derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that German artist and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel is the first person known to have used triangulation in surveying?
...that the Buddhist Library , which is located in a shophouse, is Singapore's first dedicated Buddhist library and is unique in that it is neither an association nor a temple?
...that Buttercup Dickerson, who debuted for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds, is credited as the first Italian-American to play Major League Baseball?
...that a report of high school students laughing during Schindler's List inspired a film-maker to create the 2003 documentary Marion's Triumph about a child Holocaust survivor?
...that while other nations have marine aviators, only the United States Marine Corps has their own dedicated aviation arm?
...that Anastasius of Alexandria, despite being forbidden to enter the city of Alexandria, helped arrange for the unification of the Coptic Church and the Church of Antioch?
...that Steve Hamilton's A Cold Day in Paradise is the only book to win both the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best first novel?
...that Syādvāda is a Jain Doctrine of Postulation which provides the teaching or instruction from which a postulate or axiom is provided to determine the truth of the matter?
...that Patriarch Alexander II of Alexandria died trying to escape from the Umayyad government after having been brought before it for refusing to have a lion branded on his hand?
...that one of the stories of the Jain teacher Haribhadra relates how he ordered some Buddhist monks to leap into a vat of hot oil for killing his nephew?
...that 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson was once shot in the face in Panama while covering the 1988 ousting of Manuel Noriega?
...that in the peak days of Iranian migration to Japan, Iran Air flights to Tokyo were fully booked several years in advance?
...that Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog was one of several of his paintings that were based upon the concept that self-expression was to be bonded with physical and spiritual isolation?
...that Andrew Saul heads the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which manages the $158 billion Thrift Savings Plan for 3.7 million soldiers and federal employees?
...that the Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships was one of over 3,000 seascapes painted by Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky?
...that the largest score and winning margin between the All Blacks and France at rugby union was a 61–10 victory by the All Blacks at Westpac Stadium in 2007?
...that the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy showed religious tolerance towards its Arian, Chalcedonian Christian and Jewish citizens?
...that at the 1832 Battle of Apple River Fort, a group of about 25 militia fought off Chief Black Hawk's warriors with the assistance of the nearby settlement's women?
...that after Manuel Rodríguez Torices, an agitator for Colombian independence, died in the gallows, his body was shot, beheaded, dismembered, and his head displayed in a metal cage?
...that towns across the United States and Australia have memorials dedicated to the birth of their first white child?
...that Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli was the god of the planet Venus in Aztec belief?
...that The Great Day of His Wrath, an oil-on-canvas by John Martin, is based on Revelation 6:12-17 in the Bible, which vividly describes the end of the world?
...that Liang Wern Fook, a pioneer of Singapore's xinyao movement, has composed over 200 songs?
...that the football (soccer) stadium at Tehelné pole, in Bratislava, was the largest in the former Czechoslovakia?
...that the motorcycle racing couple of Jagat and Anita Nanjappa once completed a rally in which Anita sat on the bike's petrol tank to reduce the weight on the flat rear tyre?
...that the Romanian crude oil tanker M/T Independenţa burnt for weeks in 1979 after colliding with a freighter?
...that Ben Kuroki was the only Japanese-American in the U.S. Army Air Force to serve in combat operations in the Pacific during World War II?
...that Mother Frances Hospital, a part of Trinity Mother Frances Health System, opened a day early in 1937 due to the explosion of a nearby school?
...that the band of Potawatomi that carried out the Indian Creek massacre kidnapped and ransomed two teenage girls during the attack?
...that Churche's Mansion , Nantwich, United Kingdom, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander, a traditional protection against fire?
...that the song "See See Rider" was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey and reached the top of the rhythm and blues charts twice in versions by Bea Booze and Chuck Willis?
...that Tommy Sale scored 282 goals during 14 years at the English Football club Stoke City F.C.?
...that Joshua Reynolds' Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers recently sold for £2.5 million (US $4.4 million) despite the artist's limited success during his lifetime?
...that then-President of the United States Franklin Pierce and all of his cabinet attended the second wedding of playwright Anna Cora Mowatt?
...that Alfred Tennyson's 1847 lyric poem "Tears, Idle Tears" is written such that readers often don't notice its lack of rhyme?
...that the Santa Fe courthouse ghost, the video of which got more than 80,000 hits on YouTube, appeared to be a bug?
...that Bonaparte Crossing the Alps was commissioned to Paul Delaroche after he criticised Jacques-Louis David's version for being unrealistic?
...that W.N.T. Beckett was presented the Royal Victorian Order for services to the British Royal Family during a cruise?
...that Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger never won a domestic AVP event as partners despite winning silver at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships?
...that Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War?
...that lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia is a syndrome secondary to autoimmune and other lymphoproliferative disorders?
...that although Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania was named for a suspected Loyalist during the American Revolution, by 1838 his name was so controversial that Plunketts Creek Township was named for the creek instead?
...that Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus , was a member of the Lithuanian World Community, which seeks to unite the Lithuanian diaspora?
...that some rocks at the Kupgal neolithic site, near Bellary, India, produce gong-like musical tones when struck with boulders?
...that Joe Hauser was the first player ever to hit 60 or more home runs in a season twice in a professional baseball career?
...that the 457 visa is the most common way for employers to temporarily sponsor skilled overseas workers to come to Australia?
...that Constantine Possiet was the first Russian minister to support the project of a Trans-Siberian Railway?
...that legend has it that Benjamin I of Alexandria was escorted to heaven by Athanasius of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, and Theodosius I?
...that Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of Florence during the War of the Eight Saints, disseminated Republican propaganda throughout the Papal States?
...that the Hull Maritime Museum of Kingston upon Hull, England, houses the largest collection of scrimshaw artwork in Europe?
...that the 1979 arrest of Raymond Lee Harvey and Osvaldo Ortiz for being part of an alleged plot to assassinate President Jimmy Carter drew parallels to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald?
...that Uncle Tupelo singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy got into several physical altercations during the promotional tour for Anodyne?
...that the first tamaya, built in 1599 in the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was destroyed by the Tokugawa?
...that Protestant and Orthodox minorities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth gained significant concessions from the Catholics during the election sejm of 1632?
...that in 1989, the Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo was the first race car to overcome Porsche's seven-year dominance of the IMSA GT Championship's GTP category?
...that the trolley believed to have been used in the film A Streetcar Named Desire is housed at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum?
...that in his rookie year, Major league baseball pitcher Matt Kilroy set a record of 513 strikeouts, which still stands 121 years later?
...that Japanese writer Makoto Oda wrote a book on his travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day?
...that Michelle Morgan, a child abuse victim murdered by her stepmother at age four, was featured on an episode of Cold Case Files?
...that Vitalian of Capua refused to return to his post as bishop after being thrown into the Garigliano River in a leather bag?
...that at 34 months, Georgia Brown became the youngest ever female member of Mensa?
...that the Polish Home Army planned an uprising in Krakow in 1944 to complement the Warsaw Uprising?
...that Kunstnernes Hus is an early Functionalist structure from 1930, built by and for Norwegian artists to showcase their work?
...that British soldier and poet Patrick Hore-Ruthven met his wife while rusticated from Cambridge for biting a policeman's nose?
...that in the Smolensk War, the Russian Tsardom and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth tried various Western military innovations and strategies for the first time?
...that the elephants Castor and Pollux were shot for food during the Siege of Paris in 1870 and their trunks sold as a delicacy?
...that Ardencaple Castle is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde?
...that Mary Wollstonecraft was born the same year that Voltaire's Candide and Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments were published?
...that the Jurassic limestone formations of the Polish Jura Chain upland contain some 200 caves?
...that Oregon Supreme Court justice George Van Hoomissen wrote the decisions in its most cited case and the overturning of a voter approved ballot measure?
...that Edward Kozłowski, the second Polish-American bishop, died after just a year in office?
...that the urban villages found in some of China's major cities are inner city slums with Chinese characteristics?
...that Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein?
...that El Güegüense, a theatrical play written anonymously in the 16th century, is regarded as the first literary work of Nicaragua?
...that the pitch notation developed by Hermann von Helmholtz for his work on acoustics and is one of two main systems for describing musical pitch?
...that the Banner of Poland, despite its 1000-year old history, is not an official national symbol?
...that Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's film directing debut was on Torment, a 1944 film about a sadistic Latin teacher?
...that the former head of the Royal Australian Navy, George Francis Hyde, was the first Australian naval officer to become an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V?
...that the Swiss Vetterli rifles, a series of Winchester-derived repeating rifles, were Europe's most advanced service rifles at the time of their introduction in 1869?
...that the Greek frigate Hellas, the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy, was burned by the Admiral Andreas Miaoulis during a civil war in 1831?
...that through 1981, Arizona's silver mining industry had produced a cumulative total of 490 million troy ounces of silver?
...that two people died outside of San Francisco's Pier 26 during the 1934 Bloody Thursday Riots?
...that novelist Amelia Barr's most successful body of work is called the "Cherry Croft novels", after the summer house where she wrote them?
...that Oppa may have been both Bishop of Seville and King of the Visigoths at the time of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania?
...that the 1869 collapse of the 2,500-foot-long Hennepin Island tunnel resulted in cementing over the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River?
...that Francis Julius LeMoyne built the first crematory in the United States and was its third crematee?
...that the RevoPower motorized bicycle kit was inspired by a visit to a bicycle taxi manufacturer?
...that in 1904, H. Chandler Egan won the U.S. Amateur golf championship, and was a member of both the U.S. college championship and the gold medal-winning United States Olympic golf teams?
...that novelist Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis actively supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic, lived part of his life as a vagabond, and probably died in a Nazi concentration camp?
...that the creators of stage musical Furry Tales were inspired by Anthrocon, the world's largest furry convention?
...that Catholic bishop and Visigothic political leader Masona built the first hospital in Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food?
...that it has not rained at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning since they began performing a virgin ritual?
...that the 850-ton Belle Tout lighthouse was pushed 17 metres (56 feet) away from a cliff face to save it from coastal erosion?
...that the first reference to toilet paper was made in the year 589 AD by the Chinese scholar Yan Zhitui?
...that the Beyoncé song "Suga Mama" features a sample of the song "Searching for Soul" by funk band Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers?
...that Soviet diplomat Pyotr Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw for his part in the killing of Tsar Nicholas II and his family?
...that high levels of ultraviolet colors on the neck of a male Platysaurus broadleyi, a type of lizard in the Cordylidae family, indicate dominance over other males?
...that Éva Gauthier was the first classically trained singer to present the works of George Gershwin in concert?
...that Joaquín Camacho, an agitator for the Independence of Colombia, was executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed?
...that Stanisław Patek, dropped from the Russian Empire's list of attorneys for defending political dissidents, was later involved in the creation of a new Polish legal system?
...that RMS Dunottar Castle transported Winston Churchill, Frederick Russell Burnham, Robert Baden-Powell, and Lord Roberts, among others, to and from Cape Colony, South Africa?
...that in place of execution, Saint Cerbonius was exiled after the bear brought in to kill him instead licked his feet?
...that Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible?
...that when the roof of Dublin's Hellfire Club blew off, locals attributed it to Satan's punishment for using a cairn as building material?
...that Odile Crick sketched the DNA double helix for the 1953 paper in Nature by her husband Francis Crick and James Watson announcing its discovery?
...that the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate north of Calcutta?
...that folktales claim that 19th century Ethiopian poet Gebre Hanna spread rumors of his own death to trick Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia into sending money for a proper funeral?
...that professional wrestler Norvell Austin was part of the first mixed race bad guy tag team in the Southern United States?
...that, when playing the lead in Alexander Nevsky, actor Nikolai Cherkasov wore a replica of the helmet lost by Alexander's father in the Battle of Lipitsa?
...that in 1899, Sir Samuel Gillott lost the mayorship of Melbourne by one vote?
...that the term Art Deco was derived by abbreviating the words Arts Décoratifs in the title of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes?
...that Black Entertainment Television comedy series We Got to Do Better, had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative stereotypes of African Americans?
...that the buke shohatto, a Japanese code of conduct for feudal lords, served as the foundation of the bakuhan system of government?
...that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the largest amphitheatre in Roman Britain, seating over 8,000 people?
...that Kathleen Parlow was the first foreigner admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory?
...that during the 537 Siege of Rome, the defenders used the statues from the Mausoleum of Hadrian as missiles?
...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?
...that while the majority of Benin's formal workforce are represented by trade unions, nationwide use of child labour and forced labour continues?
...that despite being heavily outnumbered, Chief Black Hawk's forces held off the American militia at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights long enough for many civilians to escape?
...that the group who buried the only casualty of the Buffalo Grove massacre were killed the following day?
...that John Singleton Copley's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings?
...that the U.S. state of Utah built the Wendover Cut-off across the Great Salt Lake Desert in the early 1920s to force motorists to Southern California to take the Arrowhead Trail and remain in that state for about 200 miles (300 km) more?
...that Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 unearthed 576 ancient graves around Alaverdi and Akhatala, near the Tiflis-Alexandropol railway line?
...that The Princess Anne was elected Chancellor of the University of London in preference to Nelson Mandela and Jack Jones in the first contest in the history of the position?
...that 19th century cartoonist and artist Edward Jump gained a status of renown in the U.S. states of California and Washington, D.C. for his satirical caricatures?
...that the childhood home of Emily Carr, one of Canada's most famous painters, is open to the public today as a museum known as Emily Carr House — and still contains the family Bible?
...that Polish-American journalist and politician Michał Kruszka was at constant odds with the American Catholic Church, with reading his newspaper declared sinful and many lawsuits being filed by both parties?
...that Bob Massie set a world record by being the first player to take 16 wickets on his Test debut in 1972?
...that the Bull Stone House property in New York, is home to the only surviving New World Dutch barn?
...that Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences with his pioneering phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his ballooning feats?
...that the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people and inspired Peter Benchley's novel Jaws (1974)?
...that the West End Street Railway fired Cyrus S. Ching in 1901 after he was nearly electrocuted on the job, only to appoint him manager two months later?
...that the Russian sailing ship STS Sedov features a glass-domed banquet hall with a stage and a movie theatre?
...that Psalm 83 is cited by the Jehovah's Witnesses as a proof of Jehovah being God's personal name?
...that the Boot Monument at Saratoga National Historical Park donated by John Watts de Peyster is the only American war memorial that does not bear the name of its honoree?
...that the Asia Insurance Building in Singapore was the tallest building in Southeast Asia when it was completed in 1954?
...that Congressman Albert Richard Thomas brought the Johnson Space Center to Houston, Texas in 1961?
...that the recent treasure recovery by Odyssey Marine Exploration prompted international media attention and controversy with the Spanish government over the rights to the treasure?
...that at the age of 10, Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award?
...that during the American Civil War John Breckinridge Castleman was sentenced to death for spying, but his execution was suspended by Abraham Lincoln?
...that the genus Prietella includes two threatened species of eyeless, unpigmented catfish adapted to living in caves?
...that the Trent Codices are the largest single music manuscript source of the entire 15th century?
...that the Profane Oaths Act 1745, which criminalised "profane cursing and swearing" in the United Kingdom, was not fully repealed until 1967?
...that Canadian sculptor John Hooper previously lived in England, China, India, and South Africa, and was a captain in the British Army?
...that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal?
...that any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an adult interdependent relationship in Alberta, just like spouses in a common-law marriage?
...that Gabriel Garcia Márquez based his book News of a Kidnapping on the fight by Colombian politician Alberto Villamizar against kidnappings in that country?
...that the Former Singapore Badminton Hall was marked as a historical site by Singapore's National Heritage Board in 1999, as it held two Thomas Cup tournaments and was the vote counting station for a landmark 1962 referendum?
...that the Makuleke region of Kruger National Park is a natural history area with almost 75% of the diversity of the whole park?
...that the April 1920 Polish-Ukrainian agreement became the legal justification of the Kiev Offensive against Bolshevik Russia?
...that there is a mass grave of over 5,500 mental patients in the English countryside near the site of the former Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum ?
...that a galloping horse must breathe with every stride, due to the movement of the gut contents pushing forward and back on the diaphragm?
...that Artabanes was a 6th century Armenian noble who served both the Sassanid Persians and the Eastern Roman Empire, and became involved in a plot against Emperor Justinian I?
...that the famous black-and-white striped shirts of Italian football club Juventus were based on the kit of English Notts County, replacing the club's initial pink and black colours in 1903?
...that the Brand Junction shopping centre development in Melbourne, Victoria, is located on land known from 1937 until 1962 as the Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives?
...that Thomas Creede printed ten editions of William Shakespeare's plays, several of them poorly-written bad quartos?
...that even though the 1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the union at the strike's beginning?
...that Polycarp was a fictional Cajun character who hosted a local children's TV program in south Louisiana and lived in the swamp?
...that the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?
...that the launch of the protected cruiser Chitose in 1898, one of the few ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy built by the United States, was filmed by Thomas Edison?
...that Canada's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
...that the planned Marina Coastal Expressway is Singapore's most expensive expressway, and will cost S$2.5 billion for the 5-kilometre route?
...that the writer and actor, Henryk Grynberg, is known as the "chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews"?
...that Dang Hyang Nirartha founded the Hindu priesthood in Bali?
...that the Khmer Rouge of the 1970s influenced Cambodian clothing by strictly prohibiting brightly colored clothing and forcing all Khmer people to wear a checkered krama ?
...that the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver–lead mine in Canada?
...that Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer was a legendary disciplinarian and martinet whose funeral instructions directed his former flag secretary to bury him with his hindquarters facing the Pentagon?
...that singer Larry Stewart originally moved to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a career in baseball, but instead ended up as the lead singer of country-pop band Restless Heart?
...that the coach in which King Philip II of Portugal travelled from Spain to Portugal in 1619 is preserved at the National Coach Museum in Lisbon?
...that betalains are deep red pigments responsible for the color of beets , bougainvillea, amaranth, and many cacti?
...that the Irish artist Gerald Davis dressed as Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom and led Bloomsday parades?