derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti?
...that more than half of the United Kingdom's specialist victim recovery dogs were used during the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews?
...that two of the oldest buildings in Manchester's Shambles Square were physically moved twice – once in 1974 and again in 1999?
...that neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga?
...that Slindon Cricket Team was the winning team recorded on the earliest surviving cricket scoresheet?
...that French mycologist René Maire wrote a work on the local flora of the Haute-Saône in the Franche-Comté region of northeastern France when he was only 18 years old?
...that the same spectacular mountain, Kriváň, links a Polish rock band, a King of Saxony, and the Slovak national movement from the 19th century?
...that Lady Florence Dixie , feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette, was the aunt of Oscar Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas?
...that the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel, is named after Hillel Yaffe, a doctor who served nearby Jewish settlements in the early 20th century?
...that Maria, the Finnish form of Mary, is the most popular Finnish name used during the modern era?
...that Robert D. Knapp's squadron failed to see any action in World War I because the propellers for their Handley Page O/400 bombers arrived late?
...that Lake Piso, a brackish water lake in western Liberia, is the largest in the country?
...that the final decades of Visigothic rule in Spain have been labelled "protofeudal" by Spanish historians, but this label has been largely rejected in English historiography?
...that Wesley L. McDonald was the last admiral to hold the Allied Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Command, and lead the U.S. Atlantic Fleet at the same time?
...that Ukrainian Baroque architecture is distinct from Western European Baroque in its moderate ornamentation and simpler design?
...that after retiring, former Premier League footballer Adrian Whitbread worked in four different clubs as assistant coach for Martin Allen?
...that Jonathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is considered by many, including Swift himself, to be his best poem?
...that Nurul Izzah Anwar, daughter of Malaysia's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, defeated a three-term minister incumbent in her first contest for a parliament seat in Lembah Pantai?
...that oil tanker MV Transpacific is currently under contract to transport fuel for the U.S. Defense Department for US$18,848 a day?
...that writer-director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one?
...that Salem First United Methodist Church is the tallest building in Salem, Oregon and is also the oldest Methodist church west of the Rocky Mountains?
...that A Walk to Beautiful, a film about five Ethiopian women with childbirth injuries, was picked by the International Documentary Association as the best feature documentary of 2007?
...that "Spieprzaj dziadu!" (Polish for "Piss off, old man!"), said by current Polish President Lech Kaczynski, has become one of the most famous phrases in modern Poland?
...that English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough, and not in Haworth with all her family?
...that Cumberland was a short-lived rugby league team in the inaugural NSW premiership season in 1908?
...that the Mitchell Recreation Area near Bly, Oregon, is the only location in the continental U.S. where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
...that Honoré de Balzac's novel Louis Lambert contains many autobiographical elements relating to his time at an Oratorian school in Vendôme?
...that Jonathan Swift's 1709 poem "A Description of the Morning", which discusses contemporary life in London, provided inspiration for William Hogarth's series of paintings Four Times of the Day?
...that only one of the twenty-six tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway is in Virginia?
...that Knut Rød, a Norwegian police inspector who arranged the deportation of over 500 Jews to Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
...that St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway, Cheshire, was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
...that the town of Gratiot, Wisconsin is named after French–American U.S. Indian Agent Henry Gratiot?
...that most of the land that makes up the Santiam State Forest today was acquired by Oregon authorities because of delinquent taxes or purchases at minimal costs prior to foreclosure during the Great Depression?
...that Dennis Letts, who began acting at the age of fifty, made his Broadway theater debut in December 2007 in August: Osage County, which was written by his son, Tracy Letts?
...that the Howmet TX earned the first win for a gas turbine racing car in 1968, before earning three more victories and setting six FIA land speed records?
...that Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval Muslim princes, Nur ad-Din and Saladin?
...that the Edinburgh Phrenological Society started its own journal to promote phrenology in 1824, after the Royal Medical Society refused to publish the results of a debate about the subject?
...that Ólchobar mac Cináeda, king of Munster and abbot of Emly, may be the "king of the Irish" who sent an embassy to Charles the Bald announcing Irish victories over the Vikings in 848?
...that garden plant Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream', a hybrid of G. banksii from humid subtropical Queensland and G. bipinnatifida from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia, tolerates the climates of both its parents?
...that the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop was owned by the same family for over 140 years, and served two American presidents and Robert E. Lee?
...that Gaffney Ridge, an undersea ridge in the South China Sea, was named for Paul G. Gaffney II, President of Monmouth University and a former United States Navy Vice Admiral?
...that much of medieval Chester Castle was rebuilt in neoclassical style by architect Thomas Harrison around 1800?
...that the original arcade cabinet of the shooter game The Typing of the Dead used two QWERTY keyboards?
...that the Battle of Shaizar in 1111, between King Baldwin I of Jerusalem's Crusader army and a Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of Mosul, ended in a tactical draw?
...that the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots, who often beat mushroomers to their goal?
...that according to Ukrainian folklore, the girl who finds Chervona Ruta, "Red Rue" in Ukrainian, on Ivan Kupala Day, will be happy in love?
...that British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?
...that the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon?
...that American football head coach Skip Holtz is the son of the famed college football coach Lou Holtz?
...that Southampton Corporation Tramways tram No. 45 was purchased for preservation by the Light Railway Transport League?
...that novelist Joseph Conrad was strongly influenced by his uncle and mentor Tadeusz Bobrowski, who is himself remembered in Poland as a notable memoirist?
...that the U.S. Supreme Court case Radovich v. National Football League, which held professional football subject to antitrust law, began with a brief drafted on the back of a napkin?
...that Funny Car drag racing pioneer Jack Chrisman set a class record at 188 mph, only to have the engine blow up two weeks later and the car burn to the ground?
...that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote the story for the 1938 Columbia movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island?
...that Keewassee, a Potowatomi warrior, attempted to destroy a dam built by settler William Davis and was severely beaten with a hickory rod when caught?
...that Marzieh Meshkini's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine-year-old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
...that Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?
...that Paul Cézanne's The Bathers is often considered his greatest work and one of the masterpieces of modern art?
...that rumored use of lard or tallow, offensive for religious reasons, to lubricate paper cartridges was one of the causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
...that John Knatchbull was the first person to plead moral insanity in Australia?
...that over 120,000 cubic yards of asbestos-containing sediment from an active, slow moving landslide is deposited into Swift Creek, Washington each year?
...that critics from the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly have described "The Other Woman" as the worst episode yet of the fourth season of the television show Lost?
...that Kashmir Singh, an Indian spy, was released last week after 35 years of captivity in Pakistan?
...that the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims uses 70,000 fiber optic lights to represent the number of people killed by the atomic bomb?
...that film composer Mateo Messina has written a benefit symphony concert for the Seattle Children's Hospital each year for the past decade?
...that Grover Cleveland laid the cornerstone of the central sculpture at Lafayette Square when he was Mayor of Buffalo, and dedicated it when he was New York Governor?
...that George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, helped organise the building of fifty new churches to replace those lost in the Great Fire of London?
...that the wood of Myoporum sandwicense, a shrub-like plant known as "bastard sandalwood", was used by the early Hawaiians as log frames for thatched houses and torches for night fishing?
...that gothic Trinity College Kirk, a 1460 memorial to King James II of Scotland, was demolished in 1848 to make way for Edinburgh's Waverley Station?
...that Epigraphia Carnatica, compiled by Benjamin L. Rice, contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the Old Mysore region of India?
...that the American Loyalist surveyor Augustus Jones fled to Canada, where he raised families by a Mohawk wife and a Mississauga mistress?
...that double flowers were first documented as a floral abnormality in ancient Greece and are found in many common flower varieties including impatiens , carnations, camellias and roses?
...that Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror, but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I, then Henry II and then Henry VIII?
...that Russian musician Vassily Vassilievich Andreyev is considered the father of the academic folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe?
...that the Australian common Leaf curling spider is unusual in that pairs cohabit in the same leaf, though at opposite ends, even before mating at maturity?
...that Arthur A. Denny, one of Seattle's founders and a lifelong teetotaler, had customers buy their liquor from sea captains so he could stay out of the transactions?
...that Soviet scholars coined the term ‘democratic satire’ to describe the three-century old Russian tale of Frol Skobeev?
...that Union's Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church was the first church in New Jersey to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
...that Nalknad Palace in the Indian state of Karnataka was the final refuge of Chikka Veerarajendra, the last king of Kodagu?
...that David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party?
...that 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake?
...that despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934?
...that the Channel-billed Cuckoo of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia is the world's largest brood parasite?
...that American late model dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series?
...that Canterbury Music Hall, which opened in 1852, was the first purpose-built tavern music hall?
...that Vietnamese-born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs?
...that Bishop George Algernon West, the Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954, became for two months the Bishop of Atlanta, Georgia while the Japanese occupied Burma?
...that the author of The Strange Death of Tory England advises UK Conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the socialist George Orwell?
...that Western Brook Pond, a landlocked fjord in Gros Morne National Park on the island of Newfoundland, was the site of a 30 m (98 ft) tsunami in the early 20th century?
...that the water managed by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company of London was once described by a microbiologist as "the most disgusting I have ever examined"?
...that the subject in art of Christ taking leave of his Mother has no biblical basis but derives from medieval devotional writing?
...that Union Army Paymaster General Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
...that the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse represented in its collection?
...that Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front?
...that the Willamette Collegian, the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon, was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
...that Eugenio Perez was the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives when the Philippines became independent from the United States in 1946?
...that Arthur Sullivan's Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected British victory in the Boer War, but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered?
...that the 1951 film Where No Vultures Fly is a fictionalised account of the work of the conservationist Mervyn Cowie?
...that Victory Boulevard , running the 25-mile length of the San Fernando Valley, is mentioned in Randy Newman's I Love LA: "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?
...that before Danish director Bille August made his Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror, he had great domestic success with the children's television series and movie Busters verden?
...that part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 was rushed through, which enabled the Russian government to allow Matisse's painting of The Dance into the UK?
...that the book Description of Africa by the Muslim slave Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the North African Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance?
...that in his easy re-election in the 2004 North Dakota gubernatorial election John Hoeven was endorsed by the state teachers' union, which normally supports Democrats?
...that Broad Clyst railway station attracted residential development in the immediate area and even today the area around the former station is known as "Broadclyst Station"?
...that the Kaipara Harbour of Northland, New Zealand, was named at a hāngi on the Pouto Peninsula, at which the para fern (Marattia salicina) was served?
...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial , which deteriorated during its building?
...that Pope Pius XII Church policies after World War II involved global reconstruction of war-damaged Catholic institutions?
...that in 999, Bishop Bernard of Gaeta had to seek help from an aide of the Emperor Otto III to force the diocese's slaves to work?
...that Alex, the Stroh's dog that would fetch and pour beer, died of cancer?
...that the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia's First Baptist Church, due to a smallpox outbreak?
...that the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations required all 241 UK work-related deaths in 2006/7 to be reported — even if the victims take a year to die?
...that current Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to the OAS Jorge Valero, a vocal spokesman for the Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
...that the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio, a hotel, apartments, a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?
...that the tragic ending of Shakespeare's King Lear was found to be so distasteful that it was replaced on stage for over 150 years by Nahum Tate's adaptation , with a happy ending and a love story?
...that the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne, first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the A$41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
...that Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"?
...that most urban water service providers in Peru can be considered bankrupt as water bills are often not paid?
...that Mrs Sherwood's evangelical story The History of Little Henry and his Bearer was in print for 70 years after its publication in 1814 and was translated into eight languages?
...that Dr. Demento , a DJ specializing in novelty songs and parodies, got his start at KRRC (FM), the student-run radio station of Reed College?
...that after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964, Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people?
...that the discovery of gold by Custer's 1874 Expedition triggered the gold rush that precipitated the Black Hills War?
...that Giovanni Faber , doctor to the Pope, botanist and art collector, coined the name "microscope"?
...that the Town Hall in Słupsk, Poland, was built on land reclaimed from a lake?
...that The Queen producer Andy Harries was fired as a newsreader for speaking too fast in a broadcast?
...that Larrys Creek in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed, including one named "Little Dog Run"?
...that the Hertford East Branch Line, a railway line in the United Kingdom, used to link to the Hertford Loop Line but was severed due to the Beeching Axe?
...that medieval cycles of the Life of the Virgin could have as many as 53 scenes before reaching the Annunciation of her pregnancy?
...that Tibetan Buddhist monks attending a shedra university may be asked to completely memorize their school texts before they begin to study them?
...that The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a controversial 1981 novella by George Steiner in which Hitler is found alive in the Amazon jungle and claims to be the Jews' benefactor?
...that the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas-producing oil field in California, and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
...that the 1989 Spanish film If They Tell You I Fell was nominated for seven Goya Awards?
...that the main opposition party Fidesz supported the 2003 Hungarian European Union membership referendum but warned that up to 100,000 jobs could be lost?
...that as New York's General Counsel, Michael C. Finnegan ended a century-old debate over New York City's water supply when he brokered the New York City Watershed Agreement?
...that Museum Wharf in Boston has a 40' (12 m) tall milk bottle that was built during the Great Depression and transported to the wharf by barge in the 1970s?
...that Bhanbhagta Gurung returned to his farm in Nepal in 1946, after receiving a Victoria Cross for his actions while serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma?
...that the troop transport USS Wakefield, a former luxury liner, operated in World War II as a "lone wolf" by relying on her speed to avoid Nazi U-Boats?
...that Scottish footballer Kevin Bremner scored for five different teams in the Football League during the 1982–83 season?
...that legend at Banagher says its church was founded by a saint, led there by a stag acting as a lectern and carrying a book on its antlers?
...that state representative Dianne Primavera, a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?
...that because of its dorsal fin, Carolus Linnaeus first described the Permit as Labrus falcatus, with the latter part of the scientific name meaning "armed with scythes?"
...that former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club?
...that in 1955, black promoter Thurman Ruth booked the Selah Jubilee Singers, to perform in a music venue, New York's Apollo Theater, the first gospel group to play commercially?
...that writer and spinster Lady Louisa Stuart wrote a ballad about cannibal brothers and the fate of a woman who married for money?
...that Robert DeBlieux, a former mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana, was the local advisor when the film Steel Magnolias was shot in the city?
...that Lieutenant Commander Willis Lent and his submarine the USS Triton fired the first United States Navy torpedo to be used against the Japanese during World War II?
...that Pope Innocent XIII was not elected till the seventy-fifth ballot at the papal conclave in 1721?
...that the first Dutch satellite, the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it?
...that the Willhire 24 Hour race became the first 24 hour endurance race to take place in the United Kingdom in 1980?
...that the painting Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten by Hans Gude was sold by the Kunsthalle Bremen art museum in part because its large size—4.76 m² (52 square feet)—made it difficult to store?
...that singer Irvan Perez was considered to be one of the last performers of the traditional Isleño décimas of Louisiana, since there are few members of that community who still know how to sing the songs?
...that Canada's first urban Indian reserve was established in 1981 at Kylemore, Saskatchewan?
...that nearly a decade before the official Bordeaux wine classification was released, the directory Cocks & Féret published their own ranking of Bordeaux wine estates?
...that the Best Bakery case is a legal case involving the killing of 14 people in Vadodara, India, during the 2002 Gujarat violence?
...that 75 people in the Soviet Union were awarded the Order of the Red Banner, with their names published in Pravda, for the successful mass deportations out of the Baltic States in 1949?
...that "Brave" Admiral Benbow , celebrated in song, was compensated by the British Treasury after a three month visit by Tsar Peter the Great left his house "entirely ruined"?
...that the establishment of the quaestura exercitus by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I helped to economically secure the lower Danube region?
...that Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
...that the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu, Greece, donated by Maria Desylla-Kapodistria the first female Greek mayor, was dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias?
...that Gamma, a gamma-ray telescope, was launched in 1990, 25 years after it was originally conceived?
...that botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition?
...that Mosida, Utah was a failed planned community whose developers tried to irrigate the desert with water pumped from Utah Lake?