derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the town of Marche, Arkansas, was founded by a Polish count who wanted to restore the agricultural environment familiar to most Poles before their arrival in America?
... that former fighter pilot Robert V. Whitlow , although trying to secure an NFL franchise for Phoenix, said the Philadelphia Eagles' plans to relocate to Arizona did not "seem very wise"?
... that, although the 1481 Rhodes earthquake caused only a minor tsunami, it matches the age of a tsunami deposit found near Dalaman on the Turkish coast?
... that thousands of Muslims from Myanmar and Thailand who have migrated to Taiwan were descendants of nationalist soldiers that fled Yunnan when the communists took over mainland China?
... that the Mausoleum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Warsaw, Poland, preserves cells in which Nazis tortured and killed Polish resistance fighters?
... that, while Ryan Murdough is attempting to run for the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Republican, the chairman of the state Republican Party refused to support him?
... that Rensselaer Lake, created in 1851, was Albany, New York's first municipal water supply?
... that the Deer Rock, a heritage monument of the Tlingits in Haines Borough, Alaska, US, was witness to a peaceful settlement of conflicts between Chilkoot and Chilkat clans?
... that the owner of the American Quarter Horse stallion Poco Pine once bet against his horse winning a Grand Championship, and lost the bet?
... that the new building of the Warsaw University Library in Warsaw, Poland, was consecrated on 11 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II?
... that Rasta Thomas, at 16 became the youngest dancer ever to win the USA International Ballet Competition in the senior division?
... that dolphins are often sighted in the estuary of the Great Wicomico River in Virginia?
... that Skulptur, a 1921 book by Joseph Chaikov, was the first book on sculpture written in Yiddish?
... that Óscar Zamora Medinaceli, a communist student activist and leader of a Maoist insurgency in the 1970s, would become a senator, mayor, ambassador, prefect and minister of Bolivia?
... that archaeologists have detected what they believe is a wooden henge underground near to Stonehenge?
... that in the 1976 miniseries Dickens of London, British actor Roy Dotrice played both Charles Dickens and his father John Dickens?
... that the ornate Jacobean Revival-style 39 Welsh Row in Nantwich, Cheshire, was built as a humble savings bank?
... that the two tracts of Oliver Lee Memorial State Park in New Mexico preserve archeological sites associated with Native Americans and a late 19th-century ranch?
... that three basketball officials were suspended due to unspecified "bad calls" during a 2010 UAAP college basketball game?
... that a 1960s-era church in Brighton, England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement?
... that the Revolutionary Left Front had the highest percentage of female candidates in the 1991 municipal elections in the major cities of Bolivia?
... that Searsville Dam, built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water, flood control, nor hydropower, but rather it irrigates Stanford University's golf course?
... that Ray Courtright, once considered Oklahoma's greatest halfback, pitched a no-hitter for the Sooners and coached the Nevada basketball and Michigan golf and wrestling teams to championships?
... that some house concerts in 1930s Harlem were used as covers for illicit sex?
... that the fossil butterfly Prodryas persephone is so well preserved that individual wing scales can be seen?
... that the most distant planet known in 2002 was discovered by Dimitar Sasselov's team?
... that Nikolaus Pevsner stated that the crocketed and canopied stoup in the porch of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Caldecote, Hertfordshire, is unique?
... that CenSeam is an initiative to biologically sample seamounts (underwater volcanoes), of which about 100,000 exist and only 350 have received attention?
... that José de la Borda went from being the richest man of Taxco to near-bankruptcy to being the richest man in Zacatecas?
... that The Rolling Stones and The Who were among the many leading rock bands who emerged from the British rhythm and blues scene of the early 1960s?
... that David Warren, creator of the first flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, was buried in a casket bearing the label "Flight Recorder Inventor; Do Not Open"?
... that the Wonoboyo hoard is a collection of 9th century golden artifacts from the Medang Kingdom that were discovered in a paddy field in Central Java during irrigation work?
... that former Miami University head football coach Arthur H. Parmelee later studied pediatric medicine with Dr. Clemens von Pirquet in Vienna, Austria?
... that Bryan Jurewicz deflected nine passes as a University of Wisconsin Badgers defensive lineman in 1996, setting a school record?
... that the Claustra Alpium Iuliarum represented a fortification system within the late Roman Empire to help secure internal stability?
... that Denise Jefferson started learning to dance when she was eight, but didn't pursue a career in ballet because she "had never seen anyone who wasn't white in a ballet company"?
... that four players from the 1976 NBA Draft, Adrian Dantley, Robert Parish, Alex English and Dennis Johnson, have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame?
... that when Albanian scholar Hasan Tahsini taught his students about vacuum by killing a pigeon in a bell jar, he was accused of witchcraft?
... that District of Alaska Governor Lyman Enos Knapp enjoyed donning his military uniform and watching the local militia parade before him?
... that Vietnamese General Duong Van Minh had been captured by the Kempeitai during World War II and had all but one of his teeth knocked out during torture?
... that the Filipino communist guerrilla commander Guillermo Capadocia had worked as a chef and a waiter during his youth?
... that St John the Baptist's Church, Papworth St Agnes, Cambridgeshire, is constructed in alternating blocks of limestone and fieldstones, forming a chequerboard pattern?
... that Tomm Murstad, who featured in show performances on skis and started a summer camp for youths, used the moniker "Onkel Tomm" (Uncle Tom) on himself?
... that Peltandra primaeva was the first fossil record for the genus Peltandra when described in 1977?
... that as the first American to play Henry Higgins on Broadway in My Fair Lady, Larry Keith said he doubted if he could get away with his English accent in England, "but I think I can in New York"?
... that for hundreds of years the Buddha was represented by symbols such as his footprint before images like the Seated Buddha from Gandhara were carved in Pakistan?
... that Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford?
... that Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy American satellite USA-193?
... that the nave of St Mary's Church, Mundon, Essex, is constructed in stone, the chancel in brick, the aisle is timber-framed, the belfry is weatherboarded, and the roofs are tiled?
... that Marie-Josephte Corriveau, whose story inspired many books, songs, plays and even ballet over the centuries since her execution in Quebec, was gibbeted for mariticide in 1763?
... that millipedes in the order Sphaerotheriida roll up into balls the size of a cherry, a golf ball, or even a baseball when disturbed?
... that Bach had an excellent flauto traverso player at hand for Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94, the cantata for the ninth Sunday after Trinity of 1724?
... that Bill Borgman was a lineman for the undefeated national champion 1932 and 1933 Michigan football teams and a line-mate of Gerald R. Ford on the 1934 team?
... that the Italian Etna-class protected cruisers had a belt of cork at their waterline, which was intended to seal holes by swelling through water absorption after being hit?
... that before being elected Abbot of Farfa in 761 AD, Alan of Farfa was a hermit who penned what would become one of the most successful homiliaries of the late 8th and 9th centuries?
... that retigabine is the first anticonvulsant to work by activating the Kv7 family of voltage-gated potassium channels?
... that, in 1885, Augustus Voelcker calculated that the annual value of excrement per adult was nine shillings (worth £36 in 2010)?
... that Kalulu , an African boy who died in 1877, was modelled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London?
... that the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, founded 1758, is the third-oldest Dutch newspaper still being published?
... that, on the morning of the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson recalled the anniversary of the Battle of Cap-Français, which his uncle had fought on the same day, 48 years previously?
... that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed Senator George Runner's Ronald Reagan Day bill and the state will begin celebrating it on Reagan's 100th birthday?
... that Justin Godart was one of only 80 French parliamentarians who voted against dissolving the French Third Republic and establishing Vichy France in July 1940?
... that the "Mad Raft Race" is an event held on the Chilkoot River as part of Fourth of July festivities observed in Haines, Alaska?
... that, as a young priest, Alexandre Le Roy accompanied an 1881 expedition to Bagamoyo, Tanzania, during which he wrote articles for European magazines?
... that the Old Whaler's Church in Sag Harbor, New York, is used by Jews on Saturday and Christians on Sunday?
... that Under the Window , published in 1879, launched Kate Greenaway's career as a prominent Victorian children's book illustrator?
... that in 2010 Irish Quebecer historian Marianna O'Gallagher was Grand Marshal of the first Saint Patrick's Day parade held in Quebec City for over 80 years?
... that The Undertaker, a professional wrestler, was momentarily engulfed in flames due to a pyrotechnics accident at WWE Elimination Chamber?
... that The Hepworth Wakefield, a new art gallery opening in 2011 by the River Calder, takes its name from Wakefield-born artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth?
... that Daniel I. Arnon was the first to demonstrate the chemical function of photosynthesis outside of a plant cell, creating sugar and starch from carbon dioxide and water?
... that ships from the Royal Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Polish Navy participated in the British Commando raid Operation Anklet?
... that South Vietnamese General Nguyen Huu Co was exiled by military Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky after being sent overseas on a diplomatic trip and then being locked out of the country?
... that in 1950, L.A. Daily News publisher Manchester Boddy ran in both Senate primaries, with the paper first to call Democrat Helen Douglas "the pink lady" and Republican Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick"?
... that while the Sadd-el-Kafara Dam was under construction in the 3rd century BC to control floods, it was destroyed by one?
... that South Vietnamese General Ngo Quang Truong , known for his incorruptibility, refused to give his nephew a desk job, and the nephew was then killed on the front line?
... that the main town and mission of the Ibi, a Timucua tribe, were evidently destroyed by the government of Spanish Florida as a result of the Timucua Rebellion of 1656?
... that the Wickham Market Hoard of Iron age coins was not the first hoard found near the village of Wickham Market?
... that Emil Spjøtvoll was the first rector of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, whose creation he originally opposed?
... that the name of Temperance River in northern Minnesota is allegedly an early explorer's pun on the river's lack of a sandbar?
... that Deb Margolin removed Elie Wiesel as a character in her play Imagining Madoff after the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor called the play "obscene" and "defamatory", and threatened legal action?
... that Olga Lepeshinskaya's theories on the origins of cells won her a Stalin prize, but were dismissed by her husband as "rubbish"?
... that shipping magnate Samuel Garner Wilder started in the business by sailing guano from Jarvis Island to New York?
... that light front holographic methods were originally found by mapping the spatial quark distribution in a proton to a higher dimensional warped space ?
... that actor Zac Efron is set to star in and produce the American remake of the successful Swedish thriller film Snabba Cash?
... that Stanley Fay, captain and quarterback of the undefeated national champion 1933 Michigan football team, later became Ford Motor Company's personnel director?
... that, before becoming a Louisiana legislator, Virgil Orr once published a paper called "Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium for the Hexamethyldisiloxane–n-Propyl Alcohol System"?
... that the Soulé Live Steam Festival is held annually in downtown Meridian, Mississippi, at the Soulé Steam Feed Works complex, a former steam engine factory incorporated in 1893?
... that the Mikó Citadel of Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania, once used for defensive purposes, now houses an ethnographic museum and a library?
... that the roofline of the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum is decorated with blubber spades and flensing knives?
... that "Sirmilik", the name of a National Park in the northern part of Baffin Island, means "the place of glaciers" in the Inuktitut language?
... that during the "Southbelt Shuffle" event on M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan, horses were ridden on the partially completed freeway?
... that Hong Kong-born Rebecca Nolin plays as a defender for the Atlanta Beat and helps coach the Kennesaw State Owls?
... that the Evangelical School of Smyrna was the most important Greek educational institution in İzmir, Turkey, possessing an archaeological museum, a natural science collection and a library?
... that Jonas Mouton was nationally ranked as a safety in high school football but has started for three seasons at weakside linebacker for the Michigan Wolverines?
... that "Peligroso Amor" was Chilean singer Myriam Hernández' first number-one song in the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart in the United States?
... that seven carpenters were required to build the Mt. Pleasant farmhouse near Indian Falls, New York?
... that despite a warning by Field Marshal Michael von Melas that the man had "a soul as black as his countenance", Heinrich von Bellegarde retained Anton von Zach as Chief of Staff?
... that before the construction of North Main Street School, schoolchildren in Spring Valley, New York, were attending classes in the local fire station?
... that Samuel Colt only began producing the Colt Model 1878 double action revolver over twenty years after his patent on the design had expired?
... that members of the public are encouraged to climb and rearrange pieces of the Family sculpture in front of the Federal Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
... that the Special Survey system allowed people to purchase areas of the Port Phillip District in New South Wales for as little as £1 per acre?
... that the Sopwith Cobham triplane bomber was the only twin-engine aircraft built by the Sopwith Aviation Company?
... that George W. Rice was the only Canadian in the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Canadian Arctic?
... that the two finishes by a Toyota Celica LB Turbo (4th and 8th) in German championship auto racing marked the best results for a racecar that was not a Porsche 935?
... that to maintain a low profile for their appearances at the Hampton Coliseum, the rock band Grateful Dead asked to appear on the billing as Formerly the Warlocks?
... that critics debate whether the differences between Thomas Eakins' two portraits of Mary Adeleine Williams are the result of an affair between the pair?
... that Scottish footballer John Durkin worked at a local coal mine while playing for Gillingham F.C.?
... that the 19th-century Russian tenor Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky retired to the Italian town of Sanremo and died there while tending his roses?
... that during a 2010 game, University of the Philippines basketball coach Boyet Fernandez told a player to deliberately cross the shaded lane while a free-throw was being attempted to force a jump ball?
... that Zhuge Shuang rose from a street beggar to a military governor of the Tang China?
... that as a leader of the anti-Internet pornography organization Enough Is Enough, a former political sex scandal "other woman" became an influential Washington, D.C. lobbyist?
... that artist and sculptor Samuel Rabin was also a professional wrestler and opera singer who appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel and won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1928 Summer Olympics?
... that the Golden Submarine could travel at over 100 mph (160 km/h)?
... that the pioneering journalist Pearl Rivers took her nom de plume from the river that ran near her home?
... that according to Greek mythology, the Thriasian Plain was flooded by Poseidon after he lost control of Attica to Athena?
... that the Tamaulipas massacre that occurred on 24 August 2010 has been described as "the worst known atrocity" of the Mexican Drug War?
... that the 1493 Sejm held at the Piotrków Trybunalski Castle was the first two-chamber parliament in Poland?
... that Bill Erickson started the Rockford College men's basketball program and was its first head coach?
... that the Philippine hornet Vespa luctuosa has the most lethal venom by weight of any known wasp species?
... that Fô Kankam, the founder of Batoufam, Cameroon, was a Tikar?
... that Alfred Marshall Bailey was Director of the Denver Museum of Natural History from 1936 to 1969?
... that American nuclear physicist Leonardo Mascheroni has attempted to lobby U.S. Congress to fund his idea of using hydrogen fluoride lasers to generate nuclear fusion?
... that it took over 26 years to plan and construct the Orangeville Bypass of Ontario Highway 9?
... that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner, the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"?
... that Hodo Sokoli, a 19th-century Albanian leader, publicly removed his Ottoman insignia and uniform and put on an Albanian national costume?
... that Pope John Paul II's 1982 visit to the United Kingdom was the first made to that country by a reigning Pope?
... that Rodolph Crandall replaced his brother-in-law as mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon?
... that a French expedition to Hudson Bay in 1686 found Fort Albany only because its English occupants fired a cannon at sunset?
... that the Andrew Jackson was one of only two square-rigged ships to sail from New York City to San Francisco in under ninety days?
... that amber fossils of ants carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus represent the oldest record of symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga ants?
... that the Ian Tyson song "Someday Soon" has been a charted single for Judy Collins, Moe Bandy and Suzy Bogguss?
... that journalist Amir Mir declined an award from former Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, criticizing him as a dictator who violated the Constitution of Pakistan?
... that the Portuguese–Mamluk naval war was an attempt by the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to stop the expansion of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century?
... that after winning a Pulitzer Prize at The Oregonian, Wallace Turner went on to The New York Times where he covered the murder of Harvey Milk?
... that UBS Warburg had an email disclaimer of more than 1,000 words?
... that the Itumbiara Dam is Eletrobras Furnas' largest power plant and the sixth largest in Brazil?
... that, by the end of the 20th century, the Peachtree Presbyterian megachurch had the largest Presbyterian congregation of any church in the United States?
... that Flight from Folly is one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most-Wanted Films"?
... that the Edumanom Forest Reserve is the last known chimpanzee habitat in the Niger Delta?
... that the first salvage license granted by South Carolina was for the wreckage of the SS Georgiana?
... that the parakoimomenos Joseph Bringas opposed the rise of the general Nikephoros Phokas to the Byzantine throne, but was defeated after three days of street clashes in Constantinople?
... that the first proper society page in the United States was the invention of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. for the New York Herald?
... that after a journalist published an article criticising the leadership of Nigeria's Rivers State, the governor's aide-de-camp ordered that he be caned and have his head shaven with an old blade?
... that Bill McKown went from being a youth with 200 model airplanes hanging from his bedroom ceiling to being a Navy E-2C Hawkeye pilot, commander of squadron VAW-114, and Distinguished Eagle Scout?
... that Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy predicts that the upcoming episode "Grilled Cheesus" will be the "most controversial episode of the series to date"?
... that in The Color of Crime, Katheryn Russell-Brown writes that crime and young black men have become synonymous in the American mind, giving rise to the "criminalblackman" stereotype?
... that after the Battle of Landriano, the French monarch Francis I was forced to concede defeat in the War of the League of Cognac?
... that John Logan served as the first treasurer of the U.S. state of Kentucky and held the office for 15 years thereafter?
... that, after being rejected for the American Idol talent show, Ian David Benardo demanded to see panel judge Simon Cowell's work visa?
... that in 1992, French mountaineer Catherine Destivelle became the first woman to complete a solo ascent of the Eiger's north face ?
... that Thomas Shea was the first New York City policeman ever to be tried for murder on duty due to his role in the 1973 shooting in South Jamaica, Queens?
... that the status of Bhutanese refugees located in seven U.N.-run camps in Nepal is a major issue affecting Bhutan–Nepal relations?
... that American Industrialist Samuel T. Hauser lobbied for creation of Yellowstone National Park after he prospected along the Yellowstone River?
... that during the 1527 sacking of Rome, the Swiss Guards sacrificed themselves to protect the Pope's retreat?
... that, using the mantra of states' rights, former Louisiana State Rep. W. Scott Wilkinson of Shreveport argued in the 1950s for school segregation and tidelands oil revenues?
... that the finless sleeper ray may be the smallest cartilaginous fish, with the smallest adult specimen measuring 8.2 cm (3.2 in) long?
... that English footballer Graham Lovett was forced to retire at the age of 26, after being involved in two serious road traffic collisions in less than three years?
... that Harrisburg, now a ghost town in Utah, was named after an early resident named Moses, and most of its residents left by 1895 due to grasshopper plagues and floods?
... that James E. Winner Jr. created The Club , an anti-theft device for cars that had sold 14 million units by 1994 with the slogan "If you can't steer it, you can't steal it"?
... that after the Norwegian monitor Mjølner ran aground in 1869 the court of inquiry found the ship's commander and pilot liable for the repairs, but the parliament cancelled the debt two years later?
... that Four Freedoms Park is being built from plans found in the architect's pocket when he died of a heart attack?
... that the designer of the Wag-Aero CUBy aircraft flew one to 20,000 ft to show that it would not suffer vapor lock from using automotive fuel as a power source?
... that Alaska Territorial Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr. led the team which surveyed the Alaskan–Canadian border from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean?
... that the educational practice of teaching to the test has been criticised for excluding creative and abstract-thinking skills?
... that the Southern Baptist missionary Chris Clarke carries the gospel to equestrian events, mostly in his home state of Kentucky?
... that Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity will go head-to-head with Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive?
... that the plantation-era museum Francis Land House has a Georgian style exterior but a Federal style interior?
... that the Siderno Group has been involved in the movement of narcotics across three continents?
... that the Ottoman replacement of Albanian-speaking pashas in 1844 led to a rebellion?