derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that Liz Halliday said that her ambitions were to be the first woman to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and to make the United States Equestrian Team?
... that a majority of German-Swedish forces in the Battle of Czarne mutinied, capitulated and then joined the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Army?
... that Max Kepler-Rozycki received the largest signing bonus given to a European player by a Major League Baseball team?
... that Genevieve LaCaze made it onto the 2012 Olympic squad only after the Australian Olympic Committee intervened in the Athletics Australia selection process?
... that since 1979, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Peshawar is the only direct market for gemstones from Pakistan and Afghanistan?
... that Mulugeta Buli created a private security cabinet for Emperor Haile Selassie?
... that in 1905 Cherry Lass won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes and the Epsom Oaks, but finished third in the St. Leger Stakes and missed the Fillies Triple Crown in British horse-racing?
... that CNN International has been accused of suppressing the documentary iRevolution: Online Warriors of the Arab Spring to appease the Bahraini government?
... that Gilla Gerzon, the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing?
... that the ASA ruled that the New Labour, New Danger adverts portrayed Tony Blair as "dishonest and sinister"?
... that Purshottam Solanki, the Fisheries Minister of Gujarat, allegedly caused a loss of ₹400 crore (US$72.4 million) to the state government when granting contracts for fishing in reservoirs?
... that the 52-Hertz whale is known only by its unique sound (listen, speeded up ten times to 520 hertz), the only one of its kind ever recorded, and has been called the loneliest whale in the world?
... that while pancreatic injury is less common than other abdominal injuries, its diagnosis can be very difficult due to the location of the pancreas in the body?
... that during his address to the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Governor Trittle expressed concern about the cowboys in the southwestern parts of the territory?
... that tennis player and Australian Open winner Algernon Kingscote was the son of novelist Lucas Cleeve?
... that the propaganda film Berdjoang was the Japanese overlords' only feature-length film in the Dutch East Indies?
... that Terry Francois was the first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?
... that during the Philippine–American War, the Capture of Malolos cost only eight American lives?
... that Wikimedia UK was initially denied charitable status by the British government on the basis that providing free access to information on its own was not a charitable purpose?
... that an asteroid that Swiss physics teacher Michel Ory thought he had discovered in 2008 turned out to be a periodic comet, and the discovery earned him an Edgar Wilson Award?
... that the East German police comedy Hands Up or I'll Shoot, produced in 1965, was banned by censors and only released in 2009?
... that Julius Achon was the first Ugandan athlete to win a gold medal at the World Junior Championships?
... that the European Commission-funded news portal Presseurop translates and publishes news articles from over two hundred sources into ten European languages?
... that one-term state legislator John Gurley Flook wrote the bill in 1868 to establish a land-grant agricultural college, which grew and became today's Oregon State University?
... that according to local Muslim tradition, the prophet Muhammad leaned against a stone in the southern Syrian town of Mahajjah?
... that Mary Buckland, a scientific illustrator, took a year-long geological tour as a honeymoon with her husband William Buckland?
... that the base of Bach's cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, for the feast of Michael on 29 September 1724 is a hymn by Paul Eber sung to a famous tune?
... that Sergei Bondarchuk, the director of the Academy Award-winning Soviet film War and Peace, first offered the role of Pierre Bezukhov to Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov?
... that in 1995, the Egyptian left-wing leader Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed was nominated to the Upper House of Parliament by Hosni Mubarak?
... that 35 days after the December 1988 Spitak earthquake, six people were rescued alive from a collapsed building?
... that the racemare Busybody improved the race record by three seconds when she won the 1,000 Guineas Stakes in 1884?
... that the BBC documentary, The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea, explores the legend claiming that the pharaoh Hatshepsut built ships that were capable of sailing to the Land of Punt?
... that the most popular species for Christmas trees in Denmark and most of Europe is the Nordmann fir?
... that according to Buddhist cosmology, in the beginning of the world, Maha Sammata was elected by the people of Jambudvipa, the only habitable continent on earth, to be their first monarch?
... that in the 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash, an aircraft exploded in a fireball but when rescuers arrived they found one of the passengers walking around the wreckage?
... that Nico Ladenis was the first self-taught chef to win three Michelin stars?
... that the East Asian banded red snake can harbour tapeworms and eating its raw meat may lead to parasitic infections?
... that a petroleum geologist named William Warren Orcutt began collecting fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits in 1901, bringing the site to the attention of the scientific community?
... that Dardanella featured a Chinese man dubbed the "Douglas Fairbanks of Java"?
... that Jim Bottomley set the Major League Baseball single-game record for runs batted in during the 1924 season, a record that still stands?
... that the collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas of Madrid has some 40,000 items, from Ming and Qing dynasty porcelains to Granadian silk, Moroccan embroidery, and Turkish inkpots?
... that tourism in the Republic of Ireland accounts for around 4% of the Irish GNP?
... that footballer Ergys Kace was born in Albania, but moved to Greece at the age of three?
... that the Gibraltar Dam was built on the Santa Ynez River to impound 14,500 acre-feet (17,900 dam3) of water, but about half of the reservoir's capacity has been lost due to siltation?
... that St Laurence's Church, Morland , has the only Anglo-Saxon tower in Cumbria?
... that the 360 kilometres (220 mi) North-South Carrier is the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Botswana?
... that the Polish-Latin dictionary written by the Polish Arian Jan Mączyński in 1564 included translations of jargon, and was a subject of a satirical poem by Jan Kochanowski?
... that in 2013, the Czech Republic plans to directly elect its president for the first time in its history?
... that the inaugural King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1951, with the then-largest prize ever in British horse racing, was won by Supreme Court?
... that U.S. President Harry Truman won an upset victory in 1948 after trailing in the polls by a significant margin throughout nearly all of 1948?
... that although he appeared in eight films with his wife, Kartolo was never cast as her lover?
... that the US-31–Island Lake Outlet Bridge in Charlevoix, Michigan, is the fifth bridge to cross the channel at that location?
... that while serving as the Akwamu Chief, Agyen Kokobo ruled the state with his mother as the queen mother?
... that the 18th-century Burmese chronicle Maha Yazawin of Toungoo Dynasty has formed the basis for all subsequent histories of the country?
... that "Kill the DJ" by Green Day was released on 14 August 2012, but it was also played at a secret show by the band eight days earlier?
... that Magnus Sylling Olsen's first goal in Tippeligaen was named the best goal of the round?
... that in response to "Heil Hitler", Karl Schneider said he regretfully could not cure Adolf Hitler, as he was an ophthalmologist, not a neurologist?
... that Pieter Nieuwland , an 18th-century child prodigy and polymath who died a year after becoming a professor, has been called the Dutch Isaac Newton?
... that officialese can be traced to the exercise of authority going back as far as the oldest human civilizations?
... that former Syrian chief-of-staff, Anwar Bannud, was the only Syrian officer to reach a rank of colonel under the French mandate?
... that no other racehorse has started with longer odds and won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes than Montaval in 1957?
... that although John Tarchaneiotes was the nephew of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, he became one of the leaders of the Arsenites, who denounced Michael's legitimacy?
... that serving shrubs has recently become a trend in bars across the United States, Canada, and London?
... that in 2007 Özlem Cekic became the first woman of Muslim immigrant background in the Danish Parliament?
... that near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim now fosters dialogue and reconciliation between Germans and Poles, Christians and Jews?
... that the entire Arostropsis weevil genus is known from only one specimen, which is 45 million years old?
... that Josh Falkingham scored a goal during his first match in the Scottish Football League First Division?
... that according to Hazel Robinson of California Literary Review, the title of Chris Brown's song "Bassline" is a metaphor for "penis"?
... that in 1955, Vimy became the first foreign horse to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and captured the largest prize in British horse-racing that year?
... that Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels gave a violin to Nejiko Suwa that might have been a stolen Stradivarius?
... that Tsankov Kamak dam is the first double-curvature arch dam in cupola shape in Bulgaria?
... that Harry Steinfeldt performed in a minstrel show before becoming a professional baseball player?
... that the Tasmanian mushroom Entoloma mathinnae is named after a 19th-century indigenous Australian girl?
... that Veer Hamirji - Somnath ni Sakhate is the first ever Gujarati film to be shortlisted for an Oscar nomination?
... that Cancrocaeca xenomorpha, the world's most highly cave-adapted crab, lives only in the Maros karst of Sulawesi?
... that the Bristol Pound, launched on September 19, 2012, is the largest alternative currency in the UK to the official pound sterling?
... that every time William F. Fitzgerald was appointed to the bench it was to replace another judge who had died?
... that Heston Blumenthal's restaurant The Fat Duck in Bray, England, serves dishes such as egg and bacon ice cream, and snail porridge ?
... that in 1971, Alex Johnson said he would prefer "playing in hell" than remaining with the California Angels?
... that Hyderabad auditorium Ravindra Bharathi was inaugurated by former President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in 1961?
... that Henry Herx, a film critic for Catholics, was upset that Siskel and Ebert walked out on a film, as "his job was to sit there and watch it and give an honest review" no matter how bad?
... that the Altes Stadthaus in Bonn was built for French occupation forces after World War I?
... that the official video for One Direction's "Live While We're Young" was premiered four days early following a leak of it online?
... that in the early 1900s the Illecillewaet Glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was described as the "most visited glacier in the Americas"?
... that Caine's Arcade, a short documentary on nine-year-old Caine's cardboard arcade, has raised over $200,000 towards his college fund and the creation of a non-profit organization?
... that when the Texas landmark Steves Homestead was restored by the San Antonio Conservation Society in the 1950s, Yale University donated an 1857 Chickering grand piano?
... that former Syrian prime minister Nasuhi al-Bukhari resigned after only three months in office when talks to ratify the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence broke down?
... that Brooks Kieschnick is the first Major League Baseball player to hit a home run as a pitcher, designated hitter and pinch hitter in the same season?
... that the Chashme Shahi, a Mughal garden in Srinagar, was built by Ali Mardan who was a governor of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan?
... that the school of surgery founded by Charles Illingworth, Glasgow's Regius Professor of Surgery from 1939, "came to dominate academic surgery in Britain for a generation or more"?
... that the Australian tree Agathis atropurpurea is known as the black kauri or the blue kauri because of the colour of its bark?
... that French tennis player Christian Boussus was part of the victorious French Davis Cup squad who held the title between 1929 and 1932, as "the Fifth Musketeer", although he never played a match?
... that the round symbol on the coat of arms of Toppenstedt represents the Tangendorf disk brooch, an Iron Age fibula discovered at a Bronze Age tumulus in the German municipality in 1930?
... that Ray Long was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine between 1919 and 1931, and left to become a book publisher?
... that despite early concerns that the race course would be too long for Black Jester, the colt won the 1914 St. Leger Stakes by five lengths and set a new record time?
... that Enamorada de Ti included previously recorded songs by American singer Selena, which were turned into duets with other artists?
... that explorer Matthew Brisbane survived three Antarctic shipwrecks but was murdered in the Falkland Islands in 1833?
... that fossilized seeds of the extinct tree Eucommia montana are found from British Columbia to Colorado?
... that Muhammad al-Khuli was removed as the Syrian Air Force Intelligence chief by Hafez al-Assad due to international pressure regarding Khuli's alleged involvement in the Hindawi affair?
... that The World's 100 Most Threatened Species includes one with only five surviving mature individuals?
... that Ernie Padgett turned an unassisted triple play in the second game of his major league career?
... that the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum is the only parish church in England to have a shrine containing the relics of a saint?
... that the rough-scaled sea snake is highly venomous and every scale on its body is adorned with a spine?
... that Sazhen-S uses lasers to discern the slant ranges of space craft?
... that Andreas Boltz is the cathedral music director at the Frankfurt Cathedral Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus?
... that the proverbial phrase "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" was first coined by Christian anarchist writer Elbert Hubbard in 1915?
... that when the mineral paramelaconite was first described, it was not recognized as a valid species?
... that a set of running blades like Oscar Pistorius wears costs $30,000?
... that the Hurtigruten steamer Nordnorge was sunk by Royal Navy warships, while employed by the Germans in a false flag operation?
... that actress Ashleigh Cummings sat her Year Eleven exams early, so she could take part in the Australian film Tomorrow, When the War Began?
... that the Camberwell Collegiate School in London was designed by the architect of the city's Fishmongers' Hall?
... that civic activist and former toymaker Carl Berner is the oldest living man in New York City?
... that before entering The Clink restaurant, diners must hand over any mobile phones or sharp objects?
... that when African-American former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years' back pay as proof of good faith?
... that journalist A.A. Hamidhan turned down a chance to be Kalimantan's first governor?
... that Loras College, Iowa's oldest post-secondary institution, was founded in 1839, seven years before Iowa became a U.S. state?
... that Amanda Carter was the oldest member of the Gliders at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and the only one who had participated in 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics?
... that the Syrian village of Hit contains a 4th-century Byzantine church dedicated to the martyrdom of Saint Sergius?
... that filmmaker and Eagle Scout David Lynch was declared medically unfit for conscription, was arrested for detonating a pipe bomb, and was present at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy?
... that although Kylie Gauci is a 2 point player, she was the only player on her team to score a three point basket at the 2012 Paralympics?
... that the Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir is one of the oldest functioning temples in Karachi?
... that Robert Draper's book Do Not Ask What Good We Do reveals that a meeting of Republicans in 2008 took place to "put the brakes" on Barack Obama's presidency?
... that Chamant's win over Brown Prince and Silvio in the 2,000 Guineas Stakes in 1877 was misreported as a victory by 2,000 men under "Chamat Croun" and "Prince Silvio" in the ongoing Russo-Turkish War?
... that of the 21 Grade I listed buildings in Coventry, 11 date back to the 14th century?
... that Major League Baseball shortstop Neal Ball beat his close friend Babe Ruth in a bowling challenge in 1923?
... that although the Fischerinsel in central Berlin was levelled in the 1960s to build tower blocks, a replica of the old inn Zum Nußbaum was constructed in the Nikolaiviertel in 1987?
... that in his new book Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg traces the origin of the insult "asshole" to the soldiers of World War II?
... that the first-century Blacas Cameo shows the Emperor Augustus clothed only in a goatskin aegis?
... that in a lost commentary on the Book of Genesis, Nerses IV the Gracious related the story of how some Armenian monks were allowed to see the Garden of Eden?
... that Autism Cymru worked with the Welsh Government to develop the first national autism online community?
... that Arizona Territorial Delegate Mark Smith was accused of receiving gold from the Wham Paymaster Robbery?
... that the author of Adab al-Tabib, called the "crowning achievement" in early Islamic medical ethics, may actually have been a Christian?
... that Hans Thamm, who founded the boys' choir Windsbacher Knabenchor in 1946 and conducted them for 31 years, recorded Bach's cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in 1961?
... that Siam's token participation in World War I paved the way for the country's full independence?
... that Kelly Heath received his only Major League Baseball at-bat because of a case of hemorrhoids?
... that a Roman inscription at the Syrian town of Darkush on the Orontes River attests to the existence of a shipbuilding industry for river-going boats in the town?
... that Kaapa Tjampitjinpa was the first Indigenous Australian artist to win a contemporary art award, and the first to have the export of his paintings refused under cultural heritage laws?
... that a year after capturing Ahlat, Arjish and Van in Anatolia, the Ayyubid prince al-Awhad Ayyub faced revolts in each of those cities?
... that the Indonesian album AkustiChrisye was inspired in part by Frank Sinatra's rearrangements of his hits?
... that the original Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Craiova, Romania, formed part of the unwalled city's defenses?
... that demand for beer from Pittsburgh's East End Brewing Company spiked after the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII?
... that Shelley Chaplin was an All-American even though she was not American at all?
... that satirist Păstorel Teodoreanu embarrassed his fellow Romanian Masons when he showed up drunk for his initiation ceremony?
... that al-Shaykh Saad in the Hauran region of Syria was mentioned by several Christian scholars and pilgrims, including Eusebius, Egeria and Jerome, as the town of St. Job?
... that the Thoroughbred Petrarch earned £11,700 in prize money from various races in 1876, the most in British horse-racing that year?
... that Roekihati bucked a trend of intellectualising films in the Dutch East Indies?
... that the account of life in the Yertsevo labor camp, described in the book A World Apart by Herling-Grudziński, preceded Solzhenitsyn's revelations about gulags by a decade?
... that Norway international footballer Jarl André Storbæk captained Strømsgodset in his first match for the club?
... that in the music video for "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)", American singer Ne-Yo "channels" Michael Jackson in his dance moves?
... that Meow, once the world's heaviest cat, gained international attention due to his weight loss plan?
... that the Tomb of Bibi Jawindi is considered the most ornate of the five monuments in Uch?
... that the town and refugee camp of Khan Dannun in Syria was originally a basalt caravanserai built by the Mamluk governor of Damascus in 1376?
... that John J. Mullen was elected Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts, while he was suspended from his position on the Board of Aldermen?
... that "Accrington Stanley, Who Are They?" was originally scripted to use Tottenham Hotspur instead of Accrington Stanley?
... that even though Panajotis Dimitriadis is a midfielder, his play as a centre back got him on TV2's list as one of the five best players in the 2012 Norwegian First Division?
... that the majority of Chicago-based Calumet Photographic's retail stores are in Europe?
... that the restaurant The Cube has "popped up" in Milan, Stockholm, Brussels, and London?
... that Johann Sebastian Bach composed the cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, as a young organist at Mühlhausen's Divi Blasii church?
... that the wattle Acacia riceana, native to Tasmania, was named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of its discovery?
... that The Goat Puzzle in the 1996 adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is considered by many to be one of the hardest video game puzzles of all time?
... that the daughter of Candice Cohen-Ahnine is a Jewish-Saudi princess whom French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to bring to France, but failed?
... that Jubho Lagoon in Pakistan is home to around six thousand vulnerable Dalmatian Pelicans ?
... that although Charles Warren is best known for political leadership in environmental matters, he also crafted legislation that created the first U.S. statewide 9-1-1 emergency telephone service?
... that a legend likens some of the earth pyramids near Stob in southwest Bulgaria to petrified wedding guests?
... that Enedina Arellano Félix, the leader of the Tijuana Cartel, is the first female Mexican drug lord?
... that Frederik Magle required the use of the thigh bone from a giraffe as an instrument in his symphonic suite Cantabile?
... that Confederate Colonel William Henry Harman was killed at the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia, the town where he was born?
... that Yair Shamir, who has recently entered politics in Israel, served as the director of Israel Aerospace Industries from 2005 to 2011 without pay?
... that the vegetarian philanthropist Arnold Hills planned to contest the Walthamstow by-election in 1897 as a temperance candidate?
... that Franz Lehrndorfer was the organist of the Munich Frauenkirche cathedral for over three decades?
... that the Syrian village of al-Mushannaf has a well-preserved temple, dated to the first century BC, that was dedicated to Zeus and Athena?
... that Harley Peyton, writer of "Episode 6" of Twin Peaks, found it difficult to write for Kyle MacLachlan's character Dale Cooper?
... that the Swedish feminist network Bara Bröst won the right for women to bare breasts at swimming pools in Malmö, but the city's ruling did not result in any significant difference?
... that it was known as early as the 16th century that water held in a cup made of lignum nephriticum from New Spain would become brightly blue?
... that the North-West University Botanical Garden is currently the only botanical garden in the North West Province of South Africa?
... that the Tolowa people of California will refrain from performing the Nee-dash dance for the rest of 2012 so as to honor the late Eunice Bommelyn?
... that Eduardo Castro Luque, the deputy-elect of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, was assassinated two days before he was to enter office?
... that the award-winning, romantic Japanese anime film, Hotarubi no Mori e, has been likened to the works of Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli?