derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that many of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists were enlisted to provide temporary decorations for flattering allegories of a Royal Entry ?
...that release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole?
...that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology?
...that three 500-goal scorers appeared on a single hockey team for the first time during the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season, helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup?
...that British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?
...that Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate investigating committee?
...that Trowulan in Mojokerto, east Java, is surrounded by a huge archaeological site , and is believed to be the capital of the ancient Majapahit Empire?
...that two Dutch professors who lost an article written by Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands?
...that New World, the first and largest family-oriented amusement park in Singapore, was known for its striptease, cabaret girls, and wrestling matches during its heyday?
...that Dennis Spurgeon, formerly chief operating officer at uranium supplier USEC Inc., became U.S. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in 2006?
...that some of Frank Sinatra's recordings of the 1964 song "My Kind of Town" change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
...that in the late 17th century, the staveless runes of Scandinavia were purported to be the origin of stenography?
...that the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with engraved illustrations?
...that Oregon pioneer Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park?
...that the play Charlie Victor Romeo has a script consisting of the almost-verbatim cockpit voice recorder transcripts from six real-life air disasters?
...that the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl game in college football history even before it went into overtime?
...that Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is in six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day?
...that Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre, New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school?
...that musical theatre star Phyllis Dare published her autobiography in 1907, but continued to perform in Edwardian musical comedy and on stage until 1951?
...that in 1921 the United States Department of State mailed out invitations for the Second International Eugenics Conference around the world?
...that under the 1557 Edict of Compiègne all those who travelled to Geneva or published books in this Protestant city could be put to death?
...that mountains are sometimes bombed to trigger small avalanches and thus prevent larger, more dangerous ones?
...that the three-month Great Tea Race of 1866 to bring tea to London from China almost ended in a tie?
...that the Tibetan Empire reached its greatest extent under Ralpacan's rule from 815 to 838 CE?
...that Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Nancy Montanez Johner has suggested changing the name of the Food Stamp Program?
...that The Victim, a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film, was shot on locations of actual crime scenes?
...that the Swedish-American entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad who led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966, for many years operated his own vessel, the MS Lindblad Explorer , in the region?
...that Republican Jerry Sonnenberg was the only member of the largest class of freshman legislators in the history of the Colorado House of Representatives to be elected to an open seat without opposition?
...that Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so?
...that the Alicante Bouschet is the only Vitis vinifera wine grape with red juice?
...that Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
...that the Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km²), the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States?
...that the haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon?
...that Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby?
...that Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office?
...that a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several years before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
...that the new airport being constructed near Islamabad, Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara?
...that Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere, with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity?
...that billionaire Leonore Annenberg , wife of business magnate Walter Annenberg, was the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan?
...that in 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine, which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War?
...that Alexandre Bontemps, senior head valet to Louis XIV of France, was a rich and powerful figure, feared by courtiers, whose behaviour was reported to him by the Swiss Guard?
...that no viable solution has yet been found to counteract radiation from space, which is a serious threat to astronauts on any future mission to Mars?
...that Norma Elizabeth Boyd, founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a United Nations observer in 1949 and supported the Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights?
...that John Straffen, a triple child-killer who escaped from Broadmoor, served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
...that Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poem "January God" is about a stone sculpture called the Boa Island Janus figure ?
...that R Family Vacations offered the first all-gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children?
...that Thomas Bancroft's Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring, gluttony, alcoholism, hedonism, lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition, cowardice, and the abuse of poetry?
...that Hadspen House has been owned by the family of Henry Hobhouse since 1785?
...that Michigan Wolverines football player Bill Yearby was an All-American football player as well as a champion shot putter who the coaches felt could have starred for the Wolverines basketball team?
...that until Darren Cheeseman's win in 2007, the Australian seat of Corangamite had not been won by a Labor candidate in over 70 years?
...that during the winter the Romans of the Mosel wine region would drink their wine hot like a tea?
...that the green-flag wielding Republican Army defeated the Spanish forces during the Battle of Rosillo at Salado Creek in San Antonio and established the first Texas Republic in April 1813?
...that the tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey is the 781-foot (238 m) 30 Hudson Street ?
...that although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
...that certain biological neuron models are a literally spherical cow, in that the cell is approximated to be a sphere?
...that William Scrots, King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein?
...that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Margaret Flagg Holmes and her husband were received by Pope Pius XI in 1931?
...that KGB head Ivan Serov did not go on tour in Britain as planned because the British press labelled him "Ivan the Terrible"?
...that Irena Iłłakowicz, a secret agent of the Polish resistance during WWII, was formerly married to a Persian prince?
...that Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?
...that Michigan Wolverines football player Jim Pace not only won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten Conference, but also won the Big Ten 60-yard indoor dash title?
...that in 1866 Polish exilees to Siberia staged an uprising trying to escape to China?
...that Sam Little, a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest?
...that as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament?
...that Queensland MP Peter Wellington held the balance of power for four months, until a by-election allowed the Australian Labor Party to form a majority government?
...that, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband Michael Schur raised $26,000 for charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
...that the 1300 identified Mesoamerican ballcourts used for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame (see drawing) were all built in the same basic shape despite a span of 2700 years?
...that in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus?
...that Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day Bangladesh, of the Pundras, a group of non-Aryan people, dating back to 8th-7th centuries BC?
...that Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger?
...that the urn atop Charles Bulfinch's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, U.S. once stood at the center of Franklin Place, Boston?
...that the mythical Connla's Well, home to the Salmon of Wisdom, is the legendary source of the Shannon and Boyne Rivers as well as Irish poetic inspiration?
...that Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France, with over 11,500 burials?
...that on the banks of Shitalakshya River, in Bangladesh, there are artistic weaving centres, where once the muslin industry flourished?
...that the Kiva Koffeehouse in the Canyons of the Escalante was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite, on property his family has owned since homesteading it in the 1860s?
...that James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction?
...that Betzy Kjelsberg, a Norwegian member of the international feminist movement, founded or co-founded six women's rights associations and organizations?
...that Jim Hermiston, a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame", was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999?
...that Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts?
...that the surrender of Japanese troops in China was first announced in a Chinese language by Dr. Ernest B. Price in October 1945?
...that the Bristol Packers American football team won every game in its debut season, but failed to win any in its final year?
...that Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?
...that the Lachine massacre, in which Iroquois warriors destroyed a New France settlement on Montreal Island, was instigated by English forces in New York following the declaration of King William's War?
...that the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices, computers, polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?
...that Henry Lomb became a co-founder of the Bausch & Lomb Company when he loaned $60 to his friend John Jacob Bausch?
...that the allegorical Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I commemorates England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588?
...that in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States?
...that Frank Rennie joined the New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
...that American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor?
...that the 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting?
...that the Lombardy wine region of Franciacorta produces a style of sparkling wine that is more bubbly than frizzante but has less carbon dioxide than most sparkling wines?
...that the first Earl of Wiltshire was a Breton viscount, Harvey of Léon, who served Stephen of England in the first phase of the civil war called the Anarchy?
...that Mahasthangarh is the earliest urban archaeological site so far discovered in Bangladesh, dating back to at least the 3rd century B.C.?
...that royal favourites were often compared to mushrooms, as they sprang up overnight, and grew in excrement?
...that "Here I Am", the song chosen for the winner of Australian Idol 2007 to release as a single, has been heavily criticised by both finalists?
...that William Hopper became the founder Chairman of the Institute for Fiscal Studies with hopes that it would lead to a more rational system of taxation in the United Kingdom?
...that Bob Timberlake, an unsuccessful placekicker for the New York Giants who made only 1 of 15 field goal attempts in his NFL career, was an award-winning quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines before he was drafted in 1965?
...that the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses?
...that the title of Dan Castellaneta's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy's first autobiography I Am Not Spock?
...that Dutch artist Folke Heybroek's works include stained glass windows , iron and concrete sculptures, paintings, and textile designs, decorating about 70 public spaces in Sweden?
...that in the 1659 English play The English Moor, noted for its use of blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
...that Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K., and that aircraft have already been acquired?
...that June Bride, filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president?
...that John Mawe, who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil?
...that Richard Whitaker's research into the correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation?
...that there are more than 40 Community Rail Partnerships supporting local rail lines in the United Kingdom?
...that a summit, a spur, a wooden building and an avenue are named after Michel Croz, a mountain guide who died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn ?
...that double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?
...that in Amgen v Hoechst, the House of Lords affirmed that an incredible similarity between two patents does not constitute patent infringement in the UK?
...that as Navy production chief during World War II, electric drive pioneer Samuel Murray Robinson became the first staff officer to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the history of the United States Navy?
...that although Adam Freeland has said that his 2003 song We Want Your Soul is about "the destructive side of consumer culture", Target tried to license the song for use in a commercial?
...that some types of human learning can be described mathematically by Oja's rule, which is commonly used in image processing software?
...that Filipino film producer Narcisa de Leon did not start her career in the film industry till she was 61 years old?
...that the Pompallier Mission is New Zealand's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori?
...that xenobiotic metabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that detoxify xenobiotics, such as drugs and poisons?
...that Emma Cunningham was acquitted of the 1857 murder of her landlord because she falsely claimed to be pregnant by him, and Victorian morality prevented doctors from physically examining her?
...that the White House Entrance Hall had the President's seal removed from its floor in the early 1950s because President Truman thought it inappropriate to walk across it?
...that a prokaryotic cytoskeleton has been found in prokaryote organisms by recent advances in visualization technology?
...that Roger Wilmut went on from typing out the episode list of a BBC comedy show to become a Guardian Top 10 author of books about British comedy?
...that Chambercombe Manor is said to be one of the most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom?
...that the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company produced 90 navy tanker ships in two years, from 1943-1945 and employed over 18,000 people while doing so?
...that noitulovE, a cinema and television advertising campaign for Guinness draught stout, won more awards than any other commercial worldwide in 2006?
...that James Tennant took over from Sarah Mawe as "Mineralogist to Her Majesty" and he supervised the recutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond?
...that the hazardous Welland Canal Bridge 15 featured a bell ringing whenever a ship made contact, warning the crew to check for damage?
...that the Solomon Courthouse has twice served as a post office, and was the setting for a courtroom scene in The Hunted?
...that Rob Carpenter retired from the National Football League after catching his second touchdown in the 1995 NFL playoffs?
...that Mel Rose, the runner-up on the seventh cycle of America's Next Top Model, dropped the "-issa" from her first name because she "didn't need it"?
...that the subject of sex was central to The Antipodes, an English Renaissance play by Richard Brome, first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre in 1637?
...that Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
...that Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like malaria?
...that the Champawat tigress and the Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters?
...that a stone run is a stable and conspicuous rock landform caused by a myriad of freezing-thawing cycles and also called a stone river, stone stream, or stone sea?
...that the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
...that during the negotiations in Ostrów in 1392, the principal Polish negotiator, Henry of Masovia, bishop of Płock, fell in love with the sister of his opponent, Vytautas the Great?
...that a series of storms in south-east Queensland spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes in recorded Australian history?
...that Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in Germany because of his Jewish background?
...that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
...that U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer?
...that Italian painter Parmigianino distorted nature for his own artistic purposes in the unfinished Renaissance oil painting Madonna with the Long Neck ?
...that forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps, had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981?
...that flutist Masakazu Yoshizawa was hired by John Williams to play the shakuhachi for the Jurassic Park soundtrack because the instrument sounded "like a dinosaur's cry"?
...that the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17, 1862 was the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War?
...that Robert G. Pugh and his son, Robert, Jr., were the first father-son team to present oral arguments together before the United States Supreme Court?
...that the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today?
...that Yegor Ligachev is renowned for being Gorbachev's main critic, even though he has repudiated that in many speeches and his memoirs?
...that the city of Union Valley, Texas, population 226, incorporated in 2007 out of fear of annexation by neighboring cities?
...that the Hyde Park Railroad Station in Hyde Park, New York was a day away from demolition when it was leased to a local rail historical society?
...that football referees in England officiate at eleven different levels according to ability, activity and age?
...that Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki, one of the earliest wiki engines?
...that Gordon K. Douglass qualified for the Canadian national canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American?
...that the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae has been called a "walking mustard oil bomb" due to its use of glucosinolates as a chemical defense mechanism against predators?
...that the ill-fated Yen Bai mutiny proceeded because a messenger sent to delay the mutiny was intercepted?
...that 16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan disgraced himself by throwing eggs and stones at the common people during a mission to Paris?
...that Rev. Justus Henry Nelson (1850-1937) established the first Protestant church in the Amazon Basin and was a self-supporting Methodist missionary in Belém, Pará, Brazil for 45 years?
...that a Catalan wine was secretly added to the classified Bordeaux wine category of the 1979 Gault Millau Wine Olympics and won?
...that John John Florence was the youngest ever surfer to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing?
...that the Barotse Floodplain is the second largest wetland in Zambia and also one of the most productive areas for raising cattle in the country?
...that Ashta Lakshmi are a group of Hindu goddesses who preside over eight sources of wealth?
...that Singapore's 5.4-ton Pegasus is the first helicopter-portable 155mm howitzer with a self-propelled capability?
...that an Australian chief justice Terence John Higgins dismissed a defamation case alleging "lazy journalism" against an Australian journalist even though he found that the claim wasn't true?
...that HMS Amphion was sunk in the opening 36 hours of the First World War?
...that the River Bourne in Kent used to power a dozen mills in its 10 mile length?