derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that quarterback Don Moorhead set 24 Michigan Wolverines football records from 1969 to 1970, including career records for total offense and passing yards?
... that even though the French wines of Collioure have very little residual sugar, some wine drinkers perceive them as "sweet" because of how ripe the grapes get in the warm climate?
... that in 2005, the Bruce High Quality Foundation pulled a floating island of parkland, complete with living trees, around New York Harbor, turning a drawing by Robert Smithson into reality?
... that many government-planted trees in the Banni grasslands in India were legally cut down to make charcoal for profits from 2004 to 2008 even though the area has been a protected forest since 1955?
... that professional wrestler Franky The Mobster once tagged with Kevin Steen as "Frank N' Steen"?
... that Amar Ouzegane, first secretary of the Algerian Communist Party until 1947, later renounced communism, arguing for a fusion of Islam and socialism?
... that the Ballaine House was one of six built in 1905 in Seward, Alaska, known as "Millionaire's Row", not for their owners' wealth, but because they believed Alaska would soon have one million residents?
... that SS President became the first transatlantic steamship to founder when she disappeared in 1841 en route from New York to Liverpool with 136 people on board?
... that as a self-described "geek" and a curious person, Whoopi Goldberg created Head Games to show people that there are "all kinds of science"?
... that Australian Sir Noel Power became Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in 1996?
... that due to the storm's poorly documented loop, the 1910 Cuba hurricane was initially reported as two separate cyclones?
... that in 2007, A. J. Wallace broke the Penn State Nittany Lions football record for kickoff return yardage in a season with 581, which broke Kenny Watson's 1999 record of 522?
... that in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna, a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul?
... that in October 2009, the Pittsburgh Penguins launched Pittsburgh Penguins Radio, the first exclusive HD radio station in the National Hockey League?
... that over 100 former footballers called on President Paul Biya to stand in the 2004 Cameroonian presidential election?
... that the Mather Inn in Ishpeming, Michigan, served as housing for the cast of the classic 1959 movie, Anatomy of a Murder, and the location where Duke Ellington composed the movie's score?
... that Zodi Ikhia, the first Education Minister of the Republic of Niger, took part in a failed coup d'etat in 1963?
... that Loteki Supernatural Being was the first dog to win both the Westminster Dog Show and the World Dog Show?
... that then-Louisiana Tech University President F. Jay Taylor in 1974 named Sonja Hogg to develop what became national championship teams in women's basketball?
... that the authors of the Manifesto of the Oppressed Black Mauritanian were convicted to prison sentences, exiles, and loss of civil rights?
... that sociologist Bogdan Denitch of Queens College, City University of New York organized and chaired the Socialist Scholars Conference from 1983 to 2004 in New York City?
... that because of the controversy about excluding mathematicians from the Central Powers at the 1920 and 1924 International Congresses of Mathematicians, from 1932 and on the ICMs are not numbered?
... that the marriage of Archduchess Isabella of Austria and Prince Georg of Bavaria was annulled on the grounds of non-consummation?
... that Coboconk, Ontario , was renamed Shedden after the president of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway in 1873, but was changed back to Coboconk seven years later?
... that while searching for French zoologist Claude Riche, lost in Western Australia, botanist Jacques Labillardière collected the first specimens of Banksia repens?
... that Alexander Faris composed the theme tune for the classic 1970s television drama series Upstairs, Downstairs?
... that the Battle of Gang Toi on 8 November 1965 was one of the first engagements between Australian forces and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War?
... that the Justice Party won the first election held in Madras Presidency in 1920 after a dyarchical system of government was established in 1919?
... that Puerto Rican a capella group Nota sang together for 15 years prior to winning The Sing-Off?
... that ex-Springbok and current Ireland rugby forward coach Gert Smal taught his pack some Afrikaans so they could read the South African line out calls in their match in the 2009 Autumn Internationals?
... that the Falls Trail along the 24 named waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park has been called "the most magnificent hike" in Pennsylvania?
... that possible traces of interdigital webbing have been preserved in fossils of pakicetids, the ancestors of whales?
... that two of the 15 children of Rufus Anderson Lyman became the first U.S. generals of Hawaiian ancestry?
... that Shmuel Flatto-Sharon successfully ran for election to the Knesset to avoid extradition to France, where he was wanted for embezzlement?
... that despite losing star player Dionte Christmas, the 2009–10 Temple Owls men's basketball team is currently one of the top 25 best college basketball teams in the United States?
... that the Famous Smoke Shop, one of the largest mail order and internet cigar businesses in the United States, was initially a retail shop on Broadway founded in 1939?
... that Natural Law Party founder Bevan Morris suggested at a press conference that President Bush learn Transcendental Meditation?
... that the 1865 play Society by T W Robertson marked the London debut of actor Sir Squire Bancroft?
... that the Japanese Computer-controlled Vehicle System (CVS) originally started out as a show-floor exhibit at Expo '70 in Osaka, but developed into one of the most advanced personal rapid transit systems of its era?
... that the Hanneford family of the Royal Hanneford Circus have origins in performance dating back to 1690?
... that between 1970 and 1976, former Spanish-Argentine footballer and manager Juan Carlos Touriño was part of three Spanish league championships and two Spanish cup-winning squads?
... that Long Creek Academy, which was a Christian school near Long Creek, South Carolina, is now the local headquarters of a whitewater rafting company?
... that the Phoenicians either introduced or encouraged the spread of winemaking to several areas like Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece?
... that André Roch, a pioneer in avalanche research, was caught in avalanches three times?
... that the Oriental Theatre's chandelier in Portland, Oregon, United States, contained 3,000 light bulbs and weighed 2,000 pounds (910 kg)?
... that the 1951 film Marmayogi was the first Tamil film to receive an "Adult" rating?
... that Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas is recognized as one of the best preserved Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the United States?
... that all eight endemic reptile species recorded in Minneriya National Park are listed as threatened?
... that the Stephen Storm House in Claverack, New York, combines urban and rural applications of the Federal architectural style?
... that former footballer Christopher Bryan scored the Turks and Caicos Islands' first ever international goal?
... that in 1989 Cuban singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan became the first artist to simultaneously reach number 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Top Latin Songs charts with her single "Don't Wanna Lose You"?
... that London music festival Field Day hosts an annual village fête, featuring a sack race, tug of war and egg and spoon race?
... that 76-year-old Cookie is believed to be the oldest Major Mitchell's Cockatoo in any zoo?
... that Frank Conner is one of only two men to have competed in the U.S. Open in both tennis and golf?
... that the white wine grape Furmint is said to have been introduced to Hungary after the 13th-century Mongolian invasion, by immigrants recruited by King Béla IV?
... that Wivi Lönn was the first woman to be awarded with the honorary title Professor by the Finnish Association of Architects?
... that Botswana international footballer Donald Thobega was involved in the Test For Life campaign, which encourages supporters to get tested for HIV and AIDS?
... that the 1927 Weatherly Building in Portland, Oregon, was owned by an ice cream magnate?
... that Swede Anna Jansson started a successful career as a crime writer in 2000 after working twenty years as a nurse?
... that although the nudibranch slug Fiona pinnata lives in open sea worldwide, it cannot swim?
... that vineyards in the Douro are graded on several factors, such as microclimate and which grape varieties are planted, that can influence the potential quality of Port wine?
... that artist Émile Friant was intended to be a chemist until he gained his father's permission to leave the lycée?
... that Parteniy Pavlovich from Silistra, an 18th-century Bulgarian cleric and writer, is regarded as the author of the first autobiography in South Slavic literature?
... that Île Vierge, in the southwestern corner of the English Channel, has the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe?
... that Nikolai Polikarpov was arrested and imprisoned by the OGPU in September 1929 for the crime of industrial sabotage when his Polikarpov I-6 and I-5 fighter projects both failed to meet their deadlines?
... that in every second of normal fluent conversation, we pronounce roughly four syllables and ten or twelve phonemes?
... that It's a Wonderful Life actors Jimmy Stewart and William Edmunds appeared in two other movies together, The Shop Around the Corner and The Mortal Storm?
... that Isla Magueyes, an island 50 meters from the coast of Puerto Rico, is home to feral populations of Cuban iguanas and Rhesus monkeys which escaped from the local university?
... that the Aborigines regarded the corms of the Bulbine Lily as the sweetest of the Australian lily-like plants to eat?
... that, between 1973 and 1992, Barry Malkin edited both sequel films and both compilations of the Godfather Trilogy, but was not involved in the original 1972 film?
... that Antonio de León y Gama described in his 1792 book the discovery of the Aztec sun stone?
... that more than any other recent pop star, Madonna has used MTV and music videos to establish her popularity and to enhance her recorded work?
... that Final Battle 2009 was the first live pay-per-view event of professional wrestling Ring of Honor's?
... that after playing for over twenty clubs and enjoying only mild success, former professional footballer Fred Eyre made his name as a businessman, after dinner speaker, and author?
... that Brookbound is one of the few Second Empire-style buildings in the Claverack, New York, area?
... that studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking?
... that by kneeling before a cross the renowned 16th-century English performing horse Marocco saved his master from death by burning as a witch?
... that a marker dedicated in 2009 at Roxbury Heritage State Park in Boston was the first monument added to the Henry Knox Trail since 1927?
... that Frith Banbury directed plays on four continents without ever having obtained an academic degree?
... that the 1940 New Hampshire earthquake, the strongest earthquake in state history, had an intensity of VII (very strong)?
... that buildings designed by Frederick Heath include Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier and the Pythian Temple in Tacoma, Washington, two properties listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that none of the coaches of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team has ever had a overall losing record?
... that the German armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst sank with all hands, including Admiral von Spee, at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914?
... that Stanford University biochemist Annette Salmeen was both an Olympic gold medalist and a Rhodes Scholar?
... that flooding of the Tishrin Dam reservoir in Syria was postponed so that three houses found at the archaeological site of Jerf el-Ahmar could be dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere?
... that François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery was awarded the Order of Saint Louis for his role in the French victory over British General Edward Braddock in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela?
... that Bruce Springsteen joined The Gaslight Anthem onstage at Glastonbury Festival 2009 to perform the band's 2008 song "The '59 Sound"?
... that Herbert Strutt, a High Sheriff of Derbyshire, bought the Glensanda estate where his son disappeared and was later found as a clothed skeleton?
... that on July 20, 1964, the National Movement of the Revolution was declared the sole legal political party by law in the Republic of the Congo?
... that the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack is the oldest institutional building in Columbia County, New York?
... that English dancer John D'Auban appeared in Robert the Devil at the opening of London's Gaiety Theatre in 1861, and was billed as one of the theatre's "principal grotesque dancers and pantomimists"?
... that despite being in different classes, Bradyrhizobium and Klebsiella pneumoniae have similar genes for fixing nitrogen?
... that during World War II, later architect Rolv Enge participated in the first ever sabotage mission of Aks 13000?
... that after a winless 0–11 record in 1996, the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team won the NCAA championship in 1999 and finished in the "Super Six" in 10 of the past 11 seasons?
... that ten acts, mostly newcomers in the Greek music industry, will vie for a chance to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010?
... that Frank Mazzei helped create the Pennsylvania Lottery before his expulsion from the Pennsylvania Senate in 1975?
... that ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a proposed DOI for scientific authors that according to journal Nature could be used in "edits of Wikipedia entries"?
... that the bloody-red mysid , a crustacean native to the Ponto-Caspian region, has recently invaded the North American Great Lakes?
... that even after Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of the "Yorkshire Ripper" murders, Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield maintained that taunting letters and tape from Wearside Jack were connected to the case?
... that Oilite bearings were developed by Chrysler in the 1930s?
... that Maryam Jameelah, a New York-born convert from Judaism to Islam, became a prominent female advocate for conservative Islam?
... that Oksbøl became the sixth largest town of Denmark because of the 37,000 inmates of the Oksbøl Refugee Camp?
... that Caroline Duby Glassman, who was born and raised in Oregon, was the first woman on the Maine Supreme Court?
... that the number-one song "Cómo Fuí a Enamorarme de Tí" was also used as the title of a movie starring Mexican band Los Bukis?
... that although holding a handgun sideways makes aiming very hard, it has become popular in movies and rap culture?
... that in the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny against the British Raj, European families, mostly women and children, were given refuge in the Jag Mandir , India, by Maharana Swaroop Singh?
... that the Michigan Wolverines softball team in 2005 became the first team from east of the Mississippi River to win the Women's College World Series?
... that although 1989's "Second Chance" became the highest-charting U.S. song of 38 Special's career, A&M Records did not renew the band's contract?
... that lethal congenital contracture syndrome, characterized by fetal immobility and leading invariably to pre-natal death, may be caused by mutations in chromosome 9?
... that Julia Moon, daughter-in-law of Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, performed Giselle with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad?
... that after the restoration of independence in 1990, the Lithuanian society debated whether to remove a monument to writer Petras Cvirka due to his pro-Soviet attitudes?
... that during his exile on Elba, Napoleon is said to have favored the island's wines made from the grape variety Aleatico?
... that the Peace Candle , a 106-foot (32 m) tower-like structure erected each Christmas season in Easton, Pennsylvania, is said to be the largest non-wax Christmas candle in the United States?
... that the Czech Christmas Mass by Jakub Jan Ryba is one of the musical symbols of Christmas in the Czech Republic?
... that "Christmas Scandal", an episode of NBC's comedy series Parks and Recreation, marked the last in a string of guest performances by stand-up comedian Louis C.K.?
... that the video for Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime was filmed at the Fountain Inn in Ashurst, West Sussex?
... that the first Singing Christmas Tree took place in Mississippi in 1933 while the first indoor tree debuted in North Carolina in 1958?
... that The Dog Who Saved Christmas won a "Yulie" on Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch column for "Best Use of Dean Cain"?
... that in 2000, Indian Test cricketer Sourav Ganguly took the wicket of Lincolnshire's 'Father' Christmas?
... that Alfhild Hovdan initiated the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree , in 1947?
... that the 1901 film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is the oldest surviving film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol?
... that at 42 meters tall, the Schlitz Christmas Candle in Schlitz, Germany, is believed to be the tallest non-wax candle in the world?
... that the swing group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy performed music for a special Christmas episode of Phineas and Ferb?
... that postman Michael Gallagher predicted that Ireland would experience a white Christmas in 2009?
... that the Roman orator Cicero once publicly criticized Julius Caesar's father-in-law for enjoying too much Colli Piacentini wine?
... that the 2009 television movie A Dog Named Christmas was based on a novel by Greg Kincaid, who said his family hated the story when he originally wrote it?
... that the painting Nativity at Night by Geertgen tot Sint Jans was influenced by a vision of the mystic Saint Bridget of Sweden?
... that luminarias, a Christmas Eve tradition in Santa Fe, New Mexico today, were described in colonial Mexico in the early 16th century?
... that the 1913 film Scrooge was the first time that British actor Seymour Hicks played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in film, the other being in 1935?
... that the Benji Christmas special Benji's Very Own Christmas Story was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1979?
... that the Peace Candle of the World, a 50-foot candle-like structure in Scappoose, Oregon, is decorated with Christmas lights every holiday season?
... that the annual 7 Up Christmas on Ice event was launched by ice dancer Jayne Torvill in 2009?
... that future Confederate President Jefferson Davis was among the participants in the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy on 24–25 December 1826, but escaped court-martial?
... that Uruguayan footballer Vladas Douksas' father was a Lithuanian shopkeeper?
... that the tradition of the Vatican Christmas Tree at Saint Peter's Square started in 1982 during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, at his personal request?
... that Benjamin Britten helped to replace the Grancino double bass of Adrian Beers MBE, after it was destroyed in the Snape Maltings concert hall fire?
... that using much of South Dakota Highway 87 costs $15 per vehicle due to state park admission fees?
... that Dr. Ruth L. Kirschstein, appointed as the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in 1974, was the first woman to direct an institute at the National Institutes of Health?
... that proposed sources of khutu have included narwhal, walrus, and mammoth ivory, the frontal bones of bulls, goats, and birds, the teeth of snakes, fish, and hippopotamuses, and the root of a tree?
... that Charles W. Howard, who portrayed Santa Claus in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for 17 years, founded the world's oldest Santa Claus School?
... that Christmas is traditionally celebrated in Agnone, Italy, with a torchlight parade known as Ndocciata?
... that Japanese singer and actress Junko Sakurada was part of a trio on Star Tanjō! with musicians Momoe Yamaguchi and Masako Mori?
... that the 1999 Christmas Eve edition of Morning Ireland was a tribute to those who died in The Troubles of Northern Ireland and featured contributions from Tony Blair and Bill Clinton?
... that clarinetist Robert Lindemann played in the controversial American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire?
... that the rodent Oryzomys peninsulae had only been found alongside one Mexican river, which no longer exists?
... that the earliest surviving aristocratic wax seal from Spain is found on a 1179 document of Castilian nobleman Pedro Manrique de Lara?
... that the matswaniste movement in French Equatorial Africa, l'Amicale des Originaires, developed from a self-help group into a political movement and later into a messianic religious community?
... that in Nazi Germany, Christmas featured decorating Christmas trees with swastikas, Germanic "sun wheels" and SS-style Nordic sig runes?
... that Publishers Weekly criticized Cyber Rights by civil liberties lawyer Mike Godwin for the book's "unusually broad view of free speech"?
... that worldwide the major source of morphine for medical and scientific use is not opium but poppy straw?
... that the Pfitzner Flyer, the first monoplane built and flown in the US, used telescopic wing-tips to avoid infringement of the Wright brothers' wing warping patents?
... that the constitution the Convention of 1833 proposed for Mexican Texas was the first to prohibit imprisonment for debt?
... that most lake-dwelling grayling in the American West today can be genetically traced to Yellowstone Park's Grebe Lake, where millions of fish eggs were harvested and distributed from 1931 to 1956?
... that the Honduran milk snake's color resemblance to the coral snake, known as Batesian mimicry, helps protect it from potential predators?
... that Victorian policeman Thomas Arnold did not believe that Mary Kelly was a victim of Jack the Ripper?
... that, according to the pizza theorem, a circular pizza that is sliced off-center into eight equal-angled wedges can still be divided equally between two people?
... that rapper Lil Jon, porn star Savanna Samson, football coach Mike Ditka, actor Antonio Banderas and US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are among celebrities who own wineries and vineyards?
... that the main guns of the canceled Greek battleship Salamis were bought by the British to arm the Abercrombie-class monitors during World War I?
... that although no eruptions from the Segula Volcano have been recorded, there are lava flows on it which may only be a few hundred years old?
... that plants of the genus Hydnophytum have bulbous stems which are honeycombed with ant tunnels?
... that in response to rioting in Oporto over price increases for Port wine, the Marquis of Pombal had several members of the Factory House executed?
... that the Swedish port of Gustavia was destroyed by Napoleon Bonaparte's forces only a year after its construction had begun?
... that the twelve One Day International centuries scored by Marcus Trescothick is the most by an English cricketer?
... that the broadside of the 14-gun brig HMS Speedy was so slight, Commander Lord Thomas Cochrane was able to put it all in his pockets?
... that David Pearson set the NASCAR single-season win percentage record by winning 11 of the 18 events that he entered in 1973?
... that wine historians have speculated that the Italian grape Greco may have been used to make the Roman "cult wine" Falernian?
... that Lê Văn Hưu was the first Vietnamese historian who praised the revolt of the Trưng Sisters against the Han Dynasty?
... that the population of the village of Dode was wiped out by the Black Death during the 14th century?
... that the Chestnut Sparrow, which usurps nests from weavers, may be evolving into a brood parasite?
... that former New Jersey State Senator Harry L. Sears secretly delivered a briefcase containing $200,000 from financier Robert Vesco to the 1972 campaign of Richard Nixon?
... that the Heroninos Archive contains examples of a complex and standardized system of accounting used in 3rd century Roman Egypt?