derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that jockey Greville Starkey made a two-fingered gesture to rival Pat Eddery when To-Agori-Mou won the 1981 St. James's Palace Stakes?
... that according to a U.S. Federal court opinion, a MySpace friend list could constitute a trade secret?
... that when Queen Elizabeth II visited Melbourne in 2011, she rode a specially decorated tram driven by a Brunswick tram depot driver?
... that Jamie Stewart's voice has been compared to Robert Smith's fragility and The Downward Spiral-era Trent Reznor's anger?
... that the original owners of Air Brousse were distributors for Aero Commander, Hughes, and Piper aircraft in the Congo?
... that Walter Eugene Clark translated the Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata with critical notes in 1930?
... that the white dwarf star GD 61 was once likely orbited by a rocky planet or asteroid with water?
... that Singaporean politician Ang Hin Kee, an advisor for the National Taxi Association, once worked for the Singapore Badminton Association and the Singapore Police Headquarters?
... that ESPN.com ranked the decision by Mayo Smith to move Mickey Stanley to shortstop for the 1968 World Series as the third "gutsiest call" in sports history?
... that the fortress-like 17th-century Tower of Kurt Pasha in Vratsa, Bulgaria, now hosts a souvenir shop?
... that in The Contractor, Danny Trejo plays a contractor out to avenge his dead son?
... that Harvey J. Graff declared Carl Kaestle "one of the leading practitioners of American educational history"?
... that Alatskivi Castle in Alatskivi, Estonia was designed to be a smaller version of Balmoral Castle?
... that among the thousands of students raised by Rabbi Yaakov Ades, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem, was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, future Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel?
... that the new genus of frog Mercurana was named after the late British rock singer Freddie Mercury?
... that Ffordd Pen Llech in the Snowdonia National Park is the steepest signed road in the United Kingdom?
... that the song "Volví a Nacer" by Carlos Vives reached number one in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States?
... that after 82 years of silence, the mother of journalist Ahmet Abakay revealed her Armenian identity just weeks before she died?
... that the Nokia Lumia 1520's 6-inch (15 cm) display made it the largest Windows Phone at the time of its announcement in Abu Dhabi?
... that a review in The American Historical Review called Education for Extinction "the most comprehensive examination of all federal Indian boarding schools to date"?
... that Swedish railway worker Fritiof Enbom was accused and convicted of being a spy for the Soviet Union?
... that Kaiser Wilhelm II refused to allow Hermann Göring to stay at his Rominten Hunting Lodge, but Göring later forced Wilhelm's heirs to sell the property to the State of Prussia for his own use?
... that chain booms were used to block rivers and harbours in order to keep enemy ships out or collect tolls?
... that HIV/AIDS activist Spencer Cox designed a clinical trial that resulted in the approval of a protease inhibitor?
... that after the dissolution of the Lal Communist Party, some of its former members became sadhus?
... that the fictional character Machete, portrayed by Danny Trejo and created by Robert Rodriguez, has appeared in Machete and Machete Kills?
... that the extinct ant Acanthostichus hispaniolicus is the only Acanthostichus species found in the West Indies?
... that Singapore politician Gan Thiam Poh used to work for a salary of $2.50 an hour?
... that the world's first cable television system was installed in 1948 in Astoria, Oregon, using an antenna on the roof of the Hotel Astoria ?
... that in 1965, Jordanian Foreign Minister Hazem Nuseibeh proposed a United Kingdom of Palestine and Jordan?
... that Polish nationalism is more restrictive in terms of ethnicity and religion than the earlier Polish-Lithuanian identity?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie Kevin Dorsey planned to sign with the team even if it didn't draft him?
... that the leader of the Free Socialist Party/Marxist-Leninists was a refugee from East Germany?
... that James Dietz worked as a commercial illustrator creating movie posters and book covers before switching to historical subjects?
... that Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble has been cited as an example of a film that claims historical accuracy while "gratuitously and radically distorting" the truth?
... that pediatric neurologist Max Wiznitzer testified in the autism omnibus trial, saying that thimerosal-containing vaccines do not cause autism?
... that Cecil Duckworth, executive chairman of Premiership rugby union club Worcester Warriors, earned his fortune selling boilers?
... that Eudowood Plaza in Towson, Maryland, once featured a Best Products store whose facade was tilted at a 35-degree angle?
... that college football games played outside the United States have occurred in Australia, Canada, Cuba, Bermuda, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Italy and the United Kingdom?
... that the song that brought national exposure to indie folk band Wardell was created "like, in an hour"?
... that among the restaurants in Singapore, the burgeoning street food scene was introduced by immigrants from India, Malaysia, and China?
... that Ashok Patki has composed more than 5,000 jingles and also composed "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara"?
... that the term "DNA" describes the factors underlying and affecting the culture of an organized entity or institution?
... that Hong Kong films dramatizing the lives of martial arts folk heroes like Wong Fei-hung and Fong Sai-yuk were the first movies of the kung fu film genre?
... that Paul Ashwood, a researcher at the MIND Institute, has produced evidence that autistic children exhibit abnormal immune responses relative to neurotypical children?
... that New Jersey Devils fans booed a Bon Jovi song because it replaced "The Hey Song"?
... that the brain puffball is a tasty edible when its insides are still firm and white?
... that the 2010 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival featured a "Zombiethon Battle"?
... that South African cricketer Sunette Loubser began as an opening bowler, but switched to bowling off spin after breaking her ankle?
... that Louisa Venable Kyle wrote a children's book on The Witch of Pungo?
... that the Lakandon Ch'ol are an extinct Maya people who were famed among their Spanish colonial neighbors for their warlike nature?
... that Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head could swivel his head 180 degrees?
... that Wilhelm Zahn was one of the commanding officers during the sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff , which has been described as "Adolf Hitler's Titanic"?
... that more than 35,000 pounds (16,000 kg) of sediment flow through Hemlock Creek per day?
... that George Carleton has been suggested as the real author behind the pseudonym Martin Marprelate?
... that after its victory over the University of Virginia in a 1982 men's basketball game, Chaminade University canceled a plan to rename itself the University of Honolulu?
... that the roadable aircraft prototype Aeromobil 2.5 successfully performed a flight in early 2013?
... that Mary Barra has been named the next CEO of General Motors, which will make her the first female leader of a major automaker?
... that the amount of acidity flowing through Catawissa Creek at its confluence with the Audenried Tunnel is 100 times the total maximum daily load?
... that fossils of larvae and pupae are known from the extinct ant Anonychomyrma geinitzi?
... that "Turn Me Out", originally by Praxis featuring Kathy Brown, has been covered by 2 Shoes and Russ Chimes?
... that AAP politician Dharmender Singh contested the 2013 Delhi election after the original candidate, his sister Santosh Koli, died in a hit-and-run accident?
... that according to the Imperial War Museum, the youngest authenticated British soldier in World War I was a 13-year-old machine gunner at the Somme who had enlisted at age 12?
... that two dharani pillars erected in Baoding in 1502 are inscribed with the latest known examples of the Tangut script?
... that Michigan's Alma Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, contains 72 structures?
... that the ants Anonychomyrma samlandica and A. geinitzi have been preserved in the same piece of amber?
... that Denis Redman received the Order of the British Empire in 1942 for his work in the Middle East and in the 1963 New Year Honours, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath?
... that when the 1920 Alabama Crimson Tide football team played LSU, it marked the first homecoming game in school history?
... that the Argentine telenovela Sin código was nominated for Martín Fierro Awards every year it aired, and won three awards in 2005?
... that the concept of hinged dissections was popularized by Henry Dudeney, who introduced the hinged dissection of a square into a triangle in his 1907 book The Canterbury Puzzles?
... that Rostraureum tropicale is a pathogen of Terminalia ivorensis and causes basal stem cankers on dying trees?
... that although Maya Angelou is best known for her autobiographies, she has also been successful as a poet?
... that Emperor Aizong of the Jin committed suicide in the Mongol siege of Caizhou after escaping from the besieged city of Kaifeng during the Mongol–Jin war?
... that 2012 Spanish Paralympic archer Guillermo Rodriguez Gonzalez blamed the heat in London as a reason for not medaling?
... that at the Battle of Tawahin between the Abbasids and the Tulunids, the commanders of both armies fled the battlefield?
... that Patrick Schuster threw four consecutive no-hitters for his high school baseball team, setting a Florida state record?
... that Carol Channing, Donald Trump and Nicholas Turturro made cameo appearances on the sitcom The Drew Carey Show in the episode "New York and Queens"?
... that Stefan Marinović printed his first book in the printing house of Vićenco Vuković?
... that the Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse Lord Kanaloa was said to be "a pioneer for Japanese sprinters" by his trainer?
... that Neil Combee was rejected as a candidate for the Florida Senate because his campaign wrote a check that was one cent short?
... that Lord Nairne was one of the first to rally to the cause of the Old Pretender in the Jacobite rising of 1715?
... that the Yangon-based Myanmar National Symphony Orchestra, founded in 2001, was permitted to perform just three public concerts in its first dozen years of existence?
... that Scintillate was rated an "inferior" winner of the Epsom Oaks?
... that the Battle of Shela was a major change in the history of the coast of Kenya?
... that artist James Le Jeune is said to have been "a brilliant catcher in the wry"?
... that during the Mongol siege of Kaifeng, the Jin Dynasty used extensive gunpowder technology, including trebuchet bombs and fire lances?
... that the Spanish Red Cross was involved with organizing disabled sports in Spain during the 1950s?
... that the Vanmeter Farm once included a pair of Indian mounds and one of Ohio's first tree farms?
... that South Sudanese Minister of Health Riek Gai Kok has been a member of the parliaments of both Sudan and South Sudan?
... that the 1953 Tamil film Thirumbi Paar was written by M. Karunanidhi, a prominent member of the Dravidian Progress Federation, as a satire on the ruling Indian National Congress?
... that Hellcow was listed by TIME as one of the "Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters"?
... that the recent derailment in the Bronx of a Metro-North commuter train caused the first passenger deaths in the railroad's history?
... that in 1940 the Supreme Court of Estonia accepted an order, given by the government of the Estonian SSR, to disband itself?
... that Frank Clark put on 60 pounds (27 kg) during his first two years with the Michigan Wolverines football team?
... that the first described fossil of Anochetus dubius is surrounded by a brownish bacterial growth?
... that Dorle Soria, a founder of Angel Records, helped promote Leonard Bernstein's 1943 debut with the New York Philharmonic?
... that Providence Milwaukie Hospital was originally private but became a community facility only three years after construction?
... that the satirical novel Er ist wieder da was priced at €19.33, a deliberate reference to Hitler's ascent to power in that year?
... that it has been said of painter Vardges Sureniants that he "will live as long as the Armenian people"?
... that the snake Philodryas baroni emits a foul-smelling substance from the cloaca when frightened?
... that Virginia House Delegate Isaac Parsons served as a militia officer during the American Revolutionary War and operated a ferry across the South Branch Potomac River?
... that the first Duke of Qin inherited his father's land at Lixian when his older brother Shifu chose to dedicate his life to war against the barbarians who killed their grandfather?
... that Sandycombe Lodge, a Grade II* listed house designed by and built for artist J. M. W. Turner in 1813, was added to English Heritage's Heritage at Risk Register in 2013?
... that 2012 Spanish wheelchair tennis Paralympian Lola Ochoa Ribes first played the sport using her everyday wheelchair?
... that exactly 1,000 years after "Good King Wenceslas" died, Saint Wenceslas Church was built in commemoration of the event?
... that the third key of alchemist Basil Valentine may describe a complex chemical process known as the volatilization of gold chloride?
... that Department S's second single, "Going Left Right", has been described as "among the finest songs of the entire post-punk early '80s"?
... that the U.S.–UAE 123 Agreement for Peaceful Civilian Nuclear Energy Cooperation is considered the nonproliferation "gold standard" for nuclear cooperation agreements?
... that the Poramadulla Central College cricket team began to play at a prison camp when its home ground fell into disrepair?
... that Nowell Parr was responsible for an Old Packhorse and Three Horseshoes?
... that Les cadeaux de Noël, an opera in one act by Xavier Leroux, premiered on Christmas Day at the Opéra-Comique during World War I?
... that Kalanchoe blossfeldiana is often called the Christmas Kalanchoe due to its flamboyant and colourful blooms in winter?
... that Merry Christmas to You was described by Grace S. Aspinwall of CCM Magazine as being a "fun, entertaining ensemble of Christmas music"?
... that William Cooke gave Selwyn College "five thousand rare, valuable, and useful patristic, liturgical, and other works"?
... that Die Singphoniker recorded Schubert's complete part songs and Singphonic Christmas, European Christmas carols?
... that The X Factor winner Sam Bailey, who got the 2013 UK Christmas number one with a cover version of "Skyscraper", has the nickname "screwbo", a portmanteau of "screw" and "SuBo"?
... that in his Nativity , Petrus Christus symbolizes the first mass by showing the angels dressed in vestments for the Eucharist?
... that Oh for Joy, the first Christmas studio album from David Crowder Band, reached a peak position of six on Christian Albums?
... that a polar bear sketch by William Gordon Burn Murdoch, who painted an 1892 Antarctic Expedition, has been used as a Christmas card?
... that Leona Lewis recorded her first Christmas album, Christmas, with Love, on the recommendation of Simon Cowell?
... that the arctic–alpine woodrush Luzula wahlenbergii has the common name Reindeer Wood-rush?
... that A Boy was Born, the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
... that the world's largest gingerbread house had edible walls and measured 2,520 square feet (234 m2)?
... that Andrew Lusk Shields tried to persuade Major General Christopher Maltby to surrender Hong Kong, but he fought on until "Black Christmas" 1941?
... that arctic or snowy wood-rush has been described as one of the most ecologically important of all arctic plants?
... that Sondre Bratland's Christmas album Rosa frå Betlehem was recorded in the Church of the Nativity?
... that in 1670, agents of Cosimo III tried to buy the Adoration of the Magi by Veronese by bribing every member of the Venetian confraternity that had commissioned it?
... that composer Heinrich Schütz published only the recitatives of his Christmas Story and offered the other music for sale on request?
... that the extinct ant Anonychomyrma constricta has been placed in four different genera since it was first described in 1868?
... that American football punter Will Hagerup kicked a punt in 2010 that was the longest for Michigan Wolverines football since 1987?
... that King of Serbia Stefan Dečanski fled to Petrič Fortress when his son Stefan Dušan tried to overthrow him in 1331?
... that the Lincoln Road–Pine River Bridge, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, was completed in 1922 at a total cost of $18,186.15?
... that the Fraternal Society of Patriots of Both Sexes met in the Jacobins convent which also hosted meetings of the Jacobin Club?
... that Malplaquet House in Stepney, London, uninhabited for over a century, is "possibly the most superbly restored, privately owned Georgian house in the country"?
... that Vincenzo Negrini's earliest recorded performances were at the Teatro Comunitativo where he appeared in Mercadante's opera Didone abbandonata and Rossini's Semiramide?
... that in the year following Herbert Hoover's nomination for President of the United States, more than 17,000 people visited his birthplace in West Branch, Iowa?
... that Arthur Hulme was the first Brighton & Hove Albion footballer to be awarded a benefit match?
... that a painting by Keith Henderson was shown at the first WAAC Britain at War exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art despite it provoking fury in the Air Ministry?
... that flow cytometry bioinformaticians use methods from computational statistics and machine learning to analyse single cell data gathered by flow cytometry for cancer and HIV/AIDS research?
... that Wesley Gray took a four-year sabbatical from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to serve in the United States Marine Corps?
... that the declaration of Christmas Peace is read publicly on Christmas Eve at the Old Great Square in the Finnish city of Turku, and has been almost every year since the 14th century?
... that when the Bronze Heads from Ife were found in Nigeria in 1938, Leo Frobenius said they were Ancient Greek and explained the Atlantis myth?
... that the Great Western Iron and Steel Company went bankrupt in the Panic of 1893 and its mill never began operations?
... that the fossils of the dinosaur Arcovenator escotae were found through preliminary digging before construction took place on the A8 motorway in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France?
... that in 2012, painter Aleah Chapin became the first American woman to win the UK National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award?
... that all 26 crew were rescued when SS Gasfire struck a mine in 1941?
... that Leyla Güngör scored a goal against Spain in her first game as a member of the Turkey women's national football team?
... that for the first season of Masters of Sex, Michelle Ashford assembled a majority-female writing staff, although she says this was unintentional?
... that Adrienne Augarde suffered a fatal attack of appendicitis while her show was playing at the Majestic Theater in Chicago?
... that the first actual dentists to open clinics in the history of Philippines dentistry were a Filipino and a Frenchman?
... that Bonnier Carlsen temporarily halted its re-release of one of the Barna Hedenhös Swedish children's books because the 1950 publication refers to Native Americans as "red skins"?
... that Elmaamul was sold at Keeneland Sales for $185,000 (£110,000)?
... that the experience of Emil Rebreanu, an Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer executed during World War I, inspired his brother Liviu to write the novel Forest of the Hanged?
... that Mikio Mizuta founded Josai University in between two of his terms as the finance minister of Japan?
... that Summer Leys in Northamptonshire, England, is a nature reserve in an area of international importance for wintering wildfowl?
... that the computer model for the future version of the Enterprise seen in the Star Trek:Enterprise episode "Azati Prime" was created in only a few hours?
... that when homologous chromosomes do not separate correctly, it can lead to fertility problems and cancer?
... that the J.J. Deal and Son Carriage Factory became the largest factory built in Jonesville?
... that the Communist Party of Australia candidate Fred Paterson won almost 25% of the votes in the 1936 by-election in Bowen, Queensland?
... that Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jake Diekman attended a high school in Nebraska that did not field a baseball team, yet still made the major leagues?
... that England's Robert Webb took a saw to his mellotron and played only the right half?
... that the Picture Rock Pass Petroglyphs in Lake County, Oregon, were probably created during the Clovis or Stemmed Point period between 7,500 and 12,000 years ago?
... that the Indian parliamentarian Shanta Vasisht had been a Kappa Alpha Theta scholarship recipient?
... that the frame of a WikiHouse can be assembled in less than a day by people with no formal training in construction?
... that the fungus Phialemonium curvatum can be identified through the use of PCR and DNA sequencing of its internal transcribed spacer?
... that after the ban on the Communist Party of Germany in 1956, its main organ Freies Volk continued to be published illegally?
... that a wealthy Augsburg patrician was one of the financial sponsors of Johann Georg von Lori's education?
... that Matilda Hays started writing periodicals, often regarding women's issues, from about 1838?
... that the Swedish result in the PISA 2012 student survey was called a national crisis by social democratic leader Stefan Löfven?
... that Tommy Graham scored one of the goals that inflicted "one of the most humiliating Cup defeats" in Chelsea's history?
... that the hip-hop group Beautiful Eulogy experiments with other music styles such as folk, electronic, hymn tunes, and contemporary worship music?
... that Guildford Road in Perth, Western Australia was supposed to be called the Great Eastern Highway?
... that Johnny Jebsen was a WWII Artist whose kidnap by the Gestapo put at risk the Allied deception cover for D-Day?
... that Deborah Sussman designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?
... that in 1786, English kitchen maid Ruth Bowyer was sentenced to seven years penal transportation for the theft of five spoons?
... that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League was dissolved in 1955 and later renamed as the Ivy League?
... that Raja Casablanca will be the first host nation champion to play in a FIFA Club World Cup final since 2000 when they play Bayern Munich in the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup Final?
... that Münchsmünster Abbey was closed in 1556 during the upheavals of the Reformation?
... that the music video for the song "Malang" had a production cost of ₹50 million (US$630,000)?
... that the grand architecture of the Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls helped to influence Andrew Carnegie's decision to require simpler designs for Carnegie libraries?
... that Sir Geoffrey Harrison was recalled as British Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1968 after he admitted to an affair with his Russian maid, who was a KGB "honey trap"?
... that Paradesi was the 1953 film that launched the career of Sivaji Ganesan, though it was not his first release?
... that former Hamilton College hockey coach Albert I. Prettyman was chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ice hockey rules committee from 1926 to 1946?
... that Golda Meir sold shares for the New York newspaper Di Tsayt?
... that the thirteen figures who guarded the tomb of General Liu Tingxun in 728 AD are now in London?
... that 2012 Spanish Paralympic blind footballer Antonio Jesús Martín Gaitán scored his team's bronze medal winning goal in a shootout watched by the Duchess of Lugo?
... that W.H.L. McCourtie Estate was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1991 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992?