kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that when President George H. W. Bush violated his " Read my lips: no new taxes " pledge, opposition by House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich led to the U.S. federal government shutdown of 1990 ?
Did you know that tabletop game Beasts of Balance won the Technology Award at the 2015 Indiecade festival?
Did you know that the Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 was passed by Parliament to bring the marriage law of the disestablished Church in Wales into line with the established Church of England?
Did you know that Vijay Kumar Kapahi elucidated the relativistic beaming in nuclear jets of quasars ?
Did you know that for decades, Long Island commuters knocked knees on the Long Island Rail Road 's PRR MP70 cars?
Did you know that Ranganathan Shashidhar developed a family of 256- greyscale electroclinic liquid crystals with a response time of less than 100 microseconds?
Did you know that The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis is the only 15th-century chronicle that says that James I of Scotland was killed in the privy ?
Did you know that drag boat racing driver Tyler Speer 's boat uses parts from his ARCA Racing Series stock car?
Did you know that the Joint Typhoon Warning Center accurately predicted that Typhoon Vera would strike Okinawa 66 hours in advance?
Did you know that the early Buddhist wall paintings at the Tiantishan Caves were detached due to construction of a reservoir?
Did you know that Junius Kaʻae was implicated in an opium bribery scandal involving the Hawaiian king Kalākaua and a Chinese rice planter ?
Did you know that LSD and psychotherapy were used to treat alcoholics during the Spring Grove Experiment ?
Did you know that Missa aulica is a Missa brevis in C with trumpets and violins by František Xaver Brixi , who was director of the choir at St. Vitus Cathedral from age 27?
Did you know that the role of Lofty Chiltern in Casualty was specifically written for actor Lee Mead?
Did you know that according to the 2009 book Pinoy Capital , a significant number of Filipino Americans in Daly City, California, preferred to be identified as Filipinos ?
Did you know that Ivy Josiah led opposition to domestic violence against women and children in Malaysia?
Did you know that America's current laws on cadaver acquisitions followed 19th-century riots over medical grave-robbing ?
Did you know that it was initially claimed by newspapers that "King Kong" Kirk died after being splashed by Big Daddy Shirley Crabtree in a wrestling match?
Did you know that after a long official debate, Puddletown stopped being Piddletown?
Did you know that actress Charlotte Salt likened her Casualty character Sam Nicholls to Lara Croft ?
Did you know that freight derailments occurred at both of Wachusett 's predecessor stations?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Eva Randová was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for her performance as the Kostelnička Buryjovka in Janáček's Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House?
Did you know that the cyberpunk science-fiction genre was named after the 1983 short story " Cyberpunk " by Bruce Bethke ?
Did you know that anchovy paste has been used for centuries to provide flavor for foods and as a source of nutrition?
Did you know that Mary Florence Potts patented various styles of cold-handle clothes irons that were the most popular irons ever used?
Did you know that in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets , the actor Alec Guinness plays nine members of the same family?
Did you know that Gertrude Förstel was Sophie when Der Rosenkavalier was first performed in Vienna, and sang in the premieres of Tiefland and Mahler's Eighth Symphony ?
Did you know that a randomised decision rule satisfying the Bayes criterion always has a non-random alternative?
Did you know that the Achaemenid palace at Susa served as a model for Persepolis ?
Did you know that for the filming of Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? on Manhattan's Upper West Side , the filmmakers relied on regular pedestrian traffic to background the scenes rather than hiring extras ?
Did you know that the 58th chapter of the Quran explains how Muhammad's original position on the legal status of divorced women was overruled?
Did you know that in the late 1980s, the now defunct airline Nigeria Airways took delivery of the last DC-10 ever built?
Did you know that 22 years after he walked-on at Ole Miss , Matt Luke became its head football coach?
Did you know that Robert Lee Burns , a reformed convict from Oregon , was the subject of an interstate extradition battle between Oregon and California?
Did you know that some inhabitants of the Colca Canyon believe their ancestors came from the Hualca Hualca volcano?
Did you know that Swedish singer Wille Crafoord launched the Hovturnén, an annual concert tour in Skåne , in which singers and performers travel by horseback between gigs?
Did you know that at 27 weeks, the longest running number-one song on the US Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart is " Closer " by The Chainsmokers , featuring Halsey ?
Did you know that the tubeworm Eunice norvegica often grows in association with a deep water coral?
Did you know that the increased prominence of pizza in China had the secondary effect of introducing Chinese consumers to cheese as a culinary ingredient?
Did you know that in 1975, eight men stole $30 million from the Providence Mafia and associates in the Bonded Vault heist ?
Did you know that early coffee vending machines used instant coffee powder mixed with hot water, while some modern machines fresh-grind the coffee and dispense various espresso drinks?
Did you know that Mithuben Petit , a woman freedom fighter during the British Raj , played a major part in the Salt March with Mahatma Gandhi ?
Did you know that the 32nd chapter of the Quran is known by the name "The Prostration", and alternatively, "The Beds"?
Did you know that Richard Saltonstall Rogers , a political enemy of Nathaniel Hawthorne , has been suggested as the inspiration for a character in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter ?
Did you know that when the Theater Münster opened in 1956, it was regarded as the first new theatre in Germany after World War II?
Did you know that huli-huli chicken is turned on a spit , and named from the Hawaiian word huli , meaning "turn"?
Did you know that Donald Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy the biography Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher ?
Did you know that Stanley Blankson made the smooth flow of human and vehicular traffic his major aim during his term as mayor of Accra ?
Did you know that Jordan holds an annual celebration on 1 March for the 1956 Arabization of the Jordanian Army command ?
Did you know that Carmen Cincotti ate nearly 1,000 hot dogs in two months while training for the 2017 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest , where he ate 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to finish in second place?
Did you know that when dislodged from its burrow, the onion anemone may get rolled around by the sea before finding a suitable place to dig?
Did you know that in 1944, Northern Ireland politician William Lyle denounced as "obnoxious" the views of minister Harry Midgley , whom Lyle hoped would become "more mature"?
Did you know that the 1928 one-act play The Queen's Messenger was the first television drama?
Did you know that William L. Mercereau , Superintendent of Steamships for the Pere Marquette Railway , was responsible for building up what was at the time the world's largest carferry fleet?
Did you know that the black coral barnacle sometimes grows on Plumapathes pennacea ?
Did you know that contralto Ruth Siewert appeared as Erda not only in Bayreuth , but also at La Scala , La Fenice , and La Monnaie ?
Did you know that the film Poetry in Motion was described in a review as "orgasmic" for students of contemporary poetry?
Did you know that after working for the International Coffee Organization in London and as a consultant for the World Bank, Owusu Afriyie Akoto became Ghana's Minister of Food and Agriculture ?
Did you know that the 2013 book Disinformation was included in the CIA 's "Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf"?
Did you know that Grace Hutchins promoted a radical Christian pacifist movement in the United States?
Did you know that the first county courthouse for Lake County , Oregon , was built on 20 acres (8.1 ha) donated by Mark W. Bullard in 1876?
Did you know that in animal studies of the health and safety hazards of nanomaterials , carbon nanotubes had similar inhalation exposure effects to asbestos ?
Did you know that John Ward Westcott developed a marine mail system that eventually became the only floating ZIP Code in the United States?
Did you know that in the mid-1980s, some HIV patients pinned their hopes for survival on an experimental drug called HPA-23 ?
Did you know that at over 10 km (6 mi), Pınargözü Cave is the longest cave in Turkey and has not yet been fully surveyed?
Did you know that the upcoming movie Stronger is based on a memoir by Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman ?
Did you know that the release of Los Gatos ' debut single " La balsa " on July 3, 1967, is widely considered to be the origin of Argentine rock ?
Did you know that according to Snopes , the belief that the soul weighs 21 grams should not be given any credence?
Did you knowthat within a Monte Viso Tunnel is the most ancient tunnel of Italy throught the mountain?
Did you know that Alfred Ezra learnt how to keep hummingbirds in captivity using baby food ?
Did you know that the Flag of Washington must show George Washington 's profile facing the same direction on both sides, making it one of the most expensive U.S. state flags to produce?
Did you know that Oxford Bibliographies Online has been called "an anti- Google "?
Did you know that the white-necklaced partridge 's forehead is white in one subspecies and chestnut in the other?
Did you know that Richard Scott was a doctor who in 1963 became the world's first professor in general practice ?
Did you know that the short film Le Building was created as an opener for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival as the thesis project of five students of Gobelins ?
Did you know that Martin F. Scanlon was one of the Early Birds of Aviation ?
Did you know that the Iranian Prime Minister's office bombing in 1981 led to the death of the prime minister, Mohammad Javad Bahonar , and President Mohammad Ali Rajai ?
Did you know that Charles Moses escaped from Singapore with Major General Gordon Bennett , led a cavalry regiment at the Battle of Buna-Gona, and crossed the Rhine with the British commandos?
Did you know that The Big Bend , which would be the world's longest building if built, was designed to circumvent zoning regulations?
Did you know that the Indian legislator Siddiqullah Chowdhury is critical of the Sheikh Hasina -led government of Bangladesh?
Did you know that Donald Trump blamed his ghostwriter for inaccuracies in Trump 101 , saying in a deposition that he had read it "very quickly" before publication?
Did you know that the Incident at Clovelly Cottage (1895) was the "first successful motion picture film made in Britain"?
Did you know that the operator of Casino Pier returned from lunch to find his new roller coaster was being built in a different location than he had intended?
Did you know that Yvonne Busch left home at age eleven, on her own initiative, to pursue music?
Did you know that the Brookville Liberty Modern Streetcar has a hybrid design that allows it to run on either battery power or via pantograph and overhead line ?
Did you know that the Guangming Daily was one of only three national newspapers published in China during the Cultural Revolution ?
Did you know that Hendrika B. Cantwell , one of the first physicians in the US to work for a child protection agency, came in contact with an estimated 30,000 cases of suspected child abuse and neglect?
Did you know that the legality of a 2016 plan to tax the Yale University endowment was questioned, in part due to a 1745 act of the Colony of Connecticut which granted the school tax-exempt status?
Did you know that GhanaSat-1 , the first Ghanaian satellite in space, is used to monitor the country's coastline as well as broadcast Ghanaian songs ?
Did you know that international cricketer Carlisle Best would "aggravate bowlers" by commentating on himself while batting ?
Did you know that Alice Tangerini is the only botanical illustrator ever hired by the Smithsonian Institution ?
Did you know that the National Socialist Party 's victory in the 1956 general election formed the only elected government in Jordan 's history?
Did you know that Samsun Golf Course is thought to be the first course in the world to be built on ground recovered from the sea?
Did you know that when disturbed, the rufous-throated partridge flies to branches as thrushes do, and at night, roosts huddled in trees like babblers ?
Did you know that developer Parroty Interactive 's 1997 parody video game The X-Fools was released in anticipation of the fifth season of the paranormal TV series The X-Files ?
Did you know that Robin Fontes is the highest-ranking female military officer to serve in Afghanistan since the American invasion of that country in 2001?
Did you know that The Graybar Hotel was written by a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without parole?
Did you know that Margaret Amoakohene , currently a member of Ghana's Council of State , is the country's former High Commissioner to Canada?
Did you know that radio station KRGE in Weslaco, Texas , once shared time with another station that later moved 350 miles (560 km) from Brownsville to Port Arthur ?
Did you know that Mirwaiz Yusuf Shah of Kashmir was one of the founders of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference ?
Did you know that the vegetable leaf miner became a serious problem in tomato crops in Florida after insecticides had killed the wasps that had previously kept it under control?
Did you know that tea garden worker Karimul Haque has been awarded India's fourth highest civilian award?
Did you know that the YPG was denounced after the Battle of al-Yaarubiyah for fighting the Free Syrian Army , which was not even present during the battle?
Did you know that Rick Langford pitched 22 consecutive complete baseball games in 1980?
Did you know that the Tjele helmet fragment is part of one of only five known Viking Age helmets?
Did you know that Shanno Devi was the first woman speaker of a State Assembly in India?
Did you know that U.S. admiral Mark Bristol unsuccessfully protested against the deportations of Samsun Greeks to the Turkish authorities of Mustafa Kemal ?
Did you know that Norah C. James ' first book Sleeveless Errand was ruled obscene and ordered by the Bow Street Police Court to be destroyed?
Did you know that The Gamblers ' "Moon Dawg!" single is considered by some to be the first surf rock record?
Did you know that Charles Corydon Hall is considered the father of the rock wool insulation industry in America?
Did you know that the Shinano River is the longest river, and has the third largest drainage basin , in Japan?
Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame barrel racer Charmayne James still managed to win the round when her horse Scamper 's bridle fell off?
Did you know that renewed volcanic activity at Antofagasta de la Sierra could cause ash to rain down over hundreds of square kilometres of adjacent land?
Did you know that Paula Murrihy , who appeared in operatic title roles such as Dido , Carmen , Hänsel and the Rosenkavalier , sang Lieder with viola and piano for the Hessischer Rundfunk ?
Did you know that Microshaft Winblows 98 served as parody video game developer Parroty Interactive 's take on Microsoft , Windows , and Bill Gates ?
Did you know that there was a campaign to deny Catherine Afeku 's appointment as Ghana's Minister of Tourism because she had not done her national service ?
Did you know that in the UK, the endangered Tansy beetle can only be found on the banks of the River Ouse , near York ?
Did you know that Shekhar Naik is the first blind cricketer to be awarded the Padma Shri ?
Did you know that Trump Tower was marketed as the " debut novel " of Donald Trump ?
Did you know that Indian Jat legislator Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary assisted chief minister Mayawati in pacifying agitations in Jat-dominated areas?
Did you know that during the Rhode Island banking crisis of the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people lost access to their money?
Did you know that within 100 years of the Spanish conquest of Nicaragua , the native population had been all but eliminated by a combination of newly-introduced disease, the slave trade, warfare, and mistreatment?
Did you know that Nicole Chevalier was awarded Der Faust for her performance of the four female characters in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffman at the Komische Oper Berlin ?
Did you know that Dishonored 2 , a steampunk video game, had its anti-piracy software hacked by a group called SteamPunks?
Did you know that Tropical Depression Eight in 1981 dropped up to 21 inches (530 mm) of rainfall in Texas , much of which fell in only six hours?
Did you know that Robert Symonds , expert in old English furniture , claimed that his girlfriend thrust a pair of curling tongs in his ear?
Did you know that after the 1194 Battle of Fréteval , Richard I captured the French King's government archive which travelled with him, who as a result founded the French National Archives in Paris?
Did you know that A Voz do Brasil is the longest-running radio program in the Southern Hemisphere?
Did you know that Greek shipping tycoon Basil Goulandris and his wife Elisa died childless and left an art collection worth an estimated $3 billion that has been the subject of a family feud ever since?
Did you know that the critically endangered shrub orange dryandra is known from an area of less than 4.5 square kilometres (1.7 sq mi) in Western Australia?
Did you know that investment banker Peter W. Smith contacted Russian hackers in an unsuccessful attempt to locate missing emails from Hillary Clinton 's computer system?
Did you know that the Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo , published by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost but published again in 2016?
Did you know that Drop the Dip , the first roller coaster to use a lap bar , was inspired by a toy in a dentist's office waiting room?
Did you know that in the John Gay version of Achilles , the hero is introduced as a cross-dresser ?
Did you know that Sue Alexander tapped into her grief over her younger brother's death to write a children's book about a Bedouin girl dealing with the same issue?
Did you know that the Indian Ocean coral Acropora rudis is " endangered " by habitat destruction and its susceptibility to coral bleaching, disease and ocean acidification?
Did you know that Marc Soustrot conducted a staging of both Debussy's cantata La Damoiselle élue and Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Frankfurt Opera in 2017?
Did you know that First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament was moved to an earlier time to allow more school children to see the session?
Did you know that governor Min Linka of Pegu was executed after his failed rebellion against his brother King Binnya U of Martaban ?
Did you know that smut has been reported on Scouten Brook ?
Did you know that New York City's Citi Bike is the largest bicycle-sharing system in the United States?
Did you know that the music video for Oh Land 's " Cherry on Top " is intended to serve as the first of three short films directed by Duncan Winecoff?
Did you know that as a teenager, association footballer Frank Dudley gave up on turning professional due to his height—and then experienced a 6-inch (15 cm) growth spurt?
Did you know that Roebuck was the flagship of Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot at the Siege of Charleston in 1780?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Jo Carol Pierce attended high school with artists Joe Ely and Butch Hancock in Lubbock, Texas ?
Did you know that when Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of playing the woman card , she did and it garnered $2.4 million for her campaign?
Did you know that Sebastiano DiGaetano , an early mafia boss of the Bonanno crime family , disappeared after stepping down in 1912?
Did you know that due to violent disruptions by Hebrew-only proponents , Yiddish films screened in Mandatory Palestine had to be dubbed?
Did you know that The New York Times said the podcast Crimetown "advances the [true crime] genre" and called it one of the "best new podcasts of 2016"?
Did you know that Wilhelm Ehmann , founder and director of a school of church music, toured internationally conducting his choir Westfälische Kantorei?
Did you know that in 1990, Typhoon Zola flooded 420 houses in Japan?
Did you know that personal dust monitors required for coal miners by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration are based on the tapered element oscillating microbalance ?
Did you know that Indian politician Idris Ali has compared party chief Mamata Banerjee to Mother Teresa , Mahatma Gandhi , and the goddess Saraswati ?
Did you know that Frank J. Canova has been described as the inventor of the smartphone ?
Did you know that Mayda Insula on Titan is the first named island beyond the Earth?
Did you know that among the Tuareg people , men traditionally wear a veil called a litham or tagulmust , while women go unveiled?
Did you know that the 2016 "slashomedy" Pi Day Die Day stars Friday the 13th actor Ari Lehman ?
Did you know that Jammu and Kashmir education minister Naeem Akhtar installed a helpline to his personal office to hear complaints?
Did you know that the New York City Subway G train is the only non- shuttle service that does not run through Manhattan ?
Did you know that at a 1999 performance of Savuka 's anti-apartheid song " Asimbonanga ", former South African President Nelson Mandela danced on stage?
Did you know that Paul Abels , the first openly gay minister to serve in a major Christian denomination in the United States, was nearly removed from his pastorate after he came out in the 1970s?
Did you know that the Thai heist thriller film Bad Genius is centred on what its director calls "the most boring activity on earth"—taking exams?
Did you know that when Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for president in 1868, he received all 650 votes from delegates, with no other candidate being nominated?
Did you know that " Someday " became Mariah Carey 's third consecutive number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 ?
Did you know that if elected to government, Independence from Europe would build a large condominium in London to house British Members of Parliament?
Did you know that Martin Janus wrote the original lyrics of "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne", which Bach used in a cantata in a setting known as " Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring "?
Did you know that the second reused orbital rocket in history, Falcon 9 booster B1029 , was "extra toasty" upon coming back from the edge of space on June 23, 2017, to land on a drone ship ?
Did you know that Indian Member of Parliament Mohammad Asrarul Haque polled the highest number of votes in his state of Bihar in the 2014 general election ?
Did you know that Mazaalai , the first Mongolian satellite in space, is named after the endangered Gobi bear ?
Did you know that Uwe Eric Laufenberg , General Manager of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden , presented his staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Internationale Maifestspiele in 2017?
Did you know that the book Midas Touch , co-authored by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki , praises the economic benefits of immigration to the United States?
Did you know that in Norwegian fjords , the sea anemone Actinostola callosa feeds heavily on the helmet jellyfish ?
Did you know that while a member of the Philadelphia City Council , Thomas McIntosh challenged the school district to ensure that school conditions were equal in both black and white neighborhoods?
Did you know that since first being built in 1888, Main Building at St. Edward's University has been burned down, torn open by a tornado , and used as a military academy ?
Did you know that the SS Pere Marquette was the first steel train ferry built in the world?
Did you know that when Elissa P. Benedek was named president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1990, she was only the second woman to fill that post since the group's founding in 1844?