derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the 1952 NATO exercise Operation Longstep featured a large-scale amphibious assault along the western coast of Turkey?
... that in 1952 the communist candidate Baddam Yella Reddy defeated P. V. Narasimha Rao (later the Prime Minister of India) in a parliamentary election?
... that Jeune Fille Endormie by the iconic 20th-century painter Picasso recently sold for nearly £13.5 million, and had only been on public display once?
... that Norwegian poet Nils Collett Vogt wrote newspaper articles at the age of 17?
... that an unsuccessful month-long siege in Yemen during the expedition of Surad ibn Abdullah was broken when Abdullah trapped the enemy by pretending to withdraw from the area into the hills?
... that the current CEO of the South African National Blood Service was once rejected as a blood donor because she is black?
... that conservation efforts by residents of the Menai Bay Conservation Area in Zanzibar attracted 200 dolphins to the shores?
... that St Botolph's Church, in the town of Hardham, has the earliest known representation of St. George in England?
... that despite using designs centuries old, much of the art of the Huichol indigenous people in western Mexico is made with commercially produced beads and yarn?
... that Polish architect Stefan Kuryłowicz is credited with modernizing the architecture of Warsaw in the decades following the collapse of Communism?
... that the 1957 NATO exercise Operation Deep Water involved the first use of helicopter-borne amphibious assault by the United States Marine Corps during an overseas deployment?
... that in August 1947 French authorities banned a pro-independence mass rally of the French India Students Congress, but were forced to withdraw the ban after spontaneous protests?
... that King George VI owned Royal Blue, a messenger pigeon that went on to be awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery during the Second World War?
... that the light of South Africa's Cape Agulhas Lighthouse was originally fuelled by the tail-fat of sheep?
... that Beijing police dedicate 4,500 officers to preventing the Shouwang Church from holding Sunday prayer meetings?
... that efforts made by television journalist Alan Sepinwall partially inspired NBC officials to renew the television series Chuck?
... that The Guardian called Thomas Glavinic's debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw "one of chess's finest novels"?
... that Franz Xaver Dorsch, the builder of Hitler's Atlantic Wall and Siegfried Line, founded Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company after the war?
... that abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq threatened to affect the accuracy of the Census of Ireland 2011?
... that the Second World War Allies feared that Nazi Germany intended to use a secret underground rocket base in France to fire ballistic missiles at New York City?
... that the f-word did not begin as an acronym, as is commonly claimed, but is of much older Proto-Germanic origin?
... that while at the New York Cosmos, association footballer Keith Eddy captained a team which included Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer?
... that Tikal Temple IV, a Maya pyramid in Guatemala, was one of the tallest structures in the pre-Columbian New World?
... that Cal Lampley formed the first all-black, 45-piece band, the US Navy B-1 Band, in the then white-only US Navy?
... that each of the Five Discourses of Matthew has a shorter parallel in the Gospel of Mark or the Gospel of Luke?
... that the moose botfly Cephenemyia ulrichii shoots its larvae into people's eyes, perhaps because human eyes and moose nostrils both face forward?
... that, during the breeding season, the male blueband hermit crab carries the female around for up to a day?
... that University of California, Berkeley math professor Ian Agol has a twin brother who is a University of Washington astronomy professor?
... that Harlan Crow's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong?
... that Muhammad ordered the demolition of Masjid al-Dirar because he believed this mosque was built to create disunity among Muslims by drawing people away from another mosque?
... that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects?
... that the US fought Polynesian warriors in the South Pacific Nuku Hiva Campaign during the War of 1812, even though that war was against the British?
... that the Bengali poem Annada Mangal eulogizes the Hindu goddess Annapurna?
... that bas reliefs being made by the sculptor Henryk Kuna for a public monument in Vilnius were used as cemetery pavers during the Nazi occupation of the city?
... that brain–computer interface chips, like those that connect a scientist's brain with test subjects in the Fringe episode "Dream Logic", have long been used in real life?
... that Muslim Indian South African and communist anti-Apartheid activist Yusuf Dadoo was buried in Highgate Cemetery near Karl Marx's grave?
... that the novel Madaling Araw ("Dawn") features a blend of clashing characters, such as advocates of anarchy against the subjugators of the Filipino lower class?
... that in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the hero travelled through the cedars near Mount Hermon in Lebanon to find the Garden of the gods?
... that the penalty for a stalker violating a Civil Harassment Restraining Order in California is a sentence of two to four years in prison?
... that a secret clause in the 1463 Peace Treaty of Wiener Neustadt allowed King Matthias I of Hungary to hire John Jiskra and his Hussite mercenaries, who would later form the core of the Black Army?
... that heraldic artist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose was a friend of historian George Santayana?
... that, in February 1942, a lone German Heinkel He 111 from the Sonderkommando Blaich successfully attacked Free French Forces at Fort Lamy, Chad, but ran out of fuel on the return flight?
... that Seattle's Hillman City neighborhood was named after a real estate developer whose fraudulent practices eventually landed him in a federal penitentiary?
... that, because of its popularity, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating was called the "Ulysses of the whole Slow Food movement" and a "cult cookbook"?
... that the rare and endangered Knowlton's miniature cactus is considered to be an adult when it exceeds 10 millimetres (0.39 in) in diameter?
... that rates of syphilis have increased in the United States, Australia, and Europe since the year 2000?
... that Joseph S. Freedman, professor of education at Alabama State University, worked in over 200 libraries and archives to prepare his series Philosophy and the Liberal Arts in the Early Modern Period?
... that the Marinoan glaciation was one of the three Neoproterozoic glaciations that caused the Snowball Earth?
... that the storyline of James Franco's upcoming film The Broken Tower started out as his master's thesis at New York University Tisch School of the Arts?
... that while in parochial school, art forger Tony Tetro was hit by a nun after he painted her as a Vargas girl in a habit with a "pruney face"?
... that two women who intended to buy Marsh Mill , Thornton, Lancashire, UK, were killed in an accident when the fantail staging collapsed?
... that L. B. Kubiak's tenure in the Texas House of Representatives was both preceded and succeeded by that of his older brother?
... that the Brampton Walk of Fame, meant to honour "Brampton citizens—both past and present", includes a plaque for actress Bipasha Basu, who lives in India?
... that Baconnaise is a kosher mayonnaise-based product that tastes like bacon, but has no bacon in it?
... that the tracks of the Oregon and Northwestern Railroad are well preserved, even though they weren't well-built and they have been flooded by Malheur Lake?
... that the University of Arizona Museum of Art includes works ranging from a 15th-century medieval Spanish retablo by Fernando Gallego to the space art of Robert McCall?
... that if your vehicle registration plate includes the allegedly cursed number 39, people in Afghanistan might think you're a pimp?
... that China is the largest peach-producing country in the world, accounting for about 50% of world production, but is not the world's largest exporter of them?
... that Māori warriors captured Russell, New Zealand, in the 1845 Battle of Kororareka from the British, who were then evacuated by an American ship?
... that the 27th Street Historic District in Los Angeles includes a Gothic Revival church that since 1906 has housed white, Armenian, African-American and Hispanic congregations?
... that the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Cape Cod was founded when the original owner left his family's successful spring water company?
... that the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance announced it would work with the Femto Forum on femtocells?
... that Linda November was the voice of the singing cat in the Meow Mix commercials, and sang tens of thousands of other jingles, including "Coke and a Smile" on the famous Mean Joe Greene Super Bowl ad?
... that Oregon-based Povey Brothers Studio was known as the "Tiffany of the Northwest" for their stained glass ?
... that the featherduster worm Sabellastarte spectabilis sometimes grows in crevices in cauliflower coral from which a crown of branched tentacles form a plume?
... that at its launch, Minnesota radio station KMGM broadcast 20 hours of farm and agricultural programs each week?
... that both the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute and the Building and Road Research Institute of Ghana were formed out of the West African Building Research Institute?
... that the John L. Nichols House was the home of the first architect to practice in Bloomington, Indiana?
... that in June 1981 South African authorities arrested eight members of the South African Youth Revolutionary Council, charged with preparing an armed uprising against the Apartheid regime?
... that according to the Book of the Later Han, the Civil war of Wa was ended by an unmarried woman who bewitched the populace?
... that the name of the medieval Church of the Holy Mother of God in Asen's Fortress, Bulgaria, is only a guess based on a partial inscription?
... that Artie Schroeck, who arranged the 1967 Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes off You", 30 years later wrote and produced a tribute to offbeat bandleader Spike Jones?
... that unlike at similar sites in the middle Ohio River valley, archeologists have found a cache of shaman's articles at the Bullskin Creek Site?
... that Indonesian blues band Gugun Blues Shelter is scheduled to perform alongside Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart and The Killers at Hyde Park today?
... that ZenQuest Martial Arts Center was originally founded in 1972 as the Okinawan Karate School, and introduced Uechi-ryū karate to Berkshire County?
... that Sa Ngalan ng Diyos (In the Name of God) was a controversial novel that reveals its author's inclination to anti-clericalism?
... that high school basketball phenom Aquille Carr was nicknamed "The Crime Stopper" for his reputed effect on Baltimore's crime rate?
... that June mating displays of Photinus carolinus create moving bands of light and darkness that draw crowds one firefly scientist calls "obscene"?
... that Golden Pond, Kentucky, earned a national reputation for its moonshine whiskey distillers during Prohibition?
... that in 2006, in the UK, 14 Approved Premises (residential units for offenders) were banned from housing paedophiles due to their proximity to schools and nurseries?
... that boro glycerine, an effective oral antiseptic used in the treatment of mouth ulcers, was once considered a potential cure for cancer of the uterus?
... that although Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca's site in Oaxaca, Mexico, was donated to create a cultural center in 1904, efforts to establish a museum there did not begin until the 1990s?
... that only ten men of the 181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance returned from the Battle of Arnhem?
... that the British tanker SS El Grillo, sunk in February 1944 after a German air raid in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, gave its name to a local beer?
... that the common brittle star is a filter feeder and raises an arm to catch food particles floating by?
... that Second Baptist Church, once the largest African American–owned meeting space in the western U.S., hosted speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X?
... that the two chief engineers who worked on the Starved Rock Lock and Dam also worked together on the Panama Canal Locks?
... that Sophia Romero's Always Hiding novel was just a "mild attempt" in revealing the Filipino American contributions to the American experience?
... that the Anasazi Heritage Center in the U.S. state of Colorado has two pueblos dating back to the 12th century?
... that in 1568, John III of Sweden preferred fighting Denmark–Norway and Lübeck for another two years to ratifying the peace treaties of Roskilde?
... that Cock ale, described as a "provocative drink", was popular in 17th- and 18th-century England?
... that before the Gule Wamkulu dance, Nyau dancers observe a series of secret rituals associated with their semi-secret brotherhood?
... that the space industry is heavily dominated by the G7 countries, due to their extensive investment in the aerospace industry?
... that in the 1970s, Frank Serpico and David Durk both believed that Robert Leuci was the only honest detective in the New York City Police Department's narcotics bureau?
... that the 2005 book Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing brought renewed national attention to the process of charcuterie and methods of curing meat?
... that the album Kayah i Bregović by Goran Bregović and Kayah was the first to receive a Diamond award by the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry in July 2000?
... that Slim Dunlap has been called "one of the last old-school cool guitar players"?
... that Madeline Mitchell overcame a 12-day coma, 21 days on a respirator, two months in a wheelchair and a femur broken in 12 places to become Miss Alabama USA and compete in Miss USA 2011 two years later?
... that Mississippi John Hurt's 1966 album Today! was one of the 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry in 2009?
... that in 1152 Alfonso the Battler rewarded Diego López de Lobera for his services during the Reconquista by giving him the castle of Manchones?
... that Flo Allen was "San Francisco's best loved artists' model" and modeled for 30 years?
... that the 8th-century penitential Excarpsus cummeani extends its scope to define penances for clerics also, possibly influenced by Saint Boniface?
... that Anthony Stewart believes he made it to the National Hockey League partly because a good Samaritan picked him up while he was walking in a blizzard?
... that 4,476 tickets were auctioned for the first concert by the "Swedish Nightingale", soprano Jenny Lind in her 1850–52 tour of the United States?
... that mathematician Kosmas Balanos claimed in his work Antipelargisis that he had solved the problem of doubling the cube?
... that despite conceding four goals in the second leg, English club Ipswich Town beat Dutch club AZ Alkmaar 5–4 on aggregate to win the 1981 UEFA Cup Final?
... that Christina Grimmie's song "Liar Liar" from her first album Find Me shot to Number 63 on the US iTunes Singles Charts in less than 72 hours from its release?
... that the International Labour Organization adopted a convention giving workers' rights to domestic workers at its 100th session this month?
... that in the quartier of Mjikura in Mtsamboro on the north coast of Mayotte, there are the ruins of a royal palace and tombs from the time when it was an important town of the Sultans of Mayotte?
... that Royal Navy surgeon Belgrave Ninnis attempted to revive a drowned sailor by, among other things, injecting brandy into his rectum?
... that the sulfur-rich saline Laguna Hedionda (English: Stinky Lake) in Bolivia is notable for various migratory species of flamingoes ?
... that the soundtrack to the action thriller film Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) features mostly reggae music?
... that the ideas of Indonesian novel Pertemuan Jodoh are considered the opposite of Abdul Muis' earlier work, Salah Asuhan, which deals with the incompatibilities in Western and Eastern cultures?
... that the most prestigious award of the association of World War II's black US airmen, the Tuskegee Airmen, is named for Noel F. Parrish, their white commanding officer?
... that PYKKA had sought the aid of FIFA in implementing its rural sports initiatives for football in India?
... that in the early years of the First Baptist Church of Ossining , the oldest in the village, masters and slaves had equal status as members of the congregation?
... that the Vochol is a Volkswagen Beetle decorated with 2,277,000 beads?
... that RMS Magdalena was the third ship lost on her maiden voyage that had been built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast?
... that the Abbasid general and governor Abd al-Malik ibn Salih was accused by his own son of plotting to overthrow Caliph Harun al-Rashid?
... that the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority has ordered the demolition of the Clarendon Tower due to damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
... that Tottenham Hotspur defeated Ipswich Town 5–1 in the 1962 FA Charity Shield played at Portman Road in Ipswich?
... that medieval scholar and astrologer David ben Yom Tov refused to contemplate a divorce until his wife had all of his books and instruments taken away and hidden?
... that a fairy ring of the mushroom Clitocybe geotropa in France is over half a mile (0.8 km) in diameter and 800 years old?
... that the starting point for Bach's cantata for the Feast of John the Baptist, Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe, BWV 167, was the Canticle of Zechariah, the baptist's father?
... that the season two finale of Community, "For a Few Paintballs More", parodied Star Wars as well as action movies The Wild Bunch, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Wanted?
... that singer-pianist Rosie Vanier, whose musical style has been described as "Kate Bush on crack with Goldfrapp on synths", grew up in Bodmin Moor without electricity and TV?
... that the only casualties during Operation Slapstick were from the 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion?
... that the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles was known as the "West Coast Apollo" and featured performances by jazz legends before being converted into a church?
... that British stage-actor Kyrle Bellew was accused of being Mrs. Leslie Carter's lover at her 1889 divorce trial?
... that the State of Pennsylvania and its twin sister, the State of Delaware, were both the first steamboats to make a live radio broadcast and to show movies?
... that in Oregon's 1966 U.S. Senate election, each party's candidate had a position on the Vietnam War that was in direct opposition to the prevailing view of his own party?
... that Derrida's 1974 text Glas is printed in two columns, one commenting on Hegel and the other on Genet, woven around and separated by "marginalia, supplementary comments, [and] lengthy quotations"?
... that the Los Angeles Dodgers drafted Mickey McConnell in the 31st round of the 2011 MLB Draft, despite his not playing baseball in four years?
... that the Millennium Mills, a derelict icon of London's post-industrial docklands, is a favourite destination of thrill-seeking Urban Explorers?
... that Spongiforma squarepantsii is a sponge-like bolete that lives in Malaysia?
... that due to President Theodore Roosevelt's objection, the Indian Head eagle originally lacked the motto "In God We Trust", and that Congress passed a law in 1908 to require its use?
... that some 19th-century newspapers in South Australia published articles in the Cornish dialect of English to meet the needs of miners who had migrated there?
... that Khaled al-Johani, "the only brave man in Saudi Arabia", was thrown into Mabahith's `Ulaysha Prison on the Saudi Arabian "Day of Rage"?
... that Henry Mayes won the Queen's Club Championships three times in 1922, 1926, and 1927 while in his 40s, but died the year following his last win?
... that Lust, Caution co-star Tang Wei was cut from the recent Chinese film The Founding of a Party following an objection by Mao Zedong's grandson?
... that Alabama author Wayne Greenhaw chronicled the African-American civil rights movement in the American South?
... that the New Zealand lobster was incorporated into the country's Quota Management System after a parliamentary corruption scandal?
... that Barbara Longhi's painting Saint Catherine of Alexandria is believed to be a self-portrait, presented as a devotional image to avoid the appearance of indulging in the sin of vanity?
... that Uruguayan patriots made the Cry of Asencio and captured the villages of Mercedes and Santo Domingo de Soriano in a single day?
... that 25-year old Eddie Reed, one of the youngest college football coaches in the United States, led the Loyola University of New Orleans to its only undefeated season in school history?
... that the fossil mammal Ferugliotherium is known from only 20 teeth and maybe a tiny jaw fragment?
... that on 11 June 2011, rebels seized a major district of Sabha, long considered to be a stronghold of support for Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 Libyan civil war?
... that in later life Margaret King, a favoured pupil of early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, offered maternal care and advice to her governess's daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein?
... that the kremówka cake gained international recognition after Pope John Paul II noted he once ate 18 of them as part of a bet?
... that the Athenaeum museum of fine arts in Alexandria, Virginia, was built in 1851 as a bank, where Robert E. Lee had an account?
... that when he was an educator, Texas State Representative Dan Kubiak published Ten Tall Texans, biographical sketches of, among others, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, and Sam Houston?
... that Kitty Carlisle, H. V. Kaltenborn, Boris Karloff, June Lockhart, and Robert Trout were among the participants in Who Said That?, the 1948–55 television game show based on quotations in the news?
... that with support from the Iraqi government, magazines and audio cassettes produced by the exiled Libyan National Movement were smuggled into Libya during the 1980s?
... that Oklahoma football coach Robert "Doc" Erskine traveled more than 15,000 miles as a scout during one season?
... that after an unexploded bomb burst through her bedroom wall, a resident of Hillingdon Court told staff it was time she went to the air-raid shelter?
... that Iran is currently the only country in the world that legally allows a person to trade their kidney for monetary compensation?
... that the flèche faîtière and the Sun are depicted on one of the official flags of New Caledonia?
... that Meryl Fernandes, who plays Afia Khan in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played a schoolgirl extra in 1993?
... that the former Riede's City Bakery building is one of only two wood frame commercial buildings remaining in Aspen, Colorado, from its early boomtown years?
... that when he established Genetic Studios in 1980, record producer Martin Rushent spent £35,000 on air conditioning alone?
... that Dakota Territory judge Peter C. Shannon presided over the trial of Jack McCall and sentenced him to hang for killing Wild Bill Hickok?
... that the city-state of Purushanda in central Anatolia was surrendered by its king to the Hittite ruler Anitta in the 17th century BC?
... that Celestial City, Imeko, was founded by the Prophet "Papa" Samuel Oshoffa, who left 34 wives and 150 children when he died?
... that the Bearded Helmetcrest of the high páramo of Colombia and Venezuela nests in the daisy Espeletia?
... that Charles M. Robinson was the College Architect for the College of William and Mary and designed more than 15 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the Ukrainian American Veterans organization placed a memorial plaque at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1980?
... that Abdulai Silá is the author of the first novel to be written and published in Guinea-Bissau?
... that the 2009 film Korkoro is a rare cinematic tribute to those who died in the Porajmos?