derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that in the Glee episode "Wonder-ful", Katey Sagal appears as the mother of Kevin McHale's character Artie Abrams, months after McHale had suggested her for the role at a Comic-Con panel?
... that Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, who was able to play Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Clavier from memory as a teenager, studied composition with Bach's sons and the violin in Italy?
... that Cuthbert Christy was senior medical officer to the second battalion, West African Field Force in Northern Nigeria from 1898 to 1902?
... that "Buenos Amigos" was a career-launching song for American singer Selena, who recorded it as a duet with Alvaro Torres in 1991?
... that in 1941 the manager of Yeeda Station fatally shot himself by accident only to be replaced by a man who was arrested for cattle stealing?
... that Tony Harrison's film-poem The Gaze of the Gorgon is narrated by a statue of Heinrich Heine and depicts Kaiser Wilhelm II as an archaeologist excavating the Artemis Temple of Corfu?
... that Mahee Castle, in Northern Ireland, has a bawn, a boatbay, and a murder-hole?
... that after Robert Pakington was shot to death on the morning of 13 November 1536 while on his way to Mass, his murder was interpreted as a Protestant martyrdom?
... that from 1194 to 1196 William de Warenne was responsible for the Honour of Gloucester?
... that French admiral Latouche-Tréville, who had defeated Horatio Nelson at Boulogne, was chastised by his superior because he had brought a female companion to war?
... that nobleman Louis-André de Grimaldi introduced unpopular improvements, such as dismissing the high altar and selling the Medieval and Renaissance silver, during his term as bishop of Le Mans?
... that the origins of the dance move slutdrop can be traced back to music videos such as Dirrty by Christina Aguilera?
... that Lola Maverick Lloyd, the granddaughter of Samuel Maverick, co-founded the Campaign for World Government?
... that Tropical Storm Lucille in 1960 was the first tropical cyclone in the Western Pacific to have its name retired?
... that the restaurant Quo Vadis under chef Jeremy Lee was recently named Best Kitchen by Tatler magazine?
... that the career of record-breaking discus thrower Eric Krenz was cut short when he drowned in Lake Tahoe?
... that Horacio Cartes, president-elect of Paraguay, has been president of the Libertad football club since 2001?
... that Bach's first cantata for the feast of the Ascension, Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37, omits the topic of the Ascension and derives from the quoted Gospel (Mark 16:16) Lutheran thoughts?
... that the union of Hungary and Poland fell apart due to the regent Elizabeth of Bosnia's reluctance to give up her grip on power by moving from Buda to Kraków, where she had no supporters?
... that the bowl of a font in Braaby Church has relief decorations of the magi, an angel holding back a hunter, and Satan in the form of an ape?
... that during a long career in the Royal Navy, Admiral Stephen Lushington received honours from Britain, France, Greece and the Ottoman Empire?
... that the Corporation of Derby used to pay two pounds of wax, annually, to the monks of St. James Priory, for the right to cross St. James Bridge?
... that Lu Xun , a Chinese politician and general known for upholding Confucian ethics, once ordered an attack which led to the deaths and capture of over 1,000 civilians?
... that though the Sulu Bleeding-heart has not been definitively seen since 1891, there is still hope that it is not extinct?
... that The Searchers, listed in a recent survey as the seventh greatest film ever made, was edited by Jack Murray, along with fourteen other films directed by John Ford?
... that Sharon Kinne remains wanted for a crime for which she was tried three times in the 1960s?
... that the president of the UNGA, Vuk Jeremić, believes that the boycott of the thematic debate on the role of international criminal justice in reconciliation was not successful?
... that John Christian Reid, a future three-term Mayor of Newcastle, Australia, was appointed the French consular agent there despite his poor grasp of the language?
... that one of about 1,000 English poetry miscellanies of the 18th century included "the Lucubrations of the Polite Part of the World, written upon walls, in Bog-Houses"?
... that Italian interior designer Stefania Follini spent 130 days of isolation in a cave?
... that Bangladesh Games, the national multi-sport event of Bangladesh, was previously known as Bangladesh Olympic Championships?
... that Vilde Frang played the Carmen Fantasy by Pablo de Sarasate, with Mariss Jansons conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, at age 13?
... that forensic developmental psychology focuses on the reliability, credibility, and accuracy of children's testimonies in the courtroom?
... that screenwriter Sally Wainwright was inspired by her mother's second marriage when writing Last Tango in Halifax, a story of romance between two widowed septuagenarians?
... that the Neanderthals of Gibraltar were among the first to be discovered and may have been among the last surviving members of their species?
... that Beethoven improvised for an hour on piano to comfort Dorothea von Ertmann, his student and possible Immortal Beloved, over the death of her son?
... that the furry flower spikes of Banksia baueri take up to six months to develop?
... that Syair Abdul Muluk was authored by either Raja Ali Haji or his sister?
... that geologist Sharon A. Hill has investigated and reported on recent claims about Bigfoot DNA evidence?
... that Casimir Pulaski Monument in Savannah, the first American monument to Pulaski, was built over 70 years after a US Congress resolution calling for it?
... that Sophia Loren punished cat burglar Peter Scott with a 'gypsies' curse'?
... that film actress Paoli Dam holds a post-graduate degree in chemistry and initially wanted to become a researcher of the subject?
... that the yeast Sporobolomyces koalae was isolated from nasal swabs collected from koalas housed in a Japanese zoo?
... that Ariya Jutanugarn, at age 11, was the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA Tour event?
... that Wild Mary Sudik spewed more than 200,000 barrels of oil over Oklahoma City?
... that the web series My Best Gay Friends, considered to be the first gay sitcom in Vietnam, was filmed using a DSLR camera?
... that much of the Yankeetown Site was flooded by the construction of a new dam on the Ohio River?
... that Harald Sandvik was in command of the Special Operations Executive branch Kompani Linge in 1943–44?
... that St. Pierre Cathedral in Saint Pierre and Miquelon contains stained glass windows that were given by Charles de Gaulle during his 1967 visit?
... that Disgraced is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that depicts the challenges for upwardly mobile Muslim Americans in the post-9/11 America?
... that the inmates of Poniatowa camp dug their own graves as fake air-raid trenches?
... that Commander de Fréminville was not only a keen explorer, zoologist and archeologist, but also the anonymous author of a book exalting female clothes?
... that the 13th-century illuminated manuscript North French Hebrew Miscellany contains biblical and religious texts as well as poetry, legal materials, and a calendar?
... that the seven home runs hit by Jack Stivetts as a pitcher in 1890 stood as the record until Wes Ferrell hit nine in 1931?
... that Lawrence Fuchs, an American studies professor at Brandeis University, was also a Peace Corps country director in The Philippines and a Navy medic?
... that the Majdanek State Museum, with its permanent collection of evidence and rare artefacts from the Holocaust in Poland, was the first museum of its kind in the world?
... that the wildlife of Rwanda includes an estimated one-third of the worldwide population of mountain gorillas?
... that the Blue Qur'an is written in gold and silver on parchment colored with indigo?
... that Yoram Tsafrir was the superintendent of the Holyland Model of Jerusalem?
... that Merlot blanc is the offspring of the Bordeaux wine grape Merlot and the Cognac grape Folle blanche?
... that attendees of the annual International Conference on Hollywoodism, held by the government of Iran in Tehran, include a former U.S. senator and presidential candidate?
... that PR executive Rembrandt Flores has produced parties for Justin Bieber, Usher, and Kim Kardashian as well as coordinated events for The Grammys, The Sundance Film Festival and The Oscars?
... that one of the skyscrapers proposed for the Yongsan Dreamhub in Korea caused controversy over its design reminiscent of the 9/11 events?
... that the filly Seabreeze, the runner-up in the 1888 1,000 Guineas Stakes, set new race records when she won the Epsom Oaks and then the St. Leger Stakes later that year?
... that pioneering Jamaican producer Ken Khouri set up a studio on the island, worked with Lord Flea, Prince Buster and Coxsone Dodd, but felt that he had been forgotten?
... that the Inclosure Act 1773 eventually stopped traffic flowing along the Shit Brook?
... that although the fungus Mythicomyces corneipes was given its current name in 1986, the name was republished 25 years later when the initial publication was found to be in error?
... that no active American football player has publicly come out as gay in either the National Football League (NFL) or in the Division I level of college football?
... that before the exodus that started in 1988, many of the over 200,000 Baku Armenians spoke the Karabakh dialect?
... that as a choreographer and dancer, Morleigh Steinberg presented her arms as noodles, but to much of the public she is known for being next to The Edge?
... that Lie Tek Swie's Si Ronda (The Watchman) was the debut of Bachtiar Effendi?
... that basketry artist Shōkansai Iizuka devoted the first decade of his training to the correct method of cutting bamboo?
... that Pieter Goos was the first man to map Christmas Island, which he labelled "Mony" in his 1666 map of the East Indies?
... that completion of the Hector-class ironclad HMS Valiant was delayed for nearly five years by a shortage of rifled muzzle-loading guns?
... that with more than 1.3 million visitors in 2010, the Mont Saint Michel Abbey was among most visited cultural sites in France?
... that while governor of Mecca, Khalid al-Qasri declared that he was prepared to demolish the Kaaba and transport it to Jerusalem?
... that Cyclone Favio was the first known tropical cyclone that passed south of Madagascar to strike Africa as an intense tropical cyclone?
... that George Juskalian had honors that are amongst the highest given to any U.S. military personnel?
... that seeds of the fossil yew genus Diploporus are larger than Taxus seeds and smaller than Torreya seeds?
... that Funny or Die's Steve Jobs biopic, entitled iSteve, was written in three days and shot in five?
... that Magnus Stamnestrø scored the goal that made his club have the worst season-opener by a defending champion in Norwegian football?
... that First Lady Dolley Madison and Senator John C. Calhoun spent three weeks together in the Public Vault at public expense?
... that 180 students from across Europe gather twice a year during the international session of the Model European Parliament to simulate how the European Parliament works?
... that Japanese sushi chef Kazunori Nozawa, whose strict demeanor inspired comparisons to Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi" character, once ejected actress Charlize Theron from his restaurant?
... that Jean-Baptiste Willaumez was given a reflecting circle by Louis XVI, seconded D'Entrecasteaux in his expeditions, and refused to commit war crimes ordered by General de Rochambeau?
... that the statue of Saint Patrick outside St Patrick's Church, Liverpool, was moved from a Dublin insurance building in 1827?
... that Ones ranked as the 88th Top Latin Album of the 2000s decade?
... that more than seventy percent of the Assa River basin is subject to avalanches?
... that the John Steinbeck play adaptation Of Mice and Men debuted on Broadway while the novel of the same name was still on the best seller lists?
... that no tropical cyclones made landfall in the United States during the 1853 Atlantic hurricane season?
... that aspiring politician Pim Fortuyn wrote De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars because he believed journalists were "too lazy" to read his previous work?
... that, late in life, architect Sidney Gambier-Parry lived in the old rectory of St Michael's Church, Duntisbourne Rouse , while he restored the church?
... that BirdLife International considers it unusual for the Grauer's Swamp Warbler and White-winged Swamp Warbler species to live together at the Rugezi Marsh in Rwanda?
... that Bård Finne scored four goals when SK Brann won 14–0 in the 2013 Norwegian Football Cup?
... that the 1959 ascent of Mir Samir was the "first ascent of a great peak in Afghanistan"?
... that whole populations of Banksia speciosa have perished from Phytophthora cinnamomi dieback in Western Australia?
... that Wang Ruowang was a political prisoner of both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists?
... that Hurricane Joanne was one of four tropical cyclones to bring gale-force winds to the Southwestern United States?
... that James the Just is praised in the Ascents of James for starting the first Christian Church instead of Saint Peter?
... that waveguide filters used in multiplexers originally needed decoupling resonators for each input, but these were found to be unnecessary by E. J. Curly when he accidentally mistuned a diplexer?
... that Red Bank Plantation House, a former plantation house in Jacksonville, Florida, is now a private home in the residential neighborhood that grew around it?
... that Lower Elwha Klallam elder Adeline Smith, who created the Klallam alphabet, contributed 12,000 words to the first Klallam language dictionary?
... that during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Yanuh-Jat was the only Druze town in the Galilee to combat Israeli forces?
... that Goodnight Mister Tom, which is an adaptation of the children's novel of the same name, won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment at the 2013 Olivier Awards?
... that the threat to the wildlife of Mali due to deforestation resulted in economic damage of an estimated 5.35 per cent of GDP, in 1997?
... that Tunbridge Wells sold over 2,600 tickets in 24 hours for the 2013 FA Vase Final against Spennymoor Town, contrasting with regular crowds of 138?
... that the barque Skomvær was the first sailing ship constructed with steel in Norway?
... that the veterinarian René Malbrant was a member of all legislatures of the Fourth Republic, representing French citizens in French Equatorial Africa?
... that since 1970 London's Raphael Portrait of Pope Julius II has been recognized as the first or prime version, rather than the Uffizi's?
... that Maria van Oosterwijck included a specific species of butterfly in most of her major paintings?
... that the choreography of George Balanchine combined with the dancing of prima ballerina Maria Tallchief is credited with revolutionizing ballet?
... that Cheer C.P.S., the cheerleading squad of Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre from Pichilemu, Chile, has participated twice in international competitions held in the United States?
... that the best-selling biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, which created Earp as a "superman", omitted his common-law wife of 46 years after his widow threatened to sue the author?
... that after surviving service as a aircraft/seaplane carrier in World War I, the Nairana was twice almost capsized by rogue waves during her career as a Bass Strait ferry?
... that Clay Hopper, Jackie Robinson's first manager in organized baseball, asked Branch Rickey to assign Robinson to a different team?
... that a year ago, Mariano Rivera shagged a baseball and tore his anterior cruciate ligament as a result?
... that advertised as a "Photographed Play", Satyawadi Raja Harishchandra (1917) is India's first remake feature film?
... that author Thomas Hardy wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd at his birthplace?
... that the Malay-language newspaper Pembrita Betawi had Eurasian, Chinese, and Javanese writers?
... that as many as 367 species of birds have been reported in the Congo-Nile Divide of Africa?
... that in Hunterwali , Fearless Nadia appears as a swashbuckling princess in disguise wearing hot pants, "with her big breasts and bare white thighs" setting things right with a scowl?
... that in 2008 Pakistani politician Hanif Abbasi won by-elections as a member of the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party, and the general election as a member of the centre-right Pakistan Muslim League-N?
... that Master Vithal, the hero of India's first talkie Alam Ara and many silent stunt films, was known as the "Douglas Fairbanks of India"?
... that while fighting for Britain in the Second World War, future Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith underwent plastic surgery to his face after crashing his plane?
... that Erwin Arnada's nudity-free edition of Playboy led to his imprisonment for indecency?
... that Sant Tukaram was the first Indian film to receive international recognition and was adjudged as one of the three best films of the world at the Venice Film Festival?
... that Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson set a new altitude record on November 11, 1935 by ascending to 72,395 feet (22,066 m) on the helium balloon Explorer II?
... that Team Syachihoko is a sister group of Momoiro Clover Z and Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku and, having been formed in 2011, is the "youngest sister" of the three?
... that Jonathan Gray turned down a $500,000 offer to play baseball for the New York Yankees so that he could attend the University of Oklahoma?
... that some historians believe that presumed reels of India's first feature film Raja Harishchandra (1913) are actually of its remake Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra (1917)?
... that the Red Sealing Wax Palm, a popular ornamental plant, was included in the IUCN Red List in 1995 and removed in 2000?
... that National Hero of Indonesia Tirto Adhi Soerjo was paid in newspapers?
... that Hal Markarian produced a sketch that has been a recognizable ancestor of the modern B-2 Spirit ?
... that the Treaty of Buda enabled Louis I of Hungary to become king of Poland because his uncle had no legitimate sons, but had to be followed by the Treaty of Košice because Louis himself had no sons?
... that actor Víctor Laplace played Argentine president Juan Perón in the film Puerta de Hierro, el exilio de Perón?
... that Daddy Yankee's performance of "Limbo" at the 2013 Billboard Latin Music Awards included "performers pounding skyscraper-size drums"?
... that Grover Cleveland was the only person ever to simultaneously be a former U.S. President and a U.S. President-elect?
... that, after the Act of Uniformity of 1559, an investigation of an early version of All Saints' Church, Winthorpe , found the chancel to be topless?
... that Dorothy Kitson was one of the few women in Tudor England to nominate burgesses for Parliament?
... that as part of the history of breakfast, in the 1700s fashionable people in Great Britain adopted coffee and chocolate as breakfast drinks?
... that Captain Solomon Ferris was forced to surrender his ship at the First Battle of Algeciras, after running aground?
... that the Earl of Harrington's former London townhouse, Harrington House, is currently the official home of the Russian Ambassador to the UK?
... that Self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet is the only Rembrandt owned by the National Trust?
... that, although a British engineer is generally credited with design of Melbourne's sewerage system, a recent biography attributes the project's success to the Australian William Thwaites?
... that Kevin Bacon made his debut as a director in 1996 with the Golden Globe Award winning television film Losing Chase?
... that Belmont University's Ian Clark was named the 2012–13 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in the school's first year in the conference?
... that the 1975 LaGuardia Airport Bombing, which killed 11 people, remains unsolved?
... that Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane is remembered as the "mother of women's rights in Argentina"?
... that the music video for "Gentleman", the latest single by PSY , has set a world record with over 38 million single-day page views?
... that Wang Huiwu has a memorial in Wuzhen, extolling her contribution to the cause of women in 20th-century China?
... that the "nakimu" in Nakimu Caves means "grumbling spirits" in Shuswap?
... that swordsmith Akitsugu Amata was originally employed as a masseur by his teacher?
... that the soldiers who enlisted in the Polish Armed Forces in the West during WWII were known as "Sikorski's tourists"?
... that before the Kandyan naval raid against the Portuguese Empire occurred, the Kingdom of Kandy had been saved from conquest by a "balance of weakness"?
... that Danish Vikings sacked Paris in 845 , and did not leave until being paid a ransom of 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg) of gold and silver?
... that Mount Ollivier, named after Arthur Ollivier, was proposed to be renamed in honour of New Zealand's great mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary?
... that the name of the Omaha Hotel created the impression that it was affiliated with the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway?
... that James Leal Greenleaf was a civil engineer who also landscaped the Lincoln Memorial?
... that Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design for the Chicago Tribune earned him $20,000 but was never built?
... that Liu-Wang Liming, a Chinese feminist, was imprisoned after being accused of being a spy of the CIA in 1966?
... that a commercial for the anime Free! led fans to create various fan works expanding upon the nameless characters from the ad?
... that No. 90 (Composite) Wing was formed so that RAAF units in the Malayan Emergency would not be absorbed by the RAF, as happened in Britain during World War II?
... that The Daughter of Dawn is a rare, full-length silent film from 1920, with an all Native American cast, that had only been shown once until being rediscovered and restored 85 years later?
... that Xyza Diazen is one of the incumbent city councilors of Marikina City's Second District?
... that four singles from Romeo Santos's debut album reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
... that chef Kenny Atkinson has won Michelin stars at two restaurants, and has twice been one of the winners of the Great British Menu?
... that in Novartis v. Union of India & Others, Indian Supreme Court refused to evergreen the patent for an anti-cancer drug because it was not sufficiently inventive?
... that Mary Cooper (fl. 1743–1761) printed, besides erotic fiction, the first English collection of nursery rhymes?
... that the long-spine slate pen sea urchin can suffer from bald sea urchin disease?
... that American political pressure prevented Austrian communist actor and director Karl Paryla from performing in the 1952 Salzburg Festival?
... that General Grant Grove, a 154-acre (62 ha) section of Kings Canyon National Park, is home to the 3rd and 11th largest trees in the world?
... that former Gewandhaus organist Matthias Eisenberg was made an honorary professor in 2003 by the Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein for his contributions to organ music?
... that Douce noir, which is known as Charbono in California and Bonarda in Argentina, has been called both a "cult wine" and "the Rodney Dangerfield of wine"?
... that Tamil Nadu's V. B. Chandrasekhar set the record for the fastest hundred in Indian First-class cricket when he reached his century off 56 balls in the 1988 Irani Trophy?
... that "Play That Song" was already "bubbling up the charts" prior to its official release?
... that the race horse Paynter survived a near-fatal case of colitis, laminitis and abdominal surgery, then won the first race of his 2013 comeback by 4+1⁄2 lengths?
... that despite writing moderate columns and playing the role of mediator, Mansoor al-Jamri was not spared from the effects of the Bahraini uprising?
... that it took seven years after the French destroyer Espingole ran aground for her captain to be court-martialled and acquitted?
... that baritone Gerhard Faulstich takes an "unpretentious, conversational approach" to the part of Jesus in his recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion?