derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the worshippers of Xipe Totec , the Aztec god of renewal, wore the flayed skins of their sacrificial victims?
... that Lorene Rogers was described as the first woman to serve as head of a public university in the United States when she became president of the University of Texas at Austin in 1974?
... that Anacletus II is regarded as an antipope although he had received the majority of the votes in the Papal election of 1130?
... that economist John Kenneth Galbraith called The Go-Go Years, a book by John Brooks about Wall Street's speculative bubble in the 1960s, "a small classic in the history of financial insanity"?
... that during the Angolan Civil War, the surrounding area of Luanda's Palácio de Ferro, believed to be designed by Gustave Eiffel, was once used as a parking lot?
... that ice hockey referee Marcus Vinnerborg has officiated two Ice Hockey World Championship finals in row?
... that historian P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar believed that Kanchipuram was the southernmost outpost of Sanskrit culture during the pre-Pallava period?
... that female impersonator T. C. Jones played murderous transvestites in both a 1965 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a 1967 episode of The Wild Wild West?
... that one-time Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives Charles B. Moores' uncle, father, and grandfather all served in the Oregon Legislature, while his son served in the Washington Legislature?
... that the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Kamikaze was one of the few larger Japanese warships to survive the Pacific War without significant damage?
... that Robert Dallek researched JFK for five years by tapping National Security Archives, oral histories, White House tapes, and medical records to write An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963?
... that in December 1955, India became the first country outside the Eastern bloc to establish diplomatic relations with Mongolia?
... that results from the JUPITER trial indicated that rosuvastatin may lower the relative risk of heart attacks and stroke in patients with normal cholesterol levels?
... that the remnants of 2005's Tropical Depression Ten partially contributed to the formation of Hurricane Katrina?
... that Fred Shaw Mayer was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for breeding Birds of Paradise?
... that the Streamline Moderne building of the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library is a former Dodge automobile dealership?
... that Johann Phillip Fabricius, a German Christian missionary, completed the first translation of the Bible to Tamil?
... that Malay monarchs lost their legal immunity after a series of amendments was made to the Constitution of Malaysia in 1993?
... that American writer Howard Norman stated there was a shorter distance between his unconscious life and his conscious life in Nova Scotia than anywhere else?
... that Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway's first television correspondent stationed in an African country?
... that Andrew Ritchie named his Brompton folding bicycle company after the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary?
... that Harmon Northrop Morse was awarded the Avogadro Medal in 1916 for his extensive report on osmotic pressure and semipermeable membranes ?
... that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's CORONA satellite?
... that British poisoner Frederick Seddon made a secret Masonic signal to his trial judge, prominent Freemason Thomas Townsend Bucknill, in an attempt to overturn the jury's guilty verdict?
... that The Hunters of Kentucky, which commemorated the Battle of New Orleans, was used as Andrew Jackson's 1828 campaign song?
... that Russian ski jumper Arthur Khamidulin retired after his violent crash in ski flying in Vikersund in 2000?
... that the Bradley Airport Connector, a freeway in the U.S. state of Connecticut, was renamed the "82nd Airborne Memorial Highway" in 1999 to honor the 82nd Airborne Division?
... that Sri Ponna, the classical Kannada language poet of c. 950, is considered one of the "three gems of Kannada literature?
... that the specific name of mushroom Lactarius theiogalus comes from the Greek for "brimstone" and "milk"?
... that Niepołomice Forest in Poland incorporates the most protected nature reserve inhabited by European bison called wisent , the heaviest surviving land animal in Europe?
... that World Sculling Champion oarsman Joseph Sadler was a chimneysweep by profession?
... that Isaac Albéniz's opera Pepita Jiménez has been adapted several times by numerous people into different constructs and languages?
... that Pernessa C. Seele, the founder of the Harlem Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS, is an immunologist and one of Time magazine's Top 100 Americans in 2006?
... that St. Mary's Islands, Karnataka, known for the distinctive geological formation of columnar basaltic lava, are a set of four small islands in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Malpe?
... that Ratchanya Yatreegam, magnum opus of Indian poet Henry Alfred Krishnapillai written in Tamil, was based on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?
... that no one knows the age of the Greaser Petroglyphs located in eastern Lake County, Oregon, USA, but they could be up to 12,000 years old?
... that Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen, who had two tenures as Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs, became a bishop after his political career?
... that 52 of Sholto Johnstone Douglas's paintings of First World War "dazzle ships" are in the Imperial War Museum?
... that in Tanta, Egypt, some restaurants sell an "al-Tourbini sandwich", named after a serial child killer?
... that the Kay Moor coal mine near Fayetteville, West Virginia, was first worked with mule-drawn railcars?
... that Michael Christian Festing was Thomas Arne's mentor and it is through his influence that Arne was able to pursue a music career?
... that Guyana's sugar production was halved between 1978 and 1988 due to the economic decline of the nation during the 1980s?
... that Balanadarajah Iyer was the second Sri Lankan journalist to be assassinated in 2004?
... that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
... that the noted medieval Telugu-language writer and poet Palkuriki Somanatha wrote important classics in Kannada and Sanskrit as well?
... that Trailanga Swami, an Indian yogi, is reputed to have lived nearly 300 years and reportedly "read people’s minds like books"?
... that the Hawthorn Farm rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, has a piece of art that indicates the wind's direction by using lights and sounds?
... that both Charles Langbridge Morgan, a civil engineer, and his son Charles Langbridge Morgan, a playwright and novelist, served in the British Armed Forces during the First World War?
... that although Katharine Hepburn wrote most of the filmed script for Travels with My Aunt, she was denied screen credit because she was not a member of the Screen Writers Guild?
... that the village of Worsley is centred around the coal mines that helped kickstart the industrial revolution in nearby Manchester?
... that New York Road Runners CEO Mary Wittenberg was the first female director of a major international marathon?
... that Sega changed a dainty, big-eyed female character into a Vallejo-like golden bikini-clad female barbarian, to market the video game Alisia Dragoon to the Western market?
... that wolf lichen, fungal species Letharia vulpina , was used historically as a wolf poison by combining it with powdered glass and meat?
... that the first container ship arrived in the Port of Tokyo's Shinagawa terminal in 1967?
... that after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, Joseph Alexander Cooper was enlisted to suppress Ku Klux Klan disturbances in Tennessee?
... that The Beatles appeared ten times on the BBC Radio programme Saturday Club in the early 1960s?
... that University of Pennsylvania track coach Ken Doherty removed Bruce Dern from the track team in 1957 after his Elvis-like sideburns caused a commotion while running the two-mile relay?
... that a split in India's Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1988 resulted in a split in the Congress party in Tamil Nadu, leading to the birth of the new party Thamizhaga Munnetra Munnani?
... that the Diamond darter, discovered in 2008, lives only in the Elk River of West Virginia, USA?
... that Vladas Jurgutis is considered to be the "father of the Lithuanian litas"?
... that the invitations to the inauguration of Barack Obama were produced in an environmentally friendly manner by companies certified by the Forest Stewardship Council?
... that George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen was the acting Viceroy of India from June 1929 to April 1931?
... that Chicago's Fountain of Time by Lorado Taft is considered the earliest outdoor concrete sculpture?
... that controversy erupted when Virginia Tech was selected to play in the 2002 Gator Bowl college football game instead of Syracuse, which had more wins in the regular season?
... that Corethrellidae, a family of parasitic midges belonging to the same order as the common housefly, have been found to spread the disease-causing protozoan Trypanosoma among their host frog populations?
... that designer Shigeo Fukuda's poster "Victory 1945" of a projectile heading straight at the opening of a cannon barrel was described as a "bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war"?
... that the color scheme for Israel Railways' new Siemens Viaggio Light trains was chosen by the general public in a poll?
... that President George W. Bush appointed three Cabinet members who had been born outside of the United States, the most of any U.S. president?
... that Holly Coors, wife of beer magnate Joseph Coors, stated while planning to run for Governor of Colorado that the way to help women was "not the Equal Rights Amendment but through free enterprise"?
... that Typhoon Wayne, which roamed the South China Sea and Formosa Strait for over three weeks in 1986, remains the longest lived tropical cyclone on record in the western Pacific Ocean?
... that in May 1776, the future Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated metropolitan bishop with right of succession at the age of 16 by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha?
... that Star Trek: Countdown, a comic book prequel to the 2009 film Star Trek, is also a sequel to the 2002 film Star Trek Nemesis?
... that Barashnûm is a Zoroastrian purification ritual in which a "defiled" person is confined to a corner of the house called Armêsht-gah for a period of nine nights?
... that the Light-mantled Albatross does not start breeding, on average, until 12 years old?
... that Count Hans von Schack of South Jutland was given Schackenborg Castle as a token of Frederick III of Denmark's gratitude for his military achievements in the Northern Wars?
... that Providence Newberg Medical Center in Oregon was the first hospital in the United States to earn a Gold LEED certification?
... that child actor Asa Butterfield appeared on the cover of Patrick Skene Catling's autobiography Better Than Working?
... that after surviving 1945's Battle of Manila, the Avenue Theater along Rizal Avenue was demolished in 2006 in order to turn it into a parking lot?
... that rapper T.I. is starring in T.I.'s Road To Redemption, an upcoming reality television show?
... that the legend of Sumbha and Nisumbha, demons from Hindu mythology, is used as a warning against the dangers of seduction in Shashi Tharoor's novel The Great Indian Novel?
... that symbiotic moss animals live on the bristles of the crab known as the Mud-Runner ?
... that Captain John Maitland's decisive quashing of an attempted mutiny was termed 'Doctor Maitland's recipe' by Admiral John Jervis?
... that ever since the Griffin v. California case in the U.S. Supreme Court, judges and prosecutors are forbidden from mentioning that a defendant has refused to testify?
... that Al-Maquar, which contains the royal residence of Jordan, was built on the camp-site for the armies of the Arab Revolt, who captured Amman in 1918?
... that Marcia P. Sward, who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids, started her career as a mathematician?
... that because of differences in the demands for a separate nation called Dravida Nadu, India's DMK party split in 1962 and a short-lived Tamil National Party was formed?
... that there was public outcry when the Sea Alarm—formerly one of Britain's WWII Empire ships—was scrapped after the closure of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum?
... that in the World Wrestling Federation in the 1980s, Frenchy Martin accompanied Dino Bravo to the ring with a sign that read "USA is not OK"?
... that Grand Duchess Sophie Caroline of East Friesland instructed Danish royal architect Lauritz de Thurah to demolish Sorgenfri Palace in 1756 to make way for a new palace ?
... that during the Battle of Tipton's Island, Colonel Tipton punished a talkative soldier under his command by tying him to a tree?
... that Nijaguna Shivayogi, a petty chieftain in 15th-century Karnataka, India, was a visionary writer and poet in the Kannada language?
... that tab shows—cut-down versions of Broadway and other musicals, with portable scenery—often shared the bill with early 20th-century vaudeville and burlesque shows in the USA?
... that Captain Charles Powell Hamilton was present at both the loss of HMS Alexander in the Action of 6 November 1794, and her recapture at the Battle of Groix?
... that Filipinos are expected to become the second-largest group of foreign workers in Qatar by the end of 2009?
... that New York City's Ramaz School, with 1,100 students in 2007, was named for Rabbi Moses Margolies and founded by his grandson Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, whose son was in the opening class of six in 1937?
... that the Polish resistance in World War II designed and produced hundreds of flamethrowers, most of them of the K pattern model ?
... that a Liveline phone-in debate on gay adoption staged by Evelyn O'Rourke led to more than half of the total complaints issued against the radio show in a six-month period?
... that in 1952, three BSA A7 motorcycles won the Maudes Trophy and the International Six Days Enduro, achieving 4,500 miles (7,200 km) without any problems?
... that Maraimalai Adigal, a Saivite and considered the father of the Pure Tamil movement, disagreed with the atheistic beliefs of Periyar's Self-Respect Movement?
... that in 2005, Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed a bill making Oregon the first U.S. state to require prescriptions for cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient used to make methamphetamine?
... that, being a descendant of Pliohippus, Astrohippus is not considered to be an ancestor to modern horses?
... that in 1975, Tivi Etok, a Quebec artist, was the first Inuk printmaker to have a collection of his own prints released?
... that a 2009 Pennsylvania court case ruled that poker is a game of skill, thus not subject to the state laws related to gambling?
... that Murder on a Sunday Morning, a French film about the 2000 Brenton Butler murder case in Jacksonville, Florida, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2001?
... that Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the "father of the abortion pill", first described the concept of neurosteroids?
... that NBC's 2009 reality television program Superstars of Dance is hosted by "Lord of the Dance" Michael Flatley?
... that East Wallabi Island has the highest number of plant species on any island of the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago in the Indian Ocean?
... that many modern legal commentators believe the decision in Stilk v Myrick was made at least partly due to public policy?
... that Steven Hoefflin grafted skin to Michael Jackson’s scalp after the singer was burnt during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in 1984?
... that the Trondheim Tramway of Norway could not sell their used Class 8 trams because they had the unique combination of 260 cm (100 in) width and meter gauge?
... that Sedgeley, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1799 and built in Philadelphia, was the first Gothic revival-style house in the U.S.?
... that Oslac, the first ealdorman of southern Northumbria, is said to have escorted the Scottish king Cináed mac Maíl Coluim to the court of the English king Edgar the Peaceful?
... that Ron Rothstein was the first head coach of the Miami Heat, an American professional basketball team based in Miami, Florida?
... that remnants of defensive walls and stone shelters on West Wallabi Island, constructed by survivors of the 1629 Batavia shipwreck, are the oldest known European-built structures in Australia?
... that Brett Queener, an American goalkeeper in professional field lacrosse, plays an offensive position in professional indoor lacrosse?
... that the Wolf Popper Synagogue in Kraków, Poland, was founded in 1620 by one of the richest European traders in saltpetre, used for the making of gunpowder?
... that Bob May got the role of the Robot in the 1960s TV series Lost in Space when he met the show's creator Irwin Allen in the studio lot who said "if you can fit in the suit, you've got the job"?
... that the Thomas Paine Cottage is where the Revolutionary War hero and author of Common Sense lived from 1802 to 1806, was buried in 1809, and was disinterred in 1819 by William Cobbett?
... that the Moss, Norway-based corporation Peterson started as a general store in 1801, later expanding into packaging and paper industry via timber trade and shipping?
... that the U.S. Olympic Committee awarded medals to Sam Stoller and Marty Glickman 62 years after the only two Jews on the U.S. track team were pulled from the 400-meter relay team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?
... that Jagannatha Dasa is one of the widely known 18th-century saint-poets of the Kannada language?
... that the Weberian apparatus, a set of modified bones that link the swim bladder and inner ear of some fishes, is a distinguishing characteristic of the superorder Ostariophysi?
... that the collection of the Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely includes 275 aircraft, of which approximately 110 are on public display?
... that college football player Bob Ward is the only player to have been selected by the Associated Press as a first-team All-American in both an offensive and defensive position?
... that the 2005 World Series of Poker Ladies Champion had been nominated for an Academy Award in 1994?
... that the biennial world chef championship Bocuse d'Or, named for Paul Bocuse , is one of the world's most prestigious cooking competitions?
... that the Citizen's Briefing Book is a compilation work of citizen recommendations to Barack Obama, to be presented to him after his inauguration as President of the United States?
... that the birth place of Tipu Sultan, also known as the Tiger of Mysore, is located 150 metres (490 ft) south-west of Devanahalli Fort in Karnataka, India?
... that Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the captain of US Airways Flight 1549, also runs an aviation safety consultant company and has worked as an accident investigator for the USAF, NTSB, and FAA?
... that Empire Athelstan was the first merchant ship built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow in Furness after the Second World War?
... that C. Natesa Mudaliar was responsible for bringing bitter rivals Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T. M. Nair together and is remembered as one of the founders of India's Justice Party?
... that development of the Namsos Line was halted both in 1908, when final plans for the Nordland Line used another route via Snåsa, and in 1927, when the Norwegian Minister of Labour stopped construction?
... that following Andrew Jackson's inauguration in 1829, a drunken mob inside the White House was only dispersed once bowls of punch and liquor were placed on the front lawn?
... that the unusual layout of bays in the aisles of St Luke's Church, Brighton , was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as "curious" and "disturbing"?
... that the antimicrobial protein hydramacin-1 was extracted and isolated in 2008 by German scientists from Hydra, a freshwater relative of corals and jellyfish?
... that Russian poetess Anna Akhmatova regarded Osip Mandelstam's poem on Russian poetess Mariya Petrovykh as the "best love poem of the twentieth century"?
... that the MV Domala was the first ship of the British-India Steam Navigation Company that was powered by diesel engines?
... that, in 2008, college football player Russell Wilson of North Carolina State became the first freshman quarterback to ever be named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team?
... that the Little Wattlebird lacks the wattles which characterise the wattlebirds?
... that Mike Murphy trained heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan, was the first Michigan Wolverines football coach, and has been called the "the father of American track athletics"?
... that the Singsaker Line was the first part of the Trondheim Tramway, Norway, to be closed?
... that after escaping from German forces in World War II, Peter Lewis hid in a safe house in Modena for almost two months in late 1943?
... that the UNIO High School in Satu Mare, Romania, was established only to train and promote skilled workers for the UNIO Company?
... that entrepreneur Ralph D. Foster and his partner started Missouri radio station KGBX (now KSGF) in 1926 to advertise their Firestone Tires dealership?
... that Australian forces were deployed as a part of the North Russian Expeditionary Force and North Russia Relief Force during the Russian Civil War?
... that Stephen Etnier, an American realist painter, commanded the United States Navy ship USS Mizpah during World War II?
... that the title for Peter Benchley's best-selling 1974 novel Jaws was not agreed until 20 minutes before it went into production?
... that species from Cookeina , a genus of cup fungi, are used in Peninsular Malaysia as fish bait?
... that IBM's Automatic Language Translator machines used by the US Air Force had optical disks that stored thousands of Russian-to-English translations?
... that during the captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam, 30,000 of the captured 60,000 Christians were forcibly converted to Islam by Tipu Sultan?
... that microbiologist Hans Knöll defended the historic center of Jena, which was threatened by the construction of the Jen-Tower?
... that the four-part A&E documentary series The Greatest Pharaohs is being used in many college and university courses on anthropology and archaeology?
... that after being sent to the GULAG, Ukrainian writer Hryhorii Epik continued to write and sent one of his works to the NKVD in Moscow before his execution during the Great Purge in 1937?
... that George Webb Restaurants locations each have two clocks that employees claim are set one minute apart to evade a local law banning businesses from being open 24 hours per day?
... that Steve Farrell, called "the greatest professional foot-racer" in America, raced against horses for several years in the 1890s and reportedly only lost a half dozen times?
... that the first egg laid in a clutch by Crested penguins of the genus Eudyptes is as little as 60% of the size of the second egg?
... that undercover apartheid agent Fabio Barraclough used a cover identity as an anti-apartheid campaigner?
... that the 1983 song "Everyday I Write the Book" was Elvis Costello's first hit single in the United States?
... that Malaysian royalty's immunity from legal prosecution was removed after a 1992 assault incident, involving Tunku Majid of Johor, sparked a constitutional crisis?
... that the US Air Force's cold-weather testing facility was moved from Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska, to a refrigerated hangar, the McKinley Climatic Laboratory, at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida?
... that an electronic opera Raab by the Czech composer Jaroslav Krček was banned by the communist regime in 1972?
... that the United States Department of Transportation incorrectly lists the former Interstate 87 bridge on Warren County Route 35 as an old state road?
... that professional wrestler George "Two Ton" Harris was promised continued employment with Jim Crockett Promotions when he assured the owner that he would learn to read and write?