derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that a review of Plastic Flowers, a 1977 Indonesian film directed by a man known for romances, found him unfit to direct but praised a robbery scene?
... that the flowers of the rough-barked apple are visited by flying foxes and jewel beetles?
... that Great Tew Circle was a group of intellectual and literary figures who gathered in the 1630s at the manor house of Great Tew, Oxfordshire?
... that when the footballer Svein Fjælberg joined Viking FK from Sola FK in 1979 for a transfer fee of 45,000 Norwegian kroner, he became the then most expensive player at the club?
... that during the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor of 782 CE, Byzantine general Tatzates defected to the Arab side when the Byzantines already had the Abbasids surrounded and asking for negotiations?
... that while Victoire Conroy was among the few companions allowed to associate with the young Queen Victoria, the queen disliked her?
... that Queensland teacher Jodie Bowering is also an Australian Olympic bronze medalist in softball?
... that the racehorse Colombo won £17,130 in 1933, a year after he was purchased for only 510 guineas?
... that threats to the Blue Gum Forest in the Blue Mountains included logging, coal mining, a dam and growing walnuts?
... that Indonesian band Efek Rumah Kaca donated the royalties from ringback tone sales for one of the tracks on their self-titled debut album to the family of a human rights activist?
... that Ratirahasya, a medieval Indian sex manual, classifies sexual intercourse into nine different types on the basis of the size of genitals?
... that the Croscat , the youngest volcano in the Iberian Peninsula, was quarried until 1991 and its internal structure is exposed as a result?
... that the lower masts of the Briton-class corvettes of the Royal Navy were iron, but the rest of the masts were made of wood?
... that despite winning consecutive conference championships, UC Riverside Highlanders football was discontinued following their 1975 season?
... that The Panther, the favourite for the 1919 Epsom Derby, became agitated before the race and finished unplaced, possibly due to the presence of a mare ridden by a mounted policeman?
... that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics, where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres?
... that a University of Washington fake mathematician created as a student prank became the author of several well-received papers in research journals?
... that in 2007, the owners of a hairy Fabulous Willy were criticised for being homosexual?
... that some Chicago sports fans blame their team's recent failings on the absence of Honey Bears?
... that the opening of Eston railway station enabled passengers to travel from Middlesbrough, England, to California in only 15 minutes?
... that ever since coming between neighbours, Funzie Girt has run almost the length of a Scottish island?
... that a gang leader was executed by lethal injection for the crimes of assaulting tourists and breaking into their cars to steal food?
... that in 2009, the urinal known as "The Carousel of Love" , a well known place for gay cruising, was declared a Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site?
... that a Baker went into outer space with sea urchin sperm, later receiving a rubber duck and many bananas for her efforts?
... that the male common midwife toad , like other members of the genus Alytes, carries his eggs around with him until they hatch?
... that following the example of Khader Adnan, Hana Shalabi began a hunger strike after her arrest in Israel, on February 16, 2012?
... that the Plan B song "ill Manors" was written in reaction to the 2011 England riots?
... that in 1985 differences of opinion on the tactics of general strikes led to a split in the Galician nationalist trade union movement and the founding of CXTG?
... that The Flying Fleet's female lead, Anita Page, described co-star Ramón Novarro as "something to dream about"?
... that the black gum is threatened by global warming as it is largely restricted to frost hollows?
... that Jan Matejko's painting Stańczyk , portraying a solemn court jester, is considered one of the most recognized and significant paintings of Poland?
... that historian Max Hastings called Thaddeus Holt's book The Deceivers a "worthy celebration" of British deception during World War II?
... that the size of a spherical bubble in an infinite body of liquid is described by the Rayleigh–Plesset equation?
... that writer Frank Spotnitz has called "Sacrament" his favourite among the episodes he has written for Millennium?
... that during a football match between FK Bodø/Glimt and Tromsø IL in 1995, Tromsø head coach Harald Aabrekk was brought to the hospital in an ambulance, despite not being injured?
... that males with the genetic disorder familial hyperestrogenism may become feminized and often seek to have their enlarged breasts surgically removed?
... that after the Battle of Azaz in 1030, the victorious Arabs needed seventy camels to carry off the imperial tent of the Byzantine emperor Romanos III and its treasures?
... that the Požega Valley is home to the oldest continuously operating wine cellar in Croatia, built by Cistercians in Kutjevo in 1232?
... that actress Lisa George was told by a singing teacher at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama that she was "too big" to be successful in musical theatre?
... that in 1983, in the Russian military town Serpukhov-15, the system controlling the Soviet Union's Oko satellites received warning of American ICBMs being launched?
... that the American film All the Vermeers in New York was created as a tribute to the director's father?
... that the ringback tone for the Indonesian music duo Ratu's song about friends with benefits was downloaded more than a million times?
... that the Annaberg hill (Góra Świętej Anny) in Silesia has a pilgrimage church that remained popular despite Nazi efforts to draw attention away with an open-air theatre and a heroes' mausoleum?
... that Duke Zhuang II of Qi ascended the throne with the help of minister Cui Zhu, but was later killed by Cui for having an affair with his wife?
... that among the mythical owners of Canis Minor were Orion, Icarius and Tobias?
... that Australian Opal and Bulleen Boomers forward Elyse Penaluna scored 29 points and made six rebounds in 17 minutes during a basketball game against the Hobart Chargers?
... that when Ottoman commander Esad Pasha surrendered after the 1913 Battle of Bizani, Greek Army officer Ioannis Velissariou personally led the Ottoman delegation to Greek headquarters?
... that the central premise of Millennium's "Covenant" may have been based on Albert Fish's history of self-harm?
... that Sarah, Duchess of York, observed a tradition by diving naked into the swimming pool at Hurst Lodge School at midnight on the eve of her last day there?
... that German conductor Konrad Junghänel and his vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln won the Gramophone Award for the first complete recording of Monteverdi's collection Selva morale e spirituale?
... that the Soviet A-35 anti-ballistic missile system had a radar nicknamed the Dog House ?
... that William Addams Williams, the MP for Monmouthshire, ensured that newspapers were notified when they incorrectly listed his votes?
... that the Norwegian footballer Steffen Hagen has played every minute of 100 consecutive league-matches for Odd Grenland in Tippeligaen?
... that in 567 BC Duke Ling of Qi annexed the neighbouring state of Lai, more than doubling the size of the state of Qi?
... that Wojciech Smarzowski's film Róża gained the Polish Film Award in seven categories in 2011?
... that at St Athan, a wild fig tree grew out of the cement of the East Orchard chapel walls?
... that the hirola is often referred to as the "four-eyed antelope" due to its large preorbital glands?
... that the use of noise by Ottoman military bands inspired European composers such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart?
... that Raymond P. Ahlquist's discovery of adrenergic receptor subtypes was at first largely ignored but eventually led to the development of widely prescribed beta blocker drugs?
... that Pragyananda Mahasthavir was the first Theravada Buddhist monk wearing yellow robes to be seen in Kathmandu since the 14th century?
... that the pro-gay rap song "BEN (Better Everything Now)" was inspired by the coming out of the artist's gay friend and the It Gets Better campaign?
... that National Hero Iswahyudi, dissatisfied with life in Australia, took a rubber boat back to Indonesia?
... that Sisera's mother , a biblical character, has been described as evil and sexually depraved?
... that Australian Opal Natalie Hurst is only 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) tall and was once suspended from basketball for five weeks for swearing at a referee?
... that the 1984 American biopic drama film Pope John Paul II, directed by Herbert Wise, was actor Albert Finney's American television debut and the first script to ever be rejected by Finney upon a first reading?
... that after Francys Arsentiev died while climbing Mount Everest, it was nine years before her frozen, preserved body could be moved from beside the main route to the summit?
... that a bikini-clad rendition of the "Cat Daddy" dance by the reigning Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model Kate Upton was temporarily banned from YouTube?
... that the German National Library of Science and Technology, the world's largest specialty library in its field, has 125 km (78 mi) of shelf space?
... that an obituary in The Independent called Lady June "a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster"?
... that the first 140 amino acids encoded by the gene TMEM106A are deleted along with BRCA1 during early-onset breast cancer?
... that missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith set a single-season record of 23.4 points per game playing University of Hawaii basketball that still stands?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Pong Tiku used chili pepper extract to blind his Dutch foes?
... that Angampora , a martial art native to Sri Lanka which incorporates pressure point attacks, was banned by the British who gained control of the island in the early 19th century?
... that due to his role in the national uprising, Bahraini human rights activist Mohammed al-Maskati received a number of death threats?
... that according to The New York Times, opera producer Robert Lepage and opera house general manager Peter Gelb "cut heroic figures in an epic adventure" in the 2012 documentary Wagner's Dream?
... that while honored in France, the inventor of the smart card, Roland Moreno, received little public recognition outside of the country?
... that Yan Gomes is the first Brazilian-born player to appear in Major League Baseball?
... that the first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at Turtle Gut Inlet?
... that the 2000 a cappella composition Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) was recorded by a Virtual Choir of 185 singers from 12 countries, conducted by its composer Eric Whitacre ?
... that Tia Norfleet is the first African American woman to receive a NASCAR racing license?
... that foreign relations between France and Serbia, established in 1879, were briefly severed after France's participation in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999?
... that German anarchist Johannes Holzmann edited twenty-five issues of the journal Der Kampf, but eleven of them were banned?
... that Millennium's "Force Majeure" features stock footage from the 1996 Saguenay Flood in Quebec?
... that Yaakov Yosef Herman manufactured and sold kosher wine out of his home throughout the Prohibition era with the approval of a New York City judge?
... that a game between Belfast's Big Two once led to a cockerel and a blue pig being released onto a football pitch?
... that Leonte Răutu survived as the ideologist of Communist Romania under Stalinism, anti-revisionism and national communism, but was toppled when his own daughter emigrated to the West?
... that the 1982 television film The Scarlet Pimpernel was expanded in length to allow for a subplot detailing the rescue of the Dauphin?
... that Ryan Payton created République to prove that a "real game" can be made for mobile phones?
... that the sharp saw-like edges of the native Australian red-fruit saw-sedge can cut the hands of careless handlers?
... that Shirley Reilly, winner of the women's wheelchair race at the 2012 Boston Marathon, has Inupiat heritage?
... that for Pentecost Monday, Bach added five wind parts to the opening of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 to form the Sinfonia of Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte, BWV 174?
... that Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway was the first ever Indian museum to have scale models with digital control and simulated movements of trains?
... that other RAAF units "happily disposed of their oldest airframes" to equip No. 4 Service Flying Training School in 1941?
... that "Dinosaur", a song by American singer Kesha, was inspired by an encounter with an old man whom she perceived as "prehistoric" and "like a dinosaur"?
... that the young-adult novel Titanic 2020 by Colin Bateman is about an apocalyptic plague that almost destroys mankind, and not about the famous ship itself?
... that Eddie Sharp raced hydroplanes before winning the 1999 ARCA Racing Series championship as a crew chief?
... that Herbert Olivecrona brought neurosurgery to Sweden and later became the namesake of the so-called "Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery"?
... that a physical examination of strongman Gino Martino by Harvard Medical School discovered that his skull was more than 2.3 times thicker than the average human skull?
... that Christian rock band MercyMe employed the London Symphony Orchestra to play strings on their album Undone?
... that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.7 floatplane trainer was intended as an interim solution, yet it served for several years after the introduction of its successor, the M.F.8?
... that after a police raid, Ali al-Ghanmi, a Bahraini police officer, left his guard post and joined protests because he could no longer support "a killer institution"?
... that 90% of Tracy Beaker fans are girls between 8 and 14?
... that two National Heroes of Indonesia died in the crash of Dakota VT-CLA (replica of tail depicted)?
... that according to Aristophanes of Byzantium, Euripides' lost play Antigone differed from Sophocles' famous play Antigone in three key respects, including that Antigone married Haemon?
... that upon receiving a personal letter from George Washington appointing him a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army, Virginia militiaman Angus McDonald declined the offer?
... that Millennium's "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" makes reference to Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions?
... that the racehorse Bruni won the 1975 British Classic St. Leger Stakes by ten lengths?
... that a video ad for 2012 Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky featured a donkey pulling a sleigh and called the donkey an allegory for Russia?
... that the U.S. Congress and President both had to give approval to build the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain , which memorializes two men who died in the sinking of the Titanic?
... that a farmer drove his tractor from Crawley to Buckingham Palace to protest the land acquisition policies of Crawley Development Corporation?
... that J. A. Chapman, a 19th-century mayor of Portland, Oregon, died after driving his buggy into a telephone wire?
... that the acreage associated with National Register of Historic Places Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach, Virginia, has decreased to less than a fifth of what it was in the 1880s?
... that at the height of Romanticism in Scotland, George IV launched an international craze for tartan by wearing a kilt?
... that some tales have legendary robber Si Pitung losing his magical powers after being hit by rotten eggs?
... that Kenmore was used by Colonel Walker of the Army of Northern Virginia as a headquarters during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864?
... that the collection at the National Museum of African Art is the largest publicly held African art collection in the United States?
... that Gerhard C. Kallevig was a pioneer in establishing bus routes in Norway?
... that the German drama film Jerichow was nominated for the 2009 German Film Prize in both the Best Feature Film and Best Director categories?
... that Netherlands Antilles women's national football team faces development challenges because football is only the sixth most popular sport in the country?
... that the Maya International Cooperative Biodiversity Group was designed in 1998 to meet the highest ethical standards in bioprospecting, but was closed down in 2001 due to accusations of biopiracy?
... that in 737, the Umayyad Caliphate and the Turgesh Khaganate fought the Battle of the Baggage?
... that the ruin of St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir, in northeastern Scotland has a highly decorated, stone sacrament house set inside a former window?
... that Uthayan is the only newspaper in Jaffna which did not cease publication during the Sri Lankan Civil War, amid numerous attacks and threats?
... that Bruno Müller was implicated in Nazi atrocities against Polish academics, Ukrainian Jews, and prisoners in a slave labor camp, but died a free man?
... that Mike Daniels, now a rookie for the Green Bay Packers, was first noticed by the American football team when they were scouting other Iowa linemen?
... that there are two versions of Roy Lichtenstein's In the Car, one of which set the record for highest auction price for a Lichtenstein work?
... that although the town of Saint Saëns provided 60,000 francs towards the construction of its own railway line, it was only enough to pay for the station?
... that a statue of the founder of Manichaeism as the "Buddha of Light" has survived for almost 700 years in China's Cao'an Temple?
... that the 12th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry regiment captured 92 Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg, including 7 officers?
... that nisoxetine, a predecessor of Prozac, was never marketed but is widely used in scientific research?
... that Major League Baseball's new collective bargaining agreement addressed the issue that led to Barret Loux being declared a free agent?
... that the spiny scallop camouflages itself with a sponge and can swim away from predatory starfish?
... that continuous flash suppression can suppress an image ten times longer than flash suppression or binocular rivalry?
... that although the market price for Roy Lichtenstein's works in 1965 was $6,000, a collector paid $30,000 for M-Maybe?
... that the New York Yankees introduced Eduardo Núñez to Derek Jeter, his childhood idol, as Jeter's eventual replacement?
... that the manor house of Mapperton was used in the filming of Emma (1996) and The History of Tom Jones (1997)?
... that during the hunt for Pretty Boy Floyd, FBI special agent Melvin Purvis used the Travelers Hotel in East Liverpool, Ohio, as his headquarters?
... that the Grande halle de la Villette , now a cultural center in Paris, was formerly a slaughterhouse?
... that Blam was one of the works from Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition that was sold out in advance?
... that Tadashi Yamamoto, who promoted private sector relations between Japan and the United States, founded the Japan Center for International Exchange and the Shimoda Conference?
... that writer David Wong's book John Dies at the End was made into a movie starring Paul Giamatti?
... that Albert Brahms kept the first known records of the tide levels on the North Sea coast of Germany?
... that "She's a Mess", a song by English girl group Sugababes from their seventh studio album, had to be renamed because the band felt the lyrics were promoting binge drinking?
... that children as young as eight were forced to work in a stone quarry in a Polenlager during the Nazi occupation of Polish Silesia?
... that most Stemmadenia donnell-smithii fruit ripens when insects are scarce, allowing normally insectivorous birds to feed on the fruit opportunistically?
... that Expressionist Head is the name of many Roy Lichtenstein works of art, including six identical sculptures and various paintings?
... that the villain in Millennium's "Paper Dove" was based on real life murderers Edmund Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer?
... that recent excavation at St James Square revealed the first evidence of Mesolithic human settlement in Monmouth, Wales?
... that in 1926 Jääkarhu became the first Finnish state-owned icebreaker to adopt Finnish as the command language?
... that Hanung Bramantyo's horror film Red Lantern has been described as reminiscent of a history of the Indonesian Communist Party?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl was adapted from Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa ?
... that the United States Senate inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic declared the disaster an "act of God" because nobody could be held liable for it under maritime law?
... that the Castillo de San Felipe de Lara, a Spanish colonial fort in Guatemala, was built in the 17th century to defend against frequent English pirate attacks?
... that Rudy Árias was a replacement player during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, though he retired as a player in 1979?
... that Agus Kuncoro has acted in three films directed by Hanung Bramantyo?
... that the Bangladesh delegation to the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games consisted of eight people, including four competitors?
... that the British inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic was criticised as a "whitewash" after Lord Mersey found that the disaster had not been caused by negligence?
... that Australia women's national basketball team member and two-time WNBL Defensive Player of Year Rachael Flanagan is also a personal trainer?
... that Albert André's monograph of his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir is considered to be "one of the most accurate contemporary accounts of the artist's work"?
... that Kirstie Alley made her debut as Rebecca Howe in the Cheers episode "Home Is the Sailor", replacing Shelley Long's Diane Chambers?
... that Lawrence Berry Washington, a great-grandnephew of George Washington, participated in the California Gold Rush, Bleeding Kansas conflict, and Mexican–American War?
... that the 1st SAS Brigade, a World War II military unit, never actually existed?
... that the film Thor 2 will have a "more Viking-influenced feel" than its 2011 predecessor, Thor?
... that the Liturgy of Saint Cyril is one of the three Anaphoras currently used by Coptic Christianity?
... that in 2011 Jerel Worthy, now a Green Bay Packers rookie, became the first defensive tackle from Michigan State to be named a first-team collegiate football All-American since 1971?
... that Hüseyin Özer went from living on the streets of Ankara to owning a British restaurant chain and teaching at Middlesex University?
... that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum used Grrrrrrrrrrr!! on promotional posters for its 1993 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition?
... that despite the flesh of the mushrooms smelling of semen, Inocybe salicis is best identified microscopically?
... that the mineral shigaite is named for the Japanese Prefecture where it was discovered in 1985?
... that in Renaissance Scotland, the Chapel Royal at Stirling Castle was rebuilt for the baptism of James VI's son Henry, to mirror the proportions of the Temple of Solomon?
... that in 2009, the deputy chief of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud, became the country's Minister of Education?
... that England women's cricket captain Charlotte Edwards was the leading run-scorer in three of the first four years of the Super Fours?
... that in his fictional work "Surabaya", Idrus referred to the Indonesian revolutionaries as "cowboys" and the Allies as "bandits"?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's pop art painting Girl with Ball, which was based on a newspaper ad that was still running more than 20 years later, was first sold to Philip Johnson?
... that on 7 June 1998, the Swiss electorate rejected the Gene Protection Initiative, which would have banned scientific research using genetically modified animals?
... that the April 1894 Salon des Cent exhibition was devoted to the work of Eugène Grasset?