CashlessConsumer/wikipedia-dyk-dataset huggingface dataset:
Did you know that when Christian Thomsen Carl was killed in a duel, his murderer was arrested and thus prevented from burning down Anklam?
Did you know that Allan Donald's five wickets for 29 runs is the fifth best bowling performance by any bowler on debut in One Day Internationals?
Did you know that Governor Liu Weiping studied aircraft design and graduated from the Party School?
Did you know that Highwic has been a filming location for both Burger King and Hell Pizza?
Did you know that Saturday Night Live writer Marilyn Suzanne Miller got her start in television by calling James L. Brooks after seeing his name in the credits for The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
Did you know that Saturn Award-winning actress Justina Vail is now a life coach, author and hypnotherapist?
Did you know that Tony Stewart led a Pepsi 400 record of 151 laps in the 2005 Pepsi 400?
Did you know that children's author Marjorie Hill Allee frequently collaborated with her husband, famed zoologist Warder Clyde Allee?
Did you know that construction of the Middletown Academy was funded through a lottery?
Did you know that in 1873, the ironclad river monitor Ozark transported Federal troops and New Orleans police attempting to apprehend the perpetrators of the Colfax Massacre?
Did you know that novelist Shirley Barker's first book of poetry enraged poet Robert Frost?
Did you know that the 1 kroon coin from 1934 was voted the prettiest coin that has been in circulation in Estonia?
Did you know that the French queen Bertha of Holland was left by her husband because she was "too fat", although he himself was too heavy to ride a horse?
Did you know that the annual Royal Fair of Algeciras, founded in 1850, is regarded as the most important festival in the Spanish city of Algeciras?
Did you know that the railway station at Paranapiacaba, Brazil, has a clock tower modelled on the tower for Big Ben in London?
Did you know that the semi-submersible ship Dockwise Vanguard can transport large floating oil rigs, drilling rigs or the world's largest spar platform, the Aasta Hansteen spar?
Did you know that there is a Shit Brook in Shropshire?
Did you know that 27 of the 33 consensus members of the 1900 and 1901 College Football All-America Teams, including John Hallowell, Robert Kernan and Crawford Blagden of Harvard, James Bloomer and Henry Holt of Yale, Ralph Davis of Princeton and Sanford Hunt of Cornell, played for Ivy League teams?
Did you know that Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is only the second case on the Indian Child Welfare Act taken on by the United States Supreme Court?
Did you know that Imperial Call, winner of the 1996 Cheltenham Gold Cup, was trained by one-legged Korean War veteran Fergie Sutherland?
Did you know that Omar Derdour was given the task of travelling to the Arab countries to raise support for the Algerian revolution?
Did you know that P. Shilu Ao was the first Chief Minister of Nagaland?
Did you know that Prince Eugen of Sweden, a painter trained in France, was seen as a suitable candidate for the throne of Norway in 1905?
Did you know that Ulf Schirmer, director of the Oper Leipzig, conducted Richard Wagner's early opera Die Feen as part of the Wagner Year 2013, to be performed in concert at the Bayreuth Festival?
Did you know that Welsh rugby union player Alun-Wyn Jones once said he would rather sing "The Power of Love" than "The Power of Four"?
Did you know that Yemen has one of the highest execution rates in the world?
Did you know that an estimated four million people worldwide suffer from podoconiosis?
Did you know that hyperconsumerism, "a consumerism for the sake of consuming", refers to consuming goods for non-functional purposes?
Did you know that the Hilton Istanbul in Turkey, established in 1955, is the longest-serving member of the Hilton Hotels chain outside the United States?
Did you know that the Wikipedian in Residence program placed Sarah Stierch at the Archives of American Art and Smithsonian Institution Archives?
Did you know that the governor of Shkodra, a member of the Moneta family, sent his wife and children to Venice before the Ottomans besieged his city in 1478?
Did you know that the scientist Neal Evenhuis is known for giving humorous and punny names to insects, such as Carmenelectra, Phthiria relativitae, Pieza kake, Pieza pie, and Pieza deresistans?
Did you know that the tornada is the Occitan equivalent of the Old French envoi, the Galician-Portuguese finda, and the Italian congedo and commiato?
Did you know that when Essex cricketer Dickie Dodds caught a batsman off a long hop, it decided his future marriage plans?
Did you know that Bach composed his cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, as an audition piece for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, displaying a "sheer range of forms and musical expression"?
Did you know that Dale Steyn made his One Day International debut for African XI during the 2005 Afro-Asia Cup, and is the highest five-wicket haul taker for South Africa in test cricket?
Did you know that Ethel Scull 36 Times was Andy Warhol's first commissioned portrait of the 1,000 or so he created?
Did you know that Hazel Pritchard, nicknamed the "Girl Bradman", faced the first ball in women's Test cricket?
Did you know that Kenneth Biller wrote the episode that introduced the Borg into Star Trek: Voyager?
Did you know that Roy Chaplin was awarded an OBE in 1946 for his achievements in the design and development of military aircraft and was working on the jump jet in 1962 when he retired?
Did you know that Virology is the first English-language journal to focus on viruses?
Did you know that Wang Min was named one of "China's top future leaders to watch" by the Brookings Institution?
Did you know that during this year's Carnival of Huejotzingo (parade pictured) over five tons of gunpowder were used?
Did you know that famed speculator Jacob Little, the Great Bear of Wall Street, died a broken man after making and losing several fortunes?
Did you know that fullback "Elmer the Great" Schwartz led the 1930 Washington State Cougars football team to the 1931 Rose Bowl against Alabama?
Did you know that in 1928, Central Bank of Norway governor Nicolai Rygg pressured an opposition leader to file a vote of no confidence against the Cabinet?
Did you know that prehistoric structures on Whalsay include the Neolithic Benie Hoose, Pettigarths Field Cairns and the Standing Stones of Yoxie, and the Iron Age Huxter Fort?
Did you know that the Australian shrub Isopogon anethifolius is named for the resemblance of its leaves to dill?
Did you know that the Federal Writers' Project's Slave Narrative Collection included interviews, conducted primarily between 1936 and 1938, with more than 2,000 former slaves?
Did you know that the Guam Museum, which is slated to move to a permanent home in 2014, has been housed in temporary locations since its destruction during World War II?
Did you know that the Lion Pagoda, a Treasure of South Korea, is one of Hwaeomsa's four stone pagodas?
Did you know that the Thema Fund, a Bernie Madoff feeder fund, reported a rate of return of 8% during 2007, as competing funds fell 39%?
Did you know that the first Portuguese-language newspaper in China was published at Macau's St. Dominic's Church in 1822?
Did you know that the steamer Inishtrahull was missing seven days before being confirmed sunk off the coast of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland?
Did you know that Amanda Carter, the oldest member of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, played for the team before Amber Merritt, its youngest, was born?
Did you know that Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria burned to death while preparing a fireworks display for his sister-in-law, Empress Maria Theresa?
Did you know that Bourgueticrinida is an order of crinoids that nearly became extinct in the Permian-Triassic extinction event?
Did you know that Khawabi, a village and medieval castle in northwestern Syria, was captured in the early 12th century by the Crusaders, who assigned its governorship to a local lord?
Did you know that Los Angeles Lakers executive Jeanie Buss was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential Women in Sports by Sporting News?
Did you know that Onésime Dorval was the first certified teacher in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan?
Did you know that Operation Copperhead saw M. E. Clifton James posing as Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery in the build up to D-Day?
Did you know that Puerto Rico's diverse musical heritage influenced Ivy Queen's Christmas composition of "Vamos a Celebrar", which includes the traditional sound of the plena?
Did you know that Tilly Edinger founded paleoneurology?
Did you know that conductor Roland Bader recorded late choral works by Max Reger, including his Hebbel Requiem, and the First Symphony by Richard Wetz?
Did you know that dozens of top Church of Scientology executives have reportedly been confined to The Hole and subjected to the Church's "ecclesiastical discipline" system?
Did you know that in July 1963, Syrian colonel Jassem Alwan led an unsuccessful Nasserist-backed coup against the new Ba'athist-dominated government, resulting in his imprisonment and death sentence?
Did you know that in Singapore administrative law, it is illegal for a public authority to fetter its discretion by sticking rigidly to a policy?
Did you know that the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, the first electric telegraph to be put into commercial service, was initially rejected in favour of a pneumatic system with whistles?
Did you know that the English Cocker Spaniels Luckystar of Ware, Exquisite Model of Ware and Tracey Witch of Ware each won Best in Show at Crufts on two occasions?
Did you know that whilst more than half of the high-rises in Christchurch, New Zealand, have been demolished since the earthquakes, the city's tallest building has survived?
Did you know that "I Don't Give A" contains insight into a day in the life of Madonna?
Did you know that Australia had its own Flying Corps during World War I?
Did you know that Baltic German painter Carl Timoleon von Neff built a manor house in Muuga, Estonia, to house his personal art collection?
Did you know that Bono counts off the song "Vertigo" with "one, two, three, fourteen!" in Spanish?
Did you know that Carman Barnes' scandalous novel Schoolgirl, published when she was only sixteen, led to her being expelled from school?
Did you know that Joseph G. Sanders served as a captain in the Confederate Army during the US Civil War, then switched sides to become a lieutenant in the Union Army?
Did you know that Kansas highway K-140's route (shield pictured) was originally established in 1925 as U.S. Route 40S?
Did you know that Malcolm Brodie reported from 14 FIFA World Cups – more than any other journalist?
Did you know that Mallory Hagan compared the ideals of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic to those of the Miss America pageant while promoting its third season finale?
Did you know that Marie Fox, a foundling whose father was unknown, was adopted by a nobleman and became a princess, author and translator?
Did you know that Symbister House in Symbister, on the island of Whalsay in Shetland Islands, is reputed to be haunted by a sailor who was murdered by the gardener during a game of cards?
Did you know that composer Francesco Berger wrote music for plays by Wilkie Collins, which were produced by Charles Dickens and performed at his private theatrical parties?
Did you know that following a paragliding accident that left Teresa Silva a paraplegic, she went on to create a disability sport organisation and is working to qualify for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in alpine skiing?
Did you know that in the early 19th century, during Ottoman rule, al-Lataminah was the principal village of the district of Hama?
Did you know that the Second Baptist Church in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was built on the site of a cemetery?
Did you know that Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes' play Octavia Bragaldi moves the Kentucky Tragedy from 1825 to 15th century Milan?
Did you know that David Carson had never heard of Star Trek when he moved to America, but five years later directed the film Star Trek: Generations?
Did you know that Johanna Welin emigrated from Sweden to Germany in order to play for the German women's national basketball team?
Did you know that Leona Lewis said that her song "My Hands" was the "perfect fit" for the Final Fantasy XIII theme song?
Did you know that despite not intending to study at a university, Clarence Larson went on to become a senior chemist in the Manhattan Project?
Did you know that drug lord Héctor Delgado Santiago punished the local transit police and forced them to patrol on foot for pulling him over?
Did you know that for a Manhattan Project experiment Albert Stevens was secretly injected with what was expected to be a lethal dose of plutonium, and paid for providing samples of his urine and feces?
Did you know that in order to remove a rival general from the capital, the Abbasid vizier Ahmad b. al-Khasib sent him to attack the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that the 1909 College Football All-America Team included Henry Hobbs, Hamlin Andrus and seven other players from an undefeated Yale team that outscored opponents 209–0?
Did you know that the Barbary ground squirrel is the only African species of squirrel that lives north of the Sahara?
Did you know that the Church of the Holy Ghost in Tallinn was the first church in Estonia to worship in Estonian?
Did you know that the humanistic coefficient is a major element in the sociological theory of Florian Znaniecki?
Did you know that the ship hanging in the church of Kollafjørður, Faroe Islands, was donated by the parents of a 25-year-old son who drowned in Iceland?
Did you know that there are theories that New Zealand was originally settled by Egyptians or Greeks?
Did you know that A. M. Sipahoetar is credited with writing the first biography in Indonesian?
Did you know that Ben Orloff set school records in college baseball for career hits, runs scored, and games played at the University of California, Irvine?
Did you know that Indian cricketer B. S. Chandrasekhar's bowling figures of six wickets for 38 runs against England in 1971 was noted the "Indian Bowling Performance of the Century" by Wisden in 2002?
Did you know that King Martin of Aragon wanted to ensure the accession of his illegitimate grandson, Frederic of Luna, but died from laughter before he could do so?
Did you know that Sir Robert Clark's teddy bear is thought to have been the only one to have parachuted behind enemy lines and then survive as a prisoner of war?
Did you know that St. Ouen once played Celtic aided by guest players from Southampton?
Did you know that after losing in the 2010 Philippine senatorial election, Grace Riñoza-Plazo joined a coalition of groups which opposed the continued use of automated voting machines in that election?
Did you know that in The Godfather, the "offer" that cannot be refused is not an offer at all, but is instead a throffer?
Did you know that in the 2006 book Before the Dawn, author Nicholas Wade argued that humans continued to evolve after they left Africa, which gave rise to human races?
Did you know that some of the stone balls thrown in the 1342–44 Siege of Algeciras were reused in the 1487 Siege of Málaga?
Did you know that the Georgia aster is a relict species of the historic post oak–savanna ecosystem?
Did you know that the endangered Puerto Rico harlequin butterfly can only lay its eggs on the prickly bush, which is losing its habitat?
Did you know that the pathogenic bacteria Salmonella bongori, which can cause diarrhea, was originally found in a lizard in Chad in 1966?
Did you know that the positions and orientations of markings on the megalithic stone circles in Central India, may have been used to indicate the movements of astronomical objects?
Did you know that the sandstone walls of the Old Stone Congregational Church in Lyons, Colorado, are 20 inches (510 mm) thick?
Did you know that the stream that is the main source of water supply for the city of Sweetwater, Tennessee, gets much of its flow from groundwater?
Did you know that Annabel Breuer won gold at the 2009 European Championships in wheelchair fencing and at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball?
Did you know that Josef Brown originated the role of Johnny Castle in the stage adaptation of Dirty Dancing?
Did you know that Norwegian goalkeeper Olav Dalen kept a clean sheet in his first two matches in Tippeligaen?
Did you know that Rihanna's song "Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary" features references to Marilyn Monroe and James Dean?
Did you know that Shana Madoff met her future husband Eric Swanson when he was investigating whether her uncle Bernie Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme?
Did you know that a tower clock at Bhadra Fort was the first electrical connection of Ahmedabad?
Did you know that a tugboat used to sit at the bottom of the approach to the Bourne Bridge until it was demolished to make way for a parking lot of a pharmacy?
Did you know that actor Patrick Stewart made his debut as a director with "In Theory", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Did you know that human rights activist Leo Igwe works to combat modern witchcraft accusations in Nigeria?
Did you know that life story work can be beneficial to adults with dementia?
Did you know that miners cautiously used a long iron rod when they thought they were near a house of water?
Did you know that para-alpine skier and blind sailor Carme García has trouble living in Vigo, Spain, because of the occasional lack of streets with sidewalks?
Did you know that the 1891 Te Aroha by-election was the third unsuccessful attempt by New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller to enter Parliament?
Did you know that the light-dependent sinuous cactus coral is an aggressive species that attacks neighbouring corals to keep from being over-shadowed?
Did you know that Beijing's St. Joseph's Church has been damaged by an earthquake, burned during the Boxer Rebellion, converted into a school after the Chinese Civil War, and closed during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Edward Clark, the only British student of Arnold Schoenberg, conducted the first British performance of his teacher's Chamber Symphony No. 1, and also invited Schoenberg to conduct his Gurre-Lieder for the BBC?
Did you know that Guo Shengkun, a former metal executive, has been appointed China's Minister of Public Security despite having little legal experience?
Did you know that Maling Kutang, filmed in under a week, included a gorilla costume and "magic" underwear and panties?
Did you know that filmmaker Benny Brunner won a special commendation at the 1991 Prix Europa for A Philosopher for All Seasons?
Did you know that former Sri Lankan cricketer Chaminda Vaas's eight wickets for 19 runs against Zimbabwe in 2001 are the best bowling figures in One Day International cricket?
Did you know that in 2010, a man from England was convicted on child pornography charges for purchasing books, including The Age of Innocence, from a mainstream bookshop?
Did you know that retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Benjamin Freakley served under General David Petraeus during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and later commanded the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan?
Did you know that since retirement, Bill Madia has been appointed a presidential advisor at three universities, vice president of SLAC, and the director of a company?
Did you know that the Argentine Declaration of Independence was proclaimed by the Congress of Tucumán at the Casa de Tucumán?
Did you know that the Church of St Bartholomew, Yeovilton, was declared redundant and then became the Fleet Air Arm's Memorial Church?
Did you know that the Lebombo cycad is endangered, with only about 5,000 plants remaining in the wild?
Did you know that the first stop in Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir Mohammed's 1997 tour of Africa was to build relations with Malawi?
Did you know that the first successful oil well in Baku was built by Ivan Mirzoev, an ethnic Armenian?
Did you know that Anthony Chenevix-Trench aimed to abolish school uniform completely at Eton, but only succeeded in abolishing the rule requiring smaller boys to wear suits that included a "bumfreezer"?
Did you know that Lectionary 311 is a bilingual Greek–Arabic manuscript of the New Testament?
Did you know that P.S. Krøyer and Kristian Zahrtmann were among the painters featured in the first exhibition at Den Frie Udstilling in 1891?
Did you know that Shavarsh Krissian, the editor of the first sports magazine in Turkey, was killed in the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Sjumandjaja's award-winning Kabut Sutra Ungu (Mist of the Purple Silk), about issues faced by widows, was based on a book offered to him on a train?
Did you know that St. Stephen's Cathedral organist Peter Planyavsky has composed parodies under the names of P.P. Bach, J.P. Haydn, and W. A. Plagiavsky Mozart?
Did you know that Tony Palomo, a Guamanian historian who served in the Legislature of Guam, worked as a copy boy for the Milwaukee Sentinel while attending Marquette University?
Did you know that Zhang Qingwei, the Governor of China's Hebei province, is a rocket scientist who was instrumental in launching an American-built satellite and sending the first Chinese astronauts to space?
Did you know that climate change threatens the flora and fauna of the Sacred Himalayan Landscape, including the endangered snow leopard?
Did you know that half the length of the Racket-tailed Coquette is tail?
Did you know that professional golfer Bubba Watson was featured in the song "Michael Jackson" by hip hop artist Andy Mineo from his album Formerly Known?
Did you know that screenwriter Tom Jankiewicz collapsed after a screening of his film Grosse Pointe Blank, and died soon after?
Did you know that speaking coach Nick Morgan's interest in body language was sparked in part by the realization that his father was gay?
Did you know that the Mission olive was brought to California in the 18th century by Spanish missionaries?
Did you know that the extinct Gigantoproductus giganteus was the largest known species of brachiopod?
Did you know that the title page of the Erfurt Enchiridion, a Lutheran hymnal from 1524 with 26 songs, recommends using the handbook "for continuous practice and contemplation"?
Did you know that American aviator Robert Hathaway unknowingly became feudal ruler of Sark by marrying the ruling dame, but was dismayed to learn that the island was too small for a golf course?
Did you know that Bebo and Chucho Valdés won the Grammy and the Latin Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for their album Juntos Para Siempre?
Did you know that Charles Stewart lost his right hand in a naval battle at the age of 16, yet still reached the rank of vice-admiral?
Did you know that Emily Graslie's work on "The Brain Scoop" has been described as "articulate and hilarious" by Scientific American?
Did you know that Ernest Bohr, who played field hockey for Denmark at the 1948 Summer Olympics, was the nephew of Olympic football player Harald Bohr, and the son of physicist Niels Bohr?
Did you know that George Hirst was the first person to discover a viral enzyme?
Did you know that Vahram Papazyan and Mıgırdiç Mıgıryan, the two athletes who represented Turkey in its first-ever Olympics, were both ethnic Armenians?
Did you know that according to Mariel Hemingway in the documentary Running from Crazy, seven members of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's family have committed suicide?
Did you know that in 1524, Elisabeth Cruciger's hymn "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn" was the only song by a female author published in the Lutheran hymnal Erfurt Enchiridion?
Did you know that months after whistleblower David Weber reported concerns about ethics violations by SEC Inspector General David Kotz, Weber was terminated for unrelated reasons?
Did you know that the Indonesian state news agency Antara was established before the country's independence?
Did you know that the Settebello, a high-speed train between Milan and Rome, used ETR 300 trainsets, which had distinctive observation lounges at front and rear?