kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that children's author Genevieve Foster was a four-time winner of the Newbery Honor ?
Did you know that the Argentinian anarchist movement was the strongest anarchist movement in South America ?
Did you know that the 2010 assessment of the collection and trade of amphibians in Cambodia was a joint initiative of the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity and Fauna and Flora International ?
Did you know that, due to the California gold rush , the Seated Liberty dollar became scarce in American commerce in the early 1850s, only to cause complaints due to a surplus of the coins by the end of the decade?
Did you know that Mayor Henry L. Bridges of Minden , Louisiana , succeeded a future governor in 1928 and defeated a subsequent lieutenant governor in 1930?
Did you know that a talking crow was buried near the temple of the Roman deity Rediculus ?
Did you know that the ancient Roman Amphitheatre of Serdica in central Sofia , Bulgaria , was accidentally discovered during construction works in the 2000s?
Did you know that José Zabala-Santos is one of the pioneers of Philippine comics ?
Did you know that former Leinster Rugby and Scotland coach Matt Williams is a technical adviser to Irish rugby sevens team Shamrock Warriors RFC ?
Did you know that Abdullah Rimawi , one of the founders of the Ba'ath Party in Jordan , became its secretary-general in 1952?
Did you know that the creeping snowberry is assisted by solitary bees , bumblebees , bee-flies , hoverflies , chipmunks and deer mice in reproduction in its native environment?
Did you know that Fujiwara Shunzei once commented that "it is shocking for anyone to write poetry without knowing Genji " ?
Did you know that Bayside Church held its 2011 Easter services at the Power Balance Pavilion (formerly Arco Arena), attracting nearly 17,000 people?
Did you know that the Fasci Italiani all'Estero , the fascist movement for Italian expatriates, which was led by Giuseppe Bastianini , claimed to have groups in over 40 countries in 1925?
Did you know that the late 7th-century Kentish law code , the Law of Hlothhere and Eadric , has no provisions regarding the church?
Did you know that Geograpsus severnsi is the first crab species known to have become extinct ?
Did you know that Indonesian biographer Alberthiene Endah has called writing biographies similar to dating the subject?
Did you know that the Cambriae Typus map shows a sea monster in the Irish Sea ?
Did you know that the 1854 funeral procession for London Ferrill , preacher of First African Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky , numbered 5,000, second only to that for the statesman Henry Clay ?
Did you know that bride-buying , although illegal, still takes place in some countries?
Did you know that as a senior in 1972–73, St. John's University basketball standout Billy Schaeffer averaged a school record 24.7 points per game en route to winning the Haggerty Award ?
Did you know that 10% of skiers were expected to suffer an injury in the era of cable ski bindings , earning them the nickname "bear traps"?
Did you know that Modernisme architect Joan Martorell headed the committee that in 1883 selected Antoni Gaudí to complete the still-unfinished Sagrada Família ?
Did you know that according to the Parks and Recreation episode " Road Trip ", the character played by actress Rashida Jones looks very good dressed like a prostitute?
Did you know that Ethiopia , Great Britain , Ireland , Israel , Jamaica , Japan , Rhodesia , South Africa , Spain , Sweden , and the United States were among the 28 nations that competed in the 1968 Summer Paralympics ?
Did you know that adivasi activist Kartam Joga has been accused of joining the deadliest Naxalite attack in India's history ?
Did you know that Rhodes Twenty Four and Rhodes W1 are both London-based Michelin star restaurants of chef Gary Rhodes ?
Did you know that the extinct giant ant genus Formicium is known only from forewings found in Dorset , England and Tennessee , US?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano opera singer Olivia Ward won season 11 of US television show The Biggest Loser ?
Did you know that Kegasus , the centaur mascot of the infield party at the 2011 Preakness Stakes , has a nipple ring, body hair and a beer gut?
Did you know that Arthur Bedford commanded HMS Kent in the 1914 Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank the German cruiser Nürnberg ?
Did you know that the 2011 indie film Return , directed by Liza Johnson and starring Linda Cardellini , was the only U.S. film selected for this year's 25-film Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight ?
Did you know that Welsh footballer Dickie Morris became the first Plymouth Argyle player to be capped at senior international level in April 1908 ?
Did you know that although the Brazilian rodent Drymoreomys has traits that suggest it lives in trees, it is usually captured on the ground?
Did you know that 84-year-old Gus Douglass , who was first elected as West Virginia Agriculture Commissioner in 1964, is the longest-serving state agriculture commissioner in United States history?
Did you know that residents of a street in the British city of Preston went without council services for six weeks as part of a BBC documentary ?
Did you know that the Ironwood Pig Sanctuary contains over 400 pigs and three pig graveyards?
Did you know that a paper by the academic Rod Thornton was censored for criticising the UK 's arrest of a student who downloaded a copy of an Al-Qaeda training manual from a US government web site?
Did you know that the bodyguard to the Pet Shop Boys was a leader of Arsenal FC 's hooligan firm during the 1980s?
Did you know that all graduates from Ghanaian tertiary institutions must complete a one year national service programme after their schooling?
Did you know that having "killed" her alter ego Sasha Fierce in 2010, Beyoncé Knowles planned to create her own mix of music genres with her fourth studio album, 4 ?
Did you know that the top prize on Al Murray's Compete for the Meat is a frozen chicken ?
Did you know that 19th-century shipwright Thomas Morton invented the widely used patent slip because he couldn't afford a dry dock ?
Did you know that the first settlers of Tell Halula brought fully domesticated forms of wheat , barley and flax from somewhere else, circa 7750 BC ?
Did you know that father and son Augustyn and Roman Träger were Polish intelligence agents who provided the Allies with crucial information about German testing of the V-1 and V-2 rockets during World War II?
Did you know that Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler wrote the script for the episode " The Fight ", the filming for which she called "the most fun I've ever had"?
Did you know that Tom Sullivan is only the second head coach in UMBC Retrievers men's basketball history to amass 100 career wins?
Did you know that "unruly" diplomat Henry Labouchère was the first person to publish Truth in Britain?
Did you know that the icon of " the Death of Death " is popular in South India ?
Did you know that the European Parliament issued a resolution condemning the drug arrest of Azerbaijani activist Jabbar Savalan ?
Did you know that star WASP-15 has a planet whose large radius cannot be explained without some other factor, such as some form of internal heating?
Did you know that Phoenix Suns president and CEO Rick Welts became the first prominent American sports executive to come out as gay when he did so in an interview with The New York Times on May 15 , 2011?
Did you know that feminist writer Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan rallied with an organization which argued that union with Romania had harmed the women of Transylvania ?
Did you know that David Duchovny said, "I'm sure that nobody is looking at me", when standing beside Jennifer Lopez who was wearing her "jungle" Versace dress ?
Did you know that University of Virginia professor Peter Ochs , who coined the term " scriptural reasoning ", believes that this mode of interfaith dialog could achieve peace in the Middle East ?
Did you know that the Canadian Opimian Society wine purchasing cooperative is named after Roman consul Lucius Opimius ?
Did you know that the documentary Oil on Ice won the 2004 International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Award for best representing the "democratic sensibility, activist spirit and lyrical vision" of Lorentz ?
Did you know that Oguntola Sapara infiltrated and exposed a secret society in Nigeria that was deliberately spreading smallpox ?
Did you know that Operation Breakthrough was an international effort to free three gray whales from pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska in 1988?
Did you know that a motocycle is not a two-wheeled bicycle with an engine, but a four-wheeled automobile ?
Did you know that Paratroop dog Glen of the 9th Parachute Battalion was killed during the Normandy Landings and is buried in a British war cemetery?
Did you know that NGO PSCORE uses the term Corea to promote North Korean and South Korean unity?
Did you know that at the 2008 Games , Nick Woodbridge and Sam Weale became the first British men to compete in Olympic modern pentathlon since 1996?
Did you know that the evergreen juniper haircap moss is believed to be a powerful diuretic ?
Did you know that Valentino Garavani cited the moment Julia Roberts collected her Academy Award for Best Actress wearing his gown as the high point of his 45-year career?
Did you know that according to The Dog Pillow , wearing armour without underwear makes one's hair stand on end?
Did you know that the then-closed Hayford Mill in Cambusbarron , Scotland , now a Category A listed building , was used during World War I as a training base by the King's Own Scottish Borderers ?
Did you know that New York Judge Charles Fraser MacLean earned the first U.S. Ph.D. in philosophy and was among the first non-combatants to enter Paris after the French surrender in the Franco-Prussian War ?
Did you know that the Croatian National Theatre in Split was the biggest theatre in Southeast Europe at the time of its completion in 1893, even though there were no professional actors in the city of Split yet?
Did you know that filming for the now-on-hold Arnold Schwarzenegger movie project Cry Macho originally began in 1991 with Jaws star Roy Scheider in the lead role?
Did you know that the dayflower family genus Cartonema is completely restricted to Australia except for one species that occurs on Trangan Island in Indonesia ?
Did you know that the first Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Navy wore a cross ?
Did you know that in the Battle of Byczyna , Chancellor and Hetman Jan Zamoyski of Poland-Lithuania took Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria prisoner, ending the brief War of the Polish Succession ?
Did you know that U.S. President Barack Obama delivered the 2011 commencement speech at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tennessee ?
Did you know that the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's has been called "perhaps the most famous little black dress of all time"?
Did you know that Hugh Boustead deserted the Royal Navy to fight in the trenches during World War I , and later became an Olympic pentathlete , explorer and diplomat?
Did you know that St. Vital Bulldogs' leading rusher had to reschedule his wedding four times due to changing dates for the Canadian Amateur Football Association championship game against the Bramalea Satellites ?
Did you know that the Jain universal history is composed of the deeds of 63 illustrious persons known as Salakapurusas ?
Did you know that some English fans, including members of Combat 18 , gave the Nazi salute to the Irish national anthem before the Lansdowne Road football riot ?
Did you know that the extinct Pliocene pine Pinus matthewsii is thought to have been a colonizing tree?
Did you know that the scene featuring Ursula Andress in her iconic white bikini in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No has been voted No. 1 in "the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments" of cinema?
Did you know that taaffeite , one of the world's rarest gemstones , is the first mineral known to contain both beryllium and magnesium as essential components?
Did you know that Henry Walton Ellis was appointed an ensign in the 89th Regiment of Foot at birth, and when the regiment disbanded the baby was put on half-pay?
Did you know that the Franklin House , built on a lot once owned by the University of Georgia , has held a hotel and a hardware company, and now leases office space to the university?
Did you know that the 2003 Bollywood comedy drama Freaky Chakra , directed by V. K. Prakash , was the only Hindi film for which Ouseppachan composed the music?
Did you know that Filipino comic book illustrator and writer Francisco Coching is regarded as the King of Philippine comics ?
Did you know that Charlotte Shaw , who drowned in Walla Brook on Dartmoor , is the only person to have died on a Ten Tors expedition?
Did you know that Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Mark "Swinger" Fulton had an image of former leader Billy Wright tattooed over his heart?
Did you know that Echobelly 's 1994 song " Insomniac " is a "gentle warning of the dangers of snorting too much speed"?
Did you know that after his term as President of Argentina , Bartolomé Mitre wrote a biography of José de San Martín : Historia de San Martín y de la emancipación sudamericana ?
Did you know that families of farmers and fishermen affected by submergence of the Upper Wardha Dam , in Maharashtra resorted to agitation, seeking fishing rights in the reservoir as an economic incentive?
Did you know that Romanian scholar Nicolae Iorga constructed a conservative vision of world history, contrasting Max Weber 's Protestant Ethic ?
Did you know that spiderlings of Crossopriza lyoni can catch mosquitoes four times their own size barely one week after hatching?
Did you know that Time magazine voted the white floral Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn at the 1954 Academy Awards as the greatest Oscar dress of all time?
Did you know that Don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story has been described as a profoundly moving video game about love, sex and the internet ?
Did you know that Colonel Waldemar Quintero of the Colombian National Police was shot and killed by the Medellín Cartel ?
Did you know that " Dirty Dancer ", a song by Enrique Iglesias , Usher and Lil Wayne , was performed by Iglesias on American Idol on May 12 , 2011?
Did you know that Hermann Kasack 's first novel Die Stadt hinter dem Strom , published in 1947, "catapult[ed] his name into the literary limelight" and won the 1949 Fontane prize of Berlin ?
Did you know that Burmese democracy activist Ohn Than is serving a life sentence for holding up a poster in front of the US Embassy in Yangon ?
Did you know that the Ralph Lauren dress which Gwyneth Paltrow wore to the 71st Academy Awards in 1999 has been cited as bringing pink back into fashion?
Did you know that Henry Graham was dismissed by Queen Anne 's husband for marrying the natural daughter of King Charles II ?
Did you know that a chorale in Bach 's cantata Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166 , is sung by the soprano , accompanied by the violins and viola in unison "of great vigour and determination"?
Did you know that MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb is the eleventh planet discovered using the gravitational microlensing phenomenon?
Did you know that the Sixty Pillar Mosque located in Bagergat in south Bangladesh is one of the oldest mosques in the country, and is described as "historic mosque representing the Golden Era of Muslim Bengal"?
Did you know that in the 1980s Gciriku king Sebastian Kamwanga allowed PLAN guerrilla fighters to use his farm as operational base in the Namibian War of Independence ?
Did you know that a poll published in The Daily Telegraph voted Björk 's swan dress the ninth most iconic red-carpet dress of all time?
Did you know that in 2010, Wipas Raksakulthai became the first Thai man arrested for committing lèse majesté on Facebook ?
Did you know that after World War II the 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion had to deal with riots in Tel Aviv ?
Did you know that the 10th or 11th-century Old Bulgarian Enina Apostle is the oldest Cyrillic manuscript currently part of a Bulgarian collection?
Did you know that during his student days, working on spermatogenesis , UCSF Medical Center pediatric cardiologist Julien Hoffman developed a close relationship with Sydney Brenner and Phillip V. Tobias ?
Did you know that when the 5,800-seat Four Seasons Arena was built at Montana ExpoPark in 1979 it lacked air conditioning ?
Did you know that Elastica 's 1995 song " Waking Up " resulted in the band being sued for plagiarism ?
Did you know that the Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum in Hillsboro, Oregon , once bought a fighter jet from a car dealership ?
Did you know that although Ray Charles and Nancy Sinatra solos of " Here We Go Again " made Billboard' s Hot 100 , Charles' 2004 duet with Norah Jones became the second Grammy Record of the Year that did not?
Did you know that in the 1970s the Daily Times of Nigeria was one of the most successful locally owned businesses in Africa, selling 270,000 copies daily?
Did you know that the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is predicted to contain 45 copies of vapBC ?
Did you know that Bardhyl Ajeti , a journalist from Kosovo , was killed in a drive-by shooting on 28 June 2005?
Did you know that Deborah Nadoolman Landis , designer of Michael Jackson 's red Thriller jacket , also designed Indiana Jones 's jacket in Raiders of the Lost Ark ?
Did you know that first baseman Mike Pasquella played two games in Major League Baseball —his first for the Philadelphia Phillies and his last opposing them?
Did you know that Montenegrin nationality law first recognised the right of renunciation of citizenship in 1905 during the reign of Nicholas I ?
Did you know that the Malagasy rodent Eliurus petteri is the only tufted-tailed rat with completely white underparts?
Did you know that Lauren Beukes wore a fake sloth draped over her shoulders to the ceremony in which she won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City ?
Did you know that, as president of the College of St. Scholastica , Jesuit educator Francis X. Shea started a campus tradition by holding a fish fry at his home during the spring smelt run?
Did you know that the Belgian Entertainment Association , established in February 2008 , represents the interests of the music , video and video game industries in Belgium ?
Did you know that the 15.5-metre (51 ft) floodgate that protected Fudai, Iwate , Japan, from the recent tsunami was derided as a waste of public funds when it was built in the 1970s?
Did you know that Women's League of Burma activist Khin Ohmar evaded arrest during Burma 's pro-democracy 8888 Uprising when a Japanese diplomat allowed her and other students to hide from police in his home?
Did you know that under the presidency of Father Francis P. Smith , Duquesne University founded WDUQ , Pittsburgh 's first college radio station ?
Did you know that all the equipment for the power plant of the Rana Pratap Sagar Dam in India was imported from Canada ?
Did you know that Jesse Levan , winner of multiple minor league batting championships, was the last person banned by baseball 's governing organizations for conspiring to fix games ?
Did you know that the Isthmian Alligator Lizard , native to Costa Rica and Panama , was not seen for 50 years?
Did you know that Adam Mansbach 's bedtime-book Go the Fuck to Sleep was No. 1 on Amazon.com 's bestseller list on May 12, 2011—a month before its release—thanks to free advance copies emailed via PDFs ?
Did you know that the church of Saints Martin and Sebastian of the Swiss is the private chapel of the Pontifical Swiss Guards in the Vatican City ?
Did you know that the Working Girls' Vacation Society Historic District in rural Connecticut is a site where thousands of New York City women were given summer vacations during 1892 to 1945?
Did you know that Ugandan Rolling Stone editor Giles Muhame alleged that a gay rights group conspired with Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab in the July 2010 Kampala suicide bombings ?
Did you know that Walt Disney's Riverfront Square in St. Louis, Missouri , was to have been entirely indoors, with artificial lighting simulating weather and time of day?
Did you know that the German destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt was sunk during the 1942 Battle of the Barents Sea when she mistook the British light cruiser Sheffield for the German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper ?
Did you know that the meat dress of Lady Gaga was to be preserved by being made into a type of jerky ?
Did you know that the Irish bishop and saint, Dagan , may have attempted to excommunicate the Roman missionaries sent by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Anglo-Saxons by refusing to eat with them?
Did you know that 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America , a 2011 dystopian novel by Albert Brooks , was originally written as a movie script?
Did you know that Roger Sutton might be the most important appointment of the year for the Government of New Zealand ?
Did you know that Warblington Castle near Langstone in Hampshire was granted to two different 1st Earls of Southampton ?
Did you know that during World War II , a Luftwaffe pilot, observing that there were several wounded crewmen on a United States Army Air Corps 's plane, declined to fire and safely escorted it to the North Sea ?
Did you know that the Kingdom of the Little People theme park in Kunming, China , requires its performers to be less than 51 inches (130 cm) tall?
Did you know that unusual archosauromorph reptile Teraterpeton from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia had nostril openings in its skull that were longer than its eye sockets ?
Did you know that the Gandhi Sagar Dam forms India 's second-largest reservoir area, attracting more than 20,000 waterfowl each year?
Did you know that in 2010, national security consultant, lawyer and economist Jim Rickards rated Ben Bernanke a greater threat to the United States than Osama bin Laden?
Did you know that the Grammy Award category for Best Hawaiian Music Album was first presented in 2005 but eliminated six years later?
Did you know that when Father Raymond V. Kirk was appointed president of Duquesne University at the age of 38, he was one of the youngest university presidents in the United States?
Did you know that early female tennis players in Australia had to pay as much as a week's wages to buy a racquet ?
Did you know that the anomalously high radius of extrasolar planet WASP-15b is thought to be caused by some form of internal heating?
Did you know that breeding males of the Malagasy rodent Voalavo produce a sweet-smelling musk?
Did you know that Peter Velappan served as General Secretary of the Asian Football Confederation for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2007?
Did you know that Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant has been described as a "cult favorite", a "brunch magnet", and New York City’s "hottest breakfast nook"?
Did you know that Indian sitarist Janardhan Mitta was a student of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar ?
Did you know that Greek skier Antoin Miliordos crossed the finish line of the downhill event at the 1952 Winter Olympics backwards after falling 18 times?
Did you know that Carex riparia , a Eurasian plant up to 130 cm (51 in) tall, is Britain's largest sedge ?
Did you know that the Argentine philologist María Rosa Lida de Malkiel was an Arthurian - Hispanist pioneer?
Did you know that in March 2011, Ghana 's National Disaster Management Organization announced it would set up five refugee camps for Ivorians fleeing post-election violence in their country?
Did you know that English footballer Walter Anderson died of pneumonia four days after collapsing at Craven Cottage , having ignored doctors' advice to rest?
Did you know that the Battle of Bautzen in 1945 was the bloodiest battle of the Polish Army since the Battle of Bzura in 1939?
Did you know that serial killer Richard Laurence Marquette was the first person to be an eleventh name on the FBI 's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list?
Did you know that Khun Htun Oo , a former head of Burma 's Shan Nationalities League for Democracy , is now serving a 93-year sentence for treason ?