derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Larry Blakeney, the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I-AA and then Division I-A?
...that Britain's first girls' reform school was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge ?
...that the main tennis court at the Stade de Roland Garros, the home of the French Open in Paris, was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier, a former Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
...that Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer, a British Conservative Member of Parliament, accused a Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop Spitfire construction?
...that Australian cricketer Karen Rolton has scored the most runs for the Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket?
...that the Romanian Communist ideologue Iosif Chişinevschi distanced himself from his Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?
...that Italian-Australian hermit Valerio Ricetti shifted hundreds of tons of rock over 23 years to create his own utopia at Hermit's Cave near Griffith, New South Wales?
...that Madame Montour, of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as an interpreter for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee's honeycomb?
...that Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
...that eight of Australia's top fighter pilots attempted to resign their commissions in the final months of World War II, in the so-called Morotai Mutiny?
...that Gavroche , a character from the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, lives inside an unfinished statue of an elephant in Paris?
...that most of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have not been divided into cadastral units?
...that Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York City when he co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950?
...that the Erdene Zuu monastery, one of the oldest monasteries in Mongolia, was built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of Genghis Khan's capital, Karakorum?
...that the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow?
...that Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill?
...that the Gate Church of the Trinity , originally constructed as an ascetic Kievan Rus' style church, is now lavishly decorated with Ukrainian Baroque style ornaments?
...that two Beagle B.206 aircraft were built for evaluation by the UK Ministry of Aviation, resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the Royal Air Force?
...that in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry?
...that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
...that Australian soprano Gladys Moncrieff performed her famous role as Teresa in the musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains about 2800 times?
...that the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917?
...that the enzyme neprilysin degrades amyloid beta, a peptide whose abnormal aggregation is implicated as a cause of Alzheimer's disease?
...that British politician George Oliver once lost his seat at Ilkeston by two votes in the closest result in any British Parliamentary election, but later won by 30,398 in the fourth largest majority in 1951?
...that 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton?
...that the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, who became a victim of the Stalin purges, were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor?
...that the London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture?
...that Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the Berlin State Opera in 1917?
...that the Achelous-class repair ship USS Atlas was used to repair damaged landing craft after D-Day in 1944?
...that a special kind of soil from Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making Bidriware, a metal handicraft of Karnataka, India?
...that United States Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by Representative Preston Brooks in the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol?
...that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
...that the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989?
...that orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall, is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain?
...that Company style paintings were made by Indian artists for patrons from the British East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
...that St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest churches and a prime example of the 'Polish Cathedral' style?
...that nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
...that Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture?
...that ten case forms can be traced in the Lithuanian language, seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
...that Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr, a fascist organization in Switzerland, because he advocated an annexation by Italy?
...that Japanese painter Takeuchi Seihō was one of the first to receive Japan's Order of Culture when it was established in 1937?
...that Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa?
...that the first Director of Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department, Glenn Knight, was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption?
...that a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI, but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki?
...that the term "a feather in your cap" comes from the traditional rights bestowed upon warriors or hunters who have killed their enemy or prey?
...that Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War, despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
...that Chitrakala Parishat, an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore, was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
...that Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?
...that none of the more than 1000 windows in the Waldspirale residential complex in Darmstadt, Germany are identical?
...that the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture in the present-day Netherlands lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
...that MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
...that the Arab Socialist Action Party, the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
...that William Firmatus, a Norman hermit, is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell?
...that the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States?
...that Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence?
...that the Common Skullcap, a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia, is traditionally used as a mild sedative?
...that the Potawatomi, a tribe of Native Americans, were evicted from land near Indiana’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
...that the Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate Lutheran missionary agencies?
...that the Ibirapuera Auditorium in São Paulo, Brazil, features a reversible stage that can play concerts to audiences inside and out?
...that 18% of all deaths occurring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures?
...that Gaetano Donizetti's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
...that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?
...that the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as "operetta fascism"?
...that according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity"?
...that Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
...that the pedestal of the The Bronze Horseman is believed to be the largest stone ever moved by humans?
...that the port of Kuala Belait, one of the two ports in Brunei, is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon?
...that Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill, from which he then fled?
...that Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
...that participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
...that Jim Hutchinson, who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
...that Edward R. Bradley was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the early 20th century?
...that the attack transport USS Bayfield served as headquarters for planning the D-Day landings on "Utah Beach" in 1944?
...that American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children?
...that the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish research institute on modern Polish history, has been in a center of recent Polish politics?
...that the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up until that time?
...that when Reprise Records signed 17-year-old Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?
...that the Oxtotitlan grottoes feature some of the few existing examples of Olmec culture paintings ?
...that ceramics expert Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of glazes?
...that the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
...that gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios?
...that nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?
...that the Japanese diplomat Tatsuo Kawai was sacked as an official spokesman at the Foreign Ministry after leading a strike there in 1940?
...that the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent, the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist, has been called the first adult comic?
...that Kveldulf Bjalfasson, a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandfather of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson, was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf?
...that Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US Shredded Wheat operations to General Foods, and the international Shredded Wheat operations to General Mills?
...that between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman, Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London's Carnaby Street?
...that a cyclic cellular automaton is a system of simple mathematical rules that can generate complex patterns mixing random chaos, blocks of color, and spirals ?
...that reification is a logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a living being are attributed to an abstract concept?
...that Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers?
...that the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground?
...that the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them?
...that Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai was encouraged by his mentor, Buddhist nun and poet Otagaki Rengetsu, to synthesize Buddhist and Shinto elements in his works?
...that former Ghana MP Eric Amoateng was arrested in the United States and has pled guilty to drug trafficking-related charges?
...that the town of Channapatna in India is known as the "toy-town of Karnataka" due to the popularity of the wooden toys manufactured there?
...that the eight surviving medieval Bulgarian royal charters are among the few available secular documents from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire?
...that the performance of "Let Me Try" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 featured performers banging on what appeared to be drums of industrial waste?
...that during the Toronto Raptors 2006-07 season , the National Basketball Association team won their first division title in franchise history?
...that Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years?
...that Marbrianus de Orto was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass?
...that Tejashwini Sreeramesh, an Indian Member of Parliament from the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka, was previously an anchor of a talk show on Udaya TV?
...that the International One Design for yachts was developed so that races would be decided by the crew's skills?
...that microfinance organization FINCA International is known as the "World Bank for the poor"?
...that Alex Stevenson is the only footballer to play for both the Republic of Ireland and Rangers F.C.?
...that the non-fiction book Est Playing the Game was almost blocked from publication because it described techniques used in Erhard Seminars Training?
...that one of the liturgies of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, a part of Western Rite Orthodoxy, is a modified form of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer?
...that John Bower was the first non-European to ever win in any events at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1968?
...that Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India?
...that the 1934 film Sati Sulochana was the first ever talkie produced in the Kannada language?
...that Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France?
...that Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in California was initially built and run in the 1970s by the Newhall Land and Farming Company?
...that despite a requirement for scientists to share data, over a quarter of geneticists could not access data required to validate research?
...that Andrew N. Meltzoff's research revealed that infants of only a few weeks of age can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures?
...that Alexandru Ghika, the founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis, was the great-great-grandson of Grigore IV Ghica, Prince of Wallachia?
...that the villagers of Kotor referred to Dominican visionary and anchoress Osanna of Cattaro as "the trumpet of the Holy Spirit" and the "teacher of mysticism"?
...that it is said that the name for Gilbertstone in Birmingham derives from a man named Gilbert lifting an erratic to extend his land?
...that the Ruben M. Benjamin House was built by John Long Routt, the first governor of Colorado?
...that Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution?
...that the Lieutenant Governor's Court was the first real civil court in Tasmania and that a judge-advocate presided in the court rather than the lieutenant governor?
...that Terry Major-Ball, elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, wrote an "exquisitely funny" autobiography detailing his mishaps running the family's garden ornament business in the 1950s?
...that the Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation?
...that the father of Nguyen Van Cu, the Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot who led the 1962 Presidential Palace bombing, was a dissident jailed by Ngo Dinh Diem?
...that the David Bowie song "Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)" was inspired by Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies, which was also the basis for the film Bright Young Things?
...that Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club was the site of Tiger Woods’ record third consecutive amateur championship?
...that the land holdings of Henry Newhall formed the basis of what is now Santa Clarita, California?
...that according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt?
...that the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?
...that there are two radio stations in Brunei that broadcast partially in Gurkhali for the Nepalese speakers of the First Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Brunei?
...that Jiang Rong was inspired to write his 2004 novel Wolf Totem during China's Cultural Revolution after a failed attempt to domesticate a wolf?
...that the 1983 film Circle of Power won a Dramatic Films award at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival?
...that County Route 708 in Camden County, New Jersey is only one of four routes in that county that has multiple routes of the same number?
...that the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Paraná, Brazil was reinaugurated to honor its famous architect Oscar Niemeyer, who completed his design for the museum's annex at the age of 95?
...that Donald Stephens, recently deceased mayor of Rosemont, Illinois for 51 years, is believed to have been the longest-serving mayor in the United States?
...that French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France, that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive?
...that the Lykaia in Arcadia was a primitive rite of passage centered upon a threat of cannibalism and the possibility of a werewolf transformation?
...that James T. Brand of the Oregon Supreme Court was the presiding judge for most of the Judges' Trial, in which 10 German lawyers and judges were convicted of war crimes after World War II?
...that even though Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, it reached an even wider audience in its theatrical adaptations ?
...that in negative base systems, positive and negative numbers can be represented without the use of a minus sign?
...that Gurdwara Sahib Klang, a Sikh Gurdwara in Malaysia, was constructed with donations collected by Sikh Sangats all over Malaysia, including a large sum from the Prime Minister's Department?
...that in 2000, Willamette Industries, Inc. was fined a then-record $11.2 million by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for violations of the Clean Air Act?
...that Ladipo Solanke, long the Secretary-General of the West African Students' Union, was the first person to broadcast on the radio in the Yoruba language?
...that the Portland Power’s Natalie Williams was the leading scorer in the ABL during the 1997 to 1998 season?
...that the LWD Szpak was the first Polish-designed post-World War II airplane?
...that the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II?
...that a British Gurkha Battalion has been maintained in Brunei at the request of the Sultan of Brunei since the 1962 Brunei Revolt?
...that Kerry Lynch is the only nordic combined skier to ever be disqualified for doping and stripped of his medal at the Winter Olympics or Nordic skiing World Championships?
...that Charles Menzies established Newcastle, New South Wales as a settlement, when he was only 21 years of age?
...that Jacqui Oatley is the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day?
...that the students of Jagiellonian University tore the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I to pieces at the Collegium Novum while rallying for independence from the Austrian Empire?
...that the Avinguda Diagonal, a street in Barcelona, Spain, is so named because it cuts the central district Eixample in two diagonally?
...that Dan Jones heard founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Joseph Smith, Jr.'s "final prophecy" the day before Smith was killed?
...that the Vietminh named the grenades they made and used against the French after Phan Dinh Phung, who led a rebel army in the initial colonisation of Vietnam?
...that Australian Test cricketer Ray Lindwall played in two rugby league grand finals for the St. George Dragons?
...that Annette Akroyd, an orientalist, is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India?
...that a German-American was aboard the German submarine, U-94, when she was sunk by United States Navy and Canadian Navy forces?
...that the oligopoly formed in Minneapolis by Pillsbury, Northwestern Consolidated and General Mills before the Great Depression was the world's largest flour miller?
...that the Royal Brunei Navy formed as the Boat Section of the Brunei Malay Regiment?
...that Eduard Bloch was a Jewish doctor whose life was saved out of "everlasting gratitude" by Adolf Hitler?
...that on May 3, 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India, killing eight?
...that the far right political writer Armin Mohler was refused entry to the SS and forced to return to his native Switzerland, where he was arrested for desertion from the Swiss Army?
...that Lyndon Johnson declined to respond to the Vietcong's Christmas Eve 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing, fearing that fighting during the holiday season would damage morale?
...that Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?
...that in the Big Runaway during the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rachel Silverthorn rode to warn settlers on Muncy Creek of impending attack when no man would?
...that tourism is Nicaragua's second largest industry, having grown 394% in the past 12 years?
...that Royal Governor of Chile José de Garro planned to defeat the Mapuches by taking their chiefs hostage in a ruse, but the plan was rejected by King Charles II of Spain as too deceitful?
...that in 1961 the Portland Buckaroos hockey team beat the Seattle Totems in the Western Hockey League championship to win the Lester Patrick Cup in its first season of existence?
...that the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is cited in academic journals as an extreme example of encounter groups?