derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Emerson Rodwell, a former captain of the Tasmanian cricket team, scored 11,542 runs and took 331 wickets in his club career, as well as earning the Military Medal in Borneo during World War II?
... that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office?
... that the 19th Golden Melody Awards ceremony in Taiwan featured Canadian recording artist Daniel Powter as a guest presenter?
... that Confederate General John W. Frazer surrendered the Cumberland Gap during the American Civil War without a fight?
... that although only 170 cars were carried between Lympne and Le Touquet airfields in 1948, by 1951 the air ferry service was so successful that over 13,000 vehicles were carried that year?
... that the Israeli government is considering recognizing Indian nanny Sandra Samuel as a Righteous among the Nations?
... that the Ulster cherry is named after Ulster County, New York, a region where sweet cherries are produced commercially?
... that the ingredients for facials recommended in Medicamina Faciei Femineae by Ovid more than 2,000 years ago, are still used in the production of modern cosmetics?
... that Midnight Madness is an annual pep rally-like event that celebrates the first day that U.S. college basketball teams are allowed to practice?
... that the 1971 restoration of Westbury Court Garden, a 17th-century water garden in Gloucestershire, only used plants that had been introduced to the British Isles before 1700?
... that Jose C. Abriol was the first person to translate the Catholic Bible into Tagalog?
... that the Austro-Hungarian U-27 class of submarines had more members than any other Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine class?
... that after retiring as a footballer, Mike Trusson worked as marketing manager for a football-themed restaurant in London?
... that one bacterial strain of Streptomyces griseus has the capacity to produce up to 34 different secondary metabolites including antibiotics?
... that one of the Roman soldiers in the Mesa Arizona Easter Pageant Jesus the Christ was played by NFL offensive lineman Deuce Lutui?
... that the city of Plymouth is the largest settlement in Devon, England, with a population of 240,720 in the 2001 census?
... that using the pseudonym "Tanta", Doris Dungey blogged on Calculated Risk about the U.S. housing bubble, including a 13-article series on the mortgage industry called The Compleat ÜberNerd?
... that ideational apraxia causes people to lose the ability to use everyday objects correctly, as they can no longer relate the object's purpose to the actions required to perform a task?
... that Loyal B. Stearns served in the Oregon House of Representatives after his father served there, but before his father served in the Oregon State Senate?
... that Clewer Mill Stream, a backwater of the River Thames, used to be out of bounds to boys from nearby Eton College and a punishment of 100 lines could be handed down for going there?
... that after the French city of Metz was captured by the U.S. Army in the World War II Battle of Metz, German units in nearby isolated forts continued to hold out?
... that historical structures in Yellagonga Regional Park include the City of Wanneroo's oldest residence and an early winery?
... that the 1947 film Juke Joint was considered a lost film until a print was located in Tyler, Texas, in 1983?
... that plans for the Royal Danish Navy's 1911 Havmanden-class submarines were seized by the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War and used as the basis for their own U-20-class submarines?
... that Charles Ranken and Lord Randolph Churchill founded the Oxford University Chess Club in April 1869, with Ranken becoming its first president?
... that typical symptoms of Urbach-Wiethe disease, a rare autosomal recessive disease, are a hoarse voice and beaded papules around the eyelids?
... that what became Monster Worldwide, the parent company of the Monster.com jobs website, was started by Andrew McKelvey in 1967 as a Yellow Pages advertising company?
... that although its design and construction are now appreciated for being modern and futuristic, the Westland Dreadnought monoplane crashed and was crippled on its inaugural flight?
... that the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford?
... that Singaporean backstroke swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, who has muscular dystrophy, won a gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, setting two world records in the process?
... that during the Crusader era in Palestine, the village of Kafr Lam was sold to the Hospitallers by the lord of Caesarea for 16,000 besants?
... that Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
... that the Barony of Ladyland was established by a poet and fervent Roman Catholic who was imprisoned for plotting to re-establish the Catholic faith in Scotland through a Habsburg Spanish invasion?
... that Tadeusz Pyka was appointed in 1980 to lead a Polish government commission to negotiate with strikers at Gdańsk, despite vowing that he would have "nothing to do" with the strikers' main representative body?
... that when the Worcester Common Outlets shopping mall was completed in 1971, it had the world's largest parking garage?
... that Cyril Pullin designed the first successful British helicopter and his son was the pilot for its first flight in June 1938?
... that gemstone irradiation processes enable the creation of certain gemstone colors that do not exist or are extremely rare in nature?
... that King Charles II rewarded Captain Richard Haddock for his actions in the Battle of Solebay by giving him a hat?
... that the orchid Odontoglossum crispum , first discovered in the Andes Mountains in 1841, was highly sought after in Victorian England, when varieties sold at auction for more than 150 guineas?
... that Hurricane Holly was the first Atlantic hurricane by this name, having replaced Hattie after the 1961 season?
... that Antonín Dvořák arranged his Romantic Pieces from a trio he originally wrote to play with one of his mother's tenants?
... that the Hawaii State Legislature declared October 29, 2005, "Samuel Kamakau Day," in recognition of the Hawaiian scholar who wrote over 200 articles about Hawaiian history?
... that the Prague trade union centre Odborové sdružení českoslovanské was founded in 1897, as Czech unionists considered that the Austrian unions were neglecting them?
... that the first two steamboats on the Kootenay River sank when they were overloaded with supplies by the Northwest Mounted Police en route to quell an uprising?
... that Japanese jūdōka Shokichi Natsui became the first World Judo Champion in 1956?
... that the core group of paintings in the Orleans Collection remained together for two centuries in Prague, Stockholm, Rome, Paris and London?
... that the body of Spence Broughton remained hanging in a gibbet on Attercliffe Common, near Sheffield, for 36 years after his execution for robbery in 1792?
... that the oak mazegill fungus Daedalea quercina has been used as a horse-comb and as a bee anesthetic?
... that Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned at Sitabuldi Fort in Nagpur from April 10 to May 15 in 1923?
... that Rajendra Prasad was the first President of India and the only one to have held the office for two terms?
... that after Caltech eliminated its meteorology department, which was founded and led by Irving P. Krick, most of the staff left to join Krick's private weather business?
... that overchoice refers to the situation where when faced with too many choices, people become indecisive and unhappy?
... that Alexander Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman has been described as "the best poem written anywhere in the 19th century"?
... that before becoming a professor of the sociology of law, Vilhelm Aubert was a member of the Norwegian anti-Nazi resistance group XU?
... that Serenity High School, the oldest public substance-abuse recovery high school in Texas, has served students from over 25 area high schools since opening in 1999?
... that the 1932 National Hunger March, the largest hunger march in the 1920s and 1930s, led to days of widespread violence in central London?
... that the bǎ construction in Chinese grammar has been used to perform neuroimaging studies of language processing and to evaluate theories of construction grammar?
... that William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion?
... that Paul McCartney's condition for guest starring in The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian" was that Lisa, who becomes a vegetarian in the episode, remain one for the rest of the series?
... that in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard, who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow?
... that the Erie Land Light was the first lighthouse built by the United States Government on the Great Lakes?
... that Adam Stanisław Grabowski, Prince-Bishop of Warmia, was a patron of the arts and a representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that the Durham Performing Arts Center opened in November 2008 as the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas, at a cost of US$48 million?
... that the exoperidium of the Bovista plumbea peels off at maturation in hot, dry conditions?
... that before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Brigadier General Stephen Gardner Champlin had his own law practice in Albany, New York?
... that the Camp of Great Poland was an interwar fascist-influenced right-wing organization that aimed at toppling the Sanacja-dominated Polish government?
... that Bob Blake was voted the most popular ice hockey player in Buffalo, New York, in 1941?
... that due to the subtly non-local nature of quantum reality, apparent telepathy can be achieved in games between separated players ?
... that Polish sculptor Maria Albin Boniecki practiced his craft even when imprisoned in the Nazi Majdanek concentration camp?
... that the mid-19th century stone arch Bridge No. 3 over Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania, USA, is listed on the Historic American Engineering Record even though it was destroyed in a 1996 flood?
... that James Godkin was simultaneously the chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper and the Dublin correspondent of The Times of London?
... that although Chuck Daly is a Basketball Hall of Famer now, when he served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers he had a 9–32 record and was fired mid-season?
... that Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, until 27 years after plans for their marriage were abandoned in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot?
... that in 1954, Israel walked out of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission after the commission failed to condemn Jordan for the Scorpion Pass Massacre?
... that mathematician Karen Vogtmann co-authored a paper which produced a method for quantifying the difference and computing the distance between two phylogenetic trees?
... that forage fish , which feed the world's great marine predators, are now being removed from the oceans on an industrial scale and fed instead to farmed fish, pigs, and poultry?
... that it now requires 250 employees and costs US$5-9 million to open a new location of the six-year-old America's Incredible Pizza Company?
... that after executing Caesar Gallus, officer Apodemius grabbed his shoes, ran quickly from Pula to Mediolanum, and threw them at the feet of Roman Emperor Constantius II to prove his cousin's death?
... that as a result of the Saxon Brother War and the subsequent divisions of land, Saxony was no longer one of the most powerful German states?
... that Wessagusset Colony was the site of Miles Standish's real-life attack against Native Americans as depicted in Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish?
... that each country who participated in MGP Nordic 2008 entered two songs, rather than one, to make the contest bigger?
... that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
... that the campus of the now-defunct University of Plano included a pagoda that had been the Malaysian pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair?
... that the Panamanian Night Monkey is one of the few monogamous monkey species?
... that the title of the 1944 race film Go Down Death derives from a poem by the African American writer James Weldon Johnson?
... that Shigeko Higashikuni was the elder sister of Akihito, the reigning Emperor of Japan?
... that the German football club Dansk Gymnastik Forening Flensborg, founded in 1923, is a club of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig?
... that the career of Tang Dynasty official Zhao Jing was launched after he was praised for his petition for frugality in the funerals of Emperors Xuanzong and Suzong?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Agamemnon ran aground in both the first and second Battles of Copenhagen, in 1801 and 1807, respectively?
... that John F. Kelly's 2003 promotion to brigadier general while in Iraq was the first promotion of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel in a combat zone since Chesty Puller's 1951 Korean War promotion?
... that a St. Andrew's cross was printed in four positions in place of a stamp on each sheet of the 1850 Austrian stamps so that the price would be an even number of Gulden?
... that the pre-Columbian ruins of Teopanzolco in Mexico are said to have been rediscovered during the Mexican Revolution when an artillery emplacement shook loose some dirt from the stonework?
... that Byron's 1819 poem Mazeppa inspired paintings by the French artists Eugène Delacroix, Claude-Joseph Vernet, and Théodore Géricault?
... that, due to his considerable oratory skill, U.S. Representative Richard Menefee of Kentucky was called "the young Patrick Henry of the West"?
... that south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers, and masons once spoke Meshterski, a secret language that includes many loanwords and metaphors?
... that the military career of Australian Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch spanned 40 years, including seaplane flying in the 1930s and a tenure as Chief of the Air Staff during the Vietnam War?
... that Wahsatch, Utah, established in 1868, was the first of many camps set up in Utah by the Union Pacific Railroad in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad?
... that Kasim Reed, a 2009 Atlanta mayoral candidate, is known for keeping the battle emblem of the Confederate States of America from being considered for inclusion on the Georgia State Flag?
... that the Fountain of Qayt Bay, built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it?
... that Robert Howlett, photographer of the iconic picture of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, died from exposure to the arsenic and mercury used in the photographic process?
... that Congregation Beth Israel, the planned site of a Jewish heritage museum in Scottsdale, Arizona, had been used as the First Chinese Baptist Church and the Central Baptist Church?
... that despite their names, the revolver cartridge .476 Enfield, .455 Webley, .476 Eley, and .455 Colt all interchange?
... that Diana Mitford had an appendectomy on the spare-bedroom table of the Mitford sisters' childhood home, Asthall Manor near Burford in Oxfordshire, England?
... that French-designed cannons, manufactured in both the North and the South, were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War?
... that MV Biscaglia was the 97th ship to be hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia this year?
... that the Great Fire of 1922 in the Timiskaming District, Ontario , was called one of the ten worst natural disasters in Canadian history?
... that checkers champion Richard Fortman learned the game from his father, a telegraphist who would play the game with other operators by memorizing the board to avoid detection?
... that rioting in 2001 involving Christians and Muslims in Jos, Nigeria, caused over 1,000 deaths along with many buildings, cars, and people being burned?
... that three years after the Battle of Marcelae in 756 AD, Constantine V invaded Bulgaria once more but suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of the Rishki Pass?
... that Pat Austin was the first drag racer to win two eliminators at an NHRA event?
... that the simulation of medical procedures was first used by anaesthetists to reduce the rate of accidents?
... that Riccardo Cassin made the first ascent of the Walker Spur of the Grandes Jorasses without initially knowing exactly where the mountain was?
... that the first guidebook to the English Lake District was written in 1778 by Catholic priest Thomas West?
... that 1. FC Nuremberg reached every final of the Bavarian under 19 football championship from 1967 to 1994?
... that Robert J. Morris lost a bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1958, and then ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964 and 1970, losing both times to George H. W. Bush?
... that English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston, Lancashire, as a scheme for relieving unemployment caused by the cotton famine in the 1860s?
... that during the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Confederate General James Argyle Smith was shot through both thighs and survived?
... that Women For Sobriety, a group founded in 1976 as an alternative to twelve-step addiction recovery groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, had over 200 chapters as of 1998?
... that Air Marshal Charles Read broke with tradition by refusing to sit for the usual portrait painted of retiring RAAF Chiefs of the Air Staff?
... that California hunter Seth Kinman , who claimed to have killed over 800 grizzly bears, gave several U.S. Presidents chairs made from grizzly bears and elkhorns?
... that the Westchester Tornado of July 2006 was the strongest tornado recorded in Westchester County, New York?
... that Nicolas Sarrabat, a French scientist and Jesuit, conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded?
... that Rabbi Asher Lopatin supported a Chicago ban on foie gras on the grounds that the Torah prohibits cruelty to animals, noting that "chopped liver is good, but foie gras is bad"?
... that the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Edgar was forced to fight unsupported for a time during the Battle of Copenhagen after the next ship in line, HMS Agamemnon, ran aground?
... that Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa?
... that Ueli Maurer , the former president of the nationalist Swiss People's Party, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Swiss governmental election?
... that the first Pilgrim settlement in Massachusetts was on the site of a former Patuxet Indian village, all of whose residents had died in epidemics before the Pilgrims arrived?
... that the Nariman House, which was home to a Chabad house, was a Mumbai landmark prior to falling victim to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks?
... that in 2006, National Park Community College received the largest cash donation in the history of Arkansas community colleges?
... that when it was completed in 1959, the Narrows Bridge in Perth, Western Australia, was the largest precast prestressed concrete bridge in the world?
... that Norman Lear's 1977 soap opera spoof All That Glitters featured Linda Gray as the first recurring transgender character on American television?
... that species of "cannonball fungi" (genus Sphaerobolus) may forcibly eject their spores a horizontal distance of 6 meters (20 ft)?
... that the Ineligibility Clause of the U.S. Constitution places limitations upon the ability of members of the U.S. Congress to serve in other branches of the U.S. Federal Government?
... that the Handlebar Club , a gentleman's club for those with handlebar moustaches, considers itself at war with a society that demands people choose "the bland, the boring and the generic"?
... that St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?
... that the Beverly Hills Diet, which starts with ten days of eating nothing but fruit, was labeled by doctors in 1981 as "perhaps the worst entry in the diet-fad derby"?
... that the police shooting of Rahul Raj, a BEST bus hijacker in Mumbai, India, sparked nationwide protests and discussions?
... that 13 baseball players Fred McAlister scouted for the St. Louis Cardinals became the team's first-round draft picks, and 12 made the major leagues?
... that after organist Dudley Savage's radio request programme was cancelled in 1968, the BBC faced a protest described as "perhaps the biggest demonstration of its kind"?
... that four former head coaches of the NBA franchise currently known as the Washington Wizards are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame as players?
... that the Esma Sultana Mansion , a multipurpose event venue in Istanbul, Turkey, looks ruined because only its interior was reconstructed after a 1975 fire?
... that puffballs of fungal genus Bovista have been used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments?
... that U.S. journalist John Whitaker received the Italian War Cross for his coverage of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia but was expelled from Italy in 1941 for critical reports on the fascist regime?
... that Sir Kirby Laing served as Deputy Lieutenant of both London and Hertfordshire?
... that the Sunburst community, a Southern California commune combining elements of mysticism, Christianity and Hopi rituals, was once one of the largest shippers of organic products in the U.S.?
... that Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter, international cricketer, novelist and marksman who founded the British Army's sniping school during the First World War?
... that Mount Silverheels was named after a popular dance-hall girl in the now-deserted ghost town Buckskin Joe, Colorado?
... that in spite of her great reputation in Europe, operatic soprano Lucienne Bréval had limited success in America as critics thought her singing lacked polish?
... that Florizel von Reuter , a child prodigy on the violin, later developed psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Guildford served as pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Guildford until the consecration of the current cathedral?
... that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
... that the Royal Australian Navy auxiliary patrol boat HMAS Vigilant was the first aluminium ship built in Australia?
... that the home of Massachusetts abolitionist Roger Hooker Leavitt was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and is now included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom?
... that both the Prime Minister and President of Pakistan resigned in order for the 1993 Pakistani general election to be held, after a power struggle between them?
... that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
... that John Marius Trana went from being an illegal trade union leader during the German occupation of Norway to being chairman of the Norwegian Union of Railway Workers?
... that Confederate General Henry C. Wayne gained a First Class Medal of Mammal Division by the Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation for his introduction of the camel to the United States?
... that Tropical Storm Olivia in 2006 was the eighth tropical cyclone to receive the name Olivia in the Eastern Pacific ocean?
... that the diaries of Claus Pavels from 1812–1822 are an important source for Norwegian cultural and biographical history?
... that the plant genus Regelia is named after the 19th-century Russian botanist Eduard August von Regel and is found only in Australia?
... that the .44 Colt revolver cartridge was used in both percussion and centerfire and both black and smokeless powder loadings?