derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Leonard Bernstein composed the piano suite Bridal Suite for the wedding of Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman, with the couple meant to play it three-hands?
... that the film Panta Rhei is about the rhythms of clouds and water because the director Bert Haanstra did not feel ready to deal with people?
... that the route of the former Waycross Air Line Railroad is now an important CSX Transportation line?
... that the mathematical infinity symbol ∞ may be derived from the Roman numerals for 1000 or for 100 million?
... that the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility in Brooklyn is the largest commingled recycling facility in the United States?
... that Tatiana Saunders is now goalkeeper for the equal pay team Lewes Football Club Women after playing for U.S., Icelandic and French teams?
... that John Berry Meachum anchored the Floating Freedom School in the Mississippi River under federal government protection?
... that the day employees of Boston television station WLVI received new business cards, they learned the station would be sold and they would lose their jobs?
... that two sculptures from 1428 in the Church of Saint Quentin in Tournai are among the earliest examples of a style that was to dominate most of Europe for the following century?
... that more young girls in Hamdallaye in Niger could go to school after a local councillor arranged to buy eight grinding machines?
... that gender-swapped drawings of Finn the Human, the main character of Adventure Time, inspired their own spin-off series?
... that the source material for Curtis Roads's electronic composition nscor was realized at six studios for a period of five years?
... that for a Murad Takla, writing "reminds me of you" might be interpreted as "mind farts in you"?
... that operatic soprano Elena Tsallagova has been described as a natural actress who can make even looking around a corner interesting?
... that the 1976 manga series Kaze to Ki no Uta is credited with widely popularizing the male–male romance genre?
... that in 2007, Jeremiah Moss started Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, a blog that functions as a "digital obituary column" for old New York City small businesses lost to gentrification?
... that kausheya was an ancient Indian silk mentioned in epics including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata?
... that physical copies of Nintendo Switch Sports include the Leg Strap accessory from Ring Fit Adventure?
... that Richard J. Ferris, CEO of United Airlines, worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?
... that the nature documentary The Green Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, has been compared to both horror films and a "plant porno"?
... that Antonette Wemyss Gorman , the first woman to fill a combat role in the Caribbean, was promoted to rear admiral and is Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force?
... that Matilda Allison, blinded aged seven, "devoted her time instructing the blind" throughout America, thanks to a "wonderful education"?
... that British animal-welfare activist Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League, after seeing trafficked monkeys in cages at an airport in Thailand?
... that three former top-ranking Central Intelligence Agency officials appeared on ABC News Nightline to condemn the agency's treatment of Janine Brookner?
... that, between the ages of six and ten, Dorthe Emilie Røssell helped smuggle weapons and propaganda for the Danish resistance movement in her doll's pram?
... that Julie Croteau is credited as being the first woman to play National Collegiate Athletic Association men's college baseball?
... that South African nurse Stella Madzimbamuto filed an appeal in 1968 with the Privy Council of the United Kingdom that resulted in the Rhodesian government being declared illegal?
... that the popular artist's model Margaret Lemon tried to bite Anthony van Dyck's thumb off?
... that the Door Tree , which stood for nearly 200 years, was cut down because of a brother's hatred?
... that the director of Only Fools Rush In said motorcycles are harder to film than cars?
... that vaccine coverage at schools around the Disneyland Resort was too low for herd immunity when measles broke out in 2014?
... that the adoption of all-steel percussion by Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1939 was widely copied, and prompted the development of the steelpan?
... that a 1982 composition by David Sampson is based on a 1931 poem inspired by the ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries?
... that al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab, the Uqaylid emir of Mosul, was assassinated by his own soldiers while plotting to capture Baghdad from the Buyids?
... that a spokesperson for the American Library Association told ABC News in late 2021 that she had "never seen such a widespread effort to remove books on racial and gender diversity"?
... that at the Dow's Hill Interpretation Centre in Antigua, one can enjoy rum cocktails whilst touring historic ruins?
... that the aesthetic expression of clothing might entail emotions like "excitement, calmness, strength, and delicacy"?
... that after her father received hospice care, Connecticut state legislator Claudia Powers introduced bills to include hospice under Medicare?
... that in 2022, Emmanuel Macron recognized the 1962 Isly killings of French citizens in Algeria by the French army as a massacre?
... that Encanto's Isabela Madrigal was animated to be aware that she is "always on stage"?
... that the Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident was caused when radioactive material ended up in a junkyard and was smelted to produce rebar?
... that the Hi Jolly Monument in Quartzsite, Arizona, marks the grave of Hadji Ali, recruited to the United States to drive and tend camels for the United States Camel Corps?
... that the flatworm Hum­ber­tium covidum , named after the COVID-19 pandemic, was classified in a study written mostly during the initial lockdown?
... that Pranati Nayak was the second Indian female artistic gymnast to compete at the Olympic Games?
... that Alabama radio station WTQX was picketed over the alleged systematic firing of its existing staff by new management?
... that Hina Suguta, who voices Marin Kitagawa in My Dress-Up Darling, worked as a nursery teacher before starting her voice acting career?
... that the B. J. Habibie Bridge in Dili, East Timor, is named after a former deputy of the Indonesian president, who instigated the Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor?
... that, for the animated film Us Again, director and writer Zach Parrish considered a video of an elderly couple dancing to be visceral and ideal inspiration?
... that Sylvain Tesson isolated himself in a pigeon house for a month to write Un été avec Homère?
... that the legs of the statue of Alfred the Great in Southwark are at least 1,600 years older than the torso?
... that Brigadier General Francis G. Brink, the first commander of Military Assistance Advisory Group Indochina, was found dead at the Pentagon with three bullet wounds in the chest?
... that Polish Home Army resistance fighter Witold Pilecki volunteered to infiltrate the Auschwitz concentration camp?
... that Castle Ten Berghe, a manor house built during the 13th century, is now run as a bed and breakfast with a neo-Gothic architectural style?
... that the main storyline of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Perfect Pear" comes from a long-running joke among the show's staff?
... that Children's Fantasy Literature is the first work to address the genre's 500-year history in depth?
... that the 1978 New York City newspaper strike has been theorized to have caused great misery in Boston sports fans?
... that Kobe and Vanessa Bryant were founding donors of the National Museum of African American History and Culture?
... that, in addition to the Armenians, the Assyrians also faced genocide in the Ottoman Empire during World War I?
... that Seal Rescue Ireland comforts orphaned seal pups with fake mothers made of wetsuits?
... that Doja Cat's "Streets" peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 because of a viral mashup on TikTok that combined it with a 1959 song by Paul Anka?
... that despite never having received a formal education in botany, Harry Allan became one of New Zealand's most eminent botanists?
... that during its fifteen-year existence, the New York City Tribune had its highest circulation during a newspaper strike?
... that the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi is located in the cellar of a house in Allendale, Northumberland?
... that an executive of Florida station WFTL-TV declared that he had "faith in its future", only to sell it within months and for the station to close within three years?
... that the sea slug Elysia timida absorbs its colouration from its algae-based diet?
... that when Florida television station WITV ceased broadcasting in May 1958, its owner was reported to be on a yacht at sea and thus unavailable for comment?
... that Plaza Hotel Curaçao, the tallest building in Curaçao, is falling apart?
... that during the production of the 1935 film Together We Live, carpenters tried to copy the musical saw brought in by actress Wera Engels?
... that Squatina mapama was named after Spain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment?
... that when US Army lieutenant general Carl H. Jark retired in 1964, Congressman Henry B. González of Texas honored him by reading Jark's entire career history into the Congressional Record?
... that to repel migrants, the European Union has paid hundreds of millions of euros to Libyan partners known to be involved in human trafficking, slavery, and torture?
... that journalist Bill Westwick once wrote about a plan that never happened with "brilliant clarity and memorable hilarity"?
... that after the 1871 German victory parade in Paris 151 years ago today, the French symbolically scrubbed the streets on which the Germans had marched?
... that Santa Maria, California, radio station KSBQ is named for the style of barbecue that originated in that city?
... that a Cossack detachment led by Imperial Russian Lazar Bicherakhov joined forces with British general Lionel Dunsterville's expeditionary corps to prevent Ottoman advance?
... that the Lake Street Transfer was a double-decked transfer station accommodating two different elevated lines?
... that the College of William & Mary's Lake Matoaka is named for Pocahontas?
... that DBTel once took up 30 percent of the original equipment manufacturer market share for cordless phones in the United States?
... that the concept of hyperspace, primarily known through its use in science fiction, originated from and is still occasionally used in scholarly works?
... that before being restored as a Broadway theater, the Ritz Theatre was used as a television studio, pornographic theater, vaudeville house, children's theater, and poster warehouse?
... that members of The Links, an elite organization of upper-class Black women, include Betty Shabazz, Marian Wright Edelman , and Kamala Harris?
... that Guajajara environmental activist and land defender Paulo Paulino Guajajara, who worked to stop the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, was killed by a group of illegal loggers?
... that Patsy Cline's cover of Willie Nelson's "Crazy" was the all-time most played song in jukeboxes in the United States, 35 years after its release?
... that although it is a bird of prey, the white-fronted falconet is only 14 to 17 cm (5.5 to 6.7 in) long and mainly feeds on insects?
... that Woody from Toy Story was originally written as a ventriloquist's dummy and the main villain of the film?
... that the Turkish Defne Magnanery was established in a farm house donated by the brother of the head silk farmwoman after he watched her silk farming in a British documentary film?
... that when John Emmitt was traveling to the Oregon Territory in 1852 along the Oregon Trail, two of his three children died of cholera and were buried along the route?
... that RNA, DNA, and vitamins B1 and B12 are all made from AIR?
... that Martin Fehérváry became the youngest foreign player to play in the Swedish Hockey League following his debut at the age of 16?
... that women were elected to the Odessa City Duma for the first time in 1917?
... that Mancunian rapper Geko was signed to UK music collective USG at the age of 13, becoming their youngest member?
... that Elvis Costello missed his day job while recording his debut album My Aim Is True over six four-hour sessions?
... that the largest intact Ancient Egyptian tomb ever found, with 254 richly decorated sarcophagi, was forgotten for almost a century?
... that Jaega Wise co-hosted the television series Beer Masters alongside musician James Blunt?
... that a laptop was purchased for $1,345,000 in May 2019 despite being unable to connect to the internet?
... that Dave Frederick has been referred to as the "Sussex County humorist-teacher-writer-radio-host-philosopher dude"?
... that during the late 1700s, Cheshire Hall Plantation was the largest house and estate on Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands?
... that, upon ordination, Earl K. Fernandes will be the first Indian-American Latin Catholic bishop in the United States?
... that the melody of Mozart's aria "Dove sono" from Le nozze di Figaro, asking "Where are those happy moments ...?", begins similarly to the Agnus Dei from his earlier Coronation Mass?
... that Curtis Island has risen by 18 metres (59 ft) during the last 200 years?
... that Rachel Dyer, published in 1828, is the first American bound novel about the Salem witch trials?
... that Brazilian computer science researcher and internet pioneer Tadao Takahashi negotiated with drug lords to install internet equipment in his country?
... that with "Alligator", Of Monsters and Men had their second top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart and their first number-one on the magazine's Rock Airplay chart?
... that a kettle that looked like Adolf Hitler was offered on eBay for US$199?
... that Daniel Davis was the first person in the United States to work with gold and silver electroplating as a business?
... that Gret Palucca had to close her dance school in Dresden, Germany, in 1939 because of her Jewish descent, but reopened it in 1945?
... that Ashton Hawkins arranged for the construction of the West Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, to house the Temple of Dendur?
... that the Malyuk rifle was originally developed as a private venture under a contract with the Security Service of Ukraine?
... that the 1972 hymn "Das eine Brot wächst auf vielen Halmen", with an Israeli melody, has been used for Catholic Corpus Christi processions and Protestant Kirchentag conventions?
... that at the premiere of The Cage, a ballet about female insects preying on their male counterparts, choreographer Jerome Robbins's mother walked out of the theater?
... that the 15th-century figures on the Irish reliquary known as the Corp Naomh are based in part on a design in the 9th-century Book of Kells?
... that children's writer Patricia MacLachlan kept a small bag of dirt from the prairies as a reminder of her Wyoming roots?
... that the Comoro River, which cuts through the East Timorese capital of Dili, has seen large floods despite often running almost dry?
... that 3D Microcomputers produced and marketed Commodore-branded computers from 1991 until over a year after Commodore's bankruptcy?
... that the choreography of Crystal Pite's ballet The Seasons' Canon is inspired by the movement of tectonic plates?
... that lawyer Carrie Goldberg was inspired to share her experience of sexual violence in Nobody's Victim by her clients, who had entrusted her with their own stories?
... that Claus Leusser, a justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court, served for only four months?
... that a walrus was given his own pontoon to stop him damaging other boats in St Mary's Harbour?
... that Canadian painter Ethel Ogden was central to developing china painting within the Fine Arts Department at the Mount Allison Ladies' College?
... that in Arlington County Board v. Richards, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of one of the first American residential zoned parking programs?
... that Ulf Merbold, the first West German in space, grew up in East Germany?
... that judge advocate Julian M. Wright was once a fencer, and President Theodore Roosevelt attended one of his matches in 1902?
... that Ulmus chuchuanus had to be renamed due to another fossil already having its original name?
... that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel?
... that to convince Canadian regulators that Vancouver could support a new ethnic radio station, the founder of CJVB documented local restaurants and Sikh temples?
... that most of the Chinese in the Chinatown of Phoenix, Arizona, had emigrated from the same village in China's Hoiping County?
... that though one publication said in 2001 that going to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building was like "an act of religious devotion", it was poorly suited for modern uses?
... that legislator Henry Alcazar successfully defended everyone accused of inciting the 1903 Water Riots that burned down the Trinidad and Tobago seat of government?
... that eight sailors on USS Varuna received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip?
... that the final silent film directed by Giulia Cassini Rizzotto was partly funded by the Vatican and featured Italian aristocrats?
... that Khalid ibn Barmak was so close to the first Abbasid caliph, al-Saffah, that his daughter was suckled by al-Saffah's wife?
... that The Keyboard Company's numeric keypad was praised for not voiding Apple's warranty because it did not require soldering to install?
... that the Baratal limestone in Russia may be one of the oldest atolls in the world?
... that The West Wing's Amy Gardner is said to be the only character on the show with "a genuinely militant attitude towards equality of the genders"?
... that dead cotton is immature or underdeveloped cotton that has poor dye affinity and appears as white specks on a dyed fabric?
... that during a German charity concert for Ukraine, Slovakian singer Judita Nagyová performed a solo in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?
... that Elphaba, the main character in Wicked, is named after L. Frank Baum, who wrote the book that inspired Wicked?
... that Carlton Town F.C., now competing at the eighth tier of the English football pyramid, was once denied promotion by a hat-trick scored by future England international Jamie Vardy?
... that a tradition is for singers of the Iowa Corn Song (audio featured) to raise their arms above their head when the words "tall corn" are sung during the chorus's last line?
... that Italian Jacopo Tissi became one of the few foreign principal dancers in Bolshoi Ballet's history, only to leave two months later due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
... that Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia, established in 1784, was the first national parish in the United States?
... that Mordecai Strelisker published a Hebrew elegy on the death of Emperor Francis I of Austria?
... that the spectacle lynching of George Ward drew the attendance of more than 1,000 people, including women and children?
... that American soprano Emily Pogorelc went from winning the 2018 "Most Promising Talent" prize at Glyndebourne to appearing as Mozart's Cherubino at the Munich Opera Festival?
... that in his 2015 book The Evolution of Atheism, atheist Stephen LeDrew criticises the New Atheism movement?
... that Hans Robertson ran a studio in 1920s Berlin where he photographed celebrities such as artist Käthe Kollwitz, boxer Max Schmeling and dancer Gret Palucca ?
... that the city of Madrid has had five successive sets of walls, from the first built by the Moors in 860 to the ones built by Philip IV in 1625?
... that in response to Disney's stance on Florida's House Bill 1557, also known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, Pixar employees stated that Disney removes LGBT references from the studio's films?
... that Laura Ashe believes the Gawain Poet used the beheading game to criticize the emptiness of chivalry?
... that the remnants of the Khwarazmian army massacred the Christian inhabitants of Jerusalem in 1244?
... that Ukrainian artist Kateryna Antonovych worked at Prague's Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence before the US Army Air Forces bombed it?
... that a species in the genus of sponges Pseudoceratina produces a chemical that can help prevent migration of metastatic breast cancer cells?
... that the dome atop the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was once called "New York's most exuberant phallic symbol"?
... that the first two English translations of Trilby, or the Fairy of Argyll were made to piggyback on the success of the mostly unrelated novel Trilby?
... that Monika Buczkowska, who, as a student in Poznań, performed as Mozart's Susanna, was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a charity concert for Ukraine at the Alte Oper?
... that Shiva Baby was one of the most-awarded films not to receive an Oscar nomination in 2022?
... that Tin Srbić was the first Croatian to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
... that the owners of North Carolina radio station WBIG justified shutting it down by noting that the metropolitan area had outgrown its signal?
... that gynaecologist Oon Chiew Seng, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, was the founding chairperson of the first dementia home in Singapore?
... that despite being described in 1840, the chestnut-backed buttonquail was only confirmed in Queensland in 2020?
... that unlike his famously generous brother Mansa Musa, Mansa Sulayman of Mali was considered a miser?
... that in the 1920s, Austrian painter Richard Geiger produced numerous portraits of the character Pierrette ?
... that the mezzo-soprano of Beth Taylor was the only lower voice when she appeared as Dardano in Handel's Amadigi, portraying her male character with fine vocal lines and "remarkable coloraturas"?
... that Park "Saebyeolbe" Jong-ryeol was the first esports player to throw a Major League Baseball opening pitch?
... that Christopher Gunning apparently only got paid £15 to arrange the top-20 hit "Say You Don't Mind"?
... that in 2014 the European Theatre Convention started a programme known as Dialogue of Cultures to support exchanges with theatres in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries?
... that the Arthur Dudley Dobson Memorial was unveiled by New Zealand's prime minister George Forbes on this day 85 years ago?
... that during the American Revolution, Hugh Gaine's printing shop was threatened by the Sons of Liberty because of his wavering loyalty to the American cause?
... that historian Dirk Moses argues that The Problems of Genocide include "blinding us to other types of humanly caused civilian death"?
... that Katharina Konradi, a soprano born in Kyrgyzstan, made a recording of lieder with pianist Gerold Huber including settings by Lori Laitman of children's poems written in Terezin?
... that manga artist Keiko Takemiya intentionally submitted her manga Sanrūmu Nite immediately before its publication deadline to avoid it being edited?
... that Inuvialuk actress Marika Sila views her acting career as a platform for outreach and education on the culture and rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada?
... that Abadi was banned twice: by Sukarno in 1960, then by Suharto in 1974?
... that at Beaversprite, beavers lived indoors and were allowed to chew on the furniture?
... that the Russian airstrike on Kyiv TV Tower (video featured) killed Yevhenii Sakun, one of at least 14 civilian journalists killed in the line of duty during the Russo-Ukrainian War?
... that the Vorpostenboot John Mahn was the only German ship sunk during the Channel Dash?
... that when Jørgen Læssøe became Professor Extraordinaire of Assyriology at the University of Copenhagen in 1957, he was the only active professional Assyriologist in Denmark?
... that The Goldberg Variations, performed to Bach's music, was partly choreographed by Jerome Robbins while he was in a wheelchair?