kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Gordon L. Park worked around the globe as a petroleum engineer for Chevron before he settled in Wyoming and was elected in 1992 to the state legislature ?
Did you know that timbuwarra are anthropomorphic rattan figures produced by the Wiru people of Papua New Guinea ?
Did you know that an entire regiment of the Mexican Army was dispatched to expel Mexican folk healer and mystic Teresa Urrea from the country?
Did you know that George Washington served as a justice in the court of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria when it was a courthouse?
Did you know that about 30,000 runners cross the 25 de Abril Bridge as part of the Lisbon Half Marathon each year?
Did you know that inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla decided on his career path after being impressed by laboratory experiments of his physics professor at Gymnasium Karlovac ?
Did you know that the Italian pre-dreadnought battleship Re Umberto was modified in 1918 in preparation for her role as the lead ship in the planned attack on the main Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola ?
Did you know that Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr. , of Alexandria , Louisiana , joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth , an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
Did you know that the television series Meet the Natives: USA shows five tribesmen from the island of Tanna playing golf , riding roller coasters , and getting pedicures ?
Did you know that one of the findings of sociology of leisure has been that amount of free time is not significantly dependent on one's wealth?
Did you know that effective use of domain engineering concepts like the use of domain-specific languages can reduce code size by over 50%?
Did you know that Louisiana State Senator K.D. Kilpatrick of Ruston began working as a teenager in his family mortuary business after his father was incapacitated by a stroke ?
Did you know that a secret causeway from the mainland to Matagorda Island off San Antonio Bay was hidden from Europeans by Karankawa Indians?
Did you know that Fletcher Christian , leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty , was baptised in St Bridget's Church, Brigham , England, and that his tomb is in the churchyard?
Did you know that offspring of Gargaphia solani almost always fall victim to predation without the protection of their mother?
Did you know that in 1575, Countess Ana von Eck from Brda was killed by a tame bear in the castle courtyard of Žužemberk Castle?
Did you know that the steamboat Arabia was missing for 132 years before it was discovered half a mile from the Missouri River under 45 feet of mud?
Did you know that from March 1940, Edvard Sylou-Crantz worked in Germany as a Norwegian-language propagandistic radio news reader?
Did you know that around 50% of adult Jews in Constantinople were subscribers of the Ladino language newspaper El Tiempo at the time of the First World War ?
Did you know that from 1904 to 1907, artists' model Dorelia McNeill lived in a ménage à trois with Augustus John and his first wife Ida Nettleship ?
Did you know that feature models , initially conceived by feature-oriented domain analysis , are characterized as "the greatest contribution of domain engineering to software engineering "?
Did you know that the Protestant church of Jistrum in Friesland was prior to 1581 a Catholic church , when in one week it was stripped by iconoclasts ?
Did you know that fourteen-year-old Doris Duke gained control of Duke Farms after suing her mother?
Did you know that before 2002, nobody had reported seeing a wild specimen of Impatiens denisonii , a rare balsam , since it was first described in 1862?
Did you know that the author of the book Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege" was recognized with the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award ?
Did you know that 51 men were executed by Anglo-Saxons near Weymouth, Dorset , and interred in the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit in AD 910−1030?
Did you know that Seteng Ayele was the oldest track and field athlete at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the fate of an opossum in the Parks and Recreation episode " The Possum " has been described as an allegory for capital punishment ?
Did you know that the Old Hansen Planetarium served as the main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library system from 1905 to 1964?
Did you know that Dieter Dorn staged the world premiere of the opera L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe of Hans Werner Henze at the Salzburg Festival in 2003?
Did you know that Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket , taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986?
Did you know that the tambouras , a Greek traditional string instrument of the lute family and ancestor of the bouzouki , features movable frets?
Did you know that MacGillivray Milne was appointed Governor of American Samoa less than two years after having been court-martialed ?
Did you know that the first hull loss of a Tupolev Tu-204 occurred when Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 crashed on approach to Domodedovo International Airport , Moscow , Russia , on 22 March 2010?
Did you know that President George Washington was once a guest at Lloyd House ?
Did you know that American biologist Philip Hershkovitz discovered many rodent species while he was in his eighties?
Did you know that a failed Cretan revolt of 1828, led by Hatzimichalis Dalianis , is the basis for the local legend of the ghost army of the Drosoulites ?
Did you know that Marcus R. Clark was elected in 2009 to the Louisiana Supreme Court though he had years earlier been sanctioned by that body for backlogged cases as a district judge?
Did you know that Welgelegen (or Tjepkema's Molen ) is the only survivor of seventeen windmills to have stood in Heerenveen , Friesland , the Netherlands , since the 15th century ?
Did you know that Michael Barlow is the seventh winner of the Fothergill-Round Medal in the last eight years that was listed on an Australian Football League squad via the rookie draft ?
Did you know that Leptodora is the largest planktonic cladoceran , and its type species is probably the only cladoceran to have been described in a newspaper ?
Did you know that the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent is installed in a room constructed especially for it at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ?
Did you know that by the Treaty of Vilnius (1561) , Gotthard Kettler exchanged his office as Grand Master of the Livonian Order for that of a duke and Royal administrator?
Did you know that Boston newspaper publisher John Mein shot a grenadier in a scuffle?
Did you know that the " father of the Finnish written language " died when returning from the Treaty of Novgorod (1557) ?
Did you know that in 2006, ten percent of the membership of the Australian Watercolour Institute were recipients of Australia Honours ?
Did you know that a raga in Indian musician Ram Narayan 's album Rag Shankara, Rag Mala in Jogia was named for an incarnation of Shiva ?
Did you know that Lado Ketskhoveli was one of the first revolutionaries to introduce Stalin to Marxism ?
Did you know that fishing down the food web is resulting in a progressive worldwide decline in the fish stocks that are higher on the food chain ?
Did you know that Siraj Gena finished his winning run of the Rome Marathon barefoot to honour the 50th anniversary of Abebe Bikila 's marathon gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics ?
Did you know that the sculpture of a freezing woman at the Golm War Cemetery was not erected because it did not match the artistic perceptions of the East German party line?
Did you know that Harry Crosby , whose Black Sun Press published struggling writers like D. H. Lawrence , Hart Crane , James Joyce and Ezra Pound , died at age 31 in a suicide pact with his lover?
Did you know that Gowardia , a lichen found in tundra of the Northern Hemisphere , is named after the lichenologist Trevor Goward?
Did you know that as a state legislator Ron Gomez , previously the radio voice of the ULL Ragin' Cajuns , worked to build the team's arena, the Cajundome , in Lafayette , Louisiana ?
Did you know that Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland , Oregon 's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance "?
Did you know that designer Vladimir Kagan , whose 1952 sofa was auctioned by Christie's for $190,000, created a facsimile for Room & Board in 2006 that sells for less than $1,900?
Did you know that Azalea Trail Maids appeared in the inauguration parade of President Barack Obama in full antebellum -era dresses?
Did you know that two of the singer-songwriters in Little River Band wrote so many songs that they formed the duo Birtles & Goble to record the unreleased material?
Did you know that although U.S. President Barack Obama is Christian , high-ranked al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews "?
Did you know that Doña Rosa Real discovered how to make Barro negro pottery in San Bartolo Coyotepec , a small town in southern Mexico ?
Did you know that in the 1779 raid led by General William Tryon , British troops destroyed 83 houses, two churches, and a jail in Fairfield, Connecticut ?
Did you know that Agrimonia gryposepala , a plant of the rose family ( Rosaceae ), was used by the Meskwaki and Prairie Potawatomi to cure nosebleeds ?
Did you know that the debut in Carnegie Hall of tenor James Taylor was in the premiere of the Levine completion of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor ?
Did you know that the forests of Syria , celebrated throughout ancient times for their richness, have been reduced to their present-day area of 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi)?
Did you know that Fr. Martin Hehir , the fourth president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh , was affectionately known to students as "Daddy Hehir"?
Did you know that an 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agents provocateurs paid by the government?
Did you know that the word " pitcher " originates from the 13th century Middle English word picher , which means earthen jug?
Did you know that the nineteenth-century American botanist Edward Tuckerman liked to write his studies in Latin?
Did you know that in 2003, an English translation of Shadow Tower Abyss , the forerunner to From Software 's award-winning Demon's Souls , was cancelled by Sony over fears that the game's style lacked market appeal?
Did you know that Ukrainian sprinter Anzhela Kravchenko has more national titles in the 100 and 200 metres than double world champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block ?
Did you know that the specific name of the small shrub Adenanthos cacomorphus , meaning 'ugly form', relates to its "misshapen" pollen grains?
Did you know that Barry Bowen owned Belikin , Belize 's only domestically brewed beer brand , as well as the country's only commercial coffee farm ?
Did you know that journalist Lauro Aguirre planned a violent takeover of Ciudad Juárez , Mexico in 1906?
Did you know that former First Lady of New Hampshire Gale Thomson ran a maple syrup business from her 19th century farmhouse in Orford ?
Did you know that Baseball Hall of Fame member Mel Ott was struck out in his first at-bat of his Major League Baseball career by pitcher Wayland Dean ?
Did you know that the Yalbugha Mosque was built in 1264 by Mamluk princes in Damascus , Syria ?
Did you know that Chaucer scholar Charles Muscatine participated in the D-day landing on Omaha Beach and was fired by UC Berkeley for refusing to sign a McCarthyite oath?
Did you know that the Treaty of Pozvol triggered the Livonian War ?
Did you know that Olena Krasovska ran the fastest 100 metres hurdles race (12.45 seconds) by an athlete representing Ukraine , but despite this she does not hold the Ukrainian record ?
Did you know that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones , KT Tunstall and Coldplay ?
Did you know that the 7th century Arab Islamic palatial complex of Al-Sinnabra at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee was originally thought to be a Byzantine -era synagogue ?
Did you know that Joseph H. Allen , a volunteer infantryman and the 21st supervisor of the Town of Brunswick in New York , was brevetted lieutenant colonel by Abraham Lincoln in 1865?
Did you know that Twice Blessed is an American Book Award winning novel by Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca ?
Did you know that comedian Andy Samberg guest starred in the Parks and Recreation episode " Park Safety ", which he called "the best episode, and maybe not just of this show but of any show on television ever"?
Did you know that Winifred Collins was one of the first females to be commissioned in the WAVES when it began in 1942 and was later Chief of Naval Personnel for Women?
Did you know that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson 's parents are buried in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina ?
Did you know that Colorado State Highway 35 is so short that two interchanges overlap each other?
Did you know that Code of Vengeance starred Charles Taylor as David Dalton, a character created for a planned spin-off series from Knight Rider ?
Did you know that the traditional oral rules for leadership selection at the Rapid Lake Indian reserve in Quebec were put down in writing for the first time in 1996?
Did you know that the idea for MyTwoCensus , a political watchdog of the 2010 U.S. Census , was first conceived by journalist Stephen Robert Morse as he was looking for a job on Craigslist ?
Did you know that in Albanian mythology , the drangue is a semi-human winged warrior who is born wearing a shirt and qeleshe ?
Did you know that while she never sank any vessels in her career, U-771 shot down a British B-24 Liberator aircraft?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , both the Union and the Confederacy developed new medical programs to treat sick and injured soldiers?
Did you know that the South Park episode " Sexual Healing " parodied the recent sex scandal surrounding golf pro Tiger Woods , and satirized the media attention it generated?
Did you know that with around 250 killed the UNITA 2001 Angola train attack was one of the deadliest terrorist attacks involving railways ?
Did you know that Blazed Alder Creek , which supplies part of the drinking water for Portland, Oregon , was named for a 24-inch (61 cm) blazed (marked) alder tree used as a benchmark for early watershed surveys?
Did you know that the association l'Affranchissement , founded in 1854, was the first rationalist organization in Belgium ?
Did you know that the Bolinas, California -based unconventional winemaker Sean Thackrey was previously an art dealer ?
Did you know that campaigners against proposed urban expansion in Worthing , West Sussex , have been tree sitting in Titnore Wood since 2006?
Did you know that Ernest Hemingway 's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan Magazine from February to May of that year?
Did you know that Martyrs' Lane in Baku , Azerbaijan , is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War ?
Did you know that an ovarian pregnancy can occur when the egg cell is not released or picked up?
Did you know that the specific name of Adenanthos macropodianus refers to it only being found on Kangaroo Island ?
Did you know that American writer-director Patrick Coyle first publicly showed his 2009 film Into Temptation at the hospice where his father stayed?
Did you know that in the 2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga season , with the Rugby Club Luxembourg , a team from Luxembourg competes in the German 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga ?
Did you know that Marcus Larson , a prominent 19th-century painter from Sweden, worked for a saddle maker before becoming an artist?
Did you know that 1968 was the deadliest year in the Vietnam war for the United States and its Vietnamese allies ?
Did you know that the music website SongMeanings was created after its founder was inspired by a debate surrounding the meaning behind music group Ben Folds Five 's song " Brick "?
Did you know that the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II allegedly insisted for taxes to be paid in the full-weight histamenon gold coin, but only paid back in the lighter tetarteron ?
Did you know that a silent speech interface enables people to talk without making speech sounds , or those with laryngectomies to speak after losing their voice ?
Did you know that despite Dolores Porras’ innovations with the green glazed pottery tradition of Santa María Atzompa , she is poor and depends on her family economically?
Did you know that as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle that caused it to decrease in intensity but increase in diameter?
Did you know that the 1956 radio program It's A Crime, Mr. Collins was said to be "a flagrant rip-off of The Adventures of the Abbotts in which only the names had been changed"?
Did you know that UdiWWW was among the first web browsers to support the HTML 3 specification ?
Did you know that the Manawan Indian reserve in the Mauricie region of Quebec has had road access only since 1973?
Did you know that Chenowth Advanced Light Strike Vehicles were used by United States Navy SEALs in Iraq and Afghanistan , as well as during the Gulf War ?
Did you know that The Master of Game is considered to be the first English language book on hunting ?
Did you know that Czech politician Petr Zenkl , who survived two Nazi concentration camps , was forced to escape to the West after communists took power in Czechoslovakia by coup d'état in 1948?
Did you know that after the original owner of the Walsh-Kaiser Company shipyard had difficulty managing the yard, a shipbuilding and a construction company took over?
Did you know that the town of Otumba , Mexico , has an annual Donkey Fair where the animals feature in fashion shows and costume contests?
Did you know that British child actor Noah Marullo plays a character with Asperger syndrome on Tracy Beaker Returns , which he feels "helps children understand that everyone is different"?
Did you know that, during the bombing of Berlin , Minuscule 658 , 659 and 661 were sent out of Berlin for safekeeping and were later found in Poland ?
Did you know that before entering politics , two-time prime minister Said al-Ghazzi was one of the leading lawyers in Syria ?
Did you know that the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists has dealt with over 600 cases since it began in 2001?
Did you know that the tragic death of Bonnie McCarroll at the 1929 Pendleton Round-Up led to the cancellation of women's bronc riding from rodeo competition?
Did you know that the aureole effect is an optical phenomenon seen in rippling water that creates sparkling light and dark rays radiating from the shadow of the viewer's head ?
Did you know that the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described All Saints Church, Boltongate as "one of the architectural sensations of Cumberland "?
Did you know that the holotype specimen of the dinosaur Linheraptor is one of few nearly complete dromaeosaurid skeletons, worldwide?
Did you know that college basketball guard A.J. Slaughter received scholarship offers from major conference schools Vanderbilt and West Virginia , but ultimately decided to play for Western Kentucky ?
Did you know that citizen volunteers at The Jawa Report notified the FBI about the threat posed by Jihad Jane ?
Did you know that in Villa de Zaachila , Mexico, the weekly tianguis or open air market has changed little over the centuries and the Zapotec language can still be heard?
Did you know that Sayuri Kokushō 's 1986 debut single , Valentine Kiss , is the most popular Valentine's Day song in Japan, despite selling only 317,000 copies?
Did you know that the rider who completes the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in the shortest time will win $500,000 in Alaskan gold?
Did you know that in March 2010, Australia became the first country in the world to officially recognise a 'non-specified' gender, when Norrie May-Welby was found to be neither a man nor a woman?
Did you know that the main factors influencing survival amongst the stricken Donner Party pioneers were age, sex, and the size of each person's family group?
Did you know that Herb Graver scored five touchdowns in the 1903 Michigan–Ohio State game , a record that has not since been matched by a player for either team?
Did you know that a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone is a political subdivision of a municipality or county in the state of Texas created to implement tax increment financing ?
Did you know that WuLi Records, owned by the Ministry 's Louis Svitek , released an album by Lee DeWyze , a ninth season finalist of American Idol ?
Did you know that Canigou Cambrai was the first English Cocker Spaniel to be best in show at Crufts for 46 years?
Did you know that Canadian landscape ecologist André Bouchard used notarized acts to determine the composition of Quebec 's forests at the time of colonization ?
Did you know that the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans ?
Did you know that pyridoxamine , a vitamer of vitamin B6 , is being tested in clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy ?
Did you know that Siobhan Magnus , a current contestant on the ninth season of American Idol , started singing in public during an elementary school concert when she sang " Tomorrow " from the musical Annie ?
Did you know that the 2010 World Junior Squash Championships will be held from July 27 until August 1, in Quito , Ecuador ?
Did you know that more than twenty attendants of the Cécile DeWitt-Morette ' s summer school in the Alps were later awarded the Nobel Prize ?
Did you know that What A Guy! , a gag cartoon created in 1987, continued for eight years after writer Bill Hoest 's death using a mix of his jokes and new gags written by his widow, Bunny Hoest ?
Did you know that, unable to reach the university president, athletic director John Toner unilaterally accepted an invitation for the Connecticut Huskies to become a founding member of the Big East Conference ?
Did you know that Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice , who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?
Did you know that Bienvenido Santos ’s novel, The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor , narrates the experiences of Filipino migrants in the United States ?
Did you know that pioneering Austrian feminist Auguste Fickert got involved in politics because of an attempt to disenfranchise all women voters in Lower Austria in 1889?
Did you know that Point Lonsdale Lighthouse ' s foghorn shed is the only one known from a lighthouse in Victoria, Australia ?
Did you know that Bamba Müller was the " Cinderella " who married Dalip Singh Sukerchakia , the Black Prince of Perthshire ?
Did you know that the Green Mada’in Association for Agricultural Development is an agricultural cooperative in Iraq that is building greenhouses and drip irrigation systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
Did you know that Sven Moren was a popular speaker, and chaired the cultural society Noregs Ungdomslag for two periods?
Did you know that a film critic for The New York Times described the Croatian film What Is a Man Without a Moustache? as both "pleasant" and "pointless"?
Did you know that approximately 1 in every 10,000 to 20,000 babies are born with a laryngeal cleft , a gap between the oesophagus and trachea which allows food or fluid to pass into the airway?
Did you know that when officials cracked down on vice in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, some of Texas' most notorious crime figures helped establish major casinos in Las Vegas, including the Sands Hotel ?
Did you know that the Flader J55 jet engine used a supersonic compressor in order to achieve small size, which ultimately proved to be beyond the state of the art ?
Did you know that Christopher O. Ward , Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey , worked on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico before attending Harvard Divinity School ?