derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Commando Memorial erected in the remote Scottish Highlands is dedicated to the original World War II British Commandos, who were trained at nearby Achnacarry Castle?
... that the Clan Line ship Clan Matheson assisted in the eradication of the Coconut Moth from Fiji?
... that the Israeli-invented Wonder Pot bakes cakes, casseroles and roasts on the stovetop rather than in the oven?
... that Channel 4 billed its Comedy Gala, held at the O2 Arena in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, as "the biggest live stand up show in UK history"?
... that the Dutch marine artist Hendrick Dubbels opened a shop selling "caps, bonnets and stockings", but went bankrupt in 1665?
... that Thomas Herbert of the Royal Navy was involved in over 20 engagements and wounded three times in the War of 1812 against the United States?
... that of the 34 amphibians that became extinct in last 500 years, 19 were from Sri Lanka?
... that the French architecture of St. Louis' Catholic Church in North Star, Ohio, is unique in the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
... that former Texas legislator and motivational speaker Rick Green produced the 1994 video The Legacy of President Ronald Reagan: The Truth About the Eighties?
... that three animal species that do not need oxygen were discovered in the hypersaline anoxic l'Atalante basin at the bottom of the Mediterranean?
... that Koto Hoxhi, who secretly taught students in Qestorat in Albanian, died in jail rather than reveal the name of his friends?
... that the new Chair of Gaelic at the University of Glasgow is the first established chair in Gaelic at a Scottish university?
... that baseball player Lyman Linde was part of the Beaver Dam High School basketball team when they were Wisconsin state champions in 1937?
... that the Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist includes four dead people, one of whom would be "spinning in his grave" if his book won, and two living people, one of whom couldn't remember her own book's plot?
... that the sight of the "gravity defying" Kyaiktiyo Pagoda or Golden Rock, in the Mon State of Myanmar, has been described as "enough to inspire a religious conversion"?
... that in gratitude for being introduced to her future husband Roland Bonaparte, Marie Blanc reportedly gifted his sister Jeanne Bonaparte one million francs?
... that the German submarine U-255 was one of the most successful U-boats to operate in the Arctic Ocean in World War II?
... that the land snail Amphibulima browni was not collected during the entire 20th century?
... that actor Jim O'Heir, who plays Jerry on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments?
... that the Communist Party of Andalusia won 57.4% of the votes in the 1983 municipal election in Córdoba, Spain?
... that blind electrical engineer Jonathan Nash Hearder, when called to advise upon the Atlantic Cable in 1858, tested it by inserting his tongue into the 2000-mile-long circuit?
... that the pancakes called galettes originated in Upper Brittany and crêpes in Lower Brittany?
... that Australian record producer, Richard Pleasance, who was a founding member of 1980s band Boom Crash Opera, also composed the score for the 2006 feature film Kenny?
... that after being boycotted from international cricket for over two decades, South Africa women achieved a 3–0 series whitewash against Ireland women on their return?
... that Bouthaina Shaaban, a former Minister of Expatriates of Syria, has been described as the Syrian "regime's face to the outside world"?
... that the stems of the neotropical palm genus Cryosophila are covered with spines that are actually modified roots?
... that Margaret Ballinger, an M.P. for native South Africans, was hailed as the "Queen of the Blacks" in 1944?
... that slave-built Federal style Wilkinson-Martin House, in Pulaski, Tennessee, stayed in one family for 130 years?
... that John Wesley preached in the kitchen of Gates Farm in Cholmondeston, Cheshire, England?
... that when Sir Thomas Grosvenor became baronet, he was aged eight, and when he married at the age of 21, his wife was aged 12?
... that the graveldiver fish may burrow to depths of 7.6 metres (25 ft) or more in a substrate such as sand, gravel, or broken shell?
... that Heinz Hennig founded the Knabenchor Hannover in 1950 and conducted the boys' choir until 2001?
... that one of the English leaders in the successful defense of the 1705 Siege of St. John's, Newfoundland, was a mason?
... that historian and museum director Arnfinn Moland has also contributed to films, writing a book on Max Manus together with screenwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller?
... that the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the site of Canada's largest recorded Holocene explosive eruption 2,350 years ago at the Mount Meager massif?
... that opposing admirals Adam Duncan and Jan de Winter played a game of whist in the aftermath of the Battle of Camperdown?
... that the 1995 fire in Baku Metro became the world's deadliest subway accident?
... that the goliath conch, Eustrombus goliath, is the largest of the true conchs?
...that Darell Hammond co-founded KaBOOM!, an American non-profit organization that builds playgrounds for children?
... that the Hirtz compass, a medical device invented in 1907 that was used to locate bullets and shrapnel in patients, usually gave results precise within 1–2 millimeters?
... that the music documentary MC5: A True Testimonial includes U.S. government surveillance footage of an MC5 performance?
... that although considered as the ideal woman in Philippine society, María Clara is also criticized as the "greatest misfortune that has befallen the Filipina in the last 100 years"?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 520 had its boiler explode and pulled a "railfan special", before it was preserved in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania?
... that in choosing between the names Portland and Boston, Francis Pettygrove and Asa Lovejoy, the founders of Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, settled the question by a coin toss?
... that Juan Luna's Tampuhan painting depicts a Filipino man and a Filipino woman sulking after a lovers' argument?
... that Sarah Beth Barnette, a senior at Lexington Christian Academy, is the first player from Lexington to win Kentucky's "Miss Basketball" award?
... that in 2006, Birkelunden underwent the first "conservation of a cultural environment in a city" in Norway?
... that the Pavlos Vrellis Greek History Museum is the best known wax museum in Greece?
... that Regency mansion Poole Hall in Cheshire, England, once housed an eclectic collection including teasmaids, mannequins, toy robots, a pinball machine and Keith Richards' Bentley?
... that Richard II of England agreed to extend the 1389 Truce of Leulinghem with France after the English Parliament failed to ratify a permanent peace treaty?
... that Gazette d'Amsterdam was one of the most important European newspapers of the Enlightenment period?
... that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna?
... that the primary leaf veins for the extinct plant Trochodendron nastae are palmate rather then being pinnate like those in the living Trochodendron aralioides?
... that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation, also created the Maharishi Group, a $700 million non-profit conglomerate in India?
... that Juan Luna's The Parisian Life painting portrays three Filipino gentlemen and heroes glancing inquisitively at a woman while inside a café in Paris, France?
... that the rice rat Oryzomys couesi is infected by two different hantaviruses?
... that reality television star Kim Kardashian was brutally murdered in the South Park episode "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs", but she found it very funny?
...that the Buddha Dhatu Jadi , also known as Bandarban Golden Temple, is the largest Theravada Buddhist Temple in Bandarban, with the second largest Buddha statue in Bangladesh?
... that during his basketball career, John Hummer played for four head coaches who have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame?
... that the Central American palm, Schippia concolor, exhibits the unusual germination strategy of transferring all resources from the seed to the seedling before any shoot growth occurs?
... that despite inheriting the vast Parker Ranch as a child, Richard Smart became an actor and singer in musical theater on Broadway?
... that the East Texas Historical Association was founded in 1927, disbanded during the Great Depression, and reborn in 1962?
... that the turreted Johan Poulsen House in Portland, Oregon's Brooklyn neighborhood was built in 1891 and owned by a lumber magnate and a "doughnut king"?
... that the Breton writer Pêr-Jakez Helias asserted "my heritage lies on my tongue, it shall never be yours"?
... that the AZ-1 Marvelette was an experimental aircraft built by Mississippi State University to test a boundary layer control system?
... that Andreas Karasiak recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion, scored for double chorus, with two boys choirs, Knabenchor Hannover and Thomanerchor?
... that Spencer Haywood was included in the 1971 NBA Draft even though he already played in the NBA before the draft?
... that people's veto is a type of a referendum that allows citizens to repeal an existing law?
... that private military companies operating in Iraq use the Mamba armoured personnel carrier because it appears "less aggressive"?
... that the Spanish URO VAMTAC is similar to the American HMMWV, since both were developed to meet similar requirements?
... that James E. Boyd started nuclear research at the Georgia Institute of Technology while leading the Georgia Tech Research Institute?
... that the Anglo-Danish carved stones in St Mungo's Church, Dearham include a wheel-head cross, the Adam Stone, and the Kenneth Cross?
... that, after earning distinction in World War I battles, Romanian writer Felix Aderca sparked controversy with pacifist and socialist novels which discuss his countrymen's wartime crimes?
... that Colorado State Highway 257 has two interchanges only 0.3 miles apart?
... that JB's Dudley, which claims to be the UK's longest-running live music venue, began life as a disco night at Dudley Town F.C.'s social club?
... that the nematode Skrjabinoclava kinsellai is characterized by the presence of shoe-like and nipple-like structures?
... that Punakha Dzong is the second largest and second oldest Dzong in Bhutan, constructed by Zhabdrung (Shabdrung) Ngawang Namgyal in 1637–38?
... that Edward Cephas John Stevens initiated the land transfer that gave Christchurch, New Zealand, the park on which AMI Stadium now stands?
... that the anti-war poster And babies shows half-naked women and babies killed at My Lai during the Vietnam War?
... that former Spanish sailor Don Francisco de Paula Marín (1774–1837) introduced many crops such as pineapple to Hawaii?
... that the People's Party of Syria was established in 1948 as the main opposition party to the National Party?
... that the BBC reduced actor Alan Davies' fee for the Jonathan Creek episode "The Judas Tree" by 25 percent?
... that since 1948 Israel has only lost 18 planes in air to air combat?
... that Blessed Daniel Brottier, when asked by his mother what he wanted to be when he grew up, responded, "I will be the Pope"?
... that SMS Zähringen, one of the five Wittelsbach-class battleships , was rebuilt after World War I as a radio-controlled target ship and destroyed by British Royal Air Force bombers during World War II?
... that Laiko Vima was the only newspaper printed in Greek in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania?
... that Jama Williamson, who plays the attractive surgeon ex-wife of Tom Haverford in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, also provided voices for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?
... that the co-pilot of the lead C-47 at the Mitla Pass parachute drop, which launched the 1956 Suez War, was a woman, Yael Rom?
... that the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer, better known as the Alles Machines, pioneered additive synthesis and served as the basis for several commercial instruments in the early 1980s?
... that in October 2005, Craig Cobb told visitors to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda that he was there to celebrate the death of Rosa Parks?
... that the first imperial examination in the history of Vietnam was organized in 1072 during the reign of Lý Nhân Tông?
... that the United States Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Ballin (1892) was based in part on the assumption that the Journal of the House of Representatives is always accurate?
... that the captured Yugoslav seaplane tender Zmaj was used for shipboard trials of the Flettner Fl 282 Kolibri (Hummingbird) helicopter by the Kriegsmarine in 1942–43?
... that Sir Tim Berners-Lee is one of the key figures behind data.gov.uk, a UK Government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use?
... that Chantilly porcelain, a "soft-paste porcelain" made from c.1730 is not a true porcelain because it lacks "china clay", kaolin?
... that footballer Sid Storey, who played for York City from 1947 to 1956, drove the open top bus that paraded the York team after winning the 1983–84 Fourth Division championship?
... that the word game Trickster, a spin-off of Scrabble, includes changes to the original game such as allowing players to form proper nouns with their letters and stealing another player's tiles?
... that although Aniceto Ortega had a distinguished career as a physician and surgeon in Mexico, he is also remembered today for his 1871 opera Guatimotzin?
... that in the 1818 English case of Ashford v Thornton, the defendant demanded and was granted a right to trial by battle?
... that SMS Schleswig-Holstein, one of the five Deutschland-class battleships , fired the first shots of World War II during the Battle of Westerplatte?
... that three of the five highest NBA career point totals by Ivy League players were by Princeton Tigers men's basketball players?
... that the red flowers of the four related genera Oreocallis, Embothrium, Telopea and Alloxylon from South America and Australia have been around for over 60 million years?
... that Jethro Rothe-Kushel directed Alex Band's first music video at the age of 10 and went on to produce ten movies by the age of 28?
... that sandstone blocks used in the construction of St John's Church, Crosscanonby, Cumbria, England, might originate from a former Roman building?
... that Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas?
... that their loss in Watson v British Boxing Board of Control forced the British Boxing Board of Control to move to Wales?
... that an Australian couple bought the town of Wauconda, Washington, in an online auction for $370,601?
... that the Manas River , a tributary of the Brahmaputra River, is the largest river system in Bhutan?
... that American economist Adam Posen advises both the Bank of England and the United States Congressional Budget Office?
... that the coat of arms of Kola, a town in Russia, depicts a whale because whaling was the occupation of many town residents?
... that The Blood Compact painting, currently displayed at the top of the grand staircase of the Malacañang Palace, was one of the last paintings created by Filipino artist Juan Luna?
... that during the 2008–10 campaign, two friendly games between the German rugby union team and a selection of the British Forces Germany had to be cancelled because of bad weather?
... that James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army?
... that the listed buildings in Poole, Cheshire, England, include a pinfold or cattle pound?
... that the eight foot stone atrium cross of the former monastery of Acolman, Mexico , is an expression of "tequiqui" or Christian art executed by Indian craftsmen?
... that civil aviation pioneer Lester Brain declined a knighthood in the 1960s, but accepted appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1979?
... that though clavarioid fungi were originally thought to comprise a single genus, they are now classified in multiple orders and families?
... that the real estate developer Buddy Tudor won awards for the historic preservation of the landmark Bentley Hotel in Alexandria, Louisiana?
... that although the South African RG-35 mine resistant ambush protected vehicle is powered by a diesel engine, it can also accommodate hybrid electric drive?
... that Alex Silvagni's debut performances in the Australian Football League as a 22-year-old rookie is part of a shift in the recruiting philosophy to also recruit older players, not just 18-year-olds?
... that in rice rats living in the water, the tufts of hair at the base of the claws are reduced?
... that in the mid-1990s, Alf Tande-Petersen presented the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth most viewed television program episodes in Norway?
... that despite being named for its distribution in the western hemisphere, the fungus Sarcoscypha occidentalis is also found in Asia?
... that Wood's Monument at West Point was used as a navigational aide for ships passing down the Hudson River?
... that Colonel Lorenzo Latorre resigned as President of Uruguay in 1880, declaring the country "ungovernable"?
... that Atari showed off its AMY additive synthesis sound chip in a special version of the 65XE computer, but never released it and focused on the Atari ST instead?
... that throughout his career, Pennsylvania Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak has also been an elementary teacher, principal, high school football coach, superintendent, deputy mayor and city council member?
... that the Bronze Age gold Casco de Leiro was a fisherman's chance find on a beach in Galicia, Spain?
... that swimmer Janine Pietsch won two gold medals at the 2006 World Championships, each by 0.25 seconds?
... that the timeline of Tanzanian history includes the shortest war in history and the first discovery of a new monkey genus since 1923?
... that the Duke of Wellington pub at High Coniscliffe, Durham, England, used to display Napoleon on its sign instead of Wellington?
... that Gossia acmenoides (scrub ironwood) is named in honour of ex-Queensland Premier Wayne Goss?
... that Royal Navy officer Bedford Pim was the first man to travel from a ship on the eastern side of the Northwest Passage to one on the western side?
... that Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse went undefeated in Ivy League competition for seven consecutive seasons?
... that the worship of Princess Lieu Hanh was suppressed by the Vietnamese government because of possible Taoist influence?
... that Kolsky Uyezd was established on the Kola Peninsula by the Tsardom of Russia as a result of the territorial claims from Denmark–Norway?
... that the German submarine U-246 went missing on 7 March 1945 in the Irish Sea?
... that in Gillingham Borough Council v Medway (Chatham) Dock Co Ltd, the trial judge rejected the defendant's arguments, but still held that they were not liable?
... that the ideas of Hermann Baumgarten not only influenced the political outlook of social theorist Max Weber, but also helped accelerate the unification of Germany in 1871?
... that American Lester Reiff was the top jockey in Britain in 1900 but lost his licence after allegedly throwing a race?
... that the New South Wales Waratah lost out to the Golden Wattle to become Australia's floral emblem in 1912?
... that from his freshman year at Oak Park High School through his junior year at the University of Michigan, Herb Steger never lost a game of football?
... that the seventeenth government of Israel was dissolved by Yitzhak Rabin following a breach of the Sabbath?
... that the Stevenson Memorial, painted by Abbott Thayer to honor Robert Louis Stevenson, was painted, in part, with a broom?
... that lemurs are primates that evolved and diversified on the island of Madagascar after arriving there at least 56 million years ago on a raft of vegetation?
... that although a quiet town now, Cuilapan de Guerrero, Mexico, was a major pre-Hispanic city and the site of a major Dominican monastery?
... that voting for the mascot of the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship was done through the tournament's page on Facebook?
... that a golden handshake report by New Zealand journalist Duncan Garner cost an MP his Cabinet position?
... that the Bhutan Textile Museum in Thimphu was supported technically by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts?
... that among victims of the 1994 Baku Metro bombings was jazzman Rafig Babayev?
... that the Guardians of the Free Republics sent out letters to all 50 US state governors demanding that they leave office within three days or be removed?
... that the North Sea patrols of the battlecruiser HMAS Australia during World War I were so monotonous that one sailor was driven insane?
... that one possible explanation of the origin of the Flying Dutchman legend is a Fata Morgana ?
... that Bach marked to repeat the opening chorus of cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 after the final chorale?
... that the numerosity adaptation effect demonstrates that we not only have a direct and automatic visual sense of the reddishness of half a dozen ripe cherries, but also of their quantity?
... that the Russian artist Ivan Kramskoi was offered professorship for his painting Christ in the Desert, but rejected it?
... that King William IV credited Captain Humphrey Fleming Senhouse as "one of the cleverest fellows of the navy"?
... that Cherokee humorist Will Rogers was named for William Penn Adair, a Cherokee statesman who advocated for the rights of Texas Cherokees?
... that Sri Lankan lawyer and media personality Ran Banda Seneviratne was banned from talk shows after comparing a newly nominated President's Counsel to a donkey on State television?
... that some historians have considered Alwyn MacArchill to have been an ancestor of the Earls of Lennox in the male-line, while others have suggested he was only an ancestor in the female-line?
... that frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found growing on young sea ice and thin lake ice in cold, calm condition?
... that 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., was the last private building to be renovated under the 1974 Pennsylvania Avenue redevelopment plan?
... that the FAMAS-awarded 1965 film Blessings of the Land is about a Filipino deaf-mute son who rose above his handicap?
... that in 1930 Albanian feminist Urani Rumbo was accused by the authorities of encouraging girl students to perform in theater plays?
... that biosocial criminology predicts that left handed individuals are more likely to engage in criminal behavior than right handed ones?
... that Árni Magnússon, who assembled the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, would do whatever it took to acquire an Icelandic book or manuscript?
... that Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is named for the famous Jewish philosopher, rabbi and physician Maimonides ?
... that, in the role of Southern belle "Geneva Lee Browne", Paige Miles performed in a school rendition of The 1940's Radio Hour, a World War II musical about a radio station in New York?
... that Indre Wijdefjorden National Park contains the only High Arctic steppe vegetation in Europe?
... that Sin has been described as the most controversial and most bohemian among F. Sionil José’s novels because it created an “artifice of sexual tension”?
... that the planned St. Johns-Indian River Barge Canal would have covered 35.2 miles (56.6 km) and linked the St. Johns River with the Intracoastal Waterway?
... that there are a number of ghost stations along the Paris Métro, including two with no above-ground entrances?
... that American money was diverted from an airport to build the Patuxai monument in Vientiane, Laos?
... that 6' 10" Mason Plumlee plays basketball for the NCAA finalist Duke Blue Devils alongside his 6' 10" brother Miles, and their younger 7' 0" brother Marshall plays in high school?
... that in less than eight years, Michael Burry's hedge fund company returned 489.34% to investors, while the Standard and Poor 500 realized just over 2% over the same period?