derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that though Captain Edward Mallory was wounded by shot, saber, and bayonet, he and his men forced the enemy to retreat at the Skirmish at Waters Creek?
... that between 1861 and 1869, Wolfgang Wenzel Haffner was Norwegian Minister of the Navy and Postal Affairs on three non-consecutive occasions?
... that growing Indo-Singaporean relations include extensive military cooperation and diverse bilateral trade, which is expected to rise from USD 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010?
... that April FitzLyon's biography of Mozart's librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte debunked his unreliable memoirs?
... that human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan?
... that the girls of St Mary's School, Calne, are divided into five Companies, each named after local bishops?
... that after his Major League Baseball career, Baseball Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers once led the Hudson River League in batting average at the age of 46?
... that Pierre Lacau was the French Egyptologist and Director of Antiquities who oversaw the discovery of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings?
... that the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of the largest forest elephant populations in Africa?
... that George E. Johnson, Sr., who was born in a Mississippi shack and dropped out of high school, founded the first Black-owned company ever traded on the American Stock Exchange?
... that Christopher Smart's The Hop-Garden is a long 18th century georgic poem that teaches how to farm hops in order to produce alcohol?
... that Haim Yosef Zadok was Israel's first secular Minister of Religious Affairs?
... that Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment with E. coli has been tracking genetic changes in bacteria for over 20 years?
... that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen described China as his country's "most trustworthy friend"?
... that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know" attaches to Salathiel Lovell, a Recorder of London who became known as the "Obliviscor" (forgetter)?
... that Burgundian manuscript illuminator and painter Simon Marmion created many images of Heaven and Hell ?
... that the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina?
... that Indian film director Mohan Krishna Indraganti won eleven awards including the National Film Award and Nandi Award for his first directorial venture?
... that the Mormon practice of polygamy was first inspired in 1831 when Joseph Smith said Jesus wished his followers to marry Native Americans to make their descendants white?
... that residents of Changureh, Iran threw stones at the car of a government minister in anger following the 2002 Iran earthquake?
... that Murphy Bell, a civil rights attorney in Baton Rouge, represented the since imprisoned black radical H. Rap Brown on gun violation charges in 1972?
... that Linda Finch is the first person to complete Amelia Earhart's unfinished final flight using the same aircraft type, a Lockheed L-10 Electra?
... that the murder of Celia Douty was the first murder in Australia to be solved using DNA profiling, after remaining unsolved for 18 years?
... that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania?
... that the collapse of more than 7,000 schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, while nearby buildings stood, has led to allegations of corruption involving contractors and government officials?
... that in 2003, Church of Scientology board member and Office of Special Affairs executive Kurt Weiland accompanied actor Tom Cruise in a private meeting with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State?
... that the Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, whose members still use horse-drawn carriages, was formed when another Mennonite church split after a 17-year dispute over the use of automobiles?
... that Fred Forman scored two goals in England's 13–2 win over Ireland in 1899—the highest-scoring match involving England in international football history?
... that several years after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published "The Village Blacksmith", a chestnut tree mentioned in the poem was made into a chair for the poet?
... that the New Fighter Aircraft program selected the CF-18 Hornet for the Canadian Forces Air Command when attempts to purchase Iran's fleet of F-14 Tomcats failed?
... that Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on Santa Barbara, Another World and The Guiding Light?
... that of the major historic Snake River salmon stocks in the Blue Mountains ecoregion, the coho and sockeye are extinct, the chinook are threatened, and the summer steelhead are in decline?
... that American singer Elly Stone was Barbra Streisand’s understudy in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale?
... that the Brigham Young University Museum of Art contains more than 170 images of Jesus, showing how his portrayal in Christian art has changed?
... that Dr. Maressa Orzack at Harvard Medical School stated that 40 percent of World of Warcraft players were addicted?
... that Dizzy Gillespie may have been inspired to write the jazz standard "Groovin' High" by a film serial he saw as a child?
... that Pakistani model Vaneeza Ahmad was one of the select few celebrities to carry the Olympic torch at the relay in Islamabad?
... that the orienteering map , along with the compass, is the primary aid for an orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points?
... that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the Tang Dynasty general Pugu Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major contributions as crimes?
... that the oil and gas exploration company WAPET struck Australia's first flowing oil in 1953, and Western Australia's first commercial natural gas field in 1964?
... that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date?
... that Kieran Prendergast was the British Ambassador to Turkey before serving as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs?
... that spring soup is popular largely because it includes fresh ingredients not seen for a while by the consumer?
... that Francis Howard was an unpopular Crown Governor of Virginia in the 17th century despite brokering a peace treaty with Iroquois tribes?
... that even though Benjamin Harrison held "front-porch" speeches at his house during his presidential campaign in 1888, his home would not have a front porch until 1896?
... that the Orloff breed of chicken is named for a Russian count, but in fact originated in Persia?
... that during World War II, Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs, work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free to Jews hiding outside the Ghetto?
... that Charlotte Badger, despite being from Great Britain, is widely considered the first Australian female pirate?
... that in Treasure Valley, on the borders of Oregon and Idaho, is the largest community of Basques outside of Europe?
... that as Speaker of the House of Commons, John Puckering was heavily involved in the decision to execute Mary, Queen of Scots?
... that, when completed, a relocated JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in Ashland, Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three prototypes in the U.S.?
... that the problem of harmful lunar or planetary dust adhering to spacesuits and being brought inside spacecraft by astronauts could be eliminated by the use of suitports , patented in 1996?
... that Vincenz Priessnitz established a hydrotherapy spa town in Jeseník (then Austrian Empire, now Czech Republic) where Nikolai Gogol was a guest twice?
... that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
... that the Flying Super Saturator was the world's first roller coaster allowing riders to dump payloads of water on other amusement park attendees?
... that Lloyd E. Lenard, a Shreveport businessman and author, was a leader in the fight to establish a two-party system in his native Louisiana?
... that although building India's first overseas military base in Tajikistan strengthened Indo-Tajik relations, bilateral trade remained low at USD 12.09 million in 2005?
... that 1801 California Street, a 709-foot (216 m) skyscraper in Denver, Colorado, was once home to the world's brightest signs on a high-rise building?
... that Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of Muppets creator Jim Henson?
... that Estherwood is the only major châteauesque building in Westchester County, New York?
... that after paying £500 in 1623 for a pardon, John Nutt was arrested in England and convicted for piracy regardless?
... that the anti-communist Indonesian killings of 1965–66 resulted in more deaths than any other event in Indonesian history?
... that most of the Sitka spruce in the Coast Range ecoregion of Washington and Oregon has been logged and replaced with Douglas-fir plantations?
... that Ulrik Frederik Cappelen was County Governor of both Finnmark and Vestfold, and was elected to the Norwegian Parliament once from each district?
... that the Millennium Stadium Charitable Trust's income comes from a levy that is paid on every ticket that is purchased for public events at the Millennium Stadium in Wales?
... that Genevieve R. Cline was the first American woman to be appointed as a federal judge, despite objections based on her gender from many members of the Senate?
... that the Hindu Munnani is a Hindu nationalist organization based in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
... that Colt Wynn won his first bodybuilding tournament as a wheelchair athlete less than three years after breaking his back in an accident?
... that Britain's King George IV specifically requested George Haden to design and install the new heating system for Windsor Castle in 1826?
... that the Battle of Yellow House Canyon in 1876 marked the last battle between Texans and hostile Native Americans on the High Plains of Texas?
... that the Anif declaration, issued by the Bavarian King Ludwig III on 12 November 1918, ended the 738-year rule of the House of Wittelsbach over Bavaria?
... that jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding became one of the youngest faculty members in the history of Berklee College of Music almost immediately after her graduation?
... that Rhipsime and her companions are venerated as the first Christian martyrs in Armenian history?
... that Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest "Brethren of the Coast" pirate gatherings?
... that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported in 1927?
... that the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?
... that Majorelle Garden , a tourist attraction in Morocco, was purchased by Pierre Bergé and the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1980?
... that the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926?
... that the Alvarado Terrace Historic District includes a church built in 1912 that was the LA home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple before the group's 1977 mass suicide in Jonestown?
... that the stones at Nuits in Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York are so finely cut that a penknife cannot fit between them?
... that Sergeants Jose and Francisco Diaz were two brothers in the Puerto Rican Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797?
... that the real-life Hollywood Tower is often cited as the inspiration for the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at Disney themeparks in California, Florida, and France?
... that the president of Żegota, Julian Grobelny, was famous for saving Jewish children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side and walking out with them?
... that Daniel Chester French was never fully paid for his work on the Washington Irving Memorial in Irvington, New York?
... that when she was launched in 1956 MF Storegut was the largest lake ferry in Northern Europe?
... that the list of bills sponsored by Barack Obama (131 items) includes measures for biofuels and synthetic fuels, veterans' health bills, divestiture from Iran, and tariff exemptions for herbicides?
... that in 1909 at the age of 17, New Zealand pianist Frank Hutchens became the youngest-ever subprofessor appointed to London's Royal Academy of Music?
... that the affair known in Israel as "the dirty trick" included the only successful vote of no confidence issued against an Israeli government to date?
... that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616?
... that the North West Shelf Venture liquefied natural gas project is Australia's largest resource development?
... that former Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress Henry Siegman served as a chaplain in the Korean War, where he was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart?
... that despite facing a bankrupt family business and the loss of both parents at the age of fifteen, Norwegian Jørgen Wright Cappelen went on to found an enduring publishing company?
... that Strike, directed by Sergei Eisenstein and acted by the Proletcult Theatre, was intended to be one part of a seven-part series?
... that the Australian White Ibis has invaded Sydney and other urban centres of Australia's east coast since 1978, and is now commonly seen in parks and garbage dumps?
... that 894 of the 5,000 recorded aftershocks of the 1983 Coalinga, California earthquake had a magnitude of 2.5 or larger?
... that Anton Reinthaller, the first leader of the post-World War II Freedom Party of Austria, had been a Nazi politician and Undersecretary in Nazi Germany's Ministry of Food and Agriculture?
... that a Chicago championship basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy High School was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters?
... that the British government commissioned a report on the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939, but its findings were so damaging that they were suppressed until 1945?
... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
... that the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter?
... that despite being set in New York, All Good Things has been filmed mostly in Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?
... that the Millersburg Ferry in Pennsylvania is the last ferry on the Susquehanna River and the last authentic wooden double stern-wheeled paddle boat operating in the United States?
... that Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman, Jordan was built on during the Neolithic period?
... that it was largely the zeal of Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence that reestablished the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1952?
... that after being auctioned at Christie's for over £100,000, the 16th-century Sapieha beaker was presented as a gift to Lithuania by the Ortiz brothers?
... that a USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed shortly after take-off at Bakers Creek, Queensland in 1943, killing 40 of the 41 service personnel on board and making it Australia's worst aviation disaster?
... that Muhammad al-Shaybani, a jurist of the Hanafi school of thought, was the student of Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf?
... that the Franconian derby between 1. FC Nuremberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth is the most played football match in Germany with over 250 games between the two sides?
... that Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing cricket was a reason he began to paint?
... that young Judy Garland was discovered, and Amelia Earhart made her last public appearance, at Ebell of Los Angeles ?
... that Opoku Ware II, King of the Ashanti people from 1970 to 1999, worked as a building inspector, a surveyor, a lawyer, and an ambassador prior to his enthronement?
... that the Palestinian village of al-Fasayil is the site of the ancient village of Phasaelis founded by Herod the Great in dedication to his brother Phasael?
... that the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after being named in the murder case of a police constable?
... that a memorial honoring U.S. soldiers who died in the deadliest air disaster in Australian history is located at the Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C.?
... that Pete Young declined to sign with the Cincinnati Reds after being selected in the 1986 minor league baseball draft, but signed with the Montreal Expos three years later?
... that the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti promulgated the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord in 1997?
... that the first major work published by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea, was a book of prose sketches inspired by Washington Irving?
... that the El Greco Apartments , once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy?
... that because it is frequently accompanied by serious injuries, sternal fracture is associated with a mortality rate of 25–45%?
... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk?
... that the banknote exhibit at the Banknote Museum in Corfu, owned by Alpha Bank, is the first such collection in Greece to be put on public display?
... that Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at Newgate Prison?
... that the East Roman general Comentiolus was briefly imprisoned for being insolent towards the khagan of the Avars?
... that the Shrine of Hazrat Ali, said to be the burial place of Ali, also gave the city of Mazari Sharif its name?
... that at the age of 74, Robert Sterling Yard became a founding member and the first president of The Wilderness Society?
... that the total cultivable area of Seychelles is only about 400 hectares?
... that HMS Ontario, an 80-foot sloop of war recently discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes?
... that before the 17th century, penetrating trauma was treated by pouring hot oil into wounds to cauterize damaged blood vessels?
... that the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed, in Kandahar, has been described as the "heart of Afghanistan"?
... that the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti launched an armed struggle to achieve autonomy for the people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts?
... that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at Maumere, the hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake?
... that Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of targeted species?
... that Washington Irving's church, Christ Episcopal in Tarrytown, New York, was one of the first in the U.S. built in the Gothic Revival style?
... that Ukranian president Viktor Yushchenko criticized the country's 2008 coal mine collapse as a failing of Ukraine's government policy?
... that a United States district court decision against the Omaha Horse Railway Company allowed cable car tracks to be installed in Omaha, Nebraska?
... that Alén Diviš painted illustrations for nineteenth-century Czech ballads after spending the Second World War in La Santé Prison and several internment camps?
... that the 1960–1961 NBC Western series Klondike featured James Coburn as con man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway?
... that André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
... that an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro?
... that before Jean Miélot created an illuminated manuscript for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, he produced a "dummy" version, complete with pictures, decorations and text?
... that while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary?
... that Eugene C. Barker's 1925 work The Life of Stephen F. Austin has been described as the best single piece of scholarship on a Texas topic?
... that the Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych, intended to celebrate traditional Roman paganism, was incorporated into a Christian reliquary for almost 500 years?
... that Indian Agent James Givins worked with Mississauga leader Peter Jones to establish the Credit Mission, which became an example for the Reserve System in Canada?
... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?
... that Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
... that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk?
... that the historic district in Warwick, New York reflects the village's development from a stop on a colonial road to an early 20th-century summer resort town?
... that Jørgen Aall, one of the founding fathers of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814, went out of business as a ship-owner only four years later?
... that two members of the country music group One Flew South met while starring in a production of the Broadway musical The Civil War?
... that the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture in Canada has received nearly $200 million of funding from the United States federal government?
... that British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two?
... that writer Neil Gaiman invented the fiction that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream to ensure that humans never forgot Faerie?
... that the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom?
... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?
... that the Mountain Gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are the prime tourist attraction in Uganda?
... that anthropologist John Buettner-Janusch sent a batch of poisoned candy to Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr. after he was convicted of running an illegal drug lab?
... that most historians believe stories about Dutch shipwreck survivors of the Concordia, settling at a desert oasis in Australia in 1708, were a hoax?
... that the fluted black elfin saddle is actually a mushroom that appears in woodlands and lawns in North America and Europe?
... that GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov won second place in by-elections to the State Duma, while imprisoned due to his suspected attempted murder of Russian politician Anatoly Chubais?
... that when Tang Dynasty general Li Guangbi repeatedly disobeyed imperial directives, subordinate generals began to disobey Li Guangbi?
... that Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba"?
... that the Timexpo Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut includes a forty-foot high replica of an Easter Island statue?
... that MP Sir Anthony Kershaw returned leaked documents about the sinking of the General Belgrano, resulting in the prosecution of Clive Ponting?
... that as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment?
... that Erik Fankhouser is the first West Virginia native to become a professional bodybuilder?
... that Karakore was the epicenter of the most destructive earthquake of 20th-century Ethiopia, which destroyed one town and left 5,000 people homeless?