derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Grace Buxner said when the developers of Superhot noticed her "cool frog game, they were like 'hmmm... what if..... money?????'"
... that until the Salary Grab Act was passed in 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant earned the same salary as George Washington did 80 years earlier?
... that Zhang Changshou co-led a Sino-American archaeological project investigating sites that were sometimes buried under more than 10 meters (33 ft) of alluvium?
... that "The Night We Met", a song by indie-folk band Lord Huron, was certified two-times platinum nearly two years after its initial release?
... that prior to becoming Google India's manager, Sanjay Gupta was credited for expanding Star India's sports business by launching Pro Kabaddi League and Indian Super League?
... that the copepod Mesocyclops longisetus can be used in the biological control of mosquitoes?
... that Egyptian radiologist Sahar Saleem has used CT scans of Tutankhamun's body to theorise that he died from the effects of a knee fracture?
... that the third of Claude Debussy's three Nocturnes for orchestra requires a women's chorus to sing wordlessly like sirens?
... that English footballer Mark Bright was a foster child, started on wages of £10 a week, and has gone on to earn £1.2 million during his career?
... that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile in the United States?
... that time decompression is a common narrative technique in sports manga, with one series stretching a four-month basketball season into six years' worth of weekly stories?
... that Albert William Bailey translated the Gospel of John into the Mbunda language in 1916?
... that the Little Cut, a quarter-mile (0.4 km) branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, had the only tunnel containing a towpath on the entire 127-mile (204 km) canal?
... that Wang Jin, one of China's first female archaeologists, participated in the discovery of the Neolithic Qujialing culture?
... that the music video for Faith No More's "Anne's Song" features a caged Chuck Mosley being tormented by Metallica's James Hetfield?
... that Wolfgang Rehm worked on the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe from the beginning of the project in 1955 to its completion in 2007?
... that in 1979, the initials CIRALG were said to "spell power in central Iowa"?
... that Raiatean chief Teraupo'o was captured on the night of 15–16 February 1897 and sent into exile for leading an indigenous resistance against the French takeover of the Leeward Islands?
... that a fire training academy in the state of Washington has been designated as a quarantine site during the current coronavirus outbreak?
... that in his ballet Alice im Wunderland, composer Herbert Baumann made the story's author a character?
... that Leprous's 2019 album Pitfalls took shape from its songwriter's depression and anxiety?
... that American missionary William Harrison Anderson staked a land claim in Rhodesia for the Rusangu Mission by carving a message on a tree trunk?
... that groups of social feather dusters sway in unison in the water current and retract into their tubes at the slightest disturbance?
... that Anoosh Masood Chaudhry completed a medical degree before entering law enforcement and becoming an assistant superintendent of police?
... that to commemorate its new call letters in 1938, radio station KITE in Kansas City, Missouri, gave away 15,000 kites to children?
... that according to a 1930s critic, "If ever a book comes to be written on How to Murder Architecture, the Swanage Town Hall should find a place therein"?
... that Elke Heidenreich, two-time winner of the Grimme television award, wrote the book Nero Corleone featuring a tomcat as the bullying protagonist?
... that during the Battle of Kalijati, a Royal Air Force pilot managed to creep into his plane under Japanese fire and take off with it?
... that while other 1978 Chicago Marathon runners complained the late start meant finishing in 80 °F (27 °C) heat, winner Lynae Larson was concerned about its effect on her six-hour drive home?
... that the Doctor Who story Planet of Giants was inspired by Rachel Carson's 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring?
... that John Clark Murray was the first professor at Queen's University at Kingston to offer courses to women?
... that common lousewort owes its name to the belief that livestock that ate it would become lousy?
... that William S. Hillyer transcribed and delivered Union Army general Ulysses S. Grant's famous words, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted"?
... that two cinemas, a bank, and a pub are now used as places of worship in Portsmouth, England?
... that Swedish actor Christopher Wollter started his career as a teenage reporter for the SVT children's television show Barnjournalen?
... that the book Yoga Body asserts that yoga as exercise is a radical break from the spiritual hatha yoga tradition?
... that several mechanics of the TurboGrafx-16 game Soldier Blade were mistakenly changed due to miscommunication between the designer and staff?
... that the young, attractive, and date-able portrayal of Colonel Sanders in a parody dating sim is part of an effort by KFC to make the Colonel a "part of pop culture"?
... that Carlos Vives once invited Paraguayan violinist Ana Lucrecia Taglioretti to play with him on stage after she tried to sneak into his concert without a ticket?
... that viewers complained when the first episode of Living on the Veg, a vegan cookery programme, was broadcast with a sponsor's advertisements showing animal products?
... that for three months after Michael Rosenblum's disappearance 40 years ago today, the local police did not tell anyone that they had the car he had been driving?
... that the Ager Vaticanus alluvial plain in Rome was known for its unhealthy climate and bad wine?
... that Shirley Temple's mother tried to get the "notably talented and cute" Johnnie Russell fired from the set of The Blue Bird so that he would not share screen time with her daughter?
... that even after losing at the 2020 German Masters snooker tournament, Sunny Akani continued to play on the practice tables at the venue for a further two days?
... that Milton Tower was the birthplace of John Ogilvie, Scotland's only post-Reformation Catholic saint?
... that Cai Shaoqing's research showed that militarization and banditry fuelled each other during China's Warlord Era?
... that at a meeting about zoning for a tower for KUCB-FM in Des Moines, Iowa, a radio station board member hurled a wastebasket at the chairman of the city zoning board?
... that William III's first proclamation in England was made near the site of St Leonard's Tower in Newton Abbot?
... that Teno Roncalio, the last Democratic representative from Wyoming, had land claims along the Snake River worth an estimated US$7 billion in gold?
... that from 1938, the Slovak People's Party denounced Czechs as "enemies and pests" of the nation?
... that neuroscientist Kate Jeffery correctly predicted that her postdoctoral advisor John O'Keefe would win a Nobel Prize in 2014?
... that Nintendo planned to support Animal Crossing Plaza for only a limited period, and discontinued the application after less than 17 months?
... that Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen, the first school commissioner of Cook County, Illinois, and Chicago's first town president, was responsible for indirectly naming Grand Avenue?
... that after the closure of Tranvía Villasegura, Tenerife's first tram system, in the 1950s, one of the trams was reused as a bar?
... that George Charles Moʻoheau Beckley claimed that he beat King Kalākaua of Hawaii in a game of poker and asked for a tax reduction in lieu of cash?
... that the Seattle high-rise building Third and Lenora lost its main tenant, WeWork, before it was completed?
... that Edward IV of England is traditionally said to have first met his wife, Elizabeth Woodville, under the Queen's Oak in Northamptonshire?
... that civil servant Lou Lefaive was described as a "key builder of the Canadian sport system"?
... that the 1941 essay "Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson was referenced by media outlets in commentary on the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
... that the hairy sea cucumber has long tube feet on its dorsal surface, giving it a furry appearance?
... that the airstrike that killed three-year-old Milica Rakić during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia also wounded five other civilians?
... that the champions of the 2015 Camellia Bowl, the Appalachian State Mountaineers, became the first team to win a college bowl game in their first year of eligibility?
... that Gujarati humourist Ratilal Borisagar was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India's National Academy of Letters in 2019?
... that Brewer, the fictional Pennsylvania city in John Updike's Rabbit novels, reflects change in American society throughout the second half of the 20th century?
... that musicologist Ulrich Konrad studied sketches that Wolfgang Amadé Mozart made for composition, and concluded that the composer planned his works more thoroughly than previously assumed?
... that Brenda Nelson, host of the Talk of the Town interview program on KTLO-FM in Mountain Home, Arkansas, retired after doing more than 8,000 interviews over 34 years?
... that after examining serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga's mobile phone, police discovered more than three terabytes of digital video evidence of his assaults?
... that Dutch forces surrendered to Japanese invaders after their defeat in the Battle of Tjiater Pass because they did not want to fight in Bandung?
... that in an Alden Rowing boat, you can expect your seat to slide out from under you?
... that a pair of brothers – future meteorologist Tom Skilling and future Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling – worked at WLXT-TV in Aurora, Illinois, while in high school?
... that The Duke's Diwan was built in 1924 as the first post office in Amman, Jordan?
... that painter Fang Zengxian served as president of the Shanghai Art Museum, and founded the Shanghai Biennale?
... that one of the three gunmen involved in the 1991 Boston Chinatown massacre has not yet been found despite a "worldwide hunt"?
... that a live-action video adapting scenes from the manga The Way of the Househusband was produced to commemorate the series reaching 1.2 million copies in print?
... that a stanza from "Nun liebe Seel, nun ist es Zeit", a German Lutheran hymn, was used in Part V of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
... that Elin C. Danien, an expert on ancient Maya ceramics, claimed that "archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on"?
... that Dagmar Schmidt, elected to the Bundestag shortly after giving birth to a son with Down syndrome, stated in a debate about prenatal testing that there should be a "right not to know"?
... that the child queen Margaret, Maid of Norway, died before reaching Scotland, so her place in the list of Scottish monarchs is in dispute?
... that the 2002 World Matchplay saw the first nine-dart finish to be broadcast live in the United Kingdom?
... that the Hong Kong government withdrew their decision to use Fai Ming Estate as a quarantine facility following protests from nearby residents?
... that since its completion in 2015, Liberty Plaza in Atlanta has hosted demonstrations for both March for Our Lives and the September 2019 climate strikes?
... that Brian Lohse was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2018, six years after he and his wife won US$202 million in the state's Powerball lottery jackpot?
... that Die Wolke ('The Cloud'), a young-adult novel by Gudrun Pausewang written after the Chernobyl disaster, was translated into English as Fall-Out?
... that Ma Guoqiang, the top government official in Wuhan, served as chairman of China's largest steelmaker until less than two years ago?
... that Neil Robertson won the 2020 European Masters snooker tournament in a 9–0 whitewash, the first time since 1989 that a two-session finalist did not win a frame?
... that radio station KROF derived its call sign from the three major products of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana – rice, oil, and furs?
... that Le Than Bwa, a 15th-century commander-in-chief of Ava forces, left the battle scene after receiving a large bribe from the enemy, forcing King Nyo to flee Ava shortly afterwards?
... that the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2 was nominated for fifteen Golden Trailer Awards?
... that prior to becoming president of Loyola College in Maryland, Joseph A. Canning spent eight years as a missionary in Jamaica?
... that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall?
... that gerontologist Elaine Brody used the term "women in the middle" to refer to women who care for their elderly parents while raising their children?
... that the Australian national cricket team's 1999 tour of the West Indies was the first four-match series in the history of Test cricket to finish 2–2?
... that the 1939 defeat of Republican Spain in the Spanish Civil War marked the end of the "classical era" of the history of anarchism?
... that the 67-story Queens Plaza Park in Queens will incorporate the borough's first skyscraper, a 14-story clock tower?
... that Osbern fitzRichard is considered an English feudal baron because he held Richard's Castle as tenant-in-chief in 1086?
... that Maria, Königin des Friedens , a Brutalist pilgrimage church in Neviges, Germany, has become architect Gottfried Böhm's signature building?
... that debate over the Cranfield experiments in information retrieval went "well beyond the boundaries of civility"?
... that WCAE, the first educational television station in Indiana, received more support from viewers in Illinois than in its own state?
... that Swedish pianist Putte Nelsson has backed up Ricky Martin, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige?
... that Jen Wang wrote The Prince and the Dressmaker in part because she wanted to tell the story of a superhero who could create clothes that transformed those who wore them?
... that although the bird of paradise fly was first described from an Angophora tree, it is quite likely that this is not the insect's host plant?
... that after her speech on the subject of marriage to the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1891, Eliza Ashton was accused of promoting "free love" and prostitution?
... that 115 truckloads of construction sand were used to create 150 sand sculptures at the Mysore Sand Sculpture Museum?
... that the American Express Building in Manhattan replaced a pair of brownstone structures that were described as being "among the ancient landmarks" on Broadway?
... that Egon Hartmann won a competition to design Stalinallee in East Berlin?
... that equipment from defunct television station WTVI in Fort Pierce, Florida, was sold to start an unrelated WTVI in Charlotte, North Carolina?
... that the Tedder certificate was awarded by the British government to foreign citizens who assisted Allied prisoners of war to escape German captivity during the Second World War?
... that after the devastating 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, the New Zealand government "red-zoned", purchased, and demolished 8,000 houses?
... that the idea for the Twilight novel series came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream?
... that John Papworth created the plasterwork on the ceiling of the Greenwich Hospital chapel in London when it was rebuilt in the 1780s after a fire?
... that participants in one of Dirshu's intensive study programs are tested on their knowledge of all 2,711 pages of the Talmud at the end of the seven-and-a-half-year Daf Yomi cycle?
... that epidemiologist Li Lanjuan was the first to propose a lockdown of Wuhan during the present coronavirus outbreak?
... that Sitka Sedge State Natural Area, a pristine estuary in Oregon, almost became a golf course?
... that different versions of the song "Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure" by Mayumi Gojo were used in the first two seasons and the 25th movie of the Pretty Cure anime franchise?
... that Ivan Ustinov, a Soviet officer of the NKVD and SMERSH during the Second World War, threatened to shoot any soldier who wanted to surrender?
... that Nick Nolte, who voices Kuiil in the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, was seriously considered for the role of Han Solo over 40 years earlier?
... that before the release of The Baseball Encyclopedia, a Major League Baseball committee passed a rules interpretation that would have altered Babe Ruth's home run total, before reversing its decision?
... that the Battle of the Aegates in 241 BC ended the First Punic War after 23 years?
... that Kapoli Kamakau, who composed music with a future queen and a princess, later contracted leprosy and died in exile?
... that the 2001 International Formula 3000 Championship featured the series's first round in the modern era to be held outside Europe?
... that actor Carl Weathers agreed to play Greef Karga on the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian on the condition that he direct future episodes of the show?
... that Bonanza City, New Mexico, was founded in 1880 and largely abandoned by 1890?
... that Esther Lurie used photographs of drawings to reconstruct most of her artwork that did not survive World War II?
... that even after narrowing the list of suspects in Geetha Angara's unsolved killing, 15 years ago today, down to three men, police could not charge any of them?
... that Richard Scrob built Richard's Castle, one of the few castles in England built before the Norman conquest?
... that Capricorn Seamount is an underwater mountain that is breaking up as it enters the Tonga Trench?
... that the Cymmer Colliery explosion of 1856 in Wales resulted in a "sacrifice of human life to an extent unparalleled in the history of coal mining of this country"?
... that Supreme Court of British Columbia justice Dev Dley previously served as commissioner of the Western Hockey League?
... that Captain Tilly Park contains the "smallest island in the smallest natural body of water" within New York City?
... that Italian Renaissance artist Raphael died in 1520 in his palace on the now demolished Borgo Nuovo in Rome?
... that V. S. Lelchuk joined dissident and revisionist historians in a "historical glasnost" during the collapse of the Soviet Union?
... that Jon Favreau created the role of Cara Dune in The Mandalorian with former mixed martial artist Gina Carano in mind, and did not audition any other actresses for the role?
... that Mar Field Fen is "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York"?
... that during her final performance at the 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana Creole singer Inez Catalon chastised female audience members for dressing immodestly?
... that the title of the book A Very Stable Genius comes from a tweet by Donald Trump?
... that Iranian women's rights activist Mastoureh Afshar organized the second Eastern Women's Congress, held in Tehran in 1932, which drew delegates from Afghanistan to Zanzibar?
... that television station WETV in Key West, Florida, was forced off the air by an act of Congress?
... that David Roberts's The Holy Land, a collection of 250 orientalist lithographs , has been called the "most pervasive and enduring" 19th-century depiction of the East in the West?
... that software engineer David Notkin worked to expand computer science research to a wider demographic, particularly women?
... that salmon conservation measures are threatening the survival of a fishing technique first brought to Britain a thousand years ago by the Vikings?
... that Italian mathematician Giovanni Prodi was initially drafted into the National Republican Army and trained as a telephonist during World War II?
... that images of the widowed queen who commissioned the first major work of Indian Deccan painting were erased after her son rebelled and imprisoned her?
... that Jean Bégin was the first coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to make three appearances at the Memorial Cup?
... that Fort Tryon Park, located on steep terrain in Manhattan, was designed as a landscaped park with the Cloisters museum as the main point of interest?
... that hedge fund manager Jacob Gottlieb hired Status Labs to counteract negative news coverage of him over the closure of Visium Asset Management?
... that Wolfgang J. Fuchs, an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer?
... that according to The Independent, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps "renders the unimaginable evil of the camps relatable"?
... that the studio building used by Oklahoma City radio station KJEM was the last structure that was demolished to make way for the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
... that Thomas H. Lee, who developed the vacuum interrupter at General Electric, won an Asian table tennis championship while in college?
... that the Austins Quarter of Newton Abbot in Devon, England, is named after a department store?
... that Johann Baptist Sigl was imprisoned multiple times for publishing insulting articles about the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and the German emperor?
... that the Courtois Hills region has the most rugged terrain and steepest average slopes of any sub-region of the Missouri Ozarks?
... that Skandinavskii sbornik (Scandinavian Review) was the principal forum for Soviet scholars of Nordic studies for 35 years until the collapse of the Soviet Union?
... that during the Cultural Revolution, Zhu Yuli was denounced as a counterrevolutionary and suffered beatings which caused disability in his right hand?
... that the Tulsa Club Building suffered four major fires in 2010, including three in a two-week period, yet remained strong enough to allow conversion to a hotel instead of demolition?
... that Cueros de Purulla volcano had a large eruption 7820 years ago and was later a source of obsidian?
... that at the time of her retirement in 2008, Florida State Seminoles coach JoAnne Graf held the record for most wins in the history of NCAA Division I softball?
... that the differences between live versions of Rush's "Witch Hunt" were seen as an instance of "translation" à la Walter Benjamin?
... that religious timekeepers employed by the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus included a 14th-century astronomer who proposed geocentric models mathematically identical to those later proposed by Copernicus?
... that the first president of the University of Kentucky, James Kennedy Patterson, personally financed its first three buildings?
... that although author Lao She declared his satirical novel Cat Country a failure, it has been translated into at least six languages?
... that despite an early career spent with the Soviet and Russian Airborne Forces, Viktor Astapov is currently a deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy?
... that American missionary Vernon Andy Anderson noted that those accused of witchcraft in the Belgian Congo were likely to be women over 55 and subject to murder by vigilantes?
... that the final of the 2020 Masters snooker tournament was interrupted by a "whoopee cushion" device?
... that Acer diabolicum, the devil maple, gets its scientific and common names from the curly stigmas of its flowers ?
... that Josef Protschka, who sang as a soloist in Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge at age 12, later appeared in leading tenor roles in the Mozart cycle staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at the Cologne Opera?
... that when the LineageOS operating system refused to integrate MicroG software, the project forked its own version, with MicroG pre-installed?
... that Romanian neuroscientist Viviana Gradinaru was part of the research team from Caltech that found that serotonin is necessary for sleep in zebrafish and mice?
... that drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have hosted the entertainment series UNHhhh, The Trixie & Katya Show, and I Like to Watch?
... that the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management has conducted research to improve the taste and nutrition of a children's dietary supplement distributed by the government of Kerala?
... that Harun el-Raschid Hintersatz, a German convert to Islam, led a Muslim SS unit comprising Turkmens and Tatars during World War II?
... that during a renovation of New York City's Bowne Park, some fish from its pond ended up in refrigerators of nearby homes?