derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in 1872, Western University in Kansas, USA, selected Charles Henry Langston, abolitionist, politician and future grandfather of poet Langston Hughes, as principal of its new normal school?
... that Noel Dossou-Yovo is presently President of the Professors World Peace Academy in the Republic of Benin?
... that after Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, the parliamentarians of the German Christian Social People's Party in Czechoslovakia joined the Sudeten German Party?
... that the Liberty ship SS Timothy Bloodworth was the first ship to be hit by a V-2 rocket?
... that the pillars of the cancelled Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System project have been described as "a Bangkok version of Stonehenge"?
... that Turkish female aviator Nezihe Viranyalı was educated in civil aviation at the University of Tennessee following an invitation by the renowned American pilot Jacqueline Cochran?
... that the boga, an improvised plastic cannon used in New Year's celebrations in the Philippines, has been banned by the government since 2006?
... that Mario Menéndez, who was the governor of the Falkland Islands, surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War?
... that the history of Switzerland in the Roman era includes about 300 years of peace and prosperity?
... that Roderigue Hortalez and Company was a fictitious front organization set up by France to help American revolutionaries fight England?
... that kibbutz Re'im has started a project to become the first community in Israel with its domestic power consumption provided entirely by solar energy?
... that Dave Fanning described 2TV as "not rocket science, it's moron television"?
... that for most of its history, Champagne was pinkish and non-sparkling?
... that DeShawn Sims is the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to have at least 20 points and 20 rebounds in a single game since Phil Hubbard did so in the 1977 NCAA Tournament?
... that the engine block of the Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle was painted either green or red for racing or road, respectively?
... that the owner of Fairhope Plantation near Uniontown, Alabama, organized his own artillery unit during the American Civil War?
... that Australian cricketer Ernie Toshack, tired of signing autographs, had a friend sign for him, who incorrectly signed Toshak?
... that the Cobb and Frost-designed Chicago Opera House, built 1884–85, was one of the first buildings constructed using general contracting?
... that the monastery of Champmol was founded in 1383 as the dynastic burial-place of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, but only ever contained two monumental tombs?
... that Peter Benchley wanted to write about pirates, but editor Thomas Congdon preferred his idea for a novel about sharks that became the bestseller Jaws?
... that Iolani Luahine, considered the high priestess of the ancient hula, was said to be able to "call up the wind and the rain" and to "make animals do her bidding"?
... that Grower Champagnes have been described as "artisanal winemaking" for their focus on terroir rather than on producing a consistent "house style" that is associated with larger Champagne houses?
... that Francis S. Hoyt, the first President of Willamette University in Oregon, USA, graduated from Wesleyan University, a school his father helped to found?
... that the Sri Lankan Army's LRRP, a covert special operations unit, has assassinated several top level Tamil Tigers commanders during the Sri Lankan civil war?
... that Walter Galbraith selected an Accrington Stanley team of eleven Scots for an English Football League match?
... that at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, Lutheran Church in America President Robert J. Marshall received a lengthy standing ovation after opening with the two words "Fellow Christians"?
... that Prosecco, an Italian sparkling wine increasingly popular internationally, is believed to have also been produced in Ancient Roman times?
... that the extent of rainbands around a tropical cyclone can be used to determine its intensity?
... that filmmaker Daniel St. Pierre led the team that developed the Deep Canvas system for the animated film Tarzan for enhancing the apparent depth of backgrounds?
... that when Brackley railway station was visited by the Royal Train in 1950, the King and Queen had to step on a box when leaving the train because its door was far above the platform?
... that the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life accused French students of taking refuge from their ideological subservience in miserabilism and bohemianism?
... that Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalents series of cloud photographs are regarded as the earliest examples of abstract photographic art?
... that the Colombo Cricket Club Ground, a small multi-use stadium in Sri Lanka, has hosted three Test matches?
... that after Lavrentiy Beria was arrested in June 1953, Sergei Kruglov succeeded him as the Soviet Union's Minister of Internal Affairs?
... that The Beggar's Benison was a Scottish gentlemen's club devoted to "the convivial celebration of male sexuality"?
... that as Champagne ages on its lees , the breakdown of yeast cells imparts unique flavors of acacia, biscuits and nuttiness as well as a creamy mouth feel?
... that McIDAS software has been used to process meteorological data and images from space probes?
... that a schoolteacher from the U.S. state of Ohio donated the first 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Mary Jane Thurston State Park, named in her honor?
... that the Zarqa River, which is Jordan's third largest, is so polluted that it is considered an "environmental blackspot"?
... that the sarin-filled M125 bomblet was a sub-munition in the M34 cluster bomb and four American missile systems?
... that the isolation of antibodies and flu viruses from birds on Tryon Island, a coral cay off the coast of Queensland, Australia, led to the development of antiviral drugs, such as Tamiflu?
... that Brett Sutter became the eighth member of the Sutter family to play in the National Hockey League when he made his debut for the Calgary Flames on December 23, 2008?
... that Pollicipes pollicipes , a goose barnacle found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, is a delicacy in Spain where it may fetch up to €90 per kilogram?
... that Royal Parker, who played a children's television show character on Baltimore's WBAL-TV, also broadcast the news bulletin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963?
... that Walter A. McDougall received the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age?
... that though it never made it on the air, Faze TV was planned as the first television channel in the United Kingdom specifically targeted towards gay men?
... that while a professor at the University of Wisconsin, future I.C.C. commissioner Balthasar H. Meyer taught what was said to be the first course in insurance in the U.S.?
... that Kandurata province cricket team entered the finals of 2007/08 Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial limited over tournament unbeaten, but the game was rained out and they had to share the trophy?
... that the Yellow-throated Honeyeater is known for collecting hair from live animals such as horses, dogs and humans for lining its nest?
... that the ruined Elizabethan mansion of Rocksavage in Runcorn was once the second-largest house in Cheshire?
... that the Arpechim Refinery owned by Petrom produces around sixty percent of all the bitumen used in Romania?
... that the Massacre of the Latins occurred in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 1182?
... that sexual activism group Sex Panic! criticized the efficacy of 1990s US anti-HIV campaigns that, they argued, demonized public sexual culture?
... that the Thika River supplies eighty percent of the water for Nairobi, Kenya?
... that more American astronauts have graduated from the United States Naval Academy than any other institution of higher learning?
... that the winner of the 2005 Djiboutian presidential election, Ismail Omar Guelleh, said that he regretted having no opponent in the election?
... that George Washington gave Martha Parke Custis a miniature of himself as a wedding gift, and later left her 1/32 of his estate in his will?
... that the Orbitron , an Ed Roth-built custom car, was feared lost until its 2007 rediscovery in dilapidated condition in front of a Ciudad Juárez adult bookstore?
... that Polish caricaturist Eryk Lipiński worked for the Polish resistance during World War II, forging documents, and was imprisoned in Auschwitz?
... that the 1886 Michigan football team had a "goalkeeper" and played games measured in "innings"?
... that Svein Døvle Larssen, a newspaper editor by occupation, also served in three different municipal councils for the Conservative Party of Norway?
... that Boxhill, a mansion near Louisville, Kentucky, sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of a former Kentucky governor?
... that Peter Schutz saved the Porsche 911 from extinction when he took over the CEO position at Porsche in 1981?
... that the plot of the "4-D" episode of The X-Files was inspired by French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby, who could only communicate by blinking his left eyelid?
... that Texas State Representative Tommy Merritt co-authored the bill which added "Under God" to the Texas Pledge of Allegiance in 2007?
... that NATO pilots flew more than 100,000 sorties over Bosnia during Operation Deny Flight?
... that Knut Korsæth, former mayor of Lillehammer and County Governor of Oppland, is also an honorary member of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports?
... that MBM, a Barcelona based architecture firm, showed 32 designs that were never built in a 2003 show titled Lost Architectures?
... that Norwegian speed skater Randi Thorvaldsen won nine national allround championships in a row from 1946 to 1954, and finished first in 34 distances out of 36 possible?
... that the Alaska Conservation Society was the first grassroots environmental conservation organization created in the U.S. state of Alaska?
... that the Petrobrazi Refinery owned by Petrom is the most efficient refinery in Romania having a Nelson complexity index of 11.4?
... that in February 2008, David Mendell received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Obama: From Promise to Power?
... that Horace Prettyman played eight years of "college" football for the University of Michigan from 1882 to 1890, some when he was in his 30s and no longer a student?
... that the heads of some East Indian harvesting ant workers are ten times larger than other worker ants of the same species?
... that an 1847 New York state law led to bodies buried in Manhattan graveyards being dug up for reburial in Brooklyn and Queens?
... that Tang Dynasty warlord Li Shidao, hoping to save his ally Wu Yuanji, assassinated the chancellor Wu Yuanheng, who was in charge of the campaign against Wu Yuanji?
... that the open access, peer reviewed journal Trials encourages publication of protocols, which the journal's editor Doug Altman has suggested may reduce data dredging and publication bias?
... that Edmund Chojecki co-founded Le Temps, predecessor to France's most popular modern newspaper, Le Monde?
... that Hebron, now a ghost town in Utah, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902?
... that the Bluespotted trevally is a major predator of prawns on the coasts of Northern Australia?
... that child actor Robbie Kay made his acting debut in the 2006 film The Illusionist, but was eventually cut from the film?
... that when Typhoon Olive struck Wake Island in 1952, World War II bunkers provided shelters for 700 people, resulting in zero fatalities despite the destruction of 85% of the island's structures?
... that Czech–Bulgarian architect Josef Schnitter, chief architect of Plovdiv from 1878 to 1914, is credited with shaping that city's modern appearance?
... that the Indiana County Courthouse was featured with Indiana, Pennsylvania-native Jimmy Stewart on the cover of LIFE in 1945?
... that a cow once got stuck in Boot's Folly at Strines Reservoir, South Yorkshire, England, after climbing its staircase?
... that Reedville Creek Park had the first skatepark in a Hillsboro, Oregon, park when it opened in 2003?
... that at the Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy, Nazi eugenicist Wilhelm Frick claimed that up to 20% of the German population had genetic disorders?
... that handball player Joachim Boldsen has participated in the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars?
... that Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey, the founder of Blue Mountain College, died at age 56 while buying a train ticket?
... that archaeologists have discovered in Sagardighi, West Bengal, small Stone Age weapons not normally found in the Gangetic alluvial plains?
... that Olympic Rower Steven Coppola was the first athlete from Western New York's West Side Rowing Club to medal at the Olympic Games?
... that Harald Strøm's speed skating World Record in 5,000 metres set at Oslo's Frogner Stadion in 1922 lasted seven years?
... that it took 66 years for an arrowhead found near the Boaz mastodon to be positively identified?
... that in spite of years of development no one was able to get a Chromatron color television set to work properly, prompting Sony to develop the famed Trinitron?
... that Battle of Britain pilot Paul Egger was later awarded the Knight's Cross as a Tiger tank commander in the Waffen-SS?
... that Cambodia's Mongkol Borei District was part of Thailand until the French demanded it back in 1907?
... that Paul Kodish, best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum, performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini?
... that nearly half the area of Estonia's 342 km2 (132 sq mi) Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve was once a Soviet Air Force bombing range and its surrounding buffer zone?
... that the John Cassavetes film Husbands, praised by Time magazine as Cassavetes' finest work, was condemned by Pauline Kael and other prominent critics?
... that Joseph Stalin personally rewrote Falsifiers of History to respond to U.S.-released information about the German–Soviet Axis talks?
... that the Heian period Japanese story Torikaebaya Monogatari is the tale of a man who lives as a woman and his sister who lives as a man, who eventually swap places in order to lead happy lives?
... that sprites , large but very brief reddish forms of lightning that occur high over thunderstorms, were not photographed until 1989?
... that there were almost 50,000 women serving in the Australian military in 1944?
... that the Tang Dynasty warlord Wu Shaoyang often pillaged the tea-growing hills of neighboring Shou Prefecture?
... that Stanford Financial Group, whose assets were frozen in 2009 due to charges of investment fraud, was the lead financier of the 2007 film The Ultimate Gift?
... that Althea Byfield played collegiate basketball in the United States, is signed to play semi-professional netball in New Zealand, and has represented Jamaica internationally in both sports?
... that paleolithic implements and a variety of speleothems have been found in the Borra Caves located in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh?
... that Leif Tronstad, who helped establish the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork, organized a sabotage mission against it later?
... that depending on the author, the odor of the stinkhorn mushroom Phallus hadriani has been described as sweet, or fetid?
... that two members of the $100,000 infield have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
... that the tanker ship CHANT 26 ended up discharging her cargo in a French field during the Second World War?
... that Sir Roger Hetherington was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1944 after the death of the president-elect, the second successive year this had happened?
... that in the 2001 Somaliland constitutional referendum, 97.1% of those who voted approved the constitution of Somaliland?
... that William Prowse joined the Royal Navy as an able seaman, saw action at the Glorious First of June, Cape St Vincent, Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar, and died a Rear-Admiral?
... that AAA's first Triplemanía event in 1993 attracted 48,000 people, setting the all-time attendance record for a Mexican professional wrestling event?
... that Kjell Magne Yri, a linguist at the University of Oslo, began his career as a Bible translator and priest in Ethiopia?
... that despite support from Margaret Thatcher, the 1988 National Health Service Lottery was cancelled for contravening gaming regulations?
... that the diet of the Gold-whiskered Barbet includes papaya and lizards?
... that Mel Wakabayashi, born in a wartime Japanese-Canadian internment camp, was called "perhaps the most unlikely star in the long history of Michigan sports, and surely one of the most inspirational"?
... that the skating club Christiania Skøiteklub had more than 5,000 members in 1870, when the city Christiania had fewer than 70,000 inhabitants?
... that Avadhanum Paupiah, Indian dubash of the British East India Company was convicted in 1792 of forging evidence against David Haliburton on behalf of the Holland brothers?
... that the syndicated TV series Sheriff of Cochise was created by co-star Stan Jones, best known for the Western song "Ghost Riders in the Sky"?
... that Mayotte situated in the Indian Ocean, Kosovo and Montenegro in the Balkans, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, have adopted the euro as their national currency?
... that welterweight mixed martial arts fighter Satoru Kitaoka cut down to lightweight in 2008 and captured the Sengoku Lightweight Championship?
... that the Walter Hand House, in Cornwall, New York, was built in 1870 to serve as both a farmhouse and a tourist boarding house?
... that the Wannsee Conference was held in a house that was sold to the Nazi security services by Friedrich Minoux while he was imprisoned for fraud?
... that pop entertainer Cathy Wayne was the first Australian woman killed in the Vietnam War, when a US Marine shot her on stage while she was performing?
... that Romania's Daewoo Mangalia shipyard has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
... that the Crusader was the largest ship commissioned into service with the Australian Army during World War II?
... that the Bay Area Puma Project is the first major study of mountain lions living in the San Francisco Bay Area?
... that though trained as a nuclear physicist, Peer Portner created the ventricular assist device, a pump that assists a patient's heart until a heart transplant can be performed?
... that a wonsam was a female ceremonial robe for the queen, royalty, and nobility during the Korean Joseon Dynasty, though commoners could wear it for their weddings?
... that Wales Triple Crown winner Norman Biggs was killed after being struck by a poison arrow while on military duty in Northern Nigeria?
... that prior to the 1962 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake, earthquake lights were sighted?
... that Flying Officer (later Air Commodore) Frank Lukis was one of the original twenty-one officers in the RAAF when it was formed in 1921?
... that though fruiting as a typical "little brown mushroom", Inocybe lacera is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive spores?
... that Hungarian István Major held the high jump record at the European Indoor Championships from 1972 to 1977?
... that five UH-1 Iroquois helicopters of the Experimental Military Unit were shot down by a single Viet Cong soldier armed with an AK-47 rifle?
... that Humphrey Stafford was only Earl of Devon for three months before being killed by a mob?
... that the pre-Columbian Zapotec storm god Cocijo was said to have created the world from his breath?
... that, although it is traditionally classified as a transition metal, in forming compounds the element zinc has similarities to the alkaline earth metals?
... that John Biehl, a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize?
... that the Grenville Canal on the Ottawa River in Grenville, Quebec, Canada, was built as an alternative military supply route after the War of 1812?
... that Jens-Anton Poulsson was awarded the War Cross with Sword for his actions in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage?
... that following a number of recent banking controversies, Irish ruling party Fianna Fáil was overtaken in opinion polls by the country's Labour Party for the first time in history?
... that when Gordon Wilkie and his Michigan Wolverines teammates scored 21 points in a single ice hockey game against Ohio State University, their coach threatened to bench anyone else who scored?
... that United States Senator Jim Bunning threw the only perfect game out of the nine no-hitters in Philadelphia Phillies history?
... that Corcovado National Park is the only national park in which all of Costa Rica's four native monkey species can be found?
... that Kenelm Hubert Digby was the proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union?
... that the pilot of Showtime's Dexter was filmed through three hurricanes in 2005?
... that writer Paul Georgescu helped enforce Socialist Realism in Communist Romania while concealing his sympathy for Trotskyism?
... that an oleum leak at Chevron Richmond Refinery sent 25,000 people to the hospital in 1993?
... that Kenyan long distance athlete Evans Cheruiyot and his teammates were stranded in France by their manager without food, money, or shelter?
... that Gospel music station WNUZ in Talladega, Alabama, has been off-the-air since its transmitter was destroyed by lightning?
... that as a blindfolded child, opera singer Pauline Joran could identify absolute pitch and the notes of chords?
... that the Heard Shag is a bird with a black crest, pink feet, orange caruncles and blue eye-rings?
... that Hugh Foliot took custody of Hereford Castle in 1223 as part of Hubert de Burgh's takeover of power from Peter des Roches?
... that in his 1999 book The Trouble With Normal, gay author Michael Warner argued that same-sex marriage is an undesirable goal for the gay rights movement?
... that Yehoshua Cohen, the assassin of diplomat Folke Bernadotte, later became a close friend of David Ben-Gurion?
... that John Sutton Hall at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was set for demolition until its listing on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that five members of the Philadelphia Phillies' 2008 world championship team, including Pat Burrell, were also first-round draft picks of the franchise?
... that Margo Sappington received a Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography from the Joffrey Ballet?
... that the Equus Survival Trust is the only conservation organization in the world that specializes in equines?
... that the 1988–89 Swift Current Broncos was the first Western Hockey League team to win the Ed Chynoweth Cup without losing a playoff game?
... that the Trondheim newspaper Ny Tid switched allegiance from Labour to Communist when Knut Olai Thornæs was its editor?
... that the Northern Woods and Water Route is a 2,400 km (1,490 mi) highway route through northern Canada, from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba?
... that Ralph Carpenter's restoration of Hunter House, a historic building in Newport, Rhode Island that had been scheduled for demolition, was called "a brilliant restoration that gets better with age"?
... that Norman Marjoribanks, later acting Governor of Madras, headed a commission to investigate the plight of indentured Tamil labourers on plantations in Ceylon?
... that the title of the 1960–61 TV series COronado 9 refers to the telephone exchange for the home town of fictional detective Dan Adams?
... that the first discovery of the remains of Dorset culture, Paleo-Eskimo people circa 1000 BC to 1100 CE, was made on Dorset Island in Nunavut, Canada?
... that Moorhuhn, a series of German computer games that has spawned much merchandise, a comic book series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a whisky advertisement?
... that 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?