derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that U.S. President William Howard Taft was a member of Cincinnati's First Unitarian Church?
... that Alexander Briger conducted Don John of Austria, Australia's first opera, written by his great-great-great-great-grandfather Isaac Nathan?
... that although it gave the game a "C" rating, The Video Game Critic praised A-VCS-tec Challenge for "some of the best graphics and audio you'll experience on your 2600"?
... that migratory waterfowl can be seen in the winter in Mexico City at the Xochimilco Ecological Park?
... that the Vaccines for Children Program provides free vaccines to uninsured or underinsured children in the United States?
... that the upcoming new Yes album Fly from Here features Benoît David, a former Yes cover band vocalist?
... that All Saints Church, West Stourmouth in Kent was damaged in an earthquake in 1382?
... that Joseph Schleifstein arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp at age two, and survived because his father hid him in a sack?
... that the 1432 land register of the Albanian Sanjak is one of the earliest surviving Ottoman land registers?
... that Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Mogi proposed the "Mogi doughnut hypothesis" for predicting earthquakes?
... that Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower), a popular Chinese folk song used previously on many official occasions, was censored due to its association with the 2011 Chinese protests?
... that Stan Hansen, a longtime "Gaijin heel" in Japanese professional wrestling, officially retired at the Giant Baba Memorial Spectacular?
... that Boston Red Sox baseball player Ryan Kalish didn’t miss a single pitch he swung at in his senior year of high school baseball?
... that James Moody received his first Grammy Award for Moody 4B after he died?
... that the Japanese have been regarded as demonstrating "gaman" in the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami?
... that architect Frank Lloyd Wright called the Wainwright Building, built by Ellis Wainwright in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1890–92, "the very first human expression of a tall steel office-building as Architecture"?
... that James Dunne O'Connell served as the Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army from 1955 to 1959?
... that Moroccan runner Abderrahim Goumri has been the runner-up at the New York City Marathon, London Marathon (twice) and the Chicago Marathon?
... that bookmaker Ladbrokes paid out on bets that former UK Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, would fall asleep during the 2011 budget speech?
... that The Avenue is still used for London Irish's pre season friendlies despite being demoted to a training facility since their move to the Madjeski Stadium?
... that the 1869 Atlantic hurricane season was the earliest year in the Atlantic hurricane database in which there were at least ten tropical cyclones?
... that Sonoma wine producer Hanzell Vineyards was one of the first California wineries to produce barrel-aged Chardonnay?
... that the small extrasolar planet Kepler-9d orbits its host star every 1.59 days?
... that cricketer Bill Shipman played over 100 first-class matches for Leicestershire?
... that with "Nearer My God to Thee", Isabella Hofmann joined the cast of Homicide: Life on the Street to add more sex appeal to the cast?
... that children's author Phoebe Gilman's inspiration for The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs came from her daughter selling mice bookmarks?
... that workers undertaking the 2010 Canterbury earthquake repair were outside for lunch when the oldest part of Holy Trinity Avonside collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that biopreservation is a benign ecological approach to food preservation which is gaining increasing attention?
... that the German ironclad SMS König Wilhelm was the largest and most powerful warship in the Imperial Navy in the late 19th century?
... that the Fujinuma Dam near Sukagawa City failed after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake causing homes downstream to wash away?
... that the Mercado Jamaica market in Mexico City offers about 5,000 species of flowers and ornamental plants, including some native species taken from the wild?
... that Pete Conway won 30 games as a pitcher for the Detroit Wolverines in 1888, "snapped a cord in his arm" in 1889, later worked as a mule skinner, and was dead by age 36?
... that, following a dispute at the Sheffield Attercliffe by-election result in 1909, Arnold Muir Wilson sued a rival for damage to his bowler hat?
... that more than 120,000 votes were placed across the United States to choose the final design for the Pioneer Woman statue in Ponca City, Oklahoma?
... that the Texas State Representative James C. Spencer was a prisoner of war in the 1942 Bataan Death March?
... that according to tradition Lectionary 300, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, was written by the Emperor Theodosius († 395)?
... that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern Bulgaria consisted of a row of baldachin-like arches?
... that when the German ocean liner SS Columbus was intercepted by the British destroyer HMS Hyperion off Cape Hatteras on 19 December 1939, she was scuttled by her crew to avoid capture?
... that Wilf Martin played for the 1964 NCAA championship Michigan Wolverines ice hockey team and later set the Denver Spurs' single-season and career records for goals, assists, and points?
... that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on Backatown, the major label debut by his former apprentice Trombone Shorty?
... that Wright of Derby's Indian Widow was exhibited in 1785 at what may have been the first one-person-show in England?
... that in United States v. Lee (1882), the Supreme Court held that a jury had properly ordered that the U.S. government return Arlington National Cemetery to the heir of Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
... that Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War was the last of several wars between the Burmese-speaking Upper Burma and the Mon-speaking Lower Burma, ending the Mon people's centuries-long dominance of Lower Burma?
... that the Homicide: Life on the Street episode "A Many Splendored Thing" included a subplot based on a real-life murder committed over a pen?
... that Mr. Universe Steve Reeves played an office boy in a 1954 episode of the ABC sitcom The Ray Bolger Show?
... that Michigan Wolverines baseball player and coach Charles F. Watkins sustained severe burns from an X-ray machine, which ultimately resulted in his death?
... that the German ironclad SMS Hansa's service career was cut short due to severe corrosion in her hull?
... that Timothy Brown was the soloist in Mozart's four horn concertos with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by his sister Iona Brown?
... that, in the Itamar attack, five members of a family were stabbed to death in their beds in the Israeli settlement of Itamar in the West Bank?
... that Diosso Gorge is known as the "Grand Canyon of the Congo"?
... that Dear Friend Hitler, an Indian film, centres on letters written from Mahatma Gandhi to Adolf Hitler?
... that the legs of the statue of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott broke in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that over 2,000 years ago two Chinese armies traveled 10,000 km to find "Heavenly Horses", apparently infected with a tiny worm causing them to "sweat blood" from sores"?
... that Keanu Reeves has signed on to star in a new film adaptation of the Forty-seven Ronin produced by Universal Pictures?
... that the first international railway link built in Laos opened in 2009, bringing trains across the Mekong from Nong Khai to Thanaleng Railway Station?
... that John Balmer achieved renown as a flying instructor in the RAAF by reputedly parachuting from an aircraft to force his pupil to land single-handed?
... that the 2010 BBC television pilot Dirk Gently was the first screen adaptation of Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
... that actress Jennifer Aniston's "sex tape" includes puppies, a talking parrot, dirty-dancing babies and a groin kick?
... that the Philippine town of Daet, Camarines Norte, was the first place to celebrate Rizal Day with its construction of the first Rizal monument ?
... that Michigan baseball player and coach Jerry Utley was the owner of a luxury hotel in Baja California and the promoter of the 1933 Max Schmeling – Max Baer heavyweight championship fight?
... that the 2011 Crufts Best in Show winner, Vbos The Kentuckian, is a descendant of the 1980 winner?
... that Lady Gaga approved the use of her song "Born This Way" for the Glee episode of the same name before the single premiered?
... that Aniba rosaeodora is processed by mobile distilleries transported by raft?
... that the WiiWare video game Bit.Trip Void was designed to have a minimalistic style, reflected in the audio, visuals, and its HUD?
... that while the wilga is a valued fodder tree of rural Australia, it is not known why sheep like some trees and not others?
... that the Marathon Dam in Greece is coated with the same Pentelikon marble used to construct the Parthenon and is symbolic of the Battle of Marathon?
... that Rebecca Black intends to donate profits from viral hit "Friday" to school arts programs and disaster relief efforts in Japan?
... that the Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance was signed in 1914 in the Banovina building in Niš; which is now the seat of the University of Niš?
... that Dennis Russell Davies conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester in works of Thomas Larcher with soloists Till Fellner and Kim Kashkashian?
... that even though Norwegian architect Bernt Heiberg supported the communist league Mot Dag in the 1930s, he opposed the May 1968 revolts?
... that the air-tractor sledge, the first aeroplane to be taken to Antarctica, went without wings?
... that female Sundevall's Roundleaf Bats have a large pair of false teats, whose only function may be to give their young something to hold on to?
... that the Church of the Good Shepherd, damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, suffered significant damage in a subsequent vandalism attack?
... that the Norwegian ship broker Ragnar Stoud Platou headed several golf clubs in Norway?
... that the Virginia Board of Health became involved in a controversy over abortion access when it was required to regulate outpatient clinics that perform first trimester abortions?
... that in Ancient Israelite cuisine, bread was primarily made from barley flour, even though wheat flour was regarded as superior?
... that Juliette (1956–66), the Canadian variety series which followed Hockey Night in Canada, attracted more than a million viewers per episode?
... that according to its original constitution, the capital of the United Arab Emirates is Al Karama, but no such city actually exists?
... that Captain Philemon Pownoll , killed in battle in 1780, was a mentor for future admirals Sir John Borlase Warren and Sir Edward Pellew?
... that The Donald O'Connor Show, a 1954 NBC musical sitcom, is based on the premise of two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions?
... that Bit.Trip Beat took inspiration from the early video game Pong for its gameplay?
... that Barbara Staff, a co-chairman of the 1976 campaign of Ronald Reagan in Texas, became a Republican activist in reaction to her political science professor?
... that the spire of All Saints Church in Haugham, Lincolnshire, with its ornate flying buttresses, is said to echo the similar but larger spire of St. James Church in Louth?
... that Joseph Barss, the first head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team, was born in Madras, India, in 1892?
... that when the ceasefire was issued to end the Battle of Ismailia, some Israeli paratroopers and Egyptian Sa'iqa found that they were no more than 20 meters apart?
... that, in 1923, the Gleno Dam in Italy failed shortly after it was completed and its flooding killed at least 356 people?
... that Lyndon Watts, principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic at age 22, was the first Australian woodwind player to win a prize at the ARD Competition?
... that Michigan ice hockey coach Dan Farrell later became the chairman and CEO of a uranium exploration company?
... that the Taunton Tramway in Somerset closed down when its power was cut off during a dispute over the cost of electricity?
... that EyesOn Design are events, including an annual car show and a fundraiser for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, focused on the emotion and character of automotive design?
... that Władysław Marian Jakowicki, a Polish physician and rector of the Stefan Batory University, was one of 19 faculty members arrested by the Soviets in 1939 who disappeared without a trace?
... that three lunar alignments of the Balquhain stone circle near Inverurie in Scotland were discovered in the 1980s?
... that Saigō-no-Tsubone, or "Lady Saigo" , was a concubine who advised Tokugawa Ieyasu before the 1575 Battle of Nagashino, a major turning point in the history of Japan?
... that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in New Jersey, the size of portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?
... that professional basketball player Trey Johnson ended his college baseball career after suffering a ligament injury on his elbow that required a Tommy John surgery?
... that the Ithaca Discovery Trail, a collaboration among seven hands-on museums and the public library in Tompkins County, New York, hosts 2,900 students on field trips each year?
... that Soviet astronomer Pavel Petrovich Parenago was the first to teach a course on galactic astronomy in the Soviet Union?
... that the Turkish Union of Xanthi was banned by Greek courts because the use of the word "Turkish" in its title was considered to endanger public order?
... that, though there are now 101 Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives, Midland oilman Frank Kell Cahoon was his party's sole member in the 1965 legislative session?
... that 20th-century artists Eric Gill and Leon Underwood created works for Italianate parish churches in and around Oxford designed by architect T. Lawrence Dale?
... that the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company's two stamp mills on Gold Creek were driven exclusively by water power?
... that the architectural firm of F. S. Platou designed the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo?
... that Abe Cohn, son of immigrant parents identified as "Russian Yiddish" by U.S. Census-takers, played for the Michigan Wolverines football and basketball teams while attending law school?
... that HMS Mendip (L60) served in the navies of three other countries after her use by the Royal Navy in World War II?
... that Samuel Rayner, who painted the Derby Exhibition in 1839 , had one of his paintings exhibited in the Royal Academy when he was only 15?
... that Romania's Elena Fidatov is one of the most prolific runners at the World Cross Country Championships, having competed on 13 occasions?
... that Polish neurologist Włodzimierz Godłowski was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre?
... that "Losing a Whole Year", one of Third Eye Blind's "catchiest" songs, stayed on Billboard's alternative chart for 14 weeks?
... that the steam-powered foghorn was first demonstrated successfully in 1859 on Partridge Island in the Port of Saint John?
... that Michigan's Arthur Karpus played for Big Ten championship teams in football, basketball and baseball?
... that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a five-year naval blockade by France and the United Kingdom?
... that not only is Old Hemp considered the father of the modern Border Collie, but he originated the working style of herding sheep commonly seen among the breed today?
... that while the Xinfengjiang Dam's reservoir in China was filling in 1962, there were several earthquakes near it, including one at 6.1-magnitude?
... that the Root Covered Bridge is one of just eight Long truss bridges remaining in Ohio today?
... that the English Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby has been claimed as the inspiration for Shakespeare's Malvolio?
... that Appalachian novelist Anne Armstrong was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business?
... that Sonora Market in Mexico City is known for its vendors selling items related to Santa Muerte, Santería, and other forms of the occult and magical practices ?
... that the actions of the German armored frigate SMS Friedrich Carl during a rebellion in Spain nearly precipitated a war between the rebels and Germany?
... that former Michigan coach William Perigo played professional basketball with John Wooden as a member of the Indianapolis Kautskys in the 1930s?
... that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola?
... that the Out Of The Ordinary Festival celebrates the autumn equinox in England with a variety of live music and talks about prehistoric culture and earth mysteries?
... that the town of Juneau, Alaska, was established after the 1880 discovery of gold in Silver Bow Basin by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau?
... that the British destroyer HMS Hasty captured the German blockade runner SS Morea in the North Atlantic on 12 February 1940 en-route from the South Atlantic to the UK to refit?
... that George Durkin Corneal became the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team in 1909?
... that flooding associated with the Sanriku earthquake and tsunami in 869 extended for at least four kilometres inland on the Sendai plain?
... that John McLaughlin's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme?
... that after defeating the Ottomans in the Battle of Ohrid, Skanderbeg distributed a large amount of ransom money to his men and dined off letnica with them?
... that "Huda the executioner" was recently deposed as mayor of Benghazi, Libya?
... that St Andrew's Church, Gunton is the only building designed by Robert Adam in Norfolk, and his only complete church in England?
... that Ozzie Cowles of Carleton, Dartmouth, Michigan and Minnesota was among the Top 15 winningest college basketball coaches of all-time when he retired at 59 in 1959?
... that Mexican freedom fighter José María Jesús Carbajal was mentored as a teenager by Stephen F. Austin?
... that in State v. Elliott (1992), the Vermont Supreme Court held that all aboriginal title in Vermont was extinguished "by the increasing weight of history"?
... that the works of Eugen Relgis, a Romanian-born anarcho-pacifist and eugenicist, were targeted by Nazi book-burners and communist censors?
... that at 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) long, the Taiji Cave in Anhui Province is the largest karst cave in East China?
... that Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork body of land using images of human skin printed on paper and made into little tipi-shaped forms?
... that Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon is named in honor of United States Army Major Enoch Steen, who crossed the mountain pursuing a band of Indians in 1860?
... that the video for industrial rock band KMFDM's new song "Krank" was simultaneously shot in Hamburg, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon?
... that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the same train as Anne Frank?
... that Sologubovka Cemetery, near St Petersburg, Russia, is the largest German war cemetery in the world and the final resting place of over 30,000 German war dead from World War II?
... that miniaturist Amalia Küssner Coudert painted tiny watercolor-on-ivory portraits of royalty, including King Edward VII and Czar Nicholas II of Russia?
... that U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia mentioned "the perennial end-of-season slump of the Chicago Cubs" in his Waters v. Churchill concurrence despite the case having nothing to do with baseball?
... that assassins of Aleksandar Stamboliyski cut off his hand because he used it to sign the 1923 Treaty of Niš?
... that Grave Circle A in Mycenae, Greece, was the burial place of the 16th century BC Mycenaean ruling families?
... that the anonymous Vita sancti Cuthberti, or "Life of Saint Cuthbert", is the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography?
... that General Lord Walker was the first commander of the ground component of NATO's Implementation Force in 1995?
... that the 2009 Norwegian anthology Liberalisme: Politisk frihet fra John Locke til Amartya Sen was criticized by reviewers for selecting a sample of liberal thinkers who did not belong together?
... that Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series Parks and Recreation after the episode "Indianapolis", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast member?
... that St George's Church in Goltho, Lincolnshire, is all that remains of a deserted medieval village?
... that Ojibwa artist Jim Denomie's painting Casino Sunrise depicts Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty standing behind Babe the Blue Ox with his pants around his ankles?
... that Reza Abbasi abandoned his career as a Persian court painter to consort with wrestlers in a midlife crisis lasting some seven years until about 1610?
... that the 1997 Central European flood was caused by some of the heaviest rains ever recorded?
... that Canadian architect Leslie R. Fairn, whose output ranged from Beaux Arts to Modernism, had a career lasting 65 years?
... that icodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used to keep tissues from gluing together after surgery?
... that Jens-Daniel Herzog staged the opera Intermezzo of Richard Strauss, with Christiane Kohl as Christine, "the composer's formidable and frequently hysterical wife"?
... that the sailing venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics was the first and only one to take place in fresh water?
... that knife-maker Gil Hibben has designed so many knives for the Star Trek franchise that Paramount Pictures dubbed him the "Official Klingon Armorer"?
... that Wright of Derby's painting of Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene depicts Juliet saying her final line "... Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" in Shakespeare's play?
... that Steve Reich's composition, WTC 9/11, premieres today with a performance by the Kronos Quartet at Duke University?
... that John Bell received the SIAM/ACM prize with Phil Colella for computational science and engineering in 2003?
... that Lydia Cecilia Hill was an English dancer who became a favourite of the Sultan of Johor?
... that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in Mexico, serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day?
... that in his only National Hockey League playoff game, Bill Moe fractured two vertebrae?
... that 1952 Winter Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen once ran a ski shop in the La Fave Block , the second oldest brick commercial building in Aspen, Colorado?
... that Norwegian entrepreneur Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer was appointed official reporter of Norway at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris?
... that after KV Pharmaceutical received an FDA-sponsored monopoly to exclusively market a drug that had been already available for five decades, it raised its price from about US$15 to US$1,500?
... that medieval historian Eleanor Duckett (1880–1976) and her lifelong companion, regional novelist Mary Ellen Chase, have adjoining halls named for them at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts?
... that Dutch paleobotanist Willem van Zeist analyzed the first domesticated emmer wheat found at Tell Aswad, Syria?
... that the actor voicing the creature in the Fringe episode "Night of Desirable Objects" placed pieces of orange in his mouth in order to have "a slobbery, sputtering voice"?
... that during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell's forces took lead from the roof of Oxhey Chapel in Hertfordshire to make musket balls?
... that Article 8 of the Syrian Constitution stipulates that the Ba'ath Party is the "leading party in the society and the state"?
... that The Power of Half describes how the Salwen family sold their home, donated half the proceeds to charity, and downgraded to a house half the size and value?
... that Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson was described by Jimmie Durham as the Miles Davis of contemporary Native American art?
... that the Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan was a political entity, influenced by militant Wahhabism, that declared its independence from Russian rule in 1998?