derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the California wine industry accounts for nearly 90% of all U.S. production, and if California were a country it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer?
...that Ebrulf left his position as a Merovingian courtier to become a hermit?
...that Lorraine Collett was the original model for the girl featured on Sun-Maid raisin packaging?
...that the National Assembly, Germany's legislature from 1919 to 1920, convened in Weimar to remind the World War I Allies of Germany's cultural history such as the Weimar residents Goethe and Schiller?
...that Aline was an ordinary woman who lived in 1st century AD Egypt, and whose name and portrait were preserved in her grave?
...that Country-Western singer, songwriter and actor Jimmy Wakely had his own series of DC Comics comic books, billing him as "Hollywood's Sensational Cowboy Star!"?
...that the Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only Fabergé egg to have been commissioned by an American?
...that Chinese-American author Laurence Yep's fantasy novel Dragon of the Lost Sea was originally conceived as a picture book adaptation of a folktale involving the Monkey King, a popular Chinese mythical character?
...that Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Russian ambassador to Poland, can be considered an unofficial but de facto ruler of Poland?
...that 20 year old tobacco store clerk Eddie Kolb was allowed to pitch the last regular season baseball game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders in exchange for a box of cigars?
...that the 25,000-year-old Venus of Brassempouy is one of the oldest known realistic depictions of a human face?
...that buildings in Kuala Lumpur have Mughal, Tudor, Neo-Gothic or Spanish architectural styles modified to use local resources and for the climate of Malaysia?
...that Muhtar Kent, named to assume the post of CEO of the Coca-Cola Company on July 1, 2008, is the son of a Turkish diplomat, who risked his life to save Jews in France during the Holocaust?
...that John Pitre's 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £1 million house in London in 2004?
...that Chase Austin was the first African American racecar driver to race in the NASCAR Busch Series?
...that "I Am Your Gummy Bear", a silly novelty song whose video features a "jolly and jiggly" lime green cartoon gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme?
...that Princess Stéphanie of Monaco’s song "Ouragan" was a number one hit in France?
...that the F class destroyer HMS Fury carried the former King Edward VIII to France the day after he abdicated the throne?
...that boats crammed with people from both India and Bangladesh, flying the flags of their respective countries, converge on the Ichamati River, the international border, to immerse the idols after Durga Puja?
...that Tom Wolfe's 1981 book From Bauhaus to Our House blames the influence of International style European architects for creating many buildings that nobody likes?
...that Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One Eyed Jacks, the only movie Brando directed?
...that the oasis town of Iferouane in northern Niger was the site of the first attack carried out by the Niger Movement for Justice, which marked the beginning of the Second Tuareg Rebellion?
...that RAAF Beaufort squadrons fighting in New Guinea under the command of Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance to augment their bomb loads?
...that the tradition of a Ukrainian flower wreath , a headdress worn by girls and young unmarried women, dates back to the pagan Slavic customs that predate the Christianization of Rus?
...that newly named U.S. Naval Academy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo is believed to be the first Pacific Islander American to be head coach at a major college football program?
...that before the Bagratids unified Georgia, Caucasian Iberia was ruled by a succession of princes under the influence of the Byzantines, the Persians and the Muslim Caliphate from the 6th to the 9th centuries?
...that the non-fiction book Getting It: The psychology of est was the first book to analyze Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training from a psychological point of view?
...that the Carolina dayflower is actually from India and was named in the United States nearly a century before it was described in its native country?
...that English football referee Gary Willard once had to be given a police safety escort off the pitch after sending off three home team players in a single game?
...that the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary has been criticized by adherents of the King-James-Only Movement for convincing some Independent Baptist groups to adopt modern Bible translations?
...that as a result of his role in the Peasants' War, the German Renaissance painter Jerg Ratgeb was executed by being torn apart by four horses?
...that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837?
...that twice named All-American football tackle Robert "Brick" Wahl later became CEO of a Fortune 500 irrigation equipment company?
...that the National Library of Singapore , the Seattle Central Library, and Minneapolis Central Library are examples of green libraries, using environmentally conscious designs?
...that Julian Rotter developed the locus of control theory, which has been widely used in the psychology of personality?
...that in chemical kinetics, Lindemann mechanisms have been used to model gas phase decomposition reactions?
...that Lawrence Turner, who presented a Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?
...that hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
...even though the United States Housing Act of 1949 called for building more housing, some projects saw more housing units destroyed than built?
...that the Polish rock band Czerwone Gitary reached the heights of its popularity in the 1960s, and was known as the Polish Beatles?
...that early-20th-century regrading in Seattle was probably the largest alteration of urban terrain up to that time?
...that kings of the House of Alpin ruled Pictland and the kingdom of Alba, in modern Scotland, beginning with Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s and ending with the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda in 1034?
...that shortly after Captain William Day received the first gun salute to an American fighting vessel in a European port, at Brest, France, in July 1777, he sailed home and effectively vanished from history?
...that Vietnamese winemakers are trying to cultivate grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon on land that till recently was still covered with landmines from the Vietnam War?
...that in 1607, Spanish priest and professor of music at the University of Salamanca Sebastián de Vivanco published 18 versions of the Song of Mary in the same book?
...that ice hockey player Fred Higginbotham died of a spinal cord injury sustained during an accident when riding a pony?
...that the European Parliament is currently housed in Espace Léopold in Brussels, Belgium?
...that in polymer chemistry, the value of the kinetic chain length of a polymer can describe the polymer's chain mobility, glass transition temperature, and elastic modulus?
...that Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime?
...that Ostomachion is a mathematical treatise attributed to Archimedes on a 14-piece tiling puzzle similar to tangram?
...that the development of a hydrosalpinx was first recognized in the 17th century as a cause of female infertility by Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf?
...that Mike Vranos, a man considered by some to be the most powerful man on Wall Street in the early 1990s, was known for breaking up business meetings to issue armwrestling challenges?
...that several prehistoric standing stones and natural stone features in Scotland are called Carlin stones, possibly from the term cailleach meaning "old hag" or "witch"?
...that 78 soldiers of the Soviet 25th Rifle Division were awarded the title, Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of that nation?
...that Claudia Blum de Barberi is a Colombian politician and psychologist, who became the first woman to ever be elected President of the Congress of Colombia?
...that every World Chess Champion before Garry Kasparov except Bobby Fischer played at the Hastings International Chess Congress?
...that since Thomas Jefferson designed his home, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Top Cottage has been the only house designed by a U.S. President, although no President has stayed there overnight?
...that U-boat commander Reinhard Hardegen deliberately placed his submarine in danger during the sinking of the SS Gulfamerica by refusing to risk hitting civilians onshore?
...that under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049?
...that the Fabergé invoice for the Karelian Birch egg addressed the abdicated Nicholas II of Russia as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?
...that college football running back Butch Woolfolk was named MVP of both the Rose Bowl and the Bluebonnet Bowl in the same year?
...that the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?
...that Garter King of Arms William Segar was imprisoned for confirming a coat of arms to someone who was not a gentleman?
...that the 1994 Intelligence Services Act revamped the Apartheid-era security agencies of South Africa and ensured the future preservation of civil liberties?
...that the Caloris Basin on Mercury, one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System, is surrounded by a series of geological formations believed to have been produced by the basin's ejecta?
...that former United States Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean is the focus of a 130,000 name petition seeking to free him from prison?
...that the Odriíst National Union was a 1960s Peruvian political party based on a cult of personality focussed on former President Manuel A. Odría?
...that British historian Plantagenet Somerset Fry refused treatment for bowel cancer and suffocated himself with a plastic bag?
...that the Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States?
...that HMS Benbow's class, the Iron Dukes, were the first Royal Navy battleships to mount anti-aircraft guns?
...that former Governor Samuel Cony served twice as a member of the Maine House of Representatives—first as a Democrat, and nearly 30 years later as a Republican?
...that Colura zoophaga, a species of liverwort native to Kenya, traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant?
...that José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy?
...that jerrygibbsite ((Mn,Zn)9(SiO4)4(OH)2) is a rare mineral of which there are only five known samples in the world?
...that the first volume of printed strips from the furry "Slice-of-life" webcomic A Doemain of Our Own won the 2006 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work"?
...that the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District, presently in Bangladesh, led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a maund of rice?
...that during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?
...that Simone Ortega has received prizes from both France and her native Spain for her bestselling range of cookery books, one of which has been updated 48 times and sold millions of copies in Spanish and English?
...that although Howard Johnson became an opponent of animal cruelty, he had earlier called for the British army to deploy flamethrowers to eliminate the seaweed breeding grounds for a type of fly?
...that Paul Hornung, a NFL Hall of Famer, was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 1957 NFL Draft?
...that among the Rikbaktsa , an indigenous people of Brazil, each household traditionally was a separate political unit?
...that the stagecoach line running between Kelton, Utah and several gold mines in Idaho and Montana was robbed more often than any other stage line in the Old West?
...that The Prodigal Son by Arthur Sullivan was the first sacred music setting of this story from the Gospel of Luke?
...that serial killer Nannie Doss was given the moniker "The Jolly Black Widow" after confessing to the murder of four of her five husbands?
...that when the Nazis began requiring all Jews in the occupied Netherlands to wear the yellow badge, Dutch Christian Casper ten Boom voluntarily wore one also?
...that Eddie Hasha's death led to board track racing being compared to Roman gladiators, contributing to the sport's demise?
...that the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides?
...that Żeligowski's Mutiny, which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania in late 1920, was in fact staged and carried out with the knowledge of Polish leader Józef Piłsudski?
...that Glafira Dorosh is the only recipient of a Soviet Order for a culinary recipe?
...that Yoky Matsuoka, a neuroscience and robotics researcher, was once the 21st ranked tennis player in Japan?
...that Augustine Podmore Williams, a British mariner who urged his fellow-officers to abandon a crowded vessel in stormy seas in 1880, served as the inspiration for Joseph Conrad's fictional character Lord Jim?
...that after the Fall of Constantinople, the Ottomans demolished the Column of Justinian to symbolize their capture of the city?
...that Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies?
...that despite being Porsche's primary factory-backed competitor in the World Endurance Championship from 1983 to 1986, the Lancia LC2 won only two races?
...that crème brûlée was invented in the 1690s by François Massialot, who recommended melting and burning the sugar topping with a red-hot fire shovel?
...that the work of Cornificia, a Roman poet of the first century BC, was read for centuries, but has since been lost entirely?
...that snocross riders travel up to 130 feet (40 meters) off jumps before they touch the ground?
...that in 1759, François Thurot's ship set out to create a diversion from an invasion of Britain only to learn, after months of storms and starvation, that the invasion fleet had been defeated before it even left France?
...that Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula is the winner of the 2007 Principal Award of the Prince Claus Foundation?
...that India's Red and White Bravery Awards were renamed the Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards after protests claimed it provided surrogate advertising for Red and White brand cigarettes?
...that Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
...that despite the torpedoed Soviet merchant SS Stalingrad sinking in under four minutes, 66 of her crew still managed to survive?
...that the spread of Christianity in Asia is believed to have reached China during the Tang Dynasty, where it was known as the Luminous Religion?
...that Clarence Williams had 646 rushing yards and 102 receiving yards without scoring a touchdown during the 1998 NCAA college football season?
...that the most recent of the six different methods of total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel, a drug originally derived from the rare Pacific Yew, was developed at the Tokyo University of Science in 1999?
...that one egg laid in a clutch of two by the White-breasted Robin of Western Australia is much paler than the other?
...that the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl?
...that Dave Murray, a Canadian alpine skier and member of the Crazy Canucks, was ranked third in the world in downhill skiing in 1979?
...that the dominant feature in the Shakespeare quadrangle is the 1300-km wide Caloris Planitia, the largest and best preserved impact basin on Mercury observed by the spacecraft Mariner 10?
...that surface plasmons are the basis of a spectrography technique known as surface plasmon resonance?
...that St Barnabas Church, one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove, was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"?
...that a design for the Hoyt Library in Saginaw, Michigan, which was rejected as too monumental, wasteful of space, and not functional as a library, was used to build the Public Library of New Orleans, Louisiana?
...that the Tolstoj crater, a 400-km (240 mile) wide impact crater on the planet Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated ejecta blanket?
...that Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic Spain?
...that Aloysius C. Galvin, a former president of the University of Scranton, served aboard a U.S. Navy submarine chaser in the Aleutian Islands during World War II?
...that ornithologist Charles Foster Batchelder's last words to one of his friends were "Glad to have known you"?
...that Operation Resurrection was the planned take-over of Paris in May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle to power?
...that Russell Walter Fox, a former chief judge of the Australian Capital Territory, wrote what is considered in Australia as the most extensive environmental report on uranium mining?
...that Edward Barrett played rugby union for England, and cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States?
...that each time Eric Kattus caught more than three receptions in a game during his Michigan Wolverines football career, at least one of them was a touchdown?
...that the rehabilitation of the Union Trust Building by architect Ralph Anderson set the pattern for reviving Seattle's rundown "Skid Road" neighborhood, Pioneer Square?
...that 1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?
...that Anthony Browne was the first British illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award?
...that the Sussex Railroad was the last independently operated New Jersey railroad to be incorporated into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad system?
...that the nursing pin had its original design patterned after the Maltese cross of the Knights Hospitaller and the Order of Saint Lazarus?
...that ridges and escarpments in the Victoria quadrangle of the planet Mercury have been associated with the stresses caused by the sun slowing Mercury's rotation through tidal forces?
...that Tetsuya Ota won a lawsuit against race organizers of the now infamous 1998 JGTC race at Fuji Speedway, despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?
...that Dominic de la Calzada is the patron saint of civil engineers because he built a causeway to aid pilgrims on the Way of St. James?
...that undefeated national champion 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team rushing leader and Hula Bowl MVP Chris Howard was released after fumbling five times in the preseason of the 1998 NFL season?
...that Jack Womack's novel Let's Put the Future Behind Us emerged from a failed Soviet-American film project of William Gibson that was to star the late rockstar Victor Tsoi?
...that surface science studies show that Stranski-Krastanov growth is one of three primary ways in which thin films grow on crystals?
...that though the Steel Military Egg and the Order of St. George Egg were relatively modest designs in the spirit of World War I austerity, the two Fabergé eggs made for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were still priced at more than 13,000 rubles?
...that former Hampshire wicketkeeper Adi Aymes went on to manage football club Fleet Town F.C., and is the current fitness coach of Havant and Waterlooville?
...that both former German Federal Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm and former Secretary of State of France Alain Vivien have been recognized with the Leipzig Human Rights Award?
...that the inshore marine fish Malabar jack derives its name from Malabar in South India, but can be found in coastal areas as far apart as South Africa, Japan and Vanuatu?
...that the first major effort to study the climate of the Arctic was undertaken during the First International Polar Year in 1882-83?
...that in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte?
...that Qadas was one of seven Metawali villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war?
...that according to legend, the relics of Saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio were discovered in 370 by a military tribune whose dog chased a fox into a cave near present-day Besançon, France?
...that gender-bending party promoter Andre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?
...that Jane Austen's novels increased dramatically in popularity after the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1870?
...that the Stourbridge fair, first held in 1211 in Cambridge, England, was once the largest fair in Europe?
...that the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs?
...that the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle?
...that of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of Britain's disastrous Convoy PQ-17, 27 never returned including SS Pan Kraft?
...that Red Kellett, former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts, was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?
...that The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne is actually composed of 110 letters between Gilbert White, and Thomas Pennant or Daines Barrington?
...that college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
...that Out of the Blue, a BBC Television series, is set in Manly, near Sydney, Australia?
...that Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
...that the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats, certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil?
...that alkaptonuria, a rare inborn error of metabolism, is over five times more common in Slovakia than in the rest of the world?
...that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?
...that Dennis Freeman, as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority?
...that The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
...that Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec, TQS and TVA?