derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Matthaios Kofidis, former member of the Ottoman parliament, was among the Greek notables hanged in Amasya by the Turkish National Movement?
... that the architect of the Clal Center , the first upscale, indoor shopping mall in Jerusalem, candidly added the project to an Israeli exhibition titled "Bad Jobs"?
... that The Allman Brothers Band recorded their first live album, At Fillmore East, over three successive nights in March 1971?
... that the lucky iron fish is a fish-shaped ingot used to provide dietary iron to rural Cambodians who cannot afford iron-rich foods?
... that in 1931, Lick Run was said to be "one of the best streams in this section of Clearfield County", but was found to be entirely devoid of fish 52 years later?
... that in James Wilson's first senior football match for Manchester United, he scored two goals that won the game?
... that tall, blonde photographer Henk Jonker disguised himself as a female nurse during World War II while working for the Dutch resistance?
... that Princess Marie Amelie of Baden , the wife of a Scottish duke, attended the 1856 baptism of Napoléon, Prince Imperial?
... that the accumulation of blood in the uterus can occur as a complication of surgery or the result of congenital abnormalities?
... that Ford Island was used by ancient Hawaiians for a ceremony to swap sex partners, was bought by the US Army in 1917, and was the center of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
... that footballer Vratislav Lokvenc won five league titles in six seasons with Sparta Prague?
... that 16-year-old Bobby Byrne replaced Tommy Dorsey upon The Dorsey Brothers' split?
... that James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher appeared in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Convention Conundrum"?
... that the blue band on the flag of the Gambia represents the river that gives the country its name?
... that despite Georges Clemenceau's claim that the Saar contained 150,000 Frenchmen, just 2,124 of the territory's voters supported a French annexation of the Saar in a 1935 referendum?
... that Paul Palaiologos Tagaris was an Orthodox monk and impostor, who at one point claimed to be the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and even managed to be named Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by the Pope?
... that Albania became one of the main hubs for exiled Indonesian communists following the mass killings of 1965–66?
... that Medal of Honor recipient Luther Kaltenbach was granted a pension of twenty-four dollars a month by an Act of Congress?
... that Drexel 4175, a music manuscript commonplace book belonging to the New York Public Library, is an important source for seventeenth-century English song?
... that a 36-year-old yeshiva student in Kiryat Shomrei Emunim, Jerusalem, discovered a bomb planted in a garbage can and dismantled it himself before calling police?
... that Swedish television presenter Elsa Billgren is the daughter of artist and writer Ernst Billgren?
... that Skeet Shoot was a "shoddily programmed, graphically primitive game", but sold well?
... that in 1922 Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason became the first woman elected to the Icelandic parliament?
... that Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Nantucket was designed to provide emergency support for one-half of a carrier air group?
... that Raouf Bundhun, a former vice president of Mauritius, received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award in 2006?
... that two horse racing newcomers calling themselves "Dumb Ass Partners" won the 2014 Kentucky Derby with California Chrome?
... that Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra of 1744, now in Melbourne, shows Cleopatra about to dissolve a pearl in vinegar in order to win a bet?
... that the puzzle game Blek was inspired by Golan Levin, the Bauhaus, and Japanese calligraphy, and reached the top of the App Store charts with over a million copies sold?
... that surveyor Horatio Chriesman helped choose the seat of government for the Republic of Texas?
... that if somebody wants to employ a gender-neutral pronoun in Swedish, he/she can use hen?
... that Amanda Yan, who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Champion­ship, was also a national shot put champion?
... that although Clearbury Ring, a hillfort near Salisbury in southern England, dates to the Iron Age, a paleolithic hand axe was found there?
... that Siegfried Köhler conducted Wagner's Rienzi and premiered operas by Volker David Kirchner at the Staats­theater Wiesbaden ?
... that in 2013–14, Norwich City were relegated from the Premier League, yet earned more in broadcast payments than Manchester United earned in winning the previous season's League title?
... that Boing Boing described the endless runner Canabalt by Adam Saltsman as a "one-button action-opus"?
... that Nederluleå Church is the largest medieval church in the Swedish land of Norrland?
... that Maitland Armstrong showed U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant around the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle and was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work there?
... that Robert Curl, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of buckmin­ster­ful­lerene, ruined his mother's stove with nitric acid from his first chemistry set?
... that the Rheingauer Kantorei performed Mendels­sohn's oratorio Elias in the Geisen­heimer Dom and in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden?
... that Adam Peaty beat the Olympic champion and world record holder to win the 100 metre breast­stroke at the 2014 Common­wealth Games?
... that predatory fish sometimes associate with the grass octopus, snapping up organisms that it flushes from among the branches of corals?
... that Birger Fredrik Motzfeldt headed the Royal Norwegian Air Force from 1955 to 1960?
... that Beyoncé's music video for "Best Thing I Never Had" was filmed at Sleepy Hollow Country Club ?
... that no other known hurricane has struck North Carolina as early in the calendar year as did Hurricane Arthur?
... that George A. Dickel, who gave his name to a brand of Tennessee whiskey, immigrated to the United States from Germany?
... that on Hope in Front of Me, former American Idol contestant Danny Gokey moved from his previous country music sound toward a more blue-eyed soul style?
... that Natalie Nakase was the first female head coach in Japan's top professional men's basketball league?
... that the stiff wood in Bronzino's portrait of Genoan admiral Andrea Doria may represent an erection?
... that a Bronze Age sword and a Roman tile were found at Caesar's Camp, a large multivallate Iron Age hillfort on the Surrey–Hampshire border?
... that in 1860 the Compagnie Impériale des Voitures in Paris operated 3830 fiacres, owned 8000 horses, and carried over 10 million passengers?
... that Paco Campos scored 127 goals in La Liga – the most by any player from the Canary Islands?
... that even though CheapyD runs Cheap Ass Gamer, he paid for his likeness to be included in Saints Row: The Third as downloadable content?
... that "Foxy Ned" Hanlon , inventor of the "Baltimore chop", was "The Father of Modern Baseball"?
... that 19th-century French geometer Olry Terquem, writing as "Tsarphati", was an outspoken advocate of the Reform movement in Judaism?
... that the star RY Sagittarii is periodically dimmed by clouds of carbon dust most likely ejected by the star itself?
... that Willem Witteveen, who was killed on 17 July 2014 as a passenger of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was a legal scholar, senator and non-fiction writer from the Netherlands?
... that with an area of 59 acres (24 hectares), the Jakey Hollow Natural Area is one of the smallest natural areas in Pennsylvania?
... that local concert promoters sometimes temporarily forbid music acts from performing in nearby cities to protect ticket sales?
... that volcanologist Barry Voight, a former professor at Pennsylvania State University, is the brother of Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight and songwriter Chip Taylor?
... that Belcher's gulls pester Guanay cormorants to make them regurgitate their prey?
... that the wings of the extinct ant Aphaenogaster longaeva had "excessively delicate" hairs?
... that Meyne Wyatt is the first indigenous actor to join the main cast of the Australian soap opera Neighbours?
... that Kesher Israel Congregation had to relocate its synagogue to make way for expansion of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex – twice in thirty years?
... that Hilda Käkikoski was one of the first women elected to the Finnish parliament?
... that the 1989 Boat Race was the first time in the event's history that both coxes were women?
... that The Beatles logged 99 takes of "Not Guilty" but then left it off the White Album?
... that Art Whitney helped the New York Giants win the 1888 and 1889 World Series?
... that on the album The Night We Called It a Day, vocalist Listener reads a verse complete with its punctuation?
... that Felisa Vanoff was the first female choreographer for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and became a lead dancer for the New York City Opera?
... that pianist Anna Kravtchenko, trained in Ukraine and Italy by the same teacher, won the Busoni competition at the age of 16?
... that Ganga Bruta was "Humberto Mauro's best film", but was also called "the worst film of all time"?
... that in 1977, Kenton Grua was the first person in recorded history to walk through the entire length of the Grand Canyon ?
... that 19th-century painter Évariste Vital Luminais was sometimes called "the painter of the Gauls"?
... that Teresa Magbanua was the only woman to command combat troops in the Visayan region during the Philippine Revolution?
... that Tranquility Bass's debut album Let the Freak Flag Fly was recorded on Lopez Island in Washington over a period of more than two years?
... that the Meadowlark was the last Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad passenger train to serve Southern Illinois?
... that the trilingual 14th-century Sankt Florian Psalter contains one of the oldest texts in Polish?
... that journalist and physician Yasser Salihee sometimes used his patients in Baghdad as sources for his articles?
... that the main star of FF Aquilae is a pulsating supergiant 39 times the diameter of the Sun?
... that Alice Teodorescu "has made herself known as a provoca­tive and fearless liberal debater"?
... that many kindergartens in Poland were named after the children's television series Jacek i Agatka?
... that the fashion designer Sally Tuffin created clothes on James Wedge's billiard table?
... that Florestano Di Fausto was described as the "Architect of the Mediterra­nean" for his works in Italy, Albania, the Dodecanese and Libya?
... that the play Golgota Picnic has been the target of protests by conservative Christian groups in France and Poland?
... that National Rifle Association leader Harlon Carter's conviction for murder as a teenager was overturned on appeal?
... that typographers at the Fann Street Foundry created the first lower-case sans serif typeface, and the first patented one?
... that Janey Ironside was a "style icon" who taught fashion to Antony Price, Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes?
... that the wealthy couple who built the Episcopal church in Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee, had shocked Nashville society with their 1864 marriage?
... that Robban Andersson ate thirteen sausages in two minutes for Talang 2010?
... that in 1920 socialist politician Valentino Pittoni argued that the Italian city of Trieste should become a state in the Austrian republic?
... that a rough cut of "Deep Breath", the first episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who, was leaked online six weeks before the episode was due to air?
... that Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum contains the first organ to be used in a Primitive Methodist chapel?
... that Freddie Hornik co-founded Dandie Fashions and helped turn Granny Takes a Trip into an interna­tional fashion brand?
... that Kenyan Simon Maina, the 1998 Commonwealth Games champion over 10,000 metres, was deported from Japan after being injured in 2007 and dropped from the Toyota team?
... that male pichis have a penis that is 60% of their body length, even though the females have no vagina?
... that independent video game artist Greg Wohlwend designed Threes!, Ridiculous Fishing, Hundreds, Gasketball, Puzzlejuice, and Solipskier ?
... that the Habsburgs' frequent practice of royal intermarriage led to severe inbreeding?
... that in 1896 The Sporting Life wrote of Baltimore Orioles third baseman Jim Donnelly that a "prettier or headier fielder ... would be difficult to find"?
... that the Toungoo Dynasty's decisive victory over Ava and its allies in the Toungoo–Ava War (1538–45) cemented the upstart kingdom's emergence as the largest polity in Burma since 1287?
... that reviewers found the BBC One film Common "unrelentingly depressing" and "profoundly engaging"?
... that New Zealand television news anchor Angela D'Audney caused a national furore in 1982 by appearing topless in the TV comedy play The Venus Touch?
... that Swedish director Brita von Horn was the first to stage a Chekhov play in Sweden?
... that the Sydney green wattle can grow to 8 metres (26 ft) tall in five years?
... that the 2008 Boat Race featured the oldest ever competitor, a 36-year-old?
... that Ilie Moscovici was detained for instigating the Romanian strike of 1920, though he "did not wish for a revolution", and for his party's Comintern affiliation, though he had opposed it?
... that a key target for the Normandy landings, Caen , was not captured by the Allies until 21 July 1944?
... that Bangladeshi nationalism was popularized by President Ziaur Rahman as a substitute for Bengali nationalism?
... that William H. Herriman donated artworks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, and his sister founded the world's first skyscraper hospital?
... that Lucas Bros. Moving Co. is based on its creators' experiences as cable television installers?
... that Willie Nelson sold "Family Bible" to a guitar instructor for US$50 and the cost of his dinner?
... that Hammond House has hosted Lyme disease research, a "hodge-podge" historic house museum, folk hootenan­nies, and possibly a Revolu­tion­ary War military conference?
... that The Mighty Kacy was the first woman to reach the finals of American Ninja Warrior?
... that the documentary film We Were So Beloved asks, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, whether survival is an end in itself?
... that self-taught cartographer Aaron Carapella makes maps of the locations and names of Pre-Columbian indigenous tribes of North America circa 1490?
... that Vantablack, a material made from carbon nanotubes, is the blackest substance known?
... that the Muslim League politician J. M. Imam was awarded the title Mushir ul-Mulk ("Advisor of the Kingdom") by the Maharaja of Mysore in 1945?
... that Halichoeres maculipinna can change its sex, and engages in lek mating?
... that alligator gars are "living fossils" that can breathe in both air and water?
... that Alonzo Davis and his brother were inspired to found the Brockman Gallery while driving back to Los Angeles following the Meredith March?
... that Operation Goodwood was the last in a series of "intensely disap­point­ing" attempts to sink the German battleship Tirpitz?
... that after Marcel Perez started as a clown, he directed and played the character Robinet in 150 silent films?
... that at the 2013 Boat Race, for the second consecutive year Cambridge had only one British rower in its crew?
... that the European Court of Justice was asked the meaning of parody by the Court of Appeal of Brussels ?
... that the Speaker of the Niuean Assembly is responsible for ensuring the Seal of Niue is not misused?
... that the Dota 2 esports tournament The International 2014 has a prize pool of more than US$10 million—​larger than that of the 2014 Masters Tournament?
... that in 1952, British MP Eric Bullus proposed the reintroduction of flogging as a criminal punishment?
... that in 1765, Scottish nabob John Johnstone, aged 31, returned from India with a fortune equivalent to £25 million in 2014?
... that there are 122 erosion sites on East Branch Chillisquaque Creek?
... that Elvis impersonator James Brown is best known for songs that Elvis never recorded, sung in the style of Elvis?
... that Marvel Studios considered making stand-alone short films‍—‌known as Marvel One-Shots‍—‌for Loki, Black Panther, and Damage Control?
... that the human immunodeficiency virus reappeared in the Mississippi baby after she was thought to be cured?
... that the revival of the Sakata Minato-za, the oldest cinema in Sakata, Yamagata, Japan, has been called "like something out of a movie"?
... that Mary Francis Hill Coley, an African-American lay midwife in Georgia, was featured in a 1952 instructional film used in training midwives around the world?
... that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies?
... that Elsa Collin was the first woman at any Swedish university to be part of a student spex show?
... that DashCon offered attendees an "extra hour" in a ball pit to compensate them for a cancelled celebrity panel?
... that at the time of its discovery, S Antliae had the shortest period of any known variable star?
... that performance artist Milo Moiré claims her naked works are inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology?
... that when the mayor of Saskatoon, John Hair, said in 1930 that unemployment in his city was "under control", he was "terribly wrong"?
... that Torberry Hill in West Sussex is the site of an Iron Age hill fort and supports a mound known as the Fairy Bed, where fairies are said to dance every Midsummer Eve?
... that Arthur Adams spent two years drawing the six issues of Longshot and his artwork was called the miniseries' "one major saving grace"?
... that journalists compared the Costa Rican video game Fenix Rage to a cross between Super Meat Boy and Flappy Bird?
... that Flass, an English country house in Cumbria, was built by opium traders in the nineteenth century and used for cannabis cultivation in the twenty-first?
... that Philippe Capdenat's 2001 opera Une Carmen re-imagined Bizet's Carmen in Morocco?
... that the runaway binary star system BL Telescopii is 11,000 light-years off the galactic plane?
... that Paul G. Risser served as president of Miami University and Oregon State University as well as chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education?
... that Khar Bii, a reality television show consisting of a search for Senegal's most beautiful ram, was the country's most popular television show in 2012?
... that with her 1906 ascent of Pinnacle Peak (22,735 ft or 6,930 m) in the Himalayas, Fanny Bullock Workman set an altitude record for women that stood until 1934?
... that the 1944 One Million Plan was the first time Jewish immigration from Arab and Muslim countries became official policy of the Zionist leadership?
... that as a boy, golf course designer Archie Simpson was the favourite caddy of Sir Alexander Grant, Principal of the University of Edinburgh?
... that the Anna Crusis Women's Choir is the oldest feminist choir in the United States?
... that Su Rong is the highest-ranking Chinese official to come under investigation for corruption during the presidency of Xi Jinping?
... that flooding in New Market, caused by a tropical depression over Jamaica in 1979, had not fully subsided after six months?
... that Olivia Pope was spoofed by Jennifer Hudson when the Obama administration needed a spokesman for its Affordable Care Act?
... that the AI Mk. IV, the first air-to-air radar, was developed under conditions that "would have caused a riot in a prison farm"?
... that skeptic Joe Nickell was an advisor on the 2007 horror film The Reaping, in which actress Hilary Swank plays an investigator of the paranormal?
... that Frank Cunningham headed an inquiry into the 1935 "On-to-Ottawa" march, was a war-crimes judge in Singapore, and became speaker of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly?
... that the bus services in Surat are operated by private partners for the Surat Municipal Corporation under a public–private partnership?
... that with the prosthetic arm he had fitted after an electrical accident, "bionic chef" Eduardo Garcia has "superpowers"?
... that cyclist Ellen van Dijk was the best rider of the Specialized–lululemon team's 2013 season, finishing 3rd in the UCI World Ranking?
... that in discussing his film Departures, director Yōjirō Takita drew parallels between cellists and morticians?
... that James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison have depicted the Harlem Riot of 1943 in their writings?
... that the video game Thralled was made to focus on "love and caring" and to humanize the tens of millions in modern slavery?
... that Josef Masopust was awarded the Ballon d'Or after helping the Czechoslo­vakian national football team reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final?
... that the baseball career of Charlie Bennett , who reportedly invented the chest protector, ended when his legs were run over by a train?
... that Frances McConnell-Mills' father, a doctor, refused to pay for her medical school tuition because he thought medicine was "too hard a life for a woman"?
... that the University of Chicago exercised its option to buy Harper Court for $98 million in November 2013 and listed it for sale in March 2014?
... that Michel Disdier is the first French driver to race in NASCAR since the 1960s?
... that several Muppets were taken captive after the set of Iftah Ya Simsim was stormed?
... that 19th-century actor Maurice Curtis said his hugely successful characteri­za­tion of a Jewish traveling salesman was based on "one of the most comical men that I ever met"?
...that Peter Sellers, billed as "Britain's answer to Gene Krupa" at the Aldershot Hippodrome in 1948, complained later that the band was four bars behind because they were eating sandwiches?
... that two incommunicado game show contestants can use the 100 prisoners problem to maximize the odds of sticking Monty Hall with the goat?
... that in 1995, a businessman scaled Quezon City's Welcome Rotonda and staged a hunger strike to urge disquali­fi­ca­tion of Chinese Filipino candidates from running in that year's election?
... that art dealer C. T. Loo fell in love with a French milliner, but married her 15-year-old daughter instead?
... that legend has it that a Teutonic Knight built the Leaning Tower of Toruń as punishment for falling in love with a woman, the tower's tilt signifying his deviant conduct?
... that Geistliche Chormusik, a collection of 29 motets by Heinrich Schütz containing a "plea for peace", appeared in 1648, when the Thirty Years' War ended?
... that in the 1990 Back Bay rail accident, Amtrak's Night Owl jumped the track and hit an MBTA commuter train, causing both to jackknife through the tunnel roof to the street above?
... that actress Sarah-Jane Potts filmed her own audition for the role of Eddi McKee in Holby City, after she was approached by the show's casting director?
... that the call of the Malagasy coucal resembles the sound of water being poured from a bottle?
... that after an indictment against him was quashed, John N. Cole received three cheers from the Massachu­setts House of Represen­ta­tives?
... that in 1944 the Barsala tourist lodge in Azad Kashmir hosted the future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
... that Tom Cushing's 1926 play The Devil in the Cheese features a Greek bandit posing as a priest, an Egyptian god, adventures in the South Seas, and a bit of mummified cheese?
... that the Nazis called the paintings of Hans Baluschek "degenerate art"?
... that the 1991 Argentine quota law, which sets minimum quotas of female candidacies to legislatures, was emulated by eleven other Latin American countries?
... that Weib, was weinest du, the "Easter dialogue" composed by Heinrich Schütz, was performed at the first Schütz festival in Dresden?
... that the Sun-like star HD 41248 may have two super-Earths in a 5:7 orbital resonance?
... that 19th century baseball player Mike McGeary was suspected of game-fixing and using a yellow umbrella to communicate with gamblers in the stands?
... that the song "Asia Minor" was banned by the BBC because it parodied classical music?
... that the offices of the Danish magazine Vennen were raided by police in the so-called "Great Porno Affair"?