derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Ron Cole was involved in a violent standoff with Amo Bishop Roden, the wife of former Branch Davidian leader George Roden, at the site of the compound destroyed in the Waco siege?
...that major league baseball player Terry Pendleton participated in the World Series in 1985, 1987, 1991, 1992 and 1996, but lost all five times?
...that Edward Laurillard produced musical comedies in London and New York in the early 20th century, in partnership with George Grossmith, Jr.?
...that the Mustagh Pass crosses the Baltoro Muztagh range in the Karakorams, from Pakistan to China?
...that Shripat Amrit Dange was a founding member of the Communist Party of India?
...that the Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman?
...that the Blue-throated Piping-guan is a South American bird similar to a turkey?
...that the Delaware and Hudson Canal was the first American business with a million-dollar market capitalization?
...that the Đorđe Martinović affair, concerning a farmer hospitalised with a beer bottle in his rectum, was a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia?
...that former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?
...that numerous references to Wikipedia on The Colbert Report, an American satirical comedy series, defined the word Wikiality as "Truth by consensus, rather than fact"?
...that in Floyd's algorithm for cycle detection, the tortoise and hare move at very different speeds, but always finish at the same spot?
...that Molly Badham, co-founder of Twycross Zoo, trained the chimpanzees who appeared in the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips television advertisements?
...that during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars?
...that Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?
...that Turkish shadow puppet characters Karagöz and Hacivat are supposedly based on two laborers who were executed because their banter slowed down the construction of a mosque?
...that the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York, has served as a public library, an appliance store, and several other things?
...that Alexey Ekimyan, the author of many Soviet hits, was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department at the same time?
...that the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?
...that "Pick You Up" was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA Music Award; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?
...that cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket?
...that the giant jellyfish Chrysaora achlyos is the largest invertebrate discovered in the 20th century?
...that road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?
...that Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?
...that the book You Don't Need Meat by Peter Cox , the first chief executive of the Vegetarian Society, is the best-selling vegetarian book of all time?
...that St Patrick's Marist College, the oldest school in Australia run by Marist Brothers, started out as a primary school?
...that William Wallace disguised himself as a woman to hide at the castle in Riccarton, a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland?
...that Randle Holme III of Chester painted memorial boards without the permission of the English College of Arms resulting in its King of Arms, William Dugdale, travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670 to destroy them?
...that the Muslim Revolution of Agriculture industrialized sugar production, building the first sugar refineries and sugar plantations in the 8th century?
...that former Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle with his rival David Koresh and seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco?
...that South Africa and England had already played each other during pool play before meeting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final?
...that a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140 males and 10 females in one year?
...that Stevens Arch is one of the many geological features formed from Navajo Sandstone along Coyote Gulch in southern Utah, USA?
...that in Colombian folklore the legendary Alligatorman (Hombre Caiman) is said to be a fisherman converted by the spirit of the Magdalena River into an alligator, that returns every year on St. Sebastian´s Day to hunt human victims?
...that some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent?
...that Walter Plunkett's "barbecue dress" for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind was one of the most widely copied dresses in fashion of the 1930s and early '40s, second only to the Duchess of Windsor's wedding dress?
...that Colombia's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation?
...that Andrew Winch, an award-winning yacht designer, has been selected to design the interior of a version of the Boeing 787, a commercial airliner?
...that the Suevi of Gallaecia were converted from a form of Germanic paganism to Arian Christianity by a Celtic missionary, Ajax, sent by the Visigoths?
...that the Barnenez Mound in Brittany, France, is a cairn with 11 chambers built of 13,000 to 14,000 tons of stone dating to about 4500 BC, making it one of the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe?
...that the population of the Falkland Islands was only 50 people in 1841?
...that German nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich had illegal contacts to the Soviet secret police NKVD during Nazi rule, and then spied on the Soviet Union for the West while working in the East?
...that the White-browed Scrubwren, which inhabits dense undergrowth, can occur close to urban areas in Sydney?
...that between a half and two million Poles were deported from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union to the Regained Territories in the repatriation of 1944-1946?
...that English actor, singer and playwright Arthur Williams , best remembered for his comic operas, Edwardian musical comedies and musical burlesques, played over 1,000 roles in his career?
...that country musician Johnny Sea's spoken word recording "Day For Decision", a response to Barry McGuire's protest song, "Eve of Destruction", was a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy award?
...that leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, for 25 years?
...that Ove Karlsson is both the name of a Swedish sports player and a Swedish sports journalist?
...that Transfusion was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music chart?
...that Andy Papathanassiou, a former college football player who was the first person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds?
...that the Church of South India, a union of Anglican, Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian, and Reformed churches in South India, was inaugurated in 1947 at St. George's Cathedral in Madras (now Chennai)?
...that the French space agency funded the operation of the Soviet space observatory Granat after the dissolution of the USSR?
...that the Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush, a flycatcher-like thrush of West African forests, sings four melodious whistles and responds to recordings of its own songs?
...that the election of Dominican friar Laurence de Ergadia as Bishop of Argyll in Scotland was voided by Pope Urban IV in 1274 on a technicality?
...that in the anonymous Breton lai Melion, one of King Arthur's knights was transformed into a werewolf by his wife using a magic ring before she ran off with another man to Ireland?
...that English football referee Matt Messias once urged a Portsmouth defender not to kick an opposing player during a match against Newcastle United because "the devil was trying to get him sent off"?
...that American archaeologist and flintknapper Errett Callahan produces and sells obsidian scalpels that are 100 times sharper than the traditional surgical scalpels made of steel?
...that although he was an illegitimate child, the 13th century prelate of Scotland Albin of Brechin had a successful career in the Roman Catholic Church after obtaining dispensation from the Bishop of Porto?
...that Mdm2, whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden, is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs?
...that eleven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. four-star admiral Charles P. Snyder opted to lose two ranks rather than serve under incoming Pacific Fleet commander Husband E. Kimmel?
...that the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is considered the holiest Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka?
...that Giles Clarke, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, studied Arabic at the University of Damascus?
...that a U.S. government funded research project is concluding that racial discrimination is a significant factor when jurors make death penalty decisions?
...that the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide?
...that Oscar M. Laurel, a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance"?
...that the Zoroastrian religious ceremony Visperad consists of the rituals of the Yasna and is only performed between sunrise and noon on the six gahambar days?
...that in 1890, future centenarian and four-star admiral Richard H. Jackson was commissioned ensign by special act of Congress after originally being cashiered from the Navy for poor grades at the U.S. Naval Academy?
...that a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
...that James Roche became CEO and chairman of the board of General Motors without a college education?
...that Yekaterina Zelenko was the only woman to perform an air ramming and the only female pilot in the Winter War?
...that though many troubadours wrote about the Crusades and either encouraged or mocked them as politics dictated, the jongleur Peirol was one of the few to actually travel to the Holy Land, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1221?
...that American football coach Dick Anderson, who led Rutgers to its first victory over Penn State in 70 years, was a Penn State assistant coach before and after his time at Rutgers?
...that mounting blocks , stone or wood blocks for mounting and dismounting a horse or cart, began to fall out of use around 1790?
...that John Popper, now frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler, once convinced a teacher to let him play harmonica in his high school band with an in-class solo performance of the song "She Blinded Me with Science"?
...that Arumuga Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, also helped translate the Bible into Tamil?
...that the Spanish military engineer Julio Cervera Baviera, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, pioneered radio technology in his native country?
...that although it is commonly referred to as Fort Detroit, the fort William Hull surrendered to the British without a fight during the War of 1812 was actually named Fort Lernoult?
...that British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez Crisis?
...that Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant?
...that Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks?
...that the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i in the Cusco Region of Peru commemorates events which included the transformation of a boy into a bush with an image of Christ hanging from it?
...that the New Zealand Journal of Forestry was first published in 1925 with a title in Māori?
...that the first Hawaii showing of From Here to Eternity premiered at the Iao Theater?
...that when former New Mexico Governor Tom Bolack died, his ashes were scattered over his ranch by 16 specially-made fireworks?
...that Wilhelm Koppe, one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland, escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade?
...that many works of the Romanian Symbolist poet Traian Demetrescu survived as popular romanzas after their author died from tuberculosis in 1896?
...that Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League?
...that the Colombian journalist Diana Turbay was killed while kidnapped by the Medellin Cartel in order to create pressure against the Colombia-USA extradition treaty?
...that merchant, sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade between Brisbane and London?
...that Gatot Soebroto, who would become a leader in the Indonesian independence movement, was expelled from elementary school for fighting?
...that Dudley Ryder, a managing director of Coutts private bank for 40 years, was also a director of English Big Four bank NatWest for 19 years until he succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Harrowby?
...that Edmund Blacket became known as "the Christopher Wren of Sydney" for building four cathedrals, 80 churches and a university?
...that the book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy series South Park using philosophical concepts?
...that Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England?
...that William Wadsworth Hodkinson merged 11 film rental bureaus in 1914 to form Paramount Pictures, the first U.S.-wide distributor of feature films?
...that the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
...that when Dorothy Andrews Elston married Walter Kabis, she became the first, and so far the only, Treasurer of the United States to have her name changed while in office?
...that the British General John Reid, second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians, was also a proficient flute-player and a musical composer?
...that before the launch of a satellite, a group of scientists from ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala?
...that passengers for Lympstone Commando railway station have to pass an armed guard as the only access is through the adjacent Royal Marine Commando Training Centre?
...that the majority of St. Thomas' ciguatera cases are linked to the same species of fish, the bar jack, or Caranx ruber?
...that sandstone layers now exposed in the Canyons of the Escalante in Utah were deposited during the Mesozoic period, when the area was covered with sand dunes about 180 to 225 million years ago?
...that NBA point guard John Bagley was the first Boston College Eagle to earn Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors?
...that Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature?
...that Craigiehall, a country house designed for the Earl of Annandale by Sir William Bruce in 1699, is now the headquarters of the British Army in Scotland?
...that Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that rye and oats used to be crop-mimicking weeds before they became domesticated?
...that Martin Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland?
...that the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?
...that Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is the oldest permanent wax museum in Asia?
...that, according to Shinto tradition, four kami, including the soul of Emperor Meiji, are enshrined at the Hokkaidō Jingū, a Shinto shrine in Sapporo, Japan?
...that the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall houses the remains of victims of the Nanking Massacre in a building shaped like a coffin?
...that the Greek submarine Delfin was the second submarine to enter service in the Greek navy?
...that the entire population of Exuma Island Iguanas on Leaf Cay in the Bahamas was translocated to Pasture Cay in 2002 in an effort to protect the species?
...that the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver became notorious after it was revealed to be serial killer David Berkowitz's weapon of choice?
...that the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age?
...that North American helitack crews are airlifted into remote areas to "attack" wildland fires before they get out of control?
...that in the USSR, people such as Nikolai Yezhov and Leon Trotsky were removed from photos to erase them from Soviet history?
...that sky anchors combine a gas balloon for buoyancy and a superpressure balloon for ballast?
...that lignosulfonates, wood pulp byproducts, are used to make concrete, tanned leather, and even artificial vanillin?
...that Polish painter and politician Henryk Józewski protected Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura from extradition to Soviet Union by hiding him in his flat?
...that though Alfred Balfour was a British MP for 14 years, he made only a single speech in the House of Commons?
...that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
...that the Cogan House Covered Bridge in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA was built by a millwright who preassembled the frame in a field beside the sawmill to make sure it all fit?
...that the mother of PIRA prisoner Jackie McMullan chained herself to railings outside 10 Downing Street in London?
...that the Solomon Islands Christian Association came out of a meeting of church representatives that included the future first Prime Minister and first Governor-General?
...that the rules for a scrum in rugby union were changed in 2007 to try to reduce the number of serious neck injuries to players?
...that the extinct crocodile-like Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian known to have existed?
...that Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War?
...that the Coat of arms of Asturias bears the Victory Cross, a Christian cross carried by King Pelagius of Asturias of Spain at the Battle of Covadonga?
...that Leonid Hurwicz, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category?
...that in an upcoming presentation ceremony at the White House, the late Navy SEAL Michael P. Murphy will become the first person awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in the current War in Afghanistan?
...that there is space for an additional 15,000 names to be added to the British Armed Forces Memorial?
...that the Sapporo Factory in Japan, a building complex with a shopping mall, offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum, was originally constructed as a brewery?
...that when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia, he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie?
...that missionary Don Richardson discovered that aborigines of Western New Guinea have a concept called the Peace Child which is very similar to the incarnation of Jesus?
...that from 1747 to 1831, present-day Iraq was ruled by Georgian Mamluks?
...that Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man?
...that the stock for the captive breeding program of the Galapagos Land Iguana descended from iguanas which William Randolph Hearst translocated from Baltra Island to North Seymour Island in the 1930s?
...that the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland, was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?
...that in 2004, a California Senate committee passed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote in state elections?
...that low energy ion scattering causes various phenomena at a material's surface, that are used to explore its structure and composition?
...that the accuracy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills?
...that United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of fifteen Republican straw polls, placing him second among all candidates yet remains near the bottom of statewide polls?
...that early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the 16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country?
...that Albrecht Dürer's Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate is one of 16 woodcuts completed between 1501 and 1511, which display the Virgin as an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet with a range of human frailties?
...that Thomas de Dundee, later Bishop of Ross, was one of three men from the small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at the same time in the later 13th century?
...that the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector?
...that the development of the Lockheed XF-104, a single-engine, high-performance, supersonic interceptor aircraft prototype, earned aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson his first Collier Trophy in 1958?
...that Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War?
...that the Tower of the Sun , created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto for the 1970 Expo, has three faces, representing the past, the present and the future?
...that the Sauk and the British Army defeated the U.S. Army at Campbell's Island during the War of 1812?
...that at Bougon, a prehistoric burial mound in France, archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime?
...that St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II?
...that in Bigby v. Dretke, the defendant put a gun to the judge's head, but the judge testified the assault did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself?
...that the automatic tire chain system OnSpot was created in 1977 by a Swedish inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck?
...that Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?