kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that genetic studies on Serbs show that they are closely related to the neighbouring peoples, regardless of language and religion?
Did you know that the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra , founded by Saulius Sondeckis , has been described as among "the three most masterly orchestras of the world"?
Did you know that the new Titanic Belfast visitor attraction tells the story of the ill-fated RMS Titanic through interactive videos, audio, replicas and displays?
Did you know that " Roc Me Out " was described as a combination of Rihanna 's " Umbrella " and a slowed down version of Pendulum 's " Slam "?
Did you know that 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Lebamba in southwestern Gabon are "massive underground cave networks", known as the Bongolo or Malibé Caves?
Did you know that a sample of the First Class experience aboard the RMS Titanic and Olympic can be found at the White Swan Hotel in Alnwick ?
Did you know that writers exiled from Indonesia after the 30 September Movement continued to write and publish overseas?
Did you know that 100 English foxhounds narrowly avoided being among the animals aboard the RMS Titanic during her disastrous maiden voyage ?
Did you know that Abasse Ndione 's first novel, La Vie en spirale , discusses the use and trafficking of "yamba" ( marijuana ) as a social metaphor?
Did you know that the extinct species Cornus piggae has fruits smaller than any other species in the dogwood subgenus of Cornus ?
Did you know that despite signing it in 1986, President Ronald Reagan objected to parts of the RMS Titanic Maritime Memorial Act ?
Did you know that commemorations of the RMS Titanic in popular culture have included songs, poems, plays, musicals, films, books and even black teddy bears?
Did you know that in 570 Jassem served as a seat of the Monophysite church during Ghassanid rule in Syria ?
Did you know that even though he didn't start pitching until 2007, D. J. Mitchell was the New York Yankees minor league Pitcher of the Year in 2011?
Did you know that Walter Lord 's 1955 book A Night to Remember has been described as a "defining moment" in the creation of the myth of the RMS Titanic ?
Did you know that John de Rantau co-directed a film that presents a fictionalised version of Barack Obama 's childhood years in Indonesia?
Did you know that Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia Men Sam An served as chairwoman of the Kampuchean Federation of Trade Unions ?
Did you know that the French research vessel Le Suroît was involved in the search for the wreck of the RMS Titanic but missed it by less than one kilometre?
Did you know that Peter Feldmann is the first politician of the Jewish faith to be elected mayor of Frankfurt since World War II ?
Did you know that following the 1973 Toulouse congress of PSOE a group of veteran Spanish socialists organized the "Historical" UGT , claiming to represent the original UGT trade union ?
Did you know that the first captain of Titanic was Captain Haddock ?
Did you know that over 10% of Slovenia 's population participated in each of the volunteer cleanups organized by the Ecologists Without Borders association, the Let's Clean Slovenia in One Day! in 2010 and this year's Let's Clean Slovenia 2012 ?
Did you know that the Glover Prize , though limited to depictions of Tasmania , is the richest art award for landscape painting in Australia?
Did you know that baseball outfielder Adam Eaton received USD $120,000 meant for the retired pitcher of the same name ?
Did you know that the College of Southern Nevada 's baseball team was forced to forfeit 37 games in 2006 when Craig Heyer was ruled ineligible?
Did you know that individuals who report high levels of affiliative humor are more likely to initiate friendships?
Did you know that India won only 9 medals in the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games , comparing with 76 medals in the previous edition of the Games ?
Did you know that Henry MacLauchlan recommended to the British parliament that Ordnance Survey maps should not use contour lines ?
Did you know that Bear Bryant played in the game against Tennessee with a broken leg as a member of the 1935 Alabama Crimson Tide football team ?
Did you know that Ratna Sarumpaet 's singing of the Indonesian national anthem was called "proof" of a crime?
Did you know that the animated short film Sex Life of Robots , showing sexual activity among robots, is described as " art - porn "?
Did you know that it is customary for Viktor Tsoi 's fans to leave a broken lighted cigarette in the special ash plate at the Tsoi Wall ?
Did you know that between 1800 and 1890, some 25,000 to 50,000 slaves were captured in present-day Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi and forced to work on plantations in Somalia ?
Did you know that the 1933 Alabama Crimson Tide football team won the first Southeastern Conference football championship ?
Did you know that the Latvian mathematician Emanuels Grīnbergs lost his job and his doctoral degree for serving in the German Army during World War II, but then regained both by writing a new thesis?
Did you know that when the feathers left in the Round Island Lighthouse keepers' living quarters were identified, the lighthouse cat was banished from that Scillonian island?
Did you know that the Maoist Youth Union demanded that a "Youth Charter" be included in the new Spanish constitution?
Did you know that Australian national team field hockey player Luke Doerner gave teammate Matthew Swann a yellow headband that Swann wears at every match?
Did you know that the video for Radiohead 's " Lotus Flower ", which features Thom Yorke 's "spastic" dancing, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video ?
Did you know that Lady Llangattock , the mother of Charles Rolls , commemorated the centenary of Nelson 's death at the Kymin ?
Did you know that a Punu-Lumbo mask from Gabon has been sold at Sotheby's for well over $400,000?
Did you know that Indian matchmaker website Shaadi.com created an online game called Angry Brides to raise awareness of dowry deaths in India?
Did you know that Texas' Ranch to Market Road 187 appears in the 2011 film Seven Days in Utopia as the road where actor Lucas Black wrecks his car?
Did you know that Japanese comedian Neko Hiroshi was nominated by the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia to compete for Cambodia at the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the newly elected President of Senegal Macky Sall appointed the technocrat and banker Abdoul Mbaye as prime minister ?
Did you know that baseball player Josh Edgin won the Pennsylvania state championship in wrestling , finishing fourth in the national championship?
Did you know that Deonar is one of India's oldest and largest waste dumping grounds?
Did you know that at its extreme, serfdom in Poland required a peasant to work eight days a week for his feudal lord?
Did you know that the remains of the Bogdan Saray in Istanbul lie inside a tire shop?
Did you know that the New York Giants and Cincinnati Reds raided Joe McGinnity , Joe Kelley , Cy Seymour , Dan McGann , Jack Cronin , and others from the Baltimore Orioles during the 1902 season ?
Did you know that the first modern road connecting the Adriatic and Pannonian basins, spanning the Mountainous Croatia region, was completed in 1732?
Did you know that the new Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, houses a pack of the writer's Pall Malls as well as his Purple Heart ?
Did you know that Yutyrannus huali is the largest known feathered dinosaur, the holotype measuring 9 metres (30 ft) long?
Did you know that Philander and Francis Roots founded Roots Blower Company when one of them blew off his brother's hat?
Did you know that TTAADC member Sridam Pal was one of the 13 victims killed in the 1988 Birchandramanu massacre in South Tripura ?
Did you know that last name of Peter Spani , one of the founders of the League of Lezhë in 1444, is derived from the Greek word spanos ( Greek : σπανός ) which means beardless?
Did you know that the woodland at Dizzard Point in Cornwall , which is part of the Boscastle to Widemouth SSSI , is of international importance for its lichen communities?
Did you know that the fathers of Australian national team field hockey players Jonathon Charlesworth and Brent Dancer , both coached the men's national team?
Did you know that the MV-1 is the first purpose-built taxicab to be approved for use as a New York City yellow cab since the iconic Checker Marathon ?
Did you know that eggs en cocotte are cooked by breaking eggs into ramekins and then baking them in a water bath ?
Did you know that the General Prologue of the Wycliffe Bible was not written by John Wycliffe ?
Did you know that Hero Cup was the first cricket tournament to be broadcast on satellite television in India in 1993, prior to which state terrestrial broadcaster Doordarshan had a monopoly on cricket broadcasts?
Did you know that Queensland softball catcher Kym Tollenaere narrowly missed out on the 2004 Summer Olympics and is trying to represent Australia at the 2012 World Championships ?
Did you know that the Gabonese Socialist Union , initially an opposition party founded by formerly exiled student activists, aligned itself with the then incumbent president Omar Bongo ?
Did you know that Kyeong Kang was the first South Korean to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft ?
Did you know that a large number of street food vendors in Mumbai trade illegally without mandatory permits from the local municipality by bribing officials?
Did you know that Sister Jackie Hudson served six months in prison for painting "Christ lives, Disarm" on the side of a bunker?
Did you know that the 1917–18 team was the University of Michigan's first basketball team after an eight-year hiatus and the only winless conference season in the school's history?
Did you know that the comb star ( Astropecten polyacanthus ) contains a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin ?
Did you know that the Presbyterian Church of Victoria was formed in 1859 as a union of Church of Scotland , Free Presbyterian and United Presbyterian congregations?
Did you know that with the Romanian Revolution of 1989 , Alexandru Bârlădeanu went from house arrest to Senate President within a few months?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer William M. Gallagher once commandeered a police helicopter to cover a story?
Did you know that former National Hockey League player Joel Otto credited Battle of Alberta rival Mark Messier as being the reason he made the Calgary Flames ?
Did you know that the Albanian nobility was absorbed into the Ottoman military class through the implementation of the timar system within not more than two generations?
Did you know that upon release of Rihanna 's Talk That Talk , " We All Want Love " was the album's lowest charting song on the UK Singles Chart , at number 188?
Did you know that according to some sources, bulb-bearing water-hemlock is one of the most poisonous leafy plants native to North America?
Did you know that the racehorses Pennekamp in 1995 and King of Kings in 1998 were both winners of the 2000 Guineas in May, found lame after losing the Epsom Derby in June, and then retired to stud soon after?
Did you know that former churches in Chichester , West Sussex , have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things?
Did you know that Henry Hallowell Farquhar , the leading scorer on the first Michigan Wolverines basketball team in 1909, became a professor at Harvard Business School?
Did you know that The Who 's bassist John Entwistle kept skeletons in the bedroom of his Victorian mansion Quarwood to frighten guests?
Did you know that British World War II fighter ace Noel Agazarian was rejected by Trinity College, Oxford , allegedly because its President objected to his ethnicity?
Did you know that Polish writer Łukasz Orbitowski was one of the pioneers of setting horror stories in mundane, modern Polish cities?
Did you know that the composite hull of the Beacon -class gunvessels was described by Admiral G. A. Ballard as built "along the lines of an extremely elongated packing crate"?
Did you know that Manuel Gálvez promoted Juan Manuel de Rosas as an archetype of Argentine values?
Did you know that the historiography of Juan Manuel de Rosas influenced much of the whole historiography of Argentina ?
Did you know that according to one critic, " Farewell " is a "shameless rewrite" of Adele ' s song " Someone like You "?
Did you know that naval architect William K. MacCurdy developed the Hydra-Cushion rail coupling at SRI International , significantly changing freight transportation?
Did you know that Audrey Withers , who edited the British Vogue for twenty years, lacked a personal interest in fashion and joined the London Fire Brigade ?
Did you know that over 16 million years ago, four species of parrot in the genus Nelepsittacus made their home in subtropical rainforest in what is now Otago , New Zealand?
Did you know that Chinese-Indonesian writer Mira Wong may use the pen name Mira W. to cover her ethnicity?
Did you know that the steamer R. J. Hackett is recognized as the first Lake freighter ?
Did you know that the 1834 Epsom Oaks was won by a filly named Pussy ?
Did you know that both the 1997 and 2009 versions of TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time included episodes that were only aired two months prior?
Did you know that Kieran Govers , Simon Orchard , Robert Hammond , Nathan Burgers , Matthew Butturini , Kiel Brown , Joel Carroll , Mark Knowles , Fergus Kavanagh , Glenn Turner , Jason Wilson and Russell Ford are in training with the Australian field hockey team for the 2012 Olympics ?
Did you know that at the Romanian Communist Party congress of November 1989 , Emil Bobu countered delegates' flagging enthusiasm by shouting slogans and applauding vigorously, even interrupting leader Nicolae Ceauşescu ?
Did you know that Paul Chemetov built the French embassy in New Delhi in the 1980s?
Did you know that 1907 Michigan football team gave up an average of only one point per game and shut out Vanderbilt in front of the largest crowd to see a football game south of the Mason–Dixon Line ?
Did you know that slavery in Poland existed during the Middle Ages , but eventually disappeared with the transformation of slaves into serfs ?
Did you know that Kookaburra Commonwealth gold medalist Chris Ciriello lost 18 kilograms (40 lb) because of his busy hockey schedule?
Did you know that when Abdul Alkalimat wrote Malcolm X for Beginners , he was sued by the activist's widow?
Did you know that the pandemonium in a pandemonium architecture simply represents the cumulative yelling of the "demons" within the system?
Did you know that the Bach cantata for Easter Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen, BWV 145 , was expanded after Bach's death by two leading movements, the second one composed by Telemann ?
Did you know that in 1955 Marie Aspioti returned her MBE to Queen Elizabeth II in protest against the British policies on Cyprus regarding enosis with Greece?
Did you know that infants are so motivated to engage in joint attention that they will turn away from interesting sights to do so?
Did you know that prior to taking up athletics , Olympic long-distance runner Väinö Koskela was a member of the winning team at an under-18 cross-country skiing championship?
Did you know that Matt Bomer suggested that Glee feature Gotye 's " Somebody That I Used to Know " in an episode, only to be cast a week later to sing it himself in the episode " Big Brother "?
Did you know that the first non-white player in the National Basketball Association was an Asian-American who played in 1947 ?
Did you know that Cat Creek was the site of the first commercially successful oil field in Montana , producing oil so pure it could be used in Model T cars straight from the ground?
Did you know that following the 2011 civil war in Libya , the Muslim Brotherhood founded the Justice and Development Party , which is said to be the country 's most organised political force?
Did you know that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas , a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
Did you know that King Arthur's Cave , near Ganarew , to the northeast of Monmouth , is reputedly the oldest Arthurian site?
Did you know that Hall of Fame baseball manager John McGraw signed Billy Gilbert to the Baltimore Orioles in 1902 and the New York Giants in 1903?
Did you know that Chelsea Forkin has represented Australia in the World Cup of Baseball and World Cup of Softball ?
Did you know that an 80-km-long, 6-m-high mound formed by the 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake was known as the Dam of God ?
Did you know that The Yama Yama Man may be hiding behind a chair, "ready to spring out at you unaware"?
Did you know that Martin Segon wrote a short biographical sketch on Skanderbeg at the end of the 15th century?
Did you know that the racehorse Americus , despite being called "fat as a showyard bull", still finished fourth in the 1899 Steward's Cup at Goodwood ?
Did you know that Admiral John Ferrier had friendships with Lord Exmouth and the Duke of Wellington , and served under Nelson , who called Ferrier "as steady as old Time himself"?
Did you know that Indonesian director Wim Umboh , who won nine Citra Awards , began his career in the film industry as a janitor?
Did you know that George Grey was the winner in two different electorates in both the 1875–76 and 1879 elections in New Zealand?
Did you know that an opole was an early Polish unit of administration that predated the first formal Polish state?
Did you know that debuting Major League Baseball pitcher Drew Smyly came within two outs of pitching a no-hitter in a college baseball tournament while a redshirt freshman at the University of Arkansas ?
Did you know that the Paleocene Ginkgo cranei is the first fossil Ginkgo to be described from Tertiary "seeds"?
Did you know that sixteen of Harbhajan Singh 's international cricket five-wicket hauls have come in victory for India , while five have been in defeats?
Did you know that in 1953, Beaconsfield, Tasmania , became the first town in Australia to fluoridate the water supply ?
Did you know that John Halsted kissed King George IV 's hand twice, once when George was Prince Regent , and once as a monarch ?
Did you know that the oldest volume in the Hereford Cathedral Library is the Hereford Gospels , dated to around the year 780?
Did you know that Australian softball player Jade Wall started playing softball when she was nine years old and surfs as a hobby?
Did you know that although George Harrison 's 1973 song " Sue Me, Sue You Blues " was inspired by his own legal issues with his fellow ex- Beatles , he let Jesse Ed Davis record it first?
Did you know that the 1999 documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed , in which men were interviewed about their penises, was described by Ken Tucker as "quite literally touching"?
Did you know that the development of basketball as "almost a major sport" led the University of Michigan to form its first basketball team in 1909?
Did you know that Seaman Frank vowed "Do you think I'm going to let them get away with that? Not pygmalion likely!" after he lost his foot to a German raider?
Did you know that John Garrels of the 1906 Michigan football team threw the school's first legal forward pass , won Olympic medals in the hurdles and shot put , and set a world record in the discus throw ?
Did you know that the 2002 funeral of John Entwistle , bassist for rock band The Who , was held at St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold ?
Did you know that Danville, Kentucky 's Constitution Square State Historic Site features a replica of the first Presbyterian meetinghouse in the state?
Did you know that in the 2011–12 Logan Cup , the Matabeleland Tuskers cricket team became the first to win consecutive titles during the franchise era of the competition ?
Did you know that Jamila and the President , submitted to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film , was initially written after the director received a UNICEF grant?
Did you know that celebrity chef and baker Paul Hollywood created what is thought to be the most expensive loaf of bread in Britain?
Did you know that Keith Meinhold , who came out publicly in 1992, was allowed to stay in the US Navy after a 1994 court decision as long as he did not say he was gay again?
Did you know that the Alfaguara project has photographed and identified over 350 individual blue whales ?
Did you know that in 1821–22 Aaron Manby built the world's first seagoing iron-hulled steamship, named after him , and patented the design of its oscillating engine ?
Did you know that Estonia's first major industrial strike occurred in 1872 at the Krenholm Manufacturing Company ?
Did you know that the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of NASCAR driver Mikey Kile were all racing drivers as well?
Did you know that the Indonesian internet community Fiksimini writes complete works of fiction in under 140 characters?
Did you know that Edward Espe Brown , author of The Tassajara Bread Book , was inspired as a child by his aunt 's baking of homemade bread?
Did you know that before its restoration the Kasim Ağa Mosque in Istanbul was used as a shanty ?
Did you know that in his 1936 German melodrama, Schlußakkord , Douglas Sirk characterised and contrasted a Weimar new woman and a German expatriate mother through their reactions to Beethoven's 9th Symphony ?
Did you know that Stacey McManus represents Australia in softball , while her sister Brook plays softball for New Zealand's national team?
Did you know that Christian rock band Casting Crowns ' fourth studio album, Until the Whole World Hears , sold 167,000 copies in its first week?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Slamet Rijadi took the name Rijadi after there were too many students called Slamet at his school?
Did you know that artist Sydney John Bunney created over 500 works depicting the city of Coventry ?
Did you know that Kookaburra gold medalist Jamie Dwyer met his girlfriend while playing professional field hockey in the Netherlands?
Did you know that " Do Ya Thang " was described as a return to Rihanna 's roots, which were notably present in the songs from her first studio album Music of the Sun ?
Did you know that with the help of the IDRF , Narayanan Komerath , a professor of aerospace engineering , launched a fund to aid families of people hurt in the war against terrorism?
Did you know that Robert Hiester Montgomery , one of the founders of the world's largest accounting firm, never graduated from high school?
Did you know that King Gong and then King Kang ruled the Chu kingdom in the 6th century BC?
Did you know that the 1932 Alabama Crimson Tide football team 's contest against Georgia Tech was the first Alabama football game that was broadcast live?
Did you know that Milko Bambič had to escape from Trieste to Yugoslavia to avoid arrest after he had published the first Slovene comic strip , a parody on Benito Mussolini ?
Did you know that Ghost Story , a 1972–73 television anthology series , was renamed Circle of Fear after 13 episodes?
Did you know that Giring Ganesha , the lead singer of Nidji , lost 11 kilograms (24 lb) for his role in The Enlightener ?
Did you know that until Judge Sonia Sotomayor ordered the creation of Krimstock hearings , there was often no way for thousands of owners to promptly recover their seized vehicles from the NYPD ?
Did you know that the Portage Glacier Highway is made up of a series of eight roads, bridges, and tunnels?
Did you know that Romanian politician Oana Niculescu-Mizil once wore a genuine prison uniform to the floor of the Chamber of Deputies as a sign of protest?
Did you know that Margaret Wenzell ' s only home run in her professional baseball career was a game-winning inside-the-park home run , hit with her parents in attendance?
Did you know that Samuel Barber derived his choral composition Agnus Dei ( Lamb of God ) from his successful Adagio for Strings , showing "the work's sense of spirituality"?
Did you know that journalist Ding Yu interviewed 226 death row prisoners for a popular television programme in China's Henan Province ?