kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that as a Jordanian tribal Shaikh , Barjas al-Hadid has been responsible for mediating blood feuds between tribe members in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia ?
Did you know that KCKX , known as "Ondas de Gozo", is the first Spanish-language Christian radio station in the state of Oregon ?
Did you know that Gustavo Brambila , portrayed  in the 2008 movie Bottle Shock ,  was one of the first Latin Americans to graduate from the UC Davis wine program ?
Did you know that Harold Daniell entered a Norton Navigator motorcycle in a race at Silverstone race track where it recorded 163 kilometres per hour (101 mph) on the straight?
Did you know that " Carolina in My Mind ", James Taylor 's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina , was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza ?
Did you know that former professional footballer Don Rossiter served as mayor of Rochester, Kent , during the 1980s?
Did you know that an Australian violist Richard Goldner founded Musica Viva Australia in 1945, the world's largest entrepreneurial chamber music organization?
Did you know that Cross Seamount ,  a landform arising from the ocean floor southwest of Hawaii , is used by the NOAA to study tuna migratory patterns ?
Did you know that Kamal Naji , the PLO 's deputy representative in Lebanon , was killed in a roadside bomb attack outside Mieh Mieh by unknown perpetrators?
Did you know that in 1993 United States representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , Maria Cantwell , and Blanche Lincoln became the first women to play in the starting lineup of  the Congressional Baseball Game ?
Did you know that the writers Solveig Christov and Toril Brekke both have been awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize ?
Did you know that after being covered with plywood and stored due to their sexual content, Michael Spafford's murals , the Twelve Labors of Hercules , were transferred to Centralia College ?
Did you know that Irish international rugby union captain Dolway Walkington sometimes played matches wearing a monocle , removing it only when he needed to make a tackle?
Did you know that in high concentrations , the inorganic compound hydrogen disulfide can cause dizziness , disorientation and ultimately unconsciousness ?
Did you know that a library commemorating Gerard Corley Smith at the Charles Darwin Research Station houses the most comprehensive collection of material about the Galápagos Islands ?
Did you know that two of The Office protagonists quit Dunder Mifflin , the paper company they work for throughout the U.S. version of the series, in the episode " Two Weeks "?
Did you know that race car driver Pocholo Ramirez raced competitively into his 70s?
Did you know that Wallace Community College was the first comprehensive community college in Southern Alabama ?
Did you know that in 1980, Eamonn Collins became the youngest player in a professional football match in England, when he played for Blackpool at the age of 14 years and 323 days?
Did you know that a track on the Soviettes ' LP III was included on Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 ?
Did you know that the 12th-century temple of Banteay Chhmar in Thma Puok District , Cambodia , covers more than half-a-million square feet?
Did you know that SS Governor Cobb , built in 1906, was America 's first turbine-powered steamship , and later, as USCGC Cobb , the world's first helicopter carrier ?
Did you know that the Raja of Perlis is the only hereditary Malay ruler in Malaysia accorded the title of " Raja "?
Did you know that Tulsa 's Art Deco landmark Boston Avenue Methodist Church was designed by architect Bruce Goff and Adah Robinson, his former art teacher at Tulsa's Central High School ?
Did you know that botanists Haaken H. Gran and Trygve Braarud began their academic careers as research assistants at Oslo 's University Botanical Garden laboratory, founded by Nordal Wille in 1895?
Did you know that in his 1963 speech " Message to the Grass Roots ", Malcolm X described the historic March on Washington as a "circus"?
Did you know that the Norton Jubilee was the smallest capacity motorcycle ever made by Norton ?
Did you know that Billy Joel 's hit song " I Go to Extremes " was originally written as an apology to his wife, Christie Brinkley , for his erratic behavior?
Did you know that concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006?
Did you know that all of the Grand Cru vineyards of Chablis are located on a single, southwest facing slope overlooking the town ?
Did you know that Geoffrey Cornish , a golf course architect , has designed a total 146 golf courses throughout his career?
Did you know that the Kommissarische Reichsregierung is a label for multiple groups and individuals in Germany and elsewhere who assert that the German Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders ?
Did you know that Happy99 was the first computer virus to spread rapidly by email ?
Did you know that in 1863, Blackheath Proprietary School was one of the founder members of the Football Association ?
Did you know that Dorothy Liebes , known as "the mother of modern weaving ", made fabrics out of feathers , bamboo , leather strips, plastic , and ticker tape ?
Did you know that Sion Record Bostick was one of the Texas Army scouts who captured Antonio López de Santa Anna following the Battle of San Jacinto ?
Did you know that since 1947,  the city of Oslo has donated the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree to the city of London ,  in gratitude for its support of Norway in WWII ?
Did you know that Governor of Indiana Samuel M. Ralston declared martial law in Indianapolis to end a workers strike in November 1913?
Did you know that while there are over 1,300 Iron Age hill forts in England , Kelsborrow Castle is one of only seven in Cheshire ?
Did you know that after Arthur Richman chose Joe Torre as Yankees manager, skeptical owner George Steinbrenner asked Richman if Richman knew what he was doing, to which Richman responded "If I don't, fire me"?
Did you know that the Norwegian legation in Stockholm increased its staff from four to about 1,100 from 1940 to 1945?
Did you know that professional wrestlers and real-life best friends Jonny Storm and Jody Fleisch feuded with each other, before winning a tag team championship together?
Did you know that the Blue Serpent Clock Egg is the first Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg to feature a working clock?
Did you know that the first printing press in the Americas started operations in 1539 in a house in Mexico City that is still standing?
Did you know that in 1980, planktologist Grethe Rytter Hasle was the only female representative of natural sciences in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ?
Did you know that Ramsey's Draft Wilderness , a designated wilderness area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of Virginia , was established in 1984?
Did you know that as much as a third of Niger 's rural population travels as temporary labor during the seasonal migration in Niger between January and April, to avoid the Sahel dry season ?
Did you know that Edwards Dam in Maine was the first United States hydroelectric dam to be removed against the dam owner's wishes?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor / general Pei Du swore to Emperor Xianzong that he would not return to the capital Chang'an unless the warlord Wu Yuanji was destroyed?
Did you know that the turtle is a symbol of steadfastness and tranquility in religion, mythology and folklore  around the world?
Did you know that Brawn GP 's one-two finish at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix made it the first Formula One team to do so on debut at a Grand Prix since 1954?
Did you know that actors Brent Barrett , Sally Mayes , Richard Muenz , and Lynne Wintersteller all starred in the original production of Maltby and Shire 's hit Off-Broadway musical Closer Than Ever in 1989?
Did you know that Las fuerzas extrañas , Lugones' least successful work at the time, is now considered to be  key in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres in Argentina ?
Did you know that, as Fighter Project Officer for the United States Army Air Corps , Ben Kelsey crashed two P-38 Lightning aircraft including the only prototype built?
Did you know that the Central Europe Pipeline System , or CEPS for short, consists of around 6000 km of pipeline to deliver fuel for military and civilian use?
Did you know that George Evans won his first of three Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year awards as a 28-year-old sophomore?
Did you know that many of the remaining willows of the Willow Palisade were cut by the Russian and Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War ?
Did you know that downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog are accelerated with Microsoft 's Background Intelligent Transfer Service , a technology that attempts to use as little bandwidth as possible?
Did you know  that in the Brazilian kidnapping of Abílio dos Santos Diniz the kidnappers were of various nationalities, including two Canadian university students?
Did you know that the Washington & Jefferson College football team played the heavily favored California Golden Bears to a 0–0 tie in the 1922 Rose Bowl ?
Did you know  that Thored , ealdorman of southern Northumbria , disappears from the historical records after being charged with leading a fleet against marauding Vikings ?
Did you know that the first classes of Illinois Valley Community College were held in LaSalle-Peru High School ?
Did you know that Nils Yngvar Ustvedt , physician and member of the Norwegian Parliament , advised his son Hans Jacob Ustvedt against becoming a politician?
Did you know that Russian assassin Sergey Degayev was the first mathematics professor at the University of South Dakota ?
Did you know that after a recent re-analysis , a hurricane in 1924 was found to be the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale , as well as the strongest hurricane on record to strike Cuba ?
Did you know that SubGenius artist Joe Riley made masks and prosthetic makeups for gore movies as well as art and designs for children's animation franchises?
Did you know that most families celebrate Gotcha Day on a day other than April 1st?
Did you know that Johan Wollebæk and Jens Bull led the Norwegian Legation in Stockholm during World War II , when there were more than 50,000 Norwegian refugees in Sweden ?
Did you know that eight years before being cast in I Dream of Jeannie , Barbara Eden portrayed the former Marilyn Monroe role of Loco Jones in the syndicated TV series How to Marry a Millionaire ?
Did you know that the larvae of some species of the checkered beetle family Cleridae can consume several times their own body weight?
Did you know that Glenn D. Paige is the American political scientist known for developing the concept of nonkilling ?
Did you know that renal medullary carcinoma is found almost exclusively in individuals with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease ?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan was propelled to stardom playing a double amputee in the 1942 film Kings Row ?
Did you know that part of a 700 kilometre long minefield is found in Svay Chek District , Cambodia ?
Did you know that during the midst of the Cold War , Alan Shulman and Dmitri Shostakovich were invited to join a Soviet – American composers ' symposium organised by Nicolas Slonimsky for NBC ?
Did you know that Verpa bohemica is a saprobic species of fungi distinguished from other species by its enormous spores ?
Did you know that while  a son of professional wrestler Aurelian Smith said his father hid the scripted nature of the business from his family, causing strain, three of his children became wrestlers?
Did you know that KZZR and sister station KQHC are the only two radio stations with Burns, Oregon , as their community of license ?
Did you know that Brian Statham shares his name with an England international cricketer and was himself a talented schoolboy cricketer , but opted to pursue a career in professional football ?
Did you know that 99% of Washington wine is grown in the eastern half of the state where a rain shadow effect created by the Cascades leaves the area dry and desert -like?
Did you know that Torolf Elster , former Director-General of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), was also an awarded crime writer ?
Did you know that Vinny Castilla has won three Silver Slugger Awards at third base in four years for the Colorado Rockies ?
Did you know that the 13th century Sufi scholar Sayyid Abu Bakr Al-Aidarus was impressed with the stimulating effect of the coffee fruit and is credited with introducing it to the Hadhramaut region?
Did you know that the Key thatch palm, which was long considered part of the genus Thrinax , was reclassified into its own genus, Leucothrinax , in 2008?
Did you know that Front Range Community College is the largest community college in Colorado ?
Did you know that with her thriller Nattdykk (1983), Kim Småge was the first  of "a new female wave in Norwegian crime fiction "?
Did you know that American inventor and engineer Robert Fulton negotiated a bounty of £40,000 for the first decked ship destroyed in the Raid on Boulogne in 1804?
Did you know that Frédéric Chopin once said the middle section of his Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op 48, No. 2 should be played as if "a tyrant commands, and the other asks for mercy"?
Did you know that because of the permanent damage it can cause to living tissue, the old world screwworm fly is not suitable for maggot therapy ?
Did you know that Mick Rathbone , now Everton F.C. 's head of sports medicine, was once simultaneously player, physiotherapist and assistant manager of Halifax Town A.F.C. ?
Did you know that the South Park episode " Margaritaville " portrays Kyle as a Jesus -like savior of the U.S. economy during the recession ?
Did you know that at the 2008 centennial of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos , only 10% of the original railway system was open?
Did you know that Elwood Haynes invented stellite , built one of the first gasoline driven automobiles , and made advances in natural gas technology that later resulted in refrigeration ?
Did you know that Lithuanians initially viewed Nazi Germany 's invasion in June 1941 as a liberation from Soviet rule, but soon began to resist, forming the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania ?
Did you know that operatic soprano Dawn Kotoski won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1990?
Did you know that the Hausstock is part of the nummulite formation of the high Glarus Alps and was a popular European mountaineering destination before becoming a ski resort and firing range ?
Did you know that Oregon attorney Parish L. Willis was sued for fraud over his investment in the Hot Lake Sanatorium Company , now listed as a historic place ?
Did you know that places of worship in Bangalore include over 1,000 temples , 400 mosques , 100 churches , 40 Jain mandirs , three Gurudwaras , two Buddha Viharas and one Parsi Agiari in a metropolitan area of 741 km 2 (286 sq mi)?
Did you know that Australian flying ace Raymond Brownell was awarded the Military Cross for shooting down six enemy aircraft over a three month period in the First World War ?
Did you know that there are two Smithsonian Museums in New York City ?
Did you know that Knut Østby , a 1948 Olympic silver medallist in sprint canoeing , competed at the 1953 World Championships in whitewater slalom despite no whitewater experience?
Did you know that most of the U.S. Navy 's Amphitrite class monitors , hastily ordered in the wake of the Virginius war scare with Spain , were not ready for service for another 20 years?
Did you know that the Welsh priest Wallis Thomas led church services long after his 90th birthday and was described as the oldest working priest in Britain?
Did you know that Johns Hopkins and Maryland , which compete in what has often been called the greatest rivalry in men's college lacrosse , actually first played football three years earlier in 1892?
Did you know that the Palacio de Cultura Banamex in Mexico City was the site where Agustín de Iturbide accepted the offer to become Mexico 's first emperor after the war of independence from Spain ?
Did you know that there is a 15,000 ton ship which operates completely out of the water ?
Did you know that Lust Control is frowned upon by many Christian groups ?
Did you know that Phil Lynott was featured in a lunar ecliptic children's fairy tale which has been criticised by internet trolls ?
Did you know that cheese trees grow in New South Wales and Queensland ?
Did you know that before William Rehnquist was sworn in as U.S. Chief Justice , John Roberts financed the Woodstock Festival ?
Did you know that German seamen forced a lesbian to go down during the First World War , and the French did the same during  the Second World War ?
Did you know that Hedgehog Pie is made of 1970s electric folk musicians?
Did you know that British beer authorities have declared that women prefer beer made from bananas ?
Did you know that Tiger Woods was beaten by a 10-year-old in one of the most prestigious competitions of the year?
Did you know that a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized Han Solo in the rocks of China ?
Did you know that Theodore Majocci claimed the Princess of Wales slept with her butler ?
Did you know that it took two German submarines, UB-6 and UB-16 , to dispatch two World War I Royal Navy recruits ?
Did you know that the Massachusetts House of Representatives refused to legislate until the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts was rescued from cod-nappers?
Did you know that Lewis Hamilton ' s first name was "Sasbeck"?
Did you know that the Land of Green Ginger can be seen through the world's smallest window?
Did you know that track and field star Bob Backus , who set world records in the hammer throw , wore ballet slippers while competing?
Did you know that HBO television network broadcast midgets racing for prizes in a chili bowl ?
Did you know that Sonia Chang-Díaz won a seat in the Massachusetts Senate after her opponent was accused of stuffing her bra ?
Did you know that in 1825, the Court of Exchequer declared all contracts  by hobbits illegal and void in England ?
Did you know that if you go to a local store three weeks from today, you can probably find Asher Roth asleep in the bread aisle ?
Did you know that Caviar , Chardonnay , and Hot Cocoa compete for the love of Ray J ?
Did you know that baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby had his first plate appearance against King Lear ?
Did you know that both Egypt and the Holy Land were originally settled by Germans ?
Did you know that Sir Winston Churchill competed in the Tall Ships Race with an all-female crew?
Did you know that Wikipedia now has an article about everything ?
Did you know that New England used to be part of the Roman Empire , and China is still part of Japan ?
Did you know that Sparkie Williams is still singing from his grave 47 years after his death?
Did you know that Peter Jackson medaled in table tennis for New Zealand ?
Did you know that in Disney's animated film The Story of Menstruation , the flow is snow white?
Did you know that the idea of a two hooded coat to keep your date dry in the rain is genius ?
Did you know that sightings of Captain Cook were common around New Zealand as late as the 1950s?
Did you know that two monkeys are employed as waiters at the Japanese Kayabukiya Tavern ?
Did you know that Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only known survivor of the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II ?
Did you know that three members of the Croatian bobsleigh team at the 2006 Winter Olympics , Dejan Vojnović , Jurica Grabušić and Slaven Krajačić , had all previously competed as track athletes at the Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that Time magazine selected Billy C. Clark ' s autobiography A Long Row to Hoe as one of its Best Books of 1960, describing it "as authentically American as Huckleberry Finn "?
Did you know that the stations Mortensrud on the Østensjø Line , Forskningsparken on the Sognsvann Line , Nydalen , Storo and Sinsen on the Ring Line and Husebybakken have opened after the Oslo T-bane was declared completed with the reopening of Stortinget in 1987?
Did you know that during her 2008 trip to Asia, the Ecuadorian tall ship Guayas took aboard an officer of the People's Liberation Army Navy for reefing training?
Did you know that Isabella Grinevskaya was lauded by Leo Tolstoy for her play "Báb"?
Did you know that a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo , held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas , led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women ?
Did you know that as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history , by a post- Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics?
Did you know that the pencil skirt was popularised by French designer Christian Dior in the late 1940s?
Did you know that John Heald , the senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines , began working in cruise ships as a bar waiter ?
Did you know that miniature pigs are bred and raised as pets and for medical research into organ transplants rather than for bacon ?
Did you know that Arses lorealis is the scientific name for a bird commonly known as the Frill-necked Monarch ?
Did you know that McFarland Mall in Tuscaloosa is the second oldest standing shopping mall in the US state of Alabama ?
Did you know that actress Kate Cutler walked out of the lead role in Noël Coward 's The Vortex a week before it opened in 1924?
Did you know that Niles Searls , a California Gold Rush miner, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California ?
Did you know that the Puretic power block revolutionized the technology of hauling purse seine nets on seine fishing vessels ?
Did you know that Alvin T. Smith was the first postmaster of the first post office in Washington County, Oregon ?
Did you know that the Pedrail wheel was invented in 1903 for all-terrain locomotion, and was the inspiration for H.G. Wells ' short story " The Land Ironclads "?
Did you know that Mary Millicent Miller was the first American woman to acquire a steamboat master's license?
Did you know that to prepare a bacon martini , bacon has to soak in vodka for 24 hours, before it is strained over ice and served with a bacon garnish ?
Did you know that Walter Borchers was one of three brothers, all three received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II?
Did you know that Islip Speedway , at 0.2 miles (0.32 km), is the smallest race track ever to host NASCAR 's Sprint Cup Series ?
Did you know that the arms of a crucifix in a Barra de Navidad church broke during 1971 's Hurricane Lily , earning the statue the name "Christ of the Cyclone"?
Did you know that a speaking engagement by Tom Tancredo at a Youth for Western Civilization meeting was canceled after police used pepper spray against student protesters who were gathered outside?
Did you know that a 1970s weather forecast of "low goat pressure" on radio station KRSB in Roseburg, Oregon , was a sure sign of rain ahead?
Did you know that turkey bacon is used as a substitute for pork bacon at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe locations in the Middle East ?
Did you know that American historian Claude H. Van Tyne won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for History for The War of Independence ?
Did you know that Michael Kupperman 's Snake 'n' Bacon are a pair of cartoon characters, a snake and a strip of bacon , whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part)?
Did you know that in 2007 Major General Graham Binns signed the document that handed control of Basra back to the Iraqi people?
Did you know that one of the tasks of the Authorised Conveyancing Practitioners Board is to prevent conveyancing monopolies developing in England and Wales?
Did you know that Robert Seddon , captain of the first British Lions rugby team, drowned during the 1888 Australian tour in a sculling accident?
Did you know that carucage , a medieval English land tax, was first collected in 1194 in order to raise funds for the ransom of King Richard I of England ?