derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that at 49, Douglas A. Warner III was the youngest ever CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.?
...that the influential architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, who had amassed a fortune working on the notoriously unpopular Wall of the Farmers-General , was arrested and thrown in La Force Prison during the French Revolution?
...that Channa, a charioteer of Prince Siddhartha, became a bhikkhu upon his master's attainment of buddhahood?
...that George II of Moscow was responsible for the destruction of the Tatar trade emporium at Zhukotin on the Kama River?
...that the cry For your freedom and ours, one of the unofficial mottos of Poland, has been popularized by Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland, who fought in various independence movements all over the world?
...that Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
...that Princess Marie Adélaïde , the fourth daughter and sixth child of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, died in exile in 1800 having outlived all nine of her siblings?
...that Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village?
...that Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park in 1951?
...that the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway, once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania-New York oil fields with New York City, instead became part of the New York Central's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania?
...that the Polish capture of Wilno in 1919 set the stage for the future Polish-Soviet and Polish-Lithuanian Wars?
...that Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre"?
...that a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen died destroyed all his films including India's first political film?
...that a hurricane-sized cyclonic storm over 1500 kilometres in diameter was spotted near the Martian north pole in 1999?
...that California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BC by indigenous Native Americans?
...that "Splice the mainbrace" is an order given aboard naval ships to allow the crew an extra ration of rum?
...that the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton?
...that the exploitation film Mom and Dad, grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
...that if the 2005 Azores subtropical storm , identified by the NHC in post-season reanalysis, had been named then Hurricane Wilma would have been named "Hurricane Alpha"?
...that Tingmissartoq, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius, was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland, and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
...that through Greek trading colonies like Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE?
...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
...that August Zaleski, president of the Polish government in Exile, refused to leave his office and for almost 20 years was opposed by the Council of Three?
...that William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973?
...that when the Brother Jonathan sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?
...that Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
...that Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at POW camps in the Philippines and Japan observed during the war from his own experience as a prisoner in those camps?
...that guards on the mail coach had to remain outside for the entire journey and sometimes froze to death?
...that Y Clwb Rygbi was the first Welsh language television programme to win a Royal Television Society Sports Award?
...that English Anglican clergyman Dr William Dodd was nicknamed the "macaroni parson" as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, and in 1777 became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery?
...that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time?
...that Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer?
...that the libretto for Howard Hanson's opera Merry Mount was written without a composer in mind?
... that harpoon reactions are chemical reactions that take place faster than predicted by collision theory because an electron is "thrown" from one molecule towards the other?
...that Sonoma Coast State Beach is one of California's longest beaches and has rocks that have evidence of rubbing by mammoths 40,000 years ago?
...that the Qiandao Lake Incident in 1994 caused 32 Taiwanese tourist deaths, and the government of People's Republic of China were ineffective on solving the case, which directly leads to the massive increase of Taiwanese supporters on Taiwan independence?
...that the PDSA Gold Medal is awarded to animals for gallantry and devotion to duty?
...that Dallas Smythe, an early researcher of the political economy of communications, earned an FBI file for his volunteerism with the American League for Peace and Democracy?
...that the Air Hogs Stormlauncher is a radio controlled model capable of operation on land, water...and even air?
...that John F. Mackie was the first United States Marine to receive America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor?
...that while most tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms, tornadogenesis is a widely varied process, and can even occur under a normal cumulus cloud?
...that William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
...that according to legend, Saint Juthwara was beheaded by her stepbrother, Bana, because he believed her to be pregnant?
...that the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in London in 1946 as a national British academic institution to promote and advance legal research, and is now part of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London?
...that the former owners of the Château de Louveciennes include Louis XIV, the courtesan Madame du Barry, the Camondo family, the politician Louis Loucheur, the perfumer François Coty, and the Nissan Group?
...that in 2001, Shelby Howard became the youngest driver to compete in an Auto Racing Club of America race at the age of 15?
...that John Frush Knox was the only law clerk of the United States Supreme Court ever to write a memoir documenting their time spent in this position?
...that Kaka Joginder Singh (alias Dharti Pakad) contested and lost over 300 elections in his 36 year political career?
...that Michał Dymitr Krajewski's first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in Poland, and had seven editions in one year?
...that the Rex Graham nature reserve, a disused chalk pit in Suffolk, supports 95% of the British population of Military Orchids?
...that Anne Juliana Gonzaga became a Servant of Mary following the death of her husband, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in 1595, after receiving a vision of the Madonna, to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?
that Rita Dove selected the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, co-edited by Nellie Y. McKay with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for a time capsule kept by the U.S. National Archives that will be opened in the 22nd century?
...that the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?
...that, subject to the resolution of litigation, Slovenian basketball player Miha Zupan will become the first deaf player to compete in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague?
...that Flow my tears by English lutenist John Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
...that Beckomberga hospital in Stockholm was designed according to a strict symmetrical pattern and used to be one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Europe?
...that the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?
...that the Rumsfeld Commission is considered by some foreign policy analysts to be the basis for the term "axis of evil", used by President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union Address?
...that original copies of the Herefordshire Pomona, a 19th century catalogue of apples and pears, command prices of over $20,000 when they come up for sale?
...that the Thomas Organ Company not only helped invent the market for electronic organs for the home, but also at one time held the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer?
...that Hurricane Bob was the first of a record-tying six hurricanes to hit the United States in 1985?
...that, the Château de Rosny , the birthplace and seat of Henri IV's minister Duc de Sully, was largely stripped of its furniture and neglected after it was acquired by a Japanese company in 1984?
...that Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?
...that Slant magazine said the Hilary Duff 2004 song "I Am" was "what Alanis Morissette might sound like if she had a lobotomy"?
...that Swedish post-impressionist painter Nils von Dardel died in 1943, shortly after he came to prominence in his native country?
...that Picardo Farm, one of two historical farms preserved within Seattle city limits, is the oldest P-Patch allotment garden?
...that the Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the Second World War, liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces?
...that the Västgötalagen, a text describing medieval provincial laws, is the oldest example of Early Swedish literature to survive in its entirety?
...that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?
... that Ukrainian-language publication and education flourished in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution, despite battles between Ukrainian, Bolshevik, Russian, Polish, German, and Cossack forces, and various anarchist and paramilitary bands?
...that the Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular?
...that Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature?
...that in 1804, the frigate Apollo and forty merchant ships in her convoy were wrecked off Portugal, the result of a single badly adjusted compass?
...that, four years before her death, Madame de Pompadour paid almost one million livres to buy the Château de Menars , selling some pearl bracelets to meet the first payment?
...that General Douglas MacArthur's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?
...that the 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision?
...that Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?
...that Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club?
...that Joost van Dyk, a 17th century Dutch privateer and occasional pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands?
...that Sigrid Hjertén , a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, suffered from schizophrenia and tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?
...that the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel?
...that the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation, but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?
...that after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
... that Gregoria de Jesus was the founder and vice-president of the woman chapter of the Katipunan partisan society during the Philippine Revolution?
...that the Polish community is the only national (or ethnic) minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area?
...that Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap?
...that retired Spanish road bicycle racer Igor González de Galdeano holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España at an average of 55.17 kph, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González?
...that the site of SSAWS, once the world's largest indoor ski slope, now hosts Japan's first IKEA superstore?
...that in 1962, Peter Samson and fellow students at MIT built T-Square, an early drafting program and ancestor of CAD software?
...that after the death of New Jersey Representative George N. Seger, a Liberty ship used in World War II was commissioned in his honor?
...that John Nyathi Pokela, having served 13 years in prison on Robben Island on charges of sabotage, assumed chairmanship of the Pan Africanist Congress after the previous chairman resigned to make way for him?
...that surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores, which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?
...that Virgin Unite, the independent charitable arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group founded in 2004, ran an ad campaign that juxtaposed the seven deadly sins with seven good deeds?
...that Thomas Cole painted The Oxbow in 1836 after taking a break from working on his famous series of paintings The Course of Empire?
...that the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?
...that although Pueblo Revival Style architecture draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions of New Mexico, it first appeared in California?
...that Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the Hagia Sophia in 989 and built the Cathedral of Ani?
...that the Roman Catholic prelature of Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav, one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages?
...that 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh, regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India, played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka?
...that despite running for only 3 years, Aušra , the first national Lithuanian newspaper, gave its name to the period between 1883 and 1904 in the history of Lithuania?
...that Robert Bristow, the British harbour engineer credited for the development of the Indian port of Kochi, also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state?
...that in Star Wars: Storm in the Glass, the Russian parody of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a bottle of vodka resides on almost every table shown in the movie?
...that Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4, 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court?
...that Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly?
...that Inuka, a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo, is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics?
...that the citizens of Smyrna, Michigan withheld $25 from their deferred payment for Whites Bridge because they were upset that the builders used second hand lumber?
...that "James Brown is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music?
...that Gordon Canfield is remembered as the "Father of the United States Coast Guard Reserve" because he first introduced and spearheaded the legislation for the reserve component's creation in 1941?
...that the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways?
...that, after having spent much of her 8 years in Communist prisons in complete solitude, and willing herself to memorize events in daily succession, the Romanian artist Lena Constante published her recollections in a diary?
...that Grevillea 'Superb' is a cultivated garden plant which flowers during all twelve months of the year?
...that the house used in the 1983 film A Christmas Story was auctioned online for $150,000?
...that Cowans Gap State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of a key road in the French and Indian War, a pioneer farm, a charcoal operation, and a CCC Camp?
...that Erin Bode performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for three seasons before starting her recording career as a singer?
...that Maltese Jews were forced to pay for the financial damages caused by their absence in the country, after they were expelled from Malta by the 1492 Alhambra decree?
...that Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was regarded as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India"?
...that Lake Chaubunagungamaug is often cited as the longest place name in the United States?
...that New Zealand historian John Dunmore published a cookbook composed from 18th-century ship's logs, including recipes for stewed rat and albatross?
...that Italian mafioso Antonino Calderone was the first pentito to provide details on Mafia operations in Catania?
...that when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?
...that C. C. Too, a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia, crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency?
...that Tantiusques, a graphite mine which John Winthrop the Younger purchased from the Nipmuck tribes in 1644, became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
...that Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Guy Bush gave up Babe Ruth's last two career home runs on May 25, 1935, just five days before Ruth retired?
...that owing to its early dominance as a building style, Canadian Gothic Revival has been promoted as part of Canadian nationalism?
...that the 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War?
...that Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium?
...that Money No Enough, which earned over S$5.8 million, is Singapore's highest-grossing film to date?
...that Madhavan Nair & Anor. v. Public Prosecutor held that the Constitution of Malaysia allows the Royal Malaysian Police to impose prior restraint when granting licences to speak in public?
...that the Elizalde was claimed to have the first Spanish automobile model with four-wheel brakes?
...that Russian painter Konstantin Makovsky left the Imperial Academy of Arts without a formal diploma, after having refused to paint on a set topic in Scandinavian mythology?
...that Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej accused Miron Constantinescu of being a Stalinist only a few years after sidelining him for supporting de-Stalinization?
...that Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon ordered that the Living Museum of the Horse be built, believing he would be reincarnated as a horse?
...that 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18, 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
...that the Filipino special court Sandiganbayan holds equivalent rank to the Philippine Court of Appeals?
...that the Annenschule high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia was transformed into a Soviet work school after the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum?
...that there are only two extant populations of the Tiburon Jewelflower, both on the Tiburon Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area?
...that Macassan trepangers traded sea cucumbers with Indigenous Australians generations before the arrival of European people?
...that Prussian military bandmaster Franz von Eckert is credited with composing the harmony to the national anthems of both Japan and the Empire of Korea?
...that the See of Sardis, an episcopal see once held by Melito, continued to be held by titular archbishops for centuries after the Ottoman Turks conquered Sardis?
...that the people of Assam comprise three major ethnic groups: Tibeto-Burman, Mon-Khmer, and Indo-Aryan?
...that Robert Cocking was the first person to die in a parachuting accident, after a parachute of his own design failed during a test at Vauxhall Gardens in 1837?
...that Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919?
...that Hortus Malabaricus, the earliest printed treatise on the flora in Asia, contains the first instances of Malayalam types being used for printing?
...that Stegosaurus, one of the most distinctive dinosaurs, has been widely depicted in popular culture?
...that Madeline La Framboise, a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island?
...that Andrew Truxal was president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College as well as an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church?
...that the German late Romantic composer Richard Wetz , in 1928, was appointed foreign member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, alongside Igor Stravinsky?
...that an unknown quantity of Columbian Exposition half dollars were used as collateral against loans made to the Columbian exposition and when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?
...that the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv, Ukraine, was used as the foundation for a kurgan, constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin?