derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that NAAFI Canteen Manager John Leake was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for manning a machine gun onboard HMS Ardent during the Falklands War?
... that Israel plans to build a railway from the Red Sea city of Eilat to its Mediterranean ports that will compete with the Suez Canal?
... that Dr. O'Dowd is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Good Hit" was momentarily removed from her seventh studio album Love? following its negative response when a snippet leaked online?
... that the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, now part of BNP Paribas, was founded by a revolutionary government's decree?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Nuku Muhammad Amiruddin had a British ship aid him in attacking the Dutch?
... that Barry Stuppler submitted a $50 million bid for the Berlin Wall and helped create the California State Quarter in 2003?
... that Stooshe were inspired by the musicals Dreamgirls and Hairspray for their video accompanying their single "Black Heart"?
... that Glen Waverley badminton player Victoria Na will make her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games?
... that the cider house at Great Manson Farm in Monmouth, Wales, has a rare, stone and wood cider mill?
... that the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico as depicted in the 2012 film Cristiada has been compared to the Obama administration's birth control mandate?
... that professional wrestler Ric Converse, a victim of childhood bullying, was inspired by Hulk Hogan at age eight to become a wrestler himself?
... that the German Sonne radio navigation system proved so useful to the British during WWII that they provided spare parts to keep them running?
... that R. L. Holdsworth reached the summit of Kamet, the highest mountain climbed at the time?
... that the death of racer Pete Orr was a driving force for insurance reform in Florida?
... that in the music video for her single "Me Haces Falta" (2007), Jennifer Lopez portrays an undercover FBI agent who surrenders her lover to the police and has regrets afterwards?
... that 1972's Sette scialli di seta gialla was one of several "imitative whodunits" released after the success of Dario Argento's L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo?
... that Book of Spells, an upcoming Wonderbook for PlayStation 3, is a companion to Harry Potter?
... that composer Włodzimierz Korcz received most recognition for the music to a protest song, which was adopted as an informal anthem of the Solidarity trade union in Communist Poland?
... that the 2012 election for mayor of Gaborone, Botswana, was contested when a councillor on the Gaborone City Council cut his ballot in half to vote twice?
... that the freshwater crab Guinotia dentata prefers shady rivers to sunny ones?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Bob Glenn later became a pioneer in highway and traffic engineering from the 1920s through the 1950s?
... that the Yawata Steel Works were identified as the target for the bomb that fell on Nagasaki?
... that the Brunei women's national football team is forbidden from participating in the Olympic Games by its country's government?
... that The Chimneys' roof framing utilizes techniques common in the construction of ships' hulls at the time it was built in 1771?
... that ARCA driver Darrell Basham's race shop was demolished by a tornado in March 2012?
... that Byzantine style frescos from 1380 in the Transfiguration Church in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, were destroyed during World War II and finally restored in the 1960s ?
... that Moose McCormick was considered the first great pinch hitter in Major League Baseball history?
... that items on display at the Royal New Zealand Navy's Torpedo Bay Navy Museum include the Māori warrior's skirt which the captain of the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand wore for good luck in battle?
... that audience laughter during a scene in the Cheers episode "Coach's Daughter" between Coach and his daughter Lisa was muted out in the final cut?
... that composer, music theorist and hymn-writer Cyriakus Schneegass corresponded with Martin Luther and Caspar Creuziger?
... that Third Eye Blind's song "Blinded" is about a man who spies on his ex-lover in the bathroom?
... that the Cornish folk tale of the Mermaid of Zennor was likely to have been inspired by chair carved with a mermaid at St Senara's Church in Zennor?
... that Syrian poet and writer Maryana Marrash revived the tradition of literary salons in the Middle East at the end of the 19th century?
... that the number of Mandaeans in Iraq has fallen by more than 90% since the 2003 invasion due to religious persecution?
... that York City have recorded more league victories against Rochdale than against any other club, having beaten them 43 times from 100 attempts?
... that a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Louis Purnell, flew 88 bomber escort missions during World War II as a Tuskegee Airman, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross?
... that the land around the village of Peperga in the Netherlands was so wet that before 1660 the entire village was moved one kilometer to a drier area?
... that Bach's chorale cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, based on Luther's hymn, is part of "the largest musical project that the composer ever undertook"?
... that Abdulbaset Sieda, the new head of the opposition Syrian National Council, used to be a university professor in Libya?
... that the call of the Red-necked Avocet has been likened to a dog barking?
... that despite the Seychelles women's national football team having played only two games up to June 2012, a national football tournament for women has been around in the country since the late 1990s?
... that Crulic: The Path to Beyond, released in 2011, was the first Romanian animated feature film in two decades?
... that LinkedIn was hacked on June 7, 2012, resulting in the release of over 6 million user passwords?
... that the "Godfather of BBQ", Johnny Trigg, was the first person to win the Jack Daniels World Championship BBQ Invitational twice?
... that Blessed Elizabeth is said to have been the lawful heiress to the Hungarian throne but was harassed and forced to join a convent by her evil stepmother, Queen Agnes?
... that twenty Bahraini health workers were sentenced to up to fifteen years' imprisonment by a military court in a trial that lasted for only a few minutes?
... that the employment of Ruth Sawtell Wallis during the Depression was "unthinkable" because her husband was also a professor?
... that Kabaret TEY was one of the most popular Polish cabarets of the 1970s and 1980s?
... that the judges in Salinger v. Random House found that "resembling a lifeless rodent" infringed on the copyrighted expression "like a dead rat"?
... that earthenware fragments from Odai Yamamoto I have a calibrated radiocarbon date of as early as 14,500 BC, before the warming at the end of the Pleistocene?
... that the stable block of Newton Court, in Monmouth, hosts one of only three known breeding sites of the Greater Horseshoe Bat in Wales?
... that it was Giovanni Lusieri who suggested that his employer should remove the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon ?
... that even though the Saudi Arabia women's national football team does not exist, women in the country have created, coached and played for their own club team outside the sight of men?
... that poet George Ellis accompanied England's Earl of Malmesbury to France in 1796 as a member of the peace negotiations?
... that When the Emperor was Divine, a historical fiction novel about Japanese American internment, was described as "a meditation on what it means to be loyal to one's country and to one's self"?
... that the Northern Khmer dialect is spoken by descendants of the Khmer Empire native to the Isan region of Thailand?
... that at the revived KunstRAI art fair in Amsterdam in May, Bart Jansen created a stir by exhibiting his dead cat, Orville, transformed into a radio-controlled helicopter?
... that the PhD robes of Stanford University are stylistic copies of those used by Cambridge University in England?
... that players will be able to jam electronics, tap cell phones, and manipulate traffic lights in order to track and kill a target in Ubisoft's upcoming video game, Watch Dogs?
... that 1996 and 2004 Olympian Deonne Bridger is currently ranked as Australia's top female recurve archer?
... that Umberto Lenzi's 1972 film Il coltello di ghiaccio features thematic and directorial elements which one reviewer found similar to the works of Lucio Fulci?
... that Double-banded Sandgrouse chicks are precocial and can fly within a month of hatching?
... that boys from a Monmouth, Wales, prep school housed in The Grange won the British under-11 chess championship in 2003?
... that Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree was praised by the The A.V. Club for its sexual writing?
... that the Hessentag , the annual state festival of Hesse held since 1961, attracted more than 1.2 million visitors in Wetzlar in 2012?
... that Bryan Holaday won the Johnny Bench Award in 2010, given to the top catcher in college baseball?
... that the Black River National Forest Scenic Byway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan connects to the tallest ski flying hill in the world and one of two National Forest harbors in the United States?
... that CEC Bank fell from a 32.9% share of the Romanian banking market in 1990 to 4.03% in 2006?
... that Tom Luckey, creator of multi-story climbing structures known as Luckey Climbers, is paralyzed from the neck down?
... that while Réunion women's national football team is not recognised by FIFA, the team has played full internationals against South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe?
... that the inventory of Emery Walker's former home at 7 Hammersmith Terrace includes a lock of William Morris's hair and Dante Rossetti's teapot?
... that Jack Enzenroth in 1910 was the captain of the first baseball team to be coached by Branch Rickey?
... that Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria, Germany, was designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1990 by UNESCO?
... that Bahraini boy Ali Hassan is one of the youngest detainees since the national uprising began fourteen months ago in February 2011?
... that the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hadspen, Tasmania, took over ninety years to complete?
... that Julie Otsuka has won an Alex Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and an Asian American Literary Award for her works on Japanese Americans?
... that the Estonian Sports Museum has helped organise an exhibition to celebrate Estonia's first Olympics in London?
... that nine-year-old Martha Payne was told by her local council to stop reporting on her school dinners in her blog NeverSeconds after the national media reported on it?
... that Easwaran's Love Never Faileth seeks to "bring to light ... volcanic forces that work far, far below the surface strata of consciousness"?
... that quantum mechanics can be formulated entirely in phase space if a quantum system is represented by a quasi-probability distribution?
... that despite FIFA recognition and twice-weekly training sessions, the Madagascar women's national football team has yet to play in a single FIFA-recognised match?
... that in 1946, French-Australian botanist Albert de Lestang provided the botany world with some rare seeds they had been looking for since 1852?
... that Allan W. Eckert claimed Incident at Hawk's Hill, his Newbery Honor novel about a boy who survives on the Canadian prairie with help from a mother badger, was based on a real event?
... that when William Snyder Webb was awarded an honorary doctorate, he had to be captured before the ceremony?
... that Foxley Wood is the largest ancient area of woodland in Norfolk and was mentioned in the Domesday Book?
... that Australian Opal Belinda Snell first played basketball as an eight-year-old on a mixed gendered team?
... that Soviet spy satellite Yantar-2K had two film return capsules which could land on the ground or on water?
... that Italian actress Ida Galli has also been billed as Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon?
... that according to an Alaskan report, a tribe of Eskimo cook the swamp cranberry with fish eggs and blubber?
... that British swimmer Liam Tancock has taken up ballet in order to improve his medal chances at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Lance Norick was the first driver in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series to drive on rain tires in official competition?
... that Nové Spojení, a series of railway tunnels and bridges built in Prague, won the transport category of the Czech Construction of the Year award in 2009?
... that Australian archer Jesse McDonald has had a goal of making the Summer Olympics since 2003 and was named to the 2012 Australian archery shadow Olympic team?
... that Glendower Street Congregational Church stood derelict for forty years before its conversion into the award-winning Glendower House?
... that television producer and director Daniel Sackheim has won one Primetime Emmy Award and been nominated for two more?
... that You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In is chanted at opponents of pro wrestler Bryan Danielson?
... that, as a U.S. Senator, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth drafted a statute that authorized punitive, court-ordered dissection of convicted murderers' corpses?
... that Kristi Harrower has won three Olympic silver medals in basketball and is in the running to earn a fourth medal?
... that the stadium at the Maury School in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was home to the annual Fredericksburg Dog Mart, which began in 1698?
... that Citra Award-winning actress Laura Basuki has been compared to Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa?
... that the crash of an Australian National Airways Stinson in 1945 was believed by investigators to be the first in-flight structural failure attributable to metal fatigue?
... that dental similarities in Afrotarsius, an African fossil primate, and Afrasia, a newly described fossil primate from Myanmar, add support to the hypothesis that simians first evolved in Asia?
... that St Mary's Church, Whitby , was the setting for a scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula?
... that although Stracimir was the eldest son of Lord Balša, the youngest, Đurađ, became the major figure of the family?
... that World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September) builds awareness of suicides, including that one third are committed with pesticides like United Nations-banned organophosphates?
... that Negro league baseball player Lemuel Hawkins was shot to death while attempting to hold up a beer truck?
... that the upcoming film Anna Karenina will be the third collaboration between director Joe Wright and actress Keira Knightley?
... that the name of the 1983 Bollywood film Log Kya Kahenge (What Will People Think?) refers to a social yardstick in India and the expectations surrounding women and marriage?
... that Estonian Paralympian Marge Kõrkjas was awarded 100,000 krooni (about 6,400 euros) from the government following the 2004 Summer Paralympics?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court heard six criminal appeals from convicted Mormon polygamists during the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Waite (1874–1888)?
... that Fritz Blanding retired from baseball due to "excessive weight" and because he could have "a heap more fun" on his farm?
... that during the American Civil War, General Robert E. Lee ordered the destruction of the mansion at Fall Hill because it blocked his view of advancing Union Army troops?
... that Australian Opal Abby Bishop has played basketball professionally for the Seattle Storm, Canberra Capitals, Dandenong Rangers and Adelaide Lightning?
... that Walker–Grant School was the first public high school for black students in Fredericksburg, Virginia?
... that Japanese tennis player Ryosuke Nunoi served in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and committed suicide at the end of the Burma Campaign?
... that the tower of the Trinity Congregational Church collapsed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake after the New Zealand Historic Places Trust had declined consent for earthquake strengthening?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Until It Beats No More" was used as background music in her commercial for the Fiat 500?
... that David Stremme placed the Inception Motorsports car 16th on the grid in the team's very first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race attempt?
... that St John's in Monmouth, Wales, has been described as "one of Monmouth's best-kept secrets"?
... that although linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf is best known for the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis", he never stated a hypothesis, writing instead about the "principle of linguistic relativity"?
... that the National Gallery in Berlin has now expanded from its original 1876 building into five others, including a Schinkel church and two palace outbuildings in Charlottenburg?
... that Kat Driscoll's performance at the 2011 World Championships earned Great Britain a trampolining place at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that 57-million-year-old Altiatlasius from Morocco may be the oldest fossil primate yet found, despite a molecular estimate that places the last common ancestor of primates at 90 million years ago?
... that in his 2012 book, Scotty Bowers reveals Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars?
... that three ten-foot-high (3 m) bronze horses in the City of London by English sculptor Althea Wynne have been nicknamed "Sterling, Dollar, and Yen"?
... that 2010 Commonwealth Games Australian archery gold medalist Mathew Masonwells likes to listen to Hilltop Hoods between shooting competition rounds?
... that on 13 March 2012, BBC News reported that 17 police stations in South East Wales would close to the public, including the Monmouth Police Station?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Goin' In", featuring Flo Rida, is featured on the soundtrack of the dance film Step Up Revolution?
... that the French ice hockey team, the Dragons de Rouen won both the regular season and Coupe Magnus in the 2011–12 Ligue Magnus season?
... that the Modoc County Historical Museum has objects in its collection that date back 8,000 years?
... that the Puneri Pagadi , a turban, is an intellectual property of the Indian city Pune?
... that Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott worshipped at St Saviour's Chapel in Lyttelton, New Zealand, before embarking on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition?
... that the 1976 song "Let Poland be Poland" by Jan Pietrzak became one of the anthems of Solidarity?
... that Jennifer Screen's first international basketball tournament with the Australian Opals was the 2006 World Championships in Brazil, where her team took home a gold medal?
... that, having first occurred in 1698, the Fredericksburg Dog Mart is the oldest dog show in the United States?
... that the success of the multi-language wall poems in Leiden, South Holland, inspired similar projects in Sofia, Bulgaria, and in Paris, France?
... that General Ulysses S. Grant held an outdoor council of war with his top generals on pews taken from the Massaponax Baptist Church?
... that 2008 silver-medal-winning Australian Opal Suzy Batkovic used to sneak out to concerts with basketball teammate Lauren Jackson while on scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport?
... that although the first two fossils of Indraloris to be found were misidentified as a carnivoran and a loris, it is in fact a member of the extinct adapiform primates?
... that Bozh, the first Slavic ruler known in history, was captured and crucified together with his sons and 70 of his nobility by the invading Ostrogoths?
... that The Runaways' second album Queens of Noise features guitar solos from both lead guitarist Lita Ford and rhythm guitarist Joan Jett?
... that National League's 1934 Most Popular Umpire Dolly Stark created a women's clothing line named the "Dolly Stark Dress"?
... that Samestate had two top-20 songs – "Hurricane" and "Shadows" – on the Christian CHR chart?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Engagement Ring marks his transition from his prior painterly work to his subsequent more polished mechanical-looking work?
... that Hindustan Zindabad, a nationalistic slogan, translates to "Long Live India"?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic archery hopeful Ryan Tyack finished first in the all around men's recurve event at the 2012 Australian national championships?
... that the East Bay Vivarium is the oldest and largest retail vivarium in the United States?
... that the third digit in the banking industry's "3-6-3 Rule" refers to bankers being able to "tee off at the golf course by 3 p.m."?
... that development of the Ten Broeck Triangle in Albany, New York, was spurred by the 1845 removal of a cemetery whose bodies and coffins kept washing out in heavy storms?
... that Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was a prisoner of war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway before becoming Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire and of Clwyd?
... that among the challenges to developing the Niger women's national football team is shari'a law being used to ban women from the sport in some parts of the country?
... that Carl Lachmund, who wrote detailed diaries on his studies with Franz Liszt, conducted a concert at the request of President William McKinley for the survivors of USS Maine?
... that the Jewish Orphanage of Berlin-Pankow was originally intended to be a home for refugee children who escaped pogroms after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia?
... that political boss John H. McCooey opposed the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt for President of the United States in 1932?
... that the script for British athletics film Fast Girls had to be re-written to remove all references to the Olympics?
... that Swedish author Edith Unnerstad wrote her first book at age 11 for a sister who had been hospitalized with scarlet fever?
... that the Japanese sea cucumber can aestivate and remain in a dormant state for up to four years?
... that while flying accidents were commonplace at RAAF training establishments during World War II, No. 8 Service Flying Training School's first fatality was from drowning?
... that Victor Gonzalez, Jr. was the first Puerto Rican driver to compete in a major NASCAR event?
... that Punsari, a small village in Gujarat, was awarded with the "Best Panchayat in Gujarat" title?
... that chef Myron Mixon is nicknamed the "winningest man in barbecue", having won more than 1,700 trophies?
... that Gojko Balšić, one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, was Skanderbeg's nephew?
... that Haxhi Qamili, the main leader of the Peasant Revolt in Albania in 1914, was arrested by Serbian forces, tried in a court presided over by Xhelal Bey Zogu, and sentenced to hanging?
... that Marta met the Sierra Leone women's national football team in 2011 as part of the United Nations Development Programme?
... that the family of Miami Zombie victim Ronald Poppo, a graduate of Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, believed he had died 30 years ago?
... that the 2012 deployment of Carrier Strike Group Twelve will be the last for its famous flagship, the soon-to-be decommissioned aircraft carrier Enterprise ?
... that the first time the Chase Court considered an appeal from a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the circuit courts, Congress withdrew the U.S. Supreme Court's power to hear those appeals?
... that Steve Waugh was the first cricket player to score 150 runs in an innings against all Test-playing nations, a Guinness record?
... that the mineral motukoreaite is named for Motukorea, the island in New Zealand where it was discovered?
... that the Druid's Head Inn, an old public house in Monmouth, Wales, now serves as the headquarters of the Monmouth Rugby Football Club?
... that Tim Bainey, Jr. plans to compete in a NASCAR race held on a track he co-owns?
... that Domenico Ghirlandaio finished the frescoes of the Santa Fina Chapel three years before the cult of Santa Fina was authorized by Pope Sixtus IV in 1481?
... that Duncan Curry, sometimes called the "Father of Baseball", was the president of the first organized baseball team and helped draft the first written rules of the game in 1845?
... that Algeripithecus, a 46–50 million year old fossil primate, was once crucial for the African origins of simians (monkeys and apes), but now suggests African origins for lemurs and lorisoids?