derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that during the first recording session of Sanctus Real's album The Face of Love, the studio was 90° F and "nobody wanted to be there"?
... that Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
... that shark bite victims have met with U.S. Senators to express their support for the Shark Conservation Act, which is pending approval by the Senate?
... that Jeff Swanagan, the Georgia Aquarium's first employee, oversaw the importation of live whale sharks from Taiwan to Atlanta for exhibition?
... that Montacute Priory was a dependency of Cluny Abbey from its foundation around 1100 until 1407?
... that Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In was built by owner Juan Delgadillo using mostly scrap lumber from the nearby Santa Fe Railroad yard?
... that professional wrestler Black Warrior was forced to unmask after losing a match to Místico?
... that the lake in Adams Lake State Park was built as a water source for West Union, Ohio, and became the focus of the new park in 1950, when a new water source was developed?
... that the incorporation of terms in English law requires a party to take "reasonable steps" to bring a term to the other party's attention?
... that Thomas E. Trowbridge, who served in the Wyoming House and Senate, was originally a dairy farmer and rancher committed to rural development?
... that the fall of a meteorite was first documented in 1766 by Domenico Troili?
... that Hebrew National's kosher hot dogs, three-quarters of which are bought by non-Jews, have been advertised for decades under the slogan We answer to a higher authority?
... that Charles Lock, British consul in Naples, hated the British ambassador's wife Emma Hamilton, and wrote widely read scabrous letters back home denouncing her and her lover Lord Nelson?
... that unless HR 2267 passes, there will be no federal or state regulatory agency protecting US citizens or ensuring "standards of integrity and fairness" on certain interstate activities?
... that after surviving almost two years in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Lise Børsum wrote a book about her experiences in the camp?
... that "Mr. Tambourine Man" was the first song written by Bob Dylan to reach #1 on a pop music chart?
... that photographer Fred Hartsook went from driving a mule-drawn mobile darkroom around California to taking pictures of Hollywood stars like Mary Pickford?
... that the Colorado-class battleships did not undergo a significant modernization prior to the Second World War despite various proposals that had been circulating since 1933?
... that Albert Midlane wrote over 700 hymns, his best known being "There's a Friend for Little Children"?
... that the election in 1181 of Pope Lucius III was the first papal election held in accordance with the decree that the pope is to be elected with a two-thirds majority by the cardinals?
... that Richard Morningstar is the Special Envoy of the United States Secretary of State for Eurasian Energy?
... that the Bobrof Volcano is an uninhabited island in the Andreanof Islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago?
... that Gothabhaya of Sri Lanka banished 60 Buddhist monks from the Abhayagiri monastery for following Mahayana teachings?
... that Helen Callaghan of the AAGPBL and son Casey Candaele are the only mother/son duo to play professional baseball, with Candaele having a career batting average seven points lower than his mother's?
... that according to the chronicler Jan Długosz, Mszczuj from Skrzynno was the Polish knight who killed the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Ulrich von Jungingen , during the Battle of Grunwald?
... that the U.S. 10th Mountain Division Special Troops Battalion was to take part in the invasion of Japan, but instead returned to the U.S. two days after Japan's surrender?
... that David L. Cole served in the labor mediation field under every US President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon?
... that in 2007 the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, took part in Thevar Jayanthi celebrations, after shunning the event for two decades?
... that philanthropist Elliott Cresson received autographs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from ex-president James Madison?
... that Milwaukee held the 2009 Great Circus Parade after a six-year hiatus?
... that the next Finnish Chief of Defence Lieutenant-General Ari Puheloinen, is a son of an electrician, while the four preceding chiefs-of-defence have come from officer families?
... that rich Halifax mill-owner Edward Akroyd had everything except children, so he illustrated his home, Bankfield Museum, with images of babies ?
... that Edward R. Tinsley, who rescued K-Bob's Steakhouse from bankruptcy in 1992, is a former president of the National Restaurant Association?
... that when appointed, Sir Rigby Swift was the youngest judge in the High Court of Justice?
... that the former common pasture was the first area outside Albany, New York's stockade to be settled?
... that the Mayor of Danzig, Conrad Letzkau, was treacherously murdered in 1412 by the Teutonic Knights for his support of Poland and refusal to pay taxes?
... that the abandoned Sucreries Raffineries Bulgares factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, once owned by a Belgian company, was used as the set for Kreuzberg in a Bulgarian film?
... that at the 1929 Rose Bowl, Benny Lom stopped Cal teammate Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels who had run 60 yards in the wrong direction and was about to score a safety, in a game Cal lost 8–7 to Georgia Tech?
... that one theory suggests that the unique Chester Rows were constructed in the medieval era on top of debris from the ruins of Roman buildings?
... that before the NCAA began sponsoring a women's collegiate basketball tournament in 1982, the AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament crowned national champions from 1972 to 1981?
... that Sidonia von Borcke, executed for witchcraft in 1620, became a cult femme fatale in Victorian art and Gothic fiction?
... that the 1850 Squatters' Riot in Sacramento, California, effectively ended land speculation in the region?
... that Lionel Pincus, who ran Warburg Pincus from 1966 to 2002, has donated more than $5,000,000 to the New York Public Library, including an endowment for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division?
... that the octagonal Roof-top synagogue in Hove, England, was built as a replica of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock?
... that State Senator Coleman Lindsey became lieutenant governor of Louisiana, when Earl Long succeeded Governor Richard W. Leche?
... that footballer Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored a 12-minute hat-trick after coming on as a substitute?
... that at least 10 members of the Sadeler family were active as engravers between 1572 and 1675?
... that plug and feather, still used today, was the method used by the ancient Egyptians to cut stone?
... that Gwen Verdon was nominated for an Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Ghost of a Chance"?
... that the Van de Passe family engraved portraits of important people in Jacobean England including the Gunpowder Plotters and Pocahontas?
... that the President's Surveillance Program, authorized by George W. Bush, included "unprecedented collection activities" that are still highly classified?
... that the MILA tracking station provides the primary voice and data link during the first 7½ minutes of a Space Shuttle launch?
... that in 1960, top US labor mediator Joseph F. Finnegan said employers shouldn't be stuck with "antiquated rules" nor should workers hit by automation be handled as "a robot to be cast on a trash heap"?
... that Caroline Anthonypillai helped found the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the oldest political party in Sri Lanka, along with her brother Philip?
... that nurses have been alarmed by brain-dead patients moving their arms in front of their faces, a phenomenon named the Lazarus sign after the biblical character resurrected by Jesus?
... that ice calving in Greenland results in over 12,000 icebergs each year?
... that Eddisbury hill fort, the largest and most complex Iron Age hill fort in Cheshire, was destroyed by the Romans to prevent it being used against them?
... that Mexican professional wrestler La Sombra made his in-ring debut at the age of thirteen?
... that after 30,000 people visited the Roman-era mosaic in Lod in one weekend, it was reburied to prevent damage until the Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center opened?
... that the University of Virginia men's lacrosse game against Maryland in 2009 extended into seven overtime periods, making it the longest game in college history?
... that during the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom of Sri Lanka the slaughter of cattle was a crime punishable by death?
... that the Gothic Revival-style Jones House is the second oldest brick house in Pontiac, Illinois?
... that the funding for the German König-class battleships was secured by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's threat of resignation?
... that Donold Lourie, a former Princeton University football star, was appointed to a State Department post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
... that the 1998 Seychellois general election saw the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie send a joint team of election monitors for the first time?
... that scenes in a "desolate, shabby" psychological clinic in the Skins episode "JJ" were shot at the show's own offices?
... that Robert Leiber, Jesuit adviser to Pope Pius XII, advised Bishop Alois Hudal that he should think of his plan for a "ratline" for fascists escaping Europe as a "crusade"?
... that Mark Twain wrote the essay "The Awful German Language" to express his frustrations when learning German?
... that Diana Golden, who lost a leg to cancer at the age of 12, was named female skier of the year in 1988 by the United States Olympic Committee?
... that in 1999 at the Battle of Aidabasalala an Australian SAS team was surrounded but were able to shoot their way out, killing five of their attackers before being successfully extracted?
... that in 2009 the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera, Texas, named the late folklorist J. Frank Dobie to its new Texas Heroes Hall of Honor?
... that Carl Daniel Ekman, who first commercialized the sulfite process of wood pulp paper production, was the last of his father's sixteen children, who were all born in the same house?
... that the skin colour of the Pokémon Jynx was modified because of complaints that the original design was racist?
... that the prize fund for chuckwagon racing at the Calgary Stampede has grown from $275 at its inception in 1923 to $1.15 million in 2009?
... that Tinker Air Force Base was hit by two tornadoes in six days in 1948, the second of which was heralded by the first tornado forecast in history?
... that Frances Fuller Victor, an influential writer of history and fiction, was initially uncredited for her major contributions to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft's monumental work, The History of the West?
... that Ryan Smyth has been captain of the Canadian Ice Hockey World Championships five times, more than any other Canadian player since 1977?
... that the authorship of the Instructions of Kagemni is attributed to a vizier of the fourth dynasty of Egypt, even though the earliest source is the Prisse Papyrus of the twelfth dynasty?
... that although the design of the Livingston County Courthouse was chosen in part for its fireproof qualities, the building was called "hardly fireproof" in 1915?
... that Domhnall Gleeson, son of Brendan and cast as Bill Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has also played a randy young farmer who falls in love with a call girl?
... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?
... that as a struggling actor in 1993, Edie Falco paid for a month's rent by appearing in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Son of a Gun"?
... that while governor of Jaffa in the early 19th century, Muhammad Abu-Nabbut initiated the city's fortification, the erection of two public fountains, and renovation of the Mahmoudiya Mosque?
... that in 1893, The Philadelphia Record "held its own" as "one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States" despite a troubled economy?
... that Leonardo Carrera who wrestles as Damián 666 is nicknamed "The Beast of the Apocalypse"?
... that George Lycurgus , who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed 1895 counter-revolution?
... that in order to attract new residents to the town, the community of Greenethorpe, New South Wales, has developed a farmhouse rental scheme offering houses for rent at AU$1 per week?
... that Nuclear Assault's EP The Plague includes mocking references to singer Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe?
... that the cuticle of the mushroom Agaricus arorae, which was first described in Santa Cruz County, California, turns yellow in potassium hydroxide when cut?
... that Louisiana State Representative Jim Morris tried without success in 2009 to gain repeal of his state's compulsory motorcyclist helmet law?
... that the first Czechoslovakian flag was handed over by the French President in the small Vosges town of Darney?
... that drunkards are held not to have the capacity in English law to enter into ordinary contracts?
... that the Northern sennet is the smallest of the barracudas, with many adults growing to less than 1 foot in length?
... that to save money, new Minnesota radio station KYES shares studio space with KKJM, which founder Andy Hilger had donated to the Diocese of St. Cloud in 2000?
... that, being created in 1934, the Mexican National Lightweight Championship is one of the oldest professional wrestling championships still in use today?
... that V.V. Whittington was a Louisiana state senator from 1928 to 1932 and later president of the Louisiana Bankers Association?
... that in 1996, the University of Glasgow renamed its Chair of Drama after former professor James Fullarton Arnott?
... that the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, features the works of living artists in the genre of Remington and Russell?
... that in 1990, drug lord Haji Ayub Afridi used his Pakistani government connections to gain a seat in the Pakistani National Assembly for the Islamic Democratic Alliance?
... that the Brazilian orchid I. virginalis , the first species of Isabelia discovered, remained without a formal description or scientific name for four decades after its discovery?
... that the intensity of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as the worst in the world?
... that in 2009, theater students performed a series of old-style radio dramas on WNJR, Washington & Jefferson College's radio station?
... that the Quartet has supported election reform in Palestine through a UN-sponsored Elections Reform Support Group?
... that in Marcel Bellefeuille's head coaching debut, wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez had 198 total yards to help Bellefeuille record his first win?
... that the SS Ferret was stolen from Scotland and reappeared several months later in Australia under a new name?
... that the direct action group Queer Liberaction staged same-sex kiss-ins and a marriage ceremony to draw attention to same-sex marriage issues?
... that on July 9, 2009, the racing yacht Alfa Romeo II broke the Transpac record for miles sailed in one day, by sailing 431 nautical miles in 24 hours?
... that the killing of Aza Gazgireeva, former Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia, was described as "brutal" and "brazen"?
... that the National Policy on Education of 1968 called for education spending to increase to six percent of India's national income?
... that over ten million people watched Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2009 final through Sveriges Television's online service compared to only 3,592,000 who watched the actual television broadcast?
... that during his tenure as West Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice, Fritz Neumayer worked primarily on reforming criminal law?
... that some audience members fainted while others fled the 350-seat Grand Ducal Theatre in Stuttgart at the first appearance of the Furies in Jean-Georges Noverre's 1763 ballet Jason et Médée?
... that rough hits from Michigan's Richard France induced Wisconsin star Pat O'Dea to slug France, leading to O'Dea's ejection from the 1899 Western Conference championship game?
... that Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor?
... that the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library in Odessa, Texas is uniquely dedicated to the presidential office rather than specific presidents?
... that Howiesons Poort, a Middle Stone Age culture in South Africa, shows evidence that humans used symbolism in the form of ground ochre 25,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic?
... that IGN's Chris Roper compared Gravity Games Bike: Street Vert Dirt unfavorably to E.T. for the Atari 2600, which is often considered one of the worst video games of all time?
... that the diesel exhausts from the Royal Navy's Dark-class fast patrol boats caused the ships to become so dirty that they had to paint the hulls black?
... that after overcoming Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1989, K-Bob's Steakhouse still operates in mostly smaller cities in the cattle country of New Mexico and Texas?
... that the Latrobe Gate was one of the few structures at the Washington Navy Yard not destroyed when British forces burned the city?
... that the National Interventions Museum in Mexico City is located at the site of the 1847 Battle of Churubusco of the Mexican–American War, in a former Franciscan monastery built on top of an Aztec shrine?
... that in summer 2008, future Memphis Grizzlies draft pick Sam Young, then a player for the University of Pittsburgh, slept at the school's basketball arena for a month?
... that a selvage is the edge of a piece of woven or knitted fabric that does not fray or come unraveled?
... that the Canary Islands are one of the few places left where there are still substantial numbers of angelsharks , once common all around Europe?
... that in his Major League Baseball debut on July 30, 1961, pitcher Art Mahaffey gave up two singles but picked off each of those baserunners at first base?
... that Udawatta Kele Sanctuary contains a 200–300 years old giant Entada rheedii liana?
... that Dutch writer Hans Warren (1921–2001) published 21 volumes of his Secret Diary, a diary he kept until three days before his death?
... that Jasper Conran bought the 18th-century Ven House in rural Somerset and complained about plans to extend a slurry pit and install polytunnels close to the land?
... that James Yoshimura wrote the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Subway", about a dying man pinned between a subway car and a train platform?
... that Ina Coolbrith , the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate?
... that the doom metal band Bloody Panda performs wearing executioner's hoods and robes?
... that almost a quarter of the brown lanternsharks found in Suruga Bay, Japan, have both male and female organs?
... that You Chung Hong, the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California, helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?
... that statues of The Boy with the Leaking Boot are found in Cleethorpes (England), Winnipeg and Toronto (Canada) and several cities in the United States, but his origins are obscure?
... that Kentucky State Representative Sam B. Thomas coached fellow army soldiers in Olympic basketball trials in Japan after World War II?
... that giant kelp can grow as much as two feet per day, making it the fastest-growing organism on Earth?
... that Rhode Island industrialist Rowland G. Hazard helped win the release of nearly 100 African-Americans who were being held as slaves in the pre-Civil War American South?
... that the conviction of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain was formally overturned by the Supreme Court of India on November 7, 1975?
... that the time travel video game Achron allows players to play simultaneously and independently in the past, present, and future?
... that the bench from which David Salomons rose to become the first Jew ever to speak in the British Parliament is preserved in the Salomons Museum?
... that Togo Tanaka publicly called Japan's government "stupid" the day after Pearl Harbor for starting an unwinnable war but was one of 10,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to the Manzanar camp?
... that Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco has the distinction of having an open cluster and a 4 m (13 ft) telescope in Chile named after him?
... that "Racing in the Street" commemorates the racing that occurred on a little fire road outside Bruce Springsteen's home town of Asbury Park?
... that in 1696, Catherine Bernard established the aesthetic principle of the French literary conte de fées with the dictum: "the [adventures] should always be implausible and the emotions always natural"?
... that the Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio, Texas, contains the graves of legendary Justice of the Peace Roy Bean and his son, Sam?
... that some historians believe Goscelin of St Bertin may have been the author of the anonymous Life of King Edward?
... that, although mayor Hardin Bigelow served the city of Sacramento for only seven months, a flood, several fires, a riot, and a cholera epidemic all afflicted the city during his term?
... that King Kot aMweeky of the Kuba Kingdom told his people that William Henry Sheppard was his deceased son, in order to spare Sheppard's life?
... that the Japanese visual novel Princess Lover!'s anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Television Kanagawa prior to its televised broadcast?
... that The New York Times said Paul Hemphill's first book The Nashville Sound was "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written"?
... that the Hetaireia, the Byzantine guards unit responsible for the safety of the emperor on campaign, was composed chiefly of foreigners?
... that Martin Wheelock, football player for the Carlisle Indian School in the 1890s, was inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980?
... that much of the Mahmoudiya Mosque in Jaffa was built during the Ottoman era using construction materials acquired from Roman columns?
... that James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh was the first assassin to use a gun?
... that before Strategic Simulations, Inc.'s first game, Computer Bismarck , most computer games were packaged in zipper storage bags?
... that Cyneweard of Laughern, last Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Worcestershire, lost his office to the Norman incomer Urse d'Abetot around 1069?
... that during World War II, Australia produced almost 500,000 barrels of shale oil by operating the Nevada–Texas–Utah type of oil-shale retorts?
... that Plymouth Synagogue is the oldest synagogue built by Ashkenazi Jews in the English speaking world?
... that Sandra Warfield met future husband James McCracken when they sang the leads in Samson and Delilah, the same opera in which the couple performed in her Metropolitan Opera farewell performance?
... that the distribution of the snail Escargot de Quimper is disjunct?
... that more than $200 million in US currency was burned at both a crematorium and the Aiea Sugar Mill in Hawaii, due to being redeemed for HAWAII Overprint Notes ?
... that homosexuality has been labeled by some communists as a product of bourgeois decadence?
... that Bovista aestivalis is so similar to Bovista dermoxantha that a microscope is required to differentiate the two fungi based on their spores?
... that the Opera Krakowska, one of the leading Polish opera companies, founded in 1954, moved into its first permanent house only in 2008?
... that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed Robert E. L. Taylor's 1963 contempt conviction for refusing to reveal sources in a corruption case as his actions were protected by the state's shield law?
... that after their defeat at the Battle of Arnhem, 138 men were able to escape German occupied territory in Operation Pegasus?