derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Ruth Williams Cupp, the first woman admitted to the Charleston County Bar Association in 1954, was still barred by law from serving on juries, like all women in South Carolina until 1967?
... that the Crushed Rock quarry near Abuja, Nigeria, is now a popular tourist destination?
... that when Johannes Chum, a tenor in operatic roles from Nerone to Lohengrin, performed in Harnoncourt's recording of Beethoven's Missa solemnis, a reviewer described his singing as "seraphic"?
... that Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata, first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners?
... that the final exhibition of Indian artist Anjum Singh , titled I am still here, was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
... that 200,000 children were evacuated via the Piccadilly line during World War II?
... that in positioning theory, positions are defined as a person's rights, duties, and obligations which are fluid in various social contexts, as opposed to fixed and long lasting roles?
... that Julian Edelman weighed less than 100 lb (45 kg) when he played American football as a freshman in high school?
... that the founder of the Cannabis Museum in Japan developed an interest in the subject after reading stories as a child in which ninjas trained by jumping over cannabis plants?
... that several memoirs by first ladies of the United States have outsold books written by their presidential husbands?
... that Otto Jochum, the organist and later the director of the Augsburg Conservatory, received a German national composition prize for a sacred oratorio in 1932, but also composed patriotic anthems under the Nazi regime?
... that in 1875, streetcars in Santa Barbara, California, were drawn by mules?
... that plastics researcher David S. Breslow's interest in chemistry began as a child when he used a chemistry set to make stink bombs?
... that The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant were the first memoirs to be written by a first lady of the United States?
... that Alexander Lindsay served as a general in the East India Company while remaining a half-pay lieutenant in the British Army?
... that the right to truth has been recognized by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations?
... that Israeli physicist Shikma Bressler, a researcher at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, is also an initiator of the "Black Flag" protests against Benjamin Netanyahu?
... that in Cassandre, an opera by Michael Jarrell based on the novel by Christa Wolf, Cassandra speaks and acts without singing?
... that the 1957 The Green Pastures was critiqued in the white Southern press for having "bowed to the inverted prejudice which insists that Negroes shall never be portrayed as Negroes"?
... that Katie Levick gave up the chance to play cricket for England in order to pursue a full-time job?
... that the gall wasp Synergus japonicus is considered to be a kleptoparasite?
... that This American Life producer and Boston native Sean Cole spoke with an affected British accent from age 14 to 16?
... that The Alcestiad, an opera based on a Greek myth and written collaboratively by Thornton Wilder and composer Louise Talma, was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in German?
... that the Banu Muhriz emirs were patrons of the Alawites of Syria?
... that the Cousteau Society visited the wreck of the yacht Gunilda in Lake Superior in 1980, calling it "the most beautiful shipwreck in the world"?
... that Detlev Jöcker wrote and performed songs with movements first for his little son, and went on to sell 13 million albums?
... that The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein exposes policies of racial segregation in nearly all United States presidential administrations dating back to the late 1800s?
... that a non-governmental organisation set up by Hekani Jakhalu helps young entrepreneurs from Nagaland?
... that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second U.S. Supreme Court justice to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol?
... that after the Battle of Inverkeithing, Oliver Cromwell deliberately left open a route for the Scottish army to invade England?
... that despite Sandpaper Ballet being choreographed to music by Leroy Anderson, his piece of the same name is not used?
... that Cyclone Gati in November 2020 was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Somalia?
... that Laura Garwin, one of the first female Rhodes Scholars, left a career in science to become a full-time trumpeter?
... that Claudette Colbert, who won her only Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night , privately called the film "the worst picture in the world"?
... that the 1958 Lebanese presidential election was held during an armed rebellion while 10,000 US troops were deployed in the nation?
... that the male sea spider Propallene longiceps carries fertilized eggs in bracelet-like masses wrapped around his legs?
... that MLS Cup 2020 will feature Seattle Sounders FC for the fourth time in five years?
... that Elsa-Brita Nordlund, Sweden's first child psychiatrist, advocated for the humanization of care in children's hospitals?
... that a line of the 1840 song "Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit", claiming "no country more beautiful" and presented by its author as a Volkslied, is quoted as the title of books and television series?
... that upon being named president of Georgetown University, Gerard J. Campbell was described as a "new breed" of "Ivy League Catholic"?
... that the kilns of Medalta Potteries were used as overnight accommodation by people travelling the country in search of work during the Great Depression?
... that information provided by the Confederate draftsman Anton R. Roessler was used by the Union Army to determine the ordnance potential of Texas?
... that the wreck of the freighter SS Russia was discovered in 2019, only 1,200 feet (370 m) from where a different shipwreck hunter ended the search for her years earlier?
... that Turkish accordion-playing street musician Madam Anahit also appeared in a number of films as an extra?
... that Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft was the first memoir published by a first lady of the United States?
... that the 13th-century foundation St Alban Hall, Oxford, closed in 1882 and was demolished?
... that Rachel Sennott stars in two 2020 queer Jewish films about funerals, but is neither queer nor Jewish?
... that Wikimedian of the Year Sandister Tei of Ghana is a former multimedia journalist for Al Jazeera?
... that the Advent song "Kündet allen in der Not", an appeal to those in need to take courage, was written by Friedrich Dörr, based on Isaiah's prophecy, in preparation of the 1975 Catholic Gotteslob?
... that Pennsylvania Treasurer-elect Stacy Garrity was nicknamed "The Angel of the Desert" in the Iraq War?
... that the developers of Serious Sam's Bogus Detour created a free version of the game to entice pirates to buy the original?
... that newly founded Exeter Chiefs Women were given a place in the top flight of English women's rugby union ahead of Richmond Women, historically one of the most successful teams in England?
... that in Justifying Genocide, Stefan Ihrig argues that many 1920s German nationalists viewed genocide as the "cost of doing political and military business in the twentieth century"?
... that the Waikiki Biltmore, which opened in 1955, was the first high-rise hotel built in Waikiki?
... that General Charles Barton commanded the 2nd Life Guards in the Peninsular War, and his great-grandson "Banjo" wrote the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda"?
... that acid secretions produced by the orange gumdrop sea slug provide defence against predators such as sea anemones, fish, and crustaceans?
... that sports photographer Eleni Küreman was Turkey's first professional female photojournalist?
... that Avengers: Endgame was untitled until December 2018, as its title was considered a spoiler for the film and its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War?
... that FactCheckArmenia.com falsely claimed that "no Armenians were harmed" during the deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915?
... that Ivan Camilleri, the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto, was an associate director of finance at Bell Canada Enterprises before becoming a priest?
... that the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and New York Yankees played in a three-way baseball game in 1944?
... that Helmut Koch, who conducted Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1949, taught at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler", and continued the tradition of the Berliner Singakademie in East Berlin from 1963?
... that Lyndon B. Johnson used the same $80 desk as a senator, Vice President, and President of the United States?
... that The Girls in 3-B was one of the first pulp-fiction novels to give a lesbian a happy ending?
... that Silvio Meier has a street in Berlin and a square in Bologna named after him?
... that the release of the 2001 Hindi film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was delayed for several months due to allegations that it was funded by the Mumbai underworld?
... that Sheriff Paxton, who was called Canada's most beloved ice hockey official, would jokingly order a hanging for every individual who opposed him?
... that after U.S. women secured the right to vote in 1920, those from the South fought against paying a poll tax for the next 40 years?
... that medieval ceramics expert Jean Le Patourel was also an expert in the archaeology of dog collars?
... that British thespian Vivien Leigh won both her Academy Awards for Best Actress for portraying women of the American South?
... that cybercriminals using Ryuk malware took in more than $61 million in ransom payments between 2018 and 2019, according to the FBI?
... that NCJW activist Florence Lewis was invited by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 to a White House discussion on how women's organizations could help solve civil rights issues?
... that in Russian folklore, the Alatyr is considered the "father to all stones"?
... that Boom Hall was named after a defensive structure on the River Foyle that was breached during the 1689 Siege of Derry?
... that the soprano Nina Dorliak recorded works by Bach with her husband, the pianist Sviatoslav Richter, sung in Russian?
... that the Los Angeles Times criticized Disney for contracting their interactive storybooks to independent studios, deeming their series "a mere imitation" of Broderbund's Living Books format?
... that the Shuttle-Centaur booster was once intended to send a space probe to Jupiter?
... that the internal shell of the sea slug Berthella stellata is visible through its translucent mantle?
... that a video of ballerina Carrie Imler dancing the 32 fouetté turns from Swan Lake went viral?
... that comedy group Pomato's creations include a skit about a boyfriend who did not understand the difference between a sports bra and a bra, and an advertisement for the Hong Kong Police Force?
... that orientalist Giuseppe Furlani organized the first and only Italian archaeological excavation in Mesopotamia?
... that the Rodin Studios has been described as "one of the most elegant studio and apartment buildings in New York", with a facade resembling cascades of Gothic decoration?
... that French writer Marie Chaix grew up unaware that her father was the right-hand man of the fascist French Popular Party leader Jacques Doriot, and later wrote a memoir about him?
... that Marjon Lambriks, who studied voice in the Netherlands with Paula Lindberg and made a career in Vienna, recorded La traviata alongside Pavarotti?
... that Hamro Lok Sanskriti (Our Folk Culture) was one of three books to win the first Madan Puraskar, Nepal's highest literary honour?
... that Thomas Paxton helped establish a saw mill, flour mill, foundry, and railway as a founding father of Port Perry?
... that 18.33 inches (46.6 cm) of rain fell within 24 hours in Guam during Typhoon Alice, a record for the territory that was not surpassed for another 23 years?
... that professional footballer Shaun Brisley scored for Peterborough United in the 2014 Football League Trophy Final after initially turning down a move to the club due to homesickness?
... that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the Chicago Indian Village started next to the Chicago Cubs home stadium, Wrigley Field?
... that medieval murals were discovered in Brönnestad Church in 1935, but not restored until 1980?
... that American historian Sarah Wilkerson Freeman curated a photo exhibit depicting the fluidity of race, gender, and sexuality in New Orleans during the McCarthy era?
... that artwork at Alewife station includes curved benches, neon art, and depictions of the namesake fish ?
... that the far-right "Hannibal" network has been likened to a "shadow army"?
... that the British Secretary at War Viscount Barrington anticipated the 1766 food riots and pre-positioned troops to deal with them?
... that Kansas highway K-23 is known as Main Street in Cimarron, Dighton, and Hoxie?
... that countertenor David Cordier performed operatic title roles such as Handel's Giulio Cesare and one of the three sisters in Tri sestry by Péter Eötvös?
... that before Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon designed the Lincoln Memorial, they collaborated on the James Oglethorpe Monument in Savannah, Georgia?
... that The Descent of Woman by Welsh author Elaine Morgan contends that front-to-front sexual intercourse evolved from apes that lived in a semi-aquatic environment?
... that a Magnificat was composed for the 1200th anniversary of Salzburg Cathedral in 1974 by Krzysztof Penderecki for two choirs of at least 24 voices, and conducted by him in the premiere?
... that in 2006, social-justice advocate Ronnie L. Podolefsky represented six female athletes who accused their high-school basketball coach of sexual misconduct?
... that following the Common Sense Revolution, the entire route of Ontario Highway 45 was downloaded from provincial oversight and redesignated as County Road 45?
... that in 1941, a group of isolationist U.S. senators conducted an investigation into alleged "war propaganda" in Hollywood films?
... that when Paulina died, her husband Pammachius received condolence letters from St Jerome and Paulinus of Nola?
... that the lighting in a portrait by David Hockney has been described as "icily arrogant"?
... that an extract of noodle seagrass inhibits the growth of microalgae, mussels and limpets?
... that Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize–winning debut novel, Shuggie Bain, was rejected by 32 publishers before being picked up?
... that the wreck of the train ferry Pere Marquette 18 was discovered in Lake Michigan 109 years after she sank?
... that London barrister Imran Mahmood has written two thrillers, using the city's gang culture for one setting and its affluent Mayfair district for the other?
... that part of the solution to air pollution in Turkey could be electric ferries across the Bosporus?
... that conductor and politician Klaus Bernbacher was responsible for 600 Radio Bremen music broadcasts, including of the original version of Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder?
... that some members of the United States Congress are assigned secret offices called hideaways whose locations may be unknown even to their own staff?
... that the Bundestag apologized in 2016 for Imperial Germany's "inglorious role" in the Armenian Genocide?
... that Salma wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper ripped from calendars and notebooks?
... that on the final date of the Ziggy Stardust Tour, David Bowie said it was "the last show that we'll ever do"?
... that Ben Carter and his brother Tim played basketball for Team USA at the 2013 Maccabiah Games, winning a gold medal?
... that an elevated section of the Higashi-Osaka Route lies over the remnants of a palace?
... that in painting First Lady Michelle Obama, Amy Sherald was inspired by the way the quilters of Gee's Bend make clothing and fabric scraps into geometric works of art?
... that fossils of the extinct plant Concavistylon were first collected in the 1950s, but the genus was not formally described until 2018?
... that the Spanish writer Eva Forest was imprisoned for alleged complicity in multiple terror attacks by the separatist group ETA?
... that Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular mixes 3D characters with 3D backgrounds black-edged to look 2D to avoid investors comparing it with theatrical CGI films?
... that in publishing Laura's Ghost, the author insisted the book cover show a photo of Laura alive?
... that the 1951 British film Surprise Attack warned of the danger of not being vaccinated against infectious diseases?
... that Representative-elect August Pfluger's great-great-great-great-grandfather founded Pflugerville, Texas?
... that in his Requiem, premiered at Lausanne Cathedral in 1973, Frank Martin scored the "Dies irae" for speaking choir and a "battery of percussion"?
... that Abraham Pais's 1982 biography of Albert Einstein was the first to focus on Einstein's scientific contributions as opposed to his life as a popular figure?
... that Paul Foley, who played one match in his first-class career, went on to co-found the Minor Counties Cricket Championship?
... that economists William Darity and Darrick Hamilton proposed the policy of baby bonds in 2010 as a mechanism to reduce the racial wealth gap in the United States?
... that the wasp Andricus mukaigawae creates galls on oak trees, and these may become occupied simultaneously by other species of wasp?
... that Priscilla Jana, a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island?
... that while its predecessor had 80 stops, Minnesota's Metro A Line has only 20, and completes the same route six to eight minutes faster?
... that computer science professor Ruth Aylett performed with a robot poet in the Edinburgh Free Fringe?
... that "Nun singt ein neues Lied dem Herren" is a 1967 paraphrase of Psalm 98 by the Catholic theologian Georg Thurmair set to a 16th-century melody?
... that the Belgian-born Peter Verhaegen became a missionary to Missouri and obtained Saint Louis University's state charter?
... that Cloudwater Brew Co's name is a translation of the Zen Buddhist term unsui, meaning "cloud, water"?
... that a multi-component gas analyzer system can allow for real-time forecasting of volcanic eruptions?
... that Galician Jewish scholar Reuven Fahn wrote about the Karaite community of Halicz?
... that Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Alex Jones have all been described as Extremely Online?
... that the themes of violence in The Last of Us Part II were inspired by Neil Druckmann's memories of watching footage of the 2000 Ramallah lynching?
... that 25 million tourists—more than twice the population of the entire state—visited the Mandakini River in Uttarakhand in 2011?
... that Michelle Curran is the only female flying with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds in the 2020 season?
... that in its early years, the University of Calcutta held examinations in the Kolkata Town Hall and in tents in the Maidan urban park?
... that as the governor of North Sumatra, Ulung Sitepu donated 2,400 bottles of passion fruit drinks for the inaugural Games of the New Emerging Forces?
... that 224 West 57th Street was built as two separate automobile showrooms, which were occupied by their original clients for less than a decade after completion?
... that Hermann Schey, a Jewish bass-baritone, travelled regularly from Berlin to Amsterdam to perform in Bach's St Matthew Passion, and went into hiding there during World War II?
... that despite ample epigraphic evidence mentioning his name, nothing is known about Phoenician king Yatonmilk's reign?
... that Arsenal footballer Vivianne Miedema is the all-time leading scorer in the FA Women's Super League and has scored more goals at the international level than any other Dutch player?
... that in the 17th-century card game of Penneech, named after its highest card, the seven of diamonds, the trump suit changes with each trick?
... that to promote their 2011 concept album David Koresh Superstar, based on the 1993 Waco siege, UK indie rock band the Indelicates created the video game Super David Koresh Attack?
... that a petition by Canadian member of parliament Pierre Poilievre to stop the Great Reset amassed 80,000 signatures after a conspiracy theory spread about it?
... that Andrew Clyde became involved in politics after being subject to a civil asset forfeiture of nearly $1 million by the Internal Revenue Service?
... that the Plessey AR-3D made use of the annoying problem of "squint" to produce a simple 3D radar?
... that as Master of Pierson College at Yale University during World War II, Arnold Wolfers recruited students for the Office of Strategic Services?
... that the statue of Heydar Aliyev in Mexico City was meant to be displayed for 99 years, but was removed after five months?
... that Kylie Minogue wore a Hysteric Glamour minidress on the cover of her fourth studio album, Let's Get to It?
... that Polish abstract painter Piotr Potworowski influenced the creative thinking of British painters at the Bath Academy of Art?
... that a 2017 global women-leaders conference found that the chief barrier to leadership roles for women was a lack of mentoring?
... that Verrucosa arenata is one of the few known large orb-weaver spiders that sits facing upwards in its web?
... that Eric Kimaiyo won the 2003 Baltimore Marathon in a sprint finish with one of the athletes that he trained?
... that prolific actress Barbara Stanwyck received four Best Actress nominations without a win, and was given an honorary Oscar in 1982 for her contributions to the film industry?
... that on this day in 1914, W. F. Taylor became the first president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association?
... that Nazi officials took advantage of national indifference to sign more people up to the Volksliste?
... that 185 Spanish-language radio stations aired the astronomy program Universo produced by KXCR of El Paso, Texas?
... that Tarabya I of Pakhan became governor of Pagan despite his subpar performance in the Forty Years' War?
... that Oxonmoot is an annual conference and fan convention in Oxford dedicated to the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien?
... that Mary Fowkes's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
... that after Swampy was evicted from Jones Hill Wood, rare barbastelle bats were discovered to be living there?
... that the primarily glass facade of 510 Fifth Avenue was said to have "led the banking profession out of the cellar and onto the street"?
... that Arsenal Women's 11–1 win over Bristol City at Meadow Park in 2019 was the widest margin of victory in the history of the FA Women's Super League?
... that Pierre Dufault reported on the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics and claimed to have been the first reporter at the scene?
... that the 1985–86 Hormel meatpacking plant strike was the subject of both an Academy Award–winning film and a stage play by the Children's Theatre Company?
... that due to the living instrument doctrine, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that "it is no longer considered to be necessary or appropriate" to criminalize homosexuality?
... that Golden Age of Radio singer Harriet Lee had her own television show in 1931?
... that the bacterium Delftia lacustris could be used in combination with a crust fungus in the bioremediation of petrochemical wastewater?
... that folklorist and archaeologist Ethel Rudkin was the first to quantify and categorise sightings of ghostly black dogs?
... that the submarine Sadko carries up to 40 tourists and has 22 underwater portholes?
... that Rudolf Gerlach-Rusnak was the stage name of a tenor from Ukraine, with the first name chosen for his favourite role in La bohème?
... that Coretta Scott King condemned the music video for Public Enemy's "By the Time I Get to Arizona", which depicts violent revenge for her assassinated husband?
... that the 1922 electoral platform of the Union of Town and Country Proletariat called for the creation of a World Federation of Socialist Republics?