derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Dr. Edgar Fauver, a football and baseball player in the 1890s, became a pioneer in women's athletics coaching women's basketball and baseball at Barnard College in the 1900s?
... that the land for the first Holy Trinity Church in Morecambe, Lancashire, was bequeathed by the village blacksmith?
... that the translations by Princess Anka Obrenović in 1836 were the first literary works compiled by a female to be published in Serbia?
... that Amos Horev, appointed to the Israeli Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid of May 2010, is a former President of Technion University?
... that Nazi German leaders, including Heinrich Himmler, briefly fell for Heinz Kurschildgen's claims to be able to make petrol from water?
... that a criminal trial began more than six years after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided the British Columbia Parliament Buildings ?
... that the guard on the train involved in a derailment at Falls of Cruachan in 2010 was also the guard on a train derailed at the same location in 1997?
... that at 5,821 metres (19,098 ft) long, the Mala Kapela Tunnel is the longest tunnel in Croatia?
... that in 2008 the Korean e-Sports Players Association worried that it would be required to pay royalties to Blizzard Entertainment to broadcast Starcraft II?
... that former New Jersey Assembly member Gerald Luongo wrote Surviving Federal Prison Camp: An Informative and Helpful Guide for Prospective Inmates after spending almost a year in prison?
... that Ludwig Schwarz, the Roman Catholic bishop of Linz, Austria, has a doctorate in classical philology and archeology from the University of Vienna?
... that Pabuji Ki Phad, a religious painting of folk deities, is the only surviving ancient traditional folk art form in the world of the epic of Pabuji, the Rajput of Rajasthan in India?
... that architect Amon Henry Wilds built the Hindoo-style Western Pavilion as his own home in Brighton, and installed an igloo-shaped bathroom in its dome?
... that Maxine Hong Kingston's novel Tripmaster Monkey is named after a fictional monkey king from the Chinese epic novel Journey to the West?
... that Emil "Liz" Liston, founder of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and organizer of the NAIA college basketball tournament, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975?
... that the County of Dannenberg was founded by Henry the Lion during the Ostsiedlung, or colonisation of the East, in order to protect the borders of his expanding territory?
... that Professor Ivor Browne was denounced as antagonistic towards the Catholic Church after he came out in support of the mistress of Fr. Michael Cleary?
... that the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Chill of the Night!" has characters voiced by people from both Batman: The Animated Series and the 1960s live-action version of Batman?
... that current Arsenal F.C. reserve player Emmanuel Frimpong began his international career with Ghana before switching to England and then back to Ghana?
... that Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport manager James G. Howes was lampooned using signal flags to direct air traffic from atop the control tower in a Boy Scout uniform?
... that Lake Scott State Park is home to El Quartelejo Ruins, the northernmost Indian pueblo in the United States and the only one known in Kansas?
... that microcystins in the polluted water of the lake at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park in Ohio can cause severe gastrointestinal ailments in humans?
... that the 13th government of Sri Lanka was known as the Jumbo Cabinet due to the high number of ministers?
... that in 1946 the University of Texas at Austin regent Orville Bullington worked to dismiss the president Homer Rainey on grounds of communists and homosexuals operating within the university?
... that the name "regular Fronthall" was used to refer to brave soldiers in honor of the courage of Max Fronthall of the 16th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers?
... that the U.S. Secretary of the Army's investigation into burial mismanagement at Arlington National Cemetery was prompted in part by a year-long series of articles on Salon.com?
... that in Berghuis v. Thompkins the United States Supreme Court ruled that failing to claim the right to silence means police can use any voluntary statements regardless of length of interrogation?
... that all of the panelists of the Beverage Testing Institute are professional guest tasters who are retailers, restaurateurs, or prominent writers?
... that the Odyssey tanker spilled 43 million gallons of oil off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, in November 1988?
... that Sheila Varian of California is an Arabian horse breeder who is also a horse trainer in the vaquero tradition, and was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2003?
... that Dillard's opened a store at Bowling Green, Kentucky's Greenwood Mall in 1996, then moved to another store in the mall less than three years later?
... that the playable character of video game Seymour Goes to Hollywood was described as an "albino mutant lardball" by one reviewer?
... that 9 Mill Street in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, dates from 1736, and has been a house, a bank, a political club and a restaurant?
... that the 17th-century church built by the Tacatacuru, a Timucua chiefdom on Cumberland Island, Georgia, was said to be as big as the one in the Spanish colonial capital of St. Augustine?
... that the Israel Vázquez – Rafael Márquez rivalry produced two Ring Magazine fights of the year?
... that Let's Yoga includes yoga poses to complete in office chairs during times the player might be relegated to a desk?
... that the delayed conclusion of the Russo-Ottoman Treaty of Constantinople (1700) caused Russian forces to arrive late in the war with Sweden?
... that Donald Russell from 1964 to 1970 accumulated the highest winning percentage (.661) of any Wesleyan football coach with more than two years as head coach?
... that when it closed in 2008, Osterville Bay Elementary School was the oldest operating school building on Cape Cod?
... that in the film Horror of Dracula, actress Melissa Stribling played the victim of a vampire in an erotic role?
... that Antoine Ephrem Cartier can trace his family history line back 400 years to Jacques Cartier, French explorer who claimed Canada for France?
... that the hamlet of Wigratzbad in Germany was home to Marian apparitions in the early 20th century, and today houses a shrine visited by approximately 500,000 pilgrims every year?
... that the Brinje Tunnel was declared to be the safest tunnel in Europe by an FIA and ADAC EuroTAP survey?
... that Richelieu Foods produces over 50 million frozen pizzas and more than 20 million crusts annually—for other companies to market under their own private labels?
... that playwright Alan Bennett's definition of a classic book is "a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have read themselves"?
... that political strategist Rod Shealy sought to increase the turnout of white voters in South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
... that despite his aristocratic background, Claude Poullart des Places requested to be buried in a pauper's grave?
... that Ireland's "Willy Wonka" provided confectionary for the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II?
... that the former French Convalescent Home on Brighton seafront is the only such institution in England, and also had the country's earliest known double glazing?
... that the New York Mini 10K, first held in Central Park in 1972, was the world's first women-only road running event?
... that during the Bardia raid in April 1941, seventy British Commandos became prisoners of war after getting lost?
... that legislation proposed by Barbara Wright would impose jail terms up to 10 years and fines of as much as US$100,000 for filing false car- or health-insurance claims in New Jersey?
... that indie rock band Klaxons were forced to re-record parts of second album Surfing the Void, after record label Polydor deemed it "too experimental for release"?
... that Warren Antoine Cartier was a neighbor of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone?
... that in the action at Néry on 1 September 1914, during the retreat from Mons in the First World War, three Victoria Crosses were awarded to the crew of a single British field gun ?
... that populations of Actinoporus elegans were thought to be restricted to the western Atlantic until they were collected at the east Atlantic islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in 2004?
... that aged 16, Ellyse Perry was the youngest person, male or female, to represent Australia in cricket, and debuted for the national football team a month later?
... that through the Trade Union Propaganda League Swedish leftwing socialists sought to win the Swedish Trade Union Confederation over to a revolutionary line?
... that Napoleonic Wars military historian Ramsay Weston Phipps helped to blow up the docks at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) when he was a young Royal Artillery lieutenant?
... that Knight, Death and the Devil is a large 1513 copperplate engraving, one of the three master prints by Albrecht Dürer?
... that despite being panned for exceptionally poor acting and special effects, the 2010 film Dinoshark was also considered likely to become a classic of the "awesomely awful" movie genre?
... that Susan L. Taylor , the former editor-in-chief of Essence, was the first African-American woman to receive the Magazine Publishers of America's prestigious Henry Johnson Fisher Award?
... that even though Arvid Kramer had not played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the 1979–80 season, he was selected first in the 1988 NBA Expansion Draft?
... that the first of Denmark’s Galathea expeditions had a budget of nearly half a million Rixdollars, equivalent to 3% of the state’s annual revenues at the time?
... that the Classic Period Maya city of Ixtutz in the Maya Mountains of Guatemala was lost for more than a century after its discovery in 1852?
... that Mayo hurler Adrian Freeman played in England, Scotland, North America and the Middle East before his recent death in an Australia car crash?
... that during an 1864 expedition to resupply Army posts in eastern Oregon, Captain John M. Drake discovered fossils in the area that is now the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument?
... that even though the Association of Religion Data Archives estimated that there are only 50 Bahá'ís in Mongolia, more than 1700 Mongolian Bahá'ís turned out for a regional conference in 2009?
... that in the 19th century, part of Wykeham Terrace —a "charming Gothic confection" in Brighton—was used as an institution for reformed prostitutes?
... that under a bill proposed by Assemblymember Joel Weingarten, religious headwear cannot be banned in New Jersey public schools?
... that until the 19th century, Blackwell Hall in the City of London controlled England's main commercial activity—the cloth trade?
... that the church of Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was destroyed during the French Revolution and all its contents sold?
... that during World War II the United States Army Art Program was canceled by Congress, then resumed by Life magazine?
... that the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province in Canada is one of the largest Proterozoic magmatic provinces on Earth and the world's largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain?
... that Alex Rowe, rejected by the British Army because of a detached retina, became a highly decorated sniper for the French Foreign Legion?
... that the ruined Cill Chriosd , also known as Kilchrist or Christ's Church, was the parish church of Strathaird, Skye, until 1840?
... that the Polish Glider Experimental Works, created after World War II, became the main Polish centre for designing gliders?
... that American League MVP and Cleveland Indians baseball manager Lou Boudreau hit two home runs in the 1948 American League tie-breaker game to bring the Indians to the 1948 World Series?
... that artist Orovida Camille Pissarro preferred to be known simply as Orovida to distinguish herself from the many other artists in her family, including her renowned grandfather Camille Pissarro?
... that football coach Jake High has both the highest winning percentage (.778) in the history of Wesleyan football and the lowest percentage (.000) in the history of NYU football?
... that costume designer Peter J. Hall dressed David Bowie and Mick Jagger on tour, calling Bowie "serious, intellectual, wonderful to work with" while Jagger was "exactly the opposite"?
... that whilst the Mexican People's Party was unable to obtain national registration as a political party, it was recognized in Baja California Sur and won a seat in the state legislature?
... that the name of the Montreal nightclub Les Foufounes Électriques means "electric buttocks" in English?
... that the original owner of Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket in Willowbrook, Illinois, would hire local youths to ice skate on the roof during winter?
... that after the restructuring of New Zealand Rugby League there were seven zonal teams in the 2010 New Zealand rugby league season?
... that Rock Band 3, a "disruptive title" to revitalize the rhythm video game genre, includes a Pro mode for near-accurate playing of real guitars, drum and keyboard instruments?
... that when Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen sustained fatal heart failure, there were numerous doctors present?
... that a radio ad in Argentina for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known radio commercial in history?
... that Ella Anker, decorated with the Order of the British Empire, founded a Norway-based version of the Anglo-Norse Society?
... that outriggers allow a fishing vessel to tow multiple trolling lines in the water in a way that can simulate a school of fish?
... that soprano Edith Selig recorded the early Bach cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, performed in Weimar in 1714 on the third Sunday after Trinity?
... that in the medieval Irish satire The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig, the Connaught champion Cet mac Mágach is unbeaten in a bragging contest, until being slapped in the face with the head of his dead brother?
... that Hong Kong's Goddess of Democracy statue was the subject of three major political rows in Hong Kong over freedom of expression in the space of one week?
... that the Somerset Women cricket team finished as County Championship Division Two champions in 2004 and 2005?
... that the death of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who tried to become the youngest to fly an aircraft across the US, led to a law prohibiting record-seeking children from touching the flight controls?
... that Peter Keefe's 1980s series Voltron "helped prepare the way for other Japanese-style animation in the United States" such as Pokémon and Power Rangers?
... that the small French Communist Group in Russia was able to play a role in fomenting mutinies amongst French interventionist troops during the Russian Civil War?
... that the Carolina Panthers and Jacksonville Jaguars are the only teams to have not selected any Texas Tech Red Raiders in the NFL Draft?
... that a hoax electric guitar inspired version of the Welsh national anthem was credited to both Jimi Hendrix and Tich Gwilym, when it was 'unearthed' in 2006?
... that according to Ramayana adaptations, Mandodari – the wife of the ten-headed demon Ravana – was the mother of Sita, whose kidnapping by Ravana would lead to his doom?
... that French track and field athlete Teddy Tamgho became the third best triple jumper of all-time three days before his 21st birthday?
... that, depending on classification, there are anywhere from 20 to 40 cheeses produced in Mexico?
... that footballer Stephen Brackstone had an operation to remove his appendix after being taken to hospital following his substitution in a game for York City in December 2002?
... that GRB 030329 provided the definitive link between gamma-ray bursts and supernovae?
... that Guy Talarico sponsored a bill that would require involuntary commitment for those with mental health issues if it is determined that it is likely that they will commit future crimes?
... that the single known population of the Ecuadorian rodent Lagidium ahuacaense may contain only a few dozen individuals?
... that in England and Wales, legal aid, a court of criminal appeal, county courts and limits on the use of the death penalty were proposed as early as 1652 by the Hale Commission?
... that the mayfly Rhithrogena germanica can emerge from a river, moult and fly off in 30 seconds?
... that the Brenthurst Foundation sent a number of its staff abroad to help solve the problem of there not being enough lecturers at the National University of Rwanda?
... that hospitals in Iraq reported 6,530 cases and 459 deaths as a result of the 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster?
... that in 1899 the Russian battleship Tri Sviatitelia became the first ship in the world to be fitted with a radio – an installation designed by A. S. Popov that had a range of about 3 miles (4.8 km)?
... that pioneer British aviator Alec Ogilvie was only the seventh person to qualify as a pilot in the United Kingdom?
... that Jonah Lomu failed to score a try against South Africa despite facing them 13 times?
... that 74-time champion Ken Jennings may be one of the human challengers to face IBM's artificial intelligence software Watson in a special challenge match on Jeopardy!?
... that while the 19th-century writer Samuel Lewis described the Welsh church of St Mary, Tal-y-llyn as "a small edifice of no interest", it is now one of the most highly rated listed buildings in the country?
... that in Operation Maritime Guard, warships from Turkey, the U.K., the U.S., and four other countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia?
... that paraplegic handcyclist Edward Maalouf is the only person to have won medals for Lebanon at the Paralympic Games?
... that it is speculated that Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus were commissioned by Constantine I?
... that current Wesleyan football coach Mike Whalen led the Williams College "Ephs" to four consecutive Little Three football championships and a undefeated record against Wesleyan?
... that the cloth fibers in the casing of most bicycle tires are oriented diagonally, forming a bias ply?
... that "locked-in syndrome", in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of most muscles except for the eyes, was coined by neurologist Dr. Fred Plum?
... that bored by a game of Scrabble, 76-year-old Abraham Nathanson said "we need an anagrams game so fast, it'll drive you bananas" and created the game Bananagrams?
... that during the construction of Fairfield Bridge a burial cave was found with the heads of several dead Māori people?
... that in Operation Sharp Guard, warships from 14 countries blockaded the former Yugoslavia, challenged 73,000 ships, and boarded and inspected almost 6,000 of them?
... that the three lookouts, Gvulot, Beit Eshel and Revivim, served as a springboard for Jewish settlement in the Negev desert?
... that although Paul Legrand's physique was considered unsuited for pantomime, he had a distinguished 48 year career as a performer around the world?
... that Rick Mahorn was selected second in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, but he refused to report to the team and was traded prior to the start of the following season?
... that a bill proposed by Carol Murphy passed in the New Jersey General Assembly to allow hunters to contribute venison to food banks to help feed the needy?
... that Lillian Heath, the first woman doctor in Wyoming, was given the sawed-off skull cap of lynched outlaw Big Nose George, which she used as a doorstop?
... that the earliest record of St James' Church, Longborough, Gloucestershire , is in 1192 when a priest was murdered in the church?
... that Louis Romano, a four-term member of the New Jersey General Assembly, lost to Albio Sires in the 1999 Democratic primary, making him the only one of 80 incumbents to lose a primary bid that year?
... that the Cummins Corporate Office Building in Columbus, Indiana, is constructed on an old railroad yard?
... that cricketer Lisa Sthalekar took five wickets in her 100th One Day International match for Australia?
... that Polish aviator Józef Lewoniewski planned to fly the PWS-52 monoplane prototype around the world?
... that Alvin Greene is the first African American since Reconstruction to win a major party's nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina?
... that the German submarine U-376 only sank two merchant ships in eight patrols before it went missing on 13 April 1943?
... that Juan José Carbó was an award-winning cartoonist who drew for both adult entertainment and children's magazines while working as a civil servant?
... that the Harpy Tomb from ancient Xanthos was originally mounted on a stone pedestal seventeen feet above the ground?
... that Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski, a trained aviator, took part in the Warsaw Uprising of World War II and later headed an automobile repair bureau in Poznań?
... that fashion designer Maria Grachvogel created a dress adorned with 2,000 diamonds worth £250,000 for her London Fashion Week show?
... that the Battle of the Ice between Teutonic Knights and Novgorodians was fought on top of the frozen Lake Peipsi-Pihkva?
... that Daniel Nava of the Boston Red Sox is the fourth player in Major League Baseball history to hit a grand slam in his first at-bat and the second to do so on the first pitch?
... that Chinese porcelain in European painting is known from at least 1514 with Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods?
... that the phenomenon of Icing, called by The New York Times "the nation's biggest viral drinking game", has led to a spike in sales of Smirnoff Ice?
... that Kerry-Ann Booth, the girlfriend of footballer Greg Young , did not see him on the losing side of a game for Halifax Town for the first four years of their relationship?
... that the German submarine U-371 made a total of 19 war patrols in her career?
... that Mexico's National Fund for the Development of Arts and Crafts or FONART directly assisted 26,600 Mexican artisans in 2006?
... that Travis Kvapil received one of the largest NASCAR penalties by using improper modifications to the valve stems during the 2010 Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500?
... that during the Great Depression, attorney George C. Butte devised regulations for the conservation of Texas petroleum and natural gas?
... that Arlington National Cemetery Superintendent John C. Metzler, Jr. lived at the cemetery between the ages of 4 and 19?
... that Highlands Coffee was both the first private company and the first joint stock company within Vietnam to be registered to an Overseas Vietnamese?
... that in an effort to protect tax revenue from casinos in Atlantic City, Assemblyman Kenneth LeFevre sought to block the Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma from opening a casino in Wildwood, New Jersey?
... that Phymanthus crucifer has bright red suckers on its column, to which debris can attach for camouflage?
... that as of May 2010, Akrapovič exhaust systems have been used in a total of 38 motorsport world championships?
... that Sir Percy Cradock was manhandled by the Red Guards when he was stationed at the charge d'affaires office, Peking, during the Cultural Revolution?
... that Ulpian's life table predicted a life expectancy of 19 to 23 years for citizens of the Roman Empire?
... that in 1949 the Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak socialist parties founded the Socialist Union of Central-Eastern Europe as a common centre for work in exile?
... that the small Maya city of Itzan in the Petén region of Guatemala featured an unusually large quantity of sculpted monuments?
... that the collapse of the Showa Bridge after the 1964 Niigata earthquake was a result of liquefaction rather than ground motion?
... that the bark of the Himalayan Birch was once used as paper for writing Sanskrit texts ?
... that in 1976 socialist Jorge Cruickshank García became the first opposition senator of Mexico since the emergence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party as the ruling party?
... that on March 22, 2003, the treacherous reefs around Land's End claimed yet another ship, the RMS Mulheim?