derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Seattle Fault is believed capable of producing an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale?
...that Dutch bus-building firm Den Oudsten was founded in 1926 and went out of business in 2002?
...that the 16-year part of Donna Beck on the American soap opera All My Children, played by Candice Earley, was originally meant to be just a short-term role?
...that Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is a poem written in heroic couplets?
...that Democrats Abroad began with two small committees in London and Paris in 1965, and has grown to be a large international organization?
...that the average lifespan of a feral cat who survives kittenhood is two years, compared to 16 years for house cats?
...that the Osmond family, known for their musicality, have two siblings who were born deaf?
...that soap opera actress Catherine Hickland starred in the Broadway production of Les Misérables as Fantine?
...that an amateur airplane pilot's spatial disorientation during flight can lead to an irreversible graveyard spiral?
...that the ear's hair cells encode the information from the fluid waves of the cochlea for use by the auditory nerve?
...that blackwater fever causes red blood cells to burst, leaking hemoglobin into the plasma?
...that the 364-metre pier in Withernsea, England was struck by ships four times, finally leaving it only 15 metres long?
...that most of the Strigolniki were drowned in the Volkhov river in 1376 as a result of pressure from the Russian Orthodox Church?
...that the Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a key part of Allied efforts to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
...that the Canadian constitutional crisis known as the King-Byng Affair led to the Statute of Westminster 1931, which affected all the Dominions in the British Empire?
...that a self number is an integer that cannot be generated by any other integer added up to its digits?
...that the primary Polish Scouting organization is Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego?
...that the famed message "England expects that every man will do his duty" is misquoted on Nelson's Column in London?
...that Santa Maria sopra Minerva is the only Gothic church in Rome and holds the body of Saint Catherine of Siena, but not her head?
...that Englog is English mixed with Tagalog words, while Taglish is Tagalog mixed with English words?
...that during the Great Depression confidence man Oscar Hartzell defrauded thousands of people with false promises of access to the estate of Sir Francis Drake?
...that more than 50 members of the Japanese Diet were involved in the Recruit Scandal of the 1980s?
...that the Death's Head moth is named for the mark on its back, which resembles a human skull?
...that chalcocite, a profitable and desirable kind of copper ore, was particularly plentiful in the now-depleted copper mines of Cornwall, England and Bristol, Connecticut?
...that the casque of the Tarictic Hornbill is hollow and made of keratin?
...that members of the Coeur d'Alene nation refer to themselves in their own language as Schitsu'umsh?
...that dabbawalas are Indian lunch carriers that make, on average, only one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries, even though they do all their work manually?
...that Alfred J. Kwak, a duck from a Dutch television cartoon, lives in a clog?
...that the Cathedral of Magdeburg is the highest church in East Germany and houses the grave of Emperor Otto I. the Great?
...that before Helen Gallagher became well-known for her role as matriarch on Ryan's Hope, she won a Tony Award for her work in the revival of No, No, Nanette?
...that Fort Calgary, in what is now Calgary, Alberta, was originally named Fort Brisebois?
...that at the height of the Cold War, Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR?
...that André Maginot, for whom the Maginot Line was named, was awarded the Medaille Militaire for valor during World War I?
...that according to the Oxford English Dictionary the longest English word with one syllable is squirrelled?
...that the unfinished Ca' Rezzonico appears in a early 18th century painting of Venice's Grand Canal by Canaletto?
...that the symbol of Fatima's hands, while widespread in Middle Eastern Islamic societies, is not officially condoned by Islam?
...that the most famous boardwalk in the United States is probably the one in Atlantic City, New Jersey, thanks to its association with the Monopoly board game?
...that the feminist group Women on Waves built a gynaecology unit on board of ship and performs abortions in international waters?
...that the Italian-invented human torpedo was first used in World War II to severely damage the British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth?
...that Barbara Billingsley was so typecast as June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver that she could not get acting jobs for nearly twenty years?
...that Hoot was novelist Carl Hiaasen's first book geared toward young adults?
...that the British film It Happened Here is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the film's eight years production schedule as the longest ever?
...that the crustaceans known as giant isopods, which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, can grow up to 45 centimetres long?
...that the 33 Edicts of Ashoka in north India and Pakistan are the first tangible historical evidence of Buddhism?
...that with the exception of three snapshots taken by Sonderkommandos, the Auschwitz Album is the only extant photographic evidence of the inner workings of the Auschwitz concentration camp?
...that British admiral Alexander Cochrane was responsible for the bombing of Fort McHenry which resulted in the authorship of the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
...that Ethelbert of York's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome?
...that Leyton F.C. had to win a High Court action in order to call itself the oldest football club in London?
...that Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes was the daughter of designer Norman Bel Geddes?
...that the literary genre known as Bangsian fantasy sets its action wholly or partially in Hell?
...that the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
...that Antarctica's Lemaire Channel is such a popular tourist destination that it's nicknamed Kodak Gap?
...that the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace is the only U.S. presidential library that is not a part of the official National Archives and Records Administration system?
...that the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland?
...that the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855, burned down in 1955, and rebuilt in 1963?
...that the Rome Laboratory in New York is one of four superlabs run by the U.S. Air Force?
... that oldstyle numerals — a style of typesetting numerals with descenders — are the original style of Arabic numerals in the occident and still often used?
...that the Comedian Harmonists was one of the most successful 20th century musical groups in Europe before World War II?
...that the Z machine, operated by Sandia National Laboratories, is the most powerful x-ray generator in the world?
...that the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, 1942–1943, was the last battle fought on the soil of the United States?
...that Jill Ker Conway grew up on a sheep farm and was Smith College's first woman president?
...that Sigismondo d'India, a 17th century Italian composer, produced music in nearly all the forms of the day, including monody, madrigal and motet?
...that the American Winterberry is also called the fever berry for its medicinal use among Native Americans?
...that the Nephila genus of long-jawed orb weaver family of spiders spins gold-colored webs?
...that WWI vet and Tour de France winner Ottavio Bottecchia was killed by either fascists or an angry farmer?
...that Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, the national library of Québec, and the public library of the city of Montréal, will share a facility beginning in 2005?
...that the charity organization Child's Play raised over $250,000 in 2003 in the form of cash and toy donations from the readers of popular web comic Penny Arcade?
...that a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe-Goethe Faust of fictional fame?
...that there is some debate about whether a Gm7 add 11 or G sus 4th chord opens the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night"?
...that with a peasant revolution Chinese emperor Huizong was overthrown, ending the Yuan Dynasty?
...that many bog bodies from the time of the Roman Iron Age have been found in southern Scandinavia?
...that Irish pirate radio is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until 1989?
...that crop losses caused by the desert locust are described in the Bible and the Qur'an?
...that alternative theories of speciation besides natural selection include Lamarckism and orthogenesis?
...that all Native American pottery made before the arrival of Europeans was done without the use of a potter's wheel?
...that the Sausage Valley of WWI-era France was so named because the Germans frequently flew a sausage-shaped observation balloon above it?
...that the trans-Planckian problem refers to the appearance of unlikely quantities beyond the Planck scale in black-hole physics and inflationary cosmology?
...that the process for the evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II was reversed in 1944?
...that the Ten Years' War, which began in 1868, was the first attempt by Cuba to secure its independence from Spain?
...that the Roman era of the early history of Switzerland began when the armies of Julius Caesar drove the Helvetii back from Gaul?
...that the year and a day rule regarding homicide was abolished because of advances in medicine and forensic science?
...that the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands is the only U.S. District Court without an associated U.S. Attorney's Office?
...that Clay Oliver Hill is the Populist Democratic Viking candidate for the 2004 United States presidential election?
...that the album Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths consisted of all singles and B-sides that hadn't been released before in the United States?
...that at age 19 after Barry Watson lost his job as a soap opera child star, he used to park cars at the House of Blues night club in Los Angeles?
...that Dragon's teeth were square-pyramidal concrete fortifications used during the Second World War to impede the movement of tanks?
...that the movie I Am Cuba was filmed in 1964 as Cold War Soviet propaganda but only became widely viewed internationally when it was shown to audiences in the United States in 1994?
...that in 1968, Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall became the first Olympian disqualified for drug use, for drinking two beers?
...that, unlike corporate creations Betty Crocker and Ronald McDonald, food-brand icon Chef Boyardee was real?
...that cotton candy was first sold to the public at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?
...that the books and manuscripts in the Renaissance era Cotton library were categorized by their location in relation to busts of Caesars shelved alongside them?
...that the Astrakhan Cossack army existed from 1737 until 1919 when they were defeated alongside their White Russian allies during the Russian Civil War?
...that earthquake lights, although described in 373 BC, were not convincingly documented until the 1960s?
...that Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon and was murdered on 4 July, 1991, following an extortion attempt on his family?
...that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw holds the remains of a Polish soldier killed at the Battle of Lvov in 1919?
...that only fragments of the famous altar triptych by Geertgen tot Sint Jans could be saved after the siege of Haarlem of 1572-1573?
...that the Ryan X-13 Vertijet aircraft landed by using a hook on its nose to hang itself on a wire?
...that Ambloplites species are native to a region extending from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to the lower Mississippi River basin in the United States?
...that Esteban Huertas, a general who led Panama to independence, appears in a Scrooge McDuck comic?
...that the London Warehouse Theatre was threatened with closure after an Arts Council grant was withdrawn in 1984, but that closure was averted when Croydon Council and the GLC agreed to replace the grant?
...that Miliaria is a skin disease marked by small and itchy rashes and is commonly found in infants?
...that Lyndon Johnson announced his hiring of Gerri Whittington, the first African-American White House secretary, by arranging for her to appear on the TV game show What's My Line?
...that the Cryolophosaurus is informally known as the Elvisaurus because the bizarre crest running across its head resembles Elvis Presley's 1950s pompadour haircut?
...that Braeriach is the third highest mountain in Scotland, surpassed only by Ben Nevis and Ben Macdui?
...that Kaa's Hunting is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli?
...that the samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga led the first Japanese Embassy to the Americas and Europe in 1615?
...that Cloudland Canyon State Park in the U.S. state of Georgia straddles a gorge cut into the mountain by Sitton Gulch Creek, where the elevation differs from 1,980 to 800 feet (604 to 244 m)?
... that 24-hour comics have become so popular that there's now a holiday for them on April 24?
...that motorcyclist Jo Siffert was killed in an end-of-season non-championship F1 race on October 24, 1971 at Brands Hatch?
...that the Opinel knife has been manufactured since the 1890s in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in the Savoie region of France?
...that Carpenter is a lunar impact crater located in the northern part of the Moon, causing it to appear oval in shape when in fact it's nearly circular?
...that Evan Taubenfeld was Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004?
...that Faye Glenn Abdellah's pioneering work in nursing research has been recognized with 77 professional and academic honors?
...that the Irazú volcano in Costa Rica erupted violently in 1963, on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy arrived in the country for a state visit?
...that Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were simultaneously hanged in 1923 for the murder of Thompson's husband, even though Bywaters committed the crime on his own?
...that there have been six submarines and ships named Nautilus in the U.S. Navy, some as early as 1803, 67 years before Captain Nemo's Nautilus appeared in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea?
...that development on Star Wars Quake lasted for six years, and is probably the most famous Quake mod to never be completed?
...that the Smithsonian American Art Museum is currently closed due to a major building renovation but is scheduled to reopen on July 4, 2006?
...that the tallest of the Kelso Dunes in the Mojave Desert rises 200 metres above the surrounding terrain?
...that The Doll Family played munchkins in The Wizard of Oz and were popular circus performers?
...that John Randolph Tucker served as an officer in the navies of the United States, the Confederate States, and Peru?
...that baseball player Jim Creighton's death at age 21 may have been caused by the force with which he swung his bat?
...that the Black Caiman is both the world's largest alligator and the Amazon Basin's largest predator?
...that during the 1939 Battle of Wizna in Poland, German planes dropped leaflets asking the Poles to surrender?
...that actor David Manners lived for 67 years after starring in the 1931 film Dracula, but never watched it?
...that French tennis player Henri Leconte won 9 ATP titles in an 11 year period?
...that the peak of Mount Hikurangi (1620 metres) is the highest non-volcanic peak on the North Island of New Zealand?
...that the Emerald ash borer currently threatens over 7 billion ash trees in the United States?
...that the Beaumont Children disappeared without a trace from a beach near Adelaide, Australia in 1966?
...that U.S. Marine Corps General Ray Davis rescued hundreds of American troops during the Battle of Inchon in 1950?
...that in the history of transportation in Los Angeles, the first California freeway "traffic jam" occurred on January 1, 1940?
...that Hakuin Ekaku's systematization of koan practice brought about a major revolution in Zen teaching?
...that the Scheutzian calculation engine was invented in 1837 and finalized in 1843 by Per Georg Scheutz?
...that Polar dinosaurs could have walked to Australia, because during the early Cretaceous the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica?
...that the Norse mythological figure Helgi Hundingsbane earned his nickname by killing a king called Hunding?
...that collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s, that the state passed a law forbidding collecting?
...that the Pokémon character Sableye eats rocks and lives in a cavern?
...that British First World War officer James Edward Edmonds wrote nearly half of the 29-volume History of the Great War?
...that the European Robotic Arm will be able to travel around the exterior of the International Space Station under its own control?
...that the 1961 vintage of Château Latour is consistently listed among the greatest red wines of all time?
...that in the Battle of the Rice Boats in the American Revolutionary War, the militia of the Province of Georgia drove a squadron of the Royal Navy out of the Savannah River?
...that Kotetsu, a Japanese ironclad battleship, was originally intended to be Stonewall of the Confederate States Navy but was not delivered until after the end of the American Civil War?
...that Prince Mikhail Vorontsov fought Napoléon, founded Odessa, and commanded the Russian invasion of the Caucasus in 1844?
...that Lear's Macaw is a Brazilian parrot that nests in sandstone cliffs?
...that British broadcaster Simon Bates received critical acclaim for his feature item Our Tune, in which he read out tragic true stories?
...that the British plan for the battle of Bazentin Ridge in 1916, was dismissed beforehand by one French commander as "an attack organized for amateurs by amateurs"?
...that construction of Kelso Abbey took 15 years and was completed in 1243?
...that fourteen people died in the Cave Creek disaster when a scenic viewing platform collapsed in New Zealand in 1995?
...that the most common causes for an ingrown toenail are improperly fitted shoes and nails that are improperly trimmed?
...that Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon?
...that Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004?
...that dew ponds are man-made ponds placed on the top of hills, built for watering livestock?
...that crème fraîche is made by inoculating pasteurized light cream with lactobacillus cultures?
...that the actress Viviane Romance rejected the offer of a Hollywood contract in the 1930s preferring to work in French cinema?
...that the 2001 UBK protest campaign in Kiev's Independence Square anticipated the current Orange Revolution in Ukraine?
...that Je Tsongkhapa founded the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, emphasizing monastic discipline and scholarly pursuits?
...that Albert Calmette developed "Calmette's Serum", the first antivenom developed for snake venom?
...that the book Hollywood Babylon was condemned for including photographs of the dead bodies of actresses Carole Landis and Thelma Todd?
...that the charity Heifer International allows you to give a family a gift of livestock in the spirit of sustainability?
...that Agathokleia was an Indo-Greek queen who ruled parts of Northern India from 135 to 125 BC?
...that Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat?
...that endochondral ossification is one of two types of bone formation and is the process responsible for much of the bone growth in vertebrate skeletons?
...that a statue of Joan of Arc in Meridian Hill Park is the only female equestrian statue in Washington, D.C.?
...that Endochondral ossification is one of two types of bone formation and is the process responsible for much of the bone growth in vertebrate skeletons?
...that there are so many species of Murinae (Old World rats and mice) that it is said they are in the process of taking over the world, and humans just came along in the middle of it?
...that Rumaisa Rahman, born prematurely in Chicago on September 19, 2004, was 8 inches (20 cm) long and weighed 8½ oz. (244 g) at birth?
...that Les Horribles Cernettes, a humorous rock band based in the CERN, supplied the first image on the web, posted in 1992 by Silvano de Gennaro and Tim Berners-Lee?
...that the eruption of Pu'u 'O'o added 544 acres (2.2 km²) of land to the island of Hawaii?
...that the Humboldt Museum in Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus; and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, the Archaeopteryx?
...that J002E3 was at first thought to be a new moon of the Earth when discovered in 2002 but later found to be the third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V?
...that Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski was a policy analyst at the Pentagon for four and a half years before retiring and becoming a vocal critic of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq?
...that Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka learned to read at the age of four and was able to read nine languages in addition to her native Ukrainian?
...that Bill Boaks, a retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander, won only 5 votes (a record low in a British Parliamentary election) in a 1982 by-election?
...that Mildred Dunnock played the role of Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman in three mediums — on Broadway, and for both film and television?
...that Major Mykola Mel'nychenko, who started the Cassette Scandal by accusing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma of ordering a journalist's assassination, continues to release disputed audio excerpts from political asylum in the USA?
...that Julius Schreck ended his SS career as Adolf Hitler's chauffeur, and that Hitler read the eulogy at his state funeral in 1936?
...that actor Leslie Banks used facial injuries he received in World War I to good effect during his acting career when playing villains?
...that Cold Sunday was a specific meteorological event which took place on January 17, 1982, when unprecedentedly cold air swept down from Canada, sending temperatures in the United States far below existing all-time record lows?
...that Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand is known colloquially as "The Cake-tin"?
...that in the Catalan region of Spain, a Caganer is often tucked away in some corner of a Christmas Nativity scene where he is not easily noticed, because he is defecating?
...that in gold mining, cyanide may be used to extract gold in areas where gold-bearing rocks are found at the surface?
...that the Kri-kri is a type of wild goat once common around the Mediterranean but now restricted to a few parts of the island of Crete in Greece?
...that the painter Jan Matejko always depicted Stańczyk, Poland's most famous court jester, with a concerned and reflective look on his face?
...that the largest African crocodile, the Nile crocodile, is both hated and revered, especially in Ancient Egypt where crocodiles were mummified, and worshipped as gods?
...that playboating is a discipline of kayaking or canoeing where the paddler performs various technical moves in one place, as opposed to whitewater kayaking or canoeing where the objective is to travel the length of a section of river?
...that Bill Barker's alien-infested Schwa artwork became such a hit in the 1990s that he eventually teamed with AOL to make an online game based on it?
...that Yamada Nagamasa was a Japanese adventurer who played a key military role in 17th century Thailand?
...that in Greek and Roman mythology, the Palladium was an ancient statue of Pallas Athene which kept the city of Troy safe, until it was stolen by Odysseus?