derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Hawgsmoke is a biennial United States Air Force bombing, missile, and tactical gunnery competition for A-10 Thunderbolt II units?
... that the Windsor Pumpkin Regatta is a race featuring large hollowed-out pumpkins in which contestants paddle a half-mile course across a lake?
... that among the ghost sightings involving the American Civil War are a ghost reenacting one of his defeats in a battle that took place 415 miles (668 km) away?
... that following the death of Brian Rossiter, his father took High Court action against An Garda Síochána?
... that Mayor of New York City Ed Koch was sworn into office on New Year's Eve 1977 in the Manhattan home of David Margolis, president of Colt Industries, a firm founded in 1836 by Samuel Colt?
... that as little as five milligrams of the chemical agent phenyldichloroarsine can induce severe vomiting?
... that Sir Douglas Fox was, with James Greathead, joint engineer of the Liverpool Overhead Railway – the first electric elevated city railway in the world?
... that although the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party belong to opposing alliances in national Indian politics, they are both partners in the governing coalition in Meghalaya?
... that payments made by Lockheed president Carl Kotchian to encourage purchases of his company's L-1011 aircraft led to the arrest and conviction of Prime Minister of Japan Kakuei Tanaka?
... that two of the 48 episodes of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse served as pilots for the 1960s television shows The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables?
... that the Israeli Air Force's first heavy bombers were three B-17 Flying Fortresses smuggled to Israel in the late 1940s by Charles Winters and his associates?
... that Adolf Hitler lived in a public dormitory in Vienna from 1910 to 1913?
... that changes in Formula One car racing rules introduced in 1978 banned the use of the Brabham BT46B "fan car" after it won its first—and only—race at the Swedish Grand Prix?
... that blind blues musician Cortelia Clark won a Grammy for his 1966 album recorded live on a sidewalk in Nashville, Tennessee?
... that Bartlett's bisection theorem can be used in the design of quartz crystal filter circuits to overcome drawbacks of traditional ladder topology?
... that eunuch admiral Yishiha is credited with constructing the only two Ming Buddhist temples ever built in modern-day Russia?
... that a controversy over hidden loans led to the resignation of three executives from Anglo Irish Bank within twenty-four hours in December 2008?
... that Bless You Boys is Sparky Anderson's diary as manager of the first American League baseball team since the 1927 Yankees to "lead the race from wire-to-wire" and win the World Series?
... that Old Albany Post Road in Philipstown, New York, is one of the oldest dirt roads still in use in the United States?
... that the U.S. Army continued production of staphylococcus enterotoxin type B for several months after a 1969 policy statement ended the biological warfare program?
... that Russian cellist Valentin Berlinsky played for the Borodin Quartet for 60 years, the longest-serving member of what was described as "the longest continuously playing" string quartet in the world?
... that Temple House of Israel in Staunton, Virginia, was founded in 1876 by Alexander Hart, a former major in the Confederate States Army?
... that a bootstrapping node is a node in an overlay network that provides initial configuration information to newly joining computer nodes so that they may successfully join the overlay network?
... that Wu Cheng'en is thought to have written the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West anonymously, because writing in the vernacular language was considered vulgar?
... that Burnt Hair Records was part of Michigan's space rock music scene in the 1990s?
... that when threatened, the redeye gaper rapidly takes in water to swell its body?
... that a design competition for a New Routemaster bus received 225 entries in the "Design" category and 475 entries in the "Imagine" category?
... that in 2005, the fishing industry in China reported 32.4 million tons of fish from aquacultures, more than 10 times that of the second-ranked country, India?
... that when Frank Fitzsimmons was named acting president of the Teamsters in 1967, a union insider said, "He's just a peanut butter sandwich; he'll melt in no time"?
... that the Japanese Army used 320 mm mortars to frighten American Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima?
... that Mech Platoon was the first real-time strategy video game released for the Game Boy Advance?
... that the 1921 Oscar Micheaux-directed race film The Gunsaulus Mystery was inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan?
... that it took 59 years and a legal battle through the High Court of Australia for the Warumungu, a group of Indigenous Australians, to regain their land claim?
... that Alliance for Labor Action launched a $4 million organizing drive targeting African American workers in Atlanta, Georgia, in the fall of 1969?
... that the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in the First World War took 14,000 casualties out of a strength of 60,000 men?
... that the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1920 prevented the Polish–Georgian alliance from being fully implemented?
... that when the Wildwood was commissioned she was named USS PC-1181, and was only renamed the Wildwood after she was decommissioned?
... that the Marine Corps Test Unit along with the 3rd Marine Corps Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade carried out mock maneuvers 3,500 yards away from the detonation site of a nuclear bomb?
... that Nolan Reimold led the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in home runs (20), runs batted in (60), total bases (137), on-base % (.496), and slugging % (.770) throughout the baseball regular season?
... that the Irish TV show Hanging with Hector was criticised for being "about as original as washing your teeth each morning"?
... that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, George Henry Chapman served as a judge in the Indiana Criminal Court, and later a state legislator in the Indiana Senate?
... that William Kaufmann developed the counterforce approach in the 1950s, in which a Soviet invasion of Western Europe would be met by a sequence of escalating responses, not by massive retaliation?
... that Polish writer Franciszek Karpiński is best remembered through his hymns and carols?
... that the funeral of C. N. Annadurai , who held the post of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for just two years, was the most attended until that time making it a Guinness record?
... that out of three partitions of Poland, the Austrian partition had the most local autonomy, but was also the poorest?
... that Barack Obama biographer Christoph von Marschall compares his life story with the American Dream?
... that a 1930 proposal in the Czechoslovak parliament for greater autonomy for Transcarpathia, presented by the Autonomous Agrarian Union, gained support from the German National Socialists?
... that Royce Howes won the Pulitzer Prize for an editorial on the shared responsibility of labor and management for an unauthorized strike that put 45,000 Chrysler workers out of work?
... that Norwegian resistance fighter Gregers Gram conducted several sabotage missions together with Max Manus, before being killed in an ambuscade in 1944?
... that vascular myelopathy refers to an abnormality of the spinal cord in regards to its blood supply?
... that, according to the modern historian Bo Yang, the large body of petitions written by Tang Dynasty chancellor Lu Zhi was important to understanding mid-Tang life?
... that Geoffroy's Tamarin engages in both polyandrous and polygynous mating?
... that Indian revolutionary poet Jwalamukhi was arrested for his writings in 1971?
... that Republican Joan Huffman, a former Houston judge who won a special election to the Texas State Senate on December 16, 2008, became the sixth woman in the 31-member chamber, a legislative record?
... that the Tang Dynasty general Li Shigu, in his illness, refused to endorse his brother Li Shidao as his successor because Li Shidao spent too much time painting and playing the bili?
... that Order of Australia Medal recipient Bill Scott began writing poetry while serving in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II?
... that the army career of the Tang Dynasty general Wu Shaocheng was launched when the general Li Xilie adopted his suggestions in the campaign against Liang Chongyi?
... that Jones Hewson played leading roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1896 to 1901 but died in 1902 at the age of 27?
... that although Frede Castberg retired as a professor of jurisprudence at the age of seventy, he continued to preside over the Hague Academy of International Law for thirteen years?
... that though it is generally agreed that paintings by Jean Malouel survive , no one work is universally accepted as his?
... that broadcasting brothers James R. Doss, Jr. and James L. Doss named Alabama radio stations WJRD and WJLD after themselves?
... that as Texas Attorney General from 1957 to 1963, Will Wilson cracked down on prostitution rings operating in such Texan cities as Galveston, Beaumont, Texarkana and Victoria?
... that the Chinese beverage suanmeitang is made with ingredients such as sour plums, sweet osmanthus, licorice root, rock sugar, and rose petals?
... that the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion of the U.S. Army received a Presidential Unit Citation for its role in the Siege of Bastogne?
... that Dorje Pakmo ('The Diamond Sow') is the highest female incarnation in Tibet, and the third-highest ranking person in the lamaist hierarchy after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama?
... that the fifth season premiere of the television show Lost, titled "Because You Left", was the first episode of the series to be both shot and edited in high-definition?
... that Lisa Rossbacher, president of Southern Polytechnic State University, is the first female geologist to become a university president?
... that an exit bag, consisting of a large, clear plastic bag with a drawstring, is a commercially available device for committing suicide?
... that Katrina Mumaw became the youngest person to break the sound barrier when she piloted a MIG-29 fighter jet at Mach 1.3 on July 12, 1994 at the age of eleven?
... that the Konovalyuk Commission has claimed that Ukraine's arms sales to Georgia before and during the 2008 South Ossetia War adversely affected the country's defense capabilities?
... that five former members of the Portland Trail Blazers have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame?
... that Olav Ulleren, who in 1999 left his position as mayor of Tinn, Norway to become a State Secretary, lost his new position after less than one year?
... that the 1930 silent film A Daughter of the Congo was billed as a “talking, singing, dancing picture” although it only contained a single short sound sequence?
... that William Lobb earned the sobriquet "messenger of the big tree" for introducing the Chilean "monkey puzzle" tree and the massive North American "Wellingtonia" to English commerce?
... that Merrill Connally, a county judge, played a part in Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
... that New South Greenland was a phantom island near Antarctica, described in 1832 by Benjamin Morrell, who was called "the biggest liar in the Southern Ocean"?
... that Bill Johnston was the last Australian to take 100 wickets on an Ashes tour of England, being the leading wicket-taker during the 1948 Invincibles tour?
... that the U.S. state of New York offers a school tax rebate program that saves homeowners money by reducing the assessed value of a home when calculating the property tax?
... that a principal work of mathematician Wilhelm Cauer was twice destroyed during World War II and was only published after his death by his family, who reconstructed it from the table of contents?
... that Freedom House, founded in 1949, raised money to support Operation Exodus, a voluntary desegregation and busing project in Boston before court-ordered desegregation?
... that the history of the ancient Mayan city of Dos Pilas has been reconstructed in more detail than almost any other Mayan site?
... that Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War?
... that Ray Lindwall was Australia's equal-leading Test wicket-taker on the 1948 Invincibles tour of England?
... that the SS Empire Advocate was seized twice by Britain—from Germany after the First World War, and then from Italy during the Second World War?
... that Iraqi lawyer Dheyaa al-Saadi was elected president of the Iraqi Bar Association in 2006, but his election was annulled because he was once a member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party?
... that in the Prussian partition of Poland, Germanization policies had the opposite effect of strengthening Polish national consciousness?
... that Wayne Connally, a brother of former Texas governor John Connally, was honored as "Governor for a Day" on October 7, 1971?
... that Oleg Bogayev was honored for his absurdist play about an impoverished Russian pensioner who engages in fanciful correspondence with Queen Elizabeth II, Vladimir Lenin, and Robinson Crusoe?
... that before being used by American soldiers in the Vietnam War, the racial slur "gook" was originally directed towards Filipinos?
... that North Audley Street in Mayfair, London, is named after the English moneylender Hugh Audley?
... that the Frazier–Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1935 as violating the Fifth Amendment?
... that the German Social Democratic Party in Poland was formed in 1922 by the merger of Silesian branches of the German SPD, USPD and the Austrian SDAP?
... that the Chicago Transit Authority closed its Kostner station only eleven years after it opened, making it one of the city's shortest-lived train stations?
... that Canadian authorities used the academic enrollment list of a diploma mill to arrest 24 students they wrongly accused of being an "al-Qaeda sleeper cell" in Project Thread?
... that Oregon politician Ralph Carey Geer's grandson, Homer Davenport, was a political cartoonist?
... that an impacted shoulder presentation during childbirth can lead to both the death of the baby and of the mother?
... that while serving in the elite Russian Preobrazhensky regiment, Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy served with the future literary critic Faddei Bulgarin?
... that U.S. testing during Operation Big Itch successfully dispersed rat fleas from an aircraft?
... that due to a bureaucratic error Sir Curtis Keeble was placed in charge of 2000 Russian refugees despite not speaking fluent Russian?
... that Israel's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine?
... that quarterback Scott McBrien transferred from West Virginia to the Maryland and led Maryland to a 41–7 win over his former alma mater in the 2004 Gator Bowl?
... that Senegal pumps 1.4 billion cubic meters of water per year, 92% of which is for agriculture?
... that U.S. Judge John Sprizzo refused to extradite Provisional IRA member Joe Doherty in the 1981 killing of a British soldier, citing the ambush as a "political act"?
... that grammatically incorrect phrases such as *"the pizza was in the eaten" can elicit an early left anterior negativity (ELAN) in the brain?
... that English dramatist Edward Rose published The Rose Reader, "a new way of teaching to read," that only used words that were spelled as they sounded?
... that the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is the only functioning synagogue building in the city of Detroit, Michigan?
... that Kisbarnaki Ferenc Farkas became the Chief Scout of the Hungarian Scouts-in-Exile when scouting was banned by the Communist government after World War II?
... that the May 1938 interception of the Rex was the largest training exercise conducted up to that time by the United States Army Air Corps?
... that the former Arab village of Majdal Yaba with its large fortress was the center of power of a clan that controlled up to 25 villages in Sanjak Nablus?
... that Wang Shizhen, then a guard commander for his brother-in-law, the Tang Dynasty warlord Li Weiyue, turned against Li Weiyue to allow his father Wang Wujun to kill Li?
... that the childhood home of Rear Admiral Richmond P. Hobson was dedicated as an Alabama state shrine in 1947?
... that Belgian musician Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone, also devised the brass instrument saxtuba ?
... that the Danish Monarchy's status was changed from absolute to constitutional on 5 June 1849?
... that the Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan was developed by a U.S. ambassador in 1955 to reduce conflict between Israel, Jordan, and their neighbors?
... that after United States Navy SEAL Erik Kristensen died in Afghanistan in 2005 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called for flags at the state Capitol to be flown at half-staff?
... that the fisheries of Chilka Lake in India sustain more than 150,000 fisherfolk living in 132 villages?
... that there is suspicion that the death in prison of Kenneth Michael Trentadue was related to the Oklahoma City bombing?
... that Daniel Hoevels's work has been described as "helping critics rediscover Hamburg's theater"?
... that Flora Drummond was known as "The General" for her habit of leading Women's Suffrage processions wearing an officer's cap and epaulettes whilst riding a large horse?
... that the Lola T93/30 Formula 1 car was described as "virtually undriveable" by the team's drivers after its first race, 1993 South African Grand Prix, because of its aerodynamic deficiencies?
... that author Jacqueline Wilson described Dustbin Baby, the BBC dramatisation of her novel of the same name, as the best ever film adaptation of her work?
... that Finnish Swede Gustav Orreus was the first Doctor of Medicine ever commissioned in Russia?
... that there have been nine head coaches who have spent their entire National Hockey League head coaching careers with the Montreal Canadiens, a Canadian professional ice hockey franchise?
... that prior to the 1930 election the Polish government declared the candidacy of Heinrich Scheibler, the leader of the German Socialist Labour Party in Poland - Left, to be invalid?
... that 19th-century California bandit Procopio, also known as Red-Handed Dick, was said to "love the feel and the color of warm blood," and his name was used by mothers to frighten their children?
... that the production of Swaledale cheese includes soaking the cheese wheel in 85 percent brine for 24 hours?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sears v. Stiffel that companies can make and sell exact copies of other companies' inventions if they are not patented?
... that the Early Cretaceous turtle Caririemys was the fifth such turtle genus to have been discovered in Brazil's Santana Formation?
... that The New York Times called CBS News executive Robert Chandler the "creator of the 60 Minutes format" of television newsmagazines?
... that a march fracture is a fracture of metatarsals mostly occurring in soldiers who need to do a lot of marching?
... that the Tigris River's tributary, the Botan in southeastern Turkey, looks during times of peak discharge much bigger than the Tigris?
... that Evald Rygh, a former Norwegian Minister of Finance and Customs, helped establish the Holmenkollen ski jump?
... that, during the team's first official season, a Maryland Terrapins football player was accused of "unaccreditable ignorance of football" after running the wrong way for 30 yards (27 metres)?
... that William Blake sought in his illustrations of Milton's Nativity Ode to depict the rebirth of John Milton's poetry into the creative imagination of Christ?
... that the Little Blitzen River is a tributary of Oregon's Donner und Blitzen River and part of the first redband trout reserve in the United States?
... that the Westminster Retable, a 13th-century panel painting at Westminster Abbey, is the oldest known altarpiece in England?
... that in Doris Lessing's 1983 novel, The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, language becomes so distorted that some of the characters succumb to a condition called "undulant rhetoric"?
... that the species name Symphurus thermophilus means "heat lover", referring to the organism's association with hydrothermal vents?
... that to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Christmas lights and decorations on Summer Street in Duboistown, Pennsylvania, the mayor proclaimed "December as Candy Cane Lane month forever more"?
... that Tirggel, traditional Christmas cookies from Switzerland, are said to have originated as pagan offertory cakes, cut in the shape of sacrificial animals?
... that The Irish Times referred to a single by the band The Kinetiks as "‘Kin brilliant"?
... that a plant pathologist conducted research on Christmas tree stands that showed just 6 of 22 had adequate water capacity for large Christmas trees?
... that the novel Uncle Daddy by Ralph Fletcher was awarded a 2002 Christopher Medal in the books for ages 10–12 category?
... that presenter Pat Kenny tore up two tickets for The Late Late Toy Show live on air in 2008?
... that the interior vaulting of the wooden synagogue of Wolpa is considered to have been "the most magnificent of all known wooden ceilings" in Europe?
... that in the town of Santa Claus, Arizona, visitors could once purchase Dasher and Dancer omelettes and Santa burgers?
... that in 1599, English bookseller William Barley helped publish Anthony Holborne's Pavans, Galliards, Almains, the first instrumental (rather than vocal) music to be printed in England?
... that the Berner Haselnusslebkuchen , a traditional Christmas cookie from Switzerland, is a lebkuchen made from ground hazelnuts?
... that California's Sierra Nevada Conservancy is the largest state conservation effort of its kind in the United States?
... that "the boy Jones" repeatedly broke into Buckingham Palace in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign?
... that the 2002 album Happy Clucking Holidays consists of Christmas songs performed by Dirk Keysser clucking like a chicken?
... that Paul Lynde, who played the lead role in the 1977 U.S. television special 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, was responsible for casting fellow actor Martha Raye as his character's mother-in-law?
... that Kellogg v. Nabisco, a court case about Shredded Wheat breakfast cereal, "may be the [U.S.] Supreme Court's most ... influential trademark decision"?
... that the computer game "Attack of the Mutant Artificial Christmas Trees" invites players to stop mutant fake trees from sucking the spirit out of Christmas?
... that the 1965 broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is credited with ending the era of the aluminum Christmas tree ?
... that Bill May, an international champion in synchronized swimming, was barred from competing in the Olympics because of his gender?
... that Robert Wells and Mel Tormé wrote "The Christmas Song" in the sweltering July heat as a means of keeping themselves cool?
... that the Hooded Butcherbird of New Guinea mimics other birds such as the Rusty Pitohui, Spangled Drongo, and Helmeted Friarbird?
... that the forger who wrote an extra verse to the Norwegian Christmas song Musevisa claimed to have been inspired by the Hitler Diaries?
... that Bóg się rodzi, a Polish Christmas carol, has been called "one of the most beloved Polish Christmas carols"?
... that Million Fax on Washington is a petition to the transition administration of Barack Obama organized by the UFO community to put the extraterrestrial issue on the new U.S. administration's agenda?
... that the Star of Bethlehem by Edward Burne-Jones, the largest watercolour painting of the 19th century, is based on his 1887 tapestry design depicting the Adoration of the Magi?
... that American Civil War soldiers celebrated Christmas by using salt pork and hardtack as ornaments on Christmas trees?
... that in 1937, Harry Osman was the last footballer to score a goal on Christmas Day at Southampton's The Dell stadium?
... that the village of Christmas Common was the home of philologist and lexicographer William Craigie?