derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that U2's song "Exit" was used in the defence of Robert John Bardo at his trial for the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer?
... that the Maroon Creek Bridge is the only significant remnant of two rail lines that once served Aspen, Colorado?
... that doctor and author James Le Fanu has associated Darwinian evolution with materialism?
... that the handpainted Changzhou comb was a desired object among Chinese royalty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties over 1500 years ago?
... that the flesh of Tricholoma argyraceum has a floury and rancid taste?
... that the compilation album Puros Trankazos features a song about not killing someone lately?
... that before John Collee became a screenwriter, he practised medicine in places including Gabon, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Solomon Islands?
... that Eighty Five East Ridge is a major aseismic ridge in the Bay of Bengal that may have formed over a short-lived hotspot?
... that there were only seven copies of Miró's lithograph series that was printed in Barcelona in 1944?
... that, at the age of fourteen, Elizabeth Edmondson was told that she had broken a world record while swimming at Beatty Park?
... that James Clark was part of the so-called Limited Circle that set up well known companies like NZI and the Bank of New Zealand?
... that after a nervous breakdown Miró started art classes, where he met and painted his friend Vincent in a style that resembled Van Gogh's?
... that John Palocaren's students included spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran, bishop George Alappatt, and EMS Namboodiripad, head of the world's first freely elected communist government?
... the following the federal recognition of the Seminole Tribe of Florida in 1957, some traditionalist Florida Seminoles formed the separate Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida?
... that Liu Huang A-tao was the first former Taiwanese comfort woman to sue the Japanese government for compensation and an apology?
... that the sparrow's-egg lady's-slipper is a lady's slipper orchid that resembles a sparrow's egg?
... that the scoring in Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62, based on Luther's chorale for Advent, is said to be simple because Advent was a "season of abstinence"?
... that although the Cornell–Princeton lacrosse rivalry spans 73 games and dates back to 1922, the teams did not meet in the post season until the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship?
... that the Rajaji Hall in Chennai, India, was constructed to commemorate a British victory over Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War?
... that Paralympian Daniel Fitzgibbon was named Sailor of the Year with a Disability in 2008, 2009 and 2011?
... that The Who's "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand" has been interpreted as a song about masturbation?
... that Louisiana State University defeated Alabama by a score of 9-6 in college football's latest so-called "Game of the Century", a game that did not feature a single touchdown?
... that many German communists fleeing Nazi persecution who initially found refuge in Moscow's Hotel Lux were killed in Josef Stalin's purges?
... that Bulbophyllum nocturnum, first described in 2011, is the only orchid species known to flower at night?
... that Grand Parade won the 1919 Epsom Derby despite 33 to 1 odds and a treacherous track?
... that both the number and magnitude of foreshocks and aftershocks of the 1969 Yangjiang earthquake were unusually small, considering the size of the mainshock?
... that near the Poplar River, a locomotive, briefly used for logging, lay abandoned for 20 years before being sold for scrap?
... that Reinhard Febel composed an opera on Caspar Hauser, Sekunden und Jahre des Caspar Hauser, which premiered in 1992 at the Opernhaus Dortmund?
... that skippers, lycaenids and honeybees visit the flowers of Dampiera purpurea?
... that smallmouth bass, introduced into Crescent Lake, have spread to every major lake in the upper Poplar River watershed of Minnesota?
... that the Miller's Tower at Formakin House is dated "1694 DL", with DL standing for "damned lie", as it was built in the 1900s?
... that trying to escape Hurricane Katrina, award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward and her family got stranded in a field full of tractors?
... that despite failing to defend a convoy , and having one of his ships wrecked, Robert Linzee still rose to be an admiral in the Royal Navy?
... that Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik was the 50th Massey Lecture and occurred on the 75th anniversary of the CBC?
... that the Pioneer Youth League of British Guiana was banned by the British colonial authorities in December 1953?
... that Rollin White was an American gunsmith who invented a revolver with a bored-through cylinder which allowed the use of metallic cartridges?
... that the Belgian Landrace, a breed of domestic pig, is known for its musculature and high quality of pork?
... that the Congo Serpent Eagle may be one of the few known examples of avian mimicry?
... that the deaths of two residents of the Mathias Sharp House in southwestern Indiana sparked a sensational 1870s murder trial?
... that Russian scientist Mikhail Golant, a sapper during World War II, pioneered the Soviet approach to design of backward-wave tubes?
... that Starry Starry Night was described as a "healthy example" of a China-Taiwan film collaboration?
... that the proposed Redlands Passenger Rail system would connect the University of Redlands with San Bernardino, California?
... that the Yale Union Laundry Building , built in Portland, Oregon in 1904, includes the Italian Revival and Egyptian Revival architectural styles?
... that an English translation of the Hindi hymn "Jaya Ho" has been included in the North American hymnals Voices United and The United Methodist Hymnal?
... that at least two of the four Scott Viking 1 gliders built were impressed into Royal Air Force service during World War Two?
... that "Cherish" became Madonna's sixteenth top-five single, a record in the Billboard Hot 100 history?
... that Ba'athists in Yemen carried out clandestine political activity until 1990?
... that Constantinos A. Patrides, the author of Milton and the Christian Tradition, earned a medal for heroism for his boyhood service with the Greek Resistance against the German Occupation?
... that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been praised for an initiative to reduce health care spending, but public anger ensued when the compensation for its departed CEO was reported?
... that Sir Edward Ford donated 2,200 of his own books to the library of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians?
... that during the Second World War, what became the Battle of Britain House in Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?
... that They Say I'm a Monkey! used leeches feeding to symbolize the rape of a child?
... that the use of fireworks has been investigated as a possible cause of the recent 34-vehicle pile-up on the M5 motorway in Taunton, Somerset?
... that fossilized microorganisms in the Barberton Greenstone Belt have been dated to 3.5 billion years ago?
... that Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman was engaged when he was 10 years old?
... that research on split-brain patients led to identifying the left brain interpreter as a system that rationalizes and generalizes new information that the brain receives?
... that the 21er Haus, located in Vienna, was originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels?
... that the Tamar–Tavy Estuary , on the Cornwall–Devon border in the UK, attracts over 20% of the British wintering population of the uncommon Pied Avocet?
... that both the Justice Party and the Indian National Congress lent their support to the 1921 Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Strike?
... that nobleman and diplomat Michał Radziwiłł Rudy was described as a psychopath by his own cousin, politician Krzysztof Radziwiłł?
... that after members of the cast of Ghost of Jeruk Purut were diagnosed as being possessed, the crew was told to prepare an offering of cigars, eggs, and palm sugar?
... that in his two elections as councillor for Christchurch City Council, and four successful elections as Mayor of Christchurch, Charles Louisson was always returned unopposed?
... that Auckland's Grafton Volcano was only identified last year, having been buried by a neighbouring volcano soon after it was created?
... that a Sinclair ZX81 inspired Eric van der Kleij, CEO of Tech City, to go into technology?
... that it has been suggested that John Thornton Augustine Washington would have succeeded his great uncle George Washington as "king" if the United States had been a monarchy?
... that the pilgrimage site on the mountain Hülfensberg, popular since the Middle Ages, survived the Reformation, the dissolution by Jérôme Bonaparte, Bismarck's Kulturkampf, and the division of Germany?
... that the Michigan–Michigan State ice hockey rivalry includes The Big Chill at the Big House, the highest attended ice hockey game ever?
... that the law firm Steven J. Baum P.C. closed three weeks after the publication of embarrassing photos of its 2010 Halloween party ridiculing foreclosed homeowners?
... that Yoennis Céspedes was described by Baseball Prospectus as "arguably the best all-around [baseball] player to come out of Cuba in a generation"?
... that hindgut fermenters such as horses extract more nutrition out of smaller quantities of feed than do ruminants such as cattle?
... that the "wedding" of the Miami Maniac, the mascot of the Miami Hurricanes baseball team, was televised nationally on ESPN in a ceremony attended by Bud Man, Grimace and McGruff the Crime Dog?
... that Sha'ab was one of several villages in Galilee which rebelled against the Ottomans in 1573 CE (981 H)?
... that John Jenkinson rescued a woman from a burning house in The Octagon, Dunedin, New Zealand, whilst 13 others died?
... that during a decade of the interbellum, Poland and Germany suffered from a customs war?
... that Sickle-billed Vangas have a polyandrous breeding system, with several males helping a single female raise a clutch of eggs?
... that members of the colonial tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum may glow in response to each other?
... that 1932 Olympic racewalking champion Tommy Green was unable to walk for the first five years of his life because he was afflicted with rickets?
... that the extinct Canadian redwood Metasequoia foxii was described from over 10,000 fossils?
... that Captain Edward Sneyd Clay lost his ship when his pilot and master mistook a burning lime kiln for a signal light?
... that the Bangong suture in Tibet was formed by the closure of the former Bangong Ocean?
... that the Mother Zion church , New York City's first African-American congregation, was also an Underground Railway refuge?
... that the Tory Member of Parliament Henry Thynne taught French and Italian to the poet Elizabeth Singer?
... that baseball player Fred Fussell was nicknamed "Moonlight Ace" after he pitched a no-hitter?
... that the People's Library was formed when an abandoned cardboard box full of books was discovered in Zuccotti Park, New York?
... that Allen Shenstone was the only Canadian among the 400 undergraduates who entered Princeton University in 1910?
... that Native Americans used various parts of the purple prairie clover for food and to make tea, medicine, and brooms?
... that Hall of Famer George Kelly was nearly suspended by Major League Baseball for playing basketball with Jimmy O'Connell?
... that Bruce Springsteen's song "Point Blank" is one of several songs on The River that deal with the disappointments of working-class family life?
... that, largely due to hunting for traditional medicine, fewer than 250 Delacour's langurs are believed to remain in the wild?
... that the gonads of jellyfish Bathykorus bouilloni have not been observed?
... that Jacqueline Moss guided tours of Joseph Hirshhorn's sculpture garden in Greenwich, Connecticut, before he had the art moved to his museum in Washington?
... that Barbados won its first Pan American medals during the 1963 Pan American Games, held in São Paulo, Brazil?
... that Azwar Abubakar was acting governor of Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami?
... that Bach's cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98, begins with the same stanza as the earlier chorale cantata, BWV 99, but continues differently and even seems to lack the regular closing chorale?
... that American painter Frederick Carl Frieseke said he got "much pleasure in shocking the good Church people with the nudes" ?
... that the Tupolev ANT-41 torpedo bomber was designed to be flown either with conventional landing gear or as a floatplane?
... that the Pied Monarch of north Queensland binds its nest with spiderwebs and decorates it with lichen?
... that Spec Harkness led the Northwestern League in wins during his first professional baseball season?
... that Australian dual swimming Paralympic gold medallist Sam Bramham once told the media that his leg had been "chomped off by a kangaroo"?
... that on the first day of World War I, the German light cruiser SMS Breslau bombarded the port of Bône in French North Africa?
... that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules, Goliath, and a river?
... that when a DC-7 crashed into a pine forest in France in 1959, rescue workers were hindered by a lack of roads in the area?
... that Djan Faridz withdrew his bid for Governor of Jakarta after being selected as Minister of Public Housing?
... that a lake in the Langwieder lake district originated as a pit from which more than 2,000,000 cubic metres of gravel were excavated for highway construction was once voted the cleanest lake in Munich?
... that the plot of Sophocles' lost play Tereus incorporates rape, mutilation and infanticide?
... that Brazil defeated Timor-Leste 76–0 in futsal in 2006, the current world record?
... that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave, in Coahuila, Mexico, recovered over 950 fibre sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
... that Jessica Gallagher, the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics, has also set national records in discus, long jump, and shot put?
... that Djenar Maesa Ayu was involved with 1 Woman, 14 Men on her 38th birthday?
... that Yogo sapphires are rarer than diamonds and are found only in Yogo Gulch, Montana?
... that before his early death, Russian writer Lev Lunts proposed the name and wrote the manifesto for the famous Serapion Brothers literary group?
... that the nest of the Yellow-faced Honeyeater is so flimsy, eggs and nestlings sometimes fall through the bottom?
... that dual Australian Paralympic powerlifting silver medallist Darren Gardiner is known as "The Bear" because of the roaring noise he makes in his pre-competition warmup?
... that before it moved into the Old House of Keys, the Isle of Man's lower house of parliament met in a pub?
... that state highway K-143 near Salina, Kansas, uses three different types of pavement on its 4.6 miles (7.4 km)?
... that the Tian Shan region is a key place to study mountain formation far from continental and tectonic plate boundaries?
... that Leederville Oval was built on part of a series of wetlands north of Perth, Western Australia?
... that during controlled burns of wooded areas, the Japanese climbing fern can inadvertently become a fuel ladder that brings flames into the canopy?
... that Israeli sport shooter Sergy Rikhter was denied a 2011 ISSF World Cup silver medal because he was late?
... that Paralympic gold medallist Brendan Burkett is the director of the Centre for Healthy Activities, Sport and Exercise at the University of the Sunshine Coast?
... that St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen, is one of the few churches in Wales to be lit only by candles?
... that the armored cruiser Admiral Makarov was one of the ships that represented the Russian Empire at the coronation of Nicholas I of Montenegro in August 1910?
... that the interlocking at the Harris Switch Tower in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, still simulates train movements using timetables from the early 1940s?
... that less than six weeks after winning the 2011 National Rugby League premiership, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles sacked their head coach, Des Hasler?
... that the Laura Street Trio of buildings in Jacksonville, Florida, includes a building that was Florida's tallest when it was built?
... that the Radlock Trainer was built by members of the Hull Experimental Gliding Club in their workshop?
... that the 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team won the NCAA Division I Tournament in Jerry Lyne's first season as an assistant coach?
... that according to legend, Saint Boniface chased away a Germanic god named Stuffo from the Hülfensberg in Thuringia, Germany?
... that Paralympian Cobi Crispin was the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team's top scorer in all but the last two matches of the 2011 U25 Women's World Championship of Basketball?
... that Peter Percival collaborated with Arumuka Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, to translate the Bible into Tamil?
... that the rove beetle Diochus electrus is the first definite member of the subfamily Staphylininae from the fossil record?
... that foliage from the Australian rainforest tree Grevillea baileyana was used in the floral arrangements handed to medal winners at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
... that the University of Central Florida's women's soccer team has had a winning record in 27 of the 30 seasons the team has played?
... that Nag Hammadi Codex II is the only complete manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas?
... that a world map by Gerardus Mercator attributes the Earth's magnetic field to a magnetic mountain above the Arctic Circle?
... that St Michael and All Angels' Church in Felton, Northumberland, has a window cut from a single stone that features eight petal flower patterning with geometrical tracery?
... that tectonic subsidence, the sinking of the Earth's crust, can be caused by extension, cooling, or loading?
... that Israeli Olympian Delila Hatuel trains both Jewish and Arab children in fencing?
... that Solonei da Silva was a garbage collector in Brazil in 2009, but went on to win the gold medal in the marathon at the 2011 Pan American Games?
... that to escape burning at the 1393 Bal des Ardents Charles VI of France huddled under the gown of the Duchesse de Berry, while a lord leaped into a wine vat?
... that during the Spanish–American War, German admiral Otto von Diederichs was ordered to attempt the acquisition of colonial concessions in the Philippines, using SMS Kaiserin Augusta as his flagship?
... that Mary Tyler Moore made her feature film debut in X-15, which was also the first film to be directed by Richard Donner?
... that the University of Central Florida's men's soccer team won their first match by a score of 8–0?
... that the disastrous Air Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1939 led to the development of the fast-acting computerized Mark XIV bomb sight?
... that one year after suffering a near career-ending injury, Bill Stumpf batted .405 in the Northwestern League, higher than any other player in the league with at least 50 at bats?
... that although the founders of Retraction Watch initially wondered if there would be enough retractions from scientific journals to run the blog, they covered over 200 such retractions within their first year?
... that teenage prodigy Conrad Tao starred on the TV series From the Top three times: as pianist, violinist, and composer?
... that the students of Chester College helped to build its chapel between 1844 and 1847?
... that former basketball guard Stefon Jackson, who played for the UTEP Miners, is Conference USA's all-time scoring leader with 2,456 points?
... that the plot of the Battlestar Galactica episode "Sacrifice" was influenced by Dog Day Afternoon?
... that the mistletoe species Amyema congener of eastern Australia can grow on non-native peach, plum and pear trees?
... that the African Wildlife Foundation is helping feed the only remaining West African Giraffes in Niger?
... that Kobe Bryant once claimed that Rashad Phillips was the "best player" never selected in an NBA Draft?
... that University of Toledo basketball player Bill Walker was the first official NCAA season assists leader in 1950–51?
... that Boston mayor Thomas Menino called Clover Food Lab's soy bacon sandwich the "best BLT in Boston"?
... that Fig Island includes one of the largest and most complex Late Archaic shell rings in North America, and one of the best preserved circular shell rings?
... that the starvation pricklypear is eaten by pronghorn and the black-tailed prairie dog?
... that the Fringe episode "And Those We've Left Behind" marked the first time actors and real-life husband and wife Stephen Root and Romy Rosemont had worked together on a creative project?
... that the Hyde Park – Kenwood Historic District in Chicago includes the home of President Barack Obama?
... that in 2009, Davon House of the New Mexico State Aggies scored touchdowns on both a fumble recovery and an interception return?
... that the composition by Graham Waterhouse Der Handschuh (The Glove) for cello and speaking voice, after Schiller's ballad Der Handschuh, is designed for one performer?
... that the U.S. Forest Service warns hikers in Montana's Beartooth Mountains not to follow the many cairns on the way to Froze-to-Death Mountain because they are useless for routefinding?
... that New Jersey governor Chris Christie lost electric power at both his own house and the governor's mansion during the 2011 Halloween nor'easter ?
... that the waffle-iron filter from electronics is used on industrial microwave heaters because product can be continuously fed through the inside of the filter?
... that musicologist Erich Katz, a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in Dachau, had a long friendship with Carl Orff, despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
... that in 1983 Brian Reid was the first rider to average over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) during the Southern 100 motorcycle races on the Isle of Man?
... that MercyMe's independent album The Worship Project sold over 60,000 copies and helped them gain a contract with INO Records?
... that the extinct planthopper Ordralfabetix is named for a character from The Adventures of Asterix?
... that RPS Rajah Soliman was sunk by a typhoon with two names?
... that the TV ad "Second Generation" features young basketball players recreating Michael Jordan's most famous moves from memory?
... that in some joint custody arrangements, children reside in one house and the parents move in and out from separate residences?
... that Thomas Eyles's service in the invasion of France brought his promotion to post-captain, despite the expedition's ultimate failure?
... that production of kits of the Robertson B1-RD, a homebuilt ultralight aircraft, was stopped by their manufacturer due to concerns about product liability?
... that Yale history professor John Morton Blum, besides editing the Morgenthau Plan and teaching George W. Bush and John Kerry, appeared in Woody Allen's film Zelig?
... that reefs formed by the developing plume worm are sometimes broken apart by the activity of the red boring sponge?
... that Hawaiian chief Boki accused Queen Kaʻahumanu of scheming to place her adoptive son, David Kamehameha, on the Hawaiian throne?
... that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford, where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team?
... that Nag Hammadi Codex XIII is the only surviving copy of the Trimorphic Protennoia, an early Christian Gnostic text?
... that Welsh goalkeeper Tony Millington was "a one-man entertainment" who would take sweets, pies or chewing gum from supporters and celebrate his team's goals by performing handstands?
... that the three-day Wiki Conference India is running from 18 to 20 November at the University of Mumbai?
... that Huaihai Road, one of the most famous shopping streets in Shanghai, was formerly named after the French general Joseph Joffre?
... that judge Beth Grimes dismissed lawsuits against Keanu Reeves and Ari Emanuel, ordered Jon Voight to pay attorney fees, and was appointed by Arnold Schwarzenegger to a California Court of Appeal?