derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the El Corte River (meaning "The Cut River") got its name from the cutting of giant pines which were floated downstream to Coatzacoalcos to be used for masts and beams by the Spanish navy?
... that sculptor Seymour Lipton produced three works of ceremonial art for the bimah of Temple Israel in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
... that after serving in the Culpeper County Militia under Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, Mordecai Barbour embarked upon successful ventures in manufactories and toll bridges?
... that software company Arbor Networks sells network security and monitoring software in use by over 70% of all Internet service providers, giving it unique insight into Internet traffic?
... that the Arkansas Democratic politician Hayes McClerkin in 1970 challenged Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's "list" of militants disrupting college and university campuses?
... that male Monobia quadridens wasps will try to sting like a female, but have neither stinger nor venom?
... that Abu Dhabi generates more than half a million cubic metres of wastewater each day, and almost all is treated and re-used to irrigate green space in the city?
... that the Ormside bowl is one of the finest pieces of Anglian silverwork ever found in England?
... that the defeat of a joint Byzantine-Genoese fleet by a smaller Venetian fleet at the Battle of Settepozzi caused Byzantine emperor Michael VIII to distance himself from his alliance with Genoa?
... that George E. Jonas founded and funded a leadership-training program for disadvantaged boys after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and later expanded it to include boys from all over the world?
... that the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition rescued the castaways of the Dundonald?
... that Theodore, the brother of Byzantine emperor Heraclius, was publicly humiliated and imprisoned due to his failure to counter the Muslim raids and his opposition to Heraclius' marriage with Martina?
... that common bracken's scientific name of Pteridium aquilinum is derived from its frond's resemblance to eagle wings?
... that the wheelie bike fad drove bicycle sales to over 4 million units in the US?
... that, in an eventually successful effort to end the nation's longest losing streak, Eastern Michigan University football coach Bob LaPointe hired a local hypnotist?
... that, in the South Korean legal system, litigants prefer to hire former judges or prosecutors as their lawyers, because they think sitting judges will treat them more favourably?
... that, as a reserve player for the New Zealand All Blacks, Mark Donaldson set up the play that won the historic 1981 Auckland rugby union test match against the South African Springboks?
... that the only external feature that distinguishes the rice rat genera Transandinomys and Hylaeamys may be length of the whiskers?
... that a tree planting marathon organized by Project GreenHands resulted in 852,587 saplings being planted in Tamil Nadu which resulted in the setting of a Guinness World Record?
... that, along with Michael Glynn and John Nihill, Henry Newman was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry?
... that vegan cupcakes beat traditional cupcakes in the reality TV show Cupcake Wars?
... that all the internal fittings of Cote Baptist Church in Oxfordshire date from 1869?
... that Avid Radiopharmaceuticals is developing a radioactive tracer which has the potential to detect Alzheimer's disease using PET scans?
... that visitors can climb through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's temporary art installation, Big Bambú, which is constantly evolving as a crew of rock climbers builds it throughout its six-month run?
... that Edwin L. Elwood received the Medal of Honor during the Campaign of the Rocky Mesa, in which he was shot in the chest?
... that Gerald S. Lesser wrote Children and Television in 1974 to defend Sesame Street against its critics?
... that the Malagasy bat species Pipistrellus raceyi is characterized by a long, straight penis?
... that, in his two Football League appearances, goalkeeper James Mangham conceded a total of ten goals?
... that Gauleiter of Tyrol and Vorarlberg Franz Hofer arranged the surrender of the troops under his command with an American sergeant, and a Jewish emigrant from Germany, Fred Mayer?
... that the church of Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride in Amlwch, Wales, is shaped like an upturned boat to reflect the town's maritime heritage?
... that George H. Eldridge received the Medal of Honor for gallantry fighting the Kiowa Indians and Chief Kicking Bird at the Battle of the Little Wichita River?
... that Bach arranged the central duet of his chorale cantata Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 93, written for the fifth Sunday after Trinity, as one of his Schübler Chorales?
... that the spray-painting of graffiti on a Mass Rapid Transit train in a depot by Oliver Fricker and an accomplice in May 2010 caused an outcry over the security of protected installations in Singapore?
... that, after reaching Angola in the Dorsland Trek of the 1870s, many South African Boers turned back when the Portuguese tried to convert them to Catholicism and forbade their language in schools?
... that Grand Street was a magazine created by Ben Sonnenberg, who said "I thought a magazine would be a good way to give money to individuals whose writing I liked"?
... that Somerset's Anya Shrubsole was conferred the Most Promising Young Women's Cricketer Award by The Cricket Society in 2008?
... that, in September 1944 during Operation Loyton, a member of the French Resistance died eating plastic explosives he had mistaken for cheese?
... that the Chetco were once one of the largest Native American tribes on the southern coast of Oregon, but now only about 40 of their descendants remain?
... that, despite having served as a Confederate congressman during the American Civil War, Judge Horatio Washington Bruce was among the first Kentuckians to advocate that the testimony of African-Americans be considered admissible in court?
... that the tomb of Son Ferrer on the island of Majorca served as a necropolis where the remains of over a hundred people, including infants, have been found?
... that Legend of Hockey Don Roberts was assigned to coach hockey despite having never played the sport and coached his team in boots due to his unsteadiness on skates?
... that excavations of Turret 10A of Hadrian's Wall have revealed pre-historic ard marks?
... that Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid has also been classically trained as a pastry chef in Paris?
... that, at 95,940 words in four volumes, the 1925 will of Frederica Evelyn Stilwell Cook is the longest ever, yet it disposed of only $100,000?
... that an Earl of Barrymore once rode his horse up an imitation bamboo staircase in Steine House, Brighton, to win a bet?
... that every winter between 1895 and 1910, electric trams were running on the ice of the frozen Neva River ?
... that Eric Hamilton, the youngest American college football head coach when hired by Trenton State College at age 23, has held the same job for 33 years?
... that the website The Oatmeal, with comics of subjects ranging from zombies, to horse care, to English grammar, receives over 20 million hits a month after existing for less than a year?
... that the list of college football coaches with 200 career wins is topped by John Gagliardi, Eddie Robinson, and Joe Paterno?
... that the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold discovered in Great Britain, includes pepper pots, silverware and a body chain?
... that mycologist Olav Johan Sopp suggested classifying fungi as belonging to neither plantae nor animalia, but to a third kingdom, back in the 1890s?
... that using a continuously recording fathometer, WHOI scientists aboard RV Atlantis located and described the first abyssal plain in 1947?
... that although technically edible, the fruit of Acronychia laevis have been said to taste like turpentine?
... that ethylene oxide is a common disinfectant and a main component of thermobaric weapons?
... that Swiss photographer Antoine Sonrel created carte de visite portraits for Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Abbott Lawrence Rotch, and Anne Whitney?
... that the 21st Mechanized Corps, a Soviet Red Army formation, was disbanded in August 1941 due to failing to defend Lithuania and Latvia from Germany?
... that American heavy metal band Mastodon agreed to record the Jonah Hex soundtrack for "basically nothing"?
... that Gerald R. Stockman's support of fair housing efforts in New Jersey earned him recognition by The New York Times as "one of the Legislature's strongest open-housing advocates"?
... that English common law tracing is so limited many leading academics and judges have called for its abolition as an independent doctrine?
... that the first issue of Inspire, an English-language online magazine published by al-Qaeda, includes an article titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom"?
... that in addition to having Central America's largest roller coaster, Xetulul Theme Park has replicas of Moulin Rouge, the Trevi Fountain, and the Tikal Temple of the Great Jaguar?
... that football coach Denny Douds, climbing the career wins list after decades at the same university, jumped with the U.S. Army Parachute Team in May 2010 at age 69?
... that Keith Piper successfully perpetuated the single-wing, "the formation-of-choice during football's leather-helmet era," for decades after it had been discarded by other teams?
... that the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Missoula, Montana, was named for Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Veuve?
... that the term firecane is used in New Orleans to describe a hurricane capable of producing a firestorm from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
... that connoisseurs say that buffalo burgers taste just like beef did 30 or 40 years ago?
... that Hot Potato tasks the player with navigating a bus through roads filled with alien potato beings?
... that Samuel Parker , the first Republican candidate for delegate to US Congress from the Territory of Hawaii, married the mother-in-law of the first Democratic candidate?
... that the farmyard of the 1844 John and Eliza Barr Patterson House still contains a rosebush, peonies, and daylilies dating from the late 19th and early 20th century?
... that Dick LaRossa was elected to the New Jersey Senate after serving as weekend host of the New Jersey Lottery drawings, which made him "arguably one of the most recognizable faces in the state"?
... that the mobile gaming magazine Pocket Gamer peaked at a circulation of 700,000 copies when it was published in all T-Mobile and O2 UK stores in the UK and on the websites of Vodafone and 3 UK?
... that Florida A&M football coach Joe Taylor has a career record of 214–82–4 and won four Black College Championships at Hampton?
... that the literary critic Francis Jeffrey declared William Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, printed in Poems in Two Volumes, "beyond all doubt, the most illegible and unintelligible part of the publication"?
... that Salvador Cristau Coll, who is an Archpriest, was incardinated two times?
... that contrary to most music festivals, The Edge Festival takes place across multiple different locations, with fifty artists performing across seven venues in 2009?
... that hand knotted Persian style rugs with Mexican indigenous designs are made in Temoaya, Mexico?
... that among the works of egyptologist Jens Lieblein are dictionaries of hieroglyphic names published in 1871 and 1891?
... that the PWS-6 was the first Polish aircraft fitted with slats—but the prototype is the only model ever produced?
... that the 1930s American radio show, Palmolive Beauty Box Theater, drew an estimated 25 million listeners in its first season?
... that according to official North Korean sources, the opera The Flower Girl was written exclusively by North Korean leader Kim Il-sung?
... that Peter "Papa Bear" Mazzaferro was removed as head football coach at Bridgewater after 19 years, sued for age discrimination, and coached another 17 years there after being reinstated?
... that the violet coral fungus contains lectins that can cause white blood cells to clump together?
... that a gala performance of The Rose of Castille was given on 21 January 1858 as part of the nuptials of Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Victoria, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia?
... that the Star Watch Case Company made a "Moonwatch" that was worn by astronaut Eugene A. Cernan on a trip to the moon?
... that, out of the 2,600 km (1,600 mi) of track in use in Vietnam's national railway network, 85% of passenger volume and 60% of cargo volume is transported along the 1,726 km (1,072 mi) North–South Railway line?
... that Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1862 essay "Chiefly About War Matters" was censored because of his description of Abraham Lincoln?
... that the 1874 Fichte-Bunker, the last surviving gasometer in Berlin, became an air-raid shelter in World War II and later housed refugees from East Germany?
... that no American has won a medal in Olympic table tennis, but if one wins gold, USA Table Tennis will pay a $100,000 bonus?
... that ribbon farms established near Detroit were only 150 feet (46 m) wide, but up to 3 miles (4.8 km) long?
... that in 1995, the ROV Kaikō became the first vessel to visit the Challenger Deep since the landmark Trieste expedition in 1960?
... that soprano Ursula Buckel recorded the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, which Bach had written for the feast of the Visitation always celebrated on 2 July?
... that only five units of the production model PWS-5, a Polish liaison aircraft, were built?
... that City Councilman Amir Omar is believed to be the first Muslim and first Iranian-American to hold a political office in Texas?
... that in the Victorian era the concept of a picture book for children, with illustrations dominating the text, was popularized with small books called toy books?
... that Lieutenant-General Sir Nick Parker is currently in command of 140,000 troops as acting commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan?
... that when John Livingston Lowes taught Kubla Khan, he told his class "If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock."?
... that while still a boy, John Ross walked more than 600 km, crossing crocodile and hippopotamus-infested rivers, to obtain relief supplies for the settlement at Port Natal?
... that the Black Currawong of Tasmania has been observed covering itself with wet yellow clay for a 'dirt bath'?
... that Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, the mayor of Guadalupe, was murdered in front of his family in the Mexican Drug War?
... that during the 1973 Buffalo Bills season, O.J. Simpson set the current single-season National Football League record for average rushing yards per game?
... that Ed Saugestad began coaching the Augsburg College hockey team while he was still a student and led the school to three NAIA national championships in 37 years as the coach?
... that Zippel Bay in Zippel Bay State Park on Lake of the Woods in Minnesota was once the site of a caviar production business?
... that Justin Verlander, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers, won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award in 2006?
... that the designer of the Okryu Restaurant in Pyongyang, North Korea, would later spend 38 years in a South Korean prison for spying?
... that Elakala Falls may derive its name from the legend of Elakala, the story of a Native American princess who threw herself over the edge of the first waterfall when her lover scorned her?
... that an enthalpy–entropy chart shows enthalpy in terms of internal energy, pressure and volume, so that the work done in vapor cycles can be directly measured as a length?
... that Mike McShane led Norwich to eight Frozen Fours and ranks ninth all-time among NCAA men's ice hockey coaches with 564 wins?
... that the 47th Battalion was one of three infantry battalions disbanded by Australia due to casualties suffered during the German Spring Offensive in May 1918?
... that the gape of nestlings of several passerine bird species have been shown to be conspicuous in the ultraviolet spectrum?
... that in the wake of voter anger at tax increases enacted by Governor James Florio, New Jersey Assembly member Thomas P. Foy supported allowing voters to remove legislators from office by referendum?
... that the noise of the 1929 Murchison earthquake, which occurred on New Zealand's South Island, was so loud that it was heard in New Plymouth, over 250 km (160 mi) away on North Island?
... that the ornate Chesters' Stores building of 1911 in Nantwich, Cheshire, was likened to the Lusitania liner because of its porthole-like windows?
... that since 1997, The Georgetown Improv Association has hosted "Improvfest," one of the oldest improvisational theater festivals in the United States?
... that Tim Coghlin advanced to the Frozen Four in six of the past eight years and has the second highest career winning percentage among the 100 all-time winningest college men's hockey coaches?
... that Rollover Pass, which connects East Bay with the Gulf of Mexico, was named after the practice of rolling exports and imports to avoid Customs during Spanish rule?
... that in 1958 while studying tropical moist static energy profiles, Herbert Riehl and Joanne Malkus found that hot towers were the primary mechanism for transporting energy out of the tropics?
... that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000–701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England?
... that in 1993, U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell suggested that William G. Austin's Medal of Honor be rescinded due to the controversial battle after which it was given?
... that the entire 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq mi) area of the Gulf of Finland may freeze in winter?
... that the piano riff played by Johnny Parker on the 1956 song "Bad Penny Blues" has been suggested as a possible influence on The Beatles' "Lady Madonna"?
... that John Hartmann, a 24-year-old law student, won election to the New Jersey General Assembly's 15th Legislative District in 1991, making him the youngest Republican ever elected to the Assembly?
... that Magdalene Thoresen became a model for several female characters in Norwegian literature, including Ibsen's "Rebekka West" and "Ellida Wangel", and Bjørnson's "Petra" and "Leonarda"?
... that the Belgian early music ensemble, La Petite Bande, takes its name from Jean-Baptiste Lully's petite bande, a string orchestra at the court of Louis XIV?
... that Judi Garman, raised by a Mennonite pastor on the Saskatchewan prairie, became the winningest coach in college softball history at Cal State Fullerton?
... that Agora was a proof of concept email-based web browser designed for non-graphic terminals and people without full access to the internet?
... that United Auto Workers of America president Stephen Yokich was taken to his first strike picket line when he was just 22 months old?
... that aviator Aristeidis Moraitinis , apart from being Greece’s only ace in World War I, was at the same time in command of the Hellenic Naval Air Service?
... that Somerset cricketer Izzy Westbury made her senior international debut for the Netherlands aged 15?
... that the Oyu Tolgoi mine will cost US$4.6 billion to complete, and will be the most expensive project in Mongolian history?
... that Medal of Honor recipient William R. Parnell died in San Francisco, California on August 20, 1910, after falling from a street car?
... that the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden is rated "one of the finest pick-up spots in Manhattan"?
... that Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson said that Bruce R. Bent and Henry B. R. Brown should be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their invention of the money market fund?
... that deer penis, which is said in traditional Chinese medicine to enhance virility in men, was added to the list of banned substances during the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
... that Ohio's Van Wert County Courthouse is crowned by an award-winning statue of Justice?
... that the search for Cratendune continues though evidence that any one site is the lost village remains sparse?
... that the sports club Skeid, with a former top-level football team, has also won the Norwegian league in bandy?
... that Deusdedit of Canterbury (d. 664), a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury was the first non-Italian Archbishop of Canterbury?
... that Qawmi primary education lasts six years, though it does not differentiate students by progressive grade levels?
... that when prisoner of conscience and philosopher Ukshin Hoti's sentence was complete, he was transferred to another prison instead of being released?
... that elderly Family Guy character Herbert's voice and design was inspired by a man that character creator Mike Henry met while working in a grocery store?
... that the music of In convertendo Dominus, a setting of Psalm 126 for mixed choir and organ by Jules Van Nuffel, has been compared to the style of Puccini and Vaughan Williams?
... that David Long of Computer Games Magazine described Superbike 2001's graphics as "almost photo-realistic"?
... that the 1988 St Jean Bosco massacre in Haiti saw Jean-Bertrand Aristide's church burned down and at least 13 people killed?
... that New Mexican bureaucrat Nicolas de Aguilar was exiled for ordering Christian natives to participate in traditional Kachina dances?
... that Walter Hass, who helped reestablish the sport at the University of Chicago, played college football under three different Hall of Fame head coaches?
... that Fehim Zavalani organized the Congress of Manastir, which decided the Albanian alphabet, in his own home?
... that Indian leader Syed Mahmud was released from prison after writing a letter of apology to the British Viceroy for participating in the Quit India movement?
... that The Washington Post described Rock Creek Park Golf Course's back nine holes in 1999 as so steep they seem "to have been designed by a mountain goat"?
... that American blogger Pamela Geller has strongly defended former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and denied the existence of Serbian concentration camps?
... that the long-nosed god maskettes found throughout the American Midwest are believed to have been used in the ritual adoption of visiting tribal leaders?
... that the Royal Navy first trained pilots in 1911, in borrowed Short S.27 aircraft?
... that French general Jean Touzet du Vigier served four governments in World War II – the Third Republic, the Vichy regime, Free France, and the Fourth Republic?
... that Benjamin D'Israeli, grandfather of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, traded as a merchant of straw hats and other Italian commodities?
... that on February 9, 1913, a procession of fireballs seen across Canada to Brazil likely represented the break-up of a short-lived natural satellite of the Earth?
... that soon after the creation of the Łomża Ghetto, Nazi Germans killed all the Jews suspected of collaborating with the previous occupying power, the Soviet Union?
... that Iwan Tirta, who held a law degree, designed the batik shirts worn by world leaders at the 1994 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit?
... that the 20th Premier of Quebec, Daniel Johnson Sr., who was instrumental in the construction of the Daniel-Johnson Dam , died the morning of its scheduled inauguration in 1968?
... that after Pete Allen retired from professional baseball he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and later became a physician?
... that the gold and enamel Dunstable Swan Jewel dates from about 1400 when such livery badges were highly controversial and could be dangerous for the wearer?
... that Bernard de Montfaucon was the first to use the term "palaeography"?
... that aspens and whitebark pines are keystones to the ecology of the Rocky Mountains?
... that Grady Wallace of South Carolina beat out Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain to secure the 1956–57 NCAA men's basketball scoring title?
... that when African American golfers attempted to play at Washington, D.C.'s racially segregated East Potomac Park Golf Course in 1941, angry whites threw stones and threatened them with violence?