derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Australian Bob Marshall won the World Amateur Billiards Championship four times and the Australian championship 21 times in a career spanning 50 years?
...that in 1953, Polish Air Force pilot Franciszek Jarecki escaped to Denmark with a Soviet MiG-15, which helped the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War?
...that Michael Garcia has introduced legislation to lower the legislative age of candidacy in Colorado from 25 to 21 after being himself elected at age 26?
...that Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London in 1888-9, replaced the circus-like elements of the Lord Mayor's Show with a State Procession, and was the arbitrator in the London Dock Strike of 1889?
...that most artists of the Tudor court produced works in many media, including miniatures, panel portraits , illuminated manuscripts, and decorative schemes for masques and tournaments?
...that sociologist Ralph Larkin published Comprehending Columbine after teaching about the Columbine High School massacre at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice?
...that the publishers of Hindustan Ghadar are said to have memorised the names of over a thousand of its subscribers to prevent these being known to British Intelligence?
...that Thai history scholar Benjamin Batson took up his field while posted in Bangkok as a university maths lecturer?
...that a replica of the Old Plantation Flats Light built in 2004 contains the first new lens constructed to Fresnel's patterns in eighty years?
...that Felician of Foligno was the first ever bishop to receive the pallium as a symbol of his office?
...that Irish actor Paudge Behan is the son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan?
...that The O.C.'s music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?
...that research into attitude polarization suggests that when people read research that both supports and contradicts their current views, they come to hold their original attitudes more strongly than before?
...that Cecil Hobbs began his interest in Southeast Asian history after his career as a missionary in Burma was ended in 1942 by the Japanese invasion?
...that in 1708 the Bonnington pavilion in Scotland had a "hall of mirrors" designed to give visitors the illusion that they were standing in the middle of the Corra Linn?
...that the parents of Anna Seidel, a German Sinologist and expert on Taoism, risked the death penalty by hiding a Jewish friend during World War II?
...that Saint Mary of the Mongols is the only Byzantine church in Constantinople to have remained Eastern Orthodox to this day?
...that the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue caused so many cancellations that Sports Illustrated and its publisher Time Warner had to stop delivery to certain subscribers, such as libraries?
...that the skink Chalcides colosii was once considered a subspecies of another species, Chalcides ocellatus (named for its ocelli), despite the fact that C. colosii has no ocelli?
...that Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove, who died in the destruction of HMS Royal Oak in October 1939, was the first Royal Navy flag officer killed in the Second World War?
...that the Oliver Typewriter Company of Chicago, Illinois produced and sold over one million of the first "visible print" typewriters?
...that German lawyer Horst Mahler had for his own lawyer the future Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder?
...that Oregon's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk?
...that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally oversaw the design of the post office in Poughkeepsie, New York?
...that though legend says the mid-way bend in Pittsburgh's Armstrong Tunnel was a mistake and that the engineer responsible killed himself in shame, the chief engineer, Vernon R. Covell, did not commit suicide?
...that the antibody class IgE was discovered by the Japanese scientist Kimishige Ishizaka?
...that after the death of Ukrainian novelist Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, a museum was built in his hometown of Vinnytsia, films were made and his son was executed for having counter-revolutionary contacts?
...that Major Carl Mothander, the leader of Swedish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, later wrote books on Estonian politics that were banned in Finland?
...that before becoming King of the United Kingdom, Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the luxurious Belle Époque brothel Le Chabanais in Paris and had himself built a special "love seat" there?
...that New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" , an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century?
...that South Vietnamese Special Forces under Ngo Dinh Diem, which were used mainly for repressing dissidents, also attacked pagodas during the Buddhist crisis and killed a giant carp that had attracted pilgrims?
...that U.S. professor of oriental studies Earl H. Pritchard was the first ever recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, in recognition of his work on military intelligence in World War II?
...that actuaries can use the Schuette–Nesbitt formula to calculate the net single premium for life annuities and life insurances?
...that the main cargo of the Peggy Stewart, burned in the 1774 Annapolis Tea Party, was not tea but 53 indentured servants?
...that former Swansea mayor Percy Morris called for Swansea Castle to be demolished and redeveloped because it was a "shambles"?
...that ANDRILL is a scientific drilling project in Antarctica to gather information about global warming over the last 65 million years?
...that one T206 Honus Wagner baseball card was sold for US$500,000 to Treat Entertainment and Wal-Mart in 1995 for use as the top prize in a promotional contest?
...that British submariner Arthur Hezlet torpedoed the heavy cruiser Ashigara, the largest Japanese warship sunk by the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the Second World War?
...that Trafalgar Square's original fountains were made from stone quarried near Boddam in Aberdeenshire?
...that the membership of the Ghanaian national labor federation Trades Union Congress fell by 58% after a law requiring civil servants to be members was repealed in 1966?
...that despite British Conservative MP Denis Keegan winning a marginal constituency by over 7,000 votes, he ended his political career after one term, preferring to work for the trade association for television shops?
...that turret deck ships incurred lower canal tolls because tonnage measurements used to calculate those tolls did not account for the vessels' unique shape?
...that Field Marshal Sir John Stanier was the first British Chief of the General Staff after the Second World War who had not seen active service?
...that knopper galls, caused by the eggs laid by gall wasps, develop as a chemically induced distortion of growing acorns on Pedunculate Oak trees?
...that aloin , a natural stimulant-laxative produced by the aloe plant, is no longer deemed safe and effective by the US FDA?
...that an operational nuclear reactor and an orbiting satellite are high points in 2007 of science and technology in Colombia?
...that strikebreakers are used more frequently in the US than in any other industrialized country?
...that adjoining the house where the Cato Street conspirators intended to kill all of the cabinet, was the home of Archbishop of York, Edward Harcourt, who was entertaining the Prince Regent and the Dukes of Cambridge, Cumberland and Wellington?
...that Bob Woodward has twice won the Worth Bingham Prize: in 1972 for reports on Watergate and in 1987 for covering covert action in United States foreign policy?
...that despite a history of identifying Communist intrigues, British Parliamentarian Percy Daines demanded that Marcus Lipton name his sources or withdraw the claim that Kim Philby was a Soviet spy?
...that Alexei Mikhailovich was the only Imperial Russian Grand Duke to bear the name and patronymic of a Tsar?
...that the Flower class corvette HMS Bryony was sunk before she could even be launched?
...that the coat of arms of Andalusia bears the Pillars of Hercules, the ancient name given to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar?
...that, by joining the Democratic caucus in 2007, Rep. Debbie Stafford became the first Colorado state legislator to switch parties in two decades?
...that shortly after the Revolution of 1848, the socialist feminist Jeanne Deroin became the first woman to stand in a national election in France?
...that the Sanskrit literature scholar Barbara Stoler Miller, whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita helped to popularise Indian literature in the United States, also translated Spanish poetry?
...that, although sentenced to death during the Great Purge, Soviet politician Sergey Kavtaradze was set free and reinstated by Joseph Stalin, and was eventually his representative in Iran and Romania?
...that Mute Swans ring for lunch at the Bishop's Palace in Wells, UK?
...that Michael Rowntree was Chairman of Oxfam for six years, and is one of only two people ever to be elected as its Chair Emeritus?
...that synthetic analogues of camptothecin, a cytotoxic quinoline alkaloid isolated from the Chinese tree Camptotheca acuminata, are being used as anti-cancer drugs?
...that the Doric-style temple in Mote Park near Maidstone in Kent commemorates the review by George III and William Pitt the Younger of a militia formed to repel Napoleon?
...that the British motor tanker SS Atheltempler, part of Convoy PQ-18 to aid the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany, was sunk north of Bear Island?
...that Alan Entwistle, a leading Hindi language scholar, continued researching for ten years despite a terminal brain tumour?
...that The Big Blowdown, a crime novel by American author George Pelecanos, was the recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year award in France, Germany and Japan?
...that the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal of New South Wales can order the suspension or removal of a nurse or midwife from practice?
...that when immature, the "death angel" fungus, Amanita ocreata, closely resembles an edible mushroom?
...that the seventh century hermit Goar of Aquitaine is said to have suspended his cloak on a beam of sunlight?
...that Charles Hucker, a leading historian on Imperial China, was awarded the Bronze Star in World War II and wrote plays?
...that the Pasig River reverses its flow of water from Manila Bay to Laguna de Bay when there is a high tide during the dry season?
...that tariffs imposed by the Austrian Empire on the export of Piedmontese wines to Austrian controlled areas of Italy was one of the underlying sparks of the revolutions of 1848–1849?
...that J. L. Wilkinson was named the manager of the All Nations professional baseball team after the previous manager absconded with the gate proceeds?
...that Rajo Jack, one of the first African-American racecar drivers, pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism?
...that when analyzing relationships of the harvestmen it is found that they are not true spiders, as often believed, but are in fact more closely related to scorpions?
...that although flowers of the deciduous tree Tilia tomentosa are pollinated by honeybees, the nectar is somewhat toxic to bumblebees?
...that the German scientist Günter Wirths was brought to the Soviet Union after World War II, where he later was awarded a Stalin Prize for his contribution to the Soviet atomic bomb project?
...that Sisnando Davides, a Mozarab who had previously served Abbadid Seville, was the first Christian governor of Coimbra and Toledo after their reconquest?
...that Florida attorney Ellis Rubin claimed his client was driven to nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac?
...that Ramon Zamora, the Filipino film actor popularly dubbed the "Bruce Lee of the Philippines," won an award imitating Adolf Hitler on the gag show Super Laff-In?
...that the history of sherry has been greatly influenced by many of the world's major empires and civilizations including the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Moors, Spanish and English?
...that Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
...that Gal, Bishop of Clermont was known to be so even-tempered that once a man who had insulted him repented on the spot and threw himself at his feet?
...that the British composer William Denis Browne chose the grave site on Skyros for his friend, poet Rupert Brooke, just months before he himself was killed in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I?
...that the brightly coloured shells of the Liguus snails are so prized by collectors that some varieties are now extinct?
...that in 2007, Phil Collins' 1981 hit "In the Air Tonight" reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart after appearing in Cadbury's Gorilla advertising campaign?
...that after Anthony Kemp returned to England where he was questioned about his involvement in the overthrow of William Bligh as Governor of New South Wales, he again went south and became known as the "father of Tasmania"?
...that Bonawentura Niemojowski, a Polish politician during the Congress Poland period, became one of the most vocal supporters of the November Uprising against the Russian Empire and a leader of the revolutionary Polish government?
...that Wendy Kaminer's critique of the self-help movement, I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional, was highlighted among The New York Times' "Notable Books of the Year 1992"?
...that Peire d'Alvernhe is the only troubadour in whose works appear the Occitan phrase for "courtly love"?
...that Gerard of Lunel became widely venerated after it was reported snakes carried bread to him and his brother while they were trapped by a flood in a cave?
...that 4,400 year old dugout canoes have been found at the bottom of Lake Phelps in Pettigrew State Park , a North Carolina state park named for J. Johnston Pettigrew, a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg?
...that Anglican clergyman Chad Varah founded the Samaritans, the world's first crisis hotline, in 1953, at a time when he was also writing for the Eagle comic?
...that famous tenor Antonio Giuglini used to jaywalk through traffic on London's Brompton Road while flying his kite?
...that Julia Evangeline Brooks, an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a dean of girls at Danbury High School?
...that Sir Rowland Whitehead, 5th Baronet was a Briton born in Kenya, a banker engaged with charities, a hyperpolyglot who wrote about cybernetics, and a church warden who skydived?
...that the civil rights of Panama's Chinese minority, today the largest in Central America, were curtailed from 1903 until they received full citizenship under the constitution passed in 1946?
...that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?
...that the British Hawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher in 1944 was involved in Operation Neptune as a member of Gunfire Bombardment Support Force D allocated to Sword Beach in the D-Day landings?
...that Jerrold Wexler helped save a transaction to purchase the Denver Nuggets, helped save Goldblatt's from bankruptcy and led the Drake Hotel to a National Register of Historic Places listing?
...that Serhii Vasylkivsky was the first painter after Taras Shevchenko to draw upon Ukrainian historical and ethnographic themes?
...that 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?
...that the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey?
...that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Sarah Meriweather Nutter visited Grover Cleveland's grave, and cut a portion of ivy to plant at Howard University?
...that global warming has had a positive effect on the Tasmanian wine industry allowing it to grow grapes more successfully than what would otherwise be possible?
...that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
...that Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize, unlike her parents Marie and Pierre, her sister Irène, and, on behalf of UNICEF, her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.?
...that Bangalore Gayana Samaja, which celebrated its centenary in 2005, is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore?
...that Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party?
...that after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I, he rebelled again?
...that the veneration of Saints Felinus and Gratian, which has a weak historical foundation, has been alleged to have been created to further the interests of Perugia?
...that Susan Hadden, an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore, was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat?
...that wine from the Greek island of Chios, prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome, was according to mythology the first red wine?
...that the Raphael Cartoons , tapestry designs from 1515 which are among the most influential works of Renaissance art, remained torn into strips for 175 years?
...that Gun Hill Road in the Bronx was proposed to become the Gun Hill Crosstown Expressway?
...that Ethel Jones Mowbray was a founder of the first African-American sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha?
...that Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço d'Arcos served as the governor of various colonies as far as India, Timor, Macao and Mozambique in the Portuguese Empire?
...that "Professor Dull is anything but", referring to the historian of Han China Jack Dull, was a conventional joke on the campus of the University of Washington?
...that although it was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in the 1948 War, the moshav Atarot is now the site of Jerusalem's largest industrial park?
...that the militants of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang were given training in Yunnan in China by the Kuomintang, but then went on to engage in robbery on KMT territory?
...that Jerome Avenue is one of three streets in the Bronx with a whole subway line following it?
...that the Pterodactyl Ascender has been one of the most influential designs in ultralight aviation?
...that the assassination of Bazin, a French labor recruiter in Vietnam, was the first attack by the revolutionary Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang?
...that in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's's epic operatic Ring Cycle?
...that the famous Roman "first growth" wine Falernian was made from the Aglianico grape which is still being used to make wine today?
...that King Richard I of England was killed while beseiging the small castle of Château de Chalus-Chabrol, which was under the control of Aimar V of Limoges?
...that British cricketer Michael Spurway was thought to be the oldest surviving county cricket player at the time of his death, and the last living person to have played county cricket in the 1920s?
...that when Mark DeSantis lost the 2007 Pittsburgh mayoral election to Luke Ravenstahl by thirty percentage points, it was the best performance by a Republican Party candidate in Pittsburgh in over thirty years?
...that Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy The School for Scandal has been widely admired, but also criticized for hints of anti-Semitism, particularly regarding its references to Jewish moneylenders?
...that actress Ethel Jackson remarried with the lawyer who had obtained her divorce the same month?
...that Don Durdan was selected as the most valuable player of college football's Rose Bowl in 1942, and six years later, won a professional basketball championship with the Portland Indians?
...that Flemish Baroque painting (1585–1700) saw many pieces created as collaborations between independent masters, such as Rubens with Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Snyders?
...that science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry?
...that there are over 90 mash-ups of the Kersal Massive's demo song?
...that the expressions 'top dog' and 'underdog' may originate with the two sawyers in a saw pit?
...that Manuela Beltrán was a Colombian woman who organized a peasant revolt against excessive taxation in 1780?
...that in 2003, thousands of dead cod mysteriously washed up on the shores of Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador with their internal organs frozen solid?
...that Les Parrott, a professor of clinical psychology, a motivational speaker, and a Nazarene minister, co-created, along with his wife, the eHarmony Marriage program?
...that the resort town Arniston, Western Cape near Cape Agulhas, the southern-most tip of Africa, was named after Arniston, an East Indiaman that shipwrecked in the vicinity in 1815?
...that Saint Terence was proclaimed the patron saint of Pesaro for appearing in times of crisis, lifting a siege of the Italian town by French troops?
...that the obelisk in Rome's Piazza Montecitorio was erected in 10 BC as a giant sundial gnomon, but stopped keeping accurate time within 30 years?
...that the car combat video game Grudge Warriors was the first PlayStation title by Take-Two Interactive not requiring payment of a licensing fee to Sony?
...that the half-brother of William the Conqueror, Bishop Odo of Bayeux, was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England?
...that U.S. soldiers considered the silver chevrons awarded for non-combat service in World War I a badge of shame?
...that despite $170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
...that Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit was the only signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence to have been born in the Land of Israel?
...that in 1982, Maurice Couve de Murville was plucked from obscurity as the Roman Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University to become the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham?
...that the PowerShot TX1 by Canon is their first attempt at a hybrid digital camera that offers both advanced ultra zoom photography and advanced HDTV movie capture?
...that in 2007, Arlene Holt Baker became the first African American AFL-CIO officer?
...that Monosolenium tenerum is a species of weed that is threatened with habitat loss in Japan?
...that Lucas Horenbout was "King's Painter" to King Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature, painting Henry and several of his wives?
...that on November 3 2007, Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football's longest bilateral streak?
...that the orca Springer is the only whale in history to have been successfully re-integrated into a wild pod after human intervention?
...that the leader of the Tran Cao rebellion, a peasant revolt against the Le Dynasty in Vietnam in 1516, claimed to be a reincarnation of the Hindu deity Indra?
...that despite being made from the same grape variety and less than 10 miles apart, the Barbaresco and the Barolo are two distinctly different Italian wines?
...that cricket writer Gerald Howat won the Cricket Society's golden jubilee award for his biography of Learie Constantine?
...that on June 14, 1835, USRC Ingham became the first United States warship to engage a Mexican ship in combat?
...that nobody knows the meaning of "Delmo", the subtitle given by Rachmaninoff to his 1899 composition Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor?
...that millionaire's daughter Rose Dugdale joined an IRA active service unit and took part in the first helicopter bombing raid on the British Isles in 1974?
...that the odds of Sir John Eardley Wilmot , an eminent judge, also having a eminent grandson were calculated in Galton's book Hereditary Genius as 30 to 1 against?