derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that many pages of Herculaneum papyri carbonized by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 were restored to legibility by multi-spectral imaging?
... that Željko Ivanek, who plays the title role in The X-Files episode "Roland," was the first person to audition for the part?
... that the World War II military dog Rifleman Khan was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery under heavy enemy fire?
... that English novelist, poet and dramatist Laurence Alma-Tadema explained the meaning of happiness to Americans on her 1907–08 U.S. tour?
... that the Canon FL 300mm lens was the first to use synthetic fluorite crystals in its lens elements?
... that National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman worked during 1965–1967 for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)?
... that it took over half a century to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1?
... that disagreement about the expansion of the Namibian holiday settlement of Wlotzkasbaken went all the way to Supreme Court?
... that George Graves was a leading comedian in operetta and Edwardian musical comedies although he could neither sing nor dance?
... that after the Toxteth riots of 1981, the Hargreaves Building in Liverpool was converted for the use of the Liverpool Racquet Club?
... that despite being a two-star recruit in 2006, American football player Scott Lutrus was a 2007 Freshman All-American at Connecticut?
... that the Vineyard Gazette, the only paid circulation newspaper on the island of Martha's Vineyard, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Bob in 1991?
... that after killing a man in a duel over dogs, Captain James Macnamara asked naval officers including Viscounts Hood and Nelson, Lord Hotham, Sir Hyde Parker and Sir Thomas Troubridge, to testify on his behalf?
... that Deaf Wrestlefest provides funding for educational programs for hearing-impaired students?
... that Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare is said to be the world's only shrine to William Shakespeare?
... that the Yellow-billed Spoonbill has a row of small knobs inside its bill which detect vibration?
... that sportscaster Nat Allbright broadcast 1,500 games for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers to a network of more than 100 radio stations, though he never saw any of the games played?
... that the Tosa Yamauchi Family Treasury and Archives contain the oldest extant manuscript of the Kokinshū, dating from the 11th century and designated a National Treasure of Japan?
... that Tufele Liamatua served as the first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa?
... that the expression "going round the bend" is said to come from operators stationed on Telegraph Island who were desperate to escape to India by sailing round the bend in the Strait of Hormuz?
... that tips of the stamens of the Pagosa skyrocket are covered with blue pollen that turns yellow as the flower ages?
... that a Libyan hip hop artist using the pseudonym Ibn Thabit wrote "Benghazi" in support of the city of that name during the 2011 Libyan civil war?
... that the five largest public library systems in the United States are in Boston, New York, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and Detroit?
... that the "Street Doctor", who delivers food to the poor of Newark, New Jersey in his van and seeks to end street violence, spent 10 years in solitary confinement?
... that the Fairey Stooge was a surface-to-air missile powered by air-to-ground rockets?
... that the Indian Head gold pieces are the only circulating U.S. coins to have a recessed design?
... that Rear Admiral Ronne Froman, the first woman to serve as the "Navy Mayor of San Diego", became the Chief Operating Officer of the city of San Diego after retiring from the Navy?
... that Vikram is only the third actor to receive a National Film Award for Best Actor in the Tamil film industry?
... that Joe S. Jackson founded the Baseball Writers Association after reporters at the 1908 World Series had "to climb a ladder to the roof of the first base pavillion and write in the rain and snow"?
... that Sanzo Nosaka trained Japanese prisoners of war to fight for Mao Zedong?
... that Texas Governor Rick Perry compares the current Social Security system to a Ponzi scheme in his 2010 book Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington?
... that Gerhard Präsent composed Partita sagrada for chamber orchestra, premiered by the ensemble Kontrapunkte at the Musikverein in Vienna in 2010?
... that the Abrams Building, demolished in 1987 to make way for the Knickerbocker Arena, had one of the few remaining original storefronts in downtown Albany, New York?
... that Edward Leo Krumpelmann is one of the two Maryknoll priests who set up the Catholic parish of Kwun Tong, Hong Kong?
... that a judge ruled that spectators were not entitled to any refund of their admission money when a match in Small Heath F.C.'s 1895–96 season was abandoned after only 37 minutes?
... that the Franciscan friar Manuel Antonio de Rivas, who was tried for heresy in 1775 in Mexico, wrote the first science-fiction text in the Americas?
... that sports editor Alan J. Gould invented college football's AP Poll in 1936 as an "exercise in hoopla," to fill space between games, and "to keep the pot boiling"?
... that the Indian miners' union Sikasa was banned in 1992, accused of being a front organisation of the People's War Group?
... that Eden II, an art installation within the Indianapolis Museum of Art's 100 Acres, features a mock refugee ship to highlight the problem of climate change?
... that New Democratic Party strategist Kenneth Bryden introduced the concept of door-to-door election canvassing to Canada?
... that Pierre-François Palloy began the demolition of the Bastille on the same day that it was attacked?
... that the American adaptation of the BBC cooking show MasterChef was hosted by famous British restaurateur Gary Rhodes for two series?
... that sportswriter Bill Farnsworth teamed with Damon Runyon in promoting boxing bouts that raised more than $1 million for Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies?
... that there is little wildlife and game in Isangano National Park due to subsistence hunting practiced by those living in the park?
... that the first industrial robot, the Unimate, was installed in 1961 by General Motors at its Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey?
... that the Royal Commission on Opium, set up at the instigation of anti-opium campaigners, set back the anti-opium cause by 15 years?
... that a masterpiece painting by Jan Matejko shows more than a dozen figures involved in the passing of the Polish-Lithuanian Constitution of May 3, 1791?
... that the Matthew Callahan Log Cabin is one of the few such structures left in Aspen, Colorado?
... that advanced plans were developed for a film version of the award-winning 2002 novel The Cutting Room involving actor Robert Carlyle and screenwriter Andrea Gibb?
... that Denmark has a network of cycle routes extending more than 12,000 kilometres (7,500 mi)?
... that Lyall Smith successfully lobbied for the first post-bowl AP Poll in 1948 to settle competing championship claims by undefeated Notre Dame and Michigan football teams?
... that in Bach's cantata Tue Rechnung! Donnerwort, BWV 168, virtuoso string writing underscores the "word of thunder"?
... that the fruit of the rainforest tree Dysoxylum pettigrewianum provides food for Metallic Starlings and cassowaries, and the leaves are eaten by Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo?
... that the 2011–12 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team will be the first Michigan team to host ESPN's College GameDay college basketball television show?
... that Polish Jacobin activist, officer of the Polish Legions, Kazimierz Konopka, gained notoriety for his involvements in the unrest and hangings during the Kościuszko Uprising?
... that US Presidents Clinton and Bush were awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by their respective Secretaries of Defense?
... that in 2010 Elinor Joseph became the first Arab woman to serve in a combat role in the Israel Defense Forces?
... that when Wilfred main cast member Fiona Gubelmann first read the script for the pilot, she "didn't quite get the whole guy in the dog suit thing"?
... that Jan Buijs' De Volharding Building was a famous example of architecture of the night?
... that The X-Files star David Duchovny "detested" the episode "Born Again", despite appearing alongside his then-girlfriend Maggie Wheeler?
... that Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of fungi that was not described until 2011?
... that the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, contains more than 3,000 objects of folk art?
... that after the Battle of the Meander, a rumour spread amongst the crusaders that their successful counterattack had been led by an unknown white-clad knight?
... that during the New England Patriots' 1985–86 playoff run, an opposing player hit general manager Patrick Sullivan with a football helmet?
... that Dorival Caymmi , one of the fathers of bossa nova, loved to skinny dip?
... that during the 1946 Shibuya incident over a thousand Yakuza fought hundreds of Formosan gang members for control of the local black markets in Tokyo?
... that after debunking Abner Doubleday as the inventor of baseball, Frank Menke was placed in "the class that would belittle Washington, Lincoln and other men who have played their part in American history"?
... that "O Tú o Ninguna" performed by Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a nomination for Song of the Year at the 1st Latin Grammy Awards?
... that the Riverside Inn is a former mineral springs resort turned hotel and dinner theater in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania?
... that Typhoon Pamela contributed to the wettest month on record in Guam after slowly crossing the island, dropping 27 in (690 mm) of rainfall in a 24 hour period?
... that the congregation of her church was outraged when E.R. Shipp criticized her pastor in print, but he led them in a standing ovation when she won the Pulitzer Prize?
... that "legendary" Indonesian composer A. T. Mahmud wrote around 500 children's songs?
... that the 1978 song Man Free by Linton Kwesi Johnson was about Darcus Howe, then editor of black political magazine Race Today?
... that according to his diary, the future Emperor Uda was "shuddering with fear" on his father's enthronement?
... that S&P sovereign ratings division head David T. Beers is responsible for the recent downgrade of the U.S. credit rating?
... that Emma Thompson earned twelve accolades for Sense and Sensibility, including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay?
... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
... that the Rosendale Theatre once banned popcorn because the "crackling paper bags disrupted quiet scenes"?
... that the Kneeland Prairie penny-cress is a mustard flower with spoon-shaped petals and spatula-shaped leaves?
... that Robin Dunne was nominated for a Constellation Award for his portrayal of Will Zimmerman in the television series Sanctuary, but narrowly lost to Doctor Who actor David Tennant?
... that Arthur Matsu was the first Asian American student at The College of William & Mary, the first Asian American quarterback in the NFL and the first Japanese coach in American football?
... that a "terrible Mouse" weighing 500 kg (1,100 lb) has killed three people in Spain in the last five years?
... that after World War II, Polish resistance organizer and Warsaw Uprising fighter Jan Mazurkiewicz was brutally tortured by the authorities in communist Poland?
... that actress Amanda Tapping accepted the part of Helen Magnus, the protagonist of Sanctuary, after she was encouraged to move on from her eleven-year role as Samantha Carter in Stargate?
... that the British-supported Greek-Yugoslav confederation was signed during World War II, but never came to pass?
... that Pulitzer winner William A. Caldwell wrote approximately 12,000 editorial columns, each exactly 85 lines long, six per week for 41 years?
... that after the fall of Suharto, the circulation of his party's newspaper, Suara Karya, dropped by a factor of a hundred?
... that sales of Montana artist Monte Dolack's poster, "Restoring the Wolf to Yellowstone," were banned in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks by the U.S. National Park Service in 1990?
... that, even though it mainly included Romanian peasants, the breakaway Inochentist church worshiped Russian Tsar Michael and the Romanovs?
... that in 1912 Ivan Ivanić became the first governor of Durrës County in the Kingdom of Serbia?
... that on two separate occasions in 2010, five One Piece releases simultaneously debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list for manga?
... that Riek Machar, first Vice-President of South Sudan in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) government, once fought against them, with government support?
... that Sister Carmela Marie Cristiano was the first Catholic nun to run for political office in New Jersey?
... that one of the churches in the English district of Rother is a former Lifesaving Rocket Apparatus Station?
... that Madam Auring shot to fame when she correctly predicted that Amparo Muñoz would win the 1974 Miss Universe title?
... that the variable saw sedge is food for caterpillars of the moth genus Elachista?
... that over 650,000 people visited the Alexander McQueen exhibition Savage Beauty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and some queued for more than four hours?
... that footballer Hasan Ahmet Sari left Istanbul with his family after living through the 1999 İzmit earthquake?
... that the low numbers of injuries in carnivorous dinosaurs indicate they may have been less aggressive with individuals of their own species than modern crocodilians?
... that Caxton Hall in Westminster, London, was the venue for the marriages of two Beatles, a future Prime Minister, and several movie stars?
... that Central Saint Giles in London, designed by architect Renzo Piano, has been compared to "giant mutant chewy sweets" and Marmite?
... that after Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Earl Lawson had altercations with both Johnny Temple and Vada Pinson, he joked that Pinson was a harder puncher?
... that the perpetrators of a terrorist attack in Aceh on New Year's Eve 2003 are still unknown?
... that after Luke Evans played for the Australian Schoolboys rugby union team, he joined the Welsh under-20 team?
... that Muslim Mosque, Inc., which was founded by Malcolm X, was awarded 35 scholarships to send students to Al-Azhar University and the Islamic University of Madinah?
... that ballet teacher Anneliese von Oettingen was featured in Sports Illustrated for training professional football players at her ballet school?
... that in 1959, President Sukarno declared himself to be also Prime Minister of Indonesia?
... that future US Marine Lieutenant General Edward A. Craig was arrested by Marines at age 10 for photographing the Washington Navy Yard?
... that the author of Sitti Nurbaya never returned to his hometown after publishing it?
... that the Union of Concerned Scientists created a Hybrid Scorecard to compare hybrid electric vehicles available in the U.S.?
... that Henry Lamar, who coached all four Kennedy brothers, originally intended to help coach at Harvard University for a few weeks but remained there for four decades?
... that actress Christine Baranski canceled a birthday trip to Paris to appear in the television film Who Is Simon Miller?
... that in the center of Bach's cantata Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist, BWV 45, the voice of Christ appears in a "highly virtuosic aria, half Vivaldian concerto, half operatic scena"?
... that Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas F. Darcy drew a political cartoon featuring an L-shaped coffin and the caption "Good news, we've turned the corner in Vietnam!"?
... that in St Botolph's Church, Botolphs, a series of arches on the wall indicate a long-demolished aisle?
... that Indonesian band Kekal has remained active and continues to release newly recorded material even though there are no longer any official members?
... that during the Indonesian National Revolution the first Indonesian flag, Bendera Pusaka , was cut in half to save it from the Dutch military forces?
... that Iván Erőd composed a sinfonietta called Minnesota Sinfonietta, an opera titled Silk Worms, and a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra, named Baby Tooth Songs?
... that although she was unsuccessful as a cross-Channel ferry, Castalia served for twenty years as a hospital ship?
... that the Western cicada killer wasp paralyzes cicadas for its offspring to eat after hatching?
... that the music video of the song "Express Yourself" had a budget of $5 million, making it the most expensive music video at the time of its release?
... that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the 1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the 1909 Senators: "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?
... that before 1238, St Edward the Confessor parish church in Westcott Barton was dedicated to St Edmund rather than St Edward?
... that the oldest known member of the mayfly family Neoephemeridae is the Eocene species Neoephemera antiqua?
... that according to music critic Greil Marcus, the track "Every Picture Tells a Story" represents Rod Stewart's greatest performance?
... that John Marburger, President George W. Bush's science advisor, publicly stated his belief that intelligent design is not a scientific theory?
... that in 1920 Balai Pustaka brought Pain and Suffering to Indonesia?
... that when he was 20, shipping executive Lewis A. Lapham played a foursome with golf champions Bobby Jones and Francis Ouimet?
... that San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Syracuse all have Goethe–Schiller Monuments that are modeled on the "beloved" 1857 monument to the poets in Weimar, Germany?
... that two cousins, both called Benjamin Handley, were in a boat that capsized crossing the Tagus river during the Peninsular War—and one drowned while the other survived?
... that because he has brittle bone disease, motivational speaker Sean Stephenson is just three feet (91 cm) tall?
... that the World War II idea of a Polish-Czechoslovakian confederation was eventually discarded by the Czechs, whose leader favoured a prospective alliance with the Soviet Union?
... that David Holston scored over 2,000 points during his high school basketball career, yet was not offered a single college scholarship?
... that Giuseppe Cassioli created a design for the Summer Olympic Games medals that was used for 40 years?
... that the tallest rock-fill dam in Japan can be found at the Shin-Takasegawa Pumped Storage Station in Nagano Prefecture?
... that Marcus Aurelius wanted to create a new Roman province called Marcomannia in what is now Slovakia?
... that Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman "Black Jack" Stewart quipped that his stick was not for scoring, but for "breaking arms"?
... that the Indian port of Khejuri was destroyed by a devastating cyclone in 1864?
... that the fungus Bloxam's entoloma was named after an English clergyman?
... that when the serpent star is discarded with unwanted invertebrates from fishing nets, it rarely survives?
... that coining new words such as "picture place" (for "art gallery") is a communication strategy used by people learning to speak a foreign tongue?
... that Seacology has preserved 957,852 acres (3,876 km2; 1,497 sq mi) of marine habitat and 852,651 acres (3,451 km2; 1,332 sq mi) of terrestrial habitat since it was founded in 1991?
... that after largemouth bass were illegally placed into Davis Lake, it gained a reputation as one of the best bass lakes in Oregon?
... that Whorlton Castle in North Yorkshire is an unusual example of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle that continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages?
... that Hanna Zemer, who became the first female editor-in-chief of a major Israeli newspaper, had survived imprisonment in two Nazi concentration camps?
... that the song "If I Had a Heart" by Fever Ray was featured in the Breaking Bad episode "Open House" because it matched the "full, heavy darkness" of its scene?
... that the lord of the Sanjak of Dukagjin was hanged by the sultan's order in 1536?
... that the Dickin Medal winner Peter was given a kiss on the nose by the future Queen Elizabeth II in 1946?
... that during the Singaporean parliamentary general election of 2011 the opposition Workers' Party won a Group Representation Constituency for the first time?
... that the divergence in the Sino-Tibetan language family between the Sinitic languages in China and other Sino-Tibetan languages likely occurred during Neolithic migrations into the Tibetan plateau from the Neolithic cultures of the Yellow River?
... that photographer Chris Schlechten was briefly expelled from Montana State College for helping create a spoof annual which portrayed the basketball team as a row of Butterfinger candy bars?
... that Jana Sterbak created a dress made of meat 23 years before Lady Gaga wore one?
... that in the 1895 Kentucky gubernatorial election, the candidacy of Democrat-turned-Populist Thomas S. Pettit was a major factor in William O. Bradley's election?
... that Scottish naturalist Ramsay Heatley Traquair received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1907 for his work on fossil fish?
... that the 2005 science fiction and horror film spoof The Naked Monster took 21 years to make and was Kenneth Tobey's final film?
... that the fungus Cortinarius badiolaevis has only been recorded in Spain and Sweden?
... that Tischendorf's Editio Octava Critica Maior and Westcott and Hort's text were sufficient to make the Textus Receptus obsolete for the scholarly world?
... that the eyelids of some Elliot's short-tailed shrews are permanently closed?
... that the 19th-century swindler Bertha Heyman , known as "The Confidence Queen," conned men by pretending to be a wealthy woman who was unable to access her fortune?
... that in the Holmes' no Mokushiroku story arc of the Case Closed series, the character Minerva Glass was based on professional tennis player Steffi Graf?
... that Roscoe C. Wilson was the United States Army Air Forces liaison to the Manhattan Project?
... that although the slender devil's twine looks and behaves like dodder, it is a laurel?
... that Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski's World War II memoir The Commonwealth of Ruins, about his experience of hiding in a destroyed city as a Robinson Crusoe of Warsaw, was adapted into a short comic?
... that although the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon , the commander was later relieved of his position?
... that the 644-kilometre (400 mi) European route E59 links three European capitals – Prague, Vienna and Zagreb?
... that the Ridgeway Site is the type site for the Glacial Kame Culture?
... that the extinct moth Epiborkhausenites is noted for having very similar color patterning to the living species Tubuliferola josephinae and Hofmannophila pseudospretella?
... that in translating the Republic of Plato, Desmond Lee preferred "magnificent myth" to what he considered the conventional mistranslation "noble lie"?
... that the online game EteRNA, funded by the National Science Foundation, allows players to design RNA molecules that may be synthesized in a Stanford biochemistry lab?
... that Kingdom Tower is to be raised by bin Ladin's family's business and is expected to be the world's tallest building?
... that FBI special agent Herman Hollis was involved in the Bureau's shootouts with John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and possibly Pretty Boy Floyd?
... that sarcoids are non-fatal tumors but are a common reason for euthanasia in horses?
... that phantasmagoria showman Paul Philidor convinced Marie Tussaud to exhibit her waxworks in England?
... that the Hartington City Hall and Auditorium was built to a Prairie School design when that style was in decline and "stands as a progressive building in an otherwise conservative community"?
... that S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson, played by Clark Gregg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will appear as Peter Parker's school principal in the upcoming cartoon series Ultimate Spider-Man?