derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that as director-general of Norwegian State Railways, Edvard Heiberg became famous for the phrase "The railway is being strangled by impotent car users"?
... that William Randolph Hearst removed 10,000 stones of the Spanish monastery Santa Maria de Ovila , but never used them in a building?
... that one of the grounds for the impeachment of Philippine Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez was her low conviction rate?
... that the depiction of the European hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe hispanica in rock art suggests it might have been used in prehistoric religious rituals 6,000 years ago?
... that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a massacre perpetrated by Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals?
... that during World War I, future Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed?
... that a precursor to clay pottery found at Neba'a Faour in the Bekaa Valley was made with a type of lime plaster mixed with grey ashes, which turned into a hardened, white material resembling limestone when fired?
... that although the fungus Aseroe floriformis was named for its resemblance to a flower, it smells like cow dung?
... that there are only 70 individual plants of Molokai twinsorus fern remaining in the wild and they are all on Maui?
... that the Mauro Solar Riser was the first manned aircraft to fly on solar power?
... that St Mary's Church, Bungay in Suffolk contains a panel depicting the Resurrection given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard?
... that the American Bladesmith Society has partnered with several colleges to offer courses in bladesmithing and has launched its own museum?
... that the Syrian Constitution guarantees a 50% quota of the People's Assembly for workers and peasants?
... that the rare European fungus Episphaeria fraxinicola produces minute cup-like fruit bodies on the bark of ash trees?
... that the Michigan football coach complained his "defense was in the law library" after law student Oscar Lambert was declared ineligible?
... that Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft was part of a Princeton, New Jersey, team that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer in 1950?
... that a Muraqqa is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and calligraphy from different sources, which gradually replaced the illustrated book?
... that Low Isles Light, an active lighthouse established in 1878 on Low Island, a coral cay near Port Douglas, was the first lighthouse in Far North Queensland?
... that the type specimen of the extinct whip scorpion Graeophonus carbonarius was originally identified as a species of dragonfly?
... that Jimmy Lile, a knife maker from Russellville, Arkansas, made the knives for the movies First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II?
... that Fred Rehor , a 256-pound pharmacy student from the University of Michigan, helped lead the 1917 Massillon Tigers to the "world's professional [American] football championship" against Jim Thorpe's Canton Bulldogs?
... that attached to the tower of St Andrew's Church, Walpole in Norfolk is a chamber that was probably an anchorite cell?
... that the Alaska-Gastineau Mine, near Juneau, Alaska, was the largest gold mine in the world for a brief period prior to World War I?
... that The Dawn, Australia's first feminist magazine, was boycotted by unions because the publisher employed women to handle the printing?
... that William F. Moran was the knife maker who revived the "lost art" of Damascus steel in 1973?
... that the Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta, Swaffham Prior, in Cambridgeshire stands less than 100 feet (30 m) from the Church of St Mary, and shares the same churchyard?
... that tiny spurs on the anthers of the aromatic perennial shrub Olga's mint act as triggers to cause the flower to release pollen when an insect arrives?
... that the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Georgia v. South Carolina decided the seaward border between Georgia and South Carolina?
... that former chief music critic of The New York Times Donal Henahan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1986?
... that the knife-making style of William Scagel influenced the cutlery trade for over 100 years?
... that during the 1995 filming of BBC's Persuasion, the crew often had to compete for props and costumes with fellow BBC and Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice?
... that Kenyan athletes won every medal at the 2011 African Cross Country Championships held in Cape Town earlier this month, and then they all missed their flight back to Nairobi?
... that Vijay Hazare holds the record for most international cricket centuries (four) at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium ?
... that Mark Pittman sued the U.S. Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis for refusing to say how it distributed $2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) of taxpayer-funded bank bailout money?
... that the British colonial authorities charged James Frederick Sangala with sedition for supporting civil rights for Nyasaland people?
... that the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations was formed after more than 800 Philadelphians were jailed in a debtors' prison over the course of one winter?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Moose Johnson was one of the first professional players to compete for the Stanley Cup in 1906, and a member of the first American team to compete for it in 1916?
... that bone fragments of the Camelus moreli, an extinct species of giant camel, were found in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in Syria?
... that Texas oilman and former mayor of Midland Ernest Angelo is partly credited with the spring revival of Ronald Reagan's 1976 United States presidential primary campaign?
... that Rangaunu Harbour contains 15% of the mangrove habitat in New Zealand?
... that New York Rangers player Mike Allison scored on his first career NHL shot on goal in 1980?
... that the first fatal accident suffered by Imperial Airways led to the first Public Inquiry into a civil aviation accident in the United Kingdom, and the expansion of Croydon Airport?
... that in the Raising Hope episode "Blue Dots", one of the main characters is revealed to be a registered sex offender?
... that Pleurotus citrinopileatus, an edible mushroom, has been found to lower blood sugar levels in diabetic rats?
... that in the 1930s, the New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa's request to leave Māori players at home when they competed against them?
... that the Frankfurt Airport shooting of 2 March 2011, in which two U.S. airmen were killed, is suspected to be the first deadly act of Islamist terrorism in Germany?
... that Pandi Geço, author of the first Albanian academic textbooks of geography, was the first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions?
... that Lyttelton Timeball Station, one of only five remaining time balls in working order worldwide until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, is to be demolished?
... that Sir Harold Bowden, chairman of the Raleigh Bicycle Company, was also chairman of the British Olympic Association for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles?
... that The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, a 1954 NBC sitcom created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine, features Mickey Rooney as a studio page trying to become a serious actor?
... that, following a brawl-filled game, Pittsburgh Penguins team owner Mario Lemieux questioned whether he still wanted to be a part of the National Hockey League?
... that Singapore's first Chief of Defence Force, Winston Choo, is now the country's ambassador to Israel?
... that, on October 26, 2010, the judge in Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC ordered a permanent injunction shutting down LimeWire's P2P service?
... that the 1833 newspaper Vorwärts!, edited by Karl Marx, has been described as the "most radical" European newspaper of its time?
... that Mary Hynes, who represents Virginia on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, has promised to ride its Metrorail system to get to board meetings?
... that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree involves exploding fish out of water?
... that the small-toothed sportive lemur is the only sportive lemur to have evolved after dispersing along river corridors between western and eastern Madagascar?
... that four different English football clubs achieved promotion to the top division while Ray Train was playing for them?
... that Emilia Carr is the first woman from Marion County, Florida to be sentenced to death since Aileen Wuornos in 1992?
... that, as of 2011, Olympic athletic venues have hosted several FIFA World Cup matches, three Major League Baseball All-Star Games, two Super Bowls, and six IAAF World Championships in Athletics?
... that Swedish actor Lasse Eriksson died on stage during the show Four happy men 2 at the Regina Theatre in Uppsala?
... that former Republican California State Senator Becky Morgan served on the Board of Trustees of both her alma maters, Stanford University and Cornell University?
... that in September 2007, Monty the meerkat made headlines in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, and other leading newspapers for his purported ability to take pictures with a digital camera?
... that crime writer Agatha Christie used her face cream to clean the more than 2500-year-old Nimrud Ivories after their excavation?
... that the U.S. government report Women in America says that in 2009, at all levels of education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts?
... that Willie Hume demonstrated the supremacy of John Boyd Dunlop's pneumatic tyres by winning all of the tyre's first races at Queen's College, Belfast in 1889?
... that the name of the Pensacola people means "long-haired people" in both the Pensacola language and the closely-related Choctaw language?
... that the Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales sent a delegate to the first legal meeting of the African National Congress in 1991?
... that Hugh Kennard was shot down and wounded during World War II while leading a squadron of American fighter pilots from No. 121 Squadron RAF?
... that the font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it?
... that the Federal Highway Administration director from 1981 to 1987, Ray Barnhart , streamlined procedures and upheld the soundness of the Highway Trust Fund?
... that the Mymensingh Museum in Bangladesh contains Saraswati and Vishnu statues from a Muktagacha zamindar palace, and a huge shade used during hunting from a Gouripur zamindar palace?
... that English oboist Peter Graeme recorded with the Melos Ensemble the oboe quintet of Arthur Bliss, dedicated to oboist Léon Goossens, his teacher?
... that in 1768, the Pennsylvania Province made violations of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 punishable by "death without the benefit of clergy"?
... that Somerset amateur cricketer Herbert Fox edited a feature in the Westminster Gazette in which readers submitted Latin and Greek poetry?
... that the Grammy-nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
... that parachuting military dog Rob's Dickin Medal may have been awarded due to a hoax?
... that when the Nassif Building in Washington, D.C., was renovated and renamed in 2006, security upgrades included steel-jacketed parking garage columns capable of withstanding an explosion?
... that each year in December, the life and works of Abedin, who painted by the Brahmaputra River, are discussed at the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala art gallery?
... that Harry Halpern was a prominent Conservative rabbi who served for almost 49 years at the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York?
... that when Faith Radio Network bought the radio station now known as WFRF-FM in 2003, the previous owners included everything except their 1996 Chevy Astro van?
... that the 2011 Christchurch earthquake broke the neck on the Rolleston Statue ?
... that during his stay in Ullinish, Samuel Johnson's views and denunciation of James Macpherson's Ossian were confirmed?
... that a New Jersey court's ruling of immunity for online ticket sellers in Milgram v. Orbitz was called a "rare defeat for a consumer protection agency" and the "biggest defense win of the year"?
... that British Army officer Captain Stephen Healey of the Royal Welsh regiment, used to play football for Swansea City?
... that collecting antique Bowie knives is one of the higher-end forms of knife collecting with rare models selling for more than US$200,000?
... that female Silver-tipped Myotis bats are able to store sperm in their bodies for up to three months after mating?
... that entrances to Knoxville's Medical Arts Building are decorated with terra cotta buttresses, pointed arches, and transoms with Gothic tracery elements?
... that about 90% of the world's amber production comes from the Amber Coast of the Sambia peninsula on the Baltic Sea?
... that although Bion Barnett retired from the board of Barnett Bank with 75 years of service, he still reviewed the bank's daily business report every evening?
... that in 1281, the Catholic Bishop of Greenland contributed walrus tusks to help fund the Crusades?
... that although Qiemo Town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered in spite of four major expeditions to search for it?
... that the Blue Note jazz clubs located in Greenwich Village, New York, helped define personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberlaw in Bensusan Restaurant Corp. v. King?
... that members of the indie rock band Frankie & The Heartstrings met at a calypso night in a Sunderland pub?
... that General Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling prayed to God to grant him "a nice little war that he may better his condition"?
... that in his youth, Karl Marx wrote a comedic novel, Scorpion and Felix?
... that the black-margined loosestrife beetle was introduced to North America for biological pest control against the invasive purple loosestrife?
... that according to legend, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony presented Cleopatra with several gourds of vinum acquense, an early forebear of the Italian wine Brachetto d'Acqui?
... that Ch. Fiacre’s First and Foremost today becomes the first Dalmatian with a known low uric acid level to compete at Crufts?
... that Did You Know People Can Fly? is the first full-length album by Kaddisfly?
... that the Italian wine Est! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a bishop's servant traveling ahead to Rome and marking Est ("It is") on inns where he found the best-tasting wines?
... that the German ancestry and strict discipline of its first commander earned No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF the nickname "Scherger's Concentration Camp"?
... that Florida-based Christian radio station WFRF helped launch Imani Radio in Kenya and provided 2,500 solar powered radios to local villages, hospitals, and prisoners?
... that since St Mary at the Quay Church, Ipswich in Suffolk closed for worship, it has been used as headquarters for the Boys' Brigade, and a venue for performing arts?
... that 2010 Consensus College All-American placekicker Josh Jasper kicked a 54-yard field goal when he was in high school?
... that the borough of Iztapalapa in Mexico City hosts an annual Passion play that attracts 2 million spectators?
... that Howard Davies, the director of the London School of Economics, resigned due to allegations over the school's links to the Libyan regime?
... that on her way back to Singapore, HMS Petard ran into a tornado, resulting in thousands of disoriented birds using the ship as a temporary perch?
... that Bushy Park Forest Reserve, home to giraffe weevils, glowworms, and huhu beetles, also has a kiwi creche and a tree named Ratanui?
... that on 29 September 1940, two Avro Ansons collided in mid-air over Brocklesby, Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a field?
... that despite its name, the Chilean blue crocus , which was considered extinct until its rediscovery in the Andes mountains in 2001, is not a crocus?
... that temperance activist Carrie Nation was the subject of a 1966 opera by Douglas Moore, starring mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff?
... that the west doorway of St Laurence's Church, Norwich, Norfolk, contains carvings of "St Edmund being arrowed and St Lawrence being grilled"?
... that French airline Air Union lost two Farman F.60 Goliaths to accidents in 1923, one in May and another in August?
... that Season 5 of the Intel Extreme Masters eSports tournament had a prize pool of US$130,000 spread over Starcraft II, League of Legends, Counter-Strike, and Quake Live?
... that from 1863 until his death in 1904, American educator Malcolm MacVicar presided over five different universities, and was the first head for two of them?
... that MSN included Flying penguins, a BBC documentary, as one of its 12 "hoaxes of the decade"?
... that Ford's 1990s foray into electric vehicles ended after several of its Ecostar's sodium-sulfur batteries burst into flame during charging?
... that All Saints Church, East Horndon, Essex, has been damaged by a bomb, a tramp, and vandals?
... that Civil War historian Gilbert R. Tredway refuted the claim that Democrats in his native Indiana were less supportive of the Union war effort than were their Republican neighbors?
... that although the Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse musical Leave It to Jane was written for the Princess Theatre, it premiered elsewhere because another musical by the same creators was already running there?
... that Murad Pasha Mosque in Damascus, Syria, served as a center for the Naqshbandi Sufi order?
... that the White Star Line ocean liner SS Zealandic was disguised as a decoy version of the British carrier HMS Hermes during WW II and was sunk by German submarine U-106?
... that agriculture in Sierra Leone accounts for about 50 percent of the country's gross domestic product?
... that, as the second violin of the Melos Ensemble, Ivor McMahon played the Divertissement, dedicated by Jean Françaix to bassoonist William Waterhouse?
... that it is both possible and potentially illegal to falsify who email is from, as learned by Kilbride in United States v. Kilbride?
... that Sid Ferris was a one-eyed English cyclist who broke the records for "Land's End to John o' Groats", "Edinburgh-to-London", and "1,000 miles" in 1937?
... that the endangered Puerto Rican plant Daphnopsis hellerana is dioecious, with male plants bearing tubular flowers and females bearing bell-shaped flowers?
... that historians believe the 893 Council of Preslav established Old Bulgarian as the official language and Preslav as the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire?
... that Frank Barbour, coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1892 to 1893, later led Beech-Nut into the chewing gum business?
... that three 14th-century Mamluk mosque lamps in enamelled and gilded glass sold for a total of just under £3.4 million in 2000?
... that in the aftermath of World War I, Polish agronomist Mieczysław Jałowiecki lost his renowned estates in Lithuania?
... that, on Midsummer's Eve, the sun is said to set over the tip of the largest stone in the Scorhill stone circle, suggesting the circle may have had a purpose in archaeoastronomy?
... that Romanian runner Iulia Olteanu won the 1999 European Cross Country Championships but lost her title because of a positive test for the steroid stanozolol?
... that, on April 29, 1849, the ship's master and two officers fled the Hannah in the only lifeboat after the brig was holed by ice, abandoning the passengers and remaining crew?
... that, in a British propaganda exercise during World War II, a Wellington bomber was built in under 24 hours, setting a new world record?
... that Harry Whitney was at the center of the Peary–Cook controversy over who had reached the North Pole first?
... that, in 1869, Johannes Brahms conducted the chamber opera Le dernier sorcier (The Last Sorcerer), composed by Pauline Viardot to a French libretto by Ivan Turgenev?
... that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting tsunami, which left all the coastal cities of Lebanon in ruins?
... that authorization to use a company computer is not automatically conditional on the motives or loyalty of the employee, according to LVRC Holdings v. Brekka?
... that the interior of the Stone Chamber in the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings was regarded as New Zealand architect Benjamin Mountfort's most impressive achievement?
... that the iLoo was a cancelled Microsoft project by British subsidiary MSN UK to develop a Wi-Fi-enabled Internet portable toilet for summer festivals?
... that the clock of the Victoria Clock Tower spent the first three years inside a tower, where its chime could be heard but its face could not be seen?
... that the Minister of Justice claimed that the 2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation bill made farting in public illegal, but later retracted his statement?
... that John Powell's score for the animated film How to Train Your Dragon was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA award, and won an Annie Award and an IFMCA award in 2011?
... that Sedmoi Kontinent was the first Russian retail food company to make a public stock offering?
... that the shrine of a famous medieval shaykh in the currently depopulated village of Dayr al-Shaykh became a place of pilgrimage for locals following his death in the 13th century?
... that "all-through jet training" on Macchis at the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 2 Flying Training School was called "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the aptitude to become military pilots"?
... that deepwater rice can grow 25 cm (9.8 in) in a day, but only when underwater?
... that Diné artist Ryan Singer worked for the United States Forest Service before becoming a full-time artist?
... that the ruins of St Peter's Church, Bristol, in Castle Park are a memorial to the victims of the 1940 Bristol Blitz?
... that Zynga, maker of hit games FarmVille and Mafia Wars, faces the pending class action lawsuit Swift v. Zynga, based on allegedly deceptive ads that ran in its games?
... that the Brezhnev Era in the Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic stagnation?
... that the Alaskan Baird Mountains were named for the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution?
... that the demo version of "Don't Hold Your Breath" was performed by Timbaland and Keri Hilson, and is distinctly different from the present version released by Nicole Scherzinger?
... that netball in the Cook Islands features an Easter competition where boys dress in women's netball uniforms?
... that the 1859 symphonic work Hiawatha composed by Robert Stoepel is based on Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha?
... that Papyrus Rylands 458 is the oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint?
... that several buildings of Cass Gilbert's Waterbury Municipal Center Complex use quotations from Abraham Lincoln as decorative motifs, despite Lincoln's lack of connection to that Connecticut city?
... that William Isarn, a Spanish count, was assassinated while trying to regain what he claimed was his family's land?
... that, according to critic Jennifer Kay, Mat Johnson's 2011 novel Pym "skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack food industry, academia, landscape painting and abominable snowmen"?
... that the Rose Historic Chapel was the first church designed by the Luttrell brothers, who subsequently became the unofficial architects of the Diocese of Christchurch?
... that the Cork Examiner described the killing of Peter Cleary, the first person to be killed by the Special Air Service in Northern Ireland, as "an act of utter folly"?
... that a young Lernaeocera branchialis is an ectoparasitic crustacean on the gills of a flounder or lumpsucker, and it moves on to cod or related fishes after it has matured and mated ?