kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Charles Spalding , who improved the diving bell by adding a system of balance-weights, also owned a sweet shop ?
Did you know that Blackbird Vineyards ' red wine, Arise, features blackbirds sitting on a telephone wire in the same layout as the starting notes of the Beatles ' song " Blackbird "?
Did you know that Ernest Melville DuPorte , "a father of confederation for entomology", was the first Black Canadian to teach at McGill University ?
Did you know that if Welsh team Swansea City win in the 2013 Football League Cup Final , they will represent England in the Europa League ?
Did you know that promotional efforts for U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor 's best-selling memoir My Beloved World caused the time of Vice President Joe Biden 's second-term swearing-in to be changed?
Did you know that director Kamila Andini married director Ifa Isfansyah the year after their films competed against each other at the Indonesian Film Festival ?
Did you know that the Umayyad ruler Mu'awiyah had building material from the ruins of Paltos , currently the village of Arab al-Mulk in Syria , used to reconstruct nearby Jableh ?
Did you know that, after opposing the separation of eastern Tennessee from North Carolina, John Tipton helped draft Tennessee's first state constitution and served in the new state's legislature?
Did you know that Nockatunga Station occupies an area of approximately 8,500 square kilometres (3,282 sq mi), making it almost as large as Puerto Rico ?
Did you know that William Fincke , an All-American quarterback at Yale in 1900, became a pacifist minister and founder of the Brookwood Labor College and Manumit School ?
Did you know that because of the 2011 Bahraini uprising , the Philippine government temporarily banned the entrance of Filipinos into Bahrain ?
Did you know that Charles Stross 's science-fiction novel Singularity Sky inspired a proposal to undermine the Taliban by giving every Afghan a free mobile phone?
Did you know that Cornulaca monacantha is a spiny desert plant that provides good grazing for camels ?
Did you know that the Mauritanian commune of Ten Hamadi has an estimated 10,340 goats?
Did you know that American printmaker Chaim Koppelman produced many works about Napoleon throughout his career, placing the French Emperor in surprising settings such as Napoleon Entering Brighton Beach ?
Did you know that a Serbian monk named Lazar built the first mechanical clock in Russia in 1404, one of the first in Europe, at the request of Vasily I of Moscow ?
Did you know that Franz Schubert 's sixth and final mass was not performed until October 1829, almost a full year after his death?
Did you know that Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley , is said to have rebuilt Caludon Castle in about 1580 after its deterioration following the 1398 banishment from England of Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk ?
Did you know that one of the Easter traditions in Poland includes making and displaying of the Easter palm , the tallest of which can reach over 30 metres (98 ft)?
Did you know that Patrick J. Hanratty , the "father of CAD / CAM ", is a gold prospector ?
Did you know that red ochre was officially sanctioned a national colour of New Zealand in 1975 with the introduction of the Queen's Service Order civilian award?
Did you know that Corporal K. Chandana , a member of a Sri Lanka Army LRRP unit, was killed in 2008 while he covered the retreat of his team deep behind enemy lines?
Did you know that the University of Michigan , founded twenty years before the Michigan Territory became a U.S. state, is Michigan's oldest university ?
Did you know that Lilac rabbits are penalized at British shows for having white hairs in their armpits ?
Did you know that in Armenian television, the Yerevan dialect is used more than the standard language?
Did you know that Sergeant H. G. S. Bandara posthumously received the last Parama Weera Vibhushanaya of the Sri Lankan Civil War , having distinguished himself in battle just two days before it ended?
Did you know that exploration of the fourth dimension in art led to "an explosive, nuclear and hypercubic" crucifixion?
Did you know that Dr. Frank William Green worked on horseback as a physician along the Canadian Pacific Railway ?
Did you know that South African model Reeva Steenkamp appeared in the reality TV show Tropika Island of Treasure which premiered two days after her death?
Did you know that Countess Wilhelmina von Hallwyl acquired such a large art collection, including European paintings and Asian porcelain, that its catalogue contained 50,000 entries spanning 79 printed volumes?
Did you know that circular layouts , in which the nodes of a graph are drawn on a circle, have been used to visualize the cyclic parts of metabolic networks ?
Did you know that the testimony of Holocaust survivors like Louis Micheels helped to acquit an SS physician, Hans Münch , at the 1947 Auschwitz trials ?
Did you know that the One Direction song " Rock Me " was composed in a single-day collaboration between Peter Svensson of the Swedish band the Cardigans , Allan Grigg , and Sam Hollander?
Did you know that the 17-game start of the Hershey Bears 2012–13 season was the team's worst in eight years?
Did you know that dhumpa sangita is a musical art form from Odisha , India , created by the Oriya poet Kavisurya Baladev Rath ?
Did you know that Leslie Finer 's reports during the 21 April 1967 coup d'état in Greece prompted the junta to buy all the newspapers which carried his articles?
Did you know that multi-bacterial infection resulting from the contamination of wounds by oral flora often complicates the recovery for survivors of leopard attacks ?
Did you know that artist Washington Bogart Cooper was called "the man of a thousand portraits"?
Did you know that the music video for " Amor Puro " was filmed at the St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a building built in 1133 AD in Spain and dismantled and sent to New York in more than 11,000 crates in 1925?
Did you know that Sasipada Banerji is credited with founding the first women's journal in Bengali and Bharat Sramajivi , the first Indian journal of the working class?
Did you know that Operation Graffham was a Second World War political deception intended to convince the Swedish government that the Allied nations were about to invade Norway?
Did you know that even though Enid Bosworth Lorimer had an acting career spanning 70 years, only six people turned up at her funeral?
Did you know that Kevin Shields used a "slapdash approach" to recording while producing " City Girl "?
Did you know that Grumpy Cat 's signature facial expression is permanent and probably caused by feline dwarfism ?
Did you know that Kim Deinoff was once bitten in the arm by an opponent during a football match?
Did you know that the extinct pine Pinus driftwoodensis was first described from a permineralized conifer cone in chert?
Did you know that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's religious compositions, especially his All-Night Vigil , were responsible for the revival of interest in Russian Orthodox music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Did you know that tenor Martin Lattke performed with the ensemble amarcord in the Frauenkirche Dresden Bach's lost St Mark Passion in a reconstruction by Diethard Hellmann ?
Did you know that Sir Matthew Browne was involved in legal and financial transactions concerning the Globe Theatre in 1601?
Did you know that Bache Hall in Cheshire , a former country house , now provides accommodation for students of the University of Chester ?
Did you know that the first production of Ghost Patrol , a chamber opera composed by Stuart MacRae , won the 2013 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera?
Did you know that commoners who participated in Seokjeon (a stone-throwing game) during Korea's Joseon Dynasty could be awarded government posts as a result?
Did you know that in the United Kingdom , 5,675, 5,608, and 6,045 people aged 15 and over committed suicide in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively?
Did you know that Berkeley, California , rapper Lil B 's Rain in England is an ambient hip hop album without any beats or profanity?
Did you know that Franz Schubert regarded his fifth mass so highly, he contemplated dedicating it to the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II ?
Did you know that Polish-American George S. Wise was the first president of Tel Aviv University ?
Did you know that a build-up in numbers of the brittle star Amphiura filiformis in the North Sea may have been caused by eutrophication ?
Did you know that New York Yankees prospect Vidal Nuño has also been a Wildcat , Scrapper , Captain , Wild Thing , and RiverDog ?
Did you know that the future Norwegian king Harald Hardrada led the Byzantine Varangian Guard against the Lombards and Normans in the Battle of Montemaggiore in Italy ?
Did you know that Tio Ie Soei uncovered Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari 's origins, leading to a scandal?
Did you know that entertainment site MovieWeb used the Growing Pains theme and scenes from The Walking Dead in a comedic video that was seen as making the latter show's zombie violence seem family-friendly?
Did you know that Shehr-e-Roghan of Bela is of Buddhist origin?
Did you know that having been awarded over two dozen medals, Armenian American Marine Victor Maghakian is considered one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War II ?
Did you know that century-old vines of Bouchalès exist in Bordeaux , having likely survived phylloxera due to an old vineyard practice of flood irrigation disrupting the life cycle of the louse?
Did you know that baseball umpire Fieldin Culbreth umpired in the first no-hitters thrown by pitchers for both the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Mets ?
Did you know that the St. Joseph Catholic Church in San Antonio , Texas earned the moniker "St. Joske's" after a department store called Joske's was built around its three sides?
Did you know that obsolete Type 88 shells from the 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun were modified to create the Type 99 armor-piercing bomb used during the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you know that in 1975, an award named in honor of nurse and professor Luther Christman was created by the American Assembly for Men in Nursing ?
Did you know that at the Battle of Fornham on 17 October 1173, not only was the losing commander Robert de Beaumont the Earl of Leicester captured, but his wife, Petronilla , who was in armour, was too?
Did you know that the Edward C. Elliott Hall of Music is named for a college president who vowed never to "spend one damn penny on music on this campus"?
Did you know that most epic poems about the Babi Yar massacres were written by Russian and Ukrainian Jews who managed to survive the Holocaust ?
Did you know that American football coach Bill Kenney has coached eight all-conference players, six All-Americans, 10 Academic All-Americans and 47 Academic all-conference players?
Did you know that the Assassins of the Abu Qubays fortress paid an annual tribute of 800 gold pieces to the Crusader order of Margat in the early twelfth century?
Did you know that Arthur Gilbert became the oldest competing triathlete in the world in 2011, age 90?
Did you know that the main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was inspired by a group of rare genetic disorders known as progeroid syndromes ?
Did you know that Gerold C. Dunn earned two degrees from Stanford University and was later appointed to the California Court of Appeal after just one year as a Superior Court judge?
Did you know that teacher Mary Louise Graffam hid hundreds of Armenian girls from the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Dodcott cum Wilkesley , Cheshire include a former monastery , game larder, icehouse, folly with kennels, battlemented water tower, clock tower and a sundial?
Did you know that Wallace found Kayoa 's virgin forest "a glorious spot" full of beetles ?
Did you know that in 2003, Aishwarya Rai was the first Indian actress ever to be appointed a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury ?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Berrouet is considered to be one of the foremost proponents of "classicist" winemaking, in that he prefers his wine to be made at lower temperatures and shorter fermentation periods?
Did you know that the ivory curl tree can grow 30 m (100 ft) tall in its natural rainforest habitat?
Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Isaac in Florida forced the cancellation of the first day of the 2012 Republican National Convention ?
Did you know that during a 2010 court case Pyotr Verzilov burst into the court and dumped a bag full of live cockroaches?
Did you know that English watercolour painter and engraver Francis William Topham was one of Charles Dickens ' "splendid strollers"?
Did you know that according to legend, the wife of Charlemagne had white grapes planted in what is now the Corton-Charlemagne AOC because she didn't like seeing red wine stains in his beard?
Did you know that Ray Duncan established both the Durango Mountain "Purgatory" Ski Resort and the Silver Oak Cellars wine business?
Did you know that the sinking of the ferry SS Heraklion off the coast of Falkonera was one of the worst maritime accidents in Greek history?
Did you know that the San Francisco Giants drafted Brock Bond when they meant to draft Casey Bond ?
Did you know that Jacob Grimm described The Building of Skadar , recorded after the singing of Old Rashko , as "one of the most touching poems of all nations and all times"?
Did you know that the Armenian Philanthropic Society of Baku built the first library in Baku in 1870?
Did you know that Philemon Holland claimed that he wrote out the whole of his translation of Plutarch 's Moralia with a single quill pen?
Did you know that the Japanese I-351 -class submarine was designed to support up to three flying boats with fuel, ammunition, water, and even replacement aircrew?
Did you know that although Ralph Horween was the National Football League 's oldest living player in 1994, the league mistakenly honored another player as such?
Did you know that the Toronto Blue Jays wear an alternate jersey in the national colours of Canada on Canada Day ?
Did you know that Armenian journalist, writer, and translator Rita Vorperian can speak seven languages?
Did you know that Rita Hayworth 's song and dance performance in Gilda helped demonstrate the stability of the newly invented strapless dress ?
Did you know that the smoke from the Olympic Pipeline explosion reached 30,000 feet (9,100 m) high?
Did you know that after her retirement in 2008, Australian swimmer Michelle Engelsman was honoured for her "Speedo Services to the Australian Swimming Team"?
Did you know that the first version of the Piano Concerto by Frederick Delius was never performed in public, but the composer played a two-piano reduction with Ferruccio Busoni in 1898?
Did you know that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut ?
Did you know that the Provençal wine grape Barbaroux and the Barbarossa grown in Liguria and Piedmont were once thought to be the same grape until DNA testing showed otherwise?
Did you know that the medieval royal official Hugh de Cressy was one of the first persons summoned as a Serjeant-at-Law when he was summoned in 1176 by King Henry II of England ?
Did you know that some women in the Arab Spring were dubbed the "Twitterati" for their influential Twitter accounts of the protests?
Did you know that James Ashworth is the second British soldier to be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for bravery during the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan?
Did you know that LifeStraws for filtering contaminated water given to Kenyan school children in Mutomo District were small enough to hang around their necks?
Did you know that Bruce Rondón , a Venezuelan baseball player, was described as a "rare talent" by General Manager Dave Dombrowski of the Detroit Tigers ?
Did you know that Ballinamallard United 's club chairman has speculated that their matches are poorly covered on TV because it is deemed too expensive to send cameras to Ferney Park ?
Did you know that Armenian inventor Stephen Stepanian 's patent for the first concrete mixer truck was initially rejected, reportedly due to a belief that a truck couldn't support the weight of a concrete mixer?
Did you know that Nehru 's eulogy for Gandhi following the latter's assassination has been called one of the great speeches of history?
Did you know that Maxine Feldman ' s song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival ?
Did you know that Torment: Tides of Numenera became the first video game project to raise $ 1,000,000 in under seven hours on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter ?
Did you know that Major K. A. Gamage posthumously received the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya , Sri Lanka 's highest military award for gallantry, for his actions just one month before the end of the civil war ?
Did you know that Papeete 's Notre Dame Cathedral contains Stations of the Cross that were influenced by Paul Gauguin ?
Did you know that about 90% of the plants found in Libya have been recorded growing in El-Kouf National Park ?
Did you know that Ukrainian helicopter pilot hero Mykola Melnyk made 46 sorties over the highly-radioactive Chernobyl Power Plant , and then continued firefighting flights into his fifties?
Did you know that the Michigan Geological Survey severed its university affiliations in the 1890s due to perceived disadvantages of those relationships, but became part of Western Michigan University in 2011?
Did you know that Zelma Long is considered to be one of the female pioneers of wine production in the U.S. state of California ?
Did you know that Wing Commander Tyron Silvapulle was posthumously awarded the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya , Sri Lanka 's highest military award for gallantry, more than 12 years after his nomination?
Did you know that the island of Cyprus is the result of of the Anatolian tectonic plate and the African plate colliding?
Did you know that after having written a poem on the 1625 great plague of London , the poet Abraham Holland died of the plague the following year?
Did you know that a 1999 exhibition series between the Baltimore Orioles and Cuban national baseball team marked the first time a Major League Baseball team played in Cuba since 1959?
Did you know that Australian microbrewery Nail Brewing produced the most expensive beer in the world, using water melted from a block of Antarctic ice?
Did you know that Margaret Michaelis-Sachs took photos of the Jewish market in Kraków which "carry the weight of history, offering a visual trace of a way of life that was destroyed by fascism"?
Did you know that Raees Mohammad scored 110 not out and took four wickets in Quaid-i-Azam Trophy 's final in 1954–55?
Did you know that the peaks of the Centennial Range in the Yukon are named after Canada's provinces and territories?
Did you know that the South American palm , Bactris campestris , was described independently by four different taxonomists , each of whom place it in a different species?
Did you know that Anthony Midget was briefly hired to be an assistant coach at Marshall , but was hired at Penn State before ever coaching a game at Marshall?
Did you know that Task Force 80 was the designation of the U.S. naval task force involved in the invasions of Sicily and mainland Italy during World War II?
Did you know that actress Helen George , of the British television series Call the Midwife , was previously a backup singer for Elton John ?
Did you know that shortly after journalist Jaime Guadalupe González Domínguez was assassinated, his online news portal was shut down for fear of future reprisals?
Did you know that Luigi's Flying Tires , a Disney California Adventure attraction that opened in 2012, is based on Disneyland 's Flying Saucers ride of the 1960s?
Did you know that Sir John Scott was the grandfather of Reginald Scott , author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft ?
Did you know that, on Bad Company's song "Can't Get Enough", the "ringing" guitar has an open tuning based on the overtones of the note C?
Did you know that Erik Johannessen kept a clean sheet for 672 minutes in the 1974 Norwegian First Division ?
Did you know that households in the Lammas Ecovillage purchase a one thousand year lease from the organisation which runs it?
Did you know that Bhakta Vidur (1921) was India's first banned film?
Did you know that Margaret Snyder was the first director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)?
Did you know that Men Against Rape and Discrimination (2013) is an Indian social campaign launched by Farhan Akhtar to raise awareness of rape and discrimination against women?
Did you know that Joseph Thomas , the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association , initially intended to place Christchurch at the head of Lyttelton Harbour ?
Did you know that a study of lichens was used in the nomination process for the Alice Creek Historic District ?
Did you know that Shanu Lahiri promoted graffiti art drives to beautify Kolkata ?
Did you know that Armenian American businessman Vahan Chamlian runs the world's largest dealership of secondhand clothes?
Did you know that DNA evidence showing Dureza and Mondeuse Blanche to be the parents of Syrah confirmed that the grape was native to France?
Did you know that Ruby Hurley opened the NAACP 's first permanent office in the Deep South ?
Did you know that the Ateneum Theatre began as an experimental stage thanks to the mainly proletarian neighbourhood of Warsaw in which it was established?
Did you know that while a Scottish minister was in hiding to avoid treachery charges, his nephew demanded he appear in court if he wished to claim his inheritance?
Did you know that All I Want Is Everything (2013) marked Sagari Venkata's debut as an actress in Indian cinema ?
Did you know that businessman and Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Helmut Eberspächer was fined 140,000 DM for tax evasion ?
Did you know that according to England fans, England beat Germany in " Two World Wars and One World Cup "?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Émile Janssens is believed to have been personally responsible for causing a mutiny in the Republic of Congo in 1960?
Did you know that Lawrence Lessig 's pathetic dot theory stresses the importance of computer code in regulating our behavior?
Did you know that former Alabama football player Jim Bunch was selected to the 1979 College Football All-America Team and later served as an innkeeper at a bed and breakfast ?
Did you know that Vajara , founded in 1999, is Tibet 's oldest and most famous rock and roll band?
Did you know that in 2009, Sergeant Sugath Chandrasiri Bandara fired an RPG-7 at close range against an explosive-laden enemy vehicle , which killed him but saved his unit?
Did you know that parasitic flat worms of the genus Paramphistomum , including its type species P. cervi , are responsible for a serious disease called paramphistomiasis in cattle and sheep ?
Did you know that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles elicited encores in Australia ?
Did you know that Ivy Queen 's Flashback (2005) "cements her status as the Queen of Reggaetón and Latin hip hop " according to an editor for Newsday ?
Did you know that one reason the medieval English writer Robert of Cricklade 's biography of Thomas Becket may have been lost is it was too favourable to the side of King Henry II of England rather than Becket?
Did you know that multiple Leptocleidus skeletons have been found preserved as gemstone quality opal over the course of the history of plesiosaur research ?
Did you know that choreographer Pauline Koner was inspired to dance after seeing Anna Pavlova perform The Dying Swan ?
Did you know that when Bourbon won the St. Leger Stakes in 1777, neither the racehorse nor the horse race had an official name?
Did you know that Chief Petty Officer K. G. Shantha was killed in a sea battle when he rammed his Arrow-class patrol boat into a Sea Tiger suicide boat to save another navy vessel?
Did you know that in " Pusher Love Girl ", Justin Timberlake compares several narcotics , such as heroin , cocaine , plum wine , MDMA and nicotine , to the love of his girl?