kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Sir Godfrey Haggard directed the American Forces Liaison Division of the Ministry of Information after his retirement as the British Consul General at New York ?
Did you know that drunk rabbits up to 30 m (98 ft) high are found in Queensland rainforests?
Did you know that histone methylation helps regulate gene expression by controlling whether DNA is exposed to proteins and transcription factors ?
Did you know that INS Kadmatt is the second of four anti-submarine warfare corvettes being built for the Indian Navy by the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers , Kolkata , under Project 28 ?
Did you know that the first fashion show of Ahmedabad was held under Calico Dome ?
Did you know that Sir Michael Stanhope was beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1552 after having been convicted of conspiring to take the life of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland , and others?
Did you know that John Ireland 's Fantasy-Sonata was inspired by Satyricon and the composer's wartime evacuation from Jersey ?
Did you know that in his 1570 cookbook Opera dell'arte del cucinare , Bartolomeo Scappi included a recipe for crostata using "the viscera of any sort of turtle"?
Did you know that the trans-border Muhuri River is also called the Little Feni?
Did you know that the NYU Violets men's basketball team, twice national champions before the creation of the NCAA tournament , had to be disbanded in 1971 due to a budget crisis?
Did you know that the Plantation Workers International Federation was founded in Tunis in July 1957?
Did you know that the intro to " Already There ", a song by Christian rock band Casting Crowns , was compared to U2 's " Beautiful Day "?
Did you know that reporter Merrill Mueller was removed from the European Theatre during World War II because he reported that the Soviets weren't communicating with Supreme Commander Eisenhower during the Battle of the Bulge ?
Did you know that ancient Egyptian deities were often combined with each other, even when they were of opposite sexes?
Did you know that the honeysuckle tunicate often grows intertwined with the bryozoan Amathia vidovici ?
Did you know that the Norwegian pretender Sigurd Slembe was brutally tortured, mutilated and executed following his capture in the Battle of Holmengrå ?
Did you know that while boarding the frigate Créole , Toussaint Louverture issued his famous statement that "the tree of liberty will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep"?
Did you know that, on the encouragement of fans, John Grisham wrote The Racketeer with an African-American protagonist and hopes Denzel Washington will play the role in the movie adaptation?
Did you know that Piddles Wood in Dorset was once home to the Pearl-bordered Fritillary ( Boloria euphrosyne ), now believed to be extinct in Dorset?
Did you know that a smelling screen can project a smell to the specific spot that a corresponding digital image is displayed on screen?
Did you know that human sacrifice among the pre-Columbian Maya was performed in a number of ways, including decapitation , heart extraction , shooting with bow and arrows and disembowelment ?
Did you know that winemakers used to add urea to grape must as a nitrogen source for wine yeast ?
Did you know that after NBC shuffled its 2012–13 television schedule , Ready for Love was given a two-hour timeslot following The Voice , starting April 9?
Did you know that the Monbar Hotel attack was the deadliest carried out by the GAL , a death squad established by officials of the Spanish state?
Did you know that conservation areas in Crawley , West Sussex , include some 1930s almshouses , 1950s flats and two 1970s housing estates?
Did you know that an American football injury almost ended Ryan Pressly ' s baseball career?
Did you know that former parachute factory worker Emile Turlant is currently, at age 109, France's oldest living man?
Did you know that Monastery of the Transfiguration of Kinaliada is where Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes was exiled after his eyes were gouged out?
Did you know that Frédéric Chopin and Napoleon III were both in love with Maria Wodzińska ?
Did you know that 50 people died when a Boeing 727 crashed into a house at Fernhill on its approach to Gatwick Airport in 1969, but a baby in the house survived?
Did you know that at the age of 49, Britt Dillmann was the oldest wheelchair basketball player at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London?
Did you know that the BIL gates technology recently entered into the public domain ?
Did you know that José Maria Larocca spent reported millions on the horse Okidoki for the 2012 Summer Olympics , but the horse died two years before the event?
Did you know that Ludovic Kennedy said that The Land of Lost Content revealed "many uncomfortable home truths", but Paul Foot described it as "a wretched hagiography"?
Did you know that according to Thomas Jefferson , U.S. House Representative Alexander White reluctantly supported the Funding Act of 1790 bill "with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive"?
Did you know that Mount Pleasant was the base trig station for the survey of the Canterbury settlement in New Zealand?
Did you know that German footballer Michael Petry made his professional debut aged 36, and scored within two minutes of coming on the pitch?
Did you know that the Aztec UFO Crash was faked to sell devices called "doodlebugs"?
Did you know that Towson University men's basketball player Jerrelle Benimon was not even selected to the 2012–13 preseason all-conference team, yet went on to become its player of the year ?
Did you know that " Change " was considered a contender for the UK Singles Chart Christmas number one , but only managed to reach number 13?
Did you know that the Better Farming Train promoted the latest agricultural research in Saskatchewan , Canada between 1914 and 1922?
Did you know that Wins Above Replacement is a sabermetric baseball statistic that measures "a player's total contributions to their team"?
Did you know that Elizabeth Bacon has been identified as the Lady Nevell of My Ladye Nevells Booke , a manuscript of keyboard music by William Byrd ?
Did you know that elephant racing held with 16 circus elephants became a major event (though it generated protests) in Germany in 2000, and was an organized International event held in Nepal in 1982?
Did you know that the 1664 bridge on Getar River was one of the few buildings that survived the 1679 earthquake ?
Did you know that Elise Andrew has been called the Neil deGrasse Tyson of Facebook?
Did you know that a series of mostly pagan uprisings in 1030s Kingdom of Poland threw the young Polish realm into chaos?
Did you know that King Stephen of England threatened to hang Roger le Poer , his ex- Lord Chancellor , in order to force Roger's mother to surrender the castle she held?
Did you know that Junior Aaron Craft was the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year on the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American team ?
Did you know that the ironclad HMS Resistance was the first capital ship in the Royal Navy to be fitted with a ram and was given the nickname of Old Rammo ?
Did you know that Al Green said that recording his song " Love and Happiness " was "like mixing explosive chemicals – everything had to be added at just the right time and at just the right dose"?
Did you know that the Syrian town of Harran al-Awamid was named after the ruins of three Roman era basaltic columns protruding out from the roof of a mudbrick house?
Did you know that NIRDESH in Kozhikode district of Kerala is India 's first centre for research and development in defence shipbuilding ?
Did you know that the Nettleton Mill in Wiltshire , an 18th-century Grade II Listed building, is now a country retreat?
Did you know that the London scrivener , Thomas Brend , was the owner of the land on which the Globe Theatre was built?
Did you know that disputes over Nisqually fishing rights led to the Fish Wars of the 1960s?
Did you know that during the Manhattan Project , physicist Robert Bacher served on the Cowpuncher Committee?
Did you know that Berkeley law dean Frank C. Newman , whose work on international human rights law was prompted by a sabbatical year in Geneva, Switzerland, was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1977?
Did you know that the west front of the Church of St Dunstan, Liverpool , has been described as "impressive if rather curious"?
Did you know that Wounds of Armenia , the first Armenian novel, was published 10 years after the disappearance of its author Khachatur Abovian ?
Did you know that Everett Hughes was General Dwight D. Eisenhower 's "right-hand man" during the European campaign of World War II ?
Did you know that the Mars Cheese Castle , a Wisconsin "cheese landmark", was visited by U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden while he campaigned for the 2012 presidential election ?
Did you know that paintings by Finnish artist Ilona Harima were influenced by the cultures of India and Tibet but she never visited either country?
Did you know that the 1963 Alabama Crimson Tide football team defeated Southeastern Conference (SEC) champion Ole Miss in a Sugar Bowl that featured two SEC teams?
Did you know that the octagonal tower of St Luke's Church, Hodnet , is the only tower of its type in Shropshire ?
Did you know that the Syrian village of Marj al-Sultan , near Damascus , served as a major transit point for Circassian migrants heading south to the Golan Heights and Transjordan ?
Did you know that the Minotaur -class cruisers of 1906 have been described by naval historian R. A. Burt as "cruiser editions of the Lord Nelson -class battleship "?
Did you know that due to their success in the caviar industry, the Russian Armenian Mailov brothers were known as the "Kings of fish roe"?
Did you know that the Indio Comahue Monument , commemorating the native inhabitants of the Comahue region of Argentina, was built in 1964 for the first National Comahue Fair?
Did you know that Patrick Keogh was recruited into the 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team despite being born in Birmingham , England?
Did you know that Dmitry Bortniansky was the most prolific composer of choral concertos , short compositions for unaccompanied voices to be sung in the Divine Liturgy ?
Did you know that the Loire wine grape Pineau d'Aunis was a favorite of King Henry III of England ?
Did you know that Felix Robertson , the first white child born in what is today Nashville, Tennessee , would later serve twice as the city's mayor?
Did you know that the Hundertwasser Toilets are the most photographed toilets in New Zealand ?
Did you know that Wolf Creek , which originates on Banner Mountain , has a heavily mined watershed ?
Did you know that American, Belgian and British soldiers attended the funeral of Walter Waddington , along with an entire French cavalry brigade?
Did you know that a Gacaca court found that at least 64,000 people were massacred in Kabgayi in 1994?
Did you know that Glenn Curtiss became "the fastest man alive" for going faster than anything on land, sea or air on a motorcycle with an aircraft V-8 engine , setting an unofficial record that stood for 30 years?
Did you know that Polish postmodernism met with severe impediments not so much from the communist establishment as from Solidarity and the Catholic Church ?
Did you know that Glenn Duffie Shriver pleaded guilty to spying for China, although his fiancée called him "Mr. Patriot"?
Did you know that although the medieval Lord Chancellor Ralph de Warneville was a friend of Arnulf of Lisieux , Ralph helped to force Arnulf's resignation as Bishop of Lisieux ?
Did you know that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom was the first unified musical setting of the Divine Liturgy ?
Did you know that the appearance of the British Invincible -class battlecruisers in 1908 rendered the Japanese Ibuki -class armored cruisers obsolete before they were commissioned ?
Did you know that the telescoping effect occurs when people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are?
Did you know that the only sides that have beaten England in women's Test cricket are Australia and India ?
Did you know that the horse genome contains 2.7 billion DNA base pairs , and horses have over 90 hereditary diseases similar to those found in humans?
Did you know that the Citra Award for Best Director , established in 1955, once went to Teguh Karya of November 1828 ?
Did you know that the west portal and the main windows in the Church of St Christopher, Norris Green , Liverpool , are hyperbolic in shape?
Did you know that  Latvian-American mathematician Lipman Bers was also a human rights activist and a founder of the Committee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences ?
Did you know that Vito Alessio Robles was one of the first romantic revolutionaries of Mexico?
Did you know  that plants of the genus Triunia have attractive but highly toxic fruit?
Did you know that the Lingayen-Lucena corridor has been described as the place where national elections are won in the Philippines?
Did you know that Josh Rutledge was named the California League 's player of the week twice in his second professional baseball season?
Did you know that the national colours of Greece were specified in the Greek Constitution of 1822 , drafted during the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you know that the fungus Sclerotium cepivorum causes onions to rot in the ground while Botrytis allii causes them to rot during storage?
Did you know that the 17th-century English poet Thomas Jordan wrote one poem that was widely anthologized in the 20th century, even though his poetry had been disdained by his contemporaries?
Did you know that it is hoped that Arsenal 's game against Indonesia , to be played as a warm up match for Arsenal's 2013–14 season , will help ease an internal dispute between the PSSI and KPSI?
Did you know that Lord Pitfour used a trick to save many Jacobite rebels from execution?
Did you know that Circassians in Syria occupied many villages, including Murayj al-Durr , having been relocated to the country by the Ottoman authorities in an effort to combat rising local dissent during the nineteenth century?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Espen Hægeland scored more than 50 goals for Lyngdal IL in 2012?
Did you know that Mir Hazar Khan Khoso is the current caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan ?
Did you know that independent South African online newspaper Daily Maverick was influenced by defunct South African business magazine Maverick and American news websites The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post ?
Did you know that Robert of Ghent , a 12th-century Lord Chancellor of England, once tried to prevent an Archbishop of York from entering the city of York ?
Did you know that general Ants Kurvits became the first head of the Estonian Border Guard in 1922, and held that position almost continuously for the whole interwar period ?
Did you know that areas along the Tubutulik River contain abnormal radioactivity ?
Did you know that India got their first Test cricket win against England in 1952 at the Madras Cricket Club Ground ?
Did you know that by 1940, Mount Mary College president Edward Fitzpatrick was considered one of the United States' "foremost authorities in military conscription "?
Did you know that Bikenibeu , a settlement in Kiribati , could be completely flooded if sea levels rise by one metre?
Did you know that the Tswana ruler and rainmaker Sechele I , denounced for polygamy by David Livingstone , was one of the most successful Christian missionaries of the 19th century?
Did you know that the Indian Navy 's anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kiltan is named after Kiltan , a coral island of India's Union Territory of Lakshadweep ?
Did you know that 2012–13 Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year , Khalif Wyatt , was considered "high maintenance" early in his career by his head coach, Fran Dunphy ?
Did you know that the Anosy mouse lemur and Marohita mouse lemur were described as new lemur species in March 2013, and the latter was listed as Endangered the year before?
Did you know that Mario Poli replaced Jorge Bergoglio as Archbishop of Buenos Aires when the latter was elected as Pope Francis ?
Did you know that the novel Passing by Nella Larsen , with its focus on "jealousy, psychological ambiguity and intrigue" has been described as a "skillfully executed and enduring work of art"?
Did you know that the Second Street Bridge in Allegan, Michigan , was rehabilitated by rolling it ashore and disassembling it?
Did you know that Miss Calypso , a 1957 album by future poet and writer Maya Angelou , was reissued in 1995, probably as part of the "exotica-space age pop revival"?
Did you know that Ferndown Common in Dorset supports such rare heathland species as the Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis ) and Smooth Snake ( Coronella austriaca )?
Did you know that offensive tackles Mitchell Schwartz and Geoff Schwartz are the first Jewish brothers to play in the National Football League since Arnold Horween and Ralph Horween , in 1923?
Did you know that the song " Tunnel Vision " by Justin Timberlake features several voyeuristic references?
Did you know that in the Gossaum fights during Korean New Year , the straw constructions are deliberately mismatched to give the preferred team an advantage?
Did you know that American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson discovered vanilla ice cream in France, and then introduced it to the United States?
Did you know that Kentucky established a record with six blue chip recruits from a single school being selected to the 2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game ?
Did you know that Zoebaida kept audiences focused by using alternating long shots and close-ups ?
Did you know that the French ship Hercule had been in commission just 24 hours when captured by HMS Mars at the Battle of the Raz de Sein ?
Did you know that John Knox 's journals provide one of the most complete accounts of the British Army's campaigns in North America from 1757 to 1760?
Did you know that the Coorabulka station in Australia lost 4,000 square miles (10,360 km 2 ) of grazing lands during a rat plague in 1940?
Did you know that Sir Roger Townshend 's portrait was among those on a tapestry commemorating the destruction of the Spanish Armada which hung in the House of Lords until the tapestry was destroyed by fire in 1834?
Did you know that Graduados is the first remake produced by the Chilean TV channel Chilevisión ?
Did you know that new South Alabama head basketball coach Matthew Graves is one of three brothers from the tiny town of Switz City, Indiana , to play basketball for Butler ?
Did you know that for all species of bats native to Canada , there have been five total recorded cases of bat to human rabies transmission since 1925?
Did you know that A. M. B. H. G. Abeyrathnebanda , who was killed in action at 19 years of age, is the youngest recipient of the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya ?
Did you know that Justin Timberlake 's song " Strawberry Bubblegum " contains references to " Pop ", a song by his former band 'N Sync ?
Did you know that the cruise ship Norwegian Getaway will feature an entertainment venue devoted to magic, called the "Illusionarium"?
Did you know that Operation Ironside was a Second World War military deception , targeting the Bay of Biscay , in support of the D-Day landings?
Did you know that Shell Beach in Western Australia is entirely composed of empty shells of the heart cockle ?
Did you know that Franz Schubert's third mass in B flat major is by its short duration a missa brevis , but by its large orchestral force of brass , woodwinds , and timpani a missa solemnis ?
Did you know that Parley Common in Dorset has at least 147 species of spider among its fauna , including the very rare Ero aphana , and Xysticus robustus ?
Did you know that Horween Leather Company makes the National Football League 's footballs , colloquially known as "pigskins", out of steer hides?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Darin Downs had to regain the ability to speak after being hit in the head by a batted ball?
Did you know that in the film Debipaksha (2004), a Bengali priest named his three daughters Rebati, Haimanti and Jayanti, the names of Hindu goddess Durga ?
Did you know that the spiral galaxy NGC 5585 contains a supernova remnant that is over 650 light-years long, 300 light-years wide and still expanding?
Did you know that Franz Schubert 's fourth mass , a missa solemnis in C major , shows a perceived "lightness of touch" in the tradition of Mozart and Michael Haydn ?
Did you know that in 2013 , Singaporean politician Desmond Lim set a new record for the lowest percentage garnered in an election since the independence of Singapore in 1965?
Did you know that smile mask syndrome may affect people whose jobs force them to smile for many hours per day, and is particularly common in Japan and Korea?
Did you know that "Leafy" Burnham , co-founder of the Barmy Army , got his nickname from the cockney rhyming slang for "thief" while working at British Airways ?
Did you know that despite having 6 centimetre (2.4 inch) thorns, Acacia ehrenbergiana is an important food for camels , goats , and sheep ?
Did you know that the punishments in Hell that Ralph of Coggeshall 's "Vision of Thurkill" claimed would happen to medieval judge Osbert fitzHervey included being forced to eat and then vomit back up hot coins?
Did you know that a vineyard crossing of Peloursin and Syrah produced the wine grape variety Petite Sirah ?
Did you know that although the medieval cleric Burchard du Puiset was called the nephew of Hugh du Puiset , the Bishop of Durham , it is possible that Burchard was really Hugh's son?
Did you know that in India, people suffering from puppy pregnancy syndrome believe a dog bite can impregnate humans, including men?
Did you know that Jörg Faerber was the artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn for more than four decades and recorded piano concertos by Shostakovich and Haydn with Martha Argerich ?
Did you know that inscriptions in the extinct Bactrian language can be found at Shatial ?
Did you know that the Lebang Boomani dance is performed by the Tripuri people of Tripura , India , as part of the jhum cultivation cycle?
Did you know that Tom Platt was a member of the Harrogate Town team that reached the FA Cup second round in the 2012–13 season?
Did you know that while plantings of Gros Verdot have been banned in Bordeaux , the grape can still be used to make Bordeaux-style Meritage wines outside of France?
Did you know that the Buddhist court attendant who wrote an anti-Daoist text converted from Daoism after negative experience with Daoist sexual practices ?
Did you know that trees of the New Guinea genus Finschia have stilt roots coming off the trunk up to 1.8 m (6 ft) off the ground?
Did you know that Mexican journalist Rodolfo Rincón Taracena was kidnapped, tortured, and burned to death for writing about drug trafficking?
Did you know that at the Action of 16 October 1799 a Spanish treasure convoy worth more than £600,000 (£43 million at present value) was captured by the Royal Navy?
Did you know that one reviewer describes Rihanna 's " Jump " as one of two tracks that "see sex wriggling everywhere" on the album Unapologetic ?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera had sex for breakfast with slow jam and honey drip?
Did you know that John le Fucker 's name probably did not mean what you might think it means?
Did you know that The Three Musketeers were the nucleus engineers of the Chrysler Corporation ?
Did you know that Dick Wick Hall 's frog never learned to swim?
Did you know that a mouldy old film was screened at Cannes ?
Did you know that Mark Koenig was the last surviving member of the Murderers' Row ?
Did you know that Shitterton has been voted to be worse than Scratchy Bottom or Brokenwind ?
Did you know that Siemens is in Püssi ?
Did you know that the Aetherius Society believes that their sacred 1,375-foot (419 m) Brown Willy is full of holy energy?
Did you know that students at Washington College celebrate May Day by running naked around the flag pole on the campus green?