derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that English explorer James Knight died on an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage in 1719?
...that Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke, an Irish Count born in Estonia, became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honoured with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
...that American golfer Tony Lema died when the plane he was travelling in crashed into a golf course?
...that Malian playwright and novelist Massa Makan Diabaté was the descendant of a long line of Malinké griots?
...that Sabine Ehrenfeld, the Overstock.com spokesmodel, is fluent in German, French, English, and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian?
... that two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China?
...that in 1990, Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War, a political battle over whether "Czechoslovakia" should be spelled with a hyphen?
...that the largest solar plant of the Alps was built on Loser mountain in Austria at 1,838 meters above sea level?
...That the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center located in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Caribbean?
...that the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?
...that the Right Hegelians took the philosophy of Hegel in a politically and religiously conservative direction?
...that the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn, 15 feet (4.6 metres) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch's Buckingham Palace Gardens?
...that, in addition to hearing the landmark Napster and Bernstein cases, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel vacated the World War II-era conviction of Japanese American Fred Korematsu?
...that French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe?
...that the 1984 Murray Head hit "One Night In Bangkok," from the musical Chess, gained newfound popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz?
...that The Heart of Midlothian, the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, was the first in the series to have a female protagonist?
...that in 1911, Charles Rosher, working for David Horsley's production company, became Hollywood's first full-time cameraman?
...that Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state made up of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee in the period leading up to the American Civil War?
... that in the United States, a federal court can be classified as either an Article I or Article III tribunal?
...that Japan and Poland are the world's largest krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993?
...that jockey Kent Desormeaux and his horse Real Quiet missed thoroughbred horse racing immortality by a few inches?
...that Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?
...that Love Israel, a cult in northern Washington, filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism to become their 13th summer camp?
...that Franco-Japanese relations were initiated by the 1615 visit of the Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga to the city of Saint-Tropez in Southern France?
...that, after being defrocked as a Church of England priest, Harold Davidson became a seaside entertainer and was killed in 1937 by a lion when he trod on its tail?
...that distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez and John Adams?
...that the General Council of the Valleys, the parliament of Andorra, has only 28 members?
...that both the Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II fell on the official Queen's Birthday holiday?
...that Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association?
...that Packet Storm is a non-profit organization comprised of computer security professionals whose goal is to provide the information necessary to secure computer networks?
...that a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand?
...that prosector's wart is a skin lesion caused by contamination with tuberculosis of a diseased cadaver during its preparation for autopsy by a prosector, a preparator of dissections?
...that Roza Robota was hanged for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt?
...that American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
...that the Australian Blue Ant is not an ant at all, but a large solitary wasp?
...that the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII's Battle of Leyte Gulf?
...that Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004?
...that for actress KaDee Strickland's role in The Grudge, she was inspired by Jane Fonda's Academy Award-winning performance in the 1971 film Klute?
...that the Blondie song "Call Me" was only the third song from a soundtrack to be the highest-selling single in the United States?
...that whole grains are often more expensive than refined grains because their higher oil content is susceptible to oxidation, complicating processing, storage, and transport?
...that Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot?
...that unlike many of the Bee Gees' singles, which were recorded in Miami, Florida, "Stayin' Alive" was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in Paris?
...that in the computer game Crush, Crumble and Chomp! the player controls a disaster movie monster and destroys cities?
...that the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats?
...that Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been described as the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70?
...that Captain Henry Trollope (1756–1839) of the Royal Navy, commanding the frigate Glatton, defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one?
...that no Punch and Judy performer can consider himself a Professor until he has swallowed his swazzle at least twice?
...that the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century?
...that in 1978, Governor of Florida Reubin Askew gave the Bee Gees "honorary citizenship" after the success of their single "Night Fever"?
...that chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter?
...that Alan Mullery became the first England association football player to be sent off in a full international match during the 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia?
...that Samuel Green was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
...that the history of nuclear weapons and the United States includes around 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992?
...that Philip of Poitou, Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208, quarrelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?
...that singer Maureen McGovern was a secretary before she was signed to perform the Academy Award-winning song "The Morning After"?
...that the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour of England by white Australians?
... that Otokichi (1818–1867) was a Japanese castaway, who circled the globe as he tried unsuccessfully to return to Japan?
... that Xihoumen Bridge, a suspension bridge planned for the Zhoushan Archipelago in China will be the third largest suspension bridge in the world when completed?
...that after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created garrison schools?
...that the U.S. children's television series Romper Room aired for over 40 years?
...that the song "Nights in White Satin," largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?
...that Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896, and later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation?
...that the 1985 film Into the Night is largely responsible for launching Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom?
... that the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992?
... that Union Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland was once the longest suspension bridge in the world and is now the oldest surviving?
...that MTV Canada will be converted into a digital television station called Razer, now that it is owned by CHUM Limited?
...that the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime, which is punishable by real laws in some countries?
...that James Glynn, captain of the USS Preble, was the first American to negotiate successfully with Sakoku ("closed country") Japan, in 1848?
...that the Tarim mummies indicate that Caucasoid populations lived in Xinjiang in western China during the 1st millennium BCE?
...that there are 17 candidates running in the June 14 Ohio second congressional district election to replace representative Rob Portman?
...that Mick Mills was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?
...that Irish chemist Robert Kane (1809–1890) showed that hydrogen is electropositive?
...that 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became pregnant?
...that American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain?
...that Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler, wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years?
...that anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) developed a set of anatomical models from human body parts by injecting them with wax?
...that Saki's short story "Sredni Vashtar" plays an important role in Raymond Postgate's 1940 mystery novel Verdict of Twelve?
...that Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
...that there are parts of Canadian airspace where compasses are not useful because they are too close to the magnetic north pole?
...that the scientific collections of Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) were seized by the British in 1793 as spoils of war, but were returned after lobbying by Sir Joseph Banks?
...that Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade?
...that the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell?
...that the Brimstone Moth has a variable life cycle of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?
...that Carolus Linnaeus the younger (1741–1783) was enrolled by his father at the University of Uppsala at the age of nine?
...that the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity?
...that Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century, and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam?
...that Firpo Marberry was the first relief pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 100 saves in his career?
...that the grunion is a sardine-sized fish only found off the coast of California and Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the new and full moons) to lay its eggs?
...that Bruce Webster was so burned out from writing the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the Apple II, that he gave up programming for four years?
...that Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release?
...that Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in 1963 with Japanese company NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?
...that Barstow, California, and Strong City, Kansas, are both named in honour of William Barstow Strong, former president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway?
...that in the music video for the Crazy Frog song "Axel F", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting?
...that suffragist Louisa Lawson (1848–1920), publisher of Australia's first female-run journal, The Dawn, was also the mother of the great Australian poet Henry Lawson?
...that the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades?
...that facial symmetry is correlated with health, physical attractiveness, and beauty, and is a factor in interpersonal attraction?
...that a sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not formally a member?
...that Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") was a popular 15th century text on the proper etiquette of how to die?
...that the reality television series Dr. 90210 got its name from the zip code for part of the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills?
...that the U.S. airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to Israel for use in the Yom Kippur War under Operation Nickel Grass?
...that David Penhaligon (1944–1986) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42?
...that the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?
...that John Dryden created the genre of heroic drama as a way of reconciling plays with epic poetry?
...that Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe?
...that Suudu is a culture-specific syndrome of painful urination and pelvic "heat" familiar in south India, especially in the Tamil culture?
...that despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown", was taken seriously when published in 1892?
...that the Ampelmännchen (German: little men on the traffic signal) of East Germany had a confident stride, thought to evoke enthusiasm in moving toward an ideal socialist future?
...that there are at least 60 different human and alien technologies in the fictional Stargate universe?
...that Marn Grook is the name of ball game played by Australian Aborginals which is thought to be the basis for the modern game of Australian Rules Football?
...that superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse and can lead to twins with different fathers?
...that Toktogul Satilganov was the most famous of the Kyrgyz Akyn storytellers?
...that California State Senator Abel Maldonado ran for election to the Santa Maria City Council in 1994 after being involved in a building dispute?
...that the Dakar-Niger Railway was the site of a 1947 strike celebrated by author Ousmane Sembène as a turning point in West Africa's anti-colonial struggle?
... that the Mokola virus is a relative of the rabies virus and was first isolated in tree shrews?
...that there have only been two tied Tests in the 128 years of Test cricket, both involving the Australian cricket team?
...that misdirected letters are a common plot twist in the 19th century genre of theatre called the Well-Made Play?
... that the Tatara Bridge in Japan has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world?
...that California's current State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman ran for State Attorney General in 2002?
...that the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is a rabbinical seminary established by Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement?
...that the BBC1 sitcom Grace & Favour was the sequel series to the long-running programme Are You Being Served?
...that 1980's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games?
...that the Carte Orange is a pass for the public transportation system in Paris and the surrounding region?
...that Department S was an ITC Entertainment production which not only led to a successful spin-off, Jason King, but was also a large source of inspiration for Austin Powers?
...that patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?
...that Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground?
...that the Peul preacher and social reformer Seku Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire?
... that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN?
...that adjustable gastric banding is a form of weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system?
... that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to board the Underground shortly before the 7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
...that the poems of Richard Dehmel were set to music by composers like Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill, or inspired them to write music?
...that Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
... that NASA, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the "virtual globe"?
...that the Super Buddies, a team of DC Comics superheroes, were a comedic Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the Eisner Award-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?
... that Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
... that California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first U.S. based organizations to certify organic farmers?
... that the St'at'imcets language, an endangered language of British Columbia, is similar to Semitic languages in that it also has pharyngeal consonants?
... that businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress?
... that the Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a creek, because it is impounded just before the confluence?
... that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time due to a legal fiction in English law?
... that The Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976?
... that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations?
...that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations?
...that khash is a traditional Armenian dish from the Shirak region which has cow's feet as its main ingredient?
...that the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters?
...that the Swedish Bikini Team, an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women?
...that First Monday was a U.S. television program about a moderate U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed to a court evenly divided between conservatives and liberals?
...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
...that legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
...that the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand?
...that King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud?
...that "Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?
...that Argentine painter Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890?
...that the Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes?
...that the composer Johannes Brahms premiered his Academic Festival Overture, a musical fantasy based on several student drinking songs, at the University of Breslau's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate?
...that William Dudley Chipley first brought rail lines to Pensacola, Florida, connecting the Atlantic coast of Florida with other Gulf Coast states for the first time?
...that Barbara Cassani founded the budget airline Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
...that the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox?
...that Ferrellgas, the largest propane retail distributor in the United States, started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas?
...that many of the scenes Louisa May Alcott depicts in her book Little Women took place when her family was living in The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts?
...that Watson's Hotel is India's oldest cast iron building and is among the "100 Most Endangered Sites"?
...that the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26, 1922?
...that measuring the levels of certain enzymes called transaminases can help to diagnose some liver diseases?
...that the main work of the Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, Strömkarlen (the Nix), was refused by the Swedish Nationalmuseum in 1884, and later bought by Prince Eugén, the youngest son of king Oscar II?
...that soap opera actor Cameron Mathison suffered from Perthes disease as a child, requiring him to wear leg braces for nearly four years?
...that Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne was the only British artillerist to command an army in World War I?
...that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s?
...that Carolingian art permitted the drawing of human figures during the Iconoclasm controversy of the 9th century?
...that five teams in cricket's 2005 ICC Trophy will be granted official one-day international status for the next four years?
...that in the 1850s, El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali?
...that Constable Stephen Tibble had been in the Metropolitan Police Force of Greater London for six months before he was killed by an IRA gunman?