derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
...that Ruth Maier, an Austrian Jew who found refuge in Norway until her deportation and death at Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's Anne Frank"?
...that Alice Stebbins Wells was the first female police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department?
...that the film State of Play, which began principal photography on January 11, 2008 with Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in the lead roles, was originally set to star Brad Pitt and Edward Norton?
...that Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers, who won a Grammy for writing the crossover song "I Swear", recorded an album in 1995 as the duo Baker & Myers?
...that Clem Hill , batting with Roger Hartigan against the 1907–08 England touring team at the Adelaide Oval, set an Australian Test cricket record partnership for the eighth wicket which stands to this day?
...that the Italian wine Orvieto was historically made with noble rot, but, unlike other botrytized wines such as Sauternes, the fungus was introduced after harvest in humid storage caves?
...that Iranian dutar player and vocalist Qorban Soleimani is credited with inventing a new form of the ancient Azeri stringed instrument the gopuz?
...that the Alvin C. York Institute in Tennessee, which opened in 1929, was established as a private agricultural school by World War I hero Alvin York?
...that Scott Shafer, hired in January 2008 as the Michigan Wolverines defensive coordinator, started in football as a high school and college quarterback in Ohio?
...that London's Army and Navy Club stands on a site once partly occupied by the house of the actress Moll Davis, a mistress of King Charles II?
...that the Right Revd Graham Charles Chadwick served as a naval intelligence officer in World War II and was expelled from South Africa for anti-apartheid activism?
...that The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul was a manuscript translated, scribed, and embroidered for queen Katherine Parr by future queen Elizabeth I when the latter was eleven years old?
...that Robert McGill Loughridge co-authored the English and Muskogee Dictionary in 1890, the first English dictionary of the Creek language?
...that Cyclone Elita in January 2004 crossed Madagascar three times, an unusual event but not unprecedented?
...that German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s?
...that the SS Tararua sank off the Catlins in 1881, in New Zealand's worst civilian shipping disaster?
...that Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighbourhood where Mother Teresa started her active life in Kolkata, India?
...that Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis brought electricity to St. Petersburg, Florida, and founded nearby Pinellas Park after hearing a lecture on Florida's medical benefits?
...that the northern half of Oklahoma State Highway 95 was once part of U.S. Route 56?
...that St. Elizabeth's Church , constructed in memory of a Russian princess, is the only Russian Orthodox church in Wiesbaden, Germany?
...that the director of the 1981 Spanish film Deprisa, Deprisa (English: Hurry, Hurry!) was accused of paying his cast in hard drugs?
...that Prince Esper Ukhtomsky's account of Nicholas II's Eastern tour, Travels in the East of Nicholas II, was written in close consultation with the Tsar himself?
...that after his father told him to "Get out and make a living and don't ask me for a dollar!", James Rand, Jr. founded American Kardex, which purchased his father's company five years later?
...that intelligence analyst Richard Barlow was fired for claiming that the Pentagon had falsified information about weapons of mass destruction in 1989?
...that the British First World War general Sir William Peyton served as Delhi Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the Delhi Durbar of 1911?
...that Domhnall mac Raghnaill was the founder of the MacDonald clan?
...that according to market researcher Mintel on green marketing patterns, only 12% of the U.S. population can be identified as True Greens, consumers who seek out and regularly buy so-called green products?
...that architect, former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and founder of Lucien Lagrange Architects, Lucien Lagrange was a high school dropout?
...that DBS Building Tower One, the tallest building in Singapore when completed in 1975, is an example of brutalist architecture?
...that a tornado outbreak in 1974 caused Owsley Brown Frazier to start a firearm collection large enough for a museum?
...that rugby union footballer George MacPherson was the captain of the first Scotland team to ever win a Five Nations Grand Slam?
...that in 1792, Deputy Sheriff Isaac Smith of the New York City Sheriff's Office became the first law enforcement officer to die in the line of duty in the United States?
...that the Felixstowe Fury was a five-engined triplane flying boat that crashed in 1919, the day before a planned 8,000 mile (12,900 km) flight from England to South Africa?
...that the South Korean film The Host was recognized as Best Picture at the 1st Asian Film Awards, held in 2007?
...that Othniel Charles Marsh named two species of the dinosaur Coelurus from the same quarry, not knowing that the bones belonged to the same skeleton?
...that the Weekly Arizonian, first published in 1859, was Arizona's first newspaper?
...that annual construction of the St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun in Switzerland takes three weeks, fifteen ice workers, 5,000 m³ of snow, and 4,000 m³ of water?
...that members of the Appalachian Volunteers were charged with sedition in 1967 for plotting the violent overthrow of Pike County, after the group's successful efforts led to closure of a Kentucky coal mine?
...that American swimmer Nancy Merki began swimming at age 8 after contracting polio, and set three national swimming records at age 13?
...that the Felbrigge Psalter is the oldest embroidered bookbinding in England?
...that Frank Loughran played for the Socceroos at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, scoring a goal in the first game his adopted country of Australia ever played in Olympic soccer?
...that in the Polish-Austrian War of 1809, part of the War of the Fifth Coalition, Polish forces under Józef Antoni Poniatowski neutralized an Austrian force twice their size and liberated most of the Austrian-held Polish territory?
...that New York City-born mathematician Judith Roitman serves as the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center?
...that pitcher Bill Zuber was the winning pitcher for a game played on September 21, which gave the Boston Red Sox 100 victories for the 1946 season?
...that Edward Kennon replaced John S. Hunt, III, on the Louisiana Public Service Commission in 1972, and that both politicians were nephews of former Louisiana governors?
...that there is a plan to shift Kolkata's traditional wholesale market in Posta to the newly developed New Town?
...that the Zarah Leander film La Habanera takes place in 1937 Puerto Rico but was filmed in the Canaries during the Spanish Civil War?
...that the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary is Canada's largest wildlife refuge, covering 26,000 square miles (67,000 km²)?
...that in the churchyard of Morwenstow Church is the preserved figurehead of the Scottish brig The Caledonia, which was shipwrecked nearby in 1843?
...that the effects of head trauma on memory can be seen by the post-operative results of HM, a patient who has been unable to form any new long-term memories since a surgical procedure performed in the 1950s?
...that the Rufous-crowned Sparrow, a medium-sized sparrow of the southwestern United States and Mexico, has a subspecies endemic to the Todos Santos Islands that has not been seen since the 1970s?
...that the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York was the first track to host the bobsleigh and luge world championships outside of Europe, doing so in 1949 and 1983, respectively?
...that the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
...that in the 1936 expansion of the Ronaldsway Airport, workers discovered a mass grave believed to hold the remains of soldiers who died during the 1275 Battle of Ronaldsway?
...that in 1924, English light heavyweight boxer Jack Bloomfield fought American Tommy Gibbons in the first ever boxing match to be held at London's famed Wembley Stadium?
...that although the opposition gained 40% of the vote in the 1990 Mongolian legislative election, it only received 14% of the parliamentary seats?
...that Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby?
...that Joan Ingpen and her pet dachshund Williams were the founding partners of the Ingpen & Williams classical music talent agency?
...that the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow?
...that British Conservative MP Sir Adam Butler called in the receivers at the De Lorean Motor Company while serving as minister for economic development in Northern Ireland in 1982?
...that Przemysław I Noszak, Duke of Cieszyn unsuccessfully tried to negotiate peace between England and France fighting the Hundred Years' War?
...that City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992?
...that neurologist Michael Ashby, an expert witness for the prosecution in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams, was widely blamed for its failure because his evidence was too indecisive?
...that Victoriatown, a Canadian village bulldozed by the Montreal government in preparation for Expo 67, was used as a setting for Ha Jin's award-winning novel, Waiting: a Novel?
...that, after helping enact abstinence-only sex education as a school board member, Colorado state senator Scott Renfroe attempted to amend statewide comprehensive sex ed standards to exempt schools in his native Weld County?
...that the Mosque of Omar is Bethlehem's only mosque, named after the Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab, who prayed at the location of the mosque?
...that Alyosha Karamazov, the protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, is based on Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian philosopher and poet?
...that none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed?
...that the German architect Walter Gropius visited Peru in order to attend a graduation ceremony at the National University of Engineering Faculty of Architecture?
...that in 1824, the Kentucky General Assembly responded to a disfavorable ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals by abolishing the court and replacing it with a new one?
...that James A. Martin was the world's oldest Jesuit priest at the time of his death at the age of 105 in 2007?
...that preservationists moved the Boscobel mansion 15 miles (24 km) up the Hudson River to save it?
...that after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2007, Jason Coday headbutted his own attorney in a Juneau, Alaska, court?
...that the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, founded in 1914 as part of the Smith-Lever Act, is the largest Cooperative Extension Service agency in the U.S.?
...that the Elizabethan Sir John Thynne was twice imprisoned in the Tower of London?
...that the Japanese make-up artist Shu Uemura gained critical acclaim for transforming actress Shirley MacLaine into a Japanese woman?
...that Soviet literature declared Russian the "world language of internationalism", denouncing French as the "language of fancy courtiers" and English as the "jargon of traders"?
...that the ancient Olympic athlete Milo of Croton reportedly drank 10 liters of the Calabrian wine Cirò every day, and that the same wine is still being produced today?
...that in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner, the United States Tax Court is presented for the first time with the issue of whether sex reassignment surgery is tax deductible?
...that fake names and scenes were given to actors auditioning for roles in the upcoming episode titled "Confirmed Dead" of the fourth season of ABC's television series Lost to limit the leak of spoilers?
...that the more than two centuries old Gun and Shell Factory at Cossipore, a neighbourhood in north Kolkata, is the oldest surviving factory in the Indian subcontinent?
...that Charles Le Gendre , was born in France, married in Belgium, but died an American general in 1899, working for King Gojong, Emperor of Korea?
...that during the 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire, its manager Vsevolod Luknitski died after flooding explosives with water, in order to save the whole city from a major explosion?
...that a large coastal defense gun was temporarily installed at Oregon's scenic Cape Perpetua during World War II?
...that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia?
...that dhakis , traditional Bengali drummers, allegedly kill more than 40,000 egrets, pheasants, herons and open bill storks every year to decorate their instruments with feathers?
...that British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
...that the Aboriginal Community Court is an Australian court which aims to reduce the overrepresentation of aboriginal criminal offenders in the justice system?
...that because of Canada's controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow, 428 All Weather Fighter Squadron of the RCAF was disbanded on June 1, 1961?
...that New York Giants quarterback Harry Newman threw the first touchdown pass in an NFL Championship Game 75 years ago in the 1933 NFL Championship Game against the Chicago Bears?
...that less than two months after showing what would become the dress of the season for Spring 2006, Roland Mouret split from his backers and took a two-year hiatus from the fashion industry?
...that when San Francisco–based photographer William Rulofson fell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?
...that the Pea Island Life-Saving Station on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was the first station of the United States Life-Saving Service to be staffed entirely by an African American crew?
...that the passing lanes of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway, were paved in a different color to encourage drivers to stay in their lanes?
...that Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
...that the Cohocksink Creek was once the boundary between two Pennsylvania towns and now runs beneath the streets of the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties?
...that 2002's Hurricane Elida was the first hurricane to be observed by the MERIS sensor aboard the ESA's satellite Envisat?
...that the former chief architect of Yerevan, Arthur Meschian, was also one of the founders of Armenian rock?
...that London's Gresham Club (1843—1991) was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, an Elizabethan merchant?
...that violent, porno-chic fashion photography in French and Italian Vogue influenced the sexualized glamor of western cosmetics in the 1970s?
...that the Roman Temple of Évora in Portugal, was used as a butcher shop for nearly 500 years and thus survived destruction?
...that the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was San Francisco's first electric streetcar company?
...that the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track constructed for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Austria, was the first permanent, combination artificially refrigerated track?
...that only the shorter of the two Berks and Hants Railway lines actually entered Hants, the longer being entirely in the county of Berks?
...that Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen's first feature film, about the relationship between a beauty shop owner and a transvestite, won a Silver Bear prize at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival?
...that the type specimen of Dromicosuchus had damage to its jaw and neck that may have been inflicted by the teeth of the large carnivore it was found underneath?
...that Tommy Johnson holds the record for the most goals scored by a Manchester City player in a single season?
...that Solomon Bibo was a Prussian-born Jew who became the equivalent of tribal chief of the Acoma Pueblo?
...that the scientific name of the common Australian garden fungus Aseroë rubra means 'red disgusting juice'?
...that Indian company Reliance Power attracted US$27.5 billion of bids on the first day of its initial public offering (IPO), equivalent to 10.5 times the stock on offer, thereby creating India's IPO record?
...that the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
...that Edwin Q. Cannon was sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a missionary to establish the first LDS churches in West Africa?
...that FPT University, a college in Ho Chi Minh City specializing in information technology, became the first private university in Vietnam when it was established in 2006?
...that Sankey Valley Park, Warrington follows the course of the historical Sankey Canal, England's first canal?
...that Scottish film actor Moultrie Kelsall played a pivotal role in saving the dilapidated Menstrie Castle in Clackmannanshire from demolition?
...that during the reign of Beorhtwulf of Mercia, London, the chief trading centre of Mercia, was attacked twice, in 842 and again in 851, by Viking armies?
...that football manager Yvon Pouliquen led two clubs to victory in the French Cup Final and relegation from the top division in consecutive seasons?
...that the 1956 My Fair Lady by Shelly Manne & His Friends was the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical?
...that after Comanche prophet Isa-tai promised a coalition of Native American warriors they would be invulnerable in battle and they lost, he blamed a Cheyenne killing a skunk for negating his magic?
...that 2005's Hurricane Kenneth brought heavy rainfall to Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii, enough for its name to be considered for retirement?
...that the Japanese visual novel True Tears was adapted into an animated television series that is planned to consist of thirteen episodes?
...that the One Child Policy of the People's Republic of China is based on Ma Yinchu's New Population Theory, which was criticized by the government after its publication in 1957?
...that Stubbins Ffirth drank vomit and smeared bodily fluids over himself in an attempt to prove that yellow fever was not contagious?
...that the death from disease in 951 of Gofraid mac Sitriuc, King of Dublin, was described as divine vengeance for his attack on the Abbey of Kells earlier in the year?
...that the military operation against the dervish forces of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, commonly known as the "Mad Mullah", was described by a British politician as "the cheapest war in history"?
...that the origins of Castle Lake in California date to the Pleistocene Era (more than 10,000 years ago) when a glacier carved a basin in the location of the current lake?
...that Milwaukee Hawks player Don Boven fouled out of six consecutive NBA games in 1952—a record that still stands?
...that Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, sailed on behalf of Portugal and established trading relationships for that country with the Ming Dynasty in China in 1516?
...that the Two Ladies was a euphemism used for the Ancient Egyptian deities Wadjet and Nekhbet, represented on the royal crowns of the merged Upper and Lower Egypt as a cobra and a vulture, respectively?
...that Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada, which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals?
...that Kirill Eskov named a genus from the Linyphiidae spider family discovered by him in 1988 after Kikimora, a female spirit in Slavic mythology?
...that St Barnabas' Church , completed in Bromborough, England in 1864, has been called a "well-designed example of the work" of its architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott?
...that Ong Kim Seng is the only Asian artist outside the USA to be admitted into the American Watercolor Society, having won six awards from the society?
...that the new BBC Two sitcom Never Better has been unfavourably compared with other dark sitcoms such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lead Balloon?
...that the English historian Sir Raymond Carr was knighted for services to History in the New Year Honours List, 1987?
...that an Enoteca, from the Italian for wine library, is a shop that offers tourists and visitors the opportunity to sample local wines for a reasonable fee?
...that there is a belief that a dip in the waters of Papanasam Beach , one of the beaches in Kerala, washes away sins?
...that the Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul disaster, which occurred in 1890 off Kushimoto, led to strengthening foreign relations between Turkey and Japan?
...that amphibious tanks which were used on D-Day were developed by Nicholas Straussler from Hungary?
...that Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space pays homage to Auguste Rodin's Walking Man?
...that the weedy scorpionfish can vary considerably in color as well as appendages depending on its environment?
...that the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau was created by Henri Matisse himself in 1952?
...that Colorado state representative Joe Rice resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council?
...that it is expected to take 17 years to design and build the first of Australia's new submarines?
...that investment banker John P. Clay pursued his interest in Sanskrit literature by endowing the Clay Sanskrit Library, a 100-volume series of Sanskrit works translated into English?
...that Tommy Fleming was inducted into the American Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005, one of five soccer players unanimously selected to represent overlooked players from before the 1950s?
...that Abani Mukherji, co-founder of the Communist Party of India, was executed by the Soviet Union as part of the Great Purge?
...that Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten All-American football players from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio?
...that a coal mining spoil heap at Writhlington, England was the site for the discovery of fossilised remains of the world's earliest known Damselfly?
...that Richard C. McCarty helped launch the "Decade of Behavior" campaign to bring attention to the importance of behavioral and social research?
...that Charles Moir's first recruit as Roanoke College's basketball coach was Frankie Allen, who would eventually succeed Moir as head coach of Virginia Tech and become the school's first African American head coach?
...that the extinct Greenlandic Norse language is believed to have left loanwords in Kalaallisut?
...that Mohammad Shukri played for the Malaysian Under-15 cricket team at the age of 18, and for the Under-19 team at the age of 20?
...that on August 5, 1893, Cub Stricker of the Washington Senators baseball team was arrested after intentionally throwing a baseball into the crowd that broke the nose of a fan?
...that Adelaide Johnson, sculptor of a memorial to women's suffrage in the US Capitol, was married in 1896 by a female minister, with two of her busts as bridesmaids?
...that the Directa Decretal (385 AD) was a strongly-worded letter by Pope Siricius reminding priests of the perpetual celibacy required of them?
...that graphic artist Rea Irvin's portrait of Eustace Tilly, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, appeared on the debut issue of The New Yorker in 1925, and annually each February until 1994?
...that the vote by Stanley Forman Reed to join the majority in Brown v. Board of Education made the ruling unanimous, helping to win public acceptance for the decision?
...that two teenage brothers from Poland escaped in 1985 to Sweden under a truck, and this event was presented in a 1989 film 300 Miles to Heaven?