derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Ngô Sĩ Liên compiled Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, the oldest remaining historical record of a Vietnamese dynasty?
... that the concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival include Eberbach Abbey, Schloss Johannisberg and Lorch?
... that the mediaeval Gaelic manuscript MS 1467 contains the earliest known pedigree which gives Clan Campbell a "British" ancestry, from Uther Pendragon, and King Arthur?
... that Robert Scholl, the father of White Rose members Hans and Sophie Scholl, was imprisoned for 18 months in 1943 for listening to a "Feindsender"?
... that between 5,000 and 180,000 Burmese pythons are estimated to be loose in the Everglades?
... that the first gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics was won by Simon Ammann of Switzerland in the normal hill ski jump?
... that Ron Swanson builds a harp in the Parks and Recreation episode "Sweetums", which was inspired by actor Nick Offerman's real-life carpentry skills?
... that Selective Service System director Lawrence Romo testified to the U.S. Senate that he knew of no more ways that the Defense Department can assist in increasing registration compliance?
... that the world's tallest concrete-faced rockfill dam is Shuibuya Dam on the Qingjiang River in China?
... that Richard Coughlan has been called "one of art rock's longest tenured musicians"?
... that Costa Deliziosa will be the first cruise ship to be christened in an Arabian city?
... that The Wolves in the Walls, a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean that went on to become an off-Broadway musical, was inspired by a nightmare had by Gaiman's youngest daughter?
... that in the 19th century, Ganoga Lake in Pennsylvania had a hotel, its own ice cutting company, and a branch railroad line to serve both?
... that Wales wartime international footballer Taffy Davies spent his entire 20-year professional career at Watford Football Club?
... that the Classic Period Maya city of Motul de San José in Guatemala made tribute payments of high quality ceramics after its military defeat?
... that William C. McInnes, one of the first Jesuits to study business administration, simultaneously served as the president of both Fairfield University and the University of San Francisco for four months?
... that 21st Century Slave is a concept album with a narrative inspired by William Gibson's series of Cyberpunk novels?
... that British painter Walter Westley Russell was appointed Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools in 1927?
... that uranium hydride was investigated as a promising bomb material in 1943 during the early phases of the Manhattan Project?
... that in 2002, the dice throw was used as a journalistic method of review in 41 daily newspapers in Norway?
... that the porbeagle has been known to "play" with kelp fronds, pieces of wood, and fishing floats?
... that Abhimanyu Mithun was called up to the India Test squad only ten weeks after making his first-class cricket debut?
... that the Exchequer of Ireland had exclusive jurisdiction over all Irish cases involving money owed to The Crown?
... that in 1963, Claude Hall, a historian of American diplomacy, published a full-scale biography of Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur?
... that many 16th-century faculty members at the University of Baeza were of Jewish ancestry and came under the suspicion of the Spanish Inquisition?
... that the Soviet 130 mm/50 B13 Pattern 1936 naval gun was produced in three versions with mutually incompatible ammunition and range tables?
... that in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South, Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina?
... that Spongiforma, a sponge-like bolete newly described in 2009, smells like coal tar?
... that in 1937, Bangladeshi film director Khan Ataur Rahman won the first prize of Dhaka Zilla Music Competition, when he was in third grade?
... that at age 20, cricketer Cameron White became the youngest ever captain of the Australian state-side, the Victorian Bushrangers?
... that the 1536 edition of Swenske songer eller wisor is the first preserved hymnal published in the Swedish language?
... that scholar Gérard Prunier states that Major General John Numbi is a member of a ruling clique running the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
... that Graceland, a 2006 short film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, was the first Thai short film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival?
... that Timurid relations with Europe in the early 15th century led to the exchange of ambassadors and offers of offensive, defensive and commercial alliances?
... that in 2009, triple jumper Fabrizio Donato set a new championship record for the European Indoor Championships at 17.59 metres?
... that UMOPAR, the anti-narcotics forces in Bolivia, funded and trained by the U.S. government as part of the War on Drugs, staged an unsuccessful coup d'état against the Bolivian government in 1984?
... that Bình Ngô đại cáo is considered the second declaration of independence of Vietnam, after the poem Nam quốc sơn hà which was written by Lý Thường Kiệt in the early Lý Dynasty?
... that the self-proclaimed "Gifted, Eccentric and World Famed Physician" Francis Tumblety sold "Pimple Destroyer"?
... that the Ionian volcano Pele, encircled by its own reddish plume deposit , was named after a volcano goddess in Hawaiian mythology?
... that David Brown's two years in jail was the longest sentence ever for violating the U.S. Sedition Act of 1798?
... that in 519, Roman statesman Cassiodorus published his Chronicle to congratulate the Visigothic prince Eutharic who had risen to the position of consul?
... that in traditional Plains hide painting, Native American women painted abstract, geometric designs while men painted representational, narrative images?
... that in 1891, Gus Weyhing won 31 games pitching for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association, the third of his four consecutive 30-win seasons in baseball?
... that nine Mayan languages are spoken in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango?
... that John Scagliotti's 2003 film Dangerous Living was the first documentary about the experiences of gay and lesbian people in the non-Western world?
... that at the time of its 1914 construction, the Railway Exchange Building was the tallest building in St. Louis, Missouri?
... that Fanny Burney described a poem of George Huddesford's as "vile" because it revealed that she had written the novel Evelina?
... that when U2 played a concert in Sarajevo in 1997 , they attempted to include all the conflicting ethnicities of the region in the audience?
... that Margaretta Faugères called Thomas Jefferson an "eminent reasoner" but nevertheless challenged his claim that slaves lacked "finer feelings"?
... that Whitstable Museum and Gallery holds a permanent display dedicated to the life of Hammer Films actor Peter Cushing, who lived in Whitstable, South East England?
... that the North American Newspaper Alliance, a major news syndicate, hired Ernest Hemingway to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1937?
... that Bulgarian middle-distance runner Vesela Yatsinska failed to make it past round one in the 1980 Olympics despite achieving a personal best time?
... that the film Mihai Viteazul cast over 5,000 soldiers of the Romanian army as extras to reenact various battles?
... that Sir David Veness was the United Nations' first Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security?
... that the former District 10 School outside Margaretville, New York, was demolished in the mid-19th century only to be rebuilt from the same stones three years later?
... that to join the Australian Flying Corps in 1917, future fighter ace Roy Phillipps falsified his age by declaring he was four years younger?
... that the late Roman Red Church near Perushtitsa in Bulgaria featured frescoes of apocryphal scenes such as the flight of Elizabeth and the murder of Zechariah, John the Baptist's parents?
... that freestyle BMX rider Craig Campbell pioneered the Rocket Air and the 540 wallride on a BMX bike?
... that the 14th century Sanskrit poem Madura Vijayam chronicles the conquest of Madurai Sultanate by the Vijayanagar Empire?
... that in addition to serving as the Leader of the Opposition in Queensland, Nev Warburton was also noted as an enthusiastic lawn bowls player?
... that because a Hang Trong painting was once indispensable for each Hanoi family during the Tết holiday, it was also called Tết painting?
... that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man—skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?
... that while accompanying her sister for her marriage in Florence, Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony met and eventually married the groom's father, becoming her sister's own step-mother-in-law?
... that the barque Parma recorded the fastest ever time for a sailing ship from Australia to the United Kingdom?
... that Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light, a book about his 1953 safari, was not published until almost 40 years after his death?
... that comedian Felix Herngren created, directed, wrote the scripts and plays a main character in the currently airing Swedish television series Solsidan?
... that among the items exhibited at the Bsous Silk Museum in Lebanon are silkworms and the traditional dresses and trousers worn by princesses in the 19th century?
... that the American Chicago blues singer, harmonicist, and songwriter, Shakey Jake Harris, acquired his nickname from his previous career as a professional gambler?
... that the strike of the Calton weavers, during which six people died, was the first major industrial dispute in Scottish history?
... that James Oliver invented a line of improved and specialized farm plows and produced up to 300,000 of them annually?
... that the French Gothic Niederhaslach Church in Alsace was plundered in 1525 during the Peasants' War, burnt in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War, and became a slaughterhouse in 1744?
... that St. Henry's Catholic Church in rural St. Henry has been described as the most costly church in northwestern Ohio?
... that the new champion of the culinary contest Bocuse d'Or USA 2010 is the sous-chef James Kent?
... that the establishment of the Marshal Foch Professorship of French Literature in Oxford was announced a few days after Marshal Foch signed the Armistice with Germany to end the First World War?
... that in U.S. college football, the 2010 East-West Shrine Game had the lowest attendance of any of the 85 East-West Shrine Games?
... that after his final Tarzan film, Johnny Weissmuller starred in the 1955–1956 TV series Jungle Jim, which features stories about a hunter, guide, and explorer?
... that the English treatise Dialogus de Scaccario was written as a series of questions and answers between a learned lawyer and his pupil?
... that "discoveries" by baseball scout Paul Krichell included future Hall of Famers Lou Gehrig and Whitey Ford?
... that Hindu pilgrims to Pushkar Lake in Rajasthan, India, considered it lucky to be devoured by the crocodiles there?
... that a Margaretville, New York, businessman named a new movie theater after Amelita Galli-Curci in return for her singing at its opening night?
... that Yongjiacaris represents the second report of freshwater caridean shrimp from the Mesozoic era?
... that Isabel Ashdown's acclaimed first novel Glasshopper was written as part of her BA and MA and work at the University of Chichester?
... that Alexander Milne served as an executor of Thomas Telford's last will and testament?
... that Stephen Fry asked on Twitter for suggestions to name a BBC television series on the impact of the Internet, now called The Virtual Revolution?
... that a Maginot Line fortification became a mushroom farm after it was deactivated in 1972?
... that British novelist Martin Amis believes his sister, Sally Amis, was one of the sexual revolution's most spectacular victims?
... that Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities?
... that Heart-kun is a Japanese puppy that was born with a heart-shaped patch of brown hair on its white-haired body?
... that Westgate Hall, Canterbury's sole music and dance venue, is to be demolished by the Council in favour of a car park?
... that the UK video game magazine Edge described Amy Hennig as one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry?
... that Israel's Yiftach Brigade was transferred to the southern front for Operation GYS in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and returned after the operation?
... that Bela S. Huntington was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1897, but the legislature never organized in 1897 and he never served during another session?
... that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine, first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
... that the white colour of Dong Ho painting , a genre of traditional Tết painting in Vietnam, is obtained from powder of egg shells?
... that the Iranian embassy in London protested after The Queen's College, Oxford, established a scholarship named after Neda Agha-Soltan, who died in the 2009 Iranian election protests?
... that the Chrysler ball-stud hemi was intended to replace three engine block and two cylinder head designs with a single model?
... that Somali-Norwegian writer Amal Aden (pseudonym) is a noted critic of the Norwegian integration policy, as well as the Somali community in Oslo itself?
... that Abraham Shakespeare, an illiterate casual laborer, won a $17 million Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but was murdered three years later?
... that tò he, a traditional toy in Vietnam which is often sold on the occasion of Tết, is edible because it is made from rice powder?
... that by the age of 22, Jean-Pierre Warner was an acting Major in the British Army?
... that when the Super Ball was first introduced in 1965, US presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy had five dozen shipped to the White House for the amusement of the staff?
... that the Sultanate of Banten was once a great trading center in Southeast Asia, but was later overshadowed by Batavia and finally annexed by the Dutch East Indies in 1813?
... that E Street Band member Clarence Clemons co-starred with Rick Springfield in the original 1990 pilot for ABC's Human Target TV series?
... that in the stuffing of bánh chưng for vegetarians and Buddhists, pork is replaced by molasses or brown sugar?
... that the American journalist George Wilkes (d. 1885) was one of the men who introduced parimutuel betting into the United States?
... that in one year during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the coal mine at Midlandvale, Alberta, operated for only 52 days?
... that Gustavo de Greiff, Colombia's first Attorney General responsible for prosecuting drug lords, advocated for drug decriminalization during the height of the United States's War on Drugs in Colombia?
... that according to a medieval source, Ingemund was supposed to have been declared king in the Hebrides, but his raping and pillaging enraged the locals, and he was slain on Lewis in 1097?
... that the failed Deseret Manufacturing Company, created in Utah in the 1850s by Mormons to process sugar beets into sugar, was nicknamed the "Damn Miserable Company"?
... that vine training systems help shape the canopy to allow adequate sunshine and air circulation so wine grapes can ripen and be less likely to develop grape diseases?
... that Pablo González, the Carranzistan chief responsible for Emiliano Zapata's murder, was also known as "the general who never won a victory" during the entire Mexican Revolution?
... that according to the Michigan Department of Transportation, the first highway centerline in the US was painted on the first designation of M-15 in 1917?
... that Cincinnati, Ohio, architect Rudolph Tietig designed a Jewish country club and two synagogues, including Temple K.K. Bene Israel for one of the oldest congregations west of the Allegheny Mountains?
... that the beetle Typhaea stercorea has been found in grain storages dating all the way back to the Iron Age?
... that two school board members of the Sheridan School District faced a recall in 1985 after religious leaders objected to them living together as an unmarried couple?
... that in 1946, the first modern bikini was introduced at Piscine Molitor by Louis Réard, and modeled there by dancer Micheline Bernardini?
... that Howard Burnham, an American mining engineer, worked for France as a spy operating behind enemy lines, and used his wooden leg to secretly transport equipment?
... that the 1,200–1,500 Chinkara , the key species in the Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary, Kutch, India, are also its most frequently observed animal?
... that the English antiquarian John Joscelyn (d. 1603) wrote a history of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge that was not published until 1880, over 200 years after his death?
... that the people of Stipp, Oregon, renamed their town Macleay for Portland merchant and banker Donald Macleay after he donated money for a school?
... that the name-bearing type determines the application of specific and other names in zoological nomenclature?
... that British producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins' first job in television was devising means of killing victims in the crime drama series Midsomer Murders?
... that St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Padua, Ohio, is distinguished by its pilasters?
... that Nini Haslund Gleditsch participated in the flight of the Norwegian National Treasury in 1940?
... that the Lamaling Monastery in Tibet, rebuilt in 1989, is one of the largest and most important monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism in Nyingchi County?
... that in his film Close, Closed, Closure, Israeli director Ram Loevy describes the Gaza Strip as "a prison with one million inmates"?
... that in a sign of a warming friendship between Vladimir Putin and Prince Albert II, a three-bedroom dacha was built by the Russians at Albert's Monte Carlo estate in 2008?
... that according to some scholars, Christ's agony at Gethsemane was added to the New Testament to counter docetism?
... that the alférez Ponce de Minerva (died 1175), from southern France, served three Spanish kings on twelve military campaigns?
... that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
... that Julius Hougen co-chaired the first large-scale charity fund-rasing campaigns in Norwegian radio?
... that Tacubaya, Mexico City, is the home to both the Mexican presidential residence and "The Lost City"?
... that the frangipani (or plumeria), which is used to make leis in Hawaii, is native to Central and northern South America?
... that San Diego artist Salvador Torres led the movement to paint murals on the support columns of a freeway in Chicano Park?
... that the first successful sugar beet factory opening in Utah, built by the Mormon-owned Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, was celebrated by looting, bonfires, and free barrels of beer?
... that the Byzantine general Constantine Diogenes, who was implicated in a conspiracy against Emperor Romanos III, committed suicide rather than revealing the names of his co-conspirators?
... that American professional wrestler Frankie Arion won the NECW Television Championship two months after legitimately breaking his ankle and fibula?
... that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker, one of the original "Siamese Twins"?
... that Ernest F. Coe was the primary force behind the creation of Everglades National Park, but at the dedication of it he considered his efforts a failure?
... that the book Scientology edited by James R. Lewis includes contributions from J. Gordon Melton, Anson Shupe, and Susan J. Palmer?
... that Littleberry Mosby Jr, captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812, disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia?
... that as a child, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ingrid Olava taught herself to play "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music on her neighbor's piano?
... that the founding of the Independent Labour Party's Guild of Youth in Britain provoked the Labour Party to found a youth wing of its own?
... that both the arrests of General Christian de Castries in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and of President Duong Van Minh ending the Ho Chi Minh Campaign were by units commanded by General Lê Trọng Tấn?
... that Ralph Creffeild was knighted by Queen Anne in 1713, having presented her with thanks from the town of Colchester for the peace of Utrecht earlier that year?
... that Lenny Kravitz wrote the recently leaked Michael Jackson song "Another Day"?
... that the only damage suffered by the dome of the Hagia Sophia in the 1509 Istanbul earthquake was plaster covering up Byzantine mosaics fell off, revealing Christian images?
... that René Boileau was given the pseudonym Rainy Drinkwater and promoted as being the first Native American in the National Hockey League by the New York Americans despite having no native blood?
... that on July 30, 1970, Israeli and Soviet fighter pilots battled in the skies over Egypt in an engagement codenamed Rimon 20?
... that Norwegian architect Hjalmar Welhaven's collection of old skis was the basis for the world's oldest ski museum in 1923 when it opened in Oslo?
... that the Ionian volcano Tupan Patera, whose activity was first detected by Galileo in 1996, was named after the thunder god of the Tupí-Guaraní indigenous peoples in Brazil?
... that the "extremely productive carcinologist" American Raymond B. Manning amassed the world's largest collection of mantis shrimp?
... that in 1985, the Austrian wine industry was hit by a scandal involving a few wineries illegally adulterating wines with the mildly toxic substance diethylene glycol to make them taste sweeter?
... that we know the exact birth time of the 5th-century poet Pamprepius thanks to a horoscope calculated by the Egyptian astrologer Rhetorius?
... that the 101 Dalmatians Musical has several performers working on 15" stilts to simulate a canine perspective, and uses 15 real Dalmatian dogs for several scenes?
... that according to Hindu mythology, goddess Savitri cursed her husband, the creator-god Brahma, only to be worshipped at Brahma temple ?
... that the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn, son of rower Steve Fairbairn?
... that Polhøgda, the home of Eva and Fridtjof Nansen, was an important location for social life of Norwegian intellectuals around 1900?
... that during the Mandi Shivaratri Fair held in Mandi, India, Hindu religiosity is the theme that establishes synthesis of the worship by Vishnu and Shiva cults?
... that despite not registering as a political party, the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement won a clear majority in the Lithuanian parliamentary election, 1990?
... that publisher Richard Bentley hired Charles Dickens to edit his periodical, Bentley's Miscellany?
... that the Western Australian carnivorous plant Drosera derbyensis was first found by Allen Lowrie near the Boab Prison Tree just outside of Derby?
... that Shahidan Kassim and his brother Ismail have both held same seat for Arau in the Parliament of Malaysia?
... that Hurricane Inga in September and October 1969 is the third longest-lived Atlantic hurricane on record, having lasted 25 days?
... that Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah performed the Hajj 70 times in his life?
... that Huáng bǎi , one of the fifty fundamental herbs of traditional Chinese medicine, contains the anti-inflammatory alkaloid berberine?
... that 2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station, England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
... that the Ionian volcano Masubi was first detected by the spacecraft Voyager 1 in 1979 and named after Homusubi, the Japanese deity of fire?
... that the early 13th century romance Guillaume de Dole is the first extant French literary work combining narrative and lyric, a form which by the end of the century had become canonical?
... that some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River, to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George, New York?