derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that actor George Roubicek had small roles in The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Who and the first Star Wars film before becoming a dialogue director who dubs foreign films into English?
... that American voice actors "kept slipping into a Jamaican accent" when voicing Malaysian characters in Kampung Boy?
... that according to U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening, Alaska Territorial Governor J. F. A. Strong was not reappointed to the post because he was not a United States citizen?
... that the Appalachian cottontail is unique among cottontails because it eats conifer needles?
... that Lat found the inspiration to draw cartoons about circumcision while on assignment as a reporter to investigate dead bodies in a morgue?
... that the 2008 King of the Ring event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment featured Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama impersonators in a match?
... that Borg-Warner CEO Robert S. Ingersoll supported "better housing, economic opportunities and voting rights for the colored race", noting that the firm's "labor force will be increasingly Negro"?
... that the Plebiscite Front became the principal opposition to the state government of Jammu and Kashmir in the 1960s before merging into the National Conference in 1975?
... that actress Ellen Hillingsø is the goddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark?
... that, during the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, Greek aviator Christos Adamidis landed his Farman MF.7 in the central square of his hometown, Ioannina, as soon as the city had come under Greek control?
... that the Hōshō served as a repatriation transport after the end of World War II, returning some 40,000 soldiers and civilians to Japan?
... that Honor C. Appleton illustrated more than 100 children's books between 1902 and 1950?
... that, as a member of the Parliament of Norway, Ole Gausdal proposed total disarmament?
... that when Einar Li objected to military service in 1908, he was exempted from a prison sentence he had received in 1906 and 1907?
... that, after receiving contact lenses in 2010, Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum reported, "I could see everything like in HD"?
... that the alabaster monuments in All Saints' Church, Harewood, West Yorkshire, comprise the largest collection of such monuments in an English parish church within the dates 1419–1510?
... that Mississippi-born singer J.D. Short sang the blues after both his testicles were shot off?
... that, in 2009, there were 1,224 reports of groom kidnapping in Bihar?
... that the eunuch official Nikephoritzes was the chief minister and de facto governor of the Byzantine Empire during most of the reign of Michael VII Doukas?
... that Alaska Territorial Governor Walter Eli Clark was interested in rose cultivation and was President of the American Rose Society?
... that the chancel and a chapel of Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, South Yorkshire, were restored, but the nave is in ruins and the tower has been truncated?
... that as a member of the U.S. Army during World War II, professional baseball player Andy Anderson was taken captive by German soldiers and later rescued from a Stalag?
... that, despite her party's policy of secularism, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed had created an alliance with the Islamist Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish?
... that despite the 1941 Stanford Indians being considered a favorite for the national championship, head coach Clark Shaughnessy correctly predicted at least two losses for his team?
... that Millicent Sowerby illustrated 30 sets in the Postcards for the Little Ones series, and was one of the first to illustrate Alice in Wonderland when it went out of copyright in 1907?
... that the NME chart placed the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" at number one even though the song was banned by some major retailers?
... that Prince Nikolaus of Thurn and Taxis renounced his princely rights and title to marry actress Carola Reichenberger in 1913?
... that, when first ordered into combat in 1945, the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army had three men shot in brawls before it even left camp?
... that Winslow Homer sarcastically explained that the figure in The Gulf Stream "will be rescued & returned to his friends and home, & ever after live happily."?
... that the Milk Pail Restaurant, formerly known as Country Tea Room, was opened in 1926 by Max McGraw, the inventor of the Toastmaster?
... that Walter Pilliet was a popular Resident Magistrate in the New Zealand settlement of Akaroa, where many French settlers lived, as he spoke both English and French?
... that over one hundred Atari 2600 homebrew games, including Duck Attack!, have been created since that console was withdrawn from the market in 1992?
... that, for protesting the Trial of the Four, Russian academic Grigory Pomerants was barred from defending his thesis at the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies?
... that St Mary's Church, Lead, North Yorkshire , is known locally as the Ramblers' Church because it was saved in the 1930s by a local group of ramblers?
... that the Taurus-Littrow valley, the landing site of Apollo 17 on the Moon, is deeper than the Grand Canyon?
... that the 1957 Maryland Terrapins football season included a game attended by Queen Elizabeth II?
... that Eugène Olaussen, a one-time personal acquaintance of Lenin, shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during WWII?
... that Puerto Rican singer Lourdes Robles recorded a Spanish language cover version of The Beatles' "Long and Winding Road"?
... that Dutch illustrator H. Willebeek Le Mair published her first book Premières Rondes Enfantines in Paris, in 1904, at the age of fifteen?
... that Star Wars Uncut is a fan film made up of 473 15-second clips, submitted by Internet users, that amount to a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope?
... that after John Cullen's National Hockey League career was ended by cancer, he operated a car dealership until Chrysler closed him down?
... that the crystal structure of boron-rich metal borides may contain extended atomic units shaped as "superpolyhedra" and "tubes" ?
... that Jack Karwales spent time as a Wolverine, Bear, and Cardinal, and a coach of Billikens?
... that Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer won the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist at age 73, after he had been performing for 60 years?
... that the Nazi government's withholding of Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach's passport was considered by the Dutch government to be "an insult to the Queen"?
... that Vistula delta Mennonites founded the first Russian Mennonite settlement in Chortitza in 1789?
... that Jackson Gillis, a screenwriter who spent decades working on such shows as Lassie and Columbo, watched little on television other than football, as "he thought most of what was on TV was junk"?
... that the Yukon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan involved controlling the population of the Yukon Wolf in the Yukon through aerial wolf hunting?
... that, during his tenure as head of the University Library of Oslo, Axel Drolsum successfully worked towards reinstating the legal deposit in Norway?
... that, in 1902, SS Doric brought over 33,000 pounds (15,000 kg) of opium to San Francisco, the largest such shipment to that date?
... that invoking paduasoy silk for 18th-century local colour has got historical novelists into errors about a Paduan origin?
... that the title track of the album Who's That Girl made Madonna the first solo female performer to get six US number-ones in the 1980s?
... that Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack gave Wayne Ambler money for tuition when he attended Duke University?
... that Michel Montignac developed a glycemic index-based plan to help himself lose weight, which led to a book promoting his Montignac diet which has sold 16 million copies worldwide?
... that the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner described St Peter's Church, Wintringham, as "the most rewarding church in the East Riding"?
... that Kensington (Olympia) station lies on part of the grounds of Lee and Kennedy, the prominent nurserymen in Hammersmith, London, who introduced the Chilean fuchsia, Fuchsia magellanica, to English gardens in 1788?
... that the socialist-oriented newspaper Yorkshire Factory Times began as an off-shoot of a conservative publication in 1899?
... that the usually plain-colored Jenkins' whipray has a spotted variant, the dragon stingray, once considered to be a different species?
... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
... that criminal suspect Joran van der Sloot wrote the book De zaak Natalee Holloway as his "opportunity to be open and honest about everything that happened"?
... that the World Wrestling Federation's 1997 King of the Ring event led to a storyline in which Caucasian, African American, and Latino gangs fought each other?
... that the Milford Oyster Festival, billed as the largest one-day festival in New England and listed among the top 10 annual events in Connecticut, draws over 50,000 attendees each year?
... that the important orchid pest snail Ovachlamys fulgens can suddenly move several inches?
... that the Double-headed serpent may have been given to Cortés when he invaded the Aztec Empire?
... that fungi in the Ceratobasidium cornigerum complex cause diseases such as "silky threadblight", "sharp eyespot", "yellow patch", and "black rot"?
... that, in the southern counties of Maine, the New England Cottontail has been reduced to perhaps 250 individuals?
... that Kai G. Henriksen, CEO of Norwegian alcohol monopoly Vinmonopolet, is the company's first managing director to achieve a wine trade education?
... that Jane Austen began writing her novel Pride and Prejudice (originally named First Impressions) after staying with her brother at Goodnestone Park, Kent, in 1796?
... that the first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, Air Marshal Norman Walsh, resigned after Central Intelligence Organisation agents tortured his senior officers?
... that research on the interplay between exercise and music has found that faster-tempo music motivates people to work harder when performing at a moderate pace, but has no effect on peak performance?
... that Philip Michael Faraday authored a standard book on property taxes before writing comic operas, including the curtain raiser to H.M.S. Pinafore?
... that Utah's Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway is the fifth highest paved road in the state, at 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but that its unpaved portion rises even higher, at over 10,200 feet (3,100 m) in elevation?
... that Chinese Director of Religious Affairs Ye Xiaowen said that Buddhism has a "unique role in promoting a harmonious society"?
... that Operation Lucid was a plan to "singe Mr Hitler's moustache" in 1940?
... that the 1876 clock on the east face of the tower of St James Church, Stretham, is by JB Joyce & Co of Whitchurch, Shropshire, the oldest firm of tower clockmakers in the world?
... that former Michigan halfback Darrell Harper scored the first points and kicked the first field goal and extra point in the history of the Buffalo Bills?
... that American recording artist Miguel signed a recording contract with Jive Records after submitting a highly personal song entitled "Sure Thing"?
... that the Arad–Szeged pipeline that connects Romania and Hungary has a transport capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters per year?
... that professional baseball player Rogelio Álvarez failed to report to spring training with the Washington Senators in 1963 because he was unable to leave Cuba for the United States?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Rio Grande bombarded the Paraguayan capital of Asunción on 24 February 1868, during the War of the Triple Alliance?
... that one of Albany, New York's former city halls was the location of the 1754 Albany Congress, where Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union?
... that Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale that used a cellar 84 feet under Paris Observatory as its base point?
... that the edible mushroom Lactarius sanguifluus can bioaccumulate heavy metals from polluted soil, such as near roadsides subject to heavy traffic?
... that in 1880, Rear Admiral Bergasse du Petit-Thouars, commanding the French ironclad Victorieuse, helped pacify the Marquesas Islands, conquered by his uncle Abel Dupetit Thouars in 1840?
... that until it was razed in the 1940s, New York City's Little Syria, the "heart of New York's Arab world", existed just blocks away from the site of the controversial proposed mosque complex?
... that the 40/4 stacking chair created by David Rowland, which won the grand prize at the 1965 Milan Triennale, got its name from the fact that 40 chairs could be nested in a stack 4 feet (120 cm) high?
... that ice shifted the original, one-room Musselbed Shoals Light by four feet in 1875?
... that during the Brazilian Fleet Revolt of 1893–94, the rebel river monitor Alagoas had to be towed into position to fire on the government forts in Rio de Janeiro because her engines had been removed?
... that the slimy mushroom Hygrophorus eburneus is commonly known as the "cowboy's handkerchief"?
... that the L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site had one of the largest slave populations in Maryland, and was noted for its harsh conditions?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Wensley, North Yorkshire, contains a screen moved from Easby Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
... that the Brazilian river monitor Santa Catharina sank at her mooring in 1882 while under repair due to the poor condition of her hull?
... that Michigan tackle Jack Carpenter later played for the Toronto Argonauts and was described as "the pillar of strength on the Argos' front wall"?
... that the folk festival held in Horňácko is focused solely on the authentic folklore of the region?
... that British illustrator Margaret Tarrant launched her career at the age of 20 with Kingsley's The Water Babies?
... that the Bartlett Dam is the first dam of its type constructed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation?
... that Jirrawun Arts was founded in 1998 after Indigenous Australian artist Freddie Timms decided that AUS$300 and a cheap suit wasn't fair pay for a month's work painting pictures?
... that with its two-dollar coin , Newfoundland was the only British colony to issue circulating gold coinage?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame electee Scott Bacigalupo won the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the NCAA top goaltender three years in a row?
... that the newly described Microhyla nepenthicola is the smallest species of frog in the Old World?
... that Jordan of Laron was once excommunicated with the entire regions of Limousin and Aquitaine?
... that a new airport is being built in Indonesia as part of the government's plan to promote Lombok and Sumbawa as the number two tourist destination in the country after Bali?
... that Kevin Noreen, current Minnesota Mr. Basketball, is the highest scoring basketball player in Minnesota high school history?
... that the French ironclad La Galissonnière bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax in July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia?
... that the American Delta blues guitarist and singer, Houston Stackhouse, taught Robert Nighthawk how to play the guitar?
... that St. Ninian's Church, Tynet looks like a barn because it had to be hidden from Protestants?
... that Carrier Strike Group Ten can trace its organizational lineage to Destroyer Flotilla Two created during World War I by the U.S. Navy?
... that Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner developed a scale to measure sexual maturation, based on size of the genitals and the quantity of pubic hair?
... that in the last days of World War II, the Red Army's arrival in Demmin triggered a mass suicide of several hundred people?
... that a newly constructed powership, a floating power plant, supplies 144 MW of electricity to Basra in south-eastern Iraq?
... that Mikołaj Błociszewski was the Polish negotiator in the diplomatic negotiations whose failure led to the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War?
... that on Easter Monday, 1916, George Plunkett waved down a tram in Dublin with his revolver and paid for 52 tickets to get his heavily armed Irish Volunteers to take part in the Easter Rising?
... that on 12 December 1782, a single British frigate defeated five enemy ships , taking two as prizes?
... that Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of President Boris Yeltsin, worked at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center until 1994?
... that Phule's Company by Robert Asprin follows the fictional adventures of Willard J. Phule in the Space Legion?
... that Schenectady, New York's Woodlawn neighboorhood makes up 22.5% of the city's land area, but generates only 17.9% of the city’s property tax revenue?
... that unitarian minister Hans Tambs Lyche was the founder and first editor of the periodical Kringsjaa?
... that lacrosse defenseman and founder of Warrior Lacrosse David Morrow helped design the titanium lacrosse stick?
... that a study found that around 50 out of the 70 examined specimens of the subantarctic octopus species Benthoctopus levis had fed exclusively on brittle stars?
... that Ray Van Orman was expelled from Cornell University for "cribbing", but later returned to complete his veterinary doctorate and to coach the lacrosse and football teams?
... that the Battle of Graveney Marsh on 27 September 1940 between British and German troops was the last action involving a foreign invading force to take place on mainland British soil?
... that the Youth Olympic champion in the girls' hammer throw, Alexia Sedykh, is the daughter of two current world record holders in athletics?
... that more than 50 rivers and creeks on the list of longest streams of Oregon are at least 40 miles (64 km) long?
... that the original nickname of Norman MacLeod, 22nd chief of Clan MacLeod, was "The Wicked Man", but a 20th century chief tried to change it to "The Red Man"?
... that a loan from one of its members, Benjamin Franklin, allowed the American Philosophical Society to complete its headquarters, Philosophical Hall?
... that Prudent Joye, the 1938 European Champion in the 400 m hurdles, escaped from a Nazi internment camp and joined the French Resistance?
... that in Bulgarian mythology, the razkovniche is a magical herb that can open all locks and transmute iron into gold, but it can only be identified by a tortoise?
... that the redundant Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, North Yorkshire, stands within the earthworks of a settlement originating in the early Iron Age?
... that the recently described Hortle's whipray is found only off southern New Guinea and has a bright yellow underside?
... that former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta William Egbert was described as "one of the most popular lieutenant governors this province has ever had"?
... that Peter Trombino was the first Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse freshman to score at least one goal in all 15 of his games?
... that owners of the Empire State Building oppose construction of 15 Penn Plaza, a 1,216-feet skyscraper planned to be 900 feet away from what is now New York City's tallest building?
... that Winnipeg Blue Bombers star Jeff Nicklin was one of the first Canadians to jump into Normandy on D-Day and into Germany?
... that Brian Twyne wrote the first published history of the University of Oxford in 1608?
... that in the 1765 Larache expedition against Larache in Morocco, the French Navy lost hundreds of men, some of whom were taken as slaves?
... that shaved drunk bears wearing women's clothing were exhibited as pig-faced women in the 19th century?
... that Dora Ratjen was stripped of the women's high jump gold medal from the 1938 European Athletics Championships because he was a man?
... that Pedro Almodóvar's first film Pepi, Luci, Bom was based on a story titled "General Erections", which parodied the 1977 Spanish general elections?
... that a clinical trial on the treatment of scurvy was conducted in as early as 1747 aboard the 50-gun warship HMS Salisbury?
... that Alex Hewit earned the Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Award as the best NCAA lacrosse goaltender in part for holding the three highest scoring teams in the nation to half of their scoring average?
... that a condition set for design of Gacka Bridge in Croatia was that no part of the structure makes contact with the river spanned?
... that mutations in the DHHC domain of the human enzyme, ZDHHC9, can cause sex-linked mental retardation?
... that in the Battle of Kalavrye, Alexios Komnenos rallied his scattered army, counterattacked, and drew the numerically superior enemy army into a successful ambush?
... that Peter Cushman Jones, who founded the Bank of Hawaii, arrived in Honolulu with only 16 cents?
... that the opening of the Franjo Tuđman Bridge was controversial due to a public naming dispute?
... that Cerithidea decollata is a sea snail that can foresee the future?
... that Ryan Mollett was the first player drafted in the first Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft?
... that the influential modernist poet of 1960s China Guo Lusheng now lives in a mental institution in Beijing?
... that Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter irked her publisher when she began The Tale of Mr. Tod with "I am quite tired of making goody goody books about nice people"?
... that a person with sleep state misperception may believe they slept for only four hours while, paradoxically, sleeping a full eight hours?
... that Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Boadt suggested that Christians "could gain some feeling for the Old Testament by attending a Friday night Sabbath service at a local temple or synagogue"?
... that, in the early years of the Dominion Wrestling Union, many National Wrestling Association wrestlers came from Canada and the United States to face off against New Zealand wrestlers?
... that in November 1944, No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the Battle of the Scheldt?
... that Dan Cocoziello is the only defenseman to have won the Ivy League men's lacrosse rookie of the year?
... that the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly was first convened in 1970 as a body of 37 indirectly elected members when Meghalaya was an autonomous state within the state of Assam?
... that a co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mario G. Obledo, organized a boycott of the Taco Bell Chihuahua, citing the dog's stereotypical Mexican accent?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad Anacostia Bridge collapsed in the wake of a hurricane on August 24, 1933, causing the Crescent Limited train to plunge into the river below?
... that a number of medieval English bishops each served over 60 times as papal judges-delegate?
... that former Michigan quarterback Jim Van Pelt set Canadian Football League records with a 107-yard touchdown pass and seven touchdown passes in one game?
... that Catholics in the Dutch Republic were allowed to build clandestine churches as long as they were not visible to Protestants?
... that retired footballer Fred Else arranged to have his wedding on a Saturday morning so that he was free to play for Preston North End reserves in the afternoon?
... that the Maslenica Bridge carrying the Adriatic Highway was completely destroyed during the Croatian War of Independence and reconstructed 14 years later?
... that Michael Eisner credited research economist Harrison Price with being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself"?
... that, in 1944, the Canadian corvette HMCS St. Thomas rescued the entire crew of a U-boat she had just attacked?
... that humorist Alonzo Delano made US$400 in three weeks by drawing portraits of whiskered gold miners at an ounce of gold dust per head?
... that the tubemouth whipray can protrude its jaws to form a tube longer than its mouth is wide?
... that the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse is the only historic lighthouse in landlocked western Ohio?
... that prior to Count Luitpold of Castell-Castell's marriage proposal to Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, she had often been cited as a possible queen consort to Edward VIII of the United Kingdom?
... that the 1939 Stanford Indians football team won its only game of the season after being told during halftime that they were "the worst group of players who have ever worn the Stanford red"?