derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the historian Jalmari Jaakkola, who was criticized for overtly nationalist assertions and extensive speculation, chose the words "The seer of early Finnish history" for his memorial medal?
... that the South African cricketer Jacques Kallis was the first player to take a five-wicket haul in the ICC Champions Trophy?
... that at least six people turned down the job of Director of Research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory before Alvin M. Weinberg accepted it in March 1948?
... that in 2013, Chris Davis led all American League baseball players with 53 home runs?
... that the fatal crash of Aero Flight 217 occurred in poor visibility at Mariehamn Airport, Finland, where local land disputes had prevented the installation of an instrument landing system?
... that Amethi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has been represented in the parliament by four members of the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980?
... that M. Stanley Livingston and Hans Bethe were the first to demonstrate that the neutron has a magnetic moment?
... that Chest Creek is the first major canoeable tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River?
... that the second album of the Argentine band Kamikaze had low sales because of the 1989 Argentine hyperinflation?
... that Marcus Morris, the founder of the Eagle comic, was vicar of St James' Church, Birkdale in the 1940s?
... that the underparts of the male Sicilian wall lizard may be suffused with orange, pink or red during the breeding season?
... that Nadav Ben Yehuda, an Israeli mountain climber, abandoned his attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest to rescue a fellow climber?
... that one of the founders of Lemurs' Park near Antananarivo is the grandson of Pierre Boiteau, the Founding Director of the Tsimbazaza Zoo?
... that Johann Konrad Kern was a major author of Switzerland's first federal constitution in 1848?
... that Mthatha Airport was turned into a military zone and no-fly zone to accommodate the body of Nelson Mandela and heads of state attending his funeral in the nearby village of Qunu?
... that the pro-Beijing Alliance for Peace and Democracy was established to counter the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement?
... that Rudolf Koller painted "the Swiss national animal" running in the road in front of traffic ?
... that the commemorative stela of Nahr el-Kalb include inscriptions dedicated to Ramesses II in hieroglyphics, Esarhaddon in cuneiform, Caracalla in Latin, Barquq in Arabic and Napoleon III in French?
... that due to local sensitivities, the North Stafford Hotel was the location for the inaugural meeting of the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent council?
... that wood from common alders is valued in turnery and carving, in making furniture, window frames, clogs, toys, blocks, pencils and bowls?
... that the Mason County Sculpture Trail is a garden of public art with exhibition pieces located only outdoors?
... that Enrique Zileri was praised by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who could not be bribed or intimidated?
... that the antagonists of the indie horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's drew comparisons to Chuck E. Cheese's and Weeping Angels?
... that Margaret McLean was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria for almost a decade, and was appointed an honorary vice-president after her retirement?
... that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's Merchants Limited was the last all-parlor car passenger train in the United States?
... that David A. Randall obtained the typescripts of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels for the Lilly Library?
... that when the Transcendentalist poet and banker Samuel Gray Ward became a merchant rather than a painter, it deeply disappointed his friends Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
... that despite the upper reaches of the Crooked Run being acidic due to acid rain, the creek is still considered Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the Kray twins allegedly extorted Esmeralda's Barn from Peter Rachman?
... that the elongated rostrum of the planktivorous American paddlefish is used like an antenna to locate swarms of zooplankton?
... that the founder and executive director of KMG Ethiopia is credited with almost single-handedly eradicating the practice of female genital mutilation in Ethiopia?
... that thirteen years after directing the first episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Jean de Segonzac returned to direct the 300th?
... that the Redmond–Bend Juniper State Scenic Corridor serves as a buffer of natural high desert habitat along U.S. Route 97 between the cities of Bend and Redmond in central Oregon?
... that J. Carson Mark wrote a paper dispelling the myth that reactor-grade plutonium could not be used for nuclear weapons?
... that India and Sri Lanka were declared the joint winners of 2002 ICC Champions Trophy after the final was washed out twice?
... that Philip Somerville designed hats for Queen Elizabeth, Diana, Princess of Wales, and two James Bond villainesses?
... that before the Trinity nuclear test , Enrico Fermi offered to take bets on whether the atmosphere would ignite, and if so whether the entire planet would be destroyed?
... that the original type specimens of the Electrostephanus fossils may have been burned up during World War II?
... that the entire length of Sugarloaf Creek is within 300 metres (980 ft) of a road?
... that the diarist Teresa Wilms Montt attempted suicide before escaping from a convent?
... that the architects Maxwell and Tuke designed Blackpool Tower and the even taller (since demolished) New Brighton Tower?
... that the first African American elected to the Washington State Legislature from King County was Charles Stokes?
... that Acacia cultriformis is so named for the resemblance of its foliage to knives?
... that in the Battle of Halmyros, the Catalan Company annihilated much of the nobility of Frankish Greece and conquered the Duchy of Athens?
... that the Detroit Red Wings' new arena will anchor a $650 million redevelopment project in Downtown Detroit?
... that the Maribojoc Church, with one of the remaining fourteen Spanish-era pipe organs in the Philippines, was destroyed in the 2013 Bohol earthquake?
... that there are at least 35 sources of acid mine drainage in the Mahanoy Creek watershed?
... that a consultative referendum on whether Ukraine should federalise was held in the Donbass region during the 1994 parliamentary election, twenty years prior to the disputed 2014 status referendums in the same region?
... that after Athena Farrokhzad hosted a show on Sveriges Radio, the Moderate Party's Gunnar Axén claimed to have thrown out his TV so he could stop paying the license fee (which also supports radio)?
... that Lieutenant General Raymond A. Thomas was deployed to Afghanistan for part of every year for over a decade, except for one year when he was sent to Iraq?
... that The Fifteen Whispered Prayers by Imam Zayn al-Abidin contains different prayers to be recited in accordance with one's present mood?
... that the first European tofu factory was opened outside Paris in 1908 by the Chinese anarchist Li Shizeng?
... that St George's Church, Southport, has a tall broach spire with two tiers of lucarnes?
... that the galls of the golden wattle bud-galling wasp can be so heavy that branches break under their weight?
... that Djibouti's flag bearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics was not a competitor?
... that after Gabriel Wells bought a book whose 1,050-jewel binding had required two years to complete, he decided to send it to the U.S. via a passenger on the RMS Titanic?
... that the 1828 self-portrait Beauty Revealed, by Sarah Goodridge , has been considered to "erase" her body by drawing attention to her breasts?
... that some users of popular Web sites such as Facebook are being tricked into attacking their own Web browser?
... that the Swedish film director Anna Odell staged a suicide attempt and psychosis for her film Okänd, kvinna 2009–349701?
... that the Indian state of Nagaland's first member of parliament, S. C. Jamir was elected unopposed?
... that the fashion designer Michael Sherard was employing 40 assistants at the time of the Queen's coronation?
... that the 18th century merchant Jean Abraham Grill was Sweden's first major drug runner?
... that the lizard catshark is considered a "vulnerable species" because trawling is damaging the patches of coral in which it breeds?
... that Wang Ruofei was killed in a plane crash along with three other Chinese Communist Party leaders?
... that Jella Haase won the Bavarian Film Award for Best young actress in 2012 for her roles in Lollipop Monster and Kriegerin?
... that members of the Demoulas family include a race car driver, a college hockey player, a bar owner, and an Archon Depoutatos?
... that in his essay The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, Jorge Luis Borges speculated that, "it is not impossible to think of a language where the name of each thing says all the details of its destiny, past and future"?
... that the remains of greater long-tailed shrew tenrecs have been found in a cavern alongside bones of the extinct elephant bird?
... that the Conversations with an Executioner are between the man who destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto and a fellow prisoner?
... that Max Harzof once owned the book that reputedly inspired Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick?
... that the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Southport, apart from the two cathedrals, is the only choir in the Diocese of Liverpool to regularly sing a full midweek choral evensong?
... that the development of Mother 3 took place over a decade and spanned four consoles?
... that a scene in the film Azúcar Amarga showing people deliberately infecting themselves with HIV to protest against the Cuban government is based on actual events?
... that "Life Is a Minestrone" was originally released as the lead single from The Original Soundtrack due to 10cc's reluctance to release "I'm Not in Love"?
... that acquacotta , an Italian peasant food dating to ancient times, was originally devised to make stale bread palatable?
... that Martin Scorsese's first British film, Tomorrow, marks the directorial debut of his long-time script supervisor, Martha Pinson?
... that the Nagcarlan Church was first built from light materials in 1583 under the chaplaincy of Franciscan missionary Tomas de Miranda, who also pioneered the cultivation of wheat in the country?
... that John Calhoun, publisher of the first newspaper in Chicago, was originally apprenticed to be a carpenter in Watertown, New York?
... that Adolf Ulric Grill of the Swedish Grill family once traded a mounted moose for 60 rare birds?
... that the tomb of Zu Dashou, a Ming dynasty Chinese general, is in Toronto, Canada?
... that the Marcos GT had a plastic body, a wooden chassis, and a cast-iron engine?
... that Jean Gordon, the first woman elected to the Yukon Territorial Council, said she decided to run because "I couldn't keep my mouth shut"?
... that parts of Château de Kerjean, damaged during the French Revolution, were dismantled for sale as building material?
... that the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse is the only remaining horse racing track in Sri Lanka?
... that Vekuii Rukoro "had to fight back tears" when accepting his election as Paramount Chief of the OvaHerero people?
... that one enters the wine cellar of 5 North St, a Michelin star restaurant, through a trapdoor in the women's bathroom?
... that in his NFL debut season, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Len Ford was injured so severely in a game he required plastic surgery to "virtually rebuild" his face?
... that some populations of Carbonell's wall lizard inhabit oak woodland, and others sand dunes?
... that Susann Müller was top scorer at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship, and further elected to the All-Star team of the tournament?
... that the rivalry between Alexander Leith Hay and the Gordon family extended to the British Army, with Leith Hay's 109th Regiment of Foot competing for recruits with the Gordon Highlanders?
... that Tumalo State Park in central Oregon was created in 1954 to preserve a portion of the Deschutes River where scenic basalt cliffs flank the river?
... that in the 1956 Hindi film Raj Hath (Royal stubbornness), the prominent actress Madhubala dressed up as a man?
... that Dattatraya Parchure, also called the "second Savarkar", was initially convicted but later acquitted in the assassination case of Mahatma Gandhi?
... that the curve-billed thrasher will resort to feeding older fledglings and letting the younger ones starve if food sources are scarce?
... that Rona Fairhead is the preferred candidate for the Chair of the BBC Trust, and if confirmed, would be the first woman to hold that post?
... that an abnormal basal metabolic rate can be caused by both hot and cold environments, or even a fever?
... that wine sauce may be prepared using a fish velouté base, which is a base for several other sauces as well?
... that the demonic poison frog is critically endangered because its total range is less than 10 square kilometres (4 sq mi) and its habitat is threatened by gold mining?
... that the Japanese common toad eats certain ants and beetles that are unpalatable to other predators?
... that Viktor Pietschmann's photographs of deportees during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 were unearthed in 2007?
... that the current director of the University of Oklahoma's Carl Albert Center is also the Mayor of Norman?
... that September Morn survived the October Revolution, caused widespread controversy in the United States, and was featured on bottle openers, calendars, and candy boxes, but is now in a warehouse?
... that the luxury steam yacht Rover was bought unseen by American business tycoon Howard Hughes in 1933?
... that the 19th-century feminist Henrietta Müller persuaded employers to hire women by "cannily pointing out that this would save money since women were paid less than men"?
... that some retailers did not believe banknotes in the Scenes of Canada series were real money when the series was first circulated?
... that the Aqueduc de Roquefavour is the world's largest stone aqueduct?
... that Lieutenant Jenny Lewis, killed in a helicopter crash in 2002, was believed to be the first female Royal Navy pilot or observer to die on duty?
... that Project Guardian was launched after a survey showed that 90% of incidents of sexual harassment on London's public transport went unreported?
... that in 1899 the eccentric journalist and politician Ture Malmgren started building Tureborg Castle, a faux-medieval castle in Uddevalla, Sweden, inspired by his journeys in the Rhine Valley?
... that the Spanish town of Almazán was where the lexicographer María Moliner grew up?
... that Tang Yijie, who died in September 2014, spearheaded a project to compile all the known classics about Confucianism?
... that, with the issue of United States Sesquicentennial coinage , Calvin Coolidge became the only living American President to feature on U.S. coinage?
... that the Burmese hare is found in traditional rice fields but not in heavily-irrigated intensive rice crops?
... that the Indian filmmaker Balu Mahendra saw the shooting of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) on a school trip?
... that P. M. Sayeed represented Lakshadweep in the Indian parliament for ten consecutive terms from 1967 to 2004?
... that the Campbell Soup Company devised its cream of broccoli soup to be used both as a soup and as an ingredient in other dishes?
... that Iranian authorities have not disclosed the whereabouts, welfare, or reason for the detention of Washington Post Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his wife?
... that a Strati , the world's first 3D-printed electric car, was printed in 44 hours?
... that The Finest Hours, currently in production, is a film based on the US Coast Guard's 1952 rescue of the crews of two oil tankers which had broken apart during a storm?
... that the violinist Mela Tenenbaum recorded in the US works that Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in Ukraine, including Japanese Silhouettes for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble?
... that Whychus Creek, a perennial stream that flows through Sisters State Park, has its headwaters in the Three Sisters Wilderness area of Oregon?
... that the Filipino journalist Betty Go-Belmonte co-founded the newspapers Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Pilipino Star Ngayon?
... that the southern spotted skunk feeds on insects, small mammals and birds, eggs, grain and fruit?
... that London's Philharmonic Hall building once had one of 30 car showrooms all in the same street?
... that during rainfall, the desert lizard Phrynocephalus versicolor adopts a bottom-up, head-down stance in order to trickle water towards its mouth?
... that Vincent Hanna, the lead character in both L.A. Takedown and its 1995 remake Heat, was inspired by real-life police officer Chuck Adamson?
... that Royal Lao Army troops fled 150 km (93 mi) after their defeat at the Battle of Luang Namtha?
... that baseball player Jacob Hannemann is a cousin of Mufi Hannemann, the former Mayor of Honolulu?
... that in the book Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, pediatrician Paul Offit criticizes the use of vitamin C to treat the common cold?
... that Charles D'Almaine was the first person to make a record using the Stroh violin?
... that the 1801 edition of The Encyclopaedia Londinensis volume III makes note of certain "remarkable" features of plumeless silver thistle ?
... that although Dutch Jewish siblings Eva and Abraham Beem tried to hide from the Nazis in the home of a Christian family, Abraham's circumcision gave them away?
... that Romanian Orthodox bishop Nicolae Bălan went from being an Iron Guard supporter to working with his country's new Communist regime in suppressing the Greek-Catholic Church?
... that the wasp Polistes erythrocephalus acts as a natural pesticide in tobacco plantations in South America?
... that TV Guide referred to Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as "Ally McTrill", a reference to the television series Ally McBeal?
... that Phoumi Nosavan launched the Battle of Lak Sao against United States advice?
... that the ouster of Arthur Demoulas by Arthur Demoulas led to protests by employees and customers of Market Basket?
... that Dareka no Manazashi, the 6-minute 40-second Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai, was screened alongside his other film, The Garden of Words?
... that when the Manleluag Spring Protected Landscape was established in 1934, its boundaries were referenced to an alibanbang tree that was 35 cm (14 in) in diameter at the time?
... that Richie Farmer holds records for most points scored in the KHSAA championship game (51), and most ethics violations by a Kentucky executive branch officeholder (42)?
... that the Israel National Council for the Child says that slapping children is neither ethical nor educational, and can be destructive?
... that the character Miranda Sings, played by Colleen Ballinger , is ranked No. 7 among YouTube comedy channels?
... that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted his Magnificat decades after he composed it, juxtaposed in the concert to his father's Credo?
... that K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I, ajaw of Piedras Negras, erected many stelae that became prototypes for monuments raised by his successors?
... that the protagonist of Hatred is a mass-killing villain who begins a "genocide crusade" in his hatred of humanity?
... that the Clinton administration abandoned plans to nominate Alicia Munnell to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors following protest by ten Republican Senators?
... that on the Church of St Teresa of Avila, Birkdale, there is a flèche over the crossing, and a bellcote on the gable of the north transept?
... that a massive "welcoming ceremony" with fireworks and lion dancers greeted county leader Li Lianyu upon his return from a Communist Party National Congress?
... that St James the Less, Pimlico , designed by George Edmund Street, has been called "one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere"?
... that after being scorched by wildfires, the blackened branches of the mountain maytenus readily sprout?
... that the Diaspora Yeshiva Band infused rock and bluegrass with Jewish lyrics, creating a music style it called "Hasidic rock" or "Country and Eastern"?
... that Fred Wesley Wentworth designed many of the buildings constructed after the devastating 1902 fire in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey?
... that a dyestuff extracted from the endangered Armenian cochineal was historically used to dye rugs and paint manuscripts and frescoes?
... that Morden station is at one end of a 27.8-kilometre (17.3 mi) long tunnel, the longest on the London Underground?
... that Confucius said, "I used to judge a person by his appearance and erred in Ziyu"?
... that botanist Thomas W. Whitaker was honored for his work with squashes and pumpkins by having a squash variety named after him?
... that the English harvest hymn "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" is also a popular Thanksgiving song in the United States?
... that Gladys Kathleen Parkin obtained a first-class commercial radio operator's license at the age of fifteen?
... that the common click beetle is an agricultural pest and its larvae, known as wireworms, cause damage to crops?
... that Bayume Mohamed Husen served in the German army but died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp?
... that the John F. Adams House has been described as the "finest late Italianate dwelling still standing in Pawtucket"?
... that Halfdan Ragnarsson was one of the leaders of the Great Heathen Army?
... that under the patronage of Matthias Corvinus , Hungary became the first country outside Italy to embrace the Renaissance?
... that the London Philharmonic Orchestra recorded all of the 205 national anthems used at the medal ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Ming military leader Kong Youde defected to the Manchus, but committed suicide after being outflanked by the Ming army?
... that Camera Obscura's album Let's Get Out of This Country was recorded in two weeks?
... that the historic Elk Lake Guard Station in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest was converted into a Forest Service information center in 2001?
... that during the beginning of the Italian occupation of Albania, Fashizmi was the sole daily newspaper published in the country?
... that studio potter Carol McNicoll designed costumes for Brian Eno of Roxy Music?
... that Govanhill Baths is the last surviving Edwardian public bathhouse in Glasgow?
... that Carl A. Wiley, inventor of synthetic aperture radar, published his concept of solar sails in a pulp mag under a pen name?
... that endoparasites occupying up to 80% of the abdomen of the social wasp Ropalidia romandi may actually increase their host's life span?
... that Dead Rising: Watchtower, currently in production, is the first digital film to be produced by Legendary Pictures?
... that Bambolinetta was probably the only duck species to propel itself underwater with its wings, like a penguin?
... that Christina Stead challenged Finola Moorhead to write a book with no male characters?
... that the plight of the Richmond Sixteen came to the attention of Prime Minister Asquith via a letter thrown out a train window?
... that at the time of description, the extinct Tilia johnsoni was the oldest basswood macrofossil occurrence?
... that Keshavlal Dhruv compiled fifteenth century Gujarati poems and published them in 1927?
... that Chinese astronomer Qu Qinyue was sent to work at a coal mine during the Cultural Revolution?
... that the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 won the International TV Award at the Ondas Awards, in Barcelona?
... that Benguela Province witnessed an influx of many IDPs during the Angolan Civil War?
... that the Balinese dance form panyembrama was designed as a secular welcoming dance, but is now also performed to welcome the gods?
... that Francis Arthur Freeth developed ways of purifying TNT during World War I, and came out of retirement to do secret research for British special forces in World War II?
... that Saumarez Homestead contains a thirty-room Edwardian mansion, and has hosted fashion shows and a film festival?