kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Mildred Mottahedeh 's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?
Did you know that US civil-rights leader John Warren Davis was the longest-serving president of West Virginia State University and helped to establish the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ?
Did you know that as a Porto Alegre city councillor, Rodrigo Maroni proposed a bill that would have imposed life imprisonment on offenders who commit cruelty to animals ?
Did you know that 6,000 square feet (560 m 2 ) of development rights above the Art Students League Building cost $31.8 million?
Did you know that Enid Szánthó , a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera , appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938?
Did you know that Paper Mario: The Origami King uses office supplies for boss battles to complement its origami theme?
Did you know that climate journalist Kendra Pierre-Louis is a critic of mayonnaise ?
Did you know that XO was one of the lowest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars series due to Xbox 360 's unwelcoming commercial and critical reception in Japan ?
Did you know that Frances Spatz Leighton was called the "Queen of Female Ghosts" for ghostwriting many memoirs?
Did you know that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit "?
Did you know that after Illinois overhauled its Freedom of Information Act on January 1, 2010, the law became regarded as one of the most liberal public-records statutes in the United States?
Did you know that in 1982, a Magnificat in German composed in 1707 for soprano, traverso , strings, and continuo and attributed to Bach and Telemann , was identified as a composition by Melchior Hoffmann ?
Did you know that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab ?
Did you know that Manner , a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom -looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket ?
Did you know that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge , and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales , on his visit to India?
Did you know that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning , which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
Did you know that Israeli lawyer Gonen Ben Itzhak , a prominent figure in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu , is a former Shin Bet handler of Hamas mole " The Green Prince "?
Did you know that the results of the 2021 Uzbek presidential election are expected to mirror those from 2016 , which were widely considered illegitimate?
Did you know that LaVon Mercer , who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
Did you know that Milestone House at the Edinburgh City Hospital was the first custom-built AIDS hospice in the UK?
Did you know that in a three-month period in mid- to late 2020, nearly half of Americans were subject to an SSA impersonation scam robocall?
Did you know that Dick Callahan received his first opportunity as a PA announcer after claiming that he announced all the games at his high school, even though he had actually never announced a game before?
Did you know that the GPT-2 artificial intelligence can summarize, respond to, generate, and translate text, despite being trained to do nothing more than predict the next word in a sequence?
Did you know that, after former president Abdurrahman Wahid , Rusdy Mastura was the second Indonesian public official to apologize for the mass killings of 1965–66 ?
Did you know that the 1928 recording by Jimmie Rodgers of " Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) " influenced a line in Johnny Cash 's song " Folsom Prison Blues "?
Did you know that Samuel Pepys wrote of Royal Navy Commissioner Sir Thomas Hervey : "a coxcombe he is and will never be better in the business of the Navy"?
Did you know that by 2001, almost 2000 Trees For Life volunteers were growing 1.5 million plants every year?
Did you know that winners of the Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway , such as Shane Stewart , are given a scepter , robe, and crown, and pose on a throne in victory lane?
Did you know that the 1960 film The Purple Gang has an introduction by Congressman James Roosevelt , son of Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
Did you know that the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States was Julia Chinn , an enslaved woman?
Did you know that while Gerry House worked at Kentucky radio station WCBR , the owner, a pastor, asked him whether he wanted to donate his salary?
Did you know that the first cookbook edited by Maria Guarnaschelli helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine?
Did you know that 17q12 microdeletion syndrome , an underdiagnosed genetic disorder, is thought to be a major genetic risk factor for autism and schizophrenia?
Did you know that Lee M. Hollander pioneered the translation of the works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard into English?
Did you know that the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final at Wembley Stadium was won by " a pub team from Essex "?
Did you know that at the time of her death at age 90, Lilliane Brady was the mayor of Cobar Shire and the longest-serving female mayor in New South Wales 's history?
Did you know that British jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia 's debut album Source , which incorporates reggae , cumbia , calypso , hip-hop , and soul , is an ode to her musical history?
Did you know that Libuše Domanínská , a soprano of Prague's National Theatre , performed in all of Janáček 's operas, and a recording she made as his Jenůfa made his works better known beyond their home country?
Did you know that Roy Brown , credited with downing the Red Baron , suffered a serious accident not long after being posted to Marske Aerodrome ?
Did you know that in 2019 Joel Farabee became the first player born in the 2000s to become a Philadelphia Flyers player?
Did you know that black-sided flowerpeckers camouflage the outside of their nests with lichens ?
Did you know that the Language Integrator is a peep show intended only for inhabitants of the 82nd century to use?
Did you know that Ismith Khan 's novel The Jumbie Bird explores the transformation of immigrants from India into Indo-Trinidadians ?
Did you know that translator and journalist Frederika Randall , who moved from the United States to Italy, identified as a "dispatriate" to distance herself from her homeland?
Did you know that New York City's Western Union Telegraph Building was built on land once owned by Thomas W. Evans , dentist to French emperor Napoleon III ?
Did you know that with compositions such as Con brio , clarinetist Jörg Widmann was ranked the third-most-performed contemporary composer in 2018?
Did you know that Tailors' Hall , a surviving guildhall of Dublin, hosted fencing and dancing classes, the United Irishmen and a British Army garrison, Dublin Corporation and an insolvency court?
Did you know that the UConn student body voted 169–7 to fire the basketball coach after he benched Harrison Fitch because a rival team refused to play against an African American?
Did you know that Troy, Montana , has flying squirrels ?
Did you know that American band the Body 's album I've Seen All I Need to See opens with a reading of the poem "The Kaleidoscope" by Scottish poet Douglas Dunn ?
Did you know that Cajun accordion musician Sheryl Cormier has been named the Cajun Queen in the United States and Europe?
Did you know that when the manga series Antique Bakery was adapted into a live-action television drama in 2001, a character who was gay in the source material was changed to having a fear of women ?
Did you know that veterinarian Matt Brash treated some of the owls that appeared in the first Harry Potter film and concluded that they had leukocytozoonosis ?
Did you know that as part of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement , the US agreed to recognize Morocco 's claim to Western Sahara ?
Did you know that when Imants Lešinskis defected from the Soviet Union while working for the UN in New York, Kofi Annan , future UN secretary-general, complained that he did not show up to work?
Did you know that the medieval Breton Gwerz Santes Enori tells the story of a woman who sacrificed a breast to cure her father, and is rewarded with a golden breast?
Did you know that the creator of a video depicting the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état , which featured Indonesian politically satirical song " Ampun Bang Jago ", denied that it was politically motivated?
Did you know that the American scholar Karen Hellekson published the first book in English devoted to analyzing the alternate history genre?
Did you know that although its range is restricted to the island of Borneo , the mountain blackeye has evolved into four subspecies?
Did you know that the biography of Singapore's first Asian postmaster-general, M. Bala Subramanion , was released at The Fullerton Hotel , the site of the old General Post Office where he had worked for 35 years?
Did you know that Dav Pilkey wrote the children's book The Paperboy , which received a Caldecott Honor , in fifteen minutes?
Did you know that film researcher Lillian Michelson interviewed elderly Jewish women about the appearance of the underwear they wore in the 1890s to develop accurate clothing for Fiddler On The Roof ?
Did you know that a commercial for the food delivery app Domino's App feat. Hatsune Miku went viral on YouTube in 2013, and was described by journalists as "bizarre"?
Did you know that Peter Herrmann composed a Second Symphony that premiered at the Gewandhaus with Kurt Masur , and a Kant Pop Symphony that premiered at the Musikhochschule Leipzig , where he had taught for decades?
Did you know that British journalist Godfrey Hodgson , who covered American politics, society, and values, showed that the first Thanksgiving did not include turkey and cranberry sauce?
Did you know that the documentary Change the Subject is about lobbying efforts to replace the term "illegal aliens" with "undocumented immigrants" in the Library of Congress Subject Headings ?
Did you know that in 1897, former slave George Dinning was the first black man to successfully sue a mob of the Ku Klux Klan ?
Did you know that Lloyd Percival 's The Hockey Handbook was credited as being used by Soviet Union national ice hockey team coach Anatoly Tarasov ?
Did you know that Bradford City scored three goals in 13 minutes to secure promotion in the 2013 Football League Two play-off Final ?
Did you know that the wind phone in Japan was set up to allow people to talk to the dead?
Did you know that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri are about the Indian scholar and independence activist Abul Kalam Azad ?
Did you know that the owner of Walsall F.C. described victory at the 2001 Football League Second Division play-off Final as the greatest day in the club's history?
Did you know that after finishing his term as Indonesia's minister of agriculture, Sjarifuddin Baharsjah was immediately succeeded by his wife ?
Did you know that Canada's National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls called for the abolition of birth alerts ?
Did you know that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized shorthorn cattle?
Did you know that the whaleback barge 115 became the last Great Lakes shipwreck of the 1800s?
Did you know that when women's champion Dotty Fothergill sued in 1970 for being denied the right to compete in men's tournaments, the Professional Bowlers Association countersued for "disastrous ridicule"?
Did you know that the cover of Red Meat Republic , a book on the history of beef production in the United States, has the look and texture of butcher paper ?
Did you know that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's Labour Party ?
Did you know that the war in Uganda (1986–1994) involved rebel armies led by a prophetess, her father, spirits, "Hitler", ex-ministers, and Joseph Kony ?
Did you know that AJ Rafael started Crazy Talented Asians , a live variety show , after being influenced by the film Crazy Rich Asians ?
Did you know that although the 1786 tignon law in Spanish Louisiana was intended to hinder free black women, those who followed it made the tignon a "mark of distinction"?
Did you know that some of the Sheffield Wednesday team participated in a conga on the M4 motorway after winning the 2005 Football League One play-off Final ?
Did you know that Keith Gill 's username, "DeepFuckingValue", was chosen to reflect his belief in value investing ?
Did you know that Shandon Castle was destroyed in the Siege of Cork in 1690, and sandstone from its ruins used to build the Church of St Anne in 1722?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Dennis Rasmussen nearly had to have his foot amputated when he was 14 years old?
Did you know that the Ćmielów Porcelain Works are Poland's oldest porcelain works, and Europe's largest thin-walled-china works?
Did you know that Biserka Cvejić , a Serbian mezzo-soprano who appeared at the Vienna State Opera in 372 performances, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1961 as Amneris in Verdi's Aida ?
Did you know that the theme song for the tabletop role-playing game F.A.T.A.L. was described by a reviewer as "sound[ing] like the Cookie Monster chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs"?
Did you know that Francesca Coppa , a professor of English, compiled "the first anthology of fan fiction for use in the classroom"?
Did you know that Pliofilm , a pre-war food wrap, was used to waterproof firearms during the Normandy landings ?
Did you know that the 1888 eruption of Ritter Island reduced the 780-metre tall (2,560 ft) volcano to a height of just 140 metres (460 ft)?
Did you know that sisters Amal, Hadia, and Hayat Talsam, known as Al Balabil , were referred to as "The Sudanese Supremes "?
Did you know that academic analysis of The Diving Pool has interpreted the use of food as a way to poison others as a critique on Japanese femininity?
Did you know that the world's richest self-made woman, Zhong Huijuan , started out as a middle-school chemistry teacher?
Did you know that 23 Wall Street has been called one of the "big little buildings of Wall Street"?
Did you know that the 2018 comedy film A Bread Factory , about the difficulty of producing meaningful artistic work in a market economy , received acclaim from critics but earned less than $18,000 at the box office?
Did you know that Gauthier Mvumbi has been called the "Shaq of handball", the "Congo Colossus", and "the most popular handball player on the Earth"?
Did you know that British Columbia 's oldest practicing lawyer, Canadian Constance Isherwood , who died at 101, closed her last case hours before her death?
Did you know that the Babakale Castle supplied water to the Ottoman Navy before the fleet set sail on campaigns?
Did you know that Dorothee Manski , a soprano of the Berlin Court Opera , gave 335 performances at the Metropolitan Opera after being invited to appear there as the Witch in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel in 1927?
Did you know that Willa Cather 's final story, The Best Years , contains references to her previously published novels?
Did you know that ballerina Merrill Ashley is one of the last dancers to have worked with choreographer George Balanchine ?
Did you know that due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK the entire 2021 Netball Superleague season is being hosted at just two venues?
Did you know that a 9-metre tall (30 ft) Malt Shovel in Burton upon Trent might actually be a scoop?
Did you know that London-based dream-pop duo Still Corners ' album The Last Exit paints a picture of open-road Americana ?
Did you know that the administrator of the Royal Society of New Zealand , Mimie Wood , correctly predicted that she would be replaced by five people upon retirement?
Did you know that Stalin considered invading the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan in the last days of World War II?
Did you know that Utah radio stations KSUB and KSUB-FM both suffered tower collapses before going on air—39 years apart?
Did you know that Austrian stamp collector Adolf Passer sold most of his collection to concentrate on wooing his future wife?
Did you know that the Bedouin emirs of the Turabay dynasty presided over nearly a century of peace and prosperity in northern Palestine ?
Did you know that Helen Dettweiler cofounded the LPGA , was a cryptographer and B-17 pilot during World War II, and became the first female broadcaster in baseball?
Did you know that the silent film The Honeymoon Express was reported to have been withdrawn from release despite being screened later in 1926?
Did you know that Elizabeth Pulane Moremi became regent of baTawana after the death of her husband Moremi III ?
Did you know that the picture book Maiden & Princess , in which a maiden and princess fall in love, shares a fictional universe with Prince & Knight , in which a prince and male knight do the same?
Did you know that the church led by Ernest T. Campbell sponsored Marina Oswald , the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald , to study at the University of Michigan ?
Did you know that the vocalist in " Erlkönig ", published as Schubert 's Op. 1, portrays four characters that differ in vocal register, rhythm, and harmony?
Did you know that François Henri Mouton fought for the Sikhs during the First Anglo-Sikh War whilst on leave from the French Army?
Did you know that a scene from the music video for " End Game " features Taylor Swift playing the video game Snake , a reference to her reputation as a "snake"?
Did you know that Ekkehard von Kuenssberg turned down an invitation to join the SS and migrated to Britain, carrying a hockey stick and a tennis racquet ?
Did you know that High Point has been described as "the severed head of some Japanese giant robot"?
Did you know that the dance choreography for Babymetal , Perfume , Nosaj Thing 's "Cold Stares" music video, the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony , and the Japanese 2016 viral sensation " Koi Dance " were all created by MIKIKO ?
Did you know that Canadian social activist and human rights pioneer Charan Gill started his career working in a sawmill?
Did you know that after winning the 1814 Battle of Champaubert , Napoleon instructed his representative at the Congress of Châtillon peace negotiations to "sign nothing"?
Did you know that civil rights lawyer Deborah Archer is the first African-American to be president of the American Civil Liberties Union in its 101-year history?
Did you know that in the 1970s a saxophonist led Major Surgery at a pub in South London ?
Did you know that music educator Siegfried Borris was dismissed from the Musikhochschule Berlin by the Nazis, but after World War II became a professor there and president of the Deutscher Musikrat ?
Did you know that the Boeing 247 DZ203 flew for United Airlines and the RCAF before the RAF used it to perform the world's first completely automated approach and blind landing ?
Did you know that Mother Oya , born into a wealthy family, lived and worked without salary in an orphanage for more than 60 years?
Did you know that the Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer was fortified to protect the town from Vikings and Saracens ?
Did you know that fashion designer Monika Tilley 's nipple-baring white mesh swimsuit worn by Cheryl Tiegs in the 1978 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
Did you know that the Taylor Swift song " Gorgeous " features an introduction voiced by James Reynolds, daughter of actress Blake Lively and actor Ryan Reynolds ?
Did you know that New Zealand ornithologist Arthur Pycroft ate a huia about two years before the last confirmed sighting of that bird species?
Did you know that during his 2020 campaign for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada , Erin O'Toole made a platform catering to Quebec nationalist voters?
Did you know that the Knoxville Raceway will host the first NASCAR nationally sanctioned race in its 120-year history in 2021, joining a race at Bristol Motor Speedway as dirt-track races on the NASCAR Truck Series schedule ?
Did you know that Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint was the prefect of Marne from 1800 to 1838, surviving numerous regime changes?
Did you know that after winning the 2013 Football League One play-off Final , Yeovil Town were promoted to the second tier of English football just ten years after being a non-League club ?
Did you know that Jackie Robinson Park was selected as the site for a pool in Harlem after a 1935 riot ?
Did you know that a manga series by Nanae Sasaya is credited with influencing the adoption of new Japanese child-abuse laws?
Did you know that the Bernie Sanders mittens meme has raised nearly $2 million for Vermont charities?
Did you know that Daryn Pittman was the first American to win the World Series Sprintcars championship and the first Oklahoman to win the World of Outlaws title?
Did you know that Innisfree Garden in Millbrook, New York , was developed from the 1930s by a painter fascinated with an 8th-century Chinese artist , and a landscape architect from Harvard ?
Did you know that the earliest book in English of Sudanese literature is the memoir of Selim Aga , who was born in 1826 and sold as a slave, but published his autobiography in "faultless idiomatic English"?
Did you know that British historian and South-Asian history expert David Washbrook called the UK Home Office out on its misrepresentation of slavery and British colonization?
Did you know that despite boasting it was the most powerful television station in the Midwest, Missouri's KACY left the air because it could not secure the right to carry network programs?
Did you know that the original version of the First World War Garland grenade was made from a food tin packed with barbed wire and spent bullets?
Did you know that if a student at Kemptville Agricultural School had a problem to solve, the standard advice was to ask Mr. George ?
Did you know that Konrad Rupf , a long-term singer of the Leipzig Opera , made his stage debut in 1955 as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore and appeared as Tevje in Fiddler on the Roof in 2000?
Did you know that after Amanda Gorman recited the poem " The Hill We Climb " at the inauguration of US president Joe Biden , she gained Twitter followers at a faster rate than the president?
Did you know that some members of Napoleon I 's Guards of Honour considered themselves to be hostages of the emperor?
Did you know that a seven-figure deal was made for Soman Chainani 's debut book The School for Good and Evil to make a film adaptation less than two weeks after the book's publication?
Did you know that Hilda Ellis Davidson played an important role in rescuing the field of folklore studies from its eccentric postwar image?
Did you know that Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is the first wind farm to be built in U.S. federal waters ?
Did you know that Billy Kee was going to include "Wembley" in the name of his child who was being born during the 2014 Football League Two play-off Final if he scored?
Did you know that one of Finland's longest unsolved crimes , a 1987 murder on board the cruiseferry MS Viking Sally , is going to court after 33 years?
Did you know that American Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon underwent surgery at UPMC Presbyterian to remove a cancerous tumor in his abdomen in January 2001?
Did you know that Jewish-Russian Zinaida Vengerova , a pioneer in Russian decadence , allowed a circle of intellectuals to drink her blood in a ritual described as anti-Semitic?
Did you know that members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps of New Zealand were known as Tuis, after a native bird ?