derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats?
...that piano player and pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Maryla Jonas, debuted at the age of 9?
...that Jewelers' Row in Philadelphia was the first speculative housing development in the United States, featuring that country's first row houses?
...that book peddlers played an important cultural role in various countries, for which they sometimes suffered state persecution and sometimes enjoyed state protection?
...that Australian Olympic swimming gold medalist Neil Brooks retired after being suspended for drinking 46 cans of beer on a flight from Britain back to Australia?
...that as British Colonial Secretary, Arthur Creech Jones oversaw dominion status in 1948 for Ceylon?
...that the 1928 legislative election is considered the last free election in Poland before the fall of communism six decades later?
...that the Royal Air Force ordered 1,291 De Havilland DH.10s for use in World War I, but they were only used in a single bombing mission before the armistice ended the fighting?
...that Kannada poet and Indian political activist Kayyara Kinyanna Rai published his first journal, Susheela, at the age of 12?
...that Michigan State University Libraries has the largest catalogued collection of comic books in the world, with over 150,000 items?
...that President Ngo Dinh Diem survived the 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing after a 500 lb (225 kg) bomb landed in his room and failed to detonate?
...that John Ives was elected a fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society by the age of 21?
...that the West Pharmaceutical Services explosion in 2003 occurred just 170 miles from the site of another industrial disaster, America's second-worst?
...that Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes (French for "From the beating of the waves to the summit of the mountains") is a legal description of the manner in which the island of Réunion was divided into parcels?
...that Rasau Field, one of the two onshore oil fields of Brunei, was discovered in 1979 but oil production only started in 1983?
...that when the Sudanese Boeing 737 Air West Flight 612 was hijacked, the hijacker originally wanted to fly to Rome or London but was forced to settle for Chad due to a lack of fuel?
...that St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford was closely associated with the early Oxford Movement?
...that the mushroom Lactarius rubrilacteus is also known as the "Bleeding milkcap" because it releases a dark-red milky substance when sliced or cut?
...that the South Seas Evangelical Church, the third-largest religious affiliation in the Solomon Islands, traces its history to a mission for Kanakas in Queensland, Australia?
...that British Conservative politician Robert Jones was the only person to represent the parliamentary constituency of West Hertfordshire from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997?
...that the brief Dodecanese Campaign in 1943 resulted in one of the last major German victories in World War II?
...that Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football, hockey and cricket?
...that in the 100th meeting of the Red River Shootout , the Texas Longhorns tied their record for biggest margin of victory over their rival, the Oklahoma Sooners?
...that Wee Chong Jin, one of the former judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore, was the longest-serving Chief Justice of Singapore and of a Commonwealth country, having held the post for over 27 years?
...that Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan was honored with the Right Livelihood Award, also known as alternative Nobel Prize, for showing how tribal culture can help secure the basic rights and needs of indigenous people?
...that Ashley Mallett, Australia's most successful post-war off spinner, had his career curtailed by arthritis?
...that the genus Brachyplatystoma includes many large species of Amazonian catfish, including one which may reach about 3.6 metres (almost 12 feet) in length?
...that, even though the soldiers that constituted the Red Lancers, a horse-mounted military unit, first served as the Dutch Royal Guards, they were almost completely destroyed after their first battle in 1812?
...that the Rothschild giraffe is the most endangered and tallest subspecies of giraffe?
...that the role of Kanephoros was the most prominent public office a girl or woman could hold in ancient Athens?
...that tens of thousands of Armenian Khachkars have allegedly been destroyed in a systematic manner by the government of Azerbaijan?
...that during a 1942 air attack on the Koolama, an Australian merchant ship, a man survived a direct hit to his head by a bomb, dropped by a Japanese aircraft?
...that Dr. Naseem Ashraf was accused in Dawn of having a hidden agenda of de-Islamisation of the Pakistan cricket team?
...that Shikellamy, an Oneida chief, was an emissary between the Iroquois and colonial government of Pennsylvania for nearly twenty years and helped negotiate several treaties?
...that the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt stalled after President Ngo Dinh Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalist forces to crush the rebels?
...that the Sugarlands , a valley once known as "Moonshiners' Paradise", is now the location of Great Smoky Mountains National Park headquarters?
...that in the early 18th century the Marquis de Ségur owned three of the five most prestigious wine estates in Bordeaux?
...that 1927 Italian football champions Torino F.C. were stripped of their title for match fixing?
...that labor union activist Sam Pollock, who helped lead the Auto-Lite Strike, is the grandfather of noted experimental filmmaker Damon Packard?
...that the Romanian politician Costică Canacheu campaigns for the official recognition of Aromanians as a national minority in his country?
...that females of the tropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae are able to hold sperm in their ovaries for several months?
...that the Achelous-class landing craft repair ship USS Krishna and her sister ship USS Indra are the only U.S. Naval vessels to have borne the name of Hindu deities?
...that the body of a 5th-century Germanic warrior found with the Treasure of Pouan was initially thought to be that of Theodoric I?
...that Australian cricketer John Gleeson attributed the finger strength used in his two-finger bowling action to a childhood of milking cows?
...that the first documented discovery of gold in California was at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush?
...that the 1964 South Vietnamese coup by General Nguyen Khanh succeeded even though his accomplice General Tran Thien Khiem overslept?
...that Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee John Pesek was also inducted into the Greyhound National Hall of Fame?
...that David Farragut in 1862 became the first Hispanic U.S. Navy Admiral?
...that somewhere between a quarter and a third of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine?
...that light echoes appear to exceed the speed of light due to simple interstellar illusions?
...that despite the scar literature after the Cultural Revolution in China contributing to Deng Xiaoping's return to power, he later suppressed it?
...that the Irish–Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?
...that Churumuri.com, one of the most popular blogs on WordPress.com, is named after a snack made of puffed rice that is a speciality of Mysore, Karnataka in India?
...that the Governors Court in New South Wales had a rule barring ex-convict lawyers from appearing before it, but all of the lawyers in the penal colony were ex-convicts?
...that Gilbert Jessop called Henry Scattergood America's greatest wicket-keeper?
...that during the 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona, Katherine Legge completed the one millionth lap in the history of the race?
...that Dusky Woodswallows roost together in large flocks during the breeding season to protect their young from predators?
...that the person or group responsible for the blackmail letters of the Glico Morinaga case in Japan is known as the Monster with 21 Faces?
...that First Command Financial Planning, Inc., a financial services company that caters to the U.S. military, was found "willfully" non-compliant related to fraudulent activities in its marketing?
...that Joachim Piccolomini was repeatedly urged by his fellow Servites to become a priest, but felt unworthy to be anything more than an altar server?
...that Neville Duke was the top Allied fighter ace in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II, having shot down at least 27 aircraft?
...that the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball program is the only college women's team to appear in every NCAA Tournament and every Sweet 16?
...that in the book Beyond Capricorn Peter Trickett claims that the Portuguese were the first to discover Australia, between 1519-24?
...that Sir Charles MacCarthy, the British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, was killed by the Ashanti and his head kept as a trophy?
...that Uruguayan footballer Víctor Rodríguez Andrade helped found the Uruguayan Basketball Federation team 25 de Agosto?
...that Zhang Chengzhi, who formed China's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School, converted to Islam?
...that bats comprise about 20% of all mammal species found in the Central Oregon Coast Range ?
...that a version of the traditional Bengali panjika, the Hindu astrological almanac, comes with an interactive CD-ROM?
...that none of the storms of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season in the Arabian Sea made landfall?
...that as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
...that the study reported in Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training concluded that attending an LGAT seminar had minimal lasting effects, positive or negative, on participants' self-perception?
...that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges?
...that only three works of Egardus, a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders, Italy, and Poland, are known to have survived?
...that the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs (black jerseys) had an intense rivalry, during which the two teams won a total of six NBA championships in seven seasons?
...that Gottlieb Ott changed Berne's cityscape both by constructing new buildings and removing a medieval tower?
...that the All India Sikh Students Federation was a major part of the movement for a Sikh-majority state of Punjab in India?
...that species of Prosaurolophus, a duckbilled dinosaur, have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner, two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
...that Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger's depiction of Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?
...that the Free Belgian Forces fought in several theaters during World War II, including Great Britain, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe?
...that The Mather School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is the oldest free public elementary school in North America?
...that Jerry Zimmerman was the last active Major League Baseball coach to umpire a major league game?
...that the first recorded use of "mad as a March hare", which refers to the antics of hares during their breeding season, was written by Sir Thomas More in 1529?
...that the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953 shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October?
...that Mother Theresa University, in Vilpatti Panchayat, South India, is the nation's only university exclusively devoted to women's issues?
...that the history of invasive and interventional cardiology began with catheters being placed into the right and left ventricles of a living horse in 1711?
...that the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as "Korean" anymore?
...that Berne's Christoffelturm, when it was over 500 years old, was pulled down in a political move that had 415 supporters and 412 opposers?
...that in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., the United States Supreme Court declared that "nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct"?
...that Ninasam, a cultural organization in Karnataka, India, had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States?
...that the Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans prototype did not actually use an engine from a Cadillac, but instead an Oldsmobile?
...that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis?
...that during the Battle of Dalmatia, Croatian forces were so ill-equipped that they stuffed explosives into Coca-Cola cans to create hand grenades?
...that 18th century French artilleries were the most efficient at cannon operation , capable of firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege?
...that the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen, starring Fridolf Rhudin, is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?
...that the White-eyed Gull, a rare gull endemic to the Red Sea, does not have white eyes?
...that Rajarsi Janakananda, before becoming the leading disciple of Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda, was a self-made American millionaire named James Jesse Lynn?
...that the polymathic Thomas Shaw Brandreth invented the Cycloped, a horse-powered locomotive, and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad into English?
...that Hugo Stoltzenberg developed the poison gas used at the 1915 Battle of Ypres during World War I?
...that former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
...that the Aichi D1A was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
...that a nonconvex polygon with three convex vertices is called a pseudotriangle?
...that Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat-captain who saved over 500 men, women and children from drowning at sea?
...that Kampong Sungai Teraban in Brunei was settled by a group of Malay fishermen who moved across the Belait River after a falling out with the inhabitants of Kuala Belait?
...that Sue is the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found?
...that the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales, Australia?
...that in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina, damaging or destroying 28 other vessels?
...that the history of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore dates back to the arrival of Lutheran Hakka refugees following the Taiping Rebellion in China?
...that Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
...that Australian Olympic swimming champion Faith Leech grew up on a diet of carrot juice and beetroot after refusing all other food as a baby?
...that the life of Han Dynasty poet and composer Cai Wenji is depicted in Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute?
...that the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and shut down for fraud?
...that footballer Francis Lee earned his nickname Lee One Pen by setting an English record for the most penalties scored in a single season?
...that Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by leaving to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland?
...that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?
...that the San Francisco Armory , a National Guard stronghold during the "Bloody Thursday" events of 1934, is now used as a BDSM porn studio?
...that exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
...that John Downer, Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer, the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs?
...that until 1861 Newton Abbot railway station had three separate train sheds for trains running on lines to and from Exeter, Plymouth, and Torquay?
...that Canford Cliffs, an affluent suburb of Poole, Dorset, includes an exclusive branch of HSBC bank which requires that customers without large accounts or mortgages pay to enter?
...that Reginald H. Thomson, the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy?
...that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom?
...that like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
...that the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing?
...that Bengali nationalism motivated the proposal for a united, independent Bengal as an alternative to the 1947 partition of Bengal?
...that the Australian legal doctrine of Persona designata allows a judge to exercise non-judicial power, if it has been conferred to the judge personally, rather than to his or her court?
...that the concept of cross-boundary subsidies is developed out of a merging of ideas from the studies of landscape ecology and food web ecology?
...that Judy Morris, co-writer of the Academy Award winning Happy Feet has also acted in many of the most popular North American and Australian television programs since the age of 10?
...that, according to a ruling issued by U.S. federal judge Robert W. Sweet , McDonald's is not to blame for its customers' obesity?
...that some species of Iridomyrmex ants have a symbiotic relationship with caterpillars?
...that Bhadda Kapilani, the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in understanding past reincarnations, was the former wife of Mahakasyapa, who led the sangha following the Buddha's paranibbana?
...that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?
...that Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession?
...that the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?
...that, following his death, Constabilis is said to have appeared to the abbots of La Trinità della Cava, which he founded, the first four of whom have also been declared saints?
...that Kannada cinema star Dr. Rajkumar was buried at Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore?
...that aged 14, Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
...that Sam Mbakwe was nicknamed "the weeping governor" for shedding tears when trying to get the federal government of Nigeria to pay more attention to his state?
...that the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989?
...that, until Johannes Rebmann saw snow on Kilimanjaro in 1848, most Europeans thought it could not exist in Africa?
...that Sarkis Soghanalian, the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war?
...that the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House?
...that the Master of the Playing Cards was a 15th century German engraver and the first major master in the history of printmaking?
...that National Cavalry refers to the reformed Polish cavalry, succeeding the famous but obsolete Polish Hussars?
...that Lake Kutubu, the largest upland lake in Papua New Guinea, has 12 endemic species of fish?
...that Charles M. Loring was the father of the park system in Minneapolis, where Horace Cleveland designed the Grand Rounds and Theodore Wirth placed a park near every home?
...that Nihonga artist Ogura Yuki was the first woman to be selected chairperson of the Japan Art Academy, and one of only two women painters to be awarded Japan's Order of Culture?
...that Joseph Smith Jr. instructed that members of the Latter Day Saints' First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should be accepted by the church as prophets, seers, and revelators?
...that Nguyen Van Nhung, who executed Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu following South Vietnam's 1963 coup, was himself executed a few months later, after another coup?
...that Russian admiral Vasily Zavoyko defended against superior British-French forces in the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk, and even captured the British banner?
...that Thomas Lant called the College of Arms "a company full of discord and envy?"
...that the Dehousing Paper, presented to the British War Cabinet in 1942, advocated for a strategic bombing campaign of German cities?
...that American John Thayer is the only known first-class cricketer to have died on the RMS Titanic?
...that the French-designed Minié rifle was the dominant infantry weapon of the American Civil War?
...that Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach?
...that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
...that Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga of the Imperial Japanese Army and Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps in Borneo in World War 2, was a graduate of the University of Washington?
...that despite his commitment to historical accuracy, Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece The Battle of Alexander at Issus is depicted as occurring in the Alps, in 16th century costume?
...that Yasa, the sixth arahant of Gautama Buddha, was also the son and former husband of the first two female lay disciples?
...that Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia, twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister?
...that Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine, whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty, sought French military assistance?
...that the key area of NBA basketball courts was widened to reduce the effectiveness of dominating centers like George Mikan?
...that fashion designer Gareth Pugh has earned critical acclaim for his clothing made of inflated PVC but has never sold a single dress?
...that Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?
...that Alan Davidson, regarded as one of the greatest left arm fast bowlers in the history of cricket, only took up the skill when his uncle's weekend team ran out of fast bowlers?
...that the Beta Effect, which affects larger tropical cyclones and needs to be accounted for in tropical cyclone forecasting, forces a more northwest tropical cyclone track in the Northern Hemisphere?
...that when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
...that Lloyd Groff Copeman, the inventor of the rubber ice cube tray, the electric stove and a toaster which turned bread automatically, was singer Linda Ronstadt's grandfather?
...that atop Berne's medieval clock tower Zytglogge a gilded figure of Chronos strikes the bell every hour?