derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Aythorpe Roding Windmill is the largest surviving post mill in Essex, England?
... that, although projects for restoration of the Everglades are the most comprehensive attempts at environmental repair in history, they are in danger of being eliminated?
... that Carlos Minc, the current Brazilian Minister of Environment, was one of the founding members of the Green Party?
... that Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s?
... that in 1880 the United States Congress adjourned so members could watch the single scull race on the Potomac River between Charles E. Courtney and Ned Hanlan?
... that the 1881 children's novel Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis was made into a 1960 Disney film?
... that Georgian footballer Georgi Kiknadze won five consecutive league championships with Dinamo Tbilisi?
... that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad was the first to provide streamlined passenger trains from New York to Florida, beginning with the Silver Meteor in 1939?
... that the Flammulated Flycatcher , a tyrant flycatcher endemic to Mexico, was eventually placed in the monotypic genus Deltarhynchus because of its broad bill?
... that General Ziauddin Butt, former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, was nominated to head the army in 1999?
... that during the War of 1812, Laura Secord went to DeCou House to warn James FitzGibbon and his British troops about the surprise American attack now known as the Battle of Beaver Dams?
... that in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Cosette's wedding gown was made of Binche lace because Hugo remembered it from his youth as being a lace of beauty?
... that land agent Timothy Dwight Hobart from 1886 to 1924 supervised the stringing of hundreds of miles of barbed wire and the digging of hundreds of wells topped by windmills to settle the Texas Panhandle?
... that Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times?
... that inflatable and wooden dummy tanks were used in Operation Fortitude to confuse German intelligence?
... that in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States, which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes?
... that Fountains Fell, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century?
... that Mark Goffeney, nicknamed "Big Toe", is a professional guitarist who plays with his feet because he was born without hands?
... that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory?
... that North 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, considered the heart of the city's African American community, has not fully recovered since several riots destroyed businesses along the strip in the 1960s?
... that 1999 book Gone with the Wind in the Vatican narrated alleged scandals in Vatican City using pseudonyms from Gone with the Wind?
... that Mary Augusta Dickerson found it inspirational to write her children's books inside a Pickle Barrel House?
... that the stationmaster of the Kinokawa train station in Kinokawa, Japan is a cat named Tama ?
... that neurologist Derek Denny-Brown introduced British anti-Lewisite as a treatment for the copper overload disorder Wilson's disease?
... that a free trade agreement made effective in 2000 strengthened Indo-Sri Lankan relations and quadrupled bilateral trade, which grew to US$2.6 billion by 2006?
... that 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities?
... that despite being considered "much too far away" to affect weather in California, Hurricane Liza of 1968 caused US$5,000 in damage and the closure of a portion of Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach?
... that some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats, whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals?
... that the Golden Age Passport has been replaced by the "Senior Pass" of the new pass series now called "America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass"?
... that the Forest Kingfisher of Australian forest and Melaleuca swampland, burrows its nest in termite mounds in trees up to 12 metres (39 ft) above the ground?
... that in a major improvement in bilateral ties since it blocked Bangladesh's entry in the U.N. in 1972, China offered to help Bangladesh construct its first nuclear plant?
... that Native American actor and director James Young Deer and his wife were an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the early silent film era?
... that torchon lace is one of the oldest bobbin laces and has strictly geometric patterns?
... that Philippine National Artist Amado V. Hernandez wrote his masterpieces while being imprisoned in the New Bilibid Prison?
... that the Rio Napo Screech-Owl is part of a group of owls that have been reclassified three times since 1850?
... that A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize in history?
... that U.S. Route 127 in Michigan was tripled in length by extending the highway to replace its parent route, U.S. Route 27 in 2002?
... that the Young Religious Unitarian Universalists protested against Victoria's Secret for allegedly printing their catalogues with paper sourced from endangered forests?
... that the yuja hwachae, Korean traditional fruit punch made with Korean pear and yuja, is often served with flower pancakes made of chrysanthemum?
... that mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
... that the Webster ruling is a legal precedent clarified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008, which extends to professional footballers in Europe the same contractual freedom of movement as workers in other industries?
... that Zaha Hadid's architectural design won an international competition for the upcoming Vilnius Guggenheim Hermitage Museum?
... that after serving three terms in the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party, Georg Apenes took over as director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate?
... that although the Ishvara temple in Karnataka, India, seems modest in construction, it is in fact the most complicated Hoysala monument?
... that John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose?
... that Dwight Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower's whims?
... that German chemist Albert Niemann became the first person to isolate cocaine in 1859?
... that the U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program to South Vietnam after concluding that President Ngo Dinh Diem was using the funds to repress Buddhists rather than communists?
... that Cornelia Adair, during World War I, invited Belgian refugees to stay at her Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal, Ireland?
... that the Museum at Bethel Woods is devoted mostly to the Woodstock Festival, and located on its site?
... that the remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters built by shipwreck survivor Wiebbe Hayes and his men on West Wallabi Island in 1629, are Australia's oldest known European structures?
... that the Neoclassical Hollywood Masonic Temple has been used as a Masonic Lodge, opera house, and nightclub, and is now the home of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! television show?
... that Gerobatrachus is considered to be a missing link that supports the hypothesis offered by cladistics, that frogs and salamanders had a common ancestor?
... that Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to Australia saw him receive the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, one of the highest British imperial honours bestowed on a non-British subject?
... that the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earliest German description of the world?
... that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?
... that Bishop Hannington Memorial Church in Hove, England, is dedicated to a missionary killed in Uganda on King Mwanga II's orders?
... that in his book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. proposed eight constitutional amendments?
... that Robert Parker Parrott's last home, Plumbush , outside Cold Spring, New York, is now a bed and breakfast?
... that the Sperrgebiet, a diamond mining area closed to the public, makes up 3 percent of Namibia's surface area?
... that the oddly-named Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas refers to the town having been a prohibition settlement in the 1880s that cowboys referred to as where the "saints roost"?
... that the Academic Gymnasium Danzig, along with similar schools in Elbląg and Toruń, transformed Royal Prussia into a center of classical studies in the 16th century?
... that Texas rancher Montie Ritchie was the photographer on a British Alpine Club expedition in 1949 to the Baffin Islands in the Canadian Arctic?
... that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is proposing a regional free trade area that would account for almost half of world trade?
... that Jack Christiansen and Bill Walsh are the only San Francisco 49ers head coaches in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
... that Hindus often worship Krishna as the small child Bala Krishna , crawling on his hands and knees with a lump of butter in his hands?
... that boundary surveyor Joseph Smith Harris climbed a ship's mast to direct mortars during the Civil War Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip?
... that Petubastis III led a revolt in Egypt against Persian rule circa 522 BCE?
... that Walter Emden designed London theatres and music halls in the late 19th century, including the Palace Theatre, the Duke of York's, the Garrick and the Royal Court?
... that the original images of Lord Swaminarayan at the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Karachi, Pakistan were removed and taken to India during the turbulent times of its partition?
... that QUIET, an astronomy experiment due to start observing in 2008 at the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, Chile, will make measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation?
... that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
... that Kaunas University Hospital, the largest medical institution in Lithuania, was designated a cultural monument in 2008?
... that Nielluccio, Sciacarello and Vermentino are the three leading grape varieties for making Corsica wine?
... that the Web Site Administration Tool simplifies the creation of an authentication and authorization system in an ASP.NET website?
... that in 1968, The Detroit Wheels recorded "Linda Sue Dixon", a thinly-veiled paean to the illicit hallucinogenic drug LSD?
... that the Wawelberg Group was a Polish special-forces unit which began the 1921 Third Silesian Uprising by blowing up seven rail bridges linking Upper Silesia with the rest of Germany?
... that Richard Neutra's Jardinette Apartments building in Hollywood is considered one of the first Modernist buildings in America?
... that samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, and famously by Tennyson's Lady of the Lake ?
... that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō, there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki?
... that a cat named "Room 8" was the subject of a book, a documentary, a song by Leo Kottke, and obituaries that appeared in papers from the Los Angeles Times to the Hartford Courant?
... that the Red Cross with Imperial Portraits Fabergé egg commemorates the work of women from the House of Romanov for the Red Cross during World War I?
... that American physicist Hugh Bradner developed the first neoprene wetsuit but was unable to patent it?
... that the present Cape Rachado Lighthouse, erected in 1863 in Malacca, Malaysia, includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar?
... that Calsoyasuchus valleyceps, an extinct crocodile relative from the Early Jurassic, has a deep groove in its skull from which its species name, "valley head", derives?
... that in 1847 Thomas Huling sold the town of Zavala, Texas for US$1,000 and 5,000 boxes of "Green Mountain Vegitable Ointment"?
... that the 120-cell 4-dimensional puzzle is one of several n-dimensional sequential move puzzles that have been implemented as virtual puzzles but have never been solved?
... that Rachel Wall was the first American-born female pirate, and the last woman to be hanged in Massachusetts?
... that in a major improvement in bilateral relations in 2008, Pakistan proposed sharing nuclear technology with Bangladesh?
... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
... that Étienne-Théodore Pâquet defeated a man twice his age to become one of the youngest ever members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec?
... that Jeb Bush became the first Republican Governor of Florida to be re-elected to a second term after winning the 2002 Florida gubernatorial election?
... that the Philadelphia Phillies were the last of the original 16 Major League Baseball franchises to win the World Series?
... that aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II?
... that the suit of armour on the effigy of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert has been reproduced as a Second Life avatar?
... that mathematician Paul Erdős called the Hadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of the four-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory"?
... that the 1975 film Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris starred theater and cabaret stars Elly Stone and Joe Masiell in their only film performances?
... that more than 5 million people died of starvation or disease in the Southern India famine of 1876–78?
... that neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler, who resembled Adolf Hitler, had a habit of attending parliament drunk?
... that Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even though it never charged admission?
... that Paris-based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish-language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
... that the Crown Point Light, constructed as a conventional lighthouse, was rebuilt in 1912 as a monument to Samuel de Champlain's explorations?
... that the 850-foot (260 m) Commerzbank Tower is the tallest building in the European Union?
... that the discovery of a celt with Indus script in Tamil Nadu in 2006 was regarded by epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century in Tamil Nadu"?
... that Russian right-wing politician Nikolai Markov tried to convince Germany to contribute to a conspiracy to re-instate the House of Romanov after the post-World War I revolutions?
... that the first live television broadcast viewed on a moving train was on October 7, 1948, when passengers on the B&O Railroad's Marylander saw the second game of the 1948 World Series?
... that the 1994 Bolivia earthquake was the largest earthquake ever recorded with a focal depth greater or equal to 300 km (190 mi)?
... that Bucks point lace is a bobbin lace from the East Midlands in England with both floral and geometric designs?
... that paleoecologist Heinz Lowenstam discovered that living organisms can produce magnetite within their bodies?
... that the Omaha Star building housed the DePorres Club after they were asked to leave Creighton University because of their activism in Omaha's civil rights movement?
... that although the Siddhesvara Temple in Karnataka, India is currently a temple of Shiva, historians are unsure of its original faith?
... that English musician and poet Robert Wydow is the earliest known recipient of a Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford University?
... that the 2003 earthquake that killed more than 2,200 was the strongest to hit Algeria since 1980?
... that the Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters' main architectural feature is the use of sunscreens on the facade made of their principal product, Plexiglas?
... that Kenyan lawyer Gitobu Imanyara was reported to have died after he was rumored to have been slapped by Kenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki?
... that historian Lon Tinkle demanded that he not be credited as historical advisor of John Wayne's 1960 film The Alamo because he felt the film misrepresented the Battle of the Alamo?
... that Bangladesh declined to renew its 1972 Friendship Treaty with India, criticizing it as unequal and an imposition of excessive Indian influence?
... that when John Stanley recreated one of his covers for Little Lulu for the cover of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide in 2005, both editions sold out within three days?
... that the age of a Green Sea Urchin is generally calculable based on its size since it grows 10 mm (0.4 in) every year?
... that during the Battle of Ridgefield in April 1777, Benedict Arnold escaped unharmed after being pinned to the ground when his horse was shot?
... that the city of Nairobi, Kenya, averages about ten vehicle hijackings per day?
... that Joshua Packwood is the first white man to graduate as valedictorian of the all-male HBCU, Morehouse College, an overwhelmingly African American university in Atlanta, Georgia?
... that the Bedouin villagers of al-Sayyid developed their own form of sign language in response to the high rate of deafness amongst their tribe?
... that Stave Puzzles makes a 44-piece jigsaw puzzle named Champ that can be put together 32 different ways but has only one correct solution?
... that in 1898, the Egyptian government appointed Maurice Fitzmaurice as their chief resident engineer for the construction of the Aswan Dam?
... that the Confederate Monument in Danville, Kentucky was built on grave plots local citizens had given up to fallen soldiers?
... that among gifts which Toirdelbach Ua Briain, later High King of Ireland, received from his patron Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó was the sword of Brian Boru ?
... that Mukti Bahini guerrillas were absorbed into the ranks of regular military officers and enlisted personnel upon the formation of Bangladesh's armed forces?
... that the Greasestock festival in New York showcases green technologies, such as vegetable-powered vehicles, solar vehicles, and organic farming exhibits?
... that World War II flying ace Franz Barten is credited for shooting down a total of 55 enemy aircraft?
... that The Metros, a five-piece punk pop band from Peckham, London, were formerly known as The Wanking Skankers?
... that a poem by Edward Coote Pinkney, a failed lawyer and former Navy midshipman, was used by Edgar Allan Poe to woo Sarah Helen Whitman?
... that a 2007 treaty significantly modified Indo-Bhutanese relations by reducing India's guiding role over Bhutan's foreign policy?
... that the Champlain Valley Transportation Museum in Plattsburgh, New York is home to the only known Type 82 Lozier in existence?
... that with a height of 154 m (505 ft), the wooden pagoda of Tianning Temple in Changzhou, China is the tallest Buddhist pagoda in the world?
... that Zygmunt Rumel, a Polish poet and soldier of the Bataliony Chlopskie, was tied to four horses and ripped apart in 1943 during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia?
... that The Locusts, an early 19th-century house in New Paltz, New York, has no fireplaces?
... that British Army officer Sir William Horrocks confirmed Sir David Bruce's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat's milk?
... that during Hossain Mohammad Ershad's rule, chiefs of Bangladeshi intelligence agencies were amongst his closest advisers?
... that a film director hired independent film actress Tanna Frederick when she praised a film of his—one she had not seen?
... that Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man is a Korean action comic that combines the styles of Mad Max, Dune and The Lord of the Rings?
... that the Dictionary of Information Security by Robert Slade has five forewords, each by an expert in the field of information security?
... that Lake Balaton , a popular tourist attraction in Hungary, is the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe?
... that the 1820 children's story Maurice by Mary Shelley was lost until 1997?
... that the 9th century Navalinga temple in Karnataka, India, is a cluster of nine Hindu temples, each containing a Shiva linga?
... that in an uncommon job for women, Mary Herwerth was appointed lighthouse keeper at Bluff Point Light on Valcour Island upon the death of her husband while on duty in 1881?
... the British MI6 tried to hire the Austrian-German physicist Josef Schintlmeister as a spy in the Soviet Union, where he had worked for ten years?
... that a collection of 247 tiles illustrating children's books are installed on the Story Book Wall at the Alamogordo Public Library in New Mexico, U.S.?
... that the first regular British light infantry regiment, the 52nd Regiment of Foot, awarded the title "Valiant Stormer" to those who survived the Forlorn Hopes at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz?
... that after preaching Baptist ideas in the 1760s, Toliver Craig, Sr. and his sons were imprisoned by colonial authorities?
... that rabbi Dow Ber Meisels of Kraków and Warsaw was a prominent supporter of Polish independence, including both the November and January Uprisings?
... that Antwerp lace is also known as "Pot Lace" because of its repeated flowerpot motifs?
... that the 1945 loss of German U-boat U-864 during Operation Caesar, a secret mission to deliver technology to Japan, is the only known incident of one submerged submarine sinking another?
... that Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the birthplace of kittenball, a forerunner of modern softball?
... that the Jabalpur and the Mandla districts in Madhya Pradesh were the worst affected districts in the 1997 Jabalpur earthquake?
... that the percussion instruments the txalaparta and kirikoketa originated as pieces of equipment from a Sagardotegi?
... that famous Hispanics in the United States Navy include the country's first full admiral, David Glasgow Farragut?
... that the population dynamics of fisheries is a discipline used by fisheries scientists to determine sustainable yields?
... that the Dutch Gift was a collection of 40 paintings and sculptures , presented to King Charles II of England by the Dutch Republic in 1660?
... that the US government took control of the Alaska Steamship Company's fleet during World War II?
... that the Nootka Crisis of 1789–90 marked the beginning of the end of the Spanish Empire?
... that Maharajbagh zoo in Nagpur, India, has been built on the garden of Bhonsle, Maratha rulers of the Nagpur kingdom?
... that in the primaries for the 2002 Oregon gubernatorial election, candidates included one who called himself the "flying governor"?
... that the Hotel Bellevue Palace in Berne was called "the best-protected building in Europe" by participants in Cold War negotiations?
... that Nona L. Brooks, a founder of the Church of Divine Science and leader in the New Thought religious movement, was the first woman pastor in Denver?
... that Canadian broadcaster Linden MacIntyre wrote his memoir during a fifty-day lockout at the CBC?
... that on September 23, 1868, the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico led a revolt in Lares, declaring it the "Republic of Puerto Rico"?
... that according to one account, after Thomas Attwood accused fellow composer Charles Edward Horn of plagiarizing a song, Horn helped clear himself in court by singing his version and that of Attwood's?
... that the church of St. Barlock at Norbury has a monument to the "lewd and vile" wife of its thirteenth Lord?
... that Aston Villa's Bob Chatt scored an FA Cup Final goal 30 seconds after kick-off?