kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that when Divine 's song " Lately " topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters , the producers , and the record labels ?
Did you know that activist Gerlin Bean co-founded the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in 1978, an event described as "a watershed in the history of Black women's rights activism"?
Did you know that in the 1980s, NBC was given several hundred million dollars' worth of incentives to stay at 30 Rockefeller Plaza ?
Did you know that the tribune of the plebs Gaius Antius Restio passed a law in 68 BC forbidding Roman magistrates from attending banquets?
Did you know that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
Did you know that COVID-19 lockdown restrictions caused a 37-percent increase in infections of dengue fever in Singapore's 2020 outbreak ?
Did you know that Ruth L. Trufant sued a man for not following through on a promise to marry her?
Did you know that an erroneous claim that the neural language model LaMDA is sentient has generated conversations on the efficacy of the Turing test ?
Did you know that South Carolina legislator Wade Perrin was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan the day after being re-elected?
Did you know that the Promethean gap was part of an attempt by Gunther Andres to conceptualize Hiroshima and Auschwitz?
Did you know that the 1956 article " My Last Wonderful Days ", about an Iowa woman accepting terminal cancer, funded an Iowa State University scholarship program?
Did you know that Ernst Jacobi , known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff 's film The Tin Drum , played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
Did you know that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how Alaskapox virus , a recently discovered relative of Monkeypox virus , has spread to humans from animals?
Did you know that Mary Baines , credited as one of the founders of the palliative care movement, initially thought it "very odd, this idea of caring for the dying"?
Did you know that two slaves belonging to Don Carlos were trained by the Italian medallist Jacopo da Trezzo in his workshop in 1550s Madrid?
Did you know that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com ?
Did you know that in 2007, Arthur Gray 's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
Did you know that the RoadRunner , a laptop from 1983, loaded and stored data from cartridges?
Did you know that in 2021, Wishma Sandamali , who was detained for overstaying her visa after seeking police protection for domestic abuse, became the 17th person to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007?
Did you know that roughly 15,000 copies of the anonymously published essay " Queers Read This " were distributed at the June 1990 New York Gay Pride Parade ?
Did you know that Ellaisa Marquis has been called the "marquis player" of women's football in Saint Lucia?
Did you know that two state representatives got into a fight in the parking lot of Miami's Radio Mambí after one's father insulted the other's on the air?
Did you know that Oey Tiang Tjoei once physically assaulted the editor of a competing newspaper?
Did you know that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA ?
Did you know that Welsh shot putter Adele Nicoll was approached about taking up bobsleigh based on a video on social media of her exercising?
Did you know that the Broadway Theatre is one of Broadway 's few Broadway theaters ?
Did you know that María Chiquinquirá was allowed to remain free until a court heard her case, but since it never did she died a free woman?
Did you know that under a new Connecticut law , abortion providers in the state can countersue anyone who sues them under the Texas Heartbeat Act ?
Did you know that three men resigned from the Executive Council of Nova Scotia upon Mather Byles Almon 's appointment?
Did you know that the snapping shrimp Alpheus armatus clears sand from a sea anemone 's lair?
Did you know that counterterrorism expert Esperanza Casteleiro used to work in human resources ?
Did you know that during Orrin Hatch's presidential campaign in 2000, his wife told him that his poor performance in the Iowa caucuses was a "sign from God" to end his campaign?
Did you know that a statue of Serenidus , the brother of Serenicus , is called the "little pissing saint" because a spring issues from below it in the Oratory of Saint Cénéré ?
Did you know that Charlie Young was introduced into The West Wing over concerns of a lack of racial diversity in casting?
Did you know that in 2020, Ukrainian association football referee Maryna Striletska was part of the first all-woman officiating team for a men's international football match?
Did you know that in 2021, Elvis Costello remade his 1978 album This Year's Model in Spanish with several Latin musical artists?
Did you know that according to Rogers Smith , the U.S. Supreme Court 's decision in the Ku Klux Cases was its only ruling "markedly favorable to black voting rights" in the post-Reconstruction era ?
Did you know that Ursula Sillge 's attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in East Germany led to the banning of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf 's venue for LGBT meetings?
Did you know that the novel June Rain was described by one critic as "a 'whodunit' without a 'who ' "?
Did you know that Ann Klein supported a successful bill that allowed women to register to vote in New Jersey without disclosing their marital status?
Did you know that readers of The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler often incorrectly assume that the main character is a boy?
Did you know that after LaVere Redfield 's death, 12 tons of silver dollars were found hidden in his garage and home?
Did you know that a cheat code in the video game Spyro: Year of the Dragon grants access to a near-complete copy of Crash Bash ?
Did you know that James T. Sears called the novels The White Paper (1928), Street of Stairs (1968), and Boychick (1971), three " pederastic erotic classics"?
Did you know that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam ?
Did you know that a study published in the journal Celebrity Studies examined Pippa Middleton 's buttocks using Marxist and Freudian analyses?
Did you know that The Lord of the Ice Garden , a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction , has been compared to The Witcher ?
Did you know that Jim Pappin was credited with the 1967 Stanley Cup -clinching goal in exchange for giving Pete Stemkowski unlimited access to his backyard pool?
Did you know that William D. Leahy was the highest-ranking American military officer in World War II?
Did you know that the prologue to The Polymath was written by Martin Kemp , a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci ?
Did you know that some bells are replaced by a wooden clapper for three days in a year ?
Did you know that Alex Horton made his Twenty20 cricket debut for Glamorgan despite no actual play being possible due to rain?
Did you know that spiritual jazz originated in the 1960s, partially due to the civil rights movement ?
Did you know that dermosyphilopathologist Giuseppe Mariani received a silver medal for his bravery under fire at the Third Battle of the Isonzo?
Did you know that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia , Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing?
Did you know that the first time The Witcher universe was portrayed outside the novels was in the 1993–1995 Polish comic book series of the same name ?
Did you know that the Beacon Theatre , once described as "a true bit of Bagdad on Broadway", later gained a reputation as a rock venue?
Did you know that early floppy disks used FM encoding that took up only half the available storage?
Did you know that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia ?
Did you know that the Red Hill water crisis has caused a water shortage in Honolulu ?
Did you know that Ekaterina Novitskaya , then aged 16, became the first female ever to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano?
Did you know that the 1944 SCR-720 radar system was used only briefly by the USAAF , but was a primary RAF system into the late 1950s?
Did you know that the Scottish medical missionary Ernest Muir championed the use of the traditional Ayurvedic cure chaulmoogra oil in treating Hansen's disease (leprosy)?
Did you know that a Pennsylvania TV station is experimenting with datacasting educational content to school students and prison inmates?
Did you know that Hans van Manen 's ballet Adagio Hammerklavier is inspired by a recording of the Beethoven score that was played at an exceptionally slow tempo?
Did you know that Judith Ehrlich incorporated her NPR work on pacifism into a documentary focusing on conscientious objectors during World War II?
Did you know that Greenlandic author Pipaluk Freuchen was praised for the "unrelenting realism" in her first book, where a child kills a polar bear?
Did you know that it took seven years for Gwazi, a pair of dueling wooden roller coasters , to be refurbished into the hybrid roller coaster Iron Gwazi ?
Did you know that The Tale of Genji 's Kaoru Genji has been called literature's first antihero ?
Did you know that in Jackson, Tennessee , there was a 50–50 chance a reference to Dixie was about a radio station ?
Did you know that the Irish Bee Conservation Project is helping to rewild native bees with bee lodges on the estate of the historic Dunsany Castle ?
Did you know that American drag queen James Herndon donated funds and resources into black and LGBTQ+ communities in Lexington, Kentucky ?
Did you know that Mess L , a multipurpose building in Banjarbaru , Indonesia, was historically used to house Soviet workers?
Did you know that American conservationist Paul Lester Errington reshaped perception of predators ?
Did you know that the 1983 pink film Beautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
Did you know that Charles Leslie Richardson was ordered to "make science fashionable in the army"?
Did you know that the 19th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on 19 December with 19 participating countries – but the EBU had to choose between three competition scenarios due to COVID-19 ?
Did you know that J. Michael Miller , the archbishop of Vancouver , who turns 76 today, starred in a high school production of Our Town opposite Mary Lou Finlay ?
Did you know that a Louisiana radio station went to a satellite-fed music format because it had more control than with its previous "18- and 20-year-old jocks"?
Did you know that Avtar Singh Jouhl took Malcolm X to a segregated pub in Smethwick as part of his campaign to end the colour bar ?
Did you know that the title of the incel and Frogtwitter subculture film TFW No GF stands for "that feeling when [you have] no girlfriend"?
Did you know that 2021 NCAA champion Bonnie Tan served as the assistant to 2021 UAAP champion Goldwin Monteverde in 1991?
Did you know that the developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of a person's voice is sufficient to clone it up to human standards using artificial intelligence ?
Did you know that Alfons Koziełł-Poklewski , dubbed the "vodka king of Siberia", was actually Polish?
Did you know that about 200 San Francisco police officers led a 1989 riot through a gay neighborhood in reaction to a peaceful protest?
Did you know that John Yelland was insulted by Admiral Hyde Parker 's offer of a position aboard his flagship?
Did you know that the Enterprise , a black newspaper in Omaha , supported a separate African American department at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition ?
Did you know that Charles Alban Buckler , an artist, topographer, author, and officer of arms , rebuilt Arundel Castle ?
Did you know that Ingrid Andress came up with " Lady Like " after being rejected by a man when she brought politics up?
Did you know that a 1955 satirical comedy play by Kasymaly Jantöshev was one of the first signs of the relaxation of Soviet literary restrictions after the death of Joseph Stalin ?
Did you know that Chris Ernst stripped naked in 1976 with her Yale University teammates to protest the lack of showers for the women's rowing crew?
Did you know that Polish courts processed 14.38 million cases in 2020 while having fewer than 10,000 judges?
Did you know that conservationist Frank H. Wadsworth supported and worked with efforts to recover the endangered Puerto Rican parrot ?
Did you know that Olive Llewellyn, a character in the novel Sea of Tranquility , has been called a stand-in for Emily St. John Mandel , the novel's author?
Did you know that Dominic Keegan refused a position on the New York Yankees to "go back and win another championship" for his college baseball team?
Did you know that the McLaren MCL35 was the first McLaren race car to be wrapped ?
Did you know that baseball player Nick Solak was named after the sports bar where his parents first met?
Did you know that according to one reviewer, the problems that may have prompted the publication of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life in the 1980s had "only gotten worse" by 2005?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Tuva Hansen and her dog have received millions of views on several TikTok videos?
Did you know that " Hurricane " was originally intended for Chance the Rapper , who passed on the song to Kanye West ?
Did you know that Hausman Baboe , a colonial district chief of Kuala Kapuas , was fired due to his anti-colonial remarks?
Did you know that the motto of the Clayton Herald was "Independent in Everything; Neutral in Nothing"?
Did you know that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher Eliane Morissens ?
Did you know that local dairy farmers credit morning broadcasts of polka music from a Wisconsin radio station for relaxing their cows?
Did you know that Kelly Hecking won more Big East Conference championships than any other Notre Dame athlete?
Did you know that the three oak saplings on the flag of Prince Edward Island represent the three counties that make up the province ?
Did you know that Bert Longfellow took on a one-man crusade which halved the drowning rate in the United States?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme was praised as the "finest modern specimen of ornamental brickwork in the kingdom"?
Did you know that the Ukrainian violinist Diana Tishchenko played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022?
Did you know that a Pacific Cyber/Metrix 's Bubbl-Dek fits into the floppy drive bay of an IBM PC, allowing it to take a bubble memory module?
Did you know that Dr. Dot started to give her mother "bite massages" at the age of five?
Did you know that Owen Jones 's elaborately ornamented Book of Common Prayer "pointed to the direction that books in general were to follow in the Victorian Age"?
Did you know that George Mann Niedecken was a Prairie -style interior architect who designed furniture for Frank Lloyd Wright and worked for Marion Mahony Griffin ?
Did you know that in the 1917 municipal election in Minsk , Belorussian parties only won 2 out of 102 seats?
Did you know that as a lawyer, Peter Dowding defended more than 100 Vietnam War conscientious objectors ?
Did you know that Rafflesia lawangensis was previously misidentified as Rafflesia arnoldii , only to be identified as a new species in 2005 after photographs of it were sent to the National University of Malaysia ?
Did you know that Paul Chadick performed so well in the Delaware River Basketball League that a sportswriter said it would "benefit the league if he retired"?
Did you know that Irene Parlby was one of The Famous Five , a group of women in Canada who fought for the right of women to be considered "persons"?
Did you know that agriculture ranks as one of the most stressful occupations in the United States and one that experiences high suicide rates?
Did you know that The Baby-Sitters Club actress Sophia Reid-Gantzert won an Austrian ballet competition when she was six?
Did you know that when the pastor of an African-American church bought the El Dorado , one newspaper wrote that "its occupants are white, and were white"?
Did you know that actress Hilda Hanbury was the grandmother of actors James and Edward Fox and the great-grandmother of actress Emilia Fox ?
Did you know that part of West Virginia's Princeton–Deepwater District railway was so steep that only shortened coal trains could ascend it?
Did you know that Edward A. Synan , a military chaplain , wrote over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism ?
Did you know that Italian football club A.C. Monza played 40 seasons in Serie B before securing promotion to Serie A – more than any other club?
Did you know that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented the sensuality and eroticism of his work?
Did you know that according to Bohr's law , the person who draws first in a gunfight loses?
Did you know that Richmond station includes a "rather disquieting" artwork by William Mitchell ?
Did you know that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong , an expert in sickle cell disease , decided while still in medical school to devote his life to the study of the disease, after his newborn son was diagnosed with the condition?
Did you know that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm?
Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the first president of Bangladesh , had an appearance in the 1974 film Sangram ?
Did you know that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem , one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was given an award for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion ?
Did you know that the quantum boomerang effect causes particles to turn around and return to their starting point?
Did you know that Pat Gozemba married her wife while researching a book about the history of the struggle for equal marriage in Massachusetts?
Did you know that red-boxing by American politicians is used to coordinate with Super PACs , an activity that the Campaign Legal Center called the "primary mechanism for corruption of federal campaigns in 2022"?
Did you know that King Mohnyin Thado of Ava responded to the troubles of his kingdom by recalibrating the Burmese calendar to year 2?
Did you know that the Electronic Arrays 9002 microprocessor was developed to get the company out of the calculator business, but instead led to their disappearance?
Did you know that Stig Millehaugen , who had escaped or attempted escape from prison multiple times, was given a prison furlough in 2022 and failed to return?
Did you know that posters for John Lindsay's 1965 New York City mayoral campaign told voters that "John Lindsay Cares About You"?
Did you know that an intestine-on-a-chip can model and mimic an organ?
Did you know that Charlie H. Hogan was called "king of engineers" after he became the first to drive a train at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
Did you know that Internet activist Sally Burch was refused entry into Argentina because her presence was considered to be disruptive?
Did you know that the name of the " Mormons vs. Mullets " game was a play on the 1988 " Catholics vs. Convicts " game?
Did you know that Irene Desmet , a Liverpudlian paediatric surgeon, was described by one of her trainees as "an iron fist in a velvet glove"?
Did you know that Gil Scott-Heron 's 1975 song " Johannesburg " was banned in South Africa during apartheid ?
Did you know that Indian philanthropist and business executive T. Mohandas Pai has been called the "architect of modern Manipal"?
Did you know that Peter Corby 's electric trouser press used technology designed for Concorde ?
Did you know that at over 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi), Antar Lintas Sumatera 's Medan -to- Jember service is the longest bus route in Indonesia?
Did you know that Pliny used the term insania to describe a Roman art collector 's love of citron tables?
Did you know that voting in the first Eurovision Song Contest was conducted in secret, with countries able to vote for their own entries, and only the winner of the contest being announced?
Did you know that William White 's last NFL game was Super Bowl XXXIII , in which he made a team-high nine tackles for the losing Atlanta Falcons ?
Did you know that Leafpad is a text editor for Linux that is comparable to Notepad for Windows?
Did you know that cosmetic chemist Balanda Atis created the foundation worn by Lupita Nyong'o in advertisements for Lancôme ?
Did you know that a practice known as jieba , in which a Buddhist monk has scars ritually burned into his head, was banned by the Chinese government for 300 years?
Did you know that Clifford G. Grulee died while attending a dinner hosted by the American Academy of Pediatrics in his honor?
Did you know that the name of the International Institute of Modern Letters has been criticised by its founder Bill Manhire for being "almost at odds with the fine use of language"?
Did you know that Henry Jackson served for 44 days, the shortest tenure of any New Zealand member of parliament?
Did you know that armored mud balls are formed underwater when fragments of clay or mud are rolled by moving currents, picking up a coating of gravel or pebbles that helps to stop them breaking down further?
Did you know that Eliane Capobianco 's election to the Bolivian Constituent Assembly reflected the propensity of the country's agribusiness elites to occupy positions that granted them influence over land reform policy?
Did you know that Bob Dylan rhymes " Angelina " with " concertina ", " hyena ", " subpoena ", " Argentina " and " arena "?
Did you know that The Exposé 's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna were republished by Chinese state media outlets?
Did you know that New Zealand composer Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song " Now is the Hour " for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States?
Did you know that an incident in the Tailhook scandal involved party goers who accidentally dislodged an eighth-floor window pane while "mooning" the crowd below?
Did you know that Tigor Silaban vowed to work far from Jakarta and not to open a private practice?
Did you know that 17 State Street , near the southern end of New York City's Manhattan Island, was described as "quite literally a beacon for Lower Manhattan"?
Did you know that Esther Cuesta was an undocumented migrant in the United States long before she was elected to represent about 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants?
Did you know that " Arnold's Christmas ", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series Hey Arnold! , was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that the 1948 novel The Corner That Held Them uses subversion of history that includes a nun who enjoyed the Black Death ?
Did you know that Brad White was a potato farmer who went on to play six years in the National Football League ?
Did you know that Bill Harkin designed the original Glastonbury Festival Pyramid Stage, which was built from scaffolding and plastic sheeting?
Did you know that for decades, the Sand Springs Railway gave all of its profits to a children's home?
Did you know that John Dique constructed the machine used by the first Australian patient to receive dialysis ?
Did you know that the Roman fort Aquis Querquennis periodically emerges from a reservoir?
Did you know that casino pit boss Mike Goodman was the author of a book that sold over a million copies?
Did you know that Youlgreave in Derbyshire is one of only a few villages in the United Kingdom to be supplied by its own private waterworks ?
Did you know that radio station WBML made its first broadcast just one hour after the funeral of its manager-to-be?