derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after running ashore in a storm, the German submarine SM U-118 became a popular beachside tourist site?
... that all that remains of the type specimen of the Mediterranean slipper lobster is a 16th-century watercolour ?
... that according to tradition, the horn that 14th-century clan chief Malcolm MacLeod supposedly broke off from a raging bull now exists as a drinking horn and heirloom of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod?
... that the actors Peter Helm and his sister Anne inherited a large estate from their banker-grandfather in the same month that Peter made his TV debut on CBS's Pete and Gladys?
... that the devadasi (temple courtesan) system was outlawed in the Madras Presidency partly due to the efforts of Moovalur Ramamirtham, a former devadasi herself?
... that professional wrestler Mascarita Dorada was the first Mini-Estrella to have a regular size wrestler, Mascara Dorada, named after him and not vice-versa?
... that of the ten German battleships interned in Scapa Flow, only SMS Baden was not successfully scuttled on 21 July 1919?
... that ophthalmologist Arnall Patz received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for solving one of "the great medical mysteries of the postwar era"?
... that Bayne-Fowle House, a National Register of Historic Places registered property located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandra, Virginia, United States, served as a military hospital in 1864?
... that director Kōji Seki's 1967 pink film Perverted Criminal was Japan's first 3-D film, and the world's first 3-D sexploitation film?
... that Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
... that Varzuga, one of the oldest documented permanent Russian settlements on the Kola Peninsula, was first mentioned in 1466?
... that the 2009 eponymous debut album Supercell by the J-pop/rock band of the same name contains songs not sung by a human?
... that the 13th-century font in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield reputedly suffered a large crack when a horse, stabled inside the church during the English Civil War, kicked it?
... that New Zealand geologist Patrick Marshall was the first who used the term "andesite line"?
... that Mexeflote rafts from the British Royal Logistic Corps were used to transport supplies to the remote Haitian village of Anse-à-Veau following the 2010 earthquake?
... that Johnston Road in the former British settlement of Hong Kong was named after Alexander Robert Johnston, who served as acting administrator of the colony?
... that the 1910–1911 Zionist newspaper Hamevasser called on Jews to join the Ottoman army, in an effort to improve Jewish-Turkish relations?
... that Charles Garvice, "the most successful novelist in England" in the period 1900–1920, sold millions of books annually but is virtually unknown today?
... that the Denisova Cave, where the finger bone of the Denisova hominin was found, is named after Dionisij, an 18th-century hermit?
... that President of the United States James A. Garfield knew both Latin and Greek, and could write both simultaneously with separate hands?
... that one of the causes of the May Revolution could have been that Napoleon crowned his own brother Joseph Bonaparte as the new Spanish King?
... that the Underwater Archaeology Branch has been involved in research on H. L. Hunley and CSS Alabama, and the search for USS Bonhomme Richard?
... that three Major League Baseball pitchers—Charles Radbourn, John Clarkson and Guy Hecker—captured the National League wins title by collecting more than 50 victories in a single season?
... that the Israel Defense Forces captured the Iraq Suwaydan police fort in Operation Shmone after seven previous failed attempts?
... that the CARVER matrix was developed by United States special forces as a target acquisition system used to rank and prioritize targets?
... that Gordon L. Park worked around the globe as a petroleum engineer for Chevron before he settled in Wyoming and was elected in 1992 to the state legislature?
... that timbuwarra are anthropomorphic rattan figures produced by the Wiru people of Papua New Guinea?
... that an entire regiment of the Mexican Army was dispatched to expel Mexican folk healer and mystic Teresa Urrea from the country?
... that the locomotive involved in Sweden’s worst rail accident was later hit in an air raid near Korsør, Denmark, in 1943 after it had been overhauled and sold to the Danes?
... that George Washington served as a justice in the court of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria when it was a courthouse?
... that about 30,000 runners cross the 25 de Abril Bridge as part of the Lisbon Half Marathon each year?
... that inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla decided on his career path after being impressed by laboratory experiments of his physics professor at Gymnasium Karlovac?
... that the Italian pre-dreadnought battleship Re Umberto was modified in 1918 in preparation for her role as the lead ship in the planned attack on the main Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola?
... that the television series Meet the Natives: USA shows five tribesmen from the island of Tanna playing golf, riding roller coasters, and getting pedicures?
... that one of the findings of sociology of leisure has been that amount of free time is not significantly dependent on one's wealth?
... that American football player Tom Hammond always played without protective padding, saying "I want them to feel my bones"?
... that effective use of domain engineering concepts like the use of domain-specific languages can reduce code size by over 50%?
... that Louisiana State Senator K.D. Kilpatrick of Ruston began working as a teenager in his family mortuary business after his father was incapacitated by a stroke?
... that a secret causeway from the mainland to Matagorda Island off San Antonio Bay was hidden from Europeans by Karankawa Indians?
... that Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty, was baptised in St Bridget's Church, Brigham, England, and that his tomb is in the churchyard?
... that offspring of Gargaphia solani almost always fall victim to predation without the protection of their mother?
... that in 1575, Countess Ana von Eck from Brda was killed by a tame bear in the castle courtyard of Žužemberk Castle?
... that the steamboat Arabia was missing for 132 years before it was discovered half a mile from the Missouri River under 45 feet of mud?
... that from March 1940, Edvard Sylou-Crantz worked in Germany as a Norwegian-language propagandistic radio news reader?
... that around 50% of adult Jews in Constantinople were subscribers of the Ladino language newspaper El Tiempo at the time of the First World War?
... that from 1904 to 1907, artists' model Dorelia McNeill lived in a ménage à trois with Augustus John and his first wife Ida Nettleship?
... that feature models, initially conceived by feature-oriented domain analysis, are characterized as "the greatest contribution of domain engineering to software engineering"?
... that the Protestant church of Jistrum in Friesland was prior to 1581 a Catholic church, when in one week it was stripped by iconoclasts?
... that fourteen-year-old Doris Duke gained control of Duke Farms after suing her mother?
... that before 2002, nobody had reported seeing a wild specimen of Impatiens denisonii, a rare balsam, since it was first described in 1862?
... that the Jacob Kamm House in Portland, Oregon, was built with wooden siding and quoining to imitate stone?
... that the author of the book Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege" was recognized with the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award?
... that 51 men were executed by Anglo-Saxons near Weymouth, Dorset, and interred in the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit in AD 910−1030?
... that Seteng Ayele was the oldest track and field athlete at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that the fate of an opossum in the Parks and Recreation episode "The Possum" has been described as an allegory for capital punishment?
... that the Old Hansen Planetarium served as the main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library system from 1905 to 1964?
... that Dieter Dorn staged the world premiere of the opera L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe of Hans Werner Henze at the Salzburg Festival in 2003?
... that Ivan Kramskoi's 1883 Portrait of an Unknown Woman caused a sensation when first exhibited, as critics assumed that the woman was of ill repute?
... that Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket, taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986?
... that the tambouras, a Greek traditional string instrument of the lute family and ancestor of the bouzouki, features movable frets?
... that MacGillivray Milne was appointed Governor of American Samoa less than two years after having been court-martialed?
... that the first hull loss of a Tupolev Tu-204 occurred when Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 crashed on approach to Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, on 22 March 2010?
... that American biologist Philip Hershkovitz discovered many rodent species while he was in his eighties?
... that a failed Cretan revolt of 1828, led by Hatzimichalis Dalianis, is the basis for the local legend of the ghost army of the Drosoulites?
... that the Japanese Kongō-class battlecruisers were designed by British naval engineer George Thurston?
... that Marcus R. Clark was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana Supreme Court though he had years earlier been sanctioned by that body for backlogged cases as a district judge?
... that Welgelegen (or Tjepkema's Molen) is the only survivor of seventeen windmills to have stood in Heerenveen, Friesland, the Netherlands, since the 15th century?
... that Michael Barlow is the seventh winner of the Fothergill-Round Medal in the last eight years that was listed on an Australian Football League squad via the rookie draft?
... that Leptodora is the largest planktonic cladoceran, and its type species is probably the only cladoceran to have been described in a newspaper?
... that the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent is installed in a room constructed especially for it at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston?
... that by the Treaty of Vilnius (1561), Gotthard Kettler exchanged his office as Grand Master of the Livonian Order for that of a duke and Royal administrator?
... that the façade of the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso in Porto, Portugal, is covered in approximately 11,000 azulejos?
... that the "father of the Finnish written language" died when returning from the Treaty of Novgorod (1557)?
... that in 2006, ten percent of the membership of the Australian Watercolour Institute were recipients of Australia Honours?
... that a raga in Indian musician Ram Narayan's album Rag Shankara, Rag Mala in Jogia was named for an incarnation of Shiva?
... that Lado Ketskhoveli was one of the first revolutionaries to introduce Stalin to Marxism?
... that fishing down the food web is resulting in a progressive worldwide decline in the fish stocks that are higher on the food chain?
... that Siraj Gena finished his winning run of the Rome Marathon barefoot to honour the 50th anniversary of Abebe Bikila's marathon gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics?
... that the sculpture of a freezing woman at the Golm War Cemetery was not erected because it did not match the artistic perceptions of the East German party line?
... that the Australian Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands regularly support 1% of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway's population of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ?
... that Harry Crosby, whose Black Sun Press published struggling writers like D. H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, James Joyce and Ezra Pound, died at age 31 in a suicide pact with his lover?
... that Gowardia, a lichen found in tundra of the Northern Hemisphere, is named after the lichenologist Trevor Goward?
... that as a state legislator Ron Gomez, previously the radio voice of the ULL Ragin' Cajuns, worked to build the team's arena, the Cajundome, in Lafayette, Louisiana?
... that Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?
... that designer Vladimir Kagan, whose 1952 sofa was auctioned by Christie's for $190,000, created a facsimile for Room & Board in 2006 that sells for less than $1,900?
... that Azalea Trail Maids appeared in the inauguration parade of President Barack Obama in full antebellum-era dresses?
... that two of the singer-songwriters in Little River Band wrote so many songs that they formed the duo Birtles & Goble to record the unreleased material?
... that although U.S. President Barack Obama is Christian, high-ranked al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews"?
... that Doña Rosa Real discovered how to make Barro negro pottery in San Bartolo Coyotepec, a small town in southern Mexico?
... that in the 1779 raid led by General William Tryon, British troops destroyed 83 houses, two churches, and a jail in Fairfield, Connecticut?
... that Agrimonia gryposepala, a plant of the rose family (Rosaceae), was used by the Meskwaki and Prairie Potawatomi to cure nosebleeds?
... that the debut in Carnegie Hall of tenor James Taylor was in the premiere of the Levine completion of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor?
... that the forests of Syria, celebrated throughout ancient times for their richness, have been reduced to their present-day area of 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi)?
... that Fr. Martin Hehir, the fourth president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, was affectionately known to students as "Daddy Hehir"?
... that Senator Orris S. Ferry , who served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, died of a wasting spinal disease?
... that an 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agents provocateurs paid by the government?
... that the word "pitcher" originates from the 13th century Middle English word picher, which means earthen jug?
... that the nineteenth-century American botanist Edward Tuckerman liked to write his studies in Latin?
... that in 2003, an English translation of Shadow Tower Abyss, the forerunner to From Software's award-winning Demon's Souls, was cancelled by Sony over fears that the game's style lacked market appeal?
... that Ukrainian sprinter Anzhela Kravchenko has more national titles in the 100 and 200 metres than double world champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block?
... that the specific name of the small shrub Adenanthos cacomorphus, meaning 'ugly form', relates to its "misshapen" pollen grains?
... that Barry Bowen owned Belikin, Belize's only domestically brewed beer brand, as well as the country's only commercial coffee farm?
... that Gérard du Puy is said to have destroyed three papal tombs in Perugia ?
... that journalist Lauro Aguirre planned a violent takeover of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico in 1906?
... that former First Lady of New Hampshire Gale Thomson ran a maple syrup business from her 19th century farmhouse in Orford?
... that Baseball Hall of Fame member Mel Ott was struck out in his first at-bat of his Major League Baseball career by pitcher Wayland Dean?
... that the Yalbugha Mosque was built in 1264 by Mamluk princes in Damascus, Syria?
... that Chaucer scholar Charles Muscatine participated in the D-day landing on Omaha Beach and was fired by UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a McCarthyite oath?
... that Olena Krasovska ran the fastest 100 metres hurdles race (12.45 seconds) by an athlete representing Ukraine, but despite this she does not hold the Ukrainian record?
... that reed boats , made with reeds such as the papyrus, have been used for at least 7000 years and are still built in Peru and Ethiopia?
... that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones, KT Tunstall and Coldplay?
... that the 7th century Arab Islamic palatial complex of Al-Sinnabra at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee was originally thought to be a Byzantine-era synagogue?
... that Joseph H. Allen, a volunteer infantryman and the 21st supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York, was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
... that Twice Blessed is an American Book Award winning novel by Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca?
... that comedian Andy Samberg guest starred in the Parks and Recreation episode "Park Safety", which he called "the best episode, and maybe not just of this show but of any show on television ever"?
... that Winifred Collins was one of the first females to be commissioned in the WAVES when it began in 1942 and was later Chief of Naval Personnel for Women?
... that the tree Erythrina velutina can make mice and rats sleepy and is the only Erythrina species pollinated by a lizard, the Noronha skink?
... that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's parents are buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina?
... that Code of Vengeance starred Charles Taylor as David Dalton, a character created for a planned spin-off series from Knight Rider?
... that the traditional oral rules for leadership selection at the Rapid Lake Indian reserve in Quebec were put down in writing for the first time in 1996?
... that the idea for MyTwoCensus, a political watchdog of the 2010 U.S. Census, was first conceived by journalist Stephen Robert Morse as he was looking for a job on Craigslist?
... that in Albanian mythology, the drangue is a semi-human winged warrior who is born wearing a shirt and qeleshe?
... that while she never sank any vessels in her career, U-771 shot down a British B-24 Liberator aircraft?
... that the Christie’s auction house gave Juan Luna’s painting Las Damas Romanas (The Roman Maidens) a price tag of $1 million to $1.2 million?
... that during the American Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy developed new medical programs to treat sick and injured soldiers?
... that the South Park episode "Sexual Healing" parodied the recent sex scandal surrounding golf pro Tiger Woods, and satirized the media attention it generated?
... that with around 250 killed the UNITA 2001 Angola train attack was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks involving railways?
... that Blazed Alder Creek, which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon, was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
... that the association l'Affranchissement, founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium?
... that the Bolinas, California-based unconventional winemaker Sean Thackrey was previously an art dealer?
... that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing, West Sussex, have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006?
... that the Ananda Temple in Bagan, Myanmar, with four standing Buddhas facing the cardinal directions, is said to be an architectural wonder titled the "Westminster Abbey of Burma"?
... that Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan Magazine from February to May of that year?
... that Martyrs' Lane in Baku, Azerbaijan, is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War?
... that the specific name of Adenanthos macropodianus refers to it only being found on Kangaroo Island?
... that American writer-director Patrick Coyle first publicly showed his 2009 film Into Temptation at the hospice where his father stayed?
... that in the 2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga season, with the Rugby Club Luxembourg, a team from Luxembourg competes in the German 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga?
... that Marcus Larson, a prominent 19th-century painter from Sweden, worked for a saddle maker before becoming an artist?
... that a 1996 National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon as the Great Sandy Desert?
... that 1968 was the deadliest year in the Vietnam war for the United States and its Vietnamese allies?
... that the music website SongMeanings was created after its founder was inspired by a debate surrounding the meaning behind music group Ben Folds Five's song "Brick"?
... that a silent speech interface enables people to talk without making speech sounds, or those with laryngectomies to speak after losing their voice?
... that as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle that caused it to decrease in intensity but increase in diameter?
... that the 1956 radio program It's A Crime, Mr. Collins was said to be "a flagrant rip-off of The Adventures of the Abbotts in which only the names had been changed"?
... that more than 60% of the Confederacy's war finance came from printing money , which, along with bad military news, caused prices to increase 92 times over in the South during the American Civil War?
... that UdiWWW was among the first web browsers to support the HTML 3 specification?
... that the Manawan Indian reserve in the Mauricie region of Quebec has had road access only since 1973?
... that Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicles were used by United States Navy SEALs in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as during the Gulf War?
... that Czech politician Petr Zenkl, who survived two Nazi concentration camps, was forced to escape to the West after communists took power in Czechoslovakia by coup d'état in 1948?
... that after the original owner of the Walsh-Kaiser Company shipyard had difficulty managing the yard, a shipbuilding and a construction company took over?
... that the town of Otumba, Mexico, has an annual Donkey Fair where the animals feature in fashion shows and costume contests?
... that in the Sera Chöding Hermitage in Lhasa, Tibet, according to a local legend, the ‘local site-spirit’ used to enter through a small window to meet Tsongkhapa?
... that British child actor Noah Marullo plays a character with Asperger syndrome on Tracy Beaker Returns, which he feels "helps children understand that everyone is different"?
... that before entering politics, two-time prime minister Said al-Ghazzi was one of the leading lawyers in Syria?
... that the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists has dealt with over 600 cases since it began in 2001?
... that the tragic death of Bonnie McCarroll at the 1929 Pendleton Round-Up led to the cancellation of women's bronc riding from rodeo competition?
... that the aureole effect is an optical phenomenon seen in rippling water that creates sparkling light and dark rays radiating from the shadow of the viewer's head?
... that the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints Church, Boltongate as "one of the architectural sensations of Cumberland"?
... that Edward Richardson was the first person to build a rail tunnel through the side of an extinct volcano?
... that the holotype specimen of the dinosaur Linheraptor is one of few nearly complete dromaeosaurid skeletons, worldwide?
... that college basketball guard A.J. Slaughter received scholarship offers from major conference schools Vanderbilt and West Virginia, but ultimately decided to play for Western Kentucky?
... that citizen volunteers at The Jawa Report notified the FBI about the threat posed by Jihad Jane?
... that in Villa de Zaachila, Mexico, the weekly tianguis or open air market has changed little over the centuries and the Zapotec language can still be heard?
... that the rider who completes the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in the shortest time will win $500,000 in Alaskan gold?
... that in March 2010, Australia became the first country in the world to officially recognise a 'non-specified' gender, when Norrie May-Welby was found to be neither a man nor a woman?
... that Pope Clement VII built the Pozzo di S. Patrizio while taking refuge in Orvieto after the Sack of Rome (1527)?
... that the main factors influencing survival amongst the stricken Donner Party pioneers were age, sex, and the size of each person's family group?
... that Herb Graver scored five touchdowns in the 1903 Michigan–Ohio State game, a record that has not since been matched by a player for either team?
... that a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone is a political subdivision of a municipality or county in the state of Texas created to implement tax increment financing?