derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that former Houston Astro Craig Biggio won his first Silver Slugger Award as a catcher before winning four at second base?
... that young escapees from a military police boot camp in Serei Saophoan District, Cambodia, are beaten by other residents when they are recaptured?
... that while commonly found in central California, Agaricus lilaceps can sometimes be found at the campus of Stanford University under the eucalyptus located there?
... that despite being a professor of Finno-Ugric languages, Knut Bergsland spent his final years studying the unrelated language Aleut?
... that the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution?
... that the development of Darkness over Daggerford, an expansion for the computer game Neverwinter Nights, was coordinated mostly over Skype?
... that the clade mesangiosperms , representing one of four major clades of flowering plants, contains 99.95% of flowering plant species?
... that after the Tang Dynasty general Li Jiang died in a mutiny, his successor Wen Zao slaughtered the mutineers and offered their heads to Li Jiang as a sacrifice?
... that Laura Wilson's 2004 novel The Lover is a fictionalized account of Gordon Cummins, a British airman turned serial killer who began murdering prostitutes in London during World War II?
... that while Northman and Waltheof were ealdormen in northern Northumbria, Bamburgh was sacked by the Viking king Óláfr Tryggvason?
... that paper locals, which can be used to extort money from employers or secure sweetheart contracts, are denounced by the AFL-CIO Code of Ethical Practices?
... that the Tang Dynasty general Zhang Hongjing exhumed the bodies of the Anshi Rebellion leaders An Lushan and Shi Siming and destroyed their caskets?
... that "New Boss" is the first of six episodes of the U.S. version of The Office with appearances by The Wire actor Idris Elba?
... that the rules of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna forbade mentioning any country or conflict by name, and instead human rights had to be discussed in the abstract?
... that Michigan, France, and the United States have all sued for claim to the “holy grail” of Great Lakes shipwrecks, French explorer La Salle’s ship Le Griffon that sank in 1679?
... that the return value optimization is one of the very few compiler optimizations that are allowed to change the observable behaviour of a C++ program?
... that professional wrestler Johnny Valentine needed a clamp to hold his back together after a 1975 plane crash?
... that operatic tenor Chad Shelton has sung in numerous world premieres, including leading roles in Mark Adamo's Little Women and Philip Glass's Appomattox?
... that the Whisky Creek Cabin, built about 1880, is the oldest remaining mining cabin along the wild and scenic section of the Rogue River in southwest Oregon?
... that after his release from prison in 1087, the English rebel Siward Barn is thought by some historians to have founded a colony on the Black Sea with other refugees from the Norman Conquest of England?
... that Camp Gilwell is a Scouts Canada camp which features the haunted home of Maurice Macdonald Seymour?
... that Nidula niveo-tomentosa , a bird's nest fungus in the genus Nidula, produces a chemical that is a major component of raspberry flavor?
... that Operation Bringing Home the Goods was launched by Israel to capture Palestinian prisoners in Jericho to make sure they were not released?
... that the Charnockite in St. Thomas Mount, Chennai got its name from Job Charnock, the founder of Kolkata, whose tomb was made of rocks quarried from St. Thomas Mount?
... that Glenn Sundby, a co-founder of what is now USA Gymnastics, appeared in Ripley's Believe It Or Not! after walking down all 898 steps of the Washington Monument on his hands?
... that the collectivization of agriculture in the Eastern Bloc economies was less violent and disruptive than it had been in the Soviet Union?
... that golfer Jane Park reached the final of the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in 2003 and 2004, and won the latter event?
... that post-anarchism theorist Saul Newman saw the publication of volume one of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas as a sign of a resurgent interest in anarchist philosophy?
... that the Illinois Centennial Monument is a marble Doric column built to scale with the columns of the Parthenon?
... that the 500-million-year-old Cambrian predator Hurdia was thought to be a number of separate organisms for 100 years, until the complete animal was reconstructed in March 2009?
... that Dr. Maurice Macdonald Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association and the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League?
... that one year after a fire damaged Lausanne Hall at Willamette University, the dormitory had to be evacuated due to a suspicious package?
... that Asad Ali Khan, one of a few remaining rudra veena players, was awarded the Indian civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 2008?
... that Blender magazine called the Huey Lewis and the News hit song "The Heart of Rock & Roll" one of the "50 Worst Songs Ever"?
... that although the name "Joni" was retired after the 1992–93 South Pacific cyclone season by the WMO, it remained on the naming lists to be used again for Cyclone Joni (2009)?
... that Carter Brey was appointed the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic in 1996?
... that the Southern White-cheeked Gibbon may be a hybrid species of the Northern White-cheeked Gibbon and the Yellow-cheeked Gibbon?
... that murri, an Arabic condiment akin to soy sauce, is made from barley dough allowed to ferment for 40 days?
... that the long jumper Fred Salle originally represented England in international competitions, then changed allegiance to Cameroon before returning to England some years later?
... that original Who Wants to be a Millionaire? host Chris Tarrant got his start in television as a news reporter for ATV Today?
... that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas mentioned the National Natural Landmarked Sunfish Pond in his dissenting opinion in the Sierra Club v. Morton case?
... that the son of Sultan Ali of Johor, Tengku Alam Shah, inspired the Jementah Civil War in 1879 after he failed to claim inheritance of his father's territory at Kessang?
... that KNOE-FM, founded in 1967 by former Governor of Louisiana James A. Noe, was one of five stations in Louisiana that Noe named for himself?
... that when Bobby Folds joined Gillingham F.C. in 1966, he became the club's first ever apprentice-professional footballer?
... that with the winning Audi R15 TDI averaging a speed of 117.986 mph (189.880 km/h), the 2009 running was the fastest 12 Hours of Sebring in its history?
... that Indian independence activist and Managing-Director of The Hindu from 1905 to 1923, Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, was a brother of Anglophile Indian civil servant S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar?
... that the 1957–1958 CBS sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve featured Howard Duff and Ida Lupino, then married to each other in real life, as a fictitious husband/wife acting duo living in Beverly Hills?
... that after the foundation of the German Democratic Republic, Nazi General Arno von Lenski was formally acknowledged as a "Victim of Fascism" in 1949?
... that galbitang , a Korean soup made from beef short ribs called galbi, is a representative dish served at wedding receptions in South Korea?
... that the future of newspapers in the United States is in doubt: as of 2005, an estimated 70 percent of older Americans read a newspaper daily, while fewer than 20 percent of younger Americans did?
... that Kristian Kristiansen's main literary work is a trilogy about a boy growing up in an orphanage in the late 1600s?
... that, fourteen years after the release of their debut album, heavy metal band Iced Earth charted on the Billboard 200 for the first time?
... that the 1908 Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau was the first journal of comparative law in the United States?
... that British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings?
... that the mockumentary Male Restroom Etiquette is the most viewed Sims video on YouTube?
... that Mount Triumph in North Cascades National Park is well-known among regional climbers for its lack of easy climbing routes?
... that the father and son combination Cecil Fielder and Prince Fielder each won a Silver Slugger Award at first base?
... that a Fairey Swordfish from HMS Archer was the first aircraft ever to land on Ascension Island?
... that Sultan Ali of Johor signed a treaty on 10 March 1855 with the Temenggong which formally ceded his sovereignty claims over Johor?
... that, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the eldest son of Earl Siward of Northumbria, Osbeorn, died in battle against King Macbeth of Scotland in 1054?
... that in 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Davis v. Beason that it was acceptable to prohibit religious polygamists from voting?
... that a sub-marine eruption near the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano in Tonga began spewing steam, smoke, pumice, and ash thousands of feet into the sky on March 16, 2009?
... that the Borromeo String Quartet uses laptops instead of paper sheet music when they perform?
... that the 6th-century St. Augustine Gospels is the oldest surviving illustrated Latin Gospel book, but is still regularly used?
... that Kyryl Studynsky was among the first academics to protest against the Holodomor?
... that writer-director Joel Hopkins made Last Chance Harvey to recreate the chemistry he had seen between actors Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in a theatre production?
... that Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina, is a Gothic revival church designed to resemble York Minster?
... that the discovery of feather-like structures on the primitive dinosaur Tianyulong raises the possibility that ancestral dinosaurs were feathered?
... that the South Park episode "The Coon" spoofs such dark comic book movies as The Dark Knight, The Spirit and Watchmen?
... that Adolf Pilch, Polish resistance fighter trained by SOE during WWII, fought against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?
... that after the September 11 attacks, Korean Air Lines Flight 85 accidentally sent out a hijack signal?
... that Indian historian V. Kanakasabhai, who was the first to attempt a systematic chronology of Tamils, was of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry?
... that the PSP video game Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner uses the PSP's internal clock to continually train the player's monsters, even when the console is not in use?
... that child actor Johnny Washbrook, though educated at two London art academies, spent his later adult years as a banker in Massachusetts?
... that Le Journal de Mickey, a French comics magazine first published in 1934, is credited with "the birth of the modern bande dessinée"?
... that one episode of the western TV series My Friend Flicka depicts 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, played by Frank Albertson, trying to halt a range war?
... that sentences with reduced relative clauses, such as the horse raced past the barn fell, can lead you down a garden path?
... that Sweden could have been represented in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the Greek song "Alla"?
... that the Fountain of the Great Lakes, with semi-nude figures, was not dedicated until after Chicago changed its obscenity laws for public art in 1913?
... that Martin Knowlton conceived the Elderhostel concept, in which senior citizens take college-level courses in the summer, to overcome "the disturbing concept that people are all used up after age 65"?
... that Banksia lindleyana goes by the common name of "Porcupine Banksia"?
... that in the first eight years after Harvard Girl was published in mainland China, the number of Chinese applicants to Harvard increased tenfold?
... that the woman depicted in the painting Miss Amelia Van Buren was one of artist Thomas Eakins' most gifted students?
... that Davy Crockett (1954–1955) was the first miniseries in the history of television, although the term "miniseries" had not yet been coined?
... that according to the Zizhi Tongjian, the Tang Dynasty chancellor Pei Ji raised the assessed value of goods to avoid undue tax burden on people who paid taxes with goods?
... that the first textbook in Hungarian, an encyclopedia by János Apáczai Csere, was written and published in The Netherlands?
... that the jilted bride Eliza Emily Donnithorne, who is buried in Camperdown Cemetery, may have been the model for Charles Dickens' reclusive Miss Havisham?
... that Chilkat weaving, a traditional technique of indigenous peoples of Alaska and British Columbia, is so complex that it may take a year to weave a blanket?
... that Trooper Patrick Fowler spent most of World War One hiding in a wardrobe in German-occupied France?
... that among other sources, the lolcat-inspired Laugh-Out-Loud Cats comics draw from the style of Sidney Smith's 1910s comic strip Old Doc Yak?
... that the peninsula Kadettangen got its name as a site of cadet training, conducted by the Norwegian Military Academy and discontinued from 1896?
... that the 1962 ABC sitcom Mr. Smith Goes to Washington featured a television appearance by mime artist Harpo Marx?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Yu Di lost his chancellorship in a scandal where he tried to use bribes to obtain a Jiedushi (military governor) position?
... that an edition of BBC radio programme Any Questions?, featuring former Prime Minister Edward Heath, was broadcast live from St Philip's Church, Hove in 1995?
... that after realizing the blogosphere was similar to a stock market, Seyed Razavi created BlogShares to allow people to buy shares of blogs with virtual currency?
... that Sloat's Dam is the only remaining intact dam on the Rockland County stretch of the Ramapo River?
... that at Against All Odds, Jeff Jarrett was not allowed to use a guitar as a weapon, so he used a cello instead?
... that Tanna japonensis, the Japanese cicada, makes a melancholy sound (example right) after sunset, when the temperature has dropped, or when it becomes cloudy?
... that during the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season, Wooden, Naismith, and Robertson Award committees all selected different Big Ten players for their midseason top candidates lists?
... that the Antelope Ground, Southampton was the first home of both Hampshire County Cricket Club and of Southampton Football Club?
... that in 1905, Edmund Harbitz declined to join the cabinet of his former law firm partner Christian Michelsen?
... that the edibility of the small woodland mushroom Agaricus semotus is disputed, with some sources claiming edibility and others warning of gastrointestinal discomfort?
... that the main house at Brykill Farms in Gardiner, New York, was expanded in a similar style and material 200 years after the first section was built?
... that Gears of War failed to win any prize at the 4th British Academy Video Games Awards, even though it was nominated for six?
... that, despite wrestling alongside each other for years and holding a tag team championship together, brothers Mark Starr and Chris Champion used different last names?
... that Native Americans occupied the Rogue River around the Rogue River Ranch over 9,000 years before European settlers arrived?
... that when Per Øisang hosted the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's election debates in the early 1960s, the questioning of politicians was conducted by other politicians?
... that Faith Lutheran College, Redlands was the first independent Christian school opened in the Redlands Shire, South East Queensland?
... that college basketball player Evan Turner was the only unanimous first-team All-Big Ten Conference choice by both the coaches and the media for the 2008–09 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season?
... that the porch of Macclesfield Castle in Macclesfield, dating from the reign of English King Henry II and the only standing part of the castle, was replaced by cottages and shops in 1932?
... that judge and law school dean George G. Bingham was once the coroner for Yamhill County, Oregon?
... that Australian Made, a 1987 concert tour promoting "Good Times" and the mateship of nine local acts, was headlined by INXS and ended with two band managers coming to blows?
... that James Beach was selected to run for the Camden County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders after appearing at a candidate recruitment interview complaining and waving his tax bill?
... that after the Battle of Glenmama in the Wicklow Mountains in 999, Brian Boru's Munster forces occupied the city of Dublin for over a week?
... that Armenian Byzantinist Hrach Bartikyan wrote the introductions and translated select writings of Procopius, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, and John Scylitzes from Greek into Armenian?
... that the "Golden Ticket" episode of the U.S. version of The Office was watched by 7.7 million viewers, tying with Grey's Anatomy for number one among the broadcast networks in adults 18–34?
... that when King Edward VII opened Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent, England, in 1905, that the main corridor was almost 1,000 feet (300 m) long?
... that Tin Pan Alley song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" by Paul Dresser, Indiana's state song, became its first official state symbol in 1913?
... that Henry Cronin won the Military Cross in the First World War for assaulting enemy positions and taking prisoners of war, despite being assigned to build field defences?
... that during the filming of Dexter episode "The Damage a Man Can Do", actor Jimmy Smits accidentally stabbed a stunt man with a real knife?
... that Janet Beaton, Lady of Branxholme and Buccleugh, had five husbands and was immortalized as Sir Walter Scott's Wizard Lady of Branxholm in his poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"?
... that Orion P. Howe was awarded the Medal of Honor for his childhood service as a Union Army drummer boy during the American Civil War?
... that the blind cave beetle Leptodirus hochenwartii, originally discovered in 1831 in the Postojna cave system, was the first animal to be recognized as a true cave dweller?
... that excavations at Locust Grove in Dillwyn, Virginia, revealed the grave of an infant in the kitchen garden?
... that Hudson Stuck, who was one of the first people to climb Mount McKinley's South Peak, thought Eagle Summit was one of the most difficult summits in Alaska?
... that India's S. Srinivasa Iyengar resigned as Advocate-General of Madras Presidency and returned his Order of the Indian Empire in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
... that Laurelwood Academy moved to Eugene, Oregon, after 103 years in Laurelwood, Oregon, but did not change its name?
... that 17th-century baronet Sir Thomas Peniston received £50 per year as a member of the retinue of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, and that his wife, Martha, was the Earl's mistress?
... that according to legend, clams casino , a dish that is popular with Italian-Americans, was first created in Narragansett, Rhode Island, in 1917?
... that in 1029, the ransom of the Hiberno-Norse prince Amlaíb mac Sitriuc included over 1,200 cows, 60 ounces of gold and of silver, "the sword of Carlus", and a large number of Irish hostages?
... that it was at the urging of Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Jifu that Emperor Xianzong ordered that husbands be found for imperial princes' daughters?
... that the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn?
... that the Association of Polish Artists and Designers was disbanded by the Polish military authorities for opposing the 1981 imposition of martial law in communist Poland?
... that American Summit in Alaska is the location of what has been called one of the most remote liquor stores in the world?
... that even though the Mammoth Cave system has passages directly beneath Great Onyx Cave , they have never been connected?
... that the 1916 children's novel Just David was the second in a series of four consecutive bestsellers in the United States for Eleanor H. Porter?
... that in the Battle of Lalakaon in 863 AD, three Byzantine armies, marching from different directions, converged on time to surround an Arab army?
... that Darby Hinton, who played Fess Parker's son on NBC's Daniel Boone, as an infant lost his father in a plane crash but remains close to Parker nearly 40 years after the series ended?
... that during the Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Republican Senator John Barrasso read a passage from The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression?
... that the Kikuchi samurai clan was descended from the royal family of the Korean kingdom of Baekje?
... that Nolan Bushnell, founder of both Atari, Inc and Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters, was made a fellow of BAFTA at the 5th British Academy Video Games Awards?
... that the Islamic Cultural Center of New York , which opened in 1991, was the first purpose-built mosque in New York City?
... that Norwegian surrealist poet Triztán Vindtorn changed his first name into the name of his favorite pub?
... that, in the 1999 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse tournament, the Loyola Greyhounds under head coach Dave Cottle became the only first-seeded team ever to be eliminated before the semifinals?
... that Allah Bux Soomro, Premier of Sindh, renounced his OBE and the title of Khan Bahadur and resigned his membership in the National Defence Council of India during the Quit India Movement?
... that the Gable Mansion is one of the last Victorian Italianate mansions of its style, size, and proportion in California?
... that Lawrence Herkimer invented the cheerleading jump known as the herkie by accident while a cheerleader at Southern Methodist University in the 1940s?
... that Swedish writer, photographer, film maker, and artist Jan Lindblad kept two Bengal tigers as pets?
... that Mongolian Ninja miners are so named because the green bowls they carry on their backs for gold panning resemble the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
... that after losing the 1962 race for governor of California, Richard Nixon held what he called his "last press conference" promising the media that "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more"?
... that during World War II, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works under the management of Charles E. Moore built one 137-ton Liberty ship engine every 40.8 hours?
... that the first and so far the only mathematics paper by Bill Gates was published in Discrete Mathematics in 1979?
... that the little skate pushes itself along the sea floor using a pair of leg-like fin lobes, a mode of locomotion known as "punting"?
... that record label manager TobyMac pulled his car over to the side of the road when he first heard Christian hip hop artist B. Reith's music?
... that the indie video game Gang Garrison 2 adapts the FPS Team Fortress 2 into a 2D shooter game with 8-bit graphics?
... that salsa music promoter Ralph Mercado got his start with "waistline parties", live music events where women paid based on their waist size (thinner women paid less) and Mercado measuring at the door?
... that Lou Reed said "I knew I was in the presence of an angel" after hearing the Antony and the Johnsons song "Cripple and the Starfish"?
... that Ancistrochilus rothschildianus is a species of semi-terrestrial orchid endemic to the African tropics?
... that John Dyneley Prince, who later served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and Yugoslavia, learned the Romani language as a 12-year-old, which helped him when he ran away for three days to a gypsy camp?
... that Tang Dynasty official Zheng Yin opposed issuance of commissions for eunuch commandants on hemp paper, saying it was reserved for commissions of imperial princes and chancellors?
... that the 395th Infantry Regiment was the only unit during the Battle of the Bulge that did not retreat, earning the nickname Butler's Blue Battlin' Bastards?
... that the recently discovered dracula fish lost its teeth then re-evolved a set of bony fangs from its jawbone?
... that Lac de Monteynard Avignonet, a lake in the French Alps, has a 220-metre (720 ft) long, 85-metre (279 ft) high simple suspension bridge for non-motorized use?