derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Ralphie , the live mascot of the Colorado Buffaloes, is actually a female American bison?
...that the Abukuma, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor raid, was sunk in 1944 when her own Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room?
...that the Paço Imperial, a Baroque palace in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
...that the German actor Heinz Rühmann was 42 years old when he starred as a high school student in the 1944 film Die Feuerzangenbowle?
...that lyrics from the B-52's song "Love Shack" were quoted in a 2005 majority opinion by Eleventh Circuit Court judge William H. Pryor, Jr.?
...that most of the trees in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?
...that the Polish writer Gustaw Morcinek survived three Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War?
...that the Palala River bluffs in Limpopo province, South Africa have 10,000 year old rock art from the Stone Age?
...that Bhai Taru Singh was a Sikh martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?
...that feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan's draconian Peace Preservation Laws?
...that the gene that creates the crest of the Bali Duck also causes physical defects which can kill it before it hatches?
...that JMWAVE was a secret CIA base on University of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?
...that African-American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics?
...that the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 in New York City negotiated the first pension plan in the construction industry?
...that the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner?
...that one sample of a proposed United States aluminum cent , dropped by a US Congressman, was found by a US Capitol Police officer and is now known as the Toven Specimen?
...that Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
...that 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
...that Donald Cameron of Lochiel, a major figure in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
...that the ultra-modern disposable female urination device, which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922?
...that Bolli Bollasson, a character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard ?
...that as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship?
...that in 1955, What's the Story, an American game show, was the last television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network?
...that the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War ended in victory for the Cavaliers because the lady of the house, Charlotte de la Tremoüille, defended it defiantly?
...that the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and prison sentences for the owners?
...that Leonard Crofoot, a dancer in The Singing Detective, has had three Star Trek roles?
...that George Pocock invented a kite-drawn carriage that could outstrip the horse-drawn mail coach?
...that the medieval Margraviate of Brandenburg was called "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire"?
...that the Mayan ruins in Belize called Nim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat" headdress on an 8th century stela?
...that the yaw string, a simple tuft of yarn used as a flight instrument by the Wright brothers, is still in use today?
...that in 1973, an experiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spin webs in space?
...that William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of gold?
...that human amyloid precursor protein , when cleaved by specific types of proteases, generates the amyloid beta peptide that may be a cause of Alzheimer's disease?
...that Manseibashi Station in Tokyo was rebuilt after a 1923 earthquake and later became a museum?
...that although the official cause of the 2007 Balad aircraft crash is fog, the insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
...that former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God?
...that the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois?
...that Queen band members teased Freddie Mercury for looking like a prawn in the video for It's a Hard Life?
...that according to Themba Mabaso , the State Herald of South Africa, the flag of the republic is like a written document?
...that the Nusa Kambangan, "the Alcatraz of Indonesia", has held a son of former President Suharto and terrorists of the 2002 Bali bombing?
...that when the Kälvesten Runestone was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?
...that the Union forces in the American Civil War won the Battle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?
...that the Akhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?
...that Surgeon General William Alexander Hammond both founded the National Museum of Health and Medicine and wrote the first American treatise about neurology?
...that actor Edward Chapman, known for his role as "Mr. Grimsdale" in many Norman Wisdom films, tried to have Sir John Gielgud thrown out of Equity?
...that in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
...that Herkus Monte, one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the 13th century by the Germans as a boy?
...that Simplicity Patterns has been a leader in home pattern sewing since 1927?
...that the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago?
...that Stephan Körner's major philosophical work was in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact" concepts?
...that La Casa Pacifica, President Richard Nixon's private retreat in San Clemente, California, became known as the "Western White House"?
...that criminal and boxer, James Field, was so feared by the police force of London in the 18th century, that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
...that 60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna?
...that poet and epistolary novelist Ann Eliza Bleecker lost three generations of her family fleeing to Albany during Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign?
...that Serenade No. 10 for winds by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelve wind instruments and double bass and consists of seven movements?
...that former British Member of Parliament Walter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler" Archibald Hall?
...that Munir Bashir, known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century?
...that the Heinkel He 50, designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by Germany almost until the end of World War II?
...that Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes hired some painters and sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as pastry chefs?
...that Yakov Kreizer was the first Soviet general awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title during World War II?
...that in Faridah Begum bte Abdullah v. Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah, it was held that non-Malaysian citizens cannot sue a Malay ruler?
...that when the Geats saw the Swedish king Ragnvald Knaphövde travelling among them without Geatish hostages, they deemed him so arrogant that they murdered him?
...that Oneirocritica, the first major work on dream interpretation, was written in the second century by Artemidorus?
...that the City of York was a British barque which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island within sight of its destination?
...that the Hunnestad Monument , one of Scandinavia's largest Viking memorials, was destroyed at the end of the 18th century?
...that Eriogonum parvifolium is a California endemic dunes shrub that is host to several endangered butterflies?
...that the first time in World War II submersible tanks were used was on June 22, 1941, by German tanks of the 18th Panzer-Division?
...that the Anjajavy Forest holds many endangered species including four of the 99 pairs of Madagascar Fish Eagle?
...that Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned in Château de Rochechouart castle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?
...that okiagari-koboshi dolls are considered symbols of perseverance in Japan because they never fall down?
...that Japanese surrealist gothic horror author Yumeno Kyūsaku dropped dead due to a cerebral hemorrhage while at an autograph signing party hosted by his publisher?
...that after an affirmative action dispute, Yale freshman Jian Li was the subject of a controversial parody in the annual joke issue of The Daily Princetonian?
...that W. Harry Davis, who helped desegregate Minneapolis, overcame childhood polio to become a Golden Gloves coach and manager of U.S. Olympics boxing teams?
...that results of the 1946 Romanian general election, the first in Romania under universal suffrage, were manipulated by the Communist Party?
...that Dralasites are an amoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted in science fiction role-playing games for the past 25 years?
...that William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day shows a sign for a pie shop with a picture of the severed head of John the Baptist and the words "Good Eating"?
...that the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815, considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government, leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
...that Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers?
...that the Department of Food Science at Purdue University was created during Bernard J. Liska's tenure as Dean of Agriculture in 1983?
...that Tom Chick is a prolific games journalist and Hollywood actor who has a degree in divinity from Harvard Divinity School?
...that James Palacio of the HBO series Oz was an empress of the Imperial Court System?
...that the first German U-boat sunk by the United States Navy in World War II was U-656, sunk on 1 March 1942?
...that the important medieval fresco cycle in Castelseprio, Italy, was rediscovered only in 1944?
...that Harold G. Schrier led the patrol of U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Suribachi?
...that the Carbonera Creek watershed in California has diverse plant communities including a rare assemblage known as Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests?
...that the Round Tower in Sandiway, Cheshire, was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey?
...that Lithuania's name was recorded in chronicles by its Latinized Slavic name form Litua, for the first time in 1009?
...that poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska , known as the Polish Sappho, discussed topics such as abortion, extra-marital affairs, and incest?
...that the female Smith's blue butterfly has only seven days to feed, court, mate, and lay eggs?
...that the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid, and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands?
...that the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec, Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?
...that the fauna of Scotland includes almost half of the EU’s breeding seabirds, but only one endemic vertebrate species, and that although a population of Wild Cats remains, many of the larger mammals were hunted to extinction in historic times?
...that 51 Birch Street, a low-budget documentary about the mystery of a suburban marriage, was named one of The New York Times top ten films of 2006?
...that Updown Court, a private residence in England, is valued at over US$120 million?
...that Roger Bacon sent his Opus Majus, a treatise of natural science, to Pope Clement IV in 1267?
...that 2003's Hurricane Ignacio was the latest-forming first hurricane of a Pacific hurricane season since reliable satellite observation began in 1966?
...that the champion racehorse Corrida, a two-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, disappeared during the Battle of the Falaise Gap?
...that Hortus deliciarum was a medieval illuminated encyclopedia created to teach about everything, including the torments of hell?
...that the Finnish Air Force selected the Saab 91 Safir as its primary trainer aircraft over the domestic Valmet Tuuli III?
...that Richard E. Cavazos, recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army's first Hispanic 4-star general?
...that a copper mine on Brim Fell in England appears as in the novel The Plague Dogs?
...that the Mayurakshi river in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?
...that Peter Prendergast was recognised as the leading landscape painter in Wales after the death of Sir Kyffin Williams in September 2006?
...that akabeko , red cow toys from the Aizu region of Japan, are believed to ward off disease?
...that Broken Glass, a 1994 play by Arthur Miller, was nominated for the 1994 Tony Award for Best Play, but lost out to Angels in America: Perestroika?
...that Randy Conrad became a local celebrity in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia after appearing in a McDonald's TV commercial?
...that although Abkhazia is not recognised by any nation, the Abkhazian Air Force had a reported roster of 250 men and seven aircraft in 2001?
...that the first president of the World Association of Copepodologists was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II?
...that Les Taylor only captained Watford in the 1984 FA Cup final because regular captain Wilf Rostron was suspended?
...that the interaction of bees and toxic chemicals can make bees drunk or produce poisonous honey?
...that Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the first republican state in Germany on March 18, 1793?
...that Ernest "Boots" Thomas, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima , was able to enlist in spite of being color blind by memorizing the results of another man's test?
...that Junqueirópolis, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil, is nicknamed "Acerola Capital" for its agriculture?
...that Seb Clover, who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
...that Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force?
...that fewer than 100 of 500 colonists in the Virginia Colony survived the Starving Time during the winter of 1609-1610?
...that the Blohm und Voss Bv 144 was an attempt by Nazi Germany to develop an advanced commercial airliner for post-war service?
...that a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt?
...that in 2005, Adam Bruce became the first herald appointed to Clan Donald of Scotland in 510 years?
...that Major General Keith L. Ware, who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, was the first U.S. Army general officer to be killed in action in the Vietnam War?
...that the Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay?
...that the Stingray Nebula, discovered in 1987, is the youngest known planetary nebula?
...that Edwin D. Hill was the first president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to be elected by secret ballot?
...that an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men of Diro during the Egyptian Invasion of Mani in 1826?
...that the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells?
...that La Salle Road in Hong Kong is named after French educator Jean-Baptiste de la Salle?
...that Arnold Zamora, a Filipino musician, is one of the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran?
...that the Soviet pilot Sergey Gritsevets , twice awarded the honorary title of Hero of Soviet Union, is credited with downing 42 enemy planes?
...that the Knoxville Campaign ended with a Union Army victory even though the final battle of the campaign at Bean's Station had resulted in a Confederate victory?
...that Camp Cuddly Pines: Power Tool Massacre is the first adult film to be released in the HD DVD format?
...that Hawayo Takata, a Nisei fluent in the language and culture of both Japan and the United States, introduced Reiki to the Western World?
...that the Ajacan Mission, a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula, predated the establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years?
...that Japanese writer Naoki Sanjugo (literally "Naoki 35") changed his pen-name four times, once per year, to match his age?
...that more than 500 varieties of mango are showcased in the International Mango Festival held in Delhi?
...that at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser?
...that Ern Westmore was the only member of the famed Westmore family to be given a special Academy Award for make-up, bestowed for his work on the film Cimarron?
...that "bohemian" Japanese symbolist poet Nakahara Chuya remained close friends with influential literary critic Kobayashi Hideo all of his life, despite the fact that his girlfriend left him for Kobayashi soon after they met?
...that although Lehigh Gorge State Park in Pennsylvania is now known for whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River, in the 19th century it was the site of a canal built to bypass those same rapids?
...that twenty-seven U.S. states have adopted constitutional amendments to prevent same-sex marriage or civil unions?
...that 11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?
...that the American composer Paul Moravec won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2004 for his Shakespeare-inspired chamber piece Tempest Fantasy?
...that in 362 AD, the rhetorician Prohaeresius, a friend of the pagan Emperor, was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?
...that Ken Okuyama, a Japanese person, designed the Enzo Ferrari super car?
...that Creobroter is a praying mantis that uses ant mimicry as a juvenile and flower mimicry as an adult?
...that Sharon Sayles Belton was the first female and first African-American mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota?
...that the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber, became a target tug, then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
...that Arthur William Hodge was the only white person in the history of the British West Indies to be executed for killing a black slave?
...that Colonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive the Royal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate?
...that the prefabricated and portable White Castle restaurant Building No. 8 in Minneapolis, Minnesota has had three different locations?
...that Michael Beetham, World War II bomber pilot, is now senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force?
...that Trachodon, despite being a well-known and often-used duckbill name in the past, is based on teeth that include both duckbill and horned dinosaur specimens?
...that the Nikolayevsk Incident, in which Japanese people were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion of Sakhalin island?
...that the National Security League formed the first known political action committee in the United States in 1918, and spent more than $100,000 to defeat congressmen who opposed its positions?
...that South Korean United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Tanzanian Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro previously worked together as foreign ministers?
...that Tobias Lear probably destroyed six letters of conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
...that the Australian steamer TSS Kanowna was requisitioned twice during World War I, first as a troopship and then as a hospital ship?
...that male spiders, scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism?
...that Joseph E. Widener, a major figure in U.S.Thoroughbred horse racing, lost his elder brother and nephew in the Titanic disaster?
...that the Federal Corrupt Practices Act was the primary law regulating campaign finance in U.S. federal elections until the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1971?
...that Trondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing two mayors in Trondheim their jobs?
...that Russian billionaire, politician and philanthropist Alexander Lebedev started his career as a KGB agent working in London?
...that Windows DreamScene displays videos in MPEG or WMV format as desktop wallpaper?
...that Öpir, the "shouter", was the most productive of the old Viking runemasters?
...that St. Clement's Church in Büsum, Germany is furnished with items looted from Pellworm by the pirate Cord Widderich?
...that the schooner Rouse Simmons, known as "The Christmas Tree Ship", was transporting over 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago when it sank in 1912?
...that Singaporean Web Map Service Streetdirectory.com successfully sued several businesses for copyright infringment, but is now being sued on the same charge by the Singapore Land Authority?
...that only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
...that Sheila Gallagher has been the City of London's last remaining lollipop lady since 1990?
...that James MacLaine , the "Gentleman Highwayman", once robbed Horace Walpole?
...that the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began in the apartment living room of one of its founders?
...that the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base?
...that future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian, Nazi German, and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?
...that the late Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge?
...that An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump depicts the recreation of an experiment first carried out by Robert Boyle over a hundred years earlier?
...that Sir Samuel Davenport, a South Australian parliamentarian, had an electoral district named after him?
...that "Push It To The Limit", a pop rap song backed by The Walt Disney Company, was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store?
...that in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
...that recently-departed Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge?
...that despite having won the Cricket World Cup only once (1983), Indian cricket team batsmen hold most Cricket World Cup batting records?
...that the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon?
...that in 1881 the Sharps Island Light was pushed five miles (8 km) down the Chesapeake Bay by an ice floe — with its keepers inside — and that its replacement has been leaning since 1977?
...that Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor, involved in more than four hundred films from 1909 to 1935?
...that the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?