kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Rollin White was an American gunsmith who invented a revolver with a bored-through cylinder which allowed the use of metallic cartridges?
Did you know that the Belgian Landrace , a breed of domestic pig , is known for its musculature and high quality of pork?
Did you know that the deaths of two residents of the Mathias Sharp House in southwestern Indiana sparked a sensational 1870s murder trial?
Did you know that Russian scientist Mikhail Golant , a sapper during World War II , pioneered the Soviet approach to design of backward-wave tubes ?
Did you know that Starry Starry Night was described as a "healthy example" of a China-Taiwan film collaboration?
Did you know that the proposed Redlands Passenger Rail system would connect the University of Redlands with San Bernardino, California ?
Did you know that Thelephora palmata is among the stinkiest fungi in the forest?
Did you know that an English translation of the Hindi hymn " Jaya Ho " has been included in the North American hymnals Voices United and The United Methodist Hymnal ?
Did you know that at least two of the four Scott Viking 1 gliders built were impressed into Royal Air Force service during World War Two ?
Did you know that " Cherish " became Madonna 's sixteenth top-five single, a record in the Billboard Hot 100 history?
Did you know that Ba'athists in Yemen carried out clandestine political activity until 1990?
Did you know that the ravenberry and boreal sagewort are eaten by hoary marmots ?
Did you know that Constantinos A. Patrides , the author of Milton and the Christian Tradition , earned a medal for heroism for his boyhood service with the Greek Resistance against the German Occupation ?
Did you know that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been praised for an initiative to reduce health care spending, but public anger ensued when the compensation for its departed CEO was reported?
Did you know that Sir Edward Ford donated 2,200 of his own books to the library of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians ?
Did you know that during the Second World War , what became the Battle of Britain House in Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?
Did you know that They Say I'm a Monkey! used leeches feeding to symbolize the rape of a child?
Did you know that fossilized microorganisms in the Barberton Greenstone Belt have been dated to 3.5 billion years ago?
Did you know that piano students of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover won more than 100 prizes at piano competitions?
Did you know that Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman was engaged when he was 10 years old?
Did you know that research on split-brain patients led to identifying the left brain interpreter as a system that rationalizes and generalizes new information that the brain receives?
Did you know that the 21er Haus , located in Vienna , was originally constructed as the Austrian pavilion for Expo 58 in Brussels ?
Did you know that both of American singer Romeo Santos ' first two singles, " You " and " Promise ", reached the top of the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart?
Did you know that both the Justice Party and the Indian National Congress lent their support to the 1921 Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Strike ?
Did you know that Arab-Israeli Olympic hopeful Jowan Qupty and Jewish-Israeli Olympian Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or were high school roommates and best friends?
Did you know that nobleman and diplomat Michał Radziwiłł Rudy was described as a psychopath by his own cousin, politician Krzysztof Radziwiłł ?
Did you know that after members of the cast of Ghost of Jeruk Purut were diagnosed as being possessed, the crew was told to prepare an offering of cigars, eggs, and palm sugar?
Did you know that Auckland 's Grafton Volcano was only identified last year, having been buried by a neighbouring volcano soon after it was created?
Did you know that the first Chinese player in the NBA was a Maverick ?
Did you know that a Sinclair ZX81 inspired Eric van der Kleij , CEO of Tech City , to go into technology?
Did you know that Christen Pram is regarded as the first Norwegian novelist ?
Did you know that it has been suggested that John Thornton Augustine Washington would have succeeded his great uncle George Washington as "king" if the United States had been a monarchy ?
Did you know that the Michigan–Michigan State ice hockey rivalry includes The Big Chill at the Big House , the highest attended ice hockey game ever?
Did you know that the law firm Steven J. Baum P.C. closed three weeks after the publication of embarrassing photos of its 2010 Halloween party ridiculing foreclosed homeowners?
Did you know that Yoennis Céspedes was described by Baseball Prospectus as "arguably the best all-around [baseball] player to come out of Cuba in a generation"?
Did you know that hindgut fermenters such as horses extract more nutrition out of smaller quantities of feed than do ruminants such as cattle ?
Did you know that the "wedding" of the Miami Maniac , the mascot of the Miami Hurricanes baseball team, was televised nationally on ESPN in a ceremony attended by Bud Man , Grimace and McGruff the Crime Dog ?
Did you know that Sha'ab was one of several villages in Galilee which rebelled against the Ottomans in 1573 CE (981 H)?
Did you know that John Jenkinson rescued a woman from a burning house in The Octagon, Dunedin , New Zealand, whilst 13 others died?
Did you know that during a decade of the interbellum , Poland and Germany suffered from a customs war ?
Did you know that P. Oxy. 654 and P. Oxy. 655 are two of only three Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Thomas ?
Did you know that members of the colonial tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum may glow in response to each other?
Did you know that 1932 Olympic racewalking champion Tommy Green was unable to walk for the first five years of his life because he was afflicted with rickets ?
Did you know that the extinct Canadian redwood Metasequoia foxii was described from over 10,000 fossils?
Did you know that Captain Edward Sneyd Clay lost his ship when his pilot and master mistook a burning lime kiln for a signal light ?
Did you know that the Bangong suture in Tibet was formed by the closure of the former Bangong Ocean?
Did you know that the Tory Member of Parliament Henry Thynne taught French and Italian to the poet Elizabeth Singer ?
Did you know that baseball player Fred Fussell was nicknamed "Moonlight Ace" after he pitched a no-hitter ?
Did you know that the People's Library was formed when an abandoned cardboard box full of books was discovered in Zuccotti Park , New York?
Did you know that Allen Shenstone was the only Canadian among the 400 undergraduates who entered Princeton University in 1910?
Did you know that Armijn Pane wrote more idealistic works after the Japanese occupation of Indonesia ?
Did you know that Werner Hartenstein was the U-boat commander responsible for the Laconia incident ?
Did you know that Hall of Famer George Kelly was nearly suspended by Major League Baseball for playing basketball with Jimmy O'Connell ?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen 's song " Point Blank " is one of several songs on The River that deal with the disappointments of working-class family life?
Did you know that Toward the Unknown featured storylines involving both test pilots and brainwashing ?
Did you know that, largely due to hunting for traditional medicine , fewer than 250 Delacour's langurs are believed to remain in the wild?
Did you know that Jacqueline Moss guided tours of Joseph Hirshhorn 's sculpture garden in Greenwich, Connecticut, before he had the art moved to his museum in Washington ?
Did you know that Barbados won its first Pan American medals during the 1963 Pan American Games , held in São Paulo , Brazil?
Did you know that Azwar Abubakar was acting governor of Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 98 , begins with the same stanza as the earlier chorale cantata , BWV 99 , but continues differently and even seems to lack the regular closing chorale?
Did you know that the Tupolev ANT-41 torpedo bomber was designed to be flown either with conventional landing gear or as a floatplane ?
Did you know that the Pied Monarch of north Queensland binds its nest with spiderwebs and decorates it with lichen?
Did you know that Spec Harkness led the Northwestern League in wins during his first professional baseball season?
Did you know that Australian dual swimming Paralympic gold medallist Sam Bramham once told the media that his leg had been "chomped off by a kangaroo "?
Did you know that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules , Goliath , and a river ?
Did you know that when a DC-7 crashed into a pine forest in France in 1959, rescue workers were hindered by a lack of roads in the area?
Did you know that Unthink and Nextdoor each attempt to challenge Facebook by providing an online social network with greater privacy?
Did you know that Australian Paralympic medalists Karen Farrell and Cameron de Burgh , both seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents, were sponsored by the NSW Motor Accidents Authority ?
Did you know that Djan Faridz withdrew his bid for Governor of Jakarta after being selected as Minister of Public Housing?
Did you know that the plot of Sophocles ' lost play Tereus incorporates rape, mutilation and infanticide ?
Did you know that Brazil defeated Timor-Leste 76–0 in futsal in 2006, the current world record?
Did you know that archaeological excavations in Frightful Cave , in Coahuila , Mexico , recovered over 950 fibre sandals and the remains of an aged woman?
Did you know that Jessica Gallagher , the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics , has also set national records in discus, long jump, and shot put?
Did you know that Djenar Maesa Ayu was involved with 1 Woman, 14 Men on her 38th birthday?
Did you know that before his early death, Russian writer Lev Lunts proposed the name and wrote the manifesto for the famous Serapion Brothers literary group?
Did you know that Tom Fitzgerald has the most wins among Columbus Crew head coaches , with 70?
Did you know that the nest of the Yellow-faced Honeyeater is so flimsy, eggs and nestlings sometimes fall through the bottom?
Did you know that dual Australian Paralympic powerlifting silver medallist Darren Gardiner is known as "The Bear" because of the roaring noise he makes in his pre-competition warmup?
Did you know that before it moved into the Old House of Keys , the Isle of Man 's lower house of parliament met in a pub ?
Did you know that Kevin McIntosh was named the Australian Paralympic Committee Coach of the Year three times?
Did you know that the Tian Shan region is a key place to study mountain formation far from continental and tectonic plate boundaries?
Did you know that Leederville Oval was built on part of a series of wetlands north of Perth , Western Australia ?
Did you know that during controlled burns of wooded areas, the Japanese climbing fern can inadvertently become a fuel ladder that brings flames into the canopy ?
Did you know that Israeli sport shooter Sergy Rikhter was denied a 2011 ISSF World Cup silver medal because he was late?
Did you know that St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen , is one of the few churches in Wales to be lit only by candles?
Did you know that the armored cruiser Admiral Makarov was one of the ships that represented the Russian Empire at the coronation of Nicholas I of Montenegro in August 1910 ?
Did you know that the interlocking at the Harris Switch Tower in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , still simulates train movements using timetables from the early 1940s?
Did you know that less than six weeks after winning the 2011 National Rugby League premiership , the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles sacked their head coach, Des Hasler ?
Did you know that Punta Brava , Cuba , has been the site of a number of notable deaths, including those of Antonio Maceo Grajales (1896) and Quentin Bandera (1906)?
Did you know that the Radlock Trainer was built by members of the Hull Experimental Gliding Club in their workshop?
Did you know that the 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team won the NCAA Division I Tournament in Jerry Lyne 's first season as an assistant coach?
Did you know that according to legend, Saint Boniface chased away a Germanic god named Stuffo from the Hülfensberg in Thuringia , Germany ?
Did you know that Paralympian Cobi Crispin was the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team 's top scorer in all but the last two matches of the 2011 U25 Women's World Championship of Basketball?
Did you know that Peter Percival collaborated with Arumuka Navalar , a Hindu revivalist, to translate the Bible into Tamil ?
Did you know that the rove beetle Diochus electrus is the first definite member of the subfamily Staphylininae from the fossil record?
Did you know that foliage from the Australian rainforest tree Grevillea baileyana was used in the floral arrangements handed to medal winners at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?
Did you know that the University of Central Florida 's women's soccer team has had a winning record in 27 of the 30 seasons the team has played?
Did you know that Nag Hammadi Codex II is the only complete manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas ?
Did you know that St Michael and All Angels' Church in Felton, Northumberland , has a window cut from a single stone that features eight petal flower patterning with geometrical tracery ?
Did you know that tectonic subsidence , the sinking of the Earth's crust, can be caused by extension, cooling, or loading?
Did you know that Israeli Olympian Delila Hatuel trains both Jewish and Arab children in fencing?
Did you know that Solonei da Silva was a garbage collector in Brazil in 2009, but went on to win the gold medal in the marathon at the 2011 Pan American Games ?
Did you know that to escape burning at the 1393 Bal des Ardents Charles VI of France huddled under the gown of the Duchesse de Berry , while a lord leaped into a wine vat?
Did you know that Mary Tyler Moore made her feature film debut in X-15 , which was also the first film to be directed by Richard Donner ?
Did you know that the University of Central Florida 's men's soccer team won their first match by a score of 8–0?
Did you know that the disastrous Air Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1939 led to the development of the fast-acting computerized Mark XIV bomb sight ?
Did you know that one year after suffering a near career-ending injury, Bill Stumpf batted .405 in the Northwestern League , higher than any other player in the league with at least 50 at bats?
Did you know that although the founders of Retraction Watch initially wondered if there would be enough retractions from scientific journals to run the blog, they covered over 200 such retractions within their first year?
Did you know that teenage prodigy Conrad Tao starred on the TV series From the Top three times: as pianist, violinist, and composer?
Did you know that the students of Chester College helped to build its chapel between 1844 and 1847?
Did you know that former basketball guard Stefon Jackson , who played for the UTEP Miners , is Conference USA 's all-time scoring leader with 2,456 points?
Did you know that the plot of the Battlestar Galactica episode " Sacrifice " was influenced by Dog Day Afternoon ?
Did you know that the mistletoe species Amyema congener of eastern Australia can grow on non-native peach , plum and pear trees?
Did you know that Kobe Bryant once claimed that Rashad Phillips was the "best player" never selected in an NBA Draft ?
Did you know that University of Toledo basketball player Bill Walker was the first official NCAA season assists leader in 1950–51?
Did you know that the extinct maple section Torada is only known from the three Eocene species A. stonebergae , A. toradense , and A. washingtonense ?
Did you know that Boston mayor Thomas Menino called Clover Food Lab 's soy bacon sandwich the "best BLT in Boston"?
Did you know that Fig Island includes one of the largest and most complex Late Archaic shell rings in North America, and one of the best preserved circular shell rings?
Did you know that the Fringe episode " And Those We've Left Behind " marked the first time actors and real-life husband and wife Stephen Root and Romy Rosemont had worked together on a creative project?
Did you know that the Hyde Park – Kenwood Historic District in Chicago includes the home of President Barack Obama ?
Did you know that in 2009, Davon House of the New Mexico State Aggies scored touchdowns on both a fumble recovery and an interception return?
Did you know that the composition by Graham Waterhouse Der Handschuh ( The Glove ) for cello and speaking voice , after Schiller's ballad Der Handschuh , is designed for one performer?
Did you know that the U.S. Forest Service warns hikers in Montana 's Beartooth Mountains not to follow the many cairns on the way to Froze-to-Death Mountain because they are useless for routefinding?
Did you know that the waffle-iron filter from electronics is used on industrial microwave heaters because product can be continuously fed through the inside of the filter?
Did you know that musicologist Erich Katz , a German Jewish refugee who was briefly in Dachau , had a long friendship with Carl Orff , despite rumors about Orff's relationship with the Nazis?
Did you know that in 1983 Brian Reid was the first rider to average over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) during the Southern 100 motorcycle races on the Isle of Man ?
Did you know that MercyMe 's independent album The Worship Project sold over 60,000 copies and helped them gain a contract with INO Records ?
Did you know that the extinct planthopper Ordralfabetix is named for a character from The Adventures of Asterix ?
Did you know that the TV ad " Second Generation " features young basketball players recreating Michael Jordan 's most famous moves from memory?
Did you know that in some joint custody arrangements, children reside in one house and the parents move in and out from separate residences?
Did you know that Thomas Eyles 's service in the invasion of France brought his promotion to post-captain , despite the expedition's ultimate failure?
Did you know that production of kits of the Robertson B1-RD , a homebuilt ultralight aircraft , was stopped by their manufacturer due to concerns about product liability ?
Did you know that Yale history professor John Morton Blum , besides editing the Morgenthau Plan and teaching George W. Bush and John Kerry , appeared in Woody Allen 's film Zelig ?
Did you know that Hawaiian chief Boki accused Queen Kaʻahumanu of scheming to place her adoptive son, David Kamehameha , on the Hawaiian throne ?
Did you know that when Manasse ǃNoreseb , chief of the Red Nation in Namibia , was to be reburied at his home settlement of Hoachanas , the remains did not contain a skull?
Did you know that future California Court of Appeal Justice Christopher Cottle attended UC Berkeley for one day before transferring to Stanford , where he was a pre-medical student and captain of the football team ?
Did you know that Nag Hammadi Codex XIII is the only surviving copy of the Trimorphic Protennoia , an early Christian Gnostic text ?
Did you know that Welsh goalkeeper Tony Millington was "a one-man entertainment" who would take sweets, pies or chewing gum from supporters and celebrate his team's goals by performing handstands ?
Did you know that Huaihai Road , one of the most famous shopping streets in Shanghai , was formerly named after the French general Joseph Joffre ?
Did you know that judge Beth Grimes dismissed lawsuits against Keanu Reeves and Ari Emanuel , ordered Jon Voight to pay attorney fees, and was appointed by Arnold Schwarzenegger to a California Court of Appeal ?
Did you know that the 1980s " Gang of Four " consisted of Democratic critics of the Vietnam War who advocated Congressional funding for the Nicaraguan Contras ?
Did you know that non-ferrous metals are used because of their desirable properties such as low weight or resistance to corrosion?
Did you know that although his high school basketball career was nearly ended by an accident with piranhas , Kit Mueller is second in Princeton basketball history in points and assists ?
Did you know that with The Half Brother , Lars Saabye Christensen became the first novelist to win the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize twice?
Did you know that the Pulangi IV Hydroelectric Power Plant provides Mindanao 's electrical grid with 23% of its hydropower ?
Did you know that Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate is a Japanese visual novel video game that was the No. 1 best-selling PC game in Japan in October 2010 ?
Did you know that Julianne Adams was recruited as a wheelchair basketball player while still in a hospital bed following the accident that severed her spine?
Did you know that the largest political faction in the Frankfurt Parliament was called the Casino ?
Did you know that NASCAR " road course ringer " Chris Cook was the youngest chief instructor ever hired by the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving ?
Did you know that two of the members of Japanese idol group HKT48 are in elementary school?
Did you know that James McCormack was the first Director of Military Applications of the United States Atomic Energy Commission ?
Did you know that the Blacktail triplefin blenny 's species name, bahasa , refers to the official language of Indonesia ?
Did you know that Stanford University played rugby instead of American football from 1906 to 1917 and had as its first coach a man who had never before played or coached the sport?
Did you know that professional baseball player Chuck Rose was a league-leader in both hits and pitching wins ?
Did you know that the Obedient Wives Club is the publisher of a book called Islamic Sex, Fighting Against Jews To Return Islamic Sex To The World ?
Did you know that the Long-tailed Ground Roller , a species of bird endemic to Madagascar , digs a tunnel in the sand as an entrance to its underground nest?
Did you know that the cross in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw became a focus of a major controversy in 2010, regarding the relations between church and state in Poland?
Did you know that a flying scene in the music video for Eminem 's song " Not Afraid " has been compared to The Matrix ?
Did you know that the director of For the Moment described lead actor Russell Crowe as a man who "likes to be a maverick"?
Did you know that T 3 was a process for extracting oil from oil shale in Morocco ?
Did you know that the 1953 crash of a Vickers Viking in Belfast killed 27 people?
Did you know that Mohammad Natsir wrote that Indonesia's treatment of Islam in the 1970s was similar to how one would treat "a cat with ring-worms"?
Did you know that professional wrestlers Mark Shrader and Corporal Punishment established the first permanent wrestling school in Maryland ?
Did you know that Bubba Monroe , son of Memphis wrestler Sputnik Monroe , was featured in Texas regional and independent promotions during the 1990s?
Did you know that uplift data and tsunami wave heights indicate that the 1703 Genroku earthquake was probably caused by the rupture of three separate segments of the Eurasian – Philippine Sea Plate boundary?
Did you know that D. J. Smith was the first player at Appalachian State University to have more than 500 tackles in a career since NFL Pro Bowler Dexter Coakley ?
Did you know that the church Michaelion was a model for hundreds of other churches in Eastern Christianity ?
Did you know that the ancient Roman dancer Galeria Copiola reached the age of 104?
Did you know that a media conspiracy calling itself the Order of the Occult Hand has infiltrated The Boston Globe , the Los Angeles Times , and The Washington Times ?
Did you know that Hal Foster 's first book was a children's book , and his second was a seminal text in postmodernism ?
Did you know that Dorothy Mayhall was the first director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum ?
Did you know that during the Siege of Portsmouth , Southsea Castle was captured from a drunken commander?
Did you know that Paralympic shooting medallist Ashley Adams is a cattle grazier who owns a 64,000-acre (26,000 ha) station near Blackall, Queensland ?