derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Harry Endo had been filmed in a commercial for the bank in Hawaii where he worked when he was asked to play the role of "Che Fong", an original cast member of the television series Hawaii Five-O?
... that Istanbul Hezarfen Airfield hosts around 30,000 music fans every September for the annual Rock'n Coke open air music festival?
... that anthropologist Donat Savoie was the first director of Canada's Inuit Relations Secretariat?
... that the book Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell, claims that the key to success in any field is practicing a specific task for 10,000 hours?
... that college football coach Jim Tatum secured a national championship without a single losing season in his nine years at Maryland, but was called a "parasitic monster" by one student newspaper?
... that Appollo received the Dickin Medal on behalf of all search and rescue dogs who participated in rescue operations after the September 11 attacks?
... that the largest surface action during World War I in the Mediterranean was the Battle of the Strait of Otranto ?
... that radio station WMSP in Montgomery, Alabama, broadcasts the college football games of both the Alabama Crimson Tide and arch-rival Auburn Tigers?
... that when Charles, Prince of Wales was attacked for calling his friend Kuldip Singh Dhillon "Sooty", Dhillon defended the Prince as a man of "zero prejudice"?
... that when a young Mozart toured Italy, Pope Clement XIV awarded the composer a knighthood, but Empress Maria Theresa dismissed Mozart and his father as "useless people"?
... that J. K. Gill started a bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in 1870 that grew to a chain of 63 stores before the company folded in 1999?
... that despite its fishy smell, Lactarius volemus is considered a choice mushroom for eating?
... that the 1895 deaths of Richard Corney Grain and Alfred German Reed ended the German Reed Entertainments, which had been presented since 1855?
... that according to Hindu mythology, the devotee Pundalik kept the god Krishna waiting because he was busy serving his parents?
... that during the 1927 Nagpur riots in India, in which 22 people were killed, the house of Hindu nationalist leader K. B. Hedgewar was stoned?
... that Evelyn Lauder, who co-created and popularized the pink ribbon as a symbol for breast cancer awareness, helped create Estée Lauder's Pink Ribbon lipstick and blusher as a breast cancer fundraiser?
... that the BSA M20 was one of the longest serving British military motorcycles and the most numerous with 126,000 produced?
... that the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is the first of three major theaters in New Orleans, USA, to reopen since Hurricane Katrina struck the city in August 2005?
... that Australian Second World War flying ace Adrian Goldsmith was credited with shooting down 12¼ Axis aircraft over Malta between the months of February and July 1942?
... that Michael Jackson was only 10 years old when he recorded "Big Boy", the first single by The Jackson 5?
... that Father Émile Petitot was the first European to reach the Tuktut Nogait National Park area in northern Canada?
... that professional wrestler Mighty Igor Vodic used to bring kielbasa to his matches and share it with the fans?
... that from 1904 to 1927, passengers travelling by rail from Stavanger to Oslo, Norway, needed to change to steam ship at Flekkefjord Station ?
... that To My Surprise was the only album ever released by the alternative rock band To My Surprise before they disbanded in 2006?
... that while Captain Horatio Nelson was initially enthusiastic about his new command HMS Albemarle, his more experienced uncle, Maurice Suckling, expressed doubts?
... that the 4,400-acre (1,800 ha) McLean Game Refuge was privately created by George P. McLean, a Senator and Governor of Connecticut?
... that Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Eugene McGuinness once performed for Sir Paul McCartney?
... that the filming of Dexter was forced to move from Miami to Los Angeles, beginning with the episode "It's Alive!", because of the overlap between the show's production window and Miami's hurricane season?
... that the shooting of a sparrow, during the preparations for the Domino Day World record attempt, was investigated by the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals in 2005?
... that Frank Layden is the only Utah Jazz head coach to have a number retired by the Jazz?
... that Leon Keyserling was the head of the Council of Economic Advisers advising U.S. President Truman, yet never finished his own graduate dissertation in economics?
... that, due to racial segregation, African American wrestlers like Tiger Conway, Sr. competed on the "chitterling circuit", named after pig innards that were fed to slaves?
... that on the outbreak of the First World War Bat sold all their remaining stock of Bat No. 2 Light Roadster motorcycles to the Russian military but were never paid?
... that baseball pitcher Nick Carter was the Philadelphia Athletics' Opening Day starting pitcher in 1908, his only season on the Major Leagues?
... that a November 2008 appearance by a dance troupe called Satanic Sluts, featuring the granddaughter of actor Andrew Sachs, on The Late Late Show led to a significant number of complaints?
... that the U.S. Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 provided penalties ranging from a life sentence to a term of any number of years for violators?
... that Sir Norman Denning anticipated an attack on Singapore by the Japanese as early as the mid-1930s, but his report was dismissed as him "over-exercising his imagination"?
... that the "monstrous" five-masted steel barque Potosi was named after the highest city in the world?
... that Harry Kinnard was the inspiration for General Anthony McAuliffe's one-word reply "Nuts!" in response to a German demand for surrender at the Siege of Bastogne?
... that two perpetrators of the 1977 Moscow bombings were caught after attempting to bomb the city's Kursky Rail Terminal later that year?
... that in 1966, Donald Gleason developed the Gleason score, still used as the standard to measure the aggressiveness of prostate cancer despite millions spent in attempts to displace it?
... that though the Vigo Ordnance Plant never produced any biological agents it did produce 8,000 pounds (3,600 kg) of the anthrax simulant Bacillus globigii?
... that a Chardonnay from the Robert Young Vineyard in the Alexander Valley AVA was one of the first premium vineyard designated wines in California history?
... that Leon Kruczkowski, a major figure in post-WWII Polish theater, was also involved in introducing the socrealism doctrine in Poland?
... that Hamilton Clarke, a prolific composer of the Victorian era, is remembered today chiefly for his compilation of the overture to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado?
... that because of difficulties customers had using square milk jugs , a Sam's Club offered lessons in how to pour them without spilling?
... that church music composer Geoffrey Shaw was the father of Sebastian Shaw, who played Anakin Skywalker in Return of the Jedi?
... that the Bernard Daly Educational Fund, established in 1922, has provided over 2,000 college scholarships to students from communities in Lake County, Oregon?
... that Théodore Vienne, who founded the Paris-Roubaix cycle race, was described by the New York Times as "the leading fight promoter of France"?
... that the East African plant Commelina lukei has been informally recognised as a separate species since 1969, but was only formally described in 2008?
... that industrialist S. Anantharamakrishnan became the first Indian director of the British-owned Simpson's group of companies of Madras in 1938?
... that during her husband's presidential campaign, Michelle Obama met with Mormon officials in their Church Administration Building?
... that Michigan's first athletic director Charles Baird built the largest college athletic ground in the United States and negotiated the school's appearance in the first Rose Bowl game?
... that the Australian government hopes to use the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement as a model for future free trade agreements with other countries?
... that in 1636, Phineas Hodson, Chancellor of York Minster, lost his 38-year-old wife Jane during the birth of the couple's 24th child?
... that the character of Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future films was named after studio executive Ned Tanen, who had reacted aggressively towards writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis at a meeting?
... that TT racer Harold Daniell tested the new Norton motorcycle frame in 1950 and declared that it was like "riding on a featherbed" – and it has been called the "Featherbed frame" ever since?
... that William Thomas Pecora, who headed the United States Geological Survey from 1965 to 1971, was a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?
... that on 22 October 2008, 15,000 members of the "grey army" descended on Ireland's government buildings to protest the proposed abolition of their previously guaranteed free health treatment?
... that the Great Divide Brewery won a prestigious Great American Beer Festival award less than three months after opening?
... that Sahu Mewalal scored the only goal in the final of the first Asian Games football competition held at Delhi, India, in 1951?
... that immature specimens of the lantern stinkhorn fungus , with an odor of dog feces, sewage, or rotting flesh when mature, are considered an edible and medicinal delicacy in China?
... that during the Puna de Atacama dispute the U.S. minister in Buenos Aires and two delegates from Chile and Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
... that Arthur Dodd, a British prisoner of war during World War II, was an eye-witness to the horrors of Auschwitz?
... that Philip Leget Edwards, the first teacher in what became the U.S. state of Oregon, later served in the legislatures of Missouri and California?
... that from 1936 to 1998, the Germany national football team had just five managers, each of whom won a major trophy, with Helmut Schön (1964–1978) winning two?
... that John Clarke Hawkshaw was a member of the Royal Commission set up by King Edward VII to decide the British representation at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair?
... that professional wrestler Rufus R. Jones used to tell opponents that his middle initial stood for "guts"?
... that a helicopter once crashed on Interstate 84 in New York, stopping traffic and causing a power outage?
... that the 1871 election of Father Eduard Müller to the new Reichstag was considered "an astonishing victory of a nobody" over an aristocratic landowner?
... that professional wrestler Gene Petit was hired by the World Wrestling Federation because of a picture he took as a joke?
... that prior to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, all American military flights into Afghanistan had to be launched from Uzbekistan or aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea?
... that "I'll be a bridge over deep water if you trust in my name", from Claude Jeter's 1961 song "Mary Don't You Weep", was the inspiration for Paul Simon's 1970 song "Bridge over Troubled Water"?
... that the Alternanthera mosaic virus, a type of Potexvirus, has been misdiagnosed as the closely-related Papaya mosaic virus?
... that U.S. Route 20 in Massachusetts used to be part of the Boston Post Road, one of the earliest roads established in the United States?
... that Sin Chang-won, a South Korean fugitive criminal famous for his close escapes, was first arrested at the age of 15 after being turned in by his father for stealing a watermelon?
... that the historic McGehee-Stringfellow House in Greensboro, Alabama, collapsed in the 1980s when the MacMillan Bloedel company tried to move it?
... that while Kevin Thomas played for Edinburgh Athletic in the East of Scotland Football League he also worked for a hotel booking agency run by his mother?
... that 19th-century politician Søren Jaabæk is the longest-serving member of parliament in the history of Norway?
... that Prairieville, Alabama's Italianate Browder Place was inspired by an 1852 Samuel Sloan publication?
... that archivist Margaret Storrs Grierson was founder and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College?
... that Lucien Heath, the first Oregon Secretary of State, later served in the California State Assembly?
... that in 1991, Manufacturers Hanover CEO John McGillicuddy was the chief architect of a merger with the Chemical Banking Corporation that was the largest US bank merger to that time?
... that winemakers in the Carmignano region of Tuscany have been blending Cabernet Sauvignon with Sangiovese since the 18th century, long before the emergence of "Super Tuscans"?
... that, despite competing for over 20 years, Alberto Madril now reportedly refuses to acknowledge that he was once a professional wrestler?
... that unlike most historical homes, the Paul Dresser Birthplace in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, reflects the furnishings of a working class family, not the well-to-do?
... that goalkeeper Jack Wheeler and his five defenders set a Football League record in the 1952–53 season by all playing in every league game for Huddersfield Town?
... that Mount Hamiguitan in the Philippines has a protected area with a 2,000-hectare (4,900-acre) pygmy forest of century-old trees growing in ultramafic soil?
... that professional wrestlers Jos LeDuc and Paul LeDuc played the role of brothers so well that news that they were not related created a sensation on talk shows?
... that Kanhopatra is venerated as a saint in the Varkari sect of Hinduism, despite spending most of her life as a courtesan?
... that Cialis, the erectile dysfunction drug developed by Icos, was originally researched in the hopes of a treatment for cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and angina?
... that when Norwegian alpine skier Ole Kristian Furuseth won a silver medal in slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics, he had not placed this high in a major race since March 1995?
... that pathologist Kenneth Walton conducted a 1973 study into the causes of heart disease in which he got participants to eat greasy fry-ups?
... that the development of the linotype machine was initiated by James O. Clephane, a court reporter who sought a quick way to transcribe legal briefs?
... that shale oil was used to light the streets of Modena, Italy, at the turn of the 17th century?
... that in his later years, Union Army general Thomas Alfred Davies published a number of books supporting the divine inspiration of the Bible, and refuting the materialistic philosophy?
... that professional wrestler Ray Gunkel won his final match despite suffering a heart injury in that match that killed him later that day?
... that the Phnom Penh Commercial Bank was Cambodia's 23rd bank and the first Japanese-financed bank in the country?
... that in addition to his academic works, Norwegian mycologist Leif Ryvarden is known as a conveyer of popular science and a former board member of Greenpeace?
... that in 2006, a prisoner escaped from HM Prison Ranby, England, by hiding in a rubbish lorry?
... that 1966 European Rally Champion Günter Klass was given no spare parts as Porsches "simply don't break"?
... that Khmer numerals were the first material evidence of the figure zero as a numerical figure?
... that Bishop Auckland F.C. was the only football club to win the FA Amateur Cup in three consecutive seasons?
... that historic Glencairn in Greensboro, Alabama, was built in 1835 by Alabama legislator John Erwin?
... that Lucy Kennedy has described The Lucy Kennedy Show as "Livin' with Lucy in a studio" and "a bit like The Charlotte Church Show gone wrong"?
... that professional wrestler Dan Kroffat created the ladder match during a feud with Tor Kamata in Stampede Wrestling?
... that the Spanish–American War-era Fort Terry on Plum Island was used as a U.S. biological weapons research facility from 1952 to 1969?
... that former Beninese army Chief of Staff Alphonse Alley was known as "the wine, women and song officer"?
... that Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have visited the St. Peter's Church in Jaffa during his campaign in Egypt and Syria in 1799?
... that British plant physiologist Daphne Osborne showed that the gas ethylene is a natural plant hormone which regulates ageing and the shedding of leaves and fruits?
... that 1944 was proclaimed the "Year of naturalization and the Hebrew name" by the Zionist leadership?
... that Anatoly Koryagin was imprisoned for conducting psychiatric interviews with Soviet dissidents confined to mental institutions and smuggling a paper about his findings to the Lancet?
... that Okinawan folk singer Rinshō Kadekaru was gravely wounded during World War II, and reported dead, only to survive and enjoy a lengthy career, living until 1999?
... that, due to a government-imposed curfew, professional wrestler Mario Milano had to wrestle under a mask at the beginning of his career because he was underage and not allowed out after 9 o'clock?
... that the 30 June 1961 wrestling match between Pat O'Connor and Buddy Rogers had ticket sales of US$148,000, which was a North American professional wrestling record for almost 20 years?
... that in 1914, railway official Lucius Seymour Storrs became president of the Connecticut Company?
... that Relative Values, a satire of postwar snobbery, marked the return of Noël Coward to playwriting after World War II?
... that Tangton Gyelpo, a 15th-century Nyingma yogi, physician, treasure finder, and founder of Tibetan opera, is known for building numerous iron chain suspension bridges in Tibet?
... that Mohammad Usman was the first Indian to act as the Governor of Madras Presidency in British India?
... that one draft of the 1982 Spanish film Labyrinth of Passion had Salvador Dalí and the Pope meeting and falling passionately in love?
... that the genus Platax, composed of five species of marine batfishes , used to include the freshwater angelfish?
... that Karim el-Mejjati was implicated in the bombing of targets in Casablanca, the American barracks in Riyadh, the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 London bombings?
... that Joseph Losey directed both the first U.S. theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo in 1947 and the 1975 film version?
... that after three years as a back-up, college football quarterback David Johnson threw for 46 touchdowns in 2008 and led Tulsa to an 11–3 record?
... that despite her illiteracy, Catherine Ferguson founded the first Sunday school in New York City which later became known as Murray Street Sabbath School?
... that the RTÉ series Five Women Go Back to Work follows five women as they attempt to compile a glossy magazine aimed at working women?
... that pitchers Bill Wilkinson and Jim Bluejacket are the only great-grandfather and great-grandson pair to both play in Major League Baseball?
... that many soldiers in the Wehrmacht forces deployed for the Ardennes Offensive could not speak German?
... that the cruise ship MS Rhapsody was designed in part by Hugh Hefner, who envisioned the ship as a "floating Playboy Club"?
... that Teiji Honma became one of the first goaltenders in ice hockey to wear a mask when he used one that resembled a baseball catcher's mask at the 1936 Winter Olympics?
... that the Revolutionary Communist candidate at the 1945 Neath by-election was the first Trotskyist to stand in a British parliamentary election?
... that the NAACP forced the cancellation of some wrestling events in Mississippi to protest a tar-and-feather match featuring Melvin Nelson wrestling as "Burrhead Jones"?
... that the Edmund Barton Building, named after the first Prime Minister of Australia, is the largest example of the late 20th-century International Style of Australian architecture in Canberra?
... that more than 3,000 containers of the chemical agent lewisite were dumped off the Florida coast during Operation Geranium?
... that during a blowout, fans often chant to request that players who only play in garbage time be put in the game?
... that Czesław Wycech , Polish peasant movement activist, was also involved with underground education in occupied Poland during WWII?
... that Maria Kinnaird, who was adopted by the politician Richard "Conversation" Sharp, married the surveyor who first used the Drummond Light?
... that Conolophus rosada, a newly described species of iguana, diverged some 5.7 million years ago, making it among the oldest incidents of evolutionary divergence recorded in the Galápagos archipelago?
... that in 1820, the missionary William Jowett bought the 9,539-page manuscript of Abu Rumi's first-ever translation of the Bible into Amharic "on terms which appeared... equitable to all parties"?
... that the 2005 Operation Iron Hammer, aimed to clear Al-Qaeda in Iraq from the Hai Al Becker region in western Iraq, resulted in no reported casualties and no use of deadly force?
... that the studio band of radio station WRAG (now WREN) in Carrollton, Alabama, is credited with popularizing bluegrass music in central Alabama and eastern Mississippi?
... that Scottish footballer Jim Baxter once taunted opponents in an international match by playing keepie uppie during the game, and that he described his style as "treating the ball like a woman"?
... that Rafflesia keithii , a parasitic plant endemic to Sabah, is named in honour of forester and plant collector Harry Keith?
... that when Robert de Bethune was nominated Bishop of Hereford in 1130, King Henry I of England did so because he felt he needed one "godly bishop" around?
... that concerns were raised in 2001 that anthrax research done by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency as part of Project Jefferson violated the Biological Weapons Convention?
... that at great risk, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason of the RNZAF negotiated the transfer of 166 allied airmen from Buchenwald concentration camp, a week before their scheduled execution?
... that James Bennet was set to become Beijing correspondent for The New York Times when he instead was appointed the fourteenth editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly in March 2006?
... that in Blood of the Irish, presenter Diarmuid Gavin examined the claim that 20% of men in the north-west of Ireland are descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, an ancient High King of Ireland?
... that Edward D. Hamilton was appointed as the Secretary of the Oregon Territory after later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declined the position?
... that the Brazilian team at the 1958 World Cup had not assigned squad numbers in advance, and a 17-year old Pelé was randomly assigned the number 10, which he wore for the rest of his career?
... that in 1889, Frank Atwood Huntington patented a self-propelled gasoline engine vehicle , four years before the Duryea Brothers built their first car?
... that after Pope Alexander III absolved Gilbert Foliot's excommunication, Thomas Becket exclaimed that "Satan is unloosed for the destruction of the Church"?
... that recommendations from the U.S. War Bureau of Consultants in 1942 led to the founding of the War Research Service and a bio-weapons program?
... that handballer Tonje Larsen was a part of the All-Star Team at the 2008 European Championship, sixteen years after debuting on the Norwegian national team?
... that the first 8-real banknotes were printed in Puerto Rico in 1766?
... that internal division caused when three sympathizers of the Democratic Agrarian Party of Moldova competed in the 1996 presidential election was one factor that led to the party losing all parliamentary seats two years later?
... that the owner of Twin Oaks Plantation organized Company B of the 36th Regiment Alabama Infantry in the Confederate Army on the lawn in front of his house?
... that Benoît Sinzogan, described as "too timid to mount a coup" during the 1960s and 1970s, was "one of Dahomey's few senior officers not to attempt to"?
... that Samuel Pepys and Ferdinand Columbus each owned works by the anonymous engraver Master I. A. M. of Zwolle ?
... that the lyrics "suicide, it's a suicide", first used by rapper KRS-One in 1987, have since been re-used by artists such as Ice-T, Redman and Jay-Z?
... that Leonid Plyushch, who sought to apply mathematical modeling to mental illness, was later diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia for his dissident activities?