derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Manuc's Inn, the oldest operating hotel building in Bucharest, Romania, was the site of the preliminary talks for the peace treaty that put an end to the 1806–1812 Russo-Turkish war?
...that political illustrator Steve Brodner has caricatured American Presidents going back to Richard Nixon?
...that the common mullein plant was burnt in France during celebrations on the second Sunday of Lent to protect against evil spirits and demons?
...that British teacher and MP Leah Manning organised the evacuation of almost 4,000 Basque children to Britain during the Spanish Civil War?
...that Washingtonia is a genus of palm and produces a fruit, eaten by Native American people as a minor food source and by birds?
...that Salt is an ancient agricultural town in west-central Jordan, famous for the quality of its grape harvest, and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word sultana?
...that folk singer/guitarist Nic Jones suffered multiple broken bones and brain damage after a serious car accident in February 1982?
...that Labour Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936 Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from Tyneside to London to demand jobs?
...that a Bok globule is a dark cloud of dense dust and gas, first observed by astronomer Bart Bok in the 1940s, in which star formation is taking place within the H II region?
...that L'Origine du monde, Gustave Courbet's most provocative painting, remained in the privacy of its successive owners for almost 130 years before entering the musée d'Orsay?
...that the British ice hockey team The Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks, and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks?
...that polymer banknotes (right) are made from the polymer biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP), and that they incorporate many security features not available to paper banknotes making counterfeiting more difficult?
...the fire from the Weyauwega derailment on March 4 1996 displayed fireballs up to 300 feet (90 m) high?
...that Repenomamus may have been the largest mammal in the Cretaceous period and is the only mammal known to have eaten non-avian dinosaurs?
...that modern baby monitors use digital cameras similar to web cams to watch the baby as well as listen to it?
...that the racy George Michael song I Want Your Sex touted monogamy instead of promiscuity?
...that the term United Nations Medal refers to over two dozen international military awards which have been issued since 1950?
...that Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, a major division of Lockheed Martin, is manufacturer of some of the world's most advanced military aircraft?
...that Jeopardy!'s impact on culture has earned it references or parodies in no less than 64 feature films, and appearances on more than 10 television show episodes?
...that the Comal River is the shortest river in Texas (USA), running entirely within the city limits of New Braunfels?
...that the East and West Memorial Buildings in Ottawa, Canada were originally built in 1949 to house the rapidly growing Department of Veterans Affairs?
...that the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's plan to expand into Wyoming's Powder River Basin would be the largest new railroad construction in the United States since the American Civil War?
...that the Great Black Hawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, hawks and Old World vultures?
...that Telford Taylor, the U.S. Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, was also an opponent of McCarthyism and an outspoken critic of the U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War?
...that businessman John King was Chairman of British Airways from 1981 and was successfully sued by Richard Branson for libel as a result of BA's dirty tricks against Virgin Atlantic?
...that Wai-Wai is a popular noodle-like snack in Nepal, Sikkim and in northern parts of West Bengal?
...that the first Wabash was a steam screw frigate in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War?
...that The Vampyre was a short novel first published on April 1, 1819 in parts in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron"?
...that in October 1950, the U.S. National Guard bombed the small town of Jayuya, Puerto Rico, where Blanca Canales led a revolt?
...that the neoclassical Mistley towers were part of the now demolished church of "St. Mary the Virgin" at Mistley in Essex?
...that Semmering is a mountain pass in the Northern Limestone Alps connecting Lower Austria and Styria?
...that the Zippe-type centrifuge, named after Gernot Zippe, is a device designed to collect uranium-235?
...that 18th century actress Anne Bracegirdle most frequently played vivacious, breeches-wearing, guardian-tricking young women of great initiative?
...that a major milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India came in 1193 when the great university at Nalanda was destroyed by Turkish Muslim raiders?
...that Warton in Lancashire is a historic village famous for its contribution to the UK aerospace industry?
...that the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism was famous for developing the shakuhachi flute as a means of meditation?
...that school bus yellow is a specific shade of yellow formally adopted as the standard color for school buses in the United States in 1939, following a conference funded by the Rockefeller Foundation?
...that an amateur baseball tournament held on August 16, 1933 in the Christie Pits, ended with Nazi-sympathisers unveiling a flag depicting a swastika?
...that during the "dawn-to-dusk" publicity run for the CB&Q's Pioneer Zephyr on May 26 1934, the train reached a top speed of 112.5 mph (181 kph)?
...that The Yiddish King Lear by Jacob Gordin is not a translation of Shakespeare's King Lear, but that the title is an acknowledgement of the roots of the plot?
...that Ulysses S. Grant awarded Bolama to Portugal, who made it the first capital of Portuguese Guinea?
...that when he was promoted to president of the Great Northern Railway in 1919, Ralph Budd was the youngest American railroad president up to that date?
...that the Slovak National Theatre hosted its first performance, the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana, at its opening on March 1, 1920?
...that in the history of neurology, Ancient Egyptians described the effect of high transection of the spinal cord in humans?
...that Sue Rubin, the subject of the documentary film Autism Is a World, was considered mentally challenged until she learned to communicate with a keyboard?
... that the Slovakia Summit 2005 between Presidents Bush and Putin will mark the first occasion when a sitting President of the United States visits Slovakia?
... that Representative Edith Nourse Rogers sponsored the G.I. Bill and the legislation that created the Women's Army Corps before becoming the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress?
... that The Patty Duke Show challenged the scope of special effects on television in the 1960s, with Patty Duke playing two roles?
... that John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset was one of the most noted cricketers of the mid-to-late 18th century?
...that Ferdinandea was a volcanic island near Sicily which was claimed by four countries when it appeared in 1831, but was destroyed by erosion less than a year later?
...that Andy the Clown performed at Chicago White Sox games for 30 years, outlasting an attempt to replace him with two new mascots?
...that Arthur Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket—grandfather of British TV celebrity Lord Brocket—was a known Nazi sympathiser?
...that Hungarian-born composer Mátyás Seiber was killed in a car crash while on a lecture tour of South Africa?
...that a Pd/H2 electrode is a reference electrode similar to a standard hydrogen electrode (with platinum), but with the added ability to absorb molecular hydrogen?
...that Hamilton Palace in Scotland was lent for use as a naval hospital during World War I, by Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton?
...that Obolon CJSC, the largest Ukrainian brewer based in Kiev, was the first private company of the independent Ukraine?
...that the ancient marketplace of Rhapta on the east African coast is believed to have been an important link in bringing the spices cinnamon and cassia west by merchants?
...that Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine, made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997, and had been training for such a mission since 1976?
...that Godfrey Ho, a Hong-Kong based filmmaker, has been credited under more than 20 different pseudonyms?
...that the Western Railway Corridor, built in the late 1800s, links Limerick to Sligo through the West of Ireland?
...that scotopic sensitivity syndrome is a form of dyslexia which makes it very difficult for a person to read black text on white paper?
...that Playland, often called Rye Playland, is America's only government owned and operated amusement park?
...that faculty members at the Stanford Institute for International Studies include Condoleezza Rice and William Perry?
...that the first person to formally convert to Buddhism in America was Charles T. Strauss, a New York businessman, in 1893?
...that a fire-control system is a computer which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target(s)?
...that girls in Poland wear red lingerie underneath their dresses during a studniówka (high school ball)?
...that the poorly studied Evermannellidae family, or Sabertooth fish, have oversized, inward curving teeth suggestive of the sabertooth cats' teeth?
...that Julia A. Moore inspired the character of Emmeline Grangerford in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
...that the Asiatic Society of Bombay possesses one of the only two surviving original copies of Dante's The Divine Comedy?
...that rugby player Wayne Shelford suffered a ripped scrotum during an All Blacks match against France?
...that the Battle of Appomattox Court House signalled the end of the American Civil War?
...that Reginald Hill's novel "A Clubbable Woman" was his first story about Dalziel and Pascoe?
...that the Squirrel Nut Zippers were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz?
...that there are multiple theories why LMLK seals were stamped on the handles of large storage jars in and around Jerusalem circa 700 BC?
...that Elecia Battle, who claimed to have a 162 million dollar lottery winning ticket, is a professional female boxer?
...that the film Dangerous Minds was based on the true story by the high school teacher Louanne Johnson, My Posse Don't Do Homework?
...that black seadevils are a family of anglerfish named for their baleful appearance and pitch black skin?
...that ignorantia juris non excusat is Latin for the legal doctrine, "ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
...that medieval pilgrims on the Way of St James would join up at the French Basque town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port before crossing the Pyrenees?
...that in the animated Laff-a-Lympics, non-competing Hanna-Barbera characters such as Fred Flintstone and Jabberjaw made appearances as guest announcers?
... that the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was the deadliest natural disaster to hit the Great Lakes basin region, killing over 250 people?
... that professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon grew a long beard and billed himself as a terrifying giant from Manchuria as a heel gimmick?
... that U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe, from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth?
...that Nancy Olson was nominated for an Oscar for playing the "good" girl in Sunset Boulevard shortly after being considered for the role of the temptress Delilah in the film Samson and Delilah?
... that Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor was influenced by Franz Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy?
... that the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match, because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy?
... that in the ionization chamber of a smoke detector, ions strike smoke particles and are neutralized, and this drop in current triggers the alarm?
... that the Saladin tithe was levied in England in 1188 to help finance the Third Crusade?
... that Catsear is sometimes mistaken for dandelions, and has similar culinary uses?
... that Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16?
... that the Fox television series Herman's Head used characters to represent different aspect of the main character's psyche, similar to Eric Berne's concept of transactional analysis?
...that tusk shells are a class of marine mollusks that resemble elephants' tusks, and were used by the natives of the Pacific Northwest as wampum?
...that Senator William A. Blakley of the U.S. state of Texas worked as ranch hand as a young man?
...that the tangent piano is a rare keyboard instrument that fuses the sound of the harpsichord and piano?
...that in 1944, Gwethalyn Graham was the first Canadian writer to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list, with a novel depicting an interfaith romance between a Protestant woman and a Jewish man?
...that the earliest record of Gaelic handball is the 1527 town statutes of Galway, Ireland, which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls?
... that DONKEY.BAS was a computer game cowritten by Bill Gates and included with early versions of the PC-DOS operating system for the original IBM PC, in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys?
...that the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered contains the only known film footage of the young diarist?
... that the Beatles' song "Polythene Pam" was partly inspired by a Liverpool fan who ate polyethylene?
...that the English outsider artist Madge Gill claimed to be guided by a spirit she called Myrninerest (my inner rest), and often signed her works with this name?
...that Fastnet Rock, a small clay-slate island with quartz veins, is the southernmost point of Ireland?
...that in the court case Trop v. Dulles, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for the government to cancel the citizenship of a U.S. citizen as a punishment?
... that Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the "bebop baroness" for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker?
... that enaptin has the second-longest chemical name to be written down, at 64,060 letters?
...that, in the 1996 film The Pompatus of Love, the main characters sit around discussing the meaning of the word "pompatus"?
...that Captain Alexander Hood of the Royal Navy was killed in battle between his ship Mars and the French Hercule in 1798?
... that sashimono were small banners worn on the backs of Japanese medieval troops for identification during battles?
... that the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin), but was renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization?
... that the crews of even the most heavily-armoured tanks try to take advantage of protective terrain in combat, by moving their vehicles into hull-down positions whenever possible?
...that John S. Collins, who came to southern Florida to grow vegetables and coconuts on a barrier island, built a 2.5 mile long wooden Collins Bridge across Biscayne Bay in 1913 which led to the development of Miami Beach?
...that the famous Hit Factory recording studio in New York City recently closed down after 12 years of operation?
...that Ninety Mile Beach in Victoria, Australia is the longest uninterrupted stretch of sandy coastline in the world?
...that in Operation Saturn, the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942–1943?
...that Russian-born Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at farming, both in the Catskills and in Argentina?
...that Dr. Angel Ramos is one of the few deaf Hispanics in the United States to hold a doctorate?
... that in the 1950s and 1960s, some residents of mid-rise apartment buildings would sleep outside on their fire escapes during hot summers?
... that Skeleton Lake in India is named after the remains of approximately 600 people who died there in a sudden hailstorm?
... that the England football squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico contained two players called Gary Stevens?
... that up to 2 million people may be living in Russian closed cities, which are off-limits to foreigners because they have sensitive military and nuclear industry?
...that the 1402 Korean Kangnido map fully depicts the Old World, from Europe and Africa to Japan, long before European explorations?
...that actress Peggy McCay, now known for her role on Days of our Lives, first became popular as the heroine on Love of Life in 1951?
...that in 1969 noted writer Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York City advocating New York City secession?
...that Joseph Haines was a well-known London song-and-dance man, comedian, and eccentric in the 17th century?
...that death due to the Parapoxvirus is one of the main reasons for the decline of the number of Red squirrels on the British Isles?
...that Roman embassies to China are reported in Chinese historical accounts from as early as 166?
...that Angel Ramos, the founder of the second-largest Spanish speaking television network in the United States, Telemundo, was orphaned at the age of 3?
...Gilbert Stuart's famous Lansdowne portrait of George Washington was given as a gift to William Petty, Lord Shelburne?
...that Disney characters will regularly appear in 3D on television for the first time in the children's television series Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?
...that the Panjdeh Incident in 1886 almost led to full-scale war between the British Empire and Imperial Russia?
... that the General Ban Chao led a Chinese military expedition to the doorstep of Europe during the 1st century CE?
...that Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands appointed the task of guarding the royal palaces to the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Royal Constabulary) in 1908?
...that Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in b minor was considered so great that Johannes Brahms, the composer's mentor who had never written one himself, commented: "Why on earth didn't I know that one could write a cello concerto like this? If I had only known, I would have written one long ago!"?
...that the Williams X-Jet is a tiny flying platform that can carry a person for up to 45 minutes at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour (96 km/h) and heights of up to 10,000 ft (3,050 m)?
...that the BBC coat of arms was adopted in 1927 and uses heraldic symbols to depict the various qualities of broadcasting?
...that blues-harp, rather than a type of harp, is a style of playing an ordinary diatonic harmonica that originated in the blues in which the in-drawn notes are made primary and the blown notes secondary?
...that England football captain Eddie Hapgood was forced by diplomats to give a Nazi salute before a match with Germany in 1938?
...that a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S. nuclear test from 1962 named Sedan nuclear test, leading to fears that a nuclear weapon had actually been tested in the Sudan?
...that tree frogs have been used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking?
...that Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup Final at Wembley, becoming the first player ever to do so?
...that rocket engine maker Thiokol, who made the Space Shuttle's booster rockets, also built airbags for Mars Pathfinder and the Mazda Miata?
...that the sled dog Togo is considered one of the heroes commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race which is currently running across the U.S. state of Alaska?
...that the Bovo-Bukh, a very popular chivalric romances written in Yiddish, was based on the Anglo-Norman romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton, by way of the Italian language romance of Buovo d'Antona?
...that the flightless adzebill was a large predatory bird that lived in New Zealand, and was initially thought to be a kind of moa?
...that Nat Lofthouse was the England football team's highest goalscorer of all-time for eight years?
...that parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular, and folk-like music from 1790 until 1900?
...that Kyiv Arsenal is one of the oldest and most famous industrial companies of the Ukrainian capital Kiev?
...that the High Bridge that still stands over the Harlem River in New York City was designed by John B. Jervis as part of the Croton Aqueduct project in the 1840s?
...that the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
...that despite a sight-impairment disability, Carl G. Fisher became a notable American entrepreneur, who helped develop sealed beam headlights, the Lincoln Highway (the first U.S. transcontinental paved roadway), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the resort city of Miami Beach, Florida?
...that in Lebanon, the spice mixture Za'atar is thought to bring physical strength and keep the mind alert?
...that Dutch magician Fred Kaps was the only magician to win the magic world championship three times?
...that the children's anime series The Littl' Bits has aired in Japanese, English, Spanish, Polish, German, and Italian?
...that Nils Liedholm is the last surviving member of the famous footballing Gre-No-Li trio?
...that the Nasrani Menorah is the symbol of the Knanaya community in South India, acknowledged as Christian Jews by the Vatican?
...that NASA inventor and scientist, Dr. Pedro Rodriguez is the son of the renowned Puerto Rican salsa singer, the late Pellin Rodriguez?
...that Italian mathematician Guido Castelnuovo secretly taught geometry to Jewish students during World War II?
...that the UN estimates that 150,000 people died during the Liberian Civil War, with 850,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring countries?
...that from 1908 to 1940, over 100,000 of the 447 different models for Sears Catalog Homes were sold in the United States?
...that a Punnett square is a tool in genetics developed by British geneticist Reginald Punnett, and which biologists use to this day to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring?
...that the Ochil Hills are a Devonian lava extrusion whose southern fault line is particularly prominent today as an escarpment?
...that the Meadow Vole is a common rodent species found from Alaska to Florida, and that the subspecies from Florida is endangered?
...that Robert Koldewey led an archeological dig in modern day Iraq which he believed to be the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for 18 years?
...that Melissa McIntyre, best known for her role in Degrassi: The Next Generation made her television debut in the 1997 series, Timesweep, in which she played an extraterrestial being?
...that Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev worked on mechanical linkage design for over thirty years which led to his work on Chebyshev polynomials?
...that Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse played in New York City in both Yiddish (1911) and German (1916) before it was ever presented there in English (1918)?
...that the Russian avant-garde art collective UNOVIS signed most of their works with a single black square, partly as a homage to a similar work by their leader, Kazimir Malevich?
...that Perley A. Thomas was a Canadian millsmith who attended night courses, learned drafting and design skills, and became a renowned streetcar and bus manufacturer in High Point, North Carolina?
...that American actress Susan Oliver, after surviving a plane crash that almost ended her life, became the first woman to fly a single-engined aircraft solo from New York City across the Atlantic Ocean?
...that the two airplanes on the Bar Harbor Airlines fleet that had accidents were numbered N200WP and N300WP respectively?
...that one-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of the United States, Canada and Australia until the early 20th century, and that they continue in some parts of Ireland today?