kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Hindu saint Sena Nhavi says that barbers show the "mirror of discrimination" and cut the "hair of egotism" and the "nails of passion"?
Did you know that two future Admirals of the Royal Navy began their careers aboard HMS Aldborough , a sixth-rate coastal survey vessel?
Did you know that the Communist Party of China calculated that 1.6 billion big-character posters were made to denounce Pan Fusheng and his "anti-party clique"?
Did you know that the area most affected by the 1872 North Cascades earthquake was largely unpopulated, resulting in limited damage?
Did you know that James B. Weaver ran for President of the United States as a Greenbacker in 1880 and as a Populist in 1892 ?
Did you know that The Verge wrote that Google Inbox "feels a lot like the future of email "?
Did you know that in the Balinese dance kebyar duduk , androgynously made-up men spin in circles while seated or half-seated?
Did you know that the Czech language contains a sound, ř (example: "řeka" (river) ⓘ ), that does not occur in any other known language?
Did you know that Smithsonian anthropologist Bruce D. Smith started his study of the origin of agriculture in Eastern North America with a cigar box full of seeds?
Did you know that the song " Do or Die " by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars features the contribution of the band's fans?
Did you know that the Baiounitai were one of the Slavic tribes that established a military alliance led by Chatzon and besieged the Byzantine city of Thessaloniki in the mid-610s?
Did you know that Liostenogaster vechti wasps defend their nests from large ants by grasping the ants and then dropping from the edge of the nest to remove them?
Did you know that the comedian anchor of the Emmy-nominated Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola is considered "the reluctant voice of a cynical generation"?
Did you know that although it outnumbered its attackers at the Battle of Nam Bac , the Royal Lao Army was routed by the People's Army of Vietnam ?
Did you know that Cologne -born character actor Erwin Hiller, portraying the Frenchman Marcel Hillaire , toured U.S. college campuses with a one-man stage show celebrating French literature ?
Did you know that the Northern Ice Field on Mount Kilimanjaro is the largest glacial remnant on the mountain with an area of 0.95 km 2 (0.4 sq mi)?
Did you know that the Pettakere cave in Indonesia has hand print paintings estimated to be between 35,000 and 40,000 years old?
Did you know that Fu Buqi was one of only two disciples that Confucius praised as a junzi in the Analects ?
Did you know that illiterate Operation Hardnose spies used modified survival radios to count and report traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail ?
Did you know that 16th-century Spanish friar Domingo de Vico was sacrificed after scolding an Acala Ch'ol ruler over how many wives he had?
Did you know that the Varagavank monastery was the site of Armenian resistance to Turkish government forces during the Armenian Genocide ?
Did you know that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
Did you know that the Loon Church , built between 1855 and 1864, was reduced to rubble when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol in 2013 ?
Did you know that when Polybia sericea catches an insect, it drags its prey onto a twig or piece of grass to prevent it from being stolen by ants?
Did you know that Bárid , King of Dublin , was made lame in 877 during a battle at Strangford Lough ?
Did you know that among fossils found at Koonwarra, Victoria are those of horseshoe crabs , ginkgo and gnetophytes ?
Did you know that Duanmu Ci was said to have ridden a quadriga to visit Yuan Xian 's tiny hut?
Did you know that Namacpacan Church is built with buttresses and thick walls in order to withstand earthquakes?
Did you know that Khurshid , the last ispahbadh of Tabaristan , poisoned himself when he learned that his family had been captured by the Abbasids ?
Did you know that the hierarchical generalized linear model is a useful statistical model in fields ranging from semiconductor fabrication to marketing research ?
Did you know that Eddie Macon was the first African-American to play for the Chicago Bears ?
Did you know that dishes served at Fäviken include marrowbone extracted from a shin bone cut open with a two-man saw in the middle of the restaurant?
Did you know that at the Battle of Lindley's Mill , militia general John Butler attempted in vain to rescue North Carolina Governor Thomas Burke , who had been captured by Loyalist militia leader David Fanning ?
Did you know that Nauru has the highest obesity rate in the world: 71.7% of its residents are obese and 94.5% are overweight ?
Did you know that the 1999 constitution of Venezuela enabled the expansion of local government via the Local Public Planning Councils ?
Did you know that the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Wanderer sank five U-boats during World War II, more than any other ship of her class ?
Did you know that while still a member of the North Carolina General Assembly , Martha B. Alexander stood as a candidate for president of the Episcopal House of Deputies ?
Did you know that in Bach's chorale cantata Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn , BWV 92 , for Septuagesima , he created five different settings for five stanzas of the hymn by Paul Gerhardt ?
Did you know that the Israeli political party Eretz Hadasha ran in the January 2013 elections in Israel but did not receive enough votes to enter the Knesset ?
Did you know that Lord Amberley allowed his wife's sexual partner, Douglas Spalding , to keep chickens in their drawing room and library, which terrified their guests?
Did you know that a release by the Japanese girl group Momoiro Clover Z was partly in Furbish, the native language of Furbies ?
Did you know that Canada's Miracle Child "captured the world with her smile," according to Stompin' Tom ?
Did you know that the Indian Journal of Medical Research , first edited by Sir Pardey Lukis , is celebrating its centenary this year?
Did you know that South Dakota socialist Z. D. Scott moved to Biloxi in the late 1890s to establish what a newspaper column described as a "co-operative colony" and to "live on fish and oysters and dream dreams"?
Did you know that over 20 heads of state have paid tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims ?
Did you know that " Do the Bartman ", written by Michael Jackson and Bryan Loren , was never released as a single in the US yet it peaked at number 11 on Billboard 's airplay chart ?
Did you know that during the Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 , Theodore Synadenos wanted to surrender Thessalonica to John Kantakouzenos , but was ousted by the radical Zealots faction?
Did you know that House actor Hugh Laurie had his first feature film lead role in The Oranges , released in October 2012 ?
Did you know that Christina Aguilera 's song " Lotus Intro " was inspired by her passion for "chill-out" electronica music?
Did you know that in the 1780s Livesey, Hargreaves and Company was the largest calico printer in Lancashire ?
Did you know that Central Powers offensive codenamed Operation Faustschlag forced the Soviet government to transfer its capital from Petrograd to Moscow ?
Did you know that Michael G. Santos became the first American prisoner to be released from a maximum security facility?
Did you know that engineer James Dredge, Sr. was the father of James Dredge, Jr. who, because of paralysis , was unable to continue managing the journal, The Engineer ?
Did you know that for the film Rabindranath Tagore , Satyajit Ray did not use any of Tagore's poems as he believed that people who heard the English translations would not consider Tagore "a very great poet"?
Did you know that Mexican journalist Misael Tamayo Hernández was abducted and assassinated, probably by lethal injection ?
Did you know that the vast majority of the 22 film producers active in the Dutch East Indies were ethnic Chinese men?
Did you know that Colin Trevorrow was falsely rumored to be the director of the upcoming Star Wars Episode VII ?
Did you know that in 1979 only two students registered to join Ai Tong School , now one of the most popular schools in Singapore ?
Did you know that Escape from Tomorrow was covertly filmed on location at Disneyland and Walt Disney World without Disney's permission or knowledge, using iPhones to store scripts and schedules and record sound?
Did you know that Norwegian football player Henning Hauger saw less activity after moving to Germany and was ultimately left out of his national team ?
Did you know that in 1914, a Gabardini monoplane set an Italian altitude record of 4,950 metres (16,240 ft)?
Did you know that William Yarrell 's History of British Birds was "outstanding for ... its author's unassuming charm"?
Did you know that although Burnt Bridge Creek does not meet Washington Dept. of Ecology standards for fecal bacteria , temperature, pH, and oxygen levels, the lowermost part of the creek supports coho salmon ?
Did you know that during Takembeng protests in Cameroon, post-menopausal women strip naked in order to prevent police and military from breaking up the protests?
Did you know that Hasan ibn Zayd , the founder of the Zaydid emirate of Tabaristan , was succeeded by his brother Muhammad , who lost it to the Samanids ?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Northwich , Cheshire , include three structures designed so that they could be lifted in the event of further subsidence in the town due to salt extraction?
Did you know that the New York-based Russian Symphony Orchestra Society gave the first American performance of Igor Stravinsky 's The Firebird ?
Did you know that basketball player Cookie Belcher set Big 12 Conference records for steals in a season and a career?
Did you know the Roman temple from the second century at al-Masmiyah , Syria, has rare niches for statues in its cella ?
Did you know that Norwegian footballer Kai Risholt could not sleep for 22 days?
Did you know that despite normally being grey, brown and white, one Texas antelope squirrel found in 1905 was tinted purple?
Did you know that German art designer Erich Kettelhut was tasked with creating a life-size mechanical dragon for Fritz Lang's 1924 movie Die Nibelungen ?
Did you know that professional footballer Michael Ngoo was booked for revealing a T-shirt bearing the message "96 reasons 4 Justice"?
Did you know that Jasuben Shilpi , the Indian sculpture artist, was known as "The Bronze woman of India"?
Did you know that the modern-day Syrian village of Qarqur on the east bank of the Orontes was founded just west of Tell Qarqur , believed to be the site of the Battle of Qarqar ?
Did you know that the United States Navy planned to use Orioles and Meteors to shoot down enemy aircraft?
Did you know that James Ferguson was so ugly that his own mother warned him against being mistaken for a rapist?
Did you know that " Kanashimi yo Konnichi wa " was used not only as a theme for the anime series Maison Ikkoku , but also as an image song for Shiseido shampoo?
Did you know that the fourth-century Roman temple at Tasil in southern Syria was dedicated either to emperor Constantine the Great or to Constantius II ?
Did you know that Percy White was a leading contributor to Britain's first nuclear bomb ?
Did you know that the Nauru Reed Warbler is found exclusively on the remote Pacific island of Nauru ?
Did you know that Karl Hugo Strunz was the creator of the Nickel-Strunz classification ?
Did you know that when a French television channel approached Satyajit Ray for Pikoo (1980), he was told "you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house next door—we will accept that"?
Did you know that Usmar Ismail 's film Enam Djam di Jogja was censored because of its depiction of Dutch soldiers?
Did you know that the video for The Cure 's 1987 single " Why Can't I Be You? " featured Robert Smith dancing in a bear suit?
Did you know that Sam Ficken once missed four field goals and an extra point in a game that Penn State lost by one point?
Did you know that stings from Tamoya ohboya , named for the exclamation "oh boy", cause severe pain and skin damage?
Did you know that Sheldon Kurland , who contributed to the " Nashville sound " as a session musician and arranger , trained as a classical musician at the Juilliard School ?
Did you know that Star Trek: Enterprise actor Anthony Montgomery thought it would be a good idea to feature his character's family, something which occurred in the following season episode " Horizon "?
Did you know that Greece was stripped of the 2013 Mediterranean Games hosting rights due to its financial crisis ?
Did you know that Cherokee Indian Mayes McLain held college football 's single-season scoring record for more than 60 years and engaged in professional wrestling as the "Masked Manager"?
Did you know that Yuki Saito 's 1985 debut single, Sotsugyō , was used as an image song for a line of instant ramen ?
Did you know that Moroccan military and religious leader Ali Amhaouch is said to have bequeathed his son a magical rifle cartridge in 1918?
Did you know that Knut Schoch appeared as the tenor soloist on many volumes of Pieter Jan Leusink 's complete recording of the Bach cantatas with the Holland Boys Choir, including cantatas BWV 1 , 2 , 3 , ... 198 ?
Did you know that the rare Grevillea shiressii is only found along two tributaries of the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney ?
Did you know that Wendell Gilliard had the Ku Klux Klan labeled a terrorist group while serving on the city council of Charleston, South Carolina ?
Did you know that Green's Lodge Battery was so successful during the Great Siege of Gibraltar that the British decided to construct what became Rock Gun Battery above it?
Did you know that the first etymological dictionary of the Turkish language was written by Bedros Keresteciyan , an ethnic Armenian ?
Did you know that on the country album Jan Howard Sings Evil on Your Mind , artist Jan Howard sings " Evil on Your Mind "?
Did you know that Burning Lights by Chris Tomlin debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Great Budworth , Cheshire , include a sundial , stocks , a lychgate , a guidepost, two wellhouses, and a telephone kiosk ?
Did you know that film director Lee Toland Krieger became "hooked" on filmmaking as a teenager when his neighbor, a film producer, brought him to a set ?
Did you know that signature dishes at the Australian restaurant Quay include the "Snow egg" and an eight-texture chocolate cake?
Did you know that in January 2013 the cybercrime Virut botnet was partially taken down through the actions of the Polish domain registrar, NASK ?
Did you know that the Penthouse Club of the Streamline Hotel , where NASCAR was founded, is now a gay bar ?
Did you know that Ervin Marton , an internationally known Hungarian photographer based in Paris , was part of the French Resistance during World War II ?
Did you know that Huawei unveiled a 6.1-inch phablet smartphone at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show ?
Did you know that many of Stefan Batory 's captains in the Livonian War had served in Obrona Potoczna ("Current Defense"), which defended Polish-Lithuanian borders from Tatar raids in the sixteenth century?
Did you know that recently deceased Frank Esposito was the longest serving mayor in the history of Norwalk, Connecticut ?
Did you know that it is unclear if individual specimens of coral Acropora cytherea were being damaged by infestations of furry coral crab in the Chagos Archipelago in 2010?
Did you know that Adam Markovitz for Entertainment Weekly thought that the Maroon 5 song " Lucky Strike " was one of the best on their album Overexposed ?
Did you know that future Hockey Hall of Famer Steamer Maxwell 's disdain for professional sport caused him to quit playing in 1915 after learning fellow players were getting paid?
Did you know that in 2013 the Bornean slow loris ( Nycticebus menagensis ) was split into three additional species: N. kayan , N. bancanus , and N. borneanus ?
Did you know that after the Nazis forced him to sweep the streets of Vienna during the Anschluss , the third Sadigura Rebbe fled to Tel Aviv and swept the streets there instead?
Did you know that the keys of Grand Casemates Gates are a symbol of office of the Governor of Gibraltar?
Did you know that when David Milch created the HBO television series, Deadwood , the first book he bought for research was by Black Hills historian Watson Parker ?
Did you know that although some hooch maids were known to service servicemen during the Vietnam War , they were also described as being "good Catholics who ... would never date an American soldier"?
Did you know that the Taku people fish for sockeye salmon at Port Snettisham ?
Did you know that the medieval royal administrator Henry de Cornhill was responsible for assembling part of the fleet for King Richard I of England 's efforts in the Third Crusade ?
Did you know that a cove in Alaska was named Murder Cove after two gold prospectors were murdered there in 1869 as revenge for killing the brother of a Kake resident?
Did you know that the Lungi Lol confrontation was the only direct engagement between British forces and the Revolutionary United Front during British operations in Sierra Leone in 2000?
Did you know that an ice spike is a rare phenomenon in nature but they can be grown in an ice cube tray in a domestic refrigerator using distilled water ?
Did you know that basketball player Tim Winn set a St. Bonaventure record for steals in a season?
Did you know that the ritual of lighting Makaravilakku atop the Indian summit of Ponnambalamedu is witnessed from Sabarimala by nearly half a million people annually?
Did you know that the first television role for actor Tommy Lee Jones was as fictional adulterous murderer Dr. Mark Toland on the American soap opera One Life to Live ?
Did you know that Meenakshi Shirodkar stunned the traditional audience when she appeared in a swimsuit in the 1938 Marathi film Brahmachari ?
Did you know that Christian hip hop artist Sho Baraka attracted controversy when he used the word "nigga" on the album Talented 10th ?
Did you know that in 1898, Frank Hudson , a five-foot, three-inch quarterback from the Laguna Pueblo tribe, became the first Native American to be selected as an All-American football player?
Did you know that the Assassins ' medieval fortress of al-Qadmus was the seat of the Ismaili sect in Syria well into the 19th century during Ottoman rule?
Did you know that vocalist Mike Patton described the tour schedule to promote Tomahawk 's Mit Gas as "a lot of time to be sitting in some stinking-ass club with some guy puking in your purse"?
Did you know that Sir Hercules Read of the British Museum advised the Ashmolean to decline the loan of the Anglo-Saxon Fuller Brooch , which he wrongly believed to be a modern fake?
Did you know that the trumpet tree , a fast-growing tree native to the American tropics, is considered one of the hundred worst invasive alien species in the world?
Did you know that one resident of Springfield 's East High Street Historic District lived there while governor of Ohio ?
Did you know that woodcarver Abel Schrøder , who crafted the altarpieces for the churches of Vester Egesborg , Undløse , and St Martin's , was also St Martin's organist ?
Did you know that the Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green song " Make the World Move " features a "bonkers arrangement"?
Did you know that despite covering the works of a Christian theologian, the Thomas Aquinas Dictionary does not contain entries for " Redemption ", " Incarnation " or " Trinity "?
Did you know that the " Dima Yakovlev Law " forbidding American parents from adopting Russian children was named after a Russian toddler who died after his adoptive American father left him in a car for nine hours?
Did you know that mountaineer Ian McKeever climbed the 26 peaks of the island of Ireland in 98 hours?
Did you know that Detroit's population increased over 1,000 times between 1820 and 1930?
Did you know that North Korea claims to have found the cave of a mythological beast said to have been ridden by King Dongmyeong of Goguryeo 2000 years ago?
Did you know that Macumba Station had an average temperature of 111 °F (44 °C) recorded for 50 days in the summer of 1932?
Did you know that Sioux K. Grigsby maintained a law practice for nearly 70 years in addition to serving in the South Dakota state house , senate and as lieutenant governor ?
Did you know that the art in the video game Dokuro was inspired by children's storybooks ?
Did you know that Max Tera had a forty-one-year career in cinematography with only a junior high school education?
Did you know that Michael Piller likened the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Lessons " to the film Brief Encounter ?
Did you know that during the Anlu protests of 1958–61 in Cameroon, women took over power in the Kom region and named their leader a queen?
Did you know that the Juneau Raptor Center , run by an all-volunteer staff, treats any species of bird brought to it for treatment?
Did you know that screenwriter Will Reiser wrote the film 50/50 about his diagnosis of spinal cancer at the age of 25?
Did you know that two years after her departure from the Sugababes , Siobhán Donaghy released her debut single " Overrated ", which according to one critic is directed at the group's members?
Did you know that Jeff Gordon won the 2004 Pepsi 400 after teammate Jimmie Johnson pushed him past Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Tony Stewart ?
Did you know that Handkäse mit Musik , popular in Hessian cuisine , gets its name from the flatulence it causes?
Did you know that the film The Mirror Never Lies was co-produced by a former Miss Indonesia winner ?
Did you know that in 1933, Lady Simon received a damehood for her efforts to combat slavery and racial discrimination ?
Did you know that the Cray XK7 platform is used in the most powerful supercomputer in the world?
Did you know that Helen Wright researched the history of telescopes ?
Did you know that the Kootznahoo Formation, consisting of conglomerate , sandstone , siltstone , shale and coal , is located in Alaska 's Kootznahoo Inlet ?
Did you know that opposing players in a game of khong kangjei may challenge each other to a wrestling match?
Did you know that in the early 1600s, the Cabal of Naples led Neapolitan painters to harass, expel, or poison non-native painters so that commissions would be won by local artists?
Did you know that NeocoreGames uses their own game engine called Coretech to develop video games ?
Did you know that actress Jenni Blong portrayed her character as "a fragile simp with a dirty secret" in her 1998 performance in the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
Did you know that while spending on welfare in South Korea has been growing, it is still among the lowest of the OECD countries?
Did you know that IBM physicist Leroy L. Chang , honoured for his work on superlattice heterostructures , moved to HKUST university in 1993 owing to Hong Kong's impending 1997 transfer to Chinese control ?
Did you know that at live performances of " Ikuze! Kaitō Shōjo ", the audience can see a shrimp jump?
Did you know that historian Ron Chernow based his biography Washington: A Life on recently unearthed documentation and materials from the Papers of George Washington ?
Did you know that in 2009 Italy became the first nation to host the Mediterranean Games three times?
Did you know that archeologist Anna Curtenius Roosevelt , the great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt , described a pre-Columbian civilization in Brazil as having "outstanding indigenous cultural achievements"?
Did you know that the Buddha's Discourse on Removing Distracting Thoughts says that just as a carpenter replaces a "coarse peg with a fine one", one can replace unskilled thoughts with skilled thoughts?
Did you know that Ohio State linebacker Zach Boren has played both offense and defense during his career at Ohio State?
Did you know that Frankie Fryer is an imitation of Danny Dyer ?
Did you know that the India -sponsored Pan-African e-Network project aims to link all member states of the African Union with each other and India through a satellite and submarine cable network?