derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that British lawyer Sir Robert Megarry was tried at the Old Bailey in 1954 for submitting false income tax returns, but later went on to become a High Court judge, Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division and then Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court?
...that Antwone Fisher was born in a woman's prison in which his mother was incarcerated?
...that last week's first-ever football meeting between the University of Miami and Florida International University was marred by a massive brawl that led to the suspension of 31 players?
...that between 1944 and 1962, up to 186,000 inmates passed through approximately 100 forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria?
...that, according to an oriental ritual, the deceased citizens of ancient Prinias, Crete were beheaded and then cremated, while their heads were buried separately?
...that Ying Fo Fui Kun was the first Hakka clan association in Singapore, and its clan house at Telok Ayer was gazetted as a national monument in 1998?
...that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union?
...that the rococo manor house at Damsgård, near Bergen, Norway, is one of the best preserved wooden 18th century structures in Europe?
...that doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?
...that Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in the 1920 Treaty of Moscow, in exchange for the promise not to grant asylum on Georgian soil to troops of powers hostile to the Soviet republic?
...that innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
...that Mury, a protest song by Jacek Kaczmarski about events in Catalonia, became the unofficial anthem of Solidarity?
...that Iliaş of Moldavia, Jagiello's brother-in-law, lost his throne and was blinded following Poland's withdrawal from Moldavian affairs?
...that Phil Fondacaro, an actor with dwarfism, portrayed the only Ewok to die on-screen in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi?
...that color change in leaves during autumn is caused by reduced levels of the green pigment chlorophyll?
...that Edward Palmer, an early-19th century utopian socialist, advocated the complete abolition of money?
...that groundbreaking on Christ's Resurrection Church in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1934 was marked by the placement of a symbolic stone brought from Jerusalem's Mount of Olives?
...that sanitation deficiencies are thought to be responsible for about 14,000 deaths per day at present, and were a major cause of 25 million deaths from the plague in Europe in 1348?
...that, according to Ahmed ibn Fadlan, the supreme ruler of the Rus' Khaganate "had no duties other than to make love to his slave girls, drink, and give himself up to pleasure"?
...that the Martyrs' Cemetery holds the remains of both Iraqi insurgents and civilians killed during the First Battle of Fallujah in 2004?
...that Hong San See, a Chinese temple and national monument in Singapore, was sited on a small hill for good feng shui and once commanded a good view of the sea?
...that the Tamworth Pig is a rare breed of swine which has such a high bristle density that, unlike most pigs, it almost never suffers sunburn?
...that in 1998 Vishnu Bhagwat became the first service chief in independent India to be fired?
...that Susan L. Hefle's research led to the development of commercialized ELISA testing for food allergens?
...that Juditha triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, narrating the story of the Jewish widow Judith, who beheaded the invading Assyrian general Holofernes after he fell in love with her; and that all characters were interpreted by orphan female singers?
...that modified starch is added to processed frozen foods to prevent them from dripping when defrosted?
...that rock and roll pioneer Chan Romero wrote the 1959 hit, "Hippy Hippy Shake" which was covered by The Beatles?
...that the four large housing cooperatives that make up Cooperative Village on the Lower East Side of Manhattan were sponsored and financed by trade unions with ties to the Socialist Party of America?
...that Swedish goalkeeper Karl Svensson was given his nickname Rio-Kalle after two heroic matches in the 1950 FIFA World Cup that were actually played in São Paulo and not in Rio de Janeiro?
...that the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet that was used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it fell out of use in the 5th century BCE?
...that Ravensburg State Park in Pennsylvania, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, is named for the ravens that still roost there?
...that noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore?
...that the Smith Flyer was an automobile formed out of a wooden plank, two bucket seats, a driving mechanism and a power unit?
...that British athlete Don Thompson was nicknamed "Il Topolino" (Italian for "Little Mouse") when he raced to victory in the 50km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while wearing a képi and sunglasses ?
...that Leonarda Cianciulli, the "Soap-Maker of Correggio", murdered three women and turned their bodies into soap and tea cakes?
...that Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa?
...that the Laura Spence Affair was a major UK political row started over comments made by British Chancellor Gordon Brown accusing Oxford University of elitism?
...that Fighting Solidarity , created in response to the martial law in Poland of 1982, was among the most radical splinters of Solidarity?
...that Jules Porgès was a financier central to the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s?
...that Birdcage Walk in the City of Westminster, London, is named after the Royal Menagerie and Aviary which was located beside it in the reign of Kings James I and expanded by Charles II?
...that the Partition of Midnapore to divide Midnapore, India's most populous district, was achieved 81 years after the first attempt in 1921?
...that the "Shakespeare Lady", a schizophrenic street performer in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, has her own trading card?
...that the needle-exchange programme John Turvey helped create in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside eventually became North America's first safe injection site?
...that an employee resignation letter from the son of Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr., patent attorney to the Wright Brothers, led to the demise of the Tucker Car Company and a $62 million donation to Georgetown University Medical Center?
...that the Viipuri Municipal Library , built to Aalto's groundbreaking design in 1935, was abandoned for a decade following the transfer of Viipuri to the Soviet Union?
...that alternative rocker and Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote the song "Crackity Jones" about a stay with a crazed roommate in Puerto Rico as an exchange student?
...that Islay Herald Don Pottinger became interested in heraldry when commissioned to paint a portrait of Sir Thomas Innes of Learney?
...that Sir John Gonson, a British Justice of the Peace for nearly 50 years in the early 18th century, was depicted twice in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress?
...that the Shelter was an experimental city car of the early 1950s designed and built by a Dutch engineering student with financial backing by the government of the Netherlands?
...that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?
...that Francesco Xanto Avelli was unusual among Umbrian maiolica painters as he signed and dated much of his work ?
...that the Slutsk defence action was the short-lived attempt to defend Belarusian independence from Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the Polish-Soviet War?
...that the famous Russian orientalist of Azeri origin, Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey, was converted to Christianity by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries in 1821?
...that at the Battle of Stone Houses in 1837, a band of American Indians defeated a group of Texas Rangers by smoking them out of their shelter?
...that the athletic competition Sunflower Showdown, between Kansas State and the University of Kansas, traces back to a fight over the location of the state university in the 1860s?
...that numismatists billed the United States Series of 1896 Educational Series Silver Certificates as the most beautifully designed bills due to their use of neoclassical allegorical motifs?
...that a specimen of Australia's largest mushroom Phlebopus marginatus from Western Victoria weighed in at 29 kg, and caps can sometimes reach 1 metre across?
...that Yakov Bulgakov, Catherine II's emissary in Istanbul, managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in Yedikule during the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792?
...that Czech Second World War fighter pilot František Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union?
...that iridodialysis is a localized separation or tearing away of the iris from its attachment to the ciliary body?
...that local farmers would drive rock laden wagons onto the Ada Covered Bridge in Ada, Michigan to prevent it from washing away during floods?
...that the Liverpool Irish was the popular name for a battalion of the British King's Regiment raised by Liverpool's large Irish community in 1860?
...that Edwin B. Hart studied physiological chemistry under Nobel Laureate Albrecht Kossel before leading research that would lead to controlling anemia and goiter?
...that funding for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was originally provided by giving it a monopoly on the sale of calendars?
...that Shahzia Sikander, 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant", is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting?
...that the office of Garter Principal King of Arms was created for William Bruges around 1415?
...that athlete Gretel Bergmann left Germany for America because she was discriminated against for being Jewish, and that she refused to return to attend festivities when the Berlin-Wilmersdorf sports complex was named in her honour?
...that the "O. P. Q. Letters" were written anonymously in a failed attempt to incite an insurrection in Texas in 1834?
...that the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof?
...that modernization of the Ostkreuz station in Berlin, the busiest interchange station of the city's transportation system, has been proposed since 1937 and is due to start next year?
...that Hamel, a town located in the South West of Western Australia, owes its name to solicitor and politician Lancel Victor de Hamel, the former owner of the land where the townsite is situated?
...that Walter Stauffer McIlhenny, president of McIlhenny Company (1949-1985), maker of Tabasco sauce, was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal?
... that the phrase to grab the brass ring comes from the brass ring dispenser, which presents rings to carousel riders to grab and possibly win prizes?
...that British Labour politician Reg Freeson spent 23 years as an MP, including 14 years on the front bench, but was deselected in 1985 due to his "sensible left" views and replaced by Ken Livingstone?
... that Ed Brown was an African-American slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey and a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer?
...that the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775?
...that Indian serial killer Raman Raghav targeted street urchins and beggars sleeping in the open on roadsides and slums in Mumbai?
...that the Miami blue butterfly may be the rarest insect in the United States, and that its continued survival may depend on a captive breeding program at the University of Florida?
...that Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation, in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic?
... that the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition?
...that in order to demonstrate the versatility of the Holman Projector , a British anti-aircraft mortar, a trial was staged in front of Prime Minister Winston Churchill using a number of beer bottles as ammunition?
...that the Ythan Estuary in Scotland contains the most extensive dunes formation in Europe and is also the site of a Stone Age settlement?
...that the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall was used to stage court masques for the Stuart Kings of England, but was originally built by Henry VIII as a venue for cockfighting?
...that the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das, who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?
...that "Ernold Same", a song from Blur's 1995 album The Great Escape, was narrated by the current Mayor of London Ken Livingstone?
...that the name of the endangered language isolate Huave, spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, probably comes from a Zapotec word meaning "people of the sea", but that the Huave people who call themselves Ikoots refer to their language as ombeayiiüts, "our language"?
...that the Kennedia nigricans, or the Black Coral Pea, is a robust Western Australian species of climbing plant that spreads to over 18 m2 (200 ft2)?
...that 51 nations participated in the FIBA World Championship as of the 2006 tournament?
...that the founders of the Indian spice manufacturing company MDH were popularly known as Deggi Mirch Wale, the "Pot Chilli People"?
...that "Octopus giganteus" is the pseudoscientific name given to a large carcass, postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida in 1896?
...that Operation Poomalai was a humanitarian supply airdrop over Jaffna, Sri Lanka by the Indian Air Force in June 1987, and was the first active intervention by India in the Sri Lankan Civil War?
...that Sajal Barui, who escaped after being convicted of murdering his family, was recaptured by the West Bengal police for theft without his true identity being discovered?
...that Elm Farm Ollie in 1930 became the first cow to be milked while flying in an airplane?
...that the painting The Face on the Barroom Floor, in Central City, Colorado, was inspired by a poem, and that it in turn inspired a chamber opera?
...that Alby, Sweden is a mesolithic settlement, the earliest known of any humans on the island of Öland?
... that deaths caused by falling billboards in Metro Manila during Typhoon Xangsane (Milenyo) prompted a renewed push by Philippine legislators for a ban on billboard advertising?
...that the only working, full sized, Caisson lock ever built, was on the Somerset Coal Canal at Combe Hay, Somerset in England between 1795 and 1805?
...that Sten Rudholm is a member of the Swedish Academy and today the only living Swedish non-royal knight of the Order of the Seraphim?
...that the French poet Georges de Brébeuf is most well-known for his verse translation of Lucan's Pharsalia which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille, but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau?
...that rational egoism is the idea that it is always in accordance with reason to pursue one's own interest, used by Ayn Rand as the rationale behind objectivism?
...that Fred Sullivan was the brother of Arthur Sullivan, who dedicated the hymn "The Lost Chord" to his memory?
...that the T-43 tank was devised as a replacement to the Soviet T-34 medium tank, but was scrapped in favour of simply improving the armament of the T-34?
...that Agatha, mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland, could have been either a daughter of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev or a daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar?
...that Scouts' Day is a special day observed by members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement throughout the year when all Scouts re-affirm the Scout Promise?
...that the Stora Alvaret, a World Heritage Site on the island of Öland, Sweden, has rich biodiversity, even though the soil mantle on this 26,000 hectare limestone barren is less than two centimeters deep?
...that the Common Inkcap , an edible mushroom, contains an Antabuse-like substance which renders it poisonous when consumed with alcohol?
...that according to Mongolian folklore, the escort that buried Genghis Khan committed suicide to make his grave impossible to find?
...that although Saint-Porchaire ware began the French tradition of high ceramic art, only some seventy examples survive?
...that the Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman was awarded the Stalin Prize at the period when he was not allowed to live in Moscow owing to his "criminal record"?
...that "Kylie Said To Jason" was a deliberate attempt by then-cash-strapped British band The KLF to have a hit single, however it failed to enter the UK Top 100?
...that Virginia politician Charles F. Mercer switched between five different political parties during his 22-year service in the United States Congress?
...that the Collegio di Spagna , a college for Spanish students at the Italian University of Bologna, was founded in 1364 and counts Ignatius of Loyola and Miguel Cervantes among its alumni?
...that the Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed curse placed on the Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot, Col. Harland Sanders?
...that St Laurence Church, Ludlow, England has an extensive collection of medieval misericords and other wood carvings, but may be best known as poet A.E. Housman's gravesite?
...that the influential French writers Jacques Rivière and Alain-Fournier both failed the entrance examination for Paris's École Normale Supérieure?
...that Mykola Skrypnyk, who had promoted an independent Bolshevik Ukraine, and later led the Ukrainization program of the Ukrainian SSR, chose to shoot himself rather than recant his policies?
...that Pagoda Street in Chinatown, Singapore was named after the pagoda-like gopuram of Sri Mariamman Temple?
...that all buildings of the Vitra furniture factory in Germany have been designed by internationally renowned architects, including Frank O. Gehry?
...that the Sarikoli language is often referred to as "Tajik", despite being only distantly related to Tajikistan's national language?
...that Jyoti Prasad Agarwala is regarded as the father of Assamese cinema?
...that the movement to secure the rights of Sami as an indigenous people in Norway was in large part made visible by civil disobedience?
...that an early trial of the effectiveness of the Lagonda flamethrower as a deterrent to Luftwaffe dive bombing attacks on Merchant Navy vessels was utterly unsuccessful?
...that when Krishna Mohan Banerjee, a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata, in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare’s school?
...that the Lainzer Tiergarten is a 2,450-hectare (6,054-acre) wildlife preserve in the city of Vienna, Austria, and is home to approximately 1,000 wild boars?
...that the photograph Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath of a severely deformed, naked child was deliberately posed with the agreement of her mother to illustrate the terrible effects of Minamata disease, a form of mercury poisoning?
...that, during the summer of four captains in 1988, Chris Cowdrey became only the second son to follow his father as captain of the English cricket team?
...that Turkic-speaking Greeks of Georgia and Ukraine refer to themselves as Urums, a term which derives from the Arabic word for Roman?
...that "Lopšinė Mylimai" is the least auspicious debut entry in Eurovision Song Contest history, finishing the 1994 Contest in last place without scoring a point?
...that a tornado that hit Dantan in India on March 24, 1998 killed over 250 people?
...that Łazienki Palace was the site of the famous Thursday Dinners during the times of Enlightenment in Poland?
...that Layman Pang, a wealthy merchant and Zen Buddhist in Tang Dynasty China, once put all of his possessions in a boat and sank them in a river?
...that the 1985 trademark infringement case of Canfield v. Honickman, involving the makers of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge soda, continues to be used as an example during the study of trademark product law in the U.S.?
...that David Eldridge is the earliest known person of European descent to die in the Western Reserve, and the first person to be buried in the newly-created city of Cleveland?
...that 19th century London song-writer Helen, Lady Dufferin was admired by Disraeli, compared with Helen of Troy in a poem by Browning, and had a village named after her?
...that British Conservative MP Sir Ian Lloyd left his native South Africa in 1955 due to his opposition to apartheid, but was later called "Botha's mouthpiece" for his advocacy of closer links with South Africa to stimulate reform?
...that a fountain was built by the British colonial government to commemorate Tan Kim Seng's $13,000 contribution towards Singapore's first public waterworks?
...that the name of the museum Na Bolom in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico is a pun playing on the Lacandón Maya word for house of the jaguar and the name of Danish mayanist Frans Blom, whose home it was?
...that in one of the first tests of Hajile, an experimental British World War II retrorocket system, a gigantic block of concrete was dropped through the roof of the workshop from 2000 ft?
...that sanitary sewer overflow is a common condition, mostly associated with heavy rainfall, leading to discharge of billions of gallons of raw sewage to the environment each year?
...that Asif Hossain Khan, a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner at the age of just 15, was brutally beaten and seriously injured by the police of his own country?
...that "Dziesma Par Laimi" is the only Latvian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest to be performed in Latvian?
...that the Peachliner people mover in Komaki, Japan was planned originally to carry 43,000 passengers daily, but only carried an average of 2670 per day during 15 years of operation?
...that feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the 19th century?
...that Mauisaurus was the largest plesiosaur to roam New Zealand waters and that it gets its name from the Māori god Maui?
...that Fredesvinda Garcia was a Cuban singer who recorded just one album, a year before her death?
...that the dome of St. Francis de Sales church in Philadelphia is a prime example of the Guastavino tile arch system?
...that credit and royalties for the 1968 Arthur Brown song "Fire" had to be shared due to similarities to another song, "Baby, You're a Long Way Behind"?
...that the Wrinkled Toadlet is also commonly known as the Chubby Gungan?
...that Japanese historian and economist Taguchi Ukichi has often been referred to as the Adam Smith of Japan?
...that the Leather cannon was an early 17th century attempt of making a mobile cannon that would bridge the gap between muskets and heavy stationary artillery?
...that California's Rubicon Point Light, at 6300 ft above sea level, is the highest lighthouse in the United States?
...that National Political Institutes of Education, elite secondary schools in Nazi Germany, only accepted students considered to be "racially flawless" and therefore did not admit pupils who needed glasses or had bad hearing?
...that Halltorps Manor on Öland island has been the site of a Viking settlement, a royal game reserve used by Swedish kings, and a medieval manor house?
...that the failed Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 aimed to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan by overthrowing prime minister Benazir Bhutto?
...that the Himalayan Brown Bear is considered the source of the legend of the Yeti?
...that the Largo, a Socialist Classicism complex in central Sofia, Bulgaria, accommodates a number of state institutions?