derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist Ole Børud was a member of Arnold B. Family, a gospel group that achieved second place in Norway's 1995 finals for the Eurovision Song Contest?
... that the invention of Bard the Bowman could have been inspired by Wiglaf from the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf?
... that Camille Saint-Saëns commented after the premiere of the St. Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod that "at first one was dazzled, then charmed, then conquered"?
... that James Colliander, Gigliola Staffilani, and Terence Tao are part of a collaborative group of mathematicians called the I-team?
... that the truncated spire of St Paul's Church, Seacombe was restored to its original height using a stainless-steel frame?
... that in the 1960s, Inuit musician Willie Thrasher formed Inuvik's first rock 'n' roll band?
... that several other nations also expressed their interest in participating in Combined Task Force 150 in some way when a Pakistani admiral took its command?
... that approximately 28,000 topographic names were changed from their native names to new Turkified renditions under various government policies?
... that George Billman found that an infusion of omega-3 fatty acids prevented ventricular fibrillation in dogs otherwise susceptible to it?
... that the Western Australian shrub Lechenaultia formosa is renowned for its red, orange, or yellow flowers?
... that Galadriel Stineman is named after the elven queen in The Lord of the Rings?
... that a portrait of cricketer and Australian rules football pioneer Tom Wills shows him with flushed cheeks, a sign of his alcoholism?
... that Wyatt Earp refereed the 1896 Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey world heavyweight boxing championship match and was rumored to have fixed the result?
... that the fossil maple Acer taurocursum is named for its type locality, the "Bull Run flora"?
... that after the Mrkšina crkva printing house became defunct in 1566, no other printing house existed in Ottoman Serbia until 1831?
... that John Covert Boyd helped found the Kappa Sigma fraternity and incorporate the American Red Cross?
... that after the end of the Second World War, newly demobilised British soldiers in their demob suits felt that they had swapped one uniform for another?
... that the British Army's first radar system, the Gun Laying radar , used up the nation's entire stockpile of chicken wire?
... that documentary filmmaker Shen Yongping is one of 44 people the Committee to Protect Journalists says were arrested in China in 2014?
... that the cargo ship Cemfjord capsized off the coast of Scotland on 2 or 3 January 2015 with the presumed loss of her entire crew?
... that painter Theora Hamblett was one of the first Mississippi folk artists to achieve national prominence?
... that the fur colorings of Trowbridge's shrew change from brown to gray during certain times of the year?
... that Walter Augustus de Havilland, father of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine, published a book about the Japanese game of Go?
... that Sala House is built around a spacious farmhouse-style kitchen based on a memory from a childhood visit to the south of France?
... that during the Armenian Genocide, Dr. Floyd Smith treated victims suffering bullet wounds, severed hands, and attempted decapitations?
... that three classic hip-hop radio stations launched in Atlanta within days of each other, with two launching on the exact same day?
... that in 1989, the colonial coral Astroides calycularis expanded its range to the Adriatic Sea after previously being restricted to an area west of Sicily?
... that former Oregon State defensive end Bill Swancutt broke school records in sacks and tackles for loss, and went on to become a financial advisor?
... that experimental work on the production of cylinder glass was carried out at Nailsea Glassworks?
... that mathematician Linda Preiss Rothschild settled for graduate study at MIT after Princeton rejected her for being female?
... that the barnacle Pyrgoma anglicum is often found living parasitically inside the sunset cup coral ?
... that Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones's show runner, Melissa Rosenberg, reconfigured the series for Netflix from her original incarnation as an early 2010s ABC series?
... that Daniel Ashelman built a cabin on Ashelman Run in the early 1800s and the land was still owned by the Ashelman family in 1982?
... that the Lenborough Hoard, found just before Christmas 2014, is believed to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins ever discovered in Britain?
... that the Anand Patwardhan documentary Ram ke Naam was prevented from being screened at the American Museum of Natural History by the Vishva Hindu Parishad?
... that Sarah Collyer was expelled from the England women's cricket team for taking "an unauthorised holiday"?
... that Georges Weill was an elected member of the German Reichstag, yet when World War I broke out, he joined the French Army?
... that around 800 Hindu Dalits of a village converted to Islam over caste discrimination in India in 1981?
... that Joseph Haydn's keyboard sonata in C minor has been called his Appassionata?
... that there are specialized mechanisms in the human brain for trust, language, and putting ourselves "in another person's shoes"?
... that continental arc volcanoes have magma formed from a mixture of melted asthenosphere and crustal rocks?
... that Queen Myat Hla, given away by King Minkhaung I of Ava to another man just five months into their marriage, returned to Ava as the chief queen 16 years later when the other man became king?
... that the rear portion of the San Jose de Ivana Church was closed in 1844 due to a decrease in the town's population?
... that Independence Blue Cross CEO Daniel J. Hilferty first realized he "was a pretty good leader" while improving playgrounds with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps?
... that "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by Grandmaster Melle Mel interpolates a song from Liquid Liquid's EP Optimo?
... that estimates of the prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity have varied from 6 to 75 percent?
... that the perpetrator(s) of the Redhead murders have never been identified, nor have most of the victims?
... that Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia married the former mistress of two of his cousins?
... that Hartog Jacob Hamburger described the chloride shift (or "Hamburger shift") in 1918?
... that while officials in the Mexican state Veracruz believe Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz was murdered over a personal dispute, his fellow reporters suspect it was for his investigative work?
... that Karl Jenkins conducted the premiere of his Te Deum, "a joyous, theatrical piece", in the European Capital of Culture of 2008, Liverpool?
... that the flag bearer for The Gambia at the 2008 Summer Olympics was a first-time Olympic athlete?
... that during the Spanish conquest of Chiapas, frequent changes in colonial administration left the early conquistadores vulnerable to native rebellion?
... that the sea snail Halystina umberlee was named after the homonymous fictional evil goddess from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game setting?
... that HIV activist Josh Robbins was diagnosed with HIV while participating in the HIV vaccine research study HVTN 505?
... that Campaign Thoan Thang marked both the first use of tanks and the first wet season offensive in the Laotian Civil War?
... that Elaine Surick Oran's techniques for simulating dynamic fluid flows have been applied to phenomena as varied as the movements of fish and the explosions of supernovae?
... that in 2012, French film composer Alexandre Desplat received three nominations for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Score?
... that the first time Geoffrey Bruce climbed a mountain, he and George Finch reached a world record height of 27,300 feet (8,300 m) on Mount Everest?
... that the ancient Roman church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus was briefly used as a sculpture studio before being reconsecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1983?
... that in December 1979 the Progressive All-Student Unionist Camp mobilized students to occupy Greek universities?
... that Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wore the black clothes of mourning for more than three years after her husband died?
... that when the video game The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls was released in South Korea, it featured a new character exclusive to the region's version?
... that to increase student interest at the University of California, Riverside, biology professor Irwin Sherman would dress up in costume and lecture as one of several famous scientists?
... that the sides of the Digital Beijing Building are designed to look like circuit boards, and the ends to look like bar codes?
... that Dave Martinez played for four Major League Baseball teams during the 2000 season, tying a record?
... that the Guanacaste Conservation Area, located in Northwest Costa Rica, is a 163,000-hectare (400,000-acre) expanse of protected land and sea?
... that Bernard Gavrin was killed in the Battle of Saipan in 1944 but was not buried in Arlington National Cemetery until 70 years later?
... that The Transactor was an early computer magazine noted for its coverage of Commodore 8-bit hardware hacking?
... that Swedish Democrat politician Linus Bylund made an election campaign song for the party as part of the duo Korpöga?
... that four scientists who were part of the British contribution to the Manhattan Project became group leaders at the Los Alamos Laboratory?
... that African bishops were more prominent in the 2014 Synod on the Family than in previous Vatican synods?
... that the ending of Keisuke Kinoshita's film Army was controversial because it depicted a mother's anxiety at her son going off to war?
... that the moth lacewing Elektrithone is the first member of its family found in Baltic amber?
... that Leslie Harpold was an early influential blogger whose unexpected death raised the issue of digital estate planning for online creators?
... that the 1877 Boat Race, in which both teams tied, was later described as "the great gooseberry"?
... that despite being located beside the Ghent ring road, the Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen nature reserve contains a large colony of cormorants?
... that School of Rock marks the first time since 1971 that an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will receive its world premiere on Broadway rather than London's West End?
... that the Egyptian pharaoh Seti II was buried in tomb KV15 in the Valley of the Kings after a later pharaoh took over the tomb where he may originally have been buried?
... that the first roads and sawmills in Fairmount Township in Pennsylvania were built along Maple Run?
... that Swedish sports journalist Arne Hegerfors commentated at both the basketball final at the 1972 Olympic Games and the Heysel Stadium disaster for Sveriges Television?
... that flashes of light emitted by the sea snail Hinea brasiliana may act as a "burglar alarm"?
... that during the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, Azerbaijani officials objected to the use of a monument in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to represent Armenia?
... that female Priochilus captivum have been observed nesting in bed covers while they were in use?
... that the only naval battle ever fought in Oklahoma was the ambush of the steamboat J. R. Williams on the Arkansas River in 1864?
... that Kris Aquino's first film role in Pido Dida: Sabay Tayo earned her the Box-Office Queen award?
... that the Caribbean Legion was a loosely-knit group of political exiles and mercenaries that sought to overthrow dictatorships in Central America?
... that Pakistani cricketer Kiran Baluch's 242 against the West Indies is the highest individual score in Women's Test cricket?
... that Aaron Burr hid at Maizefield in Red Hook, New York, after killing Alexander Hamilton?
... that fruiting bodies of the mealy tooth fungus sometimes exude blood-red drops of fluid?
... that leaders of the Filipino communist youth movement Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino were offered amnesty under a presidential decree in 1974?
... that the 2005 Twenty20 Cup Final was won by Somerset, appearing in their first Twenty20 Cup final?
... that David Rioch is credited with playing a "seminal role" in the creation of modern neuroscience?
... that North American Piedmontese cattle are a breed of beef cattle originating from the Italian Piedmontese cattle that carry a unique gene mutation that causes double muscling?
... that Sylvia Beach gave Tudor Wilkinson a signed first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses to thank him for getting her out of a Nazi internment camp?
... that the statue of Charles II in Soho Square, London was once the centrepiece of a fountain portraying four great rivers of England?
... that in the film Paa ("Father"), actor Abhishek Bachchan portrays a father, while his real-life father, actor Amitabh Bachchan, plays the role of his 13-year-old son?
... that although Chinese immigrants in Seattle were initially welcomed to the area, within a few decades they were the target of anti-Chinese riots?
... that the Artificial Insemination Center of Quebec produces 800,000 doses of bovine semen annually?
... that Gwalior's Teli ka Mandir blends Nagara, Dravida and Buddhist architectural styles?
... that an American court case hinges on whether the Communications Decency Act immunizes web-based service providers against civil claims brought by users for harm caused by other users?
... that the creation of the pro-Russian Donbass Association was viewed by many as an act of Russian involvement in Sweden, causing one commentator to proclaim that "the shadow of Moscow reaches Scania"?
... that Puthiya Paravai (1964) was the first Tamil film to be produced by Sivaji Films?
... that eight children were killed in a suburban home of Cairns, Australia, in December 2014?
... that Thomas Henry Ismay's wife said that Dawpool had "served its purpose in keeping [her husband] amused for fifteen years"?
... that the stop-time musical phrase from Muddy Waters' 1954 blues standard "Hoochie Coochie Man" was later used in pop songs and film scores?
... that the names of Saint Teath and her eponymous town in Cornwall rhyme with death, not teeth?
... that the 2004 romantic comedy Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao was Kabir Sadanand's directorial debut?
... that sisters Jazzy and Ruby King of the pop group Blonde Electra, finalist in The X Factor (UK) 2014 competition, are related to British chancellor George Osborne?
... that because no candidate won a majority of the vote, the 2014 Vermont gubernatorial election will be decided by the Vermont General Assembly?
... that the subject of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne) described it as "horrible"?
... that Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell told a group of congressmen that aliens exist, at an event organised by the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence?
... that the ring-tailed ground squirrel is more dainty and agile than most ground squirrels?
... that Sri Lankan militant leader Uma Maheswaran was involved in the 1988 Maldives coup?
... that the 2014 Quick Lane Bowl was the first college football bowl game appearance by the University of North Carolina in the state of Michigan?
... that Arthur Kober set his 1937 play Having Wonderful Time in a Jewish Catskills resort, but the film adaptation sanitized the ethnic humor?
... that in 2012, Mersea Island declared a mock independence from the rest of the United Kingdom for a day?
... that UCLA freshman Kevon Looney was named Wisconsin Mr. Basketball after he nearly averaged a quadruple-double in high school?
... that failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba caused the cancellation of Operation Millpond in Thailand?
... that 20-year-old Cincinnati resident Samuel Furman Hunt lowered the Confederate flag over the Virginia State Capitol after Confederate troops abandoned Richmond?
... that one paper mill on Buck Run is said to be at the same location as the first rolling mill in the United States?
... that the music sequences featured in "Drew Carey's Back-to-School Rock 'n' Roll Comedy Hour" had to be shot without Drew Carey as he fell ill prior to filming?
... that the genera for fork-marked lemurs and giant mouse lemurs were named after characters in the British comedy The Palace of Truth by W. S. Gilbert?
... that Jean-Claude Van Damme is returning in the remake of the original Kickboxer film?
... that King Bayinnaung of Burma entered into several marriages of state, and had more than 50 wives and nearly 100 children?
... that Robert Cade led the research team that formulated Gatorade, which has significant medical application in the treatment of dehydration?
... that Indian film actor Rajesh Khanna contested the 1996 Gandhinagar parliamentary by-election?
... that Peter Moore announced Grand Theft Auto IV by rolling up his sleeve to reveal a tattoo of the logo?
... that the success of the U.S. Auto Defense Choc was based on prepacked equipment?
... that the feathered mahiole (helmet) and ʻahu ʻula (cloak or cape) were the exclusive right of the highest ranking ruling chiefs of Hawaii?
... that Billboard magazine called Christophe's 1974 album Les Mots bleus "outstanding"?
... that Glendale, California city councilman Zareh Sinanyan supported a memorial to Korean comfort women, citing his own background as the grandson of an Armenian Genocide survivor?
... that Narendra Hirwani's bowling analysis of 16 wickets for 136 runs, against the West Indies, are a record for a debutant in Test cricket?
... that doctors in the Hospital in the Rock had to bury their dead in bomb craters during the Siege of Budapest?
... that it has been estimated that the measure Proposition 47, enacted this past year in California, will affect about 40,000 annual felony convictions in that state?
... that the animated film The Garden of Words by Makoto Shinkai is a love story intended to convey the traditional Japanese meaning of "love", koi, or "lonely sadness"?
... that construction of the Old Sisters High School in Sisters, Oregon, was partially funded by the U.S. government as a Public Works Administration project in 1939?
... that Overwatch contains elements from Blizzard's cancelled MMORPG, Titan, but is otherwise unrelated?
... that a 13th-century Armenian monastery dedicated to one of the apostles now lies in ruins?
... that Confucius' disciple Qidiao Kai declined to take government office, but started his own school of Confucianism?
... that when Bruckner's Pange lingua was published in Musica sacra, the journal's editor removed "some of the work's more daring harmonies" without the composer's consent?
... that while Georges Méliès recreated The Eruption of Mount Pelee using scale models and pyrotechnics, Edison employees attempted to get a similar effect by making a beer barrel explode?
... that Thurstaston Hall in Merseyside has been described as being "of charming appearance, tranquil and mellow"?
... that during the Vietnam War, Ronald Markarian flew 116 combat reconnaissance missions and received numerous awards?
... that the sea anemone Aiptasia diaphana can produce new individuals when fragments of its base become detached?
... that in 878 an army of West Saxons led by Odda, Ealdorman of Devon captured the raven banner of Ubba?
... that Herb Alpert's Mexican recording experience for the album Fandango led to his forming a Latin branch of A&M Records?
... that one of the children shown in The Graham Children by William Hogarth had died by the time the painting was completed?
... that the first British Army battalion to land in Portugal during the Peninsular War was led by William Gabriel Davy ?
... that Urkhuz ibn Ulugh Tarkhan, the Abbasid governor of Tarsus, was deposed for embezzling the salaries of the garrison of Loulon, leading to its surrender to the Byzantine Empire?
... that production has begun on The Taliban Shuffle, a film based on the memoir by Kim Barker?
... that Jacob Hiatt financed a chair in Judaic studies at the College of the Holy Cross and a chair in Christian studies at Brandeis University?
... that Telmatobius ventriflavum was not discovered until 2012, despite being located near a major highway?
... that one reviewer said John de Lancie's talents were "wasted" in the video game Star Trek: Borg?
... that when the Beirut I electoral district was formed in 2008, it was the first Christian-majority electoral district in the city since 1972?
... that Leon Dexter Batchelor was the longest-serving director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station?
... that the protozoan parasite Apicystis bombi probably arrived in South America with bumblebees?
... that Stripped Classicism is an architectural style used in several countries, including the United States, Nazi Germany, and Stalin's USSR?
... that Kido Witbooi, first Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, suggested the name for the Namibian village of Gibeon?
... that Hawanatu Bangura, who was a flag bearer at the 2004 Athens Games, is still the youngest-ever member of the Sierra Leone Olympic team?
... that the Eastern Pilbara Craton contains pieces of Earth crust that are 3.6 billion years old?
... that "Walking Down Madison" is the first song Johnny Marr wrote after the dissolution of The Smiths?
... that professional cyclist Fredrik Ludvigsson rides in the same team as his older brother Tobias?
... that Ralph Benatzky wrote the libretto and music for Meine Schwester und ich, a "more intellectual, more cabaret-style" operetta which premiered in Berlin in 1930?
... that the 1-mile (1.6 km) long Paddy Run has been used as an industrial water supply?
... that Bagboy is a "spin-off of a spin-off of a show within a show"?
... that although Aulis Sallinen composed Kullervo for the opening of Helsinki's new national opera house, it was first performed in Los Angeles?
... that Blalock, Oregon, was inundated by rising waters after the John Day Dam was constructed?
... that Mano Blanca was an anti-communist death squad set up and run by the Guatemalan military with considerable assistance from the United States?
... that the Splash Brothers recently became the first teammates since 1975 to start at guard in an NBA All-Star Game?
... that the fossil ant genus Yantaromyrmex is found in four amber deposits in Europe?
... that in 2014 Martin Ødegaard became the youngest footballer to play in a UEFA European Championship qualifying match?
... that the short story Old Love by Jeffrey Archer is a tale about two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry ending up in a tragic love story?
... that during the Iran–Iraq War, an Iraqi major told his prisoner Aboutorabi, "if Khomeini is like you, I will follow him"?
... that women are currently chiefs of the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer, Medical, Chaplain, Nurse, and Judge Advocate General's Corps‍—‌a majority of the eight Navy staff corps?
... that a telegram marking a century-old beheading prompted Austrian authorities to charge the leadership of the Arboroasa student society with treason?
... that The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky, who had outlined a novel about a writer who dies in a plane crash, died in a plane crash‬?
... that the Dumas Brothel , believed to be haunted, was the longest-operating brothel in the United States?
... the Atmabodha Upanishad explains "state of knowledge of the inner self"?
... that film editor Melanie Oliver began her career under the tutelage of director Jane Campion?
... that the Masonic Hall in Taunton was built in the early 19th century as a Catholic chapel?
... that the Australian cricketer Bill Woodfull was the first to carry the bat twice in Tests?
... that the heroic antislavery painting The Captive Slave was not seen in public for 180 years?
... that the fungus Hirticlavula elegans is so named (from the Latin for "elegant") because of the beauty of its fruit bodies?
... that French cinematographer Eric Gautier has been nominated for six César Awards over ten years, winning one?
... that the 1990 Earth-grazing meteoroid above Czechoslovakia and Poland was observed from two sites, which for the first time enabled geometrical calculations of the orbit of such a body?
... that Kim Hyung-jun's 2012 Japanese release of Escape includes only two Japanese songs out of seven tracks?