derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that "Der am Kreuz ist meine Liebe" (He on the Cross is my love) is the first line of four hymns from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries?
... that Camillo Vaz managed Paris Saint-Germain Féminine when they qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time?
... that officially sanctioned methods to combat drought in Turkey include better protecting river basins, building underground dams, rainwater harvesting, using more grey water, and praying for rain?
... that classicist Alfred Klotz wrote a textbook promoting scientific racism that turned out to be a commercial failure?
... that Dendroides canadensis larvae alternate between two different adaptive mechanisms to survive in subzero temperatures?
... that US Navy Seabee Charles A. Bevilacqua was chief builder of the original South Pole station?
... that Andrew Guest wrote "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" despite having no experience playing the titular game?
... that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament?
... that the shrimp Processa edulis is white during the day and pink at night?
... that French rugby union referee Aurélie Groizeleau also breeds almost 7,000 pairs of pigeons?
... that Terence Lam, who initially did not plan to become a singer, received ViuTV Chill Club's best male singer award and Commercial Radio Hong Kong's best new artist award?
... that the supermarket Omega Mart has nut-free salted peanuts available for purchase?
... that the use of a gold background has been prevalent for some types of art from Europe to Japan?
... that Helen D'Amato was appointed to a three-year term as Malta's commissioner of children, but held the role for nearly twice as long after her term expired without a successor being designated?
... that because the globose octopus Bathypolypus sponsalis lives at great depths, it has large eggs, reduced gills, and no ink sac?
... that Gira Sarabhai and her brother Gautam were crucial in the formation of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad?
... that upon its completion, 400 Madison Avenue in New York City was described as one of several buildings that comprised the "Grand Canyon of midtown business"?
... that Captain John T. Newton commanded USS Missouri on the first crossing of the Atlantic by an American steam-powered warship, and was later court-martialed after an accidental fire sank the ship?
... that the 1975 book Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp was the first work to discuss in detail the story of the resistance's founder, Witold Pilecki?
... that Paul Fiset's research led to the development of the first successful vaccine against Q fever ?
... that Gilles Lupien used the C$75,000 signing bonus from his first Montreal Canadiens contract to buy shares in a lumber company, enabling him to obtain quality lumber to construct his first home?
... that by being the first travesti to become a national celebrity, entertainer Cris Miró increased the visibility of the transgender community in Argentine society during the 1990s?
... that transit service on part of MBTA bus route 86 dates back to 1858?
... that Thomas Rhett's "What's Your Country Song" contains lyrical references to 16 other country songs?
... that Morecambe secured promotion to the third tier of English football for the first time in their history when they won the 2021 EFL League Two play-off Final?
... that there are few tall buildings on Long Island because residents do not want it to become "Queensified", referring to the neighboring New York City borough?
... that Carolyn Huntoon was the first woman to serve as the director of the Johnson Space Center?
... that Major Byers wrote "The Song of Iowa" after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing "Maryland, My Maryland" outside his prison cell and used the same tune?
... that a major Asian collection was donated to the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History by Jewish benefactor Albert Bender while the museum was headed by Adolf Mahr, head of the Dublin Nazi chapter?
... that Thomas Laubach, who wrote more than 250 Christian pop songs, is the same person as Thomas Weißer, a professor of ethics at the University of Bamberg?
... that the penis of the statue of Heracles in Arcachon, France, was twice reduced in size following complaints from local ladies?
... that the slogan of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, "Make America Great Again", was also used by Ronald Reagan in his 1980 presidential campaign ?
... that at the suggestion of writer and translator Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg, Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden in 1919?
... that Henriette Spitzeder and her husband Josef Spitzeder appeared on stage as Mozart's Figaro and his bride Susanna?
... that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch?
... that Major-General Freddie de Guingand was invested with his knighthood in the field by King George VI?
... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler had to have fingernail surgery in 2020 due to an injury sustained from putting on a pair of jeans?
... that Marie André Cantillon was awarded 10,000 francs in Napoleon's will for a failed assassination attempt on the Duke of Wellington?
... that Veronica jovellanoides was given the nickname "Bamboozle" after botanists spent 80 hours trying to find it again following its discovery?
... that Rosa Ponselle blamed Metropolitan Opera star Giovanni Martinelli's poor singing on his love affair with French soprano and actress Colette D'Arville?
... that the Vickers Red Hebe air-to-air missile was dismissed by the British Air Ministry's own Operational Requirements branch as "still in the piston era" compared to the US Sparrow?
... that, at the time of its dedication, the Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Chicago was the largest statue ever cast in bronze in the United States?
... that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer?
... that the 1987 FA Charity Shield was played one week early to allow Diego Maradona, Gary Lineker, Michel Platini and Josimar to play alongside one another at Wembley Stadium?
... that the Bush Tower , near New York City's Times Square, was an attempt at a trade center before the World Trade Center itself?
... that Stina Quint was the founder and editor of Kamratposten, one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden?
... that an 18th-century carillon-music manuscript by Joannes de Gruytters was discovered at a book auction?
... that comic book creator Brandon Dayton chose medieval Russia as the setting for his minicomic Green Monk after watching Andrei Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev?
... that How Doth the Little Crocodile by Leonora Carrington was based on Lewis Carroll's poem of the same name?
... that Edith Kanakaʻole's acceptance speech for a 1978 Na Hoku Hanohano Award was given entirely in the Hawaiian language?
... that the causes of the Armenian genocide are considered to include both long-term structural problems of the Ottoman Empire and wartime radicalization?
... that the piano businessman Edwin Bechstein received a Nazi state funeral, and his wife Helene taught Hitler table manners?
... that French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy was admired by musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan during the 1960s?
... that after he escaped from the high-security İmralı prison, Billy Hayes wrote a book about the escape that was later adapted into a film?
... that the theories of Swiss geographer Samuel Engel about an ice-free region near the North Pole led to a British expedition towards the North Pole in 1773?
... that despite going behind in less than one minute courtesy of an own goal, Blackpool secured a record sixth post-season final when they won the 2021 EFL League One play-off Final?
... that Three Notch Road, covering 233 miles (375 km) between Pensacola, Florida, and Fort Mitchell, Alabama, cost $1,130 to build?
... that Genoa honored Stefanina Moro, a teenage courier in the Italian resistance who was killed by Nazis, by naming a street after her?
... that Northampton Town manager Ian Atkins declared that the "whole town has gone barmy" after his side won the 1997 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
... that despite Beverly White's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995?
... that Addo Bonetti lost renomination in a Democratic primary by one vote, but the election was later invalidated?
... that the illustrated erotic novel Su'e pian, published during the late Ming dynasty, describes "Stopping the Horse to Pull the Saddle", "Flowers Longing for Butterflies", and "The Union of Yin and Yang"?
... that pianist and composer Grace Welsh turned down becoming president of the American Conservatory of Music due to thinking that it would get in the way of her teaching music?
... that the new bishop of Kotor in Montenegro, Ivan Štironja, speaks Swahili and served as a missionary in Tanzania?
... that in the musical Fermat's Last Tango, mathematicians Euclid and Newton are played by women?
... that in China, Buddha-like parents, the polar opposite of tiger parents, do not envision their offspring accomplishing much in life?
... that Esplanade Mansions is the only building in Kolkata in the Art Nouveau architectural style?
... that John Quincy Adams was the only American president to be elected as a member of House of Representatives after leaving the presidency?
... that the Toba people use poultices made from the manure of the black-legged seriema to treat boils and abscesses?
... that China expert Sasaki Tōichi was chastised for referring to Sun Yat-sen with the honorific sensei?
... that in 1981 the Conservative Party leadership feared that 25 of its members of parliament would vote against Margaret Thatcher's economic policies and cause a split in the party?
... that in 1929, Lisl Goldarbeiter became the first Austrian to win the Miss Universe title?
... that Malcolm Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia, about the Bomber Mafia of World War II, concludes that "LeMay won the battle. [...] Hansell won the war" with regard to high-precision aerial bombing?
... that Sae Eun Park is the first Asian étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, and one of the few foreigners to hold the title?
... that the Irish government had budgeted €61 million to clean up the former site of the Irish Steel plant, twenty years after selling it for £1?
... that the booklouse Liposcelis bostrychophila can be detrimental to the mass rearing of mosquitoes?
... that Indrani , the queen of Hindu devas (gods), is a daughter of a demonic figure?
... that although the April 1923 Kamchatka earthquake had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.8 to 7.3, its tsunami was larger than that of the magnitude-8.4 earthquake in February in the same region?
... that while Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano was initially mistrusted by King Charles Albert, he was eventually appointed by the king to his royal court?
... that three Aldershot players were involved in a road traffic accident after winning the 1987 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
... that George Balanchine's ballet Kammermusik No. 2 was referred as "Kammer-computer" by ballerina Karin von Aroldingen because it is "speedy"?
... that the biography of Karin Boye, written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius, was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality?
... that the Theater am Aegi, which opened in Hanover in 1953 as "Germany's most modern theatre" and served mostly as a cinema, is now a venue for a wide range of performances?
... that Rod Bonella, who won a Commonwealth Games marathon medal, was also a horse trainer?
... that the Philippine embassy in Berlin was once purportedly located above a supermarket, with frankfurters visible from the windows?
... that former Basketball Bundesliga player Dennis Tinnon worked at a slaughterhouse before he was recruited to play college basketball?
... that the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Thelma Akana Harrison as "volatile", "brilliant", and "vivacious"?
... that the former James Bridge Copper Works has been described as the "most contaminated site in Europe"?
... that Catherine Sourbut Groves, who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student, became an archdeacon in the Church of England via Zoom?
... that Frederick Ashton's ballet Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan took inspiration from a performance by Duncan that he saw when he was 17?
... that, according to Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, the Thebaid "cannot be said to be about anything"?
... that the 1976 "Britain Awake" speech by Margaret Thatcher led to her being nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by a Soviet newspaper?
... that after Nurhajizah Marpaung unsuccessfully defended Butar Butar against human rights violations, she became the first woman to serve as vice governor of North Sumatra?
... that Helene P. Foley's Sather Lecture on the reception of Greek theatre in the United States was described as "something of a milestone" in bringing the subject closer to the mainstream?
... that Iskaq Tjokrohadisurjo decided against working for the Dutch colonial government because he was treated well in the Netherlands?
... that TRW Vidar was a technological pioneer in a business that its parent company soon decided to leave?
... that the first translation of the Quran into the Gojri language was authored by Mufti Faizul Waheed?
... that an improperly dismantled orphan radiation source injured three lumberjacks and killed one of them in the Lia radiological accident?
... that German-Chilean research psychologist Susana Bloch created a technique actors have been using to access their basic emotions?
... that Amna Suraka, "the world's most depressing museum", includes a hall of broken mirrors with a shard for each victim of the Anfal genocide?
... that in a 1922 letter to the editor, Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamships and roof gardens at the time?
... that Shin Hae-chul, who previously made hard rock and heavy metal albums, was inspired by big band music when he made The Songs for the One?
... that despite ducking and avoiding being hit in the head by a baseball, Joe Beckwith suffered double vision that required two surgeries to correct?
... that until its demolition in 2014, The Jungle in San Jose, California, was often considered to be one of the largest homeless encampments in the United States?
... that according to one source, The Embroidered Couch is "most likely China's earliest vernacular pornographic novel"?
... that in Hindu mythology, the creator deity Daksha married Asikni, after realising that copulation was necessary for procreation?
... that some members of the formerly all-male University Club of New York voted to reject women from membership to protest a New York City law that would have required it?
... that Indianapolis's Tomlinson Hall was destroyed by fire on January 30, 1958, allegedly after a pigeon dropped a lit cigarette on the roof of the building?
... that Ladakh has several festivals throughout the year, including Hemis Tsechu and Losar?
... that Kanye West performs a bare acoustic gospel rendition of "Street Lights" with the Sunday Service Choir in the film Jesus Is King?
... that German swimmer Lisa Höpink won two medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade and qualified for two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that Roy DeCarava's photos of Black Harlem life later included in The Sweet Flypaper of Life were rejected by at least two major publishers before Langston Hughes wrote the book's accompanying text?
... that the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers were "not really wanted" by the Royal Navy and were disbanded less than 20 years after their 1873 founding?
... that "Segne du, Maria", requesting Mary to bless her child in life and death, was written by Cordula Wöhler in 1870 and finally included in the common Gotteslob hymnal in 2013?
... that Iowa Hawkeye Leo Jensvold played starting quarterback alongside his twin brother in 1930?
... that in Hindu mythology, Kripa was born from a clump of weeds after his father ejaculated on it?
... that Argentine trans woman Mariela Muñoz raised 23 children and worked as a tarot reader to support them?
... that Kanye West's track "Say You Will" was recorded in 15 minutes?
... that Mahanati is the highest-grossing South Indian film to feature a woman as its primary character?
... that San Francisco Police officer and future barnstormer Ivan R. Gates was the first to transport a prisoner by air, on November 1, 1919?
... that the North Shore School District, home to Kate McKinnon's alma mater, benefited from taxing the Glenwood Generating Station, with one official saying "we endure the smoke, let's have the gravy"?
... that Toma Kamijo ranked first in a survey asking people which anime or game character they would name their potential son after?
... that Swedish writer Annie Åkerhielm was an active campaigner against women's suffrage and democracy?
... that open ocean convection, the mixing of deep and surface waters, plays a crucial role in the global climate?
... that William Forsythe's ballet Blake Works I is set to seven songs from James Blake's album The Colour in Anything?
... that rhythmic gymnast Márcia Lopes is the first Cape Verdean athlete to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics?
... that a two-kilometer-long (1.2 mi) section of the Kawasaki Route cost 2.9 trillion yen to complete?
... that despite smoking in football formerly being popular, it has since been banned from the touchline by UEFA?
... that Jim Clendenen went into winemaking instead of law school after staying in Bordeaux, Champagne, and Burgundy for six months?
... that the parasitic fly Hippobosca longipennis has been found inside dog corpses from ancient Greece and on an ancient Egyptian mummified dog?
... that Indira Gandhi made Zulfikar Ali Bhutto choose between the sculptures Dancing Girl and Priest-King to be returned to Pakistan in 1972?
... that actor Arthur Blake was famous for his female impersonations of Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, and Eleanor Roosevelt?
... that Mennonites and Lutherans both think Canada should recognize the Stoney Knoll First Nation?
... that boxer Nadine Apetz is undertaking a doctorate studying deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease in old age?
... that Oophaa is a composition by Iannis Xenakis for a harpsichordist and a percussionist playing seven ceramic flower pots and seven skin instruments?
... that Christian radio station KIXL near Austin, Texas, pulled an anti-pornography program off-air in mid-transmission because of its graphic descriptions of gay sex?
... that according to one source, the Chinese femme fatale Xia Ji married seven times?
... that Bucket of Blood Street and the Bucket of Blood Saloon are located in a town that had a reputation as "too tough for women and churches"?
... that the Alte Handelsbörse , now an event venue in Leipzig, began as the trade-fair city's first bourse?
... that early in his racing career, Kyle Tilley worked as a delivery driver, mechanic, and sales assistant to fund his Formula Ford team?
... that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped and later freed by the Taliban in late December 2019?
... that a jury awarded $225,000 to the prospective owners of Florida radio station WODX because of poor record-keeping and breaches of their lease agreement?
... that in 1905, Mae Eleanor Frey became the first woman to be ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA?
... that critics have compared Marina's "Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land" to Britney Spears's "Womanizer", with one describing it as "an electro-glam-pop stomper"?
... that after hairdresser Mr. Kenneth's salon in a converted New York City house burned down, he lamented that "nothing like it will ever exist again"?
... that late arrivals at American colonial-era inns might find that the only drink on offer was Whistle Belly Vengeance, a mixture of sour beer, molasses and bread crusts?
... that before a career in stage and film, Edwards Davis was an ordained minister known for dancing in his pulpit?
... that the developers of WarioWare Gold had to carefully select which 300 of the 1100 minigames across the entire series to include in the game?
... that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann, most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill?
... that banker Henry Seligman's house at 30 West 56th Street had a reception room with green marble furniture and a library with a Gothic-style wastebasket?
... that HMS Sherwood is located more than 50 miles (80 km) from the sea?
... that Tanja Tetzlaff recorded Einojuhani Rautavaara's cello sonatas from the 20th century and Wolfgang Rihm's cello concerto, premiered in 2008, on a cello built in 1776?
... that in 1630, fewer than three percent of candidates were awarded the rank of juren, the second-highest civil rank in imperial China?
... that Elon Musk lost $16.3 billion in a single day, the largest in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?
... that four Russian billionaires – Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and Shalva Chigirinsky – and the oil firm Rosneft are suing HarperCollins over Putin's People by Catherine Belton?
... that architect Paul Rudolph's residence at 23 Beekman Place has a penthouse terrace overhanging the nearby street, which even Rudolph was afraid to use?
... that the government radio station in Mandatory Palestine had an Arab Hour in the late 1930s hosting Palestinian writers like Stephan Hanna Stephan?
... that interest rates on repos, which are short-term loans between financial institutions, experienced a sudden and unexpected spike on September 17, 2019?
... that the Theater Trier runs a series including the premiere of Zemlinsky's Sarema, the German premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass, and the revival of Koanga by Frederick Delius?
... that Eve Pitts, one of the Church of England's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar?
... that the Irish bog body Gallagh Man preserves the remains of an Iron Age man who was around 25 years old, dark haired, and was either strangled during a ritual killing or executed as a criminal?
... that Greg Cooper based the character of suffragist Kate Sheppard in punk-rock musical That Bloody Woman on Bette Midler in concert in Cleveland?
... that although Margaret Thatcher announced to the House of Commons on 14 June 1982 that Argentine troops were flying "white flags over Port Stanley", they were probably just laundry on a washing line?
... that baseball player Eric Filia worked as a butler at the Playboy Mansion while he was suspended by the University of California, Los Angeles?
... that the Rockefeller Apartments, with its glass-enclosed cylindrical "bows", allowed 15 percent more air and natural light than other apartments of the time?
... that one in a thousand women have three X chromosomes, but fewer than 10 percent of them know it?
... that Donato Palumbo's leadership of Euratom's fusion-power organization led to him being known as the "founding father of the European fusion program"?
... that in the Chinese erotic novella Chipozi zhuan, a woman has sex with her cousin, her brothers-in-law, her father-in-law, and two Buddhist monks?
... that photographs of South Vietnam transmitted to the United States by the Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program made possible near-real-time battlefield analysis during the Vietnam War?
... that Amy Vilela became an advocate for single-payer healthcare after her daughter died after being turned away from a hospital for lacking health insurance?
... that some moʻolelo took multiple days to tell in full, and were sometimes told in the form of hula?
... that the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs said that it will not arrest communist leader Jose Maria Sison if he visits the Philippine embassy in The Hague?
... that when Yūka Nishio joined the violin rock band Morfonica as bassist, she had no experience with the bass guitar?