kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Gnat Computers was one of the first to license the CP/M operating system, paying only US$90 for a perpetual license before the price skyrocketed to tens of thousands of dollars?
Did you know that from the old Chicago Station , a five-cent fare would get you as far west as California ?
Did you know that LaDainian Tomlinson scored two touchdowns in 47 seconds to break the NFL single-season touchdown record?
Did you know that tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris Cos. marketed Capri Sun to children based on experience selling tobacco to young people?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the American Civil War , the only Black-led organization providing teachers to formerly enslaved people was the African Civilization Society ?
Did you know that Gother Mann commanded a small body of militia on Dominica during the French invasion in 1778 ?
Did you know that Ward v. Flood was the legal basis for racially segregated education in California?
Did you know that Kenneth Willoughby Heaton developed the Bristol stool scale for classifying the consistency of human faeces?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Times , the Chicago Tribune , and Sports Illustrated have all profiled the smallest TV station in the United States ?
Did you know that in 1785, at the age of 24, James Freeman convinced his congregation to adopt his revised prayer book , which contributed to King's Chapel becoming the first Unitarian congregation in the United States?
Did you know that Haunted House has been called one of the earliest video games in the survival horror genre?
Did you know that Bernie Wrightson spent seven years drawing an illustrated edition of Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein ?
Did you know that the Highfield Cocoa and Coffee House in Sheffield , England, sold tea, coffee and cocoa at a penny a pint and also provided billiards and reading rooms?
Did you know that under a rules draft presented at the 1857 baseball convention , baseball bats would have been allowed to be shaved flat on one side?
Did you know that Norcliffe Norcliffe was severely wounded in the head at the Battle of Salamanca but survived?
Did you know that a solvent company can access the bankruptcy courts by doing the Texas two-step ?
Did you know that for an additional US$25, Martin Research shipped its 1975 book on microcomputers with an Intel 8008 ?
Did you know that the 2017 acquisition of Katz Broadcasting by the E. W. Scripps Company was seen as a validation of the business of diginets ?
Did you know that aircraft helping to fight the Poe Fire in northern California in September 2001 were grounded by the FAA following the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that Elvis Costello and the Attractions were consistently intoxicated during the recording of the album Trust ?
Did you know that in the 1970s, the Shelton Hotel avoided demolition after seven elderly residents and a secretary refused to move out?
Did you know that Minuscule 1689 , a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament , went missing for nearly 100 years after it was moved during World War I?
Did you know that 2022 documentary The Australian Wars explores "the great Australian silence" about massacres of Indigenous Australians ?
Did you know that Devolver Digital published A Fistful of Gun after its developer jokingly suggested a collaboration?
Did you know that John Rauch , of the firm Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown, was called "one of the unsung heroes of postwar American architecture" by the Architectural Record ?
Did you know that Informer released a portable computer terminal that also doubled as an IBM PC compatible ?
Did you know that in 2010 the Indonesian National Armed Forces brought a retired brigadier general before a military tribunal over a land dispute?
Did you know that although the Liberty Theatre was built in 1904 to host the Rogers Brothers ' musicals, the brothers made their last appearance there three years later?
Did you know that Korey Foreman held a makeshift raffle to decide where to play college football ?
Did you know that contract killer Werner Pinzner fatally shot the investigating public prosecutor, his own wife, and himself at the Hamburg police headquarters?
Did you know that David H. Ahl called Comp-Sultants one of the first casualties of the microcomputer revolution?
Did you know that college basketball player Jett Howard almost signed at Tennessee , but instead chose the Michigan team of his father Juwan Howard ?
Did you know that one could get prosecuted for comparing the Turkish President Erdoğan to Gollum , a character from The Lord of the Rings ?
Did you know that tickets of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad could be purchased for Bellwood station at a local drug store?
Did you know that in 1998, Chris Lewis and other volunteer despammers on Usenet went on a labor strike?
Did you know that Jane Dempsey Douglass became the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches in 1990?
Did you know that the 1968 single " There's a Blind Man Playin' Fiddle in the Street " by Tages was inspired by an old man that could be seen roaming around the streets of Gothenburg , playing a violin?
Did you know that Kurnianingrat helped historian George McTurnan Kahin smuggle speeches by leaders of the Indonesian revolution from the Dutch?
Did you know that Ethel Barrymore and Luisa Tetrazzini reportedly visited the Lambs Club Building even though women were not allowed to access the clubhouse's upper floors?
Did you know that in August 2022, Igor Mangushev spoke on a stage in a Russian nightclub with what he said was the skull of a Ukrainian soldier killed in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works ?
Did you know that the Capitol Hill Citizen 's motto, "Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight", is intended as a jab at The Washington Post 's motto, " Democracy Dies in Darkness "?
Did you know that Richard Horn's 1969 novel was an Encyclopedia ?
Did you know that Michał Węsławski was the first non-Russian mayor of Vilnius after the January Uprising ?
Did you know that the Servants' Characters Act 1792 criminalised the creation of false references by servants in Great Britain?
Did you know that on his wedding night, Maximilian of Habsburg had a childhood friend , wearing a suit of armour , stand in for him in bed with his new wife ?
Did you know that for the fourth episode of The Last of Us , Melanie Lynskey was told her character's brother was "basically Jesus "?
Did you know that the search for a lost radioactive capsule along a 1,400-kilometre (870 mi) stretch of road in Western Australia was likened to looking for a needle in a haystack?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Edward B. Barry was once demerited for "very disorderly humming"?
Did you know that American folklorist Esther Shephard collected tall tales from logging camps in the state of Washington to complete her 1924 book about Paul Bunyan ?
Did you know that the Māori believed that the failure of the rockets launched at a pā (fort) during the Battle of Puketutu was due to rites and rituals performed during its construction?
Did you know that a lawyer got his client acquitted of a 1975 kidnapping by accusing the victim of masterminding his own abduction—but in 2020 admitted that he had known it was a lie?
Did you know that a teenager planned to blow up the tomb of Islamic saint Habib Noh because he believed that it was un-Islamic?
Did you know that former NASCAR driver St. James Davis was badly mauled by two chimpanzees while visiting one who was the best man at his wedding?
Did you know that the City and Guilds of London Institute developed the City & Guilds Computer virtual machine as part of their 1960s teaching materials?
Did you know that Mimi Kilgore gifted Willem de Kooning a frog that had been run over by a car?
Did you know that despite J. R. R. Tolkien 's dislike of Shakespeare, he was influenced by his work ?
Did you know that the television series The Owl's Legacy was modelled after the ancient Greek symposium ?
Did you know that James Danandjaja , an expert on Indonesian folklore and the pioneer of Indonesian folkloristics , also learned ballet and modern dance ?
Did you know that Rick and Morty caused McDonald's to bring back its Szechuan Sauce , twenty years after it was discontinued?
Did you know that the release of Mario Kart: Super Circuit in China was cancelled because of excessive video-game piracy in the country?
Did you know that Constans II was a monk before he became a Roman emperor ?
Did you know that the particular church to which one belongs determines the right rite and the use to use?
Did you know that Eva Siracká remained the president of the League Against Cancer, citing the reign of Elizabeth II as the reason?
Did you know that the lobby of the Royalton Hotel was once compared to an ocean liner?
Did you know that Mark Wetjen was a top advisor for Sam Bankman-Fried , the former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX , during an aggressive lobbying campaign at the United States Congress ?
Did you know that although Greek forces captured the Aegean island of Chios in January 1913, its annexation to Greece was not finalized until 1923?
Did you know that in 2022, Briton Charlotte Payne broke the world record for a hammer throw by a deaf woman by almost 5 metres (16 ft)?
Did you know that the Arab Orthodox Movement aims to Arabize the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem , a church whose laity is mostly Arab but is led by Greek clergy?
Did you know that Mittens was a chess -playing "cat"?
Did you know that the riots protesting the destruction of the houses in Nieuwmarkt are memorialised in its namesake station ?
Did you know that King Bataha Santiago 's parents sent him to school when he was 44 years old?
Did you know that, due to bandits, convoys of ten or more vehicles are required on some roads when driving in Madagascar ?
Did you know that United States Air Force brigadier general E. Daniel Cherry became close friends with the Vietnamese pilot whom he shot down during the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that the College Entrance Examination Board went back and forth over whether the Achievement Test in English Composition should include an essay component?
Did you know that Sakhela Buhlungu 's anti-corruption efforts at the University of Fort Hare led to a failed assassination attempt that killed his bodyguard?
Did you know that Dr. Oz called his veggie tray "crudité" in his supermarket scanner moment ?
Did you know that academic Muhammad Musa'ad was barred from running as a candidate in the Papuan gubernatorial election due to his Arabic ancestry?
Did you know that Damen , despite being one of the busiest stations on the Chicago "L" , lacks accessibility for the disabled?
Did you know that the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question , which examines the career of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi , was banned in India?
Did you know that Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in FIFA World Cup history during the inaugural game of Group 1 of the 1930 World Cup ?
Did you know that Grace Lavery's autobiography Please Miss discusses her transition but also the "paradigmatic concept of the penis"?
Did you know that the Arizona Coyotes ice hockey team objected to a new host on the Phoenix radio station that carried their games, leading to his removal after a week?
Did you know that Alexis Soyer 's dish of lamb cutlets Reform is still on the menu at the Reform Club ?
Did you know that actor Tatsunari Kimura ate pancakes and drank coffee while talking for eight hours during the filming of the television drama Old-Fashioned Cupcake ?
Did you know that popular Korean folk singer Wang Su-bok was given birthday gifts by both Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il ?
Did you know that the painting God Giving Birth was inspired by Monica Sjöö 's inner visions while giving birth?
Did you know that King Edgar of England wanted to marry Wulfhild , but she rejected him to become a nun instead?
Did you know that in 2007, the 1966 track " Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine " was the first of Bob Dylan 's songs to be officially remixed?
Did you know that trans man Iszac Henig alternated wins against trans woman Lia Thomas on the way to the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming Championship ?
Did you know that the Commission on Training Camp Activities allegedly used sexual denial to make American World War I soldiers fight harder?
Did you know that conservator Carolyn Price Horton helped to direct a "Mud Angel army" that rescued books after the Arno flooded museums and libraries in Florence, Italy, in 1966?
Did you know that when Ashgabat Zoo opened in Turkmenistan, dictator Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow 's personal menagerie was moved to the zoo?
Did you know that railway engineer Henry Ketchum earned the first diploma in civil engineering granted by the University of New Brunswick ?
Did you know that the first batch of Action Computer Enterprise 's Discovery 1600, one of the first multi-user microcomputers, was delivered to a tobacco-growing business in Thailand?
Did you know that the infected creatures in the second episode of The Last of Us were created using prosthetics instead of visual effects ?
Did you know that Ertuğrul Gazi , a Turkish floating storage and regasification unit for liquefied natural gas , has a daily capacity of 28 million cubic metres (990 million cu ft), among the world's largest?
Did you know that California rancher Frank O'Connor could grow Lipstick and Halloween in a greenhouse?
Did you know that the hook and concept of the song " Big Brother " was conceived by Kanye West in an elevator ride?
Did you know that Kalle Rovanperä became the youngest podium finisher in 2020 , the youngest event winner in 2021 and the youngest world champion in 2022 in the World Rally Championship ?
Did you know that many surviving remnants of North American prairie grasslands are in cemeteries ?
Did you know that Indian harmonium player Appa Jalgaonkar stopped singing due to puberty?
Did you know that the chapters of 2 Maccabees contain some of the earliest statements of belief in a bodily resurrection in Judaism?
Did you know that Charles Grobe wrote the "Lincoln Quickstep" in honor of Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you know that the 1980s were the " age of hole-discovery " in yaoi erotica?
Did you know that the "You've Got Mail" voice actor was one of dozens of people fired from an Ohio TV station after its takeover by Paxson Communications ?
Did you know that Paul Freeman became one of the few Westerners interred at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis , following his death in an experimental propeller-driven Soviet railcar ?
Did you know that Lewis Fry Richardson 's Statistics of Deadly Quarrels suggested that the establishment of a world government might end wars?
Did you know that a bloodied fingerprint on newspaper was the central piece of evidence in the murder of Vivianne Ruiz ?
Did you know that Sylvia Plath criticized her own award-winning poem for its "old crystal-brittle and sugar-faceted voice"?
Did you know that Edward A. Hanna wanted to eliminate the New York State Assembly while he served in it, and later wanted to close down the government of the city of Utica while he was its mayor?
Did you know that Pulaski's Masterpiece , billed as the "world's most valuable dog", disappeared without a trace in 1953?
Did you know that interfaith greetings in Indonesia include phrases from Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism?
Did you know that Absaroka was a proposed U.S. state that would have included parts of Wyoming , South Dakota , and Montana ?
Did you know that Kimmo Leinonen helped establish both the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame ?
Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize -winning novel All the Light We Cannot See contains a sympathetic Nazi ?
Did you know that prior to entering politics, Herbert Salvatierra led a troupe of carnival comparsas ?
Did you know that during the filming of Dawn of the Dead , hundreds of extras in zombie makeup had to be on constant standby, so the crew built a "factory" where painted extras were on-call?
Did you know that Winston Churchill published an essay on extraterrestrial life during the Second World War?
Did you know that Daniel Thrasher once unintentionally re-created the theme song of The Office ?
Did you know that the 1981 Japanese experimental short film Spacy is made up of 700 still photographs of a gymnasium?
Did you know that in 1943, it took the Oregon State Senate 45 ballots to elect William H. Steiwer as president of the senate over fellow Republican Dorothy McCullough Lee ?
Did you know that even though Oise amber is found in France, it was produced by a type of tree now found in the Amazon ?
Did you know that Grand was the least-ridden station on the Logan Square branch for most of its existence?
Did you know that one can swim with humpback whales in the Niue Nukutuluea Multiple-Use Marine Park ?
Did you know that a Bot Sentinel report described conspiracy theories about Prince Harry and Meghan as being reminiscent of QAnon ?
Did you know that Enriqueta Medellín , a Mexican surgeon, has an ecological center and environmental prize named after her in the state of Aguascalientes ?
Did you know that the Norwich and Worcester Railroad became independent again in 1976 after more than 100 years of being leased, only to immediately have its line taken over by another railroad?
Did you know that T-Pain said that he thought of the concept for the song " Good Life " while dining at a restaurant with Kanye West ?
Did you know that the Virginia Quay Settlers Monument in London has been subject to bombing and theft?
Did you know that before becoming a successful children's author, Myron Levoy was an engineer doing research on nuclear-powered spaceships for a mission to Mars?
Did you know that the takedown of a controversial Goddess of Victory: Nikke advertisement led to another controversy?
Did you know that the 1834 Philadelphia race riot began at a carousel before spreading to other parts of the city?
Did you know that the May Queen dress worn by Florence Pugh in the film Midsommar was made of 10,000 silk flowers and reportedly sold for US$65,000 at auction?
Did you know that William J. McGee said that the 2022 Southwest Airlines flight delays were the result of "appearing to regulate rather than actually regulating"?
Did you know that the contest of the 1830 Liverpool by-election was considered to be "in great measure a personal one"?
Did you know that Berta Berkovich , who was skilled in sewing, managed to survive Auschwitz in a fashion salon established by the wife of the concentration camp commandant ?
Did you know that the 1931 Valentine earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recorded history to hit Texas ?
Did you know that Kangal shepherd dogs can gall cyclists in Turkey ?
Did you know that Perla Batalla was once a backup singer for Leonard Cohen , who encouraged her to write her own songs?
Did you know that MicroProse was formed to publish Hellcat Ace after Sid Meier boasted that he could design a better video game than Red Baron in a week?
Did you know that Interstate 81 in Tennessee was the site of a carjacking that culminated in the Lillelid murders in 1997?
Did you know that during the First World War, James Kirkham Ramsbottom saved the British daffodil industry?
Did you know that the 801 Grand is the tallest building in the state of Iowa ?
Did you know that a 15-year-old swim team member is credited with saving several lives in the crash of Alitalia Flight 1553 ?
Did you know that Leverington Cemetery has the most orbs and apparitions in Philadelphia ?
Did you know that of the ten Royal Navy flag officers to die during the First World War , three were killed in action?
Did you know that Henry R. Pattengill requested that his name be removed from the ballot?
Did you know that zinc white was found in several versions of The Scream ?
Did you know that Indian independence activist and author P. Kodanda Rao 's correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi helped to clarify Thoreau 's influence on Gandhi?
Did you know that some historians believe that Steele's Greenville expedition marked a shift in the Union 's war policy?
Did you know that after his tenure ended in 1964, Ipik Gandamana would be the last Indonesian minister of home affairs to be a civilian until 2009?
Did you know that Alexander the Great occasionally founded cities not named after himself ?
Did you know that with his self-produced solo ice show Gift , two-time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is expected to become the first ice skater to perform at the Tokyo Dome ?
Did you know that during its run of screenings at the Whitney Museum , the 1979 film Asparagus was shown rear-projected onto a set that appears in the film itself?
Did you know that Eudoro Galindo , who was nearly elected Vice President of Bolivia , was also a three-time national fencing champion and a two-time Bolivarian Games bronze medallist?
Did you know that SZA said her label insisted on scrapping a song from her second album , even though they had used it to promote the album?
Did you know that attendees from forty countries and financial institutions at the 2023 International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan pledged more than US$9 billion for flood recovery?
Did you know that Margaret Cooper wrote that the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service was providing "the experience of a lifetime" to the young women she recruited during the Second World War?
Did you know that in 2012, a " stylish but illegal monkey " was seen wandering a Toronto-area IKEA ?
Did you know that Majidreza Rahnavard was the first Iranian to be executed in public in connection with the Mahsa Amini protests ?
Did you know that Southern Railway 1401 was one of eight locomotives that hauled the funeral train of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ?
Did you know that Henrietta Bruckman founded the first fraternal organization for Jewish women in the United States?
Did you know that only one person made a donation of land for the settlement and employment of British military veterans under a 1916 act of Parliament ?
Did you know that Valentín Carboni played in the same three youth teams as his brother Franco before they both received their first call-up to the Argentine senior national team in March 2022?
Did you know that two Tuscarora men held their local newspaper hostage in an attempt to expose local police corruption, to no avail?
Did you know that Phil Fletcher as Hacker T. Dog caused Lauren Layfield to make the "most famous snort" in the United Kingdom in 2016?
Did you know that the music video for David Bowie 's " Ashes to Ashes " was, at a cost of £250,000, the most expensive made at the time ?
Did you know that Jack Champion had to film all his scenes in Avatar: The Way of Water twice?
Did you know that a model walked the runway at the Alexander McQueen show The Dance of the Twisted Bull in a flamenco dress pierced with spears?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Tower , the first supertall building in Brooklyn, was described as the "Empire State Building of Brooklyn"?
Did you know that according to a critic, the black metal album The Mercian Sphere is not folk metal , but close enough for "black metal purists" to reject it?
Did you know that when West Java governor Nana Nuriana ran for reelection in 1998, he faced fifteen challengers?
Did you know that members of Lego fandom not only design their own sets but also engage in cosplay?
Did you know that after David Glenn Lewis was killed in an apparent hit-and-run incident 30 years ago today 1,600 miles (2,600 km) from his home, it took a Google search in 2004 to identify his body?
Did you know that the launch of a Florida TV station was brought forward nearly two months because the local ABC affiliate stopped airing more than half of its prime-time shows?
Did you know that Peruvian foreign minister Manuel María Gálvez Egúsquiza was arrested by Chilean troops for refusing to sign peace with the cession of territory during the War of the Pacific ?
Did you know that Rolling Stone named Mission of Burma 's " Academy Fight Song " as one of the 100 greatest debut singles of all time?
Did you know that the first issue of Allan , one of the earliest Japanese magazines focused on male–male romance for a female audience , featured a pin-up poster of David Bowie ?