derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in 1955, two years after interviewing American actor Gregory Peck for the newspaper France Soir, French journalist Veronique Passani became Peck's wife?
... that Shane Warne has taken more wickets than any other Rajasthan Royals cricketer?
... that at least one species in the earwig family Pygidicranidae is cannibalistic?
... that the Abbasid vizier al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi' was the main instigator of the civil war between brothers and rival caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Amin?
... that after failing to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in triathlon, American Mary Beth Ellis went on to win five Ironman Triathlons, including the 2012 U.S. Championships at Ironman New York?
... that the filly Sun Stream narrowly won the 1945 Epsom Oaks by "a small head"?
... that in 2010, the restaurant Au Crocodile was sold for over a million euros?
... that Rear Admiral Charles Boarman was a member of the U.S. Naval Board in Washington during the American Civil War while two of his sons-in-law served in the Confederate Army?
... that minuscule 880, a 15th-century manuscript of the New Testament, was written by George Hermonymus, a teacher of Reuchlin and Budeus?
... that Libby Houston received the 2012 H. H. Bloomer Award from the Linnean Society of London?
... that for the portrayal of Trevor Raznik in the film The Machinist, Christian Bale lost 63 pounds (28.5 kg)?
... that during the Liverpool Exchange by-election in 1897, the Liberal candidate Russell Rea was denounced by a Conservative Party politician as a "white slave" of Irish Nationalists?
... that Spanish governor Diego de Salinas surrendered Gibraltar to English marines under the command of a former Viceroy of Catalonia in 1704?
... that the Musidora Stakes, an annual race held at York, was named in honour of the 1000 Guineas and Epsom Oaks-winning filly Musidora?
... that in 2009, Arawak artist and archaeologist George Simon and a team of researchers uncovered evidence of human settlements in Guyana that date back to 3,000 BCE?
... that recent estimates of the number of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia range from a denial of any political prisoners at all to 30,000?
... that water polo player Shea Buckner won NCAA Championships and was named to the All-American first team in both 2008 and 2009?
... that species in the fungal genus Endogone are important in the ecology of plant succession in sand dunes?
... that it is not compulsory for a place of worship in England and Wales to be officially registered, but doing so makes the premises exempt from Council Tax?
... that Alabama nose tackle Jesse Williams is the first Indigenous Australian to receive a scholarship to play college football in the United States?
... that Victoria's Secret Angel model Chanel Iman plays Usher's love interest in the music video for "Dive"?
... that Monsieur d'Amour married four times, once to a 14-year-old girl?
... that during World War II, civilians evacuated from Gibraltar were moved to Morocco, Madeira, England and Jamaica?
... that John Hilliard's Cause of Death (1974) suggested four different interpretations of one photographic negative?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Michael Roeger has played football, basketball, table tennis and cricket?
... that the English racehorse Galatea won both legs of the Fillies Triple Crown that were held in 1939?
... that rhythmic gymnast Georgina Cassar was the first athlete from Gibraltar to compete at the Olympic Games?
... that the Glee episode "Britney 2.0" features Britney Spears mashed up with Justin Bieber?
... that Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer, a leading rosh yeshiva in prewar Poland, was forced to work in a Warsaw Ghetto factory making footwear for German soldiers?
... that Prince Rupert's cube, named for Prince Rupert of the Rhine, can pass through a square hole drilled into a smaller cube ?
... that beer distributor Ron Fowler led a group that included golfer Phil Mickelson that was approved by Major League Baseball to purchase the San Diego Padres for $800 million?
... that Varietease, starring Lili St. Cyr and Bettie Page, was Irving Klaw's first feature length documentary film about 1950s burlesque?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Carlee Beattie was named the most valuable player at the 2000 Netball State Titles?
... that after pressure from his mamluks, the Burji sultan Sayf ad-Din Inal supported James II with a naval fleet in his attempt to gain the throne of Cyprus?
... that the cricket team Chennai Super Kings of the Indian Premier League has received the Fly Kingfisher Fair Play Award three times out of five?
... that water polo goalkeeper Chay Lapin set the all-time saves record at the University of California, Los Angeles?
... that the Alcatraz Gang was a group of eleven American POWs singled out for extra harsh treatment by their North Vietnamese captors because of their fierce resistance to captivity?
... that Mayer Zald and John D. McCarthy developed the resource mobilization theory, which became one of the major theories on social movements?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Jake Lappin is able to perfom push ups without using his legs?
... that upon the release of Mariah Carey's 12th studio album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, her song "Betcha Gon' Know (The Prologue)" peaked at number 66 on the U.S. Hot Digital Songs chart?
... that Ethel McMillan holds the distinction of being the first woman in New Zealand appointed as a savings bank trustee?
... that Kara Mustafa Pasha, the founder of the Ridwan dynasty, was a former gate-slave of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Simon Patmore has Erb's palsy and works as a technology officer?
... that early mycologists classified species from the class Myxogastria as "fungus animals"?
... that blind athlete Robert Matthews won eight Paralympic gold medals for middle and long distance running and now competes as a cyclist?
... that the Umayyad military leader Abdallah al-Battal became a popular hero in medieval Arabic and Turkish tradition for his exploits against the Byzantines?
... that a California casino is putting up a million dollars to save the Chukchansi language, which has eight fluent speakers?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Amber Merritt was named the MVP at the 2012 Gliders and Rollers World Challenge?
... that in 2008, the only songs to spend two weeks at number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart were Madonna's "4 Minutes", featuring Justin Timberlake, and Donna Summer's "Stamp Your Feet"?
... that the seven highest National Basketball Association league leading minutes per game averages have been by Wilt Chamberlain ?
... that in 1924, Izetta Jewel became the first woman to address a major political party convention to second a U.S. presidential nomination?
... that 2012 Indian Paralympic powerlifter Farman Basha won an event for non-disabled athletes in 2006, leading to a ban on disabled athletes in Indian Powerlifting Federation events?
... that according to T. E. Lawrence, the Syrian town of Tafas was the site of an infamous massacre perpetrated by retreating Ottoman troops during World War I?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic rower Erik Horrie was previously a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team and only took up rowing in 2011?
... the spores of the mushroom Boletellus russellii are grooved and furrowed like its stem?
... that American artist Jean Wells created a five-foot tall ice cream cone for a San Diego Museum of Art exhibition?
... that the Sooty Oystercatcher forages for two hours on either side of low tide?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer Rosemary Little had to raise AUD$8,000 to replace her racing wheelchair following a collision at the 2011 City2Surf?
... that the Ellerbusch Archaeological Site in the U.S. state of Indiana was picked for extensive excavation partly because it was so small?
... that Abdullah Al Rabiah, once named the world's 45th most influential Arab by a business magazine, used to work as a surgeon who separated conjoined twins?
... that the Astor Bridge was considered "one of the most hazardous road sections in Florida" in the 1970s?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic long jumper Stephanie Schweitzer works as a personal trainer?
... that the filly Lady Carla won the 1996 Epsom Oaks by nine lengths, the fourth-widest margin of victory of this race in the 20th century?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kayla Clarke has a scholarship from the Queensland Academy of Sport and receives athlete support grants from the Australian government?
... that the Corporation of Madras was established in 1688, and is the oldest municipal body in India?
... that in the Kinks' song "Sitting in My Hotel", singer and songwriter Ray Davies muses about the cost of stardom in terms of loneliness and losing touch with his roots?
... that a Philippine Basketball Association team that successfully defends the Philippine Cup for three consecutive times, will permanently keep the Jun Bernardino Trophy?
... that in August 2012, an employee of Gibraltar-based Profield Contractors was arrested on suspicion of being a member of a terrorist cell?
... that 2012 Paralympics competitor Rajinder Singh Rahelu won the first-ever medal for India in powerlifting in 2004?
... that the type specimen of Eucalyptus denticulata was only collected in 1989?
... that Conflict Kitchen, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a take-out restaurant that only serves food from nations with which the United States is in conflict?
... that the extinct lacewing Undulopsychopsis is the only psychopsid to have wavy wings?
... that the Beilin-Abu Mazen agreement was a proposed Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty created by Yossi Beilin and Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in 1995?
... that five-time gold medallist Thomas Oelsner was the first athlete to be sent home from any Winter Paralympic Games when he failed a drugs test in 2002?
... that the June 26, 2012, Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances has been criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation?
... that Henry Nock, the maker of the seven-barrelled volley gun used by Patrick Harper in Sharpe episodes, founded a company which became Wilkinson Sword?
... that the Dras River, a tributary of Suru River in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, originates from the Machoi Glacier?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Damien Bowen has previously competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Sarah Vinci made her national team debut at the 2011 Osaka Cup?
... that the Danube bleak, a migratory fish, has had its traditional routes blocked by the building of dams?
... that Mika Yamamoto, the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012, was the first Japanese reporter to be killed in the ongoing armed political conflict in Syria?
... that Tim Hunter, director of "Episode 4" of Twin Peaks, was inspired by Otto Preminger's use of small sets in 1945's Fallen Angel?
... that John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the sinking of the Palatine Light ghost ship with a poem written in 1867?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic sailor Stephen Churm competed in his first sailing race in 1963?
... that the Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Brăila, Romania, is the country's only former mosque converted into an Orthodox church?
... that the 2011 film Love's Kitchen starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani and featuring chef Gordon Ramsay in a cameo role, took £121 on its opening weekend?
... that the wasp Deinodryinus velteni is one of only three Deinodryinus species described from the fossil record?
... that British record producer Shahid "Naughty Boy" Khan started his career by winning twice in one year, once for The Prince's Trust and then on Deal or No Deal?
... that Irapé Dam on the Jequitinhonha River is the tallest dam in Brazil?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic 100 metre runner Gabriel Cole became a serious runner after the intervention of his high school French teacher?
... that Karen Gillan, who portrays Amy Pond, was so moved by her exit from Doctor Who that she could not read the script without crying?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Silcocks has Poland's syndrome, a syndrome he had at birth, that caused development problems with his right arm?
... that the Black Salamander may defend itself by biting a western garter snake attacking it?
... that Ben Burns, a pioneering white editor of black publications, answered if he was "Negro or white" by saying: "Neither, I'm Jewish"?
... that each of the three Russian Petropavlovsk-class battleships had a different type of steel armor?
... that Canadian S10 swimmer Summer Mortimer won a medal in each of her individual events at the 2012 Paralympics, breaking two of her own world records?
... that a Japanese bank funded a project to improve the quality of Hussain Sagar reservoir in Hyderabad, India?
... that in her film debut Kris of Mataram, Fifi Young stabs herself with the titular weapon?
... that 2012 Paralympics competitor and Gold Coast Wheelchair Rugby Titans captain Ben Newton was a member of the undefeated 2011 Australia national wheelchair rugby team?
... that of all the county bridges currently in use in Wyoming, EDZ Irigary Bridge has the longest clear span?
... that in 2002, Randy and Teri MacDonald were the first brother-sister combination to compete against each other in NASCAR since Ethel and Tim Flock in 1949?
... that Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, considered the father of the Polish school of landscape painting, was the first to devote an entire series of works to the Tatra Mountains ?
... that U.S. federal tax increases and spending cuts mandated for 2013 have been called a fiscal cliff due to their projected economic effects?
... that in United States v. Jackalow (1862), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a jury should decide whether the Long Island Sound was on the "high seas"?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Georgia Beikoff quit cricket and soccer in order to pursue athletics?
... that Lucy Spraggan's song "Last Night" reached number eleven in the UK charts despite being pulled midweek?
... that Brad Teague was fastest in third-round qualifying for the 1989 Daytona 500, but did not compete in the event?
... that the Mexican burrowing caecilian is viviparous, with the young feeding on glandular secretions in the oviduct?
... that Lindsey Berg was twice named the USA Volleyball Indoor Female Athlete of the Year?
... that the Hanajira tribe inhabited the area between Gaza and Beersheba before being expelled to the Gaza Strip during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
... that in 1915, British ship-owner Joseph Hoult offered a reward of £500 each to the next four British merchant ships that sank German U-boats?
... that Georgian daba Manglisi has been a mountain resort area for the people of Tbilisi since the 19th century?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Rachael Dodds, who has cerebral palsy, was introduced to athletics by her physiotherapist?
... that during the Albanian Revolt of 1432–36, forces under Gjergj Arianiti defeated 10,000 Ottoman troops under Ali Bey near the valley of Shkumbin?
... that Mike Kenny is the most successful British Paralympian, having twice retained his gold medals in three swimming events?
... that the Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Lapland, which covers an area of 1,550 square kilometers (600 sq mi), includes taiga forests of Scots Pine and thousands of small lakes ?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Matthew Cameron has represented his country in athletics and wheelchair basketball?
... that pottery from the Duffy Archaeological Site in Illinois is distinctive for its lack of decorative elements?
... that in 1332 Taynal, the Mamluk governor of Tripoli, was transferred to Gaza as punishment by the viceroy of Syria, only to be reassigned to Tripoli three years later?
... that according to her memoirs, African American preacher Zilphia Elaw gave over a thousand sermons in Victorian Britain?
... that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Rob Oakley started riding horses as a way to impress a girl?
... that a 19th-century brick synagogue in Radzanów designed with Moorish-style motifs, serves as a public library since there are now no Jews in Radzanów?
... that when he was a lieutenant colonel, General Larry O. Spencer was the first Air Force officer to serve as assistant chief of staff at the White House Military Office?
... that Shane Warne served both as a captain and a coach for Rajasthan Royals, and led his cricket team to win the 2008 Indian Premier League Final?
... that the Marxist ethnographer Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev considered that shamans were almost always mentally ill?
... that 2012 British Paralympic cyclist Mark Colbourne broke his back in a paragliding accident?
... that Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen rock edicts of Mauryan emperor Ashoka dating back to the third century BC mentioning aspects of the emperor's dharma law?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic table tennis player Melissa Tapper started her competitive playing career competing against able-bodied athletes even though she has Erb's palsy?
... that the churchyard of All Saints Church, Ulcombe in England contains a yew tree claimed to be more than 2,000 years old?
... that the odor of the mushroom Cortinarius camphoratus has been likened to old goats, burnt horn, and sweaty feet?
... that 2012 British Paralympic footballer Ibrahima Diallo was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after a physiotherapist saw him running?
... that the single known specimen of Houston's Whitebeam grows on a cliff in North Somerset and cannot be accessed without ropes?
... that Liz Johnson won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics just eleven days after the death of her mother?
... that the tsunami triggered by the 1979 Tumaco earthquake coincided with low tide, greatly reducing the area inundated and the likelihood of a far higher death toll?
... that Anuya Bhagvath makes her Bengali cinema debut in Gora, a film based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore?
... that the Val-Saint-Lambert Abbey is an important example of Cistercian architecture in Belgium?
... that Mike Chase hoped to be NASCAR Rookie of the Year in the Winston Cup Series in 1995, but was released from his team after failing to qualify for the year's first race?
... that Vanguard Cave is one of four caves in Gibraltar which have been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Erinn Walters weighed 900 grams (2.0 lb) at birth?
... that the DOX BOX International Documentary Film Festival, founded by Syrian filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia in 2008, quickly grew into the most important documentary film gathering in the Arab world?
... that the Drayton Island Ferry was limited to a capacity of six people after reports were received of its operator carrying 40 passengers on board?
... that Sowmya Raoh worked as a voice artist before making her playback singing debut?
... that 2012 British Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater made his Paralympic debut in 2000 in Sydney?
... that although collected in 1958, the fungus Engleromyces sinensis was not described as a new species until 52 years later?
... that the Teen Age Message was sent by Russian scientists from the Eupatoria radio telescope , and was humanity's first musical Active SETI broadcast?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Jodi Elkington is also a netball umpire?
... that film-maker David Lynch acts opposite his real-life partner Isabella Rossellini in Tina Rathborne's semi-autobiographical film Zelly and Me?
... that Sarpsborg 08 rejected Brescia's attempt to get Magnar Ødegaard on a trial, because it was in the middle of the Norwegian football season?
... that the Syrian city of Tell Rifaat dates back to the Iron Age when it was an Aramaean settlement known as "Arpad"?
... that South African Paralympic swimmer Achmat Hassiem had his leg severed in an attack by a great white shark?
... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus areolatus is one of two Deinodryinus species known from Baltic amber?
... that when Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz cried, "even the State Department listened"?
... that ruisreikäleipä is a Finnish rye hole loaf which was stored for all the Nordic winter's length and is still a main component of the Finnish diet?
... that in 1943 HMS Calpe helped sink a U-boat which had sunk two of her sister destroyers that same month?
... that British Paralympian Caz Walton won gold medals in athletics, table tennis, and fencing?
... that "the one who cried" is often depicted shaking Mount Kailash in Indian art?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Josh Hose became a quadriplegic after a car rollover?
... that the mushroom Mycena atkinsoniana will "bleed" yellow-orange juice when injured?
... that in May 2011 a sullage tank exploded near the Gibraltar Cruise Terminal ?
... that Indonesian Paralympian Ni Nengah Widiasih beat the ASEAN ParaGames powerlifting record for her weight class by 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) last December?
... that Millennium's "Sense and Antisense" underwent several rewrites to lessen its focus on race relations?
... that it is disputed whether or not the Pemberton-Billing P.B.1 ever flew?
... that 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Grace Bowman was featured on ABC's Race to London?
... that DARPA director Arati Prabhakar was the first female director of National Institute of Standards and Technology, and also the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech?
... that at 12,095 feet (3,687 m) in elevation, Colorado's Independence Pass is the highest paved crossing of the Continental Divide in the United States?
... that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt to invent major-thirds tuning?
... that a grey sandstone wall is all that remains of Caludon Castle in Coventry, whose history stretches back to pre-Norman times?
... that as a ten-year-old, 2012 Paralympic swimmer Michael Auprince chose to have his leg amputated?
... that an alleged Burmese drug lord and nine Thai anti-narcotics soldiers are accused of committing the 2011 Mekong River massacre, the deadliest attack on Chinese nationals abroad in modern times?
... that Indonesian Paralympic competitor Setyo Budi Hartanto is the son of fishmongers?
... that infection with the parasitic nematode Rhabdias bufonis can cause host frogs to die?
... that after giving up professional football to serve in World War II, Jack Roberts escaped from a POW camp and walked 400 miles to freedom with a broken neck?
... that 2012 Paralympian Chris Bond is missing both legs below his knees, his left wrist and his right four fingers as a result of a severe infection from a flesh-eating disease?
... that the extinct wasp Deinodryinus? aptianus has antennae similar to only two other Deinodryinus species?
... that Madhu Trehan, an Indian journalist, had to apologise for publishing an article rating Delhi High Court judges?
... that Joss Whedon is developing a television series based on the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
... that two-time world champion water skier and 2012 Paralympic athletics competitor Scott Reardon was the first person with a disability to win his state's water skiing championship?
... that the Faizrakhmanist sect, including 27 children, was discovered to be living underground in catacomb-like chambers in Kazan in Tatarstan?
... that the recently discovered Trogloraptor of Oregon is the namesake and sole member of an ancient family of cave-dwelling spiders with hook-like feet ?
... that Indonesian T46 runner and Paralympic hopeful Martin Losu set two regional records at the 2011 ASEAN ParaGames?
... that Bach composed his chorale cantata Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33, on a hymn by Konrad Hubert with a melody by Paul Hofhaimer, and first performed it on 3 September 1724?
... that sediments from the Sendai River in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, created and replenish the Tottori Sand Dunes?
... that Sanjay Hazare is the first international cricket umpire from Vadodara, and second from Gujarat?