derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?
... that although it was mocked by Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) as the "Congress for Defectors", Jagjivan Ram's Congress for Democracy helped the opposition Janata Party win the 1977 election?
... that University of Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger has been credited as the first player to run the Statue of Liberty play?
... that typical subjects for late medieval Andachtsbilder include the Pietà, Pensive Christ, Man of Sorrows and Arma Christi, and the Veil of Veronica?
... that Nanuli Shevardnadze, wife of the future president of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, initially rejected his marriage proposal, fearing her family background would ruin his career?
... that while the Pakistan Socialist Party won several seats in 1954 in East Pakistan due to reservations for religious minorities, the party opposed such reservations in principle?
... that Bernardo Peres da Silva, the only native Governor of Portuguese India in its 451-year history, was deposed after just seventeen days in office?
... that the leaves of young Bagassa guianensis trees are so different from those of the adults that taxonomists considered them to be different species for at least 150 years?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway" was inspired by an episode of the HBO documentary series Taxicab Confessions where a detective talked about a man who became pinned between a subway train and the platform?
... that the Atlantic flyingfish can glide 3 to 12 metres (10 to 39 ft) in the air after jumping out of the water?
... that the 1932 Colgate University football team was "undefeated, untied, unscored upon, and uninvited" after being snubbed by the Rose Bowl?
... that Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock band with more than 50 members?
... that industries that have shaped the Hudson, New York, historic district include whaling, antique shops and prostitution?
... that Frank Bossard was the first spy caught with the aid of an electronic transmitter?
... that Wilsonville Memorial Park is both the oldest and largest park in Wilsonville, Oregon, and includes a barn built in 1901 ?
... that although he headed the Royal Stables of Norway from 1945 to 1960, Richard Andvord only had responsibility for motor vehicles?
... that the Veterans Benevolent Association, an early organization for gay American veterans, worked with the NAACP to end the issuance of the less-than-honorable blue discharge?
... that the classically-inspired porticoes on the Hudson, New York, post office echo those of the Columbia County courthouse across the square?
... that Michel T. Halbouty was a wildcatter who was credited with discovering more than 50 oil and gas fields, though he twice declared bankruptcy?
... that a Maya ruler of Ixlu, a small ancient city in Guatemala, claimed to be the lord of the major Maya city of Tikal?
... that although the Stonewall riots in 1969 are generally recognized as the beginning of the modern gay liberation movement, there were over a dozen pre-Stonewall LGBT rights actions in the US (Barbara Gittings pictured picketing)?
... that the rarely seen Rufous Scrub-bird occurs on Mount Banda Banda in New South Wales, Australia?
... that pioneering lesbian journalist Edith Eyde only assumed the pseudonym Lisa Ben after editors of the lesbian magazine The Ladder rejected her first choice, "Ima Spinster"?
... that Ukrainian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author John Lhotsky was credited as the first discoverer of gold in New South Wales?
... that the 1749 pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home blamed influences from France and Italy for promoting effeminacy and homosexual contact among British gentlemen?
... that Kelly Misa ranked 84th in the FHM Philippines' sexiest women of 2006?
... that the LGBT rights group One Iowa held public forums during the landmark case Varnum v. Brien to discuss the importance of marriage equality ?
... that Isambard Kingdom Brunel used light rails and heavy timber baulks for the Great Western Railway's baulk road track because existing technology could not produce strong rails?
... that despite having organized the first LGBT rights demonstration in the US, activist Randy Wicker denounced the Stonewall riots, saying that "throwing rocks through windows doesn't open doors"?
... that the poet William Dickey finished a poem about the death of his mentor, John Berryman, shortly before his own death in 1994?
... that São Gabriel was one of the two ships of Vasco da Gama's armada that returned from the trip to India?
... that the main theme of Indian novelist V.J.P. Saldanha's writings was the 18th-century captivity of 60,000 Mangalorean Roman Catholics at Seringapatam?
... that the organizers of San Francisco's Trans March rerouted the event through the city's Mission District to draw attention to violence against transgender people?
... that the publication of a rare memoir by concentration camp survivor Heinz Heger has been described as a turning point in the gay community's adoption of the pink triangle symbol ?
... that HMS Lively won five battle honours during the Second World War, despite a career lasting less than a year from commissioning to being sunk?
... that the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front organized a project to take over the government of Alpine County, CA, to establish a gay separatist community called Stonewall Nation?
... that the Maya archaeological site of El Tintal, in the northern Petén region of Guatemala, includes a triadic-style pyramid estimated to be 30 metres (98 ft) tall?
... that the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building is the tallest building in Harlem?
... that Pungent Stench's early demos compiled on Praise the Names of the Musical Assassins caused a "considerable amount of interest" in the group, leading them to sign a deal with Nuclear Blast?
... that the first patron of St Mary's Church, Mold was Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII?
... that Alan Wagner, the first president of the Disney Channel, was also an opera critic and radio personality?
... that Philipp Schoch is the only snowboarder to win two gold medals at the Winter Olympic Games?
... that while Chief of Defence Staff Jean Boyle was ridiculed for ordering the Canadian military to halt nearly all operations for one day to search for missing files, some were subsequently found?
... that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh?
... that a "no ID, no sitting on the bench" rule will be implemented in the 2009 UAAP basketball season to avoid what happened last year when a coach was given a technical foul for not wearing his ID?
... that the unusual finger structure of the dinosaur Limusaurus gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into bird wings?
... that despite its author keeping detailed journals of his experiences, the baseball memoir Odd Man Out was criticized by many people named in the book as being factually inaccurate?
... that as governor of Davao del Norte, Prospero Amatong oversaw the creation of nearby Compostela Valley, eventually serving as the new Filipino province's interim governor in 1998?
... that Christian Zheng Sheng College on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school?
... that the British 21st Army Tank Brigade had so few tanks after the Battle of Dunkirk that two-thirds of the brigade was forced to serve as infantry?
... that Mika Tervala won gold medals in all the first five World Championships in mountain bike orienteering?
... that the estimated population of Japan significantly decreased from 160,300 in 1300 BC to 75,800 in 900 BC?
... that Bishop Aloisius Muench , the liaison between the Vatican and the U.S. post-war occupation authority in Germany, referred to the latter as "other Hitlers in disguise"?
... that the Garfield School, a 19th-century schoolhouse in Brunswick, New York, is considered unique for its time period because its design was commissioned?
... that Coleman Coker's work has been featured in the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum, the New York City MoMA, the San Francisco MoMA, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the National Building Museum?
... that Duguetia tobagensis, a small tree endemic to the island of Tobago, has only been collected three times since its original discovery in 1912?
... that Luchador Mascara Dorada had to outlast nine other wrestlers to win the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship?
... that the Quartermaster Award is the highest rank in the Sea Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America?
... that Broderbund's computer game Orly's Draw-A-Story won the inaugural Interactive Achievement Award for Computer Innovation in 1998?
... that Liebotschaner Beer, produced by some United States breweries, was originally brewed in and named after the Czech village of Libočany ?
... that Negro league baseball executive Cum Posey organized the East-West League in 1932, but the league folded before the end of the season?
... that during World War II, the Czech actor Oldřich Nový refused to divorce his wife, as a consequence of which they were both imprisoned in a German concentration camp?
... that the internal column (columella) of the shell of snail Holospira is hollow?
... that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists?
... that in 1906, Georgian Socialist-Federalists managed to seize 315,000 rubles during an attack on a Russian treasury in Dusheti?
... that Helena Palaiologina, Queen consort of Cyprus, gave orders for the nose of her husband's beautiful mistress to be cut off?
... that Chitradurga Fort in Karnataka has so many interconnecting tanks to harvest rain water, it was said it never ran out of water?
... that the City of Carlisle is the largest city in England in terms of area, but is one of the smallest by population?
... that Hans G. Furth, Professor in the Faculty of Psychology of the Catholic University of America, trained to become a concert pianist and performed for Jewish internment camps?
... that Aso Mining Company, which belongs to Prime Minister of Japan Aso Taro's family, allegedly forced prisoners of war to work in mines during World War II?
... that the windmill at Aylsham in Norfolk was built so well that its demolition was abandoned?
... that Congregation Emanu-El in Victoria, British Columbia, built in 1863 in the building boom that followed the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, is the oldest surviving synagogue in Canada?
... that Wushan Man, a species of Homo, was identified from a fossil jaw found south of the Yangtze River but is now thought to come from an extinct ape that lived in China two million years ago?
... that Nymphaea nouchali is the national flower of Sri Lanka where it is known as Nil Manel in Sinhala?
... that the shooting death of striking miner Tom Manning in the 1920 Anaconda Road Massacre in Butte, Montana is still officially unsolved?
... that in 1992, the Utah Utes football team, coached by Ron McBride, ended a 28-year bowl game drought by appearing in the 1992 Copper Bowl?
... that choreographer Sergey Vikulov selected three lead couples where Jennifer Olayvar was one of the dancers chosen to perform in La Fille Mal Gardée?
... that in September 2008, the Abu Dhabi Media Company established Imagenation, a subsidiary with access to more than US$1 billion with which to finance film production?
... that former long jump record holder Carol Lewis tried out for the 2002 Winter Olympics bobsleigh team?
... that dominant white, a collection of related genetic conditions, causes horses to be born with no skin pigmentation and completely or partly white coats ?
... that there are more than 250 different crystalline forms of silicon carbide, and that some of them have a 301.5 nm lattice constant, about 1,000 times longer than usual lattice spacings?
... that Liam Jurrah, a Warlpiri from Yuendumu, is the first Indigenous Australian from a remote community in Central Australia to play in the Australian Football League?
... that Mexican group Los Bukis won the Lo Nuestro Award for Best Regional Mexican Song in 1989 with their number-one single "Y Ahora Te Vas"?
... that in the 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament's semi-finals Wayamba beat Ruhuna in the bowl-out to reach the finals?
... that Sacajawea Peak is the highest point in the Wallowa Mountains and the sixth highest peak in Oregon?
... that Milwaukee Brewers baseball player Dan Thomas was called the "Sundown Kid" because he refused to play on Sabbath?
... that the district office at the Bly Ranger Station in south central Oregon was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937 at a cost of $1,700?
... that Harvard historian Ernest May's 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis was the primary source for the 2000 film Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner?
... that in Albanian folklore, the zana, mountain fairies revered for their beauty and courage, are said to have watched approvingly over Albanian protests against the 1878 Treaty of San Stefano?
... that Kendrick Moxon assisted Scientologists in filing 50 lawsuits against the Cult Awareness Network, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of the organization?
... that the koa wood hull of a Hawaiian-style outrigger canoe named Mālia became the mold for modern fiberglass racing canoes?
... that How Am I Supposed to Kill You If You Have All the Guns? was described as "disgusting" by the parents of one of its creators?
... that around 30–40 endangered Sri Lankan elephants are present within Kumana National Park?
... that Japanese tenor Taro Ichihara made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the role of the Italian tenor in Der Rosenkavalier?
... that the 2001 Gator Bowl was the final collegiate game of American football star Michael Vick?
... that the strong, dark red timber of the Australian hardwood tree the Narrow-leaved Ironbark was used in Elizabeth Farm, Australia's oldest surviving European dwelling?
... that Korea Aerospace Research Institute's STSAT-2 (Science and Technology Satellite-2) will carry two payloads, a satellite laser ranging and a Lyman-alpha Imaging Solar Telescope?
... that Geary Eppley, an administrator at the University of Maryland, confiscated thousands of copies of the student newspaper when it printed an exposé on dormitory living conditions?
... that the 1906 firing of John McLean for paying an athlete to play college football was called "the biggest scandal in the history of Missouri athletics"?
... that some historians argue that Haimo, a medieval royal official who died around 1100, was one of the first barons of the Exchequer?
... that in 1796, Abraham Bradley, Jr. published the first comprehensive postal route maps for the United States Post Office Department?
... that Chennai Central Prison was 172 years old when demolition of its premises began in June 2009?
... that former Olympic show jumper Marion Coakes won a silver medal on a pony and learned to ride on a donkey?
... that St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, Wales, contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his family?
... that the song "Debo Hacerlo" written by Juan Gabriel has been covered by Aleks Syntek, Pandora, Nydia Rojas and Ana Gabriel?
... that Francis Amasa Walker was brevetted a Brigadier General in the Union Army at the age of 24 and placed in charge of the 1870 United States Census at 29?
... that during the tour in promotion of the album Rise to Power, the death metal band Monstrosity headlined the Rock Al Parque festival in Bogotá, Colombia, and performed in front of 80,000 people?
... that the website United Kingdom Election Results is listed as a resource by the Parliament of Australia, The University of New South Wales, and The University of York?
... that in the course of its 150-year history, Haili Church has survived earthquakes, tsunamis, lava flows, fires, and heavy tropical rains?
... that Edward Hanrahan, groomed to succeed Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, saw his elected career end after a 1969 police raid that resulted in the death of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton?
... that the section of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 covering arbitration clauses was described as "very messy" and "a mire"?
... that University of Chicago football star Laurens "Spike" Shull died of wounds suffered rushing a machine gun nest at the Battle of Château-Thierry ?
... that a neutron monitor can only directly detect neutrons, but is used to indirectly detect cosmic rays, high-energy charged subatomic particles impacting the Earth's atmosphere from outer space?
... that Aine Lawlor presents Morning Ireland, Ireland's most listened to radio programme?
... that John Watts de Peyster prevented the Tivoli, New York, village board from meeting in the firehouse he had built for them, because of a tax dispute?
... that as a child, Swedish opera singer Hjördis Schymberg and her four sisters performed live music to accompany silent films?
... that after writing songs for Garth Brooks, Stephanie Davis joined Brooks' road band and recorded an album for Asylum Records?
... that the Cemetery of the Holy Rood has a privately funded area set aside for the burial of abandoned children?
... that the June 2009 state funeral of Omar Bongo was attended by 40 heads of state, including representatives from France, Spain and the President of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe?
... that American business historian Thomas K. McCraw won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for History for Prophets of Regulation?
... that country music singer-songwriter Roger Miller's third studio album, The 3rd Time Around, was the only record of his career to top the Country Album charts?
... that Michael Annals designed the sets for productions of Macbeth in the Soviet Union and in Portugal?
... that the South Woods at Montgomery Place near Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, are the oldest oak forest in the Hudson Valley?
... that, because of a bout with mononucleosis, Dale Castro became a record-setting college football placekicker and consensus All-American?
... that before St Wilfrid's Church was built, Anglicans in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, had to worship in the loft of a carpenter's workshop?
... that Uruguayan Senator Rafael Michelini, whose father Zelmar was assassinated, is a politician active in human rights issues?
... that an estimated 75% of examples of American cobblestone architecture can be found within 75 miles (121 km) of Rochester, New York?
... that the Pâquet family, which owned much of what is now Saint-Nicolas Heritage Site for over 150 years, has included local, provincial and federal politicians?
... that the Yaocomico Native Americans traded the land that became St. Mary's City, Maryland to English settlers for tools and cloth?
... that Albert Adu Boahen, an academic at the University of Ghana, challenged former head of state of Ghana Jerry Rawlings in the presidential election of 1992?
... that the Lee Child novel The Visitor was published as Running Blind in the United States because the American publisher thought the original title sounded too much like a science-fiction novel?
... that the Franco-American alliance was sealed in February 1778 by Benjamin Franklin, officializing French support in the American War of Independence?
... that John Murray, presenter of Ireland's most popular radio show, once worked as a deputy press secretary for the Irish government?
... that in 2009, the newly discovered ultramicrobacterial species Herminiimonas glaciei was isolated from 120,000-year-old glacial ice, 3,042 metres (1.89 mi) deep?
... that Rommie Loudd was the first African American majority owner of a major league sports team?
... that the 1923 Kraków riot resulted in over 30 fatalities and helped in the fall of the Chjeno-Piast government of Wincenty Witos?
... that U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign won the most Democratic primary votes but was denied the nomination at the party's 1968 National Convention?
... that Christian Rynning-Tønnesen accepted a CEO job offer of Agder Energi in 2006, but changed his mind shortly after when offered the same position in Norske Skog?
... that George Harrison included two versions of the song "Isn't It a Pity" on his All Things Must Pass album?
... that the work of Kohno Michisei was influenced by European art, which he knew almost exclusively from books and magazines?
... that the Village Diner in Red Hook was the first diner in New York to be listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that Ole Mørk Sandvik was a founder and first president of the Norwegian Folk Music Research Association?
... that Irish journalist Mary Wilson received three out of five stars for her meal on reality television show The Restaurant?
... that Indonesia and Papua New Guinea share a 760-kilometre (470 mi) border that has raised tensions and ongoing diplomatic issues over many decades?
... that Norwegian Liberal MP Hans Larsen Saakvitne was among the "Pure Liberals" who turned against the Liberal Prime Minister in 1888?
... that Fight Like Apes and the Mystery of the Golden Medallion was inspired by a 1980s cartoon which followed the attempts of Mr. T to coach an Olympic gymnastics youth team?
... that Yale All-American Ted Coy , who played football with "his long blonde hair held back by a white sweatband," was the basis for a character in a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
... that Coronation Park was the site of the 1911 Delhi Durbar that marked the shifting of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi?
... that the Dollis Valley Greenwalk is one of ten parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Barnet to win a £400,000 grant to improve its quality and safety?
... that Ricardo Rangel co-founded Mozambique's first full color magazine Tempo, as a voice of opposition to Portuguese colonial rule?
... that Cards Pond is among only three of Rhode Island's nine salt ponds that receives significant freshwater from streams or rivers?
... that the swellshark bends its body in a U-shape and sucks in water to double in size and avoid attacks from predators?
... that while their old band was named after a Jack Kerouac novel, Harrys Gym took their name from an abandoned fitness center?
... that Pauline Rita played three roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Richard D'Oyly Carte, but left his company in 1878 never to return?
... that Nobel Prize Economist Robert Lucas estimated that the welfare costs of the business cycle in terms of social welfare are negligible?
... that Storebrand executive Gustav Aarestrup marked himself as an opponent of the Festning Tunnel and Fjellinjen?
... that Valley Entertainment acquired in 2001 the prestigious back catalogue of ambient music from Hearts of Space?
... that Marion West Higgins, the first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, was the daughter of Dr. James E. West, the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America?
... that the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame is home to the world's largest muskie sculpture?
... that the FBI issued a 2002 terrorism alert after Michael John Hamdani invented a story about terrorists entering the United States as part of a plea bargain?
... that Realph Norland, father of Verdens Gang and Aftenposten chief editor Andreas Norland, was himself a newspaper editor for Tønsbergs Blad?
... that Gao Ling is the all-time leader for the most Olympic medals in badminton?
... that during the 2008 fall migration, over 10,000 hawks passed the observation point at Washington Valley Park, New Jersey?
... that the cardinals were not allowed to serve simultaneously as residential bishops until the pontificate of Alexander III?
... that Cathal Mac Coille ate breakfast with CNN broadcaster Larry King on Super Tuesday of 2008?
... that in the 1625 Battle of Blavet, a French Huguenot fleet under Soubise captured a Royal fleet belonging to Louis XIII, triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion?