derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Short Knuckleduster gull-winged flying boat never entered military service, but data from its handling and engine steam-cooling aided the design of Short's Empire and Sunderland aircraft?
...that the founder of the Caucasus branch of the Qadiriyyah Tariqah, Kunta-haji is often referred as the "Chechen Gandhi" because of his doctrine of nonviolence?
...that although people from the Isle of Man are British citizens, they do not have freedom of movement or employment throughout the European Union?
...that the Scientology Task Force of Hamburg, Germany reported on what it called brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force?
...that Gaius Pontius, the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate?
...that ten days before the ratification of the Peace of Szeged, Vladislaus, King of Hungary, swore an oath which invalidated it and all future treaties with the Ottoman Empire?
...that Eddie Ingram played for the Irish cricket team for 25 years, after making his debut at the age of 17?
...that in 2002 Nicaragua had 15 times fewer banks than its Central American counterparts with only six compared to the regional average of 107 per country?
...that trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation, with approximately 40% of workers in the formal economy being unionized?
...that the Sabine Free State, a border area between Spanish Texas and American Louisiana but administered by neither for 15 years in the early 19th century, attracted every kind of outlaw known from both sides, as well as settlers, adventurers and political refugees?
...that Ira Losco, who led Malta to a second place finish in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest, sang the official anthem at the opening ceremonies of the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe?
...that police officers in Croatia are only allowed to use their guns if there is a threat to their life or the lives of other people, or to prevent a crime from being committed for which the maximum prison sentence is five years or more?
...that the San Salvador was a galleon of the Spanish Armada whose capture supplied the English with a significant proportion of the gunpowder that they used in the campaign?
...that Simon de Montfort was killed and had his testicles cut off at the Battle of Evesham ?
...that Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
...that the 14th century Chinese military treatise of the Huo Long Jing edited by Jiao Yu described the use of cast iron grenades, firearms, fire lance flamethrowers, cannons, land mines, naval mines, rocket launchers, and winged rockets?
...that Bristol Byzantine was an architectural style used for industrial buildings in Bristol between 1850 and 1880?
...that the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco?
...that West Indies cricketer Sir Harold Austin, who captained the team twice on tours to England, later became the Speaker in the Barbados House of Assembly?
...that the longest river on the island of New Guinea, the Sepik , was named the Kaiserin Augusta by German explorers in 1884, after the German Empress of the day?
...that Horabagrus brachysoma, an endangered species of the genus Horabagrus, has been considered a potential flagship species for media attention to provide a focus for wildlife conservation of inland biodiversity?
...that the 18th century Bow porcelain factory in the district of Bow, London was a short-lived rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in making the earliest soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain?
...that the Turkish tanbur is one of the four musical instruments that make up Turkish classical music's basic quartet?
...that Otto van Veen was Peter Paul Rubens' first master, but is now best known for his emblem books?
...that two separate newspapers called the Western Mail have been published in Perth, Western Australia, the first from 1885 to 1955 and the second from 1980 to 1988?
...that Władysław Orkan, a Podhale Polish writer and poet of the Young Poland movement, never passed his matura exams?
...that Pieter Brueghel the Elder's painting, Netherlandish Proverbs , features depictions of around 100 common sayings of the 16th century?
...that Conor McPherson's The Weir was performed on Broadway in 1998, less than a year after its original opening at The Royal Court Theatre in London?
...that Judge Henry F. Werker's rejection of unfair labor practice charges against baseball owners preceded the two-month 1981 Major League Baseball strike, even though his opinion ended by urging the parties to "PLAY BALL"?
...that the non-fiction book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions analyzes cults from an evangelical Christian perspective?
...that the name of the Cheers episode The Gift of the Woodi is a reference to O. Henry's short story The Gift of the Magi?
...that the first Azerbaijani language newspaper, Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi?
...that Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August, 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta?
...that British Pre-Raphaelite painter Solomon Joseph Solomon (artist of the picture) was one of the few Jewish painters of his time to become a member of the Royal Academy?
...that Lieutenant Peter Bover, whose shooting of a Royal Navy sailor sparked the Nore mutiny of 1797, was exonerated by the mutineers and cheered on returning to his ship?
...that the summer 1944 Lublin-Brest Offensive of Soviet Army succeeded in bringing the Soviets to the vicinity of Warsaw, where the Warsaw Uprising began?
...that modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul, Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-1856)?
...that the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond, who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans?
...that the Kipawa River in Quebec, Canada, is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it?
...that Randy Gumpert first pitched for the New York Yankees in 1946, even though it had been eight years since he was on a major league roster?
...that the Swedish narrow-gauge railroad Upsala-Lenna Jernväg includes the biggest remaining steam locomotive built for 891 mm rail gauge?
...that the Brothers Grimm were amongst the Göttingen Seven, university teachers who protested changes to the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837?
...that when the RMS Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912, the largest shipyard in the world was in Belfast?
...that Vortex I, which took place in Oregon in 1970, remains the only state-sponsored rock festival in United States history?
...that Colombian National Police Sub-Intendant John Frank Pinchao was kidnapped by the FARC guerrillas for almost 9 years, until finally escaping in 2007?
...that a 1973 book on Prem Rawat, Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?, featured an introduction by American anti-Vietnam War activist Rennie Davis?
...that the satirical magazine The Georgetown Heckler changed its name from The Georgetown Lampoon after being threatened with a lawsuit by the Harvard Lampoon?
...that many of the earliest known copies of the New Testament are remains of papyrus books from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt ?
...that in the Roman Empire, ten-year celebrations called "decennalia" originated after Augustus refused the lifetime supremacy offered to him?
...that although it was not particularly well-known in Bulgaria until the late 19th century, today Bulgarian beer is one of the country's most popular alcoholic beverages?
...that the Duke of Wellington had not seen Kitty Pakenham for ten years when he proposed marriage to her in 1806?
...that the Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10, 1989?
...that, like Aphrodite bathing in the sea at Paphos, Hera too renewed her maidenhood annually, in the spring of Kanathos?
...that nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal Nature?
...that the Green Knight of medieval literature is thought by many scholars to represent the Devil due to its strange colour?
...that John J. Clague won the Logan Medal, the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada, in 2007?
...that 5-HT3 antagonists, effective for treating the nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, have no effect on motion sickness?
...that the fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels?
...that alpine skier Jean Saubert won one-third of all medals earned by the entire United States Olympic team at the 1964 Winter Olympics?
...that Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?
...that Romulus Whitaker won the Whitley Award for establishing a rainforest research station at Agumbe, India to conserve King Cobras?
...that the House of Gediminas ruled Lithuania from 1285 to 1572?
...that The Geysers, a geothermal power field located north of San Francisco, California, is the largest geothermal development in the world?
...that Swearing on the Horns is a Highgate pub tradition that dates back to the 1600s?
...that the autobiography of Italian sculptor Raffaello da Montelupo contains the only known contemporary reference to Michelangelo's natural left-handedness?
...that the Rusty-barred Owl is one of the only two members of the Strix genus of birds to be found in South America?
...that William Moore was the earliest settler of Skagway, the famous gold rush town in the Klondike Gold Rush?
...that the European fascist alliance New European Order split in 1955 due to a dispute over the issue of whether South Tyrol should be Italian or Austrian?
...that the Sauk Rapids Tornado of 1886 changed the economic structure of central Minnesota after it destroyed at least 109 commercial or public buildings in Sauk Rapids ?
...that at least 36 vases painted by the Athenian Meidias Painter are still in existence more than 2,400 years after they were created?
...that Mary Brunner, a member of the "Manson family", was incarcerated after a shootout with police at a robbery?
...that Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum?
...that Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters?
...that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?
...that the Jesus Army, a British Christian outreach organisation, has been condemned by the Cult Information Centre, another British charity?
...that Russian photography pioneer Karl Bulla left more than 200,000 glass negatives that are now in the public domain?
...that 13 rioters convicted by a jury of their peers were later pardoned for their actions in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842?
...that British art historian Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar GCVO served in the Royal Household for 41 years, becoming the first Director of the Royal Collection in 1987?
...that Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
...that over four hundred 4000-year-old carved stone balls have been uncovered in archaeological digs in Scotland?
...that the Judaic legal fiction of Prozbul protects both the poor and wealthy from the effects of the Sabbatical Year?
...that Sammy Ellis won 22 games and made the All-Star team for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 despite allowing the most Earned Runs in the league?
...that the 1912 comic strip Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett was the first American strip to have a female protagonist?
...that the tallest wooden sculpture of Bodhisattva in the world is housed in Puning Temple of China?
...that the New York Giants of the NFL won the first Super Bowl in their franchise history during their 1986 season?
...that the first computer simulations of galaxy mergers were conducted by Alar Toomre in the 1970s?
...that Crotalus tigris has the highest toxicity of venoms among rattlesnakes, even though it has a low venom yield?
...that one of the finest naturalistic Late Antique ivory diptychs was found in a well at the abbey of Montier-en-Der, originally called Puteolus ("little well")?
...that German-born Richard Lieber started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
...that BBC radio presenter Margaret Hubble presented Woman's Hour alongside Marjorie Anderson and Jean Metcalfe in the 1950s?
...that Swindon's Link Centre contains the tallest climbing wall in Wiltshire?
...that Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was exiled for life, after marrying a commoner of black ancestry?
...that the 1942 animated short film Japoteurs features a scene similar to the one in Superman Returns in which Superman catches an airplane in mid-air?
...that Beechy, Saskatchewan, despite only having a population of 243, is home to former provincial Leader of the Opposition and Saskatchewan Party founder Elwin Hermanson?
...that the story of Kamsa and Bar Kamsa is the most famous Jewish legend regarding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem?
...that an endoclip is used to close two mucosal surfaces in the gastrointestinal tract without the need for surgery and suturing?
...that the Kraków szopka is a unique Polish Christmas tradition that portrays artistic interpretations of buildings of Kraków along nativity scenes?
...that the biggest walk-through aviary in India is located on the shore of the Karanji Lake in Mysore?
...that Shinozaki Mamoru was credited as the "Japanese Schindler" for saving thousands of Chinese and Eurasians during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore?
...that the Romanian poet Mehmet Niyazi, a major figure in Crimean Tatar literature, was expelled from Crimea three times during his lifetime?
...that on average, laying the track leading up to the final spike of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway cost $112,000 a mile?
...that the Defense Production Administration, a branch of the U.S. government set up to oversee defense production during wartime mobilization, was abolished after only two years?
...that John Vesey, a 16th-century bishop of Exeter, had a fordkeeper's cottage built along Plants Brook to help provide security for travelers on the Wylde Green Road?
...that Pokey Allen, former head coach of the Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
...that after an ultimatum by the Chicago White Stockings to pull his African American players from the active roster, baseball manager Charlie Morton put Moses Fleetwood Walker back on despite having given him time off for injuries?
...that at the age of 21, Roman Emperor Nero instituted the games of Juvenalia in recognition of the first shaving of his beard?
...that many abandoned flour mills in Mills District, Minneapolis have been converted to museums, parks, theaters, and condominiums?
...that in the Indian Gaarudi Gombe ceremonial dance, dancers are required to wear full-body doll-suits made of bamboo sticks?
...that at the age of 70, former English Football League and international soccer referee Pat Partridge took over as linesman in a non-league match he was watching, after the original linesman took over from the injured referee?
...that Cameroon's Western High Plateau has a rainy season that lasts nine months?
...that a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata?
...that "Anytime You Need" was the first Eurovision Song Contest entry to feature lyrics in Armenian?
...that an average of 90,000 people a month walk, jog, cycle or skate along Florida's Pinellas Trail?
...that when Captain Linda Garcia Cubero graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1980, she was the first Latina to graduate from any U.S. military service academy?
...that John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging?
...that the 2800 verses of the Mohanatarangini make it the longest work by Kanaka Dasa, a 16th century saint and one of the foremost names in Kannada literature?
...that the ethnically-fueled 1989 Sukhumi riots in the Soviet Union's Abkhaz ASSR left eighteen dead and almost 450 injured?
...that Christopher Buckley's novel Florence of Arabia was an homage to Fern Holland, one of the first U.S. civilians to be killed in the Iraq War?
...that the Imperial Russian statesman and sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld laid out his theories on organicism when he served as the governor of Courland?
...that the Gaussian Network Model has a wide range of applications from enzymes composed of a single domain, to large macromolecular assemblies, such as ribosomes and viral capsids?
...that 18th century Franco-Portuguese industrialist Jácome Ratton left a vivid account of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in his memoirs and was exiled to the Azores during the Napoleonic Wars?
...that Rotylenchulus reniformis, a roundworm found in tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, is a major parasite of crop plants?
...that Robert Harrill, ironically known as the "Fort Fisher Hermit," received thousands of visitors per year and was once the second most popular tourist attraction in North Carolina?
...that American evolutionary biologist Jack Lester King co-authored a provocative 1969 paper, "Non-Darwinian Evolution", on the neutral theory of molecular evolution?
...that, while the first model of the Atar Volant series was a simple turbojet engine, the third model was a proper coleopter, an aircraft with an annular wing that is able to land and take-off vertically without need of a runway?
...that the Defense Production Act played a vital role in the establishment of the American domestic aluminum and titanium processing industries in the 1950s?
...that the 200 km/h maximum speed of the Munich-Nuremberg Express makes it the only regional train in Germany fast enough to not impede ICE traffic?
...that Himalayan Hemlock (Tsuga dumosa) was first brought into the United Kingdom in 1838?
...that the Hukou F-5F crash in May 2007 involved an F-5/F jet fighter hitting a military base in Taiwan while simulating a low attack, killing four people?
...that Joseph Schröter, a 19th century Prussian military doctor, was a noted mycologist who discovered and described many previously unknown species of flora and fungi?
...that Alessandro Striggio's influential Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno will be performed in June 2007 after being lost for more than 400 years?
...that Irish cricketer Scott Huey was the last bowler to dismiss Sir Len Hutton in first-class cricket?
...that the Christianization of Lithuania was completed in 1413 when Samogitia, the last pagan nation in Europe, was converted?
...that Australian author Ion Idriess wrote an average of one book every ten months for 42 years?
...that the Haberbusch i Schiele company provided food for the entire city of Warsaw during the Uprising of 1944?
...that the spring of the Hell-Bourg village spa on Réunion started to fail around 1920, but an attempt to reopen it with dynamite caused the partial destruction of the spa, while the spring was later buried by a landslide?
...that the Marcab Confederacy was said by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations?
...that with the publication of Deepnirban in 1876, Swarnakumari Devi became the first woman novelist amongst the Bengali people?
...that the non-fiction book Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is cited in the definition of Cults, by the American Psychological Association's Encyclopedia of Psychology?
...that Polish composer Roman Palester's involvement with Radio Free Europe in the early 1950s led to communist officials expunging his name from official publications and prohibiting performances of his work?
...that Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad are attempting to circle the globe multiple times in a 1,000-day, non-stop voyage in a gaff-rigged schooner designed and built by Stowe?
...that the British Percival P.74 helicopter project was canceled in 1956 because the aircraft was unable to fly?
...that Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi, aged 14, blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946?
...that in the 1984 Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New Jersey gaming law requiring union leaders to be of good moral character?
...that Frederick Bligh Bond enlisted the help of a number of spiritualist mediums to guide his excavations at Glastonbury Abbey?
...that the Six Feet Under episode The Plan has been described as a parody of Werner Erhard's est and The Forum personal development programs?
...that Iowa Stars centre Aaron Gagnon twice lost out on a Western Hockey League award to the Medicine Hat Tigers' Kris Russell before finally winning an award of his own?
...that the House of the Faun, one of the grandest private residences discovered in Pompeii, is named after the statue of a dancing faun , in its central impluvium?
...that NFL hall of famer Bud Grant and MLB hall of famer Dave Winfield both played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team?
...that the land of Haydarpaşa Cemetery, a burial ground in Istanbul, Turkey for British Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to Suleiman the Magnificent?
...that heavyweight boxer Joe Baksi recorded nine victories in his first year as a professional, including one over future actor Jack Palance?
...that Marie de France's poem "Chevrefoil", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France, recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult?
...that 47 people were killed in a gun turret explosion onboard USS Iowa on April 19, 1989?
...that the linenfold style of relief carving, popular in Northern Europe from the 14th to 16th centuries, could be made with little carpentry skill and was mass produced in workshops from the later 15th century?
...that the once-buried remains of a power canal and flour mills in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota have been unearthed and are now open as Mill Ruins Park to provide historical interpretation in the area?
...that the World of Final Fantasy VIII is the second in the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing games to include pre-rendered backgrounds?
...that in Greek mythology, Heracles chased off the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia by playing castanet-like clappers called "crotala"?
...that the GTP category of the IMSA GT Championship was credited with innovations including antilock brakes, traction control and active suspension?
...that the Atari 8-bit computer game Dandy was originally written as its developer's MIT thesis?
...that the lyrics of one of the most popular French folk songs, Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre, which has the same melody as the English song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, were written on a false rumour?
...that the concept of a communist crime was introduced in Polish law to facilitate studying and prosecution of crimes committed by people in authority against Polish citizens or the nation?
...that Kendal mint cake was carried by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the first successful ascent of Everest?
...that the Ludlow wall boxes , unlike traditional British cast-iron pillar boxes, are made largely of wood?
...that the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 was one of two entirely victorious uprisings in the history of Poland?
...that Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of Canada's busiest highways, facilitating transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks per year?
...that the non-fiction book From Slogans to Mantras was cited in Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title that should be owned by every library?
...that William Hone played cricket both for and against the MCC inside four days in June 1868?