derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Cinema City Nablus in the West Bank, built in 2009, is the city's first cinema in over 20 years?
... that the Dechencholing Palace has its own helipad despite no airport being in nearby Thimphu?
... that The Beatles had 17 number-one singles during the 1960s in the United Kingdom?
... that government by itineration was a key mechanism of government in the Middle Ages in northern and eastern Europe?
... that former Jackson, Michigan, mayor Fred Janke was the captain of Fritz Crisler's first Michigan Wolverines football team?
... that the largest fireworks display ever performed on a military base took place at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Virginia?
... that residents of the Kingman Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., successfully lobbied the Washington Metro in 1977 to cancel the proposed Oklahoma Avenue Station on the Orange and Blue lines?
... that troops of both the 28th Infantry Division and 75th Infantry Division were stationed at Seabank Hotel in Porthcawl, Wales, during World War II?
... that Captan Jack Wyly was a Democratic Party power broker in Lake Providence, Louisiana, which was labeled by Time magazine in 1997 as the poorest city in the United States?
... that according to legend, a Jewish boy named Elhanan who was stolen from his parents later became the Jewish pope Andreas?
... that the Northern Rocky Mountains Wolf , a form of the Gray Wolf that used to live primarily in Yellowstone National Park, was court ordered to be re-listed under Endangered Species Act protections on August 6, 2010?
... that one of the windowpanes in the John H. Nichols House in Wapakoneta, Ohio, bears the incised names of several of Nichols' children?
... that the extinct rove beetle genus Ektatotricha is known from 15 beetles trapped in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar?
... that the Fraser Mansion in Washington, D.C., was the subject of a zoning battle before purchase at foreclosure auction by the Church of Scientology?
... that the fruit of the Blush Condoo are eaten by the Wompoo Fruit Dove and the Topknot Pigeon?
... that the Museum of Apollonia, near Fier, Albania, is currently closed to the public after being looted in 1991?
... that the Hyderabad State Congress led a non-violent civil disobedience campaign for the union of Hyderabad State with India, declaring August 7, 1947, as "Join Indian Union Day"?
... that the British Labour Party politician and trade unionist Richard Kelley opposed allowing coal miners to leave work early if they had finished their day's tasks?
... that The Lame Devil, Sacha Guitry's 1948 historical film, was blocked by French censorship and had to be turned into a successful play before being allowed filming?
... that Atlantic Coast High School is Jacksonville, Florida's first public high school opened since 1990?
... that the flower Campanula zoysii is considered a symbol of the Slovenian Alps?
... that the long hidden ceilings of the Monheim Town Hall in Bavaria, a Jewish residence until 1741, depict scenes of the Tanakh that were only restored in 1978?
... that the Durrës Archaeological Museum contains a collection of miniature busts of Venus, a testament to the time when the area was a centre of worship of the goddess?
... that 1954 Michigan football MVP Fred Baer and 1953 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Lattner played in the same backfield for Fenwick High School in the Chicago Catholic League in 1949?
... that the Sinan Pasha Mosque of Prizren was built in 1615, but still conserves its original stone flooring and carpentry?
... that Enrique Tirabocchi had to appeal to Benito Mussolini to retrieve a trophy he received for swimming the English Channel, as it had been confiscated by customs officials when he reentered Italy?
... that the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles has a congregation of more than 19,000 members?
... that the katarista movement leader Víctor Hugo Cárdenas was elected Vice President of Bolivia in 1993?
... that from 2010, reserve teams in Norwegian association football were barred from using more than three players aged over 21?
... that the Ukrainian priest Ivan Ziatyk was persecuted by the Soviet government for "spreading the Catholic Faith"?
... that the 2001 book Madonna: An Intimate Biography, by J. Randy Taraborrelli, debuted and stayed on top of The New York Times Best Seller list for three months?
... that while time, war, and hazardous emissions continually wrecked the tomb of Nizami, a 12th-century epic poet, the tomb was finally rebuilt in solid granite in 1991 in Ganja, Azerbaijan?
... that the 1993 Grand National horse race was declared void after 30 of the 39 riders failed to realise a false start had been called, leading it to be called "the race that never was"?
... that northwestern Ohio's Goll Homestead lies at the core of one of the few remaining areas of old-growth forest in the Great Black Swamp?
... that the Mesopotamian Marshes were deliberately drained to 10% of their original size before beginning a recovery after the fall of Saddam Hussein?
... that in 1898, Pop Williams became the first attendee of Bowdoin College to play in Major League Baseball?
... that Mortal Kombat has won multiple best fighting game awards at E3 2010 and is already being considered as the most violent video game ever?
... that Prince Michael of Yugoslavia, a Bernard Madoff feeder fund executive, allegedly approached Charles, Prince of Wales about becoming a potential investor at a polo tournament in 2002?
... that under the Poughkeepsie plan, Catholic children attended public schools taught by nuns wearing religious habits?
... that the Agrarian Socialist League, a Russian revolutionary émigré organization, was founded at the funeral of Pyotr Lavrov in 1900?
... that Thomas William Burgess , who, in 1911, became the second man to swim across the English Channel, trained Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across?
... that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the chess pieces for The Boredom Dodger?
... that Peter Stephens died in November 1757, 10 months before the town he founded was chartered in September 1758?
... that the Combe Haven Viaduct, on the Bexhill West Branch Line, contained over 9,000,000 bricks?
... that in 1879, the first Pelton wheel was manufactured at what would become known as the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California?
... that Konocti Harbor, a now-closed resort and music venue in Lake County, California, was originally founded in 1959 as low-cost vacation housing for members of a plumbers union?
... that Major League Baseball player Dallas Braden pitched a perfect game on Mother's Day with his grandmother in attendance?
... that in May 1982, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) Michael Welsh was one of 69 MPs who called for an immediate halt to hostilities in the Falklands War?
... that world-renowned restaurateur and classically trained chef Geoffrey Zakarian was defeated by Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto on an episode of Iron Chef America by a 14-point margin?
... that in the Battle of Flores , a naval engagement of the 1585 Anglo-Spanish War, the Spanish fleet of warships outnumbered the English warships, 63 to 22?
... that voice actress Maggie Roswell left The Simpsons in 1999 after a pay dispute with Fox Broadcasting Company, but returned in 2002?
... that The Buckminster Fuller Challenge awards US$100,000 every year for solutions to solve pressing complex global problems?
... that Dan Kiesel was hired as physiotherapist for the Sri Lankan cricket team upon the recommendation of Australian fast-bowler Dennis Lillee?
... that according to (RED), providing health-restoring antiretroviral drugs to HIV positive people in Africa, as described in the documentary The Lazarus Effect, costs US$0.40 per person per day?
... that Kent Island, a national wildlife sanctuary in California's Bolinas Lagoon, was once just hours from becoming the future site of a 1,500-boat marina?
... that the Pomeranian Renaissance castle Veste Landskron was abandoned after it deteriorated during the Thirty Years' and Scanian Wars?
... that on December 9, 1978, the Milwaukee Does lost to the Chicago Hustle by a score of 92–87 in the first game played in Women's Professional Basketball League history?
... that the game described in the 16th-century poem Chess was reconstructed almost 350 years later?
... that the Swimming Reindeer , a 13,000-year-old Ice Age sculpture, was originally thought to be two separate reindeer sculptures until Henri Breuil realised they fitted together?
... that the 1255 Seal of Mindaugas, celebrated as the only surviving depiction of King of Lithuania Mindaugas, could be a medieval forgery by the Teutonic Knights?
... that land acquired from the vast estate of Samuel Mills Damon enlarged Hawaii Volcanoes National Park by more than 50%?
... that the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls are the only National Basketball Association team to win at least 70 games in a single season?
... that it took only six weeks for Max Tannone to mash parts of 30 Radiohead and Jay-Z songs for the album Jaydiohead?
... that artist Abraham "Moonlight" Pether (1756–1812) acquired his nickname from his skill at painting moonlit landscapes?
... that cricketer Gary Kirsten was the leading batsman in the 1996 Pepsi Sharjah Cup, scoring 356 runs in seven innings at an average of 89.0?
... that at the age of 16, Topsy Sinden was given the role of Violet Deveney in the 1894 hit Edwardian musical comedy The Shop Girl?
... that all of the surviving individuals of the species listed in the The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, which include the Silky Sifaka (Propithecus candidus), could fit into a single football stadium?
... that the Charles Wintzer Building in Wapakoneta, Ohio, was built as a combination house-and-tannery?
... that the Mission of the Guardian Angel was a Jesuit mission that existed in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, from 1696 to 1700?
... that commercial director Frank Budgen filmed an advertisement that involved 50 stuntmen and acrobats?
... that Swedish artist Johan Christoffer Boklund taught painting to King Charles XV of Sweden at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts?
... that Australian and British members of the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps were often bitten by the camels they were handling?
... that The American Israelite, published in Cincinnati since 1854, helped advance American Reform Judaism and is the oldest English-language Jewish newspaper still circulated in the United States?
... that at the age of 40, Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game, making him the oldest person to do so in Major League Baseball history?
... that entrants in the Sukkah City architecture contest are allowed to erect their structures atop a live camel?
... that Roger Wilbraham founded the Widows' Almshouses in Nantwich, Cheshire, in memory of his wife, who died on the first anniversary of the death of their eldest son?
... that Nike's 2001 Tag ad campaign was voted one of the top ten advertisements of the decade by Campaign magazine?
... that the extinct sawfly Pseudosiobla cambelli is one of three species of Pseudosiobla known from the fossil record?
... that Colonia Asturias in Mexico City is named after the first major football stadium built in the city?
... that in 2009 the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre produced one of the first regional theatre productions of The Wedding Singer in the United States?
... that the drama film Obama Anak Menteng, a fictionalized recreation of Barack Obama's boyhood in Indonesia, was originally intended to première during his planned state visit?
... that Ethiopian-born Meryem Erdoğan, impressed by her countrywoman Elvan Abeylegesse's success, illegally immigrated to Turkey at age 16 in order to become a distance runner?
... that satirical novelist William Thackeray was a student at Henry Sass's London art academy, which he later caricatured in his novel, The Newcomes?
... that a geomagnetic storm in 1882 resulted in unusual phenomena reported in various parts of the world as an "auroral beam", a "blood red" sky, and a "luminous mass, shaped somewhat like a torpedo"?
... that the Winchester Hoard jewellery , thought to be a diplomatic gift from the Romans, was so chunky that no "self-respecting" Roman would wear it?
... that John McMillan's Log School, a Latin school that eventually developed into Washington & Jefferson College, is regarded as the oldest educational building west of the Allegheny Mountains?
... that Arani Jayaprakash was the umpire at the bowler's end when Anil Kumble dismissed all 10 Pakistan batsmen in a Test cricket match in 1999?
... that Ann Meyers signed with the New Jersey Gems in 1979, with her US$50,000 salary matching what she had been paid by the Indiana Pacers in her bid to become the first woman to play in the NBA?
... that apart from eating smaller lizards and amphibians, the Central American coral snake also feeds on other snakes?
... that filmmaker David Lynch raised US$1 billion to help the Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation build 3,000 Maharishi Peace Palaces?
... that Croatian footballer Stojan Osojnak played for Dinamo Zagreb in the club's first-ever match, a friendly against the Yugoslav Air Force team in June 1945?
... that the series of small hills known as the Devil's Jumps near Churt in southern England was once said to have been kicked up by the Devil when he stole the cauldron from a local witch?
... that Albany, New York, has a life-size sculpture of its coat of arms that was sculpted by a local political cartoonist?
... that the owner of the Afghani restaurant Teaneck Kebab House fled Kabul in 1985 during the Soviet war in Afghanistan?
... that Bruce Springsteen recorded the vocal of "Lonesome Day" live for each take of its music video, unlike common practice?
... that Larry Brown is the only National Basketball Association (NBA) head coach who has coached nine different NBA teams?
... that the platformer Bart Simpson's Escape from Camp Deadly was the first The Simpsons video game to be released on a handheld console?
... that one 16th-century Registrar of the University of Oxford was dismissed after neglecting his duties for a year, then imprisoned and fined after throwing a punch when the debate had ended?
... that Toshiba's 2008 television advertisement Time Sculpture holds the world record for the highest number of moving-image cameras used in a composite shot?
... that the Twin Pimples raid was carried out by No. 8 Commando and Australian Engineers in 1941, during the siege of Tobruk?
... that the 1949 Ambato earthquake, which killed 5,050 people, caused an entire town to sink 1,500 feet into the ground?
... that the December 1964 South Vietnamese coup prompted both US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and Vietnamese leader General Nguyen Khanh to tell one another to leave the country?
... that the altarpiece of the Santa Veracruz Church in Mexico City is said to contain a splinter of the original cross of Jesus, authenticated by the Vatican?
... that artist Abel Pann created some of his most notable work when he got stuck in Europe during WWI?
... that Glass Joe is considered one of Nintendo's most iconic characters, and has been used as a term to signify failure or weakness?
... that despite a slight build at 155 pounds, Jack Wheeler was the MVP of the undefeated 1930 Michigan football team and finished second in voting for the Chicago Tribune Silver Football?
... that as part of efforts to balance New Jersey's $2.76 billion budget in 1976, State Senator James P. Vreeland proposed cutting the governor's annual salary by $2,500?
... that con man Alexander Day used the name 'Marmaduke Davenport Esq.' to convince his victims that he was a member of the gentry in order to gain purchasing credit, which he would never repay?
... that Juggalo Championship Wrestling's Bloodymania wrestling events have featured such competitors as former WWF Champion Diesel and UFC Hall of Famer Ken Shamrock?
... that the Bridge School in Raisinville Township was the first public school in Michigan, when founded in 1828?
... that Park51, an Islamic cultural center whose proposed site has sparked controversy, will include a mosque, a 500-seat auditorium, and a swimming pool?
... that Merthyr MP Edgar Rees Jones served as head of the Priorities Division of the British Ministry of Munitions during World War I?
... that in 1975 Zimbabwean Kantilal Kanjee became the first non-white umpire to stand in a first-class cricket match in South Africa?
... that street pastors were founded to confront gang culture in UK cities, and are now known for handing out flip-flops to tottering clubbers?
... that the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Menarana had several adaptations for head-first burrowing, but its large size may have made burrowing difficult or impossible?
... that Prince Frederick of Württemberg attained the rank of Rittmeister 2nd class in the Army of Württemberg by the age of 15?
... that Sam Peckinpah, director of the The Wild Bunch, lived in a three-room suite at The Murray Hotel in Livingston, Montana, from 1979 to 1984?
... that the fossil relative of the House Sparrow Passer predomesticus is known only from two upper jaw bones?
... that Youngstown, Ohio, native Sylvester "Buster" Stanley won the 1993 Michigan football MVP and Dick Katcher awards?
... that the platformer Bartman Meets Radioactive Man from 1992 heavily featured the character Radioactive Man from The Simpsons, even though he had rarely been seen on the show at that point?
... that US Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor encouraged a 1965 overthrow of South Vietnam's Nguyen Khanh, and the first attempt was then made by the communist agent Pham Ngoc Thao?
... that Sanath Jayasuriya scored the fastest fifty and the now second-fastest century in ODI cricket during the 1996 Singer Cup?
... that it has been estimated that the navis lusoria, a type of a troop ship of the late Roman Empire, could reach speeds of about 10 knots?
... that according to legend, Guru Padmasambhava subdued the spirits of the Khangchendzonga, Yabdean and Mahakaal at Enchey Monastery in Sikkim?
... that the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final ended in violence when fans invaded the pitch and attacked the referee?
... that Tower Optical coin-operated binoculars can hold up to 2,000 US quarters and have kept their same distinctive look since first manufactured in 1932?
... that today, the 80th birthday of Walter Fink is celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival with compositions of Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa?
... that the English football club Trawden Forest never lost a home game in the FA Cup?
... that Louis Fred Pfeifer received the United States military's highest decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor, while serving under a false name?
... that the recently described notosuchian crocodyliform Pakasuchus had molar-like teeth that were as complex as those of carnivorous mammals?
... that Mexican singer Edith Márquez received a gold certification in Mexico for an album that includes a cover of the number-one song "Tengo Todo Excepto a Tí"?
... that after seeing The Beverly Hillbillies and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In atop the Nielsen ratings, John Aylesworth created Hee Haw as a country variety show to combine the best of both genres?
... that during a fire at a nursing home in Nigel, South Africa, on August 1, 2010, a resident objected to being rescued as she was not properly dressed?
... that during the MN 4 zone, the saber-toothed cat Prosansanosmilus first appeared in Europe?
... that the former Dominican friary in St Andrews, Blackfriars, was destroyed in 1559 by Scottish Protestants?
... that Mona Bell, mistress of entrepreneur Samuel Hill, claimed to have performed in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?
... that with 203 total yards and four touchdowns, Wali Lundy was named the Most Valuable Player of the American football 2002 Continental Tire Bowl?
... that during the Battle of Pinos most of the English fleet managed to escape from the Spanish fleet by abandoning their boats and throwing their baggage into the water?
... that when Robert Littell and Alison Littell McHose were elected in 2004 to the 24th Legislative District, they became the first father-daughter pair to serve together in the New Jersey Legislature?
... that H. O. West dropped out of Louisiana College to work at a lumber mill before he assembled a chain of thirty-three department stores?
... that the Alternative Center for Excellence , the alternative high school in Danbury, Connecticut, is housed in the only remaining 19th-century school building in the city?
... that Light Horse Tavern was named after Henry Lee III, a Continental Army soldier during the American Revolution known as "Light Horse Harry"?
... that Efraim Zuroff expressed his frustration at the failure to bring 95-year-old Erich Steidtmann to justice, saying "I am the only Jew in the world who prays for the health of Nazi war criminals"?
... that Matt Patanelli was the first University of Michigan football player selected in an National Football League Draft?
... that the Border Governors Conference, an annual meeting of the governors of the states that form the Mexico – United States border, was moved from Arizona to New Mexico this year?
... that the book Food Lovers' Guide to New Jersey placed Pithari Taverna among the best Greek cuisine in the state?
... that the Japanese Farmer-Labour Party was banned just a few hours after its foundation in 1925?
... that the Welsh library educator Peter Havard-Williams served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe?
... that fictional data analyst Robin Sage was freely given access to government email accounts, private bank accounts, and top secret military information by their owners within two months of her creation?
... that the extinct hazel species Corylus johnsonii resembles three modern hazels found in China?
... that the Al-Bustan resort is part of a "construction boom" of recreational facilities in Gaza?
... that the costumes of Lyo and Merly, the official mascots of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, have inbuilt fans and optional vests lined with cool packs to keep wearers from overheating?
... that Zhang Yi promised the King of Chu to give back 600 li of land, and gave only 6 li at the end?
... that Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball coach Bucky O'Connor led the team to its only NCAA championship game in school history in 1956?
... that Bach used the music of the opening chorus of his Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei, BWV 179, a cantata written for the eleventh Sunday after Trinity, in two masses?
... that several fossils of the recently described Early Cretaceous lizard Liushusaurus preserve scales, pigmentation, claw sheaths, cartilage, and small bones that make up the hemipenis?
... that Danish painter Albert Küchler's "Albanian Girl" was probably not Albanian, but Italian?
... that the former boxer Harold Gomes was named the Ring Magazine fighter of the month following his world title victory over Paul Jorgensen?
... that as president of Southwestern at Memphis College, David Alexander oversaw the desegregation of its fraternities and sororities?
... that television writer Bernie West, creator of The Jeffersons, described his experience as a Borscht Belt comedian saying, "Everything we did may not have been original, but what we stole was good!"?
... that Bron Taylor coined the term "dark green religion" as a set of beliefs characterized by a conviction that "nature is sacred, has intrinsic value, and is therefore due reverent care"?
... that although travel times between downtown Tainan and the Tainan High Speed Rail Station will be halved by the new Shalun Line, residents have complained that it will worsen local road traffic?
... that the samba-inspired song "Are You Going With Me?" by the Pat Metheny Group was the background music for a Los Angeles Lakers highlight reel after they won an NBA title?
... that Serge Monast was a Québécois journalist and conspiracy theorist who claimed that Project Blue Beam is a NASA plan to fake the Second Coming of Christ to bring about the New World Order?
... that the rock engravings at Twyfelfontein are Namibia's only World Heritage Site?
... that Bob Dylan paid US$2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work?