derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that All-American end Ed Frutig was the main pass receiver for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon from 1938-1940?
...that Bury Castle in Greater Manchester was razed to the ground in 1485, 16 years after it was built, because its owner supported the losing side in the Wars of the Roses?
...that the Louisville and Portland Canal, opened in 1830, was the first major improvement completed on a major river of the United States?
...that former Red Army Faction terrorist Stefan Wisniewski escaped from a reform school seven times in one year in his youth?
...that Joseph Lazarow, then mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, shook over 11,000 hands in one day to break Theodore Roosevelt's record of 8,513?
...that the 2002 Pi Glilot bombing in Tel Aviv was a failed terror attack at a gas depot that could have killed thousands ?
...that in 1908 Eulabee Dix painted the last portrait from life of Mark Twain?
...that the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan organised India's first May Day celebrations in 1923?
...that after being ousted as mayor of Georgetown, Colorado, Koleen Brooks posed topless for Playboy?
...that fishes from the genus Alepes are characterised by a curve in their lateral line?
...that the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Workers' Federation was the country's first national labor confederation?
...that E. S. Kennedy – a founding member of London's Alpine Club – proposed a modification to the mountaineering ice axe based on the American backwoodsman's axe?
...that actor Noah Bean says he was so shy as a child that his school asked his parents if there was something wrong at home?
...that with a rapidly declining birth rate, Japan's elderly, with the world's highest proportion at 20% of the population, is expected to double to 40% of residents by 2055?
...that although Hillary Clinton has fewer delegates than John Edwards to the state convention of the 2008 Iowa Democratic Caucuses, she would receive one more to the national convention?
...that Storm 91C of 2006 has been classified a tropical, subtropical, and extratropical cyclone?
...that the actors in the film Planet of Dinosaurs had to sign partial payment deferments on their contracts, because most of the budget was spent on stop motion dinosaurs?
...that the kitchen of the Conde-Charlotte House was originally constructed in 1822 to be the first courthouse and jail of Mobile, Alabama?
...that George the Hagiorite from Georgia who became Saint George to the Georgian Orthodox Church had his biography written in 1084 by a disciple who was called George?
...that before brick became available as a building material, churches in medieval Northern Europe were commonly built with glacial erratics and rubble?
...that in only his second Major League start, Dick Selma threw a New York Mets franchise record 13 strikeouts in a 10-inning shutout victory?
...that Bombardment of Algiers, an oil-on-canvas by Thomas Luny, depicts the titular battle in which over 1000 Christians were liberated from slavery in Algeria?
...that Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan, Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of Kolkata?
...that Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the doors of All Saints' Church, Wittenberg, Germany , in which he is also buried?
...that painter Herman Rose was noted for his Impressionistic portraits, created by painting large numbers of small blurry squares to create his highly detailed images of cityscapes?
...that Vorpostenboot, the patrol boats that the Kriegsmarine used in World War II, were in fact modified fishing ships?
...that the Japanese role-playing game Night Wizard! was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes?
...that Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the only primary school that teaches only in the Manx language?
...that the Little Guilin in Singapore is given its name because of its resemblance to the scenery in Guilin, China?
...that Winston's Hiccup refers to the huge zigzag in Jordan’s eastern border with Saudi Arabia, supposedly because Winston Churchill hiccuped as he drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch?
...that the Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder, founded in 1926, was the first coed Scout association in Germany, and that they had strong ties to Scouts in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Scandinavia?
...that Sir James Hutchison, known as the "Pimpernel of the Maquis" for his liaison work with the French Resistance, was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day?
...that the Hood Mockingbird will occasionally attack people in an attempt to get fresh water from them?
...that despite its northern location, the Ahr produces more red wine from grapes like Pinot noir than any other wine region in Germany?
...that Pearson's Candy Company, a Saint Paul, Minnesota confectioner, once produced the Seven Up Bar and the Chicken Dinner Bar?
...that upon his 1915 arrest from the lines of the 12th Cavalry at Meerut, Vishnu Ganesh Pingle is said to have had enough explosives to blow up an entire regiment?
...that Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the Mercians when her mother Æthelflæd died in 918, but was deposed by King Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year?
...that when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort, he did not speak Yiddish?
...that the amino acid glutamine can be broken down to produce glutamate, aspartate, carbon dioxide, pyruvate, lactate, alanine and citrate?
...that the Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade of the Polish Army during the German invasion in 1939, was commanded by Stefan Rowecki, who later became the first commander of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa?
...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
...that the West India Fruit and Steamship Company's ferries carried cars and rail freight between the United States and Cuba until the American embargo on trade with Cuba?
...that children's TV show Supernormal was developed by the creators of the controversial internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends?
...that the 1951 Polish-Soviet territorial exchange was one of the biggest border corrections in Europe after 1945?
...that although South African rugby union player Werner Greeff scored only four tries, one of them was named his country's try of the year in 2002?
...that Siam Park, a water park under construction in Adeje, Tenerife, will have the world's largest collection of Thai buildings outside Thailand?
...that, despite being added to California's state highway system in 1933, the portion of State Route 190 over the Sierra Nevada remains unconstructed?
...that in addition to the 22 suspects listed by the Los Angeles District Attorney in the notorious unsolved Black Dahlia case of 1947, about 60 people confessed to the crime?
...that the Genoese troubadour Simon Doria was podestà of both Savona and Albenga?
...that the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Altenberg was constructed under armed security on order from East Germany's Stasi minister Erich Mielke?
...that New Zealand rugby union footballer Ali Williams did not start playing until he was aged 17, but earned three international caps before he was 22?
...that John "Jack" Frost, the highest-scoring South African Air Force ace of World War II, went missing in action, and his body and plane have never been found?
...that the 49th Hutsul Rifle Regiment of the Polish Army destroyed a large part of the SS Germania Regiment, in a night bayonet attack during the Polish September Campaign?
...that Czech figure skater Petr Barna was the first to successfully land a quadruple jump in Olympic competition, at the 1992 games?
...that in Greek mythology, Dorus is the name of the son of Hellen who was the eponymous founder of the Dorians?
...that Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher?
...that coach Harry Kipke had to travel to the home of All-American Maynard Morrison in 1930 to seek his father's permission to switch Morrison from a fullback to a center?
...that the Roman emperor Probus may have introduced Syrah vines to the Côte-Rôtie wine region with cuttings from the Sicilian province of Syracuse?
...that the tropical fish cleftbelly trevally has no scales on its chest between its pectoral and pelvic fins?
...that California State Route 174, which includes a historic 1924 bridge, was not designated a State Scenic Highway due to opposition by residents concerned about their property rights?
...that Helen Abbott Michael, originally trained as a pianist, became a plant chemist and earned her MD after a chance purchase of Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics on a trip to Europe?
...that Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried Montreal Canadiens games?
...that Lód, the most recent book by Polish science-fiction writer Jacek Dukaj, is an alternate history novel of over 1000 pages?
...that a trio of pet Mexican Spinytailed Iguanas released on Gasparilla Island, Florida by a resident in the 1970s has led to a current population explosion of over 12,000 lizards?
...that the Westinghouse Time Capsules of the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1964 New York World's Fair were made of special metal alloys to resist corrosion for 5000 years, the time span of all previous recorded human history?
...that the Soviet 16th 'Lithuanian' Rifle Division had more enlisted Jews than any other division in the Red Army?
...that Lilstock church only holds one service a year, and the last marriage held there was in 1834?
...that Ben Finney, one of the Polynesian Voyaging Society founders who designed, built, and sailed the Hokulea on its first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti, wrote his thesis on surfing for his M.A. degree?
...that the ticket lottery site for the December 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring Led Zeppelin, crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale?
...that the testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty, High Duke of Poland, in 1138, led to the fragmentation of Poland which lasted for 200 years?
...that the Soviet 383rd Rifle Division was originally comprised completely of miners from the Ukrainian Donets Basin?
...that the Caltech hacker who used a remote control to alter the scoreboard at the 1984 Rose Bowl received college credit for the prank?
...that radio broadcaster Scruff Connors hosted a continuous 36-hour program to raise funds for cancer research in 1980?
...that the marketing campaign for the reality television series Paranormal State featured the first commercial use of directional audio in a billboard?
...that only 42 players have scored five or more goals in an NHL game since the league started in 1917?
...that Hilf al-Fudul was a 7th-century alliance created by various Meccans, most notably Muhammad, to establish fair commercial dealing?
...that a steam-powered portable engine drove the dynamo for the first floodlit football match in the UK in 1878?
...that the 1929 film The Surprise of a Knight is the earliest known gay, hardcore pornographic film in American cinematic history?
...that the Byzantine Empire and the Mongol Empire formed an alliance in 1263, and 4,000 Mongol soldiers were dispatched in 1282 to help defend Constantinople?
...that, according to the martyrology, the early 4th century Christian martyr Aedesius of Alexandria was tortured and drowned for striking a judge who had been forcing consecrated virgins to work in brothels?
...that the Midwestern United States territory band leader Nat Towles' fear of losing his best musicians kept him from striving for national prominence in the 1930s and 40s?
...that Oxford economist Włodzimierz Brus could not return to his homeland, Poland, in the 1990s, because his wife Helena Wolińska faced charges for her involvement in the execution of General Fieldorf?
...that the thirteen episodes of the Rental Magica anime were shown in a nonlinear order, meaning that the order the episodes were aired in is different from the episodes' chronological order?
...that although Horse-eye jack (Caranx latus) generally fear scuba divers, schools of them have been known to swarm divers because they are attracted to the bubbles a person exhales?
...that despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the Jewish anarchist journal Germinal had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration?
...that the BBC's Bitesize online study resource has sections in Welsh and Gaelic?
...that All-American fullback Bill Daley is the only person ever to win Little Brown Jug games playing for both Minnesota and Michigan?
...that in Frendak v. United States the court ruled that a competent defendant, who experts testified was probably insane when he committed the crime, cannot be forced to use the insanity defense?
...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
...that many streets in Coconut Grove, Northern Territory, Australia are named after victims of the shipwreck of SS Gothenburg off the coast of Queensland in 1875?
...that due to a lack of freight crossings of the Hudson River, trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour, the Selkirk hurdle, to cross into New York City from the south or west?
...that the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse, a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse, Belgium, was won 11 consecutive times in the 1980s by former four-time world champion Roland Liboton?
...that the sources of William Shakespeare's Hamlet lie in legends which may trace to an Indo-European origin?
...that Nigerian John Ezzidio, who was freed from a slave ship and landed in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
...that All-American footballer Paul G. Goebel recommended Gerald Ford to the coach of the Michigan football team and later urged Ford to run for Congress?
...that Nicholas Medforth-Mills, grandson of King Michael of Romania, is third in the line of succession to the defunct throne of Romania, and future Head of the Romanian Royal Family?
...that the U.S. Navy and NSF Plateau research station on the Antarctic Plateau, though operational for only three years from 1966 to 1969, measured the coldest average monthly temperatures on Earth?
...that besides a mobile library, the Mobile Public Library also operates a system of libraries with eight branches and a local history and genealogy division with permanent addresses in Alabama?
...that the Black Spiny-tailed Iguana of Central America is the world's fastest lizard, being clocked at 21.7 miles (34.9 km) per hour?
...that State Route 70, a National Scenic Byway through California's Feather River Canyon, was constructed using an access road laid out by the Utah Construction Company when it built the Western Pacific Railroad in the canyon?
...that the B-24 Liberator in which Air Marshal Sir Peter Drummond was travelling when lost at sea in 1945 had previously been the personal transport of Winston Churchill?
...that Yve Lavigueur, who initially became famous as a member of a family that won the biggest lottery jackpot in Canadian history in 1986, later published a book in 2000 on how they lost it all?
...that the atmosphere of Triton produces a surface pressure only 1/70,000th of that on Earth?
...that the 1920 French film Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly is the earliest known hardcore pornographic film to depict bisexual and homosexual intercourse?
...that it took an act of the Ohio General Assembly in 1894 to settle a property dispute regarding the Pennsylvania Company's use of the state-owned Walhonding Canal lands for one of its railroads?
...that businessman Petr Kellner is the wealthiest man in the Czech Republic with an estimated net worth of US$6 billion?
...that the Marion, Illinois tornado outbreak in 1982 killed ten people and extensively damaged the town of Marion, Illinois?
...that the main opposition party of Zambia, the United National Independence Party, boycotted the 1996 Zambian Presidential election after their leader was prevented from standing?
...that Russian lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan was imprisoned just five days after his promotion to the position of Executive Vice-President of Yukos oil company?
...that German-American inventor Philip Diehl invented the ceiling fan in 1887 using a sewing machine motor?
...that the Emir of Katsina in northern Nigeria Usman Nagogo played polo with the highest handicap of any African?
...that during the War of the Spanish Succession, 10,000 French soldiers attempted to take Schloss Hellenstein , a castle near Heidenheim in the Swabian Alb, but retreated without firing a shot because it was deemed too costly to attack?
...that a legend says that when Philip de Braose irreverently spent the night in a church dedicated to Saint Afan, he was struck blind the next morning and his hunting dogs went mad?
...that in attempting to stop U-30 from sinking the SS Fanad Head, two Blackburn Skuas managed to cripple themselves with their own bombs, causing them to crash?
...that after Bernard Natan directed and acted in hardcore heterosexual and bisexual pornographic films from 1920 to 1927, by 1929 he owned the giant French movie studio Pathé and later helped develop the anamorphic film lens?
...that while neighboring Bordeaux estates were still looking for a cure to heal their infected grapevines, Château Pavie-Macquin was one of the first to begin grafting phylloxera resistant American rootstock on their vines?
...that the question before the U.S. Supreme Court in Stogner v. California was whether ex post facto laws should also apply to sex offenders victimizing minors?
...that Klevner de Heiligenstein, one of the few Alsatian wines that are not varietally labeled, is made from the Savagnin rose grape that is almost indistinguishable from Gewürztraminer ?
...that Eddie Hill was the first drag racer to hold the land and water quarter mile speed records simultaneously?
...that Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes survived the 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash almost uninjured, but was executed by hanging a year and a half later?
...that Ukrainian realist artist Apollon Mokritsky played the significant role of introducing the former serf and talented artist Taras Shevchenko to the Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia?
...that Jerry Mathers, as The Beaver, was one of the few stars of the classic TV series Leave It to Beaver who appeared in the pilot It's a Small World, which never aired as an episode within the series?
...that Flight Lieutenant Eric Lock was the most successful British ace during the Battle of Britain, shooting down 16.5 German aircraft over the course of the 17-week long battle?
...that the Peruvian playwright Juan de Espinosa Medrano wrote plays both in Spanish and in Quechua during the 17th century?
...that Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia shared his mistress with one of his cousins for almost two decades?
...that college football's 2007 Holiday Bowl featured a bizarre play, involving a non-player staff member of the Texas Longhorn team?
...that until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections?
...that one of the music scores depicted by Caravaggio in his painting The Lute Player is by Franco-Flemish composer Jacquet de Berchem?
...that Dennis Robbins, formerly a member of the rock band The Rockets, was the first artist signed to Giant Records' country music division?
...that the Society of the Friends of Peasants had significant influence on the Danish Constitution of 1849?
...that the Battle of Kansas was the crash program initiated by U.S. Army Air Force General Hap Arnold to expedite construction of the B-29 Superfortress at Boeing's massive plants in Wichita, Kansas?
...that British police detective Walter Dew was involved in hunting both Jack the Ripper and Dr Crippen?
...that a group of Lakota Indian separatists have announced that they are withdrawing from treaties between their tribe and the United States and are setting up an independent Republic of Lakotah ?
...that Sicilian Mafia boss Giuseppe Falsone has been on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy since January 1999, a list of criminals considered extremely dangerous by the Polizia di Stato?
...that slain Canadian Mi'kmaq activist Nora Bernard was responsible for the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history?
...that during the Bisbee Deportation, Phelps Dodge Corporation executives seized control of the town's telegraph and telephones to prevent news of the kidnappings from being reported?
...that the Dewoitine D.33 was an aircraft built in 1930, set a long distance record in that year, and was used extensively by Air France?
...that Italian aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio developed a record-setting early helicopter in 1930 and designed the original Vespa motor scooter in 1946?
...that the current Foreign Minister of Chile, Alejandro Foxley , served both in the cabinet of Salvador Allende in the 1970s and in the first cabinet after the restoration of democracy in 1990?
...that Tang Chinese scholar Yao Silian was the lead author of the official histories of both Liang and Chen Dynasties?
...that the "Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne", based on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, exhibits Voltaire's rejection of optimism and Providence and is considered an introduction to his famous work Candide?
...that Hurricane Rick of 1997 caused coffee prices on the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange to jump 4.7%, because it threatened coffee crops at a time when they were vulnerable to winds blowing them down?
...that Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny was an arctic explorer who, in 1897 and 1898, helped to rescue over a hundred whaling fleet sailors stranded at Point Barrow, Alaska?
...that, although former Michigan Wolverines wide receiver Marquise Walker was selected in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft, he was Jon Gruden's first draft pick as Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach?
...that the Boy Rangers of America was an early scouting program in the United States for boys ages 8 through 12, a precursor to the Cub Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America?
...that Elise Primavera, author and illustrator of the 1999 book Auntie Claus, says she gets her best ideas in the shower?
...that the Taiwan Cypress (Chamaecyparis taiwanensis) is treated as a species by Taiwanese botanists, and as a variety of the Hinoki cypress (C. obtusa) in the Occident?
...that Cuban politician Raúl Chibás defected to the United States via motor boat to Miami after initially supporting Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution?
...that through directing, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Osceola Macarthy Adams helped to start careers of Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte?
...that the year 1345 saw both the completion of the Notre Dame de Paris and the writing of important works on Buddhist cosmology?
...that LPI Media is the largest publisher of gay and lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year?
...that during the Spanish Civil War, Eduard Pons Prades forged his age so that he could join the Republican army at age 16?
...that, after eluding capture for three months when his B-25 bomber was shot down behind enemy lines in World War II, Bob Chappuis was the MVP of the Rose Bowl 60 years ago?
...that Jose R. Velasco's research on the coconut was instrumental in him becoming a National Scientist of the Philippines?
...that the Fruit and Vegetable Hall at the Fremantle Markets was rebuilt using recycled materials following a fire in 1992?
...that Ade Schwammel of the Oregon Agricultural College football team was part of the 1933 "Pyramid Play", where a player stood on the shoulders of two others to block a kick, a ploy since banned?
...that Dohäsan, last undisputed Principal Chief of the Kiowa people, was battlefield leader in the First Battle of Adobe Walls, one of the largest ever fought between the Plains tribes and the U.S. Army?