kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Paddy Fox recruited so many people from County Durham to the British Army that they became known locally as "Pad's Army"?
Did you know that super weaners may be "milk thieves" or "double mother-sucklers"?
Did you know that Harriet Amelia Folsom went by her middle name, so as not to be confused with her husband Brigham Young 's other wives?
Did you know that the Romans won a series of campaigns against Germanic tribes after the disaster at Teutoburg but decided to leave Germany as the effort was out of proportion to the territory's value?
Did you know that Dianxi Xiaoge , who grew up in a remote Yunnan mountain village without running water , is an Internet celebrity with roughly 16 million subscribers on all her platforms?
Did you know that the " two boats and a helicopter " parable has been used to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy ?
Did you know that in September 2021, cricketer Andrea-Mae Zepeda became the first player to score a century for Austria in a Women's Twenty20 International match?
Did you know that part of Prise d'Orange was recently discovered in the binding of another book?
Did you know that George Asprey was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth – according to the Daily Mirror , it was a silver shovel?
Did you know that the Beach Boys played a concert in Hawaii while high on LSD ?
Did you know that with as many as a quarter of mothers in eastern Greenland experiencing domestic violence, Laura Tàunâjik proposed a women's shelter in Tasiilaq ?
Did you know that Bellman 's song " Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund! " describes "one of the wildest weddings in Swedish literature"?
Did you know that Dermot Morrah , a British journalist for The Times , wrote Princess Elizabeth 's 21st birthday speech?
Did you know that an investigation found that most Mexican nutrition science students could not interpret a nutritional front-of-package labeling system correctly?
Did you know that in 1752, Samuel Kneeland and his partner produced the first Bible in the English language ever printed in America?
Did you know that it's pronounced "gif", not "gif" ?
Did you know that when Nadjamuddin Daeng Malewa was forming a government cabinet for the State of East Indonesia , he was outside the region?
Did you know that the name of Ireland's Eye off Howth northeast of Dublin has nothing to do with the organ but can actually be translated as "Ireland's island"?
Did you know that Theodore Conrad , who evaded capture for 52 years after stealing US$215,000, remained a fugitive for so long that he was finally tracked down by the son of one of the original investigators?
Did you know that the Burmese and South Korean first ladies held their first informal conversation 44 years after the establishment of bilateral relations between the two countries ?
Did you know that children's author Kate DiCamillo received 473 rejection letters before her first novel was accepted for publication?
Did you know that the infamous Nepalese royal massacre took place in the Tribhuvan Sadan ?
Did you know that the freighter Manasoo is believed to have been sunk by cows?
Did you know that the Chile Ridge has a slab window ?
Did you know that before starring in the Pedro Almodóvar film Parallel Mothers , Milena Smit worked as a model, waitress, shop assistant, babysitter, subway information assistant, and hotel receptionist?
Did you know that a " North Dakota joke of the mornin ' " was a feature on Montana radio station KGRZ because the station's owner and morning show host hailed from that state?
Did you know that when Margaret de Longvillers married into the House of Neville , her wealth consolidated its position in English society?
Did you know that the front of the 11th-century River Laune Crozier contains a figure with oval eyes, a thin nose, spiral ears and a handlebar moustache that radiates out around him?
Did you know that an all-male boating event on Tinsley Island was called the " Bohemian Grove of yachting"?
Did you know that according to legend, Edigna fled an arranged marriage in 1074, leaving her royal life behind to live as a hermit in a hollowed-out tree in Fürstenfeldbruck ?
Did you know that the bryozoan Walkeria tuberosa is sometimes referred to as Valkeria tuberosa despite being named after the Scottish natural historian John Walker ?
Did you know that Michaela Goade received the 2021 Caldecott Medal for her watercolor illustrations for We Are Water Protectors , becoming the first Indigenous artist to win the award?
Did you know that two years after the small Corinthian navy was defeated during the Affair of Epidamnus , their navy became the third largest in all of Greece?
Did you know that the Panacea Society believed in God the Father, God the Mother, Jesus the Son, and Octavia ?
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Did you know that Desmond Young 's biography of Erwin Rommel was criticised for portraying him as a "blue-eyed god who could do no wrong"?
Did you know that the theme of the board game Parks is based on the national parks of the United States?
Did you know that Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to physically cut their banknotes in half?
Did you know that Bobby Hackett said that Jackie Gleason 's main contribution to the recording of Music for Lovers Only was that "he brought the checks"?
Did you know that critics complained about the manga Sex Ed 120% being given a "mature" rating by its English-language publisher ?
Did you know that film producer Konstantin Kalser , who won an Oscar for his 1956 short film Crashing the Water Barrier , later admitted that the film was an advertisement for an oil company?
Did you know that Styx 's name derives from its seeming to have "come from the underworld"?
Did you know that Norma Kuhling 's character in Fourteen was described by a film critic as "a Greta Gerwig spin on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl "?
Did you know that the album Hello by Korean singer Cho Yong-pil was the first time he had worked with international composers since his debut in 1968?
Did you know that in the 1820s, the British acrobat Henry Johnson performed before the Chinese Emperor ?
Did you know that Kanye West 's group the Sunday Service Choir performed " No Child Left Behind " with Justin Bieber at a Halloween 2021 concert?
Did you know that in Hokusai 's woodblock print series One Hundred Ghost Stories , there are only five prints?
Did you know that Elisabeth Geleerd became one of the most influential American psychoanalysts of her time while chronically ill and raising a family?
Did you know that an image of MacCarthy's Bar on the front cover of a book featured a staff member posing as a nun drinking a pint of Guinness and the surprise appearance of a dog?
Did you know that for more than a decade, WNJC-FM at Northwest Mississippi Junior College was the state's only public radio station?
Did you know that when David Bowie performed " Golden Years " on Soul Train in 1975, he was incoherent and visibly intoxicated?
Did you know that gameplay in the board game Oceans ends once the ocean zones are depopulated of fish?
Did you know that Awet Tesfaiesus was the first black woman ever elected to the Bundestag ?
Did you know that Eric Schmidt developed Berknet , an early wide area network system, in 1978 while he was a student at Berkeley University ?
Did you know that Zeliha Ağrıs started performing taekwondo at age ten and became a world champion when she was 19?
Did you know that OK Kosher got the OK for .kosher in January 2014?
Did you know that the California State Assembly held a moment of silence over the death of fictional character Mrs. Landingham while in the midst of an energy crisis ?
Did you know that Spotify Wrapped has been both praised and criticized for effectively providing Spotify with free advertising?
Did you know that in 1755, colonial printer Daniel Fowle was arrested for printing a seditious pamphlet entitled The Monster of Monsters , which criticized members of the general assembly?
Did you know that Guy Parmelin , now President of Switzerland , opened the study program of cyber security of the Lucerne School of Information Technology in 2018?
Did you know that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island , unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland ?
Did you know that Colonel Hugh Pettigrew observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled Waziristan on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
Did you know that on his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed , John Green reviews velociraptors , a hot dog stand in Iceland , and bubonic plague ?
Did you know that Sarkis Lole , the Armenian chief architect of Mardin who constructed much of the early modern architecture of the city, never received any formal training and designed his buildings in the sand?
Did you know that the Cort Theatre has hosted the Broadway debuts of actresses Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly ?
Did you know that Mimi Fawaz 's work includes a documentary on the life of South African president Nelson Mandela ?
Did you know that the music video to " I Bet You Think About Me " by Taylor Swift is co-written and directed by Blake Lively in her directorial debut?
Did you know that when home computers used cassette tapes for storage , the data was sometimes distributed on flexi disc records or even broadcast on radio?
Did you know that non-microscopic life forms such as plants associate with microbiomes of microscopic organisms which determine their health and productivity?
Did you know that Herbert Hoover once farmed sugar beets on the Empire Tract ?
Did you know that for round-robin sports tournaments , finding a ranking of the competitors that minimizes the number of upset games is an instance of the feedback arc set problem?
Did you know that Inger K. Frith , the first woman president of a major international sporting federation, played a key role in returning archery to the Olympics ?
Did you know that Glen Cove City School District closed the South School in 1966 to remedy alleged de facto segregation in the district?
Did you know that the novel Dreams of Trespass , which portrays the patriarchy as un- Islamic , was translated into more than 20 languages?
Did you know that in a study for UNICEF, Reginald Green found that more than two million children under the age of five had died in Angola and Mozambique due to the South African apartheid regime's economic policies?
Did you know that most places where tectonic plates ram into each other involve oblique subduction ?
Did you know that the Atlas Tract is farmland with a population of 0, but is expected to have a population of 42,000 by 2045?
Did you know that the song " Come Back Home " by Seo Taiji and Boys made teenage runaways in South Korea return home?
Did you know that Italian actress Linda Albertini used her abilities as a former circus acrobat in silent films?
Did you know that Joice Island was the location of a "web of intrigue" in 1890, a failed asparagus farm in 1905, a wildlife refuge in 1950, a hunting preserve in 1965, and a pig hunt in 2017?
Did you know that under college president Arthur Bronwell in 1959, Worcester Polytechnic Institute built one of the first nuclear research reactors at an American university?
Did you know that a YouTuber predicted the crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Rick and Morty long before it aired?
Did you know that baseball statistician Bob Ferguson claimed that he became the owner of the London Majors "by accident"?
Did you know that Zzzzzz had the busiest residential telephone number in the United States in the 1970s?
Did you know that in the board game Sagrada , players attempt to construct a stained-glass window using dice?
Did you know that economist Nisvan Erkal 's research showed that China's one-child policy created children who lacked qualities important for social and economic success?
Did you know that all stanzas of the 1963 song " Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören " (Lord, give us courage to listen), with text and tune by Kurt Rommel, begin with a prayer for courage?
Did you know that College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Charlie Green led Wittenberg to three consecutive undefeated seasons, including a national championship for the 1964 Wittenberg Tigers football team ?
Did you know that Seo Taiji and Boys 's April 11, 1992, performance of " I Know " is credited as the beginning of modern K-pop ?
Did you know that actor Jonathan Roumie , who plays the character of Jesus Christ in American television series The Chosen , is also an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the Catholic Church ?
Did you know that the Falcon Lake Incident is considered "Canada's best-documented UFO case"?
Did you know that the undefeated 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team declined a Tangerine Bowl bid because the bowl insisted that four black players—including national scoring leader Nate Clark —stay home?
Did you know that until a 1993 reform , separate gallantry medals were awarded to officers and other ranks in the British armed forces?
Did you know that Marsh Hen Mill in South Carolina grinds heirloom grains with a 1945 gristmill that was found in a barn in 2007?
Did you know that Carmaney Wong was 25 years and 9 months old when she was crowned Miss Hong Kong 2019 , making her the oldest champion in 30 years?
Did you know that a reviewer noted that the LCD of Packard Bell's first laptop suffered from "an occasional case of the shakes"?
Did you know that the sea slug Thuridilla vataae collects and stores its worn-out teeth in a sac in its mouth?
Did you know that the first exhibit of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame came from founder Michael Lipton's record collection?
Did you know that the senior Burmese princes could not attend the funeral of King Mindon since they had all been arrested?
Did you know that in 1958, New Jersey assemblyman Carmine Savino proposed cutting property taxes in half by imposing a three-percent state sales tax that would be used to cover public school costs?
Did you know that the Greenlandic novel Homo Sapienne was written in only one month?
Did you know that when the Marquis Theatre was completed, some Broadway performers boycotted it because of a controversy over the construction of the hotel above it?
Did you know that magma travelling through dykes usually solidifies before it gets to the Earth's surface?
Did you know that Jonathan Weiner explains in his book how Time, Love, [and] Memory became associated with specific fly genes?
Did you know that the economy of Sarawak is strongly dependent on natural resource exports such as timber, oil, and gas?
Did you know that not so much as a "hell" or "damn" was permitted at G. D. Sweet Famous Players ' "Sunday school" productions?
Did you know that Frontex 's role in pushbacks of migrants in Greece has led to investigations by the European Parliament, EU Ombudsman, and EU anti-fraud agency?
Did you know that the documentary Nerds 2.0.1 has been criticized for racial inequality among its 50 featured pioneers of the internet?
Did you know that the Franco-Belgian comic book Hans had its title changed in Poland due to lingering ill-feeling toward Germany?
Did you know that Galac-Tac , launched in 1982 as a play-by-mail game , is still available today for play on the web?
Did you know that The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe isn't a book that perhaps cannot be written?
Did you know that some media sources described Queen Elizabeth II 's agreement with Prince Harry and Meghan as a "hard Megxit "?
Did you know that Bill Regan hit two of his eighteen career home runs in a single inning of a Major League Baseball game on June 16, 1928?
Did you know that violent content in the video game Road Rash disqualified it from official motorcycle manufacturer endorsements, resulting in soundalike brands such as "Panda" for Honda and "Kamikaze" for Kawasaki ?
Did you know that Taiwanese politician Lai Pin-yu cosplayed as Asuka Langley Soryu during her 2020 election campaign?
Did you know that La Saline Natural Area in northeastern Alberta , Canada, features a large tufa mound?
Did you know that in the 1883 political cartoon "An appalling attempt to muzzle the watch-dog of science", Friedrich Graetz portrayed Herbert Spencer as a monumental dog?
Did you know that Fresh Off the Boat is the longest-running Asian-American family sitcom in television history?
Did you know that after a knee injury at the age of 12, ballet dancer Akane Takada waited more than a year to physically grow enough for corrective surgery?
Did you know that the Carnegie Building in Atlanta was designed by G. Lloyd Preacher , who moved his offices to the building after its completion?
Did you know that Scottish screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns , who co-wrote the Academy Award –nominated screenplay for the World War I film 1917 , once wrote a short story about killer guinea pigs ?
Did you know that the locally scarce bird's eye primrose grows at Cow Myers in North Yorkshire ?
Did you know that the bypassing of Nizar in the Fatimid caliphal succession, and his subsequent revolt and execution, led to a split in the Isma'ili branch of Shia Islam that lasts to this day?
Did you know that a 1986 contest by radio station KXUS jammed all telephone circuits in Springfield, Missouri , for an hour?
Did you know that boxer Charles Lubulwa is the youngest Ugandan ever to compete at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that the magazines Pulp and Animerica Extra have been called "instrumental in disseminating manga culture" in North America?
Did you know that three cannonballs were discovered in the roof of the Church of St Cuthbert, Bellingham , during renovation works?
Did you know that despite her membership in two of Scotland's largest land-owning families, philanthropist Lady Victoria Campbell dedicated her life to helping those who lived on the islands of Argyll ?
Did you know that the International Ice Hockey Association was established as a means of shifting the control of world hockey to Canada, "where it rightfully belonged"?
Did you know that Prince Minye Kyawhtin , who had rebelled against three Ava kings for over 32 years, was killed by his own bodyguard for sexually assaulting the guard's sister?
Did you know that the player controls a smiley face in 868-HACK ?
Did you know that martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama , after the assassination of state attorney general candidate Albert Patterson in 1954?
Did you know that despite spending 15 years in the Soviet Union's Italian embassy, diplomat Valentin Bogomazov 's only ambassadorships were to South American countries?
Did you know that the fleet of the Fatimid Caliphate went up in flames in 996, resulting in anti-Christian pogroms in Cairo ?
Did you know that Richard Rudzitis wrote poetry and articles with a pencil on rags, which he stitched into a pea coat , while in labour camps?
Did you know that an extension of New York City's Q27 bus route was discontinued because it was losing $120 a day?
Did you know that the China-exclusive Let's Hunt Monsters is the second highest-grossing augmented reality mobile game, behind Pokémon Go ?
Did you know that German spy Alphons Timmerman was captured while carrying ingredients for invisible ink ?
Did you know that the 2016 24 Hours of Daytona saw two Chevrolet Corvette C7.R cars finish within 0.034 seconds of each other in the closest class finish in the race's history?
Did you know that according to philosopher Liu Gangji , modern Chinese aesthetics have largely resulted from the propagation of German idealism ?
Did you know that the cemetery of what is now Fordham University had to be relocated in 1889 to make way for the New York Botanical Garden ?
Did you know that not only does Couma utilis have edible fruit, its latex is used as a base for chewing gum, caulking boats, and whitewashing houses?
Did you know that Uganda's delegation at the 1968 Summer Olympics included boxers Leo Rwabwogo and Eridadi Mukwanga , who won the nation's first Olympic medals at the Games?
Did you know that place cells are thought to play an important role in episodic memory ?
Did you know that Seattle councilmember Andrew J. Lewis was sworn in at a community garden atop a parking garage ?
Did you know that Odette Rousseau almost drowned after landing in a river during a 1955 world-record skydive?
Did you know that 75 business leaders, pastors, and listeners of Nevada's KRCV radio attempted to buy the station, even though it was not making money?
Did you know that between 934 and 944, Abu Abdallah al-Baridi fought against Ibn Ra'iq , Tuzun , Bajkam , the Hamdanids , the Buyids , and Oman , twice occupied Baghdad , and was named vizier four times?
Did you know that sand blown from a landslide in the Ringold Formation has created sand dunes nearby?
Did you know that one out of ten labourers in the haruwa–charuwa system is forced to work when seriously ill or injured, and may still face deduction or non-payment of wages?
Did you know that in the Apollo 11 spaceflight, Neil Armstrong brought two pieces of the Wright Flyer to the Moon in his personal preference kit ?
Did you know that English footballer Tyreece John-Jules 's uncle is Red Dwarf 's Cat ?
Did you know that the 1990 Wrestling Summit was the only time the World Wrestling Federation , New Japan Pro-Wrestling , and All Japan Pro Wrestling presented a show together?
Did you know that Svetolik Dragačevac was deported to a concentration camp after sending a threatening letter to Adolf Hitler ?
Did you know that with a stretched length of up to 20 cm (8 in), Pontobdella muricata is one of the largest marine leeches?
Did you know that Hui Kālaiʻāina collected 17,000 signatures from Hawaiians seeking to restore the monarchy?
Did you know that Skeleton Cave in Maricopa County, Arizona , gets its name from the bones of the massacre victims from the Battle of Salt River Canyon that were found inside?
Did you know that typeface designer Dick Dooijes 's first solo design was a Hebrew alphabet , which he could not read?
Did you know that students from eight school districts in the region of Wenatchee, Washington , created public artwork for Columbia Station ?
Did you know that Charlotte Spencer, Countess Spencer , formed an organisation in the East End of London in 1868 that provided "outfits for girls going into service , or families willing to emigrate "?
Did you know that photographs of the 1941 Lviv pogroms have been described by historians as "infamous", "horrific", and "almost iconic"?
Did you know that Uganda's delegation at the 1972 Summer Olympics included both the nation's oldest and youngest athletes ever to compete at an Olympic Games at the time?
Did you know that American bacteriologist Harold Conn was sometimes called "Dr. Stain"?
Did you know that the Raja Rao Award for Literature was bestowed only seven times before it was discontinued?
Did you know that the identification of the body of outlaw Joseph Henry Loveless more than 100 years after his death is the oldest successful identification by the DNA Doe Project ?
Did you know that the critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper can often be seen at Laem Phak Bia in Thailand?
Did you know that Mackay Yanagisawa was forced to re-mortgage his house three times to keep the Hula Bowl running?
Did you know that Kim A. Wagner wrote The Skull of Alum Bheg to tell the story of "thousands of Indian soldiers" who rebelled in 1857 ?
Did you know that quotations by architect Abraham H. Albertson about the Cobb Building in Seattle were immortalized 80 years later in a staircase in nearby University Street station ?
Did you know that five days after evacuating Blechhammer concentration camp in January 1945, German soldiers returned to murder prisoners who had been unable to leave?
Did you know that Hungarian veterinarian József Marek , the first to identify Marek's disease , also developed a remedy for liver fluke in cattle and a nasogastric tube for treating horse colic ?
Did you know that the song " New Body " was removed from Kanye West 's 2019 album Jesus Is King one day before its release?
Did you know that Israeli wildlife photographer Roie Galitz won first place at the Siena International Photo Awards in the "Fragile Ice" category for his picture of a sleeping polar bear?