derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that, despite being ejected from the "boot camp" stage of the Popstars talent show, Warren Stacey was signed by an American record label and went on to support Destiny's Child in concert?
... that Elina Ringa, who was the Latvian national pole vault champion on ten occasions, has also published a book about Microsoft Office?
... that the Church of St Edmund in Rochdale is unique among English churches for its overt Masonic symbolism?
... that entertainment news journalist Roger Friedman was one of the producers of D. A. Pennebaker's documentary film about Memphis soul musicians, Only the Strong Survive?
... that Alaska Ballot Measure 2 (1998), the state constitutional amendment restricting same-sex marriages, passed through the Twentieth Alaska Legislature with a vote of 42 yeas to 18 nays?
... that as a result of the approaching Soviet Red Army, Baroness Elisabeth of Wangenheim-Winterstein and her family were forced to flee eastern Germany, leaving most of their possessions behind?
... that in addition to being made an officer of the Order of Canada, Myer Horowitz has received eight honorary doctorate degrees from various universities?
... that the role of mosquitofish in the history of Sochi was acknowledged by a monument ?
... that the 20 days between Dallas Braden's perfect game and Roy Halladay's was the shortest span between two perfect games since 1880?
... that the deck of Severinske Drage Viaduct, a part of the Croatian A6 motorway, is at a constant grade at one part of the viaduct, while vertically curved at the other?
... that during the Spanish–American War the Spanish gunboat Elcano captured the American bark Saranac, which was carrying 1,640 tons of coal from Newcastle, NSW, for Admiral Dewey's fleet?
... that the Liberty Green Historic District in Clinton, Connecticut, contains a time capsule that should be opened on 4 July 2976?
... that Italian operatic tenor Lodovico Graziani was described as lacking "dramatic gifts"?
... that the memorial in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church, Hadlow to the 30 hop-pickers who drowned in the River Medway on 20 October 1859 is Grade II listed?
... that Norman O. Houston co-founded what was, in 1945, the largest business west of the Mississippi owned by an African American?
... that during the Second World War the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Vindex still used the Fairey Swordfish biplane?
... that Universal Pictures sold its 1946 horror B movie The Brute Man to another distributor to avoid accusations of having exploited star Rondo Hatton, who died of acromegaly before the film's release?
... that Filipino basketball player Gabby Espinas lost the Most Valuable Player race during the 2005 NCAA season to a former volleyball star?
... that the British Conservative Party politician Pierse Loftus was a part-owner of Adnams Brewery?
... that the Blue Monkey microbrewery produces award-winning beers including Ape Ale, Guerrilla Porter, and 99 Red Baboons?
... that the 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche in north-eastern Turkey killed 59 people and 650 livestock, and caused the relocation of the village to a safe zone?
... that Kenyan athlete Paul Malakwen Kosgei became the World Half Marathon Champion in 2002 despite having never competed in a half marathon before?
... that Jehiel Elyachar would not sell a tenement he owned to make way for 1 Lincoln Plaza, so the five-story building "sticks out like a sore thumb, or a finger—which is probably what [he] had in mind"?
... that the Resolute Desk is one of only five desks ever used in the Oval Office?
... that Urraca the Asturian, born in 1132 as an illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile, became queen in a neighboring kingdom in 1144?
... that 2.5-inch-long "nano-drones" now being developed for targeted killing will, like little killer bees, be able to follow their target, even entering a room through an open window?
... that Joan Henry's Look on Tempests was the first play dealing explicitly with the subject of homosexuality to be approved for performance by the Lord Chamberlain?
... that the Lugenda River of Mozambique in the Yao language means simply "a large river"?
... that the successful 1895 election campaign of British Conservative MP Alfred Lafone in Bermondsey was assisted by the loan of carriages from two Dukes?
... that the World War II search and rescue dog Jet of Iada was awarded both the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor and the Dickin Medal?
... that the chief of the Chilean Army's meteorological office predicted the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake ten days in advance?
... that when rugby union international player David Marques arrived with the British Lions in Australia, he stepped off the plane dressed as a city gent, complete with bowler hat and umbrella?
... that St Cosmas and St Damian's Church, Stretford, Herefordshire, is dedicated to the patron saints of physicians and surgeons?
... that the parallel structures of Croatia's Hreljin Viaduct were built using different construction methods, since the original one proved cumbersome?
... that Clyde Lucas and His California Dons recorded background music for some of the early talkies?
... that producers for the sixth season of The West Wing originally cast Marley Shelton as Deputy Press Secretary Annabeth Schott?
... that the Messalo River flooded its banks in March 2000 during the 2000 Mozambique flood?
... that the first captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club fled the United Kingdom after the club's captain in 1890 discovered embezzlement of £1000 from the club's coffers?
... that before a population crash due to overfishing, the annual catch of Bering Sea Tanner crab was as much as 332,000,000 pounds (151,000,000 kg)?
... that influential American wine critic Robert Parker is satirised in the French bande dessinée comic book Robert Parker Les sept pêchés capiteux (Robert Parker: The Seven Heady Sins)?
... that Cologne's Museum für Angewandte Kunst houses over 100,000 pieces of applied art?
... that Parfait-Louis Monteil made an epic land journey between 1890 and 1892 from Senegal in West Africa to Lake Chad and across the Sahara to Tripoli?
... that in the 1622 Siege of Montpellier, Huguenot troops were able to repel the Catholic troops of Louis XIII repeatedly, until the encounter had to end in negotiations?
... that during the 2002 season, Ateneo de Manila University prevented a 14–0 sweep of De La Salle University-Manila en route to their first men's college basketball championship since 1988?
... that The Hollies had seven number-one singles on Wonderful Radio London's Fab 40 chart, six of which failed to top the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s?
... that the 1975 Indian film Jai Santoshi Maa propelled the then little-known "new" goddess Santoshi Mata to the pan-Indian Hindu pantheon?
... that the worst coal mining disaster in Tyldesley occurred at Yew Tree Colliery, which became part of the Tyldesley Coal Company in 1870?
... that the SWAT team was called in to restrain unruly fans during the 2003 UAAP semifinals?
... that the deck of the Zečeve Drage Viaduct follows both a horizontal and a vertical curve?
... that China labeled the decision to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned human rights activist Liu Xiaobo as a "blasphemy"?
... that Rich Iott, a first-time candidate in the 2010 House of Representatives elections in Ohio, came to media prominence due to his past participation in a World War II reenactment group?
... that Al-Musta'in was the only Cairo-based Abbasid caliph to hold both political and spiritual power?
... that the 1629 Siege of Privas was one of the last events of the French Huguenot rebellions, and that it ended in the total plunder and destruction of the city of Privas by the troops of Louis XIII?
... that Suiyo Seamount, a seamount near Japan, was thought to be extinct until a hydrothermal event in 1991 was brought to light?
... that Harry Thorneycroft was the first British Labour candidate to receive a letter of support from Winston Churchill and other leaders of the coalition government?
... that in a gesture of appreciation for his service in the Spanish Civil War, International Brigades veteran Sam Lesser was offered honorary Spanish citizenship in 1996?
... that the Swedish river monitor HMS Sköld had a combined hand and steam propulsion system designed by John Ericsson?
... that demolition of Manchester Courts , a Category I heritage building damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, starts today?
... that Ching Chong Song topped a poll in The Village Voice as the "Worst Band Name in New York"?
... that English football captain Bobby Moore was accused of stealing a bracelet in Bogotá, Colombia, during the run-up to the 1970 FIFA World Cup?
... that the dumping of slag into Kilbirnie Loch by the local ironworks unearthed a set of logboats and a crannóg?
... that, despite the stock market crash of 1929, construction of the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle went ahead with a groundbreaking ceremony held in December of 1929?
... that Roy Roundtree was the leading receiver for the 2009 Michigan Wolverines football team even though he only started four games?
... that, according to the Dallas Morning News, William Madison McDonald was "probably Texas' first black millionaire"?
... that the Mexican state of Puebla is home to chiles en nogada, mole poblano and the China Poblana ?
... that modern tribes in the area of the village of Negomano on the Mozambique–Tanzania border can be traced to the southern shores of Lake Malawi, and that their ancestors moved to escape severe drought?
... that the Constitution of Bhutan is based on Buddhist philosophy, International Conventions on Human Rights, public opinion, and existing laws, authorities, and precedents?
... that Chris Deschene is the first Native American to run for Secretary of State in Arizona?
... that the Patron of the Auto-Cycle Union which oversees the British Motocross Championship is HRH the Duke of Edinburgh?
... that in 1854, Michel Maxwell Philip, the illicit son of a white planter and a slave, wrote Emmanuel Appadocca, the first Trinidadian novel?
... that the demolition of Mount Carmel High School, a historic landmark in Los Angeles, was filmed for the movie Rock 'n' Roll High School?
... that despite being the largest church in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, St Mary's was declared redundant in 1987?
... that, during Sulla's civil wars, Romans were killed if the consul Gaius Marius did not nod to them in response to a conversation?
... that Lom prisoner of war camp, operated by the 2nd Division during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign, held both German PoWs and Norwegians suspected of collaborationism?
... that soul singer and songwriter Brenda Lee Eager has written and performed in a musical theatre show based on her own life story?
... that rock blasting during excavation of the second Veliki Gložac Tunnel tube required the original tunnel tube to be closed to traffic more than 220 times?
... that the Italian tanker Gianna M was captured by the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Hilary in 1941?
... that Sakis Rouvas became the first Greek artist to have his own fashion label with the launch of the Sakis Rouvas Collection in October 2010?
... that thawing ice forced four of the ice hockey matches at the 1932 Winter Olympics to move from an outdoor venue to an indoor one?
... that Koserow church is reportedly the oldest church on Usedom's Baltic Sea coast?
... that one of the Google driverless cars was able to drive itself down the narrow hairpin turns of San Francisco's Lombard Street?
... that the Swedish monitor Folke was designed opposite of her sister ships, with a gun turret at the stern, so that she could protect them during a retreat?
... that thawing of the ice rink venue during the 1928 Winter Olympics led to the cancellation of the 10,000 m speed skating event?
... that the Byzantine general Manuel the Armenian achieved the highest Byzantine military ranks, defected to the Abbasids, escaped back, and saved emperor Theophilos from captivity?
... that Mexican singer Luis Miguel received a Grammy Award and a Platinum certification for his album Segundo Romance in the United States?
... that Hyderabad-born Asher Noria is the only shooter in the world to win the double trap event of the International Shooting Junior World Cup for two consecutive years?
... that architectural historians have described the Norman chancel arch of St James' Church, Stirchley, Shropshire, as "quite incongruously ornate"?
... that Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse was depicted on a 1955 Huntley & Palmer biscuit tin?
... that after the Paris Exposition of 1867, the London Times referred to the works of Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon as "the finest photographic portraits in the world"?
... that Oatka Creek disappears from an area north of Le Roy, New York, during the summer months?
... that Tenczyn Castle was captured and pillaged because of a rumor that the Polish Crown Jewels were hidden in its walls?
... that St John the Baptist Church, Inglesham contains wall paintings dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries, painted on top of each other up to seven layers thick?
... that Sofie is the first surgical robot to return tactile information back to the operating surgeon?
... that Dinesh Dhamija went from selling tickets in a London tube station kiosk to a net worth of over £100m?
... that Podvugleš Tunnel is separated from neighboring Javorova Kosa Tunnel by a 30-metre (98 ft) section of the Croatian A6 motorway?
... that Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine won an Ig Nobel Prize for research on treating hiccups with digital rectal massage?
... that in May 1958, eight months after John Cockroft had announced with great fanfare that the British-designed ZETA device had achieved nuclear fusion, he was forced to retract this claim?
... that Adam of Kilconquhar, first husband of Robert the Bruce's mother Marjory of Carrick, died on crusade at Acre in 1271?
... that Philipsburg Manor, one of the four main manors of the Province of New York, was dissolved in 1779 because its owner was a loyalist?
... that the Top Pops chart, which ran for less than three years, had 15 number-one singles that failed to top the official UK Singles Chart?
... that the al-'Awasim was the fortified frontier zone established by the Ummayad and Abbasid caliphates along their border with the Byzantine Empire?
... that the tower of St Bartholomew's Church, Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, is detached from the body of the church, standing about 10 metres (33 ft) to its east?
... that the BSA B50 SS motorcycle proved its credentials by winning the 500 cc class in the Thruxton 500 and the Barcelona 24-hour endurance race?
... that the New Academy, an 18th-century higher learning institute and center of Greek culture, in Moscopole, Albania, was nicknamed "the worthiest jewel of the city"?
... that fetuses of the endangered Giant Panda have been artificially grown in the womb of a cat?
... that in addition to its rich wildlife, Lore Lindu National Park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi contains megaliths dating from before 1300 AD?
... that Robert Lee Bobbitt, a prominent Texas politician of the 1920s and 1930s, was a presidential elector in 1944 for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket?
... that a series of novels based on the tale of Sleeping Beauty was removed from the Columbus Metropolitan Library in 1996?
... that the Double-O Ranch Historic District in Harney County, Oregon, was once owned by cattle baron Bill Hanley and is now part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge?
... that Gin Pit was the first colliery belonging to Astley and Tyldesley Collieries, and its name suggests it had horse-driven winding gear and was on the site of even older coal workings?
... that many newspapers refused to publicize the 1932 Pre-Code film Merrily We Go to Hell because of its racy title?
... that the last two known individuals of the South Island Snipe died on 1 September 1964, two days after they were captured?
... that William W. Norton wrote scripts for films starring John Wayne and Burt Reynolds, but when asked by a nurse if she would know any of his films, he replied, "I don't think your IQ is low enough"?
... that the Sack of Amorium in 838 by the Abbasids discredited Byzantine Iconoclasm and led to the restoration of the veneration of icons?
... that Papua New Guinean Anglican archbishop Sir George Ambo was "the first South Pacific native to be made a bishop", in 1960?
... that Robert Levin reconstructed for the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage missing parts of Ach! ich sehe, itzt, da ich zur Hochzeit gehe, BWV 162?
... that the 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) wave pool at Hyderabad's Jalavihar, which is the largest in India, can accommodate about 1,000 people at a time?
... that, during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Stephen Colbert visited Pride House Vancouver, which is located in the LGBT community centre Qmunity?
... that English photographer Greg Williams used a high-resolution video camera to create a photograph of Megan Fox for the cover of Esquire magazine?
... that Lake Sausacocha in Peru is one of the rare Andean lakes with acidic waters?
... that professional wrestler and Maori Anglican Church member Ike Robin was once said to be "so absorbed in his preaching that he failed to notice that the congregation comprised only his dog"?
... that during the 16th century, St Peter and St Paul's Church, Preston Deanery, Northamptonshire, was used as a dog kennel and a pigeon house?
... that French comedy actor Louis de Funès made his film debut at the age of 31 with a 40-second appearance in The Temptation of Barbizon?
... that the 2010–11 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team is coming off its first year with a postseason victory since the 1998–99 team won two games in the 1999 National Invitation Tournament?
... that native Pennsylvanian Alexander Fulton named the Louisiana city that he founded, Alexandria, after himself?
... that the generation of Husák's Children was named after a communist president of Czechoslovakia?
... that Philadelphia School of Circus Arts teaches static trapeze, corde lisse, lyra, unicycling, tightwire, and Chinese acrobatics?
... that Prince Abbas Hilmi, a great-grandson of both the last Ottoman sultan and the last Ottoman caliph, was the first foreign member of the London Stock Exchange?
... that the Grandview Apostolic Church was the second-oldest church in Brown County, Indiana, until it was burned last July?
... that physician Charles de Lorme (1584–1678) prescribed an eye cosmetic concoction to French kings Henry IV and Louis XIII as a medicine?
... that Javorova Kosa Tunnel caved in during construction, requiring removal of 400 cubic metres (14,000 cubic feet) of rock and soil before the work could resume?
... that the anonymous 6th-century treatise About the Mystery of the Letters interpreted the three Greek numeral signs Digamma (6), Koppa (90) and Sampi (900) as mystical symbols of the Holy Trinity?
... that James Kennedy Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky, once secured a personal loan to help the institution meet its financial obligations?
... that the deciding game of the 2004 UAAP men's college basketball finals was played a day before the 29th anniversary of the Thrilla in Manila at the same venue?
... that baritone Georges Baklanoff created the title role in Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Miserly Knight at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1906?
... that St Martin's Church, Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, has been the chancel of a medieval church, the south aisle of a 19th century church, and is now a free-standing structure?
... that when a diabetic passenger needed an emergency stop on a JetBlue flight, David Barger, now the company's CEO, personally apologized to every customer for the delay?
... that after recovering from polio as a 12-year old, Leo Byrd went on to win a gold medal with the United States men's basketball team at the 1959 Pan American Games?
... that the father Snares Snipe looks after the first chick to leave the nest, while the mother takes care of the second?
... that a bronze statue of Ludwig van Beethoven was unveiled in 1845 to coincide with his 75th birthday?
... that in 1997, Marko Račič became the only Slovenian to receive the Gold Badge of the European Athletic Association?
... that cloud gaming developments allow players to access their saved games at multiple locations, using the same game data on platforms ranging from desktop computers to tablet devices?
... that, after Bobby Godsell had resigned as Chairman of South African company Eskom in 2009, he was accused of racism but defended by both the Mineworkers Union and the ANC?
... that the 2009–10 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team earned the first postseason college basketball victory for Princeton since the 1999 National Invitation Tournament?
... that the Early Cretaceous crocodilian relative Susisuchus was one of the first mesoeucrocodylians to have a segmented shield of bony osteoderms over its back, which allowed for greater flexibility while swimming?
... that Tuhobić Tunnel is the longest tunnel on the Croatian A6 motorway route?
... that Super Heavyweight Sean McCorkle has been nicknamed "The Hater", "The Big Angry", "Big Hungry" and "The Alpha Male", and claims he changes his nickname "to keep it interesting"?
... that the Military Engineering-Technical University in Saint Petersburg was the alma mater of author Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
... that Edentulina moreleti is the only known herbivorous streptaxid?
... that Edward Elgar may have played on the organ of the now-redundant Pendock Church?
... that in 1934, the British industrialist and philanthropist Sir John Jarvis established the Surrey Fund to raise money for the depressed town of Jarrow?
... that Creation Records, Superdry and Viz magazine were all started with funding from the Enterprise Allowance Scheme?
... that as a Federal Reserve System governor, Sherman J. Maisel served on a White House task force that suggested that Ginnie Mae and Fannie Mae play a greater role in funding mortgages for homebuyers?
... that at the end of the first game of the 2005 UAAP men's basketball finals, a De La Salle University-Manila assistant team manager ran onto the court and hit opposing player Arwind Santos in the back of the head?
... that English courtier Isabella Markham, the love object and muse of poet John Harington, was the daughter of his former jailer?
... that shots fired by Johnny Edgecombe into the door of the flat where his girlfriend was visiting led to disclosure of the Profumo Affair, a scandal which brought down UK War Secretary John Profumo?
... that the 1994 College Baseball All-America Team included four future Major League Baseball All-Stars: Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, Danny Graves and Mike Hampton?
... that from the widow's walk of the Samuel May Williams House people could watch horse races at the nearby race track?
... that the British businessman and Member of Parliament Sir Edgar Horne owned most of the village of Shackleford in Surrey?
... that the fairy shrimp Branchinecta brushi lives at 5,930 m (19,460 ft) in the Chilean Andes, higher than any other crustacean in the world?
... that from the late 1860s, Danish photographer Kristen Feilberg captured many of the earliest images of the landscapes and peoples of Borneo, Sumatra and Singapore?
... that a Washington, DC, legend states that a Demon Cat lives in the basement crypts at Capitol Hill?
... that the wood frame and clapboard in the apexes of the gambrel roof on the Michael Salyer Stone House in Orangetown, New York, may reflect Huguenot building traditions?
... that according to studies published by The Alliance for Safe Children, in Bangladesh every day an estimated 46 children die from drowning?
... that the parasitic mushroom Pholiota squarrosa may smell like garlic, lemon, radish, onion, or skunk?
... that Lake Amaramba is a shallow lake in Mozambique near the border with Malawi, located in the Nyasa plateau?
... that Herb Wilkinson, a devout Mormon, quit his professional basketball job with the Minneapolis Lakers because they made him play on Sundays?
... that Texas Republican politician Jack Cox lost important races to two better-known candidates, John Connally and George Herbert Walker Bush?