derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that William Rose illustrated dozens of film posters of the Classical Hollywood era, but only a fraction – including an alternate poster for Citizen Kane – have been attributed to him by name?
... that the blue pitta is a shy, secretive bird, but will respond to a recording of its call?
... that Italian soprano Carolina Crespi was born in Prague, appeared in Barcelona in a child role, met her husband in Paris, and performed with him in world premieres of operas at La Scala in Milan?
... that in 2016, New York became the 50th U.S. state to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts?
... that the serial novel and manga series Nokemono to Hanayome was inspired by the Tokyo subway sarin attack?
... that the Survey of Palestine was led by the man who "wants you", the man who was too late to save Gordon of Khartoum, a Jack the Ripper suspect, and the police chief who chased him?
... that Leitmeritz concentration camp was not liberated, but dissolved by the German Instrument of Surrender?
... that Edith Hern Fossett, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, was taught French cuisine in the White House and became the head chef at Monticello?
... that before becoming a passenger ferry, the MV Star of Malta made a round-the-world cruise, belonged to a Dominican Republic dictator, and served in the United States Navy?
... that no fungi or algae are listed as endangered or threatened by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board?
... that the 16-piece Detroit News Orchestra was the first symphonic orchestra in the world organized specifically to play on radio?
... that the Fatimid military commander Dirgham abandoned his pupil Ruzzik ibn Tala'i, the vizier, to be deposed and killed by Shawar, only to overthrow the latter a few months later?
... that the short story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter", intended to subvert a transphobic Internet meme, was retracted after accusations of transphobia?
... that The Minute Man was cast from the metal of ten cannons captured from the Confederate Army during the American Civil War?
... that archaeologist Winifred Lamb had previously worked in Room 40, the Royal Navy's cryptanalysis section, during World War I?
... that in 1952, Los Angeles radio station KFAC boasted a recording library weighing 28 tons, enough to program the station for a year without repeating a selection?
... that entomologist Karim Vahed led the team that found a cricket species in which the testes accounted for 14 percent of the insect's body mass?
... that after regular service to Leavenworth station ceased, annual trains continued to run to serve ski jumping spectators?
... that Bach used the first, fifth and seventh stanzas of the 1533 hymn "In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr", a paraphrase of Psalm 31, as chorales in three vocal works, including in the St Matthew Passion?
... that before the creation of Roy Wilkins Park in 1976, the site was described as a wasteland with eighteen "rat-infested" buildings and a "leaking swimming pool full of dead dogs"?
... that the cultural and literary journal Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände was most successful under its only female editor, Therese Huber ?
... that the largest civil rights demonstration of the 1960s took place when more than 450,000 New York City students boycotted school to protest segregation in public schools?
... that Canadian professor and writer W. G. Hardy was given the honorary tribal chief title of "Chief Running Eagle" by the Sarcees?
... that Sunrise, Inverness Copse, a World War I watercolour by Paul Nash, was one of what he described as "fifty drawings of muddy places on the Front"?
... that of the initial cluster of people confirmed to have been infected by a novel coronavirus in China, two-thirds had been directly exposed to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan?
... that Sarah Ellerby's flight to the United States to play professional pool was diverted due to the September 11 attacks?
... that growth in the brown seaweed Zanardinia typus occurs at the base of the hairs that grow around the edge of the frond?
... that James Thompson, who made the first plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?
... that the hollow Shelton Oak near Shrewsbury was so big that a party of eight could dance a quadrille inside it?
... that artist and illustrator Rune Naito, credited with pioneering the culture and aesthetic of kawaii, also contributed erotic illustrations to the gay men's magazine Barazoku?
... that a bus shelter on New York City's Q26 route was the subject of two 1948 lawsuits that alleged negative effects on nearby property values?
... that Henry Eastburn studied under his uncle John Smeaton before undertaking his own civil engineering projects, such as the Basingstoke Canal?
... that the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Keep On Chooglin'" popularized the neologism "chooglin'", which has been interpreted as a sexual term?
... that Girmay Zahilay defeated a six-term incumbent on King County Council in Washington?
... that IG-11, from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, so closely resembles the character IG-88 that fans and journalists initially confused the two?
... that Rooks Nest House in Stevenage was the childhood home of author E. M. Forster, who described it in his 1910 novel, Howards End?
... that Hawaiian pastor Moses Kuaea raised funds for Kaumakapili Church, which was later burned down in the Great Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900?
... that "Die Himmel rühmen!" ('The heavens praise'), which begins an 1803 lieder collection by Beethoven setting Gellert's paraphrase of Psalm 19 to music, is also the title of a concert series by pop singer Heino?
... that Sallie Shearer's brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania, was "magnificently furnished" with fine velvet carpets and beautiful mirrors?
... that over 100 Moroccan Hajj pilgrims died on the SS Sardinia when it caught fire off Malta in 1908?
... that huge lakes of oil created following the discovery of Oklahoma's Glenn Pool Oil Reserve would sometimes catch fire when struck by lightning?
... that computer scientist Sheree Atcheson has been recognised by Computer Weekly as one of the "most influential women in UK tech"?
... that The Coca-Cola Company proposed painting a gasometer in Gothenburg, Sweden, to resemble a Coke can?
... that a Royal Air Force serviceman was recalled from a Second World War secret mission to help run Syd's coffee stall in London?
... that the Grotta del Gelo cave on the Etna volcano is partially filled with ice?
... that mathematician Pamela E. Harris co-founded the online platform Lathisms to promote Hispanic and Latino American participation in mathematics?
... that the mobile game Bleach: Brave Souls features story arcs from the manga Bleach that did not appear in its anime adaptation, including the unaired final arc?
... that the Siege of Hull took place in 1642 after the governor twice refused to admit King Charles I to the town?
... that German politician Diether Dehm employed former terrorist Christian Klar to work on his website?
... that Mary Gordon, the first British female prison inspector, once forestalled recidivism by supplying men's clothes and a train fare to South Wales to a female inmate who wanted to live as a man?
... that knights are depicted in the Freydal illuminated manuscript enjoying cross-dressing after a day's jousting?
... that c. 1900, the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company provided health care to field workers with a mobile clinic transported by railroad flatcar?
... that in 1939, Lawrence Milner testified against Australian-born longshoremen union leader Harry Bridges in what Time magazine called "the most important deportation hearings of the decade"?
... that one surveyor's proposal for removing the Blackwall Rock obstruction in the Thames involved using explosives he knew would likely kill some of the labourers?
... that Crepereia Tryphaena's doll had its own kit, comprising several jewels, a wooden casket, two silver mirrors, and two tiny bone combs?
... that diversity ideologies are intended to reduce prejudice, but can backfire and promote more hostility instead?
... that Canadian Yves Abel, the chief conductor of a German symphony orchestra, founded Opéra Français de New York, which focuses on rarely played French operas?
... that NearlyFreeSpeech was considered a "safe haven" for alt-right Twitter alternative Gab?
... that the 1978 Japanese manga series California Story was inspired by American New Wave cinema, particularly Midnight Cowboy?
... that marketing for the Venezuelan film That's the Woman I Want told prospective viewers it was so funny they would forget about foot-and-mouth disease?
... that 2020 AV2 is the first asteroid discovered to have an orbit completely within Venus's orbit?
... that the song "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" from the Netflix television series The Witcher became a viral hit within days of the show's release?
... that in 1138–39, Fatimid vizier Ridwan ibn Walakhshi attempted to overthrow the Isma'ili caliphate and replace it with a Sunni regime headed by himself?
... that Widener University Commonwealth Law School is one of two independent law schools run by Widener University?
... that field hockey player Avtar Singh Bhurji was shot in the leg during a robbery in 1996?
... that Rue du Brexit in France was named as a tribute to the British people after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union?
... that Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh used slanted lines to depict rainfall in his 1889 painting Rain , drawing inspiration from Japanese prints such as those by Hiroshige?
... that English judoka Samantha Lowe was selected, then deselected, then reselected for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and went on to win a gold medal?
... that Shueisha, the publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump, has produced a manga series in collaboration with Marvel Comics?
... that Jeffrey Erickson, who was accused of robbing banks in the Chicago metropolitan area with his wife Jill, was a former police officer in Hoffman Estates?
... that the Royal Irish Yacht Club has retained its royal title despite the establishment of the Republic of Ireland?
... that Gösta Neuwirth studied composition and musicology in Vienna, but wrote his dissertation on harmony in Schreker's opera Der ferne Klang in Berlin?
... that the Whitehall Building in New York City was developed by a company headed by the inventor of Vaseline?
... that during the first siege of Wardour Castle in 1643, Lady Blanche Arundell held out for a week with just 25 Royalist soldiers against 1,300 Parliamentarian troops?
... that soprano Jessye Norman , whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial?
... that before its closure, locals near St Johnston railway station relied heavily for income on Irish customs officers trying to catch smugglers heading for Londonderry station?
... that history professor Hiraizumi Kiyoshi believed Emperor Jimmu to have been a real historical figure?
... that a 19th-century country house with a ruined monastery in Winchelsea, England, was put on the market for £4.5 million in 2015?
... that Peter Force's library is considered to be the most important collection of military manuscripts and maps from the American Revolution?
... that after 50 years in business, S.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes is both a landmark and a stop on "Haunted Pittsburgh" tours?
... that Mary Taylor Brush filed a 1917 patent for a design to make aircraft "practically invisible when in the air"?
... that the Aberbargoed Grasslands in Wales were designated a Special Area of Conservation primarily due to their population of marsh fritillary butterflies, which had been threatened by an arson attack?
... that a deep-sea fish known as a black ruff was caught in a salmon net in the Firth of Forth and donated to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art in 1901?
... that the offices of the Chanin Organization in New York City's Chanin Building contained "America's finest bathroom" and a set of ornate bronze gates?
... that Japanese voice actor Shugo Nakamura, who has voiced characters in The Idolmaster SideM and other anime series, was recognized as one of the Best New Actors at the 2019 Seiyu Awards?
... that musician Finneas made a cameo appearance as an Uber driver in the music video for Tove Lo's song "Bikini Porn"?
... that at the age of 10, Sky Brown became the youngest professional skateboarder in the world?
... that librarian Megan Rosenbloom , an expert in anthropodermic bibliopegy, can determine if a book is bound in human skin?
... that during the 1981 Benson & Hedges Cup Final, a domestic cricket match in England, two West Indian players set new batting and bowling records?
... that Richard J. Daronco was a United States federal judge for just over a year before he was assassinated by the father of a disgruntled plaintiff?
... that academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in Connemara, Ireland, that "nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question"?
... that political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse has written a book on the flexibility of the American national identity?
... that due to its similarity to the coronavirus pandemic, Warner Bros.' second most successful film of 2020 so far is 2011's Contagion?
... that while studying dance, Anca Giurchescu joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 European Shooting Championships?
... that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church" in Ryde, England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it?
... that besides his portrait photography, Étienne Carjat edited journals and published caricatures in the popular press?
... that the systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad, Slovakia?
... that Chiara Daraio has used a version of Newton's cradle to create "sound bullets", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound?
... that the Union Church in Hong Kong was temporarily moved to the officers' mess of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps from 1945 to 1949?
... that Senator Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign may have weakened support for incumbent U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who later lost the general election?
... that the Palazzo del Governatore di Borgo in Rome was one of the first buildings to display architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's artistic maturity?
... that during the American Civil War, Charles B. Norton offered to hide Peter Force's large library for fear of a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C.?
... that High Peak Borough Council dyed a lake black at Harpur Hill Quarry in Derbyshire, England, to deter swimmers from entering the caustic waters?
... that Kurdish nationalist Dara Tawfiq was the editor of Iraq's only independent newspaper in the early 1970s?
... that records from the National Archives at Seattle are planned to be moved to California and to Kansas City, Missouri?
... that in 1918, Edith A. Ellis advocated an all-female government with the slogan "Insist that no man shall occupy a position that a woman can fill"?
... that the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Luis Parra and six other Venezuelan politicians in relation to an alleged corruption plot?
... that Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski, a Polish Catholic couple, were posthumously recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for having sheltered a Jewish girl during the Holocaust?
... that although the Brimham Rocks were shaped naturally by erosion, Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by druids?
... that J. Hunter Guthrie, president of Georgetown University, disbanded the university's football program because he considered it unprofitable and inconsistent with a Catholic university's mission?
... that despite being known as the Kerry lily, the perennial plant has a much wider distribution outside Ireland?
... that Papuan-born Silas Papare, who originally held pro-Dutch views, became pro-republican after World War II and founded the Indonesian Irian Independence Party?
... that 21 West Street in New York City is possibly the first commercial building in the U.S. to have windows wrapping around the corners?
... that the manga series A Man and His Cat was initially self-published, with entries posted weekly on the author's Twitter account?
... that Gerry Culliton was banned from hurling after being seen playing rugby, and later represented Ireland in rugby internationally?
... that a 2020 documentary about Pepe the Frog raises the question of whether Pepe can be redeemed?
... that Odile Pierre, who became interested in the organ at a recital by Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself?
... that in Florida, winged termites are sometimes found stuck to wet foliage, buildings, or vehicles after rain?
... that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element?
... that any tetrahedron that has integer edge lengths, face areas, and volume can be given in integer vertex coordinates?
... that "Baby Yoda" is considered the breakout character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian?
... that Mariya Takeuchi's 1984 song "Plastic Love" saw an international resurgence in 2017?
... that poet and scholar Robert L. Kahn, who escaped Nazi Germany with a Kindertransport, became a professor of German at Rice University in Houston, Texas?
... that Edward Kamakau Lilikalani filed a petition with President Theodore Roosevelt claiming to be "the sole heir to the Kamehameha rights to the Crown lands" of Hawaii?
... that a 1978 Jammu and Kashmir law enacted by Sheikh Abdullah was eventually used to detain his son and his grandson?
... that psychologist Susan Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"?
... that contrary to popular belief, a hatch in the roof of the Cleveland Tunnel in Bath was probably not used to pass paperwork between office workers above and vessels below?
... that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the first slogan ever to be adopted by The Washington Post?
... that video game director Aya Kyogoku created Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a team that was half female, and credits the team's diversity for the game's critical and commercial success?
... that mass graves in the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland might contain bodies from a tsunami 5,500 years ago?
... that television station KTVE in Longview, Texas, broadcast the 1954 World Series without permission, and was ordered to cease and desist by the NBC network?
... that at the age of 11, Gabrielle Reidy made her first appearance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin?
... that the Washington Hall hotel was destroyed during the Battle of Atlanta as part of General Sherman's scorched-earth policy?
... that an erotic manga series by Milk Morizono received complaints from the police, parent–teacher associations, housewife groups, and politicians?
... that the 1985 British Open was the first ranking snooker tournament not to feature a British player in the final?
... that J. Havens Richards, the president of Georgetown University, successfully petitioned Harvard Law School to admit the graduates of some Catholic colleges?
... that the first football match held after the renovation of Milltown stadium in Northern Ireland was abandoned due to a floodlight failure?
... that Jan Yager's artwork American Ruff is made from discarded crack-cocaine vials and caps?
... that Welsh boxer Steve Sims has trained for fights by running up and down the 290 steps of the Newport Transporter Bridge ten times a day?
... that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority twice built new lines bypassing JFK/UMass station, only to add platforms later?
... that negotiations for the Indonesia–Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement were hindered by spying and executions?
... that Pier 40, a sports facility in New York City's Hudson River Park, was formerly a cargo terminal?
... that Llerena Friend, the first director of the Barker Center for Texas History, lived in 24 different homes during her youth?
... that Eva Lee Kuney was one of the children used to fill out the background of Munchkin scenes in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz?
... that Mayerlin Rivas held World Boxing Association world championship titles in both bantamweight and super bantamweight classes?
... that Jay Electronica began recording his 2007 mixtape Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) on a built-in laptop microphone?
... that Aditi Kapil's Imogen Says Nothing is inspired by a ghost character in Much Ado About Nothing?
... that Union Station in Walpole, Massachusetts, was the site of the last semaphore signals in New England?
... that Canadian professor Robert Steadward became the founding president of the International Paralympic Committee in 1989?
... that the sea cucumber Actinopyga agassizii has five teeth surrounding its anus?
... that African-American physician Emerson Emory hung both a Confederate flag and a photograph of Hillary Clinton in his office?
... that composer Payal Dev used multiple instruments in the 2019 Hindi ballad "Tum Hi Aana" to "give it the right amount of emotions"?
... that Cleveland Museum of Art director William Griswold negotiated the restitution of a Hanuman sculpture and a portrait of Drusus Julius Caesar after their questionable provenances were discovered?
... that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women, which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts?
... that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II?
... that Charles Carroll MacTavish, the great-grandson of a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was briefly a member of the British House of Commons?
... that the Apache Powder Company used a fleet of fireless locomotives to prevent accidental explosions?
... that Ripon Parks is noted for its colonies of the parasitic common toothwort , as well as for the yellow star-of-Bethlehem?
... that David Leleo Kinimaka was the first member of the Royal Guards of Hawaii to voluntarily leave the ranks during an 1873 mutiny at ʻIolani Barracks?
... that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief, with seven figures of Shiva, was found in Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
... that violinist Günter Kehr, director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory from 1953, founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio that toured South America, North Africa, and the Near East?
... that the premiere of the television series Arrow's fourth season is the first time that the title character is referred to by his comics moniker Green Arrow?
... that boxer Angélique Duchemin was an undefeated French, European, and world champion?
... that 26 Broadway, the former New York City headquarters of Standard Oil, has a pyramidal tower that once contained a kerosene-burning cauldron?
... that the residents of Ely, Cardiff, rioted over the sale of bread in 1991?
... that Liberty County Jail in Hinesville, Georgia, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was once described by the state governor as a "rotten, filthy rathole"?
... that Frieda Caplan, a pioneer of the specialty-produce industry in the U.S., introduced the kiwifruit to the American market?
... that Dubarry Park hosted the Irish rugby union team's home matches in the Six Nations Under 20s Championship between 2005 and 2015?
... that Haraguchi Kensai led the Imperial Japanese Army's 13th Division in the invasion of Sakhalin?
... that Ohio television station WSWO-TV went off the air the same week that its owner was arrested for stealing equipment from other stations?
... that for more than a decade, wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya's father travelled daily from his village to Delhi to deliver milk and fruits to him?
... that a new wireless-charging standard for electric vehicles guides the driver over the charging spot by triangulating the charger's signal?