derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members?
...that the first plate of William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty features a boy supposed to be a young George III?
...that despite its name, East Kowloon Corridor is actually located in West Kowloon District in Hong Kong?
...that Soviet surgeon Aleksandr Bakulev pioneered the first successful lung ablation with open ductus arteriosus?
...that the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi edited the literary magazine Hototogisu?
...that all Barrier Reef Anemonefish are born sexless and develop into males, and only become females if they rise to the top of the hierarchy?
...that the Fokker Spin was the first aircraft built by Anthony Fokker, in which he taught himself to fly and earned his pilot license?
...that the German physicist Otto Laporte discovered what is known in spectroscopy as the Laporte rule?
...that the Soviet Union considered occupying its ally Lithuania soon after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920, but the Red Army's defeat at the Battle of Warsaw rendered such plans obsolete?
...that Ken Cranston began playing Test cricket for the English cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut in first-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as a dentist?
...that Mujahedeen KOMPAK has diverted charitable donations from Australia to produce recruitment videos for militant Islamic groups?
...that American basketball player Fred Roberts was chosen by the Miami Heat in their expansion draft, but never played a game for them in the NBA?
...that the Dash-and-dot goatfish bears a stripe and spot that is usually black, but which is red when the same species lives in deeper waters?
...that the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, containing ores bearing uranium-238, is one of many products that have been recalled in the interests of toy safety?
...that alchemist James Price committed suicide by drinking prussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turn mercury into gold?
...that Tombo Ati, a traditional Javanese song based on a popular hadith of the prophet Muhammad, is still popular five centuries after its composition?
...that Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state boxing champion and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II?
...that Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, known informally as MI6?
...that the Battle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish in Peru?
...that Arthur McIntyre became England's oldest living Test cricketer after the death of Ken Cranston?
...that German poet and playwright Klabund was charged with treason for calling for the abdication of William II in an open letter?
...that Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth?
...that Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges was awarded two DSOs and a Bar to his DFC for flying secret missions for SOE in Europe and the Far East in the Second World War?
...that two officers have quit their jobs over purported paranormal activity at George Stickney House, home to the Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
...that Stephen Maylad became Voivode of Transylvania with the help of Petru Rareş, who later doomed him to a wretched death in the Yedikule dungeons?
...that American papermaking authority Dard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including its paper, type design, typesetting, and printing?
...that Darwin Falls is the tallest waterfall in Death Valley National Park and features a rare example of riparian greenery in the driest place in North America?
...that William E. "Bud" Davis, who had a successful career as president at four universities, originally wanted "to be the world's greatest football coach" before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?
...that, in autumn 1934, Amicii URSS, a Romanian left-wing cultural society, dispatched the writer Alexandru Sahia on an illegal visit to the Soviet Union, as a means to commemorate the October Revolution?
...that Mandy Mitchell-Innes was the last surviving English cricketer to have played Test cricket before the Second World War?
...that William Dronfield founded the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, which inspired the creation of the Trades Union Congress?
...that "On the very first of May", a work composed by singer and organist William Savage, was set to nonsense verses by his wife?
...that of Kraków's eight original medieval city gates, only the Gothic Florian Gate remains?
...that Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars?
...that at the 1974 Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Myra Wolfgang declared "...there are 3,000 women in Chicago and they didn't come here to swap recipes!"?
...that three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans?
...that runestones have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct the family saga of the powerful Viking woman Estrid?
...that Robert Keyes was related to five of the other Gunpowder Plot conspirators?
...that Constantine the Great ordered the construction of Abu Mena after his daughter was cured by the body of Saint Mina ?
...that David Colville Anderson, whose career was ended by a scandal involving teenage girls, blamed it on the KGB?
...that the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world?
...that Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was the Philippines' first female prosecutor, district judge, and Supreme Court justice?
...that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
...that Chroogomphus is an edible mushroom that grows as a parasite on other fungi in pine forests?
...that hippocamps are mythological sea-horses that frolic in the Trevi Fountain?
...that the Terrace Mutiny of 1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach in Canadian military history?
...that pastor and linguist Christoph Mrongovius was honored by having a town named after him?
...that Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia?
...that the mythical Canadian water monster Ogopogo inspired the British film Mee-Shee: The Water Giant?
...that the Egyptian Theater in DeKalb, Illinois is purportedly haunted by ghosts?
...that the Imperial Japanese Army 14th Division made Chinese dumplings a specialty of Utsunomiya upon returning from Manchuria?
...that Iya Abubakar, a Nigerian mathematician, served as his country's Minister of Defence?
...that Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe, a Munro in Scotland, is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?
...that Ovidiu Pecican co-wrote a textbook of Romanian history that caused a national scandal?
...that Rolf Dudley-Williams helped set up the company that manufactured the world's first working jet engine?
...that an aircraft's pitot-static system allows a pilot to know its airspeed, Mach number, altitude, and altitude trend?
...that the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
...that during the 1933 Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63 Assyrian villages were destroyed?
...that award-winning Japanese novelist Tachihara Masaaki was a Zainichi Korean, whose works were strongly influenced by Zeami's traditional Japanese Noh dramas?
...that most of the numerous Jarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
...that the Land Coastal Defence that defended the Polish coast during the German invasion of Poland was subordinate to the Polish Navy, not the Army?
...that the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso?
...that two Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden?
...that the Aston Martin DBR1 sports car won the 1000km Nürburgring round of the World Sportscar Championship in all three years it entered?
...that the Ingvar Runestones commemorate Vikings who died in the raid led by Ingvar the Far-Travelled which pillaged the coasts of Persia?
...that St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century?
...that Zhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image of Mao Zedong which is known as China's Mona Lisa?
...that about half of the collection of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Baden-Württemberg was destroyed in a fire following an air raid on Stuttgart during World War II?
...that before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the United Teachers of New Orleans was the largest trade union in the city?
...that the removal of President Rolandas Paksas from office by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was the first successful case of impeachment of a head of state in the history of Europe?
...that Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's?
...that Acallam na Senórach, a tale of ancient heroes surviving to recount their deeds to St. Patrick, is the longest original text in medieval Irish literature?
...that the German fresco painter Johannes Zick started his career as a blacksmith in his father's workshop?
...that the Vietnam War veteran Wesley Autrey jumped onto a New York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man?
...that the Romanian anti-communist resistance movement, operating between 1948 and 1960, was one of the most enduring armed resistance movement in the former Soviet bloc?
...that the song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?
...that the Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?
...that Xanten Cathedral , declared a basilica minor by Pope Pius XI, may be the biggest cathedral between Cologne and the North Sea?
...that famed Japanese literary critic Kobayashi Hideo toured China as a guest of the Imperial Japanese Army, with future Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari?
...that after former House representative John H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, he went back to his home in Long Beach, California and became a real estate broker?
...that William Henry Holbert, a catcher for the 19th century New York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without a home run?
...that the Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island?
...that the carom billiards game, cushion caroms, was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain?
...that the Belgian military leader Herman Baltia exhibited his watercolour paintings on the Yser Front while he was serving as a commander in World War I?
...that Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?
...that the Mecelle, the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state?
...that the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers' strike in American history in 1968?
...that the 1978 musical film The Wiz re-tells L. Frank Baum's popular story The Wizard of Oz in an urban setting and with an entirely African-American cast?
...that USS Stewart, now a museum in Texas, is the only surviving example of an Edsall class destroyer escort?
...that Ani, a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople, was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin?
...that former California representative Bertrand W. Gearhart ran unopposed and captured nearly 100 percent of the vote in his biennial re-election bids from 1936 to 1944?
...that the Russian composer Vladimir Shainsky created music and songs for popular cartoons such as Cheburashka and his best friend Crocodile Gena?
...that approximately one-third of nearby galaxies contain low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions?
...that the McCarthy-style interrogations of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students from Florida universities between 1956 and 1966?
...that among the earliest accounts of the use of a man-lifting kite is in the story of Ishikawa Goemon's robbery from Nagoya Castle?
...that Major Megan McClung, the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat in Iraq, organized and competed in the first satellite running of the Marine Corps Marathon in Iraq?
...that John Litchfield trod on the foot of one Prime Minister, sat on the lap of another, and was the first person to toast the health of Queen Elizabeth II?
...that the future mother-in-law of Kunikida Doppo urged her daughter to commit suicide rather than marry the Japanese author?
...that the Hearthstone House became the first residence in the world to be lit by a centrally located hydroelectric station using the Edison system?
...that for seven centuries Runamo was famous in Scandinavia as a runic inscription until scientists determined it to be natural cracks in the rock?
...that the Union of Salvation, a Russian secret society of revolutionary Decembrists, was organized according to a complex Masonic style system of rituals and vows?
...that Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari was a houseguest of fellow author Kambara Ariake for almost two years after the end of World War II?
...that Sandra Feldman, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, was mentored by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and arrested twice during the Freedom Rides?
...that British MP Anthony Courtney was blackmailed by the KGB using photographs of him with a tour guide?
...that Nikki Haley of South Carolina is the first Republican Indian-American state legislator in the USA?
...that the Edmonson sisters were African-American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and became celebrity abolitionists?
...that the mentally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre, killing seven Israeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?
...that former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
...that sixteen people were killed during a general strike in Nepal in 1992, an incident that contributed to the breakout of a civil war four years later?
...that a pentimento is an alteration to a painting that can often only be seen in an X-ray or an infra-red photograph?
...that Japanese poet Kitahara Hakushu was jailed for adultery in 1912?
...that those crossing the Fallasburg Bridge , a Brown truss covered bridge in Vergennes Township, Michigan at a speed faster than a walk may be subject to a $5 fine?
...that Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali, once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
...that the 2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A football bowl history?
...that 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the 1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history?
...that children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred?
...that Georgie White was the first woman to run a commercial Grand Canyon river guiding service?
...that the 2006 Alamo Bowl set a record for the most people to view a sporting event live in San Antonio, Texas, as well as the most television viewers ever to watch a bowl game on ESPN?
...that in Johnson Tan Han Seng v. Public Prosecutor, the Malaysian Federal Court held that a Proclamation of Emergency remains in force after the circumstances it was meant for have expired?
...that The Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, Arkansas was the only enclosed mall to open in the United States in 2006?
...that Powelliphanta Sp.Augustus is found only on a five hectare area northeast of Westport, New Zealand?
...that Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?
...that Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915, when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds?
...that some four-leaf clovers are actually ferns in the family Marsileaceae ?
...that an editor for Kangura magazine was convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting the Rwandan Genocide?
...that Beard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion of beardism in the Oxford English Dictionary?
...that in 1936, 11-term U.S. Congressman Frederick R. Lehlbach closely lost his re-election bid to a political newcomer, Frank W. Towey, Jr.?
...that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh has been active in the party since age 13?
...that in 1945, Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer?
...that Ichikawa Danjūrō I was killed onstage by a fellow Kabuki actor?
...that the Swedish forces at the Siege of Jasna Góra were actually German mercenaries and Polish supporters of Charles X Gustav?
...that jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell, while in Germany for the U.S. Army, studied under the first clarinetist of the Heidelberg Symphony?
...that the Australian punk rock single "(I’m) Stranded" pre-dated the Sex Pistols' debut release?
...that Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate, a Kannada poem, was declared the official anthem of the Indian state of Karnataka in 2004?
...that Plagiostomum vittatum, the "Candy Cane Worm", is a flatworm with red stripes?
...that Haghpat Monastery in Armenia was placed on the World Heritage List over 1,000 years after it was founded?
...that Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media?
...that the chaperon was a hat from the Middle Ages that could be worn in at least six different ways?
...that Millennium City, Hong Kong has skyscrapers numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, possibly because 4 is considered unlucky?
...that the Louvre describes Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle as the most beautiful ronde-bosse ivory carving ever made?
...that in his 1560s work the Zimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancient tribe of Cimbri just because his name sounded similar?
...that Washburn University's mascot, "the Ichabod", is named after Ichabod Washburn, an owner of the world's largest wire mill?
...that in Public Prosecutor v. Khong Teng Khen & Anor. it was held that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia can promulgate ordinances with the force of law?
...that after Frank W. Towey, Jr. lost his House of Representatives re-election bid, he became assistant to the U.S. Attorney General?
...that the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracized for marrying the widow of Maharaja Tejendra?
...that the Malta Summit was the first face-to-face meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev?
...that British MP Will Owen was nicknamed "greedy bastard" by the Czechoslovak intelligence agency to whom he sold secrets?
...that 2-methylhexane and heptane are liquids with the same molecular formula but they have different density, freezing points and boiling points?
...that despite being a Soviet citizen and a confirmed NKVD agent, Alexandru Nicolschi served as head of Communist Romania's secret police?
...that a botánica is a Latin American store that sells religious goods, magical paraphernalia and brand name health care products?
...that Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, was observed by the Gestapo during World War II?
...that Elizabeth Margaret Chandler introduced the famous abolitionist image of the kneeling female slave with the slogan "Am I not a Woman and a Sister"?
...that despite Irish neutrality, weather reports from Met Éireann were used to plan the D-Day landings?
...that Scottish language prodigy James Murdoch, after participating in a failed communist commune in Paraguay, was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese issues?
... that Ira Goldstein, an advertisement campaign character for the ASB Bank in New Zealand, supposedly drives a metallic-brown 1979 Leyland Princess 2000 HL?
...that former New Jersey Representative Henry Helstoski was charged with receiving bribes from illegal aliens in 1976?
... that the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in the Arctic Ocean, but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured by MODIS?
...that the Brown truss was patented in 1857, enjoyed a brief spurt in popularity, was used in several covered bridges in Michigan in the mid 19th century, and was apparently never used again?
...that Australian cricketer Trevor Chappell was reprimanded by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand when he rolled an underarm delivery to batsman Brian McKechnie to stop him from lofting the ball for six?
...that in Assa Singh v. Menteri Besar of Johore, the Federal Court of Malaysia found that an unconstitutional violation of a person's constitutional rights may be permitted through grandfathering of pre-independence laws?
...that the earliest fossil reef formations that show high biodiversity, containing the earliest corals, form the mid-Ordovician Chazy Formation, reaching from Tennessee to Labrador?
...that Dave Burrell recorded Echo to honor an all-star group Archie Shepp asked him to be a part of during the 1969 Pan-African Music Festival in Algiers?
...that Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life?
...that the history of the carom billiards disciplines, balkline and straight rail , features a veritable billiards evolutionary arms race, in which each new rule implemented was interdicted by a shot developed to counter it?
...that former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?
...that Bruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in the United Kingdom after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?
...that sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians?
...that sonofabitch stew is a cowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killed calf?
...that dust supplied by the Bodélé Depression in the Sahara Desert not only feeds some of the world's largest dust storms, but also supports the continued existence of the Amazon Rainforest?
...that former New Jersey Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr., co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor?
...that Robert Satloff researched the involvement of Muslims and Arabs both as rescuers and perpetrators during the Holocaust in the course of the Axis occupation of North Africa?
...that David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program that ran on MIT's TX-0 computer circa 1960?
...that the creator of the snack food Pirate's Booty was inspired by the ingredients of another brand's cheese puffs?
...that the Pueblo Clowns were priests in the Kachina religion of the Pueblo Indians?