derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Jim Tuck named his pioneering fusion power system the Perhapsatron, reflecting his skepticism that it would actually work?
... that the French ironclad Richelieu , cast loose by her tugboat during a storm in the Bay of Biscay while being towed to the ship breakers in 1911, survived the storm and was recovered near the Scilly Isles?
... that the animal characters in ABC's 1986 primetime special, The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure, were based on biblical figures?
... that British Cheney Racing hand-built motorcycles can take over 400 hours to complete?
... that the Emancipation Proclamation was ceremoniously read on the 140th anniversary of its signing under the oak tree where Mary Smith Peake taught children of former slaves in 1861?
... that Ch. Rocky Top's Sundance Kid is the most successful Colored Bull Terrier show dog of all time?
... that Nevada politician Sharron Angle serves as a legislative chairwoman for the National Foundation for Women Legislators?
... that in a 1988 administrative law judgment, the High Court of Singapore held that an alien allowed to enter the country for a fixed period has no legitimate expectation of staying a day longer?
... that though his work usually appeared to have been painted very quickly, Stephen Pace often made subtle fixes to his art, saying of himself, "You might call me a fake Zen painter"?
... that the Gwich'yaa, easternmost of the Gwich’in groups in Alaska, derive income from trapping and from selling handicrafts?
... that five players from the 1969–70 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team were selected in the NBA Draft?
... that the Kebbi Emirate in Nigeria is one of the "seven bastard kingdoms" whose rulers trace their lineage back to a Hausa king's concubine?
... that there is a 9 ft bronze statue of the founder of the American SPCA, Henry Bergh, petting an injured dog, standing in Milwaukee since 1891?
... that St Nicholas of Myra's Church, Ozleworth, has one of the only two hexagonal towers in Gloucestershire?
... that folk singers Kathy & Carol released their second album 45 years after their debut?
... that to honour Jaguar Cars' 75th anniversary, the carmaker developed the Jaguar C-X75, a plug-in hybrid two-seat concept car which debuted at the 2010 Paris Motor Show?
... that Brian Rose was Somerset County Cricket Club's most successful captain, leading the side to five one-day trophies in as many years?
... that, in pre-independence Swaziland, French was taught in the colony's three White-only high schools?
... that at the helm of United Artists, Andy Albeck oversaw production of Raging Bull, a film considered one of the greatest ever, and Heaven's Gate, the biggest box office bomb at the time?
... that the only exit from a Tett turret could expose a soldier trying to leave the fortification to direct fire from the enemy?
... that Len Garrison's writings about black British identity and history led to formation of the Black Cultural Archives, and plans for the first UK national Black heritage centre in 2011?
... that trumpeter Gracie Cole was the first woman to compete for the Alexander Owen memorial scholarship in 1942—and won by an unprecedented 21-point margin?
... that when Helmut de Boor taught at the University of Bern, his neighbours objected to his many young German visitors, but also to his red and orange car paid for by the German embassy?
... that Jack Parkinson passed up a Major League Baseball contract with the Cincinnati Reds to play for Adolph Rupp and the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team?
... that The CW Television Network plans to develop an adaption of the hit German sitcom Danni Lowinski, marking the first time a German TV series is adapted for American audiences?
... that the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center was created in July 2008 to protect American consumers from potentially harmful trade goods?
... that one of the 15 bridges in Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, is the Bridge of Love, enclosed by love padlocks?
... that a tributary of the Chusovaya River naturally dives underground for about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi)?
... that the southernmost section of the Wellington Fault in North Island, New Zealand, has moved at a rate of 6.0–7.6 mm (0.24–0.30 in) per year for the last 140,000 years, shown by the offset of dated river terraces?
... that after crashing in the North Sea in February 1916, the crew of the Zeppelin L.19 died because the crew of a British fishing boat refused to rescue them?
... that, while serving in the Solomon Islands during World War II, Austin Volk discovered a river which he named "Brown Bear River" in honor of his alma mater, Brown University?
... that Walk in My Shoes by Arthur Holch, aired by ABC in 1961, "to a degree never before achieved in TV documentary" depicted life "in the Negro's world and sharing the frustration that is his lot"?
... that letters from the 17th-century Catholic monk Ansaldo Cebà to a married Jewish woman, Sara Copia Sullam, included elements of sexual innuendo and physical allusions?
... that the Central Market in Ljubljana was designed by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik?
... that despite using clean coal, Prairie State Energy Campus, due to go online in August 2011, may become the largest source of carbon dioxide built in the United States in a quarter-century?
... that St Wilfrid's Church and its rectory in Ribchester, Lancashire, were constructed in the 13th century of sandstone rubble?
... that in his final season as Princeton Tigers men's basketball head coach, John Thompson III led the 2003–04 team to the 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
... that the world's littlest skyscraper, located in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, is only 40 ft (12 m) tall, with exterior dimensions of 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m)?
... that a "temporary" regent of Nigeria's Idoani Confederacy ended up ruling the state for over 14 years, as the chiefs couldn't agree on the succession?
... that in 1883, after Robert Russ was persuaded to donate 600 acres (240 ha) of land for a new townsite in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, the town was called Russ Town—today the city of Ruston and the parish seat?
... that a student-run high school station is the only oldies radio station in the market of Knoxville, Tennessee?
... that Alan Pastrana played as a linebacker in his first season at Maryland, but was switched to quarterback and set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for passing touchdowns in 1966?
... that the Dutch Ter Apel Monastery, founded by the Croziers, used to make money by selling loam, dug from land owned by the neighboring hamlet of Weerdinge, to the hamlet of Roswinkel?
... that Albanian Grand Vizier Davud Pasha built the largest public baths in the Balkans?
... that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in Belize has revealed evidence of a Mayan city?
... that Stevie Wonder said that "professionally, I could not talk about my life without there being a chapter on how Dick Griffey, as a promoter, helped to build my career"?
... that Redline, Madhouse's latest anime movie, took seven years and 100,000 hand-made drawings to be produced?
... that portable palisades carried by Texians at the Battle of Velasco were completely ineffective against Mexican gunfire?
... that soprano Dolores Wilson lamented that "the Italian I'd learned by studying operas enabled me to talk intelligently only about poisons and suicide and tragic love affairs"?
... that in Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker asks why the number of Americans disabled by mental illness nearly doubled since 1987 ?
... that a deadly anti-Semitic riot involving approximately 10,000 people erupted in Warsaw in 1922 in response to a planned concert of Yiddish song by soprano Isa Kremer? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Isa Kremer and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Archive 7#Did you know? 18:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC), as well as at WT:DYK#Printing corrections and apologies.)
... that Holly Madison's personal assistant Angel Porrino will replace her in the lead role of the Las Vegas production Peepshow for nine weeks in 2011?
... that in 1418 Margery Kempe was tried for Lollardy in All Saints Church, Leicester?
... that the Supreme Court of Bangladesh declared the 1982 military coup led by General Hussain Muhammad Ershad to be illegal?
... that in 1860 schoolteacher Thomas Hopley was found guilty of manslaughter for the beating to death of a student described as "stolid and stupid"?
... that a human skull was found from the Ratcliff Site "perforated with seven holes, and had evidently been held as a trophy, the holes being the score of enemies slaughtered in battle by the wearer"?
... that before her death in 2007, Nevenka Urbanova was the oldest living Serbian actor?
... that the Lombardy Apartment Building has been named one of the Cincinnati region's best examples of late 19th century urban Victorian architecture?
... that the Superintendent of the Otago Province, John Hyde Harris, would have played an even more important role in New Zealand politics but for his difficult financial situation?
... that the 1979–80 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team of the Ivy League played seven games against participants in the 1980 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, although they did not play in the tournament themselves?
... that the character Cad Bane in Star Wars: The Clone Wars was inspired after George Lucas suggested that the bounty hunter in the series should go Western?
... that even though it was outside the city at the time, the medieval Church of St George in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, was Kyustendil's cathedral until 1816?
... that Bill Andriette was 15 years old when he joined the pedophile organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)?
... that the land around the St. Johns River Light in Jacksonville, Florida, has been raised 7 feet (2.1 m), burying the door and making the tower accessible only through a window 8 feet (2.4 m) off the ground?
... that Bryant Fleming's 1927 renovations to the Keeney House in Le Roy, New York, made it a more purely Federal-style building?
... that the first Orthodox Christian service ever held in Canada was conducted by the Russian Church and took place in 1897 in the tiny hamlet of Wostok, Alberta?
... that with his appointment to the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1979, Stephen Lachs was the first openly gay judge appointed in the United States?
... that one of the venues of the 1904 Summer Olympics was Forest Park, the site of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition?
... that Kalaallit Jørgen Brønlund was a member of the 1902–1903 Danish Literary Greenland Expedition, along with Knud Rasmussen, Harald Moltke, and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen?
... that Sean Morton claims that, while in India, Nepalese monks taught him the secret of time travel?
... that in All Saints Church, Kedleston, Derbyshire, are 35 monuments to the Curzon family of Kedleston Hall?
... that Alms and Doepke was once the leading dry goods company in the region of Cincinnati, Ohio?
... that Minds and Machines is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering artificial intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science?
... that the hamlet of Trefasser, Pembrokeshire, is said to be named either after Asser, a friend and biographer of Alfred the Great, or Asser's nephew, Asser Meneventsis, a Benedictine monk?
... that the Girl Scout National Center West outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, was one of the largest encampments in the world, covering 14,600–15,400 acres of rugged wilderness?
... that the Spanish warship that fought in the Action of 13 June 1898 would later serve in the Venezuelan Navy?
... that the Kurobe Dam is the tallest dam in Japan and its construction claimed the lives of 171 people?
... that the centrepiece of the Messner Mountain Museum, established by Italian mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, is at Sigmundskron Castle near Bolzano, and focuses on man's encounter with the mountains?
... that Hyderabad-based Snow World was India's first and the world's biggest snow themed park at the time of its opening in 2004?
... that the 1987–88 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team holds the national record for single-season three point field goal percentage and individuals on that team hold the career and single-season Ivy League records?
... that Sava River Bridge carrying the A3 motorway was the largest prefabricated girder bridge, in terms of plan area, in Croatia when completed in 1981?
... that the controversial Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila started out as a music workshop at a local university?
... that the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was the flagship of Admiral Rozhestvensky at the Battle of Tsushima?
... that despite its general accuracy, Carnegie Mellon's Never-Ending Language Learning semantic learning tool came to the conclusion that Internet cookies were a kind of baked good?
... that Nansen was the ship's cat on board Belgica during the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99?
... that the surviving buildings of the medieval Blackfriars, Bristol have housed a register office, a theatre company and a restaurant in recent years?
... that Barton Kay Kirkham was the last prisoner to be hanged by the state of Utah?
... that the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas was founded by members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad in 1993 to oversee the construction of a Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya?
... that the 1986–87 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team led the nation in field goal percentage?
... that in 2004, President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam inaugurated a dedicated stem cell research center at Hyderabad's L. V. Prasad Eye Institute?
... that four of the seven venues used for the 1896 Summer Olympics were reused for the 2004 Summer Olympics?
... that a spontaneous strike in Oslo in 1941, due to lack of milk, led to martial law, court-martial, executions, and mass arrests?
... that six Pre-Raphaelite artists designed the set of stained glass panels illustrating scenes from the story of Sir Tristram and la Belle Isoude as told in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur?
... that the Tokuyama Dam is the largest dam by volume in Japan and also creates the country's largest reservoir by volume?
... that Fleet Air Arm squadrons on the Attacker class escort carriers sank six U-Boats during the Second World War?
... that Kremlin adviser Georgy Arbatov acknowledged that the Soviet Union had lost the Cold War, but insisted that the United States had suffered too by losing "The Enemy"?
... that during the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty (ca. 1518–1687), water from Hyderabad's Durgam Cheruvu lake was supplied to the residents of Golconda Fort?
... that during the 18th century, St Gregory's Church, Fledborough, Nottinghamshire, was regarded as "the Gretna Green of the Midlands"?
... that High Court Justice Thomas Dickson Archibald was one of 19 children?
... that while Comstock Lode mining millionaire Sandy Bowers claimed he had money to throw at birds, Samuel Clemens described Bowers as "miraculously ignorant"?
... that a porcelain plate by Mikhail Adamovich features a Russian worker stamping on the forces of "Kapital"?
... that Louis-Guillaume Perreaux was a French inventor and engineer who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869?
... that, in Lesotho, English replaces Sotho as the medium of instruction after the fourth year of primary school?
... that Mark Friedman, founder of the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute, described his year as a high school mathematics teacher in Warminster, Pennsylvania, as the hardest job he ever did?
... that the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive broke the siege of Leningrad?
... that Piper George Findlater of the Gordon Highlanders won the Victoria Cross for playing the bagpipes whilst wounded and under fire, in the British attack on the Dargai Heights in 1897?
... that in 1958, Texas Republican U.S. Senate nominee Roy Whittenburg proposed the direct election of United States Supreme Court justices?
... that Encosta De Lago's service fee rose to AUD$302,500 in the 2008 season, during which he served 227 mares who produced 166 live foals?
... that when Elisha Winfield Green , an elderly African American Baptist leader, won a case for assault by a white minister in 1883, the effect was to increase pressure for segregation?
... that in the week that "When It Rains, It Pours" originally aired, 30 Rock was the only Thursday program whose ratings did not fall from its season premiere?
... that Wheatland, the former home of the 15th US President, James Buchanan, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966?
... that the Desert Mothers were Christian ascetics and hermits who lived in the desert of Egypt during the 4th and 5th centuries?
... that the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike in the United Kingdom led to the first UK legislation aimed at ending pay discrimination between men and women?
... that the British ironclad HMS Neptune was deemed "a white elephant, being a thoroughly bad ship in most respects—unlucky, full of inherent faults and small vices, and at times a danger to her own consorts"?
... that due to his intense fear of flying, Bill Green was never able to play for the NBA's Boston Celtics?
... that the Benson raft was a huge sea-going log raft designed to transport millions of board-feet of timber at a time through the open ocean?
... that the apex organisation of Hindu saints, the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, has welcomed the 2010 Ayodhya verdict, saying it will prevent further political exploitation of the Ram Janmabhumi Temple issue?
... that Élie Barnavi, an Israeli historian and a former Israeli ambassador to France, has called for an independent inquiry into the controversial Muhammad al-Durrah incident?
... that Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare is expected to become the largest bicycle sharing system in the U.S. when fully deployed, offering 1,100 bicycles and 110 stations?
... that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb?
... that the dog Old Jock, born 1859, is considered to be one of the founding sires of the modern Fox Terrier?
... that Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Morgan Trent was a sprinter for the Michigan track team and set indoor state track records in the 60-yard dash and 200-meter run?
... that Prince Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi of Venosa, owner of Italian wine estate Fiorano, considered the white mold that covered his cellars beneficial to his wines?
... that the summer truffle and the burgundy truffle are varieties of one species of truffle, Tuber aestivum, which is found across Europe?
... that, due to a compromise between the National Basketball Association and its player union, players banned "permanently" for substance abuse are allowed to be reinstated after two years?
... that St Mary's Church in Wilton, Wiltshire, was restored by Robert Bingham, the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, whose ancestor Robert de Bingham was consecrated there in 1229?
... that Prenkë Jakova wrote Mrika, the first Albanian opera, which premiered in 1958?
... that the extinct Protosialis casca is one of only two known alderflies from the West Indies?
... that the Fifth Dalai Lama was installed as supreme ruler of Tibet in the 17th century at Shigatse Dzong by Mongol ruler Güshi Khan?
... that Lucius Copeland invented one of the first motorcycles, the steam-powered, penny-farthing "Star", and also the first successfully mass-produced three-wheeled car, the "Phaeton steamer"?
... that chemical analysis of remains from Herod the Great's Royal Stoa supports Josephus' account of the Roman destruction of the Temple Mount in a great conflagration?
... that California State University announced that students who use NoteUtopia, a website founded by a CSU alumnus and dedicated to the buying and selling of academic material, are at risk of expulsion?
... that the Edward Salyer House , one of the few remaining wood frame Dutch Colonial houses in Rockland County, New York, is believed to be the oldest house in Pearl River?
... that in the comedic documentary The Standard of Perfection: Show Cats some show cat owners treat their cats better than family?
... that the North Korean 766th Independent Infantry Regiment lost half its men during the Battle of P'ohang-dong in 1950?
... that the rock garden in Indira Park, Hyderabad, India, is an award-winning design of 2001 by the then commissioner of customs and excise duty?
... that four-time NFL All-Pro safety Rick Volk spent two days in an intensive-care unit after a helmet-to-helmet collision with Jets fullback Matt Snell in Super Bowl III?
... that Katrin Zytomierska is one of the most-read bloggers in Sweden?
... that the Taft Homes of Peoria, Illinois, were originally built in 1952 as a temporary means of shelter for veterans returning from the Korean War?
... that Kermit the Frog asked Sesame Street adviser Gerald S. Lesser "when you get back to Harvard, how are you going to explain that you spent all day in New York talking to a frog"?
... that according to legend, a group of Circassians attempting to destroy the roof of the medieval Church of St Nicholas in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria, fled in horror when one of them fell to his death?
... that the bracketed sic, while sometimes used to insinuate ignorance of a source, may also reflect upon the user's own ignorance of American and British English spelling differences?
... that the 18th-century "Frenchman's Garden" in Maisland, New Jersey, was responsible for the spread of the non-native Lombardy poplar throughout the United States?
... that the British central battery ironclad HMS Audacious grounded twice while she was transiting through the Suez Canal despite the presence of escorting tugs?
... that discards from commercial fishing ships are a major food source for black dogfish in the northwestern Atlantic?
... that Andre Weathers returned interceptions for game-winning touchdowns against Ohio State in Michigan's 1997 national championship season and in his first NFL game in 1999?
... that NATO nations periodically deploy fighter aircraft to Iceland under the Icelandic Air Policing mission as the country does not have an air force?
... that the village of Codiponte in Tuscany, Italy, has a 17th-century campanile and a pieve dating to the 12th century or earlier?
... that Mike Martin won consecutive high school state championships in both wrestling and shot put and has been called "the Most Valuable Player Not Named Denard" on the 2010 Michigan football team?
... that Sir Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize mainly due to his experiments on malaria at the then Begumpet military hospital in Hyderabad?
... that in a 2010 game against Notre Dame, Stanford football player Owen Marecic scored touchdowns on offense and defense—and did so within 13 game seconds?
... that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 reduces, but does not eliminate, the disparity in criminal penalties for crack versus powder cocaine in the United States?
... that Sir Anand Satyanand, the first Governor-General of New Zealand of Indian descent, attended the 2010 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Delhi, India?
... that the Holy Cross Church in Burley, Rutland, contains a memorial to Lady Charlotte Finch, governess to the children of George III?
... that Ysrael Seinuk came to the United States with little more than "my slide rule and my diploma from the University of Havana" and became known as "Mr. New York"?
... that after playing basketball for the Chicago Stags, Gene Rock joined the Los Angeles Police Department and was eventually promoted to captain?
... that between being replaced by a new church in 1877 and being restored over a century later, Old St Bartholomew's Church, Lower Sapey, Worcestershire was used as a farm building?
... that James St. Clair Morton was the only general during the American Civil War to voluntarily reduce his rank?
... that the explosive charge in some Canadian pipe mines would soon deteriorate into a porridge-like mush?
... that despite receiving a budget allocation in 2003, the public sports stadium in Gibeon, Namibia hadn't been repaired as of December 2007?
... that stockbroker Fulham Davies managed to keep open the Merrill Lynch office in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the Great Depression?