derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field?
... that the relics housed within the chapel near the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul were credited by the Byzantines for victories against the Avars, Arabs, and Rus?
... that in 1837, Nathaniel Parker Willis won $1,000 from Josephine Clifton by writing Bianca Visconti for her to perform?
... that the Glass Pavilion , a prismatic glass dome structure built for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition, was destroyed after the exhibition?
... that the ABC documentary television program Our World was often assigned to students as homework, with ABC distributing 39,000 study guides a month?
... that conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta's works include a hoax exhibition of bizarre animals such as winged monkeys and snakes with 12 feet, incorporating fieldnotes, photographs and X-rays?
... that Bill Stoneman, who pitched two no-hitters for the Montreal Expos and later ran the Major League Baseball club as the general manager, first joined the franchise in the 1968 expansion draft?
... that from October 2008, the Norwegian digital ticketing system t:kort will be valid on Kystekspressen?
... that Charles Marshall chose the location where Robert E. Lee's surrender ceremony took place near the end of the American Civil War?
... that namsadang is a Korean itinerant troupe during the Joseon Dynasty that performed acrobatics , dancing, and playing like a circus?
... that in 1382, Jogaila arrested and imprisoned his 80-year old uncle Kęstutis when he arrived for negotiations during the Lithuanian Civil War?
... that Therefore Repent! is a 2008 graphic novel set in a post-Rapture world where fundamentalist Christian eschatology has come true?
... that Pleistodontes froggatti, the fig wasp that pollinates the Moreton Bay fig, was intentionally introduced into Hawaii in 1921?
... that the 2008 ILF Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships included three first-time participants Bermuda, Finland, and Scotland?
... that SS Catalina, after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years?
... that Mangalitsa is a lard-type pig breed that was the most prominent swine breed in Hungary until 1950?
... that Australian cricketer Keith Miller, while attending high school during his teenage years, had Test captain Bill Woodfull as his mathematics teacher, who gave him a zero on a geometry exam?
... that the tablet known as Gabriel's Revelation, written in Hebrew before the birth of Christ, allegedly tells of a man killed by the Romans and resurrected after three days?
... that Russian avant-garde poet and singer-songwriter Alexei Khvostenko is often referred to as the "grandfather of Russian rock"?
... that fossil collectors often call Polyptychoceras vancouverensis the "paperclip ammonite" or the "candy cane", due to its shape?
... that U.S. statesman Frederick Douglass said that George William Alexander had spent "more than an American fortune" in promoting the anti-slavery cause?
... that in the center of the Old Town Market Place in Warsaw, Poland is the Warsaw Mermaid Statue along with other Warsaw Old Town attractions?
... that over the course of five decades, Toshio Masuda directed 16 films which made the top ten list at the Japanese box office, a record surpassed by only one other director?
... that the 17th-century Theatrum Chemicum is a comprehensive compendium on alchemy in the western world?
... that Bartholomew Gilbert is responsible for the failure to establish a colony on Cape Cod in 1602 which would have been the first English colony in the Americas?
... that Ficus obliqua, which may reach 100 ft (35 m) high in Australian rainforests, is well suited for use in bonsai?
... that the Magnoliidae include species that produce safrole, the primary precursor for synthesis of Ecstasy ?
... that Francis Fox Tuckett was one of the main figures of the golden age of alpinism, making the ascent of 269 peaks and the crossing of 687 passes?
... that instead of making a triumphant entry to Harar, Ethiopia after the Battle of the Ogaden, Italian general Rodolfo Graziani tripped and injured himself at a local church?
... that microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals?
... that the only known surviving work of Catalan poet Pere de Queralt is a maldit-comiat in which he accuses his lady of having three lovers in a single day?
... that A Driver for Vera, Ukraine's submission for the 77th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected because too much of the production was based in Russia?
... that Fitzroy Football Club was so impressed by Allan Ruthven’s potential he was given guernsey number 7, made famous by Brownlow medalist Haydn Bunton?
... that the keepers of the Elbow of Cross Ledge Light slept in life jackets for fear of the lighthouse being struck by passing ships?
... that Korean writer Park Kyung-ni spent 25 years writing the 16-volume epic novel Land, which has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?
... that the largest sports research library in North America is located on the grounds of LA's Britt House, a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1910?
... that the Type 77 semi-automatic pistol is a common side arm used in the Chinese People's Liberation Army?
... that according to X-ray analysis, William Hogarth's painting Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse originally had a dog relieving himself on a pile of old master paintings?
... that after capturing Amba Aradam during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the Italians bombed the fleeing Ethiopian soldiers with mustard gas?
... that the red-purple coloured inedible mushroom Russula sardonia has a hot peppery taste?
... that Knickerbocker Epes Sargent wrote Velasco for Ellen Tree, only to have Edgar Allan Poe damn it with faint praise?
... that the 1974 film La prima Angélica reportedly created the greatest scandal surrounding any Spanish film during the Franco years?
... that the Electrosport was a US$11,900 electric car in 1971, when gasoline was 36 cents per gallon, and the company established the “World’s First Electric Car Expressway” between Detroit and Chicago?
... that the public reaction after the death of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia caused Adolf Hitler to issue a decree barring all members of Germany's former royal houses from service in the military?
... that Santo Alcala’s age of 23 in 1976 made him the second youngest player on an aging Cincinnati Reds baseball team?
... that the American Palestine Line claimed that its ship the SS President Arthur was the first ocean liner to fly the Zionist flag when it began service in 1925?
... that Joseph Nathan Kane had personal possession of America's first fountain pen and the 1849 patent model for America's first safety pin?
... that the Italian mountain Cimon della Pala appears on the coat of arms of the Guardia di Finanza ?
... that when Teddy Morgan led Wales in their national anthem before the 1905 rugby union match, it was the first time a national anthem had been sung before a sporting event?
... that the 2001 feature film Cupid's Mistake was produced on a budget of US$980?
... that shipping company Bastø Fosen operates the most trafficked car ferry route in Norway, from Moss to Halden?
... that Union Army officer Frank A. Haskell’s account of the Battle of Gettysburg was hailed by historian Bruce Catton as "one of the genuine classics of Civil War literature"?
... that much of modern theatre in Burkina Faso has developed from the need to educate rural people?
... that the Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation of Nepal proposed a synthesis of Buddhism and Maoism in 1977?
... that the Vorwerk is the only breed of chicken to share its name with a brand of household appliance?
... that the 1880s Victorian Hale House , with its exuberant ornamentation and color scheme, has been called "the most photographed house" in Los Angeles?
... that Nara Bahadur Karmacharya is the sole surviving founding member of the Communist Party of Nepal?
... that brightly colored leheria turbans were male business attire in Rajasthan, India during the 19th and early 20th centuries?
... that the Treaty of Dubysa was never ratified as the Teutonic Knights failed to reach the agreed-upon destination due to shallow water in the Neman River?
... that the Boston Red Sox once traded Major League Baseball pitcher Anastacio Martínez to the Pittsburgh Pirates only to take him back in a different trade a week later?
... that the Dogger, a type of fishing boat, takes its name from the Dogger Bank, which was itself named after an earlier type of fishing vessel?
... that a subsidence crater resulting from a nuclear test in 1962 at Yucca Flat is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?
... that African slave Abu al-Misk Kafur’s rise to power in 946 as the ruler of Egypt and southern Syria is one of the first examples in Islamic history of a sovereign with the lowliest of origins?
... that Australian Test cricketer Keith Miller once broke from his air force flying formation to fly over Beethoven's birthplace of Bonn?
... that the title of The West Wing episode "On the Day Before" refers to the Jewish holiday Erev Yom Kippur?
... that robot-assisted surgery was recently performed to treat ovarian vein syndrome, a rare condition in which a dilated ovarian vein compresses the ureter, causing pain?
... that Johnny Oates, the only Texas Rangers manager to make it to the postseason, won the Manager of the Year Award in 1996?
... that Captain Ralph Kerr, briefly commander of the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood, had previously only commanded destroyers?
... that the Gero Cross of about 970 AD is one of the earliest known depictions of the dead Christ on the cross?
... that Walt Whitman and Theodore Roosevelt frequently visited Chichester's Inn in West Hills, New York?
... that the Australian banana fig is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp?
... that Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962?
... that in 1846, George Pope Morris was one of two founders of the periodical that would become Town & Country, which is still published today?
... that the English Riviera Geopark in Torbay, United Kingdom is the world's only urban Geopark?
... that as a Boston College freshman, current Toledo Mud Hens pitcher Chris Lambert was named Big East Conference "Pitcher of the Year" and "Rookie of the Year" in 2002?
... that Adbot, one of the first internet advertising companies, was forced to close only seven months after opening due to the fraudulent source of its start-up funding?
... that when Indian cricketer Sourav Ganguly scored a century on test debut at Lord's in 1996, he became the third overall and first since John Hampshire in 1969 to do so?
... that actor Michael Sharrett played the grandson of Clovis, played by Jimmy Stewart, in the 1978 musical film The Magic of Lassie?
... that Lou Piniella, the only Mariners manager to lead a team into the playoffs, recorded a season with 116 wins, tying the major league record of wins in a season?
... that Australian naturalist and botanical artist Rica Erickson wrote her first book Orchids of the West in 1951?
... that Floyd Womack of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks was nicknamed "Pork Chop" because his mother thought he resembled professional wrestler Porkchop Cash?
... that pteridomania is the Victorian-era craze for fern collecting and for fern motifs in decorative art?
... that Penelope Wensley, who will become the next Governor of Queensland this month, was the first female Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations in New York?
... that the Streeterville neighborhood sits almost entirely on land that did not exist when the city of Chicago first incorporated?
... that chemist and science policy-maker Rudolf Mentzel, head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was also an SS Brigadier?
... that Brad Paisley's 2008 single "Waitin' on a Woman" is a re-recording of a song that he originally recorded on his 2005 album Time Well Wasted?
... that on the Mars Exploration Rover , a technique known as visual odometry allowed the rover to estimate its position and orientation using only camera images?
... that Abdur Rashid Kardar, a pioneer of the Pakistani film industry in Lahore, was a calligraphist who prepared posters for foreign-made films?
... that South Park Lofts in Los Angeles, originally an eight-story parking garage, was converted to lofts, whereupon residents complained about a lack of parking?
... that the fungus gnat is often found around houseplants because it lays eggs in moist potting soil?
... that English footballer Tom Holford played professionally until he was 46, making him the sixth oldest player to have appeared in a Football League match?
... that Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate?
... that Madonna, Michelangelo, Napoleon, Pelé and Voltaire are all mononymous persons — each is commonly known by a single name?
... that the Podgórski sisters—six-year-old Helena and her teenage sister Stefania—harbored thirteen Jews for over two years in the attic of their house during the Holocaust?
... that gaming fads such as Bank Night contributed more than any other tactic to the resiliency of the U.S. film industry during the Great Depression?
... that the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal, Keshar Jung Rayamajhi, turned royalist and became chairman of Nepal's Royal Privy Council?
... that the name of popular Ivorian music genre Coupé-Décalé is a local slang term for cheating somebody and running away?
... that the concept of hurricanes as "a moving vortex" was first developed by John Farrar after the Great September Gale of 1815?
... that the rough leaves of Australian fig species Ficus coronata have the texture of sandpaper?
... that Thomas Kimmwood Peters was the only newsreel photographer to film the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906?
... that in 1870, the Indian Reform Association aimed at putting into practice some of the ideas that the Brahmo leader Keshub Chunder Sen was exposed to during his visit to Britain?
... that the cult of Saint Chiaffredo arose after the discovery of a sarcophagus containing a mysterious skeleton near the Italian town of Crissolo?
... that the Dr. Nelson Wilson House is unusual for having Eastlake stickwork done in brick instead of wood?
... that the success of the World War II bombing campaign Operation Strangle was unrelated to its original objective?
... that Julio Vizcarrondo played a key role in the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico in the 19th century?
... that construction of the courthouse of the Rochester Downtown Historic District may have spurred nearby buildings to have faux stones cemented upon them?
... that George Zames pioneered the H-infinity methods which have revolutionized the field of robust control?
... that Daniel Page, the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad?
... that Ghulam Ahmed Chishti wrote, composed and recorded six to seven songs for the film Pheray in a single day?
... that American President Lines was declared an industry leader in 1989 for its innovations in container transport?
... that the Columbus Monument in Barcelona, Spain, was built entirely using Spanish materials and Catalan labor?
... that Hugh McCulloch became president of the Bank of Indiana without any prior experience in banking at all?
... that Mecklenburg underwent a series of partitions, so that by the 18th century, rulers in both of its parts had identical titles?
... that the Citadel of Saigon, a stone fortress in Vietnam, was captured during the French invasion after less than a day of battle?
... that in his 1570 book on religious images, theologian Molanus objected to showing the infant Jesus naked, among many other things?
... that San Francisco's 1873 Pigtail Ordinance was deemed unconstitutional because it discriminated against Chinese immigrants?
... that Vaidila, depicted in the Lithuanian Chronicles as a kitchen assistant who entered nobility only through marriage, was the only Lithuanian duke known to marry a daughter of a Gediminid ruler?
... that Keelung City, Taiwan was briefly occupied by the French military in the late 1880s?
... that when the Gevingåsen Tunnel opens in 2012 it will cut rail travel time north of Trondheim, Norway, by five minutes?
... that Fort Concho, a United States Army outpost in San Angelo, Texas from 1867 to 1889, was the headquarters for the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West?
... that the city of Strasbourg, France is the sole or main seat of over 20 international institutions?
... that Dr Nigel Cox is the only doctor ever to have been convicted in Britain for attempted euthanasia?
... that Olvir Hnufa, a famous 9th-century Norwegian skald quoted in the Prose Edda, was the great-uncle of the Viking Egil Skallagrimsson?
... that children's author Aleksandra Ishimova was the last correspondent of Alexander Pushkin before his death in a duel?
... that according to a letter written in 1428 by President Felip de Malla to Alfonso the Magnanimous, Catalonia was devastated by an earthquake on Candlemas that year?
... that lenticular galaxy NGC 1553 is located at the center of the Dorado Group, and has a spiral feature that is only visible in X-rays?
... that the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario was established by the Government of Ontario in response to a recommendation in the Rae Report?
... that one of the eyes of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured into revealing his participation in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic?
... that Nguyễn Trung Trực, who organized and led militia that fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, was a local fisherman?
... that Aberdeen's Northern Co-operative Society declared a loss of £7 million in 1992, and, unable to recover, went into receivership, bringing to an end a 132-year-old business?
... that children's book author and illustrator Christopher Manson uses traditional hand tools to create the pine woodcuts that decorate his books?
... that the Hnojník château , now in the Czech Republic, was owned by the Beess family from 1736 until 1945?
... that the first edition of Henry Fielding's final novel Amelia was published with 5,000 copies while his popular novel Tom Jones had only 3,500 copies for both its first and second edition?
... that Luan Da of the Han Dynasty was granted 2,000 households to rule over due to his practice of mediumship?
... that ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites?
... that German bryologist Franz Stephani was the author of "one of the most notorious publications in bryology"?
... that the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
... that, at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall, Teddy Davison was considered the smallest goalkeeper to play for the England national football team?
... that the Michigan-Wacker Historic District hosts Chicago's first permanent residence, Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite?
... that Grand Duchess Anna freed her husband Vytautas the Great of Lithuania from a prison in Kreva by dressing him in women's clothes?
... that the Montreux Convention of 1936 is an international treaty regulating the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits?
... that Anita West, one of the presenters of Blue Peter, was on the show for such a short period that no footage of her exists in the BBC archives?
... that famous Benjamin Franklin impersonator Ralph Archbold is married to a woman who impersonates Betsy Ross?
... that the International Checker Hall of Fame in Petal, Mississippi was home to the world's largest checkerboard?
... that the Bahá'í community of Panama was estimated to make up two percent of the national population?
... that in 1967, Ann Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew a similar aircraft, Lockheed 10A Electra, to complete a world flight that mirrored Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan?
... that in the 1537 Battle of Ollantaytambo, an Inca army resorted to flooding the battlefield as a way to counter the Spanish cavalry?
... that David William Thomas, mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called "Renaissance man"?
... that Eat This Book has been criticized as "basically a book-length infomercial" for the International Federation of Competitive Eating?
... that actor Jiří Sovák played the role of a man who had a prophetic dream about the Velvet Revolution in the 1996 Czech film Kolya?
... that Long Island's Roslyn Grist Mill is one of the few surviving Dutch colonial timber frame commercial buildings in the U.S.?
... that a statue of French general Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes in Bamako, Mali was torn down shortly after Mali's independence in 1960?
... that the Daily Express Building , an Art Deco former printing press, is one of Manchester's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s?
... that "racing baron" Fritz Huschke von Hanstein won the 1940 Mille Miglia in a BMW 328?
... that gender identity disorder in children is a diagnosis formally recognized in 1980 that often involves controversial therapeutic intervention?
... that Major League Baseballer Willis Roberts signed as a free agent to play with the Cincinnati Reds on the same day he was released by the Detroit Tigers?
... that Psilopterus was about the same size as the modern cariama, making it the smallest of the carnivorous prehistoric avians known as terror birds?
... that when Henry D. Edelman became the first president and CEO of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation in June 1989, no staff had been hired to work with him?
... that the West Indian laurel fig tree is an introduced species in Florida where it has escaped from cultivation?
... that the Papal conclave, 1592 was the fourth papal conclave during the year and a half after the death of Pope Sixtus V?
... that the Green Rosella of Tasmania was mistakenly believed by Johann Friedrich Gmelin to have originated from New Caledonia and named accordingly?
... that forensic anthropologist Arpad Vass is developing a decomposition odor analysis or DOA database to enable Human Remains Detection (HRD) dogs to help detect human remains?
... that Ulf Sterner of Sweden was the first European player in the National Hockey League?
... that the Indiana Canal Company was once believed to be a front for the conspiracy of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr?
... that a pilot of 818 Naval Air Squadron flying from HMS Ark Royal, crippled the German battleship Bismarck so that she could later be sunk?
... that Mike Scioscia, the current manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club, was the first to lead the team to a World Series championship in 2002?
... that in 1346, the Black Plague infected the first Europeans in the Crimea in what has been called one of the worst biological attacks in the history of warfare?
... that the children's music duo Greg & Steve started out singing to children as special education assistants?
... that the t:kort digital ticketing for public transport in Trøndelag, Norway was launched seven years behind schedule?
... that the construction of the Cairo Apartments, one of the tallest buildings in Washington, D.C., prompted the U.S. Congress to pass a new law in 1899 to limit buildings to the height of the Capitol?
... that Eric Borel, a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers, Var, was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?
... that the 2007 documentary film Quantum Hoops tells the story of the Caltech mens' basketball team, who had a 259-game losing streak after not winning a conference game since 1985?
... that The Towers, a residence in Didsbury, Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian, is now a cotton research facility?