derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Friends Meeting House at Ifield, England, built in 1676, is one of the oldest purpose-built Friends meeting houses in the world?
... that in 2002, a Trotskyist became the general secretary of the trade union centre C.G.T.G in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe?
... that the visitor's locker room at the Alabama Crimson Tide football stadium was recently named "The Fail Room" after alumnus contributor James M. Fail?
... that as the architect of the St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Beacon, New York, Frederick Clarke Withers designed everything down to the altar cloth?
... that after the inexplicable sinking of four identical trawlers in Acadia, the Canadian government took possession of the "cursed ship" Marc Guylaine in 1972, simply changed its name and re-sold it?
... that in 1978, Pueblo Community College became part of the Colorado Community College System after having been a branch campus of Southern Colorado State College?
... that A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter A.D. 1697, based on the diary of Henry Maundrell, was translated into French, Dutch and German by 1792?
... that the Laogai Museum, which showcases China's laogai prison system, was financed by the same company that once turned a dissident, Shi Tao, in to the Chinese authorities?
... that American Basketball Association player Lee Davis appeared in the 1970 ABA All-Star Game despite playing in only sixteen games all season?
... that from 1945 until 1978, cars in Okinawa Prefecture drove on the right side of the road until a switch to left-hand drive as part of the 730 Conversion Plan, to match the rest of Japan?
... that in the 1962 film Invasion of the Star Creatures, extra-terrestrial monsters were played by actors wearing carrot costumes?
... that the uncommon thorium nesosilicate mineral Huttonite was first discovered in 1950 in New Zealand?
... that Filipina singer and actress Didith Reyes was one of the "Jukebox Queens" of the 1970s Philippine music scene along with her friends Imelda Papin and Claire dela Fuente?
... that the Cal State Fullerton Titans football team holds NCAA records for both most fumbles and most fumbles lost for a single season with 73 and 41 respectively?
... that the 1980 novel One Day of Life was banned in El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations by the government's paramilitary organization, Organización Democrática Nacionalista?
... that due to his blindness, it took Sir John Wall, the first visually impaired judge of the 20th-century High Court of Justice, over 400 applications and 53 interviews before he was offered a job?
... that the BZ-laden white smoke produced by the M44 generator cluster bomb was problematic because BZ is easily defeated with a few layers of cloth?
... that the Goode-Hall House near Town Creek, Alabama, is a vernacular interpretation of Palladian architecture?
... that Ron Ben-Yishai, the first journalist to inform Ariel Sharon of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, was later cast in Waltz with Bashir, an animated film about the incident?
... that there have been 16 managers for the San Diego Padres, a Major League Baseball franchise?
... that in December 2008, Anibal dos Santos, convicted murderer of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso, has escaped maximum security jail for a third time?
... that the first seigneur of Beloeil, Quebec, participated in the 1704 Raid on Deerfield?
... that Sid Bernstein helped start the British Invasion by getting The Beatles to play at Carnegie Hall?
... that the 14th-century Tree House, the former manor house of Crawley, England, was named after an ancient elm whose trunk was hollowed out to form a room in which travellers stayed overnight?
... that Hussniya Jabara was the first Israeli Arab woman to be elected to the Knesset?
... that James Bond attributed the extinction of the Puerto Rican Conure to pigeon hunters visiting Mona Island?
... that the Royal Enfield Bullet has the longest production run of any motorcycle, having remained continuously in production since 1948?
... that the Gal Oya riots were the first ethnic riots that targeted the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka?
... that William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir was once barred from a nightclub near Ottawa, Canada, because Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King disapproved of his father?
... that the English folkloric story Dick Whittington and His Cat is based on the real Richard Whittington, but there is no historical evidence that he ever had a cat?
... that one of the factors threatening the Canarian Houbara is disturbance by truffle collectors?
... that the 2003 film Scorched cost US$7 million to make but only earned US$8,000 at the box office, approximately 0.1% of its initial cost?
... that although his crew were merely taking geological observations, the British Government believed Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace had claimed New Zealand for France?
... that the leader of the French Garden Gnome Liberation Front was given a suspended sentence after the group "liberated" over 150 garden gnomes in 1997?
... that Tommy Dunderdale is the only Australian-born player to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Canada?
... that the M34 cluster bomb was the first major U.S. chemical weapon designed to deliver sarin nerve agent?
... that Olav Rytter, a Slavic philologist who fled German-invaded Norway in 1940, returned in 1944 to participate in the liberation of Northern Norway?
... that the Monumento al Ahogado, a Uruguayan landmark, was completed in only six days, even though the sculptor was given an entire summer to work on it?
... that Greek singer Katy Garbi's new album Kainourgia Ego is the last release on her current contract with Sony BMG, which has in total lasted almost 20 years?
... that Poland's only "official" ghost town, Kłomino, used to be a base of both the Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army?
... that no type specimen of the Lord Howe Island Pigeon exists, as it was described from a painting by George Raper?
... that during the trial for the Toa Payoh ritual murders in Singapore, Howard Cashin received death threats for defending the accused, Adrian Lim?
... that operatic soprano Romilda Pantaleoni sang the role of Desdemona in the original 1887 production of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello?
... that Charter 08, a declaration signed by hundreds of Chinese intellectuals, was modeled on Czechoslovakian Charter 77?
... that Archbishop D'Arcy of Armagh was a member of the Senate of Southern Ireland and a supporter of the Eugenics movement?
... that Gene Krupa was asked to be in the 1947 race film Boy! What a Girl! when he stopped by to visit cast member Sid Catlett on the film's set?
... that Norwegian jurist and peace activist Fredrik Heffermehl claimed that 45 percent of Nobel Peace Prize awards after 1945 are "illegal"?
... that the sculpture Berlin , created as a testament to East and West Berlin being close yet separate, was commissioned for the city's 750th anniversary?
... that The New York Times obituary for actor/filmmaker Spencer Williams made no mention of his work as a film director?
... that the Italian Royal Navy's Indomito class of destroyers were the first large Italian destroyers and the first to be equipped with steam turbines?
... that Tang Dynasty general Liu Ji was poisoned to death by his son Liu Zong while campaigning against the rebel general Wang Chengzong?
... that WEPS in Elgin Area School District U46 is the oldest educational radio station in Illinois, USA?
... that over a ten-year period, Olaus Michael Schmidt served as Norwegian Minister of Justice for four non-consecutive terms?
... that according to a legend, the Eliseyevs hid their treasures in the walls of Chicherin House before they fled Russia after the October Revolution in 1917, but this treasure was never found?
... that Mangaloreans hold a Guinness world record for non-stop singing for 40 hours?
... that Australian inventions include the boomerang, didgeridoo, black box flight data recorder, Vegemite, spray-on skin, and bionic ear ?
... that "Johnny Mac" McDonald was elected mayor of Thomasville, Alabama, in 1976 while working at radio station WJDB-FM as announcer and account executive?
... that Namibian Deputy Defence Minister Victor Simunja received military training in both the United States and Soviet Union?
... that United States Conference of Mayors was founded at the Mayflower Hotel on the eve of the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as U.S. President in 1933?
... that Peter Harboe Castberg is credited with building Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse into one of the leading banks in Norway?
... that Froudacity was an 1889 polemic which argued for self-government in the British West Indies?
... that John Fuller, who led a Union Army division at the Battle of Atlanta and participated in Sherman's March to the Sea, was one of the few foreign-born generals in the American Civil War?
... that a technician at the Beijing Film Laboratory refused to print the film or return the negatives for sex scenes from Curiosity Kills the Cat, having been punished over a similar matter?
... that male Andean Cocks-of-the-rock gather in a lek to put on a competitive mating performance?
... that James Mill spent twelve years writing The History of British India from 1806 to 1818, but never visited the country?
... that in 1799, the distillery adjacent to George Washington's Gristmill produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey along with apple, peach, and persimmon brandy?
... that the term "no waris" in the Papua New Guinean language Tok Pisin is derived from the Australian English "no worries"?
... that because he had no family, Judge George Muter was invited to live with Thomas Todd, his fellow justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, following Muter's retirement from the bench?
... that construction of Mughal Road in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir was opposed because it impeded the movement of the Markhor goat?
... that protests by the New York Board of Rabbis and others led to changes in Alec Guinness's portrayal of Fagin in the U.S. version of the 1948 film Oliver Twist, which was not released there until 1951?
... that in 2008, almost 100 illegal fish cages were removed from the Pansipit River in the Philippines?
... that the Rod Blagojevich fraud cases caused the Illinois General Assembly to consider erasing the Illinois Governor's statutory power to appoint a United States Senate replacement for Barack Obama?
... that after being deposed by his brother Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman sultan Murad V was detained in the Malta Pavilion?
... that, at 73 years old, Ken Mink became the oldest person ever to score in a college basketball game?
... that in 2018, when the Follo Line is completed in Norway, it will reduce travel time between Oslo and Ski from 22 to 11 minutes?
... that Hiberno-Latin poet Colman nepos Cracavist wrote the first known poem about Saint Brigid?
... that the Vanity Ballroom, an intact dance hall that hosted the popular big bands of the Swing Era, billed itself as "Detroit's most beautiful dance rendezvous"?
... that male and female Sternarchogiton nattereri knifefish are so different that males were thought to be members of a different genus for 40 years?
... that the name of the Lasiognathus genus of anglerfish , distinctive for its huge upper jaw, derives from the Greek for "hairy jaw"?
... that Charlie Bowman was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and develop early country music in the 1920s and 1930s?
... that the Royal Navy repair ship HMS Artifex previously served as a liner for Cunard and as an armed merchant cruiser?
... that during construction of the church that now houses the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, the church was given all the rock they needed for US$1,000 as long as they hauled it away?
... that Baruch Steinberg was the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army during the German invasion of Poland in 1939, and died a year later as a Soviet prisoner of war in the Katyn massacre?
... that although it was the tallest building in Perth, Western Australia, for most of the 1960s, Citibank House is now only the 26th tallest in the city?
... that after Frederick Gottwald lost his position as director of the Cleveland Institute of Art, he got into a fistfight with his successor?
... that Congo, a chimpanzee who made over 400 paintings , would scream if a painting was taken away from him before he was finished?
... that American general Robert S. Beightler was the only World War II National Guard general to have commanded his division for the length of the war?
... that Australian pop/rock band 1927, whose debut album ...ish sold multi-platinum, tried for a year to get a recording contract?
... that Ryszard Reiff was the only member of the Polish Council of State to vote against the implementation of martial law in Poland in 1981?
... that since the 1920s, the Whittier Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, has hosted Horace Dodge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mae West, Frank Sinatra, and The Beatles?
... that communist politician K. Ramani became the speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state Tamil Nadu in 1989?
... that Chemical Agent Identification Sets formerly used by the U.S. military included bottles of sulfur mustard used to purposely contaminate terrain and equipment for training?
... that of over 1,000 stone Buddha statues that once existed at the Korean Buddhist temple Unjusa, only 91 remain intact?
... that stick candy, a form of hard candy with a colorful, barber pole-like spiral design, has a long history in the United States, dating to at least as early as 1837?
... that English businessman David Ross was named one of the 100 richest people in the United Kingdom by The Sunday Times?
... that the 14"/50 caliber gun was slated to be the main armament for the Lexington-class battlecruiser, but that class was redesigned in 1917?
... that Keizō Tsukamoto set a Guinness World Record by creating the cover art for more than 1,900 issues of Weekly Manga Times starting in 1970?
... that while filming 1991's Barton Fink, the Coen brothers were contacted by an animal-rights group concerned about their treatment of mosquitoes?
... that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver narrates the Nintendo DS cooking video game What's Cooking? with Jamie Oliver?
... that the design of the U.S. anti-crop E77 balloon bomb was based on the design of the World War II Japanese fire balloon?
... that wood infected by the "green elfcup" fungus, species Chlorociboria aeruginascens, is used in the manufacture of decorative inlaid woodwork like Tunbridge ware and parquetry?
... that children's book illustrator Walter Crane was the first President of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, founded in 1887 to showcase the decorative arts?
... that Cromemco's Dazzler was the first commercial graphics card for microcomputers, and was widely used for displaying weather forecasts in the early 1980s?
... that Fairview Creek in Oregon was once a tributary of the Columbia River, but was diverted to the Columbia Slough in the early 20th century?
... that the Battle of the Severn in 1655 in Annapolis, Maryland, was closely related to the conflicts of the English Civil War, which had concluded four years earlier in England?
... that when the Woodside Plaza opened in 2004, it was the first high-rise office building to be constructed in Perth, Western Australia, in eight years?
... that Peyton Short may have been responsible for the break-up of the first marriage of U.S. President Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel?
... that coroners' juries in English inquests can bring in an open verdict that confirms a death is suspicious without specifying how it came about?
... that Bill Paparian, who visited Cuba while mayor of Pasadena, California, was reported to admire both Che Guevara and the U.S. Marine Corps?
... that in Joliet, Illinois, population declined during the decade before Arthur Schultz became mayor and has nearly doubled since?
... that the Khedive Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, once a mansion for Ottoman governors, now serves as an upscale restaurant?
... that English violinist John Lenton wrote one of the earliest extant treatises on violin playing?
... that "grand design" spiral galaxy NGC 6118 containing Supernova 2004dk is nicknamed the "Blinking Galaxy" for its tendency to flick in and out of view with different eye positions?
... that the chance purchase of a $15 Yoruba carving in Hamburg by Warren M. Robbins led to the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art?
... that live-line working involves making contact with a power line that may be energized up to 1,150,000 volts?
... that award-winning television editor Walter Balderson was the only TV cameraman inside the White House for the 1953 Inauguration Day meeting between U.S. President Truman and President-elect Eisenhower?
... that the African city of Careysburg, Liberia, hosted a large transmitter for Voice of America, the official external broadcasting service of the United States federal government?
... that the Taping river is the first tributary of Myanmar's chief river, the Irrawaddy?
... that Executive Order 13128 led to U.S. State Department rules outlining criminal penalties for violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention?
... that, among the flags of Romania, the flag of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 has been called "the flag with the hole"?
... that Sharif el-Mashad, the named petitioner in the habeas corpus case of El Mashad v. Bush, was in the clothing trade before being sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp?
... that Humphrey Bate was the first to play old-time music on Nashville radio, and his "Possum Hunters" records are considered some of the most complex string band compositions in the genre?
... that the Nāradasmṛti Indian literature is the only Dharmaśāstra text to not cover areas such as righteous conduct and penance?
... that the Jewish Theological Seminary of America produced the NBC radio and TV program The Eternal Light commercial-free for 45 years, with the show's producer saying "God needs no sponsor"?
... that, when a person explosively jumps up from a squat position, stabilization through preflex happens with zero time delay?
... that Maurice Garin, nicknamed "The Little Chimney-sweep", won the first-ever Tour de France in 1903?
... that the California Avocado Commission is responsible for 90 percent of the United States' harvest of avocado?
... that the Romanesque St. Charles Borromeo Church in Detroit, Michigan, serves a parish that was established to minister to Belgian immigrants to the city?
... that the Australian plague locust can form swarms infesting areas up to 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi)?
... that S. A. K. Durga is the first Asian to have written a book on ethnomusicology?
... that the 1948 Oscar Micheaux-directed film The Betrayal was the first race film to have its premiere in a Broadway theatre in New York City?
... that British motorcycle pioneer Eugene Goodman joined his family's business, Velocette motorcycles, only after his car-making business failed in 1916?
... that in 1979, ColorGraphics Weather Systems pioneered the use of color computer graphics in television weather forecasts, using the Apple II computer?
... that Greek singer Paschalis Terzis's most recent album Mia Nihta Zoriki was certified gold the day it was released?
... that Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention?
... that the first head coach of Cleveland Browns, Paul Brown , coached the team for 17 complete seasons?
... that production of the French AMX-30 and its variants amounted to a total of 3,571 units?
... that U.S. minister Ashley Day Leavitt received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree during World War I for teaching that "only the righteous nation that keepeth truth may enter in the gates of the Kingdom?"
... that the leftist Czechoslovak Chemical Workers' Union was expelled from the OSČ trade union centre in 1922?
... that Thomas Leavitt and his brother Martin patented the first practical device in the United States to machine postmark letters?
... that a twist lift in pair figure skating involves catching a falling woman by her waist as she twists in the air?
... that American entrepreneur Tom Krieglstein was the first person in line for President-elect Barack Obama's election night rally?
... that although the Norfolk Island Pigeon was hunted to extinction by humans, its first hunters disappeared from Norfolk Island before it did?
... that at least 343 persons on the SS Princess Sophia died in 1918 when the ship was grounded near Juneau, Alaska, the captain decided not to evacuate, and the ship sank?
... that Biochimica et Biophysica Acta was the first international journal launched by publishing giant Elsevier?
... that Pennsylvania's longest cave extends from Harlansburg to Rose Point, over 11 miles (18 km) away?
... that after producing a booklet on the Zulu language, Harcourt Mortimer Bengough would go on to command at the 1879 battle of the Zulu capital Ulundi?
... that a trading halt stops stock trading in the U.S. when there is significant order imbalance between buyers and sellers in a security?
... that the Galoter process is an oil shale retorting technology that uses hot oil shale ash to heat other oil shale?
... that Linda Greenlaw, the swordfishing boat captain portrayed in the book and film The Perfect Storm, is now a best-selling author?
... that in the 1949 England and Wales county council elections for the boroughs outside London the Conservative Party had a 96% gain and the Labour Party an 87% seat loss?
... that Holy Land USA , a Connecticut theme park intended to replicate Bethlehem and Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually?
... that the Velocette LE motorcycle was used by over fifty British police forces and the police riders became known as "Noddys" because they were required to nod to senior officers?
... that the Mianus River Gorge in Westchester County, New York, was the first land preservation purchase by the Nature Conservancy?
... that during the history of Pulicat between 1621 and 1665, over 38,000 Indian slaves were obtained by Dutch slave traders and shipped from the Coromandel Coast, mostly to the East Indies?
... that A. Bernard Ackerman, called "a founding figure in the field of dermatopathology", was skeptical of the notion that exposure to sun causes melanoma, saying the link had not been proven?
... that Duranta erecta, a widely cultivated ornamental plant, has been identified as an invasive species in Fiji, French Polynesia and Hawaii?
... that Thompson Pond and nearby Stissing Mountain were inspiration for the New York State Environment exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History?
... that like the Titanic, the Hans Hedtoft struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage?
... that the deep-sea anglerfish Thaumatichthys has been called "one of the oddest creatures in the teeming variety of the fish world"?
... that the works of landscape architect Charles Leavitt include gardens for Walter P. Chrysler and William C. Whitney, the grandstands at Forbes Field, and racetracks at Saratoga and Belmont?
... that 1998's Hurricane Karl was one of four simultaneous hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean at one time, the first such occurrence since 1893?
... that Collin Mooney beat the Army football single-season rushing record by one yard in the last play of his last college game, the 2008 U.S. Army-Navy Game?
... that the Main Synagogue of Barcelona may be the oldest synagogue building still standing in Europe?
... that Enos Lowe was a founder of Omaha, Nebraska, and an early resident of Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase?
... that Henry Frederick Stephenson was the First and principal Naval Aide-de-camp to King Edward VII?
... that after a kitten named Lucky survived a fall from the 65-foot-high (20 m) Granada Bridge at Ormond Beach, Florida, Lucky's owners changed her name to Timmy?
... that, in the lives of saints, the appearance of roses sometimes announces the presence or activity of God?
... that at No Mercy (2002), Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit became the first ever WWE Tag Team Champions by defeating Rey Mysterio and Edge?