derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the statues of St. Andrew and Samson from the Fountain of Samson in Kiev were stored in a museum before the beginning of WWI, saving them from destruction by the Bolsheviks?
...that Martyn J. Fogg, a doctoral student in planetary science at the University of London and a dental surgeon, wrote the first technical book on terraforming and planetary engineering?
...that the unconventionally named Boots Mallory was a teenage dancer and model who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1930s, largely as a result of her good looks?
...that Miss Cranston pioneered the social phenomenon of tea rooms, introducing "fairyland"-like interiors designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh?
...that the war between Russia and Sweden from 1741 to 1743 involved a change of ruling dynasties in both countries?
...that the Strépy-Thieu boat lift in Belgium is the tallest boat lift in the world at 73 metres high and has a structural mass of 200,000 tonnes?
...that Ruparel College in Mumbai, India boasts nuclear physicist Anil Kakodkar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai among its alumni?
...that the Gaylord Building, key to building the I&M Canal, was restored so successfully that Ronald Reagan presented Gaylord Donnelly, millionaire grandson of a former owner, with the President's Award for Historic Preservation?
...that Pablo Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat, a 1941 portrait of Picasso's mistress Dora Maar, recently sold for $95.2 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings in the world?
...that disqualification protests were lodged against Clare Dennis, the winner of the 200 m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics, on the grounds of her "inappropriate" costume, which exposed her shoulderblades?
...that India's Operation Meghdoot to capture the Siachen Glacier in 1984 was the first assault launched in the world's highest battlefield?
...that newly-launched First News, a British weekly newsmagazine for children with a unique focus on current events, is headed by "editorial overlord" and ex-Mirror editor Piers Morgan?
...that Huron University, the first institute of higher education to grant a degree in the then-Dakota Territory, closed in 2005 after 123 years of existence and had its assets auctioned off?
...that actinoform clouds form a distinct leaf-like or spokes-on-a-wheel pattern, and can spread out to over 300 kilometers across?
...that Israfil Mamedov, the first Azeri Hero of the Soviet Union, killed about seventy Germans, including three officers, during the Battle of Moscow on December 3, 1941?
...that Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island was used as a staging area by the Union Army during the American Civil War, and that more than 230 Union troops were buried there?
...that the final episode of Kamen Rider Stronger, a Japanese tokusatsu television series, features appearances from the main characters of every previous series in the franchise?
...that in 1988 the Greek passenger ferry, City of Poros, was the victim of a terrorist attack by members of the Abu Nidal Organisation which left nine tourists dead and 98 injured?
...that the Moorish Revival spread around the globe as a preferred style of 19th-century synagogue architecture because the Mudéjar style was associated with the golden age of Jewry in medieval Muslim Spain?
...that following the Mississauga train derailment of 1979, nearly 250,000 people had to be evacuated for up to five days while toxic chemicals that had spilled onto the railway tracks were cleaned up?
...that Escape from Paradise, a book which documents a Singaporean woman's divorce, was removed from bookstores and libraries in the country in 2002, even after it had been reviewed in the Singapore press?
...that in Persia, non-Muslims were considered to be najis (ritually unclean) by Shi'a Muslims, and were not allowed to go outside in rain or snow for fear that some impurity could be washed from them onto a Muslim?
...that the Funicular dos Guindais was originally built to carry cargo - including port wine - from the Ribeira quayside to the centre of Porto, and is now a tourist attraction and one of the world's steepest counter-balanced cable railways?
...that the Parachute Jump, an 80-m steel tower, was relocated to Coney Island two years after the 1939 New York World's Fair?
...that forensic electrical engineering is a branch of forensic engineering whose primary role is to investigate whether a fire was caused by the failure of an electrical appliance?
...that the Merton Thesis holds that Protestantism had significant influences on the course of the scientific revolution?
...that Sara Christian was the first woman to compete in a NASCAR race, the only woman to have a Top Five finish, and the recipient of the 1949 United States Drivers's Association Woman Driver of the Year award?
...that the character of Betts, played by Andrew Paul, was the only inmate seen to be released from the borstal–albeit temporarily–during the controversial British film Scum?
...that prisoners of the Iraqi Special Tribunal are transported in armored buses called Rhino Runners?
...that the audience of the Dorset Garden Theatre in Restoration London found it fashionable and convenient to arrive by boat, thereby avoiding the crime-ridden area of Alsatia?
...that Dmitry Pavlov, who was appointed to the rank of General of the Army in 1941, was the highest-ranking Soviet commander to be executed for military incompetence during the World War II, only to be exonerated in 1956?
...that rail transportation in Okinawa dates back to 1902, when the island's first line started operations to haul sugarcane, but the Okinawa Monorail is the only line still in operation?
...that Höhlgangsanlage 8, built in Jersey during World War II under the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces, was a partially completed underground hospital complex with over 1 km of tunnels?
...that according to the Marlovian theory of Shakespearean authorship, works attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by playwright Christopher Marlowe, who faked his own death in 1593 to continue writing under a Shakespeare pseudonym?
...that Livadia Palace, a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar, was the setting of the 1945 Yalta Conference between the Big Three?
...that the Waldo-Hancock Bridge, designed by David B. Steinman in 1931, came in so far under budget that another bridge was built with the money saved?
...that Olaus Johannis Gutho (d. 1516), who was a student at the newly founded University of Uppsala from 1477 until at least 1486, and later became a monk in the Abbey of Vadstena, left seven bound volumes of lecture notes that have been preserved until today?
...that Corippo, despite being a contender for Switzerland's smallest municipality with a population of only 17, has its own website, coat of arms, mayor and town council?
...that three years after Anders Uppström had published his edition of the 6th-century Codex Argenteus, a dying library janitor presented him with ten leaves that had been missing from the manuscript for over two decades?
...that the Free Economic Society, founded at the instigation of Catherine II of Russia in 1765, was briefly closed down by the imperial Russian authorities in 1900 amid accusations of fomenting revolutionary upheaval?
...that Novgorod's medieval river pirates, called ushkuiniki, wreaked havoc along the Volga River as far downstream as Kazan and Astrakhan?
...that since the floods of 2004-2005, the riparian areas of Hendrick Island have been choked by debris from upstream in the Delaware River?
...that the English composer Anthony Payne, who completed a version of Elgar's third symphony, has also composed a version of Elgar's incomplete Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6?
...that the media reports that Deborah Freund, Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University, is to replace Albert Carnesale as the chancellor of UCLA?
...that Nerima Daikon Brothers is a rare musical comedy format anime series that pokes fun at Junichiro Koizumi, Michael Jackson, Bae Yong Joon, and other contemporary topics in Japan?
...that the International Cricket Council awarded Australia and New Zealand the hosting rights to the 2015 Cricket World Cup because they were sufficiently impressed with their 2011 bid which lost to Asia by 7 votes?
... that the Tennessee State Museum has one of the largest collections in the United States of weapons, flags, and uniforms from the American Civil War?
...that the affair between Teresa Bagioli Sickles and Philip Barton Key was the motive for the murder committed by Teresa's husband, who became the first person to successfully use the insanity defense in U.S. legal history?
...that, during the Russo-Swedish War, 1656-1658, the Russians had to lift their siege of Riga after foreign officers of the Russian flotilla had defected to the other side?
...that David Clyde was the first person selected in the 1973 MLB Draft and signed to a $125,000 bonus, the highest bonus ever given to a draft pick at the time?
...that Nikolai Skoblin was a general in the counterrevolutionary White Russian army, a leader of the expatriate Russian All-Military Union, a Bolshevik double-agent, and a Gestapo agent?
...that the Chesed-El Synagogue, built in 1905, is the second synagogue for the Jewish community in Singapore, and was one of the first places to use gaslights in Singapore?
...that Russian sculptor Anna Golubkina used the same model for her sculpture, The Old Age, as Auguste Rodin had used for his sculpture, The Thinker, 14 years earlier?
...that Frank Beaurepaire, a Lord Mayor of Melbourne, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and multi-millionaire tyre businessman was a six-time Olympic medallist in swimming who set 15 world records in his swimming career?
...that The Masked Rider mascot of Texas Tech University wears a black and red outfit and rides his black horse around to enthuse fans of the Texas Tech Red Raiders?
...that Michelle Ford was the first woman to win individual swimming medals at the Olympics in two distinct specialized strokes?
...that the Lake Tanganyika passenger ferry MV Liemba began its life as a German warship in World War I, spent eight years on the bottom of the lake, and later portrayed the Empress Luisa in the film The African Queen?
...that the houses at Roman Bulla Regia in Tunisia were built in two levels, a ground level to catch winter sun and a subterranean one round an open atrium for coolness in summer?
...that Reaper, a 105-year-old historic Fifie herring drifter, nearly sank off the north east coast of England after being restored and put back into service as a museum ship?
...that the Kremlin stars, crowning five towers of the Moscow Kremlin since the 1930s, are made of ruby glass?
...that John Devitt was awarded a gold medal in the 100m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome despite all three timekeepers awarding a faster time to the silver medallist?
...that the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party, a Maoist group, took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh but continued armed activities after the independence of the country?
...that Władysław Filipkowski, a Polish resistance fighter and commander of the Lwów Uprising against Nazi Germany occupiers in 1944, was soon afterwards arrested by the Soviet NKVD and imprisoned for three years?
...that Higgins Glass refers to fused glass functional artwork produced by Michael and Frances Higgins of Chicago, in the latter half of the 20th century?
...that Tsenacommacah was the name of the territory in eastern Virginia which was controlled by the Powhatan Confederacy at the time of the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 1607?
...that the East Los Angeles community arts center Self Help Graphics & Art has been producing Chicano art for more than thirty years?
...that Winsor McCay's animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was originally created for a vaudeville act where McCay would seem to interact with the cartoon dinosaur?
...that Alevtina Kolchina was the first female Nordic skier and first person from the Soviet Union (now Russia) to receive the Holmenkollen medal in 1963?
...that former Eight is Enough actress Susan Richardson battled an addiction to cocaine after using the drug for weight loss following her pregnancy?
...that the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark in Oklahoma has received a license from the FAA to become a spaceport, and plans to launch space tourism flights by 2008?
...that Maharaja Gulab Singh, founder of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, was illiterate?
...that the National Labor Board established the doctrine of representational exclusivity in American labor relations, a rule still used today?
...that even in perfect darkness, the retina spontaneously sends signals down the optic nerve, causing a sensation of gray called eigengrau?
...that during Jake Gaither's tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?
...that the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division was a Polish military unit, created from volunteers and self-defence units of the Kresy territories?
...that the "Cold War", held in MSU's Spartan Stadium , was the most-attended ice hockey game in history?
...that Kazakhstan Temir Zholy is building a transshipment railway to connect China with Europe using standard gauge?
...that Nenets painter Konstantin Pankov had never seen a painting before he began painting landscapes of the Far North?
...that Alexander Korzhakov contends that his political adversaries wanted to kill his main rival in the 1997 parliamentary by-election in Tula in order to deem it invalid?
...that career US diplomat George Wadsworth, Chargé d'affaires in Italy at the onset of World War II, was one of the last American personnel to leave the country?
...that Charlotte Wilson was murdered by Hutu rebels in Burundi during the Titanic Express massacre?
...that although NASA originally thought that there was only one scalloped margin dome on the planet Venus , they have since discovered hundreds of them?
...that choreographer Gillian Lynne took up dance as a child to recover from the violent death of her mother?
...that at the Roman festival of Quinquatria in 59, Emperor Nero invited his mother Agrippina to his villa, as part of his plan to assassinate her?
...that Antoni Heda, one of the most successful partisan commanders in Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in World War II, was sentenced to death on 7 consecutive charges by the Polish communists' government?
...that David Ross Boyd, the first president of the University of Oklahoma, planted nearly 10,000 trees on campus during his first 18 months in the post?
...that the Kassel glosses, one of the earliest written documents of the Old High German language, form a practical language guide for foreigners and include phrases containing the jocular xenophobic jibe "Romans are stupid, Bavarians are smart"?
...that a study on chemical analysis by Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque , a Portuguese military officer, scientist and statesman of the 19th century, motivated a special report by two of the most prestigious scientists of the time: Jean-Antoine Chaptal and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac?
...that the Roman festival of hilaria, which allowed anyone to masquerade as any rank, was used in a plot to assassinate Emperor Commodus, by conspirators planning to disguise themselves as members of the Praetorian Guard?
...that by the time U.S. Civil War tokens were deemed illegal tender in 1864, there were about 25 million in circulation, in over 7,000 varieties?
...that Corné Krige and George Gregan, who respectively captained the South Africa and Australia rugby union teams in both the 2002 and 2003 Tri Nations Series, were born in the same hospital in Zambia?
...that former Governor of Guam Bill Daniel provided 400 longhorns and hundreds of horses from his ranch for the John Wayne film The Alamo, in which he also starred?
...that the Chilean National Plebiscite of 1980, which affirmed General Pinochet as president and approved a new constitution for Chile, was marked by irregularities?
...that the horseman depicted on the Coat of arms of Moscow was not identified with Saint George until the 18th century?
...that the earliest known Polish language sentence comes from the Book of Henryków, a 13th-century chronicle of a Cistercian abbey?
...that British Labour Party MP Roland Boyes continued in office after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, but his condition had deteriorated so much that, upon his retirement in 1997, he was unaware that his party had gained control after 18 years in opposition?
...that one can live, work, and play in Fermont, Quebec without going outside, because the town is bordered on two sides by a long building containing living, shopping, work and recreational facilities all under one roof?
...that after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929, it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached?
...that May crowning is a traditional Roman Catholic ritual in which the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary is ceremonially crowned to signify her as Queen of Heaven and Mother of God?
...that the second line of the Valenciennes tram will open in 2007, but will reuse the platform of a railway line that opened in 1838?
...that the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland abolished the office of the President of Poland, replacing it with the State Council of Poland?
...that the song "Run-Around" by jam band Blues Traveler was first played at the CBGB club in New York City?
...that Taiwan's non-profit Industrial Technology Research Institute spun off Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry?
...that American tenor Charles Anthony has sung with the Metropolitan Opera for 52 consecutive seasons, which is unparalleled in company history?
... that NASA test pilot Joe Walker's X-1E and record-setting X-15 were two of the very few research aircraft to have nose art?
...that fuel burned by combustion equipment in large industrial plants is channeled to the atmosphere by large vertical pipes or vents called flue gas stacks?
...that the only recorded use of the phrase "We who are about to die salute you" in Ancient Rome was at a naumachia, a theatrical naval spectacular, not said by gladiators as is widely believed?
...that the disastrous Battle of Beroia resulted in the disappearance of the nomadic Pecheneg people from eastern Europe?
...that Betsey Stockton, the first unmarried female foreign missionary, was a manumitted slave who established schools in Hawaii and Canada?
...that tissue transglutaminase antibody testing has superseded all older blood tests in the diagnosis of coeliac disease?
...that Ulriksdal Palace was originally named Jakobsdal, after Jacob De La Gardie, and was one of the first buildings in Sweden with mansard roofs?
...that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria?
...that Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon?
...that Sabantuy is a Tatar summer festival which features such contests as Tatar wrestling, horse racing, race-in-sack, pillar-climbing, egg-in-spoon-in-mouth-racing, and finding a coin in a bowl of sour milk?
...that a Roman man once received the surname of "Tricongius" for his ability to drink three congii of wine (9.8 litres; 2.6 gallons) in one sitting in a feat that he once performed before Emperor Tiberius?
...that Akira Endo received the 2006 Japan Prize for his discovery of the popular statin drugs, used to treat high cholesterol?
...that the Greenbrier Ghost is the only ghost in American history whose alleged testimony influenced a jury trial?
...that when NASCAR driver David Gilliland won his first career Busch Series race in 2006, driving for an unsponsored part-time team, commentator Hermie Sadler called it "the biggest upset in Busch Series history"?
...that in 2003, the Cuban town of San Antonio de Los Baños had no water for 2 days while a 100-year old aqueduct supplying the city was being repaired?
...that Ah Meng, a Sumatran Orangutan and tourism icon of Singapore, had breakfast with celebrities including the Duke of Edinburgh and pop star Michael Jackson?
...that hydrological transport models are computer simulations analyzing the movement of water pollution in rivers, and have played a role in aiding endangered species?
...that the breakfast room at Tullgarn Palace in Sweden is furnished like a south German Bierstube, possibly reflecting the fact that King Gustav V's queen consort came from Baden?
...that Artrain USA is a 5-car art gallery that tours the U.S. 11 months of the year, visiting small towns whose residents may not otherwise have a chance to see art up close?
...that Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, creator of the National Bank of Poland and author of many economic reforms in Congress Poland, also laid foundations for the industrialization of the city of Łódź?
...that the Swedish term yrast, meaning "dizziest", is used in nuclear physics to refer to nuclear states of high angular momentum?
...that J. Dringwell Rymbai had to discontinue his education due to poverty, but became the head master of a school and eventually the Chief Minister of Meghalaya?
...that Roman Emperor Trajan was heavily criticized for giving extravagant donations, called congiaria, to every citizen?
...that Captain William Reynolds, a veteran of the American Civil War, formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano?
...that the American Buffalo gold bullion coin will be the first .9999 fine 24-karat gold coin released by the United States Mint?
...that Ashta Pradhan, a council formed by Shivaji in 1674 to help him in administration, was one of the first instances of ministerial delegation in India?
...that the name of the Azeri settlement Ramana, with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, might, according to conjecture, be derived from Roma, the Latin word for Rome?
...that Joseph Krumgold was the first author to win the Newbery Medal twice?
...that Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games?
...that the 1900 Paris Exposition's Mareorama was a simulated sea voyage using two 2,460-foot-long (750 m) panoramic paintings and a giant motion platform?
...that Governor James B. A. Robertson called out the Oklahoma National Guard in order to restore law and order during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921?
...that Union for Active Struggle was a secret paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence, with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire?
...that the Kutiyapi is a two-stringed, fretted boat-lute with beeswax frets?
...that Russian composer Ella Adayevskaya took her pseudonym from the notes played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Ludmila?
...that although Ernst Neizvestny's work had been denounced by Nikita Khrushchev as degenerate art, he was commissioned to sculpt Khrushchev's tomb?
...that the Kell antigen system is a group of antigens on the human red blood cell surface that are important determinants of blood type and targets for autoimmune or alloimmune diseases that destroy red blood cells?
...that Ann Hasseltine Judson was the first Protestant to translate a scripture into Siamese, and legitimized the missionary calling for Christian women?
...that the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987?
...that American sculptor Luis Jiménez, known for his large Southwestern and Hispanic polychromed fiberglass sculptures, was killed when a large piece of his work fell on him?
...that the Banksia menziesii , named after 18th-century physician and naturalist Archibald Menzies, is also known as the Firewood Banksia for its burning properties and abundancy?
...that the A8(M) motorway is the shortest motorway in Northern Ireland at only one mile long, and has no junctions with any other roads along its entire length?