derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland had planned to be aboard Manx2 Flight 7100, which crashed on landing in February 2011?
... that Gabe Carimi, who is expected to be picked in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft, fasted for Yom Kippur until an hour before game-time in his freshman year of college?
... that Belgian Symbolist artist Félicien Rops called French writer Octave Uzanne "the Bibliophile's dream"?
... that the Iron Age Meare Lake Village was built on a peat bog on the Somerset Levels?
... that Brother Cajetan J. B. Baumann (1899–1969) was the first member of a religious order to ever be named to the American Institute of Architects?
... that Scrivener said that few Greek New Testament manuscripts from the 12th century were equal to Codex Ephesinus in "weight and importance"?
... that Adalbert Schneider was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the sinking of HMS Hood on 24 May 1941 in the Battle of the Denmark Strait?
... that comedian Nick Offerman said of filming the Parks and Recreation episode "Ron & Tammy: Part Two": "I remember there was lots of howling, and I came away very sore and scarred?"
... that Michigan quarterback Ted Bank wore a specially constructed knee brace to allow him to play football after suffering a shrapnel injury in World War I?
... that the SHARP aircraft was a sort of low-altitude communications satellite in the form of an electrically powered airplane?
... that the Salaulim Dam in Goa, India, has a unique duckbill type of spillway located in the gorge section?
... that Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki is one of the Three Bards of Polish literature?
... that the ice hockey team Spektrum Flyers was disbanded after two years because its management moved it from Oslo to Bergen?
... that the UK singer Don Charles, who had one top forty hit, later bought a Maltese night club with Rolf Harris?
... that Dutch Major Lodewijk Thomson, second-in-command of the International Gendarmerie in Albania, was probably killed by an Italian sniper on 15 June 1914, in a peasant rebel attack on Durrës?
... that Czech film director Jan Sviták was killed shortly after the liberation of Prague in 1945?
... that Oswald Hall , former residence of Richard Oswald, the British representative at the 1783 Peace of Paris after the American War of Independence, became a teaching farm in the 20th century?
... that artist John DeStefano spent sixty years creating mannequins after deciding that he could not support his family with his art?
... that although the Jura wine grape Poulsard is dark-skinned, the amount of color pigment in its skin is so low that it can be used to make white wine?
... that legend says that Welsh noblewoman Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam was so beloved that when she died 3000 knights, nobles and weeping peasants followed her body to its burial place?
... that all of the federal judges in South Carolina recused themselves from South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe?
... that the prehistoric archaeologist Johanna Mestorf was the first female museum director in Germany, and at 71 became the first or second female professor?
... that a one-minute kiss scene involving Home and Away character Steven Matheson took hours to film because of the actors' nerves?
... that the Sigur Plateau is a wildlife corridor which is important for maintaining the genetic diversity of elephants and general biodiversity in South India?
... that Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz was a German geophysicist whose equations use seismic waves to map underground features?
... that the United States Air Force's 14th Test Squadron was originally activated during the Cold War as the 14th Missile Warning Squadron and assigned to operate radar sites around the United States?
... that a brass in All Saints Church, Little Wenham is said to be one of the best pre-Reformation brasses in Suffolk?
... that the lawyer who argued Connick v. Myers before the U.S. Supreme Court for Harry Connick, Sr., had interviewed Sheila Myers, the appellee, when she had applied to work for Connick?
... that the Barnesville Petroglyph is unusual because its human faces have noses?
... that Thomas Hislop enjoyed being Minister of Education, as his father was the author of the New Zealand Education Act?
... that the Thing Moot in Little Langdale was used as an open-air meeting place by Viking settlers?
... that Pinocchio's sentence "My nose grows now" could be neither true nor false, which means his nose grows if, and only if, it does not grow?
... that the neighborhoods of the city of Cholula, Puebla, in Mexico have a complicated system for sponsoring its many religious festivals?
... that while it took Wire three months to come up with a title for their last album, Object 47, the band immediately agreed on naming their current record Red Barked Tree?
... that 24 non-fatal accidents at No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF in 1926 prompted its commander to remark that the cadets must have learned how to crash "moderately safely"?
... that in 1972, Republican Robert L. Frye claimed that his Democratic opponent offered him a job to entice Frye to leave the race for Louisiana education superintendent?
... that St Mary the Virgin's Church, Wiggenhall, Norfolk is notable for the quality of its carved wooden fittings?
... that Canadian rock band Bleeker Ridge formed in 2003, when the youngest members were 12 years old?
... that for the 2009 independent feature film Jordon Saffron Taste This!, director Sergio Myers created a filmmaking style he calls "Free Flow Filmmaking"?
... that Olav Braarud remained the managing director of the Oslo light rail company Holmenkolbanen while it was controlled by the fascist Nasjonal Samling and the Nazi military during World War II?
... that after the failed Siege of Phasis during the Lazic War against the Byzantines, the Sassanid Persian shah became so upset with his losing general that he had him flayed alive?
... that the Moyes Dragonfly ultralight aircraft was designed for the specialised role of towing hang gliders, but is also used for herding livestock?
... that the coffin of Rasputin rested in Chesme Church before his burial at Tsarskoye Selo in 1916?
... that during the Boer War General Henry Hildyard told Winston Churchill that his Brigade was in "formation for taking advantage of ant-heaps"?
... that Julianna Margulies appeared in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "Black and Blue" as a romantic interest to the much-older Ned Beatty?
... that the Quicksilver GT500 is the first aircraft certified under Part 21.24 of the Federal Aviation Regulations?
... that courts have held that a Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo implementation statute extinguished all tribal aboriginal title in California?
... that Typhoon Rananim was the strongest typhoon to strike the Chinese province of Zhejiang since 1956?
... that indigenous customary law, known as usos y costumbres, is used for local elections in Mexico and Bolivia?
... that Charles Blackader survived three years on the Western Front in the First World War, only to be invalided home after being licked by a rabid dog?
... that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?
... that, in the Rule 90 cellular automaton, any finite pattern eventually fills the whole array of cells with copies of itself?
... that James Troy served as the light keeper of Cleveland Point Light for 50 years, the longest serving light keeper at one lighthouse in Australia?
... that under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, whistleblowers in Great Britain are protected from dismissal, but not from libel lawsuits if their allegations turn out to be false?
... that British soap opera Hollyoaks introduced fictional killer Silas Blissett to raise awareness of Internet safety?
... that the main protagonist from the manga series Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Syaoran, ends up becoming one of the series' main antagonists?
... that in 1950, Arnold Cook was the first person to bring a guide dog to Australia?
... that Ṭūsī was the first one to recognize that, if a declarative sentence that declares itself being false, is false, this does not necessitate it being true?
... that Sunny South, a clipper ship captured in 1860 with a cargo of over 800 slaves, was built by a racing yacht designer, and outran the steam-powered HMS Brisk for four hours?
... that Colonel Joachim Meichssner refused to kill Hitler in a suicide attack because he could not bear the stress of waiting?
... that the Saint Usuge Spaniel was saved from extinction after World War II thanks to a priest in the Bresse region of France?
... that former U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a parishioner at St. Raphael's Church in New York City?
... that the 1952 Cairo Fire is the focus of numerous conspiracy theories because those responsible for it have never been identified?
... that French author Jeanne Galzy, largely forgotten today, wrote novels dealing with lesbian love and desire?
... that St Michael's Church, Buslingthorpe, in Lincolnshire contains one of the earliest military brasses in England?
... that Saturday Night Live comedian Will Forte played a man obsessed with the Twilight series in "Time Capsule", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
... that in the Caribbean, off Anguilla, the Flirt Rocks are north of the Prickly Pear Cays, while a channel separates the cays from Dog Island?
... that the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley gave a guitar to Jane Williams and commemorated the gift in the poem "With a Guitar, to Jane"?
... that on the first ride of the first internal combustion motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen , the seat caught fire?
... that Ch. Obo II is considered to be the father of the modern American Cocker Spaniel?
... that the Socialite application of the NECA Project allowed "face to face", emotion-based interactions between animated agents on the internet?
... that the French socialist parliamentarian Ernest Lafont was expelled from Soviet Russia on the orders of Leon Trotsky?
... that crime writer Dick Francis was a notable figure in Welsh horse racing, becoming British Champion Jockey in 1954?
... that Winston Churchill, after being driven down the Niagara Parkway, described it as "the prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world"?
... that Romy Rosemont, known for her portrayal of Carole Hudson in Glee, was due to appear alongside her husband, Stephen Root, in Red State, but had to withdraw due to scheduling difficulties?
... that Ham Hill Hillfort is one of the largest hillforts in Britain, and is the only one with a pub in its interior?
... that the Cursinu , a Corsican dog breed, is used for hunting boars, foxes and hares?
... that Hermann Maaß refused a teaching position at Harvard University to continue his fight against National Socialism from within Germany?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "See No Evil" features a suspected police shooting, which was based on a real-life investigation from a book by David Simon?
... that despite being of Kurdish origins, Syrian writer Salim Barakat is considered one of the most innovative poets and novelists writing in the Arabic language?
... it is believed that Minuscule 826 is the archetype of the textual family 13?
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts?
... that Krishan Kumar's 2003 book, The Making of English National Identity, was described by Bernard Crick as "the deepest and best reflection so far by a fine sociologist and an intellectual historian"?
... that the three-story Grand Hotel of New Ulm, Minnesota still shows the signs of when it was a two-story building?
... that Aslie Pitter, founder of Stonewall F.C., Britain's first and most successful gay football club, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work fighting homophobia in London?
... that the single horn of the mythical rhinoceros-like Karkadann was said to cure epilepsy and open the bowels, while its tears were claimed to solidify into prayer beads that are still used in Iraq?
... that Tom Horabin MP survived the January 1947 crash of a BOAC Dakota airliner?
... that the canine actor Sykes starred in the award winning television advertisement "Every Home Needs a Harvey", viewed over a million times on YouTube?
... that extinct diadectid reptiliomorphs were the first large herbivorous land animals?
... that in Michael Carr's successful by-election campaign, he issued a leaflet mentioning 26 times that he was local to the constituency?
... that the result of the Congress of Gela, a peace conference in Sicily in 424 BC, has been compared to the Monroe Doctrine?
... that the Holtsmark distribution was proposed in 1919 as a model for the gravitational field of stars?
... that the private Miraflores Museum in Guatemala City has three mounds from the ancient Maya city of Kaminaljuyu in its grounds?
... that British-born architect Patrick Horsbrugh was active in the British Army, Royal Air Force, and the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II?
... that Bill Bowerman, a coach for the Oregon Ducks track and field team, created the first Nike prototype shoe by pouring rubber into his wife's waffle iron?
... that because Leonid Brezhnev had more than 200 decorations, it was decided to break the Soviet custom of featuring only one decoration on cushions during his funeral?
... that singer Cee Lo Green appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform "Bright Lights, Bigger City", the third single from his album The Lady Killer, backed by an all-female band?
... that The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is the 2011 winner of the Mathematical Association of America's Euler Book Prize?
... that the British Army used sugar houses in New York City to hold prisoners during the American Revolutionary War?
... that the non-profit group A Human Right is raising money to purchase a satellite to provide free basic internet access to developing countries?
... that when confused with Mathew Montagu, the taller Montague Mathew claimed "there was as great a difference between them as between a horse chesnut [sic] and a chesnut horse"?
... that the Hindu deity Ardhanarishvara is depicted with the right half as male, sometimes with an erect penis, and the left half as female with a well-developed breast?
... that in the Welsh folk tale of Y Ladi Wen, the "white lady" ghost purportedly guarded the treasure of Ogmore Castle?
... that Pornographic Apathetic by film director T. Arthur Cottam was featured at film festivals in South Korea and France, and at an art exhibit in Vienna?
... that the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau resulted from the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act?
... that William Wadé Harris baptized over 100,000 converts in an eighteen-month period in West Africa?
... that funds for the Betty's Hope restoration project were raised by organising a concert called "A Penny Concert"?
... that the Pterodactyl I unmanned aerial vehicle can use synthetic aperture radar to conduct reconnaissance missions?
... that Charles Lever wrote of the demise of Daly's Club, Dublin: "nothing in history equals it – except, perhaps, the entrance of the French army into Moscow"?
... that the first Native American land claim lawsuit to be filed federally and the first one to be successful arose from aboriginal title in New York?
... that to keep the French wine grape Len de l'El from fading into obscurity, Gaillac wine growers used wine laws to dictate a minimum usage of the grape for all white Gaillac blends?
... that Louis Leithold, an AP calculus "legend", came out of retirement at age 72 to "relentlessly" drill high school students in calculus?
... that the Byzantine general Constantine Dalassenos came twice close to ascending the throne and marrying the porphyrogenita Zoe, but was rejected in favour of less independent-minded candidates?
... that A Teaspoon Every Four Hours, a play co-written by Jackie Mason, set a Broadway theatre record which may be broken next month by Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark?
... that Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch, in his history of the church published in 1762–1785, claimed there is a place in the church for heretics?
... that local opposition to Fred Wilson's public artwork E Pluribus Unum may cause sponsors to cancel its installation in Indianapolis?
... that despite telling a reporter in 1997 that he would "never" reunite with The Cars, singer Ric Ocasek relented in 2010 to record Move Like This, the band's first studio album in 23 years?
... that flying ace William Stanley Jenkins scored his first two confirmed aerial victories while still admitted to a hospital?
... that the St Albans by-election in 1904 was triggered by the sale to the Admiralty of two battleships which had been built for the Chilean Navy?
... that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia, Guatemala, was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations?
... that it has been estimated that 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes as a result of the air raids on Japan during World War II?
... that in the tower of St Nicholas' Church, Buckenham, Norfolk, is a dovecote lined with brick nesting boxes?
... that MacHomer, a one-person play blending William Shakespeare's Macbeth with The Simpsons, was conceived by Rick Miller in 1994 while he was playing the minor role of Murderer No. 2 in a production of MacBeth?
... that, in United States space policy, President Eisenhower sought to avoid a space race due to his belief in small government, but Congress created a NASA much stronger than he had sought?
... that until the late 1970s, the hybrid grape Baco Blanc was the primary grape behind the French brandy of Armagnac?
... that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio, there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
... that Vikingskipet sports venue, built for the 1994 Winter Olympics, has hosted world championships in speed skating, bandy, speedway and track cycling?
... that John F. Kennedy's early-morning speech from the balcony of the Elton Hotel in Waterbury, Connecticut, was credited with helping him win the state in 1960?
... that there have been reports of ghosts, and of activity by satanists, in St Botolph's Church, Skidbrooke, Lincolnshire?
... that Dublin's former Kildare Street Club is adorned by whimsical beasts, such as monkeys playing billiards ?
... that Olga Novikova of Kazakhstan won four gold medals, winning every women's event in ski orienteering, at the 2011 Asian Winter Games?
... that the 2007 independent feature film Dreamscape was expanded from 63 minutes to 86 minutes based upon a suggestion from reviewer M. J. Simpson?
... that the report of an investigation of delays in completing the Idamalayar Dam project in Kerala stated it was a "victim of recurring and long inertial periods of labour unrest"?
... that the grant allowing the Potomac Curling Club to open its home in 2002 became the subject of an attack ad in Maryland?
... that Techno Viking has received more than 20 million clicks on YouTube and given rise to more than 700 responses and remixed versions?
... that an aborted family picnic was a major contributing factor that drove Harry Lonsdale to found his company, Bend Research, in Oregon instead of California?
... that a dying parishioner paid for architect Robert North to travel so that his design for St. James' Episcopal Church in Batavia, New York, would reflect "the quiet spirit of the English countryside"?
... that fish ladders are constructed so that salmon can navigate past hydroelectric dams on their way to spawn?
... that Cherokees were recruited into Thomas' Legion to fight for the South in the American Civil War by William Holland Thomas, the only white chief of the Cherokees?
... that a mural outside Mama Ayesha's Restaurant, featuring 11 U.S. Presidents, was chosen by Washington City Paper as the second-best mural in Washington, D.C.?
... that the Irk Bitig (Book of Omens) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script?
... that the extinct crocodile Rimasuchus often preyed on large mammals, including early humans?
... that Google's Art Project features digital versions of 17 pieces of artwork at a resolution of 7 gigapixels?
... that the anonymous Greek author of Hellenic Nomarchy, written in 1806, dedicates his work to the activist Rigas Feraios?
... that pioneer aviator Léon Lemartin set a world record when he carried seven passengers in a Blériot XIII Aerobus?
... that the Reverend Richard Boys was responsible for the moral upkeep of Hudson Lowe and his men who guarded Napoleon I during the exile on Saint Helena?
... that since the 1990s, the Cross de San Sebastián has been dominated by runners of East African origin?
... that Fringe's executive producers compared the episode "Marionette" to a Rip Van Winkle experience?
... that George Frideric Handel wrote Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate for the celebration of the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, to English words?
... that the Sewell Ministry, led by Henry Sewell, was the first responsible government of New Zealand?
... that the song "Mr. Malcontent" on the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album Mainstream is based on the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette?
... that Pontyclun railway station, previously called Llantrisant, was originally two separate railway stations that were later merged into one?
... that French singer Amaury Vassili is currently the youngest professional tenor in the world?
... that Leonid Brezhnev's legacy was described by Mikhail Gorbachev as "an Era of Stagnation"?
... that much of the demolition of Sugar House Prison in Utah had to be carried out stone by stone, because dynamite had little effect on its heavy walls?
... that Marojejy National Park contains the last remaining mountain scrub in Madagascar to be unaltered by fire?
... that the MXR Dyna Comp, a guitar effect, is favored especially by Nashville guitar players and other chicken pickers?
... that Guatemalan Roberto González Goyri, who was awarded the Order of the Quetzal, illustrated a children's book in Cubist style?
... that in addition to being named an All-American in both football and basketball at the University of Oklahoma, Tom Churchill finished fifth in the decathlon at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
... that Algernon Sidney Badger, a public official in New Orleans during and after Reconstruction, was named a Union Army colonel for "meritorious service" at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay?
... that Jennifer Lopez's 2011 comeback, "On the Floor", samples Kaoma's 1989 hit single "Lambada" but fellow latin artist Kat DeLuna felt it was similar to her own 2010 single "Party O'Clock"?
... that the old Bridge Tender's House on the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C., is now a giant kaleidoscope?
... that the Zliten mosaic is an ancient Roman floor mosaic from about the 2nd century AD that depicts gladiators and scenes from ordinary life?
... that Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón received a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album for her album Sobrevivir?
... that New Georgia, Liberia, was established by Africans "recaptured" from a slave ship and held for seven years in Georgia waiting for courts to decide their fate?
... that while performing in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet, actress Joan McCracken got pregnant, lost her child to a miscarriage, and lost her husband, Bob Fosse, to another woman?
... that Lysgårdsbakken, the ski jumping hill for the 1994 Winter Olympics, has become the 11th-most visited tourist attraction in Norway?
... that the early efforts of the precursor to the Pacific Salmon Commission included dynamiting dams?
... that Anatolius, a 6th-century Byzantine official accused of being a crypto-pagan, was tortured, thrown to the "wild beasts" of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, and then crucified?
... that a photograph of Private John Hines with the German money and equipment he had looted during the Battle of Polygon Wood in 1917 is one of the best known Australian images of World War I?