CashlessConsumer/wikipedia-dyk-dataset huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Robert Haven Schauffler book for Christmas 1907 included prose by Dickens and Washington Irving and an article on whether there is a Santa Claus?
Did you know that the ancient Gambuh dance is performed in Batuan, Bali, every full moon?
Did you know that the crest of the Königstein Ridge near Westerhausen, Germany, is dominated by the striking Kamelfelsen rocks whose shape resembles two camels lying down?
Did you know that the drama series Huge, created by Savannah Dooley and her mother, Winnie Holzman, employed Dooley's father as an actor and her uncle as the cinematographer?
Did you know that the redundant round-towered St Mary's Church, Moulton in Norfolk contains 14th-century wall paintings depicting Saint Christopher, and the Seven Acts of Mercy?
Did you know that the stained glass windows at Anykščiai Church, the tallest church in Lithuania, were made by Anortė Mackelaitė?
Did you know that the world's first quantum machine "literally vibrated a little and a lot at the same time" and was named "Breakthrough of the Year" by Science in 2010?
Did you know that when District of Columbia judge Robert L. Wilkins was recently out of law school, he was stopped by Maryland State Police for "driving while black" and won a landmark racial profiling lawsuit?
Did you know that African American Republican Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans held the post of comptroller of customs under both Presidents Harding and Coolidge?
Did you know that Bach has a choir of trombones double the choir in his cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64, for the Third Day of Christmas?
Did you know that Dratshang Lhentshog is the Commission for the Monastic Affairs of Bhutan?
Did you know that Episcopal bishop of Louisiana Charles Edward Jenkins III retired due to post-traumatic stress disorder from Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that Francis Skeat designed over 400 stained glass windows, including memorials to the footballer Duncan Edwards and the explorer John Smith?
Did you know that Isuzu Yamada was the first actress to receive the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, from the Emperor of Japan?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player and former fireman Len Koenecke was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher?
Did you know that Matt K. Miller, a stage actor and playwright who recently became the artistic director of the Sacramento Theatre Company, is also a voice artist for Japanese anime?
Did you know that Mexican band Jotdog included a cover version of a song previously recorded by Cyndi Lauper on their debut album?
Did you know that Whitney Houston's 1985 single "How Will I Know" was originally written for Janet Jackson?
Did you know that a playboy originally was a boy performing in a theatre?
Did you know that according to a legend of the Pyrenees, witches performed naked dances near Lake Engolasters in Andorra?
Did you know that as the runaway winner of a special election for his late father's seat in the Texas House of Representatives, John Kuempel of Seguin is the 101st Republican in the 150-seat body?
Did you know that buoy tender USCGC Woodrush helped rescue 520 passengers and the crew from the cruise ship Prinsendam that sank in the Gulf of Alaska in 1980?
Did you know that diplomat and historian Ignas Jonynas contributed articles to the first universal encyclopedia in the Lithuanian language?
Did you know that from 1902 to 1996, Ham Iburg had the most wins in Major League Baseball for a pitcher whose last name starts with the letter "I"?
Did you know that in his first professional baseball season, Lefty Houtz led the Texas League in triples, home runs, hits, total bases, and slugging percentage?
Did you know that in the 12th-century frescoes (example pictured) of St John the Baptist's Church, Clayton, West Sussex, "a spike-heeled devil riding a large beast separates the doomed from the blessed"?
Did you know that peroxides were used in the 2005 London bombings and the 2001 shoe bomb plot?
Did you know that the German Benedictine missionary and bishop Thomas Spreiter helped found Inkamana Abbey in KwaZulu-Natal?
Did you know that the Powder Ridge Ski Area was home to the first quad chairlift in New England?
Did you know that the Puszcza Darżlubska Forest is the second largest site of Nazi mass killings of Poles and Jews in Pomerania?
Did you know that the present Alto Vista Chapel in Aruba, completed in 1952, stands at the location where the original chapel was built in 1750 by Domingo Silvestre, a missionary from Venezuela?
Did you know that 37 different contracts were issued for venue construction and renovation among three different governmental ministries for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens?
Did you know that Australian child murderers John and Sarah Makin were caught after the bodies of two of their many victims were discovered in a blocked drain?
Did you know that W. K. Henderson, the founder in 1925 of KWKH Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana, rallied his listeners against the new Federal Communications Commission and chain stores?
Did you know that William Goyen, whose acclaimed first novel The House of Breath was first published in 1950, was married to Doris Roberts, who played Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond?
Did you know that after serving as a deputy MP in Norway, Martha Schrøder worked as an ergotherapist and a spinning wheel teacher?
Did you know that as a lobbyist in 1997, former State Rep. Randy Pendleton worked for the constitutional amendment which permits home-equity loans in Texas?
Did you know that award-winning experimental filmmaker and animator Skip Battaglia is also a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology?
Did you know that contractor George Caldwell was sentenced to four years in a U.S. Penitentiary for income tax evasion and kickbacks received on buildings that he completed at Louisiana State University?
Did you know that of Andorra's 65 mountain peaks over 6,560 feet (2,000 m), the peak of Coma Pedrosa is the highest at 9,652 feet (2,942 m)?
Did you know that remains of the largest known stone ship, either 170 or 354 metres long, have been found under the two royal barrows at Jelling in Denmark?
Did you know that the American painter George Burroughs Torrey, who was also known as the "painter of presidents", was decorated with the Order of the Savior by King George I of Greece for his services?
Did you know that the Bible manuscript minuscule 801 has an unusual order of books, with the Gospels placed at the end, after the Pauline epistles?
Did you know that the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (signing pictured) extends not only the Bush tax cuts but also tax-reducing aspects of the 2009 Stimulus?
Did you know that the construction of a summer palace for the King of Jordan was interrupted by the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, and the unfinished building in Tell el-Ful near Jerusalem is now a haven for drug addicts?
Did you know that the design of the Third Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Ohio, may have been patterned after the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
Did you know that the principal exhibit of the Fabergé Museum in the German town of Baden-Baden is an egg bought for nine million pounds?
Did you know that the selection of Jamshid Amouzegar as Prime Minister of Iran in 1977 instead of Hushang Ansary has been called “one of the shah’s two biggest mistakes, leading to the revolution”?
Did you know that the tropical marine fish Gillellus inescatus possesses an esca similar to that of an anglerfish, which might be used for luring prey and attracting mates?
Did you know that three partial cross veins in the wings make D. appendiculata a unique fruitfly among the more than 1500 species of Drosophila?
Did you know that visitors of the 2002 Winter Olympics had the option of traveling to one of the venues by horse-drawn sleigh?
Did you know that while the origin of recent shark attacks in Egypt (species pictured) is unknown, experts cite overfishing and illegal dumping of animal carcasses as possible causes?
Did you know that Alvingham Priory, active until most of its inhabitants died from the Black Death, has a churchyard containing the only church in England dedicated to St. Adelwold?
Did you know that Arthur Augustus Tilley resigned as a tutor of King's College, Cambridge, after being blamed for the throwing into the college fountain of the "long-haired bounder" Robbie Ross?
Did you know that Jamaica Inn (sign pictured) of Bodmin Moor is the setting for Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name?
Did you know that Maxim model and reality television contestant Gia Allemand has been selected to play the role of Ava Gardner in an upcoming film about the life of Gianni Russo?
Did you know that Mexico's Biutiful was named Best Foreign Language Film of 2010 at the 17th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards?
Did you know that Sempringham Priory was built by Saint Gilbert, the only Englishman who ever founded a monastic order?
Did you know that a decomposing rhino carcass and lack of water led to the establishment of Henties Bay?
Did you know that a signal mortar used to be fired to summon the lifeboat crew to Poole Lifeboat Station but this was stopped in 1914 as people could mistake the sound for an explosion at the nearby gas works?
Did you know that despite having reconstructive Tommy John surgery prior to the season, Zach Daeges was named to the first-team all-Missouri Valley Conference squad as a designated hitter in 2005?
Did you know that during the Great Depression, the construction of a country estate named for a candy bar was the largest source of jobs in Giles County, Tennessee?
Did you know that in 1944, Sam Caldwell, as the mayor of Shreveport, ran against Jimmie Davis for governor of Louisiana even though both had served in the same municipal administration?
Did you know that in the 1932 NFL championship game, Chicago Bears coach George Halas stuck out his foot from the sidelines and tripped Ace Gutowsky while he was returning a kickoff for the Portsmouth Spartans?
Did you know that since March 2007 there have been controversial discussions about including of parts of the northern Steigerwald Nature Park in UNESCO's World Heritage Programme by turning them into a national park?
Did you know that the 1999 film The Sixth Sense received six Academy Award nominations, and grossed more than sixteen times its budget?
Did you know that the Internet and Technology Law Desk Reference defines information technology law jargon using legal opinion from case law?
Did you know that the Mount Sunapee Resort in New Hampshire was built in response to the success of a tram at Cannon Mountain?
Did you know that the Nobel Prize-winning chemist E.J. Corey described a total synthesis of hexacyclinol as "blatantly wrong science"?
Did you know that the Schneeferner in the Bavarian Alps is Germany's largest glacier?
Did you know that the Wilmington, North Carolina airport was named for Arthur Bluethenthal, a Princeton football All-American who was awarded the Croix de guerre twice, and died in combat for France in World War I?
Did you know that the name for the Mexican band Jotdog was inspired by the pop art work of Andy Warhol?
Did you know that though his early burlesques, including The Merry Zingara, featured actresses performing male roles, W. S. Gilbert later renounced this practice?
Did you know that Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, often attended weekend society gatherings held at Easton Lodge, home of Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick?
Did you know that Basil Cave issued an ultimatum that led to the shortest war in history?
Did you know that Bill James described Mike Mitchell, who set a National League assists record as a rookie, as having the best outfield arm in baseball?
Did you know that Bob Dylan recorded his song "Gates of Eden" in a single take on January 15, 1965?
Did you know that Colin Beyer was informed about the sex reassignment surgery planned by his stepdaughter, former New Zealand MP Georgina Beyer, before her mother received the news?
Did you know that Gavin Trippe introduced European style motocross to the US, invented supermoto, helped start AMA Superbike, and is promoting a new single cylinder motorcycle racing class?
Did you know that Hydro-Québec's project of four hydro-electric power stations on the Romaine River is called "the biggest construction project in Canada"?
Did you know that Judson Welliver is widely regarded as having been the first presidential speechwriter?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football running back Michael Shaw was a teammate of Roy Roundtree at Trotwood-Madison High School, where he was coached by National Football League veteran Maurice Douglass?
Did you know that Tom Derrick received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Sattelberg in November 1943?
Did you know that according to a diocesan official of Richmond, Virginia, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart was the world's only cathedral financed by a single family?
Did you know that future Star Wars make-up artist Rick Baker handled the effects for The Incredible Melting Man, a 1977 horror film about an astronaut whose body is literally melting?
Did you know that in the lyrics of the 2010 song "Coming Home", Diddy makes references to the classic 1979 song "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" by McFadden & Whitehead, as well as events in his own life?
Did you know that it was debated in 1896 whether the Louisiana planter Meredith Calhoun was the model for the character of Simon Legree in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Did you know that the 1 kg (2.2 lb) $3,000 Platinum Koala coin is an official means of payment in Australia?
Did you know that the Alzheimer's disease medication Galanthamine is synthesized using Saegusa-Ito oxidation?
Did you know that the Ansbach Grizzlies, one of the oldest American football teams in Germany, played in every one of the first eight editions of the German Bowl?
Did you know that the Azerbaijan region has been producing wine since the 2nd millennium BC and was noted by Herodotus, Strabo, Abu'l-Fida and Al-Muqaddasi?
Did you know that the Batavia, New York post office is one of only three in the state to be a contributing property to its historic district despite being ineligible for an independent listing on the NRHP?
Did you know that the Lawrason Act, named for State Sen. Samuel Lawrason, allows Louisiana municipalities to create their own form of government without legislative approval?
Did you know that the Nationalist Citizens' Party's platform during the 1957 Philippine elections was described as "businessman's nationalism"?
Did you know that the Umm al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, has minarets in the shape of Scud missiles and Kalashnikov rifle barrels?
Did you know that the aviary Bird Kingdom was once a museum that at one time held the mummy of Ramesses I?
Did you know that the communist student organization CGMI ran campaigns against hazing at Indonesian universities?
Did you know that the extinct crocodyliform Sebecus (skull pictured) was named after Sebek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god?
Did you know that Anubias afzelii, described in 1857, was the first species of the genus of popular aquarium plants, Anubias, known to science?
Did you know that Byzantine silk designs include the tree of life, winged horses, and imaginary beasts, along with fashionable images of hunting and quadrigas?
Did you know that Common Sense Media protested the ESRB's rating downgrade of a revised version of Manhunt 2 from "Adults Only" to "Mature", since that version was still banned in the UK?
Did you know that Frank Bancroft managed his now-defunct Major League Baseball team, the Providence Grays, to the 1884 World Series championship?
Did you know that Hannibal killed 15 swans?
Did you know that Harry Neal Baum ghostwrote the 1917 novel Mary Louise Solves a Mystery when his ailing father, L. Frank Baum, could not fulfill his obligations to his publishers?
Did you know that John Constable called the Superintendent of the British Institution "a much greater man than the King—the Duke of Bedford—Lord Westminster—Lord Egremont, or the President of the Royal Academy"?
Did you know that Nelson Mandela proposed that Robben Island, where he was imprisoned for 18 years, be renamed after Xhosa warrior and prophet Makana?
Did you know that No. 201 Flight's role was considered so secret by the Royal Australian Air Force that few people outside the unit knew that it even existed?
Did you know that Teresa de Francisci, the model for the depiction of Liberty on the Peace dollar (obverse pictured), was born in a town south of Naples, Italy?
Did you know that Terry Bradshaw's daughter Rachel co-wrote Jerrod Niemann's "What Do You Want" and appeared in the song's music video?
Did you know that Zakopane Style architecture became so popular that designs inspired by it were built in Warsaw, Łódź, and even a train station in Saldutiškis, Lithuania?
Did you know that a lawsuit brought by William Shernoff against an insurance firm that refused to pay claims for damage from Cyclone Val in American Samoa yielded penalty payments of $86.7 million?
Did you know that after an unsuccessful debut album, Mexican singer-songwriter Mario Domm formed the band Camila?
Did you know that an experience at an auction in the early 1960s led John Rice Irwin to start the Museum of Appalachia?
Did you know that during World War I the United States Army recruited over 28,000 soldiers for the Spruce Production Division, which harvested Sitka spruce in the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that the High Virgo ballistic missile was launched from a B-58 bomber at a speed of Mach 2?
Did you know that the Lower Eissee, a lake which lies in a shallow cirque in the Dachstein Mountains, was left behind when the Hallstätter Glacier retreated?
Did you know that the help of Cyrus Eaton, Jerome Wiesner and Nikita Khrushchev was needed so that Frederick and Milena Jelinek could marry?
Did you know that the power plant workers union SITRANDE was the first public sector trade union founded in Paraguay after the fall of Stroessner?
Did you know that the tower of St Martin's Church, Colchester, Essex, was damaged in 1648 during the Civil War, and has never been repaired?
Did you know that Leo Fishel was the first Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Morris L. Cohen, described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's most influential legal librarians", wrote a six-volume summary of all law sources published in the U.S. before 1860?
Did you know that Vikings may have navigated using a light-polarizing mineral they called a sunstone to locate the sun in cloudy skies?
Did you know that Welsh novelist Ron Berry once wrote a book about his observations of Peregrine Falcons?
Did you know that a divided wartime control system forced the leader of RAAF Command, Air Vice Marshal Bill Bostock, to serve two masters, one for operational tasking and another for supplies and equipment?
Did you know that although Sulphurdale was established due to nearby sulfur deposits, it was abandoned and the area is now exploited for its geothermal power?
Did you know that before his death, John Warhola's father told him to take care of John's younger brother, Andy Warhol, and "make sure he goes to school, because he's going to be successful someday"?
Did you know that brands such as Coke and M&M's have been advertised through commercial graffiti?
Did you know that in 1959, Baton Rouge mayor Jack Christian moved Halloween to October 30 to accommodate the LSU Tigers football game against the Ole Miss Rebels?
Did you know that in the late 1950s and 1960s, E. W. Gravolet, a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, joined his political ally Leander Perez in opposing school desegregation?
Did you know that territory now included in the Quetzaltenango Department of Guatemala was the scene of a decisive battle between Spanish conquistadors and the army of the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj?
Did you know that the Balsas River valley is regarded as one of the earliest maize growing sites in Mexico, dating from around 9,200 years ago?
Did you know that the German dreadnought battleship SMS König Albert was the only German dreadnought active at the time to miss the Battle of Jutland, due to engine problems?
Did you know that the Gospel of Luke states that the Circumcision of Jesus took place eight days after his birth?
Did you know that the Lemnia wine described by Aristotle was likely made from the Greek wine grape Limnio, which is still being grown today?
Did you know that the first Russian platinum coin was sent to the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt and then redeemed by the Russian emperor Alexander II?
Did you know that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata for New Year's Day, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190, combines verses of two psalms and Luther's Te Deum?
Did you know that the premiere of W. S. Gilbert's pantomime, Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, was marred by "the want of sufficient preparation"?
Did you know that Australian writer Kaaron Warren won two national awards for her debut novel, Slights, a horror story about near death experiences?
Did you know that Bach began the fifth cantata of his first Christmas season in Leipzig, Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, BWV 153, first performed on 2 January 1724, with a chorale?
Did you know that Evgenia Obraztsova, who appeared as a ballerina in the film The Russian Dolls, really is a First Soloist at the prestigious Russian Mariinsky Theatre?
Did you know that Georg Carl Amdrup's 1900 expedition included traveling 730 km by open boat along the Greenland coast, returning to Copenhagen with a live muskox and lemmings?
Did you know that John S. Kyser pioneered the first graduate programs at a state college in Louisiana, beyond those already available at LSU?
Did you know that Lee Emmett Thomas, as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, pushed for construction of his city's Municipal Auditorium, which hosted the Louisiana Hayride between 1948 and 1960?
Did you know that Moses Bloom was the first Jewish settler and mayor of Iowa City (1873–1875), and the first Jewish member of the Iowa Senate?
Did you know that Steven W. Fisher presided over the trial in the Wendy's massacre and became the last judge in New York to impose the death penalty?
Did you know that Tsa Yig refers to the legal code enacted by the founder of Bhutan, Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, around 1629?
Did you know that a General Dynamics F-111C bomber (RF-111C pictured) of the Royal Australian Air Force sank the North Korean freighter Pong Su in 2006?
Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federations' 1999 Fully Loaded event was fought in a parking garage?
Did you know that between 1799 and 1804, warships of the Royal Navy captured one French frigate and five different French privateers all with the name Egyptienne?
Did you know that members of the Philippine political party Lapiang Malaya, armed with amulets and bolo knives, tried to overthrow President Ferdinand Marcos in 1967?
Did you know that physical education teacher Mary Pratt pitched a no-hitter in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
Did you know that the 13th-century Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Warminghurst, West Sussex, was restored for the first time in 1959, only to be made redundant in 1979?
Did you know that the Austrian mycologist Meinhard Moser interrupted his degree after only three terms of study, resuming it several years later upon his release from a prisoner-of-war camp?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Allen C. Gremillion pushed for passage of a bill creating the community college known as Louisiana State University at Eunice?
Did you know that the Mezcala Bridge in Mexico suffered a fire and damages to one of its stayed cables in March 2007 due to a traffic accident involving a coconut truck?
Did you know that the Montepulciano grape is not grown anywhere in Montepulciano nor is it an ingredient in the Tuscan wine Vino Nobile di Montepulciano?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Illinois v. McArthur that police do not need a warrant when they have probable cause to complete a search?
Did you know that there are no prisons for women in Wales?