derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Ingeborg Borgerud, former jurist for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, was lambasted by these unions some years later for a report about working environment?
... that Christian Steinmetz was the inaugural College Basketball Player of the Year in 1905, despite being only 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighing 137 pounds (62 kg)?
... that NASA scientists have described Lake Untersee in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, as one of the most unusual lakes on Earth with a pH like that of strong Clorox?
... that 9th-century Bulgarian first minister Isbul was so rich that he constructed and donated buildings to the monarch Malamir himself?
... that Jake Adelstein was the first American to work as a Japanese language reporter for a Japanese newspaper?
... that before the flight test program of the Sikorsky S-60 flying crane was completed, its successor was already on the drawing board?
... that Harold I. Cammer represented his legal partner, Nathan Witt, before HUAC in 1950 when his former legal partner, Lee Pressman, accused Witt of being a communist?
... that Pete Cimino once scored 114 points in a high school basketball game and then became a pitcher in Major League Baseball?
... that the Green Island Light was kept lit day and night during the Peshtigo Fire in a failed attempt to prevent a shipwreck?
... that up until 2010, Vanuatuan passports were still hand-written?
... that stingless bees put the slimy spore mass of the fungus Staheliomyces cinctus into their pollen baskets?
... that Bach wrote in Weimar the opening chorus of his cantata for the First Sunday of Advent Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61, as a French overture?
... that for 14 years Moira Hoey played a character on television considered "the quintessential Irish mammy"?
... that physicist Gunnar Nordström's early death may have been caused by his passion for radioactivity and consequent use of water containing radioactive matter for sauna baths?
... that the Roman Villa Borg in Saarland, Germany, has recently been almost fully reconstructed, a century after its discovery?
... that three crew members were each given 50 "lashes with nine tails" after HMS Whiting was lost on the dangerous Doom Bar?
... that William Hohri helped fellow Japanese Americans interned during World War II get $20,000 each in compensation from the U.S. government, and then used his share to buy a Japanese-made car?
... that the format of the children's TV show Sesame Street was changed due to the success and popularity of the segment "Elmo's World"?
... that at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, every so often the sand recedes enough to allow the 19th century shipwreck of the King Philip clipper ship to become visible?
... that an ancient quarry discovered near Jericho in 2009 by Israeli archaeologists may be depicted on the Byzantine era Madaba Map?
... that Howard Lester bought Williams-Sonoma in 1976 when it had four stores and sales of US$4 million and grew the company to annual sales of US$3.4 billion at 600 stores, including the Pottery Barn chain?
... that when Pennsylvania judge Cathy Bissoon was four years old, her father was stabbed to death near the family's home in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
... that Stefano Bernardi composed a Te Deum for 12 choirs for the consecration of the Salzburg Cathedral in 1628?
... that talent agent Martin Baum "packaged" together three of his clients – actor Sidney Poitier, director Ralph Nelson and screenwriter James Poe – who collaborated on the 1963 film Lilies of the Field?
... that in the 1960s and 1970s, Margrethe Munthe's popular children's songs were criticized for being too moralizing?
... that a Rans S-6 Coyote II , a type of homebuilt aircraft, has flown across the Atlantic Ocean twice?
... that the first woman to serve as a French Cabinet minister was Germaine Poinso-Chapuis in 1947?
... that Dinamo Zagreb footballer Mateo Kovačić became the youngest ever goalscorer in the Prva HNL in November 2010 at the age of 16 years and 198 days?
... that John Mills Houston, a stage actor, was one of 19 men selected to act as President Woodrow Wilson's honor guard during World War I?
... that French privateer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville died of yellow fever in Cuba on July 8, 1706 while organizing an attempt to capture the capital of the Province of Carolina (present-day South Carolina)?
... that because of his birth and marriage to a Russian princess, Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg was Russia's candidate to succeed Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria?
... that members of the segregated US 24th Infantry Regiment claimed that the regiment's achievements at the Battle of Sangju were not recognized due to racism?
... that five of the seven men killed when the St Ives Lifeboat was wrecked in January 1939 were survivors of a previous lifeboat wreck in January 1938?
... that the 72-metre (236 ft) tall Laboe Naval Memorial by the architect Gustav August Munzer was confiscated by the British Army after World War II?
... that although the Black Carts Turret Roman fortification is connected to Hadrian's Wall, it was probably built before the wall itself?
... that No. 71 Wing RAAF was active to the last day of World War II, flying its final mission only hours before news arrived of the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945?
... that the Balaghat mine operated by MOIL Limited is the deepest underground manganese mine in Asia?
... that Wolfgang Schäfer, who succeeded Helmuth Rilling as professor of choral conducting for the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, is also part of the musical comedy trio BosArt?
... that the Cambridge Modern History, launched in 1902, went on to cover the history of the world up to 1910?
... that American musician Jennifer Frautschi plays an Antonio Stradivari violin known as the "ex-Cadiz," dated to 1722?
... that per his request, Ugandan environmentalist Ndyakira Amooti was buried without a coffin, his body wrapped in a palm-leaf mat?
... that it took 340 days to prepare 22 milligrams of berkelium for the synthesis of 6 atoms of element 117, which took another 150 days?
... that Bagyi Aung Soe, now recognized as one of Burma's most important modern artists, lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?
... that The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, a merger of The Daily Beast and Newsweek, plans on redirecting Newsweek.com to The Daily Beast, despite the fact that the former website has higher web traffic?
... that when the former British Member of Parliament Warwick Brookes was declared bankrupt in 1931, he had debts of £50,000 but less than £300 in assets?
... that commando-style forces under Raymond Westerling, a Dutch army captain who led a counter-insurgency offensive in the Indonesian National Revolution, killed at least 5,000 Indonesians?
... that professional baseball player Juan Bernhardt hit the first home run in Seattle Mariners franchise history?
... that, in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, the Maya city of Sacul was one of the few kingdoms in the southeastern Petén region to use its own Emblem Glyph?
... that Texas State Rep. Edmund Kuempel, while under anesthesia from surgery, hung up on former U.S. President George W. Bush in 2009, not realizing who was on the phone?
... that the totem pole which welcomes visitors to the British Museum was documented for the museum by Rev. John Henry Keen years before it was purchased?
... that during World War II, the U.S. Navy planned to equip eighteen squadrons of assault drones with a thousand Interstate TDR and Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft?
... that the openly gay street scene in Mexico City's Zona Rosa has drawn comparisons with Barrio de Chueca in Madrid and the Castro District in San Francisco?
... that the Battle of Coral-Balmoral (12 May – 6 June 1968) was the largest unit-level action of the Vietnam War fought by the 1st Australian Task Force?
... that in the aftermath of the unsuccessful January Uprising, Polish insurgent Zygmunt Padlewski was captured and executed by the Russian authorities?
... that the ironclad HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden was the largest ship built for the Royal Netherlands Navy during the 19th century?
... that Guinean socialist politician Barry III was nicknamed "Little Elephant", due to the similarities of his political programme with that of Sékou Touré, whose nickname was "Elephant"?
... that accounts of the maritime history of Orissa say that the ancient ships were driven by steam engines and could travel underwater?
... that the Jadeite Cabbage , a piece of jadeite carved into the shape of a Chinese cabbage with a locust and katydid camouflaged in the leaves, is the "most famous masterpiece" in Taiwan's National Palace Museum?
... that Cincinnati's Nast Trinity United Methodist Church was the first German Methodist Episcopal church in the world?
... that the 2007 home invasion murders in Cheshire, Connecticut, have been called "possibly the most widely publicized crime in the state's history"?
... that Cornell University labor law professor James A. Gross has worked as a labor relations mediator for the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball?
... that Adenanthos eyrei was formally named after Edward John Eyre, the first explorer known to have visited the only place where this Western Australian shrub has been found?
... that the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group traces its organizational lineage back to Carrier Division Two, which was initially commanded by legendary Fleet Admiral William "Bull" Halsey in 1937?
... that Commonwealth Games boxing gold medallist Simon Vallily was once a football trainee at Middlesbrough Football Club?
... that episodes of The Jimmy Durante Show ended with Durante's catchphrase, "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!" – a reference to his deceased first wife?
... that the Guisborough Helmet , an ancient Roman cavalry helmet discovered at Guisborough, North Yorkshire, was buried in mysterious circumstances far from any known Roman sites?
... that Regulus bulgaricus, the only fossil kinglet, is known from a single ulna?
... that French record producer and executive Michel Esteban, who co-founded ZE Records in New York in 1978, is now the director of a cultural center in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil?
... that the foundation stones of Armstrong Chapel in Indian Hill, Ohio, are held together by earth rather than mortar?
... that when Bernard de Nonancourt, a French Resistance member and future head of Laurent-Perrier, uncovered Adolf Hitler's wine cellar, he found hundreds of cases of 1928 Champagne Salon looted from France?
... that some counseling sessions of the ex-gay group Homosexuals Anonymous included "desensitizing" naked massages, but led the men being counseled to begin having sexual encounters with each other?
... that in 2007 cashiers at Cencosud's Santa Isabel supermarkets in Chile were subject to strip searches, and many wore diapers because they had to work nine-hour shifts without bathroom breaks?
... that historian Dan Flores wrote a study of the Red River Expedition, which set out for the American Southwest in 1806 just as Lewis and Clark were returning from the Pacific Northwest?
... that the Douglas Aircraft Corporation's Cloudster II, intended for use as an executive transport, was powered by two engines but only had a single propeller?
... that Tim Smith was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in his school's first year as a conference member?
... that then-unknown singer Estelle featured on DJ Skitz's debut album in 2001?
... that in 1929 the Hudson Motor Car Company ranked third in total U.S. production by targeting budget minded buyers, but introduced the Greater Eight, a premium line of cars, at the height of the Depression?
... that the creator of Kaboom!'s villainous "Mad Bomber" also programmed a series of Brain Games that have been said to improve memory?
... that the chemical element einsteinium was discovered in the debris of the Ivy Mike nuclear test in 1952?
... that Dwayne Schintzius was the oldest player selected in the 2001 NBDL Supplemental Draft at 33 years old?
... that an animation database stores fragments of animations or human movements and can be used to re-assemble new animations?
... that the execution of Witold Pilecki, Polish Righteous among the Nations, was carried out by the Mokotów Prison Staff Sergeant Piotr Śmietański?
... that the Holyoke Building at the corner of First Avenue and Spring Streets in Downtown Seattle was the first permanent building to be completed after the Great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889?
... that in 1979, the Seattle Mariners team trainer was taking pitcher Byron McLaughlin's luggage through airport security when he was detained by authorities who discovered a .357 Magnum in his bag?
... that Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County, the first American synagogue to hire a woman as senior rabbi, is Conservative?
... that the 12th-century Church of St Nicholas in Melnik, Bulgaria, may have owned and used one of the oldest extant church bells in Europe?
... that the Democratic Party of Guinea organ Le Phare de Guinée was closed down in 1949, as no printing press in Guinea dared to print it due to government pressure?
... that British company Wasp Motorcycles produces a special motorcycle sidecar designed for use by paraplegic motorcyclists?
... that among the drawings by Andreas Bloch are caricatures in satirical magazines and illustrations in Fridtjof Nansen's book on the Fram expedition?
... that United States lightship WAL 539 was the last lightvessel constructed for the United States Lighthouse Service before it became part of the Coast Guard?
... that besides the existence of 24 tracks recorded in 1928–29, the life of American classic female blues singer Bessie Tucker remains a mystery?
... that after right-wing, anti-Semite activist Ernst Werner Techow was released from jail he joined the French Foreign Legion and helped save hundreds of Jews during World War II?
... that actress and chanteuse Raquel Meller attempted to book a deluxe suite for her five Pekingese on a 1926 transatlantic voyage aboard the SS Leviathan?
... that in defying Spanish dominance, locals built a chapel at a higher elevation next to Fort Santa Cruz in Oran, Algeria?
... that JFK in Ireland includes an account of a disagreement between John F. Kennedy and Éamon de Valera?
... that the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb celebrates its holiday on 3 May, in memory of the 1995 rocket attack in which its building was hit, killing a student?
... that a Roman road near Pertwood, unusually, was diverted around an ancient tumulus instead of going through it?
... that 500 kilometres (310 mi) separates populations of the shrub Adenanthos oreophilus?
... that only six of the U.S. Supreme Court's nine justices participated in a 1950 anti-communist oath case?
... that John Stanley Booth survived being wounded in the Battle of France and a tour of duty with Bomber Command, only to be killed when the aircraft he was flying struck a landing light?
... that the only surviving Marion Model 91 steam shovel , in Le Roy, New York, may have been used to dig the Panama Canal?
... that both the British Royal Navy and German Kriegsmarine were dissatisfied with the results of the Action of 28 January 1945?
... that previous winners of Wayne Rooney's Street Striker have won trips to Brazil and South Africa?
... that unlike all later Winter Olympics, the venues of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, included separate bobsleigh and luge tracks used for competition?
... that, by 1900, there were so many Swedes in Omaha, Nebraska, that people started calling the north side of the city "Little Stockholm"?
... that after Armin Maiwald produced an award-winning children's film depicting his own childhood experience in the grim aftermath of WWII in Germany, he said he never wanted to see the film again?
... that in hippika gymnasia or Roman cavalry tournaments, riders wearing elaborate armour competed in teams to reenact battles from mythology such as those between the Greeks and Amazons?
... that after a long career as an educator, David Dwight Baldwin published historic lists of Hawaiian land snails and liverworts?
... that the Upper Tribunal, which can set precedent and enforce its decisions without intervention from the High Court of England and Wales, is the first UK tribunal with the power of judicial review?
... that on August 1, 2004, five Christian churches were car-bombed in Iraq within a few minutes of each another?
... that in March 1994, the communist-led Indian People's Front rallied tens of thousands of barefoot, starving workers, some of whom walked more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) to reach the venue?
... that James II prevented the Loyal Parliament of 1685 from meeting by repeatedly proroguing it between November 1685 and its dissolution in July 1687?
... that Norwegian hardingfele fiddler Arne Bjørndal played in more than 600 weddings and gave more than 1,000 concerts?
... that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the River Tees?
... that Omar Cook and Will Conroy are the only two players to have been named to the All-NBA Development League Team three times?
... that after suppressing the Albanian Revolt of 1910, the Ottoman government prohibited publications written in the Albanian alphabet and closed the Albanian schools?
... that previous winners of the Nevada City Classic, the second-oldest bicycle race in the US, include Greg LeMond (1979–81) and Lance Armstrong (2009)?
... that the 1960 congress of the Popular Socialist Youth was the first occasion at which the Cuban motto "Fatherland or Death" was displayed in print?
... that United Nations forces had a decisive logistical advantage in the Battle of Pusan Perimeter in the Korean War, despite having no pre-established plan for fighting there?
... that Bruno Mars will drag a piano through Los Angeles in the music video for "Grenade"?
... that the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team taught the members of the newly formed Notre Dame team how to play the game of football?
... that, though native to the River Amazon in South America, Leporinus fasciatus has been introduced to the US states of Florida and Hawaii via aquarium releases?
... that the 2010 Bihar legislative assembly election takes place across six phases and over one month?
... that historian Jean A. Stuntz found that the Spanish legal system in Mexico and Texas gave much greater community property rights to women than were permitted in the original English colonies?
... that the First-tier Tribunal in the United Kingdom hears cases on such diverse subjects as freedom of information, war pensions and operating licences for gambling companies?
... that the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy was the first United States organization focused on preserving rare breeds of livestock?
... that St John the Baptist's Church, Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, built in 1868, contains a coffin lid inscribed with the effigy of a 13th-century tonsured deacon?
... that Film Quarterly called the documentary The Truth According to Wikipedia "a sharp and wide-ranging overview of wiki-pistemology"?
... that Ōkōchi Sansō , the villa of the Japanese film star Denjirō Ōkōchi, contains several buildings designated cultural properties by the Japanese government?
... that Henry Lambert of the Royal Navy fought the 36-gun French privateer Psyché twice in the same year with two different ships, drawing the first battle and winning the second?
... that Master of the Mix is a reality television elimination competition among disk jockeys vying for a US$250,000 Smirnoff contract?
... that Brutus Beefcake could not compete at the World Wrestling Federation's SummerSlam in 1990 after several bones in his face were broken in a parasailing accident?
... that the wings of Icarus in the painting The Lament for Icarus are based on the bird-of-paradise pattern?
... that minister Benjamin Rolfe, his wife and infant child were killed in an August 29, 1708 raid on Haverhill, Massachusetts, by a French and Indian force during Queen Anne's War?
... that Bay Rock Light, a lighthouse which originally stood on an islet northwest of Magnetic Island, near Townsville, Queensland, Australia, was relocated in 1992 to the Townsville Maritime Museum?
... that pitcher Fred Klobedanz once led the National League in winning percentage but, according to one analyst, actually deserved to have a losing record?
... that the track cycling venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal was later converted into an indoor zoo?
... that Charles Ross, who commanded a British Army division during World War I, was the younger brother of a Nobel laureate and the author of five mystery novels?
... that several peaks of the Andean Cordillera de la Ramada, including the highest, Mercedario, were first climbed by a Polish expedition of 1934?
... that James Charles Fahey started self-publishing The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet when he thought editors were "butchering" his manuscripts?
... that the Swedish runestone Östergötland Runic Inscription MÖLM1960;230 is one of four runestones that mention guilds that existed in Sweden during the Viking Age?
... that Wyoming received four times as much money per person from the Homeland Security Grant Program as did California and New York?
... that although Janis Paige's sitcom It's Always Jan bombed, its cast included both Arte Johnson, who went on to fame in Laugh-In and Sid Melton in The Danny Thomas Show and Green Acres?
... that in his European Cup debut, German football goalkeeper Jens Ramme conceded 6 goals in 45 minutes, turning a 5–1 lead for Dynamo Dresden into a 7–5 defeat?
... that Amedeo Modigliani was commissioned to paint Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz for "ten francs a sitting and a little alcohol"?
... that former college basketball standout Byron Larkin admitted that he "didn't put [his] best foot forward trying to make it" to the NBA?
... that the rowhouses at 322–344 East 69th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side are a rare surviving group of the many rowhouses built after the completion of the Third Avenue El?
... that Kris Faafoi is the first New Zealand Member of Parliament of Tokelauan descent?
... that the magnitude of the 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake has been estimated with records from tide gauges set up by the Great Trigonometric Survey?
... that Frank Bruggy set Major League Baseball personal bests in batting average, home runs and runs batted in during the 1924 season, his rookie year?
... that brandy and wine seized from a Dutch ship on 18 August 1779 changed hands during the night, as the captain of the Monsieur and the squadron leader, John Paul Jones, both claimed it for themselves?
... that the Crissal Thrasher is a bird that runs more than it flies?
... that Spartacus: Blood and Sand actress Lesley-Ann Brandt was born in Cape Town, is fluent in Afrikaans and played competitive field hockey in South Africa?
... that the New York Sunday Mercury was the most widely read weekly newspaper in the United States in the mid 19th century?
... that when the wife of the owner of Kapetanovo Castle in Serbia was told that it had to be sold, she was so devastated that she poured gasoline on herself and burned to death?
... that the economy of the Kanmaw Kyun in the Mergui Archipelago is dependent on rubber plantations?
... that a follow-up study by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel showed that a child's ability at age 4 to delay eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes correlated with higher SAT test scores years later?
... that baseball player Kevin Pasley hit his first and only major league home run in his final major league at-bat?
... that the Cavell Van carried the bodies of Edith Cavell, Charles Fryatt and The Unknown Warrior?
... that Ladyhawke won six prizes at the 2009 New Zealand Music Awards?
... that Theodore W. Kheel's deals ended various strikes in New York City, but Mayor Ed Koch blamed Kheel for overly generous pay packages that led to the city's fiscal crisis in the 1970s?
... that the Finnish novel Puhdistus (Purge) by Sofi Oksanen has won awards in Finland and France but had mixed reviews in Estonia, where the story takes place?