derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Mary Renault was encouraged by J. R. R. Tolkien to write a novel set in medieval times, but she burned the manuscript because she felt it lacked authenticity?
... that the Hainanese chicken rice at the Singaporean restaurant Chatterbox was developed by a German chef?
... that The Uses of Disorder, characterized by one reviewer as "the best available contemporary defense of anarchism", was intended to be a critique of orderly city life?
... that after Leonel Gómez Vides died in 2009, one of his friends expressed surprise that he had not been murdered?
... that following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a diverse group of exiled Russian public figures formed the Anti-War Committee of Russia to unite different political movements to oppose the war?
... that each song on Andy Shauf's 2016 album The Party is sung from the perspective of a different guest at a house party?
... that in the twelve-stanza Easter hymn "Ihr Christen, singet hocherfreut", based on a 15th-century hymn in Latin, an angel tells women to not remain at the empty tomb?
... that convicted serial killer Mariam Soulakiotis, a Greek Old Calendarist abbess, is known in Greece as "Mother Rasputin" for fasting nuns to death?
... that Winston Churchill painted Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque, his only painting during World War II, at the Villa Taylor?
... that Minnesang poet Walther von Klingen is depicted jousting in the Codex Manesse manuscript?
... that in Le Tombeau de Couperin, George Balanchine's ballet to Ravel's orchestral suite, the dancers are divided into two groups, dancing separately?
... that Guy Alfred Wyon helped discover a remedy for TNT poisoning in British shell factories in World War I?
... that the Colonial Office refused to appoint Cyrus Prudhomme David to the magistracy, considering it wrong "as a matter of policy" to appoint a second Black man to a legal post in Trinidad and Tobago?
... that Walter Cronkite was one of 40 finalists in NASA's Journalist in Space Project?
... that the Selangor State Executive Council degazetted most of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve, despite the legislative assembly having unanimously voted to preserve it?
... that butterflies of the genus Anaea are said to have "commanded the admiration of even the most gold-mad conquistadores"?
... that Artem Datsyshyn, the National Opera of Ukraine's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère, is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"?
... that the freighter Emperor is the most visited shipwreck in Isle Royale National Park?
... that Ciceruacchio, a cart driver, was described as "Rome's first citizen"?
... that Russia's Unfriendly Countries List includes the United States, the European Union, and San Marino?
... that Eric Sbraccia made his professional wrestling debut at the age of fourteen as a "junior member" for Tony Rumble in International Championship Wrestling?
... that Paddy Morgan conceded the final of the 1976 Australian Professional Championship rather than play with Eddie Charlton's balls?
... that Scottish nurse Euphemia Steele Innes was decorated with the Royal Red Cross first class for services with the Territorial Force Nursing Service in World War I?
... that the trial of Neumann and Sass, held in Lithuania in 1934–1935, is said to be the first mass trial of Nazis in Europe?
... that Andrew Barclay, a bookbinder in colonial Boston, was commanded by British general Sir Guy Carleton to take Loyalist refugees to Nova Scotia?
... that the 1962 Book of Common Prayer has been translated into Cree, French, Inuktitut, and Mohawk?
... that the Johannespassion by Wolfram Menschick, a setting of the Passion according to St John for three soloists and choir, will be performed today at Essen Cathedral?
... that New York Times writer David W. Dunlap said calling the Apple Bank Building a neighborhood bank branch "is like calling Grand Central Terminal a commuter train station"?
... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors?
... that there wasn't enough water in Oceanside to build more than half of the E. F. Barrett Power Station?
... that the 16th-century Hockley Pendant was discovered by a four-year-old in 2009?
... that Zebedee Nungak, taken as a child for an experiment by the Canadian government, went on to "cross antlers with prime ministers, premiers and Québec separatists"?
... that the titular character of Verdi's Nabucco, the opera that established his fame, is a combination of three historic rulers?
... that military volunteer Maria Berlinska led the report that let women hold combat positions in the Ukrainian military?
... that in 2013, McNally v R upheld a conviction for sexual assault via gender deception?
... that during the Year of Luigi, Nintendo released a mockumentary depicting Luigi as a "legend of parkour"?
... that one reviewer wrote that her "pinkies protested and went on strike" after half an hour of typing on a Sharp PC-4500?
... that the sodium fast reactor Fermi 1 suffered a nuclear meltdown that led one operator to suggest "we almost lost Detroit"?
... that when soprano Rosina Buckman returned to New Zealand for a concert tour in 1922, the prime minister and a former prime minister spoke at the reception?
... that the freighter Chester A. Congdon became the largest financial loss to date on the Great Lakes when she wrecked in 1918?
... that ESA astronauts used virtual reality to verify the design of the International Habitation Module?
... that Stephen Bishop's 1842 map of Mammoth Cave, drawn from memory, was so accurate that it remained in use for more than forty years?
... that forensic scientist Angela Gallop has investigated the stomach contents of Diana, Princess of Wales, alleged alien abductions, and the presence of boar sperm in a hospital patient's intestines?
... that in Rosamund's Bower , the aim is to reunite Fair Rosamund with King Henry?
... that Francis Childs was the publisher and printer of The New York Daily Advertiser, the third daily newspaper to appear in the United States, in 1785?
... that the text of the hymn "Herr, nimm auch uns zum Tabor mit" was written in 2001 because few German hymns dealt with the transfiguration of Jesus, an annual reading during Lent?
... that the divers who found the c. 9th-century Tully Lough Cross in 1986 were convicted for trying to sell it to American museums?
... that Croydon-based rapper ZieZie started studying carpentry in college before he decided to focus on music?
... that according to the book Price of the Modi Years, the popularity of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi does not depend on his performance?
... that over the course of her career, vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern taught Debbie Harry, Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Diamanda Galás, and Kathleen Hanna?
... that the egg-size Logan Sapphire glows reddish orange under ultraviolet radiation?
... that Barrie R. Cassileth helped create one of the first palliative cancer care programs in the United States?
... that crane driver Bob Sredersas's donation of over 100 pieces of art led to the establishment of Wollongong Art Gallery?
... that, according to its owner, KLEF in Anchorage, Alaska, was one of just three remaining commercially operated classical-music radio stations in the United States, as of 2013?
... that Nigel Fossard did not mention his wife's name in a charter, but did mention the name of the king and queen of England?
... that the 2020 book Neither Settler nor Native was described as "a landmark in trying to figure out how to transform the way humans relate to each other"?
... that Christian Herwartz, a Jesuit who lived in an open community in Berlin from 1978 to 2016, held "street exercises" and peace prayers?
... that the RKO Keith's Theater, once described as one of New York City's "great theaters", later stood in ruins and was covered with graffiti?
... that Suardi Tasrif helped author the code of ethics for Indonesian journalists and advocates?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
... that when a Russian warship asked the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island to surrender, their response was "Russian warship, go fuck yourself"?
... that Jerome Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun is set in a dance studio, with the dancers facing the audience as if they were the mirror?
... that Hong Kong native Grace Ho gave birth to her fourth child, Bruce Lee, while on a one-year tour through the United States with the Mandarin Theatre?
... that Henri Coutard, an early pioneer in radiation therapy, spent the last decade of his life conducting fanciful experiments that were rejected by his peers?
... that Washington state TV station KTRX went on the air in January 1958—and failed to make it to the end of the year?
... that the Polish soprano Zofia Kilanowicz appeared as Roxana in Szymanowski's King Roger in Paris, and recorded Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs?
... that Ronnie O'Sullivan became the first player to make five century breaks in consecutive matches at the 2022 Tour Championship?
... that Billie Eilish's "Male Fantasy" reportedly "sneaks up and destroys you emotionally"?
... that the James Rumsey Monument was built on a spot known as "Crazy Rumsey's Walk"?
... that more than 200 Nobel Prize laureates have signed a letter against the war in Ukraine?
... that due to the work of John Henry Bell a set of guidelines was introduced to protect woolsorters from anthrax?
... that when WGPR-TV in Detroit was converted from a station serving Black and ethnic audiences to a CBS affiliate, it experienced ratings increases of 11,000 percent?
... that Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?
... that Joining Forces has sought to make the transfer of occupational licenses easier for U.S. military spouses?
... that Yulia Tolopa, a single mother from Russia, has fought for Ukraine in the war in Donbas since she was 18 years old?
... that Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls was one of the leaders in the first successful effort to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in the United States?
... that Inuit traditional belief holds that women without facial tattoos would be sent to the land of the crestfallen to spend eternity with smoke coming from their throats and their heads hanging down?
... that Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. dedicated his first book to his wife and credited her with having "always propped up my morale", even though they had been separated for seven years?
... that moral equality of combatants, regardless of whether they fight for a just cause, is said to be "one of the stickiest problems in the ethics of war"?
... that the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York, founded in 1949 by immigrants, first toured Ukraine in 1990?
... that one of the original co-owners of New York state radio station WAQX-FM did much of the construction himself?
... that the first New Testament in English was printed by Peter Schöffer the Younger in Worms?
... that at WOPR, a high-school radio station in Michigan, DJs were forced to change the music styles they played every two weeks?
... that Chanson à bouche fermée, a 1933 choral piece composed by Jehan Alain, is sung without text and with a closed mouth?
... that Carol Van Strum, an environmental activist who wrote the book A Bitter Fog, accumulated 20,000 documents across 40 years that revealed corporate and government cover-ups?
... that the Cook Landing Site also commemorates the Māori who landed in New Zealand four centuries or more before Cook did?
... that Diane Burns's Alphabet Serenade provides an early critique of the gentrification of the Lower East Side?
... that visitors to the Museum of Sexual Cultures can make offerings to a statue of Priapus?
... that Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area has one of the largest fields of Virginia bluebell flowers in northern Virginia?
... that French designer Martine Bedin compared her Super Lamp design to "a small dog that I could carry with me"?
... that the Eden of Coronet guitar is covered in 1.6 kilograms (3.5 lb) of gold and 11,441 diamonds?
... that Baku was the last major city to hold municipal elections in 1917 Russia, with the delayed voting occurring after the beginning of the October Revolution?
... that the story of Mary Cornelius Winder was described by Arthur Halbritter as "the story of the Nation"?
... that Merck & Co. avoided repatriation taxes totaling over $3 billion during its 2009 acquisition of Schering-Plough?
... that after a career as political journalist, Peter Merseburger wrote biographies of Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein and chancellor Willy Brandt?
... that the Nutty Narrows Bridge went unused on its first day, despite attempts to lure traffic with peanuts?
... that Lesia Vasylenko founded a human-rights non-governmental organization to assist servicemen and veterans before becoming a People's Deputy of Ukraine?
... that Rajendra Kumar was supposed to play his first major role in the 1951 social drama Hum Log but was replaced a few days into filming?
... that a young Ukrainian photographer, Valeria Shashenok, posts satirical TikTok videos about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
... that LittleBigPlanet, a video game that allows the player to create levels, coincided with the rise of user-generated content?
... that "Ambush", the fourth-season premiere episode of ER, was filmed live twice, for the East and West Coasts?
... that after a trip to Germany, Xiang Guangda decided to shift from making car doors to making stainless steel?
... that lyricist Neko Oikawa wrote Neon Genesis Evangelion opening theme "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" in two hours?
... that chess on a really big board, Nuclear Gandhi, and a list of sexually active popes can all be found in the Depths of Wikipedia?
... that the calls of Whitehead's broadbill resemble those of trogons, woodpeckers, and jays?
... that Alabama Pitts was noted by the Los Angeles Times in 1934 as "the most prominent jail-bird athlete in America"?
... that Vladyslav Buialskyi, a 24-year-old bass-baritone from Berdiansk, sang the State Anthem of Ukraine on the night of his debut with the Metropolitan Opera?
... that Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan wrote Sex and Vanity in four months?
... that many designers and directors avoided the Vivian Beaumont Theater because of its unconventional mixture of stage designs?
... that dictator Saparmurat Niyazov made his officials walk a mountain path every year while he flew the route in a helicopter?
... that at the 2022 British Indoor Athletics Championships, Lorraine Ugen equalled the championship long jump record?
... that the destructible environment effects in The Incredible Hulk were so extensive that two additional artists were added during the game's development?
... that a Ukrainian soldier has written a song dedicated to the Turkish combat drone Bayraktar TB2?
... that political scientist Selwyn Ryan has been called "the author of record for the ... modern political history" of Trinidad and Tobago?
... that in 1982, a news anchor for Phoenix television station KOOL-TV was held hostage on set for five hours?
... that the golden rooftop charioteer was removed during the restoration of the Minnesota State Capitol and its artwork?
... that prior to starting her music career, Akari Akase was a popular cosplayer and TikToker, with more than 1.2 million subscribers?
... that the royal necropolis of Byblos was discovered in 1922 due to a heavy rain-triggered landslide, which uncovered an unspoiled royal tomb in the seaside cliff of Byblos?
... that the 2017 short film Juice, starring Shefali Shah as a middle-class Indian wife defying patriarchal norms, won two Filmfare Short Film Awards?
... that Hans-Karl von Kupsch, who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations, ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife?
... that vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness despite existing prevention programs?
... that the songs in the album Da Turdy Point Buck contain belches and animal sounds that were recorded in a barn?
... that Ploning and Mindanao, films starring Judy Ann Santos , were the Philippine submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 81st and 93rd Academy Awards, respectively?
... that the 32-story Bridge Apartments in New York City were built directly above a 12-lane freeway?
... that when Heather Phillips made her European debut in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero at the Oper Frankfurt, reviewers agreed that her nuanced coloraturas served to portray Bianca's development?
... that in the 1951 court case Kuzych v White, on appeal from the British Columbia Court of Appeal, five law lords of the British Judicial Committee ruled in favour of a Communist-led trade union?
... that the Godhavn inquiry found that a psychiatrist gave children the antipsychotic medication chlorprothixene to stop bedwetting – which was neither standard nor validated by contemporary evidence?
... that Mily Treviño-Sauceda, the co-founder of the first national grassroots women's farmworker organization in the United States, the National Alliance of Farmworker Women, was a child farmworker in the 1960s?
... that during the Napoleonic looting of art, French soldiers destroyed the Venetian state ship, the Bucentaur, and melted down its gold decorations?
... that the owner of Phoenix's KNXV-TV "[held] a gun to ABC's head" – and it paid off?
... that postcards were made of Olena Stepaniv during the First World War, and in 1991 Lviv named a street after her?
... that radio station WIQT near Elmira, New York, was co-owned with a regional group of clothing, furniture, and shoe stores?
... that Kitty Shiva Rao was the head of a committee to find out what Indian women wanted from the new Constitution of India?
... that the picture book Eyes That Kiss in the Corners was written to celebrate and empower Asian identities?
... that access to London's Devonshire Close was restricted in order to avoid the wealthier streets surrounding it?
... that Joseph Binder influenced modern poster design, creating posters for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the U.S. Army Corps and the American Red Cross?
... that J. R. R. Tolkien invented Elendil for a time-travel story, but ultimately included the character in his main Middle-earth mythology?
... that the Noefefan Bridge in Oecusse, East Timor, was originally planned to be a truss bridge, but was constructed as an arch bridge?
... that Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament?
... that the satirical study of "Qallunology", the study of white people, in the film Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny, is meant as a critique of the treatment of Inuit culture by anthropologists?
... that Lebanese actress Takla Chamoun refused to cancel a play's performance after being informed that her mother had died?
... that the 14th-century house Maison de Jeanne was positively dated with the science of dendrochronology?
... that in the judgment of historians, the Fatimid caliph al-Musta'li "had no noteworthy life", as he was a puppet of his vizier, al-Afdal?
... that the chestnut-hooded laughingthrush feeds on insects that have been hit by vehicles?
... that the Neon Genesis Evangelion character Gendo Ikari was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder by a real-life Japanese psychiatrist?
... that Puyallup leader Ramona Bennett helped organize a week-long occupation of the Cushman Hospital in 1976?
... that environmental defenders on the front of the global environmental justice movement are being killed at a rate of about three per week?
... that although Adolf I von Nassau was chosen as Archbishop of Mainz by the cathedral chapter in 1371 and 1373, Pope Gregory XI appointed other candidates both times?
... that in front of the Government Palace in Dili, East Timor, is a monument to the famous Portuguese explorer and imperialist, Prince Henry the Navigator?
... that in May 2021, Alisson became the sixth goalkeeper to score in the Premier League?
... that Barbara Shermund illustrated two early New Yorker covers and, 25 years later, was one of the first women to join the National Cartoonists Society?
... that Agron House was one of the first Israeli cinemas to show films on the Sabbath?
... that Lucy Feagin founded the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York City, where talent scouts for radio, screen, and stage were always present to watch her senior students' plays?
... that many international law experts and states doubt that extended occupations, such as the Israeli occupation of Palestine, can ever be legal?
... that astronaut Judith Resnik flew in space with "Tarzan" and "Cheetah"?
... that views on the refusal to fight certain wars range from it being prohibited to morally obligatory?
... that William Rees Jeffreys was a cyclist who became the first secretary of the Road Board, the forerunner of the UK's Department for Transport?
... that the House of Brag organized a "Monstrous Pride" event to clash with London's pride parade?
... that Royce Clayton idolized Ozzie Smith, the shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, as an amateur and took his job as a professional?
... that the 2022 game Needy Streamer Overload allows the player to make a female livestreamer engage in psychoactive drug abuse?
... that in the television series sequel Imortal (2010), Angel Locsin portrayed the lead role as the daughter of her lycan character in the Lobo TV series?
... that journalist Travis Lupick first wrote about the opioid epidemic for The Georgia Straight in 2014 and has since published two books, Light Up the Night and Fighting for Space, on the subject?
... that Saint Rose Catholic Church was moved from the ghost town of Fleetwood, Oregon, to the Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum in 1988?
... that in 2019, Border Report launched a ten-day project covering news stories along the Mexico–US border?
... that WBAA, the radio station of Purdue University, received its broadcast license 100 years ago today?
... that a 10-foot-tall (3 m) chicken stands on a roundabout in Dorking, Surrey?
... that on March 2, 2022, 86 percent of workers in New York City's REI store voted in favor of the outdoor recreation retailer's first ever trade union, REI Union SoHo?
... that Abhijātābhivaṃsa, 12th recipient of the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika, could memorize and recite all the pages of the Tipiṭaka?
... that raptor persecution is a crime against birds of prey, and in Scotland, ravens are afforded honorary raptor status?
... that during the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the perpetrator?
... that the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, which found the wreck of Endurance in 2022, also discovered the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst in 2019?
... that Victoria Brownworth was the first open lesbian to write a column in a daily newspaper in the United States?
... that Davide Soliani, the creator of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, became an Internet meme for crying on stage?
... that all stanzas of the song "Gott liebt diese Welt" begin with this line, sending the message that God loves this world to young Christians in Mecklenburg after the Berlin Wall was built?
... that Thomas Fleet, the founder of the Boston Evening-Post, began his printing career by publishing an American version of Mother Goose, from stories told by his mother-in-law to his children?
... that decades after resigning from his pulpit, rabbi Mitchell Fisher published a book titled Rebel, O Jews! And Other Prayers?
... that lichexanthone, a chemical found in some lichens, enhances human sperm motility and kills mosquito larvae?
... that Peter Merseburger refused to host a 1974 edition of German political TV magazine Panorama after a report by Alice Schwarzer on an abortion was cancelled by authorities?
... that Clement Crisp, a dance critic for the Financial Times from 1956 to 2020, authored or co-authored 17 books on dance and dance history?
... that the 7th Macho de Monte Infantry Company of the Panama Defense Forces was named after a tapir?