derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Hillsboro, Oregon, native Colt Lyerla played running back and linebacker in high school, but now plays at the tight end position for the Oregon Ducks football team?
... that Bach created a "musical sleep scene ... that could have graced any opera of the time" in his chorale cantata Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115?
... that biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers co-discovered the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine in 1952?
... that Ottoman sultan Selim I ordered construction of a tower in Ghabaghib, a stop on the hajj route from Damascus?
... that although Wellek and Warren's Theory of Literature was imprinted with three copyright dates, none were the year it was published?
... that painter Franciszek Ksawery Lampi specialized in Romantic depictions of attractive women ?
... that a fire broke out in Southwold lighthouse just six days after it opened in 1890?
... that May Byron wrote a series of biographies of which critics could not decide whether they were first-hand experiences or fiction based on research?
... that 1968's La morte ha fatto l'uovo has been compared to the works of Michelangelo Antonioni, David Lynch and Luis Buñuel?
... that 1933 Japanese Wimbledon doubles finalist Jiro Sato couldn't take the pressure put on him by his country and its Tennis Federation, and committed suicide en route to a 1934 Davis Cup match?
... that sightings of the Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait are most common between September and November?
... that the ancient Roman city of Volubilis in Morocco was excavated by thousands of German prisoners of war during World War I?
... that Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Isaac, and Hurricane Sandy have all been claimed to be divine retribution by one or more religious leaders?
... that the strategic significance of Bassein diminished after the defeat of the Marathas by the British in 1818?
... that Cecilia McIntosh has competed in Australian rules football and weightlifting at the national level, and athletics and bobsleigh at the international level?
... that Interstate 75 is the only highway on both of Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas?
... that Ba Zaw, the Burmese watercolor painter, was afraid of the colors green and violet, but passionate about orange and red?
... that the 14th-century Cloud Platform at Juyongguan in Beijing is inscribed with Buddhist texts in six different scripts: Lanydza, Tibetan, 'Phags-pa, Old Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese?
... that Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski drew his inspiration from exotic and biblical sources, but inadvertently translated them back into Polish folklore in his own art?
... that Mitchell Gourley made his Australian national para-alpine team début in 2006 as a fifteen-year-old?
... that the Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club was one of the first yacht clubs to be founded outside of Britain?
... that Connie B. Gay is credited with coining the term "country music" which had until then been called "hillbilly music"?
... that it was once a common practice to conceal shoes in the structure of a building to ward off evil spirits, or to ensure the fertility of its female occupants?
... that Robert Gill spent 15 years in India copying the painted murals of the Ajanta Caves, but most of his work was destroyed in two fires in London?
... that the 2004 Women's Manifesto for Ghana demands 50% female control over the Ghanaian legislature by 2012?
... that two times British Hard Court tennis champion Kho Sin-Kie raised money for the Malaya Patriotic Fund in WWII?
... that the programme King George and Queen Mary explains that the arranged marriage between George V and Mary of Teck occurred because Prince Albert Victor, Mary's original fiancé, died from influenza?
... that Brookside's producer Paul Marquess received letters complaining that Lance Powell, a character featured in the soap opera, was a "betrayal of all gay men"?
... that a horse, an execution, alcohol, and lots of dancing are part of a celebration designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Czech Republic?
... that the West Indian sea egg decorates itself with bits of seagrass and fragments of shell held on by its tube feet?
... that basketball player Paul Miller was not selected in the 2006 NBA Draft even though he had been named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year earlier that year?
... that Ricardo Arjona released a compilation album under the same name as Alejandro Fernández, Rocío Dúrcal and Sin Bandera did?
... that Katya Crema was one of two Australian women to compete at the Olympic debut for women's Ski cross?
... that the action in the play James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire takes place immediately before a real meeting between author James Baldwin and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
... that Graham Waterhouse composed Rhapsodie Macabre for piano and string quartet as an homage to Franz Liszt and played the cello part in Munich and London?
... that pharmacologist Edith Bülbring's work on catecholamines and smooth muscle led to her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society?
... that the detection dog Theo was awarded the Dickin Medal in 2012, described as the animals' Victoria Cross?
... that the extinct Syndesus ambericus is the only stag beetle known from the Caribbean?
... that crofelemer, a substance found in dragon's blood, is being studied for the treatment of diarrhoea?
... that as per Hindu beliefs, people who have sex with animals are tortured in Hell after death ?
... that Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have co-written the last five James Bond movies as well as the Bond spoof Johnny English?
... that the Andrés Bello Catholic University is the oldest of all private universities in Venezuela?
... that in the 1946 Wimbledon Championships Polish tennis champion Ignacy Tłoczyński was declared stateless by the People's Republic of Poland because of his Allied affiliations in World War II?
... that during Operation Fluid Drive, one family abandoned their Lebanon-evacuation efforts when told their dog would need to stay behind?
... that a whole new shipbuilding facility had to be created to build the 90-metre (300 ft) luxury yacht Nero?
... that the millisecond pulsar PSR J1311–3430 has the shortest known orbital period among pulsars in binary systems, but that it may eventually vaporize its companion?
... that the titan acorn barnacle is extending its range in the eastern United States but suffered a setback in the cold winter of 2009–10?
... that an electrical engineer and interim president of Georgia Tech, Henry C. Bourne, Jr., funded an academic chair in poetry?
... that the Hillsboro, Oregon, based Hops minor league baseball team is the first professional sports team to be named after the beer ingredient?
... that over 15,000 miracles have been attributed to the newly canonized Saint Anna Schäffer since 1929?
... that Little Birds is loosely based on the life of director and former Friends Stand United founder Elgin James?
... that Yadira Silva, who twice represented Mexico in the Olympic Games, was born in Cuba?
... that Spain attempted to silence Princess Royal's Battery during the 1727 siege by excavating a mine below it, to be loaded with explosives?
... that anthropologist Beatrice Blackwood ran Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum from 1938 until 1959?
... that the earliest known variant of "The dog ate my homework" as an excuse dates to 1905?
... that the extinct termite bug Termitaradus dominicanus is divided into fourteen brown lobes?
... that Yaxha, the third largest Maya ruin in Guatemala, is one of very few Maya cities to have built a twin pyramid complex, an architectural arrangement characteristic of Tikal?
... that even though The ScareHouse's Creepo the Clown hates early Christmas decorations he wears a Santa hat?
... that Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered plans drawn up for Germany to invade two US cities: Boston and New York?
... that Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Oxford, was abducted by the half-brother of her intended bridegroom?
... that forest degradation and illegal exports threaten the survival of the Rainforest Chameleon?
... that Hans Østerholt edited the satirical magazine Hvepsen from 1905 to 1925?
... that over 10 million people visited the Africa Joint Pavilion during Expo 2010?
... that the inaugural running of the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes was won by the colt Wizard in 1809?
... that cricketer Allan Border holds the record for making the most number of consecutive appearances (153 matches) in Tests?
... that Bach created "colourful and delicate effects" by scoring 1714's Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152, a dialogue of Jesus and the Soul, for recorder, oboe, viola d'amore and viola da gamba?
... that at one time Arizona Territorial Delegate Hiram Sanford Stevens owned a sheep ranch in Colorado and was one of the richest men in Arizona?
... that in 1906, ties between England and Spain were sufficiently strong that King Edward VII and King Alfonso XIII became joint patrons of the Royal Calpe Hunt?
... that Charles W. Adams, a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War, was a grandfather of Helen Keller?
... that the French aimed to use the Casablanca Fair of 1915 to open up trade markets in Morocco and to demonstrate their power?
... that with their victory over Mississippi State, the 1956 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ended a 17-game losing streak and gave Ears Whitworth his first win as head coach?
... that the shell of the extinct sea urchin Pelanechinus corallina was composed of separate groups of fused plates which resulted in its being flexible?
... that the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora in Greece was featured in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only?
... that the building of the Bangas Gymnasium in Korcë, Albania, was erected with the support of the Lasso, a local community fund aimed at the promotion of Greek education and culture?
... that Australian bass-baritone Horace Stevens was also a dentist, teacher, tennis player, sculler, and World War I Army officer?
... that middle to upper Paleolithic sites have been found along the Shetrunji River?
... that Jamil Mihhu, contesting the Beirut II constituency in the 1968 election, was the first Kurd to run for office in Lebanon?
... that six conductors took part in the retirement concert for Stephen Gray, including Simon Rattle, whose career Gray promoted?
... that in 2011, geneticist Riin Tamm was chosen as one of 26 scientists to travel around Estonia and take part in events at schools and academic institutions?
... that tools made from human bones have been found at the Carlston Annis Shell Mound in Kentucky?
... that a "magnificent" furniture depository in Hove, England, designed by local architects Clayton & Black, later became an insurance office and—in November 2012—the Montefiore Hospital?
... that Townsend F. Dodd was the first US pilot to receive the Distinguished Service Medal in World War I?
... that the Maya city of Dzibanche in southeastern Mexico was the early capital of the Kan dynasty, which later ruled from Calakmul?
... that Mike Jolly was the starting weak side cornerback in 35 of 36 games for Michigan teams that played in two Rose Bowls and a Gator Bowl from 1977 to 1979?
... that during the early 20th century, Halfaya, in central Syria, was a village where collective farming was practiced by the twelve clans who inhabited it?
... that when he was 13, Leonard Wood created a washing machine engine-powered go-kart that reached a top speed of 25 miles per hour (40 km/h)?
... that according to WAD Magazine, identical twin brothers Larry and Laurent Bourgeois of the French dance duo Les Twins started walking at five months old?
... that the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act instituted an "up or out" promotion system across the United States Armed Forces?
... that María Isabella Cordero, a former Mexican anchorwoman on Televisa, was killed in Mexico's most violent state in 2010?
... that McNeese State defeated Tulsa in the inaugural 1976 Independence Bowl despite the suspension of sixteen McNeese players?
... that the BBC comedy-drama Lapland was set in Finland but filmed in Norway, where the cast stayed in army barracks?
... that renowned antebellum potter Christopher Haun was executed for his participation in the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy?
... that the Gibraltar Heritage Trust is a non-profit charity responsible for preserving and promoting Gibraltar's manmade and natural heritage?
... that the trout population in Mann Lake was once threatened by goldfish, prompting the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to intervene?
... that though Japanese girl group Momoiro Clover Z member Momoka Ariyasu claims to be stupid, other members say she is very studious, even studying backstage?
... that Dr. Moshe Wallach, founder and director of Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Hospital for 45 years, lived in the hospital and was buried beside it?
... that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a cameo appearance in the series finale of Gossip Girl?
... that Amala Shankar, the Indian danseuse, is the wife of Uday Shankar and sister-in-law of Ravi Shankar?
... that the giant slit-pore sea rod can grow to more than a metre (yard) tall?
... that Peter Penfold was widely considered a hero in Sierra Leone, despite having been dismissed as British High Commissioner?
... that the graphics for the video game Clay Jam were produced in a garage using 44 pounds (20 kg) of clay and 400 toothpicks?
... that above the north doorway of St Laurence's Church, Church Stretton , is a sheila-na-gig?
... that Edda Goering played in a fifty-metre-long replica of Frederick the Great's Sanssouci palace, built for her by the Luftwaffe in an orchard at Carinhall?
... that today is the birthday of Dattatreya, the combined form of the Hindu Trinity?
... that Owen Ray Skelton is credited with engineering a rubber engine mount system for cars known as "floating power" to greatly cut down on engine vibration to the chassis?
... that A Is for Acid, a biopic of Acid Bath Murderer John Haigh, was filmed in Scarborough because of the town's similarity to parts of 1940s London?
... that at the age of 16, Karl Towns was named to play on the Dominican Republic national basketball team while he was a student at St. Joseph High School in New Jersey?
... that the 1971 Chouf parliamentary by-poll was described at the time as the "most fiery" by-election ever in Lebanon?
... that Lupton City in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was created in the 1920s as a planned community for a thread mill and its workers?
... that the 15.4-metre (51 ft) long Anantashayana Vishnu at Saranga is the longest sculpture of a reclining Vishnu in India?
... that while the roots of the international human rights movement are about a century old, it grew in global significance around the 1970s?
... that Norman Claxton won the South Australian National Football League twice, scored 199 not out in first-class cricket, and was inducted into the Baseball Australia Hall of Fame?
... that Steindamm Church was destroyed during the Siege of Königsberg and rebuilt in 1263?
... that Kānekapōlei prevented the kidnapping of her husband King Kalaniʻōpuʻu and their sons by Captain Cook, one of the events that led to Cook's death in Hawaii?
... that Mike Shula succeeded Mike Price as the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team in 2003?
... that Natir Puja (1932) is the only film where Rabindranath Tagore was credited as film director?
... that John Lennon's ballad "Out the Blue" expressed his devotion to wife Yoko Ono, even though Lennon and Ono were separated at the time?
... that news of the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay came to the outside world by a runner bearing a coded message?
... that in Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government was obligated to pay in full any contracts that it had entered into with Indian tribes?
... that Bach's cantata for the second day of Christmas, Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes ("For this the Son of God appeared"), BWV 40, is his first Christmas cantata composed for Leipzig?
... that Benin adopted a Presidential Council system with three political rivals serving as president together to prevent civil war following the 1970 elections?
... that Paul Thurmond, the youngest son of Strom Thurmond, was born when his father was 73 years old?
... that besides being India's second longest serving prime minister, Indira Gandhi was also the world's second longest serving female prime minister?
... that a single HVDC converter can convert up to two thousand megawatts of electric power from DC to AC?
... that Catalan flamenco guitarist "Chicuelo" has been the music director of Shōji Kojima's dance company in Japan since 1992?
... that the "get out the vote" system used by Mitt Romney in the 2012 United States presidential election crashed repeatedly on election day, depriving his campaign of last-minute information?
... that William I of Germany was crowned King of Prussia in the Schlosskirche within Königsberg Castle?
... that the second single from Leona Lewis' third studio album Glassheart was originally going to be "Fireflies", but "Lovebird" was released instead?
... that the extinct maple Acer ivanofense is known from four Alaskan fossils?
... that the Adoration of the Shepherds by Domenichino shows the newborn Jesus listening to bagpipe music?
... that the installation of an artificial Christmas tree in Brussels prompted an online petition against it with 25,000 signatures?
... that in Dandy Dick Whittington, Dick is a circus rider who goes to Siam to secure love and fortune?
... that the Tamale Teaching Hospital, the third teaching hospital in Ghana, started as the Tamale Regional Hospital in 1974?
... that it has been suggested that Father Christmas in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters may have been an inspiration for Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings?
... that Hans Pfitzner composed Das Christ-Elflein (The Little Elf of Christ, sometimes given as The Little Christmas Elf) first as incidental music, then in 1917 as an opera?
... that The Big Bang Theory episode "The Santa Simulation" features a Christmas-themed Dungeons & Dragons game?
... that on Christmas Day in 1997, a One Day International between India and Sri Lanka became the first international cricket match to be called off because of a dangerous pitch?
... that director Ken Russell created the Christmas themed A Kitten for Hitler after being challenged by Melvyn Bragg to make a film Russell himself would want to ban?
... that in New South Wales, the mountain beech can hybridise with the native holly and the crinkle bush?
... that Cliff Richard's 1990 UK Christmas number one song "Saviour's Day" was succeeded by Iron Maiden's "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"?
... that Pasterka , a Midnight Mass of Christmas celebrations across Poland, can be held three times on Christmas Eve, including at midnight?
... that Carl Russ started as a walk-on and became the starting wide linebacker for Michigan football teams that had a record of 20–1–1?
... that Trinitatis Church was seriously damaged in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 but was rebuilt in 1731?
... that William Hatteclyffe served King Edward IV as physician, King's Secretary, and diplomat?
... that a Viking torc and an 18th century harpsichord are exhibited at Falsters Minder?
... that the rights for Rambo: The Video Game were secured in part because of the scheduled release of the Sylvester Stallone action film The Expendables 2?
... that the fortune of England's richest commoner, William the Miser, was lost in lawyers' fees in 117 years of litigation over his estate?
... that the 1966 film The Sons of Great Bear was East Germany's first Western, presenting the Oglala Lakota as heroes struggling against the villainous Whites?
... that before founding his own production company, Iddo Patt appeared in a remake of the game show Twenty One?
... that, in preparation for British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War, two CH-47 Chinooks conducted the longest self-deployment of helicopters in British history?
... that South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat for the 2014 special election should be filled by Stephen Colbert, according to a Public Policy poll?
... that Charles Garabed Atamian's paintings of the beach in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie consolidated his reputation as an artist?
... that the upcoming video game Johann Sebastian Joust has no graphics and does not even use a video screen?
... that the Miocene maple Acer traini may be the same species as the living Douglas Maple ?
... that Chhota Bheem and the Curse of Damyaan, a 2012 Indian animated film, was a surprise success at the box office?
... that with the addition of Bhutan, Grenada, and Andorra in 2012, the Ramsar Convention has 163 contracting countries with 2,065 wetlands of international importance?
... that the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, a cooperative effort involving six Christian denominations, has been described as "one of the more successful ventures in black ecumenism"?
... that while travelling in Italy in 1898, American hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel found an ancient manuscript about the water system of Rome, and translated and published it in English?
... that Fred Julian led Michigan in rushing in 1959 and led the New York Jets in interceptions in 1960?
... that an employee of the Bank of England's incinerator plant in Debden helped to steal more than £600,000 over four years by stuffing banknotes into her underwear?
... that Tongan Prince Vuna Takitakimālohi was King George Tupou I's only surviving legitimate son according to Christian law, and his early death in 1862 left his father without an heir?
... that today is the day when Krishna gave the holy sermon of the Bhagavad Gita to the Pandava prince Arjuna, as described in the Mahabharata?
... that Japanese industrialist Inabata Katsutaro, a member of the House of Peers, put on Japan's first projected film programme?
... that when it first opened in 1991, The Peninsula Beverly Hills was the first luxury hotel to open in Beverly Hills for 20 years?
... that a 27-year-old law student was the sole challenger against the candidature of Maronite strongman Suleiman Frangieh in the 1968 election in the Zgharta constituency?
... that professional mixed martial arts fighter Abel Trujillo was expected to make his UFC debut at UFC 151, but it became the first-ever cancelled event in the organization's history?
... that by the end of the Third Siege of Gibraltar in 1333, the city's inhabitants were reduced to eating their shoes because the town's governor had stolen the money meant to pay for food?
... that philosopher Bertrand Russell feared the ridicule of his grandmother, Lady Stanley of Alderley , best known for defending the "right of women to the highest culture hitherto reserved to men"?
... that the Iron Confederacy, an alliance of North American Plains Indians, expanded its power base from what is now northern Manitoba in the 1690s to Montana by the 1850s?
... that Noori is the first pashmina goat to be cloned by using the process of nuclear transfer?
... that Walt Downing, the seventh All-American center for Michigan, won a Super Bowl with the 1981 San Francisco 49ers?
... that the Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was broadcast by loudspeakers throughout the city, and to the German forces as psychological warfare?
... that Kojo Tovalou Houénou became a prominent critic of French colonialism in Africa after being ejected from a Paris club where he was attacked by Americans who objected to an African being served?
... that all Armenian parliamentarians elected from the Beirut I constituency in 1968 ran unopposed?
... that Israel Keyes confessed to murder, rape, arson, and bank robbery in several states before committing suicide in his jail cell in Anchorage, Alaska?
... that in the Hindu epic Ramayana, Maricha assumed the form of a golden deer studded with gems to facilitate the kidnapping of the heroine?
... that Maryland Route 170 was relocated for the construction of Baltimore/Washington International Airport in the late 1940s?
... that the creator of the TV series Homeland, Gideon Raff, is the son of a former Accountant General in Israel's Ministry of Finance?