derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that girl group Sophia Fresh's debut single, "What It Is", impressed Rihanna so much that she said she wished the song was hers?
... that the Kirklees Priory in West Yorkshire is the supposed site of Robin Hood's grave?
... that bass-baritone Stephen Varcoe recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir, including Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140?
... that The Battle of Waterloo, made in five days in 1913 at a cost of £1,800 by British and Colonial Films, has been called "the first British epic film"?
... that U.S. Army officer Dan Tyler Moore, an aide to and sparring partner of Theodore Roosevelt, struck the President in the eye, causing him to lose sight in that eye?
... that Gros-Mécatina on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, Canada, has excellent crab, lobster, and scallop fishing grounds?
... that Bach scored a sopranino recorder to illustrate the morning star in the opening chorus of his cantata Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn, BWV 96?
... that Jim Cardwell gave up his engineering business to become full-time secretary for Melbourne Football Club, a post he held for 25 years?
... that Wat Pasantidhamma was the first Thai Buddhist temple in the Tidewater (southeastern) region of Virginia?
... that a fortune made as a merchant in Gothenburg enabled Thomas Erskine (later 9th Earl of Kellie) to buy back Cambo House, a property forfeited because of his family's Jacobite sympathies?
... that U2 wrote the song "Mothers of the Disappeared" about the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, whose children disappeared during the Dirty War?
... that James Eccles made the first ascent of the second-highest summit in the Alps ninety years after the first ascent of the highest?
... that the four statues of saints on the tower of St Andrew's Church, East Heslerton were originally intended for Bristol Cathedral, but were rejected because the dean said they were papist?
... that at age 25, Julius Caesar was captured by pirates, but after being ransomed, chased them, captured them, and had them crucified?
... that the World Golf Village is a golf resort near St. Augustine, Florida, created to showcase the World Golf Hall of Fame?
... that in the documentary television series about South American serial killers, Instinto Asesino (Killer Instinct), the death toll of the six criminals exceeds one hundred victims, mostly women and children?
... that eight gymnasts from the Norwegian club Bergens TF won medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics as part of the rare Men's team, free system event?
... that the NASDA satellite ADEOS I malfunctioned less than a year in orbit – a fate repeated by its successor six years later?
... that Commanding General Kristian Laake warned that war might reach Norway in a sudden manner, but when the invasion actually came, he was removed from his command for being too passive?
... that the Windhoek Show was first held in 1899, when South-West Africa was still a colony of Imperial Germany?
... that the suggestion of repressed sexuality in Thomas Eakins' Portrait of Maud Cook has been seen as both intriguing and disturbing?
... that during the Newfoundland expedition of 1796, French and Spanish forces destroyed over 100 merchant vessels?
... that the nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton, Greater Manchester, was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly?
... that Clarence River Light, a lighthouse in Yamba, New South Wales, Australia, was built in 1955, replacing a previous lighthouse built in 1880?
... that Marty Amsler was the first University of Evansville graduate to be drafted into the National Football League?
... that mezzo-soprano Petra Noskaiová recorded alto parts with La Petite Bande in Bach cantatas such as Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12?
... that historian David Bushnell introduced the study of the history of Colombia in American academic circles?
... that the Battle of Nui Le was the last major battle fought by the Australian army during the Vietnam War?
... that George Munroe is a retired American professional basketball player, Navy veteran, Rhodes scholar, lawyer, and former CEO of Phelps Dodge Corporation?
... that British architect Charles Fitzroy Doll's design for the dining room for the Hotel Russell in London was also later used on the RMS Titanic?
... that the American Honda Motor Company was Honda's first U.S. subsidiary and the first Japanese automaker to build cars in the U.S.?
... that Richard Cantillon's treatise, Essai, was considered by economist William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy"?
... that one of the best-preserved Viking settlements in Europe, Linn Duachaill, was founded at the same time as Dublin, in the 840s, and was unearthed and identified in September 2010?
... that when Father Scott Pilarz became President of the University of Scranton he brought Georgetown University's mascot, Jack the Bulldog, with him?
... that actor and musician Chord Overstreet was named after the musical term of the same name?
... that the word "constable" derives from the Byzantine office of comes stabuli or Count of the Stable, responsible for the horses and pack animals intended for use by the army and the imperial court?
... that professional baseball player Ji-Man Choi won the Arizona League Most Valuable Player Award after the 2010 season?
... that Oprah Winfrey completed the America's Finest City Half Marathon in 1993, running under a pseudonym and accompanied by a bodyguard, a trainer, and a video crew?
... that the Inca sites of Machu Picchu and Cusco became the first World Heritage Sites of Peru in 1983?
... that Ned Sutton was the Melbourne Football Club's inaugural captain in the Victorian Football League in 1897?
... that contralto Hildegard Laurich performed in Bach's cantata for Ratswahl (inauguration of the Leipzig town council) Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120?
... that because of its height, the Gaza Baptist Church was commandeered by both Fatah and Hamas troops as an observation post during the Fatah–Hamas conflict?
... that according to local legend Dead Timber State Recreation Area in Nebraska is named for the "dead timbers" that were left over after a wildfire?
... that President Obama called the Paycheck Fairness Act "a common-sense bill" that would help end persistent male–female income disparity in which American women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn?
... that Nagesh Kukunoor's 3 Deewarein was filmed at the then defunct and now demolished Musheerabad Jail in Hyderabad, India?
... that Leona Helmsley hired Joyce Beber to promote her hotels and fired her four times, including once after Helmsley was convicted for income tax evasion and blamed Beber for having raised her profile?
... that consumption of the poisonous mushroom Inocybe maculata could lead to death by respiratory failure?
... that the only Christian bookstore in Gaza closed after its owner was beaten and murdered by armed extremists?
... that the Nazis claimed the successful Blitzkrieg against France in 1940 saved the Soviet Union from an allied strategic bombing campaign called Operation Pike?
... that The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman was the first Chinese film to premiere at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival?
... that Australian Murray Sayle, known for his "rat-like cunning", was a war correspondent in Vietnam, tracked Che Guevara through the Bolivian jungle, climbed Mt. Everest and sailed solo across the Atlantic?
... that the British ironclad HMS Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer between 1868 and 1886 when she was in residence at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight?
... that Canadian charity Actua, which delivers educational programs to young people, received the 2009 Ontario Trillium Foundation Minister's Award?
... that virologist John R. Paul blamed better hygiene for polio's spread in the 20th century, saying early exposure to poliovirus would have given immunity?
... that Hornby Lighthouse , on South Head, New South Wales, Australia, was known as the "Lower Light", to distinguish it from Macquarie Lighthouse, the "Upper Light"?
... that the Church of St Pothinus in Lyon holds a 17th century painting depicting St Paul in front of the Areopagus that was previously kept at the Notre Dame de Paris?
... that sound engineer and record producer Paul De Villiers has worked with Yes, Marc Jordan, King Crimson and Mr. Mister, whose number-one hits "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings" he co-produced?
... that in the mid-1970s, the Star Trek Concordance and The Making of Star Trek were the only references used by writers of the Star Trek: Phase II television show?
... that Fathi Osman's 1997 book Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading, in which he explained concepts in Islam for non-Muslims, was nearly 1,000 pages long?
... that in the extremely rare 1983 video game Mangia, the player controls a boy whose mother attempts to feed him so much pasta that his stomach will explode?
... that in 1850 the area outside London's Westminster Abbey was a notorious slum called Devil's Acre ?
... that Texas State Rep. Byron Cook is a leading supporter of maintaining the scenic Texas State Railroad from Rusk to Palestine?
... that the six movements of a Missa of Bach, a short mass consisting of Kyrie and Gloria, are parodies of his cantata music?
... that Brett Beavers was the bandleader and bass player for both Martina McBride and Lee Ann Womack?
... that the Miss Albany Diner, an Albany, New York, architectural landmark, was used as a set for the 1987 film Ironweed?
... that there is a border dispute between Canada and the United States over a part of the Beaufort Sea?
... that while Red-and-yellow Barbets are tame in areas where they are not persecuted, they are hunted by the Maasai for their feathers?
... that as CEO of Stanley Works, Donald W. Davis helped bring the do it yourself home improvement trend to the U.S. and coined the company slogan "Stanley helps you do things right"?
... that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
... that the British ironclad HMS Defence damaged her propeller and rudder when she was nearly blown ashore during a gale off Pantelleria in March 1872?
... that when someone called to complain about a dead animal in front of a residence, Laredo City Councilman Joe A. Guerra grabbed a shovel and went to take care of the problem himself?
... that once completed, the Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm will be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe?
... that the band OK Go's music video for "White Knuckles" is a one-shot take of the band interacting with twelve trained dogs and a goat?
... that the Sun and Pluto are only 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) apart on the Somerset Space Walk?
... that 70 years ago on October 1, 1940, little "Whitey" Bernard was photographed running after his father who was marching to war?
... that during the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, the Ottomans prevailed at sea, but the Mamluks consistently resisted them on land?
... that Gene Swick was the first college quarterback to amass more than 8,000 career yards, but was cut by the Cleveland Browns during camp and never played professional football?
... that in 2010, the Swiss based Alpiq became the largest open market electricity trader in Romania?
... that Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom was nominated for GameSpot's Worst PC Game of 2002 award?
... that the Çubuk-1 Dam was the first concrete dam constructed in Turkey and is recognized as one of the country's top 50 engineering feats?
... that oral historian Alessandro Portelli has compared the stories of industrial workers in his hometown of Terni, Italy, with those of coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky?
... that Mecklenburg's Garden in Cincinnati used a ship model to inform patrons whether alcohol could be sold safely during Prohibition in the United States?
... that Portland, Maine's Eastern Promenade is home to a narrow gauge railroad museum, the mast of the WWII-era USS Portland heavy cruiser, and a mass grave of US prisoners of war from the War of 1812?
... that percussionist Ollie E. Brown has produced or performed on over 100 singles and albums, including Ray Parker, Jr.'s Ghostbusters, Michael Jackson's Bad, and the theme from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo?
... that a Pawnee creation account centered on Pahuk, a bluff overlooking the Platte River in Nebraska?
... that former Texas State Senator David Sibley lost the 2000 Senate vote for lieutenant governor by a single ballot?
... that Cape Parry's Thick-billed Murre colony, located in Northwest Territories, Canada, is more isolated than any other murre colony in the world?
... that Monte Robbins holds the Michigan Wolverines football records for longest punt at 82 yards and the highest career average for a punter?
... that as an attorney, William Coblentz represented Patty Hearst, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, and once called Ronald Reagan "a menopausal Cary Grant"?
... that radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days?
... that gravediggers working within the ruins of northern Albania's Shirgj Monastery would often encounter mosaics from the old church?
... that despite being eliminated from The Ultimate Fighter just weeks prior, Pablo Garza was signed by World Extreme Cagefighting to appear tonight at WEC 51?
... that in Thomas Eakins' Self-portrait, the contrast between his formal attire and his unkempt grooming alludes to a rebellious nature restrained by cultural mores?
... that an early use of pascalization in the United States was the treatment of guacamole, extending its shelf life tenfold?
... that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes Tom and Jerry, A Charlie Brown Christmas and an Oscar-winning short with Dizzy Gillespie debating the possibility of nuclear war?
... that after the Nazi invasion of Norway, former naval officer Olaf Kullmann bicycled around Norway to agitate for pacifism?
... that 19th-century painter Robert Jenkins Onderdonk , born in Maryland into a Dutch American family, became known as the "Dean of Texas's Artists"?
... that tensile testing is a fundamental materials science test used to find a material's ultimate tensile strength and maximum elongation before fracture?
... that the 2007–08 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team included Ekpe Udoh who led both the Big Ten Conference and Big 12 Conference in blocked shots?
... that the remains of the San Juan de Silicia, a Spanish Armada ship which sank off the coast of Scotland, were mistaken for those of a treasure ship and destroyed by countless searches for gold?
... that, hoping to cut off the Dalmatian coast from Croatia, Yugoslav and Serbian forces attacked the city of Šibenik for six days in 1991?
... that the album Amar la Trama by Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler was recorded in just four days?
... that a practice in Afghanistan, where a daughter in a family without sons is dressed in male clothing and acts as a boy, allowing her to do things she could not do as a girl, is called bacha posh?
... that the seventh season of The West Wing featured a live television episode that was broadcast twice for the East and West Coasts of the United States?
... that the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable Brigade Group, formed to rapidly reinforce Norway in wartime, disbanded after it took two years of planning and 21 days to cross the Atlantic?
... that William J. Olcott , captain of the 1882 and 1883 Michigan Wolverines football teams, became the president of a railroad and a mining company?
... that Hudson's Bay Company officials learned of the 1709 Franco-Indian attack on their company's trading post at Fort Albany from uninvolved Mohawks who were visiting London?
... that despite being less than 1 mile (1.6 km) long, Washington State Route 433 is considered a Highway of Statewide Significance by the Washington State Department of Transportation?
... that the eleven Hindu deities, the Rudras, are associated with the ten vital energies of the body and the soul, and their departure is said to cause death and tears?
... that Louisiana Tech University sociologist Robert O. Trout was his state's delegate to the 1961 White House Conference on Aging?
... that due to the Scottish football referee strike, foreign officials from Israel, Luxembourg and Malta were used as replacements?
... that Tom the Great Sebastian, founded in 1950, was one of the first Jamaican sound systems?
... that 3 million square feet of perforated steel plates were assembled in 1942 on Umnak Island , Alaska, to build an aircraft landing strip?
... that schoolteacher Justus H. Rathbone developed the idea for founding the Knights of Pythias while reading the play, "Damon and Pythias" in the Eagle Harbor Schoolhouse?
... that all but one of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues were damaged during the Bosnian War and the Siege of Sarajevo?
... that a spring in the town of Tedef al-Yahud, Syria, is said to have been used by Ezra the Scribe 2,400 years ago?
... that racing wins by the American racehorse Luke McLuke, including the Belmont Stakes, made owner John Schorr the leading owner for 1914 and his son, J.F. Schorr, the leading trainer?
... that Major-General Robert Fanshawe was sacked after his successful defence in the 1918 Battle of Asiago, because his commander objected to his use of a defence in depth strategy?
... that the asteroid 1536 Pielinen is named after Pielinen Lake in Finland?
... that Aquila bullockensis, an extinct species of bird, is the oldest known true eagle from Australia?
... that the second single by French punk rock band Marie et les Garçons was produced in New York by John Cale, formerly of the Velvet Underground?
... that a 1953 strike organized by the plantation workers trade union Sarbupri forced the Indonesian government to raise wages of estate labourers by 30%?
... that the Armadillo, an armoured fighting vehicle extemporised by the British in 1940, used a layer of gravel to protect its crew?
... that with a death toll of 247 people, the Heppner Flood of 1903 remains the deadliest natural disaster in Oregon, and the third deadliest flash flood in the entire United States?
... that former Palauan Senate President Peter Sugiyama's wife Akiko Sugiyama was the first woman ever elected to the Palau National Congress?
... that while staying at their estate near the Black Sea, George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg and his family witnessed the 1905 battleship Potemkin revolt?
... that pitcher Danny McDevitt shutout the Pittsburgh Pirates on September 24, 1957, in the final game the Dodgers played in Brooklyn before owner Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles?
... that Speedway Motorsports president Marcus G. Smith started working by picking up trash at Charlotte Motor Speedway?
... that the Kriegsmarine attributed the sinking of U-168 in the Java Sea to the presence of the crew's Indonesian girlfriends on board for a party?
... that Mort Senter , Michigan's 1896 football captain, became involved in a diplomatic incident after Colombian soldiers seized property from his home in 1902?
... that an amendment to the Malian Family Code seeking to increase women's rights was sent back to the parliament of Mali amidst a storm of protest?
... that after the collapse of American cotton exports in the 1860s, Azerbaijan became a large-scale cotton producer, often planting it rather than food crops?
... that Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and his brother Prince Leopold caused a national scandal when Charles suggested that Leopold marry a commoner?
... that the lift jets on the Hawker Siddeley HS.141 airliner were expected to provide a safety margin in case the V/STOL aircraft's main engines failed?
... that West Indian batsman Brian Lara came out of retirement to play in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series, a Twenty20 cricket tournament in Zimbabwe?
... that fortune telling fraud is a confidence game that involves persuading victims that they suffer from a curse?
... that medieval Mramorje necropolis in Serbia once contained about 200 tombstones, while most of them are now dislocated, or have been swept away by the Drina river?
... that Tom McMillan became the first alumnus of Jacksonville University to play in a Major League Baseball game when he made his debut with the Seattle Mariners in 1977?
... that the exterior decoration of the medieval Church of Christ Pantocrator in Nesebar on the Bulgarian coast prominently features swastikas?
... that Nathan Witt, U.S. National Labor Relations Board Secretary from 1937 to 1940, drove a taxicab for two years so he could earn enough money to attend Harvard Law School?
... that freedom of religion in Singapore, which is guaranteed by Article 15 of the Constitution of Singapore, may be restricted by a general law relating to public order, public health or morality?
... that the University of Florida's Lady Gators golf team has won eight SEC team championships, eight SEC individual championships, and sent almost twenty players to the LPGA?
... that more than 500,000 Jewish Americans served in the United States armed services during World War II , and roughly 52,000 received military awards?
... that The Indian Stammering Association filed a court petition against the makers of a Bollywood comedy film that portrays people who stammer as objects of ridicule?
... that the pilot episode for South of Nowhere, which is set in a high school, was actually filmed in a prison?
... that the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar, hoped to ease resentment among local Muslims by streamlining the province's tax system?
... that the first hybrid electric double-decker to be built was operated in London on route 141?
... that Major-General Thomas Marden was knighted for helping to defuse the Chanak Crisis, a confrontation between the British Army and Turkish revolutionaries in 1922?
... that A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, an animated film set in and around the Shanghai Ghetto, has been described as "China’s first homegrown Jewish film"?
... that Jack Ness had a 49-game baseball hitting streak that stood as a league record until it was broken by Joe DiMaggio?
... that when Central Methodist Church in Eastbourne was completed, some worshippers were hauled to the top of the spire in a box to eat a celebratory breakfast?
... that the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1574 at the first session held outside its New York City headquarters in 14 years?
... that during one of his campaigns, the troops of Umayyad general Sulayman ibn Hisham suffered so much due to disease and famine that many defected to the Byzantines and converted to Christianity?
... that the comedic poetry album Tim Key. With a String Quartet. On a Boat. was made available only as a digital download and 1,000 vinyl records?
... that the Temagami greenstone belt in Ontario was the site of the largest deposit of nearly pure chalcopyrite ever discovered in Canada?
... in January 1944, fighters of No. 73 Wing participated in the two largest raids mounted by the RAAF to that time, attacking targets in New Britain?
... that with the money his aunt paid him not to attend university, which she considered a den of vice, Thomas Coke travelled to Italy, where the wife of Bonnie Prince Charles fell in love with him?
... that Milton Mausoleum in Nottinghamshire served as a family mausoleum, but the nave was also used as a parish church until it closed in the 1950s?
... that the 19th-century antidisestablishmentarianist politician Sampson Lloyd married the daughter of a general in the Prussian Army?
... that Queen and Country is an artwork by Steve McQueen which commemorates the deaths of 155 British soldiers as a set of postage stamps?
... that National Labor Relations Board Chief Economist David J. Saposs was accused of being a Communist, and Congress defunded his position and division in October 1940?
... that the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) began offering Internet access to residents of Gilgit in 1999?