derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Norwegian footballer Erik Midtgarden won the Estonian Meistriliiga with Flora Tallinn in 2011?
... that Manny Coto compared the Vulcans in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Awakening" to the Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation?
... that Gene Hobbs, a regular contributor to Wikipedia's scuba articles, was named the 2010 Divers Alert Network/Rolex Diver of the year?
... that according to Jaś Elsner, "style art history" was "the indisputable king of the discipline", but is now "dead"?
... that merchants at horse fairs appreciated the Auxois horse because its chestnut coloration might conceal dirt better than that of the light gray Percheron or black Nivernais?
... that Sophie Matisse's reinterpretation of Pablo Picasso's Guernica was regarded as a strange idea for an artist whose great-grandfather, Henri Matisse, was known to be an artistic rival of Picasso?
... that the jurists of the ancient Law School of Beirut played a major part in drafting the Justinian body of civil law?
... that Tiffany Porter was called a "Plastic Brit" by a newspaper for refusing to recite the words of "God Save the Queen"?
... that to finance the completion of the Petit Serail, the Wāli of Syria had to take a loan, mortgage public buildings and impose new taxes?
... that Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush has been described as a "comic masterpiece" and among the "best travel books of all time"?
... that the Aldabra atoll in Seychelles, called "one of the wonders of the world" by David Attenborough, has about 100,000 giant tortoises, the largest concentration in the world?
... that defects in Coca-Cola's MagiCans led a child to mistakenly drink foul-tasting liquid used to replace actual cola?
... that Leona Woods was the only woman present when the world's first nuclear reactor went critical?
... that the upset victory of Ebor in the 1817 St Leger Stakes was ascribed to the overconfidence of Blacklock's jockey?
... that during its initial run of episodes, Glee fans lobbied for Idina Menzel to be cast as the biological mother of Lea Michele's character due to the strong resemblance between the two actresses?
... that a colony of Damaraland mole rats have been estimated to excavate as much as three tons of earth over a two week period?
... that Leonard Nimoy's 1975 autobiography was entitled I Am Not Spock?
... that Pearlin Jean purportedly haunted her former lover's estate after he tried to buy her silence with the lace of the same name?
... that Dahlia Hill in Midland, Michigan, plants over 250 different cultivars of dahlia each year?
... that scholarly estimates for the dates of southeastern Illinois' Hubele archaeological site vary by 1,400 years from earliest to latest?
... that the Negros Fruit Dove is only known from a single female shot from a tree on the slopes of a Philippine volcano in 1953?
... that Peter Lauritson's directorial debut, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light", was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation?
... that the Native American sport snow snake is named for the snake-like wiggling motion of wooden poles sliding down an icy track?
... that Commodore Lejoille , who captured British warships on three occasions during the French Revolutionary Wars, had been a sailor since the age of seven?
... that with "enormous dramatic impact", Bach inserted a recitative for the voice of Christ in the opening chorus of his cantata Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV 103?
... that the medieval manor house of Fiddleford Manor may have been built for William Latimer, sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, in around 1370?
... that First Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Jackie Kennedy both lived on East 74th Street on the Upper East Side of New York City?
... that one of the leaders of the Kraków Uprising in 1846 was killed while leading a religious procession?
... that American basketball player Sugar Rodgers scored a record number of points (2,518) at Georgetown University?
... that it is not known how the Paris Codex , one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, came to be in the collection of the Bibliothèque Imperiale in Paris in the 19th century?
... that Henry Seidu Daanaa is the first blind person to be called to the Ghana Bar?
... that the wheatbelt shrub Persoonia coriacea can have naturally twisted leaves?
... that baseball announcer Shelby Whitfield wrote a book titled Kiss It Goodbye that helped prompt the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the ethics of sports broadcasting?
... that the Gustav Adolfs Kyrka in Liverpool was W. D. Caroe's first independent commission to design a church?
... that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
... that Gresley Parish Church was originally an Augustinian priory, founded in the 12th century?
... that London-based engraver Peter Mazell bungled an image of the Common Tailorbird?
... that the Mérens horse was saved from extinction by hippies in the 1970s?
... that when Lieutenant Commander Hugh Haggard returned the Truant to Britain in late 1942, the submarine flew a Jolly Roger with 4 stars and 16 bars?
... that although the species name of the tree Alloxylon brachycarpum means "short fruit", it has the largest fruit of its genus?
... that former Israeli Ambassador to Russia Anna Azari is married to a rabbi who leads a congregation in Tel Aviv?
... that the video game Star Trek: Hidden Evil was described by one critic as "2,891 phaser shots connected by some irrelevant puzzles"?
... that making kalu dodol is a labour-intensive process that can take up to nine hours?
... that Joseph Partridge, a former waggoner, wrote the first history of the Cheshire town of Nantwich?
... that Korean sedge-weavers, known as wanchojang, can take up to two weeks to complete one box?
... that baritone Berthold Possemeyer performed songs by John Dowland, Gerald Finzi and Thomas Morley in a parody chamber musical after Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?
... that the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel became the first hotel in Puerto Rico to include a casino after gambling was legalized in the 1940s?
... that in 1566, Richard Carmarden funded the printing of an edition of the Great Bible in English at Rouen?
... that chocoholism is frequently claimed in surveys to be the most common form of food craving?
... that ocellated icefish Chionodraco rastrospinosus have blood as clear as water?
... that Marian Cruger Coffin, one of America's first female landscape architects, set up her own highly successful practice because male-dominated firms would not employ her?
... that the Church of St. Margaret of Antioch was the centre of Anglo-Catholicism in 19th-century Liverpool?
... that the Bank of Chester County, chartered in 1814, was the first bank in the county?
... that in 2012 Jewish Universalist rabbi Steven Blane, who encourages converts to join his online rabbinical school, ordained an ex-Muslim as a rabbi?
... that at hotels in Israel, the Israeli breakfast is commonly presented as a self-service buffet ?
... that Saura painting of Odisha has a visual semblance to Warli painting from Maharashtra?
... that correspondence with Thomas Pennant formed the basis of part of Gilbert White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne?
... that the Cebongan Prison raid in Indonesia was declared a human rights violation by the National Commission on Human Rights, but not by Defence Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro?
... that Daniel Ortúzar Cuevas, a former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, was also a farmer?
... that in 1587 Sir Rowland Hayward entertained Queen Elizabeth I at his home of King's Place, which had once been owned by her father, King Henry VIII?
... that after being caught at sea trying to defect, Cuban baseball player Andy Morales wasn't asked to participate in the 2000 Summer Olympics?
... that the Atiq Mosque in Libya is lit and ventilated by openings in its conical domes?
... that H. A. Gade, described as a "painters' painter", was one of independent India's pioneering abstract expressionist painters?
... that Christian rock band Casting Crowns have performed their song "Who Am I" at a Bush-Cheney '04 campaign rally and the 2009 Spring Friendship Art Festival in North Korea?
... that actor Anthony Wong was drunk when director Herman Yau asked him to portray the title character in Ip Man: The Final Fight?
... that Queen's Building was called Hong Kong's "most prestigious commercial building" when it opened in 1899?
... that in Fifehead Wood one may find a White Admiral with a Purple Hairstreak among some Five-faced Bishops?
... that William O. Cushing , writer of the words of the hymn that inspired Rangers' Follow Follow anthem, gave his entire life savings to a blind girl for her to receive an education?
... that Thomas Savage, Shakespeare's trustee in the purchase of shares in the Globe Theatre, was a friend of John Jackson, Shakepeare's trustee in the purchase of the Blackfriars Gatehouse?
... that a parole camp was a place where soldiers were housed by their own army after being granted parole and pledging not to engage in combat?
... that the College of Aesculapius and Hygia was a dining club and burial society in ancient Rome?
... that Luke Hancock is the first reserve player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament?
... that Untied.com has logged 25,000 customer complaints and 200 employee complaints about United Airlines?
... that Ezra Meeker traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart in 1852, and crossed the United States by airplane in 1924 at age 93?
... that Cossack hetman Ivan Petrizhitsky-Kulaga was executed by other Cossacks after he lost a power struggle?
... that the Swedish newsmagazine Fokus has operated at a loss since its first publication, despite an ever increasing circulation?
... that Amir Garrett was ranked the 68th best college basketball recruit and could throw a 96-mile-per-hour (154 km/h) fastball?
... that before the Armenian Genocide, the Karin dialect was spoken in two provincial centers in eastern Turkey?
... that Scottish American stone mason Daniel Pennie carved the grout he used on his house to resemble stone?
... that Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures of Cardinal Volk, Pierre de Coubertin, and Hildegard of Bingen?
... that the Great Eastern Hotel in Kolkata, built in 1840 or 1841, may have been the first hotel in India with electricity?
... that the Great Eastern Hotel, near Liverpool Street station, London, used to have fresh sea water brought in for guests' baths?
... that Syrian veteran officer Sa'id al-'As was killed in action commanding Arab rebels in a confrontation with British forces near Jerusalem during the 1936 Palestine Revolt?
... that Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded led Good Girl Gone Bad to reach a 930% increase in sales?
... that Arsenal became known as the Bank of England club after gaining the largest amount of income from match days and being cautious with money while also breaking British transfer records?
... that most of the Central African Republic is covered by the Bangui Magnetic Anomaly , the result of an igneous intrusion or meteorite impact?
... that settlers of the American frontier in the 19th century sometimes fell victim to prairie madness, in which social isolation and other hardships of life on the prairie caused them to develop mental illness?
... that in the late 19th century the residents of al-Sahwah, a Syrian village in the Hauran, paid the Druze chiefs of the area to gain access to a water canal south of the village?
... that the position of Chief Justice of Hungary was held mostly by ecclesiastical dignitaries until the 1507 reform?
... that former Marquette University basketball player Tony Miller recorded 956 assists during his career, which is currently the seventh-most in NCAA Division I history?
... that the Sugababes' song "Angels with Dirty Faces" was promoted through Cartoon Network's animated television series The Powerpuff Girls?
... that the Lichtental Church , consecrated in 1730 to the Fourteen Holy Helpers, is known as the Schubertkirche, because Schubert was baptised and conducted his sacred music there?
... that the Tête nucléaire océanique is a new French thermonuclear warhead that will replace the currently deployed TN 75 warhead beginning in 2015?
... that Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree, was described by John Betjeman as Liverpool's best Georgian church?
... that Earl Rose performed autopsies on J. D. Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby, but was not permitted to examine President John F. Kennedy?
... that the ten-lined urchin was one of several species used in research to determine the feasibility of using non-invasive MRI technology to study the internal anatomy of echinoids?
... that following the Tay Bridge disaster, a viaduct on the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway became so seriously distorted during testing that a new one had to be designed and built?
... that former German secretary Margot Wölk's background as Adolf Hitler's personal food taster was revealed on her 95th birthday?
... that in the poem Kali the Mother written by Swami Vivekananda in 1898, the poet worshipped the terrible form of Hindu goddess Kali ?
... that during the six months that the 824th Tank Destroyer Battalion served in the European theater of World War II, its officers and men were awarded six Silver Stars and thirty-one Bronze Stars?
... that the name of the search engine Shodan, which searches devices linked to the Internet, is based on the character of the same name in the System Shock game series?
... that when the 1962 Alabama Crimson Tide football team lost to Georgia Tech, it ended a 19-game winning and 26-game unbeaten streak that dated back to their 1960 season?
... that the father of silent film actress and supercentenarian Mabel Richardson died when she was seven?
... that the Childers Incident of 1793 was the first action between British and French forces in the French Revolutionary Wars?
... that Armenian American biologist Greg Hampikian is considered one of the foremost forensic DNA experts in the United States?
... that the food featured in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding was provided by the Greek restaurant Papa Cristo's?
... that the juvenile leaves of Placospermum coriaceum are up to 90 cm (35 in) long?
... that Detroit Titans men's basketball player Ray McCallum, Jr. was "one of the most highly-recruited players in school history"?
... that between the first white settlement in 1856 and the end of the Mendocino War in 1860, the Native American population in Mendocino County, California, decreased by 80%?
... that Akokan, Roberto Fonseca's sixth studio album, features some "lovely sax work"?
... that the Church of St Paul, Liverpool, was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, who also designed Liverpool Cathedral?
... that during the Great Syrian Revolt, rebel commander Hasan al-Kharrat led the capture of the Azm Palace, aiming for Maurice Sarrail, the High Commissioner of the French Mandate?
... that actor Andrew Robinson wrote the novel A Stitch in Time, which is about his character from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
... that James Hall's 1883 history of Nantwich remains one of the chief sources for the Cheshire town's history?
... that woodcarver Park Chan-su, one of Korea's Important Cultural Assets, drives his chisel with a wooden fish instead of a mallet?
... that the name of the newly defined genus of macadamia-like trees, Lasjia, is derived from the initials of Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson?
... that while trying to disavow the Rudd Concession, King Lobengula of Matabeleland sent emissaries to meet with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle?
... that superior artillery created by Jean Bureau helped France achieve victories in several important battles of the Hundred Years' War?
... that the Bishop of Cambrai was benefactor of the monastic library at Groenendael Priory?
... that Tonia Marketaki's psychological crime film John the Violent is based on an actual murder which happened in Athens in the 1960s?
... that the Saxon Tithe Barn was a filming location for the TV series Robin of Sherwood, doubling as Nottingham Castle's great hall?
... that baseball umpire Nelson Díaz gained prominence in Cuba after shoving an American coach?
... that the wildlife of Vietnam includes the saola , an antelope-like animal unknown to Western science until found in 1992 in the Bach Ma National Park?
... that 20th Century Fox executive Fred Baron worked at a department store and the mailroom of a studio before being given a chance at film producing?
... that Doaksville, Choctaw Nation, was the largest town in the Indian Territory in 1850?
... that Max Reinhart made his National Hockey League debut for the Calgary Flames, the same franchise his father Paul began his career with?
... that the Nandu River Iron Bridge was built by the Imperial Japanese Army in Hainan, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War as the first bridge to span the Nandu River?
... that sociologist Ben Aggers has described the trend of selfies as "the male gaze gone viral"?
... that until the 1970s there were more plantings of the hybrid grape Couderc noir in France than of Cabernet Sauvignon ?
... that Bach composed Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt (The Lord Is My Faithful Shepherd) in 1731, to complete his 1724 cycle of chorale cantatas?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Demons" guest starred Peter Weller, who is set to appear in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness?
... that the moated Baroque Holzhausenschlösschen, completed in 1729 as a summer residence of the Frankfurt Holzhausen family, has served as a cultural venue since 1989?
... that Memphis Tigers basketball player Joe Jackson was the first in league history to win back-to-back Conference USA Tournament MVP awards?
... that Faroese girls would test their boyfriends' readiness for marriage by presenting them with woolly willy warmers?
... that the Baroli Temples , one of the earliest temple complexes in Rajasthan, India, are reported to have been built during the Gurjara-Pratihara Empire in the 10th-11th centuries?
... that Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations have been created using everything from seaweed to software?
... that the European Underwater and Baromedical Society was formed in 1971 to further education and research in diving and hyperbaric medicine?
... that the 2013 boxing-related death of Michael Norgrove was the first in the United Kingdom in 18 years?
... that the Puits d'amour pastry caused scandal in 18th century France because of the erotic connotation of its name?
... that the cursed Ring of Silvianus may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to write The Hobbit?
... that Swabhiman Sanghatana, headed by Nitesh Narayan Rane, set a Guinness World Record by conducting a job fair which gave over 25,000 jobs to unemployed youth?
... that the mayor of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil wanted his town to have its own AOC separate from Bourgueil despite the two areas having essentially identical terroir and producing similar wines?
... that after Flamur Kastrati was injured in a match between MSV Duisburg and Energie Cottbus, both teams stopped playing football?
... that Horace Greeley's daughter donated family land to be used for a new train station in Chappaqua, New York, on the condition that a small public park always be maintained in front of it?
... that when José Fernández defected from Cuba, his mother fell overboard and he jumped in to save her life?
... that cockroach racing started in Australia in 1982, and is also held at the Loyola University Maryland, under the name "Madagascar Madness: The Running of the Roaches"?
... that the wines of Maury are still made using the technique of halting fermentation with grape spirits perfected in 1299 by Catalan alchemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova ?
... that Inheritance tells of Monika Hertwig's investigation into what her mother never told her?
... that Derick Ashe was appointed British Ambassador to Argentina in March 1975 as tensions mounted between the respective governments, and survived a car bomb blast the following month?
... that chopped pork shoulder barbecue sandwiches served with coleslaw atop them are common in Memphis, Tennessee?
... that Emeli Sandé has written songs which have peaked at number one on the UK Singles, UK Dance and UK R&B charts?
... that Scott Rice played in minor league baseball for 14 seasons before a 2013 promotion to Major League Baseball?
... that Ralli Hall in Hove—founded 100 years ago today—has been an Anglican church hall, a Jewish place of worship, a wartime drill hall, a cinema, and a zumba venue, among other things?
... that Gulf Cartel drug lord Miguel Villarreal allegedly ordered kidnappings in South Texas from Mexico in 2011?
... that although Kokis is considered a traditional Sri Lankan dish, its name is believed to be of Dutch origin?
... that Spanish communist resistance member Sixto Agudo was sentenced to death, but released from jail in 1961?
... that the Lulua Mosque in Cairo, built in 1015–16 during Caliph al-Hakim's reign, partially collapsed in 1919 and was restored in 1998 by the Dawoodi Bohras, a community of Indian Muslims?
... that football player Ebenezer Assifuah scored in all of Ghana's 2013 African U-20 Championship group matches en route to the finals?
... that King's Bastion , instrumental in defending Gibraltar during its Great Siege, was later used as a generating station and is now a leisure centre?
... that Paleolithic human remains were discovered on Ishigaki Island, Japan, during the construction of New Ishigaki Airport?
... that Drew Cannon is believed to be the first person hired by a college basketball team to perform statistical analysis?
... that "Shooting Star", the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of Glee, has been characterized as "unsettling" and "harrowing" by pre-broadcast reviewers?
... that the Japanese pagoda at the Museums of the Far East in Brussels, Belgium is nearly 50 metres (160 ft) high?
... that in rugby union, Sid Going won the Tom French Cup a record six times between 1967 and 1972?
... that Indian social worker and socialist politician Mama Baleshwar Dayal once led a "cut down the forest" movement?
... that contrary to the racist stereotype that African Americans eat more watermelon than average , a survey showed that they actually eat less?
... that Michael Piller's original idea for Star Trek: Insurrection was based on the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness?
... that in his book In Secret Tibet, author Theodore Illion relates how he twice saw what he called "flying lamas" who could supposedly sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk?
... that following the crushing of the 1982 Hama revolt, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood formed a broad alliance with Arab nationalist factions?
... that a hwahyejang (traditional Korean shoemaker) can take as long as a week to create a pair of shoes?
... that a drought in 1902 at Kynuna Station in Australia meant that 81,000 of a flock of 82,000 sheep had to be sent away?
... that in 2008, a portrait of the 18th-century racehorse Ambrosio was sold in an auction in New York for more than $200,000?
... that a 1911 show of paintings by Max Weber resulted in "one of the most merciless critical whippings that any artist has received in America"?
... that Israeli lightweight MMA fighter Ido Pariente lost to American welterweight Jake Shields, after accepting the fight without realizing Shields fought at a heavier weight?
... that in World War II's top-secret Operation Fish, the United Kingdom shipped more than a billion dollars in gold and securities to Canada, and not one ship was lost?
... that the Blanc de Hotot rabbit is completely white, except for black rings around the eyes which present "the appearance of fine spectacles"?
... that to portray battalion commander LtCol Stephen "Godfather" Ferrando in the 2008 miniseries Generation Kill, actor Chance Kelly spent five months filming in Africa?
... that the tunicate Oikopleura cophocerca lives in a disposable house on plankton broth?
... that Michigan Wolverines football in the Kipke years included a four-year stretch in which the team won two national championships and had three undefeated seasons?