derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that one of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Commuter Rail stations is located in Rhode Island?
... that actor and mime artist Jack Birkett, who was often billed as "The Incredible Orlando", continued to perform on stage and in films after becoming totally blind?
... that the painting Landscape, Branchville was owned by J. Alden Weir, who said "I would sooner lose my right arm than sell one of Johnnie Twachtman's paintings"?
... that it has been said that the flesh of the mushroom Macrolepiota excoriata tastes like hazelnut?
... that Zeke Zechella, who was instrumental in the building of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, was unable to complete a single floating nuclear power plant during his nearly nine years as president of Offshore Power Systems?
... that Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom, the oldest Orthodox Jewish congregation on Long Island, once fired its rabbi after he was alleged to have been caught eating ham in a saloon?
... that in Codex Tischendorfianus III Gospels of Matthew and Mark are written in minuscule, Gospels of Luke and John in uncial script?
... that William Hanna claimed that the Tom and Jerry character Jerry Mouse was named Jinx in his first appearance, while Joseph Barbera claimed that the mouse went nameless?
... that New Zealand rower Rob Hamill has also stood as a political candidate, and his brother was a victim of the Khmer Rouge?
... that Saint Subber produced seven Neil Simon plays on Broadway, five of which were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play?
... that the Madagascar bat Paratriaenops auritus has a noseleaf with three straight, about equally long lancets?
... that American chemist Robert L. McNeil, Jr. was responsible for the commercial development of Tylenol, for which he coined the generic name "acetaminophen"?
... that Hans Litten so rattled Adolf Hitler on the witness stand that, years later, Hitler told Prince Wilhelm of Prussia that even he would be sent to a concentration camp if he supported Litten?
... that Montmorency River in Quebec was visited by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, and the named river began appearing in maps as early as 1641?
... that the comedy film House!, called an "Ealing-style light comedy", tells the story of how an aged bingo hall deals with the encroachment of an international conglomerate?
... that Frank Chapman was once thought to have made his only Major League Baseball appearance at age 14?
... that the White Horse Prophecy, attributed to Mormon founder Joseph Smith, is "not embraced as Church doctrine" by the Mormon Church?
... that Cuneus Prophetarum is considered the most prominent work of early Albanian literature?
... that John J. Matheussen introduced legislation in the New Jersey Senate in 1999 to implement the US$1 billion property tax rebate proposed by Governor Christine Todd Whitman?
... that English jockey Mornington Cannon was named after the mount his father rode to victory on the day he was born?
... that Banksia aemula is thought to have inspired "Banksia Men" – the villains in the children's story by May Gibbs?
... that Queen Chennabhairadevi, who ruled for 54 years from Gersoppa under the Vijayanagara Empire in Uttara Kannada, India, was credited with building the Mirjan Fort in the 16th century?
... that Eleazar Roberts pioneered the tonic sol-fa method of sight-singing in Wales?
... that California's first State House was originally a hotel in San Jose owned by businessman Pierre "Don Pedro" Sainsevain and his associates?
... that as the mayor in the 1910s of Homer, Louisiana, Andrew R. Johnson worked to bring electric lights and water works to the municipality?
... that the various state monuments to William Smeathers, a pioneer settler of Kentucky and Texas, use three different versions of his name (Smeathers, Smithers and Smothers)?
... that the Roman marble Sleeping Ariadne of the Vatican Museums was for centuries called Cleopatra because her armband was mistaken for Cleopatra's asp?
... that defeated incumbent congressmen in the Philippine House of Representatives elections were expected "to raise hell" in the canvassing of votes for the presidential election?
... that although it was intended for operation from 1930s aircraft carriers, the SNCAO CAO.600 had twin engines?
... that the Forest Park Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, was once owned by Harold Butler, founder of the restaurant chain Denny's?
... that flautist Marina Piccinini recorded Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach, in collaboration with the Brasil Guitar Duo, who won a scholarship at the Concert Artists Guild, twenty years after Piccinini did so?
... that now-retired professional wrestler Scotty Summers was once powerbombed during a match and had to be carried backstage on a stretcher?
... that before a man, Tor Halvorsen, replaced the deceased Sonja Ludvigsen as Minister of Social Affairs, a newspaper claimed that the only certain thing was that the new Minister "will be a woman"?
... that Fossas have lengthy mating sessions because the male's erect penis has backwards-pointing spines along most of its length?
... that Ingeborg Reichelt performed the soprano part of the Bach cantata Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39, written for the first Sunday after Trinity of 1726?
... that the Mountain Pass rare earth mine was the largest mine for rare earth metals in the 1970s and 1980s?
... that in his youth, professional baseball player Kettle Wirts would play sandlot ball with Earl Kunz, another future professional player?
... that at the time of its discovery in 2003, GRB 031203 was the faintest gamma-ray burst ever recorded?
... that Chris Haney and Scott Abbott developed Trivial Pursuit in about an hour one night in 1979, a game which went on to sell 100 million copies worldwide?
... that the marble column used for the Civil War Memorial in Adrian, Michigan, was originally part of the former Bank of Pennsylvania building in Philadelphia?
... that professional gambler Brian Zembic had size 38C breast implants inserted into his chest to win a $100,000 bet?
... that Joe Mauer , a first-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins, is the only catcher in Major League Baseball history to have won three batting titles?
... that the mosquito Psorophora howardii can puncture through a coat, vest, and two shirts?
... that Vern Partlow's satirical song "Old Man Atom" was a hit record in the U.S. in July 1950, but a month later it was removed from store shelves for allegedly containing pro-communist propaganda?
... that U-1022 was commissioned into the Kriegsmarine on June 7, 1944, the day after the Allied invasion of Normandy?
... that the defeat of his army in the Siege of Berat ended Charles of Anjou's designs to invade the Byzantine Empire over land?
... that in English law, trusts for the construction of tombs are invalid if the tombs are "capricious and wasteful"?
... that the railroads controlled by Alfred Holland Smith in 1918 carried one half of United States freight?
... that in the town of the Chau Doc massacre, anti-government forces spread the superstition that one can fly by killing 20 people, and become an angel by killing 100?
... that in his depiction of the Denial of Peter episode , Rembrandt portrayed Jesus in the distance, his hands bound behind him, turning to look at Peter who faced away from him?
... that Gerald Roush had details of the original specifications, later modifications and ownership history of nearly every one of the 130,000 Ferraris ever manufactured?
... that the evangelist Elijah Cadman originated the idea that The Salvation Army should wear uniforms?
... that at 270 seconds, GRB 011211 became the longest gamma-ray burst detected by BeppoSAX by 2002?
... that audio innovator Fritz Sennheiser was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with its Scientific and Engineering Award for his development of the MKH 816 shotgun microphone?
... that in the Battle of Prinitza, 300 Achaean soldiers defeated a far superior Byzantine army, allegedly numbering 15,000 men?
... that in what The New York Times described as a "food fight", Assemblymember Clare Farragher argued that the tomato, rather than the blueberry, should be chosen as New Jersey's official state fruit?
... that French porcelain started in the 17th century by imitating Chinese blue and white porcelain?
... that while Archbishop of Adelaide, Leonard Faulkner refused to eliminate the practice of communal confession, despite pressure from the Vatican?
... that although its name means boundary ditch, the Mardyke is actually a river that flows into the Thames at Purfleet?
... that in 1952, flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer was the first woman to be named principal chair of a major US orchestra?
... that the 2002 Mindanao earthquake, which caused flooding and a tsunami, was the sixth most powerful earthquake of 2002?
... that Gabriel Vargas became a chief draftsman by age 16 and went on to win the Mexican "Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (National Sciences and Arts Prize)"?
... that the Telegraph Act 1870 resulted in the value of shares in the Isle of Man Telegraph Company being increased to 160 times their former value?
... that white Republican State Senator Norman M. Robertson criticized New Jersey's 2001 redistricting plan, stating "that the map is racist" in reducing the voting strength of African-American voters?
... that on 25 April 1916, Royal Flying Corps ace David Tidmarsh was awarded an aerial victory without firing a shot from his Airco DH.2 , or getting within a quarter mile of his enemy?
... that the civil rights attorney Jesse N. Stone, Jr., was in the first graduating class in 1950 of the historically black Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge?
... that Colorado State Highway 64 is named the Stegosaurus Freeway in Dinosaur?
... that in 1953, newspaper editor Erling Hall-Hofsø was imprisoned for refusing to unveil his source for a news piece?
... that according to police investigators, Ian Davison had enough ricin in his home to kill 1,000 people?
... that seven of the seventeen apostles that Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus sent out died on their journeys?
... that despite being paralysed from the chest down British Paralympic skier Talan Skeels-Piggins serves as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserves?
... that Breandán Ó Buachalla was considered "the leading authority on Gaelic poetry and writing in early modern Ireland" and "one of the most prominent Irish language academics of his generation"?
... that the tick Ornithodoros erraticus spreads the African swine fever virus in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal)?
... that Aline Hofheimer painted a 126-foot fresco representing aviation history in Roosevelt Field, Long Island?
... that the strongest earthquake in Germany reported to date struck Düren on February 18, 1756?
... that the New York Yankees sent pitcher Ernest Groth to the Oakland Oaks to make up for an earlier deal that did not work out?
... that the 21 km New Danube in Vienna has been described by UN-HABITAT as "the first truly multipurpose fully sustainable flood protection scheme"?
... that singer Lissie was invited to open for Lenny Kravitz after he saw her MySpace page?
... that some of the functions of windmills in Leeuwarden were cement manufacture, fulling, oil extraction, producing dyes, gunpowder and paints, snuff production and tanning?
... that the American soul-blues musician L.V. Johnson's track "I Don't Really Care", was sampled by Strong Arm Steady on their 2010 album In Search of Stoney Jackson?
... that prior to the Recreational Charities Act 1958, the English courts refused to accept any charities involving recreational activities as valid?
... that if the remote supergiant Delta Canis Majoris were as close to us as Sirius, it would be as bright as a half-full moon?
... that now-retired professional wrestler Mark Freer was once handcuffed to ring ropes and beaten with a nightstick at the end of a match?
... that before Ferdinand II became Holy Roman Emperor, he settled claims with the other Habsburgs in the secret Oñate treaty?
... that reliable water flow from the Sun Kosi, in mountainous Nepal, is proposed to be diverted through a 16.6 kilometres (10.3 mi) tunnel to the Kamala River for irrigation and other purposes?
... that the Detroit blues singer Calvin Frazier's "This Old World's in a Tangle" was both the title of the first song he recorded, and of a 1993 compilation album issued by Laurie Records?
... that Rønne, a town on the Danish island of Bornholm, was bombed by Soviet fighter aircraft during World War II?
... that after an effort to elect left-wing Democrats to the U.S. Congress failed in 1946, the Union for Democratic Action was disbanded and Americans for Democratic Action formed to replace it?
... that Cyrille Dion won the first U.S. professional pool championship in 1878?
... that the Via Josephina was commissioned in 1775 by Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor after he reportedly fell from his horse while traveling from Senj?
... that completed in 1930, the Andrew Johnson Building was the tallest building in Knoxville, Tennessee, until 1979?
... that the Port of Jacksonville is the second busiest vehicle-handling port on the east coast of the United States?
... that 1993 Eurovision Song Contest winner Niamh Kavanagh overcame voice and dress problems to make her return in the 2010 contest in Oslo, Norway?
... that MasterChef Australia contestant Marion Grasby was awarded one of only nine journalism cadetships offered nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 2006?
... that Yangluo Bridge near Wuhan, China, is tied with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, United States, as the ninth longest suspension bridge in the world?
... that the geology of New Zealand's Northland region includes exotic seafloor rocks, an extinct volcanic arc, and a massive tombolo?
... that 1912 Olympic champion Jim Thorpe was stripped of his track and field medals after it was discovered he had played baseball professionally?
... that Bonaventure Broderick ran a gas station for 40 years until Cardinal Francis Spellman restored him as an Auxiliary Bishop?
... that although the hemline of the traje de flamenca rose as far as the knees in the 1960s and '70s, it has now returned to the traditional ankle length?
... that it has been difficult to establish when the Oliver Barrett House near Millerton, New York, was built since there are no records of it until 14 years after its likely construction date?
... that the oldest running wood-burning locomotive in Hawaii, now at Grove Farm Museum, one of two heritage railways in Kauai, was almost sold for $500 to the Disney Company in the 1970s?
... that Juwan Howard was the first student–athlete to graduate on time along with his class after declaring early for the NBA Draft and joining the National Basketball Association?
... that Eric Selleck was the first hockey player to be a SUNYAC Rookie of the Year and MVP in consecutive years?
... that the estuarine, burrow-dwelling ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis is used as bait, but is sometimes attacked with insecticides because it damages Pacific oyster farms?
... that ten New Zealand soldiers lost their lives in 1917 in the Bere Ferrers rail accident due to being unaccustomed to the British railway system?
... that poet and author Kostas Krystallis escaped to Greece after being denounced by the Ottoman authorities for writing a patriotic collection of poetry?
... that baseball is the University of Pittsburgh's oldest sport, with its first recorded game in 1869?
... that Wallaby Myer Rosenblum employed future Prime Minister of Australia John Howard as an articled clerk in 1959?
... that the opera Didone abbandonata (Dido Abandoned) of Domenico Sarro, successful in 1724, was revived by harpsichordist, conductor and musicologist Ludger Rémy?
... that the four Ersatz Monarch-class battleships planned for the Austro-Hungarian Navy were expected to cost 82 million kronen each, but none were ever completed?
... that American sprinter Jeff Williams won his first World Championship medal at the age of 29 under the guidance of women's Olympic medalist Barbara Ferrell?
... that Madonna’s first producer purchased an old chandelier factory in 1981, which has been used to record tracks by Queen Latifah, INXS and Taking Back Sunday?
... that Chinese Australian soldier Caleb Shang was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal partly for his skill with lamps?
... that when he transferred his house near Millerton, New York, to his sons, Thomas N. Wheeler required that they allow their older sister to live there for the rest of her life?
... that Dutch malacologist Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen is an expert in African land snails?
... that Orientalism in early modern France started from the time of Francis I in the 16th century, with the work of Guillaume Postel?
... that one of the outstanding Parisian Louis XV ébénistes remained a mystery until 1957, as his maker's stamp just reads BVRB?
... that the extinct Hipposideros besaoka was the largest insectivorous bat of Madagascar?
... that President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently launched TV Brasil Internacional, a Portuguese language television station aimed at 49 African nations?
... that Pike Hill Signal Tower was built by the Romans as part of fortifying the Stanegate and was later incorporated into Hadrian's Wall?
... that Lofty Large once floored a donkey with a single punch while fighting rebels in Oman?
... that, according to a UN independent investigation headed by Paul Volcker , during the AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal, AWB paid more than $221.7 million in illicit transfers to the regime of Saddam Hussein?
... that cattle infested with ticks can be treated with an extract from the African tree Margaritaria discoidea?
... that during World War II, the Arkansas politician Jefferson W. Speck was a POW transported on the Japanese Hell ship, the Oryoku Maru?
... that Computer Usage Company was the first company devoted to developing computer software in 1955, but went bankrupt in 1986?
... that Brian Eno, one of the principal innovators of ambient music, played synthesisers on Coldplay's 2007 single "White Shadows"?
... that all nine individuals who served as Michigan Wolverines head football coaches from 1900 to 1989 have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame?
... that the Literary Review said of a novel by Daisy Waugh "Cold Comfort Farm meets Goodbye, Mr. Chips"?
... that Donna Simpson maintains a website where male fans pay to watch videos of her eating and measuring her waistline?
... that in 1931, frame-by-frame analysis of a movie was used to determine why the Gee Bee Model Z crashed?
... that in 1985, former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Rufus D. Hayes sold 14 acres of land to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries for $750,000?
... that Clouded Magpie moths resemble bird droppings while they are resting on the upper surface of leaves?
... that during a match in 2000, professional wrestler Ricky Blues left the ring to argue with hecklers at ringside?
... that the Bryansk State Agricultural Academy (BSAA) in the Bryansk Oblast rural locality of Kokino has a notable library of some 410,000 volumes?
... that the K-105 ski jumping hill in Schanzen Einsiedeln is named after World Championships winner Andreas Küttel?
... that the shooting ranges at Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Massachusetts, were closed after a bullet ricocheted and nearly hit a mother and her toddler?
... that in Serbian tradition, a zmajevit was a man whose spirit could leave his body while he was asleep, and fly skywards to fight against the demon ala that led hail clouds over fields to destroy crops?
... that the Tibet Museum in Lhasa, established in 1999, is the first large-sized modern museum in the Tibet Autonomous Region?
... that retired Sacramento bishop Alden John Bell was stabbed in his office while preparing for a trip to see Pope John Paul II?
... that in 1851, Jackey Jackey, a young Aboriginal Australian, was awarded a specially engraved silver breastplate for heroic deeds by the then-Governor of New South Wales?
... that the battleship Moreno was the subject of multiple disputes between Argentina and the United States?
... that the Ancient Forest Alliance, founded in British Columbia to protect endangered old growth forests and ensure sustainable forestry jobs, grew to over 6,000 members in only two months?
... that 13-year-old Jordan Romero recently became the youngest mountaineer to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
... that Paraguayan and jarocho harpist Celso Duarte began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and the Getty Center?
... that an English Heritage investigation found that Milecastle 9, on Hadrian's Wall, was one of two milecastles damaged by farming?
... that Charles Jenkins of Hofstra University is only the ninth repeat-winner of the Haggerty Award in its 75-year history?
... that Eiliv Austlid was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his command in the rescue of the Norwegian government during World War II, after Trygve Lie maligned him for it?
... that Franklin Canyon Park was where the famous hitchhiking scene from It Happened One Night and the opening from The Andy Griffith Show were filmed?
... that Theodor Grotthuss published the first basically correct concept for the charge transport in an electrolyte in 1806?
... that Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot Raymond V. Haysbert became a successful African-American CEO after World War II and later chaired the Greater Baltimore Urban League until his recent death at age 90?
... that in southern France, people were inflicted with acute renal insufficiency because they confused Amanita ovoidea with the poisonous species Amanita proxima?
... that the fungal plant pathogen Taphrina padi turns the fruits of infected Bird Cherry trees into distinctive, elongated, tongue-like structures?
... that the source of the Ha Chhu river in Bhutan is located to the south of Chomo Lhari (Mountain of the Goddess)?
... that four separate wrestlers suffered legitimate injuries at WWE's Over the Limit pay-per-view?
... that Eledone moschata is an octopus that smells of musk?
... that members of the Arlington Ladies attend the funeral of every servicemember buried at Arlington National Cemetery?
... that the extinct plant genus Dillhoffia cannot be placed into a flowering plant family at this time?
... that Saint George's Church in Gavril Genovo, northwestern Bulgaria, features vernacular Gothic Revival details and "puzzling" archaic decoration?
... that Czechoslovak General Heliodor Píka was accused of espionage and high treason on the basis of an "appalling" and "unimaginably inefficient bit of forgery"?
... that possible relatives of the extinct Madagascar mammal Plesiorycteropus include hedgehogs, aardvarks, and hyraxes, and its remains have been misidentified as rodents and the giant aye-aye?
... that Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003?
... that the 15th-century monastery of Saint Paraskevi, in Epirus, northwestern Greece, is situated on the edge of the Vikos Gorge ?
... that Commodore William Martin threatened to reduce Naples to ashes unless King Charles agreed to his demands?
... that a species of mushroom in the genus Phlebopus can attain cap diameters of up to 1 meter (3.3 ft)?
... that the 2001 film Gosford Park received seven Academy Award nominations, but came away with only one award?
... that Joseph Mabry's death in a shootout with another businessman was chronicled by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi?
... that the Windswept Helmet-orchid of Macquarie Island is threatened by rabbit digging and seal wallowing?
... that New Jersey General Assemblyman Peter J. Genova sponsored a bill that would make English the state's official language, stating that "Spanish has just grown too prominent in New Jersey"?
... that an invocation to the Norse god Thor is hidden on the Sønder Kirkeby Runestone using bind runes located in the waves under a ship image?
... that college football coach Billy Laval modified his team's jerseys to help a color-blind quarterback find his receivers?
... that the foundations of the redundant church of St Andrew, Woodwalton, Cambridgeshire, are moving and it is closed to visitors?