derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that William Edward White may have been the first African-American to play Major League Baseball when he appeared in one game for the 1879 Providence Grays?
... that playwright Marisa Wegrzyn dealt with poor reviews by "being sulky and brooding and riding the subway a lot"?
... that the Koshare Indian Dancers are a Boy Scouts of America Scout troop that travels the United States promoting the appreciation of American Indian culture through Indian dances?
... that in the capture of Ormuz (1507), Afonso de Albuquerque subdued Hormuz Island and established a fort?
... that a new Chard Junction signal box was built in 1982 despite the station and junction being closed in the 1960s?
... that the Army of Flanders (Siege of Breda (1624) pictured) was the longest standing army in early modern history, operating from 1567 to 1706?
... that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea, which is specialized to live in the water, differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms?
... that three U.S. states do not accept the guilty plea known as the Alford plea?
... that rather than follow the usual practice of lip synching to prerecorded vocals, Bette Midler sang most of her songs live in the 1993 television movie Gypsy?
... that tabletop Role-playing game pioneer Paul Jaquays was also a designer for the Quake series of video games and co-founder of The Guildhall at SMU video game university?
... that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter only if there was a note on the cover stating that it had not been approved by J.K. Rowling?
... that Tsegaye Kebede, an Olympic and World Championship medalist in the marathon, worked as a child for 30 US cents a day so he could afford a daily meal and an education?
... that tail length is not a reliable way to identify the longtail stingray, because its tail is often damaged?
... that arsonists set fire to the Cutts-Madison House in Washington, D.C., while Dolley Madison was living there?
... that Anthony Morabito was the first of thirteen West Australians drafted in the 2009 AFL Draft, when the Fremantle Football Club selected him with their first-round pick?
... that the mineral athabascaite was discovered in 1949 during a research study of radioactive materials collected from Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan, Canada?
... that Christian music artist Miss Angie began her solo career doing praise and worship sets after Johnny Q. Public concerts?
... that the current Chairman of the British Motorcycle Charitable Trust is John Kidson, former Isle of Man TT Formula 3 World Champion?
... that the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race is known as "the world's richest mountain race" because of the large amounts of prize money on offer?
... that Shraddha Jadhav, who was recently elected as the Mayor of Mumbai and chief of India's richest municipal body, is known for her "elegant dressing"?
... that Sir William Sharington was pardoned after he was described in a sermon by Bishop Hugh Latimer as "an honest gentleman, and one that God loveth"?
... that Schwa, an upscale restaurant in Chicago, employs no receptionist, waiters, or other support staff?
... that according to legend, Dunan Aula was the burial site of the Viking warrior 'Olaf, son of the King of Denmark'; after he was slain in combat against local Scots?
... that Sathyavani Muthu was one of the first two non-Congress members from Tamil Nadu to serve as a Union Minister in India?
... that the Atlantic torpedo can produce an electric shock of up to 220 volts, and was the namesake of the naval weapon?
... that former Louisiana State Senator Bill Keith authored a creation science law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1987 case Edwards v. Aguillard?
... that the development of the Oseberg oil field is one of the significant milestones in the creation of Norway's oil and gas industry?
... that Slaughter County, Iowa, named after William B. Slaughter, was renamed because its citizens were dissatisfied with the name?
... that at the Tzintzuntzan pyramids huge fires were lit to signal the P'urhépecha kingdom that it was time to go to war?
... that Bulgarian physician and politician Georgi Stranski, best man to national poet Hristo Botev, was the only Commissar of South Bulgaria?
... that since 1995 a quintet of untitled jazz musicians has been performing near Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis?
... that Philippine real estate company Megaworld Corporation renamed a condominum project from "The Trumps" to "One Central" after threats of legal action from Donald Trump?
... that the music video for alternative rock band Soul Asylum's 1995 song "Just Like Anyone" features actress Claire Danes?
... that an attempted Russian conquest of Hawaii in 1815–1817 was led by a German physician?
... that the statue of the Shakyamuni Buddha of Shey Monastery is believed to be the second largest such statue in the northern Indian region of Ladakh?
... that Franz Baermann Steiner, whose parents were murdered in Treblinka and who later died of a heart attack in 1952 in Oxford, was called "one of Hitler's victims" by Iris Murdoch?
... that motor coordination enables our movements to be done smoothly but rarely allows the same movement to be done in exactly the same way?
... that Bruce's Beach, which opened in the early 1910s in Manhattan Beach, California, was an African-American resort in an "otherwise lily-white community"?
... that Poland–Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire signed a "perpetual" peace in 1533?
... that Tord Asle Gjerdalen twice rejected offers for a spot on the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team, due to time-consuming medicine studies?
... that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in the town, including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"?
... that for over a century after it was introduced into English the word "landscape" was only used for works of landscape art ?
... that Lee Boyd Malvo entered an Alford plea in 2004 for his role in the Beltway sniper attacks, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty?
... that Paul Eggers, the Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1970, trailed his senatorial ticket mate, George H.W. Bush, by 34,000 votes, and both lost to Democrats?
... that the Gorgas-Manly Historic District in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, contains two of only seven buildings to survive the burning of the University of Alabama by the Union Army on April 4, 1865?
... that Jean-Claude Biver has been credited with "saving the mechanical watch industry from the quartz movement"?
... that child actor Joey Pollari was 15 years old when he appeared in the Disney XD film, Skyrunners?
... that the large weight (55 tons) of the main cannon at the Bijapur Fort discouraged the British from carrying it as a trophy to England?
... that the city of Minneapolis refused the gift from T. B. Walker that may have included a landscape by Frederic Edwin Church later sold for US$8.5 million?
... that the fourth floor of Havnelageret in Oslo was used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War?
... that Louis Lesser developed Barrington Plaza, the largest urban renewal project in the western United States under President John F. Kennedy, as well as many of Howard Hughes' properties?
... that according to a mediaeval Icelandic saga, Jarl Gilli dreamt of the violent death of Irish king, Brian Boru?
... that the Peirce Geodetic Monument serves as a geodetic marker which indicates the exact latitude, longitude, and altitude of its location?
... that New Jersey Attorney General George F. Kugler, Jr. was the father of Pete Kugler who played in three Super Bowls for the San Francisco 49ers?
... that the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 covers not only land, but also aircraft and ships?
... that Rizong Monastery in Ladakh, Inidia, is known as “the paradise for meditation”?
... that during the invasion of Normandy, more than a million Rommelspargel poles placed to injure Allied paratroopers and glider infantry proved ineffective?
... that footballer Roger Helland in 2004 scored Fredrikstad's first goal in the Norwegian Premier League in 20 years?
... that the Gasmouloi were the descendants of mixed Byzantine Greek and Latin unions, and were employed as marines in the Byzantine navy?
... that "Lucky Man", a 1970 song by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was written by Greg Lake when he was 12 years old?
... that Sara Stockfleth Christie was the second female deputy member in the history of the Parliament of Norway?
... that in 1298, three brothers established the Myinsaing Kingdom after inviting King Kyawswa of Pagan to lead the dedication of a monastery, only to dethrone him and force him to become a monk?
... that Navy Midshipmen's quarterback Ricky Dobbs runs a triple option offense and shares Tim Tebow's record for most rushing touchdowns for a college quarterback in a single season?
... that Archbishop of Rouen Walter de Coutances (d. 1207) had to pay the final 10,000 marks of King Richard I of England's ransom, as the archbishop was a hostage until it was paid?
... that on the Hindu festival Ratha Saptami, the icons of the Sun-god are carried in ceremonial processions in Mysore and Melkote?
... that the Baylor University began its organized football team in 1899, but adopted a mascot only after the completion of the 1914 season?
... that Sword of Aragon, a video game published in 1989, frustrated players with its copy protection that prompted them with inaccurate information?
... that prior to being hired as a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Katherine Kersten worked as a lawyer and banker?
... that an example of the extinct Toy Trawler Spaniel, bred by Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, is preserved at the Natural History Museum at Tring?
... that in an Alford plea a defendant in U.S. criminal court admits there is evidence to support a conviction and enters a guilty plea, while asserting innocence?
... that Arvid Johanson took over as Norway's second Minister of Petroleum and Energy in 1980, when Bjartmar Gjerde resigned due to high job pressure?
... that the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest invites entrants to compose the opening sentence for "the worst of all possible novels"?
... that Freddie Barnes, a wide receiver at Bowling Green, is one of three finalists for the Fred Biletnikoff Award?
... that the day after a UCLA art student set the St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church afire, the pastor of the church prayed for forgiveness for the arsonist?
... that former Broadway actor Paul Ballantyne was born in a town that today has only about 200 residents?
... that Beau's All Natural Brewing Company of Vankleek Hill distributes its Lug Tread lagered ale to LCBOs throughout Eastern Ontario in German-made ceramic jugs?
... that Harry Hurt created the Hurt Report, described as "the most comprehensive motorcycle safety study of the 20th century"?
... that although in theory a common mineral below the earth's surface, coyoteite has been found at the surface only in one volcanic pipe?
... that Daithí Ó Drónaí and his electronic synthesised fiddle progressed to the final of the first series of The All Ireland Talent Show?
... that opium poppy is the source of poppyseed oil, which has several pharmaceutical uses, none related to opium?
... that the Irish Grand National steeplechase is hosted at the Fairyhouse Racecourse?
... that ZumoDrive is a HybridCloud system that allows for an iPhone to act as if it could store gigabytes more data than it actually can?
... that the Himariote Greek dialect retains several archaic features no longer found in standard modern Greek?
... that the world's first offshore oil wells began operations in as early as 1896 when oil was drilled from piers along the coast of Summerland, California, USA?
... that the name of Sainte-Émélie-de-l'Énergie, Quebec is said to refer to the exuberance of an early settler's wife?
... that the elaborate Greek Orthodox Malbis Memorial Church in rural Malbis, Alabama, has never had an active congregation?
... that Canadian police were called to a riot when "County Leitrim's favourite son" Pat Quinn brought The Rolling Stones to North America in 1965?
... that the floating barnacle Dosima fascicularis sometimes grows on turtles and even sea snakes?
... that Moghul Emperor Akbar became vegetarian, banned slaughter of animals, and gave up fishing and hunting after being influenced by Jain monk, Hiravijaya who preached non-violence?
... that Penzance A.F.C. competed in ten of the first sixteen finals of the Cornwall Senior Cup, winning six of them?
... that when actress Vanessa Marshall learned that she would be playing the character Mary-Jane Watson in the Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Catalysts", she dropped to her knees and began hyperventilating?
... that in 1909, the Thamshavn Line became the first electrified railway in Norway?
... that trash cans in France are known as poubelles because Eugène Poubelle first imposed them on Paris?
... that Cleveland S. Rockwell used the sketches he made during topographical survey expeditions for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the basis for his landscape watercolor and oil paintings?
... that the Royal National College for the Blind was the subject of the 2007 Cutting Edge documentary Blind Young Things?
... that St. Timothy Catholic Church in Los Angeles, California, has an antique gold leaf altarpiece believed to have been made in Spain in the 1600s?
... that Vietnamese scholar Đào Duy Từ was forbidden from taking Le Dynasty's court examination because his father was a folk singer?
... that a 1999 fire in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church caused an estimated $1.2 million in damage?
... that the music on Slut's album StillNo1 has been compared to a variety of different artists, amongst them Radiohead, Depeche Mode, The Divine Comedy, Sigur Rós and The Beatles?
... that David Morehouse, president of the Pittsburgh Penguins, served on the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry?
... that the Redmond Caves in Oregon were considered for potato storage as early as the 1910s?
... that Franz Liszt's abandoned opera Sardanapale was in part inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting, The Death of Sardanapalus ?
... that Pete Heine participated in the Berlin Airlift, then became the crew chief on an F-86 Sabre jet, and was later mayor of Baker, Louisiana?
... that initial deliveries of the Polikarpov I-3 in 1929 were to units in the Belorussian Military District, where they replaced the Grigorovich I-2?
... that Jan Leighton played over 1,200 famous persons in television and print advertisements, and 1,800 more on radio?
... that John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, tried to blame the British loss in the 1756 Battle of Fort Oswego on William Shirley?
... that Spoon River College in Illinois was founded in 1959 as Canton Community College?
... that the medieval English judge Ralph Basset earned a mention in the 1124 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for hanging 44 thieves?
... that the Phineas and Ferb character Perry the Platypus was made a platypus because of the animal's striking appearance?
... that St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted, Denmark, where Danish kings and queens of the 12th to 14th centuries were buried, is the oldest brick church in Scandinavia?
... that Akira Iwasaki was the only film critic arrested by the ideological police in wartime Japan?
... that Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner told readers he was a transsexual in a 2007 essay entitled "Old Mike, new Christine"?
... that reform of trusts law eventually contained in the United Kingdom's Trustee Act 2000 had been requested since 1982?
... that Émilien Amaury left school at 12 to ride a delivery bicycle, became head of propaganda in the government of Vichy France aged 30, and then founded the Amaury publishing empire?
... that the highest-ranked British casualty in the 1878 Battle of Ali Masjid suffered a gunshot wound that drove a metal locket with his wife's photograph through his heart?
... that ESPN The Magazine's October 9, 2009, Body Issue sold more issues at the news stand than any other issue of the magazine in the prior two years?
... that although the Church of St. Michael and St. Anthony in Montreal is a Roman Catholic church, it features Byzantine architecture and a minaret-style tower?
... that after performing with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for three decades, Anna Bethell became its Stage Director in 1947?
... that Luis Valdez called American activist Alice McGrath, who inspired his play Zoot Suit, "one of the heroines of the 20th century"?
... that the Embassy of Poland in London on Portland Place didn't open until ten years after the country became independent?
... that Paul Mantz was permitted to join the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of Hollywood stunt fliers, after performing a world record 46 outside loops in a row?
... that retiring Democratic state legislator David Farabee of Wichita Falls represents one of the most Republican-leaning districts in Texas currently held by a Democrat?
... that the Government Cable Office in Seward, Alaska, provided the first telegraph service to the town from the continental United States?
... that the Kingston, New York, zoning code forbids new construction in the Stockade District to higher than 62 feet (19 m), the height of the base of the steeple of the Old Dutch Church ?
... that the Super Falcon Submersible, which cost $1.5 million, is the world's fastest personal submarine?
... that the Regency era British women's magazine La Belle Assemblée featured original fiction and articles on politics and science in addition to fashion plates?
... that Trần Quang Khải was not only grand chancellor of Trần Dynasty for many years but also a famous poet and the creator of a traditional dance?
... that "Moses," the first solo single by Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser, is a tribute to ex-Echo & the Bunnymen keyboardist Jake Drake-Brockman, who had been a close friend?
... the P'urhépecha people of Santa Clara del Cobre, Mexico, have been producing hand-hammered copper products since pre-Hispanic times?
... that John Baldwin Neil served as Rutherford B. Hayes' personal secretary before President Hayes appointed him Governor of Idaho Territory?
... that the Saw series has grossed more than one billion dollars, making it one of the highest-grossing fright franchises ever?
... that following court directives, Indian BEST Bus launched limited 'disabled friendly' buses on exclusive routes in 2005?
... that as the mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, W.W. Dumas called a curfew in 1969 to halt riots after the fatal shooting of a fleeing black suspect by a white police officer?
... that during the latter part of the 20th century, Heekin Can was one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of food cans?
... that after Eleanor Evans was appointed as Stage Director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1949, a large number of performers, including Martyn Green, Ella Halman and Radley Flynn, left in the following years?
... that the poppy seed test is a simple, accurate, and inexpensive medical test for vesicointestinal fistula?
... that Idaho Territory Governor Mason Brayman negotiated the agreement which allowed the Mormons to leave Illinois following the Illinois Mormon War?
... that Leopold Blaschka, who worked with his son to make detailed glass flowers and marine invertebrates , began his career manufacturing glass eyes?
... that the 1905 silent film Rescued by Rover was so popular that it had to be re-shot twice because the negatives wore out in order to meet the demand for prints?
... that sports car racer, yachtsman and rower Robert Hichens was also the most highly decorated officer of the RNVR during the Second World War?
... that Rohr, Inc.'s ROMAG personal rapid transit system used a unique arrangement of linear induction motors to provide both traction power and act as a magnetic levitation suspension?
... that chemist Lester Shubin has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of police officers?
... that the only known specimen of the early crocodile relative Stegomosuchus was kept in the discoverer's yard for several years before being given over for study?
... that Phil Vassar's high school art teacher painted the cover of his 2009 album Traveling Circus?
... that "elegant, witty and amusement-loving" Bulgarian physician, politician and diplomat Georgi Valkovich was assassinated by people dressed in carnival costumes?
... that Shanti Stupa , Ladakh, inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 1985, holds the relics of the Buddha?
... that royal visitors to Worthing, West Sussex, have included Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, who lived in a seafront hotel as a refugee?
... that Danish whaler Christian Klengenberg opened trade routes to Copper Inuit territory?
... that American entertainer Eve was asked to guest-star in the Glee episode "Hairography" after Whitney Houston declined to appear?
... that the Alden staRRcar was originally designed as a high-speed four-passenger intercity electric car but emerged in the Morgantown PRT as a bus-like system for short distance travel?
... that the Prince Chiêu Văn Trần Nhật Duật of the Trần Dynasty spoke foreign languages so well that he was once mistaken as a Chinese by a Yuan ambassador?
... that carmaker Audi used the South Korean miniseries You're Beautiful to introduce their new Audi S4?
... that Waldo Hunt, "King of the Pop-Ups," could "make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats quiver in belfries"?
... that both the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO and the North American Free Trade Agreement were signed in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.?
... that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department, and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film?
... that Harvard lecturer Marshall Ganz is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign?
... that cartoonist Edward Barker and writer Mick Farren published Nasty Tales, the first comic book to face charges for obscenity in Great Britain?
... that upon its discovery, the Newark Torc was called "probably the most significant find of Iron Age Celtic gold jewellery made in the last 50 years"?
... that Holocaust survivor Rudy Kennedy led the campaign for compensation to British survivors who had worked for German companies under the Nazi policy of extermination through labour?
... that English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
... that the 1969 dedication of St. Basil Church in Los Angeles prompted a "club-swinging mob" of Chicanos to break into the church during Christmas Midnight Mass?
... that solenodons , the only surviving soricomorphs of the Caribbean, are a distinct lineage that may date back to the Mesozoic?
... that the song "Speechless", by Lady Gaga, was written as a plea to her father to receive the open-heart surgery he needed for a bad aortic valve?
... that the 47-gun galleon Elizabeth Bonaventure carried 51½ tons of weaponry against the Spanish Armada?
... that Memorial Park Site in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, contains prehistoric cultural deposits up to 8,000 years old?
... that a new railway station was built in six days in Workington to enable residents north of the river to access the town centre following floods which split the town in two?
... that in Ancient Egypt, servants of the pharaohs would agree to be sacrificed to provide their care in the afterlife?
... that in 1995, American blues harmonica player James Harman recorded a song named for the Zoo Bar club in Lincoln, Nebraska?
... that when Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park in Arizona was a U.S. Army post from 1864 to 1877, up to 900 mules were kept there to help deliver supplies to five U.S. states?
... that the ex-monastery of San Francisco in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico, has a wax figure of Christ in a glass coffin , the limbs of which are claimed to be growing?
... that in 1987, American blues pianist Whistlin' Alex Moore became the first African American Texan to be awarded the National Heritage Fellowship?