derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation can be used to treat anxiety, depression, and insomnia?
...that Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women has been made into a movie twice, and revived on Broadway several times?
...that in electrical engineering, a Smith chart is a common way of graphing the amount of a signal reflected by a telephone line?
...that the Thue-Morse sequence has applications in number theory, combinatorics, differential geometry and chess?
...Belgian artist Henry Van de Velde was one of the leading representatives of the Art Nouveau movement?
...that Raisa Gorbacheva is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow's third-most popular tourist destination?
...that the endangered golden lion tamarin has a long, but not prehensile, tail?
...that the catchphrase "Kowabunga !" was popularized by the NBC program Howdy Doody?
...that in 1916, Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener due to World War I-era anti-German sentiment?
...that the U.S. Postal Service's POSTNET uses a checksum to verify zip codes?
...that the Balkan comic opera Ero the Joker was first performed on November 2, 1935?
...that the Tokyo Monorail, which travels at speeds of up to 80 kph, was constructed to coincide with the 1964 Summer Olympics?
...that jumping plant lice and aphids are considered to be the "primitive" group within the Hemiptera order of true bugs?
...that in 1971, Pakistani writer Eqbal Ahmad was indicted on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger?
... that a pencil sharpener "is a device for sharpening a pencil's point by shaving the end of the pencil"? Well, all right, you probably did.
...that, in the U.S. Navy, advancement to Petty Officer First Class is dependent on time in service, performance evaluations, and rate examinations?
...that Jane Delano, a relative of U.S. President FDR, founded the American Red Cross nursing service?
...that there is no widely accepted explanation for geographic features called Carolina bays, but that meteors may be the cause?
...that Comiskey Park was the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball until its demolition in 1991?
...that a demisemiquaver is a musical note that is played for 1/32 the duration of a whole note?
...that Ancient Egyptian architect Senemut was allegedly the lover of the Pharoah Hatshepsut?
...that Henri Poincaré first stated the Poincaré duality in terms of Betti numbers?
...that a vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in common law countries because they have previously undertaken frivolous litigation claims or procedures?
...that American frontiersman Hugh Glass traveled 200 miles through the wilderness, alone and gravely injured, after surviving a grizzly bear attack?
...that the framework of the cautionary tale became a cliché in 1980s slasher films?
...that Abraham Baldwin, one of America's founding fathers, served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives?
...that trisecting the angle is one of the three impossible tasks using classical ruler-and-compass construction?
...that the Waldorf Astoria in New York City sits on the site of the former home of William Waldorf Astor?
...that the Super Friends had two sets of sidekicks: Wendy & Marvin, and then the Wonder Twins?
...that the California sea slug is very useful to the study of neurobiology because of its small number of large neurons?
...that Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is famous for his anti-Stalinist work?
...that mushroom bodies have nothing to do with fungi, but are part of the brain anatomy of arthropods?
...that the biggest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere will be the Southern African Large Telescope, opening later this year?
...that the first standard for donated organs was that they be from so-called "non-heart beating donors"?
...that Le Corbusier's most famous building is probably Unité d'Habitation in Marseille?
...that scientists are testing Einstein's theory of general relativity with Gravity Probe B, an artificial satellite?
...that SBD Dauntless dive bombers sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and a cruiser during the Battle of Midway?
...that the first British merchant navy ship lost to enemy fire since World War II was the Atlantic Conveyor, sunk by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War?
...that the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo attacked workers who were building the Uganda Railway which connects Uganda and Kenya?
...that Oriental metal is a kind of death metal music that originated in Israel which has traditional Jewish and "Oriental" influences?
...that Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moved into the notoriously miserable Cabrini-Green housing project in 1981?
...that the Valdivian ecoregion contains the only temperate rainforest in South America?
...that George H.W. Bush flew a TBF Avenger while he was in the U.S. Navy?
...that American Zoetrope was originally housed in a warehouse in San Francisco in 1969?
...that the 555th Parachute Infantry Company was the first African-American airborne unit in the United States Army?
...that the gestation period of the ring-tailed lemur is approximately 146 days?
...that the original "dreamer of dreams" was British poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy?
...Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, was the father of the infamous Vlad the Impaler?
...that industrialist Nazi Party member John Rabe saved more than 50,000 Chinese nationals from the Rape of Nanking?
...that the improper use of a flag of truce or of the national flag is a forbidden ruse of war?
...that the Palau Congressional Library was founded in 1981, and has a staff of two?
...that Thutmose I was the first Pharaoh to be buried in the Valley of the Kings?
...that the Reduced Shakespeare Company performs all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in 97 minutes?
...that children born between 1901 and 1910 are said to be from the Interbellum Generation?
...that because of an effort to curb the spread of STDs, prostitution in Germany has been legal since the 1920s?
...that Notre-Dame de la Paix Basilica in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire is the world's tallest cathedral?
...that the film The Titfield Thunderbolt was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales?
...that pole stars change over time because stars exhibit a slow but distinct drift with respect to the Earth's axis?
...that high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest individual Olympic champion in athletics?
...that the Allies organized the South East Asia Command, led by Lord Mountbatten, to manage operations in the southern Pacific Theater during World War II?
...that Herb Robert, a species of cranesbill, is believed by traditional herbologists to be a toothache palliative?
...that Mickey Marcus is the only person buried at the United States Military Academy who died fighting under a foreign flag?
...that in the United Kingdom a County palatine was one which had special autonomy and was ruled by an Earl or Count?
...that the Von Willebrand factor is a blood protein used by the coagulation function of the circulatory system?
...that the Battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War?
...that The Most Dangerous Game has been repeatedly used as source material by television shows like Gilligan's Island?
...that Russian military man Boris Shaposhnikov successfully transitioned from the armed forces of czarist Russia to those of the USSR?
...that Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Florida, was the first permanent French colony in North America?
...that the Henrician Articles, passed in 1573, laid out the principles of government in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
...that the use of the term President in its current sense, meaning executive government officer, may have come from the colonial-era American university system?
...that Tamale, Ghana obtains its electricity from Akosombo Dam in the central Ghana?
...that the colorful Sri Lanka Junglefowl is part of the junglefowl family from which our modern domestic chickens derive?
...that the Byzantine Senate survived from the end of the Roman Empire up until the time of the Fourth Crusade?
...that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera seria Idomeneo is set on the island of Crete following the Trojan War?
...that Grigol Peradze was a Georgian ecclesiastic figure who was gassed in Auschwitz?
...that Labatt Park in London, Ontario, Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world?
...that the USS Frank Knox was named in honor of Frank Knox, who was United States Secretary of the Navy during World War II?
...that the Nicobar Pigeon is a large, heavy, 40-centimetre-long pigeon?
...that French Sinologist Paul Pelliot was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of Peking?
...that Wyndham Halswelle was winner of the controversial 400-metre run at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
...that the first military plane mass-produced in Germany was the Rumpler Taube in 1910?
...that, following the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established by the Soviet Union as a homeland for the large Volga German minority in Russia?
...that the Deluge involving Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology?
...that Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game?
...that the Charioteer of Delphi, an almost-intact ancient Greek statue, was lost for nearly 2000 years?
...that in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes?
...that the first firearm to use a flintlock mechanism was produced in 1610 for King Louis XIII of France?
...that William James Sidis, an eccentric—and once world-famous—genius, entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?
...that Napoléon Bonaparte's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor?
...that Chinese Taipei is the designated name the Republic of China (Taiwan) uses in most international organizations?
...that a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
...that Kimono de Ginza are a group of kimono and Japanese clothing enthusiasts in Tokyo that meet monthly in full-dress in front of a department store and then later in an izakaya?
...that the unmanned Apollo VI space capsule was recovered by the USS Okinawa (LPH-3) 380 miles north of Kauai, Hawaii?
...that a dichroic prism splits light into two beams of different color, or wavelengths?
...that image intensifiers, which are similar to night-vision, were invented by Vladimir Zworykin, a World War II-era RCA employee?
...that Pieter de Hooch, a genre painter from the Dutch Golden Age, died in an insane asylum?
...that British Columbia provincial highway 2 is a short road from Dawson Creek to the B.C./Alberta border?
...that four planes were simultaneously hijacked in the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings?
...that the caterpillars of the Anise Swallowtail butterfly like to eat fennel?
...that the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington was the first major volcanic eruption to occur in the U.S. since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California?
...that some people believe that the Angels of Mons helped protect British forces during World War I's Battle of Mons?
...that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests as a voting qualification in the U.S.?
...that rapid single flux quantum is an electronics technology that relies on quantum effects in superconducting materials rather than the present-day transistor standard?
...that the Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the biggest jellyfish in the world?
...that in architecture, there are at least five kinds of buttress: clasping, angle, flying, set-back and diagonal?
...that during the Cold War, Soviet leaders used "And you are lynching Negroes..." as an ad hominem attack against the U.S.?
...that hoodoos are tall skinny spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of arid basins and badlands?
...that the evolution of sex is a major puzzle of evolutionary biology, due to the so-called two-fold cost of sex?
...that the hyper engine was a hypothetical aircraft engine design meant to deliver 1 horsepower from 1 cubic inch of displacement?
...that Gatianus of Tours was one of seven bishops sent by Pope Fabian from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel?
...that quantum optics is a field of research in physics, dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena of light?
...that One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered Gabriel García Márquez's magnum opus?
...that Groundskeeper Willie, a character on The Simpsons, coined the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
...that the Mid-Canada Line was a line of radar sites across Canada designed to be an nuclear attack early-warning system?
...that what was probably the last living Spix's Macaw died in 2000?
...that the caterpillar of the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has large yellow eyespots?
...that Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
...that the All-China Youth Network Civilization Convention is a short statement promulgated by the authorities in the People's Republic of China, regulating the use of the internet by the Chinese youth?
...that the Vickers machine gun was the standard weapon on all British and French military aircraft after 1916?
...that nearly half the eligible male population of New Zealand served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I?
...that the Homestead Grays were the Negro League world champs every year from 1937 through 1945?
...that the Duchy of the Archipelago was an alliance of islands in the Aegean Sea organized after the Fourth Crusade?
...that the Siam Tulip is not a tulip, but is related to ginger?
...that Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia, cartographer, and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
...that the so-called Loughall Martyrs were a group of eight men from the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade who were ambushed and killed on May 8 1987 by the British special forces, the SAS?
...that the Exotic World Burlesque Museum is located on the site of an abandoned goat farm?
...that most people on a raw food diet won't eat anything heated to more than 46°C (115°F)?
...that the Homomonument in Amsterdam commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation?
...that the saliva of a Common Garter Snake may be toxic to amphibians and other small animals?
...that the Maltese alphabet contains 29 letters but does not contain the Latin letter Y?
...that Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 and originally sold hunting, camping and fishing gear?
...that in the 19th century the Wörthersee became an exclusive summer retreat for Vienna's nobility?
...that the longest extra inning game in professional baseball history was an International League game that lasted 33 innings?
...that the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is part of the only government-sanctioned Protestant church in the People's Republic of China?
...that an American thoroughbred racehorse named Cigar was the first winner of the Dubai World Cup?
...that all members of the genus Zigadenus are unpalatable to livestock because of the presence of alkaloids?
...that in 1169 Denny Abbey was handed over to the Knights Templar?
...that Dave Righetti was the first player in Major League Baseball history to pitch a no-hitter and lead the league in saves in a career?
...that the co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was Nicholas Butler?
...that although opera contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink had a son fighting on the other side, she toured the United States to raise money for the USA in World War I?
...that both serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and novel antidepressants like bupropion work on multiple neurotransmitters?
...that the HMS Finisterre replaced her sister-ship the Hogue in Far Eastern service after the latter was destroyed by a collision with an Indian cruiser?
...that the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?
...that Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer shortly after World War II, and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
...that a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
...that the Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the women who served in the Vietnam War?
...that the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney?
...that while Tom Foley was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, he was not re-elected by his constituents?
...that the flags of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations, with a red star added to represent communism?
...that the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873?
...that the Pitstone Windmill in Buckinghamshire is believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles?
...that the Brown Dog affair, a Edwardian era vivisection controversy, led to massive riots?
...that the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a visit to Cornell by Lee Teng-hui?
...that since the introduction of antivenin in 1956, only one person has died from the bite of the Australian red-back spider, a cousin of the black widow?
...that the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch?
...that the longest-running show in Broadway theater history was Cats with 7,485 performances?
...that the Outlawries Bill has been read in the British House of Commons nearly every year since 1727?
...that the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster?
...that in Upper and Lower Canada, the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed?
...that the collections of the Chicago Public Library began with the 8,000-volume "English Book Donation" which came in response to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?
...that the Chislehurst Caves of Kent are actually mines that were first worked in 1250?
...that Azerbaijanis live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan?
...that the Barnburners supported Martin Van Buren in the U.S. presidential election of 1848?
...that in physics, a Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite?
...that the nectar of Yellow Jessamine causes brood death when gathered by honeybees?
...that the Humboldt River in Nevada is the longest river in the Great Basin and furnished the route of the Central Pacific segment of the transcontinental railroad?
...that Scandanavia's High North Alliance works to protect the whaling interests of member countries?
... that a "rain of fish" (a tornado that travels over the ocean, sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the Culture of Honduras?
...that the death toll from the 1942 Sook Ching Massacre is unknown, but probably lies between 25,000 and 50,000?
...that the casque of the Tarictic hornbill is hollow and made of keratin?
...that Colin Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted using DNA fingerprinting?
...that Danielle Reyes finished second place on the American version of Big Brother in 2002?
...that in the presence of risk, subjective expected utility is a valuable method used in economic decision theory?
...that the Malmédy Massacre Trial is often used in extreme right-wing German propaganda?
...that the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was responsible for American weights and measures from 1836 until the establishment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1901?
...that Youppi of the Montreal Expos was the first mascot to be thrown out of a major league baseball game?
...that the creator of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups once worked as a dairyman for famed chocolatier Milton S. Hershey?
...that the Fifth and Sixth Crusades were turned back by Al-Kamil, a nephew of Saladin?
...that actuarial notation uses a halo system with superscript or subscript symbols placed before or after the main letter?
...that script breakdowns are the intermediate step between script and production in theater, film, television and comic books?
...that Chidiock Tichborne wrote his only known poem on the eve of his execution for treason?
...that Kolkota, India is called the City of Palaces because of its abundance of European-style buildings?
...that Long Ashton Research Station closed in 2003 having served agriculture and horticulture for exactly 100 years?
...that actress Hunter Tylo sued producer Aaron Spelling and won after she was fired from Melrose Place?
...that the village name Ynysybwl, in South Wales, UK, is pronounced "Un-is-u-bull"?
...that the supercontinent Pannotia only lasted about sixty million years before disintegrating into four continents?
...that when Lauri Lehtinen narrowly won his gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics, he was booed?
...that the State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia has 1.7 million coins in its collection?
...that the case Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company established the precedents for UK contract law?
...that Mike Woodin was the Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for 6 years and a city councillor for Oxford for 10 years?
...that the bulb of the Wavy-leafed Soap Plant can be used to wash your hair, to stun fish, to cure rheumatism and to make brushes?
...that the Mexican War of Independence (1820–1821) resulted in an unlikely alliance between liberales and conservadores?
...that Primary Care Trusts are statutory bodies responsible for delivering improvements to their local area in the United Kingdom National Health Service?
...that the tenth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly has been resumed more times than any other?
...that the Brimstone missile, an anti-tank guided missile, is carried by three Royal Air Force aeroplane types?
...that Men's Olympic Football Tournament 2004 will feature U-23 (under 23-year-old) national teams?
...that the Battle of Tarawa was the first time in World War II that the US faced serious opposition to an amphibious landing?
...Edmund Beckett, the designer of Big Ben, said, "I am the only architect with whom I have never quarrelled."
...that the Great Salad Oil Swindle was an infamous attempt at cornering the market?
...that Asclepiodotus was King of the Britons, until he died in a battle fighting Coel?
...that the political party at European level is a type of organization in the European Union eligible to receive funding from the Union, and is recognized in the Maastricht Treaty and the draft European Constitution?
...that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind?
...that the Pergamon Museum in Berlin hosts a reconstruction of a 113 meter long sculptural frieze?
...that dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag?
...that Ruffini's rule allows the rapid division of any polynomial by a binomial of the form x - r ?
...that past Olympic mascots include several bears named Misha, Coal, Howdy and Hidy, and dogs Cobi and Waldi ?
...that Commodore Horatio Bridge was the first officer to employ the idea of comprehensive fleet supply within the United States Navy?
...that the Monty Python song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a parody of the type of song featured in Disney films?
...that the AVE Mizar was a flying car created by attaching part of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto?
...that the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia pioneered the use of incubators for newborn intensive care?
...that the main sounds made by Lichtenstein's Hartebeest are a bellow and a sneeze-snort?
...that the Wicked Witch of the West controls the Winged Monkeys through the power of the Golden Cap?
...that some Native Americans called the Douglas Squirrel the "Pillillooeet"?
...that The Brighter Day is the only explicitly religious soap opera ever to air on American network television?