derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Captain Nathaniel G. S. Hart, a brother-in-law of Henry Clay and Senator James Brown of Louisiana, was killed in the River Raisin Massacre?
... that the British seaplane carrier HMS Anne was converted from the captured German freighter SS Aenne Rickmers during the First World War?
... that during her active career, Hungarian handball player Beáta Siti obtained victories in the EHF Cup, the EHF Cup Winners' Cup and the EHF Champions League?
... that Keith Chatto was the first Australian comic book artist to illustrate a full-length episode of The Phantom?
... that in 1994 the world's oldest Classic was won by "the world's naughtiest horse"?
... that Born Free, Out of Africa and Survivor: Africa were all shot at the Shaba National Reserve ?
... that French 1960s pop star Hervé Vilard was born in 1946 in a taxi which was transferring his mother to the hospital to deliver?
... that both the Roman Emperor Trajan and his successor were caught in the devastating 115 Antioch earthquake?
... that in each episode of the musical documentary series The Dewarists, musicians visit a different place in India, and record a song in a genre which reflects the local culture?
... that St Cuthbert's Church in Elsdon, Northumberland, England, had horse skulls in its bell turret?
... that Jurellana tithonia, dating from the Jurassic, is the earliest known porcelain crab?
... that "Tank" Collins was forced by his mother to play basketball to get over the death of his father and went on to become the American South Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year?
... that Scandinavian influence in Scotland, still evident today , was probably at its height during the time of Thorfinn the Mighty?
... that Dennis Hopper won four awards for his role in Blue Velvet, while co-star Isabella Rossellini only won one?
... that baseball player Dutch Schliebner replaced a future Hall of Fame member on the St. Louis Browns?
... that the Church of St Michael, built on a Roman camp site in Alnham, England, contains Saxon quoins in the nave?
... that the adventures of the crew of a floatplane from HMS Raven II, after they were forced to make an emergency landing on 21 April 1917 in the Maldives, inspired Rudyard Kipling's story "A Flight of Fact"?
... that All-Star roller derby skater Ronnie Robinson was the son of Sugar Ray Robinson?
... that a solo viola part in Bach's cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5 has been described as "the cleansing motions of some prototype baroque washing machine"?
... that in the Bellavista housing estate , designed by Arne Jacobsen in the functionalist Bauhaus style, every apartment has two rooms with views of the sea?
... that cartoon producer Hal Geer successfully campaigned for Bugs Bunny to have his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
... that Bill Smith, who wrote a book considered the "bible" of fell running, died recently, apparently from tumbling into a peat bog while running across a fell?
... that after the two endangered varieties of the Maguire daisy were combined into the one species due to genetic indistinction, it was no longer considered endangered?
... that the music a person hears in childhood may affect that person's musical cognition as an adult?
... that in 1907, professional baseball pitcher John Halla threw a no-hitter and won a career-high 24 games?
... that the Hotel Arctic in Murmansk, Russia, is the tallest building above the Arctic Circle?
... that despite being located in the Orkney Islands, the sand lining of the Scar boat burial matches no known Scottish sand?
... that TiVo Inc. v. EchoStar Corp. created a new test to determine whether an adjudged infringer can be held in contempt for continued infringement?
... that David Lynch has been awarded two Césars, two Bodils, and a Palme d'Or, yet no Oscars?
... that equestrian Toni Leviste was the first Southeast Asian to compete in the Show Jumping World Cup?
... that the sound of the song "Here with Me" by MercyMe has been compared to the sound of alternative rock band Coldplay?
... that new information can be mistakenly incorporated into a previous memory through the misinformation effect?
... that baseball pitcher Walt Smallwood led two minor leagues in losses before he joined the New York Yankees?
... that Johann Poppe, designing interiors of ocean liners for Norddeutscher Lloyd, moved the first class dining saloon to the centre of the ship, where it could rise two or more decks and have a skylight ?
... that Paul McCartney's song "Call Me Back Again" has been interpreted as his response to calls for a Beatles' reunion during the 1970s?
... that in 1924, Francis Alfred Broad MP led a delegation of the birth control movement which included H. G. Wells, Dora Russell and Frances Huxley?
... that, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bassetki statue, which is more than 4,200 years old, was found in a cesspool?
... that according to folklore, people looking into the eyes of Eternal Silence will see a vision of their own death?
... that Fowler's Ghost was first seen on the London Metropolitan Railway in 1861, nearly exploded and was never seen again after 1895?
... that the unusual way that John C. Colt disposed of his murder victim's corpse may have influenced Edgar Allen Poe's story "The Oblong Box"?
... that the body of the first person buried at Ute Cemetery in Aspen, Colorado, was later exhumed to be reburied in Texas?
... that there is an electrical substation in the backyard of the McVickar House , the second oldest house on Main Street in Irvington, New York?
... that Tyler Lockett, the only player in Kansas State Wildcats football history to return a kickoff for a touchdown in consecutive games, was a high school state champion in football and basketball?
... that the optometry and dental schools of the defunct North Pacific College are still operating 65 years after the college closed?
... that the extinct maple Acer dettermani is only known from the flank of a volcano?
... that the Andrzej Fidyk's documentary Defilada about North Korea, despite its anti-totalitarian message, was initially praised both by communist Poland's censors and in North Korea itself?
... that the factory in which the Messerschmitt P.1112 would have been built was occupied by Allied troops before construction of the aircraft's prototype could be started?
... that in 1984, Thomas Suluk gained election to the Canadian House of Commons by just 247 votes?
... that in the 1950s Congregation Beth Israel of Asheville, North Carolina, shortened and moved its Shabbat service two hours earlier, so members could open their stores following prayers?
... that current Denver Nuggets basketball player Julyan Stone holds both the University of Texas-El Paso and Conference USA record for most assists in a career with 714?
... that during the Aboakyer festival of Winneba in Ghana, warrior groups compete to be the first to capture a live bushbuck from a game reserve?
... that Mike Pegues scored 2,030 points during his college career between 1996 and 2000, setting a Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's basketball record that still stands?
... that playwright Jerzy Szaniawski, a member of the Polish Academy of Literature who married at age 76, was starved and physically abused by his wife, 20 years his junior, until his death in 1970?
... that the first words of the first AFN broadcast from Allied-occupied Germany in July 1945 so enraged General Patton that he demanded that the responsible person be court-martialed?
... that when the Dalai Lama visited Taiwan in 1997, he was treated as a Republic of China national without household registration?
... that Frank Langella is the only person to win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play more than once?
... that Texas Governor Hardin Richard Runnels signed a bill into law allowing a free Negro to return to slavery by selecting a new master?
... that the Triple Alliance of 1788, formed on the verge of the French Revolution, almost led to a war which would have pitted Great Britain and Prussia against Russia?
... that the 14-volume The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II, a standard reference work written by Dr. Loe de Jong between 1955 and 1991, is now available for download?
... that when wood carver Patrociño Barela premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, he was the "discovery of the year"?
... that Acer castorrivularis is one of five extinct maples from the Eocene Beaver Creek flora in Montana?
... that diplomat Barry Steers served as Canada's first Commissioner to Bermuda from 1976 to 1979?
... that the high-pressure metamorphic rock whiteschist may be formed from both basaltic and granitic rocks by metasomatism?
... that the death of Jeannie Saffin has been cited as an example of spontaneous human combustion, due to witness reports that flames were coming from her mouth and she was roaring like a dragon?
... that among Amir Hamzah's works are poems that are both explicitly religious and have an erotic element present?
... that Kansas State's all-time leading wide receiver Kevin Lockett completed his only two National Football League pass attempts for touchdowns?
... that a complete set of the treatises of Japanese playwright Zeami Motokiyo was not published until almost 500 years after his death?
... that Charles Howard McIlwain won a Pulitzer Prize for his analysis of the American Revolution as a disagreement over interpretation of the constitution of the United Kingdom?
... that prospector John Brackett Allen‎ did not strike it rich until he turned to pies?
... that the grooved brain coral was featured on postage stamps from Belize and Mayotte?
... that Oregon politician Shawn Lindsay proposed a law in response to the acquittal of Casey Anthony in Florida?
... that the Thoroughbred racehorse George Frederick was named after the future King George V, and won the 1874 Derby Stakes on the young prince's birthday?
... that Indonesian actress Titi Sjuman agreed to make her film debut only after being cajoled by her brother and sister-in-law (the film's director)?
... that May Night by Willard Metcalf was the first contemporary painting purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art?
... that the Triassic archosaur Poposaurus walked on two legs like some dinosaurs, but was more closely related to crocodiles?
... that a Turkic language was spoken in the Avar Khaganate and an inscription on a golden bowl preserves a fragment of it?
... that Rachel Feinstein, whose latest art work is inspired by The Snow Queen, is half of what the New York Times called the American art world's "power couple"?
... that the current speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Hunter Tootoo, is the last remaining member of the Legislative Assembly elected in Nunavut's first election in 1999?
... that debris from the failed Russian Meridian 5 satellite launch landed on a house on Cosmonaut Street?
... that colonies of lobe coral are sometimes broken into fragments by the feeding activity of stone triggerfish?
... that a dance at the Ritz Ballroom scheduled for May 22, 1955, featuring Fats Domino was cancelled by the Bridgeport Police Department, citing worries about rioting over rock and roll music?
... that Indonesian judge Soeprapto was aided in his escape from Pekalongan during Operatie Product by a man whom he had just sentenced to death?
... that the Eocene maple Acer clarnoense is not found in the Clarno Formation even though the species was named after it?
... that Alabama's first superintendent of public education, Confederate brigadier general and college professor William F. Perry, had little or no formal education?
... that The X-Files Mythology, Volume 1 was well-received, despite its lack of liver-eating elastic monsters?
... that French baritone Jean-Vital Ismaël , who sang in the premieres of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles and Gounod's Mireille, had left home at age 16 to become a street singer?
... that Polish magazine Miasto Kobiet organizes Szafobranie, a recurring event in which people give and get clothes without exchanging money?
... that two New Zealand Members of Parliament, David Buick and Alfred Hindmarsh, died in the 1918 influenza epidemic?
... that the unorganized territory of Mont-Albert in Quebec, Canada, is a home to the only remaining herd of migratory woodland caribou south of the Saint Lawrence River?
... that Katrina Kaif considers the item number Sheila ki jawani to be one of her raunchiest ever?
... that the Grand Palace in Bangkok was once the home of the kings of the Chakri Dynasty and several thousand other inhabitants?
... that Florida state legislator C. A. Roberts was named to the first Board of Union County Commissioners at the age of 18?
... that Russian-born pianist Alexander Zakin performed with violinist Isaac Stern for 37 years and played the piano at the White House under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson?
... that the term sex and/or gender diverse is beginning to be used in Australia to replace transgender?
... that upon being asked whether he would like to join the Canadian Senate by Warren Allmand in 1977, Inuit politician Willie Adams responded, "What's the Senate?"?
... that the psychedelic mushroom Psilocybe yungensis is used in mystic rituals by the Mazatecs?
... that although no deaths occurred, the United States Weather Bureau was criticized for its inadequate warnings in advance of Hurricane Debra?
... that a reviewer described the film Khalifah as a "veiled warning" to Indonesians about wearing the niqab?
... that although the Dungarvan Town Council of County Waterford, Ireland, was formed in 1855, records indicate that a local authority existed in the town as early as the 15th century?
... that during the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia, the Relief Society of Tigray organized a mass exodus of Tigrayan villagers to camps in Sudan?
... that the Rebbe of Ruzhin lived like a king, with a palatial home, many servants, a carriage drawn by four white horses, stylish clothing, and solid-gold boots studded with diamonds?
... that Persimmon , a Thoroughbred race horse owned by Edward, Prince of Wales, broke the race record when he won the 1896 Derby Stakes?
... that Frederick B. Karl served in the Florida House of Representatives, Florida Senate and Florida Supreme Court?
... that Muddy Waters switched from semi-acoustic guitar to electric guitar for his album At Newport 1960?
... that President Sukarno slighted Chief Justice Wirjono Prodjodikoro by inviting Ruslan Abdulgani for breakfast when Abdulgani was supposed to be before the Supreme Court of Indonesia?
... that the Los Angeles Lakers recently signed Malcolm Thomas, whose father goes by the same name and also played college basketball?
... that the Kupol Gold Mine north of the Arctic Circle is only accessible in winter via an ice road, which can only be built when temperatures are below −25 °C (−13 °F)?
... that Maya Angelou's sixth and final autobiography A Song Flung Up to Heaven is framed by the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.?
... that Indonesian Minister of Justice Moeljatno attempted to ensure Prosecutor General Soeprapto's subservience to him by passing a law?
... that the Lancaster City Museum houses a Roman tombstone with a dramatic depiction of a Roman soldier with a decapitated opponent at his feet?
... that holiday mail seeking a Christmas postmark continued to be sent to Christmas, Arizona, two decades after the town's post office had closed?
... that Georges Bizet dedicated his song "Rêve de la bien-aimée" ("Dream of the beloved") to the Belgian coloratura soprano Léontine de Maësen?
... that Yorkshire fog occurs on the Cornish coast between Polruan and Polperro?
... that Plante and Sherman's Faith and Health states that highly religious people have a 29% higher odds of survival than less religious people?
... that the early Oligocene maple, Acer ashwilli, is known from only eight places in Oregon?
... that the Froebel star , a common Christmas decoration in Germany, is created by folding and weaving four identical strips of paper?
... that Jan Sandström composed the Motorbike Concerto, and a setting of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen for two choirs a cappella: one in four parts, singing Praetorius, and the other in eight parts?
... that baseball pitcher Brad Boxberger was named to the Arizona Fall League's 2011 Top Prospects Team?
... that prior to its passage of the Human Rights Act 2003, Nunavut was the only Canadian jurisdiction without protections against discrimination for its gay, lesbian and bisexual residents?
... that the New York Yankees traded for Allie Reynolds on the advice of Joe DiMaggio?
... that the lesser long-tongued bat can extend its tongue for up to 50% of its own body length – even when its jaws are closed?
... that the National Gallery's purchase of The Family of Darius before Alexander by Paolo Veronese sparked a debate in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom?
... that Kyra Markham, whose images were used as propaganda against the Nazis, briefly had Frank Lloyd Wright as a father-in-law?
... that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in Bandura's 1997 book Self-Efficacy, "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers?
... that Nemo Gaines is the only graduate of the United States Naval Academy to play in Major League Baseball?
... that in 2002 the Norwegian Poodle Topscore Contradiction was the first foreign dog to win Best in Show at the Crufts dog show in the UK?
... that Emmaus United Methodist Church has helped survivors of the 2004 Gatumba massacre in Burundi resettle in Albany, New York?
... that according to Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, Karol Hubert Rostworowski is most remembered for his tragedy about the killing of an unrecognised son?
... that Egor the Animator, an early computer animation program released on February 6, 1996, by Sausage Software, was the first commercial software Java applet?
... that the lecture notes of Marcel Riesz were dubbed by physicist David Hestenes "the midwife of the rebirth" of Clifford algebras?
... that members of the Moldavian Kogălniceanu family contributed to the abolition of serfdom (1749), the abolition of slavery (1855), and several land reforms?
... that according to New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, the killing of Gadzhimurat Kamalov, founder of the newspaper Chernovik in Dagestan, Russia, is "a lethal blow to press freedom"?
... that when George Harrison's song "Awaiting on You All" was originally released on his All Things Must Pass album, lyrics critical of the Pope were omitted from the lyric sheet?
... that the banded wedge shell is consumed by gulls that later regurgitate the shell fragments in "gobbets" on the beach?
... that the Mayan archaeological site Baking Pot covered a 9-square-kilometre (3.5 sq mi) area?
... that 2011 Ohio Mr. Basketball Trey Burke has won both an Ohio High School Athletic Association State championship and an Amateur Athletic Union national championship?
... that over 110 species of vascular plants have been discovered on the small Eastern Isles, of the Isles of Scilly, UK?
... that Compugen's first computer system, the "Bioccelerator," could analyze DNA sequences at speeds up to 1,000 times faster than other computers of its time?
... that Helmut Damerius spent 18 years of his life in a gulag and banishment to Kazakhstan, and was finally released on condition that he never talk or write about it?
... that Italian Renaissance artist Girolamo Mocetto was long thought to have been born a generation before he actually was?
... that the only death in the Action of 5 November 1813 was accidental?
... that Polish actor and singer-songwriter Andrzej Bogucki and his wife were awarded the title Righteous among the Nations for helping Polish Jewish pianist Władysław Szpilman escape the Warsaw Ghetto?
... that over a 26-year span the Illinois Central Railroad's Land O'Corn used self-propelled cars, steam and finally diesel locomotives?
... that the Westminster Psalter contains what may be the earliest representation of Saint Christopher in English art, from about 1250?
... that Danish marathon champion Henning Larsen took up pigeon racing after his retirement from athletics?
... that the Silverdale Hoard, discovered in Lancashire in September 2011, contains over 200 items of Viking treasure and has revealed the existence of a previously unknown Viking king?
... that the U.S. Patent Office 1836 fire occurred in the same building that housed the local fire department?
... that in 1907, statues of the Twelve Apostles helped English sculptor Harry Hems pay his income tax?
... that the Mountaineer was the first passenger train Amtrak operated over the Norfolk and Western Railway?
... that the head of the Indonesian Communist Party addressed Wongsonegoro so softly that other people had to "be his microphone"?
... that the songs of the Pied Butcherbird have inspired and been incorporated into musical compositions of Henry Tate, Olivier Messiaen, Elaine Barkin, John Rodgers, and John Williamson?
... that the 2007 Morocco–Spain diplomatic conflict arose after the announcement of the impending visit of the King of Spain to the Spanish autonomous cities Ceuta and Melilla?
... that a band or singer can only qualify for the UK Indie Breakers Chart if they have never had a Top 20 hit on the UK's mainstream charts before?
... that some 3000 to 5000 people were killed in Haiti in 1804 in an ethnic cleansing that targeted white people?
... that what Matthew Morrison calls "the most spectacular [marriage] proposal I've ever seen" is scheduled to occur on Glee in January 2012?
... that sand reedgrass is a food source for pocket gophers and California quail?
... that Wilopo, in office only 26 days, is the shortest-serving Foreign Minister of Indonesia to date?
... that Gholhak Garden, a British diplomatic compound in northern Tehran, has been at the centre of diplomatic controversy between Britain and Iran?
... that The Naval and Military Magazine warned that people might not like the cut of Sir Henry Heathcote's jib?
... that a Russian state prosecutor proposes to put a commented translation of the Bhagavad Gita on the same list of banned materials as Hitler's Mein Kampf?
... that the British destroyer HMS Highlander escorted Convoy SC 122 through the largest convoy battle of World War II in March 1943 and was unsuccessfully attacked by U-441 and U-608?
... that the version of Rossetti's Lady Lilith in The Met was said to be mostly painted by Henry Treffry Dunn?
... that Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding featured Papa Celestin's final recording session before his death?
... that in the United Kingdom the George Marshall Trophy is awarded annually to an individual or organisation that has made a significant contribution towards helping visually impaired people?
... that the OPEN Act is a proposed alternative to SOPA that would not require American ISPs to block access to suspect Web sites?
... that the Théâtre de la Mode is an exhibit of small-scale fashion mannequins crafted by Paris fashion designers to help revive the French fashion industry after World War II?
... that Jack Nicholson and Lou Adler bought the historic Newberry House so they would have a place in Aspen, Colorado, to watch televised Lakers games together?
... that Karl Marx's theory of historical trajectory attempted to prove the long-term unsustainability of capitalism?
... that although William Jennings Bryan delivered the Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, he was not even a delegate when the convention started?
... that Theodore M. Stuart, an end and halfback for the "Point-a-Minute" football teams at the University of Michigan in 1904 and 1905, was also the university's tennis champion?
... that the Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki contains an illustration of the regent extorting poems from two ladies?
... that, when he died in Monte Carlo in 1962, the 16th Marquess of Winchester was the oldest-ever member of the House of Lords?
... that the king of the Mataram Sultanate during the First Java War used the reconstruction of a terrace as an excuse for not providing soldiers?
... that the application Read It Later obtained venture capital investments totaling $2.5 million in 2011?
... that the U.S. House of Representatives has had a Princeton University alumnus in its membership in every year since it was established in 1789?