derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after being a major part of Baku in most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's Armenian population almost completely disappeared due to a pogrom in 1990?
... that Cuban journalist Yndamiro Restano Díaz was reportedly released from prison at the request of Danielle Mitterand, the wife of the former President of France?
... that adult Megaphragma mymaripenne wasps are only 200 micrometres long, similar in size to single-celled organisms?
... that the Airedale Terrier Boxwood Barkentine won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in his very first show as an adult?
... that the 1923 Michigan football team's undefeated season was saved when Edliff Slaughter executed what Fielding Yost called "the greatest play in football I ever saw"?
... that during his 1838 Lyceum address, Abraham Lincoln warned of a tyrant overtaking the United States from within?
... that the Bach cantata for Sexagesima, Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181, ends in a chorus of "madrigalian lightness and delicacy perfectly appropriate to the joyous message of the parable"?
... that in 1800, Champion became the first racehorse to win both the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes?
... that Samar Badawi and Manal al-Sharif are suing Saudi authorities for rejecting their driving licence applications?
... that the Stone Bridge at Regensburg, probably built in 1135–46, was the city's only bridge across the Danube for about 800 years?
... that footballer Andy Flynn played in all of York City's seven FA Cup games in the 1926–27 season, as the team reached the competition's first round for the first time?
... that Blondie, B.C., and Hägar the Horrible are all zombies?
... that George Peter Alexander Healy's portrait Abraham Lincoln was based on his earlier work, The Peacemakers?
... that during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, Indian pilots landed Dakota aircraft at Poonch Airport during the night with the help of oil lamps in the absence of any landing aids?
... that the USNS Montford Point, a Mobile Landing Platform, will be a pier at sea for the United States Navy once it enters service in 2015?
... that India has 53 urban agglomerations with a population of one million or more as of 2011 against 35 in 2001?
... that the only state legislator in Missouri or Illinois to condemn the burning of Francis McIntosh in 1836 was Abraham Lincoln?
... that Japanese skeleton shrimp are invading the coastlines of North America, Europe, and New Zealand?
... that the "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" ad campaign established Honda's brand image in the US and helped the Super Cub become the top-selling motor vehicle in history?
... that the castellan of Sati refused to allow Venetians to capture it after Balša II ceded it to the Venetian Republic in 1395?
... that Shiawase no Pan was the tenth highest-grossing film in Japan between 28 and 29 January 2012, despite being released in only 47 cinemas?
... that the former Spa Road railway station, opened in 1836, was London's first railway terminus?
... that according to critic Roger Ebert, Private School reflected a trend of "anti-woman" films?
... that Joseph Clarkson Maddison's designs took both first and second place in a contest to design Christchurch Town Hall?
... that Revelation, the tenth studio album by the Christian rock band Third Day, was produced by Howard Benson, a Jew?
... that in Mexico's Lagunas de Montebello National Park there are ancient Maya ruins next to 59 lakes whose colors range from emerald and turquoise to purple and reddish black?
... that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"?
... that a distilled beverage – Smirnoff vodka – was featured in an American television commercial for the first time in decades in a spot produced by The Glover Park Group?
... that the extinct bivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?
... that American poet Peter Filkins was the first to translate Czech writer H. G. Adler's novels, described by The New Yorker as "modernist masterpieces", into English?
... that the King and Queen pub in Brighton, the Clayton & Black firm's Mock Tudor "pantomime", has hosted Miss Miniskirt competitions and Margaret Thatcher?
... that for an International Horse Show the fox hunting author William Fawcett produced "The Moonlight Steeplechase", an event based on the engravings of Henry Alken?
... that Buenos Aires seceded from the Argentine Confederation from 1852 to 1861?
... that Downing Hall was once the home of naturalist Thomas Pennant, who described it as being "incapable of being improved into a magnitude exceeding the revenue of the family"?
... that Gerardo Concepción won the 2010–11 Cuban National Series Rookie of the Year Award?
... that tartar emetic is used to induce vomiting in birds to determine their diet?
... that the medieval royal official Herbert of Winchester is likely the same person as "H.", who tried to assassinate King Henry I of England in 1118 and was blinded and castrated in punishment?
... that the racehorse Azor won the 1817 Derby Stakes after being entered in the race only to act as a pacemaker for a more highly regarded stable companion?
... that lumber magnate Theodore B. Basselin willed most of his fortune to The Catholic University of America to create a scholarship for young men studying for the Catholic priesthood?
... that the Malahat, a 246-foot (75 m) sailing ship, delivered more illegal liquor during Prohibition than any other rum-runner?
... that neighbors of the Hastings Prototype House in New York compared its Moderne appearance to an appliance?
... that Carina Vance Mafla's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that try to turn lesbians straight began years before she was appointed Ecuador's Minister for Public Health?
... that the development of Danish sculpture was greatly influenced by Jacques Saly, a Frenchman, who designed the statue of King Frederick V?
... that Olympic bronze medalist John Russell was a member of the United States' last military delegation to equestrian at the Summer Olympics as well as its first civilian one?
... that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal held the Internal Security Act contained no precedent facts as Parliament clearly intended that detention decisions were to be made by the Government?
... that Lydd Town F.C. were promoted after winning their league five times in a row?
... that Eugene Eisenmann worked as a lawyer before writing The Species of Middle American Birds for the Linnaean Society of New York?
... that although the title of the postwar satirical journal Ulenspiegel means "owl mirror" in High German, in Low German it means "kiss my behind"?
... that the cargo ship MV Delta Mariner , which struck a bridge over the Tennessee River in January 2012, transports rocket parts from the manufacturer in Alabama to Cape Canaveral?
... that the eight-century-old Xinye Village is acclaimed as China's largest open-air museum of ancient residences?
... that Larry Jeffries was twice named the Southland Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year while playing for the Trinity Tigers?
... that Caesar led the funeral procession of King Edward VII, ahead of nine kings and a number of other heads of state?
... that 76-year-old Muslim rocker Laila Sari performs in a headscarf?
... that the Darmstadt Windspiel, a German sailplane which set a 1934 world distance record, was silk covered and weighed less than its pilots?
... that Rhino made his surprise debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at their 2005 No Surrender pay-per-view event?
... that among the displays at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania were locomotives, a farm, an African village and a ski collection?
... that Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters "IBM"?
... that since Lange's 1962 invention of the first plastic ski boots , they have been on the feet of five times as many World Cup medal winners as any other brand?
... that Russian Presidential press attaché Natalya Timakova, rated the third most powerful woman in Russian politics in 2011, allowed Wikipedia to use materials from the Presidential website Kremlin.ru?
... that the prototype of the Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 Fazan, a Bulgarian Army liaison aircraft of World War II, was nicknamed "Quasimodo"?
... that due to a dead heat, the racehorse Cadland had to run twice to win the 1828 Derby Stakes?
... that journalist Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the Ivorian President and was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000?
... that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the NBA, and he is now a professional jazz musician?
... that the Muscogee people rubbed moistened tramp's trouble on their faces to enhance their youthfulness?
... that ablaq is an Arabic term for the use in stonework of alternating or fluctuating rows of light and dark color stone ?
... that the Overmyer-Waggoner-Roush Farm near Lindsey included a tree farm at a time when most Ohio farmers saw woodlots as nuisances?
... that Shieh Chung-liang was sued for libel after reporting that Taiwan's Kuomintang political party had offered a donation to Bill Clinton's re-election campaign?
... that Michael Choice is the first University of Texas at Arlington baseball player to be drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the Umayyad defeat in the "Day of Thirst" led to the almost complete loss of Muslim control over Transoxiana over a period of fifteen years?
... that journalist Pavel Sheremet triggered a "public row" between Belarus and Russia by hopping a border fence?
... that in June 1956, the British submarine HMS Telemachus briefly went missing during a hydrographic survey off the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory?
... that the Zuihō class aircraft carriers were originally built as submarine tenders which could be converted into light aircraft carriers or fleet oilers?
... that the first uterus transplant in the world with an organ taken from a cadaver was performed by Dr. Ömer Özkan and his team at the Akdeniz University?
... that the New Zealand Anglican clergyman William Orange amassed a library of 15,000 titles during his life?
... that in humans, 1-lysolecithin can be hydrolyzed by at least ten different enzymes?
... that Mildred Lewis Rutherford thought that the only problem with slavery was the burden it placed on white slaveholders?
... that Ekso Bionics develop intelligent exoskeletons that can be strapped on as wearable robots, and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics?
... that following the death of Samir Ghawshah, Ahmed Majdalani succeeded him as secretary-general of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front?
... that the setting for the children's show The Adventures of Abney & Teal was inspired by Victoria Park, London?
... that the commotion following the racehorse Smolensko's victory at the 1813 Derby Stakes resulted in an overthrown phaeton and a broken arm amongst the spectators?
... that Nazi Germany gave newlyweds interest-free loans that were forgiven if the couple had four children?
... that according to legend, Robert Kirk was taken to fairyland for revealing the secrets of the Good People?
... that the Malloch Building was used to represent Lauren Bacall's apartment in a film with Humphrey Bogart?
... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Balecium still exists although Baleč was destroyed in the 15th century?
... that eleven of journalist Ignacio Gómez's colleagues at El Espectador were murdered in the first fourteen years of his career?
... that Sandi Patty has won more GMA Dove Awards for Vocalist of the Year than anyone else?
... that thiophosphoryl fluoride ignites spontaneously in air, but burns too cold to hurt anyone?
... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell were influenced by ukiyo-e?
... that the largest of the 67 Petit & Fritsen cast bells of the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon weighs 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg)?
... that Robert Runyon photographed significant events of the Mexican Revolution, discovered several new plant species, and was mayor of Brownsville, Texas?
... that by winning the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters became the first team in 27 years to successfully defend an All-Filipino Championship?
... that Jineth Bedoya Lima was abducted, tortured, and raped following her reporting on Colombian paramilitary groups?
... that it is claimed that the Reiterdenkmal , an equestrian monument in the centre of Windhoek, Namibia, is the only monument in the world where an ordinary soldier is placed on horseback?
... that Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, was a member of the anti-Islam group Norwegian Defence League, a sister organization of the English Defence League?
... that pediatric neurologist Paul M. Ellwood, Jr. coined the term "health maintenance organization" (HMO) in the American health care system?
... that Canadian national Naser al-Raas was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for attending a rally of the 2011 Bahraini uprising?
... that after his victory in 1802, Tyrant was described by a contemporary sports writer as "one of the worst horses that ever won a Derby"?
... that Steven Gan took advantage of a loophole in Malaysian Internet law to create the country's first independent news source?
... that despite many critics writing that "Stupid in Love" was about Rihanna and Chris Brown's altercation on the night of the 51st Grammy Awards, the song was written two days before the event?
... that Arodys Vizcaíno's fastball has been recorded as fast as 101 miles per hour (163 km/h)?
... that the Central Committee of the Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia included only one woman?
... that, as a publisher and literary critic, Drago Siliqi increased translation of foreign literature into Albanian and encouraged Ismail Kadare to write his first novel, The General of the Dead Army?
... that after the Thoroughbred racehorse Bloomsbury won the 1839 Derby Stakes, his identity was questioned and bookmakers refused to pay out on "winning" bets?
... that Nick Castellanos received a $3.45 million signing bonus from the Detroit Tigers, the highest ever for a player not drafted in the first round in the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the oldest jockey to win the Derby Stakes was John Forth, who rode Frederick to victory in 1829?
... that the Helena train wreck of 1989 occurred during a record cold snap that ranked No. 4 on the NOAA's list of Montana's Top Weather/Water/Climate events of the 20th century?
... that Al-Ashraf Musa's defection from the Mongol coalition was critical for the Mamluks' victory during the Battle of Ain Jalut?
... that Bob Wasserman served as police chief, city councilman, and mayor of the city of Fremont, California?
... that the disused Barnes Cemetery in Barnes, west London, is said to be haunted by a ghostly nun hovering over the grave of the victim of a notorious murder?
... that Moses won the 1816 Derby Stakes wearing the Duke of York's colours, and became the third racehorse owned by British Royal Family to win the Derby?
... that the Rosemount ski boot, one of the earliest all-plastic designs, was invented by a company better known for aerospace instruments?
... that the actress Helen Barry, who starred in London and New York, married an ex-Mayor of Monmouth?
... that the fruit of mountain snowberry honeysuckle is eaten by the yellow-billed magpie?
... that Louis de Saint-Just and Maximilien Robespierre dined at the Ledoyen two days before they were executed on 26 July 1794?
... that Gabriel Duvall has been called the least significant justice in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States?
... that Vincent van Gogh's Road with Cypress and Star is said to reflect his increasing awareness of his upcoming death?
... that the extinct horsetail Equisetum thermale grew in Jurassic hot springs?
... that International Press Freedom Award laureate María Cristina Caballero began reporting for a Bogotá newspaper at the age of 16?
... that Ilaiyaraaja won three Best Music Direction awards during the 1980s at the National Film Awards (India)?
... that John Stone missed only three games for York City in the 1973–74 season as the club won promotion to the Second Division for the first time?
... that Christopher Werner made a lifelike South Carolina Palmetto tree out of iron, copper, and brass?
... that in 1781 both a Dutch zoologist and a Swedish naturalist described the transverse ladybird ?
... that Photo Bits, a soft porn magazine published from 1898 to 1914, was the first pin-up magazine in the United Kingdom?
... that 70 metres (230 ft) down Sima de las Cotorras, a giant sinkhole inhabited by thousands of parakeets, there are rock paintings on the sheer cliff wall painted 5–10 thousand years ago?
... that one reviewer thought ZX Spectrum computer game Moonlight Madness should have been called Daylight Robbery due to its price?
... that the death of singer Melky Goeslaw led to greater interest in male breast cancer in Indonesia?
... that Dwyane Wade has played more minutes, scored more points, made more field goals, made more free throws and recorded more assists than any other player in Miami Heat history?
... that the 1727 Bach cantata for a solo soprano Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84, one of few works Bach named "Cantata" himself, shows the spirit of the beginning Enlightenment?
... that the Governor is the only state government official in Tennessee who is directly elected by the voters of the entire state?
... that Aboubakr Jamaï went on a hunger strike after his newspapers were banned in Morocco?
... that Jeremy Irons guest-starred in The Simpsons episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" as the voice of a bar rag?
... that the 1913 Michigan Wolverines football team featured running by Jimmy Craig , a "Hawaiian yell," and snake dancing behind the Michigan band?
... that the last Batak priest-king Sisingamangaraja XII was shot and killed by Dutch troops in 1907, ending his thirty-year war against the colonisation of Sumatra?
... that according to one critic, Rihanna appeared to embody the same "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona on "Complicated" as she did on the album's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)"?
... that Mildred Seydell was one of the first female newspaper journalists in the State of Georgia?
... that Hubert Brooks was one of only five RCAF members to receive the Military Cross during World War II and that his citation was the longest?
... that the hosts of C-SPAN series American Writers visited a meat processing plant to discuss Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
... that each of the three volumes of Taylor Branch's history of the civil rights movement were given names from aspects of the Book of Exodus?
... that in the 1945 Canadian federal election, Yukon Communist Tom McEwen came within 162 votes of being elected to parliament?
... that after being selected third overall in the 2008 MLB Draft, Eric Hosmer was given a six million dollar signing bonus, the largest in Kansas City Royals history?
... that a mildly retarded man gives away his family's fortune in Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart?
... that the winner of the 1831 Derby Stakes, Spaniel, was also the smallest horse in the race?
... that French manufacturer Vétra built trolleybuses for transit systems in 12 countries, on three continents?
... that Wu Ying, named China's sixth richest woman at the age of 25, has been sentenced to death for financial fraud?
... that the architecture of Turkey has been influenced by many architects from Germany and Austria invited between 1924 and 1942 to work in Ankara?
... that XTERRA World Champion Lesley Paterson plans to co-produce a remake of the Oscar-winning 1930 film All Quiet on the Western Front?
... that while the fifty-seventh episode of Glee features newly cast actors to introduce Rachel's two fathers, the actors cast to play them in 2009 were cut from the second episode?
... that in 1992 the leader of the Gambela People's Liberation Movement, Agwa Alemu, was killed by his own troops?
... that Mündig never competed on a racecourse prior to winning the 1835 Derby Stakes, and bookmakers were misled to lengthen his odds based on false information fed to them by his trainer?
... that in some areas of northern Alaska, the willow species Salix alaxensis constitutes over 95% of winter food for moose?
... that South West Queensland had Australia's first opal discovery, Australia's first natural gas strike and Australia's largest cotton farm?
... that the ending to Miami Vice's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" "set a new standard for TV direction"?
... that one of the essays in William Gibson's new non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavor caused Wired magazine to be banned in Singapore?
... that Suburgatory star Jane Levy was named on Forbes 2011 list of 30 under 30 who are "reinventing the world"?
... that during colonial times, the French used Muang Sing as a weigh station and market for their opium monopoly?
... that Major League Baseball's Detroit Wolverines used a Lady as their Opening Day starting pitcher in 1887, the year they won the World Series?
... that Michael Pineda's fastball averaged 94.7 miles per hour (152.4 km/h) in 2011, leading Major League Baseball rookies with at least 100 innings pitched?
... that in the early phase of the Ethiopian revolution, the underground publication Yäsäffiw hezb dems was widely distributed in spite of military censorship?
... that the racehorse Young Eclipse, winner of the second Derby ever held, later sired a second horse named Young Eclipse, who came second in the 1802 Derby?
... that Vashon High School in St. Louis, Missouri, has won 14 state basketball championships since 1934?
... that cuneiform tablets found at the ancient city-state of Ugarit include several letters of reprimand sent to its king Ibiranu by Hittite overlords?
... that, in the 1840s, the congregation of the First Congregational Church in Guilford, Connecticut, underwent a split due to differing views on the abolition of slavery?
... that Novo Sancti Petri in Chiclana de la Frontera contains a golf course designed by Severiano Ballesteros?
... that Pres Mull was one of the first Distinguished Alumni of Appalachian State University?
... that athletes from 17 of the 21 competing NPCs won at least one medal in the 1964 Summer Paralympics?
... that the Autolib' scheme plans to make 3,000 electric cars available to the Parisian public for rental by late 2012?
... that "Missing My Baby" was one of the first songs to be played on radio stations after Selena was murdered?
... that BJ Birdy, the first mascot of the Toronto Blue Jays, also starred in a Toronto Star comic strip created by the mascot's performer?
... that mandatory, prohibiting and quashing orders, and the order for review of detention, which are remedies available in Singapore administrative law, derive from ancient British prerogative writs?
... that Central VPA High School in St. Louis, Missouri, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River?
... that elimination of the United States Department of Commerce has been proposed by both President Barack Obama and former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry?
... that Littlehampton Fort was the first in Britain to be built with a Carnot wall?
... that members of the Canadian indie rock band Reverie Sound Revue sent sound files to each other via e-mail in order to record their first studio album?
... that Daisy Burrell was talent-spotted for The Valley of Fear while playing Cinderella?
... that Jacksonville, Florida's most populous city and largest in area, has the only consolidated city-county government in the state?
... that the main building of Hamburg's university of fine arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, was designed by architect Fritz Schumacher and completed in 1913?
... that the College of Arms was reincorporated by Queen Mary I on 18 July 1555, although its officers of arms had proclaimed her rival Lady Jane Grey as rightful queen two years earlier?