derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that despite being unfinished, the Lazaro Cardenas Dam successfully protected the Mexican towns of Gómez Palacio and Torreón from possible flooding triggered by Hurricane Naomi in 1968?
...that the species name of South Africa's Eastern Cape Blue Cycad , horridus, is Latin for 'sticking out' or 'prickly', after the plant's stiff, spiny leaflets?
...that Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was the founding professor of the Yale School of Public Health and the first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology?
...that the Roman fort Longovicium has one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in Britain?
...that Crispin Sanchez, a pioneer of education and athletics among Mexican Americans in South Texas, turned down an opportunity to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals in order to attend college?
...that a higher H-point in an automobile design would lead to more legroom in the vehicle?
...that numerous wells and springs were dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Neuss, who was invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, gout, and a siege of the city of Neuss during the Burgundian Wars?
...that in Medellín v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice?
...that Robert Mondavi recommended that Christian Moueix establish his Dominus Estate winery in the Napa Valley?
...that Zygmunt Szendzielarz , regarded as one of the persons responsible for the Dubingiai massacre in 1944, got a posthumous award from Polish president Lech Kaczyński in 2007?
...that Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars, then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans?
...that Swedish–Ukrainian relations have long traditions and that the Swedish king Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720?
...that the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon, United States, which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment, prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
...that Georgia Tech professor Rebecca Grinter supervised a 2005 study which found that iTunes users in the workplace experience "playlist anxiety"?
...that Firestar's Quest, a book in the Warriors fantasy novel series, has been translated into Russian?
...that Mahendranath Gupta was closely associated with two notable figures in Hinduism—as a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and as a teacher to Paramahansa Yogananda?
...that Captain Michael Heck was an American B-52 pilot in the Vietnam War who became a conscientious objector and refused to continue bombing North Vietnamese targets during the Christmas operation of 1972?
...that Acorn Antiques The Musical was directed by Trevor Nunn and opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with a three month sell-out run?
...that footballer Graham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
...that Tony Dungy is the winningest coach, among Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches?
...that Thomas Rawson Birks, Cambridge Professor, used science and theology to reason that other stars did not have their own planets?
...that, inspired by Sylvester Stallone's experience selling the script for Rocky, actor/screenwriter J. P. Davis refused to sell his script for the film Fighting Tommy Riley unless he was guaranteed to play the lead?
...that the 1947 song "Pico and Sepulveda" about an intersection on LA's Pico Boulevard was frequently on Dr. Demento's radio show?
...that the steamboat Flyer, which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed hull, causing it to list to port throughout its working life?
...that the Haitian military leader and former slave Lamour Desrances allied with the enemies of Haitian Revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture in the War of the Knives?
...that when Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in the body painting/photograph Demi's Birthday Suit, it commemorated More Demi Moore's one-year anniversary?
...that Shaw University’s Leonard Hall housed the first class of four year African-American medical students in the United States?
...that jazz drummer Butch Ballard was hired by Duke Ellington as a backup drummer due to the excessive drinking of his regular drummer Sonny Greer?
...that Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?
...that the Hofkirche (Court Church) in Innsbruck was built by Ferdinand I as a memorial for his grandfather, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor?
...that wine writer André Simon had only two magnums of claret in his cellar when he died in 1970, believing that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar"?
...that Hindus believe that god Vishnu falls asleep in the cosmic ocean of milk on the cosmic serpent, for a period of four months on the day of Shayani Ekadashi?
...that Gloria Shayne Baker and Noel Regney co-wrote the Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas carol as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
...that Reginald Turvey, "The Father of the Baháʼís of South Africa", spent 13 years unaware that there were fellow believers in the Baháʼí Faith in his country?
...that before the Second World War, the Synagogue in Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva apart from religious functions, was also used as a lecture hall for Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva?
...that stems and sheaths of Korthalsia palm trees, named after Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals who first collected them from Indonesia, can be made into rope?
...that Native American Thomas Wakeman organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA at Flandreau, Dakota Territory on April 27 1879?
...that the incompleted Montana-class battleships would have had a heavier broadside than the Yamato-class battleships?
...that it took Midvinterblot, a controversial painting from Sweden, 82 years and a detour to a Japanese collector before it could finally be installed where it was intended to be?
...that Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland received the final surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard his ship HMS Bellerophon after the Napoleonic Wars?
...that ITV Network Centre did not want to broadcast the first series of Cold Feet at 9 p.m. because that was a timeslot traditionally reserved for programmes that viewers could do their ironing to?
...that the proposed WALLY commuter rail line in southeast Michigan would run over track first laid over one hundred years ago?
...that a Carley float was a liferaft fashioned from a large ring of copper tubing surrounded by cork and canvas?
...that in 1806, Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world?
...that Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman?
...that Andrei Kravchuk gave up his almost-completed master's degree in Mathematics to study film after Aleksei German offered him a job as a director's assistant?
...that the hero of the Loch Ard disaster, Tom Pearce, lost one of his sons when the Loch Vennachar was wrecked off Kangaroo Island in 1905?
...that Richard Nixon credited Tony Mazzocchi with being the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
...that Theophilus Browne disagreed with his congregations at Cambridge and Warminster and he was paid to leave the Octagon Chapel in Norwich in 1809?
...that Lord Francis Douglas fell 4,000 feet (1,200 m) to his death shortly after sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn ?
...that the oldest steam locomotive in Switzerland is an Engerth locomotive, a form of articulated locomotive?
...that the Tlaxcaltec forces led by Xicotencatl II "The Younger" had nearly defeated the army of Hernán Cortés when he was ordered to ally with them instead?
...that the founder of Byzantine studies in Germany is Hieronymus Wolf who, approximately 100 years after the fall of Byzantium, began to edit and translate Byzantine literature?
...that the influence of wine critic Robert Finigan declined when he panned the 1982 Bordeaux vintage, which Robert Parker described as one of greatest of the century?
...that East Smithfield was given to the Knighten Guild by King Edgar, after they each performed three combats—one above the ground, one below, and one on water?
...that the Dunning House in Wawayanda, New York, has features from several different 19th-century architectural styles?
...that the sinking of the ferry Greycliffe with the loss of 40 lives in 1927 was the deadliest shipping accident ever in Sydney Harbour, Australia?
...that the Przemyśl fortress was the site of one of the largest sieges of the First World War, the Siege of Przemyśl?
...that the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism is a Muslim advocacy group which monitors media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the U.K.?
...that Jeremy Doner was the first student at Harvard University to write a screenplay as a creative thesis?
...that according to Inca mythology, lunar eclipses are caused by animals attacking Mama Quilla, the goddess of the moon?
...that American four-star admiral Lynde D. McCormick became NATO's first Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic despite opposition from British prime minister Winston Churchill?
...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?
...that Chen Chi-mai received the flag of the World Games and officially made Kaohsiung the host city of World Games 2009?
...that production of the cervelat, the Swiss national sausage, is set to cease in 2008, causing a public upset in Switzerland?
...that Polish Countess Delfina Potocka served as muse to both Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński and composer Frédéric Chopin—who both wrote works in her honor?
...that the title of the film Woman Is the Future of Man comes from a line in a poem by Louis Aragon that the director Hong Sang-soo saw printed on a French postcard?
...that John Blackner, who wrote a history of Nottingham in 1815, explained why the anti-industrial group was called Luddites; a group he may have been a member of?
...that when the commander of the German forces in the Dodecanese came to surrender aboard HMS Kimberley, he did so aboard a captured British Motor Launch?
...that the historical landmark U-Drop Inn , located on Route 66 in Shamrock, Texas, was the inspiration for the fictional Ramone's body shop in the 2006 Disney and Pixar film Cars?
...that the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28, 1971, the same day as Workers' Memorial Day?
...that William M. Bass, a forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, established the "Original Body Farm" in 1971 to study decomposition in cadavers?
...that Oregon State athletic director Percy Locey claimed that the Philadelphia Athletics stole John Leovich from the college, yet he ended up playing only one major league game?
...that the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union called off a merger with the United Mine Workers just two hours before the unions planned to announce the agreement?
...that Drew Goddard described writing the fourth-season episode titled "The Shape of Things to Come" as possibly his best experience while working on the television show Lost?
...that a replica of the château from the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beauregard was constructed for the Guggenheim family on Long Island, New York?
...that the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
...that traditional artisans in one village in the Bagmundi area of Purulia district in West Bengal make the masks used in Chhau dance?
...that a curse supposedly placed on Írgalach mac Conaing by Saint Adomnán for the killing of Niall mac Cernaig Sotal was said to be linked to Conaing's death in battle a year later?
...that Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club?
...that Germany still held 1.2 million Russian prisoners of war in December 1918, nine months after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk obliged it to release them?
...that "The Unicorn and the Wasp" will be the first comedic episode in the science fiction television series Doctor Who since the 1966 serial The Gunfighters?
...that the number of recognized species of palm trees in the genus Hydriastele has jumped from 9 to 48 in the last four years?
...that when Catalyst museum in Widnes, Cheshire was opened in 1989, it was the world's first museum devoted to the chemicals industry?
...that bad advice from Flaithbertach mac Inmainén, abbot of Scattery Island and chief adviser to King Cormac mac Cuilennáin, is said to have caused a war in which Cormac and many others died?
...that The Curse of Steptoe, a 2008 television play based upon the making of the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son, gained the highest audience figures to date for BBC Four?
...that the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande resulted in the death of the French impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille whilst leading his unit in the attack?
...that although he is famous for inventing the Crampton locomotive, Thomas Crampton was also responsible for the world's first international submarine telegraph cable?
...that scriptwriter Richard Baer's writing credits for television included twenty-three episodes of Bewitched and five episodes of The Munsters?
...that Captain Philip Beaver once read the entire Encyclopædia Britannica during one of his cruises?
...that in February 1944, the retreating forces of Nazi Germany razed the Gdov Kremlin almost entirely with only its walls remaining?
...that Leon Greenman was reportedly the only Englishman sent to Auschwitz?
...that Carl Størmer, "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere, began his academic career inventing formulae for π?
...that Quite Interesting Limited provides the research for UK TV programme QI and The Museum of Curiosity?
...that the Somers Hamlet Historic District in Westchester County, New York includes the Elephant Hotel, considered the birthplace of the American circus?
...that after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense, one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
...that Haulotte Group are the third-biggest manufacturer of aerial work platforms in the world?
...that apart from blowflies, some flesh-eating beetles can also be used by forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse?
...that Artie Wilson, who hit .402 in 1948 with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, is often considered the last professional major league baseball player to bat over .400 for a season?
...that the Palestinian town of Jifna, believed to be the biblical Gophna, was a Roman regional capital and considered the second most important town in Iudaea after Jerusalem?
...that photographer Stewart Shining has shot photos for the covers of both the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the People Magazine Most Beautiful People issue?
...that the Church of St James the Great, Haydock, Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence?
...that photographer Raphael Mazzucco has had images on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in each of the last four years?
...that Invicta was the steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company after building the Rocket?
...that in the 1934 film Evergreen the actress Jessie Matthews played both mother and daughter?
...that drag racer Al Hofmann had to get a friend to come over to start his first Funny Car?
...that Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified by Song Chinese investigator Song Ci documents some of the earliest work in forensic entomology?
...that the earliest full-length portrait of Elizabeth I by Tudor court painter Steven van der Meulen, was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2007 for £2.6 million, more than twice its expected maximum?
...that Children and Youth Sports Schools, which originated in the Soviet Union, continue in Russia, and form the basis of the modern system in the People's Republic of China?
...that the Nokomis Community Library, named for Nokomis in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, is the only library in the Minneapolis Public Library System to be named for a fictional character?
...that despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
...that the steam locomotive thought for many years to be Timothy Hackworth's Bradyll may, in fact, be Thomas Richardson's Nelson?
...that journalist Néstor Mata was the sole survivor of the 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash which killed Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others?
...that John Orloff was inspired to write his own screenplay when his wife, working for the HBO network, continually brought home "awful" scripts?
...that the medieval wall paintings in the Norfolk church of Crostwight include an image of the Seven Deadly Sins ?
...that when the 1987 America's Cup was raced off Fremantle, Western Australia it was the first time for 132 years that the regatta had not been hosted by the New York Yacht Club?
...that activist Michael Mansell convinced Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to recognise an Aboriginal Australian passport to draw world attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights?
...that the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh?
...that Merril Sandoval did not reveal to his family that he had served as a Navajo Code Talker in the United States Marines during World War II until records of the unit were declassified in 1968?
...that the Lackham campus of Wiltshire College created a "virtual farm" in 2005 to avoid limitations to practical teaching caused by foot and mouth disease?
...that the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade?
...that the artist commissioned by the Royal Marines in 1920 to paint Brigadier General F.W. Lumsden VC , was Helen Donald-Smith, whose views of Venice were described as "pretty pictures"?
...that the Polish interbellum organization Maritime and Colonial League‎ promoted Polish colonies and settlements in Africa and South America?
...that John Jacobs was expelled from the Weatherman organization after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion for advocating the "military error" of violent revolution?
...that Israel's future Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, and its future President of the Supreme Court, Meir Shamgar, were both interned in Africa by British Mandate authorities for membership in Lehi and Irgun?
...that U.S. Route 12 was extended into Washington in 1967, taking over most of the routing of U.S. Route 410?
...that Laurence Fox was cast in the British TV detective drama Lewis after his co-star Kevin Whately caught the last 10 minutes of a film he was in?
...that "many-sided" priest Father Patrick McLaughlin promoted links between the Church and the world of literature by staging plays, and by commissioning lectures from T. S. Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers?
...that video sharing website YouTube has held two YouTube Awards, which honor the best videos on the site, as voted by the YouTube community?
...that the petioles of some species of Eugeissona palm trees can be used as darts in blowgun hunting?
...that Home of Truth, Utah was a religious utopian community in the 1930s whose leader claimed to receive divine revelations through her typewriter?
...that 2006 novel Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead, was featured among The New York Times' 100 Most Notable Books of The Year?
...that a rock edict of Emperor Ashoka found at Maski in the Indian State of Karnataka in 1915, was the first one to refer him by the name Asoka?
...that the Stalingrad Madonna was flown out on the last transport plane to leave the trapped Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad?
...that the interrupted brome was the first plant species classified as extinct in the wild to be reintroduced in British history?
...that a spite house is a house built to annoy and aggravate someone, usually a neighbor?
...that the discovery of antennae swords at Kallur in the Indian state of Karnataka, was the first instance of the Copper Hoard culture being found in South India?
...that systems art is an art movement from the 1960s influenced by systems theory, which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself?
...that the oldest known lemon squeezers were found in Kütahya, Turkey and date to the first quarter of the 18th century?
...that Sinnott Memorial Observation Station is a sheltered viewpoint built into the caldera cliff 900 feet (270 m) above Crater Lake in Oregon?
...that the voter turnout of the 2006 DPP chairmanship election in Taiwan was only 19.96%?
...that Saint Foutin was a syncretic amalgam of the first bishop of Lyon, France and pre-Christian Gaulish phallic worship?
...that Signor Brocolini , the original Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, took his stage name in honor of Brooklyn, where he grew up?
...that the Russian composers Peter Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Serge Rachmaninoff used Ukrainian folk melodies in their works?
...that Ho people, in Jharkhand, India, have a literacy rate of 39.2%, lower than the state average which is amongst the lowest literacy rates in India?
...that the San Francisco-based electro-acoustic improvisation music ensemble Maybe Monday features a traditional Japanese musical instrument, the koto?
...that St. Thomas, the apostle of Jesus Christ, established the Church in India in 52 AD?
...that Conall Guthbinn continued the feud begun when his father, Suibne mac Colmáin, was killed by Áed Sláine by killing two of Áed's sons, Congal and Ailill; soon after he was killed by Diarmait, a third son of Áed?
...that the larvae of primary screw-worm flies feed on living tissue, but secondary screw-worm flies feed only on necrotic tissue?
...that despite a wartime career lasting less than a year, HMS Codrington transported a number of dignitaries, including King George VI , Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill?
...that Polish–Ukrainian relations have been steadily improving since the fall of communism, and both countries now have a strong strategic relationship?
...that a song about the 1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape topped the popular music charts in the Republic of Ireland despite being banned by the government?
...that as National Secretary for Students for a Democratic Society, Michael Klonsky advocated revolution in the U.S., but now focuses on education reforms such as creating small schools?
...that following the collapse of Renaissance Cruises in late 2001, MS R Two and five of her sister ships were laid up together, first at Gibraltar and later at Marseille?
...that Pollyanna, a 1920 melodrama/comedy starring Mary Pickford, grossed $1.1 million, equivalent to about $10 million in 2008?
...that football (soccer) became the last Olympic sport to sign up to the World Anti-Doping Agency code, when FIFA ratified it in 2006?
...that the Dragon Bridge is the first bridge in Slovenia paved with asphalt and the first reinforced concrete bridge in Ljubljana?
...that the cruise ship MS Columbus C. sank in Cádiz harbour after accidentally ramming the harbour's breakwater in 1984?
...that African American artist James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the WPA in his native Mississippi, but was later associated with the Northwest School?
...that the olive tree is the ultimate symbol of sumud, a key ideological theme among Palestinians since the 1967 war?