derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that on July 1, 1940, Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi, killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165 people according to Jewish sources?
...that 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?
...that a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child abuse" on the talk show The O'Reilly Factor?
...that the Palanga Amber Museum in Lithuania holds a collection of about 28,000 items of amber, including about 15,000 pieces that contain insects, spiders, and plants?
...that over 53,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II?
...that Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957, when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom?
...that the steel strike of 1959 led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history?
...that in the 2001 Grand National, only two horses managed to complete the whole course without stopping?
...that Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America?
...the Huguenot Hubert Le Sueur cast the giant equestrian sculpture of Charles I in Charing Cross, London in 1633?
...that Wheeling Creek in West Virginia flows into the Ohio River a short distance downstream of a different Wheeling Creek in Ohio, on the opposite bank?
...that Yoshiaki Yamashita, a pioneer of judo in the United States, was the first person to have been awarded 10-dan grading in Kodokan judo?
...that the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus, founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere?
...that Blackadder II, the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare?
...that the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol, while riding on the back of a motorcycle?
...that because of its system of ravines, Toronto has been described as "San Francisco turned upside down"?
...that the Russian architect Afanasy Grigoriev is best known for his refined Empire style mansions in Moscow ?
...that the Roman Catholic Church objected to the English translations in the Tyndale Bible, believing them to be purposeful mistranslations to promote anticlericalism and heretical views?
...that the Texas State University labor historian Gregg Andrews is also a folk musician who performs under the stage name "Doctor G"?
...that Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he leave for Australia, but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise?
...that Norwegian-born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States?
...that, thanks to a secret radio nicknamed the 'Old Lady' , POWs at Batu Lintang camp in Borneo knew about the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II before most of their guards?
...that Dimitrie Gerota, who is considered to be Romania's first radiologist, was forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result of radiodermatitis?
...that the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003 after 34 years of military service?
...that the Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of an Ulyanovsk railway bridge that led to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today?
...that a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
...that the Grotto at Goldney House , Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species?
...that the Balık sisters from Turkey claim to be the only identical twins who are both professional opera singers?
...that the 1935 film Joymati, produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese language film?
...that five states have declared independence during the territorial history of Mexico, and all but Texas returned to Mexico?
...that in Ovid's Metamorphoses, the love between Acis and Galatea ended when a jealous suitor, the Cyclops Polyphemus, killed Acis with a boulder?
...that the U.S. Navy repair ship USS Mindanao was severely damaged and almost a third of her crew killed or injured when the ammunition ship USS Mount Hood blew up nearby in Seeadler Harbor in 1944?
...that Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show as Elvis Presley?
...that Carla Thorneycroft married Conservative Party politician Peter Thorneycroft in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged?
...that Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of India's elusive history?
...that plants in the genus Gillenia are often planted as ornamentals and used as an herbal remedy?
...that the first railway locomotive in China was in service for only 15 months between 1876 and 1877 before being purchased and deliberately destroyed by the ruling Qing Dynasty?
...that the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania?
...that the eyespots of green algae and euglenids are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature?
...that Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia claimed to have a tumor to hide the fact she was pregnant with the illegitimate child of her lover?
...that Operation Queen was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the western front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944?
...that USS Luzon was an internal combustion engine repair ship, named after the Island of Luzon, the chief island in the northern Philippines?
...that according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
...that, in mythology, iron is often associated with blood, or used as a protective or lucky charm?
...that Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for contributions to the Democratic National Committee?
...that Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards?
...that United States Marine Sergeant Aubrey McDade was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Iraq in 2004?
...that the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?
...that Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the £1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down in 1621?
...that Sir Norman Hulbert claimed that That Was The Week That Was infringed Parliamentary privilege in 1963 when it named 13 MPs who had not spoken in the chamber of the House of Commons since they were elected in 1959?
...that the musical Foxy was a total flop in Dawson City in 1962, costing its producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway in 1964?
...that Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?
...that the pocket billiards game cribbage , named after the card game, allows 134,120,448,000 possible racking configurations?
...that more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments?
...that Chester Wilmot, the Australian War correspondent and military historian of the Second World War, was killed in an air crash in 1954?
...that Ashoka's Major Rock Edict was the first and most impressive of Ashoka's edicts, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location?
...that the Percival Petrel, a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage, was used as a British communications aircraft in World War II?
...that in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre , a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England?
...that Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?
...that TIME magazine's Gerald Loeb Award-winning article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick?
...that, after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn, raining fragments of the blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant days of slaughtering for veterinarians?
...that World Vision, an international charity organization, have developed various famine events that spread across the globe, notably the 30 Hour Famine?
...that the Altdeutsche Tracht , a Renaissance-influenced fashion, was popular in Germany during the last years of the Napoleonic wars as a sign of resistance against "French fashion foolishness"?
...that Hilda Hewlett was the first British female aviator to earn a pilot's licence?
...that Peter Knowles, a popular English football player, voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness?
...that an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and renounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor?
...that ABC-TV's Broadcast Standards and Practices department placed a gagging order on the song "Jihad" by American thrash band Slayer during its live U.S. network broadcast?
...that Meigs Field in Chicago, Illinois, sits on the site of Burnham Park , which was a serious contender to host the United Nations Headquarters?
...that Katsuhiko Nakajima, a Japanese professional wrestler, represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office, is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history?
...that the citadel that once stood on the mountain of Tâmpa in Transylvania was never captured by an enemy force?
...that the paintings of the Giant's Causeway by Irish artist Susanna Drury were so detailed that the authors of the French Encyclopédie used an engraving of one as a reference, and included it in a supplementary volume?
...that the endangered Syncaris pacifica uses variable translucency and color changing crypsis for underwater camouflage?
...that the charity song "The Magnificent" became a protest anthem of the Serbian anti-Milošević resistance?
...that following its industrialization, Bridgeport, Connecticut became a manufacturing center producing such goods as the famous Bridgeport milling machine, brass fittings, carriages, sewing machines, saddles, and ammunition?
...that tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?
...that the 1989 secret files scandal in Switzerland resulted from the revelation that police had been engaged in illegal surveillance?
...that the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force's Demonstration Squadron, selected Brigadier General Ricardo Aponte as their Spanish language narrator for the Latin America Tour of 1992?
...that during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906, a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?
...that the Phyllodon, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic found in present-day Portugal, may have been closely related to North American dinosaurs?
...that in 1990, it was revealed that a stay-behind army backed by NATO had been active in Switzerland throughout the Cold War, preparing for a possible Soviet invasion?
...that Fort Senneville, built in 1671 near Montreal, included the most fortified windmill in New France, along with a machicolation and other castle-like features?
...that the 1957 film La Anam was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film Association in 1996?
...that Russian philanthropist and financier Alexander von Stieglitz was the first governor of the State Bank of the Russian Empire?
...that the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh, has a length of 96 kilometres, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges?
...that copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy, about a Watergate co-conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S. National Archives?
...that bergamottin, a chemical found in grapefruit, is believed to be responsible for drug interactions known as the "grapefruit juice effect"?
...that aussieBum, an Australian swimwear manufacturer, was founded by Sean Ashby in 2001 when he couldn't find the "Aussie cozzie" style of swimwear he grew up with?
...that Piers Corbyn claims that he can predict the weather a year in advance by observing solar activity?
...that Otto Orseolo became Doge of Venice in 1006 at the age of 16, the youngest in history?
...that the Laigh Milton viaduct , built in 1812, is the oldest surviving railway viaduct in Scotland and one of the oldest in the world?
...that Shenxiu, one of the most influential Chan Buddhist masters of his day, is known as the “loser” in modern Zen circles?
...that the F-111 fighter, the B-1 bomber, the Space Shuttle, and the Boeing fleet of commercial airliners were all tested at the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel?
...that Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall"?
...that the island sub-species of the Tomtit are much larger than their mainland relatives?
...that when builders told Lou Henry Hoover, who designed her own house, that some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she responded, "Well, it's time someone did"?
...that the gravestone of Abraham von Franckenberg, a 17th century mystic, is covered with as yet undeciphered mystical symbols?
...that the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial , dedicated to the missing British dead killed in the first few months of World War I, was built on land donated in memory of the 19th century French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau?
...that Billy Walkabout is thought to have been the most highly decorated Native American in the Vietnam War?
...that during the 1690 Battle of Québec, a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed?
...that forensic scientist Paul Kirk, who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project?
...that a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese?
...that the Fenari Isa Mosque in Istanbul represents one of the first examples of edifices with a quincuncial plan in Byzantine architecture?
...that silent film star Norma Talmadge started a famous Hollywood tradition when she accidentally stepped into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater?
...that the Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, Géraud Réveilhac ordered artillery to shell his own troops in order to force them to attack?
...that until 1947 in Spain, Eurosia was the patron saint of demonic possession?
...that Julius Fromm invented the latex condom in 1914 and marketed his invention under the name Fromms Act until he was forced to sell his business under Nazi rule?
...that legendary Łysa Góra is the site of an ancient pagan temple, a ruined monastery that gave its name to the local mountain range and province and the tallest TV tower in Poland?
...that VolgaGES in Russia is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe as it produces 2541 MW?
...that the U.S. Navy's Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment, a combined whole-body dry suit and one-man life raft, allows submariners to escape from depths of up to 600 feet (180 meters)?
...that Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House?
...that the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944?
...that William the Conqueror's transport of over 2000 horses across the English Channel during the Norman invasion of England is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry ?
...that the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy?
...that Procter & Gamble discontinued its praised "demi-couture" Rochas fashion brand in 2006, 81 years after it was founded?
...that Fyodor Schechtel, the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow, Russia, was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
...that German Luftwaffe fighter ace Walther Dahl shot down 128 enemy aircraft in the Second World War, including a USAAF B-17 that he rammed in 1944?
...that the Billboard top 10 live DVD War at the Warfield by American thrash metal band Slayer features one of the last shows drummer Paul Bostaph played with the group?
...that the Karl Johanslussen is one of the locks and sluices between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea that give rise to the name of the Slussen area of central Stockholm?
...that Karaköy, part of ancient Galata, and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn, was the birthplace of André Chénier, a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution?
...that Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California, didn't want it to be a bungalow, but a "bungahigh"?
...that Steve Crowley, a Marine Security Guard, was posthumously promoted to the rank of Sergeant after he was killed in the 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad, Pakistan?
...that the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas, built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression, later became national and state parks, and in one case, Camp David?
...that Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non-German to win the German Formula Three Championship, by winning the title in the year 1974?
...that the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians?
...that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?
...that the 1983 rock and roll comedy film Get Crazy was a tribute to the famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an usher?
...that the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists?
...that at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Saint Charalampus was 113 years old?
...that despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Teresa Cheung was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her performance in Colour Blossoms?
...that Regal Mountain , an eroded stratovolcano in the Wrangell Mountains, is the third highest thirteener (a peak between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation) in Alaska?
...that German toymaker Richard Steiff's invention of a toy bear received highest honors at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair?
...that more is known about Neaira, a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece, than any other prostitute in classical antiquity?
...that taxi driver David Wilkie was killed during the UK miners' strike in 1984, when two striking coal miners dropped a 46 lb concrete block on his taxicab, which was carrying a working miner?
...that the Bienwald is a large forested area in the southern Pfalz region of Germany, near the towns of Kandel and Wörth am Rhein?
...that parti-coloured clothes, divided into different colours on the left and right when viewed from the front , became popular in late 14th century fashion, especially in England?
...that the Romanian Proclamation of Timişoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials?
...that the award-winning Chinese film Cell Phone, with its box office profit of over ¥50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003?
...that WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs?
...that the Halmidi inscription, an Indian inscription, found near the tiny village of Halmidi, in Karnataka, India, is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada language?
...that the icons and faces incised into Las Limas Monument 1 were used for a hypothetical reconstruction of the Olmec pantheon?
...that a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held off German forces invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae?
...that the case of Angela Carder, a cancer patient who was forced to undergo a caesarean section in 1987, established the rights of pregnant women to determine their own health care in the United States?
...that George Ormerod, an English antiquary and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816?
...the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska is -70 °F (-57 °C) at Rogers Pass, Montana?
...that Walter Arthur Berendsohn, who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote Die humanistische Front, the seminal book on German exile literature?
...that Chavundaraya, the builder of the Gomateshwara monolith at Shravanabelagola, was an army commander, minister and a famous writer of Kannada and Sanskrit literature?
...that Nikita Balieff, a vaudeville performer, writer, impresario, and director, named his theater "Chauve-Souris" (bat) after a bat flew up out of the basement door and landed on his hat?
...that Matild Manukyan, a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian origin, made her fortune as a brothel owner?
...that a 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate, held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman?
...that the Barbarigo was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943?
...that the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles?
...that Anthony Baldinucci, a Jesuit priest, often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions?
...that when the Dovre Railway was inaugurated in 1921, the train returning with the prominent guests crashed in the Nidareid train disaster, killing six people?
...that "E depois do adeus" was one of two songs played on Portuguese radio to signal the beginning of the Carnation Revolution in 1974?
...that during a 90-minute period on January 30, 1996, three commuters fell into the gap at the Long Island Rail Road station at Syosset due to icy platform conditions?
...that the historical medical campus Maiden's Field in Moscow started as a court garden for medicinal herbs?
...that Harry Kent worked both as a manufacturer of munitions and as a pub landlord whilst managing Watford F.C.?
...that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at conserving the habitat of the mission blue butterfly?
...that during his Eastern journey Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia visited Egypt, India, China and Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?
...that Scieno Sitter, a content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology, was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge?