derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Chadian president François Tombalbaye was the first international leader to officially recognize the Bokassa government after the 1965–1966 Central African Republic coup d’état?
... that bodybuilding champion Victor DelCampo was inspired to pump iron by the Incredible Hulk comic books?
... that a mediaeval ditch running along the centre of Gerechtigkeitsgasse, an ancient street in Berne, Switzerland can now be seen again following renovation work in 2005?
... that the constant k filter was invented by George Campbell but named by Otto Zobel, the inventor of the m-derived filter – both used in composite image filters?
... that the 1997 Women's Cricket World Cup saw a record eleven teams playing 32 matches in 25 different stadia?
... that the 1950s Canadian science-fiction television series Space Command featured William Shatner and James Doohan who later appeared on Star Trek?
... that the flowers of the beach gardenia are used to scent coconut oil in the Cook Islands, while the heated leaves are used for headaches in northern Australia?
... that the Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother Li Chu, the later Emperor Daizong?
... that the Chantecler, the only breed of chicken native to Canada, was developed by a Trappist monk?
...that the 2001 documentary film Scottsboro: An American Tragedy retold the story of the Scottsboro Boys, one of the most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in U.S. history?
... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out Thomas Hardy's first novels?
... that when Yves Saint Laurent launched a perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
... that Vratislav Brabenec , a member of the Plastic People of the Universe, studied theology and was in a Czechoslovak prison for eight months because of his music?
... that the Dead Plane EP is one of five limited edition singles and EPs released on five different labels by No Age on the same day, March 26, 2007?
... that the University of Bristol's gowns are said to have been designed by its first Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain?
... that Australian composer Raymond Hanson, a teacher of music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium, was himself largely self-taught?
... that the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?
... that Darryl Brinkley, the first Northern League baseball player to bat .400, lost his chance to play in the majors due to the September 11, 2001 attacks?
... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State Forest and no one knows how they got there?
... that the 1990 Spanish film ¡Ay Carmela! takes its title from the favorite song of the Republican soldiers and of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War?
... that the recent Tropical Storm Arthur was the first Atlantic tropical storm that formed during the month of May since 1981?
... that improving Indo-Taiwanese relations have led to bilateral trade rising to USD 2.26 billion by 2005, even though India has not accorded diplomatic recognition to Taiwan?
... that Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully?
... that, due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was unable to finish his report on the structural analysis of the R101 airship before it crashed?
... that in 1979, Joseph C. Howard, Sr., whose mother was Sioux and father was African American, became the first African American named to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland?
... that a revolution in 1688 in the Kingdom of Siam (modernday Thailand) severed virtually all ties with the Western world for nearly two centuries?
... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?
... that Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX is a collection of nearly 1,000 ancient historical anecdotes written by Valerius Maximus?
... that Wrigley Square's Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago, Illinois?
... that Pinnacle@Duxton , at 50 floors, is set to be the tallest public housing in Singapore upon completion?
... that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625?
... that each chapter of the 2005 chick lit romantic comedy novel The Thing About Jane Spring begins with a quote from a Doris Day film?
... that the 1900 Carpenter Gothic Wadsworth Chapel has separate Catholic and Protestant chapels under one roof?
... that T. V. Sundaram Iyengar laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India, when he started a bus service in Madurai, Madras Presidency in 1912?
... that having reached peak windspeed on September 6, 1959, Hurricane Patsy is the earliest known Category 5 Pacific hurricane?
... that while serving in World War II, baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by shrapnel?
... that the Art Deco Montecito Apartments had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
... that the Eimsbütteler TV, a German football club, failed to advance in the national championship finals in 1934 and 1935 despite beating the later champion, FC Schalke 04, in both years?
... that Pulau Merambong is located within the largest seagrass bed in Malaysia?
... that in 1795 John Billingsley advocated straightening sections of the rivers Brue, Axe and Parrett, to increase reclamation of the Somerset Levels?
... that Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?
... that in 1656, German violinist Thomas Baltzar helped premiere The Siege of Rhodes, thought to have been the first all-sung English opera?
... that the Franklin County Courthouse incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
... that sumo wrestler Keisuke Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcomes of up to 80 percent of his matches were fixed?
... that although Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
... that Indian coracles, which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the Kaveri River?
... that fighter ace Hartmann Grasser, who is credited for shooting down 103 enemy aircraft during World War II, later worked as an adviser for the Syrian Air Force?
... that the Skyline Towers apartment building in Saint Paul, Minnesota is often referred to as a "ghetto in the sky"?
... that a calf is said to haunt the Kramgasse , a main street in the Old City of Berne, Switzerland, where it had been flayed alive?
... that the Japanese visual novel 5 has been described by its development team as a "noisy northern province love comedy"?
... that Royal Navy seaman Harry Price recounted in a memoir how he once instigated a minor mutiny, only to end it when it reached "ugly proportions"?
... that India's "Look East" policy aims to establish extensive relations with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the People's Republic of China?
... that Australian composer and ABC broadcaster William G. James dedicated his Six Australian Bush Songs to Dame Nellie Melba?
... that the role of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease was discovered by genetic studies of a family from Contursi Terme in Italy, which had 61 members with Parkinson's?
... that, during the 1989 Revolution, Romanian actor Victor Rebengiuc appeared on television with a toilet paper roll, as a symbol of "wiping out" the communist regime's traces?
... that the war veterans' memorial in Suffern, New York, is built on land where George Washington and Rochambeau camped with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?
... that a 1974 provincial Order-in-Council has prohibited hunting on the Grand Codroy Estuary, the "most important wetland" on the island of Newfoundland?
... that the Battle of Sena Gallica, fought in 551 AD, was the last major naval battle to take place in the Mediterranean Sea for more than a century?
... that Frank Gehry used a hollow design for the BP Pedestrian Bridge in order to reduce the load on underground parking garages that support the bridge?
... that before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie selected it for a retreat from paparazzi, the Château Miraval, Correns-Var was already well-known as a Provençal vineyard?
... that China sought to strengthen Sino-Nepalese relations by supplying arms to the Nepalese monarchy against the country's Maoist insurgents?
... that Zac Efron and Claire Danes claim they saw a ghostlike figure while filming Me and Orson Welles at Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man?
... that Hugh de Largie , who was banned from working as a miner in Newcastle for his union activities, later became an inaugural member of the Australian Senate?
... that stained glass from Judson Studios is found not only in churches, but also in Frank Lloyd Wright houses, the U.S. Capitol and the Tropicana Casino?
... that Mary Shelley's verse drama Midas is a commentary on both Ovid's Metamorphoses and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale?
... that the sociology of the Internet is a newly emerging branch of sociology concerned with issues such as the digital divide, online social capital and the public sphere?
... that the Tang Dynasty eunuch Li Fuguo, whose assassin had cut off his head and one of his arms, was buried with a wooden head and a wooden arm?
... that between 1970 and 1984 the WE Seal of approval program aided in an estimated US$100,000 in restitution being made to collectors of comics and other memorabilia victimized by mail fraud?
... that a heckling comb is used when hand processing flax to comb out and clean the fibers?
... that one novelty of Hans Gieng's 1543 statue on the Fountain of Justice in Berne was the portrayal of Lady Justice as blindfolded?
... that goalkeeper Bob Roberts was the first West Bromwich Albion player to win an international cap?
... that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles (124 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line?
... that Clarendon is known as the heartland of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in western Quebec, Canada, because its founder required that all settlers be Protestant?
... that the Tang Dynasty's Empress Zhang, during her husband Emperor Suzong's illness, used her blood to write Buddhist sutras in order to seek blessings for him?
... that the namesake of the Paxton Hotel in Downtown Omaha, William A. Paxton, was also instrumental in founding the Omaha Stockyards, the Omaha Driving Park and the South Omaha Land Company?
... that although the blackmouth angler is known for its ugly appearance, it is used for making agujjim , a popular Korean dish?
... that Oregon's Devils Punch Bowl State Natural Area has a naturally eroded bowl carved in the rock by swirling ocean waves?
... that the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04?
... that the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio?
... that the Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca in Romania was formed from two separate collections housed and operated independently in the same building for 50 years?
... that Thelma Keane was not only the inspiration for "Mommy" in The Family Circus, but also headed the negotiations in which her husband, cartoonist Bil Keane, regained full copyrights to the comic strip?
... that the lobby of the Suffern, New York post office , features a relief depicting a semi-naked woman shooting a flaming arrow?
... that Juozas Urbšys was the last Foreign Minister of independent interwar Lithuania?
... that at 1,237-metre (4,060 ft) elevation, the highest point on the Norwegian railways is the Finse Tunnel?
... that Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor contains a 367-acre (149 ha) land gift made in 1950 by Borax Consolidated, which was the first non-domestic donation to the Oregon Parks commission?
... that Vancouver's tallest completed building has been called "the crowning achievement" of the Ukraine-born businessman Peter Wall?
... that the veldamai were released from their duty to pay taxes to the state by the privileges of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania?
... that some claim World War II German fighter ace Walter Zellot was killed in September 1942 by friendly fire?
... that the United States Class II 1804 Silver Dollar is alleged to have been struck over a Swiss Shooting Thaler?
... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?
... that the Denny Chimes features a Walk of Fame of former captains of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team at its base?
... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?
... that after ten years as an outlaw in the American Southwest in the 1890s, Nathaniel "Texas Jack" Reed became an evangelist and sold copies of his memoir on life as a bandit?
... that early residents of Sydney called the Leaden Flycatcher the "Frogbird" on account of its guttural call?
... that after the overthrow in the 9th century of the Sailendra dynasty in Java, its leader Balaputra became maharaja of Srivijaya?
... that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall's racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later?
... that in a 1998 bilateral agreement, China pledged to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bhutan even though they have never established diplomatic relations?
... that Angela James, once called the "Wayne Gretzky of women's ice hockey," was amongst the first three women inducted into the International Ice Hockey Hall of Fame?
... that legend has it that anyone who spends a night at Tinkinswood on the evenings before May Day, St John's Day (23 June), or Midwinter Day would either die, go mad, or become a poet?
... that the parish church of St. Mary in Chepstow, Wales, was founded as a Benedictine priory in 1072 and retains its original Norman doorway ?
... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903?
... that Australian James Blair introduced laws to protect children by establishing a children's court, and by preventing unjust disinheritance in parents' wills, before he became chief justice of Queensland?
... that despite being the first official Atlantic hurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
... that the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, one of London's early underground "tube" railway lines, was built with finance raised by American Charles Yerkes?
... that the genus Melampitta is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one time either belonging to the pitta, babbler, logrunner, bird of paradise, or cinclosomatid families?
... that the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija Čmilytė was her father?
... that the Port Oneida Rural Historic District is the largest historic agricultural community fully protected by government ownership in the United States?
... that China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations?
... that The Reenactment, a 1968 film by Romanian director Lucian Pintilie, was banned by the communist regime because it showed the authorities engaged in tormenting young delinquents?
... that with the Philippine Basketball Association's acceptance of Solar Sports' bid to cover the league, the games will be aired again to the network that originally aired the games in the inaugural 1975 season?
... that the Clarence Islands were discovered and charted as a group of three Arctic islands by James Clark Ross, then re-charted with fictional additions totaling nine islands by his uncle, John Ross?
... that the Verdeja was an indigenous Spanish tank program to replace the T-26 and Panzer I?
... that Vuestar Technologies in Singapore claims to own patents for hyperlinking a visual image to webpages, and plans to bill virtually all websites for its use?
... that the lyrics of Naer Mataron, a black metal band from Greece, are influenced by Greek mythology?
... that James H. Howard was the only fighter pilot to be awarded the Medal of Honor—the U.S. military's highest decoration—in the European Theater of Operations during World War II?
... that the Villa Medici del Trebbio was one of the first of the Medici villas outside Florence?
... that the One-armed bandit murder, the first gangland killing in North-East England, inspired the novel on which the film Get Carter was based?
... that the Missoula floods deposited a 40-ton rock atop a 250-foot tall hill at what is now the Erratic Rock State Natural Site in Oregon?
... that one theory why the virginal was so called is that the keyboard instrument was thought to sound like the voice of a young girl?
... that the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge in Washington was the first of its size to be financed entirely by sales of stock?
... that cholesterol embolism may result from common medical procedures such as coronary catheterization, and can cause kidney damage?
... that the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the "high-tech command center" for NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
... that Leurospondylus ultimus was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a plesiosaur?
... that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this rail trail was constructed?
... that Miriam Ben-Porat was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Israel and the first woman to serve as Israel's State Comptroller?
... that Winston Churchill was an Honorary Colonel in the "Queer Objects On Horseback"—better known as the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars?
... that Albrecht Dürer's pupil Hans Springinklee is best known for his woodcuts ?
... that Tunisia's tourist industry is said to benefit from its Mediterranean location and its "tradition of low cost package holidays from Western Europe"?
... that W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency?
... that the 1974 film Lost in the Stars, set in apartheid-era South Africa, was actually shot in Oregon?
... that over fifty surrendered U-boats were gathered at HMS Ferret awaiting disposal in Operation Deadlight?
... that Oregon's Collier Memorial State Park has a logging museum with equipment dating back to 1880 including ox-drawn "high wheels", steam-powered "donkey engines", and antique saw mill machinery?
... that anaesthetic pioneer Joseph Thomas Clover anaesthetised Florence Nightingale, Napoleon III and the future king Edward VII during his career?
... that the binomial name of the White-throated Treecreeper translates as "brown and white trunk traveller"?
... that a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 is often mistaken for the ghost town of Paria, Utah?
... that Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre Mohamed Driss paid tribute to the historian Ibn Khaldoun by writing an opera in his honor?
... that the Minden Press-Herald, a daily newspaper in Minden, Louisiana, was not established until 1966 though an earlier Minden Herald dates to 1849?
... that in Korean cuisine, dishes made by steaming vegetables stuffed with seasoned fillings are called Seon?
... that the Pike Place Fish Market is a Seattle, Washington fishmonger known for throwing fish to customers?
... that on December 12, 1996, India and Bangladesh signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the sharing of Ganges Waters?
... that the New Jersey Library Association, the oldest library organization in New Jersey, began in 1890 with 39 members and currently has over 1,600?
... that the Portland Armory in Portland, Oregon was the first building on the National Register of Historic Places to achieve a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification?
... that Shih Chih-wei was the first player of the La New Bears to receive a monthly Most Valuable Player award in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan?
... that British TV presenter Dermot O'Leary once played as a punt returner for the Colchester Gladiators?
... that the SC Johnson & Son-produced film To Be Alive! was the first non-theatrical production to receive an award from the New York Film Critics Circle?
... that Lady Elsie Mackay, socialite, actress and interior designer, died in 1928 with WWI ace Walter G. R. Hinchcliffe, attempting to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
... that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern, five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
... that author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
... that Hebrew publisher Hayyim Selig Slonimski was awarded the Demidov prize of 2,500 rubles in 1844 by the Russian Academy of Sciences for the invention of a calculating machine?
... that the Nankin bantam breed of chicken is classified as critically endangered by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy?
... that the 17th-century Buu Phong Temple in Vietnam has exactly 100 hillside steps from the road up to its entrance?
... that Louisiana politician Earl Williamson was a confidant of Governor Earl Kemp Long, who shared his interest in buttermilk, horse racing, and politicking?
... that Mevlüde Genç, a Turk living in Germany who had lost five of her family members to Neo-Nazi violence in the Solingen arson attack of 1993, went on to advocate tolerance between Turks and Germans?
... that Circle of Chalk, a Yuan Dynasty play, is still being performed in European versions set in 14th-century China, Soviet Georgia and East Germany?
... that Coirpre mac Néill is said to have been cursed by Saint Patrick so that none of his descendants would be High King of Ireland?
... that the conical step pyramids and circular public architecture of ancient Mexico's Teuchitlan tradition were unique in Mesoamerica?
... that the Florida state comptroller refused to pay Lieutenant Governor Edmund C. Weeks his salary because he was not elected?
... that the 1966–68 Liga Leumit season was played over two years in an effort to rid Israeli football of corruption and violence, which included riots on the field?
... that Kari Blackburn, daughter of Irish educationist Robert Blackburn, taught in a primary school in Tanzania before joining the BBC?
... that the Soviet Union made its debut at the 1954 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Caracas and won 20 of the 30 gold medals?
... that Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona?
... that the burial of John Mildenhall at Agra in 1614 is the oldest recorded burial of an Englishman in India?
... that the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive was originally a route called the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park?