derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Léon Théry was a French racing driver who won the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904 and 1905?
... that Renaissance artists and architects used rabatment of the rectangle as a compositional tool in their work?
... that Colorado's Aspen City Hall has previously been used as a roller rink, an armory, and a concert venue?
... that Papyrus Fouad 266 is the second oldest manuscript of the Septuagint?
... that Baron Le Roy, owner of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château Fortia, helped guide the creation of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée system that became the basis of French wine laws?
... that shooting guard Tim Hardaway, Jr., the son of National Basketball Association All-Star Tim Hardaway, was the first Michigan Wolverines freshman to score 30 points in a game in eight years?
... that the Sydenham Heritage Church , twice threatened by demolition since 1997, was demolished without authorisation after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that, in 1983, The Chieftains were the first ever Irish musical group to play a concert on the Great Wall of China, resulting in an album: The Chieftains in China?
... that upon making his National Hockey League debut, Blake Geoffrion became the first fourth-generation player after his father Dan, grandfather Bernie, and great-grandfather Howie Morenz?
... that Operation Moolah was an attempt during the Korean War by the United States Air Force to capture a fully operational Russian MiG-15?
... that an American soldier, who was deployed to Iraq, adopted an Iraqi boy who could not walk because of cerebral palsy?
... that collective leadership was seen as the ideal form of governance by Soviet ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev?
... that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission?
... that when Gare de Bellegarde opened in 1858 as part of the Lyon–Geneva railway, the station building was built in the style of a Swiss chalet?
... that Picander used one of the sayings of Jesus on the cross for an aria in Bach's cantata Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159, for the last Sunday before Lent?
... that Spanish-language Regional Mexican station KMAK launched in 1990 as an English-language Christian radio outlet serving Fresno, California?
... that the first independent study of water quality in Jordan's US$1.1 billion Disi Water Conveyance Project found the water to be highly radioactive?
... that four first-round draft picks of the Oakland Athletics have won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award?
... that Richard Knill Freeman, who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
... that people who suffer from Pleasure Dissociative Orgasmic Disorder are unable to feel pleasure from an orgasm?
... that the House of Assembly of Bermuda appointed members to complain to King George III of the "tyranny and oppression" of Governor George James Bruere ?
... that the rare and endangered bellflower Cyanea remyi is found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be growing in the wild?
... that in 2006 Richard Santagati received the third highest salary of any president of a private college in the United States?
... that six of the nineteen winners of the National Basketball Association's IBM Award have played for the San Antonio Spurs?
... that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8, a voter initiative against same-sex marriage?
... that Max Boyce's 1975 recording We All Had Doctors' Papers is the only comedy album to reach number one in the UK Album Charts?
... that Anna Murray helped her future husband, Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings?
... that a US-born ex-hippie Malati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement?
... that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull's followers?
... that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan, today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to Homer, in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
... that author Lorene Cary was the second African American girl accepted at the "elite" St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire, and in 1991 published Black Ice, a memoir of her experiences?
... that Rose Catherine Pinkney developed dozens of American television shows, including The X-Files and Girlfriends?
... that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the earliest written by an English woman?
... that a critic described the work of abstract sculptor Claire Falkenstein as "a Jackson Pollock in three dimensions"?
... that Irish designer Orla Kiely has had her work featured on a range of Citroën DS3 cars, although she's better known for textiles?
... that Dutch television talk show host Sonja Barend retired in 2006 after forty years of making television?
... that alleged German spy Despina Storch was described as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra" in spy literature?
... that Ágnes Farkas was selected Hungarian Handballer of the Year in both 2001 and 2002?
... that even in her thirties, Scottish coloratura soprano Anne Sharp was able to pass as a teenager, performing the role of Emmie Spatchett in Albert Herring at the first Aldeburgh Festival?
... that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist monthly magazine Opzij in 1972, a magazine that's still in print?
... that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
... that award-winning poet and Cardiff resident Ivy Alvarez was born in the Philippines, grew up in Tasmania, has worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Spain, and had her first book published in the US?
... that after his election in 1998 as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Paul E. Osborne formed a team that attracted Amazon.com, among others, to replace two closed factories?
... that Chris Addison promoted his new satirical radio show 7 Day Sunday as "four relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour"?
... that Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within was described both as "well written and well informed" and as using "wildly exaggerated statistics"?
... that mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered that a simple characteristic equation could be used to solve certain linear homogeneous differential equations?
... that the women's race at the 2007 Tokyo Marathon was won by Hitomi Niiya, who at the time had never run in a marathon before?
... that after the Godley Statue toppled during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, time capsules were discovered in its plinth?
... that Polish best-selling historian and dissident Paweł Jasienica, due to his criticism of the Polish communist government, had his books removed from distribution and prohibited from printing?
... that, in Arizona v. New Mexico, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arizona's attempt to invoke original jurisdiction, but Arizona prevailed when the case returned to the court on appeal?
... that transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing is a promising new technology which allows sequencing of individual DNA molecules?
... that around the west door of St John the Baptist's Church in Yarburgh, Lincolnshire, are carvings of a coat of arms, Adam and Eve and the serpent, a Paschal Lamb, and a pelican?
... that Usher's 1997 song "You Make Me Wanna" is an acoustic guitar-based R&B, soul and pop ballad about "juggling three women"?
... that depending on the interpretation, sophismata like "All men are donkeys or men and donkeys are donkeys" can either be true or false?
... that the high medieval Patriarchal Cathedral atop the Tsarevets hill in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, has had its interior repainted in a modernist style?
... that during the tenure of the Abbasid governor al-Fadl ibn Salih, the Egyptian cities of al-Fustat and al-Askar were merged into one large city?
... that Alice Waters lobbied the Clinton administration to replace White House Executive Chef Pierre Chambrin with an American chef?
... that the conservatories of the Bason Botanic Gardens in Wanganui were constructed using recycled bricks from two demolished picture theatres?
... that until Marcel Deiss petitioned the French authorities to change the wine laws in 2005, it was illegal to not list the grape variety on the labels of Grand cru Alsatian wine?
... that DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince won Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance the same year they boycotted the ceremony?
... that although the 1965 Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748 crash ended with the passengers hanging upside down in their seats, they all survived?
... that Nikolla bey Ivanaj was one of the participants of the Albanian Congress of Trieste held in 1913?
... that "To Be Alone with You" was the first song Bob Dylan recorded for his 1969 album Nashville Skyline?
... that former California Assembly Republican Leader and California Republican Party Chair Robert W. Naylor was editor of The Stanford Daily while he was a student at Stanford University?
... that Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009, accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina?
... that after retiring from baseball, catcher Greg Goossen turned to acting and working as a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman?
... that the invasion of monsters from the Orange Planet in the Czech comic album Muriel a oranžová smrt was a satiric response to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968?
... that in the first scientific study of fossils in English, William Martin speculated that horn coral was a kind of bamboo and said another fossil was not a small crocodile tail?
... that All Saints Church in Thurgarton, Norfolk, is notable for its medieval bench ends carved with poppyheads, an elephant, barrels, mythical beasts, a man, a lion, and fighting dogs?
... that 12 years after his team was disqualified, Jack Kirrane returned to the Olympics and captained the United States ice hockey team to a gold medal?
... that General John M. Bacon of the 3rd US Infantry regiment was incorrectly reported killed with a hundred of his men after the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point?
... that Bavarian criminal Theo Berger, despite escaping four times, spent 36 years in jail and committed suicide there in 2003?
... that the Durham Street Methodist Church , destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, was the first stone church in Canterbury, New Zealand?
... that historian Betty Jane Gorin-Smith penned a 2006 study of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's 1863 raids though central Kentucky?
... that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that spread across the Low Countries in August 1566?
... that Margaret Creek in Ohio was named after Margaret Snowden, the first white woman settler in Athens County?
... that Leif Rode, who competed in rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics, was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Skiing more than forty years later?
... that Young Galaxy and producer Dan Lissvik of Studio collaborated across the Atlantic using Skype to produce their new album Shapeshifting?
... that of the 1,401 species in the family Begoniaceae, Hillebrandia sandwicensis is the only one not in the genus Begonia?
... that the Libyan opposition has embraced "Zenga Zenga", an Israeli-created auto-tuned song and viral YouTube video that parodies Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi ?
... that the entrance to a burial vault below St Mary's Church, Redgrave in Suffolk was accidentally discovered during a rehearsal for Quasimodo?
... that American multi-instrumentalist Levon Helm won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2010 for the album Electric Dirt?
... that the Commission for Polish Relief provided limited food and medical supplies to occupied Poland until late 1941, in spite of Britain's 1940 blockade of shipments to Nazi occupied Europe?
... that Octavius Wigram was guarding a door of Westminster Abbey at the coronation of George IV when the Queen was turned away?
... that the weevil Hylobius transversovittatus has been introduced into the United States and Canada to help control the invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife?
... that after Prince Ibrahim Mirza was killed on the orders of his brother-in-law, Shah Ismail II of Persia, his wife destroyed his Persian miniatures by washing them in water?
... that for 30 years the Reuben Wells steam engine , now displayed at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, pushed train cars up the steepest railroad incline in the United States?
... that the Monty Python sketch "The Mouse Problem", a mockumentary about men who want to be mice, parodies 1960s TV documentaries on homosexuality?
... that Gary Aguirre, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, was fired by the SEC for trying to investigate Wall Street banker John Mack, a major fundraiser to President Bush's 2004 campaign?
... that with an area of 8.2 km2 (3.2 sq mi), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone's largest inland lake?
... that Dr. Michael S. Gottlieb was instrumental in identifying AIDS in 1981 and thereafter treated actor Rock Hudson for the disease?
... that The Headshrinkers, who had last wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation in 1994, were reunited at the Yokozuna Memorial Show in 2001?
... that a Labrador Retriever named Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal for sniffing out a pressure cooker filled with TNT while on the front lines in Afghanistan?
... that St Augustine's Church in Norwich has a monument to a textile manufacturer, raised by 600 weavers?
... that Stanley Clarke's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album?
... that the Heinrich-Heine-Straße U-Bahn station in Berlin, opened in 1928, was a ghost station for nearly three decades and retains much of its original appearance?
... that humorist George Washington Harris's comic character Sut Lovingood, who figured in tales attacking Abraham Lincoln and other politicians, has been described as "Huck Finn on amphetamines"?
... that a top environmental issue in Russia is water pollution, affecting 75% of the country's surface water?
... that the Marvel Comics limited series 5 Ronin reimagines superheroes Wolverine, Psylocke, Punisher, Hulk and Deadpool as masterless samurai in 17th-century Japan?
... that the ground beetle, Lebia grandis, can eat about 23 eggs or three larvae of the Colorado potato beetle every day?
... that William Douglass was an 18th century American physician whose pamphlets on paper money led Adam Smith to call him "honest and downright"?
... that Joey DeFrancesco's tribute to Michael Jackson, Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson, was nominated for a Grammy Award?
... that California's Shine the Light Law requires companies either to provide an opt-out from personal information sharing or to disclose the data that they share?
... that, in its campaign against a Romanian World War I alliance with the Entente Powers, the newspaper Seara employed conservatives, socialists and anarchists as contributors?
... that a gun was fired during a melee in a 1987 basketball game between Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines?
... that Joanne Siegel was the original model for Lois Lane and later married Superman's co-creator?
... that Kentucky historian Damon R. Eubank wrote a book on the family of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden, whose sons fought on opposing sides in the Civil War?
... that the song "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé is considered an illustrative example of the difference between pop and classical singing?
... that the California Bay pea crab is one of only two marine crustaceans to be included on the IUCN Red List of endangered species?
... that the life of 14th-century Bulgarian brigand and local ruler of the Rhodopes Momchil has been retold both as an opera and as a comic book?
... that Namibian trade unionist Ponhele ya France was an outspoken critic of the "Willing buyer, willing seller" land reform principle?
... that Český Šternberk Castle appears several times in the Albanian-Czech film The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider?
... that shortly after it was introduced, the Crash Position Indicator was credited with saving the life of a critically injured airman?
... that on a commission of the Érard company to show off the expressive range of its double-action pedal harp, Maurice Ravel composed Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet?
... that the coral reef crab Zosimus aeneus contains deadly poisonous neurotoxins?
... that Rhône winemaker Jean-Luc Colombo lamented the competition from California wines, describing their rise as "losing civilisation and vulgarising wine"?
... that former Manchester City footballer Lee Crooks is soon scheduled to serve on the frontline in the War in Afghanistan?
... that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?
... that the Wehrmacht used "stick grenades" for its PaK-36 anti-tank guns?
... that the CWA and PWA provided grants and loans to assist with construction of the 1930s Juneau-Douglas Bridge, connecting Juneau, Alaska, with Douglas Island across the Gastineau Channel?
... that the surface level of the Old Bavarian Donaumoos, once a bog covering 180 square kilometres (69 sq mi), has dropped by 3 metres (9.8 ft) since drainage began in 1790?
... that the University of Redwood is fiction based on a copying of the entire Reed College website, raising concerns that it could be used to collect admission application fees fraudulently?
... that in 2009 The Price is Right featured tickets to the B96 Pepsi SummerBash as a showcase showdown prize?
... that the historic Caccia Birch House in Hokowhitu includes a billiards room named after the Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Plunket, who resided in the House temporarily?
... that dancer Jean Babilée's performance in the ballet Le Jeune Homme et la Mort included being hung by the neck on a gallows for one minute?
... that Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill made from Ashford Black Marble and other minerals?
... that much of the stained glass in the Church of St John Maddermarket in Norwich was damaged by a gas explosion in 1876?
... that Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle purchased a dog from the Tsar of Russia in 1892 for a sum equivalent to nearly £20,000 in modern currency?
... that the rare borage Terlingua Creek cat's-eye grows only on gypsum-rich limestone near Big Bend National Park in Texas?
... that at one point in the Battle of Narvik, British destroyer HMS Hotspur found herself engaged in battle with five enemy destroyers?
... that Scottish Rugby Union player Edward Innes Pocock was also a member of Cecil Rhodes' Pioneer Column?
... that the parishioners of Highweek petitioned the pope for their own graveyard?
... that Oliver H. Lowry's 1951 paper on the Lowry protein assay is the most-cited paper of all time?
... that the Anglo-Norman Lament of Edward II, written c. 1327, is traditionally credited to Edward II of England?
... that University of Michigan fullback John Garrels won medals in both the 110 m hurdles and shot put at the 1908 Olympics in London?
... that golf course architect William Herbert Fowler, who redesigned the 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links, was also an MCC cricketer?
... that Marilyn Monroe, Dr. Seuss, Elvis Costello, and Prince Philip all adopted matronymic surnames?
... that All Saints Church, Newton Green in Suffolk has been divided at the chancel arch, the chancel being used for worship, while the rest of the church is redundant?
... that United States v. Payner is known as the "briefcase caper" case because it concerned the exclusion of evidence surreptitiously copied from a Bahamian banker's briefcase?
... that during the takeover of the hijacked Mothers' Bus by the Yamam, the hijackers killed two mothers, of two and four children, giving the incident its name?
... that as mayor of Campbellsville, Kentucky, Robert L. Miller sometimes swept out the basements of people's houses after heavy rains?
... that Sir James Hogg and the Duke of Brunswick each pressed charges against Barnard Gregory for libel because of articles that he published in The Satirist?
... that the second USRC Virginia, assisted by Richmond and Eagle, captured the armed French schooner Louis and her cargo on 26 April 1799?
... that Al Mar Knives was the first knife factory to sell a production knife for more than $US100?
... that 16th-century Mughal miniature painter and director of Akbar's imperial workshop, Abd al-Samad, may have been the same person as Persian miniature artist Mirza Ali ?
... that politicians discuss the ways in which they and their families have suffered because of Oprahization?
... that though the rare Central Florida legume Crotalaria avonensis was first collected in 1950, it took another 39 years to be recognized and named as a distinct species?
...that Phoenix civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale helped coordinate and fund a lawsuit that produced the first court decision in the U.S. declaring school segregation illegal?
... that as part of its training program for up-and-coming Aboriginal filmmakers, the Canadian National Screen Institute hosts a "Spirit Day" with a traditional feast and pipe ceremony?
... that M-46 is only one of three trans-peninsular state highways in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan?
... that Donald S. Sanford, who wrote the screenplay for the World War II epic film Midway (1976), was a sonarman in the U.S. Navy during World War II?
... that German paratrooper Walter Koch acted against the Commando Order and saved John Dutton Frost's British paratroopers from execution?
... that in the north, the North American paper wasp Polistes annularis has rust-red markings on a predominantly black thorax, but in the south, the thorax is mostly rust-red with black markings?
... that the medieval cross in the centre of the village of Ackworth, West Yorkshire, may have been built as a memorial to victims of the Black Death?
... that the Laplace distribution with a mean of zero is a special case of the geometric stable distribution?
... that Nelly and Eminem won Grammys for Best Male Rap Solo Performance in the two years when the Best Rap Solo Performance Award was split into male and female categories?
... that the Maxberg specimen, one of only 10 Archaeopteryx specimens ever found, has been lost since 1991?
... that Harry Marks , whose Financial News crusaded against fraudulent stock market schemes, was himself widely implicated in dubious share promotions?
... that the ghost town of Estacado, Texas, was founded by Quakers as a farming community?
... that Ulster loyalist Robert McConnell was implicated in several sectarian attacks and killings in Northern Ireland, but was never charged or convicted?
... that Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay?
... that because director-writer Akiva Goldsman had an aversion to hospitals, he shot the mental hospital scenes in the Fringe episode "Bad Dreams" in a church?
... that Welsh boxer Barry Jones lost his WBO Super featherweight title through events caused by an anomaly in a brain scan?
... that the Lockington Locks lay at the end of the highest point on the Miami and Erie Canal?
... that the Cumberland false rosemary has three sets of chromosomes in its cells, one set more than other plants in the same genus?
... that the hockey rivalry between the Universities of New Hampshire and Maine is sometimes referred to as the "Border War"?
... that Stone Canyon Reservoir was used as a filming location for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974)?