derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Steve Woodmore, the world's current fastest talker, can articulate at 637 words per minute?
... that Carolyn Sampson was the first soprano to record all of Bach's aria BWV 1127, which had been lost until 2005?
... that no Irish-trained racehorse had won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in more than five decades until Pourparler did so in 1964?
... that ten Florida fish cabins and icehouses built by the Punta Gorda Fish Co. have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that the 2.0-millimetre (0.079 in) long Nanotermes are possibly the smallest adult termites known?
... that Selena's "No Quiero Saber" was included in the official Latin album for the 1996 Summer Olympics?
... that soldiers in the mixed-gender Israeli Caracal Battalion successfully thwarted what was described as "a very big terrorist attack" on 21 September 2012?
... that the painting Les orangers by Gustave Caillebotte depicts his brother in the same outfit that Gustave was shown wearing in a painting by Renoir?
... that a stained glass window in St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale, Cumbria, is to the memory of "the last female martyr burnt at Tyburn for the cause of the Protestant religion" in 1685?
... that the architectural diversity of the South End of Albany, New York , is a result of most of its rowhouses being built singly by their owners rather than in groups by developers?
... that the black lines formed by Coccomyces dentatus result from antagonistic interactions between individuals of different genotypes?
... that geochemist Terry Plank, awarded a 2012 MacArthur genius grant, grew up in a schist quarry and in third grade was the youngest member of the Delaware Mineralogical Society?
... that the Canon EOS 6D is Canon's smallest and lightest full-frame DSLR?
... that Paralympic equestrian Jonathan Wentz, who died September 30, posted the best performance of any American equestrian at the 2012 Olympic or Paralympic Games?
... that the Montebello Genocide Memorial was opened in 1968 and is the largest Armenian Genocide memorial in the United States?
... that in 1886, the filly Miss Jummy won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes by one and a half lengths and then defeated the same horse to win the Epsom Oaks by half a length?
... that Channel 4 cancelled a public screening of Islam: The Untold Story because of security concerns?
... that Faith Hill's "American Heart" was the October 1, 2012, USA Today song of the week?
... that trade union leader Lech Wałęsa was a target of fake police reports produced by the Communist secret service in the People's Republic of Poland?
... that the thallus of the umbrella alga, which grows up to 7 centimetres (2.8 in) tall, consists of a single large cell?
... that Rogelio Bernal Andreo was the first amateur astronomer to win the Discover Bad Astronomy image of the year with his image "Orion, from Head to Toe" ?
... that Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef to win two Michelin stars while at Harvey's in Wandsworth, London?
... that Shibtu, wife of Zimrilim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of Mari, was described as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies"?
... that Anil Kumble took the most economical five-wicket haul of the Indian Premier League in the 2009 season, and won the "Best breakthrough performance" award for it?
... that St Columba's Church, Warcop, Cumbria, stands on the site of a former Roman camp, and in the medieval era was owned by Shap Abbey?
... that Alvin Leung serves an edible condom at his Hong Kong-based restaurant, Bo Innovation?
... that the range of the Golden-winged Sunbird coincides with its major food item, the nectar of the plant Leonotis nepetifolia ?
... that the works of Henry W. Cleaveland, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects, include the original Palace Hotel, San Francisco?
... that if handled, the flaming gold bolete fungus will stain one's hands yellow?
... that while "Let Yourself Go" was released on 5 September 2012, it had been played at Green Day's secret show on 27 October 2011?
... that in the "drinking and hacking" scene in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg, as Mark Zuckerberg, can be seen wearing an Ars Nova T-shirt which originally belonged to Eisenberg himself?
... that Charles Johnson Pharazyn wore a sign around his neck walking through Wellington, New Zealand, to advertise that he had lost his spectacles?
... that the minaret of Hassan II Mosque, the world's tallest at 210 m (689 ft), is fitted at the top with an electronic laser directing rays towards Mecca?
... that the Chicago Teachers Union was formed after unpaid teachers revolted against Chicago banks during the Great Depression?
... that the 13th-century Treatise by Walter of Bibbesworth is one of the earliest books explicitly intended for children to hear and read?
... that in 1943, the American cargo ocean liner SS Santa Paula was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Arabian Sea?
... that Retskrivningsordbogen, with around 64,000 words, contains a detailed guide to Danish orthography?
... that the church preceding the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Kamloops, British Columbia, was destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday of 1919?
... that for portraying both Rama and Sita in the 1917 silent film Lanka Dahan, Salunke is credited with playing the first double role in Indian cinema?
... that although Mihal Zallari was an ardent Germanophile, he prevented the execution of the employees of the Albanian state radio service by the German Army, which suspected them of being communists?
... that the extinct termite Zophotermes ashoki is named after a "sage of Indian paleontology"?
... that Richard Tylman, Mayor of Faversham during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, was a sole supplier of corn to the London merchants among the local exporters in 1580?
... that in his television special "How to Control the Nation", illusionist Derren Brown attempted to stick viewers to their seats using a subliminal film?
... that before embarking on his Hall of Fame baseball career, Frank Chance pursued a career in dentistry?
... that Columbia University failed to turn a profit on Fathom.com, an early online learning website?
... that Khalid Nabi Cemetery in Iran is a notable example of phallic architecture and a major tourist attraction?
... that the immunosuppressant and anti-cancer drug rapamycin was discovered in 1975 from a soil sample collected on Easter Island?
... that Tomahawk's fourth album Oddfellows will be the first to feature new bass player Trevor Dunn?
... that the appressorium—a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens—can develop enough turgor pressure to puncture Mylar?
... that the bells in Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral were originally cast in Savoy, France?
... that past human rights issues in Guinea include the black diet, a total lack of food and water which killed prisoners at Camp Boiro?
... that Baseball Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack said that selling Herb Pennock was his greatest mistake?
... that the edible African species Amanita zambiana is sometimes called the "Christmas mushroom" because it is most abundant in December and early January?
... that racehorses trained by George Dawson earned £77,914 of prize money in 1888, setting a record that stood for 43 years?
... that despite such actors as Christopher Plummer and Orson Welles, New York Magazine described Oedipus the King as an "almost comical" film adaption of the dramatic play by Sophocles?
... that Ludwig Gies designed the eagle found hung at the front of the Plenary Hall of the modern Reichstag Building in Berlin?
... that in 1963, Paddy Prendergast became the first Irish-based horse trainer to win the British trainers' championship, retaining the title for the succeeding two years?
... that Rabbi Akiva Ehrenfeld, founder of Kiryat Mattersdorf, Jerusalem, was the guest of honor at an official reception hosted by the President of Austria in Vienna's Hofburg Palace in 1995?
... that the Sacramento Mountain Salamander is preyed on by the western terrestrial garter snake?
... that Martin Dardis linked a Watergate burglar to US President Nixon's reelection campaign with a check written by fundraiser Kenneth Dahlberg, a pilot Dardis had rescued in the Battle of the Bulge?
... that the extinct termite Prostylotermes is known from a female, male, and two eggs?
... that of the five women who served on the New Zealand Legislative Council , three were there to abolish the institution?
... that during the Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the United States Department of State had been infiltrated by 57 "card-carrying Communists"?
... that the Loring Air Force Base Double Cantilever Hangar was capable of storing five B-36 Peacemaker or six B-52 Stratofortress aircraft?
... that one reviewer called "A Single Blade of Grass" "yet another adventure in weird, Native American mysticism from the folks at 1013 Productions"?
... that Johnny Cash took most of the lyrics of "Folsom Prison Blues" from Gordon Jenkins' song "Crescent City Blues"?
... that the late Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev's cult of personality has become a significant part of Azerbaijani politics and society in recent years?
... that Queen Elizabeth II has owned over 30 corgis since she ascended the throne in 1952?
... that the Russian ironclad Sevastopol was converted into an ironclad while still under construction in the 1860s?
... that the stark color changes undergone by the mushroom Boletus pseudosulphureus led one author to suggest that its "personal grooming skills go to hell in a handbasket"?
... that confused terminology and misconceptions about strepsirrhine anatomy and phylogeny were factors in the media hype over the "Ida" fossil ?
... that the name of the Syrian town Taftanaz is likely of Hittite origin?
... that at the age of 15, Cody Bollinger made his mixed martial arts debut, winning two fights in one night?
... that the Norwegian Troll Satellite Station in Antarctica's Queen Maud Land is one of only two ground stations capable of communicating with all low Earth orbit satellites?
... that the SoundHound mobile app can recognise a song even from a badly hummed version?
... that part of John London's punishment for his role in a failed plot against Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was to ride through several towns seated backwards on a horse and be pilloried?
... that the Giant's Grave is in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Penrith, Cumbria?
... that the 1946 Alabama Crimson Tide football team was the first Alabama squad to play in New England and fly to a game for their contest against Boston College?
... that Mostafa Hussein Kamel was appointed as the Egyptian Minister of State for Environmental Affairs after the Al-Nour Party rejected the position as "insulting"?
... that in 1967, Jack Jarvis became the first horse trainer to be knighted by the Queen?
... that the $10 million Battle of the Dance dinner theater in Anaheim, California, closed after 18 months, partly because the food was so bad?
... that in Flight of the Butterflies, writer-director Mike Slee documents Dr. Fred Urquhart's decades-long study into the migration of the monarch butterfly in 3D IMAX format?
... that Edward Upcott, Acrobatic Gymnastics Men's Pairs world champion in 2010 and Spelbound flyer, has had chronic asthma since infancy, almost dying from his first attack?
... that hundreds of thousands of art pieces were looted from Poland during World War II by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?
... that Inoe Perbatasari's last films all dealt with the Indonesian National Revolution?
... that the orange knobbly star produces dark eggs which drift with the current and orange eggs which sink immediately to the seabed?
... that the two-centuries-old tomb of Mah Laqa Bai , a Nizam-era Urdu poetess and courtesan, was renovated in 2011 using funds from the Consulate General of the United States in Hyderabad?
... that Australian adventurer Ben Carlin travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) over land and sea in a modified Jeep, becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle?
... that although set in Europe, parts of RED 2, the upcoming sequel to the 2010 film RED, were filmed in Montreal?
... that Roestam Sutan Palindih was a farmer, politician, journalist, film director, and literary documentarian?
... that Death of a Salesman, a 1966 television remake of Arthur Miller's 1949 play by the same name, won three Primetime Emmy Awards at the 19th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1967?
... that José Paniagua never returned to Major League Baseball after flipping off an umpire?
... that Reiner Stach has written two of three volumes of his massive Franz Kafka biographical trilogy?
... that the enforcement of a 2009 three strikes policy introduced to the copyright law of South Korea has led to tens of thousands of Koreans being disconnected from the Internet?
... that future Hockey Hall of Famer Bill Cook scored the first goal in New York Rangers history in 1926?
... that Arthur von Oettingen and his family lost their farm and family home in Kuremaa when Estonia expropriated all land from the Baltic nobility in 1919?
... that Michael Le Bourgeois was the first Jerseyman to sign a professional rugby contract with Jersey?
... that the electoral support of the Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin Movement of Botswana increased by more than ten times between 1999 and 2009?
... that Clandestine Childhood is Argentina's submission for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
... that the genus Clivia was named after Queen Victoria's childhood governess, the Duchess of Northumberland, who was the first to cultivate those plants in Great Britain?
... that Brow Monument and Brow Monument Trail still has a survey marker placed by John Wesley Powell in 1872?
... that Irish Republican politicians in the 1920s were expected to pay for their own meals in order to prevent political corruption?
... that Eva Naa Merley Lokko was the first female engineer to be employed at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and is the first Vice Presidential Candidate of the PPP in Ghana?
... that the Christchurch, New Zealand, suburb of Linwood is named after Joseph Brittan's house?
... that the Beaverslide haystacker is named after Beaverhead County, Montana?
... that Camelot's bid to win this year's Triple Crown of English Thoroughbred Racing failed when he was beaten by three-quarters of a length at the St. Leger Stakes by Encke, a 25/1 longshot?
... that the sale of William Robinson's farm to the government paved the way for land reform in New Zealand?
... that the Syrian village of Deir al-Bukht ("Monastery of the Bactrian Camel") was so named because the eighth-century Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik kept a bactrian camel at the site?
... that Bose Ikard was an inspiration for the character of Josh Deets in Lonesome Dove?
... that because of how the 18th Arizona Territorial Legislature adjourned, they failed to authorize payment of territorial debts for the next two years?
... that LdMNPV's EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?
... that the linguist Ekkehart Malotki refuted the common myth that the Hopi have no concept of time?
... that the Humble Oil Building was once the largest office building in Houston, and was the first office building in the city with central air conditioning?
... that in 1947 Prince Philip held his stag night at The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which went on to win a Michelin star under chef Heston Blumenthal?
... that it is unclear whether William Augustus Hancock built the first building in Phoenix, Arizona, or only the first building after the town was established?
... that the fungus Stereum ostrea gets its common name "False Turkey-tail" due to its great resemblance to the Turkey-tail (Trametes versicolor)?
... that a 1.7-ton, 130-year-old cannon was stolen and transported 3000 miles from Pasadena to Cambridge as part of the Caltech–MIT rivalry?
... that the church choir Chor von St. Bonifatius celebrates 150 years today, singing in Wiesbaden the premiere of a Missa solemnis by Colin Mawby, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer?
... that the successful Byzantine defence in the Siege of Nicaea in 727 encouraged Emperor Leo III the Isaurian to proceed with his policy of iconoclasm?
... that Argentine actress Mirtha Legrand worked in La Dueña after 46 years without acting in television?
... that Tennessee Governor William Trousdale fought in three U.S. wars and was nicknamed "War Horse of Sumner County"?
... that police fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer of June Anne Devaney, the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime?
... that the northwest tower and spire of St Mary's Church, Longfleet , form one of Poole's most important landmarks?
... that human rights lawyer Suliman al-Reshoudi was convicted of possessing literature by social anthropologist Madawi al-Rasheed?
... that Jennifer Lopez's partnership with American cable television network nuvoTV will see her work on the creative side of the network, as well as managing marketing and program production?
... that the musical work The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars was originally a sheet of typed instructions?
... that Paresh Mokashi's debut film, Harishchandrachi Factory, depicts the making of India's first feature film, Raja Harishchandra (1913), and in 2009 was India's official entry to the Academy Awards?
... that the mineral collection of Lady Clive, a pioneer among female rock collectors, is one of the most important historic mineral collections at the National Museum Wales?
... that prior to the broadcast of Grey's Anatomy's season nine premiere, ABC asked Patrick Dempsey to remove a spoiler photo from his Twitter?
... that the captain of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, Bridie Kean, is nicknamed "bird" because people in the United States could not pronounce her first name correctly?
... that although its colonies are commonly known as "sewage fungus", Sphaerotilus natans is bacterial?
... that Fly, a 2009 play about the Tuskegee Airmen, uses a tap-dancing Griot figure to express emotions through sound and dance for characters who had to control their behavior and hide their emotions?
... that in both 1969 and 2009, Helmuth Rilling conducted the Gächinger Kantorei in Bach's Mass in B minor at the festival Bachwoche Ansbach in St. Gumbertus ?
... that Gene Sharp's book Gandhi as a Political Strategist seeks to rebut what it asserts are six mistaken views about Gandhi that have "masqueraded as 'realistic' assessments"?
... that in May 1981 David Blatherwick advised the British Prime Minister on how to respond to criticism following the deaths of hunger strikers in Northern Ireland?
... that Njoo Cheong Seng's first film without his wife was 1941's Djantoeng Hati?
... that a blog was created on tumblr to cover the errors found on the new version of Apple Inc.'s map app?
... that when the newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 reaches its perihelion on 28 November 2013, it may appear brighter than the full moon?
... that the Denkoroku by Keizan, the Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen, is not historical fact?
... that though Oliver Bosbyshell claimed to have been the first Union soldier wounded in the American Civil War, his name does not appear on official casualty lists?
... that Twinkle Toes , used in Christchurch to demolish tall buildings following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes, is the largest excavator in the Southern Hemisphere?
... that the sand star can move across the seabed at the fast speed of 280 centimetres (9.2 ft) per minute?
... that people were hunting bison in the Albuquerque Basin 12,000 years ago?
... that the constellation Telescopium has shrunk since its creation in the 1750s?
... that Katy Perry made her maiden performance in India at the 2012 Indian Premier League opening ceremony?
... that Neill Brown resigned as U.S. Minister to Russia during his first winter in the country, saying the climate was "unfitting for the abodes of Man", but withdrew his resignation in the spring?
... that the Zelter-Plakette has been awarded annually by the President of Germany since 1956 to German and foreign choirs which have served cultural life continuously for 100 years or more?
... that Stephen Elop, the CEO of Nokia, was once told that the Wilhelm Carpelan, the small green vessel moored in front of the company's head office in Finland, was a "Motorola spy ship"?
... that the Laymoor Quag nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England, is a refuge for the Great Crested Newt?
... that Norwegian football club Kristiansund BK was founded in 2003 by local rivals Clausenengen FK and Kristiansund FK?
... that the German town of Bacharach was captured by Spanish forces led by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba on this day in 1620?
... that the Anglo-Saxon Bamburgh Sword is thought to be unique due to the number of strands of iron used to create the blade?
... that Byzantine aristocrat Manuel Maurozomes became the father-in-law of the Seljuk sultan Kaykhusraw I and helped him regain his throne?
... that Bach based his chorale cantata Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, on the hymn by Johannes Gigas and first performed it on 1 October 1724, two days after his previous chorale cantata?
... that dark eggplant skins were historically used by aristocratic women in China to make black dye, which they often used to stain their teeth?
... that the management regimen for Ridley Bottom nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England, calls for both hay cutting and grazing by sheep?
... that commercial fishing of the redfish was restricted to prevent its extinction after chef Paul Prudhomme popularised it in a dish?
... that Jeptha Vining Harris, a Mississippi militia general during the American Civil War, was the son of Jeptha Vining Harris, a Georgia militia general during the War of 1812?
... that Rihanna described her 2012 single "Diamonds" as "happy and hippy rather than dancey"?
... that when Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov ordered White Coke, President Truman quickly obliged?
... that Amanita thiersii has the genetic capability to decompose cellulose and can survive on it alone?
... that King Koko of Nembe captured a Royal Niger Company trading post and took hostages who were later eaten?
... that the Port Royal, Virginia, Horne's restaurant is the last remaining of the former chain?
... that German organist Günther Kaunzinger studied with Maurice Duruflé, taught at the Catholic University of America, and recorded the complete works of Louis Vierne?
... that the shooting down of an F-117 in 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the first confirmed downing of a stealth aircraft?
... that at the Royal Academy School, Peter Rouw trained Samuel Joseph, who is known for creating a statue of William Wilberforce?
... that the Sixth Asian Science Camp, hosted by Israel in Jerusalem, is the largest Asian Science Camp event to date?
... that the first Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, Alfred Franklin, withdrew from society and went to live alone in the desert?
... that during a 1780s rebellion involving the holy city of Varanasi, Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of India, took shelter in the Chunar Fort ?
... that Palestinian rapper Shadia Mansour, the "first lady of Arabic Hip Hop", was born in London to Christian parents?
... that Agatha Christie, in her novel Ordeal by Innocence, used the location of Royal Castle Hotel as inspiration for characterizing the Royal George in the novel?
... that the Children's Memorial Health Institute was founded as a monument to the heroism and martyrdom of children during World War II?
... that the buffet for Matthijs Langhedul's organ in Sainte Walburga, Veurne, is one of the oldest in Flanders?
... that in 2008, Heinz Baked Beans became "Heinz Beanz" because the company thought the original name "a bit of a mouthful"?
... that Harry Rockafeller , who played for the Rutgers football team from 1912 to 1915, was still athletic director in 1961?
... that inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison, once operated the world's largest flax scutching plant?
... that the followers of the rebel al-Harith ibn Surayj tried to persuade their opponents to join them through moral and religious arguments even during battles?