derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal, radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of Kathmandu?
...that partially as a result of the mythical "bomber gap" between the USA and USSR, the USAF built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
...that Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in India authorised to manufacture the indelible ink which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?
...that the appearance of an outline of monkeys on a tree in Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the Monkey God and Hanuman?
...that the last chief of Clan MacQuarrie sold off his clan lands in Scotland and joined the British Army, at age 68, and fought in the American Revolutionary War?
...that the Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia was once the largest prison in the Kingdom of Hungary?
...that the cathedral in Haapsalu Castle is the biggest single-naved church in the Baltic countries?
...that Stamford House in Singapore, at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?
...that Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person, and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO?
...that the hearing for the Nanoor massacre case has stalled because of the defendants' repeated failure to appear in court?
...that missionary Josiah Parrish drove the first spike for the Oregon and California Railroad, and had a land dispute reach the U. S. Supreme Court?
...that Alfred D. Jones, the original surveyor of Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska, was known for delivering mail from his stovepipe hat as the first postmaster of Omaha?
...that medieval Liubice, the capital of Prince Henry of the Obotrites, was the predecessor to Lübeck, Germany?
...that the Pentapolis of North Africa is believed to be the birthplace of Saint Mark the Evangelist?
...that the renovation of Gardiner, New York's Town Hall was criticized because it destroyed a historic outhouse?
...that poet, film producer and journalist Pritish Nandy is credited with opening India's first cyber cafe in 1996?
...that around a third of New Zealanders claim no religious affiliation, including the leaders of both main political parties?
...that the boulevards in Omaha, Nebraska are part of a 1889 system designed by Horace Cleveland that Omaha city planners are currently starting to reutilize to guide suburban street design?
...that the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line was forced to transfer operation companies because of two head-to-head train collisions within a year?
...that after Evelyn Waugh brought a priest to anoint him on his deathbed, lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited?
...that to further the career of future Naval Minister Takarabe Takeshi, close friend Takeo Hirose asked Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, father of Takeshi's betrothed, to veto the marriage?
...that Samuel Parker was a lawmaker in the Provisional, Territorial, and State governments of Oregon?
...that Turkish-German professional boxer Hülya Şahin, the undefeated junior flyweight world champion, is the only female member of her club Universum?
...that Nikolai Yevreinov's productions included a "monodrama" set inside the human breast and a re-creating of the storming of the Winter Palace by the Bolsheviks?
...that Philippe de Champaigne's 1662 painting Ex-Voto was a votive offering in gratitude for the miraculous cure of his daughter?
...that 12,000-year-old Paleo-Indian artifacts, including a rare fluted point, have been found in a quarry near Goshen, New York?
...that Australian amateur astronomer Gregg Thompson has been acknowledged by supernova hunters for publishing comparison charts of the brightest galaxies?
...that architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes?
...that the death of Eugene Ejike Obiora, a naturalized Norwegian citizen, was caused by positional asphyxiation when he was placed in a chokehold, then handcuffed on his stomach during arrest?
...that the University of North Alabama's Rogers Hall served as the headquarters for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1864?
...that Florence Boulevard in Omaha, Nebraska was originally called the "Prettiest Mile in Omaha Boulevard" when it was designed by Horace Cleveland in 1892?
...that 18-year-old online poker phenom, Annette_15, became the youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event?
...that of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb?
...that Fort Runyon, built to defend Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War, was almost the same size, shape, and in almost the same place as the Pentagon, built 80 years later?
...an inscribed tombstone of a political dissident, Tan Chay Wa, sparked off a court case in Singapore which eventually made international news in 1983?
...that the blue plumage of the Australian Variegated Fairy-wren strongly reflects UV light?
...that Warsaw's Carmelite Church was the site of Fryderyk Chopin's first job?
...that Spec Keene's Willamette University football team was stranded in Honolulu for two weeks following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?
...that Roosevelt Raceway, the first night-time harness racing track, saw the first mobile starting gate?
...that wolf collars with long spikes, now widely adopted by the BDSM community, were originally used to protect dogs from wolf attacks?
...that the Ghurni clay dolls of West Bengal have been inaugurated by Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev?
...that every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty was overthrown in a violent coup d'état?
...that the area known as the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield has been inhabited by at least five Native American tribes?
...that Jane Addams was offered burial in the U.S. National Cathedral but instead opted for interment at her family's plot in Cedarville, Illinois?
...that Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, one of the founders of the Party of National Progress, was accused of book smuggling during the Lithuanian press ban?
...that despite being hit by two torpedoes that broke her in half, only one life was lost in the sinking of the Liberty ship SS James B. Stephens?
...that Piłsudski's Mound, built in 1937, is the youngest and largest of the four mounds of Kraków?
...that the Newton Food Centre is promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board for sampling Singaporean cuisine, despite allegations of overpricing and mediocre food quality by locals?
...that the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey?
...that scientists are concerned that the Bangali River in northern Bangladesh may merge with the Jamuna River and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?
...that Carnegie Medal-winning children’s author Berlie Doherty has written the libretti for three operas?
...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
...that director Zhang Yuan's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?
...that the 371-acre Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 1.2 million seabirds—more than California and Washington combined?
...that the Pyramid of Senusret I was built in single-cell units instead of all at once, as was the norm?
...that Major League Baseball pitcher Sam Zoldak's only home run in his major league career did not count after the game was cancelled because of rain?
...that Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?
...that Thomas Milton Gatch , an Ohioan educator and politician, was the first president of Oregon State University to hold a doctorate degree?
...that former Italian Prime Minister Mario Scelba was known as the "Iron Sicilian"?
...that Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, was the first member of the Sikh diaspora?
...that Fox Point State Park, a Delaware State Park which opened in 1995 along the Delaware River, was built atop a hazardous waste site?
...that the rare Northern colletes bee was recently found to be thriving in the unique machair seaside habitat of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland?
...that Alexandru Papana competed in bobsleigh for Romania at two Winter Olympics and later was involved in test flying the P-61 Black Widow?
...that in Greek mythology, Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?
...that the Plano Stone Church was constructed in 1868 to serve as the world headquarters for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints under the leadership of Joseph Smith III?
...that the railways of Jamaica were the first built outside of Europe and continental North America and the first in a British colony?
...that cryptologist Harry Hinsley's realisation that German weather ships were the Achilles' heel of the Enigma code led to the capture of the Lauenburg?
...that Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia is the second Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem?
...that Lois DeBerry is the first African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives?
...that the planetary nebula luminosity function is an accurate standard candle (luminosity measurement) outside Earth's home galaxy, the Milky Way, despite an average error factor of two for distance estimates to planetary nebulae within this galaxy?
...that the first complete map of Iceland , based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth?
...that the Fama-DFA Prize is named after University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Eugene Fama, a financial economist whose publications are the foundation of efficient market theory?
...that Rachel Carson was so disappointed in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us that she never again sold film rights to her work?
...that the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material?
...that the chairman of the Tennessee House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee, Rob Briley, was arrested for vandalism and driving under the influence of alcohol after a 100 mph car chase?
...that fossilised crinoid columnals from Lindisfarne which were strung together as a necklace or rosary became known as St Cuthbert's beads?
...that one reviewer of Mary Wollstonecraft's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?
...that the SGH War Memorial was gazetted as one of the nine historical landmarks that are closely linked with the history of medical education in Singapore?
...that Rush Street, now known for its nightlife, has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago's north-south traffic?
...that the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Army is the only airmobile unit of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces which has BMD-1 and BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicles?
...that the annual Gorolski Święto is the largest cultural and folklore festival in the Zaolzie region of Eastern Europe?
...that hotels in Mannum, South Australia served patrons in boats from the second floor when floodwaters rose during the 1956 Murray River flood?
...that Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
...that the efforts by Taiwan to distinguish itself from mainland China have their roots in the Cold War of the 1950s?
...that the recent Hurricane Humberto formed into a hurricane and made landfall faster than any other tropical cyclone on record?
...that Chinatown, San Francisco's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
...that the Palace under the Four Winds in Warsaw was owned by an heir to an enormous fortune who went bankrupt after the lost war of independence with Russia?
...that the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?
...that after spending a billion dollars developing borane-enriched "zip fuels" to power a new generation of jet engines, the US Air Force realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?
...that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?
...that Libya's Sirte Basin—which in some places lies more than 47 metres below sea level—contains roughly 80% of the country's known crude oil reserves?
...that pianist Glenn Gould later criticized his own 1956 recording Bach: The Goldberg Variations, which had made him instantly famous?
...that the U.S. Federal Government's largest provider of HIV/AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act, is named after Ryan White, a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
...that in 2006, nearly 50,000 people were marooned in Labhpur and surrounding areas of Birbhum district in West Bengal because of floods?
...that the military doctrine of the cult of the offensive was one of the main causes of World War I?
...that Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal?
...that the Loch Lomond Golf Club occupies land previously held by Clan Colquhoun and uses the clan's seat of Rossdhu Mansion as its clubhouse?
...that Harriet Howard was not only Louis Napoleon's mistress, but also financed his successful 1851 coup d'état?
...that the supply of natural gas and electricity in New Orleans, Louisiana ceased as a result of the General Strike of 1892, plunging the city into darkness for four nights?
...that the Doctorfish tang has the largest range of its genus, which includes 38 species from three oceans?
...that the Plaza film theatre in Bangalore, India was modelled after the Piccadilly Circus in London?
...that Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States?
...that Igo Sym, one of the most popular actors of interbellum Poland, was executed in 1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?
...that the popularity of the Hexar AF , a 35mm fixed-lens, autofocus camera sold by Konica in 1993, was in part due to its "silent" operating mode?
...that Clayton Jacobson II, a banker from Arizona, is credited with inventing the personal water craft?
...that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?
...that an advertising spot immediately following Xinwen Lianbo, a daily news programme shown by most terrestrial television stations in mainland China, can sell for an estimated US$100,000?
...that Colonel Gerardo Huber, a former DINA agent in charge of buying military supplies for the Chilean Army, disappeared in 1991 shortly after weapons disguised as humanitarian aid were discovered in Budapest?
...that investment analyst Martin Fridson is often referred to as the "Dean of high-yield debt"?
...that ADP-ribosylation, a posttranslational protein modification, is involved in the actions of several bacterial toxins in diseases such as cholera and whooping cough?
...that the 6th-century Songyue Pagoda is the oldest extant large pagoda in China and the earliest multiple-eave pagoda known?
...that Vera Pezer, current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame?
...that a woman, chamberlain Urszula Mayerin, was among the most influential figures at Sigismund III Vasa's court, signing official state documents in his name and receiving foreign ambassadors during his illness?
...that Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States, beginning with Alan Shepherd's maiden voyage in 1961?
...that between 1872 and 1876 the buildings of Tampico, Illinois' central business district were destroyed by fire three times and tornado once?
...that Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor, financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?
...that King of Sweden Charles Gustav was so impressed by Kazimierzowski Palace in Warsaw that he even ordered the window frames to be removed and transported to Sweden during the Swedish invasion?
...that the Classic Veracruz culture of pre-Columbian Mexico was obsessed with human sacrifice as part of the Mesoamerican ballgame?
...that The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?
...that Harvard Business School associate professor and financial economist Randolph Cohen has published research on the valuation of baseball star Alex Rodriguez?
...that the Arly-Singou ecosystem shelters the largest remaining population of lions in West Africa?
...that a variant of the helmet used by the Bulgarian Army in World War II is still in service?
...that the Irish politician the O'Gorman Mahon commanded a Chilean fleet, fought thirteen duels, and won a by-election aged 87?
...that Norman Williams shot down eight German aircraft while serving as an air gunner in Halifax bombers in the Second World War, becoming the most highly decorated non-commissioned officer in the RAAF and its only "ace" who was not a fighter pilot?
...that Fischer Black Prize, first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics, introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
...that a Lesser Caymans iguana was the longest living Cyclura lizard ever at thirty-three years?
...that The Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling contains completely cross-referenced A to Z article indexing, complemented by Charlie Dancey’s light-hearted writing and cartoon illustration style?
...that St. Anne's Church in Warsaw was the place of execution of Bishop Józef Kossakowski during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794?
...that according to "Believe It or Not", Florian ZaBach played "The Flight of the Bumblebee" faster than any known violinist?
...that the 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was buried in a communal grave?
...that the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in the southwestern United States was established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep and the name Kofa is a contraction of King of Arizona?
...that in 1745 William Cleghorn won a University of Edinburgh position after his rival, David Hume, was described by the town council as amoral, an atheist, and a sceptic?
...that Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld's personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta?
...that cultivated Christmas trees are susceptible to such pests and diseases as the Balsam woolly adelgid and sudden oak death?
...that Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire, Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson, as well as home to youth programs once led by Whitney Young?
...that Kumaran Pathmanadan, former chief procurer of arms for the Tamil Tigers rebel group, used over 200 passports and at least 23 pseudonyms to evade Interpol, CIA and MI-5?
...that Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, became Princess of Albania in March 1914 , but had to leave the country just six months later because of nationalist turmoil?
...that the first public interest litigation case to be heard in the Karnataka High Court in India was to prevent the demolition of the very building from which it was functioning?
...that after the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciation, postglacial Lake Michigan used to drain through Mackinac Falls, which are now completely submerged under Lake Huron?
...that Peggy McKercher was the first woman to serve on the Corman Park Council?
...that Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?
...that the annual delivery of fur tribute to the Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the Siberian natives?
...that Nicholas Hilliard , portrait miniaturist to Elizabeth I and James I of England, was chronically short of funds and was briefly imprisoned for debt in Ludgate ?
...that Omaha, Nebraska's Krug Park was the site of a 1930 roller coaster accident, the worst in U.S. history?
...that New York State Route 20SY is the only route in the state to have ever had the "SY" suffix?
...that Time predicted 1973 to be a "gilt-edged year" for the stock market, just three days before the stock market crash of 1973–4 began—wiping 45 percent off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
...that Fort Delaware State Park, once a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, is now home to one of the largest heronries north of Florida?
...that though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon governor, he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?
...that Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell resigned as a government whip to sue Auberon Waugh who claimed that his translation of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward was unauthorised, and helped lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest?
...that people of the Sonoran Desert in North America value the fruit of the Ferocactus wislizeni as emergency food and also as a basis for confectionery?
...that prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909?
...that during Ted Snyder's six-year tenure as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the business school has relocated two of its four campuses?
...that the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?
...that the Lyre River provides the only spawning grounds for the endemic Beardslee trout?
...that it cost US$1.4 billion to restore the Verizon Building , an art deco building that was damaged in the September 11, 2001 attacks?
...that Mitică, a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale, has become, especially in Transylvania, a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians?
...that University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?
...that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted for the 1976 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria?
...that until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests?
...that the 17th century Jesuit Church in Warsaw was one of many buildings razed to the ground by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising?
...that the Core Pacific City mall in Taipei, Taiwan, is the largest mall in Asia at 204,190 square meters of total floor space?
...that the neighbourhood of Bowbazar was the site of Calcutta's first horse drawn tram line , opened in 1873?