derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in 1944, Sam Caldwell, as the mayor of Shreveport, ran against Jimmie Davis for governor of Louisiana even though both had served in the same municipal administration?
... that the Nobel Prize-winning chemist E.J. Corey described a total synthesis of hexacyclinol as "blatantly wrong science"?
... that in the 1932 NFL championship game, Chicago Bears coach George Halas stuck out his foot from the sidelines and tripped Ace Gutowsky while he was returning a kickoff for the Portsmouth Spartans?
... that while the origin of recent shark attacks in Egypt is unknown, experts cite overfishing and illegal dumping of animal carcasses as possible causes?
... that 37 different contracts were issued for venue construction and renovation among three different governmental ministries for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens?
... that, according to Fieldhouse, militant agitation by the Indonesian communist trade union Serbuni during the 1963/1964 confrontation sought to prevent nationalization of Unilever factories?
... that the American painter George Burroughs Torrey, who was also known as the "painter of presidents", was decorated with the Order of the Savior by King George I of Greece for his services?
... that W. K. Henderson, the founder in 1925 of KWKH Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana, rallied his listeners against the new Federal Communications Commission and chain stores?
... that remains of the largest known stone ship, either 170 or 354 metres long, have been found under the two royal barrows at Jelling in Denmark?
... that of Andorra's 65 mountain peaks over 6,560 feet (2,000 m), the peak of Coma Pedrosa is the highest at 9,652 feet (2,942 m)?
... that former Oregon Duck and Detroit Lion George Christensen co-founded a multinational manufacturing company with factories in France, Japan, Canada and the United States?
... that the Bible manuscript minuscule 801 has an unusual order of books, with the Gospels placed at the end, after the Pauline epistles?
... that the tropical marine fish Gillellus inescatus possesses an esca similar to that of an anglerfish, which might be used for luring prey and attracting mates?
... that contractor George Caldwell was sentenced to four years in a U.S. Penitentiary for income tax evasion and kickbacks received on buildings that he completed at Louisiana State University?
... that the construction of a summer palace for the King of Jordan was interrupted by the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, and the unfinished building in Tell el-Ful near Jerusalem is now a haven for drug addicts?
... that the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 extends not only the Bush tax cuts but also tax-reducing aspects of the 2009 Stimulus?
... that the selection of Jamshid Amouzegar as Prime Minister of Iran in 1977 instead of Hushang Ansary has been called “one of the shah’s two biggest mistakes, leading to the revolution”?
... that pitcher Davey Dunkle won 30 minor league baseball games in 1902 and made it back to the major leagues the following season?
... that award-winning experimental filmmaker and animator Skip Battaglia is also a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology?
... that three partial cross veins in the wings make D. appendiculata a unique fruitfly among the more than 1500 species of Drosophila?
... that as a lobbyist in 1997, former State Rep. Randy Pendleton worked for the constitutional amendment which permits home-equity loans in Texas?
... that visitors of the 2002 Winter Olympics had the option of traveling to one of the venues by horse-drawn sleigh?
... that Australian child murderers John and Sarah Makin were caught after the bodies of two of their many victims were discovered in a blocked drain?
... that the design of the Third Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Ohio, may have been patterned after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
... that Bill Kemmer set a Texas League record with 12 runs batted in during a single baseball game?
... that after serving as a deputy MP in Norway, Martha Schrøder worked as an ergotherapist and a spinning wheel teacher?
... that New York Mayor Ed Koch expressed his frustration with the overly generous deals Eric Schmertz negotiated with unions, saying that city workers should say "Thank you Mr. Mayor, for the Schmertz"?
... that the principal exhibit of the Fabergé Museum in the German town of Baden-Baden is an egg bought for nine million pounds?
... that the present Alto Vista Chapel in Aruba, completed in 1952, stands at the location where the original chapel was built in 1750 by Domingo Silvestre, a missionary from Venezuela?
... that Bach has a choir of trombones double the choir in his cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64, for the Third Day of Christmas?
... that Episcopal bishop of Louisiana Charles Edward Jenkins III retired due to post-traumatic stress disorder from Hurricane Katrina?
... that in his first professional baseball season, Lefty Houtz led the Texas League in triples, home runs, hits, total bases, and slugging percentage?
... that as the runaway winner of a special election for his late father's seat in the Texas House of Representatives, John Kuempel of Seguin is the 101st Republican in the 150-seat body?
... that according to a legend of the Pyrenees, witches performed naked dances near Lake Engolasters in Andorra?
... that since 1989, Don Shows has coached his West Monroe High School Rebels to seven Louisiana state football championships and five runner-up designations?
... that Whitney Houston's 1985 single "How Will I Know" was originally written for Janet Jackson?
... that Major League Baseball player and former fireman Len Koenecke was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher?
... that Dratshang Lhentshog is the Commission for the Monastic Affairs of Bhutan?
... that diplomat and historian Ignas Jonynas contributed articles to the first universal encyclopedia in the Lithuanian language?
... that the Salcombe Lifeboat capsized in 1916 with the loss of 13 lives, and again in 1983, with no loss of life?
... that buoy tender USCGC Woodrush helped rescue 520 passengers and the crew from the cruise ship Prinsendam that sank in the Gulf of Alaska in 1980?
... that the 16th-century judge Sir William Dolben was described by biographer Roger North as an "arrant old snarler"?
... that peroxides were used in the 2005 London bombings and the 2001 shoe bomb plot?
... that Matt K. Miller, a stage actor and playwright who recently became the artistic director of the Sacramento Theatre Company, is also a voice artist for Japanese anime?
... that the 12th-century Lectionary 303 was taken to Paris and later to America despite a colophon threatening "the wrath of the eternal Word of God" for anyone who removed it?
... that Mexican band Jotdog included a cover version of a song previously recorded by Cyndi Lauper on their debut album?
... that from 1902 to 1996, Ham Iburg had the most wins in Major League Baseball for a pitcher whose last name starts with the letter "I"?
... that in the 12th-century frescoes of St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton, West Sussex, "a spike-heeled devil riding a large beast separates the doomed from the blessed"?
... that African American Republican Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans held the post of comptroller of customs under both Presidents Harding and Coolidge?
... that the Puszcza Darżlubska Forest is the second largest site of Nazi mass killings of Poles and Jews in Pomerania?
... that Isuzu Yamada was the first actress to receive the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, from the Emperor of Japan?
... that the Powder Ridge Ski Area was home to the first quad chairlift in New England?
... that Francis Skeat designed over 400 stained glass windows, including memorials to the footballer Duncan Edwards and the explorer John Smith?
... that although Justices of the King's Bench received salaries from 1278, the first pension provisions were not made until 1799?
... that Gardiner considers Bach the "best writer of dramatic declamation ... since Monteverdi" for the dialogue in his cantata for the Second Day of Christmas, Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57?
... that Dick Hoerner played in three consecutive NFL Championship Games, became the Los Angeles Rams' all-time leading rusher and was considered "a murderous line backer"?
... that insertion reactions are integral to the Cativa process, a method used to produce millions of tons of acetic acid annually?
... that the only remaining original scrolled station sign on the New York City Subway can be found at the Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street station?
... that Harvey Wells founded the city of Wellston, Ohio, but he never owned his own house there?
... that Stephen Venard, a 19th century Nevada City, California lawman and renowned road agent killer, used a Henry rifle?
... that Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones was available to premiere at New York City's Metropolitan Opera because an opera by a Jew about a black was not wanted in Berlin in 1933?
... that the Jacksonville Rockets, an Eastern Hockey League franchise based in Jacksonville, were Florida's first professional ice hockey team?
... that the crest of the Königstein Ridge near Westerhausen, Germany, is dominated by the striking Kamelfelsen rocks whose shape resembles two camels lying down?
... that Monte Scheinblum, son of All-Star baseball player Richie Scheinblum, hit a golf ball over 329 yards (301 meters) into a 20 mph (32 kph) wind to win the 1992 U.S. National Long Driving Championship?
... that despite attaching an inscription to his first wife's grave implying he would not marry again, British politician Giles Eyre not only remarried but buried his second wife in the same grave?
... that the redundant round-towered St Mary's Church, Moulton in Norfolk contains 14th-century wall paintings depicting Saint Christopher, and the Seven Acts of Mercy?
... that Teresa Teng's "The Moon Represents My Heart" was one of the first love songs to become popular in mainland China under the Open Door Policy?
... that when District of Columbia judge Robert L. Wilkins was recently out of law school, he was stopped by Maryland State Police for "driving while black" and won a landmark racial profiling lawsuit?
... that 11 out of 19 species of land snails found on the Samoan island of Tutuila are endemic?
... that the drama series Huge, created by Savannah Dooley and her mother, Winnie Holzman, employed Dooley's father as an actor and her uncle as the cinematographer?
... that Jim Cockman is the oldest player to ever make his Major League Baseball debut with the New York Yankees?
... that the ancient Gambuh dance is performed in Batuan, Bali, every full moon?
... that the Robert Haven Schauffler book for Christmas 1907 included prose by Dickens and Washington Irving and an article on whether there is a Santa Claus?
... that after a tsutsugamushi epidemic occurred at Sausapor, research was conducted on the area's rats and mites, using C-rations as rat bait, to better understand the illness's epidemiology?
... that Spanish songwriter Javier Limón earned the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year in 2004?
... that the world's first quantum machine "literally vibrated a little and a lot at the same time" and was named "Breakthrough of the Year" by Science in 2010?
... that when Great Britain lost the 1951 Ryder Cup by a score of 9½–2½, golfer Arthur Lees took part in the team's only two match wins?
... that A Christmas Record released in 1981 on the ZE label was described as the first-ever alternative Christmas album and contains both a hit single and a "blasphemous, nearly tuneless piece of skronk"?
... that four centuries after being aggrieved by Benedict Spinola in a property deal, Magdalene College, Cambridge, avenged itself by erecting a gargoyle of him ?
... that the Rugby League Atlantic Cup, held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, is contested by emerging rugby league nations in North America?
... that the Schnarcherklippen rocks in the German High Harz are mentioned in Goethe's dramas Faust I and Faust II?
... that baseball player Farmer Steelman appeared in one game for the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas and was the only rookie to play for that team during the entire season?
... that Dexter executive producer Daniel Cerone encouraged the mother of his son's friend not to let her son audition for "Seeing Red" because he would be filmed sitting in a pool of blood?
... that the wildlife of Malaysia is some of the most diverse in the world, existing in forests believed to be 130 million years old?
... that the Scott Sisters of Mississippi are serving life sentences for their alleged involvement in a robbery in which $11 was stolen and no one was injured, although they had no previous criminal records?
... that Air Vice Marshal Ian McLachlan's concerns regarding cost and delivery of the F-111 to the RAAF proved "painfully prescient" as the new bomber came six years late and way over budget?
... that the communist-led federation SOBSI was the largest trade union movement in Indonesia prior to the Suharto era?
... that former New Zealand wrestler Onno Boelee worked as an actor and opened a private security company after his retirement from wrestling?
... that Swedish financial assistance to the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO increased significantly under the Torbjörn Fälldin cabinet?
... that Milwaukee's Bronze Fonz is an $85,000 public artwork of a Happy Days TV show character?
... that the crew of the ill-fated slave ship Luxborough Galley became cannibals?
... that after Rosa Ponselle created the role of Carmelita in Joseph Breil's "Lyric Tragedy in One Act" The Legend at the Met, she burned her copy of the score?
... that professional wrestler Bobby Walker sued World Championship Wrestling for making him look "obnoxious" and "shiftless"?
... that the Marlborough White Horse was cut from a hillside in 1804 by boys at Mr Greasley's Academy?
... that college football coach A. M. Miller was notified to testify during the Scopes Monkey Trials?
... that one of the stages in the Xbox Live Arcade game Faery: Legends of Avalon takes place in a city on the back of a giant beetle?
... that Louisiana State Rep. Fred H. Mills, Jr., wrote legislation in 2010 to permit pharmacists, such as himself, to administer medication therapy management services?
... that Harvard Divinity School's Hollis Professor of Divinity has the right to graze a cow on the Harvard Yard?
... that the Blood Qur'an, formerly displayed in the Mother Of All Battles mosque in Baghdad , was written in over 20 litres of Saddam Hussein's blood?
... that before his elections in 1944 and 1956 to both houses of the Louisiana Legislature, Frank Estes Cole had been an LSU Tigers football player and a high school coach in Rayville and Many, Louisiana?
... that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Kaiserin was the first battleship to pass through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal in July 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I?
... that one of the largest aboriginal title claims in the United States was rejected based on an interpretation of the Articles of Confederation?
... that Sakis' Parafora (2010) received more bids than any other Greek album to be released as a covermount since the practice became common after the recent economic crisis, and all were refused?
... that Albanian American Anthony Athanas, who rode a donkey en route to the United States, became a multi-millionaire restaurateur in Massachusetts?
... that all species of the fruit fly genus Zaprionus have the same characteristic white stripes over the head and thorax?
... that the former Confederate officer Christopher Columbus Nash, as sheriff in Grant Parish, Louisiana, crushed the Colfax Riot in 1873 and formed the White League in 1874?
... that 40,000 people were involved in the construction of venues for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
... that the deindustrialization of Youngstown has had the effect of cutting the population of the Ohio city in half?
... that the Soviet ship MO-103 sank the German submarine U-250, capturing the commander and five crewmen in July 1944?
... that Roald Hoffmann's development of the isolobal principle helped him earn the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
... that feathers from a dead swan, which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's antependium?
... that Karuizawa, Japan, where curling competitions were held during the 1998 Nagano Olympics, is the first town to have hosted both Summer and Winter Olympic events?
... that the CBC's senior correspondent Neil Macdonald is the brother of comedian Norm Macdonald?
... that the busiest Namibian border post is the Angolan one at Oshikango in the town of Helao Nafidi?
... that the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, an all-women African-American association founded in 1908, was a model for other improvement associations?
... that the light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? was an honourable mention at Fujimi Shobo's 20th Fantasia Awards?
... that before the 62nd Grey Cup, CFL defensive back Tony Proudfoot fired staples from a staple gun into his shoes to improve his traction on an icy football field?
... that in the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Satyavati – who initially stank of fish – was blessed with the musk fragrance by a sage, with whom she had premarital sex?
... that the award-winning war photographer Yuri Kozyrev, who spent several years working for the American press in Baghdad, lived together with Iraqis in the city?
... that newly promoted Arkansas State head football coach Hugh Freeze was depicted in the movie The Blind Side about Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher?
... that Hiroshi Ishikawa won the New Montreal Film Festival's Best Director award for Su-ki-da, his second film?
... that Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (published 1765–1769) is still cited by the Supreme Court of the United States between 10 and 12 times a year?
... that the bell in the cupola of the Genesee County Courthouse in Batavia, New York, was originally acquired for use in a practical joke?
... that zombie apocalypse drama The Walking Dead was named as one of the top 10 television programs of 2010 by the American Film Institute?
... that Louisiana state court judge O. E. Price of Bossier City participated in two triathlons when he was in his fifties?
... that in 1936, the North Fork Shenandoah River flooded Cootes Store in Virginia during the Great Flood which reached four feet high at its worst?
... that the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story was written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning sports reporter and narrated by Dustin Hoffman?
... that 17 years after an aircraft crash killed most of the Zambia national football team, the Zambian government has yet to release a report on the crash?
... that Sotra Facula , a prominent feature on Saturn's giant moon Titan, is thought to be an ice volcano that may have erupted water, methane, polyethylene, paraffin waxes or even asphalt?
... that a survey conducted in 1993 on the influence of the children's television program Sesame Street found that by the age of three, 95% of all American children had watched the show?
... that the English landscape architect Edward Kemp was buried in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in the Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, which he had designed himself?
... that the Bulgar notable Mauros intended to organize an uprising in Thessaloniki on the night before Easter in order to catch its defenders unprepared?
... that Bach first performed his cantata for Advent, Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132, on 22 December 1715 in the Schlosskirche Weimar?
... that the Louisiana sheriff Cat Doucet of St. Landry Parish apparently obtained his nickname from his practice of protecting illegal "cathouses," a slang term for brothels?
... that the seeds of Simarouba amara are more likely to germinate once they have been eaten by monkeys?
... that Monica Nashandi was removed from the 2009 Namibian general election SWAPO electoral list because she had not registered to vote in the previous election?
... that "The Virgin's Cradle Hymn", a lullaby collected by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Germany in 1799, was derived from a Flemish engraving by Hieronymus Wierix?
... that Mark Miodownik is delivering the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures?
... that the Pervenetz class ironclad was the first ironclad class of ships in the Russian Navy?
... that the music of songwriter Lincoln Chase, who wrote "Such a Night", "Jim Dandy", and "The Clapping Song", has been described as "like a black Frank Zappa but groovier"?
... that the Cuernavaca Cathedral in Cuernavaca, Mexico, was originally one of the 16th century monasteries built near the Popocatepetl volcano that have been designated a World Heritage Site?
... that the Richmond Theatre fire of 1811, which killed around 72 people, was at the time the worst urban disaster in American history?
... that of the great glaciers of the French Oisans, the Glacier Noir descends farthest because of favourable topography and moraines that screen it from the sun?
... that though 2000 lay dead on the field of the Battle of Zappolino (November 1325), when forces of Modena routed Bologna, the status quo was re-established afterwards and historians generally ignore the event?
... that John Deering volunteered to have his heart monitored by an electrocardiogram while he was shot to death?
... that a large waterbag can bring water to California and, according to its inventor, peace to the Middle East?
... that Western Wood was preselected for the City of London seat in 1861 in preference to future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone?
... that The Pretty Druidess (1869) was the last of W. S. Gilbert's early operatic burlesques, written before the Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
... that Frederick S. Lyman's account of the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano and 1868 Hawaii earthquake was written from a nearby sheep and goat ranch?
... that Plas yn Rhiw house in Gwynedd was originally built in the 10th century to prevent incursions by Vikings into Porth Neigwl, and is reportedly haunted?
... that when Weymouth Lifeboat Station was sent a new lifeboat in 1930 it was too big to fit in the boathouse so it had to be kept moored in the harbour instead?
... that actress Julia Stiles had no idea whether her character was going to live or die in "The Big One", the fifth season finale of the Showtime series Dexter?
... that a radar station which was active at Grassy Hill Light during World War II included an imitation lighthouse keeper's cottage for camouflage purposes?
... that Stanford and Detroit Lions running back Ernie Caddel, known as the "Blond Antelope," led the NFL in average yards gained per rushing carry for three consecutive years?
... that despite his role in the Counter-Reformation, the abbot of Göttweig Abbey David Gregor Corner reluctantly included Protestant hymns in his 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch?
... that The Fisherman's Cot in Devon overlooks the River Exe and a bridge which was wrongly thought for many years to be the inspiration for Paul Simon's song "Bridge Over Troubled Water"?
... that in 1925, Hortense Sparks Ward led a special all-female Texas Supreme Court after no male judges or lawyers could be found to hear a case?
... that the scams uncovered by Operation Broken Trust, the largest investment fraud sweep by the US Government, may have involved over 120,000 victims?
... that English-born footballer Ellis Remy made his international debut playing for the Montserrat national football team?
... that La Vivandière (1867) was one of the early comedies by W. S. Gilbert that used satiric devices later employed in his famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas?
... that chef Louis Diat, a recipient of the distinguished Chevalier du Mérite Agricole, learned to cook at the age of five?
... that anywhere from 60 million to 1 billion monarch butterflies spend the winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico?
... that in 1863 the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was propelled underground from Holborn to Euston railway station in a parcel capsule to demonstrate the system built by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company?