derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that 19-year-old Panamanian sprinter Alonso Edward is a two-time South American Champion and the fourth fastest 200 m runner this year?
... that the Kunjin virus, which can be transmitted by mosquitoes and may cause encephalitis in humans, is named for an Indigenous Australian clan living near where the virus was first isolated?
... that the Charles Boyd Homestead is a group of three buildings that were once part of a pioneer ranch that supplied beef to logging crews in Central Oregon?
... that professional wrestler Super Muñeco teamed with Super Ráton (dressed like Mighty Mouse) and Super Pinocho (dressed like Pinocchio) to form Trio Fantasia?
... that for his 2009 film Lucky Bastard, writer/director Everett Lewis drew upon his own relationship experience with a crystal meth addict?
... that Madeleine Masson unknowingly met Krystyna Skarbek, whose biography she would write two decades later, days before Skarbek's murder in 1952?
... that St. Thomas of Villanova Church , upon its completion in 1887, was likely the tallest man-made structure between the Delaware River and Lancaster, Pennsylvania?
... that Anthony Impreveduto lost his Secaucus, New Jersey Town Council seat to reform candidate Dennis Elwell, with both later resigning from political office following corruption charges?
... that Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos created the Metropolitanate of Lithuania, which was later regarded as an "anomaly" by the Byzantine authorities?
... that Alex Cusack, on his debut in first-class cricket, partnered with Andre Botha to break a 111 year record?
... that Ball Park station was used as a backdrop by Jon Huntsman, Jr. to support a proposition that included 33 unidentified transit projects?
... that Jennifer Zeng was imprisoned and subject to electroshock therapy in the People's Republic of China for being a Falun Gong practitioner?
... that the Nano Ganesh mobile application allows farmers in India to control irrigation pumps in remote fields with mobile phones?
... that on his wife Nancy's birthday, Ronald Reagan would send flowers to his mother-in-law, Edith Luckett Davis, to thank her for giving birth to Nancy?
... that Paris currently has more than 360 working fountains, including one, the Fontaine des Innocents , in use since the 16th century?
... that Ambassador Kazimierz Papée protested to Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Maglione regarding the Holocaust in Poland that "when something becomes notorious, proof is not required"?
... that Rika's Landing Roadhouse in Big Delta, Alaska, was transferred from John Hajdukovich to Rika Wallen for "$10.00 and other considerations"?
... that Bill Humble was a test pilot for Hawker Siddeley during the Second World War, and was the grandfather of British TV presenter Kate Humble?
... that the concert selected for the Dave Matthews Band's newest live album, Live Trax Vol. 16, was chosen by the staff at a Dave Matthews Band fansite?
... that in 1704 Simón Susarte, a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd, revealed a concealed path to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, so they could surprise the Anglo-Dutch troops based there?
... that Acanthoplus discoidalis is able to squirt haemolymph up to 30 centimetres (11.8 in) when attacked by predators?
... that Minnesota Vikings safety Colt Anderson recited a vulgar rhyme celebrating his hometown of Butte before each game while at the University of Montana?
... that William Thompson Lusk was one of the first doctors to successfully perform multiple Caesarean sections?
... that Beatrix Potter initially resisted the idea of colour illustrations for The Tale of Peter Rabbit?
... that the former United Nations commander in Bosnia, Colonel Bob Stewart, has been accepted as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the UK Conservative Party?
... that the Bald Man and the Red Emperor, the antagonists in Ion Creangă's Harap Alb story, have been interpreted as echoes of conflicts opposing Romanians to the Tatars and the Khazar "Red Jews"?
... that Toney Douglas and his brother Harry are the sixth pair of brothers to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL), respectively?
... that Holby City woman is a voter demographic in the United Kingdom considered influential to the outcome of the next United Kingdom general election?
... that contestants on the reality television series Face the Ace win US$1 million if they beat three poker professionals in one-on-one matches of Texas hold 'em?
... that Kerry Hallam, an artist based in Nantucket, but trained in Chesterfield, has created an exhibition of nude ex-wives?
... that Ctenomorphodes chronus is an Australian stick insect that resembles a eucalyptus twig, and the female lays 3-mm elliptical eggs that resemble plant seeds?
... that during World War I, U.S. YMCA worker and preacher William Howard Hoople sailed to France to serve on the front lines as an entertainer?
... that the PlayStation 3 video game Rorona no Atelier: Aarando no Renkinjutsushi is the first in its series to feature 3D computer graphics?
... that the history of Bali dates back at least 200,000 years, with evidence of paleolithic tools such as hand axes found in Sembiran and Trunyan villages?
... that black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination?
... that the British Army Gold Cross awarded to field and general officers during the Peninsular War inspired the design of the Victoria Cross?
... that the LRC tilting train provided core service with VIA Rail in Canada for several decades, and that Bombardier Transportation used its coach design on the Acela Express and British Rail Class 221?
... that professional wrestler Estrella Blanca holds the record for the most "bet match" wins?
... that the literary works of Romanian teacher and defrocked Orthodox priest Ion Creangă range from primers to erotic stories?
... that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration funded Lincoln Laboratories to develop Terminal Doppler Weather Radar in the 1990s to assist air traffic controllers by improving wind shear detection?
... that Irish multi-instrumentalist musician R.S.A.G. performs with a virtual band projected onto a screen in a style which has been likened to Gorillaz?
... that Crypt Chambers, a department store in Chester, Cheshire, England, was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city?
... that Alfredo Figaro of the Detroit Tigers is the cousin of fellow Tigers pitcher Fernando Rodney?
... that Project Kaisei is investigating whether the debris floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can be collected and recycled?
... that Portuguese warrior and folk hero Gerald the Fearless led several Christian victories during the Reconquista, but later switched sides and served as governor of al-Sūs under the Almohad caliph Yusuf I?
... that Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in France is home to a Brotherhood of the Sardine, of which French Prime Minister François Fillon is a special "sympathizer"?
... that Prionochilus is one of the two genera that comprise the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae ?
... that one of the first actions of India's Desai government was to formally end the state of emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi?
... that Frank Chance is the only Chicago Cubs manager to lead the team to a World Series victory?
... that after the declaration of martial law in 1981, Kornel Morawiecki became one of the most wanted people in Poland?
... that the world's largest brown diamond was found in discarded rubble from a mine by a young girl?
... that Albert Levitt was involved in the drafting of the ERA, challenged the appointment of Justice Hugo Black, and ran against Nixon for Senate?
... that the Irish triad Cambrai Homily, which outlines three categories of martyrdom, each designated by a different colour, is the oldest single example of an extended prose passage in Old Irish?
... that, after noticing that white teenagers in his Cleveland, Ohio record store were increasingly listening to rhythm and blues records, Leo Mintz was one of the first to call the music "rock and roll"?
... that Ernest Brooks was responsible for 4,400 of the 40,000 official British photographs made during the First World War?
... that Diego von Bergen, who was the ambassador to the Holy See for the Kingdom of Prussia until 1918, continued to serve in this position for the Weimar Republic as well as Nazi Germany?
... that in 2008 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jared Burton pitched in a career high 54 games despite missing about a month and a half due to injury?
... that Saskatchewanian politician Charles McDonald first attracted public attention in 1918 when he assisted the capture of two bandits?
... that Shafiq al-Hout, former head of the Palestine Liberation Front, resigned from the PLO Executive Committee following Yasser Arafat's signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993?
... that writer, suffragist, and feminist Emily Newell Blair has been described by Senator Carter Glass as "go[ing] down so smooth and easily but has an awful kick afterwords"?
... that Crosbie Castle and the Fullarton estate was the home of William Wallace's uncle, and it was here that he set off on the day that ended in the burning of the Barns of Ayr as an act of revenge?
... that a group of seven singing postal workers from Richmond, Virginia, called The Spiritual Harmonizers, made it past the first round of the fourth season of America's Got Talent?
... that after the settlement of the Shen-kuang-szu Incident in 1851, Fuzhou became the first Chinese treaty port where missionaries were given official permission to reside within the walled city?
... that the melody of the title track of Neil Innes' album How Sweet To Be An Idiot was plagiarised by Oasis for their 1994 single "Whatever" and Innes now receives royalties and a co-writing credit?
... that The Infomatics have been called "the loudest voice in Irish hip hop"?
... that one of Kam Chancellor's coaches called him possibly "the greatest safety in Virginia Tech history"?
... that The Chapters entertained two hundred people on a train as part of the twenty-fifth anniversary celebrations of the DART?
... that Polish pilot Władysław Turowicz moved to Pakistan, became a citizen, and has since become known as the "Rocket-Missile Man of Pakistan"?
... that the Dexia Tower in Brussels has reduced its nightly light show to only 10 minutes an hour due to the recession?
... that President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted to Europe from New Jersey's New Brunswick Marconi Station in 1918?
... that the Dutch intervention in Bali in 1906 caused a "fight to the death" by the Balinese, resulting in mass ritual suicide?
... that species in the fungal genus Ameliella have been found in the Skibotn area in central Northern Norway, a hotspot of lichen species diversity?
... that Ras Ibn Hani, a small cape located 8 km north of Latakia, Syria, was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times?
... that King Sigismund I the Old built a castle for his Italian wife Bona Sforza in the Lithuanian town Maišiagala during the Jagiellon dynasty?
... that Britney Spears' guest appearance in the Will & Grace episode "Buy, Buy Baby" was her first acting performance on prime-time television?
... that according to the legend of the Parson and Clerk , the devil turned a local priest and his clerk into stacks at Teignmouth, Devon?
... that the Phineas and Ferb season two premiere was the most watched cable telecast on Friday, March 13, 2009?
... that the tallest building in Bucharest is the 110-metre (361 ft) Bucharest Tower Center located in Sector 1?
... that current NFL player Terrance Knighton received only two scholarship offers coming out of high school?
... that collective punishment meted out to mostly innocent Ukrainian peasants by Polish authorities during the Galicia Pacification campaign resulted in increased bitterness and encouraged extremists on both sides?
... that despite significantly reforming the law relating to indictments, the Indictments Act 1915 does not actually define what an indictment is?
... that following her service in the Mexican–American War, laundress and madam Sarah Bowman was breveted an honorary colonel and buried with military honors?
... that President Truman's own pastor came out publicly against his appointment of General Mark Wayne Clark as ambassador to Pope Pius XII?
... that Pakistan Hindu Party's flag, which bears two ancient Hindu symbols, Om and Trishool, was designed by the party's founder, Rana Chandra Singh?
... that General Jakob von Washington, a distant relative and contemporary of US President George Washington, became a Baron of the Kingdom of Bavaria?
... that between 1992 and 2002, more than 60 million people became obese in China?
... that Panapasa Balekana co-wrote God Save Our Solomon Islands, the national anthem, as a prayer for the country after receiving inspiration in a dream?
... that the medical ethicist and tutor Maurice Henry Pappworth (1910–1994) was instrumental in the establishment of stricter codes of practice for human experimentation?
... that Captain Charles Lydiard died in the wreck of his ship when he became exhausted after trying to ensure that as many of his crew as possible were saved?
... that the anti-government August 31, 1982 demonstrations in Poland ended with four demonstators killed and unknown number wounded?
... that W. Harry Vaughan founded the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1934 with a budget of $5,000?
... that the sapropelic mud from Lake Amara contains around 40% organic and 41% mineral substances?
... that Lyman Hall established the first textile engineering school in the Southern United States in 1899 while president of the Georgia Institute of Technology?
... that a visit by Che Guevara sparked 50 years of ties between Cuba and Sri Lanka?
... that in 1965, Czech jazz singer Vlasta Průchová invited Louis Armstrong for dinner?
... that 14 American fugitives showed up at the phony Puño Airlines counter to claim their prize, after authorities sent phony congratulations on winning a free trip to the Bahamas?
... that while Prime Minister of Jordan, Sulayman al-Nabulsi was accused of involvement in a coup against King Hussein, resulting in his house imprisonment for over four years?
... that the 1987 Hipercor bombing was Basque paramilitary group ETA's deadliest attack?
... that construction of the Natron Cutoff was delayed for 11 years while the U.S. Department of Justice decided whether to allow the Southern Pacific Company to remain in control of its owner, the Central Pacific Railway?
... that Japanese pink film/sexploitation producer-director Kan Mukai gave Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita his first work in the film industry?
... that the website Like.com allows users to highlight a part of a product image and search for similar-looking products based on the pattern, shape, and color of the highlighted part?
... that the first of four bridges on the current Taipei Bridge location was designed for rail traffic, but the railway was removed after only ten years?
... that Infinity Broadcasting, sold for nearly $4 billion in 1996, was started in 1972 when co-founder Michael A. Wiener bought FM station KOME with $5,000 from the sale of his father's stamp collection?
... that a square metre patch of Phylactolaemata, a freshwater class of Bryozoa, can produce 800,000 statoblasts, "survival pods" withstanding freezing and drying that get carried long distances?
... that Robert Cushman expanded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' photo archives through donations from United Artists' studios and Katharine Hepburn?
... that the Limitation Act 1963 was described by Lord Reid as having "a strong claim to the distinction of being the worst drafted Act on the statute book"?
... that Gladys Bustamante became a leading Jamaican trade unionist after she took a job as a secretary for her future husband, Sir Alexander Bustamante?
... that The Art of the Motorcycle exhibition broke all Guggenheim Museum attendance records and kicked off a wave of blockbuster museum shows?
... that English writer and historian Mercia MacDermott, who has authored five books on the ethnography and history of Bulgaria, learned Mandarin Chinese while living in Weihai as a child?
... that Joe Maddock was one of the biggest ground gainers, and played four positions, for Michigan's 1903 "Point-a-Minute" football team?
... that award-winning romance novelist Jeffrey McClanahan has written under three distinct pen names: "Dixie Cash", "Anna Jeffrey", and "Sadie Callahan"?
... that the 1937 peasant strike in Poland was the largest anti-government demonstration in the Second Polish Republic?
... that the Ninth Circuit ruled in Alperin v. Vatican Bank that property claims by Holocaust survivors did not constitute a political question, while human rights and international law claims did?
... that toxic puffball Agaricus praeclaresquamosus can be distinguished from its close relative Agaricus perobscurus by a stipe base which turns yellow immediately when injured?
... that the 15th-century mosque Atala Masjid, Jaunpur, India exists at the site of the Atala Devi Hindu temple?
... that producer Ozzie Cadena's first session at Savoy Records was for trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding, the first in a long collaboration by the duo?
... that the French captured HMS Castor in 1794, only to have her retaken 20 days later by HMS Carysfort?
... that the show There Goes the Neighborhood built a 20 feet (6.1 m) tall wall around a Kennesaw, Georgia, neighborhood for its filming?
... that William "King" Cole played for a national championship team at Michigan and coached Nebraska to two championships?
... that in 1939, Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Umansky was the youngest Ambassador in Washington, D.C.?
... that the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions allowed the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck in New York, which lasted for over two centuries?
... that when the New Redmond Hotel opened, it was billed as Oregon's finest hotel east of the Cascade Mountains with rooms from $1 per day?
... that the John Pearson Soda Works was built in front of an idle mining shaft so there would be ample room to store ice?
... that in 1747, Aulay Macaulay, the last chief of Clan MacAulay, invented a system of shorthand in an unsuccessful attempt revive his clan's fortune?
... that the Urban Transportation Development Corporation was formed to build a version of the Transrapid maglev train, but instead designed a completely new system known today as the Bombardier ART?
... that the largest water slide in the U.S. state of Oregon is Thrill-Ville USA in the city of Turner?
... that Yishan Yining, a Zen master who pioneered Gozan Bungaku literature in 14th-century Japan, was originally a Buddhist monk on a diplomatic mission from China?
... that the settlers who built Old St. Raymond's Church in Dublin, California, were unable to afford a full-time priest, so one rode in monthly from Oakland to hold Mass?
... that Renée Asherson made her first stage appearance in John Gielgud's 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet?
... that Ned Hanlon managed the Baltimore Orioles to three consecutive National League pennants?
... that the Mexican government offers rewards of 30 million pesos for information leading to the arrest of the leaders of various drug trafficking cartels, such as the Beltrán-Leyva brothers?
... that although the Soviet Union recognised Swaziland in 1968, it wasn't until 1999 that Swazi relations with Russia were officially established?
... that the U.S. Senate rejected Ernest W. Lefever for a State Department human rights post, a nomination opposed by his two brothers who claimed he supported views that "blacks were genetically inferior"?
... that the two German Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers were both sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914?
... that two county attorneys were sued for not reporting the plot by a jealous ophthalmologist to murder another ophthalmologist, who later lost his eyesight in prison?
... that U2 released a film titled Linear as a companion to their latest studio album, to enhance the album's listening experience with visuals?
... that as of 1981, New York City's Toy Center was the site of 95% of the toy business transacted in the United States?
... that professional wrestler Olímpico's ring name was inspired by the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that Film & Kino, which organizes municipal-owned cinemas in Norway, also co-organizes the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund?
... that fish diseases and parasites can result in mass fish die offs, particularly if the ambush predator Pfiesteria piscicida is involved?
... that the Mexican Green Party has run an advertising campaign to promote the restoration of capital punishment in Mexico?
... that when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester, Cheshire, England, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street?
... that the work of Pelagius of Oviedo as a historian is generally reliable, but he is known as the "prince of falsifiers" for various altered documents emanating from his office in the 12th century?
... that studio executive Steven Rothenberg designed and oversaw the film distribution strategy for the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project?
... that the Australian cicada Psaltoda plaga is commonly known as the "black prince"?
... that with 125 Scottish clans in attendance, The Gathering was the world's largest clan meeting and Highland games?
... that federal judge Paul Jones sentenced a pregnant mother of ten to jail for selling a quart of liquor, lectured her on birth control, and asked, "Doesn't this woman know how to stop it?"
... that the title of Robbie Williams' upcoming album Reality Killed the Video Star is a reference to 1979's The Buggles hit Video Killed the Radio Star?
... that during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), aquaculture in China of the common carp was banned because the Chinese word for common carp sounded like the family name, Li (李), of the emperor?
... that the Watergate complex's buildings were designed to emulate the proposed Inner Loop Expressway and the shape of the Kennedy Center, whose original design was curvilinear?
... that the coldest temperature in south-west England on record was −16.1 °C (3.0 °F) at Yeovilton, Somerset, in January 1982?
... that recruiting analysts thought Da'Rel Scott was too small for a college running back, but in 2008 he ran for more than 1,000 yards and led his conference in rushing for most of the season?
... that secretions from the placenta prevent the maternal immune system from recognizing the fetus as a foreign object, partly explaining immune tolerance in pregnancy?
... that Miles Davis owed Bob Weinstock of Prestige Records four albums, so Davis recorded in two days of sessions the music for the 1956 albums Cookin', Relaxin', Workin' and Steamin'?
... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Las Juntas was given to Irishman William Welch, who was listed as "Guillermo Welch" on official land documents?
... that the government of Griqualand East destroyed £10,000 in currency shortly after printing it?
... that the Dallas Hilton, built in 1925 for Conrad Hilton in Downtown Dallas, Texas, was the first highrise hotel to be branded a "Hilton"?
... that burning money can provide for behavior modification, political notoriety, and a warm fireplace?
... that John Waltz managed the Baltimore Orioles for eight games despite lacking any qualifications for the job?
... that Three-Mile Hog Ranch was a center for prostitution for soldiers at Fort Laramie?
... that professional wrestler Virus once worked in the Minis division until he won the right to wrestle regular sized wrestlers?
... that the director of the documentary Who the Hell is Juliette? intentionally misspelled the name of the film's title character in the credits?
... that Michigan fullback Everett Sweeley set a college football record in 1902 when he kicked the ball 86 yards?
... the New York Court of Common Pleas was established in 1686 by Thomas Dongan as a successor to the New Netherlands' Worshipful Court of the Schout, Burgomasters and Schepens?