derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that less than six weeks after being fired from his 20-year career as the University of Wisconsin's football coach and athletic director, Ivy Williamson died from falling down a staircase?
... that the Ascension Island parsley fern was considered extinct until four plants were recently discovered on Ascension Island?
... that after resigning from the University of Tennessee presidency amid controversy, John Shumaker was honored by the University of Louisville for increasing its focus on research?
... that the PWS-4, a Polish sports aircraft built in 1928, was not developed beyond a single prototype?
... that commercial fishing of Sockeye salmon from the Chilkoot Lake in Haines Borough, Alaska, is worth about US$1 million annually?
... that as a result of his success during the Cambodian Campaign, Army of the Republic of Vietnam General Do Cao Tri was dubbed the "Patton of the Parrot's Beak"?
... that Therdchai Jivacate has designed and built prosthetic limbs for elephants injured by landmines?
... that American abstract artist Frederick Hammersley devised three categories for his paintings : "Hunches", "Geometrics", and "Organics"?
... that at age 46, Bob Emery already ranks among the 20 all-time winningest college men's ice hockey coaches, with 465 wins?
... that the children's book Do You Know What I'm Going To Do Next Saturday? by Helen Palmer Geisel is often mistaken as a Dr. Seuss book?
... that Hungarian National Defence Day falls on 21 May, the anniversary of the climax of the Battle of Buda (1849)?
... that Lithuanian poet Liudas Gira was a member of the delegation sent to petition the Soviet Union to accept the newly proclaimed Lithuanian SSR into the union?
... that before the 19th century, the Kuban River flowed into both the Black Sea and the Azov Sea?
... that the restaurant in the Hacienda El Lucero in San Miguel Acatlán, Mexico, serves crocodile ceviche?
... that, on July 19, 2010, Rich Cho became the first Asian American general manager in NBA history when he was hired by the Portland Trail Blazers?
... that the pearls of the Laccadive Sea have been praised for about 2,000 years?
... that Roy Vernon Scott, a professor emeritus at Mississippi State University, co-authored a history of Sam Walton and the Wal-Mart merchandising enterprise?
... that the Jawa Dam in Jordan is the oldest known dam in the world, dating back to 3000 BC?
... that the report "Top Secret America" by The Washington Post revealed that over 850,000 people in the U.S. intelligence community have top-secret clearance?
... that, despite its location in the Arctic, one could conceivably grow lettuce at Tanquary Fiord?
... that the Ethiopian Garima Gospels was redated by radiocarbon testing to between 330 and 650, making it one of the oldest illuminated Christian manuscripts in the world?
... that, in 1925, Doug Turnbull became the first college lacrosse player to earn first-team All-America honors four times, and to date only three other players have matched that feat?
... that the music recording project Gigi involves indie rock musicians singing new 1950s- and 60s-style pop songs?
... that former South African national rugby union team player Popeye Strydom also played baseball for Orange Free State?
... that Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau has the record for most wins as Cleveland Indians manager with 728?
... that the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum building, in which the Nobel Prize winner was born, was deliberately destroyed during WWII?
... that the stone "lions" seen at the gates of Shinto shrines are actually Korean dogs?
... that Nevada Governor John Henry Kinkead was the first United States official to hold office in Alaska?
... that the Capello Index is a rating system for footballers that evaluates 500 actions that a player might make during a game?
... that journalist David Twersky broke the news stories that prevented both Johnnetta B. Cole and Lani Guinier from serving in Bill Clinton's presidential administration?
... that silver phosphate, which was used in early photography as a light-sensitive agent, has recently been found to function as a photocatalyst for the splitting of water?
... that former Attorney General of Ireland Rory Brady successfully solved a dispute over land between broadcaster Pat Kenny and his neighbour?
... that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences eliminated the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album in 2009 to remain "relevant and responsive" to the music community?
... that tired of taking measurements by hand, Seymour London created the first automatic sphygmomanometer using an old blood pressure cuff, a column of mercury, a pump from a fish tank and a microphone?
... that in 1944, while visiting the Albany Pine Bush, Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita) discovered the Karner Blue butterfly ?
... that Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction?
... that Norwegian orienteer Finn Varde Jespersen was shot down as a pilot for the RAF 97 Squadron during the invasion of Normandy in 1944?
... that Max Desfor's image Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea was taken during the longest retreat in the military history of the United States?
... that the chamber choir RIAS Kammerchor performed Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, 400 years after its premiere, at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05, the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero?
... that after posting an 11–3 record, the 2007 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team lost to Appalachian State in the NCAA Division I Football Championship on December 14, 2007?
... that the Japanese actress Kirin Kiki auctioned off her first stage name on a television show because she claimed she had "nothing else to sell"?
... that Clinton L. Riggs got along so poorly with most of his comrades in the Spanish–American War that he resigned upon returning stateside, only to later take command of the same unit?
... that St Mary's Church, Hardmead, Buckinghamshire, contains a memorial to Robert Shedden, who died in 1849 after an unsuccessful expedition to find Sir John Franklin?
... that the Byzantine megas doux John Doukas was taken hostage as a child, took captive a Serbian king, led a fleet against Chaka Bey and recovered much of western Anatolia from the Seljuks?
... that the Suludnon are an indigenous people who reside in the Capiz-Lambunao mountainous area of the island of Panay in the Visayas?
... that Radmilla Cody sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Navajo at the Kennedy Space Center in 2002?
... that Sauganash Hotel, located at Wolf Point, was Chicago's first hotel, first theater and the site where the newly formed town elected its first town trustees?
... that some of the money for the repair of the tower of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Boveney, Buckinghamshire was raised from the proceeds of choir concerts at nearby Eton College?
... that Neri Colmenares, today a member of the Congress of the Philippines, was one of the youngest political prisoners during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos?
... that Mill Creek chert was one of the major exported raw materials of the Mississippian culture?
... that Brock Pemberton both played for and managed the minor league baseball Macon Peaches in 1980?
... that shartegosuchid crocodyliforms made up an endemic Central Asian Mesozoic fauna that existed after the breakup of Pangaea?
... that Ángel Daniel Vassallo is Virginia Tech's all-time leader in successful three-point field goals?
... that Ujazdów Avenue in Warsaw was renamed after Stalin in 1953, but the traditional name was restored three years later?
... that the Australian kerrawang, which is a shrub, should not be confused with the kurrajong, a tree, or the currawong, a sombre-plumaged bird resembling a crow?
... that S.R. Nathan was the first President of Singapore to exercise the constitutional power to use the nation's past reserves to fund government schemes during the financial downturn?
... that The Periodic Table of Videos, hosted by Martyn Poliakoff, is one of the most popular sets of chemistry videos on YouTube?
... that President Barack Obama called to congratulate baseball pitcher Mark Buehrle after his perfect game?
... that, in the 18th and 19th centuries, members of Friendly Societies in the west of England would hold annual parades carrying poles topped by elaborate brass emblems?
... that playwright Josefina Niggli is believed to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her?
... that the first known arch dam was the Glanum Dam, built by the Romans in modern-day France during the 1st century BC?
... that the National Hockey League rejected a bid for an expansion team in Norfolk, Virginia, even after more than 5,000 season tickets were sold?
... that indigenous Bolivian politician Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi led a 2002 protest march, which resulted in an accord with the government enabling the formation of the Constituent Assembly?
... that seeds of the extinct Paleocene pine Pinus peregrinus are most similar to those of the modern red pine and tropical pine?
... that University of Maryland athletic director Dick Dull, who resigned after the death of Len Bias, hired a "no name" head football coach: Bobby Ross?
... that the 1985 Doug E. Fresh single "The Show" inspired a diss track from the duo who later became Salt-n-Pepa?
... that Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby were the first high school basketball players to directly enter the National Basketball Association after they were drafted in 1975?
... that the Thornbury Hoard was discovered in a back garden in South Gloucestershire, England, by a man digging a pond, and that it took two people to carry it to the local museum?
... that Elgin Gould, who recommended entrepreneurs build working-class communities serviced by streetcars on the outskirts of major cities, was killed in a horseback riding accident?
... that Montfichet's Tower was a fortress in central London first mentioned around 1136?
... that Louisiana State Rep. Ernest Wooton has challenged Governor Bobby Jindal's claim of confidentiality to many executive department documents?
... that the music video for the Kinks' "Don't Forget to Dance" reprised the band playing themselves on a ballroom stage from their previous video, "Come Dancing"?
... that Danish geologist Hinrich Johannes Rink was the founder of Atuagagdliutit, the first Kalaallisut language newspaper?
... that, in Mesopotamian mythology, Labbu was a lion-serpent from the sea, slain by Tishpak, protector-god of Eshnunna?
... that Hercules Renda was described as a "midget from the hills of West Virginia" who "ran, squirmed and tackled" his way into the hearts of Michigan football fans in the 1930s?
... that the builder of the Skinner-Tinkham House in Barre Center, New York, paid some of his mortgage to the Holland Land Company in cattle?
... that though widowed and in poor health, Princess Marie of Reuss was second-in-line to the Dutch throne from 1900 to 1909, pending the death of her then-childless cousin Queen Wilhelmina?
... that the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion?
... that Cully Cobb, who grew up as a poor Tennessee farm boy, became a major agricultural publisher and co-founder of the Cobb Institute of Archeology at Mississippi State University?
... that in 1938 Nazi authorities Germanized over 1,500 place names in East Prussia?
... that William Munro, 12th Baron of Foulis, led a force of 900 men in a battle that historians are not sure ever took place?
... that Steven Mithen speculates that the Neanderthals had a musical linguistic system which he calls "hmmmmm"?
... that emergency surgery was required to save Trent McCleary's life after he was hit in the throat by a slapshot during a National Hockey League game?
... that more than a hundred people were killed by the military junta of Natusch Busch during its 16-day reign in Bolivia in 1979?
... that Filipino human rights activist Etta Rosales was instrumental in bargaining a compromise deal between the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and some of its victims?
... that the Pittsburgh Wayfinder System is composed of more than 1,500 traffic signs that point the way to popular destinations in the City of Pittsburgh?
... that after Bolesław Krzywousty defeated Pomeranian dukes at the Battle of Nakło he gave Swietopelk Nakielski Nakło, and other grods (Slavic settlements) on the river Noteć as a fief?
... that the Chicago Cubs have had the first selection in Major League Baseball's entry draft only once in the draft's 45-year history?
... that the world's first looping roller coasters were tested with eggs, flowers, glasses of water, and even a monkey before human riders were allowed?
... that the Salmon Creek Dam in Juneau, the capital of Alaska, was built in 1914 and was the world's first constant-angle arch dam?
... that Indian nobleman Anup Rai was known as "Singh Dalan" (Lion Crusher) because he stopped a lion from attacking Mughal emperor Jahangir during a royal hunt?
... that Codex Cyprius is one of the very few uncial manuscripts with the complete text of the four Gospels?
... that the former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig was one of two US battalion commanders in the Battle of Ap Gu during the Vietnam War?
... that one suggested toponomy of Baughurst in Hampshire is that the village is named after the "wood of the badgers"?
... that long-time NFL scout Ralph Kohl was considered the top "judge of football flesh" in BLESTO, the scouting combine of the Bears-Lions-Eagles-Steelers Talent Organization?
... that Nepalese communist politician Narayan Man Bijukchhe has won a parliamentary seat in every national election since the 1990 Jana Andolan?
... that Michigan linebacker Tony Momsen blocked a Vic Janowicz punt and recovered it in the endzone for the only touchdown in the famed 1950 Snow Bowl game?
... that the listed buildings in Rivington include a replica of Liverpool Castle and the Pigeon Tower ?
... that Stu Wilkins, an offensive guard on Michigan's 1947 "Mad Magicians" team, was a leader in establishing the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his hometown of Canton, Ohio?
... that the 115th Squadron of the Israeli Air Force is a training squadron tasked with emulating enemy forces and tactics?
... that Blessed Stephen Nehmé was known for repeating a mantra of "God can see me"?
... that in 1985, Member of the Walloon Parliament Bernard Anselme authored a decree establishing the city of Namur as the capital of Wallonia?
... that the Chimakum tribe of Native Americans were wiped out in 1847 by a Suquamish war party led by Chief Seattle, for whom the city of Seattle was later named?
... that the Queen's executioner lives in Windsor Great Park and feeds on weevils and nectar?
... that it has been claimed that the Citadel of Arbil is the oldest continuously inhabited site in the world?
... that in 1944 British agents kidnapped a German general on the German occupied island of Crete?
... that in his only full Major League Baseball season, Sandy Ullrich was the second youngest regular on the Washington Senators roster?
... that the rise in the manufacturing of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s was partially due to the United States' embargo on China?
... that as Azerbaijan Commissar of Public Roads, Chingiz Ildyrym oversaw the construction of the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union?
... that the newly described Caquetá Titi may have a total adult population of less than 250 monkeys?
... that Black Tusk, a band that describes its music as "swamp metal," was formed when its members were all living on the same street?
... that three Adena burial mounds are scattered around the village of Zaleski, Ohio?
... that the Gunai indigenous people of Gippsland practiced controlled burning to induce the edible kangaroo apple to grow and bear fruit?
... that a bus advertisement by the Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers made the Governor of Iowa feel "personally disturbed"?
... that Gary Sheffield is one of ten baseball players to join the 500 home run club since 1999?
... that "Everyone", the official theme song of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore, was sung by five different artistes each representing his or her continent?
... that Paul Coe attempted to bring an aboriginal title class action claiming the entirety of Australia?
... that the cap surface of the mushroom Strobilomyces foveatus is covered with scales, while the spore surface is covered with spines?
... that Australian Test cricket umpire Colin Egar received death threats after no-balling Ian Meckiff for an illegal bowling action?
... that pannage was a valuable right in the former royal Forest of Galtres in North Yorkshire, England?
... that Mark Gosling served for almost two years as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, despite having only a primary education?
... that the extinct Chamaecyparis eureka is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Chamaecyparis?
... that after failing to engage two French warships, Captain Savage Mostyn demanded that he be tried by court-martial?
... that Huasca de Ocampo is home to one of three major formations of columnar basalt ?
... that Thomas J. Deverin proposed a bill requiring New Jersey public schools to begin with a daily period of silent meditation, which both opponents and supporters saw as reintroducing school prayer?
... that actress Jamie Sorrentini was directed by Harold Prince in the U.S. national tour of the musical Parade?
... that the football club Stålkameratene were expelled from their league in 1997, only to score 153 league goals the next year?
... that, although police later found the getaway car used in the murder of Morris Kessler, the crime remained unsolved?
... that Ola's Kool Kitchen was conceived by DJ Ola as a reaction against mainstream radio's focus on playlists prescribed by major record labels?
... that the Rivadavia-class battleships were the subject of a fierce competition between France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
... that 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?
... that the land upon which the office building Mechanics' Bank and Trust Company Building sits was originally set aside for Blout College in the 1790s?
... that the 5830 metre high mountain of Altun Shan was formed at a bend in the Altyn Tagh fault?
... that Saskatchewan Roughriders running back Stu Foord scored a touchdown on his first Canadian Football League rushing attempt?
... that Bob Dylan wrote "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" in two days at a Ramada Inn in February 1969?
... that one of the Stone Age Lancken-Granitz dolmens was used as a shelter by the East German army?
... that the first public library in Cardiff, which opened in 1861, is the first public library in Wales?
... that Irish-American banker Sam McBirney coached a football team from a college with 400 students to a 16–0 win that broke the Oklahoma Sooners' 18-game winning streak?
... that the German battleship SMS Kaiser damaged the British battleship HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, forcing the Warspite to withdraw from the battle?
... that Amar Ramasar, a principal danseur of the New York City Ballet, took his first dance lessons at the Henry Street Settlement House?
... that, despite its lack of dedicated tourism infrastructure, 12 cruise ships docked at Da Nang Port in January and February 2010 alone, carrying 6,477 passengers?
... that, though critically injured in a 1944 blast that was "perhaps then the largest release in history of radioactive materials", Arnold Kramish credited his survival to his mother's chicken soup?
... that at 15 years and 314 days, Glyn Pardoe was the youngest footballer ever to play for Manchester City when he made his debut in 1962?
... that George Washington's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia?
... that Joe Plumeri, CEO of Willis Group Holdings, got his start in 1968 by accidentally interviewing with future Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill at what he mistakenly thought was a law firm?
... that retired baseball coach Jacke Davis had five players he coached at Panola College go on to play in Major League Baseball?
... that the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of only a few churches in the world named after St. John Berchmans?
... that sleepy sponge crabs carry sponges on their back as camouflage, and have even used the sole of a shoe for that purpose?
... that the cast stone façade of Tucson, Arizona's Cathedral of Saint Augustine uses indigenous desert plants as a design motif?
... that Bach may have reused earlier music for his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 for the eighth Sunday after Trinity of 1723?
... that Governor Brendan Byrne recognized Alexander J. Menza for his service in the New Jersey Legislature on the Mental Health Planning Committee, calling him the "voice of the voiceless"?
... that the Norwegian teen film Amors Baller will include scenes shot at the 2010 Norway Cup, one of the world's largest football tournaments?
... that the extinct ant-like stone beetle Kachinus, found in Cretaceous amber, is similar in appearance to the modern genus Paraneseuthia?
... that Albanian film director Dhimitër Anagnosti, winner of many national and international awards, is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs?
... that Scottish actor Richard Madden began his career at age 11 when he was cast in the film Complicity, followed by his 1999 role in the BBC television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang?
... that professional baseball player Pat Osburn's brother-in-law was Milt May, and father-in-law was Florida State Senator Wilbur H. Boyd?
... that the anti-Nazi resistance group "Olimp", organized in 1941 by members of the Polish minority in Wrocław, was named after Mount Olympus because of their main meeting place?
... that the Butterfield Cobblestone House, considered the finest Greek Revival building in Orleans County, New York, is the only cobblestone building in Clarendon?
... that the Colorado River's first dam and reclamation project suffered through major floods in 1912 and 1916 along with an earthquake in 1940?
... that philanthropist Florence Meyer Blumenthal was known by her family for having a "perfect figure" and for "bringing home massive amounts of clothing from Paris"?
... that Operation Truong Cong Dinh took place in the same vicinity where its namesake conducted riverine guerrilla attacks a century earlier?
... that world champion triathlete Emma Carney was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition ventricular tachycardia and is fitted with a defibrillator?
... that DirectHit is the only accurate pharmacodiagnostic test to determine possible treatment outcomes of anticancer chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer?
... that the only action seen by the French ironclad Montcalm during the Franco-Prussian War was the capture of a German barque?
... that the anonymous Latin poem Ecbasis captivi is the oldest surviving example of a European beast epic, and contains the first medieval European example of anthropomorphic animals?
... that Gloria J. Romero is leading a campaign in the California Legislature to remove serpentine as the official state rock because it is a source of cancer-causing asbestos?
... that US Army soldiers march to the top of Hill 303 in Korea every year to place flowers commemorating the victims of the Hill 303 massacre of the Korean War ?
... that four of the five candidates currently running to be leader of the British Labour Party have backed a graduate tax as an alternative to tuition fees?
... that actress and women's suffrage activist Fola La Follette also picketed with and spoke on behalf of striking garment workers?
... that Tranquil Star is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes, now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate?
... that Zbigniew Babiński, a Polish military and sports aviator who constructed gliders before WWI, was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre?