derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Harald N. S. Wergeland, Lieutenant General and Norwegian Minister of the Army, was raised by his uncle Nicolai Wergeland and enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy at the age of twelve?
... that Washington State Route 504 was damaged when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 and had to be rebuilt on higher ground?
... that Cyclone Rosie was the first ever tropical cyclone to be monitored by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Jakarta?
... that the 23 home runs hit by Johnny Rizzo in 1938 set a Pittsburgh Pirates team record at the time, and his nine RBI in a 1939 game set a single game team record that still stands today?
... that The Blood of Jesus was the first race film added to the U.S. National Film Registry?
... that the abuse suffered by Nia Glassie included being left in a tumble drier for 30 minutes?
... that C/1743 X1, the Great Comet of 1744 , is thought to have been the sixth intrinsically brightest on record and went on to develop six tails?
... that Toralv Øksnevad was known as the "voice from London" during the Second World War, when listening to foreign radio was a crime punishable by death in Norway?
... that some anti-obesity drugs, such as Rimonabant, are chemical compounds designed to specifically block cannabinoid receptors?
... that Pamela Munizzi succeeded John P. Daley, the son of former Chicago Mayor Richard J., brother of current Mayor Richard M., in office in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate?
... that the Catskill Escarpment is the only clearly defined boundary of the Catskill Mountains?
... that Meredith Burgmann claims to be the only Australian sent to prison after running onto a sports field during a major sporting event?
... that the proposed Levenmouth rail link in Fife, Scotland, could be used by Scotch whisky distillery freight trains as well as by passengers?
... that 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team recruit Anthony LaLota is rated among both the top ten high school offensive tackles and strong side defensive ends in the U.S.?
... that the leader of the 2004 Palm Island, Queensland riot, Lex Wotton, ran for mayor while out on bail?
... that Sir John Luttrell, an English soldier and diplomat under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was the subject of an allegorical portrait by Hans Eworth celebrating peace with France and Scotland?
... that the 1978 Orson Welles-directed documentary Filming Othello has never been theatrically released or presented on home video?
... that assassinated Israeli mobster Yaakov Alperon was tied to a protection racket in which restaurant owners paid by allowing the gangsters to collect empty returnable bottles from their businesses?
... that Papyrus 110, a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament, may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
... that in addition to being a general in the Union Army, James Sanks Brisbin was also a prolific writer, and authored several works on a variety of subjects?
... that as a result of the 2006 Pine Middle School shooting in Reno, Nevada, 14-year-old shooter James Newman was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service?
... that the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej, a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp, provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies?
... that former Key West mayor Captain Tony Tarracino was a subject of Cuba Crossing, a 1980 film about a plot to kill Fidel Castro, and of the 1985 Jimmy Buffett song "Last Mango in Paris"?
... that a siphon is used by some marine snails for tasting, by some clams for reproducing, and by octopuses for jet propulsion?
... that although opera singer Rita Fornia began her career as a coloratura soprano, her voice lowered and darkened causing her to sing mostly mezzo-soprano roles?
... that SM U-4, commissioned in 1909, was the longest serving U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy?
... that Tropical Storm Becky produced heavy rainfall in Tallahassee, Florida in 1970, causing flood-related losses to 104 families?
... that John H. Kelly was the youngest Confederate Brigadier General at the time of his appointment at 23, and one of the youngest generals to die during the American Civil War at 24?
... that Static Major featured in Lil Wayne's 2008 hit single "Lollipop" but died before the song was released in Tha Carter III?
... that during the German occupation of Norway, Astrid Løken combined entomological field research with secret photography for the resistance group XU?
... that the Melbourne Jazz Co-operative runs three jazz concerts a week and is the most active jazz presenter organisation in Australia?
... that Weraroa, a genus of pouch fungi, may represent an intermediate evolutionary stage between underground and above-ground fungi?
... that at the same time Francis "Mother" Dunn was coaching Dickinson College's football team, he was also playing professional football for the Canton Bulldogs under Jim Thorpe?
... that for his 2004 film Drum, director Zola Maseko received the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in addition to a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs (US$20,000)?
... that HMS Mahratta delivered a bathtub to Murmansk during World War II?
... that the Confederate Monument in Murray, Kentucky, is the only Civil War Monument in Kentucky to prominently feature Robert E. Lee?
... that French racing cyclist Lucien Michard won four successive world championships and lost a fifth even though he crossed the line first?
... that the deaths of two pirates during the November 11, 2008 incident off Somalia, are believed to be the first time since the 1982 Falklands War that the Royal Navy has killed anyone on the high seas?
... that Arne Sunde, Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War?
... that the Interstate Income Act of 1959 prevents a U.S. state from collecting income tax on solicited sales within its borders, as long as the orders are filled or shipped outside of the state?
... that Don Bradman, universally regarded as the greatest batsman in cricket history, made a duck in his final Test innings?
... that the Kamchia biosphere reserve in Bulgaria is a major migratory bottleneck site where at least 60,000 White Storks pass overhead each autumn?
... that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Irving Brown was dubbed "The Most Dangerous Man" by Time in 1952?
... that the Nassak Diamond , pillaged in the 1800s from a Hindu temple where it had resided for 300 years, was later used as a gimmick to attract partygoers to a 1976 benefit?
... that Australian politician John Robertson worked as a construction worker for the New South Wales Parliament to which he was later elected?
... that Anita Bryant's participation in Save Our Children, a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career?
... that Major League Baseball pitchers Jim Palmer and Mike Mussina each made six Opening Day starts for the Baltimore Orioles?
... that the rare skin disorder ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens may be caused by a spontaneous mutation in the keratin 2e gene on chromosome 12?
... that actor Jesse Plemons had to get 11 stitches in his chin after offering to do his own stunts on Friday Night Lights?
... that the M115 anti-crop bomb was known as the "feather bomb" because it dropped feathers laced with fungal spores in order to spread wheat stem rust?
... that 99 percent of Japanese municipalities collect and recycle steel cans despite not being required by law, giving the country one of the world's highest recycling rates for these cans?
... that Leo the Mathematician, called by some the cleverest man in 9th-century Byzantium, invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor?
... that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members, navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?
... that current Colorado Rockies minor league catching instructor Marv Foley is the only baseball manager to win championships in the International League, Pacific Coast League, and American Association?
... that Anna Vissi, who represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, has participated in the contest three times over a 26 year period?
... that Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
... that the Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge in Torrance, California is used as a symbol on the patch of the local police department?
... that when rival colleague Zhang Yanshang suggested the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Hun be more silent, Liu commented that his tongue would not stop even if he were decapitated?
... that William Blake's The Wood of the Self-Murderers is based on a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy in which bird-human hybrids feed on the leaves of trees entombing suicides?
... that in 2007, Vicki Berger played a major role in amending the Oregon Bottle Bill, which her own father had created 36 years earlier?
... that inhibitors of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 can prevent the degradation of gastrointestinal hormones that regulate insulin release from the pancreas, making them effective anti-diabetic drugs?
... that the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York, is the largest herd of white deer in the world?
... that Augustin Trébuchon, the last French soldier to die in the First World War, was shot 15 minutes before the war ended?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Mi declined chancellor appointments by Emperor Suzong and Emperor Daizong, eventually only accepting it under Emperor Dezong?
... that the Montecito Tea Fire, which destroyed more than 200 homes in California, was caused by smoldering embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?
... that Hans Eworth was a Flemish artist of the Tudor court known for his allegorical paintings and his portraits of Queen Mary I ?
... that though communism was created by an atheist, communism and religion have not always had a hostile relationship?
... that the Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of Los Angeles, surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the 1961 Bel Air fire?
... that by Christmas Eve 1942, the German 17th Panzer Division had only eight tanks and one anti-tank gun left after its failed attempt to break through to Stalingrad?
... that the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary formerly used Police Motu, a lingua franca pidgin of Motu, as its working language?
... that the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution?
... that Whitcomb L. Judson is recognized as the inventor of the zipper?
...that George Julian Zolnay , the so-called "sculptor of the Confederacy," was actually Hungarian and did not move to the United States until decades after the Confederacy had ceased to exist?
... that the author of Autism's False Prophets, a critique of claims that autism is linked to vaccines, reportedly received death threats?
... that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah, oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents?
... that Indian historian and Dravidologist K. A. Nilakanta Sastri served as the Director of UNESCO's Institute of Traditional Culture?
... that the music video for Sia Furler's latest single "Soon We'll Be Found" features American Sign Language?
... that the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania?
... that nephrotoxic djenkolic acid, found in the raw djenkol bean, can form needle-like crystals in the urine of people who eat the bean?
... that Suraj Tal , the highest lake in India, may be reached by National Highway NH-21, the highest mountain road in the world?
... that football player Michael Liddle made his international debut for Republic of Ireland under-19s although he was born in London, England?
... that the metabolic disorder Schindler disease may be caused by mutations in the NAGA gene on chromosome 22?
... that as Director of the Voice of America, Henry Loomis oversaw the introduction of Special English, in which news is read slowly with a limited vocabulary of about 1,500 words and a simplified grammar?
... that the small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note?
... that remnants of the pre-Columbian aqueduct carrying water from springs at Chapultepec can still be found in Mexico City today?
... that in 1899, Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico was prohibited by the United States Chinese Exclusion Act?
... that Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp?
... that the critically endangered Golden White-eye of Saipan is threatened by a snake that eliminated practically all the forest birds of nearby Guam?
... that actor Don Collier, who co-starred on NBC's western series Outlaws and The High Chaparral, played football for the Brigham Young Cougars?
... that in the Ofira Air Battle, at the outset of the Yom Kippur War, two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs shot down seven Egyptian MiGs?
... that film directors Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda used pseudonyms for their screen credits on the 1937 production People of the Cumberland?
... that throughout his lifetime, cyclist Reggie McNamara broke his collarbone 17 times, broke his skull, nose, jaw, and leg once, had 500 stitches, and accumulated 47 scars?
... that NASDA's ETS-VII was the world's first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm and to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully?
... that the 14th-century Hungarian occupation of the Bulgarian city of Vidin was described by contemporaries as a "great pain for the people"?
... that the white suckerfish responds to a touch on its belly by forcefully erecting its pelvic fins?
... that Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson transferred from Georgetown University Law Center to University of Illinois College of Law to be with her future husband, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.?
... that most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis, an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco?
... that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution?
... that oil company Idemitsu Kosan is exploring the potential for geothermal power in Japan?
... that Bert Olmstead played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and appeared in 11 Stanley Cup finals?
... that the Semitic triliteral Q-D-S meaning "holy" has been used in ancient and modern Semitic languages since at least the 3rd millennium BCE?
... that when asked what the most beautiful place he had ever seen in all his travels was, Gore Vidal chose the view from the belvedere at Villa Cimbrone?
... that the symptoms of exposure to the blister agent methyldichloroarsine clinically resemble poison ivy?
... that Maharana Pratap Sagar or Pong Dam Lake, created by the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River , intercepts migratory birds on their trans-Himalayan fly path during each migration season?
... that ancient Greek klismos chairs became fashionable again in the late 18th century?
... that other than visits to other institutions as a guest lecturer, James Feast lectured at the University of Durham for over 35 years?
... that Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
... that species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel?
... that after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs, a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?
... that the Flekkefjord Line was built to be part of the main line from Stavanger to Oslo, but a change of plans made it only a branch line?
... that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale, an experimental Civil War-era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?
... that Manitowoc, Wisconsin, held a "Sputnikfest" in 2008 to celebrate a piece of the Soviet Sputnik 4 spacecraft that crashed near the Rahr West Art Museum in 1962?
... that pre-operative transsexual Miki Mizuasa was nominated for the Best Actress award at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards even though she was born a male?
... that Sanctus Real was the most-played artist on American Christian radio in 2006?
... that Hugo Bettauer, author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
... that the M143 bomblet held the equivalent of 300 million lethal doses of anthrax?
... that Lionel Baker is the first cricketer from Montserrat to represent the West Indies senior side at international level?
... that most of the place names in Palestine are Arabised words with ancient Semitic roots that were preserved by the local indigenous population, facilitating their identification with biblical sites?
... that John Daly, a New York City criminal, was rumored to be paying $100,000 a week in protection money to the New York Police Department in the late 1800s?
... that in 1967, the M139 bomblet was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?
... that in Norse mythology, Sinmara is a female companion of Surtr, a fire jötunn?
... that veteran LGBT rights activist Hank Wilson started or co-founded at least ten LGBT organizations in the San Francisco area?
... that the soil-dwelling nematode-killing fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus has been known to cause human eye infections?
... that "Still Alive", the theme to action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge, was written by Rami Yacoub, who has also written material for Britney Spears?
... that according to British wine critic Jancis Robinson, only certain wines can improve significantly with age, and most wine is consumed too late rather than too early?
... that the graphical plot of the Sabatier principle, a concept used in chemical catalysis, is often called a "volcano plot" because of its distinctive shape?
... that before she was disassembled for scrap in 1932, USS Holland, the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy, spent many years as an attraction in Starlight amusement park in New York City?
... that architect Harry Seidler described the skyscraper QV.1 in Perth, Western Australia, as the best building he had ever built?
... that at one time, the Sneath Glass Company produced almost 90 percent of the glassware used in consumer refrigerators in the United States?
... that Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people?
... that Glen Ord is the only remaining single malt scotch whisky distillery on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland?
... that the wide variety of people who have been deported from the United States includes Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick, political activist Emma Goldman, and Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?
... that prehistoric ridgeway trails, though often steep, were usually the firmest and safest cart tracks before the advent of paved roads in western Europe?
... that Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus?
... that George J. Seabury with Robert Wood Johnson I developed a medicated adhesive plaster with a rubber base as a precursor to the Johnson & Johnson Band-Aid?
... that James John Skinner was the only White member of the Zambian cabinet when that nation gained independence in 1964?
... that Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition," has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team?
... that Terence Mitford, who spent his whole academic career as an archaeologist at the University of St Andrews, was a member of the Special Air Service during the Second World War?
... that the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon, was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
... that Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany?
... that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky, was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad?
... that as part of Operation Large Area Coverage the U.S. Army sprayed much of the eastern United States with zinc cadmium sulfide particles?
... that at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 , thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood?
... that Operation Steel Box moved 100,000 American chemical weapons from Clausen, West Germany, to Johnston Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean?
... that Hedley Howarth helped lead New Zealand to its first ever test cricket win on the Indian subcontinent with a five-wicket bag against India in 1969?
... that in a baseball match held at the Capitoline Grounds on June 14, 1870, the Brooklyn Atlantics defeated the Cincinnati Red Stockings, ending their 84 game winning streak?
... that the acquisition of the Corus Group in October 2006 has made Tata Steel India's second largest company in the private sector?
... that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky, took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier?
... that German entrepreneur, race driver and yacht skipper Udo Schütz won the 1000 km Nürburgring in 1967, the Targa Florio in 1969, and the Admiral's Cup in 1993?
... that Louis Dicken Wilson left Edgecombe County US$40,000 upon his death in 1847, but US$28,000 of it was wasted?
... that Symphony in C by Georges Bizet was a completely unknown piece until it was discovered at the Paris Conservatory library in 1933, nearly 60 years after Bizet's death?
... that the Survival of the Shawangunks is a Hudson Valley triathlon which requires competitors to carry their running shoes as they swim?
... that Turkish poet Süleyman Nazif witnessed first hand the decaying corpses of persecuted Christians in his home town of Diyarbakır in July 1915?
... that Frank Filchock, Jack Faulkner, Mac Speedie, Jerry Smith, John Ralston, and Red Miller have all spent their entire coaching careers with the Broncos?
... that the habitat of the rare West Virginia land snail Triodopsis platysayoides is protected by a fence?
... that Joe Hyams' first celebrity interview, with Humphrey Bogart, came after a chance meeting with Bogart's press agent at the pool of The Beverly Hills Hotel?
... that Leverett Candee became the first person in the world to manufacture rubber footwear?
... that the Rolls-Royce LiftSystem was awarded the prestigious Collier trophy in 2001?
... that Erie County voters elected Antoine Thompson to the New York State Senate after he defeated cousins Marc Coppola and Al Coppola during the 2006 Democratic primary election?
... that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples?
... that after first taking the Fifth Amendment in 1951, director Robert Rossen named 57 people as Communists to the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953 to escape the Hollywood blacklist?
... that the turnout in the 1997 Pakistani general election was the lowest ever in Pakistan?
... that Florence Wald, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, has been credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement"?
... that the 1916 film Cenere contains the only cinematic performance by the Italian theater star Eleanora Duse?