derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Archelaus, the high priest of the Roman goddess of war in Comana, claimed to be the son of King Mithridates VI when he wooed, and subsequently married, Queen Berenice IV of Egypt?
... that physician Golding Bird invented the electric moxa in order to save patients from having to be burnt with glowing charcoal?
... that St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham, in Norfolk had fallen into ruin by the time its medieval wall paintings were rediscovered in 1967?
... that the petite endangered cactus Escobaria minima bears 1.5-cm long flowers that may be larger than the cactus body itself, and fruits no more than 6 mm in length?
... that RSBY, the National Health Insurance Programme of India, offers cashless health insurance of up to ₹ 30,000 to the poor for just ₹ 30?
... that American singer Missy Elliott received the Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance both years it was presented?
... that Gulliver's Travels is reportedly the only book read by comedy writer Bill Dare, creator of BBC satirical radio comedy Brian Gulliver's Travels, while he was at university?
... that despite trailing by 20 points after half-time in the 1987 UAAP men's basketball finals, the Ateneo Blue Eagles rallied and won the championship?
... that during the 2010 Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa, the 600 guests ate approximately 30,000 strips of bacon?
... that British angler and author Frederic M. Halford, pseudonym Detached Badger , is known as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing"?
... that Ohinetahi, the historical home and formal garden in New Zealand owned by Sir Miles Warren, architect of the Christchurch Town Hall, was extensively damaged during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake?
... that Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave creates life-size, painted paper sculptures of wedding gowns, shoes, needlework lace, and strings of pearls?
... that finds at the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ghoraifé, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of Damascus, Syria, show the evolution that took place over a millennium, from wild to domesticated barley?
... that 12 years after the U.S. Department of Education gave Blue Ribbon status to the Howard C. Reiche School in Portland, Maine, it was declared deficient under No Child Left Behind?
... that British Army lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis was murdered in 1931 with a plate of poisoned partridge?
... that the canals and chinampas of Xochimilco , a World Heritage Site in Mexico City, are in danger of disappearing within 50 years?
... that former child actor Philip Amelio once taught English and coached baseball at Duanesburg High School in Upstate New York?
... that offerings in the 4000-year old temple of Al-Rawda, Syria, came from as far as Egypt, Afghanistan and India?
... that artist Corwin Clairmont designed the Salish-Kootenai's tribal seal when he was 15 and it is still used today?
... that Creal Reef, Queensland, site of Creal Reef Light, was named after a No. 101 Flight RAAF pilot who assisted HMAS Moresby with her surveys?
... that Val McDermid's novel A Darker Domain explores the social and emotional implications of the UK miners strike of 1984–1985?
... that Charles Dvorak missed the pole vault finals at the 1900 Olympics after being told the event was postponed, but returned to win the gold medal at the 1904 Olympics?
... that Bulgaria mobilized more than 600,000 soldiers, or 12–13% of its population, upon its entry to World War I?
... that the Employees' State Insurance scheme provides social security and health insurance to over 50 million Indians?
... that in 1672, the Scottish botanist Robert Morison became the first person to write a "monograph of a specific group of plants", the Umbelliferae?
... that Maersk Line's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when they enter service?
... that the earliest known Maya city in the Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica dates to around 750 BC?
... that ampelographer Pierre Galet suspects that the Provence wine grape Tibouren was likely introduced to Marseilles by the Ancient Greeks, but could also be Middle Eastern in origin?
... that the French Government issued a postage stamp bringing attention to the theft of Cézanne's The Card Players in 1961?
... that a 17th-century Yemeni Orphans' Decree requiring the conversion of orphans to Islam was still being enforced as late as 1948?
... that Wilhelmine Reichard, the first German woman balloonist, fell unconscious at 7,800 metres (25,600 ft) during her third flight in 1811 and crash-landed in a forest?
... that on April 15, 2011, United States v. Scheinberg resulted in the end of online poker play for United States residents on the three online poker sites that account for approximately 95% of the market?
... that despite being told by doctors that he might never walk again, British swimmer Graham Edmunds has won two Paralympic gold medals in world record times?
... that as many as 6,400 human and animal illustrations, including Bir Hima Rock Petroglyphs and Inscriptions, have been recorded in Saudi Arabia's southwest Najran area?
... that Mormon bigamist Warren Jeffs spent a year in a prison called Purgatory?
... that Sir Winston Churchill's American grandfather paid $125,000 for a new luxury steam yacht, Clara Clarita , that could only manage a speed of ½ mph (0.8 km/h)?
... that the inscription on Leoš Janáček's gravestone was inspired by his choral composition The Wandering Madman?
... that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 was reportedly voted on without any committee members reviewing the actual language?
... that despite questions about the suitability of his batting temperament, three of Andrew Strauss's centuries are among the five highest scores by England batsmen in ODI cricket?
... that Brigadier Philip Hicks, the commander of an airborne brigade, had to swim ashore during the Allied invasion of Sicily?
... that clips of VHS tapes from the website Everything is Terrible! include how to massage a cat, an anti-pedophilia yellow dinosaur, and a direct-to-video crime drama featuring Jay Leno?
... that the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan is a 17-mile greenway system designed to encourage economic development and multi-modal transportation along the French Broad River?
... that Ryan Bourque, son of Hockey Hall of Famer Ray Bourque, has won four medals, including two gold medals, with Team USA in International Ice Hockey Federation tournaments?
... that recently retired Fr. Daniel Coughlin was the first Catholic priest to serve as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives?
... that the offices of Air India were attacked as part of the violent reaction to the Babri mosque demolition in Pakistan and Bangladesh?
... that the "Irish of Vincennes", three Irish nationals arrested in Paris on terrorism charges in 1982, were framed by members of a Presidential secret police unit?
... that John Haldeman, a journalist covering the Louisville Grays baseball team, was asked to play second base for the team for one game during the 1877 season?
... that Albert Bierstadt's 1863 painting The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is sometimes likened to Frederic Edwin Church's The Heart of the Andes?
... that visually impaired skier Richard Burt won four Winter Paralympic medals for Great Britain?
... that La Voz de un Ángel by Yuridia ranked among the best-selling albums of the year in Mexico for three years in a row?
... that photographer Mary Ellen Matthews has been responsible for the celebrity portraits used as commercial bumpers on Saturday Night Live since 1999?
... that the interior part of the Mooghaun fort was demolished to facilitate its use as a picnicking spot?
... that Mike Loan amassed a career batting average of .500 by hitting safely once in two at-bats in his only career Major League Baseball game?
... that for much of the Middle Ages, church altars were hidden from view at points in services by curtains hung from a ciborium ?
... that HMS Prince William was named for the future King William, who was present at the engagement she was captured in?
... that in 1919, the Pacific Coast Parks Association named Portland, Oregon's Laurelhurst Park the "most beautiful park" on the West Coast?
... that Povilas Budrys was voted Best Actor by the Lithuanian Theatre Union for the 1991/92 season?
... that Filep Karma is serving a 15-year jail sentence for raising the flag of West Papua in Jayapura, Indonesia?
... that writer-director Tom Shadyac made the documentary I Am after suffering post-concussion syndrome from a serious bicycle accident—and sleeping in his closet to avoid acute sensitivity to light and sound?
... that the festival of Ridván, the "King of Festivals" of the Bahá'í Faith, celebrates events that took place in a garden in Baghdad almost 150 years ago?
... that controversy over Pedro Almodóvar's 1990 film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! led to the creation of the NC-17 rating?
... that in 2007, the Amber Palace of Amer Fort in Rajasthan was visited by 1.4 million tourists?
... that Wilson Onsare made the fastest ever marathon debut at the 2003 Paris Marathon, but never improved upon his debut time?
... that the only known specimen of the extinct spider Palaeoperenethis is in the Royal Ontario Museum?
... that the churchyard of St James' Church in Cooling, Kent, is said to have provided the inspiration for the opening chapter of Charles Dickens' book Great Expectations?
... that in his Major League Baseball debut, Marcos Mateo came into the game in the 11th inning, loaded the bases, then gave up a sacrifice fly to lose the game?
... that Jeremy Kerley was recruited by Texas and Stanford to play baseball and by Oklahoma to play college football, but he ultimately decided to play football for Texas Christian University?
... that the Gilgamesh restaurant in Camden, London, is said to be "an ostentatious replica of a Babylonian palace"?
... that Lewis Milestone's 1926 sports drama comedy silent film The New Klondike was the first film assignment of writer Ben Hecht?
... that Japanese composer Kenichi Maeyamada remixes anime and video game music under the pseudonym "Hyadain"?
... that, unlike the closely related house mouse, the wild Algerian mouse clears away its own droppings?
... that Burundian Internet journalist Jean-Claude Kavumbagu was arrested and charged with treason after writing a blog post criticizing his country's security forces?
... that General Franco denied the fact that the British merchant ship British Corporal had been attacked by his forces during the Spanish Civil War?
... that although audio spill is often undesirable in the recording of popular music, it can be heard on records by The Beatles and Christina Aguilera?
... that Anthony Sadowski, after escaping captivity in the Great Northern War in 1704, came to America and helped Daniel Boone's father found Amity Township, Pennsylvania?
... that Berry Hinton had only three losing seasons in his twenty-three years as head baseball coach from 1943 to 1967 at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston?
... that the use of herbicide on the natural habitat of the Lesser Prairie Chicken may have created a perceptual trap?
... that Kipling's Rewards and Fairies includes "If—" which has been voted Britain's most popular poem?
... that Burmese prisoner of conscience Nilar Thein once evaded police capture by rickshaw taxi?
... that the British destroyers HMS Diamond and HMS Wryneck were sunk by German aircraft on 27 April 1941, about four hours after they rescued over 500 troops from a sinking Dutch troopship?
... that after the Rwandan Genocide, social worker and survivor Godeliève Mukasarasi founded a group to help widows and orphans further their socio-economic rights?
... that the 1934 United States Trust Company theft was the work of an international gang that stole more than $2,000,000 in multiple robberies?
... that the Millennium Dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia will house Africa's largest hydroelectric power plant and impound the continent's largest reservoir when completed?
... that the release from prison of Iosif Begun, a leader of the campaign to free the Jews of the USSR, was announced in 1987 by Soviet politician Georgy Arbatov on Face the Nation?
... that in the Finnish card game Ristikontra, a player wins a trick by playing another card of the same rank as the first card in the trick?
... that Christopher Isherwood named the character Sally Bowles after Paul Bowles, because he found Bowles attractive?
... that former presidential son Mikey Arroyo currently sits as a sectoral representative of tricycle drivers and security guards in the House of Representatives of the Philippines?
... that Liberty Cinema in Mumbai got its name as it was built in 1947, the year of Indian Independence?
... that Small Heath F.C. went through the 1893–94 season without drawing a League match?
... that the dense forest in the area around Csóványos in Northern Hungary has been described as "almost mystical"?
... that Kenyan Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai ran a course record to win the 2011 London Marathon and become the fourth fastest man ever in the marathon?
... that during convoy escort duty in the Battle of the North Atlantic in 1943, HMS Polyanthus was sunk by U-952 using new weapons technology?
... that Gendang beleq, a music and dance performance popular in Lombok, Indonesia, is so named because it uses two big drums?
... that Havana's National Schools of Art , conceived by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, are considered to be outstanding architectural achievements of the Cuban Revolution?
... that Louisiana Attorney General Percy Saint in 1929 ruled that impeachment proceedings against Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. were constitutional?
... that artificial deformation of a skull enabled archaeologists to identify the Adena as the builders of the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound in Tiltonsville, Ohio?
... that James Parfitt's best bowling in first-class cricket came in his second match, when he claimed seven wickets in the first innings, all bowled?
... that the bone disease opsismodysplasia was named from the Greek word opsismos meaning "late"?
... that Byzantine historian Timothy E. Gregory served as director of the Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia?
... that after plans for the Douglas 2229 SST left no room for fuel other than in the fuselage, a designer sketched a cartoon with diving suit-clad passengers immersed in fuel, under "No Smoking" signs?
... that baseball pitcher Andy Hansen earned his first major league victory against the Philadelphia Phillies, the only other major league team for which he would ever play?
... that despite being banned by Spanish colonial authorities in Mexico, the making of amate, or bark paper, never disappeared?
... that pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni was kidnapped by suspected members of a Islamic militant group operating in Gaza and later found hanged?
... that Will Ferrell produced and stars in the upcoming Spanish-language comedy film Casa de Mi Padre, which has been described as in the style of "an overly dramatic telenovela"?
... that around 252 glider infantry of the 1st Airlanding Brigade were drowned during the Allied invasion of Sicily?
... that although Charles Messier discovered the galaxy M91 in 1781, it was added to his catalogue only two centuries later?
... that after her role in the 1972 horror film Frogs, actress Lynn Borden began collecting frog figurines as a hobby?
... that when Bach derived his third cantata for Easter of 1724, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß, BWV 134, from his secular cantata for New Year's Day, he just wrote new text under old text?
... that the Falkland Islands have on average only 2–3 hours of direct sunlight per day in winter and only 6 hours in summer?
... that "Heartaches," featuring Elmo Tanner's whistling, became a number 1 hit fourteen years after it was recorded?
... that Lagmann mac Gofraid, a late 11th-century King of Mann and the Isles, has been labelled as the only known Scot who took part in the First Crusade?
... that the upcoming 2012 film, Jack the Giant Killer (directed by Bryan Singer), is expected to take an adult look at the Jack and the Beanstalk legend?
... that Abutilon pitcairnense is extinct in the wild after the single wild plant died in a landslide in 2005?
... that after eight years singing in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Thomas Lawlor went on to perform more than 60 roles for other opera companies?
... that a two-mass-skate bicycle has demonstrated self-stability even though it has minimal gyroscopic effects and does not have positive trail, two features most commonly associated with bike stability?
... that Alexander, the eldest son of Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman, converted to Islam to avoid execution and died as governor of Ottoman Smyrna?
... that even though ...And the Native Hipsters's first single, "There Goes Concorde Again" was initially a 500-copy private release, it went on to reach number five on the UK Indie Charts?
... that the sinking of the Blanco Encalada was the first successful attack on a ship by a torpedo boat?
... that George B. Jackson, a businessman in San Angelo, Texas, who had been born into slavery in Virginia, was termed "the wealthiest colored man in Texas" in the late 19th century?
... that most of the victims of 2011 Cirebon bombing were police officers attending Friday prayer?
... that the Woodsboro and Frederick Turnpike, which is now part of Maryland Route 194, was the last private toll road in Maryland when it was purchased by the state in 1921?
... that in 1991, Vladimir Velichko became the first First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union?
... that rugby league club Warrington paid £20 to sign Riki Papakura from New Zealand in 1911?
... that one hotel in Mogadishu advises tourists visiting Somalia to hire at least ten armed guards for their protection?
... that Edward II of England made Andrew Harclay Earl of Carlisle in 1322, only to have him hanged, drawn and quartered less than a year later?
... that sportswriter Neil Stevens was presented with the Hockey Hall of Fame's Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2008?
... that the ocean liner SS Ranpura ran aground near Gibraltar on 15 April 1936 while carrying $50 million (1936 dollars) of rare Chinese art?
... that catcher Dave Liddell faced only one pitch in his Major League career, and got a hit?
... that the 1929 drama film Betrayal was the last silent film directed by Lewis Milestone and the last silent film performed by Gary Cooper?
... that as principal bassoonist of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Julie Price celebrated her predecessor William Waterhouse in the recent concert The Proud Bassoon at Wigmore Hall?
... that Rhett Akins was inspired to write Blake Shelton's song "Honey Bee" after reading an article on Mike Huckabee?
... that La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin is the only public museum in Europe that combines collections of magic with a site for performing arts?
... that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata for the Second Day of Easter, Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works"?
... that archaeologists believe they have uncovered the Monastery of the Virgins described in a 6th-century account of Byzantine Jerusalem?
... that four-time Winter Paralympic bronze medalist Matthew Stockford became the manager of Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott?
... that Wharton Reef Light, now on display at the Townsville Maritime Museum, Queensland, is the only survivor of a series of 20 automatic lighthouses installed from 1913 to the early 1920s?
... that author Andrew Morton's biography, Madonna, sold only half of its initial print run of 500,000 copies?
... that Franz Liszt dedicated his Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H (the BACH motif) to the organist Alexander Winterberger who premiered it at the Merseburg Cathedral?
... that the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District was formed in 1904 following concerns over the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway and the growth in population of Northwood?
... that Jovan Skerlić's role in literature and general cultural and political development has resulted in the suggestion that the 1900–1914 period in Serbian history should be named after him?
... that the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, has the largest collection of Atlantic organisms in Canada?
... that Metropolitan Police officer Chris Allison was the Gold Commander for police operations in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings?
... that the community-initiated Nata Bird Sanctuary in Botswana opened in 1993 and the same year received the "Tourism for Tomorrow" award for the Southern Hemisphere?
... that while playing for Barrow, footballer Fred Laycock left the pitch to sign for Nelson before completing the match, and was then fined for representing Barrow while contracted to another club?
... that more than 100 people died in the CTV Building in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that in Ghanian women's health, breast cancer is the leading malignancy, accounting for over 15% of all malignancies in Ghana?
... that Center Point, Camp County, Texas, was settled in 1865 by freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation, and is the birthplace of mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad?
... that a plaque on Phoenix Tower in Chester states that King Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated at Rowton Moor?
... that Democratic and Republican plans for the 2012 United States federal budget both focus on deficit reduction, but differ in their changes to taxation, entitlement programs, and research funding?
... that the longest-running number one of the UK Dance Chart in 2005 was "Hung Up" by Madonna, which spent four weeks at the top of the chart?
... that Representative J. D. Rumberg of the 10th Arizona Territorial Legislature‎ tried to ban all horse racing in the territory but was only able to have it outlawed on his own ranch?
... that the winner of the 1912 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Kenmare Sorceress , was purchased from a brick-layer in Wales?
... that the award-winning writer Evelyn M. Richardson lived on a 600-acre island for 35 years?
... that nordic skier Peter Young won a bronze medal for Great Britain at the 1994 Winter Paralympics, ten years after winning his first Paralympic medal at the 1984 Games?
... that after energy and climate "czar" Carol Browner left the Obama administration, Heather Zichal took over those responsibilities but not the informal title?
... that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics, "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"?
... that the first woman to write a book on childbirth was Louise Bourgeois Boursier?
... that a live album released in 2009 includes a duet by Fito Páez and Joaquín Sabina, who had not spoken for more than 10 years?
... that Bach was only in his twenties when he composed the cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, for Easter , using in seven movements the words and tune of Martin Luther's Easter chorale?
... that child actor Darryl Richard made his last TV appearance on the series finale of ABC's The Donna Reed Show, March 19, 1966, a day after his 20th birthday?
... that it is said that Thomas à Becket preached either in the church dedicated to him, in Capel, Kent, or in its churchyard?
... that Joseph Bloomfield Leake left the Iowa State Senate to serve in the American Civil War but was later elected back to the Senate?
... that Nelson F.C. lost only one home match in the Football League Third Division North during the 1924–25 season?
... that Geoff Emerick, who co-created the send tape echo echo delay audio effect at Abbey Road Studios, once said that "God only knows" how it worked?
... that the star cluster Messier 103 can be observed with the use of binoculars?
... that James C. Nelson, appointed as a Montana Supreme Court Justice by George W. Bush's campaign chair, wrote that blocking same-sex marriage was a "societal cancer grounded in bigotry and hate"?
... that St Mary Magdalene's Church in Tortington is decorated with carvings of grotesque, boggle-eyed monsters, rare beakhead figures and chevron ornamentation?