist of Shovel Knight: King of Cards was compared to "a bad Renaissance fair actor who's gotten too far into his role"?
... that skateboarder Cui Chenxi is the youngest Chinese gold medalist in the Asian Games?
... that in the Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva, Dmitri Shostakovich wanted to convey how he imagined the poet's voice, "husky, hefty, occluded in the smoke of homegrown tobacco"?
... that the Lunar Surface Gravimeter failed to turn the Moon into a gravitational wave antenna?
... that McKinney Roughs Nature Park has an unusual convergence of four distinct ecosystems?
... that the Voice of Freedom had to counter venomous snakes, leeches, and other wildlife?
... that the seven leaders of the East Turkestan Revolutionary Party had Uyghur-language code names, the initials of which spelled out the word Lëninchi, meaning "Leninist"?
... that Whitley Furniture Galleries would increase the population of Zebulon more than eightfold when hosting an automobile giveaway in 1936?
... that the Gale–Shapley algorithm was used to assign medical students to residencies long before its publication by Gale and Shapley?
... that the first theatrical run of A Stormy Night by Ion Luca Caragiale , featuring a journalist nearly beaten up by the Civic Guard, saw Caragiale nearly beaten up by the Civic Guard?
... that pioneering bodybuilder Hippolyte Triat was kidnapped by vagabonds at the age of six and sold to a troupe of Italian acrobats?
... that Nigeria seeks the return of the Benin Altar Tusks, ivory artefacts taken by the British in 1897 and dispersed in Europe?
... that the Cold Cathode Gauge Experiment could detect gases leaking from an astronaut's life support systems on the Moon's surface?
... that the national women's day of Guinea-Bissau commemorates the death of Titina Silá, who was killed on this day during the nation's war of independence?
... that the Adly Mansour Transportation Hub was selected as the best rail project of 2022 by Engineering News-Record?
... that the comic book Nietzsche, se créer liberté tries to express Friedrich Nietzsche's personality visually?
... that after he waited twenty-four hours to capture his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph , the flash bulb on Earle Bunker's camera failed on his first attempt?
... that Fred G. Sullivan's film The Beer-Drinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking depicts Sullivan being humiliated with mud and whips for the failings of his previous film?
... that Porphyry describes a moral obligation to extend justice to animals in his 3rd-century treatise on vegetarianism?
... that Yuna Kim had a major impact on figure skating and was instrumental in bringing the Olympics to Pyeongchang in 2018?
... that in 2023, Ralph Nader founded the newspaper Winsted Citizen in his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut, where he delivered papers as a boy?
... that after fleeing the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela, Spanish anarchist Concha Liaño became a supporter of Hugo Chávez?
... that two rival designers independently submitted a map for the design of a 1940 New Zealand coin?
... that "Cave Man Kenny" was a "fast-charging, hard-hitting" "ubiquitous" "obstreperous iron man" with "dependable shoulders"?
... that female swamp guppies show no preference for orange or red coloration during courtship?
... that Andrea Blanch said that she came to appreciate Jeff Koons's artwork more after suing him for copyright infringement?
... that Coco of Coco & Clair Clair developed her alias for school announcements during her senior year of high school?
... that the Transvaal Chinese Association opposed discriminatory legislation in the British Transvaal Colony alongside Mahatma Gandhi?
... that Turkish migrant workers living in a residential complex in Amsterdam refused to eat the Dutch food for two weeks after the kitchen's only Turkish chef was fired?
... that an Australian High Court case found a hotel chain to have used third-party contractors to avoid paying employees their required benefits?
... that a tattoo on the anus of Brazilian singer Anitta ultimately led to inquiries to investigate the use of public funds in artists' concerts?
... that Amrita Sher-Gil's Young Girls earned her the Paris Salon's gold medal in 1933, making her the first Asian to be awarded the prize?
... that Wee Toon Boon remained a member of the Parliament of Singapore even after he began serving a prison sentence for corruption?
... that the Saskatchewan Conservation House, built in 1977 to withstand Canadian winter temperatures, did not use a furnace?
... that Adila Laïdi-Hanieh and her team used digitisation to preserve endangered Palestinian material culture?
... that despite being 80 miles (130 km) apart, Austin and San Antonio are merging into one metropolis?
... that comedian Şenay Duzcu was awarded the German–Turkish Friendship Prize?
... that the Leonia Alternative High School's employment of volunteer instructors led to opposition from the local teachers' union?
... that Louis Zhang Jiashu, a Catholic bishop of Shanghai who studied at Canterbury in 1911, received the archbishop of Canterbury in Shanghai in 1983?
... that all known populations of Epipterygium opararense live within a 5-metre (16 ft) radius in New Zealand?
... that Gareth Knight, a devout Christian, was an occultist who ran an esoteric society of magicians?
... that in 1983 readers of the magazine Softline voted Star Raiders the best program for Atari computers?
... that Mar Galcerán is believed to be the first politician with Down syndrome to serve in a European regional parliament?
... that the 1976 Big Thompson River flood took place several hours before Colorado's 100th anniversary of statehood?
... that before discovering a rudimentary audio workstation on his mother's phone, the French musician Lewis OfMan wanted to be a perfumer?
... that Harpegnathos alperti worker ants have black heads and chocolate-colored mandibles?
... that the reign of Ye will be one of perjury, slavery, pestilence and death, according to the Ethiopic Apocalypse of Ezra?
... that locals responding to the 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck used snowballs to extinguish the fires in the wrecked cars ?
... that the rapper Jords did not know his father was a musician until a chance encounter in a British supermarket?
... that the Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites Experiment continuously overheated and had to be switched off during lunar noon?
... that anti-Korean sentiment, due to South Korea's economic growth, motivated Djuna to write the sci-fi novel Counterweight?
... that jazz saxophonist Chris Byars ended his childhood operatic career when his voice croaked during a performance?
... that years after it closed, the studios of an Iowa TV station became the headquarters for the state police radio network?
... that Frederick Murray Trotter had a distinguished career as a field geologist despite losing a part of his skull and an eye to shrapnel during World War I?
... that New York City's Roosevelt Island Tramway was placed next to a bridge to prevent collisions with planes?
... that Stanislav Aseyev, the author of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, was placed in the Izolyatsia torture camp for writing "Donetsk People's Republic" in quotation marks in a social media post?
... that Boquila trifoliolata is the only known plant capable of simultaneously mimicking multiple species?
... that Jorge Barón, a member of King County Council, was an assistant director on The Mask of Zorro?
... that David Bowie narrated a version of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf in 1978 as a gift for his seven-year-old son Duncan?
... that The Connor Brothers were believed to be two 20-something artists from Brooklyn, but are actually two British art dealers from London?
... that Augustine of Hippo's Harmony of the Gospels is technically not a Gospel harmony?
... that the 1830 abandonment of Chipewyan woman Matooskie by her Scottish husband was eventually settled with a dowry payment of £200?
... that at least three historians asserted How the Red Sun Rose to have rendered outdated the scholarly understanding of the Yan'an Rectification Movement?
... that before the age of thirty, Anna Nekhames performed the dual role of Venus and Chief of the Gepopo in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, one of opera's most demanding coloratura soprano parts?
... that Femke is the most common feminine given name of West Frisian origin in the Netherlands?
... that stagecoaches on the Humboldt Wagon Road could make a 400-mile trip in under four days?
... that although only one member was fluent in English, the cast of The Mongol Khan learned the entire script before the play's West End run?
... that "gig" in "gig economy" comes from the slang term for individual appearances by performing artists?
... that two towers remain of the otherwise almost completely demolished Abbey of Saint Winnoc, because they were used as daymarks by sailors?
... that Michael Owens became the first mayor of Mableton, Georgia, in more than 100 years after winning the 2023 mayoral election?
... that Peckham Rock, a fake cave painting surreptitiously installed in the British Museum by Banksy, is actually concrete from Hackney?
... that biochemist Susan Berget was heavily involved in the discovery of split genes, but was excluded from credit and later the Nobel Prize for the research?
... that more than 150 years of documentary sources at the Central Archives of Gaza City were destroyed during the Israel–Hamas war?
... that for 25 years after an attempt to explode a whale went awry, the Oregon TV station that filmed it regularly fielded requests for its footage?
... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"?
... that Tap Pryor saw a coral reef in Zanzibar that inspired him to spend his life "under water"?
... that Self-Portrait as a Tahitian depicts Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil standing in the shadow of an unknown man?
... that in his first month in the job, Wali Mohammad Itoo suspended all 23 opposition representatives when they questioned his integrity as the speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly?
... that VMB-611 was the only United States Marine Corps bombing squadron to operate in the Philippines during World War II?
... that Japanese actress Junko Ikeuchi was known as the "Queen of TV Dramas" from the 1960s to the 1980s?
... that because of New York City's Summer Streets program, Park Avenue in Manhattan has no motor traffic in three mornings in August?
... that the British musician Coupdekat recorded the vocals for "It's Not You" while trampolining on her bed?
... that the book A City on Mars covers sex in space, raising children in low gravity, space law, and space cannibalism?
... that the Late Gothic appearance of the church of St. Martin in Oestrich was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and restored only in 1894?
... that before going viral on TikTok for "Hit or Miss" at age fifteen, Georgia Twinn wanted to become a forensic scientist?
... that Jake Kaufman composed most of the soundtrack for Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment while streaming on Twitch?
... that Thomas Ragle, the president of Marlboro College from 1958 to 1981, described his position as like a "19th-century college president"?
... that after being waived by the San Diego Chargers, Frank Duncan began packing before being re-signed the next day and eventually becoming a starter?
... that "Shalom chaverim" ('Peace, friends'), a Hebrew traditional folk song, has been sung at events commemorating the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitic violence?
... that a future U.S. president and a future British king both visited the Van Cortlandt House during the American Revolution?
... that one academic described the introduction of femboys to Myanmar as a tactic to achieve an "ideological revolution"?
... that the Māori warrior on the New Zealand shilling was actually depicted wearing a dance uniform?
... that with Gogoliad, Dmitri Shostakovich ended his film career with Grigori Kozintsev, the same director with whom he started?
... that in 2014, BBC Three cancelled a debate on being gay and Muslim featuring Asifa Lahore, a Muslim drag queen, citing security concerns at the mosque where it was filmed?
... that "Thy Strong Word" replaced an anti–Mexican–American War hymn in the Episcopal Church?
... that despite Daniel Lopatin's electronic album Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 having a limited 2010 release on cassette tapes, it became a foundational album for the vaporwave genre?
... that Shanthi Kalathil believes Radio Free Asia "filled a critical role in combating Chinese disinformation"?
... that Monet decorated his house at Giverny with Kuniyoshi's In the Snow at Tsukahara, Sado Island , one of about 231 Japanese prints in Monet's personal collection?
... that LaVonne Griffin-Valade, the Oregon Secretary of State, has published four crime fiction novels?
... that Laverstock ware pottery was produced to supply the royal palace at Clarendon, but was also used all over the south of England?
... that geographer Richard Urquhart Goode is the namesake of three mountains and a glacier?
... that the Indian politician Diwan Chaman Lall failed to get rid of the painting Nude of Indira?
... that the success of the book Fifth Chinese Daughter led to the U.S. State Department translating the book into various Asian languages and sending its author on a speaking tour across Asia?
... that a teacher of medieval literature and comic books writes the blog Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle?
... that Andrew J. Evans Jr. was the highest-ranking United States Air Force prisoner during the Korean War?
... that the film Critical Zone was shot in secret by Ali Ahmadzadeh without permission from Iranian authorities?
... that nine-year-old Muskan Ahirwar started a library for the children in her slum that now contains more than 3,000 books?
... that Wilfried Nancy became the first Black coach to win the MLS Cup in 2023?
... that Sandra Elkin, discussing basic information on women's topics on Woman, "radicalized" women into supporting women's rights?
... that the YouTuber CaptainSparklez set three Guinness World Records with a Minecraft song parody?
... that the bad handwriting of British doctors has been blamed on the small size of their medical-record envelopes?
... that after Nazi Germany placed anti-aircraft batteries on the property of the Genoa Conservatory, the school moved into the Villa Saluzzo Serra art museum to maintain the safety of its students?
... that Vivi Vassileva, a percussionist who was the youngest member of the German national youth orchestra, has played Gregor Mayrhofer's Recycling Concerto on instruments derived from garbage?
... that Thomas J. Wright's PhD dissertation focused on US–Soviet relations in the late 1940s?
... that Wrexham and East Denbighshire War Memorial Hospital was designed with balconies to treat patients with tuberculosis?
... that actress M'liss McClure's publicity agency promoted her "almost telescopic vision" as a selling point?
... that 2.5-metre-tall (8.2 ft) white rock spires grow at the volcano Huequi?
... that Detroit has been waiting for its statue of RoboCop for more than 12 years?
... that the mother of The Little Girl in Blue did not think that the painting was a good likeness of her daughter?
... that square pyramids can have different shapes, and pyramidologists have put forward multiple theories on which of these shapes was used for the Egyptian pyramids?
... that St. Joseph, a 1909 Catholic church in the Romanesque Revival style in Berlin-Wedding, has served as an interim cathedral since 2018?
... that the Ava–Hanthawaddy War of 1385–1391 began when King Swa Saw Ke of Ava tried to place his nominee on the Hanthawaddy throne?
... that Koh Masaki was one of the first gay pornographic film actors in Japan to openly appear in adult films without obscuring his identity?
... that several reviewers noted the opening line of Venbee's 2022 song "Messy in Heaven", "Jesus did cocaine on a night out"?
... that a coach said that Bob Gregor "hits so hard, he maims himself"?
... that the second collection of decretals in the Quinque compilationes antiquae was actually compiled after the third collection?
... that Tadeusz Gebethner, a soccer player, bookseller, soldier and resistance fighter, was recognized as a Polish Righteous Among the Nations?
... that pumices erupted by the Protector Shoal volcano in 1962 floated to Australia and South America?
... that the Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer detected a gas-ion shockwave produced by the impact of the Apollo 13 S-IVB stage on the lunar surface?
... that the fraud that marred Kansas's 1855 territorial legislature elections led many to dub the elected body the "Bogus Legislature"?
... that New York City's Bartow–Pell Mansion became a museum after its operator was restricted from importing and exporting plants?
... that the life of Gloria Meneses is celebrated with an exhibition in the Plaza de la Diversidad Sexual in Montevideo?
... that 555 Edgecombe Avenue, once named for a British soldier and occupied entirely by white Americans, later attracted notable African Americans like Paul Robeson and Count Basie?
... that journalist Isaac Saul was named as one of the 16 people who had the greatest influence in the 2016 U.S. election?
... that bereavement support groups are one of the most common services offered for grief but have little evidence of improving psychological outcomes?
... that a Lockheed EC-130Q aircraft crashed after performing a waterbombing just 190 feet (58 m) in the air?
... that Michael Kremer's O-ring theory of economic development was inspired by his forgetting to purchase toilet paper for a training session?
... that after Cora Victoria Diehl was elected as the first woman to hold office in Oklahoma Territory, county records had to be recovered with dynamite when the incumbent refused to concede?
... that Patricia Schultz, the author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, would choose Florence for her final trip before dying?
... that French historian Patrice Gueniffey called the 2023 film Napoleon a "very anti-French and very pro-British" rewrite of history?
... that while being held in Stalag Luft I, an American prisoner of war built a violin out of scrap material?
... that while George C. Brownell played no part in the Oregon land fraud scandal, a published cartoon showed him as the "Pretty Moth" that flew too close to the land fraud limelight?
... that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina?
... that the stylized animation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was inspired by rough sketches in school notebooks?
... that Thomas Fritzsch, a viol player who rediscovered compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel, established a festival dedicated to him in Köthen?
... that Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, compared a rival author to the subject of both their books, convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried?
... that Gracie Mansion became New York City's mayoral residence after serving as a public toilet and a museum?
... that Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst (How Deserted Lies the City), a motet composed by Rudolf Mauersberger after the bombing of Dresden, was first performed in the destroyed Kreuzkirche ?
... that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf, Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake?
... that Olipop, with more than $100 million in revenue, has an all-remote workforce?
... that Illinois senator Mark Kirk returned to his former high school as an adult to create a UNICEF club?
... that the 2024 season for Seattle Sounders FC will be their first with a new logo?
... that while developing the sound effects for Letterpress, Loren Brichter spit in his microphone?
... that Line 51 of the Amsterdam Metro was called an express tram because the term "metro" was too controversial in the city?
... that a My Little Pony fan band wrote a song about a horror game, creating what has been considered to be a sub-genre of music?
... that by popular demand, philosopher Anton Charles Pegis continued to teach graduate classes for three years after becoming an emeritus professor?
... that Akram Nadwi addressed the lack of Islamic women scholars highlighted in a Time article by composing al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, a 43-volume work with more than 10,000 entries?
... that despite being only 40 feet (12 m) tall, Roar-o-Saurus was described by CNN as one of the "most insane" new roller coasters of 2014?
... that composer and conductor William Carter began a career as a professional organist at the age of nine?
... that Tragedy by the Sea shows a man and a woman standing beside the ocean a few minutes after the couple's young son went missing?
... that Mister Rogers said that Mr. Chuck, the host of a children's show on the public TV station in Memphis, Tennessee, was "truly remarkable" and "achieving things I still struggle to achieve"?
... that Gamze Durmuş and her husband were the first referees to officiate a TFF First League match together?
... that Dom DiSandro, the Philadelphia Eagles' chief security officer, was ejected from a game for getting into a scuffle with an opposing player?
... that Sasuke vs. Commander, one of SNK's earlier arcade games, was among the earliest to feature multiple boss fights?
... that physician Melvin Ramsay refuted the suggestion – partially based on the fact more women are affected – that myalgic encephalomyelitis is a form of mass hysteria?
... that the Vocalises by Jānis Ivanovs were said to express "a longing for humanity"?
... that a former radio host got a free apartment in New York City's King Manor and lived there for more than three decades?
... that Kihwan Sim, a bass-baritone performer at the Oper Frankfurt, learned to play the tuba during his two years of military service?
... that the publication of A Field Guide to Otherkin sparked scholarly interest in people who consider themselves animals or mythological creatures?
... that George Cross recipient Bill Madden died as result of malnutrition and ill-treatment by his Chinese captors while a prisoner of war?
... that Louise Julien may have been an inspiration for the character of Cosette in Les Misérables?
... that Nakba denial is a form of historical negationism pertaining to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight?
... that being in the chain-melted state makes some metals behave as a liquid and solid at the same time?
... that since 1995, the AP NFL MVP award has been given to a player for the Green Bay Packers seven times?
... that Carla Ronci, an Italian declared venerable by the Catholic Church, is remembered as the "Vespa saint"?
... that code-switching in Lebanon is so common that "hi, كيفك؟ Ça va ?", which combines English, Levantine Arabic and French, is a typical greeting?
... that Poussin painted the abduction of the Sabine women twice , once for a prince and once for a cardinal?
... that the leader of the German Red Cross under the Nazi regime had lived in the UK until he was fifteen years old and was a grandson of Queen Victoria?
... that although five of Armenian composer Grigor Yeghiazaryan's siblings died of starvation from the Armenian genocide, his life was saved because he played in a brass band?
... that Edo literature was influenced by British colonialism in the late 19th century, which introduced the Roman script and Christianity to the Edo people?
... that a New York state TV station thought a St. Bernard could serve as a mascot—until she proved incapable of following direction and had to be sent to obedience school?
... that Harald Hasselbach, the only Dutch Super Bowl champion, lived in four continents in his youth?