derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall, a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?
... that Tang Dynasty judge Pei Zunqing spared a group of soldiers accused of treason by pointing out they had neither money nor talent to carry out a rebellion?
... that the Coast Range Arc is the largest continental volcanic arc fossil in the world and the largest granite projection in North America?
... that Richard Lawson, a British Army officer, was nicknamed "Dick the Lionheart" for his work in the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Congo Crisis?
... that Stephen Fry's Podgrams are one of the top five most downloaded podcasts from iTunes?
... that a hose strap , a piece of firefighting equipment, has a variety of uses including carrying un-charged firehose, opening and closing doors, and dragging the injured?
... that Cyclone Graham dropped 163 millimetres (6.4 in) of rain at Telfer, Australia in one night, over half the community's annual average?
... that musicians have recorded in the Widow Jane Mine at the Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District in Rosendale, New York because of the acoustics?
... that according to legend, the eponymous ancestor of Clan McCorquodale was awarded lands for recovering the decapitated head of Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpin, King of Scots?
... that in Personnel Administrator MA v. Feeney, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving preference to veterans in hiring decisions did not unconstitutionally discriminate against women?
... that out of all the Norwegian TV guest appearances during the first half of 2007, Linn Skåber had the most?
... that memiljeon is a type of Korean pancake, made with buckwheat flour and vegetables?
... that as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter, Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?
... that landscape painter George Arnald's most successful painting was his only known work of maritime art?
... that British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing?
... that Charles II of England attended the 1667 premiere of the tragicomedy The Maiden Queen?
... that accountant Jack Liebowitz was not only joint owner of All-American Publications that created Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, but his companies also distributed Mad and Playboy?
... that roughly 300 fish species, three of which are not named, swim in the rivers of Cameroon's Boumba Bek National Park?
... that the science-based panel game The What in the World? Quiz guest stars appearances from The Naked Scientists?
... that Steve Foley was the replacement drummer for The Replacements when Chris Mars left the band in 1990?
... that All Saints' Chapel , now a public library in Rosendale, New York, is faced in locally-produced Rosendale cement?
... that the Wawer massacre around Christmas 1939 in occupied Poland is considered one of the first large massacres of Polish civilians by Nazi Germany?
... that John C. Ostlund, a Wyoming state senator and 1978 gubernatorial nominee, lost his eyesight to diabetes and penned his autobiography to benefit the training of seeing-eye dogs?
... that the Dublin Virginal Manuscript represents an important step in the development of secular English keyboard music?
... that Singaporean Paralympian Theresa Goh, who is paraplegic, won six gold medals in swimming at the 2003 ISMWSF World Wheelchair Games in 2003?
... that comics artist Ham Fisher worked as a salesman for the McNaught Syndicate before they started distributing his comic strip Joe Palooka?
... that Beecher's Handmade Cheese is an artisan cheese maker in Seattle, Washington that is known for mixing combinations of cheese cultures?
... that actresses Jane Fonda and Liv Ullman were involved in a campaign for the release of refusenik Ida Nudel from exile?
... that the city of Chuncheon, Korea is famous for dak galbi , which is made by stir-frying marinated chicken, vegetables, and rice cake in chili pepper paste?
... that among the effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Texas was severe damage to the Baylor College of Medicine, including the loss of 60,000 tumor samples?
... that Parithimar Kalaignar is best remembered for his sustained efforts to establish Tamil as a classical language?
... that the 2005 book Baseball Before We Knew It brought new evidence of the origins of baseball into play?
... that King Rother is the earliest known Spielmannsdichtung heroic epic of wandering minstrels?
... that poet David Wagoner's novel The Escape Artist was made into a film by executive producer Francis Ford Coppola?
... that architect Albert C. Martin successfully defended his design of the 28-story Los Angeles City Hall against those who argued the city government could fit into the first four floors?
... that the Arafura Swamp in Australia, the filming location for Ten Canoes, is an important breeding site for crocodiles?
... that "Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Lucien Price?
... that Greg Urwin was the first Australian and first non-Pacific Islander to become Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Kui had once referred to future chancellor Yuan Zai as the son of a water deer or a rodent, drawing Yuan's eventual retaliation?
... that "Spirit in the Night" was the first of three songs from Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. that was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band?
... that the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department , which responded to the Flight 93 crash during the September 11 attacks, received a memorial made of steel from the World Trade Center?
... that the marriage of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson took place at Château de Candé?
... that although Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard's musical tracks for Little Women won the Richard Rodgers Award in 1998, those tracks did not make it to Broadway?
... that in Norse mythology, Valhalla is an enormous hall located in Asgard where those that die in combat go upon death?
... that adults in septic shock who have low blood pressure despite adequate resuscitation can be treated with hydrocortisone if critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency is suspected?
... that Mike Francesa of Mike'd Up, who co-hosted his last sports radio program, said he wouldn't have a co-host on this one?
... that Andong jjimdak is a Korean steamed dish originated in the city of Andong?
... that Allied aircraft, including the one that located the Bismarck, were permitted to fly across neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor?
... that author-illustrator Polly Dunbar has been selected by The Times as one of the ten best new picture book illustrators of 2008?
... that although Mackerel scad are found from Nova Scotia to Rio de Janeiro, they do not seem common in the Gulf of Mexico?
... that after the Battle of Chmielnik, a major victory for the Mongols during their invasion of Poland, inhabitants of Kraków abandoned their city?
... that the Power Memorial Academy basketball team, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers?
... that, because Li Xian would not flatter him, the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yang Guozhong blamed torrential rains near the capital Chang'an on divine displeasure with Li Xian?
... that the construction of the Untertorbrücke , the first bridge in Berne, Switzerland, triggered a war?
... that Roy Staiger played for both New York Major League Baseball teams, the Mets and Yankees, but for no other Major League teams?
... that the child duo known as the Aquatots planned to swim the English Channel in 1951 but were forbidden from attempting by both the British and French governments?
... that the village of Anasartha, located in Western Syria and today known as Khanasser, derived its water supply until 1975 from a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) long Byzantine-era qanat?
... that the Far Hills Races has hosted the Breeders' Cup Grade 1 Steeplechase, which has been called "steeplechasing's richest race"?
... that Welsh comedienne Gladys Morgan was renowned for her toothless, ear-splitting, infectious laugh?
... that gejang is a variety of jeotgal, fermented seafood in Korean cuisine, which is made by marinating fresh raw crabs in soy sauce?
... that on January 13, 1964, a B-52 bomber containing two 24-megaton nuclear weapons crashed on Savage Mountain in Garrett County, Maryland?
... that Mohan Krishna Indraganti's 2008 Telugu film Ashta Chamma was inspired by Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest?
... that Admiral Sir Francis Geary was a noted bellringer at St Bride's Church, London?
... that the Jewish community dates its presence in Eišiškės, Lithuania, back to the year 1097 or 1171?
... that Daily Mail journalist Rodney Hallworth was questioned during the 1956 police investigation of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams for leaking information to two MPs?
... that the Footprints of Eve are the oldest known footprints of an anatomically modern human?
... that Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure featured Rory McGrath and Paddy McGuinness in "strange but quintessentially British sporting events", such as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling?
... that Norwegian evangelical preacher Aril Edvardsen performed in a country music band in his youth?
... that the planetary nebula Abell 39 is unusually spherical, yet its central star is offset from the center?
... that between 1221 and 1244, Robert of Lexinton served as a justice on Eyre on 64 occasions, acting as senior justice for 31?
... that Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo is the first military/civilian hospital in the United States?
... that Captain Benjamin Hallowell gave his friend Lord Nelson a coffin made from the French flagship destroyed at the Battle of the Nile?
... that the 2007 film The Pool was directed by Milwaukee-based Chris Smith in Hindi, a language alien to him?
... that cricketer Major Leo Bennett was meant to have been made captain of Surrey in 1946, but a different Major Bennett was offered the position by mistake?
... that the molybdenum mines in Knaben, Norway, were the target of a massive B-17 bombing raid in 1943?
... that Brooke Miller, a racing cyclist and the US national criterium and road race champion, has a Ph.D in evolutionary biology?
... that Timothy Creasey, a British Army officer, was commander of the Sultan of Oman's Forces for three years before serving in Northern Ireland?
... that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer during his 44-year career?
...that Lonar Lake was created by the only hypervelocity meteoritic impact crater on basalt rock?
... that the critical editions of the Classics produced by Giovanni Andrea Bussi between 1468 and 1472 were criticised at the time for inaccuracy?
... that the Gloster Grouse biplane, developed in 1922, never saw active service in the Royal Air Force?
... that James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press?
... that Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed was the largest science fiction bookshop and comic store in Europe during the 1970s?
... that the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana, honors 16 musicians of the Mississippi delta?
... that Afro-Brazilian Culture is prominent in regions like Bahia, Brazil, where over 80 percent of people are of African descent?
... that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?
... that in 1902, Isabel Gonzalez, a single Puerto Rican mother, challenged the United States government and helped pave the way for all Puerto Ricans to be recognized as U.S. citizens?
... that Hindu deity Chinnamasta and Buddhist deity Vajrayogini are often depicted as drinking blood from the kapala?
... that Czech poet František Gellner disappeared in Galicia with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was never found?
... that the 110-foot (34 m) fresco The Age of Reptiles is the largest painting on the subject of natural history in the world?
... that Lü Yin grew up in poverty and would not have been able to become a Tang chancellor without the financial support from his father-in-law?
... that Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders?
... that Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia, was only reprimanded for firing a gun shot near a relative after the teenager joined the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress?
... that although the mushroom Russula delica is technically edible, its smell of fish or bugs and acrid taste make it fairly poor fare?
... that in 1998, English writer Joyce Dunbar cycled across Cuba to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society, on behalf of a people with hearing impairment?
... that the Croatian eurodance group Colonia won the first annual Eurodance contest in 2001 with its song "Za tvoje snene oči"?
... that the replica of a Hadrosaurus unearthed in New Jersey in 1858 was displayed at the New Jersey State Museum for decades with an incorrect skull?
... that the 2008 Kerry bogslide was described as "one of the most frightening and overwhelming events ever witnessed"?
... that La púrpura de la rosa is the first known opera to be written in and performed in the Americas?
... that The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre, from being moved to Chicago?
... that carved Romanesque stone heads were added to the walls of Temple Cronan in Ireland as decoration during renovation in the 12th century?
... that CBC correspondent Émile-Dostaler O'Leary founded the International Francophone Press Union?
... that the Voith Corporate Group claims that its own Voith Maxima 40CC locomotive is the world's most powerful diesel-hydraulic locomotive?
... that Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846?
... that Hawaiian cultural advocate Bob Worthington served as the honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States?
... that in the 1890s, Moloundou, Cameroon was considered "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa"?
... that the Seimas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was officially abolished by the Union of Lublin in 1569?
... that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a White-headed Capuchin?
... that the Masked Rider mascot , one of the Texas Tech University traditions, was the first mascot in major college sports featuring a live horse?
... that Norwegian television presenter Dan Børge Akerø started his career as a research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo?
... that the 12th-century St Wulfran's Church, Ovingdean is one of only two extant churches in England with that dedication?
... that despite having immigrated from Poland, Dahn Ben-Amotz was often considered the epitome of the concept of the Israeli native "Sabra"?
... that American writer and former Montague Bookmill proprietor David Lovelace published a 2008 memoir titled Scattershot: My Bipolar Family, about his family's battles with bipolar disorder?
... that Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard , Minister of State for the Republic of the Congo, is also an acknowledged poet?
... that Tang Dynasty official Miao Jinqing was demoted after he ranked a colleague's son, Zhang Shi, first in the imperial examinations despite Zhang's lack of knowledge?
... that The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz"?
... that Archibald Russell was Bristol Aeroplane Company's Chief Designer for 25 years of his 44-year career?
... that the massacre of the Acqui Division provided the historical context for the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which later became a Hollywood film?
... that Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games?
... that Sylvester O'Halloran suggested in a 1793 book on external injuries to the head that Irish fights were often caused by drinking too much whiskey?
... that the German Renaissance Little Masters specialized in very small engravings , often treated erotically?
... that Commodore Nutt grew only 37 inches (94 cm) tall?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Lin was removed from office due to the political machinations of the Emperor's wife and the eunuch Li Fuguo?
... that Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave, prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
... that Casey Nicholaw received three Tony Award nominations for his first two shows on Broadway as a choreographer and director: The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) and Monty Python's Spamalot (2005)?
... that Simon of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1190 and 1217, had two sons, both of whom became royal administrators themselves?
... that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville] used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?
... that La Princesse , a giant mechanical spider, roamed the streets of Liverpool, England as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations?
... that there are stories of Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Wang Yu was credited with incorporating the custom of burning joss paper into imperial worship ceremonies?
... that the 2008 Indian film Tahaan was the first to be filmed in the strife-torn region of Kashmir after a gap of 18 years?
... that Gilbert of Preston, despite serving as a royal justice since 1240, was not given a regular salary until 1253?
... that the 1964 Liberty Bowl was played in the Atlantic City Convention Hall, making it the first indoor game telecast nationwide in the U.S.?
... that the Gothic Collegiate church in Wislica, Poland , was built in 1350 on foundations of two earlier Romanesque churches?
... that when one of the rare recordings of "Stormy Weather" by The Five Sharps, a 78 rpm record, was broken, the blame was placed on a pet raccoon that supposedly sat on it?
... that the new antiretroviral drug apricitabine was invented at a Canadian drug manufacturer, which was bought by the British company Shire plc, who sold the drug's development rights to an Australian company?
... that Dante Alighieri shared a five-part poetic correspondence, called the duol d'amore, with Dante da Maiano?
... that creationist museums present a young Earth creationist view that Earth and life were created c. 6,000 years ago in six days?
... that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Gao, prior to his civil service career, would attend feasts held by officials just for the purpose of getting drunk?
... that the North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company was the defendant in the first environmental lawsuit in US legal history?
... that the vulnerable Queensland shrub Grevillea venusta is an easily-grown garden plant and parent of cultivars G. 'Fire Sprite' and G. 'Orange Marmalade'?
... that despite total defeat of the Polish forces in the Mongol invasion of Poland, the Mongols did not occupy the country?
... that Google Chrome, a new web browser developed by Google, was launched with a comic by Scott McCloud?
... that the episodes of the BBC 7 sitcom Knocker have titles such as "Privinvasionacy", "Obselejectivitysence" and "Confidentialitydence"?
... that Russian philologist Mikhail Gasparov was also a poet, but only one of his poems was published during his lifetime?
... that worldwide resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections since the 1970s?
... that Adamson House, called the "Taj Mahal of Tile", has an elaborately tiled dog bath ?
... that the French ship Le Foudroyant was captured in 1758 and fought against the French Navy as HMS Foudroyant?
... that in Buckeye Check Cashing, Inc. v. Cardegna, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to the legality of a contract must be heard by an arbitrator if the contract has an arbitration clause?
... that the name of Lithuania was mentioned for the first time in the Annals of Quedlinburg?
... that the Detroit Tigers gave the Williamsport Tigers not only their name, but also grandstand seats taken from Briggs Field in Detroit for their minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania?
... that the village of Rezovo on the Bulgarian Black Sea is the most southeastern point of the European Union mainland?
... that Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater?
... that Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
... that Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from Shrewsbury, England, designed the first iron bridge in the world?
... that Rich Schroeppel, the inventor of the Hasty Pudding cipher, offers a bottle of Dom Pérignon for research on the cipher?
... that Prince Charles was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958, though his actual investiture did not take place until 1 July 1969?
... that Les Whitt, director of the Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana, won the Dunbar Civil Service Award for his innovation and success in expanding the zoo?
... that a parade honoring Jack Benny was held at the Azusa Civic Center, commemorating his running gag in which a conductor called out, "Train leaving now for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga"?
... that the city hall Hamburg Rathaus , constructed from 1886 to 1897, has 647 rooms, six rooms more than Buckingham Palace, and still functions as the seat of the government of Hamburg?
... that Martin of Pattishall, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, had served as clerk to the previous Chief Justice, and that Pattishall's clerk in turn rose to this position?
... that the National Council of Women of Canada helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Children's Aid Society, and played a vital role in declaring that women were persons?
... that, according to legend, each of the 66 men who laid the tile of the South Dakota State Capitol placed a blue stone in the floor as a personal signature?
... that the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia in Monrovia is the only law school in the nation of Liberia?
... that after Yuri Titov had received nine Olympic medals in artistic gymnastics from three Olympics, he served 20 years as president of the International Gymnastics Federation?
... that the 2008 drama Whistleblower focused on the irregular number of caesarian hysterectomies carried out by Dr Michael Neary in an Irish hospital?
... that Elizabethan soldier and MP Sir Edward Hoby of Queenborough Castle published Protestant theological works, one under the pseudonym "Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi"?
... that in 1929, the American cargo ship SS West Alsek became the first steamship powered solely by pulverized coal-fired boilers to cross the Atlantic Ocean?
... that the Pomona City Stables, which housed 22 horses upon its completion in 1909, is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings still extant in California?
... that medievalist Aron Gurevich was the first in Soviet Union to defend a doctoral thesis on Viking history?
... that Frederick Hollyer was an English photographer known for his platinotypes of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and for portraits of literary and artistic figures?
... that I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture?
... that in 2002, theft was the most common crime in Saudi Arabia, accounting for 47% of the nation's crime?
... that Charles William Bardeen, who took positions of national leadership in the National Education Association, was the grandfather of two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen?
... that, to mark the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death, RTÉ and the History Channel created the multipart documentary Cromwell in Ireland?