derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Christ Mocked , which recently sold for €24 million, is a long-lost painting by Cimabue discovered in the kitchen of an elderly Frenchwoman?
... that Concert Grove in New York City's Prospect Park is used as a sculpture garden because its acoustics turned out to be bad for musical performances?
... that Juli Briskman, who received international coverage for flipping off President Donald Trump, went on to enter politics and win an election?
... that an article published in the Satyaprakash weekly, which criticised Hindu religious leaders, resulted in a libel case?
... that after her own childhood experiences, Carla Herrero founded Rompe el Silencio ("Breaking the Silence") to support youth who have suffered bullying, abuse, and psychological disorders?
... that St. Louis County police arrested engineers and announcers of KXLW because their tower violated local zoning laws?
... that water damage postponed the premiere production of the science fiction folk musical Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future?
... that John Blackwell was dismissed for being "bigoted and obstinate" by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for suggesting a new road might cause a landslide, which indeed happened once the road was built?
... that Brownie Lake is one of two lakes in Minneapolis in which the surface and bottom layers do not intermix?
... that before Minoru Yoneyama founded the sports-equipment company Yonex, he was a member of a Japanese suicide unit during World War II?
... that the Hong Kong biopic Lost in the Fumes was rated M18 in Singapore due to "political sensitivities" and screened only to members of the country's film society?
... that Nellie Two Bear Gates made beaded artwork that depicted Yanktonai Dakota history and culture?
... that the 2001 Major League Baseball contraction plan would have resulted in the elimination of two teams from MLB?
... that Bernd Loebe, who began his career as a music journalist, received the 2018 International Opera Award in the category of Leadership in Opera?
... that Chris Morocco has reverse-engineered dishes by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, and Guy Fieri from taste, touch, and smell alone?
... that along with her business partners, philanthropist Sara Braun , one of the first businesswomen in Punta Arenas, Chile, was involved in the genocide of the Selk'nam people?
... that the side of the Victoria Warehouse in Old Trafford featured murals by Walter Kershaw for nearly 30 years?
... that Nevada radio station KONE was sued in 1966 by the proprietors of 16 musical works, who claimed that the station did not pay royalties for playing songs such as "San Antonio Rose" and "Sweet Georgia Brown"?
... that Catriona Ida Macleod has received a Social Change Award from Rhodes University for her work in promoting African-based psychology?
... that the Royal Navy's Type 277 radar was so successful that it served as the basis for Navy radars for years, and was used on land by the Royal Air Force and the British Army?
... that American tenor Jeff Martin has appeared as the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre?
... that by the 12th century, the relics of St Adelphus attracted so many pilgrims to the Neuwiller-lès-Saverne Abbey that the Benedictines built a secondary church nearby?
... that the video game developer Rockstar San Diego once worked on XGirl, an "interactive girlfriend" experience for the Xbox console?
... that there have been calls for the Warwick Road Estate in London's Earl's Court to be listed to prevent it from demolition?
... that after Steven Koecher's disappearance ten years ago today, his family ate at International House of Pancakes for four straight nights in response to a tip?
... that infestations of the cotton jassid can be reduced by growing a cotton cultivar with hairy leaves?
... that prior to debuting as a voice actress in 2018, Iori Saeki had been self-publishing songs as a dōjin musician for several years?
... that after ineffective counsel led to a man's prison sentence being increased a hundredfold, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that attorneys are obligated to inform their clients about plea bargain offers?
... that Siegfried Matthus composed the opera Judith for the reopening of the restored Semperoper, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin, staged by Harry Kupfer?
... that Esther Killick repeatedly "gassed herself for science" in order to study carbon monoxide poisoning and acclimatisation?
... that the television series The Bold Type is inspired by the life and career of former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles?
... that Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, was a failure in its original form, but was revised partly at the behest of Carl Weinmüller, who then appeared in the premiere in the bass role of Rocco?
... that because photomicrographs of Longan witches broom-associated virus were not published, the virus was not initially accepted as the cause of the eponymous disease?
... that according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, Thomas Evans Blackwell was the first hydraulic engineer in England?
... that in the Newar festival of Depukhu, young men compete for the carcass of a young female goat that is first sacrificed by drowning in the Deopokhari pond in Khokana, Nepal?
... that American rapper Gucci Mane recorded Trap Back as his "comeback mixtape"?
... that Merryll Saylan helped pioneer the application of color and the use of secondary materials in woodturning art?
... that Chinese economist Zhang Peigang's dissertation was translated into Spanish and used as a university textbook in Latin America in the 1950s, but was not published in Chinese until 1984?
... that A Stanislaw Lem Reader showcases the work of one of the most widely read science fiction writers, including interviews on the relation of literature to philosophy and science?
... that Educational Media Foundation's 2006 acquisition of WSMU-FM marked the "first major foray" by Christian FM broadcasting into New England?
... that Colleen Barrett, the first female president of a major airline, appeared in patriotic advertisements for Southwest Airlines after the September 11 attacks?
... that Tell Qudadi, a buried Iron Age era fortress, was unknowingly used as the site of a military stronghold during World War I?
... that although Elizabeth Richards Tilton was a central figure in a six-month-long trial, she was never allowed to speak in court?
... that the Sandyhills area of Glasgow once contained two coal mines, a factory making foamslag blocks, and a chemical works producing tar?
... that British jurist Bin Cheng invented a legal theory which states that a customary international law may be created "overnight"?
... that the Broe helmet, an artefact of the Vendel Period, was discovered while digging up a garden?
... that although Ernest Fahmy played for Abertillery RFC in Wales, he opted to play international rugby for Scotland?
... that after taking the unprofitable station off the air, Harold Orr hired a crew of young announcers to broadcast on KSVY 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, to keep the license?
... that Lu Shijia, founder of China's first university aerodynamics program, twice declined nominations to the Chinese Academy of Sciences?
... that the Balloon went up in 1784 and added air in 1802, but now Highways England wants to blow it up?
... that German painter Gebhard Fugel led the team creating the monumental Crucifixion Panorama in Altötting, which became a UNESCO-listed monument?
... that Sarazanmai was conceived as an anime series about supernatural monsters for an adult audience?
... that Russian vice admiral Mikhail Motsak, who oversaw the salvage of the wreck of the submarine Kursk, is buried in the same cemetery as a number of the crew who died aboard the vessel?
... that the 2001 BDO World Darts Championship featured an independent women's tournament for the first time in the competition's history?
... that in 2018, Maëlle became the first female and youngest contestant ever to win the French version of The Voice?
... that the Seven Wonders of the Waterways include the UK's longest and highest aqueduct, its longest, deepest, and highest canal tunnel, and the world's only swinging aqueduct?
... that later in life, Jo Walker-Meador would be inducted into the hall of fame that she helped create?
... that Chrysomya putoria and other flies that feed on decomposing flesh are used as important tools in forensic entomology to establish the post-mortem interval?
... that Virginia Kirkus reviewed 16,000 books for her bookshop service between the 1930s and 1960s?
... that Dixit Maria, a motet in Latin by Hans Leo Hassler, sets to music the narrative of Mary's consent to the Annunciation?
... that Chinese doctor Kang Laiyi spent more than 30 years researching the epidemiology of HIV?
... that Ben Kimura was among the first gay artists in Japan to achieve crossover success with a female audience in yaoi publications?
... that future U.S. senator Howard Baker campaigned for president of the University of Tennessee student body on a platform to establish a campus radio station?
... that Myname's record label was forced to destroy 20,000 CDs of the group's second single album after accidentally including Psy's "Gangnam Style" as its sixth track?
... that Zee Yee Lee, who flew an Etrich Taube over Shanghai in 1912, was one of China's first aviators?
... that the Consolidated Edison Building has been called one of New York City's most "beautiful and magnificent structures", with a "Tower of Light"?
... that Barrie Marmion spearheaded the development of the first vaccine against Q fever?
... that in Der Ring in Minden, the orchestra played at the back of the stage, and the singers all turned towards it to listen to the music at the end?
... that Hewahewa, a high priest of the Hawaiian religion, supported the abolition of the kapu system and the introduction of Christianity?
... that low water levels at Loch Vaa threatened the remains of a historic crannog?
... that Gayl King became the first female darts player to compete in the PDC World Darts Championship after the Professional Darts Corporation invited her to play in the 2001 tournament?
... that M.O.N.T was the first Korean idol group to film a music video on the disputed Liancourt Rocks?
... that the use of retentions in the British construction industry, which is now commonplace, had its origins in the Railway Mania of the 1840s?
... that Indian-American chef Raji Jallepalli, who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a microbiologist?
... that the Peleng tarsier, a small carnivorous primate, can rotate its head nearly 180 degrees in either direction?
... that German World War II general Heinz Guderian issued post-war apologetics for Hitler, writing that "his struggle was about Europe, even if he made dreadful mistakes and errors"?
... that a young Bob Smith, later famous as Wolfman Jack, got his first radio job as "Daddy Jules" at WYOU in Newport News, Virginia?
... that sculptures of rats outside the Graybar Building, near Grand Central Terminal, were included to signify New York City's role as a "great transportation centre"?
... that the site of the Battle of Muster Green in Haywards Heath was the farthest a Royalist army advanced through Sussex during the First English Civil War?
... that Alois Ickstadt founded a children's choir and an adult choir for the public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, conducting the latter for 45 years?
... that Red Dead Redemption 2 was the highest-rated game on Metacritic in 2018?
... that despite fighting for more than two years to stop the other station from signing on, WGVL's last day on the air was also WSPA-TV's first?
... that before becoming a professional mathematician, Chikako Mese was a record-breaking high school softball player?
... that the otherwise inconclusive Polish–Bohemian War of 1345–1348 cemented Bohemian control of Silesia?
... that Kodama Naoko, creator of I Married My Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up, called the yuri manga series her first "light" work "in a long time"?
... that feminist Carole De Saram caused the closure of a Citibank branch?
... that radio host Rick Cluff accepted a position at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation despite his father's belief it was "full of left-wing communists" and that radio was "a dead-end career"?
... that the granulate ambrosia beetle is native to Asia but has spread as an invasive species to Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania?
... that the brother of Ugandan president Idi Amin was once delivered in a car boot to military commander Hussein Mohammed?
... that Memory: The Origins of Alien defines the Alien franchise as "a collective art form" inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Francis Bacon, and the Greek Furies?
... that Charles Blackwell was the third Blackwell (after his father and his grandfather) to be elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers?
... that jazz musicians Ben Tucker and Billy Taylor bought Savannah, Georgia, radio station WSOK and expanded its album collection from 20 to 4,000?
... that letters which Charlotte Pistorius, the self-taught wife of a country pastor, wrote to intellectuals Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ernst Moritz Arndt were published with their works?
... that there is a man in tweeds on a gallows outside the Green Man, Ashbourne?
... that the Straight Mile is not a mile, and includes the Culvert, which is not a culvert?
... that public health historian Elizabeth Fee wrote on topics as varied as the history of HIV/AIDS, the racialized treatment of syphilis, bioterrorism, and the history of the toothbrush?
... that the government of Thailand has branded the Buddhist celebration Magha Puja as a day of spiritual love and gratitude, to compete with Valentine's Day?
... that Sara Wesslin, featured on the BBC's 100 Women for 2019, is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami?
... that the Polish–Bohemian War of 990 resulted in Poland taking control of Silesia?
... that Ignaz Saal, for decades a bass with the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna, performed the bass parts in the world premieres of Haydn's oratorios Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten?
... that radio station KEYZ in Williston, North Dakota, owned a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft and used it for news coverage, promotional events, sales calls, and search and rescue efforts?
... that Unhappy the Land argues that the Irish are not the "most oppressed people ever"?
... that before they were New York Mets teammates, baseball pitchers Steven Matz and Marcus Stroman faced each other in a high school game that a Mets scout called "one of the best duels I've ever seen"?
... that Rhagoletis juglandis is a species of fly that infests walnuts?
... that former Playboy model Susie Owens hand-produced up to 50,000 vials of perfume and lotion each year in her garage?
... that The Cedars School is the first senior school in Great Britain to be based on the ethos of Opus Dei?
... that plant physiologist Hu Dujing cultivated Eucommia ulmoides to produce a substitute for rubber?
... that the Lord & Taylor Building in New York City incorporated innovative window displays that could be lowered into the basement and swapped out?
... that British journalist Anna Kessel co-founded the charity Women in Football, and initiated the Blue Plaque Rebellion, to promote gender equality for women in sport?
... that HKmap.live, an app tracking protests and police presence in Hong Kong, was removed by Apple from its App Store less than a week after being approved?
... that for a halfpenny fare, children could ride on a small chariot drawn by four muzzled mastiffs to the Farthing Pie House ?
... that Yang Enze, who built China's first fiber-optic communication system approved for practical use, taught until the age of 99?
... that after development builds of the cancelled video game Lego Bionicle: The Legend of Mata Nui leaked online, Bionicle fans created a video game development studio to complete the game?
... that Kathrin Göring portrayed both Fricka and Waltraute in Der Ring in Minden, and a critic called her scene in Götterdämmerung a highlight, noting her dramatic mezzo-soprano and intense acting?
... that WXXX's broadcast license was challenged in the 1970s because the station employed no African Americans in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a city that was 30 percent black?
... that research on pain in fish by Victoria Braithwaite resulted in new rules in the UK, Europe, and Canada to make fisheries more humane?
... that string quartet Well-Strung has performed "Chelsea's Mom", a reimagining of "Stacy's Mom", for Hillary Clinton?
... that screenwriter and director Yūki Yamato created her first film, That Girl is Dancing by the Seaside, while studying philosophy at Sophia University?
... that Jedediah Sanger founded New Hartford, but gave his name to Sangerfield?
... that Rainbow Valley, one of the books in the Anne of Green Gables series, draws heavily on Lucy Maud Montgomery's life in the Leaskdale Manse?
... that Chinese virologist George F. Gao led a test laboratory in Sierra Leone during the peak of the 2014 Ebola outbreak?
... that the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Brooklyn, originally built for one of the world's largest pencil makers, now contains the Kickstarter headquarters?
... that baritone Hans Braun, who performed 75 roles at the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Mozart's Count Almaviva at the Royal Opera House and as Wagner's Wolfram at La Scala?
... that the tapping sound of the deathwatch beetle has long been considered an omen of an impending death?