derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that the Indiana Historical Society is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains?
...that the name Alexandra was considered unlucky by the Romanov family because so many Alexandras in the family, including Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, died young?
...that law professor Ralph Aigler, once known as the "dominant figure in Michigan's athletics," negotiated the Big Ten's exclusive contracts with the Rose Bowl in 1946 and 1953?
...that in Test cricket, Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, with 39 centuries, leads the list of batsmen making centuries?
...that immunologist Robert A. Good documented the importance of the thymus gland and tonsils in the immune system and performed the first successful human bone marrow transplant?
...that Savanna Portage State Park preserves a historic portage trail used by Native Americans, fur traders, and explorers to cross between the watershed of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River?
...that Mretebi Tbilisi was the first openly professional football club to be founded in the Soviet Union?
...that Kasztanka, Polish Marshal Józef Piłsudski's favorite combat mare, was stuffed upon her death in 1927 and after World War II was destroyed allegedly on the orders of Piłsudski's enemy, Marshal Michał Rola-Żymierski?
...that Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired?
...that Independent Learning Centre started the Railway School Car Program in 1926, in which a teacher lived in a train car that traveled to students in isolated Northern Ontario communities?
...that the Allied force which landed on Morotai in September 1944 was over a hundred times larger than the Japanese force defending the island?
...that Dr. Frederick Madison Allen prescribed a "starvation diet" for patients at his Physiatric Institute, the leading way of prolonging lives of diabetics in the days before the isolation of insulin?
...that Dell Comics issued contemporaneous comic books featuring the ABC network's 1961 TV series, Follow the Sun?
...that so far, 350,000 people have been relocated in Turkey by dam projects carried out by the State Hydraulic Works, and 250,000 more will be affected in the future?
...that Dutch mannerist painter Cornelis Ketel began to paint with his toes towards the end of a successful career as a portraitist, (example, right) in Elizabethan London and Amsterdam?
...that Barry Coe, the winner of the Golden Globe award for "most promising" actor, missed out on becoming the fourth Cartwright brother on the television series Bonanza because of reported friction on the set?
...that Jerry Dybzinski's baserunning error in game four of the 1983 American League Championship Series ultimately cost the Chicago White Sox both the game and the series?
...that the Japanese destroyer Matsu had a very short career: just more than three months from her completion in 1944, to her sinking as she returned from her first escort mission?
...that newly crowned Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund's grandmother competed at Miss America 1944?
...that the boundary between Sudan and Ethiopia was defined for the region near the Pibor River in 1899 by Major H.H. Austin and Major Charles W. Gwynn of the British Royal Engineers?
...that Marie Roethlisberger placed seventh at the 1984 United States Olympic gymnastic trials (making her the alternate for the six-woman team) despite being almost completely deaf?
...that according to an Iroquois legend, a woman eating roasted acorns intimidated an evil spirit of the tribe known as The Flying Head so much he never returned?
...that the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes?
...that Unsinkable Sam was a ship's cat of both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War who survived the sinking of all three ships on which he served?
...that Beaufort Island in Antarctica's Ross Sea was named for Sir Francis Beaufort in 1841?
...that before coaching gymnastics at the University of Michigan from 1948 to 1983, Newt Loken was the NCAA all-around gymnastics champion in 1942?
...that the K-1000 class was a hoax class of battleship made up by the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War as propaganda?
...that the city of San Francisco contributed a large proportion of the funds for constructing the extension of Junipero Serra Boulevard beyond the city limits?
...that the 1937 Hal Roach/MGM musical short Our Gang Follies of 1938 features an appearance by future jazz star Annie Ross?
...that at Winter X Games XII, skier Tanner Hall set a record with his seventh career gold medal, only to be tied by snowboarder Shaun White on the last day of competition?
...that track and field athlete Anne Bersagel was a member of Team USA Minnesota while studying full time in Oslo, Norway as a Fulbright Scholar?
...that prolific American music publisher George E. Blake printed the first edition of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in the United States?
...that University of Michigan elocution professor Thomas Trueblood received nationwide attention when the Chicago Tribune reported in 1903 that he was offering a new "course in love making"?
...that the Australian Ambassador to Chile, Crispin Conroy, once proposed marriage to Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala?
...that Son Goku, a German rock band, is named after the protagonist of the anime series Dragon Ball Z?
...that both Augustus and Eleftherios Venizelos exiled opponents to the Cyclades?
...that with little prior experience, South Korean actress Kim Ok-bin was given a leading role in her first film, Voice, and was nominated for "Best New Actress" at the Blue Dragon Film Awards?
...that through the opening of the Thomson MRT Line and Eastern Region MRT Line by 2020, Singapore's rail network density will rise from 31 km per million residents today to 51 km per million, surpassing what Hong Kong and Tokyo currently have?
...that Half-Breed Tracts were set aside for people of Mixed Blood descent in several U.S. states, including Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin?
...that as Chief Herald of India, Osmond Barnes proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India at Delhi in 1877?
...that the Mattancherry Palace, known popularly as Dutch Palace, in Kochi, India, was built by the Portuguese and renovated by the Dutch?
...that the Walter Byers Scholarship is considered the highest academic honor for National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes?
...that the Los Angeles attorney Bobby Diamond became nationally known a half century ago through his role as the orphaned Joey Newton in the NBC television series Fury?
...that concert organist John Walker was to teach in Taiwan on a Fulbright Fellowship, but wound up playing benefit concerts for 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake victims?
...that Antonine Barada was a 19th century mixed blood fur trader in Nebraska whose mythic strength and heroic actions against slavery prompted his status as a current-day folk hero?
...that Catherine Dolgorukov had a premonition that her morganatic husband, Tsar Alexander II, would be assassinated?
...that The Sea Island Mathematical Manual or Haidao suanjing (海岛算经) was written by mathematican Liu Hui of the Three Kingdom era (220–280) as an extension of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art?
...that after service with the United States Navy in World War II and the Korean War, the USS Noble was transferred to the Spanish Navy in 1964 and renamed the Aragon?
...that Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels ran in the wrong direction after recovering a fumble, which led to a safety that proved to be the winning margin in Georgia Tech's 8-7 win at the 1929 Rose Bowl?
...that tourists flocked to Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, California, to see "Ramona's Marriage Place" even though Ramona was a work of fiction?
...that the 1967 general election in Sierra Leone saw the first defeat of a ruling party in an election held under universal suffrage in sub-Saharan Africa?
...that Mohammed al-Shahwani was a talented general in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, and is now the head of Iraq's new intelligence service?
...that with the testing of the PAD missile, India became the fourth country to have successfully demonstrated an anti-ballistic missile system?
...that W.C. Fields' straightman Tammany Young was a renowned gatecrasher who managed entry to the Jack Dempsey - Georges Carpentier prize fight by claiming to be an ice man?
...that the Contracts House , located in Kiev, Ukraine, was visited by writers Honoré de Balzac, Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, and poets Adam Mickiewicz and Taras Shevchenko?
...that during World War II, the Japanese destroyer Hatsukaze survived four major fleet actions against the American, British, Australian and Dutch fleets, but was sunk after colliding with a Japanese cruiser?
...that Scotland's North West Highlands Geopark contains some of the oldest rocks in Europe and the site of a famous geological controversy?
...that British MP Ronnie Campbell accidentally supported National Fetish Day due to his thinking that the word "fetish" meant "worry"?
...that Cliff Keen's tenure as Michigan’s wrestling coach (1925-1970) was the longest of any coach in any sport in NCAA history as of 1991?
...that Séon Carsuel, Scottish Protestant reformer, Bishop of the Isles and author of the first book to be printed in any Goidelic language, was over seven foot tall?
...that Abbas Tyabji , respectfully called the "Grand Old Man of Gujarat", was chosen at age seventy-six by Mahatma Gandhi to take over leadership of the Salt Satyagraha upon Gandhi's arrest in May, 1930?
...that Robert Bray (forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie), turned down a role in director Joshua Logan's 1958 hit film South Pacific, much to Bray's longstanding regret?
...that the Armenian oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian once sued his father for $10 million after his company refused him $4.50 for a meal?
...that Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
...that the 1928–29 Boston Bruins season marked the ice hockey team's first Stanley Cup championship and their first season in the Boston Garden?
...that the Punjabi magnate Sir Malik Umar Hayat Khan was an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII and King George VI?
...that Gerald Ford threatened to quit the Michigan football team when African-American player Willis Ward was kept out of a 1932 game in response to Georgia Tech's refusal to play an integrated team?
...that the Castle Cary Cut-Off reduced the 325½ mile distance between London Paddington and Penzance railway stations by 20¼ miles?
...that, according to Herodotus, Rhodopis was a fellow-slave with the poet Aesop?
...that stewardess Frankie Housley was called "the Bravest Woman In America"?
...that Major League Baseball pitcher Stan Baumgartner was named to the All-Big Ten Conference teams for baseball, basketball, and football in 1914?
...that the supervisor of a kosher restaurant is required to be a Shomer Shabbat, a Jew who observes the Sabbath?
...that the crowd at the 1984 funeral of assassinated Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco was estimated at between fifteen thousand and two hundred thousand people?
...that when the first portion of the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad opened in 1856, it led to the incorporation of Kingston, Pennsylvania, and to the establishment of Kingston's first public transit line?
...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc?
...that London printer William Stansby published the landmark first folio collection of the works of Ben Jonson in 1616?
...that despite healthcare in Sierra Leone decreasing child mortality from 302 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 282 in 2005 Sierra Leone still has the highest level of child mortality in the world?
...that Lucien Lagrange Architects has been involved in attempts to renovate Union Station in Chicago, Illinois, for over twenty years?
...that despite German and Soviet attempts to suppress Polish culture during World War II, it was kept alive by underground activities, with the Polish Home Army even creating newsreels?
...that race car journalist and former race car driver Dr. Dick Berggren decided to stop teaching college psychology after he was called into the college president's office because he parked his racecar in the faculty parking lot?
...that the upcoming comedy film Hamlet 2 was the top purchase at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival placing it second behind the US$10.5 million record set by Little Miss Sunshine at the festival in 2006?
...that Deepak Chougule, a cricketer from the Indian state of Karnataka, created a junior world record for the most runs scored in a single day of a cricket match when he scored 400 runs in a match against Goa?
...that Houhora Mountain was the first part of New Zealand that the early explorer Kupe saw, but he thought it was a whale, according to Māori legend?
...that the ceremony marking the Japanese surrender of Timor on 11 September 1945 was held aboard HMAS Moresby?
...that 24-year old Alondra de la Parra was the first Mexican woman to ever conduct a concert in New York City?
...that Al Hoisch of UCLA returned a kickoff for 103 yards and a touchdown at the 1947 Rose Bowl, a record that still stands as of the 2008 game?
...that William Fawcett, a character actor in B-films and television from 1946 to the early 1970s, held a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and was a drama professor at Michigan State University prior to the start of his acting career?
...that the adobe house that is the centerpiece of the Alviso Adobe Community Park in Pleasanton, California, was built in 1854 and continuously in use until 1969?
...that Count John A. Creighton was ennobled by Pope Leo XIII in recognition of his contributions to Creighton University, the Catholic community in Omaha, and the city of Omaha in general?
...that the Cleveland Cliffs ore dock at Marquette, Michigan has been used to ship over 400 million tons of iron ore in the over 95 years since it was built?
...that the village of Selworthy was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1828 as a model village for the aged and infirm of his Holnicote Estate?
...that former child actor Richard Eyer, who played the boy who runs "afowl" of the goose in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, is now an elementary school teacher in Bishop, California?
...that 1985 NCAA hurdling champion Thomas Wilcher won the Michigan High School Athletic Association team track & field championship three consecutive times, both as an athlete and a coach?
...that after winning three medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics as a 16-year-old, Anita Nall retired from competitive swimming in 2000 due to chronic fatigue syndrome?
...that according to legend, George Washington personally stopped an angry mob from burning St. Philip's Church in the Highlands ?
...that former Juneau, Alaska mayor Dennis Egan hosts a program called Problem Corner on local radio station KINY?
... that at the Battle of Noemfoor in 1944 Commodore John Collins became the first graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College to command a naval squadron in action?
...that Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid, using two stovepipes, charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War?
...that director Paul Greengrass is filming a fictional thriller with Matt Damon in the lead based on the 2006 nonfiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City about the Green Zone?
...that George Jewett was the first African-American to earn a varsity letter in football at both the University of Michigan and at Northwestern University?
...that the hollow log pipes of the 1787 Mann's Lick salt furnace allegedly still existed in the 1940s?
...that a plane of Royal Canadian Air Force's No. 426 Squadron made Canada's first coast-to-coast non-stop flight?
...that the Éolienne Bollée is a true turbine that is worked by the wind and, unlike modern wind turbines, has a stator and a rotor?
...that the work of the Galician poet Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara presents arguments for the superiority of women to men?
...that due to its high reactivity, compounds of oxygen can be formed with all known chemical elements, apart from four noble gases?
...that as President of the College of New Jersey, John Maclean, Jr. conveyed a Doctor of Laws degree to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War?
...that the only Edward Medal awarded in the Kent coalfield was won at Tilmanstone Colliery, one of only four successful pits in Kent out of twelve planned or built?
...that in Greek mythology Gorgythion was one of the fifty sons of King Priam of Troy?
...that the Comanche War Chief Santa Anna was the first Comanche or Kiowa Chief to visit Washington D.C. in 1847, and was so overwhelmed with what he saw, he immediately advised his people to seek peace?
...that three of the 18 holes at the Powelton Club's golf course had to be redesigned a year after they were built when the land they were on was condemned to build U.S. Route 9W?
...that Józef Haller de Hallenburg was one of the key shapers of scouting in Poland?
...that in order to combat the erosion of fan loyalty towards professional teams, the Nashville Predators employ customer relationship management techniques to collect information about the demographics and psychographics of their fans?
...that Almaco jack have been known to remove parasites on their skin by rubbing up against scuba divers?
...that footballer John Hewitt scored the fastest recorded goal in Scottish Cup history, timed at 9.6 seconds?
...that for establishing the first successful sugar beet processing plant in the United States, E. H. Dyer became known as the father of the American beet sugar industry?
...that the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election was the first to be held in Africa under universal suffrage?
...that Australian Ingo Renner has won the World Gliding Championships four times and set two world gliding records?
...that so many squatters were living on the property of José Joaquin Estudillo that it became known as "Squatterville"?
...that root nodules on the plant Myrica cerifera fix nitrogen faster than some legumes?
...that HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America, but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist?
...that Nazi Germany planned to starve tens of millions of Jews, Poles and Soviet citizens in order to simultaneously eliminate "surplus population" and feed German citizens and their army?
...that Opera Jawa is a 2006 Indonesian-Austrian musical film that features traditional Javanese classical music and dance in a setting of opera, inspired by the Ramayana?
...that offensive tackle Rich Strenger told reporters that Michigan Wolverines football coach Bo Schembechler ran a more strenuous training camp at the college level than he experienced in the NFL with the Detroit Lions?
...that E.Wedel , a famous confectionery company of Poland, retained its logo even under the Polish communist government?
...that Leonard Bernstein created controversy with his remarks about Glenn Gould during a New York Philharmonic concert on April 6, 1962?
...that Ripley's Believe It or Not! "Wild Goose Chase" feature on J. Dewey Soper's six year, 30,000 mile search for the Blue Goose nesting grounds earned him the nickname "Blue Goose Soper"?
...that Comanche War Chief Carne Muerte's name means "Dead Meat" in Spanish?
...that William B. Hornblower was nominated for a seat on the United States Supreme Court in 1893, but his nomination failed, largely due to a feud with Senator David B. Hill?
...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
...that Hungarian company Zsolnay , known for its manufacture of decorative tiles, became the largest company in Austro-Hungary prior to WWI?
...that the poisonous mushroom Russula emetica, commonly known as "the sickener", is hoarded and eaten by the Red Squirrel?
...that preselection is the process by which a candidate is selected, usually by a political party, to contest an election for political office, an example being the United States presidential primary?
...that the Belgian cartoonist Karl Meersman was at first disqualified from a drawing contest at age thirteen, because the jury did not believe his drawing had been created by a child?
...that The Drug Years, a documentary chronicling illicit drug use in the United States, features never-before-seen film of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' acid-fueled bus trip across America in 1964?
...that the Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with geodes, and for honoring a Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?
...that Mayor Frank E. Rodgers served 48 years as mayor of Harrison, New Jersey, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-serving mayor in United States history?
...that James A. Forbes planned to build the first flour mill in California, but delays in construction allowed competitors to flourish, driving down prices and forcing him into bankruptcy?
...that for a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow?
...that Jack Brod was the last remaining original tenant of the Empire State Building, New York City, at the time of his death in 2008?
...that Earnshaw Cook performed his early baseball statistics calculations with a mechanical calculator and slide rule, the latter of which resides in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?
...that an abundance of olivine in a nearby collapsed cinder cone gives the sand of Mahana Beach a distinctive green coloration?
...that Helmut Dähne has held the official motorcycle lap record on the 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long Nordschleife track in Germany since 1988?
...that the Latin familia must be translated as "household" rather than as "family", since neither classical Greek or Latin had a word corresponding to modern-day family?
...that the 2003 book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs?
...that when politics threatened funding for the Fuji class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1893, Emperor Meiji offered to pay from the expenses of the Imperial Household himself?
...that the first radio network in North America was created by the Canadian National Railway in 1923?
...that the 1937 film Natalka Poltavka , directed by Vasyl Avramenko, was the first Ukrainian language film produced in the United States?
...that Entoloma sinuatum was implicated in 10% of mushroom poisonings in Europe in the mid-20th century?
...that Walter Bowart was a proponent of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the writer of a seminal book on mind control, as well as a prolific publisher and editor of both newspapers and magazines?
...that in the process of carbonic maceration, which is used to produce Beaujolais wine, fermentation takes place inside the individual grape berry?
...that William Larkin was identified as the Jacobean era portraitist formerly known as "The Curtain Master" by art historian Roy Strong?
...that 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan?
...that straight pool champion "Cowboy" Jimmy Moore earned his nickname by appearing at a professional tournament wearing the required tuxedo, but nevertheless sporting cowboy boots and his signature white Stetson hat?
...that during the Revolt of the Admirals, future four-star admiral Charles D. Griffin wrote the congressional testimony whose delivery caused Chief of Naval Operations Louis E. Denfeld to be fired?
...that construction of Lake Winfield Scott Recreation Area was the last project completed by the US Civilian Conservation Corps in the state of Georgia?