derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that, prior to entering professional wrestling, Derick Neikirk was drafted by Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers?
... that the red pigment of the Christmas wreath lichen is one of several chemicals that help the organism survive inhospitable environments?
... that the January 1985 Arctic outbreak delayed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan by an entire day and led to the ceremony being held indoors?
... that the town of Yubileyny in Moscow Oblast, Russia, annexed a small strip of land to avoid being completely surrounded by the city of Korolyov?
... that the larvae of the Silky Hairstreak secrete substances that attract ants?
... that the Quartermaster General of the Luftwaffe, Hans-Georg von Seidel, said after World War II that "Hitler understood nothing about flying and cared less"?
... that after removal of a dam that blocked their migration for nearly a century, salmon and steelhead returned in 2009 to the Little Sandy River in Oregon?
... that femoral pores are a part of a secretory gland found on the thighs of certain lizards which release pheromones to attract mates or mark territory?
... that after exhausting his shot fighting a privateer for two days, Commander Hugh Downman of HMS Speedy was reduced to firing nails at his opponent?
... that Beach House Park in Worthing, West Sussex, has a memorial to war pigeons?
... that classical guitarist and composer Fernando Sor's most popular work, Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, was written in 1821 and dedicated to his brother Carlos?
... that the Fred and Esther Dundee House in Oregon was built for race car driver Fred Dundee?
... that in capturing the Spanish frigate Santa Dorotea Captain Manley Dixon had two men wounded on his ship, compared to 20 killed and 32 wounded on the Santa Dorotea?
... that in a manner unusual for snakes, the female Natal rock python guards its hatchlings for up to two weeks after they emerge from their eggs to protect them from predators?
... that when Miguelites loyal to the former king of Portugal blew up the brandy stores of the Douro Wine Company in 1852, nearly 3.4 million gallons of boiling hot Port flooded into the river Douro?
... that Lizzy Clark, in the 2008 BBC film Dustbin Baby, is the first actor with Asperger syndrome to portray a character having it?
... that Valle Crucis Abbey, built by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor in 1201, is home to the only remaining monastic fishpond in Wales?
... that football player Al Pollard quit the United States Military Academy because he was connected to a cribbing scandal?
... that the Chancellor of the Kingdom of Cyprus gave a piece of the true cross to the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice?
... that the moisture-adapted asteracean plant Argyroxiphium grayanum represents one extreme in the adaptive radiation of its genus, which also includes drought-adapted mountain plants?
... that Move Like Michael Jackson, a BBC Three talent show which aims to find people who can dance like the late entertainer, is judged by Jackson's elder brother, Jermaine?
... that the Vegreville egg , a giant egg sculpture in Vegreville, Alberta, rotates on its axis to the wind like a weather vane?
... that after a short career in films, Elaine Shepard was a journalist in Vietnam?
... that the practice of breeding show dogs has produced popular sire effects that reduce genetic diversity and can exacerbate the spread of inherited diseases?
... that when Champoux Vineyard was first planted in Washington State, the aim was to produce grapes that rivaled the First Growth Bordeaux estate Chateau Lafite?
... that the three remaining Shakers live at and maintain Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, a National Historic Landmark in Maine?
... that in Strategic Command, a series of turn-based strategy video games taking place during World War II, the player may persuade neutral states to join the conflict using diplomatic pressure?
... that Patrick Murphy tried to help rebels in Naco, Mexico, by dropping homemade suitcase bombs from his airplane?
... that the Romanov Tercentenary Fabergé egg was made to celebrate 300 years of Romanov rule in Russia – four years before the end of the monarchy?
... that in a career lasting four decades, British actor William Lugg appeared in Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1884 and the film Scrooge in 1913?
... that the naturally rocky knoll Dùn Foulag, on the isle of Coll within the Scottish Hebrides, was once mistakenly thought to have been the ruined remains of a fortress?
... that in May 2009, pentachlorobenzene was added to the list of chemical compounds covered by the Stockholm Convention, an international treaty which restricts the production and use of persistent organic pollutants?
... that Scottish-born engineer Alexander Arthur spent millions of dollars in unsuccessful logging, mining, and resort enterprises in southern Appalachia in the late 19th century?
... that Skorpa prisoner of war camp was the main Norwegian POW camp in Northern Norway during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, holding some 500 German military and civilian prisoners?
... that the white French wine grape Baroque was nearly extinct before restaurateur Michel Guérard revived the variety at his estate?
... that Bush vs. Kerry Boxing features Ralph Nader as a ring girl and Hillary Clinton as a referee?
... that in England until the early 20th century, a man wishing to separate from his wife could lead her to market by a halter and sell her to the highest bidder?
... that the clique problem of programming a computer to find complete subgraphs in an undirected graph was first studied as a way to find groups of people who all know each other in social networks?
... that the intermittent Lake Palčje in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia is filled with water only three months each year?
... that The Old Wives' Tale, an English Renaissance play by George Peele, was the first English work satirizing the romantic dramas popular at the time?
... that Hjalmar Steenstrup was selected to represent the Norwegian concentration camp prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials?
... that Acabou Chorare, a 1972 album by Novos Baianos, was ranked number 1 by Rolling Stone magazine in 2007 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of Brazilian music?
... that unlike most other forms of bacon, Zeeuws spek ("Zeeland bacon") from the Netherlands is sold pre-cooked?
... that Sir Frederick Stovin was removed from command of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders in 1821, after scandalising the regiment by demanding they wear trousers?
... that Bunaken National Park in the north of Sulawesi island of Indonesia, located near the centre of the Coral Triangle, provides habitat to 390 coral species?
... that the 1510 conquest of Goa by the Portuguese Governor Albuquerque was accomplished with the help of the Hindus against a Muslim army?
... that Team Oregon has been ranked in 2004 as the best motorcycle training program in the United States?
... that in 1989 the song "La Chica de Humo" became the third number-one single by Mexican singer Emmanuel in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart?
... that Drew Sheneman was only 23 when he was hired by The Star-Ledger in 1998, making him the youngest full-time editorial cartoonist in the United States?
... that the George Felpel House in Claverack, New York, was built with the stones left over after Claverack College was demolished?
... that the worm lizard Amphisbaena ridleyi, isolated on remote Fernando de Noronha, is known for eating snails and for climbing trees to drink nectar from the flowers?
... that Katherine Reutter, a speed skater on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team, had her thigh autographed by comedian Stephen Colbert?
... that the Norwegian communist politician Erling Folkvord is well-known for his work as a corruption watchdog?
... that one version of the 8th-century Irish text The Expulsion of the Déisi contains a passage claiming the Irish group known as the Déisi founded the royal dynasty of Dyfed, Wales?
... that owners of The Punch Bowl, a London pub, have included entertainer Madonna, film director Guy Ritchie and convicted criminal and Kray twins associate Freddie Foreman?
... that in 2006, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management hired an environmental justice ombudsman?
... that the Still engine was a combined steam and diesel engine designed to save fuel by using the exhaust gases to heat the boiler?
... that Cheryl Cole performed her song "Fight for This Love" whilst dressed as a ninja for the television special Cheryl Cole's Night In?
... that the nudibranch Murphydoris has a penis armed with spines?
... that in the 1849 Dutch intervention in Bali, the defeated Balinese court committed mass suicide , traditionally known as a Puputan?
... that the 6 foot, 6 inch Swede Roland Nilsson of the Michigan Wolverines won six consecutive Big Ten shot put championships in the 1950s?
... that in seeking to overcome the low in Congo–Zaire relations in the early 1970s due to the LICOPA affair, Congolese authorities sentenced a Zairean opposition member to three years' imprisonment?
... that the Boston Brigade Band was in existence for over 40 years, from 1821 to 1862?
... that Brazilian judoka and 1988 Olympic Champion Aurélio Miguel was later elected to the city council of São Paulo?
... that as "the first novel with a thesis", Patronage by Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth, published in 1814, opened the way for the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott?
... that the planned Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon is expected to be the world's biggest wind farm on land when completed?
... that World War II German fighter ace Max-Hellmuth Ostermann was so short that he had to fly with wooden blocks attached to his rudder pedals?
... that the volcanic chain responsible for creating the island of Hawaii extends all the way to the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, at the border of Russia?
... that Count Marsillac and Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, opposing commanders in the 1734 siege of Capua, once shared a tent?
... that plant species of the family Rubiaceae have supplied coffee, quinine, syrup of ipecac, dimethyltryptamine, and indirectly, warfarin?
... that in 1892, the Governor of Lagos, Gilbert Thomas Carter, ordered an attack on the Ijebu people of pre-colonial Nigeria "in the interest of civilization"?
... that in 1975, Iraq threatened to bomb the Tabqa Dam when Syria reduced the water flow of the Euphrates to fill the lake behind the dam?
... that the death of a character in the Dexter episode "The British Invasion" was planned from two seasons beforehand?
... that Xikuangshan mine was originally explored for tin but now is the largest antimony mine in the world?
... that the German Seenotdienst was the first organized air-sea rescue service?
... that Sir James Shaw established the right of the Lord Mayor of London to take precedence in processions in The City of London over all except the reigning monarch?
... that the nudibranch Onchidoris bilamellata can be found at a population density of more than 1,000 sea slugs per square metre?
... that according to legend, the Bulgarian wine grape Dimiat was brought to Thrace by Crusaders returning from the Nile Delta?
... that Michigan Wolverines Hall of Famer Phil Northrup won three NCAA championships in the javelin throw and pole vault?
... that Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island follows David Beckham on his quest to defeat the evil Mister Woe in order to restore peace to Soccer Island?
... that the debate over the Irish budget, 2010, which contains the first cuts in social welfare since 1924, revealed that the word "fuck" is not unparliamentary language in Ireland?
... that on 12 December 2009, Kaiane Aldorino became the first Miss World from Gibraltar?
... that the cap of the suede bolete, a species of edible mushroom, has soft velvety skin?
... that Robert Hood Bowers' score for the lost silent film A Daughter of the Gods was called in 1921 the most memorable up to that time?
... that since its launch in January 2008, DogsBlog.com has helped to rehome more than six thousand dogs in the United Kingdom?
... that due to receding glaciers, in 1951, the Alaska Railroad was able to move its route and abandon a curved tunnel built in 1906?
... that the 1955 Bo Diddley song "Diddley Daddy" was originally called "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum," but the lyrics had to be rewritten in the studio for contractual reasons?
... that in the City Palace of Udaipur, India , a princess poisoned herself, unable to choose from two suitors of royal families of Jaipur and Jodhpur seeking her hand in marriage?
... that athletes from Michigan Wolverines men's track and field have won 43 NCAA individual event championships, 14 Olympic gold medals, and 57 Big 10 team championships?
... that the adobe chapel built by Tomas Alvarado on the eastern third of Rancho Monserate in California is the only 1870s structure still standing?
... that the mushroom Cystodermella cinnabarina can only be distinguished from similar fungi by performing chemical tests and microscopic analysis of spores, basidia and cystidia?
... that Berg River Dam is the first dam in South Africa where provision is made for flood releases for environmental purposes?
... that producers of the Showtime series Dexter imposed security measures and staff members had to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks of the surprise twist ending of the episode "The Getaway"?
... that the Carden-Baynes Auxiliary sailplane was the first motor glider with a retractable engine, and that it had a throttle in its wing tip?
... that chef Bobby Flay highlighted a recipe for dessert using bacon from The Bacon Cookbook as one of his favorites?
... that in an effort to prevent the extinction of the Mauna Kea silversword , scientists rappel over cliffs to hand-pollinate the approximately 41 remaining individuals in the wild, on the rare occasion that one blossoms?
... that professional footballer Andy Bell spent nearly a decade with hometown club Blackburn Rovers, without making a single first-team appearance?
... that the first season of the animated sitcom Home Movies was the only season of the series to utilize the "squigglevision" style of animation?
... that Czech landscape photographer Vilém Heckel died during the Great Peruvian Earthquake in 1970?
... that, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Grassy Island in the Detroit River contains 28 different types of toxic contaminants that exceed acceptable state and federal safety levels?
... that chaplain Władysław Gurgacz, member of the Polish anti-communist resistance, opposed lethal force, but was nonetheless executed by the Polish communist authorities?
... that the Beirut-born, American blues guitarist Otis Grand was voted 'Best UK Blues Guitarist' seven years running (1990–1996) by the British Blues Connection magazine?
... that during internal fertilization, the black rockfish female produces between 125,000 and 1,200,000 eggs, and then reabsorbs some back?
... that neocatastrophism is the theory that life-exterminating events such as gamma-ray bursts in the Milky Way have stopped the advent of complex life elsewhere in its Galactic Habitable Zone?
... that there is a mountain named after executed merchant mariner Captain Charles Fryatt, and another is named after his ship, SS Brussels?
... that the salt industry sector of Ghana aims to compete with Brazil and Australia in supplying salt to western Africa?
... that the name of the ruinous dun Dùn Beic may derive from the Gaelic personal name Béc?
... that the English ambassador to Paris, Edward Stafford, is suspected to have given confidential information to Spain before the Spanish Armada in 1588?
... that the leader of the governing Free National Movement lost his seat in the 2002 Bahamian general election?
... that Nathan Drake, protagonist of the Uncharted series, incorporates aspects from Johnny Knoxville and characters like Tintin and John McClane?
... that Moussa Dadis Camara and Sékouba Konaté drew lots to determine who would be President of Guinea?
... that the term "Obama Doctrine" was used more than a year before Barack Obama became President of the United States?
... that, referring to Pope Damasus I's luxurious lifestyle, the Roman Pagan senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus once said "Make me bishop of Rome and I will become a Christian"?
... that Harry V. Gates' former ranch became the Crooked River Ranch in Eastern Oregon and his former house in Hillsboro, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the C. R. formula was a proposal that had failed during the Gandhi–Jinnah talks in 1944?
... that the Memorial Arch of Tilton, symbolizing the "victories of peace", is constructed in Northfield, New Hampshire on the site of an old Indian fort?
... that the Cornelius S. Muller House in Claverack, New York, was used for Committee of Safety meetings and courts martial during the American Revolutionary War?
... that Michigan's Don McEwen, two-time NCAA champion in the two-mile run, also won consecutive Big Ten cross country championships even though his school had no varsity cross country team?
... that for more than thirty years, John Torreano has created "real fake art" by using fake gemstones in his one of a kind art works?
... that in a short story by Kathryn Tucker Windham, Sturdivant Hall , a historic house museum in Alabama, is haunted?
... that Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Schiller, wrote a posthumously published novel and corresponded with Charlotte von Stein and Goethe?
... that the Norwegian black metal band Burzum is to release its first album after its founder was freed from prison on parole?
... that the Harriet Phillips Bungalow in Claverack, New York, may be a catalog house built by a company other than Sears?
... that former Louisiana State Senator Art Lentini in 2004 led the move in his state to ban cloning, both for reproduction and research?
... that production of the Triumph Tiger 80 British motorcycle ended with the outbreak of WW2 and never resumed after the Triumph works was destroyed in The Blitz?
... that Stanford's Flint Hanner, winner of the first NCAA javelin championship, later coached the Fresno State Bulldogs to 27 track and field championships?
... that for her debut wine, American porn actress Savanna Samson decided to use a blend based primarily on the rare Lazio grape Cesanese?
... that despite the Allied siege, La Rochelle was the last French city to be liberated from German occupation in 1945?
... that the Queen of Elphame, the fairy from Scottish folklore, has appeared in a number of accounts from witchcraft trials and confessions, including the confession of Isobel Gowdie?
... that in 1999, Haakon Bingen won a case in the Supreme Court of Norway, stopping circulation of an academic work written by Trond Bergh and Knut Einar Eriksen?
... that the ambush of a Turkish patrol in Reşadiye was the deadliest PKK attack since April 2009?
... that the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, UK, is a rare example of a cinema being converted into a theatre in the 1930s, when the reverse was common?
... that the premiere of Million Dollar Challenge on Fox Broadcasting Company was the most watched poker television show of all time?
... that Breachacha crannog was originally an artificial island located in the middle of a Scottish loch, but today it stands in the middle of an arable field?
... that a colony of the crab species Potamon fluviatile may have lived in Rome since before the Romans?
... that Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell felt that Boxing Fever carried on the Punch Out!! legacy on the Game Boy Advance?
... that William Ganz co-invented the pulmonary artery catheter with Jeremy Swan in 1970?
... that the New Japan Pro Wrestling-owned IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship was defended twice in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, while it was held by TNA wrestlers?
... that the Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building in Selma, Alabama, has housed a county courthouse, two schools, and three hospitals in its more than 160 year history?
... that Calgary Flames forward Eric Nystrom once performed an on-ice striptease while in the minor leagues as a charity stunt?
... that the innovations of German art include the oldest sculpture of the human form and the first independent Western landscape paintings ?
... that Sven-Ivar Seldinger, a Swedish radiologist, first introduced the procedure of obtaining safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs by use of a wire?
... that Colin Clouts Come Home Againe by the English poet Edmund Spenser has received little critical attention, yet has been called the "greatest pastoral eclogue" in the English language?
... that Yosemite Valley big wall climber Chuck Pratt was "almost obsessive" about avoiding photos and publicity?
... that since finishing in the top ten on the third season of America's Got Talent, Kaitlyn Maher has continued to sing publicly and played the voice of Tiny in the film Santa Buddies?
... that a number of Test match cricketers have represented Nelson Cricket Club, including Learie Constantine, Kapil Dev and Steve Waugh?
... that the Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese is entombed in the church of San Sebastiano in Venice?
... that while doing "absolutely nothing" as a history professor at Cambridge, Shallet Turner was elected to the Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge?
... that when Caroline von Wolzogen published her novel Agnes von Lilien anonymously in 1798, it was thought by some readers to be by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Friedrich Schiller?
... that opponents of Hans Feibusch's "violently masculine and brutal" Christ in Majesty mural at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea took their case to a consistory court?
... that Bradley Quinn, the official photographer for the Northern Irish band Snow Patrol, was a school classmate of lead singer Gary Lightbody?
... that the Spencer family's Wormleighton Manor in Warwickshire, England, was set ablaze by Royalist forces from Banbury during the English Civil War to prevent it becoming a parliamentary stronghold?
... that Mark-Anthony Turnage composed Twice Through the Heart after being given a video of a programme about a woman who killed her husband?
... that the Lake Shore Limited, which began in 1897, was the New York Central Railroad's first regular luxury passenger train?
... that Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a small role as Sheriff Strunk in the 2007 film A Plumm Summer?
... that the soapy knight is actually a mushroom, so named because of its strong smell of soap?
... that the City Palace of Jaipur in Rajasthan, India, holds the world's two largest silver objects ?
... that the Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine, which cost US$2.2 billion to build, was sold by BHP Billiton for only $340 million in December 2009 after having operated for less than one year?
... that Afognak Island State Park was established as a conservation area in 1892, but did not become an Alaska state park until 1994, as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill?
... that when Darryl Strawberry, a first-round draft pick of the New York Mets, left the Mets they received two first-round picks in compensation?
... that Airlines of New South Wales was created after airline entrepreneur Reg Ansett flew nine planeloads of shareholders to a meeting to help take over rival Butler Air Transport?
... that all apicomplexans are parasitic, creating a need for multiple radically different cellular morphologies?
... that Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) has made more Australian Open Final appearances than any other player?
... that although their larvae have been known since 1887, the adults of the crustacean group Facetotecta have never been seen?
... that nearly 20 percent of the territory of Andalusia lies in environmentally protected areas?
... that Eduardo Ricagni scored his only hat-trick and won his only trophy with Boca Juniors on his debut?
... that British lithographic firm Vincent Brooks, Day & Son reproduced the weekly caricatures published in Vanity Fair magazine between 1869 and 1906?
... that Jamaican-born poet, playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
... that Worthing Tabernacle, in West Sussex, reputedly obtained its first organ from Tudor fortress Walmer Castle?