derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that The Jaguar Smile was the first book-length non-fiction work by author Salman Rushdie and was written during a break from the composition of The Satanic Verses?
...that Papyrus 45 may have been one of the earliest manuscripts to collect more than one New Testament genre into a single codex?
...that the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States?
...that like other bronzewing pigeons, the Common Bronzewing releases a milky substance from its crop to feed its young?
...that Abraham Lincoln's short speech at the Peekskill Freight Depot was his only recorded public appearance in Westchester County?
...that Dum Diversas, promulgated by Pope Nicholas V in 1452, authorized Afonso V of Portugal to enslave indefinitely Saracens, pagans, and other "enemies of Christ"?
...that before World War II, the Polish Army prioritized defence planning in case of Soviet attack over a plan against German invasion until the late 1930s?
...that Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
...that Ben Brocklehurst, one of the last amateur captains in county cricket and later owner and publisher of The Cricketer magazine from 1972 to 2003, is the grandfather of cricketer Ben Hutton?
...that the Wall Street Journal tracks median home purchase prices of starter homes as part of its real estate index?
...that Unsung Heroes, a twenty-part North Korean spy film series, cast U.S. Army defectors Charles Jenkins and Joe Dresnok in the role of villains?
...that the Brunel-designed Wharncliffe Viaduct of 1836 , on the GWR main line in London, is home to a protected colony of bats?
...that Dr. Joseph Rothrock is known as the "Father of Forestry" in Pennsylvania, and is the namesake for Rothrock State Forest?
...that the award ceremony of Turkey's most important film festival, the Golden Orange, is held at the Roman amphitheatre of Aspendos in Antalya?
...that Eric Johnston, president of the MPAA, issued the Waldorf Statement in November 1947, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist?
...that Frederick Augustus Hely, a justice of the peace and public servant in colonial Australia, was the first man to settle permanently at Narara, Brisbane Water?
...that Janowa Dolina, a model settlement built by the Polish state in interwar Poland, was razed barely ten years after its creation by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the Second World War?
...that Mikveh Israel, the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel, was founded in 1870 by Charles Netter?
...that on a clear day visitors to Holy Hill can view the Milwaukee skyline, located 30 miles (48 km) away?
...that the beach where Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967, and presumably drowned, was named after the SS Cheviot that was wrecked nearby in 1887 with the loss of 35 lives?
...that Roman trade with India was so large as to drain gold resources from Rome and involved the despatch of 120 ships every year?
...that Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
...that Sergeant George Jordan received the Medal of Honor for repulsing 100 Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio with 25 Buffalo Soldiers in the Battle of Tularosa?
...that Sir John Gilmour Bt emulated his father by also winning the Distinguished Service Order, becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament, and twice serving as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland?
...that some dragonflies avoid overheating on sunny days by assuming a "handstand" position known as the obelisk posture ?
...that capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969?
...that baseball player Jack Lelivelt's International League-record hitting streak set in 1912 was not recognized by the International League until 2007, the year it was broken?
...that Richard Hanley's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park?
...that British Labour MP Harry Ewing was joint chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, formed in 1989 to plan for the devolution of Scotland?
...that, along with many other scientific discoveries made during its course, the Morea expedition confirmed the presence of jackals in Greece?
...that St Andrews Church in Chew Stoke, Somerset, England, includes 156 statues of angels?
...that weather extremes in Minnesota include temperatures of −60 °F (−51 °C) and 114 °F (46 °C)?
...that HNoMY Norge, one of only two Royal Yachts left in Europe, was produced by Camper and Nicholsons, the oldest leisure marine company in the world?
...that Francisco Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language, and has been translated into 22 other languages?
...that Czech saint Zdislava Berka ran away from home to live as a hermit when she was only seven years old?
...that in the Calgary Flames' 1988-89 season, they became the only visiting team to defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup in the Montreal Forum?
...that the Lakshminarayana Temple in Hosaholalu, Karnataka state, India is mounted on a platform (jagati), a style unique to Hoysala architecture?
...that U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, a known Stalwart, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a piece of legislation that was drawn up by the rival Half-Breeds?
...that the sea pineapple , an edible sea squirt, has been described as "something that could exist only in a purely hallucinatory eco-system" and its taste as "rubber dipped in ammonia"?
...that Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?
...that in 1876, Paul Zweifel became the first to demonstrate that the fetus in utero consumes oxygen?
...that, despite its name, the Pygmy Blue Whale reaches lengths of 24 m (79 ft)?
...that John Candy improvised the famous "Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips." line from The Blues Brothers on the request of a set designer's father?
...that while the name of western Minnesota's Pomme de Terre River translates as "Potato River", it was actually named for the prairie turnip?
...that U.S. Route 322 in New Jersey used to be concurrent with state highways on its entire route?
...that after publishing his first book, magistrate James Mudie became so hated in Sydney that he was horsewhipped in the street?
...that the uniforms of United Nations tour guides are designed by internationally famous fashion designers such as Hollywood’s Edith Head, Christian Dior and Benetton?
...that the 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, grandson of the Liberal Party Lord Chancellor 1st Viscount Buckmaster, served as diplomat in the Middle East until 1981?
...that for New York City to receive up to $500 million from the Department of Transportation, its congestion pricing plan must be approved by August 2007?
...that courses in bioethics and journalism are a part of the academic curriculum of The Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków, Poland?
...that a military coalition from four countries helped the British colonial government to quell the 1915 Singapore Mutiny?
...that the Bucharest school of Jean Alexandre Vaillant contributed to Westernization in Wallachia during the 1830s?
...that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
...that Puerto Rican singer Tito Gómez once shared vocal duties in Ray Barretto's band in the 1970s with Rubén Blades?
...that it was common for the Roman Emperor to be elected to one of two offices of the highest judicial magistrates known as duumviri, and the other position was left up to the emperor for the appointment of a praefectus?
...that "Giovinezza" , the official hymn of Mussolini's National Fascist Party, was played at the coronation of Pope Pius XII by the Palatine Guard?
...that Horace Liveright published the works of numerous important authors, including Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot, and hired Béla Lugosi for Dracula, but still died penniless?
...that Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts?
...that Nebraska Highway 14 became a cross-Nebraska highway with the completion of the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River in 1998?
...that the arms of Ferry de Clugny are featured in the Clugny Annunciation, attributed either to Rogier van der Weyden or Hans Memling?
...that even though a 1959-1961 survey showed that the Central African Republic's Bakouma sub-prefecture contained phosphatic sediment with the highest uranium content in all of sub-Saharan Africa, exploitation didn't start until 2006?
...that the Charles E. Roberts Stable was converted from a barn into a garage by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1896?
...that miniature scale for naval wargames is worked out almost exclusively in ratios, rather than the millimetre-based scale preferred by land-based miniature wargaming?
...that had it moved into production as scheduled, the Bede BD-10 would have been the world's first kit-built jet-powered general aviation aircraft?
...that the Pagal Panthis were a religious order who led the peasants of the Mymensingh region of Bengal in armed revolts against the British East India Company and zamindars?
...that factors affecting the preservation of textiles include ambient heat, light, and humidity, and the presence of pests, airborne chemicals and pollutants?
...that during the 1950s, when the Soviet training model barred students from participation in professional theatre, Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts maintained its close ties with it?
...that the initial publication of the The Highfield Mole (since dubbed "the next Harry Potter") was financed by the sale of the house of one of the authors?
...that Chicago's Crown Fountain displays LED images of faces, which typically create the illusion of puckered lips spouting water?
...that, after the wife of liberal journalist Aleksey Suvorin was shot dead by her lover, Suvorin experienced a conversion to virulent conservatism?
...that Rīgas Satiksme is the largest provider of public transport in Riga?
...that riots broke out among Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach?
...that the Naniwa class cruisers were the first protected cruisers designed in Japan?
...that existence of arbitrarily many primes in arithmetic progression was proven in 2004, but it took 75 computers to find an example with 24 primes?
...that Australian deputy judge advocate Richard Dore once ordered several hundred lashes be given to suspected Irish insurrectionists before a verdict had been made?
...that stockbooks are often used by stamp collectors to store both postage stamps and other philatelic items such as plate blocks, miniature sheets, covers, and lettersheets?
...that French mathematician André Bloch murdered his brother, produced all his mathematical work from an insane asylum, and published under aliases to avoid the interest of Nazi occupiers?
...that Eocursor, a small bipedal herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, is the most completely known Triassic ornithischian (beaked dinosaur)?
...that to speed up patent cases, United States federal judge T. John Ward uses a chess clock to time opening and closing arguments?
...that the 2004 USC Trojans football team went undefeated, becoming the tenth team to win consecutive Associated Press National Championships?
...that the Bede BD-4 was the first homebuilt aircraft to be offered in kit form?
...that Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-born Romanian financier, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005?
...that the extinct marine reptile Kaganaias is the only ancient aquatic scaled reptile to be found in Asia?
...that the burning of the Torah by Apostomus is noted in the Mishnah as one of five catastrophes to affect the Jews on the seventeenth of Tammuz?
...that Smoky Bay in South Australia was named so after the discoverer noticed large plumes of smoke from fires lit by the area's aboriginal people?
...that almost 1 in 10 of the inhabitants of Pingelap , a Micronesian atoll, have complete achromatopsia, a rare form of colourblindness which normally only affects 1 in 33,000?
...that Alexander Brodie Spark, influential merchant, magistrate, investor and exporter in Australia during the 19th century, entertained in excess of 800 different guests in his home solely in 1839?
...that John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation—until he negotiated the terms himself?
...that Kuh Ledesma was the first Philippine singer to receive the Salem Music Awards in London in March 1989?
...that the yet unnamed EADS Astrium Space Tourism Project is the first suborbital space tourism project by a major aerospace consortium?
...that Muristan, a complex in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, was the location of the first hospital of the Knights of St. John?
...that William Hogarth's 1748 painting The Gate of Calais features Hogarth himself about to be arrested as a spy for sketching the gate?
...that Gigantoraptor, a bird-like dinosaur discovered in Inner Mongolia, is thirty-five times larger than its peacock-sized relative, Caudipteryx?
...that Vijaya Dasa, an 18th-century Hindu saint from the Karnataka Haridasa tradition, composed about 25,000 devotional songs in the Kannada language?
...that Vittorio Ambrosio was an Italian general who served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany?
...that destructive creativity is a social theory that has been used to explain Nazi Germany, and the Enron and Watergate scandals?
...that Ghum is the highest railway station in India at 2,225 m (7,407 ft)?
...that the Oscar B. Balch House was the first building Frank Lloyd Wright designed after returning from an extended trip to Europe with a client's wife?
...that Narayana Hrudayalaya, located in Bangalore, India and one of the largest pediatric heart hospitals in the world, offers a telemedicine service for free?
...that the war elephant army of Basalawarmi, a Yuan Dynasty loyalist and the Prince of Liang, was, according to myth, defeated by ten thousand mice?
...that Mogollon, New Mexico had a reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the American West?
...that it is believed that Elizabeth I granted a temporary reprieve to the Catholic priest Richard Simpson to forestall invasion by Philip II of Spain?
...that the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment led to the enactment of mandatory arrests, without warrants, when responding police had probable cause that domestic violence had occurred?
...that the Viagens Interplanetarias series of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp was influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian novels?
...that Fort Victoria was established as a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post, and eventually grew into the modern capital city of British Columbia?
...that one British bank, as an incentive for university students to open a new account with it, offers free Young Persons Railcards, valid for five years and worth £100?
...that, in Scientology beliefs and practices, KRC ("Knowledge, Responsibility and Control") forms the main ingredients of "cause" or effectiveness in life?
...that the tornado that struck Moscow on June 29, 1904 was the first ever recorded in Central Russia?
...that mobbing behavior is seen in species as diverse as the Great Tit and California Ground Squirrel?
...that newspaper editor George D. Prentice expressed regret later in life for fiery anti-Catholic editorials that played a role in the Bloody Monday riot of 1855?
...that Jack Hides led what Lieutenant-Governor Hubert Murray described as "the most difficult and dangerous" patrol ever carried out in Papua?
...that Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna left her unfaithful husband and became a nun?
...that Sophia Collier used profits from her autobiography Soul Rush, which she wrote at age nineteen, to develop her own soft drink company?
...that Tom Wolfe's The Pump House Gang was published on the same day as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and both went on to become best-sellers?
...that the William H. Copeland House was one of three remodeling projects undertaken by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park between 1906 and 1909?
...that Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents?
...that over 9,000 animals were killed during the inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre?
...that the USS Grebe survived both World War I and the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be destroyed by a hurricane in 1943?
...that Swedes have lived in Estonia for more than 700 years, although only a small number are permanently resident there today?
...that New Mexico State Road 6563 takes its number from the wavelength (6563 Å) used by scientists to locate areas of interest on the Sun?
...that despite shortages of money during the construction of the Deerwood Auditorium in Minnesota, the building was substantially completed in time for its first event, a lutefisk supper?
...that Georgia Tech's Brittain Dining Hall was designed by its School of Architecture and paid for in part by its Athletic Association?
...that the yacht Fri spearheaded an international protest of a flotilla of yachts in a voyage against atmospheric nuclear tests at Moruroa in French Polynesia in 1973?
...that the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mang attempted to stifle the work of Catholic missionaries by appointing them as mandarins in the royal court, claiming a lack of translators?
...that the Bonn–Oberkassel train ferry was one of six train ferries that commenced operations across the Rhine in Germany in the late 19th century?
...that despite having its faculty decimated by Operation Sonderaktion Krakau, the Agricultural University of Kraków continued to hold secret agronomy courses during World War II?
...that the Mosque of Bodrum in Istanbul represents the first example of a private burial church of a Byzantine Emperor?
...that one of the most successful weapons of the American Civil War was designed by one of the war's most incompetent generals?
...that Peter of Atroa was accused of exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub, not the power of Christ?
...that during World War II, Pietro Cardinal Boetto protested against the shelling of Genoa by British warships, claiming that God would assure the triumph of Italy?
...that 12th-century Muslim scientist Al-Khazini, who proposed a theory of gravitation long before Isaac Newton, was, in his early life, a slave of the Seljuq Turks?
...that Bob Simpson made a comeback from ten years in international retirement to lead the Australian cricket team at the age of 42 when it was decimated by defections to World Series Cricket?
...that members of the catfish genus Auchenipterichthys are capable of producing sound?
...that Louisville, Kentucky's first parking garage was built in 1953, as an addition to the 1913 Starks Building ?
...Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull promulgated by Innocent VIII in 1484, was re-published as the preface to Malleus Maleficarum?
...that Nicolas Chédeville arranged Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons for hurdy gurdy or musette, flute, and violin to amuse French aristocrats who liked to pretend to be peasants?
...that a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia?
...that the village which later became Chickasaw, Alabama was started as a company town by a local shipyard?
...that the Iran-Pakistan barrier is currently being constructed by Iran along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal migration and thwart terror attacks?
...that Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius served in high public office for almost 60 years under both the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire, leading a conquest of Spain at the age of 85?
...that Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was named after an encounter that singer Jeff Tweedy had with a Memorial Day parade?
...that "Salvem el món" was the first punk song performed in the Eurovision Song Contest?
...that although Pope Gregory XVI condemned railroads as "the road to hell," Vatican City includes the world's shortest national railway system?
...that Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show, an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?
...that Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei, was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia, but died as a free man in England?
...that actor Powers Boothe won a 1980 Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the film Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ?
...that the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Mamilla has been under construction for the last 37 years, even though it is only 0.1 square kilometres large?
...that for the jazz album The Meeting, Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
...that Abraham of Farshut founded a new Monophysite monastery at Farshut after the monks of his old monastery at Pbow almost all accepted the decision of the Council of Chalcedon?
...that the Ghana Navy was established under British Royal Navy command and headed by D. A. Foreman, a retired British officer commissioned as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore?
...that in 2003, Kimberly Casiano became the first Hispanic woman to serve on the board of one of the Fortune 1000 top five companies when she was appointed to the board of Ford Motor Company?
...that Augusto Genina's Lo squadrone bianco (1936), released during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, lionized the Italian colonization of Libya?
...that Bagrichthys macracanthus, the black lancer, is the only species of Bagrichthys, a genus of catfishes, that is traded in the aquarium hobby?
...that, in a quest for realism, Théodore Géricault sketched bodies in the morgue before producing the Raft of the Medusa ?
...that the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service?
...that the George Furbeck House represents the beginning of a three year period of experimentation by Frank Lloyd Wright which resulted in the first Prairie houses?
...that Emil Rieve was elected president of his local union when he was only 22 years old, and president of the Textile Workers Union of America when he was 46?
...that, partly as a result of the Estonian national awakening, the Estonians had the second highest literacy rate in the Russian Empire?
...that Archaeopotamus is the oldest well-identified genus of hippos, having lived 7.5 million to 1.8 million years ago?
...that Australian pop singer Lynne Randell was the first Australian recording artist to shoot a colour music video for her 1967 hit "Ciao Baby"?
...that the Mid-Delaware Bridge over the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New York is the uppermost four-lane bridge on the river's main stem?
...that after criticising the Australian Cricket Board, its captain Bill Lawry was sacked without being informed, and only learned of his fate on the radio?
...that Prussian uprisings refer to several uprisings of Prussians, one of the Baltic tribes, against the Teutonic Knights, in the 13th century during the Northern Crusades?
...that Church of Scientology private investigator Eugene Martin Ingram was charged with impersonating a police officer, in Hillsborough County, Florida?
...that Gia Long, the first Emperor of Vietnam's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine?