kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Hawaiian diplomat John Mākini Kapena was sent to Japan in 1882 to discuss Japanese immigration to Hawaii ?
Did you know that prior to heading Ghana's petroleum authority , lawyer Hassan Tampuli secured the release of a journalist who had been detained for writing about the country's president ?
Did you know that the Palembang Light Rail Transit , which opened last month, is the first operational light rail system in Indonesia?
Did you know that clothes created by Matilda Etches in the 1940s were the first modern fashion items to be honoured as key acquisitions by London's Victoria and Albert Museum ?
Did you know that Major League Baseball umpires have visited 131 hospitals since 2006, giving seriously ill children more than 12,500 stuffed toys, through their‎ UMPS CARE charity?‎
Did you know that a lost film by Andy Warhol shows the production of Jack Smith 's Normal Love ?
Did you know that minoritized languages are languages targeted for extermination, even when spoken by a majority of the population?
Did you know that HMS Romulus used false colours to capture a Spanish corvette without a shot being fired?
Did you know that former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles twice escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he faced trial for the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 ?
Did you know that Leasowe Lighthouse had the only known female lighthouse keeper when it ceased operating in 1908?
Did you know that Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar , Indonesia, won more than 250,000 votes, and lost ?
Did you knowthat Keanolani was the illegitimate daughter of King Kamehameha V , who died in 1872 without naming an heir to the throne?
Did you know that SpaceX 's Rocket Development and Test Facility is on the site of Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant , a former World War II bomb-making facility?
Did you know that Texas-born Mario Alberto Peña became a suspected regional leader of the Gulf Cartel and a gangster folk hero on both sides of the Mexico–United States border ?
Did you know that Charles Wood's Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D has been regarded as an "epitome of Church of England worship"?
Did you know that Ian Aird performed chest surgery on a wounded German officer after the British surgeon had been captured by a German Panzer column during the North African Campaign ?
Did you know that Wikipedia has a rule allowing its editors to " ignore all rules "?
Did you know that voice actress Aya Hirano played the lead role in the multi-award-winning anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya ?
Did you know that a 156-foot (48 m) tunnel for the Lower Manhattan Expressway was built in New York City in the 1960s, but was never used?
Did you know that the creators of the video game franchise God of War named their main character Kratos without knowing that an actual god by that name appears in the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound ?
Did you know that despite having Stage IV lung cancer, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho continues to act as spokesman for the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management ?
Did you know that where the United States has FAANG , China has BAT?
Did you know that an island in New York City used to be a summer campsite, with up to half a million visitors by 1917?
Did you know that at the age of 23, Adam Holland became the youngest person to run 100 marathons?
Did you know that the French town of Bergerac was captured after a portcullis jammed on a wounded horse?
Did you know that Victoria Lederberg was a SimCity mayor of Providence, Rhode Island , before becoming a state supreme court justice?
Did you know that Heinrich Himmler may have given permission for the Red Cross to visit the family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau , just a few hundred meters from the gas chambers?
Did you know that in 2018, storyboard artist Domee Shi became the first woman to direct a Pixar short film?
Did you know that Charles XI of Sweden tried mounting his cavalry on moose ?
Did you know that Anne Patzwald works as an occupational therapist at a clinic that employs three other current or former members of the German women's wheelchair basketball national team?
Did you know that the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Kaiser Franz Joseph I sank during a gale in October 1919?
Did you know that military officer Francisco Javier Arana , who briefly ruled Guatemala as part of a three-person junta , was subsequently killed in a shootout after threatening a coup?
Did you know that Max Reger composed 20 Responsories in English for use in the American Lutheran church, although he did not speak English?
Did you know that when suspected Mexican drug lord Raúl Meza Ontiveros was arrested, police found he was storing 348 kilograms (767 lb) of cocaine ?
Did you know that the Oregon Military Museum has more than 14,000 artifacts in its collection, including 50 vehicles, 750 weapons, and 5 military aircraft?
Did you know that Renee Powell was the first female golfer to compete in a British men's tournament?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Dave Roller , who weighed 270 pounds (120 kg) at the time, was carried off Lambeau Field by fans after a victory against the Detroit Lions ?
Did you know that the 2013 Perkins Review found that only 24% of British parents considered engineering a suitable career for their daughters?
Did you know that the Georgian hearth goddess Lamaria was venerated exclusively by women, either in private rituals within the home or in private shrines outside the boundaries of villages?
Did you know that Saturday Zoo host Jonathan Ross was described as "humour-resistant Teflon "?
Did you know that Robert of Nantes was "an old and venerable man aged eighty years" when he was imprisoned along with Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade ?
Did you know that in his opera Tri sestry ( Three Sisters ), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors ?
Did you know that basketball player Donte Ingram owns at least 50 pairs of sneakers ?
Did you know that SS-Untersturmführer Karl Friedrich Titho was dubbed the "Executioner of Fossoli" by the Italian media for his role in the execution of 67 prisoners at Fossoli di Carpi ?
Did you know that " The Witch's Promise " is the only Jethro Tull single to feature a Mellotron ?
Did you know that Jos Canale won the CHL Coach of the Year Award and led Team Canada to a gold medal at the World Juniors ?
Did you know that a section of U.S. Route 97 Alternate in central Washington state was rebuilt on higher ground in the 1950s to prevent inundation from a new hydroelectric dam ?
Did you know that the Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition of 1928 sought to explain the endemic syphilis among the "primitive" Buryat people?
Did you know that Israeli songwriter Rachel Shapira 's first hit song was set to music without her knowledge?
Did you know that Neatsville, Kentucky , has been relocated twice?
Did you know that Benedicite , composed by Andrew Carter for choir, children's choir, and orchestra, was inspired by restored ceiling bosses in York Minster ?
Did you know that several Major League Baseball teams adopted the " opener " strategy during the 2018 season ?
Did you know that in 2017, Willem de Kooning 's Woman-Ochre was found for sale in a New Mexico antique store, 32 years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art ?
Did you know that despite being the son of a professional basketball player, Luka Šamanić did not begin playing the game until the age of 11?
Did you know that the flatworm Microplana terrestris can use a trail of mucus as a "suspension bridge" to pass from one leaf to another?
Did you know that John "Jabo" Starks was one of the originators of funk drumming?
Did you know that Michael Frenzel , the former CEO of European tourism group TUI , escaped from East Germany with his father when he was nine years old?
Did you know that Masters of the Sun Vol. 1 is the first album by the Black Eyed Peas in eight years?
Did you know that the English amateur footballer Reg Anderson was killed during World War II when his aircraft was shot down?
Did you know that hurricane responders face hazards from floodwater such as chemical and biological contaminants, and electrocution?
Did you know that Jean Yancey was known in Denver as "the mother of all businesswomen", having helped more than 1,000 women launch their own startups ?
Did you know that Canadian national basketball player Élodie Tessier is 3 feet 11 inches (1.19 m) tall?
Did you know that photographs of the Valle de Guadalupe and Bahía de los Ángeles by Julio Rodríguez appeared in National Geographic magazine?
Did you know that more than 20 million people watched Chronicle during its three-day live coverage of the raising of the Mary Rose in 1982?
Did you know that Denise Mueller-Korenek is the only woman to hold the world record for paced bicycle land speed since its establishment in 1899?
Did you know that despite being structurally weakened, it may be beneficial to the porous star coral when the bivalve Lithophaga simplex bores into it?
Did you know that the procession after the 1920 funeral of William G. Blakely reportedly included the longest line of automobiles ever seen at a funeral in Kingman, Arizona ?
Did you know that as the Salton Sea dries up, the gryphons are multiplying ?
Did you know that in 2004, the Israel Antitrust Authority declared that a copyright collective for authors and musicians was essentially a monopoly ?
Did you know that OSS agent Roderick Stephen Hall was betrayed and captured during a one-man mission in northern Italy in January 1945, and murdered by the SS ?
Did you know that most red porgies change sex from female to male at some point during their lives?
Did you know that top NBA draft prospect Sekou Doumbouya signed his first professional basketball contract at age 15?
Did you know that Julia Yates, head of the New Zealand fashion label Trilby Yates , was once spat at in the street for wearing trousers?
Did you know that in 2018, police raided the house of former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner , and confiscated a letter written by the 19th-century national hero José de San Martín ?
Did you know that Reverend James Abercrombie once admonished President George Washington during his sermon for not setting an example in church by receiving communion ?
Did you know that pictures of suspected 18-year-old assassin Raúl Meza Torres inspired other teenagers in Mexico to join organized crime?
Did you know that aggregations of painted urchin have been recorded with a density of 80 individuals per square metre?
Did you know that college basketball player Johnny Dee played through a knee injury for most of a season while leading the NCAA Division I in free throw shooting percentage?
Did you know that Orlande de Lassus set Psalm 134 , one of the Songs of Ascents , in Latin for seven voices a cappella , using a wide range from low bass to very high soprano?
Did you know that during World War II , Huang Qingyun published the only Chinese children's magazine in Hong Kong and China, and corresponded with her readers to help them cope with life in wartime?
Did you know that at over fourteen hours in duration, La Flor is the longest film in Argentine cinema ?
Did you know that in 2017, Sofía Gómez broke the CMAS Constant Weight Bi-Fins freediving world record, and then broke her own record two days later?
Did you know that an underwater mountain between Greenland and Norway has been compared to a coral reef ?
Did you know that German wheelchair basketball player Barbara Gross plays for the University of Alabama team, which includes two other Germans?
Did you know that when Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean pitched DC Comics on reintroducing Black Orchid in 1988, editor Karen Berger had never heard of the main character ?
Did you know that the company set up by horticulturist Theodosia Burr Shepherd is considered the foundation of the California seed industry?
Did you know that Theater Bremen , the state theatre in Bremen for operas, plays, dance, and student programs, was selected as opera house of the year by Opernwelt in 2007?
Did you know that Adam Marshall was the first Catholic chaplain in the United States Navy , albeit unofficially?
Did you know that the entire fourth serial of Doctor Who is missing after being erased by the BBC in 1967?
Did you know that in 1906, Russian-Jewish immigrant Abe Spring first proposed Alaska as a refuge for Jews , but the suggestion was rejected by the US Congress?
Did you know that Karolin Margret Natasa is the first Dayak woman to serve as a regional head in Indonesia?
Did you know that on May 14, 1980, Salvadoran forces massacred more than 300 civilians while Honduran soldiers prevented them from escaping across the border?
Did you know that E. C. Stoner was one of the first black American comic book artists?
Did you know that the palebelly searsid undertakes daily vertical migrations in the deep sea?
Did you know that British pathologist Ian Whimster was part of the medical team that entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the Germans had left?
Did you know that the name of the undersea volcano Ita Mai Tai (No Damn Good) was given by a scientist presumably upset by unsuccessful attempts to drill into it?
Did you know that the Israeli team at the 1972 Summer Olympics attended the German production of Fiddler on the Roof as guests of its star, Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky , the night before the Munich massacre ?
Did you know that Nanchang Xiangtang Airport served 102 passengers in its first full year of operation, and more than 800,000 four decades later?
Did you know that sugar refiner William Camden was also a partner in a business shipping slaves to the Caribbean?
Did you know that the 2011 horror webtoon " Bongcheon-Dong Ghost " was released with a warning for "pregnant women, the elderly, and those suffering from serious medical conditions"?
Did you know that Abhilasha Kumari , the first female Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court in India, served for only 13 days?
Did you know that the shooting of Oscar Grant motivated Angie Thomas to write a short story that became the basis for her debut novel, The Hate U Give ?
Did you know that Canadian wheelchair basketball player Sandrine Bérubé is a brown belt in karate?
Did you know that during a 15-year period researching George Washington 's correspondence, William Wright Abbot read or edited more than 135,000 documents?
Did you know that Filipinos became the first Asians to have a documented presence in the Americas when they landed in what is now California on 18 October 1587 ?
Did you know that basketball player Bol Bol received his first NCAA Division I offer at the age of 15?
Did you know that the slots in the test of the six-holed keyhole urchin may help prevent it from being washed away by the current?
Did you know that in 2017, Renee Rabinowitz successfully sued El Al after the airline forced her to move at the request of a Haredi Jewish man who refused to sit beside her?
Did you know that there is in excess of 150 million tons of phosphorite ore on Ioah Guyot , a seamount in the Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that professional League of Legends player Imaqtpie was married in a T-shirt and shorts?
Did you know that Floyd Bennett Field , New York City's first municipal airport, was not commercially successful due to its remoteness from Manhattan ?
Did you know that John Lennon was inspired to write the song " Sunday Bloody Sunday " by his anger over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre ?
Did you know that in 1981, Elnora M. Gilfoyle became the first occupational therapist to receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree?
Did you know that the full implementation of the Calais Conference proposals was thwarted by the threatened resignations of Field Marshal Douglas Haig and General Sir William Robertson ?
Did you know that the regent of Karawang , Indonesia, claims to have been named after a car ?
Did you know that during the American Revolution, the British stronghold of Fort Granby in the South Carolina colony was attacked with a Quaker gun ?
Did you know that while in prison, Richard W. Meade wrote a political pamphlet about rotten cheese?
Did you know that Reggie Upshaw was considered one of Tennessee 's best high school athletes in American football, basketball, and the high jump?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII did not condemn the roundup and deportation of more than a thousand Jews " under his very windows " 75 years ago today?
Did you know that former ballerina Miranda Esmonde-White claims that people can practice "aging backwards" through eccentric exercise ?
Did you know that the German-language weekly Der Nordstern ( The North Star ) was founded in 1874 to serve the Minnesota area's large German immigrant community?
Did you know that Tan Tjoen Tiat , the second Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia , advised the colonial government in 1870 that women should not act as guardians for minors?
Did you know that the adventure video game Unavowed uses pixel art because the development studio lacked the resources to create a 3D video game?
Did you know that Mary Jane Reoch rode 12 miles (19 km) to the hospital on her racing bike to give birth to her daughter?
Did you know that Venezuelan political activist Rafaela Requesens was a flamenco dancer for fifteen years from the age of six?
Did you know that the Harvard Graduate Students Union , a labor union representing 5,000 student workers at Harvard University , is affiliated with the United Automobile Workers ?
Did you know that the fee in excess of £2,000 paid by Blackburn Rovers in 1921 for the footballer Fergie Aitken was the record that Bury had received for a player?
Did you know that Wandersong was one of the first GameMaker Studio titles to be released on the Nintendo Switch , along with Hyper Light Drifter and Undertale ?
Did you know that basketball player Trey Lewis transferred to Louisville with hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament , but the team declared itself ineligible for the tournament after he joined?
Did you know that Don Raimondo Viale was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for assisting Jews who had escaped from the Borgo San Dalmazzo concentration camp ?
Did you know that Henry G. Hanks left Cleveland to join the California Gold Rush , only to end up selling paint and studying mineralogy ?
Did you know that Matt Mobley set an Atlantic 10 basketball tournament record with nine 3-pointers in a victory over Richmond ?
Did you know that the contents of the Biblioteca della Comunità Israelitica in Rome, with volumes dating back to the 16th century, were looted by Nazi Germany 75 years ago today, and never recovered?
Did you know that Max Jessner travelled to Buriat-Mongolia as part of the Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition ?
Did you know that Bontecou Lake , near Millbrook, New York , is divided between two drainage basins , making it a bifurcation lake ?
Did you know that in 1903, the 25-year-old daughter of an illiterate Irish immigrant became the first woman to stand for the Australian House of Representatives ?
Did you know that the hymn " Mein ganzes Herz erhebet dich ", a paraphrase of Psalm 138 based on the Protestant Genevan Psalter , is also sung by German-speaking Catholics?
Did you know that businessman Jose Yao Campos admitted in 1986 to having organized 40 different shell companies through which Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos could hide his wealth?
Did you know that today is No Bra Day , on which women are encouraged to go braless to promote breast cancer awareness and gender equality ?
Did you know that footballer Sandy Allan was the first player to score a headed hat-trick in a European club competition ?
Did you know that in his Berceuse , Chopin created a lullaby for piano in 16 continuous variations on an ostinato ground bass?
Did you know that Giovanni Fornasini , an Italian priest murdered by the Nazis in 1944, was posthumously awarded Italy's Gold Medal of Military Valour and is a candidate for sainthood?
Did you know that after his ban on playing League of Legends was lifted, Loltyler1 's return set a new record for viewership on Twitch.tv ?
Did you know that the leader of the Caiazzo massacre on 13 October 1943 eluded arrest for nearly 50 years because authorities were searching for him under the wrong name?
Did you know that Galán , one of the largest exposed calderas in the world, contains the Laguna Diamante lake, where life has to tolerate extreme environmental conditions?
Did you know that Emil Mattiesen , a composer of lieder , chamber and organ music, also wrote books on parapsychology ?
Did you know that Miami University 's Herron Gymnasium , listed on the National Register of Historic Places , was demolished and replaced with a parking lot?
Did you know that American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King Kamehameha III ?
Did you know that Großtarock , a card game played with a 78-card Tarot pack that originated in Germany and spread to the Netherlands and Scandinavia, has survived only in the Danish variant known as Tarok ?
Did you know that Henry Weston Farnsworth served in the French Foreign Legion and was one of the first American soldiers killed in World War I?
Did you know that Beerbohm , a cat owned by the Gielgud Theatre , became famous for entering actors' dressing rooms, attacking props, and wandering across the stage during performances?
Did you know that photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva won the trust of a Siberian mammoth-tusk hunter by stitching up his injured hand?
Did you know that Sam Hornish Jr. of Panther Racing won the 2002 Delphi Indy 300 by 0.0024 seconds, the closest margin of victory in Indy Racing League history?
Did you know that despite John Fogerty 's agreement with hippie generation political concerns, his lyrics for Creedence Clearwater Revival 's " Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me) " were critical of hippie attitudes?
Did you know that footballer Willie Anderson agreed to join the Portland Timbers despite not knowing where the team was based?
Did you know that according to family lore, George FitzGeorge Hamilton , a godson of George V , was killed in a World War I bombing raid while retrieving his leave pass?
Did you know that pieces of the original New York Penn Station have been found at a recycling center in the Bronx , underneath the New Jersey Meadowlands , and in other U.S. states?
Did you know that Baby Rani Maurya , who in August 2018 was sworn in as the seventh governor of Uttarakhand , India, is the second woman to hold that post?
Did you know that the flooding of a tunnel on the Singapore MRT , causing more than S$ 2 million in damages, was blamed on falsified maintenance records?
Did you know that Pietro Bandini , a Catholic priest, established Tontitown, Arkansas , as a colony of Italian immigrants in 1898?
Did you know that the wasp Nealiolus curculionis is a parasitoid of the sunflower stem weevil ?
Did you know that at age 14, Luc Van Slooten was the youngest player at the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship ?
Did you know that to receive a work permit to play in Luxembourg , Bosnian footballer Sanel Ibrahimović had to pretend to be a specialist in his country's cuisine ?
Did you know that in his 1994 opera La Belle et la Bête , Philip Glass wrote dialogue and music for soloists and ensemble to match the 1946 film by Jean Cocteau ?
Did you know that architect Rose Connor found in 1958 that only one percent of registered architects in the U.S. were female, and seven states had no female architects at all?
Did you know that the mitochondrial DNA molecules of Medusozoa are linear rather than circular as in almost all other animals?
Did you know that in 2015, Maya Krishna Rao became the first artist to return the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award ?
Did you know that Soulard Farmers Market is reputed to be the oldest public market in the US west of the Mississippi River ?
Did you know that "Beatles-ologist" Kolya Vasin proposed a 210-foot (64 m) tall "temple" be constructed in Saint Petersburg in honour of John Lennon ?
Did you know that the unsolved killing of a Chinese immigrant family in Guilderland, New York , four years ago today was the first quadruple homicide in the state's Capital District ?