CashlessConsumer/wikipedia-dyk-dataset huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian U-27 class of submarines had more members than any other Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine class?
Did you know that the British Bulldog revolver (replica pictured) was first produced by Webley & Scott in England and later copied by gunmakers in Continental Europe and the United States?
Did you know that the Israeli government is considering recognizing Indian nanny Sandra Samuel as a Righteous among the Nations?
Did you know that the Ulster cherry is named after Ulster County, New York, a region where sweet cherries are produced commercially?
Did you know that the city of Plymouth is the largest settlement in Devon, England, with a population of 240,720 in the 2001 census?
Did you know that the ingredients for facials recommended in Medicamina Faciei Femineae by Ovid more than 2,000 years ago, are still used in the production of modern cosmetics?
Did you know that the three-story tall Torah Ark of the Great Synagogue in Włodawa, Poland, is decorated with carvings of 18th-century musical instruments to illustrate one of the Psalms?
Did you know that using the pseudonym "Tanta", Doris Dungey blogged on Calculated Risk about the U.S. housing bubble, including a 13-article series on the mortgage industry called The Compleat ÜberNerd?
Did you know that when reporter George Crile compared San Francisco to Sodom and Gomorrah when interviewing Dianne Feinstein for the CBS documentary Gay Power, Gay Politics, she threw him out of her office?
Did you know that Edwin Donayre, commander of the Peruvian Army, sparked an international controversy when a video surfaced in the media showing him making anti-Chilean remarks?
Did you know that Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii, along with 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of adjacent shoreline, is considered one of the dirtiest beaches in the world because of accumulated marine debris from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
Did you know that Lac-Simon, in Quebec, Canada, is named after Marie-Louise Cimon, the wife of an early settler?
Did you know that Norwegian illustrator Harald Damsleth was convicted for treason in 1950, for having drawn Nazi propaganda posters during World War II?
Did you know that Rabbi Tobias Geffen convinced the makers of Coca-Cola to change its secret formula in 1935 so he could certify that the beverage was kosher?
Did you know that Robert Harrison, publisher of the gossip magazine Confidential (cover pictured), was once arrested for allegedly taking pornographic photos at a golf course?
Did you know that Royal Page Davidson, son of Northwestern Military Academy founder Harlan Page Davidson, invented the first U.S. military car and fully armored car as well as a lightly armored car?
Did you know that Spanish footballer Paco Bienzobas was the first person to win the Pichichi Trophy, awarded to the top scorer in La Liga?
Did you know that Tytus Filipowicz, nominally the first Polish ambassador to Georgia, was captured during the Soviet invasion and ultimately organized the first Polish embassy to the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Unverricht-Lundborg disease is the most common form of an uncommon group of genetic epilepsy disorders called progressive myoclonic epilepsy?
Did you know that although construction of two submarines each from the U-48, U-50, and U-52 classes of the Austro-Hungarian Navy began in 1916, none were completed by the end of World War I two years later?
Did you know that footballer Johnny Warsap was signed by Gillingham F.C. after he played against the club for a team representing the Royal Berkshire Regiment?
Did you know that golf in Scotland (example pictured) flourished despite "the fut bal ande the golf" (football and golf) being "vtterly criyt done" (utterly condemned) by a 1457 Act of the Parliament of Scotland?
Did you know that in World War II, David M. Jones, later a U.S. Air Force Major General, participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape?
Did you know that one of the most gifted portrait painters of the 17th century is known as Cornelis Janssens, although he never used that name to sign his paintings?
Did you know that recent restoration efforts were said to have "breathed new life" into Ulsoor Lake, one of the largest lakes in Bangalore?
Did you know that secondary students can take Yup'ik studies in the Yupiit School District, which is located in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska?
Did you know that the Anglo-Norman Latin text De obsessione Dunelmi is the first-known history of an English earldom?
Did you know that the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club developed some of the earliest safe sex education material in the United States?
Did you know that the Jews of Massena, New York, were falsely accused of the kidnap and ritual murder of a Christian girl in September 1928 in an incident known as the Massena blood libel?
Did you know that the Woodland Public Library is the oldest, and one of the last functioning Carnegie-funded libraries in California?
Did you know that the element promethium was discovered in 1945 by Manhattan Project chemists Jacob A. Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell?
Did you know that the ideal length of a train melody is seven seconds?
Did you know that the innovative design of the pre-Columbian twin pyramid of Tenayuca in Mexico was later used as a model for the temples of the Aztecs?
Did you know that the most common symptoms in impingement syndrome are pain, weakness and a loss of strength at the shoulder?
Did you know that the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter's last months in office?
Did you know that "ghost buster" Robert A. Baker was named one of the most outstanding scientific skeptics of the 20th century for his work on hypnosis, ghosts, alien abductions and false memory syndrome?
Did you know that Captain Ivan Castro is the only blind officer serving in the United States Army Special Forces?
Did you know that Davin Meggett, the Maryland Terrapins' second-leading running back, is the son of Super Bowl champion and two-time Pro Bowl selection, David Meggett?
Did you know that Eivind Reiten was chair of StatoilHydro, Norway's largest company, for four days?
Did you know that Jane Couch MBE, nicknamed The Fleetwood Assassin, became the first female boxer to be granted a professional licence by the British Boxing Board of Control?
Did you know that Polish Military Intelligence chief Tadeusz Pełczyński suggested before 1939 that, if war approached, Poland share her Enigma-cipher-breaking techniques with France and Britain?
Did you know that Samuel McDowell fought in three wars and later presided over nine of the ten constitutional conventions needed to draft the first Kentucky Constitution?
Did you know that filamentous fungi of genus Geomyces have been implicated in White-nose syndrome, a fungal disease causing high mortality in bats?
Did you know that many of Kentucky's early political leaders were part of the Danville Political Club, a debating society whose existence was not known publicly until a century later?
Did you know that the 14th-century life-size stone effigies of a knight and his wife in St Margaret's Church, Ifield, England, have been said to have an "inimitable sideways sway"?
Did you know that the Aquarama, built in 1945 as a Liberty ship, was converted into the largest passenger ship ever to operate on the Great Lakes?
Did you know that the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, stands on the site of a 1777 Second Continental Congress meeting?
Did you know that the U.S. devised tactics to defeat Japan's Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane from the 1942 capture of an intact example dubbed the Akutan Zero?
Did you know that , during the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition, Edward Norton set a world record for climbing height that stood until 1952?
Did you know that George Hardy, who headed the Service Employees International Union from 1971 to 1980, did his first union organizing among janitors in San Francisco?
Did you know that John Milton (born 400 years ago today) discusses his religious views in numerous antiprelatical tracts, including Of Reformation, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, Animadversions, Reason of Church-Government, and Apology for Smectymnuus?
Did you know that Kunz von Kaufungen kidnapped Frederick II, Elector of Saxony's two sons, Ernest and Albert, just four years after he commanded Frederick II's forces during the Saxon Fratricidal War?
Did you know that Terry Murray replaced his brother Bryan as head coach of the Washington Capitals in the 1989–90 NHL season, and as head coach of the Florida Panthers in the 1998–99 season?
Did you know that bishop Mauritius Ferber of Warmia was treated for illness several times by the physician-astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus?
Did you know that during the Great Depression, Wisconsin dairy farmers conducted a series of strike actions aimed at increasing the prices paid to milk producers?
Did you know that the  Cornish jack, a weakly electric fish, uses electricity to communicate with other members of its group?
Did you know that the "Old Perpetual" geyser at Hunter's Hot Springs in Lake County, Oregon, releases a plume of near-boiling water 50 to 60 feet (15–18 m) into the air every 90 seconds?
Did you know that the Eastside Historic Cemetery District in Detroit, Michigan, contains the graves of 29 Detroit mayors, at least 6 governors, 11 senators, and a dozen cabinet members?
Did you know that the Indian Paint fungus (Echinodontium tinctorium), a member of the fungal family Echinodontiaceae, was used by Native Americans to make red pigments?
Did you know that the early poetry of John Milton (born 400 years ago today), including "Christ's Nativity", "The Passion", "Upon the Circumcision", "Arcades", "L'Allegro", and "Il Penseroso", was written as early as 1624 but not published until 1645?
Did you know that the later political works of John Milton (born 400 years ago today), including Tenure of Kings, Eikonoklastes, Defensio Secunda, Civil Power, and Ready and Easy Way, were controversial but still sold well?
Did you know that while working on The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, painter Edward Burne-Jones identified so strongly with King Arthur that he even assumed Arthur's pose when he slept?
Did you know that Estonian chemist Paul Kogerman, known for his study of oil-bearing shales, was deported by Soviet authorities with his family in 1941 to a prisoner camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast?
Did you know that Qatar was the first country on the Persian Gulf to allow women the right to vote?
Did you know that Velika Planina is a high-altitude settlement in Slovenia having huts whose oval roofs have wooden shingles that extend nearly to ground level to accommodate cattle?
Did you know that a portion of Virginia's 71-mile (114 km) Massanutten Trail was built on orders from George Washington as a route of retreat should the Continental Army be defeated at Yorktown?
Did you know that from November to April every year Jammu is the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, the northernmost Indian state, and that during the summer Srinagar is the capital?
Did you know that in 1887, D. H. Friston became the first illustrator to depict Sherlock Holmes (cover art pictured)?
Did you know that the 1986 children's picture book Juma and the Magic Jinn was awarded Honor Book in the illustrations category of the 1986 Golden Kite Awards?
Did you know that the German submarine U-558 sank ships as far north as Ireland and as far south as Trinidad during World War II?
Did you know that the Petroleum fly, Helaeomyia petrolei, is the only known insect that develops in naturally occurring crude oil?
Did you know that the U.S. Marine Corps H-1 upgrade program is replacing the aging AH-1W SuperCobra and UH-1N Twin Huey helicopters with the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom, respectively?
Did you know that the appointment of Sever Voinescu as Romanian ambassador to the United States was rejected by a Senate committee on grounds that he was too close to President Traian Băsescu?
Did you know that the best-selling 1975 memoir The Education of Lev Navrozov established its author as a prominent Soviet dissident?
Did you know that the director of Afghan Muscles ignored the role of Afghan women in bodybuilding, noting "It's men looking at men," and "60% [of men] have their first sexual experience with another man"?
Did you know that the folklorist Sir Laurence Gomme, who persuaded London County Council to take on the blue plaque commemorative scheme, was himself honoured with the 800th blue plaque?
Did you know that the former Rabbi of New York City's Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Emanuel Rackman, came under fire for helping agunot women obtain marriage annulments?
Did you know that the radio station WHOS in Decatur, Alabama, aired an all-Elvis Presley format from October 1988 to April 1989?
Did you know that Castle Crags Wilderness in California contains the site of the Modoc War's 1855 Battle of Castle Crags?
Did you know that Italian WWII frogmen set up a secret manned torpedo base in the previously sunken Italian tanker Olterra?
Did you know that Moduin, a poet of the Carolingian Renaissance, characterises his era as a rebirth of "Golden Rome"?
Did you know that Sir Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis of Eye, served at one point as a groom of the Stool?
Did you know that Sue K. Hicks, a prosecutor in the Scopes Monkey Trial who later became a judge in Tennessee, may have been the inspiration for the song, "A Boy Named Sue," popularized by singer Johnny Cash in 1969?
Did you know that Toto's seizure of power in Rome, Italy, in 767 is one of the first indications that the military aristocracy believed that supreme power in Rome rested with the papal office?
Did you know that Vanessa Redgrave's portrayal of transsexual Renée Richards in the 1986 biopic Second Serve was praised as embodying "every internal contradiction of the polymorphously perverse"?
Did you know that a council ward in the East End of London was renamed "Spitalfields and Banglatown" in 2001 to reflect the history of Bangladeshi immigration to that area?
Did you know that actor Scott Thompson Baker has had notable roles in each of the long-running soap operas General Hospital, All My Children, and The Bold and the Beautiful?
Did you know that at a 1972 re-election rally before a crowd of 15,000 at the Nassau Coliseum, Richard Nixon's opening words were "This is the biggest and best rally, Joe Margiotta, I have ever seen"?
Did you know that by the time he returned to England in 1878 after collecting plants in Colombia, German plant collector Guillermo Kalbreyer had lost more than half of his collection?
Did you know that hypnotherapist, occultist and alleged Nazi sympathiser Alexander Cannon, who was known as the "Yorkshire Yogi", counselled British King Edward VIII shortly before his abdication in 1936?
Did you know that in 1853, the Irish clergyman William Reeves bought the 9th-century Book of Armagh for three hundred pounds?
Did you know that most of the buildings in the Giant Forest Lodge Historic District (cabin pictured), listed on the National Register of Historic Places, were demolished by the National Park Service to protect giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Park?
Did you know that mountaineer Barry Bishop, a member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest, lost all his toes to frostbite during the ascent?
Did you know that the Fen River was used to flood the city of modern-day Taiyuan in the Battle of Jinyang, and was later used to defeat the besieging army?
Did you know that the village of Lamberley in Northumberland, England has on display a bell from a small convent of Benedictine nuns that was devastated by William Wallace in 1296?
Did you know that though they had lost all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon in the Battle of Luzon, pockets of Japanese forces held out until Japan surrendered in World War II?
Did you know that to turn an old London fruit market into the New Gallery in only three months, Edward Robert Robson's builders encased existing cast-iron columns in marble and topped them with gilded Greek capitals?
Did you know that under Hindu dietary law, a man is not allowed to eat while facing south if his mother is still alive?
Did you know that Gerald Ford's decision to appoint John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court was largely influenced by his attorney general Edward H. Levi?
Did you know that Italian noblewoman Bianca Riario acted as a substitute mother in the early 1500s to her half-brother, the celebrated Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, while her own mother was in prison?
Did you know that Jacob's Well in Nablus is a site associated with Jacob in Jewish, Samaritan, Christian and Muslim tradition?
Did you know that Miltonic verse, a style which influenced centuries of poetry, is found within the final three poetic works of John Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes?
Did you know that Ohio Territorial Governor Charles Willing Byrd once worked for American Revolutionary War financier Robert Morris?
Did you know that Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, a British flying ace of World War I, scored 30 kills in five months of service and won both the DFC and MC?
Did you know that despite being laughed off stage at a music contest as a young boy, mugham singer Alim Qasimov went on to win the International IMC–UNESCO Music Prize?
Did you know that due to standing among corpses in his coat and rubber gloves while holding a syringe, SS-Oberscharführer Josef Klehr has been described as the ultimate caricature of the omnipotent Auschwitz doctor?
Did you know that in 1883, a dozen years before Oscar Wilde was convicted for Gross Indecency, the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News published a cartoon showing him in convict dress?
Did you know that none of the Dallas Mavericks head coaches have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach?
Did you know that self-taught Swedish American artist Henry Reuterdahl was also an editor of Jane's Fighting Ships?
Did you know that the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived state founded in March 1914 by Greeks living in southern Albania?
Did you know that the Mercury Monterey (1960s model pictured) was the only Mercury vehicle to be in continuous production throughout the 1960s?
Did you know that the body of Fr. Solanus Casey, a candidate for sainthood, was exhumed and reinterred at Detroit's St. Bonaventure Monastery where he had comforted and fed the hungry during the Great Depression?
Did you know that the community of Half Acre, Alabama, once contained half an acre of land that was deeded to The Devil?
Did you know that the meaning and significance of kingship changed dramatically over time in India between the 2nd millennium BCE and ca. 500 BCE?
Did you know that "Johnny Sausage" Barbato, charged with being a "capo" or "captain" in the Genovese crime family, was released from prison in July 2008 at age 74?
Did you know that Clay-Ashland, a town in Liberia, is named after American slave owner Henry Clay?
Did you know that Collin Mooney beat the Army football single-season rushing record by one yard in the last play of his last college game, the 2008 U.S. Army-Navy Game?
Did you know that Enos Lowe was a founder of Omaha, Nebraska, and an early resident of Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase?
Did you know that Erasmus Ommanney entered the Royal Navy at age 12 in August 1826 and went on to discover in 1850 the first traces of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago fate of Sir John Franklin?
Did you know that Henry Frederick Stephenson was the First and principal Naval Aide-de-camp to King Edward VII?
Did you know that Leavitt Peak is named after early California settler and innkeeper Hiram Leavitt?
Did you know that Mayor Tom Weisner once considered outlawing untimely holiday decorations, when citizens of Aurora, Illinois, complained of Christmas decorations abounding during the summer?
Did you know that Sir John Baptist Medina became the first illustrator of John Milton's Paradise Lost (example pictured) in 1688?
Did you know that Thomas Allin, an early settler of Kentucky, USA, laid out the cities of Lexington, Harrodsburg, and Henderson?
Did you know that William Gordon Harris's tenure as Director-General of Highways at the British Ministry of Transport saw the construction of 650 miles (1,050 km) of motorways?
Did you know that a medical patient's failure to maintain a fluid restriction, diet, or medication could result in acute decompensated heart failure?
Did you know that after a kitten named Lucky survived a fall from the 65-foot-high (20 m) Granada Bridge at Ormond Beach, Florida, Lucky's owners changed her name to Timmy?
Did you know that after a professional wrestling match between The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar at Unforgiven (2002), The Undertaker attacked Lesnar by throwing him through the wall of a set?
Did you know that at No Mercy (2002), Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit became the first ever WWE Tag Team Champions by defeating Rey Mysterio and Edge?
Did you know that during the Ottoman–Venetian War of 1570–1573, the 8,500-strong Venetian garrison of Famagusta in Cyprus held out for eleven months against an Ottoman army of 200,000 men?
Did you know that species Fuligo septica, called the "dog-vomit slime mold", can tolerate unusually high levels of the metal zinc?
Did you know that the Balance and Ball Bearing television advertisements for the Lexus LS 400 and ES 300, were highly honored and subsequently referenced by its competitors in their own advertising campaigns?
Did you know that the State Street Bridge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is flanked by two 145-foot (44 m) pylons representing the U.S. Army and Navy?
Did you know that the ancient, but lost, Nendrum Monastery was found in 1844, when a visitor recognized the remains of a round tower?
Did you know that the beech-maple forest is a climax plant community in the eastern United States and Canada?
Did you know that the deep-sea anglerfish Thaumatichthys has been called "one of the oddest creatures in the teeming variety of the fish world"?
Did you know that the former main jewel on the Bavarian crown, the Wittelsbach Diamond, was almost cut into several smaller diamonds?
Did you know that the high-profile recalls in 2007 and 2008 of China-manufactured toys led the U.S. to enact stricter limits on the amount of lead in paint on children's products?
Did you know that the non-payment of debts is the archetype for the seventeen other Hindu titles of law, including the sexual crimes against women?
Did you know that the works of landscape architect Charles Leavitt include gardens for Walter P. Chrysler and William C. Whitney, the grandstands at Forbes Field, and racetracks at Saratoga and Belmont?
Did you know that A. Bernard Ackerman, called "a founding figure in the field of dermatopathology", was skeptical of the notion that exposure to sun causes melanoma, saying the link had not been proven?
Did you know that American entrepreneur Tom Krieglstein was the first person in line for President-elect Barack Obama's election night rally?
Did you know that Biochimica et Biophysica Acta was the first international journal launched by publishing giant Elsevier?
Did you know that British motorcycle pioneer Eugene Goodman joined his family's business, Velocette motorcycles, only after his car-making business failed in 1916?
Did you know that Duranta erecta, a widely cultivated ornamental plant, has been identified as an invasive species in Fiji, French Polynesia and Hawaii?
Did you know that Greek singer Paschalis Terzis's most recent album Mia Nihta Zoriki was certified gold the day it was released?
Did you know that Holy Land USA, a Connecticut theme park intended to replicate Bethlehem and Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually?
Did you know that Jim Foster and Madeline D. Davis were the first openly LGBT people to address a major U.S. national political convention when they spoke to the 1972 Democratic National Convention?
Did you know that Linda Greenlaw, the swordfishing boat captain portrayed in the book and film The Perfect Storm, is now a best-selling author?