kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that R. A. Hardie , a Canadian physician and missionary to Korea, was the catalyst for the 1903 Wŏnsan Revival and also inspired the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907?
Did you know that SegaSonic the Hedgehog was desired for inclusion in Sonic Gems Collection , but was left out due to difficulties emulating its trackball controls?
Did you know that Peter Newton founded Sterling Vineyards and Newton Vineyard , and was very proud of his eight-year-old granddaughter, who "discovered" Harry Potter ?
Did you know that Indian-born physician Jainti Dass Saggar was the first non-white person to be elected a councillor in Scotland?
Did you know that when dissenting from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lafler v. Cooper , Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the Court had elevated "plea bargaining from a necessary evil to a constitutional entitlement"?
Did you know that war veteran Owen Pick carried the flag for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony ?
Did you know that the African-American settlers at Port Cresson were pacifist Quakers who were unequipped to defend themselves when attacked by King Joe ?
Did you know that after The Ultra Secret was published, German professor Arthur Thomas Hatto feared being kidnapped by Soviets?
Did you know that the coronate prickly-winkle is a marine mollusk but can be found on limestone cliffs well above high water mark?
Did you know that Brian Wilson is a genius ?
Did you know that fruit flies have been used extensively in laboratory experiments of speciation ?
Did you know that Indian high jumper Tejaswin Shankar first broke the national record at the age of 17?
Did you know that NASA 's Planetary Missions Program Office manages three of the agency's solar system exploration programs?
Did you know that Lin Hu , a half-Russian orphan, joined the army at age 10 and grew up to become deputy commander of the Chinese Air Force ?
Did you know that the small catfish Malapterurus beninensis uses its electric organ to stun the fishes on which it feeds?
Did you know that Bob Nygaard , a private investigator specializing in psychic fraud, has been instrumental in the return of millions of dollars to victims of this crime?
Did you know that although its discoverer committed suicide after it was declared a forgery in 1883, the Shapira Scroll may be a Dead Sea Scroll after all?
Did you know that violist Konstantin Sellheim recorded fairy tale music with the Sellheim-Kuti Trio, and played the premiere of the piano quartet Skylla and Charybdis by Graham Waterhouse ?
Did you know that humans and horses are dead-end hosts for the West Nile virus ?
Did you know that Clifford E. Charlesworth was a NASA Flight Director during the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission?
Did you know that the upcoming film Avengers: Infinity War draws inspiration from the 1991 comic book The Infinity Gauntlet ?
Did you know that Lega Nord politician Toni Iwobi is the first black person elected to the Italian Senate ?
Did you know that Dai Prefecture and County carried on the name of a "barbarian" kingdom and Qin commandery , despite being in a completely different part of China?
Did you know that Liberian president George Weah 's son Timothy plays for the United States men's national soccer team ?
Did you know that the Hennepin County Library has 41 branches in 24 cities and towns in Minnesota , and historically had locations in a sanatorium and a bookmobile?
Did you know that footballer Alex Raisbeck joined Liverpool after Stoke manager Horace Austerberry failed to arrive at an arranged meeting?
Did you know that the 2012 anthology No Straight Lines , edited by Justin Hall , collects queer comics covering a 40-year period?
Did you know that MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Joaquin Avila wrote the California Voting Rights Act ?
Did you know that the barbels on the chin of the red mullet are sensory organs and used in locating prey?
Did you know that after Feng Yidai was denounced as a "rightist" during China's Anti-Rightist Campaign , he was recruited by the Communist Party to spy on other "rightists"?
Did you know that Tsamma juice is named after "the Mother of all watermelon varieties"?
Did you know that violinist David Frühwirth played music from the interwar period for violin and piano at the Salzburg Festival and on a recording titled Trails of Creativity ?
Did you know that the passage of a bill exempting Washington state legislators from the state's Public Records Act prompted The Seattle Times to publish its first front-page editorial in 110 years?
Did you know that Ariel Pink is frequently cited as the "godfather" of chillwave and hypnagogic pop ?
Did you know that the Franco-German University facilitates the cooperation of over 180 universities and colleges across international borders?
Did you know that Mike Marjama overcame an eating disorder to make it to Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that the Battle of Głębokie during the Polish–Soviet War was both a tactical victory and a strategic defeat for the Soviet side?
Did you know that a person of interest in Jamie Fraley's disappearance 10 years ago today was later found dead of heat stroke in the trunk of his ex-girlfriend's car?
Did you know that at age 16, sport shooter Manu Bhaker became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup ?
Did you know that Reki Kawahara , author of Sword Art Online , planned to submit the draft for the light novel series to a 2002 competition, but refrained because it exceeded the page limit?
Did you know that Leon Tomșa , who passed laws limiting Greek immigration to Wallachia , was reportedly a Greek oyster-monger?
Did you know that the Fulton Center transit complex is the first subway station in New York City to receive a certification for environmental sustainability?
Did you know that London New Zealand RFC is the only rugby team apart from the New Zealand national teams that wears the silver fern symbol?
Did you know that the tale " Town Musicians of Bremen " by the Brothers Grimm has been connected with the Buddhist legend about four harmonious animals ?
Did you know that according to his memoirs, Howard Marks concluded a drug deal at the Warwick Castle with half a consignment of Thai grass hidden in a car parked outside?
Did you know that generals Yao Xian and Lin Hu were born in the same year, went to the same school, fought in the same war, held the same rank, and died on the same day?
Did you know that a giant landslide took place on Socompa volcano some 7,000 years ago, moving approximately 19.2 cubic kilometres (4.6 cu mi) of rock?
Did you know that Robin Surgeoner , a multiple Paralympic gold medal-winner in swimming, performs as a poet, artist, and musician under the stage name "Angryfish"?
Did you know that the new east platform of Tukwila station in Tukwila, Washington , was built with additional width that was later removed for the installation of a third track?
Did you know that elected at age 39, Sadiq Sanjrani is the youngest-ever Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan ?
Did you know that the ashy pink sea cucumber obtains its nourishment from swallowing sand?
Did you know that eight leaders of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth were convicted of crimes in Czechoslovakia after World War II?
Did you know that Laura Barney Harding once declared she was Katharine Hepburn 's husband?
Did you know that Icelandic chess grandmaster Stefán Kristjánsson was also a successful poker player?
Did you know that it took almost five years to rebuild the South Ferry/Whitehall Street station in New York City , which was completely flooded three years after it opened?
Did you know that archaeologist Su Bingqi proposed a heretical multi-region model for prehistoric China which rejected the traditional view that Chinese civilization radiated from the Central Plain ?
Did you know that the comic book X-Men Red stars Jean Grey , a character who had been dead for nearly fifteen years?
Did you know that George Crowninshield Jr. was the first American yachtsman and owned the first American yacht ?
Did you know that prime numbers have been studied since the time of the ancient Greeks, but had few real-world applications until the invention of public-key cryptography in the 1970s?
Did you know that on 14 April 1945, the German town of Friesoythe was deliberately burnt down by the 4th Canadian Division and the ruins bulldozed on the orders of its commander?
Did you know that in 1910, Oliver Toussaint Jackson established the agricultural settlement of Dearfield, Colorado , for black Americans?
Did you know that the mycotoxin phomoxanthone A causes fragmentation of mitochondria within minutes?
Did you know that the tenor Julian Podger , who took part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage , recorded the title role in Handel's last oratorio Jephtha ?
Did you know that the Beach Boys ' 1967 album Wild Honey was made partly in response to a critical perception of the group as consisting of "ball-less choir boys"?
Did you know that the first issue of the comic book Sideways featured a vertical gatefold cover?
Did you know that in 1938, Emanuel Moravec called for Czechoslovakia to declare war against Germany?
Did you know that even a "benign" blood clot in a superficial vein can lead to serious complications?
Did you know that Jordan Poole 's game-winning buzzer beater three point shot in the 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament was nearly identical to his shot in the 2017 Dick's National High School Championship Game?
Did you know that in 1969, the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment became the first British research establishment to be granted freedom of a borough ?
Did you know that Tooth and Tail 's art style was described as a modernized version of 1990s pixel art ?
Did you know that the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian wrote the novel A True Story , sometimes regarded as the first work of science fiction , in the second century AD?
Did you know that Ayaka Fukuhara decided to become a voice actress after listening to a radio drama adaptation of the manga series Hunter × Hunter ?
Did you know that a fan sued Major League Baseball for $10 million after he was filmed sleeping at a game and the announcers allegedly made unflattering comments about him?
Did you know that the Easter hymn " Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag " (The glorious day has appeared) by Nikolaus Herman inspired other hymns and musical settings of the 20th century?
Did you know that although Zhang Junsheng publicly feuded with Chris Patten , Hong Kong's last British governor, the latter offered his condolences when Zhang died recently?
Did you know that the basket star Astrobrachion constrictum is always found living in association with a black coral such as Antipathes fiordensis ?
Did you know that Otar Taktakishvili 's opera Mindia was based on Vazha-Pshavela 's epic poem The Snake-eater and premiered in 1961, the centenary of the poet's birth?
Did you know that Robert Howard Hodgkin was part of a " Quaker dynasty" that included a banker , a Marxist historian , a Nobel-winning chemist , a painter , another Nobel winner , and the namesake of Hodgkin's lymphoma ?
Did you know that Trump is directly connected to Russia ?
Did you know that Hillary 's portrait is now being printed on the $5 bill?
Did you know that the United States once sued 43 gallons of whiskey ?
Did you know that Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley , a non-existent book by a non-existent author, became a number one bestseller and had two sequels?
Did you know that the trial of the "Coughing Major" was interrupted by coughing jurors?
Did you know that Hitler 's demands for mobile phone gift cards may have upset some Nazis?
Did you know that James Longstreet was mauled by pelicans ?
Did you know that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?
Did you know that some extinct ants were simply terrible ?
Did you know that after many years battling the forces of darkness, the Batcave became a popular venue for underground parties and concerts?
Did you know that Jonah ibn Janah , one of the most important medieval Hebrew grammarians, wrote his major works in Arabic ?
Did you know that The Homecoming statue depicts a Canadian sailor reuniting with his daughter and her dog?
Did you know that the script of Who Framed Roger Rabbit originally intended Judge Doom to be the killer of Bambi 's mother?
Did you know that London South Africa RFC started as a new club at the bottom of English rugby after the RFU blocked their attempts to buy a National League 1 club and Wimbledon RFC ?
Did you know that Canadian soprano Kirsten MacKinnon , a winner of the Met Auditions , appeared as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival , and as Meyerbeer's Inès at the Frankfurt Opera , staged as a space mission?
Did you know that the proposed city of Greenhaven, Georgia , would have a population of 300,000, making it the state 's second largest city after Atlanta ?
Did you know that Shalimar Sharbatly 's hand-painted Porsche 911 was featured at the Louvre ?
Did you know that the emirs of Liptako replaced the kings of Koala ?
Did you know that larvae of the thimble jellyfish are the most common cause of seabather's eruption in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico?
Did you know that the "masterpiece" Kamsuan Samut describes a distraught lover's journey into exile to Southern Thailand?
Did you know that architect Arthur Ecclestone designed the Never Turn Back pub as a memorial to the nine lifeboatmen who died in the Caister lifeboat disaster of 1901?
Did you know that after attempts to close New York City's Franklin Avenue subway line failed for over 20 years, the MTA finally decided to renovate it in 1998?
Did you know that after leading the first slave insurrection in Venezuela's history, Miguel de Buría had himself crowned as king?
Did you know that the Russian occupations of Beirut in 1772 and 1773 marked the first period in over 250 years that Beirut was ruled by a power other than the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that during apartheid , music producer Rashid Vally owned a record shop that was among the few places in Johannesburg where people of different racial backgrounds could socialize?
Did you know that Ortwin Gamber , an expert on medieval weapons and armour, is a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize ?
Did you know that the launch of the Costa Rican satellite Irazú was partly funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign?
Did you know that the German cellist Julius Berger recorded all twelve concertos by Luigi Boccherini on the composer's own Stradivari instrument?
Did you know that forest fires are a threat to the fiery minivet ?
Did you know that following his research for Epidemiology in Country Practice , William Pickles observed that "studies in epidemiology sometimes reveal romances"?
Did you know that after being rejected by 24 publishers, Robert Schneider 's first novel, Schlafes Bruder , became an international bestseller and spawned a film , a ballet, an opera, and several plays?
Did you know that early Japanese Mormons lost contact with their church for over 20 years after the first mission closed?
Did you knowthat Japanese voice actress Ayane Sakura practised sword fighting while in acting school?
Did you know that Mount Carmel East sits on land that was originally used as a farm which provided food for another hospital, Mount Carmel West ?
Did you know that Ivor Allchurch was known as the "Golden Boy of Welsh football"?
Did you know that the possibly blind extinct ant Boltonimecia has a shield-like head?
Did you know that an opera was composed for mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert – Iokaste by Stefan Heucke – in which the mother and wife of Oedipus is the only role?
Did you know that in 1847, Émile Küss and Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot performed the first recorded biopsies on tumours?
Did you know that Bruiser and Bodacious are the only two bulls to win both the Professional Bull Riders World Champion Bull and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Bull of the Year titles?
Did you know that Saint Dominic in Soriano was a 1530 painting believed to be of miraculous origin, with numerous miracles being attributed to it?
Did you know that the 1902 Ibrox disaster was partly blamed on the crowd surging forward in excitement at seeing Bobby Templeton dribble with the ball?
Did you know that Constantine VIII was crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 962 but had to wait 63 years before becoming sole ruler?
Did you know that the Ortiz Shift , designed to counter baseball player David Ortiz , was created on an exercise bike?
Did you know that Teodora Krajewska , one of the first female physicians in Bosnia-Herzegovina , rode a pony to visit her patients in remote mountain villages?
Did you know that the Auburn train station also serves as the venue for a seasonal farmers' market ?
Did you know that about 1,400 leeches were found to be attached to a green sea turtle in the Persian Gulf?
Did you know that the Fatimid Caliphate used messages stamped on kahk , a type of cookie, as propaganda?
Did you know that Félix-Marie Abel , a Dominican priest and archaeologist, identified several battle sites from the Maccabean Revolt ?
Did you know that Edge of the Knife will be the first feature film in Haida , an endangered language ?
Did you know that the Turkish-Cypriot women's footballer Zehra Borazancı has played international football tennis for her country ?
Did you know that Toronto's worst mass shooting was committed by teenagers at a block party ?
Did you know that in 2005, the Northern Irish artist Rita Duffy made a proposal to tow an iceberg from Greenland to Belfast?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin wrote " Old Music and the Slave Women ", set on a fictional planet, after visiting a plantation in South Carolina that had once used slave labor ?
Did you know that xenotransplant pioneer René Küss described removing organs from guillotined convicts on the prison floor?
Did you know that during World War II, Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee had his own railroad train?
Did you know that the Thai mining town of Pilok was so harshly inaccessible that its ore had to be transported by elephant?
Did you know that a bobblehead of Sister Jean , the chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team, sold for more than $300 on eBay?
Did you know that war in the Horn of Africa may have contributed to the decline of the little brown bustard ?
Did you know that Puerto Rican actress Sol Miranda created a one-woman show about her immigrant experience in Peekskill, New York ?
Did you know that Peniscola Castle , in the Valencian Community of Spain, was used as a papal residence by the Antipope Benedict XIII ?
Did you know that after a future philologist 's older brother reportedly shot their missionary mother , their reverend father said he would not let the facts be known?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Inori Minase , who won the Best Lead Actress Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards in 2015, is releasing her second album today?
Did you know that the Assyrian captivity of the Israelites was one instance of forced resettlement carried out by the Neo-Assyrian Empire ?
Did you know that Katharina Magiera , a member of the Frankfurt Opera , has appeared as Lisa, a former SS officer in Auschwitz , in Weinberg's opera The Passenger ?
Did you know that workplace robotics safety applies to both traditional industrial robots and emerging technologies such as robotic exoskeletons and drone aircraft ?
Did you know that the Irish lawyer and satirist William Norcott ended his life in poverty in Constantinople where he was reportedly decapitated and his body thrown into the sea?
Did you know that the Morelia and Guadalajara International Film Festivals were used as a reference for the creation of FotoFilm Tijuana ?
Did you know that in Re Bristol South-East Parliamentary Election , it was held that votes for Tony Benn were effectively "thrown away" because, as a hereditary peer, he was disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons?
Did you know that the proposed Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act seeks to protect Robert Mueller from being arbitrarily fired?
Did you know that 20 years after confessing to the murder of a four-year-old boy , two brothers had all suspicions against them dismissed?
Did you know that Corinne Foxx changed her surname from Bishop as her father, Jamie Foxx , had done?
Did you know that The Black Book of Polish Jewry , published in the United States in 1943 during World War II, downplayed the true scale of the Holocaust ?
Did you know that Birgit Arrhenius revealed that a Torslunda plate helmeted figure, thought to represent Odin , had its eye deliberately struck out, consistent with the associated legend?
Did you know that Lago di Bientina was the largest lake in Tuscany until the beginning of a 300-year effort to drain it?
Did you know that Irish surgeon Gustavus Hume was so fond of prescribing oatmeal porridge to his patients that he became known as "Stirabout Gusty"?
Did you know that group testing can be used for DNA sequencing, cryptography, machine learning, and data forensics?
Did you know that journalist Jamil Smith wrote Time magazine's first cover story about a Marvel film , Black Panther ?
Did you know that the 2014 Macau Grand Prix featured Tatiana Calderón , the first woman to compete at the race since Cathy Muller in 1983 ?
Did you know that James I of Aragon undertook the conquest of Murcia after a request for assistance from his daughter?
Did you know that most fish leeches cling onto their hosts with suckers but Acanthobdella peledina uses hooked bristles for this purpose?
Did you know that the title Baron Kilkeel was given to Prince Harry as a gift from Queen Elizabeth II on his wedding day?
Did you know that the U.S. Army's 116th Infantry Regiment received battle honors for fighting against the United States?
Did you know that the flatworm Polystoma integerrimum , a frog parasite, has a life cycle which synchronises with that of its host?
Did you know that Union Army general Justus McKinstry , who recommended the appointment of Ulysses S. Grant to his first important command, was soon thereafter cashiered ?
Did you know that in addition to being the oldest racecourse and second-oldest golf course in Thailand, the Royal Bangkok Sports Club also served as its first airfield?
Did you know that a coroner's inquest into the death of Ms Dhu found that she suffered "unprofessional and inhumane" treatment by police and "deficient" treatment by hospital staff?
Did you know that after playing sparingly for Illinois State , Zeke Upshaw used a graduate transfer exception to continue his college basketball career with Hofstra and lead the CAA in scoring?
Did you know that a 2009 recording of Louis Vierne 's Messe solennelle for choir and two organs at Saint-Sulpice , where it was first performed in 1901, was called "musical and spiritual time-travel"?
Did you know that an accidental release of farmed Atlantic salmon in Washington state was initially blamed on unusually strong tides during a solar eclipse ?
Did you know that Canadian naturalist R. D. Lawrence followed a cougar in the wild for nine months, and spent six months observing a beaver colony?
Did you know that Manchester United are looking to match Arsenal's FA Cup winner's record in today's 2018 FA Cup Final against Chelsea?
Did you know that the Hinners Organ Company pioneered production and pricing methods for pipe organs similar to those applied by Henry Ford to the automobile?
Did you know that the footballer Albert Shepherd was the first player to score a penalty in an FA Cup final?
Did you know that the Frederick W. Winters House is the only nationally designated historic property in Bellevue, Washington ?
Did you know that " Christ fuhr gen Himmel " (Christ rose to Heaven) is based on a medieval Leise and is sung by both Catholics and Protestants?
Did you know that compulsive showering in hot water is a common symptom of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome in cannabis users?
Did you know that Ralph Smith O’bré invented a double tracheostomy tube that was popular among surgeons in Georgian era Dublin?
Did you know that it took two campaigns to raise the funds for Beats of Rage , the sequel to The FP ?