derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Khan As'ad Pasha , built by Damascus governor As'ad Pasha al-Azem, is the largest khan in the city?
... that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army?
... that catastrophic flooding in 2000 destroyed 95% of the annual rice crop in Srey Santhor District, Cambodia?
... that film art director Jeannine Oppewall was so heavily influenced by designers and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames, she had her house built based completely around her Eames-designed furniture?
... that early favorites in the 2009 Kentucky Derby include the filly Stardom Bound?
... that Hans Kristian Seip, the father of Jens Arup Seip, also had a career of his own in engineering and politics, until removed by the Nazi occupants in Norway in 1941?
... that a radio station in Evergreen, Alabama, made national headlines in 1992 when the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that state law allowed a disc jockey to be fired just because she is a woman?
... that Dr Charles White, co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, kept the mummified body of one of his patients in a room of his house for 55 years?
... that novelist Charlotte Turner Smith condemned her father for forcing her to marry and turning her into a "legal prostitute"?
... that the Great Mosque of Al-Zaytuna, the oldest mosque in Tunis, Tunisia, was partly built using materials from the ruins of the ancient city of Carthage?
... that the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party was the sole Zionist party in Mandate Palestine to advocate national rights for Palestinian Arabs?
... that NASCAR described its 2008 Crew Chief of the Year Steve Addington as the "complementary ice to driver Kyle Busch's fire"?
... that the Special Boarding Unit was created by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces in response to the alleged presence of North Korean spy ships in Japanese waters in 1999?
... that Tom Brumley's performance on "Together Again" for Buck Owens was called "one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music"?
... that the Maasai common name for the plant Salvia merjamie is Naingungundeu, which means "smells of rats"?
... that near the altar of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Chewton Mendip, Somerset, England, there is a stone seat for criminals taking sanctuary in the church?
... that although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal, his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places?
... that the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis?
... that actor and environmentalist Ron Hayes worked to establish the first Earth Day in 1970 and to preserve the Grand Canyon National Park?
... that Ponhea Kraek District was the home of Sek Yi, who died aged 120 years, claiming the title of Cambodia’s oldest man?
... that Joan Baez had a #8 hit single with "There but for Fortune" the same week her album Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 reached #8?
... that ice hockey coach Janne Karlsson has won two Swedish Championships, one World Championship, and one Olympic gold medal?
... that the Peterson-Dumesnil House in Louisville, Kentucky, was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers?
... that Flemish artist Peter Tillemans was one of the founders of the sporting school of painting in England?
... that merchants from ancient India brought Roman goods of styrax and frankincense to Han Dynasty China?
... that during World War II, Kasper Idland was one of the four saboteurs who entered the Vemork heavy water facility to conduct heavy water sabotage?
... that as Governor of Madras, John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, had Annie Besant arrested in 1917 for advocating home rule for India?
... that John McFarland was taken first overall in the 2008 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection?
... that Kerry Kohansky Roberts attended New York University's film school at the same time as Peter Sollett, but did not meet him until they collaborated on Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist?
... that the RTÉ television series The Great Escape follows families as they relocate to countries such as South Africa, Australia, Austria, Italy, France and Spain?
... that Bo Molenda played professional football, baseball and basketball and was the "workhorse" for the Green Bay Packers teams that won three consecutive NFL championships from 1929 to 1931?
... that the Japanese icebreaker Sōya survived a torpedoing by the USS Greenling in 1943 and rescued the Sakhalin Huskies Taro and Jiro from Antarctica in 1958?
... that the first reported sighting of the bird's nest fungus Cyathus helenae was on mountain scree in the Canadian Rockies?
... that Bonnie Newman, a former chief of staff to Judd Gregg, had been named to replace him in the United States Senate until Gregg withdrew his nomination for Secretary of Commerce?
... that Jangipara, a block in the Indian state of West Bengal, includes a mosque built in 1375?
... that American composer Danny Elfman was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1990 for creating "The Simpsons Theme" and in 2005 for the Desperate Housewives theme?
... that Walter of Albano, a papal legate to England in 1095, helped secure the recognition of Pope Urban II by King William II of England?
... that the Irish student group Free Education for Everyone has blockaded prominent politicians in protests over tuition?
... that after their 1951 marital breakup, popular Old Mother Riley actor Kitty McShane filmed her last scenes with husband Arthur Lucan on separate days?
... that for the 1957 launch of Sputnik , Ben Blank filmed a golf ball attached to a clothes hanger rotating around a globe for use by CBS News in what has been described as the first newscast graphic?
... that Ou Reang Ov District, Cambodia, was one of the 2008 sites for Operation Pacific Angel, a humanitarian mission of the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marines?
... that model Jessica Hart, who was selected to appear in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, is known for her gap tooth smile?
... that the British band Echo & the Bunnymen's eighth studio album, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart?
... that Yohannan Sulaqa, to oppose the hereditary patriarchal succession, took a step unprecedented in the Church of the East: traveled to Rome and was there consecrated patriarch in 1553?
... that the Zen rock garden in the grounds of Zuisen-ji temple, near Kamakura, Japan, is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty?
... that Sir Donald Luddington was the last person in history to be appointed High Commissioner for the Western Pacific?
... that an anomalocaridid, a bizarre Cambrian organism, has been found 100 million years later, in the Devonian era?
... that in addition to designing postage stamps , Armenian painter Arshak Fetvadjian also painted the monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani?
... that Christ Bongo was one of only three Congolese footballers to score in final qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup?
... that Akanthosuchus, an extinct crocodilian from the Paleocene, is the only known crocodilian with both spiked and bladed armor?
... that after King Edward the Confessor ordered the death of Rhys ap Rhydderch, Rhys was killed and his head brought to Edward in January 1053?
... that Ernie Vick was an All-American football center while enrolled at the University of Michigan medical school even though his schoolwork did not allow him to practice with the team?
... that Irish musicians Lisa Hannigan and Damien Rice dueted on "Unplayed Piano", a Burmese protest song that charted in the UK and was praised by The Independent as "a twinkly and beautiful thing"?
... that Li Ning was made a crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, but his mother, a consort, had to settle for a much lesser honour?
... that Nancy Cartwright wrote an autobiography, later adapted into a one-woman play, called My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy?
... that when called by the opposition to quit after the Kauhajoki school shooting, Finnish politician Anne Holmlund refused and compared resigning her post as Interior Minister to "desertion"?
... that the World War Memorial, built in 1928 in Kimball, West Virginia, was the first memorial to African-American veterans of World War I in the United States?
... that Ionel Fernic made the first parachute jump in Romania on May 31, 1936, at an aviation meeting held on the Băneasa Airport in Bucharest?
... that Elizabeth Hamilton originally published Memoirs of Modern Philosophers in 1800 under a pseudonym because "even the sex of a writer may unwittingly bias the reader’s mind"?
... that the architect Maxwell Ayrton co-designed the old Wembley Stadium of 1923 with his partner John William Simpson?
... that, in the Faroe Islands, one way of preparing puffins as food is to stuff them with sweet cake dough, raisins, and spices?
... that besides feeding on soybeans and transmitting viruses to them, a soybean aphid can also injure the plant by interfering with its photosynthetic pathways?
... that although Abbot Æthelwig of Evesham Abbey was known for his loyalty to William the Conqueror, he had an uncle who died fighting for King Harold, the man William deposed?
... that the short-lived Republic of Biak-na-Bato ended after a pact was signed by Emilio Aguinaldo and Fernando Primo de Rivera?
... that Charles Darwin's final scientific book discussed the formation of mould through the action of earthworms?
... that Orlando Antigua survived a bullet wound to the head before becoming the first Hispanic and first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years?
... that in 2005 UNESCO proclaimed the Moravian male recruit dance verbuňk as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mankind?
... that, according to architectural historian Neil Levine, Frank Lloyd Wright agreed to hold the 1930 Kahn Lectures for the "prestige of the venue and the bully pulpit it would afford him"?
... that fishing for giant clams in the Maldives was banned by the island's government in 1991, just one year after the fishery was established?
... that Sir Thomas Allin's service during the Second Anglo-Dutch War included covering the retreat at the Four Days Battle, and then leading the attack at the St. James's Day Battle?
... that the idea that molecular evolution is dominated by genetic drift originally took its name from the 1969 paper "Non-Darwinian Evolution"?
... that Tim Cole was the first person in Texas history to have his conviction posthumously overturned based on DNA evidence?
... that Herbert Spencer, secretary of the Derby Philosophical Society, first suggested the term "survival of the fittest" after reading Charles Darwin's idea of evolution?
... that the Hechal Yehuda Synagogue in Tel Aviv is often referred to as the Seashell Synagogue due to its unusal shape, inspired by the seashells on the shores of Thessaloniki?
... that Consort Zheng, concubine of Emperor Xianzong of Tang, was originally a servant girl for his wife Consort Guo?
... that Paul Galloway and Bob Greene co-wrote Bagtime, a serial published in the Chicago Sun-Times about a fictional supermarket bagger, which was made into a stage musical and a pilot for a TV series?
... that Abraham Lincoln's "earliest recollection" was of his boyhood home Knob Creek Farm ?
... that Charles Darwin conducted a psychological study of his son William Erasmus Darwin where he compared the child to orangutan babies?
... that the T4 rII experimental system enabled biologist Seymour Benzer to map a gene down to the level of one or two base pairs before the invention of DNA sequencing?
... that Emperor Xuānzong of Tang, the son of Emperor Xianzong by a concubine, suspected Xianzong's wife Consort Guo of being complicit in Xianzong's murder?
... that the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham covers the history of Evesham Abbey from 714 to 1539?
... that Joe M. Rodgers, who spent six hours a day for four months learning French after being named U.S. Ambassador to France, later became CEO of language school operator Berlitz International?
... that to help promote their single "Showdown", drum and bass band Pendulum released a Space Invaders themed video game?
... that during the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad's last week of passenger service, the superintendent transported the train's passengers in his own private vehicle?
... that The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Charles Darwin's first published theory, explains how coral atolls form?
... that India's imports fell by 47% and exports by 49% between 1929 and 1932 due to the Great Depression?
... that on its first day of open beta testing, 20,000 players created 100,000 player characters in the free online video game Runes of Magic?
... that because of the strict sex segregation of the era based on Confucianism, Korea's Joseon Dynasty created a class of specialist female physicians known as Uinyeo?
... that Tsarong Dzasa was regarded by officials in British India as "the most powerful friend of His Majesty's Government in Tibet"?
... that the concept of "molecular disease" from the 1949 paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" became the basis for Linus Pauling's later views on molecular evolution and eugenics?
... that coaches of the Great Western Railway were built up to 13 feet (4 m) longer than most other British railway carriages of the time?
... that Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial marks where Abraham Lincoln lived in Indiana, and where his sister and birth mother died?
... that the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is often considered the first significant result in what came to be called molecular biology?
... that in 1915, T. V. Seshagiri Iyer founded the Indian Boat Club at Kodaikanal in response to discrimination against Indians at the English Boat Club?
... that Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral in Boston is the principal church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton which encompasses the entire United States?
... that some historians argue that Urse d'Abetot (d. 1108) was one of the first barons of the Exchequer?
... that the Soviet Union provided a site in northern Russia for the secret Nazi German naval base Basis Nord as a part of a broader bilateral relation which included strategic and commercial agreements?
... that The Great Snow of 1717 lasted nine days and caused snowdrifts more than 20 feet (6 m) high in New England, USA?
... that in Fertilisation of Orchids, Charles Darwin showed how beautiful orchids evolved through natural selection for insect pollination?
... that Lincoln Homestead State Park contains the house in which Abraham Lincoln's father Thomas proposed to his mother Nancy?
... that William A. F. Browne, a radical student who proposed Charles Darwin for the Plinian Society, became a psychiatrist and pioneered art therapy?
... that hikers can take a commuter train from Grand Central Terminal in New York City to two request stops near trailheads in Hudson Highlands State Park?
... that Indian film actors M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and N. S. Krishnan spent 30 months in jail in connection with the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case before being acquitted?
... that Takalik Abaj, an archaeological site in lowland Guatemala, has one of the greatest concentrations of Olmec-style sculpture outside of the Gulf of Mexico coast?
... that Shane Hurlbut became the youngest cinematographer ever to have been nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers award for a debut film, for his work on The Rat Pack?
... that Irish singer Lisa Hannigan did the needlework for the cover of her debut album, Sea Sew?
... that Hodgenville, Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln Statue was built to celebrate the centennial of Lincoln's birth a few miles away?
... that the Orb Aqueduct in Béziers, France, was opened in 1858 and carries the Canal du Midi over the Orb River at a height of 12 metres (39 ft)?
... that during the Darwin Centennial Celebration of 1959, religious humanist Julian Huxley delivered a controversial "secular sermon" arguing that traditional religion was no longer needed?
... that Mordecai Lincoln House in Washington County is the only home of a member of Abraham Lincoln's family that still stands in Kentucky?
... that three years before the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer faced the forces of Sitting Bull in battle at Honsinger Bluff?
... that Nagavarma II, a Kannada language grammarian of the 11th century, authored important writings in prosody, rhetoric, poetics and vocabulary?
... that the Belletable House, now located at the Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum, is thought to be the largest home built in the Fort Rock Valley during the area's homestead era?
... that the numerous photographs of Charles Darwin—at least 53 —may have helped secure the singular connection between Darwin and the theory of evolution in popular thought?
... that in his 1970 book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Linus Pauling explains primates' inability to synthesize vitamin C as a result of evolution?
... that the Petersen House, where Abraham Lincoln died after being shot, contains the bloodstained pillow that Lincoln laid on?
... that the title of Rao Bahadur was bestowed upon Indian historian S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar?
... that because it is difficult to approach, the nymphalid butterfly Euptoieta claudia was given a genus name which means "easily scared" in Greek?
... that Mykhailo Krychevsky, a respected military commander, switched sides during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, joining the Cossacks, and died soon afterwards in the Battle of Loyew?
... that sources indicate that Cedric "Pat" Smith, who later worked at Ford's Rouge plant, was either the second or third leading scorer in the NFL during its first season in 1920?
... that the Nancy Lincoln Inn was once deemed an "unacceptable adjacent commercialization" to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace N.H.S.?
... that travellers in southern Cambodia must stop to pay their respects to the spirit of Yeay Mao?
... that the 1988–1992 Irish television comedy Nighthawks was documented in the first episode of the 2008 Irish television show Boom! Boom! The Explosion of Irish Comedy?
... that Butch Hartman, the first rookie to lead a Daytona 500, later won five championships in a rival stock car racing series?
... that A Cat in the Brain is based on the reactions of its writer and director, Lucio Fulci, to real-life murders in Rome?
... that when Romanian diplomat Mihail Fărcăşanu published in the newspaper a translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called Fărcăşanu a fascist?
... that Palaemon serratus is the British Isles' largest native shrimp?
... that All-American football player Art Walker played in 479 of 540 minutes in the Michigan Wolverines' 1954 season and later played seven years for the Edmonton Eskimos?
... that the Portuguese destroyed Korlai Fort only 73 years after building it because they did not have enough men to guard the fort?
... that Franz Anton Bustelli, who worked at Nymphenburg near Munich, is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style ?
... that between 1903 and 1924 Rover produced more than 10,000 motorcycles?
... that prominent Beninese merchant and politician Paul Darboux went missing from 1963 to 1970?
... that the Visna virus, a retrovirus that causes encephalitis and chronic pneumonitis in sheep, is used as a model system for HIV infection?
... that King Yeongjo of the Korean Joseon Dynasty was said to have been born of a concubine from the musuri slave class?
... that Michael Homer created Netscape's business plan and developed marketing campaigns for its web browser at a time when few had heard of the Internet?
... that as of 2007, Romania has an installed wind power capacity of only seven megawatts?
... that as CEO of The Hertz Corporation, Robert L. Stone chose O. J. Simpson for a series of car rental ads that featured O.J. running through airports?
... that the cobalt crust fungus was selected as the German Mycological Society's fungus of the year in 2009?
... that Hungarian long jumper and triple jumper Gyula Pálóczi has been called "the most successful jumper Hungary has ever produced" by the European Athletic Association?
... that Boss Weeks was quarterback of Fielding H. Yost's "Point-a-Minute" University of Michigan football teams in 1901–1902 that outscored opponents 1,211 to 12?
... that Tamil devotional song "Kurai Onrum Illai" was composed by Indian statesman and Governor-General, C. Rajagopalachari?
... that Hall of Famer Steve Carlton started 14 Opening Day games for the Philadelphia Phillies?
... that British singer Adele was nominated for four 2009 Grammy Awards for "Chasing Pavements", winning in the Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance categories?
... that inmates at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, Oregon, manufacture Prison Blues brand jeans and other denim garments that are sold throughout the United States?
... that the married couple Jerzy and Irena Krępeć , Polish Righteous among the Nations, saved over 30 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust?
... that Knightsville, Utah, a company town owned and operated by Mormon entrepreneur Jesse Knight, was known as "the only mining camp in the United States without a saloon"?
... that in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India?
... that Michael Jackson narrated E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the soundtrack of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film?
... that after an alpine skiing career with modest results, Tomáš Kraus switched to competing in skicross, and became a double world champion?
... that singer Ray LaMontagne was nominated for five 2005 Boston Music Awards, including Best Act, Best Male Vocalist, Best Male Singer/Songwriter, Best Song for "Trouble", and Best Album for his debut CD?
... that Hamam al-Sammara is the only remaining Turkish bathhouse in Gaza of the original five that continues to function?
... that college mathematics professor David Bressoud chose to major in mathematics because that was the quickest way to complete his degree and get away from college and academia?
... that in the Battle of Loyew in 1649, dismounted Polish hussars took a Cossack wagon fort?
... that headache is a symptom commonly described by patients suffering from lupus, but the existence of lupus headache as a specific disorder is contested?
... that a sermon by St Asterius, a 4th-century Bishop of Amasia, was cited twice at the Second Council of Nicaea, an ecumenical council in 787, as evidence supporting the veneration of religious icons?
... that Buck Creek State Park in Ohio contains a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam and reservoir, an early 19th-century homestead, and patches of original prairie?
... that Vicente González Lizondo, then President of the Valencian regional parliament, died a few days after collapsing from a fatal heart attack during a parliamentary session in 1996?
... that besides causing anemia and reducing weight gains in sheep, the blood-feeding fly Melophagus ovinus can also stain the wool and devalue it?
... that the fifth album by Missouri-based reggae band Jah Roots featured former Bob Marley & The Wailers lead guitarist Junior Marvin?
... that students hoping to increase their brainpower before exams made offerings of incense to the body of a two-headed calf in Koh Sotin District, Cambodia?
... that American football player "Aqua" Allmendinger , once described as "a young giant in perfect physical condition," acquired his nickname after working as a waterboy for railroad building crews?
... that Memot District in eastern Cambodia is home to several huge prehistoric villages that date to the first millennium BCE?
... that Beninese politician Sourou-Migan Apithy was said to have ended slavery in Benin, although in fact he was not involved with the abolition bill?
... that one episode of Ireland's Project Ha Ha was criticised for featuring mainly Australian and American accents?
... that the Church of St Porphyrius, a Greek Orthodox church at the site where St Porphyrius of Gaza was buried, is the oldest active church in Gaza City?