derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that both sons of the Byzantine general Nikephoros Phokas the Elder followed him in the post of Domestic of the Schools, in effect commander-in-chief of the Byzantine army?
... that Body of Proof episode and season one finale "Broken Home" was nominated at the 21st Annual Environmental Media Awards?
... that Allison Weston was named by Sports Illustrated the best ever female athlete born in Nebraska?
... that Australian artist Sidney Nolan's 1946 painting Footballer is based on Bill Mohr of the St Kilda Football Club?
... that chef Cyrus Todiwala cooked country captain for Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh as part of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee celebrations?
... that the oblong rocksnail , which is endemic to the Cahaba River, was last collected in 1933, declared extinct in 2000, and rediscovered in 2011?
... that Navab Nassirshalal won a silver medal in weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics despite competing with an aching knee?
... that on Good Friday, 6 April 1612, Malkin Tower was alleged to be the location of a witches' coven?
... that places of worship in the Kent borough of Tonbridge and Malling include converted barns and badminton halls, tin tabernacles and a former Swedenborgian church?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic athletics competitor Todd Hodgetts works with a gymnastics coach to help with his balance and conditioning?
... that former Blue's Clues host Steve Burns released the indie rock album Songs for Dustmites with help from The Flaming Lips?
... that the pilot of the MT explosive motorboat was intended to deliberately jump overboard as part of his job?
... that when a square is cut into triangles of equal area , the number of triangles is always even?
... that 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen won two gold medals and broke two records at the 2012 Olympics?
... that Teofila Ludwika Zasławska and her second husband owned Baranów Sandomierski Castle and three other palaces designed by royal architect Tylman van Gameren?
... that "If We Are the Body", Christian rock band Casting Crowns' debut single, utilizes the violin, mandolin, and accordion in its arrangement?
... that 84-year-old Menachem Cohen has finished a 30-year quest to correct approximately 1,500 mistakes in the Old Testament?
... that volleyball player Jordan Larson was a two-time AVCA First Team All-American during her college career?
... that the pro-Catholic trade union C.A.T.C-A.E.F held the Brazzaville P.O. Box 666?
... that Adam Steltzner , the lead engineer of the Mars Curiosity rover landing, said he spent high school "studying sex, drugs and rock and roll"?
... that chief Iipumpu Ya Tshilongo is a National Hero of Namibia partly because of his uncooperative behaviour and his refusal to pay taxes?
... that two of the Russian Peresvet-class battleships were salvaged by the Japanese after the end of the Russo-Japanese War and incorporated into the Imperial Japanese Navy?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Kara Leo is an ambassador for an organisation that helps children cope with near-drowning experiences?
... that the Forum of the Ox in Constantinople got its name from a bronze statue of an Ox head used to kill people through the brazen Bull torture?
... that Roekiah and Rd Mochtar were the first celebrity couple in the Dutch East Indies, despite Roekiah being married?
... that a spectator who threw a bottle at the men's 100 metres race in the 2012 Olympics was immediately confronted by judo bronze medalist Edith Bosch, who happened to be next to him?
... that Jeff Lewis' favourite episode of the first season of his Interior Therapy reality TV show was the one where the couple broke up at the end?
... that the 1991 Birmingham Fire season ended with a loss to the Barcelona Dragons in the World League of American Football playoffs to finish their inaugural year?
... that Buddy Richard en el Astor by Buddy Richard was the first live album ever recorded and released by a Chilean artist?
... that the Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya reportedly ordered the execution of 300 palace servants after finding a napkin mislaid at dinner?
... that spraying the bright yellow mushroom Boletus curtisii with methanol will make the color disappear?
... that Michel Roux, who went on to open the first restaurant to win three Michelin stars in Britain, was awarded a medal whilst enlisted in the French forces in Algeria?
... that the Argentine investigative journalism TV program Periodismo para todos is censored in several Argentine provinces?
... that volleyball player Tamari Miyashiro was twice named the National Defensive Player of the Year while in college?
... that in 1971 Mauricio Luvualu, leader of the exiled Angolan trade union UGTA, was handed over to the Portuguese by the government of Congo-Kinshasa?
... that footballers Scott and Martin Sinclair are the first brothers to represent Great Britain at the Olympics and Paralympics in the same year?
... that Twin Peaks, a restaurant chain promising "scenic views" of scantily clad waitresses, was sued by Hooters for stealing trade secrets?
... that the Doda River in the Zanskar Valley of Ladakh rises from the Drang-Drung Glacier and forms the Stod valley?
... that artist and academician Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, who taught and inspired Poland's national painter Jan Matejko, gave private art classes for free to struggling artists?
... that Bach composed two cantatas with similar music at the same time: Ihr Tore zu Zion, BWV 193, to celebrate the new town council on 25 August 1727, and the secular BWV 193a for 3 August that year?
... that Matty Blair scored the winning goal for York City in the 2012 Conference National play-off Final, which saw the club return to the Football League after an eight-year absence?
... that despite his strong interest in education, Matthew Oram was not appointed Minister of Education, but became Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives instead?
... that a Cardinal, three Browns, a Dupree, and a King have all played for the Minnesota Timberwolves?
... that during his life, Saint Nicetas the Patrician specialized in "healing men tormented by sexual desires"?
... that when Nadia Santini's restaurant Dal Pescatore was awarded three Michelin stars in 1996, she was the first female chef in Italy so honored?
... that the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla was inspired by the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant?
... that 2012 Australia Paralympic sailor Matthew Bugg had to deal with his father's boat colliding with his during a race?
... that Jeff Civillico simultaneously jogged 26.2 miles (42.2 km) and juggled three balls at the Walt Disney World Marathon to raise $5000 for a special needs non-profit organization?
... that the Tsarap River, a tributary of the Zanskar River in Ladakh, is fed by the Lingti, Yunan and Sarchu rivers at Sarchu and by the Kargyag river at Purne?
... that the work of Jimmy Robinson was mistaken for that of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page?
... that German painter Friedrich Eckenfelder received an order from the Nazi headquarters to paint a portrait of Hitler?
... that Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes will play Leona Lewis' love interest in the upcoming music video for her new single "Trouble"?
... that the British regime converted a fort, constructed by the Dutch in 1602, into Rajahmundry Central Prison in 1864?
... that Grade 1B 2012 Australia Paralympic equestrian Joann Formosa competes without the use of stirrups?
... that the Civil Guard of the Philippines was a local gendarmerie police force organized under the Spanish colonial government?
... that Doctor Quicksilver took a break from his lucrative medical career to sail the seas, capture ships, and raid South America?
... that the decoration on some of the Norman piers in St Mary's Church, Kirkby Lonsdale, is similar to that on the piers in Durham Cathedral?
... that Ottla Kafka, the youngest and dearest sister of Franz Kafka, died in the Holocaust because she divorced her Catholic husband?
... that Mike Hoolboom's Letters from Home was based on a speech by LGBT activist Vito Russo?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Taylor Corry made her national team debut at the 2011 Global Games where she earned eight gold medals?
... that the deluxe version of Coheed and Cambria's album, The Afterman: Ascension, will give a song-by-song experience using a hardcover coffee-table book?
... that Finnish priest Kalervo Kurkiala, a chaplain in the Waffen-SS, believed that military service was good for "country boys" and for "numerous bookworms and spoilt sloppy idlers"?
... that Sir Richard Hadlee took fourteen of his five-wicket hauls against Australia in Test cricket, and was the first bowler to reach 400 Test wickets?
... that Michel Roux was "over the moon" and "disturbed" in equal measure to hear that his son Alain Roux wanted to become a chef at the age of 14?
... that Danish painter L. A. Ring won the bronze medal at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris for his painting In the Garden Doorway, The Artist's Wife ?
... that in 1356, the Golden Bull stated that mining rights or Bergregal were held not by the Holy Roman Emperor but by the seven prince-electors as his territorial lords?
... that volleyball player Lori Endicott was named the best setter of the 1992 Summer Olympics?
... that the worst aviation accident to have occurred on Cuban soil resulted in 171 deaths when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff?
... that the Belarusian Alexander Barankov was given political asylum in Ecuador in 2010 but risks extradition back to Belarus?
... that the Deccan Chargers cricketers, who finished last in the first season of Indian Premier League, became the champions of the second season?
... that in 2007, French chef Anne-Sophie Pic became only the fourth woman to win three Michelin stars?
... that the Neustädter Kirche was built in Hanover's Calenberger Neustadt in the 17th century as one of the earliest aisleless churches in Lower Saxony?
... that the Armenian Heritage Park is a memorial park in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide?
... that the 2007 Spanish Historical Memory Law mandated the removal of the symbols of Francoism from public buildings?
... that Job Edward Lousley took over thirty years to write and publish the Flora of the Isles of Scilly?
... that Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories conducted more than one-third of all toxicology testing in the United States before it was discovered to have engaged in extensive scientific misconduct?
... that Fifi Young, known for playing mother figures, acted in 86 films in 34 years?
... that the mare Apology's win in the St. Leger Stakes led to a scandal in the Church of England?
... that George Kontos was named Illinois' high school baseball player of the year in 2003?
... that, although street food did not become popular in Thailand until the early 1960s when the urban population began to grow rapidly, by the 1970s it had "displaced home-cooking"?
... that Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is named for J. P. Shelton, who lobbied for the building of trade schools in the area?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic goalball player Michelle Rzepecki introduced children with visual impairments in Bolivia to goalball?
... that the land now comprising the Knox Street Historic District in Albany, New York, was originally a nursery for the first successful American strawberry cultivar?
... that the number of murders in Jamaica dropped 20% during Mark Shields' first year as Deputy Police Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force?
... that the 2011 Micronesian parliamentary elections were the first to feature female candidates?
... that according to Bleacher Report, Antonija Mišura was the most beautiful female competitor at the 2012 Olympics?
... that the Roberts House in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, built in the 1790s, is the last remaining building from Jefferson College?
... that Arab-Israeli Ahmed Dabbah will become Israel's record-breaking 17th non-Jew in the current Knesset (Israeli parliament)?
... that "A Million Miles Away", performed by Rihanna, impacted the Spanish Singles Chart in November 2009, three and a half years after the initial release of A Girl like Me?
... that the Indonesian film Whips of Fire featuring a strong, independent female character was held up for a year by the censors?
... that pioneer dentist Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch held mobile dental clinics for Inuit children and once crawled across thin ice to save her sled dogs from drowning?
... that out of the 56 cricketers who have played for Kings XI Punjab, Shaun Marsh has scored the most runs?
... that pioneer American aviator Charles K. Hamilton, the "crazy man of the air", survived over 60 crashes, only to succumb to the effects of tuberculosis?
... that the Wallowa County Courthouse in northeastern Oregon is a massive Romanesque style building with Queen Anne architectural elements in some exterior features?
... that after MGM's rights to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Night Flight expired in 1942, the film was not shown again until 2011?
... that Édgar Morales Pérez, the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, was assassinated before taking office?
... that the Shah of Iran used public sympathy resulting from a failed assassination attempt to call for a Constituent Assembly in 1949 to increase his royal power?
... that the video game Symphony generates Galaga-style gameplay based on the player's choice of music?
... that All Saints Church, Hollingbourne, England, contains memorials by John Michael Rysbrack and the Culpeper needlework, a 17th-century embroidered funeral pall?
... that Laborintus II, a collaboration between Mike Patton and Ictus Ensemble, is only the third recording of the titular piece since its composition in 1965?
... that in 1578 Reverend Francis Marbury, the father of Anne Hutchinson, was called by the Bishop of London an "ass, an idiot, and a fool", then sent to Marshalsea Prison for two years for his impudence?
... that the depiction of "monsters" in J. M. W. Turner's painting Sunrise with Sea Monsters may have been influenced by his use of a drug related to morphine?
... that Molde FK did not want to send Martin Høyem on loan to Hønefoss BK, because the two clubs were scheduled to meet in the semi-final of the 2005 Norwegian Football Cup?
... that Freedom House recently downgraded Djibouti's human rights status from "partly free" to "not free"?
... that Roman Chatov painted the silk scarf that caused American dancer Isadora Duncan's accidental death?
... that the University of Minnesota Libraries holds the world's largest collection on Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
... that Abdulredha Buhmaid died three days after being shot in the head during a peaceful protest in Bahrain?
... that the upcoming Doctor Who episode "The Power of Three" was partially inspired by the story of the MSC Napoli?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic swimmer Katherine Downie takes her yellow duck pillow to competitions for luck?
... that Ginn's Furniture Store is a rare survivor of repeated Ohio River floods that destroyed most of downtown Milton, Kentucky?
... that Betty Jane Watson created the role of Laurey in the first London production of Oklahoma!?
... that the Bristol Naturalists' Society of Bristol, England, celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012?
... that for the film Samaantharangal (1998), Balachandra Menon worked on nine aspects of the film-making and also won the National Film Award for Best Actor at the 45th National Film Awards?
... that Operation Head Start, the predecessor to Operation Chrome Dome, was based at Loring Air Force Base?
... that the tunnel beneath Parson's Lodge Battery originally carried a railway built to take stone to improve the Gibraltar Harbour?
... that Russian military stations Krona and Krona-N are named after the crown of a tree?
... that on August 15, 2012, Félix Hernández threw the 23rd perfect game in Major League Baseball history?
... that painter Leopold Pilichowski was known for his commitment to social commentary and psychological depictions of Jewish themes in a heavily industrialized environment?
... that fossils of the extinct snakefly family Mesoraphidiidae are known mainly from the Northern Hemisphere?
... that British hand-cyclist and defending Paralympic champion Rachel Morris may miss the 2012 Games after being hit by a car while training?
... that the Boston Caucus, of which American patriot Samuel Adams was a leader, was an early example of the "smoke-filled room" in politics?
... that Bryant and May matches were responsible for a thinning of Bottom Wood during the Second World War?
... that Ruth Norman wore brightly colored clothing in an attempt to imitate the attire of extraterrestrials?
... that Danish designer Henrik Vibskov , creator of the "Big Wet Shiny Boobies Collection", was inducted into the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Masculine?
... that in 1634, Boston innkeeper Samuel Cole established the first tavern in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was featured in Longfellow's play John Endicott?
... that the 1994 National Convention of New Sudan outlined a civil political administration for the areas held by SPLA guerrillas?
... that although her character had been dead from the beginning of the series, Sheryl Lee was asked to return for "Episode 3" of Twin Peaks?
... that Elena Arzak was named the best female chef in the world in 2012 by Restaurant magazine?
... that philosopher Gottfried Leibniz referred to Gervase of Tilbury's 1214 encyclopedia Otia Imperialia as a "bagful of foolish old woman's tales"?
... that Professor Pepper could make ghosts appear but could not make it rain despite the use of swivel guns, rockets, and a land mine?
... that the Church of Saint Benoit in Istanbul is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the city still in use?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player Leanne Del Toso played able-bodied basketball prior to being diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy?
... that Jeffrey Tambor was nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor for portraying George Bluth, Sr. on the comedy Arrested Development?
... that in June 2012, the Ocean Village Marina hosted the Gibraltar Diamond Jubilee Flotilla?
... that a design for a courtyard by Philip Tilden was compared to a "Spanish brothel"?
... that the destruction of the oldest house in the Delavan Terrace Historic District led to new attempts to promote historic preservation in Yonkers, New York?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympian Kelly Cartwright climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2009?
... that Marblehead Harbor, the birthplace of the predecessor of the U.S. Navy, was also the birthplace of Marine Corps Aviation one hundred years ago today?
... that Mark Kharitonov was awarded the first Russian Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel Lines of Fate?
... that a television station's sting operation led to the banning of five Indian Premier League cricketers?
... that the German Central Library for the Blind, founded in Leipzig in 1894, is the oldest library of its kind in Germany?
... that Hideo Fukuyama was the first Japanese driver to qualify for a NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship race?
... that Halcyon, the upcoming album by Ellie Goulding, was recorded in a barn?
... that Königsberg printer Hans Weinreich issued the first printed books in Lithuanian and Old Prussian , as well as the first Polish translation of Luther's Small Catechism?
... that the Olympic Flame once burned at 2,000 degrees Celsius to ensure that it stayed alight under water?
... that an episode of the 2012 nature documentary series A Year in the Wild featured Britain's largest national park, the Cairngorms?
... that the Spanish expedition to Formosa was a campaign mounted in 1626 by the Spanish based in Manila, Philippines?
... that 2012 Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player Ben Weekes has played piano at the Sydney Opera House?
... that American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey wrote her new single "Triumphant (Get 'Em)" while her husband Nick Cannon was in the hospital for kidney failure?
... that, when it opens in 2013, Outlaw Run at the Silver Dollar City amusement park is to be the only wooden roller coaster with inversions?
... that the subantarctic whaling station of Grytviken welcomed the South Georgia Survey by housing expedition members in the local jail?
... that the newly described lacewing species Semachrysa jade was discovered in a photo (at right) posted to Flickr?
... that 2012 Paralympic swimmer Aaron Rhind trains with Australian Olympic swimming medalist Adam Pine?
... that the manuscript collection known as the Cetinje chronicle begins with text about Skanderbeg?
... that Mariah Carey's song "Mine Again" was nominated at the 2006 Grammy Award ceremony for Best Traditional R&B Performance?
... that the bones of infants with parastremmatic dwarfism look "flocky" on X-rays?
... that John Harrison Clark, a reputed outlaw from the South African Cape, settled alone in modern-day Zambia in 1887 and in the early 1890s became the local people's chief?
... that Mirgissa was the largest of eleven forts built between the second and third cataracts during the reign of Senusret III?
... that Queensway Quay Marina in Gibraltar features a wharf developed in 1736 to allow "better victualling of men-at-war"?
... that an undersea volcanic eruption which produced a pumice raft covering approximately 10,000 square miles (26,000 km2), was not discovered until several weeks had passed?
... that water polo player Elsie Windes won two Olympic medals with the United States team?
... that "Episode 1" of Twin Peaks has drawn comparison to the 1990 film The Grifters?
... that François Dominique Séraphin developed and popularised shadow plays in 18th-century France?
... that Metra Chairman of the Board Larry Huggins once withdrew himself from consideration for his current role because he felt it was a Republican position?
... that of the 54 cricketers who have appeared in Twenty20 cricket for the Delhi Daredevils, Virender Sehwag has played the most matches?
... that the documentary The Rubber Room claimed that troubled teachers were being held in reassignment centers by the NYC Department of Education?
... that P. C. Sreeram is an alumnus of the Madras Film Institute?
... that 1960s decor employed a "psychedelic intensity" with colors and styles which were influenced by India, Spain, and the Mediterranean?
... that Chinese Olympic gold medalist and flagbearer Xu Lijia nearly died at age 12 and missed the Athens Olympics because of a tumor?
... that Danny Gatton's 1991 album 88 Elmira St. featured a version of "The Simpsons Theme", with the added sound effect of a fart?
... that Pisanello's medal of the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus was the first Renaissance portrait medal?
... that in 1904, Joseph R. Burton (R-KS) became the first United States Senator to be convicted of a crime?
... that around 20 buildings and more than 40 monuments will be built in Skopje, Macedonia, as part of the Skopje 2014 project?
... that United States water polo player Tumua Anae won the NCAA championship in 2010 and Olympic gold in 2012?
... that T.B. was a three-wheeled cyclecar manufactured by the aircraft department of Thompson Brothers from 1919 until 1924?
... that former Columbus, Georgia mayor B. Ed Johnson helped found the Miss Georgia USA beauty pageant?
... that Venetian architect Girolamo Sartorio, the brother of composer Antonio Sartorio, designed the first German public opera house, the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg?
... that during the American Revolutionary War, HMS Kingfisher served in the Burning of Norfolk and the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, and was ultimately burnt by her own crew to avoid capture?
... that Mutsuko Miki created teacups from the soil of Japan, North Korea, and South Korea to promote "harmonious relations" between the three nations?
... that before 1978, Idaho state senator Reed Budge had not missed a senate sitting in 12 years?
... that the mineral rapidcreekite was discovered in Yukon, Canada, in 1983?
... that Croatian sports shooter Giovanni Cernogoraz, gold medalist in men's trap at the 2012 Olympics, works full time as a waiter at his father's restaurant in Novigrad?