derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Henry Perky invented a machine to produce shredded wheat breakfast cereal and that he made his fortune selling the cereal rather than the machine?
...that in 1855 the Howard Association of Norfolk, Virginia received contributions during the yellow fever epidemic from the U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrina relief?
...that the Buckingham Branch Railroad in Central Virginia was formed in 1989 and has expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track?
...that the Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres?
...that American photographer George W. Ackerman took over 50,000 photographs during a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture?
...that Serbia and Montenegro and Italy were co-hosts of the 2005 European Volleyball Championship?
...that the Emancipation Oak located on the campus of Hampton University is where the Virginia Peninsula's black community gathered in 1863 to hear the first Southern reading of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
...that the modern Arms of the Principality of Wales are based on those borne by the 13th century Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great?
...that Dravidar Kazhagam formed in 1944 was the first fully Dravidian party in India?
...that conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States?
...that Hendrick ter Brugghen was the artist primarily responsible for introducing the style of Caravaggio into Dutch painting?
... that the Old Well at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a neoclassical rotunda modelled after the Temple of Love at the Palace of Versailles?
...that Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?
...that the endangered American Burying Beetle is one of the only beetle species that exhibits parental care?
...that at 23.8 hours, The Hazards of Helen is believed to be the longest motion picture serial ever made?
...that Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822, was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud?
...that Fort Story at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia was the site of the first landing of the Jamestown settlers in 1607, and the Cape Henry Lighthouse, first in the U.S., in 1792?
...that there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003?
...that Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork, her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan?
...that Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like?
...that change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant?
...that the Perth Mint is the oldest operating mint in Australia and that it has produced over 4,500 tonnes of refined gold which represents about 3.25 percent of the total tonnage of gold ever produced?
...that in 1910 the Kalem Company became the first American film studio to ever make a motion picture outside the United States when a film crew went on location in Ireland?
...that Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I?
...that during the 1878 flood in Miskolc, Hungary, the water level rose 50 cm per minute and in some parts of the city water was 4 to 5 m high?
...that the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875?
...that the Judean date palm, which was thought to have died out around 1 CE, was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel?
...that the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
...that in the next five years, 40,000 African soldiers will be trained to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program?
...that in 1982, 68 kg of gold bars were stolen in a robbery that became known as the Perth Mint Swindle, and that seven years later 55 kg of the gold was found dumped outside a Perth television station?
...that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986, and that not a single shot was fired during this war?
...that Caesar Augustus, his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus?
...that Ernst Litfaß was the inventor of the free-standing advertising column which bears his name?
...that Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain's largest newspaper, El País?
...that Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia, although it is only the sixth-largest power station?
...that the name of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu?
...that silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
...that the famous Wallace fountains in Paris were provided by English philanthropist Richard Wallace as a source of free water for the poor?
...that the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania?
...that the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus?
...that Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River?
...that the Grandfather's House mentioned in the song "Over the River and Through the Woods" is a real house on the Mystic River in Medford, Massachusetts?
...that Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of US Army military chocolate rations during World War II?
...that the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history?
...that Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on March 7, 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh's Liberation War?
...that the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans, Louisiana?
...that Jimmy Matthews is the only Test cricketer to have bowled two hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England?
...that Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?
...that during the 1970s the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts were broadcast live on CBS during primetime and was syndicated in over 40 countries?
...that in a landmark case, Dutch-born Jetta Goudal, one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract?
...that there have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success?
...that Ruth Riley, an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book?
...that Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu, India was called the "Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
...that David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer, who believed that the future of Yiddish literature lay in the Soviet Union and that he moved there from Berlin when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, but was ultimately executed during Josef Stalin's anti-semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans"?
...that recently-retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero?
...that in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada?
...that "Flood," the sixth episode of The Young Ones, was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer?
...that the Black Seminoles are descendants of free African Americans and fugitive slaves traditionally allied with Seminole Indians in Florida and Oklahoma?
...that land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia?
...that the U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
...that, before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003, England's youngest ever football player was James F. M. Prinsep, who had held the record for more than 123 years?
...that the soybean cyst nematode is a significant pest affecting soybean production on three continents?
...that Eddie Gilbert was an Australian Aboriginal cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
...that the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson, Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?
... that the anabolic steroid Oxandrolone was granted orphan drug status in treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, Turner's syndrome and HIV wasting syndrome?
...that teams in the International Basketball League scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
...that a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922, after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom?
...that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India's highest sporting honour?
...that there have been many toilet-related injuries throughout history, and that such injuries are also common in urban legend?
...that former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970?
...that the Alamosaurus, named after Fort Alamo, Texas, is considered to be the last of the sauropods?
...that Seatack, Virginia, named for an "attack by sea" during the War of 1812, has an Internet "Tower Cam" in the Old Coast Guard Station Museum on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach?
...that the Capitol in Williamsburg, Virginia was the first capitol building in America in 1705?
...that the 999-year-old Gonbad-e Qabus in Golestan, Iran is the world's tallest brick tower at 70 meters (230 feet)?
...that André Meyer quit school at age 16 to work as a messenger boy, and was later described as "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world" by David Rockefeller?
...that the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be the third London Olympics, and that no other city has hosted the games three times?
...that German naturalist Amalie Dietrich, who spent 10 years working in Australia, was the first person to collect the highly venomous snakes known as taipans?
...that Scotland's Craigellachie Bridge, a revolutionary cast iron structure built by Thomas Telford in 1814, inspired a popular Strathspey reel tune?
...that Herb Thomas was the first NASCAR race-car driver to win two championships in the modern NEXTEL Cup?
...that the Shubert Theatre in New Haven was the location of the pre-Broadway premieres of five of the most famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, including Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of Music?
...that Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, a Yuan Dynasty painting by Huang Gongwang, now exists in two halves, one of which is kept in Mainland China while the other is kept in Taiwan?
...that Lieutenant-Colonel John Nairne originally hoped to make his seigneurity, La Malbaie, a Protestant community?
...that the Yuanwang-class of ships is used by the People's Republic of China for tracking and supporting their Shenzhou spacecraft?
...that Captain Israel Pellew, brother of the more famous Sir Edward Pellew, sent his Captain of Marines to receive Admiral Villeneuve's surrender at the Battle of Trafalgar but in the heat of battle, Villeneuve's sword never reached him and it was later given to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood who kept it much to Pellew's disgust?
...that Francis Nicholson served as colonial governor or acting colonial governor of Nova Scotia, the Province of New York, the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Maryland and the Province of South Carolina at various times during his career?
...that the Ao language is one of the few Kuki-Chin-Naga (Tibeto-Burman) languages that has been subject to acoustic analysis?
...that Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity?
...that Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991?
...that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the steroid hormone Prasterone orphan drug status in the treatment of Addison's Disease?
...that a traffic accident in New York City's Times Square eventually led to the downfall of the Joe K spy ring, headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig?
...that the dummy of ventriloquist and magician Jay Marshall was actually his left hand dressed up as a rabbit?
...that in the 17th century Jean Gery, a French deserter, later served as a guide and translator for the Spanish in North America?
...that in 1712 Jane Wenham is commonly but erroneously regarded as the last subject of a witch trial in England?
...that Victoire Thivisol was the youngest winner ever of the Best Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette?
...that Edward Falkingham ordered the construction of prisons in Ferryland, Bonavista and Carbonear in 1732 while he was Governor of Newfoundland?
...that Redline was the last game published by Accolade before being acquired by Infogrames in 1999?
...that Basheba Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States of America, for the murder of a Minuteman who had raped her?
...that the first James Bond gun barrel sequence, in the film Dr. No, was filmed through the barrel of an actual gun?
...that Withering Abalone Syndrome can cause an abalone to eat its own foot?
...that Mayanist scholar and archaeologist Sylvanus Griswold Morley was also an American secret agent in World War I?
...that the first unfurling of the new flag of the United States occurred at the Middlebrook encampment?
...that in 1878, Sam Lucas became the first African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin, only to do the same for film 37 years later?
...that Bill Ranford, who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle, as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig?
...that anticuchos , one of the most popular dishes in South America, consists of skewered pieces of cow hearts?
...that Euclid Beach Park, an amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio that was modelled after Coney Island, was home to a race riot in 1946?
...that E. Sreedharan, the managing director of Delhi Metro, earned the sobriquet of Metro Man for ensuring that the first phase of the metro project was executed without any cost or time overruns?
...that the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a failed plan by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain taxes from 1946 to 1952?
...that Commodore Josias Rowley's campaign to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Reunion and Mauritius in 1810 was the source material for the exploits of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's novel The Mauritius Command?
...that Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas?
...that a dream by Sergei Pankejeff, whom Sigmund Freud dubbed the "Wolf Man", was considered to vindicate Freud's theory of the unconscious and psychosexual development?
...that James Autry received a stay on his execution in October 1983 after the needles for his lethal injection had been inserted into his arms?
...that Torchwood will be the first spin-off from Doctor Who since an unsuccessful pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981?
...that after Joel Sweeney popularized the banjo in the United States he did the same in Europe as a member of the Virginia Minstrels?
...that with a dynamometer car in tow, the Northern Pacific Railroad was able to drive Timken 1111 on a demonstration run as fast as a sustained 142 km/h while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train?
...that Roger Lemerre has won the Football World Cup, European Football Championship, Confederations Cup and the African Nations Cup?
...that a voluntary caregiver is an unpaid spouse, relative, friend or neighbor of a disabled person or child who assists with activities of daily living?
... that the Imperial Japanese Navy's 1888 warship Kotaka is considered as the first effective design of a destroyer?
...Miles Copeland, Jr., the father of Stewart and Miles III, was a CIA spy involved in several Mideast coups, but began his career as a trumpeter for big bands including Glenn Miller?
...that Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead?
... that New Orleans street vendor Old Corn Meal is one of the earliest known African Americans to have had a documented influence on the development of blackface minstrelsy specifically and American popular music in general?
...American artist Samuel W. Rowse's lithograph of escaped slave Henry "Box" Brown emerging from a shipping box in 1849 was used to raise funds by anti-slavery activists for the Underground Railroad?
...that the Adolph Beck case was the most notorious case of mistaken identity in British legal history, resulting in a conviction of an innocent man not once but twice?
...that the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906?
...that the 1959 court case K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was the last jury trial ever held in India?
...that the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, one of the most destructive Nor'easters to ever impact the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, killed 40 people, injured over 1,000 and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage in six U.S. states?
...that the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be comprised of Gurkhas, and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton?
...that the Canon Episcopi, which was inserted into canon law by Burchard of Worms in the 11th century, demanded that Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft?
...that David Laird negotiated the Qu'Appelle Lakes Treaty with resident natives of Saskatchewan in 1874 to procure land for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
...that tradition credits King Gebra Maskal Lalibela with carving the monolithic churches of Lalibela from stone with his own hands, helped only by angels?
...that a strap-on dildo may be used by heterosexual couples for the sexual practice of pegging?
...that the Liverpool Blitz was a sustained bombing campaign on the city of Liverpool, United Kingdom, by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War?
...that Nobuo Fujita of the Imperial Japanese Navy conducted the only wartime bombing on the continental United States in 1942?
...that the Mandara kingdom of West Africa was conquered by Modibo Adama of the Fulani Empire, Muhammad Ahmad of Sudan, and Germany within a single hundred year span?
...that in Scots law the civil action known as lawburrows—in use since 1429 and intended to prevent violence—is a simple, bond-based alternative to interdicts or court orders?
...that Robert Meeropol, son of Communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was adopted by "Strange Fruit" lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage?
...that the Victorian parlour game of Snap-dragon involved children plucking raisins out of burning brandy and eating them?
...that the Paragould Meteorite is the third-largest meteorite ever discovered in North America?
...that Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland, was one of the foundational texts of Wicca, but has been suspected of being a fraud?
...that more than 700 of the caricatures on display at Sardi's restaurant in New York City were drawn by a Russian refugee in exchange for meals at the restaurant?
...that identical Norwegian Lady Statues commemorating a shipwreck are located in the sister cities of Moss, Norway and Virginia Beach, Virginia facing each other across the Atlantic Ocean?
...that British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?
...that Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir, India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965?
...that Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was a prolific Spanish painter who not only produced over 1,000 paintings but also was briefly the director of the Prado Museum?
...that Vermilion Lighthouse is a replica of the 1877 iron lighthouse that was forged from recycled smooth-bored cannons that had been obsoleted after the American Civil War?
...that Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi, but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film?
...that the Tremont Street Subway in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest subway tunnel in North America?
... that religious identity in Israel for Jews differs strikingly from that recognized in the Jewish diaspora?
... that Dolores Erickson, the woman on the album cover for Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, was actually covered in shaving cream?
...that Taprogge GmbH supplies cleaning systems to clean condenser tubes from debris with sponged rubber balls?
...that Abelisaurus had a lighter skull than other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?
...that Papillon is a famous memoir written by Henri Charrière about his numerous escape attempts from a French penal colony in French Guiana?
...that Varina Farms, the plantation of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, was site of the first successful cultivation of export tobacco in the Virginia Colony in 1612?
...that the anabolic steroid Methandrostenolone was prescribed to women in the 1960s as a tonic, until its masculinising effects were discovered?
...that Iannis Xenakis wrote Metastaseis to represent the sounds of warfare and Einsteinian views of time?
...that parts of the first law passed by the U.S. Congress are still on the books?
...that Nagesh Kukunoor made Hyderabad Blues, the most successful independent film from India in just 17 days?
...that Hurricane Gordon was a Category 1 hurricane that killed 1,122 people in Haiti in 1994 and that the hurricane name was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization?
...that Major League Cricket plans to launch a professional cricket league in the United States, with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011?
...that the Valley Pike was a toll road managed by Harry F. Byrd which followed a Native American migratory trail in the Shenandoah Valley?
...that to prepare for future examinations, Singapore students use the ten year series to practice on past years' examination papers, some of which date back to before they were born?
...that "Toro Mata" ("The Bull Kills" in Spanish) is one of the most famous folk songs in Peru?