kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Chinese Red Army housed its political directorate in a Catholic church in 1935?
Did you know that people in Madagascar perform algebra on tree seeds in order to tell the future ?
Did you know that Jacob Christiaan Koningsberger , a biologist who catalogued the flora and fauna of Java, also served as the Dutch minister of the colonies ?
Did you know that researchers submitting to the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy intentionally introduced security bugs into Linux ?
Did you know that the Tang dynasty politician Fang Yi'ai , together with his wife Princess Gaoyang , rebelled against Emperor Gaozong of Tang , but their rebellion was swiftly suppressed, resulting in their deaths?
Did you know that El Califa de León is the first Mexican taqueria to be awarded a Michelin star ?
Did you know that first-team All-American soccer player Jordynn Dudley holds her high school's basketball scoring record?
Did you know that the Larmanjat guided rail system was successfully demonstrated in England but failed completely when used commercially in Lisbon ?
Did you know that during a comedy routine Reuben Solo drew a graph plotting the audience's reaction to his routine?
Did you know that in 2016, the removal of a few lines of code briefly "broke the Internet "?
Did you know that three of the four Richmond Theatres were destroyed by fire, of which the 1811 fire was described as "early America's first great disaster"?
Did you know that Claude Hamilton Verity , a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity , was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films?
Did you know that one of the "plushest" nightclubs in northern Florida turned into studios for a TV station in Jacksonville ?
Did you know that Left Socialist-Revolutionary leader Maria Spiridonova addressed her party's fourth congress in October 1918 by letter as she was in jail?
Did you know that KT Leveston , the 254th pick in the 2024 NFL draft , is from U.S. area code 254 ?
Did you know that many people with heart failure, diabetes, or ME/CFS cannot raise their heart rates sufficiently during exercise ?
Did you know that within years of Aza Arnold inventing a device to improve cotton roving , it was plagiarized across the United States and Europe?
Did you know that Aurora Gaming 's roster for Apex Legends is made up of Fire Beavers ?
Did you know that despite the success of their song "C U in da Ballpit", Camping in Alaska band members say they all hate it?
Did you know that journalist Jacques Poitras spent a month repeatedly crossing the " Imaginary Line " separating New Brunswick and Maine in order to publish a book about it?
Did you know that George Krugers was circumcised so he could pass as Muslim and film The Great Mecca Feast ?
Did you know that the TikTok success of DellaXOZ 's "Ahh!!" prompted a lawyer to contact her?
Did you know that the New York State Pavilion , one of the most popular attractions at the 1964 World's Fair, later stored hazardous waste?
Did you know that Stellar Blade 's Eve was described as "a woman born from South Korea's culture and philosophy" by The Washington Post ?
Did you know that Tad's Steaks offered "tasty food, low prices, service with a grunt"?
Did you know that Cypress College basketball coach Don Johnson , who was an All-American at UCLA , developed two players with minimal experience who later played for his alma mater and set records in the NBA ?
Did you know that one of SZA's songs name-drops such figures as a boxer , a stand-up comedian , and Jesus ?
Did you know that Shushu/Tong is a brand that creates fashion collections inspired by magical girl anime such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica ?
Did you know that Peter Demetz , who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949?
Did you know that Herschel the sea lion was defended by Greenpeace ?
Did you know that Taiwanese long jumper Lin Yu-tang qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics by switching out his broken track shoes between attempts?
Did you know that when Yuba County's library was built in 1906, it had a smoking room?
Did you know that a municipal purchase of 177 motorcycles by Hevearita Gunaryanti Rahayu , the mayor of Semarang , Indonesia, caused a social media controversy due to media misreporting?
Did you know that the managing editor of Aujourd'hui was executed by firing squad in 1944?
Did you know that football player Michael Jurgens never lost in 42 high school varsity games?
Did you know that the success of the British band Shiva was cut short by the death of its lead vocalist?
Did you know that the 1972 Finnish film The Sheep Eaters gathered more than a million viewers opposite the 1975 Ice Hockey World Championships match between Finland and the Soviet Union?
Did you know that according to second-century AD Greek rhetorician Athenaeus , the Phoenicians played a flute-like instrument called the gingras in their mourning rituals?
Did you know that 55 Broad Street , a skyscraper in the Financial District of Manhattan, was called "an unlovable building in an unlivable neighborhood"?
Did you know that when Sithu Pauk Hla was appointed the governor of Yamethin , he was also given command of a 50-strong company of war elephants ?
Did you know that the Estado Novo deprived Aurora Rodrigues of sleep for more than two weeks to induce hallucinations?
Did you know that the Hogmanay special Live into 85 was so shambolic it ended a 32-year tradition?
Did you know that Casey Washington made the game-winning score that ended a record nine- overtime college football game?
Did you know that the distinctive coloration of the giant panda appears to serve as camouflage in both winter and summer?
Did you know that Saparinah Sadli defended one of her former students when Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency challenged her gendered exploration of the New Order regime?
Did you know that the 18th-century hymn " Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed " has been criticised because its lyrics have singers call themselves a "worm"?
Did you know that Elizabeth Yeampierre has called Puerto Rico the "poster child for climate injustice " due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria ?
Did you know that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show ?
Did you know that in 1978 the chairman of the Democratic Yemeni Union of Peasants was arrested after the South Yemeni government was taken over by Abdul Fattah Ismail ?
Did you know that Lyle Bauer continued to attend Canadian Football League executive meetings despite being unable to speak due to his treatment for stage four throat cancer?
Did you know that the Capitolium of Constantinople , originally a pagan temple , was later topped by a cross?
Did you know that the diss track " 6:16 in LA ", directed at Drake , samples Al Green 's "What a Wonderful Thing Love Is", a song that features Drake's guitarist uncle ?
Did you know that an essay of jailed Socialist Revolutionary politician Alexander Helfgot was smuggled out of Russia and published in Berlin in 1922?
Did you know that when producer Daniel Grodnik proposed the idea for Terror Train to his wife, she thought that it sounded terrible?
Did you know that the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 was moved to Rome from Sanremo at a late stage due to increased security concerns resulting from the Gulf War ?
Did you know that in college, American football player Jarrett Kingston started at the position of left guard , then moved to left tackle , and then played right tackle and right guard ?
Did you know that Travis Clayton went from the eighth tier of English rugby union to being drafted into the National Football League, even though he had never played in an American football game?
Did you know that David Ben Avraham was granted Israeli residency after being killed by an IDF soldier ?
Did you know that the mouse protagonist Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of NIMH had her name changed because of a trademark issue from a toy named " Frisbee "?
Did you know that Tachikawa Sumito made a hit cover in 1976 of a song that he first discovered when a housewife called into his radio show requesting to hear a version of it?
Did you know that Riley Testut developed AltStore because he wanted to publish his emulator Delta ?
Did you know that the Obonga–Ottertooth Provincial Park is a significant habitat for woodland moose ?
Did you know that Albert Wesker 's character design evokes the aesthetic of the Nazi ideal of the Übermensch , reflecting Resident Evil 's "core" theme of eugenics ?
Did you know that after John Henry Newman wrote his Apologia Pro Vita Sua in response to an attack by Charles Kingsley , Kingsley compared Newman to a "treacherous ape" and implied that he was insane?
Did you know that Bruce Conner conceived of his short film Cosmic Ray as "presenting the eyes" for blind musician Ray Charles ?
Did you know that Giovanni Manu was the first player from his university ever to be selected in the NFL draft ?
Did you know that Barack Obama made an election promise to make non-emergency bills freely available online for a five-day public consultation period under " sunlight before signing "?
Did you know that Bob Noel was the one responsible for dealing "with all the dirty laundry" of the Green Bay Packers ?
Did you know that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season ?
Did you know that Lock's Quest was said to feature "some of the best original music in a DS game"?
Did you know that in Liberia , self-induced abortions are performed with herbal remedies known as "rocket-propelled grenade" and "Christmas leaf"?
Did you know that Olympic judoka Valentin Houinato is also a full-time journalist?
Did you know that Ghana and Ivory Coast have been accused of setting up a cocoa cartel ?
Did you know that the triathletes competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics include a man who won his first international competition aged 30 and the brother of a former Olympian ?
Did you know that the Wikipedia hoax Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis was cited in a judicial decision by the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice?
Did you know that Alyssa Mendoza and Andy Barat are the first Olympic representatives of their sport for their state and country, respectively?
Did you know that one in ten thousand individuals are born without the ability to smell ?
Did you know that Sizzle Ohtaka , known as the "Queen of Commercial Songs", was producing them at a rate of ten per month?
Did you know that future American presidential candidate George McGovern was a student pastor at a church in Diamond Lake, Illinois ?
Did you know that Stefano Manetti was co-consecrated a bishop by the same man who ordained him a priest 30 years earlier?
Did you know that a law was signed so that the Solomon Islands delegation could return home from the 2020 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that the first lady of the Ivory Coast created an animated kids' show in 1989?
Did you know that Olympic fencer Victor Alvares de Oliveira was told at a young age by doctors that he had little chance to compete in the sport due to his severe asthma ?
Did you know that the site of the headquarters of the German colonization of Texas was converted into a museum ?
Did you know that artifacts of Papua New Guinean art were called "living spirits with fixed abodes"?
Did you know that some estimate that maintenance of existing software costs up to nine times as much as creating it in the first place?
Did you know that at age 15, Lilia Cosman moved from the United States to Romania to compete for Romania's Olympic gymnastics team?
Did you know that Baubau city filed two different budgets at the same time, losing their chance at becoming the capital of Southeast Sulawesi ?
Did you know that in 1948, Jane Wallis Burrell became the first CIA officer to die in service?
Did you know that after being freed from Buq Buq labor camp in Italian-occupied Egypt , Libyan Jewish prisoners had to walk home across the desert?
Did you know that Aminata Barrow is the first female Olympic swimmer for The Gambia ?
Did you know that the Newton Lower Falls Branch was operated with a single electric railcar nicknamed the "Ping-Pong"?
Did you know that after disappearing in 2019, a donkey is now "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?
Did you know that Fathimath Dheema Ali is the first Olympic qualifier from the Maldives?
Did you know that Rashmika Mandanna was reluctant to accept her first role in Hindi cinema as she disagreed with the character's views on spirituality?
Did you know that the aid climbing routes on the Great Trango Tower are some of the longest vertical big wall climbs in the world?
Did you know that the neutral oil tanker Hercules carried an unexploded bomb into a Brazilian port after being attacked by Argentine aircraft during the Falklands War ?
Did you know that Goodboy Galaxy was the first commercially released video game for the Game Boy Advance in more than 13 years?
Did you know that Quintus et Ultimus Watson was the acting governor of Texas for one day in 1915?
Did you know that Chloë Farro , María Sara Grippoli , Edda Hannesdóttir , Viren Nettasinghe , Oyuntsetsegiin Yesügen , and Lê Đức Phát are flagbearers at today's Olympic opening ceremony ?
Did you know that agronomist Oliver Golden remained in the Soviet Union after his delegation of cotton experts returned to the United States?
Did you know that the Guinness World Record holder for the world's largest menorah, in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza , is smaller than a menorah in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza ?
Did you know that Olympic swimmer Camil Doua represents a country in which "the only existing swimming pools are those in hotels"?
Did you know that there is a rare circumstance in which Jewish soldiers are allowed to abandon kosher dietary laws ?
Did you know that physiotherapist Alison McGregor was one of the Olympic flame torchbearers from Imperial College London in the build-up to the London Olympic Games in 2012?
Did you know that NATO was once targeted by a group of " gay furry hackers "?
Did you know that angling was once an Olympic sport ?
Did you know that the shape of Fisherman's Friend lozenges was based on the buttons on a dress worn by Doreen Lofthouse ?
Did you know that during an expedition on RV Kaharoa , a 34-centimetre-long (13 in) "supergiant" amphipod was discovered?
Did you know that Olympia Dukakis 's first screen role was in the avant-garde film Twice a Man ?
Did you know that ten years after publishing the book Great South African Christians , Horton Davies gave a speech criticizing South African churches and synagogues for their role in apartheid?
Did you know that the two varieties of Alabama croton are separated by more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles)?
Did you know that Aboriginal soldier Tim Hughes was decorated for remarkable bravery, exceptional coolness and initiative during the Battle of Buna–Gona ?
Did you know that the Victory Vertical piano was developed in 1942 to be parachuted to US troops?
Did you know that a shrine dedicated to the fictional character Ianto Jones is visited by people from around the world?
Did you know that a sprinter who competed for American Samoa at the 2020 Summer Olympics had never competed in a sprinting event beforehand?
Did you know that immigrant midwife Dorothy Dworkin was considered the matriarch of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital ?
Did you know that an Alabama TV station fired nearly its entire news staff and replaced its newscasts with a countdown clock for more than a month?
Did you know that the Kelvite sounding machine used a chemical reaction to determine the depth of water in which a ship was sailing?
Did you know that Zionist activist Georg Kareski defended the Nuremberg Laws in a Nazi newspaper?
Did you know that the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court case Department of State v. Muñoz decided that the fundamental right to marry does not give a U.S. citizen a right to challenge their spouse's visa denial?
Did you know that Toby Olubi has claimed to have funded his Olympic bobsled career by being " shot out of a cannon "?
Did you know that the Mount Leona Fire was finally contained on the upper slopes of Profanity Peak?
Did you know that the International Olympic Committee 's TikTok account praised the "incredible strategy" of speed skater Yang Jingru 's win at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics ?
Did you know that according to writer Russell T Davies , he conceived elements of the Doctor Who episode " Empire of Death " decades before he wrote it?
Did you know that during his tenure as the manager of Austria's Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976, Gerhard Klingenberg often directed plays with analogies of a divided Europe?
Did you know that Red (Taylor's Version) was credited by media publications with popularizing the "Sad Girl Autumn" phenomenon in popular culture?
Did you know that 14 months after taking up track cycling, René Heyde only narrowly missed out being selected to the New Zealand team at the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
Did you know that during the construction of 181 Montague Street in New York City, each of the building's columns was pulled by 14 horses?
Did you know that Unilever invited Britons to congregate and worship at a shrine to Marmite in 2010?
Did you know that Zali Steggall , an independent member of the Parliament of Australia , is an Olympic skiing medallist?
Did you know that petroglyphs from western Crete may depict extinct Candiacervus deer from the Palaeolithic ?
Did you know that North Korean child prodigy Ri Jong-yol defected to South Korea after winning silver at the 2016 International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong?
Did you know that after women at Apple Inc. found a 6-percent gender wage gap and spoke out against sexual harassment and discrimination in #AppleToo , a class-action lawsuit was filed in June 2024?
Did you know that Fu Wuji 's Fuhou gujin zhu includes information on a diverse range of topics, from astrological signs to the dimensions of imperial tombs?
Did you know that Ascension Island designated its entire marine territory as a protected area with no commercial fishing permitted ?
Did you know that Jewish video essayist Jacob Geller cited Jewish traditions of study and scholarship as an inspiration behind his analysis of popular culture?
Did you know that one critic likened the design of 185 Montague Street in New York City to the horns of Count Basie's orchestra?
Did you know that Steve Elcock 's Symphony No. 6 is dedicated to "the everlasting execration of self-serving politicians, the obscenely rich and the system that allows them to remain so"?
Did you know that to embody her role as a short-track speed skater in the movie Breaking Through , actress Meng Meiqi inserted a rock into one of her ice skates to feel real pain?
Did you know that British physician James A. Glover found that " spacing-out " beds prevented epidemics of meningitis in the military during World War I?
Did you know that a co-founder of Braver Angels designed their Red/Blue political depolarization workshops based on couples therapy ?
Did you know that the 1969 leadership election for the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick was blacklisted by the American Federation of Musicians because one of the candidates was indebted to them?
Did you know that American ornithologist Judy Kellogg Markowsky died after disappearing in the river that she worked to protect during her life?
Did you know that the third Josef Hoop cabinet survived an attempted coup from a domestic Nazi party ?
Did you know that author Anna Smith Spark is also known as the "Queen of Grimdark "?
Did you know that sixteen-year-old Lisa Andreas , who represented Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 , was that year's youngest contest entrant?
Did you know that Chris Patrick is one of seven Stanley Cup champions in his family ?
Did you know that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?
Did you know that musician Henry Donch witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and served on the grand jury that indicted the assassin of President Garfield ?
Did you know that the Pokémon species Lucario is used to promote fitness programs in Japan?
Did you know that Peter Talbot , the Catholic archbishop of Dublin , was imprisoned in 1678 due to an anti-Catholic conspiracy ?
Did you know that the owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists , a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron ?
Did you know that valence populism cannot be positioned on the left–right political spectrum ?
Did you know that 17-year-old women's basketball player Zhang Ziyu is at least 220 centimetres (7 ft 3 in) tall?
Did you know that Cornell College professor Harriette Cooke was also a deaconess ?
Did you know that there were technical issues with the performance of " Luna " by the Colombian singer Feid at the 2024 Copa América opening ceremony?
Did you know that Oey Kim Tiang was one of two "men with no name" to translate Jin Yong 's Condor Trilogy into vernacular Malay ?
Did you know that the radio station at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire would go off the air in the middle of the day?
Did you know that thirty years after playing his first season for the Miami Hurricanes , J. D. Arteaga became the team's head coach in 2024?
Did you know that scientists tested the age of an African termite 's inhabited mound —and found it to be 34,000 years old?
Did you know that Albert Einstein wrote to Joseph Petzoldt in 1914 that he had "long shared his convictions", after reading one of his philosophical books?
Did you know that in fiction, supernovae are induced to serve as weapons, power sources for time travel, and advertisements?
Did you know that football player Julian Lewis received offers to play college football before he had attended high school?
Did you know that carpenter Cumming Haswell erected a historic villa , later described as "modestly-scaled but ornamental"?
Did you know that Terry Pratchett's earliest Discworld stories were posthumously found and published by two of his fans?
Did you know that the flaming finale of Joan by Alexander McQueen has been read as an image of violence, resilience, transcendence, and resurrection?
Did you know that the 2016 festival South by South Lawn included a panel discussion on climate change led by President Obama ?
Did you know that Melani Budianta used street gangs and Moonies in Los Angeles to reflect on the state of democracy in Indonesia?
Did you know that Stardust's only song earned them a $3 million offer from a record label, but they refused?
Did you know that in 1919 Vladimir Zitta , Evgenia Semenovskaya , Vladimir Bezel and G. N. Maksimov were expelled from the Party of Revolutionary Communism for having advocated unity with other populist sectors ?
Did you know that the satellite TRUTHS is planned to enable the precise calibration of Earth observation data from other satellites?
Did you know that ice hockey coach Ryan Warsofsky was the youngest active head coach in the ECHL , then was the youngest in the AHL , and now is the youngest in the NHL ?
Did you know that Charlemagne owned an elephant that he received as a gift from the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid ?
Did you know that one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry ?
Did you know  that Kho Ping Hoo , despite writing numerous stories based on wuxia , could not read Chinese?
Did you know that during the 1899–1900 peasant unrest in Bulgaria , some troops refused orders to fire on the protesters?
Did you know that the winner of the seventeenth series of Britain's Got Talent was the first individual woman to win the show without a dog?
Did you know that the moat around Pinxton Castle was inside the perimeter walls, rather than outside?
Did you know that William Beck emigrated to the US from Germany, became a policeman at 19, was wounded by a Native American tribe, and was shipwrecked before becoming Milwaukee's first police chief?
Did you know that Pharos , the largest impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus , is more than half the diameter of Proteus itself?