derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Scottish missionary Carstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive Amoy-English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today?
... that in 1298, Pope Boniface VIII decreed in Periculoso that nuns "ought henceforth to remain perpetually cloistered in their monasteries"?
... that the prosecution of Dr. Leonard Arthur for the murder of a Down's syndrome baby led to a change in British law regarding the disclosure of technical evidence?
... that George Hargreaves, Christian Party candidate in the forthcoming UK Parliamentary by-election, has said that the dragon symbol on the Welsh flag is "nothing less than the sign of Satan"?
... that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae, the rose family?
... that all four stars of Starved, an FX sitcom about eating disorders, struggled with eating disorders themselves, a fact unknown to producers until after casting?
... that the design of Notre-Dame-des-Missions-du-cygne d'Enghien in Épinay-sur-Seine, France was inspired by the architectural styles of five continents?
... that Pakistani actress Maria Wasti played a role depicting philanthropist and Lenin Peace Prize winner Bilquis Edhi?
... that boxer Oscar De La Hoya has been involved in efforts to redevelop the Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building in the Boyle Heights neighborhood where he grew up?
... that the French Protestant Church in Brighton , one of only two in England, is expected to close this year?
... that anthropologist David Zolotarev’s 1930 study of the ethnic tribes of the northern Russian Lake Imandra region determined they did not understand Soviet-style "socialist construction"?
... that the Miss Great Britain Party is a British political movement which campaigns to make politics "sexy not sleazy"?
... that a 3D model artist for The Matrix Reloaded went on to participate in the fangame project Chrono Resurrection?
... that Vin americanii! ("The Americans are coming!") was a slogan used by Romanians in the 1940s and '50s to express their hope that a US intervention would topple the Communist regime?
... that a Jueju, a type of Chinese poem, is a quatrain with either five or seven characters per line?
... that in the six months after the Beerhouse Act was passed in England in 1830, nearly 25,000 new licenses to open pubs, taverns and alehouses were issued?
... that D'Oyly Carte Opera Company star Donald Adams could only perform in his own Gilbert and Sullivan for All theatre group on his nights off?
... that the 1971 film Sentinels of Silence featured Orson Welles narrating the English version and Ricardo Montalban narrating the Spanish version?
... that "squash and stretch" is considered the most important of the 12 basic principles of animation?
... that the Ralph J. Bunche House in South Los Angeles was the boyhood home of Ralph Bunche, the first person of color to receive the Nobel Peace Prize?
... that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen's poor condition?
... that Leonide Massine wrote the choreography and the libretto for the ballet La Boutique fantasque and also danced in the lead role?
... that, in order to prevent storage of nuclear waste in Utah's Skull Valley, the main county road through the valley became State Route 196 in 1998?
... that the Treaty of Salynas in 1398 marked the third time that Vytautas the Great granted Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights in 14 years?
... that the original building of Trondheim Central Station in Norway has been preserved as a cultural heritage?
... that the Chinese character referring to the mythological sea monster Shen is used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese terms for "mirage"?
... that Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro-Confederacy sentiments in Los Angeles?
... that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on Broadway, playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?
... that the 1995 Burkina Faso film Keïta! l'Héritage du griot is a retelling of the first third of Sundjata Keita's 13th-century epic, Sundjata?
... that the novel The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly won the 1996 Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association?
... that Yalo, a Palestinian Arab village depopulated during the 1967 war, was identified by Edward Robinson as the site of the Canaanite-era city of Aijalon?
... that McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Oregon, was founded due to occasional flooding that cut off access to the only area hospital?
... that the disputed authenticity of the Getty kouros has led the J. Paul Getty Museum to label the sculpture "6th century Greek or modern forgery"?
... that Taisto Mäki, one of the so-called Flying Finns, was the first man to run 10,000 metres in under half an hour?
... that the 13th Earl of Derby established a private menagerie in the 19th century in the grounds of Knowsley Hall in Merseyside, where the 18th Earl opened a public safari park in the 20th century?
... that Tiny Thompson was the first professional ice hockey goaltender to make a save by catching the puck?
... that the Israeli kibbutz Gvat was established in commemoration of the 35 Pinsk Jews shot by Polish soldiers during the Pinsk massacre?
... that, after succeeding Lai Tian, Tang Dynasty general Liang Chongyi built a temple dedicated to Lai and refrained from using Lai's old office and main hall, in order to show respect to Lai?
... that the Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road, in Junius, New York was built with walls of field cobbles and limestone quoins in the Greek Revival style?
... that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?
... that while in service as a troop transport after World War I, SS Ohioan carried two American recipients of the French Croix de Guerre, one of which was a homing pigeon?
... that eight-term member of the Norwegian Parliament Harald Ulrik Sverdrup was the grandfather of the oceanographer of the same name?
... that the 2008 Canadian listeriosis outbreak started a political debate regarding privatization of food inspection?
... that Misty Copeland is the first African-American ballerina to appear as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre?
... that in 1865, the Sons of Vulcan won the first union contract in the iron and steelmaking industry and what may be the first union contract of any kind in the United States?
... that Johan Collett Falsen served as Norwegian Minister of Justice on four non-consecutive occasions between 1870 and 1879?
... that the Conflict of the Orders which supposedly occurred in the ancient Roman Republic may not have actually happened?
... that Darrin Winston still holds the baseball records for victories, innings pitched, and complete games at Rutgers University more than twenty years after he graduated?
... that Scottish and British Lions rugby captain David Bedell-Sivright is said to have rugby tackled a cart horse in Edinburgh's Princes Street?
... that in Hindu mythology, the demoness Putana tried to kill the infant-god Krishna by breastfeeding him poisoned milk?
... that in addition to composing orchestral and chamber music, Joseph R. Wood arranged the Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat?
... that the sloop-of-war Victoria became the first Australian warship to be deployed overseas by fighting in the First Taranaki War?
... that Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Papeete for 26 years, was succeeded in 1999 by his brother?
... that American cargo ship SS Panaman once delivered 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg) of canned hominy to Los Angeles?
... that Mike Cather earned his first major-league win in an 11-inning Atlanta Braves’ win, the same night the Braves earned the National League Eastern Division title?
... that the Battle of Kokenhausen saw one of the most successful uses of the Polish hussars?
... that after suffering a heart attack, John G. McCullough moved to California and was elected as its Attorney General in 1863?
... that Shō Tai was the last king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom who abdicated when the Ryukyu Islands were annexed by Japan in 1879?
... that the ferry Nobska of Nantucket Sound was America's last coastal steamer?
... that George Hammond Whalley, a British Member of Parliament, once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery?
... that some cypress trees in Louisiana's Lake Bruin State Park predate Hernando de Soto's explorations of the area?
... that On the conditions and possibilities of Helen Clark taking me as her young lover, a satirical book on the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was described as a treatise of "sociology, psychoanalysis and cringe-making erotica"?
... that following show jumper Denis Lynch's Olympic ban for doping offences, the President of the Olympic Council of Ireland threatened to ban the equestrian team from participating in future Olympic Games?
... that the Mulberry Harbour built at Arromanches in 1944 by John Holmes Jellett landed two million men and four million tons of supplies for the Liberation of Europe?
... that the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, New Jersey contains artwork by Francis David Millet, Kenyon Cox, Edwin Blashfield and Howard Pyle?
... that the 1864 Banning House reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture in the west"?
... that former Olympic champion Ángel Matos received a lifetime ban from the World Taekwondo Federation after attacking a referee in a bronze medal match at the 2008 Olympics?
... that people with kidney ailments used to crawl on all fours three times round the sarcophagus of Saint Nonnosus in Freising Cathedral?
... that four Mk-82 500-pound bombs are missing in the American west after the mysterious crash of an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft piloted by Craig D. Button in 1997?
... that more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá, most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina?
... that despite leaving the South West Africa People's Organization for the Congress of Democrats, Tsudao Gurirab was selected by his former party for the Pan-African Parliament?
... that Bailin Temple in Beijing was not pillaged by Anglo-French forces in 1860 or by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that Tibetan Buddhism inspired in the invaders?
... that Chika Chukwumerije had financial backing unavailable to most Nigerian athletes because of his father Uche Chukwumerije?
... that in the Greek mythology tale of Iole, Deianira inadvertently killed her husband Heracles with a love charm because of jealousy?
... that Washington State politician Vic Meyers once showed up for a candidates' forum dressed as Mahatma Gandhi and leading a goat?
... that 2008 Olympic handball champion Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk was also selected as the pivot on the tournament's All-star team?
... that Maoist rebels and Nepali government forces engaged in four attacks in Sandhikharka between 2002 and 2005?
... that Craig Gillespie almost turned down the chance to direct Lars and the Real Girl when he heard the film's pitch?
... that when the Lackawanna Steel Co. moved from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to New York in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of Lackawanna, New York?
... that Japanese anime director Rintaro has worked in animation for 50 years and co-founded the animation studio Madhouse?
... that the position of the President of the Republic is the only undisputed one in the Polish order of precedence?
... that the young Bing Crosby once tried out to sing at Seattle's elegant Butler Hotel, but was told he needed more experience?
... that the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia has an observatory on school grounds?
... that labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan called the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court Marquette Bank decision "the most important of our lifetimes" since it opened the door to increased use of credit cards?
... that Henny Moan acted in the Oscar-nominated Ni liv, later named the best film in the history of Norwegian cinema?
... that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose's debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?
... that the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies?
... that according to the New Mexico Legislature, the Sandia Hairstreak butterfly "symbolizes the ability of New Mexican residents to thrive year-round in a semiarid climate"?
... that Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, an African American trombonist from the Mississippi River delta country, played at least five instruments in a 74-year musical career?
... that jazz pianist Geoff Eales played the French horn with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and piano with the BBC Big Band?
... that the Bell Ford Bridge was the last Post Truss covered bridge to still stand, collapsing in January 2006?
... that the Bhutanatha temples in India have a pillared hall extending into a lake?
... that four different men, including Frank W. Johnson and Sam Houston, claimed to be in charge of the Texian Army for several months during the Texas Revolution?
... that the Imperial Japanese Army's Type 89 I-Go medium tank (Otsu version) was the first diesel-powered tank to be mass-produced?
... that Tom Welling, who plays Clark Kent on Smallville, believes his lack of knowledge of the Superman mythology helps his performance?
... that the 3,500 items owned by Amsterdam's Museum of Bags and Purses make it the world's largest collection of handbags and accessories?
... that Bridgewater House, Runcorn, Cheshire, was built for the Duke of Bridgewater when he was supervising the building of the Bridgewater Canal in the 1760s, and is now used as offices?
... that in 1979, Chicago White Sox pitcher Ron Schueler retired mid-season to replace his own pitching coach who had died earlier that season?
... that the synagogue built in 1925 by Congregation Beth Israel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that Daba Modibo Keïta, 2008 Olympian for Mali, was the first Sub-Saharan African to be a Taekwondo World Champion?
... that the widely consumed porcini mushroom is often confused with the fungus Boletus pinophilus ?
... that a shattered goblet of Communion wine reportedly helped Saint Donatus of Arezzo convert 79 pagans to Christianity?
... that most strong hurricanes that have struck South Florida since 1900 have passed through one of two Hebert boxes on their way to landfall?
... that Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Thomas Hall cites J. R. R. Tolkien as a key influence and re-reads The Lord of the Rings trilogy every year?
... that the Chinese government revoked the manufacturer's license for diet pill Slim 10 after it was linked to several liver failures and deaths?
... that despite being personal secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Francis Charles Lawley's attempts at insider trading resulted in losses?
... that the cargo ship SS Minnesotan carried five racing yachts from the East Coast to national championship races in Los Angeles?
... that Jack DiLauro's 2.40 ERA is third best among New York Mets pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched?
... that the site of the first Tubby's sandwich shop was chosen after a flat tire forced its founder to stop in front of a building that was for rent?
... that the native copper products of the Northern Canadian aboriginal Copper Inuit were highly regarded in the Bering Strait trade network?
... that actor Roger Moore likened his starring role in the 1958 children's TV series Ivanhoe to that of "a medieval fireman"?
... that the 1871 Hampden County Courthouse was built after a grand jury indicted county commissioners for not providing fireproof storage for county records and deeds in the previous courthouse?
... that Froduald Karamira, sentenced to death for his role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country?
... that Metolius Springs in Oregon produces 50,000 gallons/s, enough to make the Metolius River one of the largest spring-fed rivers in the US?
... that the 19th-century fad of Pedestrianism started with gambling over the speed of footmen by the British aristocracy?
... that Voltaire's 1730 poem about Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans, was banned in most of Europe?
... that Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods?
... that the Albert Medal was one of the awards given to Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell, Manchester, in the 19th Century?
... that for the Tang Dynasty, whether to honor the general Zhang Xun for his deeds during the Anshi Rebellion was controversial due to his engaging in cannibalism?
... that the scandals involving the British fraud and impostor Lord Gordon-Gordon led to a major international incident between the US and Canada?
... that Frank Lloyd Wright said of the Millard House that he "would rather have built this little house than St. Peter's in Rome"?
... that Albert White was the first person to lead the Missouri Tigers men's basketball team in rebounds, points, and assists in the same season?
... that patients practice preoperative fasting before an operation in order to prevent pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents?
... that the Old Warner Brothers Studio, where the first "talkie" was filmed in 1927, has recently been the location for Judge Judy and Hannah Montana?
... that the 2008 Irish flash floods submerged one of the busiest roads in Northern Ireland under six metres of water?
... that Hubert Shirley-Smith wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges?
... the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables?
... that WrestleMania, an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event, has involved 94 celebrities in a 24-year span?
... that 17th-century Italian composer Filippo Acciaiuoli was also an inventor of machines used for theatrical effects in operas and plays?
... that Rodney Pattisson became Great Britain's most successful Olympic yachtsman in the 1976 Montreal Olympics until Ben Ainslie bettered his two gold medals and one silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
... that Fireflight took six years to write their first album but only six months to write their second album Unbreakable?
... that HMS Sans Pareil , a former French ship captured at the Glorious First of June in 1794, was later used to hold French prisoners-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars?
... that US Olympic discus throw gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton said that the downside of the Beijing Games was that they conflicted with the opening of hunting season in California?
... that The GrooveGrass Boyz, a bluegrass/funk group, had chart success in 1997 with a country version of the "Macarena"?
... that the Brazilian sex worker organization Davida created the fashion label Daspu which prostitutes presented at fashion shows, culminating in a show at the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial?
... that in the Bombay Presidency, the famine of 1899–1900 had the highest mortality—at 37.9 deaths per 1000—among all famines and scarcities between 1876 and 1919?
... that Henry S. Huidekoper received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg, and later helped to suppress the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
... that Adina World Beat Beverages was founded in order to keep traditional beverage recipes in third-world countries from being replaced by multinational cola distributors?
... that Bill Ricker, one of the founders of fisheries science, developed the Ricker model, which can be used to predict how many fish are in a fishery?
... that the Great Mosque of Gaza , completed by the Mamluks in 1344, is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip?
... that Project CHLOE, a proposed system to protect airplanes from surface-to-air missiles, was named for the character Chloe O'Brian on the American television show 24?
... that the tower of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow was used as a machine gun post by Bolsheviks in a battle against troops of the Russian Provisional Government?
... that German-born Jewish Egyptologist Käte Bosse-Griffiths published a novel in the Welsh language?
... that the U.S. Congress incorporated the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in 1866 to connect Missouri and California, but the company only completed portions at each end?
... that in the storming of Bristol in 1643, Royalist invaders used "fire-pikes"—rudimentary flamethrowers—against the defending Parliamentarians?
... that Alfred Merle Norman, whose collection of 11,086 species was acquired by the Natural History Museum in London, was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1906?
... that the Neo-Baroque Yablanski House in Sofia, Bulgaria has been deemed one of the city's highest achievements in architecture of the 1900s?
... that the Alamogordo Museum of History owns a rare 47-star U.S. flag, thought to have been made in 1912 to celebrate the entry of New Mexico into the United States?
... that Varanus albigularis , a species of monitor lizard found in southern Africa, may be able to count as high as six?
... that pro wrestler Gregg Groothuis's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with Dusty Rhodes, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
... that the Orsini podestà of Viterbo was displaced by Charles of Anjou and replaced with a magistrate willing to expel the Orsini cardinals from the papal election, 1280–1281?
... that former Major League Baseball player Dan Norman was once traded with three other players for Hall of Famer-to-be Tom Seaver, as part of what New York Mets fans refer to as the Midnight Massacre?
... that tenth-century Icelandic chieftain Olaf the Peacock was known for his extravagant clothes?
... that Edmond Malone said Samuel Johnson's The Plays of William Shakespeare "threw more light on his author than all his predecessors"?
... that 22-year-old ski jumper Anette Sagen played the mother of 70-year-old Bård Owe in the Norwegian movie O' Horten?
... that Kinoautomat, a 1967 film by Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
... that at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Indian freestyle wrestler Sushil Kumar won his country's second medal in the sport since the 1952 Games?
... that nearly 10% of dog attacks in the United States were caused by canines trained to be attack dogs ?
... that in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed "Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV?
... that Ross Jenkins played for Watford F.C. when they were both bottom and top of The Football League?
... that Manhattan's Rose Hill neighborhood was the original site of Madison Square Garden, where millionaire Harry K. Thaw killed architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit?
... that California's Gold Country quartz-mining industry was precipitated by a quartz gold discovery on Gold Hill?
... that although Brendan Nash was born and grew up in Australia, he qualifies to play international cricket for the West Indies because his father, who represented Jamaica at the Olympics, is of Jamaican origin?
... that the Kirkfield Lift Lock is located at the highest section of the Trent-Severn Waterway?
... that an artificial island built in 2006 in Kamfers Dam, Kimberley, has become one of six breeding colonies of lesser flamingoes in the world, and the only one in South Africa?
... that U.S. Army Brigadier General James Dalton II was one of only 11 US general officers killed in action during World War II?
... that Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque , the tutor of the future William II of the Netherlands, obtained a doctorate honoris causa from Oxford in 1811 while accompanying the young prince there?
... that Leon Johnson, a West Indian cricketer, captained the West Indies team at the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup?