derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that WuLi Records, owned by the Ministry's Louis Svitek, released an album by Lee DeWyze, a ninth season finalist of American Idol?
... that Canigou Cambrai was the first English Cocker Spaniel to be best in show at Crufts for 46 years?
... that Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec's forests at the time of colonization?
... that the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans?
... that the phrase "peace on earth, good will to men" derives from the Annunciation to the shepherds , but reflects a dispute over a single letter in the Greek text of the New Testament?
... that pyridoxamine, a vitamer of vitamin B6, is being tested in clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy?
... that Siobhan Magnus, a current contestant on the ninth season of American Idol, started singing in public during an elementary school concert when she sang "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie?
... that the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships will be held from July 27 until August 1, in Quito, Ecuador?
... that more than twenty attendants of the Cécile DeWitt-Morette's summer school in the Alps were later awarded the Nobel Prize?
... that What A Guy!, a gag cartoon created in 1987, continued for eight years after writer Bill Hoest's death using a mix of his jokes and new gags written by his widow, Bunny Hoest?
... that, unable to reach the university president, athletic director John Toner unilaterally accepted an invitation for the Connecticut Huskies to become a founding member of the Big East Conference?
... that Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice, who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?
... that Bienvenido Santos’s novel, The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor, narrates the experiences of Filipino migrants in the United States?
... that pioneering Austrian feminist Auguste Fickert got involved in politics because of an attempt to disenfranchise all women voters in Lower Austria in 1889?
... that Point Lonsdale Lighthouse's foghorn shed is the only one known from a lighthouse in Victoria, Australia?
... that Bamba Müller was the "Cinderella" who married Dalip Singh Sukerchakia, the Black Prince of Perthshire?
... that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
... that a film critic for The New York Times described the Croatian film What Is a Man Without a Moustache? as both "pleasant" and "pointless"?
... that Neville McNamara was only the second RAAF officer to be promoted Air Chief Marshal, and the last Chief of the Air Staff to be knighted before Australia abandoned imperial honours?
... that approximately 1 in every 10,000 to 20,000 babies are born with a laryngeal cleft, a gap between the oesophagus and trachea which allows food or fluid to pass into the airway?
... that when officials cracked down on vice in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, some of Texas' most notorious crime figures helped establish major casinos in Las Vegas, including the Sands Hotel?
... that the Flader J55 jet engine used a supersonic compressor in order to achieve small size, which ultimately proved to be beyond the state of the art?
... that Christopher O. Ward, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico before attending Harvard Divinity School?
... that near the exit from the Chee Kung Tong Society Building, a lintel once proclaimed, in Chinese, Everyone is Equal?
... that in 1975, professional baseball player Jimmy Sexton led the Texas League in stolen bases with 48?
... that The Go-Betweens' "Cattle and Cane", although selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, never charted in Australia?
... that the Fifth Dalai Lama established the Gandan Sumtseling Monastery in Zhongdian, Yunnan, in China in 1679?
... that Francisco Ada, the first Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, spearheaded the construction of the modern Saipan International Airport?
... that the film Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds has been in development since the 1990s and once included a comedic incarnation with Jack Black set to star?
... that in only their third year of involvement in the series, Hexis Racing won the FIA GT3 European Teams Championship in 2009?
... that there is no evidence that Julius II or Leo X, two Renaissance popes, ever celebrated mass?
... that Adenanthos cuneatus has been called Sweat Bush, from the alleged propensity of horses to break out in a sweat after eating it?
... that the Palace of Omurtag, an archaeological site in northeastern Bulgaria, includes the episcopal see of an Arian Gothic bishop besides a medieval Bulgarian fort?
... that James Cumming was known for his entertaining chemistry lectures in Cambridge University, during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus?
... that during the Battles of Wenden (1577–1578), 300 people blew themselves up in Wenden Castle to escape capture?
... that today's Solar Turbines got its start in the gas turbine industry due to its expertise in high-temperature metallurgy learned by building 300,000 exhaust manifolds in World War II?
... that in 1656, Thomas Wiswall signed a petition that ultimately led to the founding of the city of Newton, Massachusetts?
... that "Grace, Replaced", the Will & Grace episode, attracted the series' highest ratings of the first season?
... that the discovery of a population of smaller, less spiny palms in Dominica has led to speculation that Aiphanes minima may not be the only species of Aiphanes on that island nation in the Caribbean?
... that later politician and barrister Lars Aspeflaten was a personal bodyguard of the acting Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions in 1945?
... that actor Tom Cruise does not endorse a potent strain of cannabis called Tom Cruise Purple?
... that the color of barro negro or black clay pottery comes from the properties of the clay and not from painting?
... that the falkuša sailboat raced in one of the oldest fishermen's regattas in Europe, held from 1593 to 1936 on the island of Vis, Croatia?
... that Konstantin Bozveliev became the first socialist to be elected mayor in Bulgaria in 1908?
... that the magnitude-8.5 1922 Vallenar earthquake in Chile caused a series of tsunamis that reached as far away as Japan and Australia?
... that Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?
... that Pina Bausch and conductor Thomas Hengelbrock staged Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice in Paris and the ancient theater in Epidaurus?
... that when West Bromwich Albion won a Birmingham Senior Cup match 26–0 in the 1882–83 season, every player except the goalkeeper scored at least once?
... that RAAF pilot Allan Walters made use of his aerobatic skills while courting his wife-to-be in 1930, performing stunts above the church where her father was rector?
... that the pygmy hardwood forest on the summit of New York's Graham Mountain is unique in the Catskills?
... that the New Zealand space scientist Ian Axford was a director of the German Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy?
... that the first Filipino full-length animated film, Adarna, was created by Gerry Garcia in the late 1990s?
... that females of the species Toxotes chatareus may lay between 20,000 and 150,000 eggs at a time?
... that despite being an Australian, Walter Cornock played both professional football and first-class cricket for English teams?
... that because it could neither be repaired nor removed, a trolley bridge in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, was turned into a garden called the Bridge of Flowers?
... that the Cape Sparrow successfully competes with its introduced relative, the House Sparrow?
... that the Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, by Pablo Picasso, is the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at an auction in Europe?
... that former State Rep. Kevin P. Reilly, Sr., once told People magazine that all Louisiana residents needed to be contented was "a pickup and a shotgun"?
... that in 1560, the English helped the Scots lay siege to the French encampment at Leith?
... that Jack Donaghy calls the state of Florida "America's Australia" in the 30 Rock episode "The Natural Order"?
... that the Almond Blossom Cross Country was created by the District of Faro and the Portuguese tourist board to promote sport and tourism in the area?
... that despite being dismissed from the navy for disobeying orders, James Walker returned to fight at Camperdown and Copenhagen, and died a rear-admiral?
... that after losing a fight with Mikhail Gorbachev's cat, Dmitry Medvedev's cat Dorofei was castrated?
... that former Scottish doctor Robert Crichton Wyllie proposed a plan for British colonization of California in the 1840s?
... that the August 8–9, 1993, tornado outbreak in the American Midwest spawned the most recent single tornado to cause multiple deaths in Minnesota?
... that soprano Annette Dasch appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre, where that opera had been premiered in 1781?
... that the village of Ulnaby was abandoned in the 16th century when labour-intensive arable farming gave way to pasture?
... that Governor Bobby Jindal named former State Representative Sean Reilly as board chairman of Blueprint Louisiana, a group promoting technology and economic development statewide?
... that when the Coucoucache Indian reserve was inundated by a new reservoir, the Canadian Government was compensated only $380 for the loss of land?
... that the papal court resided in Viterbo, Italy, for twenty years in the 13th century?
... that after concluding his participation in the Second Schleswig War, priest and educator Christopher Bruun walked from Denmark to Rome?
... that the nickname of Paro Taktsang in Bhutan, "The Tiger's Nest", derives from the legend which tells that Padmasambhava founded a meditation cave there after travelling on a tigress?
... that Lars Oftedal founded several social institutions in Stavanger, Norway, including an orphanage for boys and a home for women?
... that the Berserker Range is a mountainous region near Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia?
... that Nick Joaquin's play, A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, was described in The New York Times as an "engaging, well plotted metaphor for the passing of Old Manila"?
... that the distribution of the Brazilian rice rat Euryoryzomys emmonsae may be unique among muroid rodents?
... that the career of Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik was cut short by serious injury suffered in a car crash?
... that Adolf Claus suggested a structure for benzene in 1867, still known as Claus' benzene?
... that during the annual Dutch book week, a book was occasionally published anonymously to let readers guess who the author was?
... that Thistle, Utah, was destroyed in 1983 by the most costly landslide in United States history and was the first federal disaster area declared by the U.S. President in the state of Utah?
... that actor Richard Stapley, who was sometimes known by the stage name Richard Wyler, published his first novel at age 17?
... that the Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump in Oregon contains 25,000 drums of chemical waste, dumped in 1969 by a predecessor of Bayer CropScience?
... that clients of wandering frontier lawyer John Ricord included Sam Houston and Hawaiian King Kamehameha III?
... that acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis occur on average two to three times per year in a person suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
... that Princess Bamba, the last of the family who ruled the Sikh Empire, was said to have "lived like an alien in her father's kingdom"?
... that indie rock band Fang Island took its name from a fictional location described in an Onion article as a secret hideaway of then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
... that the erotic Indian classical dance Mohiniattam is named after the "seductress supreme" of Hindu mythology – Mohini , the female avatar of the male god Vishnu?
... that Lionello Cecil sang the lead tenor part in the first complete microphone recording of Verdi's La traviata in 1928?
... that Carey McWilliams described Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart as a social classic that reflected the experiences of Filipino immigrants in America?
... that the extinct Mexican rice rat Oryzomys nelsoni has only been collected once?
... that Sky News described the free legal video sharing website MUZU TV as a likely rival for YouTube?
... that the minesweeper USS Inaugural is the only National Historic Landmark in Missouri to have had its status as a National Historic Landmark withdrawn?
... that this year's best in show at Crufts, Hungargunn Bear It'n Mind, was the first time a Hungarian Vizsla has won the competition?
... that Knut Kleve, known for his restoration of papyrus fragments, learned Latin while incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp?
... that the fungal genus Sebacina includes species that can encrust the stem bases of living plants?
... that at just 85 days in office, the sixteenth government of Israel was the shortest-lived in the country's history?
... that wheelchair marathon athlete Lango Sinkamba was Zambia's first Paralympian?
... that the German submarine U-78 was the only U-boat to be sunk by land-based artillery fire in World War II?
... that both Symmachus and Laurentius turned to Theodoric the Great to resolve their disputed succession as pope, the first recorded example of papal simony?
... that after a search that has so far lasted 30 years, Muckaty station in Australia's Northern Territory is the only site being considered for a national radioactive waste facility?
... that the British battlecruiser HMS Lion fired seven torpedoes during the Battle of Jutland without success?
... that the Art Pavilion gallery was originally built for an exhibition in Budapest and then transported to Zagreb, where it was re-built in 1898?
... that when Scottish soprano Muriel Dickson toured with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to New York City in 1934–1935, she was invited to join the Metropolitan Opera?
... that Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning "spider" and gryllus meaning "cricket"?
... that Gustav Storm's translation of Snorre Sturlason's Heimskringla into Norwegian in the late 1890s was the basis for a popular edition of this work?
... that the largest known colony of mammals in the world is found in Bracken Cave near the small town of Bracken, Texas?
... that Yanko Sakazov was one of the two first socialist parliamentarians in Bulgaria, elected to the National Assembly in 1894?
... that the number-one single "A Puro Dolor", performed by Son By Four, was written by Omar Alfanno in ten minutes?
... that Michigan's 1901 "Point-a-Minute" team , rated one of the greatest college football teams of all time, outscored its opponents 550–0 and beat Stanford 49–0 in the first Rose Bowl game?
... that renowned magazine illustrator David Hunter Strother recounted a treacherous journey on the Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike in his recollections of the American Civil War in Harper's Magazine?
... that Israeli naval forces deployed explosive Italian motorboats to sink the Egyptian Navy flagship Emir Farouk in the naval campaign of Operation Yoav?
... that in ca. 1304, the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos introduced a new silver coin, the basilikon, modeled after the Venetian grosso, to pay the Catalan Company?
... that the current Mayor of Manukau is also its last one, as the Manukau City Council area is going to be incorporated into the Auckland super city?
... that the canoe route through Oskélanéo, Quebec, was once so popular that it prompted the construction of locks on the Oskelaneo River?
... that New Fairy Tales of 1844 is the most autobiographical of Hans Christian Andersen's several fairy tale collections?
... that at 100 years old, Sir Nicholas Winton was named a British Hero of the Holocaust?
... that the AN/PSQ-20 "Enhanced Night Vision Device" combines image intensifier and thermal imaging technologies, which were previously used separately?
... that Colleen LaRose, also known as "JihadJane", was living in suburban Pennsylvania when she was arrested for recruiting Islamic terrorists and plotting the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks?
... that conductor Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart finished the first complete recording of Bach's cantatas and oratorios on the composer's 300th birthday, 21 March 1985?
... that Stalin was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx when he joined the Mesame Dasi?
... that sea interferometry uses radio waves reflected off the surface of the sea to improve the resolution of a single radio detector?
... that two plaster maquettes made by sculptor John Evan Thomas for House of Lords bronzes have just been found in Westgate, Canterbury, after being hidden in a tower for 100 years?
... that William Hutcheon Hall of the Royal Navy earned the nickname "Nemesis Hall" for his services as commander of the Nemesis during the First Anglo-Chinese War?
... that beef is a common element in the works of the New Realist painter Carlos Alonso?
... that the thirty pieces of silver which Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus are echoed in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment by the thirty roubles which Sonia earns for selling herself?
... that Swiss athlete Georges de Regibus introduced association football to Bulgaria in 1894 as a sports teacher in Varna?
... that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote around 200 cantatas in German but only one, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, in Latin?
... that Empire Cedric, a former Landing Ship, Tank, was the first Ro-Ro ferry?
... that the Citadel of Damascus in Syria was built not on the top of a hill, but on flat ground, at the same level as the rest of Damascus city?
... that Yothu Yindi's song "Treaty" was the first song by a predominately-Aboriginal band to chart in Australia and the first in any Aboriginal Australian language to gain international recognition?
... that Mexican revolutionary Rubén Jaramillo ran for governor of Morelos twice and led two armed rebellions against the government?
... that pairwise summation of a sequence (breaking it in half and summing each half separately first) greatly reduces rounding errors?
... that Hungry Bentley, an abandoned village in Derbyshire, England, was named for the poor quality of its land?
... that professional wrestler Tiger Raj Singh had a try-out match for World Wrestling Entertainment in December 2009 and was signed to a developmental contract?
... that the "Beethoven Burst" was a powerful gamma-ray burst which occurred on the birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven?
... that black witches' butter is a wood-decay fungus that loosens the bark of its host by disintegrating the vascular cambium?
... that Jhalkaribai fought with the East India Company army in disguise as Queen Laxmibai of Jhansi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to let the queen escape easily out of the fort?
... that more than 98% of the human genome is noncoding DNA, sometimes referred to as "junk" DNA?
... that in her novel Devil's Brood, author Sharon Kay Penman writes about Eleanor of Aquitaine who is imprisoned by her husband King Henry II of England?
... that the original recording of The Byrds' song "Eight Miles High" was not released until its appearance on the Never Before compilation album in 1987, some 22 years after it had been committed to tape?
... that Javier Arias Stella, Peruvian foreign minister during the Paquisha War, is also a notable pathologist?
... that the Dome F105 Formula One car completed more than 900 kilometres (560 mi) of private testing, yet was never entered in a Grand Prix?
... that King Leopold signed a contract with Ladd & Co. for Belgian colonization of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843?
... that the false scorpionfish mimics the true scorpionfish so well, it was originally described as a species of genus Scorpaena?
... that the American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Johnnie Bassett, played on The Miracles 1958 debut single, "Got a Job"?
... that a chance discovery in 1928 by a local farmer in Minet el-Beida led to the excavation of ancient Ugarit in Syria?
... that during the Korean War, US Army Colonel Robert F. Martin commanded the 34th Infantry Regiment for only 14 hours before he was killed in the Battle of Chonan?
... that 92% of students at West London's Villiers High School do not speak English as their first language?
... that Captain Bill McDonald of the Texas Rangers served as a bodyguard for political rivals Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in 1905 and 1912, respectively?
... that Drosera falconeri is one of the few carnivorous plants that grow in alkaline soils?
... that Para Siempre, the 79th studio album by Vicente Fernández, reached number-one on the Mexican charts and won Best Ranchero Album at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards ceremony?
... that in 1779, New York State Senator John Williams was expelled from the Senate for defrauding fellow soldiers of income during the American Revolutionary War?
... that the main characteristic of the continental Celtic deity Dusios was its ability to impregnate animals and women, often by surprise or force?
... that Republican National Committee official Rob Bickhart wrote a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil?
... that the aviso SMS Hela was the first German ship to be sunk by a British submarine in World War I?
... that Fabian Joseph, a former team captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team, won two winter Olympic silver medals for Canada in the early 1990s?
... that the last words of the British judge Lord Tenterden were "and now, gentlemen of the jury, you will consider of your verdict"?
... that Bollywood actor Bobby Deol won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance in Barsaat in 1995?
... that the port city of Bergen was the site of the first German U-boat base in occupied Norway?
... that Garry Richardson interviewed Bill Clinton during a rain delay at the Wimbledon Championships?
... that The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José?
... that lieutenant general Nie Fengzhi joined the People's Liberation Army as a teenager in 1929?
... that Al-Kahf Castle in al-Ansariyah mountains was the last Ismaili stronghold in Syria to surrender to the Mamluks?
... that the recently named trematopid temnospondyl Fedexia was named after the shipping service FedEx, which owned the land where the holotype specimen was found?
... that chimpanzees in the wild may self-medicate by swallowing the leaves of Aneilema aequinoctiale whole, in order to rid their intestines of parasitic nematodes?
... that Grace Voss Frederick (November 3, 1905 – January 16, 2009) was the creator of the Grace Museum of America and the Grace Museum for the Preservation of Americana?
... that the Tour de Nesle scandal led to the imprisonment of French Princesses Blanche and Margaret and the execution of their lovers?
... that the American soul blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jimmy Burns, issued a number of singles in the 1960s, but waited over 25 years to release his debut album?
... that Aritsugu, a supplier of swords to the Imperial House of Japan during the 16th century, now produces cooking knives and utensils?
... that, although it had been assigned to them in 1853, the Atikamekw First Nation did not settle on the Wemotaci Reserve (Quebec) until the beginning of the 20th century?
... that a message of farewell to the spa town of Buxton scratched onto a window pane of the Old Hall Hotel was reputedly inscribed by Mary Queen of Scots?