derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Gamal Salem was chief judge of the court that sentenced seven Muslim Brotherhood leaders to death for participating in an assassination attempt on Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser?
... that the historic N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown Bend, Oregon?
... that in the Skins episode "Pandora", comedian David Baddiel guest-starred as the lover of his real-life girlfriend's character?
... that the Mihai Eminescu National College in Satu Mare, Romania, was established in 1634 when Jesuits received approval to open a college in the city?
... that Jesse N. Funk was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War I for running through no man's land to rescue wounded men?
... that the Hindu shrine Tungnath is closed during winter and a symbolic image of the temple's presiding deity is moved to Mukunath, 19 km (12 mi) away?
... that Henry Swinburne was the first canon law writer to write his works in English?
... that the ornamental houseplant Asparagus densiflorus is toxic to dogs and cats?
... that the old rank of mate was revived in 1913 as part of the Selborne-Fisher scheme for the accelerated promotion of promising enlisted personnel to become engineering officers?
... that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian?
... that the single "Hot" by Romanian singer Inna was posted on YouTube and reached 2 million views in under one year?
... that the undefeated 1940 Stanford Indians were coached by Clark Shaughnessy, whose record at the University of Chicago had caused that school to discontinue its football program?
... that Marie Wittich , the soprano who created the title role in Richard Strauss' opera Salome, refused to perform the Dance of the Seven Veils saying "I won't do it. I'm a decent woman."?
... that in the Dutch children's book Pluk van de Petteflet, a group of grown-ups get intoxicated from eating mysterious berries, a scene praised by educators?
... that the Hindu god Shiva is worshipped in form of a navel-shaped lingam at Madhyamaheshwar temple?
... that All-Pro linebacker Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich, a rodeo rider before joining the NFL, reported that no end or back ever threw a block like a wild pony "when he feels the first touch of a saddle"?
... that although the Chancery Amendment Act 1858 was repealed in the United Kingdom, it is still valid in the Republic of Ireland and parts of Canada?
... that Abdel Latif Boghdadi resigned his position as vice president of Egypt because Nasser adopted a more Soviet Union-style system for Egypt rather than closer United States relations?
... that the four Mackensen-class battlecruisers were canceled according to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?
... that in the mid-1980s, Burger King offered customers $5,000 for finding a nerd?
... that the painting of the hussar Gregor Baci belongs to the Chamber of Art and Curiosities at Ambras castle?
... that a plot on the American soap opera One Life to Live featuring sexually confused police officer Oliver Fish invited controversy when an actress objecting to the storyline was replaced?
... that in the fiscal years 2001 to 2003, the oil tanker MV Montauk made over 125 voyages in and about South Korea and Japan?
... that despite a poor economy, a record number of people anted up $1,000 in a "Stimulus Special"?
... that in 1961, the Soviet ambassador to Guinea Daniel Solod was accused of being involved in an anti-government plot, and was expelled from Guinea?
... that on Reek Sunday, in a tradition of the past 1,500 years, thousands of people from across the world have embarked on an annual national pilgrimage up Croagh Patrick, some barefoot?
... that Leo Paquin, one of the Seven Blocks of Granite on the 1936 Fordham University football team, was nicknamed "Twinkletoes"?
... that Grub Street , in London's Moorfields district, was home to hack writers, and later became a pejorative term for impoverished authors?
... that Münchausen by Internet is a pattern of behavior where people feign illnesses in online forums to gain attention and sympathy?
... that Alan Garnett Davenport, a Member of the Order of Canada, was the wind engineer on the World Trade Center, the Sears Tower, and the Tsing Ma Bridge?
... that New Zealand and Australian soldiers massacred the adult males of a village in Palestine during the Surafend affair of 1918?
... that Wyatt Durette, co-writer of Zac Brown Band's "Toes", called Brown at 6:00 in the morning to give him the idea for the song?
... that chronically indebted Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania wanted to sell the island of Rügen to Denmark?
... that the Azores Bullfinch is the most threatened passerine bird in Europe?
... that Sgt. James Crowley, who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, has taught a course entitled "Racial Profiling"?
... that the puffball mushroom Calvatia sculpta has been described as "a cross between a geodesic dome and a giant glob of meringue"?
... that Washington, D.C. Chief of Police Richard H. Sylvester is credited with having coined the term "third degree" to refer to harsh means of extracting confessions from suspects?
... that Kalpeshwar is the only temple in the Panch Kedar circuit, a group of five sacred Shiva temples in the Garhwal Himalayas, accessible throughout the year?
... that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris?
... that Hartley Road, the shortest numbered route in the city of Kawartha Lakes, is entirely a causeway crossing the man-made Mitchell Lake?
... that quarterback Vic Hall broke the Virginia state record for total yards as a high school junior and then broke his own record as a senior?
... that the Macmillan Report's most briefly discussed issue, an alleged "gap" in British industrial financing, was one of the only recommendations acted upon?
... that professional wrestler Juan Alvarado Nieves and his five brothers all use ring names with the term Brazo (Spanish for "arm") in them?
... that a front part of Venera 4 , the first probe to land on another planet, was made of sugar?
... that future U.S. President Gerald Ford waited tables at the fraternity house of Michigan halfback Herman Everhardus?
... that early audience members of Dublin's LGBT film festival Gaze risked being arrested as homosexuality was still illegal in Ireland?
... that Khaled Mohieddin, a former member of the Free Officers Movement, founded the leftist Taggamu party in Egypt?
... that the endangered Socorro springsnail is found in only one spring in the U.S. state of New Mexico?
... that businessman John Young migrated to Australia as a Ten Pound Pom, but was worth A$184 million in 2006, although the company that made him rich is now insolvent?
... that over 5,000 people applied to the quiz show Jeopardy! to be a part of the show's Clue Crew, a team of correspondents that film videos used to accompany some of the show's clues?
... that in an obituary of Adolf Hitler, Knut Hamsun infamously referred to Hitler as "a prophet of the gospel of justice for all nations"?
... that special Great Western Railway wagons were designed to carry goods as diverse as fish, kaolin, sheets of glass and gunpowder ?
... that the professional wrestling group Los Infernales were the first team to win both the Mexican National Trios Championship and the CMLL World Trios Championship?
... that the United States' largest oak stand occupies 2 to 3 million hectares of the Great Plains and is composed of ancient Quercus havardii?
... that Bonneau du Martray is the only estate in Burgundy to make wine exclusively from grand cru vineyards?
... that, inspired by nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen's success in France, Norwegian anti-immigrant political party Stop Immigration's only election win was a single seat on the Drammen City Council?
... that Colonel Ernest Bankey won the Soap Box Derby twice before becoming an American ace in a day on December 27, 1944?
... that a call of the Edwards's Fig-parrot of Northeastern New Guinea has been likened to "coins dropping on concrete"?
... that journalist James F. Bowman wrote a grandiose poetry review for The Californian newspaper, then published an anonymous review in the Dramatic Chronicle savaging his earlier review?
... that the names of the several "Blue" public houses and inns in Grantham have their origins in a time when the parliamentary constituency of Grantham was a pocket borough?
... that in 1899, Lave Cross and Joe Quinn managed the Cleveland Spiders to the worst record in professional baseball history?
... that in 1984, the National Day of Hatred was instituted in Kampuchea, to condemn the Khmer Rouge and their allies?
... that the first steeple of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York, collapsed a year after it was built because slate roofing was substituted for the tin in Minard Lafever's design?
... that Hungarian handball player Anita Görbicz was voted World Player of the Year 2005 by the International Handball Federation?
... that the Shahi Bridge across the Gomti River in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, was built in 1569 without the chhatris , which were added almost three centuries later?
... that Jane Weinberger, wife of Caspar Weinberger, began writing and publishing children's books in response to budget cuts by the Reagan administration?
... that the opportunity for the establishment of the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama as part of the 2010 IndyCar Series season resulted in part from the Detroit Indy Grand Prix being discontinued?
... that Lorenzo Campeggio, the cardinal protector of England during the English Reformation, determined that Henry VIII's marriage could not be annulled?
... that Howard Engle was the lead plaintiff in a class action suit in which a jury awarded a U.S. record punitive damage verdict of $145 billion against the tobacco industry?
... that in the 1960s, Israel trained Ethiopian forces for counterinsurgency operations against the Eritrean Liberation Front?
... that Tony Romano was the Peterborough Petes's leading scorer during the 2008–09 Ontario Hockey League season?
... that Matt Kirshen's Bigipedia article on the "Bee Whisperer" was inspired by an article found using the random article function on Wikipedia?
... that Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum in Scotland displays a collection of local incised Pictish stones dating to the 9th and 10th centuries AD ?
... that Thomas B. Kay was elected as the Oregon State Treasurer four times and served in the office longer than anyone else in Oregon history?
... that in the late 1980s, the Mongolian pioneer movement, the Sukhe Bator Mongolian Pioneers Organization, had a membership of 360,000?
... that while developing Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo, Factor 5 put together a playable demo for Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in 19 days to show at Nintendo's 2001 Space World?
... that in 2006, the Michigan State Spartans mounted the greatest comeback in top division college football history, but their coach was fired two weeks later?
... that ex parte O'Brien was a test case seeking the release of between 80 and 100 people arrested under the Restoration of Order in Ireland Act 1920?
... that a farewell gathering for entomologist Henry Edwards in the woods of Marin County in 1878 was the beginning of the Bohemian Club's tradition of a yearly encampment at the Bohemian Grove?
... that in April 2009, a team of scientists uncovered evidence suggesting that the endangered Visayan Spotted Deer survived in a tiny forest in Negros?
... that American Racing Hall of Fame jockey Isaac Burns Murphy, now interred at the Kentucky Horse Park, was initially buried at African Cemetery No. 2?
... that the building known as Three Old Arches in Chester, Cheshire, has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England?
... that Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past?
... that players from the 1990 England and West Germany association football teams replayed their Italia '90 World Cup semi-final match in aid of charity, for the Sir Bobby Robson Trophy?
... that the Commanding Officer of RAAF Station Richmond in 1938–40, Group Captain "Kanga" De La Rue, was once locked up by his own guards when he tried to enter the base without a pass?
... that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa in Tartus, built by the Crusaders in the mid-12th century, is among the best-preserved religious structures of the crusades?
... that the game rock-paper-scissors has been used to determine the winner of several events at the World Series of Poker?
... that Garboldisham Windmill was the only post mill standing in Norfolk in 1972?
... that Walter Scott met the explorer Mungo Park by the banks of the Yarrow Water, and that William Wordsworth journeyed there with "The Ettrick Shepherd"?
... that the Kölcsey Ferenc National College in Satu Mare, Romania, was established in 1557 as a subsidiary of the University of Debrecen?
... that Tahitian nationalist Pouvanaa a Oopa was elected to the French Senate representing French Polynesia following his return from exile in France?
... that the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion was Australia's highest decorated unit of the Second World War?
... that Fritz Crisler called George Ceithaml, quarterback of the Michigan Wolverines's single-wing offense from 1941 to 1942, "the smartest player he ever taught"?
... that the German Bayern-class battleships Bayern and Baden were the last dreadnoughts built by the Kaiserliche Marine?
... that Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States?
... that mechanical plating, developed in the 1950s, is commonly used to overcome hydrogen embrittlement issues when electroplating hardened steel?
... that CEPPS is a cooperative agreement between the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs?
... that descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk, a medieval church in Leiden, the Netherlands, include four U.S. presidents?
... that a former Bear Stearns executive and magazine mogul are part of the November Nine trying to prevent logger Darvin Moon from winning millions of dollars?
... that Joan Baez has been regarded as the subject of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" and also covered the song herself?
... that unlike contempt of court, contempt of cop is not a crime in the United States?
... that Bridge L-158 in Goldens Bridge, New York, the only extant double-intersection Whipple truss railroad bridge in the state, was moved there from Kingston 20 years after it was built?
... that while Per Kristiansen chaired the training committee of the Norges Orienteringsforbund, Norway's orienteering team, from 1967 to 1973, team members won gold medals at three world championships?
... that a 1955 "Speaker's Corner" experiment in Bangkok inspired the launching of a Thai Hyde Park Movement Party?
... that during the 1960s, Texas lawyer John Ben Shepperd worked to obtain the land for the creation of Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site along the Pedernales River?
... that Monmouth County Sheriff Kim Guadagno, running mate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Christopher J. Christie, would become the first Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey if elected in November?
... that when Wales rugby union international Dan Rees switched to professional rugby league in 1905, his signing-on fee of £300 was a Welsh record?
... that the Azm Palace in Hama, Syria, has been regarded as "one of the loveliest Ottoman residential buildings in Syria"?
... that Michigan halfback Tom Kuzma was described as "a smacker from Smackersville"?
... that the book The Israel Lobby credited the Brookings Institution for having William B. Quandt as its Middle East policy expert, citing his "well-deserved reputation for even-handedness"?
... that the Lake George, New York, post office features aspects of modernistic and Art Deco architecture on a basic Colonial Revival building?
... that Monica C. Lozano is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles-based La Opinión, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States?
... that the CALERIE study subjects humans to a 25% reduction in food calories over a two-year period, to determine if calorie restriction prolongs life and reduces the incidence of cancer and cardiovascular disease?
... that Kevin Newsome was a two-time state champion hurdler at Western Branch High School before he enrolled at Penn State to play football?
... that the shrine at Saint Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell is reputedly the oldest Romanesque shrine in Britain, dating from the early 1100s?
... that producer David Aukin has been nominated for two BAFTA Awards for films about Tony Blair?
... that pictures featured on Cake Wrecks, a photoblog founded in 2008, include a cake decorated with a sonogram image?
... that the tall stone Lhasa Zhol Pillar , is inscribed with what may be the oldest known Tibetan writing dating back as far as 764 CE?
... that in 1990 former Louisiana State Senator Fritz H. Windhorst spoke on behalf of a vetoed bill which would have made abortion a felony punishable by imprisonment?
... that many Jews of the Radom Ghetto in occupied Poland were forced to work in the local arms factory?
... that the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Store Wars" was released on DVD with an audio commentary in which the characters discuss events not seen in the episode?
... that a 36-cell jail is located on the twelfth floor of the Oakland, California City Hall?
... that Eddie Eagan, a medalist at the 1932 Winter Olympics in bobsledding and at the 1920 Summer Olympics in boxing, is the only person to have won gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics?
... that at a 2004 public demonstration, Segway inventor Dean Kamen drank his own urine after it had been passed through a Slingshot?
... that in 1999, an Air Botswana pilot committed suicide by crashing an ATR 42 into, and destroying, the airline's fleet at Gaborone's airport?
... that in the book A Thousand Days, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was highly critical of United States Ambassador to Laos J. Graham Parsons who he felt "drastically misconceived the situation" in Laos?
... that the song "Fuiste un Trozo de Hielo en la Escarcha" performed by Puerto Rican singer Chayanne was written by a member of the Spanish band Mecano?
... that items from the collection of Mark Samuels Lasner relating to Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and other writers and artists of the 1890s have provided the basis for numerous publications and exhibitions?
... that B. Dalton, once the second-largest bookstore in the U.S., was founded in 1966 by the Dayton's department store chain?
... that in a 1981 case, Judge Fred C. Galda allowed a woman to claim she shot her husband in self-defense, making him the first judge in New Jersey to accept a battered woman defense in a spousal killing?
... that the 15th-century Ancient Priors in Crawley had hidden rooms reached by pulling meat-hooks to open a trapdoor and twisting a wall-carving to move a fireplace?
... that Basketball Hall of Fame coach Ernest Blood led the Passaic High School Hilltoppers to a 200–1 record over ten seasons, and started the team on a U.S. record 159-game winning streak?
... that the ritual baton called a shaku held by Japanese officials like Emperor Hirohito was originally meant just to keep small sheets for memoranda and other notes?
... that Thomas Trantino spent 38 years in the prison system for the murder of two Lodi, New Jersey, police officers, making him the longest-serving prisoner in the state as of his parole in 2002?
... that Zhenguo Temple's Wanfo Hall is the only surviving building that was built during China's Northern Han dynasty?
... that Julius Beerbohm, a Victorian author and explorer, traveled to Patagonia in 1877 to survey the land between Port Desire and Santa Cruz in the footsteps of Ferdinand Magellan?
... that the name of the Black Abbey is based on the fact that the Dominicans were often referred to as Black Friars, because of the black cappa or cloak which they wear over their white habits?
... that the former Louisiana State Representative Peppi Bruneau of New Orleans secured passage of a bill clarifying the right of a victim to shoot carjackers?
... that although Saint-Thomas once was the largest tobacco producer in the province of Quebec, Canada, it no longer is cultivated there?
... that the skills of Michigan Wolverines football punter Zoltan Mesko were discovered in seventh grade gym class when he knocked out a light during a kickball game?
... that Viedma Glacier is part of the huge Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest expanse of continental ice after Greenland and Antarctica?
... that although the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 is recognized as an important milestone in the development of religious freedom, it still allowed the execution of non-Christians?
... that Jayden Stockley made his debut in the Football League for Bournemouth whilst still a student at secondary school?
... that of the three semi-deck lenticular truss bridges known to have been made, the Hadley, New York, Bow Bridge is the only one that still exists?
... that forty-eight U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico allow the courts of other jurisdictions to ask for answers to certified questions of unsettled law?
... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun?
... that the Accurate News and Information Act, passed in 1937 by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, gave a committee of legislators the authority to compel a newspaper to reveal its sources?
... that according to Hindu mythology, Balipratipada commemorates the victory of the god Vishnu in his dwarf incarnation Vamana , defeating demon king Bali, and pushing him to the nether world?
... that Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velásquez won the Young America Stakes four times; in 1978 with Spectacular Bid, in 1979 with Koluctoo Bay, in 1980 with Lord Avie and in 1987 aboard Firery [sic] Ensign?
... that family members living overseas with members of the British Armed Forces can be tried in the military courts?
... that after two consecutive games in which Florida Panthers centre Nathan Horton scored goals in overtime, the Miami Herald called him the "King of Overtime"?
... that the Commissioner's House of the Bermuda Maritime Museum is the world's first residence that was constructed with prefabricated cast-iron structural supports?
... that Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, New York, is the resting place of the progenitor of Uncle Sam, Samuel Wilson, financier Russell Sage, and educators Emma Willard and Amos Eaton?
... that the 7th Earl of Pembroke was convicted of murder but pardoned by King Charles II?
... that Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster persuaded architect John Douglas to add half-timbering to his stone and brick design for 2–18 St Werburgh Street, Chester ?
... that in 1979 two Montana legislators sued the United States Department of Transportation in an unsuccessful attempt to save the North Coast Hiawatha Amtrak train?
... that the Justice Party survived the no-confidence motion brought against it after the 1923 election in Madras Presidency?
... that former Texas State Senator Marshall Formby proposed that Texas Technological College, his alma mater, be renamed Texas Tech University?
... that the U2 song "Winter" was written for the war film Brothers after the band viewed a rough cut of the film?
... that out of 700 U.S. Forest Service buildings in Oregon and Washington built by New Deal programs, the Upper Sandy Guard Station Cabin is the only one crafted of stone and logs?
... that between 5% and 45% of the words made by two year olds are speech repetitions, and that higher skill in infant speech repetition predicts more rapid expansion of spoken vocabulary?
... that the Blue-winged Kookaburra of northern Australia is also known as the Howling Jackass?