derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Henry Seymour King, Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull Central for 25 years, was the first climber to reach the summits of Mont Maudit and Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey?
... that country music singer Ty Herndon's grandmother Myrtle hosted a Gospel music radio show on WPRN and WPRN-FM in Alabama for more than 40 years?
... that American historian Roy Franklin Nichols won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Disruption of American Democracy?
... that the Pepper Pot tower in Brighton, England, has been used as a public toilet, printworks, Scout headquarters, wartime observation tower and artist's studio, but its original function is unknown?
... that Mexican wrestler Octagón took his name from the 1980 film The Octagon starring Chuck Norris?
... that an equitable coloring of a graph , in which the numbers of vertices of each color are as nearly equal as possible, may require far more colors than a graph coloring without this constraint?
... that the sharptail mola has become an important commercial fish in Taiwan, since the promotion of an ocean sunfish festival in Hualien County?
... that the Canadian Mohawk chief, the Flemish Bastard, was considered the primary spokesman for the pro-French faction of Canada in the 17th century?
... that the DVD boxsets of the first three seasons of Law & Order: Criminal Intent were released out of order to encourage viewers to watch season 4?
... that according to the Book of Tang, Tang Dynasty general Li Guangyan, while in mourning over the death of his mother for three years, did not return to his wife's bedchambers?
... that after the Australian light destroyer project was canceled, the Australian Government ordered frigates which the Royal Australian Navy had previously assessed as being "second rate escorts"?
... that the equipment designed by the physicist Gwyn Jones to liquefy small amounts of helium for work at temperatures near absolute zero was made from parts of a motorcycle engine?
... that after London Road viaduct in Brighton, England, was bombed in 1943, trains were using it again within 24 hours even though the road below was visible through gaps in the damaged brickwork?
... that Pavel Lednyov has won seven Olympic medals in modern pentathlon, more than anybody else in this sport?
... that in the English plural, the letter -s is pronounced differently in words like "cats", "cabs", and "buses", because of a phonological rule?
... that human rights activist Ayse Nur Zarakolu, an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience", was arrested 30 times and jailed four for violating censorship laws in Turkey?
... that the fish king-of-the-salmon is so named because, according to Makah legend, it is responsible for leading salmon to their spawning grounds?
... that the British rigid airship No. 9r, completed in 1916, featured an early example of thrust vectoring?
... that the opposition in Nagorno-Karabakh ironically described the 2005 Nagorno-Karabakh parliamentary election as having "fair and transparent irregularities"?
... that the deep-sea unicorn crestfish can expel a cloud of black ink as a defense against predators?
... that Wilfried Dietrich won five Olympic medals during his career, more than any other Olympic wrestler?
... that the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne led to the outbreak of Tecumseh's War and the subsequent Battle of Tippecanoe?
... that no matter how biased a coin one uses, flipping a coin to determine whether each edge is present or absent in a countably infinite graph will always produce the same graph, the Rado graph?
... that Gary O'Donnell is the first person in 26 years to be awarded a second George Medal, the last one posthumously for "immense bravery" in Afghanistan?
... that in the June 2005 Swiss referendum, Switzerland became the first country in Europe to hold a referendum on increased rights for same-sex couples?
... that osteoblast milk protein added to Mengniu Deluxe milk in China is supposed to promote bone growth, but its safety has been questioned?
... that Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace was intended to mirror the opulent Stroganov Palace on the opposite side of Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg?
... that Henry Wilde melted iron bars to demonstrate the power of his self-energizing dynamo, a machine based on his paper presented to the Royal Society in 1866?
... that the upcoming U2 360° Tour is named for a new kind of stage design that will permit all-round viewing in football stadiums?
... that author Guillaume Prévost created The Book of Time series to help children understand that history can be fascinating?
... that in 2008, chronic bee paralysis virus was discovered in the carpenter ant Camponotus vagus?
... that early sources suggested that Moses had taken an Ethiopian wife named Tharbis after laying siege to her city, prior to his ascendancy to prophethood in the Jewish faith?
... that while the history of rugby union matches between Argentina and France dates back to 1949, Argentina did not win a match until their 16th clash in 1985?
... that in October 1965, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps LtGen Richard C. Mangrum, Navy Cross recipient at Guadalcanal, became the first Marine to be the "Gray Eagle" of Naval aviation?
... that the new Polish party called Forward Poland rejected an alliance with Declan Ganley's Libertas?
... that Tony Bennett literally threw up before recording his 1970 album Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today!, a misguided collection of Beatles and other current songs done under record company pressure?
... that based on its skull anatomy, the small Early Jurassic crocodile relative Dibothrosuchus probably had a keen sense of hearing and was vocal like modern crocodiles?
... that the 1993 fundraiser Friends of Gilda featured Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Paul Shaffer and others who knew Gilda Radner from a Toronto production of Godspell?
... that Richard Swinefield, a medieval Bishop of Hereford, tried during his episcopate to secure the canonization of his predecessor Thomas de Cantilupe, but it did not happen until after Swinfield's death?
... that Benjamin Franklin Burch, a teacher at the first school in Polk County, Oregon, was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention and President of the Oregon State Senate?
... that the World War I German U-boat UB-2 was the only one of the Type UB I submarines in the Flanders Flotilla not to be shipped by rail to Antwerp?
... that in early 2001, three teenagers in Anchorage, Alaska, conducted and videotaped a series of racially motivated drive-by shootings with a paintball gun?
... that members of the Kasakela chimpanzee community were the first non-human animals observed making tools?
... that a U.S. Forest Service district ranger lived in a tent for eight years while waiting for a residence to be built at the Rand Ranger Station?
... that the medieval scheduled monuments of Cheshire include Vale Royal Abbey which was the largest Cistercian church in England?
... that after seeing a performance by child pianist Joseph Alfidi of Yonkers, New York, Pope John XXIII said he may turn out to be "the next Mozart"?
... that the MV Belgian Airman was carrying a cargo of sorghum when she was torpedoed and sunk on 14 April 1945?
... that Thomas Forester, the only American stock mutual fund manager to make a profit in 2008, had previously been one of only two mutual fund managers to make a profit in the second quarter of 2002?
... that the Nigeria women's national basketball team became the first African team ever to win an Olympic game in women's basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
... that William Joseph Rainbow's work, A Census of Australian Araneidae, was the first catalogue of Australian spiders?
... that American rock band Disturbed has released three consecutive number-one debuts on the Billboard 200 chart since 2002?
... that Buffalo Bills punter John Nies and younger brother Eric Nies (later of MTV's The Real World fame) posed nude for photographer Bruce Weber?
... that the founding members of Congregation Mickve Israel were Jews who arrived in Savannah, Georgia, in 1733, the same year that the colony was founded?
... that Itoro Umoh-Coleman was one of two Hephzibah High School graduates to play on the Nigerian women's national basketball team in the 2004 Summer Olympics?
... that listed buildings in Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, include five canal bridges, two aqueducts and a former privy?
... that Interstate Commerce Commissioner Walter L. Bragg died after suffering from the effects of Civil War wounds, a quarter century after the war ended?
... that Gilling Abbey, located in present-day Yorkshire, was founded shortly after 651 AD on an estate granted as weregild?
... that the CEO of toonlet has also worked on The Sims, SimCity and Spore?
... that the Moon of Pejeng in Bali is the largest single-cast bronze kettle drum in the world?
... that Dr Delano Meriwether won the 100 yard event at the 1971 Amateur Athletics Union championships wearing a hospital shirt, swimming trunks and gold suspenders (braces)?
... that John Thomas North , originally a Yorkshire mechanic, became a friend of the future King George V and was worth $10 million in 1889?
... that when torpedoed in May 1915 by German submarine UB-8, SS Merion was disguised as the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Tiger?
... that a woodcut by the German Renaissance block-cutter Hans Lützelburger showed himself and the artist nearly naked?
... that it was said of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Judson C. Clements that no opinion ever written by him had been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court?
... that the U2 song "White as Snow" was written from the perspective of a dying soldier in Afghanistan?
... that Charlie Chaplin Studios, founded in 1917 and now home to Jim Henson Productions, has a 12-foot (3.7 m) color statue of Kermit the Frog dressed as the "Little Tramp" above the main gate?
... that Doug Hele designed the three-cylinder Triumph Trident and developed it into the most successful race bike of the time?
... that several thousand bauls, a community of wandering minstrels who sing devotional songs, assemble annually for the fair at Jaydev Kenduli in West Bengal, India?
... that engineer William Mylne fled to America following the collapse of his North Bridge in Edinburgh in 1772, but later returned to run the Dublin Water Works?
... that Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx have separate dependent and independent verb forms?
... that television writer Steve Higgins was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on Saturday Night Live before becoming the announcer for NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?
... that the Dacia Duster is the first concept car entirely made by the Romanian automaker Automobile Dacia?
... that Welsh military pilot and journalist, Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, published two volumes of wartime memoirs 49 years apart: Not Peace, But a Sword (1943) and Torpedo Leader (1992)?
... that Michael Jackson's official concert tour website could not deal with the traffic—16,000 applications a second—for pre-sale ticket registration?
... that visits to the workshop of Hieronymus Andreae by Maximilian I gave rise to a Nuremberg saying "The Emperor has gone to the women's alley again"?
... that until December 2008, the Red Lemur and the Red-fronted Lemur were considered the same species?
... that motorcycle racer Percy Tait was estimated to have driven over a million miles road-testing Triumph motorcycles?
... that Jane Sterk joined the Green Party of British Columbia after witnessing environmental degradation in Mexico and became its leader six years later?
... that when German U-boat UB-3 disappeared on her first patrol in May 1915, she was the first of her class to be lost?
... that the plot of Abel Gance's 1931 science fiction film, End of the World, features a comet hurling toward Earth as the world prays for help?
... that the percentage of Sudanese-born persons living in the Australian electoral district of Yeerongpilly is twelve times the national average?
... that the medieval bishop John de Breton was credited with having written a legal treatise regarding statutes created after his death?
... that Thomas Sangster had to learn how to play the guitar left-handed to portray Paul McCartney in the upcoming John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy?
... that in 1911, HMA No. 1 Mayfly , Britain's first rigid airship, broke in two as a result of strong winds before she could attempt her first flight?
... that Indian freedom fighter T. S. S. Rajan practised as a doctor in Burma and England before being appointed as the Minister for Health and Religious Endowments of the Madras Presidency?
... that the 1959 NBC series Five Fingers features David Hedison as an American counterintelligence officer in the Cold War who poses as a theatrical agent to investigate communist activities in Europe?
... that Jost de Negker cut a chiaroscuro woodcut with seven different colour-blocks, a record number for a German Renaissance print?
... that Martin Luther King's speech at the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, a non-violent demonstration in Washington, DC, established him as a national leader for the Civil Rights Movement?
... that in a bid to get his name in the Guinness Book of World Records, child bullfighter Michelito Lagravere killed six bulls in a single fight in a bullring in Mérida, Mexico?
... that the land snail Indrella ampulla lives only in the rainforests of the Western Ghats, in India?
... that Smith Clove Meetinghouse in Highland Mills, New York, is the oldest religious building in the town and village of Woodbury?
... that KCET Studios, where Invasion of the Body Snatchers was filmed, is the longest continuously-producing studio in Hollywood?
... that Pixiv is a Japanese online community for artists, which as of February 2009 consists of over 600,000 members, and 3 million submissions?
... that in the late 1800s, Charles Patrick Daly, president of the American Geographical Society, was also Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas?
... that the No Parking Whitebeam, a rare tree, was named after a road sign nailed to the type specimen?
... that Winston Churchill and his daughter, Diana, visited Bernard Baruch's Hobcaw Barony near Georgetown, South Carolina?
... that the spiny butterfly ray stuns its prey with blows from its wing-like pectoral fins?
... that the Tang Dynasty general Gao Chongwen asked to be moved from his post at Chengdu as he was illiterate and disliked the paperwork?
... that the now-defunct Arbogast & Bastian abbatoir in Allentown, Pennsylvania, could process most of the 850,000 hogs raised annually in Pennsylvania?
... that the architectural designs of Mannerist painter and printmaker Wendel Dietterlin (d. 1599) have been characterized as a "bizarre ornamental fantasy"?
... that a decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB?
... that the biologist Lourens Bass Becking was imprisoned by the Germans and spent his time studying typhoid fever as it spread amongst the inmates?
... that the classical "boy band" Blake formed via the social networking website Facebook and replaced a member by using Twitter?
... that prior to the creation of the Winter Olympics, an ice hockey tournament was held at the 1920 Summer Olympics?
... that although La princesse jaune is the third opera that Saint-Saëns’ composed, it was his first opera to actually be mounted on the stage?
... that author Jonathan Krohn gave a two-minute speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at age thirteen?
... that Sheldon Manor, a Grade I listed building, is Wiltshire's longest continuously inhabited manor house?
... that Yakub Hasan Sait, who served as the Minister of Public Works for the Madras Presidency from 1937 to 1939, was a native of Nagpur and a former member of the All India Muslim League?
... that Tropical Storm Faxai of the 2007 Pacific typhoon season injured six people when a plane encountered severe turbulence produced by the storm?
... that Alan Landers, who was featured in Winston cigarette ads, became an anti-smoking advocate calling himself the "Winston Man" and died of laryngeal cancer after a longtime 2½-pack-per-day habit?
... that attempts to reintroduce a species of thick-billed parrot into Arizona have so far failed?
... that the librettists for Saint-Saëns's Le timbre d’argent, Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, also wrote the librettos for Gounod’s Faust and Offenbach’s Les contes d'Hoffmann?
... that Interstate Commerce Commissioner John H. Marble died in 1913 following an attack of acute indigestion after only eight months in office?
... that the 900,000-year-old hand axes found at Olorgesailie in southern Kenya were probably used for butchering animals?
... that American baritone James Billings has portrayed more than 175 opera roles on stage during his long career?
... that election monitors described the behaviour of the people of Suriname during the 2005 Surinamese legislative election as a good example to the Caribbean?
... that Samuel Brand, a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany, was officially the first immigrant to enter Israel after its creation?
... that two psychedelic frogfish were recognized as "something different" in 1992, but were not declared a new species until this year?
... that bishop David of Basra was one of the first Christian missionaries to India, circa 300 CE?
... that although the summit of underwater volcano Loihi is 969 metres (3,180 ft) below sea level, it is still twice as tall, measured from the base of its southern flank, as Mount St. Helens ever was?
... that Boris Eikhenbaum was a key member of the Society for the Study of Poetic Language (OPOJAZ)?
... that after being kidnapped by Shawnees and adopted by a Mingo chief, Jonathan Alder became the first white settler of Madison County, Ohio?
... that the Peninsular Gneiss rock exposure in the Lalbagh botanical gardens in Bangalore, India, is a National Geological Monument?
... that Robert Bruce, a former wrestler, played a small role in the 1971 science fiction film A Clockwork Orange?
... that doctor and politician Orlando Plummer had the first telephone in Portland, Oregon, installed at his drug store?
... that in 2006, a descendant of the 17th century Hebridean chieftain who once fortified himself in Stac Dhòmhnaill Chaim , scaled the stack and found a piece of possibly Neolithic pottery?
... that film director Arie Posin's father did not allow him to watch television as a child despite being a professional filmmaker himself?
... that after the Glorious Revolution Scottish troops who deserted couldn't be punished until the passage of the first Mutiny Act in 1689?
... that Jean Desbouvrie persuaded the government of France to test swallows as an alternative to carrier pigeons?
... that slaves comprised roughly one percent of the population of China during the Han Dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE)?
... that in 1999, Somalian Mahmood Hussein Mattan was the first person to have his case overturned by the UK's Criminal Cases Review Commission, 45 years after his execution?
... that King Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) granted Regenbald, a royal clerk, the status of a bishop without the actual office?
... that Mantis in Lace is a 1968 sexploitation film about a topless go-go dancer who becomes a serial killer after ingesting LSD?
... that No. 40 Wing RAF was credited with destroying the bulk of the Turkish Seventh Army during the Battle of Armageddon in 1918?
... that William G. Hare, his father William D. Hare, and his son John all served in the Oregon State Senate?
... that many voters in the 2005 Mongolian presidential election voted in traditional Mongolian dress?
... that the city of East Layton, Utah, now a part of Layton, was incorporated in 1936 to qualify for funding from the Works Progress Administration for a municipal water system?
... that Peter of Aigueblanche, a medieval Bishop of Hereford, was once besieged in the city of Hereford?
... that large swells produced by Hurricane Howard resulted in about 1,000 lifeguard rescues in southern California during the Labor Day weekend in 2004?
... that Pliny the Elder claimed that the toxic spine of the Common stingray could kill trees and corrode iron?
... that writer-director Bruce A. Evans described directing his first film in 15 years, Mr. Brooks, as "like riding a bicycle"?
... that George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?
... that the Overland Trail was the first road to reach the Klondike gold fields in Canada's Yukon?
... that syndicalist trade unionist Frank Hodges once played a game of golf with George VI of the United Kingdom?
... that although it is considered a gamefish, the flat needlefish is seldom eaten because of its green-colored flesh?
... that former FedEx Office CEO Ken May was elected the March of Dimes' board of trustees chairman in 2007?
... that the Belt of Orion Award, for organizations that have advanced aviation in Canada, was bestowed upon the Air Cadet League of Canada in 1989?
... that before becoming Governor of Pennsylvania, John K. Tener was a Major League Baseball player who once explained the game to the future King Edward VII?
... that, due to a pressing error, the first shipment of Faryl Smith's debut album Faryl instead contained the music from The Fall's album Imperial Wax Solvent?
... that Force India's 2009 Formula One car, the VJM02 , is painted in the colours of the Indian flag, but the team is based in England and neither of the drivers is Indian?
... that Swedish singer Sofia Berntson entered Sweden's Melodifestivalen with the Greek song "Alla" and won the international jury vote?
... that before it was merged into the Department for Constitutional Affairs in 2003 the Lord Chancellor's Department was the oldest existing Government Department in the United Kingdom?
... that the Jurassic crocodile relative Phyllodontosuchus had two types of teeth; one type resembled those of some herbivorous dinosaurs, indicating it may not have been a strict carnivore?
... that until U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt named him to the Interstate Commerce Commission, Edgar E. Clark had served for 16 years as Grand Chief Conductor of the Order of Railway Conductors?
... that Hurricane Fausto of the 2008 Pacific hurricane season reportedly produced hurricane-force winds on Socorro Island despite being 115 mi (185 km) away from the island?
... that Sir Allan Quartermaine, a former member of the British Royal Fine Art Commission, was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the First World War?
... that the western yellowjacket, an invasive species in Hawaii, can be baited with poisoned catfood?
... that Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) Henry Wrigley piloted the first trans-Australia flight, from Melbourne to Darwin, in 1919?
... that the 17th-century Knights of the Royal Oak received silver medals that displayed the Royal Oak where Charles II of England hid after the Battle of Worcester?
... that at the Tiananmen Square protests, Cui Jian gained notoriety for performing "Nothing To My Name" while wearing a red blindfold?
... that Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, is best remembered for his role in the execution of a favourite of Edward II?
... that in a Spanish language scene of the Dexter episode "Return to Sender", actor David Zayas learned all of his dialogue in English and translated each line mentally during each take?
... that the Alpirod, a defunct 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) European sled dog race, was the longest competition of its kind outside of North America?
... that American film director Keith Gordon decided to adapt the novel of obsessive passion, Waking the Dead, into a movie before he finished reading it?
... that French Pass has the fastest tidal flows in New Zealand, reaching nearly nine knots and capable of stunning fish?
... that former Union Army Brigadier-General Patrick Henry Jones acted as a negotiator in the Alexander Stewart body snatching case?
... that the highest circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom at the start of the 19th century sold only 4,000 copies a day?