derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the first permanent Baptist church in the history of Baptists in Alabama was originally named West Fork of Flint River Church?
... that the skeleton of a pregnant woman and her unborn child dating back to 3000 BC was found in the Kamenica Tumulus in Albania?
... that Minuscule 113 manuscript of the four Gospels contains 24 pictures?
... that "Entrégate" involved a winemaker and a man with a bass guitar?
... that Neil Gardner holds the sixth-fastest recorded time for a Jamaican 400 m hurdler?
... that Dimitry Laptev worked for Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union under different names?
... that the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy provides lodging for the 72 astronomers working at the Mauna Kea Observatory?
... that to secure sponsorship for his TV show, New York-based host Jake Sasseville talked his way onto a local broadcast 700 miles away, so he would be seen by executives at his target's headquarters?
... that a single spoon-shaped lower jaw belonging to the goniopholidid crocodyliform Sunosuchus is the most well preserved fossil found from the Phu Kradung Formation in Thailand?
... that Prince Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg mysteriously disappeared from London society to the Philippines, where he was killed during a battle of the Philippine–American War?
... that robbers stole $80,000 worth of jewelry from Lida, Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis, but neglected to take a necklace valued at $400,000?
... that Undershaw , which is currently proposed for redevelopment, was built as the family residence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes?
... that the 1943 Filipstad explosion in Oslo shattered the glass in over 1600 buildings?
... that Amin al-Hindi is believed to have been the last living person involved in the planning of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics?
... that, as of 2008, over 95% of urban Burkina Faso has access to improved water sources?
... that Coretta Scott King called African-American civil rights activist Randolph Blackwell an "unsung giant" of nonviolent social change?
... that the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was founded in 1810 in a log cabin in what is now Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee?
... that Lou Gehrig may not have died of Lou Gehrig's disease after all, but may instead have succumbed to chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
... that Elmwood Park in downtown Danbury, Connecticut, was once used for growing hay?
... that Andrew Mack, prior to becoming Mayor of Detroit in 1834, had sailed around the world three times?
... that the number of coho salmon spawning on the Ten Mile River in Mendocino County, California, has dropped precipitously since the 1960s?
... that Red Rock Job Corps Center is within Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania, uses the facilities of the former Benton Air Force Station, and is still home to an FAA radar?
... that Qeparo is home to one of the nine churches in Albania dedicated to Saint Demetrius?
... that "The Conquered Banner" was written by Father Ryan, the "poet-priest of the Confederacy"?
... that celebrated French courtesan Rosalie Duthé has been called history's first dumb blonde?
... that Latavious Williams rejected a US$100,000 contract offer from a Chinese team but opted to play minor league basketball in the United States for only US$19,000?
... that the Sind Sparrow was not recorded for 36 years after it was first described, despite searches by noted ornithologists?
... that empresario James Power was notified of the Mexican land grant offerings by the "Father of Texas" Stephen F. Austin?
... that John Lawson Walton's defence in an 1896 libel case led to the largest damages awarded by a British jury to that date?
... that although the team was founded in 1896, the first Connecticut Huskies bowl game did not come until the end of the 2004 college football season?
... that Sonny Bono produced rockabilly singer Roddy Jackson's "Hiccups"?
... that to avoid sending her to the scrapyards, the Imperial Japanese Navy converted the battleship Hiei into a training ship?
... that cameline, a middle ages "cheap" fabric of camel's hair, is considered by some authorities to be what we call today cashmere?
... that comedian Bob Hope, U.S. President Gerald Ford and, according to the Washington Post, every great African American professional golfer except Tiger Woods have played at Langston Golf Course?
... that the ground near Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis was frozen to protect the church during 1960s freeway construction?
... that Gukumatz , one of the Feathered Serpent deities of the K'iche' Maya of Guatemala, was said to carry the sun across the sky in his jaws?
... that the original Small Diameter Bomb was developed by Boeing but the competition was restarted as a result of a corruption scandal and the Raytheon version of the GBU-53/B was selected instead?
... that Ignace Michiels of St. Salvator's Cathedral has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem?
... that Bolinas Ridge which runs parallel to California's San Andreas Fault has been the setting for numerous automobile television commercials?
... that Olga Maturana was elected the first Mayoress of Pichilemu, Chile, in 1951?
... that the miniseries Nurse Jeffrey, a spinoff of House MD was originally released exclusively for Apple devices?
... that in 1725 Bach composed a cantata text written by Salomon Franck in Weimar, Ihr, die ihr euch von Christo nennet, BWV 164, for the 13th Sunday after Trinity?
... that cricketer Malcolm Jardine, the father of Douglas, was probably one of the first batsmen to play the leg glance?
... that the Caroline test of self-defence is based on a burning ship going over Niagara Falls?
... that the Kermadec Red-crowned Parakeet is the first documented example of a parrot recolonising an island after the removal of invasive predators?
... that energy executive William G. Higgs is both a Distinguished Eagle Scout and a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy?
... that during the period of normalization in Czechoslovakia, writer Ludvík Kundera was banned from being published?
... that publisher Moses Annenberg bought Ranch A in 1927 with US$27,000 cash that he had in his pocket?
... that Harvey B. Scribner oversaw the 1965 busing plan that made Teaneck, New Jersey, the first district in the US with a white majority to implement a voluntary school integration program?
... that the Western Union Defence Organization was a precursor to NATO, with its headquarters, personnel, and plans providing the structure for NATO's military command?
... that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah calls the Hezbollah theme park a "tourist jihadi center"?
... that Glacier Bay in Alaska, US, known in the 18th century as the Grand Pacific Glacier, was a single glacier that has now retreated by 65 miles to the head of the bay at Tarr Inlet?
... that St. Mary's of Aransas in Refugio County, Texas, was home to philanthropist Clara Driscoll who is known for her efforts in restoring the Alamo Mission in San Antonio?
... that Swedish death metal band Nirvana 2002 had to add the "2002" to its name after seeing an advertisement for Nirvana's 1988 debut single, "Love Buzz/Big Cheese"?
... that half of the population of Colonia Buenos Aires in Mexico City makes a living from selling used auto parts?
... that Thomas C. Molesworth designed furniture for the houses of the Rockefeller family and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
... that the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the orchestra of the city of Dortmund, Germany, for opera and concert, founded in 1887, recorded its first CD in 2010?
... that the textual Family 1739 codex represents the Caesarean text-type in the Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles?
... that quarterback Steven Threet began his college football career at Georgia Tech, played for Michigan in 2008 and is now a member of the 2010 Arizona State team?
... that in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge in Cheshire, and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it?
... that March 1862 purchases of Greek bonds in London were the result of a report that Prince Wilhelm of Baden was to be formally recommended as a candidate for the Greek throne?
... that with over 1.2 million burials, the Bródno Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Warsaw, Poland?
... that Swedish-Norwegian television host Kristin Kaspersen is the daughter of Swedish singer Lill-Babs and Norwegian football goalkeeper Kjell Kaspersen?
... that the village of Edgehead in Midlothian, Scotland, is located on the site of the Roman road Dere Street?
... that Yolande Harmer, who was one of the most prominent Israeli spies in Egypt in 1948 is thought of as "Israel's Mata Hari"?
... that the Pyréolophore was probably the world's first internal combustion engine and was fuelled by burning powdered moss, coal granules and resin?
... that the 2009 film An Education received nine British Academy Film Award nominations, but only came away with one award?
... that Niels Bohr inspired Indian physicist Alladi Ramakrishnan to create the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai?
... that over two days Sun Yingjie won both the Beijing Marathon and a silver medal in athletics at the 10th Chinese National Games, but lost her medal because a rival spiked her drink with steroids?
... that the Seaside Institute in Bridgeport, Connecticut, offered amenities for Warner Brothers Corset Company's female employees and was referred to as "an island of peace in the storm"?
... that Samuel Pepys drank purl in a bawdy house behind the House of Lords?
... that when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, Polish-Jewish poet Rajzel Żychlińsky fled by taking a taxicab?
... that the Centro Urbano Benito Juárez apartment complex in Mexico City was mostly destroyed during the 1985 Mexico City earthquake?
... that in 1874, Nova Scotian MP and marine architect William D. Lawrence built the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, the William D. Lawrence?
... that the earliest accurate description of an action potential appears in the first issue of the physiology journal Pflügers Archiv?
... that Operation Marlborough was a mission to kill Iraqi terrorist insurgents wearing suicide vests who were intending to target cafes and restaurants in Baghdad?
... that the very first athletics track in Zagreb was built around the football pitch at Stadion Koturaška in 1907?
... that Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development Corp. seeks to "reconstruct the entire world" for $100 trillion?
... that Drake had seven nominations at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards, the most of any artist?
... that development proposals for Washington, D.C.'s Kingman Island have included an airport, a landfill, a public aquarium, stadium parking lots, and a theme park?
... that medrogestone is a synthetic steroid with activity similar to the natural hormone progesterone, but unlike progesterone, is not transported by transcortin in the blood?
... that the Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier, performed in Dortmund first in 1911?
... that the American Petroleum Institute awarded George R. Brown a medal for the design of the first oil platform to be built out of sight of land?
... that the snail species Oxygyrus keraudrenii shows an evolutionary reduction of the gastropod shell for living in open sea?
... that the 8th-century Sæbø sword has a runic inscription incorporating a swastika that has been interpreted as representing Thor?
... that George Malley, whose St. Ignatius High School football team was once compared to Notre Dame under Knute Rockne, resigned from the University of San Francisco with a losing record?
... that the Iron Age Witham Shield was originally decorated with the leather silhouette of a wild boar ?
... that Tadeusz Adamowski, a pioneer of ice hockey in interwar Poland, played the sport at Harvard, coached the Polish national team, and was imprisoned in a German Oflag during World War II?
... that St Briavels Castle, once the royal hunting lodge of King John of England, later became a notorious debtors' prison?
... that Wendy Barlow was inducted into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame, and that her father Bob Barlow played in 77 NHL games with the Minnesota North Stars?
... that the cruiser SMS Bremse was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1919, but was salvaged a decade later by Ernest Cox?
... that radio host Siv Stubsveen starred in A Story About Love, a film on the Internet Movie Database's bottom 100 list?
... that the KunstHausWien, a private museum in Vienna, occupies the former building of the Thonet furniture factory, creator of the iconic bistro chair?
... that the Memphite Formula, a standardized greeting on ancient Egyptian letters, was used so frequently that papyrus intended for use as letters would be prepared with the greeting already written?
... that bandleader Joe Lutcher abandoned his secular music career because of his religious beliefs, and influenced rock and roll star Little Richard to do the same?
... that Acacia leprosa 'Scarlet Blaze' , a rare red-flowering form of Acacia, was discovered by bushwalkers in Australia in 1995?
... that James Sumner received the Medal of Honor for his actions in a skirmish with Cochise during the Apache Wars?
... that Kirkleatham's Owl and Endangered Species Centre is home to one of Britain's largest collections of owls?
... that on the American syndicated game show Jeopardy!, five-time champion Chuck Forrest held the regular winnings record from early Season 2 to early Season 6?
... that the office building that houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was built by Freemasons and once held an auditorium said to be the second largest in the American West?
... that Jamila M'Barek demanded to be styled "Lady Shaftesbury" while being tried for the murder of Lord Shaftesbury?
... that the Dashaveyor was originally designed as a high-tech conveyor belt, but was later turned into an automated guideway transit system used at the Toronto Zoo?
... that baritone Günter Reich recorded the part of Moses in Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron with both Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez?
... that Angelo Gaja, owner of Piemonte wine producer Gaja, is often described as "the man who dragged Piedmont into the modern world"?
... that Operation Banquet was a contingency plan to use every available aircraft in a last-ditch effort to repel a German invasion of Britain in 1940 or 1941?
... that R.C. Bannon, co-writer of Barbara Mandrell's "One of a Kind Pair of Fools," was formerly married to Barbara's sister, Louise?
... that the jellyfish Haliclystus auricula acquired the common name "Kaleidoscope" from a naming contest held in Britain?
... that the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation oversees 900 acres (360 ha) of parks and 68 recreational facilities—including 25 outdoor swimming pools, 10 indoor pools, and 8 spray parks?
... that the current President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was one of four Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples politicians elected to parliament in 1997?
... that Aarti Sequeira, the sixth season winner of The Next Food Network Star, once worked as a producer for the cable news company CNN?
... that the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City has been the site of an annual commemoration for sex workers?
... that the George Hotel in Crawley, Sussex, has hosted Lord Nelson, a stranded Queen Victoria, illegal bare-knuckle prizefighters, horse auctions, the Acid Bath Murderer and public executions?
... that radio station WGGH owner Jimmy "Fish" Fishback provided the imaging voice of the fictional "V-Rock" radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories?
... that the Bombardment of Mogador was accomplished in 1844 by a French Navy fleet against the Moroccan city of Essaouira?
... that soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera?
... that the 6 mm sea snail Atlanta lesueurii achieves vertical migration of several tens of meters each day?
... that the music video to a song based on news about an attempted rape was viewed over 10 million times on YouTube in less than three weeks?
... that the medieval English archdeacon Osbert de Bayeux was accused of murdering an Archbishop of York by poisoning the communion chalice?
... that one of the many interpretations of the anecdotal meeting of Diogenes and Alexander was that of Samuel Johnson, who related it to wasting other people's time?
... that Captain James Young's capture of a Spanish frigate in 1799 brought each of his seamen the equivalent of ten years' pay in prize money?
... that the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson shows the first interview with Claude Johnson, who in 1998 was legally declared Delta blues legend Robert Johnson's son?
... that, called out of retirement to work on the murder case of JonBenét Ramsey, detective Lou Smit resigned 18 months later after concluding that "the Ramseys did not do it"?
... that St George's Church, Little Thetford, is a 14th century Anglican church in the village of Little Thetford, Cambridgeshire, England, which was struck by lightning in 1886 and required extensive rebuilding?
... that as the Victoria Barge Canal was dredged near Guadalupe Bay, ancient artifacts and middens were discovered at what is now the Guadalupe Bay Archeological Site?
... that the first gold medal of the Youth Olympic Games was awarded to Yuka Sato of Japan in the 2010 girls' triathlon?
... that The Feildian, a monthly magazine of Bishop Feild College, was the first publication of its kind in Newfoundland?
... that Udaya Wickramasinghe, the Sri Lankan cricket umpire is remembered for giving three lbw decisions which enabled Pakistani bowler Aaqib Javed to achieve a hat-trick and world record?
... that the Australian pea flower Mirbelia rubiifolia was cultivated in Hammersmith in England as early as 1792?
... that since 2005, after a gap of a century, stone traps are allowed again for bird trapping in selected regions of France?
... that Chief Engraver of the United States Mint Frank Gasparro called the Susan B. Anthony dollar his "top achievement", though the coin was largely rejected by the American public?
... that the Comber Historical Society Museum on Ontario Highway 77 was established in the former Maple Grove schoolhouse, built in 1894?
... that it seems Ugandan President Milton Obote did not consult his cabinet when issuing the 1970 Nakivubo Pronouncement and beginning the process of nationalising 80 of Uganda's biggest firms?
... that the sports club Bygdø Monolitten IL is partly named after the sculpture The Monolith in Vigeland Sculpture Park?
... that the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station in Iraq helps siphon water under the Euphrates River and is the largest of its type in the Middle East?
... that in 1884, Norwegian Supreme Court accessor Frederik Platou cast a minority vote against the impeachment of Christian Selmer, a former government colleague?
... that Bruce Springsteen has described his hit song "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" as the type of song he tends to want to throw out?
... that the Queen's Aid House has a plaque commemorating Elizabeth I's aid in rebuilding Nantwich after a fire, the only time she is known to have contributed to such a cause?
... that the Andrei Pervozvanny class battleships were the only Old World battleships fitted with lattice masts?
... that Simon of Southwell was treasurer of the cathedral chapter of Lichfield Cathedral in 1203?
... that Murray Wier was the first officially recognized NCAA men's basketball season scoring leader in 1947–48?
... that soul singer Veda Brown, who recorded for the Stax label in the 1970s, later became a cosmetologist, choir leader, and black history teacher in the Missouri Bootheel?
... that Helen Gray Cone was the first woman to hold the title of professor at the Normal College of the City of New York (later renamed Hunter College)?
... that 70% of the population of Tamil Nadu is engaged in the Indian state's agricultural sector and related industries for their livelihood?
... that the government of Indonesia did not provide funding for its national team until one month prior to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
... that studies have shown that media coverage of climate change significantly understates the strength of the scientific consensus on climate change?
... that MV Geysir was the center of a series of international incidents that involved Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ken Starr, Elizabeth Dole, George Schultz and Ronald Reagan?
... that the City of Besançon got a regional Parlement from Louis XIV partly as compensation for losing its democratic government and claims to independence?
... that upon Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis' death at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, he was succeeded by his uncle as heir presumptive to the Headship of the House of Thurn and Taxis?
... that after forming their coalition government the first joint interview with David Cameron and Nick Clegg was a televised debate on the economy?
... that after watching "the greatest single play" in team history, Bob Ufer exclaimed "Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter will be heard until another 100 years of Michigan football is played!"?
... that the dramatist George Bernard Shaw campaigned for the Labour Party candidate at the St Albans by-election in 1919?
... that the Japanese legend of the Straw Millionaire depicts a peasant who becomes rich through a series of trades starting with a piece of straw?
... that although Rangers won the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, they were banned from competing the following year because their fans started a riot?
... that the US$1 million restoration of Old St. Andrew's Church , which many considered beyond repair, was the first major project in the 67 years of the Jacksonville Historical Society?
... that Jobs' vessel, the Blue Peter, was the first floating, frozen-fish processing outfit in Newfoundland?
... that Nicholas Treadwell started his art gallery in 1963 in a double-decker bus and two furniture vans?
... that Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union was founded using only US$107 in 1950 and has since grown to over 500 million dollars in assets?
... that the pure blood theory in Korea says that all Koreans descend from a single, purest and cleanest source of ancestors?
... that Lady Gaga's EP The Cherrytree Sessions, initially only available through Borders stores and digital outlets, was reissued in August 2010?
... that the Scottish Review of Books is a quarterly literary magazine published in Scotland that aims to promote discussion of Scottish literature and to challenge people's perceptions?
... that in the Singer World Series, Aravinda de Silva scored 334 runs and did not lose his wicket in all four innings he played?
... that the Putnam County Courthouse in Ottawa, Ohio, built in 1912, was intended to be a landmark in 2000?
... that versions of Roberto Cantoral's songs have been recorded over 1,000 times by other artists, including Plácido Domingo, José José, Luis Miguel, Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt?
... that after assassinating Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled into Maryland's Zekiah Swamp?
... that shot putter Ivan Ivančić is the oldest ever finalist at the World Championships in Athletics?
... that the Mr. Ekenhead in the second canto of Don Juan was a real-life lieutenant of the HMS Salsette marines who swam the Hellespont with Lord Byron on 3 May 1810?
... that American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Johnny B. Moore was once described as "one of Chicago's interesting secrets"?
... that the 11th-century church of San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello, Italy, has a pulpit with Arabic script and motifs which influenced the Dutch artist M.C. Escher?
... that at a command performance of Box and Cox (1847) at Windsor Castle, Queen Victoria and her court "laughed heartily" at the hit London farce?
... that the British politician Frederick William Verney was a former Church of England clergyman who had been made a Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant?