kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the black-backed forktail has a call reminiscent of a squeaky hinge?
Did you know that after William Lunn 's wedding, people destroyed the door of a police watch house in Montreal ?
Did you know that Nicholas Nabokov composed an opera Love's Labour's Lost , setting the same play by Shakespeare as the fictional hero of Mann's Doctor Faustus , "in a spirit of the most artificial mockery"?
Did you know that Christine Murrell was the first woman elected to the British General Medical Council , but died before she could take her seat?
Did you know that the California Central Valley city of Porterville purchased an abandoned rail right-of-way to preserve it for the proposed Cross Valley Corridor passenger rail service?
Did you know that Judge Orfa Jean Shontz created an all-female juvenile court with a homelike setting?
Did you know that the Ethiopian highland hare was originally described as a subspecies of the Cape hare , but it was later raised to full species status?
Did you know that when operatic soprano Cynthia Clarey 's voice lowered with age, she took up cabaret singing instead?
Did you know that Linguamyrmex vladi is named for Vlad the Impaler , who was the inspiration for Count Dracula ?
Did you know that accordionist Vincent Peirani and pianist Michael Wollny , both multiple ECHO Jazz winners, recorded the "symbiotic" album Tandem ?
Did you know that during the Sprague Fire in Glacier National Park , the interior of the historic Sperry Chalet completely burned, leaving only the exterior stone walls standing?
Did you know that The Inquiry , a study group established by US President Woodrow Wilson to make recommendations for the 1919 Paris Peace Conference , suggested that Crimea should be given to Ukraine?
Did you know that Tajama Abraham survived Hurricane Hugo by hiding in a commercial refrigerator with her family?
Did you know that the plain-breasted piculet is usually inconspicuous but may be detected by the pecking sounds it makes while foraging?
Did you know that the lack of breakfast pushed Mab Copland Lineman to fight against a labor union ?
Did you know that Jane Frances Winn was one of the first female journalists to cover women's golf events?
Did you know that the producers of " Drew Live II " kept many elements of the episode a secret from the cast?
Did you know that Yttralox , a transparent ceramic , was accidentally discovered in the course of fuel cell research in the mid-1960s?
Did you know that the limpet Iothia emarginuloides is commonly found on the red alga Phyllophora antarctica growing under the Antarctic sea ice ?
Did you know that Wolfgang Rihm's opera Dionysos , with a libretto by Rihm using only words by Nietzsche , was first performed at the Salzburg Festival and called premiere of the year ?
Did you know that a middle-class terrorist organization known as el ABC successfully lobbied for two cabinet positions in the 1933 provisional government of Cuba ?
Did you know that before his death at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, John Neville was reported to be in the thick of the fighting and "cutting off arms and heads like a hero of romance"?
Did you know that the alpine pika can produce three different vocalizations: a long call during the mating season, a short call, and an alarm call when threatened?
Did you know that the phrase "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" helped Grover Cleveland win the 1884 U.S. Presidential election ?
Did you know that Prussia entered a secret armistice with Austria in October 1741, but Frederick the Great pretended to continue fighting the First Silesian War for another two months?
Did you know that Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues?
Did you know that Johannes Brahms used the same melody for a song of his Fünf Lieder , Op. 105 , as for the theme of the slow movement of his second piano concerto ?
Did you know that a hydroelectric diversion project and a dark matter research lab have been developed deep under the Jinping Mountains in Sichuan, China?
Did you know that Don Amador is portrayed in the film Milk by his friend Cleve Jones , while Jones is portrayed by Emile Hirsch ?
Did you know that by winning the 2013 Monaco GP2 Series sprint race , Stefano Coletti became the first Monegasque racing driver to win a motor race in Monaco since Louis Chiron in 1931 ?
Did you know that Sayaka Harada decided to become a voice actress in anime despite not having watched many Japanese cartoons?
Did you know that Californians have a right to access medical aid in dying under the California End of Life Option Act ?
Did you know that coloratura soprano Joan Carroll appeared as Alban Berg's Lulu more than 100 times, including the U.S. premiere at the Santa Fe Opera ?
Did you know that Tibet's Moupin pika is a burrowing mammal that makes haypiles to store food?
Did you know that Gene Rambo won the International Rodeo Association all-around championship four times?
Did you know that 21 of the 26 Michelin 3-star restaurants in Paris serve Kaluga Queen caviar ?
Did you know that Mishkat al-Mumin 's advocacy for women's rights angered jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ?
Did you know that Guangfu was home to the founders of two of the largest schools of tai chi in the world?
Did you know that Virginia Lieutenant Governor-elect Justin Fairfax once worked for Tipper Gore ?
Did you know that an administrative error when appointing W. G. Grace as referee for a Gloucestershire Cup tie during the Eastville Rovers' 1888–89 season voided the result and forced a rematch?
Did you know that website designer Akaliza Keza Gara had to borrow a laptop from her client for her first commission?
Did you know that Gillian Hanson was a world expert on treating the condition that ultimately killed her?
Did you know that the fossil bumble bee Bombus trophonius was named after the Greek hero Trophonius ?
Did you know that Hawaiian Independence Day , on November 28, commemorates the Anglo-Franco Proclamation recognizing the independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii ?
Did you know that Mustafa Tuna , the mayor of Ankara from November 2017 to April 2019, was previously an academic in environmental technology ?
Did you know that Myanmar produces some of the world's finest rubies ?
Did you know that there were rumors that the comic book Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand would end the Ultimate Marvel imprint?
Did you know that artefacts discovered at the Donaldson archaeological site in Ontario include a child's necklace made with bear teeth?
Did you know that "Hawaii's Songbird" Lena Machado had a "ha'i" in her voice?
Did you know that Irene Ovonji-Odida advocated for the East African Community to broaden its scope beyond that of a trade bloc?
Did you know that PS Duchess of Fife received a battle honour for saving 1,633 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk ?
Did you know that Frank P. Gates designed 18 buildings on the campus of the University of Mississippi ?
Did you know that the Pragmatic Sanction of 1712 , allowing a Habsburg princess to become Queen of Croatia , is evoked in the Constitution of Croatia as a demonstration of Croatian millennial statehood?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Mechthild Georg , a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Köln , performed music by C. P. E. Bach at the first Rheingau Musik Festival ?
Did you know that on one day of his 1908 U.S. presidential campaign , William Jennings Bryan gave 30 speeches?
Did you know that Reginald Appleby founded the law firm Appleby which has been at the centre of the recent Paradise Papers leak?
Did you know that American Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps won the Laureus World Sports Award for Comeback of the Year after retiring twice?
Did you know that Ourida Chouaki co-ordinated the 20 ans, barakat! ("20 years is enough!") campaign to reform the Algerian Family Code ?
Did you know that Archibald Wager served as the Clerk of Court for three colonial Virginia counties?
Did you know that the reticulated knifefish is sensitive to electric charges and uses this ability to locate objects in the vicinity?
Did you know that Elizabeth M. Bryan 's wedding was attended by 25 sets of twins?
Did you know that Jeanne LaDuke worked alongside Natalie Wood as a child actor before becoming a professional mathematician?
Did you know that the gavaksha motif, common in Hindu temples , originated in replications of timber and thatch roofs?
Did you know that Sheetal Pandey won her first election at the age of 63?
Did you know that the diets of different species of bat include frogs, fish, other bats, nectar, and blood?
Did you know that Estelle Cascarino represented France at the under-19 and under-20 levels in international tournaments in the same year?
Did you know that the Wall of Grief is Russia's first monument ordered by presidential decree for victims killed during the political persecutions of Joseph Stalin ?
Did you know that Bongo Joe Coleman was distinguished by a drum set fabricated from 55-gallon oil drums ?
Did you know that in 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn visited the Paris office of the YMCA Press and presented an inscribed book thanking the publisher for all his work for Russian culture with them?
Did you know that Japanese artist and poet Chō Kōran became a specialist in ink paintings in the " Four Gentlemen " genre?
Did you know that St. Leonhard in Frankfurt was remodeled from a Romanesque basilica to a late Gothic hall church ?
Did you know that in 1946, Flemming Helweg-Larsen became the first person executed by Denmark in more than 50 years?
Did you know that Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne is one of six Irish stepdance competitions claiming the title of World Championships?
Did you know that Jane Wynne taught her fellow paediatricians to identify signs of child abuse?
Did you know that the Mekong giant earthworm can grow to a length of 2.9 metres (10 feet)?
Did you know that the simple hymn " Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren ", used at the end of a meal, became a model for other songs of thanks?
Did you know that communist politician Homi F. Daji called the 1984 Bhopal gas leak "a callous man-made tragedy of unparalleled dimensions"?
Did you know that the gall wasp Bassettia pallida induces oak trees to form galls , but has its own behavior altered by a chalcid wasp ?
Did you know that Ireland national rugby hooker Cliodhna Moloney is also a banker?
Did you know that Helicopter 66 , which recovered astronauts from five different Apollo missions , has been called "one of the most famous, or at least most iconic, helicopters in history"?
Did you know that Colombian performer J Balvin won Artist of the Year for the second year in a row at the Premio Lo Nuestro 2017 ?
Did you know that Lillian Bilocca threatened to picket British Prime Minister Harold Wilson 's house if he did not impose stronger safety regulations on the fishing industry?
Did you know that Olive Scott was Britain's first dedicated paediatric cardiologist ?
Did you know that for 70 years, Jerusalem customers have done their banking in an eclectic mansion on Jaffa Road ?
Did you know that the coral Acropora aculeus is particularly susceptible to coral bleaching and coral diseases and is listed as a vulnerable species ?
Did you know that Tyler Toland became the Republic of Ireland's youngest women's senior international footballer in September 2017?
Did you know that the 2016 article " United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps " was the first article by a sitting U.S. president to be published in an academic journal ?
Did you know that Japanese singer Asuka Ōkura made her music debut as her record label contract was about to expire?
Did you know that trains on the 42nd Street Shuttle , the shortest route in the New York City Subway system, run a distance of 2,700 feet (820 m) in 90 seconds?
Did you know that Rama Pilot and Vijaya Kumari Ganti , both became members of the 13th Lok Sabha after winning by-elections prompted by the death of their respective husbands?
Did you know that as well as feeding on insects, the greater flowerpiercer probes and pecks flowers to obtain nectar?
Did you know that Belhaven University is named after the mansion of Confederate veteran Jones S. Hamilton ?
Did you know that kiwi birds are parasitized by lice in the genus Apterygon and in the subgenus Rallicola ( Aptericola )?
Did you know that Ethiopian women's rights activist Nahu Senay Girma 's given name means "something good is happening now" and is traditionally a masculine name?
Did you know that racing driver Sam Bird beat Felipe Nasr by eight-hundredths of a second to win the 2013 Bahrain GP2 Series round sprint race, the closest margin of victory in GP2 Series history?
Did you know that Games and Culture criticised Sheva Alomar for being the video game equivalent of Pocahontas ?
Did you know that on his first commission from the US, John Rutter composed Gloria as a concert piece for choir, brass, percussion, and organ?
Did you know that Philip Caves ' influence on attitudes at Glasgow 's Children's Hospital in the 1970s was described as "whirlwind" as he operated on newborns previously considered unfit for surgery?
Did you know that the Norwegian mountaineer Arne Næss Jr. died in a climbing accident four months before he could accept his Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award ?
Did you know that biologist Inez Whipple Wilder made contributions to the study of fingerprints and salamanders?
Did you know that Amy H. Herring led a study whose data showed some American women were reportedly virgins at the birth of their first child?
Did you know that the Shoeburyness Boom is the only known Cold War anti-submarine boom?
Did you know that during her compulsory military service , Aya Koren played in an Israeli Air Force band with Yehuda Levi , her future co-star in Yossi & Jagger (2002)?
Did you know that the Transylvanian peasant revolt of 1437 broke out after the local bishop , having suspended the collection of the tithe for years, demanded the arrears in a single payment?
Did you know that Irish rugby referee Joy Neville was the first woman to be an assistant referee in a men's European Challenge Cup match?
Did you know that the Naval Careers Service is the smallest of the four components of Her Majesty's Naval Service ?
Did you know that the hospital in Southern Rhodesia where Theresa Robinson Buck worked was renamed in her honour after her death?
Did you know that bird lice in the genus Colpocephalum are "rapid", allowing them to outrun the preening of their host?
Did you know that the 2009 Sky Blue FC team that won the Women's Professional Soccer title employed three different head coaches during the season?
Did you know that the English neurologist Honor Smith was sent to Morocco by the WHO to investigate an outbreak of paralysis caused by contaminated cooking oil?
Did you know that a Hiroshima peace bell was donated to the Aegidienkirche , the ruin of a Gothic church that was left as a war memorial?
Did you know that Canadian abstract impressionist K.M. Graham began painting at the age of 50?
Did you know that the video game Sonic Colors was designed to appeal to a wide demographic, specifically children and fans of the Super Mario series?
Did you know that Miroslava Breach , a Mexican investigative journalist known for exposing human rights violations and political corruption , was murdered in March 2017?
Did you know that the California condor louse became extinct when all remaining California condors were deloused in a captive breeding program?
Did you know that serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to the Dardeen family homicides that took place in Ina, Illinois , 30 years ago today, but he was never charged?
Did you know that Sushila Rani Patel taught actress Madhubala to speak, read, and write English?
Did you know that the Mulungushi Rock of Authority , known as "the birthplace of Zambian independence", is located in the Central Province of Zambia ?
Did you know that Staley T. McBrayer is sometimes referred to as the "Orville Wright" or "Wilbur Wright" of offset newspaper publishing?
Did you know that the tidepool sculpin can leave the rock pool in which it lives, and breathe air?
Did you know that after being injured, Annabelle Lindsay relinquished a scholarship to play college basketball in the United States but has since been awarded another to play wheelchair basketball ?
Did you know that Microsoft helped fund a new overpass on Washington State Route 520 near its corporate headquarters in Redmond ?
Did you know that Judith Kingston pioneered the use of chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma , an eye cancer found in children?
Did you know that at a time when masonry bridges were widely being replaced by metal truss bridges , the limestone West Sixth Street Bridge in Austin, Texas , replaced an older iron footbridge ?
Did you know that Rudolf Geigy established health institutes on two continents and started a foundation that awards scholars who combine field and laboratory work in novel ways?
Did you know that the U.S. Army bombarded the village of Wrangell, Alaska , in 1869 to force the handover of the first man to be given the death penalty under U.S. rule?
Did you know that Ahlem Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution ?
Did you know that Kaburakia excelsa , from the west coast of North America, is one of the largest flatworms in the world?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service , in existence from 1962 to 2009, had some 650 clients?
Did you know that Turkish socialist politician Fatma Hikmet İşmen used her first senate speech to accuse the Directorate of Religious Affairs of fueling discrimination against Alawites by Sunni Muslims ?
Did you know that the county courthouses in New Jersey serve 21 counties in 15 vicinages ?
Did you know that the Avenue Range Station massacre involved the shooting murders of nine Aboriginal Australians , including children and a baby, by white settlers?
Did you know that Michèle Dix , managing director of the proposed £27 billion Crossrail 2 project, said she would like to run a tea room when she retires?
Did you know that the species name of the ringed brown snake means "well-behaved" and has been linked to its reluctance to bite people?
Did you know that Barbara A. Bailar resigned from the United States Census Bureau in 1988 to protest a decision not to adjust the 1990 results for systematic undercounting of minorities?
Did you know that before the Han–Liu War , many soldiers bought coffins as they were prepared to fight to the death?
Did you know that Auguste Le Guennant , the director of the Gregorian Institute of Paris , had Duruflé 's Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens dedicated to him?
Did you know that Rodinná pouta , the first original series broadcast by the Czech Prima televize , attracted over one million viewers per episode?
Did you know that when Whitefoord Russell Cole threatened striking workers with dismissal and pension loss in 1921, his house was "bombarded with bottles until its concrete porch was littered with glass"?
Did you know that, in 1944, eleven battalions of the Government Army of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were sent to northern Italy to support German military operations?
Did you know that Jamaican sprinter Dominique Blake was accidentally awarded a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 m relay?
Did you know that Super Mario World was designed to make the most out of the then-new Super Nintendo Entertainment System 's features?
Did you know that Seattle mayoral candidate Cary Moon qualified for the general election by a margin of 1,170 votes?
Did you know that in the pastoral poem " Ich will dich lieben, meine Stärke ", by Angelus Silesius , the Soul promises to love Jesus until her death?
Did you know that Raju Patel teamed up with Walt Disney Studios to produce Rudyard Kipling 's The Jungle Book ?
Did you know that the slipper sea cucumber is avoided by most predatory fish, crabs, and gastropod molluscs, but is preyed on by starfish, especially the leather star ?
Did you know that Queen May Hnin Theindya of Pegu tried to save her husband Tarabya's life by tying her tresses with his?
Did you know that urban planner Robert Moses was said to have laughed at protesters he encountered while surveying routes for the Clearview Expressway in New York City in the 1950s?
Did you know that it took authorities at Kansas City International Airport eight months to find Randy Potter 's body in his parked truck, despite recording all license plate numbers nightly?
Did you know that Luca Guadagnino , who directed the romantic drama film Call Me by Your Name , was first hired as a location consultant for the film?
Did you know that the minister, writer, and publisher Christian Gottlob Barth is remembered on 12 November in the Lutheran calendar of saints ?
Did you know that the orange-backed troupial often takes over the nest of a yellow-rumped cacique ?
Did you know that the British physician Stephanie Amiel has specialised in type I diabetes since her time at Yale University in the 1980s?
Did you know that in its history, the Palau del Parlament de Catalunya has been an arsenal, a barracks, a royal palace, an art museum, and the seat of the Parliament of Catalonia ?
Did you know that NASA engineer John Hirasaki says he read The Andromeda Strain prior to being quarantined with the returning Apollo 11 astronauts?
Did you know that the sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2 used by Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 appeared again much later in Ptolemy 's Almagest ?
Did you know that following Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Quebec City in 1996, riots in Place D'Youville caused around CAD $1 million in damages to shops and to the National Assembly of Quebec ?
Did you know that " The Chosen Wan " is the first Singaporean to hold a world title in professional boxing?
Did you know that white plague , a disease affecting corals, may be two or more diseases with similar symptoms?
Did you know that though Robert "Big Mojo" Elem was a fixture on the Chicago blues scene for over forty years, he recorded only one album?
Did you know that Southwestern University 's Administration Building is noted for its architecture, even though it was designed by a physicist and not a professional architect?
Did you know that the Rollers won the 2017 Asia-Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championships , while the Gliders came in second?
Did you know that Waylon Jennings ' 1970s song " Bob Wills Is Still the King " may have been less a tribute to Bob Wills than a friendly jibe at Willie Nelson ?
Did you know that the extinct ant Odontomachus pseudobauri was bought from an amber dealer in Basel , Switzerland?
Did you know that after murdering his mistress and her daughter in Ughill Hall , Sheffield , Ian Wood absconded to France and threatened to jump off Amiens Cathedral ?
Did you know that St. Stefanus, Ghent , was the venue of a concert dedicated to the Martin Luther Year, featuring Max Reger's setting of Psalm 100 ?
Did you know that James Fugaté was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy after it was revealed that he wrote Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel under the pen name James Barr?
Did you know that Chris Ashton celebrated scoring the 2010 IRPA Try of the Year with an "Ash-Splash"?
Did you know that animal behavior scientist Chris Sherwin wrote that insects can experience "negative mental states"?
Did you know that folklorist William A. Wilson wrote that stories from Mormon folklore are "psychologically true" even if they never actually happened?
Did you know that " Crazy Sally ", an 18th-century bonesetter , successfully treated dislocated shoulders and knees in a London coffee house despite having no medical training?
Did you know that Anna Marguerite McCann , the first female American underwater archaeologist , published the earliest research on deep-sea shipwrecks?
Did you know that " Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt ", a song of New Jerusalem , was written by Johann Matthäus Meyfart , rector of the Casimirianum , for an academic sermon?
Did you know that Minori Suzuki beat 8,000 others who auditioned for the role of Freyja Wion in the anime series Macross Delta ?