derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the career of Tiia Piili, four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics, was threatened when she got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco?
...that in his print Columbus Breaking the Egg William Hogarth attempted to draw parallels between himself and Christopher Columbus?
...that the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, established in 1796, is one of the oldest newspapers in the United States?
...that the 2003 documentary Prisoner of Paradise is a chronicle of the life of Kurt Gerron, a German Jewish actor who was forced to make a Nazi propaganda film and later murdered in a Nazi concentration camp?
...that the shot tower of the Colonial Ammunition Company is the only surviving tower of its kind in New Zealand?
...that there are hints of political opposition to the land acquisition for the Special Economic Zone and industrial hub at Saltora in the "neglected" Bankura district in India?
...that the U.S. Department of Defense pays the owners of the MV Baffin Strait (T-AK W9519) US$12,550 per day to carry cargo from Singapore to Diego Garcia?
...that Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey in Ile-de-France, founded in 1118, had a saintly abbot, was bought by a Rothschild and is now a hotel?
...that in 1669, the Jesuit missionary and astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest persuaded the Kangxi Emperor to remove a month from the Chinese calendar?
...that Fahmida Mirza is the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan?
...that Peter Carl Fabergé crafted the Czarevich Fabergé egg in 1912 as a tribute to Czarevich Alexei after his survival from a hemophilia-related illness?
...that Roman Catholic priests afflicted with alcoholism or other ailments can use unfermented grape juice, known as mustum, in place of sacramental wine during the Eucharist?
...that the American southern gospel group The Dixie Nightingales at one time included future Temptations lead singer David Ruffin among its ranks, and later evolved into the secular Stax Records soul group "Ollie & the Nightingales"?
...that Walter of Pontoise was the last person to be canonized in Western Europe by someone other than the Pope?
...that 15th-century heralds attributed a coat of arms to Jesus based on the instruments of the Passion?
...that chef and restaurateur Suzanne Goin won the 2006 James Beard award for Best Chef in California as well as being a five time James Beard foundation award nominee?
...that Bhutan has a low crime rate and is the first nation in the world to ban tobacco sales?
...that according to the old hexachordal principle, the sixth aria of Hexachordum Apollinis should have been in B-flat major, but the composer Pachelbel wrote it in 1699 as an F minor?
...that Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city?
...that Hans Gude replaced Johann Schirmer as the professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf school, even though as a professor Schirmer had told Gude to give up painting?
...that the late 18th-century watercolor The Old Plantation contains the first known depiction of a banjo precursor in American art?
...that the Rev. James Hackman, Rector of Wiveton in Norfolk, was hanged for the murder of Martha Ray, mistress of the fourth Earl of Sandwich?
...that the Eva archaeological site in Tennessee was inhabited from about 6000 to 1000 BC, but it is now below water?
...that three-foot-tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee?
...that 1050 AM ESPN Radio in New York City was launched by American politician Rob Astorino?
...that Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" while living at what is now called Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Fordham section of The Bronx in New York City?
...that from 1908 the Cone Mills Corporation was the world's largest producer of denim fabric, making its founder Moses H. Cone the "Denim King?"
...that after the Aztec Coatlicue statue was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a cult?
...that the only black college to field a NCAA lacrosse team is the Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears?
...that after Norwegian film maker Odd F. Lindberg made a documentary exposing inhumane Norwegian seal hunting methods, the hostile reaction encouraged him to emigrate?
...that the script for the Lost episode "Meet Kevin Johnson" was completed on the day that the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike began?
...that one of Catherine de' Medici's court festivals featured an artificial whale that spouted red wine when harpooned?
...that the Anekāntavāda philosophy of Jainism encourages its adherents to consider the beliefs of their rivals and opposing parties?
...that according to Hindu mythology, the deity Revanta was born from the union of the sun-god Surya and his wife Saranya in the form of horse and mare?
...that four of the fifteen head coaches of the Green Bay Packers are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
...that the Rose bedeguar gall was used as a cure for baldness, colic and toothaches?
...that Scripps marine chemist Edward D. Goldberg suggested using mussels to measure the amount of pollution in the oceans?
...that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
...that Polish novelist Bolesław Prus, who had been a young soldier in the Polish 1863–65 Uprising, wrote a short story, "Fading Voices", whose protagonist had served in the 1830–31 Uprising?
...that English sculptor Henry Weekes' monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, modelled on Michelangelo's Pietà, includes realistic touches such as seaweed wrapped around the drowned poet's arm?
...that microorganisms in the Archaea domain produce antimicrobial protein toxins known as archaeocins?
...that an honors student was suspended from a New Haven school for buying Skittles brand candy?
...that the Da Ming Hun Yi Tu‎ Chinese world map , painted on silk in 1389, includes the earliest surviving depiction of the Drakensberg mountains in southern Africa?
...that General Benjamin Tupper's horse was killed under him at the Battle of Monmouth during the American Revolutionary War?
...that the Zamość Uprising was one of the major operations of the Polish resistance movement in World War II, and succeeded in significantly delaying German plans to evict the Polish inhabitants and colonize the region?
...that several private homes in the Los Cerritos neighborhood of Long Beach, California have been used in movies, including depicting the Bueller family's Chicago home in the 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
...that Joseph Canyon was named after Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe, who was born in a cave at the mouth of the canyon?
...that in 1962 doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan for 23 days in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the introduction of universal health insurance?
...that British wine critic Stuart Pigott published five commandments regarding wine drinking and appreciation, including "for wine, there is no connection between price and quality"?
...that John Tavener's "Song for Athene", sung at the funeral of Princess Diana, combines texts from the Orthodox funeral service and Shakespeare's Hamlet?
...that after discovering a suitcase with US$800,000 in Maletinazo, policewoman Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the Argentine and Venezuelan editions of Playboy?
...that the British Expeditionary Force in 1914 included 90% of the British Army units normally based in the United Kingdom, leaving less than a division of regular soldiers for home defence?
...that in the days immediately following the revelation of her role in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the MySpace page of Ashley Alexandra Dupré was viewed over 9 million times?
...that in the 1944 Battle of Murowana Oszmianka, the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa dealt a significant defeat to the Nazi-Lithuanian Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force?
...that despite its name, the Togian White-eye, a species of bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia, lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus?
...that after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, former President Ronald Reagan established the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to work toward a cure for Alzheimer's?
...that the Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?
...that actor Daniel Dae Kim was arrested for driving under the influence just days before shooting "Ji Yeon", an episode of Lost's fourth season?
...that Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
...that the Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester, designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster, is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel?
...that Gustave Courbet's erotic painting Femme nue couchée , recovered in 2005 after disappearing during World War II, had been given to a Slovak doctor in return for medical treatment?
...that Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades?
...that the discovery of horse bones at the archaeological site of Hallur in south India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the Indo-Aryan migration?
...that Sixty Rayburn, a 44-year member of the Louisiana State Senate who died in 2008, was the driving force behind the establishment of the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine?
...that Sami Hadawi, author of works on the land rights of Palestinian refugees, was exiled by Israel in 1948 and denied permission to have his remains returned to his native Jerusalem for burial in 2004?
...that Still Restless, a 2004 album by country band Restless Heart, was their first album of all-new material in fourteen years?
...that Stanislav Konopásek lost five years of his ice hockey-playing career when he was imprisoned for allegedly trying to defect from Czechoslovakia in 1950?
...that the creation of Grosvenor Museum, Chester was inspired by a society formed by Charles Kingsley, then a canon of Chester Cathedral?
...that the Eurymedon vase has been cited as evidence of Ancient Greek sexual mores?
...that Labour Party politician Hugh Brown was a British negotiator with Iceland during the third Cod War in the 1970s?
...that Tajikistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists in the 1990s, with dozens of journalists killed, including Belarusian documentary filmmaker Arcady Ruderman and Bukharan Jewish journalist Meirkhaim Gavrielov?
...that Virgil Johnson, the lead singer of the doo wop group The Velvets, retired from his career as a school principal and is now a deejay in Lubbock, Texas?
...that in 1964, units of No. 81 Wing RAAF were deployed to Darwin, Northern Territory as contingency in the event of an air attack on Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation?
...that the inbred villagers of Stoccareddo in Italy are a medical phenomenon, with unusually low frequencies of hypertension, strokes and heart attacks despite a high-cholesterol diet?
...that Meeker's Hardware , a hardware store in Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sold Coca-Colas for five cents until 2005?
...that Thursday of the Dead is a springtime feast day shared by Muslims and Christians in the Levant that involves colouring eggs, visiting the cemetery and distributing food to the poor?
...that the Māori name for the New Zealand Agency for International Development is Nga Hoe Tuputupu-mai-tawhiti, which means 'the paddles that bring growth from afar'?
...that a skyscraper in Croydon has been nicknamed the 50p Building because it resembles a pile of 50p coins?
...that, before signing to Career/Arista Records in 1996 and charting three singles, country singer and pianist Tammy Graham was a regular performer at Caesars Palace?
...that Robert H. Pruyn, the second American Minister to Japan, was instrumental in negotiating reparations over the 1863 Bombardment of Shimonoseki?
...that a group of Forest Grove, Oregon residents posed nude for a calendar to raise funds to buy the Alvin T. Smith House ?
...that The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first major film or television production to be shot on location in Botswana?
...that the military theories of the 18th-century Welsh soldier Henry Lloyd were studied by George Washington and George S. Patton?
...that despite being involved in high school theatre, Darla Vandenbossche only decided to pursue acting when she reached the age of 36?
...that the Central Library in Portland, Oregon was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an open plan design?
...that Filipino jazz singer Katy de la Cruz was once a top-billed performer at the famed Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco?
...that the writer Mikhail Mikhalkov, brother of Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote the Soviet anthem, was an NKVD agent acting in Nazi Germany and later a GULAG inmate?
...that the palm Dictyosperma album in the Mascarene Islands is commonly called "hurricane palm" because of its ability to withstand strong winds by easily shedding leaves?
...that cell-free protein array technology attempts to simplify protein microarray construction by using cells from sources such as E. coli, rabbit reticulocytes and wheat germ?
...that the Joseon Korean official Choe Bu wrote a travel diary about his shipwrecked stay in Ming China that eventually became widely printed in Korea and Japan during the 16th century?
...that about 63 dams with a capacity of over 100 million cubic metres account for 95% of the water storage capacity of Mexico?
...that 2007 Colorado Buffaloes' starting quarterback Cody Hawkins was on ESPNU's reality show Summer House?
...that Cassià Maria Just was one of the Catholic Church members in Spain who showed their opposition to Francisco Franco?
...that some Norton, Massachusetts residents complain they have trouble selling their homes because Lake Winnecunnett is "a weed-infested, mosquito breeding swamp"?
...that, buried in the porch of St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch , is the heart of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, who was killed at the Battle of Castillon in 1453?
...that television pioneer Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. became the inventor of the video game when he took out a video game patent in 1948?
...that the 2002 surge of the Kolka Glacier resulted in deaths of at least 125 people?
...that the Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 entitles all persons in England who are over the age of 60 or disabled to free bus travel throughout the country during off-peak hours?
...that Johnson Creek, one of the few free-flowing streams in the Portland, Oregon area, overflowed its banks 37 times between 1971 and 2006?
...that Major League Baseball player Sparky Adams was part of the St. Louis Cardinals team in 1930 when every single regular player had a batting average over .300, the only time in history this has happened?
...that the original Victoria Dam constructed in 1891 was the first dam in Western Australia, and it stood for almost 100 years before being replaced with the current dam?
...that in 1745, Daniel Juslenius, a Finnish Fennoman, finished the first formal Finnish dictionary?
...that military engineer Thomas Phillips , is depicted in a 17th-century painting with Brave Benbow, but an almost identical painting has him replaced by the Earl of Orford?
...that the Emberá in Panama use the hard, durable trunks of Dictyocaryum palms to construct coffins?
...that Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea?
...that over 90% of Lithuanian Jews perished in the first few months of Operation Barbarossa in the Holocaust in Lithuania?
...that Max Noether, called "one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth century", learned advanced mathematics mostly through self-study?
...that rock edicts of Emperor Ashoka, found at Brahmagiri in the present-day Karnataka state of India, indicated the southernmost extent of the Mauryan Empire?
...that Mike Menosky, a probation officer who was a former baseball player, helped to dismiss a court case by proving the defendant could not have thrown a rock 250 feet (76 m)?
...that Kenneth Woollcombe, a former Bishop of Oxford, was a member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved when it granted a faculty for the controversial altar by Henry Moore?
...that the Cone sisters were friends of Gertrude Stein and amassed a collection of artwork of Picasso, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh — now worth one billion US dollars?
...that Japan Steel Works is the only company in the world which can make the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, and a backlog may lead to a global delay in constructing nuclear power plants?
...that the practice of slavery in Wallachia and Moldavia lasted until the 1850s, and is what forced many local Roma people into sedentism?
...that Xue Ji was considered one of the four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty?
...that the Baháʼí community in Brazil was established when Leonora Holsapple Armstrong, the first Baháʼí permanent resident in South America, arrived in Brazil in 1921?
...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality?
...that the Landing Vehicle Tracked was developed after future admiral Edward C. Kalbfus showed a magazine article about an amphibious rescue vehicle to a Marine Corps general at a party?
...that the history of aspirin has been marked by fierce competition, patent and trademark battles, and even an international conspiracy known as the Great Phenol Plot?
...that the contemporaries of Jean-Étienne Liotard regarded The Chocolate Girl as the artist's masterpiece?
...that after Crewe Hall in Cheshire was gutted by fire in 1866, E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the Jacobean original?
...that hard bop jazz drummer Roy Brooks, who played with Horace Silver and Max Roach, was sentenced to four years in prison for assault at age 62?
...that, as a protection against abuses by a temporary majority, any two members of a deliberative assembly may postpone action to another day with a motion to reconsider and enter on the minutes?
...that Ron Arias, a senior writer and correspondent for People magazine and People en Español, was influenced by twentieth-century Latin American literature?
...that Alexander Solzhenitsyn composed his 12,000-line-long poem Prussian Nights while imprisoned in a GULAG camp, writing down each day a few lines on a bar of soap?
...that the 1940 Battle of France forced 72-year-old British engineer William Binnie to work for his passage home as a cook's assistant on a collier?
...that Stonehenge in its landscape, described by one reviewer as "one of the more important British archaeological publications this century", had a print run of just 800 copies?
...that Bess Thomas, a former Australian librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in New South Wales?
...that, during a conflict which split the Romanian far right, the antisemitic newspaper Sfarmă-Piatră oscillated between the fascist Iron Guard and the corporatist National Renaissance Front?
...that Irish-born Major League Baseball player Jimmy Archer received a medal from the National Safety Council in 1931 for reviving two men overcome by carbon monoxide in the Chicago stockyards?
...that the indemnity money paid to the U.S. after the Boxer Rebellion was used to fund a scholarship program which led to the founding of Tsinghua University in Beijing?
...that former Chilean presidential spokesman Ricardo Lagos Weber was the main organizer of the 2004 APEC annual meeting held in Santiago, Chile that year, and the president of APEC's Senior Officials Meeting II?
...that King Lugaid mac Lóegairi was said by the Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii to have been struck dead by lightning because he mocked Saint Patrick?
...that a 1970 bomb caused US$170,000 worth of damage at City Hall in Portland, Oregon, but no one was ever arrested for the crime?
...that the current Northam Bridge in Southampton, England was the first major road bridge to be built using prestressed concrete in the United Kingdom?
...that Archbishop John Ireland refused to allow the Irish in Saint Paul, Minnesota to have a Saint Patrick's Day parade due to previous celebrations turning into what he called "midnight orgies"?
...that St. Patrick's Blue, rather than green, was long the colour most associated with the patron saint of Ireland, and is present on Ireland's Presidential Standard ?
...that Thomas Clarke Luby and James Stephens took the oath as founding members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood on Saint Patrick's Day, 1858?
...that Chris Levesque was studying for an exam when the Vancouver Canucks signed him to an emergency one-game National Hockey League contract?
...that members of the Senegalese rap group Daara J were hired by campaigners in the Senegalese election of 2000 to edit their speeches?
...that Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet established the Madras Record Office, the oldest record office of the British East India Company and one of the oldest archival institutions in the world?
...that a passenger train ran away backwards for over three miles (5 km) following a collision in Torquay railway station?
...that the influx of Irish to Louisville led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860?
...that when Drake University basketball player Adam Emmenecker was named 2008 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, the conference called him "perhaps the most improbable Player of the Year" in its history?
...that 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
...that Kiz, Utah, now a ghost town, was named for the first woman to settle in the area?
...that French comics artist Patrice Killoffer was in 2005 the first foreigner to design stamps for the Swiss Post?
...that on the festival celebrated in the month of Toxcatl the Aztecs sacrificed, flayed and ritually cannibalized a young man who had been impersonating the god Tezcatlipoca for an entire year?
...that, according to Tirechán's life of Saint Patrick, King Lóegaire mac Néill refused to be baptised by Patrick, as his father Niall of the Nine Hostages had said that he must be buried in the walls of his fort on the hill of Tara?
...that the Emancipation Memorial , a monument in Washington, DC depicting Abraham Lincoln in his role of the "Great Emancipator", was paid for by former slaves?
...that Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais, PDS?
...that Maharam's Synagogue in Lublin, Poland was burnt down during the Cossack–Muscovite invasion in 1655?
...that the Gaiety Girls in shows produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre were so popular that the restaurant where they dined became the centre of nightlife in London during the Victorian era?
...that the 2007 documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was based on a collection of writings by U.S. soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq?
...that Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?
...that listed buildings in Peckforton, Cheshire, include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle ?
...that jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's song "Ogunde" is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
...that Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd, who founded Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky, appeared on the TV show This is Your Life in 1955 to raise money for the college?
...that the ethics guidelines for Israeli broadcasting have been revised four times since their introduction in 1972, and are now four times their original length?
...that Garry Lake and the Christian cross are both translated as Hanningajuq in the local Inuktitut language?