derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that after pioneering free jazz in the Netherlands during the 1960s, Cornelis Hazevoet gave up music to study zoology in 1980?
... that Townsend's vole creates runways among vegetation, with large latrines often forming near junctions?
... that Alvin C. Graves was badly injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident at Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin?
... that the book The Road from Home is the true story of a girl whose father, mother, brothers, and sisters all died during the Armenian Genocide?
... that Swedish bus maker Scania has delivered its first ethanol-powered bus made in India to Nagpur Mahanagar Parivahan Limited for trial runs?
... that the model Dolores was a "happy prisoner" of the sculptor Jacob Epstein?
... that one of the designers of the Swedish Navy stealth ship HSwMS Visby said it looked like a "lunchbox"?
... that although Don Bitterlich scored the first points in Seattle Seahawks history, he was released after three games?
... that Nicolae Colan was the only Romanian Orthodox bishop who remained in Northern Transylvania after the region was ceded to Hungary in 1940?
... that the fossil ant Azteca eumeces is one of two Azteca species found in Dominican amber?
... that Emily Sartain was the first woman in Europe and the United States to practice the art of mezzotint engraving?
... that The Caravan Club in London claimed to be "the most unconventional spot in town" with "All night gaiety" and "Dancing to Charlie"?
... that Amsterdam businessman Maup Caransa lent his name to the ugliest building in the country and to the sons of the gods?
... that Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Emily Ratajkowski is featured in the music video for "Blurred Lines", which was the number one song of 2013 in several countries?
... that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected to represent Vadodara, Gujarat, in the parliament by a victory margin of 570,128 votes in 2014, the second highest ever?
... that under Orfeo Vecchi, the Santa Maria alla Scala Cathedral returned to a place of musical prominence in Milan?
... that the upcoming film Our Brand Is Crisis, based on the documentary of the same name, is about Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's 2002 Bolivian presidential election campaign managed by James Carville?
... that the National Football Museum described Paul Gascoigne as "the most naturally gifted English midfielder of his generation"?
... that accommodation in the Butterfly Valley, Fethiye at the Turkish Riviera is possible only in tents or wooden bungalows because any type of construction is prohibited by law?
... that in World War II, Zenon B. Lukosius and his crew mates captured the U-505 submarine, which had an important German code book on board?
... that Asolo in the Province of Treviso is called "the city of a hundred landscapes"?
... that the Dutch right-wing military veterans organization Oud-Strijders Legioen was compared to a "Boy Scout organization for the elderly"?
... that Ralph Landau, a chemical engineer and economist, formulated the concept of technology as capital?
... that The Punisher can be distinguished from other beat 'em up games by its frequent use of firearms?
... that Frank Facer's recruiting was seen as a key factor in the success of the St. George Dragons, including eleven straight titles between 1956 and 1966?
... that the 6th-century Kızıl Kilise is one of the oldest churches in Turkey's Cappadocia region?
... that Iron Foot Jack, "a more agreeable kind of Alistair Crowley in a poorer way of business", was an inspiration for a young Ian Dury?
... that the experimental Ebola drug candidate ZMapp is manufactured in the tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana in a bioproduction process known as "pharming"?
... that John Messinger, the first Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, helped to set the state line between Illinois and Wisconsin?
... that the upcoming film Freeheld is based on the true story of a police officer's battle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner?
... that the death of a Dutch fascist in Amsterdam in February 1941 was an excuse for the German authorities to start raids in the Jewish Quarter and install a Judenrat?
... that a second wind makes sleep-deprived persons feel less sleepy on the fifth sleepless day than they did on the fourth?
... that during work on a predecessor to the Royal Air Force's Airborne Interception radar, Mark VIII , Herbert Skinner would use its klystron as a cigarette lighter?
... that The GNOME Project's Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women started because no women were among the 181 applicants to a student mentorship program in 2006?
... that the Polish inventor and bridge designer Marian Lutosławski was killed in a mass execution by the Bolsheviks several days before his trial was supposed to take place?
... that in order to write the novel Strike Zone, author Peter David spoke with actress Marina Sirtis to gain insight into her character in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
... that Theora mesopotamica was once given the name Abra cadabra, because a scientist believed it "had been dead for a long time, and could be described as a cadaver"?
... that The Verge predicts Apple Pay will do to the mobile payments market what the iPhone did to the smartphone market?
... that Gertrude Melville was nicknamed the "grand old lady of the Labor Party" despite serving only one term in parliament?
... that the Ocala Star-Banner considered John Ritter's comedy style in the 1983 film Sunset Limousine to be the "magic ingredient" for the film's success?
... that Flemish separatists took the German occupation of Belgium during World War I as an opportunity to declare independence in 1918?
... that Lindita Arapi's first book of poetry, Am Meer, nachts ("By the sea, at night") was the first such work written by an Albanian poetess in German?
... that the Venus of Savignano was found by a farmer who gave it to a sculptor in exchange for 200 kg (440 lb) of grapes?
... that Kate Vaughan , who developed the skirt dance, was considered the greatest dancer of her time?
... that the Romanian communist Constantin Doncea made a well-publicized break from prison, finding his way to Moscow and then to the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War?
... that Narendra Modi got the idea for the Bharatiya Janata Party slogan for the 2014 Indian general election, Achhe din aane waale hain ("Good days are coming"), from his opposition leader, Manmohan Singh?
... that in his later career, Clifford Hall painted women covered almost head to toe and with their faces usually hidden?
... that film titles like India Speaks, Africa Speaks!, and Mussolini Speaks gave Duke Ellington the idea to call his song "Harlem Speaks"?
... that Stephen Phillips originally auditioned to play the Winners & Losers character Doug Graham, but was cast as Zach Armstrong instead?
... that the penis in male canids contains a structure at the base which helps to create a copulatory tie during mating, locking the animals together for up to an hour?
... that Stewart Gray was a "heroic dreamer" who originated the back-to-the-land movement in the UK and started an artists' colony in London?
... that Corn Run was likely named for bushels of corn washed into it during a flood?
... that Clarence N. Hickman, a developer of the bazooka, was also the "Father of Scientific Archery", and is an AMICA Hall-of-Famer for his improvements to player pianos?
... that burglars attacking a Barretville, Tennessee, bank vault with blowtorches in 1930 failed to steal any money, but burned down the adjacent general store?
... that the French singer Christophe got the inspiration for the title of his 1965 hit song "Aline" during a visit to the dentist?
... that part of Ashutosh Gowariker's Everest has been filmed at over 17,000 feet (5,200 m) above sea level?
... that Broadbottom Viaduct , originally of wooden construction, was replaced with a wrought iron structure less than 20 years after its completion?
... that the Swedish stand-up comedian Robin Paulsson became known for his imitations of footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović?
... that less than four months after Guatemala declared independence from the Spanish Empire, it was annexed by a different empire?
... that the social worker Pah Wongso turned an extortion charge into a 25-cent fine and a school for impoverished youth?
... that German TV broadcaster ZDF used Dominik Kuhn's (Dodokay's) fandub of a Romney-Obama debate to start reporting on the outcome of the 2012 U.S. presidential election?
... that the snail species Aegista diversifamilia was named in recognition of the same-sex marriage movement in Taiwan?
... that the first U.S. revenue stamps were issued in 1862 to raise money for the American Civil War?
... that in 1920 Louise Pearce tested a cure for the fatal epidemic of African sleeping sickness in the Belgian Congo?
... that the Nobel Banquet is held each 10 December, after the Nobel Prize ceremony?
... that after his speech in the trial of Thomas Paine, a crowd unhitched Thomas Erskine's horses and pulled his carriage home?
... that certain crabs injected with calitoxin, found in the nematocysts of the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica, are paralysed within one minute?
... that Cindy Smart knows five languages and basic mathematics, but is "a little creepy"?
... that the triangles on the flag of Saint Lucia represent the Pitons, two volcanic plugs on the island that are a national symbol of the country?
... that MacArthur Fellow Tami Bond, known for her study of black carbon, became interested in engineering after her car broke down?
... that bowfins can survive up to five days' exposure to air because they can breathe both air and water?
... that the logo of No-Li Brewhouse depicts the Skyride over Spokane Falls?
... that the Hasidic singer Yehuda Green, who performs in the style of Shlomo Carlebach, has been called "more Carlebach than Carlebach"?
... that of the 26 named tributaries of Catawissa Creek, 11 are considered by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to be Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that Arthur Drewry chose the England football team that lost 1–0 to the United States in a shock defeat?
... that Mostafa Salameh rang his partner, his parents, and the King of Jordan via satellite phone from Mount Everest?
... that the first Wikipedia Monument in the world will be unveiled in Słubice, Poland, in late October 2014?
... that when the gynecologist Thomas Ashby died in 1916, he was the only University of Maryland faculty member to have served in the Maryland State Legislature?
... that the parasitoid wasp Kollasmosoma sentum can deposit its egg within the abdomen of an ant in as little as 0.052 seconds?
... that The Fine Young Capitalists produced a series of videos about the achievements of female game developers at the request of 4chan members?
... that even as Brian Kim was speaking on CNBC as a guest expert on the legality of dark pools, he was running an illegal Ponzi scheme?
... that the Swedish actress Görel Crona played an ex-prostitute in the television series Varuhuset?
... that at 1034 letters, Howard Bergerson's poem "Edna Waterfall" was once recognized as the world's longest English palindrome?
... that Paul Emile Diou, described as a "shy and timid" subaltern, fell while leading his troops as a brigade commander in the First World War?
... that Illinois State Senator Lorenzo D. Whiting was the father of journalist Lilian Whiting?
... that the Japanese people who conserve Article 9 were among the favourites to win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, but lost to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai?
... that the Ermita Church is home to what is considered to be the oldest Marian image in the Philippines?
... that Bruce Mozert took underwater photographs in Silver Springs, Florida, as early as the 1940s?
... that the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program has flown 96 student experiments into low Earth orbit since 2010?
... that Harutyun Shahrikyan was tortured and killed during the Armenian Genocide?
... that the original Five Mile Point Lighthouse (1805) was a 30-foot (9 m) octagonal wooden tower, its fixed white light supplied by eight oil lamps with 13-inch (330 mm) parabolic reflectors?
... that the British fashion photographer John Cowan was known for his "high-octane image-making"?
... that a molecular gyroscope can spin at 2,400,000,000,000 revolutions per second?
... that Du Xinwu's opium habit led his teacher to dangle him by the hair from a bridge?
... that after the construction business of 12-year-old Bill Walker's family was ruined in the 1964 Alaska earthquake, he worked as a janitor?
... that the Cemetery for North Korean and Chinese Soldiers in Paju, South Korea, contains the graves of North Korean agents killed on espionage missions in the South?
... that the Armenian academic Levon Harutyunyan has authored over 400 research papers and some 400 essays?
... that Hunkydory Creek has the lowest gradient of any tributary of Catawissa Creek, 5.2 meters per kilometer?
... that the 2014 Internet Slowdown Day has been compared to the Internet Blackout Day of 2012?
... that the majority of the Mikea people live in and around the spiny Mikea Forest on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, between Morombe and Toliara?
... that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement?
... that the closure-threatened Secombe Theatre was converted from a Christian Science church in 1984?
... that in 1996 Jamie Nabozny sued school officials for failing to protect him from years of homophobic bullying?
... that Scottish religion in the seventeenth century included intense conflicts between Presbyterian Covenanters and government forces?
... that Shloime Gertner has been called "the Hasidic Robbie Williams"?
... that the Queen's Building in Wolverhampton started life as the carriage entrance to the town's railway station?
... that the Republic of Cuba's silver certificates were designed and produced by the US Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing?
... that the 1967 sex-education film Helga – Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens contained West Germany's first publicly shown scenes of childbirth?
... that Chinese politician Zhang Xi was posthumously denounced as a traitor and his ashes were discarded?
... that Mother 3 was in development for over a decade and then translated from Japanese into English by its fans?
... that a supercargo on an East Indiaman could take a sloop from Whampoa anchorage to Jack-ass Point at the Thirteen Factories?
... that actress Florence Pernel portrayed Nicolas Sarkozy's second wife Cécilia in the 2011 film La Conquête?
... that Kiswe Mobile's app for the WNBA's Washington Mystics was the first where a U.S. professional sports team streamed live games to its local viewing area via a mobile application?
... that there are two colour forms of the sharp-snouted rock lizard and both provide camouflage on the limestone cliffs on which they live?
... that University of Santo Tomas Baybayin Documents are part of the biggest collection of extant baybayin scripts?
... that although he was the leading Democratic candidate for most of the 1885 U.S. Senate election in Illinois, William Ralls Morrison only received one vote on the legislature's final ballot?
... that the Swedish illustrator John Bauer is best known for his illustrations of gnomes and trolls ?
... that the fairy lorikeet forages high in the forest canopy and is assumed to feed on pollen and nectar?
... that a pharmacist, a newspaper publisher, an alcoholism counsellor, and the state Transportation Secretary were among those indicted in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority kickback scandal?
... that although Cross Run is only 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long, it contains two reservoirs?
... that despite a legislator's warning to refrain from mixing art with politics, Hong Kong's upcoming M+ museum of visual culture has acquired 26 works by artist-activist Ai Weiwei?
... that anonymous music producer Sophie chose his name because he thought "it tastes good and it's like moisturizer"?
... that shoddy tunnel construction in the 1840s forced the Hastings Line to use a restricted loading gauge and special narrow-bodied trains until 1986?
... that Twitterature has been called a literary genre, but is more accurately an adaptation of various genres to social media?
... that the 1982 dungeon crawler Telengard began as a hobbyist game for the PDP-10 mainframe computer and later joined what Gamasutra called "The Silver Age" of computer role-playing games?
... that Todd Lake in the Deschutes National Forest of Oregon is well known for its summer wildflowers display?
... that the 1989 film Masque of the Red Death, produced by Roger Corman, is a remake of the 1964 picture of the same name which was directed by him?
... that Francis Henry Medcalf was Mayor of Toronto for five years – spread over a twelve-year period?
... that umpires in German hobby horse polo force punitive sherries on non-galloping players?
... that Karolina Lassbo , creator of A Glamour Princess Blog, competed in the Miss Sweden beauty pageant in 2006?
... that GamersGate was the result of Paradox Interactive's decision to allow an Argentine fan to download a game?
... that Lady Meng Jiang is one of the Four Great Folktales of China?
... that public service trade union General Secretary Barry Reamsbottom refused to stand down after the election of his successor Mark Serwotka, until a high court judge forced him out?
... that the Hofileña Ancestral House was the first ancestral house in Silay City to open its doors to the public?
... that prior to becoming the film commissioner of Belize, Nigel Miguel spent seven years as the body double for Michael Jordan?
... that the prickly foliage of Grevillea juniperina makes it a good shelter for birds in the garden?
... that Hoylande Young was the first woman division head at the Argonne National Laboratory?
... that Reginald's Tower in Ireland has served as a fortified tower, a mint, a prison, a military storehouse, an air raid shelter, and a museum?
... that at the request of an encomendero to the rector of the Society of Jesus in Manila, the Jesuits were assigned to Silang Church in 1599?
... that London's Endell Street was the site of a World War I military hospital staffed entirely by women?
... that Anastasios Tsonis's research has concluded that, as a result of natural processes, the Earth might have entered a new "climate state" in 2001 or 2002?
... that Wan Laisheng's teachings on martial arts pre-dated Bruce Lee's by about 50 years?
... that the first stone church of Cavinti in the Philippines, built in 1621, was severely damaged in a Chinese uprising?
... that Winton Square in Stoke-on-Trent has been described as the best example of neo-Jacobean architecture in Staffordshire?
... that the discovery of the fossil of Shenshou, a squirrel-like early mammal from the Tiaojishan Formation, pushed the origin of mammals back to the Late Triassic, 220 million to 200 million years ago?
... that the Egyptian folklorist and writer Ahmed Taymour was educated by his feminist sister?
... that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct?
... that the Loreto Church and the St. Anthony Shrine are known as the "twin churches of Sampaloc"?
... that the Karnataka politician and former minister B.T. Lalitha Naik wrote dialogue for, and acted in, the Banjara film Zadero Pankheru?
... that the 966-foot (294 m) Callicoon Bridge connecting New York and Pennsylvania is the longest on the Upper Delaware River?
... that the Jungdeutsche Partei members of the German minority living in prewar Poland sent the call to the world: "We want to be Germans, and nothing but Germans"?
... that 1 is a documentary film about Formula One's progress from multiple fatalities per season in its early years to the 1994 death of Ayrton Senna, its most recent?
... that in the 1990s, Little Crooked Run was considered to be Class A Wild Trout Waters, despite being infertile and acidic?
... that Sidney L. Jones held the same senior position in the U.S. Department of the Treasury under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush?
... that refunds for the two-day charity event PLDT HOME: The Last Home Stand were offered after the scheduled exhibition game between NBA players and Gilas Pilipinas was cancelled?
... that the Prosphorion Harbour in Constantinople could have derived its name from the goddess Hecate?
... that Nelson Mandela chaired peace talks between Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila on board the SAS Outeniqua in May 1997?
... that the BBC Young Musician of the Year was the inspiration for the inaugural Eurovision Young Musicians contest in 1982?
... that Eloy Mestrelle, the man who introduced machine-struck coinage to England, was executed for coin counterfeiting?
... that the Cape starling is a host to the greater honeyguide, a bird that lays its eggs in other birds' nests?
... that Franz Wolf was sentenced in the Sobibór trial to eight years in prison for taking part in the murder of "at least 39,000 Jews", an arbitrary number?
... that the 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment was Amtrak's first fatal accident?
... that Electric Light Orchestra, Nina Simone, James Brown and John Barry all influenced Labrinth's "Let It Be"?
... that the Canadian para-athlete Robbi Weldon competed in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics?
... that three of the eleven five-wicket hauls in the Asia Cup tournament were taken by Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga, the most by any player?
... that Martin Lücker played 3,000 free organ concerts at the Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt?
... that Brian Brushwood walked away from his job designing computer systems to perform magic full-time?
... that William W. Naismith founded the Scottish Mountaineering Club and invented a rule for estimating how long it will take to walk a given route?
... that Gustav Mahler said that the Vertegrand – the same type of piano as used by The Beatles on "Lady Madonna" – could "satisfy a musician's requirements in every respect"?
... that after College Football Hall of Fame inductee Buck Flowers returned two punts for touchdowns, a writer suggested that the opposition Auburn Tigers made a dying request: "Please omit Flowers"?
... that the National Council of Women of Australia made Margaret Windeyer an honorary life president in 1918, though she had never been a member of the council's executive board?
... that Sanath Jayasuriya's six centuries at the Asia Cup are the most by any player in the tournament's history?
... that Lia Olguța Vasilescu is the first female mayor of a county capital in Romanian history?
... that the Zaisan mole vole uses its incisors and upward movements of its head to burrow through the soil?
... that the Chinese immunologist Shu Hongbing went to school barefoot because he could not afford shoes?
... that in the 2014 National League Wild Card Game, Brandon Crawford hit the first Major League Baseball postseason grand slam by a shortstop?
... that The Who's album Tommy has sold in the order of 20 million copies since its release in 1969?
... that Father Mapple in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick preaches from a pulpit in the form of a ship's prow?
... that for the first two decades of Knesset elections, Israeli Arabs were represented mainly by Arab satellite lists and communist parties?
... that the American racehorse Bayern was named after soccer team Bayern Munich, and nicknamed "Little Dude" after fellow racehorse Game On Dude?
... that the results of a Royal Commission into the Torbanlea Colliery Disaster were shelved until a similar accident in which 75 workers were killed two decades later?
... that the bio-hacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg collects discarded hair, gum, and cigarette butts, sequences the DNA, and turns it into a 3-D sculpture?
... that the physicist Edward Creutz published a paper on a rare flower found only on the island of Raiatea in French Polynesia?
... that the blind Canadian swimmer Brian Hill prepared for the 2008 Paralympics by swimming 120 km (75 mi) in two weeks?
... that the slender head of the narrow-headed vole may have evolved to allow it to move more easily through crevices in frozen ground?