derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Indian film director Nitin Bose, who directed the blockbuster Ganga Jamuna in 1961, had introduced playback singing in Indian cinema in 1935?
... that during the Liberian Civil Wars over 5,000 artifacts were looted from the Liberian National Museum but a 250-year-old dining table given as a gift from Queen Victoria to Liberia's first President remains?
... that Raleigh Springs Mall in Memphis, Tennessee lost three of its four anchor stores (JCPenney, Dillard's and Goldsmith's) all in the same year?
... that Flaithbertach Ua Néill, king of Ailech in Ireland, was called Flaithbertach an Trostáin, Flaithbertach of the Pilgrim's staff, as a result of his pilgrimage to Rome in 1030?
... that William H. Mumler claimed to take a photograph showing Mary Todd Lincoln with the spirit of her deceased husband, Abraham Lincoln?
... that besides training its own officers, the Pakistan Naval Academy has trained over 2000 officers of allied navies including the Chief of Naval Staff of the Qatar Emiri Navy?
... that the United States Forest Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife partnered with the Paisley, Oregon community to restore the Chewaucan River habitat for native redband trout?
... that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
... that the Schweizer SGP 1-1 glider was launched by an elastic bungee cord, originally pulled by children and later by a Ford Model A car?
... that Governor of Italian Libya Italo Balbo brought 20,000 Italians to Libya in 1938, founding 26 new villages for them, in an attempt to colonise it?
... that bouclé is a type of novelty yarn that uses special plying techniques to obtain its charateristic loopy appearence?
... that in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus , the first known Western translation of a Chinese literary work?
... that the Buckeye is the only U.S. breed of chicken known to have been created by a woman?
... that the TARDIS broke while filming the final scene of the Doctor Who episode "The Poison Sky"?
... that a story in Janna's 13th-century Kannada classic Yashodhara Charite deals with sadomasochism and transmigration of the soul?
... that the land acquisitions for the Southern Railway's Spencer Shops in 1896 were secretly done to prevent land speculation?
... that anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen described Comer's Midden as the only substantial find of pure Thule culture in Greenland?
... that the revitalized Historic District of Apex, North Carolina has been described as a "Gucci Mayberry"?
... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?
... that publication of Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai was suspended following its printing of a caricature of Jesus holding a cigarette and a can of beer?
... that a tornado outbreak produced up to 3 inch (76 mm) diameter hail near Midwest City, Oklahoma?
... that Simbolul was a Romanian literary magazine published by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, later two of Dadaism's founders, while they were still in high school?
... that the Chicago Blackhawks, with the longest active Stanley Cup drought in the National Hockey League, last won the Cup in the 1960–61 season?
... that as a result of dog shows, dog fanciers established stud books and began refining breeds from the various types of dogs in use?
... that although Lookdown are common in tropical Atlantic waters, they are rarely seen in the Greater Antilles?
... that Ronald Joy was an English cricketer, who played eight County Championship matches in the 1928 season?
... that the Indian Coast Guard estimates more than 100 fishing boats and an unknown number of fishermen annually stray across the territorial waters of India and Pakistan?
... that the most popular tourist attraction in Omaha has been voted the best zoo in America, with the largest cat complex in North America?
... that Sark Windmill , built in 1571, is the oldest surviving windmill in the Channel Islands?
... that Joseph M. Street, a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War?
... that following the Darwin Rebellion of December 1918, HMAS Encounter was sent to Darwin to protect Administrator John Gilruth and his family?
... that troops of Tadayoshi Sano, a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army, were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war?
... that, during a Fersommling, the only language spoken is Pennsylvania Dutch and that anyone who speaks English has to pay a fine for each word?
... that the French stormed the Bagration flèches eight times during the Battle of Borodino in 1812?
... that Canadian radio broadcaster Clyde Gilmour hosted a weekly national show for more than 40 years, presenting from his substantial personal music collection?
... that in 1789 Spain seized the British sloop Princess Royal, nearly causing a war, then used the vessel to explore the Strait of Juan de Fuca, finding the San Juan Islands and the entrances to Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia?
... that Benjamin Motte published many famous works such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the first English edition of Isaac Newton's Principia, an edition that became the standard translation for over 200 years?
... that the obscure mealybug, a pest of vineyards in New Zealand and California, is believed to have been introduced from Australia or South America?
... that the present-day city of Davenport, Iowa is named after George Davenport, a 19th century American frontiersman, trader and US Army officer?
... that the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle?
... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
... that it was rumored that some seals escaped Minneapolis's Longfellow Zoological Gardens into nearby Minnehaha Creek?
... that the forthcoming Tamil film Guru En Aalu, starring Madhavan and Mamta Mohandas, is a remake of the 1997 film Yes Boss?
... that McCarty Church in Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s?
... that Salt Lake City-based robotics firm Sarcos is developing a military powered exoskeleton allowing wearers to easily lift 200 pounds (91 kg)?
... that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
... that a riot reportedly instigated by writer André Breton broke out during the 1923 premiere of Tristan Tzara's Le Cœur à gaz, a play written as a nonsensical dialog between human body parts?
... that in 1994 Martin Doherty became the first person to be killed in the Republic of Ireland by loyalist paramilitaries since 1975?
... that inscriptions found on a stone pillar in the village of Talagunda in India describe the rise of the Kadamba dynasty?
... that the Silky Sifaka is a white, diurnal rainforest sifaka found solely within a small area of northeastern Madagascar?
... that in spite of its similar appearance to the European Robin, the colourful Rose Robin of southeastern Australia is more closely related to the crow family?
... that Andayya's 13th century Kannada work Kabbigara Kava is considered important for its strict adherence to the indigenous Kannada language?
... that the sacrifice of Jean Cadieux on behalf of his companions during an Iroquois attack in 1707 is still commemorated by the inhabitants of Calumet Island?
... that Lena Guerrero, who became a Texas state legislator at twenty-five, was the first non-Anglo person to have served on the Texas Railroad Commission?
... that Robert the Devil, an operatic parody by W. S. Gilbert of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable, ends with the devil being punished by becoming part of the exhibit at Madame Tussaud's?
... that VFL footballer Charlie Moore, the first Australian to die of gunshot wounds in the Boer War, played in the 1898 VFL Grand Final against Stan Reid, who died in the same war six weeks later?
... that the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark?
... that the 18th century American soldier Isaac Bowman, his father George Bowman, and his grandfather Jost Hite were all prominent pioneers in the Colony of Virginia?
... that the windmill at South Barrule, Isle of Man worked an incline on a railway at a slate quarry?
... that the 1927 disappearance of the French biplane The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc), in an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, is one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation?
... that English football full back Alfred Bower was the last amateur player to captain the English national team in 1927?
... that screenwriter Daniel Knauf's polio-afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle?
... that a majority of the 114 killed in the 1994 Gowari stampede at Nagpur were women and children crushed to death under the crowd’s feet?
... that according to Brunei folklore Nakhoda Manis disrespected his mother, which caused a storm to sink his ship in the Brunei River, transforming the ship into the rock known as Jong Batu?
... that Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
... that Aberdour Castle , with parts dating from around 1200, is one of the two oldest datable standing castles in Scotland?
... that Kim Swoo Geun, a leading South Korean architect, was referred to as "Lorenzo de Medici of Seoul" by Time for his contributions to Korean culture?
... that the Bevier House Museum in Marbletown, New York includes the earliest known land grant map for Ulster County?
... that the lawsuit Motte v. Faulkner in 1735 was a legal dispute over the right to publish Jonathan Swift's complete works and its outcome was viewed by Swift as another example of English oppression?
... that although there is no commercial mining in Equatorial Guinea, 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of gold were retrieved in 2006?
... that Swedish soldier Charles F. Henningsen participated in civil wars and independence movements in Spain, Nicaragua, Hungary and the United States, but died without ever winning any of the causes for which he fought?
... that the distribution company Bunzl once held a virtual monopoly on the manufacture of cigarette filters in the U.K.?
... that in April 2008, Forbes listed Omid Tahvili as one of the world's ten most wanted fugitives?
... that Dr. Seuss's The Seven Lady Godivas is one of his few books written for adults, and though it was initially a failure when first published in 1939, original editions have sold for upwards of US$300?
... that L'Insoumis, a film noir alluding to the Algerian war, was Alain Delon's first real failure despite his acclaimed performance?
... that the Pinchot Sycamore, a centuries-old American sycamore, is the largest tree in Connecticut?
... that ablative brain surgery, which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia?
... that Winkhurst Kitchen and Titchfield Market Hall, which are now at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Sussex, have been dismantled and re-erected twice?
... that the Congressional Bowl is one of two new college football bowl games that will be played in the United States this year?
... that Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely was one of Queen Victoria's closest ladies-in-waiting for nearly forty years?
... that Rosetta Genomics Ltd. is a molecular diagnostics company that uses micro-ribonucleic acid biomarkers to develop diagnostic tests designed to differentiate between various types of cancer?
... that at only five weeks old, Flocke the polar bear cub from Nuremberg Zoo was touted by Bild to be the future "Mrs. Knut"?
... that when the first indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in southern Florida 15,000 years ago, the region was an arid sandy landscape?
... that visiting Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses?
... that the Mark Eden bust developer, a product claimed to enlarge women's breasts, actually worked by increasing the pectoral and back muscles?
... that the Moscow Kremlin's Church of the Deposition is named after a Byzantine tradition that the robe of the Virgin Mary was taken to Constantinople?
... that the Galena Historic District in Illinois, USA, includes more than a thousand historic properties and occupies as much as 85 percent of the city of Galena?
... that in Claude Ashton's only international appearance for the English national football team, he captained the squad?
... that the 12th century Kannada poet Harihara was initially an accountant in the Hoysala court?
... that restoration of the Old Savannah School House was the first project undertaken by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands after its creation?
... that the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849?
... that in St Peter's Church, Heysham, Lancashire, is a Viking hogback stone, and in the churchyard is the base of an Anglo-Saxon cross ?
... that as General Secretary of the Mexican railroad workers union, Demetrio Vallejo renounced his salary of 20,000 pesos a month, requesting it be turned over to the railway union treasury?
... that the 1842 Lombard Street Riot capped thirteen years of recurring racial violence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
... that after Roche MacGeoghegan, Bishop of Kildare, died in 1644, his library was divided between his diocese and the Dominican Order?
... that excavations of the Cherokee town Tallassee, burnt down during the Chickamauga Wars and submerged by an artificial lake since 1957, uncovered evidence of habitation as early as the Woodland period?
... that Kisan Kanya made by Ardeshir Irani in 1937 is India's first indigenously made color film?
... that Omaha's zoo was renamed in honor of longtime Omaha World-Herald publisher Henry Doorly in 1963?
... that Oregon's Warrior Rock Light operated uneventfully for 80 years until it was struck by a barge in 1969?
... that forces of the Dutch West India Company captured Axim in present-day Ghana and signed a treaty with the local West Africans in 1642 to become the major European power in the Gold Coast region?
... that Frank Ford, an organic food farmer in Deaf Smith County, Texas, was the chief advertising spokesman for the health foods industry during its founding decades of the 1960s and the 1970s?
... that Lithuanian nobleman Feodor Ostrogski was a governor of Volhynia, a region of Ukraine?
... that the Ilmin Museum of Art is an art museum of South Korea, located on Sejongno, Jongno-gu, central district of Seoul where royal palaces and gates of Joseon dynasty are also situated?
... that some scholars believe that John Wannuaucon Quinney was the originator of the term Native American?
... that the 122-year old Baltimore Steam Packet Company ("Old Bay Line") was the last overnight steamship service in the U.S. when it ceased operation in 1962?
... that China and Peru are expected to sign a free trade agreement during the 2008 APEC summit?
... that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to Mammoth Cave?
... that in February 2008, rugby league player Dan Dempsey was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
... that eight buildings in Newport, Rhode Island's Bellevue Avenue Historic District are designated as National Historic Landmarks, in addition to the district itself?
... that HNoMS Honningsvåg was a German fishing trawler captured in the Norwegian Campaign and served the Royal Norwegian Navy throughout World War II?
... that Spanish American cardiologist Valentin Fuster is the only cardiologist to receive all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations?
... that the steam yacht Gondola on Coniston Water is thought to be the inspiration for Captain Flint's houseboat in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons?
... that the May 30, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake was also felt at Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Islamabad in Pakistan, and Dushanbe in Tajikistan?
... that the late actress and theatrical producer, Madeline Lee Gilford, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era, is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming 2008 film, Sex and the City?
... that the Roanoke Apartments, which opened as Roanoke's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
... that Mathilde Ludendorff, a leader in the German Völkisch movement, claimed astrology was part of a Jewish effort to enslave the Germans?
... that an uncle of Christopher Columbus served as a keeper of Genoa's Torre della Lanterna?
... that the spirits of a wealthy rancher and his Indian wife have been seen and heard since the 1920s at Leonis Adobe, according to TV show Most Haunted?
... that Turkey was so dissatisfied with its first set of stamps that it had France make the second set ?
... that a shrew's fiddle was used to punish women who were caught fighting or arguing in Germany and Austria, often until both women agreed to stop bickering?
... that a 150 year-old weeping beech tree, considered to be the source of weeping beeches in the United States and declared a landmark in 1966, was located in Weeping Beech Park at Kingsland Homestead in Queens, New York?
... that in February 2008, rugby league player Brian Hambly was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players?
... that Samuel Johnson failed to get a job at Brewood Grammar School because headmaster William Budworth was concerned with Johnson's head movements?
... that the Denver Broncos, who made the National Football League playoffs seventeen times between 1977 and 2005, did not make the playoffs at all in their first seventeen seasons?
... that the photographs taken of Peter Jones in 1845 are the oldest surviving photographs of a North American Indian?
... that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation?
... that U-boat commander Heinrich Bleichrodt refused to wear his Knight's Cross until his subordinate, Reinhard Suhren received one as well?
... that NASCAR took away the first win for its all-time winningest driver at Lakewood Speedway after his father protested the scoring?
... that despite never making landfall, remnant moisture from Hurricane Madeline in 1998 contributed to severe flooding in central Texas which killed 32 people?
... that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non-Christians bringing rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction?
... that the herb Forsskaolea tenacissima was so named by Carl Linnaeus because it was as stubborn and persistent as his student Peter Forsskål had been?
... that Breed Street Shul, now vacant in a Hispanic part of Los Angeles, was the largest Orthodox synagogue in the western United States from 1915 to 1951?
... that "Guten Tag", the first single of German band Wir sind Helden featured a video which was a self-ironic statement against commercial music?
... that Raghavanka, a 12th century writer of Kannada literature, penned five classics just to expiate a sin his guru felt he had committed?
... that Omaha University was first located in the Redick Mansion of North Omaha's once-affluent Kountze Place suburb?
... that An Qingxu killed his father An Lushan, the Emperor of Yan, because he feared that his father would kill him and make his brother crown prince?
... that the first East Lake Community Library in Minneapolis was called a "reading factory" because it looked like a storefront?
... that the English names for the towns of Brecon and Cardigan derive from the names of Welsh mediaeval kingdoms, but the Welsh names for those same places refer to local rivers?
... that Tamil politician E. V. K. Sampath, nephew of Periyar, co-founded the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party?
... that the pumpman is the person aboard an oil tanker who maintains the liquid cargo system?
... that screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood, California?
... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
... that Russell B. Cummings, as a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1960s, was credited with procuring passage of his state's open beach and kindergarten access laws?
... that Rim Drive in Oregon, a scenic highway cited by the American Automobile Association as one of the ten most beautiful roads in the U.S., is a 33-mile loop that follows the caldera rim around Crater Lake ?
... that the Japanese virtual 3D massively multiplayer online social game Ai Sp@ce will launch in summer 2008 featuring interaction with bishōjo game characters?
... that Cormac mac Cuilennáin, bishop and king of Munster, later considered a saint, was killed in battle in 908 while leading an invasion of Leinster?
... that the Zimbabwe Open University is the largest university in Zimbabwe and the only distance education university in the country?
... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
... that Frederick II of Prussia was elated by the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that silva rerum was a multi-generational chronicle kept by many Polish noble families from the 16th through 18th centuries?
... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
... that, in a bid to remain in power, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos asked his Labor Minister Blas Ople to reach out to the Soviet Union?
... that Raymond Berry is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1973, eleven years before he became the Patriots' head coach?
... that Shnaim Ohazin was an Israeli Educational Television show that taught basic concepts from the Talmud with fictionalized time travel segments?
... that councilman Larry Gossett works in an office at the King County Courthouse in King County, Washington, located exactly where he was jailed for unlawful assembly after a 1968 sit-in?
... that the Berthouville Treasure of first- and second-century Roman silver was uncovered accidentally by a farmer's plough in 1830?
... that English engineer Roy Lunn was responsible for the development of the Ford Mustang I and the first American 4WD cars?
... that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, the mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?
... that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?
... that the Failing Office Building in Portland, Oregon is named after a mayor of Portland and built by a locally prominent architecture firm?
... that the art deco Burbank City Hall , with murals by Hugo Ballin, uses more than twenty types of marble in its main lobby?
... that the flora of Scotland includes the world's tallest hedge, a yew which may be Europe's oldest tree, and Dughall Mor ("big dark stranger") – Britain's tallest tree?
... that the dialogues for the Tamil film Parasakthi were penned by M. Karunanidhi who later became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu?
... that a scrapped demolition proposal for the Baytown Tunnel in Baytown, Texas would have utilized former pieces of its structure in the creation of an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico?