derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Spartan-V sports car has no headlights, indicators or other features required by law in most countries, so it cannot be used on public roads?
... that Bill Henry was listed as Rice University's all-time greatest men's basketball player in the 2009 book ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game?
... that snooker player Stephen Maguire won his first ranking tournament at the 2004 European Open in Malta?
... that Rudolf Katz became a League of Nations envoy in Nanjing after he escaped from Nazi Germany?
... that molecular phylogenetics suggests that Pthirus gorillae jumped from gorillas to early humans about 3.3 million years ago and speciated into the present day pubic louse?
... that Castle of Park, near Glenluce, Scotland, has "commodious closets"?
... that in 2005 the Pearl River, New York, post office was officially renamed in memory of a local Marine whose remains were returned from Vietnam that year?
... that Capricorn Silvereyes are not only socially, but also genetically, monogamous?
... that the salt-shaker earthstar is distinguished from other earthstar fungi by the presence of numerous holes on top of its spore sac?
... that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch, Herefordshire, is notable for its 13th-century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed Roman altar?
... that KaBOOM! founder Darell Hammond was raised in a group home with his seven siblings?
... that Spring Canyon, Utah, the largest coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah, was abandoned in 1969 and nothing remains of the town except a railroad trestle?
... that Don Doll, the only player in NFL history to register 10 or more interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the Marines?
... that the spire of St Nicholas' Church, Gloucester suffered a direct hit by cannon fire in the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, and had to be reduced in size in 1783?
... that Sverre Iversen, Norway's first director of the Director of Labour, took voice classes in order to work himself up from being a mason?
... that even though Wesleyan missionaries described the fortified settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986?
... that architect Togo Murano designed the first class lounge and dining room for the luxury liner Argentina Maru that was sunk in World War II after being converted into an aircraft carrier?
... that Tore Holden was chosen as host of the Norwegian version of the Swedish game show BingoLotto without prior TV host experience?
... that the commune of Hiesville has three memorials related to the invasion of Normandy during World War II in the area as it was where the gliders of the 101st Airborne Division landed?
... that Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck were called "one of the driving forces in North American horticulture", while their gardens in Vermont were said to represent "American gardening at its best"?
... that the recently described extinct penguin Inkayacu from the Eocene of Peru is postulated to have had gray and reddish brown feathers, unlike the black and white feathers of living penguins?
... that gastric antral vascular ectasia is also called "watermelon stomach" because the streaky long red areas that are present in the stomach may resemble the markings on watermelon?
... that the Place d'Armes in Luxembourg City originally served as a parade ground for the troops defending the city?
... that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action that disrupted a mass in Manila Cathedral?
... that Inez Haynes Gillmore's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"?
... that Steve Munisteri, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, met his former wife on a bus trip from Austin to Kansas City to attend the 1976 Republican National Convention?
... that the St. James Theatre, Auckland underwent renovations in preparation for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II, who attended a film premiere there in 1953?
... that Irish barrister and philatelist William Russell Lane-Joynt was a four-time Revolver Champion of Ireland and won a silver medal for Great Britain in shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
... that during motor-paced racing, cyclists can reach a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph)?
... that the Plymouth Congregational Church of Lawrence, Kansas , the first church to be established in Kansas Territory, lost members to the Lawrence Massacre of 1863?
... that the anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream was released on DVD and Blu-ray alongside the film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom?
... that a poll once found that 99 percent of Somalis in the United Kingdom listen to the BBC Somali Service?
... that one of the six buildings in the Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is the oldest extant house in Genesee County, New York?
... that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student?
... that in Holy Trinity Church, Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, is a memorial to the poet Thomas Randolph who died while visiting Blatherwyke Hall?
... that Gay Street is the setting for events described in literary works by James Agee, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, and George Washington Harris?
... that Mässmogge , Swiss candies sold in Basel at the autumn fair, are filled with ground hazelnuts?
... that 19th-century Boston artist Frank Hill Smith lived in the Sunflower House, a cheery yellow and red edifice adorned with a huge sunflower and a winged lion?
... that former Scientology official Mike Rinder was called a "whistleblower" for his appearance on the BBC Panorama documentary, The Secrets of Scientology?
... that The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795), by William Blake, represents the Feminine Will upon a patriarchal Christianity?
... that the poisonous mushroom Inocybe cookei smells faintly of honey?
... that Nicholas Benson is a third-generation stone carver and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow?
... that, rather than paying property taxes on land it had clear-cut, the Jackson Lumber Company donated the land that is now Geneva State Forest to Alabama?
... that the Throne of Weapons which has been exhibited in British schools is made from AK-47s?
... that the font in St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter, was constructed from the base of a former Roman column?
... that George Ballis, whose photographs documented the efforts of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers, learned his craft from a class he took with Great Depression photojournalist Dorothea Lange?
... that the designers of Cabbage Patch Kids created Selchow and Righter's Scrabble People, the title characters of 1985's syndicated cartoon special A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense?
... that Gus Bevona resigned from local SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism for annual pay of US$531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the janitors and building workers he represented?
... that Operation Trident was set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community?
... that it was assumed Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz would succeed Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, as his mother and cousin were expected to give up their claims to the throne?
... that the British ironclad HMS Enterprise had a wooden hull and iron upperworks which made her the first ship of composite construction in the Royal Navy?
... that residents of Colonia Peralvillo in Mexico City burned in effigy the three presidential candidates of the Mexican general election, 2000 after staging a mock trial?
... that in addition to delivering 6,000 babies, obstetrician William Harrison performed 20,000 abortions, eventually becoming the only physician in Northwest Arkansas to perform the procedure?
... that Colonia Morelos in Mexico City is home to a 25-street tianguis market and two public sites to worship Santa Muerte ?
... that the Ryan Premises, a national historic site in Newfoundland and Labrador, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's landing in Bonavista?
... that Nazi and neo-Nazi sympathizer Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld translated numerous works into German, including Paul Rassinier's Holocaust-denying work The Drama of European Jews?
... that the Kiruna Mine located in Kiruna, Sweden, is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world?
... that out of a total of eight training venues for rugby sevens at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, seven are colleges of Delhi University?
... that when cut or injured, the poisonous mushroom Lactarius vinaceorufescens will ooze a white latex that rapidly turns sulfur-yellow?
... that Elizabeth Turk was a Washington, D.C., lobbyist before she became a sculptor and was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow?
... that the captain of the Swedish river monitor HMS Garmer had to steer the ship as well as aim and fire her gun?
... that the medieval Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Nikopol, north-central Bulgaria, belonged to a now-ruined monastery complex?
... that Larry Bird's hometown team, the Indiana Pacers, did not draft him in the 1978 NBA Draft because they could not convince him to leave college early?
... that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish dinner for four on The Early Show Saturday Edition's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending less than $10 per person?
... that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter of known antique vases?
... that 19th-century Albanian rilindas Zef Jubani argued that the Albanian language should have a unique alphabet since it was a unique language?
... that HMS Minotaur and her sisters were called "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose"?
... that Whitefriars, a Carmelite foundation in Bristol, England, was described by 16th-century antiquary John Leland as "the fairest friary in England"?
... that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive for extended periods in sewage?
... that French artist Eugène Delacroix is said to have used his own pet cat as a model to paint the tigers of A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother (1830)?
... that individual cigarettes in Red Cross parcels in the Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp were valued at precisely 27 cents each?
... that the 2009 French comedy Neuilly sa mère ! revisits themes of social inequality that were explored in the 1988 French comedy Life is a Long Quiet River?
... that the Russian battleship Sevastopol was the only battleship not salvaged by the Japanese at Port Arthur, following destruction of the Russian Fleet?
... that Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres' restaurant Sueños was listed in Vogue magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic Jeffrey Steingarten, describing it as "one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003?
... that at the time of his death in 1995, former Gunsmoke director Robert Totten was scheduled to direct a television series based on Lonesome Dove?
... that the two claiming Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places?
... that the Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Park was launched in 2009 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Thailand?
... that Bubble Wrap, which was originally designed to be wallpaper, was invented when two men sealed shower curtains together?
... that a flame fougasse can shoot a jet of flame 10 feet (3.0 m) wide and 30 yards (27 m) long?
... that the Yamaha XV1900 is the largest Yamaha V-twin motorcycle in production?
... that a Village Defence Party is organised on the basis of one platoon of men and one platoon of women for each village in Bangladesh?
... that the first use of bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to the Amalfi Cathedral, and they came from Constantinople?
... that Dutch dressage rider Edward Gal and his horse have been called "rock stars in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition?
... that after BingoLotto in Norway was launched in 1993 and cancelled in 1994, an attempted revival in 1996 was stalled and stopped by the government in 1998 after being a part of the election campaign in 1997?
... that Grainsby Halt railway station served a Victorian hall in Lincolnshire which was later said to be haunted?
... that Jimi Heselden, owner of the company that makes the Segway personal transport system, died after a Segway he was riding fell off a cliff?
... that the Wandsworth Shield has a repoussé design of two large birds with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a masterpiece of British Celtic art?
... that "Jack" Jackson, who was called "the last slave in New Jersey", died and was buried at the Abel I. Smith Burial Ground in 1875?
... that while mainly charged with maintaining law and order, Bangladesh Ansars are also assigned to help in schemes promoting local development?
... that the Great Flood of 1862 inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals in Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona?
... that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in Quebec, Canada, are considered the most traditional and conservative Innu band, both in terms of culture and language?
... that Irving J. Moore directed the 1980 episode "Who shot J.R.?" of the CBS soap opera Dallas?
... that the apricot jelly fungus can be used raw in salads, pickled, candied, or fermented to produce wine?
... that in 1538, Richard Ingworth reported that the warden of Greyfriars, Bristol was "stiff", continuing, "yet for all his great port, I think him 20 marks in debt, and not able to pay it"?
... that Bob Mann, the first black player for Detroit and Green Bay, claimed he was "railroaded" out of football when he objected to a pay cut after leading the NFL in receiving yards?
... that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station's 26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel projects ever undertaken", collapsed?
... that Italian Iron Chef Mario Batali claimed that American chef Jody Williams was one of his favorite cooks in the world?
... that in 2009, the Seattle Mariners drafted Dustin Ackley, Kyle Seager, and Brian Moran, who were all teammates on the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team?
... that one critic called Scribe's second album Rhyme Book an "attempt to be considered the Aotearoa version of Kanye West"?
... that silent shorts featuring Fred Evans as "Pimple" rivalled those of Charlie Chaplin for popularity and have been described as "proto-Pythonesque"?
... that William Blake's 1795 painting Pity reflects a time when Shakespeare's Macbeth had a revival, being performed nine times in English theatres?
... that Marilyn McAdams Sibley wrote histories of both the Port of Houston and The Methodist Hospital of Houston, Texas?
... that the geography of New York includes the Adirondack Park, the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States?
... that the 2003 Twenty20 Cup included the first-ever Twenty20 cricket match, played between the Hampshire Hawks and the Sussex Sharks?
... that Barbara Scherler of the Deutsche Oper Berlin recorded Bach's Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 with Fritz Werner's Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn?
... that the TLC reality television series Sister Wives follows a polygamist family of four wives and 16 children living in Lehi, Utah?
... that Samuel Bowman was selected to be a bishop in the Episcopal Church three times, but did not take office until his third selection in 1858?
... that the Aurora mine, located in Beaufort County, North Carolina, is the largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world?
... that Sharon Cherop fell over at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon but got back up and ran the fastest marathon ever by a woman in Canada?
... that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League, which is the Ivy League's predecessor, was founded by Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan?
... that the expiration date of a drug required for lethal injection was a factor in delaying the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown until 2011?
... that a mural in the Spring Valley, New York, post office, called Waiting for the Mail, shows how mail can reach even the most isolated person?
... that during World War II, Kalaymyo was an important regroup point for the British during their retreat from Burma in 1942?
... that three months after being rushed from a game to the hospital with a brain aneurysm, Swedish ice hockey forward William Wallén was back on the ice, playing for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors?
... that Ralph T. Coe, described as "enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after seeing a totem pole in a Manhattan shop?
... that the British ironclad HMS Valiant had to wait nearly five years after she was launched to receive her rifled muzzle-loading guns?
... that an amicus brief to the courts in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association argues that Super Mario Bros. is a violent video game?
... that the Elias Abel House is the best-preserved historic I-house in Bloomington, Indiana?
... that Turkish Army's Güvercinlik Air Base was the first civil airport of Ankara that served as such from 1933 until 1955?
... that Beatrix Potter registered The Game of Peter Rabbit at Stationers' Hall before the game board or the rules had been perfected?
... that the Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless, who founded the first missionary medical school in India?
... that Scotsman Walter Forrester, future bishop of Brechin, was rector of the University of Paris between October and December 1395?
... that "You Are the Girl" was The Cars' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
... that Miriam Shapira-Luria, known for her beauty, taught Talmud to elite young men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her appearance?
... that the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–1517 gave the Ottoman Empire control of Syria, Egypt and most of the Arabian Peninsula?
... that The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind is mainly about "the scientific explanations of the apparent miracles of physics and cosmology and its philosophical implications"?
... that attorney Jack Kershaw sculpted a monument to Confederate Army general and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1998, arguing that "somebody needs to say a good word for slavery"?
... that after assaulting bishop of Brechin John de Crannach in his own cathedral, in 1435 the archdeacon of Brechin was excommunicated?
... that the German SMS Kronprinz was the only König-class battleship to escape damage at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
... that sexologist James M. Cantor found that male pedophiles have significantly less white matter in their brains than do control subjects?
... that though the Spanish naval gunboat Ligera fired 10 shots and the American naval gunboat Foote fired 70 in the Action of 25 April 1898, Foote was heavily damaged but Ligera was hit only once?
... that Catholic judge John Callan considered resigning after Pope Pius XII talked about judges' duties with respect to divorce cases?
... that when first described, the extinct bird Cruschedula was thought to be a "dry-land" penguin?
... that Michigan's All-American 60-minute man Tom Johnson was the second African-American player for the Green Bay Packers?
... that for the 1999 reissue of The Cars' 1978 debut album, no usable demo of their single "Good Times Roll" could be found?
... that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth?
... that 19th-century publicist Anastas Byku held that the Albanians were descendants of the Pelasgians and the Illyrians?
... that within four months footballer Barry Endean went from playing for an amateur team in a public park to lining up against Manchester United at Old Trafford?
... that the archaic Greek letter Sampi has also been called san, enacosin, angma, sincope, charaktir, or even parakyisma, which literally means "spurious pregnancy"?
... that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in Hove, England, was built of specially commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove?
... that following the London premiere of Fabio Campana's opera Esmeralda in 1870, The Saturday Review pronounced it "irredeemably bad"?
... that Maui's present mayor, Charmaine Tavares, is the daughter of the island's longest-serving mayor, Hannibal Tavares?
... that the Jagiellonian tapestries became state property of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the testament of King Sigismund II Augustus?
... that a veal and ham pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan?
... that Vinnie Doyle, one of the longest-serving editors in the newspaper business in Ireland, was editor of the Irish Independent for 24 years?
... that excavations at Alba Cathedral uncovered an ancient baptistery redesigned as a burial place?
... that the British Museum's oldest African-American object is the Akan Drum that was used to "dance the slaves"?
... that the Pied Crested Cuckoo, which is considered as a harbinger of the monsoon season due to the timing of its arrival, is frequently spotted at Hyderabad's Sanjeevaiah Park?
... that Maria Esperanza de Bianchini, a Venezuelan Servant of God, was reportedly witnessed levitating during mass and engaging in bilocation?
... that after Julius Caesar's civil war military campaign, he planned to distribute land to about 15,000 of his veterans?
... that professional baseball player Erasmo Ramírez was named the pitcher of the year for the Seattle Mariners minor league organization in 2009?
... that the majority of the inhabitants of Saint-Augustin in Quebec, Canada, are Métis – descendants of Inuit and Europeans?
... that although the competition for designing Old Christ Church, Waterloo, Merseyside, was won by a different firm of architects, Paley, Austin and Paley were commissioned to build it?
... that Bhutan was one of the first countries in the world to recognize the independence of Bangladesh in 1971?
... that St Mary's Church, Elsing has, according to Nikolaus Pevsner, "the most sumptuous of all English church brasses"?
... that Oregon cattle baron Bill Hanley died in 1935 after attending Bill Hanley Day at the Pendleton Round-Up?
... that the most valuable biosphere reserve in Poland's Puszcza Piska Forest is home to the Mute Swan , which arrives in numbers reaching up to 2,000 birds in time of moult?
... that an anti-abortion movement commercial, featuring a depiction of President Barack Obama, was CatholicVote.org's first advertisement and recorded over 700,000 hits?
... that Robert Twycross was a pioneer of the hospice movement during the 1970s?
... that Benwick's High Street in Cambridgeshire is built on a rodham—another way of spelling roddon, an East Anglia term for an old watercourse?
... that coffee production in Papua New Guinea slumped by 23 percent in 2000?
... that the spider Tetragnatha extensa can walk on water, where it can move faster than it can on land?
... that black South African footballer Darius Dhlomo went missing on his debut for Dutch club Heracles Almelo because he was unaware that blacks and whites were allowed in the same changing room?
... that the Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling was once used by Zaifeng, the father of Puyi, the last emperor of China?
... that in the 1966 movie Hold On!, the children of American astronauts choose to name a NASA space capsule after the British band Herman's Hermits?
... that writer and broadcaster Clive James made a guest appearance in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as a postman?