derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that razor manufacturer Thiers Issard produces a singing razor whose blade produces a resonant tone when plucked?
...that Navajo rugs sold for $50 in gold as early as 1850?
...that fingerboards are reduced scale model figures of skateboards that are featured in videos and used as 3-D visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks and maneuvers?
...that Ronald Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, reached number eight on The New York Times' bestsellers list?
...that the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad never operated a single train, despite completing a 42-mile (68 km) line and its own ore dock at a cost of over two million dollars?
...that a poll of 1000 respondents conducted in 2006 indicated that 26% of Americans say the United States "should not be involved" with the United Nations?
...that former Chicago Blackhawks player Al Suomi was offered a contract to play with a local St. Louis, Missouri hockey team at the age of 93?
...that Aimé Guibert, owner and winemaker of Mas de Daumas Gassac, was featured in the documentary Mondovino stating that "wine is dead"?
...that eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history?
...that blackfin scad is a popular food fish in Cambodia and Thailand, where it is served fried, steamed or baked?
...that William Stewart Simkins, later professor emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law, may have fired the first shot of the US Civil War?
...that the 5th-century baptistery of the Cathedral of Saint-Léonce, one of France's oldest Christian structures, was concealed after reconstructions in the 13th century and re-discovered in 1925?
...that the Hurricane Creek mine disaster, which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
...that besides Bartter syndrome, endocrinologist Frederic Bartter also identified the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone?
...that Azizul Huque gave up his Knighthood after the Calcutta Riots in 1946?
...that Laurent de Premierfait was the first French translator of Giovanni Boccaccio's material, which was done only for personal financial gain?
...that Pratap Singh was the last ruler of Thanjavur to be officially referred to by the English East India Company as "His Majesty"?
...that Surveyor General William Light initially planned to build the city of Adelaide on the banks of the Sturt River before establishing it near the River Torrens instead?
...that New Mexico State Road 4 forms the core of Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway, with trails to Puebloan ruins, a 10,199-foot mountain, and a 70-foot waterfall from roadside turnouts?
...that articulation begins with the junction produced by creating a joint and is defined by the degree joints are seen as a "distinct break" from each other, in contrast to joints that seem fluid and continuous with the whole?
...that Namibia Commercial Aviation has used the former presidential aircraft of Yugoslavia and Zambia for passenger flights?
...that Al Javery, deferred from serving in World War II due to varicose veins, led all Major League Baseball pitchers in 1943 with 303 innings pitched?
...that Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China was so fond of Feng Xiaobao, she had him undertake tonsure to become a Buddhist monk in order to facilitate his entering and exiting her palace?
...that consuming excess carotenoids may lead to their deposition in the stratum corneum and a yellow to yellow-orange discoloration of the skin in a medical condition known as carotenoderma?
...that Ellenville Middle School abandoned an experiment with single-sex classes after the school failed to meet No Child Left Behind Act standards?
...that, at the time of his death, 111-year-old veteran Mark Matthews was seen as a symbol for the Buffalo Soldiers?
...that the Ramesseum medical papyri contained an contraceptive formula and a method to predict the likelihood of a newborn's survival?
...that the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army to see combat in World War II?
...that Section 121 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in U.S. law is named the “Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program”, after two victims of violent crimes?
...that after screenwriter Chuck Tatham's brother and writing partner Jamie quit their first job and returned to their hometown, Chuck went on to be nominated for two Emmys?
...that the 477th Fighter Group is the first and only unit of F-22A Raptors in the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command?
...that the Tigmamanukan, a Philippine mythological bird, can be a good or bad omen depending on the direction of its flight?
...that the role of Osmin in the German opera The Abduction from the Seraglio was tailor-made by Mozart for his friend Ludwig Fischer?
...that in the history of commercial tobacco in the United States, an African slave named Stephan changed the process of curing tobacco by using charcoal taken from a local blacksmith’s fire rather than the usual logwood?
...that the Australian Test cricketer Colin McCool bowled his leg spin deliveries with a round arm action so pronounced that his arm was almost parallel to the pitch?
...that the Deperdussin Monocoque was the first aircraft to fly faster than 100 miles per hour?
...that American artist Sybil Gibson started painting in 1963, aged 55, using the medium of powdered tempera paints on brown paper grocery bags?
...that studies of the inshore marine fish small-scale whiting suggest the female starts life smaller than the male, but grows faster and is larger than the male within two years?
...that footballer Roy Cheetham was the first Manchester City player to be used as a substitute?
...that Jimmie Lewallen turned down an offer to buy into NASCAR because "it would never amount to anything"?
...that the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic was named for the eagle that, legend has it, caused the premature birth of Kazimierz, son of Duke Mieszko and his wife, Ludmiła, on the spot where the town was founded?
...that the ANAK Society, Georgia Tech's oldest secret society, claims to have covertly protected the university's first African American students during Georgia Tech's racial integration in the 1960s?
...that despite his never having been emperor, Li Chengqi was posthumously honoured as such by the Tang Chinese Emperor Xuanzong?
...that during his U.S. Air Force career, Colorado state representative Kent Lambert oversaw military support for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation at Air Force Space Command?
...that the plans for renovation of the Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc, the Czech Republic had to be stopped due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, which owned the property rights?
...that the All-American football player John Maulbetsch was known as the "Featherweight Fullback" because he weighed only 155 pounds (70 kg) and ate two pies a day for dinner during his playing career?
...that the Rhone Rangers, winemakers who promote the use of grapes from the Rhône Valley in France, were a driving force behind Syrah's increased popularity among Californian wines?
...that Section 44 of the Australian Constitution has been interpreted as meaning that persons with dual citizenship are ineligible to run for the Australian parliament?
...that the projected Russian hypersonic aircraft Ayaks was supposed to use novel "magneto-plasmo-chemical engines" capable of working in the mesosphere?
...that Ilha dos Marinheiros, the largest and most fertile island in the lagoon Lagoa dos Patos, produces about 80% of the vegetables consumed in Rio Grande, Brazil?
...that Josiah Parsons Cooke had little formal education in chemistry, and instead spent eight months in Europe for advanced studies in the subject after he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Harvard in 1850?
...that Psalms 134 and 135 are usually chanted during the Polyeleos, a festive portion of the Matins or All-night vigil services in some Eastern Christian Churches, but Psalm 44 is chanted instead on feasts of the Theotokos in Greece?
...that John Cort, founder of Broadway's Cort Theatre, first made his name by booking variety entertainment in the bawdy box houses of Seattle, Washington, USA?
...that irritable hip is the most common cause of limp and sudden pain in and around the hip in children aged three to ten?
...that the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. not only houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce, but is also the site of the Population Clock, National Aquarium, and White House Visitor Center?
...that besides utility poles , anonymous knitters from Knitta have also left their tags on the Great Wall of China and the Notre Dame de Paris?
...that paramilitary loyalist Tommy Herron declared war on the British Army, but called it off after two days?
...that Utricularia inflata is one of the few invasive species of carnivorous plant?
...that Shruti Haasan, the daughter of Indian actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika, is a singer turned model who is now also venturing into acting?
...that the producer of White Zinfandel originally wanted to name the wine after the old rosé style Oeil de Perdrix?
...that rugby union footballer Robert Wilson Shaw was so influential in Scotland's Triple Crown winning victory over England in 1938 that the match became known as "Wilson Shaw's match"?
...that the Theatre on Terazije is a Broadway-style theatre in Belgrade where the Serbian version of Chicago, Kiss Me, Kate, A Chorus Line and other musicals are performed?
...that a hook gauge detects irregularities in manufacturer sizing of crochet hooks and knitting needles?
...that the 17th chief of the Clan Maclachlan was killed by a cannonball while leading his Jacobite clansmen at the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
...that during the French and Indian War Henry Timberlake was an emissary to the Overhill Cherokee whose journals became a primary source for later studies of eighteenth-century Cherokee?
...that in the landmark case Riggins v. Nevada, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a mentally ill person cannot be forced to take antipsychotic medication while on trial merely to maintain his competency during trial?
...that the closing of Nittany Furnace in 1911 marked the end of modern iron-production in Bellefonte, and presaged the decline of the Pennsylvanian town?
...that 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
...that Portugal was taken to court over its failure to implement EU directives regarding its water supply and sanitation systems?
...that one of the earliest references to Indian wine was the writings of Chanakya in the 4th century BCE commenting on its prevalence in the court of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya?
...that John Considine, pioneering American vaudeville impresario, once shot and killed a former chief of police of Seattle who had come gunning for him?
...that without adequate scouting, Russian forces advanced blindly into the Battle of Lubar in 1658 during the Russo-Polish War, and were soundly defeated by a Polish army much larger than expected?
...that Hinba, an island in Scotland of unknown location , was the site of a small monastery associated with the church of St Columba on Iona?
...that Tom Collen resigned over a discrepancy about his résumé a day after becoming Vanderbilt University's women's basketball head coach, but his résumé was correct?
...that the Near-Earth object and Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 is estimated to have a 1-in-75 chance of colliding with Mars?
...that the 2001 single by Mylène Farmer, C'est une belle journée, was released in April, 2002 after the success of the album, Les Mots, rather than its scheduled date of release?
...that although tall waterhemp is considered a weed in 40 U.S. states, it does not appear on the federal noxious weed list or any state lists?
...that each title of the thirteen episodes of the 2007 Japanese animated television series Blue Drop: Tenshitachi no Gikyoku is the name of a flower seen in that episode?
...that an F4U Corsair from Marine Fighting Squadron 441 clipped the superstructure of the USS Laffey (DD-724) while chasing a kamikaze aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa?
...that in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks?
...that the city of West Sacramento, California is converting the former State Route 275 freeway into a surface road by replacing interchanges with at-grade intersections?
...that Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, a Nigerian Senator from the People's Democratic Party, is the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo?
...that there are two separate churches dedicated to St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester?
...that Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy violated a news embargo to break the story of the surrender of the Germans in World War II?
...that during the Boonah crisis in October 1918, 31 people died of the Spanish flu aboard the Australian troopship the HMAT Boonah ?
...that the modern Croatian intelligence community emerged as an integral force in Croatia's war for independence, spying on rival Yugoslav republics?
...that before becoming the Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy, Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses?
...that most of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?
...that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University?
...that the Italian winery Vini Lunardelli produced a controversial "historical line" of wine bottles featuring images of Che Guevara, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin on their labels?
...that Carlo Orelli was the last surviving Italian veteran to see service on Italy's entry into World War I?
...that when St Hilary's Church in Wallasey, England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice?
...that in the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies, coffee became the alternative to tea after the enactment of the Tea Act of 1773?
...that netball in New Zealand is the most popular women's sport in the country, led by its high-profile national team, the Silver Ferns?
...that Marine Attack Squadron 233 was the only squadron of the U.S. Marine Corps to have three commanders killed during the course of World War II?
...that Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane?
...that English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides, which he left in his will to the British Museum?
...that the Battle of Chudniv in 1660 was the largest Polish victory over the Russians until the Battle of Warsaw in 1920?
...that many churchgoers in the 1920s believed that Ronald Reagan's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan, had the gift to heal due to her strong belief in the power of prayer?
...that Irish playwright George Farquhar originally planned on an acting career, but gave it up after accidentally wounding a fellow actor severely on stage with a sword?
...that the four years between the two no ball decisions for throwing by cricketer Harold Cotton is the longest span during which a player was no-balled in major cricket in Australia?
...that as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy?
...that John Warren Davis, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox?
...that German-American football center Adolph F. "Germany" Schulz is credited for developing the "roving center" technique, which became the basis for the linebacker position?
...that according to literary critics, The Queen and Concubine, a 17th-century tragicomic stage play written by Richard Brome, is a critique of royal tyranny and courtly sycophancy in England at the time?
...that during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera, published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper?
...that the Abbey of Condat, founded in the 420s in the Jura Mountains by Romanus and Lupicinus, predated even Montecassino as one of the earliest monasteries in the West?
...that, after failing to hail a cab on New Year's Eve in Denver, state representative Jerry Frangas sponsored legislation to deregulate Colorado's taxicab industry?
...that although Louisiana per Perry v. Louisiana forbids the forced medication of a death row inmate to make him competent for execution, some states allow it?
...that the well known white wine region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia also makes red wine from grapes like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pignolo?
...that indigenous Australian cricketer Jack Marsh was called for illegally throwing instead of bowling an Australian record seventeen times in one innings?
...that in the 17th century, south-London prostitutes, nicknamed 'Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones?
...that people with patent foramen ovale, an atrial septal defect, are more likely to suffer from migraine headaches?
...that U.S. Salvation Army Christmas kettles have collected not only American Gold Eagles , but also gold teeth?
...that the Laetare Medal, an award for an American Catholic who has made an outstanding contribution to society, was first given to the historian John Gilmary Shea in 1883?
...that The Entrepreneur, the first video game created by famed game designer Peter Molyneux, sold only two copies?
...that Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom?
...that Powderfinger's D.A.F. was named after its chord progression, rather than its subject matter like most popular songs?
...that Richard Lloyd Racing's custom-built 956 GTi was structurally stronger than the standard 956's built by Porsche thanks to the introduction of aluminium composite honeycomb in the chassis construction?
...that the skin of the Austrian white wine grape Zierfandler turns red just before it is ready to harvest?
...that after turning up drunk at an official dinner, crowing cock-a-doodle-doos, and throwing himself on an ambassadress, J.B. Manson retired as Director of the Tate gallery and returned to painting flowers ?
...that the Nobel laureate physicist Theodor W. Hänsch works at the faculty of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics?
...that the 18th century publisher Ralph Griffiths erected a sign outside his shop warning dunces that his Monthly Review would have no mercy in exposing and shaming dull authors?
...that Shanhua, a township in Taiwan, is also known as Bakaloan and Tevoran?
...that after scoring the highest score for the Federated Malay States cricket team in 1933, Cyril Reed was playing against them for the Straits Settlements the following year?
...that spinning cones are sometimes used to lower the alcohol level of wine made from grapes with a high sugar content?
...that according to the Christmas Price Index it will cost your true love US$78,100 to buy you all those gifts this year?
...that Philippine Christmas lanterns, called Parols , are also used in Christmas celebrations in Austria, Canada and California?
...that to clear a jammed gun on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn, Medal of Honor recipient Harry L. MacNeal crawled along its barrel during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba?
...that wine made from the Italian grape Schioppettino was served at weddings in 1282 and the grape is still being grown today?
...that development of the 2008 film Dragonball began in 2002, when 20th Century Fox acquired the rights?
...that in the 1971 film Lawman, American actor Robert Ryan played the role of the sheriff under the name Cotton Ryan?
...that Franz Kafka's 1917 "Jackals and Arabs" has been read as variously a Zionist critique of Western Jewry, a European critique of Jewish-Arab relations, and a paean to Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality?
...that in 1971, the Indian Claims Commission ordered US$74,856.50 to be paid to the Lower Skagit tribe to pay for land lost as a result of the Point Elliott Treaty?
...that Frank Pitcher was the only cricketer in Australia history to be no balled for throwing in his debut match?
...that St. Thomas' Church, Mellor contains the oldest wooden pulpit in England, and possibly in the world?
...that, with Christine Scanlan's appointment to the Colorado House of Representatives, the state house's Democratic caucus became majority-female?
...that the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?
...that when the Duke of Austria, Leopold III, established reign over the Italian city of Trieste one of his stipulations was that the city supply him each year with 100 urns of the region's best Ribolla wine?
...that before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction?
...that Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937?
...that Viktor Pynzenyk, Ukraine's Minister of Finance, is also a professor of economics at Lviv University?
...that Zinfandel was grown for table grapes in Boston long before it made wine in California?
...that Stanley Green, the "Protein Man", walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit, warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein — and sitting?
...that The Enchanter is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death?
...that the writer and diplomat Maurice Francis Egan introduced President Theodore Roosevelt to William Butler Yeats at a White House lunch?
...that the Little War was the smallest and least successful of the three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence?
...that Clifford Last, a son of the author of the Housewife, 49 diaries, migrated from Britain to Australia after the war and became a noted abstract sculptor?
...that Glenn Vaad was elected to seats on his local town board, school board, sanitation board, and county commission before winning election to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?
...that stitch markers are mnemonic devices that demonstrate the underlying mathematical basis of crochet?
...that after sinking the SS City of Cairo, Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?
...that Cornelius Shea, the founding president of the Teamsters, spent more than five years in Sing Sing prison for slashing and stabbing his mistress 27 times?
...that when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower?
...that as Oregon State University athletic director, Percy Locey agreed to play the 1942 Rose Bowl at the opposing team's home field due to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
...that the pun riddle “What do you call a spicy missile? A hot shot!” was generated by computer as part of computational humor research?
...that Libya was the first country to purchase the Palmaria, an Italian-made self-propelled 155mm howitzer, ordering 210 units in 1982?
...that Clinton Thomas Dent made eighteen failed attempts to climb the Aiguille du Dru before making the first ascent in September 1878?
...that Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates?