derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Cherokee and other Native American tribes used river cane to make items including blowguns, spears, flutes and candles?
... that The Wall Street Journal called the scandal involving Olympus Corporation "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history"?
... that although St Silas' Church in Blackburn, Lancashire, was designed in 1878, building did not start until 1894, and the tower was not completed until 1914?
... that mezzo-soprano Martina Koppelstetter has recorded Lieder by Rudi Spring for BR, Bavarian Radio?
... that cyanobacteria can be washed up on the shore in a green scum, which may contain an acute neurotoxin known as the Very Fast Death Factor, which leads to fast death by paralysis?
... that a spree killer from Ontario, saved from the death penalty by reason of insanity, later received a "hero's funeral"?
... that Peter Edward Stroehling's portrait of George III shows the king with an adoring spaniel?
... that a small volume 2 of The Young Men's Magazine written by a teenaged Charlotte Brontë sold for £690,850?
... that Gavin Bryars's Doctor Ox's Experiment is the third opera to be based on Jules Verne's science fiction novella "Dr. Ox's Experiment"?
... that mathematician Mikhail Kadets became interested in the theory of normed spaces after reading the Ukrainian edition of the French treatise by the Pole Stefan Banach?
... that Rossetti overpainted the face of his former mistress in his painting of Lady Lilith with the face of one of his later models?
... that a trademark dispute between piano makers Steinway & Sons and Grotrian-Steinweg resulted in establishing the legal concept of "initial interest confusion"?
... that the vulnerable buttercup Ranunculus allenii was first collected from Mount Albert in the Gaspé Peninsula in 1881?
... that Perry Dorrestein's first start for the Michigan Wolverines football team was in a Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry game?
... that Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints' Church, Hertford, as "completely alien" in Hertfordshire?
... that in zoos the Scarlet Ibis is often fed beetroots and carrots to maintain its plumage coloring, which in the wild comes from carotenoid pigments in shrimp and shellfish?
... that after directing several episodes of Glee, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed large choreographed musical television advertisements for Chevrolet and T-Mobile?
... that The Relaxation Response describes two steps as essential: a passive attitude and a mental device to keep the mind from wandering?
... that Gustav Sobottka, Jr. was imprisoned by the Nazis at age 18 and by Stalin's secret police at age 23?
... that the opening of San Francisco's Tiffany Building included a roast pig and a lion dance for good luck?
... that General George S. Patton praised the tactic of marching fire during World War II?
... that the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies pioneered the usage of video testimonies to record eyewitness accounts of major historical events and inspired video testimony projects documenting other atrocities?
... that Jean-Claude Bajeux was Haiti's culture minister under President Jean-Bertrand Aristide but later turned against him?
... that the extinct, Miocene age, maple Acer browni ranged from southern Oregon to the north shore of the Haida Gwaii?
... that tight end Martell Webb was a 2006 USA Today All-USA second team selection along with fellow Michigan matriculant Ryan Mallett?
... that the ancient Greek drama Lysistrata by Aristophanes has been adapted as a Broadway musical titled Lysistrata Jones about a basketball team and its cheerleaders?
... that lithographer Adolph Friedländer's printshop produced over 9,000 posters for artists, magicians and circus and vaudeville performers?
... that in Wildwood by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, "bespectacled, bike-riding, vinyl-­browsing, Kurosawa-­referencing" Portland kids save a baby kidnapped by a murder of crows?
... that the dance performed during the Kundum Festival of the Ahanta people of Ghana originated from dwarfs?
... that the communist newspaper Deutsche Zentral Zeitung ran volumes of show trial transcripts, but never the consequences, and ceased publication after most of the staff were also arrested?
... that Euripides' posthumously produced lost play Alcmaeon in Corinth was part of a trilogy that won first prize at the Dionysia in Athens?
... that decisional balance sheets are used to help people with addictive behaviours decide to make changes in their lives?
... that the spiny lobster Jasus caveorum lives only on one of the Foundation Seamounts in the southern Pacific Ocean?
... that comedian Graham Norton won his first comedy award after standing in as a guest presenter on The Jack Docherty Show while Docherty was on holiday?
... that after suffering from polio as a youth, Maria Farida Indrati went on to become the first female justice of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia?
... that a month after its launch, the Facebook game CastleVille had amassed 26.6 million players?
... that Michelangelo's Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment is believed to be the earliest existent European drawing of a nude female model?
... that, in 1987, German ice hockey executive Heinz Weifenbach negotiated a deal in which his club, the ECD Iserlohn, would advertise Muammar Gaddafi's Green Book?
... that in 1963, a whole farm—including machinery, staff and a pedigree herd of Hereford cattle—travelled by train from Tetbury railway station to Stranraer in advance of the Beeching Axe?
... that according to The People's Book of Records, the record for the number of times a person has been licked on the buttocks by a dog in two minutes is 145?
... that Yongjia Xuanjue is believed to have written the 8th-century Song of Enlightenment, a text still popular with Zen practitioners nowadays?
... that the ideology of Ba'athism was developed mostly in Syria by Zaki al-Arsuzi, Salah al-Din al-Bitar and Michel Aflaq, who is considered the founder of Ba'athist thought, as a way to unite the Arab world into one nation?
... that Jerry Blackwell's Southern Championship Wrestling was the last "territorial" wrestling promotion in the U.S. state of Georgia?
... that Bill Bellamy, who was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry as a tank commander in 1944, raised £30,000 by trekking across Cuba in 2005, at the age of 81?
... that Israeli businessman Dan Gertler bought the Kolwezi tailings project for $20 million and two months later sold half of it for $175 million?
... that Ruislip High School is the fictional "Rudge Park Comprehensive" from the E4 television series The Inbetweeners?
... that in Mesopotamian mythology, the Apkallu were sent by the god Enki, from Dilmun to teach human beings various aspects of civilization?
... that poet W. H. Auden said of the letters of Vincent van Gogh "there is scarcely one ... which I ... do not find fascinating"?
... that Polish model and fashion designer Joanna Horodyńska has presented a TV program while lying in a foam-filled bath tub, and posed three times for Playboy?
... that the prairie goldenrod can flourish during drought conditions where native plants and grasses have died out?
... that Koji Mitsui was unsuccessfully posted to Major League Baseball twice in one offseason?
... that Kenneth Stewart Cole, an organizer of the Biophysical Society's first meeting, said that the meeting had "the ulterior motive of finding out if there was such a thing as biophysics"?
... that the annual European theatre festival Ruhrfestspiele , which collaborates with companies such as The Old Vic, originated in a coal shortage in 1946?
... that Ryan Van Bergen was ranked among the top-20 high school football players nationally as both a tight end and defensive end?
... that Soepomo, Indonesia's first Minister of Justice, criticized Dutch colonialism in his thesis on the agrarian system of Surakarta?
... that Count Grog's Southern Championship Wrestling once promoted a benefit show in Louisburg, North Carolina, from which all the proceeds went to a seriously injured wrestler?
... that the ideas of 17th-century Polish reformer Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki have been both praised as the harbinger of later reforms, and criticized for not going far enough?
... that Raphael's Portrait of Balthasar Castiglione was admired and copied by Titian, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens and Henri Matisse?
... that the coastline from Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth, in north Cornwall, was one of the last British breeding sites of the Large Blue butterfly, which was declared nationally extinct in 1979?
... that Thomas Crawford captured Dumbarton Castle with ropes and scaling ladders under cover of darkness?
... that future Minister of Justice Abdoel Gaffar Pringgodigdo reported losing much of his archive when the Dutch seized Yogyakarta?
... that in December 2011, the Home Affordable Refinance Program was expanded so many U.S. homeowners can refinance their mortgage even if their home value is underwater?
... that Michigan Wolverines American football cornerback J. T. Floyd made his first two interceptions against Notre Dame, but in different seasons?
... that Georgia O'Keeffe praised her art teacher John Vanderpoel, whose book The Human Figure is a standard reference for art students , as "one of the few real teachers I have known"?
... that some music critics hear echoes of work by Diana Ross and Leslie Gore in Selena's song "Missing My Baby", which was featured on Entre a Mi Mundo?
... that Indonesian legal scholar Notonagoro, who married into royalty, placed the needs of individual citizens last in his hierarchy of government priorities?
... that Chief Wahoo McDaniel came out of retirement in 1996 to wrestle Death & Destruction in a tag team match?
... that, while still a schoolboy, Rhys Morgan led an effort to raise awareness of the risks of the alternative medicine product Miracle Mineral Supplement?
... that Traveler's Rest near Lolo, Montana, is the only place along the Lewis and Clark Trail where physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been found?
... that the rare magic mushroom Psilocybe tampanensis was found after its discoverer skipped a "boring taxonomic conference" to go mushroom hunting?
... that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
... that Yad Sarah, the largest national volunteer organization in Israel, has over 6,000 volunteers – including its founder, Uri Lupolianski, former mayor of Jerusalem?
... that the cliffs and offshore rocks from Godrevy Head to St Agnes are host to the largest colony of breeding Black-legged Kittiwakes in Cornwall, UK?
... that Jeff Wright, a county drain commissioner in Michigan, has also served as an FBI informant?
... that Mojo Mathers became New Zealand's first deaf MP during the 2011 general election?
... that before Brighton's Montpelier suburb developed, three people lived on the hilly site – including an eccentric corporal who lived in a cave and fired celebratory pistols on military anniversaries?
... that after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars, Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) at the age of 34?
... that female baseball player Mary Rountree earned a medical degree by studying in the off-season?
... that Three Sisters, a musical by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern, played for only two months in London in 1934, and didn't debut in America until 2011?
... that 30-to-120-centimetre (12 to 47 in) tall hairy pagodas can be found throughout eastern North America?
... that an abolitionist pastor at New York's First Baptist Church of Tarrytown was succeeded by a Confederate veteran who had walked to the church from Alabama?
... that Kazimierz Karwowski holds the record for being elected to the most Sejms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that the leaves of the beard-heath Leucopogon amplexicaulis surround the stem?
... that the Glee episode "Hold On to Sixteen" featured covers of songs by Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and The Jackson 5?
... that the sea whip, a colonial soft coral, produces chemicals which prevent algae, barnacles and bryozoans from growing on it?
... that the mixed-breed dog Tich was awarded the animal's Victoria Cross for devotion to duty with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second World War?
... that Ghirlandaio's An Old Man and his Grandson portrays a man with a deformed nose sympathetically, in contrast to theories of the era by which external deformities imply character defects?
... that the Left Column theater troupe left Germany on the eve of Nazism only to lose many members to the Stalinist purges?
... that Wroniec, a dark fairy tale by Jacek Dukaj, was a taboo-breaking take on martial law in Poland, which was in effect from 13 December 1981?
... that Bat-El Gatterer, Israeli women's taekwondo champion, is a religiously observant Jew who was born in the West Bank?
... that during Royce White's two-and-a-half-year hiatus from competitive basketball, he spent time on his music career and learned how to play the piano?
... that in November 1921, the schooner Cymric collided with a tram in Dublin?
... that Boston Celtics center Bill Russell won 11 NBA championships during his 13-year playing career, including two titles as player-coach?
... that jewel beetle larvae live in galls on the stems of the Australian shrub Daviesia corymbosa?
... that the Frank Kameny House in Washington, D.C., was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the gay rights activism of its namesake?
... that Juan Martínez de Recalde was second-in-command of the Spanish Armada?
... that Pro Wrestling Illustrated has called manager Count Grog the "least employee friendly boss around" due to his frequently double-crossing his own wrestlers?
... that the goose barnacle is found attached to driftwood, flotsam and even whales?
... that the Grammy Award-winning album Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis Guerra brought bachata music into the mainstream in the Dominican Republic?
... that seven of the twenty-nine times when Duke and Michigan played one another in men's basketball, both teams were ranked in the top ten in the AP Poll?
... that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, opened in 1889, is the oldest purpose-built museum of portraits in the world?
... that 1992 U.S. vice presidential candidate James Stockdale replied, "Who am I? Why am I here?" in response to a question from debate moderator Hal Bruno of ABC News?
... that Mt. Shasta Brewing Company's slogan, "Try Legal Weed", was initially refused by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?
... that singer Madonna appeared only as an animated fairy in the music video for her song "Dear Jessie"?
... that efforts by George Tchobanoglous have contributed to UV disinfection of wastewater being accepted as a technology for water reuse?
... that Dutch Antillean sprinter Churandy Martina would have won silver at the 2008 Summer Olympics if he had not been disqualified?
... that several pelagic gooseneck barnacles were once found attached to an American crocodile?
... that Voltaire's tragedy Olimpie premiered in 1762 and Henze's opera Elegie für junge Liebende in 1961 at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen ?
... that the rights to freedom of speech, assembly and association are guaranteed by Article 14 of the Singapore Constitution only to Singapore citizens?
... that Donald Norman rewrote his 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things after some industrial designers felt affronted by an earlier draft?
... that the Tonhalle, a concert hall in Zurich praised for its acoustics, was inaugurated by Johannes Brahms conducting in 1895?
... that the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs annually receives $1.7 billion of research and development funding for the Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development?
... that Major General Alfred K. Flowers is the longest serving airman in United States Air Force history?
... that the Harrington Hump has been built for railway stations in the United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
... that the Rihanna song "Where Have You Been" contains compositional elements of Geoff Mack's "I've Been Everywhere"?
... that the seeds of Petrophile pulchella can be found germinating in bushland up to 700 days after bushfire?
... that the Four Square Laundry in Belfast was a front company for a British Army intelligence unit?
... that the giant plumose anemone can grow to a height of one metre (39 inches)?
... that Papon appeared on music documentary TV series The Dewarists with Rabbi Shergill and recorded a song "Khule Da Rabb"?
... that the newly discovered Puhinui Craters form the only cluster of three small maars in the Auckland volcanic field?
... that numerous Polish formations fought in Russia from the First World War, through the Russian Revolution of 1917 up to the Polish–Soviet War?
... that Alexis Bachelot, who led the first Catholic mission to Hawaii, was suspected of being a covert agent of the French government by some Hawaiian chiefs?
... that the scene showing a dead woman with her lips sewn shut, in the music video for the song "Oh Father", was inspired by singer Madonna's memory of her mother's funeral?
... that Caractacus , winner of the 1862 Epsom Derby, avoided disqualification because of the weight of his bridle?
... that after earning the Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling?
... that Jermain Street in Albany has the largest contiguous group of Lustron houses in New York state?
... that eating seeds of the asparagus flower sacahuista can cause a chukar partridge to have diarrhea?
... that the electoral system for the 1883 elections in Egypt was said to have been based on the design of a pyramid?
... that French photographer Constant Puyo was an advocate of pictorialism, aiming to emulate painting in his photographic images ?
... that the just-world hypothesis is a cognitive bias that has negative social effects but positive mental health effects?
... that the prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people"?
... that the first words of the first radio broadcast in Swedish history, transmitted from Boden Fortress Radio Bunker, were the profanity "jävlar anamma"?
... that painter and poet Fritz Graßhoff published the collection of poetry Halunkenpostille in 1947, made money with hits for singers Lale Andersen and Hans Albers, and translated poems from Latin and Swedish?
... that the song "Another Nail in My Heart" has a "McCartneyesque" melody and peaked at No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart?
... that the COEX Aquarium in Gangnam district, Seoul, is one of South Korea's largest aquariums with over 40,000 creatures from over 650 species on display?
... that Heinrich Wiegand refused an appointment as State Secretary for the Colonies to remain head of the Norddeutscher Lloyd?
... that the mansion that became the Weehawken Public Library was spared demolition during construction of the Lincoln Tunnel?
... that 94 known Category 4 hurricanes have occurred in the Pacific Ocean since 1900?
... that the 10,000 year old Pesse canoe, the world's oldest known boat, was found in a Dutch peat bog?
... that the 2011–12 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team was the first Harvard men's basketball team ever ranked in the AP Poll, leaving only seven schools that have never been ranked in it?
... that the 1975 Kinnaur earthquake was a result of west–east extension within the NW Himalayas?
... that Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel in East Sussex, so stables for 40 horses were built at the back?
... that Ed Walker, who reenlisted in the U.S. Army specifically to go to Alaska, was the last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats?
... that in certain rural areas of Denmark such as Fanø, Læsø, and in parts of Western Jutland local musical traditions dating back to the late 18th century were maintained well into the 20th century?
... that in 1972, foggy conditions meant rescue crews at O'Hare International Airport were unaware a second aircraft had been involved in a crash until 28 minutes after the accident?
... that the builder of Chirton Hall received a gift from the Countess of Northumberland of materials from the demolished Warkworth Castle to build it?
... that Hieronim Ossoliński, a 16th-century Polish politician who helped to unite Poland and Lithuania, also wanted to establish a Protestant national church?
... that East German politician Gustav Sobottka lost both of his sons; one died in a Communist prison and one shortly after liberation from a Nazi concentration camp?
... that the Gazi Race, named in honor of Gazi Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the Turkish Republic, was won by racehorses owned by succeeding presidents İsmet İnönü and Celâl Bayar?
... that during the 1960s, some women opted to circumvent restaurant restrictions on women's clothing by wearing palazzo trousers or culottes as evening wear?
... that Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first female electrical engineer, taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge?
... that Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball?
... that an airliner version of the supersonic B-58 bomber was expected to carry 52 passengers at over Mach 2?
... that a study conducted by the BBC series Son of God concluded that the skin of Jesus Christ would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy"?
... that controversial American entomologist Alexandre Arsène Girault once described a new species of wasp from the planet Jupiter?
... that West Alabama football head coach Will Hall won the Harlon Hill Trophy in 2003 as the top player in NCAA Division II college football?
... that the "unassuming" villain of The X-Files episode "2Shy" has been compared to those from the earlier episodes "Squeeze" and " Irresistible"?
... that American composer William Arms Fisher was called "a worthy pupil and disciple of Antonín Dvořák" in the February 1927 issue of The Crisis?
... that in 1938, the Soviet Union secret police executed 40 teenagers and adults in pursuit of an alleged Hitler Youth Conspiracy, which was later found baseless?
... that the roots of the bean flower alpine sweetvetch are edible and taste like young carrots?
... that cliffs on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall are a breeding site for the rare Cornish Chough ?
... that Indian cricketer Ibrahim Khaleel recently set a record for the number of wicket-keeper dismissals in a first-class match, taking 14 of his team's 20 wickets?
... that Section 20A of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act, which prohibited all sexual acts between men at a party, defined "party" as "any occasion where more than two persons are present"?
... that William Hazlitt was an influential Irish Unitarian minister who defended American prisoners of war from abuse at the hands of their British captors?
... that the Arab governor of Safed offered money to persuade rabbi Joseph Saragossi not to leave the town?
... that Dick Attlesey set two world records in the 110-meter hurdles in 1950 and was the gold medalist in this event at the first Pan American Games?
... that one pair of tickets for Children in Need Rocks Manchester was auctioned by BBC Radio Jersey for £2010?
... that, in 1986, Charles Liteky renounced his Medal of Honor before embarking on the Veterans Fast for Life, to protest against the U.S. policies in Central America?
... that point guard Craig Lathen helped his high school set a record for 100-point performances and helped his college score 120, a school single-game record?
... that according to ancient rhetorician Athenaeus, in Sophocles' satyr play Amphiaraus, a character "dances the letters" of words he is unable to read?
... that the D.E. Frantz House is the only Victorian house in Aspen, Colorado, that still has its oriel window?
... that the 1693 Sicily earthquake caused about 60,000 deaths and prompted an architectural revival described as "the culmination and final flowering of Baroque art in Europe"?