derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that although its publisher Dark Horse Comics is American, a significant proportion of artists involved with the comic book series The Witcher have been Polish?
... that Vera Schoenenberg's performance in the title role of Kálmán's Die Csárdásfürstin at the Mörbisch Lake Festival was broadcast by German and Austrian stations?
... that Yoko Ono took the first verse of her 1970 song "Who Has Seen the Wind?" from a 19th century poem written by Christina Rossetti?
... that Alfie Oakes sued a school district for US$50 million in response to their cancelling a contract?
... that no one knows how a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe ended up in the Payne Whitney House?
... that the steel-framed Church Missions House in New York City predates the city's first steel skyscraper?
... that Gunhild Bergh was the second woman in Sweden to be awarded a PhD in literary history?
... that Tone Roads No. 1, a composition for chamber ensemble by Charles Ives, was originally titled "Tone Roads, rough ones—good ones, bad ones, fast ones, slow ones!"?
... that FBOY Island sets three female contestants to identify twenty-four men as either womanizers or nice guys?
... that Yulimar Rojas is good at jumping, but her sister Yerilda Zapata is good at throwing?
... that an inquiry into the death of Orville Blackwood at Broadmoor Hospital in 1991 found that admissions of black people to the hospital were more likely to have police involvement?
... that the manga series Mashima Hero's was originally titled Hero's and had its name changed to rank higher in search engine results?
... that the cooking of Flora Mae Hunter was enjoyed so much by the Duchess of Windsor that she gained weight on her visits to the plantation where Hunter worked?
... that in Indonesian, a language featuring pronoun avoidance, a common polite way to address someone else is "father" or "mother", instead of "you"?
... that Gottfried Hornik, a baritone at the Vienna State Opera for 25 years, appeared in his signature role of Beckmesser from Aachen and Barcelona in 1976 to the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in 2001?
... that the Beaux-Arts Apartments never went into foreclosure despite being completed at the start of the Great Depression?
... that Charlie N. Holmberg's idea for The Fifth Doll began with a writing exercise to develop a system of magic for a household item?
... that the All Time Low song "PMA" features guest vocals from Heather Baron-Gracie of the British band Pale Waves?
... that Schloss Gripsholm was dedicated by author Kurt Tucholsky to a license plate number?
... that the Kokawa-dera Engi Emaki, a 12th-century Japanese painted handscroll , was partly burned in a fire, and also partly damaged at the edges?
... that Kuinini Manumua is the first woman to represent Tonga in weightlifting at the Olympic Games?
... that as the acting President of Zambia in 2014, Guy Scott became the first white leader of an African country since the end of apartheid?
... that Massekhet Amerika by Gerson Rosenzweig satirizes Jewish life in New York in the style of a Talmudic tractate?
... that three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, including the opening "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r"?
... that during the 1991 Zaire unrest, 30 to 40% of all companies in Zaire were plundered, and around 70% of the country's retail businesses were destroyed?
... that newspaper columnist Kenneth John helped found the Democratic Freedom Movement in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
... that ducks frequently carried more than two and a half tons during the Siegfried Line campaign?
... that on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, the traditional venue for memorials in Hong Kong lay empty for the first time in thirty-two years?
... that mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova was José Carreras's partner for his farewell concert in Carnegie Hall?
... that the union of taxi drivers offered the residents of retirement homes free transport to the voting stations in the Slovenian Waters Act referendum?
... that Robert Goodsir, searching for his brother Harry, lost with the Franklin expedition in the Arctic, found the graves of three expedition members?
... that Battlefield Vegas employees during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting drove several armored personnel carriers to Mandalay Bay to shield police officers at the request of a LVMPD sergeant?
... that the Islamic website Askimam has been called more comprehensive, influential and wide-ranging than the web resources of al-Azhar and its sympathisers put together?
... that professor Bronwyn Law-Viljoen became editor-in-chief of a publishing company, co-founded her own independent publishing company, and founded her own bookstore in South Africa?
... that astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson called out Disney for an inaccurate Frozen II poster?
... that New Zealand author Patricia Grace did not include a glossary for Māori terms in her book Potiki because she "didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country"?
... that part of Keith Foulger's job was to make sure the front and back ends of Britain's first nuclear submarine fitted together?
... that the WandaVision song "Agatha All Along" was inspired by the theme songs of The Munsters and The Addams Family?
... that the Greek Korakou culture had two-storey buildings with internal stairs more than 4,000 years ago?
... that the BBC programme DynaMo was created after a survey revealed parents did not want to help children with homework?
... that Norm Michael did not know he was an NFL Draft selection until 55 years later?
... that the Marble Arch Mound in central London has been compared to the hill in Teletubbies?
... that director Mamoru Hosoda's original concept for his 1999 film Digimon Adventure was a story set against the backdrop of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo?
... that in 2016, Hurricane Pali and Hurricane Alex existed simultaneously as rare January hurricanes within the Pacific and Atlantic hurricane basins, respectively, marking the first such occurrence on record?
... that a reviewer wrote that Florian Boesch's 2011 recording of Winterreise with Malcolm Martineau was "one of the most powerful lieder albums of recent years"?
... that Donald Trump had a "big smile plastered on his face" on the day the "Best Sex I've Ever Had" happened?
... that the bamboo-filled atrium of the IBM Building was described as "New York City's peerless privately owned public space"?
... that former British Army Commando major-general John Woollett later became a planning inspector?
... that the 2015 video game Worlds of Magic, intended as a spiritual successor to the classic game Master of Magic, failed to impress most reviewers?
... that of the 16 teams to enter the inaugural Scottish Cup, only Dumbarton, Kilmarnock and Queen's Park still regularly compete in the competition?
... that the sea slug Philinopsis speciosa wraps the mucus strand containing its eggs around its head?
... that ink wash painting was created by the Chinese in the 8th century and the technique then spread to the rest of East Asia?
... that when starting his business, Vincent Figgins needed help from the mysterious "Black Man"?
... that during the Crimean War, a colonel complained about his "abominable Albert [shako]" , upon whose leather top "a man may fry his ration beef at mid-day in this climate"?
... that singer-songwriter Doug Sahm was also a multi-instrumentalist who was regarded as a child prodigy playing the steel guitar?
... that Dallas television station KDAF abandoned plans to launch a local newscast in 1994, after having already hired 20 staff, because it was to lose its Fox affiliation and be sold?
... that Zygmunt Krasiński, one of Poland's Three Bards, published most of his works anonymously and was known as the Anonymous Poet of Poland?
... that Woodland Sketches by Edward MacDowell includes a piano piece based on the songs of the Walla Walla and Brotherton peoples?
... that Ian Fraser Muir partly created the Muir and Barclay formula to calculate the fluid replacement needed after major burns?
... that chef Angie Mar went from running a steakhouse to owning Three Horses?
... that the idea for Fatima's Grill in Downey, California, came from prison?
... that John M. Franklin oversaw the construction of SS United States, a liner that broke the transatlantic speed record on its maiden voyage?
... that Narciso Rodriguez for Her perfume was inspired by a bottle of Egyptian musk oil Narciso Rodriguez was given in high school?
... that Japanese boxer Arisa Tsubata worked to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during her training for the 2020 Summer Olympics and as a nurse?
... that the 93% Club has been described as "the reverse Bullingdon Club"?
... that former football midfielder Marcelo Gallardo became the first River Plate player to achieve an international title as a player and a coach after leading the team to win the 2014 Copa Sudamericana?
... that in August 2017, Potential Tropical Cyclone Ten caused some of the worst flooding seen in western Florida in 20 years, just two weeks before Hurricane Irma struck the same region?
... that the ship on the coat of arms of the Falkland Islands represents the Desire, whose crew reportedly sighted the islands in 1592?
... that journalist Al Cartwright started his career writing for The Reading Times at the age of 15?
... that residents at the queer community known as the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch carry firearms and wear body armor while tending to their alpacas due to threats from right-wing militias?
... that the classicist L. D. Reynolds wrote his first publication on the birds of the Caerphilly Basin?
... that the design of King Sombra, the villain in "The Crystal Empire", was meant to illustrate him "as both a solid creature and a flowing mass of smoky darkness"?
... that when Chorus Systèmes SA was founded in 1986, French technology start-up companies were rare?
... that composer Ida Carroll played a central role in the merger of the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973?
... that the vandalism and eventual removal of the statue of Ivan Konev in Prague has negatively impacted recent Czech Republic–Russia relations?
... that after the death of Steven Crawford, his body was found in 1963 but was not identified until 2021?
... that Jerome Robbins planned to have his ballet Piano Pieces be about dancers rehearsing a fictitious ballet, but changed the theme to be about the joy of dancing?
... that despite the United States outlawing slavery in 1865, historian Antoinette Harrell found examples of African-American families who remained enslaved through debt bondage as recently as the 1970s?
... that in 2017, there were more than 10,000 teenage girls who performed as Japanese idols?
... that it was said that BBC scriptwriter Iain Pattinson's "unique brilliance was his ability to combine the absurd with the plausible"?
... that a fight in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Twilight's Kingdom" has been compared to Dragon Ball Z?
... that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral , praised upon completion as the "finest church edifice on the American continent", was funded mostly by poor Irish Catholic parishioners?
... that Mexican theatergoers complained that Olaf's Frozen Adventure, a short that played before the movie Coco, was too long?
... that the English-Australian cricketer Bailey Wightman made his County debut for Kent whilst playing club cricket for Tunbridge Wells after an outbreak of COVID-19?
... that Minnesota went from having more than 9,000 local government entities in 1952 to having fewer than 4,000 in 2012?
... that Chuck McMann led the McGill Redmen football team to five playoff appearances in his six seasons as head coach?
... that South Australia became the first place in the world to give women the right to stand for parliament due to an opponent's "great miscalculation"?
... that while convicted fraudster Anna Sorokin was in jail, one of her visitors was Julia Garner, who will play Sorokin in the Netflix miniseries about her?
... that German soldiers fighting with Napoleon brought home a Spanish modification to the Tarot game of Dreierles that resulted in Baden's national game of Cego?
... that Abul Kalam Qasmi translated E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel into Urdu?
... that as part of the coronation of Mindon Min, the square yuzana around the capital was designated a sanctuary?
... that for his composition Hallowe'en, Charles Ives supplied two sets of instructions on how to repeat the music in different tempos and dynamics?
... that Grace Harrison was one of two women who played in the New Zealand Ice Hockey League in 2021?
... that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Last Crusade" introduces lesbian characters?
... that an inscription above the 16th-century doorway of the Dame Paulet's Almshouses reads "No Domi Ni" instead of "Anno Domini" because the original was misread by a stonemason during a 1930s restoration?
... that Jenson Button winning ahead of Lewis Hamilton at the 2010 Chinese Grand Prix was the first one-two finish for British Formula One drivers in over a decade?
... that Mika Kares returned to Finland to perform the title role of Boito's opera Mefistofele at the Savonlinna Opera Festival?
... that Marco van Basten's strike in the UEFA Euro 1988 Final was described as "perhaps the most iconic goal in UEFA European Championship history"?
... that Howell Edmunds Jackson died of tuberculosis less than two and a half years after his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court?
... that when surrounded at the Battle of Oroscopa Carthaginian troops killed their horses and burnt their wooden shields to cook them?
... that early medieval house-shaped shrines were built as reliquaries to hold the remains of Irish saints?
... that while Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios was exiled from Nicaragua and living in Costa Rica in the 1980s, his sister Claudia was there as Nicaragua’s ambassador?
... that Luke Prokop, an ice hockey prospect, is the first player under contract with a National Hockey League team to come out as gay?
... that while 1271 Avenue of the Americas was being built at New York City's Rockefeller Center, Marilyn Monroe re-launched the Center's long-dormant "Sidewalk Superintendents' Club"?
... that Serbian landowner Marija Trandafil spent a single day hungry, but she remembered the experience and became a major philanthropist in Novi Sad?
... that Tig Notaro replaced a cast member in Army of the Dead and was added through computer-generated imagery a year after filming had concluded?
... that Hong Kong wushu athlete Li Fai dropped out of the 1994 Asian Games after discovering she was pregnant?
... that an FCC hearing examiner scolded the owner of California radio station KCTY for having a "cavalier attitude" and at times being too lazy to put the station on the air?
... that Indonesian Communist Party leader Fachrul Baraqbah was an aristocrat of the Kutai Sultanate in East Kalimantan and a descendant of Muhammad?
... that within a decade, KTVK in Phoenix went from being a "blot on ABC's affiliate ledger" to a station the network only gave up reluctantly?
... that soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, who has given over 200 performances at the Met, said that becoming a singer "takes work on your psyche, your innermost being"?
... that William Mackinder was a deep-sea fisherman and millworker before entering British politics, where he advocated for worker's rights?
... that the intentional balk in baseball is mostly used as a tactic to stop sign stealing?
... that the last pack of Staghounds in England were those of the North Devon Hunt, which pursued stag in the royal forests of Exmoor until 1825?
... that peasant leader Medardo Mairena was the sixth aspiring presidential candidate in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election to be arrested?
... that part of the ceiling at the 181st Street station collapsed two days after funding was allocated to repair damage from a similar collapse two years prior?
... that a reviewer wrote that "few tenors on disc can rival the German Rainer Trost" about his 1992 performance as Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte in Paris, with conductor John Eliot Gardiner?
... that mixed-use stadium districts around major sports venues often include public squares, office space, hotels and residential units?
... that the freighter John Mitchell was the costliest shipwreck on the Great Lakes in 1911?
... that instead of fighting in battle, female vassals in the Kingdom of Jerusalem were obliged to render the service of marriage to their lord by marrying one of three candidates proposed to them?
... that Mary Dunn was reported to have had "many a free ride" in ice hockey, when men "would just lift her up and dump her elsewhere"?
... that Therese Forster edited the works of her father Georg Forster, who died when she was seven years old?
... that the costs of the great astronomical clock at Norwich Cathedral that were recorded in its Sacrist's Rolls from 1322 to 1325 provide the earliest known detailed account of clockmaking in England?
... that Arthur J. Hill, United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing, was one of four children of a single parent?
... that Michel Platini scored his ninth goal of the tournament when France won the UEFA Euro 1984 Final?
... that "Stoned at the Nail Salon" was written by Lorde and Jack Antonoff, and features backing vocals from four other artists?
... that the Morris–Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, Manhattan, where the musical Hamilton was written, has been described as a haunted house?
... that the Swedish meteorologist Svante Odén was among the first scientists to address and publicize the problems of acid precipitation in Europe?
... that almost as soon as Cabaret opened, people mistakenly complained the song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" was a genuine Nazi anthem?
... that in countries like the United States, prisoners supplement inadequate prison food by combining ingredients like instant ramen , mayonnaise and Kool-Aid into improvised meals called "spreads"?
... that Pierre Olaf's portrayal of Jacquot in the 1961 Broadway musical Carnival! earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1962?
... that an English army devastated Lothian in Scotland so thoroughly in 1356 that the episode became known as Burnt Candlemas?
... that Bernette Ford was one of the first members of the Black Creators for Children, an organization that helped promote black authors and increase diversity in children's books?
... that The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy contains an idiosyncratic selection of topics, from "Aliens in Space" to "Rats and Mice"?
... that Natal frontier trader James Rorke specified that he be buried under three feet (0.9 m) of concrete because he feared Zulu graverobbers?
... that the graffiti artists hired for the video game Skitchin' were interviewed at a train station because they were too young to drive?
... that after the Lord's Day Observance Society forced the National Sunday League to stop their Sunday lectures, they eventually regrouped to form the Sunday Lecture Society?
... that a Chinese ex-slave named Quintín Quintana became a successful merchant and pro-Chile leader in the War of the Pacific?
... that the African Society of Human Genetics was established so that more human genetics and genomics research could be done by African scientists in Africa?
... that the St Helena Local Militia led the 1840 procession of Napoleon's body after its disinterment from his tomb on the island?
... that the McDonald's promotion campaign for the 1984 Olympic Games was given an unexpected boost by the Cold War?
... that an entrance to one of the Villard Houses was turned into an exit because it was too close to a chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral?
... that Hoagy Carmichael's song "Stardust" has been recorded more than 1,500 times?
... that although the Germans boasted that they captured British radio traffic with ease, the Wireless Set Number 10 was so secure that they never even knew of its existence?
... that after starting Los Angeles Spanish-language television station KVEA, a group led by Saul Steinberg bought other Spanish-language stations to form the Telemundo network?
... that Murray Koster started for the Sharks rugby team against the British and Irish Lions, paired with Werner Kok?
... that the church cantata Gelobet sei der Herr täglich (Praised be the Lord daily) by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach for four voices and strings is extant in a manuscript score from around 1710?
... that Kevin Kopps reworked his pitching delivery based on how he played fetch with his dog?
... that film critic Danny Peary described Darby Jones as having been "even more typecast than the typical black actor", limited to roles in jungle-themed films?
... that the construction of 666 Fifth Avenue involved cartoon decorations, a papier-mâché Santa Claus, and a 78-by-155-foot (24 by 47 m) American flag that ripped as it was being unfurled?
... that Blanche Zacharie de Baralt was the University of Havana's first woman philosophy graduate and the first person to translate Tagore's poems into Spanish?
... that the construction of WaHu Student Apartments was delayed for one year by Minneapolis's initial rejection of a new location for the blood plasma donation center on the property?
... that the fictional battle Operation Yashima, displayed in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "Rei II", inspired a real unofficial campaign in Japan to conserve electricity after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
... that the small Pacific island nation of Tonga, represented by its satellite company Tongasat, claimed nine percent of all viable satellite orbits and became the sixth-largest holder of those orbits?
... that Lever House , slated for replacement with a larger building in the 1980s, was protected as a New York City landmark with a one-vote majority?
... that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina?
... that the Pomme d'Or Hotel was used as the Nazi naval headquarters during the occupation of Jersey, and the Union Jack is raised on the hotel balcony every year to celebrate Jersey's liberation?
... that Philip Kreyenbroek taught Iranian studies at the University of Göttingen due to his interest in Yazidi traditions and the fact that about half of the Yazidi diaspora lived in Germany at the time?
... that Lynde Shores Conservation Area is an important resting point for shorebirds and waterfowl migrating along Lake Ontario?
... that Tatjana Gamerith and her husband, married for 60 years despite an age difference of 20 years, were awarded a prize for their work to combine art and nature?
... that in June 2021, scientists described "Dragon Man", a member of a new species of archaic human that lived at least 146,000 years ago on the Northeast China Plain?
... that unlike most other insects, dragonflies have direct flight, the muscles being attached directly to the wing bases ?
... that George Curtis played football for a Royal Air Force base during his time as a Coventry City player, but he "scarcely broke sweat"?
... that James Benning's 1995 experimental documentary film Deseret chronicles 140 years of the history of Utah by way of 93 New York Times excerpts?
... that the heavy metal musician Leah has sometimes been called "the metal Enya"?
... that Indian doctor Nasarvanji Hormusji Choksy, who worked to improve public health, contracted bubonic plague three times?
... that, in a 2018 survey of 38 news organizations, the Palmer Report was ranked the fourth-least trusted news organization by Americans?
... that the newly founded Family First Party has access to the former Family First Party's database of 6,000 supporters, according to The Australian?
... that Jochen Schmidt , a dance critic for the FAZ for 30 years, wrote a book about Pina Bausch and her Wuppertal dance theatre?
... that Olympic baseball player Édgar Arredondo set a record for the youngest debut in the Mexican League?
... that in exchange for building its New York City headquarters, Goldman Sachs received $1.65 billion in bonds and $115 million in tax breaks?