kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina won key leadership posts in the Córdoba auto workers union election of 1972?
Did you know that percussionist Annette A. Aguilar was sent to South Africa by the U.S. State Department as a Latin Jazz Ambassador?
Did you know that Andrew Tremlett had his appointment as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons blocked because he was "another white middle aged man"?
Did you know that during the Naqib al-Ashraf Revolt , the rebels and inhabitants of Jerusalem engaged in virtual self-rule in the city for over two years?
Did you know that the British physician Albertine Winner helped establish the first modern hospice at St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, London?
Did you know that during Operation Junction City Jr. , members of Bataillon Commando 203 fled from a crowd of refugees they mistook for enemy troops?
Did you know that a young Cincinnati artist, Joseph Mason , painted uncredited plant-life backgrounds for more than 50 of John James Audubon 's bird studies?
Did you know that the Hindu text Mantrika Upanishad is one of the earliest Yoga Upanishads composed in the 1st millennium BCE?
Did you know that Theodore Komnenos Doukas founded the short-lived Empire of Thessalonica and came close to restoring the Byzantine Empire before his defeat and capture by the Bulgarians ?
Did you know that professional golfer Eddie Loos accidentally hit Walter Hagen 's ball in the 1931 Los Angeles Open , earning a two-stroke penalty and a loss to Ed Dudley ?
Did you know that the Muslims of Granada revolted against their Catholic rulers seven years after the conquest of Granada , triggered by forced conversions imposed by Cardinal Cisneros ?
Did you know that Steven Anzovin published the first serious study on computer pollution and how it affects the world's environment?
Did you know that medical self-experimenter Nicholas Senn had nearly six litres of hydrogen pumped into his anus ?
Did you know that the Supreme Court of the United States recently held that plaintiffs cannot sue foreign sovereigns for injuries that are based upon conduct that occurs solely in a foreign country?
Did you know that in Dick Hogan 's last film role, in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rope , his character is murdered at the start and concealed in a chest at a dinner party?
Did you know that it is claimed that 36 M3 Gun Motor Carriages destroyed 30 German tanks, including 2 Tiger tanks, at the Battle of El Guettar in March 1943?
Did you know that, while studying interfacial phenomena, Heather C. Allen discovered that halides such as bromide are located close to the surface of water?
Did you know that the ant tribe Prionomyrmecini has two members, the genus Prionomyrmex , which is extinct, and Nothomyrmecia , which is critically endangered ?
Did you know that Miriam Goldberg succeeded her husband as publisher of the Intermountain Jewish News , which he had bought for one dollar?
Did you know that the frog galvanoscope was tens of thousands times more sensitive to electric current than galvanometers available in the early nineteenth century?
Did you know that Bach composed the cantata for the Sunday after Epiphany , Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen , BWV 32 , as a dialogue of the Soul and Jesus, using elements of contemporary opera?
Did you know that Afghanistan's vineyards cover an area larger than do Austria's despite alcohol being officially forbidden ?
Did you know that Porcupine was the first Native American to derail a train during the Indian Wars ?
Did you know that distinguishing science from non-science is an unsolved problem in the philosophy of science , so an " I know it when I see it " standard is sometimes used to recognize pseudoscience ?
Did you know that Colonel Frank M. Hume formed his own army, which would later be designated Company L of Maine's National Guard?
Did you know that mazamorra is an historical corn stew of the indigenous peoples in South America ?
Did you know that November 14, 1976 was proclaimed by Governor Boren as Opaline Wadkins Day to honor the first African American to earn a master's degree in nursing education from the University of Oklahoma ?
Did you know that Indian otorhinolaryngologist Mohan Kameswaran performed the first auditory brainstem implant surgery in South Asia, and later became the first in Asia to perform the procedure on a child?
Did you know that Priscilla Laws conceived AtariLab after seeing a computer chart temperatures in real time and realizing it would make lab work easier?
Did you know that Sir George Kenning called his Derby car showroom Morris House and it was opened by Sir William Morris ?
Did you know that in 1920, a deadly arson attack occurred at the offices of the Federación Obrera de Magallanes trade union in Punta Arenas , Chile ?
Did you know that five-time Pro Bowl linebacker John Offerdahl founded a chain of bagel restaurants, helped rescue an elderly couple from drowning, and may have foiled a murder attempt?
Did you know that The Talk of the Town was the first Tennessee Walking Horse to win three World Grand Championships, and one of only two horses ever to do so?
Did you know that the second time that Christina Carpenter was placed in a cell, it had no door?
Did you know that Jeanette Rubio was a Miami Dolphins Cheerleader before she married Senator Marco Rubio ?
Did you know that in Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs , Lisa Randall offers a credible but "far from compelling" hypothesis for why dinosaurs became extinct?
Did you know that Ode de Pougy , abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains and niece of Manassès II de Pougy , was excommunicated after throwing the Archbishop of Tyre out of the Church of St Urbain ?
Did you know that despite its name meaning "quick, active, swift" in Old English , the River Tale is noted as being "sluggish"?
Did you know that after being jailed for 10 years and then deported to Jordan, Palestinian communist leader Arabi Awwad was elected to the Palestinian National Council in 1974?
Did you know that the Milam Building was both the tallest brick and reinforced concrete structure and first office building with built in air conditioning in the United States when it opened in 1928?
Did you know that in December 2015, Trent Zimmerman became the first openly gay man to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives ?
Did you know that Ananda Thuriya , a chief minister, general, and son-in-law of King Sithu II of Pagan , began his career in the royal security detail?
Did you know that basketball player Kobe Bryant was the first guard to play 20 seasons in the NBA ?
Did you know that Turkish-German women's footballer Melike Pekel was top scorer of the German Regionalliga Süd in the 2013–14 season, and became a member of the Turkey women's national team in 2015?
Did you know that the fossil bumblebee Bombus cerdanyensis has notable darkening and texturing of the wing apex?
Did you know that a Palestinian, Muhammad Najati Sidqi , wrote a book in 1940 arguing that Nazism was incompatible with Islam ?
Did you know that although designed as an input for gaming controllers like joysticks , the Atari joystick port was also used as a serial port for devices like modems ?
Did you know that Indian cricketer M. P. Pandove scored his maiden first-class century at age 16, while his son Dhruv Pandove scored his at age 14?
Did you know that sociologist C. K. Yang argued that religion was an important "diffuse" force in Chinese society even though it was not institutionalized in churches?
Did you know that the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource originally included over 50 stations deemed significant for their architectural and cultural merit?
Did you know that 100 years ago, Robert Burgess was killed after being knocked off his bike by a shell ?
Did you know that the pharmaceutical drug patiromer lowers potassium levels in the blood but is not absorbed from the gut ?
Did you know that the Austrian physician Gisela Januszewska , famed for her work among Bosnian Muslim women and highly decorated for her World War I service, died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ?
Did you know that the biologist Honor Fell directed the Strangeways Research Laboratory for 41 years, then returned to continue her research until shortly before her death in 1986?
Did you know that in David v. Poe , the Senate Electoral Tribunal of the Philippines declared that Grace Poe , formerly a foundling, is a "natural-born Filipino", allowing her to remain in the Philippine Senate ?
Did you know that on 29 August 1942, Gordon Gollob became the first fighter pilot to claim 150 aerial victories in World War II?
Did you know that flooding in October 2008 in Central America was considered the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Mitch 10 years prior?
Did you know that Indian composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan made his acting debut in the 2015 Marathi film Katyar Kaljat Ghusali ?
Did you know that despite using forward air control operations during the Korean War , the U.S. military could not agree on a common doctrine between 1946 and 1966?
Did you know that Hu Di , a top Communist Chinese secret agent, was executed by the Communist commander Zhang Guotao ?
Did you know that the title of Monica Byrne 's drama What Every Girl Should Know is drawn from a sex education column in the New York Call by Margaret Sanger ?
Did you know that Bionade-Biedermeier might be replaced by rhubarb spritzer-Rokoko?
Did you know that the HTC One (E8) has been described as an HTC One (M8) with a plastic shell?
Did you know that Ju Zheng was persuaded to oppose Chiang Kai-shek 's candidacy for president of China in 1948 and received 10 percent of the vote in the National Assembly, with Chiang elected overwhelmingly?
Did you know that the music of Red Dead Redemption was inspired by Ennio Morricone 's work on the Dollars Trilogy ?
Did you know that after leading a nationwide strike during his presidency of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, Isaac Folorunso Adewole was declared a wanted man and had to go into exile?
Did you know that the two-story station building at Readville was destroyed in a suspicious fire in 1983?
Did you know that on 24 October 1941, Günther Lützow became the second fighter pilot to claim 100 aerial victories in World War II?
Did you know that William Walker was the last underarm bowler to have played for Tasmania ?
Did you know that the wildlife of Jordan includes a critically endangered fish found at a single oasis with a shrinking water supply?
Did you know that while Caroline Stephen 's book was considered a " Quaker classic" even 100 years after publication, her brother had dismissed it as "another little work of hers"?
Did you know that an altarpiece by Bror Hjorth was the only item saved from a 1993 fire in Salabacke Church in Uppsala ?
Did you know that Mary Docherty , a Scottish communist , was treated for tuberculosis while visiting the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the upcoming film The Bleeder is about Chuck Wepner (portrayed by Liev Schreiber ), who challenged Muhammad Ali for the world's Heavyweight title in 1975?
Did you know that David van Rooyen was the South African Minister of Finance for four days?
Did you know that Victoria Bricker has studied the languages, astronomy, and ethnobotany of the Maya ?
Did you know that Julian Lage 's album World's Fair was inspired by Andrés Segovia ?
Did you know that four years after Han Qing set the Asian Games record in the 200 metres sprint , she tested positive for using dihydrotestosterone and was given a ban that effectively ended her career?
Did you know that an entire chapter was censored from the hentai manga Coffin of Cerebrum due to "the shota aspect and the violence towards children"?
Did you know that Sergeant Donald Nichols correctly forecast that the Korean War would start within a certain three-day period?
Did you know that Saimaluu Tash , a petroglyphs site, has black-and-white rock paintings which are a globally important collection of rock art ?
Did you know that players can fire teddy bears strapped to sticks of dynamite in Sunset Overdrive ?
Did you know that binary logarithms can be used to determine the number of octaves between two musical tones ?
Did you know that violinist Mia Matsumiya spent ten years cataloging online harassment that she received, and has created a popular Instagram account featuring those messages?
Did you know that the leaves of the scallop hakea cup the stem and the axillary flowers?
Did you know that Major Arthur V. Peterson traveled to Europe before D-Day to warn General Eisenhower about the dangers of the Germans using radioactive weapons?
Did you know that the Khpal Kor Foundation , which operates an orphanage in Pakistan's Swat District , established a Child Assembly that Malala Yousafzai once chaired?
Did you know that Commonwealth Games multiple medal-winning gymnast Nathan Gafuik was diagnosed with Addison's disease at the age of 15?
Did you know that the " Mauthausen Trilogy ", composed by Mikis Theodorakis , has been described as the "most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust "?
Did you know that the second column of the Tchepone Operation was Orange, Red, and Black?
Did you know that the guitar/drum duo Two Gallants are named after a short story by James Joyce ?
Did you know that Israeli filmmaker Yael Reuveny says she only really got to know her mother by interviewing her for Farewell Herr Schwarz , her documentary about her family's history?
Did you know that Edith Irby made national news when she was accepted in 1948 as the first African American medical student in the Southern United States ?
Did you know that the ice-breaking in the title Islossningen i Uleå älv , a 1889 composition for narrator, men's chorus, and orchestra by Jean Sibelius , was a political statement?
Did you know that by 2013, the revenue of the Syrian tourist industry had decreased by 94 percent since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011?
Did you know that the Anita Krajnc case could result in her spending ten years in prison for giving water to thirsty pigs on their way to slaughter?
Did you know that the Turkish slave-soldier Ahmad ibn Tulun established the first local dynasty to rule Egypt since the Pharaohs?
Did you know that fossil eggs classified as Elongatoolithidae have been found with preserved embryos inside?
Did you know that Marianne Katoppo , who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology , found the term feminist theology "too loaded"?
Did you know that the virtually abandoned Rukai slate village of Kucapungane is an "endangered site" according to the World Monuments Fund ?
Did you know that the Manav Vikas Mission of the Government of Maharashtra provides free bus service for village girls from their native village to their schools?
Did you know that Appian Way Productions has produced The Aviator (2004) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture ?
Did you know that a recitative in Bach 's cantata for the Sunday after New Year's Day, Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid , BWV 58 , retells the prescribed gospel about the Flight into Egypt ?
Did you know that six different species of gibbon are among the animals found in Laos ?
Did you know that Aviel Barclay , the first woman to be traditionally trained and certified as a Jewish scribe , completed her first Torah scroll in 2010?
Did you know that the funeral march In Memoriam by Jean Sibelius was conceived in memory of Eugen Schauman , who shot a Governor-General in 1904?
Did you know that Mãe Menininha do Gantois was instrumental in gaining legal recognition of Candomblé and its rituals?
Did you know that the lemon-shaped container for Jif lemon juice was one of the first blow moulded polythene containers used for food applications?
Did you know that Ernie Blake helped interrogate Nazis Hermann Göring and Albert Speer , and adopted his code name as his real name, before founding Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico ?
Did you know that the 2015 Bangkok Half Marathon was called the "world's longest half marathon"?
Did you know that the 1981 election of Kathryn J. Whitmire as mayor heralded a major change in the city politics of Houston, Texas ?
Did you know that the house of the Chief or King of the community, at the southwestern end of Bawomataluo village , is said to be the "oldest and largest on Nias "?
Did you know that devout Muslim Mohamed Hadid , a lifelong teetotaler , owns a 5,000-bottle wine cellar and a Beverly Hills winery?
Did you know that Judd Nelson , who played Joe Hunt in the 1987 TV movie Billionaire Boys Club , is playing the character's father in the upcoming film of the same name ?
Did you know that Polish football player Łukasz Cieślewicz was named player of the year in the Faroe Islands in 2011 and 2015 ?
Did you know that We, too, have a Job to Do was painted by Norman Rockwell to encourage Boy Scouts to participate in the war effort during World War II?
Did you know that Izzy Slapawitz was responsible for several fan riots in the Southern United States between 1978 and 1982?
Did you know that the plot for the 200th episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was partly inspired by the strip search phone call scam ?
Did you know that the Welsh rugby league prop Morgan Evans made his national debut in a charity match against Keighley Cougars in honour of the rugby league footballer Danny Jones ?
Did you know that the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale is used in clinical settings to measure distress?
Did you know that in February 1850, Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo was the subject of a public letter-writing feud?
Did you know that Harald Sigtryggsson was installed as King of Limerick by his cousin Olaf Guthfrithson , King of Dublin ?
Did you know that the first popular bootleg rock album was Bob Dylan 's Great White Wonder ?
Did you know that after Rachel Henderlite 's 1965 ordination as a minister, a retired pastor sent her a postcard every year quoting the biblical injunction, "Let the women keep silent in the churches"?
Did you know that Maria Corsini , Italian writer and Roman Catholic lay person, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 31 October 2001 along with her husband, Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi ?
Did you know that the Huawei Ascend P7 smartphone has been noted for its high-resolution front camera and slow processor?
Did you know that Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller , a senior faculty member at Neve Yerushalayim College for Women, has thousands of students around the globe?
Did you know that Edvard Munch 's painting Love and Pain sold for more than US$38 million in 2008?
Did you know that Ismail Pasha al-Azm laid the foundations for the Azm family 's political dominance in Damascus during Ottoman rule?
Did you know that during the American Revolution , Loyalist spy Joseph Bettys failed in his mission to capture General Philip Schuyler because Bettys left his unit and went off to visit his girlfriend?
Did you know that The X Factor winner Louisa Johnson initially applied for Britain's Got Talent ?
Did you know that Level Mountain is the most voluminous and most persistent volcano in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province of North America?
Did you know that Vernon Arnold Haugland was the first civilian to receive the Silver Star medal , normally awarded only to members of the United States Armed Forces?
Did you know that the 2015 Hurricane Blanca was the earliest recorded tropical cyclone to make landfall on the Baja California Peninsula in any given year?
Did you know that the legend of Lopamudra in Mahabharata is said to be "the glorification of domestic life and family and demonstrates the incompleteness of a life based solely on asceticism"?
Did you know that British media have compared the Scottish footballer Ryan Gauld to Lionel Messi ?
Did you know that Operation Maeng Da translates as "Operation Pimp "?
Did you know that Elisabeth Abegg , a teacher who provided shelter to Jews during the Holocaust , also tutored Jewish children at her home?
Did you know that music from Bach 's cantata for New Year's Day, [[[Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171| Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm , BWV 171]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup ( help ) , appears in his Mass in B minor ?
Did you know that polymer chemist Swaminathan Sivaram holds the record for the most United States patents by an Indian national working in India?
Did you know that in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Baekje Historic Areas , about 4,600 antiquities were discovered in good condition in the Royal Tomb of King Muryeong ?
Did you know that Pu Shunqing is considered the first female screenwriter in China?
Did you know that the Argentine stem weevil is not considered economically important in its native South America, but is a serious agricultural pest in New Zealand?
Did you know that an opposing basketball coach praised UCLA Bruins freshman Aaron Holiday 's defense by comparing him to a Tasmanian devil ?
Did you know that after almost drowning during his foray into water polo , Ka'imi Fairbairn returned to American football and was named the top college kicker in the nation?
Did you know that perennial ryegrass staggers is a disease of livestock caused by an endophytic fungus sometimes present in perennial ryegrass ?
Did you know that 138 years after establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Nassau , Angela Palacious became its first woman deacon in 1999?
Did you know that by 1566, Fukuda was home to more than 1,000 Catholic Kirishitans ?
Did you know that Ardina Moore , a fluent speaker of Quapaw , created her own workbook, tapes, and classes to help preserve and teach the language to younger members of her tribe?
Did you know that Jean Sibelius conducted his Andante Festivo in a live broadcast on New Year's Day 1939, the only sound document of his interpretation of his works?
Did you know that the abolitionist Eliza Ann Gardner made her living as a dressmaker ?
Did you know that Pitbull began producing a New Year's Eve special for Fox in 2014?
Did you know that in 1941, Scottish soldier Peter Cochrane single-handedly destroyed two Italian machine gun posts with grenades?
Did you know that real ear measurement used by audiologists involves insertion of a probe to within 6 mm of the eardrum ?
Did you know that Elvis Presley 's hairstylist Larry Geller was also his spiritual advisor?
Did you know that in 2013, there were 819 active mines in Yemen producing stone, gypsum, refined petroleum products, and salt?
Did you know that at the pulpit of the synod of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands , Arenda Haasnoot said, "This is my calling. Here I am in my place"?
Did you know that in the 1907 Tour de France , some participants treated the race as a pleasure ride, stopping for lunch when they chose and spending the night in the best hotels they could find?
Did you know that 210 journalists and intellectuals called for Governor Li Hongzhong to step down after he grabbed the recorder from a reporter who sought to interview him?
Did you know that Natalia Lafourcade sought inspiration for her album Hasta la Raíz in Agustín Lara 's repertoire and her native country, Mexico?
Did you know that the Venezuelan footballer Edder Farías scored against Honduras in February 2015, his country's first victory since September 2013?
Did you know that in the Sharabha Upanishad , Shiva , incarnating as Sharabha in a fierce anthropomorphic form of an eagle, lion, and man, slays Narasimha , an incarnation of Vishnu ?
Did you know that serial killer Hilda Nilsson committed suicide by hanging the same day the courts commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment?
Did you know that The New York Times called the 2013 film Stray Dogs a "glum, humorless exercise in Asian miserablism"?
Did you know that drummer, singer, and songwriter Emily Estefan was born in 1994 after her mother, Gloria Estefan , had been told she would never give birth following a 1990 tour-bus crash?
Did you know that W. Lair Thompson , the President of the Oregon Senate , lost his re-election bid in 1916 by one vote?
Did you know that the freshwater snails Sinotaia aeruginosa and Cipangopaludina cathayensis are used in Chinese cuisine?