derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Zambian laws concerning homosexuality have largely remained unchanged since the country gained independence from the British Empire in 1964?
... that Das Königsprojekt was the first of three science fiction novels written by the German author Carl Amery?
... that Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class?
... that flushwork is the decoration of flat external walls in contrasting colours of flint and stone, most often found in medieval churches in East Anglia?
... that the latest opera by composer Andy Vores is a 2008 chamber opera adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit?
... that the Dundas Valley Conservation Area contains a trailhead of Canada's first interurban multi-use trail system?
... that the Haas Lola Formula One team's cars were not built or designed by Lola Cars International, but were entered as Lolas because Carl Haas was their official importer to the United States?
... that the Unlearned Parliament was so called because lawyers were forbidden to attend as Henry IV felt they were "troublesome"?
... that Pope Pius VI was not elected till the 265th ballot at the papal conclave of 1774–1775?
... that Mount Garmo in the Pamir Mountains has been confused with the higher peak, which for some years was called Pik Kommunizma, "Mount Communism"?
... that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, a fountain, and a John LaFarge stained glass window to the people of Massachusetts?
... that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in Sweden in the early 1900s?
... that cargo ship El Occidente fought off two German submarines in World War I, only to be sunk by one in World War II?
... that the niece of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Sirarpie Der-Nersessian, became the first woman to be awarded the Order of St. Gregory the Illuminator by the Catholicos of Armenia?
... that the Terminal Annex Post Office was LA's central mail processing facility for 50 years and became a filming location when it closed?
... that Randy Orton defeated Rob Van Dam at Armageddon (2003) pay-per-view to begin the longest WWE Intercontinental Championship reign in over seven years at the time?
... that the television adaptation of Ellis Peters' novel The Rose Rent, set in 12th-century England, was actually filmed in Hungary?
... that since hard suction hose is designed for fire engines drafting water, it is the only type of fire hose tested under suction instead of pressure?
... that in 1929, BSEIU President Jerry Horan offered US$125,000 to bootlegger Roger Touhy in exchange for protection from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit?
... that Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry was founded as Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie by King Ludwig III of Bavaria in 1917?
... that pixel artists are featured in an annual juried art show, "Into the Pixel", at the E3 trade show for computer and video game industries?
... that the Poitou Ass is a rare breed of donkey with a shaggy coat?
... that a yett is a latticed iron gate used in place of a portcullis in many Scottish castles and tower houses?
... that Anna Borkowska, the mother superior of a Polish convent of Dominican Sisters in World War II, was the first to smuggle in grenades for the Vilnius Jewish ghetto insurgents?
... that many types of car bomb use a tilt fuse, a tube-like device not dissimilar to a medical pill bottle, to trigger the explosion?
... that for over a century the sheriff of Putnam County, New York lived in the county courthouse , where his wife cooked for inmates at the county jail?
... that according to Le Monde, Central African Republic Lieutenant Colonel and politician Alexandre Banza was killed in circumstances "so revolting that it still makes one's flesh creep"?
... that the title roles in the 1974 blaxploitation film The Black Six were played by six then-current National Football League stars?
... that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the Olympic truce, the Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Jones v. United States that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity of a misdemeanor crime can still be committed indefinitely to a mental institution?
... that Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars had two singles that reached the top of Manila's local radio charts before getting signed in a major record label?
... that the novels of Jane Austen became popular with the public only after the publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869?
... that Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
... that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, a manga about a blind samurai, won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award?
... that U.S. Navy transport ship USS Henry R. Mallory (ID-1280) successfully avoided a torpedo attack in World War I, only to be sunk by the same method during World War II?
... that a wheelhouse in archaeology is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland that was neither a wheel, nor perhaps a house?
... that upcoming film Calvin Marshall's producers hired a casting director before they had raised enough funding to hire a well-known actor to attract further financiers?
... that Open Access movement, a social movement in academia dedicated to the principle of open access—information sharing for the common good—traces its history to 1960s or earlier?
... that child actress Jillian Clare has been nominated for five Young Artist Awards, winning twice?
... that the orangespotted trevally is believed to be able to switch between silvery grey and orange-yellow colorations?
... that the Carey Mission was a headquarters for settlers and a point from which the American frontier was extended?
... that confraternities, a type of Nigerian university student organization started by Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka, are now linked with organized crime?
... that feminist Jo Freeman was moved from Mississippi by the SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
... that the Phylax Society, the first German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
... that the Patrick Tavern, built in 1793, is the oldest building in New York's Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District?
... that plans to build the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant in the vicinity of Minsk were halted after the Chernobyl accident?
... that Michigan Wolverines men's basketball has a 16–0 record at Crisler Arena, its home stadium, during the National Invitation Tournament?
... that the Bateleur is the official symbol of Kiang West National Park in The Gambia?
... that the potato disease Zebra chip has cost the Texas economy over US$125 million and threatens similar economic harm across the U.S. and Guatemala?
... that the National Youth Orchestra of Wales has the distinction of being the first national youth orchestra in the world and is Europe's longest-standing national youth orchestra?
... that the Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area is the location of a new type of habitat conservation program focused on restoring the native Olympia oyster?
... that although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture?
... that for many years, Municipal Warehouse No. 1 at the Port of Los Angeles stored the railcar that carried Winston Churchill's body to burial?
... that L'Année philologique (The Year in Philology) annually gathers scholarly work related to ancient Greece and Rome from approximately 2,000 sources?
... that after being kept indoors at an Illinois zoo for about three decades, a citizens' campaign secured Ziggy the elephant a new home?
... that due to an error, the Pagsanjan Falls stamp , one of a series supposedly showcasing places of interest in the Philippines, actually shows a waterfall in California?
... that the Polish Club Class glider SZD-59 "Acro" is competitive in both unlimited aerobatics and cross-country flying?
... that Edward Harrison was the first person to perform a concerto for maraca soloist with symphony orchestra?
... that iOffer, an online trading community launched in May 2002, had nearly one million users by February 2008?
... that there are over 3,500 miles of state highways in Utah, with the shortest one being only 0.086 mi (138 m) long?
... that Scottish botanist Robert Kaye Greville has a mountain named after him in Queensland, Australia?
... that Roger de Busli deliberately built Tickhill Castle directly on the Nottingham-Yorkshire border as he had authority in both?
... that, in Norse mythology, Urðarbrunnr is an important well located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil?
... that the recently discovered smallest snake in the world, Leptotyphlops carlae , is thought to be near the evolutionary limit of how small any snake could be?
... that entrepreneur Joe Dudley's multi-million dollar hair and skin care business began with a mere US$10 investment in a sales kit in 1957?
... that the 125th Napier's Rifles of the Indian Army were named after General Napier, who had commanded them at the Battle of Miani in 1843?
... that the Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building was built in 1928 with bricks salvaged from the old Los Angeles city hall?
... that Cortinarius semisanguineus, whose common name is "Surprise Webcap", is a mushroom that smells of radishes?
... that the citizens of Carmel, New York, felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida?
... that in 1814, Mary Shelley eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, later publishing her first work History of a Six Weeks' Tour, about their walking tour of Europe?
... that Paul Thomson, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association, grew the first successful mammee apple crop in the state's history?
... that the Sakuradamon Incident of 1932 was an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Emperor Hirohito of Japan by a Korean nationalist?
... that scapular fracture can be caused by forceful muscle contractions due to a seizure or electrical shock?
... that The Corporate Center in Danbury, Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?
... that So Amazin', the third studio album by singer Christina Milian, was produced mainly by hip hop producers Cool & Dre?
... that the 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first American unit to enter Czechoslovakia in 1945?
... that the pink mushroom Gomphidius roseus appears to be parasitic on the related Suillus bovinus?
... that six of the seven candidates in the 1999 Algerian presidential election withdrew less than 24 hours before the election?
... that the town of Kent, New York, dealt with an excess Canada goose population around Lake Carmel by rounding them up while they were molting and distributing the meat to the poor?
... that Swedish musician Hans Wärmling, co-writer of "Strange Little Girl", left The Stranglers while en route to a gig in North London?
... that despite the company's claims, SummerSlam 1992 has the largest verified attendance of any World Wrestling Entertainment event?
... that although male Kashmir Gray Langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide?
... that in addition to insects, the diet of the Common Brown Lemur includes soil and red clay?
... that magazines like the Southern Bivouac and the Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
... that in 1938, the Raja of Aundh voluntarily handed over rule of his Indian state to the people in what became known as the Aundh Experiment?
... that American Olympian John Lysak was banned from the gymnasium of the ship that took him to the 1936 Summer Olympics after he destroyed much of its equipment?
... that the Australian vine Hoya australis, a popular garden plant, attracts butterfly species such as the Common Crow?
... that Paul T. Jordan became the youngest mayor in the history of Jersey City only three years after graduating from medical school?
... that the Dutch palace Huis ter Nieuwburg in Rijswijk was demolished in 1790 after years of neglect?
... that in 1979, the Tobacco Institute disputed claims by the Surgeon General of the United States about the dangers of smoking?
... that British fencer Mary Glen-Haig was the first female member of the International Olympic Committee?
... that the U.S. Third Fleet sank all of Japan's remaining undamaged battleships and heavy cruisers during the bombing of Kure in July 1945?
... that the Plaza Historic District was the historic center of Los Angeles in the days of Spanish and Mexican rule?
... that satirist Stephen Colbert has a species of spider called Aptostichus stephencolberti named after him?
... that Confederate spy Thomas Hines had to escape Detroit by ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth ?
... that Skaga stave church was built in the 1130s to Christianise the area, but was demolished in 1826 as a stronghold of remaining Norse paganism?
... that after winning a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, German shot putter Stephanie Storp began playing basketball?
... that Fulton County Route 112, the continuation of New York State Route 309, was once the site of an old Indian trail in the Adirondacks?
... that the world's largest LNG carrier Q-Max Mozah was named by and after Mozah Nasser al-Misnad, Sheikha of Qatar?
... that alternative rock musician Maynard James Keenan owns and operates his own winery, Caduceus Cellars, in rural Arizona?
... that the pored mushroom Gyrodon lividus has been found associated with alder trees in such diverse places as California, Latvia, and Japan?
... that William C. Grimes, who served as Acting Governor of Oklahoma Territory for ten days, helped to establish Kingfisher College?
... that the Shiseibyō Confucian temple in Naha, Okinawa contains the first educational institution in Okinawa, which later became the first public school in the prefecture?
... that John Koethe was the first poet laureate for the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
... that the 2008 Tanana Valley flood brought the Tanana River in central Alaska to its highest level since August 1967?
... that John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Gordon Weld helped form the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?
... that Ralphs Grocery Store , part of a plan to build the "model college town" in 1929, was photographed by Ansel Adams?
... that the Long-legged Bunting, an extinct species of Bunting, was one of the few flightless species in the Passerines order?
... that during the American Civil War, Pittsburgh made the world's first 21-inch caliber gun?
... that after accusing Mauritian judges of involvement in slavery, Sir John Jeremie was honoured in 1836 by the Anti-Slavery Society?
... that LA's Exposition Park Rose Garden has more than 20,000 rose bushes and 200 varieties of roses?
... that according to his memoir My Grandfather's Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had his credit card cut up by a car rental clerk?
... that the Silver Appleyard is one of the best egglayers amongst large breeds of duck?
... that after switching sides multiple times during the American Civil War, Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
... that the cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?
... that the neighborhood of Elm Park in Winnipeg, Canada, was originally a park created by the Winnipeg Street Railway Company to increase trolley use?
... that although the first type of wind turbine, the panemone, is one of the least efficient designs it is also one of the most commonly reinvented and patented?
... that country singer Philip Claypool's greatest chart success was a cover version of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love"?
... that the African Agricultural Union, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny , received the support of nearly 20,000 plantation workers shortly after it was established?
... that the arcade game Heiankyo Alien was originally designed as a personal computer game by the University of Tokyo's Theoretical Science Group?
... that as of May 2008, the International Harvester strike of 1979–1980 is the fourth-longest national strike in the history of the UAW and the longest in the history of International Harvester?
... that the episode of 30 Rock entitled "Sandwich Day" was actress Johnnie May's second appearance in the series, after playing a blood donations nurse in the episode "Tracy Does Conan"?
... that Ivorian politician Jean Konan Banny invented a non-alcoholic drink he described as "a wine [made] from pineapples"?
... that one Prior of Ecclesfield , near Sheffield in England, was accused by Benedictine authorities of "embezzlement of the priory's goods" and of living an "evil life"?
... that author Michael Connelly got the idea for his novel The Concrete Blonde from an actual case in a professional forensic book?
... that James Carlile introduced an educational system in 1830s Ireland whereby children of different denominations could attend the same school?
... that residential lots in the Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District of Bend, Oregon—with views of the Deschutes River and the Cascades Mountains—originally sold for US$100 to US$250?
... that the final twenty minutes of the 1941 documentary film Kukan shows an air attack by Japanese bombers against Chongqing, the World War II capital of China?
... that in the 2008 baseball season, Randy Ruiz got a hit in 24 consecutive games, the longest hitting streak by a Rochester Red Wing player since 1979?
... that "eggs" of the foul-smelling, insect-attracting dog stinkhorn have been eaten in West Virginia?
... that British athlete Stan Cox was nearly killed after being struck with a javelin while working as a judge for the British Amateur Athletic Association?
... that the Plan Dog memo, one of the best known documents of World War II, laid the basis for America's Europe First policy?
... that Richard Tapper Cadbury helped his son John start a tea and coffee business that would become Cadbury plc?
... that Washington Block was one of the first buildings to use the isolated pier foundation technique whereby load-bearing points have separate foundations?
... that the North German baroque organ in Örgryte Nya Kyrka‎ is the largest meantone organ in the world?
... that Joe Allison is a former American football placekicker who won the inaugural Lou Groza Award, presented to the nation's top kicker?
... that the Norwegian National Rail Administration owns all 4,114 km (2,556 mi) of railways in Norway, but does not operate any trains?
... that a subspecies of Black Lemur is the only primate other than humans to have blue eyes?
... that U.S. diplomat Pamela E. Bridgewater was the first African-American woman appointed Consul General in Durban, South Africa?
... that in Australia many unions and employers are working around the WorkChoices law by using side letters to reach agreement on non-workplace-related matters?
... that scuba divers concerned about the deterioration of the Samuel P. Ely shipwreck worked underwater to install reinforcing tie rods that would hold the hull together?
... that the upright bugle often interbreeds with its more widespread cousin, the common bugle, producing hybrid offspring?
... that at the Convention of 1836, delegates approved the Texas Declaration of Independence with no debate?
... that Polish writer Adam Wawrosz fought in the Polish Army in the Battle of Kock during World War II?
... that Henry Fairfield Osborn almost doubled the size of Castle Rock, his father's Garrison, New York, mansion, to accommodate his family?
... that although on private property, the Unknown Confederate Dead Monument outside Perryville, Kentucky was built by the federal government sixty-six years after the battle?
... that liver biopsy (obtaining a tissue sample from the liver) is sometimes needed in unexplained forms of hepatitis?
... that the geologic features located within the Eramosa Karst are considered to be the best example of karst topography found in the Canadian province of Ontario?
... that before earning a B.A. at New School for Social Research, science writer Mary Batten worked as a library clerk at the New York Public Library?
... that the Japanese visual novel Eternal Fantasy consists of an overworld map and a combat system, typical of console role-playing games, other than its traditional visual novel gameplay?
... that Well No. 4 in the Pico Canyon Oilfield was the first commercially successful oil well in the Western United States and the longest producing oil well in the world at 114 years?
... that Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park is the only state park dedicated solely to veterans of the Vietnam War?
... that former Virginia Tech running back Lee Suggs set the NCAA Division I-A record for consecutive American college football games with a rushing touchdown (27) in the 2002 San Francisco Bowl?
... that 52 ships of the German High Seas Fleet were successfully scuttled in Scapa Flow in 1919, but many were later salvaged?
... that New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?
... that according to Franz Oppenheimer's book The State, the purpose of the political state is to establish and enforce class divisions between conquerors and the dominated?
... that James Ludington never lived in Ludington, Michigan – the town that bears his name?
... that although the longfin trevally is a prized table fish in Thailand and Cambodia, it is overall too rare to sustain commercial fisheries?
... that Ronald Ribman's play The Journey of the Fifth Horse, based on a short story by Ivan Turgenev, won an Obie Award and starred a young Dustin Hoffman?
... that many slogans and several mottoes currently used in heraldry originated as war cries or battle cries?
... that the Highland Park Police Station, where the radical Symbionese Liberation Army once planted a bomb that proved to be a dud, is now the Los Angeles Police Museum?
... that Wilfrid Noyce forced a route up to the South Col on the first ascent of Mount Everest by the 1953 British Expedition?
... that the Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville, and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?
... that the 1946 Mexican film Boom in the Moon starring Buster Keaton was not commercially released in the United States until 1983?
... that what is now the southwestern United States was at one time connected to East Antarctica according to the SWEAT model?
... that the Muleshoe Heritage Center in Muleshoe, Texas, greets visitors with a 22-foot-high muleshoe which weighs 15,000 pounds and was an Eagle Scout project?
... that the Payne-Desha House in Georgetown, Kentucky was built by a war hero from the Battle of the Thames and also was the last residence of the ninth governor of Kentucky?
... that the golf course around the buildings of the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District in Garrison, New York helps preserve their historic rural character?
... that future admirals Samuel Barrington, George Darby, Hugh Palliser, Thomas Pasley, Thomas Troubridge and Horatio Nelson all served aboard HMS Seahorse?
... that the town of Kendenup in Western Australia was featured in a classified advertisement in the New York Times in 1922?
... that Mount Saint Mary's Convent and Academy is the only extant original orphanage in California?
... that John Milton (1562–1647) was so successful as a composer and scrivener that his son John Milton—author of Paradise Lost—never had to work for a living?