derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after his victory at the Crufts dog show, the Pekingese dog Yakee A Dangerous Liaison was falsely accused of having plastic surgery?
... that data from Mariner 10 led to the discovery of Mercury's magnetic field in 1974?
... that Gründlehämmer was the first theatrical production of the Baltimore Rock Opera Society, an all-volunteer rock opera company formed in 2009?
... that the official magazine of the Polish Underground State published 80 issues in the dangerous conditions of occupied Poland?
... that artist Ginger Gilmour, first wife of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, was given a British Red Cross Award for "Services to Humanity"?
... that Swedish scientist Johan Rockström led a team that has initiated an international debate on planetary boundaries, the central concept in a new framework for sustainable development?
... that I Am a Camera is a 1955 British film that received an X certificate from the BBFC, but only after dialogue suggesting foot fetishism was removed?
... that Princess Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg turned the East Wing of Schloss Johannisberg into a concert hall for the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that the Nazis documented murder and genocide during their perpetration of the Holocaust with euphemisms such as Sonderbehandlung?
... that when the extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
... that the Fort Pitt Blockhouse in downtown Pittsburgh was the only portion of Fort Pitt saved from demolition in 1797?
... that Bernt H. Lund became Norway's first ambassador to Namibia in 1990?
... that nearly half of all known RNA structures were determined through nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of nucleic acids?
... that runner Garry Bjorklund qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 10,000 m despite losing a shoe during the U.S. Olympic Trials?
... that the "carriage house" behind the Wheeler–Stallard House in Aspen, Colorado, was not built until 1976?
... that Albany architect Marcus T. Reynolds' 1893 thesis, Housing of the Poor in American Cities, is still cited in scholarly work today?
... that the Bulldog Strathtay Prince Albert was the first non–terrier to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?
... that the first two destroyers scheduled to be constructed by domestic shipyards for the Polish Navy were never completed due to the German invasion of Poland?
... that Hefaiston is an annual international competition of blacksmiths that had more than 400 participants in 2010?
... that David Mendelblatt, an American former Optimist Pram National Champion, is the older brother of Olympian Mark Mendelblatt?
... that Dermotherium, discovered in 1992, was the first unambiguous fossil colugo to be found?
... that the Domestic of the Schools was the commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army from the 9th to the 11th century?
... that Orange Phelps, later mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon, opened the first movie theater in that city in 1908?
... that Jamie Sadlowski won the 2008 and 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship, and has a personal-best golf drive of 445 yards (407 m)?
... that the synagogue building of Congregation Knesseth Israel (the "Junction Shul") is the oldest surviving in Toronto that is still in use?
... that the late 1890s, British philatelist Percival Loines Pemberton participated in stamp auctions in London where potential buyers were sometimes given alcoholic drinks to encourage bidding?
... that Shibuya-based video game localization company 8-4 is named after the final level of Super Mario Bros.?
... that the Montenegrin part of Maglić massif has formed the Trnovačko Lake , said to be "one of the most beautiful of Montenegro?"
... that the Score the Goals comic book – featuring ten soccer players – was launched by the UN to educate children on how to help reduce poverty by 2015?
... that David Olère was the only artist to have worked as a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz concentration camp and survived?
... that Li Lu, an associate of Warren Buffett, was one of the pro-democracy activists rescued by Operation Yellowbird in 1989?
... that Richard Weiner, one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century, wrote a regular fashion column under a female pseudonym?
... that the environmentally-friendly ticketing system used for the 87th NCAA basketball season wastes less paper?
... that the mother of Georgine Darcy, an actress in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, urged her to become a stripper?
... that St Mary and All Saints' Church in Great Budworth is considered by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner to be "one of the most satisfactory Perpendicular churches in Cheshire"?
... that All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is author Maya Angelou's recounting of her years spent in Accra, Ghana, in the early 1960s?
... that in his campaign against the Malli in India, Alexander the Great was seriously injured and nearly died?
... that Clarence Crum's 15.43 earned run average was the worst on the 1918 Boston Braves?
... that Duquesne University president Vernon F. Gallagher once composed an operetta and learned Slovak on his own?
... that despite being a boxing-themed short film, the Duke of Chicago was criticized for being "slow-paced and seemingly a lot longer than its fifty-nine minutes"?
... that the public dispute between molecular nanotechnology founder Eric Drexler and Nobel laureate Richard Smalley has been characterized as being "reminiscent of a Saturday Night Live sketch"?
... that Johann Karl Nestler was teaching scientific animal and plant breeding at the University of Olomouc in what is now the Czech Republic when Gregor Mendel studied there?
... that in the mid-1970s the Saint Helena Labour Party tried to boost links between Saint Helena and South Africa?
... that it took Chrisye multiple takes to finish recording Kala Cinta Menggoda because he would break down in tears after singing a few lines?
... that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes married at the Castello Orsini-Odescalchi ?
... that in 2010, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said that 21-year-old Student Volunteer Army organiser Sam Johnson "might be Prime Minister one day"?
... that indigenous territories organized as Native Community Lands in Bolivia cover 16.8 million hectares (168,000 km2), over 15% of Bolivian territory?
... that Orli Wald spent from 1936 to 1945 in Nazi prison and concentration camps for being a communist, only to leave the Communist Party in 1948 because of Stalinism?
... that Glenn Doughty rushed for 329 yards in his first two college football games for the 1969 Michigan Wolverines and later played eight years for the Baltimore Colts?
... that Rajinder Kaur Bhattal was the first female chief minister of Punjab, but only the eighth female chief minister of an Indian state?
... that Duquesne University has named one of its colleges and a street on its campus in honor of Henry J. McAnulty?
... that Calvary Baptist Church , the oldest religious building in Ossining, New York, was built with marble quarried by inmates at nearby Sing Sing Prison?
... that the First Battle of Guinegate was the first use of the Old Swiss Confederacy pike square formation by non-Swiss powers?
... that the De Bruijn–Erdős theorem may be used to extend the four-color theorem from finite planar graphs to planar graphs with infinitely many vertices?
... that at the end of World War II, the British 133rd (Parachute) Field Ambulance were responsible for the medical care of 4,500 Russian prisoners of war?
... that American NFL quarterback Robert Halperin was awarded the Navy Cross, won an Olympic bronze medal and a Pan American Games gold medal in sailing, and co-founded the Lands' End clothing retailer?
... that Italian Vincenzo Sarno was 11 years old when he signed to play professional football with Torino F.C.?
... that painter Vittore Grubicy de Dragon was largely responsible for introducing theories that led to divisionism in Italian painting?
... that while the Jersey Bridge was being replaced, the only way for tourists to visit the Drake Well Museum was by train?
... that Nama leader Simon Kooper received an annual allowance for not continuing his attacks on Imperial Germany's forces in German South-West Africa?
... that the owl limpet maintains a small meadow of algal turf for its own exclusive use?
... that although modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat described his novel Rama and the Dragon as "untranslatable", an English translation appeared 23 years after the original publication in Arabic?
... that former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Freddie Mitchell received threatening hate mail in 2003, apparently due to his appearance on a reality television show, A Dating Story?
... that no. 224 of the North British Railway was the first inside-cylinder 4-4-0 and the first tandem compound to run in Great Britain; and the locomotive involved in the Tay Bridge disaster?
... that Karen Stollznow writes for two skeptical magazines (Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer) and hosts two skeptical podcasts (Point of Inquiry and Monster Talk)?
... that Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme directed the first episode of the television series A Gifted Man?
... that the name of Tarkio River, a non-navigable river that stretches from Iowa to Missouri, meant a "place where walnuts grow"?
... that Selman Riza's 1952 work on Serbo-Croatian grammar is regarded as a work of contrastive analysis, although the theory was not formulated until five years later by Robert Lado?
... that cornet player Bohumir Kryl offered his daughters US $100,000 to refrain from marriage until they reached the age of 30 years?
... that in Handel's oratorio Messiah, Part III closes with the chorus "Worthy is the Lamb" , from text in the Book of Revelation, and an extended Amen fugue?
... that in 1960 Provincetown, Massachusetts, Town Manager Walter E. Lawrence requested financial aid from the state government to help fight the infiltration of beatniks into the town?
... that during the Battle of Drashovica over 3000 German soldiers died, more than 200 of whom were inside the barracks of Drashovicë?
... that despite holding a degree in architecture, Erwin Gutawa became a composer and conductor?
... that Louisiana State Representative Bodi White has pushed for full financial disclosure and mandatory governmental ethics training for legislative officials?
... that Władysław Szpilman , whose life inspired the film The Pianist, was the most famous Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw, hiding in the ruins of Warsaw after the Nazis destroyed it?
... that the East India Film Company, formed in 1932, was a pioneer in the production of films in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu?
... that General Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald was an army balloon photographer who later served in India, Uganda, Sudan, South Africa, China and led a major expedition into Tibet?
... that Wally Heider engineered the remote recording of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?
... that damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake at the Peterborough Centre is estimated at NZ$12 million, only NZ$0.3M less than the insured value of this historic building?
... that U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles A. Ray was the first person to serve as U.S. Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam?
... that in Bach's cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe, BWV 185 ("Merciful Heart of eternal love"), the closing chorale melody is prefigured in the first duet in dancing 6/4 time?
... that the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad main line in Oregon was damaged by storms three times, then finally abandoned due to repair costs?
... that in the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships, Mayookha Johny became only the second athlete from India to win a gold medal in the long jump event?
... that retiring Louisiana State Rep. Hollis Downs broke with his party to support an anti-bullying bill?
... that East African Highland bananas are so important as staple food crops in Uganda that 'Matoke', the traditional meal made from steamed bananas, is synonymous with the word "food"?
... that the late 19th-century novel Homo sapiens, although well received in Germany, was withdrawn from sale in the U.S. after being called obscene?
... that the design of Robertsbridge United Reformed Church in England has been described as "truly horrible" and "most dissolute"?
... that Vice Admiral Sir John Inglis was the head of British Naval Intelligence and attempted to cover up the "Buster Crabb affair" in 1956?
... that although elk had disappeared from the Table Mountain Wilderness, they were reintroduced in 1979 and are now one of the largest herds in Nevada?
... that Keren Leibovitch, Israeli four-time gold medal winning Paralympic swimmer, is paralyzed from the waist down because of an injury she incurred during her service with the Israeli Defense Forces?
... that the International Broadcasting Bureau Greenville Transmitting Stations located in Greenville, North Carolina, were the most powerful international broadcaster in the world?
... that Louisiana State Representative John E. Guinn, a father of ten children, earns his livelihood as an auctioneer?
... that in 1681 the strength of the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire was fixed at 28,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry?
... that the shadow of nearby mountains first hit the Tower of Jericho on the sunset of the summer solstice and then spread across the entire proto-city in c. 8000 BCE?
... that a ruptured fuel pipeline leaked 1.5 million liters of jet fuel into the Zin Stream in southern Israel in June 2011?
... that although William FitzOsbern had given All Saints' Church of Newchurch, Isle of Wight, to an abbey in Normandy, Henry VIII later gave it to the See of Bristol?
... that Bobby Parks' son chose Manila's National University over Georgia Tech but was almost not cleared to play in the 74th UAAP basketball season due to eligibility issues?
... that American yachtsman Mark Mendelblatt won the International Optimist Dinghy National Sailing Championships when he was 11 years old?
... that the reservoir of Morris Dam in Los Angeles County, California, was used as a testing site for torpedoes and underwater missiles beginning in World War II?
... that Zinaida Reich was expelled from school at the end of the eighth grade in the tsarist Russia for her political activities?
... that the Population Estimates Program sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau helps determine the allocation of U.S. federal funds?
... that evidence for domesticated dogs between 10,150 and 9320 BC has been found at Hatula in modern-day Israel?
... that even after he was forced off two different crippled warships during the Battle of Copenhagen, the wounded Danish commodore Olfert Fischer still refused to concede defeat to Lord Horatio Nelson?
... that songwriter Doug Fieger has stated that The Knack's song "Baby Talks Dirty" was written about the same Sharona who inspired the group's No. 1 hit "My Sharona"?
... that the sea anemone Epiactis prolifera , starts life as a female and later becomes a hermaphrodite?
... that Russian broadside ironclad Ne Tron Menia was named after the biblical verse John 20:17?
... that "Dad" Moulton, a participant in Sherman's March to the Sea, was the U.S. sprint champion in the 1870s, and trained the "world's fastest human" in the 1880s?
... that the steepest roller coaster in the world, with a drop angle of 121°, is Takabisha at the Fuji-Q Highland amusement park in Japan?
... that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall in Cheshire, England, originally a country house, was later a Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
... that Amanda Peet jokingly described her character in the upcoming television comedy series Bent as "a repressed woman who needs to get laid"?
... that the severed head of Julia Martha Thomas, murdered, boiled and dismembered by her maid in 1879, was found next door to Sir David Attenborough's house in 2010?
... that in his only full season in Major League Baseball, Jeriome Robertson won 15 games and finished seventh in Rookie of the Year voting?
... that Arreton Manor on the Isle of Wight can be traced to AD 872 to the time of Alfred the Great and was owned by William the Conqueror, as mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086?
... that Dick Campbell, as a theater producer and director, helped launch the careers of several black theater artists, including Ossie Davis, Frederick O'Neal, and Helen Martin?
... that the reputedly haunted Pioneer Park is the only intact Second Empire house in Aspen, Colorado?
... that Australian climate scientist Will Steffen helped initiate an international debate on planetary boundaries and has promoted the concept of the Anthropocene?
... that Linnaeus wanted seeds of old-fashioned bleeding heart but was sent instead seeds of Corydalis nobilis , a flower then unknown to science?
... that Douglas Mawson was the sole survivor of the Far Eastern Party, enduring a month alone in the Antarctic and walking about 100 miles (160 km) to safety?
... that according to an Islamic tradition, the Invasion of Banu Qaynuqa was caused by a Jewish jeweler allegedly stripping a Muslim woman?
... that Jane Baker, a former cooking show host and community organizer, became the first female Mayor of San Mateo, California?
... that the Russian ironclad Pervenets was launched in the 1860s by the Imperial Russian Navy but was not scrapped by the Soviet Union until a century later during the 1960s?
... that Shotwick Hall in Cheshire, England, was built in 1662, replacing an earlier manor house on a nearby moated site?
... that columns at the Roman Macellum of Pozzuoli remained upright over centuries while the site sank below sea level, then re-emerged?
... that Adrian van Kaam brought food to Jews and others in hiding during Holland's "hunger winter" of 1944?
... that 1964 CDC 6600 is considered as the first supercomputer in the world?
... that the Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family was founded by the son of a peasant farmer?
... that World Bicycle Relief has distributed more than 70,000 bicycles, mostly in Africa, and nearly 70 percent of them went to women and girls?
... that the Fokker FG-2 made the world's first passenger flight with a glider in 1922?
... that Ramsdell Hall in Cheshire, England, has been described by architectural writers as a "curious" and "appealingly quirky" house?
... that the first Columbian mammoth found at the Snowmastodon site, an Ice Age fossil dig near Denver, was initially dug out by a construction worker using a bulldozer?
... that the Soviet Union's Yakovlev AIR-3 aircraft was designed by a student?
... that the 1994 Offshore Sanriku earthquake is considered an "ultra-slow" earthquake, as slip continued for more than a year afterwards?
... that Operation Slapstick, part of the Allied invasion of Italy, was only planned after the Italians had offered to let them land unopposed?
... that the Berlin Sugar Museum features a 1903 painting of Franz Carl Achard presenting King Frederick William III of Prussia with a loaf of beet sugar?
... that, while the first official suggestion of a nationwide association football league in Germany, the Reichsliga, was made in 1932, such a league was not introduced until 1963?
... that the reverse of the Common Security and Defence Policy Service Medal contains the Latin phrase Pro Pace Unum, meaning "United for Peace"?
... that Antiguan politician Molwyn Joseph, dismissed from the government after allegations of impropriety, was reappointed to the Cabinet after less than two years?
... that the Pangani Longclaw is only 20 cm (7.9 in) long?
... that the Spanish film Furtivos (Poachers) won best picture at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1975?
... that the novel My Sad Republic has a dash of "friar erotica" in it?
... that Ireland's Wicklow Way was originally proposed by J. B. Malone in a series of articles in the Evening Herald newspaper?
... that from 1936 to 1977, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones was both president and head baseball coach of historically black Grambling State University in Louisiana?
... that one person was killed by police during disturbances occasioned by the site selection of the Ganga Rail-Road Bridge in India?
... that Theresa Two Bulls was the first American Indian woman elected to the South Dakota Legislature and the second woman elected as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation?
... that the overall cost for the Hungarian King in winning the Siege of Hainburg was 200,000 florins?
... that former professional wrestler Brick Bronsky was a leading man for Troma Studios in the early 1990s?
... that aburatorigami was used by kabuki actors to keep their thick makeup on while absorbing excess oil and sweat?
... that the Britannia Coco-nut Dancers bang their nuts together each Easter in Bacup?
... that the campus of Mount Ida College is situated on land that once was the estate of Robert Gould Shaw II, a cousin of Robert Gould Shaw?
... that the Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767) ended the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1767 but the Burmese were forced to withdraw within the year of their victory by the Chinese invasions of Burma?
... that the Trigg Hound, bred for hunting in Kentucky, was called "best" for big game hunting in Africa?
... that Matthew Jarvis became the third November Niner to earn a World Series of Poker bracelet in the following year?
... that the author of An Embarrassment of Riches reimagined the Philippines as an island instead of an archipelago?
... that after several odd incidents during the recording for Megadeth's TH1RT3EN, guitarist-vocalist Dave Mustaine speculated about a connection with the unlucky number 13?
... that Aduston Hall is built like a mid-20th century California ranch house despite being a mid-19th century plantation house in Gainesville, Alabama?
... that the Living Willow Theatre, an open air theatre constructed of living willow trees, is located near the village of Llanwrthwl and occasionally holds outdoor performances of Shakespeare?
... that Joe Ebanks has on multiple occasions won two large multitable online poker tournaments in the same day?
... that the HMCS Eyebright was a Flower-class corvette named after the genus Euphrasia of medicinal flowering plants?
... that the Benito Juárez borough of Mexico City has been ranked as having the highest standard of living in Mexico?
... that football club ASK Voitsberg changed both its name and team colours during the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany?
... that the name of Metro, Lampung, derives from the Javanese word for "friend"?
... that the rare and endangered Lewton's polygala produces three kinds of flowers, including one that remains underground?
... that SS-Oberscharführer Peter Voss was the first commander of the Auschwitz crematoria and gas chambers, buildings used to kill 900,000 people?
... that the Palace of Versailles Research Centre is the first research centre established in a French palace?
... that chemist Joan Berkowitz made important discoveries in the fields of spacecraft construction and pollution control?
... that Mureybet was a village in modern-day Syria believed to have been occupied between 10,200 and 8,000 BC?
... that The New York Times referred to the Feathers Hotel in Ludlow, Shropshire, as "the most handsome inn in the world"?
... that Bostonian Anna Eliot Ticknor is the "mother" of correspondence schools in the United States?
... that the Maupin Carbon Dragon has a 44 ft (13 m) wingspan but weighs only 145 lb (66 kg)?
... that John Michael Kudrick, the current bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, holds master's degrees in mathematics and computer and information science?
... that Theodore Dalrymple's book Our Culture, What's Left of It describes British culture as a "moral swamp"?
... that in the Macedonian Siege of Pelium, Alexander the Great managed to secure his line of retreat without a single reported death?
... that military historian Didrik Thomas Johannes Schnitler was named a knight by Norway, by Prussia, and twice by Sweden?
... that Pierrepont School, Frensham, occupied a listed English country house designed by Richard Norman Shaw?
... that Georg Ræder played a central role in the planning and construction of the first public railway line in Norway?