derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Estonian Centre Party and Res Publica Party won 28 seats each in the 2003 Estonian parliamentary election tying for the most seats?
... that Sir Thomas Clarke was only offered the position of Master of the Rolls after William Murray turned it down?
... that in 1998, Liverdance by Rhode Island Soft Systems was the first screensaver to incorporate built-in multiple advertisements?
... that Brigadier Glyn Hughes, the officer who liberated Belsen concentration camp, once labelled rugby player John Taylor a Communist for opposing apartheid?
... that the West Point Rice Mill was proposed for a Pan Am seabase terminal in the 1930s?
... that the discovery of oil in 1966 led to Dubai's rapid expansion and modernisation?
... that although threatened by habitat destruction, the endangered Nicobar Bulbul does not appear to have been impacted by the Red-whiskered Bulbul or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami?
... that the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spent a total of 112.71 million pesos for the overseas absentee voters in 2004?
... that the song "Soy Así" was recorded by Mexican singer José José during a personal crisis that included a divorce and a change of management?
... that Hockenhull Platts, three bridges on a medieval road in Cheshire, England, were crossed in 1353 by the Black Prince, in 1698 by Celia Fiennes, and in 1780 by Thomas Pennant?
... that had she been completed, the German aircraft carrier I would have been the largest German carrier of World War II, longer even than the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers?
... that although experts expected ethanol cars to underperform their petrol counterparts, Polestar Racing's E85-powered S60 won the first two races of the 2007 Swedish Touring Car Championship?
... that Hotel Woodland was designed by William Henry Weeks, a prominent architect, and was his 14th and last major work in Woodland, California?
... that in September 1945, Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles piloted one of three B-29 Superfortresses that were the first to fly nonstop from Japan to the United States?
... that in 1961, a British Velocette Venom motorcycle set the 24-hour world record at a speed of 100.05 mph which has never been equalled since?
... that Bob Dylan's song "On the Road Again" previews the grotesque characters that would feature in Dylan's later songs?
... that Hugo Jaeger's personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941?
... that all Imperial German Navy light cruisers of the First World War were patterned after the German Gazelle-class light cruiser , designed in 1895–96?
... that University of Michigan pitcher Herman Fishman set a Big Ten record in 1936 with a 0.86 ERA and was named to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's Jewish All-American basketball team?
... that Chopin's 21 nocturnes generally feature ternary form, a melancholy melody and a broken chord bass line?
... that Sebastian Petrycy (1554–1626), in Poland, created a vernacular philosophical terminology not much later than did philosophers in France and Germany?
... that the Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado caused more than $400 million in damage, making it the sixth-costliest tornado in US history?
... that in the 1950s, geographer George Cressey was included on a list of suspected communists in the US at the same time that China included him on its list of capitalist enemies?
... that the Astor Home for Children in Rhinebeck, New York, was one of the first psychiatric facilities for children accredited by the Joint Commission?
... that Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti, who directed Antonello Grimaldi in the 2006 film Il caimano, starred in the 2008 film Caos calmo, directed by Grimaldi?
... that in the 1986 case Posadas de Puerto Rico Associates v. Tourism Company of Puerto Rico, the United States Supreme Court allowed Puerto Rico to ban legal casino advertising targeted at local residents?
... that English actor Harry Andrews played the role of Laertes in the final production at the Lyceum Theatre before it closed in 1939?
... that the systematics of snowfinches is quite straightforward, while their taxonomy was, and still is, subject to extreme confusion?
... that Orange County, California, has an unincorporated area popularly known as the Gaza Strip?
... that Chief Engineer Oliver P. Echols arranged a high-level military demonstration for the Hughes H-1 Racer but Howard Hughes and the plane did not show up?
... that country music singer George Strait discovered his backup band, the Ace in the Hole, after responding to a flyer posted around the Southwest Texas State University campus?
... that Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray resigned from office and served three years in prison after being convicted of mail fraud?
... that Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews is the son, grandson, brother, and nephew of National Football League players?
... that Aurangzeb, apart from imprisoning his brother Murad Baksh, had the dubious credit of incarcerating his eldest daughter Zebunnisa in the Salimgarh Fort in Delhi for 21 years till her death?
... that many female portraits by Jeremiah Theus share identical poses and costumes, down to the folds and shadows of the sitters' dresses?
... that Lemar is the most successful Fame Academy graduate with six top ten singles in the UK singles chart?
... that Danuta Siedzikówna, a Polish nurse in anti-Nazi and anti-Communist resistance was only seventeen years old when she was sentenced to death and executed by the communist government of Poland in 1946?
... that the winner of the 1996 Olympic air pistol competition, Italian Roberto Di Donna, also competes in the Bundesliga for the current German champions, SV Kelheim-Gmünd?
... that Puerto Rican poet Francisco Matos Paolí was arrested in 1950 because he made four speeches in favor of Puerto Rico's independence and he had a Puerto Rican Flag in his house?
... that the former Union Chapel, Brighton's oldest Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a pub after 300 years of religious use?
... that the Australian moth Abantiades latipennis is well-adapted to surviving clearfelling and thrives in regrowth forests?
... that catcher Alicia Seegert set Big Ten Conference records for batting average, hits, total bases and RBIs while playing softball for the University of Michigan from 1984 to 1987?
... that video games with isometric graphics were regarded as the second-most cloned piece of software after WordStar?
... that Rwenzururu, a region in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda, was recognized as having a kingdom 40 years after one was declared?
... that future governor of Mississippi and Mexican-American War general John A. Quitman was born at the parsonage of the Old Stone Church in Rhinebeck, New York?
... that one of Mooney's Blue Tits laid six eggs in the gardens of Irish President Mary McAleese?
... that Christ Church, Rossett, Wrexham County Borough, Wales , was designed in 1886 but not built until 1891–92?
... that Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works?
... that Tom Green is the winningest men's basketball coach in Fairleigh Dickinson University history and led the team to its first NCAA Tournament berth in 1985, losing 59–55 to top-seeded Michigan?
... that Byzantine official Peter the Patrician may have been responsible for the murder of Ostrogothic queen Amalasuntha, despite being instructed to secure her safety by emperor Justinian I?
... that Super Mario Galaxy 2 will mark the first time a second full-3D Mario franchise title has been made for a single Nintendo system?
... that despite a 26 minute length, the 1965 album The Return of Roger Miller won the Grammy award for best country album, and five additional Grammys for its track "King of the Road"?
... that Albert Bridge in London is the only significant surviving example of a bridge built using the 1858 Ordish–Lefeuvre Principle design?
... that President Barack Obama has appointed two former Presidents of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to positions in his administration?
... that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over?
... that "Dahil Sa Iyo", a song with Tagalog and English lyrics, is so popular that it has been suggested as a replacement for the Filipino anthem?
... that the Baudette Fire of 1910 burned down the twin towns of Spooner and Baudette, Minnesota, on October 7, 1910?
... that before the Quarter Horse Barbara L became a racehorse, she demonstrated horse trailers for her owner, a trailer salesman?
... that Beatriz Enriquez de Arana was the mistress of Christopher Columbus ?
... that Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon?
... that the first Governor of colonial Maryland, Leonard Calvert, appointed his successor Thomas Greene only hours before Calvert's death?
... that remnants of terracotta piping used in public baths during Roman times in Morocco are on display at the Rabat Archaeological Museum?
... that Sara Northrup Hollister, the second wife of L. Ron Hubbard, was a noted member of an occult society in Pasadena, California, who went on to play an important role in the development of Dianetics?
... that editor-in-chief Andreas Norland left Norway's largest newspaper Verdens Gang to edit Osloavisen, which lasted less than a year?
... that according to legend, the Houses of the Mayorazgo de Guerrero were demolished by a jealous husband after they were given to his wife by the viceroy of New Spain?
... that a sex scandal in Boise, Idaho, in 1955 resulted in almost 1,500 people being interviewed and a list of 500 suspected homosexuals?
... that as Adam Best, David Proud will be the first visibly disabled adult actor to appear in the British soap opera EastEnders?
... that as part of preparations for 1984's Tropical Storm Isidore, some citrus farmers burned seedlings potentially infected with canker to prevent heavy rains from spreading the disease?
... that, covering 19 ha (47 acres), Maiden Castle in Dorset is the largest hill fort in Britain and one of the biggest in Europe?
... that Michael Jackson was unsuccessfully sued over allegations he plagiarized the song "Dangerous"?
... that the most powerful recorded earthquake in Estonia, measuring 4.7 magnitudes in Richter scale, occurred in 1976 near the Baltic Sea island of Osmussaar ?
... that Calcutta Polo Club, established in 1862, is considered the world's oldest polo club in existence?
... that during five years of college football, E. J. Kuale played at three different colleges?
... that Islamic prophet Muhammad is said to have forbidden his followers to collect his sayings, and there is considerable criticism of such collections which have been said to form the basis of Islamic law?
... that Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again will allow players to create custom-made levels and send them wirelessly to players on other Nintendo DSi devices?
... that the presenter of The Marian Finucane Show has been compared to Jay Leno, Michael Parkinson and Jonathan Ross?
... that Marian Massonius , a Polish university professor, wrote in 1920 about the Bolsheviks' rise to power as a new Russian oligarchy with the aid of Marxist ideology?
... that Daniel P. Mannix spent a year studying foxes before penning his 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound to ensure he portrayed vulpine behavior realistically?
... that Evelyn Scotney, an Australian coloratura soprano, sang opposite Enrico Caruso in his final appearance on the opera stage?
... that Iowa-based Gomaco Trolley Company, founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars?
... that Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester, England?
... that even though the band Memphis May Fire formed in December 2006, it was not until February 2007 that the group decided on their name?
... that Scottish actress Rona Anderson married fellow actor Gordon Jackson after appearing with him in the romantic drama Floodtide?
... that the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market in Mexico City has about 1,500 square meters of mural work done by students of Diego Rivera?
... that a schoolbag is the only known trace of 13 year-old Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns, who disappeared in October 1986?
... that the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Zebras" earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama, which aired the same night?
... that Anna Goldfeder, a pioneer in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment, worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?
... that the fortified city of Jahanpanah was the fourth city to be founded in Delhi when Muhammad bin Tughlaq established it in 1327?
... that Lithuanian writer and educator Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, as the oldest representative, chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in 1920?
... that the pendulum in the Hornsby Water Clock has the same four-second time cycle as the one in Big Ben, but a heavier counterweight?
... that Maryland's Catholic colonial Governor William Joseph fled the colony after serving only a year in office when Protestant colonists rebelled?
... that 95% of cases of hypertension are of the essential hypertension type, and that essential hypertension has many established risk factors?
... that DNC Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell was mentioned in Richard Nixon's Checkers speech after he called for Nixon to resign from his ticket?
... that the exterior of the General Lew Wallace Study includes reliefs of characters of Wallace's novels?
... that a former brother-in-law to Barack Obama might stand at the next Bracknell parliamentary election in the UK?
... that Stefan Knapp, a Polish artist working in Great Britain, used his experiences in the Gulag and as a RAF pilot as a basis for his artwork?
... that Lost Forest in Lake County, Oregon, is an isolated stand of Ponderosa pine separated from the nearest pine forest by forty miles of arid high desert?
... that Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge, is the tallest surviving windmill in Suffolk?
... that Robert Yates, assistant editor for The Observer first coined the term "grief porn" at a 2005 news conference to denote a "gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy"?
... that although classified as a stingray, the porcupine ray does not have a stinging spine on its tail?
... that Gotjawal Forest, a naturally formed forest on Jeju Island in South Korea, consists of a rocky area of aa lava?
... that following the Grue Church fire on Pentecost 1822 in Solør, Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards?
... that Holden Bowler, the namesake of J.D. Salinger's character Holden Caulfield, was also the godfather of singer Judy Collins?
... that seed swaps, potluck-style events where gardeners exchange seeds, help maintain biodiversity and preserve cultural and regional traditions?
... that the early homophile organization NACHO adopted the slogan "Gay is Good", modeled on the African American slogan "Black is Beautiful"?
... that because of the specific social structure of Japanese society there are many more homeless men than homeless women in Japan?
... that the antebellum Stoney Creek Presbyterian Chapel in McPhersonville, South Carolina, was built by lowcountry rice planters as a summer chapel?
... that jolly boats were carried on practically all types of warships of the Royal Navy during the age of sail, from ships of the line down to brigs?
... that Scottish actor J. Grant Anderson served in both World Wars, founded a theatre in India, and played a clown in a Burmese circus?
... that The Heartbreak Express' first and second FIP Tag Team Championship reigns hold the record for most, and fewest title defences respectively?
... that 94% of Dartmoor kistvaens have the longer axis of the tomb oriented NW/SE, apparently so that the deceased face the sun?
... that actress and television announcer Barbara Matera is a candidate for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party in the 2009 European Parliament elections?
... that the Goa Liberation Movement, which sought freedom from Portuguese colonial rule, achieved its aim only when the India Army invaded Goa in 1961?
... that venture capitalist Frank Legacki set American records in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly while attending the University of Michigan in 1961?
... that the fine of £175,000 handed to Arsenal F.C. in 2003 after the Battle of Old Trafford was a record for English football?
... that one-time Nickelodeon star Jason Zimbler (Clarissa Explains It All) founded the Portland, Oregon theatre company 'The Re-Theatre Instrument' in late 2007?
... that Sabal causiarum , the Puerto Rican hat palm, was once the base of an industry that produced large quantities of palm-leaf hats?
... that Fine Gael politician George Lee used The Week in Politics – broadcast by his former employer – to criticise a round of golf played by several Irish senators?
... that Sofia, New Mexico, was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States, and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia?
... that in 1975, Eugeniusz Knapik became known as a member of a group of Polish composers who rejected the previous generation for seeking the destruction of musical tradition?
... that despite being a World Series of Poker bracelet event, the Casino Employee Championship receives little attention?
... that the small parrot known as the Guaiabero is so named in its native Philippines for its penchant for guavas?
... that the 9th-century Sambisari Hindu temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, was buried five meters underground for centuries?
... that Norwegian physicist Gabriel Gabrielsen Holtsmark had two brothers who were Norwegian Parliament members?
... that Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School?
... that two American bands named themselves after the same 1960 Japanese Sun Tribe film The Warped Ones?
... that after facing 2009 All-American softball pitcher Nikki Nemitz's fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled"?
... that during World War I, a British propaganda claim that Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver?
... that the old flower spikes of Banksia benthamiana may contain up to 130 follicles (seed pods)?
... that the jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime?
... that the medieval lituus, a musical instrument that hasn't been seen or heard for 300 years and for which Johann Sebastian Bach composed music, has been recreated by a team of scientists from Switzerland and the United Kingdom?
... that the Ice Hotel in Québec, Canada, is the first ice hotel in North America?
... that before winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent, dance troupe Diversity won the UK National Street Dance competition?
... that the Thorny Yellowwood is an Australian rainforest tree with a spiky trunk?
... that the recently-announced video game Metroid: Other M is being co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo?
... that political boss Tom Pendergast made future DNC chair William M. Boyle a precinct captain even though he was too young to vote?
... that Anthracite, Alberta, now a ghost town, was once a hotspot for illegal activities?
... that the BMW R80G/S—launched in 1980—was the first motorcycle in the BMW GS family, of which half a million examples have now been built?
... that Jerry Rosenberg, New York's longest-incarcerated inmate, was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot?
... that Filipino politician Richard Gordon is known for jumping on the scorer's table to rile up the crowd at Ateneo – La Salle games?
... that after the collapse of the Broughton Suspension Bridge in 1831, the British military introduced the order to "break step" when soldiers were crossing a bridge?
... that the collapse of Australia's largest managed investment scheme agribusiness, Great Southern Group, is being examined by two separate Australian parliamentary committee inquiries?
... that the Pyne and Harrison Opera Company paid composer William Vincent Wallace only 10 shillings for the rights to his opera Lurline and later made £50,000 from its performances?
... that Hal Lubarsky outlasted 6,300 other players at the World Series of Poker despite playing blind?
... that a version of the maple bacon donut served up in an Omaha, Nebraska, bakery is based on a simple concept: breakfast combined into one item that you put in your mouth?
... that Barry Wood, who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist, was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences?
... that the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Newfangle has been described by different sources as being set in either 100,000 B.C. or two million years ago?
... that in a US study almost all surgeons indicated that they experienced needlestick injuries during their training?
... that in the Canadian film Public Domain the producers of a reality TV game show install cameras in dysfunctional contestants' homes without their knowledge or permission?
... that optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians ?
... that the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct was disbanded in 1999 despite only having started work in April 1991?
... that there has been a demand for a separate Tulu Nadu state from Karnataka, India since the 1990s?
... that law professor Paul Steven Miller, who has a type of dwarfism, was one of the longest serving Commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
... that despite the word "heavyweight" in the title of the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, multiple non-heavyweight wrestlers have held the championship?
... that WW1 stopped production of AJS Model D motorcycles but a 1917 order to supply Russia with 1,100 military motorcycles enabled them to continue development?
... that according to the 2000 United States Census, Guttenberg, New Jersey, is the most densely populated incorporated place in the U.S.?
... that Mabel Philipson became the third woman to sit in the British House of Commons after winning the Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election in 1923?
... that after the Poland–Czechoslovakia war, January 23 – January 30, 1919, a new border was agreed to on Feb. 3, 1919, at the signing of the Polish-Czech border agreement, in Paris?
... that, measuring a mere 8.6 cm (3.4 in) long, the Buff-faced Pygmy-parrot is the world's smallest species of parrot?
... that the sale of alcohol was banned for three days during the 2003 Salvadoran legislative election?
... that Pakenham Windmill appeared in a short film used by the BBC in the 1950s for interludes between programmes?
... that in the advent of war with Great Britain, Adolf Hitler's Plan Z stipulated that the O class battlecruisers would be tasked with destroying convoys before they could deliver their cargo to the British?
... that Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned takes place in the universe of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series but its story is not connected to the series at all?
... that the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, which protects the privacy of driver's license information in the United States, was upheld by unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Reno v. Condon?
... that Stanford Keglar was coached by ex-Purdue defensive back Ken Coudret in high school, before going on to play at Purdue himself?
... that Karatsu ware is a style of Japanese pottery which is considered one of the top choices for implements used in the Japanese tea ceremony?