derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Nazi German regulation of Polish forced laborers intentionally created and supported discrimination on the basis of ethnicity?
... that in baseball, no Gold Glove Award-winning catcher posted an errorless season until Charles Johnson and Mike Matheny accomplished the feat twice in six years?
... that Killiniq, an abandoned settlement on the Hudson Strait, was formerly a part of Labrador, and then the Northwest Territories, but is now on the Nunavut side of Killiniq Island?
... that ornithologist Robert Thomas Moore, who is credited with discovering more than 30 bird species and subspecies, also founded the 29-volume series of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards?
... that All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is one of the largest Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world?
... that giant Daniel Cajanus appeared in pantomime on the London stage in 1734?
... that in physics, a Trojan wave packet is a type of wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading?
... that French singer Georges Guétary, who played the "older man" in a romantic triangle with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris, was nearly three years younger than Kelly?
... that William Blake's poem "The Mental Traveller" went unpublished during Blake's lifetime but was translated multiple times after his death?
... that Jack Hennemier, head coach of the Calgary Stampeders, was sued by the Washington Redskins for attempting to sign two of their players?
... that an inscription from Korba, Tunisia, records the town's fortification by Pompeian generals during the Roman civil war?
... that Meridian Baptist Seminary was the first school in Mississippi to offer high school diplomas to African-American students?
... that Czech composer Jan Rychlík played the drums in the jazz orchestra of Karel Vlach?
... that the fruit of the pondberry, an endangered wetland shrub, was used by children in the rural Southern United States as ammunition in toy pop guns made from hollowed-out elderberry stems?
... that Kwakwaka'wakw art includes a wide variety of wooden masks , some of which can transform into different figures?
... that as a variable-pitch turbofan aircraft engine, the Turbomeca Astafan could generate reverse thrust in midair without the use of a thrust reverser?
... that the Chicago Tribune claimed that hundreds of applicants to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between 2005 and 2009 had received "special consideration"?
... that the document known as the Remonstrances was presented in 1297, as England was on the brink of civil war?
... that a colony of sex offenders forced to live under a highway bridge in Miami, Florida, numbered approximately 140 members as of July 2009?
... that A Vision of the Last Judgment is a painting by William Blake that disappeared after an exhibition was cancelled in 1810?
... that Bridgecorp Holdings, a former Australian real estate development group, collapsed in 2007 owing 14,500 investors a total of A$467 million?
... that Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven?
... that the Space Shuttle mission STS-8 flew Guy Bluford , the first African-American astronaut?
... that Felix Salten's novel Bambi, A Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria in 1923, is considered the first environmental fiction novel to be published?
... that Poh Ling Yeow, the runner-up of MasterChef Australia, has appeared in four films?
... that the 1969 Jefferson Airplane psychedelic folk-rock song "Good Shepherd" is derived from an early 1800s hymn from a backwoods preacher and a 1930s gospel blues recording by a blind axe murderer?
... that the earliest activities of the Port of Amsterdam, today the Netherlands' second largest port, date back to the 13th century?
... that when hired as CEO of Rocket Chemical Company, John Barry changed its name to WD-40 to match its primary product, whose name came from "water displacement, formulation successful in 40th attempt"?
... that three armies surrounded the papal conclave, September 1503, held during the Italian Wars?
... that Xavier Petulengro, known as "The King of the Gypsies", led traditional Romany weddings in Yorkshire where he mingled the blood of the couple and bound their wrists with a silk cord?
... that the domesticated animal breeds originating from Scotland include the Scottish Fold cat , the Rough Collie of "Lassie" fame, and the Grice, a somewhat aggressive pig?
... that Czech violinist Karel Hoffmann was the only permanent member of the Bohemian Quartet throughout its 42-year existence?
... that Denis Potvin has played the most games with the New York Islanders while holding the title of team captain?
... that the ancient Tzippori Synagogue in Israel was discovered by workers building a parking lot?
... that the 1995 Mayfest Storm was the costliest hailstorm ever to hit the United States when it occurred?
... that Nick Cave requested all television cameras be switched off during his performance of the song "Into My Arms" at the funeral of INXS singer Michael Hutchence?
... that airline pilots in the 1930s and 1940s flew with their ears when visibility was poor?
... that the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel in Washington, D.C. has been described as a miniature Gothic gem?
... that the third officer of the MV Horizon-1, a cargo ship recently hijacked by Somali pirates, is a 24-year old Turkish woman?
... that U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II?
... that the Manggahan Floodway in the Philippines was built to reduce flooding along the Pasig River but in turn contributed to flooding along the shores of Laguna de Bay?
... that professional wrestler Pablo Fuentes Reyna took the ring name "MS-1" from the highest rank of a Mexican Antiterrorist corps?
... that Under Your Spell, director Otto Preminger's first English language film, was a remake of the Spanish language release Las fronteras del amor?
... that two Victoria Crosses were awarded for action during the Umbeyla Campaign led by Neville Chamberlain in 1863?
... that an ad campaign for the MMORPG Evony featured depictions of scantily clad women and the tagline "Save the Queen!", despite the fact that there is no queen to save in the game?
... that the rough skin of the nursehound was once used as an abrasive called "rubskin", which cost a hundred times more than sandpaper?
... that quarterback Lindy Berry played in a game one week after suffering a broken jaw, and since it was the era before football helmet facemasks, he wore a hockey mask instead?
... that the first expedition of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa ended disastrously, when the bishop and several others died of malaria?
... that, when Murray Chotiner produced the infamous "pink sheet" against opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon's Northern California campaign manager Harvey Hancock refused to run it?
... that Nói Síríus is Iceland's largest candy manufacturer and now owns English chocolate company Elizabeth Shaw?
... that in one of his Posen speeches, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler said that the decision had to be made to make the Jews "disappear from the Earth"?
... that the Dunns Pond Mound in Ohio may have been used for Native American burials for nine centuries?
... that Arnon Grunberg's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker features a ménage à trois involving a former john, a terminally ill former prostitute, and an Algerian asylum seeker?
... that as of 2008, there is no treaty covering the border between Botswana and Namibia, which remains as defined in a treaty signed between the British and German Empires in 1890?
... that Horace Barker was awarded the National Medal of Science for discovering the coenzyme of vitamin B12, which Barker had isolated from mud taken from San Francisco Bay?
... that the White-bellied Sea Eagle and the Grey-headed Fish Eagle are the notable raptors of Gal Oya National Park?
... that Statutes of Casimir the Great from the 14th century were the first codification and the basis of modern Polish law?
... that the O'Kane Building in Bend, Oregon, was built for Hugh O’Kane who, as a boy, came to the United States illegally from Ireland by stowing away on a New York bound ship?
... that in World War II, the British Indian Army was driven out of Burma at the Battle of Sittang Bridge?
... that a comet over Africa saw the birth of a small country on July 26, 1882?
... that the Spadena House, a storybook house also known as The Witch's House, was originally built as offices and dressing rooms for a movie studio?
... that an East German defector hijacked a Polish plane in 1978 to escape to West Germany?
... that Jane H. Smith is not only the first woman state legislator from Bossier Parish in Louisiana, but she is the first woman to have been a high-school principal and school superintendent there as well?
... that sprint athlete and British 200 metres champion Toby Sandeman did a photoshoot for Vogue with Naomi Campbell?
... that the Superior multimineral shale oil extraction process was developed to combine the production of shale oil with that of sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, and aluminum?
... that Patsy's Pizzeria first served up its coal oven pizza pies in 1933 and vies with Rao's to be the "best bite" in New York's Spanish Harlem?
... that the possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales , a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria?
... that when confronted by a rebellion and an invasion, King Valagamba promised the rebel leader the throne and sent him against the invading army?
... that F. Springer's novel Bougainville features a character who slept with Mata Hari on the boat taking them to the Dutch East Indies?
... that Bob "Horse" Reynolds founded the Los Angeles Angels baseball team and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame within a year?
... that a year after the American Civil War ended, discharged soldiers had conflicts with local policemen in Memphis, which escalated into one of the worst race riots in U.S. history?
... that German cigar maker Josef Feinhals wrote a compendium on scatology and smoking, under the pseudonym Collofino?
... that most Hindus in the Netherlands are immigrants from Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America?
... that no services have been held in Mt. Zion Methodist, the oldest church in Somers, New York, for almost 80 years?
... that Nguyen Van Tuong helped install and depose three Vietnamese emperors in the space of a year?
... that, for a period of 100 days, families featured on the television series The 100 Mile Challenge were not allowed to consume any food or drink grown or produced more than 100 miles from their home?
... that female professional wrestler Jean Antoine married her high school sweetheart in the middle of a wrestling ring because she had a match afterward?
... that on 18 February 1942, Brigadier "Punch" Cowan personally went to Rangoon to ask permission to retreat at the Battle of Bilin River?
... that Judge William C. Conner ruled that $2 million in lost cash was worth $634.90?
... that the longest horn ever recorded on a Marco Polo sheep measured 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 60 lb (27 kg)?
... that when Khirbat al-Minya, an Umayyad-built palace near the Sea of Galilee, was first excavated in 1932, it was mistaken by archaeologists for a Roman fort?
... that at the Battle of Cape Finisterre, HMS Malta forced the surrender of one Spanish ship, and sent her boats to take possession of another?
... that 24 people died digging Bramhope Tunnel, known for its eccentric Neo-Gothic portal?
... that surgeon Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane signed his handiwork by tattooing the letter K in Morse code on his patients in India ink?
... that the largest known ovules produced by any non-flowering seed-plant came from the Medullosales , an order of extinct seed ferns?
... that professional wrestler Rayo de Jalisco, Jr. wrestled for a year before his father, Rayo de Jalisco, Sr., found out?
... that when the horse in her first maquette of The Scout was criticized for looking too "eastern", Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney shipped a horse from Buffalo Bill's ranch to her studio in New York?
... that the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency was established because of intelligence lapses during the Kargil War?
... that Republican State Senator Vernie McGaha of Russell County, Kentucky, considers his highest priority helping constituents "stuck in the red tape of government"?
... that the first pulsar was discovered as a result of an experiment designed to study interplanetary scintillation?
... that The Ivy restaurant was sued over an accident involving Lindsay Lohan and her 604 horsepower V-12 Mercedes Benz SL65?
... that Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton taught rats to come to her table for food?
... that Annette Nelson's performance as The Mountain Sylph in Washington, D.C. in 1837 was highly appreciated by a group of Native American chiefs?
... that Chinese-Australian businessman Stern Hu, accused by Chinese officials of espionage, is said to have "caused huge loss to China's economic interest and security" by the Chinese Foreign Ministry?
... that humans living next to a lake at the Bouri Formation in Ethiopia 160,000 and 154,000 years ago butchered not only adult Hippopotamuses but also those that were newborn?
... that more than 130 people died in July 2009 after consuming adulterated bootleg liquor in Gujarat, India, where alcohol consumption is prohibited?
... that biochemists Ralph F. Hirschmann and Robert Bruce Merrifield both led teams that synthesized the enzyme ribonuclease and while Merrifield won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Hirschmann did not?
... that the HMS Cockchafer played host to the regent of Iraq Amir Abdul Illah who had been deposed and was fleeing an assassination plot in Baghdad?
... that Western marksman Joe Bowman learned as a boy how to shoot flies off a garbage can with his BB gun?
... that an uncommon sentry tower at Banashankari temple is a mélange of Vijayanagara Hindu and Islamic architectural styles?
... that Gaynell Tinsley, a two-time All-American end at LSU, set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937?
... that before marching to the Battle of White Wolf Mountain, the warlord Cao Cao fooled his enemy into thinking he had retreated by simply erecting a sign saying so?
... that the automated Launch Processing System used by NASA for Space Shuttle launches has reduced the required number of firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo launch?
... that in 1957, West Germany's Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Joachim von Merkatz was the focus of an East German propaganda campaign, which portrayed him as a "fascist" and "leading Nazi functionary"?
... that the Mansion District was once known as the "Garlic Core" of Albany, New York, due to its large Italian American population?
... that there are many diverse types of fish, including sea dragons camouflaged to look like floating seaweed?
... that the artwork of full-blood Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane has enjoyed a revival after his glass plate negatives were discovered in an Alaskan dump?
... that Moss Force, a waterfall in the English Lake District, was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World"?
... that India's Narcotics Control Bureau was created in 1986 to enforce the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act?
... that in the Broadway comedy Two Blind Mice, two government workers keep their office running after its abolition by Congress by renting out rooms and hiring out the front lawn as a parking lot?
... that while playing baseball at Shibe Park, outfielder Herschel Bennett crashed into a wall, causing him to fall into a 36-hour coma and helping to end his major league career?
... that troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars ?
... that Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations?
... that Swiss mechatronics company Stäubli was originally founded in 1892 as a workshop for producing dobby looms?
... that Utah's Patchwork Parkway is the second-highest paved road in the state of Utah at 10,626 feet (3,239 m) above sea level?
... that Canadian House of Commons member Philéas Côté introduced a private member's bill in 1946 seeking to rename Dominion Day to Canada Day?
... that Sri Lankan Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike was forced to abandon an agreement aimed at solving that country's ethnic problems amidst protests by radical Buddhist monks?
... that Lorraine Sneed, partner for 15 years of blade server inventor Christopher Hipp, said she had "got him" on their first date after asking "if he wanted to come see my SGI"?
... that the ringlegged earwig gets its common name from the noticeable dark bands around the middle of its six legs?
... that Swedish film director Tomas Alfredson stated that he had grown tired of the Swedish film industry after finishing Let the Right One In?
... that in 1988, a West German court appointed an ex-notary to represent the interests of the German Reich concerning the Upper Mundat Forest against the Federal Republic of Germany?
... that Sid Wagner led Michigan State to their first consecutive football wins over the Michigan Wolverines and was the first player selected by the Detroit Lions in the first NFL Draft?
... that Jake Gyllenhaal has a brief part as the son of a widower played by Robin Williams in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Bop Gun"?
... that Dutch writer Louis Ferron, born of a German soldier and a Dutch mother during the German occupation in World War II, wrote a series of novels later called The Teutonic Trilogy?
... that the Banaue Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are part of a World Heritage site, which was recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in 1995?
... that The Office writer Jennifer Celotta and Office actor Rainn Wilson won a Writers Guild of America Award for writing the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards ceremony?
... that Judy and Alfred were two 90-inch (2.3 m) tall steam locomotives specially designed to fit under a bridge at Par that was only 96 inches (2.4 m) high?
... that the farming of celery was first introduced to the United States by George Taylor in 1856?
... that Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell and Evander Holyfield were all election monitors at the 1997 Jamaican general election?
... that during the mutiny at the Nore, Captain William Hotham and Admiral Adam Duncan had to imitate an entire British fleet with just two ships?
... that 1975's Tropical Storm Hallie existed as three types of cyclones: subtropical, tropical, and extratropical?
... that with a total weight of over 100 tonnes , Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite ever found on Earth?
... that the band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo, played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace?
... that the Gateway Protection Programme provides the opportunity for an annual quota of 750 especially vulnerable refugees selected by the UNHCR to be resettled in the United Kingdom?
... that Tom Paton, a member of the Montreal hockey club, was the first goaltender to win the Stanley Cup in 1893?
... that the Hutchinson County Historical Museum, which opened in 1977, is housed in a two-story building constructed in 1927?
... that New Zealand moved 30 centimetres (12 in) closer to Australia during a recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake?
... that Louisiana Sheriff Henderson Jordan sought to keep the death car of Bonnie and Clyde to compensate the officers who in 1934 risked their lives to capture the fugitives?
... that in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, Albanian, Chinese and Korean editions of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism were cancelled during 1962–1963?
... that the Victorian-style White-Pool House, built in 1887, is the oldest standing structure in Odessa, Texas?
... that Andrew Jordaan was the first cricketer to be timed out in a first-class match after poor weather delayed him in reaching the ground to start his innings?
... that Robert Isabell had four tons of glitter dumped on the floor of Studio 54 for a 1970s New Year's Eve party, which owner Ian Schrager described as like "standing on stardust"?
... that in 1908, accountant William Abner Eddy took a kite aerial photograph of two men who had stolen his ice cream?
... that Giovanni Caselli made the world's first practical operating fax machine 11 years before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone?
... that Bagel Bakers Local 338 controlled bagel making in New York City for decades, with a 1951 strike creating a "bagel famine" that resulted in sales of lox dropping up to 50% in area delis?
... that actor Knut Wigert was a driving force behind the establishment of a Henrik Ibsen museum in Oslo?
... that the Big Apple dance was popular at the Big Apple Club, an African-American night club at the former House of Peace Synagogue?
... that Josef Pleskot designed the administrative building of the ČSOB Bank, the first European building awarded the gold certificate of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design?
... that the unsolved murder of Miss Garnett-Orme at Savoy Hotel, Mussoorie, India in 1911, inspired Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916)?
... that SMU All-American Truman "Big Dog" Spain, known for his "rumba king" good looks, was described as "hard as ship's steel and as torrid as a foundry furnace"?
... that Jamie M. Morin was 34 years old when President Barack Obama appointed him to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, responsible for managing the $160 billion U.S. Air Force annual budget?
... that if a supermassive black hole is ejected from a galaxy, it can carry a dense cluster of stars called a hypercompact stellar system?
... that legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankeford committed an early form of suicide by cop?
... that Iuliu Ilyés, the current mayor of Satu Mare, Romania, has twice been elected to the office with close to double the vote of his opponent?
... that the closest transportation to Davidof Volcano is 199 miles (320 km) away in Adak, Alaska?
... that four-time U.S. table tennis champion Lou Pagliaro hated when the sport was called "ping-pong", a name that he said "sounds sissy" in a 1942 article in The New Yorker?
... that Sabil Abu Nabbut was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem?
... that for about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal?
... that as a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Elton Trowbridge worked with a bipartisan group to bring public television to his state?
... that the mineral erionite is a carcinogen, and chronic exposure to this mineral has been linked to excess mortality from mesothelioma in a number of villages in Turkey?
... that the tallest building in Mobile, Alabama, is the 745-foot (227 m) RSA Battle House Tower?
... that the loss of television reception—caused by the Canary Wharf Tower—for several hundred households was held not to be a nuisance in Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd?
... that wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49?
... that East Dereham Windmill was sold to Breckland District Council in 1978 for £1?
... that singer-songwriter Craig Bickhardt, formerly of Schuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt, has written Number One hits for The Judds and Ty Herndon?
... that the Vajpayee government called a joint session of the Indian Parliament in 2002 to pass the Prevention of Terrorism Act?
... that Dartmouth Conferences is one of the longest ongoing bilateral unofficial dialogues between American and Soviet (now, Russian) representatives?