kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that in 1922, Henry Pellew , an American citizen, inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth , created for his grandfather who fought for the British during the American War of Independence ?
Did you know that Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
Did you know that British astronomer Arthur Robert Hinks had the help of Eros to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun?
Did you know that when the CGS Hawk first flew in January 1982, it was the first ultralight aircraft with an enclosed cockpit and to use strut bracing?
Did you know that according to local tradition on Coll , the now-ruinous dun of Dùn an Achaidh was once the fortress of the son of a Norse king named Olaf ?
Did you know that Big Ten champion Chet Murphy defeated America's top-ranked woman tennis player Alice Marble in a 1939 exhibition match played in front of a "throng" of spectators?
Did you know that the slaves who rebelled against their masters in Demerara in 1823 promised not to use violence?
Did you know that the Simpsons episode " The Devil Wears Nada ", in which Marge poses for racy photographs in a calendar, aired soon after she appeared nude on the cover of Playboy ?
Did you know42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Abdul Ghaffar Khan , a colleague of Mahatma Gandhi , was hailed as an example of pacifism in Islam for his leadership of non-violent resistance ?
Did you know that Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth , made famous for her appearance on the American reality television show The Apprentice , returned as a candidate for the seventh season of the show?
Did you know that the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow , Scotland , in 1960 was (and remains) the worst peace time loss of life for the United Kingdom fire services ?
Did you know that J.D. Morgan led UCLA to at least 6 NCAA championships as tennis coach and 30 NCAA championships, including 10 men's basketball titles , as athletic director ?
Did you know that Prodromus Entomology was the first book about Australia containing plates engraved in Australia?
Did you know that Peter L. Nissen , CEO of Widerøe from 1981 to 1988, has called the Widerøe Flight disaster of 1982 "unsolved", even though commissions have reached their conclusions?
Did you know that the lizard Trachylepis maculata is known only from three specimens of doubtful provenance collected in the 1800s?
Did you know that cosmetic acupuncture involves the insertion of needles into the human face in an attempt to reduce wrinkles and age-lines?
Did you know that D. W. Robertson, Jr. (1914–1992) has been regarded as the most influential scholar on Geoffrey Chaucer of the twentieth century?
Did you know that Prince Christian of Denmark was hailed as heir to the King of Denmark in 1610, but died in 1647 without having succeeded to the throne ?
Did you know that, in 1930, Ralph Royce flew aircraft in such severe cold weather operations that the Mackay Trophy was awarded to him?
Did you know that South Africa women cricketers played their first Test match at St George's Park , the same location as the country's men's team played their first match?
Did you know that when the George Armstrong Custer statue was moved to a new location near the River Raisin in 1923, it remained in relative isolation, being obscured by unkempt scrubs and trees?
Did you know that René Menzies , at one time Charles de Gaulle 's chauffeur , was a record-breaking long-distance cyclist who rode 62,785 miles the year he reached his 63rd birthday?
Did you know that in medieval England the Honour of Wallingford existed for almost five centuries?
Did you know that Eddie Bayers replaced his mentor, the late Larrie Londin , as the drummer for The Notorious Cherry Bombs ?
Did you know that an extinct dog breed , the Alpine Spaniel , was the predecessor to the St. Bernard ?
Did you know that Vanderbilt 's 130-pound quarterback Irby "Rabbit" Curry , an elusive runner who "only needed the suspicion of an opening to wriggle through," was killed in aerial combat in 1918?
Did you know that, according to the Mahabharata , Bhadrajun was the site of Arjuna 's marriage to Krishna ’s sister Subhadra after they eloped?
Did you know that the Duke University athletics records on the 1000 and 1500 meters, set between 1971 and 1973 by the US Olympian Bob Wheeler , still stand?
Did you know that one of those killed in the mass murders in Piaśnica , Sister Alicja Kotowska , was beatified together with 107 other victims of Nazi terror in 1999 by Pope John Paul II ?
Did you know that the library of the Flyfishers' Club has been described as one of the finest angling collections in Europe ?
Did you know that Mark Baker made his Broadway debut in the original production of Via Galactica , which flopped for a loss of nearly $1 million?
Did you know that the South Park episode " Pee " features a waterpark that becomes engulfed in tsunamis of urine , as a parody of the disaster film 2012 ?
Did you know that Charles Darwin was a friend of his local vicar , the Reverend John Brodie-Innes ?
Did you know that in the past, many courts ruled that homosexuals couldn't apply for American citizenship ?
Did you know that " Charlie Bit My Finger " is the most viewed video of all time on YouTube , with over 130 million hits?
Did you know35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Glenn James is the only Indigenous Australian to umpire top grade Australian rules football ?
Did you know that the rare Izu stingray differs from all other Pacific members of its family in having a white fin fold on its tail?
Did you know that a character in the 1937 Tamil film Balayogini , one of the first children's films of South India , was hailed as the " Shirley Temple of India"?
Did you know that the Old Bazaar , one of the oldest and largest in the Balkans, has been Skopje 's centre for trade and commerce since at least the 12 century?
Did you know that South Korean fashion model Daul Kim was also a keen painter and had exhibited her works at a solo exhibition in Seoul ?
Did you knowthat RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary were fitted with stabilisers after the improvement in passenger comfort and reduction in rolling that was seen on RMS Media ?
Did you know that Mithaecus 's recipe for the burrowing fish Cepola macrophthalma is the oldest recorded recipe?
Did you know that hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse had a feud with headbangers in 1998?
Did you know that the prototype of the Polikarpov VIT-2 was first flown on 11 May 1938 by the famous pilot Valery Chkalov ?
Did you know that Fritz Shiverick , known as "a scoring machine", served in 1919 as Cornell 's quarterback , punter , drop kicker, kickoff returner and play-caller on both offense and defense?
Did you know that after delivering a rousing speech during the Battle of Arnhem , Richard Lonsdale repeated it a year later in the film Theirs is the Glory ?
Did you know that at the time he was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1913, Charles M. Egan received the largest margin of victory for any county-wide office in New Jersey history?
Did you know that Argentine spy Bill Gaede was so successful in his clandestine operation of sending technical information from AMD to Cuban representatives that he was invited to meet Fidel Castro ?
Did you know that some people once moved to the now abandoned city of Pioneer, Nevada , with their houses?
Did you know that William T. Ryder was the first American paratrooper ?
Did you know that Loots Bosman scored the first century in South African domestic Twenty20 cricket?
Did you know that the murder of the 4th Earl of Eglinton in 1586, as he set out from Polnoon Castle was a result of a long-standing feud between the Eglinton and the Cunninghame clans?
Did you know that stand-up comedian and actress Retta said her role on Parks and Recreation is stressful because she was initially unsure the show would last due to poor reviews?
Did you know that Northwestern 's Max Morris was a consensus All-American in both basketball and football , played both sports professionally, and twice led the Big Ten in scoring?
Did you know that the proposed Lithuanian–Polish–Ukrainian Brigade reflects attempts by the Polish government to tie Ukraine more closely with the West ?
Did you know that Chinese citizen Feng Zhenghu , now stranded in Tokyo Narita Airport , is likened to the Tom Hanks character in " The Terminal "?
Did you know that Alice is a science fiction reimagining of the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ?
Did you know that James Edwards , who ran for the Tennessee House of Representatives in 2002, is the current host of the The Political Cesspool at radio station WLRM ?
Did you know that the Water Street Historic District in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania , includes the canal lock for which the city was named?
Did you know that English singer and actor Walter H. Fisher created the role of the Defendant in Gilbert and Sullivan 's 1875 opera Trial by Jury ?
Did you know that Belleville, California , now a ghost town , was once a gold mining boomtown with a population of nearly 10,000, the largest town in Holcomb Valley in 1860?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln , one of many American politicians known for past use of cannabis , wrote that one of his "favorite things" was "smoking a pipe of sweet hemp"?
Did you know21, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that 7000 people were left stranded on Edurumandi Island after they refused to be evacuated during the 1990 Andhra Pradesh cyclone ?
Did you know that the monitor HMS Gorgon (1914) fired the last shots of World War I by the Royal Navy against German coastal batteries in Belgium on 15 October 1918?
Did you know that the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate , a precursor of the modern state of Lebanon , was created in the aftermath of the 1860 massacre where thousands of Christians were killed by the Druze ?
Did you know that the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association , established in 1877, was the first wildlife conservation organisation in India?
Did you know that Siegfried Translateur ,  a Viennese composer of dance music , died in a Nazi concentration camp?
Did you know that the house now called Hill Bark was built as Bidston Court on Bidston Hill , Birkenhead , Merseyside , England, in 1891, but was demolished and rebuilt on its present site and renamed in 1928–31?
Did you know that when Turkey gave out personal identification numbers to their citizens in 2000, they chose to number all 120 million people born since 1840, living or dead?
Did you know that when Rakel Seweriin stepped down as a member of the Parliament of Norway in 1969, she had served for 24 years, a record for a Norwegian woman?
Did you know that Nippon Professional Baseball 's Climax Series , implemented in 2007, is the first and only postseason playoff system used by both the Central and Pacific Leagues ?
Did you know that Vernon Burge was the first American enlisted man to be certified as a military aviator ?
Did you know that Mandazi , a form of fried bread that is popular in Eastern Africa , is often mixed with coconut milk and other ingredients, toppings, and dips to create different flavors?
Did you know that once Li Yingshi , a decorated veteran of the Korean War of 1592–1598 , converted to Catholicism, it took him and two Jesuits three days to find and burn all the prohibited books in his library?
Did you know that the Stavanger Airport, Forus in Norway was constructed at the location of the former lake Stokkavatnet ?
Did you know that the South Park episode " Dances with Smurfs " calls out the similarities of the upcoming film Avatar to the 1990 film Dances with Wolves ?
Did you know14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that when President John Adams nominated Lucius Horatio Stockton to be Secretary of War in 1801, Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr. called him "a crazy, fanatical young man"?
Did you know that the round fantail stingray has recently colonized the Mediterranean Sea , but not as a Lessepsian migrant ?
Did you know that when the first Green Island Light was destroyed by fire, the keeper and his family survived by huddling in an outhouse?
Did you know that the Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant discovered in 2005 is the only known British -made medieval astrolabe ?
Did you know that Gausel was the location of a rich woman's grave from the Viking era , discovered in the 1880s?
Did you know that the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry claimed in 1987 that a ten-year education reform plan in Louisiana had been "a long journey to nowhere"?
Did you know that David Booth found the Stirlingshire Hoard of four gold Iron Age torcs on his very first metal detecting outing?
Did you know that France is the only former colonial power still to maintain territory in North America ?
Did you know that in his book Acquainted with the Night , Dewdney tells of a syndrome in which the victims, almost always Asian men, presumably die of terror while dreaming of something sitting on their chest?
Did you know that Richard Barre (died around 1202), a medieval English judge and clergyman, wrote a work on the Bible titled Compendium de veteri et novo testamento ?
Did you know that Sevmash is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia ?
Did you know that the single " My Girl " by Arashi currently holds the third largest first-week sales of 2009 in Japan?
Did you know that Alfred "Centennial" Johnson landed at Abercastle in 1876 sailing from Gloucester, Massachusetts , and becoming the first person to make the single-handed Atlantic crossing?
Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode " Are You My Mummy? " originally aired as part of "Phineas and Ferb-urary," a special event which showed episodes of the series every night in February 2008 on Disney Channel ?
Did you know14, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that in the Siege of Diu in 1538 an Ottoman fleet equipped with 130 cannons attempted to eliminate the Portuguese from the harbour of Diu in India ?
Did you know that Ben Graf Henneke , who later became president of the University of Tulsa , wrote the school's fight song as a student there?
Did you know that The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul , a Middle English miracle play of the late 15th century , tells the story of the conversion of Paul the Apostle?
Did you know that one of the best sources on Yaqub Beg 's rule in East Turkestan is Tārīkh-i amniyya (History of peace), written by Musa Sayrami ?
Did you know that Petrillo Music Shell was commissioned by Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak to help lift the spirits of the citizenry with free concerts following the Great Depression ?
Did you know that Jean McNaughton was the first South African to take a five-wicket haul in Women's Test cricket ?
Did you know that Achille Casanova was the first official spokesman of the Swiss Federal Council ?
Did you know that after finishing active duty with the United States Air Force , Kenneth Dickson worked as a law clerk for U.S. federal judge Howard Boyd Turrentine ?
Did you know that the Brazilian large-eyed stingray may use coastal sandbanks as nurseries for its young?
Did you know that Spanish Republican guerillas held out in the mountains of the Maestrazgo in eastern Spain , against General Franco 's forces until the mid 1950s?
Did you know that the crematory at the Oahu Cemetery in Hawaii was used to burn $200 million in U.S. bank notes after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?
Did you know that Lalla Carlsen is regarded as one of the most legendary female revue artists in Norway?
Did you know that American flying ace John C. "Pappy" Herbst painted a swastika on his P-51B Mustang to indicate an aerial victory he said he earned while flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force ?
Did you know that as mayor of Murray, Utah , Dan Snarr was set to shave his nearly foot-long handlebar mustache for charity, but he was pressured by the American Mustache Institute to keep it?
Did you know that La Amelia , a small Maya archaeological site in Guatemala , features hieroglyphic panels describing the ritual sacrifice of a bound captive who is rolled into a ball and thrown to his death?
Did you know that Minnesota 's Pudge Wyman scored the first kickoff return for a touchdown , the first blocked punt returned for a touchdown, and the first passing touchdown in the history of the NFL ?
Did you know that the medieval office of the Chancery was responsible for the production of documents for royalty and other nobles?
Did you know that Brazil has recently opened a commercial fishery targeting the Colares stingray , for export to Europe ?
Did you know that when Henry Heth became commander of the 45th Virginia Infantry , he felt frustrated by the illiteracy and lack of discipline of his men?
Did you know that Dean Clough business park at Halifax was once one of the world's largest carpet factories?
Did you know that writer Francis Wheen criticized Michael Jackson 's book Dancing the Dream and thanked God that "none" of Jackson's fans could read?
Did you know that Jack Grayburn was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross after the Battle of Arnhem ?
Did you know that the first integrated prom in Charleston is the subject of the 2009 documentary film Prom Night in Mississippi ?
Did you know that the death of Indian mafioso Manya Surve at the hands of the Mumbai Police in 1982 was the city's first recorded encounter killing ?
Did you know that the proposed new internationalized country code top-level domain in the Cyrillic alphabet for Ukraine is .укр ?
Did you know that in 2003, Louisiana State legislator Danny Martiny sought penalties for sexual acts in public of up to a year in jail and a maximum $1,000 fine?
Did you know that restoration projects of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust include Wilton Windmill ?
Did you know that Bård Mikkelsen , chief executive officer of Widerøe , the Ulstein Group and Statkraft , has skydived over Antarctica ?
Did you know14, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that the Reggiane Re.2007 was a proposed Italian fighter aircraft to be used in the final phase of World War II as a defense against the increasing Allied bombing raids?
Did you know that the concept of a national personal autonomy was strongly opposed by the Bolsheviks , and criticized by Lenin and Stalin ?
Did you know that Alfred Seale Haslam , Mayor of Derby , became rich from keeping meat cool on its way from the British colonies ?
Did you know that Turnaround ADR is the preferred, out-of-court process under which companies in Japan may attempt to reorganize their debt?
Did you know that Hristo Gruev Danov founded Bulgaria's first publishing house ?
Did you know that an Agorapocalypse was created using software from hell ?
Did you know that the Triumph Tiger T110 British sports motorcycle was fitted with enclosed panels in 1961, which earned it the nickname "the bathtub"?
Did you know00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that in 1902, the Boveri-Sutton Chromosome Theory unified the genetic laws of Mendelian inheritance with the physical structures of chromosomes observed in cells?
Did you know that after World War II , US General Douglas MacArthur placed Sankichi Takahashi on the list of the 59 most wanted Japanese?
Did you know that the Joint Professional Military Education was established following greater awareness during WWII of a need for effective cooperation between the branches of the United States armed forces ?
Did you know that in spite of the Canadian telecommunications industry being gripped by " Telidon fever" in 1982, most attempts to commercialize the videotex system had ended by 1985?
Did you know that Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate , Senate President , and State Treasurer ?
Did you know that Trillium reliquum is an endangered species that exists at only 21 sites in Alabama , Georgia and South Carolina ?
Did you know that San Antonio's Sporting District , one of the largest red-light districts in the U.S. in the early 1900s, was so large that a tourist guide was published for visitors?
Did you know that over 9,000 suspects have been investigated in relation to trials in Chongqing , China , including 14 high-ranking officials?
Did you know that Hawaiian "George Prince" Kaumualiʻi Humehume served in the War of 1812 with the United States Marine Corps and was wounded in battle?
Did you know that the Gothic style railroad station originally built 1868 at the Newlin Mill Complex served as a railway station, post office, polling station, and finally a park office?
Did you know that German actor Ottfried Fischer founded his own theater dedicated to Kabarett in Munich in 1980?
Did you know that the defunct Hill Military Academy in Portland, Oregon , was a party to the U.S. Supreme Court case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters ?
Did you know that with 507,000 readers, Hemmets Journal is the second largest weekly magazine in Sweden?
Did you know that fighter ace Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent served as the prototype for two comic strip characters after his wife sent photographs to cartoonist Milton Caniff ?
Did you know that when Parliament of Norway member Frederik Schmidt took the initiative to scrutinize the government in 1814, it led to Norway's first Impeachment case?
Did you know that the 1994 season of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club has been described as the most remarkable by any side in the history of county cricket ?
Did you know that while a district court judge in Metairie, Louisiana , Charles Cusimano was instrumental in revamping the criminal justice computer system?
Did you know that Amerigo Vespucci may have seen the extinct rodent Noronhomys , otherwise known only from bone remains, on a voyage to the islands of Fernando de Noronha in 1503?
Did you know that the National Weather Service Central Illinois once used kites to measure data in the atmosphere?
Did you know that Ivan Ostromislensky was a pioneer of the production of synthetic rubber ?
Did you know that the organ of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide ironically conceals a stained glass window dedicated to Saint Cecilia , patron saint of church music?
Did you know00, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Did you know that Augustin de Beaulieu was a French general who led an expedition to Aceh in the East Indies in 1619–22?
Did you know that Pico Blanco Scout Reservation , built on 1445 acres of virgin Redwood forest donated by William Randolph Hearst , is the oldest Boy Scout camp on California's Central Coast ?
Did you know that music business executive Wayne Bickerton played early in his career as bassist with former Beatle Pete Best , and later co-wrote and produced several hits for The Rubettes ?
Did you know that 14 Prince's Gate, London , has been the residence of eight American ambassadors to the United Kingdom, and is now the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners ?
Did you know that Gunnar Isachsen , topographer on Otto Sverdrup 's Fram expedition, later became Director of the Norwegian Maritime Museum ?
Did you know that the Ladakh Ecological Development and Environmental Group has been responsible for solar energy development in Ladakh in northern India ?
Did you know that the Rosario class was the last class of wooden sloops constructed for the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that 16 children died during a stampede at a public hall in Barnsley , South Yorkshire , in 1908?
Did you know that the cruise ship Ocean Monarch was awarded a gold medal for her design by the American Academy of Designing?
Did you know that Robert Stewart Hyer was the first president of Southern Methodist University ?
Did you know that in the 18th and 19th centuries, Native American warriors used gunstock war clubs , shaped like wooden rifle stocks but embedded with blades?
Did you know that Titan , a Great Dane , is currently recognised as the world's tallest dog, standing 107.3 cm (42.25 in) high at the shoulders?
Did you know that Gerhard Ritter became so angry lecturing against the content of the book Germany's Aims in the First World War that he broke down in tears?
Did you know that, in a publicity stunt from an aircraft, Harold M. McClelland dropped three baseballs on Babe Ruth who was "knocked flat" by the first two?
Did you know that American Lion won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography ?