derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
...that the Duchy of Veragua, granted to the grandson of Christopher Columbus, is a perfect square of land 25 leagues to a side?
...that the Berlin Stadtbahn is built mostly as an elevated railway line with viaducts totalling eight kilometres of length, including 731 masonry viaduct arches?
...that the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages?
...that John Perlman, one of South Africa's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation?
...that the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument, constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
...that Disco D specialized in hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing original ring tone works for cell phones?
...that Lauren Nelson, newly crowned Miss America 2007, is the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma?
...that Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?
...that the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?
...that tourism in Cameroon centers around wildlife such as elephants, giraffes, and gorillas?
...that Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank?
...that Antoni Bohdziewicz, a Polish film director, was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw?
...that one of Atomic Games' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far, topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?
...that the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in the United Kingdom was found at Aveline's Hole, one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England?
...that French historian Augustin Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin, a prominent right wing Deputy in the National Assembly of France?
...that as a teenager, Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov was convicted of stealing mail and sentenced to three months in a monastery?
...that the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist, according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix, signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
...that ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
...that one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens, Calcutta, and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
...in 1293, the Bartian tribe of Prussia asked Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytenis for protection against the Teutonic Knights?
...that according to Germanic legends, the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
...that Egyptian actor Omar Sharif's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi?
...that Jonas Vileišis was a member of the Council which proclaimed Lithuania's independence in 1918?
...that the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
...that Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire?
...that Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open hearth furnace in the United States?
...that Charles Leach was the only British Member of Parliament to have been disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act?
...that Japanese author Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated Leo Tolstoy in establishing a commune based on humanism and utopian socialism?
...that Komati Gorge has colourful bluffs that harbor the threatened Southern Bald Ibis?
...that Archibald Cameron of Locheil was the last man to be executed for his part in Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion?
...that the Piraeus Lion is an ancient Greek statue "embellished" with runic graffiti by Vikings?
...that the Strangeways Prison inmate Gordon Park was convicted of murdering his first wife 28 years after the fact?
...that Humshaugh in Northumberland, England, is acknowledged as the site of the first official Scout camp?
...that economist J. C. Kumarappa coined the term Gandhian economics to describe a school of thought based on Gandhism?
...that construction of Żarnowiec, Poland's only nuclear power plant, was cancelled as the project neared completion?
...that the Loch Arkaig treasure, a large amount of specie provided by Spain to finance the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, is said to be still hidden at Loch Arkaig in the Scottish Highlands?
...that New Zealand rugby player Andy Dalton suffered an injury that kept him from captaining the All Blacks side that went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup?
...that the standing army created during the Thirty Years' War by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, developed into the Prussian Army?
...that the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?
...that about 1,400 people of Fryštát died in 1623 because of bubonic plague?
...that the Suzuki MR Wagon was previewed as a concept car called Mum's Personal Wagon?
...that a banjee is a young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in thuggish urban fashion?
...that since the first Urdu language typewriter was created in 1911, the Urdu keyboard layout has evolved to accommodate the needs of the digital age?
...that historian Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the British contingent to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
...that the PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by King George III in Prince Edward Island?
...that Jeannette Piccard piloted a hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard, likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek?
...that St. George's Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century?
...that a Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920 kilograms?
... that Gandhian economics, centering around the values of trusteeship, human dignity and equality, has been viewed as an alternative to left-wing and right-wing economic models?
...that Bodysgallen Hall sits on the site of the home of a 5th century AD Welsh king?
...that New Zealand rugby union player Mark Hammett won four Super 12 titles with the Crusaders between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?
...that competitions for the design of José Martí Memorial in Havana, Cuba started in 1939, but the design that was finally constructed in 1953 was a variation on a design that had come in third in the fourth competition?
...that on March 21, 1943, Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff tried to kill Adolf Hitler in a suicide attack in Berlin, but failed because Hitler left earlier than expected?
...that Francis Barber was born a slave in Jamaica and was the manservant for over 30 years, and finally the heir, of Dr. Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame?
...that "O Meu Coração Não Tem Cor" was the most successful Portuguese Eurovision entry to date, but was ironically followed by the country's worst result since the Carnation Revolution?
...that there are significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List?
...that the Goulburn Valley region of Australia is home to the oldest and largest plantings of the little used Marsanne grape variety?
...that G. S. Shivarudrappa is only the third person to be named "poet of the nation" by the Government of Karnataka?
...that the Piner Creek watershed is home to a historic round barn , one of the early architectural features of Sonoma County, California?
...that the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia?
...that rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval Arabic maqamat to modern rap?
...that Polish general Józef Zając held military decorations from Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania?
...that a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, born "Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender?
...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?
...that Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini, founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the UK's Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II?
...that the passing of the Great Comet of 1577 caused almost century-long debate, during which Galileo argued that comets were merely optical illusions?
...that Cesar Picton, who was enslaved aged six in Senegal, died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?
...that, according to human rights organizations, Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped due to his criticism of the government?
...that three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1, killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
...that during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?
...that in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?
...that Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War?
...that Eremitage Palace originally had a hoisting apparatus able to lift the dinner table from the basement to the dining room, allowing Christian VI of Denmark to dine without any waiters present?
...that Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?
...that Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat?
...that in 2005 the then 28-year-old Murat Yusuf became the youngest ever Mufti of Romania?
...that Mao Anqing, the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong, suffered from a mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while living on the streets in Shanghai in the 1930s?
...that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
...that the world's tallest statue of Hindu God Lord Shiva is located in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India?
...that Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli was once thought to have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music from the Catholic Church?
...that New Black Panther activist Quanell X is featured in some of Scarface's early rap videos?
...that the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton, England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?
...that the Romney Expedition, led by Stonewall Jackson, cleared Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War?
...that after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?
...that the records of English herald Thomas Hawley contain the first preserved account of a heraldic visitation?
...that, during the Great Depression, the Romanian politician Grigore Iunian proposed devaluing the leu as a means to curb peasant insolvency?
...that the 3rd Earl of Radnor, wanting the borough of Downton to be free from his own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement?
...that Crveni Krst, a neigborhood of Belgrade, Serbia, was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava?
...that it was recently discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam?
...that Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?
...that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Fiske was torpedoed and sunk in 1944 by the German submarine she was hunting?
...that Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen?
...that the Hilary Duff song "Haters" is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay Lohan?
...that the term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah?
...that the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps?
...that Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?
...that Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia in 1865?
...that Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?
...that for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?
...that lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in 1915?
...that Elli Perkins, having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son because of Scientology beliefs, was murdered by him?
...that an infinite geometric series with a common ratio of 1/4 was used by Archimedes in 250-200 BC to find the area enclosed by a parabola?
...that because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?
...that Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14 countries and helped found the United States' Law Day?
...that Seaport Centre, a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds?
...that reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations?
...that Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique?
...that author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?
...that the extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
...that the Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure?
...that the dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world?
...that when the English actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris took over the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the history of London theatre?
...that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead of brick after residents complained to him via telegram?
...that the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul?
...that Torrent was the first American film starring the Swedish actress Greta Garbo?
...that during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, a secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church, canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate?
...that a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead?
...that the Macal River drains classic Mayan settlements and controls the flood stage of Belize's largest river?
...that the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?
...that Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United States, the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam worldwide?
...that the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town's first coloured city councillor in 1904?
...that the publishers of the American music magazine Option once launched a spin-off fashion magazine, UHF?
...that the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
...that Bennett Valley is one of the newest additions to the list of American Viticulture Areas?
...that professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
...that adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality?
...that Jiri Dudacek, the first Czechoslovak ice hockey player to be selected in the first round of the National Hockey League draft, never left Czechoslovakia due to the protests of the country's sports minister?
...that the commands to fire the first Allied shots in World War One and the first Australian shots in World War Two came from Fort Queenscliff , Australia?
...that the foreign minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor knowledge of the native language Turkmen, before being arrested and convicted for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov?
...that Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary?
...that the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra, is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius?
...that the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Menges was hit by an acoustic torpedo in 1944, destroying the aft third of the ship, but remained afloat?
...that Varvara Yakovleva, a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church, was canonized as a martyr after she was killed with her former mistress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna?
...that the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
...that Steve Fossett's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel?
...that Eilley Bowers is one of the most researched, written and talked-about women in Nevada history?
...that during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German-occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?
...that England cricket captain Tony Greig said that England would make the West Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976, but went on to lose 6 of the 8 matches?
...that Shaul Shimon Deutsch left the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to set up his own Hasidic court in 1995 and curates a museum of Biblical archaeology in Brooklyn, New York?
...that following the 1886 Seattle anti-Chinese riot the United States Congress paid the Chinese government $276,619.15 in compensation, but the victims received nothing?
...that the Augustów Canal in north-eastern Poland was built in order to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea?
...that the streak of a mineral, the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?
...that Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi became the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits when he ascended Mt. Everest in 1999 at the age of 25?
...that Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show in 1990 and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had to be removed from the studio?
...that the prehistoric badger genus Chamitataxus lived during the Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America?
...that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
...that The Dove, an American film released in 1974, is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone?
...that when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen, he had already written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several languages?
...that Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months later?
...that the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville, was the first academy in France?
...that when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch was built in 1760, it incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the time?
...that Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell, when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells?
...that the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable to Western ones?
...that Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress Theatre, including one minor role of "second policeman"?
...that The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder?
...that the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two winners of the Templeton Prize?
...that medieval cannon were first used by the English during the Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crécy?
...that English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?
...that the plant Erigenia bulbosa is known as "harbinger of spring" because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each year?
...that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
...that The Irish Famine debunks myths about the Irish Potato Famine, including one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine?
...that, at a congress in May 1921, all Socialist Party of Romania delegates who supported Bolshevik guidelines were arrested 24 hours after a vote on affiliation to the Comintern?
...that the American merchant William Conner helped maintain the Delaware's loyalty during the War of 1812 and identified the body of Tecumseh following the Battle of the Thames?
...that 1939's Indramalati, directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, was the second ever Assamese language film?
...that the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?