derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in December 1998 the host of The Gay Byrne Show, a favourite of Kenmare housewives, was greeted by a surprise audience which included the President and Taoiseach?
... that Irwin Uteritz , "one of the lightest 'big time' quarterbacks in American football history" at 140 pounds, led Michigan to two undefeated seasons and a national championship?
... that the San Francisco Art Association used the expansive Palace of Fine Arts to show a small collection of public art, and lost money each year from 1915 to 1922?
... that the US Army's Signal Corps built the MOBIDIC semi-trailer mounted computer to route battlefield information, but put it to good use as a logistics system instead?
... that upon coming in contact with an alkali solution, the hairs of the fungus Microstoma floccosum will swell and then dissolve?
... that Filipino basketball player Gec Chia's walk-off buzzer beater in the 2002 UAAP semifinals brought his coach Joel Banal to his knees, and he later described the shot as "a miracle"?
... that the original plans for the Laurence Harbor New Jersey Transit station included a large commercial and residential development?
... that quarterback Jarrett Brown replaced injured starter Pat White and led West Virginia to defeat Rutgers in 2008, having done the same thing in the 2006 game after three overtime periods?
... that on Africa’s coast, Guachanche barracuda are normally found from Senegal to Angola (including Cape Verde), but can also be found much further north off the Canary islands?
... that apart from the Basilica of Guadalupe, the Sanctuary of Chalma in Malinalco is the most visited shrine in Mexico?
... that the French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville smuggled valuable cochineal insects out of Oaxaca to Port-au-Prince and wrote a dramatic account of his adventure?
... that the 2002 documentary Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death, alleging U.S. involvement in the Dasht-i-Leili massacre, was viewed by the European Parliament, but received no coverage in U.S. media?
... that in 1804 The Siege of Gibraltar, an aqua drama at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, used 117 floating model ships capable of firing their own guns?
... that professional wrestler Mike Segura earned the nickname "Suicida" because of his risky dives out of the ring?
... that I Anzac Corps suffered 6,300 casualties during the Battle of Mouquet Farm in 1916 and as a result had to be withdrawn from offensive operations on the Western Front for the next two months?
... that Clayton Hill, who played the "sweater zombie" in the 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead, was described by a member of the film's crew as "one of the most convincing zombies of the bunch"?
... that Lujan-Fryns syndrome is often associated with failure of a major brain structure to develop?
... that Giraffe Manor, in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as being host to a group of endangered Rothschild giraffe , was also home to a warthog named in honour of Walter Cronkite?
... that Bruce Shorts, head football coach at Nevada and Oregon, was described in 1904 as "the best coach west of the Mississippi River"?
... that according to a 1977 book, the 1905 sentimental ballad "Nellie Dean" "must surely be the song most often sung in pubs during the present century"?
... that an unnamed member of the extinct order Hupehsuchia exhibited an unusual form of polydactyly that is similar to that of some early tetrapods of the Devonian period?
... that Wilma Scott Heide grew NOW to 50,000 members and an annual budget of $750,000 during her four-year term as president, having taken office in 1971 with 3,000 members and spending of $28,000?
... that a total of 441 military and civilian personnel of the Turkish Naval Base Gölcük, among them a rear admiral, were killed by the 1999 İzmit earthquake?
... that in 1973, U.S. District Judge Orrin G. Judd issued an injunction prohibiting the United States' continued bombing of Cambodia, but a higher court stayed the ruling before it could take effect?
... that the artificial island Northstar Island was the first in the Beaufort Sea able to move oil ashore by undersea pipeline?
... that when Ireland bowler Peter Connell took a hat-trick on his debut in first-class cricket, he was the first player to do so in an international match?
... that the community of Old Glory in Texas used to be known as "New Brandenburg" until residents petitioned the U.S. Postal Service for a name change in 1918 due to anti-German sentiment?
... that Canadian Sandy Hott's result in 2005 was the highest placement ever at the World Orienteering Championships by a competitor from the North American continent?
... that Pure Mule upset "a lot of people" and caused a politician to comment on the "ticking time bomb" of teenage sex, cocaine and sexual promiscuity in rural Ireland?
... that tight end Dennis Pitta put his college football career on hold for two years to serve in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints mission in the Dominican Republic?
... that Native Americans in the West Indies used an extract from Fishfuddle to sedate fish, making them easier to catch?
... that it was not realized for 70 years that the Brazilian False Rice Rat was described twice under two different names?
... that Jasmin Ouschan , who was born in 1986 and won her first European Championship in 1999, is a nineteen-time European billiards champion?
... that following the war in August, Russia and South Ossetia signed a treaty in September 2008, guaranteeing Russian intervention in the event of an attack on South Ossetia?
... that Frederick Van Voorhies Holman is credited with giving the nickname "Rose City" to Portland, Oregon?
... that the Chapel of St Non in Pembrokeshire is unusual in that it is aligned north / south rather than the usual east / west?
... that Harry Hawkins won the U.S. national collegiate hammer throw championship in 1926 and was rated by Fielding Yost as the best football lineman of 1925?
... that the "anti-energy" drink Slow Cow is a parody of Red Bull?
... that in 1907 French photographer Léon Gimpel became the first photographer to have his work published in color?
... that all Allied pilots shot down over Poland in World War II are laid to rest at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków?
... that Michigan end Curtis Redden died in World War I after he had described the night sky over the battlefield as "weird, hideous, fascinating, sublime"?
... that Khan al-Harir, built by Darwish Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Damascus, was the first great caravanserai to be built inside the old city walls of Damascus?
... that Indian sarod player Brij Narayan composed music for the 1988 movie The Bengali Night?
... that the locations in which one can execute a will according to the Wills Act 1963 include ships and aircraft?
... that Patricia Van Cleve Lake, rumored daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst, performed in the radio sitcom Blondie for five years alongside her real-life husband Arthur Lake?
... that Zali Steggall was the first Australian to win an individual medal at the Winter Olympics?
... that Penitents Compete is a Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a Greek Orthodox priest, and a Muslim imam try to convert atheists?
... that because of her tough resistance during the Battle of Jutland, the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger was nicknamed "Iron Dog" by the British Royal Navy?
... that Bloc Party's remix album Silent Alarm Remixed contains a version of the single "Banquet" by the original album's producer, Paul Epworth?
... that medievalist art historian Walter Horn was the special intelligence officer who recovered the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire when they were hidden by Nazis during World War II?
... that the Sangtuda 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant is expected to provide up to 12% of the total energy output of Tajikistan?
... that cornerback Syd'Quan Thompson of California, a preseason All-America prospect, played his first game with a broken wrist and was outrun for two touchdowns by the wide receiver he was assigned?
... that in Serbian legend old people who had outlived their usefulness were ritually slain by their children in a custom known as lapot?
... that the yellow earth tongue has been described as a fungus one is likely to find while looking for something else?
... that Sir Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple, chief of Clan MacAulay, was an ally of the MacGregors, and that he feuded with the Buchanans, Campbells, and the Galbraiths?
... that the Bare-faced Bulbul, the only songbird in Asia to lack feathers on the face, is the first Asian bulbul to be described in over 100 years?
... that according to Blind Harry, the Scottish patriot William Wallace was warmly greeted at Faslane Castle, after he had sacked Dumbarton and laid waste to the castle of Rosneath?
... that the Bear and Billet, now a public house in Chester, Cheshire, England, was originally the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury?
... that when Henry John Whitehouse was elected Episcopal bishop of Illinois he refused to take up his seat for nine years, until his salary demands were met?
... that one critic claims William Hazlitt's view of poets in Characters of Shakespear's Plays is "perhaps the most original, and surely the most heretical, idea in the entire range of his criticism"?
... that Jonny Diaz, brother of Major League Baseball player Matt Diaz, abandoned his college baseball career to become a Christian musician?
... that the Capitulation of Franzburg forbade the rape of decent women and frivolous use of arms?
... that Fernando Ansúrez II, Count of Monzón, sent four embassies to the court of al-Hakam II, Caliph of Córdoba, during his reign?
... that Bruce Springsteen wrote "She's the One" before recording Born to Run, but was originally unsure whether to include it on the album?
... that President Benjamin Harrison's 1890 speech at the Coal Palace in Ottumwa, Iowa, was drowned out abruptly by noise from an indoor waterfall?
... that in Mexico, the mushroom Boletus frostii is commonly known as panzia agria, which translates to "sour belly"?
... that NYU professor Lionel Casson built a view of ancient maritime history by studying classical texts and archeological studies of ancient shipwrecks and the contents of the amphorae they carried?
... that the English Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott was concerned by the morality of silver-gilt?
... that Marcia McNutt, nominee for director of the United States Geological Survey, studied underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team?
... that Nirupama Rao, the present Foreign Secretary of India, was the first woman spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry in 2001–2002?
... that Georgia Tech lured away Clemson's head football coach, John Heisman, by offering a US$450 pay increase?
... that professional wrestler Bam Bam used the name of his favorite cartoon character, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, as his ring name?
... that suffragette Frances Munds was elected a senator five years before the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote?
... that during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?
... that during his 31 years as a federal judge in New York, Henry W. Goddard heard cases including William James Sidis's invasion of privacy suit against The New Yorker and the second perjury trial of Alger Hiss?
... that after the French defeat at the Battle of Muong Khoua during the French Indochina War, the four surviving soldiers trekked 80 kilometres (50 mi) through the jungle of Laos to safety?
... that English poet Mary Jones, called "the Chantress" by Samuel Johnson, did not consider publishing her efforts until pushed to do so by her friends?
... that muscles of patients with neuromuscular diseases such as Lou Gehrig's Disease have electrical abnormalities that can be detected by electrical impedance myography?
... that Polish partisan leader Władysław Łukasiuk, despite his paralyzed leg, always marched at the head of his unit, using his carbine as a crutch?
... that Kelly Clarkson fought to prevent her record company, RCA, from releasing her song "Already Gone" as a single?
... that Greek physician Hippocrates used wine as a medicine and health supplement prescribing it for a variety of ailments such as diarrhea, lethargy and pain during childbirth?
... that tree ring analysis of Swaggerty Blockhouse's logs indicate a cutting date circa 1860, well after the posted construction date for this nationally-recognized historic structure?
... that the blotched catshark exhibits fluorescence, with spots that glow yellow under blue light?
... that one type of GM V-8 engine requires five cores per mold to create one casting?
... that Hamida Banu Begum, wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun, gave birth to the future Emperor Akbar the Great in 1542, while taking refuge at a fortress?
... that Congregation Shaarey Zedek constructed five new synagogue buildings in fewer than 100 years as it followed its congregants toward the Detroit suburbs?
... that the Brumbrella was a motorised rain cover for the Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham?
... that when The Mountaineers opened at the Savoy Theatre in London in 1909, The Times declared that "it forms one of those instances of respectable mediocrity"?
... that Jadwiga of Pomerania might have been a daughter of a Polish king, but scholars are uncertain as to her lineage?
... that Mike Lantry, a Vietnam veteran and walk-on place-kicker, broke the University of Michigan record for the longest field goal twice in the same quarter?
... that Cyclone Rona of 1999 uprooted trees that survived a 1934 cyclone that hit the same area in Queensland, Australia?
... that Way to Heaven is a play about a 1944 visit to Theresienstadt during which the Nazis duped the Red Cross into reporting that rumors of mass murder were untrue?
... that multi-platinum selling artist Harry Connick, Jr., is scheduled to release his new album Your Songs on vinyl, a whole month before its CD release?
... that the palatability of foods and drinks depends upon an "opioid-eating site" in the brain's nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum?
... that of the 60+ First Nations in British Columbia (BC) only a few have signed treaties with the BC and Canadian governments?
... that electro-hydrostatic actuators can replace the hydraulic plumbing of an aircraft with electrical wiring, leading to a "power-by-wire" design?
... that in the final phase of its existence, the Soviet Union deprioritized relations with Laos for the sake of achieving a settlement in the Cambodian Civil War?
... that The Californian, California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper, with English on one side and Spanish on the other?
... that the hurricane database HURDAT contains information about every tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean since 1851?
... that Dănuţ Borbil's left arm is more successful than his right?
... that the Dean of Barnard College and Teddy Roosevelt's grandson founded an organization that lobbied the Truman administration to prevent the creation of the State of Israel?
... that the Qayqayt First Nation, of New Westminster, British Columbia, was thought to be extinct until 1994 when Rhonda Larrabee became the only member?
... that baritone Earl Wrightson won an Emmy Award for hosting the 1950s CBS Sunday afternoon television show The American Musical Theater?
... that the Eritrean Independent Moslem League was persuaded to support a union between Ethiopia and Eritrea, after receiving Ethiopian assurances on Arabic schooling and respect for Islamic traditions?
... that Pinchas Lapide's Three Popes and the Jews controversially claims that Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews from The Holocaust?
... that lyric soprano Lois Hunt was introduced to then Vice President Lyndon Johnson while he was wearing a pair of green silk pajamas embroidered with his initials?
... that Rudolf Caracciola once drove a car on public roads at 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph)?
... that "King Richard" lost his ear in a car accident, but still scored 24 times for his country?
... that Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it?
... that in 1967 Kōji Seki directed Perverted Criminal, Japan's first 3-D film and the world's first 3-D sex film?
... that "A slumber did my spirit seal" is the only poem in William Wordsworth's Lucy poem series that does not mention the dead Lucy by name?
... that Richard Leroy Walters, a homeless man who managed his money from the billiards room of a senior center in Phoenix, Arizona, converted to Catholicism on his deathbed and left $4 million to charity?
... that the Noah Ogle Place includes the last surviving tub mill in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
... that Abdel Hamid Sarraj, at age 35, was the minister of interior in the United Arab Republic and the most powerful Syrian official in the UAR?
... that the Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruisers, although not completed, served as the basis for the Scharnhorst class battleships of the Kriegsmarine?
... that Guilian Gary, a former college wide receiver, says he has few "fond football memories" of the season in which he made a conference championship-winning reception?
... that Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was interpreted differently throughout Europe by contemporaries and remains a "lightning rod" of historical interpretations?
... that Filipino revolutionary leader Daniel Tirona was almost shot at twice by Philippine National hero Andrés Bonifacio?
... that The Addams Family, an upcoming musical by Andrew Lippa, features an original story based solely on the cartoons of Charles Addams, rather than the subsequent television series and films?
... that Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965, published a book Tramping round London?
... that Richard Henry Savage served in Egypt for a year with Charles Pomeroy Stone in the Egyptian Army, under Khedive Isma'il Pasha?
... that "A Chorus Lie", the Will & Grace episode in which Matt Damon appeared, had the highest viewing figures in the show's history?
... that the river Vaitarani that flows near the Rudranath Hindu shrine is identified with the "river of salvation", where souls of the dead cross to the other world?
... that professional wrestler Juan Aguilar Leos was not revealed to be the son of El Texano until he was unmasked, after which he adopted the ring name "El Texano, Jr."?
... that Percival C. Pope's Marine Corps Brevet Medal, at the Navy Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is the only known original Marine Corps Brevet Medal on public display?
... that the Softwarepark Hagenberg has also been called the "miracle of Hagenberg" for its success?
... that George Burgess, the first Episcopal Bishop of Maine, died at sea in 1866 while traveling to Haiti on Church business?
... that many Catholic clergy collaborated with the Ustaše, including Miroslav Filipović, who ran the Jasenovac concentration camp ?
... that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's flamboyant former director, Thomas Krens, was at the forefront of the 1990's trend of worldwide museum expansion?
... that US Highway 10 crosses the Wisconsin–Michigan border via a privately-owned carferry?
... that the station for the town of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou is served by up to 40 TGV trains every day?
... that in 1969, Côte d'Ivoire severed its relations with the Soviet Union, following accusations that the Soviet ambassador had supported Ivorian student protests?
... that in the Douglas Treaties the Chewhaytsum Indian Tribe of Vancouver Island signed away the land rights for the city of Sooke, British Columbia, for £45.10?
... that in 1953, the Eritrean Moslem League of the Western Province proposed the creation of an independent Beja state out of parts of Eritrea and Sudan, but failed to secure British support for the idea?
... that according to Hindu mythology, the god Shiva assumed the form of a bull and his hump, arms, face, navel and hair are worshipped at the Panch Kedar temples in Uttarakhand, India?
... that the remains of at least 55 individual mammoths have been excavated at the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs in South Dakota, discovered in 1974 by a construction worker at a prospective subdivision?
... that in July 2009, GERB politician Tsetska Tsacheva became the first ever Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Bulgaria?
... that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly?
... that the National Union of Algerian Farmers, one of the six main mass organizations of the FLN period, enjoyed less political autonomy than the other mass organizations in Algeria at the time?
... that astronaut-politician John Glenn's 1964 run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio was criticized as an "undesirable precedent in astronauts' capitalizing on their fame to enter political roles"?
... that Bartolommeo Coriolano's skill at woodcuts earned him a knighthood from Pope Urban VIII?
... that in 1955, pressure from the Catholic Church and Conservatives forced the Colombian military government of Rojas Pinilla to close down the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo trade union centre?
... that Bahadur Shah Zafar II who wished to be buried at a burial ground in Zafar Mahal precincts in Delhi was deported to Rangoon after the Sepoy Mutiny where he died without honour?
... that by 1870, "New Departure" Democrats stopped opposing Reconstruction and civil rights for African Americans to improve their electoral fortunes?
... that Dr. Thomas Dao was an early advocate for breast self-examination, mammography and conservative alternatives to radical mastectomy in which patients can take time to consider treatment options?
... that the Danube Delta and Retezat National Park are part of the seven natural wonders of Romania?
... that, as a result of the Pennsylvania government's seventh consecutive budget impasse, most state employees are working without pay?
... that peacocks are among the 143 bird species recorded in Wasgamuwa National Park?
... that Michigan's "chunky fullback," "Bullet Bob" Westfall, known for his "spinner play," was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987?
... that the largest specimens of the sandy stiltball fungus have been found growing in floodplains with halophilic vegetation?
... that William Smalley, the first settler in the area of Cowan Lake State Park in Ohio, was held captive by the Lenape twice, for a total of 6 years and 7 months?
... that the nasal infix, which was used in the Proto-Indo-European language to express the present tense, can still be traced in word pairs like convince/conviction?
... that the decision of Pope Pius XII to appoint German apostolic administrators to occupied Poland during World War II was labelled "one of his most controversial decisions"?
... that the Ioan Slavici National College in Satu Mare, Romania, has a 200-seat chapel on its campus?
... that an 1848 novel claimed that Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania had been the lover of Sidonia von Borcke, a convicted witch?
... that Alum Creek in Alum Creek State Park in Ohio was a major path on the Underground Railroad?
... that while working as a children's entertainer in the 1980s, actress Fay Ripley was set up as a jewellery thief in an insurance fraud attempt?
... that Dean Holness, who starred in football television drama Dream Team and film Mike Bassett: England Manager, played professional football for Southend United?
... that Roman commander Gaius Considius Longus was killed by his own men during the Roman civil war as he attempted to escape Caesar's victorious forces?
... that John Marsh, the first Anglo owner of Rancho Los Meganos, was murdered in 1856 by employees who thought he was cheating them?
... that Australia's first uranium mine opened in 1906 and initially produced radium for Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford?
... that Hasan Nuhanović is a survivor of the Srebrenica genocide who is suing the Dutch state for its failure to protect his family from being killed by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995?
... that God's Providence House in Chester, Cheshire, probably gained its name because the owners survived the plague of 1647–48?