derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the monkey-queen Tara is described in the Hindu epic Ramayana to have set a habit to visit her second husband Sugriva drunk before indulging in sex?
... that Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer claims that passing secret account details to WikiLeaks is the only hope he has to let "society know what's going on" in the banking sector?
... that repertoires of contention slowly change over time, and include such concepts as rough music, sit-ins and hacktivism?
... that Gulet Mohamed, an American citizen who was detained in Kuwait, was blocked from flying home by the U.S. "no-fly list" until a federal court intervened to allow him to return?
... that when Winnington Hall in Cheshire was used as a girls' finishing school in the 19th century, it was visited by Sir Charles Hallé and John Ruskin?
... that despite being home to Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa and near to Acapulco, most of Guerrero's "Big Coast" lacks significant tourism infrastructure?
... that the script to season one of the Swedish comedy series Solsidan has been sold to the American television network ABC, which plans to create their own version of the series in the United States?
... that two destroyers of the Royal Navy's Fishery Protection Squadron, commanded by a commodore aboard a fishing trawler , once thwarted an Icelandic boarding attempt?
... that approximately 1500 tourists were trapped in the Torres del Paine National Park as a result of recent protests against the rising price of natural gas in the Magallanes Region of Chile?
... that the bell from the wreck of SS Edmund Fitzgerald is on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum?
... that in 1911, John Gaunt's second biplane nearly crashed because a bystander bent the aircraft's elevator before a flight?
... that claspingleaf doll's daisy can grow underwater, produce an inflorescence above the surface, bloom and produce seeds, and thus propagate during floods?
... that Rebecca Breeds' Home and Away character Ruby Buckton will begin a relationship with Romeo Smith, played by Breeds' real life partner, Luke Mitchell?
... that despite a fire, dismantling and having parts sold off since its first installation at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Tiffany Chapel is now open to the public again in Florida?
... that the original Lady Elliot Island Light was the first lighthouse in Australia to be constructed of a timber frame clad with cast iron plates?
... that part of the bed of South Branch Kishwaukee River in Illinois was the plain of an ancient lake?
... that Themistokli Gërmenji, an Albanian nationalist, received the French Croix de Guerre in November 1917, but was executed shortly thereafter by a French military court?
... that chess grandmaster Rosendo Balinas Jr. was a candidate in the 1994 special election for the seat of Rizal's first district in the House of Representatives of the Philippines?
... that Dave Downs pitched a complete-game shutout in his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies?
... that St Denys' Church, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, was built to serve a medieval village which has since been deserted?
... that Saguaro boots are the co-creation of a bird and a cactus?
... that the decorations in St John's Church, Duxford range from medieval wall paintings to modern graffiti?
... that Ben Roberts-Smith's receipt of the Victoria Cross for Australia for gallantry in Afghanistan, makes him the most highly decorated service person currently in the Australian Defence Force?
... that the closure of the Clinton Falls Bridge in its 100th year led local residents to successfully push for its historic preservation?
... that wine historians theorize that, during the Roman occupation of what is now Moravia, Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling may have been introduced to the Czech wine region of Mikulovská?
... that the Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine serves as the state-supported veterinary school for both Virginia and Maryland?
... that English soprano Joanne Lunn recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir, such as Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73?
... that in Florida v. Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that a state court decision is not "final" if a trial has not concluded in a verdict?
... that Andreu Mas-Colell, currently the Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia, Spain, has studied general equilibrium theory by using differential topology?
... that when built as currently planned, the Stad Ship Tunnel would allow ships to bypass Stad, one of the most dangerous sections of the Norwegian coast?
... that Nicholas Longworth built America's first commercially successful winery with a pink sparkling wine made from Catawba?
... that English classical singer Anna Reynolds recorded Bach cantatas with Richter's Münchener Bach-Chor, including Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? BWV 81?
... that law in Vanuatu combines a legacy of English common law, French law and indigenous customary law?
... that the remains of Confederate soldiers buried at Camp Nelson National Cemetery were exhumed after the American Civil War and re-buried elsewhere?
... that Brent Knoll Camp on the Somerset Levels was used for military purposes in the Iron Age and again in World War II?
... that American primatologist Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. was the inaugural vice president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature as well as a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund?
... that Walter Baetke, who became a professor of Scandinavian studies and history of religion, wrote his doctoral thesis on children in English literature during and after Shakespeare's time?
... that the Hall XPTBH, a patrol torpedo bomber, was the only aircraft that ever received three mission designation letters in the U.S. Navy's aircraft designation system?
... that Nepal's first public bus service was founded in 1959 by Karuna Ratna Tuladhar and his brother?
... that Penny and the Quarters are a "lost" soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song "You And Me" was used in the film Blue Valentine?
... that Wilmer Tanner , born 1909, described at least fifteen new species or genera?
... that Bermuda hedge fund Juniperus Capital was named after the Juniperus bermudiana, Bermudian cedar trees that are extremely hardy in the face of adverse conditions?
... that Hungarian team handball player József Éles was top scorer at the 1993 World Championship?
... that Joe Heitz of California wine producer Heitz Wine Cellars‎ is considered the first in the U.S. to champion single vineyard designated wine?
... that one of the T-shirts found in a backpack bomb in Spokane referred to a play put on by high school students in Chewelah, Washington?
... that it took a replay and then eighty minutes of extra time for Brighton & Hove Albion reserves to win the 1920–21 Southern League title?
... that the Sweetwater Dam near San Diego, when first constructed in 1888, was the tallest masonry arch dam in the United States?
... that the sinking in October 1942 of the German prisoner transport Palatia off Lindesnes is the second deadliest ship disaster in Norwegian history?
... that California Supreme Court Associate Justice Marshall F. McComb swore in Ronald Reagan as Governor of California?
... that the highest point on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was 965 feet (294 m) above sea level, just to the east of Britannia railway station?
... that although the Parks and Recreation third season premiere "Go Big or Go Home" was filmed immediately after the second season ended to accommodate actress Amy Poehler's pregnancy, the premiere was delayed until January?
... that renewable energy in Russia is largely underdeveloped, despite it being one of the top energy producers in the world?
... that McCants Stewart , the first African American lawyer in Oregon, was the son of an Associate Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court?
... that ryot and zerat were two labour-hiring processes practised by indigo planters in Bihar and Bengal during the Indian colonial period?
... that the 2010–11 Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball team is the first since 2003 to record a win over a top-ten ranked team?
... that Elektro–L is the first Russian weather satellite to operate successfully in geostationary orbit?
... that Stone Jam was Slave's second album to be certified Gold and was named by Jam-Master Jay of Run–D.M.C. as one of his favorite albums?
... that both Thomas-Morse R-5s competed in the 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race, but placed last among aircraft that completed the event?
... that British author Sunjeev Sahota had not read a novel until he bought Midnight's Children in an airport at the age of 18?
... that the two largest Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir trees in the United States survived the B&B Complex Fires that burned 90,769 acres (367.33 km2) of forest in the Cascade Range of Oregon?
... that the assassin Ablabius was paid fifty pounds of gold for his failed plot against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in November 562?
... that the book Beyond the First Amendment argues freedom of speech on the Internet is not easily addressed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
... that while Swedish archaeologist Olov Janse originally argued for European rather than Chinese origins of Bronze Age culture in Vietnam, he reversed his view after he began excavating at Đông Sơn?
... that in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin began the regulation of wellhead natural gas prices, which lasted until Congress deregulated them on January 1, 1985?
... that several ordas (hordes) originated on the Eurasian Steppe, including the famous Golden Horde?
... that in Booth v. Churner, over 30 U.S. states asked the United States Supreme Court to require prisoners to resolve all administrative claims before pursuing litigation?
... that Tupaia miocenica, known from a single tooth, is among the few known fossil treeshrews?
... that after beginning his baseball career with the Philadelphia Phillies, right fielder George Durning led the Salisbury Indians in games played, times at bat, and hits in his first full season?
... that a 300-metre (980 ft) long bridge has been recently built near Tojg, in western Afghanistan, funded by the Commander's Emergency Response Program?
... that George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived in the same house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts?
... that Carlina White, kidnapped when 19 days old, was reunited with her parents 23 years later as a result of her own investigative work, the longest recorded gap in a non-parental abduction?
... that when the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel opened in 1973 in Washington, D.C., the dedicatory festivities included a birthday party for author Anita Loos, and Carol Channing singing while seated upon a cake?
... that, according to the United Nations, the 2004–2005 Uíge Province, Angola, outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever was the world's worst epidemic of any kind of hemorrhagic fever?
... that boxing promoter Don King was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. King?
... that the Chilean movie 03:34: Earthquake in Chile will narrate three different stories based on the events that occurred after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
... that the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam would flood Lava Falls, one of the most spectacular rapids on the Colorado River?
... that Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a Marxist study of the period of the Belle Époque?
... that Eric Doeringer has sometimes sold up to US$1,500 worth of "bootlegs", small copies of paintings by eminent modern artists, in one day?
... that RAAF Air Vice-Marshal Alan Charlesworth once survived an accident with future Governor of New South Wales Eric Woodward when their aircraft landed upside down on a fence?
... that the Mayo Clinic argued in Mayo v. United States that medical residents, who work up to 80 hours a week and are paid approximately $50,000 a year, should be considered students instead of employees?
... that International Commission of Control, established on October 15, 1913, to assume the administration of Albania, was composed of the representatives of each Great Power and one Albanian?
... that while Oregon's Willamette Valley is known primarily for Pinot noir, Cristom Vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills has been growing Syrah since 2002?
... that Congregation Dorshei Emet is the first synagogue in Canada and the third in the world to receive a Torah scroll handwritten by a woman?
... that the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis completed a clinical trial to test whether hypothermia (cooling) within the first few hours of a traumatic spinal cord or brain injury makes a difference in the severity of injury?
... that an 11-year-old girl beat the video game Diva Starz: Mall Mania in 42 minutes?
... that cyanotoxins are produced by bacteria which float on lakes and oceans as a green scum and can kill animals by causing respiratory failure?
... that in the 1970s, the Pelican Bowl was played to determine the national champions of black college football in the United States?
... that during the Yuan administrative rule of Tibet, the Mongol approved d-pon chen, or "Great Administrator", was responsible for the administration of Tibet under the Yuan Dynasty?
... that the Vought XSB3U was designed as a result of the U.S. Navy's reluctance to embrace the monoplane for carrier operations?
... that claims to unite the Ottoman vilayets of Kosovo, Shkoder, Monastir and Ioaninna into one, the Albanian Vilayet, often included the Salonica Vilayet too?
... that a memorial all-star game was held in 1937 to raise money for the family of Howie Morenz, who was said to have died of a broken heart in the belief a broken leg had ended his hockey career?
... that the largest native land animal on Ascension Island is a crab, Johngarthia lagostoma ?
... that The Cars, The Primitives, The Lemonheads and Tarnation have all released recordings of The Nightcrawlers' "slightly bizarre nursery rhyme" "The Little Black Egg"?
... that in January 1917, New Zealander Clive Franklyn Collett was the first British or Commonwealth military pilot to parachute from an airplane?
... that land for the defunct rural Ashland High School in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, was donated in 1907 by later State Senator Andrew R. Johnson?
... that Anni Dewani was a Swedish woman who was kidnapped and murdered during her honeymoon in Cape Town, South Africa?
... that when first described in the 1890s, the Bornean Slow Loris was said to have the face of a bear, the hands of a monkey, and to move like a sloth?
... that when the troops in front of his soldiers broke and fled at the Battle of Guilford Court House, General Edward Stevens told his brigade that the retreat was part of the battle plan?
... that in 1941, RAAF Squadron Leader Peter Jeffrey introduced the radical concept of commissioned and non-commissioned pilots sharing a common mess while on combat duty?
... that bones of Hypsibema missouriensis, now the state dinosaur of Missouri, have only been found in Bollinger County, Missouri?
... that bongo player Chaino, whose albums included Jungle Mating Rhythms, claimed to be an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa but was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago?
... that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba, an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, was discovered in the British Library in 2009?
... that in 1776, to warn authorities in Halifax of the siege of Fort Cumberland, Redcoat Thomas Dixson successfully navigated the Minas Basin, home to the Earth's highest tides, in a small open boat?
... that, if built as currently planned, the Storfjord Bridge will have the longest span of any suspension bridge in the world?
... that prior to authoring Freedom of Expression®, Kembrew McLeod successfully registered the phrase "freedom of expression" as a trademark in the United States?
... that Life magazine estimated 136 million people saw the photograph "Bloody Saturday" after the August 1937 bombing of Shanghai?
... that Justice Thomas said the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Penry v. Johnson on the relevance of mental retardation in death penalty sentencing sent "mixed signals" to lower courts?
... that Samrong Sen is a prehistoric archaeological site in Kampong Chhnang Province, Cambodia, consisting of a very large fluviatile shell midden?
... that during World War II, George R. Salisbury, Jr., later a Wyoming rancher and state representative, was a Bronze Star-winning tank commander?
... that St Mary's Church, Pentraeth, Wales, was decorated in the 18th century with paper garlands, perhaps to celebrate parishioners' weddings?
... that after losing a job, the Salty Dogs Jazz Band would sometimes find that they had been replaced by another jazz band with the same name?
... that François Rochebrune, the French commander of the Zouaves of Death, once disciplined panicked Polish troops by asking them what time it was, which was the only Polish he knew?
... that Elmer Mitchell boasts the highest winning percentage in the history of Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball and is considered the father of intramural sports?
... that the International Dunhuang Project has made over a quarter of a million images of Silk Road manuscripts and other artefacts available online?
... that the E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency built bicycle racer Major Taylor a revolutionary steam powered pacing tandem he used to break the world record at a speed of 45.56 miles per hour (73.32 km/h)?
... that California wine producer Tablas Creek Vineyard is the "sibling winery" of Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château de Beaucastel?
... that Jared Lee Loughner was detained at the Federal Correctional Institution at Phoenix after the 2011 Tucson shooting?
... that Allegro, the third musical of Rodgers and Hammerstein, was called "an out-and-out failure"?
... that Miguel Angel Galluzzi's Ducati Monster is credited with both reviving the retro standard motorcycle and creating a new naked bike niche?
... that by 1961, Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, had trained "the largest number of black doctors and nurses in the world"?
... that singer Gary Williams played Frank Sinatra in the West End production of The Rat Pack?
... that public perception of graffiti in New York is slowly changing from an act of vandalism to a form of art?
... that the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam, India, is named after the only ape in India, the hoolock gibbon?
... that Graciela Chichilnisky, who proposed the Kyoto Protocol's market for carbon credit trading, obtained her PhDs in mathematics and economics without ever having been an undergraduate?
... that General Nicolas-Marie Songis des Courbons served under Napoleon I, as commander of the Grande Armée artillery?
... that Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico, was built entirely underground and equipped as a fallout shelter, in case of nuclear war?
... that minuscule 817 was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his Novum Instrumentum omne?
... that the FBI and CIA used vein matching as evidence that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of al-Qaeda had killed journalist Daniel Pearl?
... that when construction of the Bjorøy Tunnel in Norway hit a section of sand, a new tunneling method had to be developed to continue?
... that the Nazi storyline in the Fringe episode "The Bishop Revival" was well-received by Entertainment Weekly for featuring a "good threat"?
... that the surface of the South African plant Peucedanum galbanum is covered with blister-causing toxins, and that exposure to sunlight could make the blisters worse?
... that the Emmanuel DeHodiamont House, a stone house built in 1830, shares the status of being the oldest house in St. Louis, Missouri?
... that Francesco Nullo is commemorated in both Italy and Poland as a hero of those countries' struggle for independence?
... that the Republic of Ireland has no honours system, though the issue has been considered by successive governments since 1930?
... that controversy over New Brunswick's Common Schools Act of 1871 resulted in two deaths in the town of Caraquet?
... that Cully Dahlstrom was the first American born player to win the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League's rookie of the year?
... that the I.S.T. XL-14 Maya, a light aircraft, was constructed primarily from woven bamboo?
... that Prince Sozisa became the 'Authorised Person' of Swaziland after the death of King Sobhuza II?
... that, following the collision of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 with a Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II, the US Armed Forces required military aircraft to obey civilian air traffic controllers?
... that Gervasio won the international competition at the 1983 Viña del Mar International Song Festival?
... that the Royal Moroccan Navy is constructing a new naval base at Ksar es-Seghir?
... that French encyclopédiste Claude Yvon was forced to flee to Holland because he was believed to have contributed to a controversial thesis published in 1752 by Jean-Martin de Prades?
... that after his professional basketball career ended, Boo Ellis worked as a security guard in his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio?
... that some of the Chinit River diversion and canal structures of the Khmer Rouge era were built by forced labour and damaged by regime soldiers who were "grenade fishing"?
... that the Douglas XCG-17 glider was converted from a C-47 transport that had originally flown for Northwest Airlines?
... that the fossil primate ? Nycticebus linglom is known from a single tooth, which is said to be the smallest known prosimian molar?
... that the Wainwright Tomb was described as "the most sensitive and the most graceful" of the tombs designed by Louis Sullivan?
... that Stage AE in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a concert venue partially owned by the Pittsburgh Steelers?
... that All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, has been called the "Cathedral of the Marsh"?
... that Alvin Young, cut from his high school basketball team every single year, went on to lead NCAA Division I in scoring in college?
... that three different versions of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" reached the radio airplay charts in the same year?
... that the recall of a weather ship for budgetary reasons was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987 for Great Britain?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court said Congress did not exempt certain federal banks from state taxes in Director of Revenue of Mo. v. CoBank ACB notwithstanding the landmark decision in McCulloch?
... that, as women in Sweden were not allowed to join the Swedish Tailoring Workers Union, they founded a separate Women's Trade Union in 1902?
... that Boops boops is a species of Boops called "the bogue"?
... that the mushroom Auriscalpium vulgare is named for an instrument used for personal hygiene?
... that Kevin Houston holds the U.S. Military Academy's men's basketball records for points in a game (53), season (953) and career (2,325)?
... that the Mitsubishi 1MF9 was the first Japanese-designed fighter intended for use from aircraft carriers?
... that the design of the Richmond Memorial Library in Batavia, New York, was inspired by the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts?
... that as a condition of paying for restoration work, a 19th-century benefactor of St Mary's Church in Bodewryd, Wales, required the church to have Islamic-style stained glass?
... that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2001 securities fraud case that secret plans to disregard an oral contract are illegal?
... that infants born with Malpuech facial clefting syndrome may have a tail?
... that the steam engines and boilers of the Russian ironclad Petr Veliky were so defective that they had to be replaced five years after she entered service in 1876?
... that Bob McCurdy, described by former basketball teammate Kevin Eastman as having virtually no quickness, dribbling skills, jumping ability or foot speed, led NCAA Division I in scoring in 1974–75?
... that the European SARTRE Project conducted its first successful trial of an electronically controlled road train in January 2011?
... that two holes in the ceiling of the Prohodna cave in Bulgaria are known as the "Eyes of God"?