derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Bangabhaban has served as the official residence for the Viceroy of India, Governor of East Pakistan and the President of Bangladesh?
...that City is a massive work of earth art by Michael Heizer that has been under construction for over thirty years in the Nevada desert?
...that surgeon William Brydon was the only European of 16,500 British troops to survive the retreat to Jalalabad from Kabul during the First Anglo-Afghan War?
...that the reconstruction of Kecharis Monastery in Armenia was delayed a decade due to an earthquake, war, blockade, and the collapse of the USSR?
...that, had it been completed, the Trinity Shoal Light would have been among the most exposed lighthouses in the United States?
...that acute fatty liver of pregnancy is a rare but life-threatening disease of pregnancy that is treated with urgent delivery?
...that Hendren v. Campbell was a forerunner to the 1987 Supreme Court decision Edwards v. Aguillard to forbid the teaching of creationism in American public schools?
...that freestyle wrestler William Kerslake, who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion?
... that capillary action of molten brass or silver is used to greatly increase the strength of lugged steel bicycle frames?
... that the expression "pay on the nail" originated from the practice of closing deals by payment on brass tables called "nails" , which can still be seen at The Exchange, Bristol?
...that the Baharistan-i-Ghaibi is the only extensive historical document accounting the wars, events and life in Bengal during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir?
...that the Egyptian National Railways can trace its origin to the first railway in Africa and the Middle East, which began operating in 1854?
...that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?
...that Beinn a' Ghlo is a large mountain in Scotland that has three Munro summits, and is an SSSI?
...that the French sports car Matra Murena had an unusual seat configuration of three abreast?
... that Fowlsheugh cliffs attract 170,000 breeding seabirds annually, and may be one of the few nature reserves with more vertical than horizontal land area?
...that one factor in the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was that his assassin claimed Rabin was liable to an extrajudicial death sentence as a rodef under Jewish law?
...that Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (1874) by Dorothy Wordsworth—her "masterpiece"—was never published in her lifetime?
...that a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of an artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
...that the gravestone of executed murderer, Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the State of Virginia over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?
...that the Matra Bagheera sports car was named after the Jungle Book character?
...that the 17th century Biaroza monastery in Biaroza, Belarus, has in its time been adapted into military barracks and a prison, and currently its ruins are an important baroque relic in the town?
... that the government in exile at Mujibnagar proclaimed Bangladesh's independence and coordinated the Mukti Bahini during the liberation war?
...that an attack on the flanks of an enemy is known as a flanking maneuver and that this type of attack has been used in both land and naval battles?
...that the Holland Island Bar Light in Maryland was once accidentally used for target practice by the United States Navy?
...that Rafael Buenaventura, once-governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and one of the world’s top central bankers, was largely responsible for removing the Philippines from an FATF black list?
...that the right-hand drive Simca 1300/1500 came with floor-mounted gear shifters having an inverted gear shift pattern?
...that there are many unfinished buildings throughout the world that may never be completed or demolished because of the costs involved?
... that Singapore's Police Coast Guard is a coast guard and water police service that is also responsible for maintenance of order on most of Singapore's off-shore islands?
... that the Kadam Rasul shrines are believed to display stone imprints of the footprints of Muhammad?
...that the Malayalam movie Moonnamathoral was the first high-definition film to be digitally distributed to theatres via satellite?
...that the Council House in Bristol, England features a blue and gold wall clock, encircled by the signs of the zodiac and equipped with its own wind indicator?
...that in 1943, avant-garde French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier founded a film school that was attended by Louis Malle, Jean-Jacques Annaud and Volker Schlöndorff?
...that the LORAX project to build an Antarctic rover shares a name with a Dr. Seuss character?
...that one of the first churches in Vilnius, the Orthodox Cathedral of the Theotokos, was once used by the local university as an anatomical theatre?
...that in the papal Rome each fish monger had to give to the city councillors the heads of the fishes longer than a marble plaque which had been hung on a wall of the fish market, in Sant'Angelo?
...that Hurricane Kyle lasted 22 days, thereby becoming the third-longest-lived tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic basin?
...that the song "Congratulations" was almost banned from being performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 by Silvia Night due to an expletive in the lyrics?
...that Featherston prisoner of war camp was the site of a riot that lead to the death of 47 Japanese prisoners of war during World War II?
...that Ida Lewis is, to date, the only American lighthouse keeper for whom a light station has been named?
...that the container vessel Hansa Carrier spilled over 80000 Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean and that they were used by scientists to track ocean currents?
...that the Zymne Monastery in Volynia is believed to have been named after a winter palace of Vladimir the Great that formerly stood on the spot?
...that Józef Zeydlitz served in the Polish Army for 65 years and took part in six wars, yet did not receive a single military award?
...that the cuisine of Somaliland has been influenced by Ethiopian, Arab, and Italian food traditions?
...that when it opened in 1999, Casino Sault Ste. Marie was Northern Ontario's first full-time charity casino?
...that even though Kaaterskill High Peak was the first Catskill High Peak to be climbed, there is no official trail to its summit?
...that during the Fremantle prison riot in 1988, seventy prisoners took fifteen guards hostage and started a diversionary fire to enable twelve prisoners to escape and that ironically, the fire's intensity prevented the escape?
...that Banderia Prutenorum is a 15th-century manuscript by Jan Długosz, describing banners collected by Polish forces after their defeat of the Teutonic Order forces in the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 AD?
...that Valéry Inkijinoff, a French actor of Russian-Buryat origin, was one of the favorite villains of French cinema from the thirties to the late sixties?
...that Beverston Castle is in ruin, not mainly from its role in warfare, but by a 1646 act of the English parliament to destroy its battlements, lest they be used by Royalists?
...that Maria Kazimiera, the 17th-century Queen of Poland, became famous for the love letters she and her husband, King Jan III Sobieski, wrote to each other?
...that the automobile factory in Poissy, France, built by Ford SAF, was later owned by Simca, Chrysler and finally Peugeot, and continues production to this day?
...that the new Monument to Alexander II in Moscow was built on a slope to symbolize that the emperor was an ordinary man, when the monument is viewed from behind?
...that "Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?
...that Yogendra Singh Yadav of the Indian army was awarded India's highest military honour posthumously in error, until it was realized that he was still alive recovering from injuries from the Kargil War?
...that Colombian writer Álvaro Cepeda Samudio wrote La Casa Grande, a novel based on the events of the Santa Marta Massacre, an event which also featured prominently in his friend Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude?
...that the MOPy fish holds the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded cyberpet?
...that the De La Salle University Pops Orchestra is the first pop orchestra in the Philippines?
...that the Heartland Championship and the Air New Zealand Cup have replaced the National Provincial Championship in New Zealand rugby union?
...that Indian Test cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was previously a national break dancing champion of India?
...that voice artists who made Gavrilov translations of foreign movies in Russia were once thought to have used a noseclip to conceal their identity?
...that the 1622 wreck of the British East India Company ship, the Tryall is the oldest shipwreck in Australia?
...that a small cottage in the Chester, England suburb of Handbridge inspired the song "Nowhere Man" by The Beatles?
...that Walt Neubrand is one of three men responsible for the safety of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup during its travels around the world?
... that Orlov trotters were the fastest racing horses of Europe until they were superseded by American standardbreds in the 1870s?
...that although related to modern filter feeding baleen whales, the recently discovered prehistoric whale Janjucetus had large serrated teeth implying that it fed on large fish or even sharks?
...that ski treks were popular with Lev Landau, while Andrei Kolmogorov preferred swimming in the local ponds while they lived in the scientists' rest-home in Uzkoye?
...that the Swiss peasant war of 1653 was immediately caused by a currency devaluation in the canton of Berne?
... that Ken Richmond, the last gongman of the Rank Organisation, was a 1952 Summer Olympics wrestling medalist and actor in Jules Dassin's Night and the City?
...that the Achilles tang was named in honor of Achilles, the Greek mythological hero of the Trojan War and Homer's Iliad?
...that the Simca Ariane was created by combining the body of the old large Simca Vedette with the four-cylinder engine from the smaller Simca Aronde?
...that the 1710 Bendery Constitution by Hetman Pylyp Orlyk was one of the first state constitutions in Europe?
...that the death of lighthouse keeper George Worthylake was memorialized in a broadside poem by the young Benjamin Franklin?
...that prisoners in a Soviet Gulag seized control of their camp for 40 days, establishing their own government, militia, and propaganda department?
...that Iceland's entry in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, "Minn Hinsti Dans", was performed by a former drag queen?
...that Katie Blair became the first teenager from Montana to place in the Miss Teen USA pageant's 24-year history, when she won the Miss Teen USA 2006 crown?
...that Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny became directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1751 at only 24 years of age as a result of the influence of his older sister, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour, on King Louis XV of France?
...that the dried remains of cattle slaughtered under anti-BSE measures in the UK are burned for electricity?
...that in the late 18th century, Russian ambassadors to Poland had power that rivalled and even exceeded that of the Polish king or parliament?
...that Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, was once the seat of Victorian Prime Minister, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, and thus is the ultimate origin for the naming of Melbourne, Australia?
...that Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is the son of former cricketer-turned-Punjabi actor Yograj Singh?
...that the image of Benjamin Franklin familiar on the U.S. hundred dollar bill was painted by the French painter Joseph Duplessis?
...that the gasoline pill is one of several fictitious or fraudulent inventions that claim to turn water into gasoline?
... that in 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings?
...that cursed soldiers is the name for Polish resistance members who fought against the Soviet Union and Polish communists for almost two decades in the aftermath of the World War II?
...that the Nepalese communist leader Ruplal Bishvakarma, who introduced the current Maoist leader Prachandra to militant politics in the 1970s, opposed Prachandra's plans for an armed uprising in 1994?
...that the six Imperial Towers were the first Canadian lighthouses to be fitted with Fresnel lenses?
...that a lost Roman villa was discovered in 1992 when a bulldozer remodeled the sand on a beach at the Rio Alto tourist area in Portugal?
...that a gymslip is a sleeveless tunic commonly associated with British schoolgirls and sportswomen of the early 20th century?
... that Pakistani general Zahirul Islam Abbasi plotted a coup d'etat against then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1995?
...that Canadian pianist Glenn Gould produced three radio documentaries, collectively named the Solitude Trilogy, in which up to three people speak simultaneously in monologue?
...that director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005?
...that the first fossilised dinosaur eggs found in the world, which are also the oldest dinosaur embryos ever discovered, belong to Massospondylus and were found in Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa in 1978?
...that the Claude Glass was a tinted mirror used by amateur artists in the 18th century in which they turned their back on the subject?
...that Chinese premier Zhou Enlai barely evaded an assassination attempt on him in 1955, which killed 16 people?
...that the Barranquilla Group is the name of a collection of writers and journalists based in the Colombian city of the same name, and that members of it included Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio?
...that Simca 1000, a small French-made car, was manufactured for 17 years and that almost 2 million were produced?
...that the 18th-century Águas Livres Aqueduct was paid for by a special sales tax on beef, olive oil, and wine?
...that in Jordan, two journalists who republished three of the twelve Danish Mohammad cartoons were sentenced to two months in jail?
...that the direct-to-video release Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination featured singers like Billy Joel, LL Cool J, and Harry Connick, Jr. performing classic Disney songs?
...that the Huanghuagang Uprising was the prelude to the Wuchang Uprising, the uprising that resulted in the transfer of China from a feudalistic country into a republic?
...that Sakis Rouvas, who performed a sexually-suggestive song "Shake It" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, engaged in an equally sexually-suggestive conversation with Paul de Leeuw while hosting the Contest two years later?
...that Resica Falls Scout Reservation contains a museum displaying 19th-century tannery village relics and local Native American artifacts going back to 500 BC?
...that Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar composed Mahatma Gandhi's favourite devotional song, "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram", which was sung daily during the salt march to Dandi?
...that the self-made dress that Barbara Dex wore while performing "Iemand Als Jij" at the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest led to the creation of an award for the worst-dressed performer in the contest?
...that in June 2001, Olga Kern became the first woman in over three decades to win the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition?
...that the macapat forms of Javanese poetry are classified on the basis of the patterns of syllables and the final vowels of each line?
...that Alexander I of Russia acclaimed Peter Wittgenstein as the "Saviour of Saint Petersburg" for his victory at Klyastitsy ?
...that Scotland Yard, one of the world's most iconic police institutions, was built overtop the site of an unsolved murder?
...that the Nissan President, Nissan's top-of-the-range luxury limousine made for over forty years, remains largely unknown outside of Japan?
...that Elena Paparizou, a member of the duo Antique which performed the song "(I Would) Die For You" at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest, went on to win the contest in 2005?"
...that just over 50 kilometres above its surface, the atmosphere of Venus has very similar pressure and temperature as does Earth, making it the most Earth-like area in the solar system?
...that Chicago Bulls founder Dick Klein rode on a flat bed truck with a live bull to promote his new basketball team?
...that the Triumph 1800 Roadster's body was built from aluminium using press tools from the Mosquito bomber fuselage?
...that 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has worked as an agent for actors such as James Gandolfini, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, and Felicity Huffman?
...that the Rose-Fruited Banksia is so named because its fruiting bodies resemble roses made of wood?
...that Jerzy Ziętek, a Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, later became a Polish communist and an important regional politician from Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland?
...that the Natural Lands Trust is one of the oldest regional land conservation groups in the United States and that the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay shore of New Jersey to the Poconos?
...that George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler?
... that Tropical Storm Helene of 2000 struck Florida just five days after Hurricane Gordon?
...that the manga Astra was originally conceived as a theatrical musical by American comic book artist Jerry Robinson?
...that the popular hymn "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" is taken from a poem about hallucinogenic drugs by John Greenleaf Whittier?
...that when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
...that the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?
...that the French car Simca Vedette was first marketed as a Ford and later manufactured as a Chrysler in Brazil?
...that the bignose unicornfish can change colours when frightened or asleep to help camouflage itself from predators?
...that the song "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?" consists of tongue twisters in an artificial German dialect and never answers the question in its title?
...that Picasso's painting The Three Dancers depicts a real love triangle that caused one of Picasso's best friends to commit suicide?
...that the Pechenga Monastery, founded in 1533, was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world?
...that Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem was appointed directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1745 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour, who might have been his natural daughter?
...that the Kamenny Monastery , the oldest in the north of Russia, was destroyed in 1937 in order to help with the construction of a local palace of culture?
...that the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris burned to the ground on 13 October 1870 after being hit by French artillery fire during the siege of Paris?
...that the film crew of actress Revathi's directorial debut Mitr, My Friend was entirely composed of women?
...that Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic Australian poem "My Country", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country, while she was homesick when travelling in Europe?
...that Daylight Saving Time was first legislated in North America in June 1917 by the former country of Newfoundland?
...that DNA clamp proteins keep the DNA polymerase replicating enzyme bound to the template DNA strand, increasing the rate of DNA synthesis up to 1,000-fold?
...that the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized?
...that the Judicial and Bar Council of the Philippines recommends appointees to the country's courts, without the "advice and consent" of the Commission on Appointments?
... that Byron K. Lichtenberg and John Glenn were respectively the first and the last Americans to fly as Payload Specialists on board the Space Shuttle?
...that a substantially complete Greek bronze Apoxyomenos, or representation of an athlete, was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999?
...that the Italian automaker Autobianchi was founded by the bicycle manufacturer Bianchi, tire giant Pirelli and Fiat?
... that during the Indian Wars, troops stationed at Fort Harker, Kansas in 1867 performed more escorts of wagon trains in one year than troops stationed at any other frontier fort in the post-American Civil War era?
...that the song "Reise Nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e Seyahat" was the first occasion on which the German Eurovision entry was performed partly in Turkish?
...that the controversy over the portrayals of Mormons in popular media includes Arthur Conan Doyle's very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet?
...that in Kuwait, the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?
...that in June 1995, the Fiji Meteorological Service became responsible for the prediction of tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific Ocean?
...that St. Louis, Missouri native Jeremiah James Harty became Archbishop of Manila and successfully lobbied for the establishment of the first Christian Brother school in the Philippines?
...that Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar?
...that a Wikipedia article was a source for a U.S. House of Representatives bill that was signed into law as the Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act?
...that the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities?
...that the USA Hawks are one of two national representative rugby union teams from the United States, and lost 0-98 in their inaugural North America 4 game against Canada West?
...that Rembrandt's painting Danaë was severely damaged when a visitor threw sulfuric acid onto it on June 15, 1985?
...that the Cheraman Juma Masjid, the oldest mosque in India, was originally constructed in traditional Hindu architectural style?
...that Brian Killick's novel The Heralds follows the exploits of fictional members of the College of Arms as they vie to be the next Garter Principal King of Arms?
...that the Canadian Armed Forces mobilized more than 2,200 soldiers within days to help fight over 800 separate forest fires during Operation PEREGRINE in the summer of 2003?
...that the song Autostop is the only Eurovision Song Contest entry to have been based on the subject of hitchhiking?
...that the pacú fish is marketed as a "vegetarian piranha" in pet stores, and was described by Theodore Roosevelt as "delicious eating"?
...that the Kashi Vidyapeeth university in Varanasi was founded on Mahatma Gandhi's principle of Indian self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions?
...that of the three breeding roosts in England for the rare Barbastelle bat, the only indoor roost is found in Norfolk's historic Paston Great Barn?
...that a noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer, but was removed because of perceived racist undertones?
...that actress Shabana Azmi portrayed the wife of a deaf-mute alcoholic potter in her debut film Ankur?
...that the Catalan architect Enric Miralles died before seeing the completion of his largest building: the Scottish Parliament Building ?
...that, in his novel War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy described the Battle of Tarutino as little more than a chain of accidents and coincidences?