derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Dương Quỳnh Hoa, who socialized with Saigon elites during the Vietnam War, was a communist spy?
...that Shirazi wine from the Persian city of Shiraz was white and has nothing to do with the Shiraz grape used to make wine today?
...that a heather fire in 1996 revealed many more quern-stones than had been previously known on the ancient quarry site of Wharncliffe Crags ?
...that Francis Bok, who was held as a slave in northern Sudan for ten years, now works as an abolitionist for the American Anti-Slavery Group?
...that Red Plague, a poem of Józef Szczepański, commander of Batalion Parasol during the Warsaw Uprising, was banned in the People's Republic of Poland due to its anti-Soviet sentiments?
...that Momoko Ueda became the youngest golfer in Japan LPGA Tour history to finish first on the money list?
...that the artillery of the Nguyen Lords was so strong that cannons were placed at 4 m intervals along a 12 km defensive wall to repel the rival Trinh Lords of Vietnam?
...that Jeff Groscost oversaw the passing of an alternative fuels bill in Arizona whose cost ballooned from $10 million to $140 million?
...that Sergeant James Graham was declared the "bravest man at Waterloo" for closing the North Gate at Hougoumont, an act which Wellington claimed saved the battle?
...that the origins of Pak Khlong Talat, the primary flower market in Bangkok, Thailand, date to the 1700s?
...that Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do?
...that Fir Island is the main northwest Washington wintering area of 30,000 to 70,000 snow geese that migrate from Wrangel Island in Russia?
...that Otte Wallish calligraphed Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948 and helped design its first coins, but since it as yet had no name, he sketched the first postage stamps for a country called Yehudah?
...that of the original 28.9 miles (46.5 km) operated by the Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad, less than 2 miles (3.2 km) remain in use?
...that Vietnamese politician and dissident Hoang Minh Chinh was jailed twice after criticizing the Communist Party?
...that the rooflines of the newest school in the Cornwall Central School District mimic the surrounding hills in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York?
...that the film crew of the forthcoming Tamil film, Kanthaswamy adopted two villages near Madurai to give film profits to?
...that Australian General George Vasey regretted to have sent a small unit too far without adequate support for the Battle of Kaiapit during World War II and considered himself lucky to have won?
...that in March 2007, about five thousand workers were evacuated from Hong Leong Building in Singapore after tremors originating from Sumatra were felt?
...that twelve floors in Springleaf Tower , a skyscraper in Singapore, were sold at S$225 million in October 2007, while nine months earlier, they were sold at S$134 million?
...that the Port of Mainz was an important war harbour for the Roman fleet from which Roman ships patrolled the Rhine?
...that official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD, due to an 1872 Republican election plan, to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$5 million?
...that the "sweaty saddle" aroma associated with Shiraz from the New South Wales wine region of the Hunter Valley is actually a wine fault?
...that University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Al Renfrew was the first person to play on a NCAA championship college hockey team and later coach a national champion?
...that "Palestinian archaeology" can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by Palestinians themselves?
...that in 1940, the USS American Legion transported a Norwegian Princess to the safety of America, along with a vital Bofors 40mm gun to be used as a mass production prototype?
...that Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary in Kerala, India, receives migratory birds from far away Siberia?
...that in the Japanese theatrical art known as Taishū engeki , it is not uncommon for fans to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of yen on gifts for the performers?
...that many cellular phone ringtones use Music Macro Language, developed in the 1980s as a means of programming music on personal computers and video game consoles?
...that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan?
...that "quickfire", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds, was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
...that the fifth growth Bordeaux wine estate of Château Cantemerle was not included in the original maps from the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
...that the USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) ran hazardous support missions to the American garrison on the bitterly contested island of Guadalcanal for over 14 months?
...that Holocaust survivor Miles Lerman immigrated to the United States in 1947 and became a major figure behind the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.?
...that Masaccio's fresco The Tribute Money is linked to Pope Martin V's 1423 agreement that the Florentine church be subjected to state tax?
...that Hans Thomsen, the German Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, D.C. immediately prior to World War II, directed an effort to influence the foreign policy platform of the 1940 Republican National Convention?
...that Burrabazar, in Kolkata, expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market?
...that, in December 2007, the Canadian bobsleigh duo of Pierre Lueders and Justin Kripps were the first people to slide down the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track that will be used for the 2010 Winter Olympics?
...that trains to London ran eastwards from Devonport Kings Road railway station when it opened in 1876, but from 1890 they ran westwards?
...that Bill Orwig hired Bob Knight as basketball coach at Indiana and has been inducted into the athletic halls of fame at three universities — Indiana, Michigan and Toledo?
...that about three-quarters of the Oroville-Chico Highway (now Route 149) in California's Sacramento Valley has been absorbed by realignments of Routes 70 and 99?
...that the Fuji Xerox Towers , a skyscraper in Singapore, was given the 2005 Energy Smart Label Award by the Energy Sustainability Unit and the National Environment Agency?
...that when Shiv Chowrasia, a former caddie, won the 2008 Indian Masters golf tournament, he became the third Indian to win a European Tour event?
...that Marie Hartwig, faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1930–1976, was a lifelong advocate for women's sports and one of the first women inducted into the school's Hall of Honor?
...that the Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul?
...that the first Douglas DC-9 jet airliner to crash was West Coast Airlines Flight 956 in 1966?
...that 'HMS Incomparable was a design for a mammoth battlecruiser, proposed by British Admiral Jackie Fisher in 1915, but never built?
...that Crookham, a village in England, dates as far back as the Domesday Book, but that it split into Crookham Village and Church Crookham upon the founding of the nearby Christ Church in 1840?
...that after Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall resigned, F. Whitten Peters served as acting Secretary of the Air Force for 19 months?
...that according to John of Ephesus, in 583, Empress Constantina, consort of Maurice, gave birth to the first heir born to a reigning Byzantine Emperor in over 100 years?
...that the art critic Charles-Nicolas Cochin was a designer and engraver to King Louis XV's Menus-Plaisirs du Roi?
...that Academy Award-winning film Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was adapted from a book by the pilot of "The Ruptured Duck," one of 16 USAAF bombers in the Doolittle Raid on Japan during World War II?
...that the scientific name of the vase-shaped forest fungus Gomphus floccosus means 'woolly plug'?
...that Qabala treasures, monetary treasure troves discovered in Azerbaijan, contain drachmas of Alexander the Great and denarii of four Roman Emperors?
...that historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
...that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district?
...that Satoru Kobayashi, one of Japan's most prolific directors, wrote and directed the first pink film in 1962?
...that Lambda Sigma, a college sophomore honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975?
...that the facade of Hitachi Tower in Singapore has three sections which break the verticality of the tower?
...that the murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including Edgar Allen Poe's Scenes From 'Politian'?
...that most of Petroleum Road, a privately owned asphalt road in the Golan Heights, is marked on maps as inaccessible to traffic because of poor road quality?
...that film editor Sam O'Steen collaborated on twelve films by Mike Nichols, earning Academy Award editing nominations for Silkwood and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf??
...that "are you other?" or "are you other being?" are Inuktitut translations of the name of Ahimaa Cave, hollowed out of a massive cliff by Qamanirjuaq Lake?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court held in NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. that although employees cannot be fired for exercising their right to strike, they can be "permanently replaced" by strikebreakers?
...that the Pine Creek Rail Trail, a 65 mile (105 km) rail trail along Pine Creek in Pennsylvania, was named one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world by USA Today?
...that the Métro léger de Tunis , a public transport system using light rail, is the only one of its kind in Africa?
...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
...that the Atlantic Marine ecozone, with its dense fog and massive icebergs, has been feared by mariners who have dubbed its northern extent "Iceberg Alley"?
...that Narmada Bachao Andolan, a NGO in India, was the main reason for World Bank to conduct its first-ever independent review of any of its projects?
...that the 20-year tenure of District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. was marred by corruption which led to his father having spent more than three years in U.S. federal prison for conspiracy and extortion?
...that key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky's 26-mile (42-km) parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss?
...that the old block of the Bank of China Building in Singapore was the tallest building in the central business district, Raffles Place, from 1954 till 1974?
...that upon completion, the Mausoleum of Khomeini , under construction since Ayatollah Khomeini died, will have a tourist center, a university and a shopping mall?
...that the kiss between Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer on As the World Turns is the first kiss between gay male characters on a daytime American soap opera?
...that Saint-Bris is the only appellation out of 150 in the French wine region of Burgundy where the wines may contain the grape variety Sauvignon blanc?
...that Edgar Allan Poe satirized the concept of a self-made man in his story "The Business Man" using a character that makes his fortune cutting the tails off cats?
...that every year 70,000 to 80,000 migratory birds visit Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary, an artificially created forest in West Bengal, India?
...that judge Michael W. Mosman was involved in U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk?
...that the small private rooms called cabinets gave rise to the political sense of cabinet, after English monarchs began to discuss matters of state in these settings?
...that according to his Memoir, 18th-century painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson was named after the caesarean section which delivered him after his mother fell on the ice?
...that Equine Hippique Canada, Canada's official equestrian federation, describes itself as a "little known and hardly recognized" entity, despite selecting the Olympic teams?
...the world's longest tunnel system is the two parallel tunnels at the Atatürk Dam of Şanlıurfa in southeastern Turkey?
...that vin jaune, from the French wine region of Château-Chalon, is made with a layer of yeast that grows on top of the wine while in the barrel?
...that the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war, the Wars of the Roses?
...that John "Willy" Williams , the Australian World War II air ace who later took part in the "The Great Escape", became a POW merely three days after being promoted to command No.450 Squadron RAAF?
...that in a college prank televised across the United States, spectators at the 1961 Rose Bowl unknowingly displayed the word "CALTECH" in an altered card stunt instead of the nickname of one of the teams on the field?
...that paintings by Henry Howard in the "Grand Revolving Temple of Concord" in Green Park had to be saved by the cavalry from "the multitudes of idle and dissolute spectators"?
...that TenneT, the Dutch transmission system operator, is a joint owner of the ±450 kV, 580 km (360 mi) NorNed, the longest high-voltage undersea power line in the world?
...that Seattle pioneer David Denny married his own stepsister, made and lost a fortune worth US$3 million, and survived an axe-blow to his head at age 67?
...that the European fungus Ramaria formosa, found under beech trees, resembles a yellow-tipped pink piece of many-branched coral?
...that the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Switchback Railroad, the second railroad built in the United States, was a major precursor to the roller coaster?
...that Michiko Maeda, the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director?
...that Captain Philip Broke personally led the boarding party from HMS Shannon onto the USS Chesapeake ?
...that Avenue Charles de Gaulle in N'Djamena is a rare street in Chad to have retained its French name despite President François Tombalbaye's Authenticité Africanization program?
...that state senator Mike Kopp is the only Gulf War veteran currently serving in the Colorado General Assembly?
...that two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
...that Keith Munyan, Jr., the Los Angeles photographer who has done publicity shots for Hilary Duff, Cindy Crawford, Jessica Simpson, and other celebrities is himself a former model?
...that during the later stages of World War II, the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces?
...that John Percival, when headmaster of Rugby School, gained the nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their football shorts below the knee with elastic?
...that Cullen Football Club played on a golf course when they were first formed in 1890?
...that Khotyn Fortress , site of the Battle of Khotyn between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?
...that about 12 million people were forced laborers in Nazi Germany during World War II, and less than 2 million received direct compensation after the war?
...that after the New Zealand Railways Department's RM class Thomas Transmission railcar was written off in 1925, the railcar's body was used as a private dwelling?
...that Margaret Downey's first major public activism for atheism was in response to the Boy Scouts of America refusing to renew her son's membership due to his professed atheism?
...that the first bank in Oregon was co-founded by William S. Ladd who had previously built the first brick building in Portland, Oregon?
...that Thaddeus Radzilowski, a Polish-American historian, is a cofounder of the Piast Institute?
...that dozens of tornadoes were produced during a two-day tornado outbreak in 1997, killing at least 27 people in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee, USA?
...that 6 Battery Road, a high-rise in Singapore, was on completion the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank Group worldwide, and represented the largest single investment by a British company?
...that fungus Tricholoma pardinum was responsible for over 20% of cases of mushroom poisoning in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century?
...that a 1907 mansion in Hollywood, California known as Jualita was the location for scenes from the film Rain Man and the TV show The O.C.?
...that while repelling Soviet advances across the frozen Lake Suvanto, Finland managed to capture 12 anti-tank guns, 140 machine guns, 200 light machine guns and 1500 rifles in the Battle of Kelja in 1939?
...that after surviving the battles at Badoeng Strait and Midway, the Japanese destroyer Asashio was sunk in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea while picking up survivors from her sister ship, the Arashio?
...that Herbert Armitage James, who was headmaster of Rugby School for 14 years, had one of the best stamp collections in England?
...that when Indian Agent Robert Neighbors was introduced to Comanche Chief Old Owl, the Comanches were so pleased with the agent’s generosity that they proposed adopting him into their tribe?
...that during the construction of Samsung Hub , a high-rise commercial building in Singapore, the building sank on one side from 3 mm to 39 mm in just four months?
...that vineyard owners in the Provence wine region of Cassis used to hire prostitutes from Marseilles to assist with picking grapes at harvest time?
...that Raymond Jacobs maintained to have been the last surviving member of the original party of Marines who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima?
...that French actuary Maurice Princet is known as "the mathematician of cubism" for the role he played in birth of the art movement?
...that the Peachtree Road Race, held annually on July 4 (U.S. Independence Day) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007?
...that Colorado state senator Chris Romer has proposed using a wiki-like web site to involve citizens in drafting legislation?
...that the first stamps of Palestine under the British Mandate were trilingual, due to a League of Nations requirement?
...that the two parts of California State Route 139 were constructed by a joint highway district of Lassen and Modoc Counties and by the U.S. federal government before being turned over to the state?
...that at 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the Missouri River Valley drains one-sixth of the United States, and is the longest river valley on the North American continent?
...that the death of Orvil Dryfoos, publisher of The New York Times from 1961 to 1963, was attributed to stress from a 114-day strike by his staff?
...that award-winning biographer Jenny Uglow described her dictionary of women's biographies as "a mad undertaking, born of a time when feminists wanted heroines and didn't have Google"?
...that American painter George Cooke's Interior of St. Peter's Rome , measuring 17 by 23.5 feet, was the largest oil painting of its time, and still ranks among the world's largest?
...that the physical and chemical properties of water are markedly different when it is heated under pressure at temperatures between 100 and 374°C?
...that during the 2004-2005 vintage, the European Union wine growing zones accounted for nearly 70% of worldwide wine production?
...that Ancient Tondo became so prosperous that the Kingdom of Brunei had to attack it and set up a rival settlement to keep it in check?
...that Academy Award-nominee Tamara Jenkins spent time at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, to write her screenplay for The Savages?
...that the first Styxosaurus fossil to be discovered had about 250 stones in its stomach that it probably swallowed for ballast?
...that the Owyhee Dam near Adrian, Oregon, was the tallest dam of its type in the world when it was completed in 1932?
...that at Traverse des Sioux on the Minnesota River , Sioux tribes were induced to enter into an 1851 treaty, ceding 24 million acres (9.7 million ha) for seven cents per acre?
...that the SIA Building, a skyscraper in Singapore, is the flagship building of Singapore Airlines?
...that Sir George Everest, after whom Mount Everest was named, is buried at St Andrew's Church, Hove, despite being born in Wales, dying in London and having no apparent connection with the church or town?
...that the case of Styllou Christofi, the penultimate woman to be hanged in Britain, failed to cause a public outcry because she, in the opinion of her executioner Albert Pierrepoint, was not very glamorous?
...that the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish, a higher number than any other place on earth?
...that Master of Wines, David Peppercorn and his wife Serena Sutcliffe questioned the authenticity of Imperial bottles of Château Pétrus owned by Hardy Rodenstock, inciting a controversy?
...that the 1996 TV film Hidden in America reminded viewers that on any given night, up to five million children in America go to bed hungry?
...that the Tumblagooda sandstone contains the earliest record of animals walking on the land?
...that the first postage stamps of Israel were issued on May 16 1948, within 48 hours of the independent republic being proclaimed?
...that while only three Avro Chinooks, Canada's first jet engine design, were ever built, they led to the very successful Orenda design that followed?
...that swimming Hall of Famer Harry Holiday won 6 NCAA championships, and set 7 world and 18 American records in the mid-1940s but never competed in the Olympics due to World War II?
...that passing the Level 4 diploma program from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust is strongly encouraged before taking the Master of Wine examination?
...that despite a requirement from the Michigan Legislature it connect three counties within ten years of its founding, after 21 years the St. Joseph Valley Rail Road had completed only 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of track, all in St. Joseph County?
...that halos commonly used in Georgian imagery of royalties are missing in wall paintings of medieval Georgian monarchs discovered at the Betania Monastery?
...that American trauma surgeon Tom Shires operated on both Texas governor John Connally and gunman Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy?
...that the Pickering Operations Complex, a high-rise telecommunication hotel in Singapore, has eight refrigerating plants each with a capacity of 300 tons, and 16 control centres?
...that Lepoglava prison (Croatian: Kaznionica u Lepoglavi) is the oldest and largest prison located in Croatia?
...that Gay Talese's The Kingdom and the Power from 1969, about the personalities that shaped The New York Times, is credited with beginning the trend of books that report about the media?
...that the first Hillsboro Public Library that opened in 1914 was the only Carnegie library built in Washington County, Oregon?
...that the Academy of Music in Warsaw , the oldest and largest music school in Poland, is named after the most famous of its students, Fryderyk Chopin?
...that Chiquibul National Park surrounds the ancient Mayan site of Caracol?
...that Flora Solomon pioneered staff benefits programs at Marks & Spencer that influenced the development of the British National Health Service and Labour's concept of the welfare state?
...that Billy Mercer became caretaker assistant manager of Sheffield Wednesday in October 2006, having previously played for rivals Sheffield United?