kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Brewer , the fictional Pennsylvania city in John Updike 's Rabbit novels, reflects change in American society throughout the second half of the 20th century?
Did you know that musicologist Ulrich Konrad studied sketches that Wolfgang Amadé Mozart made for composition, and concluded that the composer planned his works more thoroughly than previously assumed?
Did you know that Brenda Nelson, host of the Talk of the Town interview program on KTLO-FM in Mountain Home, Arkansas , retired after doing more than 8,000 interviews over 34 years?
Did you know that after examining serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga 's mobile phone, police discovered more than three terabytes of digital video evidence of his assaults?
Did you know that Dutch forces surrendered to Japanese invaders after their defeat in the Battle of Tjiater Pass because they did not want to fight in Bandung ?
Did you know that in an Alden Rowing boat, you can expect your seat to slide out from under you?
Did you know that a pair of brothers – future meteorologist Tom Skilling and future Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling – worked at WLXT-TV in Aurora, Illinois , while in high school?
Did you know that The Duke's Diwan was built in 1924 as the first post office in Amman , Jordan?
Did you know that painter Fang Zengxian served as president of the Shanghai Art Museum , and founded the Shanghai Biennale ?
Did you know that one of the three gunmen involved in the 1991 Boston Chinatown massacre has not yet been found despite a "worldwide hunt"?
Did you know that a live-action video adapting scenes from the manga The Way of the Househusband was produced to commemorate the series reaching 1.2 million copies in print?
Did you know that a stanza from " Nun liebe Seel, nun ist es Zeit ", a German Lutheran hymn , was used in Part V of Bach's Christmas Oratorio ?
Did you know that Elin C. Danien , an expert on ancient Maya ceramics, claimed that "archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on"?
Did you know that Dagmar Schmidt , elected to the Bundestag shortly after giving birth to a son with Down syndrome , stated in a debate about prenatal testing that there should be a "right not to know"?
Did you know that Fry 's vegan meat was created by a former livestock trader?
Did you know that the child queen Margaret, Maid of Norway , died before reaching Scotland, so her place in the list of Scottish monarchs is in dispute?
Did you know that the 2002 World Matchplay saw the first nine-dart finish to be broadcast live in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Hong Kong government withdrew their decision to use Fai Ming Estate as a quarantine facility following protests from nearby residents?
Did you know that since its completion in 2015, Liberty Plaza in Atlanta has hosted demonstrations for both March for Our Lives and the September 2019 climate strikes ?
Did you know that Brian Lohse was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2018, six years after he and his wife won US$202 million in the state's Powerball lottery jackpot?
Did you know that Ma Guoqiang , the top government official in Wuhan , served as chairman of China's largest steelmaker until less than two years ago?
Did you know that Neil Robertson won the 2020 European Masters snooker tournament in a 9–0 whitewash , the first time since 1989 that a two- session finalist did not win a frame ?
Did you know that radio station KROF derived its call sign from the three major products of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana – rice, oil, and furs?
Did you know that Le Than Bwa , a 15th-century commander-in-chief of Ava forces , left the battle scene after receiving a large bribe from the enemy , forcing King Nyo to flee Ava shortly afterwards?
Did you know that the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2 was nominated for fifteen Golden Trailer Awards ?
Did you know that prior to becoming president of Loyola College in Maryland , Joseph A. Canning spent eight years as a missionary in Jamaica?
Did you know that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars , France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall ?
Did you know that gerontologist Elaine Brody used the term "women in the middle" to refer to women who care for their elderly parents while raising their children?
Did you know that the Australian national cricket team's 1999 tour of the West Indies was the first four-match series in the history of Test cricket to finish 2–2 ?
Did you know that award-winning typeface designer Colin Brignall had no formal training in typography ?
Did you know that the 1939 defeat of Republican Spain in the Spanish Civil War marked the end of the "classical era" of the history of anarchism ?
Did you know that the 67-story Queens Plaza Park in Queens will incorporate the borough's first skyscraper, a 14-story clock tower?
Did you know that Osbern fitzRichard is considered an English feudal baron because he held Richard's Castle as tenant-in-chief in 1086?
Did you know that Marisol loves Julio , but not enough to die for him?
Did you know that debate over the Cranfield experiments in information retrieval went "well beyond the boundaries of civility"?
Did you know that French historian Jean Delumeau was a prominent figure in the history of mentalities ?
Did you know that WCAE , the first educational television station in Indiana , received more support from viewers in Illinois than in its own state?
Did you know that Swedish pianist Putte Nelsson has backed up Ricky Martin , Mariah Carey , and Mary J. Blige ?
Did you know that Jen Wang wrote The Prince and the Dressmaker in part because she wanted to tell the story of a superhero who could create clothes that transformed those who wore them?
Did you know that although the bird of paradise fly was first described from an Angophora tree, it is quite likely that this is not the insect's host plant?
Did you know that after her speech on the subject of marriage to the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales in 1891, Eliza Ashton was accused of promoting "free love" and prostitution?
Did you know that Gai Mizuki and Takeshi Matsu are among the artists featured in Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It , the first English-language anthology of gay manga ?
Did you know that the American Express Building in Manhattan replaced a pair of brownstone structures that were described as being "among the ancient landmarks" on Broadway ?
Did you know that Egon Hartmann won a competition to design Stalinallee in East Berlin?
Did you know that equipment from defunct television station WTVI in Fort Pierce, Florida , was sold to start an unrelated WTVI in Charlotte, North Carolina ?
Did you know that the Tedder certificate was awarded by the British government to foreign citizens who assisted Allied prisoners of war to escape German captivity during the Second World War?
Did you know that after the devastating 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes , the New Zealand government " red-zoned ", purchased, and demolished 8,000 houses?
Did you know that the idea for the Twilight novel series came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream?
Did you know that participants in one of Dirshu 's intensive study programs are tested on their knowledge of all 2,711 pages of the Talmud at the end of the seven-and-a-half-year Daf Yomi cycle?
Did you know that epidemiologist Li Lanjuan was the first to propose a lockdown of Wuhan during the present coronavirus outbreak ?
Did you know that Sitka Sedge State Natural Area , a pristine estuary in Oregon, almost became a golf course?
Did you know that different versions of the song " Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure " by Mayumi Gojo were used in the first two seasons and the 25th movie of the Pretty Cure anime franchise?
Did you know that Ivan Ustinov , a Soviet officer of the NKVD and SMERSH during the Second World War, threatened to shoot any soldier who wanted to surrender?
Did you know that Nick Nolte , who voices Kuiil in the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian , was seriously considered for the role of Han Solo over 40 years earlier?
Did you know that before the release of The Baseball Encyclopedia , a Major League Baseball committee passed a rules interpretation that would have altered Babe Ruth 's home run total, before reversing its decision?
Did you know that the Battle of the Aegates in 241 BC ended the First Punic War after 23 years?
Did you know that Kapoli Kamakau , who composed music with a future queen and a princess , later contracted leprosy and died in exile?
Did you know that the 2001 International Formula 3000 Championship featured the series's first round in the modern era to be held outside Europe?
Did you know that Bishop Monkton Ings in North Yorkshire , England, provides a habitat to the semi- parasitic marsh lousewort ?
Did you know that actor Carl Weathers agreed to play Greef Karga on the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian on the condition that he direct future episodes of the show?
Did you know that heat from the Mount Rittmann volcano in Antarctica allows mosses to grow?
Did you know that Bonanza City, New Mexico , was founded in 1880 and largely abandoned by 1890?
Did you know that even after narrowing the list of suspects in Geetha Angara's unsolved killing , 15 years ago today, down to three men, police could not charge any of them?
Did you know that Richard Scrob built Richard's Castle , one of the few castles in England built before the Norman conquest ?
Did you know that Capricorn Seamount is an underwater mountain that is breaking up as it enters the Tonga Trench ?
Did you know that the Cymmer Colliery explosion of 1856 in Wales resulted in a "sacrifice of human life to an extent unparalleled in the history of coal mining of this country"?
Did you know that Supreme Court of British Columbia justice Dev Dley previously served as commissioner of the Western Hockey League ?
Did you know that Captain Tilly Park contains the "smallest island in the smallest natural body of water" within New York City?
Did you know that rioters in Leicester, England, destroyed a hydrogen balloon in 1864?
Did you know that V. S. Lelchuk joined dissident and revisionist historians in a "historical glasnost " during the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that Jon Favreau created the role of Cara Dune in The Mandalorian with former mixed martial artist Gina Carano in mind, and did not audition any other actresses for the role?
Did you know that Mar Field Fen is "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York "?
Did you know that during her final performance at the 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival , Louisiana Creole singer Inez Catalon chastised female audience members for dressing immodestly?
Did you know that the title of the book A Very Stable Genius comes from a tweet by Donald Trump ?
Did you know that Iranian women's rights activist Mastoureh Afshar organized the second Eastern Women's Congress, held in Tehran in 1932, which drew delegates from Afghanistan to Zanzibar ?
Did you know that television station WETV in Key West , Florida, was forced off the air by an act of Congress?
Did you know that software engineer David Notkin worked to expand computer science research to a wider demographic, particularly women?
Did you know that salmon conservation measures are threatening the survival of a fishing technique first brought to Britain a thousand years ago by the Vikings ?
Did you know that Italian mathematician Giovanni Prodi was initially drafted into the National Republican Army and trained as a telephonist during World War II?
Did you know that images of the widowed queen who commissioned the first major work of Indian Deccan painting were erased after her son rebelled and imprisoned her?
Did you know that Jean Bégin was the first coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to make three appearances at the Memorial Cup ?
Did you know that Fort Tryon Park , located on steep terrain in Manhattan , was designed as a landscaped park with the Cloisters museum as the main point of interest?
Did you know that Edda Tasiemka was known as the "human Google"?
Did you know that hedge fund manager Jacob Gottlieb hired Status Labs to counteract negative news coverage of him over the closure of Visium Asset Management ?
Did you know that Wolfgang J. Fuchs , an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer ?
Did you know that according to The Independent , KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps "renders the unimaginable evil of the camps relatable"?
Did you know that Eric Bowen 's paintings were inspired by tantra ?
Did you know that the studio building used by Oklahoma City radio station KJEM was the last structure that was demolished to make way for the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building ?
Did you know that Thomas H. Lee , who developed the vacuum interrupter at General Electric , won an Asian table tennis championship while in college?
Did you know that the Austins Quarter of Newton Abbot in Devon , England, is named after a department store ?
Did you know that the Courtois Hills region has the most rugged terrain and steepest average slopes of any sub-region of the Missouri Ozarks ?
Did you know that Skandinavskii sbornik ( Scandinavian Review ) was the principal forum for Soviet scholars of Nordic studies for 35 years until the collapse of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that during the Cultural Revolution , Zhu Yuli was denounced as a counterrevolutionary and suffered beatings which caused disability in his right hand?
Did you know that the Tulsa Club Building suffered four major fires in 2010, including three in a two-week period, yet remained strong enough to allow conversion to a hotel instead of demolition?
Did you know that Cueros de Purulla volcano had a large eruption 7820 years ago and was later a source of obsidian ?
Did you know that at the time of her retirement in 2008, Florida State Seminoles coach JoAnne Graf held the record for most wins in the history of NCAA Division I softball?
Did you know that the differences between live versions of Rush's " Witch Hunt " were seen as an instance of "translation" à la Walter Benjamin ?
Did you know that Mollie Hughes is the youngest woman to ski solo to the South Pole?
Did you know that the first president of the University of Kentucky , James Kennedy Patterson , personally financed its first three buildings?
Did you know that although author Lao She declared his satirical novel Cat Country a failure, it has been translated into at least six languages?
Did you know that despite an early career spent with the Soviet and Russian Airborne Forces , Viktor Astapov is currently a deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy?
Did you know that there have been 49 captains in the Big Bash League ?
Did you know that American missionary Vernon Andy Anderson noted that those accused of witchcraft in the Belgian Congo were likely to be women over 55 and subject to murder by vigilantes?
Did you know that the final of the 2020 Masters snooker tournament was interrupted by a " whoopee cushion " device?
Did you know that Josef Protschka , who sang as a soloist in Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge at age 12, later appeared in leading tenor roles in the Mozart cycle staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at the Cologne Opera ?
Did you know that when the LineageOS operating system refused to integrate MicroG software, the project forked its own version, with MicroG pre-installed ?
Did you know that Romanian neuroscientist Viviana Gradinaru was part of the research team from Caltech that found that serotonin is necessary for sleep in zebrafish and mice?
Did you know that drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have hosted the entertainment series UNHhhh , The Trixie & Katya Show , and I Like to Watch ?
Did you know that the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management has conducted research to improve the taste and nutrition of a children's dietary supplement distributed by the government of Kerala ?
Did you know that Harun el-Raschid Hintersatz , a German convert to Islam, led a Muslim SS unit comprising Turkmens and Tatars during World War II?
Did you know that during a renovation of New York City's Bowne Park , some fish from its pond ended up in refrigerators of nearby homes?
Did you know that the blue pitta is a shy, secretive bird, but will respond to a recording of its call?
Did you know that Italian soprano Carolina Crespi was born in Prague, appeared in Barcelona in a child role, met her husband in Paris, and performed with him in world premieres of operas at La Scala in Milan?
Did you know that in 2016, New York became the 50th U.S. state to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts ?
Did you know that Bill Gates is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering ?
Did you know that the serial novel and manga series Nokemono to Hanayome was inspired by the Tokyo subway sarin attack ?
Did you know that the Survey of Palestine was led by the man who " wants you ", the man who was too late to save Gordon of Khartoum , a Jack the Ripper suspect , and the police chief who chased him ?
Did you know that Edith Hern Fossett , one of Thomas Jefferson 's slaves, was taught French cuisine in the White House and became the head chef at Monticello ?
Did you know that before becoming a passenger ferry, the MV Star of Malta made a round-the-world cruise, belonged to a Dominican Republic dictator , and served in the United States Navy ?
Did you know that Lin Zonghu was China's first graduate student to major in boilers ?
Did you know that no fungi or algae are listed as endangered or threatened by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board ?
Did you know that the 16-piece Detroit News Orchestra was the first symphonic orchestra in the world organized specifically to play on radio?
Did you know that the Fatimid military commander Dirgham abandoned his pupil Ruzzik ibn Tala'i , the vizier , to be deposed and killed by Shawar , only to overthrow the latter a few months later?
Did you know that the short story " I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter ", intended to subvert a transphobic Internet meme , was retracted after accusations of transphobia?
Did you know that the ant Acropyga exsanguis shares its nest with several species of mealybug , including Geococcus coffeae ?
Did you know that archaeologist Winifred Lamb had previously worked in Room 40 , the Royal Navy 's cryptanalysis section, during World War I?
Did you know that in 1952, Los Angeles radio station KFAC boasted a recording library weighing 28 tons, enough to program the station for a year without repeating a selection?
Did you know that entomologist Karim Vahed led the team that found a cricket species in which the testes accounted for 14 percent of the insect's body mass?
Did you know that after regular service to Leavenworth station ceased, annual trains continued to run to serve ski jumping spectators?
Did you know that Bach used the first, fifth and seventh stanzas of the 1533 hymn " In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr ", a paraphrase of Psalm 31 , as chorales in three vocal works, including in the St Matthew Passion ?
Did you know that before the creation of Roy Wilkins Park in 1976, the site was described as a wasteland with eighteen "rat-infested" buildings and a "leaking swimming pool full of dead dogs"?
Did you know that the largest civil rights demonstration of the 1960s took place when more than 450,000 New York City students boycotted school to protest segregation in public schools?
Did you know that Canadian professor and writer W. G. Hardy was given the honorary tribal chief title of "Chief Running Eagle" by the Sarcees ?
Did you know that Sunrise, Inverness Copse , a World War I watercolour by Paul Nash , was one of what he described as "fifty drawings of muddy places on the Front "?
Did you know that of the initial cluster of people confirmed to have been infected by a novel coronavirus in China , two-thirds had been directly exposed to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan ?
Did you know that Sarah Ellerby 's flight to the United States to play professional pool was diverted due to the September 11 attacks ?
Did you know that growth in the brown seaweed Zanardinia typus occurs at the base of the hairs that grow around the edge of the frond?
Did you know that James Thompson , who made the first plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?
Did you know that artist and illustrator Rune Naito , credited with pioneering the culture and aesthetic of kawaii , also contributed erotic illustrations to the gay men's magazine Barazoku ?
Did you know that a bus shelter on New York City's Q26 route was the subject of two 1948 lawsuits that alleged negative effects on nearby property values?
Did you know that Henry Eastburn studied under his uncle John Smeaton before undertaking his own civil engineering projects, such as the Basingstoke Canal ?
Did you know that the Creedence Clearwater Revival song " Keep On Chooglin' " popularized the neologism "chooglin ' ", which has been interpreted as a sexual term?
Did you know that the life expectancy at Gusen concentration camp was as short as six months?
Did you know that Girmay Zahilay defeated a six-term incumbent on King County Council in Washington?
Did you know that IG-11 , from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian , so closely resembles the character IG-88 that fans and journalists initially confused the two?
Did you know that Hawaiian pastor Moses Kuaea raised funds for Kaumakapili Church , which was later burned down in the Great Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900 ?
Did you know that " Die Himmel rühmen! " ('The heavens praise'), which begins an 1803 lieder collection by Beethoven setting Gellert's paraphrase of Psalm 19 to music, is also the title of a concert series by pop singer Heino ?
Did you know that Sallie Shearer 's brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania , was "magnificently furnished" with fine velvet carpets and beautiful mirrors?
Did you know that over 100 Moroccan Hajj pilgrims died on the SS Sardinia when it caught fire off Malta in 1908?
Did you know that huge lakes of oil created following the discovery of Oklahoma's Glenn Pool Oil Reserve would sometimes catch fire when struck by lightning?
Did you know that computer scientist Sheree Atcheson has been recognised by Computer Weekly as one of the "most influential women in UK tech"?
Did you know that The Coca-Cola Company proposed painting a gasometer in Gothenburg , Sweden, to resemble a Coke can?
Did you know that the Grotta del Gelo cave on the Etna volcano is partially filled with ice?
Did you know that mathematician Pamela E. Harris co-founded the online platform Lathisms to promote Hispanic and Latino American participation in mathematics?
Did you know that the mobile game Bleach: Brave Souls features story arcs from the manga Bleach that did not appear in its anime adaptation, including the unaired final arc?
Did you know that the Siege of Hull took place in 1642 after the governor twice refused to admit King Charles I to the town?
Did you know that German politician Diether Dehm employed former terrorist Christian Klar to work on his website?
Did you know that Mary Gordon , the first British female prison inspector, once forestalled recidivism by supplying men's clothes and a train fare to South Wales to a female inmate who wanted to live as a man?
Did you know that Dave Hakkens founded Precious Plastic , an open hardware plastic recycling project, to enable individuals to set up "their own miniature recycling company"?
Did you know that knights are depicted in the Freydal illuminated manuscript enjoying cross-dressing after a day's jousting ?
Did you know that c. 1900 , the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company provided health care to field workers with a mobile clinic transported by railroad flatcar?
Did you know that Church of the Cosmic Skull released a single to celebrate a solar eclipse ?
Did you know that in 1939, Lawrence Milner testified against Australian-born longshoremen union leader Harry Bridges in what Time magazine called "the most important deportation hearings of the decade"?
Did you know that one surveyor's proposal for removing the Blackwall Rock obstruction in the Thames involved using explosives he knew would likely kill some of the labourers?