derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Children's Literature Association developed a canon of children's literature consisting of 63 titles, beginning with Little Women (1869)?
... that ABC Radio president Robert Pauley hired the then-little-known Howard Cosell in 1960 to host a weekly sports program after Cosell was able to get a relative's shirt company as a sponsor?
... that minimum orbit intersection distance is one of the measures used to determine if a near-Earth object, such as (4953) 1990 MU , is a Potentially Hazardous Object?
... that The New York Times described the Welles declaration as "one of the most exceptional diplomatic documents issued by the U.S. State Department in many years"?
... that Panamanian singer-songwriter Makano began writing songs when he was 16 years old?
... that while the electrical conductivity of pure water is very low, the conductivity of drinking water can be thousands of times greater?
... that gridiron football wide receiver Chris Jackson did not play football until attending Orange Coast College in 1994?
... that despite winning the Football League Trophy in 2009, Luton Town are not presently eligible to defend their title?
... that M. D. Madhusudan, who received the Whitley Award for 2009, uncovered links between coffee production in Brazil and cattle ownership and grazing in Bandipur National Park?
... that the first sea trials of a replica ship in Japan were those of the Naniwa Maru before it was placed in the Osaka Maritime Museum?
... that spark testing is a quick and inexpensive way to determine the general classification of ferrous materials using only a grinding wheel?
... that Stan Bunn ran for Congress in Oregon's 1st congressional district while his brother Jim ran for re-election in Oregon's 5th congressional district?
... that The Orckestra's debut performance was at the Moving Left Revue, a Communist Party benefit concert in London in 1977?
... that the Union Monument in Vanceburg, Kentucky, is the only monument south of the Mason–Dixon line that honors Union soldiers that is not in a cemetery?
... that the number of women elected in the 2002 Moroccan parliamentary election increased to 35 from only 2 in the previous election in 1997?
... that Joseph Wicks, a lawyer and judge in Washington State and the first city attorney of Grand Coulee, was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation?
... that the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad lost its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over a $25 penalty it had been ordered to pay to a farmer?
... that Mexican singer Vicente Fernández selected the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, to release his single "Necesito de Tí"?
... that Henry Eckford, built in New York in 1824, was the world's first steamship to be powered by a compound engine?
... that gridiron football defensive end Justin Brown was named in six All-American teams when playing at East Central University from 2001 to 2004?
... that The Maori Merchant of Venice was the first Maori language film adaptation of any of William Shakespeare's plays?
... that Olga Taratuta, a Ukrainian anarcho-communist, escaped from a Russian prison in 1906 while serving a 17-year sentence?
... that amended U.S. Presidential Executive Order 8389 ordered a freeze of the Baltic states' assets in the U.S.?
... that in Ayapango, Mexico, older homes have names that are displayed on plaques?
... that the Sea Cloud , the first fully racially integrated United States warship in World War II, later served as a private yacht to racist dictator Rafael Trujillo?
... that according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, there are more than 100 million women "missing" in Asia?
... that the rock band Goes Cube obtained its name from a poor back-translation of the phrase "Go Die" between English and German?
... that The Wire actress Felicia "Snoop" Pearson wrote an autobiography, Grace After Midnight, chronicling her drug-dealing days in Baltimore, imprisonment on murder charges and rehabilitation?
... that in the late 18th century, the Gotha Observatory became an international center for astronomy, and the most modern astronomical institute specifically for its instruments?
... that despite nearly throwing a perfect game in 1993, American baseball pitcher Tom Kramer never pitched at the highest professional level again after that year?
... that according to the Golden Legend, Saint Genebald left his wife around AD 499 to become Bishop of Laon, and was later imprisoned by her uncle, Saint Remigius, for sleeping with her when she visited?
... that one of Germany's Kaiser-class battleships, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, never received a planned diesel engine to supplement her turbines, so her range was much less than her sister ships?
... that the 2007 dedication of the 1872-built Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, included Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher and the United States Army?
... that Norwegian geochemist Knut S. Heier was a member of the Apollo Project?
... that Aaron Spelling's 56,500-square-foot mansion, known as The Manor, is the largest house in Los Angeles County?
... that al-Mansur Ibrahim, the Ayyubid governor of Hims, ended Khwarezmid power in Syria after defeating them in a battle near Lake Hims?
... that there is more potential for ullage development in wines bottled with long corks than in wines with short corks because wine is lost through absorption into the cork?
... that shortly before the 1989 Revolution, current Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu was questioned at length by the Securitate for allegedly intending to flee the country using a hang glider he had built?
... that the site of Riddle Ranch in eastern Oregon was a Native American settlement for over 1,000 years?
... that Shitou Xiqian was an obscure Zen teacher during his life but is now considered one of the two ancestors of all existing branches of Zen?
... that during the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods, droughts, a smallpox epidemic, and even a plague of locusts?
... that after subduing most of the Hejaz, Qatada ibn Idris went on to become the Sharif of Mecca establishing a tradition of sharifs descended from him to rule the city until 1925?
... that Operation Bayshield was the first machinima work to use digital assets not provided by the video game in which it was created?
... that Asbjørn Kjønstad has been referred to as the "father of the smoking ban" in Norway?
... that the marine fish Caranx sansun, first described in 1775, has no common name, has no known holotype, and is labeled a nomen dubium as the correct identification is unlikely to be made?
... that Air Vice Marshal Frank Bladin was nicknamed "Dad" for the concern he showed for the welfare of his personnel?
... that the remains of a cannon ball can still be seen in the wall of Moni Gonia Monastery from an Ottoman attack during the Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869?
... that the United States Department of Labor first began tracking discouraged workers in 1967 and found 500,000 at the time?
... that in a review of David Jordan's debut album, Set the Mood, it was suggested that the singer could have been cloned from the DNA of Lenny Kravitz, Prince and Michael Jackson?
... that Charles Guth offered to sell Pepsi Co. to Coca-Cola, but they did not even make a bid?
... that all postal voting was used in the 2003 Gateshead Council election and saw the third highest turnout in the 2003 United Kingdom local elections?
... that the Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music, his radio station KWKH-AM, and the former Louisiana Hayride?
... that in 2002, the submersible Pisces V and her sister vessel discovered a Japanese midget submarine in Pearl Harbor, the first vessel to be sunk during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that while most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire, Konstantin Leontiev, a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons?
... that Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
... that official turnout in the 2005 Algerian national reconciliation referendum was 99.95% in Khenchela but only just over 11% in Tizi Ouzou Province?
... that Sol Rosenberg, a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, established an international steel company in his adopted city of Monroe, Louisiana?
... that the Oslo square Eidsvolls plass has been referred to as "the National Mall of Norway"?
... that former United States President George H.W. Bush is a member of the invitation-only Alibi Club in Washington, D.C.?
... that Horatio Nelson called Skeffington Lutwidge, his commander on two separate occasions, 'that good old man'?
... that the plane of the ecliptic is the imaginary plane of the Earth as it orbits the Sun?
... that Damon E. Allen led the successful campaign by the Kentucky Optometric Association to empower optometrists in the state to prescribe medication for patients?
... that Haitian expatriate artist Edouard Duval-Carrié criticized the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier by creating artwork that parodied Duvalier?
... that Lizzie Lloyd King, the alleged murderess of Charles Goodrich, consumed flakes of the victim's desiccated blood during a police interrogation?
... that according to the former mayor of the commune of Adjohoun, Gerard Adounsiba, the 2008 Benin floods were the "largest humanitarian crisis to date" to affect the region?
... that Tom Bunn served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly at the same time as his older brothers Stan and Jim?
... that the 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race, won by Charles Duryea's Motorized Wagon , was the first auto race in the United States?
... that the subscription service BoardEx provides information on the world's business directors and senior managers, including their salaries, bonuses, and incentive pay?
... that Greater Manchester bus route 192 was the first in the UK to have solar powered on-street ticket machines?
... that 1961's Hurricane Tara was one of the deadliest Pacific hurricanes on record?
... that two trunk roads from London to the Sussex coast, the A22 and the A23, use parts of the London to Brighton Way?
... that 16 people were killed in the 1999 Tashkent bombings when six car bombs were detonated, an attack most likely perpetrated by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan?
... that Adam and Joe on BBC 6 Music won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for Radio Programme of the Year in its first six months of broadcast?
... that the Mirrorwing flyingfish attaches masses of its eggs to floating debris by a series of filaments on each egg?
... that Toniná in Mexico was one of the last of the Classic Period Maya cities to fall into ruin?
... that Eunice Taylor, a catcher for the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was the model for Rosie O'Donnell's character in the film A League of Their Own?
... that in the 2008 motorcycle Scott Trial event, there were only 60 official finishers out of a starting entry of 200?
... that in 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York, to the Hudson River?
... that at the Battle of Pulo Aura, a fleet of East Indiamen under Commodore Nathaniel Dance fought off an entire French squadron?
... that "Thrilla in the Villa", the first season finale of Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, was seen by 858,000 households, about half the viewership of the season premiere one month earlier?
... that Hector Hyppolite was a Haitian Vodou priest who was classified as a surrealist painter by the surrealist theorist André Breton?
... that Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! won the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for comedy?
... that Nobel Laureate George Smoot, whose work cemented the Big Bang theory, made a cameo appearance on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in the episode "The Terminator Decoupling"?
... that footballer Bud Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who migrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule?
... that the Jablonkow Incident has been named the first commando operation of the Second World War?
... that the 1931 Vickers Type 161 may have been the first aircraft to be fitted with in-flight adjustable elevator trims?
... that in an annual festival in Koovagam, India, eunuchs and transvestites ritually marry the Hindu god Aravan ?
... that Philip Glass composed a soundtrack in 1998, recorded by the Kronos Quartet, for the 1931 Dracula film starring Béla Lugosi?
... that Czech jazz double-bassist Luděk Hulan co-founded Studio 5, one of the most important modern jazz ensembles in Czechoslovakia?
... that the shell of marine snails in the family Juliidae is composed of two parts, like a clam?
... that Raquel Forner was one of the earliest fine artists to portray scenes of outer space?
... that radio station KLBS broadcasts a Portuguese-language world music format to California's San Joaquin Valley?
... that Shamar Sands, the Bahamian 110 metre hurdles national record holder, has a degree in accountancy?
... that Spratt's supplied army dogs with 1,256,976,708 dog biscuits during World War I?
... that for over 20 years after his posthumous execution in 1661, Oliver Cromwell's head stood on a spike outside Westminster Hall?
... that Earl Sprackling, who was selected as the best college football player of 1910, gained 456 total yards and kicked three field goals in one game?
... that Belgian firm Interbrew has a 34.4% share in the Ukrainian beer market?
... that Friedrich Foertsch was the second chief of staff of the Bundeswehr and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II?
... that Danny Friend was the Chicago Colts' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1896, despite only having pitched five previous Major League Baseball games?
... that after Pacific States Lumber went bankrupt in 1939, the company town of Selleck, Washington, was sold for US$3,000?
... that Texas clergyman Harold Reeves was the first missionary dispatched to Thailand by the Southern Baptist Convention?
... that during its one year of existence, the Tainan Air Group produced more aces than any other fighter unit in the Imperial Japanese Navy?
... that the Indiana-based Upland Brewing Company provided beer bottles and props to lend Indiana authenticity to the "Boys' Club" episode of Parks and Recreation?
... that the Czech trumpeter and singer Jiří Jelínek was nicknamed "The Czech Satchmo"?
... that the spinner shark is named for the spinning leaps it makes out of the water as part of its feeding strategy?
... that Kim Kang-woo spent about ten days acquainting himself with a cow to prepare for scenes in the film Le Grand Chef, likening the experience to working with a sensitive actress?
... that in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, Hans Holbein the Younger's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb is said to have the power to make viewers lose their faith?
... that Tennyson Bardwell's second film The Skeptic was actually written in the 1980s, but did not start filming until 2005?
... that the San Juan Bautista Parish of Tenango del Aire in Mexico was initially run by the Franciscans?
... that before starting her modeling career and appearing on America's Next Top Model, Celia Ammerman lived across from a chicken slaughterhouse in Brooklyn?
... that the winning candidate in the 2002 Hartlepool Council election, known as H'Angus the Monkey before taking office, pledged to give free bananas to school children in Hartlepool?
... that Duane Purvis's right arm made him a world-class javelin thrower and "without peer" as a long passer in football?
... that every December 11 in Acatlán de Juárez, Jalisco, Mexico, bonfires are lit along the streets to commemorate the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego?
... that computer hacker Raphael Gray sent Viagra tablets to Bill Gates and then published what he said was Gates' credit card number?
... that elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, found mostly among young captive Asian elephants , can have a fatality rate of up to 90%?
... that in the United States, 88 percent of public employees are covered by a defined benefit pension plan?
... that the 1987 roguelike computer game NetHack was named differently from its predecessor, Hack, because Hack creator Andries Brouwer "...may eventually release a new version of his own"?
... that an alliance was formed in the 8th century between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Frankish Carolingian Empire against the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Umayyads of Spain?
... that Saucon Valley Country Club has hosted five USGA golf tournaments, and is the site of the 2009 U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship?
... that the Dogger Bank itch is a skin condition prevalent in fishermen who work in the North Sea?
... that Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love" made her the first non-North American act to reach number-one on the Canadian Hot 100 in 2008?
... that the lead character in the Mozart opera Don Giovanni calls out for a glass of Marzemino in the final banquet scene before he is carried down to hell?
... that Tsar Alexander III is said to have held the collapsed roof of the royal car on his shoulders while his family escaped the Borki train crash site uninjured?
... that Canaiolo was included in the 19th-century Chianti recipe to add fruitiness and soften the tannins of Sangiovese, much like Merlot's role in Bordeaux wine blends?
... that Henry Jenkins of Bolton-on-Swale, Yorkshire is said to have lived to the age of 169?
... that Indian businessman Ness Wadia, a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kings XI Punjab, is the great-grandson of Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah?
... that GRB 050709 was the first short-duration gamma-ray burst for which an optical afterglow was detected?
... that Jens Wisløff, a Conservative Party of Norway politician, was called "the grand old man of asphalt"?
... that funding to help J-D's Down Home Enterprises start producing bacon-flavored salt came from a three-year-old child's winnings on America's Funniest Home Videos?
... that the Mexican town of Tlalmanalco has one of the few remaining intact open-air chapels built for native people who would not enter churches?
... that the razorfish hides in the spines of sea urchins both for protection and as a hunting strategy?
... that Leonard Trask published an account of his life as a sufferer of a condition in which his spine curved forward to the extent that his chin rested on his chest?
... that the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act of Singapore that allows for suspected criminals to be detained without trial has been renewed 12 times since its enactment in 1955?
... that Mount Veniaminof in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge contains the most extensive crater glacier in North America, at roughly 5.2 miles (8.4 km) in diameter?
... that among Gerhard Knoop´s stage productions are Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Strindberg's Miss Julie, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Ionesco's The Chairs?
... that from 1995 to 2003, an Arkansas radio station now called KZTD shared its "KBBL" call sign with the fictional radio station on The Simpsons?
... that the Jungle Shrew is a small mammal found only in Sri Lanka lowland rain forests?
... that heavy losses on the Western Front in the First World War caused the French Army to conscript men up to age 45?
... that vibraphonist Karel Velebný is considered one of the founders of modern Czech jazz?
... that enamel tufts, self-healing defects in tooth enamel at its junction with dentin, help enamel withstand bite forces as high as 1,000 N?
... that Lester Belding was the first Iowa Hawkeyes football player to be named an All-American?
... that the aerial telescope is a type of very long focal length refracting telescope built in the second half of the 17th century that did not use a tube?
... that Rotten Sound's Murderworks album cover was censored in Europe by manufacturers in Germany who considered it too disturbing for consumers?
... that Mibbit will be used as the default IRC protocol handler in the upcoming release of Firefox 3.5?
... that Hauz Khas Complex in South Delhi encompasses a water tank, an Islamic seminary, a mosque, a tomb and pavilions built around a medieval village in the 13th-century Delhi Sultanate reign?
... that actor Kim Kang-woo had to overcome his fear of water to star in Marine Boy, and went on to film dangerous water sequences without using a stunt double?
... that the larvae of the Appalachian Azure, a species of gossamer wings butterfly, can only feed on the flowers of the black cohosh?
... that Christopher Grigson made important contributions to scanning electron microscopy, but switched careers and became a naval architect?
... that in the late 1980s, there was a surge of interest in using Colorino in Chianti blends for the added deep dark coloring and structure from phenolic compounds that it brought to the wine?
... that KDMN (now KSKE) and its Radio Colorado sister stations became the target of prank calls in 2003 when the film Bruce Almighty displayed the station group's phone number as God's?
... that The Office episode "Cafe Disco" includes cameos by series writers Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg at an office dance party?
... that cartographer Jan Martin Larsen was a pioneer in the development of the specialized orienteering map?
... that Oregon radio station KKRB won New Music Weekly magazine's "Adult Contemporary Radio Station of the Year" New Music Award in 2006, 2007, and 2008?
... that Bulgarian zoologist Ivan Buresh, dubbed "the patriarch of Bulgarian biology", was the son of a Czech zincographer?
... that Becharof Lake within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska contains the second largest run of sockeye salmon in the world?
... that the early 20th-century diaries of German ornithologist Bernhard Hantzsch influenced British Arctic explorer Pen Hadow?
... that Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester's night soil, and was a Starfish site in World War II?
... that the heroic Greek marble Gaddi Torso in the Uffizi, Florence, was so admired in the Italian Renaissance that it was never "restored" by completing it?
... that Carlton Skinner commanded the first racially integrated United States warships, and later served as Guam's first civilian governor?
... that Hel Fortified Area was in 1939 the last place of Poland to surrender to the invading Wehrmacht, and during World War II it was used as a Kriegsmarine base?
... that William Butler Yeats originally published the poem "On being asked for a War Poem" under the title "A Reason for Keeping Silent" in 1916?
... that the Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus, Norway, was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964?
... that James Edward Hanger, the first amputee of the American Civil War, designed his own prosthesis and went on to found a prosthetic manufacturer still in business today?
... that two aircraft working for the New Zealand Police collided in mid-air over central Auckland in 1993?
... that New York talent agent Sam Cohn, who Time magazine called "the first superagent of the modern age", liked to eat paper?
... that the Osaka Maritime Museum is a geodesic dome that sits out in Osaka Bay and is accessed by an underwater tunnel?
... that The Hate That Hate Produced, a documentary critical of the Nation of Islam, caused the group's membership to double?
... that Praise of the Two Lands is the first ship mentioned by name in a written record?
... that in college basketball a bonus is awarded to a team beginning with the seventh foul in a half from the opposing team?
... that Ukrainian sculptor Mikhaylo Parashchuk, who decorated many major buildings in Sofia, Bulgaria, was reportedly a student of Auguste Rodin?
... that Jonathan Roberts, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1814 to 1821, built a school for poor children?
... that the song "Que No Se Rompa la Noche", first performed by Julio Iglesias, has been covered by Pandora, Vikki Carr and Ray Conniff?
... that Dutch film pioneer Willy Mullens worked as a human cannonball before becoming a film director?
... that 26-year-old Vanessa Rousso is among the top five females in career earnings in poker history?