derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that King Razagyi of Arakan sacked and burned down Pegu, the capital of Toungoo Empire in 1600?
... that mento artist Count Lasher was covered by Bob Marley and once recorded a song about an old lady offering strains of cannabis with names like "Deadman Get-up" and "Granny Crack Cracks"?
... that to ensure Mount Elbert remained the highest of the Rockies, its supporters tore the top off another mountain?
... that Miao Wei was nominated by BusinessWeek as a "Star of Asia" for rescuing China's then second biggest carmaker from near bankruptcy and transforming it into a profitable company?
... that after running for seven consecutive years, the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards were cancelled in November 2001 following security concerns after the September 11 attacks?
... that Martin Krumbiegel sang the tenor part in Bach's cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder (Resound, ye songs) and his "Pipe Aria"?
... that the efforts of Judge Vance Peterson, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, led to the establishment of a veterans' court in Spokane County, Washington?
... that poetess Christiana Mariana von Ziegler ended her text for Bach's cantata Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68, for Pentecost Monday with a quotation from the Gospel?
... that Tony's Cronies included Tony Blair's former boss, school friend and office manager, who some viewed as appointed to official positions because of their personal friendships with Blair?
... that a baseball field and building named after Joe Tinker in Orlando, Florida, are on the United States National Register of Historic Places?
... that for the 1956 wedding anniversary of Johnny Jordaan, the king of the Jordaanlied, 30,000 people showed up?
... that although most sources say that Stefano Pendinelli was martyred by Turks as the archbishop of Otranto, at least one source suggests that he died of fright?
... that Andrei Krauchanka's pole snapped during the 2010 European decathlon, but he still won a medal after rival Darius Draudvila lent him his pole?
... that Rosario de Acuña Villanueva de la Iglesia is cited as the "first woman playwright to have a theater closed down"?
... that Norwegian referee Einar Halle has admitted that some clubs have tried to bribe him ahead of matches?
... that during Paraguay's Revolt of the Comuneros the rebels were briefly excommunicated after raiding a Jesuit college and chapel?
... that When the Game Stands Tall is an upcoming film about the De La Salle High School 151-game high school football winning streak?
... that 400 years after Alice Baldwin surrendered Burnham Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was sold to a religious order and again became a community of nuns?
... that Nolan Ryan is the only player to pitch an immaculate inning in both the American League and National League?
... that in 2004 a special issue of the Journal of Nietzsche Studies was published which aimed to build upon the scholarship of 1991's Nietzsche and Asian Thought?
... that when German teenagers attended Pinemere Camp in Pennsylvania, they were shocked at sharing living quarters with their counselors?
... that Indonesian "sex bomb" Meriam Bellina has been called "the fantasy girl come true for the movie-going public"?
... that some signatories of the I Apologize campaign, which was in regards to the Armenian Genocide, received death threats?
... that Joe Childs rode Gainsborough to win the British Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1918, and donated his riding fees for the year to the British Army's cavalry?
... that Sillerman joked that he would give up shares of his EDM promoter SFX Entertainment if people catch its staff gouging the price of wine at its nightclubs?
... that Singaporean rapper Shigga Shay has been hailed as "Singapore's Kanye West?"
... that executed bodies could be left on the Gibbet of Montfaucon outside the walls of Paris for as long as three years?
... that Amtrak's Pacific Parlour Car lounges on the Coast Starlight are refurbished Budd Company Hi-Level lounges originally built for the El Capitan in 1956?
... that not Memphis Slim but 1930s St. Louis blues pianist Pinetop Sparks wrote the blues standard "Every Day I Have the Blues"?
... that The Cooper Review, a weekly newspaper published in Cooper, Texas, was founded in 1880, making it the oldest business in its county?
... that after the 1964 Alabama Crimson Tide football team was recognized as national champions, they were defeated by Texas in the Orange Bowl?
... that Chicago PD is scheduled to be spun off from the NBC series Chicago Fire during the 2013–14 United States television season?
... that an ill-considered inscription on a bonshō (Japanese temple bell) led directly to the Siege of Osaka?
... that the starfish Iconaster longimanus produces large eggs which develop directly into juveniles without an intervening larval stage?
... that identified as "the outstanding Australian batsman of his generation", Greg Chappell scored 27 centuries in Test and One Day International cricket matches?
... that although both Mieke Wijaya and her daughter have been nominated for Citra Awards, only Mieke has won?
... that in 1933 St. Louis blues singer Dorothea Trowbridge recorded "Grinding Blues", the lyrics of which are cited as an "open declaration of erotic desire"?
... that Pittsburgh industrialist Aaron S. French co-founded the largest vehicular spring manufacturer of the 19th century?
... that Chapel Cleeve Manor was used for ghost hunting, with special excursions being run by the West Somerset Railway?
... that the major themes represented in the 12th-century dramas written by William of Blois are guile, deception, lust and sexual scheming?
... that in the 1983 film Octopussy, James Bond's command to a tiger to "sit" is a reference to Barbara Woodhouse's catch-phrase from her hit TV-show Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way?
... that a possible source for the poem The Fox, the Wolf and the Husbandman, by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson, was Aesop's Fables as published by William Caxton?
... that the NRHP-listed Lincoln Branch Library was the third and last Carnegie library built in Duluth, Minnesota?
... that the first report on finding the Coţofeni culture at Râpa Roșie in Alba County, Romania was made in 1865?
... that riddim composer Di Genius had his first hits in Jamaica in 2004, while still in high school?
... that the World War II-era diary of British Empire Games gold medalist Doreen Cooper, who wrote daily messages to her missing husband, was published in 2012?
... that the spring-fed pool at Glen Springs in Gainesville, Florida, was once used by Gators, but is now home to catfish that are owned by Elks?
... that King's Mead Priory was the only Benedictine Nunnery in Derbyshire?
... that Squirrel was the damsire of seven British Classic-winning Thoroughbred racehorses?
... that although it is the capital city of Wallis and Futuna, Mata-Utu doesn't have any street names?
... that Epstein's Rock Drill , a "vivid illustration of the greatest function of life", was destroyed and recreated?
... that Ram Raja Prasad Singh was sentenced to death in absentia following the Nepal bombings in 1985?
... that Jennifer Lopez's song "Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" was supposed to be recorded on September 11, 2001, but was postponed due to the September 11 attacks?
... that technical analyst and author Anne-Marie Baiynd was interviewed for a book on the "World's Most Successful Traders"?
... that in some classification systems, the subfamily Hippocampinae includes several genera of pygmy pipehorses, which look like seahorses but do not swim upright?
... that 19th century publisher John Harris's colourfully illustrated children's books, meant to amuse and entertain, were sold from his premises at St. Paul's churchyard?
... that the North Acropolis at the ancient Maya city of Tikal served as a royal necropolis and contains the tombs of a number of identified Maya rulers?
... that the sexual harassment allegations surrounding Korean official Yoon Chang-jung overshadowed Korean president Park Geun-hye's first visit to the USA?
... that in 1730, the Dutch Republic persecuted more than two hundred suspected "sodomites", in what became known as the Utrecht sodomy trials?
... that Gao Hucheng, the Commerce Minister of China, worked and studied in Kinshasa, Zaire and Paris, France?
... that one of the plot points in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Heart of Stone" was based on a scene from the Ken Kesey novel Sometimes a Great Notion?
... that a surgery simulator allows medical students to practice surgery without a patient, cadaver, or animal?
... that the fungus Durianella was so named for the resemblance of its fruit bodies to little durians?
... that via fences , used to shield printed circuit lines, can also be used to form waveguides?
... that after arriving at Pichilemu, Chile on his holidays in 1933, Basilio Sánchez Berguiristain decided to stay and work there as a doctor because of "the place's beauty"?
... that former Chicago Tribune journalist Geoff Dougherty used craigslist to look for writers for his then-new online newspaper Chicago Daily News in 2005?
... that the peppery bolete has been used as a peppery condiment in some countries?
... that in 1919, the year Indian discontinued its Model O flat-twin motorcycle, Harley-Davidson introduced a flat-twin motorcycle?
... that Liu Hui, a Hui, is one of the few women among China's high-ranking officials?
... that observations made with the sundial at the Gregorian Tower of Vatican City provided essential confirmation of the need to reform the Julian calendar?
... that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren and Henry James all either lived in or visited the townhouses on Elk Street in the Lafayette Park Historic District in Albany, New York?
... that Sir Robert Peel couldn't be bothered to fix his cotton mills, so he proposed an Act of Parliament to do it for him?
... that the recently discovered Eocypselus rowei may be ancestral to both hummingbirds and swifts?
... that former British National Party fundraiser Jim Dowson is registered as the leader of the recently founded loyalist party Protestant Coalition?
... that Richard Buck opened the first session of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown, Virginia on July 30, 1619 with a prayer?
... that stolen beer bottles once led to the postponement of a football cup semi-final at Stangmore Park?
... that Du Jiahao, acting governor of China's Hunan province, began his career as a farm tool factory worker?
... that Ivan Mackerle hunted the Mongolian death worm , the Loch Ness monster, the Tasmanian tiger, and the elephant bird?
... that after the 1975 end of the Laotian Civil War, the lyrics to the national anthem of Laos, "Pheng Xat Lao", were changed but the music remained the same?
... that the Thermal work limit has led to a substantial decrease in incidences of heat illness in the Australian mining industry?
... that before Zhou Benshun was recently appointed party chief of Hebei province, he worked under Zhou Yongkang, China's former security czar?
... that Vaanam Vasappadum (2004), directed by P. C. Sreeram was India's first high-definition digital motion picture?
... that Australian Sam Fullbrook was known as the "last of the bushman painters" (rural artists), yet his works were sophisticated, widely shown and collected internationally?
... that, although Ernest Hemingway wrote many words, he probably didn't write "For sale: baby shoes, never worn"?
... that the hot air balloon The Skywhale has been described as "massive and wondrous", "a great achievement", "an embarrassing indulgence" and "terrifyingly nipply"?
... that while North Korea is abundant in natural resources worth trillions of dollars, most of these often cannot be mined due to the acute shortage of electricity in the country?
... that Hao Peng has worked as a sent-down youth, a flight control system technician, vice chairman of Tibet, and governor of Qinghai?
... that the NRHP-listed Shiawassee County Courthouse in Corunna, Michigan, has served as a courthouse and housed county offices for almost 110 years?
... that while under the captaincy of Michael Burns, ten Somerset County Cricket Club players were sent letters threatening them with the sack?
... that the spines of a sea urchin are connected to other ossicles by ball and socket joints?
... that Braden Shipley is expected to be the first ever first-round pick in a Major League Baseball Draft from the University of Nevada, Reno?
... that the Palace of Inquisition is cited as one of Cartagena's "best examples of late colonial, civil architecture"?
... that Johnny Kraaijkamp could have recorded the first version of "Aan de Amsterdamse grachten", one of the best-known Dutch songs of all time, had he not been out drinking the night before?
... that filming of the Mad Max sequel Fury Road in 2012 caused significant damage to the habitat of Dorob National Park?
... that Maria Konopnicka's poem Rota became so popular it was seen as an unofficial anthem of Poland?
... that Tony Harrison's 1998 film-poem features a giant golden statue of Prometheus nicknamed Goldenballs travelling through Eastern Europe in the back of a truck?
... that Carolina Muzzilli was the first woman to be made an official of Argentina's National Department of Employment?
... that Dove Real Beauty Sketches is a short film that contrasts the way women see themselves with the way others see them using blind forensic sketches?
... that Moses Amadu Yahaya is the only Convention People's Party Member of Parliament in the current Parliament of Ghana?
... that Willie Nelson sold his song "Night Life" for US$150 to a guitar instructor, and it later became a hit for Ray Price in 1963?
... that María Jesús Alvarado Rivera was cited by the National Council of Women of Peru in 1969 as the "first modern champion of women's rights in Peru"?
... that rather than there being one implicit personality theory applied by everyone, all individuals undertake impression formation in their own unique ways?
... that Bazy Tankersley bred over 2,800 Arabian horses in a career as a horse breeder that spanned over 70 years?
... that the Vatican Historical Museum contains a collection of decorated carriages , saddles, sedans, wagons and the first cars used by the popes?
... that public health activist Gabriela Laperrière de Coni was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the Argentine Socialist Party?
... that the "Big Hill" necessitated the construction of Mount Stephen House in Field, British Columbia?
... that in the music video for "Confe$$ions" by Lecrae, a wolf symbolizes the greed of a millionaire for money?
... that between 1904 and 1906, the Strelitz Buildings in Fremantle, Western Australia, housed an office for Herbert Hoover?
... that the reality television poetry competition Prince of Poets is more popular than football in countries of the Arab world, where it airs?
... that The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won a record-tying seven Olivier Awards at the 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards on April 28, 2013?
... that 2013 NFL Draftee Mike Catapano is the first Princeton Tigers football player to be drafted since 2001?
... that according to 2009 figures, approximately 77% of households in Vanuatu are involved in fishing activity?
... that although Ear Mountain is located in an area long known for its tin deposits, its own were only confirmed in 1953–54 during a survey by the U.S. Bureau of Mines?
... that Nandan, the government sponsored film and cultural center of Kolkata, was inaugurated by Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray in 1985?
... that the leaves of Grevillea pteridifolia were used by Groote Eylandt indigenous people as stuffing for emu meat, and by early settlers as stuffing for pillows?
... that Hong Kong's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was officially opened, consecrated and bombed by the Japanese on separate December 8ths?
... that The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 2013?
... that Duccio Tessari's 1970 work La morte risale a ieri sera contains "a great deal more humanity" than most giallo films?
... that Wing Commander Richard Pink led No. 2 (Indian) Wing during Pink's War, the first independent action of the Royal Air Force, and is the only RAF officer after whom a campaign is named?
... that Kokila was the first Kannada film to be screened for 100 days in Madras?
... that Ming China's treasure voyages were undertaken by Admiral Zheng He's expeditionary fleet , even though the 15th-century Portuguese thought that the unknown ships belonged to white Christians?
... that the 1960 North Indian Ocean cyclone season featured two tropical cyclones that struck East Pakistan three weeks apart, resulting in over 20,000 fatalities?
... that Xie Fuzhan, Governor of China's Henan province, is an award-winning economist who has studied at Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge?
... that the Indian Navy's Satpura participated in the Malabar 2012 exercise with the United States Navy?
... that Freguesia São Bartolomeu dos Galegos has been inhabited since the Neolithic period?
... that the cretaceous subfamily Sphecomyrminae has not been included in several recent phylogenetic studies of the ant family?
... that Tang Shu-wing has been described as "one of the most talented theatre directors of Hong Kong"?
... that a hoard of coins of the Durotriges tribe was found in the rampart of Castle Rings, an Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire?
... that Jerzy Żuławski's Lunar Trilogy published in the 1900s was a major milestone in the history of science fiction and fantasy in Poland?
... that only five of the twelve tracks on Bachata #1's, Vol. 3 are actually number-one singles?
... that in the sixteenth century, Selworthy Beacon was used to warn of impending invasions?
... that the authors of The Discipline of Market Leaders were accused of purchasing thousands of copies of their own book in order to get it on the New York Times Best Seller list?
... that in 2007, South African journalist Deon Maas was dismissed after advocating religious tolerance in his Rapport column, as a result of the ongoing Satanic Panic in South Africa?
... that Captain Kidd's pirate ship Adventure Galley was rediscovered off the coast of Madagascar by a Discovery Channel expedition?
... that the cathedral of Mata-Utu bears a Maltese cross between its twin towers?
... that the Benedictine abbot Bernard Smith served as a Roman guide to the future British King Edward VII, U.S. President Franklin Pierce, and Nathaniel Hawthorne?
... that the slime sponge was observed growing in Monterey Bay Aquarium and other marine aquaria before it was discovered in the wild?
... that although the native language spoken daily by the islanders of Wallis and Futuna is the 'Uvea language, the official language is French?
... that the military career of Major Ernest Gambier-Parry was ended by wounds sustained in a campaign to avenge the grisly death of renowned General Charles George Gordon?
... that in 1344 Derby Black Friary was ransacked by a group of over 40 men, who stole £60 worth of goods?
... that the Danish poet Karl Gjellerup, who in 1917 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, was born at Roholte's rectory in 1857?
... that Hong Leong Group founder Kwek Hong Png was one of the world's richest men with an estimated net worth of S$3 billion?
... that ancient Romans marked and decorated their graves in the Catacombs of Rome with the broken-off bottoms of drinking cups with designs in gold sandwich glass ?
... that the Miller Introduction to Judaism Program at the American Jewish University has prepared thousands of people to convert to Judaism since 1986?
... that the Coen brothers film A Serious Man, nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, used a book by Brad Zellar for inspiration?
... that stone images at Devtamura in Tripura are reported to mark the revival of Brahminism during the 15/16th century when the influence of Buddhism waned in India?
... that the Egyptian men's handball team qualified for the 1996 Olympics by finishing sixth at the World Championships, at the time the highest placement for a squad from Africa?
... that Mariah Carey does not sing any lyrics for the first third of her new single "#Beautiful"?
... that attorney John Baxter provided legal defense for the participants in the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy and the Great Locomotive Chase?
... that Matthew Piers Watt Boulton patented the aileron 36 years before it was adopted for use in an airplane?
... that the workers' association CITYPEG has criticised both the Gibraltarian and Spanish governments for their policies affecting Spanish workers in Gibraltar?
... that former AT&T engineer Mike Cierpiot now reviews communications bills for the Missouri House of Representatives?
... that Ferreirasdorp is the oldest part of Johannesburg, but as the city expanded it ultimately became "synonymous with practically everything that is vile and violent" about Johannesburg?
... that cardiac surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan will head the cardiac surgery department of the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology?
... that the documentary film Touch the Sound features profoundly deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who has learnt to "hear with her body"?
... that the late Gothic church St. Lamberti in Hildesheim was rebuilt after destruction in World War II, but a southern annex was kept in ruins as a memorial ?
... that Karja church on the Estonian island of Saaremaa is the rural church richest in medieval carved stone decoration in all the Baltic states?
... that Wigan Athletic have already qualified for the Europa League regardless of the result against Manchester City in the 2013 FA Cup Final today?
... that Tang Qunying has been cited as one of the "best-known women activists in modern Chinese history"?
... that the East German Communist Party and the West German Social Democratic Party could both trace their lineage back to the 19th century Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany?
... that the Prague-based Nova borba was the first Yugoslav Cominformist émigré mouthpiece?
... that in the first episode of Never Ever Do This At Home, hosts Teddy Wilson and Norm Sousa tested the hazards of using fireworks indoors?
... that after a 46-year career in the Royal Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Sir Alan McNicoll was appointed as Australia's first ambassador to Turkey?
... that, after it featured in an episode of Nip/Tuck, "So Damn Beautiful" by Poloroid was described by musicOMH as being a "truly haunting song"?
... that Dian Sastrowardoyo received concurrent nominations for the Citra Award for Best Leading Actress?
... that Chia Thye Poh, formerly detained under Singapore's Internal Security Act, has been called "the world's second longest serving prisoner-of-conscience after South Africa's Nelson Mandela"?
... that the Regency Café has appeared in the films Layer Cake and Brighton Rock, as well as in Japanese Vogue?
... that "Biscuit King" Rajan Pillai actually controlled only three percent of Britannia Industries, India's largest biscuit-making concern?
... that some of the wildlife of Mongolia is found in the Gobi desert , the fifth largest desert in the world?
... that pioneering French acoustician Joseph Sauveur proposed unsuccessfully that middle C be set to 256 Hz, the system later called scientific pitch?
... that the Argentine branch of the Anonymous group helped the organization of the 18A cacerolazo?
... that Bombino bianco is known under the synonyms Debit and Pagadebit because of the wine grape's reputation for reliably yielding large crops that would help growers pay off their debts?
... that the Nada Tunnel of Kentucky serves "as the gateway to the Red River Gorge"?
... that Ben Harvey was sacked by Pertemps Bees after a poor run of results?
... that the melody of the hymn "What Wondrous Love Is This" is generally believed to have been borrowed from a ballad about pirate William Kidd?
... that van Gogh used his Sorrow to "express something of life's struggle"?
... that the final version of the 33-metre-high (108 ft) Temple 33 at the ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala was completely destroyed by archaeologists in 1965?