derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in his dissenting opinion in the case of Taylor v. Beckham, U.S. Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan wrote that the right to hold elected offices should be considered part of the definition of "liberty" and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment?
... that the uncial letters of the Codex Nanianus represent the last stage before the introduction of compressed uncials?
... that LNER CME Nigel Gresley was so concerned about unsafe railway practices shown in the 1929 film The Flying Scotsman that he made the film producers include a disclaimer at the beginning?
... that there is a tradition that the Middleton miners gave either a week's wages or a week's work towards the cost of building the church of St Mary the Virgin, Middleton in 1846?
... that as he "didn't even know it was a paying job", Superintendent Carmine DeSopo donated his entire $35,000 salary as New Jersey Assemblyman to the Burlington County Special Services School District?
... that Vietnam, one of the world’s richest agricultural regions , is the second-largest exporter worldwide and the seventh-largest consumer of rice?
... that Margie Wright is the all-time winningest NCAA softball coach and ranks second all-time in career victories among NCAA Division I coaches in all sports?
... that when the Italian sparkling wine Prosecco received DOCG status, the name of its grape changed from Prosecco to Glera so others could not make wine with the grape and call it Prosecco?
... that African-American composer Wendell Logan described jazz as "our classical music", saying it "belongs here just as much as Americans belong on this soil"?
... that the first entomological article written by a New World native concerned the "Great Black Wasp"?
... that Aquilla Coonrod was one of only two men from Williams County, Ohio, to have ever received the Medal of Honor?
... that Erling Sandberg, installed as Finance Minister by Reichskommissariat when Nazis occupied Norway, was acquitted of collaboration with Nazis?
... that anti-apartheid activist Nico Smith and his wife were the only legal white residents of Mamelodi, South Africa, from 1985 to 1989?
... that during the 2006 student protests in Chile, students threw stones at the residence of Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic , although he had expressed a desire to mediate only hours before?
... that according to neuroeconomist Gregory Berns, the challenges and novel experiences we undergo while we strive to achieve an aim bring us more fulfillment than the achievement itself?
... that although the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation was created in 2004 to implement a 20-year, $8 billion redevelopment plan in Washington, D.C., it was abolished after just three years?
... that the 2008 Indonesian film Love was a remake of the 2006 film Cinto?
... that J. A. "Daff" Gammons played professional baseball and football, coached the Brown University football team, founded a successful insurance agency, and was an accomplished amateur golfer?
... that the entire board of directors of Australian mining company Sundance Resources was killed in an airplane crash in the Republic of Congo in June 2010?
... that 29-year-old writer Justin Halpern was catapulted to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list after moving back into his parents' home and starting a daily journal of his father's salty remarks?
... that a cat, Oscar, has had a pioneering operation to add prosthetic feet, which could lead the way for similar treatment on humans?
... that the Old Priory Barn, which now houses the Somerset Cricket Museum , is the only surviving building of the Augustinian Taunton Priory?
... that American handicapper George E. Smith won $115,000 on one horse race in 1891, the largest payout recorded in the US to that date?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Jonathan Johnson was admitted to the Florida State University Hall of Fame in 2006?
... that the death of Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, at the Battle of Bannockburn, set in motion a train of events that ended in the deposition of King Edward II of England?
... that Henry Wilkens received the Medal of Honor for his part in the battle of Little Muddy Creek?
... that French Major General Marcel Alessandri received twelve Croix de guerre citations over the course of his forty-one year-long career?
... that after Leander Clark College went bankrupt and merged with Coe College, an heir of the school's namesake sued to have his donation returned?
... that in English law, Quistclose may be constructive trusts, resulting trusts, express trusts, or completely illusory?
... that Asri Muda was ousted as the President of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party in 1982, and later joined the party's rival, the United Malays National Organisation?
... that word of Dartmouth football coach Jackson Cannell's termination prompted a team petition and The New York Times to dismiss it as a "rumor [that] springs up every year"?
... that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones created the award-winning radio documentary Ghetto Life 101 when he was 13 years old?
... that remnants of a gristmill, distillery and oil well have been found at Falling Waters State Park which also has the highest waterfall in Florida?
... that John W. Comfort enlisted in the Regular United States Army just four months after leaving the 29th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry?
... that evolutionary biologist and herpetologist Alex Pyron graduated from Piedmont College at age 16 and earned two master's degrees and a PhD by age 21?
... that New Caledonia, an island fragment of the sunken continent Zealandia since the Cretaceous, and home to the Kagu , has been likened to a "Jurassic Park"?
... that the Louisiana Tech University named its Endowed Professorship in History after historian John D. Winters?
... that the first missionary house in South-West Africa, today's Namibia, was erected in Warmbad in 1806?
... that Ernie Robson played his final first-class cricket match for Somerset aged 53, less than a year before his death?
... that Fox Sports College Hoops '99 was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64?
... that to preserve an archeological site in Guerrero, Mexico, a tunnel was dug under it for a highway joining Acapulco with Cuernavaca?
... that although Neil Bancroft was awarded the Medal of Honor, he had died by the time the government located him to issue the medal?
... that while president of Pittsburgh Catholic College, Father John Tuohill Murphy formed a close personal association with the future saint Katharine Drexel?
... that the film Out of the Clouds used one of Ealing Studios' largest ever sets to create the interior of the terminal building?
... that Protestant Reformation in Italy was significantly hindered by the strong influence of the Roman Catholic Church?
... that New Jersey Assemblymember Jack Casey was one of many Democratic Party incumbents swept out of office in 1991 in what was called an "anti-tax tidal wave"?
... that James Anderson was one of six men awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a group of Plains Indians at the Wichita River in Texas?
... that The Victoria Advocate is the second oldest newspaper in Texas, and the first published west of the Colorado River of Texas?
... that U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs recorded "Kansas City Bomber" as the theme song to the Raquel Welch film of the same name, but it was rejected by the film's producers?
... that Louis XIV's personal physician Guy-Crescent Fagon recommended that the king only drink Côte de Nuits wines from Nuits St-Georges because of the wines' reported health-giving properties?
... that St Oswald's Church, Warton, Lancashire , has connections with the ancestors of George Washington?
... that rock band Cave In released an album through RCA Records, but was subsequently dropped from the record label, which refused to fund the recording of an album with a heavier style?
... that in 1991 Judicial Commissioner K. S. Rajah annulled a marriage between a woman who underwent sex reassignment surgery and another woman, reasoning that a transsexual's gender was biologically determined?
... that the music video for Japanese band Sakanaction's "Aruku Around" was shot in a single take using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera?
... that on the last day of the Battle of Hill 170 in January 1945, an estimated 700 Japanese artillery shells landed on the hill?
... that the Five talent show Don't Stop Believing was created based on the popularity of American musicals Glee and High School Musical?
... that preference-based planning can help you to plan your visit to Starbucks before going to school?
... that both Australian aborigines and Māori ate the roots of the bracken Pteridium esculentum ?
... that 5'5", 135 lb (1.65 m, 61 kg) Chris Limahelu set a USC Trojans football record with a 47-yard field goal at the 1974 Rose Bowl game?
... that Jimmie Johnson has the most consecutive NASCAR drivers' championships with four earned from 2006 to 2009?
... that in 1565 "commissioners for removing superstitious ornaments" took various idolatrous items from the first chapel on the site of Holy Trinity Church, Horwich, in Greater Manchester?
... that the resort of Jamaica Beach on West Bay in Texas was built on a Karankawa Indian burial ground?
... that James N. Wood created major exhibitions of works by Gauguin, Monet and van Gogh that set records for attendance at the Art Institute of Chicago?
... that the documentary Chords of Fame includes scenes in which its subject, U.S. singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, is portrayed by Bill Burnett?
... that the Monument of the Holy Mother of God in Haskovo, southeastern Bulgaria, is the tallest statue of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus in the world?
... that Bombay Bicycle Club's second album Flaws consists entirely of acoustic music, including cover versions of other artists?
... that when Charles T. Gulick was tried for treason in 1895, his lawyer Paul Neumann had served in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Hawaii with him?
... that although the Montana Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, was established in 1895, the first game warden was not hired until 1898?
... that Palacký University in Olomouc was established in 1573 to help re-Catholicize predominantly Protestant Czech lands?
... that, when asked why he opened his studio in Tropico rather than nearby Los Angeles, photographer Edward Weston replied, "I'm going to make my name so famous that it won't matter where I live"?
... that Elizabeth Dickens, the mother of novelist Charles Dickens, was the model for Mrs. Nickleby in Nicholas Nickleby and Mrs. Micawber in David Copperfield?
... that seven months after the reported execution in Budapest of Sári Petráss as a spy, she debuted on Broadway?
... that Idaho Territorial Governor William Bunn was appointed due to a quid pro quo between Chester A. Arthur and the Cameron political machine during the 1884 US presidential election?
... that in the mass literacy campaign during Grenada's New Jewel Movement revolution, 65% of volunteer teachers were mobilized from the National Youth Organization?
... that Henry Schoellkopf, selected as an All-American fullback while attending Harvard Law School, later shot himself in the head at his Milwaukee law office?
... that James Morris Blaut's death prevented him from finishing his trilogy of books criticizing Eurocentrism?
... that Zachariah T. Woodall was awarded the Medal of Honor for his participation in what was later known as the Battle of Buffalo Wallow?
... that pitcher Héctor Wagner was one of the youngest players in Major League Baseball in 1990?
... that according to Andreas Grünschloß, members of UFO religions derive an enhanced sense of self-worth from their membership, believing they are part of those chosen to prepare a new age?
... that Frank Girardi's Lycoming football team wore shoes borrowed from Joe Paterno in the 1990 NCAA football tournament?
... that the highly influential jurist Sir Matthew Hale once said that lawyers were "a barbarous set of people unfit for anything but their own trade"?
... that Fr. John Willms once stood in the way of a locomotive in order to allow his congregation to hear a sermon in silence?
... that former Ohio State football coach Larry Catuzzi served on the Flight 93 Federal Advisory Commission after his daughter died on United Airlines Flight 93?
... that the wife and children of Idaho Territorial Governor Edward A. Stevenson were killed during an Indian attack?
... that Amon Henry Wilds's Italianate Park Crescent development in Brighton was the scene of the infamous "trunk murder" of July 1934?
... that the Utina were one of the most powerful Timucua tribes during the early days of European settlement in Florida, but appear to have fragmented into at least three chiefdoms by the 17th century?
... that a Los Angeles Times music critic credited Los Angeles Philharmonic director Ernest Fleischmann with having "transformed a provincial second-rank orchestra into one of the world's best"?
... that the communist-led Left Front won all seats elected in the 2010 Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council election?
... that soprano Siri Thornhill performed a Bach cantata for the fourth Sunday after Trinity, Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 177, at the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Eibingen Abbey?
... that the GreenWheel is an electric-powered assist module designed by the MIT Media Lab than can be added in the rear hub of any existing bicycle, providing added power for hills and acceleration?
... that according to sociology professor Lorne L. Dawson, Internet sites like YouTube have in recent years been used to spread religious hate propaganda?
... that the SS Cedarville sank in 1965 after colliding with another ship near the Mackinac Bridge, killing ten people?
... that in 1834, the 17-year-old Moroccan Jewish girl Sol Hachuel was beheaded for alleged apostasy from Islam?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power used to be known as Quantum Leap Technology?
... that physician-ethnographer Hiram M. Hiller, Jr. made two trips to the fabled Dyak headhunters of Borneo?
... that Jay Handlan set the NCAA college basketball record of 71 field goal attempts in a single game while playing for Washington and Lee University?
... that The Volcano in northwestern British Columbia is the youngest known volcano in Canada and its last eruption likely took place only 150 years ago?
... that Mendocino, California, artist Bill Zacha learned to paint left-handed after injuring his right hand in a fall?
... that in response to the Hajong communist peasants' uprising, Pakistani authorities forced the majority of the Hajong people into exile in India?
... that "Lord" George Sanger was a 19th century circus proprietor who, at the age of 85, was murdered with a hatchet?
... that the flowers of the ground orchid Phaius tancarvilleae can arise on stems two metres (seven feet) high?
... that convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner watched The Lord of the Rings film trilogy before being executed by firing squad?
... that the cargo ship Jan Steen collided with and sank the Caritas I in the River Scheldt in 1947?
... that Carlos Monsiváis, who was a Mexican political activist and journalist, won more than 33 awards during his lifetime?
... that the first two cookbooks by Deborah Madison won James Beard Foundation awards as well as Julia Child Cookbook of the Year?
... that the current head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valeriy Khoroshkovsky is one of Ukraine's richest businessmen?
... that a high concentration of anthracene in the liver can kill the African Clariid Catfish?
... that the opening scene of the first episode of BBC Three sitcom Mongrels features cats eating the corpse of their dead owner?
... that psychologist Steve Eichel was an expert witness in the 2003 criminal trial of Lee Boyd Malvo?
... that Kermit Roosevelt's co-brother-in-law Mervyn Herbert played first-class cricket for Somerset County Cricket Club and died in the British Embassy in Rome, Italy?
... that Ambondro, which lived in Madagascar about 167 million years ago, is the oldest known mammal with modern, tribosphenic molars?
... that Vangjel Meksi was the first to translate the New Testament into the Albanian language?
... that Karen Fladset, team handball player and former coach for the Norwegian women's national handball team, was also national champion in discus throw?
... that the Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem in 1894 led to the death of thousands of Balinese?
... that the Becton, Dickinson headquarters were designed in the style of a country house?
... that the annual Berg River Canoe Marathon ends at the Port Owen marina in Velddrif, Western Cape, South Africa?
... that the Cretaceous Malagasy mammal Lavanify is most closely related to a species from India?
... that 11 Dyke Road, Brighton—latterly a nightclub with names such as Sloopy's, Fozzies, The Shrine and New Hero—was built in 1867 in an "inventive" Gothic style as a school for poor girls?
... that Thomas S. Buechner became one of the youngest museum directors in the United States when he was named to head the Brooklyn Museum at age 33?
... that in the Treaty of Kiel, Swedish Pomerania was promised to Denmark as compensation for Norway?
... that the University of Texas fired their women's basketball coach in 1976, during a season in which the Texas Longhorns women's basketball team went 21–7, because he couldn't coach volleyball?
... that George Smith has twice won the John Eales Medal, awarded for the best Wallaby , as voted for by his peers in the Rugby Union Players Association?
... that the old Rouen tramway was once the largest electric tramway in France, with 70 km (43 mi) of route?
... that some Anglo-Saxon churches, such as St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber, were originally built with towers for naves?
... that the LTV L450F spyplane was developed from a sailplane, and was then further developed into a drone?
... that much of the information that reaches Chinese media is published in the limited-circulation reports for government officials, not in the regular press?
... that in 1612 Jewish teacher Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the University of Oxford for changing his mind about being baptized?
... that during Operation Raviv of September 1969, Israeli troops used captured Arab armor to raid Egypt's Red Sea coast?
... that Europe's largest golf course was built on the island of Veliki Brijun in the early 1910s?
... that Memphis, Tennessee's Temple Israel, one of the largest Reform synagogues in the United States, insisted in its early years on separate seating for men and women?
... that after his professional baseball career was over, Jerry Harrington became the assistant chief of police in Keokuk, Iowa?
... that in 1969, Mahathir Mohamad, the future Prime Minister of Malaysia, lost his seat in Parliament to future Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party President, Yusof Rawa?
... that while he was manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, Rip Egan once served alcohol to the opposing pitcher late into the night to keep him from playing at his full potential the next day?
... that, from his house on Herrengasse 23 , American spy Allen Dulles ran an intelligence organization that was involved with an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler, and even the surrender of German troops in Italy?
... that Norwegian MP Børre Rognlien was also the organizational leader of short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
... that, after the rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy selling candy for a fundraiser, New Jersey Assemblyman John A. Rocco introduced a bill to ban door-to-door sales by public school students?
... that, in 2007, American track and field athlete Jake Arnold became the first man in 22 years to win back-to-back NCAA Championships in the decathlon?
... that, although the Sind United Party emerged as the largest party in the 1937 Sind assembly election, it failed to get its main leaders elected?
... that Lavaca Bay in Texas has been classified as a superfund site due to mercury contamination by Alcoa?
... that an inmate of the Dóchas Centre women's prison was arrested for trying to break into the facility at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin?
... that Moonsault Scramble was the third-tallest shuttle roller coaster ever constructed, and the first roller coaster to stand over 200 feet (61 m) in height?
... that the town of Carancahua on Carancahua Bay in Texas avoided growth because of the site's propensity for flooding and malaria?
... that the rainforest tree Flindersia xanthoxyla, used for making coaches and cabinets, is a member of the citrus family Rutaceae?
... that the MIT Car, a two-seat urban concept car propelled by motors in its wheels, was a project developed by William J. Mitchell at the MIT Media Lab?
... that wine writer André Jullien classified the wines of Bordeaux nearly 40 years before the official 1855 classification, including naming the exact same four First Growths?
... that two major bridges in Croatia, carrying two major roads only one mile apart, are both officially called Maslenica Bridge?
... that the leaves of the button grass Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus have the lowest recorded phosphorus content of any plant species?
... that, in 2005, the Vietnamese company Vinacafe controlled half of the instant coffee market in Vietnam, and Nestlé another third?
... that Josephology is a modern theological study of Saint Joseph and one of the most recent theological disciplines?
... that XellOs plays on a professional StarCraft team called Air Force ACE, sponsored by the South Korean Air Force?
... that in addition to some isolated teeth and a jaw fragment, the Mesozoic mammals of Madagascar include the most complete mammalian skeleton known from the Mesozoic of Gondwana?
... that 1997 British and Irish Lions captain Martin Johnson regarded Paul Wallace as the player of the series?
... that the underground station at Vienna's Stephansplatz has a foul smell caused by organic material used to stabilise the soil?
... that 46 High Street, an Elizabethan merchant's house in Nantwich, Cheshire, has a carved wooden caryatid ?
... that United States Ambassador to Cyprus Taylor G. Belcher was awarded the Distinguished Service Award because of his peace-keeping abilities during the eruption of violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots?
... that the MIT Media Lab's RoboScooter is a foldable electric scooter, designed to be one-third the weight and have 10% of the parts of traditional gasoline-powered scooters?
... that according to James A. Beckford, the refusal of many French prisons to provide halal meat and religious services to Muslims leads to increased radicalisation in the Muslim community?
... that when Fr. Jeremiah Callahan was appointed president of Duquesne University in 1931, he used the opportunity to tell reporters about his personal critique of Einstein's theory of relativity?
... that Australian cricket all-rounder Sarah Elliott only took her first wicket in senior cricket eight years after her debut?
... that despite helping arrange the engagement of Princess Feodora with the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Emperor Wilhelm II refused to attend their wedding?
... that the enamelled Royal Gold Cup has a documented history since 1391, in the course of which it has been given away three times, pawned twice, and sold three times?
... that jet engine turbine blades can face temperatures of 2,900 °F (1,590 °C)?
... that the wreck of the SS Francisco Morazan is now owned by the State of Michigan?
... that the 1927 Gulang earthquake was caused by thrust faulting at a restraining bend along the Haiyuan fault, the same fault that caused the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake?
... that Assembly member Gerald H. Zecker justified higher car insurance rates for drivers in New Jersey's largest cities because "cars in Newark are stolen and wrecked in far greater numbers"?
... that the Arabat Spit is 112 km long and only a few kilometers wide?
... that the current human reference genome is a mosaic of DNA sequences from thirteen volunteers recruited in Buffalo, New York?
... that Eurythmic was a versatile Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won over distances ranging from 5 furlongs (1,000 metres) to 2 miles (3,200 metres)?