derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Oba River is named for the goddess Ọba, one of the wives of Shango, the Yoruba God of Thunder?
... that Great Britain is one of the first three nations to qualify athletes for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
... that the eponymous character of A Kitty Bobo Show was based on one of the co-creators' experience as a Korean adoptee?
... that the Australian hit song "Polyester Girl" is about a man "pledging fidelity to a sex doll"?
... that one of Lena Nyadbi's works, Dayiwul Lirlmim, can be seen from the Eiffel Tower?
... that Hansjürgen Reinicke was chief of staff to Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax during the Channel Dash?
... that the Indianapolis Traction Terminal was reputedly the largest interurban terminal ever built?
... that the Global Citizenship Education approach has been supported by organizations such as UNESCO and Oxfam?
... that the gray-collared chipmunk supplements its fruit and seed-based diet with fungi, greenery and insects?
... that Charlie Guy, who served in the Ambulance Corps during World War I, sent Cleveland's star halfback to the hospital with a broken shoulder and ribs in the first game of the 1920 NFL season?
... that the sinking of the British scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder by the German U-boat SM U-21 in 1914 was the first time a warship was sunk by a modern submarine?
... that the world's best para-equestrian rider, Lauren Barwick, appeared on the Canadian television series Heartland?
... that both of the lead actors in the 2013 film Short Term 12 were cast through Skype?
... that Pakistan has been trying to put up a fence on its border with Afghanistan since 2005?
... that Henry Lansdell distributed multi-lingual religious tracts and Bibles in hospitals and prisons in Siberia and central Asia?
... that, reaching a height of 325 feet (99 m), Fury 325 will become the world's tallest non-launched roller coaster when it opens in 2015 at the Carowinds amusement park?
... that "The Blonde Bear" supervised the ransacking of black households in the 1946 Columbia Race Riot?
... that Wei Yilin, a surgeon during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, created a suspension method for reducing dislocated joints?
... that local tradition holds that the Ponte Conde de Linhares was built by Jesuits in a single night by the light of a single lamp?
... that the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior is trying to raise standards for mouse mutant studies and reduce the unnecessary use of animals in flawed studies?
... that the Rolingas are an Argentine urban tribe composed of fans of The Rolling Stones?
... that the five-volume book De Materia Medica, written by Dioscorides between 50 and 70 AD , is the precursor to all modern pharmacopoeias?
... that Australian swimmer Mack Horton won five gold medals at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships?
... that the popular Thai teen drama Hormones: The Series courted controversy for scenes featuring students attempting to have sex in a classroom?
... that Seth Green, a farmer's son and pioneer pisciculturist from Carthage, New York, was called the "Father of Fish Culture in North America"?
... that the Illinois Central Railroad's Seminole Limited was the first passenger train to provide year-round service between Chicago, Illinois and Jacksonville, Florida?
... that Mouvements d'Harmonie for wind nonet was composed by Graham Waterhouse for the 60th birthday of his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse?
... that in 1909 the owner of the Wolverine claimed the Coquille intentionally rammed his boat, but the Steamboat Inspection Service subsequently suspended the captains of both vessels?
... that the 18th-century Chinese merchant Puankhequa owned a firm in the Thirteen Factories district, trading with Europeans?
... that the Kweilin was the first civilian airliner to be attacked by hostile aircraft?
... that Olympic footballer Kristian Krefting served as a liaison officer with British forces fighting in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
... that over 200 fossils of Aphaenogaster mayri were known when the species was described in 1930?
... that Ernst Deutsch won the Volpi Cup for best actor at the 1948 Venice Film Festival for his role in The Trial?
... that Fore Street was the first place in the City of London to be hit by a German bomb in World War II?
... that a single village churchyard contains the graves of George Orwell, Earl Asquith, and David Astor?
... that the 1920 German film The Women House of Brescia was rejected by the British Board of Film Classification and banned in Germany?
... that 28-year-old Ferhat Akbaş was appointed head coach of the Turkey women's national volleyball team and won the 2014 Women's European Volleyball League?
... that Bernard Perlin created some of the best-known World War II propaganda produced by America's Office of War Information?
... that a magic trick called the blow book was used in the 16th century to refute the existence of witchcraft?
... that German para-alpine skier Anna-Lena Forster won a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics by being one of the only two athletes to complete a race?
... that Mo'ne Davis is the first girl to pitch a shutout in Little League World Series history?
... that the sternwheeler Telegraph twice collided with the rival Charm in 1915?
... that a migration to Russia in 1752 led by Jovan Šević was described in a novel by Miloš Crnjanski?
... that the U. S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is the last of the original Navy bureaus still in existence?
... that Chicken Licken, the "largest non-American-owned fried chicken franchise in the world", uses a secret recipe bought in Texas for $1,000?
... that Achille Pierre Deffontaines, who died on 26 August 1914, was the youngest general in France when promoted in 1913?
... that Hkonmaing I, the saopha of Onbaung–Hsipaw, was the only steadfast ally of King Narapati II of Ava for over twenty years in Ava's wars against its former vassal states?
... that stage coaches on the Drain-Coos Bay stage line in Southern Oregon traveled on the beach?
... that Michigan State halfback Neno DaPrato was called "the greatest scoring machine of the year" after scoring 130 points, in just six games, during the 1915 season?
... that conductor Michael Zearott participated on a 1980s musical tour organized by Francis Ford Coppola?
... that the sternwheeler Eva illegally hauled dynamite through Southern Oregon, in boxes labeled as containing bacon?
... that General San Martín's Monument was inaugurated on the 50th anniversary of Neuquén, Argentina?
... that Anna Rüling, "the first lesbian activist" and one of the first women to publicly declare her homosexuality, believed that lesbians were more suited to careers than straight women?
... that in pursuit of his foreign policy objectives, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an official visit to Nepal and was the first foreign leader to address that country's parliament?
... that baseball's Jim Manning was one of the organizers of both the Western League and its successor the American League?
... that the radical PUNGA party was the sole force in Gabon that called for a "No" vote in the 1958 French constitutional referendum?
... that Tony Kaye appeared on the cover of The Yes Album with his foot in plaster, having broken it in a car accident?
... that the California Diamond Jubilee half dollar depicts a man panning for gold, but itself contains only silver and copper?
... that according to the Nihon Shoki, the claimant to the throne in the Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion was burned in the treasury?
... that after the ship Favorite was sunk at its moorings in Oregon, it was refloated within days?
... that the Argentine telenovela Viudas e hijos del Rock and Roll is Paola Barrientos's first television appearance in a lead role?
... that leaders of the pro-Mali Federation Mauritanian National Union were released from jail once the Federation fell apart?
... that Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, Oregon, did not get a permanent MRI machine until 2001?
... that the film Michael, now in production, is about former gay activist Michael Glatze (played by James Franco), who denounced homosexuality following a health scare and became a Christian pastor?
... that during World War II, an island in southern Oregon's Gerber Reservoir was used as a military bombing range?
... that while Chinese parents have begun putting their toddlers in diapers instead of open-crotch pants, Western advocates of elimina­tion communica­tion have been moving toward using them?
... that Barbara Rosenblat decided that her Orange Is the New Black character Miss Rosa has a Hispanic accent?
... that Fritz Delius played Louis XIV of France in the 1920 German film Am Liebeshof des Sonnen­königs?
... that the Nigerien Action Bloc won the mayoral post of Zinder in 1956?
... that Hundeprutterutchebane, Denmark's "Dog Fart Roller­coaster", takes riders past a statue of a defecat­ing dog and "gives new meaning to the phrase 'the wind in my face'"?
... that Russian para-alpine skier Alexey Bugaev broke his arm at the 2013 IPC World Championships but went on to win two silver medals with his arm in plaster?
... that the British television series Inside No. 9 won the Sketch and Comedy prize at the 35th annual Banff World Media Festival Rockie Awards?
... that Charles W. Crawford was in charge of wireless telegraphy in Somaliland during actions against the "Mad Mullah"?
... that the tower of the Falkner Island Light originally had a spiral wooden staircase leading outside to the lantern room?
... that stories involving Joe Quest are among the many theories about the origin of the term "Charley horse"?
... that pride parades in South Africa are increasingly used for political advocacy against LGBT hate crimes and to remember their victims?
... that the mix of modern elements and traditional gothic norms in "The Harrowing", episode six of Inside No. 9, was used for both comedy and horror?
... that Bill Watkins led Detroit to the 1887 World Series and by 1894 had won more pennants than any other manager?
... that Andrew Carnegie objected to his grant money being used for amenities such as a dome, public meeting room, and fireplaces in the Guthrie, Oklahoma Carnegie Library?
... that sociologist Mihai Ralea was sent to the West by Communist Romania with documents exposing the fascist past of Romanian exiles, only to find himself subject to similar accusations?
... that the distribution of Beck's tree frog is limited to altitudes of over 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) in Papua New Guinea?
... that author George R. R. Martin killed off protagonist Eddard Stark in his 1996 novel A Game of Thrones because he knew readers would not expect it?
... that Sir Mark Palmer, a godson of Queen Elizabeth II, started an early male modelling agency before leading a band of New Age travellers?
... that Steamer Horning was an All-American football player for Colgate and a two-time All-NFL player for Toledo?
... that Norman Morrice was the artistic director of Ballet Rambert and The Royal Ballet, the UK's two major ballet companies?
... that during the First World War former postmen serving with the Post Office Rifles delivered German mail using carrots?
... that baseball pitcher, dentist, and voice trainer Jumping Jack Jones leapt into the air before throwing, making him "the twirling marvel of his time"?
... that Cicero's lost Consolatio (45 BC) is widely accepted as the distinct work that transmitted the earlier consolatio literary tradition to the Romans of the late Republic?
... that when the recording sessions of Stratum by Drottnar began, guitarist Bengt Olsson left the band, only to rejoin it a few months later?
... that Josefina de la Torre, closely associated with the Generation of '27, was a columnist for the film magazine Primer Plano?
... that Charles de Visscher, a Belgian judge of the International Court of Justice, was orphaned at age twelve?
... that Chris Paul won gold medals with the US basketball team at both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that intimacy between a retired Empress and a monk was one of the causes of the Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion?
... that 100 years ago today the French 3rd Colonial Division was virtually destroyed at the Battle of Rossignol?
... that the Hindu deity Heramba, protector of the weak, is associated with rites for inflicting harm on one's enemies?
... that the noble Roman Altieri family, which ascended the papal throne in 1670 with Clement X, pretended to be descended from an unknown ancient Roman citizen named Lucius Alterius?
... that approximately 200 bird species have been observed on or near Lake Chillisquaque in Montour County, Pennsylvania?
... that three protesters were killed near a Cape Town school by armed police hidden in a "Trojan Horse"?
... that Marina Frolova-Walker has delivered lectures on music at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to factories in Kazakhstan?
... that on its 2012 centenary, the Rio de Janeiro cableway was honored with a Google Doodle in Brazil?
... that although abortion is generally illegal in Sint Maarten, it is legal and accessible "just a walk away across the border" in Saint Martin?
... that because future cancer surgeon Sir Stanford Cade spoke no English on being evacuated to England in the First World War, he wrote his first medical examination in French?
... that German actress Olga Limburg starred alongside Heinz Rühmann and appeared in 49 films?
... that in the Kibi Clan Rebellion, Japan lost its hold on the Korean peninsula because of a beautiful woman?
... that Jimmy the raven could open envelopes and ride a motorcycle, appeared in some 1000 films (including It's a Wonderful Life), and earned a Red Cross gold medal?
... that the Olympic violet is found only on the eastern and northeastern peaks of the Olympic Mountains in Washington state?
... that the murder of 14-year-old schoolgirl Leigh Leigh inspired a theatrical play that was later adapted into a feature film?
... that despite nationwide speculation, John Hay never acknowledged his authorship of The Bread-Winners, published anonymously in 1883?
... that Romanian opera singer and film actress Maria Forescu died in the Buchenwald concentration camp?
... that the oldest memorial in All Saints' Church, Runcorn, Cheshire, is dedicated to two women, "both good wives"?
... that the last Norse–Gaelic King of Dublin, Ascall mac Ragnaill, was captured and executed in 1171 after failing to reclaim his kingdom from the English?
... that in later life, baseball player Dan Casey claimed he was "Casey at the Bat"?
... that Charles Darwin discovered the Iago sparrow on the first stop of the voyage of the Beagle?
... that Hugh Lowery taught formation flying in World War I and later played in the National Football League's first season?
... that on its 1856 opening, the Illinois Central Railroad's Great Central Station was the largest building in Chicago?
... that despite receiving the most votes in the 1959 elections, the Dahomeyan Democratic Union emerged as the smallest of the three parties in the Territorial Assembly?
... that the memorial to members of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament killed in the First World War was damaged by bombing in the Second World War?
... that the residence and place of death of Muhammad Iqbal was converted into a museum by the Pakistani government in 1984?
... that Jack Kilmer first acted at age 18, when he starred in Palo Alto with his father Val Kilmer?
... that the 6th Division Cavalry Regiment's use of tanks during the capture of Tobruk in 1941 was the first time that Australian forces operated tanks in action?
... that Alice Pollock founded the boutique Quorum and the male modelling agency English Boy, both in London?
... that the Itcha Range in British Columbia is an inactive shield volcano formed between 3.8 and 0.8 million years ago?
... that L.A. Mix scored five more hits after being diagnosed by Stock Aitken Waterman as being "unlikely to have another hit"?
... that according to local tradition, the shrine of Muawiya in the town of Basma is named after a soldier in Saladin's army who was slain near the town?
... that the stoor worm, a sea monster of Orcadian mythology, could destroy humans with its putrid breath?
... that Major General Harold J. Greene is the highest-ranking American servicemember killed on foreign soil since the Vietnam War?
... that Race is the first feature film about Jesse Owens, who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games?
... that the Selle Français is a French sport horse, recognized internationally as a top breed for show jumping and three-day eventing?
... that the assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest attack of 1977, and marked the beginning of a more violent phase in the group's operations?
... that Trafalgar High School, established for non-whites in Cape Town, defiantly refused to move after its part of the city was declared "whites only"?
... that Howard Gobioff was one of the architects of the Google File System, which allowed for computation speeds never before possible?
... that the director of the film Pacific Rim drew inspiration from the painting The Colossus , as well as George Bellows's boxing paintings?
... that Joe Fitzgerald was the first player in NFL history to return an interception for a touchdown?
... that the BBC Singers and Endymion performed Steve Reich's The Desert Music at the 2014 Proms?
... that Gerald "Charley" Westbury was one of the first cancer surgeons to develop procedures that would preserve function as well as give good survival rates?
... that the 10th Battalion was the first South Australian infantry unit to leave Australia during World War I, heading for the Middle East in October 1914?
... that Harrington-Birchett House was a federally protected bird sanctuary from 1940 to 1970?
... that the excavations for fossils of Pleistocene fauna in Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, in 2014 included an experiment in taphonomy?
... that the Corythosaurus bore a tall, elaborate bony crest atop its skull, which contained elongate nasal passages?
... that British archer Sharon Vennard competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics despite being in constant pain due to osteoarthritis in her spine?
... that in a 1966 interview John Lennon remarked that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus"?
... that the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation in Cary, North Carolina, has been preserving the ancient Chữ Nôm script of Vietnam since 1999?
... that pianist Werner Genuit played the complete works for piano by Richard Wagner for the national congress of the Wagner Society?
... that the inner part of Stanford University's Main Quad is surrounded by twelve buildings, numbered 1 through 110?
... that the flag of Tanzania amalgamated elements of the flags of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which united in 1964 to form the republic?
... that the extinct ant Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti was first described in 1868?
... that Mac Marcoux won gold in the Men's Giant Slalom by over two seconds at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games?
... that although the 12th-century Skara Missal has been referred to as "Sweden's oldest book", its origins remain unclear?
... that in 1929, Solomon and Hattie Chandler donated land to the state of Oregon for a park, now called Chandler State Wayside?
... that more than eighty species of woodland herbs are found near Spruce Run, including fifteen fern species and twelve sedge species?
... that Anna Schaffelhuber won all five gold medals in para-alpine skier sitting events at the 2014 Winter Paralympics?
... that the massive blue giant star 68 Cygni is surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula?
... that Mr. & Mrs. Waite Phillips lived in the penthouse of the Philcade Building after donating their mansion to the city of Tulsa to become the Philbrook Art Museum?
... that fossils of 23 mammal species including mammoth, dire wolf, ground sloth, pre-historic bison, camel, and horse have been found at Fossil Lake in south central Oregon?
... that American actress and theater director Jessie Bonstelle gave her first public performance at two years old?
... that Oriental Film hired Njoo Cheong Seng and Fifi Young for their name recognition and only produced one further film after the couple left?
... that the scientific name of the black-backed butcherbird translates as "mental noisy bird"?
... that English sport shooter Mick Gault jointly holds the record for most medals at the Commonwealth Games, but has never been selected for the Olympic Games?
... that Liebmann Hersch's article "International Migration of the Jews", first published in 1931, became a classic work on the topic?
... that as of January 1940, No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF lacked hot water, a kitchen, and a telephone system?
... that Michael H. Weber and his writing partner have written four films together despite living on opposite sides of the United States?
... that Remedios Circle, now considered the center of Manila's nightlife, was originally a cemetery?
... that Saint Boniface allegedly used a book to ward off Frisian sword blows at his martyrdom in 754 ?
... that Virgil's Fourth Eclogue was believed by some early Christians to have predicted the birth of Jesus of Nazareth?
... that Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles appeared in several Buster Keaton films, such as The Goat (1921) and Three Ages (1923)?
... that the 2014 Orkney earthquake was the biggest earthquake in South Africa since 1969?
... that halfback Eddie Moegle scored the first touchdown for Detroit in the first season of the NFL?
... that cross-country skier Chris Klebl represented the United States at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics before winning a gold medal for Canada at the 2014 Games?
... that the floors of the vestibule of the Bryn Mawr College Deanery were designed by Henry Chapman Mercer from a 14th-century British design?
... that concussions are the fifth-most common type injury in American football, possibly affecting over 100,000 players each year?
... that P. T. Daly, secretary of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, was imprisoned during the Dublin Lock-out and interned during the Easter Rising?
... that a torture scene in the Orphan Black episode "Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done" was improvised and shot with a handheld camera due to time constraints during filming?
... that mother of four Heather Turland won the marathon at the 1998 Commonwealth Games at age 38, despite having first run the distance only two years earlier?
... that the television debate between Alistair Darling and Alex Salmond attracted 36% of viewers in Scotland?
... that after an absence of four years, the Inkpot Madonna , holding a naked Baby Jesus with quill in hand, returns to the Hildesheim Cathedral today?
... that David Friesenhausen, an astronomer and rabbi, was one of the first Jews to support the Copernican heliocentrism?
... that a possibly distinct form of the Egyptian white water-lily exists far away from its Nile Delta habitat in a small Romanian nature reserve?
... that at age 10, Darren Espanto was the youngest contestant in the history of The Next Star to be included in the Top 6?
... that baseball catcher Cal Broughton later became a police chief who captured a gang of train robbers after a gun fight in Wisconsin?
... that footballer David Beckham was an investor in Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café but backed out prior to its opening?
... that 5,000 Redmi smartphones sold out in eight minutes in a March 2014 online sales offering?
... that countertenor David Erler was one of five singers invited by amarcord for the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers as the annual Marienvesper of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey?
... that the Parksley Spuds were a professional baseball team based in a town with a population of about 600 people?
... that the Kinne Cemetery, established around 1713 in Griswold, Connecticut, shows the evolution of funerary art over the course of the centuries?
... that Hans Aasnæs was the 1947 individual World Champion in the 100 metre running deer double shot?
... that the corpse of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh has been kept in a freezer by his followers since his clinical death on 29 January 2014?
... that a "wonderful fluid" in the sarcophagus of King Tabnit kept him unusually well-preserved for over two millennia, but its secret was lost when workmen poured it out?