derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Flustra foliacea looks like a seaweed but is actually a colony of animals?
... that HMS Phoenix (N96) was the 18th Royal Navy warship to carry the name Phoenix?
... that Comala, Colima, Mexico, may be the setting for Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo?
... that Fantasy Studios was built on profits from hit songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival?
... that actor Ron Taylor performed the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" at several sporting fixtures after playing a similar role in an episode of L.A. Law?
... that in May 1933, the Nazis stormed the General German Trade Union Federation and all its member unions, seizing their assets and putting their leaders in "protective custody"?
... that undefeated Boyd Melson donates all the money he earns in boxing matches to stem cell research?
... that the BNSF Railway Bridge 5.1 , in Portland, Oregon, which once had the world's longest swing span, was converted in 1989 to one of the world's highest vertical-lift spans?
... that following opposition calls for a boycott, voter turnout in the 1983 general elections in Jamaica was just 2.7%?
... that Herb Kawainui Kane died on the 36th anniversary of the launch of the Hōkūle‘a, a voyaging canoe he designed?
... that Murtaja, launched in 1889, was Finland's first state-owned icebreaker?
... that Richard Chavez designed the black eagle logo of the United Farm Workers while his brother, César Chávez, chose the red and black coloring?
... that after Kenneth R. Shadrick became the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the Korean War, his father traced the tragedy back to a stolen football uniform?
... that after an injury during his 13th season of Major League Baseball, Duff Cooley was replaced by rookie Ty Cobb?
... that when the Mayor of Liverpool turned on the Steble Fountain in 1879, its effect was said to have been "dismal"?
... that The X-Files episode "Shapes" reunited Twin Peaks cast members David Duchovny and Michael Horse?
... that Nickolaus Hirschl, in addition to winning two Olympic medals in wrestling, won Austrian national championships in shotput, discus, and pentathlon?
... that a flattop crab, when trying to escape from a predator, can cast off limbs as a diversion, with the claws of a cast limb still gripping vigorously after separation?
... that after the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority ordered the demolition of Wharetiki House, its powers were for the first time tested in the High Court?
... that Ethical Oil, a book that argues in favour of the exploitation of the Athabasca oil sands, won the National Business Book Award in 2011?
... that the schooner Shearwater was hit by falling debris from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
... that Lord Irvine dismissed a record of fifteen magistrates of England and Wales in a single year in 1999?
... that "Miracle Man" was the first episode of The X-Files written by Howard Gordon without his long-term collaborator Alex Gansa?
... that Thelma Pressman opened the first microwave cooking school in the United States?
... that the causeways over Lake Scugog on Ontario Highway 7A were constructed over a floating bridge built in 1856?
... that Indonesian peacekeeping forces have served in Egypt, Israel, Bosnia, Somalia, and the Philippines?
... that The Knack's second comeback attempt, the 1998 album Zoom, was described as their best since their debut album Get The Knack?
... that the direction and photography in the Breaking Bad episode "Thirty-Eight Snub" was compared to the work of filmmakers Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino?
... that the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project attracts thousands of volunteers to build homes for low-income families around the world?
... that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them?
... that Wat Tyler Cluverius, Jr., who died in 1952, was the last surviving officer of the sinking of the USS Maine?
... that at the beginning of 16th century the Sanjak of Elbasan had the highest population density of all Ottoman Balkan sanjaks?
... that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers, was named in memory of the judge's mother?
... that the portraits of his parents that Albrecht Dürer painted when he was 19 are renowned for their depiction of the effects of ageing?
... that the Indianapolis Museum of Art's outdoor sculpture The Three Graces is based on a c. 1797 painting by noted Italian artist Antonio Canova, but its sculptor is unknown?
... that the 1 May 1951 U.S. Navy raid on the Hwacheon Dam during the Korean War was the last use of aerial torpedoes against a surface target?
... that the Jug Tavern, possibly the oldest building in Ossining, New York, may not have been a tavern at all, or if it was did not serve liquor legally?
... that Mike Cahill, director and screenwriter of Another Earth (2011), was National Geographic's youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer?
... that after its colonel was cashiered for drunkenness, the 68th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was commanded by a German prince?
... that the Great Terrestrial Globe in the lobby of New York's Daily News Building was made by American muralist and painter D. Putnam Brinley?
... that poet and minister Johann Heermann wrote the hymn Was willst du dich betrüben (Why do you want to distress yourself) during the Thirty Years' War?
... that although shattered by his imprisonment at Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, in 1952 Czech writer Norbert Frýd fearlessly protested a friend's arrest in Communist Czechoslovakia?
... that tiny Paederus beetles may have caused some of the ten Plagues of Egypt?
... that the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds was deliberately built to be wider than the British Museum Reading Room, on which it was modelled?
... that Jerry Green was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and is one of four sports writers to cover each of the first 45 Super Bowls?
... that Slalom was the first video game developed by UK-based video game company Rare?
... that British Library, Add. 17212 is a rare example of a double palimpsest with three successive writings?
... that Ute lady's tresses are threatened by saltcedar and peppergrass?
... that US Army Master Sergeant Ernest R. Kouma was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War for singlehandedly killing approximately 250 North Korean troops?
... that, to comply with obscenity laws, the first two editions of Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English contained slang with asterisks in place of vowels in vulgar words?
... that Mozart built the final scene of his opera The Magic Flute "upon a solemn fugato around the chorale Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" by Martin Luther?
... that Jason Richardson is the only track and field athlete to have won both the 110 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles at a world youth championships?
... that the pulpit in Christ Church, Barnton, Cheshire has been described as "Puginesquely elaborate"?
... that in 1966, the C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Montana wanted to tear down its namesake's home even as it was about to receive National Historic Landmark status?
... that the arrest of Brownie Mary led to one of the first clinical trials studying the effects of cannabinoids in HIV-infected adults?
... that Parvathi is said to have worshipped Shiva while in the form of a peahen at the Mayuranathaswami Temple in Mayiladuthurai?
... that the National Benevolent Fund for the Aged held tea party fund-raisers?
... that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities?
... that William Randolph Hearst dispatched a "damn fool" to deliver a gold and diamond encrusted sword to Cuban independence leader Máximo Gómez?
... that the North Bank Depot Buildings in Portland, Oregon, were built in 1908 as terminals for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway?
... that Arthur Barnett founded a department store that was to become the most successful in the Otago Region?
... that, according to some legends, Batara Kala was conceived when a fish swallowed Shiva's sperm?
... that US Air Force Major General Nels Running, a recipient of seven Distinguished Flying Crosses, had never boarded an airplane until he left his home town to attend the Air Force Academy?
... that the Chinese philosophy of Agriculturalism advocated that leaders not be paid by the government, instead earning their wages from working in the fields with peasants?
... that a gecko from the British Virgin Islands called the Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero is nearly as small as a U.S. dime and weighs at most 0.15 g (0.0053 oz)?
... that the first Lutheran hymnal contained only eight hymns on five melodies by three poets, Martin Luther, Paul Speratus and probably Justus Jonas?
... that the actions of Arthur Seymour contributed to the capital of the Marlborough Province, New Zealand, shifting from Blenheim to Picton and back to Blenheim five years later?
... that French engineering firm Colas Group has its origins from patents filed by two British scientists and a Dutch oil company?
... that Amitabh Bachchan is the most frequent winner since 2000 at the National Film Award for Best Actor (India), winning two awards?
... that Henry Godwin's capture of Rangoon in 1852 was completed by the storming of the Great Dagon Pagoda ?
... that the Davis Waite House in Aspen was home to the eighth governor of Colorado, a Bauhaus architect and an oil company executive?
... that the Faial Botanical Garden aims to preserve the endemic plants of Faial Island in the Azores?
... that art critic and cookbook collector Elizabeth Robins Pennell wrote the first independent biography of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Northwich, was the largest of the three churches designed by Edmund Sharpe for the Weaver Navigation Trustees?
... that Prince Diponegoro thought that Chinese Indonesians brought bad luck upon his campaign?
... that the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences operates JAGO , the only manned research submersible in Germany?
... that the Virginia spiraea may have become extinct in Pennsylvania due to damming of the Yough?
... that Olson House, made famous by its depiction in Christina's World, was designated a National Historic Landmark in June 2011?
... that the Cuno strikes on August 11, 1923, helped force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to plan a coup?
... that the black sea cucumber releases special chemicals into the water to warn potential predators that it may taste bad?
... that Albert Schweitzer likened the bass line of an aria mentioning Satan in Bach's cantata Was willst du dich betrüben, BWV 107, "to the contortions of a huge dragon"?
... that Indian-born British soldier Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot played association football for Scotland against England and cricket for the MCC?
... that the town of Fakfak has both pro-Indonesian and pro-independent Papua factions?
... that Belle Mina, completed in 1826, is one of the earliest examples of a columned plantation house in Alabama?
... that despite New South Wales having no political party system at the time, the Third Parkes ministry was a coalition government from 1878 to 1883 between former Premiers Henry Parkes and John Robertson?
... that the post-hardcore album The Drug in Me Is You by Falling In Reverse contains a hip-hop beat sample created by Dr. Dre and Eminem?
... that two mummified cats hang from the wall in the Stag Inn at Hastings, England?
... that the San Francisco Peaks ragwort is found only around the peaks in Coconino County, Arizona?
... that both the Spitzer and the Hubble Space Telescopes have probed SN 1961V to check Fritz Zwicky's 1964 claim that it's a supernova impostor?
... that the Atomic Energy Commission of India concluded that the Tummalapalle uranium mine might have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world?
... that English stunt performer Jacquie de Creed broke the world record for the long distance car ramp jump in 1983?
... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until entomologist Norman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
... that Michel Demazure, a mathematician from the pseudonymous Nicolas Bourbaki group, led two French science museums, the Palais de la Découverte and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie?
... that the eggs and larvae of fish can be sampled as an index of the relative abundance of spawning adult fish?
... that the Nepalese Chamber of Commerce, Lhasa, formed in 1943, was the first chamber of commerce established by Nepalese traders in Tibet?
... that, while Peniophora quercina typically grows upon dead oak, it has been known to colonise living plants?
... that Morris Meyerfeld, Jr. was called "the Rockefeller of Vaudeville"?
... that the early Eocene maple species Acer douglasense is the second-oldest maple known from Alaska?
... that the 13th Light Bomber Squadron was the first Greek military unit to be formed in exile after the German conquest of Greece in World War II?
... that from her work for the South Africa Conciliation Committee, Emily Hobhouse went on to publicise the suffering of Boer women in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War?
... that Patriarch Dionysius I of Constantinople showed his penis to a synod, so that everyone could see that he was not circumcised?
... that the director of Battlefield Heroes wanted the film to show how countries such as China, Japan and the United States have affected Korea?
... that, up to 2011, Andrew Brokos has had top-100 finishes in his last three World Series of Poker?
... that Italian sailors in the Middle Ages used trigonometry and the rule of Marteloio to navigate at sea?
... that in 2005 Elvis Presley achieved three posthumous number-one hits in the UK Singles Chart as part of a record company campaign to mark his 70th birthday?
... that New York's Potsdam Sandstone was deposited in rising seas and consists of sediments eroded from unvegetated terrestrial landscapes?
... that Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed was the second person in two years to die while in the custody of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission?
... that the prototype of the British Type 281 early warning radar was mounted on the light cruiser HMS Dido in October 1940?
... that in some places in the video game Beep, players must stack dead enemies in order to advance?
... that Piva Monastery contains a psalm from the Crnojevic printing press (1493–1496), which was the first printing press in the Balkans?
... that when Rodney Blake graduated from Saint Joseph's University in 1988, his 419 career blocks were the most in NCAA Division I men's basketball history?
... that the current Scotland national under-16 football team squad features players from Real Madrid and Liverpool?
... sportswriter Dick "Scoop" Gordon earned his nickname for reporting at The Daily Princetonian in 1930, and filed his last sports story for the Villager in 2008?
... that the soundtrack of the 2000 film Me You Them is also Gilberto Gil's tribute to Luiz Gonzaga, "The King of Baião"?
... that the writing of the English play, The First Domino, was inspired by its author's injury in a 1999 nail bomb attack in Soho?
... that Highland Cottage, the first concrete house in Westchester County, New York, was nicknamed "Mud House" during its construction?
... that as a member of the Desinfektionskommando, one of Adolf Theuer's responsibilities was to insert the Zyklon B into the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp?
... that FIFA eligibility rules were changed in 2004, reportedly in response to a growing trend in countries such as Qatar and Togo to naturalise Brazil-born footballers?
... that the rare and threatened Florida skullcap does not bloom unless it burns at least every three years?
... that Leal Garcia v. Texas, a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case, dealt with the relationship between international law, U.S. state law, and acts of Congress?
... that James E. Lawrence was once "considered the greatest place-kicker the University of Michigan ever had"?
... that due to the urban setting of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race some balloonists have landed in yards, golf courses, street intersections, and a walled convent garden?
... that the cost of the final 20-kilometre (12 mi) segment of the Croatian A2 motorway was twice that of the other two-thirds of the route?
... that after five previous attempts to evangelise the Kavango people in German South-West Africa, Joseph Gotthardt's journeys eventually led to the establishment of a mission station in 1910?
... that according to the Hindu epic Ramayana, Jaya gave birth to fifty magical divine weapons?
... that despite originally being compared to a Kuntilanak (a female vampire in Indonesian mythology), Berlian Hutauruk's vocals on "Badai Pasti Berlalu" were well received?
... that "Donde Quiera Que Estés" was recorded by Selena and the Barrio Boyzz to boost each others' fan bases in different parts of America?
... that in the road movie Children of the Stork, which highlights themes of social exclusion and illegal immigration, a stork must obtain a forged passport to cross the Franco-German border?
... that major league baseball rookie Jason Kipnis of the Cleveland Indians also played high school football and was considered "quite simply one of the top receivers in the state" of Illinois?
... that although the Pacific sand crab can only crawl and burrow backwards , it can also tread water?
... that the cough suppressant medication pentoxyverine is used in experimental pharmacology as a sigma-1 receptor agonist?
... that Jim Eastwood became known as "Jedi Jim" because of his powers of persuasion on The Apprentice?
... that after a boiler explosion aboard the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon, survivors rowed four miles (6 km) to find medical assistance?
... that the title of a 2008 article by German journalist Julia Voss translates as "Jim Button saves the theory of evolution"?
... that Gisborough Priory was one of the last monastic houses in England to fall victim to the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540?
... that Operation Archery was delayed by a full day because HMS Prince Charles was flooded with 14 feet (4.3 m) of seawater?
... that the habitat of the wishbone blue-eyed grass is being seized by "the vine that ate the South"?
... that surgeon George Crile, Jr. was instrumental in changing how breast cancer is treated by doctors?
... that the Selena song Techno Cumbia is believed to be one of the early templates for pop-cumbia-rap fusions?
... that the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf has been a bestseller in parts of the Middle East?
... that in 1944, the baseball team at Beaumont High School in St. Louis, Missouri, included five future Major League Baseball players?
... that, when it was built, the 87-metre (285 ft) high Tsukabaru Dam was the tallest gravity type dam in Japan?
... that Indonesian sociologist Mely G. Tan participated in student protests at the University of California, Berkeley until warned that she could be deported?
... that the only known report of bloodshed during the simulated Nazi invasion of Winnipeg was from a woman who cut her thumb while preparing toast?
... that fossils of extinct giant cicadas were once misidentified as the oldest known butterflies?
... that after returning from the Crimean War and the Siege of Sebastopol, Richard Taylor took command of Fort George in Scotland?
... that Frank Darabont, developer of the television series The Walking Dead, said he went through "four years of frustration" trying to get a network to pick up the pilot episode, "Days Gone Bye"?
... that the Tumblebug Complex Fire burned 14,570 acres (5,900 ha) of Willamette National Forest land in Oregon in 2009?
... that the scheme of stained glass by Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"?
... that the Icelandic Phallological Museum collection of penises includes 55 from whales but only one from Homo sapiens?
... that the Mermaid Inn in England has a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang which used the inn in the 1740s?
... that in Normandy on 7 June 1944, the surgeons of the 224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance kept on operating, despite being surrounded on three sides by German forces, the nearest being only 300 yards (270 m) away?
... that the sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti feeds on detritus from the elephant ear sponge?
... that author Babette Rosmond (1921–97) was an important early advocate against traditional treatments for breast cancer?
... that Eynesbury Rovers are the most westerly football club ever to play in the Eastern Counties League?
... that while Pauline Ashwell was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best New Author in 1958, her first story was actually published in 1942 when she was only fourteen years old?
... that a field study in Brazil found the territories of the 11.5 cm long Black-cheeked Gnateaters to average 2.94 hectares (7.3 acres)?
... that Death in the Afternoon, a cocktail containing absinthe and Champagne, was popularized by Ernest Hemingway in a 1935 recipe book?
... that Samuel Fisk Green was a pioneering American missionary who founded Sri Lanka's first medical teaching hospital?
... that the Type 79 radar was the first radar system deployed by the Royal Navy and was developed before World War II?
... that Guo Jie is the last surviving member of China's delegation to the 1936 Summer Olympics?
... that Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston, champion of the 1972 World Series of Poker, won his title in a fixed match after an under-the-table tournament deal?
... that the inscriptions in St Martin's Church, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, include a prayer for deliverance following the Gunpowder Plot?
... that Israeli swimwear designer Lea Gottlieb used flowers in her designs because she felt flowers saved her life?
... that the Pilbara Toadlet has recently been identified as a new species using DNA analysis?
... that journalist Leon Daniel was one of the few reporters to remain in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon?
... that construction of the Fukuji Dam was begun by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but the Japanese government was responsible for its completion?
... that Bryan Cranston was cast as Breaking Bad protagonist Walter White based on his performance in an episode of The X-Files?
... that the 103-year-old Oregon Slough Railroad Bridge is one of only two surviving swing-span bridges in the Portland metropolitan area?
... that during a hurricane in November 1861, a man charged two cents per ride to transport passengers by boat to and from a popular New York City bar surrounded by floodwaters?
... that ERC, included with GNU Emacs since 2007, is one of a handful of IRC clients available for the text editor?
... that Calcinus tubularis is one of only two known species of hermit crab whose males and females inhabit different types of shell?
... that science fiction and horror author Jane Rice had been a professional author for over fifty years before the publication of her first book, The Sixth Dog?
... that some species of the stick insect genus Timema have not had sex for over a million years?
... that Nelson Story was the first cattleman to drive Texas Longhorns to Montana along the Bozeman Trail in 1866?
... that while serving in World War II, future National Labor Relations Board chairman John C. Truesdale helped sink the German submarine U-550 on his first day at sea?
... that when the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a "free-market think tank," criticized Al Gore's energy use, CNN mistakenly called the organization an environmental group?
... that the Mapuche military leader Alejo gave up his attack on Concepción, Chile, after having a military parley with his mother?
... that on 26 April 1881 HMS Doterel exploded, killing 143 of the 155 crew members?
... that because of the Great Depression, the members of the Anshei Minsk synagogue offered to pay the builder with a lifetime membership in lieu of full fees for his services?
... that Buddhist temples in Japan are protected by special Shinto shrines called chinjusha?