derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in 1894, US$20,000 to US$40,000 mysteriously disappeared from the Mississippi Levee Board, of which General Samuel W. Ferguson was both secretary and treasurer?
... that Süreyya Opera House in Istanbul, built in 1927 as a musical theater but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment?
... that mitochondrial DNA testing of the 300 to 500-year-old Canadian "iceman" mummy Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi and current clans of British Columbia revealed 17 living relatives?
... that the Apple Valley Airport near Buxton, Oregon, was built by Portland, Oregon TV personality Ramblin' Rod Anders?
... that the Global Health Council is an international membership alliance of public health professionals in more than 100 countries?
... that the Russellville Historic District in Kentucky, U.S. is the site of the first documented bank robbery of Jesse James?
... that yellow-bellied sliders , popular as pets, are found in a wide variety of habitats, including rivers, floodplain swamps, seasonal wetlands, and permanent ponds?
... that Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
... that in 1953, the U.S. Army used human subjects to test decontamination methods for chemical and biological agents as part of Operation Top Hat?
... that painter Henrietta Rae burned Valentine Prinsep's hat in revenge for his smearing one of her works with cobalt blue paint?
... that Amrutanjan Healthcare Limited, an Indian pharmaceutical company specializing in Ayurvedic balm for headaches and cold, was founded by freedom fighter Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao?
... that between 1874 and 1884, Norwegian politician Jens Holmboe was the head of four different government ministries, each on at least two occasions, the tenure ending with impeachment?
... that the Delmar post office is the only one of the 13 in New York designed by Louis Simon in the Colonial Revival style without a cupola?
... that the freshwater snail Radix auricularia serves as a host to numerous parasites, some of which can infect humans?
... that an intense rivalry between composers Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and Emilio Arrieta helped rekindle the popularity of Spanish opera during the mid 19th century?
... that tin(IV) fluoride, a chemical compound of tin and fluorine, is used in toothpaste to prevent dental decay?
... that the largest group of Asian residents in Germany are Vietnamese, totalling 83,526 people as of 2004?
... that Against All Odds is a video game developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees designed to teach players about the plight of refugees?
... that Dorothy Miner was acknowledged as the person "who helped establish the legal right to designate landmarks" in the U.S. for her role in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City?
... that the people of Khichan, India have a tradition of offering five quintals of grain per day to Demoiselle Cranes ?
... that at any given time, the United States holds as many as 31,000 illegal immigrants in administrative detention while they await removal proceedings?
... that in Anyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea, a road sings the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" to passing car drivers on the road?
... that at the time of her completion in 1918, American cargo ship West Lianga held the distinction of being both the fastest-launched and the fastest-constructed ocean-going ship in the world?
... that production on the 1969 Fred Zinnemann film Man's Fate was canceled one week before shooting was to begin?
... that Australia Post took over the postal service on Christmas Island in 1993 and promised to issue Christmas stamps?
... that artist Henrietta Ward claimed she gave her husband's friend Wilkie Collins the idea for his novel The Woman In White?
... that the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System destroyed more than 400,000 American chemical munitions from 1990 to 2000?
... that in 874, Byzantine admiral Niketas Oryphas hauled his ships overland over the Isthmus of Corinth in order to catch an Arab fleet by surprise and defeated it?
... that Stanley Kubrick dismissed his 1953 film Fear and Desire as "a bumbling amateur film exercise"?
... that in 1930/31, John Stephenson made 117 runs and took six wickets for the Europeans cricket team to guide the European side to an innings victory against the Indians cricket team?
... that Nettleship-Falls syndrome, the most common type of ocular albinism, may be caused by recessive mutations in the X chromosome?
... that in 1961, Bishop of Hamar Kristian Schjelderup ordained the first female priest in the Church of Norway?
... that many of the tendencies within anarchism criticized by Chaz Bufe in his pamphlet Listen, Anarchist! are thought to have stemmed from the movement's individualist, Stirnerite wing?
... that Julio A. Garcia, called a "legal lion" by his hometown newspaper in Laredo, Texas, once broke a bone while passionately defending a client in court?
... that Allied Arts of Seattle, a major force in preserving the city's Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market, began as the Beer and Culture Society?
... that up to 78 percent of 1,016 leading political figures in post-Soviet Russia have served previously in organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence services like the KGB?
... that former Ohio House of Representatives minority whip and current U.S. House candidate Steve Driehaus coordinated the largest U.S. professional exchange program with the "new" South Africa?
... that the Tamil film Meera based on the life of poetess-saint Mirabai was filmed at the actual places which Mirabai had visited on her pilgrimage?
... that Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion, after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan, co-founder of the Israeli–Palestinian Council?
... that before becoming mayor of Seattle in 1912, George F. Cotterill had been instrumental in platting its piers, building its sewers, and innovating its mode of financing major utility projects?
... that Parikrama, an integral part of Hindu ritual, involves walking around a sacred object or place, as Ganesha walked around Shiva in legend?
... that operatic soprano Celestina Boninsegna sang her first leading role at the unusually young age of 15?
... that the unusual breeding season of the Monteiro's Storm-petrel was the first clue that led to the cryptic species' recent discovery by scientists?
... that in the eight seasons he played Major League Baseball, Harry Schafer played for six teams that won the league championship?
... that the cost of operating mine ventilation fans can account for one-third of the entire electrical power cost for a typical underground mine?
... that prior to Singapore's first Formula One race in 2008, the last running of the Singapore Grand Prix was as a non-championship race run to Australian Formula Two rules in 1973?
... that because Seattle's Central Waterfront piers are not zoned as residential, the 1998 shoot of The Real World: Seattle officially treated Pier 70 as a 24-hour-a-day film set?
... that women baring their breasts in front of higher class people and deities was considered a sign of respect in the 19th-century Travancore kingdom in South India?
... that Radiohead have received ten nominations at the Grammy Awards, which won them the Best Alternative Music Performance award twice, for OK Computer in 1998 and Kid A in 2001?
... that Mike and Janet Huckabee became the first governor and spouse to run on the same ballot for state office in the 2002 Arkansas gubernatorial election?
... that Tang Dynasty chancellor Qiao Lin was both born and executed on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar?
... that three of the Texas Rangers' Opening Day starting pitchers have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?
... that Indian indigenous tribal journalist and activist Dayamani Barla once worked as a maid to pay her way through University?
... that although the freshwater snail Valvata piscinalis is widely distributed in some parts of North America where it is non-indigenous, it is endangered in some of its native areas?
... that Anna Elinor Jones was jailed as an accused Confederate spy due to being involved in a dispute between Union generals George Armstrong Custer and H. Judson Kilpatrick?
... that after Moses Collyer built his retirement home in Chelsea, New York, he cowrote the definitive history of the sail era in Hudson River navigation?
... that Morelia spilota spilota, the Diamond python, of East Gippsland live at the highest altitude of any python?
... that best-selling author Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women, spent two years in Peru while researching the cocaine trade for his book Assignment?
... that the Supreme Court of Israel judge Yoel Zussman was awarded the Israel Prize in 1975 for his contributions to Israeli law?
... that the five-eyed predator Alalcomenaeus is one of the most common fossils in the Cambrian Burgess shale?
... that the Tang Dynasty official Cui Youfu had a dispute with his superior Chang Gun over whether a mother cat allowing a mouse to live with her constituted a sign of good fortune or ill fortune?
... that USS Samoa (CB-6) was scheduled to be the last of six Alaska-class "large cruisers" built for the United States Navy, but was canceled prior to construction?
... that the Church of England launched a Prayer for the Current Financial Situation that calls God to be a "a tower of strength amidst the shifting sands" of the global economic turmoil?
... that during the interwar period chief of the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service Amos Fries viewed chemical disarmament as a Communist plot?
... that The Best Little Girl in the World, a 1981 film about anorexia nervosa, was back in the news in 1983 when performer Karen Carpenter died of complications from the same disorder?
... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Juan Marichal made ten Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants between 1962 and 1973?
... that the earliest references to the hill station of Kodaikanal had been made in works of Sangam literature?
... that a former White House media manager was hired to make the political television comedy Running Mates more realistic?
... that Bloodhound SSC is a pencil-shaped car powered by a jet engine and a rocket being designed to travel at approximately 1,000 miles per hour (1,600 km/h)?
... that Victorian plant collector Charles Maries introduced over 500 species of plants to England, including Viburnum plicatum "Mariesii" which was named after him?
... that Mickey Rooney won a Golden Globe Award in 1964 for his ABC sitcom Mickey?
... that the world's shortest scheduled air route once was from Perth Airport to Rottnest Island Airport, a distance of 32 kilometres (20 mi)?
... that actress-singer Anabela, who represented Portugal in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, just finished playing the role of Maria von Trapp in the Portuguese production of The Sound of Music?
... that U.S. Route 151 stretches 108 miles (174 km) across Iowa to the Wisconsin border?
... that former Governor of the Bank of England and Lord Mayor of London Sir Richard Levett's country house, Kew Palace, was subsequently sold to the Royal Family?
... that AMiBA is a radio telescope located on Mauna Loa in Hawaii that is being used to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies?
... that Moshe Landau, who presided over the Eichmann Trial as a Supreme Court of Israel judge, later headed a commission that investigated the Israel Security Agency?
... that although the official government death toll of the 1997 Ardabil earthquake was given as 965 deaths, rescue workers at the scene claimed it was as much as three times higher?
... that Tang Dynasty general Li Na was, at one point, reduced to tears when he was under siege by another general, Liu Qia?
... that four of the candidates for either Governor or Lt. Governor in the 2008 American Samoa gubernatorial elections have ancestral ties to the Manu'a Islands?
... that charges of firebombing department stores against four Ecuadoreans were dismissed after the NYPD corroborated information first printed in articles by Paul L. Montgomery in The New York Times?
... that the author of Hollywood Undercover posed as an aspiring gay actor while investigating claims of a Church of Scientology "cure" for homosexuality?
... that Gorillaz received four nominations at the 2006 Grammy Awards for their song "Feel Good Inc.", winning the award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals?
... that the Lind Coulee Archaeological Site provided the first evidence of ancient human occupation of Washington, U.S.?
... that Ewan Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania is the first Australian chief justice to stop using ceremonial court robes?
... that three 1972 Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania were each awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the university in 1973?
... that The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, a western variety and comedy series, was cancelled by ABC in 1962 after 13 weeks?
... that Danish-born jurist Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was disqualified from the Norwegian Parliament in 1824, having previously accepted a personal payment from the King?
... that in 2008, the IUCN revised the conservation status of the Central American Squirrel Monkey from endangered to the lesser risk status of vulnerable?
... that the current Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa, Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia, is the younger brother of the late Governor Tauese Sunia?
... that Gwen Stefani's 2005 song "Hollaback Girl" received four nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards, and won the award for Best Choreography?
... that PK Dwyer is credited with forming the first-ever street band to busk at Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington?
... that the Biblioburro is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons in the Caribbean Sea hinterlands of Colombia on the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto?
... that Moshe Smoira, the first President of the Supreme Court of Israel, was wounded during the First World War while fighting for the German Empire?
... that the Higginbotham's, based in Chennai, is India's oldest bookstore in existence?
... that Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang?
... that the first recorded owner of the Spanish Inquisition Necklace was an Indian Maharaja?
... that Akon received five Grammy Award nominations in 2008, including Best Contemporary R&B Album for his album Konvicted?
... that Washington State Route 8, which currently runs from Elma to Olympia, originally used the current route of U.S. Route 12 from Elma to Grand Mound, from 1964 until 1967?
... that exhibition drag racer Wild Bill Shrewsberry drove the drag racing replica of the Batmobile from the popular 1966 American television series Batman?
... that there have been 28 New Zealand police officers killed in the line of duty due to a criminal act?
... that the monastic goldsmith Spearhafoc became Bishop-elect of London in 1051, but absconded abroad with a large treasure after his consecration was prevented?
... that SearchFox, a website that offers personalized RSS feeds, was co-founded by James Gibbons, a Stanford University professor and former dean of the university's School of Engineering?
... that Bill Cunningham's lucky street photograph of Greta Garbo in 1978 has led to a 30-year career with The New York Times?
... that the Prussian state railways was the largest German company by number of employees in 1907?
... that upcoming film Afterwards is shot entirely in English, despite being written and directed by Frenchman Gilles Bourdos, adapted from a French novel and co-produced by a French production company?
... that Napoleon Bonaparte presented the Napoleon Diamond Necklace to his wife to celebrate the birth of his son, Napoleon II?
... that Montserrado County is the smallest county in Liberia, but also the most populous?
... that Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?
... that Animerica, launched in 1993, was one of the first American professional anime and manga magazines, and was one of the most popular throughout the 1990s?
... that discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect?
... that Rabbi Stephen Wise founded New York City's Free Synagogue in 1907 after turning down a position at Temple Emanu-El because its trustees would review his sermons?
... that the Division of Altenburg in Saxony led to a war between two brothers in 1446 known as the Bruderkrieg, or Saxon Brother War?
... that Coolio's 1995 song "Gangsta's Paradise" was nominated at the Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year and received the award for Best Rap Solo Performance?
... that three Nobel laureates affiliated with the City University of New York graduated together from the City College of New York in 1937?
... that the portraiture of Elizabeth I contains complex iconography of empire and virginity that conveyed to Elizabethans the majesty and significance of the Virgin Queen?
... that Addison Road was the first debut Christian music act to receive a special Napster website stream of their self-titled debut album?
... that M-69, a state trunkline highway in Michigan, was truncated in 1960 to one-fifth of its length for 33 years?
... that Baard Iversen, a businessman based in Trondheim, Norway, was nicknamed "the father of the Dovre Line"?
... that former Major League Baseball pitcher Kevin Appier made six consecutive Opening Day starts for the Kansas City Royals from 1992 through 1997?
... that prior to the First Liberian Civil War the Mount Coffee Hydropower Project produced 35 percent of Liberia's electricity?
... that anti-homeless laws may take on the form of restricting public sleeping , prohibiting begging, or relocating the homeless?
... that Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
... that the United States Department of War was once headquartered in the Munitions Building, a temporary structure built on the National Mall (Potomac Park) in Washington, D.C.?
... that P. Munuswamy Naidu, senior leader of the Justice Party in Madras Presidency, British India, supported the inclusion of Brahmins in the party?
... that Fiji has been contributing troops to United Nations peacekeeping operations around the world since 1978?
... that The Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997 from a drive-by shooting, received three Grammy Award nominations posthumously?
... that the Goldenface is a small bird with bright plumage that is endemic to the hills and mountains of New Guinea?
... that Bulgarian television director Hacho Boyadzhiev once worked as a stoker on a Beirut–Marseille steamship?
... that only three novels catering to soldiers' sexual proclivities during the American Civil War are known to still exist?
... that Red Corridor is a term used to describe an impoverished region in the east of India that experiences considerable Naxalite communist militant activity?
... that of the twenty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, seventeen won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
... that Barenaked Ladies has received six Juno Awards from nine nominations, including Group of the Year in 1992?
... that Lyceum-The Circle Historic District is where James Meredith's enrolment on October 1, 1962 integrated Ole Miss and led to riots?
... that legend describes Fleance, a minor character in Shakespeare's Macbeth, as an ancestor of King James II of England connecting him to King Arthur?
... that the Newfoundland Butter Company of Newfoundland manufactured only margarine, and was the first margarine manufacturing plant allowed in Canada?
... that Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Steve Woodard received a no-decision when a 2000 game against the Cincinnati Reds was called due to rain, making it the first Opening Day tie game since 1965?
... that Alexander M. Thompson, a socialist journalist beginning in the 1880s, became the author of lighthearted Edwardian musical comedies in the early years of the 20th century?
... that the Bulgarian village and architectural reserve Brashlyan was referenced in the "Strandzha Marseillaise", the song The Clear Moon is Already Rising?
... that Phoebe Ann Patten, wife of early LDS church leader David W. Patten, served a mission to Tennessee with her husband, an assignment almost unheard of at the time?
... that the 1997 Qayen earthquake leveled 700 homes in the village of Abiz alone?
... that Tang Dynasty general Tian Xu designated his youngest son Tian Ji'an as his heir because his sonless wife adopted Tian Ji'an, born of a concubine, as her own?
... that Zion Memorial Chapel in New Hamburg, New York, represents a late stage of Gothic Revival architecture in American churches?
... that the re-education through labor penal system in the People's Republic of China was overhauled in 2007?
... that by the time of the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive, none of the soldiers of the American 1st Gas Regiment had fired chemical weapons in combat?
... that Alfonsina Strada, nicknamed the devil in a dress, was the only female ever to compete in the Giro d'Italia?
... that of the thirty-two Nobel laureates affiliated with Princeton University, seventeen have won the Nobel Prize in Physics?
... that Hesaraghatta Lake is a freshwater lake created from the Arkavathy River in 1894 to produce drinking water for Bangalore?
... that Katy Perry's song "I Kissed a Girl" was nominated for five awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008?
... that the freshwater snail Viviparus georgianus , the "banded mystery snail", is native to the southeastern U.S. but is an introduced species in the northern U.S. and Canada?
... that George M. Keller added US$1 per share at the last minute to his company's bid for Gulf Oil, providing the margin needed to win a 1984 bidding war to buy Gulf in a deal valued at US$13.3 billion?
... that 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In was marked for an English language remake to be directed by Matt Reeves before it was even released in U.S. cinemas?
... that the bells of Altgeld Hall of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign play a short daily concert at 12:50pm despite not having a complete musical scale?
... that the name of Operation Defensive Shield, launched by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002, was taken from a song written in 1948 by Palmach songwriter Haim Hefer?
... that the Golden Monarch is found in New Guinea and New Ireland but not in the large island New Britain which lies between them?
... that The Californians, an NBC western which aired from 1957 to 1959, featured later Jeopardy! host Art Fleming as an ambitious lawyer?
... that some species of starfish that live in tide pools have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow entire new arms in time?
... that rock band Guns N' Roses has been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance award from the Grammy Awards three times but has never won it?
... that in 2007, archaeologists discovered that the Stonehenge Cursus is even older than Stonehenge?
... that in the only inning he pitched in Major League Baseball, Cal Cooper gave up five hits, a walk and five runs for a lifetime ERA of 45.0?
... that Marie Curie is the only female Nobel laureate to have won multiple Nobel Prizes?
... that the Ohio Solicitor General is appointed by the Ohio Attorney General to handle the office's U.S. Supreme Court, Ohio Supreme Court and 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals appellate work?
...that many battles were fought between the Croatian medieval cities of Kaptol and Gradec over ownership of Medveščak creek?
... that Arizona Territorial Governor Frederick A. Tritle presented Nevada's silver spike at the ceremony celebrating completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad?
... that only the hero Sigurd could remove the sword that the god Odin plunged into the huge tree Barnstokkr, which stood in King Völsung's hall?