derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in 1904, Laurie Island became the site of the first post office built in the Antarctic?
... that a fellow artist said of Allen Butler Talcott that "no one was his peer in the knowledge of trees and how to paint them" ?
... that the Burj Qatar, a $125 million building designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, rises to a height of 232 metres (761 ft) and has 46 storeys?
... that the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team was the son of Polish movie actor Kurt Katch?
... that The Voice UK has had six top 40 and twelve top 75 singles on the UK Singles Chart and two top 50 albums on the UK Albums Chart, including one top 10 placing on each chart?
... that Pedro Pablo Caro celebrated the golden anniversary of his professional career as a lawyer in 1952?
... that the Jacobean mansion Bramshill House is reportedly inhabited by 14 ghosts, including one of a bride who locked herself in a chest on her wedding night and wasn't found for 50 years?
... that the Port of Paulsboro is targeted to become assembly and logistics center for the development of wind power off the coast of New Jersey?
... that retirement benefits for veterans of the Imperial Roman army were paid from the aerarium militare, a military treasury funded primarily by an inheritance tax?
... that after the destruction in 1941 of most of St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, it was later rebuilt, retaining the exterior as before but creating a new interior?
... that a baptismal font carved by the anonymous Romanesque sculptor Master Majestatis was exhibited at the International Exposition of 1867 in Paris?
... that the upcoming film Suite française is based on Irène Némirovsky's 2004 eponymous novel?
... that actor Adnan Kapau Gani, star of Asmara Moerni, went on to become a National Hero of Indonesia?
... that Johnnie Jones set rushing records at the University of Tennessee before playing pro football for the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats?
... that the Kelly bag, originally a saddle carrier, became a high-priced status symbol after a namesake princess used it to conceal her baby bump from the paparazzi?
... that Charles Agnew's most popular recording, in a career spanning the early 1930s through the late 1960s, was "Don't Blame Me"?
... that Swedish National Socialist Party leader Birger Furugård sought to invite Adolf Hitler as a guest speaker in 1931, but police authorities refused to issue a permit?
... that while the dominant languages of the Roman Empire were Latin and Greek, most regions were multilingual in Syriac, Punic, Coptic, Celtic or other languages?
... that the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway was the first railroad to have a guarded third rail?
... that the present theatre building of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus has been described as "organic architecture"?
... that after being named Big South Coach of the Year, Chris Holtmann left his head coaching job to become an assistant coach at Butler?
... that Canute's Palace had no connection with King Canute, nor was it a palace?
... that Basava , a 12th-century leader of Hindus in Karnataka, protested against the caste system and favoured equality among all classes?
... that the Irish-bred, British-trained racehorse Lethal Force set a new course record when he won this year's July Cup at Newmarket by one and a half lengths?
... that to promote his upcoming album The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2 and its predecessor, Justin Timberlake announced his second world concert tour?
... that an ancestor of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, worked to create educational opportunities for women, and co-founded Leeds Girls' High School in 1876?
... that the Old City of Zamość, one of the World Heritage Sites in Poland, is recognized as an "outstanding example of a Renaissance planned town"?
... that cricketer Tejashwi Yadav is one of the nine children of former chief ministers of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi?
... that when separated from its host, the badger flea jumps repeatedly in an effort to reconnect?
... that the modern study of human anatomy is considered to have been founded by Andreas Vesalius in the sixteenth century?
... that Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Trish Roberts played in the inaugural Olympic women's basketball game and scored a record 51 points in her first game for the Tennessee Lady Vols?
... that Kwee Tek Hoay's stage play Allah jang Palsoe was published seven years before the first canonical Indonesian drama?
... that Harold Tovish was an American sculptor who took classes sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, and as a perfectionist, threw out most of the works he made?
... that males from different species of the beetle genus Anoplophora can be distinguished from one another by the structure of their genitalia?
... that Wee Kheng Chiang, the founder of United Overseas Bank, was described as the "uncrowned King of Sarawak"?
... that the 1989 film Edge of Sanity mixes aspects of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Jack the Ripper?
... that what has been called the strangest battle of World War II was fought at a medieval castle , and was the only battle of the war in which American and German soldiers fought as allies?
... that in his 2012 election for the Pennsylvania State House, Steve McCarter won every precinct in his district?
... that Ágnes Keleti has won the most medals of all the Olympic female gymnasts for Hungary?
... that all education in Medieval Scotland was originally controlled to some extent by the Christian Church, with most of the schoolmasters being clergy?
... that "Hello It's Me" on Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything? was rehearsed and recorded live in under two hours by a pick-up band that had less than 48 hours notice?
... that Cheryl Burnett compiled a record of 319–136 (.701) and twice advanced to the Final Four in 15 years as head coach of the Southwest Missouri State women's basketball team?
... that long-toed water beetles, despite being referred to as aquatic insects, cannot swim?
... that Parisian and Italian musicians in the music scene of Paris played the accordion in the Bal-musette style?
... that differences in water chemistry in the two arms of the Y-shaped drainage on Hartland Moor in Dorset create both acidic and alkaline habitats in one wetland?
... that Krzysztof Meyer's opera Cyberiada is based on a series of humorous science fiction stories by Stanislaw Lem?
... that the Gorges de Daluis is a "long, lonely canyon" in the Alpes-Maritimes department in France?
... that the Merseyside Skeptics Society organised a mass overdose of homeopathic preparations?
... that included on the grounds of the Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin , in Rome City, Indiana, is the burial place of author Gene Stratton-Porter and her daughter?
... that current Oregon State athletic director Bob De Carolis coached the Michigan Wolverines softball team from 1981 to 1984?
... that the upcoming 2013 science fiction platform video game Flashback is directed by the 1992 original Flashback's lead designer, Paul Cuisset?
... that Sir William Browne was present as Lord Mayor of London when the emissary of Pope Leo X presented Henry VIII with a "sword and cap of mystic value"?
... that cavities in the stems of the fig species Ficus subpisocarpa can host ant colonies?
... that the grade II* listed Pinner House in Middlesex is now used as a home for the elderly?
... that All-American second baseman Kelsey Kollen-Putz and husband J. J. Putz met while both were student-athletes at the University of Michigan?
... that the emblem of Hongcheon County, consisting of a leaf and dew, symbolises its clean environment?
... that exiled prince Klonimir returned to Serbia in about 896, clashing with his reigning cousin?
... that in the 2013 New York City Comptroller Election, a former governor who resigned over a sex scandal is running against a madam who supplied him with call girls?
... that William Harper, born in Calcutta, was a signatory of Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, fearing "the same mistake" as the granting of independence to India?
... that the siege at Badajoz in 1812 was reported to be Wellington's bloodiest siege?
... that in 2012, Reach Records participated in hip-hop's takeover of the South by Southwest music festival?
... that Norwegian footballer Aleksander Solli did not want to celebrate his match-winning goal against Vålerenga, his former team?
... that character names in the indie video game Broforce parody "bros" and fictional action heroes?
... that Nadia Comăneci has won the most medals of all the Olympic female gymnasts for Romania?
... that the streets in Jamestown, in the Western Cape province of South Africa, are named after varieties of the main agricultural crop grown there since 1902?
... that Sir Thomas Tuddenham was beheaded on Tower Hill on 23 February 1462 for allegedly plotting to murder King Edward IV?
... that the golden thorius, with a total length of 57 millimetres (2.2 in), is one of the largest species of Mexican pigmy salamanders?
... that "Caged Bird", which refers to author Maya Angelou's first autobiography, is contained in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, her fourth volume of poetry?
... that Karl Heinz Stroux directed the German premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953, with the author in the audience?
... that the embryo of the roundel skate develops in a mermaid's purse?
... that British journalist Kirsty Milne was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University?
... that the Black Hawk County Soldiers Memorial Hall in Waterloo, Iowa, was built by the Grand Army of the Republic?
... that Czech Karel Robětín was not only an Olympian and national tennis champion but also an international paper industry tycoon?
... that Friedrich Meyer-Oertel staged the Ring Cycle at the Opernhaus Wuppertal and the premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Die Hamletmaschine at the Nationaltheater Mannheim?
... that French Sudan, which would become Mali, was the second French colony to vote for increased autonomy in 1958?
... that Betty Spindler's ceramic hot dog is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum?
... that Atlas is a humanoid robot designed to perform tasks such as navigating rough terrain, opening doors, and operating power equipment?
... that Ziad al-Hariri was the chief leader of the 1963 Syrian coup d'état, commanding the brigade stationed on the frontline with Israel to occupy Damascus?
... that the Dr. Hun Houses in Albany, New York, were demolished and delisted from the National Register of Historic Places within three months of being listed?
... that hexaethyl tetraphosphate was called "another of DDT's rivals for fame" in a 1948 book?
... that before James Hinchcliffe led a track-record 226 laps in the 2013 Iowa Corn Indy 250, he had led only 33 laps on an oval?
... that flamenco percussionist Tino di Geraldo produced Jackson Browne's album Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino, in which he was featured?
... that Anthony Steen did not record a penalty or allow a quarterback sack, while playing college football for Alabama during their 2012 season?
... that the Civilization Party contested the 1924 Swedish general election using a Social Democratic ballot?
... that the Ghegs of northern Albania are the only tribal society that survived in Europe until the middle of the 20th century?
... that Kongsøya is reported to have a population density of up to fourteen polar bear lairs per square kilometer?
... that Hannah Louise Shearer was on the staff of both Knight Rider and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but left each show before the second season?
... that in 965 AD, King Edgar decreed "that only one weight and one measure should pass throughout the King's dominion"?
... that the Medieval Town of Toruń, one of the World Heritage Sites in Poland, is recognized as an excellent example of a European medieval town?
... that Mona Røkke served as delegate to the United Nations General Assembly starting in 1987?
... that current Indiana softball coach Michelle Gardner was the Big Ten Player of the Year in 1988 while playing for Michigan?
... that the Battle of Hulao in 621 decided the outcome of the civil wars, which followed the end of the Sui Dynasty, in favour of the Tang Dynasty?
... that Cube World is a video game in development by husband and wife Wolfram and Sarah von Funck?
... that the Terwilliger curves, a six-lane section of Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon, had an average of 100 car accidents per year between 1995 and 2005?
... that the giant barrel sponge may live up to 2,300 years, making it one of the longest-living animals?
... that Connie Gilchrist, Countess of Orkney , was a former child actress and model once photographed by Lewis Carroll?
... that the orchestral suite Mont Juic was composed jointly by Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten on Catalan dances they heard together on Barcelona's Montjuïc?
... that Tan Shaowen was a member of the 14th Politburo of the Communist Party of China, one of the most powerful political bodies in the nation?
... that Olympic female gymnasts for the Soviet Union won team gold medals in all nine Olympic Games that they competed in?
... that Mingyi Swe, Viceroy of Toungoo (r. 1540–1549) and the father of King Bayinnaung, started out as a royal household servant of King Tabinshwehti of Toungoo Burma?
... that Jamaican-born Pollyanna Johns Kimbrough was the first Michigan Wolverines women's basketball player to be drafted by an American professional team?
... that explorer Benjamin Anderson served as the Liberian Treasury's comptroller and secretary from 1864 to 1866, and was charged with embezzlement of its funds?
... that scholars are not sure who is portrayed in Rembrandt's painting A Polish Nobleman ?
... that school superintendent Abram C. Shortridge defied racial segregation laws by opening the Indianapolis schools to students of any race?
... that the "fantasy opera" Gormenghast by Irmin Schmidt was performed at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklingen Ironworks?
... that Afghan teenager Sahar Gul was tortured by her in-laws after her illegal marriage?
... that former Michigan Wolverines softball outfielder Patti Townsend was named MVP of the Women's Professional Softball League in 2000?
... that, in case of a Sharknado, a National Weather Service representative recommended staying indoors "whether sharks are raining down or not"?
... that the photograph of the execution of Jews near Ivanhorod, Ukraine, by members of the SS Einsatzgruppe was intercepted by the Polish resistance at the Warsaw post office in 1942?
... that Henry W. Marshall refused to be paid for his services as president of Purdue University?
... that Ecco Ripley in the City of Ipswich is expected to be Australia's largest master-planned community?
... that Traci Conrad-Fischer won two Big Ten batting titles and set the Michigan Wolverines softball career record with a .389 batting average?
... that Satsar Lake consists of seven small alpine lakes set in a cascade formation in the Kashmir Valley?
... that when Great George Street Congregational Church, Liverpool, closed in 1967, it was converted into the first community arts project in the United Kingdom?
... that the pilot for Devious Maids was aired on Lifetime after ABC declined to pick it up?
... that St John the Evangelist's Church, Corby Glen has extensive early 15th-century wall paintings?
... that the Australian Voluntary Hospital was a military hospital, staffed by expatriates, that served on the Western Front in World War I?
... that Palikir became the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia in 1989?
... that there were over 2,500 Armenian churches in Turkey before the Armenian Genocide, and fewer than 40 are functioning today?
... that in the film Chupkatha, singer Silajit Majumder made his debut as a film music composer?
... that the Sikorski Memorial commemorates the death of Polish General Władysław Sikorski in the 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
... that Edwin L. Sabin wrote the first seriously researched biography of frontiersman Kit Carson?
... that Julius I Kán, a faithful supporter of Andrew II of Hungary, was imprisoned by the new king Béla IV of Hungary in 1235?
... that the subjects of Marjorie Senechal's books include quasicrystals, Albania, and silk?
... that Honey Creek State Park, located in Iowa, is 828 acres (335 ha), 45% of which is a fish hatchery?
... that drug lord Aurelio Cano Flores worked for a drug trafficking organization while still serving as a police officer?
... that Swedish singer Jasmine Kara has performed in front of singers Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z?
... that historians once believed that King John's Palace, Southampton, was the residence of John, King of England?
... that Benjamin Hanks is considered to be the first to make bronze cannons and church bells in America?
... that current Ohio State softball coach Kelly Kovach Schoenly was twice named Big Ten Pitcher of the Year while playing for Michigan?
... that Alistair Hinton persuaded composer Kaikhosru Sorabji to relax the ban he had placed on performance of his music, including the four-hour Opus clavicembalisticum?
... that after the Tang annexation of Karakhoja , the equal-field system mandatory in all Chinese prefectures was implemented in the former kingdom?
... that Michigan Wolverines softball player Sara Driesenga compiled a 31–9 record in 2013 and pitched a complete-game shutout in the 2013 Women's College World Series?
... that Douglas Dayton, who was the first president of Target Corporation, said that he found donating money more satisfying than making it?
... that the death of Sarah Guyard-Guillot was the first on-stage fatality in the 30-year history of the Cirque du Soleil?
... that the Get Reading festival had celebrities such as Boris Johnson and Warwick Davis reading to the public?
... that "Slow Train" was called both "possibly the most irresponsible song" Bob Dylan had written and "nothing less than Dylan's most mature and profound song about America"?
... that Edward Burne-Jones's 1888 painting The Nativity was donated to the Carnegie Museum of Art by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
... that the Magnificent Seven and Fierce Five are the only Olympic female gymnasts for the United States to have won the team gold medal?
... that a Pennsylvania county court ruled in 1978 that forcing someone to donate bone marrow to save someone else's life is unacceptable?
... that the three Michelin star restaurant Sushi Saito is located on the first floor of a multi-storey car park in Tokyo?
... that Hammet Street in Taunton was built as a result of an Act of Parliament?
... that Jessica Merchant was captain of Michigan Wolverines softball's 2005 national championship team and National Pro Fastpitch Offensive Player of the Year in 2006?
... that the Qaisracetus, a genus of extinct early whales, was named after a tribe in Pakistan?
... that Alice Candy was only the second woman academic at Canterbury College, now the University of Canterbury?
... that the murder of Darren Ng has been described as one of "Singapore's most gruesome murders"?
... that Sara Griffin was thrice named a first-team All-American and compiled a 106–19 record as a pitcher for the Michigan Wolverines softball team?
... that Yianni Papoutsis gave up his job at the English National Ballet to become a "street food pioneer"?
... that although Víctor Jara was killed in Estadio Chile during the 1973 Chilean coup, his last poem/song "Estadio Chile" escaped in the memory of other detainees and on scraps of paper?
... that The Monk As Man: The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda is one of the many books written on Swami Vivekananda?
... that Juan Antonio Yanes was inducted into the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum sixteen years after his death?
... that The Verge called Terry Myerson "the most important man at Microsoft" after the company's July 2013 executive reorganization?
... that the hardline faction Al Khawalid was so empowered during the reign of King Hamad of Bahrain that they were considered a "new royal family"?
... that Samantha Findlay led the Michigan softball team to a national championship with a home run in the 10th inning of the championship game at the 2005 Women's College World Series?
... that the Croatian Institute for Health Insurance was created in 1993 in order to consolidate the decentralized health care system that had been inherited from SFR Yugoslavia?
... that Riverside Park Dance Pavilion is one of the few remaining dance halls of its type in Nebraska?
... that Vegard Lysvoll scored 30 goals in the same season that his club set a new Norwegian record when he scored their 100th goal?
... that Pol-ka rushed the production of the Sos mi hombre Argentine telenovela because of the low rating of their previous productions?
... that The Times of London described French ballet dancer Adèle Dumilâtre as "so ethereal ... that she almost looked transparent"?
... that Baranagar Math was the first monastery of the Ramakrishna Order, where Narendranath Datta and his brother disciples took refuge after their Master's death?
... that SS Gallic was the last surviving cargo vessel of the White Star Line when scrapped in 1956?
... that Haylie Wagner, a Michigan Wolverines softball player, was unanimously selected as the 2012 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year after compiling a 32–7 record and 1.53 ERA as a freshman?
... that the Grenada National Museum is situated in a building which at various times served as a barracks, prison, hotel, and warehouse?
... that New York photographer Murray Korman was known for his portraits of strippers and socialites?
... that Jean Swank , who studied black holes and neutron stars, was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal?
... that a single meal of fish blood will last the isopod Aega antarctica for several months?
... that Second Harvest North Florida was selected as a favorite charity by the Jacksonville Jaguars?
... that the title role of Boris Blacher's last opera, Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund, is performed by a mute dancer?
... that Kefaya activist Mahmoud Badr is the co-founder and lead spokesman of Tamarod, the grassroots movement which organized mass demonstrations that led to Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's ouster?
... that the fastest spreading ocean ridge is the East Pacific Rise at 15 cm/yr, located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean, while the slowest is the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean at 2.5 cm/yr?
... that the starting command for the 2005 Advance Auto Parts 500 was given from Iraq?
... that the Rotolactor was the first invention for milking a large number of cows successively and largely automatically?
... that the Toquepala Caves of Peru have ancient rock paintings depicting guanacos (cameloids)?
... that according to the Gilbert–Shannon–Reeds model of probability distribution, a deck of playing cards should be riffled seven times in order to thoroughly randomize it?
... that the size of the Soviet Union's population in the 1950s was overestimated by most Western experts?
... that New York Mets mascot Mrs. Met debuted in the 1960s, shortly after Mr. Met, making her one of Major League Baseball's oldest mascots?
... that Bachata #1's contains themes which according to Allmusic "are perfect for quieter moments on the dance floor"?
... that Olga, a British police horse, won a Dickin Medal for bravery despite initially running away from a bomb blast?
... that Australian Brigadier Simone Wilkie was Assistant Chief of Staff to General David Petraeus during the Iraq War troop surge of 2007?
... that in order for organisms to adapt their membrane's fluidity to their environment, they can change the lipid composition of their cell membrane?
... that Josh Clayton-Felt's album Spirit Touches Ground was released two years after his death?
... that Sir Frederick Ashton called ballet designer Sophie Fedorovitch "not only my dearest friend but my greatest artistic collaborator and adviser"?
... that the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne in Paris contains a collection of about three million volumes?
... that Gloria Soluk was the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines softball team and the third coach of its women's basketball team?
... that chef Jason Atherton was keen to prevent the menu from being "too scary" at his London-based restaurant Pollen Street Social?