derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Kenneth Lockwood, one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940, remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945?
...that Nigerian businessman Alhassan Dantata was the wealthiest person in West Africa at the time of his death in 1955?
...that archaeological excavations near the Andries DuBois House in Wallkill, New York, found evidence that it was built half a century later than previously believed?
...that A Gift to Young Housewives, a Russian cookbook condemned under communism, contained nearly 4,000 recipes in some editions?
...that former Belfast City Councillor Pat McGeown was a Provisional IRA volunteer referred to as the "11th hunger striker" in the 1981 Irish hunger strike?
...that in 1959, Barksdale Hamlett, the U.S. commandant in Berlin, threatened to forcefully prevent the East German government from flying its new flag over elevated railway stations in West Berlin?
...that the New Caledonia cricket team have lost every international they have ever played, including the only known loss by more than 500 runs?
...that four member states of the European Union have de jure opt-outs and do not participate fully in all common policies?
...that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education to protect the school from being closed down?
...that the wine-producing region of Blackwood Valley is named after the longest continually flowing river in Western Australia?
...that Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism?
...that on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
...that John Grant's moated manor near Stratford-on-Avon was chosen for storing weapons for the rebellion that was to follow the Gunpowder plot?
...that Japanese matinée idol Akira Kobayashi wore a gash across his face and large, Brezhnevian eyebrows for his role in the Seijun Suzuki yakuza film Kanto Wanderer?
...that Milly Witkop and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker were denied admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally married?
...that former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience?
...that Negombo Tamil identity survives primarily in just one village called Udappu in Sri Lanka?
...that Eliza Jumel married former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr in 1833, only to divorce him three years later?
...that the former Iraqi Air Force commander, politician and ambassador Hardan al-Tikriti was assassinated on Saddam Hussein's orders in 1971?
...that Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S.?
...that the Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii), a hawk of West Africa, was named after French journalist Alphonse Toussenel?
...that the figures in Johannes Vermeer's The Wine Glass are taken directly from Pieter de Hooch's A Dutch Courtyard?
...that the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence?
...that students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a mental illness is a mitigating factor in death penalty cases, but the Supreme Court of California in one case ruled that mental illness is an aggravating factor?
...that Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said that The Four-Gated City is Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's most important work?
...that everything biologists know about the Small-eyed whiting (Sillago microps) came from studies conducted on two specimens found at a market in Taipei in 1985?
...that Dr. Edward Smith showed that muscles did not get their energy from proteins but from fats and carbohydrates?
...that Scotland Yard introduced the murder bag forensics kit after a police officer was reported to have scooped chunks of flesh from a murder victim into a bucket with his bare hands?
...that the experiment which outlined the principles behind backscattering spectroscopy was described by Ernest Rutherford as "the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life"?
...that the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska was almost destroyed by mob violence only five years after it was built?
...that although Brian Elliott was drafted second-last in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, he recently played a regular-season game for the Ottawa Senators?
...that Bernt Carlsson, the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York?
...that rayon fibers used to make clothes come from trees pulped using the sulfite process?
...that the Portuguese football champion has been one of S.L. Benfica, F.C. Porto or Sporting Clube de Portugal on 78 out of 86 occasions?
...that by the end of 19th century, there were an estimated two thousand English language schools in the Kingdom of Mysore?
...that Lady Isle, a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde, is Britain's first seabird reserve?
...that Shyampukur was the site of one of the two tents Jamshetji Framji Madan set up to screen films when he entered the ‘bioscope’ scene in Kolkata in 1902?
...that some experts believe a cylinder seal from the prehistoric San Andrés site is evidence for an Olmec writing system?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to "effective" legal counsel, but "effective" was not defined until Wiggins v. Smith in 2003?
...that Swami Vipulananda was the founding Professor of Tamil at both University of Ceylon and Annamalai University?
...that the Folly Theatre, which specialised in burlesque and opéra bouffe, was originally the residence for Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London?
...that 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Siyum HaShas, celebrating their completion of the eleventh 7½-year Daf Yomi study cycle, in which one folio of the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud is studied each day?
...that Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya has won the Ananda Purashkar and the Rabindra Puraskar, prestigious awards for Bengali literature, for his writing on insects and popular science?
...that Second World War bomber pilot "Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying from England to Cape Town?
...that a baby Indian Rhinoceros at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was named Ecko after fashion designer Marc Ecko donated funds to launch a campaign by the International Rhino Foundation?
...that the Southern black bream , a species endemic to Australia valued for its flavorsome and moist flesh, has a high tolerance to salinity and is of possible use for inland aquaculture in saline dams?
...that United States v. Binion upheld the conviction of a defendant who was found guilty of obstruction of justice for feigning madness in a competence-to-stand-trial evaluation?
...that the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?
...that the medieval Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster of khachkars (stone crosses) in Armenia?
...that Russell Adam Burnham, the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year in 2003, became the U.S. Army Medical Command NCO of the Year in 2007?
...that bromopyruvic acid, a simple inexpensive chemical, is being studied as a potential treatment for cancer?
...that Rod Millen lost the 34 hour long Baja 1000 off-road race across the desert by 33 seconds, which is considered to be a photo finish?
...that Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?
...that John Pegram was the first former U.S. Army officer to be captured while in Confederate service?
...that the Kerguelen Shag, a species of cormorant of the Kerguelen Islands, is the smallest species amongst Blue-Eyed Shags?
...that Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia?
...that George J. Adams led an ill-fated effort to establish a U.S. colony in Palestine?
...that British MP Arthur Allen became Sir Stafford Cripps' assistant right after defeating Cripps' nephew in an election?
...that technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve the economy of Mysore kingdom?
...that in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera?
...that one of the first discoveries of atmospheric neutrinos was made at India's Kolar Gold Fields?
...that in 1966, Heinz Waaske created the smallest 135 film camera made to that date, the Rollei 35 ?
...that bibliographers determined that Edward Allde had printed early editions of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by comparing damaged type used in his other works?
...that in 1956, The New York Times ran a front-page story featuring Winston H. Bostick's "plasma gun"?
...that Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990?
...that despite sweeping the elimination round of the 2007 UAAP men's basketball tournament, the University of the East was still beaten by De La Salle University-Manila 2-0 in the finals series?
...that according to the U.S. landmark court case Rennie v. Klein, an involuntarily committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric medication?
...that c.300, Egyptian alchemist Agathodaimon produced arsenic trioxide, an amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison'?
...that gamma ray burst progenitors include massive, rapidly rotating stars that may explode as hypernovae ?
...that Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading British Frederick Roberts to put a £1,000 reward on his head?
...that Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake?
...that Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany?
...that when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan?
...that Jack Daniels, a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at campaign events?
...that Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?
...Julius Kuperjanov , a partisan leader in the Estonian War of Independence, died in a successful assault in the 1919 Battle of Paju?
...that in the landmark case Erie v. Pap's A. M., the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an ordinance requiring some erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string?
...that during the St. John's University strike of 1966–7, Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI to win his support?
...that in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?
...that while Al Jaffee created the comics character Ziggy Pig, it was Stan Lee who named him?
...that the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons?
...that the megalithic Niedertiefenbach tomb in Hesse, Germany has at least ten discernible layers of burials from the New Stone Age?
...that archaeological finds from the German Glauberg plateau include a life-sized statue of a warrior dating from around 500 BC?
...that former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite?
...that the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world?
...that Ipi Tombe, a Thoroughbred racehorse, was sold for the equivalent of US$30 and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
...that William E. Metzger opened one of the United States' first automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co?
...that Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
...that before becoming Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Barthélemy Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the French National Assembly?
...that Rembrandt cut his 1661 painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis to a quarter of its original size for easier sale?
...that the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
...that the Don Cesar beach resort in Florida is named after the title character in William Vincent Wallace's 1845 opera Maritana?
...that the 203 BC Battle of Utica was the turning point of the Second Punic War?
...that Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, was also a collector and an inventor of board games?
...that Chapter XVI of the United Nations Charter declares that if there is a conflict between the UN Charter and any other treaty, the Charter will prevail?
...that physicians have tried using Coca-Cola to disintegrate food stuck in the esophagus ?
...that the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley?
...that the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota, Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev?
...that Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris?
...that former mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport" for his work in establishing the city's first airport?
...that the tidewater glacier cycle describes the centuries-long cycle of alternating advances and retreats of fjord-carving glaciers terminating in tidewater?
...that the Indo-Burma barrier, a 1,624 kilometer-long barrier between India and Burma, is being built to curtail gunrunning and illicit drug trafficking?
...that legally, a Mett, a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany, is not allowed to contain more than 35% fat?
...that Chinua Achebe's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?
...that John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting The Lady of Shalott , based on Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot and certain death?
...that the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by shrapnel in the area?
...that Jenna Bush's book Ana's Story, about a young woman with AIDS, has been criticized for not taking a stand on her father U.S. President George W. Bush's policies toward United Nations AIDS programs?
...that the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party?
...that the works of poet Frank Messina include responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks, and poems about the New York Mets?
...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
...that in the post-World War I business slump, Chicago meat packing magnate J. Ogden Armour lost a million dollars a day for 130 days?
...that the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore?
...that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
...that the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria?
...that least-squares spectral analysis is a method for estimating a frequency spectrum, based on a least squares fit between data and trigonometric functions?
...that the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha, Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years later?
...that Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?
...that the Gagarin's Start rocket launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome was used for over 400 space missions, including the world's first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight?
...that C.W.W. Kannangara, Sri Lanka's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
...that Clarence W. Wigington, the first African American municipal architect, designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that Joe Keenan's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?
...that Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom, in Oxford in 1949?
...that the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?
...that 'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje acceded to the Tibetan throne in AD 676, when he was only six or seven years old?
...that the Vincent Thomas Bridge was named after Vincent Thomas, a California State Assembly politician, in honor of his foresight and work during its construction?
...that the reconstruction of the Saalburg, Germany's most completely reconstructed Roman fort, began under Kaiser Wilhelm II?
...that Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage?
...that William Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways", an ode to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of an unrequited love, than with the death itself?
...that the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles?
...that Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side?
...that Astronomische Nachrichten, founded by H. C. Schumacher in 1821, is the world's oldest extant astronomical journal?
...that Quentin L. Cook is the latest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?
...that the National Mint of Jubia was created in an attempt to counter a shortage of coin production in Spain during the Peninsular War?
...that Gavrinis, an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany, France, has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age?
...that Vernice Armour was the first female African-American combat pilot in U.S. military history?
...that the "van" in the name of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is a remnant of his Flemish ancestry?
...that Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?
...that the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?
...that Sloan’s Urania (Urania sloanus) , a Jamaican day flying moth of the Uraniidae family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895?
...that railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the 19th century United States?
...that Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola?
...that Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death?
...that Friedrich Hayek's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of the economy was initially rejected by his peers?
...that Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books, including the 1940s masked crimefighter "Lady Luck"?
...that St. Trudpert's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest, was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War?
...that 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello?
...that future space tourists may use the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (Quid) as currency when traveling?
...that a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright?
...that after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown, a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival?
...that the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling?
...that the Michigan Wolverines are college football's most victorious program by total wins and percentage?
...that early Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886?
...that U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
...that despite a Nazi ban on all sports, soccer matches with hooliganism still occurred in Poland?
...that Isaac Jefferson was a valued slave at U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation?
...that after the 1832 Native American attack at Ament's Cabin , a 16 year old boy was sent to Hennepin, Illinois by horseback for help?
...that "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?
...that Tyolet is an anonymous 13th century Breton lai in Francien which shares elements with Chrétien de Troyes' Le Conte du Graal?
...that Outhwaite Park in Auckland, New Zealand, is named after early settlers, the Outhwaite family?
...that in 2000, Tony Blair established a commission to review how the British co-operative movement could be modernized?
...that Colonel William H. Wilbur of the United States Army received the Medal of Honor for attempting to arrange an armistice with Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch?
...that the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse, Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age?
...that Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge was the world's longest and tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado in 2003?
...that segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe ("ghetto desks" or "ghetto benches") were introduced in Polish universities in the late 1930s, primarily for Jewish students?
...that the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin?
...that the Susukino district was established as a red-light district in Sapporo, Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō?
...that most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana?
...that the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health is one of the most frequented religious sites in India, drawing nearly 2 million pilgrims annually?
...that in his book James the Brother of Jesus, Robert Eisenman contends that the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus?