kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
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Did you know that John B. Watson and Harvey A. Carr conducted a study called the kerplunk experiment , so named because of the sound the rat made when hitting the end of a maze?
Did you know that the remains of a cannon ball can still be seen in the wall of Moni Gonia Monastery from an Ottoman attack during the Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869?
Did you know that the United States Department of Labor first began tracking discouraged workers in 1967 and found 500,000 at the time?
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Did you know that during World War I , Britons could be fined for feeding the pigeons ?
Did you know that while most Enlightenment scholars criticized the Byzantine system of the Eastern Roman Empire , Konstantin Leontiev , a scholar from the Russian Empire praised it for the very same reasons?
Did you know that Charles Carroll the Settler ' s attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote?
Did you know that official turnout in the 2005 Algerian national reconciliation referendum was 99.95% in Khenchela but only just over 11% in Tizi Ouzou Province ?
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Did you know that Damon E. Allen led the successful campaign by the Kentucky Optometric Association to empower optometrists in the state to prescribe medication for patients?
Did you know that Haitian expatriate artist Edouard Duval-Carrié criticized the regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier by creating artwork that parodied Duvalier?
Did you know that Lizzie Lloyd King , the alleged murderess of Charles Goodrich, consumed flakes of the victim's desiccated blood during a police interrogation?
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Did you know that Bulgarian zoologist Ivan Buresh , dubbed "the patriarch of Bulgarian biology", was the son of a Czech zincographer ?
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Did you know that the early 20th-century diaries of German ornithologist Bernhard Hantzsch influenced British Arctic explorer Pen Hadow ?
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Did you know that Carlton Skinner commanded the first racially integrated United States warships , and later served as Guam 's first civilian governor ?
Did you know that Hel Fortified Area was in 1939 the last place of Poland to surrender to the invading Wehrmacht, and during World War II it was used as a Kriegsmarine base?
Did you know that William Butler Yeats originally published the poem " On being asked for a War Poem " under the title "A Reason for Keeping Silent" in 1916?
Did you know that the Baptist folk high school at Strand, Akershus , Norway , was visited by Martin Luther King in 1964?
Did you know that James Edward Hanger , the first amputee of the American Civil War ,  designed his own prosthesis and went on to found a prosthetic manufacturer still in business today?
Did you know that two aircraft working for the New Zealand Police collided in mid-air over central Auckland in 1993?
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Did you know that although Mahfouz al-Walid was reported killed in 2002, it was not until 2007 that the Office of Foreign Assets Control acknowledged that his name was not an alias for Mohamedou Slahi ?
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