kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that KaBOOM! founder Darell Hammond was raised in a group home with his seven siblings?
Did you know that Spring Canyon, Utah , the largest coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah , was abandoned in 1969 and nothing remains of the town except a railroad trestle ?
Did you know that Don Doll , the only player in NFL history to register 10 or more interceptions in 3 separate seasons, changed his surname to "Doll" after being discharged from the Marines ?
Did you know that Sverre Iversen , Norway's first director of the Director of Labour , took voice classes in order to work himself up from being a mason ?
Did you know that even though Wesleyan missionaries described the fortified settlement of ǁKhauxaǃnas in the 1840s its ruins have only been rediscovered in 1986?
Did you know that architect Togo Murano designed the first class lounge and dining room for the luxury liner Argentina Maru that was sunk in World War II after being converted into an aircraft carrier ?
Did you know that Princeton coach Franklin Cappon led the 1958–59 and 1959–60 teams to the Ivy League basketball championships, but a heart attack caused him to give up control of the champion 1960–61 team ?
Did you know that Tore Holden was chosen as host of the Norwegian version of the Swedish game show BingoLotto without prior TV host experience?
Did you know that the commune of Hiesville has three memorials related to the invasion of Normandy during World War II in the area as it was where the gliders of the 101st Airborne Division landed?
Did you know that Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck were called "one of the driving forces in North American horticulture", while their gardens in Vermont were said to represent "American gardening at its best"?
Did you know that the recently described extinct penguin Inkayacu from the Eocene of Peru is postulated to have had gray and reddish brown feathers, unlike the black and white feathers of living penguins?
Did you know that James Stovall created Nativity: A Life Story as an African American -themed annual musical Nativity play intended to rival the Radio City Christmas Spectacular ?
Did you know that the Place d'Armes in Luxembourg City originally served as a parade ground for the troops defending the city?
Did you know that tour guide/social activist Carlos Celdran was arrested for protesting Catholic Church interference in Philippine politics after he held a protest action that disrupted a mass in Manila Cathedral ?
Did you know that Inez Haynes Gillmore 's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"?
Did you know that Steve Munisteri , the chairman of the Texas Republican Party , met his former wife on a bus trip from Austin to Kansas City to attend the 1976 Republican National Convention ?
Did you know that the St. James Theatre, Auckland underwent renovations in preparation for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II , who attended a film premiere there in 1953?
Did you know that Irish barrister and philatelist William Russell Lane-Joynt was a four-time Revolver Champion of Ireland and won a silver medal for Great Britain in shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that during motor-paced racing , cyclists can reach a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph)?
Did you know that the anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream was released on DVD and Blu-ray alongside the film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom ?
Did you know that a poll once found that 99 percent of Somalis in the United Kingdom listen to the BBC Somali Service ?
Did you know that the pygmy locust lobster is too small for fishing ?
Did you know that one of the six buildings in the Stafford Village Four Corners Historic District is the oldest extant house in Genesee County, New York ?
Did you know that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata , Japan , as a medical student?
Did you know that the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies gives the annual Una Padel Award in memory of its former director ?
Did you know that in Holy Trinity Church, Blatherwycke , Northamptonshire , is a memorial to the poet Thomas Randolph who died while visiting Blatherwyke Hall?
Did you know that Gay Street is the setting for events described in literary works by James Agee , Cormac McCarthy , Mark Twain , and George Washington Harris ?
Did you know that 19th-century Boston artist Frank Hill Smith lived in the Sunflower House, a cheery yellow and red edifice adorned with a huge sunflower and a winged lion?
Did you know that former Scientology official Mike Rinder was called a " whistleblower " for his appearance on the BBC Panorama documentary , The Secrets of Scientology ?
Did you know that Peter Endrulat never played in the Fußball-Bundesliga again after conceding 12 goals for Borussia Mönchengladbach 's record 12–0 league victory over Borussia Dortmund ?
Did you know that The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795), by William Blake , represents the Feminine Will upon a patriarchal Christianity ?
Did you know that the poisonous mushroom Inocybe cookei smells faintly of honey ?
Did you know that Nicholas Benson is a third-generation stone carver and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow ?
Did you know that, rather than paying property taxes on land it had clear-cut , the Jackson Lumber Company donated the land that is now Geneva State Forest to Alabama ?
Did you know that the Throne of Weapons which has been exhibited in British schools is made from AK-47s ?
Did you know that George Ballis , whose photographs documented the efforts of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers , learned his craft from a class he took with Great Depression photojournalist Dorothea Lange ?
Did you know that the designers of Cabbage Patch Kids created Selchow and Righter 's Scrabble People, the title characters of 1985's syndicated cartoon special A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense ?
Did you know that Gus Bevona resigned from local SEIU 32BJ in 1999, in the face of criticism for annual pay of US$ 531,529 in 1997, more than 17 times the salary of the janitors and building workers he represented?
Did you know that Operation Trident was set up by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community ?
Did you know that it was assumed Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz would succeed Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands , as his mother and cousin were expected to give up their claims to the throne?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Enterprise had a wooden hull and iron upperworks which made her the first ship of composite construction in the Royal Navy ?
Did you know that residents of Colonia Peralvillo in Mexico City burned in effigy the three presidential candidates of the Mexican general election, 2000 after staging a mock trial?
Did you know that in addition to delivering 6,000 babies, obstetrician William Harrison performed 20,000 abortions , eventually becoming the only physician in Northwest Arkansas to perform the procedure?
Did you know that research by Dorothy M. Horstmann and Robert W. McCollum at Yale University showed that the poliovirus reached the brain by way of the blood, leading to the development of the polio vaccine in the early 1950s?
Did you know that the Ryan Premises , a national historic site in Newfoundland and Labrador , was opened by Queen Elizabeth II to mark the 500th anniversary of John Cabot 's landing in Bonavista ?
Did you know that Nazi and neo-Nazi sympathizer Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld translated numerous works into German , including Paul Rassinier 's Holocaust-denying work The Drama of European Jews ?
Did you know that the Kiruna Mine located in Kiruna , Sweden , is the largest and most modern underground iron ore mine in the world?
Did you know that out of a total of eight training venues for rugby sevens at the 2010 Commonwealth Games , seven are colleges of Delhi University ?
Did you know that when cut or injured, the poisonous mushroom Lactarius vinaceorufescens will ooze a white latex that rapidly turns sulfur-yellow?
Did you know that Elizabeth Turk was a Washington, D.C. , lobbyist before she became a sculptor and was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow ?
Did you know that the captain of the Swedish river monitor HMS Garmer had to steer the ship as well as aim and fire her gun?
Did you know that Larry Bird 's hometown team, the Indiana Pacers , did not draft him in the 1978 NBA Draft because they could not convince him to leave college early?
Did you know that chef Josh Capon was able to cook a three-course fish dinner for four on The Early Show Saturday Edition 's "Chefs on a Shoestring" challenge while spending less than $10 per person?
Did you know that for centuries, the Roman marble Torlonia Vase was the largest in diameter of known antique vases ?
Did you know that 19th-century Albanian rilindas Zef Jubani argued that the Albanian language should have a unique alphabet since it was a unique language?
Did you know that HMS Minotaur and her sisters were called "the dullest performers under canvas of the whole masted fleet of their day, and no ships ever carried so much dress to so little purpose"?
Did you know that Whitefriars , a Carmelite foundation in Bristol , England , was described by 16th-century antiquary John Leland as "the fairest friary in England"?
Did you know that epidemiologist Joseph L. Melnick found that polio chiefly spread through fecal contamination, usually by soiled hands, and that the poliovirus could survive for extended periods in sewage ?
Did you know that French artist Eugène Delacroix is said to have used his own pet cat as a model to paint the tigers of A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother (1830)?
Did you know that the 2009 French comedy Neuilly sa mère ! revisits themes of social inequality that were explored in the 1988 French comedy Life is a Long Quiet River ?
Did you know that the Russian battleship Sevastopol was the only battleship not salvaged by the Japanese at Port Arthur , following destruction of the Russian Fleet ?
Did you know that Mexican cuisine chef Sue Torres ' restaurant Sueños was listed in Vogue magazine as "Taster's choice" by critic Jeffrey Steingarten , describing it as "one of the lasting 4 monuments" of 2003?
Did you know that at the time of his death in 1995, former Gunsmoke director Robert Totten was scheduled to direct a television series based on Lonesome Dove ?
Did you know that before joining the Ivy League , Princeton Tigers men's basketball won six Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League college basketball conference championships: 1922 , 1925 , 1932 , 1950 , 1952 , 1955 ?
Did you know that the two claiming Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24 , 1619, but in different places?
Did you know that the Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Park was launched in 2009 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Thailand ?
Did you know that Bubble Wrap , which was originally designed to be wallpaper , was invented when two men sealed shower curtains together?
Did you know that the Yamaha XV1900 is the largest Yamaha V-twin motorcycle in production?
Did you know that a Village Defence Party is organised on the basis of one platoon of men and one platoon of women for each village in Bangladesh ?
Did you know that the first use of bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to the Amalfi Cathedral , and they came from Constantinople ?
Did you know that Dutch dressage rider Edward Gal and his horse have been called "rock stars in the horse world" after setting multiple world records in top competition?
Did you know that Deam Lake State Recreation Area is named for Charles C. Deam , who was the first state forester of Indiana and discovered 25 new plant species ?
Did you know that after BingoLotto in Norway was launched in 1993 and cancelled in 1994, an attempted revival in 1996 was stalled and stopped by the government in 1998 after being a part of the election campaign in 1997?
Did you know that Grainsby Halt railway station served a Victorian hall in Lincolnshire which was later said to be haunted?
Did you know that Jimi Heselden , owner of the company that makes the Segway personal transport system , died after a Segway he was riding fell off a cliff?
Did you know that "Jack" Jackson, who was called "the last slave in New Jersey ", died and was buried at the Abel I. Smith Burial Ground in 1875?
Did you know that while mainly charged with maintaining law and order, Bangladesh Ansars are also assigned to help in schemes promoting local development?
Did you know that the Great Flood of 1862 inundated or swept away towns, mills, dams, flumes, houses, fences, and domestic animals in Oregon , California , Nevada , and Arizona ?
Did you know that the people of the Pakuashipi settlement in Quebec , Canada , are considered the most traditional and conservative Innu band, both in terms of culture and language?
Did you know that Montana Territorial Governor Benjamin F. White founded the city of Dillon ?
Did you know that in 2008, part of Carlton Hill —originally one of Brighton 's poorest slums—became one of 34 conservation areas in the city ?
Did you know that Irving J. Moore directed the 1980 episode " Who shot J.R.? " of the CBS soap opera Dallas ?
Did you know that the Chesterfield Island , butterfly , and New Caledonian stingarees are all found off the Chesterfield Islands , the first two nowhere else ?
Did you know that in 1538, Richard Ingworth reported that the warden of Greyfriars, Bristol was "stiff", continuing, "yet for all his great port, I think him 20 marks in debt, and not able to pay it"?
Did you know that Bob Mann , the first black player for Detroit and Green Bay , claimed he was "railroaded" out of football when he objected to a pay cut after leading the NFL in receiving yards?
Did you know that shortly after its inauguration, part of the Gilgel Gibe II Power Station 's 26 km (16 mi) tunnel, which was "considered one of the most difficult tunnel projects ever undertaken", collapsed?
Did you know that Italian Iron Chef Mario Batali claimed that American chef Jody Williams was one of his favorite cooks in the world?
Did you know that in 2009, the Seattle Mariners drafted Dustin Ackley , Kyle Seager, and Brian Moran , who were all teammates on the North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team?
Did you know that Babatunde Jose has been described as the "grandfather of Nigerian journalism"?
Did you know that one critic called Scribe's second album Rhyme Book an "attempt to be considered the Aotearoa version of Kanye West "?
Did you know that silent shorts featuring Fred Evans as "Pimple" rivalled those of Charlie Chaplin for popularity and have been described as "proto- Pythonesque "?
Did you know that Marilyn McAdams Sibley wrote histories of both the Port of Houston and The Methodist Hospital of Houston , Texas ?
Did you know that the geography of New York includes the Adirondack Park , the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States ?
Did you know that the 2003 Twenty20 Cup included the first-ever Twenty20 cricket match, played between the Hampshire Hawks and the Sussex Sharks ?
Did you know that Barbara Scherler of the Deutsche Oper Berlin recorded Bach's Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72 with Fritz Werner's Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn ?
Did you know that the TLC reality television series Sister Wives follows a polygamist family of four wives and 16 children living in Lehi , Utah ?
Did you know that Samuel Bowman was selected to be a bishop in the Episcopal Church three times, but did not take office until his third selection in 1858?
Did you know that the Aurora mine , located in Beaufort County , North Carolina , is the largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world?
Did you know that Sharon Cherop fell over at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon but got back up and ran the fastest marathon ever by a woman in Canada ?
Did you know that the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League , which is the Ivy League 's predecessor, was founded by Basketball Hall of Famer Ralph Morgan ?
Did you know that the expiration date of a drug required for lethal injection was a factor in delaying the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown until 2011?
Did you know that a mural in the Spring Valley, New York , post office , called Waiting for the Mail , shows how mail can reach even the most isolated person?
Did you know that during World War II , Kalaymyo was an important regroup point for the British during their retreat from Burma in 1942?
Did you know that three months after being rushed from a game to the hospital with a brain aneurysm , Swedish ice hockey forward William Wallén was back on the ice, playing for the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors ?
Did you know that Ralph T. Coe , described as "enormously significant in the growth of appreciation of Native American art in the 20th century", began his collection after seeing a totem pole in a Manhattan shop?
Did you know that the British ironclad HMS Valiant had to wait nearly five years after she was launched to receive her rifled muzzle-loading guns ?
Did you know that an amicus brief to the courts in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association argues that Super Mario Bros. is a violent video game?
Did you know that the Elias Abel House is the best-preserved historic I-house in Bloomington, Indiana ?
Did you know that Turkish Army 's Güvercinlik Air Base was the first civil airport of Ankara that served as such from 1933 until 1955?
Did you know that Beatrix Potter registered The Game of Peter Rabbit at Stationers' Hall before the game board or the rules had been perfected?
Did you know that the Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless , who founded the first missionary medical school in India ?
Did you know that Scotsman Walter Forrester , future bishop of Brechin , was rector of the University of Paris between October and December 1395?
Did you know that " You Are the Girl " was The Cars ' only Top 40 hit after they regrouped from a three-year hiatus in 1987?
Did you know that Miriam Shapira-Luria , known for her beauty, taught Talmud to elite young men from behind a curtain so that they would not get distracted by her appearance?
Did you know that George E. Hearn was the first licensed industrial psychologist in his native Louisiana ?
Did you know that The Cosmic Landscape by Leonard Susskind is mainly about "the scientific explanations of the apparent miracles of physics and cosmology and its philosophical implications"?
Did you know that attorney Jack Kershaw sculpted a monument to Confederate Army general and KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1998, arguing that "somebody needs to say a good word for slavery "?
Did you know that after assaulting bishop of Brechin John de Crannach in his own cathedral , in 1435 the archdeacon of Brechin was excommunicated ?
Did you know that the German SMS Kronprinz was the only König -class battleship to escape damage at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916?
Did you know that England was invaded by the French in 1216 ?
Did you know that sexologist James M. Cantor found that male pedophiles have significantly less white matter in their brains than do control subjects ?
Did you know that though the Spanish naval gunboat Ligera fired 10 shots and the American naval gunboat Foote fired 70 in the Action of 25 April 1898 , Foote was heavily damaged but Ligera was hit only once?
Did you know that Iranian caricaturist and satirist Javad has created a scientific/philosophical cartoon on the theory of relativity entitled 4D Humor ?
Did you know that Jo Andrews , former political correspondent for ITN , was the first woman to join press conferences held by the Labour Party during the run-up to the United Kingdom general election of 2001 ?
Did you know that the married couple who founded the Windsor Mountain School in Massachusetts had previously established a school in Germany ?
Did you know that all three singles from Scribe's debut album, The Crusader , including " Dreaming "/" So Nice ", were double A-sides ?
Did you know that according to Elizabeth Gaskell , Maria Brontë was the inspiration for the character of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre ?
Did you know that the National D-Day Museum honored Beth Courtney , president of Louisiana Public Broadcasting , for co-hosting a three-hour, live tribute to World War II veterans from Louisiana ?
Did you know that tenor Werner Güra recorded with Harnoncourt and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor at the Musikverein , Bach's cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29 ?
Did you know that the chicken wire statue who once rode behind the Cardiff Kook was retired to a ranch with poinsettias ?
Did you know that the Bulqizë , Kalimashi 1 , Kalimashi 3 , Krasta , Përroi Batrës , Qaf-Buall , Vlahna and Zogaj mines are the only mines in Albania to have reserves of over 1 million tonnes of chromium ore?
Did you know that a granddaughter of German businessman Paul Isenberg was the first manager of the Kauaʻi Museum ?
Did you know that in the season premiere episode of the fifth season of the television comedy series 30 Rock , the Jack Donaghy character makes reference to the Fabian strategy ?
Did you know that during his time on Purdue University's baseball team, pitcher Matt Bischoff broke the school's single-season and career strikeout records?
Did you know that piers of the 1,378-metre (4,521 ft) Mirna Bridge on the Croatian A9 motorway were designed to support a concave deck in order to reduce weight of the bridge?
Did you know that Bernard Carvalho , the current Mayor of Kauai , was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in 1984 after attending the University of Hawaii on a full football scholarship?
Did you know that Hawaiian sugar plantation owner Albert Spencer Wilcox was the son of Abner Wilcox , a New England missionary teacher to Hawaii?
Did you know that during the Crimean War , Captains Arthur Cumming and Astley Cooper Key took control of the town of Libau with just 110 men, without firing a shot?
Did you know that when first described, the extinct bird Cruschedula was thought to be a "dry-land" penguin ?
Did you know that Michigan 's All-American 60-minute man Tom Johnson was the second African-American player for the Green Bay Packers ?
Did you know that for the 1999 reissue of The Cars ' 1978 debut album , no usable demo of their single " Good Times Roll " could be found?
Did you know that Ruck machine gun posts were built from prefabricated sections, paving slabs, sandbags and rammed earth?
Did you know that Dubois' seasnake is one of at least seventeen sea snake species living in the Coral Sea , and has the world's most toxic sea snake venom ?
Did you know that 19th-century publicist Anastas Byku held that the Albanians were descendants of the Pelasgians and the Illyrians ?
Did you know that within four months footballer Barry Endean went from playing for an amateur team in a public park to lining up against Manchester United at Old Trafford ?
Did you know that the wax flowers of eastern Australia are members of the citrus family , while those from the west are of the myrtle family ?
Did you know that eccentric tycoon Ian Stuart Millar's seafront home in Hove , England, was built of specially commissioned handmade bricks—the leftovers of which were reputedly buried elsewhere in Hove?
Did you know that following the London premiere of Fabio Campana 's opera Esmeralda in 1870, The Saturday Review pronounced it "irredeemably bad"?
Did you know that Larry Taylor returned a punt for a touchdown in each of the Connecticut Huskies football team's first two bowl games : the 2004 Motor City Bowl and the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl ?
Did you know that Maui 's present mayor , Charmaine Tavares , is the daughter of the island's longest-serving mayor, Hannibal Tavares ?
Did you know that the Jagiellonian tapestries became state property of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the testament of King Sigismund II Augustus ?
Did you know that a veal and ham pie is a critical plot element in Beatrix Potter 's The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan ?
Did you know that Vinnie Doyle , one of the longest-serving editors in the newspaper business in Ireland , was editor of the Irish Independent for 24 years?