kaengreg/wikifacts-bench huggingface dataset:
Did you know that Peter Shivute , Chief Justice in the Supreme Court of Namibia , spends his office hours on a fault ?
Did you know that Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor , a Baptist abolitionist from Massachusetts , made a significant contribution to the problem of squaring the circle ?
Did you know that after the Nürnberger Platz Berlin U-Bahn station was replaced by Spichernstraße and demolished, the Augsburger Straße station had to be built to reduce the distance between stations?
Did you know that Daniel D. Badger , with James Bogardus , was one of the major forces in creating cast-iron architecture in the United States?
Did you know that the three prevailing causes of geriatric trauma are falls , traffic collisions and burns ?
Did you know that from 1914 to 1922 the British Member of Parliament Arthur Fell led an all-party committee which campaigned for a Channel Tunnel ?
Did you know that performance of Bach's cantata Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! , for the Second Sunday of Advent in Weimar, was not acceptable in Leipzig during Advent?
Did you know that the legacy of the mercantile Röhss family in Gothenburg includes a museum for design and three professorial chairs at Gothenburg University ?
Did you know that Richard Herbert raised a foot regiment and a troop of horse for the king during the English Civil War ?
Did you know that the archaeological sites of Tell Fray and Dibsi Faraj in Syria were flooded by the rising waters of Lake Assad ?
Did you know that Lt. Governor Frank G. Higgins was the first person born in Montana to become a member of the state's bar and of its legislature ?
Did you know that in the 2010 book Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 , the author estimates an overall mortality of 45 million for the Great Chinese Famine , including some 2 to 3 million beaten or tortured to death?
Did you know that Guinea was the only French colony to reject the 1958 constititution in a referendum , thereby opting for independence?
Did you know that Uspenski Gospels is the oldest dated Greek manuscript of the New Testament ?
Did you know that Troy , an unincorporated area in the U.S. state of Virginia , is named after the president of the defunct Virginia Air Line Railway ?
Did you know that the British Conservative MP Sir Edmund Royds was defeated at the 1922 general election when the National Farmers Union supported his Liberal opponent?
Did you know that in 2008–09, 64 percent of the 316 million tonnes of iron ore produced in Western Australia was exported to China ?
Did you know that the US 35th Infantry Regiment guarded a bridge for a week during the 1950 Battle of Nam River before it was accidentally destroyed by US bombers?
Did you know that in a 1998 case the Singapore Court of Appeal traced the origin of the concept of equality in Article 12 of the Constitution of Singapore to the 40th article of the Magna Carta of 1215?
Did you know that the song " Una Canción Me Trajo Hasta Aquí " performed by Jorge Drexler received two nominations for the 11th Latin Grammy Awards even though it was not promoted to radio in the United States?
Did you know that South African President Jacob Zuma has commented on the " special relationship " between his country and Ireland ?
Did you know that Canada has vowed to boycott the United Nations Durban III conference, calling it a "charade" and a "hatefest"?
Did you know that Zimbabwe only played one One Day International cricket series in 2009–10 , beating Kenya 4–1 ?
Did you know that after Lieutenant-General Hew Fanshawe was removed from command of the British V Corps in 1916, he was replaced by his elder brother Edward – who was himself sacked in 1918?
Did you know that online Facebook game Car Town features pace cars used in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and the 2010 Brickyard 400 ?
Did you know that Anika Moa has released platinum-certified albums under multiple record labels ?
Did you know that the opening of Seagram's Distillery in Louisville , Kentucky , in 1937 drew a crowd of 71,000 people during the week of the Kentucky Derby ?
Did you know that, only one month after the Berlin Wall was built, two West German aircraft accidentally violated East German airspace, flying to Berlin Tegel Airport on 14 September 1961?
Did you know that Jacob B. Warlow was commended for his service as a police captain during the New York Draft Riots , which protested the American Civil War ?
Did you know that the Erkin Rakishev parody film My Brother, Borat is intended by the director to counter the negative perceptions of Kazakhstan generated by the 2006 film Borat ?
Did you know that despite being enveloped by the urban sprawl of Mexico City , the borough of Coyoacán still has areas with the narrow winding roads of rural villages?
Did you know that American lawyer Lloyd K. Garrison was chairman of the "first" National Labor Relations Board , the National War Labor Board , and the New York City Board of Education ?
Did you know that the role-playing game Shining Hearts features hearts, collectible and usable by the player, that represent the other characters' feelings about the player's actions?
Did you know that deputy minister Roman Romkowski , charged along with Director-general Anatol Fejgin and Col. Józef Różański of the Polish Ministry of Public Security , was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1957?
Did you know that Clarence Brown 's 1925 silent film Smouldering Fires starring Pauline Frederick is considered a cautionary tale?
Did you know that the list of no-hitters by Baltimore Orioles pitchers includes a loss in the 1967 season , with runs given up in the ninth inning on walks , a wild pitch and an error ?
Did you know that the Guinean journalist Siradiou Diallo was suspected of being a double agent for President Sékou Touré ?
Did you know that the First Battle of Yeonpyeong was a deadly clash between the navies of North and South Korea in 1999 off Yeonpyeong island, which North Korea subsequently attacked in November 2010 ?
Did you know that James Gross considers NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. , NLRB v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. , and NLRB v. Sands Mfg.Co. the most significant Supreme Court rulings on the National Labor Relations Act since the Court upheld the Act ?
Did you know that when the Portuguese Royalty moved to Brazil to escape the French invasion of Portugal the Brazil–Portugal relationship was of a former colony ruling the Portuguese Empire?
Did you know that German lawyer Rainer Rene Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , founder of the Federation of German mercenaries, was the subject of a question in the German Parliament in regards to organ donor laws?
Did you know that Moss Airport, Rygge is the first airport in Europe to replace all the runway and taxiway lights with light emitting diodes ?
Did you know that medieval Bulgarian anti- Bogomil writer Cosmas the Priest was regarded as a saint although there is no data that he was ever canonised?
Did you know that the Russian ironclad Kniaz Pozharsky was the first Russian armored ship to leave European waters when she cruised the Pacific Ocean in 1873–75?
Did you know that more than 9,000 women were sterilized during the Iron Fist Campaign ?
Did you know that the Specialized Stumpjumper became the first mass-produced mountain bike when it was first introduced in 1981?
Did you know that by the time Jeannie Carson joined Hey, Jeannie! she had become the second highest paid entertainer in the UK, behind Vivien Leigh ?
Did you know that fish have been sighted in Lake Burton, Antarctica ?
Did you know that Bill Stein hit a home run in his Major League Baseball debut on September 6, 1972?
Did you know that by 1962 the communist -led Indonesian forest workers union Sarbuksi claimed to have a quarter of a million members?
Did you know that Brock Reservoir in California saves unused water from the All-American Canal that would otherwise be "lost" to Mexico?
Did you know that three composers, flutist Jens Josef , cellist Graham Waterhouse and pianist Rudi Spring , each set a Christmas carol for their trio concert at the Gasteig ?
Did you know that 1973 comedy film Bad Charleston Charlie was loosely based on gangster Charles Birger , the last man to be executed in Illinois by public hanging ?
Did you know that in 1899 the Lynmouth Lifeboat was pulled over a 1,423-foot (434 m) hill by men and horses so that it could launch to the aid of a ship 15 miles (24 km) from Lynmouth ?
Did you know that only two new permanent venues were constructed for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ?
Did you know that the first Australian baseball player to sign a professional contract with a Major League Baseball organisation, after the dead-ball era , was Neil Page , who signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 1966?
Did you know that the NBC television series The Ford Show referred to the sponsor, the Ford Motor Company , rather than the star, Tennessee Ernie Ford ?
Did you know that Nels Johnson built Century tower clocks , designed to last 100 years?
Did you know that Eugenios Voulgaris , scholar and first director of the Maroutsaia School in Ioannina , Greece , insisted that the Greek intellectual revival should remain theologically and socially conservative?
Did you know that the National Docks Secondary freight rail line uses a short tunnel that took eight years to build at twice the originally estimated cost because of a frog war with the Pennsylvania Railroad ?
Did you know that the 2009–10 Stanbic Bank 20 Series was heralded as a success by Zimbabwe Cricket , after the crowd for the final was described as "the biggest for a domestic match in living memory"?
Did you know that Diethard Hellmann reconstructed the music of the lost Bach cantata for the Third Sunday in Advent , Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a ?
Did you know that Guinean Fodéba Keïta was the founder of the first professional African theatrical troupe, Theatre Africain?
Did you know the indigenous people of Malaysia, known as the Orang Asal , were originally named as such by communist rebels seeking support during the Malayan Emergency ?
Did you know that when the Queensbury mill-owner William Henry Foster died in 1908, a special train brought the Lord Mayor of Bradford to his funeral near Hornby Castle ?
Did you know that the wings of the Rans S-11 Pursuit provide only 20% of the aircraft's lift ?
Did you know that several days after Nicholas II 's abdication , his relative Alexander, Duke of Leuchtenberg warned the British ambassador the tsar was in "the gravest danger"?
Did you know that Joe Raposo , first musical director of the children's show Sesame Street , won four Grammys for writing much of the show's music ?
Did you know that Oliver Dyer established the first American periodical devoted to shorthand ?
Did you know that the Indonesian trade union centre SOBRI decided to join the World Federation of Trade Unions following the death of Stalin in 1953?
Did you know that the Michigan Federation of Labor in 1906 wrote that perhaps no individual had done more to "promote the interests of wage-earners than William W. Hannan , the real estate hustler"?
Did you know that it was so cold during the 1962 NFL Championship Game that television crews used bonfires to thaw out their cameras, and one cameraman suffered frostbite ?
Did you know that when Prohibition forced the Kentucky -based Bavarian Brewing Company to stop producing beer , it continued to produce soft drinks as The William Riedlin Beverage Company?
Did you know that as recently as the 1980s there were up to a thousand native speakers of a unique French dialect around Old Mines, Missouri , descendants of French colonists from the early 1700s?
Did you know that in 1996 Chaturanan Mishra became one of the two first communist cabinet members in India ?
Did you know that the first no-hitter by an Oakland Athletics pitcher after the Major League Baseball club relocated to Oakland, California , was a perfect game by Catfish Hunter in 1968?
Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 's East Rutherford Operations Center has a state-of-the art automated 1 million cubic foot vault for storing US currency ?
Did you know that bent edge was created as a counter-movement to straight edge and was a sign of a rising tide of anti-Dischord sentiment in the DC punk scene ?
Did you know that Provino Mosca, the founder of the Louisiana Creole Italian restaurant Mosca's , was reportedly a chef for Al Capone ?
Did you know that in 1947, baseball player Buck Frierson led the Big State League with 58 home runs and 197 runs batted in ?
Did you know that haematite found during the excavation of Nympsfield Long Barrow may have been used to make face-paint, so that the dead could appear alive?
Did you know that Punjabi revolutionary Baba Bujha Singh predicted the disintegration of the Soviet Union ?
Did you know that British spies helped sink some German minesweepers of the Sperrbrecher type, through determining how to adjust the fuses on magnetic mines ?
Did you know that when choosing Suillus pungens mushrooms for the table, one should pick young specimens to avoid "fat, agitated maggots "?
Did you know that following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the venues used for the 1980 Summer Olympics were divided between four of the new sovereign states?
Did you know that a good contact-connection between undamaged plain waveguide flanges can outperform a choke-connection, but a bad one can cause arcing ?
Did you know that John Keble , founding member of the Oxford Movement , was curate to St Michael and St Martin's Church, Eastleach Martin , Gloucestershire , and a bridge nearby was named after him?
Did you know that The New York Times called the U.S. Supreme Court 's Ontario v. Quon decision "almost aggressively unhelpful" to lawyers and judges in electronic privacy cases?
Did you know that General Stafford played over 100 Major League Baseball games at three different positions?
Did you know that hairy aspen is from the citrus family ?
Did you know that Nelly's first five studio albums all reached the top three of the Billboard 200 ?
Did you know that actor Antonio Te Maioha of the television drama Spartacus: Blood and Sand publicly promotes the recycling organization Xtreme Waste , but resists being called an environmentalist ?
Did you know that the English historian Walter Alison Phillips was the first Lecky professor in the University of Dublin ?
Did you know that holders of the position that would become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council have included Eleanor Roosevelt and Geraldine Ferraro ?
Did you know that Greg Koubek was the first men's basketball player to play in four NCAA Tournament Final Fours ?
Did you know that banana powder was utilized by scientists in the 1980s for its antiulcer compounds that both helped prevent ulcers and helped in healing areas where ulcers had previously occurred?
Did you know that Thomas Tropenell built the Manor House at Great Chalfield ?
Did you know that the first album released by the black metal record label The Ajna Offensive was not part of the metal genre?
Did you know that a Welshman, Dai Davies , is the only person to have appeared in both the rugby league Challenge Cup final and the association football FA Cup Final ?
Did you know that Sextans B is one of the smallest galaxies in which planetary nebulae have been detected?
Did you know that twink gay porn star Tory Mason was discovered through his dudesnude profile?
Did you know that professional wrestler Kyle O'Reilly once wrestled in almost 40 matches in a period of 72 hours for charity?
Did you know that Judge Howard Abbott was the captain and quarterback of the first Minnesota Golden Gophers football team in 1886?
Did you know that plans to convert the tomb of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi on the Mount of Olives , Israel , into a church sparked strong protests?
Did you know that the 2002 Sumatra earthquake is considered to be a foreshock of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ?
Did you know that Zimbabwean cricketer Ryan Butterworth ' s performances in the 2010–11 Stanbic Bank 20 Series saw him named as player of the series ?
Did you know that the Radioplane RP-77D target drone was planned to be capable of launching target drones itself?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Roy Hitt , a member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame , was nicknamed "Rhino" because his shape reminded people of a rhinoceros ?
Did you know that Transportation Security Administration officials tipped off Covenant Aviation Security employees to undercover tests of their luggage screeners at airport checkpoints?
Did you know that German footballer Willy Tröger began his career as a goalkeeper , but converted into a successful forward after losing his hand in World War II ?
Did you know that the bottom section of the Burgundy Premier Cru vineyard Clos Saint-Jacques used to be planted with alfalfa instead of grapevines?
Did you know that RAAF Flight Lieutenant Gordon Steege was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after shooting down three German aircraft in one mission during the North African campaign in 1941?
Did you know that the shortest state road in New Mexico is only 0.250 miles (402 m) long?
Did you know that the Italian Barnabite missionary Father Sangermano preached in Burma from 1783 to 1808 to descendants of Portuguese colonists?
Did you know that the first All-Star Game in National Hockey League history was played in 1934 to benefit Toronto 's Ace Bailey , who was nearly killed by a violent on-ice hit earlier in the season?
Did you know that during the Western Bulldogs ' 2010 season, Australian rules footballer Andrew Hooper was described by the Herald Sun as a "cult figure"?
Did you know that the warden of the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women defied an order by the Virginia Department of Corrections to ban cosmetics from the inmates?
Did you know that anglers using the Motueka River in New Zealand must clean their boots to stop the spread of invasive algae or face up to five years in prison?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Russ Christopher 's only All-Star appearance was canceled due to World War II ?
Did you know that Jim Matheson and his father Jack are both sports journalists in Canada , but are members of halls of fame in different sports?
Did you know that current President of Bolivia Evo Morales was elected to parliament in 1997 on a United Left ticket?
Did you know that Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach , in their 1951 book Patterns of Sexual Behavior , concluded that there is a "basic mammalian capacity" for homosexuality ?
Did you know that Baku 's Maiden Tower was showcased on many Azerbaijani banknotes for 14 years?
Did you know that in 2010, Sudha Ragunathan gave a Carnatic recital at Yaksha despite suffering from a severe bout of viral fever?
Did you know that Lorene Rogers was described as the first woman to serve as head of a public university in the United States when she became president of the University of Texas at Austin in 1974?
Did you know that Anacletus II is regarded as an antipope although he had received the majority of the votes in the Papal election of 1130 ?
Did you know that economist John Kenneth Galbraith called The Go-Go Years , a book by John Brooks about Wall Street 's speculative bubble in the 1960s, "a small classic in the history of financial insanity"?
Did you know that during the Angolan Civil War , the surrounding area of Luanda 's Palácio de Ferro , believed to be designed by Gustave Eiffel , was once used as a parking lot ?
Did you know that ice hockey referee Marcus Vinnerborg has officiated two Ice Hockey World Championship finals in row?
Did you know that historian P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar believed that Kanchipuram was the southernmost outpost of Sanskrit culture during the pre- Pallava period?
Did you know that female impersonator T. C. Jones played murderous transvestites in both a 1965 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and a 1967 episode of The Wild Wild West ?
Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Kamikaze was one of the few larger Japanese warships to survive the Pacific War without significant damage?
Did you know that Robert Dallek researched JFK for five years by tapping National Security Archives , oral histories , White House tapes, and medical records to write An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 ?
Did you know that in December 1955, India became the first country outside the Eastern bloc to establish diplomatic relations with Mongolia ?
Did you know that results from the JUPITER trial indicated that rosuvastatin may lower the relative risk of heart attacks and stroke in patients with normal cholesterol levels?
Did you know that New Zealand Transport Minister Steven Joyce started radio station Energy FM with a group of friends?
Did you know that the remnants of 2005's Tropical Depression Ten partially contributed to the formation of Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you know that Fred Shaw Mayer was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for breeding Birds of Paradise ?
Did you know that Johann Phillip Fabricius , a German Christian missionary , completed the first translation of the Bible to Tamil ?
Did you know that Malay monarchs lost their legal immunity after a series of amendments was made to the Constitution of Malaysia in 1993?
Did you know that American writer Howard Norman stated there was a shorter distance between his unconscious life and his conscious life in Nova Scotia than anywhere else?
Did you know that the effects of Hurricane Ivan in Jamaica proved among the most severe in the island's history?
Did you know that Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway 's first television correspondent stationed in an African country?
Did you know that radio stations WMFC and WMFC-FM originally broadcast from a Quonset hut in the heart of Monroeville, Alabama ?
Did you know that Andrew Ritchie named his Brompton folding bicycle company after the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ?
Did you know that Itek Corporation was formed to build image retrieval systems, but instead became a reconnaissance camera vendor after winning the contract for the CIA's CORONA satellite?
Did you know that British poisoner Frederick Seddon made a secret Masonic signal to his trial judge, prominent Freemason Thomas Townsend Bucknill , in an attempt to overturn the jury's guilty verdict?
Did you know that The Hunters of Kentucky , which commemorated the Battle of New Orleans , was used as Andrew Jackson 's 1828 campaign song?
Did you know that Russian ski jumper Arthur Khamidulin retired after his violent crash in ski flying in Vikersund in 2000?
Did you know that the Bradley Airport Connector , a freeway in the U.S. state of Connecticut , was renamed the "82nd Airborne Memorial Highway" in 1999 to honor the 82nd Airborne Division ?
Did you know that Sri Ponna , the classical Kannada language poet of c. 950, is considered one of the "three gems of Kannada literature ?
Did you know that the specific name of mushroom Lactarius theiogalus comes from the Greek for " brimstone " and " milk "?
Did you know that World Sculling Champion oarsman Joseph Sadler was a chimneysweep by profession?
Did you know that Isaac Albéniz 's opera Pepita Jiménez has been adapted several times by numerous people into different constructs and languages?
Did you know that Pernessa C. Seele , the founder of the Harlem Week of Prayer for Healing of AIDS, is an immunologist and one of Time magazine's Top 100 Americans in 2006?
Did you know that St. Mary's Islands, Karnataka , known for the distinctive geological formation of columnar basaltic lava, are a set of four small islands in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Malpe ?
Did you know that Ratchanya Yatreegam , magnum opus of Indian poet Henry Alfred Krishnapillai written in Tamil , was based on John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress ?
Did you know that no one knows the age of the Greaser Petroglyphs located in eastern Lake County , Oregon , USA , but they could be up to 12,000 years old?
Did you know that Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen , who had two tenures as Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs, became a bishop after his political career?
Did you know that in Tanta , Egypt , some restaurants sell an "al-Tourbini sandwich", named after a serial child killer ?