kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that John P. Metras held all-night recruitment parties including a bathtub full of ice and beer?
Did you know that Priamurye Governorate-General , a Russian colony in East Asia, issued passports in order to segregate East Asian migrants from the general population?
Did you know that Meng Sufen led a 1993 investigation in Guizhou 's Mashan region, sparking a donation campaign raising over 1.6 million yuan for poverty alleviation?
Did you know that Britart and the Turner Prize are both lampooned in the Jilly Cooper romance novel Pandora ?
Did you know that the larvae of the elm zigzag sawfly create distinctive zig-zags in the leaves of elm trees?
Did you know that while attempting to "bulk up" for the Olympics, judoka Vlado Paradžik lost 11 pounds (5.0 kg) due to food shortages?
Did you know that the developers of UTM had to make what they called a "slow edition" of their software to meet the App Store's design requirements?
Did you know that NFL player Miles Turpin wrestled alligators when young, calling it "a lot of fun"?
Did you know that Gabriel Luna used a flamethrower in an episode of The Last of Us , and afterwards had recurring visions of flaming figures running towards him?
Did you know that many North Carolina Farmers' Union members left the organization as a result of leader Henry Quincy Alexander 's opposition to American entry into World War I ?
Did you know that 33 years after The New York Times called David Lynch 's film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me "brain-dead" and seemingly "the worst movie ever made", it conceded that the film was now "revered"?
Did you know that two future deans of the University of Indonesia , Margono Soekarjo and Djamaloeddin , conducted the first surgery on conjoined twins in Indonesia?
Did you know that the nearly 200 sexual encounters Molly Kochan had while terminally ill formed the basis of the Dying for Sex podcast and subsequent TV series ?
Did you know that a gun club once allegedly parked boats in the living room of a plantation house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright ?
Did you know that Jane Remover 's school counselor made sure Remover felt fine after a classmate wrote an essay about lyrics from Teen Week ?
Did you know that playwright Jason Grote was involved in releasing 10,000 crickets in New York City?
Did you know that the author of The Perfect Prince Loves Me, His Rival?! used the concept of leveling up in role-playing video games to show that a character was improving in magic?
Did you know that the two women athletes Liechtenstein sent to the 1976 Summer Olympics were twins?
Did you know that a 2023 coal mine workers' union election in Yellandu had a turnout of 98 percent?
Did you know that William Arthur Ganfield often wore a red tie when Carroll College was running a deficit and a black tie when it was running a surplus?
Did you know that Proceratosaurus is one of the oldest tyrannosaurs ?
Did you know that researcher Daniel Kokotajlo predicts that AI will be better than humans at "everything" by the end of 2027?
Did you know that writer Jilly Cooper named a goat in her novel Jump! after a critic who revealed spoilers for an earlier work?
Did you know that the theatre which premiered a play about sex offenders had to hire additional security for its run?
Did you know that visitors from various countries come to a temple to see a wild Chinese monkey named Xing Xing ?
Did you know that Fatima Hassouna was killed shortly after a documentary about her was announced for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival ?
Did you know that at a Destroy Lonely concert promoting an edition of his debut album , some fans entered his car?
Did you know that Carl Jorgensen and Gust Zarnas were the first NFL players from Denmark and Greece?
Did you know that in 1917 more than 8,000 African Americans protested lynchings by marching down New York City's Fifth Avenue in silence, accompanied only by the sound of muffled drums ?
Did you know that a Sicilian soldier killed his own family during an Ottoman attack on Gozo in 1551, to prevent them from being enslaved?
Did you know that the Knox Mountain Hillclimb is considered very challenging due to every corner being off camber ?
Did you know that the works of Yaelokre have been compared to The Lord of the Rings , Gorillaz , and the illustrations of Where the Wild Things Are ?
Did you know that Camp Growden was envisioned to become a winter sports complex with toboggan runs?
Did you know that Paddy Higson was known as the "mother of Scottish film"?
Did you know that the robotic costumes used in the Doctor Who episode " The Robot Revolution " were 3D printed in thirty-four different pieces before being assembled?
Did you know that Google searches for the word "fortnight" in the US increased by 868% on the release day of the song " Fortnight " by Taylor Swift ?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers signed Tom Birney as their new kicker in 1979, even though he had not kicked a field goal in more than five years?
Did you know that a 2015 issue of the Strawberry Newspaper features Hello Kitty discussing military conflicts in Afghanistan, Somalia, and Ukraine?
Did you know that Beyoncé 's " Formation " video topped Rolling Stone 's list of the "100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time" in 2021?
Did you know that Jim Coffeen was the one of the first two quarterbacks for the Green Bay Packers , then served as the team's first public address announcer ?
Did you know that Score! by Jilly Cooper was criticised for its treatment of sexual violence?
Did you know that the court-appointed receiver for a California TV station noted that the business "at least equal[ed] the most poorly managed companies I've seen"?
Did you know that stage director Tina Packer has hired Black and Asian actors in traditionally White Shakespearean roles?
Did you know that kākā birds deeply scar Nothofagus menziesii trees while searching for the larvae of the pūriri moth ?
Did you know that priests were secretly buried at St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate , after it fell into ruin?
Did you know that Hamengkubuwono III was appointed crown prince of Yogyakarta while his father was also still crown prince?
Did you know that Alamat 's " Maharani " made them the first Pinoy pop boy band to enter the Billboard Philippines Hot 100 ?
Did you know that Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley was compiled over concerns that the stories would be lost?
Did you know that swimmer Anja Margetić refused to participate at the Mediterranean Games after learning she would not be able to compete under the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Did you know that an Ohio TV station broadcast Little League baseball from a ballpark on the station grounds, known as "Telecast Field"?
Did you know that cinematographer Jason Kwan , a frequent collaborator with Pang Ho-cheung , made his directorial debut by adapting a novella written by Pang?
Did you know that Ireland won the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships , receiving their first European gold medal in athletics since 1998?
Did you know that the first work of fan fiction featuring a romantic relationship between the Winchester brothers in Supernatural was published one day after the first episode aired?
Did you know that The World's Biggest Gang Bang III was so popular that it crashed the server?
Did you know that Bosnian sitting volleyball players Sabahudin Delalić , Ismet Godinjak , Adnan Manko , Asim Medić , and Dževad Hamzić have won medals at every Paralympics this century?
Did you know that mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles are one of only two examples of wild big cats living in a megacity ?
Did you know that Nigerian academic James Nwoye Adichie was kidnapped in 2015?
Did you know that around 80 percent of foreign tourists to the Indonesian province of Lampung in 2019 went to the town of Krui ?
Did you know that inmates from New York state prisons can be involuntarily committed at the Central New York Psychiatric Center ?
Did you know that the Marshal of France surrendered to the Black Prince after his keep was set on fire ?
Did you know that Rachel Chinouriri has dreamed of having a Little House with a partner since she was a child?
Did you know that Jilly Cooper described her bonkbuster Appassionata as her "sex and Chopin " novel?
Did you know that after Joe Matesic was revealed to have played at Arizona State under his brother's name, the football coach resigned and the school was nearly expelled from the Border Conference ?
Did you know that Herbert Jacobs and his wife paid off the architect's fee for their house by charging visitors admission?
Did you know that weightlifter Mehmed Skender was manning a machine gun when asked to join Bosnia and Herzegovina's first Olympic team?
Did you know that around 400 people tried to flee from Francoist Spain to Andorra through Juberri in 1937?
Did you know that Samir Flores Soberanes was killed the day after he challenged the accuracy of information about a Mexican federal project?
Did you know that Gustavo Santaolalla travelled from northern to southern Argentina in four years to experience folk music from the country's past?
Did you know that although Australia and New Zealand competed at the 2017 Asian Winter Games , they were ineligible to win medals ?
Did you know that Thelma Adams protested milk quotas in the United Kingdom by sitting in a bathtub of milk, while dressed as Cleopatra?
Did you know that Japanese electronic musician Camellia began producing music at the age of ten using his mother's computer?
Did you know that a man is transformed into a woman for seven years in the medieval tale of The Abbot of Drimnagh , an uncommon example of gender-shifting in European folktales?
Did you know that UCLA Bruins player Tyler Bilodeau cited his mother, who played in the WNBA , as "the reason I play basketball"?
Did you know that the International Olympic Committee rejected recognition of the Marshall Islands National Olympic Committee as the nation's citizens hold dual citizenship ?
Did you know that actress Edna May Sperl 's fiancé was arrested on the day of her wedding by a federal marshal because her fiancé's father opposed the marriage?
Did you know that the Spanish anarchist Agustín Remiro worked as a foreign agent for MI6 ?
Did you know that the FMV game Contradiction was made on such a low budget that its creator learned how to code instead of hiring a programmer?
Did you know that American-born Freddie Lish called playing for the Thai national basketball team , "my dream ever since I found out my mom was born in Thailand"?
Did you know that Pakistani prime minister Mohammad Ali Bogra opposed the 1955 election to protect his political position?
Did you know that nine days after his heart transplant , J. C. Walter Jr. merged his company Houston Oil & Minerals with Tenneco , then retired to his ranch and shortly after founded Walter Oil & Gas?
Did you know that during his final known voyage, Lope Martín overthrew two captains before being marooned on Ujelang Atoll ?
Did you know that a Japanese governor wore a pregnancy simulation suit to encourage men to help out their wives at home?
Did you know that the shooting of Eileen Quinn was referenced in the poetry of W. B. Yeats ?
Did you know that Victor L. King employed only black people from the South in 1917 at his new chemical plant in New Jersey to "prevent the entrance into the organization of any enemy aliens" during World War I ?
Did you know that Cory Booker delivered the longest recorded individual speech in United States Senate history while protesting the second presidency of Donald Trump ?
Did you know that the anti-Francoist guerrilla Marcelino Massana pranked the Civil Guard captain who was trying to kill him by paying for his coffee?
Did you know that in college, field hockey player Maxine Fluharty was coached by a former national teammate of her mother?
Did you know that the filming sets of A New Old Play were visibly fake, with shaking white fabrics and plastic bags used to mimic turbulent waves?
Did you know that Laurie Schipper , who was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 2022, testified to support a woman who murdered her abusive husband?
Did you know that Sobrevivendo no Inferno by Racionais MC's , which critiques police violence and systemic racism in Brazil, was required reading for a university entrance examination ?
Did you know that lawyer Jefferson Fisher went viral after sharing short videos providing  practical communication tips recorded in his parked pickup truck in Silsbee, Texas ?
Did you know that a Wisconsin TV station claimed to have the only revolving stage in a TV studio east of California when it went on the air in 1953?
Did you know that Jatin Chakraborty was sued by pop singer Usha Uthup after Chakraborty labelled her shows as "decadent"?
Did you know that a special election in February 1963 put the first Republican in four decades into the Mississippi Legislature ?
Did you know that a Choquei Instagram post claiming that Lula had won the 2022 Brazilian election received more than 1.3 million likes before the official result was announced?
Did you know that Gannon University's original American football program lasted only two years due to fan "apathy", despite going undefeated and holding scoreless six of eight opponents in its first year?
Did you know that the arsonist who burned down a golden Buddhist temple secretly removed one nail, then reinserted it, then removed it again?
Did you know that carrot recorders, butternut squash trombones, and aubergine castanets are all instruments in the London Vegetable Orchestra ?
Did you know that the only surviving autograph pages of one of Bach's chorale cantatas ended up in three libraries on two continents?
Did you know that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 due to an "administrative error" by the U.S. government?
Did you know that a statue of German-born missionary Johann Gottlieb Schwarz was commissioned by Prabowo Subianto , later president of Indonesia?
Did you know that the murder of Patricia Jeschke resulted in the longest prison tenure for a wrongfully convicted American woman?
Did you know that Belize's Toledo Progressive Party was accused of being funded by the government of Guatemala?
Did you know that swimmer Yuri Hosei was studying at a restaurant when she learned that she had qualified to represent Palau at the 2024 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that instead of drinking liquor with prospective clients, Arthur Harrison Motley sent them notes written in red pencil crayon, 10,000 times a year?
Did you know that the seat of Muchipara in the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was won by just nine votes?
Did you know that queen parasitic ants can lay their own eggs inside of a host's colony?
Did you know that Jim Aldred , with nothing to do after the beach season ended, developed ice hockey in Portugal?
Did you know that the Bernard Schwartz House was built after Schwartz saw a plan by Frank Lloyd Wright in Life magazine?
Did you know that Peter Sprenger was the first Liechtensteiner to summit Mount Everest ?
Did you know that the 2nd-century BC Aramaic inscription of Yanouh is the first attested use of Aramaic as a public language in Mount Lebanon ?
Did you know that an Italian adage says that a fat pope follows a thin one ?
Did you know that according to researcher Treena Clark, indigenous drag performance can be seen as a strategy for cultural survival and resistance?
Did you know that Venezuelan-American socialite Reinaldo Herrera 's extensive connections led to Vanity Fair employing him to work as a fixer ?
Did you know that in North America, Europe and New Zealand, research funding is sometimes distributed by lottery ?
Did you know that Dennis Walker acquired millions of dollars' worth of sports memorabilia before being investigated for racketeering and selling unregistered certificates of deposit by the Oregon Attorney General ?
Did you know that people caught in the 2025 Belgrade stampede experienced a frightening aural sensation, leading to an accusation that the government used a sonic weapon against them?
Did you know that Nahuel Carabaña turned around mid-race at the 2022 European Athletics Championships to help an injured competitor?
Did you know that one reviewer described Polo by Jilly Cooper as a "frothy brew of sex, class and jodhpurs"?
Did you know that Playboi Carti 's song titled " 2024 " was first teased in 2023 and later officially released in 2025?
Did you know that Avi Yemini is one of seventeen children who were raised in an ultra-Orthodox Chabad family?
Did you know that Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter was staged by moving a corpse?
Did you know that Soemartini was appointed as the chief of the National Archives of Indonesia after working in the agency for a year?
Did you know that just two weeks after a Florida TV station began using a news helicopter, it crashed, killing two of three occupants?
Did you know that Wen Chia-ling , despite her family's initial opposition to her becoming an archer , helped Taiwan's team achieve its best-ever finish at the 2000 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that although the philosophical study of well-being dates back millennia, empirical research has intensified since the second half of the 20th century?
Did you know that the 1982 film The Second November was filmed in colour , but shown in black-and-white until 2012?
Did you know that a reviewer praised At Hope's Ravine by saying that singer Pat Hynes sounds "like he's being unbearably tortured whilst holding a pneumatic drill"?
Did you know that Carlos Baxter was erroneously given 130 votes meant for his brother during the 1860 U.S. House of Representatives election ?
Did you know that during the Spanish Civil War , when the government fled the coming siege of Madrid , the Rosal Column detained several government ministers and accused them of cowardice ?
Did you know that Almeda Lambert provided detailed instructions for creating homemade meat substitutes, such as "Nutora" and "Nutmeato"?
Did you know that Tao Asian Bistro was used by The New York Times to test new conversation-boosting features in Apple's AirPods Pro ?
Did you know that runner Mirsada Burić survived a concentration camp, an attempted rape, and snipers' bullets before she competed at the 1992 Olympics?
Did you know that a former U.S. president helped dedicate the United Engineering Center , and a future U.S. president demolished it?
Did you know that former governor of Jakarta Sutiyoso has a museum dedicated to himself in his backyard?
Did you know that the Vatican's website was first made available in Latin under Pope Benedict XVI ?
Did you know that Blue Origin NS-31 recently became the first all-female spaceflight in 62 years?
Did you know that a disused industrial pier was incorporated into a city park ?
Did you know that a cultivar of Aquilegia flabellata has been called "as beautiful as a columbine needs to be"?
Did you know that George R. Dale was sent to prison by a judge whom he accused of being in the Ku Klux Klan ?
Did you know that the sled dog race Ivakkak features two mushers riding on the dog sled?
Did you know that Major League Baseball 's first Pride Night came about after a lesbian couple were removed from a Los Angeles Dodgers game for kissing?
Did you know that people in parts of India, North America, and Africa marry tree trunks ?
Did you know that the lifeboat Sir William Hillary was sent to Dover in case of aircraft crashes, but did not save anyone from an aircraft in ten years' service with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ?
Did you know that Martha Burgess 's 1993 sculpture of two female World War II personnel kissing was inspired by the photograph V-J Day in Times Square ?
Did you know that on the first day of the 1995 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état , President Miguel Trovoada emerged from hiding in his pajamas and nightgown?
Did you know that Marcia Coyle , who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for PBS News Hour , got her start in journalism by writing obituaries?
Did you know that Dutch East India Company officials considered the inhabitants of the Bungku Kingdom to be "the fiercest of all Malukan peoples "?
Did you know that Ardo Hansson was appointed to the committee overseeing the transition from the Soviet ruble to the Estonian kroon as a replacement for someone who fell ill?
Did you know that Keurbos 's placement within arthropods is uncertain, as its two surviving fossils lack limbs?
Did you know that Green Thumb Industries produces cannabis on lands of a former prison ?
Did you know that a tornado estimated to be one of the strongest on record planted maize crops in Greenfield, Iowa?
Did you know that four generations of the British royal family had a summer barbecue at Inchnabobart ?
Did you know that the midnight shadow docket order in Tandon v. Newsom was called the most important religious free exercise decision in 30 years?
Did you know that William Jenkins Wilcox Jr. was given a Citizen Archivist award at a symposium titled "Secret City in the Tennessee Hills: From Dogpatch to Nuclear Power"?
Did you know that only Greenland Dogs may race in Avannaata Qimussersua ?
Did you know that Bangladeshi singer Abanti Sithi has used plastic cups, foil paper and metal coins as musical instruments?
Did you know that Marguerite McDonald performed the world's first laser correction surgery on the normal eye of a living human patient?
Did you know that Donald Trump would " much prefer not having a picture than having this one "?
Did you know that before becoming an actor, Jeremy Allen White trained in ballet, jazz, and tap dancing?
Did you know that Laurence Sterne's journal of love letters reverses the found-manuscript literary device by claiming that his real diary is fictional?
Did you know that Katsumaro Akamatsu , a founding member of the Japanese Communist Party , supported the expulsion of communists from the Japanese Federation of Labour ?
Did you know that Eleanor Island was first designated as a Migratory Bird Sanctuary and later as a National Wildlife Area to give it a stronger protection status?
Did you know that Vermont politician William Baxter personally funded the construction of an Orleans County school, provided that the second floor was used for religious purposes?
Did you know that a fictional character from Peg O' My Heart complained about his insomnia with netizens on Threads ?
Did you know that a candidate in the 1968 United States House of Representatives election in Delaware took his dog on the campaign trail?
Did you know that an elderly Brazilian woman helped to arrest dozens of drug traffickers and corrupt police officers?
Did you know that ducks, an owl, a horse and a baby were utilized for the opening scene of a Doctor Who episode ?
Did you know that despite winning Australia's top literary prize, The Hand That Signed the Paper has since been labelled a hoax?
Did you know that an Oregon TV station planned to be off the air for two to four weeks to complete a move—but did not fully return to air for nearly two years?
Did you know that the Academy of Music was the name of three different theaters located on the same property on the Atlantic City Boardwalk which were all destroyed by fires?
Did you know that Taylor Swift did not contact the family of actress Clara Bow before releasing a song about her ?
Did you know that Jeremiah Chamberlain was murdered outside of his home by a local landowner?
Did you know that a whistled language created for a video game was reused in an episode of The Last of Us ?
Did you know that the Bishop of Chiclayo Edinson Edgardo Farfán Córdova described his predecessor Pope Leo XIV as smelling like sheep?
Did you know that the European Athletics Championships first held a women's 400 metres race in 1958 , twenty-four years after the first men's race?
Did you know that the filmmakers of Cyborgs wrote dialogue in both Russian and Ukrainian to show the diversity of the eponymous soldiers who defended Donetsk Airport in late 2014?
Did you know that the killer of Anne Castle and William Bryan was convicted nearly 30 years after the murders?
Did you know that television producer Paul Graham insisted on "a big game feel" for the sportscast he considered his "baby"?