derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic operas, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier?
... that Alfred Egerton Cooper, a war artist who lost the use of an eye in World War I, painted airships ?
... that when Divine's song "Lately" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters, the producers, and the record labels?
... that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"?
... that in the 1980s, NBC was given several hundred million dollars' worth of incentives to stay at 30 Rockefeller Plaza?
... that the tribune of the plebs Gaius Antius Restio passed a law in 68 BC forbidding Roman magistrates from attending banquets?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that COVID-19 lockdown restrictions caused a 37-percent increase in infections of dengue fever in Singapore's 2020 outbreak?
... that Ruth L. Trufant sued a man for not following through on a promise to marry her?
... that Dee Dawkins-Haigler ran in four elections in four months for the same seat?
... that an erroneous claim that the neural language model LaMDA is sentient has generated conversations on the efficacy of the Turing test?
... that South Carolina legislator Wade Perrin was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan the day after being re-elected?
... that the Promethean gap was part of an attempt by Gunther Andres to conceptualize Hiroshima and Auschwitz?
... that the 1956 article "My Last Wonderful Days", about an Iowa woman accepting terminal cancer, funded an Iowa State University scholarship program?
... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
... that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how Alaskapox virus, a recently discovered relative of Monkeypox virus, has spread to humans from animals?
... that Mary Baines, credited as one of the founders of the palliative care movement, initially thought it "very odd, this idea of caring for the dying"?
... that Chrysina limbata has a reflective silver color because of layers of chirped chitin coating?
... that two slaves belonging to Don Carlos were trained by the Italian medallist Jacopo da Trezzo in his workshop in 1550s Madrid?
... that in 2007, Arthur Gray's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
... that the RoadRunner, a laptop from 1983, loaded and stored data from cartridges?
... that in 2021, Wishma Sandamali, who was detained for overstaying her visa after seeking police protection for domestic abuse, became the 17th person to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007?
... that roughly 15,000 copies of the anonymously published essay "Queers Read This" were distributed at the June 1990 New York Gay Pride Parade?
... that Pooja Sharma employs 150 women in a bakery that she started in a reputedly haunted mansion?
... that Ellaisa Marquis has been called the "marquis player" of women's football in Saint Lucia?
... that two state representatives got into a fight in the parking lot of Miami's Radio Mambí after one's father insulted the other's on the air?
... that Oey Tiang Tjoei once physically assaulted the editor of a competing newspaper?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that Welsh shot putter Adele Nicoll was approached about taking up bobsleigh based on a video on social media of her exercising?
... that The Great Wave off Kanagawa has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art"?
... that María Chiquinquirá was allowed to remain free until a court heard her case, but since it never did she died a free woman?
... that under a new Connecticut law, abortion providers in the state can countersue anyone who sues them under the Texas Heartbeat Act?
... that three men resigned from the Executive Council of Nova Scotia upon Mather Byles Almon's appointment?
... that the snapping shrimp Alpheus armatus clears sand from a sea anemone's lair?
... that counterterrorism expert Esperanza Casteleiro used to work in human resources?
... that during Orrin Hatch's presidential campaign in 2000, his wife told him that his poor performance in the Iowa caucuses was a "sign from God" to end his campaign?
... that research on short-finned pilot whales by Natacha Aguilar de Soto is leading scientists to reassess foraging models for the behavior of marine predators?
... that Charlie Young was introduced into The West Wing over concerns of a lack of racial diversity in casting?
... that in 2020, Ukrainian association football referee Maryna Striletska was part of the first all-woman officiating team for a men's international football match?
... that in 2021, Elvis Costello remade his 1978 album This Year's Model in Spanish with several Latin musical artists?
... that according to Rogers Smith, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Ku Klux Cases was its only ruling "markedly favorable to black voting rights" in the post-Reconstruction era?
... that Ursula Sillge's attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in East Germany led to the banning of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's venue for LGBT meetings?
... that the novel June Rain was described by one critic as "a 'whodunit' without a 'who'"?
... that the Akebono elephant is one of four Stegodon species that roamed Plio-Pleistocene Japan?
... that Ann Klein supported a successful bill that allowed women to register to vote in New Jersey without disclosing their marital status?
... that readers of The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler often incorrectly assume that the main character is a boy?
... that after LaVere Redfield's death, 12 tons of silver dollars were found hidden in his garage and home?
... that a cheat code in the video game Spyro: Year of the Dragon grants access to a near-complete copy of Crash Bash?
... that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam?
... that a study published in the journal Celebrity Studies examined Pippa Middleton's buttocks using Marxist and Freudian analyses?
... that Eileen Collins was the first woman Space Shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission?
... that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
... that Jim Pappin was credited with the 1967 Stanley Cup-clinching goal in exchange for giving Pete Stemkowski unlimited access to his backyard pool?
... that William D. Leahy was the highest-ranking American military officer in World War II?
... that the prologue to The Polymath was written by Martin Kemp, a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci?
... that the US Mint released the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent on August 2, 1909, and discontinued it on August 5 because it showed the initials of engraver Victor David Brenner?
... that Alex Horton made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Glamorgan despite no actual play being possible due to rain?
... that dermosyphilopathologist Giuseppe Mariani received a silver medal for his bravery under fire at the Third Battle of the Isonzo?
... that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia, Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing?
... that the first time The Witcher universe was portrayed outside the novels was in the 1993–1995 Polish comic book series of the same name?
... that the Beacon Theatre, once described as "a true bit of Bagdad on Broadway", later gained a reputation as a rock venue?
... that dozens of mammals and birds were first described from specimens collected by "Orii of the Orient" ?
... that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia?
... that Ekaterina Novitskaya, then aged 16, became the first female ever to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano?
... that the 1944 SCR-720 radar system was used only briefly by the USAAF, but was a primary RAF system into the late 1950s?
... that the Scottish medical missionary Ernest Muir championed the use of the traditional Ayurvedic cure chaulmoogra oil in treating Hansen's disease (leprosy)?
... that a Pennsylvania TV station is experimenting with datacasting educational content to school students and prison inmates?
... that prior to Mary Manhein's forensic-anthropology work in Louisiana, unidentified bones "usually ended up in a box"?
... that Hans van Manen's ballet Adagio Hammerklavier is inspired by a recording of the Beethoven score that was played at an exceptionally slow tempo?
... that Judith Ehrlich incorporated her NPR work on pacifism into a documentary focusing on conscientious objectors during World War II?
... that Greenlandic author Pipaluk Freuchen was praised for the "unrelenting realism" in her first book, where a child kills a polar bear?
... that it took seven years for Gwazi, a pair of dueling wooden roller coasters, to be refurbished into the hybrid roller coaster Iron Gwazi?
... that The Tale of Genji's Kaoru Genji has been called literature's first antihero?
... that in Jackson, Tennessee, there was a 50–50 chance a reference to Dixie was about a radio station?
... that the Irish Bee Conservation Project is helping to rewild native bees with bee lodges on the estate of the historic Dunsany Castle?
... that American drag queen James Herndon donated funds and resources into black and LGBTQ+ communities in Lexington, Kentucky?
... that Mess L, a multipurpose building in Banjarbaru, Indonesia, was historically used to house Soviet workers?
... that American conservationist Paul Lester Errington reshaped perception of predators?
... that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
... that the 19th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on 19 December with 19 participating countries – but the EBU had to choose between three competition scenarios due to COVID-19?
... that despite having reportedly been destroyed in 1946, the 16-ton granite ball that once sat on top of the Columbia University sundial reappeared in a Michigan field in 2001?
... that J. Michael Miller, the archbishop of Vancouver, who turns 76 today, starred in a high school production of Our Town opposite Mary Lou Finlay?
... that a Louisiana radio station went to a satellite-fed music format because it had more control than with its previous "18- and 20-year-old jocks"?
... that Avtar Singh Jouhl took Malcolm X to a segregated pub in Smethwick as part of his campaign to end the colour bar?
... that the title of the incel and Frogtwitter subculture film TFW No GF stands for "that feeling when [you have] no girlfriend"?
... that the developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of a person's voice is sufficient to clone it up to human standards using artificial intelligence?
... that Alfons Koziełł-Poklewski, dubbed the "vodka king of Siberia", was actually Polish?
... that Nero's divorce of Claudia Octavia caused public outcry – so he had her executed instead?
... that about 200 San Francisco police officers led a 1989 riot through a gay neighborhood in reaction to a peaceful protest?
... that John Yelland was insulted by Admiral Hyde Parker's offer of a position aboard his flagship?
... that the Enterprise, a black newspaper in Omaha, supported a separate African American department at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition?
... that Charles Alban Buckler, an artist, topographer, author, and officer of arms, rebuilt Arundel Castle?
... that Ingrid Andress came up with "Lady Like" after being rejected by a man when she brought politics up?
... that a 1955 satirical comedy play by Kasymaly Jantöshev was one of the first signs of the relaxation of Soviet literary restrictions after the death of Joseph Stalin?
... that Kuappi in Iisalmi, Finland, holds the Guinness world record for the smallest restaurant?
... that Chris Ernst stripped naked in 1976 with her Yale University teammates to protest the lack of showers for the women's rowing crew?
... that Polish courts processed 14.38 million cases in 2020 while having fewer than 10,000 judges?
... that conservationist Frank H. Wadsworth supported and worked with efforts to recover the endangered Puerto Rican parrot?
... that Olive Llewellyn, a character in the novel Sea of Tranquility, has been called a stand-in for Emily St. John Mandel, the novel's author?
... that Dominic Keegan refused a position on the New York Yankees to "go back and win another championship" for his college baseball team?
... that Filipina actress Angel Locsin was recognized for her work in disaster relief, as well as humanitarian aid for internally displaced persons in the Marawi siege?
... that according to one reviewer, the problems that may have prompted the publication of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life in the 1980s had "only gotten worse" by 2005?
... that Norwegian footballer Tuva Hansen and her dog have received millions of views on several TikTok videos?
... that "Hurricane" was originally intended for Chance the Rapper, who passed on the song to Kanye West?
... that Hausman Baboe, a colonial district chief of Kuala Kapuas, was fired due to his anti-colonial remarks?
... that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens?
... that local dairy farmers credit morning broadcasts of polka music from a Wisconsin radio station for relaxing their cows?
... that one Palestinian man criticized the beauty of West Bank Wall graffiti art , telling Banksy: "We don't want this wall to be beautiful. We hate it. Go home"?
... that the three oak saplings on the flag of Prince Edward Island represent the three counties that make up the province?
... that Bert Longfellow took on a one-man crusade which halved the drowning rate in the United States?
... that Holy Trinity Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme was praised as the "finest modern specimen of ornamental brickwork in the kingdom"?
... that the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022?
... that a Pacific Cyber/Metrix's Bubbl-Dek fits into the floppy drive bay of an IBM PC, allowing it to take a bubble memory module?
... that Dr. Dot started to give her mother "bite massages" at the age of five?
... that Owen Jones's elaborately ornamented Book of Common Prayer "pointed to the direction that books in general were to follow in the Victorian Age"?
... that George Mann Niedecken was a Prairie-style interior architect who designed furniture for Frank Lloyd Wright and worked for Marion Mahony Griffin?
... that in the 1917 municipal election in Minsk, Belorussian parties only won 2 out of 102 seats?
... that as a lawyer, Peter Dowding defended more than 100 Vietnam War conscientious objectors?
... that Rafflesia lawangensis was previously misidentified as Rafflesia arnoldii, only to be identified as a new species in 2005 after photographs of it were sent to the National University of Malaysia?
... that Paul Chadick performed so well in the Delaware River Basketball League that a sportswriter said it would "benefit the league if he retired"?
... that the first Asian-American at West Point to be named First Captain of the cadets was John Tien , the current U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security?
... that Irene Parlby was one of The Famous Five, a group of women in Canada who fought for the right of women to be considered "persons"?
... that agriculture ranks as one of the most stressful occupations in the United States and one that experiences high suicide rates?
... that The Baby-Sitters Club actress Sophia Reid-Gantzert won an Austrian ballet competition when she was six?
... that when the pastor of an African-American church bought the El Dorado, one newspaper wrote that "its occupants are white, and were white"?
... that actress Hilda Hanbury was the grandmother of actors James and Edward Fox and the great-grandmother of actress Emilia Fox?
... that part of West Virginia's Princeton–Deepwater District railway was so steep that only shortened coal trains could ascend it?
... that Edward A. Synan, a military chaplain, wrote over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism?
... that Italian football club A.C. Monza played 40 seasons in Serie B before securing promotion to Serie A – more than any other club?
... that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented the sensuality and eroticism of his work?
... that according to Bohr's law, the person who draws first in a gunfight loses?
... that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, an expert in sickle cell disease, decided while still in medical school to devote his life to the study of the disease, after his newborn son was diagnosed with the condition?
... that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm?
... that Franziska Seidl, born 130 years ago today, finished school after her husband's death and then went on to research ultrasound at the University of Vienna?
... that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, had an appearance in the 1974 film Sangram?
... that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem, one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was given an award for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion?
... that Pat Gozemba married her wife while researching a book about the history of the struggle for equal marriage in Massachusetts?
... that red-boxing by American politicians is used to coordinate with Super PACs, an activity that the Campaign Legal Center called the "primary mechanism for corruption of federal campaigns in 2022"?
... that King Mohnyin Thado of Ava responded to the troubles of his kingdom by recalibrating the Burmese calendar to year 2?
... that at its premiere at Symphony Hall, Leonard Bernstein described his suite Divertimento as a "fun piece" that "reflects my youthful experiences here where I heard my first orchestral music"?
... that Irene Desmet, a Liverpudlian paediatric surgeon, was described by one of her trainees as "an iron fist in a velvet glove"?
... that Gil Scott-Heron's 1975 song "Johannesburg" was banned in South Africa during apartheid?
... that Indian philanthropist and business executive T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
... that at over 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi), Antar Lintas Sumatera's Medan-to-Jember service is the longest bus route in Indonesia?
... that Pliny used the term insania to describe a Roman art collector's love of citron tables?
... that when Winifred Brown arrived for the King's Cup air race in 1930, she was not allowed to stay at the aero club but still won the race?
... that voting in the first Eurovision Song Contest was conducted in secret, with countries able to vote for their own entries, and only the winner of the contest being announced?
... that William White's last NFL game was Super Bowl XXXIII, in which he made a team-high nine tackles for the losing Atlanta Falcons?
... that Leafpad is a text editor for Linux that is comparable to Notepad for Windows?
... that cosmetic chemist Balanda Atis created the foundation worn by Lupita Nyong'o in advertisements for Lancôme?
... that a practice known as jieba, in which a Buddhist monk has scars ritually burned into his head, was banned by the Chinese government for 300 years?
... that Clifford G. Grulee died while attending a dinner hosted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in his honor?
... that the name of the International Institute of Modern Letters has been criticised by its founder Bill Manhire for being "almost at odds with the fine use of language"?
... that the 1919 Rockwood & Company shipping department fire in New York City led to a flood of chocolate and butter sufficient to "float a rowboat for two blocks along Flushing Avenue"?
... that Henry Jackson served for 44 days, the shortest tenure of any New Zealand member of parliament?
... that armored mud balls are formed underwater when fragments of clay or mud are rolled by moving currents, picking up a coating of gravel or pebbles that helps to stop them breaking down further?
... that Eliane Capobianco's election to the Bolivian Constituent Assembly reflected the propensity of the country's agribusiness elites to occupy positions that granted them influence over land reform policy?
... that Bob Dylan rhymes "Angelina" with "concertina", "hyena", "subpoena", "Argentina" and "arena"?
... that The Exposé's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna were republished by Chinese state media outlets?
... that New Zealand composer Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song "Now is the Hour" for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States?
... that in 2010, Lauren Mitchell became the first Australian female artistic gymnast to win a world title?
... that an incident in the Tailhook scandal involved party goers who accidentally dislodged an eighth-floor window pane while "mooning" the crowd below?
... that Tigor Silaban vowed to work far from Jakarta and not to open a private practice?
... that 17 State Street, near the southern end of New York City's Manhattan Island, was described as "quite literally a beacon for Lower Manhattan"?
... that Esther Cuesta was an undocumented migrant in the United States long before she was elected to represent about 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants?
... that "Arnold's Christmas", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series Hey Arnold!, was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the Vietnam War?
... that the 1948 novel The Corner That Held Them uses subversion of history that includes a nun who enjoyed the Black Death?
... that Brad White was a potato farmer who went on to play six years in the National Football League?
... that the subject of the painting Vladimirka is a road that was used to transport prisoners to Siberia on foot?
... that Bill Harkin designed the original Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage, which was built from scaffolding and plastic sheeting?
... that the Roman fort Aquis Querquennis periodically emerges from a reservoir?
... that casino pit boss Mike Goodman was the author of a book that sold over a million copies?
... that Youlgreave in Derbyshire is one of only a few villages in the United Kingdom to be supplied by its own private waterworks?
... that radio station WBML made its first broadcast just one hour after the funeral of its manager-to-be?
... that Alice Kuperjanov was one of the founders of the Estonian women's movement and assisted military efforts during the Estonian War of Independence?
... that the East Louisiana Railroad, which removed Homer Plessy from a train, actually did so to help him start Plessy v. Ferguson, an attempt to overturn segregation in the United States?
... that "Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen" is a 1697 Lutheran hymn, translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in 1863 as "Jehovah, let me now adore Thee"?
... that Heisman Trophy winner Larry Kelley turned down multiple offers to play professional football to become a school teacher?
... that contrary to Shakespeare's play, Macbeth was not killed during the Battle of Dunsinane?
... that the leader of the Quebec Hells Angels was acquitted of 13 murder charges because the star witness was unwilling to testify at trial and instead complained about how the Crown had cheated him?
... that the design of the train for the roller coaster Tigris was revealed in the form of a cake?
... that Baer's pochard , found in eastern Asia, has seen a population decline of more than 99 percent in past decades, and is no longer migratory in central and eastern China?