derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that New Zealand MP George Macfarlan's grave was removed to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway?
... that the 1912 revolt in Himarë, Albania, led by Greek officer Spyros Spyromilios, overthrew the Ottoman forces from the region?
... that despite being the second youngest player at the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, Canadian forward Nathan MacKinnon finished seventh in tournament scoring?
... that the Grotte aux Fées in Switzerland features a 77-meter high underground waterfall?
... that E.B. Harris, former president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, paraded an Angus calf around the trading floor to celebrate the beginning of live cattle futures trading on the exchange?
... that 407 species of birds have been recorded in Pennsylvania , including four that are extirpated and two that are extinct?
... that German scientist Jens Blauert was honored with the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1999?
... that Te Matua Ngahere is believed to be the second largest living kauri tree, and to have the biggest girth of any kauri in New Zealand?
... that a song by England Dan & John Ford Coley, "It's Sad to Belong", topped the adult contemporary chart for five weeks in 1977?
... that Cornelius Dupree was cleared by DNA profiling of committing a robbery for which he served 30 years in prison, longer than any other exonerated inmate in Texas?
... that the name of the Town of Macamic, in Quebec, Canada, comes from the Algonquin word Makamik meaning "limping beaver"?
... that rapper Scribe is the only artist to have had two year-end number-one singles in New Zealand?
... that American historian Kenneth Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571?
... that Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, and Moby Grape performed at the Mantra-Rock Dance, a charity event for the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple?
... that Dinocochlea was thought to be a giant snail shell or fossilised dinosaur dung but is actually a solidified worm's burrow?
... that all the streets in the centre of the Auckland suburb of Henderson were once named after members of the family of Thomas Henderson ?
... that Carrier Strike Group Fourteen is currently the only U.S. carrier strike group that does not have an assigned aircraft carrier or carrier air wing?
... that British chef Gordon Ramsay, who was threatened at gunpoint whilst filming in Costa Rica, described the illegal shark fin trading in the country as "a multi-billion dollar industry"?
... that Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier was such a talented organist that Franz Liszt declared him to be a "master of the art"?
... that during the 1765 Sino-Burmese War the Qing army built a stockade "as big as a city" at Shwenyaungbin?
... that Dicky Moegle was awarded a touchdown for Rice in the 1954 Cotton Bowl Classic after Tommy Lewis entered the field of play from the Alabama sideline to tackle him?
... that the 240-foot (73 m) clock tower on the former Union Station that dominates the skyline in Waterbury, Connecticut, was modeled on the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy?
... that as theologian to the Pontifical Household, Wojciech Giertych provides advice to the Pope on theological issues?
... that in the 1930s, the Indochinese Communist Party and the Vietnamese Trotskyists collaborated on the joint publication La Lutte?
... that Daniel Bellemare, chief prosecutor for the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon, is also the longest-serving head of the Federal Prosecution Service in Canadian history?
... that demonstrators in New Delhi wore garlands made of onions to protest against the rising onion prices in India?
... that a buried subfossil forest, submerged under pumice after the eruption of Taupo (c. AD 186), was discovered in Pureora Forest Park , New Zealand, in 1983?
... that German musicologist Alfred Dürr has been called "the scholar who has done most to establish the new chronology of Bach's vocal works"?
... that there was a public outcry from onion farmers after Vincent Kosuga cornered the onion futures market?
... that in November 2010 it was reported that two Iranian Secret Intelligence agents arrived in Ghorband District and were accused by the U.S. of helping insurgents to attack coalition forces?
... that in the 1981 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Lidia caused more damage and casualties than Hurricane Norma?
... that a wooden stork on the façade of the Rathaus in the German town of Großbottwar nods its head when the town hall clock strikes the hour?
... that Heidi Løke won a gold medal with the Norwegian team at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship, and was also selected into the all-star team as best pivot of the tournament?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Central Green Co. v. United States that the term 'flood waters' includes accidental flooding from a canal?
... that despite an embargo on the sale of military aircraft due to the Spanish Civil War, the French government allowed the sale of the Farman F.480 Alizé to Spain on the grounds that they were, as built, civilian?
... that wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness has been denounced as a form of feel-good slacktivism that saves no lives?
... that a defeated candidate in the 2005 special election at Cebu's 5th district in the Philippines remarked that the election was a waste of money?
... that a wilt disease, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, could cause the Cavendish banana to become commercially unavailable?
... that Polish athlete Edward Sarul became the first ever World Champion in the shot put in 1983 but missed the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics due to the Eastern Bloc boycott?
... that the Groningen gas field is the largest natural gas field in Europe and the tenth largest in the world?
... that first white settlers of the Town of La Sarre, in Quebec, Canada, were squatters on the land who were discovered during a survey in 1908?
... that Julia Bonds was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading the fight against the practice of mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian mountain range?
... that the name of the Brazo Anti-Radiation Missile was intended as a pun?
... that during a river cruise Russian statesman Grigory Potemkin , unable to organise dinner for Catherine the Great and the Holy Roman Emperor, resorted to cooking for them himself?
... that the range of the rodent Macrotarsomys petteri is believed to have shifted as a result of climatic change?
... that Bach's cantata Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren, BWV 154, first performed on 9 January 1724, "contains a graphic evocation of ear drumming", according to Gardiner?
... that the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler was discovered in 1945 by Arnold Weiss of the United States Army, who had come to Wisconsin as a Jewish orphan from Nazi Germany at the age of 13?
... that Bishop Oldham liked to eat punctually on the hour, so when he was late his servant manipulated time to make sure that he did?
... that writer Daphne du Maurier lived in a house near the Fowey ferry in Bodinnick for several years?
... that U.S. Rep. Albert Estopinal of Louisiana led three missions during the Civil War to transport Union prisoners to the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia?
... that the Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion is the only surviving building from the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort, a mineral spa visited by U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren?
... that Indian Maoist guerrillas killed seven prominent local members of Agragami Adivasi Samiti in Purulia District in December 2010?
... that, as a junior in 2009–10, Lavoy Allen became the first Temple basketball player to average a double-double since Ollie Johnson accomplished the feat in 1970–71?
... that the town of Angangueo, Mexico, was nearly moved completely because of landslides and flooding in February 2010?
... that the German battleship SMS Ostfriesland was sunk by American bombers during air power tests conducted by Billy Mitchell in 1921?
... that the Mikea Forest, one of the largest remaining forest blocks in southwestern Madagascar, is yet to be protected?
... that although Juan Solano came to South America to be the bishop of Cuzco, he first joined the Spanish army and fought at the Battle of Jaquijahuana?
... that a Singapore Subordinate Court criminal case appealed to the High Court cannot be further appealed to the Court of Appeal, but questions of law can be referred to that Court for determination?
... that Steve Collins was the first freshman in Oklahoma Sooners football history to start at quarterback in a season opener?
... that Frans Otto Eriksson was a Swedish baker who committed a double murder in 1909?
... that the Pratt & Whitney J48 turbojet engine was originally designed by Rolls-Royce, who abandoned it in favor of a different project?
... that Chuck McCoy was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009?
... that the ancient Catalonian village of El Fonoll was rebuilt as a naturist resort?
... that Chateau Grand Traverse produced Michigan's first commercial ice wine and the 1987 vintage was served at the presidential inauguration of George H. W. Bush?
... that Drove Cottage Henge is around 54 metres (177 ft) in diameter, yet is hard to see because repeated ploughing has heavily damaged it?
... that Joseph Tabarlet was made mayor of Jonesboro, Louisiana, four times, but only completed one full term?
... that the Thomcord grape , a seedless hybrid of the Concord and Thompson Seedless grapes, underwent 17 years of testing before being declared ready for growers and gardeners?
... that the Chicago Bears have more individuals inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame than any other National Football League franchise?
... that the hulk of the USS Wateree, stranded by an 1868 tsunami, was shifted several kilometres along the coast by an 1877 tsunami?
... that there are more male snails than females in the shallow waters of Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand, and that snails are sicker in the lake's shallower rather than deeper water?
... that Barbara Newhall Follett, who by age fourteen had published two novels to critical acclaim, left her apartment the night of December 7, 1939, at age twenty-five, and was never seen again?
... that H. A. Saintsbury met the thirteen-year-old Charlie Chaplin at the Green Room Club in 1903, to approve him for a part on stage?
... that the Illinois River channel was carved out in a matter of days by the Kankakee Torrent?
... that the tympanum of the Norman doorway of St Benedict's Church, Haltham-on-Bain, Lincolnshire, contains carvings of a Maltese cross in a circle, a fan-shaped shell, and a knot in a circle?
... that 69 people were killed in 1971 when the Vickers Viscount they were flying in crashed on approach to Minangkabau International Airport, Padang, Indonesia?
... that before being cast as Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza, Dan Blocker appeared in four episodes of John Payne's NBC western series, The Restless Gun?
... that the story of Winter, a dolphin with a prosthetic tail, is being made into a film?
... that a reviewer wrote that Mound of Butter by Antoine Vollon looks so real that it might have been painted with butter itself?
... that in 2000, a Wuhan Airlines Xian Y-7 aircraft crashed in China, killing 51 people, after it was struck by lightning?
... that songwriter Marty Balin said that "Miracles", which became Jefferson Starship's biggest hit single, was originally perceived by the other band members as "pretty weird"?
... that in 1929, a group of laborers discovered a 958 carat doubly truncated bipyramid sapphire near Gwebin, which sold for £13,000 to a New York dealer, who cut it into nine different sapphires?
... that a wrestler was briefly declared unable to compete at the World Wrestling Federation's Fully Loaded (2000) event when he faked food poisoning?
... that the English Springer Spaniel Buster has a specially made pen to protect it from biological attack?
... that users of the Sinclair ZX81 , a British home computer of the early 1980s, balanced cartons of cold milk on top of the case to stop it from overheating?
... that the first major rock and roll concert, 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball, was to include rhythm and blues singer Varetta Dillard, but the show was shut down before she could perform?
... that the newly opened Hainan Eastern Ring Railway employed 50,000 workers, and is Hainan's largest single investment project to date?
... that newly inaugurated California Board of Equalization Member Sean Wallentine surpassed five-day Governor Milton Latham of 1860 as the state's shortest-serving constitutional officer?
... that outdoor hockey games played in football, soccer and baseball stadiums have resulted in numerous attendance records, including a world record of 113,411 at an American college game?
... that Kit Villiers was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James I, but not to Charles I, who "would have no drunkards of his chamber"?
... that William Gullick, designer of the Coat of arms of New South Wales, had a colour photograph of his family as early as 1909?
... that many Western scholars working in Chinese studies now receive funding from the Taiwan-based Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation?
... that R&B singer Alexa Goddard's debut chart hit, a cover of "Turn My Swag On", topped the UK Indie Chart on its second week of release?
... that al-Insaniyyah, founded in 1925, was the first official Arabic communist newspaper?
... that Villanova coach Marty Stern initially thought that future Olympic runner Vicki Huber "was a wimp" who he hoped would "leave and go home"?
... that a hacktivist known as The Jester claims to have taken down the website of the Taliban through a denial-of-service attack?
... that Matt Taibbi's book Griftopia has been described as a "necessary ... corrective" to the assertion that bubbles are an inevitable part of the market economy?
... that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak condemned two letters written by Israeli rabbis that urged Jewish Israelis not to rent property to, date, or socialize with Arabs?
... that the Knoxville L&N rail station had three waiting rooms: one for ladies, one for "colored" people, and a general waiting room?
... that Louis Gilbert, who scored all 21 points in Michigan Stadium's dedication game, was described as "the campus sheik" who "wears bear grease on his hair and dances a mean black bottom"?
... that the dedication of North Stoke Church —forgotten for centuries—was accidentally rediscovered in 2007 when a researcher examined a piece of vellum in The National Archives?
... that Wallblake House is reported to be the oldest structure on the island of Anguilla, built in 1787?
... that Flora and Maria were the first two of nine female Christian Martyrs of Córdoba?
... that the Advanced Strategic Air-Launched Missile was intended to be effective against both hardened ground targets and AWACS aircraft?
... that Steve Hanley, who played for rugby union side Sale Sharks from 1998 to 2007, scored 75 tries in the English Premiership which remains a record?
... that instruments in Bach's cantata for Epiphany , Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (They will all come from Sheba), have been compared to the salamiya and zurna?
... that the inquiry into the murder of Joanna Yeates, dubbed "Operation Braid", has become one of the largest police investigations in Bristol, England?
... that construction plans of the first Cape Capricorn Light, a lighthouse on Curtis Island, Queensland, failed to include a lamp room, so one had to be urgently constructed?
... that Lewis Strong Clarke established his innovative sugar plantation Lagonda in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and named it for a creek in Ohio?
... that the dentist Pauls Dauge translated several works of Friedrich Engels into Latvian?
... that the capitals of the Norman chancel arch in St Michael's Church, Burwell, Lincolnshire are carved with dancing stags and volutes?
... that the death of Aristotelis Goumas led to public demonstrations in the predominantly ethnic Greek region of Himarë in Albania?
... that the People's Republic of China is the world's second largest consumer market for luxury goods, next only to Japan?
... that college football coach Doug Dashiell resigned in 1938 after his football players and the University of Nevada student president went into "open rebellion"?
... that the hairless half-meter parasite Helixanthera schizocalyx was discovered by lepidopterist Colin Congdon on the lookout for loranths near the summit of Mozambique's Mount Mabu?
... that after getting his start in Hollywood creating a model of the great white shark in Jaws, special effects artist Grant McCune, as chief modelmaker for the Star Wars films, designed R2-D2 ?
... that the rectory at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McCartyville, Ohio, was named a historic site in 1979, just two years after it was deemed ineligible for that designation?
... that former Georgia State Senator Nancy Schaefer died in what police concluded was a murder–suicide perpetrated by her husband?
... that the award-winning novel Gould's Book of Fish is based on the life of English painter William Buelow Gould, who was transported as a convict to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land for stealing a coat?
... that according to legend, Battlegore Burial Chamber is the site of a conflict between the devil and a giant?
... that a Tyrian purple dye can be extracted from the West African Horned Murex sea snail ?
... that the Wagtail missile, upon being launched, fired retrorockets to allow the carrier aircraft to escape the effects of its own weapon?
... that the Molasses Reef Wreck in the Turks and Caicos Islands is the earliest wreck of a European ship in the Americas to be scientifically excavated?
... that Clare Maguire has been nominated by the BBC Sound of 2011 list as one of the top 15 most promising new artists and is one of MTV's Brand New: For 2011 acts?
... that the development of the Chengdu J-20 fighter aircraft may have been assisted by cyberespionage?
... that while in space, Apollo 11 astronauts hand canceled the die proof of a stamp designed by Paul Calle to commemorate the first manned moon landing?
... that Gramoz Palushi was murdered while he was celebrating the football victory of Albania over Greece?
... that Enid A. Haupt has been described as "the greatest patron American horticulture has ever known"?
... that the Japanese air attacks on the Mariana Islands between November 1944 and January 1945 sought to disrupt the bombing of Japan by United States Army Air Forces aircraft based on the islands?
... that although the little brown mouse Monticolomys koopmani was first collected in 1929, it was not formally described until 1996?
... that the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group Nine is the first to deploy an entire LAMPS helicopter squadron onboard its aircraft carrier ?
... that the Museum of Mosaics in Devnya, Bulgaria, exhibits a mosaic of the gorgon Medusa which was supposed to turn away evil?
... that the Indonesian pioneer movement Fadjar Harapan was merged into the national scouting organization on a presidential order in 1961?
... that the Stripsenjochhaus is a club hut in the Northern Alps that has been a base for some of the most famous rock climbing in the Alps?
... that the Louisiana State Rep. Cliff Ammons was the "father of Toledo Bend Lake," the largest lake both within and along the borders of Texas?
... that The Bakersfield Californian's 1926 building gave women a public restroom in downtown Bakersfield, California?
... that Sy Mah, who held a Guinness World Record for the most lifetime marathons, completed his first marathon in the same race in which he coached 13-year-old Maureen Wilton to a women's world record?
... that the Leviathan gas field – discovered in 2010 and located 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa, Israel, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – is one of the world’s largest offshore gas finds of the past decade?
... that J. Howell Flournoy, the longest serving sheriff in the history of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was the son and grandson of earlier sheriffs?
... that the First Baptist Church complex in Bakersfield, California, was the only religious structure of its era to survive the massive 1952 Kern County earthquake?
... that the number of known major lineages of bacteria has more than quadrupled in the past 20 years but many of them cannot be grown in a lab?
... that a critic said that landscapes by Rinaldo Cuneo "are the very soul and essence of California materialized in line and color"?
... that the German battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was the only ship of her class designed to mount a diesel engine, though it was never fitted?
... that Charles Coolidge Parlin, the founder of the field of market research, was once a schoolteacher in the state of Wisconsin?
... that the Hopi missile could carry a nuclear warhead of up to 400 kilotons yield?
... that pilgrims came to St. Mary's Abbey in Trim from all over Ireland to see the miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin until it was burned in the Reformation?
... that Roberto de la Madrid, the first American-born governor of a Mexican state, earlier appeared in the 1959 Dennis Hopper film The Young Land, playing a character named Don Roberto de la Madrid?
... that the Have Dash II missile was an attempt to develop a stealthy air-to-air missile?
... that Aporo, Michoacán, is part of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, but tourism is not part of its economy?
... that Channel 4 music presenter Jameela Jamil was struck by a car at the age of 17 and was told she might never walk again?
... that the Missouri Fur Company, founded in 1809, was one of the earliest American fur trade companies in St. Louis, Missouri?
... that Al Burris was a Major League Baseball player, a college baseball coach, and a college athletic director at the age of 20?
... that Bob Dylan did not perform his song "Drifter's Escape" live in concert until almost 25 years after it was released?
... that the explosive chemical ascaridole can be found naturally in the oil of Mexican Tea, traditionally used in Mexican cuisine to prevent flatulence?
... that in The Empathic Civilization, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that extending empathy to subsequently larger groups is paid for with increasing entropy in terms of environmental problems?
... that in 1964, R. B. Walden, director of the Louisiana Department of Hospitals, ordered the desegregation of his state's charity hospitals?
... that the English clergyman George Edmundson worked for the British Government on the Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Venezuela?
... that Kota tribe shows M haplogroup frequency of 97%, which is one of the highest in India?
... that the 1503 Challenge of Barletta was sparked by a French knight who insulted the Italians, having consumed too much of their local wine?
... that the Palace of Cortés , built more than 450 years ago in Cuernavaca, is the oldest conserved civil building in Mexico?
... that the Bold Orion air-launched ballistic missile was the first missile ever to intercept an artificial satellite?
... that, after his rookie season in Major League Baseball, Sam Moffet and his brother extracted over US$200,000 worth of gold and silver from a mine in Butte, Montana?
... that in 1975, former Texas lawmaker E L Short urged that citizens be warned door-to-door of the hazards of hydrogen sulfide after the gas exploded in Denver City?
... that during recent renovations to the former Batavia Club building in Batavia, New York, an old safe was found that so far no one has been able to open?
... that Songgwangsa , originally founded in 867, is one of the oldest Zen temples in Korea?
... that German aircraft designer Gottlob Espenlaub began testing his rocket-propelled gliders in as early as 1929?
... that the crest of the Blauberge, a mountain range in the Bavarian Alps, forms part of the border between Austria and Germany?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Green Tree Financial Corp.-Ala. v. Randolph that arbitration agreements do not need to discuss the costs of arbitration?
... that after the Cornfield Bomber landed in a field, one of the members of the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron received a call from a sheriff who got excited when the plane started moving?