derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team has won 1,950 games in 98 seasons and holds the record for consecutive 20-win seasons, with 31 seasons from 1970 through 2001?
... that French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac once lived in the house on the Moika River Embankment which now hosts the Consulate-General of France in Saint Petersburg?
... that Orthodera novaezealandiae is a praying mantis native only to New Zealand?
... that the roller ship was a steamship, raised above the water like a hydrofoil and moving on several large wheels?
... that the Creation Evidence Museum sponsors hunts for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea?
... that rising 600 feet above the surrounding plains, Double Mountain in Stonewall County, Texas is the most prominent point for 159 miles?
... that when Andy Stern challenged Richard Cordtz for the presidency of the SEIU labor union, Cordtz fired him for insubordination?
... that Horatio Nelson's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger?
... that a Western Hartebeest can run at speeds of up to 80 km/h (50 mph), making it one of the fastest antelopes?
... that Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument?
... that the Russian frigate Oryol was completed in 1669 as the first Russian naval ship, and flew the earliest recorded white, blue, and red Russian flag?
... that the Swiss manufacturer Synthes is the largest producer of implants to mend bone fractures?
... that cricketer Roger Kimpton also won an Oxford University tennis tournament and a golf blue, and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross as a Second World War fighter pilot?
... that the 30 Rock episode "Secrets and Lies" was performed live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre to show support for the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike?
... that when the Common Tunnel opened in 1928 it made the Holmenkoll Line the first underground railway in Scandinavia?
... that the 1998 film Goodbye, 20th Century! features a sequence where a man dressed like Santa Claus attends a wake that turns violent to the sound of Sid Vicious singing "My Way"?
... that in the 1972 census there were an estimated 580,000 Jamnapari goats in India?
... that Delta, Minas Gerais in Brazil, despite having a population of 6,600, had no banks as of 2007?
... that mountaineer Ger McDonnell, the first Irish person to summit K2, brought a hurley to the summit of Mount Everest in 2003?
... that due to disappointing previous tests, the third prototype of Avro 533 Manchester plane was never fitted with engines?
... that the 210-year old Gate of Mercy Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Mumbai?
... that Edgar Stillman Kelley and his wife traveled around Europe lecturing on American classical music?
... that in 1787–1788, Barthélemy de Lesseps traveled overland the full length of Russia to deliver reports from the La Pérouse expedition to the French Ambassador in St. Petersburg and from there continued on to Paris?
... that Holyhead High School, located on the Welsh island of Anglesey, was the first British comprehensive school?
... that an image within photosensitive glass is the most durable form of photography and will last as long as glass itself?
... that Rogers Orchards in Southington, Connecticut has been owned and run by seven generations of the same family since 1807?
... that Northern Irish singer Clodagh Rodgers received death threats from the IRA after performing "Jack in the Box" at the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest?
... that the Spanish AMX-30E underwent an extensive modernization program between 1989 and 1993, dramatically improving the tank's mobility, firepower and accuracy?
... that Roger Connor, whose brother Joe Connor was also a baseball player, was the first to hit an over-the-wall home run at Polo Grounds?
... that David Pendleton Oakerhater, a Cheyenne warrior who fought at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, was declared a saint of the Episcopal Church in 1985?
... that, on the day he broke Mark Spitz' 10-year world record in the 100 meters butterfly, Joe Bottom overslept and missed his pre-race warmup swim?
... that the colonels' group dominated the Polish government for most of the history of the Second Polish Republic?
... that during his days as a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama worked as a consultant and trainer for the Gamaliel Foundation?
... that the Paul MacCready-designed Solar Challenger was the first solar-powered aircraft capable of sustained, high-altitude flight?
... that William Hogarth was paid sixty guineas to paint Taste in High Life , a 1742 oil-on-canvas that pokes fun at the fashion of the upper class?
... that Lola ya Bonobo near Kinshasa is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos?
... that Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts?
... that Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes, an early Elizabethan stage play whose authorship is unknown, is thought to have influenced several of William Shakespeare's plays?
... that Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during Joseph Stalin's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
... that as a publicity stunt, Indy 500 driver Harry Hartz drove a car backwards across the United States?
... that the namesake family of Fuller's London Pride ale, live in Neston Park, an English country house in Wiltshire?
... that proposals in the 2008 Australian Federal budget included a A$3 billion increase in tax on alcopops?
... that the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine"?
... that British Columbia's Disaster Response Route network, while mostly consisting of roads, also includes marine routes?
... that in her début at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Tao Li broke the Asian record for the 100 m butterfly twice and became the first Singaporean swimmer to enter an Olympic final?
... that the first three residents of the John Kane House were a man nearly hanged for treason, a Patriot turned British Loyalist, and George Washington?
... that Carl Rungius was the most important big game painter and the first career wildlife artist in North America?
... that West Indies Power is a company developing geothermal power in Nevis, Saba and Dominica?
... after being headmaster of St. Bees School, George Mallaby joined the army, rose to Colonel, became High Commissioner to New Zealand, and was knighted?
... that international reaction to 2008 Tibetan unrest has included police protecting the Chinese embassy in Reykjavík, Iceland, from a peaceful demonstration?
... that in 2007, the John Edwards's headquarters in the online game Second Life was attacked by the griefing group the Patriotic Nigras?
... that due to the American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports increase by a factor of 29.6?
... that parts of the veiled stinkhorn Phallus indusiatus have been consumed by lifeforms as diverse as bees, flies, Chinese diplomats and Henry Kissinger?
... that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae?
... that a lantern in the steeple of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was the rear lamp of the Fort Sumter Range Lights?
... that Pedro Pizarro, a Spanish chronicler and conquistador, took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it?
... that according to Pliny the Elder, Quintus Valerius Soranus was the first writer to include a table of contents in his works?
... that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass?
... that the Bardwell-Ferrant House in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was built in 1883 as a Queen Anne style house and then given onion-domed towers in an 1890 Moorish Revival makeover?
... that taxis in Brunei have license plates with white letters on a green background to distinguish them from private vehicles?
... that the FC Büsingen, a German football club formed in 1924, had a nut tree in its playing field penalty area until 1927, when it was cut down?
... that the Passer Angelfish undergoes large changes in coloration during its transition from juvenile to sexually mature, going from bright orange, yellow, and blue to a drab brownish-black color?
... that law professor and anti-tobacco activist John F. Banzhaf III started his career as an electrical engineer?
... that the Ryazan miracle in 1959 was an apparent tripling of agricultural production in the Soviet Union?
... that the Barcol hardness test was developed during World War II for the U.S. Army Air Corps to check that airplane rivets had not been sabotaged?
... that the Manila Grand Opera House also served as a theater, residence, cinema and nightclub before its original building was demolished and re-constructed as a hotel?
... that Union Army officials offered US$5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas?
... that delay certificates issued by railway companies in Japan and Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?
... that when the namesake of Yardley, Pennsylvania, William Yardley, moved from England to Pennsylvania in 1682, he took with him 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of shoes?
... that the yellow flesh of the edible mushroom Russula aurea distinguishes it from the peppery-tasting and inedible sickener?
... that the sudden collapse of the Pemberton Mill was one of the worst industrial accidents in American history?
... that in 1922, the Chicago Police Department attempted to frame local labor leader Fred Mader for murder?
... that Steve Brye, in his first and only season as a starting outfielder in Major League Baseball, led the Minnesota Twins in doubles?
... that Vittorio Sella’s images of mountains were described by fellow photographer Ansel Adams as inspiring "a definitely religious awe"?
... that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of?
... that Puerto Rican journalist Héctor Feliciano has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II?
... that after two previous buildings burned down, the Town of Southeast, New York, built its 1896 town hall of less flammable material?
... that female Redtail Splitfin nourish their unborn young through organs known as trophotaeniae that function similar to umbilical cords in mammals?
... that Ireland's reality show Fáilte Towers takes its name from the BBC sitcom, Fawlty Towers?
... that there are over 2500 miles of interstate and U.S. highways in Washington?
... that Mal Cochrane is the hooker in the New South Wales Rugby League's "Indigenous Team of the Century"?
... that according to local tradition, on Midsummer's Eve the capstone of the Neolithic St Lythans burial chamber in Wales spins round three times, then all the stones bathe in a nearby river?
... that during the Great Depression, the New Order of Cincinnatus, accused by its opponents of fascist tendencies, successfully placed three candidates on the Seattle City Council?
... that the Saffron Parasol is actually a small orange mushroom found throughout temperate regions of Europe and North America?
... that the New Orleans-based family of master plasterer Earl Barthé has specialized in historical and decorative plasterwork since 1850?
... that The Sunday Times art critic, Frank Rutter, sheltered suffragettes released from prison under the Cat and Mouse Act, sometimes helping them to flee abroad?
... that the scientific name of Longnose trevally (Carangoides chrysophrys) means "golden eyebrow"?
... that an episode of 30 Rock, "Jack the Writer", contained a reference to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which both revolve around the off-camera happenings on a sketch comedy series?
... that Andy Tillman was the first North American llama breeder to win top honors at a major South American llama and alpaca show?
... that the boiler was the only part of the British steam locomotive 60163 Tornado that could not be made in Britain, and was instead built by the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works in Germany?
... that Kay Chorao's Cathedral Mouse was considered one of 1988's best picture books by the New York Times?
... that unlike Jesus, the Avignon popes did not object to the close proximity of religious centers and the Avignon Exchange?
... that the cartoon depiction of British model Christabel Leighton-Porter was said to have inspired the British 36th (Ulster) Division to advance six miles into Normandy in 1944?
... that Macleay's Spectre is a stick insect that grows up to 20 cm (8 inches) long?
... that the British ship of the line HMS Colchester, launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
... that eighteen years ago, medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?
... that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon?
... that the Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed in 1912?
... that on May 29, 1913, Johnny Beall was traded to the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers, only to return to his original major league team a month later?
... that the Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvínov pipeline does not start in Ingolstadt and does not run to Kralupy and Litvínov?
... that white kimchi, Shiitake mushrooms, and rice cakes made with mung beans are elements of Korean temple cuisine ?
... that the 1910 American cargo ship SS El Oriente was chartered by the Red Cross and was one of fourteen ships that sailed under the Swiss flag during World War II?
... that the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela?
... that the Walter Brewster House is the only Greek Revival home with a two-story colonnade in Putnam County, New York?
... that enemies of Viking chieftain Tryggve the Pretender claimed he was the bastard son of a priest?
... that the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania?
... that Pisanosaurus, from 228 to 216.5 million years ago, is the oldest known ornithischian dinosaur?
... that after the First National Bank of Brewster, New York, closed in 1964 the Town of Southeast made the building its new town hall?
... that only one of the cardinal electors in the papal conclave, 1304–1305, which elected Pope Clement V, who began the Avignon Papacy, was French?
... that chemosynthesis, the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight, was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh?
... that all four remaining species of island raccoons , found only on small Central American and Caribbean islands, are considered endangered?
... that Walter Scott and T. S. Eliot declared The Vanity of Human Wishes as Samuel Johnson's greatest poem?
... that in 1899, Bill Lange, a popular Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?
... that the protracted papal conclave, 1314–1316, the first of the Avignon Papacy, was mediated by three incumbent and future French monarchs in succession?
... that Union general John A. Logan seized a Confederate general's house as his headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina in 1865?
... that the name of Kazabazua in Quebec comes from the Algonquin word kachibadjiwan, meaning "underground river", and refers to the Kazabazua River which disappears underground?
... that ancient herds of White Park, a rare breed of horned cattle, have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages?
... that blues musician Henry Gray is credited as helping to create the distinctive sound of the Chicago blues piano?
... that though the mushroom Lactarius subdulcis is considered edible, it has a taste similar to ivy?
... that hula master George Na'ope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii?
... that Central African general Jean-Bédel Bokassa claimed that he seized his country's power to prevent Jean Izamo from doing the same?
... that Akersbanerne was founded in 1917 to build suburban tramways between Kristiania and Aker, Norway?
... that Dharmachari Aryadaka was the first paid Buddhist prison chaplain in Washington state?
... that Dutton-Waller Raised Tybee Cottage is one of few surviving historic raised cottages on Tybee Island, Georgia?
... that on July 11, 2008, the Kayelekera mine in Karonga, Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining?
... that John S. Preston was sent by South Carolina to convince Virginia to secede from the United States?
... that Peter Edmund Jones is believed to be the first Status Indian to receive a Medical Doctorate in Canada?
... that Émile Boga Doudou was killed on September 19, 2002 in Abidjan in the worst outbreak of violence in Cote d'Ivoire since a military coup d'etat in 1999?
... that the Berlin Circle in New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?
... that Northern Irish housewife Sarah Conlon's campaign to clear the names of her wrongfully-convicted husband and son led to an apology from then British Prime Minister Tony Blair?
... that the New York City Fire Department lost 12 firefighters in the 23rd Street Fire in 1966, the department's largest loss of life in a single incident until 343 officers were killed on September 11, 2001?
... that Charles Dickens once wrote that in Civil War-era Montana, a town was to be named after Varina Davis, the first lady of the Confederate States of America?
... that Bad Blood (2003), a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, was offered free of charge to members of the U.S. military returning from the Iraq war?
... that "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician?
... that the Turin-Milan Hours is thought to have involved at least 11 artists, and became physically separated into at least five sections?
... that the Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant will be the first Russian nuclear power plant with foreign shareholding?
... that 36 tropical and subtropical cyclones have formed outside the normal boundaries of an Atlantic hurricane season?
... that Archie McCardell, the business executive who led both Xerox and International Harvester, later owned and subdivided the farm which gave Pepperidge Farm its name?
... that it took over 50 years to complete the foundation of Jesus College, Oxford, as one Principal lost the draft statutes and the next one kept the replacement copy in his study for several years?
... that the C.E. Toberman Estate was used as the "trophy" house of Vincent Chase on the first two seasons of HBO's Entourage?
... that the Brühl, a single street in Leipzig, accounted for one-third of the world trade of furs in the 1920s?
... that the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke, Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall?
... that Jean-Baptiste Belley , a former slave from Saint-Domingue, became a member of the National Convention of France, where in 1794 he took part in the decision to abolish slavery?
... that the Endicott Pear Tree, located in Danvers, Massachusetts, is thought to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America?
... that the funerary art on the gravestones at Gilead Cemetery in Carmel, New York, illustrates changes in Protestant views of the role of death in the later 18th century?
... that the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma?
... that Max von Stephanitz, creator of the German Shepherd dog breed, also founded the Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde?
... that the Norfolk Biffin apple appears in the works of Charles Dickens and was sent from Norfolk to London for Sir Robert Walpole?
... that in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi?
... that "Methuen Duck Cloth", manufactured by David C. Nevins, Jr. , was used to make sails and tents in the tropics?
... that the SC Jülich 1910, record winner of the now defunct German amateur football championship, was the feature of a German television documentary?
... that the Convento Building is the largest adobe building in California and the largest original building at any of the Spanish missions in California?
... that Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar?
... that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home?
... that the Heights of Buildings Act of 1910 restricts the height of buildings in Washington D.C. to 20 ft (6 m) taller than the width of the street they face?
... that the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving Ottoman imperial mosque complex in Istanbul, Turkey?
... that legend says a quart of Bourbon whiskey rests under each of the six columns on the front of Giddings Hall at Georgetown College, the first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains?
... that although it twice elected Abraham Lincoln, New York in the American Civil War had his prominent Democrat critic, Horatio Seymour, as its governor?
... that Huta Stepanska, one of the largest Polish defense centers during the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia, was abandoned due to lack of ammunition?
... that Rob Morris's first home in La Grange, Kentucky was burned to the ground, and his books had to be saved by the Union army?
... that in 1923, University of Nebraska running back Dave Noble scored the first touchdown in Memorial Stadium?
... that the "Red Tower" of the Hackensack Water Company Complex completed in 1883 in Weehawken, New Jersey, combined offices and a 165,000-gallon water tank in a single 175-foot-high structure?
... that the Roanoke City Market in Downtown Roanoke is the oldest continuously operating farmers' market in the Commonwealth of Virginia?
... that Kenny Chesney's 2008 single "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" was initially recorded by George Strait, who had planned to include it on his 2008 album Troubadour?
... that the Shirakumo class destroyers were amongst the last destroyers purchased by the Imperial Japanese Navy from overseas shipyards?
... that after previously competing at the 2004 games in Athens, Brooklyn-bred Erinn Smart and her brother Keeth are again part of the U. S. Olympic fencing team at Beijing?
... that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état, Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched wine cellar stocked with vintage wines and whisky dating to the 1890s?
... that video sculpture is a medium that offers performing artists a chance to have a more permanent artistic forum?
... that Lydia Becker, founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal, was also an amateur botanist and friend of Charles Darwin?
... that after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game—one of the greatest upsets in college football history—MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?
... that the 1869 anarchist manifesto Catechism of a Revolutionary, which established the importance of Russian anarchist Sergey Nechayev , portrays the revolutionary as an amoral avenger?
... that Art Stewart, who was recently inducted into the Kansas City Royals Baseball Hall of Fame, was responsible for the drafting of 70 people who eventually became Major League Baseball players?
... that the bright red mushroom Hygrocybe miniata is found in rainforest and eucalypt forest in Australia and meadows in Europe and North America?
... that Michigan's Ludington Public Library was claimed as the library that will last a thousand years?