derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that a kid hack was a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting children to school in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States? This early form of school bus powered by both horses and mules, was usually loaded at the rear to avoid frightening the animals.
...that a remand prisoner may be entitled to wear their own clothing, rather than a prison uniform?
...that the Laotian Rock Rat is a new species of rodent that is unique enough to lead researchers to create a new family of mammals?
...that the International Dance Day has been celebrated on April 29 since 1982? It commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre, the creator of modern ballet.
...that the town of Baird, Texas, is named after the second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Matthew Baird?
...that the child actor Tommy Rettig, who starred as Jeff Miller in the first four seasons of the Lassie television series, became a noted database software author as an adult?
...that Skyfox was one of the first games to popularize the cockpit view for flight action games?
...that Chrissy Snow from the American sitcom Three's Company was actually named "Christmas Snow"?
...that the Warren County Canal was a twenty-mile long canal in Ohio that linked Lebanon to the Miami and Erie Canal and which operated only eight unprofitable years?
...that The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor is a whodunit written in English by German-born sexologist Ernest Borneman when he was not yet 20 years of age?
...that the biodiversity of New Zealand is dominated by bird families that flew in from Australia and insects, frogs and plants that were on the island when it broke off from Gondwana?
...that Keying was a three-masted Chinese junk, which sailed from China to the United States and England between 1846 and 1848?
...The Jeff Corwin Experience is an American television show about animals hosted by actor and conservationist Jeff Corwin on Animal Planet?
...that the French footballer Lucien Laurent scored the first ever World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930?
...that the Nine Saints were a group of Christians from the Byzantine Empire who took part in converting areas of what is now Eritrea and Ethiopia in the late fifth century AD?
...that the complex communication patterns of Weaver ants used in nest building is studied and modeled in various disciplines of generative sciences?
...that Debswana, a joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana, is the largest producer of diamonds by value in the world?
...that Will Harvey created his first commercial computer game when he was only 15 and still in high school?
...that the internet casino GoldenPalace.com won a bid to name the recently discovered type of New World monkey: the GoldenPalace.com Monkey?
...that Queen's Gambit Accepted is a chess opening in which Black takes a White pawn after two moves, but is not a real gambit because Black cannot count on keeping his advantage?
...that actor Philip Ahn was the first child of Korean ancestry to be born in the United States?
...that Boneless Fish is a Japanese frozen food made from fish, which is deboned by hand and then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme?
...that the Bhutan Broadcasting Service had transmitted radio broadcasts for many years, but only commenced with television broadcasts in 1999?
...that every British monarch since Queen Victoria has worshipped at Crathie Kirk, a small parish church near Balmoral Castle?
...Humber College's TVO series Distinguished Artists is the first network television show produced by a college or university?
...that Marie-Anne Gaboury was the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west?
...that Terri Irwin, co-owner of the Australia Zoo and co-star of The Crocodile Hunter series on television, began caring for injured wildlife as a child and ran her own rehab facility for 5 years before she met Steve Irwin?
...that the MCC beat Warwickshire in the first game of the 2005 English cricket season?
...that the Galápagos tortoise is the largest living tortoise in the world, only native to the Galápagos Islands, where about 15,000 of them live?
...that Edgar Buchanan was a dentist before becoming an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, and is probably best remembered as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s?
...that Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
... that the F-Zero series of video games is renowned for its sheer visceral impression of speed?
...that James A. Bland (1854-1911) an African American musician and song writer wrote over 700 songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" in 1878, which was later the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997?
...that Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States?
...that the Lebanon Correctional Institution and the Warren Correctional Institution are on land once owned by the Shakers?
...that Dr. Hunter McGuire was a physician who amputated General Stonewall Jackson's arm during the American Civil War and later helped found several hospitals and a prominent medical school in Richmond, Virginia?
... that a physical paradox is thought to be either an artifact of error or incompleteness because reality is assumed to be completely consistent?
...that Mountain Lake, one of only two natural lakes in Virginia, was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains for the 1987 feature film Dirty Dancing?
...that Varina-Enon Bridge, which carries Interstate 295 across the James River in Virginia, hosts an award-winning VDOT project to provide nesting locations for peregrine falcons which are traceable on a website?
...that although England centre forward Geoff Hurst had scored a hat-trick and was therefore entitled to keep the match ball, it was German striker Helmut Haller who took it home after the 1966 World Cup final?
...that Caesars Creek State Park has 7,900 acres centered around a 2,800 acre lake created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers?
...that video footage can be worth up to $45,000 in U.S. dollars, such as in the case of the broadcasting corporation payment of amateur's footage of the September 11, 2001 attacks?
...that Cetartiodactyla is a hypothesis based on DNA that suggests whales and hippos are related?
...that "Gigantour," a six-week heavy metal music festival devised by Megadeth front-man Dave Mustaine, will travel North America in late-July?
...that an American Silver Eagle coin contains a guaranteed minimum of one troy ounce of .999 pure silver?
...that a smokie is a West African delicacy made by blowtorching the carcass of a sheep or goat without removing its fleece?
...that Reverend John Chilembwe is celebrated as the first Malawian nationalist, and was a martyr for his cause?
...that the broadfish tapeworm is the longest tapeworm in humans, averaging ten metres long and that it can shed up to a million eggs a day?
...that during the Elizabethan era in England, theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, open to the elements and with a large portion of the audience standing directly below the stage?
...that "I Want You Back", the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5, was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross, and has been sampled by Blackstreet, Jay-Z, and Lil' Romeo?
...that Wilfredo Gomez and Wilfredo Benitez share not only their first name, but also their Puerto Rican nationality? They also won three world boxing titles each.
...that DJ Grand Mixer DXT is credited with inventing turntablism, the rhythmic scratching of a record on a turntable using different velocities to alter the pitch of the note or sound on the recording, making the turntable a fully performable and improvisational instrument?
...that Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University, and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy?
...that the 1459 Fra Mauro map reports that "a junk from India" rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1420, around 70 years before the navigations of Vasco da Gama?
...that The Brady Bunch actress Maureen McCormick was one of the many people who voiced the 1960s toy Chatty Cathy?
...that Flying Dog Brewery employs the unusual artwork of Ralph Steadman on its labels, best known for his work as the illustrator of the works of Hunter S. Thompson?
...that the history of sushi shows that although sushi is famous for its use in the Japanese cuisine, it actually originated in China in the 3rd or 4th century BC, more than 900 years before its first known appearance in Japan?
...that Ray Wilson, who was the eldest member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup team, became an undertaker after he retired from football?
...that pilot Victor Chapman died after being attacked by German enemies while on flight to carry oranges to a wounded friend?
...that Eli H. Janney whittled the prototypes for his railroad coupler design out of wood in 1873?
...that Adult attention-deficit disorder (AADD) affects an estimated 30% of people who suffered from Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their childhood?
...that from 1926 to 1940, the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
...that on March 4 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
...that although Gridley Bryant invented many of the basic railroad technologies in the early 1820s, including tracks and wheels, he never patented them?
...that Arcadia University changed its name from Beaver College because the latter "too often elicited ridicule in the form of derogatory remarks"?
...that the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas' recently rediscovered last novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine has a pivotal encounter with the British admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar?
...a coping skill is a behavioral tool used to overcome adversity, disadvantage, or disability without correcting or eliminating the underlying condition?
...that Joseph Rainey became the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1870?
...that Brancaleon, a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia, is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa?
...that the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy?
...that the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant, Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus?
...that Tell Halaf in Syria contains the archaeological remains of a Neolithic culture characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs?
...that Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets, has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial?
...that Leo Abse (born 1917) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom?
...that Nippon Steel Corporation, the Japanese steelmaking giant, once ventured into mushroom cultivation in an earnest bid to avoid layoffs?
...that the Blister Beetles are so named because they secrete cantharidin, a poison causing blistering of the skin and painful swelling if consumed?
...that Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988?
...that the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942?
...that the Scottish composer and pianist Ronald Stevenson composed an 80-minute passacaglia for solo piano based on the four-note motif D-E♭-C-B?
...that backlash from the 1897 Lattimer Massacre in Pennsylvania, an important event in the U.S. history of labor relations, resulted in the addition of some 15,000 new members of United Mine Workers of America union?
...that footballer Antonín Panenka famously scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany by chipping the ball?
...that extension conflicts helped give Macintosh computers a reputation for instability before the release of Mac OS X?
...that Jinnah House was the Mumbai residence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan and is the centre of a property dispute?
...that Australian tennis players Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, known as The Woodies, are the most successful men's doubles pair in history, winning a record six Wimbledon titles?
...that the Iowa Interstate Railroad is being considered for high speed passenger train service between Wyanet, Illinois, and Iowa City?
...that Microphallus is a genus of parasitic trematode, some species of which are notable for the manipulation of the behaviour and growth of their hosts?
...that William Bergsma wrote an opera about a dog who turned into a man in 1920s Moscow as the result of a crazy experiment?
... that Didiereaceae is a family of cactus-like flowering plants that make up the spiny thickets of Madagascar?
... that the feminist Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) was the first female psychiatrist in France and that she dressed as a man to protest the oppression of women?
... that the Delaware Basin in Texas contains fossilised coral reefs from the Permian era?
... that Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
... that Kentucky State University, with 2,300 students, is the smallest of the public state universities in the U.S. state of Kentucky?
... that the FTSE 100-listed company Hays plc dates back to the 1600s, when they owned warehouses and wharves on the River Thames?
... that the predecessor to the Imperial Russian Navy first sailed during the Second Azov campaign of 1696 under Peter the Great?
... that Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940) was known as "The Red Millionaire" because he ran a whole network of publishing and business companies, all dedicated to his Workers International Relief organisation and to promoting socialism.
...that bishop William McKendree (1757–1835) earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism" for his travels through his vast see of Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois?
... that silent E is a convention in English spelling added to the ends of words, that makes short vowels long?
... that until it was looted in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, the Church of the Holy Apostles was the busiest place of worship in Constantinople?
... that in the 1977 film That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel, the leading role of Conchita is played by two actresses and voiced by a third?
... that the group portrait Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster by Dutch painter Bartholomeus van der Helst (1613–1670) was considered by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be the finest he had seen?
... that the 1868 encounter between Kasuga and Kaiyō was the first naval battle between two modern fleets in Japan?
... that the Chilean football club Cobreloa reached the finals of South America's principal club competition, the Copa Libertadores, in 1981, only four years after the club's founding?
... that Palwankar Baloo was a Dalit (also called Untouchable) who helped break down the Indian caste system with his prowess at cricket?
...that Graham Berry (1822–1904), 11th Premier of Victoria, attempted to break the power of the Victorian Legislative Council, the stronghold of the landowning class?
...that in the National Lacrosse League of North America, the Coach of the Year Award is named after the late Les Bartley?
...that Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich?
...that Quantum praedecessores was a papal bull issued on 1 December 1145 by Pope Eugenius III, calling for a Second Crusade?
...that the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 was a wildfire in Montana which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters?
...that the Eastern Newt changes its skin colour from bright red to olive green when it becomes an adult, and is known as the red eft before adulthood?
...that because Adelaide del Vasto was divorced by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1117, her son Roger II of Sicily refused to give assistance to the Crusader states during the Second Crusade?
...that the decoration of the 1877 Papal Tiara includes 540 pearls, 68 rubies, 37 emeralds, and many other precious stones?
...that the Battle of Bun'ei in 1274 was Mongol emperor Kublai Khan's first attempt to invade Japan?
...that when Lady Frances Brandon failed to marry her daughter Lady Jane Grey to Edward VI of England, she plotted instead to raise Jane to the throne by means of a coup d'état in 1553?
...that the Free French corvette Aconit was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for her service in World War II?
...that the incorrect climatological theory that "rain follows the plow" was promoted in the 1870s to justify the settlement of the arid Great Plains of the American West?
... that Pancho Barnes was a pioneer of women's aviation and owner of the Rancho Oro Verde Fly-Inn Dude Ranch?
... that the Humboldt Squid is a large, aggressive predatory squid which can grow to 2 m long and weigh 40 kg?
... that Götz von Berlichingen, a knight of the Holy Roman Empire, wore a prosthetic hand made of iron after losing his hand in the siege of Landshut in 1508?
... that the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League?
...that the male pink salmon develops a large hump on its back when it is time to spawn, leading to the species nickname "humpie"?
...that a freak decompression accident on board the oil rig Byford Dolphin in 1983 literally caused a man to explode?
...that Scottish cyclist Robert Millar finished fourth in the 1984 Tour de France, the best ever finish by a British cyclist?
...that Marcus Loew, whose family's poverty forced him to give up on schooling and go to work at age nine, became the owner of the largest chain of movie theaters in the United States and the founder of MGM Studios?
...that Starry Night Over the Rhone, painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888, shows the constellation Ursa Major over the Rhone at Arles?
...that when Theodora Comnena married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1158, her dowry was 100,000 hyperpyra?
...that the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually, and that its spores were prepared as an anti-plant biological weapon during World War II?
...that Buzzie Bavasi was the general manager of the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers for eighteen years, helping the team win their first four World Series championships?
...that cloud-busters claim to use energy from their brain's prefrontal lobe to dissipate clouds?
...that the first witches persecuted by the Inquisition believed in Madonna Oriente, the Moon goddess?
...that Elsie Tanner was a core character on the British soap opera Coronation Street for over twenty years?
...that in 1945, entrepreneur Leonard Shoen founded U-Haul, first American cargo trailer-rental company?
...that the Dutch ship Brederode was the flagship of the United Provinces in the six largest battles of the First Anglo-Dutch War?
...that Dutch maritime painter Simon de Vlieger was influential in the move away from the monochrome grisaille to a more colourful style of sea painting?
...that Malin Space Science Systems is a San Diego, California company that operates the camera on the Mars Global Surveyor?
...that Video-Enhanced Grave Markers turn headstones into talking video displays for the deceased?
...that Brooklyn Brewery hired Milton Glaser, best known as the creator of the logo for the I Love New York campaign, to create their company logo?
...that Josiah Belden was a member of the first party to use the California Trail, and the first mayor of San Jose, California?
...that Project Exile was a program of prosecuting illegal gun offenses in federal court, helping reduce gun violence in Richmond, Virginia?
...that NGC 3314 is a pair of almost perfectly overlapping spiral galaxies, giving astronomers a unique opportunity to observe the properties of interstellar dust?
...that Sarah Brady became an advocate of gun control and led actions to reduce gun violence after her husband White House Press Secretary James Brady sustained a disabling head wound during the Reagan assassination attempt in 1981?
... that citrus plantation owner Julia Tuttle owned the land upon which Miami, Florida was built, and that she gave half her land to Henry Flagler to entice him to build a station for the Florida East Coast Railroad there?
... that Project Aqua was a proposed hydroelectric scheme for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand that would have diverted up to 77% of the river's flow into a separate canal?
... that different stages of the fish parasite Myxobolus cerebralis were originally thought to be three different organisms in two different classes?
... that Jack Clement discovered and recorded future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Jerry Lee Lewis for Sun Records while Sam Phillips was away on a trip?
...that the Paradesi Synagogue, built by the Malabar Yehudan people, is the oldest synagogue in the British Commonwealth of nations?
...that the Slovenian folk instrument bird-scaring rattle is used to drive birds from vineyards?
...that the astronomer Tycho Brahe calculated products quickly using Prosthaphaeresis, a 17th century algorithm exploiting trigonometric identities?
...that John Ritter made one of his first film appearances in the 1972 horror film The Other?
...that the principles of bird flight are the same as used in aircraft, with lift being provided by an aerofoil?
...that by passing as a man, Isobel Gunn became in 1806 the first woman of European descent employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land?
...that Fred Gipson was an American author best remembered for creating a fictional dog featured in a book and the classic 1957 movie Old Yeller?
...that the English politician Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun fought a duel with James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton in Hyde Park on November 15 1712 which resulted in the deaths of both men?
...that Lover's Leap is a name given to a number of locations of great height where legends take place involving couples leaping to their mutual death?
...that French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the French Revolution?
...that admiral Michiel de Ruyter saved the United Provinces from invasion in the two Battles of Schooneveld in June 1673?
...that 11 of the 13 members of the Hong Kong cricket team died when their steamship, SS Bokhara, was lost in a typhoon in 1892?
...that the National Socialist Motor Corps was a motorized paramilitary group of the Nazi Party, numbering almost 500,000 in membership?
...that Reverend Mother Superior Dolores Hart is the only nun to be an Academy Award-voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
...that Hollywood producer William Goetz's racehorse "Your Host" won the 1950 Santa Anita Derby?
...that time discipline is the set of social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations about time and its measurement?
...that the Iceland hotspot is partly responsible for the frequent volcanic eruptions and geothermal activity experienced in Iceland?
...that Zara Yaqob was the first Emperor of Ethiopia (1434–1468) to send a diplomatic mission to Europe?
...that in Hindu mythology, Meenakshi was born with three breasts, fish-eyes and a smell of fish?
...that the composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the title music for the monumental BBC documentary People's Century, which spans 26 parts?
...that French painter Charles-André van Loo was the principal court painter to Louis XV of France?