kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Church of the Good Shepherd , damaged in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake , suffered significant damage in a subsequent vandalism attack?
Did you know that the Norwegian ship broker Ragnar Stoud Platou headed several golf clubs in Norway?
Did you know that the Virginia Board of Health became involved in a controversy over abortion access when it was required to regulate outpatient clinics that perform first trimester abortions?
Did you know that in Ancient Israelite cuisine , bread was primarily made from barley flour, even though wheat flour was regarded as superior?
Did you know that Juliette (1956–66), the Canadian variety series which followed Hockey Night in Canada , attracted more than a million viewers per episode?
Did you know that according to its original constitution , the capital of the United Arab Emirates is Al Karama , but no such city actually exists?
Did you know that The Donald O'Connor Show , a 1954 NBC musical sitcom , is based on the premise of two young, struggling songwriters seeking buyers for their compositions?
Did you know that Bit.Trip Beat took inspiration from the early video game Pong for its gameplay?
Did you know that Barbara Staff , a co-chairman of the 1976 campaign of Ronald Reagan in Texas, became a Republican activist in reaction to her political science professor?
Did you know that the spire of All Saints Church in Haugham , Lincolnshire , with its ornate flying buttresses , is said to echo the similar but larger spire of St. James Church in Louth ?
Did you know that Joseph Barss , the first head coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team, was born in Madras, India , in 1892?
Did you know that when the ceasefire was issued to end the Battle of Ismailia , some Israeli paratroopers and Egyptian Sa'iqa found that they were no more than 20 meters apart?
Did you know that Lyndon Watts , principal bassoonist of the Munich Philharmonic at age 22, was the first Australian woodwind player to win a prize at the ARD Competition ?
Did you know that Michigan ice hockey coach Dan Farrell later became the chairman and CEO of a uranium exploration company?
Did you know that the Taunton Tramway in Somerset closed down when its power was cut off during a dispute over the cost of electricity ?
Did you know that EyesOn Design are events, including an annual car show and a fundraiser for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology , focused on the emotion and character of automotive design ?
Did you know that Władysław Marian Jakowicki , a Polish physician and rector of the Stefan Batory University , was one of 19 faculty members arrested by the Soviets in 1939 who disappeared without a trace ?
Did you know that three lunar alignments of the Balquhain stone circle near Inverurie in Scotland were discovered in the 1980s?
Did you know that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in New Jersey , the size of portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?
Did you know that professional basketball player Trey Johnson ended his college baseball career after suffering a ligament injury on his elbow that required a Tommy John surgery ?
Did you know that The Islamic Society of Greater Manchester is building the first mosque in New Hampshire ?
Did you know that the Ithaca Discovery Trail , a collaboration among seven hands-on museums and the public library in Tompkins County, New York , hosts 2,900 students on field trips each year?
Did you know that Soviet astronomer Pavel Petrovich Parenago was the first to teach a course on galactic astronomy in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the Turkish Union of Xanthi was banned by Greek courts because the use of the word "Turkish" in its title was considered to endanger public order?
Did you know that, though there are now 101 Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives , Midland oilman Frank Kell Cahoon was his party's sole member in the 1965 legislative session?
Did you know that 20th-century artists Eric Gill and Leon Underwood created works for Italianate parish churches in and around Oxford designed by architect T. Lawrence Dale ?
Did you know that the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company 's two stamp mills on Gold Creek were driven exclusively by water power ?
Did you know that the architectural firm of F. S. Platou designed the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo?
Did you know that Abe Cohn , son of immigrant parents identified as "Russian Yiddish" by U.S. Census -takers, played for the Michigan Wolverines football and basketball teams while attending law school?
Did you know that HMS Mendip (L60) served in the navies of three other countries after her use by the Royal Navy in World War II ?
Did you know that Romania 's Elena Fidatov is one of the most prolific runners at the World Cross Country Championships , having competed on 13 occasions?
Did you know that Polish neurologist Włodzimierz Godłowski was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre ?
Did you know that " Losing a Whole Year ", one of Third Eye Blind 's "catchiest" songs, stayed on Billboard' s alternative chart for 14 weeks?
Did you know that the steam-powered foghorn was first demonstrated successfully in 1859 on Partridge Island in the Port of Saint John ?
Did you know that Albert Nutter took 600 wickets in first-class cricket ?
Did you know that The Jo Stafford Show and The Jo Stafford Show were produced seven years apart in the United States and Britain?
Did you know that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a five-year naval blockade by France and the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that not only is Old Hemp considered the father of the modern Border Collie , but he originated the working style of herding sheep commonly seen among the breed today?
Did you know that while the Xinfengjiang Dam 's reservoir in China was filling in 1962, there were several earthquakes near it, including one at 6.1- magnitude ?
Did you know that the Root Covered Bridge is one of just eight Long truss bridges remaining in Ohio today?
Did you know that the English Puritan Thomas Posthumous Hoby has been claimed as the inspiration for Shakespeare 's Malvolio ?
Did you know that Appalachian novelist Anne Armstrong was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth ' s Tuck School of Business ?
Did you know that the actions of the German armored frigate SMS Friedrich Carl during a rebellion in Spain nearly precipitated a war between the rebels and Germany?
Did you know that former Michigan coach William Perigo played professional basketball with John Wooden as a member of the Indianapolis Kautskys in the 1930s?
Did you know that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola ?
Did you know that the Out Of The Ordinary Festival celebrates the autumn equinox in England with a variety of live music and talks about prehistoric culture and earth mysteries ?
Did you know that the town of Juneau, Alaska , was established after the 1880 discovery of gold in Silver Bow Basin by Richard Harris and Joe Juneau ?
Did you know that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning ?
Did you know that George Durkin Corneal became the first coach of the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team in 1909?
Did you know that flooding associated with the Sanriku earthquake and tsunami in 869 extended for at least four kilometres inland on the Sendai plain?
Did you know that John McLaughlin 's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane 's album A Love Supreme ?
Did you know that after defeating the Ottomans in the Battle of Ohrid , Skanderbeg distributed a large amount of ransom money to his men and dined off letnica with them?
Did you know that there is evidence that humans have been processing fish since the early Holocene ?
Did you know that " Huda the executioner " was recently deposed as mayor of Benghazi , Libya?
Did you know that Ozzie Cowles of Carleton , Dartmouth , Michigan and Minnesota was among the Top 15 winningest college basketball coaches of all-time when he retired at 59 in 1959?
Did you know that Mexican freedom fighter José María Jesús Carbajal was mentored as a teenager by Stephen F. Austin ?
Did you know that in State v. Elliott (1992), the Vermont Supreme Court held that all aboriginal title in Vermont was extinguished "by the increasing weight of history"?
Did you know that the works of Eugen Relgis , a Romanian -born anarcho-pacifist and eugenicist , were targeted by Nazi book-burners and communist censors ?
Did you know that at 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) long, the Taiji Cave in Anhui Province is the largest karst cave in East China ?
Did you know that Kainai artist Faye HeavyShield created the artwork body of land using images of human skin printed on paper and made into little tipi -shaped forms?
Did you know that the video for industrial rock band KMFDM 's new song " Krank " was simultaneously shot in Hamburg , Seattle , and Portland, Oregon ?
Did you know that Dutch child psychologist Bloeme Evers-Emden was deported to Auschwitz on the same train as Anne Frank ?
Did you know that Sologubovka Cemetery , near St Petersburg, Russia , is the largest German war cemetery in the world and the final resting place of over 30,000 German war dead from World War II ?
Did you know that miniaturist Amalia Küssner Coudert painted tiny watercolor-on-ivory portraits of royalty, including King Edward VII and Czar Nicholas II of Russia ?
Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia mentioned " the perennial end-of-season slump of the Chicago Cubs " in his Waters v. Churchill concurrence despite the case having nothing to do with baseball?
Did you know that assassins of Aleksandar Stamboliyski cut off his hand because he used it to sign the 1923 Treaty of Niš ?
Did you know that the anonymous Vita sancti Cuthberti , or "Life of Saint Cuthbert ", is the earliest piece of English Latin hagiography ?
Did you know that General Lord Walker was the first commander of the ground component of NATO 's Implementation Force in 1995?
Did you know that the 2009 Norwegian anthology Liberalisme: Politisk frihet fra John Locke til Amartya Sen was criticized by reviewers for selecting a sample of liberal thinkers who did not belong together?
Did you know that Rob Lowe was originally expected to leave the comedy television series Parks and Recreation after the episode " Indianapolis ", but he instead signed on as a permanent cast member?
Did you know that St George's Church in Goltho , Lincolnshire , is all that remains of a deserted medieval village ?
Did you know that Ojibwa artist Jim Denomie 's painting Casino Sunrise depicts Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty standing behind Babe the Blue Ox with his pants around his ankles?
Did you know that the 1997 Central European flood was caused by some of the heaviest rains ever recorded ?
Did you know that Canadian architect Leslie R. Fairn , whose output ranged from Beaux Arts to Modernism , had a career lasting 65 years?
Did you know that icodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used to keep tissues from gluing together after surgery?
Did you know that Jens-Daniel Herzog staged the opera Intermezzo of Richard Strauss , with Christiane Kohl as Christine, "the composer's formidable and frequently hysterical wife"?
Did you know that the sailing venue used for the 1976 Summer Olympics was the first and only one to take place in fresh water ?
Did you know that knife-maker Gil Hibben has designed so many knives for the Star Trek franchise that Paramount Pictures dubbed him the "Official Klingon Armorer"?
Did you know that Steve Reich 's composition, WTC 9/11 , premieres today with a performance by the Kronos Quartet at Duke University ?
Did you know that John Bell received the SIAM / ACM prize with Phil Colella for computational science and engineering in 2003?
Did you know that Glee 's newest album includes two original songs that appear in the Glee episode " Original Song "?
Did you know that Lydia Cecilia Hill was an English dancer who became a favourite of the Sultan of Johor ?
Did you know that the Centro de Abasto (Groceries Center) market, the most important in Mexico , serves 300,000 people and handles 30,000 tons of merchandise per day?
Did you know that in his only National Hockey League playoff game, Bill Moe fractured two vertebrae ?
Did you know that Norwegian entrepreneur Henrik Christian Fredrik Størmer was appointed official reporter of Norway at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris ?
Did you know that a significant difference between the Christian Evangelical Church of Romania and the Evangelical Church of Romania , which were united under the Communist regime , is the form of baptism each practices?
Did you know that after KV Pharmaceutical received an FDA -sponsored monopoly to exclusively market a drug that had been already available for five decades , it raised its price from about US$ 15 to US$1,500?
Did you know that medieval historian Eleanor Duckett (1880–1976) and her lifelong companion, regional novelist Mary Ellen Chase , have adjoining halls named for them at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that Dutch paleobotanist Willem van Zeist analyzed the first domesticated emmer wheat found at Tell Aswad , Syria?
Did you know that the actor voicing the creature in the Fringe episode " Night of Desirable Objects " placed pieces of orange in his mouth in order to have "a slobbery, sputtering voice"?
Did you know that Article 8 of the Syrian Constitution stipulates that the Ba'ath Party is the "leading party in the society and the state"?
Did you know that Bart Thane , managing director of the Alaska-Gastineau Mining Company , pioneered hydroelectric power in Juneau, Alaska ?
Did you know that The Power of Half describes how the Salwen family sold their home, donated half the proceeds to charity, and downgraded to a house half the size and value?
Did you know that Choctaw - Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson was described by Jimmie Durham as the Miles Davis of contemporary Native American art ?
Did you know that the Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan was a political entity, influenced by militant Wahhabism , that declared its independence from Russian rule in 1998?
Did you know that as director-general of Norwegian State Railways , Edvard Heiberg became famous for the phrase "The railway is being strangled by impotent car users"?
Did you know that one of the grounds for the impeachment of Philippine Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez was her low conviction rate?
Did you know that the depiction of the European hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe hispanica in rock art suggests it might have been used in prehistoric religious rituals 6,000 years ago?
Did you know that the Akuntsu tribe, victim of a massacre perpetrated by Brazilian cattle ranchers in the 1980s, currently numbers just five individuals?
Did you know that during World War I, future Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the Spanish Flu , but did not spend one day in bed?
Did you know that a precursor to clay pottery found at Neba'a Faour in the Bekaa Valley was made with a type of lime plaster mixed with grey ashes, which turned into a hardened, white material resembling limestone when fired?
Did you know that although the fungus Aseroe floriformis was named for its resemblance to a flower , it smells like cow dung ?
Did you know that the Mauro Solar Riser was the first manned aircraft to fly on solar power ?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Bungay in Suffolk contains a panel depicting the Resurrection given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard ?
Did you know that the American Bladesmith Society has partnered with several colleges to offer courses in bladesmithing and has launched its own museum?
Did you know that the Syrian Constitution guarantees a 50% quota of the People's Assembly for workers and peasants?
Did you know that the rare European fungus Episphaeria fraxinicola produces minute cup-like fruit bodies on the bark of ash trees?
Did you know that the Michigan football coach complained his "defense was in the law library" after law student Oscar Lambert was declared ineligible?
Did you know that Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft was part of a Princeton, New Jersey , team that performed the first successful numerical weather prediction using the ENIAC electronic computer in 1950?
Did you know that a Muraqqa is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and calligraphy from different sources, which gradually replaced the illustrated book?
Did you know that the division of the city of Cholula, Puebla , Mexico, into San Pedro and San Andrés has its origins in the pre-Hispanic era ?
Did you know that Low Isles Light , an active lighthouse established in 1878 on Low Island , a coral cay near Port Douglas , was the first lighthouse in Far North Queensland ?
Did you know that the type specimen of the extinct whip scorpion Graeophonus carbonarius was originally identified as a species of dragonfly?
Did you know that Jimmy Lile , a knife maker from Russellville, Arkansas , made the knives for the movies First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II ?
Did you know that attached to the tower of St Andrew's Church, Walpole in Norfolk is a chamber that was probably an anchorite cell?
Did you know that the Alaska-Gastineau Mine , near Juneau, Alaska , was the largest gold mine in the world for a brief period prior to World War I ?
Did you know that the endangered tree Allocasuarina portuensis is only known from suburban Nielsen Park in Sydney ?
Did you know that The Dawn , Australia's first feminist magazine , was boycotted by unions because the publisher employed women to handle the printing ?
Did you know that William F. Moran was the knife maker who revived the "lost art" of Damascus steel in 1973?
Did you know that there were attempts to ban yerba mate in early 17th-century South America?
Did you know that tiny spurs on the anthers of the aromatic perennial shrub Olga's mint act as triggers to cause the flower to release pollen when an insect arrives?
Did you know that the 1990 U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Georgia v. South Carolina decided the seaward border between Georgia and South Carolina?
Did you know that former chief music critic of The New York Times Donal Henahan was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1986?
Did you know that the knife-making style of William Scagel influenced the cutlery trade for over 100 years?
Did you know that during the 1995 filming of BBC 's Persuasion , the crew often had to compete for props and costumes with fellow BBC and Jane Austen adaptation Pride and Prejudice ?
Did you know that Kenyan athletes won every medal at the 2011 African Cross Country Championships held in Cape Town earlier this month, and then they all missed their flight back to Nairobi ?
Did you know that Mark Pittman sued the U.S. Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis for refusing to say how it distributed $ 2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) of taxpayer-funded bank bailout money?
Did you know that the British colonial authorities charged James Frederick Sangala with sedition for supporting civil rights for Nyasaland people?
Did you know that the Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations was formed after more than 800 Philadelphians were jailed in a debtors' prison over the course of one winter?
Did you know that Hockey Hall of Famer Moose Johnson was one of the first professional players to compete for the Stanley Cup in 1906, and a member of the first American team to compete for it in 1916?
Did you know that bone fragments of the Camelus moreli , an extinct species of giant camel , were found in 2005 at the archaeological site of El Kowm in Syria ?
Did you know that in the U.S., vampire facelifts are not approved by the FDA ?
Did you know that Texas oilman and former mayor of Midland Ernest Angelo is partly credited with the spring revival of Ronald Reagan 's 1976 United States presidential primary campaign?
Did you know that Rangaunu Harbour contains 15% of the mangrove habitat in New Zealand ?
Did you know that New York Rangers player Mike Allison scored on his first career NHL shot on goal in 1980?
Did you know that the first fatal accident suffered by Imperial Airways led to the first Public Inquiry into a civil aviation accident in the United Kingdom , and the expansion of Croydon Airport ?
Did you know that adults with right hemisphere brain damage may have verbose, rambling and tangential speech ?
Did you know that in the Raising Hope episode " Blue Dots ", one of the main characters is revealed to be a registered sex offender ?
Did you know that in the 1930s, the New Zealand government complied with netball in South Africa 's request to leave Māori players at home when they competed against them?
Did you know that the Frankfurt Airport shooting of 2 March 2011, in which two U.S. airmen were killed, is suspected to be the first deadly act of Islamist terrorism in Germany?
Did you know that Pandi Geço , author of the first Albanian academic textbooks of geography , was the first to regionalize Albania into four physical-geographic regions?
Did you know that Lyttelton Timeball Station , one of only five remaining time balls in working order worldwide until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake , is to be demolished?
Did you know that Sir Harold Bowden , chairman of the Raleigh Bicycle Company , was also chairman of the British Olympic Association for the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles?
Did you know that The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan , a 1954 NBC sitcom created by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine , features Mickey Rooney as a studio page trying to become a serious actor?
Did you know that Singapore 's first Chief of Defence Force , Winston Choo , is now the country's ambassador to Israel ?
Did you know that, on October 26, 2010, the judge in Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC ordered a permanent injunction shutting down LimeWire 's P2P service?
Did you know that the 1833 newspaper Vorwärts! , edited by Karl Marx , has been described as the "most radical" European newspaper of its time?
Did you know that Mary Hynes , who represents Virginia on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority , has promised to ride its Metrorail system to get to board meetings?
Did you know that a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford Animal Cemetery ?
Did you know that one of the minigames in the Wii video game Calvin Tucker's Redneck Jamboree involves exploding fish out of water ?
Did you know that four different English football clubs achieved promotion to the top division while Ray Train was playing for them?
Did you know that Emilia Carr is the first woman from Marion County , Florida to be sentenced to death since Aileen Wuornos in 1992?
Did you know that, as of 2011, Olympic athletic venues have hosted several FIFA World Cup matches, three Major League Baseball All-Star Games , two Super Bowls , and six IAAF World Championships in Athletics ?
Did you know that Swedish actor Lasse Eriksson died on stage during the show Four happy men 2 at the Regina Theatre in Uppsala ?
Did you know that former Republican California State Senator Becky Morgan served on the Board of Trustees of both her alma maters , Stanford University and Cornell University ?
Did you know that in September 2007 , Monty the meerkat made headlines in The Times , The Daily Telegraph , The Sun , and other leading newspapers for his purported ability to take pictures with a digital camera ?
Did you know that the U.S. government report Women in America says that in 2009, at all levels of education, American women earned 75 percent as much as their male counterparts?
Did you know that Willie Hume demonstrated the supremacy of John Boyd Dunlop 's pneumatic tyres by winning all of the tyre's first races at Queen's College , Belfast in 1889?
Did you know that the name of the Pensacola people means "long-haired people" in both the Pensacola language and the closely-related Choctaw language ?
Did you know that the Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales sent a delegate to the first legal meeting of the African National Congress in 1991?