derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Microsoft attempted to tap into the Chinese computing market in 1999 with a prototype computer known as Microsoft Venus?
... that Polish merchant Jan Dekert was a vocal advocate for the enfranchisement of burghers during the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that a 1947 earthquake in the U.S. state of Wisconsin was strong enough to break a seismograph at Marquette University?
... that although Mahfouz al-Walid was reported killed in 2002, it was not until 2007 that the Office of Foreign Assets Control acknowledged that his name was not an alias for Mohamedou Slahi?
... that the four-slide machine is an atypical type of stamping machinery that can produce 1,200 to 4,300 stampings per hour?
... that Adam Davis was convicted of the murder of Vicki Robinson and is currently on Florida's death row?
... that the first use of the format of the advice column was in The Athenian Mercury in 1690?
... that during the summer the finetooth shark is found exclusively in water less than 10 m (30 ft) deep?
... that Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the only film in which Cilla Black has had a starring role?
... that the thoroughbred horse Onion never won another stakes race after his upset defeat of Secretariat in the 1973 Whitney Handicap?
... that when Riaz Mohammad Khan stepped down as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan, media speculated that he was sacked because he opposed the UN investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto?
... that William Butler Yeats wrote the poem "A Prayer for My Daughter" in 1919 while staying in the tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Irish War of Independence?
... that the SARK, the US Navy's Search and Rescue Knife, was designed and built within 24 hours by custom knifemaker Ernest Emerson?
... that a possible extension of the Røa Line metro to Øverland was considered in the interwar period, but did not materialize?
... that after Bill Sketoe was lynched in 1864, a hole dug to facilitate his hanging remained visible for over a century?
... that between 2000 and 2008, 39 new species of lemur were described in Madagascar, bringing the total number of recognized species and subspecies to 99?
... that radio station KBCH chose its call sign to represent the "20 Miracle Miles" of beaches in Lincoln County, Oregon?
... that still-extant English piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons once made instruments favoured by Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin?
... that American Louis Littlepage had to receive a special permission from the US Congress to serve as a secretary to the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski?
... that the fungus Helvella corium has been found growing on caustic spoil mounds of a soda factory and on uranium tailings?
... that Ohio teenager Vicki Lynne Cole held up a sign (which she hadn't read) saying "Bring Us Together Again" at a 1968 Nixon rally, and the candidate later mentioned it in his victory speech?
... that when a Japanese honeybee hive is invaded by a giant hornet scout, the honeybees "bake" the hornet in a ball of about 500 bees ?
... that on April 7, 1977, baseball pitcher Ken Brett was the Chicago White Sox's Opening Day starter against the Toronto Blue Jays in the latter's first-ever regular season game?
... that Ismail Shammout's painting Where to ...?, depicting the Lydda Death March of July 1948, is said to have attained iconic status in Palestinian culture?
... that because actor Alan Dale was unable to go to Hawaii to appear on ABC's Lost as Charles Widmore, the camera crew moved to London to include him on the show anyway?
... that Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state?
... that when the new Argentine dreadnought Rivadavia arrived in Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including President Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship?
... that Karsten Solheim's invention of the modern lob wedge golf club may have come from experimentally gluing a potato chip to a straw?
... that the Persian embassy to Europe in 1609–1615 was led by the enturbaned English adventurer Robert Shirley?
... that World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker's memoirs influenced 1930s "flying pulp" magazines such as Flying Aces?
... that opera singer Richard Suart, known for his roles in Gilbert and Sullivan, has also specialised in avant-garde modern opera?
... that Richard Upjohn's Gothic alterations to the Mandeville House, the oldest in Garrison, New York, were removed by a later owner?
... that in June 1994 the NBA blocked the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to a group seeking to move the franchise to New Orleans, thus keeping the Timberwolves in Minneapolis?
... that the Air Battle of El Mansoura in the Yom Kippur War involved nearly 180 aircraft in a continuous engagement lasting 53 minutes?
... that Holland Road Baptist Church in Hove, England, was paid for by George Congreve, who made his fortune selling tuberculosis elixir?
... that the Greeves motorcycle company funded production from a contract with the Ministry of Pensions for their Invacar for disabled drivers?
... that although Vic Gold co-wrote the first President Bush's autobiography and wrote a novel with Dick Cheney's wife, in 2007 he wrote a book attacking the second President Bush and Cheney?
... that in the capture of Ormuz in 1622, an Anglo-Persian force combined to expel the Portuguese?
... that 19th century wrestler John McMahon's career began with a 17-year undefeated streak?
... that the bacterium Streptococcus iniae has been called "one the most serious aquatic pathogens in the last decade"?
... that local councils in the United Kingdom can make byelaws regulating the design of bathing costumes worn on the beach?
... that the Worthington–Simpson triple expansion steam engine at Brede Waterworks can pump 3,500,000 imperial gallons (16,000,000 L) of water per day to a height of 515 feet (157 m)?
... that radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler, known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan, received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California?
... that no specialist ceramics museum has as large a collection as the 340,000 pieces in The Palace Museum, Beijing?
... that in NASCAR, 1952 was the first year that companies started to pay award monies for publicity?
... that in the Capture of Ré island in 1625, English and Dutch warships were used controversially to quell a revolt of French Huguenot coreligionaries?
... that Tyler Shanabarger's death was believed to be caused by sudden infant death syndrome until his father confessed to the murder?
... that one can list every positive rational number without repetition by breadth-first traversal of the Calkin–Wilf tree?
... that Henrietta Johnston was the first recorded female artist and the first pastelist to work in the English colonies in America?
... that the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1627 resulted in the failure of the Duke of Buckingham to occupy the French island of Ile de Ré and support the Siege of La Rochelle?
... that Gene Lees wrote the English language lyrics to Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Corcovado" on a bus travelling to Belo Horizonte?
... that Michael Scott pretends to fire Pam Beesly as a prank in The Office episode "Casual Friday", which is a reference to a similar scene in the show's first episode?
... that in 1917, engineer William Ruthven Smith drew a 6,000-foot (1,800 m)* anti-submarine net across the channel at Hampton Roads?
... that both solvent-shared and contact ion-pairs of magnesium and sulphate ions are present in sea-water?
... that after some members of the Guamanian Congress refused to attend a joint session, Governor Charles Alan Pownall removed them from office?
... that the purse won by a claimed horse in a claiming race usually goes to the former owner?
... that the Royal Navy has tended to name its fireships after subjects related to volcanoes or fire?
... that "A Supermarket in California" is a poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 and dedicated to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the first edition of Leaves of Grass?
... that the recipe for tomato sauce published by Antonio Latini in Naples in 1692 was the very first one?
... that 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird had the second highest odds of a Derby winner?
... that in 2001, Dutch musician and artist Herman Brood committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel?
... that a blister beetle was introduced in Hawaii to trim the wood-boring Sonoran carpenter bee population, but the beetle failed to survive in the islands?
... that Michael Jackson was unavailable for the filming of the music video for The Jacksons' song, "Torture", so a wax dummy was used in his place for the video?
... that Changuu Island, Zanzibar, houses a collection of endangered Aldabra Giant Tortoises ?
... that Brigadier Generals Winfield Scott and Edmund P. Gaines fought bitterly over a promotion to major general in the United States Regular Army that Colonel Alexander Macomb received instead?
... that when the Chinese delicacy Buddha Jumps Over the Wall was introduced to South Korea, the name ignited a controversy in the Buddhist community?
... that Abigail Bush, in 1848, was the first American woman to serve as president of a women's rights convention?
... that Nymphaea leibergii is an uncommon North American dwarf waterlily whose flowers open each day and close at night?
... that Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford had a father, a grandfather and a son, all with the same name?
... that, despite having a run of only 18 months, close to 1.5 million Penny Venetian Red postage stamps were printed in Great Britain between 1880 and 1881?
... that the Gibson Mansion, once believed to be a haunted house, is now a historical museum with a working blacksmith?
... that Humbug Mountain is one of the tallest mountains in Oregon to rise directly from the ocean?
... that the Labour party lost control of Hartlepool council for the first time in 21 years after the 2000 Hartlepool Council election?
... that the Billy Joel and Ray Charles duet, "Baby Grand", was originally produced because Charles had contacted Joel over Joel naming his daughter after Charles?
... that Wilmslow Road in Manchester is reputed to have the busiest bus corridor in Europe?
... that, unable to sell the radio station and facing financial difficulties, KORC in Waldport, Oregon, went dark on April Fool's Day 2009?
... that the perpetrator of the Orly airport attack, Varujan Garabedian, was freed and deported to Armenia in 2001, after serving 17 years in jail?
... that the Kentucky Route 2014 Bridge in Pineville, Kentucky, is one of only two bridges built in Kentucky by an in-state construction company?
... that British motorcycle pioneer Bert Greeves owned a 1912 Triumph with the registration 'OLD 1'?
... that Price's Mill was one of the few remaining operating water-powered gristmills in 1970 in South Carolina?
... that Charlie Crowe started an appeal to raise money for a machine to prevent Alzheimer's?
... that singles from Stone Sour's self titled debut album received two Grammy Award nominations in consecutive years?
... that Indian musician Niladri Kumar started learning the sitar at the age of four and gave his first live performance when he was six years old?
... that even though MacAdam/Cage was outbid for Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger chose the small, independent firm because of their desire to publish the work?
... that Polish Jesuit and missionary Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki introduced the knowledge of logarithms to China in the mid-17th century?
... that Timbaland's "Apologize" featuring OneRepublic was Canada's longest-running chart-topping single in 2007?
... that Alberts Frères, one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands, filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company?
... that in 1867, the Oregon Iron Company became the first company to smelt pig iron west of the Rocky Mountains?
... that Peter Gummer, founder of Shandwick, went to Selwyn College, Cambridge wanting to be a priest?
... that singer Matthew West's song "The Motions" was "brought to life" for him after having vocal surgery?
... that Margitta Gummel-Helmboldt was the first woman to throw a shot put more than 19 meters in the Summer Olympic Games?
... that the film version of Hello, Dolly used Garrison Landing, New York, for scenes set in 1890 Yonkers?
... that Tofo in southern Mozambique draws foreign tourists to its beaches and population of whale sharks?
... that critically-acclaimed Bolivian Aymara painter, Alejandro Mario Yllanes, disappeared from New York after winning, but not claiming, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1946?
... that the Dokos shipwreck is the oldest underwater shipwreck known to archeologists?
... that Moth Ki Masjid was a new type of mosque built in 1505 by Miya Bhoiya, Prime Minister during Sikander Lodi's reign in the fourth city of medieval Delhi of Delhi Sultanate?
... that with his number one single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", Leon Ashley became the first country music artist to write, record, release, distribute and publish his own material?
... that the suburb of South Dunedin in Dunedin, New Zealand, contains one of only three known preserved gasworks museums in the world?
... that Five Tango Sensations by the Kronos Quartet was the last studio recording by tango music legend Ástor Piazzolla?
... that despite playing the position of wide receiver in American college football, LaShaun Ward was the third leading rusher for the University of California Golden Bears in 2001?
... that Stevie Smith's most famous poem, "Not Waving but Drowning", describes a man who drowns because onlookers mistake his thrashing for waving?
... that Aleksander Sulkiewicz was a Muslim Tatar who co-founded the Polish Socialist Party and probably saved the life of the future leader of Poland, Józef Piłsudski, by planning his escape from a mental hospital?
... that "The Cowboy Culture Center" is a weekly three-hour block of cowboy poetry and western music on radio station KNND in Cottage Grove, Oregon?
... that the grey reef shark is the first shark species known to perform a threat display to warn off divers who are too close?
... that Irving Phillips's comic strip The Strange World of Mr. Mum is cited as paving the way for later titles like The Far Side and Bizarro?
... that Rafael Nadal is the first player to win five consecutive titles at the Monte Carlo Masters?
... that a captain's clerk was a job, now obsolete, in the Royal Navy for a person employed by the captain to keep his records and correspondence, and his accounts for the Admiralty to approve?
... that Nathaniel Henry Hutton was a civil engineer on routes for the Pacific Railroad Surveys and a wagon road used by the Butterfield Overland Mail in the years before the American Civil War?
... that one of the members of R&B girl group RichGirl was discovered through MySpace?
... that Piero di Cosimo's painting The Death of Procris may contain allusions to the practice of alchemy?
... that a New Man magazine endorsement helped convince Chuck Norris to support Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign?
... that the government of Tunisia initially believed the explosion caused by Niser bin Muhammad Nasr Nawar was accidental, until they learned he had sent a letter taking credit in the name of al-Qaeda?
... that Old Bethpage Village Restoration on Long Island, New York, has been preserving historic buildings as a living museum since 1970?
... that Merle Fainsod based his book Smolensk under Soviet Rule on Soviet documents captured by the Wehrmacht during World War II?
... that the band Dead Hot Workshop got their start at a Tempe club named Long Wong's, where bands such as the Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments also performed in the 1990s?
... that a former minister at Hove Methodist Church, England, spoke so forcefully during sermons that Communion cruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor?
... that the absence of dark matter halos and elliptical galaxies with axis ratios more extreme than 3:1 is probably due to the firehose instability?
... that MGM Group of Companies is the master franchisee of Marrybrown fast food chain for Southern India?
... that Altman Lighting Co. introduced the PAR 64 for a Rolling Stones concert tour in 1966?
... that Taiwan's first printed newspaper, the Taiwan Church News, was written in Pe̍h-ōe-jī, not Chinese characters?
... that American painters Robert Feke and Benjamin West were strongly influenced by the technique and compositions of English-born painter John Wollaston?
... that Woolmer Forest, a former royal hunting forest in Hampshire, is the only site where all twelve species of amphibians and reptiles native to England are found?
... that in 1978, Franklin Jacobs high jumped 59 centimeters (23 in) above his own height, setting an indoor world record that lasted a day, and a height differential record that still stands?
... that one of many examples of territorial evolution of the Caribbean is that France sold the Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy to Sweden in 1784, who in turn sold it back to France in 1878?
... that the Buddhist temple of Ta Som near Angkor, Cambodia, was built in the 12th century by the Jayavarman VII to honour his father Dharanindravarman II?
... that the largest striped bass ever caught in California, weighing 67.5 pounds (30.6 kg), was found in the O'Neill Forebay Reservoir in August 2008?
... that the Council of Bourges in November 1225 has been called the "fountainhead" of representational democracy in Western Europe?
... that the City Hall Post Office and Courthouse in New York City, designed by architect Alfred B. Mullett, was known as "Mullett's Monstrosity" until it was torn down in 1939?
... that Baroness Crawley first became involved in politics while seeking funding for a youth theatre she ran?
... that Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain is the first record to result from the long and fruitful collaboration between American composer Terry Riley and the Kronos Quartet?
... that the capture of Tunis by the Ottoman Empire from the Spanish Empire in 1574 decided that North Africa would be under Muslim rather than Christian rule?
... that Shadow Hare is a real-life superhero who wears a cape and mask while fighting crime in Cincinnati, Ohio?
... that Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera once served on the committee that designed the Buddhist flag in 1885?
... that the song "Lo Mejor de Tu Vida" by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias held the record for biggest leap to number-one in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart for almost 20 years?
... that retired New York State Assembly Deputy Speaker Arthur Eve was an observer and negotiator at the 1971 Attica Prison riot where he entered the prison to hear inmate demands?
... that the sports field at Ringstabekk, Norway, has hosted matches in the Bandy World Championships?
... that Dion Boucicault introduced the combination company to England with his first tour of The Colleen Bawn?
... that the powdery mildew fungus Phyllactinia guttata has gelatinous filaments thought to help it adhere to leaves?
... that American spy Allen Dulles ran an intelligence organization from his house on Herrengasse, a street in the Old City of Berne, Switzerland, collecting information on the Nazis during World War II?
... that although the Lord of the Rings fan film The Hunt for Gollum is completely unofficial, its creators "reached an understanding" with Tolkien Enterprises?
... that the site of Kothduwa temple is reputed to be one of the places where the Buddha's tooth was hidden when it was brought to Sri Lanka ?
... that the Western Weald is to be included in the proposed South Downs National Park, an outcome which author Bill Bryson said would have been "a national tragedy" had it not happened?
... that Susan Boyle's 2009 rendition of the song "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical Les Misérables created an upsurge in public interest that elevated Patti LuPone's original version to #45 on the UK Singles Chart?
... that Robert F. Hale was serving as Executive Director of the American Society of Military Comptrollers when President Barack Obama appointed him Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)?
... that gashing is a machining process used to rough out gears prior to final machining operations, like hobbing or shaping?
... that Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff, means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan?
... that radio station KSWB in Seaside, Oregon, was originally owned by Jerden Records founder Jerry Dennon and American folk group The Brothers Four?
... that studies with sham surgery in humans have shown that treatments with cell transplants into the brains of patients with Parkinson disease were ineffective?
... that the Rivoli Theater in South Fallsburg, New York, was used as a fruit stand in the late 1990s?
... that a major weakness of the Japanese RED cipher arose from the desire to save money on telegrams?
... that Rufus Wainwright's EP Waiting for a Want features guest appearances by family members Martha Wainwright and Suzzy Roche and musicians Teddy Thompson and Joan Wasser?
... that Royal Navy officer Charles Elphinstone Fleeming was once challenged to a duel by his former subordinate, Charles John Napier?
... that Microsoft's Chrome project was so widely criticized by web developers for failing to meet media standards that the project was cancelled before it was released?
... that Italian Vice Consul Vito Positano saved the future Bulgarian capital Sofia from burning by the Ottoman army?
... that the Corgi Motorcycle Co Ltd.'s Corgi scooter was branded the "Indian Papoose" for the United States market?
... that actress Venida Evans has appeared as a "muse" in a series of IKEA television commercials which have been described as "surreal" and "creepy"?
... that Quaker and abolitionist leader Levi Coffin , known as the President of the Underground Railroad, personally helped more than 2,000 slaves escape their masters?
... that "Share the World/We Are!" made K-pop boy band TVXQ the only foreign artist to have six number one singles in Japan?
... that Johannes Gerckens Bassøe was Norway's first permanent Governor of Svalbard?
... that Leroy E. "Ed" Parsons, co-founder of KVAS (now KKEE) in Astoria, Oregon, created the one of the first cable television systems in the United States?
... that Del Rey Manga finds most of its translator talent from anime and manga fans at conventions since fluent English speakers who know enough Japanese are preferred over native Japanese translators?
... that Harrison Oxley was the youngest cathedral organist in Britain when he became organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral at age 24?
... that Gold Toe Brands produces more than half the men's dress socks sold in United States department stores?
... that R. Thamaraikani punched former Agriculture minister Veerapandi Arumugam during a debate in the Tamil Nadu state assembly in 1999?
... that the original radio studios of the station now called KLMG were located in California's Old Sacramento State Historic Park?
... that Hartvig Andreas Munthe, an aide-de-camp of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway, was made Colonel in the turbulent year of 1905, only to die three months later?
... that the film Best: His Mother's Son was made in 2009 without the consent of George Best's family?
... that Hugh Stockwell rose from the rank of Major to that of Major General in fewer than five years?
... that the South Fallsburg, New York, Hebrew Association Synagogue has a full sukkah in its basement?
... that the host of The Political Cesspool was described as "ecstatic" that the show was included on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Watch List?
... that Sultan Ghari , built in 1231 for Prince Nasiru'd-Din Mahmud, eldest son of Iltumish, was the first Islamic mausoleum in the "funerary landscape of Delhi"?
... that in 1994, Joseph Takahashi and his collaborators identified the genetic basis for circadian rhythms in mammals?
... that Wes Schulmerich turned down an offer to play football for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame, later becoming a Major League Baseball player?