derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the central Mexican town of San Pablito is home to women and children who manufacture paper from tree bark?
... that the wartime poster "We Can Do It!" was parodied using Marge Simpson?
... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis?
... that malacologist Myra Keen was called the "First Lady of Malacology"?
... that the part of Jilly Kitzinger in Torchwood was Lauren Ambrose's first role in a science-fiction production?
... that the Holy Trinity Church was the oldest church in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, until it was destroyed by the Soviets in 1935?
... that American artist Ellen Gallagher created artworks which included images carved into the surface of thick sheets of paper?
... that in 1925, Esther Hill became the first woman to be registered as an architect in Canada?
... that Clare Smyth was the first British woman to hold three Michelin stars when she became head chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2007?
... that Maria Pinto designed the purple sheath dress Michelle Obama wore to give her husband "the fist bump heard 'round the world"?
... that the Antarctic sponge Homaxinella balfourensis prevents ice crystals from forming in its cells by the use of peptides with antifreeze properties?
... that the lesbian German writer Christa Reinig stated in a poem, "Sometimes the gay shirt is closer to me than the feminist skirt"?
... that Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his second piano sonata quasi una fantasia, widely known as the Moonlight Sonata, to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi ?
... that in 1973 the first women's Cricket World Cup was held – two years before the first men's tournament?
... that Canadian indie rock band Reverie Sound Revue went on a "blog tour", wherein they released videos of band members playing live online?
... that Henry, Prince of Wales (Henry V) stationed himself at Burton Court manor while surveying the movements of Owain Glyndŵr?
... that Butler Blue II, the live mascot of Butler University, was granted a special exemption from NCAA rules, allowing him to appear at Butler basketball games during the 2010 and 2011 Final Fours?
... that after winning the 1957 Cotton Fashion Award, designer Anne Fogarty showed off dresses in goldfish colours?
... that, in summer 1917, a plan existed to make septuagenarian Petre P. Carp the dictator of German-occupied Romania?
... that Harwell, Nottinghamshire, contains the Grade II listed Pear Tree House, which has a portico with two Tuscan columns and an eight-panelled door?
... that in Doe v. Shurtleff, a Utah law requiring registered sex offenders to provide to the state all of their internet identifiers was ruled constitutional?
... that the British racehorse Tristan travelled to France and won the Grand Prix de Deauville three years in a row?
... that the airing of Millennium's "Kingdom Come" was postponed due to the death of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago?
... that the legendary Lost Nigger Gold Mine, first discovered in 1887, was still being searched for in 1930?
... that, in the past, every landowner in the parish of St Margaret's Church in West Hoathly, West Sussex, was responsible for maintaining a specific section of the churchyard wall?
... that Irish novelist George Moore described Ingres' The Source as an "exquisite dream of innocence"?
... that five actresses have won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play more than once, but no actress has won it more than twice?
... that the Gilles who was long identified as the subject of Watteau's poignant portrait was a lewd and credulous clown who starred in The Shit Merchant?
... that the St. James' Infant School building in Dudley was built on two completely different sites?
... that Vyjayanthimala, who played Chandramukhi in the 1955 film Devdas, declined the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress because she thought that her role was not a supporting one?
... that the parents of Australian national team water polo player Victoria Brown believed that she would be an Olympian in an equestrian event?
... that to gain permission to demolish the Pevely Dairy Company Plant, Saint Louis University threatened to move its medical school out of St. Louis?
... that Polish mathematician Stefan Banach and poet Zbigniew Herbert survived the Holocaust working as feeders of lice?
... that Kugelbake is the name of a series of tall wooden structures built at the mouth of the River Elbe for more than 300 years to aid mariners?
... that logical positivist A. J. Ayer believed that religious language was meaningless because it could not be verified empirically?
... that the Body of Proof episode "Dead Man Walking" guest starred Christina Hendricks as a potential love interest for her real-life husband's character?
... that the Italian island of Montecristo, although 10.39 km2 (4.01 sq mi) in area, is almost deserted, having only two stable inhabitants?
... that 16th-century parishioners of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney built the church's 66-foot (20 m) tower in "an inspired community effort involving the whole village"?
... that the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks, brought into force in 2010, was the first global instrument that dealt with migratory sharks?
... that Nigerian journalist Nosa Igiebor was held incommunicado for months because his magazine Tell criticised General Sani Abacha?
... that after winning the 1796 Derby Stakes, the Thoroughbred Didelot failed to win again the rest of his racing career, and was subsequently sent to Russia?
... that Casa Alvarez, built in 1790, serves as a "last link to the Spanish occupation of the Upper Louisiana territory"?
... that in Young v. Facebook, Inc., Judge Jeremy Fogel found that Facebook was not a physical place for the purpose of the Americans with Disabilities Act, despite its having "posts" and "walls"?
... that Penhale Sands is believed to be the landing site of Saint Piran, the patron saint of Cornwall?
... that Millennium's "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" took its name from a Dylan Thomas poem?
... that German film director Falk Harnack, who was related to six people executed by the Nazis, left East Germany after the Communists banned his first film for being "sympathetic to Nazism"?
... that after winning Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show in 2012, the Pekingese Palacegarden Malachy has been compared to a mop, a wookiee, and Snooki from Jersey Shore?
... that a lone miner is said to have extracted two sacks of wolframite each day from the waste tips of the disused Great Wheal Fortune mine in Cornwall?
... that the island of Ictis, reported by Diodorus as a centre of the ancient tin trade, has uncertainly been identified with St Michael's Mount in Cornwall?
... that Glasser v. United States was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to hold that juries must be drawn from a "cross-section of the community"?
... that the Siah Bishe Power Plant is to be both the first pumped-storage power plant and the site of the first concrete-face rock-fill dam in Iran?
... that Ventongimps Moor was the first nature reserve to be owned by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust?
... that while one reviewer called the recent Fringe episode "The End of All Things" the best of the season, another remarked that it "failed to make my dinger hum"?
... that the hypercarnivorous crocodyliform Stratiotosuchus from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil occupied the niche of top predator in the absence of theropod dinosaurs?
... that the loss of a French column at the Battle of El Herri was blamed on the commander's disobedience of orders?
... that Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, who later wrote The Art of Beowulf, was one of a group of University of California professors who at first refused on principle to sign the loyalty oath in 1949?
... that missionaries to the colony of New France welcomed the 1663 Charlevoix earthquake as a miracle rather than a disaster?
... that the W. B. Thompson Mansion in Yonkers, New York, was used as a location for the films A Beautiful Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums and Mona Lisa Smile?
... that Alicia McCormack, a member of the Australia women's national water polo team, received a bow from Prince William at a Sydney barbecue?
... that the Engaña Tunnel was once the longest railway tunnel in Spain, but was never used?
... that terror suspect Amine El Khalifi believed he was in touch with an al-Qaeda operative, but was actually communicating with an FBI agent?
... that the car of Los Angeles Clippers fan Clipper Darrell features the team's colors on the exterior and interior with the team's logo and autographs on the hood?
... that historian Charlotte Zeepvat's first book, published in 1998, was about Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the haemophiliac youngest son of Queen Victoria?
... that Australian politician John Hart described William Bloomfield Douglas as a "fool" for wanting the job of Government Resident of the Northern Territory?
... that the Chuck Berry House is an unusual inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, in that it is associated with a living person?
... that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?
... that the French military used the "Mikado strategy" during Operation Septentrion in the Uzbin Valley of Afghanistan?
... that the developer of Volunia, a potential competitor to Google, has said it may represent the "search engine of the future"?
... that one reviewer found several scenes in Millennium's "The Well-Worn Lock" to be as horrifying as anything he had seen on television?
... that women are encouraged to go topless in public and men are told to cover their chest by wearing bras or bikinis on Go Topless Day, an event to promote the right to go bare-chested for women?
... that Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting Le Sommeil , depicting a lesbian relationship, was inspired by Charles Baudelaire's poem "Delphine et Hippolyte"?
... that the 'R' in the World War II British deception unit R Force was meant to make the Germans believe it was a reconnaissance unit?
... that Australian national team water polo player Hannah Buckling made the Australian junior team after 20 months of serious training with a new coach?
... that through his extensive building works, Sanjar al-Jawli transformed Karak and Gaza into major cities?
... that in August 2000, 37 people were banned from attending matches at Arsenal F.C.'s stadium because of their involvement in the Battle of Copenhagen?
... that the first Cray-1 was delivered to the customer without a supercomputer operating system?
... that the gray-leaf willow is a rich source of calcium and phosphorus for its browsers?
... that the work of ornithologist Chandler Robbins helped inspire Rachel Carson to write Silent Spring?
... that "We Belong Together" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but was not nominated for Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media?
... that Meyer Kestnbaum led a business with a long record of peaceful labor relations, and after he died the company and its labor union collaborated on a memorial to him?
... that Sandra Laing was legally declared "coloured" largely on the basis of a pencil test, despite being born of two "white" parents?
... that William Carter , the first mayor of Hobart, was especially distinguished for his aversion to slander and backbiting?
... that Toby Litt's novel Journey into Space takes place on board a generation ship?
... that John King's win in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series' 2012 event at Daytona International Speedway was only the third victory of his racing career?
... that Sean Combs' Revolt, Robert Rodriguez' El Rey and Magic Johnson's Aspire are upcoming U.S. ethnic minority-owned television networks that Comcast agreed to promote in order to secure the NBCUniversal acquisition?
... that the T37 rocket could be fired by "Cowcatcher", "Woofus", "Whiz Bang" and "Grand Slam"?
... that the Lost World at the ancient Maya city of Tikal was the first architectural complex to be built at the city?
... that a document from the 1960s STRAT-X US nuclear deterrent study was composed from a Soviet perspective, disapproving of capitalism and glorifying socialism?
... that the 19th-century Fort Widley was later reused as an emergency civil control centre?
... that the runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel, like the sig-runes worn on SS uniforms, stood for Nazi values but were actually inspired by the neopagan occultism of mystic Guido von List?
... that Australian Stinger Kelsey Wakefield took a year off university in order to try to make the 2012 Summer Olympics in water polo?
... that according to Shakespeare, Henry V, who was born in Monmouth, approved of Welshmen wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps ?
... that by acquiring the commercial division of the Norwegian Mapping Agency, the company now called Nordeca became a market leader in leisure maps in Norway?
... that Orland Kurtenbach was the Vancouver Canucks' first captain and first member of their Ring of Honour?
... that patches of broom crowberry in New Jersey began to sprout seedlings again after an F-16 set them on fire?
... that although St Peter's Church in Monmouthshire is a Welsh church, in 1920 its congregation decided to join the Church of England?
... that Pat Hawkins from Perth, Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2,489 km (1,547 mi) in seven days in 1940?
... that many cabanas at 9 Beaches resort in Bermuda feature Plexiglas floors to allow guests to view the ocean below their hotel room?
... that the mint plant largeflower false rosemary has the largest flowers of the genus Conradina?
... that the largest credit union merger in Michigan history took place in 2008, resulting in the creation of Genisys Credit Union?
... that the Philippe Starck-designed A has been described as both "the most extraordinary yacht launched in recent memory" and "one of the ghastliest megayachts ever created"?
... that the victory by Minoru at the 1909 Epsom Derby made his owner Edward VII the first reigning British monarch to win a Derby?
... that Bay Darnell crashed his race car into Lake Lloyd during an ARCA race at Daytona International Speedway in 1964?
... that the Coimbatore bypass included construction of a 32.2 metres (106 ft) toll bridge over the Noyyal River in India?
... that the 126-acre Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens, which opened November 15, 2008, contains 13 separate and distinct ecosystems?
... that an entire print run of Svetlana Kalinkina's newspaper was seized by the Belarusian police?
... that, shortly after being sentenced to death for treason, Ioan C. Filitti became manager of the National Theatre Bucharest?
... that Megitza, the vocalist and bass player, got the highest score at a Polish National IQ contest held in 2004?
... that numismatist and historian Don Taxay walked away from his career to become a Rajneeshee?
... that the Costa Chica of Guerrero is one of two regions in Mexico with a significant Afro-Mexican population?
... that, according to a 2008 book, Kareem Abdul Jabbar doesn't want to blow you up?
... that the tradition in Franconian Switzerland of decorating public fountains with Easter eggs, Osterbrunnen , has spread beyond Franconia?
... that Mississippi Highway 198 is the designation given to former alignments of U.S. Highway 98 in the state?
... that Teguh Karya's film Mother, which won nine Citra Awards, did not turn a profit?
... that while FIFA inquired about the creation of a Sudanese women's national football team, the Islamic Fiqh Council in Sudan issued a fatwa forbidding it?
... that Barry Klarberg manages celebrities including Charlie Sheen, Justin Timberlake and Anna Kournikova?
... that the midwater squid uses bioluminescence as a camouflage to counter-illuminate its underside to match the sparkling sea surface above?
... that Lachie Neale and Alex Forster, who were both selected by Fremantle in the 2011 Australian Football League Draft, both grew up in Kybybolite, a very small town in south-eastern South Australia?
... that some men find lower-back tattoos on women erotic, but generally avoid the lower back when choosing tattoos for themselves?
... that the mangrove jingle shell has two different colour varieties, but pale specimens normally found on mangrove leaves can darken when moved to the tree's bark?
... that the popularity of Canadian author David Gilmour's memoir The Film Club helped him become Pelham Edgar Visiting Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Toronto?
... that the Indonesian film Get Married was described as contrasting the rich and poor, with the rich being prone to violence?
... that between the start of the competition in 1947 and 1995, the Victorian women's softball team won the Gilleys Shield 22 times?
... that the freeway sections of M-5, a state highway in Michigan, were originally planned as parts of two different Interstate Highways?
... that in the 1714 Bach cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12, the first choral section was described as a "tombeau ... most impressive and deeply affecting"?
... that navigational instrument maker William Spencer signed a contract in which he agreed not to fornicate for seven years?
... that Senhora das Dores Church in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, has six chapels?
... that pioneer of rescue archeology John Bailey Shelton was awarded the RSPCA's Queen Victoria Medal for saving his horses during the Coventry Blitz?
... that hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant Sam Wo had the world's rudest waiter and was closed in 2012 for rat feces after 100 years of operating in San Francisco's Chinatown?
... that the Zanzibar women's national football team has few women's teams to play against and has beaten men's teams?
... that the Kowmung River in New South Wales gained its name from the local aboriginal word for "sore eyes", possibly trachoma?
... that "gay penguins" Roy and Silo raised a chick at New York's Central Park Zoo, which when fully grown, entered into a same-sex relationship of its own?
... that Edward Griffin Beckwith was engaged in the Pacific Railroad Survey from 1853 to 1857, and that the First Transcontinental Railroad followed his recommended route?
... that Filipino band Up Dharma Down declined to label their album Bipolar with a specific genre?
... that the seeds of the breadnut Artocarpus camansi from New Guinea taste like chestnuts, and can be processed to make paste, flour, butter or oil?
... that the deepest lake dammed by sand dunes along the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon is Woahink Lake?
... that the website for the viral video Kony 2012 crashed after the video became popular worldwide, but the video went on to have tens of millions of page views on various websites?
... that South Australian Samuel Morcom began playing first-class cricket five years before his state's team played its first match?
... that the Fleet class USVs are the first unmanned vessels to receive U.S. Navy hull numbers?
... that the Royal Australian Air Force's F/A-18 Hornet fighters have been deployed as far afield as Qatar and Alaska?
... that Harry Trihey set the record for the most goals in a regular season major professional hockey match over a hundred years ago?
... that the British scholar Percy Brown was one of the earliest pioneers who wrote on Indian and Buddhist architecture?
... that when "Tanzania's most popular film star" died, his mourners included his country's Vice President, First Lady and 20,000 other people?
... that in 1204, the wife of Hugh de Neville paid John, King of England 200 chickens for the right to sleep one night with her own husband?
... that after Kentucky Senator Humphrey Marshall voted to ratify the Jay Treaty, his constituents stoned him and tried to throw him into the Kentucky River?
... that Wallace Neff's Bubble Houses in Litchfield Park, Arizona, were built in a community planned and owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company?
... that despite being over 4000 years old, Sperris Quoit near Zennor, Cornwall, was only rediscovered in 1954?
... that the 1939 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played against Fordham in the second ever televised college football game?
... that Atiqah Hasiholan considered her role in the Oscar-submitted Jamila and the President a "regular slutty prostitute"?
... that inventor John Browning provided the first electric lights in London, for the occasion of the visit of the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria?
... that NASCAR powerhouse team Richard Childress Racing sold one of its race teams to Virginia car dealer Joe Falk?
... that a Spencer, Browning & Rust sextant is one of the oldest items in the collection of the United States Geological Survey Museum?
... that the privileges of Polish nobility were unprecedented in Europe, giving the nobles the right to control most legislation, foreign relations, taxation, elect a king and rebel against him?
... that the main leaders of the Khmer–Chinese Friendship Association were purged and executed in 1977?
... that the song "Ode to Mel Bay", popularized by Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins, has lyrics by Shel Silverstein about a missing page 23 in Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords?
... that "A House Divided" was the Dallas television series episode that led to the eight-month Who shot J. R.? hysteria?
... that one man loved the 1943 film Immensee so much that in 1975 he bought the estate where it was filmed?
... that Jacobus Deketh was a captain of a 36-gun frigate in the Frisian Admiralty?
... that "Drunk on Love" contains a sample of The xx's song "Intro", with Jamie Smith being credited as co-writer?
... that Kid Elberfeld discovered future Hall of Famer Travis Jackson when Jackson was 14 years old?
... that the music of the film Lakshmi Putrudu was launched by Andhra Pradesh state Information Technology minister Damodar Reddy?
... that former Elitserien and National Hockey League player Håkan Loob was one of the first members of the Triple Gold Club, winning the Stanley Cup, World Championship and Olympic gold?
... that the Syrian town of al-Harra was owned by Beirut-based landowner Selim Freige?
... that Osbaston's hydropower station can produce 670 MWh of electricity each year and allows salmon to travel upstream?
... that the Glass Palace Chronicle in 1829 proclaimed Abhiyaza as the founder of the Burmese monarchy in contradiction to the prevailing pre-Buddhist origin myth?
... that Istanbul University Professor Semavi Eyice is regarded as the pioneer of Byzantine studies in Turkey?
... that during the Vietnam War, when Lt. Col. Byron P. Howlett heard that one of the medivac helicopters under his command had crashed, he personally oversaw and piloted the Rescue of Dustoff 65?
... that the 1938 Alabama Crimson Tide football team still holds defensive team records for the fewest total, rushing and passing yards in a season?
... that three medieval walls dated to 1282 were found in the grounds at Maenan Abbey in 2011, whilst workmen were working on the drainage?
... that critics described the 2002 comedy thriller Triggermen as "neither noticeably comic nor remotely thrilling"?
... that the bailiff John Knibb also built the turret clock for St John's College, Oxford?
... that the number of ways to place n diagonally symmetric rooks on an n × n chessboard in such a way that no two rooks attack each other is a telephone number?
... that Indonesian journalist Marco Kartodikromo was arrested several times by the Dutch colonial government and ultimately died in exile?
... that although a Spanish treasure convoy was captured at the Action of 26 April 1797, the cargo had already been smuggled to safety aboard a fishing boat?
... that the 1937 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the SEC championship after Hayward Sanford kicked a fourth quarter, game-winning field goal against Vanderbilt?
... that when Thomas M. Messer retired in 1988, after 27 years as director of the Guggenheim Foundation, he had served longer than any other major museum director in New York City?
... that thieves have recently stolen the memorial plaques from the Livesey Hall War Memorial?
... that Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, Holocaust survivor and one of the Schindlerjuden, appeared in a documentary with the daughter of Amon Goeth, her Nazi tormentor?