derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that a clock tower added to the old Washington County Courthouse in 1891 did not have a working clock?
...that the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that during an outbreak of an itch mite in August 2004, 54 percent of Crawford County, Kansas suffered from bites?
...that in 1945, Congregationalist minister Geoffrey Nuttall became only the second nonconformist theologian to become a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford?
...that the heart of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức remained intact after his self-immolation in response to the religious policies of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, leading Buddhists to regard him as a bodhisattva?
...that militia company commander John Giles Adams may have been killed by his own men during the 1832 Black Hawk War as he tried to order them to battle?
...that Singaporean anime distributor Odex is asking for legal settlements from children as young as nine years old for copyright infringement through file-sharing?
...that the Latécoère 611, a reconnaissance flying boat for the Vichy French Navy, switched sides and joined the Free French after the Allied Invasion of North Africa in 1942?
...that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in both licensed and unlicensed versions?
...that following the militia victory at the 1832 Battle of Horseshoe Bend men under Colonel Henry Dodge scalped the eleven dead Kickapoo warriors?
...that the 42nd Infantry Division was formed in 1912, fought both on the Eastern and Western Fronts of World War I, and was the last regular division created in the Imperial German Army?
...that when John Kuester became head men's basketball coach at Boston University, he was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I?
...that Oscar Monnig donated one of the largest private collections of meteorites to Texas Christian University?
...that the location of William D. Brown's Lone Tree Ferry landing, which prompted the founding of Omaha, Nebraska, was lost to historians until 2004?
...that Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated Cincinnati May Festival?
...that in 1991 Heinz Barth, former Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS, was granted a "war victim" pension while in jail for war crimes for involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944?
...that the tower of Paul Rudolph's The Concourse is octagonal in plan, as the number "8" is associated with prosperity in Chinese culture?
...that the early settlers of Savanna, Illinois fended off a Native American attack in a bloodless battle known as the Plum River raid?
...that Bob McGrory managed the English football team Stoke City for a period of 17 years, having previously played for the club for 14 years?
...that Erik Chisholm, former dean and director of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, was a Scottish musician often known as "Scotland’s forgotten composer"?
...that Cable 243 by the Kennedy administration, which authorised preparations for a coup against South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, came after Kennedy's advisers signed off, wrongly believing that Kennedy had already approved?
...that the Malinta Tunnel , a bomb-proof bunker on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines, was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and lined with concrete bought from the Japanese?
...that the Zip to Zap, originally intended as a 1969 spring break alternative in Zap, North Dakota, was the only riot quelled by the National Guard in the history of North Dakota?
...that Albert F. A. L. Jones, awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1987 for his services to astronomy, is an amateur astronomer in New Zealand?
...that causing a stack buffer overflow is one of the oldest and most reliable methods for hackers to gain unauthorized access to a computer?
...that William Joseph Snelling, one of the first American realists, wrote the earliest accurate literary portrayal of the lifestyle of Plains Indians?
...that Lutgardis is reported as having levitated and dripped blood from her forehead when entranced?
...that Stillman Creek became ironically known as "Stillman's Run" following the 1832 Isaiah Stillman-led debacle at the Battle of Stillman's Run?
...that matron literature is also known as hen lit, a play on the notion that it is chick lit for older women?
...that under Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones, the Church of Wales reformed its rules to permit the ordination of women priests and to allow divorcees to remarry in church?
...that, despite being relatively small compared to other members of its genus, the Black Hawk-Eagle feeds on animals such as monkeys and toucans?
...that Byron's poem Darkness was written based on predictions that the sun would burn out on July 18 1816?
...that, in 1906, Durham Stevens predicted the approximate date of the annexation of Korea by Japan?
...that as a result of the 1832 Sinsinawa Mound raid the residents of Platteville, Wisconsin nearly fled to Galena, Illinois?
...that the Bulldog Bash, one of the largest motorcycle festivals in Europe, was originally organized by the Hells Angels motorcycle club for bikers?
...that Sir Arthur Wellesley referred to the Battle of Sabugal as "one of the most glorious that British troops were ever engaged in"?
...that Lakeridge Health Whitby was the first combination medical hospital and psychiatric hospital in North America?
...that Socrates, the last defender of orality in ancient Greece, denounced writing as 'inhuman' because it weakened the mind, the memory and the prospects for finding truth through dialogue?
...that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem “Kubla Khan” drew inspiration from Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark?
...that with Calcutta developing in the 18th century, the Janbazar neighbourhood was gradually taken over by the Portuguese, Armenians, half-castes and others, to become a grey area between Black and White Towns?
...that Salvation Army officer Sir Arthur McIlveen was known for playing a phonograph in the battlefields of World War II, and was the unofficial padre to many brigades?
...that the Apple River Fort near Elizabeth, Illinois was completed in about one week during the Black Hawk War of 1832?
...that Susan Kiefel is only the third woman appointed to the bench of the High Court of Australia?
...that Antonio Bagioli, musical director for one of the first Italian opera companies to tour the United States, stayed behind for love, rather than continuing on to Cuba?
...that the Amman Message was a statement issued by King Abdullah II of Jordan calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world?
...that American pool player Jimmy Wetch gave up life as a road player and went pro after he was robbed of his winnings at gunpoint in 1993?
...that the six permutations of the vector (1,2,3) form a hexagon in 3d space, the 24 permutations of (1,2,3,4) form a truncated octahedron in four dimensions, and both are examples of permutohedra?
...that the Protector lock, a lock design by A. C. Hobbs, which was said by Hobbs himself to be impossible to crack, was defeated only one or two years after its patenting?
...that Vasanta Habba, an annual cultural event organised by Nrityagram in Bangalore, is considered to be the classical Woodstock of India?
...that chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan invented a new chess variant in 2007, Seirawan chess, which features two new pieces to the chess: elephant and hawk?
...that Balfour, Orkney was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called Balfour Castle, then partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?
...that Theudimer who signed the Treaty of Orihuela with the Moors conquering Spain was the same Visigothic count who had defended the peninsula from the Byzantine navy a decade or so earlier?
...that portal hypertensive gastropathy, a condition seen in patients with liver cirrhosis, makes the surface of the stomach look like the skin of a snake?
...that Ion Calvocoressi won an immediate Military Cross in Libya in 1942, and was married to the sister of Ludovic Kennedy for over 60 years?
...that Epiphanius, Bishop of Pavia from 466 to 496, often influenced and changed the tides of war as a result of his negotiations with numerous war leaders?
...that advocates for pregnant patients' rights in the United States urge that a pregnant woman be allowed the company of her partner, friends, and/or family for emotional support during labor and delivery?
...that Czech amateur astronomer Kamil Hornoch has discovered over 40 extragalactic supernovae?
...that the Golden Mile Complex , which was designed as an avant-garde building with a stepped terrace structure, was once described as a "vertical slum" by a Singapore Nominated Member of Parliament?
...that epistemology questions how we know, while agnotology questions why we do not know?
...that the use of Congreve rockets during the bombardment of Fort McHenry led to the line, "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" in the "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States?
...that Prabhat Kalavidaru, a theatre group based in Bangalore, has performed the fairytale Cinderella over 1000 times since 1977 and that a few artists have acted in each of those performances?
...that according to Allied military intelligence, the 27th Infantry Division was one of the very best German divisions in World War I?
...that amygdalohippocampectomy is the removal of the hippocampus and amygdala?
...that Swiss-born peasant farmer Pierre Nicholas Dorsaz led Napoleon and his army of over 60,000 men, cavalry and artillery through the Alps to Italy in 1800 as part of a plan to surprise the Austrians there?
...that Robert E. Murray, a partial owner of Crandall Canyon Mine, which recently collapsed trapping six workers, says he was himself once trapped in a collapsed mine for 12 hours?
...that the Web encyclopedia glbtq.com has almost 2,000 entries categorized into Arts, Literature, and History and Social Sciences—and was called "the Britanniqueer Encyclopedia" by The Advocate?
...that in his Pulitzer Prize-winning career as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, William Tuohy covered the Tet Offensive, the Fall of Saigon, The Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the fall of the Berlin Wall?
...that in order to encourage more people to move from North to South Vietnam during the partition of 1954, CIA agent Edward Lansdale spread false rumors of a nuclear attack on the Communist north?
...that the only Egyptian Revival mausoleum to feature both a pyramid and a mastaba is found in Newburgh, New York's Old Town Cemetery?
...that Walter Braithwaite, who was dismissed for incompetence following the Battle of Gallipoli, was later commissioned to write an official report on the effectiveness of British staff officers during World War I?
...that Howard Judd developed objective measures of the hot flushes experienced in menopause, which were later used to assess the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy?
...that Dele Olojede's 2004 reports from Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide led him to become the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize?
...that the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets, in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?
...that the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un-Islamic" by upper caste Muslims?
...that the Baths of Zeuxippus, built sometime around the 1st century CE in Constantinople, housed over 80 statues of important historical figures like Aristotle, Homer, Plato and Julius Caesar?
...that the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?
...that Russians were the largest European community in pre-WWII Shanghai, leaving behind them a Beaux-Arts consulate building , an Orthodox cathedral, and a statue of Alexander Pushkin?
...that British military engineer Major-General Sir John Capper helped develop both airships and tanks during his service with the Royal Engineers?
...that actor S.J. Warmington had several supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock films in the 1930s and was killed when the German Luftwaffe bombed London in 1941?
...that photography in the Philippines was pioneered by a Spaniard named Sinibaldo de Mas in 1841?
...that the Solar Sentinels, a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun, will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth's distance?
...that the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made rainwater harvesting mandatory to address a critical water shortage?
...that Cornelius Canis was the music director at the imperial chapel of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V?
...that the annual Suicide Race is a horse race where riders charge down a 225-foot (70m) slope at a 62-degree angle into and through the Okanogan River?
...that Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt lectured at the short-lived Surrey Institution , where Goldsworthy Gurney won recognition for work on blowpipes?
...that the Tai chi classics are manuscripts and commentaries that are used as standards for the correct study and practice of the art of tai chi chuan?
...that Andrew Clemens designed hundreds of elaborate sand bottles from 1880–1886 some of which are valued at more than US$25,000 today?
...that Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet inherited the Edmund Nuttall engineering business and the family baronetcy in 1941, aged 8?
...that the first match between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890, starting the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition?
...that Jatindramohan Tagore, a theatre enthusiast, music and art-lover, and philanthrophist, was the first Indian to be a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898?
...that the dioptic lens at Start Point lighthouse was the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House?
...that rebels from the South Vietnamese army fought the loyalists of Ngo Dinh Diem for the Presidential Palace in a 1963 coup, not realising that Diem had escaped through a tunnel in an attempt to evade capture?
...that John W. Blassingame's The Slave Community (1972) is one of the first histories of slavery in the United States written from the perspective of African American slaves?
...that Edward Filene, the American entrepreneur who built Filene's department store and Filene's Basement, also founded the 87-million member US credit union system in 1907?
...that Oregon's Salmon River is the only river in the 48 contiguous U.S. states to be a protected National Wild and Scenic River along its entire length?
...that the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers lost 8,000 of its 15,000 members when Jamaica restructured local government services in 1984?
...that the Roman emperor Augustus prevented Vedius Pollio from feeding a slave to his lampreys as punishment for breaking a glass?
...that Oblate missionary Nicolas Coccola spent 63 years in British Columbia working among the Shuswap, Kootenai, Dakelh, Sekani, Gitxsan, Hagwilget, Babine and Lheidli T'enneh First Nations?
...that Bunocephalus is the most species-rich and widespread genus of the South American banjo catfishes?
...that Minnie D. Craig, the first female speaker of a legislative body in the US, was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives just three years after gaining suffrage?
...that the 30-mile (50-km) section of Interstate 15 in Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge was the most expensive section of rural freeway by mile?
...that when 400 RNs unionized with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals on July 19, 2007, it was the largest successful organizing effort among nurses in the state since 2000?
...that an Internalnet of Nanochondria could allow someone to exhale a Utility fog, in effect allowing them to breathe out a needed tool?
...that the Church of Shawangunk , in Ulster County, New York, is the oldest continuously-used building in the Reformed Church of America?
...that South America's eyeless Micromyzon akamai is the smallest species of banjo catfish?
...that pitcher Scott Bailes finished the 1997 MLB season with a career-best earned run average of 2.86 despite having not played in the Major Leagues for four seasons?
...that the People's Park Complex was the first shopping mall in Singapore to incorporate a large internal atrium, based on the Metabolist Movement of the 1960s?
...that Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha, in the city of Hubli, is the only unit in India authorised to manufacture and supply the national flag?
...that Mary Saunderson played several female Shakespearean characters previously portrayed only by men, including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Ophelia in Hamlet?
...that the Snake River Bridge, in the U.S. state of Washington, was originally built in one location, completely dismantled, and reassembled in its current location?
...that the Moscow Orphanage controlled the largest bank and capital assets in 19th-century Moscow?
...that Richard I's army of Crusaders encountered Saladin's archers, tarantulas, and heat exhaustion on their march to the Battle of Arsuf?
...that the Longsnout butterflyfish was given three scientific names by two separate scientists when it was first described in 1860?
...that 141 buildings in Těrlicko were destroyed during the construction of Těrlicko Dam?
...that to finance the musical Jelly's Last Jam, producer Margo Lion used a nude sculpture by Henri Matisse, which she inherited at age 18 when her parents died in a plane crash in Egypt, as collateral?
...that metalwork accessories were the clearest indicator of high-ranking persons in early medieval European dress?
...that Sir Ian Anstruther, 8th Baronet held three separate baronetcies?
...that the foam blocks used to lessen the impact of crashes at Flemington Speedway led to the development of the SAFER barrier?
...that Dyesebel , a popular mermaid character in Filipino comic books, cinema and television, was based on Philippine folklore?
...that before turning to acting, Ulrich Mühe, the star of the Academy Award-winning 2006 film The Lives of Others, was a border guard on the communist side of the Berlin Wall?
...that the impresario Ernesto de Quesada invented an imaginary partner when he founded a classical music management agency in Berlin?
...that the introduction of chlorpromazine revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia in the 1950s?
...that Pearl Bank Apartments was the tallest residential building in Singapore when it was completed in 1976?
...that the once flourishing Indian port of Saptagram faded out as a result of river silting?
...that Bahraini runner Tareq Mubarak Taher lost his medals from the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships because he competed with a falsified age?
...that John Y. Naka's bonsai masterpiece Goshin consists of eleven trees representing Naka's eleven grandchildren?
...that the Chinese government requires any living Buddha who wishes to reincarnate to submit a Reincarnation Application?
...that epidemiologist and science activist Tara C. Smith writes the award-winning science blog Aetiology, rated by a Nature study as the number 7 science blog out of 46 million blogs studied?
...that after his mother's death from diabetes, Giuseppe Moscati began experiments using insulin to treat the disease?
...that the 2007 Brooklyn tornado was the strongest tornado on record in New York City and the first in Brooklyn since 1889?
...that the song Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday has received more than five million views on YouTube and has generated thousands of covers, remixes, and parodies?
...that literary critics credit William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a significant contributor to Sigmund Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex?
...that Jamaican labor leader Helene Davis-Whyte was anti-union before being elected a delegate in her union?
...that the Corbett hill Beinn Chuirn has Scotland's largest known deposits of gold?
...that Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a British correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou, Beijing?
...that the bliaut, a fitted gown with flared sleeves, was an important item of both men's and women's fashion in Europe between 1100 and 1200?
...that the Assyrian King Sargon II deported more than 100,000 rebels from Babylon as punishment?
...that, in his book Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, Tom Wolfe famously called Jimmy Carter a "Missionary lectern­pounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly piney­woods Baptist"?
...that Jay U. Gunter, professor of pathology, devoted his life to astronomy after he retired?
...that the Roman province of Dacia ripensis contained eight fortresses developed by Trajan?
...that the valley elderberry longhorn beetle in the Central Valley of California is nearly always found on or close to elderberry shrubs, where females lay their eggs on the bark and larvae hatch and burrow into the stems?
...that the Elagabalium was the center of a controversial religious cult established by the Roman emperor Elagabalus?
...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?
...that by 1608, performances of William Shakespeare's plays had become popular enough that his playing company was able to act indoors, in the Blackfriars Theatre?
...that the Kannada film Samskara, initially banned by the censor board, won the President's Gold Medal for the Best Indian Film of 1971?
...that Dr. Ashbel Smith, who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, later established a college for African-Americans known today as Prairie View A&M University?
...that Horace Walpole called John Trumbull's oil-on-canvas The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"?
...that the highest mountain in the Far Eastern Fells of the Lake District is High Street, rising up to 828 metres (2,718 ft)?
...that Paradise Camp is a documentary explaining how Nazi officials fooled the Red Cross into believing the Jews were being well cared for?
...that the commanding officer of American soldier Matthias W. Day wanted to court-martial him for the actions that instead won him the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars?
...that Somapura Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bangladesh, was one of the best known Buddhist viharas in South Asia since King Dharmapala erected it in the 8th century?
...that Manuel Benito de Castro assumed the Presidency of Cundinamarca, with the condition that he would be allowed to leave Congress at a certain time to feed his dog?
...that South Korean actress Jang Jin-young was only the second winner of two Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, having won in 2001 for Sorum, and again in 2003 for Singles?
...that the Bagbazar neighbourhood in north Kolkata has long been a citadel of the Bengali aristocracy?
...that Elihu Embree published the first newspaper in the United States devoted to abolishing slavery until his death in 1820?
...that Feliks Kon started the Polish language section at Radio Moscow, had a Russian ship named in his honor, and the only member of the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee to die naturally?
...that the Finnish company YIT was responsible for the construction of the Finnish National Opera house, the Helsinki Fair Centre and Cirrus, the tallest high-rise building in Finland?
...that the residents of the suburb of Cameron Park in Newcastle, Australia, voted to rename the suburb after a local speedway?
...that Alexander Eugen Conrady abandoned his native Germany in disgust, settled in England, and there designed optical instruments used by the British in World War I?
...that the forthcoming CBS sitcom pilot Worst Week will be the third attempt to adapt the British series The Worst Week of My Life in the United States, having previously been attempted by Fox and NBC?