derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Battle of Damascus was the final action of the Allied advance on Damascus in Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II?
...that Joseph Jukes, an English-born colonial Australian geologist, sketched the very first complete map of Australia?
...that authorship of a research article in fields such as genome sequencing and particle physics is sometimes claimed by over 100 scientists?
...that Texas Tech track and field runner Sally Kipyego is the first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross country individual championship?
...that Saint Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed his life at Auschwitz to save the life of Polish Army sergeant Franciszek Gajowniczek?
...that the last territorial expansion of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, took place in 1972, creating Greater Bratislava with the 17 current boroughs?
...that the first shot fired by British Empire forces in World War I was targeted at the German ship Pfalz which was departing Melbourne, Australia as Britain declared war on Germany?
...that the Moldavian intellectual Gheorghe Asachi opposed his country's union with Wallachia and endorsed the pro-separatist electoral fraud of June 1857?
...that Operation Salaam was a World War II covert operation led by the aristocratic explorer László Almásy to insert two German spies into British-held Cairo?
...that Hindus in the ancient Tamil country worshipped different deities depending on the landscape of the region they lived in?
...that Yavapai is an overarching term for four distinct tribes of Native Americans from central Arizona?
...that the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, prematurely announced the death of Bishop Donald Trautman?
...that In Nomine Domini, promulgated by Pope Nicholas II in 1059, established cardinal-bishops as the sole electors of the pope?
...that the Pub Design Awards are annually given to exceptional pubs in the UK that have undergone construction work?
...that the WWF in 1986 introduced a stable of masked wrestlers to keep the injured wrestler Andre the Giant on television, but off the ring?
...that during the Schmalkaldic War, the Imperial Duke Eric II fled from the Battle of Drakenburg by swimming across the Weser River?
...that in 1970, University of Oregon head baseball coach Don Kirsch fell to his death out of a second-story window at Stanford University Medical Center?
...that the Swan by-election, 1918 not only resulted in the election of the youngest person ever to be elected to the Parliament of Australia, but directly prompted the introduction of instant-runoff voting in Australia?
...that scandal erupted after the Department of Justice initiated prosecution of Jackie Presser only to abruptly end it once the press revealed Presser had been an informant for the FBI for over 10 years?
...that Hugh Johns commentated for England's only FIFA World Cup victory during his first year as a commentator?
...that the Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) was one of the most popular illustrated books of the Middle Ages?
...that the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project in Omaha, Nebraska, along with restrictive covenants and redlining, were used to segregate African Americans in the Near North Side neighborhood?
...that the poet Dinakara Desai is known as Chutuka Brahma (creator of chutukas) because he invented a four-line limerick form of Kannada poetry known as chutuka?
...that Francis Price Blackwood, a colonial Australian naval officer and sea surveyor, charted locations like Whitsunday Island and the Great Barrier Reef?
...that Irish cricketer and rugby union player Dickie Lloyd was regarded as one of the most famous pupils of Portora Royal School, alongside Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde?
...that George Rogers Clark was called the "Conqueror of the Northwest" because of his victorious Illinois campaign in the American Revolutionary War?
...that HNoMS Heimdal became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for illegal fishing when she seized the British trawler Lord Roberts in 1911?
...that the stray dogs Bummer and Lazarus were so popular with the people of San Francisco in the 1860s that they were given special exemption from the leash laws?
...that Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
...that the bark of Kleinhovia hospita is used to treat hair lice in Indonesia?
...that Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge was the twenty-fifth Governor of Western Australia and the first officer of the Royal Navy to rise from boy seaman to captain of the Queen's yacht HMY Britannia?
...that the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon, Ralph Wilcox, killed himself with a Deringer pistol while at work at the federal court?
...that Sycorax, an unseen character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, is viewed by some as a symbol of the silenced African woman?
...that Huynh Phu So, the founder of the Hoa Hao religious sect, converted his doctor after being put in a mental asylum by the French colonial forces?
...that the bestselling children's book The History of the Fairchild Family by Mary Martha Sherwood inspired the character of Pip in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations?
...that Moodna Creek , a tributary of the Hudson, was originally known as "Murderers' Creek" after a family was massacred on its banks?
...that Ariel, a sprite in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, may be based on the biblical Ariel in Isaiah?
...that in 1968 Eldridge Dickey was the first African-American quarterback to be drafted to a professional American football league in the first round?
...that Friz Freleng's 1937 cartoon Clean Pastures narrowly evaded Hollywood Production Code censors, before being removed from distribution by United Artists in 1968?
...that the Dawesville Channel, a 2.5 kilometre long, 200 metre wide man-made channel near Mandurah, Western Australia, was built specifically to counter algal blooms?
...that Bill Barber played tuba on a number of Miles Davis albums including Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain?
...that the Yamasee War of 1715-17 nearly annihilated the colony of South Carolina and paved the way for the founding of Georgia?
...that the Cheat Mountain salamander of West Virginia is the only vertebrate known to be unique to that state?
...that when John Torrington's corpse was exhumed 138 years after his death, it was almost perfectly preserved?
...that Daniel Hughes was a mulatto raftsman who led fugitive slaves to freedom by transporting them in his barge and providing shelter at his Loyalsock Township, Pennsylvania home?
...that the Queensland Court of Disputed Returns once heard an election dispute from a person who claimed that the Queensland Government was unconstitutional but who still wished to be elected to it?
...that Liz Claiborne Inc. was the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500?
...that the Kannada film Shanti is one of just a few narrative films with only a single actor?
...that the Trygg class was a class of three torpedo boats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy and that they were all sunk during World War II, two after having been captured by the German Kriegsmarine?
...that Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the fourth journalist to be killed on April 29, during the last three years of the Sri Lankan civil war?
...that Dumfries House, designed by John and Robert Adam in the 1750s, was recently bought by a consortium of charities organised by Prince Charles?
...that the Australian legal case of D'Emden v Pedder followed United States legal precedent in holding that state and federal governments were immune from each other's laws?
...that the 1870s Harrison P. Young House in Oak Park, Illinois was remodeled by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1895?
...that women in the Early Pandyan Society dressed their hair differently according to their marital status?
...that in New South Wales, a Sentencing Council which is the first of its type in Australia, conducts research to improve the consistency of sentencing of criminals?
...that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved?
...that the Eastern Spinebill of Australian forests has adapted to urban gardens and can feed from Fuchsias as well as native banksias and grevilleas?
...that Texas has a long history of producing wine with grape vines planted by Franciscan missionaries over 100 years before vineyards were planted in California?
...that Marine corporal Charles W. Lindberg was part of the first flag raising on Iwo Jima hours before the famous photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal?
...that Nkiru Books, the oldest African American bookstore in Brooklyn, was saved from being closed down by rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli in 2000?
...that St. Mary's Collegiate Church is the longest church in Scotland at 62.8 m?
...that Williamsport, Pennsylvania was once known as the "Lumber Capital of the World" and is the birthplace of Little League Baseball?
...that the Adivasi Cobra Force was formed after ethnic conflict between Santal and Bodo erupted in 1996?
...that originally a mudflat, Lido Isle in Newport Beach was one of the first master planned communities in California?
...that Ulley reservoir was sold to Rotherham council for £1 in 1980, when it was no longer needed to supply drinking water?
...that the steam rail motors, introduced by the Great Western Railway in 1903 to stimulate traffic, were so successful that they had to be replaced by conventional trains?
...that Australian male singing duo Bobby & Laurie had a national number-one hit with Hitchhiker for five weeks in 1966?
...that the organizers of the 1937 Soviet Census were imprisoned because the counted population numbers were far lower than expected by Joseph Stalin?
...that Fort Pasir Panjang, part of the 11 coastal fortifications built to repel the Japanese invasion, saw little action during the Battle of Singapore?
...that Juanelo Turriano was forced to build a second version of his Artificio de Juanelo as the city of Toledo refused to pay for the first one?
...that legend has it that Alexander Campbell slapped a muddy handprint on a prison cell wall in 1877 which has never been removed, despite extensive efforts?
...that the British architect William Benson was relieved from his position as Surveyor General of the Royal Works after falsely insisting that the House of Lords Chamber was in imminent danger of collapse?
...that the airport in the Nigerian city of Calabar is named after Margaret Ekpo, the 1950s civil rights activist?
...that the submarine HMS Storm was the first to be commanded by a British Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer?
...that the discovery of Icadyptes salasi, a prehistoric five-foot-tall penguin in Peru, has caused scientists to reconsider the timeline of penguin evolution?
...that outlaws John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, and Baby Face Nelson were tried in the historic Landmark Center in St. Paul?
...that money donated in 1905 by the fans at Celtic Park football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland was given to the mother of international Scottish footballer Barney Battles, Jr. while Battles was still in the womb?
...that the newly-merged Franco-Dutch firm Unibail-Rodamco is the largest public real estate company in Europe?
...that a portion of the Palatine Library returned to Heidelberg in 1816, almost two centuries after it was looted from city by the Catholic League?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Francis J. Woolley House was influenced by his first teacher, Joseph Silsbee, and the Arts and Crafts movement?
...that although the first meeting of the Indian Independence League took place in Tokyo in March 1942, it was not formally proclaimed until June of that year in Bangkok?
...that the professional wrestling promotion International Championship Wrestling was owned and operated by Angelo Poffo, father of wrestling legend Randy Savage, and starred Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo?
...that abbot Gerald of Sauve-Majeure began the practice of celebrating mass and the Office of the Dead for 30 days for the recently deceased?
...that opinion polls in Armenia suggest that 64% of its population favors eventual Armenian membership in the European Union?
...that sexual relations between a man and his daughter-in-law were fairly common in pre-revolutionary rural Russia?
...that French artist Antoine Berjon's variations on flower painting included a still life with a shark's head ?
...that Singapore's Ee Hoe Hean Club, a century-old millionaires' club for Chinese businessmen, became a headquarters of an anti-Japanese movement in Southeast Asia from 1937-1942?
...that a community centre will be incorporated in Sengkang New Town's new sports complex?
...that Charles K. Landis attracted residents to his new city of Vineland, New Jersey to clear land and grow grapes, which were purchased by Thomas Bramwell Welch, founder of Welch's, to make "unfermented wine"?
...that the Kentucky General Assembly responded to unpopular rulings by Justice William Owsley by dissolving the Court of Appeals on which he served?
...that the 1940s experimental aircraft Vought V-173 featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body with a pair of three-bladed propellers?
...that the Ladoga Canal was constructed at the behest of Peter the Great and was one of the first canals created in Russia?
...that Crystal Grottoes is the only show cave in the U.S. state of Maryland?
...that U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Prize winner Gary S. Becker and baseball player Joe Garagiola were all School Safety Patrol members?
...that Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly American war veteran, killed three tourists in Central Station in Montreal, Canada hoping to intimidate Pope John Paul II prior to his 1984 visit to Canada?
...that the Palazzo Malta in Rome, Italy was granted extraterritoriality by the Italian Government and is the property of the Sovereign Order of Malta?
...that Mormon abstinence from drinking caffeinated beverages goes back to a 1918 Improvement Era article by Frederick J. Pack?
...that Thalassina anomala, a mud lobster found in Indo-Pacific mangrove swamps, is used in Thailand in powdered form or steeped in alcohol as a remedy for asthma?
...that Thomas J. Ryan was the prosecutor at the court-martial of American naval officer Charles B. McVay III, who had been his friend for 25 years?
...that the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell?
...that Eastern school whiting caught along the coast of Queensland are frozen whole, shipped to Thailand for processing and then sold in Japan?
...that the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College were given powers of governance after the College charter was signed by George III of the United Kingdom in 1769?
...that the first labor investigations by a United States government body were prompted by petitions from the Lowell girls, textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the mid-nineteenth century?
...that Nikolay Kruchina, a top Soviet official, committed suicide by jumping out of his window after learning about the failure of the Soviet coup attempt in August 1991?
...that Noble Threewitt worked for 75 years training Thoroughbred racehorses before retiring on his 96th birthday?
...that the 1905 Great Seimas of Vilnius was the first national congress in Lithuania, which attempted to outline Lithuania’s autonomy within the Russian Empire?
...that according to the 2R hypothesis, the genomes of modern vertebrates are the result of two rounds of genome duplication hundreds of millions of years ago?
...that the banning of the Buddhist flag and the subsequent shootings of nine Buddhists who were protesting the ban on the birthday of Gautama Buddha led to civil unrest which toppled Ngo Dinh Diem's regime?
...that on the death of Governor George Madison, Kentucky lieutenant governor Gabriel Slaughter was refused the title of "governor" by a hostile state legislature and was referred to as "acting governor" for the duration of his three-year administration?
...that Edwin Sherbon Hills, a well-known Australian geologist, had at first chosen undergraduate courses with the idea of becoming a chemist and took geology as a suitable ancillary?
...that McGregor Lake, a man-made reservoir in Southern Alberta, receives most of its water from canals linked to the Bow River despite being in the Oldman River drainage basin?
...that the Markonahalli Dam across the River Shimsha in India had to be partly demolished in order to prevent excess water from flooding the villages?
...that Orator Hunt's presentation of the first petition in support of women's suffrage was received in Parliament with ribald laughter?
...that the Franco-Hova War resulted in the demise of the Merina monarchy of Madagascar?
...that popular Turkish fusion band Yansımalar has recorded an album with Erkan Oğur, the inventor of the first fretless classical guitar?
...that in 1995 The Virgin Islands Daily News, with a staff of only 18 full-time reporters and editors, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, beating the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Charlotte Observer?
...that Isaac Goodnow, a Free-Stater from New England, helped combine two settlements in Kansas Territory to form a new town named 'Boston', which was later re-named Manhattan?
...that a rock-cut basin may eventually form a circular holed stone, and passing through the hole was considered to have healing properties according to legend?
...that during the World War II amphibious offensive known as the Kerch-Eltigen Operation, the Red Army landed 75,000 men and over 10,000 tons of munitions and material near Kerch in eastern Crimea?
...that Squilla mantis is the only native stomatopod to be fished for on a commercial scale in the Mediterranean Sea?
...that Michelle Rocca, longtime girlfriend of singer Van Morrison, was the first woman to appear on one of Morrison's album covers since his then-wife Janet Minto in 1971?
...that Duncan Spears Casper, an early Mormon pioneer, was driven from his home twice due to anti Mormon sentiments?
...that Iftikhar ad-Daula, Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of 1099, surrendered Jerusalem to Raymond of Saint-Gilles in the Tower of David and was then escorted out of the city with his bodyguard?
...that the Black Dirt Region of Orange County, New York contains the largest concentration of muck soil in the United States outside of the Florida Everglades?
...that the architecture of the Singapore Power Building was influenced by Gerhad M. Kallmann's Boston City Hall and Le Corbusier's Sainte Marie de La Tourette?
...that Dick Merrill piloted a transatlantic flight known as the "Ping Pong Flight" because his client, singer Harry Richman, insisted on carrying 41,000 ping pong balls in case of a crash at sea?
...that despite declines in production in recent years, Victoria still produces almost 19.5% of Australia's crude oil?
...that actress, writer and producer Michelle Paradise created the television series Exes and Ohs without an agent?
...that Shakadvipi (Bhojaka) is the only division of brahmins whose origins are said to be outside India?
...that Franco Freda, one of the main Italian far right ideologues, has been put to trial for the Piazza Fontana bombing, which was originally believed to have been perpetrated by anarchists?
...that before Hannibal crossed the Rhône River with his Carthaginian forces to battle the Gauls, he sent a detachment under Hanno, son of Bomilcar to cross at a different point upriver for an ambush?
...that painter Thomas Luny created over 2,000 artistic works during the last 30 years of his life despite suffering from arthritis in both hands?
...that John Lamb was accused of diverting money from the New York impost to publish the Federal Farmer pamphlets?
...that Scott Milanovich was the first pick in the 2001 XFL Draft, the only draft the league ever held?
...that Carcross Desert, the "world's smallest desert", measuring just over one square mile, is in fact not a desert, but a large series of northern sand dunes?
...that Alex Leake was offered a £10 bribe by Manchester City player Billy Meredith to throw the final match of the 1904–1905 season?
...that the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America's first flag, the Stars & Bars?
...that Space Industries Incorporated was founded in the 1980s in Houston for the purpose of building the first private space station, to be called the Industrial Space Facility?
...that a week before Charles Dickens died, he willed his literary journal All the Year Round to his son Charles Dickens, Jr?
...that Tsar Alexander II allowed the construction of the Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1880, at a time when most Russian Jews were forced to live in the Pale of Settlement?
...that the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls accused the "Wicked Priest" of neglecting to circumcise the "foreskin of his heart"?
...that the Egyptian Pyramid of Sahure and surrounding complex contained an estimated 10,000 m2 of fine relief carving?
...that Admiral Harry D. Felt, a fervent anti-communist who planned for the use of tactical nuclear weapons during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis opposed American military intervention in Vietnam?
...that Jiffs was a derogatory propaganda term employed by military intelligence of British India to denote soldiers of the Indian Army in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II?
...that the Franco-Mongol alliance in the 13th century involved multiple embassies and military collaborations against the common Muslim enemy in the Holy Land?
...that the museum of the long-demolished Memel Castle, Lithuania is located in an underground chamber?
...that Baron Ijuin Gorō became Fleet Admiral and Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy without ever having actually commanded a ship?
...that Kentucky governor Charles Scott served as chief of intelligence for George Washington during his later campaigns in the American Revolutionary War?
...that Holbeach House served as the theatre for the final battle of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, in which the conspirators undid themselves after they accidentally detonated their gunpowder store?
...that Bargil Pixner's identification of the biblical location of Bethsaida was based on artifacts found in trenches used by Syria in the Six-Day War?
...that the piaohao and the qianzhuang were financial institutions in ancient China?
...that 12th-century troubadour Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun wrote a grammatical manual for Occitan poetry that influenced Dante Alighieri's De Vulgari Eloquentia, justifying the use of Italian vernacular?
...that Khotyn Fortress and Kiev Pechersk Lavra are among the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?
...that Miran, an ancient oasis town in the Taklamakan Desert in present day Xinjiang, was also a thriving centre of Buddhism on the Silk Road, with many monasteries and stupas?
...that the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky was used as a headquarters by Generals William "Bull" Nelson, Braxton Bragg, and Kirby Smith during the American Civil War?
...that one of the oldest captive alligators in Europe was named Čabulītis, which means sweet and tender creature in Latvian?
...the first and last verses to the song "Hellhound on My Trail" by Robert Johnson are considered to be some of the finest in twelve bar blues?
...that a controversy about whether the real name of the first President of the Nigerian Senate in the Fourth Republic was Evan or Evans Enwerem led to his removal from office?
...that a zibellino , the jewelled pelt of a marten or sable, is a women's fashion accessory popular in the later 15th and 16th centuries?
...that Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup was one of Kentucky's first two Congressmen and was an original trustee of Transylvania University?
...that during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore the Kempeitai East District Branch was the site of interrogation and torture of many civilians and that later the building housed the YMCA?