derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Perna viridis, a fast-growing bivalve mussel native to the Asia-Pacific, is an invasive species that harbors deadly toxins and biofouls submerged structures?
...that Stanley Evans was sacked after six weeks as a junior minister of food when he said "no other nation feather-beds its agriculture like Britain"?
...that Polish partisan Adam Lazarowicz, organizer of an assassination attempt on Nazi official Hans Frank, refused the Order of the Red Star and joined the anti-Soviet resistance?
...that St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Seattle was designed by Paul Thiry, one of the principal architects of the Century 21 Exposition (1962 World's Fair), shortly after part of the land for the Exposition was purchased from that same parish?
...that Harry Newbould was the first-ever manager of Derby County F.C.?
...that Polish bishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski, murdered by German Nazis in Soldau concentration camp, became one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II?
...that Omaha gained an important place in the history of the First Transcontinental Railroad against the will of President Abraham Lincoln?
...that 17-year-old Emily Benn, granddaughter of veteran politician Tony Benn, is the youngest ever Labour Party parliamentary candidate, and would, if elected, become the youngest British MP since the Reform Act 1832?
...that the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed canned, jarred and bottled food products?
...that the wall mural on Marine Parade Community Building is Singapore's largest piece of installation art?
...that the Norman church in Pawlett, Somerset has a stained glass window showing Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
...that the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy, Jr. caused a national uproar in 1903 because Cudahy's father, a meatpacking magnate in Omaha, Nebraska, paid the ransom request?
...that the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
...that the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association is a Christian sect founded by Ruben Ecleo in 1965 on the Philippine island of Dinagat, that is notorious for a 2002 gun battle with police that left 17 dead?
...that a 200 m section of wall by St. Martin's Cathedral from Bratislava's fortifications was reconstructed, after the area was demolished due to construction of the Nový Most bridge?
...that the City & South London Railway, opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the Thames from the City of London to Southwark?
...that New Jersey's Museum of Early Trades and Crafts houses a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land over a 50-year span?
...that Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany, nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union, and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany?
...that Alexander Hamilton's son William S. Hamilton helped recruit Native Americans to join the U.S. against Sauk Chief Black Hawk during the 1832 Black Hawk War?
...that the Ten Great Buildings were constructed in ten months, for the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China?
...that the Aston Martin DBR4 Formula One car failed to score even a single World Championship point, even though Aston Martin sports cars won many races?
...that neotectonics is the study of geologically recent tectonics, but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
...that in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
...that Max Ernst's 1921 painting The Elephant Celebes combined Surrealism with the collage effects of Dada?
...that popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age: ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont?
...that in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal more than 100 women get trafficked to red-light areas in Mumbai and Pune each year?
...that the small, torpedo-shaped marine cleaner fish of the genus Elacatinus are known as neon gobies due to their iridescent stripes?
...that the Spanish shepherd Diego Marín Aguilera attempted flight in a manned glider on May 15, 1793 after jumping from a castle at Coruña del Conde?
...that the England national football team is to train on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, as it is the only one identical to one in Russia on which they are due to play in October 2007?
...that the 1881 Warsaw pogrom was caused by panic after pickpockets raised a false fire warning, resulting in 29 deaths by stampede?
...that the founders of the Kingdom of Mysore may have been descendents of the Hoysala Dynasty or fugitives from the Vijayanagara Empire court?
...that the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is responsible for America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
...that the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron, which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz, was in development hell for nearly ten years?
...that bird nests range in size from the tiny one inch high cup of some hummingbirds to the massive five meter high mounds of some Dusky Scrubfowl?
...that despite being organised on St. Andrew's Day, the first official international football match did not result in a home win?
...that because of its karez well system, an ancient water system using gravity, Turfan became a prosperous Silk Road oasis city located in the second deepest depression in the world?
...that Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in 1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?
...that Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?
...that its central location as a transportation hub for the United States led to the branding of Omaha, Nebraska as the "Gateway City of the West"?
...that huge numbers of otakus made pilgrimages to Washinomiya Shrine after it was featured in the popular anime and manga series Lucky ☆ Star?
...that the Jacobin revolutionary André Antoine Bernard changed his given name to Pioche-fer ("Pickaxe") after his name day within the Revolutionary Calendar?
...that Tom Wolfe's 1989 criticism of contemporary American literature, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", began a feud with authors John Updike and John Irving that has continued ever since?
...that Samuel Pegge, a Derbyshire antiquarian, published a book compiled by Richard II's cooks called Forme of Cury?
...that hackers and rogue administrators often seek to eliminate evidence of their unauthorized activities by manipulating the Microsoft Windows Security Log?
...that the Chicago City Council revoked the McCarthy Building's Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop?
...that the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal band and suspected satanic cult in Italy that committed three notorious ritual murders before being arrested?
...that Mikołaj Hussowczyk's book The Song about Bison is considered to be the first large fiction work about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania?
...that it is not possible to configure two mutually inscribed quadrilaterals in the Euclidean plane, but the Möbius–Kantor graph describes a solution in the complex projective plane?
...that the first public toilets in England were invented by George Jennings for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
...that Prof. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) made numerous discoveries in endocrinology (hormonal medicine), including the link between menopause and osteoporosis?
...that the Sun Ning Railway Company, South China's first significant railway, was dismantled in December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War to deny its use by the Japanese military?
...that the planned South Beach complex in Singapore will incorporate four conservation buildings, where the first National Service enlistment was held in 1967?
...that when Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974, it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system?
...that the German children's series Bibi Blocksberg has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children?
...that Charles Willson Peale's 1822 self-portrait The Artist in His Museum summarizes his career as a painter, taxidermist, and naturalist?
...that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?
...that the winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£1 notes?
...that although Ronald Bird was on the staff of Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1934, his first-class debut came twelve years later for their rivals Worcestershire?
...that the earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat, dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy?
...that the sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business?
...that nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930?
...that the Trinitarian Church in Bratislava was built on the place of an older settlement which was demolished in 1529 due to the Ottoman wars?
...that Hugo Award-winning science fiction fan and editor Earl Kemp served a year in prison for publishing an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography?
...that the last surrender of the American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?
...that plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants?
...that a scathing obituary of British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
...that during his tenure as curator at Université Laval, François-Xavier Bélanger built a thousand-specimen strong collection of Canadian birds from the ground up?
...that the 22,200 meter Shimizu Tunnel was the world's longest tunnel when it was completed in 1982?
...that even though the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker, he was not present himself?
...that Henri II's Edict of Châteaubriant (1551) assigned the regulation of the French press to the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris?
...that tōgyū is a bullfighting sport practiced in Okinawa, Japan, in which two bulls wrestle in a ring in a manner compared to sumo?
...that Bykivnia, a former village, now part of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, was the burial site of thousands of enemies of the Soviet power?
...that the Defense (Emergency) Regulations first enacted in British Mandate Palestine in 1945 were incorporated into Israel's domestic legislation in 1948 and remain in force to this day?
...that long-time University of Oregon track coach Bill Hayward also played lacrosse for the world champion Ottawa Capitals?
...that Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka wore a costume made of lit lightbulbs—her 1956 work Electric Dress—to exhibitions?
...that a total of 4156 films were submitted to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 349 of those, from 55 countries, were selected?
...that an edition of Alpin, a supplement of the Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo, was banned by the caretaker government for publishing a controversial cartoon in relation to the Islamic prophet Muhammad?
...that after Robert William Hughes shot and wounded future Virginia Governor William E. Cameron, he was appointed a federal judge by Ulysses S. Grant?
...that during the siege of Constantinople in 626 AD, 12,000 Byzantine cavalry successfully fought off 80,000 Avars?
...that the first session of the Legislative Council of Mysore State in India was held in the Jaganmohan Palace in July 1907?
...that the Grant Park Music Festival, a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak, is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music?
...that China's leadership for the next five years will be unveiled at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which will open on October 15 in the Great Hall of the People?
...that after the defeat of his British Band in the 1832 Black Hawk War, Chief Black Hawk was taken captive and exhibited to large crowds throughout the United States?
...that Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches?
...that a graffiti artist from the Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s?
...that Baduanjin qigong is one of the most common forms of Chinese qigong used as exercise?
...that Luník IX, a borough in Košice, Slovakia, although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe?
...that Wurzbach Parkway, an unnumbered freeway in San Antonio, Texas, does not connect directly to the city's other freeways?
...that by using automatic number plate recognition, a CCTV network known as ANPR, police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of cars in real time and store vehicle movement information for five years?
...that four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935?
...that the Ukrainian Marines were from May 1996 until 1998 part of the Ukrainian National Guard, but were transferred to the Navy in 1998?
...that Juan de Arphe y Villafañe was a renowned engraver, goldsmith, artist, anatomist and author?
...that autobiographer Lois Mark Stalvey's 1960s anti-racist activism in Omaha, Nebraska was responsible for her husband's job transfer to Philadelphia?
...that the Chick House is the only 19th century hotel building still standing in the city of Rockford, Illinois?
...that the Stiefelgeiss, a breed of goat, became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback?
...that the leaders of the failed coup in Poland in 1919 were arrested by their intended troops?
...that Matthew Ricketts was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and be elected to the Nebraska Legislature?
...that the photographer duo of Krupakar-Senani were kidnapped by the bandit Veerappan, while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India?
...that the Annie Larsen affair led in 1917 to one of the longest and most expensive trials in America at the time?
...that lime was diluted in separated milk instead of water for Vileišis Palace construction?
...that the Danae class cruiser HMS Durban ended her wartime career supporting the Battle of Normandy as a blockship off the Normandy coast in 1944?
...that The Most Reverend Whakahuihui Vercoe was the first Bishop of Aotearoa to be elected by its Maori congregation, the first Maori to become Archbishop of New Zealand, and the first Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit?
...that Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams is known as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force?
...that by leading by one more lap in the final NASCAR race of the 1992 season, Alan Kulwicki won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship over Bill Elliott?
...that the 1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword was carried into battle by a young Bernard Montgomery, was used in service against the Dervishes in Sudan, and is still the ceremonial sidearm for many British regiments?
...that Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, a Swiss painter, toured England for twenty years leaving 2,662 sketches in the British Library -- including the only known image of the coronation of Edward VI?
...that John Joseph Briggs, the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?
...that the Suevic king Hermeric abdicated his throne due to a prolonged seven-year illness?
...that William Gore Ouseley , a diplomat noted for representing British interests in Nicaragua and Honduras, found one of the earliest sources for the pantomime story of Dick Whittington's cat?
...that the Yue Hwa Building used to house a popular boutique hotel, and was the tallest building in Singapore's Chinatown when it was completed in 1936?
...that although in present-day India the former princely states and their princes have lost that status, the Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?
...that the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
...that the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester?
...that the Kallawaya healers travel around South America, often on foot and on ancient Inca trails, in search of traditional herbs?
...that Major Sir Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet was awarded the MBE (Military Division) for his many escape attempts while a prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1940 to 1945, and was later patron of the Lonach Highlanders?
...that the Baroque-style palace Dilkusha Kothi was once a summer retreat for the nawabs of Oudh but was heavily shelled during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and is today in ruins?
...that a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of Singapore in 1942?
...that the city of Puerto Suárez in eastern Bolivia is supplied by the Brazilian power grid, not the Bolivian?
...that architect Andreyan Zakharov rebuilt the Admiralty in Saint Petersburg, with symmetrical wings to its central tower, making it a symbol of the city?
...that after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland, the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński?
...that Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by many Eastern Orthodox scholars, despite being a Roman Catholic?
...that Yugoslavian boxing champion Marijan Beneš played the violin in his youth, and published a book of poems after the end of his career?
... that the name of Polish anti-Nazi and anti-communist activist Łukasz Ciepliński was banned from all books by the Communist government?
...that Augie Hiebert not only built Alaska's first television station, KTVA, but also founded the state's first FM radio station, KNIK-FM?
...that Mark Knight, a political cartoonist for the Herald Sun, created Leuk the Duck, a mascot for charity named after leukemia?
...that in Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God, an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest yams causes them to convert to Christianity?
...that research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha, Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the value of their houses?
...that, although only a junior officer, Akiyama Saneyuki developed the basic strategy for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War based on his firsthand observations of the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American War?
...that John Dement served as Receiver of Public Moneys in the U.S. Land Office under five presidential administrations?
...that the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui, or a fear of leaving space unfilled?
...Benjamin Stephenson's indentured servants made over 100,000 bricks during the construction of his house in Edwardsville, Illinois?
...that Peter Adolf Thiessen, who received a Stalin Prize for his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, had joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925?
...that South African anti-conscription activist Nan Cross once climbed a tank at a weapons exhibition and attached stickers to it reading: "Arms are for hugging, not killing"?
...that the 2002 ITC Inferno, a fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was started by poor welding?
...that throughout the Western world until the 19th or 20th century, young boys wore dresses until they were breeched at an age varying between two and eight?
...that after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?
...that the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including China, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh?
...that Giuseppe Maggiolini, a cabinet-maker from late 18th century Milan, also made marquetry flooring for royal villas in Lombardy?
...that Dick Mann was the first motorcycle rider to win AMA's career Grand Slam by winning on short track, mile, half mile, Tourist Trophy, and road racing race tracks?
...that the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo had its origins in a humble Jesuit mission known today as Pátio do Colégio?
...that Tirpitz the pig rescued after the sinking of the SMS Dresden became a ship's mascot on one of the cruisers that sank the Dresden?
...that Locust Grove, Samuel F. B. Morse's home near Poughkeepsie, was the first Hudson Valley estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark?
...that Spanish art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot, of the Dau al Set school, gained international fame for his Dictionary of Symbols?
...that Mzoli's, a popular Cape Town eatery, nightclub and tourist attraction, in the township of Gugulethu, South Africa, started off as a butcher's shop operating from a garage?
...that the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat is only the second species in its genus and the 26th endemic bat species from the Philippines to be described?
...that the gorge in China's Flaming Mountains, near the ruins of the once busy oasis city of Gaochang, was an important pass on the ancient trade route, the Silk Road, skirting the deadly Taklamakan Desert?
...that the only remnants of Mecklenburg Castle, a medieval castle located in present-day Germany, are parts of an earthen wall ?
...that Justice Hans Raj Khanna was the lone dissenter when the Supreme Court of India ruled that those arrested during India's repressive Emergency period from 1975 to 1977 would have no rights to habeas corpus?
...that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?
...that Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I?
...that Oregon's Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge was the first National Wildlife Refuge established west of the Mississippi River and will be a hundred years old next month?
...that Otton de Grandson participated in three separate military expeditions to the Holy Land: the Ninth Crusade (1270–1272), the Siege of Acre (1291), and a Templar-Hospitaller offensive in Cilicia (1298)?
...that the Mayslake Peabody Estate , built for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1921, has a secret staircase which leads from Peabody's private study to a bomb-proof basement?