derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the famous quote "No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad" generally attributed to Leo Rosten was actually first used in 1930 by future war correspondent Byron Darnton?
...that the most famous archeological finding of Bronze and Iron Age Poland is the Biskupin fortified lake settlement?
...that the Port of Geelong, located on the shores of Corio Bay in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, is the sixth largest in Australia by tonnage?
...that Security Advisory Opinions, which can take more than 120 days to resolve, are the source of long delays in issuing United States visas?
...that Singaporean Teresa Hsu, a 110-year old social worker who teaches yoga and selfless service to the needy, was named 'Hero for Today' by the Chinese edition of the Reader's Digest?
...that Jan Czerski , exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising, became a self-taught scientist and Siberian explorer, thrice decorated with the gold medal by the Russian Geographical Society?
...that Tui bei tu, a banned 7th century prophecy book about China which has been compared to the work of Nostradamus, became a bestseller in the 1990s?
...that the Palestinian Fedayeen campaign against Israel was one of the causes of the 1956 Suez Crisis?
...that the Reverend Sir Frederick Ouseley founded his £30,000 1856 church near the small village of Middleton on the Hill?
...that during the 1991 NFL season, Cris Dishman had a seven game stretch where he forced at least one turnover in each game?
...that the Stillwell Avenue/Surf Avenue intersection in New York City is the site of the world's largest subway station?
...that a lift attached to the side of the viaduct at Calstock railway station was used to lower railway trucks to the quays on the River Tamar 113 feet below?
...that during the process of maceration the clear-grayish color of grape juice gets its red wine coloring?
...that according to the book The World Without Us radioactive waste, bronze statues, and Mount Rushmore will be the longest lasting evidence of human presence on Earth?
...that 10TP was a Polish tank design, which advanced the Polish armor programme but came too late to provide the Polish Army with tanks of sufficient number and quality before the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
...that Marrack Goulding, a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1997 to 2006?
...that Cornelius, Oregon is named after pioneer Thomas R. Cornelius, who served in the both the Territorial and State legislatures?
...that the Ferranti Argus was developed to control the Bristol Bloodhound missile, but went on to be Ferranti's most successful industrial control computer?
...that Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat writes his scripts in English and then translates them to the Thai language?
...that chryselephantine sculptures were monumental statues made of gold and ivory that depicted the gods in Ancient Greek temples?
...that Bolivia-Chile relations have been strained due to a border dispute unresolved since the 19th century?
...that the transport ship USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg is scheduled to be sunk in 2008 to form an artificial reef off the Florida Keys?
...that there is no statutory body in India to investigate academic misconducts such as scientific plagiarism?
...that Acme Tackle Company's Little Cleo fishing lure was deemed by Field & Stream Magazine to be one of the 50 greatest lures of all time?
...that IKB Deutsche Industriebank was the first European bank to announce substantial losses from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis?
...that the 13th century Venetian troubadour Bertolome Zorzi composed songs while a prisoner of war for seven years in Genoa?
...that Marcela de Agoncillo, who made the first Philippine flag, was married to the first Filipino diplomat?
...that the Fayum mummy portraits are detailed paintings of individuals from 1st to 3rd century CE Egypt, representing a rare survival of ancient Graeco-Roman painting?
...the Provisional IRA attack on Derryard checkpoint was carried out by a flying column of volunteers, created in an attempt to avoid infiltration by informers?
...that the Bushy-tailed Woodrat is the original "pack rat" due to its strong affinity for shiny objects such as coins and spoons?
...that French conductor Louis Antoine Jullien received thirty-six given names at his baptism?
...that the harvesting of wine grapes can happen every month of the calendar year somewhere in the world?
...that Horace King was the architect of dozens of bridges in the Southern United States in the 1800s, despite being a slave?
...that the Swiss Federal Police in 2005 noted a slight increase of far-right extremist activism, rising by some 100 to 1,800 involved individuals (0.02% of the total population)?
...that Kirsten Sheridan, director of the new movie August Rush, got her start in film portraying the younger sister of Irish artist Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) in her father Jim Sheridan's 1989 film, My Left Foot?
...that Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
...that Matthew Vassar's Springside estate , Andrew Jackson Downing's only extant work, has been a proposed site for a cemetery, high school and condominiums?
...that the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis began in the home of Harriet G. Walker and her husband T. B. Walker?
...that Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard and his seven siblings all had first names beginning with the letter "M"?
...that China supported the Zimbabwe African National Union's fight against British rule in the country and recognized it right from independence day on April 18, 1980?
...that the history of Rioja wine has been greatly influenced by the Bordeaux wine industry with many Riojan bodegas benefiting from the influx of Bordeaux winemakers into the region following the phylloxera epidemic of the 1860s?
...that visitors to the House of the Binns in Scotland can see the table where General Tam Dayell is supposed to have played cards with Satan?
...that Elijah White's only two children drowned in separate instances in Oregon Country during 1838?
...that the principles of learning pioneered by Edward Thorndike nearly a century ago are still widely used in practical instruction?
...that rabbi Balfour Brickner was selected as one of the 50 sexiest New Yorkers at age 77?
...that Australian rock band Small Mercies first encountered their producer, Matt Wallace, when he left a message on their MySpace?
...that when the Texan schooner Austin led the brig Wharton and several Yucatecan ships to victory over a Mexican fleet in the Battle of Campeche in 1843, it was the only time that steam-driven warships were defeated by sailing ships?
...that although the first specimen of the smallmouth scad, a tropical fish endemic to northern Australia, was already taken in 1984 and deposited in the Queensland Museum, it was not officially named till 1987?
...that when English composer Sir Edward Elgar died in 1934, he left more than 130 pages of sketches for a third symphony?
...that in Sell v. United States, the Supreme Court decided a dentist was unconstitutionally jailed for eight years without trial for refusing to be medicated with psychiatric drugs?
...that Julian Howard Ashton, a prominent figure of media and art in Britain and Australia in the 19th and 20th century, won the Sydney sesquicentenary prize for landscape drawings for his art work?
...that the Nachtigall Battalion of the German army consisting of Ukrainian volunteers actively participated in the murder of around 4,000 Jews of Lviv in July 1941?
...that Buganda, the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda, maintained a fleet of large outrigger canoes, which allowed commandos to raid any shore on Lake Victoria?
...that the Great French Wine Blight, caused by the deadly phylloxera , destroyed over 40% of France's vineyards in the mid-19th century?
...that measuring the oxidizable carbon ratio is a way to determine the age of charcoal samples up to 35,000 years old?
...that the Pitsa panels from 530 BCE are the only surviving examples of ancient Greek panel painting, the most important art style of Ancient Greek art?
...that Billy the pygmy hippo was the pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, outlived him by 23 years, and sired 18 children all named Gumdrop?
...that in 1918, the National Federation of Federal Employees became the first labor union in the United States to win the legal right to represent federal employees?
...that Apaliunas, a Luwian deity of Wilusa (Troy) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of Apollo of Greek mythology?
...that the Apocalypse of Zerubbabel is a seventh-century Hebrew apocalypse in which the angel Metatron revealed to Zerubbabel that the Messiah would appear in 1058?
...that the Joseph Priestley House in Northumberland, Pennsylvania was the site of the first and only laboratory Priestley designed, built and outfitted himself, as well as several American Chemical Society celebrations?
...that Scouting in displaced persons camps was very active during and after World War II and that Scout groups provided postal delivery in Displaced Persons camps?
...that vaudeville performer Birdie Reeve was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist" in the 1920s, typing 200 words a minute using just two fingers of each hand?
...that Slovak collaborationist Ferdinand Durčanský was both dismissed by the Nazis as pro-Jewish and later condemned to death for complicity in the murder of Jews?
...that Simon Sainsbury, who had given funds to establish the Judge Business School in the old Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge, also gave paintings worth £100 million to the Tate and National Gallery?
...that the Fightmaster Cup is the first and only international golfing tournament for one-handers?
...that runemaster Ulf of Borresta was a successful Viking who returned from England thrice with a share of the Danegeld?
...that the irises of Saint Gaugericus Island became a symbol of Brussels, and the iris is now on the flag of the Brussels-Capital Region ?
...that Series III of the Sri Lanka Navy's Ultra Fast Attack Craft is the fastest of its class of patrol boats in the South Asian region, with a maximum speed of 53 knots?
...that in 2006, only 79% of the population in Peru had access to electricity, well below the 94.6% average for Latin America?
...that the Knightly Order of Vitéz, formed by Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary, for distinguished World War I veterans, was originally established by Imre Thököly, Prince of Transylvania, during an anti-Habsburg uprising in the late 17th century?
...that a small silicon disc containing goodwill messages from 73 countries was left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts?
...that for his part in the Bangladesh Liberation War, Dutch Australian commando officer William Ouderland is the only foreign recipient of Bir Pratik, Bangladesh's fourth highest gallantry award?
...that the Þingalið was a standing army of 3,000 elite Viking warriors, whose main purpose was to defend England against other Vikings?
...that the Berlin Committee was formed during World War I by Indian nationalists to foment a revolution against the British Raj?
...that "Professor" Jerry Thomas , who wrote the first book of cocktail recipes in the United States in 1862, at one time earned more than the Vice President of the United States?
...that the Catholic Church denied the German-Nicaraguan Enrique Gottel burial in a Managua cemetery because he was a Freemason?
...that Excello Records did not release south Louisiana black Creole musician King Karl's 1958 rock and roll ballad "This Should Go On Forever" until it had already become a national hit for Karl's hometown friend, Cajun swamp pop musician Rod Bernard?
...that NHS Together, a group of unions which support Britain's National Health Service, are supported by celebrities such as football (soccer) player Geoff Hurst, adventurer Ranulph Fiennes, actress Tamsin Greig and comedian Arthur Smith?
...that the highly toxic all-white toadstool Amanita virosa, one of several species known as the destroying angel, can be confused with the common mushroom when young?
...that despite losing almost one third of their men in the Battle of Osuchy , Polish resistance in the Zamość region successfully engaged Germans during the nationwide Operation Tempest only a month later?
...that milestone home runs by Barry Bonds have caused crowd mêlées, necessitating police escorts, and that special baseballs were issued to avoid counterfeiting?
...that the Texan schooner Zavala was the first steamship-of-war in North America?
...that the Gothic king Radagaisus abandoned his forces and tried escaping after a counterattack by the Roman army in 406?
...that Rev William Cotton, vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire, introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s?
...that Singapore’s Sungei Road, formerly a place designated for affluent Europeans and Asians, is now the largest and oldest flea market better known as the Thieves' Market?
...that at 24, Wilfred Arthur was the youngest Group Captain in the history of the Royal Australian Air Force?
...that the Lesser Antillean Iguana uses a nasal salt gland to rid its body of excess potassium from its herbivorous diet?
...that the slang term brass razoo is speculated to have originated from Egyptian or Indian currency?
...that the fight scene between Peter Griffin and a giant chicken on Family Guy episode "Blind Ambition" was originally created for the episode "The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire"?
...that conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon, who broadcasts statewide from Monroe, is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana?
...that the Raichur Thermal Power Station is the first thermal power plant to be set up in the Indian state of Karnataka and accounts for about 40% of the total power generated in the state?
...that tradition states Severus of Barcelona was given the position of Bishop of Barcelona because a pigeon landed on his head?
...that Siniloan River in the Philippines is known by tourists for its five waterfalls and clear and easily accessible headwaters?
...that the Valle d'Aosta DOC in the Alps of northwestern Italy is home to the highest elevated vineyards in all of Europe?
...that the monastery of Nea Moni on the island of Chios, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains some of the finest surviving mosaics from the Macedonian Renaissance?
...that the astronomical observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is named after physicist Martin A. Pomerantz?
...that a T-54 tank of the Polish Army killed seven children watching on the sidewalk during a military parade in Szczecin in 1962?
...that Shaukat Usmani was a candidate for the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1929 UK general election while imprisoned in India?
...that Node Magazine, a hypertext version of William Gibson's Spook Country, is a fictional magazine named after a fictional magazine in the novel?
...that Abdulameer Yousef Habeeb was jailed for his failure to submit to a U.S. Special Registration program from which he was supposed to be exempt?
...that the First International Syndicalist Congress in 1913 was compared to "Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark" because the world's largest syndicalist organization was absent?
...that Sir John Port, patron of Oxford University, was involved in the trials of two saints and a Queen?
...that though it started as a block party in 1975, Capital Pride in Washington, D.C., is now the fourth-largest gay pride parade and festival in the United States?
...that Shoyna, on a peninsula of Russia's Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is more than half buried by sand dunes caused by permafrost and trawling?
...that the foundation of the largest dam in Iraq is subject to so much erosion that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned about the risk of a collapse that would kill up to 500,000 people?
...that BBC cameraman Charles de Jaeger got the idea for the Panorama April Fools report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest from a phrase used by one of his school teachers in Vienna?
...that fossil Thelodont fish surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?
...that the Treaty of Reichenbach signaled both Prussia's first retreat from the policies of Frederick the Great, as well as the beginning of its decline?
...that an explanation for the derivation of Aughanduff, a townland in Armagh, is that it means ford of the ox or Áth an Daimh in Irish?
...that Song Hye-rang is a North Korean defector who looked after Kim Jong-nam, the child of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons?
...that the Australian lamington cake is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the then-Governor of Queensland?
...that during the Lithuanian press ban from 1864 to 1904, it was illegal in Lithuania to print, import, distribute, or possess any publications that were written in the Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet?
...that Chef Morou Ouattara opened his own restaurant after he lost his job as Signatures Restaurant's executive chef in the fallout of the Jack Abramoff scandals?
...that RAOC officer George Styles was awarded the George Cross in 1972 for defusing booby-trapped bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland, including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast within a matter of days?
...that Joshua Jebb designed equipment for siege warfare and famous prisons like Pentonville , Mountjoy and Broadmoor?
...that the programmable metallization cell is one of many contenders aiming to become a Flash RAM replacement?
...that in the year 2004, both the Tamil and Telugu language versions of the Kannada novel Parva won the Sahitya Akademi of India's translation award?
...that a church was built in memory of Parkin Jeffcock who led a rescue during the Oaks colliery explosions which killed over 350?
...that the paddle-wheel cyclogyro aircraft design refuses to die after almost a century of failed attempts to build one?
...that Powderfinger's "Living Type" was about Charles Manson's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts?
...that Luzerne County Commissioner, former professional athlete and University of Michigan Wolverine offensive lineman, Greg Skrepenak, was inducted into the Pennsylvania State Sports Hall of Fame?
...that Edward Abbott was the first judge to sit in a permanent civil court in the Australian State of Tasmania?
...that the 74181 chip greatly simplified the development and manufacture of computers during the late 1960s and 1970s?
...that Bartolomé Calvo became President of the Granadine Confederation after his predecessor's term ended and no new president had been elected?
...that during the Italian War of 1542–1546, the population of Toulon, France was expelled to make room for an Ottoman naval base?
...that Olegarius, Archbishop of Tarragona, became a canon priest when he was only ten years old?
...that John Phillips was one of the first judges appointed to the Victorian Court of Appeal and that his nickname was "Equity Jack"?
...that an aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter?
...that the exploits of the 6th century Roman general John Troglita are the subject of one of the last epic poems of Antiquity, the Iohannis by Flavius Cresconius Corippus?
...that Gladstone's Land is a restored six-storey-high tenement building, built in 1550, and situated on Edinburgh's Royal Mile?
...that Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and champion of emancipation and women's suffrage, was also a founder of the Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston?
...that Michael Jordan's Restaurant in Chicago received as many as 7,000 telephone calls per day during its first few months of operation?
...that founder Beulah Burke organized and was the first regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's Midwestern region?
...that John Fowler won the 1858 prize of the Royal Agricultural Society for mechanical cultivation using winches and a steam engine?
...that Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud near the Galactic Center where half of all known interstellar molecules were first discovered?
...that there are seven dialectal groups of the Polish language, each primarily associated with a certain geographical region?
...that Stanislavski and Craig's symbolist production of Hamlet in 1911 put the Moscow Art Theatre on the cultural map of Europe?
...that the annual Global Peace and Unity conference held at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London is the largest Muslim event in Europe?
...that Teimuraz I, a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was also an accomplished poet whose literary works includes original Georgian poems as well as translations and adaptations from Persian literature?
...that only after five years since its founding in 1991, Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States?
...that Alex Niño quit medical school at the University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a comic book artist?
...that A. Roswell Thompson, a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan, ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?
...that Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada were persecuted in the early to mid-20th century, and that their religion was banned during World War II under the War Measures Act as a result of their refusal to serve in the military?
...that Buryat Mongolian Buddhist Agvan Dorzhiev was a tutor and debating partner of the teenage Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama?
...that Admiral Robert Holmes of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?
...that Peter Birkhäuser was so moved by a moth trapped by a window that he painted its picture, and later analysed his thoughts and corresponded with Carl Jung?
...that in 1921, future four-star admiral Louis M. Nulton tried to save the battlecruiser USS Constitution from being scrapped by illegally transferring funds from the construction and repair of other warships?
...that the 1994 Guinness television advertisement Anticipation used jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible dance?
...that the Comoedienhaus theater, built in 1782, the first theater of performing arts in Frankfurt, Germany, played host to concerts by Mozart, Schiller and Goethe, among others?
...that in numerical analysis, the error of an approximation of a function u {\displaystyle \textstyle u} by a polynomial of order at most m − 1 {\displaystyle \textstyle m-1} in terms of derivatives of u {\displaystyle \textstyle u} of order m {\displaystyle \textstyle m} is bound by the Bramble-Hilbert lemma?
...that the United Church of Christ in Blooming Grove, New York was a Presbyterian congregation until its pastor was tried for heresy?
...that popularity of German Minority, a party of the German minority in Poland, has been steadily declining since its establishment?
...that the Lockheed NF-104A , equipped with a reaction control system as well as a rocket engine to supplement a jet engine, was a low-cost training vehicle for American astronauts in the 1960s?
...that Bhadda Kundalakesa attained arahantship faster than any other Buddhist nun?
...that bugged conversations with surgeon-crime boss Giuseppe Guttadauro revealed how the Mafia funded the 2001 election campaign of Sicilian President Salvatore Cuffaro?
...that the opening session of the Estonian Constituent Assembly on April 23 1919 is considered the birth of the Estonian Parliament?
...that according to a Dakota Indian legend, the Great Spirit divided Barn Bluff between two rival villages of Minnesota, with the remaining portion moving to Winona and became Sugar Loaf?
...that in the United Kingdom, speed limits imposed by variable-message signs are advisories only, and there are no legal sanctions for drivers who exceed them?