derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the future of the tropical tree Milicia regia for timber production is threatened by a gall fly, Phytolyma lata?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalballer Jennifer Blow found a rock resembling the lucky egg from Cool Runnings and started a pre-game ritual of quoting the movie while holding the rock?
... that U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that he did not have "the privilege of dividing the court when alone"?
... that in 2011, Channel 4 described Ola Abidogun as a "new GB sprint star"?
... that Nicolas de Bruijn was inspired to prove De Bruijn's theorem on packing bricks into boxes by his seven-year-old son's inability to pack some bricks into a box without wasted space?
... that Władysław Machejek was a political hack writer during the Stalinist reign of terror in Poland following World War II?
... that Dennis Lillee took seven out of his twenty-three Test five-wicket hauls at the Melbourne Cricket Ground?
... that Eichwald's toad was first described in 2008, having previously been considered to be a subspecies of the Caucasian toad?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Tyan Taylor participated in two extreme sports: skydiving and bungee jumping?
... that in the novel Corrupting Dr. Nice by John Kessel, several versions of Jesus Christ are transported to the twenty-first century?
... that the mite Brevipalpus phoenicis reproduces primarily by parthenogenesis and almost all individuals are female?
... that the 1966 Syrian coup d'état removed the original founders of Ba'athism from power, caused the party to split, and brought neo-Ba'athists to power in Syria?
... that basketball player Kobe Bryant went to Germany to receive Orthokine treatments that have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
... that in some portrayals of the marriage of the Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati, their yet-unborn sons are depicted?
... that in 1960, Martial became the first Irish racehorse to win the British Classic 2,000 Guineas Stakes?
... that 14-year-old 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rheed McCracken qualified for the Games after only using a wheelchair since late 2009?
... that Selwyn in New Zealand, which celebrates its 150th birthday this month, was planned for 2,000 residents, but was depopulated by flooding and now has many derelict buildings ?
... that the county of Dorset in England has one of the most studied coastlines in the world?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Janel Manns became an incomplete paraplegic at age 32 after a bathroom accident and initially played basketball, not tennis?
... that Olive Garden successfully participated in Coca-Cola's H2NO program, which sought to steer customers away from tap water in favor of buying soft drinks and bottled water?
... that Indonesian Paralympic S6 swimmer Agus Ngaimin first competed at the national level when he was twenty?
... that in 1937 the Nazis organized the Degenerate Art Exhibition attempting to discredit modern art, which Hitler declared to be degenerate?
... that Dexter Bean's BlackJack Racing team, which he drove for in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, was so named because his father formed the team after winning big in Vegas?
... that wheelchair tennis player Peter Norfolk must tape a tennis racket to his hand in order to play?
... that John P. Bennett, the Arawak priest and linguist, wrote An Arawak-English Dictionary at a time when the Arawak language was thought to be near extinction in Guyana?
... that during the tenure of Jerry Glanville, Portland State set a Football Championship Subdivision record for most points scored in a loss against Weber State in 2007?
... that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Matthew Haanappel is the cousin of Cadel Evans and delayed taking the VCE in order to spend more time training for the Paralympics?
... that the Cheboygan Bascule Bridge was the last bascule bridge built in the U.S. state of Michigan before the end of World War II?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball team captain Meica Christensen plays the song "The Final Countdown" before competitions?
... that the first of a record-breaking 26 consecutive formation loops performed by British aerobatic team The Blades was executed by a blind pilot?
... that blind 2012 Paralympic swimmer Tim Antalfy also surfs, water skis and wakeboards?
... that Dr. James West, the founding medical director of the Betty Ford Center, was an alcoholic when he was a student and later wrote as a newspaper columnist about alcoholism and alcohol abuse?
... that Saqlain Mushtaq took 19 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket, and achieved two hat-tricks in One Day International matches, both against Zimbabwe?
... that "culture warrior" Bachtiar Effendi was active in the cinemas of both Indonesia and Italy?
... that American economist and professor Stanley Lebergott argued that consumerism has had a positive impact on the U.S. economy and standard of living?
... that blind 2012 Paralympic swimmer Jeremy McClure completed the 2011 Ironman 70.3 Busselton with assistance from sighted guides in running, cycling and swimming?
... that among the thousands of shrimp and prawn species are mantis shrimps which can knock their prey out with powerful punches?
... that Taiwanese comedian Chu Ke-liang went into hiding for ten years to escape gambling debts to underworld figures?
... that among the fifty-seven active lighthouses in Maine are the easternmost in the country and the first completed in the United States after its independence from Great Britain?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Adam Kellerman was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma when he was thirteen years old?
... that Franz Kafka wrote the 109 Zürau Aphorisms at the estate of his sister Ottla and her husband in Zürau where he sought recovery from tuberculosis?
... that the coaches of 2012 Paralympic swimmer Richard Eliason advised him to take the bus until the end of the Paralympic Games?
... that the wooden racing surface of the Los Angeles Motordrome was treated with crushed sea shells to improve traction?
... that 2008 South African Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Nick Taylor was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Paralympics?
... that opponents of the new mosque of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro tried to block its construction by arguing in court that Islam was not a religion?
... that when Sten Grytebust was selected for the Norway national under-23 football team, he didn't know that such a team existed?
... that 2012 Paralympic wheelchair racer Kristy Pond was named the IPC Athlete of the Month in May 2011?
... that Loetoeng Kasaroeng was the first film produced in what is now Indonesia?
... that the Fort Gates Ferry has been featured in both a commercial with Paul Newman and in the "world's worst commute"?
... that the "Ladies of Téviec" were murdered in the Stone Age, their bodies decorated with shell jewellery and buried in a midden under a roof of antlers?
... that Marjory Stephenson, along with Kathleen Lonsdale, was one of the first two women to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society?
... that women who die in childbirth or pregnancy are believed by some to return as undead vampires and suck blood of their male relatives?
... that the crew of the armoured cruiser HMS Shannon attempted to rescue survivors from HMS Natal after Natal's magazines exploded on 30 December 1915?
... that John Eliot Gardiner performed Bach's cantatas for Reformation Day in the Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, including Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79?
... that the San Carlos tree frog is an "explosive breeder" and is stimulated to breed by the arrival of heavy rain?
... that the larva of the purple sunstar attaches itself to the seabed with a sucker before changing into a juvenile starfish?
... that Evan Gattis spent four years wandering in Texas, New Mexico, California, Colorado, and Wyoming before becoming a professional baseball player?
... that the Fujiwara no Hirotsugu Rebellion created the first vengeful spirit?
... that in Capitol Records, LLC v. ReDigi Inc., a United States district court is currently deciding whether or not it is legal to buy and sell pre-owned digital music?
... that vampire prostitutes are believed to enter a man's house naked in the night and suck his blood through his toes?
... that Wojciech Stattler introduced live model studies as well as nude art models to the School of Fine Arts in Kraków?
... that Brihat Jataka is described as India's foremost astrological text?
... that the female tree frog Aplastodiscus leucopygius inspects the underground nesting chamber prepared by the male before accepting his advances?
... that the father of actress Jane Cameron worked as a set designer on Emmerdale, which Cameron later appeared in as Sophie Wright?
... that the shortest fossil termite bug is Termitaradus avitinquilinus?
... that Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has expressed support for the Doubleday myth, which states that American Civil War officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball?
... that Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray made his last documentary in 1987 on his father, as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth?
... that the Early Neolithic settlement of Nea Nikomedeia is one of the earliest known sites in Macedonia, dated to 6250–6050 BC?
... that HMS Ambrose was a British cargo liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser and then into a submarine depot ship during World War I?
... that the variable bushy feather star is sometimes kept in a reef aquarium but usually dies because of starvation?
... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi?
... that Cecil Vandepeer Clarke invented military equipment including a limpet mine, an underground tank, a spigot gun, an exploding trouser sausage, and a rocket propelled bridge?
... that the female Mozambique rain frog lays her eggs in an underground chamber and often stays nearby while they develop?
... that Enrique Dávila Pacheco was appointed as the Acting Governor of Yucatán by García Sarmiento de Sotomayor in 1644?
... that Michael Trevino won two Teen Choice Awards for his role of a vampire-werewolf hybrid in The Vampire Diaries?
... that the German war film U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien portrayed the combat career of the U-boat captain Günther Prien, commander of German submarine U-47?
... that the Royal postmaster Roberto Bandinelli moved to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to escape lawsuits which threatened him with imprisonment in Florence?
... that the Central American frog Duellmanohyla soralia is critically endangered and its population decline is due, at least in part, to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis?
... that Australian field hockey goalkeeper Tristan Clemons is researching nanoparticles that could treat injuries and fight cancer?
... that the stars of the binary system EK Trianguli Australis orbit around a common centre of gravity every 1.5 hours?
... that in the first half of the 19th century, the Sejm of the Grand Duchy of Posen continued Polish parliamentary traditions in the territories of the Prussian partition?
... that Younus Khan has scored 20 centuries in Test cricket, which is the fourth-best tally by a Pakistan batsman?
... that Gibraltar Creek is not located in Gibraltar at all, but is a 13.1-kilometre (8.1-mile) long river found in Australia?
... that star trail observations of Polaris have been used to measure the vibrations in telescope mounting systems?
... that organic chemist Darshan Ranganathan did pioneering work in protein folding?
... that the Denton House in New Hyde Park, New York, was to be demolished for a McDonald's restaurant, before local authorities required the restaurant to restore the mansion?
... that wheelchair basketballer and para-alpine skier Shannon Dallas was afflicted with necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug, that sidelined him for seven months?
... that polar bear researcher Steven Amstrup found that polar ice packs destroyed by climate change could grow back if global temperatures cool?
... that Carolina false morels should not be eaten because they may contain a compound that, when digested, breaks down into a rocket fuel propellant?
... that popes awarded blessed swords and hats to defenders of Christendom, including at least 12 emperors, 10 kings of France, 7 kings of Poland, 6 kings of Spain, and the nation of Switzerland?
... that the area around the Spanish beach of Cala Arenas has been inhabited for thousands of years due to its strategic position facing the Strait of Gibraltar?
... that in sound recognition, context effects from other sounds in the environment cause us to change the way we categorize a sound?
... that painted and lacquered spider webs are sold as art at Knight's Spider Web Farm in Vermont?
... that St Eata's Church, Atcham , in Shropshire, is uniquely dedicated to Eata of Hexham?
... that the Lanczos tensor of general relativity exists only in four dimensions, suggesting our universe of four spacetime dimensions is special?
... that Vladimir Nabokov's play The Tragedy of Mister Morn, written in 1923–24, was not published during his lifetime?
... that in October 2012 a movie channel dedicated to the James Bond film franchise was launched to celebrate its 50th anniversary?
... that after being coined by the British political satire The Thick of It, the word "omnishambles" was used in Parliament by real politicians?
... that the work of the American designer, artist and sculptor Ward Bennett was said to have defined an era?
... that Leona Lewis and Ryan Tedder decided to write the up-tempo song "Glassheart" as Lewis was experiencing personal issues and thought a ballad would upset her further?
... that Tibúrcio Spannocchi proposed to sling a chain across the Strait of Magellan to prevent ships sailing through it?
... that the Atlanta Braves negotiated exclusive rights with Warner Bros. Cartoons to use animated scenes of the Road Runner in honor of Ralph Garr?
... that Harold A. Lafount , a 1927–34 member of the Federal Radio Commission who was influential in early broadcasting regulation in the U.S., is the maternal grandfather of Mitt Romney?
... that the term Al Jazeera effect used to describe the revolutionary impact of Al Jazeera network on Arab world media has been generalized more globally to other forms of new media?
... that the mangrove tree crab prefers animal food but mostly feeds on mangrove leaves?
... that Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book (1959) was the first book-length work of original comics in the United States?
... that French fishermen threw rocks and nets at British fishing boats during a dispute about scallop fishing with British fishermen in the English Channel?
... that Cnapan Hotel in Newport, Pembrokeshire, takes its name from the medieval Celtic sport of cnapan?
... that suffragist Margaret Cousins went on a hunger strike seeking to be classed as a political prisoner?
... that the third season of Millennium sought to reduce its central conflicts to a struggle between two friends?
... that Robert Burnell, founder of St Mary's Church, Acton Burnell, Shropshire, became Lord Chancellor of England, and then Bishop of Bath and Wells?
... that Poland and Spain had no diplomatic relations following the end of World War II, until two years after general Francisco Franco's death?
... that consuming the cinnamon bracket fungus can cause symptoms of neurotoxicity, and violet urine?
... that Dr. Ben Goldacre argues in Bad Pharma that "medicine is broken," because the evidence on which it is based is systematically distorted by the pharmaceutical industry?
... that Kamala Sohonie received the Rashtrapati Award for her work on supplementing tribal diets with the beverage neera?
... that Indigo Lake in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park is not a natural lake?
... that in August 2011 the Australian soap opera Neighbours aired a storyline which highlighted two of the major causes of road fatalities and injuries among young Australian drivers?
... that 1930 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles runner-up Daniel Prenn was of Jewish origin and thus got expelled from the Germany Davis Cup team and subsequently moved from Nazi Germany to England?
... that the Washington Bee's masthead slogan was "Sting for Our Enemies – Honey for Our Friends"?
... that Manolis Roubakis is one of the few footballers who have played for all three big clubs of Heraklion in Greece: OFI Crete, Ergotelis and Atsalenios?
... that in the early 19th century, if you were out on the streets of Gibraltar after midnight without a permit you risked being sent to the Main Guard?
... that Lady Lindsay of Birker, the first Chinese-born peeress, smuggled supplies and taught English to communist guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation?
... that the town of al-Dana in northern Syria is identified with "Adennu", the first Aramaean city to be captured by Assyrian emperor Shalmaneser III?
... that the State Farm Downtown Building in Bloomington, Illinois, features the intact 1951 office of company founder George J. Mecherle?
... that as a member of the California Column, Andrew J. Doran was granted a brevet commission due to his experience with the Butterfield route?
... that the Faux Namti Bridge is also called the "Inverted V Bridge" because its supporting trusses form the shape of an upside-down letter V?
... that Chief Wilson set the Major League Baseball single-season record for triples in 1912, a record that still stands?
... that streets in Tbilisi and Tirana are named after former US President George W. Bush?
... that Rewa Prasad Dwivedi said that Rambhadracharya is an encyclopedia of learning whose literature is like numerous Narmada rivers flowing out simultaneously?
... that 1928 Wimbledon Championships mixed doubles champion Pat Spence and tennis partner Miss Betty Nuthall formed a real-life couple when they won the 1931 French Championships mixed doubles title?
... that, after the female Jog night frog has laid a clutch of eggs, both parents are involved in guarding them?
... that Suhaimi Yusof, a Malay stand-up comedian, received the Best Comedy Performance award at the 2011 Asian Television Awards for his efforts in The Noose?
... that the Spanish painter José Cruz Herrera worked in Casablanca for much of his life, where he was a prolific painter of scenes of Moroccan everyday life?
... that the made-for-TV film Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal was inspired by the true story of five unruly high-school cheerleaders?
... that the camera used to create Google Street View images of the Great Barrier Reef is controlled by a Samsung Galaxy Tab?
... that the Duchess of Westminster was one of only two women to compete in sailing at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
... that war profiteering by U.S. military contractors in Iraq brought calls for a new form of the investigative Truman Committee which operated in World War II?
... that the concert choir Frankfurter Kantorei performed Mozart's Requiem and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht with the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv in a concert for the city's 100th anniversary?
... that the 18th-century BC fresco the Investiture of Zimrilim depicts the king of ancient Mari receiving the symbols of rule from the goddess Ishtar?
... that the historic La Playa Trail in San Diego is the oldest commercial trail in the western United States?
... that every "deep desire" is a prayer, and God "answers every selfless prayer", according to Easwaran in Seeing with the Eyes of Love?
... that HIT Squad, founded by UFC Hall of Fame inductee Matt Hughes in 2007, changed its name to Finney's HIT Squad when it was purchased in 2011?
... that Millennium's second season finale "The Time Is Now" was inspired in part by a cattle disease in the United Kingdom?
... that the Classical story of Achilles on Skyros was the basis for a lost play by Euripides, a painting by Nicolas Poussin, and operas by Domenico Scarlatti and George Frideric Handel?
... that All Saints Church in Lydd is the longest parish church in Kent at 199 feet (61 m)?
... that Richard Belzer insisted Law & Order: Special Victims Unit creator Dick Wolf cast Dean Winters as his partner, Brian Cassidy, before he would join the cast?
... that the Opa-Locka Thematic Resource Area includes 20 buildings developed by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss using an "Arabian Nights" theme?
... that prior to winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics, Ukrainian sport shooter Artur Ayvazyan was detained by his nation's customs agency for having an unregistered gun?
... that 444 years ago, Poland's Royal Posts were entrusted to an Italian banker, Sebastiano Montelupi?
... that at the 2012 Berlin Biennale, one artist blocked Friedrichstraße with a wall, which was removed early after public protest?
... that despite only playing one match for Bayer Leverkusen, the Norwegian footballer Terje Olsen does not regret moving to Germany at the age of 15?
... that Swiss composer Hermann Suter's symphonic oratorio Le Laudi is a setting of St. Francis of Assisi's Italian Canticle of the Sun for choir, soloists, voci di ragazzi, organ and orchestra?
... that the 1955–56 Marathi radio programme Geet Ramayan describing the events from an Indian epic Ramayana has been translated to eight Indian languages, English, and also transliterated in Braille?
... that the desert rain frog leaves distinctive footprints on the dunes and a little pile of sand showing the location of its burrow?
... that while researching In the Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland found that the oldest biography of Mohammed was written two hundred years after he had died?
... that Works Progress Administration employees were accused of campaigning for Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley during the 1938 Democratic primary, prompting passage of the Hatch Act of 1939?
... that the fungus Rhopalomyces elegans can be grown on a medium containing baby beef liver and lamb fat?
... that Jørgen Tengesdal played for Viking in the 2001 Norwegian Football Cup Final despite his contract expiring five days before the final?
... that Christchurch Steeple was originally part of a 13th-century friary, was mostly destroyed during World War II, and is now a bar and one of 24 Grade II* listed buildings in Coventry?
... that several reviewers criticized the romance between Sam and Diane in the second season of Cheers because it lasted too long and presented a poor relationship role model?
... that Prince Henry the Navigator handed over his brother Ferdinand the Holy Prince as a hostage, and preferred to let him die in captivity rather than fulfill the treaty he had signed?
... that Adele's theme for the James Bond film Skyfall went to number one in the UK's iTunes online store less than ten hours after it was released?
... that the Church of Julianos in the village of Barad in northern Syria, was one of two three-aisled basilicas in the Dead Cities?
... that Chao Mae Tuptim in Bangkok is a site crammed full of wooden circumcised penis statues which are said to endow good fortune and fertility on anybody coming into contact with them?
... that several thousand people lived on Washington's National Mall for six weeks in 1968 as part of the Poor People's Campaign?
... that Ann Bishop, an early female protozoologist, studied treatments for parasitic diseases including amoebic dysentery and malaria?
... that Mother Teresa's father Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theater?
... that the St Albans Hoard, one of the largest hoards of Roman gold coins ever found in Britain, was discovered by a man using his new metal detector for the first time?
... that Mohammad Said Hamid Junid wrote a film about a man becoming his father's uncle-in-law?
... that Thomas Rowley's homestead in Christchurch, New Zealand, is used as a school library?
... that the venom of the tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei contains vanillotoxins?
... that Bach's cantata Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49, ends with a "religious-erotic" love duet between Jesus (bass) and the Soul (soprano)?
... that Mastotermes electromexicus was the first giant northern termite described from the New World?