derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that by 2013, the revenue of the Syrian tourist industry had decreased by 94 percent since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011?
... that the Anita Krajnc case could result in her spending ten years in prison for giving water to thirsty pigs on their way to slaughter?
... that Christian Ramsay , an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, died with a list of plants in her hand?
... that the Turkish slave-soldier Ahmad ibn Tulun established the first local dynasty to rule Egypt since the Pharaohs?
... that fossil eggs classified as Elongatoolithidae have been found with preserved embryos inside?
... that Marianne Katoppo, who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology, found the term feminist theology "too loaded"?
... that the virtually abandoned Rukai slate village of Kucapungane is an "endangered site" according to the World Monuments Fund?
... that the Manav Vikas Mission of the Government of Maharashtra provides free bus service for village girls from their native village to their schools?
... that Appian Way Productions has produced The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
... that a recitative in Bach's cantata for the Sunday after New Year's Day, Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 58, retells the prescribed gospel about the Flight into Egypt?
... that Aviel Barclay, the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe, completed her first Torah scroll in 2010?
... that the funeral march In Memoriam by Jean Sibelius was conceived in memory of Eugen Schauman, who shot a Governor-General in 1904?
... that Mãe Menininha do Gantois was instrumental in gaining legal recognition of Candomblé and its rituals?
... that the lemon-shaped container for Jif lemon juice was one of the first blow moulded polythene containers used for food applications?
... that Ernie Blake helped interrogate Nazis Hermann Göring and Albert Speer, and adopted his code name as his real name, before founding Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico?
... that the 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon was called the "world's longest half marathon"?
... that the 1981 election of Kathryn J. Whitmire as mayor heralded a major change in the city politics of Houston, Texas?
... that the house of the Chief or King of the community, at the southwestern end of Bawomataluo village, is said to be the "oldest and largest on Nias"?
... that devout Muslim Mohamed Hadid, a lifelong teetotaler, owns a 5,000-bottle wine cellar and a Beverly Hills winery?
... that Judd Nelson, who played Joe Hunt in the 1987 TV movie Billionaire Boys Club, is playing the character's father in the upcoming film of the same name?
... that Polish football player Łukasz Cieślewicz was named player of the year in the Faroe Islands in 2011 and 2015?
... that We, too, have a Job to Do was painted by Norman Rockwell to encourage Boy Scouts to participate in the war effort during World War II?
... that Izzy Slapawitz was responsible for several fan riots in the Southern United States between 1978 and 1982?
... that Qian Zhuangfei , a Communist secret agent credited with saving the life of Premier Zhou Enlai, was the father of Li Lili, nicknamed "China's Mae West"?
... that the plot for the 200th episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was partly inspired by the strip search phone call scam?
... that the Welsh rugby league prop Morgan Evans made his national debut in a charity match against Keighley Cougars in honour of the rugby league footballer Danny Jones?
... that in February 1850, Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo was the subject of a public letter-writing feud?
... that Harald Sigtryggsson was installed as King of Limerick by his cousin Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin?
... that after Rachel Henderlite's 1965 ordination as a minister, a retired pastor sent her a postcard every year quoting the biblical injunction, "Let the women keep silent in the churches"?
... that a few cockroach species are kept as pets, and several species are raised as food for insectivorous pets?
... that Level Mountain is the most voluminous and most persistent volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province of North America?
... that Vernon Arnold Haugland was the first civilian to receive the Silver Star medal, normally awarded only to members of the United States Armed Forces?
... that the 2015 Hurricane Blanca was the earliest recorded tropical cyclone to make landfall on the Baja California Peninsula in any given year?
... that the legend of Lopamudra in Mahabharata is said to be "the glorification of domestic life and family and demonstrates the incompleteness of a life based solely on asceticism"?
... that British media have compared the Scottish footballer Ryan Gauld to Lionel Messi?
... that the Yedigöller National Park in Turkey is best known for its seven lakes formed by landslides?
... that Elisabeth Abegg, a teacher who provided shelter to Jews during the Holocaust, also tutored Jewish children at her home?
... that music from Bach's cantata for New Year's Day, [[[Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171|Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), appears in his Mass in B minor?
... that polymer chemist Swaminathan Sivaram holds the record for the most United States patents by an Indian national working in India?
... that in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Baekje Historic Areas, about 4,600 antiquities were discovered in good condition in the Royal Tomb of King Muryeong?
... that the Argentine stem weevil is not considered economically important in its native South America, but is a serious agricultural pest in New Zealand?
... that an opposing basketball coach praised UCLA Bruins freshman Aaron Holiday's defense by comparing him to a Tasmanian devil?
... that Bara Gumbad , built during the Lodi dynasty in 1490 CE, is believed to have the earliest constructed full dome of any building in Delhi?
... that after almost drowning during his foray into water polo, Ka'imi Fairbairn returned to American football and was named the top college kicker in the nation?
... that perennial ryegrass staggers is a disease of livestock caused by an endophytic fungus sometimes present in perennial ryegrass?
... that 138 years after establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau, Angela Palacious became its first woman deacon in 1999?
... that by 1566, Fukuda was home to more than 1,000 Catholic Kirishitans?
... that Ardina Moore, a fluent speaker of Quapaw, created her own workbook, tapes, and classes to help preserve and teach the language to younger members of her tribe?
... that Jean Sibelius conducted his Andante Festivo in a live broadcast on New Year's Day 1939, the only sound document of his interpretation of his works?
... that Meherzia Labidi Maïza was proud of including women's rights in the post-Arab Spring Tunisian constitution?
... that Pitbull began producing a New Year's Eve special for Fox in 2014?
... that in 1941, Scottish soldier Peter Cochrane single-handedly destroyed two Italian machine gun posts with grenades?
... that real ear measurement used by audiologists involves insertion of a probe to within 6 mm of the eardrum?
... that Elvis Presley's hairstylist Larry Geller was also his spiritual advisor?
... that in 2013, there were 819 active mines in Yemen producing stone, gypsum, refined petroleum products, and salt?
... that at the pulpit of the synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, Arenda Haasnoot said, "This is my calling. Here I am in my place"?
... that in the 1907 Tour de France, some participants treated the race as a pleasure ride, stopping for lunch when they chose and spending the night in the best hotels they could find?
... that 210 journalists and intellectuals called for Governor Li Hongzhong to step down after he grabbed the recorder from a reporter who sought to interview him?
... that Natalia Lafourcade sought inspiration for her album Hasta la Raíz in Agustín Lara's repertoire and her native country, Mexico?
... that the Venezuelan footballer Edder Farías scored against Honduras in February 2015, his country's first victory since September 2013?
... that in the Sharabha Upanishad, Shiva, incarnating as Sharabha in a fierce anthropomorphic form of an eagle, lion, and man, slays Narasimha, an incarnation of Vishnu?
... that serial killer Hilda Nilsson committed suicide by hanging the same day the courts commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment?
... that The New York Times called the 2013 film Stray Dogs a "glum, humorless exercise in Asian miserablism"?
... that drummer, singer, and songwriter Emily Estefan was born in 1994 after her mother, Gloria Estefan, had been told she would never give birth following a 1990 tour-bus crash?
... that the director of Saving Mes Aynak presented Afghani leaders with a petition signed by 100,000 people in support of the preservation of the 5,000-year-old archaeological site ?
... that W. Lair Thompson, the President of the Oregon Senate, lost his re-election bid in 1916 by one vote?
... that Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in pants?
... that Makrana marble was used in the construction of the Taj Mahal and the Victoria Memorial?
... that Black Metropolis, a foundational American sociology text by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., resulted from the work of as many as 200 researchers, typists, and copyists?
... that after receiving her PhD in 1921, Georgiana Simpson , like other black women scholars, could only find a university position teaching home economics?
... that when Liverpool played in the Football League Cup Final today, they did so for a record 12th time?
... that Soup the Chemist has been called the "Godfather of Christian hip hop"?
... that the plot for the Veronica Mars episode "Postgame Mortem" was based around a scene in an elevator, and the crew "wrote backwards" from that scene?
... that Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the original soundtrack for the 2015 film The Revenant during his recovery from throat cancer?
... that Lebanese IT expert and U.S. permanent resident Nizar Zakka, detained in Iran since September 18, 2015, has been accused of being an American spy?
... that anti-fascists, Islamists, and neo-Nazis rioted against a tennis match?
... that Iarla Ó Lionáird sang "Casadh an tSúgáin" in Brooklyn?
... that the Of–Bayburt road in northeastern Turkey is considered one of the most dangerous routes, with over 20 steep hairpin turns?
... that the Pac-12 Conference award for men's basketball coach of the year was renamed in honor of John Wooden?
... that the Navalgund Durries are a type of Indian rug with geometric patterns and designs of birds and animals?
... that Governor Ye Liansong said he never thought of becoming a politician until he was told of his appointment as vice-mayor?
... that Puri hosts the famed Rath Yatra, attended by at least a million people every year?
... that James Maxie Ponder, St. Petersburg, Florida's first African-American physician, began a medical practice out of his home and accepted payment in poultry, vegetables, and ham?
... that Halloween cake themes include cakes that resemble jack-o'-lanterns and the human brain, and cupcakes with bloody teeth emerging from them?
... that Zeng Junchen, one of 20th-century China's most successful drug lords, started out selling salt?
... that the Olly Murs song "Please Don't Let Me Go" is based on one of his real-life experiences of a failed relationship?
... that when a reporter told horse breeder Betty Sain that there were no coyotes in Tennessee, she presented him with a dead one?
... that a boring mill at the mouth of White Deer Creek in 1776 made gun barrels for the Continental Army?
... that after the release of Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, the original film was described as being the first "flop" to be given a director's cut?
... that earlier this month, the town of Wangaratta was overrun by hairy panic?
... that Six Gentlemen by Ni Zan is thought to represent the isolation of scholar-recluses in Yuan dynasty China?
... that after seeing a trailer for Oprah Winfrey's Belief series, Tim McGraw got Winfrey to provide footage for his "Humble and Kind" music video?
... that professional surfer Kala Alexander is vice president of an organization that gives children with cystic fibrosis surfing lessons?
... that Gujarati theatre actor Markand Bhatt received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2008?
... that Ezubao attracted 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) from 900,000 Chinese investors before it was closed down as a Ponzi scheme?
... in post-World War II United States, the Harley-Davidson KR dominated domestic motorcycle racing with an obsolete but highly refined flathead engine?
... that a forensic facial reconstruction of two-year-old Bella Bond triggered approximately 56 million Internet views?
... that the Whakamana Cannabis Museum, New Zealand's first museum dedicated to cannabis culture, opened in Caversham, Dunedin, in 2013?
... that Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's Angela Davis" for igniting debate on cultural racism?
... that the upcoming Dead & Company 2016 Summer Tour will be the first shows played at Fenway Park by members of the Grateful Dead?
... that the shell of the fossil egg Dictyoolithus is made up of five superimposed layers of eggshell units?
... that some scholars speculate that the "plague of emerods" described in 1 Samuel of the King James Bible was actually an outbreak of bubonic plague?
... that in her colorful memoir When Denver and I Were Young, Edwina Hume Fallis warned against trying on another child's hat, because "you might bring home something you didn't like"?
... that one son of a former prime minister unveiled Mells War Memorial while another is commemorated on it?
... that during the Siege of Syracuse by the Aghlabids in 877–878, the Byzantine navy failed to aid the city on time, as it was employed in the construction of the Nea Ekklesia church?
... that the parents of the first white child born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, settled on Glade Run?
... that a mysterious World War II airbase of the former Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service located at Nishiki, Kumamoto, is currently being surveyed with a view to eventually opening it up to tourists?
... that the Welsh architect Thomas Thomas made sure he preached one of the very first sermons in every chapel he built?
... that Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve had no official name when it was gazetted in 1979, but had been used for beekeeping for generations?
... that Rahul Thakkar, an Indian-American software developer, jointly won the 2016 Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement?
... that the Armada Memorial is built on Plymouth Hoe, the site where tradition holds Francis Drake wanted to finish a game of bowls before defeating the Spanish Armada?
... that Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama, a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants?
... that professional wrestler Atomic Star became the only rookie to compete in three El Protector tournaments when he won the 2016 El Protector?
... that Nic Case became the first driver to top 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) with a radio-controlled car in 2014?
... that in the Battle of the Straits in 965, the Fatimids employed divers to tie ropes to the Byzantine ships, along which incendiary devices were then hurled against them?
... that Triprismatoolithus is a kind of fossil egg that was probably laid by an unknown species of alvarezsaurian dinosaur?
... that Zaila McCalla, first female Chief Justice of Jamaica, is also the Chancellor of the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands?
... that "America can't do a damn thing against us" was a slogan used by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Supreme Leader of Iran, during the hostage crisis?
... that African-American Daniel Robert Alexander was described as a favorite of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II and blacksmith to Haile Selassie?
... that Zvezdelina Stankova brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the Berkeley Math Circle?
... that entrepreneur Ren Jianxin, founder of the world's 265th largest company, began with a loan of RMB 10,000?
... that in the Battle of Dumpu, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner, although covered in blood and black ants, refused to be carried from the field for fear it might endanger the stretcher bearers?
... that Norwich War Memorial , first unveiled in 1927, was relocated in 1938, and then rotated in 2011?
... that at 81, horse trainer Bud Dunn became the oldest rider ever to win the Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Championship?
... that Marianne Means was the first woman reporter to be assigned full-time coverage of the White House?
... that Ferdinand's threat to Genoa during World War II allowed a Dragoon to achieve tactical surprise?
... that Norma Cox Astwood, a clinical psychologist, became Vice President of the Senate of Bermuda?
... that Mariah Carey recorded a cover version of the Brenda K. Starr song "I Still Believe" as a thank you for helping her get into the music industry?
... that Tibs the Great vanquished all his foes during his 14-year reign?
... that the flower of the cactus Echinopsis spachiana mainly opens at night?
... that the American policy analyst Gareth Porter, argues in his Manufactured Crisis that allegations of Iran's attempts to build nuclear weapons have been fabricated by Israel and the United States?
... that Banner Lane was the site of one of the largest Second World War British shadow factories with over one million square feet of floorspace?
... that Detty Kurnia is an Indonesian vocalist who sang Dari Sunda which was among the five best albums listed by Q Magazine?
... that the losses sustained by the crew of patrol boat Phaethon, during the battle of Tillyria in 1964, were the first battle casualties of the Hellenic Navy after World War II?
... that the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix was won by Sebastian Vettel even though he lost his bottle?
... that C. C. Beall's 1945 Treasury poster of Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima was used for a World War II campaign which brought in $26 billion?
... that Michael Muhney did not know about his character's death on Veronica Mars until receiving the script for his final episode, "Mars, Bars"?
... that Paulette Poujol-Oriol's literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions?
... that to hike round the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps is a 170-kilometre (110 mi) trip, usually taking 11 days, but top athletes run round the Tour du Mont Blanc circuit in just 21 hours?
... that director Naji Abu Nowar produced Theeb, Jordan's first film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award?
... that Undulatoolithus, a kind of fossil egg from China, probably received intensive parental care?
... that the Bestiaire by Philip de Thaun is one of two medieval English sources for the story behind the phrase "crocodile tears"?
... that a distinctive diamond helped secure a bodyless murder conviction in the case of Robert Wykel, last seen 20 years ago today?
... that Crucian Ruby M. Rouss served in the Women's Army Corps before becoming the "first black woman to head a Legislature in the United States"?
... that Rare celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing Rare Replay, a title compiling 30 video games which it created?
... that Ruhollah Khomeini, in his letter to Gorbachev, invited him to monotheism and Islam and also predicted the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc?
... that during filming of the Vietnam War documentary Introduction to the Enemy, a landmine killed a man near Jane Fonda, whose reaction to the death was kept in the film?
... that Ravindra Jadeja is the only batsman to score three triple centuries in the Ranji Trophy?
... that Sivion's stage name is a misspelling of his old one, "Vision"?
... that the Carbajal Valley was carved by a glacier with ice 600–800 metres (2,000–2,600 ft) thick?
... that Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen committed suicide in 1945 after suffering most of her life from ill health?
... that Beatrice Helen Worsley wrote the first program for the Manchester Mark 1, received the first PhD in computer science, and holds the record among WRENs for the longest time at sea?
... that 42 Lomasney Way in Boston's West End has been called "The Last Tenement", and has survived two fires, decay, and urban renewal?
... that Boyd Overhulse was unanimously elected President of the Oregon Senate just 11 days after taking his senate seat in 1957, the first Democrat to hold that position in 79 years?
... that Rose Piper's 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues"?
... that Kashmir papier-mâché , a colourful painted handicraft of Kashmir that was brought by Shia Muslims from Persia in the 15th century, is based primarily on paper pulp?
... that the Wadamisaki Battery was the first national historic site registered in Hyōgo Prefecture?
... that Astrid Schirmer appeared in roles by Richard Wagner, both Venus and Elisabeth in his Tannhäuser, and in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde?
... that the Bangalore Blue variety of grape has been grown for the past 150 years exclusively in the districts of Bangalore Urban, Chikkaballapura and Kolar?
... that the association footballer Dick Pudan was banned from the sport in 1907 after he walked out on his club, which had refused to let him play professional cricket too?
... that in Abandon the Old in Tokyo, Yoshihiro Tatsumi wanted to depict postwar Japan, where he felt that the focus on economic growth was given precedence over the lifestyles of its people?
... that the 1628 Robletti edition of Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni by Girolamo Frescobaldi was dedicated to Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who engaged him as a court musician?
... that redundant Snatch Land Rovers awaiting disposal were turned into Panama remote controlled vehicles ?
... that after graduating from high school, Korbin Forrister chose full-time stock car racing over baseball?
... that unlike the Marvel Comics adaptation of Planet of the Apes, IDW Publishing's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive could use the likeness of Charlton Heston?
... that Maria Carbone appeared in 1931 as Desdemona in a complete recording of Verdi's Otello, one of her only two recordings?
... that An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara (1762) by British Army officer Thomas Davies was the first eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls?
... that Anthony Hill was naked, unarmed and suffering from mental illness when he was shot by police in the U.S. state of Georgia?
... that Tubercuoolithus is one of the fossil eggs from Sevenmile Hill, the oldest fossil egg site in the Two Medicine Formation?
... that when Maria Benedita Bormann was called a female Émile Zola, it was not meant as a compliment?
... that Anna Korondi appeared at the Bavarian State Opera as Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss and in a leading role in the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Bernarda Albas Haus?
... that the pre-1st century text Mahanarayana Upanishad, literally "Great Vishnu Upanishad", glorifies not only Vishnu but also Shiva?
... that Colby Carthel is the son of fellow American football head coach Don Carthel?
... that Gujarat's Sankheda furniture is named after the Sankheda village, where it is made with teak wood and lacquer and painted in traditional bright shades of maroon and gold?
... that the black Liberian scholar and educator, Princess Fatima Massaquoi, wrote of her challenging experiences in Nazi Germany and the U.S. South in a recently rediscovered autobiography?
... that CR-39, used in the manufacture of plastic eyeglass lenses, was one of 200 polymers invented by Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation during World War II?
... that the mechanical engineer Lionel Bussey had 600 pairs of women's shoes?
... that 2001 Zambian presidential candidate Gwendoline Konie published a poem against male arrogance?