derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the precursors to the White House Press Secretary and White House press corps both formed during the presidency of Grover Cleveland?
... that the tomb of Robert Ingylton in St Michael and All Angels' Church in Thornton, Buckinghamshire, was re-assembled from a grotto?
... that Kate Middleton's wedding dress for her marriage to Prince William was designed by Sarah Burton?
... that Nude Nuns with Big Guns is a nunsploitation thriller film that is the subject of a copyright lawsuit against torrent users involving 5,865 IP addresses?
... that the seed of the Australian plant Banksia canei requires stratification (keeping at 5 °C for 60 days) before germination?
... that Radhakrishnan's Dhammapada was recommended reading for victims of the "annihilation-extinction" theory of nirvana?
... that Captain Cedric Holland was sent with the British terms for the surrender of the French fleet prior to the attack on Mers-el-Kébir?
... that the Kunming–Singapore Railway will be 3,900 km (2,400 mi) long when completed?
... that Queen Victoria has been credited with starting the western tradition of white bridal gowns by wearing one at her 1840 wedding?
... that the English theologian Daniel Whitby in 1710 defended Textus Receptus's finding of 30,000 textual variants in John Mill's edition of the New Testament?
... that the first time Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers starred together in a film was in Lewis Milestone's 1940 comedy romance drama Lucky Partners?
... that Virginia rabbi Jack Moline helped write President Bill Clinton's famous 1995 "Shalom, Haver" eulogy for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin?
... that for the first time in 11 years, the 2010 budget passed by the 15th Congress of the Philippines was signed by President Benigno Aquino III before the calendar year ended?
... that basketball player Othyus Jeffers and his two older brothers, Gerome Allen and Edmund Allen, were all shot during three separate shooting incidents in their hometown, but only Jeffers survived?
... that the earliest history of Alishang in Afghanistan is traced to the Mughal Emperor Babur, when in the 1520s he hunted wildlife in the mountains there before returning to India?
... that Sufjan Stevens has released four versions of "Chicago", including the "Multiple Personality Disorder Version"?
... that the house at 36 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut, was built by an insurance company to satisfy a mortgage payment the neighborhood's developers could not make?
... that a fungal pathogen Beauveria bassiana has been released along with a parasitic wasp Tetrastichus planipennisi in the US as a biological control agent of the emerald ash borer?
... that Mongolia's top Olympic marathon runner Ser-Od Bat-Ochir trains with Morpeth Harriers in Gateshead, England?
... that tantalum hafnium carbide is believed to have a melting point as high as 4,215 °C (7,619 °F)?
... that George Jessel and Arlene Francis hosted a 1953–54 ABC reality show, The Comeback Story, in which guests discuss how they overcame great adversity in their lives?
... that at 127.4 kilometres (79.2 mi) long, the Great Wall of Vietnam is the longest monument in Southeast Asia?
... that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad by singing the Jewish prayer for the dead?
... that the iridescent metallic hues of some jewel bugs (Scutelleridae) are caused by structural colors instead of pigmentation?
... that GeoCenter Møns Klint on the island of Møn in Denmark was designed by PLH Architects, the winners of an international design competition?
... that in the men's decathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics, British athlete Daniel Awde set a personal best in the pole vault and had the fastest time of anyone in the 400 metres, but finished 21st?
... that during the Battle of Arnhem the 4th Parachute Brigade suffered 78 per cent casualties?
... that it was Jerry Shipp who led the United States men's national basketball team in scoring at the 1964 Summer Olympics, even though its roster included two future Hall of Famers?
... that an extremophile bacterium, Paracoccus denitrificans, has been found to grow even under 400,000 times Earth's gravity, a fact having implications on the feasibility of panspermia?
... that Sanjak of Montenegro was joined to the Sanjak of Shkodra in 1514 as a unique administrative unit with a certain degree of autonomy?
... that timber from the Ruislip Woods was used in the construction of the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, the Palace of Westminster, and the manor of the Black Prince in Kennington?
... that Debedeavon, the Laughing King of the Accawmacke Virginia Indian tribe, and an Englishman whom he adopted named Thomas Savage, warned the settlers at Jamestown of the impending 1622 Massacre?
... that host country West Germany won the most gold medals at the 1972 Summer Paralympics, but the United States won the most total medals?
... that more than 120 archaeological sites have been found in the Econfina Creek watershed?
... that Russell and Sigurd Varian, who played childhood pranks on family guests by giving them minor electric shocks, went on to invent the klystron and become pioneers of microwave technology?
... that Keith Thiele , whose daring motorcycle escape during WWII has been compared to Steve McQueen's in The Great Escape, is one of only four New Zealanders to be awarded the DFC and two bars?
... that Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum has won Paralympic medals for Israel in athletics, swimming and table tennis?
... that the Burmese were "on the brink of victory" in the Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760) when they suddenly withdrew from their siege of Ayutthaya because their king Alaungpaya had fallen ill?
... that the Pfaffenstein , a low table mountain and one of the most important climbing areas in Saxon Switzerland, was visited by Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony, in 1915?
... that solar panels provide part of the power for electric vehicle charging stations at Hillsboro, Oregon's Intermodal Transit Facility?
... that until the Migrant Housing Act of North Carolina was amended in 2007, North Carolina had very few health and safety regulations for migrant farmers' housing?
... that the tadpole of the Vampire flying frog Rhacophorus vampyrus has two fang-like hooks in its mouth?
... that Nellie McClung, the Canadian novelist, prohibitionist, and activist, lectured at the Cornish Library in Winnipeg?
... that Gustav Elfving invented the optimal design of experiments, and so minimized the cost of a cartographic survey, while trapped in his tent in storm-ridden Greenland?
... that Heather Knight was the first woman to be selected President of Pacific Union College and the first African American woman to lead an Adventist College in North America?
... that in 1852 Franz Johann Joseph Bock founded the first large exhibition of ancient masterpieces of Christian art?
... that St Lawrence's Church in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, is listed Grade I because of its "remarkable series" of medieval wall paintings?
... that Curry Hicks was the head football coach for the Michigan State Normal Normalites in 1910 and the athletic director at UMass from 1911 to 1949?
... that the buildings in Jižní Město, the Czech Republic's largest housing estate, were color-coded to facilitate orientation?
... that the ancient custom of ringing the curfew bell each evening from St Peter's Church in Sandwich, Kent, still continues?
... that members of the Brisbane-based Women's National Emergency Legion served as drivers for United States military units in Australia during World War II?
... that Twicket, the first ever village cricket match to be live-streamed around the world, was played in Wray, Lancashire, on Easter Monday 2011?
... that women in Burma wore a skirtcloth known as the htamein during the Konbaung Dynasty?
... that although Earth, Wind & Fire's song "Reasons" has never charted, it is included on several dozen albums including most of the group's greatest hits compilation albums?
... that the Civic , a Category II heritage building damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, is to be demolished?
... that Eddie Wilcoxen, morning show host on radio station KWHW, is the current Poet Laureate for the state of Oklahoma?
... that next-generation DDR4 computer memory, developed since 2005, is the first of its family to discard multi-channel architecture, and the first to include 3D silicon stacking in its specification?
... that G. L. Pridgen, a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, supports a bill requiring a referendum on English being his state’s official language?
... that the Jacksonville Aviation Authority owns and operates four airports on a budget of US$63.8 million in Jacksonville, Florida, but costs taxpayers nothing?
... that Sudanese human rights activist Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been imprisoned four times for his work in Darfur?
... that in Coffee: A Dark History, Antony Wild claims that coffee helped cause the Age of Enlightenment?
... that before they owned large ranches in Texas, John Wesley Snyder and his brother operated an apple orchard and horse-trading business in Williamson County near Austin?
... that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, are the graves of the notable military figures Henry "Hangman" Hawley and Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke?
... that bone marrow drives hosted by Yale University in honor of ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz netted more than 2,400 donors and resulted in six matches for those awaiting transplants?
... that bandleader Ivy Benson and her all-female band were the first entertainers invited to perform at the VE Day celebrations in Berlin at the request of Field Marshal Montgomery?
... that British Paralympic rowing gold medallist Tom Aggar was once part of the Saracens F.C. youth development squad?
... that the Silent Way is a language teaching method in which students do 90 percent or more of the talking?
... that despite his racing career cut short by two wars, Finnhorse trotter Eri-Aaroni sold in 1946 for the equivalent of 680,000 euros, the all-time highest price for a horse in Finland?
... that Nathan "Ned" Miller had two hit songs in the 1920s at the age of 22?
... that there is a tri-state water dispute between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin?
... that when Nikita Khrushchev gave the go-ahead to build the Berlin Wall, Mikhail Pervukhin was the first to know?
... that TV quiz show Don't Scare the Hare has been described as "fantasy based toddler telly with an adult twist"?
... that Burmese democracy activist Aye Aung is serving a 59-year prison sentence for distributing leaflets and organizing protests in Yangon?
... that the characters of "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World" are only allowed to experience one day a week?
... that richness of the wildlife of the Central African Republic is reflected in its about 3,600 species of plants and more than 1,000 species of birds, mammals and reptiles?
... that the main target of the 1945 attack on Yokosuka was the battleship Nagato, the flagship of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941?
... that Mochtar Lubis's novel Salah Asuhan had to avoid themes of rebellion and portray the European characters in a positive light in order to be published?
... that Dragan Velić is the current President of the Union of Serbian Districts and District Units of Kosovo and Metohija of North Kosovo?
... that workers at the Bata shoe factory in East Tilbury, England, lived in "Bata-ville", a company town complete with houses, schools, shops, sports facilities, a theatre, a post office, and its own newspaper?
... that Amie MacRuari was divorced by the first Lord of the Isles despite giving him no grounds for doing so?
... that the Engine Company 2 Fire Station in Hartford, Connecticut, was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival architectural style, not commonly used for firehouses?
... that the OS Museum in Post, Texas, contains a hybrid of exhibits on both the American West and Asia, which are changed three times per year?
... that at the 2008 Games, Helene Raynsford became the Paralympic's first ever rowing gold medallist?
... that Homeland Security is recruiting every local jail in the U.S. to become a deportation office through a new program called Secure Communities?
... that the original Shaare Zedek Synagogue was the oldest synagogue in Winnipeg?
... that poet, historian and radical William Jones was described by a contemporary as "the hottest arsed" Welshman he had ever known?
... that the Red Faced Lovebird is found in both the Central African Republic's Bamingui-Bangoran National Park and in Nigeria's Gashaka Gumti National Park?
... that during Operation Rhodes of January 1970, Israeli paratroops held the Egyptian island of Shadwan for over a day before leaving with 62 prisoners of war?
... that Milton Olander, who led the Western Michigan football team to an unbeaten and unscored upon record in 1922, was later offered a position as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor?
... that Hillingdon House once housed the Royal Flying Corps Armament School, which established a firing range in the grounds?
... that Ron Hextall was the first ice hockey goaltender to shoot and score a goal in the National Hockey League?
... that the Rhine Terrace restaurant in Berlin's Haus Vaterland featured hourly fake thunderstorms?
... that the film Ronald Reagan called "the worst picture I ever made" inspired Jerry Parr to join the Secret Service, and that Parr saved President Reagan's life during the 1981 assassination attempt ?
... that the UK House of Commons Treasury Committee challenged the Payments Council's plan to abolish cheques by 2018?
... that Clement W. Payton won a British Distinguished Flying Cross and a Belgian Croix de guerre?
... that on Mt. Murchison in New Zealand's Braeburn Range, a small population of large carnivorous snails, Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes", is only found above the bush line?
... that the name of Fisheating Creek is derived from the Seminole name for the stream, Thlothlopopka-Hatchee, or "the river where fish are eaten"?
... that the M2 gas mask protected the wearer for at least five hours against the common World War I chemical weapon phosgene?
... that during the 2010–11 NBA Development League season, 20 players were called-up to the NBA, while 39 NBA players were assigned to the D-League?
... that during the 2010 Australian federal elections Bruce Hawker helped the incumbent Labor Party form a minority government after negotiations with the independents?
... that South Africa's winning of the 1997 Wills Golden Jubilee Tournament marked its first cricket tournament victory in the Indian subcontinent and in their seventh attempt?
... that Bertrand Teyou is serving two years in jail for attempting to read publicly from his book about Chantal Biya, the first lady of Cameroon?
... that while playing cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club, E. W. Bastard once dismissed Australian cricket captain Billy Murdoch?
... that early Western Australian settler George Layman Sr. was speared to death by a Wardandi elder at Wonnerup House in 1841?
... the government of the Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic was headed by Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov, Vladimir Lenin's brother?
... that democracy activist Htay Kywe was described as Burma's "most-wanted man" following his leadership role in the 2007 anti-government protests?
... that Heart Peaks in northern British Columbia, Canada, is the third largest volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province?
... that 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winner Paige St. John is married to John Wark, a former Pulitzer Prize finalist?
... that the past captains of the Indian cricket team were honoured during the 1997 Pepsi Independence Cup, which was organised to celebrate India's 50th anniversary of independence?
... that in 2010, Washington Nationals pitcher Collin Balester hit two batters in the head in a span of nine days?
... that British physicist Alexander Rankine gave the 1932 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture and worked on fog dispersal systems during World War II?
... that Chinese explorer Jin Feibao has completed the Explorers Grand Slam in only 18 months and 24 days, the fastest recorded time?
... that Penny White lost her seat on the Tennessee Supreme Court because of her vote in a single court decision?
... that the Los Angeles Times calls Love, Loss, and What I Wore a The Vagina Monologues-What Not to Wear mix, and The New York Times calls it a "show about matters of the heart and matters of the closet"?
... that during World War II, men of the American 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion were awarded nine Silver Stars and seventy-two Bronze Stars?
... that the Sunmobile, world's first solar-powered automobile, was demonstrated in a 1955 General Motors car show?
... that Albanian leader Skanderbeg ambushed his would-be ambusher at the Battle of Meçad?
... that the Emissions Control Technology Association (ECTA) claims that more than $20 in healthcare savings is generated for every dollar spent on the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act?
... that Admiral Samuel Goodall fought in three wars, seeing action at Ushant, the Saintes, Genoa and the Hyères Islands?
... that Arroyo Seco, Querétaro, Mexico, is home to the Sótano del Barro, a pit cave which is one of the largest cavities of the world by volume?
... that a proposal by Republican Charles Austin Tweed allowing California to hire women at the same rate of pay offered to men was defeated by the California State Senate?
... that Polish Countess Eveline Hańska was once ordered by a doctor to stick her feet into a small pig in order to treat her gout?
... that the former station house at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot in Galesburg, Illinois, had two waiting rooms, one for men and one for women?
... that journalist Iryna Khalip is under incommunicado house arrest following a protest of the 2010 Belarusian presidential election, in which her husband was also a candidate?
... that Sophie Christiansen, the youngest athlete for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, won a bronze medal in dressage?
... that despite intending to cast a 40–50 year old Japanese actor in the upcoming Fringe episode "The Day We Died", American actor Brad Dourif was chosen instead?
... that the Cloth of St Gereon is the oldest known European tapestry still existing?
... that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's state funeral took place twice, once immediately after his death in 1938 and then again in 1953?
... that Bach's cantata for the St. Thomas Sunday of 1725, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42, is the only one in his second annual cycle beginning with a Sinfonia?
... that Buddhist monk U Gambira was sentenced to sixty-three years in prison for his leadership role in Burma's Saffron Revolution?
... that the Plain of Torvioll saw the first battle of Skanderbeg's war against the Ottoman Empire?
... that Ghada Amer created the Encyclopedia of Pleasure sculpture in 2001 to illustrate parts of the eponymous Islamic Golden Age encyclopedia that discusses female sexual pleasure?
... that Adrian Lombard, who had no formal training in aerodynamics, became one of the world's foremost designers of jet engines?
... that on the north wall of St Nicholas' Church in Freefolk, Hampshire, are three layers of wall paintings?
... that faced with what they thought to be a suicide mission, the crews of several battleships of the German High Seas Fleet mutinied in 1918?
... that the FCC's attempts to modify media ownership laws in 2003 was stayed until 2010 by Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC until the FCC explained and justified each change?
... that at the 2010 Games, skier Kelly Gallagher became the first-ever Winter Paralympian from Northern Ireland?
... that Beyoncé Knowles hired 200 native African dancers to appear in her music video for "Run the World (Girls)"?
... that born-again Christian political activist David Lane, who works to support right-wing politics in the US, was called the "stealth weapon for the right"?
... that Miami Vice producer Michael Mann originally conceived the character of Ricardo Tubbs as "nobody's Tonto"?
... that Edward John Trelawny married the sister of a Greek warlord and then lived with her in a mountain cave?
... that it is widely believed that Elsie Stevens, wife of poet Wallace Stevens, was the model for the Mercury dime ?
... that Italian leftist politician Emanuele Fiano was a Jewish youth leader in the Hashomer Hatzair Socialist–Zionist youth movement in Milan?
... that mad prophet William Hacket was executed in London in 1591, after denouncing Queen Elizabeth I and defacing her image with a bodkin?
... that the Tajikistan Aluminum Company (TALCO) runs one of the largest aluminum manufacturing plants in the world?
... that Salusbury Pryce Humphreys commanded HMS Leopard during the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair in 1807?
... that in 1937, the slopes of Joppenbergh Mountain were coated with borax for a summer ski jumping competition?
... that the waistcoat of Haiti's Toussaint Louverture had 18 buttons that were decorated with reproductions of Agostino Brunias's paintings ?
... that the 14th-century All Saints Church in Maidstone, England, is described as the grandest Perpendicular style church in Kent?
... that two of the ETA members convicted of the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing were each sentenced to 2,354 years in prison?
... that the Windawski Canal in northern Lithuania was built as an extension of the Augustów Canal to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
... that Shaun Deeb has two World Championship of Online Poker wins and 16 World Series of Poker in the money finishes?
... that in the French India municipal election, 1946, the National Democratic Front won control over all 22 municipalities?
... the Fort Young Hotel was originally the major military installation of Dominica, and still retains several cannons?
... that the Baku Museum of Modern Art was designed by Jean Nouvel as part of a projected "eco-cultural zone" on the waterfront in Baku, Azerbaijan?
... that Hailee Steinfeld, who starred in the 2010 version of True Grit, is the 73rd performer nominated for an Academy Award in a screen debut?
... that Mexican pointy boots, made by elongating the toes of normal boots by as much as 5 feet (1.5 m), are popular among Mexican men in parts of Mexico and the U.S.?
... that the wildlife of Zanzibar included its own subspecies of leopard that survived from the ice age but may now be extinct?
... that the 50 poems in I Hope Like Heck were created from excerpts of emails written by Sarah Palin during her time as Governor of Alaska?
... that Maurice Fargues was the first diver to die while using an aqua-lung?
... that the Moran Dam, one of the largest proposed hydroelectric projects in North America, was defeated by environmentalists well before the time of anti-dam environmentalism?
... that between 1932 and 1962, Iowa Republican Governor and U.S. Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper won 17 of 19 elections in which he was a candidate?
... that the polychaete worm Chaetopterus variopedatus can regenerate its whole body from a single segment?
... that the defence counsel in The Case of the Dean of St Asaph was given the Freedom of the City of Gloucester, even though the defendant was found guilty?
... that the underground Fortress of Mimoyecques was built by Nazi Germany to bombard London with 10 shells a minute using the V-3 supergun?
... that the competition to build the fastest production motorcycle raged for over a century, and then ended in a truce?
... that Indian communist leader V. Subbiah was elected to the Senate of France in 1947?
... that Judge Hugo Friend, who presided over the 1921 Black Sox trial, smiled as the defendants were acquitted and died in 1966 while listening by radio to a White Sox game?
... that a proud Massachusetts father commissioned award-winning composer Peter Child to compose a string quartet in honor of his son's birth?
... that the wasp Dinocampus coccinellae can turn a ladybird into a "zombie bodyguard"?
... that Maria Bashir , Chief Prosecutor General of Herat Province, Afghanistan, is the first ever woman Chief Prosecutor in Afghan history?