derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that poet Iolo Morganwg of Flemingston learned to read by watching his father carve words on tombstones?
... that Italian Bracco Geas basketball player Laura Summerton won two Olympics silver medals, a Commonwealth gold medal and a World Championship gold medal with the Australian Opals?
... that stock car driver Casey Roderick was described as a "legitimate protege of Bill Elliott"?
... that the Taney Court held that it had no jurisdiction to review former Congressman Clement Vallandigham's arrest and trial by military commission by means of habeas corpus?
... that diplomat Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski was executed by an angry mob during the Kościuszko Uprising?
... that Thursday Nights, Channel 5 once almost led to a fight between Chelsea and Manchester City players?
... that comedienne Connie Ediss, in a string of popular London musicals from 1896, became known for her "buxom bourgeoise" characters?
... that in State v. Ben Kuhl , precedent was set, extending identification of individuals in criminal cases to include palm prints, not just fingerprints?
... that Australian Opal and Logan Thunder center Cayla Francis chose to play basketball over netball because she preferred the contact aspect of basketball?
... that the hooded oyster is known as Saccostrea cucullata (Born, 1778)?
... that the Oscoda County Courthouse, unlike many of its contemporaries, is a wood frame structure and not built of stone or brick?
... that according to Micronesian mythology, trickster god Olifat created much discord among the gods, but gave humanity the secret of fire?
... that J. K. Rowling agreed to let North Foreland Lodge girls' school perform Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but later withdrew consent as this would have been a world premiere?
... that an Anglo-Saxon princess was buried on a bed with her jewellery in the Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery?
... that Robbie Faggart won two races in five days at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1992?
... that the 1715 Bach cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165, relates to Jesus teaching Nicodemus about "being born of water and of the Spirit"?
... that Daresbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, received a supreme award for renovation some weeks after it suffered significant earthquake damage?
... that heavy rain on its grass runway at RAAF Station Amberley in 1940 forced No. 3 Service Flying Training School to institute a 13-hour workday and fly at nearby airfields to maintain schedule?
... that polio eradication efforts in Pakistan were hampered by a vaccination campaign conducted by the CIA as cover in the search for Osama bin Laden?
... that St. Oswald's church, Oswaldkirk , hosted the first sermon of the future Archbishop of Canterbury and chaplain to Charles II, John Tillotson?
... that Camp Paxson Boy Scout Camp was used as a training camp for conscientious objector smokejumpers during World War II?
... that English historian Alison Weir has produced books about Eleanor of Aquitaine in both fiction and non-fiction?
... that Fain Skinner won the 1999 World Karting Association national championship?
... that certain birds are assisted by the presence of other members of their species in raising their young, a phenomenon known as the Fraser Darling effect?
... that Lesbian and Gay Youth: Care and Counseling was the first book published on health and mental health care for lesbian and gay youth?
... that the 1970 film Le foto proibite di una signora per bene features a bossa nova-influenced score that has been compared to the work of Antônio Carlos Jobim?
... that wood wasps and their fungal symbionts, Amylostereum fungi , may cause a total economic loss of $254 million per year for the Canadian forest industry over the next 20 years?
... that the village of Guimerà accounts for 24 of the structures on the government of Catalonia's list of architectural heritage monuments?
... that the San Diego Chargers retired the number of Junior Seau posthumously at his memorial?
... that at age nine, Robertson Davies was paid for writing an article published in the Renfrew Mercury, his father's newspaper?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Roto Broil was sold at Sotheby's for $75,000 in 1976?
... that during the Stalinist terror Baron Jerzy Waldorff defamed Catholic priests while serving as an editor of the popular Kraków magazine Przekrój?
... that 1988 St. Leger Stakes winner Minster Son was the first Thoroughbred racehorse to win a British Classic with its breeder riding as the jockey?
... that the Mexican Uriarte workshop still creates Talavera pottery using 16th-century methods?
... that Minori Hayakari, holder of the Japanese record in women's 3000 m steeplechase, has won six consecutive national titles since the event was introduced in 2006?
... that 20% of the authors in various academic disciplines report being the target of coercive citation by scientific journal editors?
... that Richard Wickes was the first American casualty of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey?
... that growing on the shell of the Pacific pink scallop helps the sponge Myxilla incrustans avoid being swamped by shifting sediment on the seabed?
... that the Indonesian film Suddenly Dangdut won 12 film awards, despite being filmed in seven days?
... that the Monmouth Methodist Church in Monmouth, Wales, was set back behind the houses along St James Street by law?
... that Tropical Storm Beryl was the strongest North Atlantic tropical cyclone to ever make landfall during the month of May?
... that Access2Research is petitioning U.S. President Obama to issue an open-access mandate for publicly funded research?
... that in 1896, baritone Anton Sistermans premiered first Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen in Berlin, then Vier ernste Gesänge by Johannes Brahms in Vienna?
... that Jay Jeffrey was the first Division I head coach in Texas State Bobcats baseball history?
... that Titanic 2020: Cannibal City is a sequel to the apocalyptical fiction, Titanic 2020?
... that Andrea Bianchi's Nude per l'assassino follows "the giallo formula almost to the letter"?
... that the Italian Republic of Genoa controlled the Greek island of Rhodes for two years, from 1248 to 1250?
... that Roy Lichtenstein's Portrait of Madame Cézanne is an ironic quotation of art historian Erle Loran's outline of the original Cézanne portrait ?
... that Johan Sørensen was the first publisher of cheap books for the mass market in Norway?
... that 2012 Australia women's national basketball team member Kathleen MacLeod played for a year each in Hungary and France?
... that George Gissing considered his novella The Paying Guest to be "a frothy trifle"?
... that the father–son duo of Marques and Kris Johnson each won a college basketball national championship with the UCLA Bruins after being the top high school player in Los Angeles?
... that Glen Morgan and James Wong included several references to their cancelled series Space: Above and Beyond in their script for Millennium's "The Thin White Line"?
... that centenarian Sammy Cox of Carrick, Tasmania, may not have been as old as he claimed?
... that despite writing many scientific papers at Yale University and having the time limit waived, carcinologist Martin Burkenroad never submitted a dissertation?
... that in Nguyen v. INS, the US Supreme Court upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?
... that Fashion Star season one winner Kara Laricks describes her design aesthetic as "modern-day Annie Hall meets a Japanese street style"?
... that Niels Kaas was the chancellor of Denmark during the late 1500s?
... that Action Saybusch was intended to be the first of several German expulsions of Poles from Silesia to the occupied General Government in World War II?
... that renowned German furniture designer Tommi Parzinger spent the last 15 years of his life working on Expressionist paintings?
... that Brule Lake in Minnesota is the source of two rivers that enter Lake Superior forty miles apart?
... that after a WNBL game in which Kristen Veal scored 16 points, other players shaved Veal's head to support the Leukemia Foundation?
... that the deluxe cover to Simian Mobile Disco's 2012 album, Unpatterns, is back to front and forms a moiré pattern with the CD image?
... that the Monmouth Regimental Museum displays a variety of objects, including a mediaeval "crock pot" and a baby gas mask ?
... that Lucio Fulci's 1977 film Sette note in nero has been compared to the later American film Eyes of Laura Mars?
... that although ROCOSes are visible astronomical objects, it is impossible to determine whether or not they belong to our galaxy?
... that Nikolai Ramm Østgaard served as president of the International Ski Federation for 17 years, from 1934 to 1951?
... that Reformed theologian G. I. Williamson, in the tradition of Puritan Sabbatarianism, says viewing television, newspapers or magazines is improper for Sunday Sabbath?
... that according to Rap-Up magazine, the double-sided poster included in Rihanna's 2009 box set 3 CD Collector's Set is worth the price of the album alone?
... that Snurge was the first maiden to win the St. Leger Stakes for 77 years and retired as the biggest money winner in European horseracing?
... that Stanisław Klimecki served as the President of Kraków only for a few weeks before being fired and arrested by the Gestapo in September 1939, which led to his 1942 execution?
... that 12-year-old Tom Schaar is the only person to ever complete a 1080, described as "the holy grail of all skateboard tricks”?
... that the song "Si Piensas, Si Quieres" was the third number-one hit for Roberto Carlos and Rocío Dúrcal in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
... that Limonana, a lemon and mint drink that is widely popular in the Middle East, was invented by an advertising agency?
... that the flowerheads of the fern-leaf spider flower, Grevillea longifolia, look like toothbrushes?
... that extracts of pringamoza have shown antiviral activity against herpes simplex?
... that 57-year-old Australian equestrian dressage competitor Mary Hanna has qualified to compete in her fourth Olympics?
... that the precursor of the Dnestr radar, TsSO-P, took part in the Soviet Operation K tests to examine the effects of nuclear explosions on anti-ballistic missile hardware?
... that India's 2012 Olympic boxer Devendro Singh gets training support from his sister Sushila, a former national boxing champion?
... that The Teng Chun produced 31 films in a little more than a decade before becoming an English teacher?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic track cyclist Josie Tomic is engaged to fellow Olympic cyclist Jack Bobridge?
... that a restaurateur purchased a ghost town so that he could re-name it to Bikinis, Texas?
... that Justus Jonas wrote the hymn on which Bach's chorale cantata Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178, is based, paraphrasing Psalm 124?
... that 2012 Australian Olympian Hayley Chapman is part of her country's first father/daughter pair selected to compete at the same Olympics?
... that Kee Klamp structural pipe fittings were devised in 1934 and have been used in kite buggying as well as more traditional guard rail applications?
... that in 1981, Mirosław Chojecki went on a hunger strike for 33 days?
... that of the three hillforts in Cambridge's Gog Magog Hills, Wandlebury was the most important?
... that Polish model Dorota Krzysztofek challenged her 2008 conviction for sunbathing topless and won her case in the appeals court?
... that the Astoria Riverfront Trolley , which runs along the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, uses a 1913 trolley car acquired from an art museum in Texas?
... that Charles Singleton wrote the lyrics for "Strangers in the Night", a song Frank Sinatra initially called "a piece of shit"?
... that Birmingham's bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics was to have had the venues centered around the National Exhibition Centre?
... that American astronomer Mark R. Showalter has discovered five moons and three planetary rings in our solar system?
... that the Palestinian village of Salhab is identified with "Bezeq" in the Book of Samuel where Saul gathered his army to defend Jabesh-Gilead?
... that 2012 Olympic diver Rachel Bugg quit diving in 2008 after an injury and worked on a diploma in beauty therapy?
... that the rum ration was abolished because the Royal Navy's leadership was concerned that it made sailors less capable?
... that Johnny Evers alerted an umpire to Merkle's Boner?
... that projects of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities include the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, classical inscriptions (IG, CIL), and dictionaries of Ancient Egyptian and German?
... that 2012 Olympic lightweight double sculls rower Bronwen Watson retired from rowing twice?
... that the Charolais horse was one of the types used to create the Selle Français, a successful sport horse breed?
... that a University of Michigan gymnast dubbed the "Golden Syque" won the first gold medal in international competition for Bangladesh and was chosen to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London?
... that although fishing for stocked trout is allowed in Oregon's Antelope Reservoir, eating the catch is not advisable?
... that "Survival", a single by the English rock band Muse, is the official song of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the eggs and young of the Pheasant Coucal are predominantly cared for by the male parents?
... that Latvian-born Sanita Pušpure is the only rower to compete for Ireland at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the Norwegian politician Paul Steenstrup Koht threatened to withdraw the Skien Labour Party from the central party, should the latter exclude universal suffrage from its party programme?
... that Turkish swimmer Derya Büyükuncu is participating at the Summer Olympics for the sixth consecutive time?
... that the ruined town of Miedzianka in Poland was a site of a secret Soviet uranium mine?
... that 2012 Olympic sailor Krystal Weir sailed in the 2008 Summer Olympics because she took the place of another sailor who got injured in a mountain biking accident?
... that the insect Jacobiasca formosana helps create the unique flavor of dongfang meiren tea by sucking the juices from the tea plant's stems and leaves?
... that the illuminated French 13th-century Histoire ancienne told the history of the world in prose with moralizing verse?
... that while the Gibraltar Aerobeacon does not strictly meet its criteria for a lighthouse, The Lighthouse Directory indicates that it merits an exception?
... that in 1958, while working for a CIA front organization in Taiwan, William Beale flew the aircraft that bombed several Indonesian cities and sank KRI Hang Tuah off the coast of Borneo?
... that the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland recovers and restores Jewish synagogues that had been nationalized under totalitarian rule?
... that the student-led Shifang protest successfully derailed construction of a $1.7 billion copper smelting plant in southwest China?
... that after Irishman Con O'Kelly won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics, he was paraded through Hull on the back of a fire engine?
... that Japanese fighter pilot Isamu Kashiide shook the hand of a crewmember of one of the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses that he shot down?
... that after winning the silver medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics, Finn Yrjö Saarela won the gold medal in heavyweight wrestling at the 1912 Games?
... that a fatal shooting on July 22 was the sixth shooting incident in less than a year involving Anaheim, California, police officers?
... that the BBC likened Chasing After Ghosts, the debut album by The Crookes, to Morrissey, The Housemartins and Aztec Camera?
... that 2012 Olympic judo competitor Carli Renzi represented Australia in wrestling at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
... that science educator Goéry Delacôte became interested in theoretical physics because being moved up two years at school meant he "wasn't mature enough to really appreciate the literature and poetry"?
... that the Madrid Codex, one of only three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books, contains almanacs and horoscopes that were used to assist Maya priests in their ceremonies?
... that the director of Pareh engaged in a car chase with the film's star before casting him?
... that Sheffield's Supertram system runs on a route initially selected for the Minitram automated guideway transit system?
... that Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz were selected for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics after Piggy French was forced to withdraw?
... that the Drang-Drung Glacier in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is the source of the Stod River and is likely the largest glacier in Ladakh outside of the Karakoram Range?
... that 2012 Australian equestrian eventing competitor Chris Burton moved to England to increase his chances of making the Olympic Games?
... that Frank Chee Willeto, a Navajo code talker with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, became the Vice President of the Navajo Nation in 1998?
... that Beaminster Tunnel, one of the earliest road tunnels built in the United Kingdom, partially collapsed in July 2012, killing two people?
... that 1976 Yugoslav Olympic rifle shooter Miro Sipek is the Australian 2012 Summer Paralympic rifle coach and has coached Australian Olympic rifle teams?
... that the independent bookstore Politics and Prose has had Barack Obama, J. K. Rowling, and Bill Clinton as readers at its author events?
... that General MacArthur's escape from the Philippines was in a PT boat captained by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley ?
... that 2012 Australian Olympic synchronized diver Anabelle Smith became Sharleen Stratton's partner following the retirement of Briony Cole?
... that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named "Turn on the News" by Hüsker Dü one of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll?
... that swimmer Joseph Roebuck missed out on qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics by a quarter of a second, but is set to compete in three events for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that the 2012 SCO summit brought Afghanistan and Turkey into the supranational union as observer and dialogue partner respectively?
... that painter Mathias Stoltenberg, who died in poverty in 1871, was rediscovered following the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania?
... that Jodie Schulz made her Hockeyroos debut in 2011, captained two games that year and is set to represent Australia in field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that while bultfonteinite was discovered as early as 1903, the mineral wasn't described until 1932?
... that 2012 Olympic beach volleyball player Becchara Palmer of Australia won 20 of 31 matches going into the Olympics?
... that, in the Battle of San Juan Bautista during the French intervention in Mexico, more Imperialist soldiers were wounded by machete cuts than gunshots?
... that in 2008 Chloe Magee became the first Irish badminton player to win a match in the history of the Olympic Games?
... that if crushed, the fruits of the wild carrot Bill's neoparrya smell like fresh peaches when cured?
... that Brittany Broben will be sixteen when she competes for Australia in diving at the 2012 Olympic Games?
... that American football placekicker Lou Groza laid down a piece of tape to line up field goals before doing so was outlawed by the Lou Groza Rule in 1950?
... that Dan Oates served in the NYPD and in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before serving as police chief during the 2012 Aurora shooting?
... that 2012 Olympian Claire Donahue set five school records in swimming during college?
... that in 1207 the Palestinian village Nisf Jubeil was a possession of the Knights Hospitaller called "Casale Seingebis"?
... that Hilde Rössel-Majdan, for decades a contralto with the Vienna State Opera, recorded with Hermann Scherchen music by Bach including his solo cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54?
... that Britain's 2012 Olympics women's beach volleyball team of Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin formerly had QR codes on the back of their bikini bottoms?
... that the Europa Point Lighthouse at Gibraltar is the only lighthouse operated by Trinity House outside the United Kingdom?
... that 2012 Olympic shooter Georgina Geikie is nicknamed "Britain's Lara Croft"?
... that the Body of Proof episode "Letting Go" was about the fictional murder of an interracial couple in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia?
... that Olympic road cyclist Shara Gillow of Australia is following in the path of her father, who represented Zimbabwe in cycling at the 1980 Summer Olympics?
... that May Justus' 1963 book New Boy in School, a departure from her usual thematic focus on rural Appalachia, was "probably the first" book on racial desegregation for young readers?
... that it was at Tasitolu that East Timor declared its independence in 2002?
... that 2012 Olympic weightlifter Yuderqui Contreras became Pan American Champion and a Dominican Army officer in the same year?
... that Alaskan Inupiat bush pilot Ellen Paneok said an airstrip had to be cleared of polar bears before her airplane could land?
... that 2012 Australian table tennis Olympian Vivian Tan quit the sport in 1997, moved from China to Australia in 2003 and took up the sport again in 2007, the year she became an Australian citizen?
... that chemical analysis by Larry Robinson, Florida A&M University's new interim president, helped determine that U.S. President Zachary Taylor did not die of arsenic poisoning?
... that Domaine Ponsot produces the only 1er Cru Burgundy wine made entirely from the Aligoté grape?
... that rower Amy Clay was born and schooled in the United States but is set to compete in the quadruple sculls for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
... that Abdelaziz Thâalbi was one of the founding members of Destour, a Tunisian nationalist political party?
... that 2012 Olympic road cyclist Amanda Spratt spends eight months a year training in Italy?
... that Paul Hindemith composed the Overture of 'The Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a bad spa orchestra at the well at 7 in the morning?
... that Puritan Reverend John Wilson implored Mary Dyer to repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as a Quaker martyr?
... that the Olympic Stadium in Manchester's bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics was later redesigned and used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games?
... that in its first six weeks of operation, No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF assembled 123 P-39 Airacobra fighters and a dozen B-26 Marauder medium bombers?
... that John R. Tunis, who has been called the "inventor of the modern sports story", took part in the first trans-Atlantic sportscast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.?
... that as of 2011, Catequilla is said to be "the only important pre-Inca site in Ecuador to have been commercially exploited"?
... that American archer Miranda Leek, who is competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics, first learned to shoot at age five?
... that the Great Polish Map of Scotland was the brainchild of a Polish war veteran and is claimed to be the largest terrain relief model in the world?
... that Australia's 2012 Summer Olympic archer Elisa Barnard is double majoring in psychology and law?
... that Ellen Pompeo was eight and a half months pregnant while filming "Give Peace a Chance"?
... that Malian archaeologist Téréba Togola's excavation of Djenné-Jeno was documented by National Geographic?
... that the Netherlands Indies Civil Administration operated as a link between the Dutch East Indies Government in exile and the Allied high command in the Southwest Pacific Area?
... that ballet dancer Michaela DePrince became an orphan as an infant when her father was shot and her mother starved to death?
... that between 1591 and 1611, Garhwal repelled seven incursions by Kumaon, eventually defeating King Laxmi Chand of Kumaon and taking his capital?
... that French pilot Adrienne Bolland was the first woman to fly across the Andes, doing so after only 40 hours of flight experience?
... that Christina's rootshank was named by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries after his wife?
... that the government was unaware that stonemason John Barr had been in the country for only five years when they appointed him to the New Zealand Legislative Council?