derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Königsberg alderman Hieronymus Roth was imprisoned for life by Great Elector Frederick William because Roth wanted Ducal Prussia to remain a fief of Poland?
... that the Japanese Olympic Committee did not like the suggestion that the 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay could go through China?
... that Everett Scott held the Major League Baseball consecutive games played streak before Lou Gehrig?
... that the statue of George V that is now located opposite the House of Lords in London was hidden in a quarry during the Second World War?
... that Tacoma Speedway had a dangerous reputation among drivers because of flying gravel and splinters?
... that during Clarence Louie's tenure as chief, the Osoyoos Indian Band started the first aboriginal-owned winery in North America?
... that at the 2012 Olympics, Kayla Harrison became the first American to win a gold medal in judo?
... that Crime and Dissonance, a compilation of work by Ennio Morricone, presents the composer as "a sonic experimentalist"?
... that anthropologist Gene Weltfish lost her Columbia University faculty job and could not find another when U.S. Senators investigated her for alleged un-American activities?
... that 130 bulls were sacrificed in the Sanctuary of the Knife of the Pyramid of Neferefre during a ten-day feast?
... that 2012 Olympic synchronized swimmer Samantha Reid is a "Mermaid"?
... that if an arm of a feather star breaks off, then at least two will grow to replace it?
... that Danish wrestler Søren Marinus Jensen won two gold medals at an Olympic Games which is no longer considered to be an Olympic Games?
... that naturalist Charles Darwin's book Geological Observations on South America is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle?
... that Isaiah Wilkerson holds the NJIT Highlanders men's basketball program records for points and rebounds in their Division I era?
... that last year's Richardson fire in Alberta, Canada, was the second largest in the province's recorded history at over 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres)?
... that 2012 Olympic taekwondo competitor Jade Jones won Great Britain's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games?
... that Madrona Manor, on the United States' National Register of Historic Places, is now a bed and breakfast inn with a Michelin-starred restaurant?
... that Daisuke Sasaki wrestled with and defeated eight other men to become King of Stockholm?
... that 2012 French Olympic gold medallist Teddy Riner was the first male judoka to win five world titles?
... that the first documented specimens of the spring beauty rust were collected by a former mayor of Buffalo, New York?
... that sculptor Chintamoni Kar received civilian awards from India and France and won an Olympic medal for Great Britain?
... that a research team from Gibraltar Museum and a dive club shared an award for investigating around a Detached Mole?
... that Zach Vincej won the Brooks Wallace Award, given to the best shortstop in college baseball, in 2012?
... that 2012 Olympic javelin thrower Sean Furey spends time bomb-proofing electronics?
... that the Fusiliers' Arch in Dublin was modelled on the Arch of Titus in Rome?
... that California student Sarah Attar is one of Saudi Arabia's first female athletes at the Olympics, and is due to compete at the 2012 Games in an event she hasn't competed in since high school?
... that the fragments of Beethoven's music in the soundtrack of Kagel's film Ludwig van are modified to imitate the way the deaf composer heard his own work?
... that Olympic high jumper Tora Harris, who was a four-time United States national champion, studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University?
... that High Roller was a roller coaster atop the Stratosphere Las Vegas, the tallest observation tower in the United States?
... that Yi Siling was both the first person to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the first person to win a gold medal at the Games?
... that Mount Billy Mitchell was named for "Billy" Mitchell, who is often referred to as the "father of the United States Air Force"?
... that when she played for Great Britain against Australia on 28 July, Rose Anderson became Scotland's first Olympic basketball player?
... that the nobleman Mochtar acted in 69 films in his nearly 60-year career?
... that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics American javelin thrower Craig Kinsley had never competed in an international competition?
... that construction of the South Mole, a breakwater in the harbour of Gibraltar, was begun by the Spanish in 1620?
... that Queen Elizabeth II made the German trumpeter and conductor Ludwig Güttler an officer of the OBE, in recognition of his efforts to reconstruct the Frauenkirche in Dresden?
... that 2012 Olympic BMX rider Caroline Buchanan was one of Australia's best BMX riders in 2008 but could not compete in Beijing because her youth made her ineligible?
... that the extinct snakefly Amarantoraphidia ventolina is named for air beings of the Cantabrian mythologies?
... that George Larner is the only gold medallist in the history of the Olympic Games in the men's 3,500 metres and 10 miles walk?
... that the 19th-century Albany, New York, neighborhoods of Center Square and Hudson–Park were unnamed until neighborhood associations were formed in the 20th century?
... that as a child, 2012 Australian Olympic BMX rider Lauren Reynolds would launch herself off the Bunbury jetty and into the river?
... that "Oh Love", the first single from Green Day's album, ¡Uno!, is the third-ever song to make its debut at number one on the US Rock Songs chart?
... that when Eddy Rodríguez defected from Cuba, his boat nearly capsized and he had to eat ground coffee beans to survive?
... that in 1965, British diplomacy proved helpless to stop Rhodesia's Lisbon Appointment?
... that before she achieved the fourth longest long jump in the world this year during the U.S. Olympic Trials, Chelsea Hayes was described as "unheralded and unknown"?
... that an egg of the extinct elephant bird given to David Attenborough in 1960 inspired the making of his 2011 documentary Attenborough and the Giant Egg?
... that about 17 square miles (4,400 ha) of marine protected areas are located beneath the waters in and around California's Carmel Bay ?
... that 2012 Olympian Jack Green set new personal bests in both the 400 m and the 400 m hurdles just two weeks before the Games?
... that Balthasar Kindermann wrote in 1658 a praise of beer, in 1660 a guidebook for speeches, and in 1664 the hymn on which Bach's chorale cantata BWV 94 is based?
... that Brittany Borman improved her personal best javelin throw by nearly 7 feet (more than 2 meters) en route to making the 2012 U.S. Olympic team?
... that the U.S. third party presidential campaign of former Congressman and current Constitution Party nominee Virgil Goode is polling at nine percent in the swing state of Virginia?
... that Vicky Holland, who competed in triathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Olympics, only took up the sport in her second year of university?
... that the Fantômas album The Director's Cut features a thrash metal cover of Nino Rota's theme from The Godfather?
... that C. Ferris White designed more than 1,100 buildings in the U.S. state of Washington and over 300 more in the company town of Potlatch, Idaho?
... that U.S. Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Ellis Coleman is known for the "Flying Squirrel" takedown move in which he jumps over his opponent and grabs him from behind while flying over his back?
... that "Sweet Life", the third single in Frank Ocean's debut album Channel Orange, was released a few days after he came out as a bisexual?
... that in addition to being a competitive discus thrower, 2012 British Olympian Abdul Buhari works two days a week for investment bank Credit Suisse?
... that Ettore Petrolini is considered one of the most important figures of avanspettacolo, vaudeville, and revue?
... that the Gibraltar North Mole Lighthouse shares its name with the breakwater on which it stands in Gibraltar Harbour?
... that Heather Stanning's gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics was predicted in her school yearbook?
... that crime reporter Byron Christopher says he has been subject to more search warrants "than the average drug dealer in Detroit"?
... that Lonesome Glory, the first American steeplechaser to win more than US$1 million in prize money, was also the first American-trained horse to win a National Hunt race in Britain?
... that 2012 Olympic discus thrower Jason Young almost gave up on the sport in 2011?
... that Moscow's ZiL lanes are special lanes on main roads that are reserved for the use of top government officials?
... that Andrew Still wanted to portray the stabbing of his character Joel Dexter realistically because stabbings had often occurred in Glasgow?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic javelin thrower Kathryn Mitchell threw an Olympic A-qualifying distance in January, but since it was a club event, the throw did not count for Olympic qualification?
... that "Miky", a bomb-sniffing police dog that only responds to commands in Hebrew, helped to revitalize the Jewish community in Helena, Montana, that built Temple Emanu-El?
... that prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics, Annie Martin was the only active Canadian beach volleyballer who had competed at an Olympic Games?
... that the Pakistan Army established the Sabawoon Rehabilitation Center for brainwashed militants after a military operation in Swat?
... that "Pink Turns to Blue" was named one of the 500 best songs since punk rock began?
... that Brett Morse, slated to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, was the first Welshman to win the discus at the UK Championships?
... that Gervais Street Bridge was the only bridge across the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, from 1928 until 1953?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Alana Nicholls was the 2011 Australian Canoeing Athlete of the Year?
... that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouakchott is located in Mauritania, even though census figures indicate that nearly 100% of the country's citizens are adherents of Islam?
... that Japanese archaeologists restored Hotu-iti's Ahu Tongariki site after a 1960 tsunami reached Easter Island?
... that artistic gymnast Elizabeth Price, a 2012 Olympics alternate, was not picked for the five-member U.S. team even though she finished fourth at the Olympic Trials?
... that Beyoncé and Lady Gaga were the only artists to top the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart four times each during 2009?
... that the North Mole Elbow Lighthouse in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar also serves as a control room for the Gibraltar Harbour?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Naomi Flood was the 2009 overall winner for the Ironwoman Series?
... that as of August 2, Dan Straily led all American professional baseball pitchers in strikeouts for 2012?
... that 136 villages have been completely submerged in the backwaters of the reservoirs constructed as a part of the Upper Krishna Project?
... that the parents of 2012 Olympian Lance Brooks successfully petitioned for him to compete as a one-person track and field team in eighth grade?
... that Ridi Viharaya , a Buddhist cave temple in Sri Lanka, was built by Dutthagamani of Anuradhapura in gratitude that the cave's silver helped him achieve one of his dreams?
... that the BBC nature documentary series Ocean Giants includes episodes about whale songs and the cognitive abilities of dolphins?
... that American sprinter Marlena Wesh chose to represent Haiti in the 2012 Olympics though she has never been there?
... that the Sugababes' first greatest hits album, Overloaded: The Singles Collection, sold half a million copies in the United Kingdom in less than a year after its release?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist Jo Brigden-Jones has participated in surf lifesaving competitions?
... that Mohammad Hatta was vice president, prime minister, and minister of defence during his first cabinet?
... that in 1904 Le Petit Journal reported that Aster monopolised the mass manufacture of engines in France?
... that 2012 British Olympic steeplechaser Eilish McColgan is coached by her mother, Liz, a former world 10,000 metres champion?
... that anarchist industrial music group Missing Foundation helped instigate the Tompkins Square Park Riot in August 1988?
... that Tarren Otte, the oldest member of Australia's 2012 Olympic synchronized swimming contingent, has struggled to stay involved in the sport because of the financial costs of competing?
... that a brigadier general commission for Confederate Colonel Francis Marion Walker arrived at his headquarters the day after he was killed at the Battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War?
... that in the Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, naturalist Charles Darwin presents one of the earliest accounts of the process of magmatic differentiation?
... that although Rachel Lovell retired from canoeing prior to Great Britain's trials for its 2008 Olympics team, she immigrated to Australia and became a 2012 Australian Olympic canoeist?
... that Birgitte Grimstad's song repertoire has included a medieval ballad, songs by Bach, Grieg and Mortensen's Til Ungdommen, and an adaptation of an Elvis Presley hit?
... that the diverse architecture of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal includes Romanesque art , notable contemporary architecture and fishermen's houses that have been described as "Eskimo burrows"?
... that Australian 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper Julia Hargreaves was born in Hong Kong, grew up in the United States and Australia, and now resides in the Netherlands?
... that the Schleswig horse is on the Food and Agriculture Organization's list of endangered domestic animal breeds, having reached a low of only 5 stallions and 35 mares in 1976?
... that Ukrainian-born wrestler Olga Butkevych is to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, despite only gaining British citizenship in May this year?
... that Union Colonel James Cameron, killed at the American Civil War First Battle of Bull Run, was a brother of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron?
... that "Conquistador" was one of the few Procol Harum songs in which the music was written before the lyrics?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Adnan Kapau Gani was a film star and smuggler?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized swimmer Bianca Hammett became interested in the sport after seeing a newspaper advertisement for it?
... that the 1848 discovery of Neanderthal remains in Forbes' Quarry, Gibraltar, was the second in history, but its significance was not realised for another sixteen years?
... that scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology won the 2010 European Inventor Award for their work on the development of liquid wood?
... that Irish Olympian Caitriona Jennings achieved the qualifying standard for the 2012 Summer Olympics in just her second marathon?
... that the song "I Protest" by MC Kash became a protest anthem in Jammu and Kashmir during the 2010 unrest?
... that a purported portrait of Anne Hathaway, dated 1708, may be the only surviving depiction of her?
... that the first consumer treadmill for home use was developed in the late 1960s by aerospace engineer William Staub?
... that 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Alethea Sedgman was selected over her boyfriend for the 2012 Olympics because national selectors wanted to send a female competitor?
... that Flaubert wrote of Raphael's mistress-model , "Fornarina. She was a beautiful woman. That is all you need to know"?
... that Scott Brash plans to compete in show jumping at the 2012 Olympics on the back of a horse that cost an estimated two million euros?
... that the Russian battleship Peresvet was scuttled during the Siege of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, and was salvaged afterward and placed into service by the Japanese?
... that the ironsands steel production company started in New Zealand by John Chambers eventually failed because a bricklayer was shot?
... that two-thirds of the population of the town of Qir in Iran were killed by an earthquake in 1972?
... that 2012 Antiguan Olympic sprinter Afia Charles is the daughter of Ruperta Charles, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
... that chef Skye Gyngell described her Michelin star as a "curse"?
... that screenwriter Chris Carter spent 13 years working for Surfing Magazine before creating The X-Files and Millennium?
... that 2012 British Olympic shooter James Huckle took up the sport after his father bought a rifle to deal with a rat problem?
... that Afro-Uruguayan intellectuals founded the Black Native Party in 1936, the third Black political party in Latin America?
... that Australian Olympian Melissa Breen ran the 100 metres 27 times in 2012 trying to achieve an Olympic A qualifying time of 11.29 seconds?
... that the list of threatened fauna of Michigan includes almost 400 endangered, threatened and special concern species?
... that Masaharu Matsushita, president of Panasonic from 1961 to 1977, married the daughter of Panasonic's founder and adopted his family name before joining the company?
... that 2012 Olympic equestrian jumper James Paterson-Robinson of Australia was not selected for the 2004 Olympics because his horse was injured?
... that despite first opening in 1936, Mirabelle was named London's best new restaurant in 1999?
... that the edible mushroom Gyroporus cyanescens quickly turns dark blue if it is injured?
... that to deprive his body of oxygen in the five months before the Olympic trials, Olympic steeplechaser Donald Cabral spent over 10 hours a day in a high-altitude tent he bought on Craigslist?
... that fewer than 1000 mature plants of the endangered rose mallee remain in the wild?
... that racewalker Emerson Esnal Hernández, who is set to represent El Salvador at the 2012 Olympic Games, started competing in athletics after accompanying a shy friend to tryouts?
... that Stuart R. Schram, biographer of Chairman Mao, started his career as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project?
... that video game Cannon Fodder, intended as an anti-war satire, drew controversy for juxtaposing violence and humour, as well for iconography resembling the remembrance poppy?
... that Australian Olympian Robyn van Nus took up her sport of shooting to help deal with chronic fatigue syndrome?
... that Morley Street, a two-time American Champion Steeplechase Horse, was named after a street in London?
... that the Queenston Formation is used by the ceramic industry in the Canadian province of Ontario and for natural gas production in the U.S. state of New York?
... that track cyclist Philip Hindes was born in Germany and did not take up cycling until 2008, but has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that 2012 Olympian Janet Cherobon-Bawcom started running only as a means to get a college scholarship and says she never "really became interested" in the sport?
... that Richard Hart, a Jamaican historian and politician, was expelled from the People's National Party in 1954 for his alleged communist views despite co-founding the party in 1938?
... that the Vienna "pocket opera" Wiener Taschenoper took children to John Cage's A House Full of Music and adults on Stockhausen's Michael's Journey Around the Earth?
... that Roberto Janet, who is representing Cuba at the 2012 Olympics, is a two-time hammer throw champion at both the Ibero-American and the Central American and Caribbean Championships?
... that the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sa'd al-Dawla, was denied entry to his own capital for much of his early reign?
... that while manganese-bearing vesuvianite has been studied since 1883, manganvesuvianite was not described until 2002?
... that 2012 British Olympic heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson missed most of the 2010 season with jumper's knee?
... that Steve Hogan, the Republican mayor of Aurora, Colorado, was the Democratic congressional candidate who ran against Republican and Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert?
... that Kaila McKnight, a 1500 metres runner for Australia at the 2012 Olympics, spent three months competing overseas before the Olympic qualifiers?
... that the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party came to power in the 8th of March Revolution?
... that cricketer Brad Hodge has the highest batting average and the best bowling average among Kochi Tuskers Kerala players?
... that, as a child, 2012 Olympic triple jumper Amanda Smock believed she would one day be an Olympic gymnast like Nadia Comăneci?
... that the upcoming Wild West-themed Doctor Who episode, "A Town Called Mercy", was mainly filmed around Almería, Spain, the same location used for many Westerns, including A Fistful of Dollars?
... that American weightlifter Sarah Robles, who has been called "the strongest woman in America", lived on less than USD$400 a month while training for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Rambhadracharya has received awards from several personalities, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Somnath Chatterjee and Indira Gandhi?
... that Australian 1500 metre runner Zoe Buckman is one of ten University of Oregon alumni selected to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that "perhaps one of the most beautiful and enigmatic places to be found in Machu Picchu" is its Intihuatana, a solar clock stone?
... that the Golden-crowned Sparrow is an important destroyer of weed seeds on the Pacific coast of North America?
... that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Wodjan Shaherkani is required to be accompanied by a male guardian during the Games?
... that the Kanō school dominated Japanese painting for four centuries , headed by members of the same family?
... that 2012 Olympian Temi Fagbenle was born in the United States to Nigerian parents but plays basketball internationally for Great Britain?
... that devilled kidneys, a breakfast dish from the 19th century, are now being served as street food?
... that Helene Wildbrunn, a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala, began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund?
... that 2012 British Olympic shooter Jonathan Hammond is the most successful athlete ever for Scotland at a Commonwealth Games, having won four medals in 2010?
... that Millennium's "The Pest House" has been compared to the 1996 film Scream?
... that Connor Jaeger qualified for the 2012 Olympics on what was only his fifth-ever swim of the 1500-meter freestyle in competition?
... that at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Tilly Fleischer became the first German woman to win a gold medal?
... that the South Mole Lighthouse in the harbour of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar features two galleries?
... that the designer of Cannon Fodder 2 started writing a novella to accompany the game, but the publisher vetoed the project, leaving reviewers baffled by the game's lack of plot?
... that although four people testified that he did not murder Thomas Bates, Oswald Grey was the last person hanged at Winson Green Prison?
... that Lauren Boden, a 2012 Olympian, has been mistaken for fellow Australian hurdler Jana Pittman?
... that St Oswald's Church, Grasmere, Cumbria , is notable for its associations with William Wordsworth and its annual ceremony of rushbearing?
... that 2012 Olympics track cyclist Melissa Hoskins took up the sport after participating in a talent identification event?
... that the Cretaceous snakefly Necroraphidia arcuata takes its name, in part, from the Latin word for "bent" and the Greek word for "dead"?
... that Norwegian footballer Kent Bergersen left the Greek club Panionios G.S.S. because the club didn't pay his salary?
... that 2012 Olympic 800 metre freestyle swimmer Jessica Ashwood started swimming when she was four years old?
... that the last song to reach number one on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart of 2011 was Wale's collaboration featuring Miguel, "Lotus Flower Bomb"?
... that Kuldeep Joshi is a blind student who continuously played the tabla for twelve hours?
... that after the US Olympic Trials swimmer Davis Tarwater announced his retirement and headed home before realizing he had qualified for the 2012 Olympics?
... that Saudi Arabian professor and ACPRA co-founder Mohammad al-Qahtani expects a "snowball" loss of control by the Saudi government?