derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the British design historian Cheryl Buckley claimed in an influential 1986 article that women's contributions to design have been "consistently ignored"?
... that Astoria Park was intended to be New York City's first large park with active recreational facilities?
... that the tomb of Muhammad Ahmad in Sudan was desecrated by British forces after the Battle of Omdurman in 1898?
... that "Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit", for New Year in the current Catholic hymnal Gotteslob, takes two stanzas from a 1851 song by Heinrich Bone, a third stanza and refrain from 1969, and a 1529 popular melody by Luther?
... that the phrase "landfill indie", coined in 2008 by the English music journalist Andrew Harrison, was intended as a pejorative term to describe the perceived bland guitar rock that dominated the UK charts in the early 2000s?
... that the Siuro railway station , located in the Finnish town of Nokia, was proclaimed a nationally significant built cultural environment by the Finnish Heritage Agency?
... that physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic?
... that British singer Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang?
... that Andy Crosby captained Scunthorpe United to victory in the 2009 League One play-off Final, the last match of his 715-game career?
... that the encrusting bryozoan Chorizopora brongniartii has a strategy for avoiding being overgrown by worm tubes?
... that although Peter Doyle was Walt Whitman's intimate companion for over twenty years, he was almost not permitted to attend Whitman's funeral?
... that the elderly Widow Mulchrone baked griddlecakes at the Kelly homestead for Princess Grace and Prince Rainier?
... that Richard W. Wells claimed that before he brought several eastern brown snake eggs into the office of a local newspaper, the species had never been photographed hatching?
... that Around the World in 90 Minutes featured Elizabeth Taylor cutting a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) cake, Walter Cronkite reporting, and Hubert Humphrey delivering a speech?
... that after his baseball career, Byron Houck worked as a camera operator on Buster Keaton's production crew?
... that the River Poddle, the main water source of the city of Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
... that Alexander Bielaski was friends with Abraham Lincoln and the grandfather of a director of what became the FBI?
... that the Disability Day of Mourning was first observed in 2012, in response to the media coverage of a murdered autistic man focusing on his murderer's "love and devotion"?
... that one of Elizabeth Cressener's nuns entered her priory as a ten-year-old princess?
... that the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock was the first symphony orchestra to perform as a full ensemble following a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?
... that Japanese artist Macoto Takahashi stopped making girls' comics in the 1960s because he considered himself incapable of adopting the point of view of a girl?
... that chemist Ana Kansky became the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree by the newly established University of Ljubljana in 1920?
... that before the consulate was ready, the first Russian consul in Hakodate lived in local temples?
... that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C., he paid the transfer fee of his first signing himself?
... that Berwind, a mining ghost town in Colorado, was a battle site during the Colorado Coalfield War in 1913 and 1914?
... that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland?
... that the New York Produce Exchange's business was described in 1886 as "callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?
... that Comic Takaoka opened in 1880 as a general used bookstore and operated continuously until 2019, closing only for the Second World War?
... that Satyavathi Rathod is the first woman from a scheduled tribe to serve as a minister in the Indian state of Telangana?
... that Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting that preceded the Renaissance?
... that the East Bengal Ultras, founded in 2013, became India's first ultras group?
... that pianist David Kadouch, named Young Artist of the Year in 2011, recorded Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and his Piano Quintet on a single CD?
... that Jack Lemmon starred in The Mystery of Thirteen as a real-life physician who Charles Dickens called "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey"?
... that professional goalkeeper Scott Brown lost his father to Parkinson's, witnessed the birth of his son, and then signed with Aberdeen, all in the space of ten days?
... that Dreamcar's "All of the Dead Girls" was inspired by a comment made by American actor Josh Richman?
... that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane, killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
... that Kolja Lessing, playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of Franz Schreker?
... that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
... that John Frankenheimer's World War II drama Rumors of Evening led one critic to predict stardom for Robert Loggia?
... that the street Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome was named after a fortified complex for Anglo-Saxon pilgrims to Rome?
... that after a Falklands War adventure with rigid inflatable boats, Tommy Turtle's SAS troop called itself "The South Georgia Boating Club"?
... that the common depiction of the Borromean rings as three linked but pairwise-unlinked circles is an impossible object, because they cannot actually be circular?
... that MLS Cup 1999 was played with new rule changes that were approved days before the game?
... that both grandfathers of Donough MacCarty, who fought for the Irish Catholic Confederation, were Protestants?
... that Aaron Copland considered the Short Symphony to be "one of the best things I ever wrote"?
... that a syzygy of celestial bodies caused Van Sickle Island to flood in 2017?
... that 19th-century Guyanese poet Egbert Martin, who died at the age of 29, is considered to be the country's first major poet?
... that the 1918 painting Composition with Grid No. 1 by Piet Mondrian is based on the golden ratio?
... that Arora Akanksha, the first millennial candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations, believes the organisation is wasteful?
... that "Wer unterm Schutz des Höchsten steht", a hymn paraphrasing Psalm 91, has been recommended instead of the psalm in the Liturgy of the Hours, and for memorial services after disasters?
... that only posthumously was Patrick Francis Healy described as the first black American to become a Jesuit, earn a Ph.D., and become the president of a predominantly white university?
... that the Battery Maritime Building was used as a musical installation while it was awaiting redevelopment?
... that Sandra Wolin, a physician-microbiologist, devised an early ribosome profiling method as a postdoctoral researcher in Peter Walter's lab at the University of California, San Francisco?
... that three-quarters of the animated film A Goofy Movie had to be reshot due to a single dead pixel on a faulty monitor, leading to a delayed release?
... that in 2001, John J. DeGioia became the first lay president of a Jesuit university in the United States?
... that A Winged Victory for the Sullen's album Invisible Cities was composed as the score of a multimedia theatre production that was inspired by Italo Calvino's 1972 novel of the same name?
... that Will Arnett is the only voice actor to appear in the BoJack Horseman episode "Free Churro"?
... that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?
... that a high-rise residential building in Seattle is planned to incorporate a Boeing 747-400 fuselage into its indoor galleria?
... that Muraina Oyelami started painting after attending a Mbari Mbayo workshop?
... that a 2009 study found that Apple Fifth Avenue was geotagged in more photographs than the Statue of Liberty was?
... that 1-pentadecanol is synthesized by creeping cucumbers, mutant fungus, and the Shell oil company?
... that after his professional baseball career, Joe Beggs was superintendent of prisons in Kentucky and director of urban renewal for Newport, Kentucky?
... that the String Octet by Max Bruch was premiered in a live BBC broadcast in 1937 and then forgotten for several decades?
... that Crewe Alexandra were promoted back to the second tier of English football for the first time in 101 years when they won the 1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
... that of the ten Taiwanese delegates at the 2017 National Congress of the Communist Party of China, only one, Lu Li'an, was born in Taiwan?
... that temporary war buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness", but some remained standing for over half a century?
... that the 13th-century Barnston Manor was owned by the same family for 700 years before being put up for sale in 2018?
... that when Marjan Haydaree became the all-time top scorer for the Afghanistan women's national football team, she had never set foot in Afghanistan?
... that the katydid genus Supersonus has been considered to produce the highest-frequency ultrasonic noise in the animal kingdom?
... that the original name for the Arrested Development episode "Motherboy XXX" was an advertisement for Burger King?
... that stamp dealer Everard F. Aguilar wrote a chapter on Jamaican postage stamps for Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica (1965)?
... that the Cambridge United team took a cold shower before winning the 1990 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
... that A Ruined Life was the first film by director Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener, had been censored for 68 years?
... that during the 1986 Rogers Commission investigation, Allan J. McDonald revealed a coverup by NASA engineers?
... that the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic was the Democratic Republic of the Congo's 10th and longest Ebola outbreak and the second largest in the world after the outbreak in West Africa?
... that operators of the Mark 1 Red Steer tail warning radar joked that the Soviets would not attempt to jam it as such attempts would not make it any harder to read?
... that 29 years after their last album, alternative rock band the Dream Syndicate released a new studio album, How Did I Find Myself Here? in 2017?
... that Phil Chisnall moved from Manchester United to Liverpool in April 1964, becoming the last player to be transferred directly between the two clubs?
... that Woodrow Wilson's 1919 Pueblo speech was the last time he gave a public oration?
... that when the Conservative Mary Morris claimed "never to have been a militant suffragette", the audience laughed?
... that Australian hotelier and television personality Simon van Kempen recorded a single, "I Am Real", in 2011?
... that Japan's Shirongo Festival sees ama compete to be the first to catch and dedicate to the kami a pair of "beckoning abalone"?
... that Noah Beck, a social-media personality and former college soccer player, wore fishnet tights, cuffed jeans, and stiletto heels for a digital cover of VMan magazine?
... that physician-scientist and cancer researcher Giovanna Tosato had just crossed the finish line when the Boston Marathon bombing started?
... that the 1952 film Girls Marked Danger was classified as being morally objectionable for Catholics by the National Legion of Decency?
... that Kanye West's inspiration for "Welcome to Heartbreak" was Dave Sirulnick showing him pictures of his children?
... that the St. Clair Parkway travels through Corunna, Ontario, a planned town intended to be the capital of a united Upper and Lower Canada when it was established in 1823?
... that Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is considered the greatest Sufi poet in the Sindhi language?
... that the Port of Spain Gazette was known for its strongly pro-slavery position in the 1830s, and it was said that it "spat its venom on anyone who spoke of the virtues of emancipation"?
... that in 2021, Jane Lunnon became the first woman head of Alleyn's School since it was separated from the College of God's Gift in 1882?
... that the Z173 Shipyard changed its name seven times from 1965 to 2010 before it adopted its current public name, Hong Ha Shipbuilding One-Member Limited Liability Company?
... that Kaktovik numerals are an iconic, base-20 numeral system created by the Alaskan Iñupiat, with shapes that visually indicate the numbers being represented?
... that Edward Hewitt Nichols, the first leader of Hong Kong's Country Parks administrations, oversaw the designation of 40 per cent of the territory as parkland?
... that one of the first recorded cases of the rare genetic disorder ring chromosome 22 was in a pair of identical twins?
... that Isa Briones, who played Soji and other roles on Star Trek: Picard, sang a new arrangement of Irving Berlin's song "Blue Skies" for the first season's finale?
... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
... that the current United States Chargé d'affaires to China, Robert W. Forden, taught English at universities in Shenyang and Beijing from 1981 to 1983?
... that recordings of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, a Bach chorale cantata for the Annunciation, include Fritz Lehmann's with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's using period instruments?
... that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105, a construction company presented Minister of Highways George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?
... that Jakob Grün , concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra from 1868 to 1897, played violin solos standing, in Hungarian tradition?
... that the 2002 Football League Third Division play-off Final was one of the last matches shown on the ITV Sport Channel?
... that the novel Nick was written in 2015 but could not be published until after the copyright of The Great Gatsby expired in 2021?
... that Myra MacDonald, whose career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
... that all video games by Digital Homicide Studios were removed from Steam after the company sued 100 of the platform's users?
... that Barnham Court in West Sussex is built in a similar style to Kew Palace in London?
... that the original trenches from the 1916 defensive battle of the Ottoman Army against Russians were identifiable from the satellite images of the Mount Kop Defense National Historic Park?
... that Lucia Votano was the first woman to be appointed director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the largest underground research center in the world?
... that Doug Sahm's album Groover's Paradise was produced by former Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford?
... that Nicola Formby has recalled growing up in South Africa when "dogs lived in kennels outside and never ever came into the house with their muddy paws"?
... that both Robbie Williams and Michael Jackson played for Blackpool in the 2007 Football League One play-off Final?
... that Australian talk-show host Paul B. Kidd is a prolific true-crime writer who has written 37 books?
... that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will be the first main-series Pokémon games not developed by Game Freak since the franchise's inception 25 years ago?
... that Rupert Richardson, a civil-rights activist, was known as the "grand dame" of the NAACP?
... that Roxette's final studio album Good Karma was recorded in a studio named "Tits & Ass"?
... that the listing particulars of Cromwell House call it a "splendid example of Renaissance brickwork"?
... that LeRoy Woodson's photographs of steel-industry pollution were part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project?
... that many South Asian migrants are brought into the Gulf Cooperation Council area under the kafala system, which is seen by human-rights groups as highly exploitative?
... that after Pokémon Legends: Arceus was announced, users pointed out that it was very similar to another hit game on the Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?
... that the clarinetist Nicola Jürgensen portrayed the character of Eve with her basset horn in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Michaels Reise um die Erde in Vienna and New York City?
... that before his 1868 impeachment, there had been several previous efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson?
... that Andrew Russell Murray, pioneer of pollicization and of finger joint replacement, was shot dead by Karl Kast in the Brisbane medical massacre?
... that Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem "We Wear the Mask"?
... that microcredit activist Ringyuichon Vashum was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for working to empower more than 13,000 female self-help organizations?
... that Paul Rolan has been the principal investigator in more than 700 clinical research studies of new medicines?
... that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932 Alvar Aalto–designed house Villa Tammekann in Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a pitched one?
... that Maryland running back Jake Funk had his best college season after tearing his ACL in the two previous seasons?
... that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church?
... that the first words ever spoken in a feature film were uttered by Al Jolson after singing "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face"?
... that Poème roumain was composed by George Enescu when he was only 16 years old?
... that the now-closed Kangasala railway station in Finland was designed in the National Romantic style, unlike many contemporaneous buildings?
... that the Rhodesian Air Force's Green Leader once threatened to shoot down any Zambian Air Force planes that interfered with Operation Gatling after taking control of Zambian airspace?
... that Dwayne De Rosario is Canada's all-time leading male soccer goalscorer, with 22 international goals?
... that a rented Ducati SuperSport that was scratched during the making of Road Rash was kept and displayed in the Electronic Arts lobby?
... that when John-Michael Caprio became the director of music at the Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, he ordered that the choir's robes be replaced because they looked "too Protestant"?
... that the EMER-K1 was created by Myanmar by reverse-engineering QBZ-97 assault rifles sold to them?
... that the BoJack Horseman episode "The View from Halfway Down" received its title because series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg needed an episode title starting with the letter "V"?
... that Sammy Byrd is the only person to play in both a World Series and a Masters Tournament?
... that the music styles in the discography of mewithoutYou range from screamed post-hardcore vocals to acoustic campfire songs?
... that Eliza Pottie was one of a small group of women who founded the first Young Women's Christian Association branch in Sydney?
... that at the 2021 Welsh Open, Jordan Brown was the lowest-ranked snooker player to win a ranking event since 1993?
... that Andrew Logan assisted at the first pneumonectomy in the UK and performed the country's first lung transplant?
... that the 1938 film Gangster's Boy starred silent-film actress Betty Blythe, who took on roles that she liked despite a source saying that she was "more or less retired"?
... that the baritone Benjamin Appl, the last private student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, was named Gramophone's Young Artist of 2016?
... that when commenting on her decision to depict Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in her novel The Song of Achilles, author Madeline Miller remarked: "I stole it from Plato"?
... that one of the first generators of chemical graphs was developed in the context of NASA's Mariner program to facilitate the automated identification of chemical compounds in the search for life on Mars?
... that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist Billy Graham?
... that the Sonata in C major for piano four-hands by Franz Schubert was, for over a century after its publication in 1837, thought of as a symphony in disguise?
... that Joseph B. O'Hagan resigned the presidency of the College of the Holy Cross to recuperate but soon thereafter died at sea?
... that the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands have shrunken rapidly and drifted westward since first being mapped in the 1800s?
... that Domus Litonii is the only remaining 19th-century residential building in the entire centre of Helsinki?
... that in the film Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino improvised the "Attica! Attica!" scene following the suggestion of an assistant director?
... that Ava Cherry , David Bowie's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer?
... that Neil Warnock left Huddersfield Town shortly after they gained promotion by winning the 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final because he said the club chairman had told him a "porky pie"?
... that Turkish world-champion para-archer Bahattin Hekimoğlu did not leave his home for two years after breaking his neck and becoming paralyzed?
... that the melody of a song to Venus became the tune for the 17th-century hymn "Auf meinen lieben Gott" (in English "In God, My Faithful God") and others?
... that the philosopher G. E. L. Owen was described by Martha Nussbaum as "an alcoholic and an attempted womaniser"?
... that physicist Joseph Gelders was kidnapped and beaten, probably by members of the Ku Klux Klan, for his civil rights and labor organizing activities?
... that the signature fragrance of Aedes de Venustas perfumery is based on rhubarb and tomato leaf?
... that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building has been described as "a bigger Florentine palace than has ever stood in Florence"?
... that the death of NME music journalist Dele Fadele was not known within the music industry for more than two years after the fact?
... that Washington State Route 539 is named the "Guide Meridian" because it follows a surveying meridian?
... that the 1998 Football League Third Division play-off Final was the first play-off final to feature two brothers when Neil and David Gregory played for Colchester United?
... that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green, which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?
... that Chuck Connors, star of the ABC show The Rifleman, was an investor in TV station KNBS, an ABC affiliate, in Washington state?
... that physician Clare Fowler and surgeon Prokar Dasgupta were the first in the UK to use Botox injections, using a flexible cystoscope, to treat people with overactive bladders?
... that William Steig wrote Shrek! at the age of eighty-three, two decades after leaving a career as a cartoonist at The New Yorker?
... that when Ebenezer Teichelmann , Henry Newton and Alec Graham made the first ascent of Douglas Peak in New Zealand in 1907, they took more than 25 kg (55 lb) of camera equipment?
... that Allen Mawer was the driving force behind the establishment of the English Place-Name Society, which conducted a systematic survey of English place names?
... that Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die" has been cited as marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance?
... that John Morkel captained the Rhodesia national rugby team to a victory over the All Blacks?