derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the first organized postal system in India was established between the British East India Company factories at Madras and Calcutta during the tenure of Edward Harrison?
... that Maher Arar was deported to Syria and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" by Project O Canada?
... that wildlife biologist Olaus Murie was the first American Fulbright Scholar to study in New Zealand?
... that Pogórzanie are an ethnic group of Poles from the Subcarpathian Voivodeship?
... that Clarence Hailey Long, a ranch foreman in the Texas Panhandle, was the inspiration for the original Marlboro Man advertising campaign by Philip Morris?
... that prison contemplative programs like meditation were used in 19th century Pennsylvania as an early prison reform?
... that after 12 years of legal tussling over delays and cost overruns on the Taipei Metro Muzha Line, the Taipei City Government was ordered to compensate its contractor Matra for US$50 million?
... that Minneapolis businessman Robert "Fish" Jones drove Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman down Nicollet Avenue in downtown Minneapolis on their post-war tours?
... that the Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem" is the first appearance of the eponymous aliens since the 1985 serial The Two Doctors?
... that the Lynchburg Ferry in Lynchburg, Texas is the oldest operating ferry service in Texas?
... that on every May 1, the hamlet of Ickwell celebrates May Day with dancing around a Maypole and with the crowning of a May Queen?
... that Ben Gold was just 14 years old when he was elected assistant shop chairman by his local union during the first furriers' strike in the United States?
... that the Abyssinian slave Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut was a close adviser and speculated to be the lover of Razia Sultana, the first and only female Sultan of Delhi?
... that by using the Bevatron and nuclear emulsion technique, Sulamith Goldhaber was the first person to observe nuclear interactions of the antiproton?
... that Durum wheat was used to make al-fidawsh, a dry pasta popular in Muslim Spain?
... that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was the second largest steel manufacturer in the USA before it merged with U.S. Steel in 1907?
... that Steven Spielberg filmed much of Amistad in Newport's downtown historic district because it has enough colonial buildings to resemble 1840s New Haven?
... that the ground living warblers in the genus Tesia appear to almost lack a tail and have very long legs?
... that the people of the planet Krikkit are the main antagonists in the Douglas Adams novel, Life, the Universe and Everything?
... that within the Special Economic Zone SEEPZ, Mumbai lies an abandoned Portuguese church built in 1579?
... that Jane Addams, Mother Jones and Abe Fortas have all made notable contributions to the history of children's rights in the United States?
... that the Piliyandala bombing of April 25, 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka since the January 16 Buttala attack?
... that the Tregenna Castle Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall was the Great Western Railway's first holiday destination hotel?
... that the bombardment of Brussels by French troops in 1695 was later described by Napoleon Bonaparte as being "as barbarous as it was useless"?
... that the Transition Towns movement inspired Totnes, England to introduce their own town-wide currency redeemable only in local shops?
... that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction?
... that in Grosvenor Park, in the city of Chester, is an archway which had been in the city's St Michael's Church?
... that Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?
... that Wade Phillips holds the best coaching record for the Atlanta Falcons, winning two out of the three games he coached?
... that Ratnakaravarni, the noted 16th-century Kannada poet of the Vijayanagara times, was an expert on erotic writings?
... that the Purna-Kalasha , worshipped by Hindus as the Divine Mother, symbolizes Mother Earth with her water, minerals and vegetation?
... that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be the missing head of a Colymbosaurus?
... that Richard Honaker, Bush nominee for U.S. District Judge in Wyoming, washed dishes in a work-study program while studying at Harvard University with future comedian Al Franken?
... that in 2007 the Royal Australasian College of Physicians revoked the teaching accreditation of Shellharbour Hospital due to a lack of senior staff?
... that Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party?
... that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green, Kentucky's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
... that Heinrich Böll's humorous short story Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral was written for a May Day broadcast on the Norddeutscher Rundfunk?
... that as part of Operation Noble Eagle , Canada provided air defense protection for the Super Bowl XL?
... that Marie Studholme, one of the popular postcard beauties of Edwardian musical comedy, was wooed by her wealthy second husband under an assumed name?
... that Norsk Transport has operated four railway ferries on Lake Tinnsjå in Norway?
... that in 1885, Bug Holliday became the first baseball player to make his Major League debut in post-season play?
... that American actress Kim Stanley was cast in the starring role of the 1964 British film Séance on a Wet Afternoon after Deborah Kerr and Simone Signoret turned down the part?
... that Rupprecht Gerngroß is considered the leader of the only successful putsch against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany?
... that the Vadigo, a species of carangid fish, is believed to be expanding its range in the Mediterranean Sea?
... that William D. Washington became the first faculty member of the Virginia Military Institute to die during his tenure there?
... that education in Sierra Leone had to recover from the destruction of 1,270 primary schools during the Sierra Leone Civil War?
... that 17th-century French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a Jansenist group of ascetics known as Les Solitaires, the Hermits?
... that the Halegannada, literally "old Kannada", is an ancient form of the Kannada language?
... that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and attribute of Mary and a type of actual garden?
... that minor league baseball pitcher Kyle Pearson’s 17 losses with the Hickory Crawdads tied him for the all-time team lead?
... that the term Sindhology as a subject of knowledge about Sindh was first coined in 1964?
... that after moving to Los Angeles, California in 1912 as a widow with two daughters, Florence Casler became a pioneering woman real estate developer, constructing more than 60 buildings?
... that a Bird Flu pre-pandemic vaccine called Pandemrix is the first to be approved by the EU for the inoculation of populations in the early stages of a bird flu pandemic?
... that the missionary and explorer David Livingstone named Cape Maclear, Malawi after his friend, astronomer Thomas Maclear?
... that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
... that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America?
... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000 Dutch elms?
... that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback?
... that pop singer Madonna adopted a 13-month-old boy from Mchinji, Malawi in October 2006, causing international controversy?
... that Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque had been an Eastern Orthodox monastery until it was converted after the Fall of Constantinople?
... that Karl Wahl, the leader of the Nazi Gau Schwaben, was the only Bavarian Gauleiter without a university degree?
... that tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome is a rare disease presenting as intractable diarrhea, facial abnormalities and woolly, brittle hair in infants with growth retardation in the womb?
... that in the 2000–01 National Basketball Association playoffs, Allen Iverson played an average of 46.2 minutes a game, leading the Eastern Conference?
... that lyric tenor Evan Gorga, who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
... that the design of the first-generation Ford Taurus was so ahead of its time that it was chosen to be used in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop?
... that the Siamese method is a simple method for creating magic squares, which was brought to France in 1688 following Simon de la Loubère's embassy to Siam?
... that drag entertainer José Sarria was the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States, garnering some 6,000 votes in his 1961 campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
... that the Mississaugas of the Credit Mission sent Chief Peter Jones to England where he petitioned Queen Victoria directly for title deeds to their lands?
... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's great Guernica"?
... that British and American mountain men who met at Mountain Green, Utah in 1825 argued over rights to the land, which was actually Mexican territory?
... that the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?
... that hwajeon is a sweet Korean pancake or rice cake made of edible flower petals, glutinous rice flour, and sugar?
... that the dates of birth and death of the Ukrainian music theorist and composer Nikolay Diletsky remain unknown?
... that with an area of deep convection near the center, Hurricane Ivo reached peak intensity of 80 miles per hour (130 km/h) on September 20, 2007?
... that the 1971 Turkish coup d'état was carried out by a memorandum rather than direct intervention by the military?
... that Radio Londres, a Free French radio broadcast from London to Nazi occupied France, read Paul Verlaine's poem Chanson d'automne as a code to inform the resistance that Operation Overlord was about to take place?
... that the 1914 film In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans?
... that in On the Sphere and Cylinder, Archimedes expressed the volume contained in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder?
... that Cardinal Uberto Crivelli was elected Pope Urban III in the papal election in 1185 within the few hours after the death of his predecessor Lucius III?
... that the tartan of Nova Scotia was originally designed by Bessie Murray for an agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially adopted by the province?
... that Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
... that the Erie Railroad bought the Dodge-Greenleaf House in Otisville, New York for US$5 and sold it two years later for US$1?
... that the extensive use of social networking in the Philippines allowed the Cebu City police to identify two murder suspects by checking into their Friendster profiles?
... that New Mexico philanthropist Addie Peed Swearingen was a beautician for 28 years in Santa Fe before she and her husband made a fortune in petroleum and natural gas leases?
... that Nagpur Improvement Trust, a local civic government body of Nagpur, India established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work along side Nagpur Municipal Corporation?
... that the sailing-ship Lwów was the first ship under Polish banner to cross the equator?
... that television commercials for the furniture company Walter E. Smithe have included parodies of Star Wars and The Apprentice?
... that a local writers' group won a preservation award for renovating the Philipse Manor train station in Sleepy Hollow, New York?
... that Indian scholar Śāntarakṣita is believed to have been instrumental in the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet?
... that American Revolutionary war officer Anthony Wayne's bones are buried at St. David's Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, while the rest of him is buried hundreds of miles away in Erie, Pennsylvania?
... that the birth of public radio broadcasting was a live concert from the Metropolitan Opera House with Enrico Caruso as one of the opera singers?
... that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in Austria's premier football division?
... that the birth rates of the Southern Woolly Lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat?
... that American children's literature author Howard Pease, who often set his stories on tramp freighters, himself shipped out when he needed new material?
... that 820 Naval Air Squadron was involved in attacks on the German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz during the Second World War?
... that Noah W. Cross, sheriff of Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from 1944–1973, was forced to resign upon a perjury conviction in U.S. District Court in Alexandria?
... that Franz Kafka started his Diaries 1914 with this entry: January 2. A lot of time well spent with Dr. Weiss?
... that Williamsport Bills minor leaguer Dave Bresnahan was thrown off the team for substituting a potato for a baseball?
... that Christopher Columbus's letter recounting his first voyage, the first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
... that in 1963, entertainment manager Bob Marcucci got a recording contract for John D'Andrea, leading D'Andrea to a regular spot on Shindig!?
... that in 2001, American screenwriter William Monahan pseudonymously wrote a comic serial narrative at New York Press titled Dining Late with Claude La Badarian?
... that most of the stamps of Mexico from 1856 to 1883 have district overprints, which were added as an anti-theft device?
... that during the Agra famine of 1837–38 in the North-Western Provinces of India, approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of livestock perished?
... that the volcano Piton de la Fournaise, a tourist attraction in Réunion, is one of the most active volcanoes in the world?
... that in 1883, former British diplomat Sir William Lane Booker became Consul-General of eleven US states?
... that the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ended the 20-year conflict and insurgency in 1997 and allowed more than 50,000 displaced peoples to return home?
... that Strawhead is a 1982 play by American writer Norman Mailer about Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe that takes its title from Monroe's real-life code name?
... that Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù‎, founded in 1720, was the first modern opera theatre in Greece?
... that the New York-based mock metal / glam metal band Satanicide replaced their bassist when they became aware that he "secretly liked Billy Joel"?
... that Albert Pujols received more votes than any other player in Major League Baseball's 2006 all-star fan ballot?
... that Samuel Gray was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on behalf of three different electoral districts?
... that the nationalist activities of India House in the early 1900s led Valentine Chirol to describe it as the "most dangerous organisation outside India"?
... that Ernest O. Thompson, a Texas businessman, politician, and petroleum expert, received a battlefield promotion during World War I for developing improved machine gun tactics?
... that there was a monument to British philanthropist John Howard in a hall of Russia's Kresty Prison?
... that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering?
... that the LSR Preserve in Grand Teton NP was a former dude ranch and Rockefeller family retreat, and the first LEED certified property in Wyoming?
... that businessperson and Norwegian Parliament member Peter Bøyesen has been described as a predecessor of the Liberal Party of Norway?
... that in Puerto Rico, a Piragua is a frozen treat made of shaved ice, covered with fruit-flavored syrup?
... that Monkey Bay on Lake Malawi is a tourist resort accessed through the road to Cape Maclear?
... that when 20,000 Mennonites immigrated to Mexico from Canada in 1922, they were given freedom from taxation for 100 years so long as they supplied cheese to northern Mexico?
... that Odo J. Struger is known as the "father of the programmable logic controller," an electronic device used in nearly every automated factory worldwide today?
... that the 104th Company of Syndicalists was a military unit created by the Union of Polish Syndicalists, which participated in the Warsaw Uprising?
... that the book Goodnight Bush, a parody of Goodnight Moon satirizing the presidency of George W. Bush, was written by two former employees of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld?
... that cushion plants , which grow extremely slowly, can live for up to 350 years?
... that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater lake?
... that V.D. Savarkar wrote The Indian War of Independence, a nationalist history of the 1857 uprising, in response to British celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression?
... that U.S. Routes within Washington state currently make up about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of the Washington highway system?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Siye once bared his upper body and battered fleeing soldiers with his staff to stop a general panic?
... that five detached human feet have been discovered on British Columbian beaches since August 2007, with no confirmed explanation?
... that the 6th-century musician Yared introduced the concept of sacred music to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church services?
... that the owners of a Californian memorial park tried to buy St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean, England, dismantle it and rebuild it there, but built a replica instead when permission was refused?
... that Frank McEncroe, a boilermaker from rural Victoria, invented the Chiko Roll?
... that India established its diplomatic representation in Nigeria in 1958, two years before Nigeria's independence from British rule?
... that administering a strong solution of coffee through the rectum by means of a Murphy drip was alleged to have been a treatment for shock at the Battle of Midway?
... that Herman Farr, an African American clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, single-handedly desegregated the historic Strand Theatre during the heyday of the civil rights movement?
... that the Foguang Temple's East Hall is the third oldest wooden building in China, dating from 857 AD?
... that Ride the Lobster is an 800-kilometer long unicycle race around Nova Scotia?
... that Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys?
... that the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty-story Legg Mason Building , which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height?
... that the Pakistan-based Institute of Sindhology is a research institution working on the history, culture, and literature of Sindh?
... that when Peter Perez Burdett went to Karlsruhe, leaving his wife and debts behind, he took his portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby?
... that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in bilateral trade, rising from US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
... that in his book In Defense of Anarchism, anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate?
... that near the summit of Sir Lowry's Pass in South Africa, you can still see the ruts left by ox-wagons being dragged over the Hottentots-Holland mountains before the current pass was built?
... that the Budweiser Clydesdales were first introduced to the public on April 7, 1933, to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition?
... that the Engkanto, a Philippine mythical creature, might be based on early encounters with European friars?
... that the South Presbyterian Church in Dobbs Ferry, New York, is the only known work of architect Julius Munckowitz, despite his later career with New York City's parks?
... that had the Endeavour Strait not prevented the Dutch from proceeding further southward, they might have found the eastern coast of Australia 150 years before James Cook did?
... that In All Languages is the first and only compilation album released by industrial metal band Godflesh?
... that Burkina Faso contains the most elephants in West Africa, with Deux Balés National Park containing 400?
... that Ferrante Pallavicino was the anonymous author of Il Divortio celeste (1643), a satire wherein Jesus Christ asks God for a divorce from his eternal bride, the Roman Catholic Church?
... that fans at the UEFA Euro 2008 reportedly prefer The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" to the official anthem, Enrique Iglesias' "Can You Hear Me"?
... that a swimmer escaped a crocodile attack in Nkhata Bay, Malawi by biting the crocodile on the nose?
... that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism, as well as the anarchist movement?
... that an estimated 73 percent of what and how much all children eat is determined by nutritional gatekeepers?
... that Sir John Hussey, Chief Butler of England under King Henry VIII, was executed for treason?
... that in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips?
... that Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was actually two separate railway lines with a ferry crossing of the River Severn between?
... that Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits, whom he hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan?
... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film, proposed a law in 2007 for regulating the sales of violent video games such as Conan?
... that John Paul, Sr. and his son became the first father-son duo to win an IMSA Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield?
... that the scaly hedgehog is actually a species of brown mushroom found in spruce forests and used to dye wool in Norway?
... that Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez led the entire 2007 all-star game voting ballot with 1,404,001 votes?
... that average people use subpersonalities to allow them to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations?
... that India and Pakistan have expanded cross-border road and rail transport links, including across the disputed region of Kashmir?
... that Bette Midler's back-up trio The Harlettes once included the actress Katey Sagal, better known for her role as Peggy Bundy on the television series Married...with Children?
... that Scotland's Lothian, Borders & Angus Co-operative Society was founded in 1839, five years before the Rochdale Pioneers?
... that Gray Barker's 1956 book They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers introduced the concept of the Men in Black to UFO lore?
... that the historic floodplains of Oregon's Willamette Valley ecoregion rarely function today, due to dams in the Upper Willamette Basin?
... that all eleven stories in Australian Patrick White's The Burnt Ones have a real or metaphorical reference to burning?
... that Archie J. Old Jr. completed the first round-the-world nonstop flight by a jet-powered aircraft?