derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Wilfred Wong, BevMo!'s cellar master, tastes some 8,000 wines each year for the large retail chain?
... that in the Madrid version of Titian's series of Danaë paintings, the nursemaid by the side of the Greek legend Danaë is portrayed as a hag, while in the Vienna version, the dog by her side is absent?
... that upon arrival at Fort Conger in 1899, several of Robert Peary's toes broke off due to frostbite?
... that the 2010 T in the Park music festival is to be headlined by Muse, Eminem, and Kasabian, marking Eminem's first performance at a festival in the United Kingdom since 2001?
... that during his career Herman Phaff collected 6400 strains of yeast creating a collection containing 400 of the 700 identified species of yeast?
... that counter-reformation in Silesia was stopped by the Treaty of Altranstädt in 1707?
... that the Oak Hill Railroad Depot is the only surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia?
... that one species of Dictyonema lichen is a powerful hallucinogen that is traditionally used by the Huaorani of the Amazon jungle of Ecuador to cast curses on their enemies?
... that the Roman theatre of Bosra , built in the 2nd century AD in Bosra, Syria, is the largest, most complete and best preserved of all the Roman theatres in the Middle East?
... that the captain of the cargo liner SS Beaverburn was given a gold-headed cane for commanding the first ship in 1947 to reach the port of Montreal?
... that other than "incapable" beneficiaries, the British Variation of Trusts Act 1958 only allows the courts to alter trust documents for potential beneficiaries, not confirmed ones?
... that the 80-acre refuge at Wolf Haven International shelters 47 wolves that would otherwise have no homes and is visited by over 20,000 people a year?
... that Rufus Wainwright's album All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu contains three adaptations of Shakespeare's sonnets?
... that 'The Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand', with more than ninety knock-outs, was one of the greatest Welsh boxers?
... that John Virginius Bennes's architectural work included the Geiser Grand Hotel in Baker City, Oregon, and at least 35 buildings on the Oregon State University campus?
... that an unknown burglar—exhibited in a coffin at the Red Lion Inn in Shoreham, West Sussex, in the 1850s after being shot dead—was identified by his dog?
... that Charleston architect Walter F. Martens modeled the West Virginia Governor's Mansion after the White House so it could accommodate up to 2,000 guests at one time?
... that Elżbieta Sieniawska was one of the most powerful women in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the reign of Augustus II the Strong?
... that crayfish of the Madagascan genus Astacoides have fewer gills than any other crayfish?
... that Emil Stang was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919?
... that the Byzantine general Constantine Doukas was proclaimed emperor in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, but was killed on the same day by supporters of the legitimate emperor, Constantine VII?
... that the Buffalo Bills' 2008 home game in their rivalry with the Miami Dolphins was the first National Football League regular-season game played in Canada?
... that Lord Alfred Douglas—Oscar Wilde's lover "Bosie"—is buried in the grounds of the Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony in Crawley, West Sussex?
... that after Eustathios Maleinos hosted Byzantine Emperor Basil II on his estate in 995, the Emperor, alarmed by Maleinos' wealth and power, placed him under house arrest in Constantinople?
... that American Texas and electric blues musician Mike Morgan's backing band, the Crawl, was named after a Lonnie Brooks song?
... that iron-55 source will be used in an X-ray diffraction instrument flown to Mars in 2018?
... that Agalinis aspera (tall false foxglove), a purple and pink flowering plant native to the United States and Canada, is endangered?
... that Justice Henry Barron, the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court of Ireland, also granted Ireland's first divorce in the same year?
... that in addition to his distinguished military career against the Ottoman Turks, Paul I, 1st Prince Esterházy of Galántha , was also an accomplished poet, harpsichordist, and composer?
... that some of the architectural elements of the Skene Memorial Library in Fleischmanns, New York, suggest contemporary train stations in the Catskill region?
... that Bobbi Trout became the first woman to fly an aircraft all night and broke the previous women's solo endurance record in a February 10, 1929, flight?
... that the Byzantine general Priscus survived the violent depositions of two successive Byzantine emperors and retained high office under their successors?
... that Director Park in Portland, Oregon, was designed by Laurie Olin, who also designed Bryant Park in New York City?
... that College Football Hall of Fame center Shorty Des Jardien played in the NFL for the Chicago Tigers and in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians?
... that Progressive era social reformer Katharine Bement Davis did research on the sexual practices of females in New York City?
... that Morning Funnies was a fruit-flavored breakfast cereal featuring comic strip characters including Dennis the Menace, Hägar the Horrible, and Funky Winkerbean on the box?
... that Jose Peralta was the first Latino elected to the New York State Assembly from Queens, New York?
... that the animations of characters in 1988 video game Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax were based on 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge's motion captures of humans?
... that the Blackhawk Hotel in Davenport, Iowa, has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Jack Dempsey, Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton?
... that between 1725 and 1783, members of the prominent Damascene family al-Azm held power as walis in Damascus, Syria, for 47 years?
... that Kobyaysky Ulus in the middle of the Sakha Republic of Russia has notable gold and silver reserves?
... that the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company started in 1924, but went bankrupt after the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
... that Jan de Jong, the ice master at Thialf, manipulated the ice cleaning schedule in the 1981 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men so that Eric Heiden would lose?
... that a Mexican Tree of Life sculpture appears on the cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album?
... that after retiring from the National Football League, Po James survived being shot six times in a YMCA in Bridgeport, Connecticut?
... that the chemist Hugo Weidel received the Lieben Prize in 1880?
... that southbound M-52 in downtown Adrian, Michigan, carries both directions of the US 223 business loop in town?
... that country music singer David Nail's single "Turning Home" was co-written by Kenny Chesney?
... that George Fielding Eliot's military analysis was part of the ten-hour CBS TV news coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, which was the first extended television coverage of a major breaking news event?
... that the variant of the wedding cord known as God’s knot or cord-of-three-strands is used as a substitute for unity candles?
... that Bulgarian animator Donyo Donev used deformed speech and interjections as a soundtrack for his films?
... that the most comprehensive history of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages was composed by Mujir al-Din al-'Ulaymi, whose tomb lies at the base of the Mount of Olives?
... that the 1930s Hollywood set designer and art director Laurence Irving was the grandson of the Victorian era actor Sir Henry Irving?
... that insurers use the condition of average to reduce insurance claims if they think you are underinsured?
... that despite having a Ph.D. and being a foremost North American authority on the difficult mushroom genera Lactarius and Russula, Gertrude S. Burlingham only ever taught high school biology?
... that the Apastovsky Museum in Apastovo, Tatarstan, contains archaeological and paleontological finds such as ancient tools, bone needles, stone hammers, a skull of a rhinoceros and mammoth teeth?
... that in Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee and the Liverpool Post and Echo Ltd, Lord Nicholls decided that the disputed test applied by the High Court judge was not necessarily wrong, but allowed the appeal anyway?
... that "Indian Camp" (published in 1925) was the first Ernest Hemingway short story to feature the semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams?
... that World War I fighter pilot Les Holden gained the nicknames "Lucky Les" and "the homing pigeon" after returning from successive missions with his aircraft riddled with bullet holes?
... that the royal dynasty at the Maya city of Copán in Honduras was founded by a warrior sent from the distant city of Tikal?
... that the American Detroit blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Eddie "Guitar" Burns was originally known as a harmonica player?
... that the J.W. Knapp Company Building, one of the finest intact examples of Streamline Moderne architecture in the Midwest, is faced with plates of enamel-covered concrete and prismatic glass-brick windows?
... that Bessie A. Buchanan, who was the first African-American woman to hold a seat in the New York State Legislature, previously danced in the chorus line at the Cotton Club?
... that although much of its habitat has been destroyed, isolated populations of the Mexican rice rat Oryzomys albiventer likely still survive?
... that Wilt Chamberlain won the National Basketball Association rebounding title a record eleven times in his career?
... that following the invasion of Tibet in 1959, the fifth Keutsang incarnation of the Keutsang Hermitage was incarcerated and later sought asylum in India in the 1980s?
... that Andy Hartzell created his graphic novel Fox Bunny Funny without a single line of text?
... that the Hindu widow goddess Dhumavati is offered liquor, meat, cigarettes and bhang, an intoxicating hashish drink?
... that St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein, Ohio, lies near the center of the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches?
... that sex therapy pioneer Helen Singer Kaplan advocated for people to enjoy sexual intercourse as much as possible as opposed to seeing it as something dirty or harmful?
... that Gaius Iunius Bubulcus Brutus, a three-time Roman consul in the 4th century BCE, was the first plebeian to build a temple in the Roman Republic?
... that a family in the village of Auchencairn reported stones being thrown, cattle moved and buildings set alight by a poltergeist in 1695?
... that the Majorca Sheepdogs were exported to Brazil and used to protect private property?
... that Lord Palmerston threatened "immediate and frightful" war against the United States if they would not repatriate Alexander McLeod, a Canadian accused of killing an American sailor?
... that in 1686 a thunderstorm damaged the Church of St Lawrence, Alton, blasting a hole in the tower and singeing the vicar's eyebrows?
... that in 1989, Michel Hansenne was elected the first post-Cold War Director-General of the International Labour Organization?
... that the ancient Toluvila statue is one of the best-preserved images of the Buddha that has been found in Sri Lanka?
... that Bulgarian virtuoso violinist Vasco Abadjiev was one of the youngest violinists to make his international debut in the 20th century, at the age of 6, in June 1932 in Vienna?
... that the Interactive Museum of Economics in Mexico City is the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to economics?
... that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Stan "Bags" Pennock was killed in an explosion that wrecked the chemical plant he opened in an abandoned New Jersey slaughterhouse?
... that when U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy heard Phil Ochs sing "Crucifixion", tears came to his eyes?
... that Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis resigned his offices in Ireland over King George III's failure to support Catholic emancipation?
... that periodic comet 50P/Arend is expected to make its next closest approach to the Sun in 2016?
... that in the 840s, the emir of Malatya, Umar al-Aqta, gave refuge to the Paulicians who were being persecuted by the Byzantine Empire, and gave them territory where they founded their own state?
... that the American industrialist Nathaniel Wheeler became a Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court in Vienna for sewing machines?
... that the tree Trema orientalis is used to make paper, rope, charcoal and traditional medications against cough, sore throat, toothache, gonorrhea and yellow fever?
... that by the time of his death in 1947, the Spanish financier José Lázaro Galdiano has amassed a collection of about 12,000 art works, mainly by European Old Masters?
... that Australian rugby union player Steve Williams was selected to play for the German national rugby union team while backpacking around Europe?
... that according to legend, the 5th century Avukana statue , a large stone figure of the Buddha, is the result of a competition between a sculpting master and student?
... that the residence of former Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand, James Arthur Flesher is now used as a community centre?
... that the initial letters in Lectionary 187 are decorated with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic motifs (birds, fishes, hands)?
... that Hall of Fame quarterback Charley Barrett died of an illness contracted in an explosion on the USS Brooklyn in Yokohama Harbor during World War I?
... that in 1648, Oliver Cromwell sent letters to Haverfordwest Castle in west Wales and threatened to have the townsfolk imprisoned unless the castle was destroyed?
... that the Hot and Hot Fish Club was a gentlemen's club dedicated to epicurean pursuits?
... that Thomas Rutherford Bacon, a 19th century Congregational minister in New Haven, Connecticut, was called "the original mugwump of Connecticut"?
... that Louis Jordan was the first University of Texas All-American football player and the first Texas officer killed in action in World War I?
... that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin, Italy?
... that Kesha Rogers, who won the 2010 Democratic primary for Texas's 22nd congressional district, is a follower of the LaRouche movement and has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama?
... that the last inhabitant of drowned settlement Hampton-on-Sea was retiree Edmund Reid, previously Metropolitan police head of CID who investigated the Jack the Ripper case?
... that the name of Ouvrage Rochonvillers of the Maginot Line was a state secret until 1971?
... that football champion Romualdas Marcinkus was the only Lithuanian pilot to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War?
... that the state flag of the German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is used on state police boats?
... that in 2010, Jennie M. Forehand sponsored a bill limiting the ability of judges to sentence criminals to time in local jails if those jails are not reimbursed by the state?
... that Eastern Michigan University's McKenny Union, opened in 1931, was the first student union on the campus of a teachers' college?
... that Patricia Travers was a child prodigy with the violin but withdrew from public performances at age 23?
... that in Tell Balata, a tell in the West Bank, there are towers and buildings estimated to be 5,000 years old?
... that Sri Lanka's first and so far only national referendum was held in 1982 to postpone parliamentary elections by six years?
... that Tickle Em Jock was the first Scottish Terrier to be best-in-show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
... that Anna Kozlova has competed in three Olympics, once for the Unified Team (former Soviet Union) and twice for the United States?
... that the smallscale archerfish does not need brackish water like other members of genus Toxotes, and is thus sometimes sold as a "freshwater archerfish"?
... that the Museo de la Estampa, along with the Museo Nacional de Arte, manages Mexico's largest collection of graphic arts including works by José Guadalupe Posada?
... that English football clubs entering administration have fewer points deducted in the Premier League than in the Football League because they play fewer games?
... that Sir Simon Degge, a barrister in Derby, wrote about glebes and the crime of simony?
... that of the 802 individual Nobel Prize winners, at least 162 (20%) were of Jewish ethnicity?
... that writer Zahari Stoyanov said of Bulgarian general, regent and Minister of War Sava Mutkurov that "by the time Mutkurov opened his mouth, the market would close up"?
... that The Mars Project, written by Wernher von Braun in 1948, has been regarded as "the most influential book" on manned missions to Mars ?
... that one common route up New York's Balsam Mountain follows the steepest section of trail in the Catskills?
... that medical student Bob Kolesar was one of Michigan's renowned "Seven Oak Posts" in 1942?
... that Francisco Goya's etching Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the Mayor of Torrejón records an event from 1801 when a Spanish politician was impaled and killed after a bull crashed through the barriers at a Madrid bullfight?
... that Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games?
... that three Byzantine emperors in the 6th century served as commanders of the imperial guard, known as the Excubitors, prior to assuming the throne?
... that American architect Kemper Nomland was a conscientious objector who spent World War II at Civilian Public Service camps in Oregon along with several other artists and writers?
... that American Idol season 8 finalist Danny Gokey's best days are ahead of him?
... that the French battleship Jean Bart was hit in the wine store near the forward magazine by a single torpedo, fired by the Austro-Hungarian submarine U-12 in the Adriatic in 1914?
... that Niall McCrudden became known as the "optician to the stars" after selling a pair of sunglasses to Jim Corr?
... that Minuscule 642, a manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by Joseph Carlyle, orientalist?
... that an essay in The Cherryh Odyssey describes American science fiction author C. J. Cherryh as "a master of detail, tone, and emotional wallop"?
... that during a tornado outbreak on June 18, 2001, police in Siren, Wisconsin, shouted warnings at local residents to take cover when the village's tornado siren malfunctioned?
... that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics?
... that in the Diepkloof Rock Shelter, a rock cave in South Africa, some of the earliest use of symbols by humans has been found upon water containers made out of ostrich eggshells?
... that funeral practices in the Philippines in the past include anthropomorphic jar burials and hanging coffins ?
... that the Cuban national baseball team won the gold or silver medal at every Summer Olympics where baseball was an official Olympic sport?
... that 19th-century white churchman Leonard Woolsey Bacon caused controversy when, as a pastor in Savannah, Georgia, he reportedly said he wouldn't mind his daughter marrying an African-American man?
... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India?
... that the Old City Hall in Zagreb has a plaque which commemorates Nikola Tesla's proposal put forward to the city council in 1892 to build an alternating current power station?
... that 17th-century ironmaster George Sitwell's vertically integrated business was so successful he exported a rolling mill to the West Indies?
... that Sotir Peçi published the first Albanian-language newspaper in the United States?
... that the German submarine U-1065 was sunk after only six days at sea by rockets from 10 de Havilland Mosquitos?
... that Chrystal Macmillan was the first female graduate with a degree in science from the University of Edinburgh, and the first woman to argue before the House of Lords?
... that the video game Gyromancer was originally "half-jokingly" proposed by PopCap Games co-founder Jason Kapalka to Square Enix with the name Final Fantasy Bejeweled?
... that the customers of Martha Matilda Harper's hair salons included Susan B. Anthony, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Jacqueline Kennedy?
... that the book Commentarii de Bello Civili, written by Julius Caesar, is staple reading among students of Latin?
... that Emma Roberto Steiner, one of the first American women to make a living from conducting, took a ten year hiatus from her musical career to prospect for tin near Nome, Alaska?
... that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest Nonconformist church in East Grinstead—a West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion?
... that Franjo Mihalić, winner of the 1958 Boston Marathon, set his first Yugoslav record over 5000 m just several months after taking up athletics?
... that the collector urchin is so named because of its tendency to collect debris on its dorsal side?
... that Wilma B. Liebman , the second woman ever to be Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was named to the position by President Barack Obama on his first day in office?
... that the mother of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was the main sponsor of Tibetan Rakhadrak Hermitage?
... that Mildred "Micky" Axton, who was the first woman to fly a B-29, died on February 8, 2010, before she could receive the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10, 2010?
... that España y Filipinas (Spain and the Philippines) by Juan Luna is a painted depiction of two women on the stairway to progress?
... that Florence Luscomb, one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT, later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?
... that the video for OK Go's single "This Too Shall Pass" features a giant Rube Goldberg machine and took 60 takes to complete?
... that fiction writer Cathy Kelly has sold over 1 million books in the UK, at one time displacing both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling from the top of the country's bestseller list?
... that Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh invented Sugru, described as "the most exciting product since Sellotape or Blu-Tack"?
... that Michele S. Jones was the first woman in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of command sergeant major before she retired to a military liaison position in the Obama Administration?
... that a recipe for Calf's Liver and Bacon is found in the White House Cookbook?
... that Tenley Albright won the gold medal in ladies' figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics despite sustaining a serious leg injury two weeks before the Olympics?
... that the zoste patrikia was the only Byzantine title reserved specifically for women, and ranked as one of the highest court dignities?
... that the German socialist women's activist Lore Agnes was jailed in 1914 for having called on women to oppose the war during a March 8 rally?
... that Nick Joaquin’s historical novel, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, is about a hallucinating Filipina who believed she had two belly buttons?
... that the prominent Hindu Ganesha cave temple at Lenyadri is located in the vicinity of about 30 Buddhist caves?
... that Evelina Haverfield, a British suffragette who was arrested after hitting a police officer in the mouth, threatened to "bring a revolver" next time?
... that the leading learned women of 1779 (called bluestockings) were painted as the Nine Muses by Richard Samuel?
... that the extinct sweat bee genus Nesagapostemon is known from a single 9.9-millimetre (0.39 in) female specimen?
... that with most of the British fleet immobilised by the mutiny at the Nore, HMS Adamant was one of only two two-decker warships available to blockade the Dutch fleet in 1798?
... that Spanish politician and feminist Clara Campoamor was one of three women elected to Spain's 1931 Constituent Assembly even though women were not allowed to vote in the election?
... that the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?