derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the biological father of Infanta María de la Paz of Spain was not the King of Spain, but one of the Queen’s lovers?
... that, originally a fortified church, St John's Church, Newton Arlosh lay in ruins after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century, until it was restored and extended in 1844?
... that Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position?
... that the New Zealand endemic amphipod Paraleptamphopus caeruleus lives in "bog-water on top of Swampy Hill"?
... that when Canadian nun and midwife Rosalie Cadron-Jetté founded the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie in Montreal in 1845, it operated out of the attic of a house leased by her son?
... that the B.B. Kirkland Seed and Distributing Company building was built over a natural spring which still flows in its basement?
... that Phebe Sudlow was the first female superintendent of a public school in the United States and the first female professor at the University of Iowa, despite having no formal college degree?
... that Tropical Storm Anita is the first South Atlantic tropical cyclone to be officially named?
... that the 13th–14th century Byzantine romance, Belthandros and Chrysantza, is considered by some critics to be superior in imaginative power to the Niebelungenlied?
... that Stahl Hennigsdorf Rugby won 27 East German national rugby union championships from 1952 to 1990?
... that the Ganges stingray may be the same species as the giant freshwater stingray, but this cannot be investigated as all known specimens of it have been lost?
... that the Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive 7002 was credited for setting a land speed record despite not actually being the engine that set it?
... that the Amar Mahal Palace in Jammu, India, built by a French architect on the lines of a chateau for Raja Amar Singh, is now run as a museum by the Hari-Tara charitable trust?
... that Nicholas J. Corea was once a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps before achieving success as writer, director, and producer of the television series The Incredible Hulk in 1978–1981?
... that the Spanish bibliographer W.E. Retana, author of Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal, is described as the foremost non-Filipino filipinologist?
... that after a career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, baritone Jeffrey Skitch became Principal of Elmhurst Ballet School?
... that Indiana halfback Chuck Bennett built his physique working in coal mines and was selected as the MVP of the Big Ten Conference despite playing for the ninth place team?
... that the name partner of Orange County corporate law firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, Fritz Stradling, didn't join the firm until after it was founded?
... that the specific name of Tambachia trogallas, the type species of the trematopid temnospondyl Tambachia, refers to the Thuringian bratwurst that was frequently eaten by the describers of the species?
... that most of the buildings on East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third avenues on Manhattan's Upper East Side were originally carriage houses for the area's wealthy residents?
... that the song "No Me Doy Por Vencido" by Luis Fonsi was the first single to rank for two years in a row in the Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart?
... that the Grosse Pointe Presbyterian church was renamed the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in 1925 after John and Truman Newberry paid for a new sanctuary in honor of their parents?
... that the former captain of U-43 , Wolfgang Lüth, went on to become one of the most successful U-boat commanders in World War II?
... that Jonaki, the Assamese magazine published in the late nineteenth century, did not have an editorial?
... that the hamlet of Archdeacon Newton in Durham, England, contains the site of a lost settlement?
... that Hilton Head White-Tailed deer are culled to prevent accidents despite being listed as a species of concern by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service?
... that the mud snail, great raft spider and Enochrus isotae water scavenger beetle, all rare in the UK, have been found in the ponds of Sound Heath in Cheshire?
... that the 14th name on one side of the Eiffel Tower is the engineer Charles Combes?
... that the collection of 82 stone stelae in the Temple of Literature is the second entry of Vietnam in the list of UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme?
... that Johan Støren, who was fired as a Church of Norway Bishop by Quisling's Nazi regime of WWII, was first cousin once removed of a high-ranking Nazi civil servant?
... that Juan Luna’s Chula series is a succession of portrait paintings depicting the working class “street women” of Madrid, Spain?
... that philosopher John Alexander Stewart was appointed White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University in 1897?
... that FrameGang was recommended to users of Netscape Navigator 3 Gold Edition for html frame development because it did not support frames, even though the Netscape Navigator 3 browser did?
... that The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand was the first painting to demonstrate, based on systematic photographic analysis, how horses move?
... that Eben Sadie, the winemaker of South African wine producer The Sadie Family, was previously a surfer?
... that Ocotlán de Morelos was the subject of much of Rodolfo Morales's artistic work?
... that nearly a century after its discovery, the Peruvian rodent Eremoryzomys remains so poorly known that its conservation status cannot be assessed?
... that Radney Foster's "I'm In" has also been recorded by The Kinleys (whose version Foster produced) and Keith Urban?
... that the Italian socialist leader Dino Rondani represented Argentina in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International?
... that Memories Off: Yubikiri no Kioku will be illustrated by Shizuki Morii, a new artist who has not worked on any previous Memories Off games?
... that Bermuda broadcasting and shipping magnate Fernance Perry, MBE, started his business career as a Piggly-Wiggly grocer?
... that Michigan's 1892/1893 captain George Dygert played professional football for a Butte, Montana, team sponsored by mine owners that defeated teams from Denver and San Francisco?
... that the candid treatment of "problematic sexuality" in Lars Berg's two first novels initiated a spirited debate in Norway in the 1930s?
... that Finn Støren has been called "Vidkun Quisling's informal Minister of Foreign Affairs"?
... that the Malankara Rite, a local Indian variant of the West Syrian Rite, contains some elements archaic in the wider West Syrian tradition, such as use of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in Lent?
... that Evile's 2007 debut album Enter the Grave was produced by Flemming Rasmussen, who produced three Metallica albums?
... that the Memorial Chorten in Thimphu, Bhutan, was built in 1974 to honor the King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck who had died two years previously?
... that baritone Wolfgang Schöne premiered the role of the tomcat "Tom, Minette's lover" in the opera Die englische Katze of Hans Werner Henze at the Schwetzingen Festival?
... that Judge C. R. Magney State Park in Minnesota contains the Devil's Kettle , a waterfall in which half of the Brule River disappears into a glacial kettle?
... that Frank Willan rowed for Oxford in its winning Boat Race crews in four successive years, in 1866, 1867, 1868 and 1869?
... that in 1892, the miller of De Hoop, Holwerd, left an estate worth ƒ32,567.92?
... that the Battle of Bapheus in 1302 was the first major Ottoman victory, and led to their gradual conquest of Byzantine-controlled Bithynia?
... that following the firing of Arne Fjellbu as dean of Nidaros Cathedral, all bishops in the Church of Norway stepped down in protest?
... that salt can be extracted from the burned trunks of the Amazonian palm Itaya amicorum?
... that although the red flowerheads of the Monga waratah are less showy than the famous New South Wales waratah, they are more numerous?
... that Richard Peabody was the first authority to proclaim that there was no cure for alcoholism, and his best-selling book, The Common Sense of Drinking, was a major influence on A.A. founder Bill W.?
... that Sotsialisticheskii vestnik, the organ of the exiled Russian Menshevik Party, was published from New York until 1965?
... that Adalbert Kraus performed the tenor part in Bach's Easter Oratorio Kommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run)?
... that Courier du Bas-Rhin, one of the leading European papers of the late 18th century Enlightenment period, and the main rivals of the Gazette de Leyde, was significantly controlled by the Prussian government?
... that later businessman and politician Hakon Lunde survived the sinking of the destroyer HNoMS Svenner on D-Day?
... that the FC St. Pauli rugby department was formed in 1933 when the club's complete 6th XI switched codes from football to rugby union?
... that Benjamin Robbins Curtis was the first U.S. Supreme Court Justice to have a law degree?
... that Michigan quarterback James Baird supervised the construction of the Flatiron Building (video right), the Lincoln Memorial, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
... that each episode of the early 1960s Canadian game show A Kin to Win cost $2500 to produce?
... that author H.B. Marriott Watson spent much of his childhood in Christchurch, New Zealand, later using it as a setting for many of his novels?
... that BanLec, a jacalin-related lectin isolated from the fruit of bananas, can induce a strong IgG4 antibody response and may be an important antigen involved in banana allergies?
... that in the Battle of Bir Lahfan on December 29, 1948, Israel captured an Egyptian battalion commander, the most senior Egyptian officer captured in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that from 1965 to 1999, Aubrey W. Young established a series of drug and alcohol treatment programs through the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals?
... that the schooner Larinda was built over a period of twenty-six years in the owner's backyard?
... that Christian Tobias Damm called for the letter h to be dropped from German orthography?
... that Michigan's James Duffy played seven years of college football and set a world record by drop kicking a football 168 feet, 7-1/2 inches?
... that the documentary film Most Valuable Players was inspired when the producer accidentally found YouTube clips of The Freddy Awards, which honor high school musical theatre in the Lehigh Valley?
... that Beaux-Arts, Mediterranean Revival, and Hawaiian architectural styles can be seen in the Wailuku Civic Center Historic District?
... that it has been written of Floating Down to Camelot that "the ludic seems to eradicate the satiric"?
... that Leopoldo Benites, the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1973, had served eight months in a jail in Ecuador?
... that a fire set to destroy buildings infected by bubonic plague in 1900 destroyed most of the Chinatown of Honolulu?
... that Sławomir Skrzypek, the Polish banker who died in the Tu-154 crash, had recently come into open conflict with the Council of Ministers of Poland?
... that the PlayStation video game Muppet Monster Adventure featured an 'intuitive swimming system' that NGC Magazine compared favourably to the one in Super Mario 64?
... that the Wat Phra Kaew, a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand, has an idol of Emerald Buddha with a legend linked to India, five centuries after Buddha attained Nirvana?
... that all eight of the ships that were sunk by U-44 in her entire career were sunk during her first war patrol?
... that Alice Dudeney was called one of the most powerful writers of fiction among modern English women by Putnam Magazine?
... that pebbled butterflyfish are aggressively territorial and will form pairs to protect their feeding area?
... that the Byzantine general Saborios began a revolt against Constans II, but was killed by his horse?
... that in 2009, the Race Across America was won by Team Type 1 with a team of diabetic cyclists?
... that the barn at the McClelland Homestead near Bessemer, Pennsylvania, sits atop a spring?
... that a rare example of an intact malt kiln survives in Sound, Cheshire, England?
... that the range of the Australian blenny may expand southwards due to increased temperatures and climate change?
... that mezzo-soprano Claudia Eder sang the parts of the Muse and Nicklausse in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann on a recording with Plácido Domingo as Hoffmann?
... that English footballer Reg Attwell was selected to represent the Football League in 1949?
... that this year's Ice-Out occurred on Lake Winnipesaukee four days earlier than the 124 year old record?
... that the 1997 Budapest wedding of Duchess Eilika of Oldenburg to Archduke Georg of Austria was broadcast live on Hungarian television?
... that Pindan woodland in Western Australia was described by scientist and explorer Knut Dahl as a “crippled forest”?
... that the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site includes the locations of Washington, D.C.'s first street light, train station, sewage pipe, and Chinatown?
... that the fluke Lyperosomum intermedium infects the marsh rice rat, although its relatives mostly infect birds?
... that the Rudolf-Kalweit-Stadion in Hanover is home to three different kinds of football, hosting the Hannover Spartans, Arminia Hannover and the German rugby union team?
... that after he was re-elected in Oregon's 1992 U.S. Senate election, Bob Packwood endorsed his defeated rival Les AuCoin for U.S. Secretary of the Interior?
... that the Hollandsche Spectator, inspired by the British Spectator, was one of the most important developments in Dutch literature during the Enlightenment period?
... that the mausoleum of Saladin was rebuilt in 1898 under the patronage of German Emperor Wilhelm II after he visited Damascus and found the tomb in a state of disrepair?
... that the Page brothers who were over 7 ft tall and toured in a circus as the Newbourne Giants are buried in the village of Newbourne in Suffolk, England?
... that during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916, SMS Deutschland took part in the last engagement between capital ships in World War I?
... that Thomas Carlyle agreed to pose for James McNeill Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle after viewing Whistler's Mother?
... that the Tutelo language, once spoken by Virginia Indians, was recorded by scholars in the late 19th century, who found speakers on a reserve in Ontario?
... that Austrian socialist leader Robert Danneberg, one of the architects of 'Red Vienna', was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942?
... that fossil evidence suggests that the palm tribe Cryosophileae evolved in the northern hemisphere and that its presence in South America reflects later migration southward?
... that Walter Herries Pollock, editor of the Saturday Review, was close friends with a number of writers including Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde?
... that Initiative 1068 was filed in January 2010 by Seattle activists hoping to remove criminal penalties from the adult use, possession and cultivation of marijuana in Washington?
... that to help reverse declining sales, the Friedrichstadt Palast began adding Madonna and Kylie Minogue to the show playlist?
... that horticulturalist Ellen Willmott had more than 60 plants named after her or her home, Warley Place, including Rosa willmottiae ?
... that Fred Whishaw was the first to translate the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky into the English language?
... that the saw mill De Rat was moved from Zaanstreek, Noord Holland, to IJlst, Friesland, in 1828?
... that Hidalgo's winning silver medal for his painting Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho at the 1884 Madrid Exposition was hailed as a sign that Filipinos can participate in European culture?
... that the Col. James Graham House was one of the first permanent homes in Summers County, West Virginia?
... that the Seventh-day Adventist Church campaigned for the separation of church and state under the Australian Constitution, which is now reflected in Section 116?
... that England cricket team's decision to rest captain Andrew Strauss and select South African-born Craig Kieswetter caused controversy during their 2009–10 tour of Bangladesh?
... that J. M. W. Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino is scheduled to go on sale in the open market for only the second time in the 171 years since it was painted?
... that Dos Abend Blatt was first Yiddish-language socialist newspaper in New York?
... that Justus van Effen has been recognized as one of the most important Dutch language writers of the eighteenth century and an influential figure of the Dutch Enlightenment?
... that violinist Hugh Maguire, leader of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1956, is on the coaching staff of the Leiston Abbey music school?
... that the "Bottoms" of Milford, Ohio, contain a Woodland period archaeological site?
... that Sviatoslav of Kiev was invited by the Byzantine Empire to attack Bulgaria in order to force them to make concessions, but ended up conquering the country?
... that the Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt drag racing car had a metal tag attached to the inside of the glovebox door warning that the fit and finish were not up to company standards?
... that Hungarian-born Commando George Lane was spared execution after taking tea with Rommel?
... that the Journal of Pathology, founded in 1892, has been the official journal of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 1906?
... that the Dutch Republic successfully intervened in the Second Northern War, forcing the Swedish Empire to accept the Treaty of Elbing?
... that the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act proposes that two percent of proceeds from the sale of cannabis promote industrial hemp biodiesel, fiber, protein and oil?
... that in 1914, English footballer Tom Bamford played in the only Burnley team to win the FA Cup to date?
... that owners of the East 80th Street Houses on Manhattan's Upper East Side have ranged from Clarence Dillon and Vincent Astor to Iraq?
... that marine art features in America's Most Wanted Painting and in its variants for several other countries?
... that Blessed Denis of the Nativity was a famous cartographer before he joined the Discalced Carmelites and became a priest?
... that the Study club fire of 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, killed 22 and injured 50 people?
... that Finn Thrana, Nazi "führer" in the county of Oppland during World War II, was a lawyer working with cases in the Supreme Court of Norway from 1966?
... that Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys?
... that Maria Fortunata Viti, a Benedictine nun beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1967, remained illiterate her entire life?
... that the Ebla tablets, found in ancient Ebla, Syria, and dating back to 2500 BC, reveal that the city produced a range of beers, including one that appears to be named "Ebla"?
... that footballer Arthur Bate scored a hat-trick on his league debut for Nelson, yet finished on the losing team in the match?
... that the opening angle of hollow carbon nanocones is not arbitrary, but has a few preferential values?
... that the New York Society Library, the oldest cultural institution in New York City, also effectively served as the first Library of Congress?
... that Philippe Pastour de Costebelle, the French governor of Plaisance, Newfoundland, ordered the destruction of St. John's after its capture by French forces in 1709?
... that the call of the Grey Currawong gives rise to its vernacular name of 'Clinking Currawong' in Tasmania, and 'Squeaker' in Western Australia?
... that the Maya archaeological site of Tamarindito was relatively unscathed by looters during the Guatemalan Civil War due to the presence of guerrilla fighters?
... that Teme Sejko, rear-admiral of the Albanian navy, was executed in 1961 for being the leader of a pro-Soviet group aiming to overthrow the regime of Enver Hoxha?
... that Bob Tallman of Weatherford, Texas, has been called "the greatest rodeo announcer that ever lived"?
... that the Dutch marine artist Jan van de Cappelle is the only person known to have had his portrait painted by both Rembrandt and Frans Hals, but both paintings are now untraced?
... that the Gaelic Journal, first published in 1882, was described as being "the first journal devoted to the living Irish language"?
... that Claude Phillips was the first keeper of the Wallace Collection, writing its first catalogue, and held that post from 1900 until his retirement in 1911 whereupon he was knighted for his service?
... that the Jewish Documentation Center has been responsible for uncovering more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, including Adolf Eichmann?
... that HanWay Films was originally founded by British film producer Jeremy Thomas as an adjunct of his Recorded Picture Company?
... that two commanding officers of No. 219 Squadron RAF went on to become the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Air Force, whilst a third became Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Pakistani Air Force?
... that stamps of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force were available in Syria between September 23, 1918 (1918-09-23) and February 23, 1922 (1922-02-23)?
... that Tom Sidwell once got lost on the London Underground, missed the start of that day's cricket match, and was given out?
... that the Ysleta Mission is the oldest parish in the state of Texas, and is built on the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States?
... that author Mike Long has written speeches for national U.S. politicians, including President George W. Bush?
... that the 400-year-old Dhodar Ali in Assam is so called because some dhods ("lazy people" in Assamese) were assigned by the Ahom king to build it?
... that Karl Heinz Schneider, who used to organize battalions in the Hitler Youth, later moved to Israel, converted to Judaism and took the name of Abraham Reuel?
... that even though he was a Filipino painter, Juan Luna's The Battle of Lepanto was commissioned by the Spanish Senate?
... that Fort Jefferson, built as a supply depot, endured a three-year siege during the Northwest Indian War?
... that the Bahamian Pygmy Boa Constrictor can voluntarily bleed from its eyes, mouth and nostrils?
... that the Google Guys, composed of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are among the richest people in the world with a net worth of US$17.5 billion each?
... that the god Vishnu's avatar Yajna is an embodiment of the fire sacrifice?
... that Anura Tennekoon captained the Sri Lanka national cricket team during the inaugural Cricket World Cup of 1975?
... that Archangel Gospel, the fourth oldest Eastern Slavic manuscript, was brought by a peasant from Arkhangelsk to Moscow in 1876?
... that the abuse and murder of 3-year old Neveah Gallegos led to several changes in the Denver, Colorado Department of Human Services?
... that where it passes Merrybent, Durham, England, the A1 road runs on the old track bed of the Merrybent railway?
... that the composer Anton Rubinstein conducted his own opera The Merchant Kalashnikov so badly that the performance had to be stopped?
... that the endangered Mount Graham Red Squirrel was believed to be extinct in the 1950s until it was rediscovered in the 1970s?
... that the New Zealand member of parliament William Montgomery worked on the extension of the Little River railway to Akaroa?
... that La barca de Aqueronte is the most awarded work of art created by Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo?
... that the leader of the Ibsen quotes art project in Oslo wanted it to become a "tourist attraction on par with Fram and Holmenkollen"?
... that the fossil rodent Megapedetes, related to the living springhare, occurred from Greece to Namibia?
... that the Texas industrialist Jack Crichton was involved in the mining of gold, silver, nickel, copper, and zinc as well as the production of oil and natural gas?
... that the female devata reliefs of the temple of Thommanon in Cambodia grip flowers very distinctively, using their ring and middle fingers whilst extending their index and small fingers?
... that artist David Herbert exhibited a 96" replica of a VHS videocassette—normally 7½" in length?