kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that J. M. M. Erskine was elected to the UK parliament in 1921 as an " Independent Anti-Waste " candidate?
Did you know that both heads of Indonesia's first government-owned film production company, Berita Film Indonesia , had worked for the Japanese occupation forces?
Did you know that extreme mass ratio inspirals are one of the most promising detectable sources of gravitational waves for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA/eLISA/NGO)?
Did you know that in 1966 Arthur T. Mosher identified five components necessary for Getting Agriculture Moving in rural areas of the developing world?
Did you know that the namesake for Colorado 's Mount Sniktau was the nom de plume of E. H. N. Patterson, a local journalist who was friends with Edgar Allan Poe ?
Did you know that Eric Bickerton guides legally blind downhill skier Jessica Gallagher in competitions, using a headset to communicate with her?
Did you know that Gadis Desa was Andjar Asmara 's last film as a director?
Did you know that part of High Street in Fremantle , Western Australia, was closed in the 1960s in order to reinstate Kings Square as a town square ?
Did you know that the 1943 Michigan Wolverines football team lost its only game to Notre Dame in a game that matched teams ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the AP Poll ?
Did you know that Ridgeview High School in Redmond, Oregon , has classroom space for jewelry making?
Did you know that the site for Bangalore fort was said to have been chosen because a hare was seen chasing a hunting dog there?
Did you know that the Spanish military stud farm Yeguada Militar , founded in 1847, started the oldest written breed registry for Arabian horses , and is also a genetic reservoir for the Andalusian horse ?
Did you know that Aharbal is a hill station in Kulgam district of Kashmir Valley , known for its waterfall?
Did you know that Otto Weiß was the first Luftwaffe attack aircraft pilot to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ?
Did you know that Guldborg is located at the narrowest point between the Danish islands of Falster and Lolland ?
Did you know that ice dancing coach Betty Callaway , best known for coaching Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean to Olympic gold in 1984, also taught Prince Charles and Princess Anne ?
Did you know that Stuart Forbes , the first head coach of the Arizona Wildcats football team, was also the author of Trail Sketches: Word Pictures of the West ?
Did you know that Tito El Bambino received an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers award for Latin Song of the Year for " El Amor "?
Did you know that the royal Maya name Kan Ek' , first recorded in the ninth century, was given to all of the Itza kings of central Petén ?
Did you know that the 2013 World Court of Women Against Poverty in the United States will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that amorous couples and erotic scenes are depicted on the outer walls of the Vimala Temple ?
Did you know that United States Secret Service agent Vincent Mroz shot an attempted presidential assassin in the "biggest gunfight in Secret Service history"?
Did you know that Rihanna filmed the Loud Tour Live at the O2 during the final three sold-out shows of the Loud Tour at London's O2 Arena ?
Did you know that Cedar Point ' s Mill Race was only the second log ride in the world?
Did you know that John Y. T. Smith 's initials stand for "Yours Truly"?
Did you know that the nectar of the hoary banksia turns olive green and then black with age?
Did you know that, having played 465 league matches, Jaroslav Šilhavý holds the record for the most appearances in top-flight Czech football ?
Did you know that in 2000, the holding company of chef Jean-Christophe Novelli 's restaurant Maison Novelli ran up a debt of £200,000 and went into voluntary liquidation?
Did you know that Kommercekollegiet was established in 1704 for the purpose of advising the Danish monarch on matters related to trade and industry?
Did you know that William Morris described decorating Sir Lowthian Bell 's mansion as "ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich"?
Did you know that Cyclone Osea caused significant damage to parts of French Polynesia ?
Did you know the burrowing and feeding of Listriolobus pelodes , a marine spoon worm , helped increase the biodiversity near wastewater outlets off the coast of California?
Did you know that Manson family disciple Squeaky Fromme attempted to kill U.S. President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California , near his suite at the historic Senator Hotel ?
Did you know that in 1697 the culmination of the Spanish conquest of Petén resulted in the defeat of the last independent native kingdom in the Americas ?
Did you know that Mr. Fingers was not allowed to go to war because he was under five feet tall?
Did you know that the crafting of crosses has been designated as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Lithuania ?
Did you know that student Marc Salles played midfield with the Spanish field hockey team in the 2012 Olympics ?
Did you know that Bach interpolated music from his secular cantata BWV 36c with four stanzas from two Advent hymns in Schwingt freudig euch empor , BWV 36 , for the first Sunday in Advent, 2 December 1731?
Did you know that it was said of Richmond, Maine , shipbuilder T. J. Southard that there was scarcely an "institution in town he hasn't a corner in"?
Did you know that the golden coral shrimp cleans fish but is rather more shy than the banded cleaner shrimp ?
Did you know that the death of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti has prompted international outcry and an official investigation, even though his blog had only 30 views during the month before?
Did you know that " Just a Fool ", performed by Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton , is the first country music song by Aguilera?
Did you know that the Roman Catholicism of the 2nd Earl of Southampton has been called the key to his unhappy life?
Did you know that there is a toy museum in Ejegod Windmill 's old mill house?
Did you know that when he was 42, Fred Ridgeway gave up his career in finance to become a professional actor?
Did you know that Greensboro, North Carolina , architect Orlo Epps was also a professor of mathematics and physics and a socialist?
Did you know that Russian military satellite Meridian 6 is in the highly elliptical Molniya orbit ?
Did you know that after Hawaiian governor Kapeau sent tax assessors in 1849 to the Catholic priests of Kailua , and King Kamehameha III refused to dismiss him, French Admiral Tromelin invaded Honolulu ?
Did you know that the extinct Cuban condor Gymnogyps varonai may have fed on ground sloths ?
Did you know that National Lacrosse Hall of Fame coach Roy Simmons, Jr. once fielded two goaltenders in a game?
Did you know that rhinoceroses are nearsighted but have superior senses of hearing and smell?
Did you know that the Gibraltar Ranges predate the Great Escarpment ?
Did you know that male features of high cheekbones and a strong jaw and chin are a sign of a high level of testosterone , and also an attractive physical trait?
Did you know that Beth Rodford has rowed for Britain since 1999, including in two Olympic games?
Did you know that a 1961 comics satire involving Archie characters in a hedonistic Roman-style orgy provoked a lawsuit by Archie Comics that resulted in the parody's creators handing over copyright to the work?
Did you know that the award-winning film Frank's Cock is split into quadrants to symbolise the "fragmentation of the body" experienced by those with AIDS ?
Did you know that botanist and geologist Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly wrote a book on the manufacture of gun flints?
Did you know that the Levant Battery on Windmill Hill was named after the Levanter cloud, below which it is situated?
Did you know that Cemenco holds a monopoly on cement sales in Liberia ?
Did you know that Hawaiian chiefess Julia Alapai died right before the French invasion of Honolulu by Admiral Tromelin in 1849, prompting her husband Keoni Ana and King Kamehameha III to return to the capital?
Did you know that the Yalain have been proposed as one of the three most important Maya polities in the Petén Basin of Guatemala during the Postclassic period (c. 1000–1697)?
Did you know that convicted murderer Robert Peernock attempted to hire a fellow prisoner to murder his daughter while the trial was in progress?
Did you know that the elephant ear sponge is said to resemble a piece of tanned cow hide ?
Did you know that despite having served as a member of the United States Congress , John G. Campbell was unable to prove to a court that he was a United States citizen ?
Did you know that the song " Sentimientos " by Ivy Queen combines the Latin styles of reggaeton and bachata ?
Did you know that the anti-slavery organization Temedt won the 2012 award from Anti-Slavery International for its work against ongoing slavery in Mali ?
Did you know that former Clinton Administration attorney David Marchick was the first in-house lobbyist at The Carlyle Group ?
Did you know that the Antimena Chameleon of Madagascar is considered a vulnerable species due to massive forest clearing?
Did you know that the day they first met, Calvin Wooster caused his supervising elder to fall to the ground by praying for him?
Did you know that Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer claims that passing secret account details to WikiLeaks is the only hope he has to let "society know what's going on" in the banking sector?
Did you know that repertoires of contention slowly change over time, and include such concepts as rough music , sit-ins and hacktivism ?
Did you know that Gulet Mohamed , an American citizen who was detained in Kuwait , was blocked from flying home by the U.S. "no-fly list" until a federal court intervened to allow him to return?
Did you know that when Winnington Hall in Cheshire was used as a girls' finishing school in the 19th century, it was visited by Sir Charles Hallé and John Ruskin ?
Did you know that despite being home to Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa and near to Acapulco , most of Guerrero's "Big Coast" lacks significant tourism infrastructure?
Did you know that the script to season one of the Swedish comedy series Solsidan has been sold to the American television network ABC , which plans to create their own version of the series in the United States ?
Did you know that approximately 1500 tourists were trapped in the Torres del Paine National Park as a result of recent protests against the rising price of natural gas in the Magallanes Region of Chile ?
Did you know that the bell from the wreck of SS Edmund Fitzgerald is on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum ?
Did you know that in 1911, John Gaunt's second biplane nearly crashed because a bystander bent the aircraft's elevator before a flight?
Did you know that claspingleaf doll's daisy can grow underwater, produce an inflorescence above the surface, bloom and produce seeds, and thus propagate during floods ?
Did you know that Rebecca Breeds ' Home and Away character Ruby Buckton will begin a relationship with Romeo Smith , played by Breeds' real life partner, Luke Mitchell ?
Did you know that despite a fire, dismantling and having parts sold off since its first installation at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago , the Tiffany Chapel is now open to the public again in Florida ?
Did you know that part of the bed of South Branch Kishwaukee River in Illinois was the plain of an ancient lake ?
Did you know that Themistokli Gërmenji , an Albanian nationalist , received the French Croix de Guerre in November 1917 , but was executed shortly thereafter by a French military court?
Did you know that chess grandmaster Rosendo Balinas Jr. was a candidate in the 1994 special election for the seat of Rizal 's first district in the House of Representatives of the Philippines ?
Did you know that Dave Downs pitched a complete-game shutout in his Major League Baseball debut with the Philadelphia Phillies ?
Did you know that St Denys' Church, Little Barford , Bedfordshire , was built to serve a medieval village which has since been deserted ?
Did you know that Saguaro boots are the co-creation of a bird and a cactus?
Did you know that Ben Roberts-Smith 's receipt of the Victoria Cross for Australia for gallantry in Afghanistan , makes him the most highly decorated service person currently in the Australian Defence Force ?
Did you know that the closure of the Clinton Falls Bridge in its 100th year led local residents to successfully push for its historic preservation ?
Did you know that wine historians theorize that, during the Roman occupation of what is now Moravia , Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling may have been introduced to the Czech wine region of Mikulovská ?
Did you know that the Virginia–Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine serves as the state -supported veterinary school for both Virginia and Maryland ?
Did you know that English soprano Joanne Lunn recorded Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir , such as Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73 ?
Did you know that in Florida v. Thomas , the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that a state court decision is not "final" if a trial has not concluded in a verdict ?
Did you know that Andreu Mas-Colell , currently the Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia, Spain , has studied general equilibrium theory by using differential topology ?
Did you know that when built as currently planned, the Stad Ship Tunnel would allow ships to bypass Stad , one of the most dangerous sections of the Norwegian coast?
Did you know that Nicholas Longworth built America 's first commercially successful winery with a pink sparkling wine made from Catawba ?
Did you know that English classical singer Anna Reynolds recorded Bach cantatas with Richter 's Münchener Bach-Chor , including Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen? BWV 81 ?
Did you know that law in Vanuatu combines a legacy of English common law , French law and indigenous customary law ?
Did you know that Brent Knoll Camp on the Somerset Levels was used for military purposes in the Iron Age and again in World War II ?
Did you know that American primatologist Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. was the inaugural vice president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature as well as a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund ?
Did you know that Walter Baetke , who became a professor of Scandinavian studies and history of religion , wrote his doctoral thesis on children in English literature during and after Shakespeare 's time?
Did you know that the Hall XPTBH , a patrol torpedo bomber , was the only aircraft that ever received three mission designation letters in the U.S. Navy 's aircraft designation system ?
Did you know that Nepal 's first public bus service was founded in 1959 by Karuna Ratna Tuladhar and his brother?
Did you know that Penny and the Quarters are a "lost" soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song "You And Me" was used in the film Blue Valentine ?
Did you know that Bermuda hedge fund Juniperus Capital was named after the Juniperus bermudiana , Bermudian cedar trees that are extremely hardy in the face of adverse conditions?
Did you know that Hungarian team handball player József Éles was top scorer at the 1993 World Championship ?
Did you know that German musicologist Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik reconstructed Bach 's homage cantata O angenehme Melodei, BWV 210a , from Bach's wedding cantata O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit, BWV 210 ?
Did you know that Joe Heitz of California wine producer Heitz Wine Cellars‎ is considered the first in the U.S. to champion single vineyard designated wine ?
Did you know that one of the T-shirts found in a backpack bomb in Spokane referred to a play put on by high school students in Chewelah, Washington ?
Did you know that it took a replay and then eighty minutes of extra time for Brighton & Hove Albion reserves to win the 1920–21 Southern League title ?
Did you know that the sinking in October 1942 of the German prisoner transport Palatia off Lindesnes is the second deadliest ship disaster in Norwegian history ?
Did you know that California Supreme Court Associate Justice Marshall F. McComb swore in Ronald Reagan as Governor of California ?
Did you know that the highest point on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was 965 feet (294 m) above sea level, just to the east of Britannia railway station ?
Did you know that although the Parks and Recreation third season premiere " Go Big or Go Home " was filmed immediately after the second season ended to accommodate actress Amy Poehler 's pregnancy, the premiere was delayed until January?
Did you know that renewable energy in Russia is largely underdeveloped, despite it being one of the top energy producers in the world?
Did you know that the lunar crater Hell is named after a priest ?
Did you know that ryot and zerat were two labour-hiring processes practised by indigo planters in Bihar and Bengal during the Indian colonial period ?
Did you know that the 2010–11 Colorado Buffaloes men's basketball team is the first since 2003 to record a win over a top-ten ranked team ?
Did you know that Elektro–L is the first Russian weather satellite to operate successfully in geostationary orbit ?
Did you know that Stone Jam was Slave 's second album to be certified Gold and was named by Jam-Master Jay of Run–D.M.C. as one of his favorite albums?
Did you know that both Thomas-Morse R-5 s competed in the 1922 Pulitzer Trophy Race , but placed last among aircraft that completed the event?
Did you know that British author Sunjeev Sahota had not read a novel until he bought Midnight's Children in an airport at the age of 18?
Did you know that the assassin Ablabius was paid fifty pounds of gold for his failed plot against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in November 562?
Did you know that the book Beyond the First Amendment argues freedom of speech on the Internet is not easily addressed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution ?
Did you know that while Swedish archaeologist Olov Janse originally argued for European rather than Chinese origins of Bronze Age culture in Vietnam , he reversed his view after he began excavating at Đông Sơn ?
Did you know that in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin began the regulation of wellhead natural gas prices, which lasted until Congress deregulated them on January 1 , 1985?
Did you know that several ordas (hordes) originated on the Eurasian Steppe , including the famous Golden Horde ?
Did you know that Tony Lombardi , who took over when Rick Rasnick was fired, was the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team for just five days?
Did you know that in Booth v. Churner , over 30 U.S. states asked the United States Supreme Court to require prisoners to resolve all administrative claims before pursuing litigation ?
Did you know that Tupaia miocenica , known from a single tooth, is among the few known fossil treeshrews ?
Did you know that after beginning his baseball career with the Philadelphia Phillies , right fielder George Durning led the Salisbury Indians in games played , times at bat , and hits in his first full season?
Did you know that a 300-metre (980 ft) long bridge has been recently built near Tojg , in western Afghanistan , funded by the Commander's Emergency Response Program ?
Did you know that George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both lived in the same house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts ?
Did you know that Carlina White , kidnapped when 19 days old, was reunited with her parents 23 years later as a result of her own investigative work, the longest recorded gap in a non-parental abduction?
Did you know that, according to the United Nations , the 2004–2005 Uíge Province , Angola , outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever was the world's worst epidemic of any kind of hemorrhagic fever ?
Did you know that boxing promoter Don King was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Cedric Kushner Promotions, Ltd. v. King ?
Did you know that the Chilean movie 03:34: Earthquake in Chile will narrate three different stories based on the events that occurred after the 2010 Chile earthquake ?
Did you know that the proposed Bridge Canyon Dam would flood Lava Falls , one of the most spectacular rapids on the Colorado River ?
Did you know that Eric Hobsbawm 's The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a Marxist study of the period of the Belle Époque ?
Did you know that Eric Doeringer has sometimes sold up to US$ 1,500 worth of "bootlegs", small copies of paintings by eminent modern artists, in one day?
Did you know that the Mayo Clinic argued in Mayo v. United States that medical residents , who work up to 80 hours a week and are paid approximately $50,000 a year, should be considered students instead of employees?
Did you know that International Commission of Control , established on October 15 , 1913, to assume the administration of Albania , was composed of the representatives of each Great Power and one Albanian ?
Did you know that while Oregon 's Willamette Valley is known primarily for Pinot noir , Cristom Vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills has been growing Syrah since 2002?
Did you know that Congregation Dorshei Emet is the first synagogue in Canada and the third in the world to receive a Torah scroll handwritten by a woman?
Did you know that the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis completed a clinical trial to test whether hypothermia (cooling) within the first few hours of a traumatic spinal cord or brain injury makes a difference in the severity of injury?
Did you know that an 11-year-old girl beat the video game Diva Starz: Mall Mania in 42 minutes?
Did you know that in the 1970s, the Pelican Bowl was played to determine the national champions of black college football in the United States?
Did you know that during the Yuan administrative rule of Tibet , the Mongol approved d-pon chen , or "Great Administrator", was responsible for the administration of Tibet under the Yuan Dynasty ?
Did you know that the Vought XSB3U was designed as a result of the U.S. Navy 's reluctance to embrace the monoplane for carrier operations ?
Did you know that claims to unite the Ottoman vilayets of Kosovo , Shkoder , Monastir and Ioaninna into one, the Albanian Vilayet , often included the Salonica Vilayet too?
Did you know that the Fringe episode " Brown Betty " was inspired by The Princess Bride ?
Did you know that a memorial all-star game was held in 1937 to raise money for the family of Howie Morenz , who was said to have died of a broken heart in the belief a broken leg had ended his hockey career?
Did you know that The Cars , The Primitives , The Lemonheads and Tarnation have all released recordings of The Nightcrawlers ' "slightly bizarre nursery rhyme" " The Little Black Egg "?
Did you know that in January 1917, New Zealander Clive Franklyn Collett was the first British or Commonwealth military pilot to parachute from an airplane?
Did you know that land for the defunct rural Ashland High School in Natchitoches Parish , Louisiana , was donated in 1907 by later State Senator Andrew R. Johnson ?
Did you know that Anni Dewani was a Swedish woman who was kidnapped and murdered during her honeymoon in Cape Town , South Africa ?
Did you know that when first described in the 1890s, the Bornean Slow Loris was said to have the face of a bear , the hands of a monkey , and to move like a sloth ?
Did you know that when the troops in front of his soldiers broke and fled at the Battle of Guilford Court House , General Edward Stevens told his brigade that the retreat was part of the battle plan?
Did you know that bones of Hypsibema missouriensis , now the state dinosaur of Missouri , have only been found in Bollinger County, Missouri ?
Did you know that bongo player Chaino , whose albums included Jungle Mating Rhythms , claimed to be an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa but was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago ?
Did you know that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba , an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet , was discovered in the British Library in 2009?
Did you know that in 1776, to warn authorities in Halifax of the siege of Fort Cumberland , Redcoat Thomas Dixson successfully navigated the Minas Basin , home to the Earth's highest tides, in a small open boat?