derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Heckscher Playground, the oldest playground in New York City's Central Park, was initially opposed because people wanted to preserve the park's passive landscape?
... that the Anatolian frog is exported from Turkey to France, Italy and Switzerland for food, and is considered by the IUCN to be a near-threatened species?
... that Charles H. Mahoney was the first African American to serve as a delegate to the United Nations?
... that The Conspiracy Collection, a makeup palette whose creation is profiled in The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star, sold out in 30 minutes?
... that British colonial officer Max Henry Ferrars took hundreds of pictures of Burmese life and customs in the late 19th century, such as two men playing the Burmese version of chess ?
... that genetic diversity in the deep biosphere is at least as great as it is on the surface?
... that only police detectives attended the funeral of Artemus Ogletree after his unsolved murder 85 years ago today?
... that the beetle Zaitzevia thermae has a total habitat of less than 35 square metres (380 sq ft) around one hot spring in Montana?
... that Kurt Honolka's mid–20th century German translation of Smetana's Dalibor was still being performed in 2019 in a new Oper Frankfurt production?
... that in a 1967 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the deportation of an alien for being homosexual?
... that after Steeplechase Park burned down in 1907, its owner offered "admission to the burning ruins" for ten cents?
... that the LuEsther T. Mertz Library , one of the world's largest botanical libraries, had 6.5 million plant specimens and 75 percent of the world's systematic botany literature in 2002?
... that under the leadership of ethnomusicologist Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos, the University of Liberia choir performed around the world, including at Lincoln Center?
... that the Clan Mackintosh fought against the Clan MacDonald and Clan Cameron in 1688, in what is claimed to have been the last Scottish clan battle?
... that Australian biologist Lee Berger identified Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis as being responsible for the decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species?
... that a protected structure on Britain Quay, once adorned with a time ball, was demolished to make way for the construction of Ireland's tallest building?
... that after moving to the Canary Islands in 1992, future politician Luc André Diouf ran out of money and was homeless for 42 days?
... that posting one's feelings on social media is a form of affect labeling, and may help reduce emotional distress?
... that when Donnis Thompson was appointed the University of Hawaii's first women's athletic director, she was given a budget of only $5,000?
... that to avoid a curse against non-descendants placed by Siam's Prince of the Front Palace , two of his successors married his daughters?
... that the character of Rose Tico in the Star Wars sequel trilogy was played by Kelly Marie Tran, who had never seen a Star Wars film before auditioning?
... that software company Caldera International tried to combine Unix with Linux for business customers, but did not succeed?
... that when Nicholas Danby recorded the complete organ works of Johannes Brahms, a reviewer noted that he had "put musicality above effect"?
... that upon its founding in 1869, the Brooklyn Fire Department replaced a volunteer fire department of about 3,000 firefighters with a paid force?
... that under Du Ruiqing's leadership, the Xi'an Foreign Languages Institute established one of the first centres for Australian studies in China?
... that Indian choreographer Mrinalini Sarabhai suggested the egg-shaped Kuiper belt object 20000 Varuna be named after the Hindu deity Varuna?
... that Bertha Boronda tried to flee on a bicycle after committing mayhem against her husband?
... that William J. Devlin was called the "builder of the super-structures" at Boston College, despite his fundraising campaign falling short of its goal?
... that the Paradise High School football team had an undefeated regular season in 2019, even though most of the players had been burned out of their homes the year before?
... that electronics engineer Chen Xingbi was inducted into the ISPSD Hall of Fame for his invention of superjunction power semiconductor devices?
... that New Jersey's Big Snow American Dream became the first indoor ski park in North America when it opened last month?
... that British medieval historian Isobel D. Thornley died when her home was hit by a bomb during the London Blitz?
... that the design of Totzeret HaAretz Tower 1 in Tel Aviv, Israel, was inspired by an iceberg?
... that the election of Zuzana Čaputová , the Progressive Slovakia candidate in the 2019 presidential race, was hailed by international media as a victory of liberalism over populism?
... that although he was a renowned writer, Miquel Bauçà was so reclusive that his body was not discovered until the year after he died?
... that the Independence was the first propeller-driven vessel built on Lake Michigan, and, in 1845, the first steamboat to run on Lake Superior?
... that professors at the Roman law school of Beirut drafted parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a fundamental work in Roman jurisprudence?
... that the Caton Oak in Lancashire, England, was reputed to be a site of worship by druids?
... that tenor Carl Demmer was possibly Beethoven's first Florestan at the Vienna Court Opera, but failed to please the composer?
... that the success of the 1978 film The Other Side of Aspen led to increased production of feature film–length works across the gay pornography industry?
... that the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, the location of Venezuela's first film screenings, now hosts the country's short-film festival?
... that the 2020 MLS All-Star Game will be the first to be played against an all-star team from another soccer league?
... that the card game of Kaschlan, named after its top trump, became so popular that it was used in the Prussian idiom "my stomach's playing Kaschlan with my bowels"?
... that the recreational reading collection at Imperial College London's Central Library was started from books accumulated in student halls?
... that Bambang Soegeng initiated a service number system in the Indonesian National Armed Forces, and received a service number of 10001?
... that although judge R. W. Buzzard has been criticized for drinking and carrying a loaded gun on the job, he has also personally intervened in fistfights and pursued fleeing suspects?
... that limnological towers can be used to predict algal blooms that may have an adverse effect on drinking water quality?
... that Ralph Mellanby's production of the 1988 Winter Olympics for CTV used a television lens described as the "world's longest", for the ski jumping events?
... that as recently as 2013, girls as young as six from landless families were sold each year as labour in Nepal?
... that Keanu Reeves's film roles include a time-travelling slacker, a computer hacker, an exorcist, and a dentist?
... that Missouri radio station KADY was the first ever recipient of a fine from the FCC for failing to illuminate its tower?
... that India's Mohan Samant managed the largest covert naval operation in history, which resulted in the destruction of around 100,000 tonnes of Pakistani shipping during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?
... that the manga series Our Colors was inspired by author Gengoroh Tagame's desire to create a story about gay characters that was not centrally focused on romance or sex?
... that the Buddhist site of Ratnagiri in Odisha, India, includes rare carved scenes that seem to combine eroticism and hair-cutting?
... that Cheng Sihan, a former driver and art-school dropout, started a successful acting career after becoming homeless and desperate for work?
... that Twenty One Pilots had concerns over the sensitivity of their handling of the topic of suicide in their song "Neon Gravestones", but still kept it in their album Trench?
... that Andrew Watt Kay's paper describing his augmented histamine test was the single most cited paper in the British Medical Journal between 1945 and 1989?
... that the Century Building in New York City was built in 1880 as a speculative project, the developers having purchased the land more than a decade earlier?
... that Oskar Cohn initiated protests against the deportation of Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa in the German parliament?
... that although it is classified as a commuter rail line, Cercanías Madrid's C-9 line primarily serves ski resorts?
... that upon his election in 1970, Cecil Andrus became the first Democratic governor of Idaho in 24 years, and began 24 consecutive years of Democratic governors?
... that the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise from Oxford's Ashmolean Museum 20 years ago today used the noise of fireworks from the millennium celebrations as a distraction?
... that Olivia Salamanca, one of the founding members of the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society, died from the disease at the age of 24?
... that Ave Maria, an obscure piece for two men's choirs by Franz Biebl, became a choral standard after Chanticleer made it part of their holiday programs?
... that Dogor, an 18,000-year-old canine puppy, may represent a common ancestor of the dog and the wolf?
... that the STIR/SHAKEN protocols aim to end the "epidemic" of robocalls, of which there were an estimated 5.7 billion in the U.S. placed in October 2019 alone?
... that the name of the Japanese band Spira Spica comes from a Latin word meaning "having hopes as long as one lives", and the star Spica?
... that the Revolutionary Party of Mozambique initially relied on sticks, axes, machetes and spears to fight its insurgency in the late 1970s?
... that Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz approved every line and footnote of the English translation of the Talmud in the 73-volume Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud?
... that the extinct giant thresher shark Alopias palatasi is the only one of its kind to possess serrated teeth ?
... that actress Anne Baxter's roles included an Egyptian princess, a ruthlessly ambitious understudy, an alcoholic, and two villains in the 1960s Batman television series?
... that Priestly's Hydraulic Ram in Gooding County, Idaho, pumped water uphill with no moving parts?
... that "Tom's Secret", an animated short film by Israeli artist Ohad Elimelech, was selected as the official video for the 2016 European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse?
... that Carla's coach at the French talent show The Voice Kids did not want her to release a record?
... that the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia was published before the copy-editing process was completed?
... that in 1975, Donna Tobias became the United States Navy's first female deep-sea diver?
... that Queen Kapiʻolani founded the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home for the care of Hawaiian mothers and newborns, and a school for the daughters of leprosy patients?
... that André Couto, the winner of the 2000 Macau Grand Prix, is the first Macanese driver to win the race under Formula Three regulations?
... that neuroengineer Maryam Shanechi and her research team developed a method to determine a person's mood from their brain activity?
... that there were only 218 Washington College alumni from 1845 to 1903?
... that Irrfan Khan recommended Saba Qamar to the makers of the film Hindi Medium after watching her YouTube videos?
... that a cantata titled God is Now, based on the hymn "Gott ist gegenwärtig" and scored for choir, big band, organ, and live electronics, premiered on the 250th anniversary of the hymn writer's death?
... that Korean-Chinese missile expert Li Xianyu is the only female general in the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force?
... that after Mississippi radio station WKNZ relaunched as "Zoo 107", it sponsored a name-the-zebra contest at its namesake, the Hattiesburg Zoo?
... that Vice-Admiral Viktor Sokolov was thanked by the chief of the Russian general staff for commanding a naval task force during the intervention in Syria ?
... that Mark Williams won a snooker match at the 2020 World Grand Prix despite suffering from gout?
... that the U.S. government has tried to prevent Omar Lorméndez Pitalúa from accessing the international financial sector?
... that Alte Liebe (Old Love) is a novel about a couple married for 40 years, told by a couple married longer but separated, with chapters written alternately by wife and husband?
... that South Korean businessman Chung Mong-won, an honorary consul of Slovenia, will be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2020?
... that the military of the Sasanian Empire used an uncharacterized device or technique called panjagan to fire a volley of five arrows?
... that John Thomas Baldwin, a botanist at the College of William & Mary, fined a group of students $100 after they cut down one of his specimens for use as a Christmas tree?
... that Wei Zhongquan, the chief designer of the Fengyun-2 satellite , was rescued by his colleagues when it burst into flames on the eve of its scheduled launch?
... that Canadian professor Georges Larivière conducted a research project in which a transceiver is inserted into a hockey helmet to communicate directly with ice hockey players?
... that the 2018 indie video game Past Cure was developed by a team from Turkey, Belgium, Egypt, Romania, England, and North Macedonia?
... that Suki Lopez auditioned for Sesame Street by having a heart-to-heart conversation with someone performing as Elmo?
... that a fishing boat capsized and sank in 1948 off the Maltese island of Gozo after too many passengers had insisted on boarding it?
... that Margaret Barr Fulton was the first qualified occupational therapist to work in the UK?
... that Deno Vourderis promised Coney Island's Wonder Wheel to his future wife as a gift 36 years before buying it?
... that Abwehr agent and Nazi propagandist Oscar Pfaus once served in the U.S. Army?
... that 2019 concerts in the 19th-century Bergkirche in Wiesbaden, Germany, included Pärt's Passio and Handel's Messiah?
... that Dorothy Doolittle, winner of the inaugural Chicago Marathon, was later an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that in a Europe-wide study, the boreal ensign scale was found to be the most common scale insect present in soil?
... that Chun Chik-yu, a descendant of Hawaiian chiefs, served as governor of Guangdong province in China?
... that in 2016, Alice Dearing became the first British swimmer to win a gold medal at the World Junior Open Water Championships?
... that Vint Cerf performed a striptease in a three-piece suit during the Protocol Wars?
... that a lookout known as a huer would be posted to the Huer's Hut in Newquay, Cornwall, to watch for the arrival of pilchards?
... that in 1965, U.S. civil rights activist John Hulett became one of the first two black voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, in more than six decades?
... that Werner Herzog, who plays The Client in The Mandalorian, has called the show's producers "cowards" for considering the use of computer-generated imagery for "Baby Yoda"?
... that Irish republican activist Michael Davitt hated the British empire, but actually liked English people?
... that in his 1831 chorale cantata Verleih uns Frieden, Mendelssohn set Luther's German prayer for peace to a new melody?
... that British screenwriter Gaby Chiappe has worked with the Rape Crisis centre in Leeds to develop a storyline about rape?
... that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club, for white-collar workers of Lower Manhattan, did not accept female members for 51 years?
... that cricketer Atharva Ankolekar's father placed a cricket bat near his crib on the day he was born?
... that the laciniate conch is able to flip itself off the seabed using its muscular foot?
... that Virginia Walker was signed to a Hollywood film contract on the basis of her picture in a magazine advertisement for soap?
... that Scandinavian sagas were the first to use Eistland as a name for Estonia?
... that Enno Stephan's book Geheimauftrag Irland caused embarrassment in Ireland when it revealed details of Nazi espionage in the country?
... that The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith was filmed in Fiji to take advantage of the country's 47-percent tax rebate for films made there?
... that the Leeds-based software company Visionware represented a management buyout success story from the failure of a once much larger British company?
... that after Caroline Pafford Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her first novel, she received a letter from Margaret Mitchell saying that it was her "favorite book"?
... that the flag of Spokane, Washington , was taken to the summit of Mount Everest in 1981?
... that Hildegard Heichele, a soprano of the Oper Frankfurt known for performing Mozart roles, appears as Adele on a DVD of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus from the Royal Opera House?
... that The Patient Assassin, a biography of Udham Singh by Anita Anand, uses evidence from documents released under the UK's Freedom of Information Act?
... that after being treated for uterine cancer, Ai Kidosaki taught cooking to hospital employees?
... that Michael Waltrip's 2019 documentary film Blink of an Eye has been called "NASCAR's answer to Senna"?
... that in 2003, a painting by Nazlı Ecevit was hung in the workplace of the Turkish prime minister, an office that her son Bülent Ecevit had previously held?
... that the Battle of Drepana was ill-fated for the Romans because their sacred chickens refused to eat?
... that at the age of 17, Esther Arditi saved a pilot and a navigator from a burning plane?
... that Ron Berteling is the first Dutch ice hockey player to be knighted by the Netherlands?
... that on this day in 1814, a tsar, a king, and a prince met at Troyes to discuss their war against Napoleon?
... that Nino Tkeshelashvili and other early Georgian feminists campaigned to uphold women's "moral standards", labeling prostitution a "social evil"?
... that John F. Kennedy used the first satellite in a geosynchronous orbit to phone Nigerian prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa from a ship?
... that Gustav Brecher, who conducted the world premieres of Jonny spielt auf and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Leipzig Opera, was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933?
... that a section of Japan National Route 339 on Cape Tappi is a staircase?
... that fashion historian Caroline Weber discovered two lost essays by Marcel Proust while researching one of her books?
... that it was reportedly Elizabeth Willing Powel who asked Benjamin Franklin whether the United States was to be "a republic or a monarchy", to which he responded: "A republic ... if you can keep it"?
... that the specific name of Pterophorus pentadactyla, commonly known as the white plume moth, comes from the Greek for 'five fingers'?
... that Dutch baritone John Bröcheler first sang concerts including world premieres, but was "discovered" for opera in a role of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda alongside Joan Sutherland?
... that although veneration of the dead is often considered blasphemy in Islam, Sukarno's grave in Blitar receives tens of thousands of Javanese Muslims each year seeking his spiritual blessing?
... that Ephraim Bacon, a leader of the American Colonization Society expedition that founded Liberia, fled to Barbados after coming down with a fever?
... that Super Lemon Haze is an award-winning cannabis strain that commonly exhibits limonene, an organic compound also found in lemons?
... that researcher Heejung Kim found that the influence of the oxytocin receptor gene OXTR on social behavior depends on cultural context?
... that Mexican indigenous radio station La Voz de los Chontales returns today after being silent for more than 30 years?
... that depictions of urinating boys in Renaissance art could alternatively represent boyish innocence or erotic virility?
... that Keith Sebelius voted against the War Powers Resolution, but supported capping the U.S. military at 400,000 troops overseas?
... that Blue Square owned the franchise rights for operating IKEA in Israel during the 1990s?
... that William Dorsey Swann was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community's right to gather?
... that the Little Cross monument in Elgin, Scotland, was listed as a Category A building in 1971?
... that Józef Walaszczyk had to collect one kilogram (2.2 lb) of gold within five hours to save 21 Jews?
... that the best-selling novel Dear Edward was inspired by a real-life plane crash in which a nine-year-old boy was the sole survivor?
... that the Great Hall of New York City's Cunard Building was formerly used as a post office?
... that French Resistance fighter Henri Fertet was executed by occupying German forces during World War II at the age of 16?
... that Israeli supermarket chain Yeinot Bitan purchased its rival, Mega, in 2015, becoming the country's second-largest by number of branches?
... that as a child, Indian archery champion Pravin Jadhav was undernourished and lived in a shack near a drain?
... that the coloratura soprano Julia Bauer played five roles in Der Ring in Minden, including her on-stage portrayal of the Forest Bird in Siegfried?
... that the local medical officer thought it "inconceivable" that the Croydon typhoid outbreak of 1937 was caused by contaminated water?
... that Dua Saleh's debut single "First Take" was recorded in a single take?
... that the yoga breathing and meditation practiced by clarinetist Annelien Van Wauwe led to a specially commissioned concerto by composer Wim Henderickx?
... that physicist John Bell published the theorem that now bears his name in a journal sometimes called by the unusual title Physics Physique Физика?
... that Roland Kotani, a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, was murdered by his estranged wife in 1989?
... that Kanye West credits creating "an album for God" for being able to collaborate with Dr. Dre on the upcoming Jesus Is King Part II?
... that all John F. Kennedy talked about on his way to and from church in England was the Profumo affair?
... that Ted Robbins was the longest-serving secretary in the history of the Football Association of Wales?
... that as part of a restoration of New York City's Bryant Park, 84 miles (135 km) of bookshelves were built underneath it?
... that the names of several side roads and buildings along the A1206 in London relate to the Isle of Dogs' connection with the shipping industry?
... that Vasily Bakalov oversaw the design of weapon systems to destroy tanks, such as the 9M113 Konkurs, and to protect tanks, such as the Drozd?
... that Newsweek described the Goucher College campus in Towson, Maryland, as "unusually bucolic"?
... that in the 1830s, a Mère in Lyon, France, became famous for her creation Tétons de Venus ('Venus's Breasts'), a dish of giant dumplings that was popular at bachelor parties?
... that the church of Santa Maria della Purità in Rome was managed by caudatari, priests whose main task was to carry the trains of the pope or cardinals?
... that Samuel Bacon, government agent on the first American Colonization Society expedition, died of "actual exhaustion" soon after arriving in Africa?
... that The Myth of the Eastern Front explores the parallels between the myth of the clean Wehrmacht and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
... that Sir Thomas Byron was killed during the First English Civil War by one of his own soldiers over a pay dispute?
... that rapper Jay Electronica began recording his debut studio album A Written Testimony in December 2019, despite announcing a sequel to his first mixtape 13 years ago?
... that Anwar Tjokroaminoto was known as "Mr. Pervert"?
... that the Rockville Centre train crash was one of two Long Island Rail Road crashes in 1950 which collectively killed more than 100 people?
... that Flying Apsaras Award winner Tian Chengren worked as an actor until the age of 92?
... that the demolished Borgo Vecchio in Rome may have been the road down which Christian martyrs walked when going to the Circus of Nero to be executed?
... that Claudeen Arthur was the first Navajo woman to be licensed as a lawyer in the U.S.?