derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that when a mutiny broke out in the absence of Tang Dynasty general Cui Ning, his concubine Lady Ren suppressed it with soldiers she had hired herself?
... that the coastal trevally is frequently known under an incorrect Latin name because of a typo in the first volume to describe it?
... that as well as being an Olympic competitor and World Championship bronze medallist in the multi-discipline sport of modern pentathlon, Katy Livingston also played netball at county level?
... that a simple kite defeated cannons, steamers, and rockets in the bid to lay a line for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge ?
... that in Norse mythology, Hjúki and Bil have been theorized as personifying the waxing and waning moon and, due to similarities, as connected to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"?
... that Al Jackson and Roger Craig share the worst winning percentage of the Opening Day starting pitchers for the New York Mets with a record of 0–2?
... that Arthur Raikes was a British army officer but received honours from Zanzibar, Austria and Portugal?
... that the ceiling of the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Merenre has an astrological theme?
... that in the fictional 1977 novel The Sword of Shannara, Shea Ohmsford is the only descendant of Jerle Shannara left in the Four Lands, and therefore the only one left who can use the Sword of Shannara?
... that people with classical auditory agnosia cannot associate a sound (such as a motor running) with its meaning or concept (such as a car)?
... that the largest surviving painting by 15th-century Gothic artist Master Francke is an altarpiece dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury?
... that Huletts Landing, New York is one of three settlements near Lake George whose place names derive from members of General James Wadsworth's American Revolutionary War brigade?
... that British canoeist David Florence failed with an application to join the European Space Agency's astronaut training program before winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that "All the Way" by Eddie Vedder is a song about the Chicago Cubs written at the request of Ernie Banks?
... that the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai was destroyed by Yakut Khan in 1690?
... that photojournalist Stanley Greene's image of a tutu-clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
... that when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
... that the six home runs hit in the 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game were all hit by future Hall of Famers, including a 520-foot (160 m) shot by Reggie Jackson?
... that when Haydn Tanner and Willie Davies orchestrated Swansea rugby club's defeat of the touring All Blacks they were both still schoolboys?
... that the venom of the Beaded Lizard has been found to contain several enzymes useful in the manufacturing of drugs to treat diabetes?
... that the 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash caused the Columbia Metropolitan Airport to be closed for a day because the other runway at the airport was also unusable since it was undergoing resurfacing?
... that British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay?
... that "Go, Cubs, Go" was the most popular folk music digital download on iTunes in the first week of October 2007?
... that Pandorea "Golden Showers" is a yellow-flowering variety of the Australian native plant the Wonga Wonga Vine?
... that in the final game of the 1926–27 Boston Bruins season, Billy Coutu's attack on a referee caused him to be the first player banned from the National Hockey League for life?
... that the works of German artist Erich Buchholz were labeled "degenerate" by the Nazis, and only after the end of WWII his work became appreciated?
... that Hurricane Michelle , a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua?
... that Tang Dynasty general Duan Xiushi died after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhu Ci, who was planning to dethrone Emperor Dezong of Tang?
... that the Pakistan Cricket Board accused Cricket Australia of double-standards when the latter expressed its willingness to tour India even while cancelling its tour to Pakistan earlier this year?
... that Ageratina adenophora, a plant native to Mexico which has invaded Australia, India and the United States, causes respiratory failure called "blowing disease" in horses?
... that before her election to the New York State Senate, Carol Berman led the ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent the Concorde from landing at Kennedy Airport in New York City?
... that Azúcar Moreno's song "Bandido" caused a stir at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest when one of the backing tracks malfunctioned, causing the singers to storm off stage?
... that American cargo ship MS West Grama , while in the service of the U.S. Navy in 1919, was the first American-flagged ship to enter Bulgarian waters?
... that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II?
... that Udo Zimmermann's opera, Die weisse Rose tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister who were guillotined by the Nazis for leading a non-violent resistance group?
... that Half Japanese's Greatest Hits was included in Blender's top 100 indie rock albums?
... that the Idangai or left-hand is the name of a faction of six castes which existed in Tamil society in ancient times?
... that Orson Welles' 1968 film The Immortal Story played in the U.S. as a double feature with Luis Buñuel's Simon of the Desert?
... that the first library catalog was the Pinakes developed by the first bibiliographer Callimachus of Cyrene at the Library of Alexandria?
... that in 1998, Henry Kissinger introduced Lynn Forester to her future husband, Evelyn Robert de Rothschild?
... that to avoid worrying about sound quality for too long, producer Rob Swire of Pendulum drafted the demos for the album In Silico using Commodore 64 and Nintendo emulators?
... that multiple book reviews have referred to Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People as the definitive book on Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple?
... that victory in the 1904 FA Cup Final gave Manchester City F.C. their first major honour?
... that the producers of 2008 Hindi espionage thriller film Mukhbiir offered a money back guarantee for those who did not like the film, but prepared the refund for only 5,000 viewers?
... that Sir Thomas Jones was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas as a reward for his severity in sentencing, and then removed three years later for not being severe enough?
... that Chilean Canadian writer Carmen Rodriguez publishes much of her work in both English and Spanish, and that she herself is responsible for their translation?
... that Jerzy and Eugenia Latoszyński have been named Righteous Among the Nations for harboring one of many Jewish children of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland?
... that one of the short stories in Sandra Cisneros' collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories relates to the myth of La Llorona, who haunts the real Woman Hollering Creek in Texas?
... that in 1906, Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer built the Hill of Tarvit mansion house on an Iron Age site?
... that as captain of the cruiser Pittsburgh, future four-star admiral John E. Gingrich managed to sail his ship 900 miles (1,400 km) to safety after a typhoon tore off its bow?
... that Barley Yards Brewing Company is the first brewery in the United States to brew a Riesling ale?
... that Prussian noble Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein was kidnapped by the order of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, and later tried and executed for treason?
... that jökulhlaups, glacial bursts, from Oregon's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?
... that the thermal imaging camera has been called the best advance in firefighting equipment in the last 25 years, and the most expensive?
... that the parish church at Penterry stands isolated in a field near Chepstow in Wales, with a nearby plague pit thought to hold the remains of many villagers who perished in the Black Death?
... that New York State Assembly member David Koon has pushed for full funding for E911, a system of automatically locating 9-1-1 callers, after his daughter was abducted and brutally murdered in 1993?
... that the Kamikaze class destroyer Shiratae was one of the few ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy to have been lost in combat during the Battle of Tsingtao?
... that four months after the one-time-only U.S. airing of the 1991 Disney television pilot Acting Sheriff, Disney sold bonds that promised to pay up to a 20 percent return if Acting Sheriff were syndicated?
... that after examining 2,500 witness statements and approximately 270,000 pages of evidence, The Shipman Inquiry concluded that doctor Harold Shipman had murdered 250 of his patients?
... that agribusiness executive Daron Joffe used to teach horticulture and farming to incarcerated teenagers in the San Francisco area?
... that in 1817, the previously banned coat of arms of Paris was restored to its traditional form?
... that Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch, responsible for identifying remains of 9/11 attack victims, was injured while setting up a temporary morgue when the North Tower collapsed?
... that the lattice phase equaliser was invented by Otto Zobel, better known for his work on constant-resistance networks to equalise amplitude?
... that the 1935 short subject Alibi Bye Bye was the last film appearance of the comedy team of Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough?
... that systems scientist Béla H. Bánáthy conceived of a conference where all attendees present papers, and the conference itself is an in-depth, extended conversation between all participants?
... that the 1993 Independence Bowl was the first game in which a blocked field goal was returned for a touchdown by a Virginia Tech football player?
... that 13th-century Armenian historian and scholar Vardan Areveltsi was a religious adviser to Doquz Khatun, the wife of Ilkhanate Mongol leader Hulagu Khan?
... that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire?
... that A Victim of the Mormons is a 1911 Danish silent film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon films in the United States?
... that Biomedical Tissue Services was shut down after investigators discovered that it had harvested remains from 1,000 corpses without consent, including those of Alistair Cooke?
... that Charles Beattie became a British Member of Parliament despite never winning an election, and lost his seat despite never being voted out?
... that Holler House is a century-old tavern that has the oldest bowling alley in America?
... that survivors of the Loch Sloy disaster who made it ashore to Kangaroo Island, were eventually found with the remains of two dead penguins tied around their neck?
... that, since 2002, the Community design has provided Europe-wide protection for designs more simply and cheaply than the previous country-by-country approach?
... that whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet?
... that the Porsche PFM 3200 was a version of the Porsche 911's air-cooled engine built for the general aviation market?
... that Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
... that Bibliotheca universalis was the first modern bibliography of importance done by the "father of bibliography", Conrad Gesner?
... that in the Florida Marlins' 16 seasons, they have had six different pitchers start twice or more on Opening Day?
... that Louis Réard, who invented the bikini, chose nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model the first modern-day bikini in July 1946 at Piscine Molitor in Paris?
... that despite a US$900,000 budget, finances on the 1993 film Amongst Friends were so tight that the contents of a bag of Doritos opened in the film were replaced by yellow cardboard triangles?
... that Herbert Mayfield, one of the Mayfield Brothers, a bluegrass band, earned his living as a welder for cattle feedlots in West Texas?
... that Irving Berlin composed the song "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" more than 30 years before Judy Garland performed it for the 1948 film Easter Parade?
... that Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique?
... that in 1914, the Cumberland Market Group of neo-realism painters founded in London's Cumberland Market held only one exhibition, but was never formally dissolved?
... that U.S. bodybuilding champion Brandon Curry was first interested in weight training when he received a pair of Hulk Hogan-branded dumbbells for his sixth birthday?
... that St Andrew's Church, Brunswick Town, Hove, designed by Sir Charles Barry, was the first Italianate-style church in England?
... that the 1999 book A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award?
... that Curtis Woodhouse was a professional boxer while still playing professional football for Rushden & Diamonds?
... that a jokduri is a type of Korean traditional coronet worn by women for special occasions such as weddings?
... that United Copper survived a lengthy battle with Standard Oil-controlled Amalgamated Copper, backed by the wealth of John D. Rockefeller, only to collapse in the Panic of 1907?
... that Edith Atkins who broke numerous British cycling records died aged 79 pushing her bike across a zebra crossing?
... that some believe the pictographs in Burro Flats Painted Cave were drawn by Native American maidens who slept in the cave as part of a puberty ritual?
... that The Dave Clark Five sang London Bridge is Falling Down on Lucille Ball's 1966 TV special Lucy in London?
... that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics?
... that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22?
... that the old and new One Fathom Bank Lighthouses in Malaysia are situated an estimated 500 metres (1,600 ft) apart from each other?
... that Philip Marc, King John's sheriff in Nottinghamshire, should have had his bailiwick removed under the terms of the Magna Carta?
... that Orson Welles shot the footage for his unfinished film The Dreamers in his Hollywood home?
... that athlete So Wa Wai was only able to compete at the 2008 Paralympic Games after being given a job by Cantopop star and actor Andy Lau that allowed him time to train?
... that the first mail chute was installed in the Elwood Building in Rochester, New York in 1884?
... that Operation Mole Cricket 19 was the first time a Western air force successfully destroyed a Soviet-built SAM network?
... that historian Maurice Isserman, known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left, has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas?
... that the Corpus Clock , a large sculptural clock at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge featuring the world's largest grasshopper escapement, is entirely accurate only once every five minutes?
... that African-American mezzo-soprano Muriel Smith turned down a part in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, saying "it doesn't do the right thing for my people"?
... that the first airplane flight in Norwegian history was performed by Carl Cederström at Etterstad in Oslo in 1910?
... that American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel-powered ship to circumnavigate the globe?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court's Prima Paint decision created the separability principle, requiring that most issues in contracts with arbitration clauses be decided by the arbitrator?
... that Kamio Mitsuomi, an Imperial Japanese Army general, was in command of Allied ground forces at the Battle of Tsingtao in WWI?
... that the 18th-century James "Squire" Patton House in New Windsor, New York, is now a training facility for the city of Newburgh police K-9 unit?
... that the Smallville version of fictional character Lex Luthor was written to be likeable and vulnerable instead of comedic?
... that an ayam is a Korean traditional winter cap mostly worn by women in the Joseon period?
... that at the time of its sinking in the 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War, HHS Glasgow was the only ship in the navy of Zanzibar?
... that a Saturday Night Live sketch, featuring Amy Poehler and Tina Fey as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin respectively, was dismissed by Palin's spokeswoman as "sexist"?
... that goalkeeper Peter Litchfield donated the man of the match award from his Football League debut to motor neurone disease in memory of former teammate Mel Holden?
... that the 2001 film Sia, le rêve du python was inspired by a 7th-century myth of the Wagadu people of Western Africa?
... that New Zealand telecommunications entrepreneur Annette Presley once claimed that she would work as the CEO of Telecom New Zealand for NZ$1?
... that the Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut?
... that the British failure to break through Ottoman lines in the Battle of Wadi during WWI, led to Charles Townshend's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut?
... that Conrad Gessner's 1551 book Historiae animalium is the first use of fossil illustrations ?
... that the Oregon Civic Justice Center at the Willamette Law School was dedicated exactly 96 years after the building was first opened as a Carnegie library?
... that Kitigan Zibi, a First Nations Reserve in the Outaouais region of Quebec, is the largest Algonquin Nation in Canada, in both area and population?
... that the Commercial & Financial Chronicle was modeled after The Economist to be the first weekly national business newspaper in the United States?
... that Brazilian footballer Bobô won the 1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A before playing three games for the Brazil national team in 1989?
... that the 1994 film Walls of Sand was the first contemporary feature film to be webcast on the Internet?
... that Darryl Kile is the only Colorado Rockies starting pitcher to win twice on Opening Day?
... that Trawsgoed Crosswood Estate, owned by the Vaughn family since the year 1200, was home to the second largest lead mine in Britain?
... that when Kristin Kreuk was cast as Lana Lang in the television series Smallville, she had no idea who her character was in Superman lore?
... that in 2005, Abdullah Wardak, a former Mujahideen commander from Afghanistan, received the "key to the city" of Evansville, Indiana?
... that a recent live performance of "The Robots" by Kraftwerk was disrupted by a curtain that refused to close?
... that Lieutenant-General Robert Richardson commanded units of the British Army on three separate occasions during the Troubles?
... that the origin of Chicano literature, the literature of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Baozhen, in search of immortality, consumed over 20,000 pills made by an alchemist, which eventually killed him?
... that the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle-based apple export company?
... that men were forbidden to enter the Palestinian village of Ijnisinya by Helena of Constantinople to ensure that she and her maids could swim in its lake with total freedom?
... that John G. Jackson became a contributor to influential black nationalist journal Negro World while still in high school?
... that dancheong refers to Korean traditional decorative coloring on wooden buildings and artifacts for style?
... that in February 1943, German General Hubert Lanz plotted to arrest Hitler during a visit to his headquarters?
... that the yellowfin whiting is so popular for recreational fishing that recreational catches have represented nearly a third of the catch in its Southern Australian range?
... that never having previously taken five wickets in a match, Nikita Miller managed the feat twice in the 2007–08 Carib Beer Cup final?
... that the Kress Drachenflieger of 1901 was the first heavier-than-air machine to use an internal combustion engine in an attempt to fly?
... that Irish broadcaster John Creedon is set to learn a musical instrument alongside Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons?
... that New York State Route 30 is the longest of only five state highways in Hamilton County, New York?
... that the colorfully-painted common room of the Jazz Age Naniboujou Club Lodge has been called "a psychedelic marriage of Art Deco and traditional Cree Indian patterns"?
... that Senegalese filmmaker Ben Diogaye Beye's first feature film was critical of polygamy?
... that starting in 2009, certain biotech corn hybrid seeds will be covered by the risk management program of the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Corporation?
... that although William Hogarth painted his March of the Guards to Finchley as a gift for George II, the King took great offence at the artwork and refused to keep it?
... that the three major peaks of the Tofane were first reached in 1863, 1864 and 1865 by Austrian mountaineer Paul Grohmann?
... that Lydia Thompson and her troupe of "British Blondes" introduced burlesque to America in 1868?
... that prima ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya first performed at the Bolshoi Theater at the age of ten?
... that crime in Singapore includes mobile phone snatching which have in the past been the main target for robbers and snatch thieves?
... that the 1898 Carpenter Gothic Bardsdale Methodist Episcopal Church in California underwent extensive renovations after a portion of the ceiling fell on a parishioner during a 1982 service?
... that French photographer Robert Demachy took hundreds of photographs and wrote more than a thousand articles on photography, but suddenly gave up the subject without any explanation?
... that due to the important archaeological findings near the Bulgarian village of Durankulak, the area has been dubbed the "Bulgarian Troy"?
... that Smokey Mayfield, a ranch supervisor in the Texas Panhandle, once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford?
... that a failure to correct an aircraft flaw revealed by the "Windsor Incident" with American Airlines Flight 96 caused the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 two years later?
... that Philip Zec enraged both Hitler and Churchill with his wartime cartoons and nearly had the Daily Mirror shut down?
... that in 1935, the Supreme Muslim Council built the an-Nasr Mosque in the Palestinian city of Nablus after an earthquake in 1927 completely destroyed the previous structure on the site?
... that the Vegas Vampire was a television horror host who stuck pins in voodoo dolls of famous politicians and celebrities?
... that free croquet equipment and music on a Sunday afternoon are provided at the Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, England?
... that the biography Vita Karoli Magni on the life of Charlemagne is the first of a medieval European king?
... that British justice Thomas Reeve was knighted at the same time he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas?
... that Johnny Anders, mayor of Stamford in West Texas, built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park?
... that English director and actor Steven Berkoff featured in a two-minute film inviting the viewer to Watch Your Own Heart Attack?
... that at one point, the powerful Tang Dynasty eunuch Yu Chao'en was believed to be responsible for instigating the grave robbing of the general Guo Ziyi's father?