derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that composer Takanori Arisawa won three JASRAC International Awards for most international royalties, due to the worldwide popularity of the Sailor Moon anime soundtrack?
...that when the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island was elected, there were only five qualified voters in the three-member district of Victoria?
...that the 1892 Thomas Gale House was one of at least eight "bootleg houses" designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in breach of his contract with architect Louis Sullivan?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright was eventually dismissed from the architecture firm Adler and Sullivan for designing side projects such as the Robert P. Parker House ?
...that Bona of Pisa, after seeing a vision of James, son of Zebedee, became a leader of pilgrimages to his shrine at Santiago de Compostella?
...that Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in British Columbia, including a city, a lake, and a hill?
...that Sylvia Seegrist was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for killing three people in 1985 in a Pennsylvania shopping mall, even though she had a history of paranoid schizophrenia?
...that Richard Petty won the 1979 Daytona 500 by passing race leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough who were involved in a fight in the infield?
...that Maria Bertilla Boscardin, who was rejected by one religious order for her slowness, became a nurse and was eventually canonized a saint in the presence of several of her earlier patients?
...that Chicago theater-owner Tony DeSantis survived two near-fatal explosions in his life?
...that the painter Andrés de Santa Maria was the pioneer of impressionism and modern art in Colombia?
...that one of the largest slave escape attempts in American history occurred in Kentucky in August 1848?
...that Pinirampus pirinampu, a species of migratory catfish, is one of the most important fishery resources in certain reservoirs in its native range?
...that since his capture, Hassan Ghul has been labelled everything from a simple mail courier to top lieutenant of figures ranging from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to al-Zarqawi?
...that some areas of the Finnish Lakeland have up to 1,000 lakes per 100 km²?
...that Lorenz Christoph Mizler founded a musical society whose members included Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach?
...that the city of Quneitra in Syria was captured on the last day of the Six-Day War, was later destroyed and never rebuilt, and is today preserved as a memorial to the Arab-Israeli wars?
...that zuclopenthixol is a medication that can be given every two weeks to treat people suffering from schizophrenia who are unable to take tablets daily?
...that the sex scenes in the Thai film Ploy that were shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival had to be re-edited by director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang so the film could be shown in cinemas in Thailand?
...that the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore, Karnataka?
...that Virginia Lamp Thomas, wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, collected résumés for appointments in the George W. Bush Administration while working at the Heritage Foundation?
...that, in connection with the 7th-century Turkic conquest of Aghvania, the invaders were reported "to suck the children's blood like milk"?
...that during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?
...that Matt Wieters, the fifth pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft, was the third player in Georgia Tech history to earn first-team All-America honors twice?
...that Polish Baroque historian and poet Wespazjan Kochowski has been considered one of the most typical representatives of the szlachta philosophy of Sarmatism?
...that the Caves of Nerja were discovered in 1959, and opened as a tourist attraction a year later?
...that western-style Japanese painter Kawabata Ryushi was so impressed with the Japanese art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that he switched to the Japanese-style Nihonga genre?
...that Australian soldier Ringer Edwards survived 63 hours of crucifixion by Japanese soldiers during World War II?
...that the Wiseman hypothesis proposes the accounts of the book of Genesis were written hundreds to thousands of years before Moses, and that Genesis names the authors?
...that Erica Larson, a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?
...that the Brandenburg Navy fought in many battles in the Baltic Sea before merging with the Prussian Navy in 1701?
...that worm charming, grunting, and fiddling competitions are held around the world?
...that the performance of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina in Warsaw in 1628 was the earliest performance of an Italian opera outside of Italy?
...that Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi were assassinated by two surface-to-air missiles?
...that poor performance in the twilight of the career of Graham McKenzie, Australia's leading pace bowler of the 1960s, led to mistaken fears that he had contracted hepatitis?
...that Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of A. E. Housman's poetry than any other composer?
...that the 1909-built Wright-Bock Fountain, attributed to both Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Bock, was completely replaced with a replica in 1969?
...that religion in the Western Ganga Dynasty included influences from Jainism and the Hindu sects Shaivism, Vedic Brahminism and Vaishnavism?
...that Scottish clergyman Alexander Edward was deprived of his parish after the establishment of Presbyterianism, and later became an architect?
...that males of the endangered South Andean Deer have a distinctive black "face mask" that forms an elongated heart-shape?
...that the Andrew O. Anderson House in DeKalb, Illinois, a design by architect John S. Van Bergen, has long been mistaken for a Frank Lloyd Wright building?
...that Deborah Lawrie became the first female pilot with an Australian airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case against Ansett Airlines?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1915 Emil Bach House in Chicago was originally a "country home" that now stands on a busy city street in the Rogers Park neighborhood?
...that Ernest Austin set the whole of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress for solo organ, at a length of nearly three hours?
...that in order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the Australian town of Jandowae, Queensland where 38 parcels of land were sold for one dollar each?
...that World War II historian Janusz Piekałkiewicz fled Poland in 1956, relying on mountaineering and secret resistance routes?
...that Dutch amateur football club IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the KNVB Cup?
...that 2006 Winter Olympics speedskating champion, Shani Davis', welcome-home celebration was held at the Harold Washington Cultural Center?
...that the Russo-Japanese War vintage Japanese cruiser Yakumo was the only warship in the Imperial Japanese Navy (aside from prizes-of-war) to have been built in Germany?
...that the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown, New York, features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state?
...that Oleh Lysheha, educated at Lviv University, was the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation?
...that Henry Pering Pellew Crease was appointed British Columbia's first Attorney General by Governor (and ex-HBC Chief Factor) Sir James Douglas?
...the crash of Aero Flight 311, which claimed the lives of all 25 people on board, was the worst aviation accident ever to occur in Finland?
...that, in 1999, General Abdulsalami Abubakar was responsible for converting Nigeria's government system from military rule to democracy?
...that Leyla Mammadbeyova was the first Azerbaijani female aviator and the second parachutist woman in the former Soviet Union?
...that B. V. Karanth trained alongside Dr. Rajkumar under Gubbi Veeranna, one of the pioneers of Kannada theater?
...that Slabsides, John Burroughs' historic log cabin in West Park, New York, is only open to the public two days every year?
...that Neil Harvey once helped the Australian cricket team win a Test by deliberately throwing away his wicket when Pakistan attempted to thwart a victory by time wasting?
...that a massive mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the Valley of Geysers on June 3, 2007?
...that Ronald Reagan is the only American President to have his diaries published into a best selling book?
...that Gasparo Berti's experiment in atmospheric pressure and vacuums led to the invention of the barometer?
...that the original painting of Hogarth's Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn was destroyed in a fire in 1874?
...that William A. Brady is the only person to have managed two undisputed heavyweight champion boxers?
...that the Australian Harvey family includes the leading Australian batsman of the 1950s Neil Harvey as well as his grandnephew Robert Harvey, who won consecutive Brownlow Medals as the best player in Australian Football?
...that the Sicilian revolt caused so many slaves to leave mainland Rome that the Vestal Virgins prayed for the desertion to stop?
...that the Aberfeldy Distillery closed for two years during World War I, because they could not get barley?
...that Paul Philippoteaux was a noted painter of cycloramas, cylindrical paintings over 100 yards long, whose effect was so realistic they have been likened to IMAX movies?
...that Kung Fu Jimmy Chow is a cartoon parody that has the appearance of a dubbed Japanese anime?
...that Frank Lloyd Wright designed the George W. Smith House in 1895 as one of a series of low-cost homes but it was not constructed until 1898?
...that the first Western abbot of Singapore's Buddhist Poh Ern Shih Temple was an American?
...that in a few of the international cricket matches played by India in the 1990s, more than half of the players in the Indian team belonged to the state of Karnataka?
...that Lake Taupo's Hatepe eruption around 180 AD devastated much of New Zealand's North Island and turned the skies red over China and Rome?
...that the Soviet MT-55 bridge layer tanks were modified by the Czechoslovakians using their gap measuring mechanism and infrared equipment and renamed as the MT-55A?
...that German composer Christian Geist died of the bubonic plague in 1711, along with his wife and children?
...that the 1863 Battle of Shimonoseki was the first naval confrontation between the U.S. Navy and a Japanese fleet?
...that the New York Giants, an NFL American football team, were founded in 1925 by a bookmaker with an investment of US$500, and their estimated value has increased to nearly $900 million?
...that the father of cricketer Peter Burge had to resign from Queensland's selection committee when his son was being discussed for selection?
...that French Minister of Marine Jean-Marie Charles Abrial fought in both World Wars and was imprisoned on accusations of collaboration with the Nazis?
...that Robert Kotei, then Ghana's high jump record holder, once successfully foiled a military coup against the NRC government, only to be executed years later after a successful coup against his own SMC government?
...that famed Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof lived in a Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the Himalayas, Minya Konka?
...that the Kirchberg convent , built in 1237, is one of the oldest female church houses in central Europe?
...that Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
...that all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina?
...that between 1952 and 1976 members of the Soviet Armed Forces sports society won more than a hundred gold medals at Summer Olympics?
...that Cecilia Krieger, who translated the work of Sierpinski into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
...that the Foedus Cassianum, named after the negotiator, Spurius Cassius, was the first of many foederati signed by Rome?
...that Government Sanskrit College was the first college of the ancient city of Benares, established in 1791?
...that Gregory S. Martin was the first non-Navy officer nominated to head the United States Pacific Command, but withdrew after Senator John McCain questioned whether he had "the quality to command"?
...that the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II?
...that the rape case involving a party at De Anza College has drawn national criticism and focus on the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office?
...that after taxiing past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, BOAC flight 911 also crashed, with 188 total lives lost in less than a day?
...that Norm O'Neill's maiden Test century helped the Australian cricket team win its only Test on Pakistani soil for 39 years?
...that a Three-Year Plan succeeded in rebuilding the economy of Poland from World War II devastation?
...that the energy lobby contributed 19 million dollars to United States political campaigns in the 2006 election cycle?
...that the only written version of the Arthurian ballad "King Arthur and King Cornwall" was torn up and used to start fires?
...that Ujjayanta Palace was rebuilt in downtown Agartala, India after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1897?
...that Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time, a 1939 painting by Salvador Dalí, is believed to be a criticism of the sexualisation of child stars by Hollywood?
...that Tunnel Mountain has never had a tunnel run through it, and the name is due to an error by Major A.B. Rogers while surveying for the Canadian Pacific Railway?
...that the Aranthalawa Massacre, by the Tamil Tigers, resulted in the deaths of 30 young novice monks, their mentor, and four other civilians?
...that the test for enrollment at Germany's Helmut Schmidt University involves not an intelligence test, but military training and troop procedures?
...that before police duty belts, British female police officers had to apply for permission to carry handcuffs?
...that sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark is among the most pronounced in any bird, with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
...that the number of North Koreans in Russia has increased due to a decline in the North Korean economy?
...that the Finnish-Novgorodian Wars only ended with the Swedish conquest of Finland in 1249, resulting in the Swedish-Novgorodian Wars?
...that the bear Wojtek was an officially enlisted soldier of the Polish II Corps and a participant in the Battle of Monte Cassino?
...that Samuel Azu Crabbe was named and fired as Chief Justice of Ghana in a decree specifically made for the purpose by the Supreme Military Council that had appointed him four years earlier?
...that Gerlachovský štít, Slovakia's highest mountain, has been renamed seven times due to regime changes?
...that Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
...that in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago?
...that the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners searching for gold and now used to store sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
...that the 1902 British Home Championship football tournament was won by Scotland in a replay after the deciding match was marred by the deaths of 25 spectators when a stand collapsed at Ibrox Park?
...that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a Polish resistance fighter for 24 out of 45 years of his life?
...that Stereo Type, by the Welsh composer Guto Puw, was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd?
...that L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972?
...that the construction of the Asama class cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy began as a private venture by the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth of Elswick, for projected export business?
...that the practice of cumul des mandats in French politics, holding multiple political offices at different levels of government concurrently, has been used by Jacques Chirac and Ségolène Royal?
...that the law enforcement agencies of Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
...that cricketer Charles Macartney, who set a record for the most runs scored in one day, first learnt to bat with apples from the family orchard?
...that Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
...that the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
...that thermal vent ecosystems have been discovered in the Aegean Sea, in the caldera of Kolumbo underwater volcano?
...that during World War II, Allied leaders met at the Droxford Station of the Meon Valley Railway to plan Operation Overlord?
...that the Xhosa Wars veteran Stephen Bartlett Lakeman became an Ottoman pasha and, late in his life, helped create the Romanian National Liberal Party?
...that the Byzantine general Belisarius held the last Roman triumph ever to be awarded to a private citizen for his victory in the Vandalic War?
...that John Campanius, an early Lutheran missionary to Delaware, transliterated the Lenape language and created one of the first documents to be written in a Native American language?
...that investment banker Bill Hambrecht has pledged $2 million to help start an American Football league to compete with the National Football League?
...that the heaviest domestic pig on record weighed over a long ton but died before it could be exhibited at the Century of Progress in 1933?
...that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
...that Hjalmar Hvam came up with the design for the world's first safety ski bindings while recovering from a skiing injury in hospital?
...that Saint Gangulphus, who was murdered by his wife's lover in 760, is invoked as a patron against adultery and marital difficulties?
...that the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island, Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?
...that the Hill of Ash near Kerch was the first Scythian royal mound excavated in modern times?
...that motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500?
...that Ghazi Mullah proclaimed that only the elimination of Russians from the Caucasus would please Allah?
...that when British charity Aid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo?
...that Paul Henkel, operating out of his son's printing house, became the first and only Lutheran publisher in the United States for years?
...that ribbon diagrams, which represent the three-dimensional structure of proteins, are produced by a computerized spline function?
...that General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge, was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor?
...that Itzik Zohar scored Israel's first international goal in football after gaining full admittance to UEFA?
...that U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war?
...that Józef Franczak, last of the cursed soldiers, was a resistance fighter for over half his life?
...that the Splendid Fairy-wren of Western Australia is more closely related to the Crow than the original European Wren?
...that the Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward?
...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
...that the modern history of aviation in Bangladesh began by meeting the needs of the Royal Indian Air Force for its World War II Burma campaign?
...that the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time?
...that in his varied career in French politics, Raymond Janot was concurrently mayor of a small town and secretary-general of the international French Community?
...that for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
...that after the 1607 Battle of Guzów, the victorious King Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
...that investigative journalist John Sweeney stated his outburst in the documentary Scientology and Me was a by-product of viewing the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights exhibit, "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death"?
...that in 1877 naturalist John Muir described the waterfall in Eaton Canyon as "a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool"?
...that Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket, in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
...that Handigodu Syndrome is an osteoarthritic disorder endemic to the Malnad region in Karnataka, India?
...that the Bukit Batok Memorial was built by Australian POWs to honor the war dead of the Japanese and Allies from Singapore's Battle of Bukit Timah?
...that although largely forgotten, Spring in Park Lane is still the British film with the highest cinema attendances in the UK?
...that St. Assam's Church in Raheny, Dublin, has been the site of Christian worship since 1189?
...that the US Supreme Court overturned the suspension of seventy-five students from Marion-Franklin High School?
...that General Sir Edward Jones was the only man to follow his father as a member of the Army Board in the 20th century, and later served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the House of Lords?
...that four Japanese War Memorials found in the Japanese Cemetery Park were built without knowledge of the British colonial government of Singapore?
...that Dateline: Toronto, a collection of Ernest Hemingway's newspaper writings for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, contained themes and ideas later used in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises?
...that Irish cricketer Leslie Kidd played his first first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and played his last against them?
...that some scholars interpret the petroglyphs of Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine as precursors of the Sumerian cuneiform script?
...that Tong Yabghu, khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate, campaigned with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in the Caucasus Mountains?
...that 35 Jewish Zionists were executed in the Pinsk massacre because they were suspected of being Bolsheviks?
...that the Community Court of Australia's Northern Territory aims to reduce re-offending by involving the indigenous community in the sentencing process?