derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the proposals for a new Crimean flag after the collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design , which was officially adopted in 1999?
...that the fast bowling during West Indies' tour to England in 1984 was so hostile that England Test cricketer Andy Lloyd was struck on the head and hospitalised, despite wearing a helmet, and Paul Terry's arm was broken?
...that Tropical Depression One in June 1992 produced 100-year floods in portions of southwestern Florida?
...that Romanian politician Teohari Georgescu was dismissed from his post as Interior Minister in 1952 after being simultaneously accused of left-wing and right-wing deviationism?
...that the fourth Nordic Football Championship tournament was started in 1937 but did not end until eleven years later as it was interrupted by the Second World War?
...that Jennifer Pike was the youngest person to ever win the BBC Young Musician of the Year award, at twelve years of age?
...that a Drascombe is a class of small sailing boats designed by John Watkinson?
...that Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War, and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945?
...that the National Language Authority in Pakistan is the first autonomous regulatory institution to have internationally standardized the Urdu language code table and Urdu keyboard for typewriters, teleprinters, and computer software?
...that Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
...that the Volga Tatars believed that the Volga Bulgarian medieval city of Aşlı was founded there by Alexander the Great?
...that Louis IX of France resided in the walled city of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne before departing on the Eighth Crusade, during which he died in 1270 near Tunis?
...that A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant had its name changed due to threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology?
...that the official recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Transylvania in the late 18th century was the result of the activity of an Orthodox monk who was canonized two centuries later as Saint Sofronie of Cioara?
...that the Ludlow Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a national referendum for declaration of war?
...that despite using sharp needles, bird control spikes do not harm the animals, and are recommended by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds?
...that Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post?
...that Kanawha was a steam-powered luxury yacht aboard which industrialist Henry H. Rogers met Booker T. Washington to secretly fund the education of African Americans?
...that the Haitian palm, Attalea crassispatha, is so rare that there were only 25 of them left in 1991?
...that Belarusian political authorities denounced Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript?
...that British Member of Parliament George Chetwynd seconded a Private Member's Bill to ban toy weapons because he believed they were an incentive to acquire a "gangster mentality"?
...that Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa committed murder, kidnapping, racketeering, and tax evasion during the 1990s, all in an attempt to establish a chain of gas stations in New York City?
...that one of the statues at the erotic temple Candi Sukuh in Java, Indonesia, is a 1.82 m (6 feet) standing phallus with four balls placed below the tip?
...that Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness?
...that Kobe Bryant's agent, Rob Pelinka, was the only person to play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship for both the 1989 champion Michigan and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five teams?
...that Fort William College, set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages?
...that the lower species diversity among certain mammals of New England compared to mammals of the American West is thought to be due to fewer glacial refugia in the Eastern United States?
...that according to legend, Joseph Stalin remained in Moscow during World War II partly due to a prophecy from Matryona Nikonova, who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?
...that the archaeological cave of Juxtlahuaca contains Mesoamerica's earliest sophisticated painted art , as well as its only known example of non-Maya deep cave art?
...that Dembei, a fisherman stranded on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1701 or 1702, is believed to have been the first Japanese person to settle in Russia?
...that when John Horden sent his Cree-language translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it?
...that Italian-Swiss entrepreneur Carlo Gatti pioneered the sale of ice cream to the general public in London from 1849, and later ran several music halls?
...that "Nocturne" is the Eurovision Song Contest winner with the fewest words, the Norwegian language original having only 25?
...that banking regulations in Russia include significant specifics, such as mandatory deposits placed in special reserve accounts at the Russian Central Bank?
...that the South Cameroon Plateau takes up over half the land area of Cameroon?
...that on December 20, 2006, two members of the Italian Radical Party controversially introduced two homosexual figures to the nativity scene at the Italian Congress?
...that fast neutron therapy utilizes neutrons, typically with more than twenty megaelectronvolts, to treat diseases like cancer?
...that the West Indian cricket team lost only two matches during their three-month tour to England in 1980?
...that Weston State Hospital in West Virginia was designed in accordance with the Kirkbride Plan for mental illness treatment?
...that the Port of Redwood City is the only deep-water port in southern San Francisco Bay?
...that in constructing the Via della Conciliazione , Benito Mussolini ordered the demolition of an entire Roman neighborhood, and the forcible eviction of its residents to settlements outside the city?
...that the Evangelist portraits of early medieval Gospel Books used compositions taken from the pagan author portraits of the Late Classical period?
...that in Tampa, Florida in 1998, Hank Earl Carr successfully unlocked his handcuffs, disarmed a detective, and killed three law enforcement personnel before killing himself?
...that Artin Penik, a Turkish-Armenian, set himself on fire in protest of the attacks against Turks by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)?
...that Bernard de Marigny, a New Orleans playboy and politician, introduced the dice game craps to the United States in the early 1800s?
...that the common idiom behind the eight ball is derived from the pocket billiards game of kelly pool?
...that British General Sir Charles Harington was president of the Hurlingham Club for over 25 years?
...that in order to accommodate the rock musical Dude, the Broadway Theatre in Manhattan was turned into an arena filled with ramps, runways, catwalks, columns, trapezes, and trapdoors at a cost of US$800,000?
...that Stephen Gilbert was one of only two British artists to join the CoBrA avant-garde art group?
...that Chip Berlet's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI?
...that British architect Stephen Gardiner wrote biographies of sculptors Jacob Epstein and Elisabeth Frink, both of whom were family friends?
...that the Western Blue-tongued Lizard displays its tongue to frighten off predators?
...that the King Jagiello Monument in Central Park, New York, was forced to remain in the United States after the Nazi invasion of Poland made its return from the 1939 New York World's Fair impossible?
...that Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish missions in Africa?
...that the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, an annual and televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon, was first held in 1995?
...that hundreds of historic tobacco barns in Maryland were rendered obsolete after many farmers took advantage of a 2001 state program offering to buy out tobacco farmers?
...that Henry le Chen was put in control of a sheriffdom by King Edward I, despite being a senior royal councillor during the reign of King John, whom Edward deposed?
...that Martha, the mother of Simeon Stylites, is said to have only consented to marriage after John the Baptist appeared to her telling her to do so?
...that the Dethridge wheel , invented in Australia in 1910, measures the flow of water delivered to farms for irrigation?
...that Alan de St Edmund, while in Rome as chaplain to Cardinal Hugh of Evesham, was made Bishop of Caithness after its previous bishop-elect died there while seeking consecration?
...that in 1828, Hillfields became the first suburb of Coventry to be located outside of the city walls marking the beginning of a large expansion for the city?
...that cross-country cyclists are more prone to injury than road cyclists but the injuries sustained by the former are less severe on average?
...that the spring and village Águas Santas are believed to be named for the spring where Marina of Aguas Santas was beheaded?
...that retired District of New Jersey judge William G. Bassler is currently teaching at three New York City area law schools?
...that Germany built two merchant submarines in World War I to trade for valuable raw materials with the United States?
...that bridges carrying India's Grand Trunk Road over the Barakar River were washed away in 1913 and 1946?
...that the effects of Hurricane Wilma in the Bahamas were generally unexpected and primarily concentrated on the western portion of Grand Bahama Island?
...that some weather records include a 57.8°C (136°F) air temperature in Libya, 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe, and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska?
...that the offices of the Labour Leader, the newspaper of the British Independent Labour Party, were raided in 1915, and editor Fenner Brockway was charged with publishing seditious material?
...that Canadian water slide manufacturer ProSlide's first water coaster driven by linear induction motors opened at Australia's WhiteWater World in 2006?
...that local mountaineers have organized daily canoe trips down Dunajec River Gorge in Pieniny National Park, Poland since the early 19th century?
...that Indian poet Gopalakrishna Adiga is known as the pioneer of Navya literature?
...that the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 was said by opponents to be part of a Communist, Catholic, Jewish or psychiatric conspiracy to set up concentration camps in Alaska for political prisoners?
...that, after 34 years as Roman Catholic abbot of Coupar Angus, Donald Campbell converted to Protestantism in 1559, and destroyed the icons and altars of his monastery in Scotland?
...that 28 civilians were killed in the Bisho massacre in 1992, when soldiers opened fire on marchers demanding that the bantustan of Ciskei be reincorporated into South Africa?
...that Bruce Smith was the only member of the first Parliament of Australia to oppose the White Australia Policy?
...that George Crichton's death in 1544 initiated a decade long quarrel over the position of Bishop of Dunkeld until the appointment of his nephew, Robert Crichton?
...that The Log from the Sea of Cortez documents a trip taken by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts around the Gulf of California, but neither is mentioned by name in the book?
...that as part of a publicity stunt, the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin?
...that the entire Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka?
...that Anne Lynch Botta introduced Edgar Allan Poe to literary society at her receptions?
...that German painter Ludwig Thiersch influenced the debate over Byzantine and Western influences in modern Greek art, and painted church frescoes in Greece, Austria, Germany, England, and Russia?
...that Emil Calmanovici, the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding?
...that the performance of "Romeo" at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, was the first time that a drag queen or any other sexual minority had been openly visible onstage at Eurovision?
...that 2007 Grammy Award winning single Eyes of the Insane by American thrash band Slayer had two alternative endings filmed for its war-themed music video?
...that Saint Reineldis is commonly depicted in art being dragged by the hair by Huns?
...that the Hungarian village of Beloiannisz was founded in 1950 by Greek refugees?
...that John McFee and the late Keith Knudsen were the only band members of the country rock group Southern Pacific to stay for its entire eight-year run from 1983 to 1991?
...that to save weight while walking 1,000 km along the Camino de Santiago, Canadian fiddler Oliver Schroer packed a sleeping bag and clothes around his violin instead of using a case?
...that Oscar-winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project, which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States?
...that the artist and illustrator N. C. Wyeth was the grandfather of Howard Wyeth, the stride pianist and drummer for Bob Dylan?
...that large-scale Greek settlement in what is today Bulgaria dates to the 7th century BC?
...that the novel Raptor Red, by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, is told from the perspective of an intelligent therapod dinosaur, Utahraptor?
...that Japanese author Kodō Nomura, who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan?
...that the Potawatomi tribe believed that the natural pond in the backyard of the Chauncey Ellwood House in Sycamore, Illinois was once a watering hole for native buffalo?
...that Professor Józef Łukaszewicz took part in a failed attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia?
...that the Old Sycamore Hospital , founded in 1899, was designed and funded by the first female doctor in Sycamore, Illinois?
...that the Alignment is the only political party in Israel ever to have held a majority of seats in the Knesset?
...that the venomous snake used for murder in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is most likely the Indian Cobra or one of its hybrids?
...that according to the framework interpretation of Genesis Chapter One, the first three days of creation are poetically reflected in the last three days of creation?
...that the website of the rock magazine Rock Street Journal has a database of over a thousand South Asian rock bands?
...that Hurricane Wilma set records for the lowest recorded pressure and the smallest eye of any Atlantic hurricane?
...that an estimated 20 people died after eating peppermint humbugs that had accidentally been made with arsenic in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning?
...that the potential for the production of renewable energy in Scotland includes up to 25% of the EU’s capacity for both wind and tidal power generation?
...that although Russian playwright Viktoriya Tokareva's writing style is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov, none of her work has been published in English?
...that the Polish manoeuvre in the Battle of Koziatyn in 1920 is an example of a blitzkrieg-like offensive before the advent of tank warfare?
...that the bulk of Bulgarians in Hungary descend from gardeners and other professionals who settled in the country prior to World War I?
...that Eric Jansson led a pietist sect of Swedish immigrants to Bishop Hill, Illinois in 1846, where they founded a collective religious colony?
...that Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?
...that Charles Dickens composed the epitaph for the tombstone of Charles Irving Thornton despite never having met the dead child or his family?
...that John de Ralston, the chaplain of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld and helped to arrange the marriage of King James II of Scotland to Mary of Gueldres?
...that although the series 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + · · · is ordinarily said to diverge to infinity, there is at least one generally useful method that gives its sum as −1?
...that Ivan Ray Tannehill ruled out weather balloons as the cause of a rash of UFO sightings, which included the Roswell UFO incident, seen during the summer of 1947?
...that a discharge petition can force a bill to be considered by the United States House of Representatives if the leadership tries to suppress it?
...that Šárka Záhrobská was the first Czech alpine skier to win a medal in the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships?
...that the Vorontsovsky Palace in Ukraine was designed by the English architect Edward Blore?
...that the World War II Italian submarine Cappellini was in all three major Axis navies, before being captured by the U.S. Navy?
...that the Australian Test cricketer "Ranji" Hordern played for Philadelphia while studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania?
...that Charles Grant of the British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India?
...that the comic strip Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper is said to be the first comic to consistently use speech balloons, and was the first North American comic to be adapted into a movie?
...that Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets American college basketball player Thaddeus Young was a McDonald's All-American and graduated from high school with a 4.3 grade point average?
...that the Russian Fascist Party was the most influential Russian émigré group in Manchukuo in the 1930s?
...that the three-day S.S. California strike in 1936 triggered a wave of strikes by merchant seamen and led to the founding of the National Maritime Union?
...that the view that Jesus and John were lovers, considered a blasphemy, evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
...that the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built to transport artillery ammunition from Balaclava to the Allied troops besiging Sevastopol during the Crimean War?
...that Sir Edwin Lutyens included a landscaped circular depression in his design for the Hooge Crater Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Flanders, to evoke the mine craters that once surrounded it?
...that the United States Department of Agriculture expects the boll weevil to be eradicated by 2009 as a result of its Boll Weevil Eradication Program?
...that in penny gaffs, theatrical entertainments enjoyed by the working classes in 19th century England, the plays were often brought to an end by a timekeeper, regardless of what point in the script the actors had reached?
...that Nabisco's bakery in Chicago Lawn was the biggest in the world when it opened in 1941?
...that the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts created the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, a four-foot-wide cheese wheel, to honor Thomas Jefferson following his Presidential electoral victory?
...that poverty in France (homeless Parisian depicted) went down by 60% from 1970 to 2001, despite an increase in poverty among the workforce?
...that the term "stay the course" was dropped by United States President George W. Bush two weeks before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections?
...that the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?
...that after one group he founded was banned, the neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen began a policy of regularly starting up new organizations in order to confuse the authorities?
...that the Broadway opening of the musical Wildcat had to be postponed, because the trucks hauling the sets and costumes to New York were stranded as a result of a major blizzard?
...that from 1897 until his retirement in 1908, American cricketer John Lester led the batting averages of the Philadelphians?
...that English theatre director Steven Pimlott directed a wide variety of performances from popular musicals, through avant garde theatre and Shakespeare, to opera?
...that Cornwall Iron Furnace in Pennsylvania is the only intact charcoal-burning iron blast furnace on its original plantation in the western hemisphere?
...that the Romanian Union of Communist Youth underwent a total of four purges, which resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of members?
...that Hurricane Able of 1951 was the strongest hurricane to form outside of the Atlantic hurricane season?
...that Sulejman Talović, who went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, was a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina?
...that Peter Böhler and other Moravian followers founded the towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania?
...that a fluidized bed reactor can be used in the creation of fuel, rubber, vinyl chloride, polyethylene, and styrenes?
...that Wye Valley Brewery’s Dorothy Goodbody line of beers were all originally supposed to feature Herefordshire-grown hops, but the best-known beer in that line contains hops grown in Ireland?
...that in Islamic law, a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?
...that Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier?
...that Beverley Baxter raised circulation of the Daily Express from under one million to over two million during his four years as editor?
...that ice-minus bacteria, a variant of genus Pseudomonas, are useful in agriculture, because they can prevent the formation of ice on crops?
...that Rembrandt collected the works of Hercules Seghers and partially reworked two of his works?
...that Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius?
...that Joseph Legros, who first performed in 1764, was the principal tenor at the Paris Opéra until his retirement in 1783?
...that Archbishop Anthony Forbes Moreton Clavier was ordained as a priest by five different churches in five years?
...that New York's "Timothy's Law" mandated that New York health insurance plans provide coverage for biologically-based mental health conditions comparable to coverage for physical ailments?
...that England's cricket selectors picked "coloured" Basil D'Oliveira to replaced the injured Tom Cartwright for the tour to South Africa in 1968-69, triggering the cancellation of the tour and leading to the exclusion of the South African cricket team from international cricket until apartheid was abolished in 1991?
...that Eldon Hill in the Peak District, England lost much of its area through limestone quarrying between 1950 and 1999?
...that Kazimierz Pelczar, a Polish professor of the Stefan Batory University and pioneer of oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre?
...that M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida?
...that the non-fiction book Inside Scientology, published in 1972 by Olympia Press, was the first to disclose secret Scientology materials?
...that during the 100 point game, Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association match?