derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Native American Old Connecticut Path from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Connecticut River across from Hartford, was the very first of the American trails that led west from the Atlantic seacoast settlement, towards the interior?
...that the citizens of Perugia compelled the surrender of the citadel of Gérard du Puy, the cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XI, during the War of the Eight Saints with a trebuchet nicknamed the cacciaprete ("priest chaser")?
...that the cityscapes of water-colorist Floris Arntzenius were mostly painted in misty or rainy weather, so the subjects could be reflected on the wet asphalt?
...that in 1995-1997 a Centers for Disease Control program identified over a hundred patients likely suffering from life threatening infections new in the history of emerging infectious diseases?
...that in late 1992, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned the neo-Nazi groups German Alternative (DA), Nationalist Front (NF), German Comradeship Alliance (DKB), and the National Offensive (NO) all within a month?
...that in 2005 John Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?
...that the Wendish Crusade of 1147 was a largely unsuccessful campaign of Saxons and Danes against the Polabian Slavs concurrent to the Second Crusade?
...that the Byron Nuclear Generating Station produced about 2,300 MWe in 2005, enough electricity to supply 2 million average U.S. households?
...that Pope Martin V objected to the wording of the inscription on the tomb of Antipope John XXIII in the Florence Baptistry because he thought it implied John had died as pope?
...that electrocardiogram technicians responsible for recording ECGs in hospitals reduce medical errors in the emergency reporting of ECGs?
...that despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska?
...that many of the carnatic musicians of the Mysore Kingdom were also trained in Western classical music?
...that the small population of Estonian Ruhnu sheep is thought to descend from animals left on Ruhnu Island by Swedes?
...that the main building of the Krzyżtopór Castle , a Baroque structure in Poland, has been a ruin since the Swedish Deluge?
...that over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada?
...that in 1847, the German engineer Gustav Schleicher, who later became a veteran of the Confederate Army, founded a commune in Texas to prove the truth of communist ideals?
...that the Peshtigo Fire Museum features an intact tabernacle, one of the few items to survive the deadliest natural fire in United States history?
...that the first company union in the United States was created by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in response to the bad publicity generated by the Ludlow massacre?
...that the Hal Far Fighter Flight, a British fighter unit formed during the siege of Malta, is the source of the myth that only three aircraft formed the entire fighter cover for Malta in June 1940?
...that Tan Teck Guan Building was the site of Singapore's first medical school, and has been conserved as a national monument?
...that the pieces of dougong, an ancient Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden brackets, are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?
...that Miriam Rodon-Naveira, a Puerto Rican scientist, was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory?
...that the participants of the Channel 4 programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill site for three weeks?
...that citrus fruits white sapote, hercules' club and rue are all members of the family Rutaceae?
...that in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on horse racing?
...that MinnPost plans a non-profit Minneapolis-Saint Paul online newspaper that readers who wish for hard copies can print on demand?
...that the Toronto Magnetic Observatory had to be moved as the University of Toronto's electric lighting was interfering with observations?
...that Count Henry Russell held receptions for princes and notables in a cave on the peak of Vignemale in the Pyrenees?
...that Omaha, Nebraska is the original home of the Reuben sandwich, Omaha Steaks and ConAgra Foods?
...that the apparent disparagement of Singapore as a "little red dot" by former Indonesian President B.J. Habibie has come to be used by Singaporeans with pride?
...that four of the thirty-eight IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
...that Gord Bamford, a country music singer, was one of only two Canadian artists invited to perform at the Global Artist Party at the 2007 CMA Music Festival?
...that though the Indian rivers, Tunga and Bhadra originate at Gangamoola, they flow separately for more than 145 km (90 mi)?
...that controversy arose over the ABC television network's licensing and production of a doll based on fictional rapist Todd Manning?
...that the Treatise of Garcia of Toledo was written as a satire against Pope Urban II and Bernard, Archbishop of Toledo in the eleventh century?
...that in 1949, the Swedish dentist Alice Timander was considered for expulsion from the Swedish Dental Association after she appeared publicly in a bikini?
...that Christine Langan distracted a man from jumping off of a multi-storey car park by speaking to him in a Manchester accent until the police arrived?
...that at the time of Roman rule in Palestine, the village of Um ar-Rehan, now located in the Barta'a enclave of the Seam Zone, held a hundred houses, a road system and a Roman bathhouse?
...that Turkish record label Kalan Müzik was suspended for a song with the word "Kurdistan" in it?
...that zoologist Georgina Sweet was the first woman to receive a DSc from the University of Melbourne and the first female recipient of the David Syme Research Prize?
...that in Estonia, a digital signature is considered legally equivalent to a manual signature through the successful Estonian ID card project?
...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
...that Daphne Pearson was the first woman awarded the George Cross for acts of bravery during World War II?
...that the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?
...that Clarence Herbert Smith , who invented the stump-jump plough under the direction of his brother, later produced the machine for sale because the patent taken out by his brother was left to lapse?
...that David Fung performed Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House at only 19 years of age?
...that New Zealand's North Island Robin was originally thought to be a subspecies of the New Zealand Robin, but mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis has shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene?
...that the territorial governor of Montana Preston Leslie pardoned a prostitute convicted of grand larceny because the penitentiary was not equipped to accommodate women?
...that Hasan Saltık, called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music" by Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan?
...that National Medal of Science recipient Evelyn M. Witkin's interest in mutagenesis led her to discover mechanisms of bacterial DNA repair?
...that the first temple to be built in soapstone was constructed in Western Chalukya architecture , in Karnataka, India?
...that it was Frances Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset who interceded with Queen Caroline to obtain a pardon for the poet and murderer Richard Savage?
...that royal fish, such as whales and sturgeons, are property of the Queen when found on the shores of the United Kingdom?
...that the "negro of Banyoles" was a human piece of taxidermy which prompted debate by the United Nations?
...that most trains stop before reaching the platform at Coombe railway station in Cornwall, UK, and then reverse away?
...that the Minority Treaties of 1919-1921, designed to protect ethnic minorities, were not implemented on the victorious allies of World War I?
...that the construction of Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several 18th century Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?
...that Ian Smith's 24 international tries, scored for Scotland in rugby union between 1924 and 1933, was an international record until 1987?
...that the Ukrainian pogroms in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were falsely attributed by the communists to Symon Petlura, despite his efforts to save Jews?
...that the standard version of Sojourner Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?" was recorded by Frances Dana Barker Gage ?
...that the Hearst Medical Papyrus, considered to be an authentic ancient Egyptian document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake?
...that Jehovah's Witnesses have had an impact on civil liberties in the United States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the U.S. Supreme Court?
...that Nanda, the half-sister of Gautama Buddha, went on to be the foremost nun in the practice of jhana?
...that Belinda Dann, a member of Australia's Stolen Generation, died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?
...that 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn and the publication of its scientific description?
...that Le Naturaliste Canadien is the oldest French-language academic journal in North America?
...that one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the British public?
...that in "Thou Art the Man", one of Edgar Allan Poe's lesser-known detective stories, ventriloquism is used to expose a murderer?
...that the award for European Parliament's newly established cinema prize, Lux, consists of subtitling the winning film in the 23 official EU languages and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?
...that due to backlash from the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., under US law an expert witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense?
...that Captain Clack Stone led the intense defense of Apple River Fort against 150-200 Sauk and Fox warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort?
...that the Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most major AIDS clinics in the US?
...that PlumpJack Winery was the first winery in the Napa Valley to use screwcaps as a wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over USD$100 per bottle?
...that after being suspended for life from the Ontario Hockey League, Marc Laforge still played professionally for two National Hockey League teams?
...that when Richard Fort won a seat in the 1950 general election, he became the third person with the same name to represent Clitheroe in the British House of Commons?
...that the Crown Colony-class cruiser HMS Jamaica was nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast" because the North Koreans claimed that she had been sunk on three occasions?
...that in Tennard v. Dretke, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the defendant's mental retardation in sentencing the death penalty?
...that archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a resource for humans, with prehistoric and more modern sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains?
...that Bob Odom, Louisiana's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry, is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
...that U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst had a cameo as a U.S. Senator in Otto Preminger's film Advice and Consent?
...that the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?
...that Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian state of New South Wales?
...that the medical papyri show that ancient Egyptian physicians of the 19th century BC knew about migraines?
...that Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news program Gay USA?
...that even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of Sebaldus, the patron saint of Nuremberg, his veneration continued even after the Protestant Revolution?
...that before U.S. short track speed skater Cathy Turner won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics, she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"?
...that the Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several Minority Treaties, and Poland's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the League of Nations' ethnic minority-protection regime?
...that before competing in luge, Bonny Warner competed for Stanford University on a field hockey scholarship?
...that the founding of the Church in Malta is described in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible?
...that only three of the largest islands of the United States – the Big Island of Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico – are greater than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km²) in size?
...that at King of the Ring 1998, Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in professional wrestling?
...that the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses puppetry, street theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change?
...that Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and a trading center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century?
...that José María Campo Serrano became President of Colombia after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress?
...that the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Spain is reputed to be the first church dedicated to Mary through history?
...that the hydroid Hydractinia bayeri was named by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in honor of a fellow marine biologist, Frederick Bayer?
...that visual evidence of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in reconnaissance photographs by CIA analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl?
...that Michael G. Strain is Louisiana's first elected Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?
...that the Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the state with a summit at 10,715 ft (3266 m)?
...that Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and then convinced the High Commissioner to sign it?
...that Raspberry Island in the Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest Roosevelt elk ever recorded?
...that the Heller House marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright's shift to Prairie School architecture?
...that Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto's New Order, but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974?
...that the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$1.7 billion in insured damages?
...that the unusual Mexican ball game of pelota mixteca is thought to be a development of real tennis?
...that the Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in Portland, Oregon was constructed in the parking lot of the Memorial Coliseum?
...that the Winchester Model 1895 is one of the few lever-action rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by charger clips?
...that in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route?
...that a 120-year old Bodhi tree in Jin Long Si Temple, standing over 30 m tall with a girth of 8.5 m, is the oldest and largest of its kind ever found in Singapore?
...that the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted?
...that the book This Is Not The Life I Ordered, co-authored by former California State Senator Jackie Speier, has twice reached the San Francisco Chronicle best seller list?
...that Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
...that Chris Cosentino, a contestant on The Next Iron Chef famous for cooking offal, hated his grandmother's tripe as a child?
...that poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II?
...that near the end of World War II, American soldiers conducted a raid behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German officers?
...that Piffles Taylor quarterbacked the Regina Roughriders to the Western Canada rugby championship in 1919 after losing an eye in World War I?
...that ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943 Volhynia was resisted by the Defence of Przebraże?
...that in 2004, the Children's Court of Victoria in Australia granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother?
...that Goose Creek State Park, a North Carolina state park off Pamlico Sound, is in an inlet that once provided cover for Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet and other pirates?
...that Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986?
...that Ugaritic culture hero Danel may have been a model for the Biblical Daniel of Ezekiel?
...that the volcano Mount St. Helens is named after Alleyne FitzHerbert of Derby ?
...that from 1955 to 1973, the United States conducted a scientific initiative aimed at producing gravity-manipulation technology?
...that intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime, but settled insanity due to substance abuse is?
...that former Finance Minister of Israel Pinchas Sapir was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels?
...that G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
...that artist R. B. Kitaj blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective?
...that wide receiver Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning touchdown in Lloyd Carr's Michigan coaching debut?
...that Fermin Rocker, son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker, once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger?
...that despite being found guilty of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots to assassinate Elizabeth I, Charles Paget was given the manor of Weston-on-Trent?
...that the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net?
...that the now-Polish Gliwice Canal was known as the "Adolf Hitler Canal" during WWII?
...that the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British soldiers since the Korean War?
...that sculptor Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular "Life Underground" subway installation?
...that Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland, where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland?
...that Singapore’s Fort Tanjong Katong, one of the oldest military forts built by the British colonial government, never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?
...that in his 1968 Declaration of Perth, British Conservative leader Edward Heath pledged his party's support for Scottish devolution, a policy later reversed by Margaret Thatcher?
...that the Louisiana Tigers Confederate Army brigade were a key part of the Army of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting shock troops?
...that the training exercises in Flash Focus were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology?
...that in January 1859, over 30,000 people gathered on Dealul Mitropoliei in Bucharest in support of Alexander John Cuza in his election to become the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia?
...that Heuneburg, an early Celtic settlement by the upper Danube, was already fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?
...that Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia?
...that Harold E. Martin, a newspaper publisher and editor, won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association?
...that when Sir Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly £20, it was enough to run a secondary school in the 16th century?
...that a dispute over the Sudanese region of Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war?
...that the conditions at the chapel of St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn in 1703 protected the unburied Duke Eugène de Croÿ from decaying and his body became an attraction remaining on display until 1897?
...that the United States Supreme Court held in Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the U.S. government may imprison citizens without probable cause during an insurrection so long as it acts in good faith?
...that Mafia turncoat Baldassare Di Maggio claimed that Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti at a meeting?
...that Jüri Vilms, a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later?
...that Harris Wash is a 40-mile long tributary of the Escalante River within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah?
...that the Mourning of Muharram, observed by Shi'a Muslims, commemorates the anniversary of the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680?
...that Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Lessons for Children (1778–79) revolutionized children's literature, introducing what novelist Frances Burney called a "new walk"?
...that Gershwin's musical Primrose had its Broadway première more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut?
...that the Praetorian Building, a high-rise in Dallas, is regarded to be the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States?
...that Douglas Bruce is so associated with Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"?
...that during a copper miners' strike in Michigan in 1913, labor leader Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by Calumet city police while still bleeding?
...that a prosecution was started against Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in Findern in 1693?
...that Zhenzhu Khan of Xueyantuo once offered 50,000 horses, 10,000 cattle or camels, and 100,000 goats to Emperor Taizong of Tang China to serve as bride price for a princess?
...that Unnale Unnale was the director of Jeeva's final film before his death?
...that nine workers died at India's Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten steel?
...that the Union Monument in Romania was unveiled in 1927, demolished in 1947 by the Communists, and rebuilt in 1999?
...that Speak, Mnemosyne was replaced by Speak, Memory as the title of Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography for fear that people could not pronounce it?