derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that photographer and artist Zoe Leonard's 1995 exhibition Strange Fruit (for David) featured discarded fruit skins sewn together and decorated?
... that the Tupolev ANT-37 bomber Rodina was used to set a flight distance record by an all-female crew in 1938?
... that the Monza ampullae are metal pilgrimage souvenirs from the Holy Land, dating to circa AD 600, and important in art history for their iconography?
... that Minuscule 699 contains an unfinished treatise by Pseudo-Dorotheus, on the Seventy Disciples and the twelve Apostles?
... that Canadian nun Eulalie Durocher has been associated with the recovery of a man declared dead and sudden changes in the course of two fires?
... that the 1923 children's novel King Matt the First is as popular in Poland as Peter Pan is in the English-speaking world?
... that soprano Dorothee Mields sang solo and tutti in five cantatas composed for Pentecost by the prolific Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, a contemporary of Bach?
... that the Humble Indie Bundle, a week-long "pay what you want" charitable promotion from several independent video game developers, raised over $1 million?
... that despite being blind and unable to walk without assistance Joaquín Balaguer won 24.6% of the vote in the 2000 Dominican Republic presidential election?
... that the traditional crop of the Pacific island of Tuvalu, pulaka, is threatened by rising sea levels, and thus is their way of life threatened as well?
... that Giuliana Camerino named her Venetian fashion house Roberta di Camerino after the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Roberta?
... that the Holy Grail tapestries , depicting scenes from the legend of King Arthur, were designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle?
... that soprano Adele Stolte recorded the Bach cantata for Pentecost Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 with the Thomanerchor conducted by Erhard Mauersberger?
... that the first English translations of the works of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov were published by Breslov Research Institute more than 170 years after the Rebbe's death?
... that Albanian writer Jani Vreto was excommunicated by the Orthodox metropolitan of Gjirokastër, who accused him of having committed heresy by "creating an Albanian question"?
... that the horror short story compilation novel Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales won five major awards and was nominated for another?
... that Lectionary 226 of the New Testament, in some parts is a palimpsest, contains lessons from the Old Testament?
... that after the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon predicted General Michel Ordener would die within five or six years—and although he retired, Ordener died in 1811?
... that the reed beds of Minsmere RSPB reserve, one of the UK's premier birdwatching sites, were established as a result of anti-invasion measures during World War II?
... that 26 gold Visigothic votive crowns, designed to be hung in a church , were found in 1857 in the Treasure of Guarrazar?
... that Edith Hughes, considered Britain's first practising woman architect, was refused entry to the all-male Royal Institute of British Architects in 1927?
... that a recent gas outburst at a colliery in China led to death, poisoning, suspensions, sackings and the disappearance of one person?
... that there is only one surviving example of a coin struck at the Anglo-Saxon mint at Horndon-on-the-Hill?
... that in 1921 Oliver Winfield Killam, a Texas industrialist and former Oklahoma state legislator, launched the South Texas Oil Boom centered near Laredo?
... that the headscarf of the St. Lucian national costume can be tied to show the availability of the woman for courtship?
... that in the aftermath of the Kentucky gubernatorial election of 1899, one of the candidates was assassinated and another candidate was charged as an accomplice to the crime?
... that the cathedral of the Lopushna Monastery in northwestern Bulgaria, built in the 1850s, employs vernacular Gothic decorative features?
... that the 1991 College Baseball All-America Team included a future Major League All-Star, a future Olympic games gold medalist and the Major League career pinch hit RBI record holder?
... that Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley's poem "Little Orphant Annie" was first published in the Indianapolis Journal?
... that the design of the SECAT S-5 was based on that of an earlier aircraft, work on which the outbreak of World War II had disrupted?
... that Fay Boozman, as the state health director under Governor Mike Huckabee, managed the "Healthy Arkansas" initiative, including the fight against obesity?
... that voter turnout for the 2001 judicial reform referendum in Botswana was just 4.9%?
... that Shishupala Vadha, a Sanskrit epic poem by Magha, contains what has been called "the most complex and exquisite type of palindrome ever invented"?
... that the restoration of Lewis Mumford's house in Amenia, New York, after his death actually made it more difficult to sell?
... that Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán, former president of the parliamentary Defense Committee of Bolivia, was educated in Israel?
... that Gold to Go offers 10-gram gold bars and custom pure gold coins for purchase from vending machines?
... that as a state senator in 1995, Jim Keet, the 2010 Arkansas Republican gubernatorial nominee, co-sponsored a law to raise safety standards for boating?
... that the nose of the F+W C-3605 had to be stretched by six feet (1.8 m) to balance its center of gravity?
... that Lithuanian-born Aldona Gustas co-founded an artistic forum in West Berlin, the "Berliner Malerpoeten", intended to attract individuals who both wrote and illustrated their works?
... that 18.6% of the Croatian A1 motorway's route between Zagreb and Split consists of tunnels, bridges, viaducts and similar structures?
... that due to Bhutanese tradition, which regards river convergence as inauspicious, there are three chortens built especially to ward off evil spirits at the point where the Paro Chhu converges with the Wong Chhu?
... that Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière directed French artillery to fire on an ice-covered lake at the Battle of Austerlitz, helping to win the day for Napoleon?
... that the repertoire of the Japanese musical style danmono consists of eight pieces, all very similar in style?
... that Waddesdon Road railway station generated only £4 per year in passenger revenue before being taken over by the London Underground?
... that Kirt Bennett's Young Leaders Academy in Baton Rouge was cited for excellence on The Oprah Winfrey Show and George H.W. Bush's "National Points of Light"?
... that Les Éboulements is located in the centre of the Charlevoix crater in Quebec, and was named after a large landslide that occurred in 1663?
... that for creating a writing system for his Oromo language, Sheikh Bakri Sapalo was placed under house arrest in Dire Dawa by the Ethiopian government?
... that in order to refloat her after running aground off Finland in 1918, SMS Rheinland needed 6,400 metric tons of equipment removed, more than a third of her normal displacement?
... that the cemetery at the former Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church near West Liberty, Ohio, includes graves of veterans of both the American Revolutionary War and World War II?
... that Canadian nun Émilie Gamelin was one of only 226 women who sought to vote at the 1832 Montreal West by-election?
... that a study in three Siberian towns found that 52% of deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 54 were due to alcoholism?
... that former Louisiana State Rep. Tommy G. Armstrong of Shreveport is particularly known for his opposition to video poker?
... that control of the Dunne D.6 was provided by a pair of levers, one for each of the pilot's hands?
... that remnants of a mill and dam, originally built in late Roman/early Byzantine period, can still be seen at the place of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Mirr?
... that Bobby Weed is the co-founder of a non-profit organization that aids autistic children?
... that the German dreadnought battleship SMS Baden was the only capital ship not successfully sunk in the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919?
... that international wine critics fear that the Hochmoselbrücke will harm some of the best vineyards of the Mosel riesling?
... that in 2001, the Zaans Museum received a commendation at the presentation of the annual European Museum of the Year Award?
... that Parashqevi Qiriazi was only 11 when she started to work as an elementary teacher in "Shkolla e Vashave", the first Albanian School exclusively for girls, which opened in 1891?
... that The Headbangers were reunited during the Break The Barrier, a professional wrestling supercard in 1999?
... that rodeo performer Bill Linderman was the first person to win three Rodeo Cowboys Association season championships in a year?
... that the Black Honeyeater eats charcoal from the ashes of campfires in Australia's outback?
... that the success of the Hot Latin Tracks number-one song, "Suavemente", was said to have been influenced by Elvis Crespo's son?
... that two stories explain the naming of Tres Palacios Bay in Texas; one of which involves a vision by shipwrecked Spaniards of vanishing palaces along the bay's shores?
... that near Calstone Wellington the Ridgeway meets the Wansdyke?
... that Brain Drill's album Quantum Catastrophe is loosely based on the 2012 phenomenon?
... that during the 1910 London to Manchester air race, Claude Grahame-White's Farman III biplane was guarded by boy scouts, while he ate biscuits?
... that Emmanouil Argyropoulos , the first Greek aviator to fly over his country, was also the first casualty suffered by Greek military aviation one year later during the Balkan Wars?
... that the mines of the Iberian Pyrite Belt have been active since before Roman times?
... that Lorette Wood served as both the first female city council member and the first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California?
... that before the birth of his first child, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma and his wife traveled to Paris to ensure their child was born on French soil?
... that Matagorda Bay in Texas was separated from East Matagorda Bay after local residents diverted the Colorado River to control flooding?
... that actress Eileen Beldon played a parlormaid in the 1938 film adaptation of Pygmalion?
... that the American Samoa Fono, the legislature of American Samoa, formed with the encouragement of Governor Vernon Huber?
... that German literary scholar Hans Ernst Schneider had himself declared dead so that he could marry his wife again?
... that 16-year-old Elena Myers is the first female motorcyclist to win a race in the 76-year history of AMA Pro Racing?
... that no President could be elected for several weeks after the 2003 Nauruan parliamentary election due to the Parliament of Nauru being evenly split between three candidates?
... that Arturo Di Modica's Bund Bull was modelled after both Wall Street's Charging Bull and the Chinese zodiac's Ox?
... that in the Battle of Neopatras, a Byzantine army of about 30,000 was surprised and defeated by a force of 300–500 Latin knights?
... that people of Nova Scotia’s Bear River First Nation used to hunt porpoises for their livelihood?
... that Arkansas Atty. Gen. Bruce Bennett in his failed 1960 gubernatorial bid depicted Orval Faubus, the central figure of the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation case, as a tool of the NAACP?
... that the Soviets considered converting several unfinished hulls of Tsarist battlecruisers to 22,000-long-ton (22,000 t) oil barges after the end of the Russian Civil War?
... that Sir Robert Howard was twice placed in the Fleet Prison after failing to explain to the Star Chamber why Lady Purbeck kept having children?
... that during the Victorian era, orchid hunters often endured tropical diseases, wild animals, cannibalistic tribes, and competition amongst each other?
... that three different owners of mills at Bloomvale in Pleasant Valley, New York, defaulted on their mortgages and lost the mills to foreclosure?
... that the military efforts of the medieval English nobleman Gilbert de Lacy at Ludlow later became the basis of the medieval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn?
... that the State of Florida has twice ordered Manatee Palms Youth Services to cease admissions due to unsafe conditions?
... that in a controversial 1988 referendum, the population of Sjöbo Municipality in Sweden voted in favor of banning Sjöbo from accepting foreign refugees?
... that several works by Romanian Symbolist poet D. Iacobescu, who died around the age of twenty, speak about his losing battle with tuberculosis?
... that Henry Willard purchased the Willard Hotel with gold coins because the U.S. Supreme Court told him to?
... that Volkspark Friedrichshain is the oldest and second largest urban park in Berlin?
... that the song "Why Don't You Love Me", performed by Beyoncé, peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart, though it was never released as single?
... that in Revelation, Jesus holds seven stars in his right hand, which has been viewed as an implicit critique of a coin of Domitian which depicts his infant son with seven stars?
... that the first Czech aviator, Jan Kašpar, made his first flight with Blériot XI in 1910?
... that due to the Becket controversy, from 1163 to 1173 no new bishops were appointed in England?
... that Théodore Chassériau's painting of his sister Aline Chassériau, now in the Louvre, was painted when he was 16 and she was 13?
... that at the time of its discovery in 2000, GRB 000131 was the most distant gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
... that the Navajo Nation Zoo was facing immediate closure after a visit by the gods in 1999?
... that the Bobby Moore Sculpture was unveiled as the finishing touch to the new Wembley Stadium when it opened in 2007?
... that the Classic period Maya city of Punta de Chimino was one of the last cities to survive the political collapse of the Petexbatún region of Guatemala?
... that Don Coleman was the first Michigan State football player to have his number retired, the Spartans' first African-American coach, and the first African-American teacher at Flint Central?
... that the Hotel Pulitzer in Amsterdam is built from 25 historic canal houses, dating to the 17th and 18th century?
... that Jonita Lattimore performed at the opening weekend at the current homes for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the Grant Park Music Festival?
... that one of the first acts of the Second World War on the continent of North America was the seizure of the German cargo ship Christoph Van Doornum by the Sheriff of Botwood?
... that conductor Fritz Werner and trumpeter Maurice André collaborated on choral works of Bach and on music of Werner himself?
... that the painting The Toilette of Esther by Théodore Chassériau depicts Esther preparing to be presented to King Ahasuerus, ruler of Persia, who subsequently took her as his wife?
... that Józef Kowalczyk served longer in one country than any other apostolic nuncio?
... that the Servicio de Transportes Eléctricos, in Mexico City, provides more than 85 million public transport rides annually, using exclusively electric trolleybuses and light rail cars?
... that Guillaume Beneman was one of several prominent late 18th-century Parisian ébénistes of German extraction, including the royal cabinetmaker Jean Henri Riesener?
... that Lindsey Hunter was the oldest player in the National Basketball Association until he was dropped by the Chicago Bulls?
... that the 2010 ANZAC Test, a rugby league match between Australia and New Zealand, was the first event to be held at Melbourne's AAMI Park?
... that State Rep. Bryan Pedersen of Cheyenne has proposed that Wyoming invest 80 percent of its permanent minerals and land accounts into private equities and hedge funds?
... that the rice rat Transandinomys talamancae has three digits on its penis, of which the middle is longest?
... that singer Jimmy Hughes recorded his 1964 hit "Steal Away" in one take?
... that Lectionary 228 very often interchanges the letters "omicron" and "omega"?
... that a fire station at the Louisiana State University Fireman Training Center is named in honour of former Louisiana state fire marshal V.J. Bella?
... that Karma Gon Monastery, the original monastery of the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism, was founded in the 12th century by Düsum Khyenpa, the first Karmapa Lama?
... that Sellas Tetteh's Ghana under-20 team was the first African team to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup, in 2009?
... that American singer, songwriter and record producer The Mighty Hannibal once sang with members of The Pips, and was later known for the song "Jerkin' the Dog"?
... that Lincoln City was the first club to reach 100 seasons in the Football League without ever playing in the top division?
... that moments after Faisal Shahzad's failed 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt, a surveillance video caught images of him walking through Shubert Alley ?
... that apart from being a folk musician and painter, Heber Bartolome was an active lobbyist for the rights of Filipino composers?
... that two of the eight German Type IXA submarines, U-37 and U-38, were to eventually become the 6th and 10th most successful U-boats in World War II?
... that during the 1988–89 NBA season, the Washington Bullets had both a center named Charles Jones and a forward named Charles Jones?
... that the pictured rove beetle lives in the intertidal zone and feeds on beach hoppers?
... that Epenow, the Wampanoag slave who tricked his English captors into returning him home, is thought to be the basis of the "strange indian" mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry VIII?
... that when not in use, a Halkett boat's hull could be worn as a cloak or used as a blanket, its oar used as a walking stick and its sail as an umbrella?
... that when the Dungtse Lhakhang in Paro, Bhutan, was restored in 1841, the donors were thanked by etching their names on tree trunks which form the columns of the ground floor?
... that after the death of Sangamitta, the daughter of Emperor Ashoka, observances were held in her honor throughout Sri Lanka for one week?
... that Antony Grey, who died at the end of April, became Stonewall Hero of the Year in 2007, to mark the 40th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK in which he was instrumental?
... that JCall, a new Middle East advocacy group along the lines of J Street, is founded to lobby the European parliament for a resolution to the Middle East conflict?
... that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District found the district could expel a student for making a website mocking his teacher, even though he made it outside school?
... that police sergeant Ole Barman served two years as theatre director at Det Norske Teatret?
... that the former Ouvrage Vélosnes of the Maginot Line, a French fortification constructed in the 1930s, is now a protected habitat for bats?
... that the China Aviation Museum is located in an underground bunker and includes a replica of the Wright Flyer?
... that "Telethon" was the first episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation to be written by star Amy Poehler?
... that Estonia attempted to re-establish independence before the Soviets reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944?
... that before becoming senior editor at Reason magazine, Michael C. Moynihan was a fellow at the free-market think tank Timbro?
... that Thomas John McDonnell consecrated Marist College's altar with the relics of two martyrs?
... that the currently operating railway lines in Norway have 2487 bridges and 695 tunnels?
... that the Emerald Valley Golf Club in Creswell, Oregon, was once owned by a timber products company and later by Arnold Palmer?
... that the World Cup Sculpture , celebrating England's 1966 FIFA World Cup Final victory, was criticised for not looking like the players involved?
... that in 2009 Linda King sold 60 letters from her former lover, author Charles Bukowski, for $69,000?
... that the Tupolev ANT-21 was rejected by the Soviet Air Force because it was not armed with recoilless rifles?
... that the final episodes of New York: A Documentary Film aired just weeks after the September 11th attacks, prompting director Ric Burns to produce an additional three-hour episode focusing on the World Trade Center?
... that almost 2,500 gullgubber have been found at Sorte Muld, on the island of Bornholm in Denmark?
... that the GCHQ case was the first case to hold that exercises of the Royal Prerogative were subject to judicial review?
... that singer-songwriter Azalia Snail was dubbed the "Queen of lo-fi"?
... that the crew of Russian cruiser Gromoboi suffered heavily during the Battle off Ulsan because their captain ordered his gunners to remain at their guns even when they were out of range?
... that seventeen-year-old rock guitarist Desireé Bassett has been called "the future of rock and roll"?
... that Lectionary 232, a manuscript of the New Testament, was variously dated in the past?
... that Helge Hansen, a WW2 sabotage leader in the Stavanger district in 1944, also took part in the anti-demolition operation Sunshine in 1945?
... that the branched shanklet is a mushroom that grows on the decomposing remains of other mushrooms?
... that the aerodynamic work of Hans Multhopp on lifting bodies assisted in the design of the Space Shuttle?
... that Hylli i Dritës is regarded as one of the most important Albanian magazines of the early 20th century?
... that a reviewer described each successive solo album by Bob Drake as "a more twisted aural journey than the previous one"?
... that astronomer Ben Gascoigne discovered that the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds, are twice as far away as first thought?
... that Majbølle Mølle was officially opened in 1988 by Prince Henrik of Denmark after its restoration?
... that Jenaro Flores Santos was the first peasant organizer to lead the Bolivian national trade union centre COB?
... that shells of Amphidromus were among the first Indonesian land snails brought to Europe?
... that the Lhuentse Dzong suffered serious damage during a 2009 earthquake that measured 6.1 on the Richter scale?
... that "Happy Jack" Fellows, a prisoner of war for six-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War, was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while interned"?
... that former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos used the Filipino term Maharlika as a nom de guerre until his World War II exploits as a guerrilla soldier were proven false in 1985?
... that the hull of the Russian imperial yacht Livadia was compared to a pancake, a turtle, and a pair of soup plates?
... that the British Courageous class battlecruiser HMS Courageous was damaged when her forecastle deck buckled during her sea trials while running at full speed in a rough head sea?
... that 17-year-old Selena Gomez replaced 42-year-old Nicole Kidman as the lead in the film Monte Carlo?
... that De Bullemolen, Lekkum, was one of the first windmills in Friesland fitted with sails that had leading edges using the Fok system?
... that MASA, formed in 1959, was the second-largest manufacturer of buses in Mexico when it was acquired in 1998 by Volvo?
... that Sports Illustrated described the Jewish Sports Review as "tireless in its service mission" to report on the activities of Jewish athletes?
... that Edward Francis Small was the first Gambian to be elected to the country's legislative council?
... that the name of the liverwort genus Ptilidium comes from the Greek word ptilidion for "small feather", a reference to the plant's "feathery" appearance?
... that in Edgar Degas' painting Young Spartans Exercising, the four women in the foreground share ten legs?
... that a specimen of the bioaccumulator fungus Sarcosphaera coronaria was found to contain the highest concentration of arsenic ever reported in a mushroom?
... that British skier Russell Docker has competed at the Winter Paralympics on three occasions after being paralysed in a 1995 accident?
... that the Neely-Sieber House in Lima, Ohio, changed hands after the violent death of its oil baron owner?