derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Governor of California Jerry Brown's gubernatorial portrait was described as looking like "spilled ketchup and soy sauce"?
... that former Chicago Bears chairman Ed McCaskey tried out for Harry James' band, but lost out to Frank Sinatra?
... that Vidal Blanc is grown just 500 miles (800 km) south of the Arctic Circle and used to make ice wine in Sweden?
... that Norris Bradbury replaced Robert Oppenheimer as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory?
... that the film Ikan Doejoeng was advertised as giving viewers "a good perspective on the Eastern mentality"?
... that ten of the twenty McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk aircraft operated by the Royal Australian Navy between 1967 and 1984 were destroyed in accidents?
... that the fossil yew Taxus masonii was described from fifteen fossils collected from 1942 to 1989?
... that Kevin Ware's broken leg during the Elite Eight resulted in sympathetic comments from Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant?
... that in 1987 the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party and the Palestinian Communist Party switched places as members of the PLO?
... that the wall panels on the Enterprise were nicknamed "Mees panels" in Star Trek scripts after set decorator Jim Mees?
... that William of Canterbury, author of a hagiography of the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket, was an eyewitness to the murder?
... that Alec Douglas-Home described himself to portrait artist Juliet Pannett as having "the biggest head in London"?
... that in 2013 Kerala High Court judge Manjula Chellur refused the plea of the Leader of the Opposition for an early hearing in another investigation of the "Ice Cream Parlour sabotage case"?
... that Mutya Buena's single "Just a Little Bit" contains Motown influences?
... that dozens of baseball players have defected from Cuba during events such as the Mariel boatlift and the 1996 Summer Olympics?
... that while researching his 1964 book The Mare's Nest, David Irving discovered the existence of the Allied programme to break the Enigma code but agreed to keep it secret?
... that the creators of the Kickstarter-funded Star Trek: Renegades hope to use it as a pilot for a new series on CBS?
... that Picasso's poetry has lines like "my grandmother's big balls are shining midst the thistles" and that one of his works depicts Franco as a jackbooted phallus?
... that the general public cannot visit the Connecticut wildlife center where the recent birth of an endangered Rothschild's giraffe received extensive media attention?
... that Norwegian football club Egersunds IK won promotion to the third tier in 2011 because IK Start was relegated from the top flight?
... that creature and concept designer Neville Page portrayed minor roles in soap operas, including General Hospital?
... that Locko Preceptory is the only recorded Lazarite Preceptory in England?
... that Christian rock band Casting Crowns' song "American Dream" became the band's first music video?
... that Lesley Yellowlees is the first female president of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is the subject of two portraits in the National Portrait Gallery?
... that a man described by his neighbours as "the upstart spawn of an Edinburgh strumpet" inherited the large and valuable estate of a former Lieutenant Governor of Tobago?
... that the Albany office and laboratory of paleontologist James Hall will soon be part of the first bilingual Montessori school in upstate New York?
... that the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Exile" was seen as a play on the Beauty and the Beast story, and one critic thought that the new sets reminded her of a Disney Castle?
... that there have been fourteen sieges of Gibraltar, making it one of the most fought-over places in Europe?
... that the T1 Tramway near Paris marks the return of trams to Paris after their disappearance in 1957?
... that Beirut's Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral sits on the vestiges of three earlier church structures dating back as early as the 5th century AD?
... that James Nelson Barker's play The Indian Princess is largely responsible for the modern version of the Pocahontas story?
... that Scott Bakula gave a video interview from the set of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Shipment" on Good Day Live, to promote a different episode of the show?
... that in June 1537 Elizabeth Bourchier's servant received two shillings as a reward for bringing strawberries and cream to the future Queen Mary?
... that the whereabouts of the original K'iche' version of the 16th-century Título de Totonicapán was unknown after its translation into Spanish in 1834 until it was shown to American anthropologist Robert Carmack in 1973?
... that Sir Godfrey Haggard directed the American Forces Liaison Division of the Ministry of Information after his retirement as the British Consul General at New York?
... that drunk rabbits up to 30 m (98 ft) high are found in Queensland rainforests?
... that in the wildlife of Niger, the Dama gazelle species is a symbol that appears on the badge of the Niger national football team?
... that histone methylation helps regulate gene expression by controlling whether DNA is exposed to proteins and transcription factors?
... that INS Kadmatt is the second of four anti-submarine warfare corvettes being built for the Indian Navy by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata, under Project 28?
... that Sir Michael Stanhope was beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1552 after having been convicted of conspiring to take the life of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and others?
... that John Ireland's Fantasy-Sonata was inspired by Satyricon and the composer's wartime evacuation from Jersey?
... that in his 1570 cookbook Opera dell'arte del cucinare, Bartolomeo Scappi included a recipe for crostata using "the viscera of any sort of turtle"?
... that human sacrifice among the pre-Columbian Maya was performed in a number of ways, including decapitation, heart extraction, shooting with bow and arrows and disembowelment?
... that winemakers used to add urea to grape must as a nitrogen source for wine yeast?
... that after NBC shuffled its 2012–13 television schedule, Ready for Love was given a two-hour timeslot following The Voice, starting April 9?
... that the Monbar Hotel attack was the deadliest carried out by the GAL, a death squad established by officials of the Spanish state?
... that a Kabbalistic decoding of the Book of Genesis by Charles George Gordon suggested Vallée de Mai in Seychelles is the Garden of Eden?
... that former parachute factory worker Emile Turlant is currently, at age 109, France's oldest living man?
... that Monastery of the Transfiguration of Kinaliada is where Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes was exiled after his eyes were gouged out?
... that Frédéric Chopin and Napoleon III were both in love with Maria Wodzińska?
... that at the age of 49, Britt Dillmann was the oldest wheelchair basketball player at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London?
... that Mound 72 at Cahokia in pre-Columbian western Illinois was the site of ritual human sacrifice, including a pit burial containing 53 young women?
... that José Maria Larocca spent reported millions on the horse Okidoki for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but the horse died two years before the event?
... that Ludovic Kennedy said that The Land of Lost Content revealed "many uncomfortable home truths", but Paul Foot described it as "a wretched hagiography"?
... that according to Thomas Jefferson, U.S. House Representative Alexander White reluctantly supported the Funding Act of 1790 bill "with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive"?
... that Mount Pleasant was the base trig station for the survey of the Canterbury settlement in New Zealand?
... that German footballer Michael Petry made his professional debut aged 36, and scored within two minutes of coming on the pitch?
... that the Aztec UFO Crash was faked to sell devices called "doodlebugs"?
... that throughout the 400-year history of Combermere Abbey , various of its abbots and priors were excommunicated, assaulted, murdered, and accused of forgery and covering up murder?
... that Towson University men's basketball player Jerrelle Benimon was not even selected to the 2012–13 preseason all-conference team, yet went on to become its player of the year?
... that "Change" was considered a contender for the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one, but only managed to reach number 13?
... that the Better Farming Train promoted the latest agricultural research in Saskatchewan, Canada between 1914 and 1922?
... that Wins Above Replacement is a sabermetric baseball statistic that measures "a player's total contributions to their team"?
... that Elizabeth Bacon has been identified as the Lady Nevell of My Ladye Nevells Booke, a manuscript of keyboard music by William Byrd?
... that elephant racing held with 16 circus elephants became a major event (though it generated protests) in Germany in 2000, and was an organized International event held in Nepal in 1982?
... that Bangui (picture of a boat race in the river) was once considered to have "the most remote radio station in Africa"?
... that Al Green said that recording his song "Love and Happiness" was "like mixing explosive chemicals – everything had to be added at just the right time and at just the right dose"?
... that the Syrian town of Harran al-Awamid was named after the ruins of three Roman era basaltic columns protruding out from the roof of a mudbrick house?
... that NIRDESH in Kozhikode district of Kerala is India's first centre for research and development in defence shipbuilding?
... that the Nettleton Mill in Wiltshire, an 18th-century Grade II Listed building, is now a country retreat?
... that the London scrivener, Thomas Brend, was the owner of the land on which the Globe Theatre was built?
... that disputes over Nisqually fishing rights led to the Fish Wars of the 1960s?
... that T. W. Wood told Darwin that the Argus pheasant he was illustrating for him could not be explained by Darwin's theory?
... that during the Manhattan Project, physicist Robert Bacher served on the Cowpuncher Committee?
... that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman, whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1977?
... that the west front of the Church of St Dunstan, Liverpool, has been described as "impressive if rather curious"?
... that Wounds of Armenia, the first Armenian novel, was published 10 years after the disappearance of its author Khachatur Abovian?
... that Everett Hughes was General Dwight D. Eisenhower's "right-hand man" during the European campaign of World War II?
... that the Mars Cheese Castle, a Wisconsin "cheese landmark", was visited by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden while he campaigned for the 2012 presidential election?
... that Elizabeth, queen of Henry VII of England, bought a belt that had touched the Girdle of Thomas to help her pregnancy?
... that paintings by Finnish artist Ilona Harima were influenced by the cultures of India and Tibet but she never visited either country?
... that the 1963 Alabama Crimson Tide football team defeated Southeastern Conference (SEC) champion Ole Miss in a Sugar Bowl that featured two SEC teams?
... that the octagonal tower of St Luke's Church, Hodnet, is the only tower of its type in Shropshire?
... that the Syrian village of Marj al-Sultan, near Damascus, served as a major transit point for Circassian migrants heading south to the Golan Heights and Transjordan?
... that the Minotaur-class cruisers of 1906 have been described by naval historian R. A. Burt as "cruiser editions of the Lord Nelson-class battleship"?
... that due to their success in the caviar industry, the Russian Armenian Mailov brothers were known as the "Kings of fish roe"?
... that ex-slave Mary Fields was forced to leave St. Peter's Mission Church and Cemetery by the bishop?
... that the Indio Comahue Monument, commemorating the native inhabitants of the Comahue region of Argentina, was built in 1964 for the first National Comahue Fair?
... that Patrick Keogh was recruited into the 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team despite being born in Birmingham, England?
... that Dmitry Bortniansky was the most prolific composer of choral concertos, short compositions for unaccompanied voices to be sung in the Divine Liturgy?
... that the Loire wine grape Pineau d'Aunis was a favorite of King Henry III of England?
... that Felix Robertson, the first white child born in what is today Nashville, Tennessee, would later serve twice as the city's mayor?
... that the Hundertwasser Toilets are the most photographed toilets in New Zealand?
... that the statues of Castor and Pollux at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, were created by Max von Widnmann, who studied and taught there?
... that American, Belgian and British soldiers attended the funeral of Walter Waddington, along with an entire French cavalry brigade?
... that a Gacaca court found that at least 64,000 people were massacred in Kabgayi in 1994?
... that Glenn Curtiss became "the fastest man alive" for going faster than anything on land, sea or air on a motorcycle with an aircraft V-8 engine, setting an unofficial record that stood for 30 years?
... that Polish postmodernism met with severe impediments not so much from the communist establishment as from Solidarity and the Catholic Church?
... that Glenn Duffie Shriver pleaded guilty to spying for China, although his fiancée called him "Mr. Patriot"?
... that the last Polish red złoty were the so-called "insurgent ducats" minted at the Warsaw mint in 1831, on the eve of the November Uprising?
... that the horse genome contains 2.7 billion DNA base pairs, and horses have over 90 hereditary diseases similar to those found in humans?
... that the Citra Award for Best Director, established in 1955, once went to Teguh Karya of November 1828?
... that the west portal and the main windows in the Church of St Christopher, Norris Green, Liverpool, are hyperbolic in shape?
... that Latvian-American mathematician Lipman Bers was also a human rights activist and a founder of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences?
... that Vito Alessio Robles was one of the first romantic revolutionaries of Mexico?
... that the Lingayen-Lucena corridor has been described as the place where national elections are won in the Philippines?
... that Josh Rutledge was named the California League's player of the week twice in his second professional baseball season?
... that the national colours of Greece were specified in the Greek Constitution of 1822, drafted during the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire?
... that the 17th-century English poet Thomas Jordan wrote one poem that was widely anthologized in the 20th century, even though his poetry had been disdained by his contemporaries?
... that it is hoped that Arsenal's game against Indonesia, to be played as a warm up match for Arsenal's 2013–14 season, will help ease an internal dispute between the PSSI and KPSI?
... that in the chancel wall of Holy Trinity Church, Holdgate, Shropshire, is a sheela na gig?
... that Norwegian footballer Espen Hægeland scored more than 50 goals for Lyngdal IL in 2012?
... that Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is the current caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan?
... that independent South African online newspaper Daily Maverick was influenced by defunct South African business magazine Maverick and American news websites The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post?
... that Robert of Ghent, a 12th-century Lord Chancellor of England, once tried to prevent an Archbishop of York from entering the city of York?
... that the wildlife of Libya includes the Mediterranean monk seal , which is listed as Critically Endangered?
... that general Ants Kurvits became the first head of the Estonian Border Guard in 1922, and held that position almost continuously for the whole interwar period?
... that India got their first Test cricket win against England in 1952 at the Madras Cricket Club Ground?
... that by 1940, Mount Mary College president Edward Fitzpatrick was considered one of the United States' "foremost authorities in military conscription"?
... that Bikenibeu, a settlement in Kiribati, could be completely flooded if sea levels rise by one metre?
... that the Tswana ruler and rainmaker Sechele I, denounced for polygamy by David Livingstone, was one of the most successful Christian missionaries of the 19th century?
... that astrophysicist Joan Feynman , sister of noted physicist Richard Feynman, discovered that auroras are caused by the solar wind's magnetic field interacting with Earth's magnetosphere?
... that the Indian Navy's anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kiltan is named after Kiltan, a coral island of India's Union Territory of Lakshadweep?
... that 2012–13 Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Khalif Wyatt, was considered "high maintenance" early in his career by his head coach, Fran Dunphy?
... that Mario Poli replaced Jorge Bergoglio as Archbishop of Buenos Aires when the latter was elected as Pope Francis?
... that the novel Passing by Nella Larsen, with its focus on "jealousy, psychological ambiguity and intrigue" has been described as a "skillfully executed and enduring work of art"?
... that the Second Street Bridge in Allegan, Michigan, was rehabilitated by rolling it ashore and disassembling it?
... that Admiral Eduard von Capelle was responsible for writing the legislation that funded the battleships of the German High Seas Fleet before World War I?
... that Miss Calypso, a 1957 album by future poet and writer Maya Angelou, was reissued in 1995, probably as part of the "exotica-space age pop revival"?
... that Ferndown Common in Dorset supports such rare heathland species as the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) and Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca)?
... that offensive tackles Mitchell Schwartz and Geoff Schwartz are the first Jewish brothers to play in the National Football League since Arnold Horween and Ralph Horween, in 1923?
... that the song "Tunnel Vision" by Justin Timberlake features several voyeuristic references?
... that in the Gossaum fights during Korean New Year, the straw constructions are deliberately mismatched to give the preferred team an advantage?
... that American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson discovered vanilla ice cream in France, and then introduced it to the United States?
... that Grand Duke Leszek the White and a number of other Polish Piast dukes were ambushed in their baths during the 13th-century regicide and massacre at Gąsawa ?
... that Kentucky established a record with six blue chip recruits from a single school being selected to the 2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game?
... that Zoebaida kept audiences focused by using alternating long shots and close-ups?
... that the French ship Hercule had been in commission just 24 hours when captured by HMS Mars at the Battle of the Raz de Sein?
... that John Knox's journals provide one of the most complete accounts of the British Army's campaigns in North America from 1757 to 1760?
... that the Coorabulka station in Australia lost 4,000 square miles (10,360 km2) of grazing lands during a rat plague in 1940?
... that Pinus densiflora is a dominant forest component of the flora of North Korea?
... that Sir Roger Townshend's portrait was among those on a tapestry commemorating the destruction of the Spanish Armada which hung in the House of Lords until the tapestry was destroyed by fire in 1834?
... that Graduados is the first remake produced by the Chilean TV channel Chilevisión?
... that new South Alabama head basketball coach Matthew Graves is one of three brothers from the tiny town of Switz City, Indiana, to play basketball for Butler?
... that for all species of bats native to Canada, there have been five total recorded cases of bat to human rabies transmission since 1925?
... that A. M. B. H. G. Abeyrathnebanda, who was killed in action at 19 years of age, is the youngest recipient of the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya?
... that Justin Timberlake's song "Strawberry Bubblegum" contains references to "Pop", a song by his former band 'N Sync?
... that the Quaker meetinghouse in the Old Chappaqua Historic District, the oldest building in New Castle, New York, was used to treat Continental Army casualties of the Battle of White Plains?
... that the cruise ship Norwegian Getaway will feature an entertainment venue devoted to magic, called the "Illusionarium"?
... that Operation Ironside was a Second World War military deception, targeting the Bay of Biscay, in support of the D-Day landings?
... that Franz Schubert's third mass in B flat major is by its short duration a missa brevis, but by its large orchestral force of brass, woodwinds, and timpani a missa solemnis?
... that Parley Common in Dorset has at least 147 species of spider among its fauna, including the very rare Ero aphana, and Xysticus robustus?
... that Horween Leather Company makes the National Football League's footballs, colloquially known as "pigskins", out of steer hides?
... that in The Malay Archipelago, Wallace is greeted by 50 exuberant Papuan Ké Islanders , naked but for shells and Cassowary plumes?
... that baseball pitcher Darin Downs had to regain the ability to speak after being hit in the head by a batted ball?
... that in the film Debipaksha (2004), a Bengali priest named his three daughters Rebati, Haimanti and Jayanti, the names of Hindu goddess Durga?
... that the spiral galaxy NGC 5585 contains a supernova remnant that is over 650 light-years long, 300 light-years wide and still expanding?
... that Franz Schubert's fourth mass, a missa solemnis in C major, shows a perceived "lightness of touch" in the tradition of Mozart and Michael Haydn?
... that in 2013, Singaporean politician Desmond Lim set a new record for the lowest percentage garnered in an election since the independence of Singapore in 1965?
... that smile mask syndrome may affect people whose jobs force them to smile for many hours per day, and is particularly common in Japan and Korea?
... that "Leafy" Burnham, co-founder of the Barmy Army, got his nickname from the cockney rhyming slang for "thief" while working at British Airways?
... that despite having 6 centimetre (2.4 inch) thorns, Acacia ehrenbergiana is an important food for camels, goats, and sheep?
... that the punishments in Hell that Ralph of Coggeshall's "Vision of Thurkill" claimed would happen to medieval judge Osbert fitzHervey included being forced to eat and then vomit back up hot coins?
... that a vineyard crossing of Peloursin and Syrah produced the wine grape variety Petite Sirah?
... that although the medieval cleric Burchard du Puiset was called the nephew of Hugh du Puiset, the Bishop of Durham, it is possible that Burchard was really Hugh's son?
... that in India, people suffering from puppy pregnancy syndrome believe a dog bite can impregnate humans, including men?
... that fragments of the coral Acropora grandis have been successfully transplanted to a nursery bed and used to regenerate a damaged coral reef?
... that Jörg Faerber was the artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn for more than four decades and recorded piano concertos by Shostakovich and Haydn with Martha Argerich?
... that inscriptions in the extinct Bactrian language can be found at Shatial?
... that the Lebang Boomani dance is performed by the Tripuri people of Tripura, India, as part of the jhum cultivation cycle?
... that Tom Platt was a member of the Harrogate Town team that reached the FA Cup second round in the 2012–13 season?
... that while plantings of Gros Verdot have been banned in Bordeaux, the grape can still be used to make Bordeaux-style Meritage wines outside of France?
... that the churchyard gates in the small Cheshire village of Burleydam come from Lleweni Hall, and were described as "of great elegance" by Samuel Johnson?
... that the Buddhist court attendant who wrote an anti-Daoist text converted from Daoism after negative experience with Daoist sexual practices?
... that trees of the New Guinea genus Finschia have stilt roots coming off the trunk up to 1.8 m (6 ft) off the ground?