kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that in the 2015 Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency by-election , Janata Dal (United) 's candidate was supported by five other parties?
Did you know that the States of Jersey were obliged to ask permission from Queen Elizabeth II in order to adopt the Jersey Red Ensign , because it contained the Jersey Arms with the Plantagenet crown?
Did you know that Russia's Aluchin volcano is thought to have formed around 1000 CE?
Did you know that the Hiroshima Lightning was the only active team refused entry into Japanese basketball's B.League ?
Did you know that after the 6-foot-9-inch (206 cm), 300-pound (140 kg) former Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris disappeared two years ago today, searchers wondered why they could find no trace of such a large man?
Did you know that of the 482 coins found in the Viking Age Sundveda Hoard outside Stockholm , only one came from Western Europe?
Did you know that in 1985, China–Hong Kong football rivalry resulted in China's first recorded case of football hooliganism ?
Did you know that the Cuban national Order of Playa Girón , named after the location of the Bay of Pigs Invasion , was first presented to the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ?
Did you know that on one occasion, protesters used a foghorn to discourage Mormons in Ireland from meeting?
Did you know that Charles Brantley was the first person in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry to be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that Alyssa Milano released four studio albums in Japan after appearing in ads there for pasta and chocolate milk?
Did you know that after admitting he took $10,000 to help a fictitious Arab sheikh , Joseph A. Maressa argued that "it would be patriotic to take some of this OPEC oil money and get it back to the United States"?
Did you know that the opening episode of Cash Trapped contained a continuity error which revealed the outcome at the start of the game show?
Did you know that Guiseley A.F.C. were accused of "disgraceful unsporting behaviour" when a player broke an unwritten fair-play convention to score past goalkeeper Tom King ?
Did you know that in 1960, two barges collided with the 4,162-foot (1,270 m) Severn Railway Bridge , causing two bridge spans to fall into the river?
Did you know that a reviewer of Zwölf Stücke , Op. 65 , twelve organ pieces by Max Reger , wrote that the composer was "still in his storm and stress period"?
Did you know that research by Columbia Law School professor Jeffrey Fagan into stop-and-frisk in New York City was a major factor in Judge Shira Scheindlin 's decision to rule the practice unconstitutional in 2013?
Did you know that the BBC 's Daud Junbish is one of the few journalists in the world to have met former Taliban chief Mullah Omar ?
Did you know that members of a press gang from HMS Aigle stood trial for murder when four people were killed during a raid on the Isle of Portland in 1803?
Did you know that Finnish architect Gustaf Nyström has been described as a "legendary teacher of architecture"?
Did you know that the University of Dundee School of Medicine has one of the biggest research complexes in the UK?
Did you know that in 2013 the mayor of Yokneam Illit called for the rural village of Yokneam Moshava to be annexed to his city because it was blocking the city's ability to expand?
Did you know that in the second year after its launch, biological preprints hosted on bioRxiv repository were tweeted about on over 20,000 occasions?
Did you know that actress Georgina Bouzova feared that people would spit at her because of the behaviour of her character Ellen Zitek ?
Did you know that different measurements of the size of the hydrogen atom nucleus when a muon replaces an electron is an unsolved problem in physics known as the proton radius puzzle ?
Did you know that Carnethy 5 , an annual hill race held in the Pentland Hills , commemorates the Battle of Roslin ?
Did you know that the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 deaths in Florida, making it the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the US, behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane ?
Did you know that the fossil ant Gesomyrmex magnus is notably larger than any other living or extinct Gesomyrmex species?
Did you know that Max Esposito and his sister Chloe were the first Australian athletes to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that although the Beatles had a more successful version, the first recording of " Twist and Shout " was by The Top Notes , and was produced by Phil Spector —who later went on to produce the Beatles?
Did you know that Ravana had promised Kalanemi half his kingdom if he killed Hanuman ?
Did you know that New York City's Citywide Ferry Service is expected to carry 4.6 million passengers each year, roughly as many as the New York City Subway carries each weekday?
Did you know that Duayne Boachie was nominated for a "Best Newcomer" award at the 2016 British Soap Awards for his portrayal of Zack Loveday ?
Did you know that in 1998, The Boston Globe said the girls' video game market was "exploding" with titles such as The American Girls Premiere ?
Did you know that Moise Poida , the Vanuatuan national football team manager, has played against World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane ?
Did you know that eruptions of Anyuyskiy Volcano in Siberia may have inspired legends of places where hunting is banned and smoke and fire rise from the ground?
Did you know that John Harvard may have been inspired by Clio ?
Did you know that Edward Iacobucci has followed in his father Frank Iacobucci 's footsteps as dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law ?
Did you know that Chinese Ding ware of the 11th century has been described both as porcelain and as stoneware ?
Did you know that Ingmar Bergman based his script for the Palme d'Or -winning film The Best Intentions on the life of his father Erik Bergman , salvaged from scattered notes, stories, and conversations?
Did you know that the Wrecking Crew supplied the instrumental tracks on dozens of hits recorded in Los Angeles during the 1960s, including " California Dreamin' " , " Mr. Tambourine Man ", " He's a Rebel ", and " Good Vibrations "?
Did you know that Laurence Fishburne played Josh Hall , a member of "daytime television's first African American family," on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live ?
Did you know that when Talbieh Refugee Camp first opened, most of its inhabitants were displaced persons , as opposed to refugees ?
Did you know that syndicated cartoonist Mark Tatulli received a note from a former teacher saying "I can't believe you're still doing the same crap you were doing in junior high, and now getting paid for it"?
Did you know that in the 1970 Florida gubernatorial election , Claude Kirk called Reubin Askew a "momma’s boy who wouldn't have the courage to stand up under the fire of the legislators"?
Did you know that to reduce injuries, professional tennis tournaments are no longer played on carpet courts ?
Did you know that the Bayit Lepletot orphanage in Jerusalem houses and educates girls from as young as three years of age until they are ready to marry and start homes of their own?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines shooting guard Charles Matthews preferred the trombone and skateboard to basketball in his youth?
Did you know that the fossil ant species Formica paleosibirica has been described from only three partial males and two lone wings?
Did you know that at age 78, Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe was awarded the Padma Shri for his lifetime work in photography?
Did you know that the Get Out and Push Railroad required passengers to help its trains over the steeper sections of the route?
Did you know that Akiyama Tokuzō , once referred to as the "Japanese Escoffier ", became Master Chef of the Imperial Court of Japan at only 25 years of age?
Did you know that in the 1990s Disney created animated storybook video games for The Lion King , Pocahontas , Toy Story , The Hunchback of Notre Dame , 101 Dalmatians , Hercules , The Little Mermaid , and Mulan , as well as 1966 and 1974 shorts based on Winnie the Pooh ?
Did you know that Emma Wiggs , a gold medallist in paracanoe at the 2016 Paralympics, competed at the 2012 Paralympics as a sitting volleyball player?
Did you know that planners of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda offered free land to the first 50 families, but there were no takers?
Did you know that the statistician Kai-Tai Fang 's dissertation was written in two weeks but not published for 19 years because of the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that in honor of Georgia Tech 's 1929 Rose Bowl victory, running back Stumpy Thomason was given a bear cub by a local businessman, which he drove around Atlanta and fed Coca-Cola?
Did you know that the stories of Italian author and Holocaust survivor Rubino Romeo Salmonì were an inspiration for Roberto Benigni 's 1997 film Life Is Beautiful ?
Did you know that Restaurant Andrew Fairlie is known for a signature dish of lobster cold smoked over whisky casks?
Did you know that Zufar al-Kilabi was given a high position in the Umayyad court and army in return for abandoning his support for the rebellion of Ibn al-Zubayr ?
Did you know that Channel 4 's 2016 Paralympics trailer " We're the Superhumans " featured a big band comprised of musicians with disabilities?
Did you know that Moldavian pediatrician Anastasie Fătu proposed a ban on open-casket church funerals?
Did you know that Jordan has remained one of the safest countries in the Middle East , despite regional turmoil?
Did you know that RKO Pictures fired director Howard Hawks after Bringing Up Baby flopped, but the 1938 screwball comedy is now regarded as one of Hawks' masterpieces?
Did you know that Timber Sycamore is a covert CIA program that arms and trains rebels in the Syrian civil war ?
Did you know that the Paralympic canoeing champion Anne Dickins had to overcome seasickness when she took up the sport?
Did you know that the turnip aphid is highly prolific, with as many as 35 generations a year being recorded in Texas?
Did you know that Daniel Dalton has a graduate degree in public administration , but called his work in a U.S. congressman's office "the greatest education I've ever had"?
Did you know that the CMLL 68th Anniversary Show was the first time that a steel cage match was held at a CMLL anniversary show ?
Did you know that when King George Tupou II of Tonga married Lavinia Veiongo instead of ʻOfakivavaʻu, there were riots in the streets of Nukuʻalofa ?
Did you know that the Sunday Mirror recommended that players stumped by video game Myst should get Pyst ?
Did you know that it is not known whether the Marquis Léonce de Tarragon named the rosy-throated longclaw ( Macronyx ameliae ) for his wife or his mother?
Did you know that horse trainer Wink Groover and his Tennessee Walking Horse Ace's Sensation won a World Grand Championship at their third attempt?
Did you know that Sairecabur has the world's highest submillimetre telescope and is adjacent to a peak that may have been one of the world's highest volcanoes at about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
Did you know that Auschwitz survivor Bat-Sheva Dagan writes Holocaust stories for children that have happy endings "in order not to rob them of their faith in mankind"?
Did you know that video game MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death features characters paired with robotic Guardians?
Did you know that the chamber orchestra Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen , founded in 1958, is the only orchestra to regularly perform at the historic Villa Hügel ?
Did you know that Section 127 of the Australian Constitution mandated that the Aboriginal peoples not be counted in "reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth"?
Did you know that Suzuka Mambo was a Japanese racehorse sired by the American 1989 Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence ?
Did you know that 4A Games hoped that Metro: Last Light would "rekindle memories of Half-Life 2 "?
Did you know that the South Sudan National Cup has been won more times by Al-Malakia FC than by any other team?
Did you know that since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej , ultra-royalists in Thailand have criticized and harassed those who did not wear mourning black?
Did you know that during the 1895 counter-revolution , Joseph Heleluhe , private secretary to Hawaii's deposed queen Liliuokalani , was "stripped of all clothing and placed in a dark cell without light, food or water"?
Did you know that the United States' team at the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup consisted entirely of athletes with experience in other sports, but none in kabaddi ?
Did you know that Cybele Records has published award-winning audiobooks, "portraits" of living composers, and in 2016 the complete organ works of Max Reger ?
Did you know that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to siphon votes from the Democratic candidate?
Did you know that the Palace of Cerro Castillo is the summer residence of the President of Chile ?
Did you know that Slovenian gymnast and Olympic medallist Boris Gregorka later coached the double gold Olympic medallist Miroslav Cerar ?
Did you know that around 1100, Yaozhou ware was accepted by the Chinese Imperial court, but several decades later it was described by a poet as "extremely coarse and used only by restaurants"?
Did you know that Montreal architect Maxwell M. Kalman designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Canada's first shopping centre ?
Did you know that The Passion of Christ was moved from one church to another, which saved it from being destroyed by fire in 1904?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Pakistan was founded on the sidelines of the 1948 Second Party Congress of the Communist Party of India in Calcutta ?
Did you know that boxer Issake Dabore was the first athlete from Niger to win an Olympic medal?
Did you know that the Sentry anti-ballistic missile was packed into a container that looked like an MX missile ?
Did you know that with A Wrinkle in Time , Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a live-action film with a budget over $100 million?
Did you know that Martin Gotthard Schneider wrote the lyrics and music for the hymn Danke , which made it to the German charts in 1963?
Did you know that per-capita consumption of primary energy in the Faroe Islands is about 60% higher than that in continental Denmark ?
Did you know that in the run-up to the 1953 Philadelphia municipal election , a Democratic nominee died and the office he was running for was abolished?
Did you know that W.Z. Ahmed 's film Roohi was the first to be banned in Pakistan?
Did you know that "gold thread and iron wire" Ge ware has two sets of cracks in the glaze , accentuated by staining in different colours?
Did you know that in her Gloria , Hyo-Won Woo combines elements from Korean music and Western contemporary composition techniques?
Did you know that the Swaziland national cricket team was disqualified from the 2016 ICC Africa Twenty20 Division Two after they fielded ineligible players in 2014?
Did you know that when Barbara Berman and Mary Keating Croce took office in 1978, they became the first pair of women to represent a single legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly ?
Did you know that quarrying at West End in Penistone Hill Country Park once involved using a bar to make the cliff face collapse whilst the workers ran away?
Did you know that everyone eligible to receive the Commemorative Medal for Participants of the Barricades of 1991 from Latvia has already received one?
Did you know that Soledad Alatorre , known for her labor activism and advocacy of civil rights , previously worked as a model for bathing suits ?
Did you know that after a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp became a Russian emperor , his wife and son traded away his ancestral lands in the Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo ?
Did you know that Maurice Gaffney was the oldest practising barrister in Ireland when he died aged 100?
Did you know that the daily newspaper Aachener Zeitung began as the first free newspaper published by Germans after World War II?
Did you know that the USS Helianthus , built as a private motorboat, went on to serve as a patrol boat for the U.S. Navy, and then for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ?
Did you know that Conservative Member of Parliament Sarah Wollaston switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit Vote Leave group, calling its repetition of debunked claims " post-truth politics "?
Did you know that while writing Here I Am , Jonathan Safran Foer would move between rooms of his house whenever he experienced a "Jonathan block"?
Did you know that " Danke ", one of Germany's best-known sacred songs, was considered a sin against music and religion when first released?
Did you know that Monique Luiz , star of the famous 1964 political advertisement Daisy , did not see it for herself until 2000?
Did you know that the 308th Infantry Regiment was the first United States National Army regiment in the First World War to be presented with its regimental colors?
Did you know that with a modest force of Bedouin horsemen, Shibl al-Dawla Nasr defeated a much larger Byzantine army led by Emperor Romanos III ?
Did you know that events at Los Angeles ' Fiesta Park included a reception for President William McKinley , the Los Angeles Auto Show , and USC Trojans football games?
Did you know that the Liberian Welington Zaza is the African junior record holder in the men's 110 metres hurdles ?
Did you know that the Eider Canal was first proposed as part of Ducal Holstein , built under Danish rule, conquered by Prussia , and decommissioned under the German Empire ?
Did you know that Dr. J. Butz , founded in 1924, has published sacred music by English composers such as Colin Mawby , Christopher Tambling , and Robert W. Jones in Germany?
Did you know that in 2016, Rachel Freier became the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge in the state of New York ?
Did you know that Mauritian boxer Kennedy St-Pierre has won two gold medals at the African Games , one in the middleweight division and one in the heavyweight division?
Did you know that The Vine in Vancouver, Washington, will be the first bus rapid transit system in the Portland metropolitan area ?
Did you know that Proceratium petrosum is one of two ant species in the genus Proceratium described from fossil males?
Did you know that Eugen Eckert , who wrote the lyrics of more than a thousand songs in the Neues Geistliches Lied genre, is the minister for a sports stadium in Frankfurt ?
Did you know that daisy bushes can be downy , viscid , twiggy , or clammy ?
Did you know that when it was released in 2012, Cybergeddon was the most expensive web series ever made?
Did you know that Jin Chae-seon was the first female master of pansori , a male-dominated Korean folk opera genre?
Did you know that Streitraum , a regular series of panel discussions with Carolin Emcke , has been called "an intelligent and aggressive public lecture series"?
Did you know that Gilberto Gil said his Grammy Award for Quanta Live was particularly meaningful because the album is a summary of his three decades in music?
Did you know that resists can be used in dyeing textiles , pottery, painting, metalwork, and semiconductor fabrication ?
Did you know that Marc Bassingthwaighte is a two-time medalist at the Namibian National Road Race Championships ?
Did you know that the black-and-white 1923 Western Wild Bill Hickok starring William Hart was the first film to depict Wyatt Earp ?
Did you know that the curve of the roof of Oriam , Scotland's new national sports training centre, was inspired by Roberto Carlos 's goal that "defied physics"?
Did you know that tap dancer Ayodele Casel developed her style under the influence of salsa music ?
Did you know that Burning Rangers was among the last five Sega Saturn games released in America?
Did you know that Alfred Clark pioneered continuity, plot, and special effects in The Execution of Mary Stuart ?
Did you know that " Inspirasi " was written by Faizal Tahir as a tribute to Siti Nurhaliza and her achievements in the Malaysian music scene for the past 20 years?
Did you know that Taiwan's Danhai Light Rail Transit cars will have batteries so that the overhead power cable does not need to be continuous through intersections?
Did you know that photographer Sally Bush bought a 1909 Baker electric car and drove it just once, through the front window of a local pharmacy?
Did you know that University of Sydney students might have failed if they had not started studying by the time the jacaranda tree bloomed?
Did you know that fencer Salah Dessouki also served as the Governor of Cairo ?
Did you know that after the mutineer sailors involved in the Revolt of the Lash were granted amnesty, many were discharged from the Brazilian Navy, put in prison, or sent to work on rubber plantations?
Did you know that the Golden Ball pub in Bishophill is owned by a local community cooperative?
Did you know that St John Harmsworth designed the iconic Perrier bottle, based on Indian exercise clubs he used after being paralysed from the waist down in a 1906 car crash?
Did you know that cerium saved the writer Primo Levi 's life in Auschwitz ?
Did you know that at the age of 23, Roman Tmetuchl was placed in the 11th grade at George Washington High School ?
Did you know that in the geography of Somerset , rough ground where lead was once mined is called "gruffy"?
Did you know that the New Jersey black bear Pedals walked on his hind legs due to injuries to his front paws?
Did you know that Odile Ahouanwanou broke the Beninese record for the 100 metres hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that in breeding pairs of the orange ground thrush , the female consistently weighs more than the male?
Did you know that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a predatory conference using iOS 's autocomplete function and it was accepted within three hours?
Did you know that during the West African Ebola virus epidemic as many as 15 different vaccines were in development?
Did you know that the 7th Marquess of Bristol once reportedly opened a fridge door by blasting it with a shotgun?
Did you know that each larva of the lesser clover leaf weevil damages three or four clover inflorescences ?
Did you know that Jessica Alba reprised her role as Max Guevara in the video game Dark Angel by voicing the character?
Did you know that when the Latvian town of Talsi became part of the Russian Empire , sixty percent of its population was Baltic German ?
Did you know that 13-year-old Togolese swimmer Adzo Kpossi was the youngest athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Warratyi , the oldest known site of human habitation in inland Australia , was discovered by a man looking for somewhere to go to the toilet?
Did you know that Taslima Akhter 's photograph " Final Embrace " became an iconic image of the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse ?
Did you know that " Dirgahayu ", by Malaysian artists Faizal Tahir and Siti Nurhaliza , serves as a theme song for a 100-episode television series?
Did you know that at the suggestion of a group of fourth-graders, Thomas J. Shusted and John A. Rocco introduced legislation that made Hadrosaurus foulkii New Jersey's official state dinosaur ?
Did you know that a new organ with 3,370 pipes was built in the Gothic church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main in 2008?
Did you know that Moses Bensinger helped organize the American Bowling Congress , which standardized the rules of modern ten-pin bowling ?
Did you know that the Katihar Medical College campus includes a 590-bed general hospital and a branch of the State Bank of India ?
Did you know that the hosts of the podcast Chapo Trap House popularized the "Baseball Crank" Twitter meme to mock anti-Donald Trump conservatives ?
Did you know that descendants of the first settlers of the tiny rural hamlet of Kingston, Mississippi , include actors William Holden and Patrick Swayze ?
Did you know that women conductors lead only 4.1% of "big budget" American symphony orchestras ?
Did you know that Jackie Stedall won the 2013 Neumann Prize for the best English-language book on the history of mathematics ?