derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Johan Gustaf Sandberg's frescoes in Uppsala Cathedral depicting Gustav Vasa were the first frescoes painted in Sweden?
... that the cheater plug has been used to remedy ground loops in audio systems, with reckless disregard of electrical safety?
... that the origin of the Postclassic K'iche' Maya patron deity Jacawitz has been traced back to a historical event at the city of Seibal?
... that Arthur Crispien, who was dismissed as editor of a Social Democratic Party newspaper for his opposition to war credits in 1914, later became the Party's Chairman?
... that cross dressing and mooning have been prosecuted as conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline in the US military?
... that several French international footballers have played for FC Versailles, including Thierry Henry, Jérôme Rothen and Hatem Ben Arfa?
... that Rastafarian hardcore punk band Bad Brains signed to Neil Cooper's ROIR cassette label because Cooper, who had worked at the Royal Mint, gave them medallions made for Emperor Haile Selassie?
... that Japanese currency started in the 8th century with the minting of the Wadōkaichin coin ?
... that the Swabian-Hall Swine breed of pig was started by King William I of Württemberg?
... that the production of art in Wales was greatly stimulated by the 18th century fashion for the sublime in landscape painting?
... that a reviewer of the 2006 album Gigahearts by the Italian industrial band Dope Stars Inc. described the group as "the new generation of what Goth means in the 21st century"?
... that in 1974 animal rights activists attempted to bomb the lab of biologist Mike Handel?
... that the original and current Landing Road bridges in Landing, New Jersey, stood side-by-side until the demolition of the older structure?
... that King Philip V ordered that any lepers found guilty of poisoning wells in medieval France were to be burnt and their possessions forfeited to the Crown?
... that Burgers' Smokehouse is a California, Missouri-based seller of cured and smoked meats including bacon and hickory smoked, salt cured country hams, a specialty of the Ozarks?
... that during a rehearsal of Pagliacci with the Florentine Opera in 1998, tenor David Rendall sent a baritone to hospital when his prop knife failed to collapse?
... that members of the Sciurini group of squirrels, which includes the eastern gray squirrel , have been described as living fossils?
... that the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford houses the United Kingdom's National BlindArt collection?
... that during the Great Depression, R. C. Nueske used a panel truck to market Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats, including bacon, sausages, hams and smoked turkeys, at little resorts across northern Wisconsin?
... the program STUDENT, written in 1964 by Daniel Bobrow for his PhD dissertation at MIT, is one of the earliest known attempts at natural language understanding by a computer?
... that Milwaukee elected George Hampel to the state legislature first as a Socialist and later as a Progressive before he helped merge the Progressives into the Republican Party?
... that during the Ice Hockey European Championship in 1924, two of Spain's seven players were injured, but the Swiss and Swedish teams agreed to play with five players against them?
... that a flitch of bacon was offered at Wychnor Hall to married couples if they could swear that they did not regret their union, but it was so rarely claimed it was replaced with a wooden one?
... that the figures in Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga are based on real characters, including a former priest, a former soldier and a painter?
... that Lennard Stokes, a 19th-century rugby union international who captained England on five occasions, also played first-class cricket for Kent and later worked as a surgeon?
... that the cheese dream was popularized during the Great Depression as "an inexpensive company supper dish"?
... that in 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem, begun in 1980?
... that the forest area of the Jessore Sloth Bear Sanctuary helps in arresting desertification and advancement of the Thar desert?
... that Tošo Dabac worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Zagreb as their press officer for Southeast Europe before becoming internationally renowned for his street photography?
... that the recently demolished Francis M. Drexel School in Philadelphia was named for a financier whose family founded several educational institutions, including Drexel University?
... that the Battles of the Separation Corridor saw the first use of tanks by the Israel Defense Forces against the Egyptian army?
... that Sir Henry Bate Dudley not only chronicled the life of Gainsborough but also wrote the comic opera The Flitch of Bacon?
... that with over 80 mosques and several important gongbei shrine complexes , Linxia City is known as "China's little Mecca"?
... that Serafin Olarte and Vicente Guerrero were the only independentist generals active during the low point of the Mexican War of Independence after the execution of José María Morelos in 1815?
... that Banksiamyces are fungi that grow on the dead "cones" of Banksia species?
... that Amelia Goes to the Ball is an opera buffa in one act composed by Gian Carlo Menotti?
... that former gold medalist in short track speed skating Lee Seung-Hoon converted in 2009 to long track to earn a spot in the 2010 Winter Olympics?
... that John Singer Sargent's c. 1882 painting Street in Venice shows the influence of Venetian photographers?
... that the Fyrby Runestone claims two brothers were the most skilled in runes in Middle Earth?
... that Bio-Blend Fuels produce a biodiesel made from pig fat that smells of bacon?
... that the banded archerfish is able to hit targets up to three metres away by shooting jets of water from its mouth?
... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
... that the seaside landscape of Montauk Association Historic District in New York includes seven 1881–84 Shingle Style summer houses?
... that the contemporary artist Walenty Pytel was commissioned to create four 45-meter steel eagles for Portuguese football club Benfica?
... that the area around La Merced Market, Mexico City, is considered to be a "tolerance zone" for prostitution?
... that Robert Downey Jr.'s costume in the 2008 film Iron Man was made by special effects artist Shane Mahan?
... that Rwandan cuisine includes urwagwa, a local beer made from fermented bananas?
... that the Beaney Institute in Canterbury has a £1,000,000 Van Dyck painting of Sir Basil Dixwell in its collection?
... that between November 1996 and 2001, 936 people left the parish of Baños in Cuenca Canton, Ecuador, and emigrated mostly to the United States?
... that the tail of the Bennett's stingray can make up three quarters of its total length?
... that at the age of 44, Roslyn M. Brock, the newly elected Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the youngest person ever to serve in the position?
... that the Quadro Tracker detection device, which was advertised as being able to detect drugs, weapons, explosives, alcohol, missing people, precious metals, dead pets, and lost golf balls, was denounced by the FBI as a fraud?
... that in the interwar period, the British legation in Norway complained about Victor Mogens' bias as a commentator in Norwegian radio?
... that in 1906, some Filipino prisoners involved in medical experiments in the United States were intentionally infected with cholera, and those who survived were rewarded with cigars or cigarettes?
... that two of Karnataka's architectural monuments, Pattadakal and Hampi, are UNESCO World Heritage sites?
... that in Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc, Lord Goff suggested that Rylands v Fletcher was not an independent tort, but instead part of nuisance?
... that Tier rang gewaltig mit Tier ("Beast Strove Mightily with Beast") by Anton Schnack has been described as the best single collection produced by a German war poet of the First World War?
... that Fily Dabo Sissoko, who was briefly the French Under Secretary of State for Industry and Commerce, died in jail in Mali?
... that Musa Demi was part of the group that opened the first Albanian-language school of Filiates?
... that Canada won the first Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair curling at the 2006 Games?
... that three-time ARCA champion Tim Steele was the series' first driver to earn over $1 million in his career?
... that Flying Officer Les Clisby , Australia's first fighter ace of World War II, once landed beside a German bomber he had forced down and captured the crew at gunpoint?
... that Arizona SB1070, the state's new immigration enforcement law, has attracted national attention as the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in decades within the United States?
... that the miners' union leader Óscar Salas Moya was a candidate for vice-president of Bolivia in 1985?
... that Macy's opened its first closeout store at Wheatfield, New York's Summit Park Mall in 1992?
... that earlier this season, Katey Stone of the Harvard Crimson became the winningest coach in the history of NCAA Division I women's ice hockey?
... that in 2007 French actress and comedienne Mimie Mathy was selected the fifth most popular French celebrity by the weekly Le Journal du Dimanche?
... that cricketer Julie Hunter saw Australia to victory from the last ball of the match in her first ODI innings?
... that in 2000–04, excavations in Uppåkra, Scania, revealed that a heathen hof was located there for several hundred years?
... that the Liberation of Saint Peter has been described as a recapitulation of the resurrection of Jesus?
... that Grant Park Symphony Orchestra began a tradition of Independence Day Eve concerts in Grant Park accompanied by fireworks when the Petrillo Music Shell was relocated in 1978?
... that Lectionary 216 was used by Swainson, English theologian, for his treatise on the Greek Liturgies?
... that a British soldier is commemorated in the West Haven Green Historic District for his actions during the British invasion of West Haven, Connecticut, in the American Revolutionary War?
... that the Rustock botnet was capable of sending 30 billion spam messages every day, utilizing around 150,000 computers infected with a trojan horse?
... that Chris Cameron won the individual all-around title and led the Michigan Wolverines to the team title at the 2010 NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship?
... that the demon Kabandha , from the Hindu epic Ramayana, is described to be as big as a mountain, headless, and with arms eight miles long?
... that quarterback Walter Kennedy's amateur status became a national media story in 1898 after his mother said he was receiving $500 a year to play football at the University of Chicago?
... that the Church of the Acheiropoietos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Thessaloniki, was the first Christian church to be converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of the Greek city in 1430?
... that Erin Osborne led the wicket-taking in her maiden Women's National Cricket League season?
... that in F. Sionil José's novel Sherds, the pottery clay used by the aesthete symbolizes the oppression of villagers?
... that psychologist and physiologist Henri-Étienne Beaunis published novels under the pseudonym "Paul Abaur"?
... that the 1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game to pass without an extra-base hit?
... that Eighty Mile Beach in Western Australia is 140 miles (230 km) long?
... that professional wrestling promoter Eddie Quinn is credited with making wrestling more popular in Quebec than any other sport except hockey?
... that social reformer Isabella Ford was the first woman to speak at a conference of the Labour Representation Committee (which went on to form the British Labour Party)?
... that in addition to being the captain of the 1904 University of Chicago football team, Fred Speik was a member of Chicago's water polo and track and field teams?
... that the Late Triassic archosauromorph Uatchitodon is the earliest known venomous reptile?
... that cricketer Shelley Nitschke started her career for Australia as a specialist bowler but went on to score a One Day International century as an opener?
... that a Native American mound in Newtown, Ohio, was spared destruction because of its location in a cemetery?
... that despite being supported by tanks, Italian troops were completely routed during the Battle of Gjorm by Albanian Resistance units?
... that the term mountain devil refers both to Lambertia formosa with its devil-head fruits, as well as the lizard Moloch horridus?
... that former State Senator O.H. "Ike" Harris was honored in 2009 by the horse racing industry for his work in legalizing parimutuel betting in Texas?
... that the Armley asbestos disaster involved the contamination of about 1,000 houses in West Yorkshire, England, with asbestos dust?
... that Yurii Lomonosov constructed the first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive?
... that for the second season of Survive This, a Canadian reality TV show, participants were selected for the show based on their strong personalities and required to take a three-day survival course?
... that the Buffalo Braves first made the NBA playoffs during their 1973–74 season?
... that during the construction of Lake Seminole in 1948, archaeologists discovered the site of San Carlos de los Chacatos, a Spanish mission that Colonel James Moore had sacked during Queen Anne's War?
... that Nicolay Nicolaysen Sontum supplemented his career as an engineer and contractor with speculating in waterfalls?
... that South Beacon Mountain, the highest point in the Fishkill Creek drainage basin, is located just above its estuary?
... that U-450 went on three war patrols, but did not sink any ships?
... that author and social worker Ella Mae Johnson attended the inauguration of Barack Obama at the age of 105?
... that the Popular Independent Movement of Luxembourg was a single-issue political party that represented former Wehrmacht conscripts?
... that Alex Blackwell captained the Australian women's cricket team to eight consecutive ODI wins over New Zealand?
... that Eastern Bank is the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England, and the largest community bank in Massachusetts?
... that Montage of a Dream Deferred was described by its author, Langston Hughes, as a cross between a jam session and a popular song?
... that Westcott railway station was a part of the London Underground, despite being more than 40 miles from central London?
... that Rachael Haynes narrowly missed a century on her Test cricket debut for Australia, scoring only 98?
... that fashion designer Elspeth Gibson's clients have included Madonna, Cate Blanchett and Queen Rania of Jordan?
... that in 1844, Carl Claus discovered ruthenium and named it after the olden Russia?
... that Debra Lehrmann won the Republican nomination for the Texas Supreme Court in the only contested statewide race on the April 13, 2010, runoff ballot?
... that Karl-Otto Kiepenheuer founded an institute to explore solar energy, today known as the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics?
... that writer John Irving and the main character in his novel Last Night in Twisted River were "Kennedy fathers"?
... that Chesterfield centre-forward Walter Ponting was deprived of an apparently certain goal when the ball deflated and failed to cross the line?
... that Verdi is said to have referred to the Salle Ventadour as his favorite opera house in Paris?
... that Connie Yori, the current Nebraska Cornhuskers women's basketball head coach, is the inaugural winner of the Kay Yow Award?
... that in the early 1900s, logging in Texas' forests was so successful that the state had become the third leading lumber producer in the U.S.?
... that the Caprivi treason trial is the largest and longest trial in Namibian history?
... that the album LifeTimes composed by the daughter of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard includes contributions from Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke?
... that the semaphore crab is the most abundant crab species in mangroves on Australia's east coast?
... that English footballer Brian Punter did not receive his 1953 FA Youth Cup runners-up medal until some 56 years later?
... that Hangleton Manor , the oldest secular building in Hove, England, has a cursed dovecote reputedly haunted by ghost pigeons?
... that Sarah Andrews is Australia's ninth-leading wicket-taker in Women's One Day International cricket?
... that over half the population of the rare wildflower Banksia scabrella are found on road verges?
... that Cameronia was the first British ship to arrive at New York after the start of the Second World War?
... that Inger Alver Gløersen, born in 1892, made her literary début in 1954?
... that following the establishment of the Bhutan Olympic Committee in 1983, Bhutan participated for the first time in the 1984 Summer Olympics but only with six archers?
... that Silly Bandz, popular silicone bracelets that spring into a shape when taken off, have been banned in classrooms for being too distracting?
... that cricketer Rene Farrell made her debut for Australia after only five matches for her state?
... that D'Jamin Bartlett won the 1974 Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Performer?
... that from his studies of the ionosphere during World War II, Walter Dieminger forecasted optimal shortwave communication for the military and police?
... that the suicide weapon in J.D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" was an Ortgies 7.65 mm Semi-Automatic Pistol?
... that Stevie Brown led the 2007 Michigan Wolverines football team's special teams with 11 tackles?
... that the satirical video Gap Yah, describing the experiences of fictional rah Orlando during his gap year, became a viral hit with around 50,000 unique views a day?
... that in 1908, German apothecary Julius Neubronner received a patent for his pigeon photographer method of aerial photography?
... that the Ravi River was known as Paruṣṇī or Irāvatī to Indians in the Vedic period and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks?
... that Army All-American Henry Torney, who later became a millionaire, was arrested at a 1910 Shirtwaist Strikers protest that led the New York Mayor to rebuke the "police dictators"?
... that the Archimedes screw in De Groene Molen, Joure, is now driven by a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) Lister diesel engine?
... that Doctor Who executive producer Steven Moffat warned actor Matt Smith not to visit fan forums such as Gallifrey Base?
... that Nexhip Draga, a former Ottoman kaymakam, played an important role in the Albanian uprising of 1912?
... that Tara Bethan, finalist in the BBC One TV show I'd Do Anything, was the daughter of "El Bandito"?
... that a geological fault and coal mining caused the spire of St Catharine's Church, Scholes to lean and twist?
... that RAAF fighter pilot Brian Eaton was shot down three times in ten days in 1943, but went on to become his squadron's commanding officer and eventually retire as an Air Vice Marshal?
... that the Tutt Brothers were early 20th century American vaudeville producers who created over 40 revues for black audiences?
... that the Palestinian village of Sheikh Bureik was named for a local Muslim saint to whose shrine women seeking remedies for infertility would bring presents?
... that in a 16-year career, English footballer Bob Hutchinson played for 14 different clubs?
... that start-up conservative cable TV network RightNetwork features Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and new-media star Andrew Breitbart, and is being funded by Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider?
... that the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond was the venue for a dinner hosted by Charles Dickens in 1850 to celebrate the publication of his novel David Copperfield?
... that the Early Permian microsaur Rhynchonkos shares many similarities with Eocaecilia, and may be an ancestor of caecilians?
... that George Will acquired 11 press passes that offered special locker-room privileges in Major League Baseball stadiums while doing research for his book, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball?
... that when the Ålgård Line opened in 1924, it was the last state-owned railway in Norway to be built with narrow gauge?
... that St Martin's Church, Brampton, was the only church designed by the Pre-Raphaelite architect Philip Webb?
... that Daniel Trenton was head coach for the Australian Olympic taekwondo team in 2008?
... that in 2007 California Assemblyman Joel Anderson authored legislation requiring state pension funds to divest from investing in companies that do business with Iran?
... that J. Denis Summers-Smith became an expert on sparrows by travelling as an expert in tribology?
... that Fig Trees, an operatic documentary about AIDS activism, is narrated by a singing albino squirrel?
... that most of the recent volcanism in New Zealand has been along the line of the Taupo Volcanic Zone and the Kermadec island arc ?
... that Cuban tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina was dubbed the "Godfather of Cuban tobacco"?
... that the Soviets organised a campaign against the pro-Allied sympathies of the Baltic governments before their annexation in 1940?
... that by 1941, American zoologist Edward Alphonso Goldman had described more new mammals than any other living scientist?
... that Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio?
... that British filmmaker Tim Sullivan began his career in television after chauffeuring Anthony Andrews to the set of Brideshead Revisited?
... that the city of Clearwater, Florida, painted two white lines across Watterson Avenue to block Lisa McPherson Trust protesters from disrupting the operations of the Church of Scientology?
... that naturalist John Burroughs began the nature fakers controversy in 1903 after publishing an essay titled "Real and Sham Natural History" which lambasted popular nature writers of the day?
... that the British Inspiration Awards are aiming to boost recognition for the creative industries of the United Kingdom, a sector generating an estimated £100 billion a year for the British economy?
... that Walter Woon, former Attorney-General of Singapore, was the first Member of Parliament since Singapore's independence to have a private member's bill become a public law?
... that the Islamist group Revolution Muslim posted a warning about possible consequences on their website against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their portrayal of Muhammad in the episode "200"?
... that Nick Burd's debut novel The Vast Fields of Ordinary was a New York Times "notable book" for 2009 and won the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category?
... that the Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood authored his state's farm-to-market road program, which paved rural dirt roads in asphalt?
... that in 1901, The Juridical Review reported that the female inmates in Irish prisons most favored the books of Scottish writer Annie Shepherd Swan?
... that Darrell Floyd's day job paid more than the NBA basketball team the Saint Louis Hawks were offering?
... that in 1931, 15 Broad Street in New York City was one of the 20 largest office buildings in the world?
... that the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1939, six weeks after the dedication of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame?
... that in some areas of Brandenburg-Prussia, only 10% of the population survived the Thirty Years' War?
... that the fungus family Tremellaceae includes both commercially cultivated edible species as well as yeast-like human pathogens?
... that Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
... that Tlacolula de Matamoros is home to one of the oldest, largest and busiest weekly outdoor markets in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico?
... that the two towers on Old Main at Washington & Jefferson College symbolize the union of Jefferson College with Washington College?
... that Halfdan Bryn was one of the first to take interest in the physical anthropology of Sami people?