kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that editor Pap Saine was imprisoned for sedition after criticizing the Gambian government response to the murder of his co-editor and childhood friend?
Did you know that in 1821, Gustavus became the first of four grey horses to win the Derby Stakes ?
Did you know that English photographer Alfred Horsley Hinton , a staunch defender of pictorialism , was once called a "slimy snake" by the American Edward Steichen ?
Did you know that the Russian R-29RMU2 Layner submarine-launched ballistic missile is claimed to be the best missile of its type in the world?
Did you know that the Aquasar supercomputer architecture uses the heat it generates to warm a university campus?
Did you know that Sir Thomas , a racehorse purchased by George, Prince of Wales , became the first horse owned by a member of the British Royal Family to win the Derby Stakes ?
Did you know that the chemistry between Slamet Rahardjo and Christine Hakim was chosen as the second best in Indonesian cinema?
Did you know that Muddy Waters ' Folk Singer has been described as one of the few "blues albums that qualify as audiophile recordings"?
Did you know that journalist Musa Muradov was once trapped in a basement for 14 days by damage from an artillery shell ?
Did you know that although Paul Kelly's 1985 first solo single " From St Kilda to Kings Cross " did not chart it was included in "Top 20 Sydney Songs" and "Top 25 Melbourne Songs"?
Did you know that the hairy sea cucumber can eject its internal organs to confuse and deter predators ?
Did you know that the greatest number of known species of marine fungi are found growing on mangroves including Api Api Putih and Bakau Putih ?
Did you know that the developers of Double Fine Happy Action Theater incorporated new game behavior in response to watching children play with their augmented reality game?
Did you know that the ballad " Born Again " by the Christian rock band Third Day features vocals from Lacey Mosley of the alternative metal band Flyleaf ?
Did you know that St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside , founded as St. Luke's Hospital in 1873, began in a rented, two-room farmhouse in Jacksonville, Florida ?
Did you know that the six-rayed star often has to compete with the larger ochre starfish for food?
Did you know that Don Barksdale became the first African American basketball player to play in the NBA All-Star Game after he was selected to play in the 1953 game ?
Did you know that the first parabolic ski, the Elan SCX , was initially dismissed as a fad but today is considered a major design breakthrough?
Did you know that Warren Campbell is one of three Australian rules footballers in South Fremantle 's 1997 Westar Rules Grand Final winning team who had a father or uncle play in South's previous premiership win in the 1980 WAFL Grand Final ?
Did you know that Grand-Am regulars John Pew and Oswaldo Negri teamed with NASCAR driver A. J. Allmendinger and IndyCar driver Justin Wilson to win the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race ?
Did you know that the Israeli city of Netanya and Jerusalem’s Straus Street were both named in honor of an owner of Macy's department store?
Did you know that rookie cheerleaders from the Jacksonville Roar earn less than $100 for each Jaguars game?
Did you know that former American football player Tony Dauksza in 1971 became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship, completing the journey by himself in a canoe?
Did you know that the fourth Rebbe of Radomsk , founder of a network of 36 Hasidic yeshivas in pre-war Poland, paid for the education of over 4,000 students out of his own pocket?
Did you know that the Marlow, Buckinghamshire gastropub , The Hand and Flowers , owned by chef Tom Kerridge , is the first pub to receive 2 Michelin Stars ?
Did you know that the Pallava ruler Narasimhavarman I assumed the title "Vatapi-kondan" or "taker of Vatapi" after his victory in the Battle of Vatapi against the Chalukya king Pulakesin II in 642?
Did you know that, starting in 1989, Selena 's brother A.B. Quintanilla III was the main songwriter for her songs ?
Did you know that the extinct incense-cedar Calocedrus huashanensis is one of only three conifers found in the Ningming Formation?
Did you know that the remains of moats , mottes and a moot are among the 27 scheduled monuments in Maidstone , England?
Did you know that Arizona Territorial Governor Joseph Henry Kibbey preferred to be addressed by the title "judge"?
Did you know that the White Horse Pagoda, Dunhuang , was built to commemorate "Tianliu", the white horse of the monk Kumārajīva , which carried Buddhist scriptures all the way from Kucha to Dunhuang in China?
Did you know that As the World Turns heroine Ellen Lowell was the first major character in any serial to have an illegitimate child?
Did you know that Zainal Mustafa , a National Hero of Indonesia , died in 1944, yet his family did not learn of it until 26 years later?
Did you know that a childhood desire to know truth led Steve Hagen to Zen Buddhism ?
Did you know that when " Who's That Chick? " debuted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart , Rihanna became only the fourth act in UK chart history to have at least three songs in the top ten of the UK Singles Chart?
Did you know that Liverpool charity Bradbury Fields runs a club for blind people to ride tandem bicycles ?
Did you know that pairs of figures personifying the Church and the Synagogue are found in Christian Medieval art ?
Did you know that the name Pachylemur , now used for a type of extinct giant lemur , was first used as group name of primitive primates once considered intermediate between pachyderms and lemurs ?
Did you know that Big Nose Kate , who claimed to have witnessed the gunfight at the O.K. Corral , spent her final years at the Arizona Pioneers' Home ?
Did you know that despite reaching the 1985 Football League Cup Final , both Norwich and Sunderland were relegated from the First Division at the end of that season ?
Did you know that the names of numbers in Georgian are constructed in part using a base-20 system?
Did you know that the ESPN Rise boys' high school basketball All-American team was formerly known as the EA Sports All-American team?
Did you know that after a close finish at the 1808 Derby Stakes , the owners of the second, third and fourth placed horses all challenged the winner, Pan , to match races ?
Did you know that the peachleaf willow was used in traditional Eskimo medicine to treat skin sores and watery eyes?
Did you know that English poet and heritage campaigner Sir John Betjeman described the 15th-century Harmondsworth Great Barn as the "Cathedral of Middlesex"?
Did you know that A Free Ride is considered to be the earliest surviving American hardcore pornographic film?
Did you know that a live concert performance of the Third Day song " Lift Up Your Face " was released along with the rest of the concert to benefit 2011 Joplin Tornado relief for Joplin, Missouri ?
Did you know that current Australian Institute of Sport player Sara Blicavs is testing a sport bra for Berlei ?
Did you know that Henry Seymour was a secularist and anarchist who introduced the Edison Disc record to England in 1913?
Did you know that in the Oval Office , George H. W. Bush used the C&O desk instead of the Resolute desk during his presidential term ?
Did you know that hip hop artist Run-D.M.C. performed their first paying gig at the Disco Fever nightclub in the Bronx ?
Did you know that the crab Dyspanopeus sayi may have lived in the Venetian Lagoon for 15 years before it was discovered?
Did you know that Calais came to be called the "brightest jewel in the English crown" owing to its great importance as the gateway for the tin , lead , cloth and wool trades?
Did you know that when judges could not agree the winner of the Best in Show title at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1921, a referee gave the prize to the Cocker Spaniel Midkiff Seductive ?
Did you know that the German cellist Robert Hausmann was the dedicatee and first performer of both Bruch 's Kol Nidrei and Brahms 's Double Concerto in A minor ?
Did you know that the song " Call My Name " by Christian rock band Third Day was covered by country singer Keith Urban ?
Did you know that Josh Bell received a US$5 million signing bonus , a record for a player chosen in the second round of the Major League Baseball Draft ?
Did you know that one Sam rode another to victory at the 1818 Derby ?
Did you know that the flat-headed crocodilian relative Aegisuchus had a circular projection on top of its skull that may have served as an eyespot in mating displays?
Did you know that between 1968 and 1971 English non-league football team Sutton Athletic F.C. won three successive promotions whilst also winning three successive league cups ?
Did you know that Adelbert Theodor Wangemann recorded the voice of Helmuth von Moltke in 1890, the only known recording of someone born in the 18th century?
Did you know that Jonathan Harvey visited Chamonix to sample a thunderclap for use in his opera Wagner Dream ?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 descendants of her first Corgi Susan ?
Did you know that in 1968, the German artist Bazon Brock created a sign in the style of a high voltage warning saying "der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..." ("death must be abolished ...")?
Did you know that Sangay , a stratovolcano in Ecuador nicknamed The Frightener in Quechua , has been continuously erupting since 1934?
Did you know that after being a major part of Baku in most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the city's Armenian population almost completely disappeared due to a pogrom in 1990 ?
Did you know that Cuban journalist Yndamiro Restano Díaz was reportedly released from prison at the request of Danielle Mitterand , the wife of the former President of France ?
Did you know that adult Megaphragma mymaripenne wasps are only 200 micrometres long, similar in size to single-celled organisms ?
Did you know that the Airedale Terrier Boxwood Barkentine won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in his very first show as an adult?
Did you know that the 1923 Michigan football team 's undefeated season was saved when Edliff Slaughter executed what Fielding Yost called "the greatest play in football I ever saw"?
Did you know that the Bach cantata for Sexagesima , Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181 , ends in a chorus of "madrigalian lightness and delicacy perfectly appropriate to the joyous message of the parable "?
Did you know that in 1800, Champion became the first racehorse to win both the Derby and the St. Leger Stakes ?
Did you know that Samar Badawi and Manal al-Sharif are suing Saudi authorities for rejecting their driving licence applications ?
Did you know that the Stone Bridge at Regensburg , probably built in 1135–46, was the city's only bridge across the Danube for about 800 years?
Did you know that footballer Andy Flynn played in all of York City 's seven FA Cup games in the 1926–27 season, as the team reached the competition's first round for the first time?
Did you know that Blondie , B.C. , and Hägar the Horrible are all zombies ?
Did you know that during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 , Indian pilots landed Dakota aircraft at Poonch Airport during the night with the help of oil lamps in the absence of any landing aids?
Did you know that the USNS Montford Point , a Mobile Landing Platform , will be a pier at sea for the United States Navy once it enters service in 2015?
Did you know that India has 53 urban agglomerations with a population of one million or more as of 2011 against 35 in 2001?
Did you know that the only state legislator in Missouri or Illinois to condemn the burning of Francis McIntosh in 1836 was Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you know that Phantom , the 1811 winner of the Derby Stakes and the leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1820 and 1824, covered a half-sister to produce Cedric , the winner of the 1824 Derby?
Did you know that Japanese skeleton shrimp are invading the coastlines of North America, Europe, and New Zealand?
Did you know that the castellan of Sati refused to allow Venetians to capture it after Balša II ceded it to the Venetian Republic in 1395?
Did you know that Shiawase no Pan was the tenth highest-grossing film in Japan between 28 and 29 January 2012, despite being released in only 47 cinemas?
Did you know that the former Spa Road railway station , opened in 1836, was London 's first railway terminus ?
Did you know that according to critic Roger Ebert , Private School reflected a trend of "anti-woman" films?
Did you know that Joseph Clarkson Maddison 's designs took both first and second place in a contest to design Christchurch Town Hall?
Did you know that Revelation , the tenth studio album by the Christian rock band Third Day , was produced by Howard Benson , a Jew?
Did you know that French actress-singer Alice Delysia made her career on the London stage, giving each English line "a sparkle seven times its own"?
Did you know that a distilled beverage – Smirnoff vodka – was featured in an American television commercial for the first time in decades in a spot produced by The Glover Park Group ?
Did you know that the extinct bivalve subfamily Praenuculinae can be told apart from its sister subfamily by looking at teeth?
Did you know that American poet Peter Filkins was the first to translate Czech writer H. G. Adler 's novels, described by The New Yorker as "modernist masterpieces", into English?
Did you know that the King and Queen pub in Brighton , the Clayton & Black firm's Mock Tudor "pantomime", has hosted Miss Miniskirt competitions and Margaret Thatcher ?
Did you know that attendance at meetings of New York's Albany Institute declined in the 1830s because members were bored by papers presented by the group's meteorologist ?
Did you know that Russian submarine B-585 Saint Petersburg was launched on the 300th anniversary of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg ?
Did you know that Captain America in: The Doom Tube of Dr. Megalomann was the first appearance of Captain America in a video game?
Did you know that the clawless lobster Tricarina is known from a single fossil , obtained from an oil well 3,852 m (12,638 ft) below ground in western Iran ?
Did you know that Queens Park Rangers came from two goals down at half time in the 1967 Football League Cup Final to eventually win with a goal scored by Mark Lazarus ?
Did you know that King Gustav III of Sweden, in an experiment , commuted the death sentences of a pair of twins on the condition that one drank 3 pots of coffee , and the other tea , every day for the rest of their lives?
Did you know that Buenos Aires seceded from the Argentine Confederation from 1852 to 1861?
Did you know that Downing Hall was once the home of naturalist Thomas Pennant , who described it as being "incapable of being improved into a magnitude exceeding the revenue of the family"?
Did you know that Gerardo Concepción won the 2010–11 Cuban National Series Rookie of the Year Award ?
Did you know that tartar emetic is used to induce vomiting in birds to determine their diet?
Did you know that the medieval royal official Herbert of Winchester is likely the same person as "H.", who tried to assassinate King Henry I of England in 1118 and was blinded and castrated in punishment?
Did you know that the racehorse Azor won the 1817 Derby Stakes after being entered in the race only to act as a pacemaker for a more highly regarded stable companion?
Did you know that lumber magnate Theodore B. Basselin willed most of his fortune to The Catholic University of America to create a scholarship for young men studying for the Catholic priesthood ?
Did you know that North Korea competed in an international sporting event hosted by South Korea for the first time in 2002 ?
Did you know that the Malahat , a 246-foot (75 m) sailing ship, delivered more illegal liquor during Prohibition than any other rum-runner ?
Did you know that after Lord Grosvenor 's Rhadamanthus and John Bull won the Derby Stakes in 1790 and 1792, only three horses showed up in 1794 to run against and lose to his Daedalus in the smallest field in Derby history?
Did you know that neighbors of the Hastings Prototype House in New York compared its Moderne appearance to an appliance?
Did you know that Carina Vance Mafla 's campaign to shut down "torture clinics" that try to turn lesbians straight began years before she was appointed Ecuador 's Minister for Public Health?
Did you know that Olympic bronze medalist John Russell was a member of the United States' last military delegation to equestrian at the Summer Olympics as well as its first civilian one?
Did you know that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal held the Internal Security Act contained no precedent facts as Parliament clearly intended that detention decisions were to be made by the Government ?
Did you know that the Archives of American Gardens holds images and records of over 6,350 United States gardens, many of which were collected by the Garden Club of America in the 1920s?
Did you know that Lydd Town F.C. were promoted after winning their league five times in a row?
Did you know that Eugene Eisenmann worked as a lawyer before writing The Species of Middle American Birds for the Linnaean Society of New York ?
Did you know that although the title of the postwar satirical journal Ulenspiegel means "owl mirror" in High German , in Low German it means "kiss my behind"?
Did you know that the racehorses Assassin , Hannibal , Cardinal Beaufort , Election and Lap-dog won the Derby Stakes in 1782, 1804, 1805, 1807 and 1826 respectively, making the 3rd Earl of Egremont the first-ever owner of five Derby winners?
Did you know that five years after winning a Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry" in the Great War , Roy Royston was playing leading man on stage in Little Nellie Kelly ?
Did you know that the eight-century-old Xinye Village is acclaimed as China's largest open-air museum of ancient residences?
Did you know that Larry Jeffries was twice named the Southland Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year while playing for the Trinity Tigers ?
Did you know that Caesar led the funeral procession of King Edward VII , ahead of nine kings and a number of other heads of state?
Did you know that 76-year-old Muslim rocker Laila Sari performs in a headscarf?
Did you know that the Darmstadt Windspiel , a German sailplane which set a 1934 world distance record, was silk covered and weighed less than its pilots?
Did you know that Rhino made his surprise debut for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at their 2005 No Surrender pay-per-view event?
Did you know that among the displays at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition in Kristiania were locomotives, a farm, an African village and a ski collection?
Did you know that the Adriatic Sea receives one third of freshwater flowing into the Mediterranean ?
Did you know that Don Eigler shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for using a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters " IBM "?
Did you know that Russian Presidential press attaché Natalya Timakova , rated the third most powerful woman in Russian politics in 2011, allowed Wikipedia to use materials from the Presidential website Kremlin.ru?
Did you know that the prototype of the Kaproni Bulgarski KB-11 Fazan , a Bulgarian Army liaison aircraft of World War II , was nicknamed " Quasimodo "?
Did you know that due to a dead heat , the racehorse Cadland had to run twice to win the 1828 Derby Stakes ?
Did you know that journalist Freedom Neruda was imprisoned in 1996 for satirizing the Ivorian President and was named one of the "50 World Press Freedom Heroes" in 2000?
Did you know that a broken right ankle prevented Earl Belcher from playing in the NBA , and he is now a professional jazz musician?
Did you know that the Muscogee people rubbed moistened tramp's trouble on their faces to enhance their youthfulness?
Did you know that the Overmyer-Waggoner-Roush Farm near Lindsey included a tree farm at a time when most Ohio farmers saw woodlots as nuisances?
Did you know that Shieh Chung-liang was sued for libel after reporting that Taiwan 's Kuomintang political party had offered a donation to Bill Clinton 's re-election campaign ?
Did you know that Michael Choice is the first University of Texas at Arlington baseball player to be drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft ?
Did you know that the Umayyad defeat in the " Day of Thirst " led to the almost complete loss of Muslim control over Transoxiana over a period of fifteen years?
Did you know that journalist Pavel Sheremet triggered a "public row" between Belarus and Russia by hopping a border fence?
Did you know that the Zuihō class aircraft carriers were originally built as submarine tenders which could be converted into light aircraft carriers or fleet oilers ?
Did you know that the first uterus transplant in the world with an organ taken from a cadaver was performed by Dr. Ömer Özkan and his team at the Akdeniz University ?
Did you know that the New Zealand Anglican clergyman William Orange amassed a library of 15,000 titles during his life?
Did you know that in humans, 1-lysolecithin can be hydrolyzed by at least ten different enzymes ?
Did you know that Mildred Lewis Rutherford thought that the only problem with slavery was the burden it placed on white slaveholders?
Did you know that Ekso Bionics develop intelligent exoskeletons that can be strapped on as wearable robots , and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics?
Did you know that following the death of Samir Ghawshah , Ahmed Majdalani succeeded him as secretary-general of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front ?
Did you know that the setting for the children's show The Adventures of Abney & Teal was inspired by Victoria Park, London ?
Did you know that the commotion following the racehorse Smolensko 's victory at the 1813 Derby Stakes resulted in an overthrown phaeton and a broken arm amongst the spectators?
Did you know that Nazi Germany gave newlyweds interest-free loans that were forgiven if the couple had four children?
Did you know that according to legend, Robert Kirk was taken to fairyland for revealing the secrets of the Good People ?
Did you know that Tuhama Ma'rouf of the Syrian Communist Labour Party was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International after her arrest in February 2011 ?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Balecium still exists although Baleč was destroyed in the 15th century?
Did you know that eleven of journalist Ignacio Gómez 's colleagues at El Espectador were murdered in the first fourteen years of his career?
Did you know that Sandi Patty has won more GMA Dove Awards for Vocalist of the Year than anyone else?
Did you know that the son of Hans Dessauer , a coloured paper manufacturer in Aschaffenburg , left Germany in 1929, changed his name to John H. Dessauer and wrote the book My Years with Xerox , The Billions Nobody Wanted ?
Did you know that thiophosphoryl fluoride ignites spontaneously in air, but burns too cold to hurt anyone?
Did you know that the largest of the 67 Petit & Fritsen cast bells of the Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon weighs 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg)?
Did you know that Robert Runyon photographed significant events of the Mexican Revolution , discovered several new plant species, and was mayor of Brownsville, Texas ?
Did you know that by winning the 2011–12 PBA Philippine Cup Finals , the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters became the first team in 27 years to successfully defend an All-Filipino Championship?
Did you know that Jineth Bedoya Lima was abducted, tortured, and raped following her reporting on Colombian paramilitary groups ?
Did you know that members of the extinct bivalve genus Hemiconcavodonta are unique in the subfamily Concavodontinae in that their teeth point in two directions?
Did you know that Anders Behring Breivik , the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks , was a member of the anti-Islam group Norwegian Defence League , a sister organization of the English Defence League ?
Did you know that Francis Arkwright was a Member of Parliament and Legislative Council in two different countries?