wikimedia/wiki-dyk huggingface dataset:
... that the Armenian politician Aram Piruzyan said the USSR's head of state asked for copies of his cookbook to give to Fidel Castro?

page_title: Aram Piruzyan
short_description: Soviet Armenian politician (1907–1996)
... that a U.S. Army veteran was claimed to be suffering from erotomania when he carried out a mass shooting at a Ford Motor Plant in Michigan?

page_title: Erotomania
short_description: Romantic delusional disorder
page_title: Wixom Assembly Plant shooting
short_description: 1996 mass shooting in Wixom, Michigan
... that Dawn Hope first episode on Hollyoaks featured an entirely Black cast?

page_title: Dawn Hope
short_description: British actress
... that a bridge over the Schuylkill River does not actually cross the river?

page_title: Christian to Crescent Trail Connector bridge
short_description: Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
... that Inugami Korone catchphrase "yubi yubi" calls for her fans to cut off their fingers and give them to her?

page_title: Inugami Korone
short_description: Japanese VTuber
... that in 1930s America, you could buy a quart of frozen salad (pictured) for a dollar?

page_title: Frozen salad
short_description: Frozen dish
... that Bruce Springsteen's ICE protest song, "Streets of Minneapolis", was written the day Alex Pretti was killed and performed live the same week?

page_title: ICE protest songs
short_description: Protest songs against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
page_title: Streets of Minneapolis
short_description: 2026 Bruce Springsteen protest song
page_title: Killing of Alex Pretti
short_description: 2026 shooting by US Border Patrol agents
... that Liu Shasha didn't own a mobile phone because it might take away from her learning billiards?

page_title: Liu Shasha
short_description: Chinese pool player (born 1993)
... that despite coincidental timing, Gap's ad featuring Katseye was not intended as a response to Sydney Sweeney's controversial jeans commercial?

page_title: Better in Denim
short_description: 2025 Gap commercial
page_title: Katseye
short_description: Los Angeles-based girl group
page_title: Sydney Sweeney
short_description: American actress (born 1997)
... that at fifteen years old, Ebenezer Harcourt became the youngest footballer to play for the Nigeria national team?

page_title: Ebenezer Harcourt
short_description: Nigerian footballer (born 2009)
... that when Titan Fleischmann grandmother first heard her future grandson's name, she cried out of fear that he would be bullied for it?

page_title: Titan Fleischmann
short_description: American football player
... that Nigel Bluck cinematography has been compared to the work of painter Edward Hopper?

page_title: Nigel Bluck
short_description: New Zealand cinematographer
... that the difficulty of finding  Fluid Ounces's third studio album led some fans to believe it was an urban legend?

page_title: Foreign Legion (album)
short_description: 2001 album by power pop band Fluid Ounces
... that United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia did not endorse the statement, "everybody has got a right to the use of the English language"?

page_title: KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc.
short_description: 2004 United States Supreme Court case
... that Calvin Duncan (pictured) was elected clerk of the same court that wrongfully convicted him of murder and sentenced him to life in prison?

page_title: Calvin Duncan (legal advocate)
short_description: American prisoner rights activist
page_title: Court clerk
short_description: Legal officer, administrator
... that there are cognitions about cognitions?

page_title: Cognition
short_description: Mental process dealing with knowledge
... that Billy Gallagher Times Square cabaret was open from sundown to dawn, with a mix of "reputable people" and those "who had practical reasons for circulating after dark"?

page_title: Billy Gallagher (businessman)
short_description: American restaurateur (c. 1869 – 1934)
... that the Cipero Tramway was the first operational railway in Trinidad and Tobago?

page_title: Cipero Tramway
short_description: Railway in Trinidad and Tobago
... that voice actor Rena Motomura prepared for an audition by practicing a single challenging line a hundred times a day?

page_title: Rena Motomura
short_description: Japanese voice actress
... that Al-Qunayyah, a village in Jordan, is thought to have been the site of a Roman-era sanctuary?

page_title: Al-Qunayyah
short_description: Place in Zarqa Governorate, Jordan
... that to teach high school photography, Kent Kammerer took students on trips to the North Cascades and Olympic Peninsula in a home-built camper?

page_title: Kent Kammerer
short_description: American teacher and activist (1933–2011)
page_title: North Cascades
short_description: Mountain range in North America
page_title: Olympic Peninsula
short_description: Peninsula in Washington, United States
... that Astor Piazzolla's Oblivion has been called "exquisitely melancholic"?

page_title: Oblivion (Piazzolla)
short_description: 1982 composition by Astor Piazzolla
... that Kamaipuʻupaʻa, the mistress of King Kamehameha V, blamed the 1871 Lānaʻi earthquake on a foreigner riding a horse?

page_title: Kamaipuʻupaʻa
short_description: Hawaiian priestess and Royal Mistress to Kamehameha V
page_title: Kamehameha V
short_description: King of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872
page_title: 1871 Lānaʻi earthquake
short_description: Earthquake in the Hawaiian Islands
... that the tiny
... that Justin Timberlake's 2013 comeback single was promoted by relaunching Myspace?

page_title: Suit & Tie
short_description: 2013 single by Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z
page_title: Myspace
short_description: American social networking service
... that George Brandt chose to have a song from the soundtrack of Pinocchio at his own funeral?

page_title: George Brandt
short_description: German-born British academic (1920–2007)
... that two tropical cyclones in the 1996 Pacific hurricane season made the unusual move of crossing over from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific?

page_title: Timeline of the 1996 Pacific hurricane season
page_title: List of Atlantic–Pacific crossover hurricanes
... that the black-rumped magpie was made a full species in 2018?

page_title: Black-rumped magpie
short_description: Species of bird
... that after an international ice hockey career, Leszek Laszkiewicz was given an honorary citizenship of his hometown?

page_title: Leszek Laszkiewicz
short_description: Polish ice hockey player (born 1978)
... that at Hagemeister Park, the Green Bay Packers' first stadium, fans would line the field or sit in their parked cars to watch games?

page_title: Hagemeister Park
short_description: Sports stadium in Wisconsin, U.S.
... that VTuber Sakamata Chloe used crowdsourcing for Christmas tree decorations?

page_title: Sakamata Chloe
short_description: Hololive VTuber and singer
... that the mating display of Servaea incana includes a "zigzag dance" in which a male moves in ever-narrowing arcs towards a female?

page_title: Servaea incana
short_description: Species of jumping spider
... that novelist Susie Boyt described Nesselrode pudding (example pictured) as tasting "of Christmas, without any of the disappointment"?

page_title: Nesselrode pudding
short_description: Chestnut-based frozen dessert
... that, according to Guyanese authorities, an oil tanker seized by the United States off the coast of Venezuela in 2025 was falsely flying Guyana's flag?

page_title: 2025–2026 United States oil blockade of Venezuela
... that a 70-foot (21 m) statue of Lionel Messi was unveiled in India during his G.O.A.T. India Tour?

page_title: Lionel Messi
short_description: Argentine footballer (born 1987)
page_title: Lionel Messi's 2025 tour of India
... that "Right Here, Right Now" was Giorgio Moroder's first song in 15 years to reach the top of the US Dance Club Songs chart?

page_title: Right Here, Right Now (Giorgio Moroder song)
short_description: 2015 single by Giorgio Moroder
page_title: Giorgio Moroder
short_description: Italian composer and music producer (born 1940)
page_title: Dance Club Songs
short_description: Billboard chart
... that future Slavic-language professor Marc L. Greenberg learned Slovene after his fiancée sent him a bilingual dictionary and started writing letters to him only in Slovene?

page_title: Marc L. Greenberg
short_description: American linguist (born 1961)
... that the Genshin Impact character Alhaitham is believed to be named after a polymath from the Islamic Golden Age?

page_title: Alhaitham (Genshin Impact)
short_description: Fictional character in a video game
page_title: Ibn al-Haytham
short_description: Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
... that Diego García Miravete and his college football team's games were closely monitored by the Mexican government in the early 1970s?

page_title: Diego García Miravete
short_description: Mexican gridiron football coach and player (born 1946)
page_title: Cóndores UNAM football
short_description: College football team
... that Erykah Badu recorded Mama's Gun at what was once Jimi Hendrix's apartment?

page_title: Erykah Badu
short_description: American singer (born 1971)
page_title: Mama's Gun
short_description: 2000 studio album by Erykah Badu
page_title: Jimi Hendrix
short_description: American guitarist (1942–1970)
... that some reviewers thought that A Short Hike was too short?

page_title: A Short Hike
short_description: 2019 video game
... that  a Washington state park (pictured) drew more visitors in 2021 than Yosemite National Park?

page_title: Deception Pass State Park
short_description: State park in Washington, U.S.
... that James I. Hopkins Jr., who signed the order to bomb Hiroshima, disappeared without a trace?

page_title: James I. Hopkins Jr.
short_description: US Air Force officer (1918–c. 1951)
... that the critically endangered fish Quintana atrizona has not been seen in the wild since 2007–2008?

page_title: Quintana atrizona
short_description: Species of fish
... that historian Allen French volunteered as a police officer during a labor strike?

page_title: Allen French
short_description: American writer (1870–1946)
... that a video showing preparations for a campaign speech for mayor of Kharkiv became one of YouTube's top ten most-watched videos of the day?

page_title: Video of the production of Mykhailo Dobkin's campaign advertisement
short_description: 2007 Ukrainian political controversy
page_title: Kharkiv
short_description: City in Ukraine
... that sanquette, a crêpe from Occitania, is made with blood fresh from slaughter?

page_title: Sanquette
short_description: Occitan blood dish
page_title: Occitania
short_description: Historical region in southern Europe
... that the Canadian Joint Forces Command was created based on operational lessons from the war in Ukraine?

page_title: Canadian Joint Forces Command
short_description: Military unit
page_title: Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
short_description: Phase since 2022 of war ongoing since 2014
... that a radio station requested changes to a light-rail project?

page_title: KEXP
short_description: Public radio station in Seattle
page_title: Ballard Link Extension
short_description: Rail line in Washington, US
... that Gu Yanwu destroyed all his poetry following the Manchu conquest and took to wandering across China?

page_title: Gu Yanwu
short_description: Chinese scholar (1613–1682)
page_title: Transition from Ming to Qing
short_description: Period of Chinese history (1618–1683)
... that the Bombay sandwich (example pictured) typically uses potatoes and chutney, but some versions use chocolate?

page_title: Bombay sandwich
short_description: Toasted sandwich
... that all five chaplains awarded the Medal of Honor since the American Civil War were Catholic priests?

page_title: List of Chaplain Corps Medal of Honor recipients
short_description: American servicemen in the Chaplain Corps awarded the Medal of Honor
... that the attorney of the last person executed by Peru requested Pope John Paul II's intervention to save his client's life?

page_title: Julio Vargas Garayar
short_description: Peruvian soldier executed for treason
... that mangroves reduced the impact of Cyclone Dana?

page_title: Cyclone Dana
short_description: North Indian Ocean cyclone in 2024
... that Variety once called Trisha Ziff a "photographer's photographer"?

page_title: Trisha Ziff
short_description: British filmmaker and curator (born 1956)
... that the headquarters of Indonesia's 16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was a Japanese military base, seized by Indonesian youths after Japan's surrender in 1945?

page_title: 16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade
short_description: Military unit
... that shark fin is one of the "four sea delicacies", a quartet of luxury seafoods in Chinese cuisine?

page_title: Shark fin soup
short_description: Soup in Chinese cuisine
page_title: Four sea delicacies
short_description: Traditional Chinese seafood grouping
... that Immanuel Iheanacho was measured as a 14-year-old freshman at 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and 325 lb (147 kg), with a 7 ft (2.1 m) wingspan?

page_title: Immanuel Iheanacho
short_description: American football player
page_title: Arm span
short_description: Distance from finger tips to finger tips
... that in 1956 a person dressed as the anthropomorphic hedgehog and comic star Mecki traveled by helicopter to more than 100 cities in southern Germany to give children gifts?

page_title: Mecki
short_description: Fictional character
... that the College of William & Mary was established by royal charter (pictured) 333 years ago today?<!--All William & Mary hooks have been approved to run in this set as per Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 211#A William & Mary spectacular; please don't swap them out -->

page_title: College of William & Mary
short_description: University in Williamsburg, Virginia, US
page_title: Charter of the College of William & Mary
short_description: 1693 royal charter
... that Richard Lee Morton became the head of the College of William & Mary's history department after two years of teaching?

page_title: Richard Lee Morton
short_description: American historian (1889–1974)
... that Chandler Court and Pollard Park, which were designed and occupied by William & Mary faculty, have been called "two of Williamsburg's most appealing twentieth-century neighborhoods"?

page_title: Chandler Court and Pollard Park Historic District
short_description: Historic neighborhood in Virginia, US
page_title: Williamsburg, Virginia
short_description: City and former capital in Virginia, US
... that Denver Mills, the first underclassman to be captain of the William & Mary football team, also played in the army and a single NFL game?

page_title: Denver Mills
short_description: American football player (1925–1997)
page_title: William & Mary Tribe football
short_description: College football team
... that William & Mary's president was unable to get the college to fund the William and Mary Quarterly, so he paid for it himself?

page_title: William and Mary Quarterly
short_description: Academic history journal
... that Orlando Jones, the maternal grandfather of Martha Washington, was one of William & Mary's first students?

page_title: Orlando Jones (politician)
short_description: Virginian politician (1681–1719)
page_title: Martha Washington
short_description: First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
... that five speeches by William & Mary students helped to move Virginia's capital and establish Williamsburg?

page_title: 1699 May Day orations
short_description: Series of speeches in Virginia
... that Althea Hunt founded the William & Mary Theatre, but discouraged students from trying to make a career of it?

page_title: Althea Hunt
short_description: American dramatist and educator
... that Thomas Jefferson pushed William & Mary to hire a man with little linguistic ability as its first professor of modern languages?

page_title: Carlo Bellini
short_description: Italian-American academic (1735–1804)
... that Yucatán molly males flare their "sails" (pictured) both to woo and to shoo?

page_title: Poecilia velifera
short_description: Species of fish
... that Wales's first Commonwealth Games medallist in shooting walked off the podium when the wrong national anthem was played?

page_title: John Vivian, 4th Baron Swansea
short_description: British aristocrat (1925–2005)
... that the writer of the visual novel SeaBed based it on a comic that he drew in his spare time at work?

page_title: SeaBed
short_description: 2016 video game
... that Whispering Woods, the second novel set in the universe of Magic: The Gathering, was later declared non-canonical?

page_title: Whispering Woods
short_description: 1995 novel by Clayton Emery
... that Olympian Nam Singh Thapa said his boxing career began when he was arrested and forced to compete in a match?

page_title: Nam Singh Thapa
short_description: Nepalese boxer (1946–2026)
... that the original occupant of the Farnsworth House likened her experience there to that of a caged animal?

page_title: Farnsworth House
short_description: Modernist house in Plano, Illinois, US
... that in 2002, Sarah Baxendale broke the Guinness World Record for the longest kiss featured on screen?

page_title: Sarah Baxendale
short_description: British actress (born 1979)
... that 16 years ago, a man in Ireland slipped on some ice?

page_title: The Man Who Slipped on the Ice
short_description: 2010 Irish viral video
... that a photograph of an airplane propeller taken by a camera with a rolling shutter (pictured) may distort the propeller into curves resembling the quadratrix of Hippias?

page_title: Rolling shutter
short_description: Image capture method
page_title: Quadratrix of Hippias
short_description: Curve where spinning and moving lines cross
... that the remains of at least 970 people were discovered at the former Kilkenny Union Workhouse?

page_title: Kilkenny Union Workhouse
short_description: Workhouse in Kilkenny, Ireland
... that 17-year-old video game developers Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin obtained a contract with Electronic Arts by cold-calling them and sending them a copy of Dream Zone

page_title: Andy Gavin
short_description: American video game programmer
page_title: Jason Rubin
short_description: American video game director
page_title: Electronic Arts
short_description: American video game company
page_title: Cold calling
short_description: Form of business solicitation
page_title: Dream Zone
short_description: 1988 video game
... that a baby elephant that starred in The Ark was kept in a van outside the director's home the night before filming?

page_title: The Ark (Doctor Who)
short_description: 1966 Doctor Who serial
... that Welsh-language activist Joseff Gnagbo came to Wales as a refugee from Ivory Coast?

page_title: Joseff Gnagbo
short_description: Welsh activist (born c. 1974)
... that the Fadettes of Boston was named after the titular character of George Sand's novel La Petite Fadette

page_title: Fadettes of Boston
short_description: American all-women orchestra
page_title: George Sand
short_description: French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
page_title: La Petite Fadette
short_description: 1849 novel by George Sand
... that zoologist Evelyn Shaw also worked in the catering industry alongside her husband?

page_title: Evelyn Shaw
short_description: American ethologist and writer (1927–2003)
... that the Atlanta Central Library, Marcel Breuer's last completed design, was nearly demolished less than three decades after completion?

page_title: Atlanta Central Library
short_description: Public library in Georgia, US
page_title: Marcel Breuer
short_description: Hungarian-American architect and designer (1902–1981)
... that an Alabama TV station deemed "The Puppy Episode" unsuitable for family viewing?

page_title: ABC 33/40
short_description: Television station in Birmingham, Alabama
page_title: The Puppy Episode
short_description: 22nd and 23rd episodes of the 4th season of Ellen
... that the Oceanic Steamship Company (advertisement pictured) beat a rival company in a trans-Pacific race, bought the rival's ships, and added them to its own fleet?

page_title: Oceanic Steamship Company
short_description: American shipping company (1881–1926)
page_title: List of ships of the Oceanic Steamship Company
... that the play Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman recreates the scent of a tree as part of the performance?

page_title: Sagittarius Ponderosa
short_description: Transgender play
page_title: MJ Kaufman
short_description: American playwright
... that there were no sex acts in Thea Ehre nude performance at the 2021 Porn Film Festival Vienna?

page_title: Thea Ehre
short_description: Austrian performer (born 1999)
page_title: Porn Film Festival Vienna
short_description: Annual film festival in Austria
... that Gerta Hüttl-Folter became interested in Russian culture after staying with Maria Razumovsky family while homeless?

page_title: Gerta Hüttl-Folter
short_description: Austrian philologist (1923–2000)
page_title: Maria Razumovsky
short_description: Austrian librarian and writer (1923–2000)
... that the author of Five Bullets was unaware for a year that Fear and Fury was also being written about the same 1984 shooting, and for the same publishing house?

page_title: Five Bullets
short_description: 2026 book by Elliot Williams
page_title: Fear and Fury
short_description: 2026 book by Heather Ann Thompson
... that a church in Colorado merged with another congregation, was sold, became a nightclub, and then was bought by an offshoot of the merged congregation?

page_title: Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
short_description: Historic Episcopal church in Colorado, US
page_title: St. George's Anglican Church (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
short_description: Anglican church in Colorado, United States
... that volumes of one writer's journalism were variously described as "prattling pieces", delivering "a snigger a minute", and having a "soufflé touch"?

page_title: Jolly Super
short_description: 1971 writing collection
page_title: Jolly Super Too
short_description: 1973 writing collection
page_title: Jolly Superlative
short_description: 1975 writing collection
... that American football player Taco Dowler is the twin of a football player who was called "Burrito"?

page_title: Taco Dowler
short_description: American football player (born 2003)
page_title: Caden Dowler
short_description: American football player (born 2003)
... that the cover artworks for Metallica's Load and Reload were created by mixing blood with semen and urine, respectively?

page_title: Load (album)
short_description: 1996 studio album by Metallica
page_title: Reload (Metallica album)
short_description: 1997 studio album by Metallica
... that Nemiah Wilson (pictured) ran a tailoring business while playing in the NFL?

page_title: Nemiah Wilson
short_description: American football player (born 1943)
... that Yun Jin appearance in Genshin Impact draws inspiration from legendary Chinese figures like Hua Mulan?

page_title: Yun Jin
short_description: Fictional character in a video game
page_title: Genshin Impact
short_description: 2020 video game
page_title: Hua Mulan
short_description: Legendary Chinese heroine
... that Donald Rumsfeld helped develop a mobile game?

page_title: Donald Rumsfeld
short_description: American politician and naval officer (1932–2021)
page_title: Churchill solitaire
short_description: Solitaire variant
... that Gennady Trifonov was one of the few Soviet dissidents who argued for gay rights?

page_title: Gennady Trifonov
short_description: Russian poet and dissident (1944–2011)
... that Christian missionaries in China translated and published an inflammatory anti-Christian treatise?

page_title: Bixie jishi
short_description: 1861 Chinese anti-Christian treatise
... that a judge acquitted Ben Obumselu of manslaughter due to his "promise as a scholar"?

page_title: Ben Obumselu
short_description: Nigerian critic and advisor (1930–2017)