derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Henry Ward's painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim is based upon The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt?
... that Dutch footballer Leon de Kogel's playing career ended following a car accident in which he had to be cut out of his vehicle by the fire service?
... that red-collared lorikeets sometimes appear drunk at the end of the dry season in Darwin?
... that of the three main types of helmets that proliferated in early medieval Europe, the Lamellenhelm was the only one derived from eastern, rather than Roman, examples?
... that "Old Woden" Frederick Hackwood founded the Wednesbury Strollers football club?
... that the motet Lord, have mercy upon us was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1833, setting responses from the Book of Common Prayer?
... that Colorado Springs architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham incorporated natural light into her designs, outfitting one home with a 100-foot (30 m) high skylight?
... that one of the two hosts of Dopey, a podcast about addiction, died of a drug overdose?
... that Austrian-born Malcolm Mencer Martin was interned by the British at the beginning of World War II, and graduated from King's College, Newcastle, at war's end?
... that during a grand jury investigation into land-sale fraud at New York City's Kissena Park, Queens borough president Joseph Bermel resigned and fled the U.S. the day before he was scheduled to testify?
... that Yarmouth suspension bridge collapsed under a crowd that had gathered to watch a circus clown in a wash tub being pulled along the River Bure by four geese?
... that Caroline Katzenstein began campaigning for women's suffrage in 1910 and, once the vote was granted, focused on supporting the Equal Rights Amendment – which is still not ratified today?
... that 18-year-old Ashwathi Pillai is the youngest-ever winner of the Swedish Senior National Championship in badminton?
... that for Vida, Tanya Saracho assembled an all-Latinx, "heavily queer" writers' room and a directorial team who are all Latinx or women of color?
... that Janell Cannon's children's book Stellaluna won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album?
... that Elizabeth Webber Harris is the only woman to receive a Victoria Cross, though hers was a replica given by permission of Queen Victoria?
... that Ten Talents, a 50-year-old vegetarian and vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for soy milk ice cream shakes?
... that Australian actress April Rose Pengilly had not yet appeared on-screen as her Neighbours character Chloe Brennan when she was longlisted for a Logie Award?
... that at the height of her opera career Marlise Wendels sometimes sang in up to 300 performances in a single season?
... that Gun Runner won the 2017 Whitney Stakes with another horse's shoe caught in his tail?
... that Tessa Ganserer is the first openly transgender person to serve in a German parliament?
... that a disputed Priory election in early 14th-century Yorkshire led to nuns being placed under interdict and later being accused of being "daughters of perdition" by their own Archbishop?
... that Soham El Wardini is the first female mayor of post-independence Dakar, Senegal?
... that when arrested for performing illegal abortions, members of the Jane Collective protected their clients' identities by swallowing their names and contact information?
... that Peggy Goodin wrote her Hopwood Award-winning novel Clementine in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house at the University of Michigan?
... that 1920s Broadway star Adele Astaire taught dance steps to the Prince of Wales, played backgammon with Winston Churchill, and proposed to an English nobleman in an American speakeasy?
...that Ida Dorsey built the last standing bordello from Minneapolis' three red-light districts?
... that the 2019 Khash–Zahedan suicide bombing, which killed 27 of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, has been reported as one of the deadliest attacks in Iran in years?
... that the English settlement of Southwark was burned by the Normans in 1066?
... that the staged version of Henze's radio opera Ein Landarzt, closely based on a short story by Kafka, premiered at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that Jankaea heldreichii is a relict species that now grows on and around Mount Olympus in Greece and nowhere else?
... that the 16 plaques called the Magdeburg Ivories were probably made around 968 to decorate an unknown cathedral fixture destroyed in the next century?
... that Saudi prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal is a vegan?
... that the 1994 Gambian coup d'état began as a mutiny that was only planned the night before its execution?
... that the Central Committee on Women's Employment was founded to help British women who were out of work due to the First World War?
... that the tenor Ewandro Stenzowski went from early competition successes in Brazil to leading roles such as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Landestheater Detmold?
... that the main building in the Konya Tropical Butterfly Garden has the form of a butterfly?
... that convicted assassin Anastasia Bitsenko was one of the seven Soviet delegates to the German-Soviet peace negotiations in World War I?
... that four Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary commemorative coins were issued in 2019 to commemorate the first landing on the Moon?
... that first-person shooter Bright Memory was described by critics as having the look and feel of a high-budget game, despite being developed by a single person in his spare time?
... that Egyptologist Wafaa El Saddik has provided historical tours to Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Schmidt, and Anwar Sadat?
... that Canada's first female surgeon Jennie Smillie Robertson removed a patient's ovary on the kitchen table in their own home?
... that slave labor at Flossenbürg concentration camp was essential to restoring the production of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane after Big Week?
... that in 2017, Polish pool player Wiktor Zieliński became the youngest-ever winner of a Euro Tour event, winning the Treviso Open at age 16?
... that the Greater London Group, a research centre at the London School of Economics, played a major role in the reformation of the structure of London government in the 1960s?
... that when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Gong Zutong abandoned his Ph.D. thesis defence in Germany and returned to China to join the war effort?
... that Dua Lipa's character transforms into Alita at the end of her "Swan Song" music video?
... that Eli Grba was the first player chosen by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1960 MLB expansion draft and their first starting pitcher?
... that according to the theory of mineral evolution, the number of mineral species on Earth has increased from about 250 to over 5400?
... that 18th-century British actress Mary Bulkley was once hissed by her audience because she had "taken the son of her long-term lover to her bed"?
... that Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2003 Budweiser Shootout stock car race despite starting from the back of the grid?
... that Hou Xun was the chief scientist of a major research project on ultrafast phenomena?
... that Italian beach volleyball player Viktoria Orsi Toth did not like her sport at first, describing it as "some kind of a daily torture"?
... that the Limburger Domsingknaben, a boys' choir founded in 1967 by Wilhelm Kempf to sing at the Limburg Cathedral, took part in the premiere of Kagel's Sankt-Bach-Passion?
... that real-life X-ray technician Paul Bateson, convicted of murder 40 years ago today, played the X-ray technician in The Exorcist's cerebral angiogram scene?
... that in the Shepard tabletop illusion , identical parallelograms look very different?
... that Lulu Grace Graves was co-founder and first president of the American Dietetic Association when it formed in 1917?
... that the modern separation between West Timor and East Timor resulted from a battle in 1749?
... that Ralf Otto, director of the Bachchor Mainz from 1986, conducted world premiere recordings of cantatas by Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach?
... that the Galápagos ghostshark was scientifically named after John E. McCosker, who had discovered the species on his 50th birthday?
... that in 1318 an English nun, Joan of Leeds, faked her own death and fled her priory, leaving a dummy in her place to be buried instead of her?
... that when a massive rockfall in 1920 covered part of the Brenva Glacier , it caused it to lengthen considerably, at a time when nearby glaciers were retreating?
... that Jørgen Hviid is referred to as the "father of Danish ice hockey"?
... that Texas politician Beto O'Rourke was in a punk band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who went on to become the singer of At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta?
... that an adult gray whale may be infested by several hundred pounds of barnacles and whale lice?
... that Qian Linzhao's research on the Mohist Canon influenced Joseph Needham's treatment of physics in his Science and Civilisation in China?
... that reports of drones at Gatwick Airport led to the disruption of over 1,000 flights and delays for about 140,000 passengers?
... that the soprano Claire Born appeared in Bayreuth as Wagner's Eva and Gutrune, and in Salzburg as Mozart's Countess and Donna Elvira?
... that although Durham is considered a rare Old English example of a work in praise of a city, the poem never names the city it is said to praise?
... that K2, the world's second highest mountain, was first climbed by Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli on the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition?
... that John Kirklin's modifications to Gibbon's heart–lung machine allowed blood-free surgery on the human heart?
... that Bajadasaurus had elongated neural spines on its neck, thought to have been used to deter predators?
... that the San Jose Earthquakes won MLS Cup 2001 only one season after finishing at the bottom of the league table?
... that Penny Rafferty Hamilton proposed 101 strategies to increase the participation of women in aviation?
... that at the 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod in Deheubarth, Wales, The Lord Rhys awarded chairs as prizes to the winners of the poetry and music competitions?
... that Indian theatre actor Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata wanted to see Shakespeare's plays in England, but the ship he boarded went in the other direction?
... that self-taught archaeologist Zhao Kangmin was officially recognized as the discoverer of the Terracotta Warriors, even though others found them first?
... that the peanut worm Aspidosiphon elegans reproduces by transverse fission?
... that Sophie Van De Heuvel competed at the national level in both cricket and Australian rules football during her junior career?
... that ice from the Park Crescent West ice well may have been used to numb dental patients undergoing procedures?
... that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Chhota Shakeel?
... that the 2017 UK Snooker Championship saw a member of the audience removed for snoring?
... that singer Bracha Zefira is credited with bringing Yemenite and other Oriental Jewish folk songs into the mix of ethnic music in Palestine to create a new "Israeli style"?
... that MLS Cup 2007 was the first Major League Soccer championship rematch to be played in consecutive years?
... that Yan Jici, a founder of modern physics in China, has a minor planet named after him?
... that St Peter's Bridge in Burton upon Trent, opened in 1985, is the newest road crossing of the River Trent?
... that cricketer Lionel Collins scored six centuries in ten days in a feat described as "quite without parallel in the history of the game"?
... that the glaucoma medication levobunolol is more than 60 times as active as its mirror image?
... that Lynnwood Farnam was the first North American organist to play the entire repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works?
... that the 2003 Melbourne runaway train avoided a disastrous collision by less than a second?
... that Elena Ivanovna Barulina's 1930 paper became a standard guide to lentils ?
... that György Pásztor is referred to as "Mr. Hockey" in his native Hungary?
... that actress Georgina Naidu premiered her one-woman show Yellowfeather in 2005 at the Sydney Opera House?
... that HMS Saracen was sunk during her 13th patrol shortly after midnight of a Friday the 13th?
... that Green Bay Packers president Russ Bogda advocated for a public referendum in the 1950s to finance the construction of Lambeau Field?
... that in 2019, millions of women came together to form a 620 km-long (390 mi) women's wall in the Indian state of Kerala?
... that the Ta'er Temple is believed to be where the 7th-century Chinese monk Xuanzang preached before he left for India?
... that the crowd-funded Curious Brewery has the names of the most significant funders engraved on one of the fermentation tanks?
... that the Italian Communist Party blamed Trotskyite agents for carrying out the Schio massacre, which led to an Allied military court trial?
... that bass-baritone Alfred Jerger, who appeared at the Salzburg Festival between 1922 and 1959, created the leading role of Mandryka in Arabella, an opera composed by Richard Strauss?
... that in 1905, Montclair Heights station was the site of an outbreak of glanders that led to the euthanizing of seven horses?
... that 17-year-old Robbie Capito defeated the pool world number one Eklent Kaçi at the 2018 WPA World 9-Ball Championship?
... that up to C$250 million in cryptocurrencies owed to 115,000 customers cannot be accessed due to the unexpected death of the founder of Quadriga, who was the only person who knew the password?
... that the University of Farmington was a fake university set up by the United States Department of Homeland Security as a part of an undercover operation to expose immigration fraud?
... that Rich Sauveur pitched for six Major League Baseball teams across three decades without earning a win?
... that Storybook Dads helps prisoners in the UK read bedtime stories to their children from behind bars?
... that the rapid-fire rifle training implemented in the British Army by Norman McMahon in 1909 proved effective in the opening stages of the First World War?
... that a specimen of the ornate wobbegong was observed to have its full set of teeth and be able to defend itself at one day old?
... that Mausam Noor was the youngest Muslim woman member of parliament to be elected to the 15th Lok Sabha?
... that the default tenancy in England and Wales allows landlords to evict tenants without giving a reason?
... that Agnes Buntine, Australia's first female bullocky, survived a large bush fire only because of her thick clothing and boots, at a time when most women wore "crinolines, bonnets, and shawls"?
... that 19th-century actress Alice Marriott played Hamlet in doublet and hose in British and American theatre, and "made the female Hamlet respectable in England"?
... that the Dicta Boelcke, written by Oswald Boelcke in 1916, was the world's first manual of aerial combat tactics?
... that Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna tried to bribe an undercover agent to ensure he was released from prison to members of a drug cartel?
... that the luminous bay squid can use its light organ to imitate starlight or moonlight?
... that R. Hari Kumar took a staff course at the US Naval War College while serving in the Indian Navy?
... that a cardiovascular fitness suite at the UK Army School of Physical Training is named after Edward Henslow?
... that a landowner buried the transmitter building for Missouri radio station KXBR under 6 feet (1.83 m) of dirt as part of a rent dispute?
... that the main award of the Danish Animation Society is named after Børge Ring , who directed the Oscar-winning animated short film Anna & Bella?
... that the Austrian actor and librettist Karl Lindau co-wrote The Nazi, a comedy, in 1895?
... that the Pioneer Square pergola in Seattle has been damaged by semi-trucks and Seahawks fans?
... that because of the difficulty of transporting art from Angola, Hildebrando de Melo created multiple paintings in the United States so they could be exhibited there?
... that before becoming a football coach, Neil Dewsnip worked as a teacher and taught future professional players and managers including Karl Robinson, Jim Bentley, and Steven Gerrard?
... that Beverly Gray was able to survive three plane crashes thanks to A. L. Burt?
... that the crinoid Aporometra wilsoni broods its young in cavities in the feathery pinnules on its arms?
... that Bunny Ahearne was inducted into three different ice hockey halls of fame, but never played the game?
... that, on average, Greece has changed its electoral law regarding apportionment in the Hellenic Parliament once every 1.5 elections?
... that Bent Norup, a Danish heldenbaritone, recorded the role of Orest live in France, alongside Ute Vinzing as Elektra and Leonie Rysanek as Chrysothemis?
... that upon its completion at Silver Dollar City in 2018, Time Traveler became the world's first spinning roller coaster to feature three inversions?
... that the arrest of Gilberto García Mena marked when the Mexican government stopped treating drug cartels passively and instead hunted them down?
... that a book-length interview with Stanisław Lem was subject to cuts due to censorship in Communist Poland?
... that Flaps Rendall flew ball bearings across occupied Denmark at night in Mosquitos?
... that Ānanda became the Buddha's attendant, on condition that he would never receive any material benefit from the position?
... that the style of contemporary art known colloquially as bara belongs to a history of homosexuality in Japanese visual art dating back to shunga of the Edo period?
... that Kathleen Hite, scriptwriter for Gunsmoke, accepted a job as a secretary at CBS so she could badger company officials into letting her write?
... that XHCDMX-FM, operated by a consortium of women's organizations and activists, is the first community radio station in Mexico City?
... that former astrophysicist Alejandra Melfo now works on preserving microbial life from Venezuela's rapidly receding last glacier?
... that the Ethiopian Unity Patriots Front is officially opposed to ethnic federalism and sectarianism, although almost all of its popular support stems from just one tribal group?
... that Chinese linguist Yang Naisi was noted for his research on the ʼPhags-pa script?
... that bald eagles are removing pieces of garbage from the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dropping them in surrounding neighborhoods?
... that most major Venetian Renaissance architects were not natives of the city, or even of the Republic of Venice?
... that Ann Wroe has written The Economist's obituaries since 2003, with subjects including Prince, Arthur Miller, and Osama bin Laden?
... that as Prime Minister of Hyderabad, Kishen Pershad passed the Mulki regulations giving preference to local citizens over British citizens for state administrative appointments?
... that the Bonin white-eye can evidently learn about new food sources by watching warbling white-eyes feed?
... that Emma Ghent Curtis's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of women's suffrage?
... that Episode 8052 of the Australian soap opera Neighbours concerns the death of series regular Sonya Rebecchi, whose portrayer's contract was not renewed to reduce production costs?
... that art historian Andrew Tallon used lasers to collect one billion data points of the interior and exterior of Notre-Dame de Paris, which could be used for its reconstruction?
... that Harry B. Neilson's illustrations for The Fox's Frolic depict fox hunting in which the foxes do the hunting?
... that Friedrich Achleitner, a concrete poet and architecture critic, wrote over decades about Austrian architecture in the 20th century, visiting each building he described?
... that Georgina Pazcoguin of the New York City Ballet co-founded an initiative to combat Asian stereotypes in ballet productions such as The Nutcracker?
... that the collapse of Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company led to the murder of a district collector of the British Raj?
... that an original work by artist Virginia Overton was used as a prize at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival?
... that the young of the striking sea star are nourished in a manner described as "cannibalistic ectoparasitism"?
... that Ukrainian helicopter pilot Mykola Melnyk made 46 sorties over the highly radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and then continued firefighting flights into his 50s?
... that John Virgo won the 1979 UK Snooker Championship despite being docked two frames for arriving late?
... that the largest in-flight transmission of SARS took place on an Air China flight in March 2003?
... that Canadian investigative journalist Bruce Dowbiggin won a Gemini Award for his reporting on National Hockey League pension fraud?
... that while investigating the case of Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared 10 years ago today, the FBI brought federal charges against someone who had already served state probation for the same crime?
... that Mark M. Ravitch and Félicien M. Steichen introduced surgical staples, a time-saving replacement for suturing by hand, to American operating rooms?
... that the Eklakhi Mausoleum was the first square-shaped building with a single dome built in India?
... that Venezuelan politician Miguel Pizarro was expelled from high school for starting protests against military education?
... that an "alarming" decline in arthropod populations in Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico has been linked to the warming climate?
... that Ronald Read, whose last job was working 17 years as a J. C. Penney janitor, left US$1.2 million to his local library and $4.8 million to the hospital where he died?
... that the 14th-century Alai Darwaza was the first Indian monument built using Islamic methods of construction and ornamentation?
... that while a federal deputy, Virgilio Caballero Pedraza lost his apartment in the 2017 Mexico City earthquake?
... that Indra Devi helped publicise yoga for women by enrolling film stars and other celebrities as her pupils?
... that Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait of a Queen of Tonga?
... that Avi Nissenkorn, former chairman of Histadrut, Israel's largest trade union, competed in his youth in the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics?
... that the yeast Candida blankii, first described from mink organs, is now known to infect humans?
... that Jens Harzer, a German actor with Hamburg's Thalia Theatre as well as in film and television, was chosen by Bruno Ganz to be the latest bearer of the Iffland-Ring?
... that before St Wilfrid's Church opened, Catholics in Hailsham, East Sussex, had to worship in the hayloft of a brewery's stables?
... that Walter Stanley Haines testified about the Haymarket bombing of 1886, the disappearance of Louisa Luetgert in 1897, and the suspicious deaths in multimillionaire Thomas H. Swope's family in 1909?
... that "der kleine Tag" ("the Little Day") is 23 April in the musical of the same name?
... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail?
... that since St George's Church opened in Polegate in 1938, the composition of its parish has changed five times?
... that the Italian cardiologist Attilio Maseri has been the physician to both Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II?
... that digger's speedwell is so named because it was thought to indicate the presence of gold?
... that Antonia Franceschi starred in the 1980 film Fame, set at the same High School of Performing Arts that she attended in real life?
... that an engineer inadvertently took off in an English Electric Lightning fighter jet after engaging the afterburner by mistake?
... that Venezuelan journalist Fabiana Rosales has assumed the role of international ambassador, soliciting support for her husband's opposition party, towards resolving the crisis in Venezuela?
... that footballer Chris Summers set a Welsh Premier League record during the 2003–04 season by scoring in 11 consecutive matches?
... that among the threats facing the "critically endangered" freshwater crayfish Euastacus dalagarbe are domestic livestock and cane toads?