derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress?
... that in the Philippines, double-dead meat refers to meat from pigs that died of disease, which is sold for human consumption?
... that Tom Coughlin, head coach of the New York Giants, founded the Jay Fund charity to honor Jay McGillis, a player Coughlin coached at Boston College who died of leukemia?
... that after Tang Dynasty general Wu Chongyin died, his officers cut off and burned the flesh from their thighs as a sacrifice to him?
... that Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald's 1936 recording of "Indian Love Call" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 72 years later?
... that Charles S. Lieber's baboon testing showed that cirrhosis is caused by alcohol, not malnutrition?
... that a date stone beetle virgin will have sex with her first son to reach maturity before eating him and all of his brothers?
... that the pineapplefish is also known as the "port-and-starboard light fish", because the two luminescent organs on its head resemble ship navigation lights?
... that the Inuvialuit Settlement Region's only deepwater port is located in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada?
... that the 2009 book Unfriendly Fire argues that bans on gays in the military were based on prejudices and fears, not empirical data?
... that during their first football game against Yale in 1884, the Dartmouth Big Green were routed, 113–0?
... that Indian National Congress politician and member of Indian parliament P. Thanulinga Nadar was a leader of Hindu nationalist organisation Hindu Munnani in his later years?
... that George Frideric Handel's cantata Ero e Leandro was first published in 1999, 292 years after it was composed?
... that the assassins of the Tang Dynasty chancellor Wu Yuanheng decapitated him and took his head with them?
... that the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary, known for annually returning egrets and herons, has not had any return since 2000?
... that Royal Navy frigate HMS Castor was captured by the French in 1794, but was retaken just 20 days later?
... that Jim Cramer's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart led to The Daily Show website's highest day of traffic in 2009?
... that the First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive is part of a series of "forgotten operations", almost completely ignored by Soviet archives and historiography?
... that because a car crashed through his store's window, Steve Bernard's Cape Cod Potato Chips company survived a difficult winter, after which business boomed?
... that the term Rock of Israel was the subject of controversy just hours before the promulgation of the Israeli Declaration of Independence?
... that Roy Rogers and Gene Autry called the western entertainer Eddie Dean the best cowboy singer of all time?
... that in the Battle of Barnet, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick was fighting for Henry VI, whom he formerly deposed, and against Edward IV, whom he had helped to gain the throne?
... that Julien's Auctions sold Star Trek star William Shatner's kidney stone for US$25,000?
... that Jasper Cropsey may have helped design the Jacob Sloat House in Sloatsburg, New York, which combines the Greek Revival and Picturesque architectural styles?
... that the German Grossdeutschland division, located 50 miles (80 km) east of Târgu Frumos, repelled three Soviet divisions and recaptured the town 48 hours after receiving its initial order?
... that Robert E. A. Lee was executive producer of A Time for Burning, a cinéma vérité documentary about efforts to bridge race relations among Lutherans in Omaha, Nebraska?
... that R29, an R23X class airship, recorded the only success by any British wartime rigid airship when she took part in the sinking of German submarine UB-115 in 1918?
... that New York City rapper Coke La Rock is often credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop?
... that due to widespread censorship and control of media in the Eastern Bloc, underground distribution of clandestine information became common?
... that in 1934 State Representative Rupert Peyton of Shreveport ridiculed Huey P. Long by proposing a bill to grant the title "Your Majesty" to every adult in Louisiana?
... that the Triumph Tiger Daytona motorcycle was named after Buddy Elmore's win in the 1966 Daytona 200, Triumph's first Daytona victory?
... that when footballer Morten Knutsen left Odd Grenland due to persistent injury problems, he joined FK Arendal, only to immediately sustain another injury?
... that most of the 156 episodes of the 1950s series The Cisco Kid were filmed in color, more than a decade before color television became common?
... that having suffered a stroke in 1972, neuroanatomist Alf Brodal published the article Self-Observations and Neuro-Anatomical Considerations After a Stroke in the journal Brain in 1973?
... that in the last 50 years, 17 championships have been retired by current professional wrestling company World Wrestling Entertainment?
... that Australian Second World War flying ace Virgil Brennan shot down 10 Axis aircraft over Malta in a five month period during 1942?
... that New Jersey's Pigeon Swamp State Park, named for 18th-century landowner Ann Pidgeon, was a nesting place for passenger pigeons before they became extinct in the early 20th century?
... that according to Sextius Niger the salamander was an aphrodisiac if served in honey, but its power to extinguish fires was a myth?
... that the recently discovered Cobbe portrait may be one of only two portraits of William Shakespeare done from life?
... that Adolph Diesterweg, a German educationist, is sometimes credited as originating the maxim "learn to do by doing"?
... that the viral video Saturday Morning Watchmen portrays Watchmen character Rorschach as a friend to the animals?
... that Bengaluru Pete, established by Kempegowda I in 1537 with roads laid in cardinal directions with entrance gates at the end of each road, is an integral part of the present-day Bangalore, India?
... that Chris Mullin was named the Big East Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year three consecutive times from 1983 to 1985?
... that the Oslo Tramway reached its greatest length with the opening of the Sinsen Line in 1939?
... that the New York Philharmonic featured cellist Lorne Munroe as a soloist more than 150 times?
... that L-form bacteria are regarded either as insignificant laboratory curiosities, or important but unappreciated causes of disease?
... that triple quartets from Finland's oldest choir Akademiska Sångföreningen helped raise funds to build the Old Student House in Helsinki?
... that the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering awarded Raymond Damadian the 2009 Honorary Fellow Award for discovering the concept of MRI?
... that the Secretary of State of Texas from 1870 to 1874, James Newcomb, was a scout for the longest desert trek by U.S. military?
... that Moggy Hollow Natural Area was where Glacial Lake Passaic overflowed as the Wisconsin Glacier expanded in New Jersey?
... that the Cape Kumukahi Light was saved from destruction in the 1960 eruption of Kilauea when the lava flow parted and went to either side of it?
... that the primarily western television actor Chris Alcaide came out of retirement in 1987 to appear as the Chief Justice in Charles Bronson's film Assassination?
... that the British Council sponsored a "Rock the Referendum" concert for the 2005 Armenian constitutional referendum?
... that the "dancing doctor", pediatric toxicologist Michael Shannon, starred in a 2008 production of the Urban Nutcracker, his eighth year appearing in the annual performance?
... that the Boulton and Watt steam engine preserved in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, is the oldest surviving rotative steam engine?
... that American historian Constance McLaughlin Green won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878?
... that British heavy metal band Iron Maiden was nominated in the Best Live Return category at the 2008 Vodafone Awards, but disagreed with their nomination and asked to be withdrawn?
... that university founder Andrew White prevented the Cornell Big Red football team from playing Michigan, saying "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind"?
... that the Atlantic stingrays living in St. Johns River, Florida, are the only permanent freshwater population of cartilaginous fish in North America?
... that Russian politician Vladimir Nikolayev became mayor of Vladivostok, Russia, after his opponent was killed by a grenade left outside his office?
... that the science fiction novel Typewriter in the Sky by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard is set in the Caribbean during the 17th century?
... that Galen T. Porter was a New York City police captain who led the defense of the NY Draft Office when it was attacked by angry firefighters and mobs during the 1863 New York Draft Riots?
... that in Advanced Banter, the QI book of quotations, Alan Davies wrote the following proverb: "A small pie is soon eaten"?
... that medievalist Knut Helle led the editorial committee of the ten-volume encyclopedia Norsk biografisk leksikon?
... that Operation Cockade, a series of Allied deceptive operations during World War II, was so unsuccessful that it was later described as being “at best a piece of harmless play acting”?
... that Siward, the earl of Northumbria who defeated Macbeth in battle, was said to have been descended from a polar bear?
... that Einar Sverdrup, CEO of a Svalbard-based coal mining company, died during World War II during an attempt to secure Svalbard?
... that Wilmette, Illinois's Chicago and Northwestern Depot has been described as the most historic building in the village?
... that Kathryn Erbe, who had previously played a murderer in Oz, was cast as Det. Alex Eames in the first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent because producers thought she "just looked like a real cop"?
... that 17th-century Hungarian painter Jakob Bogdani highlighted his paintings with exotic red-coloured birds such as the Scarlet Ibis, Red Avadavat and Northern Cardinal?
... that the Royal Australian Navy's Kanimbla class ships can carry two Australian Army LCM2000 Landing Craft Mechanised on their bow?
... that in 1952, after giving the Checkers Speech, Richard Nixon dictated a telegram resigning as Eisenhower's running mate, but his campaign manager Murray Chotiner ripped it up unsent?
... that the black swallower can swallow fishes over twice its length and ten times its weight?
... that the U.S. Senate confirmed Winthrop M. Daniels as an I.C.C. commissioner by 36–27 after some opposing Democrats voted in favor so as not to offend President Woodrow Wilson by rejecting his friend?
... that the operation of malthouses in the UK were once strictly regulated to comply with the malt tax?
... that American art historian Charles Rufus Morey published a pamphlet on library planning called "Laboratory-Library"?
... that the founder of the artists' group Les Nabis, Paul Sérusier, spent long visits painting in the Breton village of Châteauneuf-du-Faou?
... that traditional performers, the Mulkerrin Brothers from the Aran Islands, won The All Ireland Talent Show two days ago?
... that the annual Skyfest fireworks display was held at the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary in 2008, the first time it was held outside Dublin?
... that Australian flying ace Russell Foskett was credited with 6½ aerial victories during the Second World War, before he was killed over the Aegean Sea in October 1944?
... that Damien Dempsey's critically-acclaimed 2005 album, Shots, contains a track called "Saint Patrick's Day"?
... that Slovenian graphic designer Miljenko Licul designed two national currencies, the tolar and (with others) the Slovenian euro coins?
... that the 1780 Atlantic hurricane season is the only season to date that had three hurricanes that caused at least 1,000 deaths each?
... that John Penn, the engineer famed for introducing wood bearings for screw-propeller shafts in steam-powered ships, was also president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on two occasions?
... that the 14"/50 caliber railway guns , used in France during World War I, were created when the U.S. Navy mounted five spare battleship guns on specially-made railway cars?
... that the small farming community of Laurelwood, Oregon, was the site of four execution-style murders in the 1970s ordered by the Hells Angels?
... that the Irish TV series Garda ar Lár focused on an incident which preceded Minister for Defence Paddy Donegan's "thundering disgrace" remarks and President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh's resignation?
... that Yuki Kataoka, a character from the Japanese manga Saki, seems to play better at mahjong if she eats tacos?
... that Brodir and Ospak of Man were two 11th-century Danish brothers who fought on opposite sides at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014?
... that despite attracting the highest ratings ever for a comedy show debut on BBC Three, Horne & Corden was described by one critic as, "about as funny as credit default swaps"?
... that the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, established Ireland's first mint in the 990s at Dublin?
... that "Tomorrow Never Dies", Sheryl Crow's theme song to the James Bond film of the same name, received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Song?
... that archaeologist Luigi Pernier, who found the Phaistos Disc, has been accused of having forged it?
... that the TV documentary series On the Street Where You Live featured contributions from locals, historians and the Grand Marshall of the 2008 Saint Patrick's Day parade in Kilkenny, Ireland?
... that the Butler's frogfish can hold onto objects with its finger-like pectoral fin rays?
... that The Simpsons episode "In the Name of the Grandfather", scheduled to debut on Sky One, will be the first episode of the show to air in Ireland before airing in the United States?
... that, despite being the type species of the genus Cortinarius, the colour of the mushroom Cortinarius violaceus is so dark it is only comparable with members of other genera?
... that research by Mark H. Beers on drug interactions in the elderly led to creating the eponymous Beers Criteria, listing prescription medications that may have negative side effects in older patients?
... that during the campaign for the 2007 Bermudan general election a bullet was mailed to the Premier of Bermuda, Ewart Brown?
... that in 1453, John Norman was the first Lord Mayor of London to travel by water to swear his oath at Westminster, a tradition that continued until 1856?
... that Street News, sold by homeless individuals in New York beginning in 1989, became the prototype for street newspapers worldwide?
... that Alfred Madsen, a high-ranking politician in the Norwegian Labour Party, started his career as a lithographer?
... that Arthur Miller threatened to sue Columbia Pictures over a short clip they placed in front of Death of a Salesman, a film based off of his play of the same name?
... that in the indie video game Clean Asia!, the eyes of all humans leave their bodies, fly to the moon, develop weapons, and attack the human race, taking over several countries?
... that Aleksander Świętochowski was a founder and the leading ideologist of Polish Positivism?
... that the South Park episode The Ring parodies the Jonas Brothers and the marketing tactics of Walt Disney Company in using the band to pledge abstinence?
... that Jules De Martino of The Ting Tings was once in an indie band called "Babakoto" who played as a backing group for Bros?
... that logarithmic differentiation is a technique used in differential calculus to differentiate complicated functions by taking the natural logarithm of both sides of the equation y = f ( x ) {\displaystyle y=f(x)} ?
... that the medieval citizens of the English town of Oxford called William de Chesney their alderman before such honorific was in common use?
... that at least 212 drawings by Douglas Hamilton illustrate his big game hunting experiences, forestry operations and Army surveys of new hill stations in Tamil Nadu, South India, in the mid 1800s?
... that Odd Langholm, who started out as a researcher of business administration, later won recognition for his studies of mediaeval economic thought?
... that Salvia tingitana was named after the town of "Tingi", now known as Tangiers, even though the plant has never been found growing there?
... that singer Katie White named her group The Ting Tings after a Chinese girl who worked with her in a boutique?
... that the Haldane Reforms of 1906–1912 included the creation of the British Expeditionary Force and the Territorial Force?
... that George Keverian won election as a 21-year-old to the Common Council of Everett, Massachusetts, in 1954 using a new MIT high-speed camera to create individualized fliers for each voter?
... that Prussian general Friedrich August Peter von Colomb commanded the Prussian forces throughout the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848?
... that the first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show featured models Stephanie Seymour, Beverly Peele and Frederique van der Wal?
... that the Hadwiger conjecture implies that the surface of any three-dimensional convex body can be illuminated by only eight light sources, but the best proven bound is that 16 lights are sufficient?
... that Richard Pankhurst, founder of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, is the son of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst?
... that a 175-year-old shagbark hickory tree next to the Masten-Quinn House in Wurtsboro, New York, has helped to date its construction?
... that Robert Gentilis graduated from the University of Oxford aged 12 and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, aged 17, below the minimum fellowship age of 18?
... that Plasmatron television screens combined rows formed from liquid crystals with columns formed from plasma cells?
... that in the 1770s, Thaddeus Dod became the second minister to settle west of the Monongahela River and the first to establish a presbytery west of the Allegheny Mountains?
... that the flesh of the mushroom Russula fragilis tastes hot, while its smell is fruity?
... that Ernest Trova was best known for Falling Man, a series of works "about man at his most imperfect" depicting an armless human figure that appeared in sculptures, paintings, prints and wristwatches?
... that the "Rosary and the Scapular are inseparable" are words attributed to the Virgin Mary during the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917?
... the Golden banded goby was originally differentiated from similar species by the structure of its anal fin?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Jaime Cocanower set an unofficial record in 1985 by throwing a wild pitch in eight straight appearances?
... that with the financial crisis of 2008–2009 the small house movement has attracted more attention?
... that Gabriel Goldney, M.P. for Chippenham, is commemorated in a stained glass window of The Foundling Hospital?
... that Leptotrombidium is a genus of harvest mites that are able to infect humans with scrub typhus (Orientia tsutsugamushi infection) through their bite?
... that John D. Boon's former store and former home in Salem, Oregon, are both on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that Operation Sundevil, a seizure of boards by the United States Secret Service, was named after the football stadium of Arizona State University?
... that the bitter and inedible mushroom Russula fellea smells of geraniums or apple sauce?
... that Barack Obama met his future speechwriter Jon Favreau while rehearsing his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention?
... that according to the Zizhi Tongjian, the Tang Dynasty general Li Su launched a surprise attack to defeat the warlord Wu Yuanji in a heavy snowstorm?
... that the Bay Street Emeryville mall was built on a Native American burial ground and a former toxic waste contaminated site?
... that editor Hedley Donovan was responsible for redirecting TIME from a conservative magazine to one "more toward the middle"?
... that Pitomnik Airfield was the primary German airfield within the city during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II?
... that the stoplight loosejaw is the only known animal that uses chlorophyll to see?
... that while normally a scavenger, the snubnosed eel also burrows into the bodies of larger fish to feed, and two specimens were found inside the heart of a shortfin mako shark in 1992?
... that the Prussian general Karl Wilhelm von Willisen was forced out of the Grand Duchy of Posen only two weeks after his arrival?
... that according to the Zizhi Tongjian, Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Yuanji painted an archery range with the blood of a family he had executed?
... that Jawaharlal Nehru wrote The Discovery of India – a book on Indian history – while he was imprisoned at Ahmednagar Fort during the Quit India Movement?
... that Oregon politician Medorem Crawford's son was the first white American male born on the west side of the Willamette River?
... that the emphasis on erotic mythological subjects (example right) in late Northern Mannerism reflected the taste of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor?
... that Clement O. Miniger, founder of the Electric Auto-Lite Company, lost $5 million in 1931 due to the economic effects of the Great Depression?
... that T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar was responsible for the creation of the first encyclopedia in Tamil?
... that revenue from trading cards was one of the key issues, and among the last to be resolved, during the 1992 NHL players' strike, the first such labor stoppage in National Hockey League history?
... that the relationship between two gay men at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in Robert Chesley's erotic and emotional play Jerker takes place entirely over the telephone?
... that despite being Member of Parliament for Chippenham, Wiltshire, for nearly 24 years, Joseph Neeld never spoke in the House of Commons?
... that Anthony Deane-Drummond, a British Army officer, made two parachute drops, was taken prisoner after both, and escaped each time?
... that the 1935 Disney cartoon Three Orphan Kittens was later censored for having negative portrayals of African Americans?
... that James Allan scored 12 goals in one match, when Sunderland beat Castletown 23–0 in an exhibition football game?
... that the expression of HMGA2 in cancer cells is linked to poor prognosis in cancer patients, but also with these cells' sensitivity to some forms of treatment?
... that when Barbara Parker left a law career to take a master's, her thesis went on to be short listed for an Edgar Award as a best first mystery novel?
... that the film The Cloud Door, by Indian director Mani Kaul, features a parrot telling erotic stories?
... that the World War II Marine Corps Air Station in Santa Barbara is now home to the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport?
... that English printer John Wolfe's business practices so incensed his contemporaries, they accused him of Machiavellianism?
... that It's Just a Plant, a children's book, was heavily criticized by Republican Congressman Mark Souder, who argued that it supported marijuana use by children?
... that sports agent and author Colleen Howe, known as "Mrs. Hockey", passed away from Pick's disease?
... that Charlie Biederman was the last surviving dog sled mail carrier in the United States when he died in 1995?
... that In Case of Fire were the opening act for the 2009 Kerrang! awards tour supporting Bring Me the Horizon, Black Tide, Dir en Grey and Mindless Self Indulgence?
... that a modeling agency once demanded that swimsuit model Ariel Meredith have breast reduction surgery, but she refused and was dropped from the agency?
... that Vicars' Close, Wells was called "that rarest of survivals, a planned street of the mid-14th century" by John Julius Norwich?
... that high jumper Bohdan Bondarenko won the World Junior Championships bronze medal in 2006 and the gold medal in 2008, both times with a 2.26 metres (7.4 ft) jump?
... that the non-profit SAME Cafe in Denver, Colorado, serves food for either an hour of work or whatever you can pay?