derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Ann Baumgartner was the first American woman to fly a United States Army Air Forces jet aircraft when she flew the Bell YP-59A jet fighter at Wright Field as a test pilot during World War Two?
... that by using a shower curtain and sewing machine, Marion Donovan developed what was to become the first waterproof disposable diaper?
... that Egyptian officer Rawya Ateya was the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the Arab world?
... that Strobilanthes callosus, a shrub found in the hill forests of India used in folk medicines, flowers only once in eight years before dying off, exhibiting a once in a lifetime mass flowering and mass seeding life cycle?
... that three-time Olympian Albertina Dias was the first Portuguese woman to win at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships?
... that Girdap, established in Ruse in 1881, was the first privately-owned bank in Bulgaria?
... that the word bluestocking meaning learned woman is said to have derived from a reference to Benjamin Stillingfleet?
... that the ancient Romans sacrificed pregnant cows to celebrate Fordicidia, the festival of fertility?
... that in 1928, Viola Gentry flew 8 hours, 6 six minutes and 37 seconds straight which set the first non-refueling endurance record for women?
... that the tennis ball banksia is so named for its inflorescences, which look like tennis balls?
... that the Bacon Deluxe sandwich from Wendy's topped a list of the five most unhealthful gourmet burgers sold by national fast food restaurant chains in the United States?
... that video game music composer Garry Schyman prefers the video game industry to television and film in part because the people in it are "nice people whose egos were in check"?
... that Masako Katsura's participation in the World Three-Cushion Billiards tournament of 1952 was the first time any woman ever competed in any billiards tournament for a world crown?
... that Black Chicks Talking is a book, film, play and art exhibition that explores issues related to Indigenous Australian women?
... that printer and engraver Edmund Evans collaborated with Victorian book illustrators Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway to create classic illustrations for children's books?
... that a 70-foot waterfall prevents salmon and other migratory fish from swimming upriver beyond the first 0.4 miles of the South Fork Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon?
... that John Brennan, a 201-pound football player, was voted "queen" of the University of Michigan ice carnival after challenging the pulchritude of the school's co-eds?
... that the captured Tiger Tank that was once transported aboard Empire Candida is now preserved in working order at the Bovington Tank Museum?
... that the requirement to teach geometry was removed from the duties of the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford so that Edward Titchmarsh could be appointed to the post in 1931?
... that the Haramain High Speed Rail Project in Saudi Arabia, will run for 444 km (276 mi) between the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca with 320-km/h (200-mph) electric trains?
... that the Harelle was a 1382 tax revolt that began in the city of Rouen and was emulated in many other French cities?
... that the tomb of a female saint in Sharafat, East Jerusalem, is venerated in the belief that she can render assistance in times of drought?
... that Brougham Castle was seized by Henry III of England in 1264 when the castle's previous owner died during a rebellion against the king?
... that Elizabeth Yates' novel Amos Fortune, Free Man won the inaugural William Allen White Children's Book Award?
... that the tsunami triggered by the 1868 Arica earthquake, that led to 25,000 deaths in Peru and northern Chile, caused damage and at least one death in New Zealand?
... that German high jumper Meike Kröger spent almost a year working in an orphanage in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan?
... that, since 2007, the UK government has appointed part-time ministers for each of the nine English regions, to act as "regional champions"?
... that the pygmy whitefish is the most trout-like freshwater whitefish?
... that in 1948, Johan Ulrik Olsen became Norway's first Minister of Local Government?
... that an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar?
... that Tengboche Monastery is the largest gompa in the Khumbu region of Nepal?
... that with a forewing length of only 3.36 millimetres (0.132 in) Microberotha is one of the smallest known beaded lacewings to have been described?
... that Juan Bravo Murillo tried but failed to impose an absolutist constitution on Spain in 1852?
... that Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell's first feature film French Dressing?
... that Sisko Hanhijoki won 28 Finnish championship titles in the 60, 100 and 200 metres events between 1985 and 1993?
... that Lake Abert in Lake County, Oregon, covers 57 square miles (150 km2) and is teeming with brine shrimp, but has no fish?
... that Samuel Oshoffa founded the Celestial Church of Christ in 1947 after being lost for three months near Porto Novo in Benin?
... that in August 2001, the Galileo spacecraft flew through the sulfur dioxide gas plume of the Ionian volcano Thor ?
... that the latest possible date for the construction of the William Lawrence House in Bellefontaine, Ohio, is known from a date carved into a windowsill?
... that the Ocean Grove Nature Reserve contains the only significant remnant of native woodland on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, as it was prior to European settlement?
... that New York Times veteran David Stout received an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his first novel Carolina Skeletons, written in his spare time?
... that on April 4, 1981, a tornado struck West Bend, Wisconsin, killing 3 people and injuring another 53?
... that George B. Bacon was the son of Leonard Bacon, and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Thomas R. Bacon, and Edward Woolsey Bacon—and all were Congregational preachers?
... that U-2336 sank the last Allied ships lost in World War II on 7 May 1945, when she torpedoed and sank the freighters Avondale Park and Sneland I?
... that plate reconstructions that use magnetic stripe patterns can only go back to the Jurassic period, as there is no older oceanic crust?
... that Henry Martyn was described by Wisden as "one of the finest wicket-keepers ever seen in first-class cricket"?
... that, although it does not set out to compete for visitors, in 2009 the Cloppenburg Museum Village had 250,000, more than any other museum in Lower Saxony?
... that famed builder James W. McLaughlin started his Architectural studies at fifteen and when the American Civil War broke out served as a Lieutenant in the body guard of General John C Fremont?
... that the present day use of arrhae in weddings can be traced back to the Visigoth and Frank culture?
... that Mexican band Camila received a Gold certification for their album Dejarte de Amar in the first day of sales in Mexico?
... that Molsheim's former Jesuit Church is the principal 17th century church building in the Rhine Valley?
... that the Holt Manufacturing Company patented the first practical crawling-type tractor , which was used as an artillery tractor in World War I and inspired design of the first British tanks?
... that Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira received a platinum certification in Mexico for her album Loba within a week after its release?
... that Jamison Square, an urban water park for children in Portland, Oregon, features "goofy tiki totems" by Kenny Scharf?
... that in August 1936, British Ambassador to France Sir George Clerk warned Yvon Delbos of the dangers of French intervention in the Spanish Civil War?
... that the Honduran archaeological site El Puente was founded by the people of Copán to control the crossroads of two Maya trade routes?
... that the liverwort Pellia epiphylla is monoicous, with both male and female sex organs on the same thallus?
... that Warren Terhune, upon his suicide by gunshot, became the only Governor of American Samoa to die in office?
... that the Venezuelan town Potosi was intentionally flooded in 1985, but has reappeared in 2010 due to a drought?
... that three of the five railroads that make up the Mountain Railways of India are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List?
... that British Assyriologist Donald Wiseman was Cliff Richard's youth group leader at Finchley Crusaders?
... that the only male "sweat bee" to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis?
... that though she missed out on a British Academy Television Craft Award for her first television film, Pleasureland, writer Helen Blakeman won a British Academy Children's Award for Dustbin Baby, her second?
... that the popularity of the British Landrace pig is partly responsible for the decline of rarer breeds in the United Kingdom?
... that Samuel Wanjiru, the 2008 Olympic marathon champion, won the Fukuoka Cross Country competition when he was only 16 years old?
... that game designer Gregory Weir attempted to create one new game in every month of 2009?
... that the Popocatépetl volcano occasionally dumps ash on the municipality of Ozumba, Mexico?
... that the Kansas City Royals have never drafted a second baseman in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft?
... that the extinct Neocorynura electra, found in Dominican amber, is the only known species of Neocorynura "sweat bee" from the Greater Antilles?
... that in 1881, George Washington Weidler, owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon?
... that on August 23, 1998, a severe weather outbreak produced an F3 tornado in Door County, Wisconsin, that caused an estimated $6.5 million in damages?
... that in the Battle of Anzen, the Byzantine emperor Theophilos managed to avoid death or capture due to a sudden rainfall that loosened his enemies' bowstrings?
... that the French battleship Courbet was twice hit by German Neger manned torpedoes after she had been scuttled as part of a Mulberry harbour during the Normandy Landings of June 1944?
... that early female Republican Party politician and suffragist Rhoda Fox Graves was the first woman to serve in the New York State Senate?
... that Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus is the most abundant species of moss in British lawns?
... that Papias the Lombard wrote "the first fully recognizable dictionary" in the 1040s?
... that the purported paranormal activity in the churchyard of the Chapel of the Cross in Madison, Mississippi, has been featured in two books?
... that the upcoming video game Scrap Metal, set to be released on XBox Live Arcade, will allow players to customize monster trucks and bulldozers with flamethrowers and rocket launchers?
... that the 1901 musical play Bluebell in Fairyland was the inspiration for Peter Pan?
... that "Ducker" McLean may have lost Oxford a University Boat Race because he did not jump out of the boat?
... that Motu Matakohe island is used as a safe location for baby Kiwi until they weigh 1 kilogram and are brought to mainland New Zealand?
... that a land use conflict is when one sort of land use creates a negative impact on other land uses nearby?
... that the upcoming XBox Live Arcade video game Toy Soldiers will feature World War I toy miniatures battling on a model diorama in a child's bedroom?
... that although Israeli forces were planning to attack Arab Beersheba in May 1948, they were forced to delay the Battle of Beersheba until just one day before a planned ceasefire in October 1948?
... that the Leading Edge, a student-run semi-professional science fiction and fantasy magazine, had a Chesley Award-winning cover in 2002 by James C. Christensen?
... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas?
... that the American electric blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, Little Sonny, often boosted his earnings by photographing customers between his on-stage appearances?
... that the English all-rounder Leslie Todd was once described as "the most perverse, most infuriating cricketer of his generation"?
... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs?
... that Melek Tourhan, whose father offered her for adoption as an infant in order to improve her lot in life, went on to become Sultana of Egypt?
... that Mar Papa was the first Catholicos (universal leader) of the Persian Church of the East in the 4th century?
... that the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in India is building four new 'X' Class locomotives – a design dating from 1920?
... that Bulgarian writers and screenwriters Moritz Yomtov and Marko Stoychev worked together as the Mormarevi Brothers even though they were unrelated?
... that Oliver Stone based the final combat scene in his 1986 movie Platoon on a real battle that he survived when he was an American soldier in Vietnam?
... that Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana sponsored a "poetry slam" judged by poets and rappers at the International Book Fair of Guadalajara, Mexico?
... that periodic comet 22P/Kopff is expected to next make its closest approach to the Sun on October 25, 2015?
... that Seattle Sounders FC has seven recognized supporter groups and that in 2009 they amassed the largest average attendance in the Major League Soccer with 30,943 fans?
... that John Sanness, who would become professor and chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, was expelled from his secondary school for protests against the monarchy of Norway?
... that the rare, "almost legendary" Japanese lates was considered to be the same fish as the barramundi until 1984?
... that Danish designer Poul Lange created a children's book about holes which had a hole all the way through it?
... that Mary Nolan voted in favor of Senate Concurrent Resolution 22 that recognizes the service of United States Merchant Marine veterans during World War II?
... that Minuscule 629, a Latin-Greek diglot manuscript of the New Testament, contains the Comma Johanneum written by the original scribe?
... that the Mountbatten Brailler allows a user to translate Braille into text and vice versa?
... that Hakeem Olajuwon and Sam Bowie were selected ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 National Basketball Association Draft?
... that the extinct sweat bee genus Oligochlora contains six species all known from the Dominican amber deposits on Hispaniola?
... that an apocryphal tale tells how George Gilbert Scott drew the initial designs for Clifton Hampden Bridge on his starched shirt cuff over dinner?
... that Zakynthos Marine Park in Greece is the first national park established for the protection of sea turtles in the Mediterranean?
... that architect Thomas D. McLaughlin designed numerous Lima, Ohio, buildings, including the city's Elks Lodge?
... that Solas fiddler Winifred Horan is a former member of the all-female musical group Cherish the Ladies?
... that the important Mesoamerican archaeological site of Cara Sucia in El Salvador was severely damaged by looters after the Land Reform Programme of 1980?
... that Oregon Public Broadcasting's popular Oregon Field Guide has featured topics ranging from mountain unicycling to invasive species?
... that Blues Hall of Fame inductee "Sunshine" Sonny Payne received his nickname as a joke by musician Robert Jr. Lockwood?
... that at the Battle of Bathys Ryax, the Byzantines attacked with only 600 men out of an army of 4,000–5,000, leaving the rest to raise much noise so as to simulate the arrival of a far larger force?
... that the Biblioteca comunale in Ancona, Italy, has a collection of musical manuscripts of more than 50 classical composers?
... that in 2007, champion runner David Lelei tried to be the Orange Democratic Movement candidate for the Eldoret South Constituency seat but lost to the eventual winner Peris Simam?
... that Giant George is recognised as the tallest dog ever by Guinness World Records and measures 43 inches (110 cm) high at the withers?
... that Roald Dysthe, who was installed as a chief executive during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, was acquitted of treason in 1951?
... that An Nam chí lược, a book published in 1335 during the Yuan Dynasty, is considered the oldest historical work by a Vietnamese that has been preserved?
... that singer-songwriter Madonna made her episodic TV series debut in the Will & Grace episode "Dolls and Dolls"?
... that the mushroom Laetiporus sulphureus is a good substitute for chicken?
... that the gamma-ray burst (GRB) 090423 , whose light took approximately 13 billion years to reach Earth, is the oldest and most distant known object in the Universe?
... that according to Erich von Manstein in his book Verlorene Siege, Adolf Hitler stopped Operation Citadel too soon?
... that suggested close relatives of the rare Ecuadorian rice rat Mindomys have included water rats, tree rats, and Caribbean giant rats?
... that in just over 14 years of owning Select Medical Corporation, Rocco Ortenzio and his son Robert made an estimated $200,000,000 in profit?
... that Cruel and Unusual is a documentary about transsexual women incarcerated in men's prisons?
... that Drew Barrymore, Wanda Sykes and Cynthia Nixon are to be honored at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards this year?
... that the secret articles of the Peace of Lund, that ended the Scanian War in 1679, were not revealed until 1870?
... that tennis player Johan Haanes spent nine months in a concentration camp for participation in an "illegal" ski competition?
... that the stargazer , a widespread coastal fish, is an ambush predator which can deliver both venom and electric shocks, and has been called "the meanest thing in creation"?
... that John Steel, the Ziegfeld Follies tenor who introduced Irving Berlin's song "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody", later appeared in staged boxing matches?
... that Messier 58 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and is one of four barred spiral galaxies included in Charles Messier's catalog?
... that at the town next to the Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada, thousands of underage girls prostituted themselves for gold flakes while around 60–80 unsolved murders were registered every month?
... that James W. Treffinger went on to become a Republican County executive of Essex County, New Jersey, even though his Catholic family "idolized" FDR and Kennedy?
... that Minuscule 546 was bought by philanthropist Baroness Burdett-Coutts in the 1860s?
... that Stanley Muirhead helped lead Michigan to a national football championship in 1923 and was a first-team All-NFL player in 1924 for the Dayton Triangles and Cleveland Bulldogs?
... that when Dana Delany and Julie Benz shared a kiss scene for the Desperate Housewives episode "Lovely", Delaney noticed "crew members on the set that were never there before"?
... that, to stay above the reservoir the Dexter Dam would make, the Lowell Bridge, in Lowell, Oregon, was raised about 6 feet (1.8 m) in 1953?
... that Cho Jae-hyun, a South Korean actor, is commonly referred to as a persona of director Kim Ki-duk due to his appearances in almost all of Kim's films?
... that America’s oldest private medical society, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, displays the conjoined liver of Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker in its museum?
... that some of the songs on the 2009 EP Criminal Intents/Morning Star detail the story arc of a group of rebels fighting against a corporation out to rule the world?
... that the Nissan Terranaut concept car has a glass dome over its roof for an easy escape in case of emergency?
... that the British submarine HMS E13 was attacked and destroyed by German warships during World War I after running aground off the neutral Danish island of Saltholm?
... that the Mesoamerican archaeological site of Quelepa in eastern El Salvador was distinguished by its unusual ramped pyramids?
... that the counter-insurgency strategy of clear and hold, widely implemented in the Vietnam War and elsewhere, has also been used extensively in the Iraq War?
... that a 1973 ruling by Sylvia Pressler forced Little League Baseball to begin admitting girls for the first time?
... that Minuscule 644 was bought by the British Museum from Constantine Simonides, a forger of manuscripts?
... that IGN's Doug Perry said Moto Racer 2 was the best motorcycle racing game seen on the PlayStation?
... that one of the activities that are possible at the Nevado de Toluca National Park is scuba diving in the two volcanic crater lakes?
... that British actress Emma Catherwood observed real bypass surgery being performed in preparation for her role as F1 Penny Valentine in the medical drama Holby City?
... that when threatened, the blotched fantail ray raises its spine-bearing tail over its body and waves it back and forth?
... that the Vedda language is a Creole language based on Sinhalese of Sri Lanka rather than a dialect?
... that former baseball player Joe Abreu became an enthusiast of magic after he saw former baseball player and professional magician Carl Zamloch put on a magic show at his high school?
... that Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world executed by the USS Triton in 1960?
... that in the 1885–86 season, West Bromwich Albion became the first team from the English Midlands to reach the FA Cup Final?
... that Bethel Academy in Kentucky was the first Methodist school west of the Appalachian Mountains?
... that comedy writer Al Jean, who has been awarded with four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons, graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics?
... that German extreme in-line skater Dirk Auer roller skated down a large wooden roller coaster at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, reaching speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)?
... that in the 1990s, Congregation Beth Israel was the largest Jewish congregation in Greater Vancouver?
... that Minuscule 627 has an unusual order of books, with the Book of Revelation placed between Acts of the Apostles and the general epistles?
... that in 1938, the barque Priwall recorded the fastest ever rounding of Cape Horn by a sailing ship?
... that Leland Myrick wrote the autobiographical graphic novel Missouri Boy, even though he considers himself "a very private person"?
... that Levi L. Rowland worked as a professor at the Oregon medical school he was still attending?
... that the Yeywa Hydropower Dam is the largest hydroelectric power plant and the first roller-compacted concrete dam in Burma?
... that Google Images caused controversy in 2009 after it was discovered that the number-one result for the search term "Michelle Obama" was a derogatory doctored photo of the US first lady?
... that the self-decapitated Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta standing on a copulating couple signifies that life, death and sex are interdependent?
... that Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates?
... that in the 1920s, Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams, sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage, and sliced bacon?
... that Viktor Kaisiepo, a Netherlands New Guinean-born advocate of self-determination for West Papua, lived most of his life in exile in the Netherlands?
... that the plant Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' was chosen as the 1992 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association?
... that in 1709, a privateering force, of which Acadian military officer Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was a member, sank 35 British ships and took 470 people prisoner?
... that the 1997 flooding of Wilson Canyon in Lyon County, Nevada, resulted in $726,000 in damage to Nevada State Route 208?
... that Letters of Ayn Rand, published in 1995, was the first book by Ayn Rand to receive a positive review in The New York Times Book Review since 1943?
... that the marine slug Aeolidiella stephanieae is commonly kept in aquaria to control the anemone Aiptasia?