derenrich/enwiki-did-you-know huggingface dataset:
... that the Byzantine nobleman Marianos Argyros supported Stephen Lekapenos in the overthrow of his father, Romanos I Lekapenos, and only weeks later supported Constantine VII in sidelining Stephen?
... that all Nazi symbols and references were removed for the German release of Wolfenstein: The New Order?
... that the spawning period of the coral Platygyra lamellina is regulated by the phases of the moon?
... that male Ephemera vulgata congregate in swarms in which each insect moves repeatedly up and down as part of a "nuptial dance"?
... that Wisconsin's Jug Girard, dubbed "Mr. Versatility", was a quarterback, end, halfback, punter, and kickoff returner in 10 years in the NFL?
... that Simeon I of Bulgaria was crowned the first Tsar in history during the Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927?
... that Canadian YouTube personality Matthew Santoro makes more money from posting videos than he did as a full-time accountant?
... that during the Doolittle Raid, the B-25 piloted by William G. Farrow, named Bat out of Hell, was the last aircraft to depart from the USS Hornet?
... that the racehorse Muhaarar won the Greenham Stakes in a course record time?
... that Australian swimmer and Olympic silver medallist Mark Stockwell successfully led Australia's bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games?
... that cell biologist Zena Werb changed her undergraduate major from geophysics to biochemistry after being told there was no accommodation for women at a field site?
... that the widest of the Roman and Byzantine domes was that of the Pantheon, but the pendentives of Hagia Sophia form part of a theoretical hemisphere seven percent wider?
... that the former England international rugby player Frank Tarr was killed on 18 July 1915 by a splinter from a shell after telling his men to keep cover?
... that Nabakalebara 2015 is the first 21st-century occurrence of an ancient ritual in which images of the gods Jagannath, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Sudarshan are replaced by new ones at Puri?
... that on 6 May 1527, the Landsknechts of Charles V of Habsburg burst into Rome through the garden of Palazzo Cesi Armellini?
... that lawyer and West Virginia state senator William C. Clayton was an incorporator of two railroad companies and principal of at least three schools, including the Romney Classical Institute?
... that Ali Marpet is the highest-drafted NFL pick in the history of NCAA Division III American football?
... that the Kythira Strait is one of the most dangerous navigational hazards in the Mediterranean?
... that jellyfish ice cream is "slightly chewy" because it is made from real jellyfish?
... that Darwin's Arch sits like a bridge on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged plateau, nicknamed "the theatre"?
... that Eugene Vielle is said to have piloted 150 different types of aircraft by the end of his career with the Royal Air Force?
... that indium sulfate does not remain in solution when diluted, but precipitates as a basic salt?
... that Sanatkumara told Gautama that Hamsopanishad is a compendium of mystic knowledge propounded by Parvati?
... that the inner bark of the rare Caribbean lacebark tree has been used for centuries to make clothing, including a dress for Queen Victoria?
... that the US National Map shows Meredith Creek as being only 0.4 miles (0.64 km) long?
... that the intruder who shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. and bombed the US Senate in 1915 was identified by "Harvard Cop No. 1" Charles Apted as a deranged, wife-poisoning, ex-Harvard German instructor?
... that Cannon Hall, Hampstead was the childhood home of novelist Daphne du Maurier, the author of Rebecca?
... that Indonesian jazz musician Joey Alexander taught himself to play piano at age six, and released his first album at age eleven?
... that various dates have been attributed to the 1630 Crete earthquake, which occurred in the Kythira Strait?
... that billionaire Jim Justice built a US$30 million training facility for the New Orleans Saints in West Virginia?
... that Johann Lukas Legrand, a ribbon maker, was the first president of the Directory of the Helvetic Republic?
... that the parasitoid wasp Gonatopus clavipes lays its eggs inside the bodies of 31 different species of leafhopper?
... that Emily C. Gorman increased enlistment in the American military in the 1960s by allowing female soldiers to live in private, lockable barracks they could personalize and decorate with items from home?
... that the fragile habitat of the silver-leaf sunray is threatened by off-road recreational vehicles?
... that President Barack Obama awarded Meryl Streep the 2010 National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
... that allegations have been made that the 2009 film Avatar plagiarised the 1992 film FernGully: The Last Rainforest?
... that contralto Hildegard Rütgers recorded Bach's Magnificat with Christmas interpolations with Helmuth Rilling?
... that some analysts have suggested that the United States Supreme Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States was influenced by ongoing protests in Ferguson, Missouri?
... that the British colonies of Demerara and Essequibo issued banknotes denominated in Joes?
... that cats have lived at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg almost continuously since the 18th century?
... that Clayton Vaughn first broke the 10-second barrier for the 100-meter dash on Mother's Day and dedicated his success to his late mother?
... that John D. Voelker wanted to be appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court because he "needed the money", but he resigned two years later to be an author instead?
... that the whereabouts of the last northern bald ibis who knows the birds' migratory route are unknown, and without her, the species may face extinction in the wild in Syria?
... that during World War II, Max Nord lived with Simon Carmiggelt and Wim van Norden, and their families, in the same house where they edited the illegal newspaper Het Parool?
... that on the same day George Palmer presented a 49-acre park to the town of Reading, grateful townsfolk gave a bronze statue of the biscuit manufacturer?
... that in spite of his fascist past, Romanian literary historian Petre P. Panaitescu escaped serious punishment by the communist regime?
... that the book Big Little Lies was inspired by a radio interview with a woman whose parents had an abusive relationship?
... that Jamie Porter took a wicket with the fifth ball he bowled in first-class cricket?
... that under the Thai/United Nations Crop Replacement and Community Development Project, coffee has been experimented with as a replacement crop for opium?
... that Australia's leading Battle of Britain ace, Pat Hughes, is thought to have died after his Spitfire collided with debris from a German bomber he intercepted?
... that the ISIL-owned radio station al-Bayan has been compared to National Public Radio for its production style and quality?
... that coach Charles W. Wantland was fired from Central State Teachers College by Governor William H. Murray after supporting Murray's rival?
... that the Tamil film Uyarndha Manithan was adapted from the 1966 Bengali film Uttar Purush?
... that Soraya Syed, a British classically-trained Islamic calligrapher, incorporates modern technologies such as holography into her art?
... that since 2011, the Royal Derby Hospital has offered nipple tattoos to breast surgery patients?
... that the deep sea, solitary Dactylotrochus cervicornis is now included in a family of otherwise shallow-water, colonial corals?
... that a 34-year-old university lecturer in China committed suicide on campus after learning he had lost out to a rival for the position of Communist Youth League leader?
... that William-Adolphe Bouguereau's painting Première rêverie has been considered one of the top exhibits of the New Orleans Museum of Art?
... that 90% of the Arabica coffee produced in Peru is either typica or caturra?
... that Alex Bregman, who was selected with the second pick of the 2015 Major League Baseball Draft, is the grandson of a former general counsel of the Washington Senators?
... that the Reverend William Troy left Virginia after he found that the local pastor was selling members of his own congregation?
... that a newspaper reproduction of a photograph by Clint Grant is believed to be the last thing John F. Kennedy ever signed?
... that the original version of the Massey Ferguson 35 released in the UK was known as the "Gold Belly" due to its distinctive colour scheme?
... that the larvae of the soft coral Anthelia glauca are brooded in a unique pharyngeal pouch?
... that swimmer Marc Hinawi, who won a bronze medal representing Israel at the 2015 European Games, is a Christian Arab?
... that a painting of Fiddle Lake Creek is on long-term display at the William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse?
... that percussionist Babette Haag and her ensemble played Orff's Carmina Burana with the Bachchor Mainz and Anthony and Joseph Paratore in the 1,000th concert of the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte?
... that a New York City police detective likened the way evidence was developed in the Ramona Moore murder case to the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window?
... that while the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Itri was built for American Jewish immigrants, the apartments were small by American standards?
... that Constanze Backes performed the leading female part in Joseph Schuster's rediscovered opera Il Marito Indolente?
... that at one point, more than half of all Mexican radio stations were affiliates of Radio Programas de México?
... that during this past season, Thomas Welsh became the UCLA Bruins' first 7-foot (2.1 m) basketball player in almost a decade?
... that the Mortal Kombat series inspired a character in The Last of Us: American Dreams?
... that the 1970 general elections in Montserrat saw Percival Austin Bramble's Progressive Democratic Party defeat the ruling Montserrat Labour Party, led by his father William Henry Bramble?
... that Francisca Fernández Hall, the first woman to earn an engineering degree from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, became Guatemala's chargé d'affaires in Israel?
... that Playboy magazine's lavishly designed and illustrated Little Annie Fanny (1962–1988) began as a male character?
... that the Godavari Maha Pushkaram festival , being held from 14 July 2015, takes place once every 144 years?
... that locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers?
... that the merchant ship Portmar was a victim of both the first Japanese air attack and last Japanese submarine attack in Australian territory?
... that Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies presents annual screenings of Grateful Dead concerts in theaters across the United States?
... that Eliza Meek, the part-Hawaiian daughter of Captain John Meek, was the mistress of the bachelor King Lunalilo?
... that Callender Gap Creek is a coldwater fishery despite being impaired by abandoned mine drainage?
... that musician Craig Taborn, winner of a Doris Duke Artist Award worth up to $275,000, does not have, or want, his own website?
... that as a child, Indian actress Sargun Mehta and her brother auditioned for the dance reality show Boogie Woogie, but were rejected?
... that in his tone poem The Oceanides, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius "applied the impressionist method of scoring to the bass instruments, thereby achieving effects of sonority hitherto unknown"?
... that U.S. swimmers Mike Heath, David Larson, Jeff Float and Bruce Hayes were dubbed the "Gross Busters" after beating German star Michael Gross and his team in the 4×200 m relay at the 1984 Olympics?
... that Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity?
... that Zambian writer Namwali Serpell, winner of the Caine Prize for African fiction in English, said she would share the prize money with the other nominees since "fiction is not a competitive sport"?
... that the original Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was burned to the ground after Denmark Vesey, one of the church's founders, was implicated in a slave revolt plot?
... that the soprano Romy Gundermann and her husband received a medal from Aschaffenburg for expanding music awareness and adding to the town's cultural heritage?
... that the wasp Sceliphron laetum caches up to nine spiders in a mud cell for consumption by its developing offspring?
... that archaeological excavations at Lake Küçükçekmece near Istanbul, Turkey, revealed the existence of an ancient port city?
... that a two-year golden handcuffs contract in 2000 made Sarah Lancashire the highest-paid actress in British television at the time?
... that the asthmatic prince Sancho of Majorca became king because his older brother wanted to be a monk and his younger brother was at odds with their father?
... that Buddhist monks are said to have forecast the future by studying the changing colours of Lake Tsomgo ?
... that Xylolaemus sakhnovi was the first of its genus described from the fossil record?
... that Ubisoft consulted locals during the development of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, a game set in Bolivia?
... that Jamaica exports more than 80 per cent of its production of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee to Japan?
... that Orlanda Velez Isidro was Madame Mao in a Dutch production of John Adams' Nixon in China?
... that the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad operates a steam locomotive that was once operated by the McCloud Railway?
... that "Le Mulâtre" (The Mulatto) by Victor Séjour of New Orleans, published in 1837, is the earliest known short story by an African-American writer?
... that early in his criminal career, Swedish bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to break Clark Olofsson out of jail, but failed to do so because of a dynamite malfunction?
... that during the 20th century, the first large-scale excavation of dinosaur footprints was undertaken in Texas for an exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History?
... that the unusual name of Byzantine noble child John Doukas Angelos Palaiologos Raoul Laskaris Tornikes Philanthropenos Asen has been described as "less an instrument of identification than a manifesto of social association"?
... that Savitri Upanishad, which has 15 verses, begins with an invocation hymn seeking blessings for strong functioning of motory and sensory organs?
... that Israeli judoka Sagi Muki was coached by Olympian Oren Smadja for 19 years before he won the 2015 European Judo Championships?
... that "Terbaik Bagimu", a single from Siti Nurhaliza's latest album, was chosen as a theme song for a Malay drama and a telemovie?
... that Miss Louisiana 2015 April Nelson works part-time as a "princess for hire"?
... that the coral Solenosmilia variabilis dominates reefs 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) beneath the sea?
... that U.C. Berkeley professor Richard M. Eakin gave lectures dressed as Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, and other famous scientists, one of whom he knew personally?
... that Romanian Symbolist poet Ștefan Petică went from publishing in socialist newspapers to denouncing socialism?
... that Hillary Clinton's coffee table book, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, described the traditional aspects of her time as First Lady of the United States?
... that Jeff Seidel has sent thousands of Jewish college students to families in Jerusalem to eat a Shabbat meal?
... that the national park visitor centre of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in the Galápagos Islands has a unique display of a rebuilt ship's hold filled with upturned giant tortoises?
... that highlights from 19th-century ichnology include the discovery of protomammal tracks in England, dinosaur footprints in Massachusetts, and the mysterious hand-shaped Chirotherium tracks ?
... that Filipino shadow play group El Gamma Penumbra won the first season of Asia's Got Talent in 2015?
... that when word got out that the Shell Polar Pioneer and other Arctic drilling vessels were coming to Seattle, hundreds of kayaktivists came out to protest?
... that the 1941 Michigan Wolverines football team outscored opponents 147 to 41, losing only to the eventual champions, Minnesota?
... that the soundtrack of 1982 film Ezhavathu Manithan featured songs from a pre-recorded album of L. Vaidyanathan, composed using the lyrics of Subramania Bharati's poetry?
... that Tabu has won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress a record four times?
... that Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland?
... that the director of the Australian-set film The Inbetweeners 2 considered filming it in South Africa in order to save money?
... that in 2015, the soft coral Maasella edwardsi was reported in the Aegean Sea for the first time?
... that the online platform VyRT was founded by Jared Leto as a live video streaming service?
... that Hilda C. Heine is the first Marshallese woman to earn a doctorate degree?
... that while artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, Reid Anderson also performed as a character dancer?
... that Archduke John of Austria met his wife, the future Countess von Meran, while she was posing as a boy?
... that excavations by Yosihiko H. Sinoto in Hane in the Marquesas Islands in 1964–5 uncovered more than 12,000 bird bones?
... that herpetologist Joseph Richard Slevin is commemorated in the scientific names of twelve reptiles and a mouse?
... that the indie band Allo Darlin' recorded the album We Come from the Same Place in London while their vocalist Elizabeth Morris lived in Florence, Italy?
... that the 13th-century pagoda built to house the remains of the Chinese Zen monk Wansong Xingxiu was covered by an outer pagoda in 1753, the original only being rediscovered in 1986?
... that Sian Heder had written the screenplay for Tallulah by 2006, but the film only began shooting this June?
... that the 2009 All-SEC football team included two Heisman Trophy winners, Tim Tebow of Florida and Mark Ingram, Jr. of Alabama, as well as future convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez?
... that under Dudley Snell, the fifth and last Chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, the first tram extensions in over two decades opened in Melbourne?
... that some scholars fear the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Schmerber v. California will one day be used to justify the involuntary mind reading of criminal suspects?
... that Dixi Crosby was the first surgeon in the United States to be sued for medical malpractice?
... that Israeli wrestler Ilana Kratysh won a Grand Prix event despite allegedly being bitten by an Egyptian opponent?
... that the music of L.A. Noire consists of original vocal recordings that reflect the "musical identity" of its 1940s setting?
... that Gordon Ramsay once called Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy the "Antonio Banderas of cooking"?
... that the female sparkling jewelwing damselfly spends about fifteen minutes submerged while laying a batch of eggs?
... that Victoria Price, the daughter of horror icon Vincent Price, is not a fan of horror films?
... that a toilet service , containing as many as 48 pieces in silver or silver-gilt for the dressing-table, was a wedding present for rich women from the 17th century onwards?
... that Dutch World War II resistance member Wim van Norden never made a conscious decision to join the resistance?
... that the film Mahler on the Couch deals with a love triangle between Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Gustav Mahler, and Gustav's consultation with Sigmund Freud?
... that after the attack at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, the mother of one of the gunmen said her son had been brainwashed and she did not blame the police for killing him during the event?
... that the jellyfish Rhopilema esculentum can be eaten raw as a salad and has a crisp texture?
... that John S. Middleton sold his family cigar business to Altria for US$2.9 billion?
... that For Honor, a hack and slash game, was called "a shooter with swords" by its creative director?
... that the intense lighting of The Wrestlers highlights the curves, musculature, and sweat of the participants' naked bodies as they embrace and grapple?
... that President Rafael Correa ordered Ecuador's television stations to broadcast 233 cadenas nacionales in 2009?
... that the sequel to the Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars video game is simply called Rocket League, an easier to remember title?
... that Spencer Wilson played Canadian football for the Calgary Stampeders as a left guard and left tackle before becoming the starting right guard?
... that Jules Verne's play Journey Through the Impossible, featuring Captain Nemo and other heroes from Verne's novels, was presumed lost until 1978?
... that Thomas Corbett, a Shaker doctor, developed an electrostatic medical device in 1810 as a "cure" for rheumatism?
... that the writer of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Unity" based the episode on the destruction of the Tower of Babel?
... that Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who commissioned Beethoven's Mass in C major for his wife's name day, found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable"?
... that Voyager 1 is expected to reach the Oort cloud in around 300 years?
... that the main purpose of the tribal marks on the face or body of the Yoruba people is for identification of a person's tribe or family?
... that the 9-minute pilot for Long Live the Royals won its creator a Primetime Emmy Award and earned the show an order from Cartoon Network?
... that the 2015–16 RFU Championship will be the first time in 13 years that Plymouth Albion is not in English rugby's second tier?
... that the 1970s Dutch children's TV show De Stratemakeropzeeshow was criticized for its "Poop and Pee Minuet"?
... that an organization to help young African American men avoid gangs and prison was co-founded by law professor Nekima Levy-Pounds?
... that Andrew Brown was strongly critical of the role of Charles Lawrence, acting governor of Nova Scotia, in the Acadian Expulsion?
... that the former site of the Old White Horse Cellar, one of the most famous coaching inns in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, is now the location of The Ritz?
... that the visually impaired Romanian poet Mihai Codreanu walked with a cane that concealed a blade of Toledo steel, which he used to ward off jealous husbands?
... that the exhibition of Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm prompted the comment that "no decent family can hang such sights against their wall"?
... that during World War II, James Franck's gold Nobel Prize medal was dissolved in aqua regia and stored in a bottle on a shelf to prevent it from falling into German hands?
... that the snack kue gapit is more popular among tourists than local residents of Cirebon?
... that 18th-century Indian artist Nainsukh is known for his unusually informal paintings of a raja, whose ashes he eventually consigned to the river Ganges?
... that in 1930, Adeline De Walt Reynolds graduated from college at the age of 68 and made her film debut eleven years later?
... that kongsi federations such as the Lanfang Republic once controlled a large part of western Borneo?
... that in 1882, midshipman Charles Cabaniss was killed by a bullet that ricocheted twice off the deck and once off a gun on the USS Swatara?
... that after the shooting of Walter Scott—an African-American—in North Charleston, South Carolina, the state government proposed a bill named after him to equip more police officers with body cameras?
... that the game engine used for games such as Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto V was first used for a table tennis simulation game?
... that María Eugenia Suárez, who plays a victim of anorexia in the film Abzurdah, lost 6 kg (13 lb) during production?
... that A. S. Neill liked the 1972 intellectual biography about himself, Fifty Years of Freedom, but thought it "wasn't critical enough"?
... that eating the poisonous mushroom Neoboletus venenatus can result in vomiting so severe that dehydration results?
... that Regina Spektor wrote the theme song for Orange Is the New Black after watching post-production edits of the first few episodes?
... that New Tavern Fort in Gravesend, Kent, was built to protect London and the Thames from a possible French invasion during the American War of Independence?