derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that William Gordon Harris's tenure as Director-General of Highways at the British Ministry of Transport saw the construction of 650 miles (1,050 km) of motorways?
... that Clay-Ashland, a town in Liberia, is named after American slave owner Henry Clay?
... that Erasmus Ommanney entered the Royal Navy at age 12 in August 1826 and went on to discover in 1850 the first traces of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago fate of Sir John Franklin?
... that the State Street Bridge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is flanked by two 145-foot (44 m) pylons representing the U.S. Army and Navy?
... that the former main jewel on the Bavarian crown, the Wittelsbach Diamond, was almost cut into several smaller diamonds?
... that Thomas Allin, an early settler of Kentucky, USA, laid out the cities of Lexington, Harrodsburg, and Henderson?
... that the Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822 made John Franklin famous as "the man who ate his boots"?
... that in exchange for US$50,000 from two undercover agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik in the Abscam investigation, U.S. Congressman Raymond F. Lederer told the agents "I can give you me"?
... that during the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573, the 8,500-strong Venetian garrison of Famagusta in Cyprus held out for eleven months against an Ottoman army of 200,000 men?
... that a medical patient's failure to maintain a fluid restriction, diet, or medication could result in acute decompensated heart failure?
... that Jonathan Leavitt was the leading publisher of theological and religious books in New York City during the early 1800s?
... that the high-profile recalls in 2007 and 2008 of China-manufactured toys led the U.S. to enact stricter limits on the amount of lead in paint on children's products?
... that "Johnny Sausage" Barbato, charged with being a "capo" or "captain" in the Genovese crime family, was released from prison in July 2008 at age 74?
... that Sir John Baptist Medina became the first illustrator of John Milton's Paradise Lost in 1688?
... that the beech-maple forest is a climax plant community in the eastern United States and Canada?
... that the non-payment of debts is the archetype for the seventeen other Hindu titles of law, including the sexual crimes against women?
... that Leavitt Peak is named after early California settler and innkeeper Hiram Leavitt?
... that species Fuligo septica, called the "dog-vomit slime mold", can tolerate unusually high levels of the metal zinc?
... that after a professional wrestling match between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar at Unforgiven (2002), The Undertaker attacked Lesnar by throwing him through the wall of a set?
... that the ancient, but lost, Nendrum Monastery was found in 1844, when a visitor recognized the remains of a round tower?
... that Mayor Tom Weisner once considered outlawing untimely holiday decorations, when citizens of Aurora, Illinois, complained of Christmas decorations abounding during the summer?
... that Jacob's Well in Nablus is a site associated with Jacob in Jewish, Samaritan, Christian and Muslim tradition?
... that the community of Half Acre, Alabama, once contained half an acre of land that was deeded to The Devil?
... that the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived state founded in March 1914 by Greeks living in southern Albania?
... that Liz Heaston was the first woman to score points in a college football game when she kicked two extra points for the Willamette Bearcats in 1997?
... that Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, a British flying ace of World War I, scored 30 kills in five months of service and won both the DFC and MC?
... that the first ever Hell in a Cell match to feature six professional wrestlers was held at the Armageddon pay-per-view event?
... that due to standing among corpses in his coat and rubber gloves while holding a syringe, SS-Oberscharführer Josef Klehr has been described as the ultimate caricature of the omnipotent Auschwitz doctor?
... that none of the Dallas Mavericks head coaches have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach?
... that the Mercury Monterey was the only Mercury vehicle to be in continuous production throughout the 1960s?
... that the meaning and significance of kingship changed dramatically over time in India between the 2nd millennium BCE and ca. 500 BCE?
... that in 1883, a dozen years before Oscar Wilde was convicted for Gross Indecency, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News published a cartoon showing him in convict dress?
... that the morph of proteins that function as morpheeins can be explained by a dice analogy where the one spot must contact the die face with four spots?
... that after being unified with the World Heavyweight Championship in October 2002, the WWE Intercontinental Championship returned in May 2003 at the Judgment Day pay-per-view event?
... that members of the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve during World War I were described by Sir Winston Churchill as "the best small boat men in the world"?
... that Gerald Ford's decision to appoint John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court was largely influenced by his attorney general Edward H. Levi?
... that Italian noblewoman Bianca Riario acted as a substitute mother in the early 1500s to her half-brother, the celebrated Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, while her own mother was in prison?
... that self-taught Swedish American artist Henry Reuterdahl was also an editor of Jane's Fighting Ships?
... that White City Amusement Park is where the first Goodyear Blimps were assembled?
... that Norwegian Socialist politician Rolf Ketil Bjørn was nicknamed "the red millionaire" due to his background in the business sector?
... that Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
... that Miltonic verse, a style which influenced centuries of poetry, is found within the final three poetic works of John Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes?
... that the body of Fr. Solanus Casey, a candidate for sainthood, was exhumed and reinterred at Detroit's St. Bonaventure Monastery where he had comforted and fed the hungry during the Great Depression?
... that despite being laughed off stage at a music contest as a young boy, mugham singer Alim Qasimov went on to win the International IMC–UNESCO Music Prize?
... that in 1853, the Irish clergyman William Reeves bought the 9th-century Book of Armagh for three hundred pounds?
... that actor Justice Leak and his sister Liberty were named for their father's love of the criminal justice system?
... that under Hindu dietary law, a man is not allowed to eat while facing south if his mother is still alive?
... that though they had lost all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon in the Battle of Luzon, pockets of Japanese forces held out until Japan surrendered in World War II?
... that mountaineer Barry Bishop, a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest, lost all his toes to frostbite during the ascent?
... that the Fen River was used to flood the city of modern-day Taiyuan in the Battle of Jinyang, and was later used to defeat the besieging army?
... that in People v. Salem (1870), the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that public money could not be used to finance private railroad construction?
... that Sir Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis of Eye, served at one point as a groom of the Stool?
... that Castle Crags Wilderness in California contains the site of the Modoc War's 1855 Battle of Castle Crags?
... that Swiss patron of composers and writers Werner Reinhart is memorialized in an Alice Bailly 1920 portrait as "The Man with the Golden Heart"?
... that large amounts of α-Parinaric acid have been found in the seeds of an Impatiens species and an unrelated tree species?
... that Sue K. Hicks, a prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial who later became a judge in Tennessee, may have been the inspiration for the song, "A Boy Named Sue," popularized by singer Johnny Cash in 1969?
... that, rather being used to diagnose depression, depression rating scales provide an indication of the severity of symptoms for a time period?
... that Church of England clergyman William Wayte also was a minor British chess master in the late 1800s?
... that hypnotherapist, occultist and alleged Nazi sympathiser Alexander Cannon, who was known as the "Yorkshire Yogi", counselled British King Edward VIII shortly before his abdication in 1936?
... that Italian WWII frogmen set up a secret manned torpedo base in the previously sunken Italian tanker Olterra ?
... that Moduin, a poet of the Carolingian Renaissance, characterises his era as a rebirth of "Golden Rome"?
... that by the time he returned to England in 1878 after collecting plants in Colombia, German plant collector Guillermo Kalbreyer had lost more than half of his collection?
... that the positive-stop foot gear change first used on the Velocette KTT motorcycle in 1928 has become the standard for motorcycles today?
... that Jay Roach recommended that Jon Poll direct teen film Charlie Bartlett when Roach had to back out of the job himself?
... that the village of Lamberley in Northumberland, England has on display a bell from a small convent of Benedictine nuns that was devastated by William Wallace in 1296?
... that Vanessa Redgrave's portrayal of transsexual Renée Richards in the 1986 biopic Second Serve was praised as embodying "every internal contradiction of the polymorphously perverse"?
... that most of the buildings in the Giant Forest Lodge Historic District , listed on the National Register of Historic Places, were demolished by the National Park Service to protect giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park?
... that Toto's seizure of power in Rome, Italy, in 767 is one of the first indications that the military aristocracy believed that supreme power in Rome rested with the papal office?
... that the human mouth forms when the opening that becomes the anus tunnels through the embryo and comes out the other side?
... that the identity of the second police mole in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests has never been revealed?
... that actor Scott Thompson Baker has had notable roles in each of the long-running soap operas General Hospital, All My Children, and The Bold and the Beautiful?
... that a council ward in the East End of London was renamed "Spitalfields and Banglatown" in 2001 to reflect the history of Bangladeshi immigration to that area?
... that at a 1972 re-election rally before a crowd of 15,000 at the Nassau Coliseum, Richard Nixon's opening words were "This is the biggest and best rally, Joe Margiotta, I have ever seen"?
... that Velika Planina is a high-altitude settlement in Slovenia having huts whose oval roofs have wooden shingles that extend nearly to ground level to accommodate cattle?
... that the band Fleet Foxes received over a quarter of a million MySpace plays in two months despite having never released any of their work?
... that B-17 Flying Fortress tailgunner "Babe" Broyhill set a record by destroying two Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighters in a mission over Berlin in March 1945?
... that approximately 10,000 communist miners left the Czechoslovak Miners' Union in 1923, after the union had accepted 9–13 percent cuts in salaries?
... that Estonian chemist Paul Kogerman, known for his study of oil-bearing shales, was deported by Soviet authorities with his family in 1941 to a prisoner camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast?
... that the director of Afghan Muscles ignored the role of Afghan women in bodybuilding, noting "It's men looking at men," and "60% [of men] have their first sexual experience with another man"?
... that in 1887, D. H. Friston became the first illustrator to depict Sherlock Holmes ?
... that the radio station WHOS in Decatur, Alabama, aired an all-Elvis Presley format from October 1988 to April 1989?
... that the German submarine U-558 sank ships as far north as Ireland and as far south as Trinidad during World War II?
... that former Maryland Terrapins wide receiver Steve Suter set three NCAA and five Atlantic Coast Conference football records for kick returns despite his small stature and recurring injuries?
... that from November to April every year Jammu is the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost Indian state, and that during the summer Srinagar is the capital?
... that Abyssobrotula galatheae lives deeper in the ocean than any other known fish?
... that a portion of Virginia's 71-mile (114 km) Massanutten Trail was built on orders from George Washington as a route of retreat should the Continental Army be defeated at Yorktown?
... that pianist Kathryn Stott first met long-term collaborator Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello in her flat in his underpants?
... that the U.S. Marine Corps H-1 upgrade program is replacing the aging AH-1W SuperCobra and UH-1N Twin Huey helicopters with the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom, respectively?
... that the best-selling 1975 memoir The Education of Lev Navrozov established its author as a prominent Soviet dissident?
... that Barry Tabobondung was so excited to be drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft that he climbed over seats to get to the stage, and became stuck in a seat for two hours?
... that the Petroleum fly, Helaeomyia petrolei, is the only known insect that develops in naturally occurring crude oil?
... that the 1986 children's picture book Juma and the Magic Jinn was awarded Honor Book in the illustrations category of the 1986 Golden Kite Awards?
... that the appointment of Sever Voinescu as Romanian ambassador to the United States was rejected by a Senate committee on grounds that he was too close to President Traian Băsescu?
... that the folklorist Sir Laurence Gomme, who persuaded London County Council to take on the blue plaque commemorative scheme, was himself honoured with the 800th blue plaque?
... that the "Old Perpetual" geyser at Hunter's Hot Springs in Lake County, Oregon, releases a plume of near-boiling water 50 to 60 feet (15–18 m) into the air every 90 seconds?
... that the Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award is named for a librarian who was jailed for refusing to testify in the 1972 trial of the Harrisburg Seven anti-war activists?
... that George Hardy, who headed the Service Employees International Union from 1971 to 1980, did his first union organizing among janitors in San Francisco?
... that the Cornish jack, a weakly electric fish, uses electricity to communicate with other members of its group?
... that Romanian Symbolist poet, novelist, and critic Alexandru Macedonski sat on a throne during meetings of his esoteric circle?
... that attorney Rachel Hirschfeld works in the field of pet rights, including the creation of pet trusts allowing pets to inherit property?
... that the Eastside Historic Cemetery District in Detroit, Michigan, contains the graves of 29 Detroit mayors, at least 6 governors, 11 senators, and a dozen cabinet members?
... that White Tights are mysterious blonde female snipers from the Baltic states who have supposedly fought against the Russian Army in various conflicts?
... that Kunz von Kaufungen kidnapped Frederick II, Elector of Saxony's two sons, Ernest and Albert, just four years after he commanded Frederick II's forces during the Saxon Fratricidal War?
... that while working on The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, painter Edward Burne-Jones identified so strongly with King Arthur that he even assumed Arthur's pose when he slept?
... that the "noble polypore" (mushroom species Bridgeoporus nobilissimus) was the first fungus to be listed as endangered by any private or public agency in the United States?
... that two of the three character designers of the Japanese visual novel Flyable Heart have illustrated the Shakugan no Shana light novels and manga series, respectively?
... that Scott Smith is the first person since 1966 to be elected Mayor of Mesa, Arizona without having first served on its City Council?
... that bishop Mauritius Ferber of Warmia was treated for illness several times by the physician-astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus?
... that, as a student activist in the 1940s, Indian politician Gangadhar Appa Burande was one of the founders of the Communist Party in the Marathwada region?
... that the Indian Paint fungus (Echinodontium tinctorium), a member of the fungal family Echinodontiaceae, was used by Native Americans to make red pigments?
... that, during the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Edward Norton set a world record for climbing height that stood until 1952?
... that Jeremy Camp said his highest-debuting album to date Speaking Louder Than Before was "really aimed at" youth?
... that during the Great Depression, Wisconsin dairy farmers conducted a series of strike actions aimed at increasing the prices paid to milk producers?
... that the 14th-century life-size stone effigies of a knight and his wife in St Margaret's Church, Ifield , England, have been said to have an "inimitable sideways sway"?
... that many of Kentucky's early political leaders were part of the Danville Political Club, a debating society whose existence was not known publicly until a century later?
... that Polish Military Intelligence chief Tadeusz Pełczyński suggested before 1939 that, if war approached, Poland share her Enigma-cipher-breaking techniques with France and Britain?
... that before Dick Vitale began his Hall of Fame career as a basketball broadcaster, he was a head coach of the Detroit Pistons in the 1970s?
... that the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, stands on the site of a 1777 Second Continental Congress meeting?
... that Eivind Reiten was chair of StatoilHydro, Norway's largest company, for four days?
... that the U.S. devised tactics to defeat Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane from the 1942 capture of an intact example dubbed the Akutan Zero ?
... that Jane Couch MBE, nicknamed The Fleetwood Assassin, became the first female boxer to be granted a professional licence by the British Boxing Board of Control?
... that "ghost buster" Robert A. Baker was named one of the most outstanding scientific skeptics of the 20th century for his work on hypnosis, ghosts, alien abductions and false memory syndrome?
... that the Aquarama, built in 1945 as a Liberty ship, was converted into the largest passenger ship ever to operate on the Great Lakes?
... that Samuel McDowell fought in three wars and later presided over nine of the ten constitutional conventions needed to draft the first Kentucky Constitution?
... that filamentous fungi of genus Geomyces have been implicated in White-nose syndrome, a fungal disease causing high mortality in bats?
... that Davin Meggett, the Maryland Terrapins' second-leading running back, is the son of Super Bowl champion and two-time Pro Bowl selection, David Meggett?
... that commuter rail stop Hall/Nimbus Station in Oregon includes artwork that features movable heads shaped like a pumpkin and a blue-colored skull?
... that the innovative design of the pre-Columbian twin pyramid of Tenayuca in Mexico was later used as a model for the temples of the Aztecs?
... that the Magosternarchus genus of knifefish eats the tails of other knifefish, and many specimens have been found with regenerated tails?
... that in World War II, David M. Jones, later a U.S. Air Force Major General, participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape?
... that the most common symptoms in impingement syndrome are pain, weakness and a loss of strength at the shoulder?
... that Rabbi Tobias Geffen convinced the makers of Coca-Cola to change its secret formula in 1935 so he could certify that the beverage was kosher?
... that Lac-Simon, in Quebec, Canada, is named after Marie-Louise Cimon, the wife of an early settler?
... that after Helmut Friedlaender sold most of his rare-book collection at auction in 2001, he bought back some of the books on the open market to give them a good home?
... that Robert Harrison, publisher of the gossip magazine Confidential , was once arrested for allegedly taking pornographic photos at a golf course?
... that the Jews of Massena, New York, were falsely accused of the kidnap and ritual murder of a Christian girl in September 1928 in an incident known as the Massena blood libel?
... that Sri Lanka Army officer Lt. Col. Lalith Jayasinghe was killed while leading a special forces team on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines?
... that Unverricht-Lundborg disease is the most common form of an uncommon group of genetic epilepsy disorders called progressive myoclonic epilepsy?
... that one of the most gifted portrait painters of the 17th century is known as Cornelis Janssens, although he never used that name to sign his paintings?
... that the Woodland Public Library is the oldest, and one of the last functioning Carnegie-funded libraries in California?
... that footballer Johnny Warsap was signed by Gillingham F.C. after he played against the club for a team representing the Royal Berkshire Regiment?
... that golf in Scotland flourished despite "the fut bal ande the golf" (football and golf) being "vtterly criyt done" (utterly condemned) by a 1457 Act of the Parliament of Scotland?
... that the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter's last months in office?
... that the Anglo-Norman Latin text De obsessione Dunelmi is the first-known history of an English earldom?
... that secondary students can take Yup'ik studies in the Yupiit School District, which is located in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska?
... that Tytus Filipowicz, nominally the first Polish ambassador to Georgia, was captured during the Soviet invasion and ultimately organized the first Polish embassy to the Soviet Union?
... that the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club developed some of the earliest safe sex education material in the United States?
... that the Valley of Mexico has been one of the most heavily populated places on the planet for almost two millennia?
... that Edwin Donayre, commander of the Peruvian Army, sparked an international controversy when a video surfaced in the media showing him making anti-Chilean remarks?
... that the Central Commission of German Trade Unions organized 75 percent of unionized German workers in Czechoslovakia in 1921?
... that Spanish footballer Paco Bienzobas was the first person to win the Pichichi Trophy, awarded to the top scorer in La Liga?
... that recent restoration efforts were said to have "breathed new life" into Ulsoor Lake, one of the largest lakes in Bangalore?
... that Norwegian illustrator Harald Damsleth was convicted for treason in 1950, for having drawn Nazi propaganda posters during World War II?
... that Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii, along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
... that the British Bulldog revolver was first produced by Webley & Scott in England and later copied by gunmakers in Continental Europe and the United States?
... that the Moonlight Brewing Company sells its product only in kegs because the brewmaster believes the process of bottling beer "is cruel for the beer and a logistical nightmare"?
... that Ian Chapman was the first former pupil of The Football Association's School of Excellence to play in The Football League?
... that Aleksandr Pushkin's 1827 poem The Gypsies inspired some eighteen operas and six ballets, including Rachmaninoff's Aleko?
... that radio station WHAL in Phenix City, Alabama, used to broadcast from a defunct airport terminal?
... that so many people became custom harvesters in China in the late 20th century that it was no longer possible for them to generate a profit?
... that during the Dead Rabbits Riot of 1857, residents of Mulberry Street in New York City were forced to barricade themselves in their homes?
... that the three-story tall Torah Ark of the Great Synagogue in Włodawa, Poland, is decorated with carvings of 18th-century musical instruments to illustrate one of the Psalms?