derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Nikolai Moskvitelev, a former officer in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was still flying in old age – including a Sukhoi Su-30 on his 80th birthday, and a Yakovlev Yak-52 just before his 90th?
... that Gordon Falcon was one of the British officers who boarded the USS Chesapeake to search for Royal Navy deserters during the Chesapeake–Leopard affair?
... that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs, including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
... that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"?
... that Walter M. Giffard was a member of the Republic of Hawaii's Committee to Destroy Postage Stamps, Postcards and Stamped Envelopes?
... that the 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup was the first snooker event to be held at Wembley Conference Centre?
... that Vasily Savvin was the last commander of the Internal Troops of the Soviet Union, and the first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia?
... that The Red Dragon magazine was intended to "make known to the greater English world the characteristics and aims of the Welsh people and the beauties of their language and literature"?
... that comedian Bill Burr disliked Star Wars and regularly mocked the franchise until he portrayed a character in it?
... that Arthur and Mary Sellwood had the idea for a book on Victorian railway murders in the 1940s, but did not write it until after a "violent incident on a night train" in the 1970s?
... that Joywave's third album Possession incorporates samples of audio from the Voyager Golden Record into its songs?
... that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
... that larvae of the tube worm Hydroides ezoensis prefer to settle on a substrate already inhabited by other worms of their own species?
... that Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not explicitly endorse married Catholic priests, despite being called for by the Amazon synod?
... that in a January 2020 Premiership Rugby match, referee Luke Pearce appointed Manu Vunipola as Saracens captain, after Pearce decided that he did not want to speak with Jackson Wray?
... that future president John F. Kennedy came in second to Senator Estes Kefauver in the 1956 Democratic vice-presidential ballot?
... that the upcoming debut album Kid Krow by Conan Gray grew out of his experiences as a mixed-race child in Texas?
... that the design of the 2018 Melita bullion coins is based on a series of stamps issued almost a century earlier?
... that past eruptions of Cadamosto Seamount dispersed volcanic ash underwater over thousands of square kilometres?
... that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day?
... that in the collection Madwoman, Jamaican-American poet Shara McCallum uses both English and Patwa, a creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
... that Estonian general and former Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson was arrested by NKVD while working on his farm?
... that the American Stock Exchange Building was built to get the New York Curb Exchange off the street?
... that Mary Helen Johnston was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal before being selected as an astronaut, but has never gone into space?
... that a pub on Wincheap in Canterbury is believed to be the oldest continuously trading in the city?
... that O salutaris hostia (O saving victim), a setting of a Eucharistic hymn for mixed choir by Vytautas Miškinis, was performed in Brussels when Lithuania held the EU Council presidency?
... that professor Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported?
... that trailers for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End were shown before select screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?
... that a course in Spanish North American history that Nettie Lee Benson took at the University of Texas inspired her lifelong interest in teaching and building libraries for Latin American studies?
... that Kakwkylla , a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of an Irish abbot's gender?
... that Joseph Stoddart was acknowledged as "one of the founding fathers" of intensive care in the UK?
... that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of Jesse Owens's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
... that the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen wrote his dissertation on the chronology of Bach's compositions, and influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of his works?
... that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor James E. Ferguson, but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later impeached?
... that the British regulator Ofcom received more than 400 complaints over the Pussycat Dolls' decision to wear sheer PVC outfits during their live performance of "React" on a family programme?
... that the Washington Building was described as "probably the first building to attract the foreigner" who arrived in Manhattan?
... that former slave Dorothy Thomas purchased her own manumission, but later employed slaves as hucksters?
... that the title of the play The House of Yes came from a piece of bathroom graffiti seen by its author?
... that the Hebrides Terrace Seamount, west-southwest of the Scottish Hebrides, hosts "coral gardens" where numerous other animals live?
... that industrialists John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Horace Kelley each independently bequeathed funds that would be used to form the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913?
... that Toyota won the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, becoming the first Japanese car manufacturer to win the race since Mazda in the 1991 edition?
... that after vehicle thief Líctor Hazael Marroquín García died in 1985, a Mexican drug lord sent flowers to his grave twice a year?
... that the 2005 BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in Chad, where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
... that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as sea slugs, to study memory?
... that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family?
... that Angelina Atyam was awarded the 1998 UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights for campaigning for the release of captive children, including her own daughter kidnapped by Ugandan guerrillas?
... that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey?
... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers" of the German constitution, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
... that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?
... that when Gessner Harrison was a student at the University of Virginia, he declined Thomas Jefferson's invitation to Sunday dinner, saying that it would be a violation of the Sabbath?
... that extensive disturbances in the crust beneath the Philippines produce many volcanoes and earthquakes?
... that the 2000 Canadian hip-hop song "Money Jane" is credited with launching Sean Paul's international music career?
... that "The Country Without a Post Office" describes Kashmir as "a land of doomed addresses", because postal services were stopped for seven months during an armed uprising?
... that in 1953, American scientist Winston Price isolated the first rhinovirus, the most prevalent cause of the common cold?
... that Jon Favreau, creator of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, also voiced the character of Paz Vizla?
... that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case, the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
... that Piazza Scossacavalli in Rome kept its cinquecento atmosphere for nearly 400 years?
... that Asmundtorp Church , built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the Middle Ages?
... that Australian brigadier Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang, so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
... that Emily Swallow did not know that she was auditioning for a Star Wars television series when she tried out for the part of the Armorer?
... that the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans saw the first overall victory for a hybrid electric vehicle at the race?
... that Alan Swallow started his own solo publishing imprint, Alan Swallow Press, and published novels by Janet Lewis and Anaïs Nin?
... that the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, founded by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1498, was a forerunner of the Vienna Boys' Choir?
... that in her song "Bad Idea", Ariana Grande calls herself "Ari-chan" in reference to her admiration of Japanese culture?
... that Adrian Long's FlexiArch precast-concrete bridge arch can be installed in a single day?
... that tenor and voice teacher Eliodoro Bianchi performed in many world premieres of operas, with Rossini expressly writing two roles for him?
... that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal, asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
... that General Raymond W. Bliss opened the United States Army's first radioactive-isotope laboratory in 1949?
... that the crested oyster has been eaten by humans for at least 6,000 years?
... that Alasdair Cochrane's Sentientist Politics was the first book dedicated to extending cosmopolitan political theory to include animal rights?
... that Swedish actress Julia Dufvenius had a role specially written for her in director Ingmar Bergman's last film, Saraband?
... that the Summa de arithmetica , thought to be the first printed work on algebra, contains the first published description of double-entry accounting?
... that Zina P. Young Card fought on a national level for both women's suffrage and the right to practice plural marriage in the US?
... that the worm Phyllodoce lineata is a predator and scavenger, feeding mostly on other polychaetes?
... that Ocean Wind, a planned offshore wind farm in the U.S., may use infrastructure at a closed nuclear power plant to access the electrical grid?
... that Zoltán Kovács is the first Hungarian to receive the Paul Loicq Award for contributions to international ice hockey?
... that the Danish Trade Union Confederation, the country's largest trade union centre, promotes a model in which pay and working conditions are negotiated without state involvement?
... that the designer of the best house in the new Romford Garden Suburb won £250 and a gold medal?
... that Moff Gideon of The Mandalorian has been compared to Darth Vader?
... that shōji , like other traditional Japanese partitions, serve as doors, windows, and walls, both interior and exterior?
... that Tayseer Sboul, one of Jordan's most celebrated writers, wrote some erotic poems?
... that KBCQ-FM in Roswell, New Mexico, was traded on two separate occasions, for television stations in Amarillo, Texas, and in Richmond, Virginia?
... that British Paralympic swimmer Toni Shaw has set a world record in the S9 200 m (660 ft) butterfly at the age of 15?
... that tenants of the Bowling Green Offices Building in New York City have included the owners of the RMS Titanic, and the Erie Railroad?
... that Magdalena K. P. Smith Meyer was known as the "mother of red-spider mites of the world"?
... that Asumiko Nakamura, the author of the manga series Classmates, sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
... that "Anyone" by Demi Lovato became the most downloaded song of the day in the U.S. after she performed it at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards?
... that in today's 2020 EFL Cup Final at Wembley , Manchester City retained the EFL Cup for the third consecutive year with a 2–1 victory against Aston Villa?
... that the blood-sucking bug Primicimex cavernis survives in a cave in Texas while the bats on which it feeds overwinter elsewhere?
... that tenor Roberto Saccà has portrayed opera characters such as Haydn's Orfeo, Pfitzner's Palestrina, and Herbert Willi's Elias?
... that in 1941, two German POWs escaped from their British prison camp and stole a plane from an RAF base to try to reach the continent?
... that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball bracketology?
... that Sefer ve Sefel, a second-hand bookshop in Jerusalem, stocks more than 26,000 titles?
... that Amazon plans to build its tallest office tower in the Bellevue suburb of Seattle, Washington?
... that Guangdong native Chun Lung attended Yale University in 1879 after being educated in Hawaii's Punahou School?
... that YouTuber and public piano performer Dr K considers a Holocaust survivor who became an international concert pianist to be his mentor?
... that when WIRK-TV ceased operations 64 years ago today, its president admitted to operating the station "long past the point of good judgment"?
... that Yang Xin, the vice director of the Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
... that Calamagrostis intermedia is the dominant plant of the grassy páramo in Ecuador's El Cajas National Park?
... that Edward I. Devitt was the first alumnus of Woodstock College to become a member of its faculty?
... that during the Storming of Farnham Castle, the Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?
... that India's Shikhar Dhawan and England's Jack Burnham are the only players to have scored three centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup?
... that a man shouted "This is madness!" during a production meeting for The Goes Wrong Show?
... that tropical cyclones leave deposits in lakes that can be used to reconstruct past cyclonic activity?
... that the Kanye West song "Up from the Ashes" invokes both the rise of the mythological phoenix and the resurrection of Jesus?
... that Slovak dissident Ján Mlynárik was hunted down by the Communist authorities for criticizing the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia?
... that Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people, was heavily influenced by the 1960s counterculture and hippie values?
... that after the Battle of Adys, the peace terms offered to the defeated Carthaginians were so harsh that they decided to fight on?
... that Ruby Mazur, who designed the cover for the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried?
... that a young Ruth McLain Smith, member of The McLain Family Band , had been playing the Appalachian dulcimer for only two weeks when she performed at the White House on national television?
... that the pasquinade, a form of satire usually in verse or prose, is named after Pasquino, a Hellenistic statue in Rome on which anonymous postings were made?
... that Callaghan MacCarty left his life as a Catholic monk in France and converted to Protestantism to become the third Earl of Clancarty?
... that "Storm Area 51" was a comedic Facebook event intended as a raid on Area 51 in search of aliens?
... that England international footballer Colin Grainger was also a professional singer and shared a bill with the Beatles?
... that a number of Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Cane Hill were armed only with shotguns?
... that Charles Villiers Stanford's Violin Sonata No. 1 was first performed in Cambridge, by violinist Ludwig Straus and the composer at the piano?
... that California governor Pete Wilson celebrated his 60th birthday as a DJ on Sacramento radio station KSEG?
... that Henry Merritt's triple-differential transmission allowed the Churchill tank to rotate on the spot?
... that the Yokohama Northwest Route features a 4.1-kilometer-long (2.5 mi) tunnel equipped with emergency escape slides?
... that French weightlifter Alexandre Maspoli, who won a medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games, later competed in the sculpture event at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
... that GirlsDoPorn was one of the top 20 most viewed channels on Pornhub before its co-owners and a male pornographic actor were charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion?
... that the first batch of cadets from the Indian Military Academy included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
... that Luis Miguel's duet with Frank Sinatra, "Come Fly with Me", is the only English-language song that he has released to date?
... that the potter of Potters Crouch may have been Le Pottere, whose son was also a Pottere?
... that at the age of seventeen, Tiger King subject Carole Baskin used llamas for a lawn-trimming business?
... that the formation of Wellesley College's Albright Institute was announced by former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright at her class's 50-year reunion?
... that a series of eruptions of Mount Takahe 17,700 years ago may have resulted in an ozone hole?
... that Dorothy Horrell, Chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver, credits her experience in a 4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community?
... that photographs of the Holocaust, including many taken by German photographers, have been used as evidence during trials of Nazi war crimes?
... that Bible translations into Geʽez date back to at least the 6th century, making them among the oldest in the world?
... that rear admiral Valery Varfolomeyev was named a Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017, while his 11th Submarine Division was recognised as the best submarine formation in the Northern Fleet?
... that a recording of Credo, composed by Krzysztof Penderecki for five soloists, choirs and orchestra for the 1998 Oregon Bach Festival, won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance?
... that Willa Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen?
... that by the end of the Addled Parliament, which James I had hoped would be a "Parliament of Love", the king feared that he was in danger of assassination?
... that Mariko Tamaki wrote Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me in part because she had "always liked the idea of an ex-ex-girlfriend story"?
... that Buchenwald prisoner Dr. Marian Ciepielowski produced fake typhus vaccine for Nazi soldiers, while saving the real vaccine for his fellow prisoners?
... that Essex Market was built as part of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia's "war on pushcarts"?
... that Ant Clemons wrote a song a day in exchange for rent while sleeping on his friends' floor?
... that the banthas in Star Wars were portrayed by an elephant who kept shrugging the costume off her body during filming due to the intense heat?
... that the globe chamomile , a member of the daisy family native to South Africa, infests parts of Arizona and California?
... that after winning a place in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Mia Kang became suicidal from a modeling-related eating disorder and credits the combat sport Muay Thai for saving her life?
... that the Lebanon national football team played their first official match in Tel Aviv 80 years ago today?
... that bronze fangyi vessels are thought to have been used for food or wine offerings to ancestors in Bronze Age China?
... that during the Mercenary War, Carthaginian rebels killed 700 prisoners by cutting off their hands, castrating them, breaking their legs, and throwing them into a pit to be buried alive?
... that Naomi Munakata, who began singing in a choir at the age of seven, served as the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013?
... that the Federal Communications Commission found that the owner of Maine radio station WKZX had "abdicated financial control" of the business?
... that amateur entomologist James John Joicey had a collection of 1.5 million butterflies?
... that at 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m), Jakob Nacken was the tallest German soldier in World War II, and later found work in the United States as the world's tallest Santa Claus?
... that Kirk Deighton, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, has one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt in the United Kingdom?
... that French philosopher Lucien Sève wrote a four-volume work focusing on his perceived problems with various interpretations of Marxism?
... that the song "Time" debuted in Childish Gambino's 2019 film Guava Island before being included on his 2020 album 3.15.20?
... that ill-equipped Romanian soldiers quelling the Ukrainian-led Khotin Uprising were told to wear the winter clothes of suspects whom they executed?
... that the 2005 book Open Secrets reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
... that a fisherman who was presumed dead during Typhoon Emma in 1959 returned for his funeral meal ten days later?
... that the world's oldest postcard , mailed in 1840, was designed as a practical joke to mock postal clerks?
... that Milagros Benet de Mewton, a US citizen, fought for women's suffrage to be extended to Puerto Rico because the 19th Amendment did not apply to US unincorporated territories?
... that the Darmstädter Ferienkurse ('Darmstadt Summer Courses') were initiated in 1946 to reconnect German contemporary music to the international scene after the genre's suppression by the Nazis?
... that George Insole pioneered the introduction and early success of South Wales steam coal in the London and international markets?
... that among those commemorated by the East Knoyle War Memorial are three brothers who died in the First World War, twelve soldiers killed in the Second, and one killed by friendly fire in the Iraq War?
... that Robert Molyneux established the first parochial school in the United States in 1782?
... that actor Ranveer Singh was slapped 21 times while filming the music video for "Ude Dil Befikre"?
... that punk pioneer band X's 2020 album Alphabetland, released on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Los Angeles, was the first featuring the original lineup in 35 years?
... that the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City has been nicknamed "St. John the Unfinished"?
... that a Roman army in Africa was wiped out by a Carthaginian attack led by an elephant charge in 255 BC?
... that footballer Jamal Farhan, who was banned for life by FIFA after punching a referee in the head, later expressed remorse and advised fans not to imitate him?
... that costermongers are named after the costard, a variety of apple that they sold?
... that Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an opera by Charles Wuorinen, is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control?
... that Central Collegiate Hockey Association commissioner Bill Beagan signed the first national television contract for colleges in the United States?
... that the design of the Netherlands Fractal Pattern was made to confuse a person looking at it?
... that the first act passed by the New Zealand Parliament was the "Bellamy's Bill", which permitted the sale of alcohol on the parliamentary premises?
... that nine-year-old Dana Fischer is the youngest winner of a cash prize at a Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix, beating 94 percent of the mostly adult players in 2020?
... that Dayton Moore, general manager of the Kansas City Royals, held an anti-pornography seminar for the baseball team in 2018?
... that the play-by-mail game Hyborian War, which began in 1985, allows players to fight battles with mammoths, undead infantry, and mounted flying reptiles in the world of Conan the Barbarian?