derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that on September 21, 1995, statues of the Hindu pantheon in countries around the world were reported to be drinking spoonfuls of milk offered to them by worshippers?
...that the pellets regurgitated by some predatory bird species have been found to contain bird bands once attached to their prey?
... that the WWE Video Library has an archive of over 75,000 hours of footage dating back more than fifty years, representing a very significant portion of the visual history of modern professional wrestling?
... that Luís Alves de Lima e Silva was a Brazilian military hero praised for his victories in the War of the Triple Alliance, and that his birthday is celebrated annually as Dia do Soldado?
...that the Mafra National Palace was built during the reign of King John V of Portugal, in consequence of a vow he made, promising to build a convent if his wife, the Queen Mary Anne of Austria, gave him descendants?
...that in 1883, Southern Pacific Railroad tried to block the California Southern Railroad from installing a level junction across their tracks in Colton, California, by moving a locomotive slowly back and forth at the intersection point?
...that after Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing?
...that the fish Echiodon rendahli has a portion of its intestine protruding from its belly, so that while living inside sponges it can defecate outside its shelter without being exposed to outside dangers?
...that Ogyu Sorai is considered to be one of the most influential Confucian philosophers in Japan during the Tokugawa period?
...that the Brownsea Island Scout camp held by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907 was the official start of the Scout movement and will be celebrated as part of the Scouting centenary in 2007?
...that there is a pattern to the names of the class of medications called "monoclonal antibodies"?
...that there have been at least fifteen deaths at the Welsh cave Porth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven-metre-deep Resurgance Pool?
...that in musique mesurée Renaissance composers attempted to bring back the musical traditions of Ancient Greece through the use of ancient meters and musical modes?
...that by using measurements of the flux of solar neutrinos within the framework of the Standard Solar Model physicists have estimated the temperature of the core of the sun to within 1%?
...that the monks of the Ross Errilly Friary in Ireland were evicted six times in the span of 118 years, but kept moving back in?
...that Texas produces the most helium in the United States, all of which is won from the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo?
...that the 144 km long Salso River, named for its saline content, is the longest river in Sicily?
...that the American Meat Institute and the Federal Meat Inspection Act celebrate their hundredth anniversary this year?
...that The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault was a live television special in which Al Capone's secret vault was opened and shown to only contain a bottle of moonshine?
...that Piotr Włostowic, a 12th century voivode of the Kingdom of Poland, managed to break the alliance between Władysław II the Exile and Rus' princes while blinded, muted and exiled?
...that supernumerary body parts can include fingers, toes, and ribs, or in some rare cases, additional sex organs or heads?
...that the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, New Jersey, is the only zoo in the world that has a pair of Malaysian "black dragon" monitor lizards on display?
...that the Worek Plan, a submarine operation by the Polish Navy in the early days of the Polish September Campaign, was a failure as the submarines did not manage to sink a single German vessel?
...that the Kiev tram was the first electric tramway in the Russian Empire, and the second one in Europe, after the Berlin Straßenbahn?
...that Saint Gilbert of Dornoch was the last Scot to appear in the Calendar of Saints?
...that cow fighting, unlike bull fighting, is a sport that does not have human participants but is fought between cows, and that it often does not include any physical contact?
...that Russian composer Boris Sobinov was abducted from the Berlin American Zone by the NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the Soviet Union?
...that Wogan Philipps was the only member of the Communist Party of Great Britain to sit in the House of Lords?
...that prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
...that Ash Lawn-Highland, the former home of U.S. President James Monroe, has been transformed into a 535-acre working farm, museum, and site for the performing arts?
...that the Chamber of Nationalities is a now-defunct chamber of the bicameral parliament of Myanmar?
... that Operation Dewey Canyon was the last major U.S. Marine Corps offensive of the Vietnam War?
...that Yuktibhasa, written by Indian astronomer Jyeshtadeva, is considered to be the first mathematical treatise on calculus?
...that the satirical German radio programme The Gerd Show reached no. 1 in Germany's 2002 Christmas single charts with a parody of "The Ketchup Song" which attacked Gerhard Schröder's tax policies?
...that the River Banksia (Banksia seminuda) was originally considered a subspecies of the Swamp Banksia (Banksia littoralis), as they share many similar characteristics?
...that homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Park average 20,000-30,000 ft², and that the homeowners association requires all dwellings to be larger than 5,000 ft²?
...that the Grodno Sejm of 1793, the last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, passed the Second Partition of Poland with deputies bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire's army?
...that one architectural style of 18th-century Spanish Baroque was named after a candy made from egg whites and sugar?
... that That Summer Day is the first television drama for children about the bombings of the London public transport system on July 7, 2005?
...that the Florida mangroves are vital to an estimated 75 percent of the game fish and 90 percent of the commercial fish species in South Florida?
...that openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick's book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970, at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
...that there is a long history of animals in sport, ranging from common horse racing and fox hunting events to the more unusual rabbit show jumping and camel wrestling competitions?
...that the T-18 tank, first produced in 1928, was the first tank designed and built in the Soviet Union, and that its design was based on the French Renault FT-17 of the First World War?
...that Józef Kossakowski , bishop and writer, was one of several prominent Polish politicians sentenced to hanging as traitors in the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising?
...that the Palmeral of Elche is the largest plantation of palm trees in Europe, with date palms covering over 3.5 square kilometres in and around the Spanish city of Elche?
...that loans made by Seattle brothel-owner Lou Graham saved some of the city's most prestigious families from bankruptcy after the Panic of 1893?
...that composer Veniamin Fleishman was killed early in WWII before he could complete his opera Rothschild's Violin, but that his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad, and completed the opera?
...that the Directive Principles in India, which are guidelines for the government while framing laws and policies, were inspired by the Irish nationalist movement?
...that in the 1869 Battle of Hakodate in Japan, French soldiers fought side-by-side with rebel samurai against the newly formed Imperial government, in an episode reminiscent of the movie The Last Samurai?
... that William T. Perkins, Jr., a United States Marine who covered an exploding hand grenade with his body, is the only combat photographer to be awarded the Medal of Honor?
...that the starting point for the History of Australia is usually taken to be the first undisputed sighting of Australia by the Dutch in 1606, although many researchers alleged that other sightings took place a hundred years earlier?
...that administrative law in mainland China has been used unsuccessfully by Chinese dissidents to sue the Communist Party of China?
...that Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman, elected the first Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in 2006, was the first woman to give birth while serving as a British Member of Parliament in the 1970s, and is reported to have been the first woman to breast feed at the Palace of Westminster?
...that the Esopus Wars led to the creation of the boundaries of Native American lands in 17th century New York?
...that Edith S. Sampson was the first Black U.S. delegate to the United Nations and NATO?
...that the Canadian judicial decision Re Burley (1865), was made in colonial times, and is still cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in extradition cases over a century later?
...that the Presidential office of India operates from The Retreat at Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh, India at least once every year?
...that, in 2007, Joyland Amusement Park plans to install The Greezed Lightnin', a Schwarzkopf Shuttle Looper purchased from Astroworld in Houston, Texas?
... that French poet and novelist Louis Pergaud was a pacifist who was killed in action during World War I in 1915?
...that the alloy hepatizon was highly valuable in classical antiquity, and was named due to its similarity to the colour of liver?
...that the invention of the tone variator in 1897 marked the advance beyond classical psychophysics, as it allowed the study of the perception of continuous changes in stimuli?
...that the first performance of Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) was conducted by Catterino Cavos, who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?
...that "Hippias Major", one of Plato's dialogues dating back to the 4th century BCE, employed the plot device we now refer to as a "cliffhanger"?
...that The Entrance Bridge was the site of a 1955 accident when the Number 11 Red Bus's brakes failed, whereupon it crashed through a wooden retaining wall and landed in The Entrance Channel?
...that Austrian figure skater Herma Szabo practiced on the first artificial ice rink ever made, and went on to win five world championships?
...that the Helophilus pendulus is a European hoverfly, whose scientific name means "dangling swamp-lover"?
...that the Oklahoma Aquarium has the world's largest collection of antique fishing tackle, with over 20,000 pieces?
...that the Treaty of Viterbo transferred power over the Latin Empire from the last reigning monarch to the Angevin rulers of Sicily?
...that Perfect Imperfection, a 2004 science fiction novel by Polish writer Jacek Dukaj, raises the issues of technological singularity, transhumanism and the anthropic principle, and presents a unique model of human evolution?
...that Torre HSBC, home of the headquarters of HSBC Mexico, is expected to become the first building in Latin America to receive a LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council?
...that Saco Bay on the Maine coast was named in 1525 by the Spanish cartographer Esteban Gómez for the resemblance of its southern pool to the outline of a sack?
...that in 1831, Russian painter Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin was deemed a "free artist" by the Imperial Academy of Arts?
...that Information International, Inc. (Triple-I) used the Super Foonly, the world's fastest PDP-10, to render 3D animation for the 1982 film Tron?
...that in the early 1900s, the Spruce Flats Bog in Forbes State Forest, Pennsylvania underwent a forced reversal from forest to bog, and is now slowly returning to a forest?
...that U.S. diplomat Norman Armour disguised himself as a Norwegian courier to help a Russian princess—his future wife—escape the country after the collapse of the Russian Empire?
...that Japanese designer Kenzo Takada developed his love for fashion by reading his sisters' magazines as a child?
...that the Persoonia longifolia , known as the Upright Snottygobble, is a species of tall shrub characterised by its distinctive flakey paper-like dark red bark?
...that during the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I, over 1% of the Luxembourgian population died fighting for France, even though Luxembourg remained officially neutral?
...that in 1908 Nikolai Panin became Russia's first Olympic champion by winning the figure skating special figures event, the only year in which it was an Olympic event?
...that the Pernambucan Revolt of 1817 was a conflict to establish independence for the current Brazilian state of Pernambuco from Portugal?
...that West Liberty Foods provides Subway restaurant franchises with over one million pounds of meat per week?
...that the Newfoundland Tricolour , a popular but unofficial flag of Newfoundland and Labrador, is one of the oldest flags of North America, and the oldest flag in the world to use the color pink?
...that Henryk Iwański, member of Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in WWII, commanded several incursions into the Warsaw Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters?
...that Lord Neaves, a judge on the supreme court of Scotland, was quoted by Darwin on evolution, but attributed the concept of evolution to Lord Monboddo, not Darwin?
...that Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens created the album Flamenco A Go-Go after seeing flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía play live, and that the album spans many genres including dance, flamenco, blues and rock?
...that several months after Vasili III of Russia divorced his wife, Solomonia Saburova, on account of her barrenness, she is believed to have given birth to a son, who became the Cossack robber Kudeyar?
...that, in the 1970s, Peter Rawlinson was expected to become the first Roman Catholic Lord Chancellor since Thomas More in 1532?
... that the analysis of the FSH-receptor benefited from the work by Gilman and Rodbell for which they won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology?
...that hollowed-out books have been used in bombings, for smuggling, and for covertly photographing people?
...that Celia Rosser, Australian botanical illustrator has the Banksia species Banksia rosserae and the cultivar Banksia canei 'Celia Rosser' named in her honour?
...that both Denmark and Spain have plans to change their succession laws from male primogeniture to equal primogeniture, leaving Luxembourg and the United Kingdom as the only monarchies in the European Union not to have equal primogeniture?
...that the highest scoring word in Scrabble is OXYPHENBUTAZONE, which uses a bingo, and can theoretically score 1778 in one go?
...that the Coastal Zone Color Scanner provided the first global view of phytoplankton concentrations?
...that the rulers of Yogyakarta brought female bedhaya dancers with them into battle?
...that Michał Boym was one of the first Westerners to explore China and an author of many scholarly publications about the Far East?
...that the Confederation of the Equator was a short-lived state established in northeastern Brazil during her struggle for independence from Portugal?
...that there have been several proposals for space advertising projects, including a giant, 1km² billboard visible from Earth?
...that during the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, 51 U.S. soldiers held out against some 700 Arapaho Indians and their allies for 9 days, surviving on nothing but muddy water and meat from their own fallen horses?
...that total dissolved solids, a class of water pollutants, is useful as an indicator of aquatic biota health, yet harmful to the plumbing of aquaria and hot tubs?
...that the New Shepard is a commercial space tourism vehicle designed and assembled by Blue Origin which will start subscale flight testing in 2006?
... that NASCAR driver-turned-broadcaster Phil Parsons is the (16 years) younger brother of 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons?
...that the Palace of Tau in Reims, France, is named after its shape, which resembles the letter T (tau, in the Greek alphabet)?
...that Bennie Owen introduced the forward pass to the southwestern United States as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team?
...that an increasing number of countries are looking to regulate fast food advertising to try to reduce childhood obesity?
...that the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater, in Lviv, Ukraine combines details of the Renaissance and Baroque architecture?
...that the isolated population of Citrine Forktails on the Azores is the only population of dragonflies anywhere in the world known to reproduce by parthenogenesis?
...that the Israeli entry for the 1987 Eurovision Shir Habatlanim, meaning The Bums' song led to a resignation threat by the Israeli culture minister?
...that the Talbot Samba supermini car was the last Talbot passenger car ever made?
...that the Gay Football Supporters Network recently voted Steven Gerrard top of their annual "Lust List" for the second year running?
...that Biodiversity Action Plans are a primary tool of 189 nations to conserve threatened species, but the one nation who has signed, but not ratified, the underlying treaty has produced the most elaborate set of plans?
...that for over 200 years the Ribeira Palace in Lisbon was the residence of the Kings of Portugal until its destruction in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake?
...that Mixmath is a Canadian board game similar to Scrabble, in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?
...that according to Externism, a pseudophilosophy proposed by the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman, in the end of every learning process we know nothing, but we know it precisely?
...that In Dreams, the debut album by British child star Joseph McManners, was recorded in Prague and features music by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra?
...that most of the Muslims in Fiji are descended from those brought to the islands from India as indentured labourers between 1879 and 1916?
...that on August 26, 2006 the Philippines won the inaugural World Cup of Pool held at Newport, Wales?
...that the Minus Cube mechanical puzzle , first manufactured in the Soviet Union, is a 3D variant of the 15-puzzle?
...that Bubba the Grouper, the first known fish to receive chemotherapy, died recently in Chicago, Illinois?
...that Brian Kennedy's "Every Song Is A Cry For Love" was the 1000th song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest?
...that mobile phone throwing is an international sport in which thrown mobile phones are judged by the distance and choreographics of the throw?
...that Central Sikh Temple was Singapore's first gurdwara when it was initially set up in a police barracks in the 1880s?
...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest Grand Prix champion after winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix?
...that the Matra Rancho was based on the popular Simca 1100 supermini?
...that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reanalysing Atlantic hurricane data to correct errors in the hurricane database dating back to the Apollo Program?
...that the Royal West of England Academy housed the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the U.S. Army during World War II?
...that Sano Fusako was kidnapped in Niigata, Japan in 1990 at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?
...that "Ceol An Ghrá" was the first and only time that Ireland entered the Eurovision Song Contest with a song in Irish?
...that a lifeboat from the wrecked passenger steamship SS Valencia was found floating in good condition, 27 years after the ship's demise?
...that the Kullen Lighthouse , a prominent landmark on the Swedish coastline, is the most powerful lighthouse in Scandinavia?
...that architectural elements akin to those of the Olympic Stadium in Munich were incorporated in the Central Railway Station in Sofia during its latest renovation?
...that Parthiv Patel had never played domestic first-class cricket prior to becoming the youngest Test Wicketkeeper in history at just 17 years and 102 days?
...that Haraldskaer Woman, who lived around 540 BC, is one of the best preserved bog people ever discovered, and that forensic analysis reveals her last meal was blackberries and millet?
...that a US$500 million ski village project promoted by Alfred Ford was rejected by the town of Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, due to the belief that local gods thought it was environmentally unsound?
...that the facade of the Central Sofia Market Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria features a relief of the coat of arms of Sofia above the main entrance?
...that Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog that played a role in stopping the Roman advance in Scotland and whose traversal was used in the Bishops' Wars?
...that Clay Mathematics Institute fellow Akshay Venkatesh is the only Australian to win medals at both the International Physics and Mathematics Olympiads?
... that the largely unexplored Buddhist archaeological site of Noapara-Ishanchandranagar in Bangladesh is conjectured to be the lost city of Karmanta Vasaka?
...that the recent transport of the colossal Statue of Ramesses II from Cairo to the Giza Plateau was preceded by a mock move several weeks prior?
...that the St. James Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand, was nearly demolished in the 1980s and is said to be haunted by numerous ghosts?
...that Bonin Petrels nesting on Midway Atoll declined from an estimated 500,000 birds in 1943 to 32,000 in 1995?
...that murdered Australian designer Florence Broadhurst opened a performing arts academy in Shanghai before she became famous for her wallpaper designs?
...that Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?
...that according to anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn, Neanderthal in China and Java were killed off by the more intelligent hominid Sinanthropus pithencanthropus, contributing to the Neanderthal extinction?
...that Ludwika Maria Gonzaga was the queen consort of two Kings of Poland?
...that the Battle of Maclodio earned the Republic of Venice its largest permanent land area in its 1000-year history?
...that Poliphilo , the main character in the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book?
...that complaints about the presence of liberal Catholic theologians such as Joseph Ratzinger at the Second Vatican Council led to the creation of the conservative study group Coetus Internationalis Patrum?
...that Hitler's Cross was a Hitler-themed restaurant in Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week?
...that Canadian scientist Shiv Chopra was terminated from Health Canada for informing the Senate of the health effects of Bovine Growth Hormone?
...that a school bus crossing arm is a safety device intended to protect children from being struck while crossing in front of a school bus?
...that the Simca Aronde was named after the French word for swallow, a bird which appeared on the Simca logo when the model was presented?
...that Sesame Street's street scenes were centred around the fictional African-American Robinson family in early seasons, before the Muppets took on an increased role?
...that the 1917 Silvertown explosion may have been the largest explosion to ever occur in London?
...that Jacek Dukaj's Black Oceans, a Polish science-fiction novel, received the Janusz A. Zajdel Award Polish award for sci-fi literature in 2001?
...that the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?
...that Banks' Florilegium is a series of 743 engravings of plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander on Cook's Pacific voyage between 1768 and 1771?
...that the Kullaberg Nature Reserve contains the brightest lighthouse in Sweden and is home to many rare species of plants and animals including the Red Kite?
...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever polesitter and first ever Spaniard to attain a podium finish at the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix?