derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the publisher of Mirror Buzz, a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine, was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover?
...that because of its unique geology, a 230 hectare area of Rosthwaite Fell in Cumbria, England was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985?
...that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?
...that the pigment responsible for the colour of the bright green Parrot Toadstool is not chlorophyll as it is a fungus?
...that the finds at the village of Gnezdovo near Smolensk include an early folding razor, the first pivoted scissors found in Eastern Europe, and the earliest inscription in the Old Russian language?
...that the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during World War II, including the successful Suomi M-31?
...that the barrel vault was developed chiefly by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but endured to be a mainstay of medieval and even modern architecture?
...that "On Again...Off Again" features influences from both dance music and opera, the only time that such a combination has appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest?
...that Sarskoye Gorodishche near Rostov, Russia has been interpreted as either a Varangian outpost on the Volga trade route or the capital of the Finnic Merya?
...that the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya is the unsanitary flying toilet?
...that the painting The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew , owned by Queen Elizabeth II, has recently been verified as an authentic Caravaggio, and not a relatively worthless copy?
...that while visiting Mödlareuth in 1983, then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush alluded to John F. Kennedy's statement "Ich bin ein Berliner" by exclaiming, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!"?
...that the site of the early Viking hill fort of Alaborg, Russia, was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism?
...that the Chubb detector lock was developed in 1818 in a competition sponsored by the British Government to create an unpickable lock and remained unpicked until 1851?
... that since 1994, the mural arts program of the Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network has created more than 2,500 murals across Philadelphia?
...that at least 3,000 Vendel Age burial mounds in Grobiņa, Latvia indicate the existence of a prosperous Viking colony there?
...that the Malay Agenda is one half of the Malaysian social contract, pertaining to the special status of Malays in Malaysia?
...that the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entry "Desire" was the first Maltese entry in 28 years to have Maltese lyrics?
...that the summit of Ben More Assynt is the highest point in the Scottish county of Sutherland?
...that the 1592 book Nine Worthies of London charted the rise of nine tradesmen and apprentices to the nobility?
... that the Tatarbunary Uprising in Budjak, Bessarabia was led by a pro-Soviet revolutionary committee which called for unification with the Ukrainian SSR and an end to "Romanian occupation"?
... that the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts?
... that Laura Callahan, a former senior director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was found to have obtained her academic degrees through a diploma mill run out of a converted Motel 6?
...that the barndoor skate is a species of fish that is threatened with extinction from overfishing despite not being targeted by the commercial fishing industry?
...that the medieval Armenian sect of Tondrakians denied the immortality of the soul, the afterlife, the church and its feudal rights?
...that, according to the United Kingdom's Teaching and Higher Education Act of 1998, full time workers aged 16 or 17 have the right to paid leave from work in order to pursue training towards a qualification?
...that in the early 1900s the illegal paramilitary Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party assassinated hundreds of Russian officials, policemen and secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland?
...that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
...that the California slender salamander has a physique to invade narrow tunnels of earthworms for predation and cover?
...that the ancient Athenian sacred ships included a galley which was believed to be the ship that carried Theseus to Crete to face the Minotaur?
...that Luton Town Hall was burnt to the ground following a riot at the Peace Day celebrations marking the formal end of World War I on 19 July 1919?
...that the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, a book of Aztec herbal remedies in Latin, was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe?
...that the fiscus Iudaicus was a tax imposed on all Jewish subjects of the Roman Empire after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, the proceeds of which were used to fund a temple of Jupiter in Rome?
...that illiterate American slave quiltmaker Harriet Powers sold her now-museum-quality quilts in the 1880s for only a couple of dollars?
...that the Fairfield Osborn Preserve is home to a great variety of fauna including one of the world's largest salamanders?
...that the Pungoteague River Light was the shortest-lived screwpile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay, and may have been the shortest-lived lighthouse in the United States?
...that the Pariser Platz in Berlin is named after the French capital in memory of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813?
...that 17 days after the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union joined the invasion, ensuring the fall of the Second Polish Republic?
...that Laments by 16th century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski, a masterpiece of the Polish Renaissance, were inspired by the death of the poet's young daughter, Urszula ?
...that the Varmint of Burke's Garden was a coyote that terrorized the community of Burke's Garden, Virginia, in 1952?
...that Ratnakar Matkari combined social realism in supernatural thrillers, which was a pioneering idea in Marathi literature?
...that the pen is mightier than the sword, an adage coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a play about Cardinal Richelieu, had numerous historical predecessors?
...that the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower have only stopped once during their existence, when the nearby Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War?
...that rally driver Lucien Bianchi, who had driven across 10,000 miles of treacherous terrain, crashed out of the lead of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon with only 150 miles to go?
...that the body of the victim of the Red Barn Murder, in Suffolk, England, was discovered in 1828 after her stepmother reported dreaming about it?
...that the South Korean long track speed skater Lee Kyu-Hyuk has held the 1500 m world record, despite never winning a World Cup event or an Olympic medal at the distance?
...that funeral trains were once a common method of transporting coffins to cemeteries, but are now almost exclusively used for state funerals?
...that the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and starred in almost one hundred films?
...that Ivan Argunov, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting, spent his entire life as a serf?
...that United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations?
...that the album City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture was the second-best-selling soundtrack of 1998 in the United States?
...that the use of the word "yeoman" in the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916, rather than "man" or "male", enabled women to enlist in the U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F) during World War I?
...that the Pereshchepina Treasure was discovered in 1912, when a Ukrainian shepherd boy literally stumbled over a gold vessel and fell into the grave of Kubrat, the founder of Great Bulgaria?
...that Saner Wonggoun was the number one fugitive of the U.S. Air Force from 1994 until he was caught by the Royal Thai Police in October 2006?
...that Elizabeth Godfrey was the most outstanding female goldsmith of her generation in 18th century Britain?
...that the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine, the largest open pit iron mine in the world, is so large that the nearby town of Hibbing, Minnesota was relocated in 1919 to allow more iron ore to be mined?
...that rice brokers in Osaka in the Edo period were the forerunner of banking in Japan?
...that while working on the Somerset coalfield William Smith, who became known as the "Father of English Geology", developed the The Principle of Faunal Succession by observing the strata?
...that in addition to being a painter, Wolf Huber was active as an architect, but that no buildings designed by him have survived?
...that a type of car modification named Bippu is alleged to have originated from ties to the Yakuza?
...that Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion of Manipur in 1717 C.E.?
...that Stanford professor Kate Lorig developed a peer-led chronic disease self management course which is the basis of the Expert Patient Programme of the British National Health Service?
...that the New York Sports Express, a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of New York City?
...that the song "Ninanajna" has two very different sets of lyrics - one in English and one in Macedonian?
...that nineteeth-century entrepreneur Maunsel White of New Orleans invented a wine sauce in honor of his friend Andrew Jackson that is still manufactured today?
...that the USS Hunchback was a steam powered ferryboat converted into a gunboat for the American Civil War?
...that the Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?
...that the Northern Red-legged Frog is a near-threatened species, whose male defends breeding pond territory with nocturnal displays?
...that Battle of the Border refers to the series of battles in the opening stage of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in September 1939?
...that 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
...that Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
...that Colonel Denning State Park, which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel?
...that Penley, a small village near Wrexham in north east Wales, was home to a hospital founded on the orders of Sir Winston Churchill after World War II to care for Polish ex-servicemen?
...that social dancers exchange partners several times during a mixer dance, to increase their chance of dancing with new people?
...that Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as "John" in return for pitch and weather reports?
...that The Greek Slave , a statue by Hiram Powers, became a symbol for abolitionists in the United States in the years prior to the American Civil War?
...that Loretta Perfectus Walsh was the first woman to enlist in the U.S. military?
...that the witch's hat is the common name of a colourful orange-red toadstool?
...that K-Klass are a house music group from North Wales that purchased an underground bunker for use as a recording studio?
...that the Mahishya caste is one of the predominant Hindu castes in West Bengal, India?
...that Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the Polar Medal, and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?
...that via Giulia, projected for Pope Julius II, was the first attempt since antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome?
...that Sir Edwin Landseer's iconic painting, Monarch of the Glen , was intended for the House of Lords, but the House of Commons refused to grant the £150 commission?
...that during the Shiraz blood libel, the first to start the pogrom of the Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
...that at nearly seventy percent, the rate of homicides in the United States involving gun violence is significantly higher than that of other developed countries?
...that the oldest continuously operational tavern in Philadelphia is McGillin's Olde Ale House, which opened in 1860?
...that Esplanade Park , built in 1943, is one of the oldest parks in Singapore, and has a number of historical landmarks which include the former Indian National Army Monument site and The Cenotaph?
...that John Pasche, an art designer most famous for designing the "Tongue and Lip Design" logo for the popular band The Rolling Stones, has also done work for musicians like Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Judas Priest and The Who?
...that Jackson Pollock 's No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen to David Martinez for the inflation adjusted price of $140 million dollars, making it the world's most expensive painting sold at an auction as of November, 2006?
... that English lower-league football team Bristol Rovers once beat the Netherlands national football team 3-2?
...that the medieval Horne Church in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe?
...that Tropical Storm Beryl was the second tropical storm of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season, and spread flooding and tornadoes up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States?
...that Theobald Stapleton's 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in antiqua, and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?
...that the President of the Bundestag is ranked ahead of the Chancellor of Germany according to the German order of precedence?
...that Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · is divergent and appears to equal 0, yet in some sense "sums" to 1⁄2, producing a paradox once linked to the creation ex nihilo of the universe?
...that Santa Rosa Creek was the scene of an 1827 baptism of a Pomo maiden, which event led to the naming of the creek and also the city of Santa Rosa, California?
...that Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of Margaret Mead's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
...that the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which château and environment form a whole"?
...that Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the German Bundestag, winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?
...that Princess Louise-Marie of France, the youngest of the 10 children of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska, amazed the court when she asked her father to allow her to become a Carmelite nun in 1770?
...that the medieval Slavic Milceni tribe, ancestors of the Sorbs of Germany, are mentioned in The Song of Roland?
...that Maria Yakunchikova was a Russian painter who lived in Paris and was active primarily in western Europe?
...that a record 7238 salmon made the trip up the 310 metre Pitlochry fish ladder in 2006?
...that, in the "Tower of the League" at the Château de Tanlay in Burgundy, the agonists of the Wars of Religion are represented in the guise of Olympic deities?
...that the Joint Expedition Against Franklin was a small battle during the American Civil War for which seven Union sailors were awarded Medals of Honor?
...that Tropical Storm Dean was one of four Atlantic hurricanes in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season to lose their circulation and subsequently re-develop?
... that the suppression of a protest in Nagpur and Jabalpur caused the Flag Satyagraha to erupt in 1923, bringing thousands of nationalists from across India to the rebellion?
...that Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female conventional doctor in South Asia?
...that the Temple of Harmony, built in the grounds of Halsworth House in Goathurst, Somerset, England in 1767, is a replica of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome?
...that Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?
...that Hurricane Erin was the longest-lived hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season?
...that the National Liberal Party-Brătianu, created in 1930 by politicians who supported Carol II as King of Romania, became, in the space of three years, one of the monarch's most vocal adversaries?
...that the Dutch Reformed Church , a Greek Revival building in Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis that still largely reflects his original vision?
...that the Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian influence had the reverse effect?
...that General A.D. McRae, the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister, R.B Bennett, made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan?
...that in the 2004 film Shallow Ground, actor Rocky Marquette plays a central character who is naked for the duration of the film?
...that Nestor Lakoba, a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia, was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria, who then had his wife and son killed?
...that the spacious Hall of Lost Footsteps was added to the medieval Palace of Poitiers at the behest of Alienor of Aquitaine, Queen consort of France and England?
...that Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?
...that the basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne houses a fragment of a "miraculous" statue burned during the French Revolution?
...that "Amour Amour", Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with "Ça plane pour moi"?
...that Philippe Égalité's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
...that the expression "simon-pure", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre's 18th-century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife?
...that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
...that "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class , was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?
...that The Drifters' hit "Under the Boardwalk" was recorded the day after lead singer Rudy Lewis' unexpected death?
...that the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter, an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama, yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
...that the Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal's Cave and composed by Mendelssohn, was inspired by the famous cave off the coast of Scotland?
...that The Very Rev. Dr. Finlay A. J. Macdonald saw his calling as being "a lawyer for God" instead of a lawyer for man while studying philosophy?
...that Macquarie University made its site's architect, Walter Abraham, a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
...that the residents of the Findhorn Ecovillage have the lowest ecological footprint of any community measured so far in the industrialised world?
...that the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza, who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?
...that Sir Peter Lely, the most popular portrait artist in England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a heraldic lily on the gable of the house of his father's birth?
...that a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples?
...that the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
...that Ateas, the best attested king of the Scythians, was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90?
...that it is customary in Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer — mizrah — with artistic wall plaques inscribed with the word mizrah, scriptural passages, kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places?
...that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
...that shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
...that the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
...that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, the grandson of the late Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California?
...that the Swedish art collector Rolf de Maré created the world's first museum and research institute for dance?
...that the his genitive was a briefly lived form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English?
...that electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?
...that when first introduced to England there was confusion over whether the Rouen duck was named after the Rhône region, Cardinal de Rohan, the colour roan, or the town Rouen?
...that Blair Cherry was the first high-school football coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?
...that Carl Westman was one of the first Swedish architects to incorporate the Nordic National Romantic Style into his designs?
...that despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the city of Kolkata, British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave India on at least one occasion?
...that Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?
...that the most important source for early Irish history, The Chronicle of Ireland, had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?
...that the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921?
...that the concept of thermal death time started out in food canning, but has also found applications in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries?
...that during World War II, the statues Winged Victory of Samothrace and Venus de Milo were housed in the Château de Valençay ?
...that the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States, behind only Mount Rushmore?
... that Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack?
...that in the Battle of Seattle (1856), the native attackers' only common language was Chinook jargon, so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
...that when the Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?