derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Niles Searls, a California Gold Rush miner, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California?
... that the Puretic power block revolutionized the technology of hauling purse seine nets on seine fishing vessels?
... that Alvin T. Smith was the first postmaster of the first post office in Washington County, Oregon?
... that the Pedrail wheel was invented in 1903 for all-terrain locomotion, and was the inspiration for H.G. Wells' short story "The Land Ironclads"?
... that Mary Millicent Miller was the first American woman to acquire a steamboat master's license?
... that to prepare a bacon martini, bacon has to soak in vodka for 24 hours, before it is strained over ice and served with a bacon garnish?
... that Walter Borchers was one of three brothers, all three received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II?
... that one of the ships of the Astraea-class of protected cruiser built in the early 1890s survived into the 1940s?
... that Islip Speedway, at 0.2 miles (0.32 km), is the smallest race track ever to host NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series?
... that the arms of a crucifix in a Barra de Navidad church broke during 1971's Hurricane Lily, earning the statue the name "Christ of the Cyclone"?
... that a speaking engagement by Tom Tancredo at a Youth for Western Civilization meeting was canceled after police used pepper spray against student protesters who were gathered outside?
... that a 1970s weather forecast of "low goat pressure" on radio station KRSB in Roseburg, Oregon, was a sure sign of rain ahead?
... that turkey bacon is used as a substitute for pork bacon at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe locations in the Middle East?
... that American historian Claude H. Van Tyne won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for History for The War of Independence?
... that Michael Kupperman's Snake 'n' Bacon are a pair of cartoon characters, a snake and a strip of bacon, whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part)?
... that Kutani ware , first produced about 1656 near the current city of Kaga, is a type of Japanese porcelain known for its use of multicolored glazes in bold designs?
... that in 2007 Major General Graham Binns signed the document that handed control of Basra back to the Iraqi people?
... that one of the tasks of the Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners Board is to prevent conveyancing monopolies developing in England and Wales?
... that Robert Seddon, captain of the first British Lions rugby team, drowned during the 1888 Australian tour in a sculling accident?
... that carucage, a medieval English land tax, was first collected in 1194 in order to raise funds for the ransom of King Richard I of England?
... that Los Angeles Lakers point guard Nick Van Exel was fined $25,000 and suspended seven games by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for shoving referee Ron Garretson into the scorer's table?
... that the Charles Sumner School served as the first teachers college for African-Americans in the District of Columbia?
... that the French Breton-Pretot machine was an armoured wire-cutting tractor developed in early 1915, and a predecessor to the tank?
... that the University of Oregon's Pacifica Forum hosted a lecture in which the speaker referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as a "moral leper and a communist dupe"?
... that the British lion tamer and politician John Smith Clarke cured Lenin's dog of an illness?
... that a year after its death in 2006, the remains of a bottlenose whale removed from the River Thames at Battersea Bridge were put on public display in the offices of The Guardian newspaper?
... that Greg Monroe was the sixth Georgetown Hoya to win the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year award?
... that the Polish literary critic Ostap Ortwin would wake up the people of Lwów by loudly threatening futurism in the middle of a night and then abuse the policemen who’d ask him for identification?
... that the Nevada Brewery’s storage cave, used for aging casks of ale, was originally connected to other parts of Nevada City, California, via tunnels?
... that quarterback Scott Zolak was a waterboy at Ringgold High School as a boy when Hall of Famer Joe Montana was the quarterback?
... that there are more than thirty works attributed to Michael Sittow, but only three have been verified as his?
... that Trustom Pond in Rhode Island, United States is part of a National Wildlife Refuge that contains over 300 species of birds?
... that former USAF officer David P. Cooley who was the chief test pilot for the F-117 Nighthawk died in March 2009 while testing the F-22 Raptor?
... that "One Rainy Wish" was one of Jimi Hendrix's many songs inspired by dreams?
... that American football wide receiver Jaymar Johnson became the first player from Jackson State University to be drafted by the NFL since Sylvester Morris in 2000?
... that Gunnar Heiberg advocated dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden, but was dissatisfied that Norway subsequently became a monarchy?
... that the New York City government purchased the once-luxurious Concourse Plaza Hotel in The Bronx in 1974 and turned it into a senior citizens' residence?
... that despite his father calling him 'the flower of my fleet', Fleetwood Pellew still managed to provoke two mutinies and spent thirty years on half-pay?
... that when a member of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England in 1966–69, Derek Senior wrote a memorandum of dissent as long as the report itself?
... that Scott Lost, while teaming with Joey Ryan, won the PWG World Tag Team Championship, but lost the championship to himself and Chris Bosh?
... that after winning the 2008 Atlantic Championship, Brooks Associates Racing sold both its cars to Primetime Race Group and will not compete in 2009?
... that the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, which was signed into law on May 20, gives an additional 165 million USD in funding to the Justice Department to detect and prosecute fraud?
... that most staff in the Australian Government's Department of Post-War Reconstruction were young economists who had been conscripted into the Australian Public Service during World War II?
... that Mrs. Pack was selected as wet nurse for William, Duke of Gloucester by his father because of her breasts, which were "gigantic"?
... that Sir Henry Benson was the first living non-American to be inducted into the Accounting Hall of Fame?
... that Davey Richards' PWG World Tag Team Championship reign with Super Dragon holds the record for most defenses, while his reign with Roderick Strong is tied with seven other teams for least?
... that Teresa Saporiti, the soprano who created the role of Donna Anna in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, lived to be 106?
... that after 14 years above an ambulance company, KDCQ in Coos Bay, Oregon, relocated its radio studios to a former buffet restaurant?
... that Italian architect Donato Bramante was nicknamed il Ruinate for the destruction of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica?
... that while fleeing from Greece to Egypt during World War II, a frustrated Olivia Manning used a chamberpot to crush a fellow refugee's Parisian hats?
... that according to legend, the foundation for the Siri Fort in Delhi was laid on the severed heads ("Siri" in Urdu: "head") of about 8,000 Mongol soldiers?
... that Devin Britton won the 2009 NCAA Men's Tennis singles national championship as a freshman and is the only University of Mississippi tennis player to win the championship?
... that Buxhall tower mill was built in 1860, incorporating the base of an earlier smock mill, which was itself built in 1815?
... that pioneer Morris Moss caused an international incident between the United States and Canada by seal hunting along the British Columbia Coast in the 1870s?
... that according to medieval French legend, guivres were dragon-like creatures with venomous breath, known to prowl the French countryside?
... that Mickey Morandini turned the first regular-season unassisted triple play by a second baseman in National League history?
... that Washington State Route 203 originally was split into four roads, later combined in 1937?
... that, in nine years of professional gridiron football, Jacoby Shepherd has played for eleven teams in three leagues?
... that the locomotive used in the 2006 film Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy was once owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, whose trains Butch Cassidy had robbed in the 1890s?
... that the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 passed both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate unanimously?
... that in 1993 almost 10 per cent of Canada's GDP was made up of municipal government spending?
... that despite not playing as a high school junior in 1999, American football cornerback Brock Williams still led Notre Dame defenders in playing time in 2000?
... that the Roşia Poieni copper mine represents the largest copper reserve in Romania and the second largest in Europe?
... that Operetta: A Theatrical History, written by operetta scholar and historian Richard Traubner was described as the "ultimate love letter to operetta"?
... that ship's doctors were originally termed surgeons in the Royal Navy and were paid £5 for every 100 cases of venereal disease they treated?
... that 1996 Yukon election candidate Lois Moorcroft received less than a third of the votes, but still won her seat in the Legislative Assembly?
... that the inscriptions in Hieronymus Bosch's Ecce Homo are used to convey their conversation like speech balloons in comics?
... that before the Revolutionary War, Fenwick Hall on Johns Island, South Carolina, was called Johns Island Stud because of its thoroughbred horses?
... that an illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Most Incredible Thing" was published during the Nazi occupation of Denmark that depicted a rabbi striking a semi-naked Aryan?
... that although the Quarter Horse Lightning Bar is known as a racehorse and father of racehorses, he won a roping contest once?
... that the blue runner is easily attracted to a variety of floating and underwater structures such as oil platforms and aquaculture structures?
... that in 1969, Ivar Orgland was the first foreigner to take a doctorate at the University of Iceland?
... that news director Brad Boyer of Missouri radio station KIRK received a Distinguished Service Award from the MSHSAA in 2008 for his "lifelong contributions to the ideals of interscholastic activities"?
... that Steve McQueen's posthumous popularity led to the reintroduction of the TAG Heuer Monaco chronograph watch in 1998 and again in 2003?
... that Yehoshua Zettler organized the September 1948 assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who had been sent by the U.N. Security Council as its mediator following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that famo is a type of music from Lesotho, named after the action of female dancers exposing their naked rear?
... that Afghani parliamentarian and Islamic feminist Shukria Barakzai began to campaign against multiple marriages when her husband took a second wife without telling her?
... that the road over the Wilmot Pass is not connected to any other road on the New Zealand network?
... that screenwriter John Briley won an Academy Award for Gandhi and was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Christopher Columbus: The Discovery?
... that President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the design for a new elementary school in his native Hyde Park, New York?
... that 2009 American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Miss Meyers was the mother of the first American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Supreme Champion, fathered by fellow AQHA Hall of Famer Three Bars?
... that the Hanuman Temple, Connaught Place, in New Delhi, is unusual in having the Islamic symbol of a crescent moon fixed on its spire instead of a Hindu symbol like Aum or the sun?
... that in 1875 actress Kate Bishop created the role of Violet Melrose in Our Boys, which was by far the longest-running work of theatre up to that time?
... that despite being armed en flûte as a troopship, HMS Wilhelmina still engaged and drove off a more heavily armed privateer to protect the merchant she was escorting?
... that during the term of Governor of Indiana Isaac P. Gray, a dispute arose that led the entire Indiana General Assembly to break into a fist fight, with Democrats and Republicans threatening to kill each other?
... that at least 37 cities of the ancient world placed an image of the Gorgon's head on their coins ?
... that 19th-century actor Henry Neville was the twentieth child of a twentieth child?
... that of the eleven wrestlers who have held the PWG World Championship, Low Ki is the only to have lost the title outside the ring?
... that Georgette Sanchez won the silver medal in the 9th Paris International Dance Competition?
... that the Japanese American internment during World War II cost Seattle's Lincoln High School the presidents of its two service clubs and the editor of its school newspaper?
... that Marcus Favonius, in attempting to imitate the manner of Cato the Younger, frequently descended into rudeness?
... that the album cover artwork of Behemoth's Evangelion is a depiction of "The Great Harlot of Babylon", the figure of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible?
... that, while awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops?
... that the Frot-Laffly landship was an early tank design based on a compactor, and built by France in early 1915?
... that after leaving Global TV after founding it three months earlier, Al Bruner became one of the first broadcasters to consider local insertion on television?
... that the legal reforms that came about as a result of the Glanville Davies affair were far weaker than those initially proposed?
... that recently deceased photographer Luke Smalley's earlier collections were inspired by fitness manuals and yearbooks circa 1910?
... that Cam'ron filed a lawsuit against R. Kelly as he did not receive credit for his remix of "Snake"?
... that the headquarters of the Inquisition in Mexico has been converted into a museum dedicated to the history of medicine in Mexico?
... that Vice Admiral Sir James Willis was the last head of the Royal Australian Navy to be knighted?
... that St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, New York held Sunday services for nearly 100 years in its chapel during wintertime because it was too difficult to heat the main church building?
... that Kyell Gold, a furry homosexual erotic literature author, has won six Ursa Major Awards, equaling Usagi Yojimbo author Stan Sakai?
... that the 1915 Triumph Model H was the first Triumph not fitted with pedals, so it was their first true motorcycle?
... that at age 22, Captain Jose M. Portela of the United States Air Force was the youngest C-141 Starlifter aircraft commander and captain?
... that remaining papal tombs in the Catacomb of Callixtus were emptied in the ninth century because of a feared Lombard invasion?
... that country music singer Buck Owens' son Buddy Alan is also a country music singer?
... that Tito Livio Burattini explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves?
... that actress Emily Fowler originated the male role of Hans in The Gentleman in Black by W. S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay?
... that George Grosz's The Funeral is in part a depiction of the madness induced by syphilis?
... that listeners in the Klamath Falls, Oregon, area know radio station KRAT as "The Rat"?
... that Ontario-based musical group Family Brown has received eighteen Canadian Country Music Association awards, more than any other artist in the association's history?
... that beta males of Paracerceis sculpta mimic females and gamma males mimic juveniles, allowing them to mate without the alpha males realising?
... that when ill health rendered George Orwell incapable of caring for his son Richard, the child was placed in the care of anarchist Lilian Wolfe at the Tolstoyan Whiteway Colony?
... that during action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning"?
... that in 1948, Dr. William Glenn and medical student William Sewell used ordinary laboratory components and an Erector Set to create one of the world's earliest artificial hearts?
... that Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli opened a French brasserie in 1686 that was permitted by King Louis XIV?
... that privateer racing team Primetime Race Group is the only team to race a Dodge Viper Competition Coupe in the American Le Mans Series?
... that Kenneth St Joseph, who pioneered the use of aerial photography for archaeology, persuaded the Royal Air Force to take photos for him without charging?
... that having led Saint Lucia to independence in 1979, John Compton became Prime Minister again at the age of 81 after his party won the 2006 Saint Lucian general election?
... that Andrew Carpenter and Sergio Escalona earned the first back-to-back victories by rookie pitchers for the Philadelphia Phillies since 2007?
... that the sleep K-complex is the largest electroencephalographic (EEG) event that happens to the normal human brain?
... that American artist Tony Sisti (1901–1983) traveled with Ernest Hemingway and was also a New York State boxing champion?
... that the Twaddle Mansion in Reno, Nevada, served as lodgings for divorce seekers waiting out Reno's comparatively short mandatory residency period, before it became a Baha'i religious center?
... that after Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid was stolen, it was given to the National Gallery of Ireland in absentia?
... that the marine fish Pacific crevalle jack is usually not found north of the Gulf of California, but may appear in San Diego Bay due to El Niño events?
... that John Douglas was an architect responsible for the 19th-century black-and-white revival in Chester, Cheshire?
... that the album Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ), by the American Kronos Quartet, features Tuvan throat singers, a Swedish bagpipe and nyckelharpa, and Chinese ruans?
... that after selecting Sean Brewer in the 2001 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals discovered that he suffered from a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit?
... that the site of the Zagreb synagogue , demolished in World War II, has been used as a volleyball court and a parking lot?
... that the first vampire story written by a woman was The Skeleton Count, by Elizabeth Caroline Grey, in 1828?
... that during his 1950 U.S. Senate race, Richard Nixon was so angered by his opponent, Helen Gahagan Douglas, that he threatened to castrate her?
... that Gillingham Football Club's supporters donated £2,500 in an attempt to fund a month's extension to loanee defender Mick Bodley's contract?
... that on Floodplain, San Francisco-based string quartet the Kronos Quartet plays instruments built by Walter Kitundu, including the beguèna maridhia, which is based on an Ethiopian 10-string lyre?
... that the Frisian kingdom came to an end after their king was killed in the Battle of the Boarn where they were defeated by the Frankish Empire?
... that during World War II, Brigadier General Alberto A. Nido (USAF), a native of Puerto Rico, fought for three different countries?
... that Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, released in 1933 and directed by Kenzō Masaoka, was the first "talkie" animated film in Japan?
... that the former St Stephen's Church in Brighton, England, was built as a tavern ballroom a mile away from its present site?
... that Canadian politician Louis Deniset only served a term of nine months and 21 days before losing his seat?
... that after 60 years of service to Greenville, Alabama, the FCC is allowing radio station WGYV to move to Aurora, Indiana, a suburb of Cincinnati?
... that actress Kate Terry, grandmother of John Gielgud, had a very successful acting career until she left the stage at age 23?
... that heavy metal band Destroy Destroy Destroy played their first show in a pizzeria as the opening band for Mastodon?
... that James Annesley, an Irishman, was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America to work as a slave in the plantations, before returning in 1741 to try to claim the title "Earl of Anglesey"?
... that the battle of Ancona was the only independent operation of the Polish II Corps in World War II?
... that press agent Lee Solters had Pope John Paul II made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter, represented Frank Sinatra for decades and claimed to have known client Dolly Parton "since she was flat-chested"?
... that the figures on the Gonzaga Cameo were identified as Alexander the Great and Olympias, Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, Nero and Agrippina the Younger, and many other famous couples of antiquity?
... that about 12 plays into his NFL career Charles Fisher tore three ligaments in his knee and never played in another game?
... that the turret of the LT vz. 34 light tank could be disconnected from its gearing and rotated using the commander's shoulder?
... that "Company Picnic", which aired on NBC on May 14, 2009, was the 100th episode of the comedy series, The Office?
... that since Zaynab bint Khuzayma died shortly after her marriage, less is known about her than any of Muhammad's other wives?
... that the 2003 Armenian presidential election was the first in the Commonwealth of Independent States where an incumbent president had failed to be re-elected in the first round?
... that the NYPD has charged four men with attempting to blow up two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military aircraft?
... that French artist Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux and his son Paul created a cyclorama of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg that drew over half a million viewers within a year of its premiere?
... that the Terminal Classic Puuc Maya site of Sayil in Mexico is known for its terraced palace that gives the impression of a three-story building?
... that an American consul in Riga examined Russian-American mathematician Jacob Tamarkin in analytic geometry in order to verify his identity?
... that a population bottleneck among Finns about 4,000 years ago may be the origin of the Finnish disease heritage that affects 1 in 500 children born in Finland today?
... that Dwaine Carpenter's first interception in the CFL came in a semifinal game?
... that the French Boirault machine built in early 1915 during WWI is considered as an ancestor of the tank, but was ultimately abandoned and nicknamed Diplodocus militaris?
... that despite his pronounced nationalism, Czech composer Bedřich Smetana was distrusted by his country's conservatives due to his close ties with Hungarian composer Franz Liszt?
... that the third season of USA Network's Burn Notice will focus on the backgrounds of the main characters?
... that 19th-century actor Lionel Brough played the character Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer 7,777 times?
... that Lance Corporal William Windsor of The Royal Welsh, who retired on 20 May 2009, is a Cashmere goat?
... that American football coach Wayne Howard retired from the University of Utah for "no real reason" after his team nearly won a conference title?
... that the ancient Yogmaya Temple, Mehrauli is believed to be one of five surviving temples from the Mahabharat period in Delhi?
... that a "think piece" written by Graham Fuller was instrumental in leading to the Iran-contra affair?
... that an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays?
... that American theatre director Jonathan Alper directed the New York premieres of works by Brian Friel, Terrence McNally and Beth Henley?
... that Coby Miller is the only track athlete to have run 100 meters in under ten seconds at Olympic Trials and not make the Olympic team?
... that Harvard's All-American football quarterback Dudley Dean was cited by Theodore Roosevelt for bravery after the Rough Riders' charge of San Juan Hill ?
... that in September 1844 a clown from Astley's Amphitheatre sailed from Vauxhall Bridge to Westminster Bridge in a washtub towed by geese?