kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Leonid Plyushch , who sought to apply mathematical modeling to mental illness , was later diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia for his dissident activities?
Did you know that Operation Barga helped improve the social status of bargadars ( sharecroppers ) in West Bengal , India ?
Did you know that 1941 NCAA backstroke champion and University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor inductee Francis Heydt later owned a business that sold camouflage clothing to the U.S. military ?
Did you know that the hip hop magazine Rap-Up was founded by Devin Lazerine as a website when he was 15 years old?
Did you know that having witnessed the effects of a market attack in the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict during a ban of international press, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert started a global SMS campaign?
Did you know that Robert Redford made one of his last guest-starring appearances in a television series in a 1963 episode of the ABC psychiatric drama Breaking Point ?
Did you know that Jackson Lake State Park in Ohio , USA , is now the location of a thriving second growth forest , but was once home to the iron, coal and salt industries?
Did you know that Jim McColl , the son of a butcher, reportedly became Scotland 's richest man in 2008?
Did you know that an area of more than 60,000 square miles (160,000 km 2 ) in the U.S. states of Georgia , North and South Carolina was exposed to airborne clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide during Operation Dew ?
Did you know that Satenik was the Alanian wife of Artaxias I , the king of Armenia and the founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty ?
Did you know that the 12"/50 caliber Mark 8 gun , an American naval gun mounted on the Alaska -class cruisers , "was by far the most powerful weapon of its caliber ever placed in service"?
Did you know that while the British indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club were recording their debut EP , The Boy I Used to Be , they were in the same school year as Cajun Dance Party ?
Did you know that tropical botanist Paul H. Allen assembled one of the most important collections of banana germplasm ?
Did you know that the Christmas carol Personent hodie , first published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones , is thought to be a parody of a 12th-century carol?
Did you know that as a means to challenge the Microsoft / Intel PC architecture, IBM executive Jack Kuehler formed the AIM alliance that created the PowerPC microprocessor used in Apple 's computers from 1994 to 2006?
Did you know that despite being roughly only a square mile (2.6 km 2 ) in area, the tiny atoll of Kaben in the Republic of the Marshall Islands actually has a functional airstrip ?
Did you know that pitcher Jesse Barnes made the Opening Day start for the Boston Braves against the New York Giants in the 1925 baseball season , after making the Opening Day start for the Giants against the Braves in 1920?
Did you know that labourers paving Saskatchewan Highway 641 in 1942 earned 35 cents an hour and a labourer with a tractor -drawn drag earned 50 cents an hour?
Did you know that the American Iron and Steel Institute formed the Steelmark in 1960 to promote American steel , with the logo put on the helmets of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1962 to further publicize the program?
Did you know that during the Song Dynasty , the people of Sichuan worshipped Tang Dynasty general Wei Gao as a local deity?
Did you know that Jeffrey Lockwood provides historical examples of assassin bugs , buckets of scorpions , and catapulted " bee bombs" as entomological warfare in his book, Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War ?
Did you know that the German rock group Tokio Hotel has released six singles and an album in English ?
Did you know that Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna was the chairman of the U.S. National Longshoremen 's Board during the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike ?
Did you know that the peridium of the bird's-nest fungus forms its "nest"?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Pei Yanling was "so careless in his frivolousness and falsehood, as well as his jealousy of the talented and harmfulness to the good" that two centuries later it made historian Liu Xu weep?
Did you know that the opening of State Fair Community College was delayed for more than two years because of a legal dispute over college districts in Missouri ?
Did you know that German football manager Horst Buhtz led both Dortmund and Nuremberg to the Bundesliga promotion playoffs, but was dismissed each time before the matches took place?
Did you know that as early as 1968, criminologist Lloyd Ohlin noted that the routine incarceration of youthful offenders does "more to develop than to stop career criminals"?
Did you know that thousands of people at Deekshabhoomi , a pilgrimage center in Nagpur , India , embraced Buddhism on October 14, 1956?
Did you know that music critic Herman Klein wrote in New York City from 1901 to 1909 and advised Columbia Records , but he acquired an unfavorable view of American musical life and returned to Britain?
Did you know that Prince Charles , who in 2004 opened the village shop at Hewelsfield in Gloucestershire , England , described it as "a triumph of community spirit"?
Did you know that American football tackle J.D. Maarleveld survived Hodgkin's lymphoma but was cut from the Notre Dame team anyway, transferred to Maryland , and became a consensus first-team All-American ?
Did you know that the Lublin 1980 strikes marked the beginning of important socio-political changes in Poland , such as the creation of Solidarity and democratization of the country?
Did you know that the name of Shelldrake , a ghost town in the U.S. state of Michigan , was translated from the Ojibwa word for a kind of duck ?
Did you know that former guerrilla James Tanis undertook a trip through some twenty fast-flowing rivers and creeks before being inaugurated as the second President of Bougainville ?
Did you know that, despite being suspended for half the game, college football running back Da'Rel Scott set a school bowl record for rushing for the Maryland Terrapins in their 2008 Humanitarian Bowl victory?
Did you know that author Beryl Bainbridge wrote a novel based on clergyman and translator John Selby Watson 's 1871 murder of his wife?
Did you know that after being closed in 1978, Sandefjord Airport Station reopened in 2008 with a new name to serve Sandefjord Airport, Torp , Norway ?
Did you know that Gigantic , a film about a single man deciding to adopt a baby, was inspired by writer – director Matt Aselton's childhood wish for his parents to adopt a baby from China ?
Did you know that Nick Scandone was named 2005 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, the first Paralympian to earn the honor, after winning the 2.4 meter world championship against 60 able-bodied and 27 disabled sailors?
Did you know that sugar cream pie is being considered to become the official state pie of Indiana , USA?
Did you know that the mass finishing manufacturing processes, tumble finishing and vibratory finishing , are often employed to deburr machined parts and clean up castings ?
Did you know that Captain Woodes Rogers rescued Alexander Selkirk , the model for Robinson Crusoe , and later defeated the pirates of the Caribbean ?
Did you know that Koradi Thermal Power Station , near Nagpur , India , was commissioned in 1974 and currently operates seven units with a total capacity of 1,080 MW ?
Did you know that Paschal Eze resigned as editor-in-chief of The Daily Observer , a newspaper in The Gambia , after being pressured by management not to publish stories about a certain politician?
Did you know that the Bat Motor Manufacturing Co. Ltd was named after founder Samuel Robert Batson but was nicknamed "Best After Tests"?
Did you know that William Murphy won two Big Ten doubles tennis championships with his twin brother, and later coached Michigan tennis teams to 11 Big Ten and one NCAA team championships?
Did you know that Delaware State Park is not in the U.S. state of Delaware but rather in Ohio ?
Did you know that one form of the general image filters invented by Otto Zobel is a particularly simple band-pass filter consisting of just resonators coupled by capacitors ?
Did you know that the body of Eadulf Rus , a man accused of killing Walcher , Bishop of Durham , was removed from the church of Jedburgh some years after it had been buried there on the orders of Turgot , Prior of Durham ?
Did you know that A. P. Patro inaugurated the Loyola College in Chennai , India , in 1925?
Did you know that while the Brooklyn Theatre burned in 1876, the actors urged calm in the face of rising panic, and though nearest to the flames, they were among the last to leave the theater alive?
Did you know that the Cape Verde Shearwater is threatened by the harvesting of its chicks by local fishermen ?
Did you know that in 1912, a Singer motorcycle became the first 350cc motorcycle to cover more than 60 miles (97 km) in one hour?
Did you know that college football quarterback Brian Johnson led the Utah Utes to become the only undefeated team in the 2008 season , including an upset of fourth-ranked Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl ?
Did you know that the "orange tooth" fungus , Hydnellum aurantiacum , is considered critically endangered in the United Kingdom ?
Did you know that American boxer Muhammad Ali and Swiss tennis player Roger Federer have each won the BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award three times?
Did you know that the translation of Sangiovese as the "blood of Jove " led to early theories that the grape's origins dated back to Roman times ?
Did you know that Joseph Leavitt , nicknamed "Quaker Joe", was a conscientious objector during the American Revolutionary War , having laid down his weapon after three months of fighting for the Continental Army ?
Did you know that Link TV partnered with several world artists to write " The Price of Silence " to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ?
Did you know that in Harold Nichols ' 32 years as Iowa State wrestling coach, his wrestlers placed among the top three teams in the United States 25 times and won 38 individual and six team NCAA championships ?
Did you know that Perth is the first city to operate a reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant to provide drinking water in Australia ?
Did you know that Dave Porter won the NCAA heavyweight collegiate wrestling championship twice and was subsequently drafted by the Cleveland Browns to play in the NFL ?
Did you know that the 17th-century antiquarian Johan Hadorph performed Sweden's first archaeological excavation?
Did you know that at least 20 children were abducted during the 2008 Christmas massacres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ?
Did you know that Anssi Koivuranta is leading the 2008-09 Nordic Combined World Cup right now?
Did you know that William Glendon argued successfully before the U.S. Supreme Court that the Nixon Administration could not use prior restraint to prevent printing of the Pentagon Papers ?
Did you know that Susanna Clarke 's novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell has 185 footnotes, which contain a meticulous false history of English magic and an entire fictional corpus of magical scholarship ?
Did you know that college football wide receiver Torrey Smith of the Maryland Terrapins set the Atlantic Coast Conference record for single-season kick return yards, including a 99-yard return in a bowl game ?
Did you know that the Norfolk, Connecticut -based performing arts venue Infinity Hall was built in 1883 as a combination opera house, barber shop and saloon?
Did you know that Matt Smith , who will portray the Eleventh Doctor in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , is the youngest person to be cast in the title role ?
Did you know that Edward Schalon , inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor as a golfer, later became the president of a Fortune 500 company, SPX Corporation ?
Did you know that the King Mojo Club in Sheffield , run by Peter Stringfellow , hosted the Small Faces ' first gig outside London?
Did you know that after becoming the first basketball player to lead the Big Ten in both scoring and rebounds, Michigan 's M.C. Burton turned down a contract to play in the NBA to attend medical school?
Did you know that Morrissey was billed as the headliner of Saturday Night Fiber 2008, even though he was not the final act to play?
Did you know that Eliza Flower was a 19th-century English musician and composer with whom a young Robert Browning fell in love?
Did you know that George "Crybaby" Cannon got his nickname from being able to wipe sweat from his face to make it appear as though he was crying?
Did you know that the East German company Jenapharm synthesized steroids from hog bile because they lacked access to a source of the precursor diosgenin ?
Did you know that Alice May starred as a soprano in comic opera in the 1870s but toured as a contralto in the 1880s?
Did you know that the house at Borden Oaks in Greensboro, Alabama , features sidelights and transoms derived from an 1833 Asher Benjamin design?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Du Huangshang was credited with setting in motion Emperor Xianzong 's reassertion of imperial authority over warlords?
Did you know that George Goldman put Book Soup , a "cultural fixture" of the Sunset Strip , up for sale on January 2, 2009, and died a day later?
Did you know that Indian historian V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar believed that ancient South Indians may have known of Australia and Polynesia before their discovery by Europeans ?
Did you know that Tommy James ' 1971 single " Draggin' the Line " has appeared on 41 albums and in many media works, from Austin Powers 2 to a documentary on the pornographic film Deep Throat ?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty official Yuan Zi wrote a five-volume work about his diplomatic mission to Nanzhao ?
Did you know that Wallace Beery won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Frances Marion the Oscar for Original Screenplay for The Champ ?
Did you know that species in the fungal genus Cyathus produce bioactive compounds with antibacterial , antifungal , and antioxidative properties?
Did you know that in June 2008, Pat Fleming and Allen Hopkins became the 51st and 52nd pocket billiards players to be inducted into the BCA Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that widespread economic crisis and food shortages resulted in several hunger demonstrations in Poland during the summer of 1981 , with the biggest one taking place in Łódź ?
Did you know that Nino Martini appeared in numerous Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s while simultaneously starring regularly in leading tenor roles at the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that a tropical greenhouse and sturgeon farm in the Swiss Alps , powered by geothermal energy from the world's longest land tunnel , is intended to produce two tonnes of caviar annually?
Did you know that African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States ?
Did you know that the Sion Causeway connected the island of Bombay with Salsette ?
Did you know that The Pittsburgh Courier crusaded against the blue discharge , calling it "a vicious instrument that should not be perpetrated against the American Soldier"?
Did you know that for the recent Philippine film Iskul Bukol 20 Years After , stars Tito , Vic and Joey paid a sum of PHP 120,000 to bail actor Ritchie D'Horsie out of jail so that he could appear in the film?
Did you know that in 2008, college football running back Vai Taua and quarterback Colin Kaepernick became the first pair of Nevada players to both rush for more than 1,000 yards (910 m) in the same season?
Did you know that in the 1950s, the Iraqi Communist Party accused the dissident communist group Rayat ash-Shaghilah of being "royalists", "deviationists", and police agents?
Did you know that Randal Kleiser saved money shooting his student film Peege by using the studio offices of a Steven Spielberg television movie which had wrapped ahead of schedule?
Did you know that 85 percent of the tobacco grown in Cuba is produced by members of the National Association of Small Farmers ?
Did you know that 180-pound (82 kg) guard Dominic Tomasi was selected as both captain and Most Valuable Player of the undefeated National Champion 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team ?
Did you know that Interim Self Governing Authority was a power-sharing proposal made by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to the government of Sri Lanka to resolve the Sri Lankan civil war ?
Did you know that disc jockeys at WLWI-FM in Montgomery , Alabama , USA, have been nominated for Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981?
Did you know that the presence of the metal ion in metalloprotein enzymes allows them to perform functions, such as catalyzing redox reactions, that other polypeptide enzymes cannot achieve?
Did you know that Charles Hawksley was elected President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1901, nearly 30 years after his father, Thomas Hawksley , was elected to the position?
Did you know that Tropical Storm Kay of the 2004 Pacific hurricane season reached its peak intensity just six hours after being named?
Did you know that while the anime adaptation of the Japanese visual novel White Album began its broadcast in 2009, it was actually first considered in 1998?
Did you know that Diane Geppi-Aikens , despite being paralyzed by a terminal brain tumor and confined to a wheelchair, coached the women's lacrosse team of Loyola College to the 2003 NCAA Final Four ?
Did you know that the French government database Joconde has over 220,000 online images of objects from nearly 300 French museums ?
Did you know that Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker , pastor of Gillfield Baptist Church in Petersburg , Virginia , USA, was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957?
Did you know that bush ballads are a folk music and poetry tradition in the Australian Outback ?
Did you know that after the 1862 trial of poisoner Catherine Wilson , the judge, John Barnard Byles , described her as "the greatest criminal that ever lived"?
Did you know that the Skyscraper Index has shown that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns ?
Did you know that Cape Wolstenholme of Ungava Peninsula is the northern-most tip of the Canadian province of Quebec ?
Did you know that professional wrestler John Hill was forced to change his ring name from Guy Hill to Guy Mitchell due to a news reporter's error?
Did you know that Royal Australian Navy commissioned the bulk carrier Jeparit in 1969 to overcome union protests against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that the Boulder Beer Company , the first microbrewery in the U.S. state of Colorado , was founded by two college professors who enjoyed homebrewing ?
Did you know that a 1927 Wolseley motor car used in the 2008 BBC television adaptation The 39 Steps was previously used in the 1960s BBC television series Dr. Finlay's Casebook ?
Did you know that University of Michigan track team captain Bob Osgood set a world record in the 120-yard (110 m) high hurdles in a "driving rain" that turned the track at Ferry Field into "a miniature lake"?
Did you know that chee kufta is an Armenian raw meat dish similar to steak tartare ?
Did you know that the 1981 warning strike in Poland was the biggest strike in the history of the Soviet Bloc , with 12 to 14 million participants?
Did you know that Charles Leigh played six seasons as a running back in the National Football League despite never playing college football ?
Did you know that the fluorotelomer alcohol 8:2 FTOH can biodegrade into the environmental contaminants PFOA and PFNA ?
Did you know that the Nintendo DS video game Texas Hold 'Em Poker allows players to mimic certain nuances such as a card player's tell ?
Did you know that Namibian politician Jesaya Nyamu , who was expelled from SWAPO for writing a private note on how to undermine President Sam Nujoma , formed the Rally for Democracy and Progress in 2007?
Did you know that Washington Park Court District is named after the Chicago Park District 's Washington Park although it is neither in the park nor in the Washington Park community area ?
Did you know that no rhinoceros is ever seen on camera in the 1974 film Rhinoceros ?
Did you know that the word palengke , a type of public market in the Philippines , was actually derived from a Spanish word for palisades ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Barry Foote batted in eight runs , including a game-winning grand slam , in a single game against the St. Louis Cardinals ?
Did you know that the riots which led to the 1963 Dahomeyan coup d'état began with the murder of an official by his deputy?
Did you know that Rev. Frederick B. Williams at the Church of the Intercession in New York City created the first program of any religious community in the United States to respond to the AIDS epidemic?
Did you know that the gokenin , Japanese feudal lords at the top of the power pyramid, were named after a semi- slave caste ?
Did you know that operatic soprano Maria Zamboni was the first person to record the title role of Puccini 's Manon Lescaut in its entirety?
Did you know that Vanderbilt University's win in the 2008 Music City Bowl came 53 years to the day after the Commodores' last bowl game victory and gave them their first winning football season since 1982?
Did you know that the Hershey Creamery Company , founded in 1894 by five brothers from the Hershey family, has actually been owned and operated by the Holder family since the 1920s?
Did you know that Norwegian ski jumper Johan Remen Evensen finished among the top three already in his fourth proper World Cup start?
Did you know that educational games from Playnormous were designed with assistance from medical researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine ?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zheng Xunyu quit his responsibilities over an incident in which his colleague Wei Zhiyi left a chancellors' lunch to dine with Emperor Shunzong 's close associate Wang Shuwen?
Did you know that Heinrich Greinacher invented his voltage doubler circuit in 1913 because the 110 volt power supply in Zürich was insufficient for his newly invented ionometer which required 200 volts?
Did you know that Jeff Moronko is one of two Major League Baseball players to have attended Texas Wesleyan University , the other being Hall of Famer Tris Speaker ?
Did you know that the Italian sparkling wine Franciacorta was first produced in 1961?
Did you know that Paul Hofmann , who served as an interpreter for the Germans in WWII , passed information to the anti-fascist resistance in Rome ?
Did you know that, when writing about a homicide case in the Dexter episode " The Dark Defender ", Timothy Schlattmann was inspired by a snow globe on his desk which he believed "could easily be a murder weapon"?
Did you know that David Logan , onetime mayor of Portland, Oregon , studied law under later U.S. President Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you know that Operation Uranus led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army and portions of the Fourth Panzer Army , as well as surviving remnants of two Romanian armies, totaling over 200,000 soldiers?
Did you know that the village of Kodinji in Kerala , India , where multiple birth is a regular phenomenon, is home to over 204 pairs of twins ?
Did you know that George Brough used a Brough Superior SS80 motorcycle nicknamed "Spit and Polish" to become the first sidevalver to lap Brooklands at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h)?
Did you know that actor, writer and poet Stephen Haggard was the model for the character of Aidan Sheridan in Olivia Manning 's novel sequence, the Fortunes of War ?
Did you know that in 1998, the Khmer Rouge attacked a casino in the city of Koh Kong with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars?
Did you know that Indianapolis claims Charles H. Black as the inventor of the first internal combustion engine automobile , although his vehicle's ignition called for a kerosene torch?
Did you know that the imposition of an all-women shortlist caused the Labour Party to lose one of its safest UK Parliamentary seats in 2005 ?