kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that James Gunn 's 1972 science fiction novel The Listeners was proposed as an unrecognized classic in the field by New Scientist magazine in November 2010?
Did you know that mis-transcribed versions of the Pratt-Yorke opinion of 1757 were circulated in British North America by opponents of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 ?
Did you know that the manga character Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu was inspired by the lovelorn wanderer Tora-san ?
Did you know that in 1939, three Icelandic Nazi -sympathizers approached Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe with the hope of making him king of Iceland ?
Did you know that Abingdon Boys School , a band that shares a name with a school formerly attended by members of Radiohead , has contributed music to anime such as Darker than Black and Soul Eater ?
Did you know that Maine Senator Charles "Babe" Carter was known for his agility, nerve, and "wonderful handling of his massive frame" as a football player in the early 1900s?
Did you know that The Decemberists ' single off of their new album has been compared to R.E.M. , Neil Young , Steely Dan and Bruce Springsteen ?
Did you know that a 1993 parliamentary rule passed in the predominantly Catholic country of San Marino changed the loyalty oath from "Holy Gospel" to "on my honor"?
Did you know that a cave near Otapi is named for and linked to a legend involving the Abkhazian hero Abrskil ?
Did you know that in the late 1940s, American blues shouter and jazz singer Duke Henderson renounced his past and began broadcasting as Brother Henderson, a minister and gospel DJ ?
Did you know that in the 2009 M-1 Challenge Season in the sport of mixed martial arts , Team Benelux's Danny van Bergen was one of only two team members to finish with a positive record?
Did you know that Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen 's only Billboard Top 40 hit as a solo artist was " I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World) ", a song inspired by the International Geophysical Year of July 1957 – December 1958 ?
Did you know that Meyer Foshaug held one of the first four seats won by the Labour Party in the Parliament of Norway ?
Did you know that, in addition to mobilizing labor brigades for the post-war reconstruction of Yugoslavia , the Anti-Fascist Youth Union of the Free Territory of Trieste planned sporting and cultural events?
Did you know that the troubadour Peire Rogier addressed a poem to Aimerico Manrique de Lara , Duke of Narbonne (c. 1152–1177), encouraging him to live up to his illustrious Spanish lineage?
Did you know that the 19th-century Kaplaneios School in Ioannina , Greece , evolved into the most significant intellectual center of the city through the work of Athanasios Psalidas ?
Did you know that after the 2003 Eastern Michigan Eagles football team gave up six turnovers against Navy , EMU head coach Jeff Woodruff said, "You can't beat a high school team giving up five turnovers"?
Did you know that the writer Frederick James Gould became a prominent agnostic and pioneering secular humanist despite having studied theology with "devout fury" during his youth?
Did you know that the pool for the water polo venue at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was shallow enough to allow taller Yugoslav players to stand with their heads above water?
Did you know that director Nobuhiko Obayashi purposely made the special effects in the Japanese horror comedy film House look unrealistic?
Did you know that Los Angeles attorney Norman Sterry represented the New York Yankees in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an exemption from the antitrust laws for Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that after AIDS activist Rand Schrader died in 1993, his partner David Bohnett founded the GeoCities website using the benefits from Schrader's life insurance ?
Did you know that although Nancy Greene won the women's alpine skiing giant slalom race at the 1968 Winter Olympics , the stop clock malfunctioned and said otherwise, leaving her with a headache for two days?
Did you know that a portable electric chair was moved from county to county for executions in Mississippi so that one county would not be stigmatized as a "death county"?
Did you know that, because of a lifelong medical condition that may be Proteus syndrome , Mandy Sellars ' legs and feet weigh about 210 lb (95 kg), while her upper body only weighs about 84 lb (38 kg)?
Did you know that the American government and advocates of political reform have been increasingly promoting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa since September 11, 2001?
Did you know that film studies are less concerned with filmmaking than with exploring the narrative, artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of cinema?
Did you know that General Sir Peter Lumsden accompanied his brother on a British military mission to Kandahar in 1857?
Did you know that orange ironstone , white ashlar stone, brick, red sandstone , granite and timber were all used to build the All Saints Church, Beeby ?
Did you know that despite the mental demands of his profession, Edward William Archibald , considered Canada 's first neurosurgeon , was described as a "distressingly absent-minded character"?
Did you know that Congregation Or Chadash , Chicago's oldest LGBT synagogue , may have been targeted in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot ?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the 1907 Kingston earthquake , the Governor of Jamaica refused an offer of eight surgeons from three United States warships?
Did you know that Raymond Kimutai Bett set a new race record to win the 2010 Athens Classic Marathon , which celebrated the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon ?
Did you know that American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Cash McCall has evolved in musical styles from gospel to soul to the blues ?
Did you know that the Cloud Break mine project, worth A$ 2 billion , was in danger of not being approved after the discovery of the incredibly rare Night Parrot in the area?
Did you know that, unlike other Colonial Revival post offices in New York, the Lenox Hill station on Manhattan 's Upper East Side has two main entrances on either side?
Did you know that the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers , a forerunner of the Royal British Legion , was founded in opposition to the re-conscription of men injured during World War I ?
Did you know that John Stirk played every league game during Watford Football Club's 1978–79 promotion-winning season?
Did you know that the catsharks of the genus Galeus — G. antillensis , G. arae , G. atlanticus , G. cadenati , G. eastmani , G. gracilis , G. longirostris , G. melastomus , G. mincaronei , G. murinus , G. nipponensis , G. piperatus , G. polli , G. priapus , G. sauteri , G. schultzi , and G. springeri —have "saws" on their tails?
Did you know that teenager Barbara-Ann Scott was the first Canadian to win a gold medal in Olympic figure skating with her performance at the 1948 Winter Olympics ?
Did you know that Major General Andrew Cumming CBE , who commanded British troops in the NATO -led Kosovo Force in 1992, became controller of the charity SSAFA Forces Help after leaving the Army in 2004?
Did you know that Indiana 's Gas Boom of the 1880s played a pivotal role in the development of the Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District ?
Did you know that the body of amateur cricketer Henry Arkwright , who was killed by an avalanche in 1866, was found 31 years later missing its head and both feet?
Did you know that the George W. Bush presidential campaign used John Cougar Mellencamp 's " R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. " at a campaign rally, despite Mellencamp's opposition to Bush's political positions?
Did you know that the Ådalen Line of Sweden will be upgraded to become part of a high-speed railway corridor between Stockholm and Umeå ?
Did you know that while Peter Tshirumbu Tsheehama was chief of the Namibian intelligence agency , the agency was informally known as "Tshirumbu's people"?
Did you know that by 1978, The New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , and The Boston Globe banned their writers from working as official scorers for Major League Baseball due to a conflict of interest?
Did you know that Louisiana industrialist and political kingmaker Louis J. Roussel, Jr. began his career in the 1930s as a New Orleans bus driver ?
Did you know that in 1977 the body of St Mary's Church, Brentingby , Leicestershire , was partly demolished and converted into a house, leaving the tower standing?
Did you know that after the Maliseet Gabriel Acquin gave the Prince of Wales a ride in his canoe , he was invited to London , where he set up a wigwam in South Kensington ?
Did you know that in the children's book Mission: Earth , astronaut Thomas D. Jones describes using specialized radar technology to measure carbon monoxide pollution on the Earth ?
Did you know that floods in Malaysia in November 2010 affected the homes of a State Chief Minister and a Federal Minister ?
Did you know that by 1900, a 12-man outlaw gang led by desperado Jack Sully had reportedly stolen 50,000 cattle and 3,000 horses?
Did you know that Sharad Anantrao Joshi was the sole Member of Parliament to vote against the bill providing 33% reservation for women in the upper house of the Indian Parliament and the state assemblies ?
Did you know that one of Sammy Davis, Jr. 's performances in Nevada was a gig at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center ?
Did you know that theatre director and critic Branko Gavella refereed the opening match of the first Croatian association football championship in 1912?
Did you know that after visiting Sir John Fagg in 1697, Daniel Defoe wrote of Fagg's prodigious bullocks, "I never saw any thing like them"?
Did you know that Butchers Wheel , a cutlery and tool factory in Sheffield , could only be accessed through a single, guarded door?
Did you know that Douglas Lima was expected to showcase his skills with an easy victory over Brent Weedman in a mixed martial arts title fight, but lost?
Did you know that despite its high praise by critics, the Community episode " Epidemiology " was the least-watched non- reality component of NBC 's Comedy Night Done Right lineup?
Did you know that Memphis and country blues guitarist and songwriter Dan Sane recorded with Frank Stokes , billed as the Beale Street Sheiks?
Did you know that William Hancock was one of seven Hancock brothers to play rugby union for Somerset ?
Did you know that Charles Chauncey Burr was an abolitionist before the American Civil War but then became a Copperhead ?
Did you know that in the 1870s Russian liberals like Guerrier and Chicherin accused Karl Marx of being narrowly concerned with the proletariat and indifferent to the entrepreneur 's "psychic labour"?
Did you know that The Beatles recorded "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" and "Sie Liebt Dich" because the German label Odeon Records insisted that they record their hit songs in German to generate more sales there?
Did you know that the 1994 Health Security Express bus tour experienced technical difficulties, including an overheating bus?
Did you know that studios release films in the fall, during Oscar season , to have a better chance at winning the Academy Awards ?
Did you know that U2 's latest live EP was created as part of a program to draw customers to independent record shops during the 2010 holiday shopping season ?
Did you know that brothers Amos Jr. and Paul Stagg both played quarterback for their father Amos Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicago , and later led teams against each other as college coaches themselves?
Did you know that the Legion of Ratu Adil was a pro- Dutch militia and private army established during the Indonesian National Revolution ?
Did you know that Richard Nixon unilaterally created the United States Environmental Protection Agency with Reorganization Plan No. 3 ?
Did you know that two unexplained stepped tunnels near King Herod 's Hyrcania fortress in the Judean desert have attracted treasure hunters looking for riches described in the Copper Scroll of Qumran ?
Did you know that spitballer Jimmy Dygert , who won 21 games in 1907, weighed about 115 pounds, which may make him the lightest pitcher in Major League Baseball history?
Did you know that the Pawan River and the Lamandau River both flow in the Indonesian part of Borneo ?
Did you know that the "revolutionary" car chase sequence in the 1968 film Bullitt was edited by Oscar-winner Frank P. Keller ?
Did you know that Australian political journalist Alan Reid ' s exposé about B. A. Santamaria led to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955 ?
Did you know that American football safety Jordan Kovacs went from being a walk-on to being the second leading tackler in the Big Ten Conference ?
Did you know that the alumni of the Moscow State Pedagogical University include Mikhail Gorbachev 's wife Raisa ?
Did you know that in 1889 the English judge Samuel Boteler Bristowe was shot in the back by a German maker of false teeth ?
Did you know that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez , who played Nala in Broadway's The Lion King , died of leukemia despite efforts by Alicia Keys , Rihanna and 50 Cent to recruit bone marrow donors from among their fans?
Did you know that the English Arbitration Act 1979 was passed as the Prime Minister went to resign?
Did you know that, in early 1941, Johnny Sturm broke into the New York Yankees lineup after two future Hall of Famers went into slumps?
Did you know that the National Democratic Party was formed in 1978 as the last step in Anwar El Sadat 's four-phase program to introduce a multi-party system to Egypt ?
Did you know that remarks by Hall Thompson that "we don't discriminate in every other area except blacks" before the 1990 PGA Championship led golf 's governing bodies to ban holding tournaments at all-white clubs?
Did you know that Jews are prohibited from praying at the alleged tomb of Nahmanides , a foremost medieval rabbinic scholar and kabbalist ?
Did you know that a Pointer named Judy was the only dog to be registered as a World War II prisoner of war ?
Did you know that Roy Skinner , head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, recruited Perry Wallace as the first African American to play varsity basketball in the Southeastern Conference ?
Did you know that in response to the banning of the niqāb in Egypt , students protested by wearing protective face masks?
Did you know that when A. Skjegstad was hired by Aftenposten , he became one of the few journalists in Norway to go from a labour newspaper to a high-profile conservative newspaper?
Did you know that American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter James Armstrong was almost stabbed to death at his home in 1997?
Did you know that evidence of a Roman settlement has been discovered at Double Arches Pit , a disused sand quarry that is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest ?
Did you know that when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931, U.S. Ambassador to Spain Irwin B. Laughlin advised Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson not to recognize the new government?
Did you know that a Peronist hymn was sung during the 1975 civil wedding of future Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández ?
Did you know that the Imperial Wireless Chain was a wireless telegraphy communications network, built in the 1920s to link the countries of the British Empire ?
Did you know that American country blues singer Lottie Kimbrough was nicknamed "the Kansas City Butterball"?
Did you know that in the 1984 film Who Dies on His Feet , Albanian actor Llazi Sërbo rode a descendant of Naklon , a horse that Stalin had donated to Albania ?
Did you know that in 1907, the winner of the first Giro al Sas 10 km road race in Trento was disqualified for taking a shortcut?
Did you know that U.S. President George H. W. Bush nominated Alfred C. Sikes to be chairperson of the FCC instead of Sherrie Marshall because Sikes was thought to have a better relationship with Congress ?
Did you know that when Harry Oliver joined Watford Football Club , Benskins Brewery paid the transfer fee on the club's behalf?
Did you know that in 1844, USS General Taylor conveyed abolitionist Jonathan Walker to Pensacola , where he was infamously branded "S.S." for "Slave Stealer"?
Did you know that in the 100 metres at the 2010 Commonwealth Games , Natasha Mayers initially won the bronze, was moved up to silver, then was upgraded to the gold medal due to disqualifications?
Did you know that the volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution crews at Falmouth Lifeboat Station share their building with Her Majesty's Coastguard ?
Did you know that Syrian -born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh debuted a concerto written especially for him at the opening of the Damascus Opera House ?
Did you know that John Cougar Mellencamp 's number-one rock song " Lonely Ol' Night " was inspired by the 1963 Paul Newman movie Hud ?
Did you know that Theodore Plucknett was the first ever chair of legal history at the London School of Economics ?
Did you know that one of the world's largest botanical gardens in the 19th century was located on Bogor in present-day Indonesia ?
Did you know that Daren Queenan won the 1989 Continental Basketball Association Dunk Contest?
Did you know that because Arabic author Zaynab Fawwaz wore the niqāb , her husband acted as a messenger between her and the men attending her literary salon ?
Did you know that the communists Harald Slåttelid and Bjarne Dalland were among 17 people executed at Trandum by Norway's Nazi occupiers on 1 March 1943?
Did you know that after the plaintiff in the lawsuit Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System filed a motion to dismiss the case, he mailed checks for US$ 100 to each of the defendants?
Did you know that during the 1990s, Rinia Park in the Albanian capital of Tirana became a notorious spot for drug dealers and illegal buildings?
Did you know that Sempronius Stretton , who sketched people in early Canada , was painted at the Duke of Wellington's annual banquet celebrating their victory at Waterloo ?
Did you know that after his term as acting Governor of Guam , Raymond Stone went on to become a judge on the Supreme Court of Guam ?
Did you know that Libertas , a biographical film about the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić , was approved for funding in 1992, but was not finished until 2006?
Did you know that Louisiana politician and timber magnate Henry E. Hardtner is known as "the father of forestry in the South "?
Did you know that brewing beer from glacial water is only one of the many unique features of Greenlandic cuisine ?
Did you know that Robert-Georg Freiherr von Malapert was the first recipient of the German Cross in Gold?
Did you know that the Mount Lemmon Marathon is entirely uphill and climbs over 1 mile (1.61 km) from start to finish as it follows the General Hitchcock Scenic Byway ?
Did you know that Oscar Nilssen chaired the Hedmark branch of the Norwegian Labour Party for thirty-three years, from 1921 to 1954?
Did you know that the rooms of the Café Rumpelmayer in the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City were designed by the German-born architect Winold Reiss ?
Did you know that Liang Congjie established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China ?
Did you know that all eight venues of the 1964 Winter Olympics were reused when the Games returned to Innsbruck twelve years later ?
Did you know that Eber Brock Ward built the first Bessemer steel mill in the United States ?
Did you know that the Mudawana is the only section of Moroccan law that relies primarily on Islamic sources rather than Spanish or French civil codes?
Did you know that Talyllyn Railway locomotives No. 3 Sir Haydn and No. 4 Edward Thomas both hold the unusual distinction of carrying the same number through the ownership of four different railway companies?
Did you know that Chinese sport shooter Liu Tianyou ‎won his first gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle event at the 2006 Asian Games ?
Did you know that two Berlin U-Bahn stations, Paradestraße and Platz der Luftbrücke , have been called "Flughafen" (airport) because Hitler wanted the entrance to Tempelhof Airport moved?
Did you know that recreational physical activity reduces cancers but not melanoma ?
Did you know that the discovery of asbestos in B5 coaches during renovation has led to a legal dispute between the Norwegian State Railways and Bombardier Transportation ?
Did you know that Lorne Kusugak , a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut , was a founding director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation , a TV network that broadcasts almost entirely in Inuktitut ?
Did you know that Princess Xenia of Montenegro 's refusal of marriage to Alexander I of Serbia severed diplomatic relations between their two countries?
Did you know that the Tristan Thrush is a regular predator of the eggs and chicks of the Great Shearwater ?
Did you know that classic female blues singer Laura Smith recorded two songs about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 ?
Did you know that discretionary trusts in English law have been described as "powers in the nature of trusts" because they cross the traditional distinction between trusts and powers?
Did you know that P.E. de Josselin de Jong was the nephew of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong , a founding father of Dutch anthropology, and that both specialized in Indonesian ethnography ?
Did you know that Mary Emma Allison conceived of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 to raise funds for powdered milk for needy children, a program that had raised $160 million by the time of her death in 2010?
Did you know that the Consulate General of France in Jerusalem established official political ties with the Palestinian government after Yasser Arafat moved to Gaza City in 1994?
Did you know that among the 85 cricketers to play first-class cricket for I Zingari were one member of the British Royal Family , three barons , one Earl , three Members of Parliament and one bishop ?
Did you know that Gee Jon became the first person in the United States to be executed in a gas chamber , after Nevada State Prison officials found that pumping the poison directly into his cell did not work?
Did you know that 30% of the population in the Arab world is classified as overweight or obese , including 80% of adult women in Kuwait ?
Did you know that George Cain 's book Blueschild Baby was called "the most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since Native Son " for its portrayal of "a world that only black people can fully comprehend"?
Did you know that although the fungus Aseroe coccinea was characterized in 1989, its validation as a species was delayed until 2007 because the initial description was not in Latin ?
Did you know that in 1982 the pilot of a Applebay Zuni II glider earned at least seven FAI gliding badges during the course of a single flight?
Did you know that the redevelopment of the Paddington area of London was intended to be comparable in scale to Canary Wharf ?
Did you know that, although the Norwegian newspaper Solungen was only published from 1904 through 1914, its name was involved in a trademark dispute in 2008?
Did you know that Battle of Britain fighter ace Richard Dickie Cork was the only Fleet Air Arm pilot to shoot down five aircraft in a day?
Did you know that when the only known Cylindrocline lorencei died and its seeds would not germinate , it was considered extinct —but it was saved through in vitro culture of part of the seed embryo ?
Did you know that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector ?
Did you know that former Scientologist Tory Christman trained actor John Travolta in his initial Scientology coursework?
Did you know that Reimar Schefold of Leiden University lived among the Sakuddei of Siberut who believe that everything has its own spirit , free to wander as it wishes?
Did you know that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence ?
Did you know that when Sir Christopher Hatton , Lord Chancellor to Elizabeth I , built Holdenby House , he moved the dwellings of Holdenby village away from All Saints Church , leaving it isolated?