kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the second commander of the 3rd Missouri Light Battery was elected by the men of the battery after the original commander was transferred away from the unit?
Did you know that Pakistani model Zara Abid , who made her film debut in the upcoming biopic Chaudhry , died in the crash of PIA Flight 8303 ?
Did you know that a pedestrianized block of Pine Street in Seattle was re-opened to vehicles after a citywide ballot measure?
Did you know that the Indonesia–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement was Indonesia's first bilateral free trade agreement ?
Did you know that Dawn Aponte became the highest-ranked woman in NFL football operations when she was appointed chief administrator in June 2017?
Did you know that streetcars on the Ipswich Street line ran on both Boylston Street and Boylston Street ?
Did you know that Leon Legge became a professional footballer despite suffering from epilepsy from the age of 16?
Did you know that the chase scene from the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt starts on Cesar Chavez Street (then Army Street) before continuing through San Francisco?
Did you know that Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 documentary film about 250 public school students trained by Royston Maldoom to dance Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps with the Berlin Philharmonic ?
Did you know that Laguna Pueblo educator Susie Rayos Marmon was the inspiration for a character in her grandniece Leslie Marmon Silko 's book Storyteller ?
Did you know that Kurier Litewski was the first periodical newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and retained the Lithuanian state name until 1840, despite the final partition of the Commonwealth in 1795?
Did you know that executed arsonist Margaret Clark blamed her deeds on "pride and Sabbath breaking"?
Did you know that a mysterious island appeared in France after a 2009 cyclone ?
Did you know that Otto Hahn was the sole recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , awarded for the discovery of nuclear fission ?
Did you know that during the 1972 concert Four for McGovern , Barbra Streisand pretended, as she had before in Las Vegas shows, to smoke a joint?
Did you know that Five Movements, Three Repeats features a modern dancer and three ballet dancers ?
Did you know that in 2020, Nicholas Robertson became the youngest player since 1996 to play in an NHL postseason game?
Did you know that the world premiere of the Second Violin Sonata by Paul Hindemith was performed in Frankfurt in 1920 by violinist Max Strub and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer ?
Did you know that in 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel , chess pieces can move between different versions of the board in time, hence creating " parallel timelines "?
Did you know that niacin is not only a vitamin, but also the first cholesterol-lowering drug, pre-dating statins by decades?
Did you know that 17th-century English writers Martha Moulsworth and Alice Sutcliffe are each known for a single literary work?
Did you know that the rosy spindle cowry , a species of sea snail , lives exclusively on gorgonians ?
Did you know that to guide the direction of Star Control 3 , Legend Entertainment compiled a "bible" based on the series , and consulted its original creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche ?
Did you know that the Gujarat Communist Party head Dinkar Mehta escaped from jail in 1949 and remained underground until 1951?
Did you know that a business-firm party is a political party created and run by one person to further their own interests?
Did you know that most of the windows of the Ford Foundation Building in Manhattan could not be cleaned for two years because a New York state board would not allow it?
Did you know that in 2018, Guyanese politician Charrandas Persaud voted against his own government coalition in a no-confidence motion , causing the coalition to fall by one vote?
Did you know that two Northumbrian kings, Ælla and Osberht , were killed by Vikings in 867 at the Battle of York ?
Did you know that American naturalist William Harvey Brown , who went to Africa to collect specimens, ended up fighting in two wars there?
Did you know that the lyrics of BTS 's song " DNA " compare love to a mathematical formula and divine providence?
Did you know that Chopin's mother was his first music teacher, but his musical ability surpassed hers before he was seven?
Did you know that an Iron Age bull statue known as the verraco of the bridge was thrown into the Tormes river in 1834, and stayed there for more than 30 years?
Did you know that after passing a literacy examination at the age of 96, Karthyayani Amma said: "I learned so much for no reason. The tests were way too easy for me"?
Did you know that India's first metro, the Kolkata Metro , was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?
Did you know that as a medical missionary, pediatrician Ruth Robertson Berrey helped reduce Nigeria's incidence of leprosy ?
Did you know that Henry Seamount was hydrothermally active in the last 4,000 years even though it is 126 million years old?
Did you know that the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy , which starts today, was created to allow English domestic women's cricket to be played in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic ?
Did you know that some of the men of Ruffner's Missouri Battery were executed by Union forces after being captured at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry ?
Did you know that fossils identified as Pentacentron sternhartae may actually be the fruits of another fossil species ?
Did you know that journalist Jacques Beauchamp said that he tried to build the Philadelphia Journal "on happiness, on smiles"?
Did you know that with Flight Pattern , Crystal Pite became the first woman to choreograph for the Royal Ballet 's main stage in 18 years?
Did you know that 21-year-old university student and pro-democracy activist Jordan Pang defeated an incumbent pro-Beijing politician in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections ?
Did you know that the publisher of Redshirt suggested adding a sci-fi theme when the social-media simulation game was initially pitched?
Did you know that a hostile review of Uncle Tom's Cabin likened the book to a witch from Horace's Epodes ?
Did you know that journalist Francis Rosa traveled with the Boston Bruins and "became one of the family"?
Did you know that under India's new education policy , students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?
Did you know that Cuban exile Orlando Bosch was arrested in 1964 after he was found towing a torpedo through rush-hour traffic?
Did you know that in July 2020 the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston , the People's Republic of China's first consulate in the United States, was given just 72 hours to close down?
Did you know that Soegondo Djojopoespito was banned from teaching after he joined the Indonesian Nationalist Education organization?
Did you know that Deep Purple called their new album Whoosh! because of its onomatopoeic qualities?
Did you know that Drew Perkins served as the majority leader, vice president, and president of the Wyoming Senate ?
Did you know that Farrah Fawcett 's iconic 1976 red swimsuit poster , regarded as the best-selling poster, is exhibited in the Smithsonian together with the swimsuit?
Did you know that the Washington District is entirely in Virginia ?
Did you know that Kirkandrews in Dumfries and Galloway used to host an annual fair, dedicated to St Lawrence , that a 17th-century minister complained was full of drink, debauchery, and "great lewdness"?
Did you know that the American Surety Building , built at a time when skyscrapers were generally criticized, has been called an "outstandingly fine early skyscraper"?
Did you know that Arab cryptologist Ibn 'Adlan wrote about the cryptanalysis of ciphers with no space symbol, three centuries before it was first done in the West by G. B. Porta ?
Did you know that in a 1949 war plan , the United States targeted 70 Soviet cities with 133 nuclear weapons, of which eight would be dropped on Moscow and seven on Leningrad?
Did you know that two stanzas from the hymn " O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht ", written by Johann Heermann during the Thirty Years' War , were used in Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus ?
Did you know that American historian and author Mary Henderson Eastman promoted both Native American rights and Black slavery?
Did you know that although registered nurses in Hong Kong are legally required to undergo only three years of training, bachelor's degrees in nursing are five years in length?
Did you know that Kanye West recorded part of a track from Jesus Is King as a Voice Memo on his iPhone?
Did you know that Bryan Donkin was a physician to Karl , Jenny , and Eleanor Marx ?
Did you know that the title of the romantic comedy film Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven mentions the three places that had the biggest box-office appeal in the 1940s?
Did you know that Greek-Turkish singer Eftalya Işılay earned her nickname "Efthalia the Mermaid" for singing on a rowboat in the Bosphorus during full-moon nights in summer?
Did you know that Bledsoe's Missouri Battery was the only artillery battery of the Confederate States Army present at the Battle of Raymond ?
Did you know that the web series Avrodh: The Siege Within meticulously details the planning for India's retaliatory military strike following the 2016 Uri terrorist attacks ?
Did you know that Lady Red Couture , known as "the largest live-singing drag queen", stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) in heels?
Did you know that American abolitionist Margaret Mercer freed the slaves she inherited from her father, Maryland governor John Francis Mercer , and sent six of them to Liberia?
Did you know that while in many countries the government cannot finance its deficit by creating new money, it may still borrow from the central bank , which can?
Did you know that Belva Cottier proposed and took part in the first occupation of Alcatraz in 1964 to claim the island for the Sioux ?
Did you know that the Żegota Monument in Warsaw was unveiled by Władysław Bartoszewski , the last surviving member of Żegota , an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that Julián Podoba 's research on iodine deficiency led to the introduction of iodised salt and the disappearance of cretinism in Slovakia?
Did you know that the fossil sumac Rhus boothillensis is named for a public fossil digging site in Republic, Washington ?
Did you know that Mandeep Dhillon was offered a role by Ricky Gervais after telling him that she was scared by his character ?
Did you know that Franz-Peter Weixler was arrested for sharing uncensored pictures of the Massacre of Kondomari in Crete, the originals of which were later burned in Berlin?
Did you know that Christians belonging to the Oriental Orthodox Churches pray at seven fixed prayer times ?
Did you know that in 1990, Mantu Ghosh became India's youngest national table tennis champion at age 16?
Did you know that cellist Ludwig Hoelscher , who played string quartets at home at age nine, performed world premieres of more than 50 compositions?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Min Sein was the first Burmese dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Rangoon University ?
Did you know that conte , a literary genre which includes fairy tales and philosophical stories, became merged with the short story in the 1800s?
Did you know that Led Zeppelin may have played at the Wheaton Youth Center in Maryland, but no one knows for sure?
Did you know that the Indian folktronic duo Hari & Sukhmani combine traditional Punjabi folk music and Sufi poetry with electronic music ?
Did you know that despite a law against public statues of Francisco Franco , there is one in Melilla because it depicts him before the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you know that radio station WCCT-FM was started by the hotel and business management shop of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School in Massachusetts?
Did you know that Jeanne Givens was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives ?
Did you know that Cuban historian Eusebio Leal preferred to identify himself as a " Fidelist " rather than a Marxist ?
Did you know that Symbolon , composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich , was the first piece of American orchestral music to be premiered in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that in the early 20th century near Kirkandrews in Scotland, a herd of twelve cows lived in their own palace ?
Did you know that the Cabinet of Folksongs , which contains all the Latvian folksongs collected by Krišjānis Barons , was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register ?
Did you know that the headmistress of the progressive school St Trinnean's was heartbroken by its satirical parody ?
Did you know that the Duke of Tuscany allied with Ali Janbulad , the Kurdish chief and rebel governor of Aleppo , to destroy the Ottoman Empire and establish Ali as "Prince of the Kingdom of Syria"?
Did you know that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner 's body was turned into "medicinal" grease?
Did you know that Bernard Ładysz , a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki 's music in Hamburg and in Salzburg , was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas ?
Did you know that according to the game's best player, you can make more money working at McDonald's than by winning major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments ?
Did you know that Maria Ovsiankina studied the Zeigarnik effect of how people remember unfinished tasks more than completed ones, and described the Ovsiankina effect of how likely they are to resume those tasks?
Did you know that an industry observer noted that Perkin-Elmer 's Micralign aligner "literally made the modern [integrated circuit] industry"?
Did you know that future Bolivian president Evo Morales was present at the 1988 Villa Tunari Massacre , in which nine to twelve protesting coca growers were killed?
Did you know that after Berry Boswell Brooks took his 14-year-old daughter hunting in Kenya in 1947, it was featured in Life magazine?
Did you know that a former owner of Atlanta -area radio station WIGO took its name from Isaiah 40 :31?
Did you know that, despite a history as a reserve Gaelic football goalkeeper, Paul Callaghan played in association football matches against English clubs Chelsea , Liverpool , and Manchester United ?
Did you know that a "pickle train" delivered workers to the Budlong Pickle Company in the early 20th century?
Did you know that the upcoming sixth Puerto Rican status referendum will be the first to ask a single yes-or-no question?
Did you know that publisher Ken McKenzie promised writers of The Hockey News that "they'll know you all across Canada"?
Did you know that in Billie Eilish 's song " Bitches Broken Hearts ", she pretends that she no longer needs or cares about her former lover?
Did you know that Nippon Professional Baseball 's Pacific League implemented a playoff system for three seasons that resulted in no playoff series being played?
Did you know that when built, the Broad Exchange Building was described as "a town under a single roof"?
Did you know that Ghansi created a well so that he could be remembered after his death?
Did you know that the magazine Pulp serialized the manga series Voyeur concurrently with a column by a sex worker to provide an alternate perspective on prostitution?
Did you know that the multi-talented Aonghus McAnally has been a radio producer, television presenter, guitarist, singer, Irish billiards champion, actor, stand-up comedian, and magician?
Did you know that the purchasers of West Virginia radio station WGKV were deemed by the Federal Communications Commission to be "almost wholly ignorant of the field of radio broadcasting"?
Did you know that the Eocene leaf species Tetracentron hopkinsii was not confirmed from Washington state until 2018?
Did you know that Hawona Sullivan Janzen 's Rondo Family Reunion uses lawn signs with photographs and poetry to commemorate the historically Black Rondo neighborhood torn apart by the construction of I-94 in Minnesota ?
Did you know that St. Stephanus in Bork , a Baroque church built in the 1720s, received a large former wayside cross in the 20th century?
Did you know that Byzantine general Manuel Kamytzes began a rebellion against his emperor when the latter took advantage of his capture to confiscate his fortune, imprison his family, and refuse to ransom him?
Did you know that a large Pepsi-Cola sign faces the United Nations ?
Did you know that Gunjan Saxena was the first woman Indian Air Force officer to go to war?
Did you know that Exchange Place in New York City still survives largely as it existed in 1660?
Did you know that since the German army did not accept female doctors, Käte Frankenthal served in the Austrian army during World War I, and was the only woman in her barracks?
Did you know that John Lockwood Kipling worked on the capitals and cornices of Bombay's Neo-Gothic Royal Alfred Sailors' Home, now the Maharashtra Police Headquarters ?
Did you know that despite having the widest distribution in the United States, the arid-land subterranean termite causes less structural damage than other members of its genus?
Did you know that in the 1570s in Ghent , Hendrik van den Keere pioneered a "narrow, dense and sharp" new style of typeface, later called the Dutch taste ?
Did you know that Rheinsberg , a 1912 "picture book for lovers", was promoted by author Kurt Tucholsky and illustrator Kurt Szafranski by offering a free schnaps with each purchase of a copy?
Did you know that a 1902 magazine article called Helene Odilon "currently the greatest actress in Germany"?
Did you know that in Siddhantasara , Manilal Dwivedi refutes the idea of the Genesis creation narrative as told in the Old Testament?
Did you know that a resolution proposed by Bob Dearing calling for CBS not to cancel The Mississippi was unanimously passed by the Mississippi Legislature ?
Did you know that Yin May , the first Burmese obstetrician , founded and ran the country's main maternity hospital during the Japanese occupation of Burma ?
Did you know that the royal palace complex of Moulay Ismail in Meknes was so extensive that it was nicknamed the "Moroccan Versailles "?
Did you know that linguist Esther T. Mookini translated many works of 19th-century native Hawaiians, including the 1838 Anatomia , the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language ?
Did you know that the Yeoman Warders Club might be the most exclusive pub in the world, with only 37 members?
Did you know that in 1983, Fanaura Kingstone became the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Cook Islands ?
Did you know that the Tayway 73 between Dundee and Arbroath is the only UK bus route outside London to retain conductors ?
Did you know that analytical chemist N. Howell Furman was part of a secret team of Princeton scientists – including John Archibald Wheeler – who "disappeared to Shangri-La" to work on the atomic bomb?
Did you know that the Society for the History of Technology gave Canadian historian Joy Parr a medal for lifetime achievement in technology history and awarded her book Sensing Changes the Edelstein Prize?
Did you know that Elks Lodge 878 , which boasted a peak membership of 6,600, controlled politics in the New York City borough of Queens for many years?
Did you know that Andrew Niikondo , acting vice-chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology , completed his secondary school education only at age 30?
Did you know that the all-woman announcing staff of Spokane , Washington, radio station KPEG all used the first name Peg on air?
Did you know that Saint Blaesilla has been described as the first recorded victim of anorexia nervosa ?
Did you know that scientists are studying an underwater sinkhole off the Florida coast named the Green Banana Hole ?
Did you know that Mooky Greidinger , now CEO of Cineworld , began in the cinema industry by working for his father as an usher?
Did you know that one of the survivors of the Battle of Fakhkh , Idris ibn Abdallah , went on to establish his own dynasty in Morocco?
Did you know that the title of Ava Max 's song " Sweet but Psycho " was inspired by her parents telling her "you're sweet, but you're a little psycho" when she was younger?
Did you know that scientists accidentally created a hybrid of two endangered fish species, called the sturddlefish ?
Did you know that South African refugee Jerry Masslo was granted a state funeral after his murder in Italy in 1989?
Did you know that the flag of Raleigh, North Carolina , was designed to be given to USS Raleigh , yet no records exist of the ship ever receiving it?
Did you know that Mary Clarke raised eight children and managed an estate whilst corresponding by letter with philosopher John Locke ?
Did you know that many antipsychotics are available as long-acting depot injections ?
Did you know that indie rock band Walk the Moon worked with AT&T and the Deaf Professional Arts Network to create an American Sign Language video for " Different Colors "?
Did you know that Canadian dentist Frank Sandercock founded a hockey organization for Calgary , which had no local leagues before he arrived in 1913?
Did you know that R. Luke Concanen , the first Roman Catholic bishop of New York , died before he could set foot in New York?
Did you know that the comic opera Scalia v. Ginsburg is based on the friendship of the two U.S. Supreme Court justices and their shared love of opera?
Did you know that in the 1700s, Helen Hope turned a Scottish moor into a wood and named it after her eldest son?
Did you know that Monika Rice's "What! Still Alive?!" has been described as a "disturbing narrative of violence, hostility, and indifference" towards Holocaust survivors in Poland?
Did you know that whilst making his record break of 499,135, English billiards player Tom Reece was in play for 85 hours and 49 minutes without his opponent taking a turn?
Did you know that in 2014, the government of Bangladesh removed 2,367 former communist guerrilla fighters from the official listing of freedom fighters, but this move was overruled by the High Court ?
Did you know that after throwing himself on the mercy of King Peter of Castile , Sultan Muhammad VI of Granada was killed by the Castilian king himself?
Did you know that WILS-TV in Lansing , Michigan, featured a singing weather girl and pianist dressed appropriately for the next day's forecast?
Did you know that the decision in Penn v Lord Baltimore (1750) helped end the 85 year dispute over the Pennsylvania–Maryland border?
Did you know that Italian bandit Graziano Mesina , known as the "king of kidnappers", has escaped from the authorities at least ten times?
Did you know that the antibiotic ertapenem can dramatically reduce the concentrations of an anti-seizure drug in blood plasma ?
Did you know that Colonel Jesse A. Ladd was in command at an aviation factory when it was seized by federal troops during a strike in June 1941?
Did you know that Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume is the French version of The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ?
Did you know that the American Bank Note Company Building was purchased by the Global Country of World Peace because it was one of New York City's only buildings that faced due east?
Did you know that BTS 's song " Mic Drop " was inspired by former US president Barack Obama 's mic drop at his last White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2016?
Did you know that there is a boiling lake in Morne Trois Pitons National Park ?
Did you know that U.S. federal judge Miranda Du came to the United States as a child after her family fled Vietnam ?
Did you know that because of its isolated, moorside location, Wells House , Ilkley , is the only building by Cuthbert Brodrick known to have been surrounded by a designed landscape?
Did you know that South Carolina radio station WDAB sold its former call letters to Michael Bloomberg , then named itself after an owner who had not yet bought the station?
Did you know that the English classicist Roger Mynors was discussing the death of Bede shortly before being killed in a car crash?
Did you know that South African forward Letago Madiba started playing football at the age of five in the streets of her hometown, and was the only female footballer in her school?