derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Bdóte, an area of sacred significance to the Dakota people, centered on the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, was also the site of their forced exile from Minnesota?
... that Thomas of Chobham's Summa confessorum was one of the most copied works on penance in the late medieval period?
... that the Apollo 16 Heat Flow Experiment was disabled when astronaut John Young tripped over a cable and tore it from its connector?
... that for her presentation at the 2008 Game Developers Conference, Jessica Mak simply played music and released balloons in the audience?
... that completion of South Bellevue station was delayed by more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a workers' strike?
... that Matei Donici, a general in the Imperial Russian Army, secretly wrote poetry with Romanian-nationalist and anti-Russian messages?
... that artist Tove Jansson based the children's book character Snufkin on a political philosopher whom she had dated?
... that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe, now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479?
... that the Burmese Buddhist monk Sagyo Thu-Myat successfully lobbied for the recalibration of the Burmese calendar?
... that artificial islands were deployed in Hicklin Lake in an unsuccessful attempt to stop eutrophication?
... that a COVID-19 bout forced Beef creator Lee Sung Jin to direct the show's season finale remotely?
... that Olympic gold medalist Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a rowing shell outside the students' union building at the University of Victoria?
... that the patu clubs on the New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer?
... that the steps of Pohang Space Walk represent an ascent to an unreachable utopia?
... that Justin Yu, the current Classic Tetris World Champion, is also a cellist in MIT's video game orchestra?
... that a computer system can contain tripwire files that alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders?
... that Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election?
... that the papal bull Ad fructus uberes gave friars the right to hear confessions and preach without the authorisation of secular clergy?
... that Dane Hansen started a road-construction business with about 100 mules that he was unable to sell to the US Army after World War I ended?
... that Hometown Village is a community of Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
... that after Ursula K. Le Guin published her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters, a reviewer called her the "ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction"?
... that in 1857 Ludwig Grass donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein?
... that "Agora Hills" is named after the location of the ashram where Doja Cat lived growing up?
... that after winning the 2024 Masters, snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan is both the youngest and oldest winner of the tournament?
... that Shovel Knight Showdown started as a fundraising goal for the Kickstarter of the original game?
... that Nick Whiteside overcame a torn Achilles tendon in 2021 and a broken foot in 2022 to play in the National Football League in 2023?
... that the Salmon Report (1966) led to the loss of the job title "matron" from UK hospitals?
... that Joan Phillip offered to give any MLAs who were rude to her a whack with her Saskatoon berry stick?
... that during the ibedul succession dispute, Gloria Salii held a ceremony for her son in which he washed his hands in turtle blood?
... that the 6-ton (6.1-tonne) Pilgrims' Cross , high on Holcombe Moor, England, was dragged up there with difficulty by 14 horses?
... that Shiv Palekar is trained in both the Suzuki method and Butoh form of acting?
... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold?
... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?
... that during Siam Niramit, a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river?
... that addicts imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs named the prison football team "Glatt Dynamos", after their psychotherapist Max Glatt, a former Nazi concentration-camp inmate?
... that Empire of Liberty was published twenty-seven years after its preceding volume in the Oxford History of the United States series?
... that at the age of 14, Jenny Suo conducted a science experiment that ultimately led to GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to breaching consumer protection laws?
... that teenage Inuk interpreter Qalaherriaq drew an accurate map of northwest Greenland while using a pencil for the first time?
... that from March to May 1962, 60,000 Chinese citizens migrated to the Soviet Union through two ports of entry?
... that aviator Paul Pavelka was killed after being thrown and trampled by a horse?
... that Laguna Honda Hospital is a non-profit long-term care facility that has been described as America's "last big almshouse"?
... that Yunè Pinku derived the first half of her stage name from a childhood nickname and the second half from the children's program Pingu?
... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
... that zanana can refer to a nagging wife in Egypt, or to Israeli drones flying overhead in Gaza?
... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground and was wrecked?
... that Dora Goldstein exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of alcohol addiction and alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
... that intangible heritage unique to Palestine includes women's story-telling, embroidery, dance, and soap-making?
... that a Brisbane Lions player said the sight of a jerrycan motivated her team during the 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final?
... that Sun Haiyan is the first Chinese ambassador to Singapore who was not a member of the Foreign Ministry of China?
... that it took eleven years for the instrumental track "I'm God" to receive an official release?
... that after Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared legally dead?
... that Phomen Singh , an early Indian migrant to New Zealand, sold sweets and chutneys out of a suitcase?
... that the artiodactyl Ephelcomenus is thought to have been capable of burrowing?
... that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region?
... that the design of the Baldwin–Reynolds House, a mansion built for U.S. Supreme Court justice Henry Baldwin, may have been inspired by Andrew Jackson's home?
... that pathologist Vincent Marks helped reverse the conviction of socialite Claus von Bülow in a case that was adapted for the film Reversal of Fortune?
... that enrollment at a school for African-American students in Virginia grew from 14 pupils to 1,300 in its first ten years?
... that the only proposal from the 1749 book Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle?
... that conservation in Indonesia had little local support after independence because it was associated with the Dutch colonial period?
... that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv?
... that Fortnite's Tilted Towers was described by critics as the equivalent of "psychological torture" and being "dropped into a meat grinder"?
... that Elijah Hewson's band Inhaler's UK No. 1 debut album charted 51 places higher than the debut album of his father's band U2?
... that the Platt Report was commissioned to improve British nursing education, as at the time up to 50 per cent of trainee nurses failed to qualify?
... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
... that it took the King of Italy 22 years to decide whether France or Mexico owned Clipperton Island?
... that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory?
... that Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping sewage into the sea?
... that Princess Zelda's name was inspired by American novelist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald?
... that a bus-chase sequence in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings took more than a year to plan and was revised more than twenty times?
... that cornetist Al Sweet dressed his band, the White Hussars, in flashy white-and-gold military uniforms based on hussars?
... that a street in Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there?
... that Annie Nathan Meyer's Black Souls was one of the first "lynching dramas" created by a white woman?
... that Ray E. Dillon Jr. flew in 92 combat missions during World War II before becoming the president and CEO of Dillons?
... that Kaija Saariaho's 2021 opera Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls?
... that eyelash seaweed may have been made extinct by a single 2016 earthquake?
... that 40 Bank Street , a skyscraper in London, has been described as looking like two different buildings fused into one?
... that the Chompi Kickstarter campaign was one of the most successful of 2023?
... that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that adherents of effective accelerationism believe that unrestricted technological progress would be a solution for poverty and war?
... that William Aditya Sarana was sworn in as a regional legislator four days before he graduated from university?
... that Emais Roberts administered the COVID-19 vaccination program in Palau and was one of the first to receive the vaccine in the country?
... that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient Jews, according to a centuries-old origin myth called the "Malagasy secret"?
... that the Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment is credited with the first direct observation of water on the Moon?
... that Minecraft YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft, once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars?
... that Harley Poe's folk punk lyrics have been described as "some of the most deranged in the genre"?
... that the Nagagamisis Provincial Park has been enlarged four times and once reduced in size?
... that Kirk Raymond Jones became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls without safety equipment, then died after going over it again in an inflatable ball?
... that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the Beeper Mini app?
... that with an inclination of 1 in 2.5, the slipway at Newquay Lifeboat Station was one of the steepest in England?
... that heist-horror film Johnny & Clyde has been called "unwatchable"?
... that Romanian adventure novelist N. D. Popescu-Popnedea "generate[d] laughter" with his deposition at a political assassin's trial?
... that Misfat al Abriyeen in Oman was named one of the best tourism villages by the World Tourism Organization in 2021?
... that King Charles III of Navarre wanted his illegitimate son Lancelot to become a bishop but the pope forbade it?
... that in one neighborhood commission district, the voters and officeholders are all inmates at the D.C. Jail?
... that William Thomas Pike, a convicted felon, published a biographical series , which includes traders, bishops, and a lord mayor of London, but almost no women?
... that SB19's second extended play (EP), Pagtatag!, is part of a trilogy about their artistry?
... that in 1976, Carmen Valero became the first female track and field athlete to represent Spain at the Olympics?
... that yobidashi often receive their trousers from sumo wrestlers who have been promoted to the rank of yokozuna or ōzeki?
... that Fionna Campbell was created as gender-swapped Adventure Time fan art, but ended up getting her own show?
... that for the southern molly, sexual selection favors smaller males because they copulate by sneaking up to females?
... that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut on his birthday, in the only game he played that year?
... that fighter pilot Donald H. Bochkay shot down two jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262s while flying a propeller-driven P-51 Mustang?
... that Babe Ruth Bows Out marked the first time a sports-related image won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography?
... that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position?
... that Kevin Feige first envisioned a shared universe featuring the Avengers in the mid-2000s?
... that sociologist Richard Twine has developed the concept of the "vegan killjoy" who challenges anthropocentrism by their mere presence?
... that Porter Robinson chose the title Nurture for his second album due to its evocation of the word nature and as a reference to the nature versus nurture debate?
... that the documentary Tish uses sets from Ricky Gervais's sitcom After Life?
... that scientist Adelaida K. Semesi was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology?
... that black-billed magpies are known to eat ticks off deer and other large mammals ?
... that unlike most skin cancers, a nevoid melanoma may have an almost perfectly symmetrical shape?
... that Storm Poly caused hundreds to be stranded at Amsterdam's central station as it passed the Netherlands?
... that children have programmed Hackaball as a Magic 8 Ball, a whoopee cushion, and an alarm clock?
... that Walt Whitman's brain was donated to the American Anthropometric Society but was accidentally destroyed?
... that Edward Hopper wondered what an empty room would look like with no one to see it?
... that Let's All Go to the Lobby, a one-minute filmed advertisement, has been preserved by the US National Film Registry?
... that Winter Renouf, a British member of the Indian Civil Service, thought that farmers in the Punjab should grow Canadian wheat varieties?
... that Van Morrison performed and recorded a collection of ancient Irish poems for Moles nightclub in Bath, Somerset?
... that Donald Sutherland asked to play Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games films as he hoped the series would inspire a revolutionary movement among young people?
... that a story about Call of Duty: Warzone led to Video Games Chronicle's Twitter account being temporarily locked?
... that the author of the Alex novels says they are not semi-autobiographical, even though she was herself a champion teenage swimmer like the protagonist?
... that the band Ryokuoushoku Shakai was named after its members misheard "vegetables" (野菜, yasai) as "society" (社会, shakai)?