derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Francis Beltrán pitched the final inning of the final game played by the Montreal Expos before the club moved to Washington?
... that the Broadway Theater District, with 12 movie palaces in six blocks, is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that Syed Wajid Ali Shah was the longest serving President of the Pakistan Olympic Association with a tenure of 26 years?
... that an almost-complete juvenile specimen of Ctenochelys was uncovered in 2005?
... that Samuel Jarvis was acquitted of manslaughter after winning Toronto's last duel on July 12, 1817, and married the daughter of the presiding judge the following year?
... that when the Japanese visual novel Suika was released for the PlayStation, it was retitled as Water Summer?
... that Canadian actor Kevin Durand, who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost, is a former rapper and stand-up comic?
... that the 20-room Garbutt House in Los Angeles, California was built with concrete walls and ceilings, steel-reinforced doors and no fireplaces due to the owner's intense fear of fire?
... that Vincent Gambi was one of several pirates associated with Jean Lafitte, and assisted him during the Battle of New Orleans?
... that the papal election in 1241 is often cited as the first papal conclave due to the confinement of the cardinal electors to the Septizodium ?
... that when Daniel Elfrith became admiral of the colonies at Black Rock Fort in 1632, he warned ships of where escaped slaves might attack?
... that a scene from "Rosemary's Baby", an episode of 30 Rock featuring Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan, was described by one critic as "one of the funniest scenes ... on TV this season"?
... that Greek–Polish singer Eleni Tzoka has been awarded the Saint Rita of Cascia prize for the act of mercy towards the killer of her young daughter?
... that Dair Mar Elia, dating from the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq?
... that Garry Roggenburk, after his Major League Baseball career, became a general manager for the Winter Haven Red Sox in the farm system of his former team, the Boston Red Sox?
... that an extension of Ferrybridge Henge in West Yorkshire was discovered when surveying an area in preparation to erect a row of houses?
... that Miroslav Macháček spent four months in an insane asylum because he criticised the communist approach in the Prague National Theatre in 1975, two years before Charter 77?
... that the one-make Procar Championship was created in 1979 to help BMW produce the 400 M1 sports cars necessary to compete in the World Championship for Makes?
... that a World War II pilot from No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, escaped death when he fell onto a fellow crew member in mid-air and shared his parachute?
... that mass lesions in the brain stem cause coma, a severe alteration in the level of consciousness, by affecting the reticular formation?
... that Uncommon Friends of the 20th Century is a 1999 documentary film about businessman James D. Newton's friendships with well-known figures such as Thomas A. Edison, Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford?
... that Elliott Cutler, who performed the world's first successful heart valve surgery in 1923, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal twice for his distinguished service in the two World Wars?
... that Dickie's Bladder-fern was first found in a yawn in Scotland, but that Victorian fern collectors may have removed every specimen from this site?
... that during the Texas Revolution, soldiers in the Texian Army were not issued official uniforms, so many purchased US Army surplus uniforms to wear?
... that in 1882, after Australia beat England at cricket, The Sporting Times published a satirical death notice which was the origin of The Ashes?
... that the biography of a Douglas-fir, Tree: A Life Story, was inspired by a single tree at David Suzuki's home?
... that the Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall, a large multi-touch device, has been used by CNN during its coverage of the 2008 United States elections, and has been nicknamed "The Magic Wall"?
... that El Cabrillo courtyard apartments, built in 1928 by Cecil B. DeMille and later home to transvestite actor Divine, are said to be "steeped in old Hollywood lore"?
... that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana?
... that Lamine Guèye from Senegal was the first Black African skier to take part in the Winter Olympics?
... that The West Wing episode "Ways and Means" was co-written by Eli Attie and Gene Sperling, two former employees of the Bill Clinton White House?
... that the 1948 Headingley Test, in which Don Bradman's cricket team the Invincibles made a world record run-chase, remains the most attended Test on English soil?
... that the series of oil paintings by Nabil Kanso titled The Split of Life comprises over 80 mural-sized works?
... that the Jamaican Blackbird has evolved to fill the ecological niche more typical of woodcreepers and woodpeckers?
... that Major General William P. T. Hill, Quartermaster General of the United States Marine Corps had participated in Doctor Roy Chapman Andrews' expedition to the Gobi Desert while still a captain?
... that the 1948 film Terri Yaad was the first feature film to be released in Pakistan after the partition of India?
... that the Australian Army adopted the Pentropic organisation in 1960, but returned to its previous unit structures in 1965 as the new organisation was found to be unsuited to Australia's strategic environment?
... that surviving examples of early Byzantine mosaics can still be found at Mount Nebo, where Moses died, and Tell Mar Elias, the birthplace of Elijah?
... that the British radio sitcom Safety Catch is built around the moral dilemmas of a man who inadvertently became an arms dealer?
... that the 1820 Indiana Supreme Court decision in the case of Polly v. Lasselle freed all slaves in the U.S. state of Indiana?
... that the Banga Sena is a separatist organization which advocates formation of a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh?
... that no prints or negatives survive of the 1933 short film Hello Pop!, starring The Three Stooges before they began performing under that name?
... that the organisers of the Tour de France refused to hold the race during WWII, despite the German authorities' offer to open the borders between German-occupied France and Vichy France specially?
... that the Mineola, New York post office has no public art in its lobby, which is unusual for post offices of its size built during the Great Depression?
... that the superstructure of the Ship John Shoal Light was exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876, while inhabited by a lighthouse keeper?
... that the biopsychosocial model was theorized by George L. Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center and putatively discussed in a 1977 article in the journal Science?
... that The Legend of Chu Liu Xiang received the third-highest viewership of all television series broadcast in 2007 on CCTV-8, even though it was released in December of that year?
... that the four brothers in Christian rock band Remedy Drive were performing over 200 concerts a year before signing onto a record label?
... that the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery?
... that an art historian claimed The Fortune Teller , an oil painting by Georges de La Tour, is actually a forgery?
... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
... that Yukiko Iwai, at 4' 11'' (150 cm), was the shortest member of the 1980s all-girl Japanese pop group Onyanko Club?
... that the killing of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor in 1967 came to represent the conflict between outsiders and locals in Appalachia during the War on Poverty?
... that the blue-green toadstool Stropharia aeruginosa is named for its similarity in colour to verdigris?
... that circumstances of the 1977 death of Stanisław Pyjas, a Polish student and anti-communist activist, are still a mystery?
... that the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, although little known during their time, is now considered as one of the standout funk bands of the 1970s?
... that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?
... that LA's Board of Trade Building , site of the California Stock Exchange, was the first office building on the Pacific coast with automated elevators?
... that British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army?
... that although the Collared Lory is only found in Fiji today, fossil evidence shows that it once existed in Tonga and was extirpated by human settlers?
... that Canadian professional wrestler and promoter Bronko Lubich was influential in the careers of several wrestlers such as Mick Foley, Steve Austin and Percy Pringle?
... that the Kucheng Massacre was one of the worst outrages against foreigners in China prior to the Boxer Movement?
... that the music video for British electropop band Hot Chip's song "Boy From School" was said to invoke the memory of the children's art series, Art Attack?
... that Heroes' Day in Namibia, recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August?
... that Somerset cricket captain Reggie Ingle maintained his hay fever was made worse by train journeys, and travelled in the luggage rack to avoid the dust at lower levels?
... that when American General Horace H. Fuller asked to be relieved in 1944, he became the only division commander to be relieved in the Western New Guinea campaign in World War II?
... that St. Maria ad Gradus, a former church in Cologne, Germany, was the burial site of Richeza of Lotharingia in 1063?
... that after basketball coaches exploited the possession arrow rule, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines amended the rules for the 2008 season?
... that, in spite of lobbying from New Hampshire residents, the episodes of The West Wing "Manchester Part I and Part II" were filmed in Bluemont, Virginia instead?
... that senior GDR diplomat Gottfried Lessing had taken part in the founding and been a leading member of the illegal clandestine Communist Party in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1940s?
... that the inverted floral arrangement of Lacandonia schismatica, where the stamens are in the flower's center and are surrounded by the pistils, is unique among all known flowering plants?
... that R. Thomas Flynn, retired president of Monroe Community College, won an athletic scholarship to Bradley University that he later lost due to injury?
... that René Victor Auberjonois, one of the leading Swiss painters of the 20th century, was poorly received in the Romandie, where he lived most of his life?
... that the 2008 Western Australian gas crisis may cost the state's industries hundreds of millions of dollars?
... that one of the founders of the International Time Capsule Society estimated that over 80 percent of time capsules will be lost before they are opened?
... that Old Trail Town in Cody, Wyoming, is the second burial site of the mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson, the inspiration for the 1972 film Jeremiah Johnson?
... that 1984 World Sportscar Champion Stefan Bellof was killed due to a collision with 1982 and 1983 World Champion Jacky Ickx at the 1985 1000 km of Spa?
... that due to shifting political winds, the production of the F-20 Tigershark for the Taiwanese Air Force failed to start on three separate occasions?
... that Dactylosaurus lived in the Middle Triassic period during the Anisian faunal stage of central Europe?
... that in February 1428, President of Catalonia Felip de Malla wrote a letter to King Alfonso V describing an earthquake that had struck Barcelona?
... that 19th-century archaeologist Isaiah Deck proposed pulping linen from Egyptian mummies into paper, to meet a paper shortage in America?
... that the partition of a uterine septum can extend caudally and result in a double vagina?
... that in 1985, molecular biologist Richard A. Houghten developed the "tea-bag" method for peptide selection?
... that Ad exstirpanda, promulgated in May 1252 by Pope Innocent IV, authorized the use of torture by the Inquisition for the purpose of eliciting confessions from alleged heretics?
... that the inspiration for the 2001 horror film Texas Night Train was the song "Moppin' the Floor with My Baby's Head"?
... that Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
... that the flesh of the poisonous mushroom Boletus legaliae smells of chicory?
... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
... that the identity of the language or dialect of the Cançó de Santa Fe, a hagiographical poem about Saint Faith, has been debated since the 16th century?
... that Steve Adkins, on the day of his Major League debut, walked five consecutive batters, two short of the all time record of seven?
... that the 1688 Siege of Bangkok ended with the total retreat of French troops from Siam, modern-day Thailand?
... that "Greenzo", an episode of 30 Rock, was part of NBC’s Green Week that aimed at having every primetime program aired during the second week of November 2007 contain an environmental theme?
... that English vinegar manufacturer and Liberal member of parliament Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote well-known verses on gun safety?
... that the Oregon Imnaha Guard Station is one of the few U.S. Forest Service guard stations that have been occupied almost every summer since 1939?
... that beetles of the Belinae subfamily prefer feeding on wood of diseased or dying plants to healthy ones?
... that Rogers Morton was the only person in the 20th century from the East Coast of the United States to serve as Secretary of the Interior?
... that Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished?
... that George Edward Pendray coined the term time capsule and created the word laundromat?
... that skeletons of many now-extinct animals, including saber-toothed cats and dire wolves, have been recovered from the tar pit in McKittrick Oil Field in Kern County, California?
... that Adolf Dietrich, one of Switzerland's leading painters of the 20th century, had no formal training and worked for most of his life as an untrained labourer?
... that the melody of British electropop band Hot Chip's song, "One Pure Thought", was said to be reminiscent of New Order?
... that the Erie Gauge War in 1853 was nicknamed the "Peanut War" because its outcome affected the street vendors who sold peanuts to travelers in Erie, Pennsylvania the most?
... that Jimmy Speirs won the Military Medal while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, six years after his goal helped Bradford City win the 1911 FA Cup Final?
... that a solitary pulmonary nodule, a mass in the lung smaller than 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter, can be an incidental finding found in up to 0.2 percent of chest X-rays and about 1 percent of CT scans?
... that the invention and military use of modern land mines are attributed to Brigadier General Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate States Army?
... that Blue Tilapia have become the most widespread foreign fish in Florida waters since their introduction in 1961, and are now a serious management problem in Everglades National Park?
... that the Doctor Who episode "The Stolen Earth" features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady?
... that Art Ross, the first head coach of the Boston Bruins, served four stints as head coach?
... that 29 Norwegian civilians were shot in reprisal by the Nazi regime in Norway following the Norwegian resistance's assassination of police chief Karl Marthinsen in February of 1945?
... that the San Fernando Building in Los Angeles, California, recently converted into upscale lofts, was raided several times for illegal gambling operations between 1910 and 1930?
... that the 1946 earthquake in Nankaidō, Japan caused a 6-meter (20-ft) tsunami that destroyed 2,100 homes?
... that lyric coloratura soprano Harolyn Blackwell replaced opera diva Kathleen Battle when she famously got fired from the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the sittellas of Australasia were once thought to be nuthatches but are now considered their own family?
... that the best result of German motorcycle rider Georg Braun, a second place, was achieved in a wet race in the 1954 Swiss motorcycle Grand Prix at Circuit Bremgarten?
... that the Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor, built in 1961, was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S. state of Missouri?
... that the Durga Vahini, the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, have been accused of instigating violence against religious minorities in India?
... that the 2100 series of the Keihin Electric Express Railway produces a "do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do" tune when its propulsion system starts up?
... that when wrestler George Scott and his brother Sandy were in Australia, they won the IWA World Tag Team Championship three times between 1966 and 1968?
... that units in LA's Avenel Cooperative Housing Project, reportedly built as "a cooperative living experiment for a group of communists", were selling for US$300,000 in 2002?
... that the modern coat of arms of Russia was designed by a former political prisoner, Yevgeny Ukhnalyov?
... that San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement?
... that Karl Wahl, in 1954, was the first former Nazi Gauleiter to publish his autobiography after having received permission from the denazification authorities to do so?
... that a revolution in burrowing marks the base of the Cambrian period, and is followed by the Cambrian explosion of animal diversity?
... that Arthur Barret, the twenty-second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, died after serving only eleven days in office?
... that Dibeen Forest Reserve, established in 2004, is the newest nature reserve in Jordan?
... that at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, basketballer Danny Morseu was the first Torres Strait Islander to represent Australia at the Olympic games?
... that Hygrocybe coccinea is a bright red edible mushroom that grows in the grasslands of Europe and under Rhododendron in Nepal?
... that Silas D. Alben proposed a model for more efficient turbine blades based on the bumpy flippers of humpback whales?
... that age controversies in gymnastics once resulted in the North Korean women's team being banned from the World Championships?
... that the song "Shake a Fist" was almost included on the British electropop band Hot Chip's second album, The Warning, instead of their third?
... that Albert Anker is sometimes called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his popular depictions of 19th century Swiss village life?
... that the United Nations Institute for Namibia, established in 1976 in Lusaka, Zambia, sought to promote Namibian independence as well as educate Namibians for after independence was achieved?
... that only a year after being established by car dealership owner Giuseppe Risi, the Risi Competizione team won their class at the 1998 24 Hours of Le Mans?
... that Caeca et Obdurata, promulgated by Pope Clement VIII in 1593, ordered that Jews be expelled from the Papal States except Rome, Ancona, and the Comtat Venaissin, within three months?
... that Toledo Mud Hens relief pitcher Ian Ostlund is one of only two people in Virginia high school history to strike out the side in every inning of a complete game?
... that Russula nigricans is an edible fungus which turns red, then grey, and finally black on bruising or cutting?
... that the Valmet Nr II tram of the Helsinki tram network was redesigned to include air conditioning in the cockpit after a driver fainted in the summer heat and killed a motorcyclist in a collision?
... that The Voice of the Turtle, the ninth longest-running play in Broadway history, derives its name from a verse in the Bible’s Song of Solomon?
... that philanthropist Bilquis Edhi, who helped save 16,000 babies, has been nicknamed "Mother of Pakistan"?
... that International Surfing Day originated in 2004 to celebrate the sport of surfing and clean up beaches?
... that the Calabasas, California facilities for the private elementary school New Village Academy is funded by actor Will Smith?
... that the "Livingstone Tree" in Nkhotakota, Malawi, was never visited by David Livingstone , though when he travelled there he famously stopped under another tree?
... that Buddy West was chief legislative advocate for the University of Texas of the Permian Basin at Odessa?
... that Castleshaw Roman fort in Greater Manchester was a Roman fort built in 79 AD replaced by a smaller fortlet before being abandoned in the 120s?
... that Detroit Tigers pitcher Eddie Bonine played for three different colleges in three different states before he turned professional?
... that hundreds of political prisoners were freed in numerous raids on communist prisons in Poland between 1944 and 1946?
... that Kemar Roach played in his first Twenty20 match against Australia and finished with the best bowling figures of the match?
... that burials took place for almost 60 years at the site before Monfort Cemetery in Port Washington, New York was officially set aside for that purpose?
... that Bethany Black has been described as "Britain's only goth, lesbian, transsexual comedian"?
... that coffee production in Costa Rica in the 19th century created enough revenue to build the National Theater in the capital San José?
... that the title for Christian musician Matthew West’s album Something to Say had already been decided before he knew that he would have to be vocally silent for two months?
... that the Dorado Group is one of the richest galaxy clusters in the Southern Hemisphere and thought to be unvirialized which could explain its abundance of H I and spirals?
... that the painter Cuno Amiet, a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland, created more than a thousand self-portraits?
... that the journey described in Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, was financed by an advance on the book she planned to write about the trip?
... that Boston Celtics head coaches Red Auerbach and Bill Fitch were named to the list of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA history?
... that German politician Käte Strobel broke a taboo in 1967 by promoting sex education with a school book and the government-sponsored film Helga?
... that almost all Pakistani pop music videos were forbidden to air on local television after Zia-ul-Haq's military coup in 1977?
... that Adam Raphael was named Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards of 1973 for a Guardian series on labour conditions in South Africa?
... that future King Henry IV of England and Marshal of France Jean Le Maingre took part in the Lithuanian Civil War?
... that Ontario politician Jan Dukszta, a psychiatrist by training, took time out of his 1981 re-election campaign to treat colleague Tony Lupusella who was suffering a nervous breakdown?
... that French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization?
... that in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River?
... that the 2008 film Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins uses "meerkats actors" to depict the Whiskers and Lazuli groups rather than using actual footage of the real meerkats?
... that Bert Freeman was the top scorer in the English Football League in three seasons before 1914?
... that Hexaware Technologies Limited is ranked as India’s 11th top IT service provider by NASSCOM since 2005?