derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that From Space I Saw Earth by Daníel Bjarnason was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to be performed with three conductors simultaneously?
... that the "Hot Air Line" was so-called due to shaky financial backing and grandiose claims?
... that Tomás Yepes settled a lawsuit his elder sister brought against him by giving her some religious paintings?
... that Peanuts Gallery, a 1997 piano concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, portrays Peanuts characters in movements such as "Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy" and "Snoopy Does the Samba"?
... that sect leader Li Guangchang ruled as self-proclaimed emperor for five years in the 1980s before being arrested by the Chinese police?
... that Coventry City won the 2017 EFL Trophy Final, earning their first major trophy since winning the 1987 FA Cup Final, despite being relegated from League One to League Two that season?
... that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by Joe Cocker?
... that at Osthofen concentration camp, the camp doctor declared all new arrivals healthy and medically fit for imprisonment, even if they had been mistreated before?
... that the only statue of a public figure in Scarborough is a memorial to Queen Victoria outside its town hall ?
... that Mariah Carey covered Aretha Franklin's rendition of "Don't Play That Song" at The Live Debut – 1990?
... that among proofs of the Sylvester–Gallai theorem, Kelly's has been praised as "simply the best", but also criticized as "like using a sledge hammer to crack an almond"?
... that professional athletes protested by refusing to play in response to high-profile police shootings of Black people in 2020?
... that Hardi dissuaded the Communist Party of Vietnam from inviting their Indonesian counterparts to a party congress in Hanoi?
... that the 2017 Bishop Maginn High School baseball team largely consisted of Karen refugees?
... that modern studies have shown that the characteristic fur-trimmed hood on traditional Inuit skin clothing is more effective at preventing heat transfer than manufactured winter clothing?
... that a 10 cm3 (0.6 cu in) sponge Hymeniacidon kitchingi can filter 22.5 L (5 imp gal; 6 U.S. gal) of water per day?
... that the Detroit Lions' tackle Tony Furst saw combat action in the Guadalcanal campaign and later became a florist?
... that Aoimori Park features plants that are symbolic of each municipality in Aomori Prefecture?
... that Felix Mendelssohn subtitled Sechs Lieder, Op. 59, six songs for four voices setting poems by Eichendorff and others, "Im Freien zu singen" ("To be sung outdoors")?
... that Jackie Summers quit his corporate job to pursue a "lifelong dream of day-drinking professionally"?
... that Alex Anderson became interested in quilting after finishing her grandmother's quilt, which had been started decades earlier, for a college credit?
... that irritant hairs on the seed pods of the horse-eye bean have traditionally been used to get rid of intestinal worms?
... that the largest Sephardi synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia is primarily composed of Hebrew-speaking Israeli expatriates?
... that blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore did not follow up his 1973 debut solo album Grinding Stone for another five years?
... that Franz Leuninger, a Catholic trade unionist in Silesia who ran against the Nazis for election to the Reichstag in 1933, was executed in March 1945?
... that after Ohio fined a woman $100 for not putting her name on a political leaflet, her estate appealed the fine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court?
... that the Hokitika Clock Tower on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island serves the unusual dual purpose of a war memorial and a town clock?
... that mercury pressure gauges as tall as 23 metres (75 ft) have been built to measure very high pressures?
... that when Bertha Park High School opened, all pupils were provided with iPads, but had to lock their own phones in lockers?
... that Sarika Kale, a kho kho player who has struggled financially for years, won ₹51,000 for her performance as captain of the India national team at the Third Asian Kho-Kho Championship?
... that the Latvian Boy Scout handbook, written in 1933 by Valdemārs Klētnieks, was destroyed by communists during the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940?
... that prior to the release of his album Restoration in August 2020, Lecrae decided to leave Columbia Records to be independent again?
... that Light Vessel 72 , which helped mark the route to the Normandy landing beaches, has lain in a Welsh scrapyard since 1973?
... that sports team owner Dell Loy Hansen purchased a rare dime for $1.3 million?
... that the hermit crab Paguristes cadenati can help keep a reef aquarium clean?
... that Travis Denning illegally used David Ashley Parker from Powder Springs's identity before including him in a music video?
... that Tokyo's Shibuya Route is key to the plot of the novel 1Q84, where it contains a fictitious stairway to another reality in its storyline?
... that 1 Wall Street Court, a condominium building, was once the headquarters of a shipping line and the world's largest cocoa futures market?
... that Moop Mama, a band of seven brass players, two drummers, and a rapper, began "guerilla concerts" in Munich's Englischer Garten in 2009?
... that in 2019, despite a nationwide ban in India, an estimated more than ₹900 crore (US$130 million) was wagered on cockfighting in Andhra Pradesh in just three days?
... that Polish children's author Maria Kownacka wrote for an underground children's magazine during the Warsaw Uprising?
... that according to the Hebrew Bible, a perjurer should receive the same punishment he sought to inflict on the falsely accused?
... that the Gemmi Fault is a geological fault in Switzerland that was active in the last 10,000 years?
... that the young Troy Baker was cast as the older Joel Miller in The Last of Us because of his voice and movement?
... that a 2006 survey found that only 7.6 percent of participants were able to understand an auxiliary label with complex instructions?
... that Jim Drucker, the founder of the world's largest online-only comic bookstore, was also the commissioner of both the Continental Basketball Association and the Arena Football League?
... that Aldersbach brewery was founded more than 750 years ago at Aldersbach Abbey in Lower Bavaria?
... that the island of Ōzushima is the site of a museum commemorating the Japanese suicide-attack submarines used during World War II?
... that many of the teen actors in the Jane Withers comedy film High School had been guests at her thirteenth birthday party?
... that while Leslie Goonewardene was one of the largest landowners in Sri Lanka through inheritance, he re-introduced inheritance tax to the country?
... that New Jersey radio station WJJZ lost its license over an unauthorized payment of $25,000 to a competing applicant for its frequency?
... that in 2005, prehistoric rock art paintings symbolic of the cycle of life were found in Vlashnjë, Kosovo?
... that the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen swore in the wrong person as her successor?
... that NHL 21 marks the second time that Alexander Ovechkin has appeared on the cover of an NHL video game, the first being NHL 07?
... that William H. Strayer was the only Democrat in the Oregon State Senate in 1931?
... that My Michael, a novel by Israeli author Amos Oz set in Jerusalem of the 1950s, was reviled by critics as being "politically dangerous and subversive"?
... that President Donald Trump watched the 2019 film Joker with his friends and family at the White House and reportedly enjoyed it?
... that Cheye Alexander became a professional footballer despite suffering acute knee pain as a teenager due to Osgood–Schlatter disease?
... that General Order No. 1's broad definition of "sexually explicit" material led to a ban on bodybuilding magazines and underwear catalogues for U.S. personnel during the Gulf War?
... that Christian Dierstein has played world premieres as the percussionist of Trio Accanto, which also includes a saxophonist and a pianist?
... that nearly half the milk produced in India, whose dairy industry is the largest in the world, comes from buffaloes?
... that the Elijah Thomas Webb Residence was built with a family fortune amassed after John Webb discovered lead when plowing a corn field?
... that Alban Berg dedicated his Three Pieces for Orchestra "with immeasurable gratitude and love" to his teacher, Arnold Schönberg, for his fortieth birthday in September 1914?
... that Hoshimachi Suisei was part of the first live studio performance by virtual YouTubers in Japanese radio history?
... that the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India was ignored by the Soviet press, but was overemphasized in Chinese mass media?
... that the gravestone of Semahat Özdenses, a singer and composer of Ottoman classical music, was erected seven years after her death?
... that radio station WNLC in New London, Connecticut, was off the air for three weeks after the 1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building?
... that in September 2019, far-right politician Milan Mazurek became the first Slovak parliamentarian to lose his seat due to a crime after comparing Romani children to "animals in the zoo"?
... that the album Inner Song by Kelly Lee Owens features John Cale singing in Welsh?
... that the anandalahari is an Indian chordophone musical instrument used by religious singers of the Baul faith?
... that Trunkey the Elephant has been teaching kids about zoo animals for over 50 years?
... that The Life and Death of the Radical Historical Jesus was described as a "giant step forward for the field of working class intellectual history"?
... that August Göllerich wrote a biography of the composer Anton Bruckner, having been his student, secretary, and friend?
... that radio station WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire, was started by a sitting governor and is owned by a former senator?
... that a witness said he saw Thomas David Morrison wearing glasses in the Upper Canada Rebellion, but his defence attorney said Morrison wore sunglasses and would not have worn them at night?
... that the founder of the pornography zine S.T.H. once joked that it was "the only gay-sex magazine funded by the U.S. government"?
... that Jenny Kim's victory in the 2017 Miss Supranational beauty pageant marked the first time that a contestant representing South Korea won a major international pageant?
... that FBI informant Ricardo Morales, who testified against Cuban militant Orlando Bosch in 1968, shared a hotel with Bosch in 1976?
... that in a viral video of a man doing nothing for two hours, a viewer counted him blinking 362 times?
... that writer Doris Willens, Lee Hays of the Weavers, and actor Alan Arkin were all Baby Sitters?
... that more than 130 revolutionaries were hanged on the premises of Sikri Mata Temple during the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
... that Beth Langston has played for the England women's cricket team six times: twice in 2013 and four times in 2016?
... that the book Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism has been described as a "bleak account of the West's slide toward tyranny"?
... that driving on Coventry ring road has been likened to a roller coaster and a Scalextric?
... that a gallery of 80 paintings near Meiji Shrine in Tokyo commemorates the life and times of the Meiji Emperor, including his viewing of cherry blossoms ?
... that Major O. S. Kalkat stumbled upon plans of an invasion of Kashmir in 1947, but no one believed him until the invasion actually started?
... that the Red Caboose Motel has the largest privately owned collection of railroad cabooses in the world?
... that Klaviermusik mit Orchester, a 1923 piano concerto for the left hand by Paul Hindemith, was first performed in 2004 by Leon Fleisher and the Berlin Philharmonic?
... that the Polish activist Bartosz Staszewski created a series of photographs of LGBT people who live in "LGBT-free zones"?
... that 14 players and the coach of the 1970 Wichita State Shockers football team died when its "Gold" plane crashed in the Colorado mountains?
... that John H. Dudley and his wife both worked on the Manhattan Project, but did not tell each other because of security restrictions?
... that a twice-lifesize statue on the Scarborough seafront serves as a memorial to a man who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
... that Japanese essayist Mineko Nomachi's 2006 book I'm Queer But I'm An Office Lady details her experience as a transgender woman in a pink-collar job?
... that injector pens increase patient adherence in part by reducing the stigma surrounding injecting medication in public?
... that the design of the Broadway–Chambers Building received a medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900, addressed solely to "Monsieur Broadway-Chambers, Etats-Unis"?
... that in 1833, English magistrate John Peele Clapham edited a children's hymn book which had numerous editions and a wide circulation?
... that the Turkey men's U23/U24 team won the CMAS World Age Group Underwater Hockey Championships in 2019 for the third time in a row, becoming the only national team to accomplish this?
... that U.S. Marine Corps captain Harold Willens returned four samurai swords to Japan after 27 years?
... that the August 2020 Midwest derecho destroyed millions of acres of Iowa corn and soybean crops in just 14 hours?
... that Johanna André, who appeared in dramatic soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde, took part in the 1882 world premiere of Parsifal?
... that the Battle of Chippenham was part of a coordinated strike by Guthrum and Ubba to take Wessex?
... that Durbin Feeling was named a Cherokee National Treasure for his contributions to the preservation of the endangered Cherokee language?
... that the title of the ballet Polyphonia is a reference to micropolyphony, a kind of musical structure developed by composer György Ligeti?
... that a purchaser of Delaware radio station WJWL called the transaction "the longest deal in my lifetime"?
... that a Christian writer claimed to have seen Yusuf II of Granada putting on a poisoned tunic, which caused the Sultan's death within thirty days?
... that female spiders of the genus Diguetia stridulate while mating, and make a noise loud enough for humans to hear when they are harassed?
... that when Tejano singer Lydia Mendoza was a child returning to Texas with her parents in 1920, border agents immersed her and other Mexican children in gasoline baths?
... that after the Battle of Leptis Parva, the losers were spared—except for their commander, who was tortured to death?
... that during the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, Tash Farrant took a hat-trick, but her team still lost the match?
... that US diplomats asked Poland not to name their new military base Fort Trump lest it be perceived as a vanity project and not a serious military proposal?
... that the Singer Building, the world's tallest building when completed, later became the world's tallest building to be demolished?
... that Helen Reddy said that her single "No Sad Song" sold poorly "because it put down men too much"?
... that Thomas Edward Wilkinson was made Bishop of Zululand after his predecessor in South Africa, John Colenso, was excommunicated?
... that three Prix Gémeaux categories for best drama were created after a boycott by Quebec production studios?
... that the sea slug Felimida krohni can sequester toxins from the sponges on which it feeds?
... that stuntwoman Betty Danko earned $35 for riding the Wicked Witch's smoke-spewing broomstick in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, and was hospitalized for eleven days after it exploded on her?
... that the 500 brass rods that make up Walter De Maria's The Broken Kilometer are polished every two years?
... that Cristian Montaño spent 18 months out of English football after being sacked and arrested on criminal charges that were never proven?
... that a 2020 study found that African countries which allowed foreign funding of NGOs had a higher voter turnout?
... that finishers of the Sheffield Star Walk were rewarded with a hot mug of Oxo?
... that of the four set-piece land battles during the 23 years of the First Punic War, Hasdrubal took part in three as a general?
... that Iowa's Matchstick Marvels Museum has large models created out of thousands of matchsticks that are glued one at a time?
... that a painting of Ekaterina , officer Adam Laxman's vessel on his 1792 expedition to Japan, may be found at Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature in Hokkaido?
... that among the U.S. women's high school basketball class of 2016, ESPNW ranked Crystal Dangerfield as the best point guard?
... that supplied-air respirators, unlike N95 masks, can be used in atmospheres that are oxygen-deficient or immediately dangerous to life or health?
... that LaNada War Jack, a leader of the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley and the Occupation of Alcatraz during her student days, is today a distinguished professor of Native law and governance?
... that the Friends of the Soviet Union was founded in 1941 with poet Rabindranath Tagore as its patron?
... that Bronx Skate Park was built to prevent accidents in a nearby McDonald's parking lot?
... that contralto Simone Schröder performed as a soloist at the Bayreuth Festival while she was still studying, and went on to sing there in three different productions of Parsifal?
... that a one-legged engineer rode the escalators at Earl's Court tube station on their first day of operation to reassure passengers of their safety?
... that Autobahnkirche Siegerland , a 2013 road church on the A 45 that looks like a piece of folded paper, is always open?
... that a brass rod with a length of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) was inserted into the ground as a permanent art installation in Kassel, Germany?
... that American logistics in the Northern France campaign was impacted by a critical shortage of jerrycans, more than 2 million of which had been discarded or abandoned in Normandy?
... that University Press Limited has won the National Book Centre Award of Bangladesh sixteen times since 1981?
... that Go Nagai toned down the character of Akira Fudo, a human-like demon, in the manga Devilman in order to convey an anti-war message?
... that Farooq Khan headed the Kashmiri Special Operations Group credited with the killing of more than 2,000 militants between 1994 and 1996?
... that six years before releasing Total Freedom, Kathleen Edwards quit creating music and opened a coffee shop called Quitters?
... that a print of Badnam Basti, often described as India's first gay film, was discovered in 2019 after having been lost for 40 years?
... that American industrialist Roy James Carver's company supplied self-priming pumps to the United States and Allied Forces navies during World War II?
... that elements of the video game Fall Guys were inspired by the game shows Takeshi's Castle and Total Wipeout?
... that Hanna Ludwig appeared in the title role of Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera, and in five roles at the first Bayreuth Festival after World War II?
... that the hazards of artificial intelligence include algorithmic bias, blaming humans for machine errors, and human–robot collisions?
... that footpaths in Knutsford, England, built intentionally narrow by Jane Stanley to prevent 18th-century couples walking arm-in-arm, were only replaced in 2014?
... that New York City's Liberty Tower , now a residential building, was once occupied by Franklin D. Roosevelt's law office and by German spies plotting to intervene in World War I?
... that Matthias Hölle, a regular bass singer at the Bayreuth Festival, appeared in the world premieres of Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht and Samstag aus Licht at La Scala in Milan?
... that a protest against the trial of Indonesian journalist Asa Bafaqih drew some 1,000 journalists and supporters, and a fire-brigade band?
... that The Unknown Comic in the 1984 film Night Patrol is a real-life stand-up comedian?
... that the first item of the Havering hoard, the largest Bronze Age hoard found in London, was discovered by a 23-year-old archaeologist only four weeks into a temporary contract?
... that Florence "Johnny" Frisbie's 1948 autobiographical children's novel, Miss Ulysses of Puka-Puka, was the first published literary work by a Pacific Islander woman author?
... that the teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War features fragments of an interview with real-life KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov?
... that professional Super Smash Bros. player Axe is known for a "lightning-quick" style of play with Pikachu, which enables him to predict his opponent's attacks and swiftly retaliate?
... that 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura claims that 2channel, once "Japan's most popular online community", was stolen from him?
... that the pipe organ of the Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College consists of 3,519 pipes, and weighs 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg)?
... that all three of the pleasure gardens run by the entrepreneur Thomas Clapham in Leeds and London failed due to debt and were sold for housing?
... that the 2000 anime film Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! draws inspiration from WarGames, Speed, and Dr. Strangelove?
... that Alfredo Di Stéfano scored 6 international goals for Argentina and 23 for Spain?
... that the hashtag #KHive, used by an online support community for Kamala Harris which defends her from racist and sexist attacks, is a play on a hashtag used by fans of Beyoncé?
... that when his widowed mother remarried, James Gordon seized Rusco Tower and imprisoned her to ensure that she did not make it over to her new husband, whom he later killed?
... that elastomeric respirators are used not only to protect against COVID-19 and tear gas, but also as fashion items ?
... that cellist, composer, and conductor Rudolf Hindemith was the brother of the famous Paul Hindemith, with whom he played in the Amar Quartet, but later used pseudonyms to hide the relation?
... that misogynist terrorism is listed as a "rising threat" by counter-terrorism researchers?
... that to raise desperately needed money, the first president of Pomona College, Cyrus G. Baldwin, built the first hydroelectric power station with high-voltage transmission in California in 1892?
... that the nesting of the bare-shanked screech owl has only been studied once, within the cavity of an oak tree?
... that Jewish homes in the Diaspora often feature a mizrah wall hanging to indicate the direction of prayer towards Jerusalem?
... that Vermont radio station WFAD was ordered to shut down just two weeks after it launched?
... that Kanon Shizaki, the second voice actress for BanG Dream!'s Rinko Shirokane, was quickly embraced by fans and her Roselia bandmates, as her shyness mirrors her character's personality?
... that a portion of the 2017 ballet The Times Are Racing is inspired by the video game Dance Dance Revolution?
... that the sponge Biemna variantia broods its young, and can also reproduce by budding and fragmentation?
... that Edward B. Foley described the blue shift, a phenomenon in US elections showing that provisional ballots are more likely to be for Democrats and can change projected results after election day?
... that many dishes in Lebanese cuisine can be traced back thousands of years to eras of Roman, Greek, Persian, Byzantine, Arab, Egyptian, and Phoenician rule?
... that "a rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings"?
... that married actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman fronted for the Malibu Mafia?
... that in the 1815 Secret Treaty of Vienna, Britain and Austria sided with their former enemy France against former allies Prussia and Russia?
... that Providence College president Brian Shanley invited Rhode Island Public Radio to broadcast over the college's station, WDOM, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy?
... that prior to his singing career, Thanasit Jaturaput was an international exchange student in Boise, Idaho, through the AFS Intercultural Programs?
... that Patriarch Joseph el-Ruzzi promulgated the use of the Gregorian calendar in the Maronite Church, the first Eastern Christian church to do so, in 1606?