kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that, if built as currently planned, the Storfjord Bridge will have the longest span of any suspension bridge in the world?
Did you know that prior to authoring Freedom of Expression® , Kembrew McLeod successfully registered the phrase "freedom of expression" as a trademark in the United States ?
Did you know that Justice Thomas said the U.S. Supreme Court 's decision in Penry v. Johnson on the relevance of mental retardation in death penalty sentencing sent "mixed signals" to lower courts?
Did you know that Samrong Sen is a prehistoric archaeological site in Kampong Chhnang Province , Cambodia , consisting of a very large fluviatile shell midden ?
Did you know that during World War II , George R. Salisbury, Jr. , later a Wyoming rancher and state representative , was a Bronze Star -winning tank commander?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Pentraeth , Wales , was decorated in the 18th century with paper garlands, perhaps to celebrate parishioners' weddings?
Did you know that after losing a job, the Salty Dogs Jazz Band would sometimes find that they had been replaced by another jazz band with the same name?
Did you know that François Rochebrune , the French commander of the Zouaves of Death , once disciplined panicked Polish troops by asking them what time it was, which was the only Polish he knew?
Did you know that the International Dunhuang Project has made over a quarter of a million images of Silk Road manuscripts and other artefacts available online?
Did you know that the E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency built bicycle racer Major Taylor a revolutionary steam powered pacing tandem he used to break the world record at a speed of 45.56 miles per hour (73.32 km/h)?
Did you know that California wine producer Tablas Creek Vineyard is the "sibling winery" of Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Château de Beaucastel ?
Did you know that the Cornubian batholith and Haig Fras granite are similar in age and have the same orientation, but are separate intrusions ?
Did you know that Jared Lee Loughner was detained at the Federal Correctional Institution at Phoenix after the 2011 Tucson shooting ?
Did you know that Allegro , the third musical of Rodgers and Hammerstein , was called "an out-and-out failure"?
Did you know that by 1961, Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis , Missouri , had trained "the largest number of black doctors and nurses in the world"?
Did you know that singer Gary Williams played Frank Sinatra in the West End production of The Rat Pack ?
Did you know that public perception of graffiti in New York is slowly changing from an act of vandalism to a form of art ?
Did you know that the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam , India, is named after the only ape in India, the hoolock gibbon ?
Did you know that Graciela Chichilnisky , who proposed the Kyoto Protocol 's market for carbon credit trading , obtained her PhDs in mathematics and economics without ever having been an undergraduate ?
Did you know that Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico , was built entirely underground and equipped as a fallout shelter , in case of nuclear war ?
Did you know that minuscule 817 was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his Novum Instrumentum omne ?
Did you know that the FBI and CIA used vein matching as evidence that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of al-Qaeda had killed journalist Daniel Pearl ?
Did you know that when construction of the Bjorøy Tunnel in Norway hit a section of sand, a new tunneling method had to be developed to continue?
Did you know that the Nazi storyline in the Fringe episode " The Bishop Revival " was well-received by Entertainment Weekly for featuring a "good threat"?
Did you know that André Duchesne ' s group, Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar (The 4 Guitarists of the Apocalypso Bar) was billed as a band from post-apocalypse Canada "inspired by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix "?
Did you know that the Emmanuel DeHodiamont House , a stone house built in 1830, shares the status of being the oldest house in St. Louis, Missouri ?
Did you know that Francesco Nullo is commemorated in both Italy and Poland as a hero of those countries' struggle for independence?
Did you know that the Republic of Ireland has no honours system , though the issue has been considered by successive governments since 1930?
Did you know that controversy over New Brunswick 's Common Schools Act of 1871 resulted in two deaths in the town of Caraquet ?
Did you know that Cully Dahlstrom was the first American born player to win the Calder Trophy as the National Hockey League 's rookie of the year?
Did you know that the I.S.T. XL-14 Maya , a light aircraft, was constructed primarily from woven bamboo ?
Did you know that, following the collision of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 with a Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II , the US Armed Forces required military aircraft to obey civilian air traffic controllers ?
Did you know that Gervasio won the international competition at the 1983 Viña del Mar International Song Festival ?
Did you know that the Royal Moroccan Navy is constructing a new naval base at Ksar es-Seghir ?
Did you know that French encyclopédiste Claude Yvon was forced to flee to Holland because he was believed to have contributed to a controversial thesis published in 1752 by Jean-Martin de Prades ?
Did you know that after his professional basketball career ended, Boo Ellis worked as a security guard in his hometown of Hamilton , Ohio ?
Did you know that some of the Chinit River diversion and canal structures of the Khmer Rouge era were built by forced labour and damaged by regime soldiers who were " grenade fishing "?
Did you know that the fossil primate ? Nycticebus linglom is known from a single tooth, which is said to be the smallest known prosimian molar ?
Did you know that the Wainwright Tomb was described as "the most sensitive and the most graceful" of the tombs designed by Louis Sullivan ?
Did you know that Stage AE in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , is a concert venue partially owned by the Pittsburgh Steelers ?
Did you know that All Saints Church, Theddlethorpe , Lincolnshire , has been called the "Cathedral of the Marsh"?
Did you know that Alvin Young , cut from his high school basketball team every single year, went on to lead NCAA Division I in scoring in college ?
Did you know that three different versions of " Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree " reached the radio airplay charts in the same year?
Did you know that the recall of a weather ship for budgetary reasons was blamed for the minimal warning given in advance of the Great Storm of 1987 for Great Britain ?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court said Congress did not exempt certain federal banks from state taxes in Director of Revenue of Mo. v. CoBank ACB notwithstanding the landmark decision in McCulloch ?
Did you know that, as women in Sweden were not allowed to join the Swedish Tailoring Workers Union, they founded a separate Women's Trade Union in 1902?
Did you know that Dwight Eisenhower 's Chance for Peace speech and his farewell address have been called the "bookends" of his administration?
Did you know that German musicologist Werner Neumann founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig in 1950 and contributed Bach cantatas to the Neue Bach-Ausgabe ?
Did you know that Boops boops is a species of Boops called "the bogue"?
Did you know that Kevin Houston holds the U.S. Military Academy 's men's basketball records for points in a game (53), season (953) and career (2,325)?
Did you know that the Mitsubishi 1MF9 was the first Japanese-designed fighter intended for use from aircraft carriers ?
Did you know that the design of the Richmond Memorial Library in Batavia, New York , was inspired by the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that as a condition of paying for restoration work, a 19th-century benefactor of St Mary's Church in Bodewryd , Wales , required the church to have Islamic-style stained glass?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2001 securities fraud case that secret plans to disregard an oral contract are illegal ?
Did you know that infants born with Malpuech facial clefting syndrome may have a tail?
Did you know that Bob McCurdy , described by former basketball teammate Kevin Eastman as having virtually no quickness, dribbling skills, jumping ability or foot speed, led NCAA Division I in scoring in 1974–75?
Did you know that the European SARTRE Project conducted its first successful trial of an electronically controlled road train in January 2011 ?
Did you know that two holes in the ceiling of the Prohodna cave in Bulgaria are known as the "Eyes of God"?
Did you know that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal is the only British judicial body that can investigate whether surveillance carried out by MI5 or MI6 is legal?
Did you know that U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech on January 12 , 2011, honoring the victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting ?
Did you know that squab pies , which Charles Dickens said inspired "hatred of the whole human race", are not actually made with squabs ?
Did you know that New York Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas , one of the first two Greek American women elected to office in New York, was unopposed in her first general election?
Did you know that the British Library Philatelic Collections has over 8 million items and was established in 1891 with Thomas Tapling 's bequest?
Did you know that Hong Kong Observatory Director Lam Chiu Ying was criticised for issuing the number eight typhoon signal when Typhoon Nuri approached Hong Kong in 2008, as well as issuing it too late?
Did you know that Obed "O.B." Borgen founded radio stations KFIL and KFIL-FM to serve Fillmore County, Minnesota ?
Did you know that Obie Trotter ended up playing college basketball at Alabama A&M because his mother felt their head coach was a "godly man"?
Did you know that Vince Gill and Patty Griffin provide background vocals to the song " Country Strong " by Gwyneth Paltrow ?
Did you know that the March 2, 1957, disappearance of attorney Maud Crawford from her Camden, Arkansas , home remains officially unsolved?
Did you know that although the Nuri Demirağ Nu D.38 transport aircraft was completed in 1941, it was not flown until 1944?
Did you know that a Chinatown in St. Louis, Missouri , existed until its demolition for Busch Memorial Stadium in 1966?
Did you know that the Ticha Reservoir in northeastern Bulgaria bears the medieval name of the Kamchiya river?
Did you know that, in 1993, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory agreed to develop an online reference system for the California Film Commission 's library containing hundreds of thousands of location images?
Did you know that the University of Cambodia , established in 2003, bestowed an honorary doctorate degree to the Hong Kong actor and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Jackie Chan ?
Did you know that U.S. Senator Jesse Helms suggested a new series of gold medallions that would make it easier for people to buy gold?
Did you know that Alberta 's Beaver Hills were protected by Canada's first forest reserve in 1899?
Did you know that two of BYU 's starting football players were suspended from playing in the 1998 Liberty Bowl for violating the Brigham Young University Honor Code ?
Did you know that Lower Saxony 's finance minister sold the important medieval archaeological site in Nienover to a horse breeder at a fire-sale price, without ensuring that 12 years of research could continue?
Did you know that the song " Es Demasiado Tarde ", written and performed by Ana Gabriel , was the best-performing Latin single of 1991 in the U.S.?
Did you know that Tropolis has been called an attempt to "snackify" beverages?
Did you know that, at the turn of the 20th century, the third largest winery in the world was Stone Hill Winery from the Hermann wine region of Missouri ?
Did you know that Diallo Telli , first Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity , died of starvation at Camp Boiro in Guinea ?
Did you know that the Creative Research On Weapons project proved the practicality of the solid-fueled ramjet engine?
Did you know that sports club Løkken IF was represented with one Norwegian, one American and one Swede at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships ?
Did you know that the New Harmony Toll Bridge , which opened in 1930, is owned by the only remaining joint state toll bridge commission chartered by the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that, in 1551, hours after a pregnant woman was hanged during the Spanish Inquisition , two dead infants were seen to fall free of the body in an unusual case of coffin birth ?
Did you know that American Nisei Richard Sakakida , while working undercover as an interpreter for the Imperial Japanese Army , engineered a mass escape of about 500 Filipino prisoners during World War II ?
Did you know that polo and ice hockey player Stewart Iglehart is the only man to represent the United States internationally in two sports?
Did you know that Fringe star John Noble considers " Johari Window " one of his favorite episodes?
Did you know that, although the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire was badly damaged during the War of the Roses in 1461, St John's Church was apparently unharmed?
Did you know that the Terasca sounding rocket 's three stages were a combination of the existing Terrier , ASROC and Cajun rockets, respectively?
Did you know that a 1940 live recording of Duke Ellington by "audio magician" Jack Towers won a Grammy Award in 1980?
Did you know that Rim Kin , the author of the first published novel in Cambodia , was president of the Khmer Writers' Association ?
Did you know that the Carlson Sparrow was declared Grand Champion ultralight aircraft at the Experimental Aircraft Association 's 1987 Oshkosh Airshow ?
Did you know that illustrations from three of the Katie Morag series of children's picture books by Mairi Hedderwick have been used in a health promotion campaign to encourage breastfeeding ?
Did you know that Ádahooníłígíí was the first newspaper written entirely in Navajo ?
Did you know that the Italian monitor Alfredo Cappellini was built during World War I by converting a floating crane ?
Did you know that the inspiration for WePay originated when co-founder Rich Aberman had difficulty fundraising for his brother's bachelor party ?
Did you know that performic acid explodes upon rapid heating to about 80 °C (176 °F)?
Did you know that Sathyamangalam forest is the only reserve forest in South India with a significant presence of tigers , that is not yet declared as one of the tiger reserves in India ?
Did you know that despite fumarolic activity and earthquakes near the Olca-Paruma volcanoes, none of them appear to be hazardous?
Did you know that defunct Detroit -based music retailer Harmony House began in 1947 as a Hallmark Cards store?
Did you know that although he is not a Catholic bishop , Father Keith Newton will carry a mitre and crozier in his role as Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham ?
Did you know that the December 2010 Gascoyne River flood in Western Australia was triggered by rainfall exceeding 6,000% of the region's monthly mean?
Did you know that the Dajti Castle near Tirana , Albania , is thought to have been built by Justinian I in the 6th century AD in order to protect the area from Slavic attacks?
Did you know that after Myrrha made love with her father, she was transformed into the myrrh-tree and gave birth to Adonis ?
Did you know that Malosco Castle in the Italian Province of Trento was once the residence of the Vicedomini Judge of Val di Non , commander of the Imperial Austrian royal court?
Did you know that Ely S. Parker , the prevailing Seneca plaintiff in Fellows v. Blacksmith (1857), later drafted the surrender at Appomattox and became the first indigenous Commissioner of Indian Affairs ?
Did you know that alder trees have a symbiotic relationship with the bacterium Frankia alni which may have been exploited by the Incas to increase soil fertility ?
Did you know that the Flys have played on the same bill as the Buzzcocks , The Psychedelic Furs , the Pretenders , and Black Slate ?
Did you know that future Hall of Famer Scotty Davidson was the first professional hockey player to volunteer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of World War I ?
Did you know that, when it opened in 1971, the Sotra Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in Norway ?
Did you know that votive offerings used in Vietnamese lên đồng mediumship rituals may include sweets, alcohol, cigarettes, and even cans of Coca-Cola ?
Did you know that Justice Robert Cooper Grier observed in New York ex rel. Cutler v. Dibble (1858) that "no law of Congress can be found which authorizes white men to intrude on the possessions of Indians"?
Did you know that Auditorio Monte do Gozo , a Spanish outdoor concert venue in Santiago de Compostela , has resulted in pop music stars coming where Christian pilgrims usually walk?
Did you know that Textbook of Biochemistry originally came about because Alexander Thomas Cameron , not being a fluent speaker, would write out his university lectures in full?
Did you know that one 19th-century writer said that St Peirio's Church, Rhosbeirio was "one of the humblest ecclesiastical buildings in Anglesey "?
Did you know that interments at the Gunnersbury Cemetery in London include a Polish president and Commander-in-Chief ?
Did you know that the Toyota Prius V is the first spinoff from the Prius platform , and the Prius V hybrid gasoline-electric station wagon is scheduled to be released to the U.S. market by mid 2011?
Did you know that bowler Guppy Troup chose his nickname based on a youth team he captained?
Did you know that the Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in Oregon , and had the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest , the Oregon Pony ?
Did you know that in 1944, the Holy See received an envoy from Charles de Gaulle 's French Committee of National Liberation ?
Did you know that occupation of the La Soledad de Maciel archeological site in Guerrero , Mexico , lasted for over 3,000 years?
Did you know that Kaiǀkhauan Captain Andreas Lambert probably was the first traditional leader to be executed by the Germans in their South-West African colony ?
Did you know that the Stearman XOSS observation biplane was equipped with full-span flaps on its upper wing, allowing its pilot better control at low speeds?
Did you know that art historian André Grabar fled St. Petersburg a few days after the Russian Revolution , to become a leading expert in Byzantine and Medieval art ?
Did you know that the Sega Toylet, an interactive urinal , allows users to play video games with their urine ?
Did you know that King George III wrote a letter about General Sir John Doyle 's exploits in the American and French Revolutionary Wars ... "so that his zeal and exertions in our service may be known to posterity" ?
Did you know that three days before his wedding , Crown Prince Haakon of Norway thanked his family and fellow countrymen for not making his choice of bride a succession issue?
Did you know that despite being that year's U.S. champion in the 200 m breaststroke, Iris Cummings still had to raise her own funds to travel to the 1936 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the Areni-1 winery is believed to be the world's oldest surviving wine production facility?
Did you know that slavery of indigenous people in modern Bolivia was temporarily abolished during the First Upper Peru campaign ?
Did you know that Herbert McLeod invented the McLeod gauge ?
Did you know that the arrival of the railway eventually left the Ault Store as the only remaining commercial building in Dundas, Minnesota 's original business district?
Did you know that a wreck off the coast of Argentina was identified in January 2008 as the passenger ship Ussukuma , which was scuttled in 1939?
Did you know that the US Supreme Court ruled in Shafer v. South Carolina that defendants must be allowed to inform a jury of an alternative sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole ?
Did you know that the original Cape Bowling Green Light was prefabricated in Brisbane , constructed in Cape Bowling Green, moved twice due to coastal erosion , and finally relocated to Sydney ?
Did you know that the Persian ruler Khosrau II used a man who he claimed to be Theodosius , the eldest son of the murdered Byzantine emperor Maurice , as a justification for launching a war against Byzantium?
Did you know that the executive office of the Organization of American Historians is located at Millen House in Bloomington, Indiana , a federally designated historic site ?
Did you know that the Flying K Sky Raider II ultralight aircraft is described as an "intimate tandem two seater"?
Did you know that Clint Eastwood described accountant Irving Leonard as being "like a second father to me"?
Did you know that the 2007 Ajmer Dargah attack was carried out by explosives hidden in a Tiffin carrier ?
Did you know that most of French kings of the Bourbon era took oath on the Reims Gospel , a medieval book written in Old Church Slavonic languages ?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court ruled in Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams that the phrase " contracts of employment" in the Federal Arbitration Act actually does not refer to employment contracts?
Did you know that Oldfields , the 26 acre historic home once owned by J.K. Lilly, Jr. , is an example of an American country place estate located on the grounds of the Indianapolis Museum of Art ?
Did you know that American singer "Weird Al" Yankovic received a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video for " Fat ", a parody cover version of Michael Jackson 's song " Bad "?
Did you know that, as an expert in Norse mythology , Gro Steinsland wrote an Op-ed article in 2000 calling Thor Heyerdahl ’s Odin expedition a charade orchestrated by Snorri Sturluson ?
Did you know that Frank Freyer of the United States Navy became Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy in 1921?
Did you know that bivariate analysis is one of the simplest forms of quantitative (statistical) analysis ?
Did you know that Eric Bachmann from Crooked Fingers provided backing vocals on the song "Simple Hello" from the Damien Jurado album On My Way to Absence ?
Did you know that part of an inscribed medieval gravestone is set into a window sill at St Fflewin's Church, Llanfflewin , Wales ?
Did you know that the Vigra Fixed Link had more debt after 22 years of toll collection , than when the project was originally finished?
Did you know that James Fenimore Cooper was very dissatisfied with his American Revolutionary War novel Lionel Lincoln , his only "strict attempt" at historical fiction?
Did you know that the Forest and Farm Workers Union of Sweden advocated an agrarian reform modelled on the Soviet one?
Did you know that composers Itaal Shur and Rob Thomas won the 1999 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Santana 's hit song " Smooth "?
Did you know that the Diamondback air-to-air missile was originally known as the "Super Sidewinder "?
Did you know that the bearded tylophora is now classified in the dogbane family ?
Did you know that a system created by Husk Power Systems uses rice hulls , a waste product of rice milling, to generate power for under US$ 2 per month for thousands in India with no access to the electrical grid ?
Did you know that Britney Spears ' 2011 comeback single, " Hold It Against Me ", broke the U.S. airplay record for the most number of radio plays in one day?
Did you know that Ischaemia by New Zealand poet C. K. Stead won the £ 5,000 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine in 2010?
Did you know that a recording of a benefit concert for The Prince's Trust won producer Anthony Eaton a Grammy Award for Best Performance Music Video ?
Did you know that the 1915 Parnell Tunnel in New Zealand replaced a steeper single-track tunnel known to inundate open carriages with smoke and sparks, causing burns and clothing stains?
Did you know that Enver Hoxha was a teacher in the Albanian National Lyceum in Korçë , a French high school established in the Republic of Korçë in 1917?
Did you know that the development of the BQM-108 UAV was a response by the U.S. Navy to the threat of attack by advanced cruise missiles ?
Did you know that only past participants of the popular talent shows Greek Idol and The X Factor were selected to compete to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 ?