derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält, awarded for valor in the field, was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915?
...that the Carron, a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?
... that the first U.S. National Christmas Tree was lit up by President Calvin Coolidge on Christmas Eve in 1923?
...that the two fundamental reference points in the rowing stroke are the catch where the oar blade is placed in the water, and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?
...that Lavastorm, a web design company during the dot-com bubble, split into two companies focusing on revenue assurance and mobile games?
...that the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna, holds the world record for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?
...that Gesta Tancredi, one of the most important contemporary histories of the First Crusade, was not translated into English until 2005?
...that conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967?
...that the Great Synagogue in Danzig , one of the most impressive synagogues of its time, was demolished by the city council of the Free City of Danzig even before the German invasion of Poland began?
...that the Moscow Water Dog, developed as a water rescue dog, preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?
...that honolulu is a pocket billiards game which forbids straight-in shots, requiring all balls to be made indirectly, through banks, combinations, caroms or kick shots?
...that Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, a bomb-maker and member of Jemaah Islamiyah, was responsible for the Rizal Day bombings in the Philippines that killed 22 people in 2000?
...that the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids?
...that Donnie Young, the police officer whose murder sparked an international controversy, was a police medal of honor recipient?
...that the Thornapple River has 5 dams, including one in Ada bought from Consumers Power for a dollar by a river property owners association?
...that Irfan Pathan, the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of a match, grew up playing cricket inside a Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin, and could not afford equipment until his domestic team furnished it, at age 15?
...that the 1931 murders of five Japanese people in Hong Kong during anti-Japanese riots were cited as a casus belli for the Shanghai War of 1932?
...that the "Hymn" for tenor in the cantata, Hodie, by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed because the originator of the part asked that he might be given more to sing?
...that the summer stock theater at Caledonia State Park in Pennsylvania regularly featured actress Jean Stapleton, well-known for her role as Edith Bunker on the 70's TV classic All in the Family?
...that Isaias W. Hellman , a co-founder of the University of Southern California, ran Wells Fargo Bank out of his house after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake leveled its headquarters?
...that the Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpower as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?
... that Bayajidda, the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people of West Africa, is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
...that New York Mets pitcher Chuck Estrada picked up the win in Tom Seaver's major league debut?
...that the Polish 4th Rifle Division was the only Polish military unit that fought in the Russian Civil War and returned to Poland undefeated?
...that the original title of the Christmas carol "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
...that Rastrelli's Monument to Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg includes a message by emperor Paul I that is a subtle mockery of Catherine the Great's inscription on the Bronze Horseman?
...that Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, the lyricist of the Nicaraguan national anthem, was exiled to Honduras for his political activities but was reburied in Nicaragua after his death?
...that Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right then vice versa?
...that American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music?
...that John G. Downey, Governor of California during the American Civil War, was the state's only foreign-born governor until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger?
...that Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting in the Baroque era?
...that, unlike normal lithium ion batteries, the lithium iron phosphate battery does not explode under extreme conditions?
...that Ron Powers, co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize?
...that the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?
...that a payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines?
...that the cope given to the Rt. Revd. David Urquhart upon his inauguration as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in November 2006 featured the emblems of Aston Villa and Birmingham City, the two most prominent football teams of the city?
...that the camouflage of the pygmy seahorse is so effective that the original specimens were only found after their host gorgonian had been collected and placed in an aquarium?
...that the writer August Silberstein was sentenced to five years' jail in 1854 for writing satire about the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but was pardoned after one year?
...that the Henschel Hs 123 was a sesquiplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early part of World War II?
...that Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy successfully amputated Perce Blackborrow's gangrenous toes while stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica?
...that the Blauhöhle in Germany's Swabian Alb is a huge cave system with more than 50-meter (164-feet) high caverns that can be accessed by diving through the Blautopf ?
...that the Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotop remains a classic example of the battle won and a war lost?
...that Swedish disco singer-songwriter Bimbo Boy took his stage name from starlets that the media identifies as bimbos, even though the term himbo would have been more technically correct?
...that geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
...that Just a Gigolo (1978), David Bowie's second major film, was so poorly received by critics that the singer quipped, "It was my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one"?
...that noted labor historian Selig Perlman is the uncle of author Judith Martin, better known as Miss Manners?
...that the Zamość Synagogue was one of the first buildings added to the 'ideal' Renaissance city of kanclerz Jan Zamoyski?
...that the First Engineer Bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia, named after the nearby Engineer Castle, is one of the most decorative of the city's more than 500 bridges?
...that on November 22, 2006, at least ten people were killed in a burning leather factory in India after being trapped behind locked emergency exits?
...that King's College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne left Durham University in 1963 to form the new Newcastle University, following a narrowly defeated proposal to rename the university the "University of Durham and Newcastle" in 1952?
...that in 1932 Paramahansa Yogananda urged young people to pool resources, buy land, and create World Brotherhood Colonies, nearly 40 years before the intentional community movement of the late 1960s?
...that Emily Helen Butterfield was Michigan's first licensed female architect, and designed many college fraternity and sorority crests thanks to her interest in heraldry?
...that Birger Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring, who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in an attempt to avert the Second World War?
... that the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, has several endemic endangered species and is the second-largest freshwater wetland in Northern California?
...that the Singer's Bridge, designed by architect Vasily Stasov, was called the Yellow Bridge and is the third-widest bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
...that the 180-degree turnout, or rotation of the leg, featured in ballet allows for greater extension of the leg, especially when raising it to the side and rear?
...that the zigzag staircase leading to the Baroque sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte at Braga was designed so as to encapsulate the Three Virtues?
...that the treasure of Tillia tepe, Afghanistan, was re-discovered after it was thought to have been destroyed by the Taleban, and is now on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris?
...that the effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina were the worst from a hurricane in the state since that of 1999's Hurricane Floyd, and included US$450 million in damage and three deaths?
... that American composer Alla Pavlova lived close to ground zero and dedicated her first symphonic work to the memory of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks?
... that the 1983 text adventure game Snowball, the first of the Silicon Dreams trilogy, contained over 7,000 locations?
...that the Spenser Somers Foundation is named after a student from Edina, Minnesota who suffered from Ewing's sarcoma?
...that Owen Glendower, the last independent Prince of Wales, who disappeared in 1412, has many aristocratic English descendants through his great-grandson Sir John Donne , the Yorkist courtier, soldier and diplomat?
...that megaherbs on the uninhabited New Zealand sub-antarctic islands almost became extinct by overbrowsing by livestock introduced to support shipwrecked sailors?
...that in the Battle of Rhium, Phormio used his climatic knowledge of the Corinthian Gulf to help defeat a Spartan fleet that outnumbered his Athenians more than 2 to 1?
...that Buzz Holmstrom was the first person to row alone all the way down the Colorado River from Green River, Wyoming to the Boulder Dam?
...that the Nanai language, despite having only a few thousand speakers left, continues to contribute loanwords to languages with even fewer speakers, such as Udege?
...that the Printing Presses and Publications Act gives the Home Affairs Minister of Malaysia "absolute discretion" in granting and revoking publication and printing permits?
...that the Barbican of Warsaw became obsolete almost immediately after its construction in 1548?
...that Corporal Mark Wright will be posthumously awarded the George Cross for entering an unmarked minefield in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, attempting to save other injured soldiers?
...that Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula?
...that Kaissa, the first world computer chess champion in 1974 was a Soviet creation?
...that the steviol glycosides found in stevia plants are natural sweeteners up to 300 times sweeter than sugar?
...that Pasillo is the "national music" of Ecuador but originated from the Viennese Waltz?
...that shortly before Christmas 1942, an alleged Nazi spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche, a small Irish village?
...that Eugène de Beauharnais returned the territories of the Napoleonic Italy to provisional Austrian rule in 1814 by the Convention of Mantua?
...that St. Michael's Castle was built like a medieval fortress for the personal protection of the Russian Emperor Paul I, who ironically was assassinated in his bedroom shortly after moving in to his new castle?
...that cowboy pool is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards with more standard pocket billiards characteristics, and requires a player to intentionally scratch in order to win?
...that Ralph Bigland worked as a cheesemaker across Europe before becoming an officer of arms and eventually Garter Principal King of Arms?
...that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
...that Richard Tregaskis, American war correspondent and author best known for his first-hand account Guadalcanal Diary, was almost killed in Italy in 1943 when shrapnel cut though his helmet and penetrated his skull?
...that a church of the Order of the Holy Ghost once stood at the site of the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Kraków?
...that Guido Verbeck, a Dutch-born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898 arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas?
...that Göteborgs BK, founded in 1875, is the oldest football club in Sweden known by name, and only played Swedish football, a local variant?
...that Skowronek was an Arabian stallion who became a lead horse in the Crabbet Arabian Stud?
...that Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter each wrote a chapter of the short story "A House to Let"?
...that Spanish government minister and European Commissioner Loyola de Palacio deflected speculation that she was an Opus Dei member, noting that she was named after Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus?
...that the Soviet D-10 tank gun of World War II was built until 1979 for the world's most common tank (the T-55), which remains in service?
...that the ancient Chinese sect known as the Way of the Celestial Master established a theocratic state in Sichuan province during the 2nd century CE?
... that the freeware amateur adventure game 5 Days a Stranger and its sequel won 5 and 2 Adventure Game Studio awards respectively?
...that "Fast as You Can" is Fiona Apple's only top forty single in the United Kingdom?
...that Shreve, Crump & Low, North America's oldest jeweler, built prestigious trophies such as the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award?
...that American composer Stephen Paulus gained fame with a 1982 opera based on The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of his nine operas?
... that the world's longest lasting lightbulb is 105 years old and has burnt continuously since 1976?
...that the British art collector Sir George Beaumont always took his favourite Claude Lorrain painting , with him on coach journeys in a specially-designed case?
...that in 1920 a Secret Court, headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals, resulting in nine expulsions?
...that the creators of the Alcazaba fortification in Málaga, Spain, reused materials from nearby Roman ruins?
...that Corporal Bryan Budd is being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, only the 13th such award since the Second World War?
...that the Yerazi—an Azeri clan that originated in modern-day Armenia but left before the Nagorno-Karabakh War—have dominated politics in Azerbaijan since Soviet times?
...that Theodore Roosevelt Lake, a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River, is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona?
...that the slogan Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee, popular on bumper stickers in Costa Rica, prompted a lawsuit from Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia?
...that the hslVU protein complex that degrades damaged proteins in bacteria, probably resembles the evolutionary ancestor of the proteasome, a required component of all eukaryotic cells?
...that the Columbian Issue, the first U.S. commemorative postage stamps, included the first female portrait on American postage — Spain's Queen Isabella?
...that Romania's Piteşti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc?
...that the American singer Mary Fahl's first full-length solo album contains a song first written over 800 years ago in the extinct language of Mozarabic?
...that Jaime Navarro was the opposing and winning pitcher for the inaugural Texas Rangers game at The Ballpark in Arlington in 1994?
...that Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo broke the code of omertà in 1992, becoming the first senior Sicilian clergyman of the Catholic Church to openly condemn the Mafia?
...that Arnold Miller defeated W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski?
...that the video game Daze Before Christmas allows the player to transform into "Anti-Claus", a blue-suited, devilish looking version of Santa Claus?
... that Paul Haenlein was the first to create a dirigible airship powered by an internal combustion engine?
...that neoclassical Staszic Palace in Warsaw was temporarily given a Russo-Byzantine redesign upon Poland's partition?
...that Pulau Sejahat was a British military encampment in Singapore during World War II whose gun batteries were never used against Japanese invaders?
...that the Silesian-born scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin, one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics was initially destined to become a rabbi?
...that Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?
...that the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate-standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana?
...that the coat of arms of Brook Watson featured his leg which he had lost in a shark attack?
...that Worlds End State Park in Pennsylvania is sometimes erroneously known as "Whirls End State Park", its official name for seven years?
...that Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor hired by the Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts?
...that the 1870 poem "The Heathen Chinee," written by Bret Harte as a satire of racial prejudice, was publicly embraced as a mockery of Chinese immigrants, and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. more than any other work at the time?
...that Kenneth Cummins was one of the last five confirmed British surviving veterans of World War I, having served in the Royal and Merchant Navies in the First and Second World War respectively?
...that the Blue Bridge , the widest in St. Petersburg, Russia, derives its name from a 19th-century tradition of color-coding the bridges across the Moika River?
...that between the 10th and 14th centuries, the Indian state of Karnataka was ruled by the Hoysala Empire?
...that Farrer Park is where Singapore's first racecourse was built and the island's aviation history began?
...that one ship had to deal with Hurricane Tanya twice in two different areas of the North Atlantic Ocean five days apart in 1995?
...that although 99.8% of the population is Muslim, there is no official religion in Turkey?
...that platypus venom is delivered by small spurs on the male's hind limbs?
...that Starkad was a legendary Norse hero blessed by Odin but cursed by Thor?
...that Vix Pervenit, an encyclical promulgated by Pope Benedict XIV in 1745, condemned the charging of interest on loans as "illicit and usurious"?
...that one of the finest khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in Armenia, the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century?
...that the high-pitched quack of the Call Duck was used to lure wild ducks into funnel traps?
...that Roland Winters, who played the role of Charlie Chan in six films, was just over 6 months younger than Keye Luke, who played his son?
...that SPLA-Nasir was a breakaway faction of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army that aligned with the government in the Second Sudanese Civil War?
...that an impact wrench can deliver very high torque to a fastener, while only requiring minimal effort from the user, and is one of the most commonly used air tools?
...that the Certosa di Pavia was commissioned by Gian Galeazzo Visconti to be built halfway between his two courts in Milan and Pavia?
...that Jason Bedrick, a New Hampshire state representative, is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?
...that as a teenager, Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people?
...that the Vedic Mathematics genre was revived after Hindu Shankaracharya Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras?
...that on October 5 1914, a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I?
...that Antonio Fontanesi was one of three foreign artists chosen by the Meiji government to oversee Japan's first public art school?
...that Graham Creek in California was a seasonal hunting and gathering ground for prehistoric Pomo and Wappo people?
...that Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964?
...that U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings?
...that venturi scrubbers use the named effect explained by Bernoulli's principle to remove unwanted particles from an exhaust stream?
...that Mafioso Totò Riina eulogised Giuseppe Calderone as a great peacemaker, despite having been allegedly responsible for ordering his death?
...that the support that Australian author Mary Grant Bruce gave to racial stereotypes and social Darwinism in her books was redacted from later editions?
...that Abraham Bosse wrote the first Manual of Etching, and was forced in 1661 to resign from the French Royal Academy of Art and Sculpture in a row over methods of perspective?
...that Zimbabwe is the only cricket team to not lose its first Test match since Australia won the very first Test in 1877?
...that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 is a law passed by the United States Congress in December 2006 for the purpose of protecting the reputation and honor of US military heroism medals due to the larger number of fake military heroes in the USA?
...that the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War?
...that Texas politician Maury Maverick, Jr. killed a bill to sentence convicted communists to death by adding a poison pill amendment to sentence suspected communists to life imprisonment?
...that, in addition to the seven-day week, the Javanese calendar incorporates a five-day week, which runs concurrently to produce a repeating cycle of 35 days?
...that in 1944 a railway ferry on the Norwegian railway Rjukanbanen was sunk to 430 meters depth to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons?
...that printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market?
...that Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II, and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters?
...that controversy arose over the naughty nurse uniforms worn by staff at Arizona's Heart Attack Grill?
...that the Karr-Koussevitzky bass was given to Gary Karr after Koussevitzky's widow reported seeing his ghost embrace Karr on stage?
...that the Austrian-born writer Gregor von Rezzori acted in several movies alongside stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni or Charles Aznavour?
...that Remuh Synagogue is the only functioning synagogue in Kraków, Poland?
...that Buster, the dog of British Labour politician Roy Hattersley, earned his owner a criminal record after killing a goose in St. James's Park, London?
...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?