kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that the Banu Kalb tribe were originally Christians but became Muslims after the Muslim conquest of the Levant ?
Did you know that a donut has a donutussy ?
Did you know that Adam Ramage was considered one of the most important early American printing press builders in his day, having produced 1,250 presses during his lifetime?
Did you know that Tolkien's Morgoth has been seen as analogous to Satan ?
Did you know that after each loss, American football coach Art Haege made his players crawl from the locker room to the practice field, saying "if you played like a worm, you crawled like a worm"?
Did you know that for his first film, Operation Java , director Tharun Moorthy and his production team handpicked all 83 actors rather than doing an open audition for roles?
Did you know that with no documents verifying its establishment, an American concession existed de facto in the Chinese city of Tianjin for more than 40 years?
Did you know that George Charles Hoste took charge of the quarter-deck guns of the frigate Spartan , defended her against a French squadron , and took the brig Sparvière as a prize?
Did you know that at the start of Drama Shower , Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! ?
Did you know that following the killing of Richard Ward by a Colorado sheriff's deputy, the deputy received an award for the injuries that he allegedly sustained during the incident?
Did you know that the Arleigh Burke -class destroyers are hardened against electromagnetic pulses ?
Did you know that Jan Kochanowski 's Fraszki is a 16th-century collection of almost 300 poems, ranging from anecdotes and epitaphs to obscenities and erotica?
Did you know that J.J. Wright fused Gregorian chant with jazz in his advent album O Emmanuel ?
Did you know that the site of the 1910 lynching of Allen Brooks was unmarked for 111 years?
Did you know that out of 84 people running for governor seats in Bolivia in 2021, Mirtha Arce was one of just seven women and was the first woman from the Tarija Department to run?
Did you know that while Egypt has the Order of the Nile, Sudan has the Order of the Two Niles , White and Blue ?
Did you know that Dale Johnston was sentenced to death for murdering and dismembering his stepdaughter and her fiance in 1982 , and 30 years after the murders declared innocent?
Did you know that in 1945, Kasman Singodimedjo lobbied other Islamist leaders not to implement sharia law in Indonesia?
Did you know that a woman who died from Alzheimer's was memorialized by her granddaughter through posthumous vocals in a song ?
Did you know that Tobi Oluwayemi and his older brother Josh are both goalkeepers who played for Tottenham's youth academy ?
Did you know that the Meriden, Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad , created as an alternative to the New Haven Railroad , was absorbed into the New Haven after just 11 years?
Did you know that Kong Dongmei , the granddaughter of Mao Zedong , and her husband have an estimated net worth of 5 billion yuan (US$815 million)?
Did you know that there is ice fishing in Turkey ?
Did you know that naval units from around 50 countries took part in the Pakistani naval exercise AMAN-23 ?
Did you know that Hugo Krabbe stirred up much controversy in the interwar period by arguing that the law, not the state, is the true sovereign?
Did you know that a 1943 performance of Darius Milhaud 's Scaramouche used anagrams to disguise the suite and its composer from Nazi censors?
Did you know that all three of Jane Severance 's books for young readers include lesbian characters, including her first book , which was the first picture book to include such characters?
Did you know that when the Numidian king Syphax attempted to rally his fleeing army at the Battle of Cirta he was thrown from his horse and captured?
Did you know that Andrew Sorrell , State Auditor of Alabama , initially ran for election to the Alabama House of Representatives when his father declined to run for the seat?
Did you know that Frederic Growse 's book Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District annoyed the British Indian government so much that they allowed only one edition?
Did you know that Sharon Cuneta and Regine Velasquez 's concert Iconic has been referred to as a venture of two unrivaled names in the music scene of the Philippines?
Did you know that despite having been enlarged for the 1939 New York World's Fair , the Willets Point Boulevard station served practically no resident population by 1949?
Did you know that in 1982 the British civil defence exercise Hard Rock was cancelled when twenty local authorities refused to participate?
Did you know that Ron Labinski has been described as the world's first sports-venue architect?
Did you know that Malinau Kota , Indonesia, with 31 percent of the population of Malinau Regency , is home to more than 70 percent of its registered restaurants?
Did you know that after publishing a fictional account of women who survived a Nazi concentration camp by sewing dresses, Lucy Adlington was contacted by descendants of actual dressmakers?
Did you know that a same-sex kiss scene in the seventh episode of The Last of Us was censored in some regions?
Did you know that the Stanhope Demonstrator was the first machine to solve problems in logic?
Did you know that in 1993, Indonesia's home affairs minister Yogie Suardi Memet used thugs to disrupt the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party 's national congress?
Did you know that Colonel Mohamed Hashi Lihle 's speech after freeing more than 700 prisoners from Mandera Prison first popularized the Somali National Movement in Somaliland?
Did you know that American football fullback Harry Bolick was described as being a more effective blocker than an iron fence?
Did you know that Bayfront MRT station in Singapore has public art that features ships powered by whales and dragons, hand-drawn by children?
Did you know that the "updown" singer piri funded her music career by setting up an OnlyFans account?
Did you know that An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital was considered unusual for introducing the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital ?
Did you know that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom that excluded Black women from full membership in the organization?
Did you know that the concert series Regine at the Theater was conceived two years earlier but was delayed after singer Regine Velasquez suffered acid reflux ?
Did you know that Hodges Figgis , a bookseller in Dublin , celebrated its 250th year with the largest ever anthology of new Irish writing, with 250 contributors?
Did you know that two American officers bribed Japanese troops with their watches to have Dutch medical officer Henri Hekking allocated to their prisoner of war camp?
Did you know that at least 14 people were killed during the 1978 Tabriz protests in Iran, which were meant to commemorate the dead in the 1978 Qom protest ?
Did you know that the Unitized Group Ration – Express is designed to heat food itself without the need of a field kitchen ?
Did you know that on his death, medical historian Edgar Underwood was described by The Times as one of the last of a dying race, the "canny Scot"?
Did you know that Hixxy and Sharkey created a schism in the UK rave music scene in 1995?
Did you know that the earliest Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions contain Arabic names and loanwords?
Did you know that Alexandra Hunt , a former stripper , opened an OnlyFans account in response to an Internet troll during her campaign for a seat in the United States House of Representatives ?
Did you know that in his review of A Tribute for the Negro by Wilson Armistead , Frederick Douglass criticised how it included an image of him that was edited to give him a smile?
Did you know that New Haven, Connecticut , was home to the world's first commercial telephone exchange ?
Did you know that an English country house was the location for the 1970s horror sexploitation films Virgin Witch , Satan's Slave and Terror ?
Did you know that the 1989 Georgetown–Princeton basketball game made Bob Scrabis "the face of Cinderella "?
Did you know that Ralph E. Brock was the first academically trained African-American forester in the United States?
Did you know that the system of native administration , used in Sudan to govern rural areas, was adapted for use in camps for internally displaced people ?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Jawad was the ninth of the Twelve Imams and, with his unexplained death at about twenty-five, the shortest-lived?
Did you know that Newark Liberty International Airport was the first commercial airport in the United States with a paved airstrip?
Did you know that on the opening night of her concert R3.0 , singer Regine Velasquez also released a triple album of the same name ?
Did you know that Panagiotis Kavvadias boasted that he had excavated the Acropolis of Athens so thoroughly that "not the slightest quantity of soil ... [had] not been investigated"?
Did you know that Ron Brown , the United States secretary of commerce , leased equipment to a TV station in Washington, D.C. , whose owner turned out to be his lover?
Did you know that in 2008, Grafton Street had the fifth-highest property rental prices in the world for retailers?
Did you know that Claude Vivier was inspired to compose Shiraz after hearing two blind singers in a market?
Did you know that the programming language Acorn System BASIC was so non-standard that one commenter suggested that using it on the BBC Micro would be a disaster?
Did you know that Hussein Kamel Bahaeddin tried to pass a decree in 1994 that would have prohibited wearing hijab in Egyptian schools?
Did you know that Kainé from the video game series Nier was created in response to a female staff member's vague wish for a "male heroine"?
Did you know that Russell Court in Bloomsbury , London, has more than 500 "bachelor flats"?
Did you know that Walter White was a member of the prosecution for the Scopes trial in 1925 despite not passing the bar until 1944?
Did you know that the investigation of Team Jorge , an Israeli disinformation outfit, led to the suspension of a prominent French news anchor?
Did you know that No, Ma'am, That's Not History , Hugh Nibley 's rebuttal to Fawn Brodie's divisive biography of Joseph Smith , started a trend of polemics in Mormon apologetics?
Did you know that some fossils thought to be ancient marine animals have been reinterpreted as seaweeds?
Did you know that Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier on the Western Front to be executed for desertion during the First World War?
Did you know that the Brisbane Lions ' AFL women's team in the AFL Women's season seven became the first AFLW team to score more than 200 points across the first three rounds of a season?
Did you know that in the 1960s one could have tea and toast served to your changing room at the Carlisle Turkish baths in England?
Did you know that niwar , a material used for weaving cots, was once produced in Indian jails ?
Did you know that parts of the Basilica of Our Lady of Hungary were thought to be Gothic until wall probes showed otherwise?
Did you know that before getting their own office space, independent children's publisher Lollipop Power stored books "under beds, in attics, [and] under ping-pong tables"?
Did you know that saxophonist Braxton Cook appeared in three Tiny Desk concerts for NPR as a sideman , before performing as a featured artist in 2020?
Did you know that in 1981, New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon controversially published a list of "subversives", including many members of the Workers' Communist League ?
Did you know that prior to serving in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies , rancher Osney Martínez sought to be elected the mayor of San Borja , as his mother had been before him?
Did you know that the owner of a Pennsylvania radio station compared his job to that of Lee Iacocca at Chrysler ?
Did you know that the developers of Jikandia: The Timeless Land wanted to make a game that could be finished in the time of a normal Japanese train commute?
Did you know that Linn County clerk Del Riley established Oregon's vote-by-mail system , now used as the only voting method in the state?
Did you know that Pinky & Pepper Forever is a graphic novel that follows two anthropomorphic dog girlfriends through hell?
Did you know that within 15 minutes of the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit , all the British officers in the battle were either killed or seriously wounded?
Did you know that Chinese leader Xi Jinping called common prosperity an essential requirement of socialism but also said that it does not represent uniform egalitarianism?
Did you know that in 2022 David DeJulius pledged to donate his student athlete compensation from jersey proceeds to provide books to inner city youth?
Did you know that Parkville lost out on becoming the Colorado Territory 's capital by eleven votes and is now a ghost town largely buried under mining waste?
Did you know that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag ?
Did you know that girls at a school for children deemed " educationally subnormal " were given far less freedom than boys in order to prevent "sexual misbehaviour"?
Did you know that Justin Schultz was personally recruited by Hockey Hall of Famers Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey to join the Edmonton Oilers in 2012?
Did you know that in 2019 the South African army's Natal Carbineers were renamed the Ingobamakhosi Carbineers , after a Zulu regiment that had fought against them at the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana ?
Did you know that to attend the 1915 Women at the Hague Congress, Eugénie Hamer and the Belgian delegates drove, were frisked, walked two hours, and took a train?
Did you know that " Spelling on the Stone ", released in 1988 by an uncredited vocalist purporting to be Elvis Presley , inspired a number of Elvis sightings eleven years after his death?
Did you know that Tolkien was not sure if Orcs were made of slime or were corrupted Elves ?
Did you know that writer Naoko Sato was initially worried that the character Kat would come off as "too Japanese" for overseas audiences?
Did you know that as a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies , Shirley Franco presented a bill that would penalize street harassment with up to eight hours in jail and a 500- boliviano fine?
Did you know that the 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game between Baylor and Gonzaga was the first since 2005 to feature the top two overall seeds of the NCAA tournament?
Did you know that Frances Helen Prideaux 's skill convinced Sir William Gull that women were intellectually capable of being doctors?
Did you know that Bella Ramsey struggled to hold a real rifle while filming the eighth episode of The Last of Us ?
Did you know that although previews called Panzer Dragoon Orta ' s story a sequel to Panzer Dragoon Saga ' s, developers have said that it might reflect an alternative timeline?
Did you know that It's So Amazing won an award from the American Library Association before entering the organization's list of the most banned books of the decade?
Did you know that the doll company American Girl published The Care and Keeping of You , a book explaining puberty, after receiving thousands of letters from children asking about it?
Did you know that Alia Bhatt 's first screen appearance was as the younger version of Preity Zinta 's character in the 1999 horror film Sangharsh ?
Did you know that in 2022 Joe Biden delivered a speech in Warsaw addressing the "task of this generation" that was overshadowed by an apparently ad-libbed nine-word comment?
Did you know that the Ancient Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Barcelona is one of the oldest synagogues in Europe?
Did you know that soccer player Danielle Marcano scored four goals in back-to-back games that helped to send the University of Tennessee to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals for the first time in history?
Did you know that the comet C/1963 A1 (Ikeya) was discovered by 19-year-old amateur astronomer Kaoru Ikeya using a self-made telescope?
Did you know that a temple once housed the New York City Opera and New York City Ballet ?
Did you know that Kenny Williams set a Polish Basketball League record with 14 three-point shots in a game?
Did you know that the 2015 campaign Woman to Woman included a "Pink Bus" that was mocked by critics as sexist and patronising?
Did you know that composer Igor Stravinsky fled Russia after the October Revolution , but returned once in 1962 to conduct in Moscow and Leningrad, meeting Nikita Khrushchev during the visit?
Did you know that Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz described the 16th-century play The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys by Jan Kochanowski as the finest specimen of Polish humanist drama?
Did you know that despite being accused of cowardice at the 28 March 1879 Battle of Hlobane , John Cecil Russell rose to become a major-general?
Did you know that a Florida TV station claimed freeze damage to its transmitter as the reason it had to delay its first broadcast?
Did you know that baseball player Joey Marciano is a cousin of world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano ?
Did you know that some families feel pressure to reclassify their child to compete with their peers who have repeated a grade ?
Did you know that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll 's made-up words?
Did you know that a South Carolina TV station went on the air 12 years after its owner said the odds of it existing were "fairly long"?
Did you know that Satoko Kishimoto is the first elected female mayor of Suginami , Tokyo?
Did you know that when Luna Park opened in 1906, the first program included "comedy sheep"?
Did you know that Alex Mivedor , who had been seen as the number two in the ruling RPT party in Togo, was purged from the party leadership in 1983?
Did you know that the jazz collective West Coast Get Down once recorded around 190 songs over the course of a month?
Did you know that Abdul Ghani Azhari wrote Qadim Tarikh-e-Gujjar in Urdu , detailing the ancient history of Gujjars in India?
Did you know that the 2022 essay and short story collection Kilometer 101 was published shortly after the author fled Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine ?
Did you know that at 23, Roman Mejia reached the rank of principal dancer at the New York City Ballet , where his father had also danced?
Did you know that director Kunihiko Ikuhara created the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena after becoming frustrated by his lack of creative control as a director of the anime series Sailor Moon ?
Did you know that Rancho Obi-Wan contains more than 500,000 Star Wars collectibles?
Did you know that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life ?
Did you know that Gimix acknowledged in 1980 that its computer for home automation was like a "Hollywood-type toy"?
Did you know that on his 1994 song " London's Brilliant Parade ", Elvis Costello used a Dobro guitar as an homage to the Kinks ' " Lola "?
Did you know that when investigative journalist Dan McCrum published his findings of the Wirecard scandal , German authorities investigated him instead of the company?
Did you know that a Texas man who, on his front porch, fatally shot a police officer , was acquitted of murder?
Did you know that the post-apocalyptic novel The Mercy Journals was inspired by the Gombe Chimpanzee War , the Rwandan genocide , and the Bible?
Did you know that naming every character "Bob" was common in the play-by-mail game Mobius I ?
Did you know that Michael Stuart raised three sons to play in the National Hockey League , then established a sled hockey team?
Did you know that the 2023 Huwara rampage , a late-night spree of arson and vandalism by hundreds of Israeli settlers, was the worst flare-up of Israeli settler violence in the northern West Bank in decades?
Did you know that while defending Zaw Myint Maung following his arrest by the Myanmar junta , lawyer Ywet Nu Aung was herself arrested and charged?
Did you know that due to events during the Kinks' 1965 U.S. tour , the American Federation of Musicians blocked the band from performing in the U.S. for the next four years?
Did you know that Sanaullah Bhat is considered the father of journalism in Kashmir ?
Did you know that due to a dispute over who owned a road in Delta County, Michigan , eight school children missed two weeks of school?
Did you know that the melody of " Dokdo Is Our Land " is commonly used by South Korean students as a study tool?
Did you know that The Scout Mindset , a book about being able to change one's mind, took five years to be published partly because author Julia Galef changed her mind about what to write?
Did you know that 17-year-old cyclist J. Nash McCrea , nicknamed "Crash", caused a major crash at the 1904 Olympics?
Did you know that H. G. Wells wrote the majority of The War of the Worlds while living in Woking , and much of the novel is set in the local area?
Did you know that through their participation in the Liberian National Transitional Government , warlords could gain access to state resources whilst continuing hostilities between each other?
Did you know that physicist Sabine Hossenfelder 's book Existential Physics discusses whether free will , the multiverse , the existence of God , and the meaning of life are topics that science can answer?
Did you know that trampolinist Dylan Schmidt is New Zealand's first Olympic medallist in any gymnastics discipline?
Did you know that the name of the book Private Peaceful came from a misspelled gravestone?
Did you know that clothing physiology is the study of how clothing interacts with the human body and the environment?
Did you know that Esmond Venner Keogh was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I and later protested against the Vietnam War ?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor announced her song " Mother " while 21 weeks pregnant?
Did you know that Frank Gadsby , nicknamed "Peggy", was a one-legged British stunt diver during the early 20th century?
Did you know that in a lawsuit over Mike Tyson's face tattoo , a judge found it "just silly" to say that tattoos cannot be copyrighted, but refused to delay The Hangover Part II ?
Did you know that when the 18-year-old New York City Ballet dancer Mira Nadon performed her first major role, The New York Times called her performance a promise to the future?
Did you know that people sometimes wonder whether the contortionist Sofie Dossi has a spine?
Did you know that it has been a goal of Oregon state senator Bill Hansell to get the potato officially designated as the state vegetable?
Did you know that all stable group 5 elements are silvery-blue refractory metals ?
Did you know that excavations led by archaeologist Judith Marquet-Krause disproved that the Book of Joshua was a factual account of the city of Ai ?
Did you know that Mycobacterium bacterial species constantly remodel their cell wall layers to survive in stressful environments and avoid their host's immune defenses?
Did you know that jazz composer Duke Ellington worked on his only opera, Queenie Pie , from the 1930s until his death in 1974 without finishing it?
Did you know that the Newent Onion Fayre included a raw-onion-eating competition?
Did you know that Aly Tewfik Shousha , a founding member of the World Health Organization , died while attending the WHO executive meeting in Geneva?
Did you know that a swivel weaving technique was used by cloud brocade weavers in Ming-dynasty China?
Did you know that a simple polygon through all the points of a three-by-three grid must pass straight through some of the points, rather than turning at each of them?
Did you know that foreign nationals wishing to gain Philippine citizenship need to demonstrate proficiency in English or Spanish as well as a Philippine language?
Did you know that according to some Shi'i Muslim authors who wrote under the name of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi , unbelievers will be reincarnated into animal, vegetable, or mineral bodies?
Did you know that the game director for A Space for the Unbound wanted to preserve his memories as an Indonesian through the game?