kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the carillons of the British Isles were primarily constructed in the interwar period ?
Did you know that Indian author and publisher Pramod Kapoor was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for his contribution to promoting India's heritage?
Did you know that shoals of Munida gregaria , the gregarious squat lobster, can be up to 5 km (3.1 mi) long?
Did you know that Martha Wolfenstein wrote stories based on her father's experiences in a Moravian Judengasse ?
Did you know that Bob Dylan 's song " I Pity the Poor Immigrant " uses phrases from the Book of Leviticus ?
Did you know that A. K. M. Miraj Uddin set a Pakistani national record in the pole vault by clearing 12 feet 2 inches (3.71 m) with a bamboo pole instead of a carbon-fiber pole?
Did you know that a New York City office building was nicknamed for its resemblance to a lipstick tube?
Did you know that José Ramón Balaguer fought as a soldier-medic for Fidel Castro's rebel army before becoming Cuba's minister of public health?
Did you know that the 6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment began with 916 men and ended with 52?
Did you know that Shanti Devi was awarded the Padma Shri Award for her social work, including eradicating the yaws disease in a village in Odisha ?
Did you know that " Kommt her, ihr Kreaturen all ", a Catholic hymn first published in 1687, is still commonly used for Corpus Christi processions?
Did you know that Syrian novelist Hani al-Rahib had a deaf-mute father and an illiterate mother?
Did you know that 100-year-old logs, perfectly preserved and good enough to mill, have been retrieved from the bottom of Lake Brunner ?
Did you know that Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill used to milk the goats at St Vincent's Hospital?
Did you know that the Amazon rainforest may change into a savanna once it passes a tipping point ?
Did you know that Carl-Gustav Groth was the first surgeon in Sweden to perform pancreas, liver, and islet cell transplants ?
Did you know that the 14th-century Tashfiniya Madrasa in Tlemcen was demolished by French colonial authorities in 1876?
Did you know that actor Oscar Isaac contributed to the creation of his character's background history in the film A Most Violent Year (2014)?
Did you know that three gasholders at the Windsor Street Gasworks were painted in the claret and blue colours of local football team Aston Villa ?
Did you know that Canadian professional ice hockey player Larry Jeffrey had eleven knee surgeries in a span of nine years?
Did you know that among the special events broadcast by the Maine Television Network during its brief existence were a fashion show, a basketball tournament, and an ordination ceremony?
Did you know that in 1969, unknown persons dynamited the tower of a Kentucky TV station , leaving it leaning at a 15-degree angle?
Did you know that at 107 years old, Stanley Stair of Jamaica was at the time of his death the last surviving Caribbean veteran of World War I?
Did you know that Calvin Harris's 2022 album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 features nearly 20 collaborators, including Justin Timberlake , Snoop Dogg , and Busta Rhymes ?
Did you know that actress Daisy Belmore disfigured her appearance for a character in a play so significantly that she was barely recognised in the street by audience members?
Did you know that the 2021 French documentary From Where They Stood examines photographs secretly taken by inmates of Nazi concentration camps ?
Did you know that Jerold F. Lucey introduced phototherapy to the United States as a treatment for jaundice in newborns?
Did you know that American religious speaker Ann Kiemel Anderson ran in two Boston Marathons and two Israel marathons near the Sea of Galilee to promote Christianity?
Did you know that the neighborhood of Colonia Federal was built by employees of the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior to create exclusive housing for civil servants?
Did you know that Robert Armour was entrusted with his children's inheritance from his dead wife, but used it to buy the Montreal Gazette instead?
Did you know that in 1951, the University of Arizona radio bureau produced four different programs that aired on four different Tucson stations?
Did you know that the Sofia , a condominium building in New York City, was originally a parking garage?
Did you know that the "candidate of God" badly lost the 2000 Pasay mayoral recall election ?
Did you know that about 1,000 years after it was made, a stele of The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha is worshiped as an image of a female Hindu goddess?
Did you know that according to Theodore Roosevelt , U.S. Supreme Court justice David J. Brewer had "a sweetbread for a brain" and was a "menace to the welfare of the Nation"?
Did you know that the administration of Carlos Salinas de Gortari barred El Financiero from the Mexican presidential press plane for its reporting on foreign debt negotiations?
Did you know that Thomas Dickson Archibald , when speaking against increasing fines for violating liquor licenses, said "we need only go a step further and make the violation a hanging matter"?
Did you know that eight years after the U.S. Army canceled the M8 Armored Gun System , the 82nd Airborne Division requested that prototypes from the program be sent to Iraq?
Did you know that skeletons of a Triassic marine reptile were discovered at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) above sea level?
Did you know that the only trumpet concerto by Antonio Vivaldi is for two trumpets ?
Did you know that Bernard Toone received a standing ovation after being berated by coach Al McGuire to the point of tears?
Did you know that as women's ski jumping was not then an Olympic event, Yoshiko Kasai participated as the only female test jumper at the 1998 Winter Olympics , as dramatized in Jump!! The Heroes Behind the Gold ?
Did you know that the Education for Economic Security Act prohibited secular humanism in magnet schools ?
Did you know that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth , a member of the Hamburg Parliament , and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg ?
Did you know that singer Billie Eilish wrote and produced a film that critiques body shaming ?
Did you know that Kamome Shirahama , in addition to writing and illustrating her best-selling Witch Hat Atelier manga series, has created variant covers for DC Comics , Marvel Comics , and the Star Wars franchise?
Did you know that the man who designed the flag of Barbados also made the first few flags himself out of fabric from a department store?
Did you know that Regine Velasquez had to audition for composer Michel Legrand before collaborating in the concert Songbird Sings Legrand ?
Did you know that Joseph-Alfred Archambeault threatened to excommunicate a writer who criticised the Catholic Church's opposition to the theory of evolution?
Did you know that New Galloway Town Hall 's clock mechanism was replaced in 1872 because the original was "utterly worthless as a time keeper"?
Did you know that political philosophy professor Werner J. Dannhauser was the basis for a character in a Saul Bellow novel?
Did you know that shareholders who object to some transactions can use appraisal rights to make the company buy their shares?
Did you know that Kanye West recorded " Everything We Need " as a new version of his leaked track "The Storm"?
Did you know that Roman slave miners would rather die than work in the horrible working conditions of the mines?
Did you know that the fossil palm Uhlia allenbyensis has been found with "tar spots"?
Did you know that Catherine Flanagan was arrested and jailed in 1917 for picketing the White House in support of women's suffrage?
Did you know that half a square mile (130 ha) in Alberta contains an estimated 6,000 arthropod species and is one of the most biodiverse areas in the province for its size?
Did you know that Charles Johnson received the most votes for student body president at the University of Colorado Boulder , even though he had already been disqualified from running?
Did you know that Sdorica featured crossovers with the fellow Rayark games Cytus II and Deemo , involving special events in Sdorica and song albums in Cytus II ?
Did you know that a new Christmas stamp that debuted in the 350-person town of Bethlehem, Georgia , in 1967 got so much attention that the two-employee post office had to hire forty-three temporary workers?
Did you know that Horace Archambeault introduced a Quebec bill in 1904 that would make employers responsible for workplace accidents, even if they were not negligent ?
Did you know that the new curriculum in Wales allows schools to set their own curricula ?
Did you know that Frank Goadby said that he served on 44 committees after his retirement from the British Army?
Did you know that supply-side progressivism is a response to rising costs of housing, healthcare, and other essential goods in the United States?
Did you know that Vikki Blanche did not take her Neighbours audition seriously, thinking that she would not be cast so soon after graduating from school?
Did you know that an attempt to jazz up a South Carolina radio station did not get much response from listeners?
Did you know that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo , covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine , said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do?
Did you know that shoshin is a Zen Buddhist term that means having a "beginner's mind"?
Did you know that The Last of Us Part I features three accessibility presets for those requiring hearing, motor, or visual aids?
Did you know that Earle M. Chiles , a businessman and philanthropist from Portland, Oregon , was also a senator of the board of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich , Germany?
Did you know that China Miéville 's novella This Census-Taker fluctuates between the first and third person to convey the trauma felt by the protagonist?
Did you know that the development of the Port of Tanjung Api-Api resulted in a bribery scandal implicating the incumbent governor ?
Did you know that Open Philanthropy has made grants to causes ranging from recession prevention to cancer vaccines for dogs?
Did you know that Ukrainian baritone Danylo Matviienko , who holds a master's degree in mathematics, appeared as Demetrius in Britten 's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Oper Frankfurt ?
Did you know that Univel was an early-1990s attempt to compete with Microsoft on the desktop, but one industry consultant said of the company's goal, "they're dreaming"?
Did you know that a European settler in Kenya who tortured a black employee to death in 1920 was sentenced to just two years' imprisonment?
Did you know that the California Golden Bears men's basketball team won the 1959 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game by a single point over West Virginia?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian poet Hamad al-Hajji lost three members of his family during his childhood and later suffered from schizophrenia until he died at the age of 49 after a lung disease?
Did you know that riders on the Jolly Rancher Remix can smell one of five randomly chosen Jolly Rancher flavors?
Did you know that television production companies working in Bhadun , Bangladesh, can hire a local woman as an extra for ৳500 (US$5.30) per day?
Did you know that Bob Dylan 's " Absolutely Sweet Marie " was misspelled on several international releases of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2 ?
Did you know that subgroup distortion theory , introduced by Misha Gromov in 1993, can help encode text?
Did you know that according to climate scientist Chip Fletcher , "our communities are scaled and built for a climate that no longer exists"?
Did you know that Cowbridge Girls School , built in 1896, was unusual for its time in providing a science laboratory for the students?
Did you know that Jim Nettles followed his older brother to San Diego State University and the Minnesota Twins , but preceded him in being diagnosed with prostate cancer?
Did you know that the current lighthouse at the Port of Tanjung Kalian was built by a Dutch company in 1862 based on a British design?
Did you know that Rakhel Feygenberg wrote her first novel at age 13, but was forced by her relatives to burn it?
Did you know that Microsoft made a Mac enhancer ?
Did you know that physical applications of Euclidean minimum spanning trees range in scale from the particles in bubble chambers to the dark matter halos of galaxies?
Did you know that the court-martial of William T. Colman , the commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier?
Did you know that lemur health is threatened by climate change in Madagascar due to the spread of parasites with warmer temperatures?
Did you know that the radio station at Western Washington University interfered with telephone and television services in a campus dormitory?
Did you know that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga ?
Did you know that Union Carbide bought 270 Park Avenue in 1976 while moving out of the building?
Did you know that a Carolingian military sermon promises soldiers victory, provided they do not engage in sexual activity or looting ?
Did you know that the slopes near Bass Lake at Flat Top Manor in North Carolina were covered with hundreds of apple trees?
Did you know that Rockstar Vancouver developed most of the "Beta 5" update for Counter-Strike ?
Did you know that Iraqi psychologist Nuri Ja'far , in his youth, was denied admission to the College of Medicine University of Baghdad by Harry Sinderson ?
Did you know that Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell wrote the melody for their four-time Grammy-nominated song " Happier Than Ever " on an $80 guitar?
Did you know that The Random Years includes a version of strip poker played to Antiques Roadshow ?
Did you know that the design of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set Streets of New Capenna is inspired by the Five Families of organized crime?
Did you know that protesters demanded the closure of the embassy of the Philippines in Lisbon ?
Did you know that the Suquamish tribe opened their community house, the House of Awakened Culture , in 2009?
Did you know that The Maiden in the Tower , the only opera by Jean Sibelius , was withdrawn after only three performances with the intention to revise it, which never happened?
Did you know that Wes Freed was the secretary of Future Farmers of America before becoming the album cover artist for the Drive-By Truckers ?
Did you know that Die Brennessel was a satirical magazine devised by the Nazi Party as a propaganda tool?
Did you know that when a computer journalist saw the IBM PS/2 Model 25 for the first time, he thought that he "was looking at a deformed Macintosh "?
Did you know that the shop in Cairo designed by Robert Williams for the Davies Bryan Company became a site of "pilgrimage for all Welsh travellers" to Egypt?
Did you know that Pedro II of Brazil examined the signal system on the Fitchburg Cutoff ?
Did you know that when Francesco Lanzillotta conducted Dallapiccola's Ulisse at Oper Frankfurt in 2022, a reviewer noted that he "does not shy away from agglomerations of sound"?
Did you know that in 2009, residents of Maine voted to repeal a law that would have legalized same-sex marriage?
Did you know that yachting photographer Eileen Ramsay damaged many Rolleiflex cameras by attempting to take photos at water level?
Did you know that " illegal operation " was a common euphemism for abortion in early-20th-century North American newspapers?
Did you know that Ekuikui V was deposed as the king of Bailundo in 2021 and sentenced to six years in prison?
Did you know that according to one sociologist, Franklin Flores 's landslide victory demonstrated his party 's ability to win the rural vote "regardless of the candidates nominated"?
Did you know that Northwest High School required transgender staff members of the student newspaper to use deadnames in bylines ?
Did you know that Drummie Zeb was one of the last two original members of Aswad still playing with the reggae group by 2006?
Did you know that following the introduction of the round goby to Lake Erie, the Lake Erie watersnake 's population recovered enough to be removed from the U.S. threatened species list?
Did you know that in the lead-up to the 1919 Copa del Rey Final between FC Barcelona and Arenas Club de Getxo , fans broke the fencing twice to watch the sold-out match?
Did you know that former Lincoln University president Armstead Otey Grubb was robbed and murdered outside his home on campus in 1968?
Did you know that concerts of the Spannungen festival of chamber music, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998, are played in a power plant?
Did you know that Green Valley State Park in Iowa, which was dedicated exactly 69 years ago, had multiple species of fish added to its artificial lake in 1974?
Did you know that according to Modern Times, a San Francisco–based bookstore collective, if there was only one book that you read in 1975 it had to be Canadian author and activist Helen Potrebenko 's Taxi! ?
Did you know that a Duesenberg car was the first American car to win a French Grand Prix , doing so in 1921?
Did you know that besides official retreats in Hyderabad and in Shimla , the president of India also has one in Dehradun ?
Did you know that actress Zita Moulton first starred in theatre performances after a bet with her fiancé that she would be able to get a stage job within 24 hours?
Did you know that 48 of the 55 British participants in the August 1919 raid on Kronstadt received gallantry medals or were mentioned in despatches ?
Did you know that Malaysian businessman Lim Kok Wing was depicted as "King of Africa"?
Did you know that Westminster Abbey 's director of music James O'Donnell , who is responsible for the singing at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II , is scheduled to become a professor at Yale University in 2023?
Did you know that in 1988, Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to make an official visit to Spain ?
Did you know that in 1952, Douglas Chandor painted the first portrait of Elizabeth II that she posed for following her accession?
Did you know that Leverton & Sons were given the coffin of Elizabeth II when they were appointed funeral directors to the Royal Household in 1991?
Did you know that today's funeral procession of Elizabeth II to Windsor Castle started at the gate to Shaw Farm ?
Did you know that the 1991 song " Queen's Road East " by Lo Ta-yu describes Elizabeth II as "beautiful even when saying goodbye"?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln Davis cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. , serving as his vice president?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia organized partisan units behind the front lines during the Polish–Soviet War ?
Did you know that George F. Kosco filmed the signing of the Japanese surrender in color ?
Did you know that evidence of the battle of Benfleet was found in the 19th century in the form of charred timbers and human bones?
Did you know that James W. Lugenbeel 's journal became the only known record of the proceedings of the 1847 Liberian Constitutional Convention ?
Did you know that because of the increasing prevalence of sesame allergy , the U.S. will join the EU and Canada in 2023 in instituting mandatory food labeling?
Did you know that baseball player Mark Littell developed an anatomically correct athletic cup called the "Nutty Buddy"?
Did you know that Tala Bashmi played on the Bahrain women's national football team for seven years before opening a restaurant in a Manama hotel?
Did you know that when The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is completed, it is expected to contain approximately 30,000 writings in 47 volumes?
Did you know that Liu Yunbin , the son of the second president of the People's Republic of China , was a graduate in radiochemistry and contributed to the development of China's first atomic bomb ?
Did you know that Taylor Swift announced her upcoming album, Midnights , while accepting the 2022 Video of the Year award?
Did you know that when Bill Renwick was asked to review a neo-Nazi case at the University of Waikato it was meant to take three weeks, but instead took nearly two years?
Did you know that women- and minority-owned businesses built the Frequent Express high-capacity bus line in Portland, Oregon ?
Did you know that during the 1970s, future Indonesian president Habibie would go to a specific noodle shop every lunchtime?
Did you know that Jewish Indian theory , the erroneous idea that some lost tribes of Israel became ancestors to Native Americans , influenced the Book of Mormon ?
Did you know that Billie Eilish released two songs in July 2022, one of which was about a loved one's car accident?
Did you know that a job offer from the Empire Cinema saved science fiction writer John Russell Fearn from factory-based war work that "damned near killed [him]"?
Did you know that upon its completion, the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center had the largest sloped green roof in the United States?
Did you know that Ruffian Games co-developed Kinect games to stay in business after the release of Crackdown 2 ?
Did you know that the National Football League record for career punting yards is more than 40 miles (65 km)?
Did you know that "gambling lord" Hong Taechawanit 's mansion in Thailand became a police station?
Did you know that WNEW-TV Channel 5 used its early-morning Columbia Lectures in International Studies to offset criticism of its prime-time schedule of crime show reruns?
Did you know that Moses Judah Hays leased a block of buildings to the Canadian Parliament after its seat was burned down in 1849 ?
Did you know that though Haiti did not compete at the 1936 Summer Olympics, its presence there made Liechtenstein change its flag?
Did you know that Robert Downey Jr. declared Elvis Costello 's Imperial Bedroom his favorite album in a 2005 article for Uncut magazine?
Did you know that datacasting tests by a Detroit TV station included a ceremonial broadcast of an early automobile patent from 1886?
Did you know that Madeleine Swann 's name is a tribute to Marcel Proust ?
Did you know that according to Ruth Marcus , the facts of Michael H. v. Gerald D. "more closely resembled a soap opera synopsis than a typical Supreme Court case"?
Did you know that the working title of Alien was Star Beast ?
Did you know that Linus Roth , who plays the 1703 Dancla Stradivarius violin, recorded all compositions by Mieczysław Weinberg which feature a solo violin?
Did you know that a bystander's video of the arrest of Randal Worcester in Mulberry, Arkansas , showed one law enforcement officer holding Worcester on the ground while two other officers beat him?
Did you know that the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1969 for members from all four Swiss language regions, and meets twice a year for rehearsals and a tour program?
Did you know that the video game Serious Sam: Tormental was originally inspired by Geometry Wars ?
Did you know that Zack Kelly received a $500 signing bonus , lost money in his first professional seasons, and was released by two organizations before he made his Major League Baseball debut?
Did you know that Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt by Heinrich Schütz , a 1619 setting of Psalm 100 for double choir , was performed at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 1972?
Did you know that Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin was born a Jew , became a Muslim , moved to Pakistan and died in poverty?
Did you know that in the Troy axe murders a former fireman killed his wife, five-year-old daughter, and five stepchildren and left love notes on their bodies?
Did you know that whilst serving in the Royal Navy during World War II, Tom Dorrien-Smith , a former leaseholder of Tresco , was involved in the sinking of the Bismarck ?
Did you know that construction of Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit uncovered tracks from the California Street Cable Railroad ?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, the sun and moon are each chased by a warg ?
Did you know that Adele moans in " Can I Get It ", a song about desire for a real relationship instead of casual sex?
Did you know that George Eisenbarth conducted twin studies showing that if one twin had type 1 diabetes , the other was also at risk of the disease?