kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that diversity ideologies are intended to reduce prejudice, but can backfire and promote more hostility instead?
Did you know that Canadian Yves Abel , the chief conductor of a German symphony orchestra , founded Opéra Français de New York, which focuses on rarely played French operas?
Did you know that NearlyFreeSpeech was considered a "safe haven" for alt-right Twitter alternative Gab ?
Did you know that the 1978 Japanese manga series California Story was inspired by American New Wave cinema, particularly Midnight Cowboy ?
Did you know that the owner of WRSL AM and FM in Stanford, Kentucky , built a dinner theater on the station's property?
Did you know that marketing for the Venezuelan film That's the Woman I Want told prospective viewers it was so funny they would forget about foot-and-mouth disease ?
Did you know that 2020 AV 2 is the first asteroid discovered to have an orbit completely within Venus 's orbit?
Did you know that the song " Toss a Coin to Your Witcher " from the Netflix television series The Witcher became a viral hit within days of the show's release?
Did you know that in 1138–39, Fatimid vizier Ridwan ibn Walakhshi attempted to overthrow the Isma'ili caliphate and replace it with a Sunni regime headed by himself?
Did you know that juvenile ornate surgeonfish are quite different in colouring from the adult fish?
Did you know that Widener University Commonwealth Law School is one of two independent law schools run by Widener University ?
Did you know that field hockey player Avtar Singh Bhurji was shot in the leg during a robbery in 1996?
Did you know that Rue du Brexit in France was named as a tribute to the British people after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union ?
Did you know that English judoka Samantha Lowe was selected, then deselected, then reselected for the 2002 Commonwealth Games , and went on to win a gold medal?
Did you know that Shueisha , the publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump , has produced a manga series in collaboration with Marvel Comics ?
Did you know that Jeffrey Erickson, who was accused of robbing banks in the Chicago metropolitan area with his wife Jill , was a former police officer in Hoffman Estates ?
Did you know that the Royal Irish Yacht Club has retained its royal title despite the establishment of the Republic of Ireland?
Did you know that Gösta Neuwirth studied composition and musicology in Vienna, but wrote his dissertation on harmony in Schreker 's opera Der ferne Klang in Berlin?
Did you know that the Whitehall Building in New York City was developed by a company headed by the inventor of Vaseline ?
Did you know that during the first siege of Wardour Castle in 1643, Lady Blanche Arundell held out for a week with just 25 Royalist soldiers against 1,300 Parliamentarian troops?
Did you know that before its closure, locals near St Johnston railway station relied heavily for income on Irish customs officers trying to catch smugglers heading for Londonderry station ?
Did you know that history professor Hiraizumi Kiyoshi believed Emperor Jimmu to have been a real historical figure?
Did you know that a 19th-century country house with a ruined monastery in Winchelsea , England, was put on the market for £4.5 million in 2015?
Did you know that Peter Force 's library is considered to be the most important collection of military manuscripts and maps from the American Revolution ?
Did you know that after 50 years in business, S.W. Randall Toyes and Giftes is both a landmark and a stop on "Haunted Pittsburgh" tours?
Did you know that Corona , named after Corona , is fighting corona ?
Did you know that the Aberbargoed Grasslands in Wales were designated a Special Area of Conservation primarily due to their population of marsh fritillary butterflies, which had been threatened by an arson attack?
Did you know that sculptor Dan Lam was born in a refugee camp in Morong , Philippines?
Did you know that a deep-sea fish known as a black ruff was caught in a salmon net in the Firth of Forth and donated to the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art in 1901?
Did you know that the offices of the Chanin Organization in New York City's Chanin Building contained "America's finest bathroom" and a set of ornate bronze gates?
Did you know that Japanese voice actor Shugo Nakamura , who has voiced characters in The Idolmaster SideM and other anime series, was recognized as one of the Best New Actors at the 2019 Seiyu Awards ?
Did you know that musician Finneas made a cameo appearance as an Uber driver in the music video for Tove Lo 's song " Bikini Porn "?
Did you know that at the age of 10, Sky Brown became the youngest professional skateboarder in the world?
Did you know that during the 1981 Benson & Hedges Cup Final , a domestic cricket match in England, two West Indian players set new batting and bowling records?
Did you know that Richard J. Daronco was a United States federal judge for just over a year before he was assassinated by the father of a disgruntled plaintiff?
Did you know that academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in Connemara , Ireland, that "nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question"?
Did you know that political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse has written a book on the flexibility of the American national identity ?
Did you know that due to its similarity to the coronavirus pandemic , Warner Bros. ' second most successful film of 2020 so far is 2011's Contagion ?
Did you know that while studying dance, Anca Giurchescu joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 European Shooting Championships ?
Did you know that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church " in Ryde , England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it?
Did you know that the systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad , Slovakia?
Did you know that Chiara Daraio has used a version of Newton's cradle to create "sound bullets", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound?
Did you know that the Union Church in Hong Kong was temporarily moved to the officers' mess of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps from 1945 to 1949?
Did you know that Senator Ted Kennedy 's 1980 presidential campaign may have weakened support for incumbent U.S. president Jimmy Carter , who later lost the general election ?
Did you know that the Palazzo del Governatore di Borgo in Rome was one of the first buildings to display architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger 's artistic maturity?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, Charles B. Norton offered to hide Peter Force 's large library for fear of a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that High Peak Borough Council dyed a lake black at Harpur Hill Quarry in Derbyshire , England, to deter swimmers from entering the caustic waters?
Did you know that Kurdish nationalist Dara Tawfiq was the editor of Iraq's only independent newspaper in the early 1970s?
Did you know that records from the National Archives at Seattle are planned to be moved to California and to Kansas City, Missouri ?
Did you know that in 1918, Edith A. Ellis advocated an all-female government with the slogan "Insist that no man shall occupy a position that a woman can fill"?
Did you know that the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Luis Parra and six other Venezuelan politicians in relation to an alleged corruption plot ?
Did you know that Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski , a Polish Catholic couple, were posthumously recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for having sheltered a Jewish girl during the Holocaust?
Did you know that the winged wheel on the coat of arms of the Institution of Municipal Engineers represented traffic and machinery?
Did you know that the song " I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales " was inspired by Edna Deane being asked for a dance nine times by the future Edward VIII ?
Did you know that Edgar Wright , director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , thinks that the film is different from other comedies because it has "a lot of funny women in it"?
Did you know that Gaelic footballer Seán Quigley was banned for one game for turning off the lights in a stadium tunnel?
Did you know that the Merthyr Mawr Sand Dunes in Wales doubled for the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia ?
Did you know that James Blunt wrote " Monsters " to express his feelings about his father and his father's illness?
Did you know that the Reverend Raphael Warnock has hosted Al Gore at his church , and been arrested at the Georgia State Capitol ?
Did you know that darts player Tony David won the 2002 BDO World Darts Championship despite having haemophilia , which prevents him from straightening his throwing arm?
Did you know that in 1725 Hans Sloane described a plant he called Prickly-Pole as the Jamaican tree species that was "the most fit to make Rods and Scowrers for Guns"?
Did you know that J. Hunter Guthrie , president of Georgetown University , disbanded the university's football program because he considered it unprofitable and inconsistent with a Catholic university 's mission?
Did you know that despite being known as the Kerry lily , the perennial plant has a much wider distribution outside Ireland?
Did you know that Papuan-born Silas Papare , who originally held pro-Dutch views, became pro-republican after World War II and founded the Indonesian Irian Independence Party ?
Did you know that 21 West Street in New York City is possibly the first commercial building in the U.S. to have windows wrapping around the corners?
Did you know that the manga series A Man and His Cat was initially self-published, with entries posted weekly on the author's Twitter account?
Did you know that Gerry Culliton was banned from hurling after being seen playing rugby, and later represented Ireland in rugby internationally?
Did you know that a 2020 documentary about Pepe the Frog raises the question of whether Pepe can be redeemed?
Did you know that Odile Pierre , who became interested in the organ at a recital by Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself?
Did you know that in Florida, winged termites are sometimes found stuck to wet foliage, buildings, or vehicles after rain?
Did you know that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element ?
Did you know that any tetrahedron that has integer edge lengths, face areas, and volume can be given in integer vertex coordinates?
Did you know that " Baby Yoda " is considered the breakout character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian ?
Did you know that Mariya Takeuchi 's 1984 song " Plastic Love " saw an international resurgence in 2017?
Did you know that poet and scholar Robert L. Kahn , who escaped Nazi Germany with a Kindertransport , became a professor of German at Rice University in Houston, Texas?
Did you know that a 1978 Jammu and Kashmir law enacted by Sheikh Abdullah was eventually used to detain his son and his grandson ?
Did you know that psychologist Susan Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"?
Did you know that contrary to popular belief, a hatch in the roof of the Cleveland Tunnel in Bath was probably not used to pass paperwork between office workers above and vessels below?
Did you know that " Democracy Dies in Darkness " is the first slogan ever to be adopted by The Washington Post ?
Did you know that video game director Aya Kyogoku created Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a team that was half female, and credits the team's diversity for the game's critical and commercial success?
Did you know that mass graves in the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland might contain bodies from a tsunami 5,500 years ago ?
Did you know that Russia and Belarus fought an eleven-day Milk War ?
Did you know that television station KTVE in Longview, Texas , broadcast the 1954 World Series without permission, and was ordered to cease and desist by the NBC network?
Did you know that at the age of 11, Gabrielle Reidy made her first appearance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin?
Did you know that the Washington Hall hotel was destroyed during the Battle of Atlanta as part of General Sherman 's scorched-earth policy?
Did you know that an erotic manga series by Milk Morizono received complaints from the police, parent–teacher associations, housewife groups, and politicians?
Did you know that the 1985 British Open was the first ranking snooker tournament not to feature a British player in the final?
Did you know that J. Havens Richards , the president of Georgetown University , successfully petitioned Harvard Law School to admit the graduates of some Catholic colleges?
Did you know that the first football match held after the renovation of Milltown stadium in Northern Ireland was abandoned due to a floodlight failure?
Did you know that unlike most soft scale insects, the adult female pyriform scale is able to move around?
Did you know that Welsh boxer Steve Sims has trained for fights by running up and down the 290 steps of the Newport Transporter Bridge ten times a day?
Did you know that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority twice built new lines bypassing JFK/UMass station , only to add platforms later?
Did you know that negotiations for the Indonesia–Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement were hindered by spying and executions ?
Did you know that Pier 40 , a sports facility in New York City's Hudson River Park , was formerly a cargo terminal?
Did you know that Llerena Friend , the first director of the Barker Center for Texas History, lived in 24 different homes during her youth?
Did you know that IXI Limited was one of many computer companies to sprout from an acorn ?
Did you know that Mayerlin Rivas held World Boxing Association world championship titles in both bantamweight and super bantamweight classes?
Did you know that Jay Electronica began recording his 2007 mixtape Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) on a built-in laptop microphone?
Did you know that Aditi Kapil 's Imogen Says Nothing is inspired by a ghost character in Much Ado About Nothing ?
Did you know that Union Station in Walpole, Massachusetts , was the site of the last semaphore signals in New England?
Did you know that Canadian professor Robert Steadward became the founding president of the International Paralympic Committee in 1989?
Did you know that the sea cucumber Actinopyga agassizii has five teeth surrounding its anus?
Did you know that composer Payal Dev used multiple instruments in the 2019 Hindi ballad " Tum Hi Aana " to "give it the right amount of emotions"?
Did you know that Cleveland Museum of Art director William Griswold negotiated the restitution of a Hanuman sculpture and a portrait of Drusus Julius Caesar after their questionable provenances were discovered?
Did you know that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women , which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts?
Did you know that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II ?
Did you know that the sea slug Berthella ocellata hides during the day and feeds on sponges such as Corticium candelabrum at night?
Did you know that Charles Carroll MacTavish , the great-grandson of a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence , was briefly a member of the British House of Commons ?
Did you know that the Apache Powder Company used a fleet of fireless locomotives to prevent accidental explosions?
Did you know that David Leleo Kinimaka was the first member of the Royal Guards of Hawaii to voluntarily leave the ranks during an 1873 mutiny at ʻIolani Barracks ?
Did you know that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief , with seven figures of Shiva , was found in Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
Did you know that violinist Günter Kehr , director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory from 1953, founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio that toured South America, North Africa, and the Near East?
Did you know that the premiere of the television series Arrow 's fourth season is the first time that the title character is referred to by his comics moniker Green Arrow ?
Did you know that boxer Angélique Duchemin was an undefeated French, European, and world champion?
Did you know that 26 Broadway , the former New York City headquarters of Standard Oil , has a pyramidal tower that once contained a kerosene-burning cauldron ?
Did you know that the residents of Ely, Cardiff , rioted over the sale of bread in 1991?
Did you know that Frieda Caplan , a pioneer of the specialty-produce industry in the U.S., introduced the kiwifruit to the American market?
Did you know that Dubarry Park hosted the Irish rugby union team 's home matches in the Six Nations Under 20s Championship between 2005 and 2015?
Did you know that Haraguchi Kensai led the Imperial Japanese Army 's 13th Division in the invasion of Sakhalin ?
Did you know that Ohio television station WSWO-TV went off the air the same week that its owner was arrested for stealing equipment from other stations?
Did you know that for more than a decade, wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya 's father travelled daily from his village to Delhi to deliver milk and fruits to him?
Did you know that a new wireless-charging standard for electric vehicles guides the driver over the charging spot by triangulating the charger's signal?
Did you know that Nikolai Moskvitelev , a former officer in the Soviet Air Defence Forces , was still flying in old age – including a Sukhoi Su-30 on his 80th birthday, and a Yakovlev Yak-52 just before his 90th?
Did you know that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs , including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
Did you know that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"?
Did you know that Walter M. Giffard was a member of the Republic of Hawaii 's Committee to Destroy Postage Stamps, Postcards and Stamped Envelopes?
Did you know that the 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup was the first snooker event to be held at Wembley Conference Centre ?
Did you know that Vasily Savvin was the last commander of the Internal Troops of the Soviet Union, and the first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia ?
Did you know that The Red Dragon magazine was intended to "make known to the greater English world the characteristics and aims of the Welsh people and the beauties of their language and literature"?
Did you know that comedian Bill Burr disliked Star Wars and regularly mocked the franchise until he portrayed a character in it ?
Did you know that Joywave 's third album Possession incorporates samples of audio from the Voyager Golden Record into its songs?
Did you know that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
Did you know that larvae of the tube worm Hydroides ezoensis prefer to settle on a substrate already inhabited by other worms of their own species?
Did you know that Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not explicitly endorse married Catholic priests , despite being called for by the Amazon synod ?
Did you know that in a January 2020 Premiership Rugby match, referee Luke Pearce appointed Manu Vunipola as Saracens captain, after Pearce decided that he did not want to speak with Jackson Wray ?
Did you know that future president John F. Kennedy came in second to Senator Estes Kefauver in the 1956 Democratic vice-presidential ballot ?
Did you know that the design of the 2018 Melita bullion coins is based on a series of stamps issued almost a century earlier?
Did you know that past eruptions of Cadamosto Seamount dispersed volcanic ash underwater over thousands of square kilometres?
Did you know that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day?
Did you know that in the collection Madwoman , Jamaican-American poet Shara McCallum uses both English and Patwa , a creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
Did you know that Estonian general and former Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson was arrested by NKVD while working on his farm?
Did you know that the American Stock Exchange Building was built to get the New York Curb Exchange off the street?
Did you know that the nucleoid keeps the bulk of a bacterium 's DNA both compact and well organized?
Did you know that a pub on Wincheap in Canterbury is believed to be the oldest continuously trading in the city?
Did you know that O salutaris hostia (O saving victim), a setting of a Eucharistic hymn for mixed choir by Vytautas Miškinis , was performed in Brussels when Lithuania held the EU Council presidency ?
Did you know that professor Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported?
Did you know that trailers for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End were shown before select screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ?
Did you know that a course in Spanish North American history that Nettie Lee Benson took at the University of Texas inspired her lifelong interest in teaching and building libraries for Latin American studies ?
Did you know that asphaltite powers Şırnak Silopi ?
Did you know that Joseph Stoddart was acknowledged as "one of the founding fathers" of intensive care in the UK?
Did you know that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of Jesse Owens 's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
Did you know that the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen wrote his dissertation on the chronology of Bach's compositions , and influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe , the second complete edition of his works?
Did you know that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor James E. Ferguson , but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later impeached ?
Did you know that the British regulator Ofcom received more than 400 complaints over the Pussycat Dolls ' decision to wear sheer PVC outfits during their live performance of " React " on a family programme ?
Did you know that former slave Dorothy Thomas purchased her own manumission , but later employed slaves as hucksters ?
Did you know that the title of the play The House of Yes came from a piece of bathroom graffiti seen by its author?
Did you know that the Hebrides Terrace Seamount , west-southwest of the Scottish Hebrides , hosts "coral gardens" where numerous other animals live?
Did you know that industrialists John Huntington , Hinman Hurlbut , and Horace Kelley each independently bequeathed funds that would be used to form the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913?
Did you know that Toyota won the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans , becoming the first Japanese car manufacturer to win the race since Mazda in the 1991 edition ?
Did you know that three communities in New Hampshire vote at midnight during the state's presidential primaries and elections ?
Did you know that after vehicle thief Líctor Hazael Marroquín García died in 1985, a Mexican drug lord sent flowers to his grave twice a year?
Did you know that the 2005 BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo 's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in Chad , where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
Did you know that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as sea slugs , to study memory?
Did you know that Heidi Cruz , wife of U.S. senator Ted Cruz , is the primary breadwinner of the family?
Did you know that Angelina Atyam was awarded the 1998 UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights for campaigning for the release of captive children, including her own daughter kidnapped by Ugandan guerrillas ?