derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Daulatpol gate in the Junagarh Fort in India has 41 hand imprints of the wives of Maharajas of Bikaner, who committed sati (self-immolation) on the funeral pyres of their husbands?
... that British surgeon Theodore Dyke Acland was the son-in-law of Jack the Ripper suspect Sir William Gull?
... that male Coastal Petaltails have unique, bright orange anal appendages called 'petaltails' that are believed to be used to attract a mate?
... that the Texas mental health activist Helen J. Farabee was the first female student body president at a Big Ten university?
... that during the Six-Day War, the Golani Brigade participated in the battle of Tel Faher, where it lost 23 of its soldiers?
... that in North Korea, the question "How good was the taste of sungeoguk (trout soup)" is used as a common greeting to people returning from Pyongyang?
... that the most expensive dress owned by Maria Augusta, Duchess of Württemberg was worth 500 florins, more than 30 times a servant's annual income?
... that the entire collection of the Frissell Museum in San Pablo Villa de Mitla has disappeared?
... that at 13 years, the tough, leathery leaves of the shrub Banksia petiolaris are the longest lived of any flowering plant thus far recorded?
... that Dick Padden led the Chicago White Sox to an American League championship as a player-manager in 1900, one season before the American League became a major league?
... that the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions formed the last systematic collecting effort of Australian birds by an overseas institution?
... that George Martin Lees became Chief Geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company despite having no formal qualifications?
... that E. (Mrs.) v. Eve was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of Canada which rejected non-therapeutic sterilization of people with mental disabilities?
... that Food Network: Cook or Be Cooked is the first video game to use the Food Network license?
... that in 1814, the American privateer Syren captured HMS Landrail, and that in 1896, her namesake, the torpedo gunboat HMS Landrail, rammed and sank the four-masted clipper Siren?
... that during the Battle of Jutland, the captain of HMS New Zealand wore a Māori piupiu (grass skirt) and carried a greenstone tiki to ward off evil?
... that after a wine fraud scandal involving adulterating Port wine with elderberry juice, Portuguese wine authorities ordered all elderberry plants in the Douro to be ripped out?
... that Virginia House in Richmond, Virginia, was once a priory in Warwickshire, England, and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I?
... that the book Bacon: A Love Story includes jokes about bacon by comedian Jim Gaffigan?
... that the December 2003 New England snowstorm was among the most significant early season nor'easters on record?
... that the 2009 Norwegian spiral anomaly was later confirmed to be a failed launch of a Bulava missile from a Russian submarine?
... that before the capture of Chusan (1840) during the First Opium War, the Chinese rejected British demands for a peaceful surrender of the island?
... that Barker Crossing, a Mabey bridge in Workington, England, was named after Bill Barker following a campaign by local teenagers on YouTube?
... that hippalectryons are mythological half-horse, half-rooster creatures which were probably thought to confer magical protection?
... that in 2006 Devon County Council first raised the flag of Devon, which was designed by a member of the public in 2002 via an online poll on BBC Devon?
... that excavations in 1887 and 1919 on Bussell Island uncovered a number of small, round graves of early inhabitants of present-day Tennessee, USA, circa 3000 BC to 1000 AD?
... that Major-General Tim Cross was one of the most senior British military officers involved in the reconstruction of Iraq after the 2003 invasion?
... that merrilactone A, a natural compound found in the fruits of some star anise trees indigenous to Myanmar and China, is neuroprotective and promotes the growth of neurons?
... that during his lifetime, British chemist Colin Eaborn co-authored over 500 papers?
... that although the fruits of the nightshade Solanum erianthum are considered poisonous and can be used in arrow poison, they can be cooked and eaten and are even made into curry in southern India?
... that Australian aviator Captain Thomas Baker was credited with the destruction of 12 German aircraft between July and October 1918, before he was shot down and killed?
... that Rodriguez Seamount, an underwater volcano near Central California, used to be above-surface, and still has remnants of black sand beaches on its slope?
... that Cecil Bothwell's election to the Asheville, North Carolina, city council was challenged on the grounds that the North Carolina Constitution does not allow for atheists to hold public office?
... that Bald Eagle Creek Path along Bald Eagle Creek in central Pennsylvania was a major connecting path between the Iroquois in the north and the Carolinas in the south?
... that American athlete Eric Wilson won the 220-yard dash at the first NCAA track and field championships in 1921?
... that before the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation even aired, critics thought it would fail due to early reports of poor test screenings?
... that the 1978 book The Green Cockatrice asserted that Irishman William Nugent was the real author of Shakespeare's works?
... that Helena, comtesse de Noailles wrapped silk stockings stuffed with squirrel fur around her forehead to prevent wrinkles?
... that Peter Wolf Toth created a Trail of the Whispering Giants that winds through every U.S. state, two Canadian provinces, and even Hungary?
... that "experienced Euro watcher" Tony Connelly wrote Don't Mention the Wars: A Journey Through European Stereotypes, examining the stereotypical views of Europeans?
... that Argentine President Juan Perón took refuge in the Libertador Building in Buenos Aires before he was deposed and exiled in a coup d'état in 1955?
... that Norwegian Minister of Finance Olav Meisdalshagen was criticized by his predecessor Erik Brofoss for "lack of economical insight"?
... that in Europe, the human consumption of pork, wild boar, and horse meat are the main sources of infection from the parasite Trichinella britovi?
... that the Gwent Wildlife Trust in Wales was originally formed to protect Magor Marsh, the last remaining major area of fenland on the Gwent Levels?
... that the Social Credit Board in Alberta, Canada, was disbanded in 1948 because of its radical policy proposals and antisemitic conspiracy theories?
... that Leonard Paulu won consecutive NCAA championships in the 100 yard dash despite war injuries that included the loss of an eye and a right-leg stride four inches shorter than his left?
... that infamous bank robber John Dillinger studied the techniques of modern bank robbery pioneered by Herman Lamm?
... that Dzongsar Monastery, in the historical Tibetan region of Kham, was founded in 746 AD and contained a Bönpo shrine for 1,300 years?
... that six children of the British portraitist and marine painter Samuel Drummond also became artists?
... that the book Nudge, written by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, defends the political philosophy of libertarian paternalism?
... that Mitsuyo Seo, the director of Japan's first feature length anime, Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors, a World War II propaganda film, was earlier arrested and tortured as a leftist?
... that in her teen years, actress Lillebil Ibsen played leading roles in Max Reinhardt's pantomime productions?
... that plexopathy, a disorder usually caused by trauma, can also occur idiopathically?
... that a Glasgow-born railway engineer, John Harley, was responsible for revolutionizing the way Uruguay played football?
... that the Federal Triangle building complex in Washington, D.C. has been called "one of the most important design and construction projects" in American history?
... that Hillsboro, Oregon, politician William H. Wehrung worked on both the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition?
... that radio station CKLW played "Wildflower" for three months before it was released as a single, in order for the station to meet Canadian content requirements?
... that although the Benjamin Ten Broeck House north of Kingston, New York, was built by Dutch settlers, the layout of one of its additions suggests its residents were Palatine Germans?
... that Jacques Legrand, a former translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China, has studied the anthropology of Mongolian pastoralism?
... that the Rugrats episode "A Rugrats Chanukah" was pitched to the series crew by Nickelodeon in 1992?
... that Furnace Brook Parkway, a historic road in Quincy, Massachusetts, is named for a stream at the site of the first iron blast furnace in the United States, built in 1644?
... that former National Football League wide receiver Tai Streets was named after former female figure skater Tai Babilonia?
... that although only an "amateur" at the time, Andrew Bloxam identified several new Hawaiian birds during the voyage of the HMS Blonde in 1825, including the Oʻahu ʻAkepa ?
... that the capture of Malacca in 1511 was accomplished by Afonso de Albuquerque with 1,200 men and less than 20 ships?
... that cricketer George Nichols was a key member of the Somerset team that was unbeaten against other counties of England and Wales in 1890?
... that ESPN sports commentator and physical therapist Stephania Bell has analyzed injuries of Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez?
... that Luiz Francisco Rebello was a founder of two of the most important experimental theatrical groups in Portugal in the postwar period?
... that the Boston Park Board was given permission to review building designs for new structures along the Fenway to prevent unattractive buildings from depreciating property values?
... that between 2001 and 2007 the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" paid €4.4 billion to more than 1,660,000 victims of forced labor in Germany during World War II?
... that the world's most expensive ice cream treat, the Golden Opulence Sundae, is covered in gold?
... that Sanath Jayasuriya has scored 28 ODI centuries, the second highest in the world and the highest for the Sri Lanka national cricket team?
... that Smugglers Notch near Smugglers' Notch State Park in Vermont was used by smugglers circumventing the Embargo Act of 1807, the Underground Railroad, and bootleggers?
... that K. A. Mathiazhagan supported M. G. Ramachandran when he was expelled from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1972?
... that even though the first specimens of the Bolivian rodent Oecomys sydandersoni were collected in the 1960s, it was not formally described as a distinct species until 2009?
... that the Autism Act 2009 is the first ever disability-specific legislation to be passed in the United Kingdom?
... that Jason Little was nominated for a Harvey Award and an Ignatz Award for his creation of the comic book Jack's Luck Runs Out?
... that Medal of Honor recipient John F. Auer's medal was stolen before he left the United States Navy?
... that the Poison song "Unskinny Bop" was featured during a strip club scene in "Tom's Divorce", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation?
... that when the Canadian government attempted to move the land titles office out of Edmonton's Land Titles Building to a rival town, an angry mob sabotaged the move and had an armed standoff with police?
... that the Russell Watson song "Nothing Sacred – A Song for Kirsty" was released to raise money for the Kirsty Appeal?
... that Jody Trautwein, who attempted to convert Sasha Baron Cohen's character Brüno from his gay lifestyle, recently ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama?
... that the 2009 Western Australian daylight savings referendum was the fourth time that Western Australia voted against introducing daylight saving time?
... that psychiatrist Marie Nyswander, who developed the methadone treatment for heroin addicts, was herself addicted to cigarettes?
... that the Indian God Rock was a popular tourist attraction for 19th-century steamboats on the Allegheny River?
... that the Texas politician Ray Farabee entitled his 2009 autobiography Making It Through the Night and Beyond because he unexpectedly survived his premature birth?
... that the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, India, has 953 small windows (jharokhas) which were built with the intention to allow royal ladies to view the street below without being seen?
... that nearly 15 years after playing in the 1966 Cotton Bowl, Louisiana State University Tigers quarterback Pat Screen was elected Mayor of Baton Rouge?
... that the RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle was dubbed the "Beast of Kandahar" by an aviation expert before its existence was officially confirmed by the United States Air Force?
... that Arthur Lee Dixon was the last holder of a mathematical Chair at Oxford University to have a life tenure?
... that the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, was named one of Outdoor Magazine's "Top 15 Outdoor Summer Music Festivals"?
... that the coastal tanker Empire Boy was lengthened in 1954 and that her triple expansion steam engine was replaced by a diesel engine in 1965?
... that the author of Everything Tastes Better with Bacon decided to write the book after having an epiphany involving bacon and sugar?
... that for the 10 Seasons Awards, almost 750,000 football fans from 184 countries voted, in a celebration of the first ten years of the English Premier League ?
... that in 1948, Arne Skaug became the first State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
... that the Type numbering system in Japan specified that the Mitsubishi A6M of 1940 would be designated "Type 0 Carrier Fighter", giving rise to the popular name "Zero"?
... that part of the Occupiers' Liability Act 1984, a piece of United Kingdom legislation on tort law, is intended to permit educational and recreational use of land?
... that the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions?
... that in 1893, the career of Irish nationalist politician John Deasy was cut short when he was tried for indecent assault?
... that the 1984 romantic TV miniseries based on the novel The Far Pavilions was filmed in the precincts of Samode Palace in Rajasthan, India?
... that South Africa rugby captain Paul Roos helped choose the team nickname, "Springboks", to prevent the British press from inventing their own?
... that the Ossabaw Island Hog has been used as a model organism for studying Type II diabetes in humans?
... that, in 1965, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while attempting to avoid a collision with an oncoming Pan American Airways Boeing 707?
... that Penn State's John Romig, the first NCAA champion in the two-mile run, later became an explosives expert?
... that the Swedish film Hoppa högst was written by famous author Astrid Lindgren, who based the screenplay on a story from her book Kajsa Kavat?
... that in his clemency application to Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Maurice Clemmons claimed to have learned "to appreciate and respect the right of others"?
... that the Pygmy Pine, a tiny creeping alpine plant growing in New Zealand, is believed to be the smallest conifer in the world?
... that Colombian billionaire entrepreneur Carlos Ardila Lülle has expanded from his start in the soft drink business with television channels and a soccer team?
... that in the siege of Cannanore (1507) in India, a Portuguese garrison of 150 resisted for four months against 60,000 attackers?
... that Idaho Territorial Governor John N. Irwin objected to the U.S. Treasury placing his salary into their Conscience Fund?
... that the powerful Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Balberta, in Guatemala, abruptly collapsed around AD 400?
... that the 1957 film Edge of the City, starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier, won acclaim from critics and civil rights groups for its portrayal of an interracial friendship?
... that although he ceded the throne to his son in 1279, Trần Thánh Tông continued to co-rule Đại Việt for 11 years until his death in 1290?
... that, despite being a genital ulcer, Lipschütz ulcer is not an STD, and is in fact most common in virgins?
... that Bob Ferguson played for and managed the Hartford Dark Blues Major League Baseball team from 1875 to 1877, the final three years of its four-year existence?
... that nine new permanent competition venues will be constructed for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
... that the district auditor investigating the rate-capping rebellion in Lambeth found his picture on a mock Wanted poster in his local supermarket?
... that the design for the Main Building of the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo?
... that ornithologist James David Macdonald was employed in the bird section of the British Natural History Museum despite claiming complete ignorance about birds?
... that both the Irish Pine and Irish Oak, which were chartered from the United States by Irish Shipping Ltd during the Second World War, were sunk by German U-boats despite their neutral status?
... that since the death of Kamehameha I in 1819, Hawaiian Chief Hoʻolulu and his descendants have served as caretakers of the royal tombs of the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that while passing through the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Defective Premises Act 1972 was not at all debated in the House of Commons?
... that Monk McDonald played on the 1923–24 championship North Carolina basketball team, and then graduated and coached the team the next year?
... that the only known source of the mineral Macaulayite in the world is in a quarry at the foot of Bennachie, Aberdeenshire – but it may also be present on Mars?
... that, during the territorial era of Minnesota in the U.S., Native Americans -- who were otherwise disenfranchised -- were often allowed to vote if they had worn trousers to the polling station?
... that the American rodent tribe Oryzomyini includes species living in trees, in the water , and on the Galápagos Islands?
... that the gay pornography film studio Corbin Fisher offers contracted actors health benefits and a 401(k) plan?
... that opera singer Zélie de Lussan sang 2,000 performances in the title role of Carmen?
... that the oblique cord is a 3.4 cm long ligament in the forearm near the elbow, between the ulnar and radius bones, which has no known function and may be vestigial?
... that Robert Sumrall survived being lost in the Gila National Forest for seven days in winter without food, water, or camping gear?
... that in Teotitlán del Valle, it is possible to "steal" a bride?
... that golf was introduced to Singapore by Sir John Tankerville Goldney in 1891 while he was Chief Justice for the Straits Settlements?
... that two of the residents of the Richard Upjohn-designed James and Mary Forsyth House in Kingston, New York, left it after being accused of financial wrongdoing?
... that Jean Nouguès is believed to have written the first opera specifically composed for gramophone recording?
... that in the 1508 Battle of Chaul in India, a Mamluk-Gujarati fleet defeated a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida?
... that from 1765 to 1780 Meshullam Solomon and Tevele Schiff both claimed to be the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom?
... that Davidson Seamount, off the coast of California, is one of the largest seamounts in the world?
... that chef Michael Carlson abruptly closed his restaurant the day after successfully entertaining a gathering of world-famous chefs?
... that the globular cluster Terzan 5 is likely the core of a disrupted dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way?
... that horn player Neill Sanders commuted from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to London, where he played in the Melos Ensemble?
... that despite most of its interments later being moved to larger rural cemeteries, Sharp Burial Ground in Kingston, New York, still has the graves of two former U.S. Congressmen?
... that during his imprisonment in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Fritz Weiss continued his collaboration with jazz orchestras outside of the camp?
... that NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans relies on help from inmates from 15 New England correctional facilities to train many of its assistance dogs?
... that James Jones, a pitcher in college, entered the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft and was selected in the fourth round as an outfielder by the Seattle Mariners?
... that in 1641, Bristol Corporation concluded a perambulation of the city boundaries with a duck hunt at Treen Mills on the River Malago?
... that if a Member of the Parliament of Singapore claims a division during a vote on a motion, MPs are locked inside the debating chamber until their votes have been tallied?
... that the Naval Training Center San Diego was the home of a commissioned "non-ship" of the U.S. Navy, the USS Recruit, a concrete model of a warship built right into the ground and nicknamed the "USS Neversail"?
... that during his career, comic actor Willie Edouin was said to have portrayed as many as 500 characters?
... that the Thikse Monastery in India is called Mini-Potala because of its structural similarity to the former residence of the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace in Tibet?
... that Berbak National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, forms part of the largest undisturbed swamp forest in southeastern Asia, and the peat swamp forest with the greatest number of palm species?
... that unlike her predecessors, the Empress Regnant Lý Chiêu Hoàng was not worshipped in Lý Bát Đế Shrine because of her responsibility in the collapse of Lý Dynasty?
... that Marvin Minoff, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost, began his career as a talent agent?
... that the shell of the snail Paryphanta busbyi may explode when dried?
... that the former Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island is New York City's only landmarked ruins?
... that Captain Charles Fryatt was executed by the Germans for trying to ram U-33 in March 1915 with his ferry SS Brussels?
... that in 1999, Robyn Regehr made his National Hockey League debut with the Calgary Flames less than four months after breaking both legs in a car accident that doctors feared would end his career?
... that the missing terminal of the golden Sedgeford Torc was found thirty-nine years after the original discovery of the artifact?
... that the Tobias Van Steenburgh House was one of the few buildings in Kingston, New York, not burned by British troops in 1777?
... that All in the Mind, the debut novel by former British government Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, drew on his experiences of depression and alcoholism?
... that in 2009, German actress Stephanie Stumph proposed to her idol, IBF middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham but he declined because he was "too young"?
... that the name of the Chili Line has been attributed to its freight and the gastronomy of its patrons?
... that Native Americans lived at the Canfield Island Site on the West Branch Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania for thousands of years, and now hold an annual pow wow there?
... that the first single from In the Room Up There, Australian band Elora Danan's debut album, was entitled "Door, Up, Elevator" and "inspired by elevator music, and the etiquette that goes on in elevators"?
... that former Baton Rouge Mayor-President Bobby Simpson worked to end chronic homelessness in his city?
... that crystals of campigliaite, first discovered in Tuscany, are transparent with a light or pale blue vitreous luster?
... that actress Jessalyn Gilsig hoped viewers would warm to her Glee character Terri Schuester after the episode "Mattress", having previously experienced a fan backlash?
... that Benny Benson created the Alaskan flag while living at the Jesse Lee Home for Children, an orphanage in Seward, Alaska?
... that it was feared Seattle's Art Deco-styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant?
... that Herne Bay Museum and Gallery contains the prototype Highball bouncing bomb , precursor of the Upkeep bouncing bomb used in the 1943 Dambuster raids?