derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that John Saylor Coon, the first Mechanical Engineering Professor at Georgia Tech, made the first dynamo electric machine built in the United States when he was a student at Cornell University?
... that the Isle of Man Pure Beer Act meant that from 1874 to 1999 it was illegal to use anything other than water, malt, sugar, and hops for brewing beer?
... that American band Aventura won the first Lo Nuestro and Billboard Latin Music awards for Artist of the Year in the same year?
... that former wrestler Ramjit Raghav fathered his first child at age 94?
... that Confederate captain Christian Streit White later served as a county court clerk and president of the West Virginia Fish Commission?
... that the Knack's song "(She's So) Selfish" was prevented from being the follow-up single to "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" because the band refused to edit out the dirty lyrics?
... that William Carr Smith, the Christian Socialist rector of St James' Church, Sydney, challenged the Diocese by introducing Anglo-Catholic practices?
... that the American Car and Foundry Company's Astra Dome dome cars included the only dome dining cars ever operated by a railroad in the United States?
... that Monopoly and Altair, horses of Canadian equestrian athlete Beth Underhill, received fan mail?
... that Jacques Schmidt designed costumes for the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring and for Prokofiev's War and Peace, where 650 "historically appropriate costumes" were needed?
... that the attorney who owned the M.E. Blanton House in Aloha, Oregon, lost an appeal over a road project that removed part of the house's yard?
... that the young Willy Brandt wrote for Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung?
... that Geoff Unwin demonstrated how to play the Mellotron, a tape-based sampling keyboard, on the children's television show Blue Peter?
... that Max Factor helped to design the beauty micrometer, a "Clockwork Orange style device" used to detect tiny imperfections on women's faces?
... that even the originator of the term thought that "Boredom is a requisite of the Roman Counter-Maniera style" in painting ?
... that Giorgio Moroder won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in the 1984 ceremony for Flashdance instead of Scarface, for which he was also nominated?
... that in April 1968, Nell Truman and her sister Christine became the first winners of an open tennis event by winning the women's doubles title at the British Hard Court Championships?
... that Güstrow Castle contains a museum related to the male line of Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg's family?
... that Marilinda Garcia was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives when she was 23 years old?
... that pedestrians walking along Malet Street in London hear the sound of a stick hitting an iron railing ... though there's no railing in sight?
... that the Shenyang Chairman Mao statue is one of the largest remaining Cultural Revolution-era monuments in China?
... that archer Thomas Scott holds the distinction of being the oldest person to compete in an archery event at the Summer Olympics?
... that advertisements emphasised the simplicity of Wu Tsun's 1941 film Ajah Berdosa?
... that in a recent academic study, Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, a fake manuscript sent to open-access publishers was accepted by 157 and rejected by 98?
... that the Plaga Zombie film series is the first and only zombie horror film trilogy to come out of Latin America?
... that Mucho Macho Man, winner of the 2013 Breeders' Cup Classic, was named after the Village People song "Macho Man"?
... that anatomist Hermann Stieve , the youngest physician ever appointed the head of a German medical faculty, liked to give lectures in an academic robe?
... that U2's autobiography U2 by U2 was inspired by The Beatles Anthology?
... that Kamala Khan, also known as Ms. Marvel, is the first Muslim character to headline a comic book at Marvel Comics?
... that after switching its affiliation from the Vancouver Canucks to the St. Louis Blues, the Chicago Wolves rehired their previous long-time coach John Anderson in their 2013–14 season?
... that Armenian writer Levon Larents, who was among the Armenian leaders deported during the Armenian Genocide, was ultimately killed?
... that the BBC Two documentary Iceland Foods: Life in The Freezer Cabinet, about the Iceland supermarket chain, includes the chain's reaction to the 2013 meat adulteration scandal?
... that at the age of 23, Helge André Njåstad became Norway's youngest mayor?
... that Sidney Riesenberg's Over the Top for You was featured at an exhibit of World War I posters at the Smithsonian American Art Museum?
... that T.S. Eliot's 1928 poem "A Song for Simeon" includes passages from the Nunc dimittis prayer with allusions to the writings of Lancelot Andrewes, Dante, and John of the Cross?
... that Ernye Ákos saved the life of Hungarian king Béla IV by handing over his horse after the disastrous Battle of Mohi in 1241?
... that Catalaphyllia jardinei, known commonly as elegance coral, can reproduce either sexually or asexually?
... that harassment against the Association of Iranian Journalists by the administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad culminated in the closure of the organization in August 2009?
... that New Jersey Assemblywoman-elect Maria Rodriguez-Gregg plays for a local roller derby team?
... that Hong Kong's Law Uk is the sole surviving village house and the last example of traditional Hakka housing in Chai Wan, a former Hakka village?
... that Orel Hershiser's scoreless inning streak spanned a Major League Baseball record 59 consecutive innings in 1988, but was not ended until the following season?
... that Roesia si Pengkor was the first film by The Teng Chun targeted at native Indonesians?
... that the signature sound of Naim Audio amplification is described by the acronym "PRaT"?
... that Kathy Ritvo, the first woman race horse trainer to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, is also the recipient of a heart transplant?
... that part of the feeding ritual for larvae of the wasp Polistes carnifex involves an adult drumming with its antennae?
... that the Arts and Crafts Trmal's Villa in Prague was designed by "the founder of modern Czech architecture"?
... that 2013–14 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team recruit Zena Edosomwan is the first Harvard basketball recruit rated among the top 100 players in the country by Scout.com?
... that Polish-Jewish publisher Samuel Orgelbrand financed the printing of his Universal Encyclopedia, the first modern Polish encyclopedia, with proceeds from sales of the Babylonian Talmud?
... that "Tom Ford", the second single from Jay-Z's twelfth studio album Magna Carta Holy Grail, is an ode to fashion designer Tom Ford?
... that Susan Gerbi worked with Joseph Gall to develop in situ hybridization for her Ph.D. research?
... that the 2013 Anglo-French crime drama The Tunnel, based on the Scandinavian series The Bridge, is billed as the first bilingual series in British and French television?
... that when the Maine State Legislature came to inspect Eastern Maine Medical Center in 1897, patients were told to "smile, look comfortable, and not require bedpans"?
... that the Royal Calcutta Turf Club was the main horse racing authority in the British Raj?
... that Lutheran pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink was one of the Lübeck martyrs guillotined on 10 November 1943 for opposing the Nazi regime?
... that the architect Edward Habershon was involved in the 1862 relocation of London's burial grounds, moving more than one thousand hundredweight of human remains?
... that since the Maryland State House is not rentable, producers of season 2 of House of Cards made various donations in order to use the building for filming?
... that the Poncan Theatre was closed for about ten years after it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
... that the 28 October 2013 attack in Tiananmen Square is described as the first terror attack in Beijing in recent history?
... that Australian cricketer Richie Benaud took ten of his five-wicket hauls against India and South Africa?
... that Singaporean politician Penny Low, a Member of Parliament for the Pasir Ris-Punggol Group Representation Constituency, used to work at the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation?
... that Moravian missionaries reached the remote village of Krausirpi in 1967?
... that during the 1950s, communist propaganda for the war against the potato beetle depicted red and white striped bugs dropped by "US imperialists" marching across East Germany?
... that while he was Assay Master at the Royal Mint in 1568, William Humfrey was accused of robbing the Mint?
... that kit houses manufactured in Michigan were so popular that by 1918, houses from one Bay City company accounted for 2.4% of all housing starts in the United States?
... that after winning the Calder Cup last year, several hockey players from the Grand Rapids Griffins were called up to the Detroit Red Wings in their 2013–14 season?
... that Garry Medeiros, writer-director of The Terror Factor, was forced to become the film's main protagonist when its original star abruptly left the project?
... that the rents from the dilapidated houses of Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel had helped to maintain the equestrian painter Charles Cooper Henderson?
... that Canada's supply management policy for dairy, eggs and poultry limits yogurt imports to one teaspoon per Canadian per year?
... that a photograph taken by Elena Mrozovskaya at the 1903 Ball in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was exhibited in the Hermitage Rooms in London 100 years later?
... that Ségolène Royal became the first woman nominee of a major party for President of France after she won the French Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006?
... that in 1948, the socialist leader Nanasaheb Purohit organized a people's army to capture the Janjira state and proclaimed himself Prime Minister?
... that Inside Claridge's was shortlisted for the Grierson 2013: British Documentary Awards?
... that according to some politicians, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which resolved the 2013 U.S. government shutdown and debt-ceiling crisis, is just "kicking the can down the road"?
... that Dan Cohen lost the 1969 Minneapolis mayoral election despite holding endorsements from the DFL, the Republican Party, and President Richard Nixon?
... that a fort is being excavated in Unnao, India, for a possible 1000 tons of gold treasure?
... that drug lord Homero Cárdenas Guillén is believed to be the new leader of Mexico's Gulf Cartel?
... that the Illinois Central Railroad's Green Diamond debuted in 1936 with IC 121, the last new fixed-consist articulated streamliner built in the United States in the 1930s?
... that American frontier doctor Charles Boarman Harris delivered over 3,000 babies in Pembina County, North Dakota, during his 60-year medical career?
... that Armenian writer Jak Sayabalyan was murdered and his remains are yet to be found?
... that the wasp Cystomastacoides kiddo was named after Beatrix Kiddo from the film Kill Bill?
... that Doug Stone was the only artist that Epic Records' Bob Montgomery signed without seeing a live performance first?
... that 703 cloud seeding missions took place in Fujian Province to increase rainfall following Tropical Storm Morakot?
... that the American colonial newspaper publisher John Holt has been labeled by a modern day historian "the most important Radical printer outside Boston" during the American Revolution?
... that Bharatiya Janata Party politician Neena Verma won the 2008 Madhya Pradesh legislative assembly election from Dhar by a margin of only one vote?
... that only two U.S. states, New Jersey and California, have laws criminalizing revenge porn?
... that the British film Stalled, about a man trapped in a woman's bathroom being attacked by zombies, has screened at Korean and Swedish film festivals?
... that the technique of darkening oak by ammonia fuming was discovered accidentally when boards stored in a stable were darkened by fumes from horse urine?
... that in the few years after the formation of the exclusively female Sacred Twenty , military nursing tasks during World War I were still often done by untrained men?
... that Wilfred Byng Kenrick, who served Birmingham as chair of the education committee and mayor from 1922 to 1943, donated The Feast of Peleus by Edward Burne-Jones to the museum?
... that New Guinea crocodiles are agile enough to catch bats, flying birds and leaping fish?
... that Kasim Pasha allegedly resigned from the position of Rumelian beglerbey?
... that no women were elected in the 1978 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election?
... that Adam Render, a German-American hunter, found the ruins of Great Zimbabwe by accident in 1867?
... that the star of Miss Riboet's Orion ultimately never entered the film industry as she was not photogenic?
... that manhua artist Ye Qianyu was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution and then worked as a janitor?
... that Tadeusz Iwiński called Philippines–Poland relations a relationship "that was broken by mistake"?
... that Green Bay Packers safety M. D. Jennings was involved in the controversial ending of the 2012 Green Bay Packers–Seattle Seahawks game?
... that Callender's Cableworks Band was a prolific broadcaster in the early years of BBC Radio?
... that Nyari Welly was the first woman elected to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly?
... that the venomous spider Hadronyche macquariensis was only described in 2010?
... that a "great ruby stone" that Christopher Schutz wished to present to Queen Elizabeth I was never seen again after it came into the hands of Martin Frobisher?
... that the centenary of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on 7 November 2013 is being commemorated worldwide?
... that Harry Elmer Barnes called Summerhill, a book about the eponymous school, one of the most exciting and challenging books in the field of education since Rousseau's Émile?
... that award-winning production designer Eve Stewart described her experience as art director on Mike Leigh's Naked as "a bit of a shock"?
... that the River Nevis in Scotland has been described as a "maelstrom of water"?
... that the founders of gun-control organization Americans for Responsible Solutions, Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, are gun owners?
... that Csák I Hahót built the castle of Čakovec, Croatia, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary?
... that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the centenary Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"?
... that the new species of frog Pristimantis jamescameroni from Venezuela was named after the film-maker James Cameron?
... that Imtiaz Ali Taj was a 20th-century Urdu dramatist who wrote Anarkali, the romance behind the 1960 Indian feature film Mughal-e-Azam?
... that the campaigns of Attarsiya represent the earliest recorded Mycenaean Greek military involvement on the Anatolian mainland?
... that Pakistani woman Test cricketer Kiran Baluch's score of 242 runs in an innings is the highest in Women's Test cricket?
... that Indian National Congress politician Balmukund Goutam lost in the 2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Dhar by a margin of only one vote?
... that a French team created the Jahrhundertring of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot"?
... that Sir Bevis Bulmer presented Queen Elizabeth I with a porringer of pure gold?
... that the Dr. Robert Hohf House near Kenilworth, Illinois, features an experimental solar cooling system on the roof?
... that although Kosta Manojlović was instrumental in the establishment of the Belgrade Music Academy, serving as its first rector, he was forced to retire from it for political reasons?
... that Madonna influenced Michael Torke's composition of Vanada, a work initially dismissed as "dangerously close to the corruption that's happening to all American music"?
... that war correspondent John Black Atkins described Winston Churchill as "slim, slightly reddish-haired, pale, lively, frequently plunging along the deck"?
... that the City of Tigard in Oregon started a public library, but didn't fund it?
... that Walter Burton Harris, correspondent for The Times in Morocco, travelled to off-limits parts of the country by disguising himself as "the complete fanatical-looking type"?
... that some desert elephants in Mali were fitted with GPS collars so as to identify their traditional migratory routes?
... that Haig Tiriakian said that there were "sacks full of bombs on our shoulders and guns in our hands" when he and others raided and seized the national bank of Turkey?
... that two leads of the upcoming Bengali film Ashchorjyo Prodeep sing a song inspired by musicals like Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady?
... that although the painter John Gendall curated the art collection for Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum, he never saw it displayed?
... that a major event in the history of Chincoteague, Virginia, was the 1947 publication of a children's book about a local horse?
... that former New Zealand MP Jonathan Hunt is credited with the idea of integrating private schools into the state system?
... that Chen Liting's 1931 play Put Down Your Whip inspired Xu Beihong's 1939 painting that broke the Chinese auction price record in 2007?
... that in quarterback Tony Robinson's only appearance in the NFL, he led the Washington Redskins to a victory that has been called one of the greatest upsets in league history?
... that in the 1895 play Trilby, the role of Svengali was created by American actor Wilton Lackaye?
... that Jeffrey Trammell married Stuart Serkin at the United States Supreme Court building, in a ceremony presided over by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor?
... that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Promontory Apartments in Chicago, Illinois, after Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius all rejected offers to design it?
... that the screenwriter for the 1940 film Earthbound proposed including a pair of lovers wearing gas masks?
... that in 1949, copies of France Dimanche were seized in France because they were carrying pictures of Princess Margaret and her entourage, which were deemed to be an insult?
... that Eknath Ranade published the book Rousing Call to Hindu Nation in 1963, the centenary year of the birth of Swami Vivekananda?
... that Carol Comeau was inaugurated into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2009?
... that 22 countries in Europe use the Euro, including several that are not part of the European Union?
... that the Dedham Public Schools had the first public school in the United States to be exclusively supported by taxes?
... that after the death of the first Abbasid caliph, al-Saffah, his uncle Abdallah ibn Ali led a revolt and tried to claim the throne from al-Saffah's brother, al-Mansur?
... that the five-star InterContinental Geneva, near the UN European headquarters, was the site of a 1985 summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev?
... that Y. Radhakrishnamurthy filed his nomination for the 1977 parliamentary election in India whilst being jailed?
... that actor Vic Morrow died in the Twilight Zone tragedy, a helicopter crash during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie?
... that college baseball player Nick Burdi can throw a 100-mile-per-hour (160 km/h) fastball?
... that Henry VIII of England always had other men dress and undress him, and they thought this was an honour?
... that artist Situ Qiao was imprisoned and deported by the U.S. government for trying to sell his own paintings ?
... that circuit rider Harry Hosier was the first African American to preach to a white congregation in the United States?
... that the recently revealed Lockheed Martin SR-72, the successor to the SR-71, is designed to fly at six times the speed of sound?
... that Rama Ravi is an Indian Carnatic vocalist who has also learned the Bharata Natyam Indian dance form and plays two musical instruments, the veena and the mridangam?
... that impressionist painter Harry Fidler, who was born into farming, became known for painting farm horses?
... that the jail attached to the Benzie County Courthouse was nicknamed "The County Root Cellar"?
... that despite having the common name pepper saxifrage, Silaum silaus is neither a saxifrage nor tastes of pepper?
... that President J. R. E. Lee was able to secure higher salaries for teachers and administrators at Florida A&M University despite Governor Cone's statement that "no Negro was worth $4000 a year"?
... that followers of the Communist Party of the Argentine Region would describe followers of the official Communist Party as "radishes"?
... that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's new Ozark State Zephyr streamliner was christened by Mollie Stark, the daughter of then-Missouri Governor-elect Lloyd C. Stark?
... that in 1310, the pirate John Crabbe seized a ship carrying jewels, gold, silver, and other goods worth £2000 belonging to Alice of Hainault?
... that Myer Feldman exchanged memos written in rhyming couplets with Ted Sorensen while the two men were serving together in the Kennedy administration?
... that when Ottoman commander from Ohrid Hamza Pasha attacked Skanderbeg's rebels in Modrič in 1452, he was defeated and captured by his namesake, Hamza Kastrioti?
... that The Vulcan , a historic public house in Cardiff, Wales, was completely dismantled in 2012 and is planned to be rebuilt at the National History Museum?
... that Swami Vivekananda is credited with raising interfaith awareness and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion during the late 19th century?
... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
... that a scene with a topless woman was added into the British film The Projected Man to increase sales overseas?
... that film composer Leo Erdody's potentially noble ancestry led to him occasionally billing himself as simply "Erdody"?
... that Marine Gate was the most bombed building in Brighton during World War II, but only one resident—a Hollywood child star—died?
... that footballer Petr Vrabec won six Czechoslovak league titles with Sparta Prague?
... that when Jonathan Kaufer directed Soup for One, he became the youngest director at the time to be hired by a major studio?
... that Zingiber spectabile is often known as the beehive ginger, due to its inflorescences which resemble beehives?
... that the Dharma Wiratama Museum is located in the first headquarters of the Indonesian Army?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie Nate Palmer was a high school teammate to Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose?
... that a young Mao Zedong lived at the home of Wang Renmei‎, who grew up to become a movie star nicknamed the "Wildcat of Shanghai"?
... that Composite Squadron 6 of the United States Navy deployed two North American AJ Savage bombers to K-3 Air Base in Korea in July 1953 to act as a nuclear deterrent?
... that Ticasuk Brown was the first Native American to have a school named after her in Fairbanks, Alaska?
... that British physiologist Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald attended Oxford before women were granted degrees and 75 years later received an honorary master's when she was 100 years old?
... that Green Bay Packers rookie Josh Boyd was selected to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl while in high school?
... that K. A. P. Viswanatham was the first secretary of India's Justice Party?
... that Nora Lilian Alcock was the Scottish government's first plant pathologist?
... that the new species of fly Campsicnemus popeye was named after the cartoon character Popeye due to its swollen arms?
... that Dale Boone, who holds 24 world records for eating, claims to be related to Daniel Boone ?
... that there were only eight CGR 3rd Class 4-4-0 1903s ever produced?
... that Henry Caldwell Cook's 1917 claim that children learned better from playing and doing than reading and listening was debated for a generation?
... that patients of the overcrowded Huronia Regional Centre were subjected to years of "despairing conditions", and in some cases, abuse?