derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Battle of Kostiuchnówka during the Brusilov Offensive in summer 1916 is considered the largest and most vicious of the battles involving the Polish Legions?
...that scientist and concert pianist Manfred Clynes used principles of neuroscience to develop SuperConductor, a computer program that can "perform" classical music with its own expressive intonation?
...that the conclusions of the fact-finding McNamara Taylor mission to South Vietnam were drafted before the trip had started?
...that French adventurer Marie-Charles David de Mayréna was supposed to negotiate treaties with the local people in an 1888 expedition to present-day Vietnam, but instead formed a new Kingdom of Sedang with himself as the king?
...that the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Victoria features a collection of busts of all 25 predecessors of the recently elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd?
...that when the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad opened to the public in 1892 it took 14 minutes to travel the 3.6 mile (5.8 km) route?
...that French anarchist Theodule Meunier, responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard?
...that Ukrainian impressionist Ivan Trush painted a number of portraits of famous Ukrainians, among them Vasyl Stefanyk, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Drahomanov, Mykola Lysenko, and Ivan Franko?
...that the Society for Savings Building , a high-rise building in Cleveland, is widely considered to be the first modern skyscraper in the state of Ohio?
...that quarterbacks Billy Joe Tolliver and David Archer were teammates as backups in the National Football League, but competed against each other as starters in the Canadian Football League?
...that the capture of King Louis IX during the Seventh Crusade prompted as many as 60,000 young shepherds in France to participate in the Shepherds' Crusade in 1251?
...that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sylvan Fox was a classically trained pianist who attended, but never graduated from, the Juilliard School?
...that Pampa Sarovar, the place in Hindu mythology where Shiva's consort Parvati performed penance to show her devotion to him, is a lake in Karnataka?
...that Cuban economist Felipe Pazos was ordered to be executed by Raúl Castro in 1959, but was ultimately spared and allowed to leave the country?
...that the Gothic Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha in Coimbra, Portugal, stayed abandoned under mud and water for over 300 years before it was rescued in an archaeological intervention?
...that despite its name, the Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway connected neither to Chicago nor Saginaw?
...that the first episode of talk show Shomoyer Kotha drew media attention when a former U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh jokingly commented that Bangladeshis sometimes tend to be conspiratorial?
...that an Anglo-Allied army of 23,000 men failed to capture the Spanish port of Tarragona from a small Franco-Italian force of 1,600 during the Peninsular War, sending the losing general to a court-martial afterwards?
...that the tallest building in Tulsa, Oklahoma is the 667-foot (203 m) BOK Tower?
...that the Soviet Armenian biochemist Norair Sisakian was considered as one of the founders of space biology?
...that United States Navy Rear Admiral Charles A. Curtze qualified for the 1936 Summer Olympics as a gymnast, but the State Department prohibited him from traveling to Nazi-ruled Germany?
...that the Polish painter Alexander Kucharsky is best known for his portraits of the French royal family, including the doomed Louis XVII ?
...that, in November 2002, autonomous regions replaced departments as the first-level administrative subdivisions of Peru in an attempt to achieve an effective decentralization of the country?
...that the Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway is the only reference route in New York owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation?
...that ancient jousting battles near Smisby in Derbyshire provided the inspiration for a similar scene in the book Ivanhoe?
...that excavations of earthworks conducted in the 19th century revealed evidence of possible Belgic fortifications at the site of Sharsted Court, a manor house near Newnham, Kent, England?
...that Jan IV Oświęcimski, the duke of Oświęcim from 1445 to 1456, harassed the King of Poland so much that he was paid a debt that was promised him four years earlier?
...that the German 15 cm sFH 18 was the first field gun to use Rocket Assisted Projectiles?
...that Judy Garland is considered a gay icon for her "wonderfully over-the-top" film characters including her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in the The Wizard of Oz?
...that as the result of a deal before the 2000 general election, Paul Bérenger became the first non-Hindu Prime Minister of Mauritius in 2003?
...that a platoon of the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first segregated African-American unit of the US Army to receive a Distinguished Unit Citation?
...that Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome?
...that Christian anarchist Dave Andrews was excommunicated from the parachurch Youth With A Mission?
...that the Caribou Inuit people are defined by their fur clothing, use of sled dogs and their snowhouses?
...that gay screenwriter Marco Pennette was outed in front of his parents on the People's Choice Awards red carpet by a colleague who asked him about his boyfriend?
...that the Hindu serpent goddess Manasa, the "destroyer of poison", is worshiped mostly in the rainy season when the snakes are most active?
...that the GAM-63 RASCAL , introduced in 1952 by the United States Air Force, was the first American standoff nuclear missile, capable of being launched by a plane up to 100 miles from its target?
...that the region of Cieszyn Silesia was in 1920 divided by the Spa Conference between Poland and Czechoslovakia and remains divided to date?
...that the Hoover Dam is an arch-gravity dam, combining the load-bearing features of a gravity dam and an arch dam?
...that the final text of the Durban Declaration produced by the governments meeting at the World Conference against Racism 2001 does not contain the language that caused the Israeli and United States delegations to withdraw halfway through?
...that former Michigan Wolverines football player Keith Bostic was elected by his teammates as the toughest guy on the National Football League Houston Oilers defense?
...that the Western Islands Planning Area in Singapore houses the world's third largest refining centre, located in Jurong Island?
...that in 1386, Georgia was invaded by Tamerlane and his Turco-Mongol forces, who sacked Tbilisi and captured the Georgian king Bagrat V?
...that when Gyo Obata designed Great American Insurance Building at Queen City Square, he was inspired by Princess Diana's tiara for the top of the building?
...that the Mezhyhirskyi Monastery in Ukraine, mentioned in Nikolai Gogol’s novel Taras Bulba, is thought to have included the lost library of Yaroslav the Wise?
...that Cliff Mapes, a Major League outfielder who played only three full seasons, was the starting right fielder for the New York Yankees' first of five consecutive world championships, in 1949?
...that National Scientist Dr. Fe del Mundo was the first Filipina enrolled in Harvard Medical School and the only female student at that time?
...that a PRR Class E6 steam locomotive powered train equipped with a mobile darkroom for developing newsreels en route, delivered footage from Washington to New York faster than a chartered plane?
...that All-American Bump Elliott and his brother Pete Elliott played halfback and quarterback for the Michigan football team that beat the USC Trojans 49-0 in the Rose Bowl 60 years ago on 1 Jan. 1948?
...that in 1999, Song Il-gon became the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival?
...that the name of Stob Choire Claurigh in Scotland translates from Gaelic as “Peak of the Brawling Corrie”, referring to the roaring of the stags inhabiting the corries of the mountain during the breeding season?
...that Heinrich Steinhowel, a 15th-century German scholar and humanist who was physician to Eberhard, Count of Württemberg, is better known for translating Aesop's Fables into German?
...that wine made from the Italian grape Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso was praised by Pliny the Elder and a favorite of Caesar Augustus' wife Livia?
...that the Brocard points, the Brocard circle and the Brocard triangle are named after French geometer Henri Brocard, who spent most of his life studying meteorology with no notable original contributions to the subject?
...that Ernest Dynes, best known as an English cricketer in the 1920s and 1930s, served as Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II between 1955 and 1957, for which he was awarded the CBE?
...that William W. Bedsworth, a judge at the California Courts of Appeal, is also a goal judge with the National Hockey League?
...that prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II, there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable?
...that Campanula gelida, an endemic species of a bellflower, grows in nature only on one rock in the Czech Republic?
...that the Crested Shelduck is a critically endangered duck that has not been definitively seen since 1964, despite a handful of possible sightings and numerous surveys of its presumed habitat?
...that the 2007 film 10 MPH documents a 100-day, 4,064-mile journey across the United States on a Segway scooter?
...that Danish-American artist Antonio Jacobsen was called the "Audubon of Steam Vessels" for the scope, breadth and intricate details in the 6,000 works of sail and steam ships he painted?
...that the Stora Istad wind park had to reduce its power output to below 10 MW in order to comply with Swedish law?
...that Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov was the author of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin erected in the USSR during the period of Stalinism?
...that U.S. Route 199 is numbered as a spur of U.S. Route 99, which no longer exists?
...that carbonate hardgrounds were most commonly formed during calcite sea intervals in the Ordovician and Jurassic periods in Earth's history, but were virtually absent from the aragonite seas of the Permian era?
...that The Faun, a rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin, displayed for a decade by the Art Institute of Chicago and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh?
...that according to the Books of Kings, ancient Egyptians captured and burnt down the Canaanite town of Gezer and gave it as a dowry to the Pharaoh's daughter?
...that Baseball Hall of Fame manager John McGraw said that Bill Monroe "was the greatest infielder he had ever seen"?
...that the Hennepin, which transported construction aggregate around the Great Lakes early in the 20th century, was the first self-unloading bulk carrier in the world?
...that Mohammed Atif Siddique was sentenced to imprisonment after being charged with collecting online files related to the War on Terror and encouraging classmates to watch videos of beheadings?
...that short draw is a hand spinning technique that produces yarn suitable for weaving but not knitting?
...that Quoc An Temple in Huế was founded by a Zen monk from China, whose disciple lineage covers most of the Buddhists in southern Vietnam?
...that Kazys Grinius , the third Lithuanian President, was deposed in a military coup on his 60th birthday?
...that Harry Blackmun's colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court felt his long history of baseball in the Flood v. Kuhn majority opinion was beneath the Court's dignity?
...that former Drexel University president Hollis Godfrey was an advisory member of Woodrow Wilson's Council of National Defense?
...that the 1976 Football League Cup win made Tony Book the first to do so as both a player and manager?
...that Hillary Rodham called children's rights a "slogan in need of a definition"?
...that in 1261, Caesar Alexios Strategopoulos reconquered Constantinople from the Latins, thereby restoring the Byzantine Empire?
...that the Saviour's Lutheran Church in Baku, Azerbaijan survived Joseph Stalin's rule by promising to pray for him?
...that Tran Cao Van's plot to install Duy Tan as the independent boy Emperor of Vietnam happened only after he bribed the boy's chauffeur into allowing him access?
...that Stieg Larsson's posthumously published Swedish crime novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was a best-seller critically compared with War and Peace?
...that Bordeaux wine merchants in the Middle Ages, concerned about the competition from nearby regions, prohibited trading access to Bordeaux until most of their wine was sold?
...that blind Nguyen Dinh Chieu's writings praising Vietnamese revolutionary Truong Dinh saw him regarded as the leading revolutionary poet in the south?
...that the author Amulya Malladi, an expatriate Indian, said that when she first moved to Denmark that "Danish sounded to me like the buzzing of bees"?
...that 13 years after his death in 1875, the future Royal College of Art found a letter from the widow of Richard Burchett, headmaster for over 20 years, asking for a pension?
...that the Buddha statue of Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang, Vietnam is a major vantage point over the city?
...that canvaswork designs of plants called slips appliquéd on silk or velvet were often based on woodcuts from herbals?
...that Grits Gresham, the former host of ABC's The American Sportsman, revealed that Ronald Reagan used a gun to rescue a nurse from a mugging?
...the Trim and Fit weight loss programme targeting obesity in Singaporean schoolchildren resulted in its participants suffering from teasing and stigmatization?
...that the formulas John Knox and Harlan J. Brothers came up with to calculate e were no more difficult than college-level calculus?
...that people from County Carlow in Ireland are nicknamed "scallion-eaters" because, in the early 19th century, Carlow town supplied most of the onions in Leinster?
...that Dada artist Marcel Duchamp's Bottle Rack was mistakenly thrown away as garbage?
...that Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was the first military woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron?
...that the Lithuanian Electricity Organization, a planned energy holding company, will be responsible for building a new nuclear power plant in Ignalina in 2015?
...that Hödekin, a house spirit of German folklore, is best known for saving the wife of a man of Hildesheim from committing adultery?
...that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
...that the advice of Nguyen Thanh helped to form the partnership between Prince Cuong De and Phan Boi Chau in working against French rule of Vietnam?
...that Douglas Fraser's lobbying and member mobilization were critical in convincing U.S. Congress to provide $1.2 billion in loans to a near-bankrupt Chrysler in 1979?
...that the initial Vietcong reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that killed Ngo Dinh Diem was that it must have been a trick?
...that Gregg Nations made his Lost writing debut with the episode "Eggtown" after being the script coordinator for over two seasons?
...that the Siege of Candia in the Cretan War (1645-1669), lasted almost 22 years?
...that under the Vijayanagara empire, Kannada literature made major progress due to the development of its native metres?
...that according to TV critic Gareth McLean, none of the Britons featured in the Channel 4 documentary series New Hero of Comedy are "Heroes"?
...that the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company doubled its patronage by providing Liberty University's shuttle bus service?
...that naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold and Niels Juel are buried in Copenhagen's Church of Holmen?
...that Nguyen Quyen, principal of the Tonkin Free School, got his first teaching job by default?
...that Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?
...that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
...that a papabile was asked during the papal conclave of 1572 by a representative of King Philip II of Spain to withdraw his candidacy in order to maintain peace in Italy?
...that Anstey Hill Recreation Park in Adelaide, South Australia contains ruins of what was the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere?
...that the Imperial Russian Navy operated the Satakundskaya Flotilla, a gunboat unit on a Finnish lake during World War I, without ever actually firing a gun?
...that construction for the bobsleigh, luge, and track to be used for the 2014 Winter Olympics has been delayed due to high downhill grades and location near a World Heritage Site, including near an endangered species of brown bear?
...that two of North Carolina's most prominent authors, Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry, are buried near each other in the Riverside Cemetery in the Montford Area Historic District in Asheville?
...that Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all visited the Yelverton Inn in Chester, New York?
...that John Duncan, a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary, was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
...that softball pitcher Vicki Morrow was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and striking out 446 batters?
...that the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours included peerages for the heads of the British armed services of World War II and the first awards of the newly inaugurated Defence Medal?
...that The Monkees' 1967 hit "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey, where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, lived?
...that a study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle?
...that the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine?
...that the Milion of Constantinople was the origin of all the roads into the European cities of the Byzantine Empire?
...that Sariputra, one the two chief disciples of Gautama Buddha, is frequently featured in the Jatakas alongside Mahamoggallana and the Buddha in their past lives?
...that Frederic A. Godcharles served as a Pennsylvania Representative and Senator, as director of its state library and museum, and wrote twelve volumes on its history?
...that prior to Interstate 410 and the Interstate Highway System, Texas State Highway Loop 13 was the primary loop around San Antonio?
...that since 1967 the state of Tamil Nadu in India has been ruled by Dravidian parties?
...that photos of the rogue wave encountered by the MS Stolt Surf contributed to the growing evidence of their presence in the deep ocean?
...that the map by Piri Reis, a 16th century Islamic cartographer, is the oldest surviving Turkish map to show the Americas?
...that there is a disagreement on whether Hurricane Emilia was a Category 5 hurricane?
...that Jakub Wejher, one of 17th century Poland's richest magnates, founded the town of Wejherowo?
...that writer Charles Hamilton's estate complained to the BBC that the character played by Peter Stephens in The Celestial Toymaker too closely resembled Hamilton's Billy Bunter?
...that the Joint Communique in 1963 to end South Vietnam's Buddhist crisis broke down in one day, after a scuffle between Buddhists and police?
...that the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky"?
...that Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was buried in St. Francis Church in India?
...that the Swedish American Line was the first transatlantic shipping company to operate a diesel-engined ocean liner?
...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
...that the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen published Scivias to share her religious visions?
...that David Owen Dodd was a 17-year-old boy hanged as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War?
...that more than one million people in China invested in the Yilishen Tianxi Group Ponzi scheme, which involved breeding ants to be used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine?
...that the upcoming Paramount Pictures film G.I. Joe, based on the toy line, had its development delayed because of the Iraq War?
...that Lithuanian supermarkets offered cheaper beer, chocolate and soap to those who voted in the 2003 Lithuanian European Union membership referendum?
...that the origins of Cabernet Sauvignon were likely an accidental crossing of Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc?
...that the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 between the Anglicans and the Quakers of Philadelphia was caused by their inability to agree on who would supervise the election?
...that John Story, the first Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford, was elected to parliament, gaoled, exiled, re-elected, kidnapped, put in the Tower, tortured, hanged, drawn and quartered, and finally beatified?
...that Ben Chapman, the actor who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon, was a veteran of the Korean War?
...that the Ferry County Carousel in Republic, Washington has 24 jumping horses with colors ranging from Appaloosa to Red Sorrel?
...that psychoanalytic literary critics blame Volumnia, a character in Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, for her son Coriolanus' aggressive behavior?
...that the relatively advanced age and poor health of Pope Paul III contributed to his successful election to the papacy in 1534?
...that listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct , sundial, icehouse, clock tower, telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl?
...that the trial of Satanta and Big Tree was the first time Native American war chiefs were tried for acts committed during a war party?
...that Frederick Law Olmsted planned for The Dorchesterway to extend his Emerald Necklace park system all the way to Boston Harbor?
...that at 1,328 feet (405 m) above sea level, Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is the most elevated road between the Rockies and Alleghenies?
...that, despite being blinded and dismissed for attempting to depose Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos, General Alexios Philanthropenos was later recalled to service?
...that Kinkri Devi waged a war on illegal mining and quarrying in her native Indian state of Himachal Pradesh despite her illiteracy?
...that British MP Peter Thomas was the first Conservative politician to serve as Secretary of State for Wales and the first Welshman to become party chairman?
...that Master Juba was the first top billing black man in a blackface minstrel show?
...that the country music group Carter's Chord comprises three sisters, whose parents were in Waylon Jennings' band The Waylors?
...that Kochi in Kerala, India is the only place where Chinese fishing nets are used outside of China?
...that the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day?
...that the cutter HMS Entreprenante was the smallest British warship at the Battle of Trafalgar?
...that Morarji Desai is India's only Finance Minister to have tabled the Union budget twice on his birthday?
...that the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history?
...that Douglas Barton Osborne Savile showed that the coevolution of rust fungi and their host plants could be used as an aid to plant taxonomy?
...that the US Supreme Court ruled a defendant has a fundamental right not to be tried in court if he lacks a rational and factual understanding of the charges against him?
...that Princess Helena of the United Kingdom was the first of Queen Victoria's relations to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary?