derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory exhibits neolithic relics from the Beqaa Valley recovered by Jesuits?
... that Hamburger Feuerkasse was the first official fire insurance company established in the world?
... that Sir Henry Primrose, the chairman of the board of the Inland Revenue, played two international football matches for Scotland in the 1870s?
... that a performer's authenticity in art may involve conforming to the composer's intention or ignoring it?
... that the Fordwich stone in the Church of St Mary in Fordwich, Kent, may have been part of the shrine of Saint Augustine of Canterbury?
... that Alaska Supreme Court Justice Craig F. Stowers worked as a park ranger before he earned his Juris Doctor from UC Davis School of Law?
... that American artist Colin Campbell Cooper helped rescue survivors of the Titanic, and during the rescue created several paintings which document the events?
... that the 17th century Jacobean mansion Swakeleys House in Ickenham was visited by Samuel Pepys in 1665 and recorded in his diary?
... that the Tasmanian pygmy possum is the world's smallest species of possum?
... that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's Survivor Series (2000) event ended with one wrestler using a forklift to destroy a car, supposedly with his opponent trapped inside?
... that Warren Matthews, a graduate of both Stanford and Harvard appointed by Republican Governor Jay Hammond, was the second-longest serving Supreme Court justice in Alaska history?
... that as many as 11 geological features in Utah are named Mollie's (or Molly's) Nipple?
... that Romania's Symbolist movement fostered the literary careers of far-right theorist Nae Ionescu, defrocked monk Tudor Arghezi, and Dada co-founder Tristan Tzara?
... that Ruislip Manor was largely undeveloped rural land at the turn of the 20th century until the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in 1912?
... that during World War II, Germany and Japan wanted to divide all of Asia between each other along a line on the 70th meridian east longitude?
... that although described as one of the finest buildings in Glasgow, The Egyptian Halls may be demolished?
... that Blackbutt, Christmas Bells, and Turpentine grow in the Garawarra State Conservation Area?
... that John Fenn, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his colleagues at Monsanto "practically bathed" in PCBs during the early 1940s?
... that coach Billy Gillispie once made Kentucky Wildcats center Josh Harrellson sit in a bathroom stall during half-time of a game?
... that under the ongoing Russian police reform, the name of Russia's law enforcers was changed from "militia" to "police"?
... that Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi, India, built on the site of the original Kashi Vishwanath Temple, still shows evidence of the temple in its foundation, columns, and rear?
... that when Antoinette Sterling sang the English folk song "Three Fishers" in the late 1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending?
... that the Beaux Arts exterior of the 1907 Surrogate's Courthouse in New York features no fewer than 54 sculptures of historical and allegorical figures?
... that Namibian Hans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry in Oshindonga, a dialect of Oshiwambo?
... that soon after he was ordained, John Wesley preached in St Mary's Church in Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire?
... that as an unelected Congressional delegate from Jefferson Territory, George M. Willing claimed to have created the word "Idaho" as a name for Colorado?
... that the 75-metre (246 ft) tall towers of St. Florian's Cathedral in Warsaw's eastern district of Praga highlight its role as a form of protest against the Russian domination of Poland?
... that while building a wagon road along Union Creek, Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscovered Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States and one of the clearest in the world?
... that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
... that Ditsworthy Warren House, built on Dartmoor for the keeper of a rabbit warren, was used as a filming location for Steven Spielberg's forthcoming movie War Horse?
... that the German destroyer Bruno Heinemann was forced to transfer fuel oil to the destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt during the Norwegian Campaign to allow the latter to return to Germany?
... that Hospital Borda's Radio La Colifata is the world's first radio station broadcast from inside a psychiatric hospital?
... that James FitzGerald , the first editor of the Lyttelton Times, later founded its main competitor, The Press?
... that riparian forests contain some ⅓ of the estimated 3000 flora species in Benin?
... that the first Allied soldier killed during the Normandy landings was part of Operation Deadstick?
... that the Chapman Swifts, a flock of Vaux's Swift, inspired a Portland, Oregon, community to raise over US$60,000 for a new school heating system so the birds could have the old chimney to roost?
... that because it was too dark inside the Church of St Peter ad Vincula in Colemore, Hampshire, the parishioners petitioned the bishop in 1669 to have the south transept removed?
... that Decuriasuchus may be the first known archosaur to exhibit group behavior?
... that the Pistol River received its name after James Mace lost his pistol in it in 1853?
... that staff of the historic The Press Building were two weeks away from moving into a new office building when the 2011 Christchurch earthquake struck, killing one?
... that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles, according to Ivar Ekeland?
... that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who led the struggle against Israel's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi?
... that someone was once stabbed at the Sunset Esplanade in Hillsboro, Oregon, for complimenting an Oakland Raiders hat?
... that in the early 19th century, the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary?
... that the George Washington Masonic National Memorial was proposed in 1852, began construction in 1922, dedicated in 1932, and finished in 1970?
... that pirate leader Emilio Changco operated out of Manila Bay till his arrest in the 1990s?
... that above the arcade in the chancel screen of St Mary's Church, Capel-le-Ferne in Kent is a large round-headed opening that is unique in England?
... that composer Jan Müller-Wieland called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists"?
... that there is pressure to close the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest in France, because of concerns over the risk of earthquakes?
... that the commander of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, Captain Helmuth Brinkmann, was a classmate of the battleship Bismarck's commander Ernst Lindemann?
... that in Oregon's 1990 U.S. Senate election, incumbent Mark Hatfield's opponent in the Republican primary was best known for having spent 40 days tree sitting to protest old-growth logging?
... that San Francisco fireboat Phoenix pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?
... that Rudolf Fränkel's Lichtburg cinema in Berlin, with its rooftop searchlights, probably influenced Cecil Clavering's Odeon cinema in Kingstanding?
... that Tal Brody was drafted 12th in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose instead to play basketball for Israel?
... that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church, King Cross, Halifax built in 1911, is dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the first vicar of the prior church built in 1846?
... that leading Ulster Defence Association member Stephen "Top Gun" McKeag sang "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" after committing a sectarian killing?
... that the extinct Miocene redwood, Sequoiadendron chaneyi, is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California?
... that Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tañada III's first girlfriend was former Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros while they were studying at the Ateneo de Manila University?
... that in Thailand, the smiling terrapin is believed to contain the souls of people who died while trying to save others from drowning?
... that No. 1 Basic Flying Training School was formed in 1951 in response to the RAAF's increased demand for aircrew during the Korean War and Malayan Emergency?
... that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the topic of Sandeep Bhagwati's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale, was considered fit for a film?
... that the two branches of New Zealand's Ashburton River flow in parallel less than 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) apart for 20 kilometres (12 mi) before they join?
... that the adjective "Polish-Lithuanian" refers to pre-nationalistic, multicultural inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, unlike the modern understanding of the two nationalities?
... that, according to legend, on the advice of Xenoclea, Hercules agreed to become a slave of the Queen of Lydia?
... that approximately 6,500 out of a national population of an estimated 56,452 people (2010) in Greenland are employed in the fishing industry ?
... that the Knoxville Riot of 1919, one of the events of that year's Red Summer, began when a lynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's illegitimate son?
... that the Ottoman torpedo boat Sultanhisar attacked and seriously damaged the Australian submarine HMAS AE2 in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine went down in the Sea of Marmara?
... that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to avoid German bombings during World War II?
... that Abu Ali Iyad was one of the last remaining Fatah commanders fighting the Jordanian Army until he was killed near Ajloun during a major offensive by the latter?
... that the French ship of the line Censeur was captured during the Battle of Genoa in 1795 after coming to the assistance of a damaged ship?
... that Mammotrectus super Bibliam, a guide book to understanding the Bible, was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century?
... that Jerry Harper was the first Alabama Crimson Tide men's basketball player to lead his team in scoring all four years?
... that Salvador Dalí insisted that his painting Galatea of the Spheres be displayed on an easel previously owned by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres?
... that an annual award is given in honor of the Georgia old-time craftsman and blacksmith Alex W. Bealer, author of The Art of Blacksmithing?
... that acquisitions whilst Christopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at the British Library included the archives of Punch magazine and that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
... that Tommy Lyttle, the leader of the Ulster Defence Association's West Belfast Brigade, liked to read James Bond novels?
... that in 1986, a possible image of President Abraham Lincoln was discovered in an 1860s photo of the deck of revenue cutter USRC Wayanda?
... that the German town of Bingen am Rhein has used Klopp Castle for city administration since 1897?
... that Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the only author to have three children's books on Pennsylvania State University's baker's dozen list of the "very best picture books published in 2009"?
... that the crew of the Santorini tried and failed to smuggle weapons, hidden inside barrels, into the Gaza Strip three times, before being caught on their fourth attempt?
... that the Jersey J-Cup, patterned after the Super J Cup Japanese wrestling tournament, is the second-oldest independent wrestling tournament in the United States?
... that the Museo Soumaya, a private museum in Mexico City based on one couple's art collection, has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculpture outside of France?
... that the old television game show Place the Face asked contestants to recognize glimpses of nearly forgotten persons from their past?
... that the U.S. government imprisoned the Baron of Arizona after learning he had damaged books in Mexican and Spanish libraries?
... that the land at West Weber, Utah, was reported in 1903 to have a reputation as one of the poorest soils between the Great Salt Lake and Ogden?
... that Alexander Gradsky is believed to be the first Russian artist to have performed rock and roll music in a concert, when he was 13 years old?
... that the Blockade of Wonsan in the Korean War was the longest naval blockade in modern history, lasting 861 days?
... that automotive journalist David E. Davis wore a full beard after a racing accident severely disfigured his face – and the ambulance attendant threw away pieces of his nasal cartilage?
... that as a teenager, Justine Thornton, the fiancée of British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, appeared in the controversial television comedy Hardwicke House?
... that the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina is named after the British ship Beagle , which sailed with the explorer Charles Darwin in 1833–34?
... that the debut album by American singer-songwriter Lotti Golden was listed by New York Times music critic Nat Hentoff as one of the most influential albums of the late 1960s?
... that the city of Ajdabiya, newly recaptured by Libyan rebels, was founded as a staging post on the crossroads of two key trading routes?
... that the Franciscan Church in Zamość was among the largest churches in 17th-century Poland?
... that as a senior, basketball player Pete Padgett received the Doc Martie Award, given annually to the University of Nevada's top male athlete?
... that the neo-realist film A Berlin Romance is a strong critique of the obsession with consumer goods and the Americanization of mid-1950s Berlin?
... that Isaac Perrins, an 18th-century bareknuckle prizefighter, was described as "the knock-kneed hammerman from Soho"?
... that although the nuclear policy of the United States regulates the nuclear energy industry more strictly than most others, there have been 52 incidents costing an estimated $8.56 billion?
... that just one day after arrest, Lithuanian partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas was transferred to a hospital in a critical condition with a punctured eye and missing testicles?
... that the decorative, "humpbacked" Chamberlain Bridge in Barbados, named after British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, replaced an older bridge destroyed by the Great Hurricane of 1898?
... that George Johnstone was a Royal Navy officer, an MP, a director of the East India Company, a member of the Carlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor of West Florida?
... that Marino Murillo, the former Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba, believes the Cuban economic system is too paternalistic and supports the creation of a small-scale private market?
... that the unauthorized use of data from the National Register of Electors, the permanent database of eligible Canadian voters, can carry a penalty of a year in prison?
... that Acid-Fest, a professional wrestling memorial show for Trent Acid, featured one of the largest battle royals ever held?
... that Henry Seidel Canby compared the ruins of Isabella Furnace to a 12th-century Persian mosque?
... that cadet Francis A. Dales began Operation Pedestal on an American merchant ship, continued on a British destroyer, and ended it on an American tanker requisitioned and manned by a British crew?
... that by winning the 1979 Gillette Cup Final, Somerset County Cricket Club won their first trophy since forming 104 years earlier?
... that the documentary film Berlin im Aufbau has historical significance in that it documents the first phase of the rebuilding of the destroyed city of Berlin after World War II?
... that although the despot of Valona John Komnenos Asen plundered a Venetian ship in 1350, he became a Venetian citizen three years later?
... that in the Fringe episode "The Ghost Network", the writers wanted guest actor Zak Orth to shave his head in preparation for a scene, but he successfully "begged" them not to?
... that trolleybuses in Derby last operated in 1967, but there are still five preserved by collectors?
... that Gent Strazimiri, who began his career as an anti-communist activist, is now a member of the Albanian parliament for the Democratic Party of Albania?
... that the influential 2000 oncology paper "The Hallmarks of Cancer" identified six features that all cancers have in common?
... that Reverend Heinrich Schmelen, a German missionary in South-West Africa, married an indigenous Nama woman in 1814, an action encouraged by the missionary societies of that time?
... that the 1965 Pacific hurricane season had 10 named storms, with one storm becoming a hurricane?
... that Jayden Pitt, the lightest player on the Fremantle Football Club playing list at only 70 kg (150 lb), was a surprise selection when he made his début in the opening round of the 2011 AFL season?
... that John T. Cunningham, who has chronicled much of New Jersey's past, once said, "My goals did not include either the writing of books or becoming a historian"?
... that the convoy, a group of merchantmen or troopships travelling together with a naval escort, was revived during World War I?
... that Danny Goodwin, the Chicago White Sox first-round draft pick and first overall pick in 1971, decided not to sign with the team?
... that St Mary's Church, in Sandwich, Kent, was damaged by the French in 1217 and again in 1457, and by an earthquake in 1578?
... that H. S. Lloyd is the most successful dog breeder in Crufts history, winning Best in Show on six occasions?
... that Albert Bandura's 1986 book Social Foundations of Thought and Action was said to contain "outlines of the grand theory" of human behaviour psychologists were seeking for over a century?
... that Dead Women Crossing in Oklahoma is reputedly haunted by a schoolteacher who disappeared the day after she filed for divorce in 1905, and was found murdered two months later?
... that some whales "lunge feed" on bait balls , an extreme method of feeding which has been called the largest biomechanical event on Earth?
... that former Kennel Club Chairman Leonard Pagliero flew supplies to the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II?
... that the Task Force on Childhood Obesity, established by the Obama Administration in 2010, seeks to eliminate childhood obesity in the United States within a generation?
... that The inSpiral Lounge is a vegetarian restaurant, organic bar and live music venue in Camden Lock, London that hosts performances of acoustic and electronic music?
... that Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy D. Snyder, discusses the estimated 14 million deaths that occurred in Eastern Europe between 1933 and 1945?
... that The Washington Post named Libyan female lawyer Iman al-Obeidi, who accused Muammar Gaddafi's troops of politically motivated rape, a "symbol of defiance against Gaddafi"?
... that the Major League Baseball career of Larry McLean ended at the Buckingham Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, during a drunken encounter with his manager, John McGraw?
... that during a raid on Berlin in 1944, RAAF Squadron Leader Bill Brill's Avro Lancaster was struck by incendiary bombs dropped by another Allied aircraft above him?
... that Mehadia, Romania, is located on the site of the ancient Roman colony Ad Mediam, noted for its Hercules baths?
... that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA, scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins?
... that French marshal Victor-Perrin, on his way to command the Siege of Kolberg (1807), was captured by a Prussian freikorps?
... that Trey Songz' 2011 single "Love Faces" is a mid-tempo piano-based ballad that discusses facial expressions that people make when having sexual intercourse?
... that Alice Manfield , commonly known as Guide Alice, worked as a mountain guide on Australia's Mt Buffalo for forty years from the 1890s?
... that the yacht Amazon's former owners include Arthur Lowe of the British sitcom Dad's Army?
... that the 2011 murder of Sian O'Callaghan in Swindon, England, has been linked to the 1996 unsolved murder of Melanie Hall?
... that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig?
... that at the height of battle the wolf's head of the Dacian Draco , with its several metal tongues, made a shrill sound and its strips of material waved in the wind?
... that Paul Signac praised Charles Angrand's drawings as "masterpieces", calling them "poems of light"?
... that in the churchyard of All Saints Church, in Little Somborne, Hampshire, is the grave of Thomas Sopwith, the pioneer aviator?
... that despite being set up similarly, government-sponsored fixed markets never replaced "tianguis" or open air markets in Mexico?
... that in 1918 Morris S. Halliday, a New York State Senator for the forty-first Senate District, resigned his seat to enter the United States Army Air Service?
... that Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych , known for the "Carol of the Bells", was nicknamed "Ukrainian Bach" in France?
... that George, a Jack Russell Terrier, died from injuries sustained while protecting several children from an attack by two Pit Bulls?
... that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch, whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction, died by drowning?
... that the mass of the extrasolar planet Kepler-11g could not be determined because its orbit is too far from those of its sister planets?
... that former Washington Times editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church?
... that Kenny Meadows has been described as one of the best illustrators to work for Punch in the magazine's early years?
... that Grant Hill's response to Jalen Rose's comments in The Fab Five—the highest-rated ESPN documentary—was shared by nearly 100,000 people on Facebook in the next few days?
... that Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina is named after Nahuel Huapi Lake , with nahuel and huapi meaning "jaguar" and "island" in the Mapuche language?
... that the M-64 highway designation in Michigan was moved twice in two years by exchanging the number with different roads?
... that the first manual on a double-entry bookkeeping system was written by Benedikt Kotruljević in 1458, more than 36 years earlier than previously thought?
... that in the 1970s, Shreveport historian Walter M. Lowrey headed a project on Louisiana Methodism, which included a study of circuit riders?
... that two of the venues used for the Four Hills Tournament have also been used for Olympic ski jumping competitions?
... that saxophonist King Curtis was stabbed to death a week after releasing his album Live at Fillmore West?
... that Miss San Antonio 2010 Domonique Ramirez temporarily lost her title after pageant officials complained that she had gained weight and allegedly told her to "get off the tacos"?
... that near the end of its lengthy run, the television series This Is Show Business introduced the future novelist Jacqueline Susann as a panelist?
... that Norwegian behavioral neuroscientist Terje Sagvolden showed that the spontaneously hypertensive rat strain is a valid animal model for the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?
... that a tavern in Baltimore, the Henry Fite House, served as the United States capitol for two months?
... that the dimachaerus, a type of gladiator, used a fighting style adapted to defend with his weapons rather than a shield?
... that in the Parks and Recreation episode "Camping", protagonist Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) revealed she once dreamed of being happily married to the fictional alien ALF?
... that Cubs' pitcher Carl Lundgren had "speed to burn green hickory and an assortment of curves that would keep a cryptograph specialist figuring all night but he was wild as a March hare in a cyclone"?
... that Hezekiah Holland reckoned in 1650 that the end of the world and the Day of Judgment were then 216 years away?