derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Eugène Delacroix's efforts to produce The Barque of Dante in time for the Paris Salon of 1822 left him weak and in need of recuperation?
... that Cheshire landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton arranged for his house, Arley Hall, to be designed in Tudor style while the chapel was designed in Gothic style?
... that only 100 Mahatma Gandhi 10 Rs. stamps were overprinted with "Service", making it the world's least printed stamp?
... that disputes between Confederate Generals William Hardee and John Creed Moore caused Moore to resign his commission?
... that Cosmos 1818, which has an inactive nuclear reactor, was fractured by either a collision or thermal stresses, generating radioactive debris in a high earth orbit?
... that Elliott Woods, who was Architect of the Capitol from 1902 to 1923, oversaw the construction of the Cannon House Office Building and the Russell Senate Office Building?
... that protozoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed to have started the use of hamsters as pets in the United Kingdom?
... that the Temple of Human Passions, first building of Art Nouveau's architect Victor Horta, was closed three days after its inauguration under the pressure of the puritanic Belgian public in 1899?
... that Joseph P. Williams led the team that created the BankAmericard in 1958, the first national bank credit card in the United States?
... that the Candy cap mushroom species Lactarius camphoratus has been used as part of a pipe tobacco mix?
... that the "London Cage," a World War II prisoner of war facility commanded by Lt. Col. Alexander Scotland, was beset by allegations of torture?
... that Bryan Trottier, Denis Potvin, Mike Bossy, and Bryan Berard all won the Calder Memorial Trophy while playing for the New York Islanders?
... that sprint champion Charles Hoyt, who lost a chance for an Olympic medal when the 1916 games were cancelled due to World War I, later coached Eddie Tolan to two gold medals in the 1932 Olympics?
... that instead of abducting people, Francesco Paolo Varsallona, who became an outlaw in 1893, introduced tribute payments for guaranteed safety and was credited with modernizing brigandage in Sicily?
... that in June 1991, a gasoline tanker attempting to exit from Interstate 68 at Cumberland, Maryland, overturned and set eight houses on fire, causing US$250,000 in damages?
... that Royal Air Force pilot Robert Leith-Macgregor was twice shot down during World War II and then strafed by German fighters, but survived uninjured both times?
... that Kentucky's Great Saltpetre Cave, which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812, was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below?
... that composer Egidio Duni was particularly influential in creating a new genre of opera which blended Italian opera elements with traditional French ones?
... that the Polhemus Memorial Clinic in Brooklyn, New York, is considered to be the first skyscraper hospital ever built?
... that despite its name, the Corsican Hare is not native to Corsica and is rarely found on this Mediterranean island today?
... that Tricholoma ustaloides , generally considered an inedible species of mushroom, is consumed by inhabitants of some Mexican communities?
... that composer Jonathan Battishill once performed several airs from Samuel Arnold's oratorio The Prodigal Son without the sheet music, and after not hearing the work for more than 20 years?
... that in addition to her academic career, German-Norwegian political scientist Helga Hernes has been a State Secretary as well as an ambassador to several European countries?
... that though students spend their entire high school career at Tech Valley High School in New York's Capital District, their diploma comes from their home school district?
... that the private railroad car Georgia 300 has been used by United States Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, as well as presidential candidate John Kerry?
... that Sam, an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, posthumously received the Dickin Medal in 2003 for holding off armed rioters in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
... that Thomas Eakins' wife is credited with painting him into The Agnew Clinic ?
... that the Dalsenget fire in 1956 caused the Trondheim Tramway to lose its 26 newest trams?
... that the avant-garde magazine 291 is credited with first introducing visual poetry to the United States back in 1915?
... that according to De primo Saxonum adventu, Osulf of Bamburgh was the first English "earl" of Northumbria?
... that a BSA Lightning fitted with a working missile launching system featured in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball?
... that Robert Elliott-Cooper lived for 12 more years after the journal Nature described him as "among the oldest of English engineers"?
... that Catch My Soul, a rock musical adapation of Othello set in a late 1960s commune in New Mexico, USA, was the only film directed by the late Patrick McGoohan?
... that Australian photographer Olive Cotton captured her childhood friend, photographer Max Dupain, in Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills, and married him in 1937?
... that Barnet Burns toured England from 1835, exhibited his Māori tattoos and recounted his adventures in New Zealand?
... that Beaver Creek State Park in Ohio, USA, is home to both Little Beaver Creek, a National Scenic River, and a restored 1837 mill?
... that the Pysähdy ajoissa - Stanna i tid ("Stop in time") traffic campaign was the result of the public response to a road death of a nine-year-old girl in Finland?
... that Mark Donaldson became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, for his gallant actions under enemy fire in Afghanistan in September 2008?
... that the Madhu church shelling affected the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, the holiest Roman Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka?
... that poppy seed, harvested from the opium poppy seed head, has had its use dated back to the Sumerians?
... that before John Parker became Archbishop of Tuam and of Dublin, he had been imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell's forces as a suspected Royalist spy?
... that in its heyday, the historic Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, hosted U.S. Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Buchanan?
... that both parents of the Cryptoheros septemfasciatus fish care for their fry intensively?
... that the lush canyon Ein Avdat and its surroundings have been experiencing continuous human activity for some 80,000–90,000 years?
... that the Sunday Magazine Editors Association gives out journalism awards recognizing work in writing, investigative journalism, and design in Sunday newspaper magazines?
... that Said al-Shawa was the first mayor of Gaza, appointed in 1906?
... that before the chancery records began around 1200, the Pipe rolls were the only continuous records kept by the English government?
... that Harlington Wood Jr. is credited with helping to negotiate a truce between federal officers and Native Americans during the Wounded Knee incident in 1973?
... that the extinct coral Coelosimilia is the first known example of a scleractinian coral to have a skeleton not composed of the mineral aragonite?
... that Wisconsin Highway 131 crosses nine bridges in 7.3 miles (11.7 km) between the communities of Rockton and Ontario?
... that at different times Phnom Voar (Vine Mountain) in southern Cambodia was a B-52 target, a rebel base, a killing field, a kidnapping site, and finally a peaceful mountain?
... that the fungus Humaria hemisphaerica is commonly known as the "hairy fairy cup"?
... that, upon being hired by the WWF, professional wrestler Lanny Kean was told to base his persona on Jethro Bodine from The Beverly Hillbillies?
... that the Port of Thessaloniki in Greece will double its container terminal capacity after an investment of US$600 million made by the Hutchison Port Holdings company based in Hong Kong?
... that the interactive fiction Lost Pig won four XYZZY awards and took first place in the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition?
... that The New York Times credited the success of promoter Gary Kurfirst's 1968 New York Rock Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Doors as inspiring the 1969 Woodstock Festival?
... that Shire Brook in Sheffield, England, was part of the boundary between Yorkshire and Derbyshire for 900 years?
... that American soldiers and sailors did not have access to dental service until Confederate Surgeon General Samuel P. Moore brought in the first dentists at military hospitals during the Civil War?
... that the 13th-century French romance Palamedes describes the adventures of the fathers of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
... that a 42–3 win by the North Carolina Tar Heels in the 1998 Gator Bowl was the worst loss for the Virginia Tech Hokies college football team since a 45–0 shutout in 1983?
... that the popular Calypso Carol was written by an Englishman, Michael Perry, while still a student, and only became famous by accident?
... that the proposed Rampart Dam on the Yukon River in Alaska would have created a man-made reservoir larger than Lake Erie?
... that the Bank of Issue in Poland, created by the Nazis to support the Nazi economy, was penetrated by the Polish resistance which used it as a source of falsified documents?
... that Edmund W. Wells, a delegate to Arizona's constitutional convention, refused to sign the final document due to its radical features?
... that the Meråker Line railway of Norway branches off from the Nordland Line at Hell?
... that the controversial sculpture Entropa, unveiled in Brussels on January 13, 2009, depicts Bulgaria as a series of squat toilets ?
... that in July 1905, during the Theriso revolt, three insurgent leaders met the consuls of the European Great Powers at a monastery surrounded by rebels, and that martial law was declared after the talks failed?
... that college football cornerback Kevin Barnes of Maryland delivered a tackle hard enough to cause Heisman Trophy prospect Jahvid Best to vomit on the field, footage of which became a viral video?
... that the Jastrzębie-Zdrój 1980 strikes forced the government of the People's Republic of Poland to sign the last of three agreements establishing the Solidarity trade union?
... that after Kent Williams was elected speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, his party expelled him from its caucus?
... that the extinct fish Santanichthys is the oldest known member of Order Characiformes, which includes the tetras and the piranha?
... that Oklahoma historian Angie Debo won numerous honors for her books on Native American history, but never found a permanent position in an academic history department?
... that University of Michigan athletic director Philip Bartelme hired Branch Rickey as a baseball coach in 1910, and the two later worked together for the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers?
... that a Soviet P-19 radar (Flat Face B) was captured in the 1987 Chadian–Libyan conflict and reviewed by French experts?
... that child actor Laura Ann Kesling, who made her film debut in Adam Sandler's 2008 film Bedtime Stories, is the daughter of LPGA golfer Danielle Ammaccapane?
... that according to legend, Anandibai led to the assassination of the 13-year-old king Narayanrao Peshwa by changing one letter dha to ma, thus changing the order "capture him" to "kill him"?
... that the NSB Class 66 was the first Norwegian train capable of 120 km/h (75 mph)?
... that Melissa Anelli and Emerson Spartz, webmasters for Harry Potter fansites, were the only Americans invited to Edinburgh to interview J.K. Rowling the day after the Half-Blood Prince was released?
... that Teedyuscung, known as the King of the Delawares, lost much of his territory to colonial Pennsylvania in the Walking Purchase and later sought retribution for the massive land loss?
... that ACLU director Aryeh Neier, a refugee from Nazi Germany, supported the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Party of America in its efforts to march in Skokie, Illinois, an area with many Holocaust survivors?
... that when an upgraded part of the Østfold Line opened in 1996, it was the first railway in Norway built for speeds of 200 km/h (120 mph)?
... that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald, the earliest books of the New Testament are responses to the Homeric Epics, thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"?
... that a pipeline exploded in Nigeria on October 18, 1998, killing a total of 1,082 people and injuring hundreds more?
... that college football tailback Mikell Simpson of Virginia ran for a 96-yard touchdown in the 2008 Gator Bowl, which is the longest rush by a running back in an NCAA bowl game?
... that the 1904 Advance 2 3/4hp motorcycle displayed at the National Motorcycle Museum (UK) is thought to be the only complete Advance motorcycle in existence?
... that Thomas D. Brock discovered Thermus aquaticus, an extremophile living at greater than 70 °C in hot springs at Yellowstone which became the source of the enzyme used in PCR?
... that the film All About Eve (1950) gained Barbara McLean a record seventh nomination for the Academy Award for Film Editing, and that this record remains unbroken?
... that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single German pillbox?
... that the Los Carneros AVA , located in both Napa and Sonoma counties, was the first wine region in California to be defined by its climate characteristics instead of political boundaries?
... that Group Officer Clare Stevenson was the first Director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF)?
... that in the 1894 case Schillinger v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that a patent infringement suit can't be pursued against the U.S. because it held sovereign immunity for intentional torts?
... that Sir Abdur Rahim KCSI was President of the Central Legislative Assembly of India for ten years?
... that Air and Simple Gifts, performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, was the first classical music quartet ever performed at a United States presidential inauguration?
... that Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, the Dominican priest and Bible scholar, is a cousin of Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster?
... that thanks to its fluorescence, α-parinaric acid has been used to analyze the stability of beer foam?
... that in light of the Nazi Germany attempt to destroy Polish culture, the Secret Teaching Organization created an underground education system with over a million students?
... that the "scarlet elf cup", fungal species Sarcoscypha coccinea , has been used medicinally by the Oneida First Nations people?
... that Brian Hill is the only head coach for the Orlando Magic to serve during two non-consecutive periods?
... that while in the service of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, Polish Legionnaires decided to mutiny, fighting their former master at the Battle of Rarańcza?
... that post-black artist Rashid Johnson had multiple works in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago before the age of 25?
... that Kanthirava Narasaraja I was the first ruler in the Kingdom of Mysore to create symbols associated with Mysore royalty, such as the coins (Kanthiraya) that he named after himself?
... that Philip De Witt Ginder won the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in Germany during World War II and became the youngest American general to command a combat division in the Korean War?
... that there are 115,200 solutions to the ménage problem of permuting six couples at a twelve-person table so that men and women alternate and are seated away from their partners?
... that the Classic Period Maya archaeological site of Quiriguá in Guatemala has what is possibly the largest free-standing worked monolith in the New World?
... that because the Indo-Pacific sea urchin Diadema setosum has been found in Turkish waters, it is the first invasive echinoid in the Mediterranean?
... that Marcus Schrenker, after committing pseudocide, may face charges from the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as Indiana, Alabama, and Florida law enforcement?
... that German rugby club SC 1880 Frankfurt adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the English club Blackheath F.C., who also played in those colours?
... that William K. Jones, awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan, was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II?
... that a "lively controversy" occurred at the 1902 International Congress of Americanists over the word "Amerind"?
... that Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for Jimmy Carter as President?
... that the Carnegie Library in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building?
... that at 5 feet 5 inches tall and 165 pounds, Howard Stevens was one of the smallest players ever in the National Football League?
... that between 20,000 and 80,000 Filipinos live illegally in Italy?
... that the Ames-Florida House is one of a few houses in Minnesota built with timber framing before balloon framing and dimensional lumber were well-known in that U.S. state?
... that following TV3's axing of Night Shift the presenter, model Michelle Doherty, was said to have been left feeling "completely bewildered, and absolutely gutted"?
... that the Lipari Landfill in New Jersey, where nearly 3 million gallons and 12 thousand tons of hazardous waste were dumped, was called the worst toxic dump in the United States?
... that Marra Farm is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle, Washington, city limits that retains an agricultural use today?
... that, in 2008, college football quarterback Rodney Landers of James Madison became the first player from an FCS school to win the Dudley Award for most outstanding player in Virginia since 1998?
... that until recent XMM-Newton images, the supernova remnant G350.1-0.3 was mistakenly thought to be a distant galaxy?
... that out of 281 T-26 tanks supplied to the Popular Front , the Nationalists were able to capture 178 during the war, putting at least 50 into service against their former users?
... that Nigel Hamilton's biography of the young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, was turned into a television miniseries of the same name starring Patrick Dempsey as JFK?
... that the whorl snail Nesopupa turtoni, previously known only as a fossil, was discovered alive in 2003 in the Prosperous Bay Plain area of Saint Helena?
... that Bob Francis is the only Phoenix Coyotes head coach to have won the Jack Adams Award, having won it in the 2001–02 NHL season?
... that the T2000 stock of the Oslo T-bane, Norway, is equipped with both a pantograph and a third rail shoe so they can operate both east and west of the city center?
... that in 1923, Charles Scott Haley conducted California's first statewide comprehensive study of tertiary fluvial placers, dredge fields, and dry placers?
... that relations between Japan and The Netherlands date back 400 years when the first formal trade relations were established in 1609?
... that Noella Marcellino, a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese, was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut's Abbey of Regina Laudis?
... that one year after delivery, six of eleven NSB Class 93 trains were out of service due to technical problems?
... that "pig's ears", fungal species Gomphus clavatus, are the only Gomphus species in North America?
... that as a junior officer Rear Admiral Teddy Gueritz served as beachmaster on Sword Beach from D-Day until he was severely wounded 19 days later, and was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Service Cross?
... that the Chennai Book Fair is an annual event in Chennai, India, which takes place between the last week of December and the third week of January?
... that composer Michael Arne's obsession for alchemy and the search for the philosopher's stone led him into serious financial problems resulting in his arrest and confinement in a Dublin sponging-house?
... that the War of 1812 battle Spur's Defeat was so named due to the survivors having to spur their horses in order to escape?
... that due to the Arab League boycott of Israel, McDonald's did not open in Israel until 1993 when they opened their first branch in Ramat Gan?
... that professional wrestler Susan Green legally changed her name to Susan Tex Green to differentiate herself from another woman named Susan Green who was writing bad checks?
... that Poli's Stellate Barnacle is hermaphroditic and has a penis significantly longer than its body?
... that Norwegian footballer Jostein Grindhaug scored the first league goal for the club FK Haugesund?
... that during the Battle of New Haven, the fort the Confederate howitzer aimed at was not damaged, but the town's only hotel and bar were?
... that intercepted by a larger French force on 6 November 1794, Captain Richard Bligh of HMS Alexander chose to stay and fight, allowing his companion ship, HMS Canada, to safely retreat?
... that glucuronidation of hyodeoxycholic acid by the UGT2B4 and UGT2B7 isoforms is an example of redundancy in the natural protection against harmful endogenous compounds?
... that college football coach Don Brown led the UMass Minutemen to their best five-year record in school history?
... that in a 1967 television interview, David Frost compared Welsh nationalist activist Dennis Coslett to Israeli general Moshe Dayan, because both wore eyepatches?
... that a 25-foot (7.6 m) tall, traditionally-dressed Ukrainian woman offers bread and salt to Saskatchewan Highway 5 travelers at Canora, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada?
... that when Muhammad Ali won the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century Award he received more votes than the other candidates put together?
... that the first steamship in the Mediterranean Sea basin, Real Ferdiando I, was launched on September 27, 1818, from the Port of Naples?
... that the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster designed by artist Shepard Fairey was based on a photograph from before Obama officially launched his presidential campaign?
... that the olive cultivar Bosana makes up more than half the olive production of Sardinia?
... that Norwegian historian Tore Linné Eriksen has published several books about Namibia, including one on what was described as the first genocide in the twentieth century?
... that the day when Exxon canceled its Colony Shale Oil Project in Colorado is known by locals as "Black Sunday"?
... that Chōji Suitengu, a character from the anime Speed Grapher, rolls his cigarettes with 10,000 yen bills?
... that with hundreds of birds found in the state , Oregon ranks fifth in the United States in terms of avian species diversity?
... that soon after understudy Eric Lewis left the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in frustration that George Grossmith rarely took a day off, Grossmith fell gravely ill?
... that venture capitalists committed US$25,000 to the Next Big Sound after a group of Northwestern University students presented it as their entrepreneur class assignment?
... that George Miller Bligh was present at Nelson's death at Trafalgar, and was subsequently incorporated into Arthur William Devis's painting of the event?
... that Jon Tvedt took up competitive mountain running in his late thirties, his career in orienteering having peaked several years earlier?
... that B.Day, Bakery Music's tenth-anniversary and parting concert, was performed at Rajamangala Stadium to an audience of 50,000 and was the largest concert ever held in Thailand at the time?
... that the poor grade sandstone used in the original U.S. Capitol Gatehouses and Gateposts required them to undergo a complete restoration in 1938?
... that all 17 etchings by Juste de Juste show only naked men, in five cases forming human pyramids ?
... that rabbits that were introduced as food for arctic foxes still populate Anangula Island in the Aleutian Islands, although the foxes were removed in the 1940s?
... that Bhausaheb Kolte was the first to edit Leela Charitra, the first written biography in the Marathi language?