derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that on November 2, 2010, the oil painting Nude Sitting on a Divan sold for $68.9 million, a record for an artwork by Amadeo Modigliani?
... that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez, who played Nala in Broadway's The Lion King, died of leukemia despite efforts by Alicia Keys, Rihanna and 50 Cent to recruit bone marrow donors from among their fans?
... that the English Arbitration Act 1979 was passed as the Prime Minister went to resign?
... that, in early 1941, Johnny Sturm broke into the New York Yankees lineup after two future Hall of Famers went into slumps?
... that the National Democratic Party was formed in 1978 as the last step in Anwar El Sadat's four-phase program to introduce a multi-party system to Egypt?
... that remarks by Hall Thompson that "we don't discriminate in every other area except blacks" before the 1990 PGA Championship led golf's governing bodies to ban holding tournaments at all-white clubs?
... that Jews are prohibited from praying at the alleged tomb of Nahmanides, a foremost medieval rabbinic scholar and kabbalist?
... that a Pointer named Judy was the only dog to be registered as a World War II prisoner of war?
... that the Manastır Mosque in Istanbul is one of the few surviving Byzantine religious buildings of Constantinople whose dedication remains uncertain?
... that Roy Skinner, head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, recruited Perry Wallace as the first African American to play varsity basketball in the Southeastern Conference?
... that in response to the banning of the niqāb in Egypt, students protested by wearing protective face masks?
... that when A. Skjegstad was hired by Aftenposten, he became one of the few journalists in Norway to go from a labour newspaper to a high-profile conservative newspaper?
... that American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter James Armstrong was almost stabbed to death at his home in 1997?
... that evidence of a Roman settlement has been discovered at Double Arches Pit, a disused sand quarry that is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest?
... that when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931, U.S. Ambassador to Spain Irwin B. Laughlin advised Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson not to recognize the new government?
... that a Peronist hymn was sung during the 1975 civil wedding of future Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández?
... that the Imperial Wireless Chain was a wireless telegraphy communications network, built in the 1920s to link the countries of the British Empire?
... that American country blues singer Lottie Kimbrough was nicknamed "the Kansas City Butterball"?
... that in the 1984 film Who Dies on His Feet, Albanian actor Llazi Sërbo rode a descendant of Naklon, a horse that Stalin had donated to Albania?
... that in 1907, the winner of the first Giro al Sas 10 km road race in Trento was disqualified for taking a shortcut?
... that U.S. President George H. W. Bush nominated Alfred C. Sikes to be chairperson of the FCC instead of Sherrie Marshall because Sikes was thought to have a better relationship with Congress?
... that when Harry Oliver joined Watford Football Club, Benskins Brewery paid the transfer fee on the club's behalf?
... that in 1844, USS General Taylor conveyed abolitionist Jonathan Walker to Pensacola, where he was infamously branded "S.S." for "Slave Stealer"?
... that a Mere (held by a Māori woman in picture), which was made from jade, could be used to split a man's head open?
... that in the 100 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Natasha Mayers initially won the bronze, was moved up to silver, then was upgraded to the gold medal due to disqualifications?
... that the volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews at Falmouth Lifeboat Station share their building with Her Majesty's Coastguard?
... that Syrian-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh debuted a concerto written especially for him at the opening of the Damascus Opera House?
... that John Cougar Mellencamp's number-one rock song "Lonely Ol' Night" was inspired by the 1963 Paul Newman movie Hud?
... that Theodore Plucknett was the first ever chair of legal history at the London School of Economics?
... that one of the world's largest botanical gardens in the 19th century was located on Bogor in present-day Indonesia?
... that Daren Queenan won the 1989 Continental Basketball Association Dunk Contest?
... that because Arabic author Zaynab Fawwaz wore the niqāb, her husband acted as a messenger between her and the men attending her literary salon?
... that the Melbourne Cricket Ground was a venue of the 1956 Summer Olympics and also the 2000 Summer Olympics, even though cricket was not played in either Olympics?
... that after the plaintiff in the lawsuit Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System filed a motion to dismiss the case, he mailed checks for US$100 to each of the defendants?
... that during the 1990s, Rinia Park in the Albanian capital of Tirana became a notorious spot for drug dealers and illegal buildings?
... that after his term as acting Governor of Guam, Raymond Stone went on to become a judge on the Supreme Court of Guam?
... that Libertas, a biographical film about the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, was approved for funding in 1992, but was not finished until 2006?
... that Louisiana politician and timber magnate Henry E. Hardtner is known as "the father of forestry in the South"?
... that brewing beer from glacial water is only one of the many unique features of Greenlandic cuisine?
... that Robert-Georg Freiherr von Malapert was the first recipient of the German Cross in Gold?
... that the Mount Lemmon Marathon is entirely uphill and climbs over 1 mile (1.61 km) from start to finish as it follows the General Hitchcock Scenic Byway?
... that Oscar Nilssen chaired the Hedmark branch of the Norwegian Labour Party for thirty-three years, from 1921 to 1954?
... that the rooms of the Café Rumpelmayer in the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City were designed by the German-born architect Winold Reiss?
... that Liang Congjie established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China?
... that all eight venues of the 1964 Winter Olympics were reused when the Games returned to Innsbruck twelve years later?
... that Eber Brock Ward built the first Bessemer steel mill in the United States?
... that the Mudawana is the only section of Moroccan law that relies primarily on Islamic sources rather than Spanish or French civil codes?
... that Chinese sport shooter Liu Tianyou ‎won his first gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle event at the 2006 Asian Games?
... that two Berlin U-Bahn stations, Paradestraße and Platz der Luftbrücke, have been called "Flughafen" (airport) because Hitler wanted the entrance to Tempelhof Airport moved?
... that the discovery of asbestos in B5 coaches during renovation has led to a legal dispute between the Norwegian State Railways and Bombardier Transportation?
... that Lorne Kusugak, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, was a founding director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, a TV network that broadcasts almost entirely in Inuktitut?
... that Princess Xenia of Montenegro's refusal of marriage to Alexander I of Serbia severed diplomatic relations between their two countries?
... that the Tristan Thrush is a regular predator of the eggs and chicks of the Great Shearwater?
... that classic female blues singer Laura Smith recorded two songs about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927?
... that discretionary trusts in English law have been described as "powers in the nature of trusts" because they cross the traditional distinction between trusts and powers?
... that Mary Emma Allison conceived of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 to raise funds for powdered milk for needy children, a program that had raised $160 million by the time of her death in 2010?
... that the Consulate General of France in Jerusalem established official political ties with the Palestinian government after Yasser Arafat moved to Gaza City in 1994?
... that among the 85 cricketers to play first-class cricket for I Zingari were one member of the British Royal Family, three barons, one Earl, three Members of Parliament and one bishop?
... that the George & Dragon pub at Newton, Derbyshire, was recorded in 1577?
... that 30% of the population in the Arab world is classified as overweight or obese, including 80% of adult women in Kuwait?
... that George Cain's book Blueschild Baby was called "the most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since Native Son" for its portrayal of "a world that only black people can fully comprehend"?
... that although the fungus Aseroe coccinea was characterized in 1989, its validation as a species was delayed until 2007 because the initial description was not in Latin?
... that in 1982 the pilot of a Applebay Zuni II glider earned at least seven FAI gliding badges during the course of a single flight?
... that the redevelopment of the Paddington area of London was intended to be comparable in scale to Canary Wharf?
... that, although the Norwegian newspaper Solungen was only published from 1904 through 1914, its name was involved in a trademark dispute in 2008?
... that Battle of Britain fighter ace Richard Dickie Cork was the only Fleet Air Arm pilot to shoot down five aircraft in a day?
... that when the only known Cylindrocline lorencei died and its seeds would not germinate, it was considered extinct—but it was saved through in vitro culture of part of the seed embryo?
... that in the aftermath of the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake large numbers of prints were produced depicting the mythological giant catfish Namazu ?
... that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector?
... that former Scientologist Tory Christman trained actor John Travolta in his initial Scientology coursework?
... that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence?
... that when Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor to Elizabeth I, built Holdenby House, he moved the dwellings of Holdenby village away from All Saints Church, leaving it isolated?
... that March 13, 2001, was named "Ronnie McCollum Day" in Shreveport, Louisiana, to honor the basketball player of that name?
... that Canadian pioneer Susan Louisa Moir Allison was the first European to report a sighting of Ogopogo, a cryptid lake monster?
... that Polly Rosenbaum's accomplishments in her 45 years in Arizona's state legislature included eliminating spittoons and miniskirted pages from the state House of Representatives?
... that the Flying Duck Orchid was first collected in 1803 at the site of the present day Sydney Opera House?
... that the Blair-Dunning House in Bloomington was the home of the only politician to hold every elected legislative and executive office in Indiana's government?
... that scholars have recommended that "Clara cell" and other medical eponyms associated with Nazi doctors or medical experiments should be replaced?
... that mezzo-soprano opera singer Martha Lipton performed 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera?
... that after Black Panther Party members Michael Tabor and Richard Moore fled to Algeria while on trial for an alleged bomb plot, party leader Huey P. Newton called them "enemies of the people"?
... that the 1915 film The Incorrigible Dukane is the oldest surviving movie starring John Barrymore?
... that during the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli Air Force carried out the Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid after northern Israel had been struck by FROGs?
... that Bach used the first movement of his Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 as a Sinfonia for his cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52?
... that the death of a zebra, while under the care of Sir Fleetwood Edwards, was said to greatly annoy Queen Victoria?
... that Sirocco , an endangered flightless parrot, gained fame when he was caught on video attempting to mate with the back of a zoologist's head?
... that B.B. King and Eric Clapton won a Grammy Award in 2000 for their collaborative album Riding with the King?
... that when former International Lenin School worker Just Lippe fled to neutral Sweden during World War II, he was imprisoned there for a year and a half?
... that Chamaegigas intrepidus ("intrepid dwarf giant") is a tiny aquatic plant that can thrive in the desert?
... that World War II aviator William Atkinson is the highest scoring fighter ace of the Royal Canadian Navy and the last ace from The Commonwealth?
... that the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, was frequented by Al Capone, who is said to have once avoided police by escaping through secret tunnels in the hotel?
... that the former Union Free School in Le Roy, New York, is now a museum devoted to Jell-O?
... that the first automobile in Canada was first operated by parish priest Georges-Antoine Belcourt in 1866?
... that soon after the ocean liner SS Utopia collided with the battleship HMS Anson, resulting in 564 deaths near Gibraltar in 1891, the partially submerged wreckage was involved in another collision?
... that the recently restored Wara Wara (1930) is the only known surviving Bolivian silent feature film?
... that Battle of Britain pilot Francis Dawson-Paul was the leading Fleet Air Arm fighter ace on the Spitfire but was shot down in July 1940 after 25 days of combat and died of his wounds five days later?
... that one year after Bahrain's State Security Law was abolished in 2001, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa pronounced Bahrain a constitutional monarchy and changed his title from amir to king?
... that Lai Pak-Hoi founded the first Chinese-owned film production company in Hong Kong, the Minxin Film Company?
... that the new search engine Blekko will use what The New York Times described as "Wikipedia-style policing" to weed out pages created by content farms and focus on results from trusted websites?
... that the Harvard Crimson football team has won 12 national championships and is the eighth winningest team in NCAA Division I football history?
... that Anglo-Saxon nobleman Ælfric Cild married into the powerful family of the ealdorman of Mercia, and succeeded him in office before being expelled by the end of two years?
... that after finishing his National Football League career with the Atlanta Falcons, Bob Adams became a Church of Scientology vice president and spokesperson?
... that Sir Nicholas Fuller was imprisoned for heresy after describing the Court of High Commission as "under jurisdiction not of Christ but of anti-Christ"?
... that The Mark Levin Show is the fourth most-listened-to radio program in the United States, with over 8.5 million listeners?
... that the most massive known neutron star is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in diameter, but has a mass twice that of the Sun?
... that in 1962, Texas A&M University professor J. Milton Nance wrote a regional history of Bryan, Texas?
... that the Diggers & Dealers conference is so popular that hotel rooms in Kalgoorlie, Australia, are booked up two years in advance?
... that the Berlin Airlift Monument in Platz der Luftbrücke, Berlin, has an exact counterpart reaching towards it at Frankfurt Airport and a smaller replica at Celle Air Base?
... that two Soviet speed skaters tied for first place and won gold in the same event at the 1956 Winter Olympics?
... that actor Dax Shepard received strong reviews for both his comedic and dramatic performance in "No Good Deed", an episode of the NBC series Parenthood?
... that the autobiographical film Orchids, My Intersex Adventure (which is about an intersexed woman) won a 2010 ATOM Award for Best Documentary (General)?
... that the "strategy New Haven itself had pioneered to fight North Haven's mall" was used against the New Haven Galleria by the neighboring city of Milford 20 years later?
... that in the 2008 Nunavut general election, candidate Allan Rumbolt achieved the lowest winning plurality of any candidate in any electoral district?
... that United States security assistance to the Palestinian Authority for the 2010 fiscal year was US$100 million?
... that the Pittsburg State Gorillas have won more games than any other American football program in NCAA Division II history?
... that Reinhard Mohn took what was left of his family's publishing company (its premises demolished by Allied bombing in World War II) and turned it into the sixth-largest media conglomerate in the world?
... that after the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919, Amir Amanullah announced Afghanistan's independence at the Id Gah Mosque in Kabul?
... that the Murray State Racers men's basketball program had its last losing season in 1987–88?
... that even though Simeon I of Bulgaria burned the Church of St. Mary of the Spring near the Byzantine capital Constantinople, his son Peter married the daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos there three years later?
... that soprano Janis Martin appeared at the Zurich Opera as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde?
... that All-Star pitcher Oral Hildebrand led Butler University to the 1929 national championship in basketball?
... that upon being elected Mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan, Douglas R. Archer moved to eliminate the city's business tax?
... that the collection of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum includes a specimen of native copper that is 8 ft (2.4 m) long?
... that Erika Forster-Vannini , Chair of the Swiss Senate, is one of three women who hold the three highest Swiss political offices?
... that Alexei Kudrin was declared "Finance Minister of the Year 2010" by Euromoney magazine?
... that several MPs have signed an Early Day Motion to stop hunters from killing wild animals in Britain after the supposed death of the Emperor of Exmoor, a red stag (Cervus elaphus)?
... that Welsh bantamweight champion Tosh Powell died from a brain hemorrhage after a boxing match in Liverpool, at the age of 20?
... that Second World War aviator Ronald Cuthbert Hay is the only Royal Marine fighter ace?
... that Henry Holt and Company discontinued the printing of The Last Train From Hiroshima after members of the 509th Composite Group questioned the authenticity of the book?
... that Wallace Wilkerson declined to be executed by decapitation in Utah Territory, and instead took up to 27 minutes to die because the firing squad missed his heart?
... that a 1994 hoax suggesting that Microsoft had acquired the Catholic Church was considered to be the first Internet hoax to reach a mass audience?
... that 10 players from the 1902 "Point-a-Minute" Michigan football team , which outscored opponents 644–12, became head coaches?
... that Emery Point Light, an active lighthouse at Larrakeyah Barracks, near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, was the only navigational aid to remain functional in the path of Cyclone Tracy?
... that various authors speculate that the Byzantine aristocratic Phokas family are of Arab, ancient Roman, Armenian or Georgian origin?
... that Charles Darwin experienced the 1835 Concepción earthquake, describing the effects of both the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami?
... that soprano Myrna Sharlow once upstaged acclaimed opera singer Mary Garden in a performance of a minor role at the Boston Opera House?
... that prior to becoming Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, George Tuccaro anchored the first daily current affairs television show in Canada's north?
... that historian Gary Clayton Anderson describes the white man's advance into Texas in the 19th century as ethnic cleansing of the American Indians?
... that politician James R. Lewis was involved in plans to build a laser gun "designed to blind people", sell it to a Guatemalan colonel, and use the proceeds to build a laetrile factory in South America?
... that in 1883 St Mary's Church, Shipton Solars, Gloucestershire, was being used as a cow shed?
... that soprano Christiane Kohl appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as the Rhinemaiden Woglinde in both Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung?
... that no northern-born Canadian Aboriginal had been appointed Commissioner of the Northwest Territories until the appointment of Daniel L. Norris in 1989?
... that despite having to teach out of a poorly converted hotel building, Mary Adams transformed the Wesleyan Female College into a highly regarded institution?
... that "The Ballad of Molly Mogg" was "writ by two or three men of wit" – John Gay, Alexander Pope and Dean Swift – while sheltering from a storm?
... that Scott Ashjian faced a legal challenge prior to the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Nevada as he changed parties after submitting his candidacy?
... that Torstein Grythe started the boys' choir Sølvguttene in 1940, and retired as conductor of the choir as late as 2004?
... that the New York Times described Dick Miles as "perhaps the greatest table tennis player the United States has ever produced" after Miles won 10 national championships in the sport?
... that Chilean journalist Pamela Jiles announced her presidential candidacy using the slogan "We are millions, the idiots"?
... that all three albums by Brooke Fraser debuted at number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart?
... that the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin houses the world's fastest supercomputer?
... that Sandrine Salerno, current mayor of Geneva, Switzerland, is the daughter of a French mother and an Italian father?
... that the Wittenberg Tigers from Springfield, Ohio, have won more games than any other Division III college football team?
... that St Peter's Church, Wolfhampcote stands isolated in a field, surrounded by mounds remaining from a deserted medieval village, disused canal workings, and a redundant railway?
... that Troughman is mythically famous in Sydney, Australia, for lying down in urinals?
... that following a sexist joke by a political opponent, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Lisa MacLeod wrote the cookbook I’d Rather Be Baking Cookies?
... that the phonomotor, patented by Thomas Edison in 1878 and powered only by the human voice, could drill a hole in a board?
... that with 800,347 inhabitants as of 2010, Tirana County is the most populated County of Albania?
... that Apple introduced Game Sprockets in 1996 to improve game development on the Mac OS, but cancelled development only a year later?
... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War, a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International?
... that the idea behind "Pavor Nocturnus", a second season episode of the Canadian television series Sanctuary came from the 2007 film I Am Legend?
... that in 1979 Taunton Town F.C. moved from the Southern section of the Southern Football League to the Midlands section due to the opening of the M5 motorway?
... that a Leo Cullum cartoon published in the first illustrated issue of The New Yorker printed after the September 11 attacks had the caption "I thought I'd never laugh again. Then I saw your jacket"?
... that Robert Wilson was a principal tenor with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the 1930s before beginning a 25-year concert, variety and radio career?
... that Peter Bossman, born in Ghana, has been elected by the people of Piran to become Slovenia's first black mayor?
... that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara first met in Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City?
... that James Bond's leap from the 220 m (720 ft) high Contra Dam in the 1995 film GoldenEye was voted in 2002 as the best film stunt ever?
... that in 1859, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California David S. Terry killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in a duel?
... that Frankism, an 18th-century movement derived from Judaism, maintained that the best way to emulate God—and one's most important personal responsibility—was to transgress every taboo?
... that Betty S. Murphy was the first woman to serve on and the first woman chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, and the first woman to lead the Dept. of Labor's Wage and Hour Division?
... that Joseph Tehawehron David was a Mohawk artist who became known for his role as a warrior during the Oka crisis in 1990?