derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Copper Country Strike of 1913-1914 was a major labor strike action affecting all copper mines in the Copper Country of Michigan?
... that in 1482, Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja proposed a new musical temperament that achieved more consonant thirds and sixths?
... that the Hunterian Psalter, of about 1170, is the oldest English illuminated manuscript to have miniatures with backgrounds of incised gold leaf ?
... that Charles deGravelles and his wife, Virginia, of Lafayette, Louisiana, were in 1968 the only married couple in history to serve together on the Republican National Committee?
... that in the 1980s, over 35,000 Vietnamese people worked in Bulgaria?
... that Vernon Erskine-Crum was appointed General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland in 1971, during the Troubles, but was relieved within a month after suffering a heart attack?
... that the two attacks on Nauru Island during December 1940 were the greatest success achieved by German auxiliary cruisers in the Pacific Ocean during World War II?
... that Marie Ficarra is the first Coalition party woman to have been both a member of the upper and lower houses of the New South Wales Parliament?
... that although not a member of Nasjonal Samling, Kjeld Stub Irgens was asked by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 to persuade Haakon VII of Norway to abdicate and name Quisling Prime Minister?
... that the larger and more distinctively coloured female Black-breasted Buttonquail mates with multiple male quails, who in turn incubate the eggs?
... that in Tatton Hall, Cheshire , are ten full-length portraits of the Cheshire gentlemen who met in 1715 and decided to support King George I rather than James Stuart in the first Jacobite rebellion?
... that opera singer Nell Rankin used her pet jaguar, King Tut, as a negotiating tool at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that the Peshekee River Bridge was the first trunk line bridge designed by the Michigan State Highway Department?
... that the title of the 1999 film One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a play on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
... that William A. Eddy, president of Hobart College and William Smith College (1936–42), was a recipient of the Navy Cross in World War I and instrumental in the creation of the CIA in the late 1940s?
... that the Achenseebahn in Austria is the oldest steam-operated rack railway in Europe?
... that General Sir Harry Tuzo ordered Operation Motorman to take back control of Irish Republican controlled areas of Northern Ireland?
... that Evan Royster was the Penn State Nittany Lions starting running back for the team that let head coach Joe Paterno tie the record for all-time NCAA Division I victories?
... that the Lester Apartments in Seattle, originally intended to be the world's largest brothel, were destroyed when a B-50 Superfortress crashed into it in 1951?
... that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader near Bethlehem?
... that Stanmer Churchyard contains a rare vertical donkey-wheel, an ancient mechanism for drawing water from the ground?
... that U.S. Route 41 in Michigan including the Portage Lake Lift Bridge was the state's first Michigan Heritage Route in 1995?
... that the Central Branch designated by the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 had a hanging end at Waterville, Kansas when the Eastern Division was rerouted to serve Denver?
... that Clarence Saunders developed the first self-service grocery store concept into the first fully-automated grocery store concept?
... that the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi?
... that Jerry Shea was the first player to achieve all four rugby scoring methods—try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal—in a single international match?
... that in the 1996 case Smiley v. Citibank, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a regulation of the Comptroller of Currency declaring that late fees and other credit card penalties are interest payments?
... that Cyril Tenison White, who authored a 42-part series on weeds, was awarded the Mueller Medal for his important contributions to Australian botanical science?
... that the resignation of Filipino national police chief Hermogenes E. Ebdane, Jr. was one of the demands of the Oakwood mutiny?
... that the International Francophone Press Union, the world's oldest Francophone organisation, has more than 3,000 members in 110 countries?
... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?
... that Production I.G staff was responsible for creating the PlayStation 2 game Surveillance Kanshisha, despite being developed and published by Sony Computer Entertainment?
... that Norwegian comedian Per Inge Torkelsen caused an international stir when as a 15-year old he placed several ancient Chinese coins in a local excavation field?
... that swimmer Trischa Zorn of the United States is the most successful Paralympian with more than 40 gold medals reported?
... that the Harris Theater opened to serve small performance groups such as the Luna Negra Dance Theater?
... that the 33-room San Dimas Hotel built in 1887 never had a paying guest due to a land boom that never occurred?
... that the Drummond Nature Reserve named after botanist James Drummond has 439 species of vascular plants?
... that after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal, Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships?
... that Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin?
... that, besides books, in 1950 the Seattle Public Library had over 27,000 pictures and 3,500 phonograph records in its circulating collection?
... that it is accepted that Samuel Johnson had Tourette syndrome, after a 1967 diagnosis, a condition unknown during Johnson's lifetime?
... that a 20-day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park?
... that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?
... that about 70 Jewish fighters held off an assault by an entire Syrian infantry brigade and several armored battalions as part of the Battles of the Kinarot Valley (see map) on May 20, 1948?
... that tennis player Julie Coin, ranked 188th, defeated the #1 woman player Ana Ivanović in the second round of the 2008 US Open?
... that despite being the fifth fastest European of all time in the 100 metres, Ronald Pognon failed to reach the semifinals in his event at the 2008 Olympic Games?
... that Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Oregon, is the only hospital in the county seat of Yamhill County?
... that a riot erupted at the opening night of Adelia, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, because an unscrupulous promoter sold too many tickets?
... that the first tour of the touring company of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater Company included a four-week run at the Apollo Theater?
... that Geoffroy's Spider Monkey has a prehensile tail that can support its entire body weight?
... that despite the Vickers V-1000 jet airliner's being canceled, it was so admired that the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were re-designed to compare with its six-abreast seating?
... that the conspirators for the 1810 Argentine Independence movement's May Revolution had their secret gatherings at Hipólito Vieytes′s soap factory in Buenos Aires?
... that the only surviving salut d'amor by a woman (Azalais d'Altier) was addressed to a woman, probably Clara d'Anduza?
... that architect Ivan Rerberg despised the title of architect, and preferred to sign his work "Engineer Rerberg"?
... that the periodical Owl and Weasel played a key role in the development of the roleplaying and wargaming hobby industries in the UK?
... that the cancellation of the Skybolt missile in 1962 led to a major crisis in US-UK relations, which was solved by personal meetings and the signing of what is today known as the Nassau agreement?
... that the 1770 burletta The Recruiting Serjeant has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle (song, right) to a potential army recruit?
... that Mandume Ya Ndemufayo was the last king of the Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia?
... that the Abergil Crime Family is facing charges of money laundering, murder and drug trafficking, both in Israel and the United States?
... that Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?
... that Major League Baseball pitcher Frank Barnes scored three runs despite only having one hit in ten career at bats and having no walks, no hit by pitches and one caught stealing?
... that the state of Yan ended when its general Li Huaixian turned against its emperor Shi Chaoyi and forced him to commit suicide?
... that Philadelphia Phillies prospect Andrew Carpenter pitched a perfect game against the Fort Myers Miracle in 2007?
... that 19th-century American actor and playwright Steele MacKaye invented a variety of theatrical devices, including folding theatre seats?
... that the book Help at Any Cost triggered hearings by the United States House Committee on Education and Labor into behavior modification techniques used by the tough love teen industry?
... that while she was working in the billing department of a clinical laboratory firm, Lexie Fyfe became a professional wrestler at the invitation of a co-worker?
... that 16th-century noblewoman Marguerite de La Rocque was marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence by her relative, the privateer de Roberval, as punishment for an affair?
... that Charles Van Riper, a severe stutterer, was a pioneer in the development of speech pathology?
... that Mexican soprano Ángela Peralta once sang Donizetti's opera Maria di Rohan in a theatre improvised from a disused sand pit in La Paz, Baja California?
... that in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008?
... that Czesława Kwoka, a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
... that Rob Johnson was one of four of The Star-Ledger's top 10 prep soccer players of the 1990s to play pro for the hometown MetroStars / Red Bulls?
... that Springfield Park was created in 1905 from the grounds of three London houses, one of which is now a cafe?
... that the forking lemma is a lemma in cryptography first used to prove the security of a digital signature scheme in the random oracle model?
... that the village of Strezimirovci has been bisected by the Serbian–Bulgarian border since 1919?
... that Charles Pearson was Mentioned in Despatches 10 times for actions during the Anglo-Zulu War?
... that the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Temptation near Jericho was built around a cave said to be where Jesus spent forty days and nights fasting and meditating while being tempted by Satan?
... that of the ninety historic Synagogues of Kraków, Poland active before World War II, only the Remuh Synagogue still serves as a Jewish house of prayer?
... that blacklisted U.S. film director John Berry worked without screen credit on the 1951 Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K?
... that coach builder Jim Frecklington had to mortgage his house to pay for the estimated £620,000 building costs of the State Coach Britannia?
... that Florida's City College paid US$11.2 million to acquire its current Fort Lauderdale campus?
... that after six terms in the Norwegian Parliament, Olav Akselsen will take over as director of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate from October 2009?
... that the town of Bezdonys was the site of one of the most daring and successful train robberies in history?
... that although fortuneteller Madam Marie was "finally busted" in Bruce Springsteen's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", she was never arrested in real life?
... that Andrew Carnegie founded the Simplified Spelling Board in 1906, with the aim of making English the world language by addressing its difficult spelling?
... that Charles Ndaxu Namoloh, now a member of the National Assembly of Namibia, used the nom de guerre of "Ho Chi Minh" during the Namibian War of Independence?
... that the Mangrove monitor possesses salt-excreting nasal glands, which enabled them to reach new islands and aided in its dispersal across thousands of miles throughout the South Pacific?
... that when 15-year-old Jordon Mutch was first selected to play for Birmingham City F.C., he had to be withdrawn only hours before the match because of child protection regulations?
... that Rob Stewart made the 2007 documentary film Sharkwater after learning that longline fishing in the Galapagos Islands was killing the sharks?
... that newspaper publisher Katherine Graham's difficulties with her company's ownership of the Trenton Times led her to call it her "Vietnam"?
... that Hall of Fame bowler Patty Costello did not begin bowling until she was sixteen?
... that two future kings stood sponsor at the christening of the daughter of Admiral Lord Keith and "Queeney" Thrale , herself a child prodigy and friend of Dr Johnson?
... that the Focometer was created in order to provide rural or economically disadvantaged populations the ability to measure spherical refractive errors?
... that the Rose Museum's collection includes the trowel that was used to lay the cornerstone of Carnegie Hall?
... that Yang Jia, a Chinese man sentenced to death for murdering six policemen, is being hailed as a hero on Chinese internet forums?
... that Malcolm Fraser, a severe stutterer from an early age, founded the Stuttering Foundation of America and gave it most of its US$10 million endowment?
... that The17, a choir founded by former pop star Bill Drummond, never records its music, or performs for audiences?
... that Lonnie Wright played football for two seasons for the Denver Broncos and switched to playing basketball for the Denver Rockets just weeks after the 1967 football season ended?
... that the largest sheet of mica ever mined in the world came from Denholm, Quebec, Canada?
... that California Gold Rush-era bandit and highwayman Jack Powers, after being run out of several cities by vigilantes, was murdered in Mexico and his body fed to hogs?
... that the architect of Communal House of the Textile Institute in Moscow, a student dormitory completed in 1931, proposed centralized sedation of students at night?
... that members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance, interrogation, and harassment by the FBI?
... that major crimes in the United Arab Emirates include trafficking of young boys who are used as camel jockeys?
... that the first passenger elevator in an American hotel was installed in the Fifth Avenue Hotel facing Madison Square, New York City in 1859?
... that although some believe that there is no cure for stuttering, others say that it can be eliminated with stuttering therapy at early age?
... that the "K. Bridge" mentioned in the opening scene of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is the Kokushkin Bridge in Saint Petersburg?
... that the Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, California was home to gangster Bugsy Siegel, who was asked to leave after being charged with running a bookmaking operation there?
... that a play by Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam using animal characters to criticize the Ethiopian court prompted Empress Zewditu to ban all theatre in the country?
... that according to People v. Beardsley, it is not against the U.S. law for a man to not help his drinking partner, a woman who is not his wife, when she is dying of an overdose?
... that the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site contained over 55,000 artifacts from a Makah village inundated by a mudslide?
... that American lexicographer Robert L. Chapman added ecosystem and yuppie to Roget's Thesaurus?
... that the slimy spike-cap mushroom Gomphidius glutinosus is edible and useful for soups and stews once the layer of slime is removed?
... that the only season that Eldridge Recasner ranked in the top ten in the NBA for three point shot field goal percentage was not his best season?
... that when the Disley Tunnel was constructed, the navvies used 24 simultaneous working faces?
... that the edible mushroom Russula xerampelina has a taste and smell reminiscent of shellfish or crab?
... that biochemist Harvey Itano, who worked with Linus Pauling to determine the molecular basis of sickle cell disease, was the first Japanese American admitted to the National Academy of Sciences?
... that in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali in northern Pakistan, the Bakhshali manuscript, the oldest surviving example of Indian mathematics, was discovered written on birch bark?
... that American cargo ship SS Iowan rammed and sank two ships, one on each coast of the United States?
... that Jōmon Sugi, located on the island of Yakushima, is the oldest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica and the largest conifer in Japan?
... that Sir Ian Freeland was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland when the British Army was drawn into the beginning of the Troubles?
... that Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
... that Georg Prahl Harbitz, a priest by education, served as President of the Norwegian Parliament for ten terms?
... that Ludwig I of Bavaria was inspired to commission the Court Church of All Saints in the Munich Residence after attending Christmas mass at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo?
... that soprano Adele Addison stepped into the role of Bess in the 1969 film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess as a last-minute replacement of a singer who sounded too shrill?
... that Matsukata Kojiro, president of Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, implemented Japan's first eight-hour work day in 1919, after a strike by 30,000 workers threatened to bring down the government?
... that thousands of Flat Daddies, life-size photo cutouts of American soldiers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan, have been created to help families cope with their deployment?
... that until his appointment as Demonstrator in Practical Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham, Balthazar Foster had given up hopes of a medical career, and had even applied for a naval commission?
... that Dick Jones, a Wyoming Republican state legislator and gubernatorial nominee, also operated a trucking company which at its peak served thirty-eight states?
... that Cooleemee, a plantation house in North Carolina, was built from approximately 300,000 bricks made on site?
... that the permanent collection on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, Washington includes "Sylvester" , an excellently preserved mummy?
... that the wife of sawmill owner Julius Nicolai Jacobsen was said to haunt their house in Fredrikstad, Norway after she died?
... that Utu Abe Malae and the American Samoa Power Authority received an award from the Mayor of Honolulu for their policies promoting sustainable development?
... that millions of children participate in Halloween-related fundraising events for Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, a program that has raised over US$188 million worldwide?
... that using the memory of his late sister as motivation, Tyler Sloan made his National Hockey League debut on October 21 after seven years in the minor leagues?
... that Harold Owen claimed the ghost of his brother, the poet Wilfred Owen, appeared to him on board HMS Astraea a week after Wilfred's death?
... that candy pumpkins were placed on the seat of every U.S. Senator by the candy industry in 1985 in hopes of extending U.S. daylight saving time to cover Halloween?
... that in classical mythology, Cerberus is a monstrous dog with multiple heads that guards the gates to the underworld?
... that the Convention on the Continental Shelf codified international law relating to continental shelves during the first United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
... that The Witchery of Archery, written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?
... that David J. Skal and Elias Savada wrote the first book-length biography of Tod Browning, who directed the films Dracula and Freaks?
... that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.10 seaplane was a military trainer of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service, and served from 1929 until the 1940 German invasion of Norway?
... that the Dictum of Kenilworth agreed on Halloween 1266 created a reconciliation between the Barons and Henry III of England?
... that the Northern River Street Historic District is a well-preserved transitional neighborhood between the industrial and commercial areas of Troy, New York?
... that the Norwegian film Cold Prey 2 was the sequel to what was called "the best slasher flick" of 2006?
... that the name of Shichirigahama , a beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, means "Seven Ri (approximately 27 km/17 mi) Beach" in Japanese, but it is only about one-tenth of that in length?
... that Luther Prentice Bradley, a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, was severely wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga where he commanded a brigade?
... that Captain Abu Raed, Jordan's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, is the first Jordanian feature film made in over 50 years?
... that three of the last four U.S. Presidents have been left-handed, as are both major party candidates for the 2008 election?
... that the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was re-established on 15 March 1922, less than a month after Egypt was officially granted independence from Britain?
... that as founder and former chairman of Primedia, Bill Reilly built a publishing firm with more than 200 magazines, including American Baby, National Hog Farmer, Chicago and New York?
... that six of the seven destinations added by Horizon Air in 1982 when they purchased Air Oregon, are still operated today?
... that the proposed Macau security law would make treason punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison?
... that during the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong hung buckets of mud with urine in trees to thwart American people sniffers?
... that key relevance is a locksmithing term that refers to the measurable difference between an original key and a copy made of that key?
... that the winner of the 2008 United States House of Representatives election in the Northern Mariana Islands will be the very first Congressional delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands?
... that despite being built for the Spanish Navy, the frigate Santa Margarita spent just five years in service with them, but served for nearly 60 years with the Royal Navy?
... that among Lexington, Kentucky's contributions to the American Civil War were residents U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan?
... that the Neoclassical style Embassy of Germany in Saint Petersburg , whilst reviled by the Saint Petersburg artistic community, was admired by Adolf Hitler?
... that Vince Naimoli, founding owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, contributed US$1 million in 2007 for the construction of a baseball complex at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey?
... that Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, now a protected area in Estonia, used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era?
... that British actress Glynis Johns appeared in the short-lived 1963 CBS sitcom called Glynis, in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer-husband?
... that during the 1990 ethnic clashes in Osh between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, 5,000 crimes were committed?
... that no football team in Berlin was declared the winner of the Berlin Cup in 1969 because the penalty shootout was not yet introduced and the finalists were unable to schedule a re-match after a draw?
... that 2.2 million people participated in the U.S. 2008 Kids Pick the President event held by the Nickelodeon TV network?