kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Hugh Kennard was shot down and wounded during World War II while leading a squadron of American fighter pilots from No. 121 Squadron RAF ?
Did you know that the font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury , was removed in the 17th century to be used as a horse trough , but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it?
Did you know that the Mymensingh Museum in Bangladesh contains Saraswati and Vishnu statues from a Muktagacha zamindar palace, and a huge shade used during hunting from a Gouripur zamindar palace?
Did you know that English oboist Peter Graeme recorded with the Melos Ensemble the oboe quintet of Arthur Bliss , dedicated to oboist Léon Goossens , his teacher?
Did you know that in 1768, the Pennsylvania Province made violations of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 punishable by " death without the benefit of clergy "?
Did you know that Somerset amateur cricketer Herbert Fox edited a feature in the Westminster Gazette in which readers submitted Latin and Greek poetry ?
Did you know that the Grammy -nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
Did you know that parachuting military dog Rob 's Dickin Medal may have been awarded due to a hoax ?
Did you know that when the Nassif Building in Washington, D.C. , was renovated and renamed in 2006, security upgrades included steel-jacketed parking garage columns capable of withstanding an explosion?
Did you know that each year in December, the life and works of Abedin , who painted by the Brahmaputra River , are discussed at the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Sangrahashala art gallery ?
Did you know that Harry Halpern was a prominent Conservative rabbi who served for almost 49 years at the East Midwood Jewish Center in Brooklyn, New York ?
Did you know that in 1885, Somerset County Cricket Club suffered two of their heaviest-ever defeats under the captaincy of Edward Sainsbury ?
Did you know that when Faith Radio Network bought the radio station now known as WFRF-FM in 2003, the previous owners included everything except their 1996 Chevy Astro van?
Did you know that despite their names, white squirrel banana and yellow squirrel banana are not bananas , but rare custard apples in Florida , and their fruits are berries ?
Did you know that during his stay in Ullinish , Samuel Johnson 's views and denunciation of James Macpherson 's Ossian were confirmed?
Did you know that a New Jersey court's ruling of immunity for online ticket sellers in Milgram v. Orbitz was called a "rare defeat for a consumer protection agency" and the "biggest defense win of the year"?
Did you know that British Army officer Captain Stephen Healey of the Royal Welsh regiment, used to play football for Swansea City ?
Did you know that collecting antique Bowie knives is one of the higher-end forms of knife collecting with rare models selling for more than US$200,000?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Ivy League season champion Harvard Crimson team was the first men's basketball team in school history to win a league championship since the Ivy League was formed in the 1956–57 season ?
Did you know that female Silver-tipped Myotis bats are able to store sperm in their bodies for up to three months after mating?
Did you know that the iPad 2 is due to be released in 27 different countries?
Did you know that about 90% of the world's amber production comes from the Amber Coast of the Sambia peninsula on the Baltic Sea ?
Did you know that although Bion Barnett retired from the board of Barnett Bank with 75 years of service, he still reviewed the bank's daily business report every evening?
Did you know that in 1281, the Catholic Bishop of Greenland contributed walrus tusks to help fund the Crusades ?
Did you know that although Qiemo Town is described in documents from the 1st century BCE to the 9th century CE, the ancient site has not yet been discovered in spite of four major expeditions to search for it?
Did you know that the Blue Note jazz clubs located in Greenwich Village , New York, helped define personal jurisdiction in the context of cyberlaw in Bensusan Restaurant Corp. v. King ?
Did you know that members of the indie rock band Frankie & The Heartstrings met at a calypso night in a Sunderland pub?
Did you know that General Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling prayed to God to grant him "a nice little war that he may better his condition"?
Did you know that in his youth, Karl Marx wrote a comedic novel , Scorpion and Felix ?
Did you know that the black-margined loosestrife beetle was introduced to North America for biological pest control against the invasive purple loosestrife ?
Did you know that according to legend, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony presented Cleopatra with several gourds of vinum acquense , an early forebear of the Italian wine Brachetto d'Acqui ?
Did you know that Ch. Fiacre’s First and Foremost today becomes the first Dalmatian with a known low uric acid level to compete at Crufts ?
Did you know that American naval surgeon Charles Guillou had a papal patient Pius ?
Did you know that Did You Know People Can Fly? is the first full-length album by Kaddisfly ?
Did you know that the 5000-year old settlement of Jemdet Nasr is the type site for the Jemdet Nasr period in ancient Mesopotamia ?
Did you know that the Italian wine Est! Est!! Est!!! gets its unusual name from the tale of a bishop 's servant traveling ahead to Rome and marking Est ("It is") on inns where he found the best-tasting wines ?
Did you know that the German ancestry and strict discipline of its first commander earned No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF the nickname " Scherger's Concentration Camp "?
Did you know that Florida-based Christian radio station WFRF helped launch Imani Radio in Kenya and provided 2,500 solar powered radios to local villages, hospitals, and prisoners?
Did you know that 2010 Consensus College All-American placekicker Josh Jasper kicked a 54-yard field goal when he was in high school?
Did you know that the borough of Iztapalapa in Mexico City hosts an annual Passion play that attracts 2 million spectators?
Did you know that Howard Davies , the director of the London School of Economics , resigned due to allegations over the school's links to the Libyan regime ?
Did you know that on her way back to Singapore , HMS Petard ran into a tornado , resulting in thousands of disoriented birds using the ship as a temporary perch?
Did you know that Bushy Park Forest Reserve , home to giraffe weevils , glowworms , and huhu beetles , also has a kiwi creche and a tree named Ratanui ?
Did you know that on 29 September 1940, two Avro Ansons collided in mid-air over Brocklesby , Australia, became locked together in "piggyback" fashion, and then successfully landed in a field?
Did you know that temperance activist Carrie Nation was the subject of a 1966 opera by Douglas Moore , starring mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff ?
Did you know that the west doorway of St Laurence's Church, Norwich , Norfolk , contains carvings of " St Edmund being arrowed and St Lawrence being grilled"?
Did you know that French airline Air Union lost two Farman F.60 Goliaths to accidents in 1923, one in May and another in August ?
Did you know that Season 5 of the Intel Extreme Masters eSports tournament had a prize pool of US$ 130,000 spread over Starcraft II , League of Legends , Counter-Strike , and Quake Live ?
Did you know that from 1863 until his death in 1904, American educator Malcolm MacVicar presided over five different universities, and was the first head for two of them?
Did you know that MSN included Flying penguins , a BBC documentary, as one of its 12 "hoaxes of the decade"?
Did you know that Ford 's 1990s foray into electric vehicles ended after several of its Ecostar 's sodium-sulfur batteries burst into flame during charging?
Did you know that All Saints Church, East Horndon , Essex , has been damaged by a bomb, a tramp , and vandals?
Did you know that Civil War historian Gilbert R. Tredway refuted the claim that Democrats in his native Indiana were less supportive of the Union war effort than were their Republican neighbors?
Did you know that although the Kern , Bolton and Wodehouse musical Leave It to Jane was written for the Princess Theatre , it premiered elsewhere because another musical by the same creators was already running there?
Did you know that Murad Pasha Mosque in Damascus , Syria , served as a center for the Naqshbandi Sufi order?
Did you know that the White Star Line ocean liner SS Zealandic was disguised as a decoy version of the British carrier HMS Hermes during WW II and was sunk by German submarine U-106 ?
Did you know that, as the second violin of the Melos Ensemble , Ivor McMahon played the Divertissement , dedicated by Jean Françaix to bassoonist William Waterhouse ?
Did you know that it is both possible and potentially illegal to falsify who email is from, as learned by Kilbride in United States v. Kilbride ?
Did you know that Sid Ferris was a one-eyed English cyclist who broke the records for " Land's End to John o' Groats ", "Edinburgh-to-London", and "1,000 miles" in 1937?
Did you know that the endangered Puerto Rican plant Daphnopsis hellerana is dioecious , with male plants bearing tubular flowers and females bearing bell-shaped flowers?
Did you know that Chris August received five 2011 Dove Award nominations, including the Song of the Year nod, for his debut single " Starry Night "?
Did you know that historians believe the 893 Council of Preslav established Old Bulgarian as the official language and Preslav as the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire ?
Did you know that Frank Barbour , coach of the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1892 to 1893, later led Beech-Nut into the chewing gum business?
Did you know that three 14th-century Mamluk mosque lamps in enamelled and gilded glass sold for a total of just under £3.4 million in 2000?
Did you know that in the aftermath of World War I , Polish agronomist Mieczysław Jałowiecki lost his renowned estates in Lithuania ?
Did you know that, on Midsummer's Eve , the sun is said to set over the tip of the largest stone in the Scorhill stone circle , suggesting the circle may have had a purpose in archaeoastronomy ?
Did you know that Romanian runner Iulia Olteanu won the 1999 European Cross Country Championships but lost her title because of a positive test for the steroid stanozolol ?
Did you know that, on April 29 , 1849, the ship's master and two officers fled the Hannah in the only lifeboat after the brig was holed by ice, abandoning the passengers and remaining crew?
Did you know that Harry Whitney was at the center of the Peary – Cook controversy over who had reached the North Pole first?
Did you know that, in 1869, Johannes Brahms conducted the chamber opera Le dernier sorcier ( The Last Sorcerer ), composed by Pauline Viardot to a French libretto by Ivan Turgenev ?
Did you know that movement on the newly discovered Mount Lebanon thrust is the most likely cause of the 551 Beirut earthquake and resulting tsunami , which left all the coastal cities of Lebanon in ruins?
Did you know that authorization to use a company computer is not automatically conditional on the motives or loyalty of the employee, according to LVRC Holdings v. Brekka ?
Did you know that the interior of the Stone Chamber in the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings was regarded as New Zealand architect Benjamin Mountfort 's most impressive achievement?
Did you know that the iLoo was a cancelled Microsoft project by British subsidiary MSN UK to develop a Wi-Fi -enabled Internet portable toilet for summer festivals?
Did you know that the Minister of Justice claimed that the 2011 Malawian Air Fouling Legislation bill made farting in public illegal, but later retracted his statement?
Did you know that John Powell 's score for the animated film How to Train Your Dragon was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA award , and won an Annie Award and an IFMCA award in 2011?
Did you know that on the Hawaiian island of Oahu , the rare and endangered flowers Cyanea superba and Cyanea truncata are threatened by feral pigs and rats , while feral goats are threats to Cyperus trachysanthos ?
Did you know that Sedmoi Kontinent was the first Russian retail food company to make a public stock offering ?
Did you know that the shrine of a famous medieval shaykh in the currently depopulated village of Dayr al-Shaykh became a place of pilgrimage for locals following his death in the 13th century?
Did you know that "all-through jet training" on Macchis at the Royal Australian Air Force 's No. 2 Flying Training School was called "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the aptitude to become military pilots"?
Did you know that Diné artist Ryan Singer worked for the United States Forest Service before becoming a full-time artist?
Did you know that the ruins of St Peter's Church, Bristol , in Castle Park are a memorial to the victims of the 1940 Bristol Blitz ?
Did you know that Zynga , maker of hit games FarmVille and Mafia Wars , faces the pending class action lawsuit Swift v. Zynga , based on allegedly deceptive ads that ran in its games?
Did you know that the Brezhnev Era in the Soviet Union began with high economic growth and soaring prosperity, but ended with social, political, and economic stagnation ?
Did you know that the Alaskan Baird Mountains were named for the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ?
Did you know that the demo version of " Don't Hold Your Breath " was performed by Timbaland and Keri Hilson , and is distinctly different from the present version released by Nicole Scherzinger ?
Did you know that netball in the Cook Islands features an Easter competition where boys dress in women's netball uniforms?
Did you know that Papyrus Rylands 458 is the oldest known manuscript of the Septuagint ?
Did you know that several buildings of Cass Gilbert 's Waterbury Municipal Center Complex use quotations from Abraham Lincoln as decorative motifs, despite Lincoln's lack of connection to that Connecticut city ?
Did you know that William Isarn , a Spanish count , was assassinated while trying to regain what he claimed was his family's land?
Did you know that, according to critic Jennifer Kay, Mat Johnson 's 2011 novel Pym "skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack food industry, academia, landscape painting and abominable snowmen"?
Did you know that the Rose Historic Chapel was the first church designed by the Luttrell brothers , who subsequently became the unofficial architects of the Diocese of Christchurch ?
Did you know that the Cork Examiner described the killing of Peter Cleary , the first person to be killed by the Special Air Service in Northern Ireland , as "an act of utter folly"?
Did you know that Léon Théry was a French racing driver who won the Gordon Bennett Cup in 1904 and 1905?
Did you know that Renaissance artists and architects used rabatment of the rectangle as a compositional tool in their work?
Did you know that Colorado's Aspen City Hall has previously been used as a roller rink , an armory , and a concert venue ?
Did you know that Papyrus Fouad 266 is the second oldest manuscript of the Septuagint ?
Did you know that Baron Le Roy, owner of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château Fortia , helped guide the creation of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée system that became the basis of French wine laws ?
Did you know that shooting guard Tim Hardaway, Jr. , the son of National Basketball Association All-Star Tim Hardaway , was the first Michigan Wolverines freshman to score 30 points in a game in eight years?
Did you know that, in 1983, The Chieftains were the first ever Irish musical group to play a concert on the Great Wall of China , resulting in an album: The Chieftains in China ?
Did you know that upon making his National Hockey League debut, Blake Geoffrion became the first fourth-generation player after his father Dan , grandfather Bernie , and great-grandfather Howie Morenz ?
Did you know that Operation Moolah was an attempt during the Korean War by the United States Air Force to capture a fully operational Russian MiG-15 ?
Did you know that an American soldier, who was deployed to Iraq, adopted an Iraqi boy who could not walk because of cerebral palsy ?
Did you know that collective leadership was seen as the ideal form of governance by Soviet ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov , Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev ?
Did you know that to secure a guilty verdict, Dominick Sarsfield , Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas , urged jurors to beat the lone dissenter into submission?
Did you know that Picander used one of the sayings of Jesus on the cross for an aria in Bach 's cantata Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159 , for the last Sunday before Lent ?
Did you know that Spanish-language Regional Mexican station KMAK launched in 1990 as an English-language Christian radio outlet serving Fresno, California ?
Did you know that the first independent study of water quality in Jordan 's US$1.1 billion Disi Water Conveyance Project found the water to be highly radioactive ?
Did you know that four first-round draft picks of the Oakland Athletics have won the Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award ?
Did you know that Richard Knill Freeman , who designed British churches, hospitals, municipal buildings, schools and museums, also designed a church in Moscow in the 1880s?
Did you know that people who suffer from Pleasure Dissociative Orgasmic Disorder are unable to feel pleasure from an orgasm ?
Did you know that the rare and endangered bellflower Cyanea remyi is found only on the Hawaiian island of Kauai , and as of 2010, an estimated 24 individuals are known to be growing in the wild?
Did you know that Mikhail Lermontov , author of the poem " Valerik ", won the Order of St. Vladimir for valor at the 1840 Battle of the Valerik River but was prevented from receiving his award by Czar Nicholas I ?
Did you know that in 2006 Richard Santagati received the third highest salary of any president of a private college in the United States?
Did you know that six of the nineteen winners of the National Basketball Association 's IBM Award have played for the San Antonio Spurs ?
Did you know that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8 , a voter initiative against same-sex marriage ?
Did you know that Max Boyce 's 1975 recording We All Had Doctors' Papers is the only comedy album to reach number one in the UK Album Charts ?
Did you know that a US-born ex- hippie Malati Dasi , despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement?
Did you know that First Nations contemporary artist Dana Claxton is a descendant of Sitting Bull 's followers?
Did you know that according to book critic Maureen Corrigan , today’s narratives of women’s suffering are breaking with a tradition going back to Homer , in that they show women talking – and fighting – back?
Did you know that author Lorene Cary was the second African American girl accepted at the "elite" St. Paul's boarding school in New Hampshire , and in 1991 published Black Ice , a memoir of her experiences?
Did you know that Rose Catherine Pinkney developed dozens of American television shows , including The X-Files and Girlfriends ?
Did you know that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the earliest written by an English woman?
Did you know that a critic described the work of abstract sculptor Claire Falkenstein as "a Jackson Pollock in three dimensions"?
Did you know that Irish designer Orla Kiely has had her work featured on a range of Citroën DS3 cars, although she's better known for textiles?
Did you know that Dutch television talk show host Sonja Barend retired in 2006 after forty years of making television?
Did you know that Pauline Bebe was France's first female rabbi ?
Did you know that alleged German spy Despina Storch was described as "Turkish Delight", "Turkish beauty", and a "modern Cleopatra " in spy literature?
Did you know that Ágnes Farkas was selected Hungarian Handballer of the Year in both 2001 and 2002?
Did you know that even in her thirties, Scottish coloratura soprano Anne Sharp was able to pass as a teenager , performing the role of Emmie Spatchett in Albert Herring at the first Aldeburgh Festival ?
Did you know that Dutch writer, journalist, and feminist Wim Hora Adema co-founded the feminist monthly magazine Opzij in 1972, a magazine that's still in print?
Did you know that in 1789 the Women's March on Versailles forced the King of France to accept the Declaration of the Rights of Man ?
Did you know that Merrythought is the last remaining teddy bear manufacturer in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that after his election in 1998 as mayor of Campbellsville , Kentucky , Paul E. Osborne formed a team that attracted Amazon.com , among others, to replace two closed factories?
Did you know that Chris Addison promoted his new satirical radio show 7 Day Sunday as "four relatively ill-informed idiots fail to take the news seriously for an hour"?
Did you know that Bruce Bawer 's While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within was described both as "well written and well informed" and as using "wildly exaggerated statistics"?
Did you know that mathematician Leonhard Euler discovered that a simple characteristic equation could be used to solve certain linear homogeneous differential equations ?
Did you know that the women's race at the 2007 Tokyo Marathon was won by Hitomi Niiya , who at the time had never run in a marathon before?
Did you know that Polish best-selling historian and dissident Paweł Jasienica , due to his criticism of the Polish communist government , had his books removed from distribution and prohibited from printing ?
Did you know that, in Arizona v. New Mexico , the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arizona ' s attempt to invoke original jurisdiction , but Arizona prevailed when the case returned to the court on appeal?
Did you know that transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing is a promising new technology which allows sequencing of individual DNA molecules?
Did you know that around the west door of St John the Baptist's Church in Yarburgh , Lincolnshire , are carvings of a coat of arms , Adam and Eve and the serpent , a Paschal Lamb , and a pelican ?
Did you know that Usher 's 1997 song " You Make Me Wanna " is an acoustic guitar -based R&B , soul and pop ballad about "juggling three women"?
Did you know that depending on the interpretation, sophismata like "All men are donkeys or men and donkeys are donkeys" can either be true or false?
Did you know that during the tenure of the Abbasid governor al-Fadl ibn Salih , the Egyptian cities of al-Fustat and al-Askar were merged into one large city?
Did you know that Alice Waters lobbied the Clinton administration to replace White House Executive Chef Pierre Chambrin with an American chef ?
Did you know that the conservatories of the Bason Botanic Gardens in Wanganui were constructed using recycled bricks from two demolished picture theatres?
Did you know that until Marcel Deiss petitioned the French authorities to change the wine laws in 2005, it was illegal to not list the grape variety on the labels of Grand cru Alsatian wine ?
Did you know that DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince won Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance the same year they boycotted the ceremony?
Did you know that although the 1965 Skyways Coach-Air Avro 748 crash ended with the passengers hanging upside down in their seats, they all survived?
Did you know that Nikolla bey Ivanaj was one of the participants of the Albanian Congress of Trieste held in 1913?
Did you know that " To Be Alone with You " was the first song Bob Dylan recorded for his 1969 album Nashville Skyline ?
Did you know that former California Assembly Republican Leader and California Republican Party Chair Robert W. Naylor was editor of The Stanford Daily while he was a student at Stanford University ?
Did you know that Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009, accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina ?
Did you know that after retiring from baseball , catcher Greg Goossen turned to acting and working as a stand-in for actor Gene Hackman ?