derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Old Ministry of Labour Building in Singapore housed the Chinese Protectorate before World War II, and has since been gazetted as a national monument?
...that when the Menier company built the first mass production plant for chocolate in 1830, it was the largest chocolate manufacturing company in the world?
...that Semaphore, South Australia, the home of Australia's largest carousel, is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith?
...that, when translating Shakespeare into Russian, Mikhail Lozinsky attempted to convey the antiquated English language used by Shakespeare?
...that "A-Ba-Ni-Bi", Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin?
...that the De La Salle University-Manila College of Engineering was established in 1947 with the aim of providing young men with knowledge of science and technology to help rehabilitate the Philippines, which had been devastated during World War II?
...that inventor Thomas Highs was never credited for his invention of both the spinning jenny and the water frame, mostly due to his lack of funding to patent the devices?
...that Easter Posey was the first American woman to be killed in the line of duty in World War II?
...that the small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome is a rare complication of bariatric surgery for obesity?
...that the Northeast Flag Replacement in 1928 ended the Chinese Warlord Era, in which Zhang Xueliang announced the replacement of all flags in Manchuria with the Nationalist Government's flag, thus nominally reuniting China?
...that Brian Boitano narrowly won the Battle of the Brians, a 1988 Winter Olympics figure skating rivalry between two elite skaters named Brian?
...that former Queensland House of Assembly member Tom Veivers was an Australian test cricketer?
...that a protagonist of Albert Camus's play The Just Assassins was named after the Russian terrorist Ivan Kalyayev ?
...that Pope Pius XII's cousin, Ernesto Pacelli, was a financial adviser to Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius X, and Pope Benedict XV?
...that the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?
...that the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield is the premier croquet teams event in the world and the 2006 series will be held in Australia in November?
...that Sir Macpherson Robertson was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's which invented the Freddo Frog chocolate bar?
...that developmental biologist PZ Myers, who writes about evolution, cephalopods, politics, and atheism, is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature?
...that Corporal Ernest Albert Corey is only soldier to have been awarded the Military Medal on four occasions?
...that the Council of Lithuania declared the independence of Lithuania by signing an Act of Independence on February 16, 1918?
...that cyclist Gerald Ciolek became the youngest ever German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
...that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
...that the first television set made entirely in Poland, the Belweder, cost 7000 złoty at the time when the average monthly salary ranged from 1 to 2 thousand?
...that Ey Sham was the first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest from a country outside of geographical Europe?
...that French neoclassical architect Jean Chalgrin died before the completion of his most recognizable work, the Arc de Triomphe ?
...that the town of Rawalsar in Himachal Pradesh, India is sacred to three major religions -- Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism?
...that the Old Fashioned, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail, was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s?
...that Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993?
...that the history of communication was dependent on the acquisition of the FOXP2 gene in humans, which facilitated the development of speech 200,000 years ago?
...that Rembrandt's portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III has been stolen four times to date, the most recorded for any painting in the world?
...that on Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players?
...that Hector Monro, Conservative and Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Dumfries for 33 years, was described by a Labour Party opponent as "the last of the decent Tories"?
...that the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?
...that the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter is the latest of a four decade long series of massacres that has eliminated 97 percent of the Chadian elephant population of 300,000?
...that many people enjoy singing in the shower because the bathroom acts as an echo chamber to enrich the sound of the singer's voice?
...that the TP S.A. Tower in Warsaw features an external elevator shaft that is sloped 14° from the vertical?
...that public displeasure with "The Voice", Ireland's fourth Eurovision victory in five years, led to the introduction of televoting?
...that the 13th century romance Perlesvaus features a strikingly different portrayal of the Arthurian legend than most texts, including a scene in which Sir Kay murders King Arthur and Guinevere's son?
...that the father and two brothers of Pakistani cricketer Wasim Raja also played first-class cricket?
...that five months before his death, William Edington was offered the post of Archbishop of Canterbury, but turned it down?
...that Mahinda, a 3rd century monk who brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka, was the son of the Mauryan Emperor Asoka?
...that bin bugs are being attached to wheelie bins in England to monitor the amount of domestic waste produced by each household?
...that the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer is used by the European Space Agency to determine the chemical composition of a planet's atmosphere?
...that the building housing the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh was originally built as a home for Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India?
...that former major league baseball pitcher Terry Forster recorded a novelty song called "Fat Is In" after he was referred to as a "fat tub of goo" on Late Night With David Letterman?
... that the largest Lithuanian encyclopedia was published in the United States by the immigrant community when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union?
...that the non-profit Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association is the largest association for textile research and allied industries in India?
...that the 2000 Black Coaches Association Classic was postponed by an electrical storm during which lightning struck ESPN broadcaster Lee Corso's rental car?
...that during Operation Cedar Falls in the Vietnam War, American and South Vietnamese troops captured 3,700 tons of rice, enough to feed 13,000 troops for a full year?
...that Indian-American teenager Gaurav Raja memorized 10,980 digits of pi in 2006 to break the North American pi memorization record?
...that the Australian Federal Division of Macarthur is considered to be a bellwether as it has been held by the ruling political party in every election since 1949?
...that at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Tarascan state was the second only to the Aztec empire in size and population?
...that the European and Japanese collaborative BepiColombo mission is planned to be the first extensive mission to Mercury since Mariner 10?
...that Polish politician and Sejm member, Joanna Senyszyn, gained media attention due to her distinctive, high-pitched voice?
...that Ian Craig, the youngest ever Australian test cricketer and captain, later became the managing director of Boots pharmaceutical company?
...that the original tunnel built to connect the Kalka-Shimla Railway at Barog, Himachal Pradesh was abandoned as the two constructed ends did not meet?
...that in 1995, André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive?
...that at the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia?
...that the building that became Presidential Palace in Vilnius served as residence for the French Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia?
...that despite not being backed by the FDA, full-body scans are performed in the United States to screen for disease in healthy people?
...that Australian cricket captain Brian Booth also represented Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics in hockey?
...that the Dhammapada describes an ascetic named Jambuka who had the practice of standing on one leg and eating his own excrement?
...that portions of Chicago's Devon Avenue have been renamed in honor of Golda Meir, Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Sheik Mujib?
...that the seemingly irrational composition of El Greco's painting Opening of the Fifth Seal is a result of it being trimmed by about two meters in 1880?
...that Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
...that the Rhodes blood libel — the accusation that the Jews of Rhodes ritually murdered a Christian boy in 1840 — enjoyed active support from the consuls of several European countries?
...that in 1994, a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
...that temperance leader William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson lost his right eye after he was captured by a mob of medical students and paraded through the streets of London?
...that Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, nearly thirty years after filming the original?
...that the Shell Service Station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was chosen for the National Register of Historic Places as an example of folly architecture, and over $50,000 has been spent restoring it to its original condition?
...that Metop-A is the first polar orbiting meteorological satellite launched by Europe, and is the second largest Earth observation satellite built in Europe, after ENVISAT?
...that during the Mexican-American War, a revolt by the Californio and Mexican residents of Los Angeles forced American Marines to surrender Fort Moore?
...that the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois, a Registered Historic Place, is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
...that the early musical influences of Austrian jazz-fusion guitarist Alex Machacek, who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin, included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS?
...that the Valley Forge Pilgrimage, held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States?
...that, despite the name, Mrs. Chippy, the ship's cat on Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was actually male?
... that Matthew Robinson, older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson, was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?
...that the outside of the Great Western Hospital in Swindon is covered in 7600 m² (9090 sq yd) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes?
...that Hood Mountain in California has high canopy mixed oak forests, pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop, and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it?
...that Peotone Mill, a windmill built in 1871, was donated to the village of Peotone, Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century, and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
...that Scottish socialist John McGovern was the treasurer of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation, but later became an Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament?
...that the history of the late Roman and early Byzantine empires published by British historian Arnold Hugh Martin Jones in 1964 is still considered the definitive narrative of that period?
...that Charles Edward Magoon was appointed as Minister to Panama while already serving as the Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to prevent any further disagreements between those two offices?
...that the Black Book, a dissident manuscript, was written by Sudanese in a covert cell, who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement?
...that Milt Gross, writer of comics that used Yiddish-inflected English, also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too?
...that RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess?
...that the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree?
...that the Count d'Orsay's poodle inspired Edwin Landseer to paint Laying Down The Law?
...that Sail Rock is a federally protected natural monument, located among village health resorts on the eastern shore of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Krai, Russia?
...that Domenico Pino, an Italian General of Division in Napoleon's Grande Armée, married a ballerina and sold the villa in Como that she inherited from her rich first husband to Caroline of Brunswick?
...that Duxton Hill in Singapore used to be a notorious slum area with brothels, opium and gambling dens, but now belongs to a conservation area known as Tanjong Pagar?
...that Tropical Storm Bertha, the second tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season, was one of only 3 tropical cyclones to make landfall on both Louisiana and Texas, with the others being Allison (2001) and Fern (1971)?
...that jury nullification became a recognised part of Scots law after Carnegie of Finhaven was found not guilty in his 1728 trial of murdering Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne?
...that in the 1970s, Tatar painter Baqi Urmançe painted Islamic calligraphy in the Soviet Union, something which was prohibited?
...that The Wild Goose? was a handwritten newspaper read aloud to entertain and encourage the last convicts transported to Australia?
...that the Tent City of Persepolis of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy was inspired by the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England?
...that The Cenotaph was Singapore's first major war memorial built in memory of the people who gave their lives in World War I, and was unveiled by the young Prince Edward of Wales, later King Edward VIII?
...that purple drank is a mix of codeine-containing cough syrup and soda that was popularized by Southern rap songs, and was implicated in the overdose of a popular rap producer?
...that Roald Dahl Plass, a plaza in Cardiff Bay, has been used as the setting for both Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood?
...that the Battle of Vyazma had a disconcerting impact on the entire Grande Armée, as it spread disorder to the center of Napoleon’s long retreating column of troops?
...that Ming Hsieh, whose parents were persecuted under the Cultural Revolution, began learning electrical engineering from his father and went on to develop biometric technology that made him one of the richest people in the world?
...that National Park Seminary, in Forest Glen, Maryland, opened in 1894 as a finishing school, and that its architecturally whimsical campus was annexed by Walter Reed Army Hospital in 1942?
...that ocular ischemic syndrome, due to arterial hypoperfusion, could be an early warning sign of impending stroke?
...that the Råbjerg Mile, a giant sand dune, drifts across Jutland, Denmark at a rate of up to 18 metres a year?
...that The Pizza Tapes contain the only known version of Jerry Garcia performing Amazing Grace which was only played after Tony Rice's wife requested it?
... that the Rus merchants travelling along the Volga trade route brought goods from Northern Europe and Northwestern Russia as far as Baghdad?
... that a reservation, in international law, lets a State avoid or modify an obligation in a signed treaty?
... that the USMC Sergeant Major Gilbert "Hashmark" Johnson received his nickname because of wearing on the sleeve of his uniform three diagonal stripes (hashmarks), indicating successful previous enlistments?
... that Orsten, fossil-bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?
... that Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to have been the first female monarch in Asia?
... that the Old Stone Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and is the oldest building on Public Square?
... that speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying?
... that Fort Randolph was an American Revolutionary War fort where Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief, was murdered in 1777?
... that a body part involved in a seizure can be paralyzed for minutes to days in an event known as Todd's paresis?
... that a crow-stepped gable is a roof slope design arising in the Middle Ages which was decorative, but also facilitated access to chimneys for maintenance?
... that the Alba Bible, one of the earliest translations of the Old Testament into a Romance language, was commissioned with the express intent of promoting tolerance between Christians and Jews?
...that Communist Romania's first Finance Minister, Vasile Luca, arrested in 1952 for having opposed the devaluation of the Romanian leu, was rehabilitated five years after his death in prison?
...that Shō Shōken wrote the first history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1650?
...that Albert Tillman was the co-founder of the National Association of Underwater Instructors and developed the first university-level recreation and leisure studies program in the United States?
... that Lady Sybil Grant , the eldest daughter of the British Prime Minister Lord Dalmeny, in her later years, became an eccentric, spending most of her time in a caravan or up a tree, communicating to her butler through a megaphone?
... that pop singer Jasmine Trias is a descendant of Mariano Trias, the Vice President of the Tejeros Convention?
... that in 1971, a Damascus school founded by Ozar Hatorah, a Jewish religious education organisation, was named by Syria as having the highest grades in the country?
... that wealthy ship-owner Henry Hayman Toulmin gave away his 1860s U.K. shipping empire because none of his three sons were interested in following in their father's footsteps?
...that John Wilson Danenhower, survivor of an Arctic expedition whose ship was crushed by ice, later committed suicide due to the grounding of the ship which was to be his first command?
...that Lee McClung, a College Football Hall of Famer, also served as Treasurer of the United States, advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitary grounds?
... that the constructor of two Polish submarines, Kazimierz Leski , became a spy during World War II and travelled across Europe disguised as a German general?
... that, at the conclusion of the Siege of Kiev by the Pechenegs in 968, the leaders of the two armies shook hands and exchanged their armour?
... that the vast Mongol Empire that once stretched from East Asia to Romania was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion?
...that the Waterberg is a UNESCO designated Biosphere, where cattle overgrazing is being reversed to allow giraffe, rhino and Blue Wildebeest to repopulate?
...that during the French Revolution, an effigy of Thomas Paine was burned before the door of the religious radical Rev. Joshua Toulmin?
...that Consumer Reports had their food testing done at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1950's thanks to a negotiated deal with the food technology department chair Carl R. Fellers?
... that the Stonehaven Tolbooth attained its greatest notoriety when three local Episcopalian clergymen were imprisoned for holding services for more than nine people, a limit established to discourage the Episcopalian religion in the mid 1700s?
... that, in hyperbolic geometry, hypercycles are curves with constant distance from a straight line but are not themselves straight?
... that British free market economist Ralph Harris, considered to be an architect of Thatcherism, became a life peer shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, but sat on the cross-benches in the House of Lords to show his political independence?
... that the location for Janesville Mall was chosen so that shoppers could leave by taking a right-hand turn, as the developers' research showed that women preferred right-handed turns?
...that the Urdu movement, which sought to establish Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim communities of India, emerged from the fall of the Mughal Empire and became an integral part of the Pakistan movement?
... that, as a consequence of their victory in the Second Battle of Polotsk , the Russian army captured the French supply depot at Vitebsk and broke Napoleon's northern front in Russia?
... that knismesis and gargalesis are the scientific terms used to describe the two different sensations produced by tickling?
... that cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke showed that human beings are born with many innate skills?
... that the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada?
...that after receiving global media attention for pulling her kittens out of a burning garage, Scarlett the cat and her kittens received 7000 adoption requests?
...that the film Joshua Then and Now was Canada's entry to the 1985 Cannes Film Festival?
... that among the editors of Robotnik , an underground newspaper of the Polish Socialist Party, were Józef Piłsudski, future dictator of Poland, and Stanisław Wojciechowski, future president of Poland?
... that the Medici giraffe was the last live giraffe seen in Europe for almost 400 years?
... that Göran Malmqvist is a Swedish sinologist who in 1974 published a popular book called Chinese is not difficult?
... that during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus, the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus?
...that the monkey Ramu from the Indian state of Orissa was kept behind bars for five years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony?
...that the Challenge Yves du Manoir, a French Rugby union competition which ran from 1931 to 2003, was created by Racing Club de France with the support of CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde and AS Montferrandaise?
...that before Umberto Meoli became an economic historian, he fought in the Italian resistance movement and was once imprisoned by Benito Mussolini's Fascist government?
... that the Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge is the first segmentally constructed concrete arch bridge in the United States?
... that Keong Saik Road in Chinatown, Singapore was formerly a red-light district in the 1960s but is now the site of many boutique hotels?
... that pioneering research on time-temperature canning conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Samuel Cate Prescott was never patented?
... that in 1919, the discharge of the chief of police of Berlin led to a general strike and accompanying fighting known as the Spartacist uprising, in which over 500,000 workers took part?
... that the World's Largest Texas Flag, measuring 23 metres by 38 metres (75 feet by 125 feet), is unfurled on the field by members of Alpha Phi Omega before Texas Longhorn football games?