derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Chuck Riley's original opponent for the November 2008 election was disqualified for living in the wrong Oregon House District?
... that Jens Boyesen, who in his early twenties was a secretary in the Norwegian resistance movement, later went on to become a top diplomat?
... that motivational speaker and self-help author Shiv Khera has started a political party that opposes caste and religion-based reservation in India?
... that the statues of the Two Working Men in Cork, Ireland were originally set to be unveiled outside the Liberty Hall in Dublin, but were deemed a traffic hazard?
... that the biography My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru recounts a child's experiences growing up in Bhagwah Shree Rajneesh's Osho movement?
... that modern experts estimate that around 90% of the natural gas discovered in the Indiana Gas Boom was wasted in flambeau displays?
... that Sinop Fortress Prison in Turkey, abandoned in 1997, hosts hundreds of thousands tourists yearly thanks to its featuring in popular literature, music and film?
... that screenwriter Oliver Crawford worked to remove an anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America, a relic of the Hollywood blacklist era?
... that the Vanuatu Labour Party first gained parliamentary representation in 2005, as the Minister for Ni-Vanuatu Business Joshua Kalsakau joined the party?
... that Ne-Yo received four nominations at the Grammy Awards in 2008, winning the award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Because of You?
... that Kate Nash won the award for British Female Solo Artist at the BRIT Awards in 2008?
... that three different emperors ruled over the German Empire during 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors?
... that the 15th-century Guillaume Dufay wrote a Lament of the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople for a political show banquet to propagate a crusade against the Ottoman Turks?
... that Robert Van Lierop is an American film director who became one of Vanuatu's senior diplomats in the 1980s?
... that out of the sixteen metropolitan regions of Norway, only one contains more than half a million inhabitants?
... that the Kennedy Administration positioned John R. Reilly on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ready to cut off Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech if the rhetoric got too inflammatory?
... that Beck has received four nominations for Best Alternative Music Performance at the Grammy Awards but only won it once, in 1997 for the album Odelay?
... that the first keeper of the South Bass Island Light was picked up and committed as insane on the same day that his assistant's suicide was reported in the newspaper?
... that the Russian anarchist-communist organisation Chernoe Znamia were the first with a deliberate policy of terror against the established order?
... that all of the known hurricanes in the 1854 Atlantic hurricane season made landfall?
... that the 19th-century periodical The Eclectic Review gave its profits to the British and Foreign Bible Society?
... that the first speeding ticket in Norway was given to a tram driver in 1894 on the Briskeby Line?
... that Antonín Dvořák conducted the first performance of his oratorio Saint Ludmila at the Music Festival in Leeds?
... that R. J. Reynolds marketing executive Ralph Seagraves facilitated using red and white paint on American short track's walls to give the illusion of greater speed?
... that 3-MCPD, a food contaminant sometimes found in soy sauce and oyster sauce, has male antifertility effects and may be used as a rat chemosterilant?
... that Sir Walter Balfour Barttelot, who was killed in action in World War I, lost his father, Sir Walter George Barttelot in the Boer War, while his son, Sir Walter de Stopham Barttelot was KIA in World War II?
... that Yuan Dynasty dietician Hu Sihui's culinary encyclopaedia was the first book to contain a recipe for Peking Duck ?
... that Google purchased in-game advertising company Adscape for US$23 million, only five years after the company was founded?
... that Norwegian football goalkeeper Jon Knudsen made his national team debut one month before turning 34?
... that Window on the Plains Museum in Dumas, Texas, which preserves Panhandle history and culture, was relocated in 2001 from a former hotel to a new building?
... that Max Blouw was chosen unanimously by Wilfrid Laurier University's selection committee to become its seventh president?
... that the cable channel Z Music Television was a Christian version of MTV until it closed in 2000?
... that Avraham Herzfeld, one of the founders of the Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Histadrut, was known for his habit of bursting into song, sometimes in the middle of his speeches?
... that the Capitol Loop, a state highway in Lansing, Michigan serving the State Capitol , was designated in a plan to revitalize downtown?
... that Wilfrid Laurier University's senate voted unanimously in favor of instating John A. Pollack as the university's seventh chancellor?
... that HMS Swiftsure fought at the Nile for the British, and at Trafalgar for the French?
... that BuzzTracker was acquired by Yahoo! to complement its Yahoo! News product, and compete with other news aggregators including Google News and Digg?
... that Todd Friel performed over 1,500 times on stage as a stand-up comedian, mostly in venues in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area in Minnesota?
... that Tropical Storm Rosa was the first eastern North Pacific tropical storm to develop during the month of November since 2000?
... that the American Civil War saw buglers required to learn forty-nine separate calls for infantry alone?
... that while attempting to produce malleable platinum, Pierre-François Chabaneau lost his temper and smashed all of his laboratory equipment?
... that towards the end of World War II, British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front?
... that although the Round scad is considered a good food fish, it is mostly caught for use as bait?
... that mathematician Brian Bowditch wrote a paper solving the angel problem of John Conway, proving that the angel can win and evade the devil in the "angel game"?
... that the fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University, John Angus Weir, helped form the university's undergraduate music therapy program?
... that Johan Castberg became the first Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs, only to leave office after one year due to disagreements with Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen?
... that James L. Holloway, Jr. and James L. Holloway III are the only father and son to both serve as four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy while on active duty?
... that the Ashtamudi Lake is the second largest and deepest wetland ecosystem in Kerala, India?
... that the Laughing Baby, a YouTube viral video which has expanded into a worldwide internet phenomenon, has been viewed by over 65 million people including Queen Elizabeth II?
... that a siruv is a contempt of court order issued by a Jewish rabbinical court that can exclude people who do not observe the court's orders from participation in religious services?
... that The Golden Fleece, written in 1628 by Sir William Vaughan while at his colony New Cambriol, was a fanciful attempt to galvanise his colonists into hard work?
... that ImageAmerica provided Google Earth with high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina?
... that the arrival of Cuban doctors to Kiribati is credited with reducing the child mortality rate in Kiribati by 80%?
... that the flora of Western Australia comprises 9437 native vascular plant species of 1543 genera within 226 families?
... that Richard Marson, former chief editor of the BBC's Blue Peter also worked freelance for such companies as Disney, Planet 24 and LWT?
... that the 1937 Tamil film Ambikapathy starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar was made by American director Ellis R. Dungan?
... that one of sculptor Paul Manship's earliest public works, "The Four Elements", is at the former AT&T corporate headquarters at 195 Broadway in Manhattan?
... that Saint Vigilius of Trent, stoned to death for overturning a statue of Saturn, was the first martyr canonized by a pope?
... that Ohio State Treasurer Richard Cordray is a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion and carried the Olympic Torch in 1996?
... that Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss donated US$125 million to Harvard University, the school's largest gift?
... that the dome-shaped nest of the Yellow-rumped Thornbill has a cup-shaped depression fake nest to distract attention from the real nest inside?
... that Mary Ann Müller has been described as "New Zealand's pioneer suffragist"?
... that the Local Void is an empty region of space, devoid of matter, lying adjacent to our own Milky Way galaxy?
... that during a storm in the Dolomites, Mo Anthoine probably saved the life of Al Alvarez, who later wrote his biography?
... that the worst ever tram accident in the United Kingdom occurred on the Dover Corporation Tramways system in 1917?
... that Willard L. Boyd, President Emeritus of The University of Iowa and The Field Museum, was one of the first recipients of the National Humanities Medal?
... that Łaski's Statute of 1505 was the first codification of Polish law?
... that University of Notre Dame basketball player Luke Harangody and his brother were banned from playing basketball in their backyard as children because their games regularly ended in fights?
... that New York's Sony Building , with its distinctive Chippendale roof, was originally built by AT&T as its headquarters, but they no longer needed the space after the Bell System divestiture?
... that after they both appeared in the 1951 film Sailor Beware, Richard Clayton became a talent agent and represented James Dean?
... that the congenital disorder fibrochondrogenesis may result in dwarfism, shortened ribs with a concave appearance, a severely underdeveloped jaw, an enlarged head, and even death during infancy?
... that Yamamoto Tatsuo, former head of the Bank of Japan, was the first businessman to become a cabinet minister in Japan?
... that Jingning County, in Gansu, People's Republic of China, is one of the seats of Chinese civilization, with a history dating back to the Neolithic era?
... that in 1913, baseball player Jim Viox set a rookie record for batting average by a second baseman that was not matched until 2007?
... that for both his tenures as Norwegian Minister of Finance (1905–1906 and 1920–1921), Edvard Hagerup Bull was both preceded and succeeded by persons who at one point were Prime Ministers?
... that Thomas Johnes planted three million trees to make his Hafod Uchtryd estate picturesque?
... that Maine produced more Union soldiers in proportion to its population than any other Union state in the American Civil War?
... that Tang Dynasty general Ma Sui was removed from his command due to his disastrous proposal to make peace with Tufan?
... that Jean-Claude Latombe's motion planning algorithm Probabilistic Roadmap Method not only applies to robotic motion planning, but can also be used in protein trajectories simulations?
... that the planned community of Albany, Alabama existed for 40 years (1887 to 1927) and formed a major population center before merging with the modern city of Decatur, Alabama?
... that Nini Stoltenberg, the little sister of the Norwegian Prime Minister, has spoken openly about her past heroin addiction and has become an advocate for drug policy reform in Norway?
... that Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?
... that the volcanic ring dike at Pawtuckaway State Park , an important orienteering venue in New Hampshire, resembles a meteor impact crater?
... that Yitzhak Tabenkin, one of the founders of the socialist Kibbutz Movement, joined the Movement for Greater Israel after the Six-Day War?
... that in Shinto, yorishiro, such as sacred trees, attract spirits, give them a physical space to occupy and make them accessible to people for religious ceremonies?
... that American wheelchair racer Jean Driscoll won the Boston Marathon eight times, more than any other person?
... that STAR radio was named Liberian radio station of the year in 2008, winning a tape deck?
... that Tropical Storm Arlene of the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest storm to ever make landfall in Louisiana?
... that Marcellus A. Stovall left West Point after one year but later became a general?
... that Sweden's tallest building is Turning Torso , which rises 190 metres (620 ft)?
... that painter Sydney Curnow Vosper's most famous work, Salem, gained widespread popularity in Britain when it was used to promote Lever Brothers' Sunlight soap?
... that the Waterford Covered Bridge, in Erie County, Pennsylvania, is nicknamed the "Old Kissing Bridge?"
... that after his ship was captured by the French, Captain Thomas Thompson complained that his captors stole his surgeon's instruments whilst he was trying to operate on the wounded?
... that in 1962, politicians Robin Bailie and Bob Cooper launched a journal entitled Review, even though they were only able to publish a single issue?
... that Navagunjara is a beast in Hindu mythology, composed of parts of nine different animals?
... that Clemson University coach William "Dabo" Swinney got his nickname as an infant, when his 15-month older brother tried to enunciate "that boy"?
... that the Merck headquarters campus is home to the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system east of the Mississippi River?
... that Joseph Baptista coined the phrase "Swaraj is my Birthright" that was made popular by Lokmanya Tilak during the Indian independence movement?
... that Dave Matthews Band received two Grammy Awards, one in 1997 for the song "So Much to Say" and another in 2004 for the song "Gravedigger"?
... that when the Polish Eddie Borysewicz became coach of the US cycling team in 1977, he used a 12-year-old to translate his commands?
... that the historic Slipper Chapel in Norfolk, England was used as a cow-shed and barn for almost 400 years before being rededicated as a chapel in 1934?
... that the 1993 appointment of Bjørn Skogstad Aamo as director of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway drew criticism from the opposition parties?
... that Joe Hatten was the Brooklyn Dodgers' Opening Day starting pitcher when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947?
... that Alastair Borthwick's adventures ranged from hitchhiking to Ben Nevis in a lorry full of dead sheep to leading 600 men behind enemy lines during World War II?
... that Ivor McIntyre was lead pilot in two pioneering aviation feats, the first circumnavigation of Australia by air, and the first international flight by an RAAF plane and crew?
... that in the Canary Islands, palm syrup is made from sap collected laboriously from the crown of a date palm?
... that Tang Dynasty general Hun Zhen was pleased that his requests to Emperor Dezong were sometimes rejected, believing that it showed the emperor trusted him?
... that United States Army officer James H. Trapier graduated one position below P. G. T. Beauregard in his class at the U.S. Military Academy and later served under him in the American Civil War?
... that Ronnie Boon scored all the match points for Wales when their rugby team finally broke the "Twickenham bogey", beating England at Twickenham after 21 years and ten failed attempts?
... that Clarin Mustad, a co-heir of the industrial corporation O. Mustad & Son, was also involved in the early automotive industry?
... that Venezuelan painter Cristóbal Rojas produced a painting of purgatory shortly before his death in the knowledge he was going to die from tuberculosis?
... that the San Diego Padres' first Opening Day starting pitcher was Dick Selma, who received a win against the Houston Astros in 1969?
... that William Wroth founded the first independent chapel in Wales in 1639, after he refused to obey King Charles' instruction to allow sports to be played on Sundays?
... that Odd Karsten Tveit, foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, was awarded the Brage Prize for non-fiction in 2005?
... that in 1969, Major League Baseball player Kevin Collins was traded by the New York Mets with three other players for Donn Clendenon, who would be the World Series MVP that season?
... that although having no formal medical training Anne Margrethe Strømsheim served as a nurse during the 25-day Battle of Hegra Fortress in 1940, gaining national fame in Norway?
... that Kodaikanal Lake was developed in 1863, amid the town of the same name, by the British and early missionaries from the USA?
... that Nirvana's 1994 song "Heart-Shaped Box" was nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards, winning two of them?
... that the SS-physician Alfred Trzebinski, who was involved in the homicide of 20 children at the former school Bullenhuser Damm, was executed by hanging in 1946?
... that the Larmer Tree Festival has made the shortlist for three UK Festival Awards, including Best Toilets?
... that despite failing health, American racer Joe Shear won four of his last five races?
... that retired Israel Defense Force Major General Eitan Ben Eliyahu flew as a fighter escort during Operation Opera in 1981, which resulted in the destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor?
... that David Drake wrote his first novel, The Dragon Lord, after another author declined to develop the plot Drake had written?
... that former Norwegian Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Schjelderup was among the first ascenders of several mountains in Nordland county during 1910, including the 1,392-metre (4,567 ft) Stetind?
... that Czeslaw Lejewski, Polish philosopher and logician, who studied under Jan Lukasiewicz and Karl Popper, became one of the members of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic?
... that Margaret Kelly Leibovici, a French-Irish dancer, was interrogated by the Gestapo in occupied France?
... that 10,000 people were employed in the 1830s simply to build canals by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act?
... that the liberal Jewish Folksgrupe played an important role in the 1917 Russian Provisional Government, but only obtained around 1% of the Jewish votes the same year?
... that Court Avenue, Ohio, was the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete?
... that the Catedral de San Nicolás in Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia was built because the original church was believed to have been possessed by evil spirits?
... that the Iraqi Army launched an offensive into Saudi Arabia on 29 January 1991, leading to the Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War ?
... that Ntare Mwine is a Ugandan-American actor, playwright and documentarian who has appeared in Heroes and interviewed Idi Amin's brother?
... that the Teatro del Silenzio is an open air amphitheatre in Italy which remains silent for 364 days of the year?
... that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has mandated a return to paper ballots after an extensive study as well as an experience with failing direct-recording electronic voting machines?
... that Swiss lawyer Georges Brunschvig was first to prove The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to be false in court?
... that Meinong's jungle is the name given to the ontological realm in which non-existent objects such as unicorns, square circles, and golden mountains subsist?
... that after Dale Earnhardt's first win, his crew chief Jake Elder said, "Stick with me, kid, and we'll win diamonds as big as horse turds"?
... that the death of Captain Henry T. Waskow in WWII was the subject of one of Ernie Pyle's most famous columns and the basis for the Oscar-nominated film The Story of G.I. Joe?
... that Borgarting Court of Appeal dates back to at least 1047, at the time organized as a thing?
... that Henry Compton ran away from home three times before his family finally accepted his wish to become an actor?
... that Cloudland Canyon State Park, situated on Lookout Mountain in Georgia, contains many unusual sandstone boulder formations?
... that the enmity between Tang Dynasty general Li Sheng and chancellor Zhang Yanshang began over a military prostitute?
... that during the 2007 Alum Rock earthquake, over 60,000 reports of the earthquake were received?
... that The New York Times moved in 1858 to a building at 41 Park Row, making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use?
... that, in his first season as a baseball player, Brian Barber's age of 22 was the youngest on an aging St. Louis Cardinals team?
... that a brutal rape of a Bengali child by her 35-year-old husband served as a catalyst for increasing the age of consummation to 12 in British India?
... that the media of the Mortal Kombat franchise not only includes the video game series which has sold 26 million copies but also two feature films, a television series, two books, and several comics books?
... that after serving in a number of battles of the American and French Revolutionary Wars, Captain Ralph Willett Miller was killed in an accidental explosion aboard his ship HMS Theseus?
... that impeachment in Norway was used six times in 1814–1845, but only twice since?
... that Tropical Storm Kirsten of 1966 did $35.18 million (2008 USD) in damages and caused heavy rain all the way to Phoenix, Arizona when it made landfall?
... that historic Sleddale Hall, the filming location for Crow Crag in the 1986 cult film Withnail and I is derelict and has faced demolition in the past?
... that after being rejected from HaShomer, a Jewish defense organization in Ottoman Palestine, Yosef Lishansky founded a rival group called HaMagen, operating in the south of the country?
... that Our Man Higgins, a 1962–1963 ABC sitcom, featured Stanley Holloway of My Fair Lady as an emphatic English butler to a suburban American family?
... that Zola Maseko was the first South African filmmaker to receive the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in 2005?
... that when the Church of St Demetrius was built in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, a rumour was spread that the saint would come to the city?
... that Rettamalai Srinivasan, Dalit leader from the Madras Presidency, was a brother-in-law of famous Dalit activist Iyothee Thass?
... that County Route 41 in Onondaga County, New York, was once part of two state highways and one turnpike?
... that Franciszek and Magdalena Banasiewicz, Polish Righteous among the Nations, hid 15 Jews on their farm during World War II undeterred by public execution of their Ghetto liaison?
... that Queen Victoria wore the George III Tiara, part of Elizabeth II's jewel collection, while being painted in Franz Xaver Winterhalter's The First of May ?
... that over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action?
... that Orson Welles originally planned to end his film Don Quixote by having Don Quixote and Sancho Panza survive an atomic cataclysm?
... that Dipor Bil reportedly provides its natural resources for the livelihood of 14 indigenous villages (1,200 families) located in its wetland ecosystem in Assam, India?
... that the Alice Springs Reptile Centre has the largest collection of reptiles in the Northern Territory, and has twice had its animals attacked by humans?
... that Ensign O'Toole, a 1962–1963 NBC military comedy series starring Dean Jones, was filmed aboard the USS Frank E. Evans, which was thereafter destroyed following a collision?
... that Kazakhstan and Turkey have sought to promote closer bilateral relations and foster close ties between Turkic nations of Central Asia?
... that all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia?
... that the wool used in the uniforms of the Confederate military caused many Confederate soldiers to suffer from heatstrokes on long marches?
... that "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969?