derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Lviv tram, opened on May 5, 1880 in Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary), is one of the last urban transit systems in the former Soviet Union to still use grooved rail?
...that people protested outside NASCAR's headquarters after African-American driver Bobby Norfleet was not allowed to qualify for a 2000 Craftsman Truck Series race at Pikes Peak International Raceway?
...that Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, said to be Christopher Wren's favourite decorative painter, nevertheless did not secure the commission to paint the dome of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral, finished in 1708?
...that one of the shotguns used by the all-male pep squad RUF/NEKS of the University of Oklahoma during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution?
...that Australian boxer Jim Hall was buried in an unmarked grave, apparently to elude the man to whom he had sold his skeleton?
...that Tarquin the Proud modified the Roman festival of Compitalia to include the sacrifice of children's heads, but upon his expulsion, Brutus substituted heads of garlic and poppies instead?
...that Aleksandra Piłsudska, a Polish revolutionary and second wife of dictator Józef Piłsudski, helped plan the Bezdany train raid?
...that Russian playwright Yakov Knyazhnin was once thought to have been tortured to death after presenting a libertarian play to Catherine the Great?
...that future High Court judge Sir John Vinelott sat by during an argument in a Karl Popper lecture as his mentor, Ludwig Wittgenstein, brandished a red hot poker before storming out?
...that Russian General Denis Davydov was also a celebrated poet who created a specific genre, known as hussar poetry?
...that the French West India Company was so successful at recovering commerce from the Dutch in the West Indies, that the company became obsolete after only 9 years in operation?
...that during the 976-9 civil war in the Byzantine Empire, military support provided by Georgian prince David III of Tao was crucial to Emperor Basil II's continued reign?
...that three trophies are given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout, one of college football's oldest rivalry games, played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners?
...that Boyle Roche, an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms, was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales?
...that Russian modernist writer Aleksey Remizov was also an expert calligrapher who sought to revive this medieval art form in Russia?
...that the 1040-foot-long Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was the largest and most expensive stone railway viaduct when built in 1848, and is still in use by the Norfolk Southern Railway?
...that German tailor Franz Muller committed the first murder on a British train, in 1864?
...that the Namibian city of Otjimbingwe was the capital city before the modern capital, Windhoek, replaced it in 1892?
...that the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band played a record-setting 10-hour drum roll in 1934?
...that Russian courtier Ivan Betskoy was rumoured to have been not only Catherine the Great's confidant but also her father?
...that the British Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other chartered companies by paying their consuls and ambassadors a pension, so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain?
...that Henryk Woliński, Polish resistance Armia Krajowa member, was responsible for the creation of Żegota and saving the lives of thousands of Polish Jews in WWII?
...that Yoshioka-Kaitei Station, located 149.5 metres below sea level within the Seikan Tunnel, is the deepest underground station in Japan?
...that tradition traces Clan Drummond, a Scottish clan from Stirlingshire, to Hungarian origins?
...that the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church in Sofia, Bulgaria is a reorganized Ottoman mosque, built on the site of an Early Christian temple?
...that because straw-processing was very important to the town, Twistringen's 750th anniversary was celebrated by building the world's largest straw hat, at over 5 m (16 ft) wide?
...that CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and will be used to find minerals on the surface of Mars?
...that Portuguese jurist João das Regras aided John I of Portugal by refuting the arguments of pretenders to the throne during the 1383–1385 Crisis?
...that Microsoft chose Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Chris Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta encyclopedia?
...that Belton House , a Carolean country house in Lincolnshire, was featured as the residence of Mr. Darcy's aunt in the TV version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
...that Hewlett Packard's popular LaserJet 4 range of printers included the LaserJet 4LC, the first printer designed exclusively for the Chinese market?
...that the Malay word Merdeka has been used in both Singapore and Malaysia to describe the campaigns for self-government and independence in both countries?
...that the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel, flooding Calais and Boulogne?
...that science fiction and fantasy in Poland traces its origins to the Polish Enlightenment, and that many of its writers are translated into foreign languages—with the notable exception of English?
...that the recordings of Pyotr Leshchenko , "the King of Russian Tango", were banned in the Soviet Union as counterrevolutionary?
...that Szinva Terrace, the newest public square in Miskolc, Hungary, features a small artificial waterfall built into the wall bordering the Szinva stream?
...that the coat of arms of Greenland depicts a polar bear raising its left forepaw, breaking with the heraldic tradition of showing the right forepaw raised, because polar bears are left-handed?
...that Chicago composer Margaret Bonds wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues, at the age of five?
...that the last male-line descendant of Alexander III of Russia, Count George Brasov, died in a road accident whilst exiled in France at the age of 20?
...that Muhammad had the Jewish tribe Banu Nadir expelled from Medina, their men killed, and their wives and property divided among his followers, choosing for himself the widow of the tribe's slain treasurer?
...that Epiphanius's most important work, the Panarion, is ironically the only surviving source of information on several early Christian sects that he sought to eliminate with his writing?
...that Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero, which premiered in 1625, was the first opera written by a woman?
...that with the coming of Tropical Storm Henri, parts of Red Clay Creek in Delaware experienced a 500-year flood?
...that the Russian Party of Revolutionary Communism was dissolved in 1920 after a decision of the 2nd Comintern congress, which ordered there could only be one communist party in each country?
...that the proposed Atlantica trade bloc would economically tie New England in the U.S. to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada?
...that the Stinkpot turtle deters predators by releasing a musky smell from glands under its shell?
...that polyphenol antioxidants are a class of over 4,000 nutritionally-derived chemicals linked to immune system and cardiovascular health, due to their cellular role of oxidative species scavenging?
...that Chile's current Interior Minister, Andrés Zaldívar, was also a senator and cabinet member in pre-Pinochet democratic Chile, a prominent democracy activist, and member of the successful opposition to the subsequent military regime?
...that Typhoon Patsy (1970) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865?
...that although the Constitution of Singapore had been revised in 1958 to implement self-government for the then British colony of Singapore, self-government was only officially achieved with the Singapore general election of 1959?
...that English architect Richard Roach Jewell designed many of the important public buildings in Perth, Western Australia during the latter half of the 19th century?
...that Hickman's potentilla is a rare plant discovered by Alice Eastwood, who climbed six floors through a burning building in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake to save her specimens?
...that Charles N. Haskell was the first governor of Oklahoma, and he played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution?
...that the Isted Lion, an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
...that John Roberts was an Australian businessman who founded the construction company Multiplex, which is currently building the new Wembley Stadium in London?
...that Ewale a Mbedi may have been the first Duala leader to trade with Europeans in Cameroon?
...that offspring of the Blue Wildebeest can stand seven minutes after birth and run with the herd at two hours old?
...that Saltwood Castle in Kent, England, was the site where four knights plotted to kill Thomas Becket in 1170?
...that the fruit of the colocynth is such a violent laxative that it was even used by pregnant women to induce abortion?
...that U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Jay R. Vargas, one of four brothers who were decorated war veterans, requested that his medal be engraved with his mother's name instead of his own?
...that the blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri is threatened by poaching due to its curious name, which is a dedication to Adolf Hitler?
...that M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double?
...that Jean-Baptiste Le Blond, chief architect of Saint Petersburg from 1716 until his death, introduced the distinctions between state apartments and private apartments into French architectural practice?
...that the Hairpin Banksia spike contains over 1,000 individual flowers around a central woody axis?
...that in Japan, the Simpsons are better known for appearing in C.C. Lemon commercials than for their television show?
...that Perth Gaol was built in the 1850s to house convict labour, but by 1891, it was a geological museum?
...that the native ornate plainchant of Benevento, Beneventan chant, co-existed with Gregorian chant for over a century before it was abolished by papal decree?
...that the music video for the song "Vindaloo" was a direct parody of that of "Bitter Sweet Symphony" by The Verve, which was in turn a mocking recreation of the music video for "Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack?
...that Aleksander Krzyżanowski , commander of Polish resistance in the Vilnius region, was arrested by the Soviets after his unit helped them liberate Vilnius from the Germans?
...that the noble rhubarb of the frigid, sunburnt Himalaya creates its own protective greenhouse with ultraviolet-blocking panels?
...that the Christian sect of Collegiants was formed in 1619 to defy the Synod of Dort, which had forced Holland to dismiss liberal ministers?
...that according to the U.S. NIH, elective c-section and natural birth have "similar degrees of risk" for most women?
...that the Neo-Baroque equestrian Monument to Nicholas I (1859) is the only statue of a 19th-century tsar in Saint Petersburg that was not demolished or relocated during the Soviet era?
...that American country musician Cowboy Copas's private plane crashed in Tennessee in 1963, killing him and everyone onboard, including fellow country music star Patsy Cline?
...that Hindustani classical musician Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande ushered in a renaissance of Hindustani music by his reorganisation of Ragas?
...that the Diademed Sifaka is an athletic lemur whose small groups defend a rainforest territory of up to 125 acres by scent marking?
...that Britain's regulations on bread sales, as originated from the Assize of Bread and Ale (1266), were enforced for six centuries?
...that a type of reflex hammer was popularized as a medical instrument after two neurologists brawled in Vienna?
...that web notes were an experimental attempt by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing to find a cheaper alternative to intaglio printing, but ultimately failed due to quality issues?
...that Sonoma Creek , a California-designated critical coastal watershed, drains the acclaimed Sonoma Valley Wine Country, and provides a home to many endangered species?
...that the prosecution of writer and poet Perihan Magden for urging defiance of mandatory military service has complicated Turkey's negotiations for membership in the European Union?
...that Indian classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was married to Vikram Sarabhai, considered the Father of the Indian space program?
...that the Railsback curve shows that on a normally-tuned piano, low-octave notes will be lower and high-octave notes higher than expected, due to inharmonicity?
...that Saugumas, a Nazi-controlled Lithuanian secret police of the 1940s, was modelled after the infamous Gestapo?
...that the Chinese box turtle has at least four common names, and there is debate over its genus classification?
...that ANTARES, a neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea, will find neutrinos from outer space by looking downward, into the Earth?
...that Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour featured frontman Chris Martin performing songs after inhaling a helium balloon?
...that Szeged's public transport company is one of only four city transport companies that operate tram service in Hungary?
...that Maraba Coffee, the first Rwandan coffee to gain Fairtrade status, is used to make the only coffee beer sold in the British Isles?
...that the legendary Tamil stage and film artiste K. B. Sundarambal was also a political activist, and the first film personality to enter an Indian state legislature?
...that a new "dwarf" dinosaur, a sauropod named Europasaurus , was recently discovered in Northern Germany?
...that economist Barbara Ward, an early advocate of sustainable development, was the first woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops?
...that climacteric years, occuring septennially, were considered critical and dangerous moments in an Ancient Greek's life?
...that New York Times theater critic Howard Taubman said, "it is the destiny of the theatre nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing"?
...that due to protests and financial problems, the Saint Petersburg Dam was one of the Soviet Union's most notorious long-term construction projects?
...that shortly after Capt. William Swift was given command of the maiden voyage of USS Connecticut, it was recalled to port because of a bout of typhoid, and then run aground near Culebra, Puerto Rico?
...that Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia was noted as a patroness of Schiller, Goethe, and Liszt?
...that Super Typhoon Kate of the 1970 Pacific typhoon season, which struck the Philippines less than a week after Super Typhoon Joan, was at the time the deadliest typhoon ever to strike the Philippines?
...that 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India?
...that, at the time of its construction in 1838, the Moscow Triumphal Gate in Saint Petersburg was the largest cast-iron structure in the world?
...that British pianist Antony Peebles has performed in concerts in 128 different countries around the world?
...that the DSSAM Model is a computer simulation used to study water quality of the Truckee River, and assisted in conservation of two endangered species?
...that on every December 8th, families celebrating Fête des lumières in Lyon, France, line their windowsills with candles to express gratitude to Mary, mother of Jesus?
...that Abner Kneeland became the last person in the U.S. jailed for blasphemy, in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kneeland?
...that cledonism was an ancient form of divination by listening to the chance words of passers-by, an example of which appears in the Odyssey?
...that in almost 100 years of existence, Ireland King of Arms granted only three coats of arms?
...that a client was an Ancient Roman who traded his vote for protection, in a similar way to the activities of modern organized crime?
...that if U.S.-based PacifiCorp decommissions the Condit Hydroelectric Project in 2008, Condit Dam will be the largest dam ever removed for environmental reasons?
...that the Alexander Column on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, despite its weight of 600 tons, is set so nicely that no attachment to the base is required?
...that former movie actress Vera Ralston personally insulted Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Winter Olympics, and won a silver medal?
...that a circumferentor was an important tool to surveyors for mapping the North American frontier?
...that the works of Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski were banned for several years in the People's Republic of Poland, following his criticism of the government?
...that Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men who travelled the world's oceans with the English explorer Thomas Cavendish between 1587 and 1592?
...that Reverend William Mitchell was an Anglican missionary, and the first ordained person to provide Christian religious services in the Swan Valley area of the Swan River Colony in Australia?
...that Popeye Village, where the 1980 film Popeye was filmed, is now one of Malta's most popular tourist attractions?
...that a commission as an Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska gives authority over "all officers, seamen, tadpoles and goldfish" under one's command?
... that the Chartered Society of Designers is the world's largest and oldest chartered body of professional designers, and is unique in having designers of all disciplines?
...that the Temple Sanitarium hired the first female anesthesiologist to work in the U.S., Dr. Claudia Potter, in 1906?
...that the Ahmedabad Stock Exchange is the second oldest stock exchange in India, and first functioned under a banyan tree?
...that in the Finnish wilderness, a backpacker can spend the night in a rent-free wilderness hut?
...that the chrysargyron tax forced some Byzantine families to sell their children into slavery and prostitution?
...that Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer Gary Chapman died in a fishing accident, after retiring from swimming to pursue this very hobby?
...that spoons, eyeglasses, and toothbrushes have been removed from stomachs using endoscopic foreign body retrieval techniques with specialized cameras?
...that in the 1930 Polish election, due to government censorship, opposition papers were reduced to using images of Nietzsche, because he resembled dictator Józef Piłsudski?
...that 19th-century German Wilhelm Hasenclever did not live to see the political party he co-founded get its present name, the Social Democratic Party of Germany?
...that Nicholas II of Russia and his family preferred the cosy apartments of the Anichkov Palace to their official residence, Winter Palace?
...that the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople?
...that the scandalous tales of Aristides of Miletus are still being discussed after over two millennia, although not one word of them has survived?
...that the endangered cui-ui sucker fish was a staple of the Native American Paiute tribe for over a millennium?
... that William Lee was U.S. President George Washington's personal servant, and the only one of his slaves freed by Washington in his will?
...that Stanisław Warszycki, a wealthy 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnate, gave rise to many legends about his cruelty, and several places in Poland claim sightings of his ghost?
...that in the Penguins' Rebellion, over 800,000 Chilean high school students demanded education reforms from the government of Michelle Bachelet?
...that the victory of Alexios I Komnenos over the Pechenegs at Levounion marked a resurgence of Byzantine military power after half a century of turmoil?
...that Tropical Storm Larry caused five deaths and US$53.6 million in damage when it struck the Tabasco state of Mexico, the first landfall in the state since 1973?
...that the All Saints Church, Henley Brook, the oldest church in Western Australia, held its first service almost eight years before it was consecrated?
...that the poem The Absent-Minded Beggar was written to raise money for servicemen's families during the South African War?
...that Arthur Rimbaud evoked the iconic image of Venus Anadyomene in a sardonic poem that introduced cellulite to high literature?
...that Yucca Mountain Johnny is a cartoon character created to explain nuclear waste disposal to children, and has attracted controversy, being compared to Joe Camel?
...that Pallister-Killian syndrome is a rare congenital genetic disorder that cannot be detected through prenatal blood tests because it occurs only in the chromosomes of skin cells?
...that the Magdeburg Centuries is a 1300-year history of the Catholic Church, written particularly as a criticism of the papacy?
...that the Anichkov Bridge in Saint Petersburg features one of the city's notable landmarks, The Horse Tamer, a group of four neoclassical bronze sculptures by Baron Peter Klodt?
...that a catoptric theatre was an ancient optical illusion in which a single elaborate scene appeared to be larger than the box that contained it?
...that the Antikythera wreck, discovered by Greek sponge divers in 1900, contained one of the first forms of a mechanised clock?
...that bay mud is a significant estuarine ecological resource, but went unstudied until humans began building high-rise structures near bays?
...that an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer Mikhail Bulgakov was found in Isaak Dunayevsky's archive after his death in 1955?
...that missionary Roger Youderian almost returned to the United States one month before he was killed in Operation Auca?
...that the music video for the Fiona Apple song "Not about Love" (2006) features comedian Zach Galifianakis, and was filmed in and around his neighborhood?
...that Russian Hussar Alexander Bulatovich was a military aide to Ethiopian ruler Menelek II, a hieromonk in Greece, and leader of a banned religious movement?
...that racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500, but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand's North Island?
...that KATRIN is an experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino by measuring the energies of electrons given off from the beta decay of tritium?
...that the film BloodSpell, licensed under Creative Commons, is the first feature-length production made using the computer game Neverwinter Nights?
...that Gestrinone, a medication for endometriosis that is banned by the IOC for its anabolic effects, has also been studied as a postcoital contraceptive?
...that the catastrophe was the final resolution of Ancient Greek tragedies, in which one or more main characters usually died?
...that the popular German snack Strammer Max takes its name from a slang expression for an erection?
...that Ukrainian Patriarch Mstyslav was enthroned at the age of 92?
...that Johannes Rietstap was the founder of modern heraldic theory in The Netherlands?
...that although he was king of the Isubus of Cameroon, Young King William lacked the authority to stop the execution of a man accused of witchcraft?
...that Cividade de Terroso was one of the main fortified cities of the Castro culture, a stone civilization in Iberia, eventually destroyed by the Romans?
...that General Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski was one of the architects of the Miracle at Vistula, the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War in 1920?
...that casting is the regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops?
...that Chechen military commander Said-Magomed Kakiev has been declared a Hero of the Russian Federation four times, making him one of the most decorated Russian citizens?
...that the fog which filled the stadium during the 2006 Super 14 Final forced some spectators to leave the match and watch it elsewhere, just to see the players?
...that the Black-necked Stilt appears to be dressed in a tuxedo, and the chicks can swim competently two hours after hatching?