derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that John Adams served as a member of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia for 20 years, making him one of the council's longest-serving members?
... that gungnyeo is a generic Korean term referring to court ladies who waited on the king and royalty during the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea?
... that Oslo District Court accounted in 2007 for 50% of the usage of interpreters in courts in Norway, being used in 23% of cases?
... that a park in Seattle is named after Terry Pettus, a onetime Communist whose conviction for conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government was overturned by the Supreme Court?
... that male field crickets of the species Gryllus veletis attract sexually receptive mates by acoustic signals, and one changes his "courtship song" when a female enters his territory?
... that Emperor Shunzong of Tang's close associate Wang Pi was described by historians as ugly, lacking ambition, and speaking in Wu Chinese?
... that Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?
... that in the Wii video game Neighborhood Games, when playing with more than one person, player characters can taunt opposing players to break their concentration?
... that "The Peanut Vendor", composed by Cuban orchestra leader Moisés Simons, has been recorded by over 160 bands?
... that in the 15th century, cutting down a Nebbiolo grapevine in the Piedmont region of La Morra was punishable by a heavy fine, hanging, or having your right hand cut off?
... that Golar Spirit is the world's first floating storage and regasification vessel converted from a LNG carrier?
... that cycling world champion Wilhelm Henie was his daughter Sonja Henie's guide and manager in her figure skating career?
... that the price war started by Color Air in 1998 led to its bankruptcy after 14 months?
... that the restoration of Ifield Water Mill in West Sussex, England, was carried out almost entirely by volunteers?
... that Naomi Klein's second book, Fences and Windows, is a collection of newspaper articles about the anti-globalization movement which she wrote while promoting her first book, No Logo?
... that San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Billy Wilson has been described as "probably one of the most underrated players in NFL history"?
... that Cambodia’s current First Lady, Bun Rany, was once in charge of a Khmer Rouge hospital in Krouch Chhmar District?
... that when Prince Philip first saw the stumpery at Highgrove House he asked his son, Charles, "when are you going to set fire to this lot?"?
... that Neil Snow , ranked by Grantland Rice as one of the three greatest all-around athletes ever turned out in college sports, died of heart failure at age 34 after a game of squash?
... that the schooner and research vessel Vema was initially a luxury yacht built for E.F. Hutton?
... that Wang Yongmin, developer of the Wubi method, brought the first case for protection of intellectual property rights in the People's Republic of China?
... that chocolataires, popular around the late 19th century, were thrown as a novel alternative to tea parties—once even for a kindergarten fundraiser in Indiana, USA?
... that 467 mass graves containing 32,690 victims were found in the grounds of a pagoda in Kang Meas District in Cambodia?
... that Bert Shelley made 448 appearances for Southampton Football Club between 17 January 1920 and 16 April 1932, a club record that was broken by Tommy Traynor in 1966?
... that after John Rich of Big & Rich released his single "Shuttin' Detroit Down", Detroit radio station WDTW began playing the song hourly?
... that the Valhalla structure on Jupiter's moon Callisto is the largest multi-ring basin in the Solar System?
... that the American band Scissor Sisters won all three international categories at the 2005 BRIT Awards for their debut album?
... that the white Piedmont wine grape Arneis is known as "white Barolo" because it was traditionally blended with Nebbiolo to soften that grape's harsh tannins?
... that 22 Australians have been decorated with the George Cross, the highest civil decoration for heroism in the British Empire?
... that the grandfather of Barack Obama's new Cabinet Secretary, Chris Lu, was attorney general for the Republic of China?
... that one critic described the Arliss Howard film Big Bad Love about an alcoholic Vietnam veteran as "a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence"?
... that Georgette Leblanc portrayed the role of Ariane in the original 1899 play Ariane et Barbe-bleue by Maurice Maeterlinck and in the 1907 opera adaptation by Paul Dukas?
... that before his inauguration, President Barack Obama read The Defining Moment, planning to apply some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategies outlined in the book into his own administration?
... that Fredrik Kayser volunteered for the Winter War, served in the Norwegian Campaign, and helped sabotage the Nazi nuclear programme?
... that St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Walden, New York, was not consecrated for nine years as it took that long to pay off the construction debt?
... that the slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus is less common around Great Britain than the giant squid Architeuthis dux?
... that before he flew the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh's first choice of aircraft was the Ryan M-2?
... that the United Kingdom political party the Liberal Democrats received £456,000 in state political funding in 2006?
... that stand-up comedian Tommy Johnagin achieved two personal career goals within one year: to appear on the Late Show with David Letterman and to host his own Comedy Central Presents special?
... that the first dinosaur to be discovered in Antarctica was unearthed in 1986 from the Santa Marta Formation?
... that the Rudge Ulster racing motorcycle was named after Graham Walker's 1928 race win in the Ulster Grand Prix, the first time a road race had been won at over 80 mph?
... that the zamindar of the estate of Ramnad held the title "Sethupathi" or "protector of the bridge"?
... that the operation of the Adria oil pipeline was stopped in 1991 because of the conflict in Croatia?
pitcher Dave Wainhouse became the first Canadian-born player to be selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that Bridgemere Garden World in Bridgemere, Cheshire, now one of the largest garden centres in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961?
... that Johnny Kitagawa has held a virtual monopoly on the creation of boy bands in Japan for more than 40 years?
... that Natural Arch, Tirumala hills, located in Andhra Pradesh, is a naturally formed geological wonder in quartzites with estimated geological age of 1600 to 570 Ma?
... that the Hudson's Bay Company's Joseph Adams oversaw the creation of a trading post from which Ontario's first English settlement originated?
... that British marque AJW built high-end 1000cc motorcycles in the 1920s but were producing 50cc "Fox Cubs" by the 1960s?
... that former Romanian boxer Gogea Mitu is listed by the Guiness Book of World Records as the world's tallest professional boxer?
... that the Nintendo DS video game, Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero, requires that players catch "elebits", which are small beings that pulse with electricity?
... that in the middle of building Fagernes Airport, Leirin, the authorities changed their minds and gave the airport more than twice the runway length?
... that in c. 990, Nagavarma I authored the earliest available work on the science of prosody in the Kannada language?
... that Academy Award winner Glen Hansard was a regular visitor to Dublin's Road Records store before its closure in January 2009?
... that former West Indian cricketer John Maynard gained his nickname The Dentist after knocking out an opponent's teeth with one of his fast deliveries?
... that when the pre-dreadnought battleship Connecticut ran aground in 1907, the U.S. Navy tried to cover it up, prompting Congress to consider an official inquiry?
... that Joan Bright Astley is believed to be one of the women on whom novelist Ian Fleming based the James Bond series character Miss Moneypenny?
... that although it is now endemic to Fiji, fossils attributed to the Fiji Goshawk have been found in ʻEua, Tonga?
... that the 2007 French science fiction film Eden Log, created by first-time director Franck Vestiel, was shot using only hand-held cameras?
... that about 600 ships have been wrecked on the Doom Bar at the estuary of the River Camel on Cornwall's north coast in the past 200 years?
... that Grady Nutt, known as "The Prime Minister of Humor" for his humorous sketches of Protestant culture in the Southern United States, was a licensed Baptist minister at age thirteen?
... that effects of the financial crisis of 2007–2009 on museums have included the National Academy of Design's controversial sale of Frederic Edwin Church's Scene on the Magdalene ?
... that Rideau was the first Canadian company to be granted its own coat of arms by The Heraldic Authority?
... that according to indigenous chronicles, the Chajomá kingdom was one of the three principal kingdoms in highland Guatemala before the Spanish Conquest?
... that Arthur Bagot was awarded the Albert Medal in 1918 for removing depth charges from a motor launch whilst the launch was ablaze?
... that on 28 May 1931, a Bellanca CH-300, fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel engine, set a 55-year record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes without being refueled?
... that Steve Carson, the producer/director husband of RTÉ host Miriam O'Callaghan, has been named as the channel's Director of Television?
... that in medieval England the regalian right was an important, if irregular, source of income for the kings?
... that Roger Neilson was made the head coach of the Ottawa Senators for the last two games of the 2001–02 season to become the ninth head coach in National Hockey League history to coach 1,000 games?
... that the Jaffa Clock Tower in Israel was built to celebrate the silver jubilee of the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abd al-Hamid II?
... that Sydney Dickens, the son of novelist Charles Dickens, accumulated so much debt that his father refused to see him?
... that informed consent for Icos's experimental drug rovelizumab (LeukArrest) was waived during clinical trials if the patient was unconscious and had a high chance of dying?
... that Conrad Wilhelm Eger was an associate of Norwegian industrialist Sam Eyde, serving as CEO of Elkem from 1912 to 1950?
... that the Mechanics Bank based in Richmond, California, declined a 60 million dollar government bailout?
... that two court orders sought to force the Philippine Basketball Association to allow Filipino basketball player Asi Taulava to play in the 2004–05 PBA Philippine Cup despite him being suspended?
... the first bridge over the Mekong in Cambodia was built in Kampong Cham District?
... that actor Peter Falk, the affable detective in the long-running TV series Columbo, was propelled to stardom by portraying a vicious killer in the 1960 film Murder, Inc.?
... that the Cambridge CAP was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of capabilities, both in hardware and software?
... that in 1938, Time magazine stated that Carleton Beals is "now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America"?
... that Albania expects to accede to NATO this April after individual NATO member states ratify its accession protocol?
... that Ray Edwin Powell was the president of Alcan, a Canadian aluminum company, before becoming the 10th Chancellor of McGill University in 1957?
... that dessert bars are considered one of two essentials for potlucks in Minnesota, the other being hotdish?
... that during clinical trials of the experimental drug erlizumab (rhuMAb), four patients suddenly started coughing up blood and later died?
... that American wine writer Matt Kramer coined the definition of terroir as a wine's "somewhereness"?
... that the well-preserved Khan al-Umdan , located in Acre, is the largest caravanserai in Israel?
... that Major League Baseball catcher Nelson Santovenia caught Vince Coleman stealing on July 28, 1989, ending Coleman's streak of 50 consecutive stolen bases?
... that the Gulag ship Indigirka was shipwrecked trying to enter the La Perouse Strait with a loss of 741 lives?
... that William Agar Adamson, who was the personal chaplain to Lord Sydenham, the first Governor of the Province of Canada, also wrote a book on salmon fishing?
... that University of Michigan gymnast Beth Wymer won three consecutive NCAA championships in the uneven bars and was a first-team All-American in the all-around and balance beam?
... that the 500-year-old title Yeonguijeong was created in 1400 CE during the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, and given to the Chief State Councilor as the highest government position of "Uijeongbu"?
... that the Giannini sextuplets, the second set of sextuplets in the world to live past infancy, were born in Italy six years to the date after the first set of surviving sextuplets?
... that Hrelja, a 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord under Serbian suzerainty, built the defensive tower in Bulgaria's largest monastery, the Rila Monastery?
... that in the second season of Burn Notice, the main character offers asides on topics such as how to burglar-proof a house or break out of prison?
... that the King's Police Medal was created to reward the gallantry of three police officers involved in the Tottenham Outrage in 1909?
... that the Perek Shirah, an ancient Jewish text, contains 84 songs of various elements of creation, ranging from the heavens to dogs, based upon Biblical and Talmudic verses?
... that according to Second World War general "Jumbo" Wilson, Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly "outmanoeuvred every general in the Middle East" in her efforts to remain in the theatre of war?
... that the Tony Jannus Award for distinguished achievement in commercial aviation is named for the pilot of the first scheduled commercial airline flight?
... that Tuva or Bust!, a book about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's efforts to visit Tannu Tuva, was inspired by Feynman's childhood memories of seeing postage stamps from Tannu Tuva?
... that Cinderella, as broadcast on CBS in March 1957, is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television?
... that Xochipala-style figurines are considered some of the earliest and most naturalistic in Mesoamerica?
... that Ignatz Urban's type collections of Caribbean plants were largely destroyed in the 1943 bombing of the Berlin Herbarium?
... that more than 900 different Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were in use to make the GWR's telegraph messages more efficient?
... that Lu Chen's magic show was the second-most popular performance in China's 2009 CCTV Spring Festival special?
... that The Go-Getter's theatrical run in the U.S. lasted only three days in June 2008?
... that Gáspár Békés organized two unsuccessful rebellions against Stephen Báthory of Poland but later became Báthory's close advisor despite differences in their religions?
... that in Gretchen, a play by W. S. Gilbert based on Goethe's Faust, Faustus hopes to be purified by loving Gretchen, but instead his influence corrupts and eventually kills her?
... that while Auguste Achintre was traveling to New York City as Haiti's ambassador to the United States, the Haitian government was overthrown, revoking his role as ambassador?
... that passenger pigeons, eskimo curlews, buffaloes , and gophers were Saskatchewan wildlife of great population which diminished due to massive over-hunting and natural habitat change?
... that American author Malcolm MacPherson was inspired to become a journalist after interviewing Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru while attending a high school summer program in New Delhi?
... that only 33 Portuguese soldiers survived the 1638 Battle of Gannoruwa, fought between the occupying Portuguese forces and the Sinhalese army?
... that Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
... that the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas is the largest seaport in Mexico, handling 20,860,647 tonnes of cargo in 2008?
... that the Western Australian Drosera stolonifera species complex was split into six related species in 2005?
... that John Duncan Watson was responsible for the construction of the first large-scale percolating filter sewage treatment plant?
... that after the cult comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000 was cancelled, the writing staff created an animated comedy/fantasy miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel website called Edward the Less?
... that the 5,000-calorie Bacon Explosion was created in response to a Twitter challenge to develop "the ultimate bacon recipe"?
... that the didactic Jain literature, Vaddaradhane, written by Shivakotiacharya in c. 900, is the earliest available prose work in the Kannada language?
... that during the inauguration of Barack Obama, Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media, posted the first official Obama Administration blog entry from Whitehouse.gov?
... that Sgurr nan Spainteach, a mountain in Glen Shiel, was named after the Spanish soldiers who retreated up it during the Battle of Glen Shiel?
... that the plant genus Tricarpelema contains seven Asian species from moist tropical forests and one African species found on dry inselbergs?
... that the Dubois-Sarles Octagon in Marlboro, New York, has a recessed entrance and sidehall interior plan, both unusual in mid-19th century octagon houses?
... that Ugandan 800 metres runner Abraham Chepkirwok missed out on the 2007 World Championships bronze medal by only 0.02 seconds?
... that when Hayden Edwards asked fellow empresario Stephen F. Austin to support the Fredonian Rebellion, Austin replied "You are deluding yourselves and this delusion will ruin you"?
... that the recently announced Marianna Fault in Arkansas was discovered due to the stretches of fine sand in otherwise fertile soil?
... that efforts taken by Roman Catholic missionary Henrique Henriques to publish religious books in local languages led him to be called The Father of Tamil press?
... that the English village of Gresham, Norfolk, once had a 14th-century castle with four round towers and a moat, now ruined and overgrown by trees?
... that gymnastics coach Bev Plocki led Michigan to 15 Big Ten championships and 18 NCAA championship tournaments after taking over a last-place program in 1990?
... that Egypt's Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier has specialized variants ranging from an infantry fighting vehicle to a command post vehicle to deal with different threats?
... that advertising executive turned vintner Robert Palmer was one of the first to export overseas wines produced in the North Fork of New York's Long Island?
... that the decking for the pier at the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in Cambodia was so heavy that a railway had to be constructed to move it?
... that the stag's horn fungus contains a sugar binding protein with potent anti-tumor properties?
... that worldwide there are four million commercial fishing vessels, including 1.8 million undecked traditional craft still powered by oars or sail?
... that Michael Jackson's autobiography, Moon Walk, was given the code name "Neil Armstrong", that of the first "moonwalker"?
... that in a festival at the Norse Temple at Uppsala, men and male animals were sacrificed by hanging?
... that the Milton-Madison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 421 across the Ohio River, is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic?
... that the Kh-31 was the first supersonic anti-ship missile that could be launched by tactical aircraft?
... that former Los Angeles Clippers coach Larry Brown is the only one of the 22 head coaches in franchise history with a winning NBA regular season record?
... that the idea for the Red Scapular of the Passion approved by Pope Pius IX is said to have been given to a French nun by visions of Jesus and Mary in 1846?
... that Alexis Belonio, for his innovations on the rice husk stove, becomes the first Filipino to receive a Rolex Award for Enterprise?
... that the old stone jail in Bardstown, Kentucky, an active prison from 1819 to 1987, is the last stone jail in operation in Kentucky, USA?
... that the English architectural historian Edward Hubbard wrote the definitive biography of the Cheshire architect John Douglas, but died before it could be published?
... that various species in the fungal genus Antrodia, used in Taiwan as traditional medicines, have been shown to have antioxidant and anticancer properties?
... that the first ever mission of the U.S. Peace Corps to Cambodia began in the Kampong Siem District?
... that developmental biologist Aron Moscona's research on growth of embryos into complex tissues and organs led to the discovery of cadherins, which help cells recognize each other and cluster together?
... that in some countries, digital DJ licensing is required before DJs can legally perform with a laptop?
... that New York City's Stock Exchange Luncheon Club closed in 2006 after more than a century on Wall Street?
... that former Six band member Sinéad Shepherd returned to Irish television on The All Ireland Talent Show in February 2009?
... that Haung Falls in the Cambodian district of Dambae have carved out a 1,425 square metre stone crater under the cascade?
... that mountaineer Otto Meiling kept in such good physical shape, he made a one-day ascent of Argentina's Mount Tronador in his mid 80s?
... that a subspecies of the carnivorous plant Drosera stolonifera has only been collected from the summits of two mountains, Bluff Knoll and Toolbrunup in Western Australia?
... that firefighters had to shut off a fire hydrant in Hawaii after it was struck by a rockslide as a result of heavy rainfall from Hurricane Darby in 2004?
... that Francois-Gabriel D'Angeac, the first French governor of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, began his military career at age eight?
... that after being completed in October 2008, Tokyo's Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower is the second-tallest educational building in the world, at 204 metres (669 ft)?
... that Adolphe Colrat, the High Commissioner of the Republic in French Polynesia, previously worked as the chief of staff for the police commissioner of Réunion?
... that Sammy Davis Jr.'s 1933 role in Rufus Jones for President is considered to be the first portrayal of an African American president of the United States in popular culture?
... that in 1953, Jessurun Cardozo became the first rabbi to conduct Jewish High Holidays services in Madrid since the Alhambra Decree of 1492 expelled Jews from Spain?
... that in 1995–96, fans of the NHL's Florida Panthers celebrated goals by throwing plastic rats on the ice as their team reached its first Stanley Cup final?
... that in late 2008, Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad won the Brage Prize and was hired as the first in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway?
... that after the New York Central Railroad ended service to it, the Milton Railroad Station in Milton, New York, was used by a local winery for tastings?
... that a relative of the culinary herb sage, Salvia involucrata, has been found to contain compounds that can help prevent memory loss?
... that in 1716, Richard Phelps cast the hour bell popularly known as "Great Tom" still in use at St Paul's Cathedral, London?
... that of all head coaches of what are now the New Orleans Hornets, Basketball Hall of Famer Dave Cowens has had the best record, winning more than 60% of games in his three seasons coaching the team?
... that British novelist Mary Shelley was blackmailed by the Italian exile for whom she wrote the travel narrative Rambles in Germany and Italy?
... that 19th-century English portrait painter Henry William Pickersgill was a member of the Royal Academy for almost 50 years, and showed a total of 384 works there?
... that Keith Smith was a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and '40s?
... that 19th-century French newspaper Le Constitutionnel established the reputation of critics such as Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve?