derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that a parking garage in Miami Beach was described as having a "stunning" design and has hosted weddings, wine tastings, and dinner parties?
... that Polish writer and educator Konrad Prószyński, author of internationally recognized primers, had to struggle with the censorship in the Russian Empire?
... that Bach ends his chorale cantata for Epiphany Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, by repeating the final lines of the last stanza softly?
... that the Blackfoot have used crushed leaves of the fringed sagebrush to "revive gophers after children clubbed them while playing a game"?
... that the beau gregory , a small damselfish, maintains a territory and drives away intruders?
... that Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, an alleged al-Qaeda operative based in Iran, is one of three designated terrorists in the Rewards for Justice Program's $10 million reward bracket?
... that Portland Fire Station No. 7, built in Portland, Oregon in 1927, was the last of many firehouses designed by Lee Gray Holden, who died of a stroke while visiting it?
... that El Manik went from being a vagrant to Citra Award-winning actor in six years?
... that population of the crofting hamlet Skerray in northern Scotland fell from 500 in 1926 to around 100 by the 1980s?
... that the perfume Truth or Dare was inspired by singer Madonna's memory of her mother's fragrance?
... that both grandfathers of Ormond Wilson , New Zealand Labour Party MP, and one grandfather of his second wife, were Members of Parliament?
... that the 8th-century Sanskrit play Mahaviracharita by Bhavabhuti has two alternative endings?
... that "Fotos Y Recuerdos" was positioned at number four on the US Hot Latin Tracks the day Selena was murdered?
... that the Healdsburg Memorial Bridge in Healdsburg, California, was the first steel bridge across the Russian River?
... that singer-cum-writer Dewi Lestari, who draws much of her inspiration from spirituality, has called fundamentalists "crazy"?
... that people's preferred walking speed is correlated with their country's per capita GDP and purchasing power parity?
... that the Temple of Kwan Tai in Mendocino, California was founded by a survivor from a fleet of seven Chinese junks, two of which landed on the California coast in 1854?
... that University of Alabama-Birmingham basketball player Carldell Johnson led all Division I college basketball players in assist–to–turnover ratio as a sophomore?
... that Irish journalist and broadcaster Jim Fahy was described by President Michael D. Higgins as having a "seductive charm"?
... that Fred Barron played exactly 400 matches in The Football League for Burnley between 1898 and 1911?
... that Virginia Trotter, Assistant Secretary of Education from 1974 to 1977, was the first woman to hold the U.S. government's highest education post, although it did not become a cabinet-level position until 1979?
... that as a toddler, composer Dian HP refused to eat unless she was sitting next to the family piano?
... that Varda Viaduct , a 98 m (322 ft) high railway viaduct in the Taurus Mountains, will be a shooting location of the next James Bond movie Skyfall?
... that Christmas was not celebrated in Hawaii until the arrival of Protestant missionaries from New England in 1820?
... that one of the early news reports on effects of the 1931 Oaxaca earthquake in Mexico came from Russian film maker Sergei Eisenstein?
... that after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament as a high school senior, Quincy Miller helped the 2011–12 Baylor Bears get off to their best start in school history?
... that originally, "Unfaithful" was a dark and moody track, inspired from the works of American rock band Evanescence?
... that Polish writer Ferdynand Goetel participated in the first delegation sent by the Nazis to confirm the discovery of the Katyn massacre perpetrated by the Soviets?
... that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's proposed Skybus rapid transit system became an issue in the 1969 mayoral campaign?
... that the Yellala Falls on the Congo River were reached in 1485 by Portuguese explorers whose engraved stone commemorating their visit was only discovered in 1911?
... that architect Andrew Geller designed quirky, eye-grabbing vacation homes on Long Island that he gave nicknames including the Box Kite, Milk Carton and Reclining Picasso?
... that the Gregory Rift in East Africa contains the world's only active carbonatite volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai ?
... that the 1764 Russo-Prussian alliance, formed two years after the signatories clashed in the Seven Years' War, allowed them to intervene in internal matters of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that in his book Life of Lincoln, Ward Hill Lamon speculated that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln may have been the illegitimate child of Nancy Lincoln and Kentucky politician Martin D. Hardin?
... that Norwegian businessman and patron of the arts Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon met Napoleon and Lord Byron in his trips in Europe?
... that one of the two theories about the Christmas gamma ray burst places it just 10,000 light years from Earth, but the other theory indicates a distance of 5.5 billion light years?
... that Jeremy Doyle represented Australia on the wheelchair basketball team, the wheelchair hockey team, and at the World Cyber Games in Counter-Strike?
... that the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in Miami Beach features live outdoor "wallcasts" of the concerts going on inside?
... that the Four Counties Ring is a canal ring linking the English counties of Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, and the West Midlands?
... that artist and suffragist Adele Goodman Clark and her partner Nora Houston set up their easels on a downtown streetcorner in Richmond, Virginia, and canvassed passers-by about women's suffrage?
... that the Miocene maple Acer latahense is most similar in appearance to the living Honshū maple?
... that Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to have a registered patent to an invention?
... that despite the devastation of the second U.S. Patent Office fire , in a supposedly fireproof building, not one patent was lost?
... that Master L. Cz.'s depiction of Satan in The Temptation of Christ provided an important precedent for Albrecht Dürer's Knight, Death and the Devil?
... that novelist Matt Bondurant is the grandson of one of the main characters portrayed in his 2008 novel, The Wettest County in the World?
... that Ryota Igarashi used to hold the Nippon Professional Baseball record for the fastest pitch thrown?
... that in response to the Norwegian butter crisis, Danish people have donated thousands of packs to butter-starved Norwegians?
... that the home of a former enslaved Chinese teenager became a National Registered Historic Place known as Polly Bemis House in Idaho, US?
... that the Russian nuclear-powered submarine K-114 Tula launched the R-29RMU Sineva missile for a record 11,547 km (7,175 mi) in 2008?
... that the short story "A Stroke of Good Fortune" by Flannery O'Connor features early versions of characters from O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood?
... that George Harrison wrote the song "Wah-Wah" in response to his frustration with Beatles bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney?
... that St Leonard's Church in St Leonards-on-Sea was partly crushed by a collapsing cliff, and later destroyed when a damaged doodlebug crashed outside its doors?
... that Bao Guo'an won the 1995 Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor for his role as Cao Cao in the 1994 television series Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
... that in 1920, Irish footballer Jack Doran achieved the rare feat of being the top goalscorer for two English clubs in the same season?
... that Ayu Utami's 1998 novel Saman launched an Indonesian literary movement focusing on women's views of sexuality?
... that the sinking of the Japanese ocean liner Terukuni Maru by Nazi mines off the English coast in 1939 may have been Japan's first World War II casualty outside East Asia?
... that its 2011 acquisition of Oceanic Bank made Ecobank Nigeria one of the five largest banks in Nigeria?
... that Natchez Indians attacked French colonists in Louisiana in 1729, killing over 240 people?
... that the North Florida Ospreys men's basketball team made their first ever playoff appearance in the 2011 Atlantic Sun Tournament, in which they advanced to the conference final?
... that Brian Eno described Kaddish, an album that reflects on the Holocaust, as "the most frightening record I have ever heard"?
... that the Lagan Canal was once one of the most successful canals in Ireland but closed in the 1950s after succumbing to competition from road and rail transport?
... that in 1884, Louisville Colonels Opening Day starting pitcher Guy Hecker went on to win 52 games, the third-highest total in Major League Baseball history?
... that the third Sochatchover Rebbe supervised the education of several hundred yeshiva students in the Warsaw Ghetto?
... that the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival includes a spoof of the Woodward Dream Cruise called the "Nightmare Cruise"?
... that Viola Thompson, a left-handed pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and a consultant for the 1992 film A League of Their Own, turns 90 years old today?
... that guerrilla fighter and National Heroine of Indonesia Martha Christina Tiahahu died in Dutch custody two days before her 18th birthday?
... that St Mary's Church, Lenham has a wall painting of St Michael weighing souls that is dated to about 1350?
... that the United States Supreme Court upheld a requirement that federal judges have to pay taxes for Medicare in United States v. Hatter?
... that Ravinder Singh became a writer after he lost his love in an accident five days before they were to be engaged?
... that the 2012 season of the ASEAN Basketball League includes the SSA Saigon Heat, the first international basketball team from Vietnam?
... that Japanese flying ace Kaneyoshi Muto was compared to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi?
... that the bowling alley in the basement of the University Club of Albany is one of the oldest in the U.S.?
... that three Davids (Shearer, Cunliffe and Parker) contested the 2011 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election?
... that Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson made the video game Minicraft in under 48 hours for the Ludum Dare competition?
... that American theologian Edward Fudge is the subject of an upcoming film, Hell and Mr. Fudge?
... that the television series Kokosei Restaurant is based on the true story of the first restaurant in Japan that is run by high school students?
... that in 1900, the year before Edward, Prince of Wales ascended to the throne, he was the leading owner in British flat racing and his horse Diamond Jubilee won the Triple Crown?
... that Easwaran's Original Goodness describes the Beatitudes as a "discovery about the nature of the human spirit as revolutionary as Einstein's theories"?
... that bibliophile, literary historian and theatre director Jan Lorentowicz, who first published the complete works of Jan Kochanowski, was also an amazing father according to his daughter's memoirs?
... that the Bavarian municipality of Hainsfarth once had a population that was almost 40 percent Jewish and still has a Jewish cemetery and synagogue?
... that the successful expeditions of Spanish captain Ruy Diaz Melgarejo in the late sixteenth century led to his being nicknamed the "Invincible Captain"?
... that Public Domain Day is celebrated on January 1 in several countries, but not in the United States or Australia, where no currently copyrighted works will enter the public domain until 2019 and 2026 respectively?
... that dancers over seven years of age are forbidden to dress up as Robin Hood in the Fancy Dress Festival held on the first of January in Winneba in Ghana?
... that Tom Loftin Johnson won a 1941 prize for his American Pietà, which substitutes an African American mother for the Virgin Mary and the black victim of a lynching for Jesus?
... that Bach's cantata for New Year's Day, Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16, opens with Luther's German Te Deum and contains "an unusual and imaginative combination of aria and chorus"?
... that Hendy Woods State Park, an old-growth coast redwood forest in the Anderson Valley of northern California, is scheduled to be closed in 2012 because of state budget cuts?
... that two men from Wisbech, constable William Wolsey and painter Robert Pygot, condemned for Christian heresy by the bishop's chancellor John Fuller at Ely, were burnt at the stake on 16 October 1555?
... that Rembrandt's Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is considered "unprecedented in its erotic candor"?
... that the salmon caught by grizzly bears during salmon runs contribute significantly to the nitrogen cycle in adjacent woodlands where bears urinate, defecate, and drop partially eaten fish carcasses?
... that, in addition to his work on convex sets, mathematician Hans Rådström edited the Swedish translation of Martin Gardner's Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions?
... that the Partenair Mystere, a homebuilt aircraft, had an estimated building time of 1000 hours?
... that John Crockett, father of American folk hero Davy Crockett, crossed the Appalachian Mountains with the "Overmountain Men" to fight in the American Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain?
... that Joey Johnson, who won the landmark United States freedom of speech case on flag burning, was said to show up at protests with a bloody, severed pig's head on a leash?
... that international cannabis smuggler Howard Marks took on the alias of "Mr. Nice" after he bought a passport from convicted murderer Donald Nice?
... that after the 1933 Michigan Wolverines football team won the first game in what was to be an undefeated season, Gerald Ford wrote that the University of Michigan had "more drunks than ever"?
... that U.S. Air Force weather officer J. Murray Mitchell investigated the Arctic haze and became an eminent climatologist commemorated by the Mitchell Glacier?
... that Itō Chūta was the leading architect of early twentieth-century Imperial Japan?
... that Friendship and Freedom, published in 1924, was the first gay-interest periodical in the United States?
... that the Ray Butts EchoSonic gave live slapback to Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, and Carl Perkins?
... that the large Baroque pilgrimage church complex in Mariánská Týnice served its religious purpose for only eight years?
... that it is widely suggested that the publication of the novel Oromay, depicting the Eritrean War, led to the disappearance of its author, Baalu Girma?
... that Admiral Jonathan Faulknor's grandfather, father, son, two brothers, nephew and grandson were all naval officers?
... that third-generation stock car driver Ryan Blaney, who will compete in NASCAR for Tommy Baldwin Racing this year, won his first race at age nine?
... that Alemu Abebe was sworn in as mayor of Addis Ababa in 1977 after the mayor-elect had been assassinated?
... that the Stephen and Harriet Myers House in Albany was considered the best-run Underground Railroad station in New York?
... that rather than being most closely related to other West Indian legumes, the Greater Antillean endemic genus Pictetia is closest to species found in Africa and Mesoamerica?
... that the Black Act introduced the death penalty for over 50 criminal offences, including being found in a forest while disguised?
... that Rock Sand won the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, the Epsom Derby and the St. Leger Stakes to claim the English Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1903, and later became a stud in Kentucky?
... that Duke's, a Mumbai-based soft-drink brand, was bought by PepsiCo in 1994 and withdrawn from most segments in 2004 before being relaunched in 2011?
... that Indonesian actor HIM Damsyik identified with the antagonistic role which brought him to fame?
... that broth prepared with the bark of woolly willow is used in Native American medicine to treat sore throats?
... that Gemma Beadsworth and her brother Jamie both represented Australia in water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics?
... that Foucauldian discourse analysis analyzes content by looking at the power relationships within it, and how the power shapes the language used?
... that Gangavataran was the first sound film, and the last film, to be directed by Dadasaheb Phalke?
... that following a cold case review, police arrested a suspect for the 1961 murder of Jacqueline Thomas 46 years after the crime was committed?
... that in 1943, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crashed in Astwell, Northamptonshire, near the Silverstone bomber station which was built in the same year?
... that in his award-winning string quartet Chinese Whispers, Graham Waterhouse has phrases gradually morph as they pass from player to player, as verbal phrases do in the whispering game?
... that during World War II, the multi-national Alsos Mission captured and dismantled a German experimental nuclear reactor ?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Washington v. Texas that the right to obtain witnesses in one's favor is critical to the very ability to "present a defense"?
... that Good Girl Gone Bad: The Remixes, released in January 2009, was Rihanna's first remix album?
... that the antagonist of the Millennium episode "522666" represents "an indictment upon the modern obsession with celebrity"?
... that Shia Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr called for Saudi protestors to use "the roar of the word" in response to police bullets?
... that Hostess Brands has claimed that the Hostess CupCake was "the first snack cake ever introduced to the market," but that claim has been disputed by rival Tastykake?
... that hundreds of Polish coal miners spent two weeks underground in the 1981 strike at Piast Coal Mine in Bieruń?
... that in the 1980s, an estimated 50,000 to 150,000 neotropical parrots were illegally imported annually into the United States?
... that Old Carthusians F.C. is one of only two football clubs to have won both the FA Cup and FA Amateur Cup?
... that the Union Watersphere in Union, New Jersey, was formerly the tallest sphere-topped water tower in the world?
... that Australian former Paralympian Alison Quinn was brought to gymnastics as a child in the hope that it would improve her coordination and symmetry?
... that Die Freundin, a German lesbian magazine published from 1924 to 1933, was temporarily shut down by the Weimar government?
... that the life of Wenlock Christison, who was condemned to death for being a Quaker while in Massachusetts Bay Colony by Governor John Endicott, was spared by King Charles II?
... that four Connecticut Huskies women's basketball players have been drafted first overall in the WNBA Draft, including Maya Moore in 2011?
... that Carl Friedrich Gauss is credited with a proposal to signal aliens by drawing a massive representation of the Pythagorean theorem on the Siberian tundra using pine trees and fields of wheat?
... that French general Hubert Lyautey described his defensive tactics in the Zaian War as analogous to hollowing out a lobster?
... that in 1936, Mahmoud set a course record at Epsom and became the third of four grey racehorses to ever win the Derby Stakes?
... that actor John Abraham's first production Vicky Donor deals with the concept of sperm donation?
... that in the 1991 PBA First Conference Finals, Ginebra San Miguel became the first team in Philippine Basketball Association history to win a championship series coming from a 1–3 deficit?
... that the plot of the adventure game Undercover: Operation Wintersun focuses on a nuclear physicist trying to destroy Nazi German prototype nuclear weapons during World War II?
... that Zennor Head, Cornwall, is named after a woman who was reputedly washed up there after being thrown into the sea in a barrel by her husband?
... that Colorado's Redstone Inn , originally a 1900s dormitory for unmarried male Colorado Fuel and Iron workers, had indoor plumbing, electricity and telephone when it was built?
... that in 1937, after German artist Heinz Kiwitz was lauded in the Nazi press, he wrote an open letter to Hitler to renounce the praise?
... that the University Times, a newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh, was threatened with closure when it covered a heated dispute among the faculty and administration in 1979?
... that a fossil of the Middle Permian therocephalian Blattoidealestes represents the oldest record of multicuspid teeth among theriodonts, the ancestors of mammals?
... that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form?
... that the music video of the title track in AKB48's single Give Me Five is 34 minutes long?
... that Alcock's Arabian , an Arabian horse imported to England in the 18th century, is putatively the ancestor of all grey Thoroughbred horses?
... that nearly half of all of the championships won by the William & Mary Tribe football team have occurred during current head coach Jimmye Laycock's tenure?
... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole?
... that Pulitzer-winning photographer Frank Noel survived five days in a lifeboat after his ship was torpedoed, three years in communist prison camps, and the King David Hotel bombing?
... that in the "Pilot" for The Cosby Show Bill Cosby's character taught his son a lesson using Monopoly money?
... that comedian Nick Swardson first performed stand-up comedy at the age of 18 "as a goof" and was selected to perform at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado just two years later?
... that the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society has donated over 60,000 corneas for transplantation in 57 countries, including those of the late President of Sri Lanka, J. R. Jayewardene?
... that Paul Kelly's song "Dumb Things" was used on the soundtrack, for the Yahoo Serious film Young Einstein after Kelly's wife Kaarin Fairfax acted in a scene with Serious' wife Lulu Pinkus?
... that the Federal Web Managers Council is the steering committee for the Web Content Managers Forum, an ad hoc community of more than 2,000 U.S. government web and new media professionals?
... that near the hamlet of Barkip in North Ayrshire, the largest anaerobic digestion power plant in Scotland was completed in June 2011?
... that the New Zealand immigrant Hugh Gourley had jobs as varied as gold digger, livery trader, saddler, coach operator, undertaker and Mayor of Dunedin?
... that Bruno Braquehais' photography of the 1871 Paris Commune is considered an important early example of photojournalism?
... that the Otis Redding and Carla Thomas album King & Queen was Redding's first duet album, and the last studio album he recorded before his death?
... that pitcher Justin Pope broke Roger Clemens' college baseball record of 35 consecutive scoreless innings?
... that the masterpiece painting Battle of Grunwald by Jan Matejko was among the most wanted artifacts that Nazi Germany planned to destroy?
... that British midwife and bestselling author Jennifer Worth criticized Mike Leigh's 2004 film Vera Drake for depicting an "invariably fatal" method of abortion as quick and painless for women?
... that silleros carried European travelers across the Quindío pass in the Colombian Andes in wickerwork chairs mounted on their backs?
... that the theft of the Sforza Hours is one of the earliest recorded examples of art theft in the Italian Renaissance?
... that Olympic shooter Arthur Jackson turned down a position as head of promotions at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company so that he could continue competing in shooting tournaments?
... that due to licensing issues, the 1985 video game Blade Runner was based on the movie soundtrack by Vangelis rather than on Blade Runner itself?
... that Sjumandjaja was the first Indonesian to attend the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography and the first non-Russian to graduate summa cum laude?
... that Jacksonville's Catholic-affiliated St. Vincent's HealthCare merged with Baptist Health in 1995 to cut costs by $100 million, but the organizations separated in 2000?
... that Sinan Reis, a Sephardi Jewish pirate and Barbary corsair whose family was expelled from Spain in 1492, helped Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa defeat the Spanish at the 1538 Battle of Preveza ?