derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in ancient Rome, a horse was sacrificed to the deity Mars each year on the Ides of October, with ceremonies in various venues involving different parts of the horse's body?
... that the NYPD Blue episode "Hearts and Souls" was the last regular appearance of the character Bobby Simone, a role for which Jimmy Smits won a Golden Globe Award?
... that when he was 18, pianist Percival Mackey toured with a band consisting of a 72-year-old trumpeter and a fiddler who was often drunk?
... that the state of Qin, predecessor of China's Qin Dynasty, was founded by Feizi, a horse breeder?
... that French revolutionary forces in Rennes evicted almost forty nuns from their abbey residence, the Palais Saint-Georges , and used the building as a barracks?
... that the leadership of Zen Buddhism's Sōtō School under Koun Ejō led to a schism of the community within only a generation of its founding?
... that the proceeds of the 2008 Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup were donated to a two-year-old child diagnosed with a rare form of cancer?
... that in 2010, artist Neltje Doubleday Kings made the largest estate gift ever to the University of Wyoming?
... that the fossil pelican Pelecanus schreiberi from North Carolina was possibly the largest species of pelican ever?
... that Blake Beavan, the losing pitcher of Philip Humber's perfect game, threw a perfect game of his own while in high school?
... that Krasta, the highest town in Albania, was founded in 1970 as a chromium mining town?
... that while serving as mayor of Portland, Oregon, Allen G. Rushlight once climbed inside the city crematory to repair it?
... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota?
... that Da-Don took the office of chief rabbi of Croatia in 1998, more than fifty years since the last office-holder?
... that Paul Burnum did not lose a game as head coach of the Tuscaloosa High School football team from 1925 to 1929, and each of his five teams were later recognized as Alabama state champions?
... that the eastern edge of Philipshill Wood is believed to mark the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia?
... that former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajinder Sachar was taken into custody at the age of eighty-seven for defying a ban on public speaking?
... that the Australian native apricot is also known as gumbi gumbi or cumby cumby?
... that South African cricketer Ernest Halliwell was the first wicket-keeper to put raw steaks in his gloves to protect his hands?
... that the subversive newsletter made for German occupation authorities by the Polish underground Tatra Confederation was so good the Germans thought it was produced internally?
... that Indonesian politician Marzuki Darusman was burned in effigy in Sri Lanka for his investigation into that country's civil war?
... that from 1944, subscribers to Asia Raja were charged an extra fee for supporting forced labourers?
... that Czech international footballer Patrik Gedeon went to play club football in Liechtenstein in the middle of his career?
... that when Roman consul Lucius Postumius Megellus left office in 290 BCE, he was fined 500,000 asses, at the time the largest fine issued to a Roman citizen?
... that the larval form of the bobtail snipe eel Neocyema erythrosoma was first described more than 60 years before the adult fish was discovered?
... that the Broadway–Livingston Avenue Historic District in Albany, New York, does not include the intersection of those two streets?
... that historian Yang Kuan believed that the history of China's Xia Dynasty was pure mythology?
... that Benji documents the life and 1984 death of Ben Wilson, who was at the time considered the best U.S. high school basketball player?
... that The Poznań was copied by Manchester City football fans after their team played Polish team Lech Poznań?
... that Gouffier of Lastours tried to bring home a lion after the First Crusade?
... that Madonna's song "Gang Bang" was inspired by the films of director Quentin Tarantino?
... that more than 500,000 people attended the free Simon & Garfunkel concert in Central Park ?
... that 126 people complained to Ofcom because Emmerdale character Ivan Jones kissed another male?
... that the Togo women's national football team participated in the 2007 Tournoi de Cinq Nations in Ouagadougou but was disqualified after the first match for sending a club team?
... that radio newsreader Martin Gunnar Knutsen was the first to present the news of the death of Joseph Stalin to a Norwegian audience?
... that Rocher Rond, France, is the highpoint of the Vercors Regional Park, despite not being a part of the Vercors?
... that although the newspaper Bauer und Arbeiter rapidly gained popularity amongst German colonists in Azerbaijan, it was closed down after only a few months of existence?
... that the National Stock Car Racing Association and NASCAR would have merged had Bruton Smith not been drafted to serve in the Korean War?
... that the Kelihos botnet was once capable of sending 4 billion spam emails a day?
... that James Bond creator Ian Fleming named his villain in The Man with the Golden Gun after the first cousin of WWI flying ace James Scaramanga?
... that 2007 Monte Carlo Rally was based in Valence, Drôme, and it only visited Monte Carlo for the final Special Stage of the event?
... that consul general Peter J. K. Petersen headed the organizing committee for a speed skating race at Frognerkilen in 1885?
... that the futuristic Fringe episode "Letters of Transit" contained references to The Prisoner and Star Wars?
... that Queen Tin Hinan, the legendary "mother" of the Tuareg people, was excavated in Algeria in 1925 by the adventurer Byron Khun de Prorok?
... that the lifting of Chikaraishi ("strength stones") was an organised sport in early Meiji-era Japan?
... that Baudry's painting The Pearl and the Wave was bought by French Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo for 20,000 francs?
... that Yvonne van Mentz scored South Africa's first century in Women's Test cricket?
... that the 2011 film Asmaa is the first feature-length Egyptian drama film to present AIDS patients sympathetically?
... that the Idle Thumbs video game culture podcast organized a game jam based on a parody of Peter Molyneux which produced over 280 games?
... that larvae of the Ouachita creekshell attach themselves to fish hosts as part of their life cycle?
... that Frank Graham called Dave Bancroft "the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived"?
... that The Great Enigma by Tomas Tranströmer mainly consists of haiku poems?
... that casino operator Full House Resorts has been led by a horse breeder, a rock star, and Lee Iacocca?
... that the actor who played Lord Alex Oakwell on Emmerdale was reportedly "thrilled" to get the part and described the character as "weak-willed, arrogant and motivated by self-preservation"?
... that the endangered shrub Hakea dohertyi has a range of only 18 square kilometres within Australia's Kanangra-Boyd National Park?
... that the only team Guinea-Bissau women's national football team has played a FIFA-recognised match against is Guinea?
... that although the Sudanese Anti-Imperialist Front had opposed a union with Egypt, it sent volunteers to help the Egyptian side in the 1956 Suez Crisis?
... that in 1943, White Vision became one of the first pigeons to be awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be "the animals' Victoria Cross"?
... that the Toklu Dede Mosque , a former Byzantine church in Istanbul, was destroyed with its frescoes by its owner in 1929?
... that the English association football league, the Premier League, will give awards to mark the league's 20 seasons anniversary?
... that for the film Monster Mutt, the "mutt" was a larger-than-life animatronic puppet requiring five persons to operate?
... that Lake Manassas, a reservoir operated by the City Council of Manassas, Virginia, to provide drinking water to the city, is not located in Manassas?
... that Grafton Tyler Brown was the first African American artist to document California and the Pacific Northwest?
... that the planned Timna Airport near Eilat, Israel, will be named after Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in the Columbia disaster, and his son Assaf, who died in a flight training accident?
... that Jack Zeller, who was credited with building the Detroit Tigers' farm system, proposed a draft that would have ended the use of farm systems in baseball?
... that Chrisye was so disgusted with his first major film role that he never made another movie?
... that St Lawrence's Church, Appleby , in Cumbria, contains the monuments of Lady Anne Clifford and her mother Margaret, Countess of Cumberland?
... that the Gay Women's Alternative in Washington, D.C., began as a home gathering called the Gay Women's Open House at Lilli Vencez's home in 1971?
... that baseball pitcher Tyler Thornburg has drawn comparisons to Cy Young Award-winner Tim Lincecum?
... that a "powerful chorus" on a quotation from the Sermon on the Mount forms the core of Bach's third cantata for Leipzig, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte, BWV 24?
... that while the Oman women's national football team has yet to play a game, a club from Oman played matches against national teams from Jordan and Syria?
... that Atlanta Falcons coach Jerry Glanville described Casey Elliott as "a super, super kid"?
... that the Russian guitar's D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning approximates the major-thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#?
... that Cale Yarborough won the 1976 Gwyn Staley 400 by beating both Richard Petty and the pace car out of the pits?
... that Joshua Jefferis, the only male Australian artistic gymnast at the London Games, was initially passed over?
... that Hal Elliott led the National League in games played by a pitcher in 1930, appearing in 48 games for the last place Philadelphia Phillies?
... that eggs of the greenhouse frog are laid on land and have been found under a flower pot?
... that Marie Bankhead Owen was the aunt of actress Tallulah Bankhead and helped create the Alabama state motto?
... that Holocaust denial and 9/11 conspiracy theories are part of what Damian Thompson describes in Counterknowledge as a "pandemic of credulous thinking"?
... that Indonesian songwriter Maia Estianty is descended from the National Hero Tjokroaminoto?
... that Ross Youngs is the member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame who died at the youngest age?
... that the Keśin were long-haired ascetic wanderers with mystical powers described in the Rigveda?
... that Catholic priest Matija Škerbec was once imprisoned in Slovenia for his political activities and later became a central figure in Slovenian emigration to the United States?
... that the mountain Piotruś in the Low Beskid range is the site of a pond and stream where Saint John of Dukla is said to have rested?
... that extant Burmese chronicles are the most extensive and detailed historical records available in Southeast Asia but many lesser known chronicles remain unstudied?
... that pilgrims would leap off a cliff named Bhairava Jhamp, near the Chorabari Glacier?
... that While She Sleeps' upcoming studio album This Is the Six is titled to reflect the band's connection with their fans?
... that 2008 and 2012 Australian artistic gymnastic Olympian Ashleigh Brennan drinks coffee before every competition?
... that "I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked" marked Katherine Heigl's final appearance on Grey's Anatomy?
... that as late as 1945, between 450 and 500 stallions owned by the U.S. Army Remount Service bred with over 11,000 civilian-owned mares, producing 7,293 foals?
... that Chrisye was so disappointed with Pantulan Cita that he took a two-year sabbatical?
... that the Brown Thrasher was originally nominated as the state bird of Georgia by schoolchildren in 1928, but wasn't officially adopted until 1970?
... that the nine-armed sea star can turn its stomach inside out and engulf "mouthfuls" of sediment and detritus?
... that the Brown Treecreeper spirals up and down tree trunks while foraging?
... that Dangote Cement's production facility in Obajana, Nigeria, is the largest cement plant in Sub-Saharan Africa?
... that Hayscastle in Pembrokeshire once contained a Norman motte and an RAF Chain Home?
... that theatre director and TV comedy producer Olga Lipińska launched her Cabaret under Soviet-style socialism hoping to make the world a better place?
... that Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support?
... that pitcher Johnny Gee, sometimes known as the "$75,000 Lemon", was the tallest person ever to play Major League Baseball until Randy Johnson debuted in 1988?
... that the Himalayan Lidder Valley lies in the Vale of Kashmir and was formed by a river that originates at the Kolhoi Glacier?
... that the Côte d'Ivoire women's national football team is Africa's sixth best women's football team while women's football is the fourth most popular sport in the country?
... that the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., has served heads of state and royalty?
... that the Ombla River near Dubrovnik, Croatia, is claimed to be the shortest river in the world, flowing approximately 30 metres (98 feet) before emptying into the Adriatic Sea?
... that 2012 Australian weightlifting Olympian Seen Lee won Australia's first women's weightlifting Commonwealth Games medal in 2002 and Australia's first medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that the hypothallus of a slime mold is produced by the plasmodium at the beginning of its fruiting?
... that triple-resonance NMR spectroscopy is an integral part of determining the structure of proteins?
... that SS-Standartenführer Ernst Damzog personally selected staff for the killing centre in Chełmno (Kulmhof) in Reichsgau Wartheland and supervised its daily operation from 1941?
... that Tropical Storm Debby is the earliest fourth named storm in the Atlantic Basin on record?
... that Leavine Family Racing is headquartered in Texas but races from a shop in North Carolina?
... that 2012–13 will be York City's first season back in the Football League since relegation in 2004?
... that in November 2008, the German Consulate in Bangalore became the first Consulate in the city to start operations?
... that while the practice of burying horses with people was widespread among Indo-Aryan and other peoples, there is only one known example of someone buried with a cow in Europe?
... that the 1973 completion of the Dworshak Dam , one of the tallest in the United States, wiped out one of the world's preeminent runs of steelhead trout?
... that Izetta Wesley, a female football administrator, believes the government of Liberia is insincere in how they treat the Liberia women's national football team?
... that the venomous box jellyfish (Chiropsalmus quadrumanus) once killed a child within forty minutes of his being stung?
... that General Manfred von Richthofen, like the air ace who was named after him and was his great-nephew, was awarded the "Blue Max" for his service in World War I?
... that Christian rock band Third Day, inspired by their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, aimed to show more of their southern roots in their 2010 album Move?
... that the Three Dikgosi Monument is the most visited tourist destination in Gaborone, Botswana?
... that geologist Richard Owen died of accidental poisoning after his grocer mistook a bottle of embalming fluid for mineral water?
... that alpine skier Kyrra Grunnsund was the second person to represent Australia at both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?
... that an Athenaeum review of his first published novel led George Gissing to describe critics as "unprincipled vagabonds"?
... that the 1169 Sicily earthquake happened on the eve of the feast of St. Agatha and killed many who were gathered in the Catania Cathedral for the feast?
... that William Shatner hosted Flick Flack (1974), a documentary television series about the film industry?
... that the Japanese release of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Alapalooza contained a bonus track of the artist singing one of the songs in Japanese?
... that six bankers spent more than £44,000 on wine at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant Pétrus, resulting in the chef giving them the food from their meal for free?
... that Nobel Prize for Physics-winner Isidor Isaac Rabi gave a speech about how an electric light works for his Bar Mitzvah?
... that astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett died when their plane crashed into the building where their spacecraft was being assembled?
... that Zac Efron and Bryan Silas drove the same race car on the same day in July 2011?
... that although a tsunami warning was issued 14 minutes after the 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, the first wave had struck the coast two minutes earlier?
... that Jessica Fox, daughter of French and Great Britain canoeing Olympians, will make her own Olympic canoeing debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that comedian Josh Wolf is currently working on an untitled project for FOX about his experiences as a single father?
... that the very rare ghost orchid was once found in Fiddler's Elbow National Nature Reserve, near Monmouth, Wales?
... that a flashing blue light, used to alert local skiers that fresh powder snow is falling at the Bridger Bowl Ski Area, sits atop the Hotel Baxter in Bozeman, Montana?
... that on his tenth album, Adentro, Ricardo Arjona included a song about menstruation?
... that Holy Cross Church, Gilling, was at one time referred to as Saint Helena's after the Roman Empress whom legend says discovered the True Cross?
... that by its third volume, the mythology of The X-Files had become so intriguing that series creator Chris Carter "had to blow it up, because he couldn't deal with it anymore"?
... that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was recognised as the best coach of the decade despite never winning the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award?
... that twenty-year-old Blake Gaudry started gymnastics when he was ten years old and will represent Australia in the trampoline event at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1971, Governor Tom McCall gave the James G. Blaine Society a boost when he invited tourists to come visit Oregon, but then added "for heaven's sake don't stay"?
... that the French paddle steamer Sphinx participated in the transfer of the Luxor Obelisk from Egypt to Paris?
... that Australian Kookaburra Daniel Hotchkis plays his club hockey for the Canberra Lakers in the Australian Hockey League?
... that a writers' strike in 2008 threatened the international fashion industry by leaving stars with nowhere to wear their red carpet gowns?
... that Erica Kennedy's first novel, Bling, reached 35th on the New York Times Best Seller list and was optioned for a movie?
... that the Stockton Cannery Strike of 1937, also called the "Spinach Riot", resulted in one death and 50 injuries and held up a $6 million crop?
... that Church Clothes by Christian rapper Lecrae was controversial because it was hosted by Don Cannon and criticized church hypocrisy?
... that Mark Jankowski, the Calgary Flames' first round draft pick in 2012, is the highest-ever draft pick out of a Canadian high school?
... that Juliet Opie Hopkins was known as the "Florence Nightingale of the South" and was given a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery?
... that the open-access journal PeerJ runs in the cloud on EC2 and S3?
... that Laura Basuki washed her hair with bottled water while shooting East of the Sun?
... that double silver Paralympic wheelchair rugby medalist Nazim Erdem became the first person with a spinal cord injury to paraglide solo?
... that Satria Mandala Museum in Jakarta has life-size statues of numerous National Heroes of Indonesia?
... that Spanish author J. J. Benítez has published more than 50 books in his career?
... that Height of the Rockies Provincial Park, in British Columbia, Canada, has one of the world's highest concentrations of mountain goats?
... that Matt Cain threw more pitches in his perfect game than any other perfect game pitcher before him?
... that the anarchist Lunigiana revolt was quashed by the use of summary executions?
... that the GDP generated in the city of Zagreb comprises 31.4% of Croatia's GDP, exceeding that of any other county of Croatia?
... that While She Sleeps' debut mini-album The North Stands for Nothing was given away free with an issue of Metal Hammer magazine?
... that Talbiseh, a small Syrian city, has been repeatedly attacked by the Syrian Army throughout the ongoing Syrian uprising for being a major opposition stronghold?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon-based MathStar, a fabless semiconductor company, raised US$137 million, but never made a profit before ceasing to exist?
... that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge live in a rented Anglesey farmhouse on the Bodorgan Hall estate?
... that in June 2012, Paralympic swimmer Brad Snyder became the world record holder for the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyles among fully blind athletes?
... that Nicolaus Ricii de Nucella Campli was a late-medieval papal singer whose only known manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1870?
... that Canadian artist Jubal Brown deliberately vomited primary colors on paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario?
... that the NOT Tower in Kraków was nicknamed Skeletor after it had been abandoned by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations and left unfinished for 30 years?
... that Norwegian IOC member Gerhard Heiberg recommended Oslo to bid with Hafjell and Kvitfjell as Alpine Skiing venues instead of Norefjell, to reduce their chances to host the 2018 Winter Olympics?
... that after defeating the Vietnamese Hồ dynasty in the Ming–Hồ War, the Chinese Ming empire annexed northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi province?
... that upon hearing of Khalid ibn al-Walid's reputation in battle, the Roman-led Arab Christian garrison of Arak peacefully surrendered their fort to his army?
... that Luciano Ercoli's 1972 film La morte accarezza a mezzanotte stars the director's wife, Nieves Navarro?
... that the term New Labour was coined by Tony Blair at the October 1994 Labour Party conference, following his election as leader of the Labour Party earlier that year?
... that cartoonist Jovan Prokopljević sells chess-themed prints of "gnomish" players at chess tournaments?
... that pale spear-nosed bats have up to twenty different calls, a similar vocal repertoire to many non-human primates?
... that Liuboslav Hutsaliuk was described as one of Ukraine's "first rate artists" living in the States?
... that after operating for a single year, the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail spent 35 years awaiting repair or replacement before it was finally demolished?
... that the 1969 Italian film Una sull'altra was filmed on location in the United States, including a scene shot in San Quentin State Prison's gas chamber?
... that the Saint Thomas Christian music of India may preserve elements of the earliest Christian music due to the Saint Thomas Christian community's isolation and resistance to outside influence?
... that German dressage coach Uwe Schulten-Baumer trained two riders who won a combined total of nine Olympic Gold medals?
... that the title of the Colin Bateman novel Cycle of Violence refers to a bicycle that the protagonist must ride whilst reporting on murders and court cases alike?
... that the Royal Navy's Kil class gunboats were designed to confuse observers in U-boats with their dazzle camouflage and double-ended hulls?
... that over five hundred Ainu hilltop forts, known as chashi, have been identified in Hokkaidō?
... that Bach's chorale cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, for St. John's Day, is based on Luther's hymn about the baptism of Jesus?
... that Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen will be the first woman to represent Australia in boxing when she competes at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Adaptiv can hide a tank from thermal imaging systems, or make it look like a car?
... that the slime mold Willkommlangea reticulata is the only species of its genus?
... that a network of beacons in Okinawa helped enforce the Tokugawa policy of "national seclusion"?