derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the landmark 1924 case Tournier v National Provincial and Union Bank of England clarified English law on the obligations that a bank has to protect the confidentiality of its customers?
...that the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar OJ287 has been measured to be 18 billion times the mass of the Sun, six times heavier than the previous record holder?
...that Karachi’s Lyari River is the major contributor to the annual discharge of 200 million gallons of sewage and Industrial waste into the Arabian Sea?
...that Cliff Friend co-wrote "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", the theme tune of the Looney Tunes cartoon series?
...that French aristocrats saw Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners as an alarming glorification of the working classes?
...that Chardonnay grapes are very neutral in flavor with many of the characteristics commonly associated with Chardonnay wine being derived from influences like terroir and the use of oak during winemaking?
...that London's St James's Club (1857–1978) was claimed to be the only gentlemen's club with a room devoted solely to backgammon?
...that the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky?
...that before Nielsen BookScan began tracking point of sale data at bookstores, nobody knew how many copies were being sold of literary works that were published by multiple publishers and had entered the public domain?
...that when World War I aviator Stephen W. Thompson downed an Imperial German Army Air Service Albatros D.III on February 5, 1918, he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?
...that Sydney's Alexandra Canal is an artificial waterway originally planned to join Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay?
...that when Manolo Reyes created and hosted one of South Florida's first Spanish-language newscasts in 1960, the station received a number of complaints from non-Spanish speakers?
...that St John the Evangelist's Church, Weston, Runcorn, Cheshire is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
...that Robert Peake the Elder worked in the Office of the Revels under Elizabeth I before being appointed "Serjeant Painter" to James I, a role in which he was responsible for portraits of Prince Henry ?
...that years after Adolph Spreckels shot M. H. de Young, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (which he donated) and the De Young Museum merged to form the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco?
...that three different Somali government organizations have sold rights for oil exploration in Puntland in the last three years?
...that under the guidance of civil engineer Eugène Belgrand, Paris's sewer system expanded four-fold between 1852 and 1869?
...that one of the classifications used in proxemics is the classification of spaces into sociofugal or sociopetal spaces (the names being analogues of the words "centrifugal" and "centripetal")?
...that as well as being the only contemporary anthology of 17th century Scottish Gaelic verse, the Fernaig manuscript is written in a form of English orthography unique to the author?
...that Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, which ran on CBS from 1956–1961, had five spin-off series, the most successful having been Chuck Connors' The Rifleman, which ran on ABC from 1958–1963?
...that writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for "fornicating" with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him?
...that Peter de Villiers was named coach of South Africa's national rugby union team, the Springboks, in January 2008, the first ever black coach of the team?
...that the largest private home in the U.S. in 1790, Hampton Mansion , was occupied by the same family until 1948 and is the first national historic site selected by the U.S. National Park Service for architectural significance?
...that Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
...that "Big" Alma Spreckels once successfully sued an ex-lover for "personal defloweration"?
...that the church of Hagia Thekla in Constantinople, now a mosque, was rebuilt by Emperor Isaac I Komnenos as thanks for surviving a hunting accident?
...that the six episodes of the Japanese original video animation series FLCL were produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax, Production I.G, and Starchild Records?
...that Hurricane Henri of 1979 was only one of four tropical cyclones in the 20th century to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall?
...that Alameda Street was built by Los Angeles County, California as a "truck boulevard" to the port?
...that Jeffrey Miles, a chief justice in Australia, once heard a case in which a woman sought damages for losing the opportunity to work as a prostitute following a fall in a supermarket?
...that American lyric soprano Helen Jepson was first soprano on the original recording of Porgy and Bess?
...that Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany, is an unusual ensemble of expressionist architecture?
...that Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Grande Odalisque is thought to be painted with between two and five vertebrae "too many"?
...that at age 13 Susy Clemens wrote a biography of her father Mark Twain that was included in his posthumously published work, Chapters from my Autobiography?
...that the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court heard the first Australian criminal prosecution of a bank for failing to protect its employees from armed holdups by improving safety at branches?
...that Towson (Md.) Methodist Church's membership split in two for 90 years after a dispute over the American Civil War?
...that Capitol Offense, the rock band of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, has opened for REO Speedwagon, Percy Sledge, Willie Nelson, and even Grand Funk Railroad?
...that Lorenzo Sawyer was the first judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit?
...that the main house of the Thaddeus Hait Farm is built of wood and stone, an unusual combination in a Federal style building?
...that Blessed Veronica of Milan unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read until an apparition of the Virgin told her that spiritual lessons were more important?
...that since its original completion in 1972, the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Oberhof, Germany has undergone three separate renovations?
...that the Frauenfriedenskirche at Frankfurt am Main (Germany) is an unusual expressionist church, decorated with monumental mosaics?
...that two new amphibious warfare ships of Australia to be added to the nation's fleet starting in 2012 will each be able to carry an entire infantry battalion and up to 16 helicopters?
...that The Expert at the Card Table, one of the most famous books on magic and card tricks, was written in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase, an author whose identity has been an enduring mystery for over 100 years?
...that Robert Campbell Reeve, the founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways, set a new world record for the highest landing of a ski equipped aircraft at 8,750 feet (2,667 m) on Mount Lucania in 1937?
...that the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Istanbul features a cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth?
...that William Melmoth's 1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century?
...that Polly Horvath's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon?
...that the original land deed requires that a jail cell from the original Dutchess County courthouse be preserved in the current building?
...that the Nepalese Maoist Newar National Liberation Front sponsored the 'Miss Newa' beauty pageant despite having previously demonstrated against it?
...that William Hogarth's The Distrest Poet depicts a very poor family living in a squalid garret while the man of the family, who pursues a literary career in disregard of his family's poverty, attempts to write a poem entitled "Upon Riches"?
...that London's historic United University Club (1821-1972) is now occupied by the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame?
...that Francisco de Quevedo's 1626 novel El Buscón, a major work of Spanish literature, was published without the permission of the author?
...that Operation Camargue, one of the largest operations of the First Indochina War, failed to snare the Viet-Minh's Regiment 95?
...that in 1920, George Shima was dubbed "The Potato King" as he controlled 85% of California's potato market?
...that Think!, the Jeopardy! theme song by show creator Merv Griffin, has earned over $70 million in royalties since it debuted in 1964?
...that Vereniging Basisinkomen is an organization that advocates granting all Dutch residents a guaranteed minimum income?
...that Mike Trinh, an American attorney who represents a Guantanamo detainee on a pro bono basis, studied under Viet Dinh, author of the Patriot Act?
...that Le chemin de fer, a piano composition by Charles-Valentin Alkan, is the first musical depiction of a railway?
...that Hugh Denis Macrossan was one of Queensland's shortest serving chief justices, a post also held by his brother and his nephew?
...that Catherine O'Flynn's mystery novel What Was Lost won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards?
...that R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wanted to produce Uncle Tupelo's album March 16–20, 1992 after seeing the band perform a cover version of the Louvin Brothers' "Great Atomic Power"?
...that American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
...that the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey?
...that Pachycheilosuchus, an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative, was less than a meter (3.3 ft) long and had an armored neck?
...that the Hebrew term Illui, meaning genius, refers to Talmud scholars held in the highest regard?
...that Traffic in Towns, a 1963 report by the UK Department of Transport, warned of damage to town centres by car traffic, and offered solutions to the problem?
...that as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the Truman-era White House, architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of maquettes, detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
...that even as he embarked on a 24-year career in the U.S. Congress, William Alden Smith oversaw construction of the Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern Railroad?
...that the Noric language is attested in only two inscriptions, one from Grafenstein, Austria, and the other from Ptuj, Slovenia?
...that New York City's General Motors Building sold for the record high price of $1.4 billion in 2003?
...that Hermann Göring's chief art looter, Bruno Lohse, controlled a secret vault of looted paintings, discovered in Zurich in May 2007?
...that the Rural City of Marong, a local government in Victoria, Australia, voted itself out of existence in 1994?
...that the Poughkeepsie YMCA building is the only one in the city using glazed terra cotta?
...that Doris Day rejected an offer to star in the 1957 biopic The Helen Morgan Story with Paul Newman, refusing to portray the sordid story of a character that conflicted with Day's on-screen persona?
...that the Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna Kingdom led to all the remaining royal descendants becoming nuns and monks in holy orders?
...that Sir Christopher Chancellor was selected to lead the Reuters news agency in 1944, after keeping the agency's reporting from China operating during the seven years following the Japanese invasion?
...that the French flying boat Breguet 730 was designed in the 1930s, but didn't enter service in the French Navy until after the end of World War II due to the German occupation of that country?
...that, before building the landmark Gandy Bridge, George Gandy was known for building a large successful theatre, originally derided as "Gandy's White Elephant"?
...that Bruce Barton, in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows, portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
...that despite dropping out of a screenwriting course at university before graduating, Christopher B. Landon went on to write the box office hit film Disturbia?
...that Spanish officer Félix María Calleja del Rey was named "Count of Calderón" after leading his outnumbered forces to victory at the Battle of Calderón Bridge in the Mexican War of Independence?
...that Eric John Underwood spent 30 years researching the effects of sulphur, botulism and the nutritional value of hay on sheep at Avondale Agricultural Research Station?
...that the large hanging nest of the Yellow-throated Scrubwren is used by the Golden-tipped Bat as a daytime roost in the forests of Eastern Australia?
...that the Maniot pirate, Limberakis Gerakaris, was twice held as a prisoner by the Ottomans and spent the last fourteen years of his life as a Venetian prisoner?
...that freestyle swimmer Kim Peyton, a gold medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, won a gold medal at the 1971 Pan American Games at age 14 and set three U.S. swimming records at ages 9 and 10?
...that the influence of Ancient Greece on wine has played a formidable role in the history of nearly every major European wine region and of wine itself?
...that Eric Clapton's guest appearance playing lead guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was uncredited?
...that the Anglo-Bavarian Brewery, constructed in Somerset in 1864 and now designated as an historic site, was the first brewery in Britain to produce lager?
...that Paul Worley, a Grammy Award-winning country music record producer and guitarist, got his start in the 1970s playing guitar for Janie Fricke and Eddy Raven?
...that the Canal de Marseille, built in 1849, is an 80 kilometres (50 mi) canal which runs through Provence to bring water from the Durance to Marseille, in France?
...that David O. Selznick acquired the rights to make 1957's A Farewell to Arms from Warner Bros. by trading the foreign rights to remake A Star Is Born that Selznick owned and Warner needed?
...that Western Australia's Number 1 sawmill, later called Deanmill , was constructed to provide timber railway sleepers for the Trans-Australian Railway?
...that Ric Williamson, the departed chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission advocated toll roads, including the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor, to increase his state's highway capacity?
...that The Hazel Scott Show was the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by a black woman?
...that despite multiple transfers of ownership, after 123 years trains still haul paper products over the White River Railroad's line?
...that Tabasco sauce heir John Avery McIlhenny stepped down as president of his family's company to serve in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders volunteer cavalry regiment in 1898?
...that Englishman Christopher Merret wrote the first description of the méthode champenoise used to make sparkling wine, long before it was documented in the Champagne region of France?
...that Sara Gagliardi has introduced legislation in the Colorado House of Representatives to allow residents of that state to opt out from receiving junk mail?
...that Rastafarian Papa Noel Dyer, known as "the man who walked to Ethiopia" from England, actually hitchhiked?
...that Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) William H. Anderson and his observer, Lieutenant J.R. Bell, accounted for No. 3 Squadron AFC's first confirmed kill in World War I?
...that Alpine Club president Edward Lisle Strutt called the north face of the Eiger "an obsession for the mentally deranged of almost every nation"?
...that although American law requires proof of a defendant's "guilty mind" as an element of the crime, it is not concerned with motive?
...that Sir Condor Laucke was a member of the Parliament of South Australia and a President of the Australian Senate before serving as Lieutenant Governor of South Australia?
...that no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day?
...that before he died, Dr William Oliver gave his coachman £100, 10 sacks of flour and a recipe for a type of biscuit named after its inventor that is still eaten today?
...that Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal?
...that a pig named King Neptune helped raise $19 million in war bonds between 1942 and 1946?
...that the hull of the kettuvallams, Kerala houseboats, are built of wooden boards tied together by coir rope?
...that despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550 concept cars unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show, the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
...that the Tuanku Ja'afar Cup was a cricket tournament contested by the national sides of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from 1991-2004, and was won by Hong Kong in 9 of the 14 competitions?
...that French physician Edme Castaing is thought to have been the first person to commit murder using morphine, 18 years after it was discovered?
...that Nicholas de Balmyle, former Chancellor of Scotland, became Bishop of Dunblane in 1307 when he was likely in his 70s, but nevertheless lived on to hold the position for at least another 12 years?
...that the Cascade Locks and Canal, completed in 1896 to allow the steamboats of the Columbia River to bypass the Cascades Rapids, were submerged in 1938, when the Bonneville Dam was constructed?
...that the construction of the Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial , commemorating over 250,000 Turkish soldiers who participated in the Battle of Gallipoli in WWI, was completed with nationwide financial contributions?
...after years of studying airflow at supersonic speeds, Adolf Busemann suggested that aerodynamicists, who had forgotten his swept wing work until they got together again during Operation Paperclip, need to become 'pipe fitters'?
...that Earl Bakken who invented the wearable cardiac pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic also created The Bakken, the world's only library and museum devoted to electricity in life?
...that the Hoornbeek Store Complex in Napanoch, New York reflects the transition from the Federal style to Greek Revival in American architecture?
...that the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wheeler that the Constitution alone did not give the government of the United States the authority to prosecute kidnappers?
...that Tom Wolfe left Farrar, Straus and Giroux, his publisher for 42 years and 13 books, to make a deal with Little, Brown and Company for his forthcoming novel Back to Blood?
...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
...that, in 1874, mountaineer Florence Crauford Grove led the first ascent of Mount Elbrus , the highest mountain in Europe?
...that the Battle of Dombås was a German attempt during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign at using Fallschirmjägers to cut rail and road links in central Norway?
...that Leo Laliman, while accredited for the solution to the Great French Wine Blight, was thought by many people to have introduced the pest which caused the blight?
...that former The Daily Telegraph obituaries editor Hugh Massingberd reshaped the style of the British obituary from a reverential recital of biographical data to a cunningly witty yet deadpan narrative on the decedent's life?
...that actor Loren Dean won a Theatre World Award in 1989 for his Off Broadway debut in the play Amulets Against the Dragon Forces?
...that of the vast Silva Carbonaria, "the charcoal forest" that stretched from south of Brussels to the Rhine in Merovingian days, 44.21 km² still remains in the Forêt de Soignes/Zoniënwoud?
...that in parts of the Kerala Backwaters the paddy fields are at a lower level than the water in canals, held back by dikes?
...that during World War II, No. 233 Squadron RAF lost four aircraft out of a total of twenty-four supply flights flown at the end of D-Day, June 6, 1944?
...that 19th century magician and vaudeville star Anton Zamloch was accused, and then exonerated, of having "bewitched" a woman's wedding ring from her gloved hand?
...that in the 1783 Peace of Paris, the Dutch Republic granted to Great Britain unobstructed navigation rights in the eastern seas?
...that Australian poet and writer, Dame Mary Gilmore recorded her childhood memories of the dispossession of the Wiradjuri people and the destruction of native habitat by European settlers around Wagga Wagga?
...that in 1957, Art Houtteman was called "a pitcher of considerable promise" by Hal Lebovitz despite playing in his 12th and final Major League season that year?
...that the Workers and Peasants Party leader K.N. Joglekar successfully moved a resolution that the Indian National Congress should demand full independence for India?
...that the 1980s oil glut caused the world price of oil, which had peaked during the 1979 energy crisis at over US$35 per barrel, to dip below US$15 in the early 1980s?
...that a former principal of Tubman Elementary School in Washington, D.C. received a national award for her work which included a discipline program featuring a due process system for punishment referrals?
...that the tropical marine fish razorbelly scad has a complicated taxonomic history in which the species has been described and named no less than seven times since 1793, including twice re-classified in 1833?
...that Humphrey Chetham founded Chetham's Library, the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
...that Tiefland, Leni Riefenstahl’s last full-feature film, made it into the Guiness Book of World Records on account of its long production time?
...that Reeve Aleutian Airways was started with a down payment of $3,000 on one DC-3 aircraft, and that Robert Campbell Reeve, the founder, earned enough money in 53 days to purchase the aircraft outright and buy another three aircraft?
...that the sitcom pilot Free Agents is likely to become the third show from Channel 4's Comedy Showcase to be given a full series?
...that the East End Historic District in Newburgh, New York, has the most contributing properties of any Registered Historic District in the state?
...that the site of Endymion's cave, where Selene's beloved sleeps forever, a sanctuary on the slopes of Latmus, still exists in Aydin Province, southwestern Turkey?
...that two local Christians stopped by the dedication ceremony for Spring Glen Synagogue's Torah scrolls and presented the congregation with a Bible?
...that the BMW R1150GS motorcycle was used by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 2004 Long Way Round ride from London to New York?
...that San Martín Pajapan Monument 1 , a large Olmec statue of a young lord raising the axis mundi under supernatural protection, was found near the peak on an extinct volcano?
...that the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad was also known as "The Sole Leather Line"?
...that football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team?
...that the unofficial representative of Soviet Russia in the USA, Ludwig Martens, created an illegal Soviet Bureau that established links with more than one thousand American firms including J.P. Morgan banks?
...that although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War, as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails?
...that the drowning of Edwin, son of Edward the Elder, half-brother of King Athelstan of England, in 933 was described as an execution and a suicide by medieval English historians?
...that after losing the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in Japan's 1868 Boshin War, Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu took refuge on the USS Iroquois rather than spend the night in Osaka Castle?