derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the 2003 French musical film Not on the Lips had a predominantly enthusiastic reception in France, but caused indignation and incomprehension in Britain?
...that Johnson's Seagrass was the first marine plant listed under the United States Endangered Species Act?
...that a survey in 2001 of the New South Wales- Queensland border in Australia found an error of 200 metres (656 ft) in the original survey, indicating that the town of Jennings, New South Wales should actually be in Queensland?
...that soon after German reunification, the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant in the former East Germany was shut down due to conflicting technical requirements with the West?
...that the ship breaking industry in Sitakunda began when a 20,000-ton ship was accidentally beached by a tidal bore in 1965?
...that during his administration, Kentucky governor William J. Fields forbade drinking alcohol and dancing in the Governor's Mansion?
...that University of Oregon athletic director Leo Harris gained the right to use Donald Duck as the school's mascot through an informal handshake deal he made with Walt Disney in 1947?
...that 20th century attorney Joseph Scott made so many contributions to civic life in Los Angeles that he earned the nickname "Mr. Los Angeles"?
...that in 1835, Warren A. Cowdery, an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement, accused a local Quorum of the Twelve of neglecting their fund-raising activities while serving as Mormon missionaries?
...that the Chicago Race Riot of 1919, which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of the Red Summer of 1919?
...that influential makeup artist Pat McGrath takes between 30 and 50 bags of tools, materials, and reference books whenever she travels to fashion shows?
...that to make space for passenger seats in the racing cars used in the TVR Tuscan Challenge , the fuel tank has to be moved from the driver's side to the rear of the car?
...that Héctor López was the first Panamanian-born Major League Baseball player to play in the World Series with the New York Yankees?
...that before the 17th century, it was believed that all organisms grew from miniature versions of themselves that had existed since the beginning of creation?
...that Italian fascist propaganda referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Italian Mare Nostrum, as by 1942 Italy controlled nearly two-thirds of the sea's area?
...that William E. McAnulty, Jr., the first African American to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court, injured himself playing basketball on Election Day in 1983 with future NBA star Allan Houston?
...that the northernmost miles of pavement of the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive in Wisconsin were part of the original track circuit for Road America?
...that the 2006 Japanese film Hula Girls is set in the coal mining town of Iwaki in the 1960s when a Hawaiian spa resort was built to resolve the community's faltering fortunes?
...that the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest, a precursor to the modern day Big Ten Conference, survived for only two seasons of college football competition before disbanding?
...that male Shortnose sturgeon breed annually and live to age 30, while females breed triennially and live to age 67?
...that Puerto Rican third baseman Félix Torres, who only played three Major League seasons, topped the home run charts in the 1960 Caribbean Series?
...that the automatic tide signalling system at Irvine harbour, North Ayrshire, invented and patented by its harbourmaster Martin Boyd, is probably unique?
...that the dialogue Julius Excluded from Heaven, credited to Desiderius Erasmus, involves Pope Julius II trying to convince Peter to allow him into heaven by threats of armed force and excommunication?
...that Tawfiq Canaan, a Palestinian physician and medical pioneer, was also known for his research on Palestinian popular heritage?
...that after the British took control of the Mysore Kingdom in the 19th century, they had a strong influence on Kannada literature?
...that the Brazil's 1838 Balaiada uprising was named after the job of one of its leaders, a basketmaker?
...that in his 1915 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign, Augustus O. Stanley advocated a one dollar tax for every dog a person owned?
...that Utkala Brahmins are the historical caretakers of the Jagannath Temple in Puri?
...that the Falklands Crisis of 1770 nearly caused a war between Great Britain and Spain?
...that of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania in 1918, six were sent to prison or executed, and six died in exile?
...that a pub in Old Whittington was the shelter for three men in 1688 who were plotting the replacement of James II of England with a Protestant foreigner?
...that 1965 Records was founded by James Endeacott, who also originally discovered The Libertines and The Strokes?
...that Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal for bravery in the Second Boer War and went on to serve as Governor of Southern Rhodesia?
...that W. H. Auden's poem "In Praise of Limestone" has been called topographic, sui generis, and a "postmodern pastoral"?
...that the Silpathorn Award is given to significant living Thai contemporary artists and that the name of the award means "upholder of art"?
...that Catholic priest Cornelius Loos was forced to recant his view in 1593 that witch trials in early modern Europe were not required as witchcraft didn't exist?
...that Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, accomplice of notorious 18th century thief Jack Sheppard, grievously wounded the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild outside the courtroom where he was subsequently convicted of burglary and sentenced to death, hastening Wild's fall from power?
...that children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns?
...that Singaporean dancer, choreographer and teacher Neila Sathyalingam, who dances in the classical Indian style , decided to devote her life to dance after performing for Queen Elizabeth II?
...that prior to the development of binoculars, bird collections, collections consisting of birds and parts of their anatomy, were the dominant method of bird observation and study among ornithologists?
...that a picture of Mary Ann Bevan, "the ugliest woman in the world", featured on a birthday card until a complaint led to its withdrawal?
...that Sholakia, a tiny town in Bangladesh, draws 300,000 Muslims for Eid prayers every year on Eid ul-Fitr?
...that Sooriyakanda mass grave is alleged to contain 300 bodies of school children but only few were recovered?
...that Kazys Lozoraitis was independent Lithuania's first ambassador to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta?
...that the Second Manifesto, a 1904 declaration made by Joseph F. Smith, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, confirmed that the church was opposed to plural marriage?
...the oldest stud farm in India, Kunigal stud farm, was used by Tipu Sultan for breeding horses for cavalry regiments to fight the British?
...that the Polish Resettlement Corps was tasked with organizing the 250,000 members of the Polish Armed Forces in the West, over half of whom eventually chose to settle in the UK instead of returning to communist Poland?
...that Howe Yoon Chong played a key role in establishing Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system, Changi Airport and public housing?
...that in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School, famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service, from closure?
...that after publishing his National Book Award-winning Invisible Man in 1952, Ralph Ellison continued writing for a further 42 years without ever finishing his second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting?
...that Father Boleslaus Goral was one of the key persons in the "news war" between the Milwaukee Archdiocese and Michał Kruszka?
...that Den, a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita, is actually a giant remote-controlled slave unit run from a transmitter embedded in the chest of one of the story's main characters?
...that in 1967, a group of Latin American writers including Mexican Carlos Fuentes started a series of biographies depicting caudillos, which became the basis of the Dictator Novel genre?
...that Charles Chilton was the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand?
...that Hurricane Georges had the strongest effects on the Dominican Republic of any hurricane since Hurricane David in 1979?
...that a camel is led through the streets of Béziers , France on the feast day of Saint Aphrodisius, a semi-legendary saint said to have come from Egypt?
...that North Dakota's location in the Upper Midwest allows it to experience some of the most extreme weather in the United States?
...that the name Flying fox refers to bats as well as a freshwater algae-eating aquarium fish?
...that Frank Rosenfelt, CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1972 until 1982, was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart for his injuries?
...that after spending seven years traveling across the Saskatchewan District, Rev. Robert Rundle was allowed to establish a mission in 1847, only to be forced to leave a year later due to health issues?
...that the Chinese high fin banded shark (Myxocyprinus asiaticus) has 20 other common names in the aquarium trade?
...that the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem Figueira was a strong critic of the contemporary Papacy, going so far in his sirventes contra Roma as to consign Rome to hell?
...that the Minnesota Twins made Joe Nathan their closing pitcher for the 2004 Major League Baseball season, despite the fact that Nathan only had converted one save in five opportunities?
...that the leader of the Dick Cheney protests at Brigham Young University refused an offer to appear on The Daily Show, out of a concern that the show would poke fun at the university?
...that during World War II, United States Army officer Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr. parachuted behind enemy lines to lead an attack that captured the town of Prétot, France leading the main Plaza of the town to be named "La Place du Colonel Mendez"?
...that members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church were persecuted by communists in the Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia?
...that the Rani people, a West Slavic tribe inhabiting the island of Rugia, maintained their native paganism, its ritual, temple, and priesthood, well into the twelfth century?
...that Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, having shot down eight German aircraft, including three during one mission?
...that the 14 remaining children of the Jewish Orphanage in Oslo, Norway were evacuated to Sweden by the Norwegian resistance movement in November of 1942?
...that Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams was born in the house at the John H. Addams Homestead ?
...that the uniformly fine quality of surviving Roman copies of Lysippean bronze Hermes Fastening his Sandal indicates that it stood high in Roman esteem?
...that the German neo-Nazi German Alternative party was banned in 1992 after the group was associated with an arson attack on an asylum seeker refuge?
...that Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch lost the sight in one eye when his submarine, HMS Splendid, was sunk in 1943?
...that in the folklore of the Celts, a fairy path is a route taken by these supernatural beings, usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as Stone Age monuments?
...that in 1989, some 300,000 people created a 300 mile human chain stretching from Lviv to Kiev on the 71st anniversary of the Act Zluky?
...that the South American rubber boom ceased in 1912 when plantations in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and tropical Africa grown from seed smuggled out of Brazil 36 years earlier began producing rubber?
...that the São Francisco Church in Salvador is known as the "Golden Church", because its interior, from floor to ceiling, is covered with intricate gold-leaf carvings?
...that Illinois State Senator John H. Addams was the primary influence on his daughter Jane Addams' social activism?
...that the Treaty of Kyakhta between the Russian and Qing Empires was negotiated by a Bosnian Serb from Dubrovnik, Sava Vladislavich?
...that during the First Battle of Ypres, Edward Bulfin organized an impromptu formation of six battalions, later known as "Bulfin's force," that was instrumental in stopping the German advance?
...that the Indian Congress of 1893 drew more than 500 Native Americans representing 35 tribes to Omaha, Nebraska?
...that Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown barely escaped the April 2006 St. Phillip Neri church bombing only to disappear a week later?
...that the site of the hermitage of Ginés de la Jara retained its reputation for holiness even during Spain's Moorish occupation?
...that the popular YouTube star Christine Gambito attributes her nickname Happyslip to her Filipino mother's mispronunciation of half slip?
...that loose wheel nut indicators are fitted to vehicle lug nuts to allow mechanics to identify loose nuts before the wheel falls off?
...that Jakub Karol Parnas, a prominent Polish–Soviet biochemist, despite having collaborated with the Soviet regime since its invasion of Poland, fell victim to a Stalinist purge in 1949?
...that British surgeon Richard Partridge apprehended the London Burkers gang of body snatchers, alerting the authorities while claiming to be getting change for a £50 note?
...that a 300-page iPhone bill became the subject of a viral video by blogger Justine Ezarik viewed more than 3 million times?
...that Malcolm X, James Brown, and the current President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva all worked as shoeshiners when they were young?
...that the medieval kingdom of Alania controlled the most practicable route through the Greater Caucasus?
...that Oswald Tesimond, involved in the Gunpowder Plot, escaped severe punishment by stowing away on a cargo ship ferrying dead pigs to Calais?
...that Shushanik Kurghinian was the first revolutionary female poet in Armenian literature?
...that German leaders of the World Confederation of Labour were sentenced to Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s for their political opposition to the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe?
...that Downtown Omaha is home to 31 historic buildings, two historic districts, and the site of the largest loss of historic buildings ever from the National Register of Historic Places?
...that the S.S. Christopher Columbus, the only whaleback passenger liner ever built, carried 1.8 million passengers to and from the World's Columbian Exposition in a single season?
...that the Romanian politician and socialite Pantazi Ghica was identified as the "black-faced, hunchbacked and greedy" person depicted, alongside other liberals, in one of Mihai Eminescu's most famous poems?
...that when Democratic congressman A. Jeff McLemore opposed President Woodrow Wilson over the United States' entry into World War I, the Texas legislature redrew the state's congressional districts in 1917 to force him to run against another incumbent?
...that the Weinhard Brewery managed to survive prohibition by producing near-beer, root beer and syrup, which were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs"?
...that the Vladimirka, a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga, is mentioned in the works of Herzen, Nekrasov and Dostoevsky?
...that rainbow sharks are Cyprinids, making them relatives of goldfish, carp and minnows?
...that Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s jobs if they did not make sure a new post office was built in his hometown of Hyde Park?
...that Yingzao Fashi is a Chinese technical treatise on architecture and craftsmanship written during the mid-Song Dynasty?
...that despite being portrait painter to Queen Victoria, John Partridge's career plummeted after a dispute with Ramsay Richard Reinagle over altering one of his paintings?
...that public support for the revitalization of Esther Short Park , located in Vancouver, Washington, increased in 1997 after the mayor was attacked by a transient in the park?
...that Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The New Yorker, was convinced to write for The Atlantic Monthly when publisher David G. Bradley purchased ponies for Goldberg's children?
...that although an Iron Workers union member planted the dynamite in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing, the 21 people who died in the explosion and fire were all workers and not managers?
...that U.S. Representative John Y. Brown was censured by his peers for unparliamentary language during a speech denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler?
...that Major League Baseball relief pitcher Ramón Peña, younger brother of All-Star catcher Tony Peña, allowed no home runs to any of the 88 batters he faced despite 6.00 career earned run average?
...that arms, munitions, and Vietcong documents were planted prior to raids on South Vietnam's Buddhist pagodas as a pretext to crush protests over religious discrimination?
...that Arkhyz is the site of a former world's largest telescope and the oldest functioning church in Russia?
...that molecular evolutionist Morris Goodman used protein sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hemoglobin and called this the first "hard evidence of Darwinian evolution"?
...that American musician Wade Mainer is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass?
...that the Young Christian Workers movement, founded by Joseph Cardijn, had 2 million members in 69 countries at the time of his death?
...that during the Russo-Japanese War, the London Times refitted the Chinese ship Haimun, creating the world's first ship dedicated to war correspondence covering the on-going naval battles?
...that the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków, Poland, erected by Cracovians in 1823 and modeled after prehistoric mounds, became a strategic lookout for the occupying Austrian army?
...that the crown prince and princess of Denmark and Iceland helped lay the cornerstone for the post office in Rhinebeck, New York?
...that the song "I Am a Child of God" is related to a phrase used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a declaration of a basic belief of Mormonism?
...that approximately 10,000 people were sent to an emergency field hospital at a quarantine station on Ninoshima , an island near Hiroshima, following the atomic bombing in 1945?
...that the open habitat of grassy balds in the forested Appalachian Mountains may be relicts of grazing pressure from Pleistocene megaherbivores?
...that Eleanor Davies-Colley was the first woman admitted as fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England?
...that David Yudelman asserts that South African Apartheid predates the traditional demarcation of the National Party's 1948 rise to power?
...that Al Hopkins and his group The Hill Billies originated the term "hillbilly music", and were the first to play country music for a United States president and the first to play country in a film?
...that as an Illinois State Senator James M. Strode introduced legislation authorizing a loan used to begin construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal?
...that a ditch excavated to fend off marauding Maratha soldiers, was filled up when the city was never attacked, to form a road from Shyambazar's five-point crossing?
...that the Cisternoni of Livorno are early examples of buildings with a utilitarian purpose concealed behind a Neoclassical façade?
...that Swiss pharmacologist Hartmann F. Stähelin led the R&D of both the anti-cancer drug etoposide and cyclosporine A, an immunosuppressant used in organ transplantation?
...that Les Chouans, Honoré de Balzac's novel about royalist forces in France, was the first book he published without using a nom de plume?
...that in the 1990s, business process outsourcing company PeopleSupport gave their employees job titles such as gladiator, crusader, and marketing mechanic?
...that the book Historia naturalis palmarum, by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, was described by E. J. H. Corner as "the most magnificent treatment of palms that has been produced"?
...that 159 soldiers of the Malay Regiment fought against a 13,000-strong Japanese force to defend a hill position in Singapore’s Kent Ridge Park?
...that the mud shrimp Pestarella tyrrhena has been used as bait by fishermen for over 200 years?
...that while the first union was founded in 1927, Tanzania did not have a significant labor movement until the 1940s?
...the first edition of Patience and Sarah, winner of the 1971 Stonewall Book Award, was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable?
...that the Mosque of Amr in Fustat, originally built in 642 CE, was the first mosque ever built in Egypt?
...that the Thomas Wilson , a whaleback freighter, was the last such freighter built without hatch coamings?
...that the construction of the John T. Loughran Bridge in Kingston, New York, led to the creation of the Rondout-West Strand Historic District?
...that Takakia is a genus of moss first discovered in the Himalayas in 1861, but no fertile plants were known until collected in 1993 in the Aleutian Islands?
...that Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, a unit similar to Roosevelt's Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War, were authorized by the U.S. Congress to fight in France in 1917, but President Woodrow Wilson refused?
...that DeWitty, the largest African American village ever founded in Nebraska, existed for only 29 years?
...that Kentucky lieutenant governor John W. Stevenson ascended to the governorship following the death of sitting governor John L. Helm just five days into his term?
...that Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide, the subject of his 1921 book In the Land of Blood and Tears?
...that the first customer of the Maine Diner, which has been featured on NBC's Today Show, crashed into a pole in the parking lot?
...that the SMS Hannover and her four sister ships represented the last Deutschland class pre-dreadnought battleships?
...that while Sanskrit is the liturgical language for many Indian religions, only one daily newspaper, the Sudharma, uses it?
...that the famous portrait "Pinkie" by Thomas Lawrence depicts poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aunt?
...that 62 people died in a fire on the sets of the TV serial The Sword of Tipu Sultan in Mysore, India?
...that A Tragedy by 19th century poet, singer and composer Theo Marzials is frequently referred to as the worst poem ever written in the English language?
...that six months after his nomination James W. Stephenson was forced to withdraw from the 1838 election for Governor of Illinois?
...that the Japanese science fiction film I.K.U. was the first pornographic film ever screened in the Sundance Film Festival?
...that Murray's Ranch, a former guest ranch in Apple Valley, California, was unique in that it was owned by African-Americans and catered primarily to an African-American clientele?
...that the Central Fells, a group of hills in the English Lake District , are generally lower than the surrounding hills?
...that St. Mary's Basilica is the oldest church in Bangalore and the only basilica in the Indian state of Karnataka?
...that James D. Henry died four days after the people of New Salem, Illinois supported him for the office of Governor of Illinois?
...that under English criminal law, intoxication is technically not a defence, but can negate the mens rea for specific intent offences?
...that Harlem on the Prairie, a 1937 race movie, is billed as the first "all-colored" western musical?
...that Labour Party politician Ruth Dalton, who was the shortest-serving female MP in British history, represented Bishop Auckland for 92 days?
...that Michiel Daniel Overbeek was the first amateur astronomer to detect supernova-related gamma ray burst effects?
...that before the Hôtel de la Chambre was constructed in 1860, Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies used various meeting places, including a primary school in the town of Ettelbruck?
...that the Chicago-based Lincoln Towing Service uses satellite tracking to provide towing services for landlords with tenant parking problems?