derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Irish plasterer John Henry Devereux became a noted architect in South Carolina, designing a church that was the state's tallest building for 101 years?
... that award-winning film The Dancer, about a traditional dancer, is one of only three Indonesian films addressing the country's anticommunist purges of 1965–66?
... that the 17th-century Swedish scholars Olaus Verelius and Johannes Schefferus disputed bitterly over the location of the heathen temple at Uppsala?
... that one of Aeroflot's worst accidents occurred in August 1979 (1979-08), when two Tupolev Tu-134s collided over Dniprodzerzhynsk in the Ukrainian SSR, claiming 178 lives?
... that racing legend Bobby Allison's sons, Davey and Clifford Allison, both died within the span of eleven months in 1992–1993?
... that Jean-Paul Sartre did not know that his existentialist play No Exit was adapted to a 1962 film, which featured "surprisingly overt" lesbianism?
... that Harriet Low caused a diplomatic incident when she entered the banned port of Canton dressed as a boy?
... that in "Schoolin' Life", Beyoncé Knowles channels the friskiness of American singer Prince in his prime and employs guttural vocals to address many life lessons to everyone from their 20s to their 50s?
... that German writer Ernst Ottwalt, who sought refuge from the Nazis in the Soviet Union but became its victim, was nonetheless quoted by the Soviet prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials?
... that due to the popularity of the item numbers Munni Badnaam Hui and Sheila Ki Jawani, the actresses Malaika Arora Khan and Katrina Kaif were pitted against each other in what was called the Munni vs Sheila debate?
... that Albanian philosopher and poet Arshi Pipa was imprisoned for ten years because he antagonized the communist regime in Albania with his recitation of a verse by Goethe?
... that the first Derby Stakes to be officially timed took place in 1846, with Pyrrhus The First completing the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) course in 2:55.0?
... that the filly Dancing Rain was the first British-trained horse to win the Preis der Diana?
... that the undefeated 1922 Michigan football team held opponents to 1.8 points per game and shut out Vanderbilt and Ohio State at dedication games for their new stadia?
... that the archaeological site of Tel Michal in Israel owes its name to an ancient identification of Apollo with the Semitic god Reshef?
... that Horst Janssen painted Friedrich von Keller with the orders he had earned during his career, which took him as a German ambassador to Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Ankara?
... that Lord High Treasurer William le Scrope was beheaded at the Bristol High Cross?
... that Amnesty International recruited writers to lobby at the Edinburgh Festival for the release of the UAE Five, imprisoned in 2011 for insulting political figures of the United Arab Emirates?
... that the Phoenician ruins of the ancient city of Amrit, near Tartus in Syria, are preserved in their entirety without extensive remodeling by later generations?
... that after the Italian Navy ship Sibilia collided with Kateri i Radës in the Tragedy of Otranto, as many as 83 would-be migrants from Albania died?
... that the abolition of serfdom in Poland was spurred by unrest and uprisings such as the Kraków Uprising and the January Uprising?
... that the Materials Adherence Experiment on the Mars Pathfinder examined the effects of Martian dust on solar cells?
... that footballer Billy Barnes scored the winning goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final for Sheffield United and played in the first Charity Shield match for QPR in 1908?
... that Indonesian author Andrea Hirata's debut novel sold three times more pirated editions than original ones?
... that emaciation is referred to as "shosha roga" in India, where more than 200 million people are affected by malnutrition?
... that the Mull Covered Bridge is the last covered bridge still standing in Sandusky County, Ohio?
... that FK Fyllingsdalen originally was named FK Varden by the board, even though a majority of the club members voted for FK Fyllingsdalen?
... that Elysia diomedea is one of three species of sea slug known to exhibit kleptoplasty and thus benefit from photosynthesis?
... that the Michigan Mining School, now Michigan Technological University, held its first classes in the Houghton Fire Hall?
... that carpenter Peter Street secretly arranged to dismantle a theatre in Shoreditch, north London, for material to build the new Globe Theatre in Southwark?
... that Johnny Otis' song "Willie and the Hand Jive", also covered by Eric Clapton and George Thorogood, has been accused of glorifying masturbation?
... that in his Poetics, Aristotle used Sophocles' plays Odysseus Wounded and Oedipus the King as examples of one type of effective plot for tragedy?
... that the United Hockey League's Danbury Trashers disbanded after their owner was arrested for racketeering?
... that the stems in the pseudo-trunk of the extinct fern Tempskya decayed as the plant matured, leaving a layer of adventitious roots behind?
... that William Jones bequeathed money to the Company of Haberdashers to found Monmouth School and provide almhouses for people "as blind and lame as it shall seem best to them"?
... that over 700,000 bunkers were built in Communist-era Albania, most of which now have little use other than as a place to lose one's virginity?
... that an American Star Bicycle was ridden down the United States Capitol steps in 1885 to demonstrate its enhanced stability?
... that the director who discovered Italian film actress Lorella De Luca followed the 14-year-old girl to her home, where he convinced her father that she should pursue an acting career?
... that the Brazilian big-eyed bat is one of only two species of bat in the world to chew the seeds of figs?
... that Canberra Capitals player Marianna Tolo dressed as Xena during the team's 2010/2011 Mad Monday celebrations?
... that during the Red Terror in Ethiopia, the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs supervised urban militia squads?
... that the fossil bivalve Emiliodonta shared its name with a coccolithophore for about a decade?
... that after winning the 1841 Derby Stakes, the Thoroughbred racehorse Coronation kicked and killed a spectator?
... that Emma Caulfield was cast in a Once Upon a Time episode because the producers "couldn't think of anyone better to trap two children in a house and try to eat them"?
... that Jeb Burton will share a ride in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with his father Ward?
... that after 11 leaders of the U. S. Communist Party were sentenced to prison in 1949 for their political beliefs, the judge sent all five of their attorneys to jail for contempt of court?
... that Bach based his cantata Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111, on the 1554 hymn by Albert, Duke of Prussia, who introduced the Reformation into Prussia?
... that during the Sino-Xiongnu War, the Han empire attempted alliance with a people whose king's skull the Xiongnu had made into a drinking cup?
... that, for her generosity towards her employees and benevolence to local good causes, brewer Elma Yerburgh was dubbed Blackburn's "lady bountiful"?
... that the choir Groningse Bachvereniging sang Bach's Magnificat with Harnoncourts' Concentus Musicus Wien in the orchestra's first appearance in the Netherlands in 1970?
... that when Waxy won the 1793 Derby Stakes, more than half of the competing racehorses were his siblings sired by Pot-8-Os?
... that Tampa, Florida, is worried that the poorly paved Bayshore Boulevard will make a bad impression on TV when the Republican Convention is held there in August 2012?
... that Jan Maroši scored directly from a corner for Sigma Olomouc in a 1992–93 UEFA Cup match against Juventus?
... that Heze Shenhui (670–762 CE) initiated the conflict between those advocating "sudden" over "gradual" enlightenment in Zen Buddhism?
... that former prime minister of Syria Sabri al-Asali was part of the delegation that attended the founding of the Arab League in Cairo in 1945?
... that the children of Vietnamese prostitutes and American servicemembers from the Vietnam War were often forced into prostitution themselves?
... that the 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team won the national championship while holding opponents to 4.8 points per game and extending the team's winning streak to 23 games?
... that Russian wildrye is "one of the most versatile forage grasses available for dryland pastures"?
... that Porter Edward Sargent's Handbook of Private Schools was viewed as giving "the most comprehensive critiques of education published anywhere"?
... that Rakni's Mound in Ullensaker, Norway, the largest barrow in Scandinavia, contained no body, only cremated skull fragments?
... that three Chartists held at Monmouth County Gaol were sentenced at the Shire Hall to be hanged, drawn and quartered in 1840?
... that prothrombin G20210A carriers who take oral contraceptives are at a 15-fold increased risk of developing blood clots in their veins (venous thrombosis)?
... that because he believed the American government had been infiltrated by communists, one young US Marine discharged himself from the officer training program and joined the Rhodesian Security Forces instead?
... that the Dearborn River High Bridge , near Augusta, Montana, is the last standing pin-connected Pratt half-deck truss bridge left in the United States?
... that Ephraim Blaine helped to supply the Continental Army with food during their winter at Valley Forge and was the great-grandfather of U.S. House Speaker James G. Blaine?
... that when Little Wonder won the 1840 Derby Stakes, his jockey was awarded a gold-tipped riding-whip by Prince Albert?
... that the Xbox Live Arcade game Death By Cube was one of the bloodiest games to appear at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show?
... that in 1138 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Geoffrey Talbot was besieged twice by King Stephen of England but escaped capture each time the castle surrendered?
... that the Cape Verdean spiny lobster Palinurus charlestoni is named after a French fishing boat?
... that Muslims and followers of Chinese religious traditions pray together at Sam Poo Kong , the oldest Chinese temple in Semarang, Indonesia?
... that the race horse Phosphorus sprained a leg and was rejected by his jockey shortly before winning the 1837 Derby Stakes, during which he aggravated his injury and did not race again that year?
... that the live performance of the song "Keep It Together" was inspired by the 1971 science fiction film, A Clockwork Orange, in its staging?
... that Indonesian film director Ifa Isfansyah is expected to marry the daughter of another director, who is a director herself?
... that a fire in Christiania in 1858 left about 1,000 people homeless?
... that the medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman William de Chesney took the surname of his mother's family, as did his paternal half-brother Simon, even though Simon wasn't related to that family?
... that Mother Goose Tales, or Histoires ou contes du temps passé, , published by Charles Perrault in 1697, was written for an audience of aristocratic adults?
... that the New York City restaurant Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, which seats 18 people, received three Michelin stars?
... that Brazilian-born NASCAR drivers Miguel Paludo and Nelson Piquet, Jr. will be driving for the same team in the 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series?
... that several Freemasons are buried on the oldest Jewish cemetery in Montana, Home of Peace in Helena?
... that Josef Jiří Kolár was the first to begin a systematic translation of Shakespeare's plays into Czech?
... that some oxohalide ions contain a linear M—O—M structure (where M = W, Ru, Os)?
... that artisan botanist John Horsefield was born "dead" but went on to champion the "ignorant and degraded" Lancashire textile workers?
... that Q.U.B.E., an indie puzzle video game, was developed by Toxic Games without having a single programmer on its team?
... that on the Glee episode "The Spanish Teacher", Ricky Martin sings "Sexy and I Know It" and Elvis Presley is covered in Spanish?
... that the former Harmanus Bleecker Library was the first building in Albany, New York, meant to be used exclusively as a library?
... that Jimmy Van Ostrand recorded both of Canada's runs batted in during the gold medal baseball game of the 2011 Pan American Games?
... that in his 1734 cantata for no specified occasion of the liturgical year, In allen meinen Taten, BWV 97, Bach set nine stanzas of Paul Fleming's hymn in as many movements, using the famous tune in the outer two?
... that after co-founding Safe Kids Worldwide, Herta Feely became an award-winning writer?
... that the cargo ship MV Spiegelgracht ferries luxury yachts from Europe to the Caribbean and back every year, allowing their owners to cruise in both summer and winter?
... that Dangerous , despite a career-ending injury sustained after winning the 1833 Derby Stakes, was able to walk over and claim two prizes unopposed before retiring later that year?
... that Henry P. H. Bromwell's magnum opus Restorations of Masonic Geometry and Symbolry "may very well be the most important written document on the subject of Masonry" according to the Grand Master of Colorado in 2010?
... that the tiger's tail uses its tentacles to push detritus, sand and gravel into its mouth?
... that although Madonna's "Masterpiece" won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, it is ineligible for the Oscar for Best Original Song?
... that the shrimp-like 510-million-year-old arthropod Waptia was named after two mountains?
... that the experimental Holland 5 was one of the first two submarines to be accepted into Royal Navy service, but was already considered obsolete?
... that the 2005 film Original Child Bomb included footage previously labeled top secret by the US government?
... that an injury to minor league baseball player David Adams prevented the New York Yankees from acquiring major league all-star pitcher Cliff Lee?
... that the log and half-timber construction Kluge House in Helena, Montana, a rare and historic example of Silesian fachwerk, was almost demolished in 1964?
... that during World War I, Marthe Cnockaert was recruited as a spy by both Germany and Britain, and she arranged for her German recruiter to be killed?
... that poet and physician Paul Fleming wrote love-poems to his fiancée, but she married another man while he was on a diplomatic mission for the Duke of Holstein in Isfahan?
... that Exercise Summer Pulse was a worldwide surge deployment of seven carrier strike groups to test the United States Navy's new Fleet Response Plan?
... that in the 1930s, black students from the segregated Douglass High School in Webster Groves, Missouri, were allowed to visit the local public library only one afternoon per week?
... that Raad Shallal al-Ani's resignation last year as Iraq's Electricity Minister was said to be because he was the "scapegoat for continued electricity shortages"?
... that the bite of the colourful Collett's snake can lead to rhabdomyolysis and kidney failure?
... that Phoenix Sports F.C. is so called as it rose from the ashes of the Blitz?
... that the Phoenix United Mine is one of only two places in the world where you can walk on Cornish path moss?
... that Queen Liliʻuokalani's song "Aloha ʻOe" was inspired by the tender farewell and fond embrace between Colonel Boyd and one of the young ranch ladies at Maunawili?
... that the Karlino oil eruption put an end to the dreams of Poland becoming a "second Kuwait"?
... that the Hallaton Helmet may have been owned by a Briton who fought alongside the Romans during their conquest of Britain in AD 43?
... that the ancient Egyptian deity Ptah was often shown carrying a scepter which was a combination of the djed symbol and the ankh, the symbol of life?
... that actor Saqib Saleem used to work with his father in their family restaurant, Saleem's, in Delhi, India?
... that the series of arson fires that began on December 29, 2011, was the worst set of arson events in Los Angeles since the 1992 riots?
... that species of the Cambrian bivalve Tuarangia lived near the continents of Baltica and East Gondwana?
... that the Atari 2600 dental hygiene game Tooth Protectors was among the earliest examples of advergaming?
... that 1810 Derby winner Whalebone had a 16-year career as a stud, which ended with a fatal injury sustained while covering a mare?
... that as commander of the destroyer USS Fanning during the action of 17 November 1917, Lieutenant Arthur S. Carpender engaged the U-boat U-58, and forced it to surface and surrender?
... that a gulag used to mine black oil in The X-Files was inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?
... that at one point in the 1970s, the Ethiopian underground publication Democracia had a larger readership than the official government press?
... that the St Austell Clay Pits, in Cornwall, are one of only three locations in the UK where the rare Western Rustwort grows?
... that the Society for Development and Change supports eastern Saudi Arabians campaigning to create an elected legislature?
... that Guido Dessauer , a German executive and art collector, registered more than 30 patents in paper technology and started the career of Horst Janssen as a lithographer?
... that after the shipwreck of the Italian SS Sirio, in which more than 100 passengers died, the captain was the first to abandon ship, and died "of a broken heart" within a year?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Halim Perdanakusuma flew 44 bombing raids against Nazi Germany?
... that although winter honeysuckle is used as a decorative plant in cultivation, it can become an invasive weed in the wild?
... that the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in Ottawa, Canada, depicts four animal spirit guides surrounding the human figures?
... that Australian basketball player Nicole Hunt of the Canberra Capitals is nicknamed 'Flea'?
... that Pattimura, who was stirred to rebellion in part by the advent of paper money, is featured on the 1,000 rupiah bill ?
... that the Eighth Army Ranger Company lost 80 percent of its strength and only had 10 men still standing after the Battle of Ch'ongch'on River in the Korean War?
... that English football team Queen's Park Rangers did not introduce their current blue and white strips until 1926, some 27 seasons after they turned professional?
... that explorers in the American West used wood from the bush oceanspray to make nails?
... that Monmouth had one of the highest proportions of Catholics in Wales 20 years before St Mary's Roman Catholic Church was built in 1793?
... that future College Football Hall of Fame inductees Johnny Vaught and Bear Bryant served as assistant coaches for North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters football during World War II?
... that Henry Kressel helped develop the first practical laser diodes and solar cells while working for RCA Laboratories?
... that there were no aftershocks recorded after the 6.7 Mw 1965 Olympia earthquake?
... that Tempair International Airlines never operated flights in its own right, but it flew on many other companies' behalf by leasing its aircraft?
... that with a minimum pressure of 900 hPa (26.58 inHg), Cyclone Susan (1997–98) was one of the most intense tropical cyclones to exist in the South Pacific basin?
... that National Heroine of Indonesia Nyai Ahmad Dahlan worked for women's rights and against sun worship?
... that the Buryat people use the alcoholic beverage tarasun in their religious ceremonies?
... that Canberra Capitals player Carly Wilson is renowned for wearing pink socks while playing basketball in the WNBL?
... that it is all but impossible to match up species known by leaves with those known by trunks in the prehistoric cycad-like genus Cycadeoidea?
... that fossils of the extinct bivalve family Praenuculidae have been found on every continent except Antarctica?
... that Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall swapped Merthen for Tintagel Castle?
... that in local New Guinea folklore, the magic-man sends the Papuan black snake to kill enemies?
... that Bolotnaya Square, one of the sites for the recent large-scale protests in Moscow , used to be a venue for public executions?
... that a parishioner at the Methodist Church in Monmouth said she would buy an organ if the minister ever filled the church?
... that the Nagle Warren Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cheyenne, hosted two U.S. Presidents?
... that in 1848, Surplice became the first racehorse to win both the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes since 1800?
... that Save The Bay helped stop San Bruno Mountain from being destroyed to create landfill along 27 miles (43 km) of San Francisco Bay?
... that "Michael", the Glee tribute episode to Michael Jackson, took more than a month to film and features performances of ten of his songs?
... that Božena Němcová was the only author who got paid for her contribution to the Czech literary almanac Máj?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Teuku Nyak Arif said of the Japanese occupation of Indonesia "we had driven out dogs only to have pigs come"?
... that Chief Joseph and his warriors defeated the U.S. Army in 1877 at the Battle of Cottonwood as the Nez Perce began their 1,400 mile (2,300 km) fighting retreat?
... that the Walter Merchant House is one of the few townhouses left in Albany, New York, with a rear carriage house?
... that the onyx seal of Jaazaniah dating from the 6th century BCE depicts one of the earliest known images of a fighting rooster?
... that Prisia Nasution, who won a Citra Award for her debut role, has a background in the martial art of pencak silat?
... that the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad was at the heart of a scandal that affected the Republican nomination for President in 1876?
... that a year after winning the 1816 Derby Stakes, Prince Leopold was castrated for poor behaviour?
... that torture at Kemna concentration camp , one of the first Nazi concentration camps, was so brutal that the Nazis held hearings on it?
... that in a chorale of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, two recorders and an oboe da caccia play with the alto, whereas the strings play an "optimistic, wordless answer" to its prayer?
... that the Hanson brothers pioneered the rear-entry ski boot, but the bankruptcy of their company in the 1980s allowed European companies to take over the market they created?
... that production babies, children born to the crew during the making of an animated film, were first listed in the end credits of Toy Story (1995)?
... that Patomskiy crater, in Siberia gained the notice of Russian ufologists after a 2010 scientific expedition?
... that Stanisław Samostrzelnik, the first Polish Renaissance painter known by name, portrayed Bishop Piotr Tomicki ?
... that the Chola expedition to North India between 1019 and 1024 was precipitated by a succession dispute in the Eastern Chalukya kingdom?
... that Salvador Dalí lived at the Royal Suite in Hôtel Meurice in Paris for periods over a duration of 30 years?
... that according to the Russian edition of Esquire magazine, Russian physicist and TU Delft professor Yaroslav Blanter deleted thousands of pages from Wikipedia?
... that Corsia is a genus of small plants which lack chlorophyll and parasitize fungi for nutrition?
... that Blink Bonny broke the course record when she became the second of only six fillies to have ever won the Epsom Derby?
... that several Russian villages were flooded by the reservoir formed for the Uglich Hydroelectric Station?
... that for four consecutive seasons, current Cleveland Cavaliers player Mychel Thompson led the Pepperdine Waves men's basketball team in three-pointers scored?
... that the Monmouthshire Show was started after John Rolls and the Duke of Beaufort contributed £30 in 1857 to fund it?
... that "Glory"'s debut on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart meant that the first child of Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles became the youngest person in the history of Billboard to have a charted song?
... that the "children of the water" were considered to be the "flesh of the gods"?
... that seed from an endangered Chrysophyllum imperiale tree planted in Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney in 1868 by Prince Alfred has been sent to its native Brazil to aid in recovering the species there?