derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Edward Kirk Warren, who invented featherbone as an alternative to whalebone in corsetry, is the namesake of two state parks in Michigan?
... that American jockey Steve Cauthen rode Tap On Wood in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1979 to win the first of ten British Classic victories in his career?
... that before Tsar Nicholas II of Russia gave his wife a piano, he had Earnest Lipgart paint 100 figures on it?
... that up to 100,000 pairs of the BBC's LS3/5A loudspeaker have been put into circulation during its two-decade-plus production period?
... that Herbert Thomas Johnson's grave is near that of William H. Gilmore, one of Johnson's predecessors as adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard?
... that following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, there was an anti-Serb pogrom in Sarajevo?
... that Raadi Manor land was used by the Estonian National Museum and a secret Soviet airfield?
... that whilst the exact etymology is uncertain, the colour yellow and the Italian mountainous plateau La Sila have been offered as possible etymologies for Silaum, a genus of flowering plants?
... that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
... that Jürgen Klinsmann disliked the parody song "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann?" because he felt it compared him to Hitler?
... that the carol "We Three Kings" was the first American Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New?
... that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 allows extra U.S. federal government spending in 2014 and 2015, but limits it in 2022 and 2023?
... that Skederid Church was built by the father of Saint Bridget of Sweden, who also had some of her first religious visions there?
... that Rachmat Kartolo, son of actors Roekiah and Kartolo, initially did not want to enter the film industry but ultimately completed more than 40 movies?
... that the number 1 sex advertising site in Hong Kong was shut down by police in December 2013?
... that a 240-million-year-old animal latrine was dubbed "the oldest communal toilet"?
... that James P. Hagerstrom is one of seven pilots to be a flying ace in two wars—World War II and the Korean War?
... that the religious festival "Fiesta del milagro" in the Argentine province of Salta started because of the 1692 Salta earthquake?
... that schools in New York and Florida have banned Rainbow Loom rubber-band bracelets, claiming they distract students in the classroom and breed animosity in the play yard?
... that at the 2005 Bound for Glory pay-per-view event, Kevin Nash had to be removed from his NWA World Heavyweight Championship match and replaced with Rhino due to a medical emergency?
... that the film Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara! had its name changed three times owing to its producer's belief in numerology?
... that longhorn crazy ants often share their nests with parasitic wingless ant crickets which steal food from them?
... that Track 61, which previously carried freight to the South Boston Army Base and South Boston Naval Annex, is the proposed location of a new passenger train service?
... that of the 29 listed buildings in Crewe, only one dates from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?
... that American singer-songwriter Katy Perry's "Legendary Lovers" is a worldbeat song that discusses Eastern philosophy?
... that William de Greystoke was given permission to crenellate "his dwelling place" in October 1353, which would later become known as Greystoke Castle?
... that the Tumin is an alternative currency used in the municipality of Espinal, Veracruz, Mexico?
... that Estelle Ramey's name was formalized so that she could go to school?
... that a collection of diaries by sailors and soldiers has been listed on the UNESCO-associated Australian Memory of the World Register?
... that it took roughly 32,000 sandbags to repair a single flood defense breach caused by Typhoon Vera?
... that Arne Pedersen, the most successful player in Fredrikstad FK history, won six league titles and three cups with the club?
... that 2014 puzzle game Monument Valley's visual style took inspiration from M. C. Escher, Japanese prints, minimalist sculpture, Fez, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP?
... that the tsunami fish drifted thousands of miles on a ghost ship wrecked by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami before being discovered on the coast of Washington?
... that Gorky González Quiñones won the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes for his efforts to revive Mexican maiolica pottery?
... that East Preston tram depot opened at the same time that trams returned to Bourke Street where Melbourne's previous cable tram service closed in 1940?
... that Da Chu, a dynasty formed during the Jin–Song wars, was barely a month old when the Song Dynasty abolished it?
... that surgeons at the St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston were credited with developing early silicone gel implants for breast augmentation?
... that the Amitabh Bachchan Award for Youth Icon of the Year was instituted in his honour at the recently concluded 11th Chennai International Film Festival?
... that Christopher Helt represented retired Army colonel Richard J. Thomas in a 1997 lawsuit against his wife, claiming that her smoking was a violation of the Clean Air Act?
... that Giles Gilbert Scott submitted two designs for the Chester War Memorial , but both were rejected?
... that the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) professional wrestling promotion held a memorial tournament to honor a wrestler who had died as a result of an injury sustained at one of their events?
... that during his 64-year career, animator Bob Givens created the first official design for Bugs Bunny?
... that Peter the Great had outlawed stone buildings in Tartu before the Great Fire of 1775?
... that in 1417, heiress Elizabeth Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick, refused to accept her family's entail to her cousin James Berkeley, starting a lawsuit which lasted until 1609?
... that Studio Killers member Chubby Cherry wrote a song based on her crush with a person named "Jenny"?
... that after SS Umona was torpedoed and sank off the coast of Sierra Leone in 1941, survivors used the reflective surface of a tobacco tin to attract the attention of potential rescuers?
... that after the Titanic sank, Sophie Radford de Meissner , a former lady-in-waiting in the Russian court, requested an audience with the U.S. President to deliver a message from one of the victims?
... that the UK series The Taste marks Nigella Lawson's return to Channel 4 after 10 years?
... that the creation of the Warsaw Gay Movement was a counter-reaction of Polish gays against Operation Hyacinth?
... that Lancelot de Carle, an eyewitness to the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn, wrote a poem detailing her life and the circumstances surrounding her death?
... that an article in Reader's Digest about the health effects of tobacco led to an advertisement disputing the science?
... that a speech delivered by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was sampled and used by American singer Beyoncé Knowles in a song called "Flawless"?
... that footballer Ian Bennyworth paid his own transfer fee to move from Nuneaton Borough to Scarborough?
... that Tropical Storm Jebi damaged 320 homes and 200 hectares (490 acres) of crops in Quảng Ninh Province?
... that Hockey Hall of Famer Bun Cook won 636 games and seven Calder Cups as a coach, both American Hockey League records?
... that the contribution of academic accounting research to the accounting profession includes the assessment and development of accounting practices, and the development of university curricula?
... that Joe D'Cruz won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Korkai, which is based on history and the lives of Parathavars?
... that video game Cart Life, winner of three Independent Games Festival awards including the grand prize in 2013, is the first game that Richard Hofmeier developed?
... that Kim Chol-man pioneered North Korea's munitions industry, the country's economic base?
... that the IKEA soft toy Lufsig sold out in Hong Kong within hours partially due to a Cantonese pun?
... that goalkeeper Dean Lyness, an unused substitute for his first three league clubs as a teenager, finally made his Football League debut with his fourth?
... that a costume created for Hilary Swank in the 2003 film The Core later appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Anomaly"?
... that D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery is one of the oldest fish hatcheries in the United States?
... that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
... that sakte-tv (English: slow-TV) was named word of the year in Norway in 2013?
... that the Scottish island of Stroma was inhabited for thousands of years but was abandoned in 1962, with the last islanders leaving their houses to fall into ruin?
... that Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain was found playing sexual games with two women while blindfolded?
... that after Illinois Secretary of State Paul Powell had died in 1970, $750,000 in cash was found stashed in shoeboxes and various containers in his room at Springfield's St. Nicholas Hotel?
... that Kathy Kinney was originally intended to be a one-off guest star in the pilot episode of The Drew Carey Show, but was later promoted to series regular?
... that John Everard was imprisoned in the Tower of London and expelled from the King's Inns as a result of his conduct?
... that Portrait of a Commander sold for £9 million ($13.7 m) in 2010, despite doubts over its authenticity as a Rubens?
... that China, with over 34,687 species of animals and vascular plants, is the third-most biodiverse country in the world?
... that J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company developed an improved formula for lime glass that enabled American manufacturers to produce high-quality glass at a lower cost?
... that the Philippines grabbed their sixteenth gold medal in men's basketball at the Southeast Asian Games as they went undefeated in the 2013 tournament?
... that in 1931 at Kimberley Downs, 80 cattle were found to have pleuropneumonia in one muster?
... that the Wright Opera House Block, a three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of cream-colored brick, was built for $20,000?
... that Luftwaffe aircraft bombed SS Abukir for an hour and a half but failed to hit her?
... that despite the Apollo statue already being in 121 pieces, Robert Murdoch Smith was concerned that local Arabs would further destroy them?
... that Aquilo caught fire and sank in 1966, and all aboard were rescued by the intervention of USCGC Point Ledge?
... that Albert Clapp received part of the £132 that Somerset paid to its professional cricketers in 1890?
... that early work on Bell's theorem appeared in an "underground" physics newsletter, Epistemological Letters (1973–1984), because mainstream journals were reluctant to publish it?
... that Charles Wilkins Short owned one of the most valuable private herbariums in the world?
... that one of the international reactions to the Euromaidan was the formation of a human chain on the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka as a sign of support for pro-EU protesters in Ukraine?
... that the first elevator in Northern California was installed in the E. Janssen Building in Eureka?
... that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo?
... that the Argentine telenovela Mis amigos de siempre features actors Osvaldo Laport and Soledad Silveyra as a couple, as in the older telenovela Campeones de la vida?
... that octogenarian poet Joyce La Mers donated $500,000 to Light Quarterly, the US's only literary magazine devoted to light verse?
... that Cossinia trifoliata trees endemic to New Caledonia have become vulnerable to extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 1998 assessment?
... that in 1935, Ole Fahlin produced the Fahlin SF-2 Plymocoupe which was classified as a "flying automobile"?
... that when Julia Louis-Dreyfus won an Emmy for playing Selina Meyer, she became the first comedic actress to win Primetime Emmy Awards for three different regular cast roles?
... that racing driver Jack Brabham and actor Bud Tingwell served with No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF as an engine mechanic and a flying instructor, respectively?
... that Stanley Hudson Dodwell was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in June 1947 for his public services in Hong Kong?
... that the ancient Assyrian Balawat Gates were discovered by the first Assyrian archaeologist, Hormuzd Rassam?
... that Michael Fenton was one of the "Patriotic Six" who resigned their seats in the Tasmanian Legislative Council to frustrate the financial policy of Governor John Eardley-Wilmot?
... that the two stars of TU Muscae are so close they are in contact with each other?
... that in deleterious environmental conditions, the White Mountain saxifrage closes up its leaf rosettes to prevent dehydration and photoinhibition?
... that the BBC First World War centenary season will include 130 newly commissioned programmes to mark the centenary of the First World War?
... that Doug Manchester, owner and publisher of U-T San Diego, built several of the tallest buildings in San Diego?
... that in 2013, mayor of Chépica Rebeca Cofré was named one of the 100 Leading Women of Chile by El Mercurio newspaper?
... that the Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere was the first major piece of open-air public sculpture to be erected in Cheshire?
... that publication of The Diary of Malcolm X is being held up by a legal dispute between the publisher and some of Malcolm X's daughters?
... that after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, it took its first space selfie , which was posted on its Facebook account the following day?
... that while pitcher Noodles Hahn was still playing baseball, he received a job offer to become the Dallas city veterinarian?
... that in 1958, No. 486 Squadron became responsible for maintaining the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the first turboprop aircraft operated by the RAAF?
... that Elizabeth Hussey allowed the first of the tracts by the anonymous satirist Martin Marprelate to be printed on a secret press at her home at East Molesey in October 1588?
... that the Lydia Pinkham House, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since 2012, is being reviewed for selection as a National Historic Landmark for its association with the Pinkhams?
... that Randall Carver portrayed taxi driver John Burns in the television series Taxi for only the first season (1978–79)?
... that Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is not, and never has been, a priory?
... that tonight across Scotland, people celebrating Hogmanay will go first-footing with a black bun ?
... that tilted block faulting can cause ductile lower crust of the Earth to ascend, creating domal mountain ranges?
... that the Pakistan Army Chief Raheel Sharif is the brother of Major Shabbir Sharif who died in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and received the Nishan-e-Haider?
... that students need to enter a lottery to attend Beaverton Health & Science School, a public school that was rated as below average by the state of Oregon?
... that William Wilkinson and Lincoln City teammates Arthur Hulme and William Ross were three of numerous new signings for Gravesend United in the 1898–99 Southern Football League season?
... that Bach set Johann Gramann's hymn "Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren" in a cantata reflecting the end of the year with praise?
... that the William H. Griffitts House in Tennessee was a "station" on the Underground Railroad that aided African Americans escaping slavery?
... that Henry William McKenney and Alex Taylor made the first long distance telephone call from Edmonton to St. Albert in 1885?
... that the acidity load in Whiskey Run, a tributary of Drury Run, would need to be reduced by 99.5% to meet requirements set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency?
... that Samuel Appleton's defense of Hatfield, Massachusetts, was a turning point for the colonists during King Philip's War?
... that the Bath Assembly Rooms featured in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion and Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers?
... that upon his appointment as Poet Laureate of New Jersey in 2002, provocative African-American poet Amiri Baraka told Governor Jim McGreevey, "You're gonna catch hell for this"?
... that the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road is one of the best known in rock music, and regularly imitated by fans ?
... that the asteroid 2011 XC2 missed the Earth by less than 1 lunar distance on 3 December 2011?
... that Konstanze Vernon, prima ballerina in Munich remembered as Giselle, created and directed an academy in memory of her ballet partner Heinz Bosl?
... that HMS Crescent was present at Saldanha Bay in 1796 when the Dutch surrendered without a fight?
... that in 1909, hemoglobin crystals from over 100 species were used to relate biological taxonomy to molecular properties?
... that William Templeton died just days after his defeat for re-election as Mayor of Vancouver?
... that Philip Morrison transported the core of the Trinity test gadget to the test site in the back seat of a Dodge sedan?
... that ten people died when Cyclone Alan struck French Polynesia in 1998, mostly as a result of landslides?
... that an Ace Spectrum release was among the first 12-inch singles to be issued?
... that Australian inventor Myra Juliet Farrell dreamed of solutions to practical problems and wrote them in mirror writing on the wall while sleepwalking?
... that Josephine Silone Yates was the first black woman to head a college science department in the United States?
... that following the lifeboats disaster in 1886, memorials were erected in Southport Cemetery, in Southport Promenade, in St Annes Promenade, and in a Lytham churchyard?
... that a villanelle is used to "deal with one or another degree of obsession"?
... that Virat Kohli is the fastest player to score 19 One Day International centuries, doing so in 124 innings?
... that Millennium's "...Thirteen Years Later" featured the members of Kiss in dual roles?
... that during its centenary season, the Theater Kiel premiered an opera, Cristóbal Halffter's Lázaro, in the 1907 Opernhaus ?
... that parliamentarian Axel Jansson was removed from the Swedish Communist Party executive at the 1967 party congress?
... that Conner Mertens was the first active college football player to publicly come out about his sexuality?
... that Ezra Pound considered dumping his first poetry collection, A Lume Spento, into a Venetian canal?
... that the texts on the Cippi of Melqart , known as the Maltese Rosetta stone, allowed the deciphering of the Phoenician alphabet in 1764?
... that Bhagat Singh wrote Why I am an Atheist as a reply to a religious man who thought Singh had become an atheist because of his vanity?
... that Rock Lawn, home of Hamilton Fish II and later of Patty Hearst, is Richard Upjohn's only Italian villa-style house in the Hudson Highlands?
... that Mattias Moström is the foreign player with the most matches for the Norwegian football club Molde FK?
... that Omicron1 Canis Majoris is a star 65,000 times as bright as our Sun, and has 530 times its diameter?
... that in the 2004 Subway 400, Joe Ruttman ran only one lap before being ordered to park his car by NASCAR?
... that Forglen House has "all the romantic aspirations of the early 19th century poured into it"?
... that the English Jesuit theologian Charles Davis caused a firestorm of controversy when he left the priesthood in 1966?
... that in 1887 William Eakin's residence served as a classroom for the community of Crescent Lake before a school was built the following year?
... that according to tradition the Church of the Holy Archangels, Rogoz was built from two huge elm trees?
... that in 2011, Johann Lamont became the first person to be elected as overall leader of the Scottish Labour Party?
... that George S. Armstrong was the first mayor of Edmonton after its amalgamation with Strathcona?
... that the 1955 Indonesian comedy Tamu Agung is a critique of the corruption under Sukarno's government?
... that the Montana Race to the Sky is a long distance sled dog race known as "the Iditarod of the Lower 48"?
... that the 2011-opened Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library in Istanbul is housed in a building, which once served for Ottoman sultans to accept salutes during a military parade?
... that Kieran Evans won a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer?
... that former Minister of Industries Keshab Prasad Badal was a leader of the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal in the 1970s?
... that the Cherry Mansion was headquarters for Union generals at the American Civil War Battle of Shiloh?
... that the Nokia Lumia Icon was the first Nokia Lumia released not using its model number as part of its branding and release name?
... that "Tom & Gerri", the third episode of Inside No. 9, was based on a play Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith had written years earlier?
... that the Surdulica massacre took the lives of 2,000–3,000 people?
... that the cancellation of a Star Trek: Voyager tie-in video game led to the foundation of BioShock developer Irrational Games?
... that Alexander Roslin painted a double portrait of himself and his wife in which she is working in pastels on a portrait of Henrik Peill ?
... that Firefly fans were developing their own video game based on the franchise before an official game, Firefly Online, was announced?
... that Frederick G. Coan was told about 2,000 people who had dug their own graves?
... that musician Rick Recht was inspired to create Jewish Rock Radio after seeing how Christian rock radio stations operated?
... that Zimbabwe's gold-winning women's field hockey team from the 1980 Olympics were promised an ox each by the Prime Minister's wife, but got packages of meat instead?
... that San Francisco artists and craftspeople fought the police and city hall for years to bring about a Street Artists Program that lets them legally sell their work on the city's sidewalks?
... that the music video for Kylie Minogue's 2010 single "All the Lovers" was intended as homage to the singer's gay audience?
... that a Mediterranean tropical cyclone in 1969 resulted in hundreds of deaths in Tunisia and Algeria?
... that although Monsanto's Charles A. Thomas promised to return the Runnymede Playhouse intact, it became so contaminated with radioactivity from the Manhattan Project it was demolished and buried?
... that newer scholarship notices that the Cross of Otto and Mathilde shows the siblings as family members and not as dignitaries?
... that former UCLA Bruins basketball player Joshua Smith became a fan of the university after his eighth-grade report on Bruins coach John Wooden?
... that the B. B. Moeur Activity Building is the largest WPA-built adobe structure in Arizona?
... that "Flatline", a song by Mutya Keisha Siobhan, was co-written by British artist Dev Hynes?
... that the Missouri Department of Corrections believed that Cornealious Michael Anderson was in prison for 13 years, when he was actually living a normal life and raising a family?
... that Slovenia won eight medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics, including two gold , a record for the country?
... that when four-year-old Philip I of Castile inherited Flanders, its cities staged a revolt to get rid of his guardian Maximilian I?
... that PopMatters compared Justin Timberlake's "Not a Bad Thing" to 'N Sync's 1999 "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time on You", for sharing the same "emotional earnestness" and "heart-melter" characteristics?
... that Lynne Owens is the first woman to become Chief Constable of Surrey Police?
... that the book The Emperor's New Drugs suggests that antidepressants may be nothing but a very powerful placebo?
... that the "ghost" of William Brooke Smith haunted the poet Ezra Pound in several of his works?
... that Edmonton mayor Cornelius Gallagher was the first president of the Edmonton Hockey Club?
... that a Kitkehahki Pawnee village in Nebraska is the site where Zebulon Pike convinced the Kitkehahki to remove a Spanish flag and display an American flag?