derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?
...that the hills in the south of the English Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?
...that the Italian sculptor Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of Renaissance works of art?
...that anti-ganglioside antibodies may cause peripheral neuropathies and that their levels correlate with Guillain-Barré syndrome?
...that yellowtail trumpeter, a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in Australia by many fishermen who target bream in estuaries?
...that the Underfall Yard takes its name from a unique system of sluices designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to remove silt from Bristol Harbour?
...that the coat of arms of Catalonia is one of Europe's oldest, dating back to the 1150 seal used by Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona?
...that Croton Dam , on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
...that an Irish immigrant to America who settled on New Jersey's Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed "king" of the island?
...that the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the Book of Revelation about the Beast, which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?
...that Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead?
...that because of low rainfall, poor soils, and the growth of the oil industry, Libya's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the GDP?
...that the 1998 Puerto Rican general strike paralyzed the island for two days, when 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against privatizing the Puerto Rico Telephone Company?
...that an Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance aircraft searching for missing adventurer Steve Fossett helped find eight other unknown crash sites?
...that the original scatological lyrics of Leck mich im Arsch, a canon composed by Mozart, were only rediscovered in 1991?
...that in 1526, with the heirless death of Janusz III Mazowiecki, last of the Masovian Piasts, the Duchy of Masovia was reunited with Poland?
...that Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon bestowed the honorary title of "Kentucky colonel" the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders?
...that many of the specific allergens of wheat causing gluten allergies have not yet been characterized?
...that in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War, American biologist Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?
...that the embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?
...that while performing the Viking ritual of Heitstrenging Harald Hairfair swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway?
...that 18th-century artist John Hamilton Mortimer, while very prolific in his production of paintings and holding the presidency of the Society of Artists, was accused many times of being an imitator of Salvator Rosa's work?
...that James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox?
...that the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois?
...that William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era" while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan?
...that the website HardwareZone initiated the first court case in Singapore over a domain name, which was settled after just four days?
...that the father of The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon?
...that former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney's Memoirs: 1939-1993 criticises another Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau?
...that Singapore's Early Founders Memorial Stone , a foundation stone for a proposed memorial, became the memorial itself?
...that the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park in Scotland covers an area of 108 square miles of Inverclyde, North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, stretching from Greenock in the north, down the coast to Largs and West Kilbride and inland to Dalry and Lochwinnoch?
...that the wife of troubadour Raimon Jordan joined the sect of the Cathars, while the troubadour himself declared in a poem that he would give up eternity in Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
...Amri Hernandez-Pellerano, a Puerto Rican electronics engineer and scientist, designed the power systems electronics for the NASA WMAP mission?
...that the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia's election campaign costs for the 1992 elections of Riigikogu, the first post-Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia, were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats?
...that poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?
...that Epimachus of Athens, an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis, which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
...that swimmer Katherine Rawls, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 1937, flew in the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron during World War II?
...that Cape Henlopen State Park in Delaware has been public land since William Penn's designation in 1682, yet only became a state park in 1964?
...that the Dutch National Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?
...that Keremane Shivarama Heggade, the founder of folk-art troupe Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali was the first Yakshagana artist in India to receive the Rashtrapati Award?
...that English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly, landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale, for 19 years?
...that Meng Xuenong was sacked as mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis, but has now made a comeback as governor of Shanxi province?
...that Mahakala, a small dromaeosaurid from Mongolia, is named after Mahakala, one of the eight protective deities (dharmapalas, "Protectors of the Law") in Tibetan Buddhism?
...that the Chilean biochemist Eugenio Berríos, involved in the Letelier case and in the Soria case, also produced black cocaine and sarin gas for Augusto Pinochet?
...that Fritz Bleyl was one of the four founders of Die Brücke art group in 1905, but left two years later and never exhibited again?
...that the Canadian province of Ontario has had quality grades for cultivated Christmas trees mandated by law since 1965?
...that Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?
...that the merged Rainbow/PUSH is an outgrowth of Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket, an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
...that Deganga, in West Bengal, where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination, will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?
...that although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914?
...that the Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD, the last battle fought between the Roman Empire and the Parthians, lasted for three days and ended in a draw?
...that the European Union directive about anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs has led to a surge of sales of cigarette cases?
...that Samuel Rivera, mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, was permitted to take office despite the fact that he had been convicted of a felony in his native Puerto Rico in the 1970s?
...that the centre of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is crossed by an 18th century aqueduct nicknamed Arcos da Lapa?
...that Eduardo Malapit, mayor of Kauai, Hawaii, from 1974 to 1982, was the first mayor of Filipino descent in the United States?
...that abrasion has destroyed the 14th century Church in Trzęsacz, Poland, near the Baltic Sea, except for part of its southern wall?
...that the proposed BBC television special Planet Relief, created to raise awareness of climate change, was cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics?
...that retired General Volney F. Warner has publicly criticized the Iraq War; his granddaughter, First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, served in Afghanistan and was the first female graduate of West Point to die in combat?
...that the 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash is the last time spectators were killed in an accident at a British air show?
...that the Valois Tapestries , recording festivities at the court of Charles IX of France, include portraits of many members of the House of Valois–but none of the King?
...that Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
...that Nayachar Island in the Hooghly River was chosen as the location for a major chemical hub based on experience in developing Jurong Island in Singapore?
...that bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
...that Australian World War I general Sir Charles Rosenthal was the model for a character in one of D. H. Lawrence's novels?
...that judge Otto Richard Skopil, Jr. was nominated to the federal district court by a Republican U.S. President and to the federal court of appeals by a Democratic President?
...that the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia, which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts?
...that French Canadian ornithologist Charles-Eusèbe Dionne became an elective fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union before he ever received a college degree?
...that during an emergency, U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo planes can be modified with the Modular Airborne FireFighting System and used to help fight forest fires?
...that during the Western Schism Thomas de Rossy, Franciscan friar and Bishop of Galloway, challenged any bishop of England to fight in single combat?
...that in the early 1940s, HMS Ceres , a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, was involved in the evacuation and later recapturing of British Somaliland?
...that Ah Jook Ku, a journalist and writer based in Hawaii, was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?
...that the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
...that the disastrous defeat of Yaroslav the Wise's sons at the Alta River led to a popular uprising in Kiev and dethronement of Grand Prince Iziaslav?
...that Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center?
...that Ildephonsus of Toledo regarded the Nicene Creed as comprising "sufficient knowledge for salvation" and considered it to be a pact (foedus) between a believer and God?
...that Denton Hall , once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?
...that the Australian war memorial at Mont St. Quentin was not replaced for over 30 years after its destruction by the German Army in 1940?
...that the calligraphic script of the Ford Motor Company logo is credited to Childe Harold Wills?
...that the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field?
...that Jordan de Exeter, sheriff of Connacht, died fending off a Hebridean pirate raid in 1258?
...that Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
...that unlike most plesiosaurs, Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers?
...that the C-class light cruiser HMS Carlisle was damaged by German bombers during the Allied landings in Sicily and spent the rest of the war in Alexandria harbour?
...that Isaac Homer Van Winkle served for 23 years as Oregon Attorney General, the longest of any attorney general in the state’s history?
...that the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?
...that while the Ukrainian Chortkiv offensive was eventually pushed back by the Polish army, the initial success of this desperate attack by the Ukrainian Galician Army is considered its finest hour in the Polish-Ukrainian War?
...that zaojing, an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
...that Boston Legal actress Meredith Eaton-Gilden is also a practicing clinical psychologist?
...that there was a lighthouse on the roof of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore, which could be seen by ships 29 kilometres away?
...that, at the age of 21, Henry III's favorite Anne de Joyeuse enjoyed precedence over all other dukes and peers of France, with the exception of the Capetians?
...that shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan, ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?
...that westbound trains can arrive unexpectedly on the eastbound track at Bedminster railway station to ease congestion at nearby Bristol Temple Meads?
...that a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, came from private pledges?
...that water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury, being brought to the planet by comets?
...that the German Communist Martin Hoop, who was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in 1933, was an undercover agent for the Communists?
...that Charles de Talleyrand described his wife, Catherine Grand , as "an Indian, very beautiful, very lazy, the most idle woman he had ever known"?
...that the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in Warsaw, built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
...that stained glass in Marston Bigot church in Somerset, England is from the abbey of Altenberg in Germany and depicts a scene from the early life of St Bernard?
...that the Shelly was an Israeli cargo vessel that sank after being accidentally rammed by a cruise liner, killing two crewmembers?
...that the real objective of the 1732 Treaty of Three Black Eagles, where Prussia, Austria and Russia agreed to support the Portuguese Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém in elections to the Polish throne, was to create a rift between France and Prussia?
...that the Singapore Government has introduced the "Punggol 21-plus" plan to re-vitalise Punggol New Town , after an unsuccessful attempt in the late 1990s?
...that Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717?
...that James Dahlman, Omaha, Nebraska's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of saloons doubled during his term?
...that Queen Victoria sanctioned the British South Africa Company to issue the British South Africa Company Medal in honour of the troops who served in the Matabele Wars?
...that Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
...that Emmy-nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek franchise?
...that several mountains, a chain of craters, a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières?
...that the first direct observational evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole was discovered at the David Dunlap Observatory outside Toronto?
...that the Polish historian and survivor of the Nazi German Operation Sonderaktion Krakau Stanisław Kutrzeba joined an underground university in defiance of Nazi edicts?
...that in 2005, during D1 Grand Prix's end of season US vs Japan event at Irwindale Speedway, U.S. drifting driver, Vaughn Gittin, Jr. became the first to break the all-Japanese stranglehold?
...that centenarian Nittoor Srinivasa Rau, was the first chief of the Central Vigilance Commission of India and also the first to translate Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada?
...that although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the Yellow River flooded, its Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?
...that Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando and Nick Nolte were all born to German-American families in Omaha, Nebraska?
...that the medieval village of Babington in Somerset, England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new Manor House?
...that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae?
...that the Permanent North American Gaeltacht is an officially designated Irish speaking area in English/French speaking Ontario, Canada, the first of its kind outside of Ireland?
...that former basketball player Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA?
...that model Albert Reed, selected to appear in September 2007 on the United States television show Dancing with the Stars, admits that he cannot dance?
...that Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822) was the first university student ever to self-identify as Estonian, thus contributing to the Estonian National Awakening?
...that as part of Smirnoff vodka's Sea advertising campaign, parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or polluted water potable?
...that Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England?
...that Rachel Plummer wrote the first book about being a slave to the Comanche Native Americans?
...that aiguillettes are decorative tags or tips for cord or ribbon, usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled, used to decorate 16th and 17th century clothing and hats?
...that Father Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski had such a gift for singing that he was nicknamed the "Polish Nightingale"?
...that the short-lived Industrial Syndicalist Education League was both the first and the largest syndicalist organisation ever in the United Kingdom?
...that American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?
...that the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%?
...that photographer Hans Namuth took over 500 black and white images of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio in 1950?
...that Henry III of France took to calling Catherine of Cleves "the mistress of Saint-Mégrin", in reference to a young nobleman killed by her illustrious husband?
...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans represent plants, animals or eggs?
...that the Hypothenemus hampei, a small coleopter insect native to Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide?
...that the Lobel's Maple is one of very few trees that grow with a narrow, erect crown, known as a fastigiate form, naturally?
...that aeronautics engineer Paul Moller plans to sell the M200G Volantor, a flying saucer-style aircraft, in the United States by early 2008?
...that the Hughes Brothers became the first sibling duo allowed by the DGA since Jerry and David Zucker to take co-credit as directors for their 1993 film Menace II Society?
...that Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted, made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend?
...that when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges, Clarges used his position as a Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?
...that the United States Youth Council received more than 90 percent of its funds from the Central Intelligence Agency?
...that the first HMS Ark Royal was sunk in 1636 when she struck her own anchor and stove in her hull whilst underway?
...that the Governor's residence in Gibraltar is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?
...that Benjamin Aaron helped negotiate the first contract between a county and its public employee union in California history in 1968?
...that Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church, one of the oldest in Egypt?
...that Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center?
...that three Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross for their role in the Battle of Mont St. Quentin, a battle that the commander of the British Fourth Army, General Henry Rawlinson, considered Australia's greatest military achievement of the war?
...that although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848?
...that the sixteen eight-million-year-old cypresses found in Northern Hungary in 2007 had been preserved without being fossilized?
...that the National Art Gallery of Singapore will incorporate two national monuments — the Old Supreme Court Building and the City Hall ?
...that fox tossing was a popular blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries?
...that Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor, so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly?
...that Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule?
...that the gulf sturgeon, a subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon, fasts for eight to nine months each year?
...that the United States threatened privately to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem's Catholic regime as a result of chemical attacks on Buddhist protestors in Huế, Vietnam in 1963?
...that Alexander Novikov, double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force, was used to frame Marshal Zhukov, then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin?
...that the bootleg album The Lost Paris Tapes contains the last known recording by Jim Morrison?
...that the Bank of the Holy Spirit, founded by Pope Paul V in 1605, was the first national bank in Europe?
...that coffin portraits of nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were meant to create an impression that the deceased is taking part in the funeral?
...that during World War II, Shepton Mallet, the oldest operating prison in Britain, was used as the protective storage of important government documents including the Magna Carta and Domesday Book?
...that Presbyterian minister Robert Jefferson Breckinridge is known as the father of the public school system in Kentucky?
...that the Suevic king Rechiar was the first Germanic monarch to convert to Nicene Christianity, the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the bagaudae?