derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Duchess of Devonshire, who in 1909 founded the Derbyshire branch of the Red Cross, later served as Viceregal consort of Canada from 1916 to 1921?
... that following the passage of the 1815 North Carolina hurricane, a Savannah, Georgia, newspaper editor composed a poem lamenting its impact?
... that actor S Waldy ran away from home to join the theatre even though his parents were actors?
... that Leila Schneps , mathematician, researcher, and author of Math on Trial also writes mathematically-themed murder mysteries under the pen-name Catherine Shaw?
... that the time of Swedish rule in Estonia is sometimes referred to as the "good old Swedish times" in Estonia?
... that Général de Brigade Henri Vanwaetermeulen began his career in the French Army as a private soldier?
... that a two-and-a-half-hour film of Anachronox's cut scenes won the 2002 Machinima Film Festival for Best Picture?
... that, after losing a child, journalist and author Mrs. C. S. Peel abandoned writing to sell hats, but started up again after ill health forced her to close her shop?
... that the white mushroom Humidicutis mavis has been recorded from New Zealand, Australia and Borneo?
... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan?
... that Kevin Lau was violently assaulted just one week after Hong Kong journalists rallied for press freedom and against his removal as editor of the Ming Pao?
... that when the Kamgar Kisan Paksha was split on the issue of its relationship to the Communist Party of India, its two elected representatives led opposite factions?
... that the second fastest Blackwall Frigate that carried wool back from Australia was the Parramatta?
... that the mystery of who came up with the idea behind Urania's Mirror took over a hundred and seventy years to solve?
... that Swan Lake was shown live in 100 French cinemas, with Steffi Scherzer, a dancer of the Berlin State Opera for 28 years, in the double role of Odette/Odile?
... that Rome & Jewel is a hip-hop musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in Los Angeles?
... that when George Bright was acquitted and freed in 1959 after his second trial for the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing, his lawyer was jailed by the judge for contempt of court?
... that Rhodes Scholar candidate Dave Butler played college basketball and was named to the Pacific-12 Conference Hall of Honor?
... that the fossil ant Aphaenogaster donisthorpei was once part of the Samuel Hubbard Scudder insect collection?
... that Laura Knight's Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring was compared to Rosie the Riveter and brought its subject instant fame?
... that during the 1806 Great Coastal hurricane, an estimated 36 inches (91 cm) of rain fell on Edgartown, Massachusetts?
... that Rajani Pandit, regarded as Maharashtra's first female private detective, reportedly worked undercover as domestic help for six months while solving a case?
... that British broadcasters prevented television listings website TVGuide.co.uk from deep linking to their video content?
... that Marie Meurdrac's 1656 book on Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies had ten editions in three languages?
... that the wits of the Kit-Kat Club would sup their summer ale at the Upper Flask ?
... that Millie Knight, the youngest ever British Paralympic athlete, was the flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony?
... that Senegalese communist leader Seydou Cissokho died in Moscow while visiting the 1986 congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
... that a space-grade version of the NEC V70 microprocessor was in the main computer module of the Japanese H-IIA launch vehicles?
... that Elly Yunara went from film star to housewife after her marriage to Djamaluddin Malik, only to become a producer after his death?
... that the Deery Inn avoided destruction in the American Civil War because its proprietor used bribery to secure its protection?
... that Edith Humphrey is thought to be the first British woman to obtain a doctorate in chemistry, in 1901?
... that Henriette Schønberg Erken's Big Cookbook sold more than 200,000 copies, and her Small Cookbook sold about 100,000 copies?
... that in addition to inventing and patenting the first ballpoint pen, John J. Loud also held a patent for a firecracker cannon?
... that the riches from the capture of the Madre de Deus at the Battle of Flores were nearly half the wealth of England's treasury?
... that screenwriter Olivia Hetreed gained access to Tracy Chevalier's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring shortly before its publication because they shared the same agent?
... that visitors can walk through Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire without any barriers between them and the 140 Barbary macaques that live there?
... that the 2003 period drama Girl with a Pearl Earring was originally meant to feature Kate Hudson before she was replaced with Scarlett Johansson?
... that in reviewing Jane Ridley's biography of "Bertie", A. N. Wilson wrote that "royal biography will never be the same again"?
... that Megan Rapinoe is the first soccer player, male or female, to score a rare Goal Olimpico at the Olympic Games?
... that before it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, Edith Marion Patch's house nearly went up in flames?
... that the black hole inside RX J1131 was the first black hole to have its spin directly measured?
... that the musical Made in Dagenham is based on the true story of the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968?
... that P-9 Project was the codename for the Manhattan Project's effort to produce heavy water for nuclear reactors?
... that car-owning Mrs Edward Kennard wrote The Motor Maniac, which was said to be exasperating for readers who did not own an automobile?
... that the Kettle Creek watershed contains eight percent of the Class A Wild Trout Streams in Pennsylvania?
... that Karin Rehnqvist composed Puksånger & lockrop for singers Susanne Rosenberg and Lena Willemark, in which a section of kulning (cattle calling) "represents a rebellion"?
... that Barack Obama addressed the German public, seeking to mend relations described as "worse than ... the low-point in 2003 during the Iraq War" due to mass surveillance charges?
... that both expressionist dancer Clotilde von Derp and her husband were known for their transvestite costumes?
... that Helen Fraser was the first woman to be adopted as an official party candidate for parliament from Scotland?
... that many prominent people, including Albert Einstein, attended meetings at Berta Fanta's salon?
... that Shirley Chater was a nurse and university president before becoming U.S. Commissioner of Social Security?
... that screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue was fired from the 1988 film Beaches by the director Garry Marshall and rehired after less than a month?
... that in England, women found guilty of high treason, petty treason and heresy, were burnt at the stake, sometimes alive?
... that cell biologist Rachael Dunlop and her colleagues discovered how an amino acid produced by blue-green algae might trigger the onset of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)?
... that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving, was a "New Woman" painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?
... that after the last Paralympics, Oleksandra Kononova became the Ukrainian sports personality of the year?
... that Birgit Keil, prima ballerina of the Stuttgart Ballet under John Cranko, inspired international choreographers such as Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier and Heinz Spoerli?
... that Spanish artist Glòria Muñoz uses the chapel of an abandoned convent as her studio?
... that just before being murdered, Karekin Khajag wrote in his last letter to his wife, "I have great hope that we will see each other once again"?
... that Aaron Burr was caught in the 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane while hiding from federal officials?
... that Alfreda Markowska, a Polska Roma, was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for saving Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos during World War II?
... that student tradition at Rutgers University says that a bronze statue of William the Silent will whistle if a virgin happens to pass by?
... that Shukri al-Quwatli , the first president of independent Syria, attempted to commit suicide in an Ottoman jail to prevent himself from revealing the names of his colleagues under torture?
... that on Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf, Berlin celebrities are buried in forest landscape, including chancellor Willy Brandt and ballet dancer Tatjana Gsovsky?
... that the National Commission for Civic Education, in collaboration with the GILLBT, has translated the Constitution of Ghana into 30 Ghanaian languages?
... that the episode "Fly Away" from the television series The Following received the series' lowest ratings ever?
... that former Macedonian ambassador Ljubica Acevska's male aide was so often assumed to be the ambassador, she said, "I should wear a sash like Miss America saying, 'I'm the Ambassador'"?
... that the Church of St Peter at Williton was given to the church at Watchet after Reginald Fitzurse murdered Thomas Becket?
... that Emery Emery contributed to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas and edited the documentary The Aristocrats?
... that proneural genes are partially responsible for differentiation of ectodermal cells into neural or epidermal cells during embryonic development?
... that John Medley, the first Bishop of Fredericton, was the first Tractarian bishop in the Church of England?
... that after the February 2014 suicide bombing of a tourist bus in Taba, Ansar Bait al-Maqdis threatened to attack tourists who did not leave Egypt within four days?
... that Arnau Cadell, sculptor of the Monastery of Sant Cugat, was the first Catalan artist to be known by both first and last name?
... that Huntington Junior College occupies a former Carnegie library building and offers the only judicial reporting educational program in West Virginia?
... that Admiral Yuriy Ilyin served as the Ukrainian Chief of the General Staff for only ten days before being dismissed by interim President Alexander Turchynov?
... that in 2012, the Netherlands became the first European country to implement a net neutrality law?
... that Loipa Araújo, the "Cuban muse of Marseille", was a ballerina?
... that Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos went missing months apart after being arrested by the same police officer but never made it to jail?
... that before Dewey Decimal Classification , books in most U.S. libraries were arranged by height and order of acquisition?
... that in the video game Blood Knights, players can transfer blood between the two playable characters, healing one at the expense of the other?
... that Pseudophilautus hypomelas, a small shrub frog not seen for more than 130 years and believed to be extinct, was rediscovered in the Peak Wilderness of Sri Lanka?
... that Lyon Opera Ballet ballerina Susana Agüero returned to Buenos Aires when she had eyesight problems?
... that the story of "Last Gasp", the fourth episode of British dark comedy series Inside No. 9, was inspired by a collection of apparently empty jars?
... that Rani Mukerji is the only Bollywood actress to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the same year?
... that the opossum shrimp Neomysis integer inhabits both low salinity estuaries and high salinity pools on the foreshore?
... that Hanpu, who came from the Korean peninsula, married a Jurchen woman, and that their descendants, the emperors of the Jin dynasty, conquered all of north China in the 1120s?
... that Muneer Awad successfully sued the state of Oklahoma to prevent it from forbidding state judges to decide cases using Islamic law?
... that former Florida Speaker of the House H. Lee Moffitt helped found a comprehensive cancer treatment center in Florida, named in his honor?
... that Argentine tango dancer Carmencita Calderón performed the milonga at her 100th birthday celebration?
... that by 2004, counterfeit $20 banknotes of the Birds of Canada series represented nearly 65% of all counterfeit currency in Canada?
... that the Italian improv performer Teresa Bandettini was given her portrait by Angelica Kauffman in 1794?
... that support for the free association movement in Puerto Rico expanded by a hundredfold in 14 years?
... that Beatrix Miller, the editor of British Vogue from 1964 to 1985, had previously worked for MI6?
... that the inclusion of Basil D'Oliveira in the England cricket team caused the cancellation of its 1968–69 tour of South Africa?
... that a survey of rural African-American churches in Tennessee found Hackney Chapel to be "one of the oldest and least altered"?
... that ballerina Josefina Méndez made her debut performance with the Cuban National Ballet in 1955 in Swan Lake in the role of a man?
... that a white oak tree with a trunk circumference of over 26 feet (7.9 m) grew near Wolf Run until it was cut down in 1852?
... that Jennie Patrick, a woman who was told she did not belong at Berkeley in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980?
... that Gibraltar is not allowed to play Spain at the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers due to political reasons?
... that there were actually 40 variants of the "One Ring" designed by Jens Hoyer Hansen for use in shooting The Lord of the Rings films?
... that if not for a tank accident in Cyprus, the Lombardi Grand Prix would have probably lasted longer?
... that Canadian mining companies sued author Alain Deneault over his book about Canadian mining activities in Africa?
... that The Saguache Crescent might be the last newspaper in the world to use linotype?
... that two-time Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd is the only player to score the game-winning goal in two consecutive Olympic gold medal soccer matches?
... that the first live episode of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show was performed three times, once for each of three different time zones?
... that in reply to The Woman Who Did, a novel about a New Woman, Mrs. Lovett Cameron wrote The Man Who Didn't?
... that Siberian Baroque may feature exotic decors, such as cornices, stupas, and dharmacakras?
... that artist Edith R. Wyle, grandmother of actor Noah Wyle, founded the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles?
... that Njoo Cheong Seng's Pantjawarna has been called the first musical in Indonesia?
... that Chinese journalist Yang Gang committed suicide after being forced to persecute her colleagues, but the details are disputed?
... that "We Dem Boyz" by American rapper Wiz Khalifa was the first song to be premiered by the music identifying app Shazam?
... that college baseball player Ben Wetzler was suspended by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for "something that reportedly happens all the time"?
... that baseball pitcher Cole Hamels was named both the National League Championship MVP and World Series MVP in 2008?
... that fragments of veil patches of the mushroom Amanita ananiceps can litter the ground around it?
... that German professor Erich Maschke led the committee that investigated the killing of German prisoners-of-war in World War II?
... that Princeton University's Center of International Studies was formed in 1951 when six scholars came from Yale University all at once?
... that Barbara Brandon-Croft was the first African-American female cartoonist to get a national syndication, for Where I'm Coming From?
... that although Atopodentatus had a fearsome set of teeth, it was a filter feeder and not a predator?
... that HMS Implacable was the base of Seafires, Hornets, and Fireflies?
... that one reason South African judge Dunstan Mlambo permitted live broadcasting of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial was to educate the public about criminal proceedings?
... that Ultra Rare Trax was the first significant bootleg set of The Beatles to appear on compact disc?
... that Prospect Group's purchase of Illinois Central Railroad in 1989 was part of a plan devised by Edward L. Moyers to return the railroad to profitability?
... that the Armatix iP1 pistol cannot be accessed or function without the iW1 Active RFID wrist watch?
... that in 2008, the Romanian ballet mistress Mijaela Tesleoanu was one of only two non-Cubans on the payroll of the Cuban National Ballet?
... that Robert F. Christy used knowledge gained designing atomic bombs to explain Cepheid variable stars ?
... that the ant Aphaenogaster avita was described from a fossil found in 1969?
... that Lonnie Warwick worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona prior to signing a free agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings?
... that the owner of the newspaper De Indische Courant escaped a stranglehold from a scourge by buying a radio?
... that Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Countess of Munster , a granddaughter of King William IV, published a collection of ghost stories in 1896?
... that the deep sea worm Osedax japonicus relies on the skeleton of a dead whale for sustenance?
... that although physicist Ernest Wollan pioneered neutron diffraction, he did not share in the Nobel Prize that was awarded for the technology?
... that the 1985 BBC Micro video game Castle Quest used a smooth hardware side-scrolling technique termed "Scrollerama"?
... that LeRoy Prinz, who staged dances in dozens of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s, was more an "idea man" than a choreographer, using simple steps and dance routines?
... that the Church of the Holy Trinity in Newton St Loe has a clock with only one hand?
... that the union of the Italian Sacarello and Bignone families in Gibraltar became known as the "Marriage of Two Mountains"?
... that Sunderland's semi-final penalty shootout win against Manchester United in order to reach the 2014 Football League Cup Final had no English players scoring any of the penalties?
... that Enid Blyton's books were banned by the BBC for being "second-rate" and without merit?
... that the music video for Bed Peace by American singer Jhené Aiko pays homage to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace protest?
... that Aasa Helgesen was elected the first female mayor in Norway after an election where she didn't know she was on the ballot?
... that Baby Doll Jacobson received his nickname after hitting a home run while a band played "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" on opening day of the 1912 season?
... that the inscriptions discovered in Mangulam are the earliest Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions?
... that the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board report on mass surveillance recommended against a proposal to mandate data retention by U.S. phone companies?
... that in her song "Glory and Gore", Lorde compares celebrity culture to gladiatorial combat?
... that the founder of Pensole Footwear Design Academy worked for Nike, but has offered classes in partnership with Adidas?
... that the Dutch East India Company attempted to eliminate the njai by importing orphaned girls from the Netherlands?
... that the Glorious Revolution put William and Mary on the Scottish throne and led to the dominance of Presbyterians in the Church of Scotland?
... that Liberia's first agricultural and vocational school is named after American educator Booker T. Washington?
... that Thokozile Masipa, the presiding judge assigned to the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, worked as a crime reporter for The Sowetan newspaper before her law career?
... that Toy Story 3 was listed in Time's 25 All-Time Best Animated Films?
... that Marta Dusseldorp visited the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery to prepare for her role as Senior Crown Prosecutor Janet King?
... that Frédéric Chopin left his homeland of Poland in 1830 and never returned?
... that the Hare and Billet pub was mistakenly accused in the House of Commons of serving a "blatant copy" of Lea & Perrins Worcester sauce?
... that a major character in "Who Ya Gonna Call?", an episode of the comedy-drama TV series Psych, is a man who is unknowingly also a woman and a violent murderer?
... that the Hertha Feist dance school was moved by the Nazis to smaller premises?
... that Kendallina, a genus of trilobite, lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian?
... that Sutton High Street is the site of the pub where the Rolling Stones were spotted by a music promoter in 1963?
... that Clara Breed , a San Diego librarian, is known for the "Dear Miss Breed" letters she exchanged with Japanese American children held in internment camps during World War II?
... that in 1899, Frederick Buscombe commissioned the Buscombe Building in Gastown, Vancouver?
... that Kansas House Bill 2453 would allow service providers in Kansas to refuse service to same-sex couples under the purview of religious liberty?
... that during the 2011–12 OHL season, Mike Halmo received a 10-game suspension for a hit on Nail Yakupov?
... that an experimental musical instrument based on Savart's wheel is said to make "the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound ever known"?
... that the global poultry industry was expected to produce 65.5 million tonnes of eggs in 2013?
... that Abbi Jacobson plays a fictionalized version of herself on the Comedy Central series Broad City?
... that despite influencing several Beatles' songs, Arthur Alexander's 1962 song "Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)" was nearly forgotten until a Beatles' bootleg recording surfaced more than a decade later?
... that Yang Bojun, who was taught to read Confucian classics by his grandfather, became an author of several influential commentaries on them?
... that eight years after rowing a Titanic lifeboat and honoring her drowned son with a Harvard library, Eleanor Widener waited on a yacht while her new husband fought "scantily-clad, ferocious cannibals"?
... that Meldon Viaduct, on Dartmoor in Devon, is one of only two surviving lattice truss railway bridges in Britain?
... that a symposium on Genghis Khan led to the removal of Daramyn Tömör-Ochir from the Mongolian Politburo for being a "nationalist"?
... that American librarian Josephus Nelson Larned sat at a desk opposite Mark Twain when they both wrote for the Buffalo Express?
... that during the 20-event 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships, 15 world records were equalled or surpassed?
... that the Bluefin-21 is an underwater drone that is being used in search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
... that Maryland Delegate Torrey C. Brown, a physician, once assisted in saving the life of a fellow legislator who suffered a heart attack during a debate?
... that the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik) leader A.V. Thamarakshan is supported by the BJP in this year's parliamentary poll?
... that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band's title track was once described as a "revolutionary moment in the creative life" of the Beatles?
... that medieval historian Seta Dadoyan was awarded the David Anhaght medal for her contributions to Armenian philosophical studies?
... that one of Nader Kadhim's main motivations to write Saving Hope was to defend the hope "revived" by the Arab Spring?
... that Swedish soprano Malin Byström sang the title role in Thaïs at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in 2012?
... that in 1970 the State of Connecticut acquired 198 acres (108 ha) of Haley Farm from A. C. White for a total of $300,000 and declared it a state park?
... that Bert "Yank" Levy, who taught the British Home Guard and coauthored one of the first books on guerrilla warfare, said a cheese cutter could be used as a weapon?
... that Australian actress Yael Stone's Boston accent on Orange Is the New Black has been called "the most amazing accent on television"?
... that cellarettes were designed with 3-D optical illusion art to conceal their illegal alcoholic beverages during prohibition in the United States?
... that the late 16th-century yadu poems by Queen Hsinbyushin Medaw are among the earliest Burmese language records of Lan Na?
... that mountaineer Joe Puryear made the first ascents of six peaks in the Himalayas?
... that parts of Cantiones sacrae, 40 choral pieces composed by Heinrich Schütz during the Thirty Years' War, have been described as intensely expressive, others as happy?