derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Tuttuki Bako players insert their finger 60 mm (2.4 in) into an electronic device to render images of that finger on an LCD screen?
... that Air Vice-Marshal Frank Inglis was head of RAF Intelligence in 1942 and persuaded President Roosevelt to direct the main American war effort against Germany rather than Japan?
... that American painter Robert Beauchamp originally attended Cranbrook Academy of Art to make money by learning pottery ... and for the love of a girl?
... that the nonconformist liturgy of the Octagon Chapel in Liverpool, UK, was criticized by Job Orton: "Grieved I am ... to see such an almost deistical composition"?
... that the Long-tailed Tit uses moss and the silk of spider egg cocoons as a natural form of Velcro for holding its nest together?
... that Nickelodeon Fit is a video game for the Nintendo Wii designed by its publishers to make children more physically active?
... that the independently produced 2006 US film The Teddy Bear Master was the subject of two separate lawsuits?
... that a No Walls show was described as "a brilliant collision of sinewy punk attack, angular-jazz maneuvers and catchy art-pop songwriting"?
... that during the Hesperian, Mars changed from a wet, warm world to today's dry, cold, and dusty planet?
... that John Donne's poem "The Good-Morrow" references seven sleeping children, cordiform maps and Paul the Apostle?
... that paling in 't groen is a Flemish dish of eel in a green herb sauce?
... that Lee Felsenstein designed the Pennywhistle modem to replace a commercial design used on Community Memory, the first bulletin board system?
... that the novel Voyeurs & Savages features Peeping Toms from the Philippines and the United States?
... that automatic AK-47 rifles were used in 42% of killings in Ikotos County, South Sudan, in 2009?
... that even after Muhammad ordered the demolition of the pagan idol, Dhul Khalasa, it was resurrected and worshipped until 1815, when members of the Wahabbi movement demolished it with gunfire?
... that Lee Corner in Alexandria, Virginia, includes the homes of U.S. Revolutionary War Officer Light Horse Harry Lee, U.S. Attorney General Charles Lee, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
... that the hasty marriage of Thomas Thynne of Longleat may have helped to inspire Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
... that Easwaran's God Makes the Rivers to Flow claims that we are like a sculptor releasing a trapped elephant when we seek god- or self-realization by meditating on a sacred text?
... that the writer of Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, lived as a child at Church Cottage, Tutshill, a Grade II listed building constructed in about 1852 in the Victorian Gothic style?
... that Badi Uzzaman was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom after acting in a film hostile to the government of Pakistani General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq?
... that fish ponds at the Great Budbridge Manor on the Isle of Wight appear to be medieval?
... that females of the jumping spider Portia labiata use silk draglines as territory marks, and use these to avoid females of higher fighting ability and spend more time around less powerful fighters?
... that despite overseeing the construction of the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz, what specifically shocked SS-Obersturmführer Robert Mulka at the camp was his colleagues' dress sense?
... that the only extant octagonal pagoda in Japan is located at Anraku-ji?
... that, according to tradition, Stephen Collins Foster was inspired to write the ballad My Old Kentucky Home after a visit to Federal Hill, the mansion of Kentucky Senator John Rowan?
... that HMCS Galt, a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy, escorted trade convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic?
... that a small fetus is preserved in the holotype fossil of the extinct stingray Asterotrygon?
... that enrollment at the University of Louisiana at Monroe grew nearly fivefold between 1958 and 1976 during the tenure of its president, George T. Walker?
... that some ant species on Sebuku island may be descended from survivors of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa?
... that on 20 June 2011, the hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec announced they were joining forces for Operation Anti-Security?
... that art dealer Jacques Seligmann & Company sold Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to the Museum of Modern Art for $24,000 in 1937?
... that despite the customary practice of Catholic bishops tendering their resignations when they turn 75, Andrew Pataki's retirement was not accepted by the Pope until after he turned 80?
... that the Oregon white truffle is a major component of the diet of Northern flying squirrels?
... that in 2007 politician Mary Deros of Montreal helped prevent an historic city avenue from being renamed after Robert Bourassa, a former Quebec premier?
... that bass voice and trombone carry the cantus firmus of a famous chorale melody in the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135?
... that tennis player Scott Lipsky, winner of the 2011 French Open Mixed Doubles Championship, was ranked #1 in the U.S. Juniors in both singles and doubles in 1995?
... that many people still plant Jove's beard on the roofs of houses, as Charlemagne recommended?
... that the man who bought Sterne's Captive had John Raphael Smith's engraving plate broken after only 20 prints had been made?
... that of Chris Moorman's twelve World Series of Poker in the money finishes, three have been in $10,000 Championship events and five in six-handed events?
... that the mining settlement of Bwana Mkubwa received thousands of Polish refugees who arrived in Northern Rhodesia during World War II?
... that George Rowe, the High Bailiff of the Manor of Cheltenham, left England to become an Australian gold prospector, but instead found success creating watercolour paintings?
... that in 1953, the Jacksonville Braves became one of the first two racially integrated baseball teams in the South Atlantic League by fielding players including Hank Aaron and Félix Mantilla?
... that Confederate officer William L. Brandon had an ankle-joint shattered in battle but initially refused whiskey as a painkiller because he only liked it with sugar added?
... that the 16th century painting Virgin and Child with Four Angels by Gerard David is a modified copy of Jan van Eyck's 15th century painting Virgin with Child at a Fountain?
... that the 2011 royal tour of Canada featured the first Canadian citizenship ceremony to include a member of Canada's royal family?
... that Goman was an ex-slave leader who led a peasant revolt in Southern Grand'Anse, Haiti between 1807 and 1820?
... that the colonial city of Batavia (today Jakarta) was founded after the previous city, governed by the Sultanate of Banten, was completely eradicated by the Dutch colonists?
... that Reinhold and Ruth Benesch discovered the key role played by 2,3-bisphosphoglyceric acid in the transport of oxygen by hemoglobin?
... that Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment beat Leonardo DiCaprio's production company in a bidding war for the rights to produce World War Z, an upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film?
... that Taiwanese singer Suming merges indigenous lyrics and electronic dance music to evoke specific qualities of attractive young men in his matrilineal Amis tribe, such as fishing and cooking skills?
... that Leroy Petry is receiving the U.S. Medal of Honor today, marking only the second time that the award has been bestowed upon a living soldier for actions after the end of the Vietnam War?
... that during Sotir Kolea's term as director of the National Library of Albania the number of books there was tripled?
... that after the Siege of Retz, the Kingdom of Hungary occupied the city, leading to the growth of its wine industry?
... that the Austrian Church of St. Nikolaus in Lockenhaus includes an organ with 2400 pipes, as well as an unusual black Madonna on the altar of the crypt?
... that Sir Peter Lely's series of portraits, the Flagmen of Lowestoft , commemorates English naval commanders who fought at the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665?
... that the man behind the courteous baritone "Mind the gap" announcements in the Delhi Metro is Shammi Narang?
... that the Livingstone Museum, opened in 1934, is the oldest and largest museum in Zambia?
... that Fay Ajzenberg-Selove had to fight a discrimination case against the University of Pennsylvania to be hired as a tenured professor of physics?
... that the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act freed slaves in Washington, D.C. almost nine months before the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation?
... that one sickly lion, two Swedish kings, and 128 cannons were involved in the history of the orangery of Uppsala's Botanical Garden?
... that the bushy-tailed olingo can produce a foul-smelling liquid from its anal scent glands when alarmed, despite being more closely related to a raccoon than a skunk?
... that Air Commodore Peter Raw had joined the Royal Australian Air Force after being rejected by the Royal Australian Navy?
... that Mona Vale in Christchurch, New Zealand, was turned into a public park, following the threat of subdivision of the property and demolition of the homestead in the 1960s?
... that Arkansas State Representative Robert W. Glover of Sheridan introduced the resolution in 1909 which led to the establishment of the future Arkansas State University in Jonesboro?
... that today you only really need to remember four names (North, East, South, West) to get around, but ancient Greeks and Romans had to memorize 12 different wind names to orient themselves?
... that unlike most hotels from the same period, the Eagle Hotel, built in 1826 in Waterford, Pennsylvania, has quoining?
... that producer Katrina Dunn of Vancouver was awarded the Golden Bra in 2010?
... that The Cenotaph, Whitehall replaced a wood-and-plaster cenotaph erected in 1919 for the Allied Victory Parade?
... that Collins H. Johnston, halfback on the first Michigan football team in 1879, later published papers on eclampsia, tuberculosis, cardiac murmurs, and pulmonary abscess?
... that the only loss of life recorded in the 70-year history of the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia was as a result of the sinking of the steamship Cheslakee?
... that Carl Legien organized a massive general strike in Germany to counter the right-wing Kapp-Putsch of March 1920?
... that according to violinist Gidon Kremer, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria philosophically resembles the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, US?
... that when Jeff Mellinger, the last active-duty draftee in the U.S. Army from the Vietnam War era, received his draft papers, he thought that they were written to him by then-President Richard Nixon?
... that Holby City character Oliver Valentine has been described as "a doctor with the blue eyes of Fonda and the medical competence of fondue"?
... that the Tzeltal people of the Mexican state of Chiapas are descended from the Maya?
... that the earliest evidence for domesticated wheat and barley comes from Iraq ed-Dubb in Jordan and dates to the mid-10th millennium BC?
... that the Redstone Test Stand was built in Alabama by Wernher von Braun's rocketry team for just $25,000 out of concrete and salvaged materials?
... that Simon Cowell conceived the idea for Red or Black?, the most expensive game show ever made?
... that the Talent, a multiple unit passenger train in the rail system of Germany, Austria and Norway, was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen?
... that Tsar Alexander II of Russia had a special crystal bottle of Roederer champagne made for the Three Emperors Dinner in 1867 so he could admire the bubbles?
... that as the full-sized clay mock-up of the original new Mini Hatch was missing an exhaust pipe, chief designer Frank Stephenson, had to make one out of an empty beer can?
... that observers of the 2007 French presidential election could tell which major candidate had earned each rating in a majority judgment poll, even though the winner under this voting system was not the official one?
... that The Ride to Conquer Cancer raised more money than any other cycling fundraiser in Canadian history?
... that Clemenstone, a hamlet in south Wales near Wick, was the seat of several high sheriffs of Glamorganshire?
... that svið , a traditional Icelandic dish, consists of a sheep's head that has been cut in half, singed and boiled with the brain removed?
... that Anino ng Kahapon is one of the few pro-American novels written while the Philippines was still a territory of the United States?
... that years after long-time actress Kathleen Cody retired to Florida, she was cast in the Peter Bogdanovich film Illegally Yours when it was filming in her town?
... that in the 1950s, Wardang Island was the site of a pioneering experiment to develop a biological solution for controlling the plague of introduced rabbits in Australia?
... that before he began shaping sculptures of the American West, Grant Speed of Utah had been a ranch-hand, horse breaker, and rodeo performer?
... that the penis of the Lesser Water Boatman Micronecta scholtzi creates mating calls of 99.2 decibels, making it the loudest animal on earth, scaled for its size?
... that yak butter stays edible for up to a year and finds a new use after it gets old and rancid?
... that Dorice Reid died less than a month before she was supposed to become High Commissioner of the Cook Islands to New Zealand?
... that the Aparados da Serra is one of the first national parks of Brazil and was created to protect the Itaimbezinho canyon?
... that during the Popish Plot, John Plessington was seized at Puddington Old Hall in Cheshire, England, and hanged at Chester Castle in 1679?
... that there is a storytelling scene in the novel Ang mga Anak Dalita where the Philippines is compared to a pearl, Spain to a fish, and the United States to a leech?
... that ophthalmologist John Chase commanded the Colorado National Guard in the Colorado Labor Wars, the arrest of Mother Jones, and the Ludlow Massacre?
... that the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic lasted for only nine months as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which turned it into the Altai Republic?
... that the Passemant astronomical clock, designed to work until the year 9999, was the first clock used to set the official time in France?
... that military investigative reporter Carl Prine was accused by the Railroad Development Corporation's owner, Henry Posner, of "profiting from the promotion of hysteria"?
... that an episode of Living TV's Most Haunted claimed that there have been over 3000 reported experiences of ghosts at the Schooner Hotel since 1998?
... that Elizabeth Gatford, who endowed a charity that distributed bread to the poor at Horsham General Baptist Chapel, was buried in four coffins?
... that a Spanish fort attacked the US schooner Rampart and USS Macedonian on two separate days in the Callao Affair during the Peruvian War of Independence even though the US was neutral in the war?
... that not only will Jennifer Westfeldt make her directorial debut with Friends with Kids, but also write, produce and act in it?
... that Japanese international footballer Aya Sameshima worked at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants prior to the disaster there?
... that Pepsi allowed Madonna to retain her $5 million fee, despite cancelling their sponsorship deal following the controversy over the music video for "Like a Prayer"?
... that Orangutans may provide their nest with pillows, blankets, bunk-beds and roofs?
... that Charles S. Mitchell , goalkeeper on the first Michigan football team, became the editor-in-chief of the Washington Herald?
... that in Azerbaijan, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation builds more schools than the Ministry of Education?
... that in the 2011 NBA Draft, reigning NBA champion Dallas Mavericks selected Qatari basketball player Tanguy Ngombo, even though his age and eligibility were disputed?
... that the Theil–Sen estimator can accurately fit a line to a set of sample points even when up to 29% of the points have been arbitrarily corrupted?
... that Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, one of many Duchies of Silesia, was created in the 13th century, split by the end of it, and recreated in the 16th by the last Piast?
... that students at the Stella Maris Polytechnic university in Monrovia, Liberia, pay only US$5 tuition per credit?
... that writer Arthur Mee was once advised not to mistake Greatham Church for a haystack?
... that Juan Gualberto Gómez was the most conspicuous Afro-Cuban leader during the Cuban War of Independence?
... that the main house at Dicksonia Plantation in Alabama was destroyed by fire twice during the 20th century?
... that Tamil writer A. K. Chettiar published his first magazine at the age of 20?
... that in the 1948 municipal polls in Pondicherry, largely assumed to have been rigged, the French India Socialist Party won all 102 seats?
... that, in 1927, Jessie Miller became the first woman to complete an England-to-Australia flight?
... that the music video for "Pon de Floor", a dancehall and funk carioca song by Major Lazer, contains scenes of people dry humping and incorporates daggering choreography?
... that, in 1898, the United States government annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii despite protestation from Queen Liliuokalani ?
... that in 1954 The New York Times warned that the Communist Party of French India was likely to seize power in the colony?
... that the CFTR inhibitory factor can induce cystic fibrosis (CF) -like conditions in the lungs of a non-CF patient?
... that American journalist Charles Franklin Hildebrand earned the Purple Heart and Silver Star for his World War I service in the battles of the Marne River and Argonne Forest?
... that the anarchist Revolutionary Avengers group from 1910 to 1914 has been described as the most radical terrorist organization in the history of Poland?
... that witnesses have reported ghostly lights and phantom fires emanating from the Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama?
... that Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76, first performed in the Thomaskirche , but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion"?
... that Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus partnered with The Jed Foundation to help teenagers cope with personal struggles?
... that Marimba Ani first introduced the term Maafa to describe the African holocaust?
... that Mikhail Lakhitov started competing in international poker competitions in 2010 and by June 2011 was one of the top 20 poker players in the world?
... that the critically acclaimed 2010 novel And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson won the prestigious Scottish Book of the Year Award?
... that Germany, prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles from having an air force, operated the secret fighter-pilot school Lipetsk in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1933?
... that the Nigerian NAPEP poverty reduction program has been a recent target for hacktivists?
... that Gottfried Schloemer is considered by some to have built the first practical gasoline automobile in the United States?
... that Norwegian journalist Bjørn Bjørnsen started his journalistic career when 15 years old?
... that the Kentucky physician and Yale alumnus Forest Shely was for 56 years a trustee of the Baptist institution Campbellsville University?
... that by making her debut in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup at the age of 16, Cecilia Santiago became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to appear in a World Cup?
... that Mitch Schock, who earned his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker has finished in the money at least five times in each of the last three World Series of Poker?
... that American perennial candidate Jack Fellure, whose platform is based on the Authorized 1611 King James Bible, received the 2012 presidential nomination of the Prohibition Party?
... that one of the oldest churches in Costa Rica, Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de la Limpia Concepcion , built in the 1560s in Ujarrás, has been proposed as a World Heritage Site?
... that the movies Green Street Hooligans and Cass are based on West Ham United F.C. supporters?
... that The Captive King is a lost painting by Joseph Wright of Derby that showed Guy de Lusignan taken prisoner, after the relics of the true cross were said to be lost?
... that 17-year-old Uruguayan footballer Juan Cruz Mascia has been hailed as the heir to 2010 FIFA World Cup star Diego Forlán in the English and South American media?
... that on 12 June 1944, during the Battle of Breville, friendly fire killed the commander of the attacking force and wounded two British brigadiers?
... that the Big Moose from Antigonish was the "King of the Klondike?"
... that Alfred Ronalds' The Fly-fisher's Entomology (1836) was the first work on fly fishing to illustrate named artificial flies and their counterpart natural insects?
... that Herlinatiens' first novel about lesbian relationships is considered the "coming out" for Indonesian writings about gays and lesbians?
... that Mietek Pemper, who was forced to work as Amon Göth's secretary, compiled and typed Oskar Schindler's famous list, which saved 1,200 Jewish prisoners from the Holocaust?
... that the 225th (Parachute) Field Ambulance a British airborne forces unit, became responsible for the medical welfare of German U-boat crews?
... that Benjamin Wistar Morris, III designed the first skyscraper in Portland, Oregon?
... that the British steamship Nancy Moller was intercepted in 1951 by HMS Cossack whilst carrying a cargo of rubber to China in contravention of a United Nations embargo imposed due to the Korean War?
... that when yeshiva students learn with their chavrusas, they may wave their hands and shout at each other?
... that Robert Louis Stevenson, who stayed in Tautira, Tahiti for two months, called it “The Garden of the World” in his letters to his friends?
... that the Cherry Hill Farmhouse in Falls Church, Virginia, appears in the works of American poet James Whitcomb Riley?
... that despite starting in the 1959 VFL Grand Final, Australian footballer Graham Leydin only started two games in the 1961 season?
... that Denmark–Eritrea relations are conducted via their embassies in Kenya and Sweden after Denmark closed their embassy in Eritrea less than five years after it opened?
... that shortly before Doris Lessing's Alfred and Emily was published, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist announced it was her final book?
... that despite failing eyesight, Fred Townsend played for the 1887 Michigan football team and later became chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party?
... that among the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland the most populous was the Warsaw Ghetto with over 400,000 inhabitants crammed into an area of 1.3 sq mi (3.4 km2)?
... that The Herald said the character Manda from Alan Warner's 2010 novel The Stars in the Bright Sky was "the most vivid, aggravating lynchpin in recent Scottish fiction"?
... that Temple III at the Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was the last pyramid ever built there?
... that Green Seamount, an underwater volcano, could have taken up to 260,000 years to reach its present height?
... that, in 1933, when attempts were made to restore the monarchy in Bavaria to stall the Nazis' rise to power, Adolf Hitler warned the Bavarian government that this would lead to a "terrible catastrophe"?
... that although Jeremy Howard-Williams was a fighter pilot, he wrote the "classic account of the sail-maker's art"?
... that scholars debate whether the Torrs Pony-cap and Horns of c. 200 BC in the Museum of Scotland were intended to be worn by a horse, a human or a statue?
... that Vinita Gupta is credited as being the first woman of Indian origin to take her company public in the United States?
... that the freighter Noemijulia was bombed twice during the Spanish Civil War but went on to survive World War II?
... that the fan campaign to release specific Wii video games by the game developer Nintendo received an official response from the company?
... that the rose garden at Lymm Hall in Cheshire, England, was Edward Kemp's first recorded commission?