derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that according to legend, Hockey Hall of Famer Duke Keats once scored a goal after carrying the puck the length of the ice while skating backwards?
... that the Fonthill vase is the earliest documented example of Chinese porcelain to have reached Europe, in the middle of the 14th century?
... that James H. Turpin was among 23 U.S. cavalrymen awarded the Medal of Honor for "gallantry in actions with Apaches" in the winter campaign of 1872–1873?
... that while John Fawcett was minister of Wainsgate Baptist Church in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, he wrote the words of the hymn Blessed Be the Tie that Binds?
... that audio engineer Bill Porter nearly ruined his first number one record, "The Three Bells" by The Browns, and had to splice two takes together to fix it?
... that on April 5, 1933, the Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh sent President Roosevelt a case of low point beer to celebrate the passing of the Cullen-Harrison Act?
... that American communist Dennis E. Batt took part in the founding of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow in 1921?
... that during World War II, Fort McGilvray sat 650 feet above Alaska's Resurrection Bay to defend against a possible Japanese invasion?
... that early in the history of Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska, its entire animal collection was sold at the end of each year?
... that the Dzungarian Gate, the only gateway through the 3,000-mile (4,800 km) mountain-wall from Manchuria to Afghanistan, has been linked to griffins and the legendary Hyperboreans?
... that the historian William Y. Thompson during the 1950s researched the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the American Red Cross?
... that the Petitcodiac River once held some of the world's highest tidal bores, before a causeway was built in 1968?
... that Irish stage actor Enda Oates' theatrical career includes roles such as Macduff in the play Macbeth and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice?
... that only 9.5% of voters turned out in a Slovak referendum in 1997, due to an opposition boycott?
... that the "dougie" dance referred to in Cali Swag District's "Teach Me How to Dougie" actually originated in Dallas, Texas?
... that Shorty Green led the first players' strike in National Hockey League history as the Hamilton Tigers' players refused to participate in the 1925 playoffs unless they received C$200 bonuses?
... that Henry R. Tilton risked his life protecting wounded soldiers at the Battle of Bear Paw but wasn't awarded the Medal of Honor until almost 20 years after the act?
... that the Dissenters' Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, was the first purpose-built Nonconformist chapel to be built in a public cemetery in England?
... that Ture Königson of the People's Party in Sweden decided the outcome of the crucial 1959 vote on pension reform by abstaining?
... that the football club Ulf-Sandnes altered its name to Sandnes Ulf to accommodate the merger partner Sandnes FK?
... that college lacrosse coach Bud Beardmore led Maryland to the 1975 NCAA tournament championship, despite the fact that the team lost two of its six NCAA games and almost failed to qualify?
... that Andy Williams' album Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes stayed on the Billboard 200 list for over 176 weeks?
... that Don Dodge, a former start-up evangelist for Microsoft, switched from using a Windows-based computer to a Mac-based one after he moved to Google?
... that the rare and endangered Broad Leaved Whitewood of eastern Australian rainforests is a member of the soapberry family?
... that during Maurice W. Long's directorship of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, the Engineering Experiment station set a new record of $5.2 million in grants and contracts?
... that despite great risks, the Polish minesweeper ORP Rybitwa successfully towed her sister ship ORP Mewa to port after Mewa had been hit by German bombs in September 1939?
... that after Ernest L. Oros proposed a bill to tack a $5 surcharge on New Jersey traffic tickets to pay for new police cars, opponents argued that police officers would only be encouraged to give out more tickets?
... that Japanese film director and actress Tomoko Matsunashi was described as one of the Japanese directors who "have brought some needed originality and talent to contemporary Japanese cinema"?
... that GRB 980425 provided the first evidence that gamma-ray bursts and supernovae might be related?
... that Ramón Estévez, who played a sycophantic, "spineless corporal" in Cadence, wore glasses and "his hat most of the time" to keep from being recognized as Charlie Sheen's brother?
... that when first opened, Glenville School in Greenwich, Connecticut, included a community medical clinic?
... that, in his first two and a half years as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Mark Cutifani led a program that reduced the number of fatalities within the company by 70%?
... that Alberta's Big-4 hockey league collapsed in 1921 following repeated accusations its teams were using ineligible players?
... that Steven C. Krane, who was at age 44 the youngest president of the New York State Bar Association, died in June 2010 at the age of 53?
... that the Stanchester Hoard, which was found by metal detectors, is remarkable because the hundreds of Roman coins are not clipped?
... that Tropical Storm Ignacio of August 1997 caused unprecedented rainfall in San Francisco, California, which typically receives only a trace of precipitation during the month?
... that eleven-year-old Ellen Sadler fell asleep in 1871 and purportedly did not wake for nine years?
... that when Danish socialist pioneer and former prisoner Poul Johansen Geleff emigrated to the United States, Danish police helped pay for his travel costs?
... that in 2003, the Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania became the first religious group granted official state recognition since just after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
... that on 28 August 1920, Peter Ronald scored Watford Football Club's first ever Football League goal?
... that Weidmann's Restaurant, established in 1870, is the oldest restaurant in the state of Mississippi?
... that Codex Vaticanus 2061, a double palimpsest, contains some parts of the New Testament, homilies of several authors, and Strabon's Geographica?
... that the grave of Medal of Honor recipient John Tracy was unmarked for almost a century after his interment?
... that when asked if he would be willing to direct all 10 plays in August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle, Israel Hicks replied "Hell, yeah" and accomplished the feat over 20 years of directing?
... that the central monument in Bubanj Memorial Park in Niš, Serbia, is shaped like three huge raised hands with clenched fists?
... that Wally Johansen, a starting guard on the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship team in 1939, later became president of the Oregon State Bar?
... that the unsuccessful 1960 Ethiopian coup was the most serious threat to Emperor Haile Selassie's rule between his return to Ethiopia in 1941 and his deposition in 1974?
... that Sashes Island was the site of a Roman crossing of the River Thames and a Saxon defensive burh?
... that Antonio Liozzi, an 18th-century Italian artist, trained under the tutelage of Marco Benefial?
... that Creole slaves under the leadership of Oude Ram Afrikaner were among the first to call themselves Africans, and that Afrikaans got its name from this appellation?
... that Tiny Gooch, placed third in the discus at the NCAA track championships, won the Southwest Conference heavyweight wrestling championship and was acknowledged as "the tallest attorney in Texas" until 1950?
... that the J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Store building was the flagship Von Maur department store?
... that upon reading Marshall S. Cornwell's poem "Success," American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Cornwell "your gift seems genuine and far above that indicated in verse"?
... that the part of state highway Arkansas Highway 29 that goes through Hope, Arkansas, is referred to as "Bill Clinton Drive"?
... that together with his wife Arvilla, American mycologist Job Bicknell Ellis collected, dried, and distributed 200,000 specimens of fungi to subscribers?
... that Thorvaldsen's equestrian statue of a Polish military hero spent 80 years in the country estate of a Russian Field Marshal but was destroyed within 20 years after its return to Warsaw?
... that geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys, fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s?
... that the Shepherdsville train wreck, which caused about fifty deaths when two trains collided in December 1917, is the deadliest train wreck in the history of Kentucky?
... that Vidyadharas, semi-gods of Hindu mythology, milked Mother Earth, who had assumed the form of a cow, to collect mystic powers and the art of flying as her milk?
... that Mary Virginia Terhune , mother of famed novelist Albert Payson Terhune, was a prolific writer who published over 50 novels and non-fiction works during her lifetime?
... that Gordie Gillespie is the all-time winningest college baseball coach and was also selected as the head coach of the Chicago Tribune all-time Illinois high school football team?
... that the music venue Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, was originally built in 1914 for the Ancient Order of Hibernians?
... that after leading African-American troops in the American Civil War, Alfred Stedman Hartwell became a supreme court judge in the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that an investment group led by Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton converted America's oldest limestone roundhouse to an entertainment center?
... that the United States Army sends Military History Detachments to war zones to collect historical documents, such as oral histories, for writing histories?
... that the Banta-Coe House in Teaneck, New Jersey, is one of the oldest existing homes in the Garden State?
... that The Level Club has been called "the only true-to-size rendering of King Solomon's Temple that exists in the world today"?
... that Mississippian stone statuary , artifacts made by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE), are figurines made of polished stone in the shape of humans?
... that Admiral Sir William Young's clashes with Lord Cochrane led to Frederick Marryat including Young in a novel as 'Sir Hurricane Humbug'?
... that despite losing Belgium to the Allies, Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
... that the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus in Albany, New York, has an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack and assure continuation of the New York State Government?
... that during the week of the release of his fifth studio album Loso's Way, Fabolous decided to contribute to Trey Songz's single "Say Aah"?
... that Bethesda Methodist Chapel in Hanley, Staffordshire, now redundant, has been known as the "Cathedral of the Potteries"?
... that having taken a single dance class at Dartmouth College, Jonathan Wolken co-founded Pilobolus, which The New York Times called "one of the most popular modern-dance companies in the world"?
... that Fujiyama was the tallest roller coaster in the world from 1996 until 2000?
... that research by Clement Finch showed that bloodletting could be an effective treatment for hemochromatosis?
... that the Bukit Timah Monkey Man is a cryptid said to roam around the city-state of Singapore?
... that in the 1650s the Patriarch of Antioch Macarios III Zaim played a large part in the liturgical reforms of the Russian Patriarch Nikon which led to the Raskol schism?
... that the 1978–79 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team played two of its Big Eight Conference opponents four times?
... that Frank Tolan was one of 22 American soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for volunteering to carry water to comrades wounded in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
... that systemin was the first identified plant peptide hormone and helps protect tomato plants against damage from herbivorous insects?
... that George Otlowski resigned after 14 years as mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, describing the job as "like fighting some kind of dragon"?
... that the Shandaken Tunnel reaches its 2,215-foot (675 m) maximum depth below the surface at Deep Notch in Lexington, New York?
... that the experimental fiction project The Mongoliad, led by speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson, is to be released via smartphones as a serialized novel to which readers can contribute?
... that American schoolteacher Rita Abrams and the fourth-grade class in her school recorded an album which featured a Billboard Hot 100 hit and saw her being nominated for a Grammy?
... that in 1577 German Reformation theologian Lucas Maius helped develop a philosophical conundrum known as the 'Devil's Cross' that was said to have turned numerous parishioners away from the devil?
... that 1989–90 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team established school records by scoring 173 points and winning by a 95-point margin three nights later?
... that after earning the Medal of Honor in 1890, U.S. Cavalryman Frederick E. Toy went on to serve as an orderly to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
... that Consolidated Edison distributed dry ice to its customers who lost power during the July 2010 Canada/United States heatwave?
... that one of the professors hired by Beck University, David Barton, was described by founder Glenn Beck as "the Library of Congress in shoes"?
... that although Princess Louise of Prussia was noble-born, her daughter Elisabeth Radziwill was considered an unsuitable marriage prospect for future emperor Wilhelm I?
... that when the Chicago Junction Railway stopped regularly maintaining the Kenwood branch, the Chicago Rapid Transit Company refused to pay rent on the line?
... that only 1,404 people died in the 1930 Irpinia earthquake, despite 70% of houses being destroyed near the epicenter, as most villagers were sleeping in the fields during the wheat harvest?
... that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine is the largest current producer of gold in Colorado?
... that Liberal Democratic Party member Akihiko Kumashiro, a four-termer in Japan's House of Representatives, dropped out of a race for re-election when his party fielded another candidate against him?
... that 650,000 cubic yards (500,000 m3) of sediment were taken from Kingman Lake in Washington, D.C., and replaced with twice as much fill to build approach ramps to the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge?
... that the National Archives of Indonesia holds the largest archive collection related to the Dutch East India Company worldwide?
... that Knobbed porgies are born female, but become males over their lifetimes?
... that a chasse is a medieval box shaped like a house or church, and usually a reliquary?
... that Blount Island in the St. Johns River is home to both the United States Marine Corps' Maritime Prepositioning ship program and the largest container facility at the Port of Jacksonville?
... that Polish lawyer Henryk Cederbaum was expelled from the bar after defending a Polish shopkeeper who accused the Russian governor-general's wife of shoplifting?
... that the 1987–88 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team, which was led by three future NBA Draft first round selections, defeated every ranked opponent they faced and averaged 102.5 points per game?
... that by the time of his death in 1847, Vice-Admiral William Young had spent 70 years serving in the Royal Navy?
... that the honorary president of Bendinat, Majorca's exclusive golf club, is King Juan Carlos of Spain?
... that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata found in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs?
... that in 1725, Louis Congo received freedom from slavery in exchange for becoming the public executioner of Louisiana?
... that the Snellen eye chart developed by Hermann Snellen in 1862 is the top-selling poster in U.S. history?
... that Bach composed Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a in 1719 as a congratulatory cantata for the court of Anhalt-Köthen?
... that after being ambushed by the Tonto Apaches, U.S. Calvaryman Bernard Taylor carried his wounded commanding officer half a mile back to their encampment under heavy fire?
... that the 1988–89 Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team set a school record by scoring 100 points twenty times?
... that Swedish singer Anna-Lena Löfgren had more than 40 songs on Svensktoppen between 1962 and 1995?
... that volcanic eruptions may have contributed to the population decline of the Pink-headed Warbler?
... that the first Spinka Rebbe, Joseph Meir Weiss, was buried in Romania in 1909, but reinterred in Petah Tikva, Israel in 1972?
... that in 1997, Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Richie Castellano persuaded Paul McCartney to sing with the CHS Guitar Ensemble at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts?
... that Egon Schiele's 1912 Portrait of Wally was seized by the United States Customs Service which alleged that the painting was Nazi plunder?
... that "Quién Como Tú" is the third number-one single on the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart for Mexican singer-songwriter Ana Gabriel?
... that after the broadcast of images of nude paintings of Brian Cowen on RTÉ, Cathal Goan was asked to "consider his position" as Director-General of RTÉ?
... that in 1772, Lieutenant Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn claimed sovereignty over Western Australia on behalf of France?
... that for its first two years, the Norwegian newspaper Telemarksavisa was not published out of Telemark, but from Larvik and Drammen?
... that Danny Valencia, who after being drafted only 576th in baseball's 2006 draft said: "It does not matter where you start, but where you finish", debuted in the majors in 2010?
... that the easy-to-grow swamp orchid Phaius australis of eastern Australia is endangered with extinction?
... that U.S. Cavalry officer William Foster earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in a surprise raid on the Comanche Indians at the Red River in 1872?
... that Alex "Action" Mann wears a parka, a wetsuit, and a space suit in Action Man: Search for Base X?
... that cricketer Ian Botham's three five-wicket hauls in the 1981 Ashes series led to the nickname "Botham's Ashes"?
... that Camilla Tilling was the soprano soloist in Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in the opening concert of the Rheingau Musik Festival 2010, conducted by Paavo Järvi?
... that the 1920s cost of US$30,000-per-mile ($658,000-per-mile in 2010 dollars) was a major deterrent to the completion of U.S. Route 30 in Iowa?
... that the weeping willow planted by John Parke Custis on his Abingdon plantation is known as the progenitor of all weeping willows in the United States?
... that six Israeli soldiers may face disciplinary action for filming a viral dance video called IDF Tick Tock?
... that Janusz Krupski , who died in the 2010 Polish air force crash in Smolensk, was kidnapped in 1983 by the communist-era secret police and burned with acid, but that his thick sweater saved his life?
... that Eagle Butte Mine in Gillette, Wyoming, is an open-pit "truck and shovel" mine that has produced over 500 million short tons of coal since 1978?
... that John H. Foley was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading a charge into a Sioux encampment without knowing the enemy's strength?
... that Holy Spirit College in Atlanta, Georgia, will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year?
... that Irish Socialist Republican Party co-founder Robert Dorman became the first Labour Party member of the Senate of Northern Ireland?
... that Ed Reulbach of the 1908 Chicago Cubs is the only pitcher in Major League Baseball history to have pitched two shutouts on the same day?
... that Jean-Joseph Marcel was first to realize that the middle text of the Rosetta Stone was Egyptian demotic script, and not Syriac?
... that the plot of Pac-Man Pinball Advance focuses on the kidnapping of all the residents of Pac-Land by the four ghosts Inky, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde?
... that the identity of the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was ascertained based on notes written in 1503 by Florentine clerk Agostino Vespucci?
... that six-year-old Elena Desserich left hundreds of notes, which were published in Notes Left Behind, for her parents to find after her death?
... that Erysiphe alphitoides, which causes powdery mildew on oak trees, is one of the most common diseases in European forests today, but may have originated in the tropics?
... that the Louisiana Reconstruction politician Marshall H. Twitchell survived six bullets in an 1876 assassination attempt but lost the use of both arms?
... that although St Benet's Chapel, Netherton, Liverpool, was built in 1793, when Catholics were free to worship openly, it was concealed behind the presbytery?
... that the Nazi false flag liquidation operation Blumenpflücken has, well into the 1990s, misled people to believe that non-Nazis carried out certain liquidations?
... that, two years after winning the Medal of Honor for gallantry in the American Indian Wars, George W. Thompson deserted the U.S. Army?
... that woodworkers from the Vietnamese village of Kim Bồng created not only detail work for Huế's Imperial City, but also an entire warship for the Spanish navy?
... that the Hindu goddess Chhaya was born from the shadow of goddess Sanjna and replaced Sanjna in her house, after the latter abandoned her husband?
... that in June 1940 the Royal Air Force supplied the boats for Operation Collar, the first British raid on occupied France?
... that the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary?
... that the National Library of Indonesia was established in 1980 through a consolidation of four libraries?
... that Thomas H. Paterniti introduced legislation in the state of New Jersey that would hold owners of adult bookstores liable if individuals contracted AIDS as a result of sexual activity on the premises?
... that Gunsa Airport started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming the fourth civil airport in Tibet, providing easy access for pilgrims to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarovar?
... that the Russian battleship Ioann Zlatoust was named for Saint John Chrysostom?
... that the Frome Hoard was found by a metal detectorist just 35 cm (14 in) below ground in Somerset and contained 52,503 Roman coins ?
... that Herb Gardiner, nicknamed "the ironman of hockey", won the Hart Trophy as most valuable player after being said to have played every minute of every game for the Montreal Canadiens in 1926–27?
... that the 1957 election in Zanzibar was the first election to be held in East Africa?
... that although it cost just £500,000 to make, on its opening day Morris: A Life with Bells On had a higher take per screen than the studio-backed big budget film The Soloist?
... that the extent of damage to buildings in the 1978 Miyagi earthquake caused revisions to both the Japanese Building Standards act and the Earthquake Insurance System?
... that Frankliniella tritici, known as Eastern flower thrips, is an insect that damages crops in the United States of America, including strawberries, grapes, beans and asparagus?
... that in 1962, biophysicist Jerome Wolken proposed sending cockroaches into space as part of an effort to detect signs of extraterrestrial life?
... that most people orient their toilet paper with the loose end hanging over the top and away from the wall ?
... that the first ever boycott to be given that name was organised by the Irish Land League against Captain Charles Boycott?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Mosienko is most famous for scoring three goals in a span of 21 seconds in a 1952 game, a feat that remains a National Hockey League record?
... that the Koebel House was the first commission for the father-and-son firm of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, and included a built-in electrical and sound system controlled from the master bedroom?
... that a Catholic church in the Lithuanian town of Valkininkai claims to have the body of Saint Boniface of Tarsus, a 4th-century martyr?
... that the bay of Fort-Liberté was the site of the Caribbean's largest sisal plantation until nylon was invented?