kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the role of the Rhodesian head of government gradually evolved , between 1890 and 1970, from that of a company -appointed administrator to the prime ministerial office of a republic?
Did you know that Nicholas Dukagjini is mentioned in a song about an Albanian Romeo and Juliet written by Girolamo de Rada ?
Did you know that in 1956 Cricket Records were promoted simultaneously with all Betsy Wetsy television advertisements?
Did you know that Jean Clédat uncovered the monastery of Apa Apollo, founded in the fourth century, whilst excavating at Bawit in the winter of 1903?
Did you know that a young spider crab, Libinia ferreirae , often lives inside the bell of the jellyfish Lychnorhiza lucerna ?
Did you know that the Rukwa Valley in southwestern Tanzania is sparsely populated because of its difficult environment?
Did you know that Nicolae Xenopol , who wrote a satirical novel about a Yankee visiting "disgusting" Romania, was later Romania's first ambassador to Japan?
Did you know that the occurrence of the 1906 Valparaíso earthquake thirty minutes after the 1906 Aleutian Islands earthquake was probably just coincidence?
Did you know that the Radiohead song " True Love Waits " became a highly requested song at their live shows in the 1990s despite having never been released?
Did you know that Roy Marten was one of the highest paid Indonesian actors in the late 1970s?
Did you know that softball player Brenda De Blaes represented Australia and Belgium at the Women's World Championship ?
Did you know that The Kinks ' song " The Hard Way " was based on a true incident in which Kinks' guitarist Dave Davies was caned and expelled from school?
Did you know that Minnie Fisher Cunningham helped convince both Senator Andrieus A. Jones and President Woodrow Wilson to support passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , giving women suffrage?
Did you know that the Swiss-South African Association tried to lobby the Swiss government to recognize the Bantustan state Transkei ?
Did you know that April the Fifth , the winning racehorse of the 1932 Epsom Derby , and his breeder, were both born on April the fifth ?
Did you know that the Devonian stem tetrapod Tinirau clackae , transitional between fish and land vertebrates, was named after the half-human half-fish character Tinirau in Polynesian legend?
Did you know that the protagonist of the game Soft & Cuddly must reassemble his mother's dismembered body?
Did you know that World Naked Gardening Day , celebrated in May to promote nude gardening , was first observed in 2005?
Did you know that the Communist Party leader Umberto Barulli was appointed head of state in San Marino in 1988?
Did you know that the Dynasphere monowheel was criticized for its poor braking and steering capabilities, as well as its gerbiling tendencies?
Did you know that Soedjatmoko was expelled from medical school but went on to become rector of the United Nations University ?
Did you know that Atretochoana eiselti , the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, was until late 2011 known only from two museum specimens whose origin was unknown?
Did you know that when U.S. President Johnson signed Executive Order 11375 in 1967 banning sex bias in federal government hiring, women held just 809 of more than 40,000 federal civil service jobs?
Did you know that Henry Knighton was the first historian of Lollardy ?
Did you know that " Zou Bisou Bisou " sung by Jessica Paré as Megan Draper on the March 25 season 5 premiere of Mad Men , was a 1960s yé-yé song that can be translated as "Oh! Kiss Kiss"?
Did you know that during the Popish Plot , on Sunday 17 November 1678, John Arnold of Monmouthshire captured Father David Lewis at St Michael's Church , Llantarnam , and he was later executed?
Did you know that in the spring of 1941 the Swiss Socialist Federation was banned and its four national deputies (including Le Travail editor Léon Nicole and Jacques Dicker ) were expelled from parliament?
Did you know that film editing innovations by Lou Lombardo and Sam Peckinpah in 1969 still influence filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino , John Woo , Kathryn Bigelow , and the Wachowskis ?
Did you know that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was the soloist in a recording of Max Reger 's Requiem with the Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg in 1990?
Did you know that the ruins of the Maya city of Mixco Viejo in Guatemala received their name because they were believed to be the remains of another city entirely?
Did you know that birdwatcher Lieutenant Colonel Jackson Miles Abbott bird ringed 1,400 birds in seven months?
Did you know that the Singapore High Court once held that, by refusing berths to a company running gambling cruises, the port authority had not fettered its discretion – a form of illegality in administrative law ?
Did you know that Samson Isberg ' s last beheadings were attended by about 5,000 spectators?
Did you know that when the Basque trade union movement ELA-STV suffered a split in the 1970s, the dissident ELA-STV (Askatuta) was accused of being bankrolled by Opus Dei ?
Did you know that Tristram Coffin led a group of investors who bought Nantucket for thirty pounds and two beaver hats?
Did you know that the 1931 Alabama Crimson Tide football team competed in two charity games at the end of the season to raise money for unemployment relief?
Did you know that Shuffle Master created the casino game Let It Ride to drive demand for its shuffling machine ?
Did you know that a joint musical venture between a Dutch and Indonesian band resulted in Chaos & Warfare ?
Did you know that most active filmmakers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , such as Monique Mbeka Phoba , live and work abroad?
Did you know that because of his escape from captivity in 1188 through a sewer, the medieval monk and future Abbot of Evesham Roger Norreis was nicknamed "Roger Cloacarius" or "Roger the Drain-Cleaner"?
Did you know that the 2005 TNA Super X Cup Tournament was also known as the " Christopher Daniels Invitational"?
Did you know that before becoming a celebrity chef , Eric Lanlard served in the French Navy on board the flagship Jeanne d'Arc ?
Did you know that with an area of 1,865 square kilometres (720 sq mi), Siling Co in Xainza County is the second largest saltwater lake in the northern Tibetan Plateau ?
Did you know that Julia Holter 's debut album Tragedy (2011) was inspired by Euripides ' Ancient Greek play Hippolytus ?
Did you know that Bakri Siregar wrote the first history of modern Indonesian literature ?
Did you know that a controversy arose over the Tulsi Peeth edition of the Ramcharitmanas , when the author Rambhadracharya was accused of tampering with the epic?
Did you know that the longnose spider crab disguises itself by sticking bits of unpalatable seaweed and invertebrates on its shell ?
Did you know that the Norwegian landowner Oscar Collett was the single largest benefactor of the old Norwegian Ornithological Society 's academic journal ?
Did you know that the racehorse St. Frusquin lost the 1896 Epsom Derby by merely a neck to his brother Persimmon , whose winning time of 2:42.0 set a new Derby record?
Did you know that a review of Plastic Flowers , a 1977 Indonesian film directed by a man known for romances, found him unfit to direct but praised a robbery scene?
Did you know that Great Tew Circle was a group of intellectual and literary figures who gathered in the 1630s at the manor house of Great Tew , Oxfordshire ?
Did you know that when the footballer Svein Fjælberg joined Viking FK from Sola FK in 1979 for a transfer fee of 45,000 Norwegian kroner , he became the then most expensive player at the club?
Did you know that during the Abbasid invasion of Asia Minor of 782 CE , Byzantine general Tatzates defected to the Arab side when the Byzantines already had the Abbasids surrounded and asking for negotiations?
Did you know that the MSC Fabiola is the largest container ship to dock in North America?
Did you know that while Victoire Conroy was among the few companions allowed to associate with the young Queen Victoria , the queen disliked her?
Did you know that the racehorse Colombo won £ 17,130 in 1933, a year after he was purchased for only 510 guineas ?
Did you know that threats to the Blue Gum Forest in the Blue Mountains included logging, coal mining , a dam and growing walnuts ?
Did you know that World War I British flying aces Ralph Curtis and Desmond Uniacke battled Hermann Göring , future head of the Luftwaffe ?
Did you know that Indonesian band Efek Rumah Kaca donated the royalties from ringback tone sales for one of the tracks on their self-titled debut album to the family of a human rights activist ?
Did you know that Ratirahasya , a medieval Indian sex manual, classifies sexual intercourse into nine different types on the basis of the size of genitals?
Did you know that the lower masts of the Briton -class corvettes of the Royal Navy were iron, but the rest of the masts were made of wood?
Did you know that despite winning consecutive conference championships, UC Riverside Highlanders football was discontinued following their 1975 season ?
Did you know that in 1978 the Maoist Sindicato Unitario won the union election at the conservative newspaper ABC in Madrid?
Did you know that The Panther , the favourite for the 1919 Epsom Derby , became agitated before the race and finished unplaced, possibly due to the presence of a mare ridden by a mounted policeman ?
Did you know that Dorothy Manley took unpaid leave from her job as a typist to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics , where she won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres ?
Did you know that a University of Washington fake mathematician created as a student prank became the author of several well-received papers in research journals?
Did you know that in 2007, the owners of a hairy Fabulous Willy were criticised for being homosexual?
Did you know that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film ?
Did you know that some Chicago sports fans blame their team's recent failings on the absence of Honey Bears ?
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Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright designed a dog house —and even its roof leaks?
Did you know that ever since coming between neighbours, Funzie Girt has run almost the length of a Scottish island ?
Did you know that the City of Rio de Janeiro is located in San Francisco Bay ?
Did you know that a gang leader was executed by lethal injection for the crimes of assaulting tourists and breaking into their cars to steal food?
Did you know that a fish in a fishbowl is in a fish ?
Did you know that if you want to talk to the anal it helps to speak their language ?
Did you know that the United States once fought 32 tons of shark fins , and the fins won?
Did you know that a Baker went into outer space with sea urchin sperm, later receiving a rubber duck and many bananas for her efforts?
Did you know that a Roman Catholic priest got five Super Bowl rings with the 49ers ?
Did you know that red hot penises can be pickled, but it is recommended one not eat them?
Did you know that people have cut off arms and legs because of Gigli ?
Did you know that following the example of Khader Adnan , Hana Shalabi began a hunger strike after her arrest in Israel , on February 16 , 2012?
Did you know that the Plan B song " ill Manors " was written in reaction to the 2011 England riots ?
Did you know that in 1985 differences of opinion on the tactics of general strikes led to a split in the Galician nationalist trade union movement and the founding of CXTG ?
Did you know that The Flying Fleet 's female lead, Anita Page , described co-star Ramón Novarro as "something to dream about"?
Did you know that the black gum is threatened by global warming as it is largely restricted to frost hollows?
Did you know that historian Max Hastings called Thaddeus Holt's book The Deceivers a "worthy celebration" of British deception during World War II ?
Did you know that the size of a spherical bubble in an infinite body of liquid is described by the Rayleigh–Plesset equation ?
Did you know that writer Frank Spotnitz has called " Sacrament " his favourite among the episodes he has written for Millennium ?
Did you know that during a football match between FK Bodø/Glimt and Tromsø IL in 1995 , Tromsø head coach Harald Aabrekk was brought to the hospital in an ambulance, despite not being injured?
Did you know that males with the genetic disorder familial hyperestrogenism may become feminized and often seek to have their enlarged breasts surgically removed ?
Did you know that after the Battle of Azaz in 1030, the victorious Arabs needed seventy camels to carry off the imperial tent of the Byzantine emperor Romanos III and its treasures?
Did you know that actress Lisa George was told by a singing teacher at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama that she was "too big" to be successful in musical theatre?
Did you know that in 1983, in the Russian military town Serpukhov-15 , the system controlling the Soviet Union's Oko satellites received warning of American ICBMs being launched?
Did you know that the American film All the Vermeers in New York was created as a tribute to the director 's father?
Did you know that the ringback tone for the Indonesian music duo Ratu 's song about friends with benefits was downloaded more than a million times?
Did you know that the Annaberg hill (Góra Świętej Anny) in Silesia has a pilgrimage church that remained popular despite Nazi efforts to draw attention away with an open-air theatre and a heroes' mausoleum?
Did you know that Duke Zhuang II of Qi ascended the throne with the help of minister Cui Zhu, but was later killed by Cui for having an affair with his wife?
Did you know that Australian Opal and Bulleen Boomers forward Elyse Penaluna scored 29 points and made six rebounds in 17 minutes during a basketball game against the Hobart Chargers?
Did you know that when Ottoman commander Esad Pasha surrendered after the 1913 Battle of Bizani , Greek Army officer Ioannis Velissariou personally led the Ottoman delegation to Greek headquarters?
Did you know that the central premise of Millennium 's " Covenant " may have been based on Albert Fish 's history of self-harm?
Did you know that Sarah, Duchess of York , observed a tradition by diving naked into the swimming pool at Hurst Lodge School at midnight on the eve of her last day there?
Did you know that German conductor Konrad Junghänel and his vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln won the Gramophone Award for the first complete recording of Monteverdi's collection Selva morale e spirituale ?
Did you know that Leo Franklyn spent much of the 1940s as a Dame ?
Did you know that William Addams Williams , the MP for Monmouthshire , ensured that newspapers were notified when they incorrectly listed his votes ?
Did you know that the Norwegian footballer Steffen Hagen has played every minute of 100 consecutive league-matches for Odd Grenland in Tippeligaen ?
Did you know that prepatellar bursitis is also called "coal miner's knee"?
Did you know that in 567 BC Duke Ling of Qi annexed the neighbouring state of Lai , more than doubling the size of the state of Qi ?
Did you know that Wojciech Smarzowski 's film Róża gained the Polish Film Award in seven categories in 2011?
Did you know that at St Athan , a wild fig tree grew out of the cement of the East Orchard chapel walls?
Did you know that the use of noise by Ottoman military bands inspired European composers such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart?
Did you know that Raymond P. Ahlquist 's discovery of adrenergic receptor subtypes was at first largely ignored but eventually led to the development of widely prescribed beta blocker drugs?
Did you know that Pragyananda Mahasthavir was the first Theravada Buddhist monk wearing yellow robes to be seen in Kathmandu since the 14th century?
Did you know that the pro-gay rap song " BEN (Better Everything Now) " was inspired by the coming out of the artist's gay friend and the It Gets Better campaign?
Did you know that Sting supports Bees for Development ?
Did you know that National Hero Iswahyudi , dissatisfied with life in Australia, took a rubber boat back to Indonesia?
Did you know that Australian Opal Natalie Hurst is only 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) tall and was once suspended from basketball for five weeks for swearing at a referee?
Did you know that the 1984 American biopic drama film Pope John Paul II , directed by Herbert Wise , was actor Albert Finney 's American television debut and the first script to ever be rejected by Finney upon a first reading?
Did you know that depending on a time and place, the same social movement may be revolutionary or not?
Did you know that strand swamps are home to Florida black bears and the endangered Florida panther ?
Did you know that after Francys Arsentiev died while climbing Mount Everest , it was nine years before her frozen, preserved body could be moved from beside the main route to the summit?
Did you know that Honeypot Wood was used as a bomb dump in World War II ?
Did you know that the German National Library of Science and Technology , the world's largest specialty library in its field, has 125 km (78 mi) of shelf space?
Did you know that an obituary in The Independent called Lady June "a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster"?
Did you know that Christ's College Big School is the oldest educational building in New Zealand in continuous use?
Did you know that the first 140 amino acids encoded by the gene TMEM106A are deleted along with BRCA1 during early-onset breast cancer ?
Did you know that missing 20th Century Fox executive Gavin Smith set a single-season record of 23.4 points per game playing University of Hawaii basketball that still stands?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Pong Tiku used chili pepper extract to blind his Dutch foes?
Did you know that due to his role in the national uprising , Bahraini human rights activist Mohammed al-Maskati received a number of death threats?
Did you know that according to The New York Times , opera producer Robert Lepage and opera house general manager Peter Gelb "cut heroic figures in an epic adventure" in the 2012 documentary Wagner's Dream ?
Did you know that while honored in France , the inventor of the smart card , Roland Moreno , received little public recognition outside of the country?
Did you know that Culture Freedom Day , celebrating free culture , has been inspired by the Software Freedom Day ?
Did you know that Yan Gomes is the first Brazilian -born player to appear in Major League Baseball ?
Did you know that the first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at Turtle Gut Inlet ?
Did you know that Tia Norfleet is the first African American woman to receive a NASCAR racing license?
Did you know that foreign relations between France and Serbia , established in 1879, were briefly severed after France's participation in the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999?
Did you know that German anarchist Johannes Holzmann edited twenty-five issues of the journal Der Kampf , but eleven of them were banned?
Did you know that Millennium 's " Force Majeure " features stock footage from the 1996 Saguenay Flood in Quebec ?
Did you know that Yaakov Yosef Herman manufactured and sold kosher wine out of his home throughout the Prohibition era with the approval of a New York City judge?
Did you know that a game between Belfast's Big Two once led to a cockerel and a blue pig being released onto a football pitch ?
Did you know that the 1982 television film The Scarlet Pimpernel was expanded in length to allow for a subplot detailing the rescue of the Dauphin ?
Did you know that Ryan Payton created République to prove that a "real game" can be made for mobile phones?
Did you know that the sharp saw-like edges of the native Australian red-fruit saw-sedge can cut the hands of careless handlers?
Did you know that Shirley Reilly , winner of the women's wheelchair race at the 2012 Boston Marathon , has Inupiat heritage?
Did you know that for Pentecost Monday , Bach added five wind parts to the opening of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 to form the Sinfonia of Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte , BWV 174 ?
Did you know that Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway was the first ever Indian museum to have scale models with digital control and simulated movements of trains?
Did you know that " Dinosaur ", a song by American singer Kesha , was inspired by an encounter with an old man whom she perceived as "prehistoric" and "like a dinosaur"?
Did you know that Ohhh...Alright... , I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It! , and Sleeping Girl set records for highest priced Roy Lichtenstein work sales at $42.6, $43.2, and $44.8 million, respectively?
Did you know that the young-adult novel Titanic 2020 by Colin Bateman is about an apocalyptic plague that almost destroys mankind, and not about the famous ship itself?
Did you know that Eddie Sharp raced hydroplanes before winning the 1999 ARCA Racing Series championship as a crew chief ?
Did you know that Herbert Olivecrona brought neurosurgery to Sweden and later became the namesake of the so-called "Nobel Prize of Neurosurgery"?
Did you know that high-definition video was used for making Brownies ?
Did you know that a physical examination of strongman Gino Martino by Harvard Medical School discovered that his skull was more than 2.3 times thicker than the average human skull?
Did you know that Christian rock band MercyMe employed the London Symphony Orchestra to play strings on their album Undone ?
Did you know that Little Big Painting and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes , part of Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes series , parody the gestural painting of abstract expressionism ?
Did you know that the Marinens Flyvebaatfabrikk M.F.7 floatplane trainer was intended as an interim solution, yet it served for several years after the introduction of its successor, the M.F.8 ?
Did you know that after a police raid , Ali al-Ghanmi , a Bahraini police officer, left his guard post and joined protests because he could no longer support "a killer institution"?
Did you know that 90% of Tracy Beaker fans are girls between 8 and 14?
Did you know that according to Aristophanes of Byzantium , Euripides ' lost play Antigone differed from Sophocles ' famous play Antigone in three key respects, including that Antigone married Haemon ?
Did you know that upon receiving a personal letter from George Washington appointing him a lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army , Virginia militiaman Angus McDonald declined the offer?
Did you know that the native Australian longhair plumegrass has become naturalised in Hawaii?
Did you know that Millennium 's " Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions " makes reference to Powers , Principalities , Thrones and Dominions ?
Did you know that the racehorse Bruni won the 1975 British Classic St. Leger Stakes by ten lengths ?
Did you know that a video ad for 2012 Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky featured a donkey pulling a sleigh and called the donkey an allegory for Russia?
Did you know that the German National Library of Medicine is the world's largest specialty library in its five subjects?
Did you know that a farmer drove his tractor from Crawley to Buckingham Palace to protest the land acquisition policies of Crawley Development Corporation ?
Did you know that J. A. Chapman , a 19th-century mayor of Portland, Oregon , died after driving his buggy into a telephone wire?
Did you know that the acreage associated with National Register of Historic Places Woodhouse House in Virginia Beach, Virginia , has decreased to less than a fifth of what it was in the 1880s?
Did you know that at the height of Romanticism in Scotland , George IV launched an international craze for tartan by wearing a kilt ?
Did you know that some tales have legendary robber Si Pitung losing his magical powers after being hit by rotten eggs?
Did you know that the collection at the National Museum of African Art is the largest publicly held African art collection in the United States?
Did you know that Gerhard C. Kallevig was a pioneer in establishing bus routes in Norway?
Did you know that the German drama film Jerichow was nominated for the 2009 German Film Prize in both the Best Feature Film and Best Director categories?