derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Glacier Blanc is the largest glacier in the Southern French Alps with an area of 5.34 km2 (2.06 sq mi) and a length of 5.9 kilometres (3.7 mi)?
... that artist Thomas Eakins suggested Anna Willess Williams pose for the depiction of Liberty on the Morgan dollar?
... that seven Croatian Army generals were forcibly retired in 2000 for signing an open letter to the Croatian public?
... that English artist Chantal Joffe, who sometimes uses pornography for source material, created such large paintings that she required scaffolding to work on them?
... that the Albuquerque Thunderbirds were awarded the first overall selection in the 2009 NBA Development League Draft?
... that when New Zealand-born pop artist Dinah Lee became 'Queen of the Mods' in 1964, her own mother could not recognise her?
... that James W. Rodgers requested a bulletproof vest before he was executed by firing squad?
... that Mongol script was used in Western medieval art as a decoration from the late 13th century to early 14th century?
... that six years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Louisiana NAACP president Emmitt Douglas was arrested for trying to desegregate a restaurant in Baton Rouge?
... that adult males of the parasitic wasp, Encarsia perplexa, can only develop when a virgin female lays eggs in a fully developed larva of her own species?
... that Ellingham Hall, an 18th century country house near Bungay, Norfolk, is the temporary residence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his extradition hearings in the United Kingdom?
... that in 1878, the old-time cowboy author Frank H. Maynard sang one of his poems over the grave of Dodge City Marshal Ed Masterson, the victim of a gunfight?
... that during the wreck of the Algoma, the worst loss of life in Lake Superior history, victims were literally dashed to pieces?
... that diners at beefsteak banquets "keep score" by piling up the bread slices that come with their beef tenderloin?
... that a 1907 stagecoach robbery organized by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin killed an estimated 40 people and netted approximately 250,000 rubles (over $3 million in current USD)?
... that Richard Bustillo learned Jeet Kune Do directly from Bruce Lee and went on to instruct Lee's children Shannon and Brandon in the martial art?
... that the action role-playing game Infinity Blade is the fastest grossing application on Apple's iOS, selling 271,424 copies in merely four days?
... that in 1934, the congregation of the St. John's Lutheran Church in New Finland, Saskatchewan, Canada, had their church cut into two halves so as to relocate it by five miles using a tractor?
... that Jonah Hex was named "Worst Picture" of 2010 by the Houston Film Critics Society at their 2010 awards ceremony?
... that McGaheysville in Virginia was originally named "Ursulaburg" after the wife of the ousted Reverend Charles Lang, who was ordered to leave the Colony of Virginia in 1771 and left Ursula behind?
... that New Caloundra Light , an inactive lighthouse resembling an airport control tower, is the only surviving example of its design in Australia?
... that a by-election in 1869 was held in the borough of Blackburn, Lancashire, England, after an election petition led to a previous election being overturned due to systematic intimidation?
... that the Hilo Masonic Lodge Hall in Hawaii cost twice its original budget, partially due to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
... that the Admiral Lazarev class monitors had their main armament replaced during their career, allowing them to remain among the most powerful ships in the Russian Navy's Baltic Fleet?
... that in May 2009, when proposing that Nominated Members of Parliament should be a permanent part of Singapore's Parliament, the Prime Minister said they had "outshone even the Opposition MPs"?
... that New Zealand explorer and surveyor Charlie Douglas claimed that not being able to swim "had saved his life many a time"?
... that the eccentric Victorian sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas believed in fairies and drove around in a Roman chariot?
... that a 1977 book by the historian Martin V. Melosi examines the role of partisan politics in delaying public disclosure of events leading to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that Oregon entrepreneur Norm Winningstad helped found Floating Point Systems, Thrustmaster, and Lattice Semiconductor?
... that on December 19, 1981, the entire crew of the Penlee Lifeboat were killed trying to rescue people from a ship in a storm, but sufficient volunteers came forward within a day to form a new lifeboat crew?
... that "football nut" "Sturzy" Sturzenegger spent most of his career coaching college football at Michigan, USC and UCLA despite having attended Harvard Law School?
... that San Andrés islanders practice obeah, a voodoo witchcraft of West Indies?
... that the mite Aceria anthocoptes is a potential biological control agent of the invasive Canada thistle?
... that Guy Touvron has been called "one of the leading pedagogues of trumpet technique and interpretation France has ever produced"?
... that the Duke of Wellington chose not to buy Somerhill House in Kent because he considered the local fox hunting not good enough?
... that St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Carson City is the oldest building still in use by the Episcopal Church in the state of Nevada?
... that the Ashuapmushuan River in Quebec, Canada, is named for an Innu word meaning "place where one lies in wait for moose"?
... that after a period of retirement which included a stint as a beer delivery man, Alberto Davila returned to boxing and won the World Boxing Council bantamweight title in 1983?
... that Harz granite was used in memorials at the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen, as well as the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten?
... that the Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum in Mexico City was the world's first museum dedicated to watercolor painting?
... that Chris Brown's song "Sing Like Me" is a slow jam R&B and pop ballad, featuring 808 drum beats and Asian-influenced strings?
... that the Florida Reef is the third largest coral barrier reef in the world, and that in the middle of the 19th century there were close to 50 shipwrecks a year on the reef?
... that Johann Wilhelm Schwedler preferred other engineering solutions over his own invention, the Schwedler truss, on aesthetic grounds?
... that Kristubhagavatam: A mahakavya in Sanskrit based on the life of Jesus Christ, a Sanskrit epic poem in 33 cantos and 1600 verses, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 1980?
... that Scottish engineer James Blyth built the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power in 1887?
... that the Childress County Heritage Museum contains an exhibit on World War II bombardier training held near Childress, Texas?
... that Tell Shemshara in Iraq was once the capital of the "land of the gatekeeper"?
... that American yachtswoman J. J. Isler, who competed in both the Olympics and the America’s Cup races, was the first woman named to the Sailing World Hall of Fame?
... that Brad Paisley released "This Is Country Music" as a single long before the album was to come out, even though it was "bad timing for his label"?
... that Walter Keane, known for paintings of "big-eyed waifs," claimed a sore shoulder and declined a 1986 court-ordered paint-off with his ex-wife, resulting in a US$4 million judgment against him?
... that jars uncovered at Hajji Firuz Tepe in the Zagros Mountains contained wine and resin residue which suggested that the inhabitants were making a wine similar to Retsina over 7 millennia ago?
... that Michigan fullback John Bloomingston , who became one of Chicago's best known trial lawyers, was disbarred from athletics in 1896 for playing professional baseball?
... that The Old Bell Hotel and Restaurant in the Cotswolds is reputed to be the oldest existing hotel in England, dated to 1220?
... that when it was built in 1795, Fort Carondelet was the farthest western outpost of the Chouteau fur trading operation in the Spanish Louisiana Territory?
... that Little Sea Hill Light was the first of a group of eight lighthouses in Queensland made of a hardwood frame clad with corrugated iron?
... that the marine worm, Parborlasia corrugatus, fires an adhesive, barbed proboscis as a means of defense, and to capture prey?
... that the former Holland Land Office in Batavia was the first National Historic Landmark designated in Western New York?
... that screenwriter and film director Norman Thaddeus Vane referenced the 1931 movie Dracula in his work Shadow of the Hawk?
... that xiaochi, or Chinese and Taiwanese "small eats", can include such ingredients as stinky tofu, sheep head, grass jelly or pork intestines?
... that Not Worse Than Thomon, edited by Sergei Olegovich Kuznetsov, was described by Vremya Novostei as one of the best Russian books in the field of art in 2007?
... that an obituary for Hughie Hearne stated that he was a "well known baseball star" and "one of the game's best catchers," although he never played a full major league season?
... that Hyder Ali made a forced march of 130 miles (210 km) to bring British East India Company officials to negotiate an end to the First Anglo-Mysore War?
... that Olympia Bucureşti was the winner of the inaugural Romanian football championship held between 1909 and 1910?
... that St Mary's Church in North Cockerington, Lincolnshire, England, stands a mile away from the village it served, sharing the churchyard of the adjoining parish church?
... that the A535 road in Cheshire is the main road that gives access to the Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Quinta Garden, both founded by Sir Bernard Lovell?
... that California Court of Appeal Associate Justice James A. McIntyre was previously a Little League Baseball manager?
... that the Trudenstein rocks in the Harz Mountains are so-named because they supposedly resemble a drude, a German witch-like figure associated with dreams?
... that the Westerman Lumber Office and House is now home to Big Honza, who is "bigger, smarter and wiser" than Paul Bunyan?
... that the wasp Megarhyssa macrurus paralyzes her prey by injecting it with an ovipositor 4 inches (10 cm) long?
... that the manuscripts of Thomas Kantzow's 16th-century chronicles were rediscovered in 1729, 1832 and 1973?
... that on October 21, 1915, a band of Mexicans invaded the United States and conducted a raid on Ojo de Agua in Texas as part of the Plan de San Diego?
... that The Skywalk Is Gone was the first short film to ever get a theatrical commercial run in Taiwan?
... that the American historian Gerald W. Wolff collaborated on studies of six Indian tribes, the Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan, Ponca, Ottawa, and Comanche?
... that Italian model and skydiver Roberta Mancino has performed several thousand skydives, including four while completely naked?
... that Les Jackson , who fought in and later commanded the same squadron as his brother John, became the first RAAF fighter ace of the New Guinea campaign in World War II?
... that Triple H won his match at the World Wrestling Federation's Armageddon (1999) event after hitting Vince McMahon, his father-in-law and boss, with a sledgehammer?
... that German epigrapher Nikolai Grube co-presented workshops teaching Maya hieroglyphs to native Maya in Mexico and Guatemala?
... that in 1922–23, journalist Elmo Scott Watson wrote Stories of Great Indians, an attempt to refute the noble savage concept then popular among writers about the Native American tribes?
... that Slovenia's Velenje Castle, along with two castles in Šalek and Ekenštajn, played a key role in defending the routes from the Celje Basin to Carinthia?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon, based Acumed, a medical device company, once built a motorcycle that included titanium body parts?
... that the Time pyramid, a public work of art begun in 1993, is scheduled for completion in the year 3183?
... that Michigan football player "Octy" Graham at age 16 was called a "young Hercules" after "gripping machines did not register high enough to show his strength"?
... that in a plasma antenna, plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional radio antenna?
... that Clancy Carlile wrote the novel and the screenplay for Honkytonk Man that starred Clint Eastwood?
... that according to legend, Wormy hillock henge is the burial site of a dragon?
... that the surprise about the WikiLeaks revelations of spying on UN leaders by US diplomats was not that it was done, but rather who would be doing it, and what information would be required?
... that the church St. Bonifatius was built in Wiesbaden in Gothic Revival style, after a first building had collapsed?
... that John Tyner and Charles Krauthammer don't want you touching their junk, but Michael Kinsley wants you to go ahead and touch his, and Wendy Kaminer thinks Krauthammer just wants you to touch someone else's?
... that one in six of all English country houses are thought to have been demolished during the 20th century?
... that Tsar Alexander II regarded his morganatic son Prince George Alexandrovich Yurievsky as a "true Russian", causing rumors that he was considering giving him dynastic rights?
... that the Magni M-16 Tandem Trainer autogyro is used by traffic reporters and farmers as well as sport pilots?
... that visitors to the Wank mountain in Germany can use a Wankpass to ride the Wankbahn up to the Wank-Haus at the summit?
... that the NFL's first championship game was won by Chicago over New York via a successful hook and ladder play run by the Bears with less than two minutes remaining?
... that of roughly 200 magic spells in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, five are intended to protect the dead from snakes in the afterlife?
... that the Wachau in Austria inspired the name of the Wachovia area in North Carolina?
... that the Airedale Terrier Paddy the Wanderer was a famous stowaway and traveler who had Wellington harbour as his base?
... that Marie Kudeříková wrote her literary legacy while waiting for her execution in Breslau?
... that IGN's Adam Ballard described the Wii video game Chrysler Classic Racing as "basically one giant, terrible commercial"?
... that John Hartwell Cocke, who helped Thomas Jefferson build the University of Virginia, has been cited by historians for his knowledge of Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings?
... that Harry Yount killed 70 antelope in one day during a hunting competition, but was ashamed because "it went against his heart to kill so many innocent creatures just for the glory"?
... that after acquiring the script for Santa Santita, the director did not start production for five years due to the lack of an appropriate lead actress?
... that nearly 10,000 quartz artifacts were found at a Neolithic site known as the Scord of Brouster?
... that Anne Rouse's poetry often draws upon her experiences as a mental health worker, such as the preoccupations of patients on a dementia ward?
... that San Francisco City Clinic is a specialty municipal sexual health center that opened in 1933 and serves people over the age of 12?
... that Sir William Blackstone's A Discourse on the Study of the Law was his only work to survive its various editions without alterations by the author?
... that Heaven 17's 1981 song "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" was banned by the BBC over fears it libeled Ronald Reagan?
... that Chicago's La Salle Hotel became a de facto White House during U.S. President William Howard Taft's extended stay in its presidential suite?
... that La Stazione, a restaurant and former train station in New Paltz, New York, burned down in 1907, killing the station agent's dog?
... that the Pluton-class minelayers, built just before World War I, were the first purpose-built minelayers in the French Navy?
... that college football coach Harry Baum helped build the Broadmoor Hotel and three state capitol buildings?
... that after the Woodlawn subway station was opened in The Bronx in 1917, nearby Woodlawn Cemetery built a new sales office to meet demand?
... that the phrase "more bang for the buck" was used to describe the United States' New Look policy of depending on nuclear weapons, rather than a large regular army, to keep the Soviet Union in check?
... that baseball player Socks Seybold held the American League home run record before Babe Ruth broke it in 1919?
... that LZ7's 2010 single "This Little Light" is based around the 20th century gospel song "This Little Light of Mine"?
... that the science fiction film Laserblast consistently ranks among the Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 films list, and was featured in the last episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 broadcast on Comedy Central?
... that in August each year, City of London Councillor Sir Alpheus Morton used to present the Lord Mayor with a basket of mulberries from the garden at Finsbury Circus?
... that although Owen Bieber intended to be an auto parts worker only for a single summer, he stayed on the job and later became president of the United Auto Workers?
... that while most of Austria labels their wine similar to Germany, with names such as Spätlese and Auslese, producers in Wachau label their wines after feather grass, falconry and a green lizard?
... that the bee Anthidium manicatum scrapes fur from leaves to line its nest?
... that both bombings, in May 2008, by Spain's ETA in Legutiano and Getxo involved Citroën Berlingos?
... that sprinter Seun Ogunkoya broke the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres before turning 20 years old?
... that under football coach J. White Guyn, the cash-strapped Kentucky program arranged to play Michigan to generate revenue, but travel costs limited its income and the team lost, 62–0?
... that after losing the Second 2010–11 Ashes Test to England, the selectors for the Australian cricket team thought that Beer could help them in the Third Test?
... that a novel pigment with antibiotic properties was discovered in fruit bodies of the golden-edge bonnet ?
... that e-Government and controlled thermonuclear fusion are among the long-term goals of the Medvedev modernisation programme in Russia?
... that Michigan footballer and Rhodes Scholar James K. Watkins became Detroit Police Commissioner and formed a group in 1936 "to save their country from a perpetuation of the New Deal"?
... that during the 1892–1894 war in the Eastern Congo, Baron Dhanis allowed his men to bring their wives, slaves and servants along with his army?
... that Sony plans to develop a Spider-Man reboot starring Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man that will be released in 2012 in 3-D?
... that Chris Strachwitz, German-born founder of blues and Cajun music specialist Arhoolie Records, accumulated the largest private collection of Mexican and Mexican-American music in the world?
... that Bremo Slave Chapel is the only place of worship known to have been built for slaves in the Commonwealth of Virginia?
... that Giovanni Orsini was the nephew of Pope Nicholas III, a legate for Pope John XXII, helped to drive Antipope Nicholas V from Rome, and took part in the election of Pope Benedict XII?
... that the Bristol Festival of Ideas, set up in 2005 as part of the city's bid to become European Capital of Culture, now awards one of the most valuable annual book prizes in the UK?
... that in 1899, Major League Baseball rookie Jimmy Williams set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record with his 27-game hitting streak?
... that New Zealand Army officer Rhys Jones, the next Chief of Defence Force, was told in 2000 that he would receive no further promotions?
... that Knute Rockne called Thomas A. Barry "the man who laid the football foundation at Notre Dame"?
... that the Gruta das Torres is a three-dimensional braided lava tube system, the longest in the Azores?
... that film director Tracie Laymon won the 2009 award for Best Short Film from the Women's Image Network for her work directing the short film Inside?
... that although it was originally designed as a test machine, Sceptre was turned into a fusion reactor when ZETA apparently produced fusion?
... that Rev. Shubael Dummer was killed at York, Maine, by the Abenaki in the Candlemas Massacre of January 1692?
... that the French armored cruiser Sully struck a rock in Halong Bay, French Indochina, in 1905, only eight months after she was completed, and was a total loss?
... that access to the 1870 construction site of Sandy Cape Light on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, was so steep that materials were raised on a whim?
... that the Viveros de Coyoacán was the first tree nursery in Mexico and the first large scale tree nursery in Latin America?
... that the Office of Science in the Department of Energy is the predominant U.S. federal government sponsor for research in the physical sciences and initiated the Human Genome Project?
... that former CANOE Live host Janette Luu was the first ever Vietnamese TV anchor in Toronto, Canada?
... that in St Peter's Church, Kingerby, Lincolnshire, is a slab carved with the effigy of a knight whose lower body and legs have been replaced by a cross?
... that basketball player Charlie T. Black won two national championships and was named the Helms Foundation National Player of the Year while at Kansas?
... that a self-educated Norwegian immigrant farmer built the finest farmhouse in Dodge County, Minnesota?
... that one of the educational goals of the children's television show Sesame Street was to prepare young children for school?
... that the 1927 presidential election in Liberia made it into the Guinness Book of Records as the most fraudulent ever?
... that within a year after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, one venue was converted into a baseball stadium while two others were imploded?
... that No. 61 Wing RAAF built a 10,000-foot (3,000 m) runway at Darwin, Northern Territory, in 1944 to accommodate a proposed deployment of 100 USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers that never eventuated?
... that, after giving up five runs in his Major League Baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds, pitcher Martin Glendon quit the team and moved to San Francisco?
... that the fungus Entomophthora muscae makes flies climb upwards before killing them, so they are better able to release a shower of spores for the next cycle of infection?
... that the German battleship Friedrich der Grosse was the flagship of the Imperial Navy during the majority of World War I, including the Battle of Jutland?
... that Bruce DuMont, investigative reporter and host of Beyond the Beltway, is the nephew of the inventor of the first commercially viable television?
... that the namesake of the Patrick Henry Hotel in Roanoke, Virginia, is the American Founding Father Patrick Henry?
... that Jason Ratcliff was the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion crew chief?
... that with the foundation of the Athonite Academy, near Vatopedi monastery, the monastic community of Mount Athos took a leading role in the 18th century modern Greek Enlightenment?
... that an oxaziridine rearrangement reaction is the key step in the synthesis of erectile dysfunction medication yohimbine?
... that the location of one of the venues of the 1994 Winter Olympics at Lillehammer was moved because the original site was too close to a bird sanctuary?
... that after RAAF Tomahawk pilots John Jackson and Bobby Gibbes shared in destroying a Vichy French fighter plane in 1941, they tossed a coin to see who would take the credit for it?
... that over 30,000 eggs were used to prepare the paint and glaze that went into the elaborate decorations of the Šarena Džamija of Tetovo?
... that former Florida State Seminoles player Ryan Reid had more wins than any other player in the school's college basketball history?
... that Old Caloundra Light, a lighthouse inactive since 1968, was relocated twice, in 1970 and back in 1999, and was damaged on the second relocation attempt?
... that Harry W. Child received a knighthood from the King of Sweden after giving the king a guided tour of Yellowstone National Park?
... that in its early years, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra featured a solo performance by Isaac Stern and the premiere of a musical composition about a nuclear reactor?
... that before he co-founded Soundcraft, Graham Blyth helped build the mixing console used by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970?