derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Operation Barga helped improve the social status of bargadars (sharecroppers) in West Bengal, India?
... that 1941 NCAA backstroke champion and University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee Francis Heydt later owned a business that sold camouflage clothing to the U.S. military?
... that the hip hop magazine Rap-Up was founded by Devin Lazerine as a website when he was 15 years old?
... that having witnessed the effects of a market attack in the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict during a ban of international press, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert started a global SMS campaign?
... that Robert Redford made one of his last guest-starring appearances in a television series in a 1963 episode of the ABC psychiatric drama Breaking Point?
... that during the Battle for Height 776 in Chechnya, Mark Yevtyukhin ordered artillery fire on his company's position, an act which contributed to him being posthumously honoured as a Hero of the Russian Federation ?
... that Jackson Lake State Park in Ohio, USA, is now the location of a thriving second growth forest, but was once home to the iron, coal and salt industries?
... that Jim McColl, the son of a butcher, reportedly became Scotland's richest man in 2008?
... that an area of more than 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) in the U.S. states of Georgia, North and South Carolina was exposed to airborne clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide during Operation Dew?
... that Satenik was the Alanian wife of Artaxias I, the king of Armenia and the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty?
... that the 12"/50 caliber Mark 8 gun, an American naval gun mounted on the Alaska-class cruisers, "was by far the most powerful weapon of its caliber ever placed in service"?
... that while the British indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club were recording their debut EP, The Boy I Used to Be, they were in the same school year as Cajun Dance Party?
... that tropical botanist Paul H. Allen assembled one of the most important collections of banana germplasm?
... that the South Indian Hindu deity Shasta is considered the son of Shiva and Mohini, a female form of Vishnu?
... that the Christmas carol Personent hodie, first published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, is thought to be a parody of a 12th-century carol?
... that as a means to challenge the Microsoft/Intel PC architecture, IBM executive Jack Kuehler formed the AIM alliance that created the PowerPC microprocessor used in Apple's computers from 1994 to 2006?
... that despite being roughly only a square mile (2.6 km2) in area, the tiny atoll of Kaben in the Republic of the Marshall Islands actually has a functional airstrip?
... that pitcher Jesse Barnes made the Opening Day start for the Boston Braves against the New York Giants in the 1925 baseball season, after making the Opening Day start for the Giants against the Braves in 1920?
... that labourers paving Saskatchewan Highway 641 in 1942 earned 35 cents an hour and a labourer with a tractor-drawn drag earned 50 cents an hour?
... that during the Song Dynasty, the people of Sichuan worshipped Tang Dynasty general Wei Gao as a local deity?
... that to boost US sales the AMC marketing team rebranded the aging export AJS Model 16 with the new name The Sceptre?
... that Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna was the chairman of the U.S. National Longshoremen's Board during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike?
... that Tang Dynasty official Pei Yanling was "so careless in his frivolousness and falsehood, as well as his jealousy of the talented and harmfulness to the good" that two centuries later it made historian Liu Xu weep?
... that the opening of State Fair Community College was delayed for more than two years because of a legal dispute over college districts in Missouri?
... that German football manager Horst Buhtz led both Dortmund and Nuremberg to the Bundesliga promotion playoffs, but was dismissed each time before the matches took place?
... that the putrid stench of the "latticed stinkhorn" fungus Clathrus ruber attracts insects to help disperse its spores?
... that as early as 1968, criminologist Lloyd Ohlin noted that the routine incarceration of youthful offenders does "more to develop than to stop career criminals"?
... that thousands of people at Deekshabhoomi, a pilgrimage center in Nagpur, India, embraced Buddhism on October 14, 1956?
... that music critic Herman Klein wrote in New York City from 1901 to 1909 and advised Columbia Records, but he acquired an unfavorable view of American musical life and returned to Britain?
... that Prince Charles, who in 2004 opened the village shop at Hewelsfield in Gloucestershire, England, described it as "a triumph of community spirit"?
... that American football tackle J.D. Maarleveld survived Hodgkin's lymphoma but was cut from the Notre Dame team anyway, transferred to Maryland, and became a consensus first-team All-American?
... that the Lublin 1980 strikes marked the beginning of important socio-political changes in Poland, such as the creation of Solidarity and democratization of the country?
... that the name of Shelldrake, a ghost town in the U.S. state of Michigan, was translated from the Ojibwa word for a kind of duck?
... that the Lloyd Baron Rhododendron Garden in Rood Bridge Park includes some 550 varieties of rhododendron , the official flower of the city of Hillsboro, Oregon, USA?
... that former guerrilla James Tanis undertook a trip through some twenty fast-flowing rivers and creeks before being inaugurated as the second President of Bougainville?
... that, despite being suspended for half the game, college football running back Da'Rel Scott set a school bowl record for rushing for the Maryland Terrapins in their 2008 Humanitarian Bowl victory?
... that author Beryl Bainbridge wrote a novel based on clergyman and translator John Selby Watson's 1871 murder of his wife?
... that after being closed in 1978, Sandefjord Airport Station reopened in 2008 with a new name to serve Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Norway?
... that Gigantic, a film about a single man deciding to adopt a baby, was inspired by writer–director Matt Aselton's childhood wish for his parents to adopt a baby from China?
... that Nick Scandone was named 2005 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, the first Paralympian to earn the honor, after winning the 2.4 meter world championship against 60 able-bodied and 27 disabled sailors?
... that Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first African American female surgeon in the Southeastern United States and also first African American woman to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly?
... that the mass finishing manufacturing processes, tumble finishing and vibratory finishing, are often employed to deburr machined parts and clean up castings?
... that Captain Woodes Rogers rescued Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe, and later defeated the pirates of the Caribbean?
... that Koradi Thermal Power Station, near Nagpur, India, was commissioned in 1974 and currently operates seven units with a total capacity of 1,080 MW?
... that Paschal Eze resigned as editor-in-chief of The Daily Observer, a newspaper in The Gambia, after being pressured by management not to publish stories about a certain politician?
... that the Bat Motor Manufacturing Co. Ltd was named after founder Samuel Robert Batson but was nicknamed "Best After Tests"?
... that William Murphy won two Big Ten doubles tennis championships with his twin brother, and later coached Michigan tennis teams to 11 Big Ten and one NCAA team championships?
... that Delaware State Park is not in the U.S. state of Delaware but rather in Ohio?
... that one form of the general image filters invented by Otto Zobel is a particularly simple band-pass filter consisting of just resonators coupled by capacitors?
... that the body of Eadulf Rus, a man accused of killing Walcher, Bishop of Durham, was removed from the church of Jedburgh some years after it had been buried there on the orders of Turgot, Prior of Durham?
... that A. P. Patro inaugurated the Loyola College in Chennai, India, in 1925?
... that while the Brooklyn Theatre burned in 1876, the actors urged calm in the face of rising panic, and though nearest to the flames, they were among the last to leave the theater alive?
... that the Cape Verde Shearwater is threatened by the harvesting of its chicks by local fishermen?
... that in 1912, a Singer motorcycle became the first 350cc motorcycle to cover more than 60 miles (97 km) in one hour?
... that college football quarterback Brian Johnson led the Utah Utes to become the only undefeated team in the 2008 season, including an upset of fourth-ranked Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl?
... that Alexandra Penney, author of the best-selling book How to Make Love to a Man, has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness?
... that the "orange tooth" fungus, Hydnellum aurantiacum, is considered critically endangered in the United Kingdom?
... that American boxer Muhammad Ali and Swiss tennis player Roger Federer have each won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award three times?
... that the translation of Sangiovese as the "blood of Jove" led to early theories that the grape's origins dated back to Roman times?
... that Joseph Leavitt, nicknamed "Quaker Joe", was a conscientious objector during the American Revolutionary War, having laid down his weapon after three months of fighting for the Continental Army?
... that Link TV partnered with several world artists to write "The Price of Silence" to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
... that in Harold Nichols' 32 years as Iowa State wrestling coach, his wrestlers placed among the top three teams in the United States 25 times and won 38 individual and six team NCAA championships?
... that George R. Christmas , then known as Captain Christmas, received the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" in the Vietnam War?
... that Perth is the first city to operate a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant to provide drinking water in Australia?
... that Dave Porter won the NCAA heavyweight collegiate wrestling championship twice and was subsequently drafted by the Cleveland Browns to play in the NFL?
... that the 17th-century antiquarian Johan Hadorph performed Sweden's first archaeological excavation?
... that at least 20 children were abducted during the 2008 Christmas massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
... that Anssi Koivuranta is leading the 2008-09 Nordic Combined World Cup right now?
... that William Glendon argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court that the Nixon Administration could not use prior restraint to prevent printing of the Pentagon Papers?
... that Susanna Clarke's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has 185 footnotes, which contain a meticulous false history of English magic and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship?
... that college football wide receiver Torrey Smith of the Maryland Terrapins set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for single-season kick return yards, including a 99-yard return in a bowl game?
... that Norwegian ski jumper Daniel Forfang retired due to body weight pressure in the sport, whose rules were earlier considered to fit Forfang "perfectly"?
... that the Norfolk, Connecticut-based performing arts venue Infinity Hall was built in 1883 as a combination opera house, barber shop and saloon?
... that Edward Schalon, inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor as a golfer, later became the president of a Fortune 500 company, SPX Corporation?
... that the King Mojo Club in Sheffield, run by Peter Stringfellow, hosted the Small Faces' first gig outside London?
... that after becoming the first basketball player to lead the Big Ten in both scoring and rebounds, Michigan's M.C. Burton turned down a contract to play in the NBA to attend medical school?
... that Morrissey was billed as the headliner of Saturday Night Fiber 2008, even though he was not the final act to play?
... that Eliza Flower was a 19th-century English musician and composer with whom a young Robert Browning fell in love?
... that George "Crybaby" Cannon got his nickname from being able to wipe sweat from his face to make it appear as though he was crying?
... that the East German company Jenapharm synthesized steroids from hog bile because they lacked access to a source of the precursor diosgenin?
... that Alice May starred as a soprano in comic opera in the 1870s but toured as a contralto in the 1880s?
... that the house at Borden Oaks in Greensboro, Alabama, features sidelights and transoms derived from an 1833 Asher Benjamin design?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Du Huangshang was credited with setting in motion Emperor Xianzong's reassertion of imperial authority over warlords?
... that George Goldman put Book Soup, a "cultural fixture" of the Sunset Strip, up for sale on January 2, 2009, and died a day later?
... that Indian historian V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar believed that ancient South Indians may have known of Australia and Polynesia before their discovery by Europeans?
... that Tommy James' 1971 single "Draggin' the Line" has appeared on 41 albums and in many media works, from Austin Powers 2 to a documentary on the pornographic film Deep Throat?
... that Judge Ronald Cicoria of Livingston County Court in Geneseo, New York , retired in 2005 as the longest sitting judge in New York State?
... that Tang Dynasty official Yuan Zi wrote a five-volume work about his diplomatic mission to Nanzhao?
... that Wallace Beery won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Frances Marion the Oscar for Original Screenplay for The Champ?
... that species in the fungal genus Cyathus produce bioactive compounds with antibacterial, antifungal, and antioxidative properties?
... that in June 2008, Pat Fleming and Allen Hopkins became the 51st and 52nd pocket billiards players to be inducted into the BCA Hall of Fame?
... that widespread economic crisis and food shortages resulted in several hunger demonstrations in Poland during the summer of 1981, with the biggest one taking place in Łódź?
... that Nino Martini appeared in numerous Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s while simultaneously starring regularly in leading tenor roles at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that a tropical greenhouse and sturgeon farm in the Swiss Alps, powered by geothermal energy from the world's longest land tunnel, is intended to produce two tonnes of caviar annually?
... that a bounty jumper, Adam Worth , became the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain Professor Moriarty?
... that African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States?
... that the Sion Causeway connected the island of Bombay with Salsette?
... that The Pittsburgh Courier crusaded against the blue discharge, calling it "a vicious instrument that should not be perpetrated against the American Soldier"?
... that for the recent Philippine film Iskul Bukol 20 Years After, stars Tito, Vic and Joey paid a sum of PHP 120,000 to bail actor Ritchie D'Horsie out of jail so that he could appear in the film?
... that in 2008, college football running back Vai Taua and quarterback Colin Kaepernick became the first pair of Nevada players to both rush for more than 1,000 yards (910 m) in the same season?
... that in the 1950s, the Iraqi Communist Party accused the dissident communist group Rayat ash-Shaghilah of being "royalists", "deviationists", and police agents?
... that Randal Kleiser saved money shooting his student film Peege by using the studio offices of a Steven Spielberg television movie which had wrapped ahead of schedule?
... that turkey bowling, protested by animal rights activists, was invented as a pastime in the aisles of a grocery store ?
... that 85 percent of the tobacco grown in Cuba is produced by members of the National Association of Small Farmers?
... that 180-pound (82 kg) guard Dominic Tomasi was selected as both captain and Most Valuable Player of the undefeated National Champion 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team?
... that Interim Self Governing Authority was a power-sharing proposal made by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to the government of Sri Lanka to resolve the Sri Lankan civil war?
... that disc jockeys at WLWI-FM in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, have been nominated for Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981?
... that the presence of the metal ion in metalloprotein enzymes allows them to perform functions, such as catalyzing redox reactions, that other polypeptide enzymes cannot achieve?
... that Charles Hawksley was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1901, nearly 30 years after his father, Thomas Hawksley, was elected to the position?
... that Tropical Storm Kay of the 2004 Pacific hurricane season reached its peak intensity just six hours after being named?
... that while the anime adaptation of the Japanese visual novel White Album began its broadcast in 2009, it was actually first considered in 1998?
... that Diane Geppi-Aikens, despite being paralyzed by a terminal brain tumor and confined to a wheelchair, coached the women's lacrosse team of Loyola College to the 2003 NCAA Final Four?
... that the French government database Joconde has over 220,000 online images of objects from nearly 300 French museums?
... that Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, USA, was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957?
... that the Skyscraper Index has shown that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns?
... that Cape Wolstenholme of Ungava Peninsula is the northern-most tip of the Canadian province of Quebec?
... that professional wrestler John Hill was forced to change his ring name from Guy Hill to Guy Mitchell due to a news reporter's error?
... that Royal Australian Navy commissioned the bulk carrier Jeparit in 1969 to overcome union protests against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War?
... that the Boulder Beer Company, the first microbrewery in the U.S. state of Colorado, was founded by two college professors who enjoyed homebrewing?
... that a 1927 Wolseley motor car used in the 2008 BBC television adaptation The 39 Steps was previously used in the 1960s BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook?
... that University of Michigan track team captain Bob Osgood set a world record in the 120-yard (110 m) high hurdles in a "driving rain" that turned the track at Ferry Field into "a miniature lake"?
... that The Coffee Pot historic roadhouse in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, features a 15-foot (4.6 m) stucco coffee pot atop its roof?
... that the 1981 warning strike in Poland was the biggest strike in the history of the Soviet Bloc, with 12 to 14 million participants?
... that Charles Leigh played six seasons as a running back in the National Football League despite never playing college football?
... that the fluorotelomer alcohol 8:2 FTOH can biodegrade into the environmental contaminants PFOA and PFNA?
... that the Nintendo DS video game Texas Hold 'Em Poker allows players to mimic certain nuances such as a card player's tell?
... that Namibian politician Jesaya Nyamu, who was expelled from SWAPO for writing a private note on how to undermine President Sam Nujoma, formed the Rally for Democracy and Progress in 2007?
... that Washington Park Court District is named after the Chicago Park District's Washington Park although it is neither in the park nor in the Washington Park community area?
... that no rhinoceros is ever seen on camera in the 1974 film Rhinoceros?
... that architect Nikolay Zherikhov decorated one of his buildings with erotic sculptures resembling Leo Tolstoy and Alexander Pushkin?
... that the word palengke, a type of public market in the Philippines, was actually derived from a Spanish word for palisades?
... that Major League Baseball player Barry Foote batted in eight runs, including a game-winning grand slam, in a single game against the St. Louis Cardinals?
... that the riots which led to the 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état began with the murder of an official by his deputy?
... that Rev. Frederick B. Williams at the Church of the Intercession in New York City created the first program of any religious community in the United States to respond to the AIDS epidemic?
... that the gokenin, Japanese feudal lords at the top of the power pyramid, were named after a semi-slave caste?
... that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut in its entirety?
... that Vanderbilt University's win in the 2008 Music City Bowl came 53 years to the day after the Commodores' last bowl game victory and gave them their first winning football season since 1982?
... that when it was first described in the late 1600s, the earthstar fungus Geastrum fornicatum was named Fungus anthropomorphus for its resemblance to the human form?
... that the Hershey Creamery Company, founded in 1894 by five brothers from the Hershey family, has actually been owned and operated by the Holder family since the 1920s?
... that Norwegian ski jumper Johan Remen Evensen finished among the top three already in his fourth proper World Cup start?
... that educational games from Playnormous were designed with assistance from medical researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine?
... that Heinrich Greinacher invented his voltage doubler circuit in 1913 because the 110 volt power supply in Zürich was insufficient for his newly invented ionometer which required 200 volts?
... that Jeff Moronko is one of two Major League Baseball players to have attended Texas Wesleyan University, the other being Hall of Famer Tris Speaker?
... that the turnpike trusts in Greater Manchester had a huge impact upon the way business was conducted around Manchester, England?
... that Paul Hofmann, who served as an interpreter for the Germans in WWII, passed information to the anti-fascist resistance in Rome?
... that, when writing about a homicide case in the Dexter episode "The Dark Defender", Timothy Schlattmann was inspired by a snow globe on his desk which he believed "could easily be a murder weapon"?
... that David Logan, onetime mayor of Portland, Oregon, studied law under later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?
... that Operation Uranus led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army and portions of the Fourth Panzer Army, as well as surviving remnants of two Romanian armies, totaling over 200,000 soldiers?
... that the village of Kodinji in Kerala, India, where multiple birth is a regular phenomenon, is home to over 204 pairs of twins?
... that George Brough used a Brough Superior SS80 motorcycle nicknamed "Spit and Polish" to become the first sidevalver to lap Brooklands at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
... that actor, writer and poet Stephen Haggard was the model for the character of Aidan Sheridan in Olivia Manning's novel sequence, the Fortunes of War?
... that secessionists in St. Augustine, Florida, captured the town's fort three days before Florida actually seceded from the United States?
... that in 1998, the Khmer Rouge attacked a casino in the city of Koh Kong with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars?
... that Indianapolis claims Charles H. Black as the inventor of the first internal combustion engine automobile, although his vehicle's ignition called for a kerosene torch?
... that the imposition of an all-women shortlist caused the Labour Party to lose one of its safest UK Parliamentary seats in 2005?
... that Rob MacCachren's victory at the 2007 Baja 1000 marked the first time that a Trophy Truck won the event's overall title?
... that Washington Park Subdivision land owners signed 20-year restrictive covenants excluding renting to African Americans, leading to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee?
... that sprint canoer Thomas Zereske's life was commemorated by the dedication of his former teammate Christian Gille's gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event?
... that the 1933 Treasure Coast hurricane blew 16 percent of the total fruit crop from Florida trees?