derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in 958 the Muslim caliph of Cordoba Abd-ar-Rahman III hosted his grandmother Onneca Fortúnez's Christian daughter, Toda of Pamplona, so his Jewish doctor could cure her grandson of obesity?
... that John Tidwell of the 1960–61 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team became the first Michigan Wolverines men's basketball player to average 20 points per game for his career?
... that the design of Amankila, a coastal Balinese hotel, was inspired by the palaces of Ujung and Tirtagangga?
... that the location of Aboyne Castle was selected for its strategic position near the Dee and controlling the northern end of one of the Mounth crossings?
... that Seattle Sounders FC will be defending their U.S. Open Cup title in their home stadium, Qwest Field, in the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final against the Columbus Crew?
... that Alice of Champagne, the widowed Queen Consort of Cyprus, married Bohemond V of Antioch on Palm Island, offshore of Tripoli in 1224?
... that Gabriele von Lutzau, the "Angel of Mogadishu", sculpts wooden "guardian figures" using chainsaws and flamethrowers?
... that the 1964–65 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team continues to hold the Big Ten Conference single-season rebounding record?
... that Italian tenor Vincenzo Calvesi created the role of Ferrando in the world premiere of Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1790?
... that a hydrocarbon lake on Saturn's moon Titan and an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io are among the Solar System features named after deities from Māori mythology?
... that Carrier Strike Group Three was the first U.S. Navy carrier strike group to make an overseas deployment with a Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) as part of its embarked air wing?
... that Michigan linebacker Marty Huff intercepted three passes thrown in one game by Hall of Fame quarterback Mike Phipps?
... that for music concerts held at the Millennium Stadium, 12 drapes can vary the audience size from over 73,000 down to between 12,000 and 46,000, depending on where they are hung?
... that Alaska Territorial Governor B. Frank Heintzleman proposed dividing the territory in two and granting statehood to only one section?
... that Bògòlanfini, a traditional Malian fabric, is dyed with fermented mud?
... that the German battleship SMS Braunschweig engaged the Russian battleship Slava during the Battle of the Gulf of Riga during World War I?
... that Italian tenor Nicola Zerola began his professional operatic singing career in 1898 performing in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, but as a baritone?
... that the 1965–66 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team set a record 17-game home winning streak that stood for the next 11 years?
... that Tyonajanegen, a woman from the Oneida tribe, fought in the American Revolutionary War?
... that Bing Crosby was a key backer in the development of Longitudinal Video Recording in the 1950s?
... that Sartaj Aziz was the Finance Minister when Pakistan conducted its 1998 nuclear tests, and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan during the Kargil War with India in 1999?
... that unlike other Eocene crocodilians found in Zamora, Spain, the extinct genus Duerosuchus was primarily a fish eater?
... that the Amanjiwo hotel in Central Java, Indonesia, is built from local limestone?
... that in his first two games as a starter, Denard "Shoelace" Robinson achieved the two highest single-game total offense totals in Michigan Wolverines history—and did so with his shoes untied?
... that Indonesia is the fifth largest tobacco market in the world, and that in 2008 over 165 billion cigarettes were sold there?
... that Gail Koff, one of three partners in Jacoby & Meyers, had her prenuptial agreement with attorney Ralph Brill invalidated, with Koff granted 65% of marital assets?
... that the Indian film Mithya marked the singing debut of Sanchita Bhattyacharya in the Hindi cinema industry?
... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of antinomianism by his congregation in Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry?
... that the 1963–64 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team earned the University of Michigan its first trip to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament final four?
... that interior designer Michael S. Smith is responsible for the 2010 makeover of the Oval Office at the White House?
... that the Clyde Refinery located in Clyde, New South Wales, is Australia's longest operating oil refinery?
... that at 354 metres (1,161 feet) long and 60 metres (200 feet) high, the Dabar Bridge carries the Croatian A1 motorway across a flash flood gully?
... that fullback Ed Shuttlesworth became Michigan's all-time leader in rushing attempts while playing for teams that finished 30–1–1 from 1971 to 1973?
... that the Italian operatic tenor Giuseppe Siboni founded the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen?
... that in the Norwegian 1906 election second round of voting, Torgeir Vraa was endorsed by the Liberal Party, which he left in 1897 together with Christopher Hornsrud?
... that according to Minuscule 782, Jesus wrote sins of his opponents on the ground?
... that Elton John had a number one in the 1980s with "Nikita"?
... that the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service's first tests at dropping torpedoes from aircraft were carried out with Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.3 floatplanes?
... that Jim Wilkinson helped sell the idea that Al Gore claimed to have "invented the Internet"?
... that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ralph Haben has nearly died four times, surviving a black widow bite, a sinking boat, a plane crash, and a bad case of Hashimoto's thyroiditis?
... that BMW advertising executive Jack Pitney convinced the company to market the Mini in the U.S., despite concerns that American buyers would not buy cars that small given the popularity of SUVs?
... that Niels Ødegaard of Gjøvik, with 40 years of total mayoral service, is the longest-sitting mayor in any Norwegian municipality?
... that the Brazilian ironclad Rio de Janeiro struck two mines on 2 September 1866, during the War of the Triple Alliance, and sank instantly with the loss of 53 of her crew?
... that 39.2% of Schenectady, New York's Bellevue neighborhood is zoned industrial, but excluding the General Electric plant it is only 1%?
... that the cat statues atop the Cat House in Riga have their backside with raised tails turned to the house of the Great Guild to seek retribution?
... that one species of the extinct wasp Palaeovespa fed caterpillars to its larvae?
... that when asked his profession in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, poet George Hitchcock responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants"?
... that the house in Danbury, Connecticut, where Charles Ives was born has been moved twice to allow local banks to expand their buildings?
... that Mexico City's first formal horse racing track was built in Colonia Exhipódromo de Peralvillo?
... that Oregon cattle baron Peter French was murdered near the Sod House Ranch in 1897?
... that Italian operatic soprano Angiolina Bosio portrayed Gilda in the UK premiere of Verdi's Rigoletto and Lady Macbeth in the US premiere of Verdi's Macbeth?
... that the proposed design of the Albany Convention Center in Albany, New York, includes saving the city's oldest building, which was built in 1728?
... that the Andhra Pradesh Vidhan Parishad was created in 1958, abolished in 1985 and re-created in 2007?
... that Charles "Buffalo" Jones, the first game warden at Yellowstone National Park, once roped an unruly bear and spanked the animal on its behind?
... that Children of the Stars is a documentary about the Beijing Stars and Rain School , founded in 1993 as the first non-governmental educational organization in China dedicated to serving children with autism?
... that portions of an 1820s mill race may remain underneath Main Street in Medina, New York?
... that World Wrestling Entertainment brought back the King of the Ring tournament in 2006 for the first time since discontinuing it in 2002?
... that value-added modeling rates teacher performance by comparing prior and current year student test scores and can be used to award bonuses to top performers and fire those with the lowest ratings?
... that Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
... that Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg had two sons with his mistress, the Berlin Opera star Mafalda Salvatini?
... that the engines of the Brazilian ironclad Tamandaré broke down while she was passing in front of the Paraguayan guns at Curupaity during the War of the Triple Alliance and she had to be towed to safety by the ironclad Silvado?
... that actor Paul Rudd appears as the title character in a 1976 production of Shakespeare's Henry V, opposite Meryl Streep as his love interest?
... that the missing wife of William Trickett Smith II was discovered in a suitcase that surfaced after the 2007 Peru earthquake?
... that, while home to skyscrapers, such as the Torre Mayor and the Mexican headquarters of HSBC, Colonia Cuauhtémoc, in Mexico City, is primarily residential?
... that the Davara was the first British trawler to be sunk in World War II?
... that Katukurunde Nanananda Thera was the first to point out a unique grammatical shift in a controversial Buddhist Pali passage?
... that, after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the practice in the 1977 case Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, the law firm of Jacoby & Meyers was the first in the United States to advertise on television?
... that, after a 15-year career as a principal with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Peggy Ann Jones moved to musicals, including in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera?
... that Dawid Baziak began his professional mixed martial arts career with five consecutive technical knockout victories?
... that every round-robin tournament either has a set of players who win all games against players outside the set, or its graph of wins and losses is pancyclic, having directed cycles of all lengths?
... that, as president of U.S. Trust, Daniel P. Davison classified clients with less than $300,000 in assets as "poor", but was willing to have staff walk a dog for those with assets exceeding $2 million?
... that artist N.C. Wyeth named his Maine home after Winslow Homer's 1886 painting Eight Bells ?
... that contralto Sonia Prina performed the title role of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera Orlando furioso at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a rocker?
... that Gene Englund won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and National Basketball League championship in back-to-back seasons?
... that the 2008 thriller Proyecto Dos is the feature film debut of Spanish television director Guillermo Fernández Groizard?
... that in 1967 Venezuela's ruling Democratic Action party denied the winner of its primary election the nomination for the 1968 presidential race, for being too leftwing?
... that the village of South Salem, Ohio, was founded to serve the needs of the Salem Academy?
... that Italian castrato Carlo Scalzi performed at the wedding of Anne, Princess Royal and William IV, Prince of Orange in London, 1734?
... that the Craig telescope in Wandsworth Common, London, was once the world's largest refracting telescope?
... that the main campus of the Polytechnic of Namibia includes Elisabeth House , Windhoek's former obstetrics hospital?
... that Basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving has won the most American Basketball Association awards with five Most Valuable Player awards—three in the regular season and two in the playoffs?
... that the Brazilian ironclad Barroso was hit 20 times between March 26 and 28, 1866, during the War of the Triple Alliance, but was not significantly damaged?
... that "The Most Unwanted Song" includes bagpipes, a children's choir, and an opera singer who raps about cowboys?
... that San Francisco Church in Valparaíso, Chile, was severely affected by a large fire in the middle of its reconstruction after the 2010 Chile earthquake?
... that a kulhar, a traditional handle-less terracotta cup from North India and Pakistan, gives the hot beverages it contains an "earthy" taste and aroma?
... that the Francis Farm Petroglyphs are among Pennsylvania's leading petroglyph sites, even though the culture of their creators is unknown?
... that Corsair pilots of Caleb Bailey's Marine Aircraft Group 11 would make chocolate ice cream on missions in the Palau campaign during World War II?
... that former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Daniel Webster served in the Florida legislature for 28 years, making him the longest-serving legislator in Florida history?
... that Puritan minister Thomas Tregosse was imprisoned for holding a Conventicle in Budock?
... that the American Quarter Horse stallion Skipper W got his chance as a breeding stallion when his sire slipped on some ice and broke his neck?
... that the Movimiento 2D is a Venezuelan opposition movement founded and led by the editor/proprietor of the daily El Nacional?
... that on his List A cricket debut, Lewis Gregory claimed four wickets against the Pakistanis?
... that Missouri French is a nearly extinct dialect of French that developed in what is now the midwestern United States during the colonial period?
... that after investing enough money to create a Million Dollar Backfield for the Chicago Cardinals, the team's owner died before he could see it defeat its championship rival?
... that Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow argue in their new book The Grand Design, that without God "the universe can and will create itself from nothing"?
... that Parachartergus apicalis will attack Camponotus atriceps if they try to tend their treehoppers?
... that the Aktio-Preveza Undersea Tunnel is the first and so far only undersea tunnel in Greece?
... that 9 out of the 36 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council are to be elected exclusively by certified teachers and local governing bodies?
... that in 2011 the American Quarter Horse stallion Mr San Peppy will join his son Peppy San Badger and his full brother Peppy San in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame?
... that the Radio Caroline ship Mi Amigo served with the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War?
... that the 11th century Dhuvjan Monastery in Albania contains an icon which includes remains of very important early Christian saints?
... that the Spanish mixed martial artist Daniel Tabera has defeated two opponents in one night on two separate occasions?
... that the Gothic Revival "Wedding Cake House" in Grosse Ile's East River Road Historic District was built over 150 years ago and has never been remodeled?
... that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization?
... that the film Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story is a dramatized recreation of Hank Gathers' struggle to leave a North Philadelphia ghetto to become a basketball player for the Loyola Marymount Lions?
... that Leymah Gbowee organized a peace movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president in Africa?
... that the Podgorica–Shkodër railway, built in 1985, was the first international railway of Albania?
... that Rena Kubota has been crowned world champion at the previous two Women's Shoot Boxing Tournaments?
... that the Italian castrato Domenico Annibali made a sensational debut at the Royal Opera House in London in the title role of Handel's opera Poro?
... that Bulgarian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat Petar Parchevich was made baron by the Habsburgs?
... that Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent are characters of the Baccano! light novels and anime, set in the Prohibition-era United States, but also appear in the Durarara!! anime, set in modern Tokyo?
... that after missing the whole of 2009 through injury, Jan Błachowicz returned at KSW XIII to defeat two opponents on the same night?
... that the earliest Scottish surnames were already hereditary in England, before arriving in Scotland with Anglo-Norman settlers in the 12th century?
... that Bach's cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity 1723, Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138, was criticized by Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer?
... that former mayor of Tirana, Qemal Butka, was the architect of the municipality building of Korçë?
... that the Neosho class monitors USS Osage and USS Neosho were saved by Bailey's Dam after being trapped at the Mississippi River's Alexandria Falls during the Red River Campaign in 1864?
... that the antifascist and freedom fighter Abaz Kupi was the founder of the Legality Movement, which aimed to return Zog of Albania back to his throne?
... that in 2009, a white boar helped locate the Battle of Bosworth Field where Richard III died in 1485?
... that Viktor Nemkov is an M-1 Global veteran who was approached by World Wrestling Entertainment to become a professional wrestler?
... that the planned Marvel Comics superhero film, X-Men: First Class is intended to take place during the 1960s and will parallel the history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X?
... that the English educational reformer James Pierrepont Greaves (1777–1842) described himself as a "sacred socialist" and advocated vegetarianism, water drinking, hydrotherapy and celibacy?
... that Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for history?
... that Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee William "Moon" Evans, who twice led the United States in scoring, saw action in the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Peleliu?
... that Plön Castle was once an elite Nazi school bearing the name of Ernst Röhm?
... that scaly ink cap mushrooms can attack and consume soil bacteria by growing hyphae that secrete digestive compounds?
... that before becoming a Glossop mill owner, Francis Sumner lived at Glossop Hall after his mother and father died?
... that HMS Aeolus was involved in the pursuit of USS Constitution and the capture of USS Nautilus, the first warship lost by either side in the War of 1812?
... that the K2K experiment was the first experiment to directly measure neutrino oscillations using a laboratory source of neutrinos?
... that the New Jersey Americans were supposed to play a playoff game on their home court in the 1967–68 ABA season, but the Teaneck Armory was booked by the circus and the team had to forfeit the game?
... that Lucas Duda faced Tommy Hanson, whom he previously played against in high school, in his Major League Baseball debut?
... that the tower of St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe, North Yorkshire, has been described as "more like a castle fortification than a religious symbol"?
... that soprano Ada Adini, a singer of Verdi's Gilda and Leonora, appeared as Brünnhilde in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Walküre at La Scala in 1893?
... that Bajzë Rail Station was completely cleaned up in 2009 from toxic chemicals dumped in 1991–92?
... that Lawrence E. Roberts was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, a colonel in the United States Air Force, and the father of newscaster Robin Roberts?
... that in 1931 Aziz Çami tried to assassinate Zog of Albania when the king was exiting the Vienna State Opera?
... that the Jacobean fittings in St John the Evangelist's Church, Leeds, West Yorkshire, have been described as the glory of the church?
... that during the 1689 Boston revolt, Puritan Bostonians overthrew their governor who was loyal to the Catholic James II of England?
... that quarterback George "Shorty" Chalmers was considered a triple threat man, and alongside Boze Berger, "one of the most dangerous pass–catch combinations in Maryland history"?
... that the USCGC Point Caution, an 82-foot USCG Point class cutter originally designated as WPB-82301, later acquired the name Point Caution when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than 65 feet?
... that association football club Bradford City's first game at Wembley Stadium in their 93-year history was the 1996 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
... that independent musician and podcaster George Hrab has customized his album packaging with such things as a tin box in order to encourage his fans to purchase his music?
... that the bobsleigh run at the 1952 Winter Olympics was made entirely of snow?
... that the COSMIC cancer database has documented somatic mutations from over half a million tumour samples?
... that Jersey Circus is a webcomic mashup of images from The Family Circus newspaper comic strip and dialogue from MTV's Jersey Shore?
... that suicide victim Princess Sophie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is believed to have been the first royal woman to be cremated?
... that an Australian, Alexander Sutherland, was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor by General William Westmoreland after the Battle of Suoi Chau Pha on 6 August 1967?
... that Anthony Roberts is the only other NCAA Division I men's basketball player besides Pete Maravich to score 60+ points in two or more games?
... that Walter Powell ended his term as MP for Malmesbury when he vanished over the English Channel in a hot air balloon?
... that Manhattan Project scientist Jacob Bigeleisen became an advocate for nuclear disarmament, saying "having lived through that time, that any further use of nuclear weapons is out of the question"?
... that at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche was the second most important city in the Guatemalan Highlands?
... that Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company?
... that United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked targets in and near Singapore on eleven occasions between November 1944 and March 1945?
... that in 1798, artist George Garrard successfully campaigned to introduce the first copyright protection for model-makers in Britain?
... that when completed, the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant in Japan will be the largest pumped-storage power station in the world?
... that Gioachino Rossini's opera Tancredi premiered in 1813 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice with Adelaide Malanotte performing in the title role?
... that Canadian painter Lorne Kidd Smith designed a poster for Canada's Victory Loan campaign and worked in the art department at General Motors?
... that Reinert Torgeirson managed the publishing house of the Norwegian Labour Party until he changed party to Communist?
... that for building the Ukrainian city of Kherson, Empress Catherine II gave Russian General Ivan Gannibal two orders of chivalry, a jewel-encrusted snuff box, and a 20,000 desiatina estate?
... that many of the renowned autoethnographic works of Absentee-Shawnee artist Ernest Spybuck are held by the National Museum of the American Indian?
... that a round tower was built to house the Kloster Berge school after a schoolmaster hanged himself in the cloister previously used for classes?
... that the 1946 National League tie-breaker series was the first ever tiebreaker for the playoffs in Major League Baseball history?
... that the first Black church in Schenectady, New York, was begun by a White college student and located in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood in 1870?
... that the operatic mezzo-soprano Adelaide Borghi-Mamo sang the part of Azucena in the French premiere of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris in 1854?
... that Sergeant John A. Kirkwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Slim Buttes?
... that the Church of Saint Laud's original, octagonal, Gothic-panelled font is buried under the church floor?
... that Sir Richard Conyers, who built St Mary's Church, South Cowton between 1450 and 1470, also built South Cowton Castle nearby, but destroyed the village of South Cowton?
... that operatic soprano Shirlee Emmons won an Obie Award for her portrayal of Susan B. Anthony in the 1956 Off-Broadway revival of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All?
... that according to the visa policy of South Korea, Canada is the only country whose citizens receive six months of visa-free entry?
... that species of Azotobacter bacteria are used in the production of ice cream and instant puddings?