kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the main cast and supporting actors of the film Chotoder Chobi were previously non-actors?
Did you know that the future Béla III of Hungary was for a time the chosen successor of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos , who created the title despotes for him?
Did you know that four months after Major General Stephen Twitty enacted measures to correct inadequate security at Fort Bliss , the response to the 2015 Fort Bliss shooting was described as "a model of how to respond"?
Did you know that the hairstyle, sideburns, life and death of Austrian poacher Pius Walder inspired the Tatort police procedural film Elvis lebt! (Elvis lives!) ?
Did you know that Newton Aduaka was the first independent black filmmaker to get a national release in the UK, for Rage in 1999?
Did you know that during the Korean War , No. 30 Communications Unit RAAF undertook "Operation Haggis", the delivery of 180 lb (82 kg) of haggis to the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ?
Did you know that R. Fraser Armstrong‎ became superintendent of Kingston General Hospital despite having no medical training?
Did you know that when the solitary octocoral Taiaroa tauhou was discovered in 1973, it was at first thought to be a sea anemone ?
Did you know that Ian Bell has scored 21 centuries in Test cricket for England ?
Did you know that Pikes Creek and Harveys Creek together supply water to more than 60,000 people in 15 communities?
Did you know that St. Vincent 's single " Digital Witness " was released on a limited-edition gold die-cut vinyl triangle?
Did you know that artefacts from Glastonbury Lake Village are on display at The Tribunal ?
Did you know that after announcing his retirement, Australian MP Clive Shields publicly attacked his own constituents, saying he was "fed up with oiling the parish pump"?
Did you know that Olympic bronze medalist Richard W. Mayo was a brigadier general in the Korean War ?
Did you know that North Nicosia , the capital of Northern Cyprus , has a population of around 61,000 and hosts over 34,000 university students?
Did you know that Amlaíb Conung was the first King of Dublin ?
Did you know that Operation Off Balance was staged in only three days in hopes of catching the enemy off balance?
Did you know that Romanian writer Ion Agârbiceanu was influenced in his work by the four years he spent as a parish priest in the Apuseni Mountains ?
Did you know that Lemmings is regarded as one of the most widely ported video games?
Did you know that poet Lu Zhaolin drowned himself after suffering from a debilitating disease for years?
Did you know that images of Nandanar , Vayilar , Sakkiya , Idangazhi , Anaya , Kalikamba , Kaliya , Satti , Pusalar , Kungiliya Kalaya , Sadaiya , Murthi , Murkha , Nami Nandi Adigal , Somasi Mara , Isaignaniyar , Viralminda , Eyarkon Kalikkama , Pugal Chola , Eripatha , Manakanchara , Kotpuli , Enathinathar , Sirappuli , Seruthunai , Amaraneedi , Nesa , Pugazh Thunai , Kutruva , Kalarsinga , Munaiyaduvar , Ilayankudi Maranar , Meiporul , Iyarpagai , Tiru Nilakanta Yazhpanar , Tirunilakanta , Tiruneelanakka , and Apputhi Adigal are among the 63 Nayanar saints paraded during processions at temple festivals in Tamil Nadu ?
Did you know that disappointment led to the creation of Retox ?
Did you know that Phisit Intharathat was saved in the only successful rescue of POWs during the Second Indochina War ?
Did you know that the Bolokhoveni were forced to supply the Mongol army with crops after the Mongols destroyed Kiev in 1240?
Did you know that during a lull in fighting in the Lebanese Civil War , some 100,000 people gathered in Beirut to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that a Christian education program at the Tarrant County Corrections Center was shut down as unconstitutional?
Did you know that in 1693 Julije Balović wrote a multilingual dictionary on five languages, including Albanian ?
Did you know that in retaliation for trains' killing of their cattle, farmers would spread lard on the tracks of the Lake Simcoe Junction Railway ?
Did you know that the Anglo-Norman baron William Pantulf cleared himself from suspicion of murdering his lord's wife by undergoing a trial by ordeal ?
Did you know that with a 20-million-year fossil record, Acer chaneyi has the longest fossil record of the Western North American maples?
Did you know that Christian Socialism in Utah prompted a debate on whether "socialism or individualism was taught by the New Testament as a basis for Christian government"?
Did you know that Mouna Ragam was the first Mani Ratnam film to use staccato dialogue?
Did you know that Graeme Swann 's 18 five-wicket hauls in international cricket ties him with James Anderson for third-highest for England ?
Did you know that a fire lookout station has been located on Hager Mountain since 1915?
Did you know that over $20,000 was spent trademarking the name Max Heat before the character was renamed Max Payne ?
Did you know that the cemetery of Capon Chapel is the burial place of free and enslaved African Americans , Union and Confederate American Civil War veterans, and two state legislators?
Did you know that in 2007 Richard Malka successfully defended the editor of Charlie Hebdo against charges of inciting racism?
Did you know that Wilhelm von Humboldt created a revolutionary model of higher education at the University of Berlin ?
Did you know that Alan Resnick 's house was transformed into the set of the television special he hosts ?
Did you know that Pedro Rivera , Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf 's nominee to become education secretary , was honored by the White House as a "champion of change"?
Did you know that the kola nut is used in the manufacture of both cola drinks and chocolate that has a high melting point?
Did you know that Conxita Julià is best known for a handkerchief she owned?
Did you know that Shanghai 's Ohel Rachel Synagogue , described as "second to none in the East", was on the World Monuments Watch 's list of most endangered sites?
Did you know that Bhakti Sharma is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters?
Did you know that after hackers stole confidential information from Sony Pictures Entertainment , former employees sued the company for failing to protect their data?
Did you know that Ralph Benatzky wrote both libretto and music of the musical comedy Bezauberndes Fräulein , inspired by the French farce La petite chocolatière ?
Did you know that, until his death, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman had been working on the case of the AMIA bombing , the 1994 terrorist attack against Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA)?
Did you know that the first four specimens of the fossil earwig Zigrasolabis are all preserved in the same piece of amber?
Did you know that although not his final release, Padayappa (1999) was the last film that Sivaji Ganesan worked?
Did you know that the position of Thomaskantor in Bach 's time has been described as "one of the most respected and influential musical offices of Protestant Germany"?
Did you know that Kajol became first woman to win the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role for her performance in Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997)?
Did you know that the 5300-tonne (12 million lb) Brooke Street Pier is Australia 's largest floating building ?
Did you know that over 100 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in France since 1961?
Did you know that self-taught botanist Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf is the namesake of the type species Suksdorfia violacea ?
Did you know that when first proposed in 2013, the Canada Job Grant was described as "economic sabotage" by Quebec's finance minister Nicolas Marceau ?
Did you know that because he is 4 ft 4 in (1.32 m) tall, Rico Abreu uses foot blocks to operate his race car's throttle?
Did you know that Edmond Debeaumarché (1906–1959) was a French postal worker who was honored with a stamp for his service with the French Resistance ?
Did you know that the Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo eight-engine, nine-wing flying boat prototype was intended to become a 100-passenger transatlantic airliner , but crashed on its second flight?
Did you know that Maitland Volcano in northern British Columbia is a prehistoric shield volcano of the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province ?
Did you know that Minnie Evans , chair of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation , prevented termination of her tribe and won reparations for her people from the Indian Claims Commission ?
Did you know that General Francesco Ferruccio compared the ranks of 16th-century Corsican condottiero Pasquino Corso to tabby cats , beautiful but unable to catch mice?
Did you know that according to the book Ozu's Anti-Cinema , Japanese film director Yasujirō Ozu "did not trust actors' performances"?
Did you know that Musa McKim painted a mural in a U.S. Forest Service building along with her husband, abstract artist Philip Guston ?
Did you know that the upcoming Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar! , set in the 1950s Hollywood film industry , was originally planned to have a 1920s setting?
Did you know that Canadian children's author Sheree Fitch was the poet laureate of a golf tournament in the Arctic ?
Did you know that as rocks are compressed , sinking down into an oceanic trench, they release water that causes volcanoes to form above?
Did you know that by the time he turned 27, Trevor Kincaid had discovered more than 240 new insect species?
Did you know that several major skating events, including the 2010–11 Speed Skating World Cup , have been held at the ice rink in the small Bavarian town of Inzell ?
Did you know that Australia defeated West Indies in the final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy by eight wickets , winning the title for the first time?
Did you know that during his recent visit to the Philippines , Pope Francis said mass before a record gathering of six million people?
Did you know that in 1912 Michael Winter intruded into the White House twice in one day?
Did you know that No. 300 Group of the British Royal Air Force was formed in Australia in 1944, and many of the personnel in one of its squadrons were Australian?
Did you know that the larvae of the harlequin fly are blood red due to haemoglobin ?
Did you know that particle physicist and Columbia professor Michael Tuts is often mistaken for horror author Stephen King ?
Did you know that sculptor Jim Dolan portrayed Albert Einstein throwing a Frisbee ?
Did you know that two troops of dragoons were sent to Taunton after the result of the 1754 by-election prompted rioting?
Did you know that most of Fox Film 's silents were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire ?
Did you know that during the apartheid era, South Africa's National Party won a by-election in Oudtshoorn after waging a " Boerehaat campaign"?
Did you know that despite breaking a collarbone after only ten minutes, Lieut. Edmund Creswell played the whole of the first FA Cup Final ?
Did you know that the New Synagogue , which once served the Russian Jews in Shanghai , has been demolished?
Did you know that the Hôtel d'Alluye hosted Scarface 's brother in 1588?
Did you know that Barbadian singer Rihanna accumulated 20 number one songs on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Songs chart in less than eight years?
Did you know that Till Nowak ' s German mockumentary short film The Centrifuge Brain Project incorporates computer-generated imagery to create seven realistic fictional amusement park rides ?
Did you know that " Won't Get Fooled Again " was the last song Keith Moon ever played live with The Who ?
Did you know that schools of Ammodytes americanus bury themselves in sand each night to avoid predators ?
Did you know that Gloucester, Massachusetts , mayor David I. Robinson chose to resign rather than sign a liquor license?
Did you know that the Garuda Upanishad , dedicated to the "Lord of birds", includes spells claimed to cure wounds inflicted by poisonous snakes, ghosts, and demons?
Did you know that Hurricane Fay caused about 3.8 million USD in damage in 2014?
Did you know that a popular form of entertainment at jilt shops was rat-baiting ?
Did you know that there is an ongoing proposal within the UK to restrict encryption ?
Did you know that as head of the rabbinical court in Tripoli , Libya, Abraham Hayyim Adadi levied a 5 percent tax on local merchants to pay for teachers for poor children?
Did you know that football player Brad Craddock of the Maryland Terrapins was tutored by NFL Pro Bowler Matt Stover ?
Did you know that The Legend of Lucky Pie was called the Chinese "knock-off" of Adventure Time ?
Did you know that James C. Marshall was the first Chief Engineer of the Manhattan District ?
Did you know that in Roger Scruton 's musical vision of the eccentric love-life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse , a leading lady is sung by a baritone ?
Did you know that Alexandra Aitken , daughter of former British politician Jonathan Aitken , converted to Sikhism and changed her name to Uttrang Kaur Khalsa?
Did you know that a 2013 study by American neuroscientist Tor Wager found that it is possible to detect physical pain in humans using an fMRI scan?
Did you know that the United States accounts for 37% of all global military spending ?
Did you know that Thomas Reardon was for a time Microsoft 's entire Internet Explorer development team?
Did you know that in 1629 a Virginia court sentenced Thomasine Hall to wear items of both male and female clothing simultaneously?
Did you know that the only source on the life of Gelou , the Vlach ruler of Transylvania , is the chronicle Gesta Hungarorum ?
Did you know that the rare clouds that shower in the desert are called " Uttanka's clouds "?
Did you know that Tomislav Smoljanović 's "guerrilla science approach" uncovered financial ties between medical researchers and an American pharmaceutical company?
Did you know that The Guardian 's iOS game of 2014, Vainglory , was chosen to demonstrate the iPhone 6 's graphics capabilities at the phone's launch event?
Did you know that portraying the role of lesbian headmistress Caroline Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax earned actress Sarah Lancashire the most fan mail of her career?
Did you know that the migrating island of Hengsha was finally stopped by Shanghai 's " educated youth " and other workers during the 1960s?
Did you know that medical missionary Victor Clough Rambo removed nineteen cataracts in one day, using a desk as an operating table?
Did you know that SpotHero is a mobile app that allows motorists to reserve parking spaces at a discount?
Did you know that Arshad Warsi won the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role for Lage Raho Munna Bhai ?
Did you know that the Lisburn Distillery Predators were the first Northern Irish team to play in the UEFA Women's Cup ?
Did you know that the Beda people are the smallest officially recognised tribe in Jammu and Kashmir ?
Did you know that the New South Wales Bail Act includes an "unacceptable risk" test?
Did you know that in the Church of St John the Divine, Holme Chapel , is a misericord depicting a mermaid with a mirror?
Did you know that Ernest Cashel , who once escaped from a moving train by jumping out the bathroom window, was hanged on this day in 1904?
Did you know that with two 1,600-gallon (6,056-liter) cisterns and a filtering system, Brock Environmental Center is the first project in the US to receive a commercial permit to use rainwater as drinking water?
Did you know that Empire marks the television directorial debut for Academy Award–nominated director Lee Daniels ?
Did you know that despite a "perfect" performance in goal, William Merriman was on the losing side in the first FA Cup Final ?
Did you know that Web of the Romulans was the first original Star Trek novel to reach the US bestseller lists?
Did you know that David Ogilvy 's quotation " The customer is not a moron " has been reused by the BBC and the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi ?
Did you know that the Delta Psi fraternity at the University of Vermont was famous for its 100-keg Oktoberfest parties?
Did you know that the 2003 Food City 500 was the 2,000th NASCAR Winston Cup Series race?
Did you know that Last Tango in Halifax actor Louis Greatorex almost missed his audition for the series due to a bout of flu?
Did you know that in the early 1970s, Bow Creek was nearly devoid of aquatic life, but within five years had substantial fish populations and is now Class A Wild Trout Waters?
Did you know that Macedonian journalist Tomislav Kezarovski was sentenced to 4½ years for allegedly revealing the identity of a protected witness?
Did you know that John Venn said of James Halman 's time as Master of Caius College that "his brief career in that capacity has left no perceptible impression behind"?
Did you know that the god Vishnu 's mace represents his wife?
Did you know that Grabaciones Accidentales , established in 1981, was one of Spain 's first independent record labels ?
Did you know that William Egon of Fürstenberg was a Prince in the Holy Roman Empire, and making 90,000 livres a year as a French agent, when he was arrested for treason?
Did you know that a man shot two New York City police officers to death , ostensibly in revenge for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown , and then committed suicide?
Did you know that in Somerset's 1882 cricket match against Lancashire, the stumps had to be moved, because the pitch was "a puddle"?
Did you know that the Belleville and North Hastings Railway didn't reach either Belleville or North Hastings ?
Did you know that the Pennsylvania Game Commission maintains riprap on Hemlock Run ?
Did you know that " Trouble " was the promotional single for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie , and was described by Billboard as being as goofy as the film?
Did you know that Seattle Sounders FC 's trip to the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was their fifth in six years?
Did you know that Gloucester, Massachusetts Mayor John S. Parsons led raids on the city's brothels while the City Marshal was otherwise engaged?
Did you know that Mas'ud Hai Rakah traveled to Libya to collect funds for the Jews of Jerusalem, and ended up serving as Chief Rabbi of Tripoli for 20 years?
Did you know that Fuck It, We'll Do It Live contains no overdubs and has several wrong notes?
Did you know that Louise Lincoln Kerr , a member of the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame , co-founded the National Society of Arts and Letters and Phoenix Symphony ?
Did you know that Australia will participate in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest , in honor of the competition's 60th edition?
Did you know that Minister-General Ananda Pyissi and his Royal Burmese Army twice failed to stop the first two Mongol invasions of Burma ?
Did you know that the cover artwork for Glenn Branca 's 1981 album The Ascension is by painter Robert Longo ?
Did you know that Charles Zukowski received the Presidential Young Investigator Award for his work in VLSI circuit simulation?
Did you know that in Tangled , the Walt Disney adaptation of the fairy tale " Rapunzel ", the princess is not rescued by a prince, but by a thief ?
Did you know that Premier Zhou Enlai called Qin Yi the most beautiful woman in China?
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Did you know that a quaranjavirus that can infect humans was discovered in 1953, but it took 60 years to classify it?
Did you know that Jack Zink was a mechanical engineer who received 35 patents for combustion equipment inventions, and was noted for his achievements in business, car racing, and philanthropy?
Did you know that the upcoming film Love and Friendship is based on Jane Austen 's epistolary novel, Lady Susan ?
Did you know that Patrick Fairweather was the first director of the Butrint Foundation , which aims to preserve and conserve Albania's Butrint archaeological site?
Did you know that the Kaushitaki Upanishad teaches that knowledge should be one's pursuit, not religious rituals?
Did you know that Alice H. Lichtenstein is the lead author of the American Heart Association 's Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations?
Did you know that on March 30, 1965, following the March 23 uprising , King Hassan II categorically wished illiteracy upon Moroccan intellectuals?
Did you know that "Smoke From Your Cigarette" by Lillian Leach and the Mellows was Lou Reed 's favorite song?
Did you know that in the Sanskrit epic poem Ramayana , Krodhavasa , wife of Kashyapa , was short-tempered, and the children born to her were ferocious animals, birds, and fish, all monsters with sharp teeth?
Did you know that Taruk , the present-day Burmese term for the Han Chinese , originally referred to the Turkic troops of the Mongol armies that invaded Burma between 1277 and 1287?
Did you know that rapper Rome Fortune 's Beautiful Pimp II EP features his grandfather on the vibraphone ?
Did you know that 280 people were injured, 30 cars were set on fire, and 8 bus stops were destroyed during a protest by the Blockupy movement ?
Did you know that Richard Wagner considered his future biographer to be "a bit over-excited for the level of his education"?
Did you know that Jeannette Corbiere Lavell served as president of the Native Women's Association of Canada ?
Did you know that Beyoncé and Jay-Z 's On the Run Tour was promoted by a faux movie trailer featuring eight celebrity cameos ?
Did you know that communist leader José Manuel Fortuny was a friend and adviser to Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz ?
Did you know that Bach used music of thanks from his cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir , BWV 29 , for his final Dona nobis pacem (Grant us peace)?
Did you know that until 2008 there was no men's football officially played on Sundays in Northern Ireland ?
Did you know that Monique Watteau wrote feminist fantasy novels , raised monkeys, and drew a yeti for Hergé ?
Did you know that Farkhunda, an Afghan woman, was killed in Kabul by a mob for an incident of Quran -burning that she may or may not have committed?
Did you know that Nanticoke Creek has been erroneously referred to as Lee's Creek, Miller's Creek, Robbins Creek, Bobbs Creek, Rummage Creek, and Warrior Run Creek?
Did you know that American physician Cora Smith Eaton was the first woman to summit the East Peak of Mount Olympus , and eventually climbed all six of Washington 's major mountains?
Did you know that Snowden , the film about whistleblower Edward Snowden , currently in production, is based on The Snowden Files and Time of the Octopus ?
Did you know that naval officer and meteorologist Lawrence Hogben participated in the hunt for the battleship Bismarck , and later helped plan the Normandy landings ?
Did you know that the 12th-century theologian Clement of Llanthony not only wrote a gospel harmony , but also a long commentary on the harmony?
Did you know that Jack Whitehall ran off the set during the filming of " La Couchette ", an episode of anthology series Inside No. 9 , to vomit?
Did you know that Cläre Jung has been called "the soul and muse" of a circle of Berlin-based expressionist poets that includes Else Lasker-Schüler ?
Did you know that the 2015 commission on police reform in the United States controversially recommended that independent prosecutors investigate when an officer kills a civilian while on duty?
Did you know that Brazilian footballer Caio Rangel signed for Italian club Cagliari in 2014?
Did you know that a train derailment in March 2015 killed fifty-eight people and injured more than 150 in Uttar Pradesh , India?
Did you know that the Mexican revolutionary Julia Nava de Ruisánchez created the country's first training institution for social workers?
Did you know that Figaro's divorce will take place in Cardiff more than two centuries after his marriage?
Did you know that as a nurse in rural Saskatchewan , Jean Cuthand Goodwill often reached emergency patients via bush plane or dog team ?
Did you know that the statue of Robert Peel was the final work by Matthew Noble to be completed?
Did you know that ISIL hostage Kayla Mueller once participated in the International Solidarity Movement in defending the homes of Palestinians ?
Did you know that Roy English, who lends his vocals to Alesso 's " Cool ", was originally a member of Eye Alaska ?
Did you know that a critic said that the heroine of Doris Lessing 's novel The Good Terrorist is neither a good person nor a good revolutionary?