derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Mary Shelley's edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound was delayed 19 years because Percy's father, Timothy Shelley, refused to allow any of his son's poetry to be published?
... that Croatian composer Alfi Kabiljo's plays have been produced over 2,000 times?
... that the 1971 book Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee chronicles environmentalist David Brower's confrontations with his ideological enemies?
... that boy soprano Andrew Johnston's debut album, One Voice, features a duet with Britain's Got Talent contestant Faryl Smith?
... that former California State Assemblyman Glenn E. Coolidge was the 1962 Republican congressional candidate for California's 12th district, but died suddenly during the campaign?
... that after 19 years broadcasting from an antenna atop the 42-story DuMont Building in Midtown Manhattan, WKCR-FM became the first station to broadcast from the mast on top of the World Trade Center?
... that former Regimental Sergeant Major Harry Lapwood was known as having the loudest voice in the New Zealand House of Representatives?
... that a scripted argument at Royal Rumble 1995 set up a wrestling match between wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and American football player Lawrence Taylor?
... that in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company?
... that the ruined Saxon St Peter's Church, West Blatchington was used as a henhouse for many years before being restored in the 19th century?
... that Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick published a short book of favorite songs titled Louisiana Let's Sing in honor of her husband Claude's unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Louisiana in 1963?
... that canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution?
... that it took Peter Steinfeld six weeks to write the opening eleven pages of his first screenplay, Drowning Mona?
... that the Dome of the Chain , a free-standing dome functioning as a prayer house on the Temple Mount, was possibly used as a building model for the adjacent Dome of the Rock?
... that deadpan comedian Kevin Wu was one of three Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all time most subscribed in 2008?
... that by 1937, the Warsaw branch of the Bundist Morgnshtern was the largest sporting organisation in Poland?
... that art historian George Zarnecki worked with a Soviet spy for almost 30 years at the Courtauld Institute of Art?
... that Japanese rock band Abingdon Boys School provided one of the two opening theme tunes for the first season of the D.Gray-man anime?
... that Dutch cricketer Maurits van Nierop had been recalled to the Netherlands national cricket team squad for the first time in two years just two weeks before he died?
... the loading coil saved AT&T an estimated US$100 million in the first quarter of the 20th century but Oliver Heaviside was paid nothing for the idea?
... that after the resignation of Roman Abramovic, Roman Kopin was unanimously confirmed by local legislators to be the next governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug?
... that the threadfin jack has been found at a number of archaeological sites in Central America, indicating this species has been caught by humans for food for at least three millennia?
... that British architect Rodney Gordon considered running for Parliament, but could not decide which party he wanted to be in?
... that the Willamette Law Review offices are housed in a former Carnegie library re-dedicated in a ceremony featuring U.S. Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
... that "The Nose" is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose?
... that Eero Saarinen's Bell Labs Holmdel Complex was called the "The Biggest Mirror Ever" because of its unique exterior?
... that Jacopo I da Carrara, signore of Padua, Italy, voluntarily stepped down in 1319 to save the city from Cangrande I della Scala?
... that ticket scalpers were arrested prior to the 2008 UAAP men's basketball finals for reselling tickets at exorbitant prices?
... that the Bandra Fair in Mumbai, India was established to commemorate finding a statue of Mary in the Arabian Sea?
... that American film producer Sandy Stern's producing partner is R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe?
... that "Frog Legs Rag" (listen) was the second highest selling ragtime song after "Maple Leaf Rag" in publisher John Stillwell Stark's catalog?
... that Loughborough University's Pilkington Library is cooled by an on campus combined heat and power plant which provides electricity to the rest of the university?
... that the 2002 Battle of Nablus continued for two hours after the Palestinian fighters announced their willingness to surrender?
... that biochemist Rollin Hotchkiss, a pioneer in bacterial transformation and molecular genetics, helped to popularize the term "genetic engineering"?
... that the September 2008 attacks on Christians in Mangalore started in response to the allegations by Bajrang Dal that the New Life Fellowship Church was indulging in forcible conversion of Hindus?
... that Henry Bohlen, an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War?
... that the High Arctic relocation of 87 Inuit people in the Cold War was called "one of the worst human rights violations in the history of Canada" by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?
... that Sadamu Shimomura, the last Army Minister of the Imperial Japanese Army, was appointed after the surrender of Japan?
... that the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team holds NCAA records for both bowl game appearances and victories with 55 and 31 respectively?
... that although designed for use on light rail lines, the Valmet RM 2 trams were only ever used on traditional tram systems?
... that computer criminal Jeanson James Ancheta was the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets?
... that conductor gallop, the wind-induced 1 Hz oscillation of overhead transmission lines, is also known as "dancing"?
... that British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59?
... that the Red Hill fire tower was the last in the Catskills to be closed down?
... that the Goodpasture Covered Bridge spanning the McKenzie River near Vida, Oregon is decorated for the Christmas season?
... that at the funeral of Sir Anthony Browne, friends were given mourning rings engraved on the outside with 'Wee dye'?
... that M3 Amphibious Rig, a self-propelled amphibious bridging vehicle, was originally developed by the German firm Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern?
... that the first work of Texas literature in English was the 1833 book Texas by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin?
... the San Esteban Chuckwalla can exceed two feet (61 cm) in length, making it the largest member of its genus, and a textbook example of insular gigantism?
... that Warren A. Morton, a Speaker of the Wyoming House, was the father of a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the son-in-law of a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania?
... that the Norwegian river Lysakerelven, an ecosystem of national importance, has walking and cycling trails on both banks from its source to its mouth at the Oslofjord?
... that Springfield Armory, Inc. assisted Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division in making the United States Navy Mark 14 Mod 0 Enhanced Battle Rifle by supplying the needed machinery to make it?
... that according to Hansard, Northern Irish boxer Paddy Maguire once sparred with Conservative politician Colin Moynihan in a London pub?
... that the weroance of the Appomattoc tribe, Perecute, personally led Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam on an expedition in 1671 to become the first Europeans to set foot within what is now West Virginia?
... that Slovenian biologist Ivan Regen is considered the founder of modern bioacoustics due to his work on cricket and katydid acoustic communication?
... that in Mexico City's Zócalo, 18,000 Mexicans stripped naked for the artist Spencer Tunick?
... that many of the pieces of the anthology Suspiria de Profundis were lost before publication, as its author Thomas de Quincey may have accidentally set them on fire?
... that after living in the U.S. for 50 years, painter Kazys Varnelis returned to Lithuania in 1998 at the age of 81?
... that rains from Tropical Storm Lester triggered a mudslide that temporarily buried a man in Mexico?
... that Else Højgaard was a prima ballerina who was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog?
... that the 1871 Battle of Blanco Canyon marked the first time a foreign military force had penetrated to the heart of the Comancheria since the Comanche rose to power on the Great Plains?
... that Gliricidia sepium is used as firewood, live fencing, fodder, coffee shade, green manure and rat poison?
... that Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins?
... that Hapoel Tayibe was the first ever Arab football club to play in the top division in Israel?
... that A.U. Fuimaono was the first Delegate from American Samoa to the United States House of Representatives?
... that Brazilian nursing assistant Edson Isidora Guimaraes is thought to have killed patients in a hospital in São Paolo because a funeral home was paying him $60 a time for the relatives' contact details?
... that in August 1936, the Matson Navigation Company cargo ship SS Mauna Loa came to the aid of a windjammer that was crewed by Sea Scouts and had been missing for two weeks?
... that more than 100,000 Heinkel Tourist scooters were sold despite being heavier and more expensive than Vespas and Lambrettas?
... that Nora Kimball co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in David Gordon's Made in U.S.A.?
... that the last common ancestor of bilaterian animals has been reconstructed as a tiny worm with a combined mouth and anus?
... that the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law was named after its founder Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and his father Sir Hersch Lauterpacht?
... that 29 out of 40 prepared songs were excluded from the final track list of Brandon Heath's album What If We?
... that following the purchase of British Energy by Electricité de France, plans for a new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station have been announced?
... that on April 17, 1964, Tim Harkness of the New York Mets became the first Met player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium?
... that the Oxford Music Hall, opened in 1861, burned down twice within its first dozen years of operation?
... that Prussian-born American surveyor and city planner Julius Pitzman was directly responsible for the development of the private place in St. Louis, Missouri around the turn of the 20th century?
... that the magazine Electrician and Mechanic changed its title six times in two years before acquiring its current title, Popular Science?
... that Mike J. Manning was threatened with deportation from Papua New Guinea for a report criticizing corruption in the government?
... that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi?
... that although Iván DeJesús, Jr. was selected to play in the 2008 Southern League All-star game, he instead played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game?
... that the song "Another Planet" by drum and bass band Pendulum uses samples from Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds?
... that, after the rebellious Tang Dynasty general Zhu Tao was defeated by Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen, he immediately executed two subordinates who had suggested that he battle Wang and Li?
... that Betty Furness, a Hollywood film actress turned consumer advocate, was appointed by Nelson Rockefeller as the first chairman and executive director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board?
... that when Giurgiu Cathedral in Romania was inaugurated in 2006, it received a box with the relics of Saint George, but this was stolen the following year?
... that David Bowie was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Webby Awards?
... that the followers of the Socialist Workers Party in Palestine, the precursor of the Communist Party of Israel, were known as mopsim?
... that Double Falshood is a 1727 play by Lewis Theobald based on the "Cardenio" episode in Don Quixote?
... that Olympic distance runner Matt Centrowitz was the number one high school mile runner in America in 1973?
... that Dustin the Turkey, a puppet, represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008?
... that Gary D. McCaleb, a former mayor of Abilene, once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city?
... that Supreme National Tribunal, a war crime tribunal active in Poland from 1946 to 1948, presided over seven high-profile cases, including the First Auschwitz Trial?
... that Morris Sullivan's relocation of his Sullivan Bluth Studios animation company from the U.S. to Ireland, to exploit tax advantages, helped stimulate the development of Ireland's animation industry?
... that according to writings by missionary Ivan Popov, an 18th-century settlement on Uliaga Island was destroyed by a Russian settler at the request of natives on nearby Umnak Island?
... that the Red-backed Kingfisher nests in burrows in riverbanks but not near water?
... that the Great Swamp in Putnam and Dutchess County, New York is one of the largest wetlands in the state?
... that Richard Kessel, a consumer advocate who opposed the US$5.5 billion Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, purchased the facility for one dollar as head of the Long Island Power Authority?
... that Ayrlies Garden has been described as the "quintessential New Zealand garden"?
... that in 2004, Ouaga-Saga was one of two or three films the Burkina Faso government produces in a year?
... that Dave Needham is only one of a few British boxers to have been both a BBBC bantamweight and featherweight champion?
... that Jacques-Désiré Laval , a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
... that the shagreen ray is also known as the "fuller's ray" because its spiny back resembles devices used for fulling cloth?
... that in 2008, the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope received a one-million-dollar gift from the AEP Southwestern Electric Power Company to fund technical and industrial programs?
... that Frank Tepedino, former Major League Baseball player, lost 343 colleagues from the New York City Fire Department during the September 11 attacks?
... that Thorbjørn Egners lesebøker, a series of readers for the Norwegian primary school, took the author 25 years to complete, but were made largely obsolete the year the last book was published?
... that in 1983, Rich Mountain Community College was formed as a merger of Rich Mountain Vocational-Technical School and Henderson State University's off-campus programs?
... that the recipe for the Tom Collins cocktail first appeared in the 1876 edition of The Bartender's Guide by noted American mixologist Jerry Thomas?
... that Punch founding editor Mark Lemon had to sit in the gallery when he worshipped at St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley because no pews in the nave were large enough to accommodate him?
... that Albert Teveodjré once had a monopoly on journalism in Dahomey?
... that Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs has units of rock showing the lower to early Middle Devonian period, laid 417–354 million years ago?
... that American football head coach Dick Vermeil coached two NFC championship teams 19 years apart—the 1980 Philadelphia Eagles and the 1999 St. Louis Rams?
... that Ira Needles co-founded the University of Waterloo in 1957 with Gerald Hagey, and later served as the university's second chancellor?
... that Betty James came up with the name of the Slinky toy created by her husband, Richard T. James, and ran the business for decades after he left her and their six children to live in Bolivia?
... that Megalictis ferox, a species of extinct predatory mustelid, resembled a modern wolverine but with three times the body mass?
... that the border between Wales and England has followed broadly the line of Offa's Dyke since the 8th century, but was only finally determined in law in 1972?
... that Czech businessman František Mrázek is believed to have covertly influenced Czech politics for the 20 years before he was assassinated?
... that Glenn Dumke was the chancellor of California State University from 1962 to 1982, during which time it became the largest system of higher education in the United States with 319,000 students?
... that Tom Gish's newspaper The Mountain Eagle was the first newspaper in eastern Kentucky to challenge the damage caused to the environment resulting from strip mining?
... that the 1915 Pleasant Valley earthquake caused four fault scarps that, together, measured 59 kilometres (37 mi)*?
... that Terrance Carroll, the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives?
... that in 18th-century Europe, tobacco smoke enemas were considered the most potent method of resuscitating near-drowned people?
... that Hillary Rodham Clinton may be ineligible for appointment as United States Secretary of State by Barack Obama unless a Saxbe fix can be worked out?
... that theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail?
... that Vakkom Moulavi was the founder of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned by the Government of Travancore due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan P. Rajagopalachari?
... that although Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him?
... that David Hoadley restructured management of the Panama Railway so that it avoided bankruptcy and finished its track a year early?
... that internet service provider McColo, taken down in November 2008, hosted the world's biggest botnet and was responsible for at least half of all email spam?
... that the death of Charles Gough was depicted in poetry and art by Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Francis Danby and Edwin Landseer?
... that Ilse Stanley , a German Jewish actress, secured the release of 412 prisoners in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1938?
... that in 2000, the season finale of television series Survivor: Borneo had more viewers than the World Series, NBA finals, NCAA men's basketball finals, and Grammy Awards of that year?
... that the modern border between Iran and Iraq dates back to the Treaty of Zuhab, which concluded the Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639?
... that singer Christina Milian's self-titled debut album had its U.S. release date delayed for three years, partly due to the September 11 attacks?
... that organisms exhibiting kleptoplasty retain active chloroplasts from the algae on which they feed, providing the new host with the products of photosynthesis?
... that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew, known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California, admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture?
... that English novelist Charles Dickens wrote the bestseller The Life of Our Lord for his children in 1849, but it was not published until 1934, 64 years after his death?
... that ABC moved the Roseanne episode "December Bride", which featured a same-sex wedding, from its usual broadcast time slot to one 90 minutes later, citing the episode's "adult humor"?
... that the Bar-winged Prinia is a common passerine bird endemic to western Indonesia?
... that General John B. Grayson died of pneumonia and tuberculosis three months after he joined the Confederate Army, without fighting a single battle?
... that the nematode Capillaria plica is a parasite found in the urinary bladder of dogs, cats and various mammals?
... that Exchange Plaza, the Western Australian state headquarters of the Australian Securities Exchange, is built on land owned by a historic gentlemen's club?
... that James Guthrie was Abraham Lincoln's first choice for Secretary of War, but he declined the position due to age and failing health?
... that poetry of the Hindu female-saint Bahinabai reflects the compromise between her devotion to husband and patron-god Vithoba?
... that the German company Jako threatened to sue the Football Association of Ireland when referee Anthony Buttimer refused to allow Sligo Rovers to wear their kit in a League of Ireland match?
... that in Japan during the Muromachi era, the shogun's representative would go to Wakamiya Ōji Avenue in Kamakura once a year to walk around a certain Shinto gate seven times?
... that during the War of the Castilian Succession, the Order of Calatrava supported Isabella even though its Grand Master sided with Isabella's opponent, Juana?
... that, on the way to Liverpool, the engine of the diesel-powered cargo liner MV Rakaia failed and the crew had to design makeshift sails to complete the journey?
... that Pulicat Lake, a 450 km2 (174 sq mi) bird sanctuary, adjoins the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, launch site of India's successful first lunar space mission, the Chandrayaan-1?
... that the 1921 congress of the Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine endorsed all 21 conditions of Comintern, except the one demanding use of the name "Communist Party"?
... that Aaron Edlin, an expert in law and economics, co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press?
... that most of the skeletons found at Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave in Germany dating to 5000 BC, show signs of skull trauma, and scientists have concluded that those buried there were victims of genocide?
... that when Jack Heslop-Harrison resigned as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1976 he was the first director to do so in the 154 years of its existence?
... that there is no agreement as to the origin of the unusual name of Nameless, Tennessee?
... that a parasitic worm of the family Mermithidae has been found in a spider preserved in Baltic amber for 40 million years?
... that Phil Ochs described "Power and the Glory" as "the greatest song I'll ever write"?
... that following his team's loss in the 1965 Rose Bowl, Oregon State Beavers football coach Tommy Prothro was hired as head coach at UCLA, where he led the team to victory in the following year's Rose Bowl?
... that the Pied Tamarin, an endangered primate of the Amazon basin, is being gradually displaced by the Red-handed Tamarin?
... that Byron Brown was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Buffalo, New York, even though six African-Americans had been the nominee before him?
... that at least five mutations are known to cause diplopodia in chickens, resulting in the development of extra toes or other structural abnormalities in the hind limbs?
... that Benjamin Hanford ran as the Socialist Party of America candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1904 and 1908?
... that a bishop of the Church of England once won the World's Biggest Liar competition by simply stating, "I have never told a lie in my life"?
... that the larvae and pupae of African beetles in the genus Diamphidia are used by Bushmen to prepare arrow poisons?
... that Howard C. Belton lost the election to become the Oregon State Treasurer in 1948, only to be appointed to the same office 12 years later?
... that the first episode of the third season of 30 Rock is currently the most watched episode of the series?
... that Howard Pyle's 1883 children's novel The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood had a vast influence on portrayals of Robin Hood through the 20th century?
... that almost all documentation of PZL.49 Miś, a development of advanced Polish medium bomber PZL.37 Łoś, was destroyed during the siege of Warsaw to prevent it from falling into Nazi German hands?
... that Charles Thomas Campbell, who served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, helped found the town of Scotland, South Dakota?