derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that prototypes of the CityCar, the ultra-small urban electric car designed by MIT Media Lab, are being built in Spain to be field tested by mid 2011 in Boston, Singapore, Taiwan and Florence?
... that the longhead catshark is the only known cartilaginous fish that normally has both male and female reproductive systems?
... that Max Dupain's 1937 photograph Sunbaker was described as "perhaps the most famous and admired photograph in Australia"?
... that American historian R.J.Q. Adams details the conflicting views of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill in his work British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–1939?
... that the Bay of Kiel was the venue for sailing events at both the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics?
... that in Constantinople, Mehmed II ordered a group of Albanian officers captured in the Battle of Vaikal to be tortured and their bodies thrown to the dogs?
... that the Sisquoc Formation in Southern California supports the largest diatomite mining operation in the world?
... that Hebraic studies specialist Harris Lenowitz has translated the works of 18th-century Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank from Polish into English?
... that the charity Elizabeth Finn Care was established in 1897 as the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association?
... that the strongest aspect of the Canaanite army – its chariots – proved to be its weakness during the biblical battle of Mount Tabor?
... that cricketer Bernard Bosanquet invented the googly after playing a table top game using a tennis ball?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Poole v. Fleeger that the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had properly entered into an agreement establishing a mutual border between the two states?
... that Turkey–Morocco relations started as early as the 16th century, with the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Northern Africa?
... that Kenneth R. Mladenka was among those political scientists in the 1980s who pushed successfully for inclusion into the discipline of urban case studies and quantitative analysis?
... that ghost hunter Andrew Green claimed to have only ever seen one ghost, that of a fox terrier, in his 60 years of research; and he wasn't even sure about that?
... that Eleanor Gates, who wrote seven Broadway plays, had to leave her second husband when they found out they were not married?
... that Khandita is an enraged heroine in Indian arts, whose lover cheats on her and spends the night with another woman?
... that Jayma Mays will perform her audition song, "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me", for the Rocky Horror tribute episode of Glee and its accompanying extended play?
... that in Virginia v. West Virginia in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the state of West Virginia to pay one-third of the state of Virginia's pre-Civil War debt?
... that the 1945 Japan–Washington flight made by three American air generals in three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses was the first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States?
... that extracts of the red volva Amanita can cause high blood sugar in mice?
... that the Duncan family, of Duncan glass fame, built a 17 room Queen Anne mansion that was later donated to Washington & Jefferson College and is now used as the college's President’s House?
... that a railway station once served Aberchalder but the line closed in 1935?
... that relatives of Nava Applebaum, who traveled to Jerusalem for her wedding, attended her funeral instead?
... that although he began playing basketball only after high school, Notre Dame forward John Moir broke every single school scoring record set by three-time All American Moose Krause in the 1930s?
... that Kenneth Nichols initiated the Atomic Energy Commission hearing in 1954 that resulted in atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance?
... that the extinct paddlefish Paleopsephurus was first described from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation?
... that the last remains of Tonbridge Priory were demolished in 1842 to make way for the building of Tonbridge railway station?
... that 2006 National Capital Marathon winner Amos Tirop Matui was disqualified and received financial compensation due to a misplaced barrier on the course?
... that in the 1930s, Domaine Armand Rousseau was one of the first producers to bottle its own wine in Burgundy?
... that "Make It Easy", a Yes song recorded in 1981, went unreleased for ten years but became a mainstream rock hit in 1991 and was retroactively added to their 1983 album 90125?
... that during the 1658 Siege of Badajoz between Portugal and Spain, Spanish forces at the garrison of Badajoz were either dressed in rags or nude?
... that even though it was disbanded three times, the Australian 30th Battalion fought in the First and Second World Wars?
... that according to a popular myth, the Chinese philosopher Confucius once asked the elderly recluse Rong Qiqi how a man so poor and frail as he could be happy?
... that American football running back Keith Elias graduated from Princeton University with 21 Princeton Tigers records and 4 National Collegiate Athletic Association I-AA records?
... that after battling over who could use the name "Yes", the musicians involved reconciled and released "Lift Me Up", a number-one mainstream rock song about homelessness?
... that the mushroom Clitopilus byssisedoides, formally described as new to science in 2010, was discovered growing in a German hothouse?
... that Manila's Jai Alai Building, a building designed by Welton Becket, was demolished in 2000 to give way to a building that was never erected?
... that the Al Wahda Dam is the largest dam in Morocco and was described as "the second most important dam in Africa after the High Aswan dam"?
... that Indian badminton player Gurusai Datt took to the sport after watching 2001 All England Champion Pullela Gopichand play at a local stadium?
... that jazz photographer Chuck Stewart tried to capture his subjects in flattering poses, saying "I didn't want them picking their nose or scratching their behind"?
... that the icebreaker Lenin became trapped in the ice of the Laptev Sea in 1937 and was rescued in 1938 by another icebreaker ?
... that the American electric blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, Rusty Zinn, also recently worked with Sly Dunbar and Boris Gardiner?
... that in mid-1863, the Eighteen Mile House near Harrison, Ohio, was attacked by Morgan's Raiders?
... that the 2001 Boshears Skyfest was canceled because of the September 11 terrorist attacks?
... that Jean Charles Faget, a New Orleans physician, discovered the Faget sign—an important early diagnostic warning sign of yellow fever?
... that To‘rtko‘l, the former capital of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was destroyed overnight in 1942 by the Amu Darya river?
... that Leroy Wright was the first repeat winner of the NCAA Division I men's basketball rebounds title, achieving the feat in 1959 and 1960?
... that the Church of St Michael in the Dartmoor town of Princetown is the only church in England to have been built by prisoners of war?
... that live coverage of Jökulsárlón in Iceland on the American TV program Good Morning America in 2006 was viewed by an estimated 4 million people?
... that historian Chester Dunning spent 12 years researching and writing his nearly 700-page volume, Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty?
... that ranked Indian badminton players Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap, and Gurusai Datt all train at Hyderabad's Gopichand Badminton Academy?
... that American Detroit and electric blues guitarist Willie D. Warren was once described as "one of the Midwest's true blues treasures"?
... that the 1933 film She Had to Say Yes was one of a series of movies that drew inspiration from the "real-life compromises working girls made to get and retain employment" during the Great Depression?
... that Hasan Pasha was the son of Barbarossa, and was three times ruler of the Algiers Regency?
... that the George B. Cox House in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the home of the city's political boss?
... that Australian runner Michael Shelley lost his scholarship funding and suffered a broken leg in 2009, but went on to win a silver medal in the marathon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that the modern given name Randal is ultimately derived from a medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements meaning "shield" (or "rim") and "wolf"?
... that the extinct stingray Heliobatis has been found with up to three stings on its tail?
... that Oneida I, by allowing aboriginal title claimants into federal court, "overturned one hundred forty-three years of American law"?
... that geneticist Piotr Słonimski joined with colleagues to organize support for scientists repressed during 1982–1983, the time of martial law in Poland?
... that Taylor Swift's song "Speak Now" was inspired by one of Swift's friends, whose high school sweetheart married another person?
... that Riessersee was the host venue for the 1936 Winter Olympics for speed skating and some ice hockey matches, while the bobsleigh was located just south of the lake?
... that during World War II, the 201 Schutzmannschaft Battalion was engaged in anti-partisan operations in Belarus?
... that Petter Nome was relieved of his job as television host after protesting the prospect of an Iraq War?
... that three ancient Maya stone heads, including one of an armadillo, were uncovered at Chojolom in the Guatemalan Highlands after a period of heavy rain?
... that scientists have suggested that more penes needed to be studied to assess the affinities of Van Gelder's bat with other Antrozoini?
... that Samuel Hannaford designed the Winton Place Methodist Episcopal Church , where his funeral was eventually held?
... that when St. Louis city officials blocked the expansion of the company that would become known as Burroughs Corporation, Alvan Macauley packed the entire factory into boxcars and sent it overnight to Detroit?
... that around 2,000 members of the media from around the world traveled to the site of the rescue of the Chilean miners?
... that University of Kentucky All-American Forest Sale served for five terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives before bowing out of politics?
... that the Étang Saumâtre in Haiti is a landlocked lake fed by springs emanating from calcareous rocks, with western part saline and eastern part with fresh water?
... that Pedro Borrell, the Dominican architect of the National Aquarium, is designing a million square meter coastal reclamation project for the Caribbean Sea?
... that Bach assigned two opposing voices to one singer in his cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben, BWV 109, for the 21st Sunday after Trinity?
... that Perlman syndrome is a very rare overgrowth disorder with an estimated incidence of less than one in 1,000,000 and fewer than 30 reported cases in world literature?
... that non-vocal sounds made by the Hakawai have been described as like a cable chain being lowered into a boat?
... that construction of the Phrontisterion of Trapezous , a former Greek school in Trabzon, Turkey, has been described as the most impressive surviving Pontic Greek monument of the city?
... that American historian Terry H. Anderson co-authored with Charles R. Bond, Jr. the first published diary of the exploits of a pilot assigned to General Claire Chennault's World War II Flying Tigers?
... that the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross diocesan community in Wisconsin was founded in 1868 to teach and provide medical care to the Belgian residents?
... that Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey discusses both issues of the fair treatment of governesses and the ethical claim of animals to human protection?
... that the father, mother, and father-in-law of Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Commander of the Special Forces Group in the Uganda People's Defence Force, are all members of the Cabinet of Uganda?
... that the passing of the Food Quality Protection Act marked the first time the Environmental Protection Agency was asked to directly address the risks that pesticides posed for infants and children?
... that the German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
... that James Turrell's art installations Stuck Red and Stuck Blue create an optical illusion which seems to collapse the room they occupy into a single plane?
... that the British Alpine Hannibal Expedition managed to march the 2.6 t elephant Jumbo over the Alps, but could not make her accept the name Hannibella?
... that Grafton and West Virginia National Cemeteries are the only two national cemeteries in West Virginia, and both are located in the small city of Grafton?
... that Alexis Rockman's mural Manifest Destiny, commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum in 2002, depicts Brooklyn in the year 5004 after a catastrophic rise in sea level?
... that the Naskapi ceded any rights or interests to the Matimekosh Reserve in northern Quebec, Canada, as a prerequisite to the formation of their own reserve?
... that in 1970, Texas historian Robert A. Calvert co-authored The Dallas Cowboys and the NFL, an inside study of the financing and organization of the popular football team?
... that in 1833, the opium clipper Sylph set the unbroken record of sailing from Calcutta to Macao in 17 days, 17 hours?
... that the Araçuaí River valley in Brazil is famous for the settlements established during the gold rush in the early 18th century in the region of Minas Novas?
... that the incomplete structural test airframe of the Avro 720 is often claimed to be the prototype of the cancelled interceptor?
... that Mark Twain denounced his former secretary as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction"?
... that in May 1944, Sea Hurricanes from the escort carrier HMS Nairana destroyed 10 percent of Germany's Junkers Ju 290 aircraft?
... that Dennis Mackrel, the last jazz drummer to be personally hired by Count Basie, is the new director of the Count Basie Orchestra?
... that BPP University College of Professional Studies is the United Kingdom's first for-profit institution of higher education?
... that Herman G. Felhoelter was the first US Army chaplain to win a valor award in the Korean War for his actions at the Chaplain-Medic massacre?
... that English vocalist Sarah Brightman had to beg Italian composer Ennio Morricone to let her add lyrics to his movie theme, "Gabriel's Oboe", to create her own song, "Nella Fantasia"?
... that the Fort des Ayvelles was the scene of German executions of French civilians in both World War I and World War II?
... that in the Expedition of Mostaganem in 1558, Spain failed to capture the Ottoman-held city of Mostaganem, and lost thousands of men?
... that Herb Wiedoeft, Ad and Gay all played Cinderella, and that their brother Rudy and their sister Erica were both players too?
... that Edward Hasted dismissed the existence of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst of Biddenden, Kent as "vulgar tradition"?
... that the Umayyad general Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, who led the second Arab siege of Constantinople, was also ascribed the construction of the city's first mosque in popular legend?
... that arranger and conductor Peter Matz won a Grammy and an Emmy Award for his work with Barbra Streisand?
... that after the 1880 general election in the United Kingdom, the election of Macclesfield MP David Chadwick was declared void, and his agent convicted of bribery?
... that EastCare is the critical care mobile air and ground transport of Pitt County Memorial Hospital?
... that Prince Max Emanuel of Thurn and Taxis' plans to construct a luxury hotel in view of Neuschwanstein Castle caused an uproar from local Bavarian farmers, who believed it would ruin the rural landscape?
... that the 2010 album Genuine Negro Jig, by an African American string band called the Carolina Chocolate Drops, reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Bluegrass chart?
... that the name of the Pyana River reflects the drunkenness of the Russian Army during the associated battle in 1377?
... that Texas Tech professor emeritus Alwyn Barr, who is white, wrote Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995, and the introduction for Black Cowboys of Texas?
... that the Greek television series To Nisi, based on the best-selling novel The Island by Victoria Hislop, is one of the most expensive Greek television productions ever made?
... that a U.S. appeals court declared the federal government was obliged to bring a lawsuit against the state of Maine, claiming 60% of the state's land on behalf of the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot?
... that Evangelical mysticism, a branch of Christianity, dates back to the 18th-century works by John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church?
... that after the Ottoman invasion of the Balearic islands in 1558, over 3,000 inhabitants were taken as slaves?
... that country music songwriter Bill Rice has 73 awards from ASCAP, more than any other songwriter?
... that, as part of the agreement to end the deadly Tarakan riot in 2010, the communities involved agreed to jointly hold an Idul Fitri celebration?
... that the American boogie-woogie pianist and singer, Mose Vinson, recorded two versions of "Forty-Four", one retitled "Worry You Off My Mind", and the other as "My Love Has Gone"?
... that the only airstrikes carried out by India in its own civilian territory happened during the March 1966 Mizo National Front uprising?
... that in the 1945 general election, Harold Roberts was one of only three Conservative MPs elected in the English city of Birmingham?
... that the 1932 Pre-Code film Laughter in Hell drew praise for its open depiction of the lynching of African Americans?
... that Texas A&M historian Walter L. Buenger wrote articles on Texas entrepreneurs H. L. Hunt and Jesse H. Jones?
... that English former professional footballer Jimmy Fletcher became a successful breeder of racing greyhounds and once led a consortium which won £200,000 on a single race?
... that when sailors on board Almirante Latorre mutinied, one of their demands was for more sugar?
... that the battlecruisers of Japan were destroyed by scrapping, air attack, surface engagements, a submarine, and an earthquake?
... that Anita Martinez was the first Mexican American woman to serve on the city council of Dallas, Texas?
... that approximately 8% of commuters in Portland, Oregon, bike to work, the highest proportion of any major United States city?
... that Reginald Laurence Scoones was the last British military commander in the Sudan Defence Force?
... that an elaborate, three-storey tomb memorializing Sir George Shirley inside the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, was constructed 20 years before his death?
... that the Cold War led nations to subsidise foreign exchange programs to encourage student migration from developing countries?
... that in State of Missouri v. State of Iowa in 1849, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a border dispute between two states that had caused the "Honey War" of 1839?
... that Ed Beisser won three consecutive AAU basketball national championships from 1946 to 1948 and was selected as an alternate for the United States men's national basketball team?
... that Internet service provider Fasthosts, sold for £61.5 million in 2006, was founded by a 17-year-old for a school project?
... that completion of the Croatian A4 motorway on October 22, 2008 marked completion of the Budapest–Zagreb–Rijeka motorway route?
... that puppeteer Van Snowden, who performed the puppetry for the H.R. Pufnstuf and Crypt Keeper characters, also developed the facial movements for Furby toys?
... that running back Gerald White played football for Bo Schembechler at Michigan, Tom Landry at Dallas and Don Shula at Miami?
... that tens of thousands of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were buried in multiple mass graves near Titanyen?
... that, during the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government drew up plans for mass arrests of communists and crypto-communists?
... that Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant will be the largest power plant in Ethiopia when fully operational, but has been accused of aiming "to provoke Egypt’s anger"?
... that the Rose Bowl was used as a velodrome as one of the venues of the 1932 Summer Olympics?
... that Louis Henkin slept on the couch of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter on Friday nights so he could attend the justices' weekly Saturday conference without violating the Jewish Sabbath?
... that Elizabeth Knollys served as Maid of Honour to Elizabeth I of England?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Halberstam's book The Breaks of the Game was listed as one of the best sports books ever written by Sports Illustrated?
... that Ethiopian long-distance runner Atsede Habtamu set a new course record at the Eindhoven Marathon with her first marathon victory earlier this month?
... that the release of Future X-Cops was delayed, as time was needed to enhance the quality of the film's special effects?
... that after winning his last fight via 10-second knockout due to head kick, English welterweight Mark Scanlon was signed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
... that American soprano Lauren Flanigan premiered the title role of Hugo Weisgall's opera Esther at the New York City Opera in 1993?
... that a 13-year-old girl discovered Grotte du Vallonnet, a cave in the Alpes-Maritimes of France that contained stone tools dated to 1 million to 1.05 million years BC?
... that a 1967 appeal by Felix Ziegel on Soviet television led to citizens submitting a barrage of supposed unidentified flying object sightings?
... that the gills of Inocybe praetervisa change from whitish to clay brown as the mushrooms mature?
... that the term educology, referring to the fund of knowledge about the educational process, has been in use since the 1950s?
... that Robert Tishman co-founded Tishman Speyer in 1978 with his son-in-law Jerry Speyer, a firm that is one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States?
... that Chesham tube station on the Chesham branch is both the northernmost and westernmost point of the London Underground?
... that IOC member Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen had five caps in football, two in bandy and an Olympic silver medal in sailing?
... that even though it was released in 1932, the Pre-Code film The Devil is Driving deals openly with sex and violence?
... that the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament Sir Cooper Rawson was a chairman of Durex Ltd?
... that Codex Floriacensis, an Old Latin manuscript of the New Testament, begins from the Book of Revelation?
... that mezzo-soprano Débria Brown created the role of Tituba in the world premiere of Robert Ward's Pulitzer-winning opera, The Crucible, at the New York City Opera in 1961?
... that in 1995, Canada's lower Kazan River area, an important caribou crossing as well as the ancestral home of Harvaqtuurmiut, was designated the Fall Caribou Crossing National Historic Site?
... that despite suffering from asthma, Indian badminton player Parupalli Kashyap continues to play the sport?
... that Rusty Mike Radio broadcasts over the internet to the two hundred and fifty thousand Anglos in Israel?
... that Robert L. Rutherford was the vice commander of the United States Air Force's Military Airlift Command and commander of both the Air Mobility Command and United States Transportation Command?
... that Yvor Winters titled the third volume in his three-volume collection of literary criticism, examining the work of prominent writers associated with Modernist poetry, The Anatomy of Nonsense?
... that The Waybacks, a four-piece band from San Francisco Bay, played covers from The Beatles' album Abbey Road at the 2010 MerleFest?
... that upon the release of the 1934 Pre-Code film Hitler's Reign of Terror, Film Daily scoffed at the film's prediction that Hitler's Germany was a future threat to world peace?
... that the Danish folk high school Rødkilde Højskole owes its existence to the dowry of a Norwegian bride who did not live to see it open?