derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the legal basis for the largest casino in the world derives in part from a violation of the U.S. federal Nonintercourse Act (1790) and a state statute lobbied for by Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
... that the 1977 dissolution of Rosendale Village in Upstate New York was viewed by its mayor as a work of conceptual art?
... that until Sony introduced a competitor in 1968, every color television in the world used RCA's shadow mask tube design?
... that Edward L. Kessel assembled the world's most comprehensive collection of Platypezidae flat-footed flies?
... that the 14th-century Church of St Mary in Barton Bendish, Norfolk, contains a 12th-century doorway moved from a nearby church when that was demolished?
... that commanding prices up to $400,000, pre–World War II versions of the Martin D-45 guitar (first made for Gene Autry) are the most expensive production-model guitars in the United States?
... that the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ramad, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Damascus in Syria, is considered one of the few sites fundamental to our understanding of the origin of agriculture?
... that Sean Hughes MP got Scottish MPs to give him their free tickets to the 1986 English FA Cup Final so his constituents could watch the Everton–Liverpool Merseyside derby?
... that when Bulgarian politician Rayko Daskalov was released from prison in 1918 with the task of stopping a soldiers' uprising, he went on to take charge of the rebellion instead?
... that the three mine policy, in place from 1984 to 1996, restricted the number of active uranium mines in Australia to three?
... that St Dona's Church, Llanddona, Wales, was rebuilt in 1873 with the rector at the time acting as the architect?
... that many readers credited Deborah Tannen's bestselling 1990 book on language and gender, You Just Don't Understand, with helping to save their marriages?
... that in 1918, terrorists opened fire on Lenin's car after he gave a speech at Saint Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Manege, but Lenin escaped unscathed?
... that Niqmepa was installed as King of Ugarit, an ancient city-state in northwest Syria, by Hittite king Mursili II, who had forced his brother, Arhalba, to abdicate?
... that Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles have never selected a player at first base in the first round of the MLB Draft?
... that the strong colors in Paul Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching are symbolic of the native Polynesian belief that phosphorescent lights were manifestations of the spirits of the dead?
... that with over 40,000 citations in scientific literature, Polish-American polymer chemist Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is one of the most cited chemists in the world?
... that a steam-powered cannon, the Architonnerre, was described by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, but he attributed it to Archimedes of the 3rd century BC?
... that the westbound lanes of Interstate 470 in Missouri were closed for a month due to a landslide which caused the roadway to collapse?
... that actor Kirk Acevedo suggested his real-life wife play his character's spouse in the Fringe episode "Unleashed"?
... that Arslanbob in Kyrgyzstan is the largest single natural source of walnuts on Earth?
... that the mushroom Cortinarius vanduzerensis is so slimy that it has been described as "much too slippery to be of value"?
... that the Belitung shipwreck was an Arabian dhow which was sewn together, and held the "Tang treasure", including the largest gold Tang cup ever found?
... that the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust, a charity founded in 1996, looks after redundant Church of Scotland churches and currently has five buildings under its care?
... that Gerhard Taschner recorded the Violin Concerto dedicated to him by Wolfgang Fortner, with both Wilhelm Furtwängler and Hans Rosbaud?
... that the 3rd Earl of Egremont simultaneously maintained around 15 mistresses with more than 40 children at Petworth House?
... that in 1984, while Queen's song "I Want to Break Free" charted within the Top 10 in Europe and South America, its video was banned in the US?
... that the beach at Kiryat Sanz in Netanya was the first in Israel to schedule separate swimming hours for men and women?
... that in order to save David Nowakowsky's music from destruction by the Nazis, thousands of pages of his work were buried under a dung heap at a farm in France?
... that Rosie's Diner, featured in the Bounty paper towel commercials in the U.S., was sawed in half and moved from Little Ferry, New Jersey, to Rockford, Michigan, in 1990?
... that the magnetochemistry of gadolinium compounds makes them the most suitable contrast agents for MRI scans?
... that a dachshund named Lump once ate a work by Pablo Picasso?
... that the Byzantine general Nikephoros Melissenos proclaimed himself emperor, but submitted to his brother-in-law, Alexios I Komnenos, in exchange for the title of Caesar?
... that the Glee episode "Comeback" was originally rumored to be a Justin Bieber tribute, but his music only served as "a small plot point"?
... that Lauritz Weidemann served as a county governor in Norway for almost 35 years?
... that the LoDaisKa Site in Colorado was occupied for 7,500 years, starting in the Paleo-Indian period?
... that Dutch American biochemist Donald Van Slyke discovered the amino acid hydroxylysine, and was the first recipient of the American Medical Association's Scientific Achievement Award?
... that the British destroyer HMS Greyhound initiated the night phase of the Battle of Cape Matapan on 28/29 March 1941 when her searchlight illuminated an Italian cruiser?
... that GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind's victory at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year beat odds of 60–1?
... that works by German artist Georg Muche were confiscated by the Nazis and displayed in their 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition?
... that St. Louis, Missouri, has the most slave freedom suits available to researchers in the United States, and 301 cases are searchable online?
... that Thomas W. Stivers was issued the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but he was murdered in a business dispute before he could receive his medal?
... that although it can be difficult to define, some signs of surface bargaining include reneging on agreements already reached during collective bargaining or raising new issues late in negotiations?
... that according to Victor Gardthausen, Codex Sinaiticus is younger than Codex Vaticanus by at least 50 years?
... that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian, Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants?
... that after a fox took shelter in the ruins of Capel Lligwy , in Anglesey, north Wales, a vault was discovered containing "a large mass of human bones, several feet in depth"?
... that California '49er Stephen William Shaw helped discover Humboldt Bay, painted over 200 portraits of San Francisco notables, and started growing grapes in Sonoma County?
... that the location of BHP Billiton's Yeelirrie uranium project is referred to by the local Aborigines as a "place of death"?
... that British Major General Richard Barrons, who led efforts to incentivise Taliban soldiers to surrender in exchange for civilian jobs, was hand-picked for the role by U.S. General Stanley A. McChrystal?
... that Uncial 0321, thought to be the same as Uncial 067 for 164 years, was recently recognized as being a separate manuscript?
... that Khabur ware pottery was named after the Khabur River region in northeastern Syria, where large quantities of it were found by archaeologist Max Mallowan at the site of Chagar Bazar?
... that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?
... that English professional cyclist Thomas Gascoyne set world records for both 25 miles and the 'flying start quarter mile'?
... that the Iranian legend of Haftvad has parallels in dragon slayer stories in the folklore of many other countries?
... that sections of state highway M-37 in Michigan have been named for a Civil War general, a governor, and the road's "divine scenic and recreational delights"?
... that the Japanese pop music female duo ClariS have not released photos of themselves to the public, and instead have employed illustrators to draw their likenesses?
... that German-born U.S. soldier Christian Steiner was one of 32 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for battling against Cochise and the Apache Indians in the Chiricahua Mountains in 1869?
... that a humorous solution for the Buridan's bridge sophism is that Plato should let Socrates cross the bridge and then throw him into the river on the other side?
... that Croatian mountaineer Stipe Božić is the second European, after Reinhold Messner, to climb Mount Everest twice?
... that César Franck wrote his Violin Sonata as a wedding gift for violinist Eugène Ysaÿe?
... that the 1999 Bridge Creek – Moore tornado, ranked F5 on the Fujita scale, was the costliest tornado in United States history?
... that the first Iannotta San Francesco ultralight aircraft was built in a Capuchin Friary in Naples and named after the Capuchins' patron saint, St Francis of Assisi?
... that Swiss-born Medal of Honor recipient Julius H. Stickoffer was the only U.S. soldier to receive the award for actions during the Black Hawk War in Utah?
... that there was intense volcanic activity in Uruguay during the Cretaceous period about 130 million years ago?
... that Pine Islet Light , now located at the Mackay Marina, Queensland, Australia, is the last fully functional kerosene powered lighthouse in the world?
... that when the Ottomans entered the castle gates during the Siege of Gvozdansko, they met no resistance because the defending Croatian soldiers were already dead of wounds, hunger and cold?
... that Myotis vivesi is a species of bat that hunts marine fish and crustaceans?
... that art critic Jorge Romero Brest was the director of Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1963?
... that the exoplanet Kepler-9b's "year" becomes four minutes longer every time it completes an orbit around its star?
... that Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farzat's 1989 exhibition at the Arab World Institute in Paris brought him a death threat from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein?
... that composer Gian Carlo Menotti bought the Scottish 18th-century Yester House near Gifford because of the acoustics in the ballroom?
... that Callipogon relictus is the largest beetle of Russia, reaching a length of 110 mm (4.3 in)?
... that in 1805 Marguerite was the first slave to file a freedom suit in St. Louis, and she gained an end to Indian slavery in Missouri?
... that the lowest stage of the tower of St John the Baptist's Church, Stanton, Suffolk, was left open to allow processions around the church?
... that the Crawford Library was called the greatest philatelic library in the world when its owner died in 1913?
... that Saleh al-Ali led one of the first Syrian rebellions against the French mandate, and was sentenced to death in absentia by a French court-martial?
... that atmospheric models were not able to outperform statistical models in forecasting tropical cyclone tracks until the 1990s?
... that the German armored cruiser SMS Prinz Heinrich set the design standard for all subsequent armored cruisers built for the Kaiserliche Marine?
... that the Mexican state of Sonora lost about half its territory in the mid-19th century to the United States?
... that The Daily Telegraph's Tom Hoggins stated that Body and Brain Connection created a new video game genre called "mathercise", a portmanteau of the words math and exercise?
... that the Indian Claims Limitations Act of 1982 was the first statute of limitations imposed on claims arising from aboriginal title in the United States by Congress?
... that the spire of North Church has been called Portsmouth, New Hampshire's "landmark of record"?
... that under Anton Mosimann, the restaurant of the Dorchester Hotel became the first hotel restaurant outside France with two Michelin stars?
... that the track "Palermo" from the Chicago Underground Trio's album Slon contains recorded sounds from a Sicilian fish market?
... that instead of pinnacles on the tower of St Margaret's Church, Abbotsley in Cambridgeshire, there are statues of four kings?
... that NBC only ordered four episodes for the second season of Homicide: Life on the Street because the network had not decided whether to cancel or renew the series?
... that Theodosius Dobzhansky was the first president of the Behavior Genetics Association?
... that in September 1864, Sitting Bull was shot in the hip while leading an attack on a wagon train commanded by Captain James L. Fisk?
... that in 1999, a giant planet was hypothesized to exist in the outer Oort cloud of the solar system, but most astronomers are skeptical of its existence?
... that Tony Burrello's single "There's a New Sound" was described by Billboard magazine as "a studied attempt to be as screwy as possible", but went on to sell over 100,000 copies?
... that the French wine grape Fer gets its name from the element iron, because of how hard the vine's wood stock is?
... that the Marshall JTM 45 was based on the Fender Bassman, but had different harmonic content because of increased feedback?
... that in 1143 the Byzantine-Norman nobleman John Rogerios plotted to usurp the throne of his brother-in-law Manuel I Komnenos, but was betrayed by his own wife?
... that TIGER grants are contributing to the construction of the Gateway Project, a high speed rail corridor between Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station?
... that the Polish Pomeranian anti-Nazi Pomeranian Griffin resistance organization was persecuted by the Soviets due to its strongly Catholic character?
... that the city of Sulphur, Louisiana, once placed a memorial light on its water tower to honor Dr. Alvan Lafargue for having delivered 5,000 babies?
... that at Isha Home School in Coimbatore, India, origami is used to teach mathematics?
... that Bach's cantata for Septuagesimae 1724, Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin, BWV 144, is based on the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard ?
... that Patrick Sheltra, the 2010 ARCA Racing Series champion, was the first owner-driver to win the series title since Benny Parsons in 1969?
... that exoplanet Kepler-9c has an orbit that decreases by 39 minutes every time it circles its star?
... that Andrew L. Sevier, a Louisiana state senator from 1932 to 1962, was the scion of a family that traces its lineage to John Sevier of Tennessee?
... that mass strandings of the squat lobster Pleuroncodes planipes occur in California during El Niño years?
... that the opening of the Italian Spring Offensive against Greek positions, in March 1941, was personally observed by Benito Mussolini?
... that The Dante Quartet, an eight-minute experimental film, took six years to produce?
... that Leach's spider crab lives with the snakelocks anemone , eats the anemone's food and mucus and is protected from predators by the anemone's stings?
... that the Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath was built as a provincial theatre before becoming a Roman Catholic Church and since 1865 a Masonic Hall?
... that the first game to be considered a Yoshi game is the 1991 Nintendo Entertainment System game, Yoshi, which was developed by GameFreak?
... that kabbalists believed that those who think of themselves as Ayin, a mystical symbol of Kabbalah, will ascend to a spiritual world where everything, including life and death, is equal?
... that French engineer Achille Collas invented a working machine to make engravings from medals, coins and other bas-reliefs, and another to copy sculptures at a reduced scale?
... that the city of Chicago has warming centers open from December 1 to March 1 each year?
... that the 1973 Soviet economic reform initiated by Alexei Kosygin , the Premier of the Soviet Union, tried to reduce the powers of the central Ministries?
... that the Centipede–Lake Way project, located at Lake Way, is scheduled to become Western Australia's second uranium mine by 2013?
... that Soul Surfer is an upcoming film about Bethany Hamilton, who lost her left arm in a shark attack while surfing?
... that Mashpee Tribe v. New Seabury was the first tribal Nonintercourse Act lawsuit to go to a jury?
... that Andy Lally and Brian Keselowski are competing for Rookie of the Year in the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series?
... that in ecologically diverse Poinsett State Park in South Carolina one can see mountain laurels draped with Spanish moss?
... that the dwarf Seneb overcame his diminutive size to become a high-ranking royal official in ancient Egypt, marry a priestess and own thousands of cattle?
... that between 1969 and 1984, the Charlie Conacher Humanitarian Award was presented to a National Hockey League player who made outstanding community service contributions?
... that Tropical Storm Hubert, a weak tropical cyclone, killed 85 people and left 35 more missing throughout Madagascar in March 2010?
... that the Florida perforate cladonia was the first lichen to be added to the United States' endangered species list?
... that mountain coatis, a genus of small carnivorans from the Andes, were considered to represent a single species, until a second species was recognized in 2009?
... that Cedric Wright accompanied his best friend Ansel Adams when three of Adams' most famous photographs were taken?
... that when the 1983 arcade game Up'n Down was ported to the Atari 2600, its "bluesy" background music was replaced with "a very unsettling version" due to limitations in the 2600's sound capabilities?
... that NASA engineers shook a Saturn V test vehicle for over 400 hours to ensure it would withstand the rigors of launch?
... that former Syrian chief of staff Ali Aslan was considered the "operational brain" of the Syrian Army during the 1990s?
... that Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth was knighted in King George VI's bedroom after performing nerve surgery for his vascular disease?
... that a Pacific tropical storm and a Gulf of Mexico hurricane contributed to flash flooding in Minnesota and Wisconsin in September 2010?
... that the dog breed the Tesem appears on monuments and in wall paintings of the Ancient Egyptians?
... that the month after the Montreal Canadiens lost to their provincial rivals, the Quebec Nordiques, in the 1982 NHL playoffs, Quebec's beer consumption fell by 9.5 percent?
... that fortuitous finding of a colossal basalt lion in 1955 led to discovery of the Ain Dara temple near Aleppo in Syria, which was built in three structural phases between 1300 BC and 740 BC?
... that Mary Frances Winston Newson was the first American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics from a European university?
... that Stan Brakhage described his 1959 film Cat's Cradle as "sexual witchcraft involving two couples and a 'medium' cat"?
... that British botanist Charles Edward Hubbard was "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses"?
... that Doomsday Gun (HBO, 2004) was the first television drama to deal with U.S. and British covert involvement with Saddam Hussein preceding the Gulf War?
... that the ruined Church of St Mary in Islington, Norfolk, has retained roofs only on its tower and chancel?
... that when wine importer Kermit Lynch tried to contact Domaine Raveneau to import their wine to the United States, they hung up on him?
... that the SSM-A-3 Snark and SSM-A-5 Boojum cruise missiles were named after beasts from Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark?
... that in July 2003, amidst improving ties, Muhammad Mustafa Mero became the first Syrian prime minister to visit neighboring Turkey in 17 years?
... that "New Allegiances", the series seven premiere of the British television series Spooks, was partially filmed on location in Moscow, Russia, the first time in series history where filming took place outside the United Kingdom?
... that Master of the Blankney Hunt, Edgar Lubbock played in four FA Cup Finals, twice on the winning side?
... that the Marshall JCM800 series of amplifiers, used by many hard rock and heavy metal bands of the 1980s, owes its name to the owner's initials and his car number plate?
... that every no-hitter in franchise history for the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball club was thrown by a pitcher wearing an Expos uniform back when the team was based in Montreal, Canada?
... that Morefield's leather flower was first discovered in a vacant lot in 1982 by a 21-year-old botany student?
... that from a standing start, Wales rugby union international Roy John could jump up and reach the crossbar set at 3.2 metres (10 ft 6 in) above the ground?
... that the bat Myotis escalerai was first recorded in France in 2009?
... that Michigan's 1915 quarterback Lawrence Roehm was called the "thinking type", "160 pounds of undaunted courage", and a "peppery" player who imbued his team with "do-or-die spirit"?
... that legal action following the burial of a two-year old child in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Akenham, Suffolk, led to a change in the law in 1880?
... that Alan B. Slifka, who created the Abraham Fund Initiatives to promote coexistence of Jews and Arabs in Israel, was also the first chairman of the Big Apple Circus?
... that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who leads Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, was formerly defence minister under President Hosni Mubarak?
... that the popularity of the Balancing Rocks formation grew when the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe featured it on certain issues of Zimbabwean banknotes , including the current series?
... that in 1881, a tunnel was dug under St. Petersburg's shortest street, Malaya Sadovaya Street, as part of a Narodnik plot to assassinate Czar Alexander II?
... that while Nielluccio is sometimes described as indigenous to Corsica, the grape may actually have come to the island from Genoa and could really just be a clone of Sangiovese?
... that Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was built over the course of 20 years?
... that from 1859 to 1931, the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, Georgia, taught "orthodox southern moral and racial values" to young Southern women?
... that the beautiful purple-tinged flowering Castilleja septentrionalis (pale painted cup) is a parasite on the roots of other plants?
... that British appeal court judge James Stirling was a Wrangler, a Devil, and an amateur bryologist?
... that a Norwegian song from 1950 with lyrics by politician and poet Arne Paasche Aasen sold 100,000 records?
... that Leonard Nimoy says that his work on Fringe, which began with the episode "There's More Than One of Everything", will be his last acting project?
... that the 13th-century New Testament manuscript known as Minuscule 827 does not include John's account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery?
... that a woman immigrant from Frankfurt, the Countess Leon, founded the communal Germantown Colony established in 1835 in Webster Parish, Louisiana?
... that Home and Away actor Charles Cottier is embarrassed in real life because his character Dexter Walker falls in love with an older woman?
... that during the 1950s, the United States Navy intended to use Gorgons to deliver chemical weapons?
... that Romanian novelist Sergiu Dan survived deportation to Transnistria, spoke of it in one of the few local contributions to Holocaust literature, and was later imprisoned by the communist regime?
... that the AAM-A-1 Firebird was the first air-to-air missile to be developed following the end of World War II?
... that Oliver Lewis, founding member of the electronic music group Deviations Project, is considered to be the "world's fastest violinist"?
... that in the 1990s Luobi Cave near Sanya, Hainan, China, yielded the oldest evidence of human settlement in Hainan, as well as China's most southern occurrence of Upper Paleolithic era stone tools?
... that Justice, a 1954 NBC TV legal drama, was based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York?
... that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman began the last of three lectures collected in The Meaning of It All by saying, "I have completely run out of organized ideas"?