derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball was developed in just 61 days?
... that bus rapid transit was chosen for Seattle's RapidRide G Line, because Madison Street was considered too steep for streetcar service?
... that Abu Omar al-Turkistani, an al-Qaeda militant from China who fought in the Battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, eventually died during the Syrian Civil War?
... that the Packhorse Inn, a Somerset pub, has been designated as an asset of community value?
... that Bobby Egan, the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between North Korea and the United States?
... that a tiny embryonic skeleton found inside the fossil dinosaur egg Continuoolithus died approximately 8 to 10 days into development, making it the youngest fossil vertebrate ever discovered?
... that Missionary Day, celebrated on 5 March in French Polynesia, commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in Tahiti aboard the Duff ?
... that Alice Hirson played Eileen Riley Siegel, an Irish Catholic married to a Jew, on the soap opera One Life to Live?
... that the early Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone by Francis Poulenc was described as offering a "variety of tone colors, striking rhythms, delicious dissonances, and elegant wit"?
... that Bill Gulley, who for years was responsible for the nuclear football, was officially on the U.S. Post Office payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
... that Loch Ewe Distillery in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with stills over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
... that every single ballot cast for the Canadian Football League all-star team in 1989 included a vote for Gerald Alphin, but he did not make the squad?
... that the first three video game titles in the popular edutainment franchise Carmen Sandiego saw players chase Carmen and her henchmen across the world (1985), the United States (1986), and Europe (1988)?
... that in 1889, a US company built the Miami Railway Station in Canada, now a National Historic Site and museum?
... that AllMusic thought Phil Collins' "Two Worlds", featured in Disney's 1999 animated movie Tarzan, "eerily echo[ed]" the worldbeats of former Genesis bandmate Peter Gabriel?
... that the only player strike in Japanese professional baseball history occurred during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment and lasted for two days?
... that Julian Radcliffe is the founder of the world's largest private database of lost and stolen art?
... that the 1887 book Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising presents 177 biographies of African American men, many of whom were born as slaves?
... that judge William Henry Daniels committed suicide in 1897, three years after being dismissed for not taking an oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government of Hawaii?
... that Tony Collins became the first black manager in the English Football League when he was appointed by Rochdale in 1960?
... that The Globe and Mail called Canadian football player Waymon Alridge "the newest Rider star" after he caught passes for 75 and 90 yards in a single game?
... that Count Basie's "Jumpin' at the Woodside" is about a Harlem hotel where African American jazz musicians and baseball players stayed during racial segregation?
... that Canadian-American student Shmuel Schecter finished his four-year high school requirements in three years so that he could go to Poland to study at the Mir Yeshiva at the age of seventeen?
... that The Trumpeteers' cover of "Milky White Way" reached number eight on the Billboard "Race Records" chart?
... that if the sun anemone shrimp is separated from its host for more than 24 hours, it loses its immunity to the sea anemone's stinging cells?
... that one location of the all-you-can-eat Souper Salad buffet restaurant is in a former bank branch that has been called one of the "10 Coolest Buildings" in Phoenix, Arizona?
... that grey-hooded parakeets make twittering and warbling sounds similar to those made by barn swallows?
... that a painting of Hilo Bay by Joseph Nāwahī, the first Native Hawaiian to paint in the Western style, was featured on the Antiques Roadshow?
... that Buddy Alliston won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the Eglin Air Force Base football team after pausing his professional career to join the military?
... that in seven last pieces for organ, Sieben Stücke, Op. 145, Max Reger quotes Lutheran chorales and a patriotic anthem?
... that the Can You Hear Me? telephone scam reported by CBS News was subsequently classified as "unproven" by Snopes?
... that the Romanian Senate election of 1868, which consolidated the "reddish" liberal legislature, was held in July, when many conservative voters had left on vacation?
... that Joey Fischer was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?
... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
... that TROPEX 2017 witnessed the participation of forty-five major surface ships, five submarines, and fifty aircraft from the Indian Navy's Western and Eastern Naval Command?
... that "Es woll uns Gott genädig sein", a paraphrase by Martin Luther of Psalm 67 in German, appeared in the Erfurt Enchiridion in 1524?
... that during the American Civil War, William V. Rinehart served as an officer in both the 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment?
... that software company Lucas Learning did not know whether to market Star Wars: Droid Works on retailers' "game" or "education" shelves?
... that Francis Poulenc composed Litanies à la Vierge Noire, a French litany to the Black Virgin at Rocamadour , after a pilgrimage to the shrine?
... that Yale University architecture professor Louis Kahn said he would have given a failing grade to Uris Buildings Corporation's Three Penn Center?
... that the use of puns by Peter Adamson in his History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series, has been both praised and criticized?
... that HMS Pearl escorted troops to Kip's Bay during the American Revolutionary War in September 1776?
... that actor Ryan Phillippe played Billy Douglas in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera One Life to Live, one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
... that Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, besieged the Illyrians at Pelion (in modern Albania) in 335 BC, a year before waging war against the Achaemenid Empire?
... that Printer's Devilry crossword puzzles were among Ximenes' most popular, even though they break Ximenes' rules of cryptic crossword setting?
... that economist Susan Dynarski, who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?
... that East Base in Antarctica housed Jackie Ronne and Jennie Darlington, the first women to spend a winter on the continent?
... that M. J. Thirumalachar named two genera of fungi he discovered, Narasimhania and Narasimhella, after his father, M. J. Narasimhan?
... that readers requested that Glenn McCoy be terminated from the Belleville News-Democrat after the newspaper published his editorial cartoon, Trying to trash Betsy DeVos?
... that the Northern Ireland Assembly will lose 18 MLAs because of the Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, effective at the snap election today?
... that during the last decade, Lance Ryan appeared as Siegfried at three Bayreuth Festivals?
... that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
... that Lake Meke , a crater lake beside a volcanic cone, is a natural monument and a Ramsar site in Turkey?
... that King Kalākaua electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians J. W. Kalua, G. W. Pilipō and J. Nāwahī, and campaigning against them?
... that, no matter how n non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least 0.258n of them that will not touch other pennies in the subset?
... that in 1891, a fire at the State Normal School at Cheney destroyed the school's only building?
... that intratracheal instillation, the introduction of a substance directly into the trachea, is a widely used alternative to inhalation for respiratory toxicity testing?
... that through his political associations, Jesse Root Grant secured an appointment for enrollment at West Point for his son, Ulysses S. Grant?
... that two former Princes of Wallachia ran for deputy seats in 1857, both of them losing at Buzău and recovering to win at Dolj?
... that The Learning Company's educational video game franchise Reader Rabbit sold over 25 million copies between 1984 and 2002?
... that the first recorded human cannonball act was an 1877 London performance by 14-year-old Rossa Matilda Richter ?
... that the Bronx neighborhood of Kingsbridge was built on what was once an island in Tibbetts Brook?
... that Wipeout Pulse was developed around the feedback received about its predecessor, Wipeout Pure?
... that Stratford City Hall, a National Historic Site of Canada, was built on a triangular square?
... that the etchings of Léon Davent include Michelangelo at the Age of Twenty-Three made some forty years after Michelangelo was that age?
... that some Democrats in the New York State Senate formed the Independent Democratic Conference to caucus with Republicans?
... that the Professional Rapid Online Chess League (PRO Chess League) is a worldwide online rapid chess league with 48 teams, whose members include more than 100 grandmasters?
... that Karolina Styczyńska is the first non-Japanese person to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association?
... that Donald Trump and Merv Griffin fought for control of casino operator Resorts International in 1988?
... that the Dronacharya Award is an Indian sports coaching honour, named after Drona, the royal preceptor from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata?
... that while studying art in Paris, impoverished Canadian painter Henri Beau copied eleven paintings hanging in the Louvre and sold them to support himself?
... that concerns over whether video game Call of Cthulhu had been cancelled proved unfounded, when it was revived by a different developer more than two years after its original announcement?
... that Antonín Cyril Stojan, who led a life of heroic virtue, was given the title of Venerable by Pope Francis?
... that the jazz piece "Mannenberg", considered a notable example of music in the movement against apartheid, has no words?
... that nine million fish were rescued from the Feather River Fish Hatchery during the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis ?
... that New Zealand actor George Mason secured his first acting role in 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous when he was thirteen years old?
... that because of a water-soluble pigment, Erythranthe cuprea has copper-colored flowers instead of the more common red and yellow flowers found in its genus?
... that Canadian football player Wayne Allison was known as a dual-threat quarterback in college but was converted to play as a defensive back professionally?
... that the Landscape with the Flight into Egypt by Pieter Bruegel I includes two tiny salamanders, symbols of evil?
... that Hiram Kahanawai left his position as steward to Queen Emma to become commander of the Household Troops for her political rival King Kalākaua?
... that the new Propsteikirche, the third church St. Trinitatis in Leipzig, is the largest church built in East Germany since unification?
... that during the Emergency Alert System misactivation of 2005, everyone in Connecticut was ordered to flee the state, but the most common reaction was to change the channel?
... that the Altenberger Dom was restored with support from a Prussian king who decreed that Catholics and Protestants had to use it simultaneously?
... that Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, had to close within weeks of opening due to frost damage?
... that Lewis Ludington founded the city of Columbus, Wisconsin, but never resided in the state?
... that Puzzled was one of twenty games that came with the 2012 Neo Geo X console?
... that after the Duluth lynchings, the African-American suffragist Nellie Griswold Francis initiated, drafted, and lobbied for a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921?
... that the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus assiniensis stings larger prey but kills smaller prey with a snap of its jaws?
... that Loma Linda Foods and Worthington Foods were the largest manufacturers of soy-based foods in the U.S. in the 1960s?
... that Alf Ramsey led Ipswich Town to become English football champions four years before leading England to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup?
... that the engine frames of the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway "had to be extra heavy ... to withstand rough usage"?
... that El Temblor in Guatemala is the site of a ruined ancient Maya city that has not yet been excavated by archaeologists, but has been badly damaged by looters?
... that the linguistic research of Elena Georgieva showed that Bulgarian word order may change based on the emphasis a speaker wants to convey?
... that all four Andretti Autosport entries at the 2017 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach retired from the race due to mechanical or electrical issues?
... that the Bollywood writer Mukhram Sharma won the inaugural Filmfare Award for Best Story in 1955 for Aulad (1954)?
... that the NDR Chor performed in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie?
... that Min Bala staged a coup against King Hkun Law of Martaban, only to give up the throne at his wife's insistence?
... that the electric fire engine had numerous advantages over the 19th-century steam fire engine , but was not put into service because a storm could knock out the power?
... that anthropologist Verrier Elwin's autobiography The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin was published posthumously and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965?
... that Ed Krupp has been director of Griffith Observatory for more than half of its existence?
... that "The Devil of Christmas", a 2016 episode of Inside No. 9, was filmed using authentic 1970s cameras?
... that during the Trunajaya rebellion, Pangeran Adipati Anom expected a fake engagement at the Battle of Gegodog, but instead his army suffered a decisive defeat?
... that the newly-opened Karşıyaka Tram will be free of charge for its first 50 days?
... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of Mississippi?
... that soldiers lined up on the sinking British troopship SS Tyndareus began to sing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" while waiting for orders?
... that the recently named fossil egg Suchoolithus dates to the Late Jurassic, making it tied for the oldest-known crocodylomorph egg?
... that the film The Brainwashing of My Dad received funding from Kickstarter?
... that the term elastance, the inverse of capacitance, was coined by Oliver Heaviside to promote an analogy of a capacitor as a spring rather than a container of charge?
... that "Christ ist erstanden", an old German hymn mentioned as early as the 12th century, was set for choir in the 21st century?
... that despite topping his class at Sandhurst, John Gellibrand found the prospects for promotion in the British Army so bleak that he resigned his commission and moved to Tasmania to grow apples?
... that Rishabhanatha , the traditional founder of Jainism, was said to be born in the age when there was happiness all around with no work for men to do?
... that the Australian cricketer Veronica Pyke was the second highest wicket-taker in the inaugural Women's Big Bash League season in 2015–16?
... that when Marshall L. Shepard said the opening prayer at the 1936 Democratic National Convention, segregationist Senator Ellison D. Smith left in protest?
... that a campaign mailer for Los Angeles' Measure S designed to look like an eviction notice drew the ire of the sheriff's department after many recipients thought it was real?
... that professional figure skaters Stéphane Lambiel and Nobunari Oda had cameos in the anime series Yuri on Ice?
... that Big Chief Restaurant in Wildwood, Missouri, is all that remains of a tourist complex that opened on U.S. Route 66 in 1928?
... that during the Holocaust in Italy, doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital protected Jews from the Nazis by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K"?
... that Louise Nixon Sutton was the first African-American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics by New York University in 1962?
... that Muhammad's first wife Khadija and uncle Abu Talib died in the same year, traditionally known as the Year of Sorrow?
... that the predatory mite Neoseiulus cucumeris can survive and breed while feeding solely on pollen?
... that Filipino director Jerrold Tarog has planned a film adaptation of the graphic novel The Mythology Class by Arnold Arre?
... that two students at Traian National College in Turnu Severin, Romania, were executed in 1949 for being part of the anti-communist resistance movement?
... that Caleb Swanigan went from being a 360-pound (160 kg) eighth grader to an NCAA basketball consensus first-team All-American?
... that Washington at Verplanck's Point , a gift from John Trumbull to the president's wife, Martha Washington, was praised as “the most perfect extant” by her grandson?
... that on his 48th birthday, artillery officer Bjarne Keyser Barth was tasked by his commander with surrendering a fortress to invading German troops?
... that the plant species Antirrhinum filipes has been discovered on slopes in the Grand Canyon, within the Mojave Desert, and within the Sonoran Desert?
... that Javed Agrewala and his team developed a vaccination program against Mycobacterium tuberculosis for which he holds a United States patent?
... that Kenny and the Kasuals' "Journey to Tyme" is considered one of the earliest songs to incorporate elements of psychedelic music?
... that Brigadier General Salvador Estrella earned the moniker red blooded for his courage in battle?
... that Dunes Forest Village was an exclusive "island" retreat, surrounded by sand rather than water, and owned by a newspaper publisher?
... that the Sceriman family, a wealthy Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity, gained Roman citizenship in 1696?
... that within a year of implementing express service , San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail system Caltrain experienced a 12 percent increase in ridership?
... that General Marcial Samaniego, Paraguayan defense minister under Alfredo Stroessner, had a fascination with the religions of indigenous peoples in Paraguay?
... that in 1724, Pope Benedict XIII had to be convinced to accept his election to the papacy by the head of the Dominican Order?
... that source code laundering occurs when code released under one licence is redistributed by another party under a different licence?
... that the January 2017 reinstatement of the Holman Rule allows members of the United States House of Representatives to amend routine spending bills to mandate the firing of individual Federal employees?
... that the Australian teacher Lorna Hodgkinson was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Education at Harvard University?
... that Steps' fifth studio album, Tears on the Dancefloor, is their first album in 17 years to consist mostly of original material?
... that Virendra Singh delivered the inaugural Homi Bhabha exchange lecture of the Institute of Physics and Indian Physics Association in 2000?
... that during the 1954 Paraguayan coup d'etat, President Federico Chávez tried to seek refuge in Paraguay's Military College, but was arrested by its director?
... that the MT GDF Suez Neptune, a floating production storage and offloading vessel, serves as Turkey's first floating liquified natural gas storage facility?
... that Hannibal sacked the Iberian settlement within the site of Sagunto Castle , an action that led to the Second Punic War?
... that the Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park includes the Atkins House, the oldest brick building in Hopkins County, Texas?
... that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered was the first Call of Duty game to have accurate bullet casings ejected from every gun?
... that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium, a trace element, is essential for coliform bacterial growth?
... that Abu Omar returned home after the Battle of Aleppo to find that only 13 of his 30 vintage cars remained?
... that Ilse Hess, who was one of the first women to study at the University of Munich, remained a committed Nazi after World War II?
... that "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" means that it is advisable to follow the conventions of the area in which you are residing or visiting?
... that Elder Charles D. Beck's boogie-woogie-based piano playing on "Memphis Flu" anticipated the style of rock and roll pianists?
... that federal funding for the project to electrify Bay Area commuter railroad Caltrain was pulled days before construction was scheduled to begin?
... that Angata, a Christian Rapa Nui prophetess, led a 1914 rebellion on Easter Island, claiming God wanted her people to kill and eat the island's livestock?
... that Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, promised to restore the freedom of the Székely commoners if they joined his campaign against the Ottomans?
... that Max Reger conducted the premiere of "An die Hoffnung" (To Hope), a setting of Hölderlin's poem and his only orchestral song, with contralto Anna Erler-Schnaudt?
... that Ravinder Goswami carried out the first studies on vitamin D deficiency in India?
... that Jadwiga Szubartowicz , the oldest living Pole, witnessed the October Revolution?
... that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life!?
... that in 1894, a flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrotte karst cave of Austria for ten days?
... that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the Ottoman Empire?
... that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates, and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
... that a week in honor of the prawn soup chupe de camarones took place in areas of Peru in 2016?
... that Pendleton Dudley refused to talk about the work he did to launch Woodrow Wilson's political career?
... that Bach's cantata for Easter Monday, Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6, is based on the Road to Emmaus narration?
... that Brigadier General Guy Fort is the only American-born general officer to be executed by enemy forces?
... that records of the Wetar ground dove in West Timor are from just three localities?
... that Constance Davey established the first "opportunity classes" for children with special educational needs in South Australia?
... that at the 2017 Rey de Reyes, professional wrestler Johnny Mundo became a triple champion, holding the AAA Mega, Cruiserweight, and Latin American Championships?
... that Queen Tamaeva V saved the Rimatara lorikeet from extinction through a royal taboo that forbade her people from harming or exporting the birds?
... that the 20th-century Easter hymn "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" takes its melody from "Lasst uns erfreuen" (Let us rejoice), a tune published in 1623 by a German activist against witch-hunts?
... that a career-threatening knee injury to Tasmanian Roar cricketer Erin Burns was successfully treated with stem cell injections by the Sydney Swans' club doctor, Nathan Gibbs?
... that the tongue of the golden-belted bumble bee is about two-thirds as long as its body?
... that passenger service on the Staten Island Railway's North Shore Branch was discontinued 16 years after it was rebuilt?
... that Ursula Zollenkopf, a contralto of the NWDR Chor, performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere and in an Easter cantata by Bach?