derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Paul Lo Duca has the most MLB All-Star selections, but Jason Varitek has the most World Series championships from the 1993 College Baseball All-America Team?
... that the 1950 film The Bandit Queen starred Barbara Britton in the title role as a bullwhip-wielding avenger?
... that there were an estimated 8,000 members of Sam's Army in the stands at the U.S. men's soccer team's opening game of the 2010 World Cup in group play against England?
... that Scene It? Twilight has no questions about New Moon even though the movie version of the book was released at the same time as the game?
... that in 1978, 21-year-old Walter Muma set a record for moped trips with a three-month, 11,500-mile ride from Toronto to Alaska and back?
... that the Laguna Madre in Texas is one of the earth's six hypersaline bays?
... that the German Type IXB submarines were the most successful class of submarines in World War II in terms of the total amount of tonnage sunk?
... that cricketer Steph Davies, who made four appearances for England in 2008, made her county debut for Somerset aged just 13?
... that Arena was the first web browser to support background images, tables, text flow around images, and inline mathematical expressions?
... that the back-illuminated sensor improves on conventional digital camera sensors by moving wiring so it does not interfere with light entering the front of the detector?
... that Ircinia strobilina produces a substance which causes paralysis and loss of balance when ingested by fish?
... that footballer Michael Basham played in the Swansea City team that won the 1994 Football League Trophy Final?
... that author Debbie Renner claimed to have once competed in professional wrestling as the "Tasmanian Devil" prior to becoming a full-time writer?
... that the Pithole Stone Arch Bridge is unusual for being surprisingly well built for only a rural backroad, but was initially thought to be of inferior quality and was not expected to last?
... that Leonard Sanford persuaded Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her children to buy Lord Rothschild's bird collection for the American Museum of Natural History?
... that tert-butanesulfinamide is used as a chiral auxiliary in the asymmetric synthesis of amines?
... that an article she wrote about boar hunting in Brittany led to Kate Betts' career as a fashion journalist?
... that Jim "the Darp" Ostendarp, Amherst College football coach for 33 years, refused to allow ESPN to televise a game saying, "We're in education. We aren't in the entertainment business"?
... that First Presbyterian Church 1793 is the de facto college church of Washington & Jefferson College, a nearby nonsectarian liberal arts college?
... that the Brazilian dance known as the Surra de Bunda describes a female dancer pounding her buttocks into a man's face?
... that playwright Penny Arcade's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! was made partly in response to a bill amendment banning the National Endowment of the Arts from granting funds for "obscene or indecent art"?
... that Elias Martin has been described by Nationalencyklopedin as Sweden's "first big landscape painter"?
... that Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I?
... that the Motherwell v Hibernian football match on 5 May 2010, which ended in a 6–6 draw, is the highest scoring match in Scottish Premier League history?
... that José Albi was a Spanish literary critic and the last of the post Spanish Civil War poets?
... that Augie Schmidt won the Golden Spikes Award, an award given to the top amateur baseball player in the United States, in 1982?
... that C/2009 R1, one of more than fifty comets known as "Comet McNaught", has been noted for its "impressive green coma and long ion tail", lending it the appearance of an "apple on a stick"?
... that the manufacturer of the Polish SHL brand of motorcycles was nationalized after World War II and closed in the 1970s?
... that in English trusts law, constructive trusts are used for things as varied as land transfers, bribery and murder?
... that the British steam-powered submarine HMS Swordfish's performance underwater was so unsatisfactory that she was converted to an anti-submarine patrol boat in 1917–18?
... that the Lothair Crystal, an engraved gem now in the British Museum, was once sold for ten pounds?
... that Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
... that the UConn Huskies won the 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl to end a year marked by five games lost by 15 total points, a double-overtime victory at Notre Dame, and the murder of cornerback Jasper Howard?
... that Dean Lyons, a homeless heroin addict, confessed to the Grangegorman killings and spent eight months in jail, though he did not commit the crime?
... that the film Let the Devil Wear Black is a modern-day version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet that is set in Los Angeles?
... that Prvić near Krk is the windiest Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea?
... that people have reportedly witnessed the ghosts of Roman legionnaires passing through Maesmawr Hall in Powys, Wales, site of an ancient Roman road?
... that Alfred Sinding-Larsen, who wrote folk songs with the Vika dialect, was one of the first writers to use a dialect from Norway's capital?
... that the 16th-century chancel window of the Welsh church of St Cristiolus, Llangristiolus, has been described as "almost too big to fit" in the east wall?
... that the propellers of the Dornier Do 29 could be tilted downwards by up to 90 degrees?
... that the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield displays two of Britain's rarest makes of automobile, the three wheel LSD and the Valveless which had an engine with only six moving parts?
... that the low-budget horror film Raging Sharks has been described as a poor man’s combination of early Steven Spielberg films?
... that after the rape and murder of a seven-year-old, New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Kramer pushed bills requiring sex offender registration, saying "Megan Kanka would be alive today" if his bills were law?
... that the Tanganyikan Spiny Eel was one of the species that was photographed as part of a FishBase mission which had the primary objective to document and photograph the rich fish diversity of Lake Tanganyika?
... that in English law, resulting trusts work based on the equitable maxim that "equity abhors a vacuum"?
... that when a fifteen-year-old girl garlanded Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the inauguration of India's Panchet Dam, she was considered to have "married" him?
... that when in danger of predation, the harvestman Leiobunum rotundum can self-amputate its legs, but they will not regenerate?
... that Ana River in south-central Oregon flows almost its entire 7 mile (11 km) course within the boundaries of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Summer Lake Wildlife Area?
... that David C. Chapman, the man who was involved in the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, has a mountain named for him in the park?
... that the Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar, an environmental award given by the Government of India to organizations, carries a cash prize of 500,000 Indian rupees?
... that as point man for the Kennedy administration on the August 1963 March on Washington, John W. Douglas was given "historic credit for the orderliness and smoothness and joy of that day"?
... that the first night-landing aboard an aircraft carrier was made by a Blackburn Dart on 6 May 1926 aboard the Courageous-class carrier HMS Furious?
... that in the Mexican state of Hidalgo there is a community that claims to be descended from Sephardi Jews who migrated to New Spain in the 16th century?
... that the Megaria , a historic movie theater in Jakarta, Indonesia, is the city's largest remaining Art Deco building?
... that the Kawanishi K-7 Transport Seaplane was powered by an engine originally intended for use in airships?
... that Jerusalem's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
... that in 1896, a flooding disaster occurred at River Level Colliery in the Welsh village of Abernant, killing six colliers?
... that Fred Swanton, known as the P. T. Barnum of Santa Cruz, promoted everything from the Neptune Casino to ZaSu Pitts?
... that the Bar U Ranch in Alberta, Canada, hosted both Prince Edward of Wales and the Sundance Kid?
... that Offshore Power Systems, a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric and Newport News Shipbuilding, spent more than $125 million during the 1970s but never built a floating nuclear power plant?
... that the 1878 constitution of San Francisco's Congregation Beth Israel prohibited members from praying out loud?
... that the Eastern Great Egret has a neck one and a half times as long as its body?
... that baseball player Ed Sprague, Jr. is the only Toronto Blue Jays first-round draft pick to be a part of both Blue Jays' World Series championships?
... that the United Public Workers of America was expelled from the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1950 for being communist-controlled, and its president convicted of contempt of Congress?
... that actor Jason Lee will star as a detective who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator in the upcoming American television series Memphis Beat?
... that John Mott-Smith was the first permanent dentist in the Kingdom of Hawaii and its last ambassador to the U.S.?
... that late Roman office-holder Sossianus Hierocles was one of the more fervent supporters of official persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire?
... that Nadrian Seeman was inspired to create the field of DNA nanotechnology while pondering the M. C. Escher woodcut Depth at a campus pub?
... that the German submarine U-355 went missing on 4 April 1944 and was never heard from again?
... that United Public Workers v. Mitchell (1947) is the only U.S. Supreme Court decision prior to 1965 to address the meaning of the Ninth and Tenth amendments substantively?
... that the decisive factor for the Greek victory at Bizani (1913) was not numerical superiority, but the solid operational planning that did not allow the Ottoman forces to react?
... that Don Cohan, the oldest sailor to win an Olympic bronze medal (at age 42), won a U.S. sailing championship at age 72?
... that the pilot of the Aichi F1A sat in an open cockpit, while the observer's position was enclosed?
... that Owen Aspinall, the 45th Governor of American Samoa, banned a Korean man from marrying a Samoan woman, despite the fact that he, a Colorado native, married a Samoan woman himself?
... that Polish scholars have suggested that the model for The Polish Rider was in fact Rembrandt's son Titus?
... that retired professional baseball player Joe Campbell missed most of spring training in 1967 with the Chicago Cubs due to obligations he had in the United States Marine Corps?
... that the Terwilliger-Smith Farm in Kerhonkson, New York, has the only extant stand-alone slaughterhouse in Ulster County?
... that since the superstructure of Johnstown's Cathedral of St. John Gualbert was laid using nearly 590,000 pounds (270,000 kg) of steel, the roof was able to be completed before the foundation walls?
... that the trophy for the Enterprise Cup, a Kenyan rugby union competition, was donated by sailors of the HMS Enterprise who toured East Africa in 1928?
... that the publishers of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings insisted on adding the caveat "Music Inspired by" to the title of Bo Hansson's 1972 concept album Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings?
... that at the end of 2006 the UK made the final payment on the Keynes World War II loan negotiated by John Maynard Keynes in 1945?
... that during his performance in the Reduta Theatre at age 11, Mozart was dissatisfied with the sound of the trumpets?
... that Conrad Susa's opera Transformations is based on Grimm's Fairy Tales as retold by American poet, Anne Sexton?
... that when an elevated train derailed on Ninth Avenue in New York in 1905, some passengers escaped from one carriage through an apartment window?
... that the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stock the Little Cottonwood Creek with 1000 trout yearly?
... that the colour printing process chromoxylography was mostly used to print book covers for penny dreadfuls, yellow-backs, and children's books during the mid to late 19th century?
... that Lodge Park in Gloucestershire is England's only surviving 17th-century deer course and grandstand?
... that the lighthouse Rumeli Feneri was built in 1855 in order to provide safe navigation for the French and British war ships entering the Bosphorus from the Black Sea during the Crimean War?
... that Pelé and Mia Hamm are featured in cartoon form as the masters of a magical soccer academy in the video game Academy of Champions: Soccer?
... that Pararistolochia praevenosa is the food vine of the Richmond Birdwing butterfly?
... that in September 1942 No. 62 Commando carried out a raid on what was later to become known as Omaha Beach in France, where American forces would land on D-Day in 1944?
... that the United Nations and Amnesty International have called for an investigation into the death of Congolese activist Floribert Chebeya?
... that D. John Markey complained of the Democratic Party's 82-year grip on Maryland after the close and controversial 1946 Senate race against Governor Herbert O'Conor?
... that under the Vandalism Act of Singapore, a person convicted for the first time of vandalism by defacing property using an indelible substance such as paint must be sentenced to caning?
... that British judo expert Trevor Leggett's adherence to Japanese culture extended even to wearing traditional Japanese underwear?
... that looters at the Maya archaeological site of Holtun in Guatemala uncovered a series of large stucco masks flanking the main stairway of the principal pyramid?
... that during World War II, English biochemist Samuel Victor Perry failed to escape as a prisoner of war on three occasions, and was captured by the same German guard twice?
... that the crypt of St. Paulinskirche in Trier allegedly contains the remains of approximately one dozen of the martyred soldiers of the legendary Theban Legion?
... that Jan Kobow sang the tenor part of Bach's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, written for the second Sunday after Trinity of 1724, with Philippe Herreweghe?
... that American athlete Marla Runyan, who is legally blind, won the national 5K road running title three consecutive times at the Freihofer's Run for Women?
... that a ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle made by Thomas Earnshaw is now in the British Museum?
... that Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, an American Jew, opened the first U.S. museum dedicated to the Kurdish people?
... that the Bloom Festival in Dublin's Phoenix Park is twice as large as the UK's Chelsea Flower Show?
... that celebrities who have worn Jonathan Saunders' designs include Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Sienna Miller, and Michelle Obama?
... that The Brahmin and the Mongoose, an Indian folktale about the rash killing of a loyal animal, travelled the world and inspired shrines to the dogs Saint Guinefort in France and Gelert in Wales?
... that The Jack Pine , painted c. 1916–17 by Tom Thomson, is considered an iconic image of the Canadian landscape?
... that Paralympic athlete Kortney Clemons lost his leg because a roadside bomb exploded when he was helping fellow US soldiers in Iraq?
... that Ismael Urbain was a high-level official in mid-nineteenth century French Algeria and adviser to Napoleon III due to his strong knowledge of Islam?
... that the Holy Thorn Reliquary in the British Museum bears the inscription "This is a thorn from the crown Of Our Lord Jesus Christ"?
... that U-111's first patrol took place in the North Atlantic and her second patrol took place in the South Atlantic?
... that the Rangit Dam project in Sikkim in northeastern India cost more than $109 million?
... that Franz Liszt's piano playing inspired an outpouring of emotion in his fans called Lisztomania, which caused some fans to save his disposed cigar butts and coffee dregs as mementos?
... that video game composer, director, and producer Junichi Masuda named a character in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire after his daughter Kiri?
... that of the 22 players selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 1980 NBA Expansion Draft, only two played more than one season for the team?
... that the 1999 Grenadian general election was called 18 months early after the foreign minister defected from the governing New National Party?
... that the baritone Andreas Schmidt created the part of Ryuji in Hans Werner Henze's opera Das verratene Meer in 1990 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin?
... that scenes from the 1955 film, The Kentuckian starring Burt Lancaster, were filmed at Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park?
... that Rudy Garcia resigned his post as mayor of Union City, New Jersey, in the wake of a recall election petition that had gathered 6,700 signatures?
... that in 2008, a member of the Dallas County, Texas, county commission claimed that the term black hole, as used in astronomy, was racist?
... that the first dog to be named the best at Crufts was Ch. Wishaw Leader in 1906?
... that as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg (22 and 441 lb)?
... that Craig Rundle, a college football head coach for 24 years, led Albion College to the 2001 MIAA championship with his sons playing at quarterback and tight end?
... that despite a magnitude of only 5.8, the 1992 Cairo earthquake was the most destructive to affect Cairo since 1847, killing 545 people, injuring another 6,512, and making 50,000 homeless?
... that the Albanian Vajtim (dirge or lament of the dead) in the 17th century would make the city of Gjirokastër extremely noisy on Sundays?
... that Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony received a Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album for his third studio album titled Contra La Corriente?
... that when Alfred Eriksen was elected to the Parliament of Norway in 1903, he was among the first group in the Parliament representing the Labour movement?
... that Teruji Kogake set a world record in the triple jump at the Japanese Olympic Trials but only managed eighth in the finals at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics?
... that the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal near Montreal attracts 181,000 visitors and 23,000 boaters, making it the second busiest canal and locks in Quebec?
... that the original administration building in Jasper National Park had a fish hatchery in the basement?
... that 20 days after he brought his high school baseball team to the state finals, Texas Rangers first-round draft pick David Clyde made his Major League Baseball debut?
... that Dorsey Dixon's song "Babies in the Mill" is about the Southern United States textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the early 20th century?
... that the increasing overall divorce rate is primarily in elderly, long-married couples, a phenomenon dubbed "grey divorce"?
... that the original Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral building was saved from burning during the American Civil War when the parish priest imitated General Banks's voice and ordered Union troops to spare the church?
... that the royal sites of Ireland served as centres for ceremonies including an inauguration ritual where a shoe was thrown over the future king's head ?
... that although the Welsh church of St Pabo, Llanbabo has a 14th-century monument to Pabo Post Prydain, its supposed 5th-century founder, there is no strong evidence that he founded the church?
... that despite their plan to settle farther west, Timothy and Rachel Sheldon were so impressed with their camping spot on the Chicago Road that they bought land nearby and built the Sheldon Inn?
... that a children's book about a toy owl, written by Finn Havrevold in 1957, was made into a film by Ivo Caprino?
... that, for the first time in the history of the main Final Fantasy series of video games, the music of Final Fantasy XIII does not include any musical compositions by Nobuo Uematsu?
... that Jack Siedlecki led Yale, Amherst and Worcester to conference championships in 21 years as a head football coach?
... that in the United States there is a math–verbal achievement gap on both the SAT and the ACT, because students do much better on the math portion?
... that cherry-sized soldier crabs of the species Mictyris longicarpus have been described as "cheerful bohemians"?
... that American painter of the Old American West J. K. Ralston was awarded a Gold Medal by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that Henry Kissinger did not have to release phone transcripts that were made while he was Secretary of State?
... that the endangered spiny gardenia has been threatened by the development of banana plantations and the Pacific Highway?
... that Norman Bethune Sanson climbed Canadian mountains with King George VI of the United Kingdom and King Prajadhipok of Siam?
... that LeRoy J. Jones, Jr. proposed a ban on the sale of box cutters to teenagers in New Jersey, saying that they had become "the weapon of choice" for gang members?
... that handcrafted textiles in Mexico are still made using techniques that date back to the pre-Hispanic period?
... that the Coocumbac Island Nature Reserve in the Manning River is an example of a large fig–giant stinger tree association ecological community?
... that Nidal Malik Hasan and Jihad Jane were said to have started out as a "jihobbyists", also known as "eHadis"?
... that after she was torpedoed by E boats during Operation Pedestal, Almeria Lykes was scuttled to prevent her falling into enemy hands?
... that a dipper well, a perpetual-flow sink used for cleaning ice cream scoops, uses an average of 260,000 gallons (984,000 liters) of water yearly?
... that the record for the longest hitting streak in NCAA college baseball history is 60 games, held by Damian Costantino of Salve Regina University?
... that the abandoned O & W Railroad Station at Port Ben, New York, is so well-preserved that coal remains in its bin more than 50 years after it closed?
... that, until 1912, Liepāja Holy Trinity Cathedral had the largest mechanical organ in the world, with over 7,000 pipes?
... that Jes Staley was a founding member of J.P. Morgan's equities business?
... that Percy Christopherson, his father Derman Christopherson, and nine brothers played a cricket match against Blackheath on a team named 'The Christophersons'?
... that Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum planned a bayfront along Corpus Christi Bay that included a 32 foot statue of Jesus Christ, but was rejected by the city of Corpus Christi?
... that the Gilchrist State Forest is the first new state forest in Oregon since 1948?
... that the Minoan Bull-leaper is the only known complete sculpture depicting Minoan bull leaping?
... that French showman and soldier Tarrare could eat his own weight in meat every day?
... that Edward Lampert became the first hedge fund manager to earn more than US$1 billion in a single year, when the investments owned by his firm, ESL Investments, rose in value by 69% in 2004?
... that The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a BBC drama film based on the life of a 19th-century lesbian industrialist?
... that after receiving scant interest from college basketball scouts as a high school senior, Jason Conley would go on to become the first (and only) freshman to win the NCAA Division I scoring title?
... that the scientific name of the Peacock carpenter bee (Xylocopa bombylans) means "bumblebee-like wood-cutter"?
... that among New Jersey's state symbols, the slogan "Come See For Yourself" was chosen in 2006 after an earlier proposal "We'll Win You Over" was deemed to be too negative?
... that the unusual batten-plank structural system of frame houses in the Trapps Mountain Hamlet on New York's Shawangunk Ridge suggests Lenape architectural influence?
... that 40 limited edition sets of The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing's debut album Now That's What I Call Steampunk! Volume 1 came with wax cylinder recordings?