derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the British No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando unit included soldiers from different countries including Germany?
... that "Big John" Macklin coached the Michigan State Spartans football program to its first wins over Ohio State and Michigan and also coached the school's basketball, baseball and track teams?
... that the Haiti economic reforms of 1996 were designed to restore the economy of Haiti after the economic shocks of early 1990s?
... that Nora Okja Keller wrote the novel Comfort Woman, about Koreans used as sex slaves by the Japanese army in World War II, after she heard a lecture by a former victim?
... that two teenagers built booby traps inspired by Rambo at a park in the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District in Oregon?
... that Edvard Munch was invited to Berlin by fellow Norwegian Adelsteen Normann who also painted?
... that distant objects that are observed from the same place may appear to look elevated, lowered, stretched, or shortened depending on atmospheric refraction?
... that a brawl broke out in 2009 between residents of San Antonino Castillo Velasco and Ocotlán de Morelos over a highway sign?
... that Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster is reputed to have thrown either a Bible or a Prayer Book at the head of King George IV?
... that cricketer Lauren Ebsary had never played a formal match before representing South Australia at youth level?
... that when a crowd removed their hats before hearing George Washington speak at the Storm-Adriance-Brinckerhoff House in East Fishkill, New York, he told them to put them back on since he was just an ordinary man?
... that Tommy Cheetham had a trial for the England national football team while playing in the Third Division in his first season as a professional?
... that during the Vietnam War, the top half of Black Virgin Mountain was held by American forces while the bottom was controlled by the Vietcong?
... that the pre-teen girls' running-and-wellness program Girls on the Run has its roots in its founder's climb out of alcoholism?
... that medieval Bulgarian military leader Ivan the Russian defended Plovdiv in a four-month Byzantine siege only for the citizens to let the Byzantines in while he was away?
... that since changing the mascot from the Huron to the Eagle in 1991, the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team has won less than 28% of their games?
... that the sinking of the Japanese super-dreadnought Tosa influenced the design of the Yamato class?
... that baseball outfielder Domonic Brown, nicknamed the "Total Package" by Ryan Howard, originally intended to play wide receiver for the Miami Hurricanes football team?
... that rival Vikings in Ireland were called Dubgaill and Finngaill, which could be translated as black and white foreigners?
... that in the 1820s, several books on geography were written in collaboration by William Channing Woodbridge and Emma Willard, but the latter had to publicly assure readers that they were entirely written by Woodbridge so they would be taken seriously?
... that theologian Pender Hodge Cudlip cowrote an article for the Helston Grammar School Magazine while still a teenager at Oxford?
... that Tony Dunkin is the only NCAA Division I four-time conference player of the year for men's basketball?
... that Antica Pizzeria Port'Alba, the world's first pizzeria, lines its oven with lava rocks from Mount Vesuvius?
... that the hulk of LST-480 is the only remaining evidence of the West Loch Disaster, the second tragedy to befall Pearl Harbor during World War II?
... that neither the owner of the Minuscule 671 nor its location are officially known?
... that the Little Golden Books illustrator Corinne Malvern was a former child actress who once played Madama Butterfly's son in front of the Japanese Ambassador to the US?
... that upon the death of the Hare Krishna founder in 1977, eleven prominent leaders were left to become initiating gurus under the ISKCON Guru System?
... that Otto Thott possessed one of the largest private libraries of the 18th century in Denmark?
... that Banwell Castle served as the headquarters for a squadron of the Balloon Command of the Royal Air Force during World War II?
... that Big Ten MVP Willis Glassgow was called the "Dancing Master" for his shiftiness on the gridiron and because he managed the most popular ballroom in Iowa City?
... that Saw II, the video game sequel to Saw: The Video Game, will include the ability for the player to kill enemies using the environment?
... that Native American jewelry includes beadwork on herbal bag necklaces, believed to increase the healing power of Medicine Men?
... that the Scottish post-prog and electronica band North Atlantic Oscillation joined a list of artists that includes The Flamingos, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald by covering the 1934 song "I Only Have Eyes for You" and releasing it on their 2009 debut EP?
... that Ryan Newman won the 2010 Subway Fresh Fit 600 after making a pass with only two laps to go?
... that in 1931 three people were killed in Estevan, Canada, when police opened fire on a Mine Workers' Union of Canada rally?
... that the ordination of St Cellach 23 September 1105 put an end to a 140-year period when the supreme head of the Irish Church had been a layman?
... that at the Extreme 19th, the world's highest and longest par 3 golf hole, a tee shot takes almost 30 seconds to land?
... that 2009 International Bowl MVP Donald Brown was the first Connecticut Huskies football player to be picked in the first round of the NFL Draft?
... that there are more than 3036 differences between Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus just in the text of the four Gospels?
... that the Buddhist minister of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission was arrested during World War II and sent to a Japanese American internment camp?
... that Colorado State Highway 263 lies entirely within the city limits of Greeley, Colorado?
... that after retiring from politics, Oregon U. S. Senate candidate Rick Bauman organized bicycle tours, including Cycle Vietnam, the first-ever American-led bicycle tour of Vietnam?
... that in recommending their products, Amazon.com originally used the technology behind MovieLens, a website that suggested films to its users based on their preferences?
... that, despite having a prior award nomination for film writing, it was once said of Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod that their "resume reads like a catalogue of the past decade's most irritating films"?
... that a poem written for the christening of historian Colm Kiernan was also read to mark the birth and death of John F. Kennedy, Jr.?
... that the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the successor to the Knights Hospitaller, has issued its own postage stamps since 1966?
... that J.W.F. Bennett, captain of the undefeated 1898 Michigan football team, later supervised the construction of the Algonquin, Ritz and Waldorf Hotels?
... that "Hello Goodbye" is the final episode of the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty?
... that although English author Mackenzie Bell was trained in law at Cambridge University, he chose to study abroad and lived in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and Madeira?
... that actress and former sex symbol Morgan Fairchild took the role of a drug addict in the film Street of Dreams because she wanted to play "somebody who looks like hell"?
... that until 2001, the Ohio River shrimp had not been seen in the Ohio River for 50 years?
... that the Melingoi were a Slavic group that settled in southern Greece during the great invasions of the 7th century, and remained an autonomous community at least until the 14th century?
... that former Texas State Senator Max Sherman sold Bibles door-to-door in the mid-1950s to pay expenses toward attending Baylor University?
... that Annie Hall Cudlip, one of the most prolific writers of romantic fiction in the Victorian era, wrote over 100 novels and short stories from 1862 to 1900?
... that the Saxon origin of the name of Walworth Gate in County Durham, England, refers to Welsh-speaking Britons who once lived there?
... that Mary Ruthsdotter of the National Women's History Project played an influential role obtaining resolutions from the U.S. Congress designating March as Women's History Month?
... that a monument at Mendeleyevskaya station in the Moscow Metro marks the location where stray dog Malchik was stabbed to death by a railway commuter?
... that the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand fought in World War I, a war started by the assassination of her namesake?
... that the 60 million years old Carmelo Formation is made out of thousands of layers of volcanic pebbles, sandstone and mudstone with fossils?
... that the popularity of alebrijes from San Martín Tilcajete, Mexico, and other towns have led to the overexploitation of the trees from which they are carved?
... that the Wyoming aviation pioneer Ralph S. Johnson flew until he was 82, when he sold his general aviation business in Cheyenne and retired to Arizona?
... that just £1500 of funding was available for the athletes of Great Britain at the 2002 Winter Paralympics?
... that the first local bus service operated by BakerBus linked major pottery factories in Stoke-on-Trent?
... that with the University of Washington Huskies, former New Orleans Saints running back Toussaint Tyler beat the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl as a freshman but lost to them as a senior?
... that Pelobates cultripes, the "Western Spadefoot Toad", produce spawn up to one metre long which can consist of 7000 eggs?
... that American politician Dean Alfange held either appointments or nominations from four different political parties: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Labor Party, and the Liberal Party of New York?
... that Motobdella montezuma is the only leech to hunt in open water?
... that footballer Arthur Wolstenholme was the first player to score four goals in a Third Division North match?
... that the Albanian poet Haxhi Shekreti composed the epic Alipashiad in Greek, considering it a more prestigious language in which to praise his master, Ali Pasha of Ioannina?
... that the 63 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cheshire, England, include diverse wetlands, such as mosses, swamps, fens, meres, ponds and rare examples of inland salt marsh?
... that 6th-century poet Talhaearn Tad Awen has left no surviving verse, yet may have been remembered as the father of Welsh poetry, whose work used to be rewarded with 100 cows in a bath-tub every Saturday?
... that the Mexican craft of alebrijes is attributed to Pedro Linares, who supposedly dreamed the creatures and the name while sick with a fever?
... that Inventing the AIDS Virus, written by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, argues that AIDS is not infectious and that HIV is an unrelated passenger virus?
... that in his short story "The Day the Dancers Came", Bienvenido N. Santos "memorialized the tenderness, nostalgia" and "bittersweet tale" of Filipino manongs living in the United States?
... that The People's Parliament was a Channel 4 programme in which a random sample of citizens sat in a mockup of the House of Commons, debated and voted as a deliberative democracy?
... that the 1969 debut album Sweet Thursday by the group of that name was quickly undermined by the bankruptcy of Tetragrammaton Records?
... that Baptist clergyman W. Winfred Moore was first director of the Baylor University Center of Ministry Effectiveness, designed to prevent burnout among pastors?
... that a new species of leech was named Tyrannobdella rex because of its disproportionally large teeth?
... that St. Mary's Church in Chesham, England, incorporates a Bronze Age stone circle in its foundations?
... that in the South Park episode "You Have 0 Friends", Stan Marsh gets literally sucked into the social-networking site Facebook, which resembles the virtual world in the science-fiction film Tron?
... that Jack Agnew, a PFC member of the Filthy Thirteen World War II parachute regiment, loosely inspired the novel and film The Dirty Dozen?
... that the Edinburgh Advertiser was the first to print Robert Burns' poem, On the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory?
... that Charron Island, near Montreal, has been known historically under at least four different names?
... that some athletes at the Winter Paralympic Games have broken their bones in order to gain a competitive advantage?
... that the introduction of the small Asian mongoose to Jamaica may have led to the extinction of the rice rat Oryzomys antillarum ?
... that Australian power pop band Icecream Hands takes their name from lyrics in a Robyn Hitchcock song?
... that in the South Park episode "Medicinal Fried Chicken" Eric Cartman gets involved with an underground KFC chicken ring that mirrors the cocaine organization of Tony Montana in the film Scarface?
... that in September 1969, the Little River in northwest Florida rose 21 feet (6.4 m) in 24 hours due to rainfall from a tropical disturbance?
... that the 2010 public information film Embrace Life, originally made for just the Sussex area of the UK, has been "praised by people around the world for its beauty"?
... that a study of schools in German states by Norwegian Frederik Moltke Bugge was awarded with a gold medal from Frederick Augustus II of Saxony?
... that the Griffin, the new athletics mascot for the College of William and Mary, beat out a king and queen, a phoenix, a pug, and a wren for the position?
... that nucleic acid design is used in DNA nanotechnology and DNA computing to create structures out of DNA, such as nanomachines, polyhedra , and nanoscale origami?
... that the Battle of Soltau was the climax of the Hildesheim Stift Feud, which lasted from 1519 to 1523?
... that the flute arrangement of the trio composition Gestural Variations was premiered in Munich by the composer, Graham Waterhouse, and two other composers?
... that controversies related to the human experimentation in the United States led to the introduction of the institutional review boards?
... that Jerry Wray of Shreveport, Louisiana, moved away from painting landscapes to emphasis on the abstract with Christian themes?
... that Codex Marchalianus manuscript of Septuaginta has the same order of books as Codex Vaticanus?
... that "womb veil" was the most common term for barrier contraception used by women in 19th-century America?
... that Doggles , a type of sunglasses for dogs, have been sent out to working military dogs in Iraq?
... that "Pa" Henninger, captain of the 1895 Michigan football team that outscored its opponents 266 to 14, was twice named to all-time All-Michigan teams?
... that the browser game Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy features school children battling each other with zombies?
... that toxicologist Gabriel L. Plaa spent much of his career searching for a way to assess human hepatotoxicity of drugs from animal tests?
... that Swiss photographer Balthasar Burkhard, noted for his large-format photographs, invented a technique to expose his works directly onto the canvas?
... that William Wordsworth was the model for Robert Browning's poem, The Lost Leader?
... that the crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 5 didn't know an engine had fallen off at 35,000 feet and carried on flying for nearly 50 minutes?
... that Louis Didier Jousselin built a 3 km long bridge in less than 3 months whilst the French occupied Hamburg?
... that during the Cold War, a USAF T-39 plane was shot down over Erfurt, Germany?
... that the mathematician W. T. Tutte refused to admit that Blanche Descartes was a collective pseudonym?
... that Dunedin's Fortune Theatre once performed a play about William Larnach's family in the ballroom of Larnach Castle?
... that Air Marshal Sir Michael Giddings, an RAF officer who flew Spitfires during World War II, chaired the infamous inquiry concerning the Archway Road A1 extension that would have demolished almost 200 homes?
... that Crucifix was an undefeated British-bred Thoroughbred racemare, as well as being the dam of three sires?
... that Leonor Rivera was the greatest influence in preventing Filipino national hero José Rizal from falling in love with other women while traveling outside the Philippines?
... that Manaslu is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal?
... that Ludvig Vibe left his position as professor of Greek to become principal of a secondary school?
... that UA 8699, a broken molar from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, may be a fragment of the only Mesozoic marsupial from the southern continents?
... that Qamil Çami, a poet of the Albanian National Revival, was one the rilindas who opened the first Albanian-language school in Filiates?
... that Japanese pop group AAA's new single "Aitai Riyū/Dream After Dream (Yume Kara Sameta Yume)" was composed by Tetsuya Komuro, this being his first work for two years?
... that tax law specialist Øystein Thommessen became Norwegian delegate to the UNICO conference in 1945 and the Paris Peace Conference of 1946?
... that Tonight with Craig Doyle is pre-recorded because the presenter was doing other presenting work?
... that in Canadian women's ice hockey history, the Fernie Swastikas were the 1923 champions of the Banff Winter Carnival?
... that Risley C. Triche, originally a segregationist member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, testified years later to past racism in his state's public assistance programs?
... that the active biological dispersal of land snail Xerocrassa geyeri is about 3 meters during one year?
... that the popularity of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, at the turn of the 20th century, rivaled that of Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah?
... that the website Wikileaks released a video in April 2010 in which photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and eleven others were killed during an airstrike by American helicopters in Baghdad?
... that the show group Dizzie Tunes won the Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or in Montreux in 1973 with Sim Sala Bim?
... that East Chicago native Art Murakowski survived a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa and was named the most valuable football player in the Big Ten Conference in 1948?
... that Roger Sherman was accused of offering a football player $600 to play for Michigan and later served as president of the Chicago and Illinois State Bar Associations?
... that essayist William Francis Barry had his writings about the medieval papacy censored by his superiors?
... that Ewelme Cottage was used in the production for the 1993 Oscar-winning film The Piano?
... that the Dewoitine HD.730, in order to avoid Axis prohibitions on the development of military aircraft, was described as a commercial liaison type despite having folding wings?
... that Ha-Yom, founded in 1886, was the first daily newspaper in Hebrew?
... that Arnold Frutkin was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal by Thomas O. Paine?
... that in the Brander–Spencer economic model, it is possible for a national government to increase a country's welfare through export subsidies but the policy is of the beggar thy neighbor type?
... that Saint Jean Eudes was called the "father, teacher, and first apostle" of devotions to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary by two popes?
... that after the Avondale Mine Disaster, legislation was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly that made Pennsylvania the first U.S. state to have laws regarding mine safety?
... that while the Crusaders were besieging Nicaea, the Byzantine general Manuel Boutoumites persuaded the Turks to surrender to him instead by playing on their fears of a massacre by the Crusaders?
... that Babu Hardas started the practice of exchanging the greeting Jai Bhim among the Dalits in India?
... that H. Brett Melendy was the first chairman of the history department of San José State University, California?
... that Ricotta's visual novel, Walkure Romanze, was originally designed with five heroines but the number was later cut down to four?
... that producers hope to use Good Luck Charlie "to debunk the myth that Disney never has the mom in the picture"?
... that city employees may attend Rodent Control Academy to learn how to deal with the problem of rats in New York City?
... that the Braer Storm of January 1993 is the extratropical cyclone with the lowest central pressure ever known to have existed in the northern Atlantic Ocean?
... that Nelson F.C. won the Football League Third Division North in the 1922–23 season?
... that Austin Coates's Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biography of Filipino national hero José Rizal authored by a non-Filipino?
... that the Heritage of the March series was comprised of 185 vinyl albums featuring marches and galops?
... that, according to legend, Osogovo Monastery was spared from destruction by the Ottomans after they were overcome by its spiritual force?
... that the apicomplexan parasite Isospora hammondi has egg- and sausage-shaped structures?
... that when the stone Clemuel Ricketts Mansion was built in 1852 on the shores of Lake Ganoga in Pennsylvania, it was so remote it was nicknamed "Ricketts Folly"?
... that the Texas Republican politician Kenn George was involved in the formulation of President Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative?
... that the name of the palm genus Chelyocarpus, which means "turtle carapace fruit", refers to the cracked surface of its fruit?
... that Australian dance music duo Pnau's debut album Sambanova (1999), which was recalled from stores because of uncleared samples, won an ARIA Award for 'Best Dance Release' in 2000?
... that managing editor Andre Laguerre devised the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as a way to boost magazine sales during the winter months?
... that Czechoslovak communist censors banned the publication of the comic album Muriel a andělé?
... that the cover artwork of Danielson: A Family Movie depicts band leader Daniel Smith in a tree costume with fruits that symbolize the Fruit of the Holy Spirit?
... that architect Cecil Alexander designed a controversial Georgia state flag that served from 2001 to 2003?
... that Israeli soldiers stopped their vehicles to kiss the ground after winning the Battle of 'Auja and crossing the border into the Sinai Peninsula?
... that Nicola Kraus is said to have modeled Mrs. X in The Nanny Diaries on several women who lived at 1000 Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
... that the best known work of lecturer James Bass Mullinger is History of the University of Cambridge Down to the Decline of the Platonists, which took three decades to complete?
... that Larry Dell Alexander is best known for his Clinton Family Portrait oil painting, which he gave to U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1995?
... that the Song of Armouris, is among the oldest surviving examples of Byzantine heroic poetry?
... that St. Jean Baptiste Catholic Church was started in a rented hall above a stable on Manhattan's Upper East Side?
... that New York's Olana State Historic Site was named "Olana" by artist Frederic Edwin Church after he read about Olana, an ancient treasury in Artaxata, Armenia, overlooking the Araxes River?
... that Antonio Barluzzi, a Franciscan monk, became known as the Architect of the Holy Land due to the number of important churches he designed?
... that the Piber Federal Stud breeds Lipizzan horses and is the primary source of the stallions used by the Spanish Riding School?
... that Anne Holtsmark translated well-known works such as Heimskringla and the Prose Edda from Norse to Norwegian?
... that Bahu Fort in Jammu, India, originally built by Raja Bahulochan some 3,000 years ago, was refurbished by the Dogra rulers in the 19th century?
... that William Henry Oliphant Smeaton's The Life and Works of William Shakespeare was so popular that it was even reprinted several times?
... that A.F.C. Aldermaston, a non-league football club from Berkshire, has been dubbed the "worst English football team in history" after losing 40 consecutive matches?
... that a field study found that koalas prefer the blue-leaved stringybark but only when it grows on shale-based soils?
... that Zhuang Xiaoyan won China's first Olympic gold medal in judo in 1992?
... that Petersburg Codex Syriac 1 is one of the two extant ancient Syriac manuscripts of the Eusebian Ecclesiastical History?