kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the proposed African Medicines Agency would regulate not just modern medicine and medical equipment, but also traditional medicine ?
Did you know that David F. Gantt was the first and only black person elected to the New York State Assembly from Monroe County, New York ?
Did you know that after a fisherman crashed into a volcano , it was named after him?
Did you know that the ancient fortified city of Bhitargarh served as a node to the strategic trade routes connecting Tibet and eastern India?
Did you know that Lisa Kearney was the first judoka representing Ireland to reach the final of a Judo World Cup?
Did you know that Nintendo received widespread criticism for awarding the winner of a major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament only a Switch controller?
Did you know that 5 Beekman Street was described as "architecturally nondescript" and its rooftop spires were likened to "donkey's ears"?
Did you know that although Wong Pak-yu nominated Woo Kwok-hing in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election , he decided to cast a blank vote to protest against the election's lack of democracy?
Did you know that according to Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya , corporations may be liable in Canadian courts if their operations in other countries violate customary international law ?
Did you know that Kanye West is running under the Birthday Party for his 2020 presidential campaign , because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday"?
Did you know that the novel The Silent Patient was inspired by the Athenian tragedy Alcestis ?
Did you know that after nearly 40 years as a prolific researcher and professor of demography at Makerere University in Uganda, James P. M. Ntozi was forced to retire—and became a farmer?
Did you know that after the American Revolutionary War, only five of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown 's congregants remained, so a nearby Dutch church took them in?
Did you know that according to Naraporn Chan-o-cha , the wife of the current prime minister of Thailand, Prayut Chan-o-cha , she is responsible for his clothes, make-up, and haircut?
Did you know that NCT Dream performed songs from their album Reload on the world's first paid online concert Beyond LIVE ?
Did you know that Apollo flight director Pete Frank was a finalist for NASA Astronaut Group 5 ?
Did you know that the South African motorsport of spinning began as a funeral ritual in which a car was stolen and driven in circles to honor the deceased?
Did you know that Arsenal extended their FA Cup winners record in the 2020 FA Cup Final against Chelsea at Wembley today?
Did you know that Nepal's first female auto rickshaw driver, Laxmi Sharma , went on to start the first button factory in the country?
Did you know that the Seventh-day Adventist Church replaced the African-American missionary Thomas H. Branch with a white man to appease the government of the British Central Africa Protectorate ?
Did you know that when Spain joined the European Communities in 1986 , it had a larger fishing fleet than all the other Community members' put together?
Did you know that during World War II, Major General Henry Aurand had his own weekly radio show?
Did you know that Nainital Yacht Club , located at an elevation of 2,084 m (6,837 ft), is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?
Did you know that while directing Walking Down Broadway , Erich von Stroheim tied a 12 ft (3.7 m) length of thread to James Dunn 's pant leg and tugged on it whenever he wanted the actor to emote more?
Did you know that Kanye West premiered his song " Wash Us in the Blood ", which discusses mass incarceration, slavery, genocide, and drug-dealing, at a Christian opera?
Did you know that Ugandan rebels did not recognize Ali Fadhul as the enemy commander when he drove past them during an invasion of Uganda in 1972?
Did you know that Theo Akkermann , whose first major work was a war memorial, created a sculpture for his family's grave?
Did you know that from 2015 to 2019, the U.S. state of Georgia decertified more than 3,000 police officers, while Maryland decertified just one?
Did you know that during construction of the Valle Gómez and Misterios metro stations, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac Hill , dating from the Mesoamerican Postclassic period?
Did you know that educator Agnes Samuelson was posthumously inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame and had a Des Moines elementary school named after her?
Did you know that in the Brazilian state of Bahia, cerrado mice are often caught by barn owls , but seldom by researchers?
Did you know that Chilean television station TVO fired presenter Pamela Jiles for appearing in a presidential campaign advertisement, even though it described itself as editorially "tolerant"?
Did you know that the Mid-Manhattan Library , with space for 350,000 volumes at its opening, was designed to replace a collection housed in a single room of the New York Public Library Main Branch ?
Did you know that Irena Sawicka , a Polish archeologist, educator and communist activist, helped Jews during the Holocaust and perished in the Warsaw Uprising ?
Did you know that British 19th-century prison visitor Sarah Martin criticised living conditions at The Tolhouse jail, and objected to the fact that the inmates had no access to a church or chaplain?
Did you know that poet William Nauns Ricks wrote an ode to Charles Young , the first African-American colonel in the United States Army?
Did you know that following the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 , the BBC produced their own show to determine the British public's favourite Eurovision song of all time?
Did you know that one of the most endangered monuments in Europe is a squatted house in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the 2020 World Series will be the first to be held at one ballpark since 1944 ?
Did you know that Hainer Hill , who took hundreds of photographs documenting Brecht's Berliner Ensemble , created the stage design for Hindemith's Mathis der Maler at the new Opernhaus Dortmund in 1966?
Did you know that at civil disobedience events, undocumented students from Freedom U wear painted monarch butterfly wings symbolizing migration's naturalness and their immigrant experience?
Did you know that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that burqa bans may be " necessary in a democratic society "?
Did you know that in 1995, French journalist Didier Roustan helped set up a world footballers union with Eric Cantona and Diego Maradona ?
Did you know that " On the Death of Mr. Crashaw ", an elegy for Richard Crashaw , is considered one of Abraham Cowley 's finest poems?
Did you know that in 1949 the admirals were revolting ?
Did you know that the 74 artists who created the 95 original prints for the subscription portfolio L'Estampe originale included Toulouse-Lautrec , Gaugin , Renoir , Rodin , Pissarro , Whistler , Redon , and Bonnard ?
Did you know that Tom Hayden used his Campaign for Economic Democracy to help pass a rent-control measure in Santa Monica, California ?
Did you know that when Turkish singer Hamiyet Yüceses lamentingly sang an Ottoman classical song after her husband's death in a submarine accident, many people thought she had composed the song herself?
Did you know that the sketch-comedy series The Fuccons stars a cast consisting solely of mannequins?
Did you know that with no prior work experience, William B. Jordan turned the Meadows Museum 's collection into the most prominent collection of Spanish art outside Spain?
Did you know that the chiton Tonicella marmorea was first described from Greenland by the Danish naturalist Otto Fabricius , who spent five years as a missionary in the country?
Did you know that the 1831 Londonderry City by-election was the second of three in that constituency within nine months, all of which were won by Robert Ferguson ?
Did you know that during the Second World War, Abkhazian female pilot Meri Avidzba flew 477 combat sorties and dropped 63 tonnes of bombs onto the enemy?
Did you know that the Mutual Reserve Building was described as "a law office slum" and a 1920s center of the "personal injury underworld"?
Did you know that the Spanish town of Cadrete removed a bust of the ruler who built its castle , for causing "division and confrontation"?
Did you know that bridge designer James Barney Marsh gave Archie Alexander , the first African American to graduate as an engineer from the University of Iowa , his first job?
Did you know that the owner of WSZE-TV started an air-taxi service to bring program tapes to Saipan ?
Did you know that Bristol 's medieval Tolzey Court saw a surge in popularity in the 1960s because it had lower fees than the High Court or County Court ?
Did you know that Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ uses MSG in its spice rub , calling it a "flavor maker"?
Did you know that The New York Times named Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane one of the 922 most powerful people in America?
Did you know that after the Greek Civil War , 20,000 leftists were exiled to the island of Gyaros , dubbed the "Dachau of the Mediterranean"?
Did you know that Robert Utter resigned from the Washington Supreme Court in protest of the death penalty ?
Did you know that Nerotalanlagen , a park along a creek in Wiesbaden , was built in the late 19th century to enhance the town's spa quality?
Did you know that the Bennett Building , once one of New York's most prominent buildings, is probably the world's tallest building with a cast-iron facade?
Did you know that anime musician Kano 's Virtual YouTuber 3D model is based on an avatar she uses in official artwork?
Did you know that the 1932 Detroit Wolves won the pennant with an outfielder, first baseman, shortstop, and two pitchers who were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the seeds of Guilandina bonduc , commonly known as nickernuts , are buoyant and remain viable while being dispersed by ocean currents?
Did you know that Nihonga artist Yumeji Takehisa was arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji of Japan ?
Did you know that India has 66 chess grandmasters ?
Did you know that James Edwin Campbell , the first president of West Virginia State University , was among the first African-American poets to write poems in the African-American vernacular dialect ?
Did you know that the Third Punic War between Rome and Carthage ended in the complete destruction of Carthage and the death or enslavement of all of its citizens?
Did you know that Jane Fonda paid for her political activism with the profits of her Workout videos?
Did you know that during the Falklands War , a fishing trawler served in the Royal Navy as HMS Junella ?
Did you know that the 1872 Londonderry City by-election was the first parliamentary election held by secret ballot in Ireland?
Did you know that a historical theory argues that Nixon sought a decent interval between American withdrawal and South Vietnamese collapse to avoid becoming the first president to lose a war?
Did you know that writer Jeanne Humbert was repeatedly arrested for spreading information about birth control and abortion after they were banned in France in 1920?
Did you know that Hermann Deiters translated Alexander Wheelock Thayer 's Life of Beethoven and published it in German before it appeared in English?
Did you know that the Korea Central Zoo houses a chimpanzee that smokes a pack of cigarettes a day ?
Did you know that the Churchill caretaker ministry reduced the British bacon ration from four ounces (110 g) to three ounces (85 g) per week?
Did you know that historian Jeffrey Kimball argued that the Vietnam War "was waged as much against Saigon as it was against the [Viet Cong / North Vietnamese] enemy"?
Did you know that residents of Devdaha , Nepal, decided that a 13-year-old girl should marry her 25-year-old alleged rapist?
Did you know that Zofia Poznańska , cipher clerk to the Red Orchestra espionage group, was captured in Belgium by the Abwehr in 1941 and hanged herself in prison in 1942?
Did you know that the 1919 Detroit Stars , a Negro league baseball team, included three players who were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that when William R. Watson retired from his gallery for contemporary art in Montreal, one of his artists wrote: "You have known, and been a good friend to nearly all the artists"?
Did you know that a chapel at the Confederate Memorial State Historic Site was formerly used for both religious services and the production of alcohol?
Did you know that Essop Moosa , who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white soccer team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?
Did you know that S&M2 is the highest-grossing rock cinema event of all time?
Did you know that Du Shuzhen was the first woman in Henan , China, to perform the Hajj ?
Did you know that after shutting down in 1954, Indiana television station WRAY-TV was activated once a year to air the annual March of Dimes telethon?
Did you know that the 16-bit Ferranti F100-L was the first microprocessor designed in Europe?
Did you know that the $10 million Tri-City Mall in Mesa, Arizona , began to lose stores and customers ten years after opening, and even a multimillion-dollar renovation could not save it?
Did you know that excavations in Romajë have revealed double-edged axes thought to have been related to sun worship ?
Did you know that the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building 's main banking hall was described as "the one real asset" of a nearly bankrupt New York City in the 1970s?
Did you know that after contralto Florence Wickham made her debut in Germany , she was engaged for an American tour as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal ?
Did you know that during the 1903 FA Cup Final , a cinematograph was sited on top of one of the stands?
Did you know that South Carolina state senator Tom Corbin once referred to women as a "lesser cut of meat"?
Did you know that the artwork for the 2017 Bonobo album Migration was captured in four hours?
Did you know that less than 18 months after being launched, radio station KFNA of El Paso, Texas , declared bankruptcy after its format failed to attract listeners?
Did you know that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the worst-ranked video game of all time on Metacritic and GameRankings ?
Did you know that Hildegard Uhrmacher , a coloratura soprano who appeared as Mozart's Konstanze and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Marie , titled her 2006 autobiography Hilde, du schaffst das ( Hilde, you'll manage )?
Did you know that the jute hairy caterpillar is a serious pest of fibre crops in India, sometimes occurring in epidemic outbreaks?
Did you know that Walter Mears has compared Donald Trump to populist senator Huey Long ?
Did you know that the European Commission of Human Rights found in 1969 that the Greek junta systematically tortured dissidents, leading to Greece's exit from the Council of Europe ?
Did you know that Theresa Plummer-Andrews sorted Bob the Builder 's budget?
Did you know that in the album title Not Our First Goat Rodeo , the term goat rodeo refers to a chaotic event in which many things must go right for the situation to work?
Did you know that a flag pole named a city ?
Did you know that Kathy Arendsen had a windmill fastball pitch timed at 96 miles per hour (154 km/h)?
Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service was once reorganized eight times in seven years ?
Did you know that Muljadi Djojomartono once said that Sukarno would have been an Islamic prophet had he been born in 571?
Did you know that upon opening at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in 1976, Python was the first roller coaster in Florida to feature inversions ?
Did you know that the Hong Kong Logistic Support Regiment RLC was nicknamed the "1000-Day Regiment" as its 1,181 days of service made it possibly the shortest-lived peacetime regiment in the British Army?
Did you know that French novelist Claire Etcherelli 's 1967 novel Elise, or the Real Life gained a brief cult following and was adapted into a 1970 film ?
Did you know that eyewitnesses at the Battle of Sedalia reported seeing Confederate soldiers riding barefoot because their boots were full of plundered whiskey ?
Did you know that the rhythm of " Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden ", a Dutch hymn translated into German, has been compared to a tango ?
Did you know that some works by the Baltic-German writer Laura Marholm were part of "feminist literary criticism", known as gynocriticism , 70 years before the term was coined?
Did you know that in April 2009 a bomb blew a hole in the buttocks of the statue of Lenin at Finland Station , Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that Japanese occupying forces reportedly sentenced Fatah Jasin to death, but Japan surrendered and Indonesia became independent before he could be executed?
Did you know that the site of Los Arcos Mall was dubbed the "most divisive piece of property" in the history of Scottsdale, Arizona ?
Did you know that Portuguese fado singer Cuca Roseta has a black belt in Taekwondo ?
Did you know that Nellie Weekes ran for public office even before women received the right to vote in Barbados ?
Did you know that the merchant vessel MS Nordic Ferry was awarded a battle honour for service in the Falklands War ?
Did you know that Chinese peasants mostly armed with spears and swords repeatedly defeated modern warlord armies during the Spirit Soldier rebellions ?
Did you know that West Virginia State College professor Angie Turner King was an educator and mentor to entomologist Margaret S. Collins and NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson of Hidden Figures ?
Did you know that Perspectiva corporum regularium , a 1568 book of engraved polyhedra , demonstrates visually the medieval theory that the complexity of the physical world comes from four basic elements ?
Did you know that the Postal Telegraph Building contained the first electric elevators, commissioned by Frank J. Sprague ?
Did you know that Newcastle architect Gibson Kyle lay in wait and caught a burglar who was absconding with 33 lb (15 kg) of lead belonging to Richard Grainger ?
Did you know that the Ryūkyū Disposition saw the former Ryūkyū Kingdom incorporated into the nascent Empire of Japan ?
Did you know that though Calvin Royal III did not start formal dance training until he was 14, he went on to become a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre ?
Did you know that Kabul City Center is the only building in Afghanistan that is equipped with working escalators ?
Did you know that Leonhard Lechner , who trained as a chorister in Bavaria under Orlande de Lassus , composed a Passion for choir in 1593 that strongly influenced the genre?
Did you know that the 1938 film Shadows Over Shanghai incorporates footage of the bombing of the city during the Second Sino-Japanese War , which was then underway?
Did you know that Marie "Blanche" Wittman , formerly a hysteria patient of Jean-Martin Charcot , contracted radiation-induced cancer while working for Albert Londe ?
Did you know that the name "United States" was originally plural, but gradually transitioned after the Civil War to a singular noun?
Did you know that during the Victorian-era London garotting panics , some citizens wore studded leather collars to protect themselves from attack?
Did you know that William Bowery, who co-wrote two songs on Taylor Swift 's album Folklore , appeared to have no online presence, and is possibly a pseudonym?
Did you know that Zolotarev polynomials were introduced in 1868, but not applied to Zolotarev filters until 1970?
Did you know that Len Lanzi was legally fired by the Boy Scouts of America after coming out as gay?
Did you know that the 1997 Polish box-office-hit comedy Szczęśliwego Nowego Jorku criticizes Polish and American myths such as the American Dream ?
Did you know that Vinmont Veteran Park traces its name to Robert Weinberg , whose German surname translates to Vinmont in French?
Did you know that 54 years ago today, California television station KCFT-TV went off the air when General Electric showed up with a moving van, a locksmith, and a court order to repossess equipment?
Did you know that according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pope John Paul II 's canonisation of Chinese martyrs hurt the feelings of the Chinese people ?
Did you know that on the single "Bra Off" from Natalie Lauren 's album Handle with Care , Lauren points out that women should not be subject to insult, assault, or sexism when they do not wear a bra ?
Did you know that to help counteract misleading online information on vaccines, the Vaccine Safety Net provides a list of scientifically reviewed websites?
Did you know that although Major General Thomas Holden was twice elected to the Continental Congress , he does not seem to have taken up his seat?
Did you know that sixteen people were injured while fleeing a non-existent terrorist attack during the Oxford Circus panic ?
Did you know that Licett Morillo closing Prada 's fashion show was compared to an actor winning an Oscar ?
Did you know that it was once illegal for civilians to pass U.S. military vehicles on Japan National Route 58 ?
Did you know that the game developer Toys for Bob created Star Control after its founders Fred Ford and Paul Reiche met at Starflight creator Greg Johnson 's house for a game night?
Did you know that Alasdair Geddes worked on the WHO 's smallpox-eradication programme in Bangladesh five years before diagnosing the world's last fatal case of smallpox in Birmingham, England?
Did you know that in the 1789 Virginia's 5th congressional district election , two future U.S. presidents opposed each other?
Did you know that the Arsenal footballer Matt Smith won an FA Cup winners medal without having made his debut for Arsenal?
Did you know that U.S. senator Strom Thurmond 's aides set up a bucket for him to relieve himself during his 24-hour filibuster ?
Did you know that " phantom borders " left behind by the partitions of Poland by imperial powers have an impact on which political parties Polish citizens vote for?
Did you know that in 1957, a bus ride from Calcutta to London cost £65?
Did you know that Robert B. Landry was the United States Air Force aide to President Harry S. Truman ?
Did you know that a book on polyhedra by Piero della Francesca fell victim to "probably the first full-blown case of plagiarism in the history of mathematics" when Luca Pacioli copied it in his Divina proportione ?
Did you know that Canadian sportscaster John Badham reported on the 1976 Summer Olympics canoe and kayak events despite having no knowledge of the sport?
Did you know that From Space I Saw Earth by Daníel Bjarnason was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to be performed with three conductors simultaneously?
Did you know that two Molotov cocktail attacks have set Club Feathers on fire?
Did you know that the " Hot Air Line " was so-called due to shaky financial backing and grandiose claims?
Did you know that Peanuts Gallery , a 1997 piano concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich , portrays Peanuts characters in movements such as "Schroeder's Beethoven Fantasy" and "Snoopy Does the Samba"?
Did you know that sect leader Li Guangchang ruled as self-proclaimed emperor for five years in the 1980s before being arrested by the Chinese police?
Did you know that seeds of the sea bean can be dispersed for long distances by ocean currents?
Did you know that Coventry City won the 2017 EFL Trophy Final , earning their first major trophy since winning the 1987 FA Cup Final , despite being relegated from League One to League Two that season?
Did you know that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas 's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by Joe Cocker ?
Did you know that at Osthofen concentration camp , the camp doctor declared all new arrivals healthy and medically fit for imprisonment, even if they had been mistreated before?
Did you know that Hurricane Sandy blew the roof off Paradise ?
Did you know that Mariah Carey covered Aretha Franklin 's rendition of " Don't Play That Song " at The Live Debut – 1990 ?
Did you know that among proofs of the Sylvester–Gallai theorem , Kelly 's has been praised as "simply the best", but also criticized as "like using a sledge hammer to crack an almond"?