derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the video game Self-Defense Training Camp was criticized for its emphasis on crotch kicking?
... that the 13th-century Old French Roman d'Alexandre en prose describes the adventures of Alexander the Great, including flying into the air and travelling under the sea ?
... that the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward was long famous for its flower produce which supplied the attar makers of nearby Damascus?
... that Tissa David, the second woman to direct an animated feature film, also animated the Raggedy Ann character for the 1977 film, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure?
... that the scalybark gives its name to an ecological community found only on 126 hectares (310 acres) of Lord Howe Island?
... that former investment banker Paul Deighton described his appointment as 2012 Olympics chief executive as "the only job I would have considered leaving Goldman Sachs for"?
... that winners of William Proxmire's Golden Fleece Award for wasteful U.S. government spending include the Department of Justice for researching why prisoners want to escape?
... that adaptive rower Oksana Masters posed for ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" and won the first ever U.S. Paralympic medal in trunk and arms mixed double sculls?
... that Scope, once the best-selling English magazine in South Africa, was repeatedly banned during the Apartheid era?
... that the Gibraltar War Memorial of 1923 rests on an esplanade and steps built by a Governor of Gibraltar two years previously?
... that Jest won the British Classic Epsom Oaks in 1913 in record time?
... that the death of hydroplane racer Dean Chenoweth led to enclosed cockpits being adopted for Unlimited class hydroplanes?
... that 2012 U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign spokesman Kevin Madden was listed second of the "50 Most Beautiful" in Washington, D.C. in 2006, according to The Hill newspaper?
... that the town of Shakotan is home to the three great capes of the Shakotan Peninsula: Kamui , Shakotan, and Ōgon?
... that the Mia Mia Bridge across Australia's Campaspe River was built in 1868 with trusses recovered from a sunken ship at the bottom of Hobsons Bay near Melbourne?
... that the decision to make Fabiana García Lago's character in the telenovela Sos mi vida a Paraguayan immigrant came after she tried the Guaraní language accent during the first day of filming?
... that NASCAR star Kyle Busch praised then 14-year-old John Hunter Nemechek after they raced against each other?
... that the Prentice Women's Hospital Building in Chicago, a cloverleaf-shaped building which pioneered computer-aided design techniques, is threatened with demolition?
... that the filly Habibti set a track record to win the 1983 Prix de l'Abbaye in France, and was named Horse of the Year in Britain later that year?
... that the song "Mayday" by Lecrae has "chaotic" and "funky" production?
... that Albert Einstein's letter to the 1948 World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace was censored to remove his call for a world government?
... that Eye on It by TobyMac beat Slaughterhouse for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200, and was the first Christian album to hit No. 1 since 1997?
... that Gary Pearson scored his first goal for Darlington with a 25 yard free kick against Luton Town in January 2002, although his team went on to lose 3–2?
... that the survivors of the bombing of HMS Pandora were onboard HMS Olympus when she was sunk?
... that a side effect of the laws passed by the 16th Arizona Territorial Legislature was that fiestas were effectively ended within the territory?
... that the Irish-bred British-trained racehorse Chief Singer won the 1984 St. James's Palace Stakes by eight lengths and set a track record at Royal Ascot?
... that fragments of wall painting from the Japanese Buddhist temple of Kamiyodo Haiji have been dated to the late Asuka period, as early as those of Hōryū-ji?
... that 2009's Marathi film Gandha, written and directed by Sachin Kundalkar, blends three different stories with a common factor of the human sense of smell?
... that after New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, suffragist Kate Sheppard enrolled women at Tuam Street Hall?
... that in 1997 Zaire-born baseball player Ntema Ndungidi became the highest ranked Major League Baseball draftee from Quebec?
... that the early talkie Karnadi Anemer Bangkong was based on a popular novel but ultimately controversial?
... that 15-time Paralympic medallist swimmer Sebastián Rodríguez lost the use of his legs after going on hunger strike during an 84-year prison sentence?
... that the red cushion star turns part of its stomach inside out and engulfs sponges, other invertebrates and detritus?
... that an elephant-headed goddess, often referred to as the female Ganesha, exists in the Hindu pantheon?
... that Numaga was one of the leaders of the Paiutes during the Paiute War of 1860 on Pyramid Lake, Utah Territory?
... that British para-equestrian Deborah Criddle and Figaro IX were the first rider and horse pairing to win three gold medals at consecutive European, World and Paralympic competitions?
... that the foul-smelling greenish-brown slime in the lattice of the fungus Colus hirudinosus attracts insects that help disperse its spores?
... that there are ruins of an ancient Roman temple off of the road between Rashaya and Aaiha?
... that three years after arriving at the Fäviken estate as a sommelier, Magnus Nilsson had become head chef and the restaurant was ranked the 34th best in the world?
... that the Tantric Japanese form of the Hindu Ganesha – "God of Bliss" – depicted as an elephant-headed human couple in a sexual embrace, represents the unity of opposites?
... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?
... that the Poland–Russia border, now only 232 km (144 mi) long, used to be much longer?
... that the Jiwani Coastal Wetland in Pakistan is an important nesting site for the endangered olive ridley and green turtles?
... that fossils of Eucommia constans are the youngest and most southerly examples of Eucommia in North America?
... that in July 1992 a plane taking off from Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport crashed and killed 108 people on board?
... that "Episode 7" was the only episode of Twin Peaks directed by its co-creator Mark Frost?
... that Michelin starred chef Sat Bains only chose to study catering because of the number of girls in the course?
... that Stewart Iron Works was once the U.S.'s largest supplier of cemetery fences and gates?
... that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Patrick Anderson retired in 2008 to become a musician, but returned to win his third Paralympic gold medal at London 2012?
... that an independent Gibraltar Port Authority was formed three hundred years after Queen Anne granted Free Port status to Gibraltar?
... that Leopold Loeffler, who worked on commissions for the court of Franz Joseph, became the professor at the School of Fine Arts in Kraków on the invitation of national painter Jan Matejko?
... that one television critic was "freaked out" by the lack of swearing in Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course?
... that bassoonist and composer Victor Bruns, who played at the Leningrad Opera and with the Staatskapelle Berlin, composed six ballets and four bassoon concertos?
... that the fruits of the Lecythis ampla tree resemble little wooden pots with lids?
... that carbon neutral fuels have been proposed to store wind power, minimizing intermittency problems and enabling its use with conventional vehicles and existing natural gas pipelines?
... that Steve Donoghue won his fourteenth and final British Classic Race at the 1937 Epsom Oaks, riding the filly Exhibitionnist (sic)?
... that the Tribune covering Hillsboro, Oregon, is Pamplin Media Group's first new paper in a decade?
... that the Finnish Voima, launched in 1952, was the first icebreaker in the world with two bow propellers ?
... that the amber pen shell spends its adult life almost completely buried in the seabed in a single location?
... that Ragnar Hvidsten was the first Norwegian to play in the FA Amateur Cup?
... that the World War I American War Memorial at Gibraltar also commemorates Operation Torch of World War II?
... that when the filly Tiffin retired from racing in 1929, the press described her as "the fastest horse in the world, irrespective of age or sex"?
... that Edwin Swope was the only warden of Alcatraz who did not have an escape attempt during his tenure?
... that Banbhore is an ancient city in Pakistan dating back to the first century BC, which contains the remains of one of the earliest mosques in the region?
... that Romanian Sandu Tudor, once a Futurist poet and libelous journalist, was proposed for canonization?
... that a tomahawk may be used to split an angle into three equal parts, despite the impossibility of doing so with compass and straightedge?
... that Dave Frishberg wrote the lyrics to "Van Lingle Mungo" while reading a baseball encyclopedia?
... that Lanre Oyebanjo scored York City's second goal in their 2–0 victory over Newport County in the 2012 FA Trophy Final, hosted at Wembley Stadium?
... that when the Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM lens was introduced in 2010, it became the widest ultra wide-angle rectilinear zoom camera lens commercially available?
... that in 1920, British Commander (and later Admiral of the Fleet) Bruce Fraser was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Baku?
... that after starting his culinary career making bacon sandwiches in a café, Steve Drake went on to win a Michelin star as head chef at two restaurants?
... that the fossil genus Astreptolabis is one of four described Burmese amber earwigs?
... that Alicia Keys' debut performance of her new single "Girl on Fire" featured a gymnastics display by 2012 Olympics gold medalist Gabby Douglas?
... that the Lal Suhanra National Park is the only biosphere reserve in Pakistan recognized by UNESCO?
... that at 58 feet (18 m), the Buddha Statue in Hyderabad is the world's tallest monolithic statue of Buddha?
... that coordinators of the Square Roots festival in Chicago wanted 80 to 100 percent of their vendors to come from neighborhood businesses?
... that Alexandros Kasmeridis saved two penalties in Thrasyvoulos' penalty shoot-out victory over Levadiakos in the fourth round of the 2011–12 Greek Football Cup?
... that one reviewer thought that the final battleground of video game Mass Effect 2: Arrival broke the laws of physics?
... that the split-nose crab was first found at a depth of 500 metres (1,600 ft) in the waters near the Aleutian Islands?
... that after retiring from baseball, Allie Clark worked for the Iron Workers Local 373 for thirty years and served on the city council of South Amboy, New Jersey?
... that the archaeological mound at Tell Aran in northern Syria is the largest tell in the Aleppo region?
... that the edible mushroom Agaricus bernardii is often found along roads that have been de-iced with salt?
... that at 270 feet (82 m), the US 12–St. Joseph River Bridge is the longest surviving camelback bridge in the U.S. state of Michigan?
... that Japan's first wooden roller coaster appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla?
... that a stele of Egyptian king Seti I was found built into the wall of a local house in the village of Tell Shihab in southern Syria?
... that, Jesús Blancornelas, a Mexican journalist, risked his life while reporting on the Tijuana Cartel, the drug trade in Mexico, and political corruption?
... that despite being the son of a two-time NASCAR champion and brother of a Daytona 500 winner, Randy Baker never finished better than 17th in NASCAR competition?
... that Dedeline Mibamba Kimbata, a member of DR Congo's first Paralympic team, competed in a wheelchair donated by Kenyan Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike?
... that excavations at the town of Jayrud in the Qalamoun Mountains of Syria produced microliths, blades, scrapers and other lithic tools dating back to the Natufian culture?
... that it took 120 years before it was discovered that deep-water Stokes waves, named after George Gabriel Stokes, are unstable?
... that more than half of the Kappa V Archaeological Site has been destroyed by wave wash erosion?
... that it is theorized that Jews' Gate Cemetery in Gibraltar was founded on Windmill Hill due to the expulsion of Jews mandated under the Treaty of Utrecht?
... that the German left-liberal daily paper Berliner Börsen-Courier published stock exchange data from 1868, had a sports reporter from 1885 and made playwright Bertolt Brecht known in 1922?
... that the Phoenician settlement of Tell Sukas in modern Syria was located at the center of the fertile plain of Jableh on a hill with access to two natural harbors?
... that sociology in Russia was declared a "bourgeois pseudo-science" and banned from the 1930s to the 1950s?
... that the Waiʻoli Tea Room in Hawaii began as a Salvation Army job skills program?
... that Tracey Shelton had to run from the debris cloud after photographing the explosion from a tank shell in Aleppo, Syria, that killed three opposition fighters?
... that the proposed German ancillary copyright would affect sites that used even short snippets of news articles?
... that Arabian horse breeder William Robinson Brown founded the Maynesboro Stud 100 years ago?
... that Ian McEwan dedicated his latest novel, Sweet Tooth, to his friend, the late Christopher Hitchens?
... that the creator of the video game Happy Wheels used graphic violence to counter the unrealistic consequences in other games?
... that U.S. volleyball player Phil Eatherton set three career records at Ball State University and made it to the "Showcase Showdown" on The Price is Right?
... that the extinct earwig Tytthodiplatys is the oldest confirmed member of its family?
... that the Braldu River is a river in Skardu District of Gilgit–Baltistan, that originates from the Baltoro and Biafo Glaciers?
... that 2012 British Paralympic medallist Stephanie Millward set the British record for the 100 metre backstroke at the age of 15, before she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis?
... that St Matthew's Church in Burnley, Lancashire, England, was rebuilt after it burnt down on Christmas Day in 1927?
... that Yusak Pakage was sentenced to ten years in prison after raising a flag?
... that the Collegiate Church of San Gimignano has a fresco cycle said to have been painted by a man who never lived?
... that John Van Antwerp MacMurray predicted the American war with Japan in a 1935 memorandum commissioned by the U.S. State Department?
... that most of 2012 Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Cody Meakin's classmates walked to their year 12 formal, donating saved transportation money for his post-accident rehabilitation?
... that the upcoming comedy film, The Hangover Part III, is set in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Tijuana?
... that Tonga was one of the 45 countries that sent only a single athlete for the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia eocenica have been found with latex covered fossils?
... that the American colt Black Tarquin won the British Classic St. Leger Stakes in 1948, and was later rated as the best British-trained racehorse of his generation?
... that the Duvensee paddle on display at the Archaeological Museum Hamburg is the world's second oldest known paddle?
... that Randy Velarde turned the eleventh unassisted triple play in Major League Baseball history on May 29, 2000?
... that Jacques Pic became a chef to win back the Michelin stars that had been lost at his family's restaurant?
... that Tyler Cowen, an economics blogger, argues in the ebook The Great Stagnation that the Internet has not made us richer?
... that the Sharif family is a Pakistani political family, largely involved in the country's politics through the Pakistan Muslim League (N)?
... that Jane Stanford , co-founder of Stanford University, ordered her jewels to be sold to provide funding for the Stanford University Libraries?
... that Diego Ramírez de Arellano set a southern navigation record in 1619 that was unbroken for 150 years?
... that the frugal appropriations authorized by the 14th Arizona Territorial Legislature were just one reason the session was nicknamed the "Measly Fourteenth"?
... that the cyanobacterium Nostoc commune can withstand desiccation and repeated freezing and thawing?
... that fakanau, considered by Christian missionaries to be evil dancing, eventually disappeared from Tuvalu?
... that George Bray's association with Burnley F.C. as a player, coach, kit man and supporter spanned seven decades?
... that in 1977, the Douglas Stenstrom Bridge in Indian Mound Village, Florida, replaced the Osteen Bridge, a 1920s hand-turned swing bridge that had become an unsafe driving hazard?
... that during the bird flu pandemic of 2005, chef Alexis Gauthier removed bird related products from the menu at his Michelin starred restaurant in London?
... that the silver modius on display at the Forum Amastrianum in Constantinople represented the standard for this Roman unit of capacity in the Byzantine Empire?
... that although Czech psychiatrist and neuropathologist Oskar Fischer made significant contributions to the description of Alzheimer's disease, his works largely remained unknown until 2008?
... that Abraham Avigdorov received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine?
... that Moubray House, one of the oldest buildings on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, was once the premises of Archibald Constable, the owner of the Encyclopædia Britannica?
... that Parasola auricoma mushrooms are short-lived, typically lasting only a few hours?
... that Podoserpula has a unique form of fruit body not known in any other fungi?
... that 2012 British Paralympian Helena Lucas was the only female sailor in the 16-boat fleet for the 2.4 mR event, in which she won her nation's first ever Paralympic sailing gold medal?
... that Edmond Panariti, the current minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania, is the first Albanian government minister to visit Australia?
... that DDG Hansa lost all but one of its ships in World War I and all its ships in and after World War II and still became the world's largest heavy lift shipping company?
... that despite being over 70 years old, the Byzantine general Bessas was entrusted with overall command of the Byzantine forces in the Lazic War?
... that Poczta Królewiecka, published 1718–20 in Królewiec (Königsberg), was the second oldest Polish newspaper?
... that the investigation into the murder of Celine Figard saw the UK's first national DNA screening programme in the hunt for a suspect?
... that Steven Rodriguez became the first player selected in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft to reach the major leagues?
... that the Madras State awarded 75 acres (30 ha; 0.117 sq mi) to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for the establishment of Central Leather Research Institute?
... that nearly half the students in the Harvard "Introduction to Congress" course were implicated in a cheating investigation?
... that tenor Martin Petzold, a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor and a singer of Bach's Evangelist parts with the group, co-published 800 Years Thomana?
... that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California?
... that Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo, a onetime resident of Yonkers, New York, personally chose the location for the city's new post office in 1916?
... that the larvae of the terrestrial Ceylon caecilian have gills and a tail fin and develop in water?
... that the village of Najran in Syria was named after the Najran of South Arabia, whose inhabitants, the Balharith, fled to Syria in the 520s?
... that the British racehorse Teenoso won the 1983 Derby Stakes with the slowest winning time of this race in the 20th century?
... that María Soledad Iparraguirre was only the second woman to serve on the executive of the Basque separatist group ETA and was wanted by Spanish police for participation in at least 14 assassinations?
... that Ed, Edd n Eddy's TV movie series finale, Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, premiered on November 8, 2009, and achieved high ratings success for Cartoon Network?
... that despite being founded in 1984, the Roux Scholarship contest was only first televised in 2012?
... that the Pyrenean desman is believed to be almost extinct in the southern area of its range in the Iberian Peninsula due to changes to its habitat?
... that Ryan Westmoreland, considered one of the best prospects in baseball, has had brain surgery twice to correct a cavernous malformation?
... that the town of Muzayrib in southern Syria served as the first major resting place along the Hajj caravan route from Damascus to Mecca during the Ottoman era?
... that indigenous Australian rapper Briggs toured with Ice Cube, who he described as "my favourite rapper since I was a kid", just a year after releasing his first EP?
... that in May 1936, on orders of the Nazis, Expressionist artworks were burnt in the furnace of the Kronprinzenpalais, which housed the modern art division of the Berlin National Gallery?
... that 2012 British Paralympic silver medallist archer Mel Clarke had to remodel her shooting style after Lyme disease caused her to lose her sight in one eye?
... that the Dutch television series De Kris Pusaka draws from Indonesian stories about krisses?
... that Colonel Joseph H. Tucker, twice commander of the Camp Douglas (Chicago) prison camp during the American Civil War, was never mustered into the Union Army?
... that Jamal Fyfield assisted Matty Blair's winning goal for York City in the 2011–12 FA Trophy semi-final second leg against Luton Town with a cross from the left flank?
... that in a move to accommodate Muslims, the West African Catholic trade union CATC replaced the word "Christians" in its name with "Believers"?
... that Ragnhildur Helgadóttir became the youngest female member of the Icelandic Parliament when she was elected in 1965 at the age of 26?
... that the town of Jindires in Syria was the site of a decisive Roman victory against the Parthians in 38 BC?
... that in 1979 Irish horse trainer Edward O'Grady became only the fifth individual to train the winner of the Galway Plate and the Galway Hurdle in the same year?
... that the Suru River, a tributary of the Indus River, originates from the Panzella glacier and flows entirely in the Kargil district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir?
... that near-death experience researcher Karlis Osis said his research created a "diminishing fear of death"?
... that Roderich Kreile , the 28th cantor at Dresden's Kreuzkirche, led the boys' choir Dresdner Kreuzchor in recording music by Gottfried August Homilius, the 15th cantor?
... that the Alcatraz water tower was covered in graffiti during the island's occupation by Native Americans?
... that wheelchair tennis player Andrew Lapthorne won the doubles tournament at his very first Grand Slam?
... that chef Alain Ducasse opened his restaurant Le Louis XV following a challenge by the Prince of Monaco?
... that to date, the 2009 song "The Climb" performed by Miley Cyrus, is her first and only single to peak at number one on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary chart?
... that 2012 British Paralympic gold medallist Sophie Wells was the first para-equestrian rider to win an international, non-disabled dressage competition?
... that during Operation Mardonius in 1943 SOE agents used magnetic limpet mines to sink ships at Oslo harbour?
... that Chilean Mexican band Los Ángeles Negros adopted that name after a member's mother said she liked it?
... that NYPD detective Barney Ruditsky once stopped a robbery with the help of his wife on their wedding anniversary?
... that the filly Saucy Sue won the 1000 Guineas, the Epsom Oaks, and the Coronation Stakes in 1925, helping Lord Astor become Britain's champion owner that season?
... that a week before he graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Hugo Johnstone-Burt was approached to play Fish Lamb in Cloudstreet?
... that the Royal Naval Hospital Gibraltar was the first military hospital to receive a Baby Friendly Award from UNICEF?