derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Deborah Rutter, the first woman named to head the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, applied in German for her first art job in Los Angeles?
... that the cause of the 1956 Anjar earthquake, which killed at least 115 people, was reverse faulting?
... that the town of Stora Blåsjön, Sweden, has a moose farm featuring a pair of moose named Hilda and Herbert?
... that Hällingsåfallet, a waterfall along the Vildmarksvägen route , has been described as "Sweden's answer to Niagara Falls"?
... that critics praised the band Stryper for featuring their classic 1980s sound on their latest album No More Hell to Pay?
... that Mary Hamilton Swindler was the first woman editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology (1932–46) since its inception in 1885?
... that SS Oropesa sank after being hit with a torpedo by German submarine U-96?
... that Wenilo took an annual tribute of "one horse and a shield and lance" from the monastery of Saint-Rémy in Sens?
... that the claim that over 80% of South Africans use traditional healers is greatly exaggerated, according to Africa Check?
... that when Richard Branson left high school at 16, his headmaster Robert Drayson predicted he would "either go to prison or become a millionaire"?
... that the sängerfest origins can be traced to educator Carl August Zeller and composer Hans Georg Nägeli, protégés of Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi?
... that Xiu Xiu's upcoming Angel Guts: Red Classroom was influenced by the Japanese erotic film of the same name and its frontman's move to a dangerous area of Los Angeles?
... that the sale of Saying Grace has left an "irreplaceable hole" in the Norman Rockwell Museum's collection, according to the museum's director?
... that the female footballer Bilgin Defterli decided to go to Germany because she saw no chance to play football in Turkey due to the dissolution of women's football leagues in 2003?
... that Macau's Time Capsule is scheduled to be opened on December 19, 2049?
... that Tom Bayer, formerly serving in the United States Army, gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a citizen of Vanuatu?
... that astronomers at the Jesuit College of Ingolstadt hesitated to report sunspots since Jesuits thought the sun was "virginal"?
... that American frontiersman James Caudy purportedly fought off Native American fighters by nudging them off a rock formation one by one with his rifle barrel?
... that Cavendish Pianos is the only company producing pianos still wholly built in the UK?
... that Faik Ali Ozansoy is known for having saved thousands of lives during the Armenian Genocide?
... that Danilo Kiš's final work, the 1983 collection The Encyclopedia of the Dead, helped make him one of the most important figures for the post-Yugoslav generation of writers?
... that in the 1952 Hyderabad State Assembly election, the communist People's Democratic Front won all seats from the Nalgonda district?
... that the BBC filmed The Great Train Robbery in Yorkshire, as it was the "most cost-effective and realistic alternative" to the original sites, much changed since the 1960s?
... that the inscription on Bridget Chaworth's monument commemorates her 25 years of service as a gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I and 14 years of service to Anne of Denmark?
... that the building which houses the National Press Monument was once an office of the Indonesian Red Cross Society?
... that Dick Dodd, drummer and lead singer on the 1966 Billboard hit "Dirty Water", bought his first snare drum from fellow Mouseketeer Annette Funicello for $20?
... that an animal model of autism was used by Mady Hornig to implicate thimerosal in autism?
... that the candidature of BJP politician Pravesh Verma from Mehrauli was opposed by some of his party workers, who called him an "outsider"?
... that nuns sought donations in saloons to build the first St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton, Oregon?
... that, as in Brazil, families of crime victims in South Africa have successfully campaigned for the establishment of a national forensic DNA database?
... that Kaiser Wilhelm set a record in minor league baseball that was not fully confirmed for almost a hundred years?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus exstinctus was described from only two of the three fossils known to the species author?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court case FTC v. Actavis, Inc. challenged "pay-for-delay" settlements in the pharmaceutical industry?
... that Gabriele Schnaut recorded alto parts in Bach cantatas in the 1970s, and appeared as Waltraute and Second Norne in the Jahrhundertring film in 1980, as Isolde in 1985, and as Turandot in 2002?
... that four U.S. highways, including US-64, converge in a traffic circle surrounding the Cimarron County Courthouse in Boise City, Oklahoma?
... that Sir Denis Wright, former U.K. ambassador to Iran, was brought out of retirement on a covert mission to inform the deposed Shah that he would not be granted asylum in Britain?
... that the extinct ant Agroecomyrmex duisburgi was first described in 1868?
... that the Song fleet, armed with bombs launched by trebuchets, defeated the Jin navy in the Battle of Caishi on the Yangtze River during the Jin–Song wars?
... that Elizabeth Burchenal, considered America's leading authority on folk dancing, organized large folk dance gatherings – one in particular involving 10,000 schoolgirls?
... that the Universalist Church of Westfield Center was one of Ohio's first Universalist churches?
... that Meralda Warren and several children on Pitcairn Island wrote the first book published in both English and Pitkern, a South Pacific creole language?
... that Hong Kong's Central Government Offices, Office of the Chief Executive and Legislative Council Complex are located on Tamar Park?
... that Charles Voysey's remodelling of Garden Corner in London ensured that politician Emslie Horniman's wife had sliding shelves, to bring the morning tea-tray over her bed?
... that the totem pole in the Great Court of the British Museum is 39 feet (12 m) high?
... that Klas August Linderfelt was erased from the official list of American Library Association Presidents following his arrest for embezzlement?
... that SS Anselm was overloaded with about 1,200 Royal Marines and Royal Air Force personnel when torpedoed by a German submarine, killing 250?
... that the General John Frelinghuysen House, originally a c. 1756 tavern and town hall, is now the public library in Raritan, New Jersey?
... that the star Theta Muscae turned out to be a triple system whose central star has blown off its outer hydrogen layer?
... that during the exile of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, his eldest son Edmund Mortimer was imprisoned at Windsor Castle?
... that Cobrapost conducted a sting operation which led to the expulsion of eleven MPs from the Parliament of India?
... that hōchōdō (庖丁道, the way of the cleaver) is a traditional Japanese culinary art form of filleting a fish or fowl without touching it with one's hands ?
... that the British destroyer HMS Beagle rescued 600 survivors of the ocean liner Lancastria, sunk by German aircraft during the evacuation of St. Nazaire on 17 June 1940?
... that the first mass protests against prostitution of children were led by ECPAT in the 1990s?
... that Subir Banerjee, who played Apu in Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955), never acted in any film afterwards?
... that it took four years after giving a 1999 four-star rating award for New York Post restaurant critic Steve Cuozzo to award his next four-star rating?
... that Edge referred to Deathrow as a substance-less and "contrived clone" of the 1990 Speedball 2?
... that when Roy Conacher was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998, he joined his brothers Lionel and Charlie as the only trio of siblings so honoured?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus lucidus is named for its shiny exoskeleton?
... that architect Richard Rogers' house for his parents, 22 Parkside, inspired his work on the Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd's building?
... that Stephen II Csák unsuccessfully besieged the royal castle of Buda in September 1302?
... that the Kim Mitchell song "Patio Lanterns" was broadcast on Canadian radio stations more than 100,000 times within 10 years of its 1986 release?
... that Philipp Nicolai wrote the hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", the base for Bach's cantata, after the plague hit his hometown?
... that USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-MLP-3/T-AFSB-1) will be the first purpose-built afloat forward staging base (AFSB) support vessel for the United States Navy?
... that Mark Williams-Thomas researched and presented The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, an award-winning ITV Exposure documentary?
... that the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services was the first fire department in India to have female fire officers?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus conisquamis is noted for having a nipple-shaped spine?
... that the Black Squirrel Creek Bridge was demolished a little under ten years after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that Cromwell Lee compiled an Italian-English dictionary which, although unfinished, is said to have been "as big as a church bible"?
... that National Hockey League player Reg Sinclair quit the sport in 1953 after only three seasons to take a job with Pepsi that paid less than a quarter of what he would have made in the NHL?
... that Lyndon B. Johnson's dual appointment of Thomas C. Mann was called "a declaration of independence, even perhaps a declaration of aggression against the Kennedys"?
... that nitrovasodilators are drugs that act by releasing nitric oxide in the human body?
... that the 2013 Little India riot, which had about 400 participants, resulted in 25 emergency vehicles being damaged?
... that Shirley Erena Murray's hymns are published in more than 140 hymnals?
... that in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Arabic weekly al-Tilmiz was the most important journal for North Caucasian intellectuals?
... that John Marshall Hamilton, the 18th Governor of Illinois, first became active in politics when he was thirteen years old?
... that the Lebombo cycad is a different species from the Lebombo cycad?
... that when the Alid Muhammad the Pure Soul launched his abortive uprising against the Abbasids, Caliph al-Mansur is said to have remarked that at last he had "enticed the fox out of his hole"?
... that extracts from leaves of the mahogany tree suren toon are used as antibacterial poultices?
... that Runcorn signal box was one of the earliest operational signal boxes built by the LMS to incorporate Air Raid Precautions specifications?
... that during the 2012–13 Big Ten Conference men's basketball season one school advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round in each region of the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
... that as President of the American Physical Society, James A. Krumhansl advocated for more visas and immigration opportunities for Chinese scholars following the Tiananmen square massacre?
... that social inertia discourages chickens from attacking one another after a social order has been established?
... that the NAD 3020 amplifier sold a record 1.1 million units in its lifetime, excluding sales of designs derived from it?
... that 1992 table tennis Paralympian and 2012 Paralympic wheelchair basketballplayer Jaume Llambi Riera was one of seven Spaniards to compete at both the 1992 and 2012 Games?
... that the Wealth Partaking Scheme is a cash disbursement policy by the Macau Government to all the holders of a Macau Resident Identity Card?
... that Hermética's EP Intérpretes includes a thrash metal cover version of the tango "Cambalache"?
... that Jan Metzler got Worms for his party for the first time in 64 years?
... that in 1975 TIME magazine named Schwester Selma , head nurse at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, as one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie?
... that Sammy Drake and his brother Solly Drake were the first two African-American brothers to play in Major League Baseball?
... that although the 1962 Sino-Indian War was fought for just a few weeks, the subsequent internment of Chinese Indians lasted for years?
... that when a person's belief is disconfirmed, it can actually lead to stronger conviction?
... that Lilian Bland was the first woman to design and build her own aircraft, in 1910, but gave up flying when offered a motorcar instead?
... that despite some reviewers praising ATV: Quad Frenzy's graphics and soundtrack, VideoGamer.com's review said it was "quite disgraceful" that it "even made it onto the store shelves"?
... that a freeway segment of U.S. Highway 31, delayed for many years because of the Mitchell's Satyr butterfly , is now on hold due to funding issues?
... that the 14th-century John Grandisson Triptych was made from elephant ivory?
... that King Louis I of Naples had one cousin murdered so he could marry another, and was described by Petrarch as "violent and mendacious, prodigal and avaricious, debauched and cruel"?
... that although the 1996 reunion of the Argentine band V8 was not advertised, it was recorded in the live album Homenaje?
... that St Tugual's Chapel on Herm is over 1,000 years old?
... that Welsh singer Bessie Jones was the first to record Noël Coward's earliest stage lyric, "Peter Pan", from the revue Tails Up!?
... that German firefighters arrived late to the Karlslust dance hall fire in Allied-occupied Berlin partly because of the 40 km/h (25 mph) speed limit?
... that Alice Mary Longfellow, daughter of the poet, was instrumental in founding the Harvard Annex, now Radcliffe College, which has a building named in her honor?
... that when Hale Holden became president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1914, he was the youngest chief executive of any major American rail system?
... that Sholaye-e Inquilab ("Flame of the Revolution") was the first Tajik Persian newspaper founded in Soviet Turkestan?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus corayi was the first Anochetus species described from a fossil?
... that South African trade union leader Moses Mayekiso was the central figure in the Alexandra township uprising of 1986, subsequently getting arrested and severely beaten?
... that Art Nouveau furniture was criticised by the English Arts and Crafts movement for not being "honestly" constructed?
... that the Statue of Tara from Sri Lanka was kept hidden for 30 years in the British Museum because it was considered too erotic?
... that almost 90% of youth in the Czech Republic report never having participated in a religious group of any kind?
... that Augustus Henry Mounsey's 1879 history contains the most detailed descriptions of the military campaigns of the Satsuma Rebellion?
... that Kassiopi Castle in Corfu is considered one of the most imposing architectural remains in the Ionian Islands?
... that Virginia Mae Brown, the "'First Lady of Transportation", was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887?
... that the Egyptian Olympic Committee distributed counterfeit Nike gear to its delegation to the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that in 1718 lightning struck the powder magazine at the Old Fortress of Corfu causing "one of the greatest catastrophes" in the island's history?
... that stuffed pelts of lesser grisons have been used to make ritual offerings to Pachamama?
... that Matthew I Csák was appointed master of the stewards when king Béla IV ascended the Hungarian throne in 1235?
... that It's a Girl: The Three Deadliest Words in the World is a documentary about female infanticide?
... that New York industrialist and diplomat Arnold A. Saltzman has his name associated with an art museum, a health services center, and an international relations research center?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Jai Bhagwan Aggarwal had his house demolished by court order?
... that the Dobrilovina Monastery was "the centre of the spiritual and political life and aspirations for freedom" in the Tara River region?
... that in the Exhortation to the Greeks, an anonymous Christian text wrongly ascribed to Justin Martyr, it is claimed that Plato read Moses?
... that after Ice Box Chamberlain pitched with both hands during an 1888 baseball game, no major league pitcher repeated the feat until 1995?
... that against his lawyer's advice, Nelson Mandela ended his defence speech at the Rivonia Trial with the words "I Am Prepared To Die"?
... that 50,000 people attended the opening of the Grossmont Center shopping mall in La Mesa, California – 20,000 more than the city's population at the time?
... that Mathis Bolly is the fastest football player in the video game FIFA 14, but in real life is not as fast as Luton Shelton?
... that after a 16-year absence from the Paralympic Games, Spain's men's national wheelchair basketball team appeared at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that the contracts for the two Charodeika-class monitors were transferred to their designer, Charles Mitchell, upon the death of their builder, S. G. Kudriavtsev, in August 1865?
... that the Institute of War and Peace Studies was begun, to "study war as a tragic social phenomenon", by President Dwight D. Eisenhower – President of Columbia University, that is?
... that Catholic priest Carlos Ornelas Puga was recently kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico, and his whereabouts remain unknown?
... that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a seven-part BBC adaptation of Susanna Clarke's first novel of the same name?
... that neither of the principal combatants won the bloody Greater Poland Civil War which terminated after the accession of ten-year old Jadwiga of Poland to the Polish throne?
... that the first car to cross Clackline Bridge carried two politicians and a boy who hitched a ride?
... that the remains of the armoured dinosaur Europelta were uncovered in a coal mine in Spain in 2011?
... that despite the Norwegian torpedo boat Brand having "exceptionally good" chances at scoring a hit against a group of invading German warships, her commander refrained from opening fire?
... that Minneapolis City Council member-elect Abdi Warsame is one of the first Somali Americans to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?
... that while international rankings show corruption in Poland as steadily decreasing, over 80% of the Polish public still sees it as a significant problem for the country?
... that Irene Cuesta, the 2012 Spanish national archery champion, coached the Spanish team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics?
... that one reviewer described Katy Perry's 2013 ballad "By the Grace of God" as having a "humming, dark tension in which Perry and melody float like red balloons"?
... that Rogier van der Weyden's polyptych painting The Last Judgment , commissioned for the Hospices de Beaune, was intended to both comfort and warn the dying?
... that English football presenter Darren Tulett – "the Austin Powers of French television" – is almost unknown in England?
... that it is unknown whether the dinosaur Nankangia was carnivorous or herbivorous?
... that the University of Wisconsin–Madison has a tradition of encouraging "that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found"?
... that Lord Chunshen, a nobleman who was assassinated in 238 BC, is the source of Shanghai's nickname "Shencheng", the city of Shen?
... that, in 2009, Los Angeles police detectives investigating a 23-year-old murder found that the killer was a fellow detective?
... that the pupae and larvae of the ant Formica pallidefulva may be stolen from the nest during a raid by slave-making ants?
... that the Plumbeous Water Redstart catches flies in rivers by flying vertically above the water, then gliding down in a spiral back to the same place?
... that a memorial to the victims of Treblinka extermination camp, created by sculptor Franciszek Duszeńko, was unveiled by the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland in the presence of 30,000 guests?
... that voice actor Courtnee Draper improvised some of her character Elizabeth's lines in BioShock Infinite?
... that Epsom General Hospital has its own radio station, "Epsom Hospital Radio", which is a registered charity and is staffed by volunteers?
... that writer Hu Yepin was betrayed by rival communists, arrested by the British police, and executed by the Kuomintang?
... that the town of Datça petitioned in 2008 to have the British Museum's Lion of Knidos returned to Turkey?
... that the organ in Christ Church, Port Sunlight, is believed to be the largest extant four-manual Willis II organ still in its original condition and in everyday use?
... that the Anthony House in Adams, Massachusetts, is the birthplace of women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony?
... that Abdallah Deng Nhial has served as cabinet minister in both Sudan and South Sudan?
... that 15 Cheyne Walk in London was home to Admiral Sir John Balchen, Temple West, artists Cecil Lawson and Henry Ryall, Lord and Lady Courtney, and politicians James and Rupert Allason?
... that bodies were kept in Udny Mort House in Aberdeenshire until they started to decompose?
... that the inner sarcophagus holding the remains of Saint Spyridon inside the Saint Spyridon Church in Corfu has a removable bottom to facilitate the changing of the saint's slippers?
... that the mustard flower known as the fleshy-fruit gladecress is "likely one of the most imperiled plant species in the Southeastern United States"?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician and Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly Mohan Singh Bisht "loves" watching religious soap operas?
... that Florida politician Eugene S. Matthews sold his newspaper and fled Dunnellon after phosphate mine owners threatened him for reporting on their mistreatment of lease convicts?
... that the Trevisana nera grape variety was first documented in viticulture in the middle of the 20th century?
... that all train services in Scotland were cancelled because Cyclone Bodil led to trampolines and hay bales on the line?
... that you can find the position of Venus in the Prague sky at the St. Nicholas Church in Vršovice ?
... that an 1843 painting by English marine artist John Ward was stolen from a museum in 2009 and found later on the thief's dining room wall?
... that in 1567 John Brayne built the Red Lion playhouse, the first professional playhouse in the British Isles specifically built for that purpose since Roman times?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus brevidentatus was the second Anochetus species described from Dominican amber?
... that the singer for Supercell's album Zigaexperientia was chosen out of about 2,000 candidates?
... that the favours done by Sir Anthony Lee for the poet Thomas Wyatt were so many that it made Wyatt "weary to think on them"?
... that the hulk of the Russian monitor Edinorog was transferred to the Kronstadt Yacht Club in 1957?
... that the veneration of Judas Thaddaeus in Mexico has been linked to crime?
... that by January 1946 Das Volk, the second working class newspaper to be published in Berlin after World War II, had a circulation of a quarter million?
... that chess champion Alexandra Nicolau had to promise the Romanian secret police that she would return to Romania after playing international tournaments?
... that almost all of the original American free school movement schools were based on the English Summerhill School?
... that the roof of the Church of St. Nicholas in Kuršumlija, Serbia, was melted down for bullets?
... that when the 19th Street Bridge was closed to automobile traffic, the planned replacement was tentatively called the "Nineteen and A-Half Street Bridge"?
... that early in the history of veterinary medicine in the Philippines, a cattle plague killed 600,000 animals from 1901 to 1902 alone?
... that Hugh Mosman, whose servant found gold at Charters Towers, lost his left forearm from a dynamite explosion?
... that Austrian tennis player Adam Baworowski, a Roland Garros semifinalist, fought in WWII first in the Polish Army against Germany and then in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front?
... that the Cook Islands was first to receive a faster Internet connection from the O3b satellite constellation?
... that after the Prince of Liang got away with murdering ten of his brother's ministers, his son went on to become a serial killer in ancient China?