kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
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Did you know that Philip II of Spain approved funds for a convent because his illegitimate daughter was living there?
Did you know that developmental researcher Marion Underwood found that a group of ninth-grade students sent an average of 1,321 text messages a month?
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Did you know that the Indonesian Declaration of Independence was drafted in the home of Japanese rear admiral Tadashi Maeda ?
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Did you know that in 1948, footballer George Hazlett was punched in the face after fans invaded the pitch ?
Did you know that Matthias Goethe , who was born in Prussia and trained to become a Catholic priest, became a Lutheran pastor and established congregations in Australia, the United States, and Mexico?
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Did you know that Li Xintian , a founder of neuropsychology in China, was the son of Li Da , a founder of the Communist Party of China ?
Did you know that a variant of the Lorraine 12D was the most powerful French airplane engine during World War I?
Did you know that Roza Papo , who nearly lost an eye in an air raid in 1942 after refusing to take shelter, later became the first woman general in the Balkans?
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Did you know that The Vision of Dorotheus is one of the earliest examples of Christian hexametric poetry?
Did you know that in 1991, Harue Kitamura became the first woman to be elected mayor of a Japanese city?
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Did you know that Elizabeth Bartlet 's PhD thesis on Étienne Méhul was described as earning "the iconic status reserved for the few doctoral theses that are destined to change their chosen field"?
Did you know that the largest English army to serve overseas prior to 1600 was gathered at the Siege of Calais in 1347?
Did you know that the mathematician John Rigby was a leading authority on the relationship between maths and ornamental art?
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Did you know that Rodney Robinson , 2019 National Teacher of the Year , makes sure his former students at the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center register to vote?
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Did you know that LGBT rights activist Melissa Ede wanted to become the first transgender woman on Mars ?
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Did you know that the book The Expanding Circle bridged sociobiology and ethics , discussing how humans have used reason to expand their moral considerations from family and tribe to the entire of society?
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Did you know that during the 1923–24 season , Cardiff City F.C. finished as runners-up in the closest title race in First Division history?
Did you know that Francis Rose 's plantations in Jamaica included Old Works, New Works, and The Decoy?
Did you know that the Hevsel Gardens , a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been compared to the Garden of Eden ?
Did you know that Adriaan de Bruin was enslaved in Africa but ended up in Hoorn in the Dutch Republic , where he married a local woman and ran a tobacco shop?
Did you know that the suspected " Golden State Killer " was actually born in New York?
Did you know that Genrikh Novozhilov led the development of Ilyushin Il-76 , the most popular passenger and military transport aircraft of the Soviet Union?
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Did you know that a mining company wants to quarry the New Zealand Miocene fossil site Foulden Maar for use in pig food?
Did you know that Max Brod reviewed a performance of Ria Thiele , an actress and dancer who played in theatres of Vienna, Berlin and Prague?
Did you know that the 60-metre-high (200 ft) Grande roue de Montréal , built in Montreal for the 375th anniversary of the city, is the tallest Ferris wheel in Canada?
Did you know that the autobiography James Acaster's Classic Scrapes ends with a story about a cabbage-based prank war between the comedian and a nine-year-old child?
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Did you know that a disc jockey resigned from his post at KWJB in Globe, Arizona , to work with Les Paul and Mary Ford ?
Did you know that Nepalese student Sangita Magar became a human rights activist after she survived an acid attack at the age of 16?
Did you know that Danish oxen traders brought Lutheranism to the Dutch city of Enkhuizen , including through the establishment of an Evangelical Lutheran Church there in 1605?
Did you know that Louis B. Anderson , Chicago's second black alderman , mortally wounded a mugger?
Did you know that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of Milton Keynes ?
Did you know that the fictional character Jakub Wędrowycz —an exorcist, drunkard, moonshine producer, and poacher—is one of the icons of Polish pop culture?
Did you know that Liberian lawyer Alfred Brownell won the " Green Nobel " prize for his efforts to protect more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2 ) of tropical forest land?
Did you know that the Salt Pan of the Dead Man is one of the most important sources of lithium in the world?
Did you know that Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs 's legal challenge to be added to the Amsterdam electoral rolls backfired, leading to a constitutional amendment granting voting rights to men only?
Did you know that Palmer Street was the location of a secret British spy base that intercepted the communications of London's embassies?
Did you know that Ruth-Margret Pütz was considered one of the leading coloratura sopranos of the 1960s?
Did you know that Canadian sports lawyer Gord Kirke agreed to represent Bret Hart due to the wrestler's poetry?
Did you know that Nancy Fish , widow of P. T. Barnum , is said to have met her second husband when she fell from the Great Pyramid of Giza into his arms?
Did you know that Horst Rosenthal 's 1942 comic Mickey au Camp de Gurs is "perhaps the earliest sequential art narrative dealing with the Holocaust"?
Did you know that the medical historian Noël Poynter catalogued the Wellcome Library 's incunabula ?
Did you know that the International Day Against DRM , organized by the Defective by Design initiative, has been observed since 2006?
Did you know that Huang Weilu was the chief designer of China's first submarine-launched ballistic missile ?
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Did you know that in 1959 the baritone Ernst Gutstein appeared as Ernesto in Haydn's Il mondo della luna , a role originally written for a castrato ?
Did you know that if two Austrians say they are "playing Cossack ", they are likely to be enjoying the Tarot game of Kosakeln ?
Did you know that John Wrightson , a pioneer in agricultural education , was in 1890 reputedly the first British surfer ?
Did you know that there was a seven-year delay between the release of the first and second issues of the comic book Captain America: White ?
Did you know that Cameroonian singer Lady Ponce advertised that her wedding would take place at 3:30 p.m., then held it at 9:00 a.m. to avoid paparazzi ?
Did you know that when the English army invaded France in 1346 they burnt a 40-mile-wide (64 km) swath of destruction to within 2 miles (3 km) of Paris?
Did you know that Lydia Lavelle is the first openly lesbian mayor in the US state of North Carolina ?
Did you know that in 1983, a stowaway mosquito transmitted malaria to the landlord of a British pub , and to a passing motorcyclist 10 km (6 mi) away from Gatwick Airport ?
Did you know that the pizza di Pasqua used to be blessed at the local church before being eaten at breakfast on Easter morning?
Did you know that Werner Schneyder performed political kabarett programs with Dieter Hildebrandt and provided television commentary on boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that in the 2000 film No Place to Go , the central character jumps out of a window to her death, as the director's mother had done some years before?
Did you know that although Isabella Forshall did not go to school, she gained two university degrees and four postgraduate diplomas in medicine and surgery?
Did you know that the Babri Masjid , a mosque built in 1528, was demolished in 1992 after a political rally turned violent?
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Did you know that Dutch authorities interned a Japanese spy , but thought he was a businessman and released him in a 1942 prisoner exchange ?
Did you know that Mária Kráľovičová was the first Slovak television actress?
Did you know that a lawsuit brought by Joel Moskowitz forced public release of mobile phone radiation safety guidelines prepared by the state of California, earning him the James Madison Freedom of Information Award ?
Did you know that Cabilao Island is the location of the only natural lake in the Philippine province of Bohol ?
Did you know that American opera singer Jennifer Holloway portrayed Grete in Der ferne Klang as a young girl whose lover leaves her, as a courtesan, and as an old woman who holds the returned lover while he dies?
Did you know that the Revolution of 1719 ended the rule of the lords proprietors in South Carolina?
Did you know that Zhang Dongju , Chen Fahu , and J.-J. Hublin discovered that a fossil jaw from Baishiya Cave belonged to the first known Denisovan outside Siberia and the first known human on the Tibetan Plateau ?
Did you know that during the First World War, Charles Cathcart and Isaac Balfour proposed adopting the German idea of using moss to treat wounded British soldiers?
Did you know that the first three singles released by Japanese musician Halca were used as closing themes for three different anime series?
Did you know that Dadia is the only European forest in which all four native European species of vulture can be found?
Did you know that the Hanthawaddy commander Smin Bayan is celebrated in Burmese history for driving back a Chinese invasion on behalf of his former enemy, Ava ?
Did you know that the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy was inspired to write Silver Wedding after hearing a girl on a bus talk about her parents' horrible marriage?
Did you know that Lydia Manley Henry , the first woman to graduate from the University of Sheffield medical school, was awarded the Croix de Guerre ?
Did you know that Kristianstads IK 's 1981–82 team included current Columbus Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella ?
Did you know that Wilfrid and Arthur married Geoffrey at All Souls , and a master mariner gave away the bride?
Did you know that due to the threat of Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Walt Disney World closed for a full day for the first time in its history?
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Did you know that InvisiblePeople.tv , which has produced interviews with hundreds of homeless people in over 100 cities, was founded by formerly-homeless television executive Mark Horvath?
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Did you know that Meghan Trainor 's song " All About That Bass " was written in 40 minutes?
Did you know that Moroccan businesswoman Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun helped kickstart the World Bank 's Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative at the 2017 G20 Hamburg summit ?
Did you know that Calma glaucoides has such a rich diet of eggs that it does not need an anus?
Did you know that Joe Kryczka used his legal background and knowledge of the Russian language to Canada's advantage in negotiating the 1972 Summit Series agreement?
Did you know that after the crash of United Airlines Flight 297 in 1962, the Federal Aviation Administration created new regulations that required airplanes to better withstand bird strikes ?
Did you know that although her mother never cooked, Violet Oon learned to cook Peranakan food at the age of sixteen before eventually being appointed the food ambassador of Singapore?
Did you know that the Killing Eve episode " Don't I Know You? " was generally praised for including diverse LGBT+ characters, but also criticised for how one was killed?
Did you know that James Bruce Lockhart 's career in the Foreign Office was a cover for his real work with the Secret Intelligence Service ?
Did you know that one theory holds that aquatic cold-water species entered Sweden's Lake Sommen by a natural lock system at the end of the last ice age ?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Tyla Hanks set a record in the agility component at the 2018 AFL Women's draft combine?
Did you know that the pea crab Tunicotheres moseri lives inside the water-filled chamber of a sea squirt ?
Did you know that military geologists were employed to find the best landing sites during the planning of the invasions of the United Kingdom , Sicily , and France in World War II?
Did you know that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the Old Testament laws ?
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Did you know that Barbie likes welding ?
Did you know that Niayes , a region of Senegal important for fishing, market gardening, cattle-grazing, and birds, is at risk of desertification ?
Did you know that Barlow Trecothick , who later became Lord Mayor of London, served an apprenticeship in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay ?
Did you know that the 2018 European Pool Championship was the largest pool event ever held in Europe?
Did you know that Xiuxiong Chen , his former student Song Sun , and Simon Donaldson were awarded the 2019 Veblen Prize for proving Yau 's conjecture for Fano manifolds ?
Did you know that St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., was designed by William Thornton , who also designed the United States Capitol ?
Did you know that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse 's performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"?
Did you know that from Edinburgh city centre, it is two miles to the Inch ?
Did you know that Samra , a male German rapper, performs under a feminine Arabic pseudonym?
Did you know that convenience store chain Wawa successfully forced Philadelphia -area radio station WAWA to stop using its new call letters ?
Did you know that Abdulatif Tiyua was first imprisoned for fighting for the Ugandan government, and later imprisoned for fighting against it?
Did you know that Nepalese Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli praised the 2019 sports drama Captain for "delivering patriotism"?
Did you know that no woman was chosen as a major political party's nominee for the United States Senate until Ruth Hanna McCormick won her state's primary in 1930?
Did you know that the Kazachye Cemetery takes its name from the interment of Cossacks killed during the July Days in the Russian Revolution ?
Did you know that Lloyd Trefethen and Lloyd Trefethen showed that, when shuffling playing cards, five riffles are enough?
Did you know that the first attempt to build the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra resulted in the demolition of the nearly completed structure?
Did you know that Salahuddin Wahid had a public newspaper debate with his brother on their father's vision for Indonesia?
Did you know that " Aus der Tiefe rufe ich " ('Out of the depths have I cried') is one of six 1883 psalm settings by Friedrich Kiel ?
Did you know that Chen Fangyun proposed a control system that was crucial for the launch of China's first geosynchronous communications satellite in 1984?
Did you know that investigators considered the murder of Lisa Holm especially heinous as Holm was only seventeen years old and physically weaker than her killer?
Did you know that British architect Bryan Thomas has designed for the Church of England, the Christian Scientists, and the Quakers?
Did you know that the people who commissioned Our Trip to Africa demanded the film's destruction after seeing it?
Did you know that polonium-210 is 250,000 times more toxic by weight than hydrogen cyanide ?
Did you know that Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman rejects frybread , seen as a symbol of colonial oppression, but also considers it a symbol of resilience?
Did you know that in a 2019 documentary , Astra Taylor interviews trauma surgeons, refugees, and a barber about the meaning of democracy?
Did you know that 19 years after Mrinalini Devi married Rabindranath Tagore , many of her wedding jewels were sold to fund Brahmacharya Ashram, a school he founded?
Did you know that nearly 80,000 black Mississippians cast a vote in the 1963 Freedom Ballot mock election, four times more than the number of black registered voters?
Did you know that the 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System video game Solstice was originally planned and developed as a computer title?
Did you know that Justin James was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 2019 NBA draft , despite most mock drafts predicting he would not be picked by any team?
Did you know that part of the Malaysian tropical forest reserve Bukit Gasing has been protected from development, while another part has been sold to building contractors?
Did you know that Chitpas Kridakorn , whose family owns Thailand's Singha brewery, had to change her last name due to her political activism?
Did you know that Waylon Jennings and Johnny Dollar were guest disc jockeys for country music station KOYL in Odessa, Texas ?
Did you know that after the US banned Chinese students from returning to China, Li Hengde organized a student network which petitioned the Chinese premier, the US president, and the UN for their right to go home?
Did you know that the yellow-footed honeyguide probably includes beeswax in its diet?
Did you know that a lack of help from W. B. Yeats caused one of the founders of the Ulster Literary Theatre to say, "Damn Yeats! We'll write our own plays!"?
Did you know that South African test pilot Desmond Barker has accumulated 7,200 flying hours and flown 58 different types of aircraft?
Did you know that some LGBTQ activists have opposed the use of the term " lesbian erasure ", because it has sometimes been used in opposition to transgender rights ?
Did you know that Thomas Cheney 's biography of LDS Church leader J. Golden Kimball was withdrawn by Brigham Young University Press for containing explicit language?
Did you know that Phyllariopsis brevipes is a deep-water constituent of the kelp forests in the Mediterranean Sea?
Did you know that Saumitra Khan was elected in the 2019 Indian general election by a margin of more than 78,000 votes without participating in any political rally in his constituency?
Did you know that the announcement of a delay in the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons caused Nintendo 's stock market valuation to fall by over US$1 billion?
Did you know that Lord Mayor of Birmingham Yvonne Mosquito opened comedian Joe Lycett 's kitchen extension?
Did you know that Ugandan chief of staff Yusuf Gowon quarrelled with another officer over a looted tractor during the invasion of a foreign country ?
Did you know that the process of connecting the scattered fragments surviving from the Hours of Louis XII (begun c. 1498 ) only started in 1973?
Did you know that Ye Peida , the president of a university controlled by the Ministry of Posts and Communications, successfully argued for the breakup of the ministry's monopoly of China's telecom industry?
Did you know that a new disease which is deadly to corals is spreading from the Florida Keys to other parts of the Caribbean?
Did you know that Clemantine Wamariya was reunited with her parents on The Oprah Winfrey Show , twelve years after being separated from them during the Rwandan genocide ?
Did you know that George Szirtes 's Reel , winner of the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize , contains poems in terza rima and relies heavily on ekphrasis , using references to film and photography to aid memory?
Did you know that Canadian auto racing driver Kat Teasdale reportedly once asked the starter to wait while she applied lipstick?
Did you know that Canadian businessman Lloyd Pollock brought Junior A-level hockey to Windsor, Ontario ?
Did you know that in 2004 the British Rail Class 458 trains were so unreliable that their operator considered replacing them all, but by 2012 they had become the most reliable fleet in Britain?
Did you know that the Granadan princess Fatima bint al-Ahmar was described as "surpassing the women of her time like the Night of Power surpasses all the other nights" by the historian Ibn al-Khatib ?
Did you know that the final owners of Connecticut's WQQW radio station were involved in a fraudulent banking ring that toppled the town 's mayor?
Did you know that Lilian Benningsen , a singer at the Bavarian State Opera for decades, appeared as Carolina in the world premiere of Henze's Elegie für junge Liebende ( Elegy for Young Lovers )?
Did you know that the verses of the inscription on the funerary Stele of Arniadas are said to be "extraordinarily similar" to the words of Hector in the Iliad ?
Did you know that Joe Biden prefers the Chevrolet Corvette, but Joe Biden prefers the Pontiac Trans Am?
Did you know that The Unsafe Asylum , a book of short stories by Anirudh Kala , explores the psychological effects of the Partition of India ?
Did you know that Australian theatre director and former chemistry demonstrator May Hollinworth was described as "a wizard with lighting effects"?
Did you know that while Caltech 's historic South Houses were renovated, its North Houses were recommended for demolition for lack of architectural appeal?
Did you know that Samuel Adalberg , pioneer of Polish paremiology , committed suicide upon learning of the Germans' plans to construct the Warsaw Ghetto ?
Did you know that after a 2002 study inaccurately claimed a measles and autism link due to improper qPCR data, scientists developed the MIQE guidelines to show the minimum level of reported data required for qPCR?
Did you know that the Melkite Christian Sarjun ibn Mansur , who headed the fiscal administration of Syria under the first five Umayyad caliphs , was the father of Saint John of Damascus ?
Did you know that the JFK Express subway service in New York City never actually went to JFK Airport ?
Did you know that German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Roman Neumayer assisted in founding the first ice hockey team in Namibia?