kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Lokrume helmet fragment was the first piece of a Viking helmet to be identified?
Did you know that Merkel Landis , while a treasurer at a bank in Pennsylvania, originated the first Christmas Savings Club ?
Did you know that HMS Roebuck rescued HMS Rippon after the latter grounded during an attack on Basse-Terre in 1759?
Did you know that in an attempt to catch Celia Cooney , the New York City Police Department launched what was at the time the largest manhunt in the city's history?
Did you know that Isopogon mnoraifolius was named for the resemblance of its foliage to a menorah ?
Did you know that Phillipe Cunningham is one of the first openly transgender people of color to be elected to public office in the United States?
Did you know that although the 1928–1929 Red Spears' uprising in Shandong broke out in protest against high taxes, banditry, and government brutality, the rebels themselves came to raise taxes, loot, rape, rob and kidnap for ransom?
Did you know that the 2015 Indian epic historical romance film Bajirao Mastani spent eleven years in development hell before being revived in 2014?
Did you know that the Eero Saarinen -designed TWA Flight Center airport terminal was designated a landmark and is being redeveloped into the TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City?
Did you know that Margaret O'Flynn and her husband John Foley were the first wife-and-husband fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists ?
Did you know that during World War II , the United States Navy 's Glomb project evaluated the use of gliders as flying bombs?
Did you know that Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls was Kickstarter's "fastest funded publishing project" ever?
Did you know that the Revolution on Granite was the first major political protest held in Kiev's Independence Square , and its methods were copied in the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan ?
Did you know that before becoming chair of the Millennium Development Authority , Yaa Ntiamoah Badu worked at the University of Ghana as a zoologist?
Did you know that the motet In Exile for double choir by Herbert Sumsion was premiered at Gloucester Cathedral ?
Did you know that White House correspondent Naomi Nover once assaulted Bernie Boston while Mother Teresa and Ronald Reagan "looked on in total amazement"?
Did you know that American pianist Joe Sample died from mesothelioma prior to completing his parts for the collaborative album Christmas With Friends with India Arie ?
Did you know that the Australian plants Persoonia adenantha and P. chamaepeuce were described by a Czech and Polish botanist, respectively?
Did you know that Israeli scholar Yehuda Liebes claims that the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy includes an allusion to Jesus ?
Did you know that in healthy adults, HMB has been shown to increase exercise-induced gains in muscle size , muscle strength, and lean body mass , reduce muscle damage, and speed recovery from exercise?
Did you know that before Margaret L. Curry introduced vocational training and education for women prisoners in Colorado , their only activity was washing and ironing the clothes of the male prisoners?
Did you know that Dellatorre , who currently plays for Cypriot club APOEL FC , was the top scorer of the 2011 São Paulo Junior Football Cup ?
Did you know that the Rockefeller Center mural Man at the Crossroads was destroyed after the artist surreptitiously added a portrait of Lenin?
Did you know that Jay Fai had never heard of Michelin stars when her restaurant was awarded one?
Did you know that Marjorie Husted , as the radio voice of homemaking authority Betty Crocker , interviewed Joan Crawford in her home?
Did you know that research for the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House reportedly included more than 200 interviews with Donald Trump and his closest associates conducted over 18 months?
Did you know that after the 1962 Sino-Indian War , the Chinese returned Param Vir Chakra recipient Joginder Singh 's ashes to his battalion with full military honours?
Did you know that Black Buttes ' amphitheater is partially occupied by Deming Glacier ?
Did you know that François Noël 's translations of classic Chinese texts were banned in the Papal States and Germany but praised by historian Jean-Baptiste Du Halde ?
Did you know that " Private View ", an episode of Inside No. 9 , was a homage to Theatre of Blood satirising the world of contemporary art ?
Did you know that the Zombie Hut was a fictitious tiki bar in the 1945 Abbott and Costello film Zombies on Broadway , as well as a real tiki bar that opened in Sacramento, California , that same year?
Did you know that Yang Yuanyuan won a Lifetime Achievement Award because China's aviation accident rate plummeted under his leadership?
Did you know that a former chapel built in 1888 was one of eleven studios involved in the recording of Adele 's bestselling album 21 ?
Did you know that Barnet Nover 's 1939 Washington Post article "British Surrender – a Munich for the Holy Land" was inserted into the Congressional Record by then US Senator Harry Truman ?
Did you know that the Hong Kong Regiment was paid more than other British Indian Army regiments and was known as "The Swagger Regiment"?
Did you know that Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission biologists tried to visit Coffee Brook in 2001, but were unable to reach it?
Did you know that in the 1929 NFL season , players on the Orange Tornadoes , including Heinie Benkert , wore letters on their uniforms instead of numbers?
Did you know that the purple scale predator is native to Australia but was first described from a Californian specimen?
Did you know that Mhaimbhat is considered the first known prose writer in the Marathi language ?
Did you know that Metropolis Software's Tajemnica Statuetki ( The Mystery of the Statuette ) was the first Polish adventure game ?
Did you know that when cardiac surgeon Horace Smithy had a patient die on the operating table, he may have lost the chance to undergo heart surgery himself?
Did you know that Friedrich Spee wrote the lyrics of the Christmas carol " Zu Bethlehem geboren " to a popular French tune with a frivolous text?
Did you know that the Georgian goddess Dali appeared as both a nude golden-haired woman with glowing skin, and as a white ibex with golden horns?
Did you know that in an attack on Cologne on 28 May 1944, German gunners thought that crashing GB-1 glide bombs were aircraft they were shooting down?
Did you know that Ilya Espino de Marotta , lead engineer for the Panama Canal expansion project , wears a pink hard hat on site to make a statement that women can do the job?
Did you know that the newly named dinosaur Sibirotitan is only the second sauropod species named from the country of Russia , and one of the oldest titanosauriform sauropod species known from all of Asia?
Did you know that Sonali Guha , a four-term member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly , captured the seat of a five-term member of the assembly in her first election?
Did you know that Amazon is building a $1.5 billion facility at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to serve as a principal hub for Amazon Air ?
Did you know that the Morgan Morgan Monument memorializes one of the earliest European pioneers to settle permanently in present-day West Virginia ?
Did you know that wars, battles, assassinations, and natural disasters can all cause national trauma ?
Did you know that Hazel Carter was reported to have received the United States' first military funeral for a woman?
Did you know that peanut farmer Harris DeVane won the first race held on Atlanta Motor Speedway 's present configuration by 0.023 seconds, leading only the last 100 yards (91 m) of the event?
Did you know that the nest of the large frogmouth consists of a circular cushion of down on which a single egg is balanced?
Did you know that Herman Vandenburg Ames was one of Ezra Pound 's professors at the University of Pennsylvania ?
Did you know that some 500,000 photographs and drawings are included in the collections of the Historical Model Railway Society ?
Did you know that Caroline Lenferna de Laresle travelled from Mauritius to Rome to claim the pontifical right for her order of nuns and died there shortly afterwards?
Did you know that the Rick and Morty episode " Pickle Rick " was largely inspired by the Breaking Bad episode " 4 Days Out "?
Did you know that Hu Yan won praise as a loyal and capable advisor in part by getting his prince drunk and kidnapping him?
Did you know that Chen Guangyi was appointed to the top post of his home province of Fujian reportedly after provincial cadres opposed another candidate from North China?
Did you know that five siblings and an in-law made up the Bartell Group , which owned radio stations around the United States during the 1940s–1960s and was a pioneer in the Top 40 format?
Did you know that fans noticed Doctor Who references in a promotional trailer for Paul McGann 's first episode in Holby City as John Gaskell ?
Did you know that inflatable balloon sticks for cheering at baseball games were first used in South Korea?
Did you know that Marvin Pipkin invented the first electric light bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for ordinary handling that could be sold to the public?
Did you know that Wayne Jacks and Ben Hess were among the 86 drivers who attempted to qualify for the inaugural Brickyard 400 ?
Did you know that mutant squirrels and "cat-faced" trees can be found in Ochlockonee River State Park ?
Did you know that The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan won a Stonewall Book Award for its portrayal of the genderfluid character Alex Fierro ?
Did you know that Major General Sir Randle Feilden has a horse race named in his memory?
Did you know that India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, and the Philippines made their debut in under-20 international ice hockey at the 2018 IIHF U20 Challenge Cup of Asia ?
Did you know that Lorenzo Viotti conducted Massenet's Werther in three productions in opera houses of three countries in 2017, silently singing with the soloists?
Did you know that in order to attract skilled civil servants, the Hong Kong government offered a free sea cruise back to the UK on retirement to British civil servants who joined up?
Did you know that Effie Owuor was Kenya's first female state counsel, magistrate, High Court judge, and Court of Appeal judge?
Did you know that Amtrak ran " toasters " on the Northeast Corridor for over thirty years?
Did you know that Georges Dargaud produced the first Asterix film, Asterix the Gaul , in 1967?
Did you know that the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is a national archaeological park of China , while the tomb of St. Francis Xavier is a candidate for the designation?
Did you know that in 1858, the obstetrician Gustavus Murray claimed to be able to identify the parts of a fetus , including each vertebra, through an abdominal examination of a pregnant woman?
Did you know that former Oregon state legislator Hazen A. Brattain died a month after completing a seven-month world tour?
Did you know that John Rutter wrote the lyrics for his choral composition Christmas Lullaby , with each verse including the refrain " Ave Maria "?
Did you know that the English tenor Mark Milhofer appeared as Mozart's Ferrando in Beijing and Moscow, and as Poppea 's nurse in Berlin, dressed as a parody of Riff Raff ?
Did you know that the fireflies Aquatica ficta and Aquatica hydrophila both have aquatic larvae that are unable to swim?
Did you know that in 1919, Romanian playwright and journalist A. de Herz was court-martialled for alleged collaboration with the Central Powers ?
Did you know that prior to creating Booker T. Washington State Park , West Virginia's Conservation Commission justified its segregation policy by explaining that "our Negro citizens would feel ill at ease" using parks alongside whites?
Did you know that the footballer Stanley Kane gave up playing in order to join the Liverpool City Police ?
Did you know that after sighting an improvised distress signal made from a lady's shawl, the French frigate Cléopâtre rescued 34 people stranded at sea?
Did you know that during the 1655 papal conclave , the younger cardinals played pranks on the older cardinals for fun?
Did you know that Xu Shijie came out of retirement to serve as the first party chief of the new province of Hainan , but was dismissed in the aftermath of the Tiananmen protests ?
Did you know that along with Mount Defiance and Mount Bailey , Diamond Peak is one of the few andesitic shield volcanos in the Cascade Range ?
Did you know that the high-waisted fashions of the early 1800s likely helped the Countess of Bessborough hide her figure from her husband while pregnant with her illegitimate daughter, Harriet Osborne ?
Did you know that targets for the ASM-N-6 Omar missile were put in a spotlight?
Did you know that Patrick Zhuwao was expelled from Zimbabwe 's ruling ZANU–PF party during the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état ?
Did you know that until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , the Norwood Tower held the only public restroom open to African Americans in downtown Austin, Texas ?
Did you know that in 2017, Canadian pitcher Claire Eccles became the first woman to play baseball in the collegiate West Coast League ?
Did you know that British logistics in the Normandy Campaign depended on a Mulberry harbour ?
Did you know that Tennessee state representative Charles P. Fahey sponsored bills prohibiting the non-medical sale of cocaine and requiring the racial segregation of Nashville streetcars?
Did you know that producers of the 2012 Austrian short film Homophobia raised US$ 10,100 in 69 days through crowdfunding on Indiegogo ?
Did you know that Otto Franke , the pre-eminent German sinologist of his time, died "practically from hunger and exhaustion" before he could complete his history of China?
Did you know that the Italian town of Guardia Lombardi was settled by the Lombards in the sixth century as a defensive outpost ?
Did you know that, under the leadership of Mary Puckey , Sydney's Rachel Forster Hospital expanded from 12 to 120 beds?
Did you know that Ping-Pong was believed to be "the free world's only round-trip ballistic missile"?
Did you know that Lt. Gen. D. R. Soni , chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army , was a military observer in Iraq and Kuwait after the Gulf War ?
Did you know that as part of today's Temperance and Good Citizenship Day observances in the state of Washington , schools are expected to hold voter registration drives for eligible students?
Did you know that footballer Callum Hendry gave up playing for a year before turning professional?
Did you know that the Grizzly Flats Railroad , owned by Disney animator Ward Kimball , was the first full-size backyard railroad in the United States?
Did you know that Diego Fasolis conducted L'incoronazione di Poppea at the reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden , adding music by other composers of Monteverdi 's time?
Did you know that blue cracker and ringless blue cracker males create a cracking sound with their abdomen when pursuing a female?
Did you know that the "Fat Albert" sounding rocket had its name changed to Aries because the Naval Research Laboratory considered it "more dignified"?
Did you know that the first successful drone developed in the Netherlands was the Aviolanda AT-21 ?
Did you know that the Heisman Trophy , awarded annually to the best college football player, is named for John Heisman , who was instrumental in legalizing the forward pass ?
Did you know that the late- Gothic church St. Moritz in Halle (Saale) became Catholic again in 1970?
Did you know that Li Huang co-founded the Chinese Youth Party , which was modelled after the Young Turks ?
Did you know that the red-breasted partridge is found only on Borneo ?
Did you know that the Goldberg–Coxeter construction can be used to study fullerene molecules, nanoparticles , and basket weaving ?
Did you know that professional diver Albert Powsey was known for diving off Southport Pier with a bicycle?
Did you know that, in 1989, East Holmes Academy offered to forfeit a football game because the opposing team had a black player?
Did you know that Paa Kofi Ansong , a member of the advisory team to the President of Ghana, once worked as a quality control officer at Boots Pharmacy in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that, although Joseph Jongen conducted the first performance of Mass, Op. 130 at Liège Cathedral in 1946, it was not published until 1990?
Did you know that the Canadian Underground Research Laboratory was built to test the concept of storing nuclear waste in rock that was billions of years old?
Did you know that Angeline Murimirwa received money for her secondary education from Camfed , and is now its regional executive director for Southern & Eastern Africa?
Did you know that confirmation of the controversial claim that the Ram Khamhaeng Inscription was fake would have forced Thai history to be rewritten?
Did you know that John Samuel Phene ' s five-storey house was called the "Gingerbread Castle" because of its numerous devices and fixtures?
Did you know that Didier Drogba scored twice for the Ivory Coast in a match which was abandoned after fans rioted, throwing food and drinks onto the pitch?
Did you know that the Orchard Pond Parkway is Florida 's first privately-built toll road?
Did you know that the Han scholar Gao You —responsible for the present editions of the Huainanzi —had to quit school owing to the Yellow Turban Rebellion ?
Did you know that the British government's Construction 2025 industrial strategy sought to reduce whole-life greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment to half of 2013 levels by 2025?
Did you know that the Japanese singer Asaka spent part of her childhood in Michigan ?
Did you know that approximately 160,000 birds across twenty-two different species nest and breed on the Pearl and Hermes Atoll of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands ?
Did you know that a 1942 letter addressed to " the blonde Wren from Argentina on the platform at Bletchley station " led to marriage in 1945?
Did you know that Wolfgang Helbich recorded apocryphal works by Bach with the Alsfelder Vokalensemble, and conducted an award-winning recording of Ein deutsches Requiem with the Bremer Domchor ?
Did you know that Den of Geek likened watching gameshow whodunnit Armchair Detectives to playing a hidden objects video game?
Did you know that 2017 Michigan Wolverine teammates and All-Big Ten Conference honorees Chase Winovich and Khaleke Hudson went to high school in Pennsylvania, while All-Big Ten teammate Lavert Hill once committed to Penn State ?
Did you know that the RAF 's IFF Mark II was the first operational identification friend or foe system?
Did you know that statesman Costea Bucioc , who reputedly survived a poisoning attempt at the Moldavian court, was later impaled by the Ottoman army?
Did you know that the outsourcing industry in China is rapidly growing on the back of " cloud computing , big data , Internet of things and mobile Internet "?
Did you know that Gwen Fleming , the first female major in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps , was called "sir" by her colleagues during the Second World War?
Did you know that Ramize Erer said that when she published a cartoon of a masturbating girl, "all hell broke loose"?
Did you know that the use of asset management plan periods in the water industry of England and Wales has been criticised for creating a boom and bust cycle of investment?
Did you know that golfer Sally Sessions tied for second place in the 1947 U.S. Women's Open as an amateur?
Did you know that groups of common whirligig beetles often spin round rapidly on the water surface?
Did you know that Ghanaian accountant and paramount chief Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II is also the president of all chiefs in the Western Region of Ghana?
Did you know that the Ottawa Art Gallery acquired the Firestone Collection of over 1,600 pieces of Canadian art , including landscapes by the Group of Seven , in 1992?
Did you know that the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was initiated by United States Senator Harry Reid in 2007 to secretly study the topic of UFOs ?
Did you know that Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie rejected the chance to be the head of Ghana's ports and harbours because of his fear of the sea ?
Did you know that a wasp and a fly were used to combat a moth invader ?
Did you know that as president of Fisk University , James Raymond Lawson saw the donor base dwindle due to the students' involvement with the Black Power movement ?
Did you know that numerical modeling can reveal the flow of the solid mantle beneath Earth's crust?
Did you know that the 14th-century Hanthawaddy Minister-General Byat Za 's doctrine of limited warfare has been compared to that popularized by Clausewitz ?
Did you know that in 1900, a steamboat owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was stolen by two tugboats during the night from the Erie Basin Marina ?
Did you know that in 1951, thoracic surgeon Clement Price Thomas removed part of King George VI 's lung in Buckingham Palace ?
Did you know that the footballer Howard Spencer was the first Aston Villa player to captain England ?
Did you know that the lyrics to " The Kentucky Volunteer ", the first song copyrighted under the United States Constitution , were written by "a Lady of Philadelphia"?
Did you know that Jennie Carignan helped reintroduce ballroom dancing to the Royal Military College Saint-Jean , having taken classes with her future husband when she was a cadet?
Did you know that the ancient Maya ruins of San Clemente, El Petén , in Guatemala include a two-storey palace structure and two Mesoamerican ballcourts ?
Did you know that Amtrak service at Tacoma Dome Station was halted on its inaugural day due to a train derailment ?
Did you know that German microbiologist Paul Lindner named the yeast species he discovered Schizosaccharomyces pombe after the Swahili word for beer?
Did you know that soprano Cristina Pasaroiu played Manon in boots, even in bed with her lover?
Did you know that members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf used the Inabanga River , the largest waterway in Bohol , Philippines, for a planned incursion into the province in 2017?
Did you know that Kenyan Brigadier Fatumah Ahmed joined the armed forces "by accident" when she saw a recruitment campaign whilst applying for an identity card?
Did you know that Project Flying Cloud was expected to affect an area "comparable in size to that affected by a low-yield nuclear weapon"?
Did you know that the Angel of the Winds Casino was designed as a temporary building with modular elements so it could be sold in pieces?
Did you know that Wolfgang Stockmeier made around 150 recordings of organ music, taught at three music academies, and composed an opera on a libretto by Gabriele Wohmann ?
Did you know that the succulent Euphorbia arbuscula of Socotra is used to feed goats?
Did you know that after the American Civil War, "Fighting Parson" Fountain E. Pitts helped grow poppies to make opium in Nashville, Tennessee?
Did you know that Genius Grant winner Regina Barzilay helped decipher the ancient language Ugaritic ?
Did you know that steam-distilled garlic oil has around 900 times the strength of fresh garlic ?
Did you know that Hatto Ständer , who played the organ in church services at age nine, was professor of organ playing, choral conducting, Gregorian chant and composition at the Technical University of Dortmund for more than three decades?
Did you know that during the 1981 Milwaukee Police Strike , Mayor Henry Maier requested that taverns and bars voluntarily close early?
Did you know that governor Liu Jianfeng and party secretary Deng Hongxun of Hainan clashed fiercely and tried to drive each other out of the province?
Did you know that Desmarestia tropica , or tropical acidweed, is possibly extinct because of the 1982–83 El Niño event ?
Did you know that footballer Gordon Coleman scored the winning goal in a match against Blackpool in 1982 while sitting on the ground?
Did you know that Arsenal Ladies player Clare Wheatley took over as the club's development officer and general manager from Vic Akers , who once told her, "Arsenal Ladies is not a social club"?