derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Nihonga watercolor painting Dance of Flames by Japanese artist Hayami Gyoshū was the first art work of Showa period Japan to be accorded the status of "Important Cultural Property" by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs?
...that John F. Davis, who served for ten years as Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, had previously worked as a defense lawyer for perjury defendant Alger Hiss?
...that Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan, which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
...that former journalist Walter Hayes developed the business case for the development of the Ford Cosworth DFV, the most successful engine in Formula One history?
...that the fish Coreoleuciscus splendidus had a movie named after it in 1999?
...that the Rufous Hornero , a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
...that the Monument of Liberty in Istanbul, the gathering place for the second rally of the Republic Protests, is a memorial for the 31 March Incident that took place in 1909?
...that the creation of Kannada Sahitya Parishat, an Indian non-profit organization to promote the Kannada language, was first initiated by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom?
...that during the drive to emancipate Russia's serfs, one scurrilous rumor held that committee member Grand Duke Constantine Nikolayevich was insane thanks to too much masturbation?
...that the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers?
...that the currently abandoned Old High School of Music in Rousse, Bulgaria has previously housed a primary school, a junior high school, a university, and a trade school?
...that the wealthy connoisseur Claude-Henri Watelet created the first romantic landscape garden in France?
...that for fifty years the Red River Trails were used by Red River ox carts as the principal means of transportation between modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba and St Paul, Minnesota?
...that Bold Lane car park, used by shoppers in Derby, England, is one of the ten most secure places in the world, alongside Air Force One, Area 51, and Fort Knox?
...that before he became Vice Chancellor at Ahmadu Bello University, Ishaya Audu was the personal physician of the University's namesake, Ahmadu Bello?
...that the Cross in the Woods shrine in Michigan contains the United States' largest collection of figurative dolls dressed as nuns?
...that there are 43 designated "Areas of Concern" within the Great Lakes watershed that show severe environmental degradation?
...that some South Welsh coal miners in the 1800s would raid the homes of strikebreakers dressed as a "herd" of Scotch Cattle?
...that Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore?
...that James Mortimer was regularly invited to chess tournaments even though he lost most of his matches, managing to beat masters including Johannes Zukertort and Mikhail Chigorin?
...that the film Quitting, originally titled Yesterday in an allusion to the song by The Beatles, was retitled after copyright owner Michael Jackson withheld permission to use the song?
...that Japanese painter Uemura Shoen was the first woman awarded Japan's prestigious Order of Culture?
...that a researcher at the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences discovered that the linear arrangement of genes on a chromosome corresponds to the development of body segments in fruit flies?
...that Victor Gauntlett supplied his personal pre-production Aston Martin Vantage for use in the filming of the James Bond film The Living Daylights?
...that, in 1989, the daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, then Indian Minister for Home Affairs, was kidnapped within five days of her father assuming office?
...that the Cave of the Mounds’s many speleothems have earned it recognition as the “jewel box” of North American caves?
...that marine conservation activists have organized an annual International Coastal Cleanup day that draws more than 300,000 volunteers in 88 countries to pick up trash from the beaches around the world?
...that Dr. Sue Gordon became the first full-time and first Aboriginal magistrate in Western Australia in 1988?
...that the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge protects nearly 7,000 acres of American crocodile habitat in southern Florida?
...that Sabancaya, a 5,976 m (19,606 ft) stratovolcano in the Andes, is the most active volcano in Peru?
...that the Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge was the first of more than 500 national wildlife refuges in the United States?
...that arctic haze contributes to global warming, raising temperatures by up to 1.7°C (3°F) during the arctic winter?
...that British rifleman William Green's memoir is one of the few accounts by an enlisted man of life in the Duke of Wellington's army, and as such, has provided source material for many historians?
...that Xaltocan, an island in Mexico, means "sandy ground of spiders" in Nahuatl?
...that the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin provides visitors with rides in an 80-year-old biplane?
...that in 1851, Hugh O'Bryant was elected the first mayor of Portland, Oregon by a mere four votes?
...that Roseland Christian School changed from a completely Dutch-American student body in 1884 to a completely African American one by the mid 1980s?
...that King Henry VIII was a talented musician and composer, and his song Pastime with Good Company became a popular tune throughout Renaissance Europe and remains a choral favorite?
...that Iceland leads the world in renewable energy and is the first country to supply all electricity from renewable sources?
...that Doppler spectroscopy was used to discover the first extrasolar planet in 1995 and has since been used to identify more than one hundred exoplanet candidates?
...that overcrowding in Chicago's racially segregated Black Belt was so severe that in 1934 an estimated 6.8 people were living in the average kitchenette apartment?
...that the Sviatohirsk Lavra , an Orthodox Christian monastery in eastern Ukraine that dates back to the 1500s, was recently rebuilt anew after being destroyed by the Soviets in the 1930s?
...that Israeli pilot and peace activist Abie Nathan landed his plane in Egypt in 1966 in an attempt to deliver a message of peace to President Nasser?
...that the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race, held each year before the Kentucky Derby, is only 7 miles per hour?
...that the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will carry the Olympic torch across 22 countries on 6 continents between March and August 2008?
...that Werner Erhard was investigated by the Church of Scientology after he incorporated Scientology beliefs and practices into Erhard Seminars Training and The Forum?
...that the Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team has won two NIT championships and made 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, but has also had a winless season?
...that children in a test audience for Sesame Street’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so distressed by the show that producers declined to air it?
...that Saint Gorgonia supposedly cured herself of a life-threatening illness by anointing herself with elements of the Eucharist mixed with her own tears?
...that Sir Arthur Chichester was appointed Governor of Carrickfergus in 1598, succeeding his brother, who had been killed in battle and whose head was used as a football by the victors?
...that the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism?
...that the cast of By the Sword (1991), the first feature film about fencing, included two actors sharing the same last name as the director?
...that real estate developer James Graham Brown, who was worth $100 million when he died in 1969, lived most of his life in a small suite in his Brown Hotel?
...that William Marshall produced an engraving of Charles I of England as a Christian martyr for the Eikon Basilike, published ten days after the King was executed in 1649?
...that the expulsion of Poles by Germany was contemplated in the 19th century and implemented in the 20th?
...that more than half of the 214 bird species found on Barbados are considered "accidental"—that is, they are found there only because they strayed off-course?
...that selenium contamination in the late 1970s led the Kesterson Reservoir in Central California, once rich in several species of fish and other life, to only support saline-tolerant mosquitofish?
...that a separatist group refuses to allow the exploitation of crude oil and natural gas reserves in the Ogaden Basin, Ethiopia?
...that aggressive NK-cell leukemia, a type of leukemia with a systemic proliferation of natural killer cells, is more prevalent in Asians than other ethnic groups?
...that Dragon's Teeth Gate , an ancient navigational landmark, was documented in one of the earliest historic records of Singapore?
...that English cricketer and footballer Arthur Milton was the last surviving person to have played Test cricket for the England cricket team and international football for the England football team?
...that Klaus Traube worked on building the German fast breeder in Kalkar when he changed his view about nuclear power, went into opposition and was considered a security threat by the German secret service?
...that a 1922 dispute about how Georgia was to be integrated into the Soviet Union was one of the factors that led Lenin to break with Stalin and call for his removal for office in his testament?
...that Orval Grove was one out away from a no-hitter in a baseball game on July 8, 1943 when Joe Gordon hit a double off his pitch?
...that Gatke Hall , a former post office, was moved completely intact on rollers down a city street over a six month period in 1938 to its new home at Willamette University?
...that the founding of Phenomena Research Australia, in response to a surge of unidentified flying object sightings in 1947, was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
...that Marilee Jones, the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by The New York Times?
...that until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, the 2nd century CE work Against Heresies was the best surviving description of Gnosticism?
...that poet Anna Williams's works include On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon ?
...that the avifauna of Lithuania includes a total of 342 species, of which 2 have been introduced by humans?
...that The Lady with a Fan is the only Velázquez portrait in which the sitter has not yet been convincingly identified?
...that the monopoly of The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne over coal trade in the Tyneside area raised questions in the House of Commons in the 1620s?
...that the bark of the African tree Bombax buonopozense is burnt in Ghana to drive away evil spirits?
...that because of Salvatore Pincherle, German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I?
...that the Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in Tennessee and Georgia to the United States in the Tellico Blockhouse, Monroe County, Tennessee?
...that one of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka, India?
...that Edward Rosewater was the telegraph operator responsible for sending out Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" in 1863?
...that the Old National Library Building, a much-beloved national icon of Singapore, was demolished despite a rare display of public opposition?
...that in China, access to water supply and sanitation varies greatly between rural areas, where only 67% of the population has access to improved water supply, and cities, where 93% does?
...that Demologos, the first warship powered by a steam engine, saw only one day of active service in the U.S. Navy, carrying President James Monroe around New York Harbor?
...that the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn have built over 1000 organs since their foundation in 1806?
...that "Comme Ci, Comme Ça" was performed in French at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, despite being the Cypriot entry?
...that the prehistoric mammal Yanoconodon was a Eutriconodont, a group of early, ancestral mammals that in some cases, grew so big they were able to eat small dinosaurs?
...that the Burgsvik beds, a geological formation exposed on Gotland, Sweden, contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
...that Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
...that despite sending 8000 ARVN soldiers from out of district to stuff ballot boxes, South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem could not prevent his candidate from losing to Phan Quang Dan in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
...that Akwasi Afrifa became Lt. General and head of state of Ghana after a coup d'état, was detained after a second coup, won parliamentary elections after a third and was executed after a fourth coup?
...that Patchin Place , a cul-de-sac in Greenwich Village known for literary residents such as Theodore Dreiser and E. E. Cummings, is now a popular location for psychotherapists' offices?
...that former University of Kentucky basketball star Dirk Minniefield smoked marijuana the night before Kentucky's loss in the 1983 NCAA Tournament to the University of Louisville?
...that the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general, physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II?
...that Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built China's first twin-engine aircraft in a cave to avoid detection by the Japanese during World War II?
...that American sculptor Lynda Benglis sought to confront the male ethos in the arts community with an advertisement in which she only wore a pair of sunglasses?
...that the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted when giving the last rites to a member of his parish?
...that the song "Push The Button" was believed by some to relate to Iran's attempt to build nuclear weapons?
...that King George III was overjoyed at the destruction caused to the home of Joseph Priestley during the Birmingham Riots in 1791?
...that Louise Pitre, a Tony Award-nominated musical theatre actress, was turned down after auditioning for the role of Josephine in the London musical Napoleon?
...that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
...that the final episode of the 1986 television series Outlaws recycled footage from The Oregon Trail, because actors Rod Taylor and Charles Napier appeared in both programs?
...that income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?
...that Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski is the first female to hold the rank of Lieutenant General in the US Air Force?
...that catfish species of the genus Hypophthalmus are unusual among neotropical fishes because they feed on plankton by straining water over a fine sieve created by numerous long, thin gill rakers?
...the Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Massachusetts has the record of carrying out the first abdominal surgery in the United States?
...that Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to ever win World Championship gold medals in both bobsledding and luge?
...that the Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 remains the last to see a gain by the British Conservative Party?
...that the Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska was the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the United States from 1955 until 1973?
...that Carlos Morales Troncoso, the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic, has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering?
...that the Poltava Bandurist Capella, directed by Hnat Khotkevych, was the first Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America?
...that the football song Hampden in the sun celebrates the record scoreline of the 1957 Scottish League Cup final?
...that the Lajkonik is an unofficial symbol of the city of Krakow as well as an annual festival celebrated for over 700 years commemorating victory over the Tatar invasion?
...that Mexican singer-actor Antonio Aguilar made over 150 albums and 150 movies in his career?
...that a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations?
...that Ryszard Bartel's design, the Bartel BM-4, was Poland's first own aircraft built in series?
...that Vlasina Lake in southeastern Serbia is famous for floating islands arising from chunks of peat broken off the shore?
...that political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?
...that areas of the North Fly District in Papua New Guinea's Western Province experience a peak annual rainfall of ten metres?
...that Hancock Manor received wounded men from the Battle of Bunker Hill and entertained both Lafayette and George Washington?
...that the Frieda and Henry J. Neils House is Frank Lloyd Wright's only work with marble walls?
...that Key Highway, built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal, is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood?
...that the Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia?
...that the Indian state of Maharashtra has started a project for the location of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations?
...that 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi, the Solomon Islands?
...that British Labour politician Piara Singh Khabra was the fifth Asian MP, and was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons and the only sitting MP to have served in the armed forces during the Second World War at the time of his death?
...the Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the World's Columbian Exposition, which occupied the building for its first six months?
...that the Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians, who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China?
...that the bill of the Magpie Duck becomes green as the bird gets older, and its black crown may go completely white?
...that Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence, early in the history of molecular evolution research?
...that Tom Dennison got a mayor elected eight times, instigated a race riot and controlled all sale of liquor, gambling and prostitution during his 30+ year reign as Omaha's political boss?
...that the Kodava Hockey Festival held annually in the Kodagu district of the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest field hockey tournaments in the world?
...that Irene Jordan of the South Fort George suburb of Prince George, British Columbia had owned a popular brothel that later became the first City Hall of Prince George?
...that the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was dropped in favor of the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2006, reestablishing a prize not awarded since 1952?
...that "Cherry Pie", the best-known song by the glam metal band Warrant, was a last-minute addition to their 1990 album?
...that the author of the term Third Reich predicted that "Germany might perish because of the Third Reich dream"?
...that Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic?
...that the semi-wooded lawn of the Lampert-Wildflower House in Belvidere, Illinois provides habitat for five different species of rare plants?
...that after thirty-five ballots, Republican presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John Sherman withdrew their campaigns to support a dark horse candidate named James Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention?
...that Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War?
...that Semar, although depicted as a clown in Indonesian wayang shadow puppetry, is said to be the guardian spirit of Java and a god in human form?
...that litigation in the Vice Admiralty Court was frustrated after Justice Jeffery Bent absconded with its seal when he was not re-appointed to the Supreme Court?
...that Canadian musician Richard Bell was a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band and became a member of The Band during the 1990s?
...that Herb Boxer was the first U.S.-born ice hockey player ever drafted by a National Hockey League team?
...that Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts?
...that O. Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, despite living in Kerala?
...that Jeronima de la Asuncion was the foundress of the first Catholic monastery in Manila and the Far East?
...that the first online-only correspondence law school started operating in 1998 and graduated its first class in 2002?
...that Major Oscar F. Perdomo downed five Japanese aircraft in a single day and thereby became the United States' last "Ace in a day" of World War II?
...that Gubbi Veeranna's theatre company was the first one in the state of Karnataka, India to employ female artists to portray female characters on the stage?
...that Britartist Tracey Emin's "tent", Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, listed 102 names including her grandma and two foetuses?
...that the Polish Coal Trunk-Line, one of the most important rail connections in Poland, was built because post-First World War border changes made old rail lines obsolete?
...that Peter Cochrane and Les Carlyon were the joint inaugural winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History?
...that of the more than one million photographic plates made in the studio of Henri Manuel, only five hundred survived World War II?
...that Scotland rugby union player Duncan Macrae won a Military Cross for his actions as part of the 51st Highland Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux?
...that The Happy Land, a play by W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, was briefly banned in 1873 for portraying a singing, dancing Prime Minister Gladstone ?
...that Challenge 1934 was the fourth and last FAI International Tourist Plane Contest, a major aviation event in pre-war Europe?
...that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Bronston v. United States that statements made under oath which are literally truthful yet misleading cannot be prosecuted as perjury?
...that the "helicopter" damselflies of family Pseudostigmatidae specialize in plucking spiders from their webs?
...that the state of Karnataka, particularly the region belonging to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, is known as the cradle of banking in India?
...that the Commander-in-Chief's Guard was a unit of the Continental Army that protected George Washington during the American Revolutionary War?
...that Robert Clark made his own alcoholic drink, "Gut Rot 1916", while stranded on Elephant Island in 1916?
...that it may take more than 220 years for eucalyptus trees to form hollows suitable for larger animals?
...that blackface minstrel dancer John Diamond won numerous "Ethiopian" dance competitions until he was defeated by a real black man known as Master Juba?
...that the oldest state government building in the US state of Oregon, the 1914 Supreme Court Building in Salem, has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal?