kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Daniel Post Senning studied molecular biology and modern dance but ultimately became an expert in etiquette ?
Did you know that William Lescaze and his wife lived in a glass house and were not afraid of stone throwers?
Did you know that Sarah Zettel wrote her first short story at the age of 20 and it was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact five years later?
Did you know that Ontario 's last German-language newspaper, the Berliner Journal , was forced to publish in English in 1918 after the Canadian government prohibited German publications?
Did you know that when Risa Tsumugi was hired to be the disc jockey and rapper for the band Raise A Suilen , she had no prior experience in either disc jockeying or rapping?
Did you know that one of the first two women diagnosed with tetrasomy X was living semi-independently 26 years after her diagnosis, instead of in an institution?
Did you know that Irma Toivanen , who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later?
Did you know that the 1972 invasion of Uganda was described by a historian as "one of those rare events in military history. A perfect failure."?
Did you know that acid house music promoter Tony Colston-Hayter directed people to his countryside raves by answerphone messages?
Did you know that Daimaou Kosaka produced the theme song to the anime adaptation of Damens Walker and had his friend sing it?
Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service Environmental Health Divisions grew from a water-pollution research station in Cincinnati into the modern Environmental Protection Agency ?
Did you know that Finnish politician Margit Eskman did not attend secondary school because she had to work in a shoe factory?
Did you know that New York City's Ritz Tower was dubbed the world's tallest apartment hotel when it was constructed?
Did you know that juggling patterns can be encoded in terms of a mathematical object called the affine symmetric group ?
Did you know that Ivan Provorov moved to Pennsylvania from Russia at the age of 13 to play ice hockey?
Did you know that Alan Comfort caught a helicopter to Heathrow then a flight to Ireland to get married hours after winning the 1989 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that civil engineer Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston oversaw major projects, from the clean-up of Havana's leper colonies to the construction of Yankee Stadium ?
Did you know that extracts from the brown algae Dictyota dichotoma and Dictyota implexa have been shown to have various antimicrobial, antioxidant and antifungal properties?
Did you know that when mathematician Josephine M. Mitchell married another University of Illinois faculty member, the university revoked her tenured position so her husband could keep his untenured one?
Did you know that the Weimar Republic had three successive cabinets that governed only through emergency powers?
Did you know that when Hetty Jane Dunaway created Dunaway Gardens near Atlanta, it had a 400- and a 1,000-seat theatre and a swimming pool blasted out with explosives?
Did you know that the breakaway club Dial Square F.C. was founded under the original name of Arsenal as a protest against Stan Kroenke's ownership of the contemporary club?
Did you know that when arguing for a narrow front , Monty called Ike 's messages, "nothing but balls"?
Did you know that the independent record label Bellmark Records distributed hit records by Prince , Tag Team , and Duice in the 1990s?
Did you know that Pirjo Ala-Kapee-Hakulinen was the first and only governor of the Eastern Finland Province from its creation in 1997 to its abolition in 2010?
Did you know that the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game , held between UConn and Notre Dame , was the first to feature two undefeated teams?
Did you know that the art and diaries of coal miner Sakubei Yamamoto were Japan's first entry on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register ?
Did you know that Pakistan was envisioned as the New Medina to be used as a staging point for the conquest and Islamisation of India, similar to the conquest of Mecca by Muhammad ?
Did you know that Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company claimed in 2017 to be brewing beer "around the clock – 22 and a half hours every day" in order to keep up with demand?
Did you know that John James Hood Gordon and his twin brother Thomas Edward were both generals in the British Army, and joined on the very same day?
Did you know that after surviving the Holocaust , writer Trudi Birger moved to Israel with her family and founded a non-profit dental clinic?
Did you know that members of the Eocene lacewing genus Palaeopsychops likely migrated from Denmark to the Pacific Northwest via Greenland?
Did you know that Alec Sutherland was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work in the sport of swimming?
Did you know that the Canopy Group , one of the first venture capital firms in Utah, found success, controversy, and tragedy?
Did you know that Helmut Branny , a double bassist of the Staatskapelle Dresden , conducted a recording of four bassoon concertos found in the library of the Dresden Court, including two by Antonín Reichenauer ?
Did you know that Alejandro Calvo García 's mother overcame her fear of flying to see him score the winning goal in the 1999 Football League Third Division play-off Final ?
Did you know that Zoom towns may increase the demand for self-driving cars ?
Did you know that during the production of Jeepers Creepers , a budget cut of $1 million resulted in a third of the film being rewritten?
Did you know that West Virginia delegate Harry J. Capehart introduced bills establishing a state anti-lynching law, and a school for West Virginia 's African-American deaf and blind students?
Did you know that horticulturalist Albert F. Yeager 's accomplishments led to him being referred to as the "plant wizard of the north" and the " Luther Burbank of North Dakota"?
Did you know that one can accurately estimate the area of irregular objects such as plant leaves using only a transparent sheet printed with a grid of dots ?
Did you know that Smithe Redwoods State Natural Reserve was originally a privately-owned site that encompassed cabins, a post office, and a store?
Did you know that H. J. Sterling once hired a detective to investigate players in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ?
Did you know that Beverley Manley was a prominent activist for women's rights in Jamaica while her husband was prime minister?
Did you know that a tunnel along Japan National Route 410 and Japan National Route 465 is the second-oldest tunnel still used on Japanese national highways ?
Did you know that Nicholas Chevalier designed a fern -inspired dress for Anne Maria Barkly , an expert on South African ferns?
Did you know that " Herr, du bist mein Leben " (Lord, You are my life), a translation of a popular Italian 1977 " Symbolum " with text and music by Pierangelo Sequeri , was included in the next German Catholic hymnal ?
Did you know that after Watergate , the legal profession turned to the 19th-century ethics of David Hoffman because the President's lawyers had "blindly followed the demands of their client"?
Did you know that Thomas S. Riley , the son of Irish immigrants, was West Virginia's 11th attorney general and chairperson of the West Virginia Democratic Party State Executive Committee?
Did you know that in " Oh Sheit It's X ", Thundercat sings about feeling ecstasy while on ecstasy ?
Did you know that after Lady Ganga learned that she had stage-four cervical cancer , she traveled to India and set a women's world record by standup-paddleboarding 700 miles (1,100 km) on the Ganges?
Did you know that confusion over time zone changes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan resulted in technical violations at WCKD radio and almost cost the owner an opportunity to build a station in Illinois?
Did you know that Martin Willock took breaks in his cycling career to build a house and start a repairs company?
Did you know that a Financial Times reviewer described Der Mieter ( The Tenant ) , a German opera based on a French novel , as "a journey to the blackest regions of an anguished psyche in a hostile world"?
Did you know that Nancy McCormick Rambusch founded the Whitby School in 1958, sparking a revival of Montessori education in the United States?
Did you know that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War , it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women?
Did you know that international cricketer Rohit Sharma is the rhino ambassador for WWF-India ?
Did you know that the 2000 Football League Third Division play-off Final was played at Wembley Stadium on a Friday night to accommodate a friendly between England and Brazil?
Did you know that after Peggy Knobloch disappeared on the way home from school in 2001, her body was not located until 2016?
Did you know that chemical warfare agents require specialized equipment for workplace exposure monitoring ?
Did you know that when Ruth Stokes defended her dissertation on the theory of linear programming in 1931, she became the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Duke University ?
Did you know that the 11th-century Dalby Gospel Book is the first medieval manuscript known to have existed in Denmark?
Did you know that art collector Michael Xufu Huang bought a portrait of Anna Sorokin , who had defrauded him years earlier, to be displayed in his museum?
Did you know that the Hartford Courant described the library of the Hartford Medical Society as "one of the country's finest collections of medical literature"?
Did you know that when Giovanni Rossi founded a utopian community in Brazil, based on anarchist ideals including free love , most of its 300 members were men?
Did you know that one of the highest death rates in the Holocaust was in Bulgarian-occupied Greece, where 97 percent of Jews were killed in less than a month?
Did you know that Emma Mullin , who won four Gaelic football championships , was also the first player from her association football club to play for the Republic of Ireland ?
Did you know that the Chamber of Progress describes itself as devoted to a "progressive society" but some critics have called it an astroturfing group and "progressive camouflage" for anti-union organizing?
Did you know that Spanish actress Úrsula Corberó captured footage for the music video for " Un Dia (One Day) " without involving production assistants?
Did you know that the russet brittlegill is collected and eaten by people in the Ivory Coast?
Did you know that Grischa Huber played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand , regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"?
Did you know that Charles Scribner's Sons occupied its Fifth Avenue building , designed by Ernest Flagg , for 19 years before moving to another Fifth Avenue building , also designed by Flagg?
Did you know that Japanese singer Lovely Summer Chan attended the same middle school and high school as the members of the all-female band the Peggies ?
Did you know that Ishihara Park and Gandara Park in Santa Monica, California , are both named after local World War II veterans whose military contributions were overlooked during their lifetimes?
Did you know that after their roughly 320 km/h (200 mph) crash at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix , George Russell slapped Valtteri Bottas on his crash helmet while Bottas showed Russell his middle finger?
Did you know that American actress Minerva Bussenius's stage name Roberta Arnold is a combination of her father's and uncle's names?
Did you know that choreographer George Balanchine completed the ballet Symphony in Three Movements in a week, despite its complex choreography, large cast and Stravinsky's intricate score of the same name ?
Did you know that Julie Erichsen is the first female Norwegian gymnast to qualify for an Olympic Games since 1992?
Did you know that the 2021 book Do Not Disturb was credited with exposing "a remarkable catalog of lies the [Rwandan government] sold to western apologists"?
Did you know that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Ximena Peña previously represented the United States and Canada in the National Assembly ?
Did you know that smell training is being used to treat long-term loss of smell after COVID-19 infection?
Did you know that the yellow and orange mushroom Imperator luteocupreus stains blue when bruised or cut?
Did you know that the founding owner of Minnesota radio station WVAL would climb the 300-foot (91 m) transmission tower himself and change the light bulbs on the mast?
Did you know that Vieno Simonen was first elected to the Finnish parliament in 1948, ten years after she was widowed with seven children?
Did you know that Langston Hughes allowed his poem " Mississippi–1955 ", written in response to Emmett Till 's lynching, to be republished in all newspapers that wanted to?
Did you know that Chris Horn , founder of the NASDAQ-listed IONA Technologies , was still living with his wife and four children in a three-bedroom semi-detached house at a time when his net worth exceeded 300 million dollars?
Did you know that the Los Angeles restaurant El Cholo Spanish Cafe is credited with introducing the burrito to the U.S.?
Did you know that the fossil torchwood genus Barghoornia was named in honor of paleobotanist Elso Barghoorn ?
Did you know that Frederic Growse finished the first complete and illustrated English translation of the Ramayana of Tulsidas in 1883?
Did you know that the play Karl Marx in Kalbadevi depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to Kalbadevi , the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?
Did you know that May 4 is celebrated both as Literary Day and as Youth Day in honor of the May Fourth Movement ?
Did you know that Conn Findlay is one of only two individuals to win sailing's America's Cup and an Olympic gold medal in rowing ?
Did you know that pentasomy X , in which a girl or woman has five X chromosomes, is sometimes mistaken for Down syndrome ?
Did you know that John Thomas Douglass 's Virginia's Ball , which premiered in 1868, is generally regarded as the first opera written by a black composer?
Did you know that in his book, Uğur Ümit Üngör argues that the Armenian Genocide contributed to The Making of Modern Turkey ?
Did you know that Orgill, Inc. , now the world's largest independently owned distributor of hardlines , began as a hardware store in 1847, making it the oldest Memphis -founded company still in operation?
Did you know that the colonial tunicate Botrylloides leachii can regenerate its whole body from a small fragment of tissue?
Did you know that Japan National Route 119 runs along the world's longest tree-lined avenue?
Did you know that soprano Florence Kirk 's temperamental fit over her costume as Lady Macbeth led to the professional debut of opera star Regina Resnik who replaced her?
Did you know that actor Don Johnson and other investors reportedly planned to restart production of the Renaissance Tropica , an electric car which appeared in an episode of Nash Bridges ?
Did you know that Adeline Gray was the first person to jump using a nylon parachute?
Did you know that Asus had to rename their ZenFone 6 for the Indian market after the Delhi High Court ruled that the name violated a competitor's trademark?
Did you know that Finnish minister Kyllikki Pohjala learned English while working in New York hospitals to pay for her education at Columbia University ?
Did you know that American fiction's first son-of-a-bitch is in the writings of John Neal ?
Did you know that toy manufacturer siblings Nick , Anna , and Mat Mowbray bought Coatesville mansion near Auckland , New Zealand, for NZ$ 32.5 million when they were in their early thirties?
Did you know that " Kiss Me More " interpolates the melody from " Physical " by Olivia Newton-John ?
Did you know that a report by Witold Pilecki , a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, was translated into English in 2012 as The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery ?
Did you know that Facebook has estimated that fake news reached 126 million voters on social media in the 2016 United States presidential election ?
Did you know that one of the Cehennemağzı Caves in northwestern Turkey features a very old Christian church, which was used as a secret place of worship in the first years of Christianity ?
Did you know that geographer John Fraser Hart does not use a computer, preferring to type emails on his typewriter and have an assistant re-type them digitally?
Did you know that Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is the first book that collects information from various sources to determine how the wide availability of television affects society?
Did you know that after the BBC suspended its regular programming following the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , the broadcaster received criticism for its continuous coverage of the event?
Did you know that Aaron Nola was the first Philadelphia Phillies pitcher since 1989 to make his major league debut the year after he was drafted?
Did you know that the live-action television drama adaptation of Kakafukaka was the first show broadcast on MBS 's programming block, Drama Tokku?
Did you know that for his 2015 mural Mutual Entanglements , artist Sandeep Mukherjee instructed the gallery to install the 10 panels in whatever order and orientation they wanted?
Did you know that the president of the Palestine Oriental Society was of the opinion that the monuments and antiquities of Palestine belonged to the Palestinians?
Did you know that on Christmas Eve in 1917, Lieutenant Cedric Naylor and some of his crew remained aboard their sinking ship so they could fire upon the submarine that had torpedoed her?
Did you know that the 2011 single " Chic C'est la Vie " by Luann de Lesseps was called "stunningly un-self-aware and over the top" by a critic?
Did you know that Philadelphia Phillies backup catcher Andrew Knapp changed his number in 2018 to honor Roy Halladay and then a second time in 2020 to honor Dick Allen ?
Did you know that in Open Wounds , Vicken Cheterian argues that "by censoring the Armenian Genocide, its impact, traces and consequences do not simply disappear. It continues in various forms"?
Did you know that actress Bertha Belmore starred in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925 with W. C. Fields and Will Rogers ?
Did you know that Class 1 protected forests in Sabah , such as Tenompok Forest Reserve , Tawai Forest Reserve , Binsuluk Forest Reserve , and Ulu Telupid Forest Reserve , are threatened by encroaching agriculture, illegal logging, and man-made fires?
Did you know that Canadian geneticist Phyllis McAlpine was among the first to promote a unified gene nomenclature system and helped found the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee ?
Did you know that Mikoto Misaka , a fictional character from A Certain Magical Index , inspired the name of Bilibili , a real-life streaming service?
Did you know that the Fuller Building , with a black granite base and limestone tower, has been called "the Brooks Brothers of Art Deco"?
Did you know that in 1908, Louisa Wilkins went to Damascus without local language skills, wearing long skirts and riding side saddle?
Did you know that Kanye West and Spike Jonze expanded a music video for " See You in My Nightmares " into the film We Were Once a Fairytale ?
Did you know that Rumahis ibn Abd al-Aziz , the governor of Palestine for Caliph Marwan II , escaped to Islamic Spain where he became governor of Algeciras and Sidonia ?
Did you know that the Christuskirche , a German Protestant parish church in Paris completed in 1894, has been a venue for performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio ?
Did you know that the Cloud9 League of Legends division won back-to-back League of Legends Championship Series titles in their first two seasons of existence?
Did you know that a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation described Google 's Federated Learning of Cohorts as "a technology that should not exist"?
Did you know that although they were positioned just a few miles away, the soldiers of George Johnstone 's brigade were unaware of the Battle of Waterloo taking place?
Did you know that " Der am Kreuz ist meine Liebe " ( He on the Cross is my love) is the first line of four hymns from the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries?
Did you know that Camillo Vaz managed Paris Saint-Germain Féminine when they qualified for the UEFA Women's Champions League for the first time?
Did you know that officially sanctioned methods to combat drought in Turkey include better protecting river basins , building underground dams , rainwater harvesting , using more grey water , and praying for rain ?
Did you know that classicist Alfred Klotz wrote a textbook promoting scientific racism that turned out to be a commercial failure?
Did you know that Dendroides canadensis larvae alternate between two different adaptive mechanisms to survive in subzero temperatures?
Did you know that Andrew Guest wrote " Advanced Dungeons & Dragons " despite having no experience playing the titular game ?
Did you know that Anna-Liisa Tiekso dropped out of university in 1951 to become the youngest member of the Finnish parliament ?
Did you know that the shrimp Processa edulis is white during the day and pink at night?
Did you know that French rugby union referee Aurélie Groizeleau also breeds almost 7,000 pairs of pigeons?
Did you know that the 1989 manga Sweet Spot by Yutsuko Chūsonji originated the slang term oyaji gal , used to describe young businesswomen who have the interests and hobbies of middle-aged businessmen?
Did you know that Terence Lam , who initially did not plan to become a singer, received ViuTV Chill Club's best male singer award and Commercial Radio Hong Kong 's best new artist award?
Did you know that the supermarket Omega Mart has nut-free salted peanuts available for purchase?
Did you know that Helen D'Amato was appointed to a three-year term as Malta's commissioner of children, but held the role for nearly twice as long after her term expired without a successor being designated?
Did you know that because the globose octopus Bathypolypus sponsalis lives at great depths, it has large eggs, reduced gills , and no ink sac ?
Did you know that Gira Sarabhai and her brother Gautam were crucial in the formation of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad ?
Did you know that upon its completion, 400 Madison Avenue in New York City was described as one of several buildings that comprised the "Grand Canyon of midtown business"?
Did you know that Captain John T. Newton commanded USS Missouri on the first crossing of the Atlantic by an American steam-powered warship, and was later court-martialed after an accidental fire sank the ship?
Did you know that the 1975 book Fighting Auschwitz: The Resistance Movement in the Concentration Camp was the first work to discuss in detail the story of the resistance's founder, Witold Pilecki ?
Did you know that Gilles Lupien used the C$ 75,000 signing bonus from his first Montreal Canadiens contract to buy shares in a lumber company, enabling him to obtain quality lumber to construct his first home?
Did you know that by being the first travesti to become a national celebrity, entertainer Cris Miró increased the visibility of the transgender community in Argentine society during the 1990s?
Did you know that transit service on part of MBTA bus route 86 dates back to 1858?
Did you know that Thomas Rhett 's " What's Your Country Song " contains lyrical references to 16 other country songs?
Did you know that Morecambe secured promotion to the third tier of English football for the first time in their history when they won the 2021 EFL League Two play-off Final ?
Did you know that there are few tall buildings on Long Island because residents do not want it to become " Queens ified", referring to the neighboring New York City borough?
Did you know that Hikaru Natsumi contributed to adult comic magazines while still in high school?
Did you know that Major Byers wrote " The Song of Iowa " after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing " Maryland, My Maryland " outside his prison cell and used the same tune?
Did you know that Elena Urrutia helped launch the Mexican feminist magazine Fem ?