derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that The Doobie Brothers' single "Minute by Minute" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year but lost to the band's prior single, "What a Fool Believes"?
... that Negro league baseball stars Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Oscar Charleston each played in Cuba for the Leopardos de Santa Clara?
... that the village of Poljance was mentioned in the Dečani decree, dating to 1330, issued by Serbian King Stephen Uroš III?
... that Hungarian Realist painter Tivadar Zemplényi was awarded a silver medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?
... that William Hiseland , the last survivor of the Battle of Edgehill, also fought at Malplaquet sixty-seven years later?
... that the Beirut-based actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué had to premiere a piece in Tokyo because it was banned at home?
... that New Jersey Assemblyman Gregory P. McGuckin is the son of the first directly elected mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey?
... that Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Maya Angelou's first book of essays, has been called one of her "wisdom books"?
... that French paleontologist Charles Lamberton scathingly rebutted a theory claiming that some extinct, giant lemurs were aquatic and that one of them was an "arboreal-aquatic acrobat"?
... that the tragic end of Raj Kapoor's film Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release?
... that the second ship of the Japanese Ibuki class of heavy cruisers was scrapped less than a month after she was laid down in order to clear her slipway for an aircraft carrier?
... that Animal Justice Party, federally registered in May 2011, is the first Australian political party dedicated to animal rights issues?
... that a Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court was removed from office for not removing a granite monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama?
... that Sir Peter Lely's depiction of naval officer Sir Jeremiah Smith has been called "one of the finest portraits of the age"?
... that Benito Mussolini admitted that one of the causes of the Italian defeat at the Battle of Himara was the high morale of the Greek troops?
... that prosimian primates like lemurs and slow lorises have a "second tongue" called a sublingua, which they use to clean their toothcomb?
... that the Samut Prakan radiation accident resulted from old teletherapy heads left lying around in a car park?
... that unlike all modern Thoroughbreds, the 1785 Derby winner Aimwell was not descended in the male line from either the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian, or the Byerley Turk?
... that findings of Cylindroteuthis and other belemnites in Greenland suggest that an early form of the Gulf Stream existed as early as the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous)?
... that Adolf Carl Noé challenged disbelief in the possibility of North American coal balls by presenting a wheelbarrow full of them?
... that Theological College, a Roman Catholic seminary in Washington, D.C., educates seminarians from over 30 dioceses around the world?
... that according to The New York Times, the "overwhelmingly young" Local Coordination Committees of Syria are starting to "emerge as a pivotal force" in Syria?
... that Rhodesian soccer captain Bobby Chalmers, a white man, was assisted in his leadership of the mostly black national team by his proficiency in both Ndebele and Shona?
... that a cluster of streets in Jerusalem's Mekor Baruch neighborhood are named after the Maccabees, heroes of the Hanukkah story?
... that the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake caused Hebgen Lake, near Yellowstone National Park, to recede 22 feet (6.7 m), leaving a wide gravel beach along the lakefront of Lonesomehurst Cabin ?
... that attackers broke the legs and hands of journalist Tipu Sultan after he implicated a Bangladeshi MP in an arson attack on a girls' school?
... that Edna Clarke Hall's many drawings and prints based on Wuthering Heights reflected the artist's own periods of emotional crisis?
... that the 2012 special election in Zambales' 2nd district was contested by members of three political families in the Philippines?
... that the Hook and Ladder No. 4 fire station in Albany, New York, is one of the few Dutch Colonial Revival buildings in the city?
... that Walter D'Arcy Ryan was the first to illuminate the whole of Niagara Falls and also the first to illuminate an entire skyscraper, the Singer Building?
... that although Hasan Dosti initially served as Minister of Justice of the quisling government of Albania during WWII he later joined the resistance movement?
... that upon its incorporation of classical studies in 1820, Romney Academy became one of the earliest institutions of higher education in the South Branch Potomac region of present-day West Virginia?
... that a slave found liable for the manifest form of the Roman delict of furtum ("theft") could be thrown from the Tarpeian Rock?
... that the extinct Argentinian bivalve Cuyopsis symmetricus was named for the symmetry of its rectangular shells?
... that the 1815 Derby winner Whisker was said to be "as near perfection as a horse could be"?
... that Iznik-tiled lunette panels believed to have been removed from Istanbul's Piyale Pasha Mosque in the 19th century are currently on display in various museums such as the Louvre and the V&A?
... that OK Go band member Damian Kulash was trained in stunt driving for the making of the music video for "Needing/Getting"?
... that following the 2011 Libyan civil war, many Tuareg fighters for the defeated government became members of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, seeking an independent Azawad?
... that Albert Kirchner, who made many pornographic films, was the first filmmaker to direct a film about the life of Christ?
... that Spanish character actor José Manuel Martín starred in one of the earliest Spaghetti Westerns, Savage Guns (1961), and went on to become one of the most prolific villains of the genre?
... that the bivalve mollusc Laternula elliptica was collected and first described on an expedition that included HMS Beagle?
... that Pedro Dibut was one of several white Cubans who played baseball in both the Negro leagues and the major leagues before integration?
... that Am Abend, a 1910 German film, was one of the earliest pornographic films?
... that actor Gerald Anthony was called "daytime's answer to Al Pacino" for his portrayal of fictional character Marco Dane on the American soap opera, One Life to Live?
... that the statue of Nelson Mandela located in Parliament Square was originally intended to be placed in Trafalgar Square, home to Nelson's Column?
... that with his team HIT Gorica, football manager Edin Osmanović was runner up in the Liga Simobil Vodafone and Slovenian Football Cup and participated in the UEFA Cup?
... that the crinite mariposa lily is found only on serpentine soils of the Klamath Mountains in Douglas County, Oregon?
... that German illustrator Günther Strupp survived Nazi imprisonment and became a contributor to Ulenspiegel, a magazine created by two other survivors?
... that the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory conducts scientific research on design and control of a class of robotic systems worn or operated by humans?
... that Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia created a fake Twitter account and pretended to be actor Lucas Neff as a practical joke?
... that the Great Mosque of Central Java has six hydraulic umbrellas to represent the six tenets of iman?
... that Douglas W. Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has overseen the forensic examination of over 10,000 human remains from over an 8,000-year time span?
... that György Zala's statue of the Archangel Gabriel won a "Grand Prix" at the Paris Exhibition of 1900?
... that the Ordovician age bivalve Villicumia has overlapping teeth seen in few other bivalves?
... that although the Treaty of Wallingford in 1153 required Roger de Bussy to give up Oxford Castle to King Henry II of England, it is not clear if de Bussy had control of the castle?
... that in the 1930s, James Herman Robinson, who later founded Operation Crossroads Africa, was chased by a lynch mob after encouraging African American churchgoers to vote?
... that the 1981 general strike in Bielsko-Biała in Poland forced several officials to lose their jobs?
... that members of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors include United Kingdom's most experienced and successful songwriters like Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and Elton John?
... that the work of the Italian American theater architect Eugene De Rosa includes The Broadway Theatre, built in 1924?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Moestopo convinced his soldiers to use manure-covered bamboo spears and eat cats?
... that a trumpet appears in movement 4 of the Bach cantata Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127 in a "grand, tableau-like evocation of the Last Judgement" ?
... that Jack le Goff has been called "one of the greatest coaches in three-day eventing history", as he built a multiple-medal-winning team from previously unknown horses and riders?
... that White Heat by Marco Pierre White was described by one critic as "possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years"?
... that "Sucker M.C.'s" was the B-side of the first single by Run–D.M.C.?
... that, while running against him for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Levi L. Lamborn gave William McKinley a red carnation, which became McKinley's good-luck charm for the rest of his life?
... that the wreck of the SS Port Nicholson, a British merchant ship sunk in 1942 by U-87, is reported to contain £2 billion worth of precious metals?
... that Fadhila Mubarak was arrested by Bahraini police after approaching a checkpoint with "pro-revolutionary" music playing from her car?
... that Russ Oliver, dubbed the "second Red Grange" at age 16, was the fourth University of Michigan athlete to win nine varsity letters in three major sports?
... that Ron Gilbert, the creator of the Monkey Island video game series, told Wired that he was an addict of the iPhone and Android video game Game Dev Story?
... that a portion of the song "Make Your Move" by the Christian rock band Third Day was used during the 2010 football game between Alabama and Penn State?
... that New Zealand politician William Thomson was "portly in presence and strong in voice, [and] could both be seen and [be] heard"?
... that Deptford Dockyard built and refitted ships for Cook, Vancouver, Bligh and Nelson, Drake was knighted there and Peter the Great was a visitor?
... that Caligula, "enflamed with lust", tried to detach wall paintings of Atalanta and Helen of Troy?
... that Turret 18B of Hadrian's Wall may have functioned as a workshop for the repair of shoes?
... that Fuahea Semi, a luger who sought to be the first Tongan at the Winter Olympic Games, used the name of a lingerie firm for more than two years?
... that the ISNSCE's Tulip Award in DNA Computing was first given in Leiden, whose botanical garden is known as the birthplace of the tulip culture in the Netherlands?
... that the racehorse Noble won the 1786 Derby Stakes despite 30/1 odds against him?
... that the title track of Otis Redding's Pain in My Heart was accused of being a copyright infringement due to similarities with Irma Thomas' "Ruler of My Heart"?
... that the Serbs of Kosovo held a non-binding referendum in which they rejected the Republic of Kosovo's authority in north Kosovo?
... that juvenile Graeffe's sea cucumbers mimic the bright colouring of the sea slug Phyllidia varicosa, which is toxic?
... that footballer Radim Nečas became the most expensive player in Czechoslovakia when Slavia Prague signed him for 25 million Czechoslovak koruna in 1992?
... that the writer of the Glee episode "On My Way" wrote "The First Time" first?
... that despite entering York City's team after the start of the 1983–84 season, Alan Pearce played 18 times that season for the side that won the Fourth Division?
... that although the Peshtigo Reef Light incorporates a keeper's dwelling, it has never been permanently manned?
... that botanist Reidar Jørgensen was a national champion in middle distance running?
... that Berlin's Theater des Westens was the stage for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with Anna Pavlova, the premiere of Henze's opera König Hirsch, and the premiere in German of My Fair Lady?
... that Igor Sikorsky told the Wings Club in 1964 that the helicopter would not be replaced by vertical take-off and landing aircraft?
... that the West Cornwall Bryophytes Site of Special Scientific Interest is one of only three sites in the British Isles where the rare liverwort Cephaloziella integerrima can be found?
... that the bark of Acacia reficiens is used to curdle milk, and its thorns used to pierce ears in the Kaokoveld region of Namibia?
... that actor and model Jan Uddin, best known for his role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Jalil Iqbal, was beaten by his father, who also refused to let him watch television or read books?
... that the outdoor spaces of Zeckendorf Towers make up the largest residential green roof in New York?
... that the Robert E. Howard Museum in Cross Plains, Texas, is devoted to the creator of Conan the Barbarian?
... that Russian geographer Andrey Kapitsa, discoverer of the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica , was a son of Pyotr Kapitsa, a Nobel Physics laureate known for low temperature research?
... that the 1982 Apple II game Bolo was praised in 2010 for its "surprisingly nice AI enemies"?
... that Miikka Kiprusoff became the 27th goaltender in National Hockey League history to win 300 games, reaching the milestone on February 8, 2012?
... that Édouard Joseph Dantan was only 19 when he won a commission for a large religious mural?
... that Jon Hunter Spence, author of the 2003 book Becoming Jane Austen, was born in the U.S. state of Georgia but died an Australian citizen?
... that the Missouri School for the Blind was the first school in the United States to adopt the Braille system?
... that in 420 BC, Herodotus claimed Nile crocodiles had a cleaning symbiosis with a bird ?
... that Ohio attorney William A. Lynch once tried a case with a future Supreme Court justice as co-counsel and a future U.S. President as opposing counsel?
... that in nine years of circulation, Indonesian literary magazine Poedjangga Baroe had 125 employees or contributors but never more than 150 subscribers?
... that the Millennium Park Bus Depot in Delhi overtook the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv to become the largest bus station in the world?
... that English filmmaker Greta Schiller directed the 1976 short film Greta's Girls which is one of the first documentaries that focuses on lesbians?
... that after the Krejci Dump became part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in Ohio, the National Park Service discovered the land qualified for Superfund cleanup?
... that in 1896, one newspaper described Charles Dashwood as 'the personification of kindness in his dealing with aborigines'?
... that the video game Dustforce won the $100,000 Independent Game Developers prize at the 2010 GDC Online conference?
... that editor Pap Saine was imprisoned for sedition after criticizing the Gambian government response to the murder of his co-editor and childhood friend?
... that in 1821, Gustavus became the first of four grey horses to win the Derby Stakes?
... that English photographer Alfred Horsley Hinton, a staunch defender of pictorialism, was once called a "slimy snake" by the American Edward Steichen?
... that the Russian R-29RMU2 Layner submarine-launched ballistic missile is claimed to be the best missile of its type in the world?
... that the Aquasar supercomputer architecture uses the heat it generates to warm a university campus?
... that the Cranberry Creek Archeological District contains several hundred ancient American Indian burial mounds?
... that Sir Thomas, a racehorse purchased by George, Prince of Wales, became the first horse owned by a member of the British Royal Family to win the Derby Stakes?
... that the chemistry between Slamet Rahardjo and Christine Hakim was chosen as the second best in Indonesian cinema?
... that Muddy Waters' Folk Singer has been described as one of the few "blues albums that qualify as audiophile recordings"?
... that journalist Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an artillery shell?
... that although Paul Kelly's 1985 first solo single "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" did not chart it was included in "Top 20 Sydney Songs" and "Top 25 Melbourne Songs"?
... that the hairy sea cucumber can eject its internal organs to confuse and deter predators?
... that the Duke of Wellington was almost kicked in the head by his war horse Copenhagen after riding the horse for 17 straight hours during the Battle of Waterloo?
... that the developers of Double Fine Happy Action Theater incorporated new game behavior in response to watching children play with their augmented reality game?
... that the ballad "Born Again" by the Christian rock band Third Day features vocals from Lacey Mosley of the alternative metal band Flyleaf?
... that St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside, founded as St. Luke's Hospital in 1873, began in a rented, two-room farmhouse in Jacksonville, Florida?
... that the six-rayed star often has to compete with the larger ochre starfish for food?
... that Don Barksdale became the first African American basketball player to play in the NBA All-Star Game after he was selected to play in the 1953 game?
... that Sir John Hill was tasked with preparing HMS Temeraire for sale and disposal, an event depicted by J. M. W. Turner in The Fighting Temeraire ?
... that the first parabolic ski, the Elan SCX, was initially dismissed as a fad but today is considered a major design breakthrough?
... that the Israeli city of Netanya and Jerusalem’s Straus Street were both named in honor of an owner of Macy's department store?
... that rookie cheerleaders from the Jacksonville Roar earn less than $100 for each Jaguars game?
... that former American football player Tony Dauksza in 1971 became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship, completing the journey by himself in a canoe?
... that according to Russian sociologist Daria Khaltourina , Protestantism positively influenced the capitalist development of social systems through the promotion of literacy and Bible reading?
... that the Pallava ruler Narasimhavarman I assumed the title "Vatapi-kondan" or "taker of Vatapi" after his victory in the Battle of Vatapi against the Chalukya king Pulakesin II in 642?
... that, starting in 1989, Selena's brother A.B. Quintanilla III was the main songwriter for her songs?
... that the extinct incense-cedar Calocedrus huashanensis is one of only three conifers found in the Ningming Formation?
... that the remains of moats, mottes and a moot are among the 27 scheduled monuments in Maidstone, England?
... that Columnea consanguinea have translucent red heart-shaped markings on their leaves to attract hummingbirds?
... that Arizona Territorial Governor Joseph Henry Kibbey preferred to be addressed by the title "judge"?
... that the White Horse Pagoda, Dunhuang, was built to commemorate "Tianliu", the white horse of the monk Kumārajīva, which carried Buddhist scriptures all the way from Kucha to Dunhuang in China?
... that As the World Turns heroine Ellen Lowell was the first major character in any serial to have an illegitimate child?
... that Zainal Mustafa, a National Hero of Indonesia, died in 1944, yet his family did not learn of it until 26 years later?
... that when "Who's That Chick?" debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart, Rihanna became only the fourth act in UK chart history to have at least three songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart?
... that Arizona Territorial Governor Richard Elihu Sloan had the legal authority to make appropriations and levy taxes without legislative approval?
... that Liverpool charity Bradbury Fields runs a club for blind people to ride tandem bicycles?
... that pairs of figures personifying the Church and the Synagogue are found in Christian Medieval art?
... that the name Pachylemur, now used for a type of extinct giant lemur, was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs?
... that Big Nose Kate, who claimed to have witnessed the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, spent her final years at the Arizona Pioneers' Home?
... that despite reaching the 1985 Football League Cup Final, both Norwich and Sunderland were relegated from the First Division at the end of that season?
... that the 1885 watercolor painting Love's Messenger shows several symbols of "beauty, love, and abundance of Venus and the sensuality and unpredictability of her son Cupid"?
... that the ESPN Rise boys' high school basketball All-American team was formerly known as the EA Sports All-American team?
... that after a close finish at the 1808 Derby Stakes, the owners of the second, third and fourth placed horses all challenged the winner, Pan, to match races?
... that the peachleaf willow was used in traditional Eskimo medicine to treat skin sores and watery eyes?
... that English poet and heritage campaigner Sir John Betjeman described the 15th-century Harmondsworth Great Barn as the "Cathedral of Middlesex"?
... that The Flower Book, an album of watercolors by Edward Burne-Jones , does not contain any paintings of flowers?
... that a live concert performance of the Third Day song "Lift Up Your Face" was released along with the rest of the concert to benefit 2011 Joplin Tornado relief for Joplin, Missouri?
... that current Australian Institute of Sport player Sara Blicavs is testing a sport bra for Berlei?
... that Henry Seymour was a secularist and anarchist who introduced the Edison Disc record to England in 1913?
... that in the Oval Office, George H. W. Bush used the C&O desk instead of the Resolute desk during his presidential term?
... that hip hop artist Run-D.M.C. performed their first paying gig at the Disco Fever nightclub in the Bronx?
... that the crab Dyspanopeus sayi may have lived in the Venetian Lagoon for 15 years before it was discovered?
... that the gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes polymerus will become sterile if there are no others within 20 cm (8 in)?
... that Calais came to be called the "brightest jewel in the English crown" owing to its great importance as the gateway for the tin, lead, cloth and wool trades?
... that when judges could not agree the winner of the Best in Show title at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1921, a referee gave the prize to the Cocker Spaniel Midkiff Seductive?
... that the German cellist Robert Hausmann was the dedicatee and first performer of both Bruch's Kol Nidrei and Brahms's Double Concerto in A minor?
... that the song "Call My Name" by Christian rock band Third Day was covered by country singer Keith Urban?
... that Josh Bell received a US$5 million signing bonus, a record for a player chosen in the second round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that art showing a fainting Virgin Mary became less common in the 16th century, after attacks by theologians?
... that the flat-headed crocodilian relative Aegisuchus had a circular projection on top of its skull that may have served as an eyespot in mating displays?
... that between 1968 and 1971 English non-league football team Sutton Athletic F.C. won three successive promotions whilst also winning three successive league cups?
... that Adelbert Theodor Wangemann recorded the voice of Helmuth von Moltke in 1890, the only known recording of someone born in the 18th century?
... that Jonathan Harvey visited Chamonix to sample a thunderclap for use in his opera Wagner Dream?
... that Queen Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 descendants of her first Corgi Susan?
... that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?
... that girih tiling patterns used by medieval Islamic artisans in some cases exhibited quasicrystalline tiling, five centuries before Penrose tilings were discovered in Europe?
... that Sangay, a stratovolcano in Ecuador nicknamed The Frightener in Quechua, has been continuously erupting since 1934?