derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Franklin Steele built the first sawmill at St. Anthony Falls and the first permanent bridge to cross the Mississippi River?
...that Don Tallon, regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
...that the peacekeeping Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion, created in the late 1990s, is serving as part of the Kosovo Force?
...that battle for trade was a phrase introduced by Polish communist propaganda for the nationalization of private sector shops?
...that John J. Bernet was known for bringing railroad companies back from bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
...that Peter Herdic, a 19th-century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic, an early form of taxicab?
...that during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Palestine Police Force was augmented by the Jewish Settlement Police, Jewish Supernumerary Police and the Special Night Squads?
...that Allen Steere, a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University, is credited with discovering Lyme disease?
...that Trivikrama Mahadeva has organized the funerals of over 42,000 people?
...that debt-relief activist Ann Pettifor staged a 70,000 person protest which formed a human chain and encircled the 1998 G8 summit?
...that the first wine region established as an American Viticultural Area was the Augusta AVA in Augusta, Missouri being selected eight months before Napa Valley, California?
...that the nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre was the first sexploitation movie to be filmed in color?
...that the Gotha Go 145 bi-plane started service as a trainer in the Luftwaffe in 1935, and was still in service as a night bomber at the end of the war in Europe?
...that the lyre arm design has endured from prehistory and Ancient Greece through the American Federal Period?
...that the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America?
...that the Pleasant Home, a U.S. National Historic Landmark, derives its name from its location, the intersection of Pleasant Street and Home Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois?
...that ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories?
...that the island of Tanjong Pelumpong in Brunei was created when a ten meter deep channel was cut through the spit to provide access to Muara Port?
...that the Eastern Whipbird of the Australian wet forests is so named for its loud call which resembles the cracking of a whip?
...that Morlon Wiley was part of the NBA's only trade on the day of the trading deadline in 1995, being traded for Scott Brooks?
...that the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway, the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway, could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida?
...that the first large influx of Russians in Korea came after the fall of Vladivostok to communist forces in 1922?
...that Dov Yosef, Israel's second Minister of Justice, immigrated to Israel as a soldier in the Canadian Jewish Legion?
...that biologists Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid peer review when publishing their most provocative works on molecular evolution?
...that the Dunedin , the first commercially successful refrigerated ship, ushered in a meat and dairy boom in Australasia and South America with its first shipment in 1882?
...that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote concertos for 1, 2, 3, and even 4 harpsichords?
...that the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass was an attempt to communicate across vast distances using a telepathic link between snails?
...that Luxembourg City's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
...that Matysiakowie is both the most popular radio drama in Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?
...that some of the sick and the wounded left behind by the Volunteer Army during the Ice March of 1919 shot themselves rather than be captured by the Bolsheviks?
...that the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is considered a forerunner to the famous Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania?
...that baseball player Rollie Hemsley was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous to break their anonymity on a national level?
...that St. Patrick's Church was the first Catholic parish established in New Orleans outside the French Quarter, so that Irish immigrants would have a parish that was not dominated by French-speaking Creoles?
...that Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia once owned the largest and finest collection of Russian coins?
...that Charles B. DeBellevue , who had the most MiG kills during the Vietnam War, was the last American ace on active duty?
...that the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals was a leading Islamic political group, founded in 1990 by senior politician and later president of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie?
...that Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
...that Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva's Silva Mind Control, in his company Mind Dynamics?
...that Dave Brubeck's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War?
...that the founding father of physical education in Poland, Dr. Henryk Jordan, started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century?
...that the date of the translation of a Christian saint's relics was often observed as a separate feast day?
...that in 1926, author Helen Dore Boylston and Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, drove from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
...that just as there is a "Fifth Beatle," Phillip Wilcher is called the "fifth Wiggle" for leaving The Wiggles shortly before they became Australia's highest grossing entertainers?
...that writer and publisher Bernard d’Abrera is a fervent creationist who blames environmental problems on the "waste" of studying evolution?
...that Bernard de Neufmarché was the first of the Norman conquerors of Wales, who annexed the Kingdom of Brycheiniog to England?
...that the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Leela Gandhi, is a senior lecturer at La Trobe University in the English program?
...that on 28 April 1285 at Girona, Jean Cholet crowned Charles of Valois with his galero and pronounced him King of Aragon, earning Charles the affectionate moniker roi du chapeau (king of the hat)?
...that Ed Trice, creator of the chess variant known as Gothic Chess, helped Jonathan Schaeffer solve the game of checkers, the largest game ever solved?
...that the Australian solicitor and politician, Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason, and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT?
...that all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
...that when Nizah Morris, an African American transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a homicide, but the Philadelphia police took over a month to do so?
...that Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker, won two Emmy Awards for the work he did as NASCAR's marketing director?
...that several British Royal Air Force Stations were used by the U.S. Strategic Air Command for almost 20 years?
...that Thai actor Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film, Insee thong?
...that the last archbishop of Bordeaux of the Hundred Years' War, Pey Berland, built annexed to the cathedral a tower that still bears his name: the Tour Pey Berland?
...that East Perth Cemeteries' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the 63rd regiment who died on 6 January 1830?
...that the praetorian prefecture of Africa, a Byzantine province established after the Vandalic War, saw continuous warfare and two major military mutinies during its first 15 years of existence?
...that most species of catfishes of the subfamily Sarcoglanidinae are small and transparent?
...that Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa Bertramka on the outskirts of Prague and that the house is now a museum in his memory?
...that Singapore's Burmese Buddhist Temple has the largest white marble statue of the Buddha outside of Myanmar?
...that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?
...that Oscar the Cat was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the terminally ill?
...that when severely disturbed, catfish of the genus Acrochordonichthys may release a milky-white mucus-like substance that can kill other fish?
...that the online business term Enterprise 2.0 originated with Participate Systems CEO Alan Warms in 2001 and has spawned an annual collaborative technologies conference of the same name?
...that children who turn 16 during the validity of a Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires?
...that the Jerusalem city hall at Safra Square was rebuilt in 1993 with help from Brazilian-Lebanese financier Edmond J. Safra?
...that the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 has been endorsed by both Chuck Yeager and Ann Coulter?
...that the children's group The Wiggles, Australia's most successful entertainers, have franchised their image and songs to groups in Taiwan and South America?
...that the winners at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe in September, 2007, will receive the first WSOP bracelets ever awarded outside of Las Vegas?
...that Auburn Tigers offensive coordinator Al Borges wrote both a book and an instructional video titled Coaching the West Coast Quarterback?
...that members of the genus Breitensteinia have a longer body than other stream catfishes due to an increase in number of vertebrae?
...that Raine Island, a vegetated coral cay located off the North coast of Australia, harbours the largest population of Green Turtles in the world and is the most significant seabird rookery in the Great Barrier Reef?
...that oleoresin extracted from Byadgi chilli is used in making nail polish and lipstick?
...that Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter Kadhem Sharif attempted to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at Baghdad's Firdos Square?
...that University Hall, Northwestern University's oldest building, is composed of Joliet limestone - the same kind used to build the Chicago Water Tower?
...that the influence of singer Jeff Tweedy's side group Loose Fur on Wilco's 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot led to the dismissal of two other Wilco members?
...that the homosexual relationship between Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on All My Children after the series fans demanded it?
...that the Cleeves Cove caves were used as a refuge for the local Covenanters, a religious group seeking religious freedom, during the time of their persecution by Charles II's government?
...that Johnny Ramensky was a Scottish criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities to help the British Army?
...that in 1999, John Pollack quit his job as a Congressional speechwriter to build a boat made entirely out of corks?
...that State Route 69 in the U.S. state of Utah was renumbered State Route 38 in 1993, due to sign theft caused by one connotation of the number?
...that catfish of the genus Leporacanthicus are also known as vampire plecostomus because of the presence of very long teeth on their upper jaw?
...that of the sixty delegates to the Oregon Constitutional Convention, thirty-four were farmers, while eighteen were lawyers, including three justices of the Oregon Supreme Court?
...that the medieval Irish narrative The Sickbed of Cúchulainn gave its name to the first song on The Pogues' 1985 album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash?
...that the Bilbie family produced more than 1,350 bells, from the late 1600s to the early 1800s?
...that the BBC reported that the John West Salmon's "Bear Fight" videos have been viewed over 300 million times making it the sixth most viewed online video?
...that according to a legend, Polish-Lithuanian noble Mikołaj Sapieha stole a Holy Painting from a private Papal chapel in Rome?
...that horses hauled both passenger and goods trains to Weston-super-Mare railway station, England, from 1841, when the railway opened, until 1851?
...that The French Connection led the Buffalo Sabres to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the seven full seasons they were together except the one Gilbert Perreault's broken leg limited him to 55 games?
...that in 1078 the Chinese statesman and poet Su Shi (1037-1101) wrote a memorial to the throne warning of the potential danger of bandits overrunning the iron industry of Xuzhou?
...that Motza , founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?
...that Christina Lake, British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps?
...that the 29 species in the fish genus Sillago are so similar they can only be positively identified by the shapes of their swim bladders?
...that Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party?
...that 64Cu-ATSM (diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone)), a chemical with a radioactive isotope of copper, has been shown to increase the survival time of tumor-bearing animals with no acute toxicity?
...that papal conclaves from the 14th to 17th centuries attempted to use capitulations to influence the popes they elected in matters from the appointment of cardinal-nephews to papal travel and construction projects?
...that Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot, flying P-40 "Kittyhawk" fighter planes during World War II?
...that Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity?
...that part of the first line of the Berlin U-Bahn was built as an elevated railway , because the City of Berlin feared that an underground railway would damage one of its new trunk sewers?
...that the Stuart Oil Shale Project, the world’s first application of the Alberta-Taciuk Processor technology on oil shale, was in operation only five years?
...that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov, who brought the country into World War I, was the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin?
...that, except in 1987, the United States presidential candidate who wins the Ames Straw Poll has always gone on to win the Republican Party's Iowa Caucus?
...that in the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672-1676, a few years before crippling the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with the Empire?
...that Thomas L. Bromwell is a former Maryland State Senator who, along with his wife, pleaded guilty to public corruption charges?
...that poet Sekou Sundiata taught alternative musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty?
...that the Gangetic whiting is the only known species of fish to host the intestinal parasite Dichelyne alatae?
...that the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
...that Silas Rhodes co-founded what would become the School of Visual Arts in order to help returning World War II veterans transition back to civilian life?
...that General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England?
...that Catherine Troeh, a Native American activist, often signed her letters "member of the Chinook Tribe Allottee 1865 Quinault reservation" as a reference to 80 acres of land granted to her by the U.S. federal government?
...that Taiwanese alternative musician Deserts Chang wrote her first song at the age of 13 before she learned how to play a musical instrument?
...that the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron, from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?
...that the landowner and grazier Joshua John Moore , was the first pastoralist to occupy the current day location of Canberra, Australia?
...that Vikkamabahu was the first Sri Lankan monarch to mount an organised campaign to expel the Chola army which invaded the island in the 12th century?
...that pioneer claim clubs were used in the American Old West to protect land claims by settlers against claim jumpers and to promote claim jumping against absentee land owners?
...that The Land of the Settlers is a five-part documentary series made by Chaim Yavin, dubbed "Israel's Walter Cronkite", and was so controversial that his station refused to air it?
...that Fort Greble was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen magazines for artillery, and three years later company quarters had to be demolished to add them?
...that the seeds of Prunus mahaleb, a spice, contain coumarin?
...that one of the most influential people in Polish-French relations was Napoleon Bonaparte, still considered a hero in Poland and mentioned in the Polish national anthem?
...that the Roman marble head of a Polyclitan Diadumenos found at the Abbey of Vauluisant in Bourgogne, France suggests that the site was once a Roman villa?
...that British general Frederick Barton Maurice was forced to resign after writing a letter accusing David Lloyd George of misrepresenting the strength of British forces during the Spring Offensive?
...that Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story?
...that on January 27, 1987 83 workers of a shrimp farm in Kokkadichcholai, Sri Lanka were shot, allegedly by Special Task Force officers?
...that pioneer James Harrod established the first permanent European settlement in the U.S. state of Kentucky on June 16, 1774?
...that construction of 'Tagore Castle' in Pathuriaghata, a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?
...that Artine Artinian was used as a fictional character by two of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century?
...that the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same Big Five firm that audited Enron?
...that it took four sword strokes for St. Bademus' terrified executioner to sever his head?
...that the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement?
...that after Hugo Chávez's September 2006 speech to the United Nations, gas stations operated by the United Refining Company starting removing Citgo signs from their buildings?
...that the saint Hermagoras of Aquileia gave his name to the Austrian city and district of Hermagor?
...that the Southern right whales off the coast of Argentina 'sail' by raising their flukes and catching the wind?
...that Shalom Yoran, a Jewish partisan during World War II and the author of The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival, played a major role in developing Israeli Aircraft Industries?
...Glassworts are plants named to indicate that their ashes contain an alkali that is important in making glass?
...that Marcin Czechowic, a 16th-century Polish theologian, frequently changed his religious views as far as from Catholicism to Arianism?
...that Citoyenne Henri was only allowed to take a balloon trip with Andre-Jacques Garnerin after it was ruled that "there was no more scandal in seeing two people of different sexes ascend in a balloon than it is to see them jump into a carriage"?
...that Smederevo fortress survived for over 500 years without much damage, then was devastated in a single explosion during World War II?
...that, in addition to having a passion for opera, dramatic soprano Othalie Graham enjoys music by Prince and Jamaican reggae musician Jimmy Cliff?
...that Dode Criss is considered by historian Bill James to be the first player to be used as a baseball pinch hitter regularly?
...that the comprehensive metabolic panel is a suite of 14 blood tests routinely administered to screen for many different diseases?
...that Captain William Walter Kouts located the son of the Medal of Honor recipient who died while saving Kouts during World War II after over sixty years of searching?
...that famous Mexican poet and politician Guillermo Prieto saved the life of President Benito Juárez by interposing himself between the guns of rebellious guardsmen and the president?
...that Quebec City's Clarendon Hotel originally hosted the Queen's Printers for Canada?
...that Będzin Castle , an important fortress in medieval Poland, fell into disrepair in the Renaissance era, was almost demolished in the 19th century and was rebuilt only in the 1950s?
...that the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters alludes to John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education, one of its primary philosophical influences?
...that the Group C Nissan R90Cs won the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship three times, the 1000km Suzuka twice, and the 24 Hours of Daytona once in their four years of competition?
...that silver coins in the 10th-century Viking Harrogate Hoard, recovered intact in Yorkshire, January 2007, came from as far as Afghanistan?
...that Chin Gee Hee (1844–1929) was a successful labor contractor in the United States and later a railroad entrepreneur in his native China?
...that Lowell Observatory staff resisted building the telescope used to discover the dwarf planet Pluto until trustee Roger Putnam ordered them to do so?
...that Chilean cricketer John Jackson was once on the opposing side to his brother Alfred in an international match against Argentina?
...that in the PlayStation 2 live action adventure game 0 Story, two Japanese female actresses kiss while one is possessed by the player's ghost?
...that the 1988 Chiado district fire caused more damage to the city of Lisbon than any catastrophe since the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake?
...that Abada was only the second rhinoceros seen in Europe since the Roman era, and was thought by some observers to be a unicorn?
...that after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated Chicago?
...that Eddy Brown, an English football player who had originally planned to take Holy Orders, was well known for his goal celebrations as early as the 1950s?
...that in Tum Teav, a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with an adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
...that a catfish of the genus Helogenes is known to jump out of the stream during rotenone fishing by locals, and jump back afterwards?
...that the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway was opened in 1930, more than 20 years after the original plans were drawn up?
...that the origin of the Azerbaijanis has been traced to indigenous Caucasians from more than a millennium ago?
...that the main Post Office for Minneapolis, Minnesota contained peepholes to protect the mail, and recreation rooms, a rifle range and a hospital unit for employees?
...that the Australian town of Thangool, Queensland produces over 60% of the Australian market for squab?
...that Sarangapani Temple is named after Sarang, the bow of Rama?
...that approval in 1963 by Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz resulted in a former Lutheran minister with two children becoming a Roman Catholic priest?