derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that at one point, some street signs in Salt Lake City were written in the Deseret alphabet ?
... that Jean Davies, then a junior officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service, attended Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party along with President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin?
... that Max Reger composed his first cello sonata as a student and had it published in London?
... that during the 1873 mutiny of the Royal Guards of Hawaii, the Hungarian drillmaster Captain Joseph Jajczay and the adjutant general Charles Hastings Judd were attacked?
... that both Madame de Pompadour and Coco Chanel loved Coromandel lacquer?
... that Al-Jahith's Treasury, an Amman bookstore chain, may have been named for theologian al-Jahiz, who was supposedly crushed by a stack of books?
... that Maryland state legislator William Daniel was a Whig, a Know Nothing, and a Republican before finally joining the Prohibition Party in 1884?
... that Francis Poulenc placed an ode to liberty at the end of his Figure humaine, a cantata for a twelve-part choir, composed in occupied France and premiered by the BBC?
... that Dwain Worrell's debut screenplay The Wall is also Amazon Studios' first original spec script?
... that after the Bugis prince Arung Palakka supported the Dutch East India Company in the Makassar War, he became the most powerful man in South Sulawesi?
... that in 2015, the Irish Guards GAA became the first British Army Gaelic games club to join the Gaelic Athletic Association?
... that the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse, a U.S. government program established in 1790 to finance foreign covert operations, had by 1793 grown to consume 12 percent of the government's budget?
... that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final?
... that Emany Mata Likambe, Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living on the streets of Warsaw in 1994 after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?
... that as CEO of Intel Israel, Maxine Fassberg encouraged women, Arabs, Druze, and Haredi Jews to enter the high-tech sector?
... that the Nanjing Metro system in Nanjing, China, has a total of 139 stations, with transfer stations counted once for every line they serve?
... that during the 1952 steel strike, Clarence B. Randall criticized President Harry S. Truman for what he considered "shocking distortions of fact"?
... that Chloë Sevigny portrays the accused ax-murderer Lizzie Borden in the upcoming film Lizzie?
... that Mount Berlin, a volcano in Antarctica, has had large Plinian eruptions in the past and is still fumarolically active through towers of ice?
... that King Razadarit's decision to keep the one-time flower seller Piya Yaza Dewi as his chief queen consort led to the suicide of his first wife, Queen Talamidaw?
... that the Franco-Tahitian War (1844–1847) culminated in the defeat of the Tahitians at Fort Fautaua ?
... that Elizabeth Plankinton, known as the "municipal patroness" for her philanthropy, gifted a 9-foot (2.7 m) high bronze George Washington sculpture to the citizens of Milwaukee?
... that in November 2016 Peter Reulein conducted the premiere of his oratorio Laudato si', described as a Franciscan Magnificat, with more than 250 performers at the Limburg Cathedral?
... that the Hongwu Emperor copied the text of Zhen Dexiu's work The Expanded Meaning of the Great Learning onto the walls of his palace?
... that the Clemson Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship on a game-winning touchdown with one second left?
... that the Indian Government Mint in Hyderabad was established in 1803 by the Nizam of Hyderabad, Asaf Jah III, and was taken over by the Government of India in 1950?
... that Sheikh Morteza Ansari's Makasib, authored more than 150 years ago, is still taught in Shia seminaries?
... that according to family tradition, George Charles Beckley designed the Flag of Hawaii, which was passed down as an heirloom in the form of a child's frock?
... that the face of the Timex Expedition WS4 resembles the shape of the rear window of a Land Rover?
... that before starting her pioneering genetic studies of complex human diseases such as atherosclerosis, Nobuyo Maeda researched sea snake venoms?
... that Fei Xiaotong's book From the Soil was banned in China for being "rightist", and in Taiwan for the author's perceived support for Communism?
... that pacer Always B Miki set a world record of 1 minute 46 seconds, the fastest mile in Standardbred history?
... that an environmental assessment for the future Grimsby train station included review of an 1876 historical atlas of Ontario, Canada, to find features of historic value?
... that when Sarah Bavly arrived in Jerusalem to open a nutrition department in a new health center, she was forced to hide in the building for a week due to the outbreak of the 1929 Palestine riots?
... that a politician implicated in Italy's largest corruption scandal was permitted to claim his time in the parliament constituted his community service?
... that the Walt Disney World Railroad , with 3.7 million passengers each year, is one of the most popular railroads in the world powered by steam locomotives?
... that German architect August Soller died during construction of his greatest work, and was buried there before it was finished?
... that Catananche lutea produces five types of seed that correspond to a range of different survival and dispersal strategies?
... that William Hoapili Kaʻauwai traveled to Europe with Queen Emma, but made an unauthorized side trip to New Zealand to recruit Māori immigrants for the Kingdom of Hawaii?
... that Bach composed five organ settings of the hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend", which was translated by Catherine Winkworth for communion as "Lord Jesus Christ, be present now!"?
... that Carolyn B. Shelton became the first female governor in the United States when she spent a weekend as acting governor of Oregon in 1909?
... that the Elsevier publication Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing has been described as a "sham masquerading as a real scientific journal" that publishes "truly ridiculous studies"?
... that during World War II, International Hat Company was one of the two main manufacturers of the sun helmet , one of the longest-used helmets of the United States military?
... that the part-Hawaiian Carlos A. Long was unanimously elected captain of the 1899 Georgetown Hoyas football team at Georgetown University?
... that Gufran-Ullah Beig is the first Indian scientist to receive the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award of the World Meteorological Organization?
... that Francis Poulenc composed the four motets Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence at different times, three of them on responsories for the Holy Week?
... that when the theologian Patrick Dehm was suspended by the Bishop of Limburg, he founded an ecumenical association to continue the work for contemporary church music?
... that Grace Bochenek , an engineer and director of the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory, is the acting Secretary of Energy?
... that Lvinaya Past was the site of the largest Holocene volcanic eruption in the Southern Kurils?
... that the first adult female Pterinoxylus spinulosus was described in 1957, some fifty years after the first male?
... that zoological gardens were added to Sudhir Chandra Das's ministerial portfolio in 1971?
... that the Mexican Southern Railroad was originally run by executives from the United States, including former President Ulysses S. Grant?
... that Turkish novelist and journalist Suat Derviş was the granddaughter of a slave?
... that George W. Macfarlane and Robert Hoapili Baker accompanied Hawaiian King Kalākaua on his final trip to California where the king died in 1891?
... that during the bombing of Nagaoka in World War II, 80% of the urban area of the city burned down?
... that the 501(h) election allows many U.S. non-profit organizations to engage in unlimited lobbying as long as they do it cheaply?
... that Bill Roe made the highest score in cricket at the time when he scored 415 runs during an inter-college match at Cambridge University?
... that the fossil leaves of the maple species Acer whitebirdense had earlier been misattributed to the genera Viburnum, Platanus, and Rubus?
... that Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca wrote the libretto for Solimano, first set by Hasse and produced in Dresden with live elephants and camels?
... that Herschel K. Mitchell, Roger J. Williams, and Esmond E. Snell isolated folic acid from four tons of processed spinach?
... that a Chinese acting troupe was flogged for slander in the 13th century after they portrayed the scholar Wei Liaoweng as a drunkard?
... that writer Ed Brubaker created the murdering vigilante in his comic book Kill or Be Killed because recent news events made him feel there was no justice?
... that the historian who researched early Canadian baseball figure William Shuttleworth believed that "at first people thought I made him up"?
... that the Mazu Temple in Lugang, Taiwan, includes wood carvings of the "Four Best Things in Life": stretching, ear-cleaning, nose-picking, and scratching?
... that after six decades subscribing to left-wing ideology, German-Israeli novelist Naomi Frankel adopted right-wing ideology and moved to the West Bank?
... that EJay Day, the first finalist ever eliminated from American Idol, also placed in the top 20 on Popstars: USA?
... that the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission selected Listening for Coyote by William L. Sullivan as one of the 100 most significant books in Oregon history?
... that for security purposes, Gaelic games club PSNI GAA players do not have their names published?
... that although the medieval Lord High Treasurer John Crakehall was a clergyman sworn to celibacy, he had a daughter to whom he left part of his estate?
... that the Mangal Shobhajatra has been declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO?
... that Alice Brown, a professor of politics who advised the new Scottish Parliament on governance, went on to become the first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman?
... that the painter Caspar Isenmann left a detailed contract signed on 21 June 1462?
... that India's Sangeet Natak Akademi fellowship for the performing arts is usually not conferred on anyone under the age of 50?
... that Tukwila International Boulevard station near Seattle's international airport features an angular roof shaped like the wings of an airplane?
... that Randy Edsall, UConn football's all-time leader in games coached and wins as a head coach, was re-hired for 2017 after an absence of six seasons?
... that "lamprophrenia", a portmanteau of the Greek words lampron (bright) and phrenia (mind), was coined by Czech–Finnish musical artist Sonja Vectomov as the title of her debut album?
... that scholars have been puzzled by a motif in Chinese Swatow ware, where a pagoda is split "almost like a volcanic eruption"?
... that Lady Canning, India's first vicereine, has been described as one of the country's most memorable women botanical illustrators?
... that during 1968 revisions to the United States Army Field Manuals, there was an attempt to eliminate the use of bayonets for crowd control?
... that Spanish association footballer Xiker joined Athletic Bilbao's academy when he was just ten years old?
... that in 1968, Indian philosopher and statesman Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first recipient of the Sahitya Akademi fellowship?
... that the walls of the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station in New York City still prominently display the name of a plaza that was demolished in the 1950s?
... that rabbit stew sometimes includes rabbit blood as an ingredient to thicken and enrich it?
... that Franklin Seaver Pratt was removed from his post as diplomatic agent for defending the claim of his royal wife Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Laʻanui to the Crown Lands of Hawaii?
... that in 1603, more than 1,000 rōnins rebelled at Rokugō in a "final suicidal gesture" for their former lord, Onodera Yoshimichi?
... that the British neuroscientist John Hughes shared the 1978 Lasker Award for co-discovering opioid peptides in the brain?
... that in The Field of Fight, new US National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn argues that Bolivia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela are allied with Al-Qaeda and ISIS?
... that in 1088 the Anglo-Norman nobleman Robert Pantulf was accused of stealing 6 pounds (2.7 kg) of silver from the nuns of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen?
... that the Swedish release of M2M's debut album Shades of Purple was delayed by a legal dispute with another band named M2M?
... that the newly designated Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah protects 100,000 archaeological sites, including Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings more than 3,500 years old?
... that the Church of England Marriage Measure 2008 gave couples the legal right to get married in any parish where their parents or grandparents were married, but not in any cathedral?
... that the Philadelphia Phillies had four players record a batting average over .400 during the 1894 season?
... that at the end of the Trunajaya rebellion, King Amangkurat II stabbed the defeated rebel leader Trunajaya to death?
... that Edward C. Macfarlane worked for The Wasp and later married its owner's sister?
... that sea slug Chelidonura fulvipunctata is likely an anti-Lessepsian migrant?
... that "When This Cruel War Is Over" was one of the most popular sentimental ballads of the American Civil War, sung by both Union and Confederate troops?
... that one of the goals of King Kalākaua's world tour was to save the declining population of Native Hawaiians?
... that monasteries and public buildings are illuminated during the Galdan Namchot festival marking the beginning of new year celebrations in Ladakh, India?
... that for Givat Brenner's 25th anniversary, kibbutz theatre director Shulamit Bat-Dori staged an open-air play with a cast and crew of 1,000, before an audience of 10,000?
... that business historian Robert Sobel has described the New York Gold Exchange as "the most informal and certainly the wildest market in American history"?
... that a study by child psychiatrist Stella Chess and her husband, Alexander Thomas, found that children could be divided into three different categories: "easy", "difficult", and "slow to warm up"?
... that Girls' Generation was among the five South Korean acts that best represent K-pop during the past two decades, according to a 2015 poll by Korea Creative Content Agency?
... that the lemon-bellied flyrobin occasionally catches and eats insects that are one-sixth of its length?
... that Chinese dragon kilns for pottery ran up hillsides, could be 135 metres (443 ft) long, and could fire tens of thousands of pieces at a time?
... that Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong divulged the Communist party's previously unknown history to American journalist Helen Foster Snow in 1937 for widespread publication?
... that Sir William Napier wrote part of his History of the Peninsular War sitting at a stone table in the grounds of Freshford Manor?
... that Caspar Ziegler, who wrote a hymn on which Bach based a Christmas cantata, was professor of law and Rektor of the University of Wittenberg?
... that "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" helped popularize Indian instrumentation in rock music?
... that Clarence W. Macfarlane initiated the Transpacific Yacht Race in 1906, sailing from Honolulu to the California coast around the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
... that Derry City Ladies F.C. play football in the Northern Irish leagues while their men's team play in the Republic of Ireland's?
... that a levee break at Mound Landing, Mississippi – now an isolated ghost town on the banks of the Mississippi River – began one of the worst floods in American history?
... that in 2015, Alison Hughes was part of the first ever all-female officiating team in a Fed Cup final?
... that the South Korea Improper Solicitation and Graft Act counts private teachers and journalists among the ranks of public officials?
... that Chinese-Hawaiian lawyer and politician Joseph Apukai Akina became the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Territory of Hawaii?
... that the buffy pipit is often confused with the plain-backed pipit because both birds have plain upperparts?
... that the 14th-century Moroccan scholar Ibn Marzuq wrote a hagiography of the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman?
... that a newly described moth species, Neopalpa donaldtrumpi , was so named because its yellowish head scales reminded a scientist of Donald Trump's hair?
... that the British scientist John Challens received the American Medal of Freedom for his work on the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket?
... that "Im April" from Max Reger's Sechs Lieder, Op. 4, has been called "one of Reger's sunniest songs"?
... that George Panila Kamauoha served in the legislatures of three Hawaiian regimes?
... that Pinchinthorpe railway station closed 13 years before the rest of the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway fell victim to the Beeching Axe?
... that acorns of the fossil oak Quercus hiholensis have possible insect damage preserved in them?
... that after Agnes Fay Morgan conducted a nutritional study with foxes, she presented her data wearing a stole made from the fur of her subjects?
... that up to 50% of a U.S. Federal Protective Forces detachment could be killed while defending a U.S. Department of Energy facility?
... that the British member of parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg lives at Gournay Court where his great aunt had been a nurse during World War I?
... that Workers Party of India leader Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya was jailed during the Sino-Indian War of 1962?
... that as its natural habitat is converted to cropland, Goldman's pocket mouse is threatened by the increased use of rodenticides?
... that the 100th Brigade of the United Kingdom attacked High Wood during the Battle of the Somme?
... that the New Zealand eagle ray can detect prey completely submerged in sand and create a jet of water to expose it?
... that quarterback Sam Darnold's high school footage submitted to college football coaches consisted of his basketball highlights?
... that Radio Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero has broadcast since 1982 but has never been recognized at the federal level?
... that Kamran Aziz is the first Turkish Cypriot female composer, as well as one of the first Turkish Cypriot female pharmacists?
... that a recent United States Supreme Court case began when insurance adjusters claimed they were instructed to falsely categorize damages after Hurricane Katrina?
... that in 1999, Rajeev Nayyar set the record for the longest first-class cricket innings, batting for almost 17 hours?
... that Giant Days was published by BOOM! Box after writer John Allison saved a BOOM! editor from falling?
... that the soup and sandwich combination has been a popular lunch dish in the United States since the 1920s?
... that David William Pua submitted petitions from the people of the Kingdom of Hawaii asking for the abrogation of the Bayonet Constitution, which had allowed him to be elected to the House of Nobles?
... that John Dwyer chaired a government "Quackwatch Committee" whose objective was to tighten controls on wonder drugs and miracle cures?
... that the OVC project supports the education of disadvantaged young people in Adigrat, Ethiopia?
... that an Argentine politician was detained while allegedly trying to hide currency worth around US$7 million inside a convent?
... that the city of Glen Cove, New York, once tried to foreclose on the Soviet diplomatic retreat at Killenworth , and later denied its residents beach permits?
... that Augustus Constantine Sinclair conceived the idea for the Jamaica International Exhibition of 1891 but died on the day it opened?
... that the classical pianist Yara Bernette was praised for her interpretation of Variations on a Theme from the Northeast of Brazil by the composer, Camargo Guarnieri?
... that detrital zircon geochronology uses zirconium silicate to determine the age of sedimentary rock?
... that Akakio Tematereikura succeeded as regent of Mangareva after Queen Dowager Maria Eutokia Toaputeitou retired to the Rouru Convent on Mount Duff?
... that Mercedes-Benz intends to release ten models in the EQ family of battery electric vehicles by 2025?
... that Kjell Eriksson stated he was terrified to answer his telephone for fear that singer Carola would yell at him after an incident at Melodifestivalen 2008?
... that endemics among the wildlife of Morocco include more than six hundred species of vascular plants and a single species of bird ?
... that the Salīhids, an Arab Christian tribe, preceded the Ghassanids as the main Arab federates of the Byzantine Empire?
... that test pilot Major General Clarence A. Shoop was court-martialed as a cadet?
... that "The Student", one of Anton Chekhov's shortest stories, was also his favorite?
... that Samuel K. Pua, assistant editor of an anti-annexationist Hawaiian newspaper, was severely injured when a goat attacked him at Waikiki?
... that over the history of mosasaur paleontology , clams, fish, toothed birds, plesiosaurs, sharks, turtles, and even other mosasaurs have been discovered preserved in the bellies of these marine lizards?
... that Guendolen Plestcheeff was known as "Seattle's Grand, Grand Lady" and "the most elegant woman in Seattle"?
... that Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum (1956) was the first full-length colour film in Tamil cinema?
... that M2M appeared on an episode of Dawson's Creek to promote their album The Big Room?
... that Ernest Ambler, a British-born, Oxford-educated physicist, became the director of the National Bureau of Standards in the United States?
... that the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the 2016 Al-Karak attack against the "apostate Jordanian security forces"?
... that J. J. Abrams consulted Pablo Hidalgo up to three times a day while filming Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
... that the 90% purchase of New York's Chrysler Building by the Abu Dhabi Investment Council was a prominent example of petrodollar recycling?
... that during World War I, HMS Negro sank after two depth charges from HMS Hoste tore open its hull?
... that Mildred Albert, nicknamed the "Mighty Atom", produced thousands of fashion shows during her career?
... that the Rifa-e-Aam Club in Lucknow was open to everybody at a time when British clubs excluded Indians?
... that David Kahalekula Kaʻauwai, his father and brother served in the Kingdom of Hawaii legislature, while his niece became a princess?
... that following the success of the album Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts, the eponymous Canadian band received the 1989 Juno Award for Most Promising Group of the Year?
... that BuzzFeed described Pat Loika as "the closest thing comics has to an Oprah"?
... that when amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp co-discovered comet Hale–Bopp , he had never seen a comet before and was using a borrowed telescope?
... that Nkosi's Haven is a South African care centre created to address HIV-related discrimination, including the separation of infected mothers from their children?
... that creator Terry Moore told writer Joe Hill on Twitter that Rachel Rising might be cancelled if sales continued to fall, prompting a fan campaign to save the comic?
... that a Roman hoard of 11,000 silver pieces was found in the village of Oakhanger in Hampshire?
... that Kim Chŏn-il raised a civilian militia to fight the Japanese invasion during the Imjin War?
... that the opening number for the 2016 musical film La La Land was shot in a six-minute single take on a 130-foot (40 m)-high freeway ramp in South Los Angeles?
... that the organ of the Neanderkirche has served summer concerts for more than 50 years?
... that when first established, the architectural firm Liebenberg and Kaplan was met with antisemitism in the Minneapolis business community?
... that, in 1993, one of the first rave parties in Croatia was held in a pedestrian tunnel underneath the historic core of Zagreb?
... that Kaohsiung's Chi Jin Mazu Temple was first opened in 1673, when Taiwan was still ruled by Ming loyalists at war with mainland China?