derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that near Tresilian Bay in Wales, there is a cave where couples throw stones to find out how long they should wait before they get married?
... that motifs of joy in the strings connect recitative and chorale in a movement of the Bach cantata for Purification, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, on the Nunc dimittis canticle of Simeon ?
... that although "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the second series of Sherlock, was well-received by reviewers, the BBC got complaints for showing its nude scene too early in the evening?
... that author Lucy O'Brien was criticized for giving too much emphasis to singer Madonna's discography in the biography Madonna: Like an Icon?
... that Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Bishop of Mangalore Diocese from 1965 until his death in 1996, was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history?
... that Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro, a multi-sport complex currently being built in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is named after Emilio Navarro, the first Puerto Rican to play in Negro league baseball?
... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
... that the bangalay can live for 600 years and its base can reach six metres (20 ft) in diameter?
... that in 2011 Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir became the first Asian to own an NBA franchise?
... that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Seling v. Young that laws authorizing civil commitment of sexual predators are not criminal laws?
... that the Ellerslie Eagles, a club in the Auckland Rugby League celebrating its centenary later this year, did not officially become known as the Eagles until 1971?
... that after winning the 1819 Derby Stakes, the racehorse Tiresias overcame his jockey's restraints, left the racecourse and galloped into town?
... that in his speech of June 9, 1989, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping implicitly compared the Tiananmen Square shootings to the 1970 Kent State shootings?
... that rugby player Frédéric Banquet scored the first ever try in Super League history?
... that the Steven Curtis Chapman song "Long Way Home" features the ukelele, an instrument which Chapman said "you can't frown and play"?
... that Avram Miletić, who wrote Serbian songs, was a grandfather of Svetozar Miletić, the 19th-century leader of Serbs in Vojvodina?
... that juvenile cushion stars look so different from their seniors that they were thought to belong to a species in a different biological family?
... that The Art of Woo, starring Sook-Yin Lee and Adam Beach , was funded by a grant from the Canadian Film Centre's Featured Film Project?
... that Alexander is the first solo album created by Alex Ebert, lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Ima Robot?
... that the Society of Friends of the Constitution, formed in 1791 to support the Constitution of 3 May, was the first Polish political party?
... that Canberra Capitals player Michelle Cosier took a year off from basketball because she was pregnant?
... that in Bach's mature 1735 chorale cantata Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, BWV 14, the cantus firmus of Luther's hymn is played by horn and oboes, while the voices perform a counter-fugue?
... that the Bozeman Carnegie Library was intentionally built across from Bozeman, Montana's red-light district and opium dens?
... that Rapid Ranger was only the third Greyhound to win the English Greyhound Derby on two occasions?
... that the design of KitchenAid stand mixers has barely changed since the 1930s?
... that Lorna Kesterson worked as a newspaper journalist and editor until her election as the first female mayor of Henderson, Nevada?
... that Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe is the largest Ramsar Convention wetland in the world, over twice the size of Belgium?
... that former U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes spoke at the ceremony to lay the cornerstone of the Sandusky County Jail and Sheriff's House in Fremont, Ohio?
... that the basket star, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis , resembles an animated bush when trying to catch prey?
... that 8 million visitors to Expo 67 in Montreal saw Probošt's mechanical Christmas crib, a unique Czech nativity scene?
... that Georgios Stavros, who appeared on various Greek banknotes issued before 1932, was the founding governor of the National Bank of Greece?
... that former journalist hostage Terry A. Anderson led a campaign for the release of Turkish editor Ocak Işık Yurtçu?
... that Indonesian songstress Vina Panduwinata outperformed Janet Jackson and David Pomeranz at the 1985 World Popular Song Festival?
... that Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian web designer and Canadian permanent resident, has been sentenced to death by Iran for allegedly designing and moderating pornographic websites?
... that the film 10 Promises to My Dog is based on a novel that was inspired by The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership?
... that the front gate of Gambir Market was rebuilt in a different traditional Indonesian style every year?
... that Jubbet ad-Dib was established near Bethlehem by Bedouin from the Bani Harb in 1929?
... that despite missing their four best batsmen, the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team won the final of the 2010–11 Logan Cup?
... that after winning the 2000 Guineas in 1932, the racehorse Orwell started as the 5/4 favourite for the Epsom Derby, but finished ninth and was found to be lame afterwards?
... that Janja Kantakouzenos was executed together with his two brothers, four sons, and twelve grandchildren?
... that the gender of an East Canary Gecko is determined by the temperature at which the egg is incubated?
... that child actress Nozomi Ōhashi , who sang the theme song for the 2008 film Ponyo, started acting when she was just three years old?
... that the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway Station in Lakeview, Oregon, was built in 1912 for $15,000?
... that Leona Lewis released Hurt: The EP as something for her fans to "bridge the gap" while she finishes recording for her third studio album, Glassheart?
... that Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies is the home to the largest optical telescope in Sri Lanka?
... that Indonesian writer Clara Ng was reportedly able to read The Adventures of Tintin by kindergarten?
... that the 1909 Michigan football team won the first battle for the Little Brown Jug , the oldest rivalry trophy in American college football?
... that the magnitude of the 1762 Arakan earthquake may have been as high as 8.8?
... that the music of Bach's cantata Alles, was von Gott geboren, BWV 80a, composed in Weimar for the Lenten Sunday Oculi, is lost, but he later expanded most of the music in BWV 80?
... that the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor in 806 was the largest expedition ever launched by the Abbasid Caliphate, and forced Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I to pay a head tax for himself and his son?
... that since 1997, while the junior national softball team has won four Junior World Championships in a row, the Australia men's national softball team has only won one World Championship?
... that pioneering ecologist William Gardner Smith only became active in the field after the sudden death of his brother Robert, who had left an unfinished manuscript that William completed?
... that Mexican ironwood carvings didn't become popular in other countries until University of Arizona students began buying them in the late 1960s?
... that Havana on the Hudson takes its name from the influx of Cuban émigrés and exiles to towns on the Hudson River?
... that Borsig Palace, the German Vice-Chancellor's official residence and offices in Berlin, became the new headquarters of Hitler's Storm Troopers (SA) after the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934?
... that "The Aleph" in Jorge Luis Borges's short story is an allusion to Cantor's cardinality of transfinite sets, demonstrating the influence of mathematics on his writing?
... that listeners have heard the backward message "You know Satan holds the keys" in Cheap Trick's 1979 song "Gonna Raise Hell"?
... that the skull thought for almost 200 years to belong to the revered poet Friedrich Schiller was shown to be someone else's in 2008?
... that in vocabulary development from age six to eight, the average child in school is learning six to seven words per day?
... that before being forced to resign from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1987 for homosexuality, Joseph Steffan sang the U.S. National Anthem at two Army–Navy games?
... that the shelling of Stepanakert, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, caused mass casualties and widespread damage?
... that Ali al-Sulayhi, originally an Ismaili missionary, brought all of Yemen under the control of his Sulayhid dynasty before capturing Mecca in 1063?
... that the 1880 Michigan football team played its only game in a foreign country and at a lacrosse club?
... that Lazaret, a northern suburb of Niamey, Niger, contained the largest refugee camp in the Sahel during the extreme drought of 1973–1975?
... that Bernhard Kummer regarded the conversion of the Germanic peoples as a cultural catastrophe and thus titled his doctoral thesis Midgards Untergang?
... that WWI British flying ace Valentine Collins, who scored his victories from a Bristol F.2b, teamed up with William Bostock, future air vice-marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force?
... that Etropole Monastery , the most important literary centre of northern Bulgaria in the 16th through 18th centuries, later sheltered national hero Vasil Levski in a specially built hideout?
... that the Iberian frog includes beetles, caddisflies and spiders in its diet?
... that Wallace Wade led the 1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football team to the national championship after he announced his resignation as head coach prior to the start of the season?
... that Fedor Baranov, a founding father of fisheries science, was saved from a Gulag by one of his students?
... that Eskimos harvested the leaves of diamondleaf willow in the spring and stored them in seal oil for later eating?
... that Indonesian radio personality Sys NS wanted to open a museum to pornography but later destroyed his collection?
... that until its conviction for trafficking in wiretapping equipment, the Spy Factory was the largest chain of spy shops in the United States?
... that Crissi Cochrane reached No. 5 in the Canada national folk chart for campus/community radio?
... that Karnail Singh Stadium has been banned from hosting Ranji Trophy cricket matches for the 2012–13 season after the pitch used in a match in the previous season was found to be in "poor condition"?
... that Oka Antara both starved and splurged for his role in The Dancer?
... that the art style of The Banner Saga, a forthcoming tactical role-playing video game about Vikings, is inspired by a 1959 Disney film?
... that Republic Steel executive Charles M. White authorized the spending of almost US$12,000 on tear gas and handguns in 1935, the year workers at one of the company's plants voted to form a union?
... that proximity fuzed anti-aircraft ammunition was used by ships in the European Theatre of World War II for the first time during the amphibious Battle of Gela in July 1943?
... that Africadoc, an organization for African documentary makers founded in 2002, initially expanded within French-speaking African countries?
... that the Days of our Lives character Nancy Wesley was used to promote food franchisor Mrs. Fields?
... that part of the financing for the first published work by Romanian communist activist Mihail Roller reportedly came from Baptists?
... that retired steam locomotive Illinois Central 790 was frequently put back into service during floods because any amount of water made the diesel-electric locomotives short out?
... that George Harrison's 1973 solo song "Living in the Material World" includes all his former Beatles bandmates Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr?
... that in 2012 the World Bank presidential election will include non-American candidates for the first time?
... that Australian field hockey player Matthew Gohdes is the cousin of Kookaburras teammate Jamie Dwyer, and rooms with teammate Matthew Swann?
... that as early as 1919, women's garden clubs in the United States were campaigning against highway billboards?
... that the tall everlasting daisy can grow to 2 m (7 ft) high?
... that the Beau Street Hoard, found in Bath, consists of an estimated 30,000 Roman silver coins and is the largest ever found in a former Roman town in Britain?
... that the OsRox Mission secured the Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act, which divided the Philippine Legislature into two opposing camps, the Antis and the Pros?
... that the 2011 album Gravity the Seducer by Ladytron has been described as having "a feminine warmth"?
... that before modern paleontology came about, fossils of Encrinus went by a number of names in Germany, including "sun wheels", "Saint Boniface's pennies", and "witches' money"?
... that Aqsunqur Mosque gained the name "Blue Mosque" following its decoration with blue tiles over 300 years after the mosque's construction in 1347?
... that British ecologist Arthur Tansley, founder of the British Ecological Society and the journal New Phytologist, introduced the concept of the ecosystem in 1935?
... that Hans Uwe Hielscher played the 1500th weekly organ recital during market time at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden in a series he initiated some 30 years earlier?
... that Rambhadracharya was deposed as an expert witness in the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid dispute in July 2003?
... that at the age of 13 years and 268 days, Marjorie Gestring was the youngest competitor to win an Olympic gold medal?
... that the conversion to Catholicism of Princess Irene of the Netherlands and her marriage to Prince Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, caused a constitutional crisis for her country?
... that when Herbert Ernest Hart was appointed Deputy Controller of the Imperial War Graves Commission based in Jerusalem, unrest in the region meant he had to live in Cairo instead?
... that in 1864 the world's first salmon cannery was established in North America on a barge in the Sacramento River?
... that eight of Danish Kaneria's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for Pakistan, while three have been in defeats?
... that the countercultural Club 7 got its name because it should be "more than 6"?
... that the larger of two varieties of Banksia oblongifolia described in 1987 was called minor?
... that the now demolished Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago were the location of both LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman's Peabody Award-winning radio documentary and Frederick Wiseman's Public Housing?
... that after 42 years of being played in Las Vegas, the World Series of Poker has expanded to South Africa?
... that United States v. Cotterman showed that property presented for inspection at a United States border can be seized and held for a reasonable time to be sent elsewhere for further examination?
... that Henry C. Kellers of the U.S. Navy collected over 10,000 biological specimens from the Philippines for the Smithsonian Institution in 1929?
... that Scottish missionary to India Stephen Hislop discovered the fossil reptile Brachyops laticeps?
... that during an 1888 visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan, Theodore Roosevelt quipped that it was "not healthy to get in the way of the U. of M. rugby team"?
... that the 2011 film October Baby was based on the experiences of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen?
... that Colonel John Boyd's Patterns of Conflict, a presentation on military strategy, became so influential that he was summoned by Dick Cheney to help plan for Desert Storm?
... that Augustus Brine's portrait was painted by John Singleton Copley when Brine was a thirteen-year-old midshipman?
... that residents and preservationists have fought to save the Julia C. Lathrop Homes from demolition by the Chicago Housing Authority?
... that Ian Molyneux, who was awarded a posthumous George Medal for trying to disarm a murderous sailor on a nuclear submarine, had previously started and run an under-12 rugby league team?
... that the miniatures in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany show not only over 300 plants in detail, but influence from Leonardo da Vinci?
... that the Casting Crowns' song "East to West" received 78 adds in its first week, a record at Christian radio?
... that in 1997, after winning the 2000 Guineas, the racehorse Entrepreneur started with the shortest odds at the Epsom Derby in fifty years?
... that Millennium's "The Wild and the Innocent" episode has been compared to the works of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy?
... that Zaskia Adya Mecca found her pregnancy "perfect" for playing the role of Siti Walidah in The Enlightener, despite the fact the character was not pregnant?
... that David Edward Cronin used his training at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf to paint Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia based on what he saw as a Union Army officer?
... that whilst the Spanish trade union CSUT criticized other unions for links with political parties, it was itself heavily influenced by the Party of Labour of Spain?
... that baseball Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson once said Chris Pittaro had "a chance to be the greatest second baseman who ever lived"?
... that Madeline Rogero, the first woman mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, was once an organizer for César Chávez's United Farm Workers?
... that the natural approach is a method of language teaching in which teachers are recommended never to force their students to speak?
... that co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association Mohammed al-Bejadi spent most of 2011 in prison?
... that a Superior Court judge in the U.S. state of Georgia was prompted to resign after "Very Tough Love" was aired on the radio show This American Life?
... that the statue Kwakiutl, currently on display in a public park greenhouse in Brampton, Ontario, was originally set to be sited at local municipal offices before his exposed genitals caused controversy?
... that the music company Discipline Global Mobile has the policy that copyrights belong to artists and consequently does not own even its corporate logo ?
... that a storm in 1968 caused 20 deaths in Scotland, with 9 deaths in Glasgow alone?
... that Theodor Rowehl's high-altitude flights in a rented plane were Germany's first strategic aerial photoreconnaissance after World War I?
... that Les Palabres de Mboloko, despite being made by Europeans, have been called the first truly "African" films, since they incorporate elements of African folklore and music?
... that Des Abbott was the first Australian Aboriginal to represent Australia at the Olympic Games in men's field hockey?
... that the occupants of the lifeboats of the RMS Titanic included a musical toy pig, two mysterious "orphans" and a Pekingese dog called Sun Yat Sen?
... that there is no evidence that the 13th-century Morgraig Castle in Wales was ever completed or occupied?
... that Jesse Thomas, founder of creative interactive agency JESS3, was involved in making a graphic novel about Steve Jobs' life?
... that Tree Hill Nature Center, a natural preserve in Jacksonville, Florida, started an arts program that includes an artist in residence, art workshops, sale of artists' work, and concerts?
... that Polish cabaret creator, Piotr Skrzynecki, founder of Piwnica pod Baranami, who became a "legend in his own lifetime", did not care for material wealth and for a time was homeless?
... that murders in Millennium's "Gehenna" echo ritual sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible's Gehenna?
... that carcinologist Isabel Pérez Farfante and her family were blacklisted by the Cuban government because her husband refused to travel with Che Guevara?
... that Universal Pictures bought filming rights for the untitled Tom Cruise project from Disney after the latter refused to produce a PG-13 rated film?
... that the Shapoorji Pallonji Group built the Mumbai Central railway station for ₹16 million in 1930 and was commended by the then Governor of Bombay for completing the project within 21 months?
... that in Maryland, as per the recent case United States v. Graham, the government can order providers to disclose historical cell phone location data without a warrant or probable cause?
... that Dražen Bogopenec was one of the most powerful people of Hum?
... that Czech football manager Jozef Weber took part in four national cup finals as a player, but was never on the winning team?
... that the wooden screw corvette HMS Druid, launched in 1869, was the last ship to be built at Deptford Dockyard?
... that Australian field hockey player Graeme Begbie is an occupational health and safety officer?
... that the cover art of the Gorillaz song "DoYaThing" portrays James Murphy as a baboon and André 3000 as a masked figure?
... that The Virginian featured "yup and nope" actor Gary Cooper saying "if you wanna call me that – smile"?
... that the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary Draperis in Istanbul has been leveled by earthquake, forcibly demolished by the Ottoman Government, and destroyed three times by fire?
... that American professional wrestler Otto Schwanz is also a high school athletics instructor in Four Oaks, North Carolina?
... that the Iberian rock lizard is often found above the tree line in cold, mountainous areas?
... that Robert Antoine Pinchon was referred to by Claude Monet as a "surprising touch in the service of a surprising eye"?
... that HMS Amethyst was the only British wooden sailing ship to fight an armoured opponent after she engaged Peruvian Huáscar?
... that Sterling Cinema in Mumbai was the first cinema in India to introduce Dolby sound, Xenon projectors, Caramel popcorn, and matinee shows as well as late night shows?
... that George William Spencer Lyttelton served as a private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone during three of his terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
... that a "town fair" was set up in the middle of a military prison on Melville Island?
... that Amish dolls are left faceless, possibly to emphasize that "all are alike in the eyes of God"?
... that Sebastian Weigle, named "Conductor of the Year" by Opernwelt three times between 2003 and 2006, performed Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that in 1885, the racehorse Paradox won the 2000 Guineas in May by a head, but lost the Epsom Derby in June, also by a head?
... that some of the leaders of pro-Venetian alliance during Skanderbeg's war against Venice were members of the Humoj family?
... that 2011–12 Ivy League men's basketball season was the first time that four teams (Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale) played in the postseason?
... that in spite of being shot eight times, Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. ordered his men to tie him to a tree so he could keep fighting, action for which he received the Medal of Honor?
... that combat medic David B. Bleak was awarded the Medal of Honor in the Korean War after killing five Chinese soldiers, four using only his hands?
... that the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan, produced by Nahua artists in the 1530s, is one of the earliest maps of what is now Guatemala?
... that Australia men's national softball team pitcher Andrew Blackshaw participated in a battle of the sexes game between the Chicago Bandits and Schaumburg Flyers as a ringer for the men's team?
... that Seton Medical Center was fined $100,000 when the cap of the breathing tube of an elderly woman was left on, suffocating the patient?
... that a campaign by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver resulted in an increase in standards for school children's dinners in the UK?
... that the disappearance of Rebecca Coriam from the Disney Wonder one year ago today was the first such incident in the history of Disney Cruise Line?
... that Breitenbach, an archaeological site in Germany dated to the early Upper Palaeolithic, was discovered in 1925 by a local school teacher?
... that al-Jawali Mosque was built in 1320 to enlarge the prayer space of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron?
... that the racehorse Mystiko, winner of the European Free Handicap, 2000 Guineas and Challenge Stakes in 1991, never won a race outside the Newmarket Racecourse?
... that deputies of the Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw circumvented the restriction on debating by staying in the chamber after the session officially ended?