derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (1957–1960) invited numerous African American singers to perform, including Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, and The Mills Brothers?
... that the U.S. Army's Parachute Rigger Badge first appeared in action during Exercise Swarmer?
... that Papyrus 6 , manuscript of the New Testament, contains text of the apocryphal First Epistle of Clement in Coptic (Akhmimic dialect)?
... that Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor, a Baptist abolitionist from Massachusetts, made a significant contribution to the problem of squaring the circle?
... that after the Nürnberger Platz Berlin U-Bahn station was replaced by Spichernstraße and demolished, the Augsburger Straße station had to be built to reduce the distance between stations?
... that Daniel D. Badger, with James Bogardus, was one of the major forces in creating cast-iron architecture in the United States?
... that the three prevailing causes of geriatric trauma are falls, traffic collisions and burns?
... that from 1914 to 1922 the British Member of Parliament Arthur Fell led an all-party committee which campaigned for a Channel Tunnel?
... that performance of Bach's cantata Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!, for the Second Sunday of Advent in Weimar, was not acceptable in Leipzig during Advent?
... that the legacy of the mercantile Röhss family in Gothenburg includes a museum for design and three professorial chairs at Gothenburg University?
... that Richard Herbert raised a foot regiment and a troop of horse for the king during the English Civil War?
... that Lt. Governor Frank G. Higgins was the first person born in Montana to become a member of the state's bar and of its legislature?
... that in the 2010 book Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, the author estimates an overall mortality of 45 million for the Great Chinese Famine, including some 2 to 3 million beaten or tortured to death?
... that the term "death panels," which Sarah Palin coined on her Facebook page, was named "Lie of the Year" by PolitiFact.com and the "Most Outrageous" word of 2009 by the American Dialect Society?
... that Guinea was the only French colony to reject the 1958 constititution in a referendum, thereby opting for independence?
... that the British Conservative MP Sir Edmund Royds was defeated at the 1922 general election when the National Farmers Union supported his Liberal opponent?
... that in 2008–09, 64 percent of the 316 million tonnes of iron ore produced in Western Australia was exported to China?
... that the US 35th Infantry Regiment guarded a bridge for a week during the 1950 Battle of Nam River before it was accidentally destroyed by US bombers?
... that although a recommendation to establish Booby Island Light was made in 1873, it was only constructed in 1890, and was the last major lighthouse to be constructed along the Queensland coast?
... that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal traced the origin of the concept of equality in Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore to the 40th article of the Magna Carta of 1215?
... that the song "Una Canción Me Trajo Hasta Aquí" performed by Jorge Drexler received two nominations for the 11th Latin Grammy Awards even though it was not promoted to radio in the United States?
... that South African President Jacob Zuma has commented on the "special relationship" between his country and Ireland?
... that Canada has vowed to boycott the United Nations Durban III conference, calling it a "charade" and a "hatefest"?
... that Zimbabwe only played one One Day International cricket series in 2009–10, beating Kenya 4–1?
... that Italian mountaineer Angelo Dibona (1879–1956) has a French mountain named for him, and was still making first ascents at age 65?
... that online Facebook game Car Town features pace cars used in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and the 2010 Brickyard 400?
... that the opening of Seagram's Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1937 drew a crowd of 71,000 people during the week of the Kentucky Derby?
... that, only one month after the Berlin Wall was built, two West German aircraft accidentally violated East German airspace, flying to Berlin Tegel Airport on 14 September 1961?
... that Jacob B. Warlow was commended for his service as a police captain during the New York Draft Riots, which protested the American Civil War?
... that the Erkin Rakishev parody film My Brother, Borat is intended by the director to counter the negative perceptions of Kazakhstan generated by the 2006 film Borat?
... that Olivia Shakespear , mother-in-law to Ezra Pound, was indirectly responsible for supporting struggling modernist writers such as T. S. Eliot and James Joyce?
... that despite being enveloped by the urban sprawl of Mexico City, the borough of Coyoacán still has areas with the narrow winding roads of rural villages?
... that American lawyer Lloyd K. Garrison was chairman of the "first" National Labor Relations Board, the National War Labor Board, and the New York City Board of Education?
... that the role-playing game Shining Hearts features hearts, collectible and usable by the player, that represent the other characters' feelings about the player's actions?
... that deputy minister Roman Romkowski, charged along with Director-general Anatol Fejgin and Col. Józef Różański of the Polish Ministry of Public Security, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1957?
... that Clarence Brown's 1925 silent film Smouldering Fires starring Pauline Frederick is considered a cautionary tale?
... that the list of no-hitters by Baltimore Orioles pitchers includes a loss in the 1967 season, with runs given up in the ninth inning on walks, a wild pitch and an error?
... that Yanar Dag is a natural fire that burns "eternally" on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula in Azerbaijan?
... that the Guinean journalist Siradiou Diallo was suspected of being a double agent for President Sékou Touré?
... that the First Battle of Yeonpyeong was a deadly clash between the navies of North and South Korea in 1999 off Yeonpyeong island, which North Korea subsequently attacked in November 2010?
... that when the Portuguese Royalty moved to Brazil to escape the French invasion of Portugal the Brazil–Portugal relationship was of a former colony ruling the Portuguese Empire?
... that German lawyer Rainer Rene Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden, founder of the Federation of German mercenaries, was the subject of a question in the German Parliament in regards to organ donor laws?
... that Moss Airport, Rygge is the first airport in Europe to replace all the runway and taxiway lights with light emitting diodes?
... that ice cream manufacturer William Wilson Talcott killed himself by jumping from an excursion steamer into Lake Michigan with rocks in his pockets after he was unable to extricate his wife from a "love cult" in 1922?
... that medieval Bulgarian anti-Bogomil writer Cosmas the Priest was regarded as a saint although there is no data that he was ever canonised?
... that the Russian ironclad Kniaz Pozharsky was the first Russian armored ship to leave European waters when she cruised the Pacific Ocean in 1873–75?
... that more than 9,000 women were sterilized during the Iron Fist Campaign?
... that the Specialized Stumpjumper became the first mass-produced mountain bike when it was first introduced in 1981?
... that by the time Jeannie Carson joined Hey, Jeannie! she had become the second highest paid entertainer in the UK, behind Vivien Leigh?
... that in addition to conducting minelaying operations in the South West Pacific, No. 76 Wing RAAF dropped over a million propaganda leaflets before the end of World War II?
... that Bill Stein hit a home run in his Major League Baseball debut on September 6, 1972?
... that by 1962 the communist-led Indonesian forest workers union Sarbuksi claimed to have a quarter of a million members?
... that Brock Reservoir in California saves unused water from the All-American Canal that would otherwise be "lost" to Mexico?
... that three composers, flutist Jens Josef, cellist Graham Waterhouse and pianist Rudi Spring, each set a Christmas carol for their trio concert at the Gasteig?
... that 1973 comedy film Bad Charleston Charlie was loosely based on gangster Charles Birger, the last man to be executed in Illinois by public hanging?
... that in 1899 the Lynmouth Lifeboat was pulled over a 1,423-foot (434 m) hill by men and horses so that it could launch to the aid of a ship 15 miles (24 km) from Lynmouth?
... that Bill Naito , who abruptly left Portland, Oregon, at age 16 to avoid Japanese-American internment during World War II, later became one of the city's most esteemed business and civic leaders?
... that only two new permanent venues were constructed for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
... that the first Australian baseball player to sign a professional contract with a Major League Baseball organisation, after the dead-ball era, was Neil Page, who signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 1966?
... that the NBC television series The Ford Show referred to the sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, rather than the star, Tennessee Ernie Ford?
... that Eugenios Voulgaris, scholar and first director of the Maroutsaia School in Ioannina, Greece, insisted that the Greek intellectual revival should remain theologically and socially conservative?
... that the National Docks Secondary freight rail line uses a short tunnel that took eight years to build at twice the originally estimated cost because of a frog war with the Pennsylvania Railroad?
... that the 2009–10 Stanbic Bank 20 Series was heralded as a success by Zimbabwe Cricket, after the crowd for the final was described as "the biggest for a domestic match in living memory"?
... that Diethard Hellmann reconstructed the music of the lost Bach cantata for the Third Sunday in Advent, Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a?
... that Guinean Fodéba Keïta was the founder of the first professional African theatrical troupe, Theatre Africain?
... the indigenous people of Malaysia, known as the Orang Asal, were originally named as such by communist rebels seeking support during the Malayan Emergency?
... that when the Queensbury mill-owner William Henry Foster died in 1908, a special train brought the Lord Mayor of Bradford to his funeral near Hornby Castle?
... that the wings of the Rans S-11 Pursuit provide only 20% of the aircraft's lift?
... that in 1985, Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti became the first Hispanic female to attain the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force?
... that several days after Nicholas II's abdication, his relative Alexander, Duke of Leuchtenberg warned the British ambassador the tsar was in "the gravest danger"?
... that Joe Raposo, first musical director of the children's show Sesame Street, won four Grammys for writing much of the show's music?
... that the Indonesian trade union centre SOBRI decided to join the World Federation of Trade Unions following the death of Stalin in 1953?
... that the Michigan Federation of Labor in 1906 wrote that perhaps no individual had done more to "promote the interests of wage-earners than William W. Hannan, the real estate hustler"?
... that it was so cold during the 1962 NFL Championship Game that television crews used bonfires to thaw out their cameras, and one cameraman suffered frostbite?
... that when Prohibition forced the Kentucky-based Bavarian Brewing Company to stop producing beer, it continued to produce soft drinks as The William Riedlin Beverage Company?
... that as recently as the 1980s there were up to a thousand native speakers of a unique French dialect around Old Mines, Missouri, descendants of French colonists from the early 1700s?
... that in 1996 Chaturanan Mishra became one of the two first communist cabinet members in India?
... that the first no-hitter by an Oakland Athletics pitcher after the Major League Baseball club relocated to Oakland, California, was a perfect game by Catfish Hunter in 1968?
... that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's East Rutherford Operations Center has a state-of-the art automated 1 million cubic foot vault for storing US currency?
... that bent edge was created as a counter-movement to straight edge and was a sign of a rising tide of anti-Dischord sentiment in the DC punk scene?
... that 17 species of slime mould (myxomycetes) have been isolated from the bark of the tree Banksia attenuata ?
... that Provino Mosca, the founder of the Louisiana Creole Italian restaurant Mosca's, was reportedly a chef for Al Capone?
... that in 1947, baseball player Buck Frierson led the Big State League with 58 home runs and 197 runs batted in?
... that haematite found during the excavation of Nympsfield Long Barrow may have been used to make face-paint, so that the dead could appear alive?
... that Punjabi revolutionary Baba Bujha Singh predicted the disintegration of the Soviet Union?
... that British spies helped sink some German minesweepers of the Sperrbrecher type, through determining how to adjust the fuses on magnetic mines?
... that when choosing Suillus pungens mushrooms for the table, one should pick young specimens to avoid "fat, agitated maggots"?
... that the election of William Steward as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives was the first time that this position was contested?
... that following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the venues used for the 1980 Summer Olympics were divided between four of the new sovereign states?
... that a good contact-connection between undamaged plain waveguide flanges can outperform a choke-connection, but a bad one can cause arcing?
... that John Keble, founding member of the Oxford Movement, was curate to St Michael and St Martin's Church, Eastleach Martin, Gloucestershire, and a bridge nearby was named after him?
... that The New York Times called the U.S. Supreme Court's Ontario v. Quon decision "almost aggressively unhelpful" to lawyers and judges in electronic privacy cases?
... that the Madison Square Presbyterian Church building completed in 1854 was knocked down to become the site of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower , then the world's tallest building?
... that Nelly's first five studio albums all reached the top three of the Billboard 200?
... that the English historian Walter Alison Phillips was the first Lecky professor in the University of Dublin?
... that holders of the position that would become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council have included Eleanor Roosevelt and Geraldine Ferraro?
... that Greg Koubek was the first men's basketball player to play in four NCAA Tournament Final Fours?
... that banana powder was utilized by scientists in the 1980s for its antiulcer compounds that both helped prevent ulcers and helped in healing areas where ulcers had previously occurred?
... that Second World War search and rescue dog Rip is credited with saving over a hundred lives during 1940 and 1941?
... that the first album released by the black metal record label The Ajna Offensive was not part of the metal genre?
... that a Welshman, Dai Davies, is the only person to have appeared in both the rugby league Challenge Cup final and the association football FA Cup Final?
... that Sextans B is one of the smallest galaxies in which planetary nebulae have been detected?
... that professional wrestler Kyle O'Reilly once wrestled in almost 40 matches in a period of 72 hours for charity?
... that the decomposing skeleton of a right whale was found on the underwater volcano Patton Seamount ?
... that Judge Howard Abbott was the captain and quarterback of the first Minnesota Golden Gophers football team in 1886?
... that plans to convert the tomb of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi on the Mount of Olives, Israel, into a church sparked strong protests?
... that Zimbabwean cricketer Ryan Butterworth's performances in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series saw him named as player of the series?
... that the Radioplane RP-77D target drone was planned to be capable of launching target drones itself?
... that baseball pitcher Roy Hitt, a member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame, was nicknamed "Rhino" because his shape reminded people of a rhinoceros?
... that Thaddeus P. Mott , a 19th-century adventurer and soldier of fortune, recruited ex-Union and Confederate veterans for service in the Egyptian Army?
... that Transportation Security Administration officials tipped off Covenant Aviation Security employees to undercover tests of their luggage screeners at airport checkpoints?
... that German footballer Willy Tröger began his career as a goalkeeper, but converted into a successful forward after losing his hand in World War II?
... that the bottom section of the Burgundy Premier Cru vineyard Clos Saint-Jacques used to be planted with alfalfa instead of grapevines?
... that RAAF Flight Lieutenant Gordon Steege was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after shooting down three German aircraft in one mission during the North African campaign in 1941?
... that the shortest state road in New Mexico is only 0.250 miles (402 m) long?
... that the 1919 demolition of "one of the most costly religious edifices" in New York City, the 1906 Madison Square Presbyterian Church , was called "a distinct architectural loss"?
... that the Italian Barnabite missionary Father Sangermano preached in Burma from 1783 to 1808 to descendants of Portuguese colonists?
... that the first All-Star Game in National Hockey League history was played in 1934 to benefit Toronto's Ace Bailey, who was nearly killed by a violent on-ice hit earlier in the season?
... that during the Western Bulldogs' 2010 season, Australian rules footballer Andrew Hooper was described by the Herald Sun as a "cult figure"?
... that the warden of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women defied an order by the Virginia Department of Corrections to ban cosmetics from the inmates?
... that anglers using the Motueka River in New Zealand must clean their boots to stop the spread of invasive algae or face up to five years in prison?
... how to tell which of the two possible Saint Catherines is shown marrying Jesus in a painting of the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine ?
... that baseball pitcher Russ Christopher's only All-Star appearance was canceled due to World War II?
... that Jim Matheson and his father Jack are both sports journalists in Canada, but are members of halls of fame in different sports?
... that current President of Bolivia Evo Morales was elected to parliament in 1997 on a United Left ticket?
... that Baku's Maiden Tower was showcased on many Azerbaijani banknotes for 14 years?
... that in 2010, Sudha Ragunathan gave a Carnatic recital at Yaksha despite suffering from a severe bout of viral fever?