derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that South Africa's Take a Girl Child to Work Day started in 2003 to fight gender inequality in the workforce?
... that Rigoberto Torres and John Ahearn collaborated on the South Bronx Hall of Fame, monuments of ordinary people, as a response to the practice of enshrining public figures?
... that the Lipka Rebellion of 1672 was the only time that the Muslim Lipka Tatars mutinied against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
... that an early Washington National Opera, unrelated to its modern namesake, presented Bidu Sayão in her 1936 U.S. operatic debut with organ, not orchestra, accompaniment owing to a financial dispute?
... that in 1907, the medieval Great Hall of Lytes Cary manor house was being used as a cider store?
... that Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first African-American journalist to accompany a U.S. president while traveling?
... that Salbit, thought to have been the site of the biblical Shaalabbin, was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that Ann-Kristin Olsen was the first female chief of police in Norway as well as the first female Governor of Svalbard?
... that the Lake Chelan wine region petition was delayed because of a hold on all AVA approvals due to the Napa Valley sub-AVA controversy?
... that V. Ramaswami was the first Justice of the Supreme Court of India to face impeachment proceedings in independent India?
... that in a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist Johan Hultin retrieved samples of the 1918 influenza virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost?
... that San Ildefonso College in Mexico City is considered the birthplace of Mexican muralism?
... that Governor of Minnesota Jesse Ventura had his former wrestling tag team partner Stephen Cepello paint his official portraits?
... that the book Yellow Star is based on the true story of one of twelve children who survived the Lodz Ghetto?
... that Ida Henrietta Hyde was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg?
... that Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later?
... that Derek and Alex King changed their defense twice in the course of prosecution for the murder of their father?
... that the encyclical Demandatam was issued in 1743 to ordain the full preservation of the Byzantine Rite in the Melkite Catholic Church?
... that Barbara McGuire invented the "Duo-Stamp," a two-sided rubber stamp that is popular with the stamping community?
... that Thomas Henry Barry was Superintendent of the United States Military Academy from 1910 to 1912?
... that in his first TV series, Crusader (CBS, 1955–1956), Brian Keith portrayed fictional journalist Matt Anders, who during the Cold War liberates oppressed people from communism?
... that the medieval bishop Julian of Cuenca raised money for himself and the poor by making and selling baskets?
... that charitable initiatives championed by current First Spouses of the United States have included blankets for the homeless and development assistance in Rwanda?
... that the application of a spray-on condom was based on the logistics of a drive-through car wash?
... that environmentalists and ranchers worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore riparian areas in the Trout Creek Mountains of southeastern Oregon?
... that after being sentenced to a 14-year deportation in 1845, Norwegian Knud Bull became a pioneer in Australian landscape painting?
... that when architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed his American System-Built Homes, he produced over 900 working drawings, which was more than he made for any other project?
... that Fatma Aliye Topuz, whose portrait illustrates the reverse of the current 50 Turkish lira banknote, is credited as the first female Turkish and Muslim writer?
... that the Caricature Museum of Mexico City has featured cartoons and sketches by Frida Kahlo and Jose Clemente Orozco?
... that actor Jeff Bridges credits his mother, Dorothy Bridges, with passing down lessons she learned from acclaimed acting teacher Michael Chekhov to her children?
... that the library system of the University of Toronto is the fourth-largest academic library in North America?
... that Ward Van Orman was denied the 1925 Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning for landing his balloon not on land, but on the deck of a ship?
... that Johannes Sejersted Bødtker, Finland's Honorary Consul to Oslo, was held almost three years in a concentration camp during World War II?
... that the tugboat that towed log rafts across Upper Klamath Lake to the Algoma lumber mill in Algoma, Oregon, is now on display in the Collier Memorial State Park logging museum?
... that Samuel D. McDearmon played a critical role in developing the village of Appomattox Court House, where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant?
... that based on the documents in the Liber instrumentorum memorialium the twelfth-century population of Montpellier and its environs has been estimated at 9,000 people?
... that Amalia Mesa-Bains, a Ph.D. psychologist, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her artwork?
... that although professional wrestler Max Bauer won the 2008 Toxic Waltz tournament, it was not counted because he competed under a mask?
... that the town of Shenkeng is popularly known in Taiwan as the "Tofu Capital"?
... that in 1897, a Texas farmer discovered a UFO landed on his property: an airship operated by United States Army engineer Samuel Escue Tillman and inventor Amos Dolbear?
... that when the Rogue River eroded andesitic lava in the Rogue Valley, it created the Upper and Lower Table Rock geologic formations?
... that Frye's Measure Mill is the only remaining water-powered measure mill in the United States after some 150 years of operations?
... that John Ruskin had wallpaper made for his study at Brantwood based on the design of a tablecloth in a painting of 1499 by Marco Marziale?
... that the fictitious newspaper article written by the journalist in the Parks and Recreation episode "The Reporter" was featured as a PDF file on the official NBC website?
... that Rufus Wainwright's second studio album Poses features a song originally written by his father, Loudon Wainwright III?
... that St Joseph's Church, a Roman Catholic church in Brighton, England, was not officially dedicated until 100 years after building work started because a debt had not been settled?
... that The Grove at Ole Miss was called "the mother and mistress of outdoor ritual mayhem" for its legendary football game day tailgating by The New York Times?
... that Pacnews stopped reporting on Fijian news rather than submit to government censorship in the wake of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis?
... that the alfalfa grown on the Wendelin Grimm Farmstead in Carver County, Minnesota, became the source of varieties of alfalfa grown on 25,000,000 acres (10,000,000 ha) of the United States?
... that the Hallein Salt Mine is known for its long wooden slides for miners and tourists to descend into the mine?
... that although professional wrestler B-Boy lost a Loser Leaves Town match to Nate Webb in Combat Zone Wrestling in August 2005, he returned to the promotion the next month?
... that the "Devil's Cigar" is a mushroom found only in Texas and Japan?
... that an 1830s newspaper article in Freedom's Journal in favor of the free produce movement determined that the sugar consumption of 25 people required the toil of one slave?
... that British flight instructor Valentine Baker taught such noted pupils as Edward, Prince of Wales, Amy Johnson, and Lord Londonderry of the Air Ministry?
... that Johanson-Blizzard syndrome, a recessive congenital disorder, can cause abnormal development of the pancreas, nose and scalp, with mental retardation, hearing loss and growth failure?
... that in April 2009, Lim Hwee Hua became the first woman to be appointed a full Minister in Singapore's Cabinet?
... that William H. Lewis became the first African-American college football player in 1888 and the first African-American to serve as U.S. Assistant Attorney General in 1911?
... that the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association stymied anti-suffragists by denying them widespread Conservative Party support?
... that when Henrik Ibsen's play Brand was first staged in Norway, 38 years after it was published, Egil Eide played the title role?
... that Ki-a-Kuts Falls in Oregon were named after the last chief of the Atfalati band of Native Americans?
... that in 1950 former record-setting balloonist Thomas G. W. Settle was assigned to perform a nuclear test in the Aleutian islands?
... that the first series of British radio stand-up comedy show Mark Steel's in Town was recorded in Skipton, Boston, Lewes, Walsall, Merthyr Tydfil and the Isle of Portland?
... that Don Featherstone created over 750 plastic animals, but is most famous for the plastic flamingo?
... that the crucified figure in Francisco Zurbarán's 1628 painting Saint Serapion was based on a Mercedarian friar who fought and was martyred during the Third Crusade of 1196?
... that Frank Grouard, a famous scout during the Indian Wars, was believed by many to be an American Indian but actually came from the Society Islands in the South Pacific?
... that individual smalltooth sand tigers have been documented returning to the same location off Lebanon every summer?
... that Julian Myrick, an insurance businessman, was inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame for his promotion and administration of the sport in the United States?
... that on 28 February 1828, dozens of people died when The Emma was launched on the River Irwell in Manchester?
... that the Czech actor Bolek Polívka was involved in one of the oddest legal disputes in the history of the Czech Republic?
... that according to her autobiography Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, Marguerite Johnson changed her name to Maya Angelou because it sounded more exotic?
... that volcanoes in the Puyehue Volcano complex may have produced some of the most primitive magmas in the Andes?
... that the fungus Hemileia vastatrix which plagued the coffee industry in Ceylon from 1869 contributed to the growth of commercial tea production?
... that season 8 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered April 2009 after a five-month delay, reportedly because the episodes with Jeff Goldblum were so "terrible" the production crew had to be changed?
... that Archie Roe, who scored South Shields F.C.'s first ever goal in The Football League, was then signed by the team he had scored it against?
... that a 2.5 million dollar climate change project in Basedth District, Cambodia, aims to improve water supply and increase rice production?
... that Major Caleb Huse purchased the majority of imported weapons used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War?
... that the Kangchu system was instrumental in driving Johor's economy during the 19th century?
... that Arizona Territorial Governor Alexander Oswald Brodie pardoned Pearl Hart under the condition the stagecoach robber left the territory?
... that the 2009 World Wrestling Entertainment Draft featured seven selections that affected seven of the company's nine championships?
... that before becoming director general of the Norwegian State Railways in 1924, Eivind Heiberg was the director of the manufacturing company Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk?
... that Queen Latifah's rendition of "I'll Be Seeing You" from the Broadway musical Right This Way during the 81st Academy Awards In Memoriam tribute was the annual tribute's first vocal accompaniment?
... that Jan Konopka was a Polish cavalry commander in the Napoleonic period, a general, a Baron of the French Empire, and was decorated with the Légion d'honneur?
... that "Broke", a fifth season episode of The Office, was directed by lead actor Steve Carell himself?
... that Hamby Park in Hillsboro, Oregon, is named after the owner of a Chevrolet car dealership?
... that the Dragon Goby, which looks like a tiny dragon, is actually an almost blind and totally harmless fish?
... that the Boeng Tonle Chhmar wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia is home to many rare, vulnerable and endangered species including the Brahminy Kite ?
... that although Leo Wolman was once director of research for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, his criticisms of unions led directly to the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947?
... that the extreme luminosity observed for supernova 2005gj could be explained by the incidence of a quark nova?
... that after professional wrestler "the New Horror" Sami Callihan won the CZW Iron Man Championship, he renamed it the "CZW New Horror Championship"?
... that George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was a survivor of the Lydda Death March of July 1948?
... that NBC network executive Perry Lafferty produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost, one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV / AIDS?
... that the first chapter of Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari, an eleventh-century Japanese tale, no longer exists?
... that David Shaw, who won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for coverage of the McMartin preschool trial, got his first writing job at age 16 filling in at a motorcycle race for an absent reporter?
... that the CQC-6 knife by Ernest Emerson was first developed for a US Navy SEAL Team, and went on to popularize the concept of the "tactical folding knife"?
... that the Anyangcheon, a river in Gyeonggi Province and Seoul City of South Korea, is home to a variety of wildlife such as goldfish, Grey Heron and Northern Shoveler?
... that the day the Parks and Recreation episode "Canvassing" aired on NBC, it captured almost one million viewers more than its direct ABC time-slot competitor, Samantha Who?
... that Bobby Cowell only played for one professional club during his entire football career (Newcastle United)?
... that the ending of the South Park episode "Fatbeard" mirrors the resolution of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somalian pirates?
... that the linguistic works of Daniel Gravius are used by modern scholars to shed light on the society of the 17th-century Siraya people of Taiwan?
... that over 100 countries are represented and almost 170 languages are spoken in the ethnic enclaves of New York City?
... that Zen master Línjì Yìxuán once jumped up, grabbed a monk, shouted at him, and then called him a "shit stick" in an episode of Dharma combat?
... that American journalist Phelan Beale, Jr. was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale, whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens?
... that the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog secretes an anti-fungal protein from its skin to prevent infections by various fungi such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis?
... that during the First Great Migration, the majority of Shubuta, Mississippi, moved to Albany, New York, with some recreating a religious rural community in Rapp Road Community Historic District?
... that protected areas of Sri Lanka such as Sinharaja Forest Reserve account for 26.5 percent of the total area of Sri Lanka?
... that Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue in Glen Wild, New York, is so small it has never had its own rabbi?
... that the term maverick, referring to an animal without a brand, came from Texas land baron Samuel Maverick who was notorious for not branding his cattle?
... that having observed the four sights as a young prince, Gautama Buddha realized the sufferings in life and started an ascetic life against his father's wish?
... that Gerontion is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 which relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man?
... that Brian McMenamin graduated with a degree in political science, but is co-owner of the McMenamins chain of brewpubs?
... that The Magnet was the first film to give James Fox a starring role, at the age of 11?
... that Julie Wainwright was CEO of one of the shortest-lived public companies on record?
... that in Breaking the Spell, the author discusses how she helped plan an assassination plot against a U.S. Attorney while at Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's commune in Rajneeshpuram, Oregon?
... that José Sabogal was "the most renowned early supporter" of the artistic indigenist movement of Peru?
... that openly gay actor John Barrowman was one of the final candidates for the role of the gay character Will in the pilot episode of Will & Grace, but lost to heterosexual Eric McCormack for not being "gay enough"?
... that The Wall Street Journal purchased computers belonging to al-Qaeda leaders found in the rubble of Mohammed Atef's house?
... that Poricy Park in New Jersey is known for allowing limited collecting at its Cretaceous-era fossil shell beds?
... that director/screenwriter Kang Dae-ha from Jeju Island, South Korea, directed films related to Korean shamanism?
... that Disappearing Model, a body painting in which a model is painted so that she is indistinguishable from her background, is Joanne Gair's most famous work and was displayed on Ripley's Believe It or Not!?
... that although Darius Danesh did not win the first series of Pop Idol, he still achieved a number-one single with "Colourblind"?
... that the Australian Army's 1965–6 secret incursions into Indonesia during Australia's involvement in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation were not officially acknowledged until 1996?
... that then Conservative party leader William Hague and former Eastenders actor Michael Cashman campaigned for the 1999 Lichfield Council election?
... that after Daniel Shanks and John Wrench calculated pi to 100,000 decimal digits, a bound, gold-inscribed printout of the digits was presented to the Smithsonian Institution?
... that Wilco's upcoming studio album is expected to feature a duet with Canadian singer Feist?
... that Islam and Protestantism have an early history of mutual support against Catholicism, and share some common attitudes to faith, such as textual criticism and iconoclasm?
... that Johnny Madison Williams Jr., one of the most successful bank robbers in American history, was nicknamed "The Shootist" by the FBI because of his modus operandi of firing into the air at the beginning of each heist?
... that the Kyshtym disaster was a serious nuclear accident in 1957, which resulted in permanent evacuation of about 10,000 people?
... that Benjamin Edwards, who expanded the privately-held A. G. Edwards into the largest U.S. brokerage firm headquartered outside of New York City, owned the world's largest collection of Imari porcelain?
... that both members of Duo Crommelynck, a noted classical piano duo, committed suicide in 1994, the only known such case in classical music history?
... that children in the high-altitude gold mining town of Kimberly, Utah, attended school from April through November to avoid the deep snows of winter?
... that Captain (later Rear Admiral) Otto Becher was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order and United States Legion of Merit as commander of HMAS Warramunga during the Korean War?
... that the 1956 film Lovers and Lollipops, by indie filmmaker Morris Engel, was noted for its realism and New York City locations, and influenced the French New Wave?
... that although the steam-powered SS Clan Alpine had a maximum forwards speed of 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h), on her final journey she went backwards at 35 knots (65 km/h)?
... that in 2008, the Triumph Bonneville America was updated with electronic fuel injection to meet European legislation and had the fuel injectors concealed by dummy carburettors?
... that a 1.5 million dollar land concession project in Sameakki Mean Chey District, Cambodia, will provide land to 732 of the poorest farming families?
... that the Kröd Mändoon episode "Our Bounties Ourselves" included an almost verbatim parody of George W. Bush's famous "Fool me once" speech gaffe?
... that the history of the underwire bra dates back to 1893 when Marie Tucek patented a "breast supporter" that used a metal or cardboard support under the breasts?
... that Kevin Walton and Richard Butson were the first to climb several Antarctic peaks, with both of them going on to receive the Albert Medal for heroism and the Polar Medal?
... that the Federal Works Agency funded and supervised the construction of housing, public health facilities, and schools for communities impacted by fast-growing defense industries during World War II?
... that architect Georg Andreas Bull designed about sixty railway stations, including the Krøderen Station from 1872?
... that the butterflyfish species Forcipiger longirostris has the longest Hawaiian name for any fish: lauwiliwilinukunukuʻoiʻoi?
... that Ohave Shalom Synagogue was founded when the members of the existing synagogue in Woodridge, New York, had a dispute over who would be the community's ritual slaughterer of animals?
... that the tiny commune of La Porta, with only 196 inhabitants (1999 census), has the most famous Baroque church and belltower in Corsica?
... that Baton Rouge attorney Dan Claitor was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana State Senate despite his fellow Republican, Governor Bobby Jindal endorsing his opponent?
... that the problem of deforestation in Costa Rica in the 1980s and early 1990s was referenced in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel, Jurassic Park?
... that, although professional wrestlers Kurt and Karl Von Steiger won the AWA World Tag Team Championship, their title reign is not recognized because the previous champions were not authorized to lose the title?
... that the 64-pillared 17th century marble monument Chausath Khamba is a tomb for Mirz Aziz Koka?
... that Jeffrey Zients, the new United States Chief Performance Officer, was in a club that tried to buy the Washington Nationals baseball team?
... that Sofmap, a Japanese retailer, released a collector's box of Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns that mirrors the design of erotic eroge games?
... that lutetium tantalate (LuTaO4) is the densest known stable white material and is therefore an ideal material for X-ray phosphors?
... that astronomer Rolf Brahde provided commentary for the 1969 moon landing on Norwegian television?
... that the vestararius managed both the wardrobe and money of the pope from the 8th to 11th centuries?
... that Pete Overfield won a professional American football championship in 1901 and was later nominated by U.S. President William Howard Taft as a federal judge in Alaska?
... that the 1953 Asian Socialist Conference held in Rangoon, was an important precursor to the 1955 Bandung Conference?
... that Cherokee Chief J. B. Milam funded an expedition to Mexico in 1939 to find the grave of Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee writing system?
... that members of a thief network, named "Pink Panthers" by Interpol, have stolen millions of dollars worth of jewels by driving limousines through a window, escaping on a speedboat and cross-dressing?
... that Pigeon Island National Park contains some of the best remaining coral reefs of Sri Lanka?
... that Xi, a console-based alternate reality game, involved the users in searching for clues in the real world?
... that Earl Donnchadh of Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel, but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed?
... that defunct Christian radio station KPBA was owned by former National Football League tight end Jackie Harris?
... that Ingvald Smith-Kielland left his ambassadorship in the Czechoslovak Republic after the Prague Spring?
... that the "Wizard of Oz" and "Iron Man" are just two of the four members of the Baseball Hall of Fame who have won Gold Glove Awards at shortstop?
... that W. J. M. Lokubandara , the current Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, assumed the position after he won the election by one vote?
... that HMS Canopus served for less than six months for the French Navy, and then for 89 years for the Royal Navy?
... that SN 2002cx was classified as a type Ia supernova, but does not have some features that define a type Ia supernova?
... that the success of the championship 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team inspired promoters to form the first National Football League in 1902?