kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know ... that millennials pause ?
Did you know that New York City's Barbizon Hotel hosted its first male guests on Valentine's Day in 1981 after operating as a women-only hotel for more than five decades?
Did you know that the artist and designer Yinka Ilori once made a collection of chairs that were inspired by a Nigerian parable about a giraffe?
Did you know that the 14th-century St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe , in Lincolnshire , England, is constructed of material classified as random mixed rubble, red brick and slate?
Did you know that Bit House Saloon 's menu featured Rocky Mountain oysters ?
Did you know that after being a college football player, William A. Brooks became a prominent surgeon, and had several hospitals named after him?
Did you know that the government of El Salvador, the Catholic Church, and street gangs negotiated a truce to reduce homicides from 2012 to 2014?
Did you know that Edward Dando once ate 300 oysters with a loaf and a half of bread and butter in one sitting?
Did you know that the wildlife of Sudan includes leopards, giraffes, crocodiles, water hyacinth and the umbrella thorn acacia ?
Did you know that Japanese pianist Nagaoka Nobuko , a child prodigy called an "absolute genius", was killed in the final American firebombing of Tokyo ?
Did you know that a robotic controller for the Yamaha Reface CS was described by Mixmag magazine as looking "like an army of robot toothbrushes cleaning a synth"?
Did you know that West Auckland is home to the largest stratovolcano in the geologic history of New Zealand?
Did you know that al-Battani was one of the first astronomers to observe that the distance between the Earth and the Sun varies during the year?
Did you know that The Embrace , a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King , was deemed phallic?
Did you know that Taylor Swift-lookalike Ashley Leechin went viral for doing laundry?
Did you know that Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam was at the centre of controversy in Sudan ?
Did you know that after their Apple II clone was seized by U.S. Customs, CompuSource released a portable Apple II clone that was also IBM PC compatible ?
Did you know that Cara De Silva described a cookbook compiled by a woman in Terezin concentration camp as a record of "psychological resistance”?
Did you know that in 2015, GracePointe Church , Nashville, Tennessee , became one of the first evangelical megachurches to openly support full equality for LGBTQ people?
Did you know that traders from Novgorod supplied medieval western Europe with fashionable furs?
Did you know that Japanese Breakfast released versions of their song " Be Sweet " in both Korean and Simlish ?
Did you know that Nixon 's " Slaughtergate " scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou has both the tallest Catholic church building in China and the first ever Chinese bishop to meet the pope ?
Did you know that French astrochemist Christine Joblin co-created a webcomic to popularize her research on the origins of cosmic dust ?
Did you know that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions ?
Did you know that in 1998, David Bowie launched BowieNet , a pioneering internet service provider which offered exclusive access to audio recordings, music videos, an online chat , and a virtual world ?
Did you know that Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis was a semi-professional snowboarder in New Zealand before she decided to pursue a career in the arts?
Did you know that the human rights abuses committed by Indonesian soldiers at ExxonMobil's Arun gas field spawned a U.S. lawsuit against the company that has been stalled for 20 years?
Did you know that the Spanish priest Baltasar Calvo was denounced as a "Valencian Robespierre " for leading an 1808 massacre of French residents in Valencia ?
Did you know that after the Battle of Winwick in 1648 some Scottish prisoners were sold as slaves?
Did you know that Nazi concentration camp commandant Otto Hantke was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974 at the age of 67 for his acts during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard 's " cli-fi " thrash metal album addresses a mix of current ecological threats and attempts to find another planet to live on?
Did you know that Pat Cronin , a 19-year-old man, died after he was struck just once on his head during a pub fight?
Did you know that Logical Machine Corporation product range of computers included the ADAM, the Mike, and the Tina?
Did you know that a SailRail ticket allows travel from any station in Britain to any station in Ireland?
Did you know that the last Fatimid caliph , al-Adid , came to the throne as a child, was dominated by his viziers , and died a few days after Saladin abolished the Fatimid regime?
Did you know that according to media outlet WLOS , surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina ?
Did you know that Fionula Brennan 's experiments with cytokines led to new therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis ?
Did you know that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff ?
Did you know that Panagiotis Stamatakis and Heinrich Schliemann quarrelled so much during their excavations at Mycenae that they spoke only through intermediaries?
Did you know that micronations have claimed territory in Antarctica, in international waters , and in space?
Did you know that a bill poster for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad ended up robbing the Railroad's own Division station ?
Did you know that Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to people with disabilities by the Queen , but received her award from the King ?
Did you know that alcohol manufacturers claimed the Northern Territories Alcohol Labels Study violated their freedom of expression?
Did you know that after anti-apartheid activist David Rabkin was sentenced to prison in South Africa, he gave the courtroom the clenched-fist black power salute ?
Did you know that three of the 16th-century Florentine Otto prints show young males tied to a tree and abused by women?
Did you know that lectures given by Charles Lappenbusch were described as "so complicated that those in attendance often didn't know whether to take notes or laugh"?
Did you know that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean ?
Did you know that a rare 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar named Amos appeared in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap ?
Did you know that the Ilford Park Polish Home in Stover , Devon, is the last surviving of 45 camps established from 1947 to cater for Polish veterans and their dependants in the UK?
Did you know that Lia Lewis became a freestyle football world champion three years after switching over from dance?
Did you know that for the 50th anniversary of the word game Lexicon , the publisher organised a Golden Jubilee weekend that included an alphabet soup dinner?
Did you know that the discovery of anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski 's diary after his death sparked what was called "a moral crisis of the discipline"?
Did you know that the Storrie Fire was started when Union Pacific Railroad workers were repairing train tracks at the Feather Canyon ?
Did you know that the New York Yankees were first named after a Scottish regiment ?
Did you know that upon being named the head football coach at Central College , C. A. Clingenpeel declared that "we will win one game this year" – and was correct?
Did you know that an unidentified ancient temple may be the finest example of a " high place " in the Galilee ?
Did you know that Rubel Phillips was the first Republican to run in the Mississippi gubernatorial election since 1947 when he ran in 1963 ?
Did you know that Pronto Computers ' System 16 was one of the first computers in the tower form factor?
Did you know that at the 2020 Olympics , Lee Chih-kai became the first gymnast competing for Chinese Taipei to win an Olympic medal?
Did you know that Charlie Jane Anders wrote preferred pronouns into her science fiction novel Victories Greater Than Death because she thought that alien gender would be unclear to humans?
Did you know that a Milwaukee TV station lost a newsgathering vehicle when it fell through ice and into a lake – while reporting on ice safety?
Did you know that Hurricane Henri , a minimal category 1 hurricane , set a rainfall record in New York City's Central Park ?
Did you know that a retired high school teacher coached the United States men's national ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics?
Did you know that the song " Balladen om killen " was unusually released on two record labels, CBS Records International and Mercury Records , around the same time?
Did you know that Sister Maureen Keleher said that the first freestanding hospice in Hawaii was like an answer to prayer?
Did you know that the Duffield Memorial was termed "quite unique" in 1912, and "unusual" in 2022?
Did you know that the second game in the series The Last of Us was developed by more than 2,100 people across 14 studios?
Did you know that 76 beavers parachuted into Central Idaho in 1948?
Did you know that Ben LaBolt is the first openly gay White House communications director ?
Did you know that Chickaboom! , by country musician Tami Neilson , was nominated for both Canadian and New Zealand music awards ?
Did you know that in response to the death of Tyre Nichols , Justin J. Pearson has pushed for a law banning officers with criminal records from transferring between police departments?
Did you know that Byzantine emperor Maurice was executed at the Harbor of Eutropius ?
Did you know that Ida Ospelt-Amann led the revival of dialect poetry in Liechtenstein and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit ?
Did you know that Brian Stableford blamed the cancellation of the follow-up to his 2006 book Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia on the availability of information online?
Did you know that the United Ukrainian Ballet Company , consisting of exiled dancers based in The Hague , has toured the UK, Singapore, Australia and the US?
Did you know that Benjamin Tompson 's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War ?
Did you know that Iván Arias 's eccentric but successful 2021 La Paz mayoral campaign involved an action figure , comics , and chocolate kisses named and styled in his likeness?
Did you know that the rector of the University of Indonesia , Muhammad Kamil Tadjudin , introduced a non-thesis degree policy that allowed students to graduate without publishing a thesis?
Did you know that The New Yorker 's purchase of stock in Teleram Communications , a maker of portable computers, was the magazine's first investment in an outside company?
Did you know that the novel Alan and Naomi has been called "one of the starkest representations of trauma and traumatic loss"?
Did you know that after each win, the Sacramento Kings light the beam ?
Did you know that Shirley Kurata is said to have "subverted and reclaimed Asian-centric tropes" through her "outrageous" costume designs for movie villain Jobu Tupaki?
Did you know that at the time, the Fountain Fire was the third-most destructive wildfire in California 's recorded history?
Did you know that the Uthmaniyya , the partisans of Uthman , the third Muslim caliph , killed his assassin Kinana ibn Bishr in the First Muslim Civil War ?
Did you know that Caulfield railway station had a ticket office for the adjacent racecourse and a platform for delivering horses to it?
Did you know that police doubt that Arnold Archambeau and Ruby Bruguier died shortly after a car accident, even though their bodies were found near the scene three months later?
Did you know that the Baby! 1 microcomputer came shipped in an attaché briefcase?
Did you know that Hammersmith by Gustav Holst was acclaimed by Frederick Fennell for having "some of the most treacherous stretches of music making" in band literature?
Did you know that economist Robin Greenwood 's work has been used to suggest the bubble nature of Bitcoin and Tesla, Inc. valuations?
Did you know that executives of American Family Corporation learned they "could never be the city's news leader" running an underperforming TV station in Columbus, Georgia ?
Did you know that Cherry Valentine hid his Romani heritage because he feared he might receive "hate or backlash"?
Did you know that caffoy was a fabric similar to cut silk velvet, made from wool and often used for decorations such as hangings and draperies ?
Did you know that S. H. M. Byers not only coined the phrase " Sherman's March to the Sea ", but also wrote Iowa's state song ?
Did you know that Mad Computers' MAD-1 ran Mad MS-DOS ?
Did you know that during the First Balkan War , the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles ?
Did you know that  former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead became a cast member?
Did you know that the folk ritual jailangkung originates from the Chinese practice of spirit basket divination and has been featured in Indonesian horror films?
Did you know that shortly after his capture in 1918 British brigadier general Hubert Conway Rees was interviewed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany?
Did you know that dishes at the 1888-established Hacı Abdullah Restaurant in Istanbul are cooked in  handcrafted copper pots?
Did you know that Lieutenant Governor of Alabama Will Ainsworth started his career as a youth pastor before co-founding a hunting lodge?
Did you know that Fortress of the Bear 's founder raised pigs to prove he could take care of bears?
Did you know that New Zealand activist Pania Newton gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao ?
Did you know  that the writer of Poison Ivy: Thorns felt the titular DC Comics character was "tailor made for [her] interests as a nature-loving, gay makeup enthusiast"?
Did you know that one of Beverly Robertson 's biggest accomplishments as CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber was attracting the Ford Motor Company 's US$5.6 billion Blue Oval City complex to Memphis, Tennessee?
Did you know that Shiroi Heya no Futari is regarded as the first work of yuri , a genre of manga and other media focused on female-female romance, despite not being the first manga to depict romance between women?
Did you know that Nilofer Khan was appointed the first woman vice-chancellor of the University of Kashmir on 19 May 2022?
Did you know that Joanna E. Schanz , who received a lifetime achievement award, revived broom making and basket weaving in the Amana Colonies ?
Did you know that in 2021, Uche Eke became the first gymnast to represent Nigeria at the Olympics ?
Did you know that an Ohio radio station 's satellite dish was vandalized twice in 1991, believed by the station manager to be due to the outspoken conservative stances of one of the station's hosts?
Did you know that Dean Huijsen went from scoring seven goals in one season for Juventus 's under-17 squad to playing for their professional reserve team in just half a year?
Did you know that the solar panels of Canyon View High School provide shade from the Arizona heat and provide 20 percent of the school's energy?
Did you know that Indian violin player Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao , a recipient of India's highest award for the performing arts , was once an apprentice to a painter?
Did you know that mirror neurons may explain the phenomenon of empaths ?
Did you know that the Florida Criminal Justice Standards & Training Commission reviewed a case in which a deputy sent a woman a photograph of a cake with the words "Sorry I Tased You" in blue frosting?
Did you know that the singer Luci van Org followed up her mainstream success from the 1990s by starting a "Latin–disco–pop–country crossover" band?
Did you know that a pond of liquid sulfur was discovered at the summit crater of the Daikoku Seamount in 2006 in the Northern Mariana Islands ?
Did you know that before John McClaughry was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives , he traveled about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) in boxcars as a hobo ?
Did you know that David Bowie 's song " Let's Dance " began as a folk song?
Did you know that the rebooted design of Glimmer from She-Ra was partly inspired by the showrunner's love of Dungeons & Dragons ?
Did you know that the Evans Bay Patent Slip was built in 1871 using hundreds of tons of machinery that had sat on a beach for five years?
Did you know that the " Barry White of tennis" is a French chair umpire ?
Did you know that Muchlis Ibrahim opted to resign as Governor of West Sumatra when Zainal Bakar , instead of his choice, was appointed to be his deputy?
Did you know that even though an FCC examiner recommended denial of an application for a radio station in Illinois after approving it twice, the commission granted it anyway?
Did you know that Montagu Toller was a part of the British team that played cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics , the only time cricket was ever featured at the Olympics?
Did you know that covers of Bob Dylan 's " Just Like a Woman " by Manfred Mann and Jonathan King were both coincidentally released on the same day Dylan was involved in a motorcycle accident?
Did you know that the Cut Meutia is the only active train service in Indonesia using standard-gauge track ?
Did you know that the School for American Crafts recruited faculty from Denmark to teach metalsmithing and woodworking?
Did you know that Ludwig Ahgren showered on camera during his 31-day continuous livestream ?
Did you know that the Crimean Mountain karst nature reserve in Ukraine has more than 1,000 natural karst cavities?
Did you know that Gloria Orwoba raised awareness about period poverty by appearing in the Senate of Kenya in apparently blood-stained trousers?
Did you know that at the battle of the Great Plains in 203 BC most of the Carthaginian army fled, except for 4,000 Iberians who fought to the death?
Did you know that former Union brigadier general J. H. Hobart Ward was struck and killed by a train while on vacation?
Did you know that the Backrooms is associated with an Internet aesthetic which includes images of eerie and uninhabited spaces?
Did you know that the New York City Board of Education said Rose Freistater weighed too much to be a teacher?
Did you know that artwork at Shenton Way MRT station depicts everyday people running after an old banknote ?
Did you know that after leading the Khoikhoi in war against the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, Doman returned to Dutch service as an interpreter?
Did you know that of thirty-five Palestinians killed in the West Bank in January 2023 by Israeli forces and settlers, twenty were from the Jenin refugee camp ?
Did you know that the first secular school in Catalonia was founded by the anarcha-feminist Teresa Mañé ?
Did you know that East Timor uses the United States dollar, but produces its own coins to facilitate smaller transactions?
Did you know that Mark Robinson was a world champion in submission wrestling , sumo and powerlifting ?
Did you know that Kaharuddin Datuk Rangkayo Basa refused to be buried at a heroes' cemetery, and so was buried at a regular public cemetery upon his death?
Did you know that in the 2000s, New York City's Benjamin Hotel offered a pillow menu and hired a sleep concierge?
Did you know that the old adage " feed a cold, starve a fever " was first published in a 1574 dictionary?
Did you know that Utah state representative Charles Redd successfully proposed the legalization of horse racing and betting in 1925, only to successfully propose making it illegal again two years later?
Did you know that the Cathedral of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows in Suzhou is known for its "hybridity" of Chinese and Western architecture?
Did you know that the Jewish anarchist Volin refused to flee Nazi-occupied France as he believed that a revolution would follow the liberation of France ?
Did you know that Comcast removed a Florida TV station from its lineup for allegedly broadcasting home shopping in prime time instead of its normal UPN programming?
Did you know that John Spencer won a World Snooker Championship on his first attempt in 1969 ?
Did you know that the Fatimid boy caliph al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah was raised to the throne by the vizier , who had killed his father and uncles?
Did you know that of more than 300 schools offering evening classes in the District of Columbia in 1907, only Frelinghuysen University admitted Black students?
Did you know that Kloe was a headliner at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in 2014, despite not being old enough to attend most shows there?
Did you know that science fiction authors who want to avoid the paradoxes associated with time travel may instead write about time viewers ?
Did you know that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island , built their own railroad ?
Did you know that Charles Norris-Newman was a war correspondent, a corrupt British colonial official and a Russian intelligence officer?
Did you know that a media columnist in Columbus, Georgia , opined: "If TV-16 was a horse, it would have been shot long ago"?
Did you know that nursing educator Helen Turner Watson was one of the first African-American women to become a commissioned officer in the United States Navy ?
Did you know that Lamar Johnson learned American Sign Language for his role in the fifth episode of The Last of Us ?
Did you know that Soviet German literary critic Richard Knorre was injured in an explosion during the siege of Leningrad ?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed Ballet Imperial to prove that Americans were capable of performing in the traditions of classical ballet ?
Did you know that two Norwegians, Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert , as the only Western doctors at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza , found themselves as leading witnesses of the 2008–2009 Gaza War ?
Did you know that trains can be pulled by cows ?
Did you know that Americano Media wants to be " Fox News in Spanish"?
Did you know that Joanna Cherry showed a printed copy of an Internet meme featuring Lily Hoshikawa during a UK parliamentary committee meeting?
Did you know that 47-year-old Turkish para-karateka Oya Ekici won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Championships ?
Did you know that producers of The Simpsons have spoken about the importance of its LGBT characters in representation?
Did you know that HMS Martin was part of the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy in the First World War, but after the war was sold to be broken up ?
Did you know that the saying " give me the man and I will give you the case against him " is usually attributed to Soviet-era public figures such as Beria or Vyshinsky ?
Did you know that Ice Spice is Princess Diana ?
Did you know that Arthur Arndt 's family was the largest known group of Jews to successfully hide in Germany during the Holocaust ?
Did you know that to prepare for her role in the television film Search for Grace , actress Lisa Hartman Black underwent hypnosis?
Did you know that United States Air Force colonel Virgil K. Meroney flew two combat missions with his son before his son was killed in action in March 1969, during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that Salar de Pajonales in Chile has been used as an analogue for environments on Mars ?
Did you know that in the same year, an Illinois radio station lost its station manager in a car crash and its advertising revenue to flooding?
Did you know that Auto-GPT , an autonomous artificial-intelligence software agent, was used to create ChaosGPT, which has not yet achieved its goal of destroying humanity?
Did you know that more than 100 traps were set to catch a single stoat on an otherwise predator-free island in Taiari / Chalky Inlet in 2022?
Did you know that the Housatonic Railroad used to send 100,000 US quarts (95,000 litres) of milk to New York City per day?
Did you know that Godwin Obasi has been described as "Africa's gift to the world of climate science"?